russia demands an investigation to civilian deaths from nato bombings in libya while locals say atrocities are still being committed in the country with former gadhafi loyalists to target. russia's newly elected parliament and barks on war two weeks after the polls that sparked mass protest against alleged vote rigging and calls for recount. disagreements between the u.k. and the e.u. bro with a battle front now being welfare rules the block insist that britain pays billions to non-citizens something london south will spawn benefit tourism. the little thing gas company between ukraine and russia continues as both countries felt so weak an

agreement the price of all details in the business bulletin in twenty minutes time . this is from moscow with me marina joshie russia's demanding a probe into civilian casualties in libya caused by nato bombings that's their reaction to a report by human rights groups which claims dozens were killed in air strikes despite the airlines say 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 loyalists continue now you may find some of the images and report disturbing. this is what it's like to look death in the face a group of men the young and old captured after the nadir propped rebels overran get off his hometown of sirte there was behind the camera delivers

a verdict would you work for gadhafi. and the captives themselves seem doubts about what's coming next. scenes like these play now with a costly be as the rebels assisted by western powers so to liberate the country from gadhafi i've been lodgings 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. 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 very elaborate in their rating gadhafi is ferocity is here in 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 tourists presents a scene of torture and arbitrary killings but while gadhafi is gone the human rights abuses still remain rather from this area are still disappearing without a trace of their families are too scared to talk about. this is probably the only place in all the beer with families of a legit good office supporters can turn to for how mohammed to form peace and your earlier this year it investigated 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 or 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 their 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 are in. artsy tripoli.

it's fear it's syria could also face foreign intervention with 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 with this is some of the fiercest battles in this nine month old crisis almost two hundred troops and anti regime are reported to have been killed and await a series of clashes across the country the syrian authorities have agreed to allow and observers mission which it's hoped might help to and the conflict are to sarah first reports from damascus the arab league council is expected to send an advance team here 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 tools for those observers to then into the country now that decisions receive

a mixed response from the opposition outside the country the syrian national council that's the main body outside of syria said that they don't think that that decision is going to be as efficient as the syrian government is trying to make out if they could it a ploy and have still called the international intervention now very very widely with what the opposition group within syria is saying the national quoted nation council here within 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 is something big they do not want to see happening we went to the city of homs the other day that's one of the main think there is now well 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 this being described as being. on the brink of civil war. to be honest the situation here in homes is very difficult there have been kidnappings which make us feel intimidated because of the situation there have also been problems with. my feet and certainly the situation there and the civilians who are still living within the city or in a very very extreme situation and those who through most of the people living there to resolve that is soon as possible. sara first reporting there at a u.s. base intelligence gathering firm has found most of the claims by the syrian opposition about the seriousness of the country's crisis are untrue a company called strapped for says protesters are exaggerating to went outside support for powers like the us dr paul craig roberts a former reagan administration official told r.t. he believes washington is not just backing the rebels diplomatically. the united

states is involved in stirring up the opposition and in arming it they use the cover of the arab spring arab protests as they did in libya so these are not a spontaneous protest and certainly authoritarian state i like their syria you wouldn't find people in opposition able to regularly supply themselves with arms with military weapons it makes no sense for the syrians to themselves or opportunity for the country to be destroyed like libya or iraq or afghanistan or those who got saved in libya what's involved here is the russians now they naming base in syria. and the americans don't want a russian they will presence in the mediterranean just as in libya or the problem was the chinese all investments in syria goes the rand is in the target

sites and and lemon arms and so there will be knocking off these countries one by one and while they stand there and don't unite in fact they can't unite and that's why they're so. so i had for you this hour here in r t the u.k. is getting increasingly unhappy was it meddling in its affairs. it's simply outrageous that an elected official from brussels can prevent off from bringing about the reforms that we said we were going to do when you have aged into office. and we look into the controversy surrounding the e.u. as attempts to make britain reconsider its welfare rules for nonresidents. and r.t. starts the countdown to twenty twelve with a special series of first hand reports on landmark events and trance that shaped the passing year. with this is. to history

in the making. testimony. ten stories that shapes two thousand and eleven. now russia's six state duma the lower house of parliament begins its first session on wednesday and comes more than two weeks after elections that sparked mass protests over alleged fraud. chopra joins us live now from the parliament building. this duma is different of course from the previous one so tell us a bit more how the seats harris brad and what we can expect from it. and it. is different and the first thing which makes it different is that opposition will obviously have a much louder voice in the new duma with united russia failing to secure a constitutional majority it's widely expected that the lower house of the russian parliament will again become a field of heated debates two hundred thirty eight seats out of four hundred fifty

four united russia and obviously one that is center of four votes but it formed worse than four years ago losing almost one hundred seats now the main intrigue today's about who will be the new duma speaker a government shuffle advanced last week with kremlin chief of staff simkin stepping down to take a duma seat and united russia party who to forward his candidacy for a new speaker the opposition has a different take on that and they have their own preferences. for the new duma speaker these will be decided today during the first duma session also the last few days before this first session was about distributing committees unite russia is getting sixteen fifteen story out of twenty nine committees with fourteen committees going to opposition parties. well the first session of the state duma is going to have to as we speak but what about the controversy surrounding how it was elected. did we know the scenes day one the first day when the results of the

elections preliminary results were announced they've been protests following that on december town around twenty five to thirty thousand. people gathered for a mass demonstration mosco are getting very nice all the votes that they've been also a number of illegal north arise rallies set up and most consent is broken to the cities they resulted in people disrupted traffic there were cases of some activists calling for violence like in the case of local i did see nobody that followed that was followed with a number of arrests in particular has just been released up to spending fifteen days in a detention center and actually today there was an unauthorized rally taking place outside the duma building as a result of that twenty people were arrested now as a in response to those claims that the elections had been raped diminishment that if ordered that they were investigation. fifty criminal cases have been already

filed for alleged violations to ring the elections results of the results of twenty one polling stations have been canceled of course we have to understand that twenty one zero took over eighty thousand polling stations across the country is not enough to say that the vote was. can not be considered legitimate and the results of the vote counts the best way we see the duma gathering today. but at this hearing is a very much indeed for this. or here. now a new year is just ten days away now we are starting a our own countdown with ten special reports on events that shaped two thousand and eleven that we are looking back at major stories through the eyes of r.t. correspondents who witnessed them we start with an area that saw a fair share of both breakthroughs and failures space projects consistently made it into the have lives but there was a much more that didn't aspire oliver reveals. one

of the biggest landmarks that we saw this year was the fiftieth anniversary of your first spaceflight just before one of the nasa astronauts went up there i was having to chat with him about what it actually meant to have that first flight by you 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 came to an end it 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 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 show in the shed but when you see the pictures of the wood paneling and everything very small confined space that they were in such a long time worn year. five hundred currently simulating never. however it will be another five months before this store can be opened and they can step back to 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. people too.

well looking back. one of the things that really. it wasn't just the module itself they've been using since the late seventy's it was the. only way we have now getting people into space. the progress module that was launched it was carrying. supplies for the international space station at the time we were hearing. from the guys on the space station food and supplies had been for saying no this is fine it's ok i remember saying look these guys go through. training they know what they're doing they'll be fine. the mission commander who was up there when he returned from his time in space he was telling me that yeah they were genuinely

a little bit worried that. 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 in the beginning 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 month spaceflight that's always the big concern but. it has showed me the perseverance of these people who who do risk their lives going into space or live well as a job they do it for do it out of choice. it all over there well this was just the first report in our special series on events that shaped twenty 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 our team dot com where you can also check out plenty more news stories

common analysis and let's take a look now at what else is there today. a man made to madness a dutch team of scientists have engineered a deadly virus that critics dubbed destructible bioweapon and terrorist threat also . protests are proof protection and new riot shields set to be introduced in the u.s. can stop occupy demonstrators from brazing find out more at r.t. dot com. britain may be forced to pay out more than two billion pounds in welfare benefits to non-citizens and that's if the european union has its way but with london new spirit of non-cooperation the decision might not be so easy to impose our designs are bad it has 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 because 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 priorities 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's 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 foreigners must pass to claim benefits here is too tough and it's given the government until the end of this month to change that otherwise it will sue britain's refusing to budge otherwise it claims it will have to pay out two and a half billion pounds to those who work put anything back in the pot the british welfare state exists to benefit british people. this was very clear in the original welfare state back in the one thousand forces which had contributed principle you contributed and you benefited if you didn't contribute you weren't eligible forty percent of migrants from eastern and central europe most of those on eligible for welfare already some are trying their luck and no doubt more will the ukase force to sweeten their deal either bennett r.t. london. and a brief look now at other stories making news round the world the number killed in

last week's massive flash flooding in the philippines has topped one thousand people that number is expected to grow where the authorities continue to find bodies most of the dead are women and children who drowned last friday when water gushed into their homes while they were asleep a state of national calamity has been declared. female supporters of a pro muslim party in pakistan upheld an antenatal rally in response to a recent airstrike that killed twenty four people hundreds of women chanted slogans denouncing u.s. and nato they also carry batteries demanding the lives draw of alliance forces from afghanistan after last month's attack pakistan immediately by closing its afghan border crossings to nato supplies. now that amazing video of miraculous escape a driver tries to overtake a truck out of wintry russian road cars pulling out to the center where there is

a moment of horror. a giant traub going in the opposite direction jackknives and seems certain to hit the car but this is a by a whisker the amazing escapes already received more than two million views on you tube and loads of comments and most people are amazed by the call the reaction the driver. health officials and hong kong have slaughtered more than seven hundred thousand chickens after a cast infected with bird flu was found by poultry imports of also been banned for three weeks as a precaution until it's determined where the contaminated chicken came from bird flu occasionally infects people who have close contact with tainted poultry. all time to take over it's happening in the world of business katie is here with.

hello warm welcome to the business program how it is for a quick end to the long lasting gas conflict between ukraine and russia have vanished the countries fell to reach agreement during high profile overnight talks however they say this will not affect the transit of russian gas to europe ukraine is struggling to persuade russia to cut the price for its energy supplies saying the burden is too big for the country's troubled economy kiev it didn't even manage to pay november's bill itself and bar tough a billion dollars from russia's gas pump bank closer to see when all from russia's national energy security fund says another gas war is unlikely as the existing contract runs for another seven years. the general and i was the one our last guest was we have no quantity in general sales of mine it was the main reason for the you guess what now we have gone to look to means that according to the law we were. at war in serious quantity that is why we can spend new year without any

problems. to see what's happening in the markets oil is gaining for a third day as investors are optimistic that shrinking stockpiles in the u.s. behind the size of the new economic recovery will mean tomato field will increase lines wheat is currently trading over ninety eight dollars per hour while bread is above one hundred and seven dollars per barrel and over europe stocks a carrying on from choose days rally the fund says adding overhaul five percent dream all the jacksons just funds up one percent in the black bags and resource stocks saw at least in the guides that. the russian markets are mixed this hour yes is gaining almost one percent while the my sex is actually down around a quarter of a percent now. let's have a look at some individual moves on the my sex through chips mix is sell off all my divorce never is nearly half a percent down all these the bank is supposed to. come us is also flat the company

plans to increase itself by ninety percent thanks to. ross's gas monopoly gas problem has decided to more than double the issues dividends the company's shareholders will get six point two billion dollars if the payouts approved and next year's a.g.m. gazprom has been criticized for low dividend payments despite rising profits from growing gas prices however on this day the move could lead the monopoly to miss balance budget due to planned gas discounts in neighboring countries as well as a possible reduction in gas exports to europe. more details have emerged about the possible sellers russia's largest. that i've seen newspaper reports yet is what forty five billion dollars to one hundred percent of the shares of the moscow at hub unnamed sources kind of financial can fool shim alpha group investment group and sumo holdings all most likely potential acquirers however. at the polls go by

is already just stump up the full amount spent all said it was reported that goldman sachs was retained to seal the deal. the shareholders struts are of russian a coal giant noddy's nichol has become even more complicated a mysterious the privately owned trading company a trusted gora has revealed it now possesses a new no point nine percent of the company previously it has eight percent of the forty billion dollars mine up by and to suggest traffic gora's stake could have been sold back to norris and its recent buyback program this would have resulted in a large profit but gora however the annual accounts for the trade offs do not show any significant financial profit over the previously known transactions speculation aside the destination of not it's nicole's michette is unknown. and that's all for now that the more updates on the web sites and i'll be back in fifty five

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