arab league observers and or syria with russia hoping the peacemakers can help stem the violence and stabilize the troubled country before a foreign military intervention. the find goes on more u.s. soldiers are losing their lives to suicide enemy bullets causing some veterans to warn young people not to enlist. and british human rights groups find for it no spies zone in the world's most surveilled country calling it on oxford city council not to record what's being not to record rather what's being said in texas and.

any of the russian capital you're watching joshie arab league observers are in syria with the aim of helping to stabilize the conflict torn country they'll have a big job as reports of continuing violence suggest hundreds of people have been killed in just the last few days moscow's hoping the arab league can help stem the bloodshed without the need for outside military interference r.t. sara first now reports. well the advanced arab league team is now in damascus they have of course to pave the way for the observer mission that is expected at the end of the month they're going to be looking at the government's promises to implement that peace plan now of course many people here in the country excuse me skeptical about whether or not any real change is going to come from that arab league observers mission entering here

a big concern is whether they're going to be able to cover enough ground to get the places where the coltan trait of conflict is actually happening now that's been a real problem here in the country was we've been here for the past week actually getting to these areas accessing these people that are on the ground where the armed conflict is breakout has prevented extremely difficult but getting accurate information and verifying it full stop has been a major challenge we visited the city of homs and there you can hear the gunfire ringing out in the distance but ahead of the arab league team arriving here in the country we've heard very caring reports of the violence breaking out of civilians that in fact they think if anything to the free single course of sitting around two hundred people having been killed in the past few days and as the conflict continues what we are seeing is this becoming of both sides seemingly increasingly

armed increasingly bloody certainly that team of observers are really going to have their work cut out for the everyone is going to be very much are you paying this some form of change can now be a vote about that this is going to be an important step in the right direction but deliberate is of course just one step in many many more that are going to need to be taken before you see the situation here in syria coming down. so first reporting there are serious state news agency says over two thousand members of the security forces have been killed since unrest began and damascus claims recent un human rights reports alleging a brutal government crackdown are not the whole story activists a bell adman says the western media is distorting the picture of the real situation to help increase public support for war against the country. what we see here about these atrocities five to howser. death here and the so-called massacres none of these numbers are confirmed they are actually given and if you

look at the media they are actually telling you that they are getting their information from the. rebel army but they are not getting it from inside the country but of course when you look at the mainstream media at least here in the united states they are just repeating those numbers now in our four hour news websites we have been getting information from syria and these are not necessarily the supporters of assad will these are the people who are providing information to us they are there they are on the ground and then be run these stories nobody picks them up except a handful of international news outlets because it does not conform to what the group reporting here in the united states does all this is basically a makeup of a psychological warfare first of all the decision on syria was made a years ago even as the preparations began and this is

a turkey on the border there there are a nato air base there injured airbase in late may two thousand and eleven so they have the decision they have had the decision they have been preparing for an actual war and then they begin the propaganda and the psychological warfare by trying to get the public support for an unwarranted war and that's the pocket sea off the u.s. foreign policy you're looking at live playing right in front of you. sabella evans founder of the national security whistleblowers coalition talking to us from washington. now a wave of synchronized bombings rocked the iraqi capital on thursday causing more uncertainty about the ability of the authorities to ensure security but also threatens to make the political fault lines in the country even wider almost twenty separate blasts ripped through the city ranging from car bombs to hidden explosives seventy two people are confirmed dead and over two hundred injured the attacks took

place a few days after the withdrawal of american troops from the country yes leaders insist they left behind a stable nation at nine years after launching an invasion but jeremy corbyn british labor m.p. a member of the stop the war coalition has a very different view of. what's been achieved has been large number of deaths a huge amount of profits for arms companies a lot of oil contracts signed by western oil companies and a lot of chaos on the streets and a huge level of private mercenary security forces under the biggest u.s. embassy the world has ever see it doesn't look to me it has been a complete withdrawal it looks to me as though there is a security presence left behind in order to protect the government that has been so happy to do business with the west this could play out into something extremely nasty over a long period it does require a democratic coming in the whole country and it does require the participation of all those political forces in that outcome and that clearly is not happening at the

present time the war was an attack on a sovereign state it was a war for regime change were in the case of britain the british parliament was told it was sold in a war for disarmament of the non-existent weapons of mass destruction and the damage it's in iraq in the region and the civil liberties of everybody in every one of the participating countries is absolutely huge. but damage done to the american soldiers who served in iraq and other countries is also uncountable even when the guns fall silent and cease fires are agreed wars live on in the minds of a man and women who fought and the killer of stocks them is more deadly than the enemies they once faced artie's lives wall reports. being in this environment. is killing us soldiers but surprisingly the biggest killers are not enemy combatants i am fortunate to have is the demographic in the united states

that kills itself pretty much more than any other out there for the second year in a row more soldiers killed themselves than were killed in combat four hundred sixty eight soldiers took their own lives in two thousand and ten and even off the battlefield suicide rates continue to soar matha sure rose in afghanistan war veteran turn anti-war activists we come home feeling terrible despicable about what we did and what we saw sure roe is one of thousands returning from deployment feeling detached and conflicted the laws of decency don't apply to soldiers in combat and when you go back to having to apply those laws yourself all the time. you know that that for many you know leads either to the grave or to jail an average of eighteen veterans per day commit suicide and many more attempted last year twenty percent of the thirty thousand american suicides was a soldier or veteran kind of cumulated in. disaster.

and that you really start to wonder if you're ever going to be who you were again dr jan kemp says many soldiers come back feeling disconnected from the world in which they once lived then all of a sudden they're there back things happened in their families while they were gone the situation they came to come back to is not often the same one that they left in fact many come back to bleak situations a quarter of the homeless in america are military veterans the unemployment rate among vets hovers over twelve percent meanwhile campaign such as army strong glorify life as a soldier and aim to entice america's young men and women. to enlist. or shooting is that stuff the military has to advertise since retiring from the army sharon has been committed to showing students the other side of the army

experience the side recruiters fail to show it's all part of the we are not your soldiers tour his message is clear don't don't become one of us. and he hopes that message will prevent students from turning into a statistic from washington liz wahl r t. now still ahead of you here on our t.v. the disaster that devastated the sports world and touched the hearts of millions. but. there was anger there was frustration there was sadness there were tears. parties schon thomas remembers a plane crash that wiped out the tire jaroslav locomotive hockey team as he looks back at the tragedy that was special series last twelve months. with this is. to history in the making. testimony.

ten stories that shapes two thousand and eleven on our t.v. . turkey has halted diplomatic and economic ties with france after the lower house of the french parliament passed a law making it a crime to deny the genocide of armenians and turkey in the early twentieth century if approved by the senate offenders could face a year in prison at a fire of forty five thousand euros hundreds of french turks have been protesting in front of the national assembly in paris more than fifteen countries recognize the slaughter of around one of the half million. but turkey denies the genocide saying it's up to an international committee of historians to decide what really happened. professor of political science at paris west university thinks france's move is just a way of scoring political points. first of all you have to realize that it's a build good thing through the lower house. and then it has to go to the senate

most probably it would not go to the senate before the presidential election and maybe. he will do so little political game is played by various political parties. there is historical debate genocide is not going down there was a genocide and there's also the political games being played by various parties together you know i mean invoked in the french elections every nation has to investigate its crimes in the past but establishing historical truth is the work of the story and it is not something that should be done and established by law. big brother is set for a ride in oxford taxis that is if the local authorities have their way and install audio surveillance in every cab in the british city privacy activist are fighting them tooth and nail claiming people's rights will be violated and a court in another city has sent its own message by rejecting similar security surveillance there are just laura smith reports. in oxford surveillance cameras

everywhere and now in a city council scheme taxis will become the latest targets of state bugging operations over the next few years license caps will be required to install equipment monitoring both driver and passenger it's a fact of life in towns and cities across the u.k. that you'll being watched wherever you go on the high street in shops on public transport the surveillance along this stretch of street will only record images but the systems in taxis will record sound to effectively eavesdropping on the conversations of private citizens buses already have video and sound recording but aimed only at the driver taxi passengers will be recorded too and some who fear for their security late at night all reassured others see it as a staggering invasion of privacy i think it's good idea i think it will make people

feel a bit safer it's amazing and pretty same. token tyson just like to not be caught in . a lot of pressure. i think there are enough surveillance cameras in oxford and also i think it's quite open to have a video camera and everything in a taxi could we don't think take it to be taped or you know to have to be cautious about what you say day and night recording will stop when the car engine switched on and and thirty minutes after it's turned off the council says footage will only be available to police for ongoing investigations i don't believe that it will be. let's remember this is not someone's front room this is not some his bedroom this is the back of a taxi with

a. driver in the front seat who will be able to overhear any conversation but you're having with the passenger. previously campaigners on the other hand can't understand how the council can justify this and accuse them of refusing to hand over statistics on taxi related crime big brother watch says the move is justifiably intrusive. threats which exist that requires them to record not just video but the conversation of passengers we simply don't accept the differences greater toward everybody should be recorded indiscriminately for example a panic button system. treats everybody as potential criminals. treating everybody as. drivers will have to fork out four hundred pounds that's six hundred dollars to pay for the equipment themselves and while the council says it has the support of cappy as many at this local firm object to the blanket approach if people.

are going to be. whoa is it me. that. oxford city council doesn't think it's going to have any trouble pushing this measure through but previously campaign is see it differently they're launching a complaint with an independent data protection body to try and stop what they see as the further creeping encroachments of the states prying eyes and is into innocent people's lives laura smith oxford. now plenty more stories for you on our website as well here's what's online for you right now. a ship loaded with american

missiles disguised as fireworks gets busted in a finnish border with a shipment believed to be all roads to u.s. ally south korea. and president medvedev outlines democratic reforms proposing direct elections for regional heads and simpler registration of political parties and his annual state of the union address more details at our t.v. dot com plus watch some of our best wheels on our you tube channel. is easy to do. you. need to.

download the official o.t. up location your only phone on called touch from the jumps to. launch all chief law is on the go. video on demand all keys and line old girls. and streets now in the palm of your. question on the dot com. else take a look at some other stories from around the world the pentagon says mistakes led to nato airstrikes in northern pakistan that killed twenty four soldiers every pore by the u.s. government the alliance was retaliating against what it thought was an insurgent attack the u.s. blamed the incident on poor coordination with pakistani border forces the attack of amber put significant strain on relations between washington and islamabad causing the pakistani government to close border routes into neighboring afghanistan.

rival palestinian factions have made a significant step towards reconciliation with a must will join the palestinian liberation organization hamas and fatah also agree to hold an election next year to create a single government for both the west bank and gaza the breach between the two groups has been an obstacle to peacemaking efforts with israel took power in gaza in two thousand and seven leaving palestinian president mahmoud abbas to govern only the west bank. hearing of a u.s. soldier bradley manning accused of causing the biggest national security leak in history as adjourned to decide whether the nineteen year old private will face court martial manning is charged with stealing hundreds of classified documents and handing them over to whistleblower web side wiki leaks soldiers the fans accuse the american government of failing and emotionally troubled man and asked for a reduced thirty year prison sentence. and the u.s.

republican leaders have caved in on president obama's demands to stand a payroll tax cut and members of the republican led house of representatives have previously refused to vote on the extension because it will save around a thousand dollars a year for the average u.s. pay package and new jobless benefits for millions of unemployed workers will also now avoid a significant hit to their paychecks in. january. we're going to live from moscow now r.t. is looking back at some of the major events of two thousand and eleven today we remember the fatal plane crash that took the lives of the entire jaroslav locomotive hockey team in russia sean thomas talks about the grief and sorrow he witnessed while covering the tragedy in the team's hometown.

you were hearing it on the radio in fact on the way to work they were there were listening to it. it was just. this was much bigger than it was much bigger. as you got to. the personal connection. to the team. there was anger there was frustration. there were tears. and the outpouring of support from everyone in the town coming to place flowers and pictures and jerseys and stuffed animals and light candles in front of the stadium where the locomotive practiced it was just amazing to see such an outpouring of support. every season.

we were seen when it was pouring down rain it was in the middle of the day my classes were just. thousands of people came. as soon as we finished our live shot we saw this. walking with two of his friends in this moment of shock in this very very. very special that he shared some of his feelings and his thoughts with us in a time when he was just processing what was going on. the entire community rallied around this team and speaking to the individual members of the community the fans the people who really. i felt like they knew every single one of these players but it's the most serious loss of my life like losing family. they were

like family they all had something to say and they all internalized this loss. that final day inside the stadium the coffins were lined up with flowers and one by one there is a procession of people including the prime minister vladimir putin who came to pay his respects the graphic images in covering the story there's images of the plane still on fire images of them pulling the bodies from the actual crash site one of the survivors who survived the crash and in chile who is one of the stars of the team and then later to find out that he passed away just taking the hope away from this entire community. the desire and the willingness for this team to go forward to the team itself and the players and the young players really rallied and were on the ice the very next day. after the plane crash while there

were funeral services and while there were rallies there were players on the ice ready to rebuild the jaroslava locomotive team so that there could be a team in the future and that was an inspiration. well it brings us up to date here on our time now to see what's happening at the world of business carrying it here with us. thank you marina it's twenty four past eight am here in moscow welcome to our business update now that russia has been approved for membership local carmakers are under pressure to match their foreign competitors it will venture between truck make and the next an investment group is trying to push ahead by making russia's first hybrid car the appeal the project has also won support from the gas monopoly gas problem r.t.s. marine acosta has more. this is the whole concept one of the to course so here

today the door is like that puts it in about a foot from the bomb and instead of your side mirrors you have video cameras now this futuristic little yellow will cost you no more than fifteen thousand dollars and the company claims it will save even more money in the long term. all of the you know cars have an internal combustion engine and generator they can run on petrol and natural gas and of course natural gas is not only cheaper it's also better for the environment's yarrow has been showing off its pride and joy for a couple of months now and it has already secured one hundred fifty thousand orders mass production is expected to begin next spring and they plan to make forty five thousand cars a year with. gazprom will encourage the promotion of the project in the market we see this car as a consumer of gas engines you see additional demand from the russian market experts

say the russian car market could become the world's six largest by twenty twenty selling four million cars a year this will come on the back of foreign partnerships modernization and more local production with russia joining the w t o it's now more important than ever to modernize the country's current the street and these yama bills are seen as great contenders to compete with foreign auto powerhouses but car experts are already skeptical about the yos with some doubt saying they will work and others claim in the company's designs are not practical and their prices will eventually have to go up the key here is not only to deliver what they promised but to convince russians that locally made cars can be better than foreign ones and that's not an easy task more in a car service business r.t. . gazprom has to postpone plans to create its first electricity joint venture where in western europe germany's second. the largest utility r.v.

isa's the parties ended talks to set up the venture after failing to agree on a deal the j.v. was planned to upgrade to a belgian the netherlands which all started in summer as part of the plan to mitigate the costs of germany's decision to phase out nuclear power in ten years separately gazprom says it's considering taking part in up to five electricity projects and bavaria. let's have a look at the markets now all is heading for its biggest weekly gain in almost two months after the most in a decade last week that the u.s. economic reports indicate that growth in the world's largest crude consumer will accelerate but sweet is trading at just below one hundred dollars about all while brant is that one hundred and eight dollars about. markets in asia rebound on friday but trading volumes out thin in the group in the region as japan's markets are closed a public holiday all the whole upbeat economic picture in the u.s.

is boosting sentiment sang is up over one percent with commodity stocks the notable goodness. that is two hours ahead of the opening bell here in moscow so let's take a look at thursday's closing figures to my six and if let's positive yes at around one percent i got a copy of cut from troika dialog good news today. i'm pretty much amused that with such a high oil prices the russian market is not very popular it means that there will be some credit of no more momentum we can expect some. moves you know especially the or the stocks before the new year increase most it's really difficult to expect we see can if you can impart some peach you if you're smart to accept fall if you will have some downgrades from some of the major european submarines we have some. one percent or higher.

that's our business off at this hour back in about thirty minutes with one financial news. well into the future thank you piers which is on technology update next generation places made from super strong interest might lead goldman.