international journalists including a news crew come under rebel fire while covering the conflict in syria. us human rights groups cry foul after the white house allows the military to keep detaining terror suspects indefinitely without charge or trial. sentiment rises to new levels across britain the country's prime minister promises to get on board with the movement before the next election.

twenty four hour news live from moscow this is the with me rory sushi it's good to have you with us today several international journalists including an arabic news crew had a close brush with death while covering the ongoing conflict in syria and they came under rebel sniper fire as their company the military on a counterinsurgency sweep i want to my colleagues. i was injured while running for his his account. we arrived at the damascus suburb early in the morning to report on the syrian army operation we were moving from street to street and when we reached the dock my colleagues and i got caught in crossfire we tried to escape running one after another fearing that armed rebels would notice us a syrian army soldier company the entire time he constantly kept his on the situation and helped us to escape the gunfire the rebels were firing on us my

colleagues and i were wearing bulletproof bass with the word press song them that the firing was very intense and it was difficult to find shelter i ran and fell down i hurt my arms but the syrian army doctors gave me first aid on the scene so i could continue to do my job there were many other correspondents there with me including iranians and syrians one of the syrian cameramen was also slightly wounded like me. meanwhile a car bomb blast has ripped through a petrol station packed with people in the syrian capital at least eleven have been killed and dozens more injured are u.s. war correspondent ross baker says such attacks a typical of the western backed opposition still trying to bring down a side and there's going to be a lot of in the way of covert operations sponsored by outside parties that have a stake in haste to name some sort of a resolution of the situation on the surface that western countries and including

my own have stepped up their involvement and want to get assad out as fast as possible and these are the sorts of things that we've seen historically going all the way back to the goo in guatemala in the one nine hundred fifty s. in iran and so forth these sorts of provocations are very very common i think we're going to see them increase until something or other is was all of their a pretty clearly i think the western countries don't want any kind of halfway measures they want him out entirely and i think he is not going to do that until the last possible moment. u.s. a human rights groups venting anger at the government of president obama extended the military's all thorough heed to indefinitely detain terror suspects including americans without charge or trial the national defense authorization act of twenty thirteen also allows for the notorious guantanamo bay military prison to remain open despite the president's pledge to shut down the facility years ago activists

say the act means obama has failed the first test of his second even before inauguration day congressman dennis kucinich thinks the move is part of a tendency that ultimately undermines democracy families there are great human rights concerns here. that people could be held indefinitely violates a constitutional privilege that people have. we have a constitutional challenge here where not only the national. defense authorization act but the patriot act and other legislation have gradually moved america away from a robust. freedom to a more limited freedom that is based on proscriptions by the government this is more than problematic because what has always made made america america is

is the fact that we follow our constitution and we protect our constitution and we protect people against unreasonable search and seizure we protect people against being seized without right to. know the charges against them or a right to an attorney or a right to a trial we have in the past condemned government being involved in spying now we have a much broader. spy network this is something that is profoundly anti-democratic i have repeatedly taken exception to it as a member of congress. i know us kevin to go start things said sardonic how washington is putting the squeeze on freedoms or trying to teach other countries a lesson in human rights currently in the u.s. courts there is in fact a case moving it's on appeal right now the government has appealed it but a judge earlier in in two thousand and twelve had actually enjoying it so i issued

in junction making it so that provision this provision that for indefinite detention was actually not something that the government could use now the obama administration is defending that in the courts think a lot of people in the united states know as much about what just happened given that happened during the holidays it's fair to say that the united states should probably not be lecturing other countries about how you know they protect human rights or how they protect civil liberties especially when there are many policies in the united states that they are not able to you know they're they're not really good policies on their own they're not protecting civil liberties of the united states citizens and they're they're not protecting the human rights of united states citizens. thanks for joining us here on our to today and t.e.u. feeling is something hardening in britain where a majority of citizens now feel the country would be better off outside the

troubled union prime minister david cameron has evolved to adopt a clear euro skeptic position to remain in tune with the people my colleague bill dog spoke on this issue totties party boy in london. the e.u. is popularity at a very very low amongst the british public at the moment we 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 crippling 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 love project 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 so this. goes 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. election in twenty fifteen as a euro skeptic party is an anti european political party that really shows that the government's banking on the fact that the british public is 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 transaction well it can't be too pleasant listening to all this negativity about yourself and of course 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. ball daughter talking about earlier well are certainly many more stories for you to come this hour including that of taming tibet and separatist sentiment in just a few minutes here on r t we look at chinese plans to sort problems out by pumping money in trying to integrate one of its most restive regions into the rest of the country. struggling to deliver its being over seven months since his dramatic victory in the presidential race but has a socialist francois hollande really one over the french people find out in just a few.

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to find out more visit. this is arts he with me rory sushi for years people in tibet have protested chinese rule over their land often taking drastic measures to do so twenty eight self-immolation reported last november alone though since bloody demonstrations four years ago beijing's been trying to integrate tube out into the rest of the country boosting subsidies and investments china is now pumping almost fifty billion dollars into the region to win the support of the population. going off when to file this report. national you love the communist party of china a slogan so widespread in tibet it's even displayed on taxis here everything is an

ambiguous mix of modern technology and tradition communism and religion. is eighty six his son is a buddhist monk but ten years ago this elderly man joined the communist bangalore do i knew that the party is breathing new life into our nation not just your time in the capital where shops and businesses sit beneath the monasteries on the hills this is quite a normal scene for us every day believers gather in the city center to pray right outside what is traditions are very strong here but at the same time chinese national red flags are hanging almost on every poor in every building as a constant reminder of which countries to bat is a part of. for decades china has been accused of occupying tibet and destroying its culture human rights organisations we were numerous abuses there on a daily basis some are even willing to go to the most extreme measures in protest

in almost all instances protests are put down through violence so chinese security personnel will come in and more use violence to to basically stop those protests we've documented cases where the chinese state news lethal force against tibetans in one town fifteen people were shot legal authorities denial of geishas of human rights violations claiming the so often malaysians are organized from abroad accusing the worst of a full scale media assault on china the united states has been using to bat for. six decades now and says the truman administration co-opted to fight communism and they will continue this because their modus operandi these days seems to be human rights violations. over the years china spent over sixty billion u.s. dollars to build schools roads and water supplies as well as developing industries

from beer factories to call to workshops. outside the capital in one of tibet's most ancient temples when we ask the monk what he thinks of the acts of their spiritual leader the dalai lama he surprisingly said he didn't hear. the government supplies clothes food and other necessities not to the dalai lama i couldn't care less where he was. assessing tibet is not easy even on the ground it's hard to see what's true and what's being deliberately shown to foreigners but what's crucial for the next generation of tibetans is that the mix of ancient traditions and beijing's billions can pay off. this one off tibet. part is now a quarter past the hour here in moscow time israel has announced it's going to build a new barrier along the occupied golan heights and the reason it says is to protect

its citizens from the ongoing violence in syria and that's as the jewish state has completed the bulk of the work on a fence separating itself from egypt aimed at rooting out illegal migration earlier my colleague bill dodd spoke to activist who believes these actions have nothing to do with safety. israel has to recalculate what they are doing in the middle east israel dealing with the middle east as a dominating power and they try all the time to build walls around them themselves claiming that the people is hating them and they are targeting them israel has been harmed the whole region and the area around israel they are building the wall around the palestinian areas the clean that is for security but at the end one of the worst apartheid systems and get around the palestinian people that looked the palestinians in forty percent of the land they built around gaza they turn goes into a jail the biggest prison in the world and you know we know how the diversity of the situation in gaza they are still look you point syria and they are building

a wall on the occupied land so they want to keep this london to keep themselves as a couple years it's not the solution that you keep building walls you need to do peace with the region you have to write to the people israel can't build its future on the expense of the people of the region and then building walls to protect the to protect themselves. is not going to protect israelis people's rights and they will keep claiming the rights now israel's merged visible wall is its barrier separating israel from the palestinians while it's also of course building settlements in the area how do you see that situation developing do you think there could be any compromise over this very contentious issue you know you see that you see what how the artist collating even the building the settlements in the west bank and the building when it in a way that to control the palestinian people and this is what is leading it and pushing it for the explosion we witness in the settlers attacking the palestinians

every day and many villages this is north of the jordan valley is evacuated now by now by the israeli. attack on the people in the south of settlers attacking the people in the middle areas so they are russian war on the palestinian people and they want the walls. to to bring peace to them stealing the people's land looking them in. their life is not going to be any way this is a must realize that their years change and they must they must understand this change their need for them to conciliate with the people deal with the people. we. want to. look within the walls from the region you can do that. and i mean while in the gaza strip thousands are celebrating the forty eighth anniversary of the fatah movement this is the first major gathering since two thousand and seven which saw how must take over from gaza at the rally is seen as

a tit for tat move after a recent major. in the west bank the two rival movements have been trying to reconcile and join forces in their plight for palestinian statehood. right in other world news this hour venezuela's leader who go chavez has suffered respiratory failure following a cancer operation in cuba that's according to one of the country's top officials it was earlier reported that he was suffering complications caused by a lung infection but as well as vice president has stressed that chavez is fully conscious although under the constitution the socialist president is due to be sworn in for a third term next week. iran has agreed to hold talks with six major world powers about the country's atomic activities later this month with the exact dates and venue yet to be finalized by the u.s. russia france britain germany china and iran last met in moscow in june

a number of countries accuse the islamic state of trying to develop nuclear weapons something terror and continues to deny. a protest march in the chilean capital commemorating the controversial death of a indian turned violent with about a dozen people arrested a twenty two year old was shot dead by police in two thousand and eight during a land dispute in the south of the country and put your indians represent about five percent of chile's population and that clash sporadically with your thirties for. now it's been just over seven months since french voters invested their hopes for change in socialist francois trusting him to steer the country out of stormy economic waters but as artie's alexia chefs he found out less than a year in office it appears the president has already lost a lot of the momentum that swept him to. the debate on whether gay marriage should be allowed has split french society for years with protests about the issue often

ending in violence with francois hollande coming to power the gay community breathed a sigh of relief but it may have been too soon activists say the new law which is going through parliament in january is not exactly what they've been dreaming of we are. very happy that flow has been introduced by the government to open marriage to same sex couples and option and supposedly. medically assisted procreation but we're still very concerned because. people against same sex marriage same sex equality are getting very strong including in the parliament. in the mayors were obliged to officially register gay couples marital status and that's where me and you revolted including francois labelle the mayor of central paris. allowing same sex marriages in france and moreover

permitting them to adopt children will destroy the foundations of our family institution if we allow this now the next step will be allowing paedophilia and incest. so it seems in this scenario no side is completely happy which puts the french president and his electoral promise under serious pressure from bringing the french troops back from afghanistan to creating more jobs in france and preventing the country from going into austerity during his campaign to become a normal president francois hollande had made many promises some of which now experts say may backfire against the french leader and if the gay marriage law wasn't divisive enough all on splurged to impose a seventy five percent tax on the wealthy may become another sticking point several million years have already decided to take their businesses out of france that's called a lot of problems and it does divide the country because

a lot of people realize that the rich aren't going so far as financial problems everybody's going to have to pay france's actual. including socialist voters which of course frost all along when he was being elected gave the impression that. this wouldn't happen the latest polls suggest. he has dropped by twenty percent winning the election we proved to be the far easier challenge than what awaits the french president now with the economic producers for twenty thirteen in france looking far from optimistic he could face an uphill joran. r.t. reporting from. well controversial luxury tax many wealthy french to seek financial havens elsewhere and over at our website r.t. dot com we get further reaction to the news that actor. has been granted russian citizenship he now says that he's a very pleased that his request was met. with in the case of the

violent gang rape that sparked. the merges the man believed to be the most brutal abuser. punishment if found guilty those details on our website. for now vladimir putin is the most powerful person on. according to a survey by a prominent us based think tank it says he single handedly brought about the most significant change for a large numbers of people however the eurasia group consultancy firm place the russian president only second list. first. world leader has yet to a. wide range of global issues. no person has consolidated more domestic and regional power than president putin following the russian leader with a rating on. merkel. talked

to william binney u.s. national security agency whistleblower the ways the american government is spying on its citizens is a quick preview. i think the eye has access to the data collected which is basically the emails of virtually everybody in the country. and they have at the f.b.i. has access to it all the congressional members are on on the surveillance to it's not no one's excluded they're all included so yes this can happen to to anyone if they become a target for whatever reason. if they were targeted by the government the government can go in with the f.b.i. or other agencies of the government can go into their database pull all that they've collected over them on them over the years and reanalyze it also retroactively analyze everything they've done over the last ten years at least where if you want cards and i'm sure i i i believe i've been on it for quite

a few years yeah so i keep telling them everything i think of them in my e-mail so that they when they read it they'll understand what i think of them. coming your way in just a few minutes here and lauren lyster in washington d.c. time for the regular financial checkup. ron paul has rejected the national rifle association safety plan and by safety plan the n.r.a. proposes basically turning every school in america into a prison camp so on this one ron paul i'm with you in the wake of the tragic events

at sandy hook elementary and or a vice president wayne la pierre called on congress to immediately appropriate whatever is necessary to put armed police officers in every school so yeah what is the solution to isolated incidents of extreme violence make every child live their entire school life at gun point before putting armed guards in schools maybe we should take a look at the fact that more than twenty five percent of american kids are on medication and that's just the kids altering their mental state legally mom is working two jobs so she isn't around dad is a wall and the t.v. who's the new parent shows kids nothing but images glorify violence for evangel torture when someone is getting harassed every day at school and maybe getting harassed at home they feel totally alone and they see no future and no escape from the hell that they're in they are going to take drastic measures to get out of it you know in the fifty's sixty's and seventy's there were still plenty of guns and

there were no armed officers in schools but there were no shootings society changed and school violence erupted societies what needs to change to call them things back down but that's just my opinion. good afternoon welcome to capital account i'm lauren lister here in washington d.c. these are headlines birth thursday january third two thousand and twelve economist nouriel roubini known as dr doom predicts it won't be long before there's another crisis in the west two months and back to seeing as this is when congress must deal

with the debt ceiling and those seaquest ration spending cuts this shouldn't come as a major revelation so in the meantime from tax hikes to trillion dollar point ideas edward harrison is here to discuss what is likely to be the fallout from what he calls the fiscal cliff left and les miserables it is a hollywood blockbuster meant to show off a list actor singing chops or is it actually a valuable lesson in the economic misadventures of stated them very relevant today while jeffrey tucker argues the latter will hear why business week's cover feature is babies crying on capitol hill but what about a study that finds babies born during recessions are more likely to be delinquent teens no word on what happens if they get elected to office we'll have more in loose change plus we'll talk sped minutes an inflationary dragons' let's get to today's capital account.