stunts on t.v. don't calm. russia demands an investigation into civilian deaths from nato bombings in libya while locals say atrocities are still being committed in the country with former gadhafi loyalists the target. russia's newly elected parliament embarks on its work two weeks after the polls that sparked mass protest against alleged vote rigging calls for a recount. disagreements between the u.k. and the e.u. broke with the battlefront now being welfare rolls block insists that britain pays billions to non citizens something on them says will spawn benefit tourism.

extending and the russian capital you're watching are to joshua welcome to the program now russia is demanding a probe into civilian casualties in libya caused by nato bombings that's a reaction to a report by human rights groups which claims dozens were killed in airstrikes despite the alliance saying its operation was almost flawless while the conflict is over and the man who stood in the way of western style democracy dead atrocities against his loyalist continue we'll find some of the images in a son a boy his report disturbing. this is what it's like to look down in the face a group of men the young and old captured after the nadir propped over iran gadhafi is home town of sirte the voice behind the camera delivers a verdict. for gadhafi. and the captives them sound seems doubts about what's coming next. and it seems like these where you know that

possibly be as the rebels assisted by western powers so to liberate the country from gadhafi i've been maginnis about he said district tendencies grow more and more outlandish by the day and that seems to justify any sort of treatment for his perceived loyalists in some places the violence is quite bad the town we looked out in was called where god and the militias from the neighboring town of misrata are terrorizing the people of to where they accuse them of having fought for qaddafi of having committed atrocities in his name this is one of the liberated tripoli's new landmarks a prison where moammar gadhafi was set to hold his political opponents with no access to lawyers and no chance for a fair trial. but while the prisons new guards have a very elaborate in their rating gadhafi is ferocity his fear and hatred still

reside in this neighborhood. obviously is a poor area in southern tripoli where more margo duffy had strong support base prior to his fleeing the district also and his name to the tour is present a scene of torture and arbitrary killings but while gadhafi is gone the human rights abuses still remain rather from this area still disappearing without a trace where families are too scared to talk about. this is probably the only place in all the beer with families of a logic get out his supporters can turn to for how mama to form peace and your earlier this year to investigate the fate of those who disappeared in good office prisons he is now primarily dealing with people who went missing under libya's new leadership it's usually mothers who come here and at first they are scared to tell me that this son husband was with because daffy forces they usually say he was a civilian court in the crossfire but i tell them that i don't care which side he

was on all i need is accurate information so that we can start searching. mohammad and his friends have been taking photos of unidentified bodies that have been popping up across lee beer in recent months this naturists are probably the relatives most realistic hope of finding closure but even after sifting through them many managed to retain hope like this man whose brother disappeared on the front lines of banjo. i hope he's in tunisia maybe his in hospital maybe he's lost his memory or has no way of contacting us. they say hope dies last only bit it's still alive even if many people aren't going to boycott artsy tripoli. it's feared syria could also face foreign intervention was unpredictable consequences the country's opposition is split over whether they need military help

from outside in their fight against the government the division came as a country witnesses some of the fiercest battles in months old crisis dozens of troops and protesters are reported to have been killed in the latest series of clashes across the country with syrian authorities have agreed to wow. mission which it's hoped might help to an end the conflict i do service records from damascus. the arab league council is expected to send an advance team. hit to syria in the next couple of days ahead of the observers mission that will that be entering now that was agreed upon on monday when the syrian government signed the proposal that opened the doors for those observers to then into the country now that decisions receive a mixed response from the opposition days outside the country the syrian national council that's the main body outside of syria have said that they don't think that that decision is going to be as efficient as the syrian government is trying to make out in fact they called it

a ploy and have still called the international intervention now that varies very widely with what the opposition group within syria is saying the national coordinator council here in the country said that they welcomed me they hoped that it would be implemented properly but they said that absolutely their stance is still very much against international intervention in their words they said that that could lead to the destruction of the country something big that they didn't want to see happening we went to the city of homs the other day that's one of the main called think areas now we weren't allowed to enter any of the hotspots where the conflict with continuing we were allowed to see some of the parts of the city speak to some of the people that this is the city has been described as being on the brink of civil war. to be almost the situation here in homes it's very difficult. feel intimidated because of the situation there are problems with.

my feet and certainly the situation there in the civilians who are still living within that city or in a very very extreme situation and there's calls from all the people living there to resolve that as soon as possible. so our first reporting there a u.s. based intelligence gathering firm has found most of the claims by the syrian opposition about the seriousness of the country's crisis are on through a company called strata force as protesters are exaggerating to with outside support from powers like the u.s. well dr paul craig roberts a former reagan administration official told us told our team he believes washington is not just backing the rebels diplomatically but the united states is involved in stirring up their opposition and in armenia they use the cold war of the arab spring arab protests as they do look so these are not

spontaneous protest and certainly authoritarian study like syria syria you wouldn't find people and opposition able to gradually themselves with arms military weapons it makes no sense for the syrians to themselves opportunity for the country to be destroyed like libya or iraq or afghanistan or just to go to save their lives which involved here is the russians are going to and then we place in syria. and the americans the russian naval presence in the mediterranean just as in libya the problem was the chinese all investments in syria and iran is in the target sites and and lemon arms and so there will be knocking all of these countries one by one and while they stand there and don't unite in fact they can't

unite and that's why we're so vulnerable. so i have for you this hour here in our case getting increasingly unhappy with the e.u. meddling its affairs. it's simply outrageous that an elected officials and brothel can prevent us from bringing about the reforms that we said we were going to do when you have a tradition to office they will look into the controversy surrounding that use attempts to make britain. for nonresidents. starts the town down. with a special series of first hand reports a landmark advance and transfer the passing year. history. testimony. ten stories that shapes two thousand and eleven. wealthy british.

time to. find out what's really happening to the global economy with. the global financial headlines to report. to the future new year's wishes on technology update next generation playthings made from super strong culture lately building materials good. old nuclear isotopes a cleaner planet thanks to the revolutionary ways to get rid of our growing landfills and along with the russian invaders.

russia's six day dumas the lower house of parliament begins its first session on wednesday comes more than two weeks after elections that sparked mass protests over alleged fraud because it has the latest from the parliament building. in the new lower house of the russian parliament the state duma opposition will have large more representation than it used to have with the country's leading political party united russia not getting the constitutional majority of the votes it used to have securing only two hundred and thirty eight seats in the country's parliament as opposed to three hundred and fifteen it's nice to have however still united russia got most of the votes but we are expecting some heated debates including all on choosing the new speaker of the stadium which we will be updating you on throughout the day now fifteen year committees out of twenty nine will be headed by the

parliamentary majority the united russia party six by the country's communist party and the liberal democrats and fair russia will gets to have sure you meet each of them since the election day on december the fourth there's been a number of debates about the outcome of this parliamentary election and the opposition rallies to places most go along some twenty thousand people gathered for a peaceful demonstration against the outcome of their parliamentary election claiming a number of violations to place during the electorate process following which president david have ordered a thorough investigation the air into the case and the voting results of twenty one polling stations have been counseled but of course out of tens of thousands of polling stations throughout the country twenty one is too small of a number to cancel the results of the parliamentary elections so the lower house of the russian parliament this they do weighs going to stay in the way it was shaved

on december the fourth. until you know with her reporting there and as natalia mentioned we'll be bringing you updates on how the first day of the new russian parliament develops. new year is just ten days away and we are starting our own countdown with ten special reports on events that shaped two thousand and eleven we are looking back at major stories through the eyes of our t.v. respondents who witnessed them and we start with an area that saw fair share of both breakthroughs and failures space projects consistently made it into the headlines but there was much more of the didn't appear all over reveals. well one of the biggest landmarks that we saw this year was the fiftieth anniversary of eureka guarin first space flight and just before one of the nasa astronauts went up there i was happy to chat with him about what it actually meant

to have that first flight by you get daryn fifty years ago and he was saying really it changed us as a species we stopped being limited to our own planet we were able to go out and explore further of course a few years after guarin first month set foot on the moon. of mars five hundred project which came to an end this year was really something quite exciting it was great to be able to go in and have a look at it where they were when i'd seen it on television i was thinking wow this is six guys in a shed and then when i actually went to where the the mocked up spacecraft was i realized it was six guys in a very very small shed for five hundred twenty days i mean doing them a bit of a disservice saying that there is a ship in the shed when you see the pictures of the wood paneling and everything very small confined space that they were in such a long time one year into their voyage the mars five hundred team currently simulating never to journey to earth however it will be another five months before

this store can be opened and they can step back into normality it was nice on the day i remember the day when they came out. the look on their faces when the door opened the look on the very very pale faces of course you have to realize these guys hadn't seen sunlight for such a long time. they were ecstatic to have come out of there. and it really was i mean whether scientifically it ends up being the building block or the the first step towards the first step i think it was referred to by the organizers towards going to. in trying to send people to. well looking back on twenty eleven one of the things that really stand out is the crash of that progress module no it wasn't just the module itself they've been using since the late seventy's it was the fact that this was carried on a soyuz rocket the soyuz rocket is the only way we have now getting people into

space. the progress module that was launched at the end of august was carrying valuable food and supplies for the international space station at the time we were hearing from morse and from the guys on the space station those food and supplies had been for saying no this is fine it's ok i remember saying in my report look these guys go through extensive cosmonaut training they know what they're doing they'll be fine. volkov who is actually the mission commander who is up there when he returned from his time in space he was telling me that yeah they were genuinely a little bit worried they were generally scared at times they were going to run out of food they didn't know if they were going to be able to be brought back down to earth before that ran out in the beginning of twenty twelve. pressures that these people put themselves through evidence thankfully that these failures that we've seen today seen this year these failures that we've seen this year didn't result in

. any major problems on months spaceflight that's always the big concern but. it has showed me the perseverance of these people who do risk their lives going into space on a well as a job they do it without a choice. this was just a first report in our special series on events that shaped twenty eleven so don't miss the rest and we'll be bringing you a new story every day until the new year plus you can always find them on our website at our dot com where you can also check out plenty more news stories com and an analysis now let's take a look at what's available there today. a man made then this a dutch team of scientists have engineered a deadly virus that critics dogs and indestructible bioweapon and terrorist threat also. approved protection and new riot shields said to be introduced in the

u.s. and stop the occupy demonstrators from breathing find out more. britain may be forced to pay out more than two billion pounds of welfare benefits to non-citizens and that's if the european union has its way but was london's new spirit of non-cooperation decision might not be so easy to impose. as more. homeless and jobless this man's too embarrassed to be identified he came to britain from poland five years ago hoping to live a dream but the realities been a nightmare he claims the u.k.'s welfare state hasn't been fair on him.

i'm a citizen of the european union five years ago i decided to discount it will be my home i didn't come here to claim benefits i came here to work. david's what the government fears is a benefit tourist here to take and not to give back english is still a struggle and the state says he doesn't qualify for its handouts a serious accident eighteen months ago put him out of work and he soon went bankrupt he's been living on the street ever since but still won't go back to poland. i thought this was a friendly country but only if it needs you and you work for it you can treat could give me something but it doesn't need me i never thought it would be like this this is not a paradise. foreign nationals are eligible for welfare once they've lived here for over three months but they must convince the or forties they are here to work and support themselves but the e.u. is ordering britain to relax those rules claiming they discriminate unfairly it

wants to allow foreign nationals to get state handouts as soon as they arrive in the u.k. it's extraordinary for the european union to say that in britain where north are able to do an eligibility test before handing someone benefit you know first of all it's our money secondly it was in our manifesto that we were going to bring in these sorts of changes it simply outrageous that an elected official from brussels can prevent us from bringing about the reforms that we said we were going to do when we were voted into office the e.u. commission is refusing to speak to us but it hasn't been shy in issuing britain with an ultimatum. it says the right to reside test for his must pass to claim benefits is too tough and has given the government until the end of this month to change that otherwise it will see. britain's refusing to budge otherwise it claims it will have to pay out two and a half billion pounds to those who were put anything back in the pool it's the

british welfare state exists to benefit british people. this was very original welfare state back in the one nine hundred forty s. which contributed principle you contributed and you benefited if you didn't contribute you weren't eligible for which it was sent to migrants from eastern and central europe most of those eligible for welfare already some are trying their luck and no doubt more will the u.k. is forced to sweeten the deal or than it r.t. the. brief look now at other stories making news around the world are female supporters of the pro muslim party in pakistan of health and tomato rally in response to a recent airstrike that killed twenty four people hundreds of women chanted slogans denouncing the us and nato also carried barras demanding the withdrawal of alliance forces from afghanistan after last months of tap pakistan retaliated immediately by closing its afghan border crossings tomato supply it's. now the body of north

korea's slate's a veteran no leader kim yarnell who died of a heart attack on saturday has been put on display in pyongyang several top chinese officials have traveled to the region and to pay their respects aside out of importance beijing places on ties was north korea meanwhile the news of kim's death but the north stranger is on high alert fearing instability in the region japan called a special security meeting while south korea said its military is on standby. next hour peter earl of value and his guest will be assessing what's next for north korea under mr. i don't think anybody would be prepared to take over north korea at this point given the state of its economy. in general instability i would say in the country owing to the economic instability. brothers were not interested in the job i think it's tough for anybody to take

a position much less someone in their late twenty's the young kim's uncle is going to act as regent you know in the medieval days or used to when the king died in the prince wasn't quite ready there would be the regent to sort of god and mentor him but there itself raised certain questions will there be tension between the regent and the young kim what will or will the military take going forward i. kept a day's top stories for you after the latest business news with kate. hello and welcome to the business program more details have emerged about the possible sell of russia's largest. the fed the most news paper of policy and it's one four to five billion dollars to one hundred percent of the show as of the most. on the sources claim to find out to a consortium investment. holdings of the most likely potential acquirers however

they out the most possible buys are not ready to stump up the full amount. it was reported that goldman sachs was retained to seal the deal. so let's have a look at the markets or it is climbing for the day as investors bet the signs of an economic recovery and shrinking stockpiles in the u.s. the world's knowledge is crude consuming nation indicates fuel demond may increase one's weight is currently trading at just under ninety nine dollars per barrel while the brant is that one hundred and seven dollars asian markets are posting strong bangs renewed optimism about the health of the global economy. called makers and technology are among the main game is in japan with two percent in sony ninety three percent in the black and commodious healing stocks are on the rise in hong kong the chinese coal and liquefied natural gas in balls hit record levels in

november. on the russian. falling days in the u.s. and asia however investors are still concerned about political risk in russia rubenstein i have to see much of paul explains russian market has underperformed global markets significantly over the past three weeks. by a large margin will probably continue to observe there's a political issue around the president and perhaps are increasing as we get closer to the weekend. when we have another one you just station scheduled to take place in moscow so i think many investors will want to take. a wait and see approach. so i don't expect significant moves in the russian market before the end of the week. russia's gas monopoly gas from has decided to more than double the issues dividends the company's shareholders will get six point two billion dollars if the

payouts approved in next year's a.g.m. gazprom has been criticized for low definition payments despite rising profits from growing gas prices however others say the move could leave the monopoly to a missed balance budget due to planned due. counts to neighboring countries as well as a possible reduction in gas exports to europe. the shareholder struts of russian nicole giant nickel has become even more complicated a mysterious the privately owned trading company traffic gora has revealed it now possesses only zero point nine percent of the company previously it has eight percent of the full to billion dollar line up bankers suggest traffic or a stake could have been sold back to northeast and its recent buyback program this would have resulted in a large profit for traffic however the annual accounts for the try to do not show any significant financial profit of the previous transactions speculation aside the

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