as the british overwhelmingly want to leave the e.u. behind the prime minister says his next election campaign will be a euro skeptic. film star gerard depardieu is now officially a russian citizen after tax drove him out of his own country. the f.b.i. is accused of failing to one american occupy activists that there was a plot against lives despite plans to assassinate u.s. citizens our top stories this hour.

around the world online on satellite this is the with you twenty four hours a day live from moscow we're getting news just in that international journalists have come under crossfire in syria while covering the army's operations in the damascus suburbs a correspondent of our big sister channel suffered light injuries while trying to escape rounds of gunfire this is news just in and we'll bring you more details and an interview with him later this hour here on our team. britain's part in the european union could be coming to a close with people increasingly feeling that the be better off without brussels in an attempt to stay in touch with the mood of the people prime minister david cameron has promised to go into the next election on the euro skeptic ticket well earlier i spoke to. in london. the e.u.'s popularity at a very very low amongst the british public at the moment we've just had a poll that asked respondents to grade institutions like in school and the european

union got an average grade of a d. plus from the british public that's not very very high now or a more serious note this recent poll it's really marked a tipping point because for the first time in decades the number of people that say that they would vote for britain leaving the european union is the majority of the british public so it's really turning britain turning into a nation of real euro skeptics at the moment and it's not just the result of one poll we've seen things like for example british support for political parties anti european ones like the u.k. independence party it's at an all time high so lots of bad news for pro europeans at the moment so what is the main grudge that many people are holding against. well the british public has always been very divided over membership anyway but the

past year has been particularly difficult we've seen the chronic financial crisis in the eurozone with a real loss of confidence that grows at the same time at home they have quit playing austerity measures so there's a growing resentment towards the vast sums of money that leaves the british treasury and come straight from the u.k. budget goes straight to brussels every year when very terrible project cuts and it's not just the money there's also the aspect of the control of north that comes from brussels that many people want to see returned back to westminster this. way to the top of the u.k. doesn't it right at the top of political levels. well indeed david cameron the prime minister has just said that the conservative party is going to be going into the next general election in twenty fifteen as a euro skeptic party is an anti european political party that really shows that you know the government's banking on the fact that the british public is are you going

to get more fed up with british membership in and that they're really confident that that's going to happen what about brussels and how is it responding to the way that britain is giving the cold shoulder transition well it can't be too pleasant listening to all this negativity about yourself because there are reports flying around now that certain senior members of the european parliament want to offer britain a junior membership status associate membership and it would in fact be a bit of a demotion whereby britain since its grumbling so much over its membership in the european union it would have much less influence over issues within the european union itself so it's got all the hallmarks of a relationship going quite sour and now it's either going to be a question of who dumps who thought store salvagable but with public opinion turning towards britain getting out it's going to be harder and harder to stay in ortiz pretty book talking bitterly and movie stars has been granted russian

citizenship decided to say to his home country good with its attempt to ramp up taxes for the mega rich. explains what made him turn to russia. this is a russian passport and it seems that pretty soon as you are deeper dia 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 belgium where he apparently has real estate at his disposal and therefore he's been granted residency in belgium all of this stems 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 now is your department

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 if your argy bargy is in need of such assistance then he is ready to sign the appropriate documents and it seems like he has actually signed these documents and we may be soon scenes of. their frequent guests 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. it's been revealed that the f.b.i. knew of a plot to assassinate the occupy wall street activists but didn't alert them to the potential danger the bureau was instead spinal members of the movement branding

them criminals and domestic terrorists. as 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 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 alerted 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. is mission is to protect and defend americans but. an independent journalist who.

says the bureau is only so ending with the so-called war. 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 is 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. the french capital suffers a string of all the robberies we report later this hour and held jewelry shop owners a razor blaming the break ins on economic times. still ahead this hour

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he continues here naughty the dip in the euro zone's fortunes has led to a startling surge in all the robbery in from scolding jewelry shops in the main targets and the people working in them are getting more nervous every day ati's. has this report. until a month ago this was one of many jewelry shop on a quiet street in central paris after a gruesome attack by armed robbers never reopened for business having kicked

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. we must not regard these attacks as 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 amador 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 . will be twelve years of a continuous 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 it's easy for people. this is one of as a consequence negative consequence of. a

lot of products increased price 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's ski r.t. reporting from paris president obama has 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 last through by congress halted deep spending cuts and income tax hikes which technically took effect at midnight on generate the first income tax will only rise for the wealthy but almost all americans will still end up paying more in federal tax law makers postpone decisions on the deficit and the debt ceiling for two months praising themselves for saving the economy from going over the fiscal cliff but some economists think

there's 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 edge 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 and 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 the nation's problems it was an expiry of a tax cut why aren't 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 now have 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 half twist on their way down that they did not how they landed on their face not their feet. just turn sixty minutes policy in the russian capital this is all to do with the twenty four hours a day and drawing attention to themselves again french magazine who publishes a comic book biography all the prophet muhammad mocking is known as fonda just months off for a blasphemous imus a film volumes for muslims around the world details all that stuff on our website. and also among the echoes all the tragedy a six year old american an elementary school student has been suspended after he filmed the gun with his hands pointed at

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he continues now here in r.t. and we cross now of some 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 in the suburbs south of the country's capital the bomber drove into a busy procession returning from the holy city of karbala where tens of thousands have been attending annual morning which was followed almost two weeks of sunny protests against the current shiite prime minister nouri al maliki the latest violence highlights the continuing sectarian tensions on the rise that threaten to further divide the country. a u.s. drone strike has killed senior pakistani militant leader. and his deputy commander and eight others died in the missile attack in the tribal regions bordering afghanistan. ties to the afghan taliban and were accused of targeting the u.s. military in afghanistan on the same day a separate american air strike to the north killed four other militants. someone

has opened fire in a 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 a fresh wave of discussion about the country's liberal firearm laws which allow males to keep guns at home. in a world update the site of the french president nicolas sarkozy accepted over fifteen million euros 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 it came to power in two thousand and seven sarkozy played a leading role in instigating nato airstrikes that helped topple gadhafi in october two thousand and eleven. the education of britain's future generation is being

put at risk by a dramatic drop in morale amongst the nation's teachers they say the government is stifling them and their students are paying the price well kevin allen spoke to audi's nor smith 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 so 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 here. 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 at a huge impact on your teacher 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 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 blower 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 if 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 drops just to clean which it has and 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 yet they want changes now to improve the situation is what might be the difference at minimal cost to them. well cost is of course the issue they want few and slow reforms they say they want to be consulted more and they say that they don't feel trusted as professionals enough of course has a huge impact on future generations of children and in fact the national union of teachers was not ruling out striking unions of which never rule out strike but restricted to a type a specific date us house. the government attacking and dixon and in fact just before christmas mike who 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 come up to

twenty five minutes past the hour here in moscow more news stories coming your way after this short break. something. beneath. the thousands of meters of the ice truck. that is it for many. but dangerous even to those who keep it to a distance. the

news today is once again flared up. and these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. giant corporations rule the day. the walls around israel are growing as the country is now building a security barrier on its border with syria that's right after constructing a fence between itself and egypt israel says it wants to safeguard its citizens from the fallout from the ongoing deadly syrian conflict activision believes that israel's barrier isn't meant to help it dominate the middle east. israel has. to recalculate what they are doing in the middle east israel dealing with the middle east or dominating power and they try all the time to build war walls around then

themselves claiming that the people is hating them and they are a target and israel has been harmed the whole region and the area around around the world they are building the wall around the palestinian areas the clean that is for security but at the end look people are peanuts in forty percent of their land they build world around gods and they turn goes into a jail the biggest prison in the world and noone we know how did you first aid the situation in gaza they are still occupying syria and they are building a wall on the occupied land so they want to keep this land and to keep themselves as a client it's not a solution that you keep building roads you need to do peace with the region you have created that the right to the people of israel can't build that disputed on the expense of the people of the region and that then building wars to protect the to protect themselves walls is not going to protect the israeli people have rights and they will keep claiming the right one is even get and pushing it for the explosion we witness in the settlers attacking the palestinians every day and many

villages there is north of the jordan valley is evacuated night by now where there's a will there's a real attack on the people in the south of hebron settlers does attacking the people in the middle area and so they are launching war on the palestinian people and they want the walls at the end to to bring peace to them stealing the people's land looking them in jail reversed it in their life is not going to bring peace in any way must realize that their years changing and they must they must understand the change that needs for them to conciliate with the people and deal with the people i too i don't consider yourself as part of your job or do you want to isolate yourself and look yourself within the walls from the region you can do that. and israel's barrier in east jerusalem has left one neighborhood in complete isolation the people have come for a cardboard cut off both from israel and the palestinians it's part of jerusalem

but it lies beyond the separation barrier which means people that have only themselves to rely on. and went to meet the residents 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 have 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 is that so many people are immigrating to the area because they have to so in four years.