the f.b.i. is accused of failing to warn american occupy activists that there was a plot against their lives despite knowing about plans to assassinate u.s. citizens. swapping france for russia french film star. is now officially a russian citizen after tax around drove him out of his home country. teachers say they feel the government is against them as a drop in morale threatens to dramatically impact the education of future generations.

around the world online on satellite this is r t with you twenty four hours a day live from moscow it's been revealed that the f.b.i. knew of a plot to assassinate occupy wall street activists but didn't alert them to the potential danger the bureau was instead spying on members of the movement branding them criminals and domestic terrorists. has the details. well it's not clear yet why the f.b.i. would neglect to tell activists that there was a potential assassination plot surrounding them what we do know is that new documents obtained by the partnership for civil justice find a u.s. human human and civil rights advocacy organization have revealed that the u.s. the f.b.i. the department of homeland security the u.s. military and private corporations all cooperated together to monitor and investigate occupy wall street protesters as quote domestic terrorists and quote

criminals now the more shocking revelation the headline of this story is that reportedly buried deep within the government. mentions of a plan to use snipers to assassinate occupy protesters and the movement's leaders in various cities throughout the country these alleged plans were supposed to be taking place in the fall of two thousand and eleven now the names of the groups or individuals involved in the alleged plot are redacted from the f.b.i. documents but what critics say is clear is that the f.b.i. never learned any one of the potential any of the potential victims that their lives could possibly be in danger or that there's any threat surrounding them the partnership for civil justice fund received the f.b.i. documents on december twenty second so this is fairly new information and this was after they filed a request under the freedom of information after now many civil rights attorneys previously have accused the f.b.i. of functioning as a de facto intelligence arm for u.s. corporations during the occupy wall street movement especially as it grew bigger

however some critics say they never ever suspected that the f.b.i. would neglect to tell occupy protesters u.s. citizens about an assassination plot surrounding them the f.b.i. its mission is to protect and defend americans but. an independent journalist who was at the well coupon approaches says the bureau is only starting with the one percent over soon. this coronation between the f.b.i. the department of homeland security and corporations in the new york stock exchange really showed who they're serving it's it's not the government in this case it's these corporations in the financial sector and it's certainly not the people the f.b.i. is really just targeting ordinary people going about their daily lives as potential terrorists and now people who are part participating in peaceful protest are also categorized as domestic terrorists so i think the f.b.i.

is really picking and choosing who it categorizes as the type of civilians it wants to protect and at this point this really shows that that's you know as arky prime might say the one percent. has been granted russian citizenship. or of watching his home country with its attempt to ramp up taxes for the mega rich auntie's are really going to explains what made him turn to russia this is a russian passport and it seems that pretty soon it will have an exact same little book of course with a different name and a different picture now this is kind of shocking news for a lot of the public especially in russia but if you really delve into the story then it shouldn't come as a surprise. french citizenship and has moved to build year where he apparently has a real estate at his disposal and therefore he's been granted residency. from

this wall that the longest trying to push through in france which will see french citizens who earn more than one million euros a year pay seventy five percent of their earnings to taxes. has issued an open letter saying that he as a french citizen has paid more than one hundred forty five million euros throughout his working life and he feels that that is actually enough and he's also enjoyed a longstanding friendship with the russian president and he did joke at one point that he is considering moving to russia or montenegro a lot of people have taken that remark quite life heartedly except for the russian president who said that. is in need of such assistance that he is ready to sign the appropriate documents and it seems like he has actually signed these documents and we may be soon seen. as a frequent guest in russia as well as possibly in belgium as the actor himself has said that he considers himself to be the citizen of the world the education of

britain's future generation is being put at risk by a dramatic drop in the role amongst the nation's teachers they say the government is stifling them and that students are paying the price when early in my colleague kevin and spoke to find out what they believe has gone wrong. the national union of teachers the biggest teachers' union in the u.k. has commissioned a survey which says that morale among teachers has dropped dramatically they talked about the highs and lows of life in the classroom incredibly low morale but also frustrated at continual criticism and interference from the government they said and the figures are quite staggering actually fifty five percent of teachers surveyed said that morale was either very low and that's up from forty two percent just eight months ago so it's really on a declining trend seventy seven percent said that they didn't feel that specific education policies of the government's a specialist schools free schools were taking education in the right direction in

this country and just five percent felt that this current coalition government impact on the education system was positive and had more specific about what the teachers don't like about the government's policies. well there are specifics that they don't like they don't like this continuing interference they say that every new government that comes in completely revamped the national curriculum and the education system from what it was before say that constantly on the back foot trying to get used to new systems there's a new test now where children aged just by are tested on phonics some children obviously fail that test and teaches a saying that if you fail a test age five as a huge impact on your future development makes you feel like a failure from an incredibly young age they're also trying to change the exam system again introducing a thing called the back where just a few core subjects would be examined differently from other subjects and people who are in the arts and sports and all those subjects that you really liked when you were at school say that that you know children aren't going to take those

subjects anymore. you know teachers talk about how cuts in general have affected families and the students that they teach they say that families have poorer than they children have less access to technology at home they have parents you can't help them necessarily with their schoolwork and in fact i talked to christine loh who's the general secretary of the national union of teachers and she talked about that the general science what the government is doing wrong is its whole approach to austerity because one of the things that's obvious to teachers is that great swathes of children and their families are having a very difficult time at the moment and to families lose benefit in london for example that's going to be a huge problem with housing benefit cuts the have to move schools and of course you know family income drop struck stickley which it has had lots of places children are coming to school hungry they haven't had first they may not go and get

a meal in the evening so in a general sense there are really quite big problems and the upshot of that is that seventy six percent of teachers surveyed said that austerity measures will have a negative impact on family or british teachers will get nervous about reform they want changes now to improve the situation is what will make the difference at minimal cost to them. well cost is of course the issue they want you i'm slow reforms they say they want to be consulted more and they say that they don't feel trusted as professionals and that's of course has a huge impact on future generations of children and in fact the national union of teachers is not ruling out striking unions of course never ruled out striking but christie did tell me specifically that they don't hear this house. the government is attacking pay and conditions and in fact just before christmas michael gave the education secretary was reported in newspapers having put the department of education on a war footing with teachers which is not going to help going forward. this is all

taking you live from the russian capital with the twenty four hours a day the french capital suffers a string of all the robberies we report later on how jewelry shop owners a raising the blaming the break ins on halt economic times. plus a jerusalem neighborhood beyond israel separation barrier we look at what life is like in an abandoned district that's coming your way to the brink. sigrid laboratory mccurry it was easy to believe when it's most sophisticated robot which on fortunately doesn't give a darn about anything james mission to teach me the creation of why you should care about humans. this is why you should care what your only.

mission is. critique a free. book you just read. arrangement three. three. three. channels three broadcast quality video for your media projects free media. dot com. news continues here in r.t. the dip in the euro zone's fortunes has led to a startling surgeon robbery in france golden jewelry shops are the main targets and the people working in them are getting more nervous every day. as this report.

until a month ago this was one of many jewelry shops on a quiet street in central paris after a gruesome attack by armed robbers never reopened for business having kept robbers out of his store a fifty two year old metal worker tried to chase them down into the street into the parking lot where their motorbike stood the criminals turned around and fired a shot at him he died right in the middle of the street in broad daylight. the murder shocked france with the country's interior ministry fearing it would not be the last incident of its kind is some really good news on the we must not regard these attacks as well these individuals are well trained and they can and will use force and weapons against the employees of jewelry stores. since france plunged into financial crisis armed robberies have become ever more frequent criminals not only attack stores but they also strip people of their jewelry in the street in

some instances they've gone as far as digging graves up to steal golden teeth from corpses to sell jewelry stores private jurors say they are scared to do their job now. we had an attack on our store last year and recently a woman working in a neighboring grocery store was taken hostage the robbers thought she worked for us we had to install a special armored door and cameras but we still feel like we're in a war zone. diamond rings and gems are a hit with the robbers but it's gold which is the biggest draw it's easy to explain say experts in the midst of the eurozone crisis the price is going up all the time . twelve years of a continues to rise of the price of gold. it is small so when you fall for he's not so difficult because it's something you could put in your pocket. for people. who. shops this is one of the

consequence negative consequence of. a lot of product increased quite despite so much gold legal and stolen openly on sale experts say this is seriously damaging the market private buyers are springing up and buying the precious metal at an unregulated price the police created a special unit to deal with that but the problem may only fade away when the financial world does alexy russia of ski r.t. reporting from paris. president obama signed the fiscal cliff bill into law preventing the u.s. economy from sliding back into recession the deal remove the most urgent threat but only delayed the toughest decisions the through the congress prevented deep spending cuts in income tax hikes which technically took effect at midnight on january first income tax will only rise for the wealthy but almost all americans

will still end up paying in federal tax law makers postponing decisions on the deficit and the debt ceiling for two months raising themselves for saving the economy from going over the fiscal cliff but some economists think there is little for them to be happy about congress took the u.s. government the u.s. economy hostage and they let their hostage go about an hour several hours after the hostage deadline and they now would like to be congratulated for letting their hostages go however since they took the hostages it's hard to be excited and addition to which this has reputational damage the united states as well as really damage the united states because all the uncertainty it all the negativity over the last really ten months almost as this dragged out this deal violated all the basic promises to both basic constituencies so nobody wanted to be responsible for a deal and everybody was much more interested in grandstanding and talking ideological purity than solving with nation's problems it was an expiring tax cuts

why are we hearing much about it because they're focusing on the few successes some real some imagined and that is not an area of success and it highlights that when the republican party says no new taxes at all they mean new taxes and including new taxes for people who can afford it and when the democratic party says no new taxes for anyone making under two hundred fifty thousand they mean no new taxes except for the new taxes that you know which are thirteen hundred dollars more probably on average per year so nobody really wants to talk about the face that they executed here they want to talk about. their way down what they did not how they landed on their face not their feet. drawing attention to themselves again a french magazine publishes a comic book biography of the prophet muhammad mocking islam was found just months after blasphemous and lots of violence from muslims around the world more details on that story of the moment all of these website. and also the echoes of tragedy a six year old american elementary school student has been suspended after he found

a gun with his hands pointed it at a student and said. there's been a fresh wave of protests in bahrain to mark twenty thirteen with unrest now just over a month away from hitting the two year mark several arrests have also been reported with police again resorting to tear gas and then violent clampdown on public gatherings the opposition is demanding a transition to democracy and the resignation of the prime minister who's held his position for over forty years bahrain's sunni monarchy recently jailed two policemen for beating a protester to death in two thousand and eleven and cut sentences for several activists who took part in that year's uprisings human rights campaigners however say political prisoners should be released and claim your forty's have no intention of carrying out reforms and activists darwish claims security forces from abroad are contributing to the violence from attacking civilians in their homes. security forces who are working for the ministry of interior and the train are practicing

and auto buy in names and by nations to human rights when confronting when democracy protests and behaving practice. in many different villages and areas around and all of them all of them got. a crackdown and by the way the security forces and behaving who are also not by me and they are working on an end of innocence and interior and they were brought from different countries flooring. just like pakistan and jordan and syria and in the village where i live and sit on it was tear gas excessive you by security forces and i could see security forces running down the streets by my white house and shooting randomly inside their houses it movement was completely peace said but after witnessing that west that was during and position to or that

this situation in bahrain or that have been shown in bahrain it is unlike to what is what they are claiming like they are in kargil human rights in different countries arab countries but when it comes to bahrain they use double standards so the protestants here inviting old though they are those radical protestants they are the minority and not the majority but they are using such methods to prevent them why in it security forces from entering them there is the religious and attacking on our civilians and children like we witnessed and the big you have off of the four year old child being attacked by security forces with tear gas canisters. party live here in moscow within twenty four hours a day now to some other world news making headlines this hour in iraq at least twenty shiite pilgrims have been killed and dozens injured after a suicide bomb attack in the city south of the country's capital the bodrov into

a busy procession returning from the holy city of karbala where tens of thousands have been attending annual mourning rituals the attack follows almost two weeks of sunny protests against the current shiite prime minister nuri al maliki the latest violence highlights the continuing sectarian tensions on the rise and threaten to further divide the country. a u.s. drone strike has killed senior pakistani militant leader zaheer and his deputy commander and eight others died in the missile attack in the tribal regions bordering afghanistan and his followers had ties to the afghan taliban and were accused of targeting the u.s. military in afghanistan on the same day a separate american airstrike to the north killed four other militants. and the government has opened fire in the village in switzerland killing three women and injuring two men it's since been revealed the thirty three year old suspect was a known drug addict and undergone previous treatment for mental health issues

incidence is predicted to stir fresh wave discussion about the country's liberal firearm laws which allow males to keep guns at home. and the former french president nicolas sarkozy accepted over sixty eight million dollars in illegal campaign donations from ousted libyan leader moammar gadhafi that's according to a businesswoman who is currently facing corruption charges and allegations of money laundering between france and the middle east a man says he can provide the paperwork proving most of those payments took place five months before he came to power in two thousand and seven he played a leading role in instigating nato airstrikes that helped topple gadhafi in october two thousand and eleven. they cut off from israel and cut off from the palestinians a neighborhood which is part of jerusalem but lies beyond israel's separation barrier for a cub is the only safe haven for many mixed families but its isolation means the people there have no want to rely on but themselves or he went to meet them

israelis cannot live in the west bank and most palestinians cannot live in israel which leaves those israelis and palestinians who want to share a home out in the cold. one hundred my husband this from happen i'm from jerusalem i found work in jerusalem and used to live there with my children but without my husband because he is not allowed to live there he couldn't visit me even once at the end of each week i would go to have been to visit him but lived like that for four years well come to no man's land a neighborhood that is technically part of jerusalem but in reality is on the palestinian side of the security wall that israel has built some two thousand mixed couples live here. the problem of cooper arca is that so many people are immigrating to the area because they have to so in four years we've had a growth of thirty five thousand people it's become more crowded than gaza. so hair

and stuff one came to live here six years ago with their three children but life in the village is far from ideal the schools are overcrowded garbage is collected only once a week and there's little fresh water so if one is old and sick and basic health services are hard to come by. my husband and my daughter don't have israeli i.d.'s and they can't pass through the checkpoint they need special permission which is very difficult to get on the other hand i enter my children have israeli id we have a lot of problems far curb is in north jerusalem eighty two percent of the land belongs to jerusalem eighteen percent to the west bank residents pay taxes to the israeli government but because the area lies outside the israeli wall israel is slow to provide services the municipality says that many of the people living in far cub are doing so illegally and so it's not obliged to provide them with services it also says that the security wall makes it more complicated to carry out

the services and the state needs to give it more money there have been small victories though residents took the municipality to court and one garbage collection at least for now should be more frequent this is the minimal oblon problem is really they deal with us as an enemy as an arab in jerusalem so we have to care that because we have our right we will be the tax of everything and the suffering from that phones and internet access are limited because palestinian companies are not allowed to install lines in a so-called israeli area and because the israeli police won't come here law enforcement is scarce. there are poorly booklets like this one the goal is to make them not part of jerusalem and to make them fall under the jurisdiction of the palestinian authority and living in the middle of it all are couples and stuff when they merely want to be together but politics and division are making that more and more difficult every day police here are to jerusalem. well that brings up today

for the moment here and with the news team with more news for in about two thirty five minutes from now in the meantime off to this brief break in lower list analysis on the u.s. fiscal cliff and what holds a soulful two thousand and thirteen with the economy stay with us for that coming up very shortly here on out to.

more news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images and seeing from the streets of canada a. giant corporations are on the day. good afternoon welcome to capital account i'm lauren lyster here in washington d.c. these are your headlines for wednesday january second two thousand and thirteen happy new year it's two thousand and thirteen we're back let's reflect on some of

the economic predictions that never came to be last year so our thinking can progress pragmatic capitalist colon roche is here to explain why some folks were wrong about inflation as an example and what the fed's overly optimistic past predictions mean for its future guidance and we have heard about it and in. the senate strikes a deal on the fiscal cliff but not before we the fish we fall off the cliff just two hundred so just. remain and it is now the house where. you are dear smart viewers i'm sure already know about the deal congress reached then that leaves lawmakers wrangling again in a couple months over the debt ceiling and this spending cuts that they delayed but when it comes to the reported six hundred billion dollars over ten years in new revenue this deal is said to raise never mind the new deficit that creates what does that kind of money by any way we have

a reality check plus why is the government involved in keeping the price of milk whoa part of the fiscal cliff deal involved of burning what some have dubbed a dairy cliff will discuss and wall wrong cliffs we have five phrases we'd like to retire this year that's in loose change let's get to today's capital account. so the fiscal cliff has been averted kind of by a deal that pushes more wrangling into the future by a few months so all say the play by play of the twenty four hour cable network news that we are hearing and will continue to hear for at least the next few months let's move on to something actually interesting though for the most part it is

a new year time to reflect on how we can be better in two thousand and thirteen when it comes to the way we think about the economy money capitalism q e and just take an assessment of where we are heading into this new year what we maybe got wrong last year so colin rusch is here to help us about the founder of or can financial group and author of a blog you may know pragmatic capitalists or capitalism use me so first thank you so much for being on the show we're happy to have you here. or are you are you happy new year so let's just a little bit touch on the fiscal cliff and then we will move right past it we didn't go off it exactly stillmore dealmaking to come in in a few months on the debt ceiling and on those spending cuts that they pushed off in terms of the sequester ration that was supposed to go through we do have some tax hikes we do have some permanent bush tax cuts i don't know what's your take away on this deal there.