taxi in the city of oxford. this hour six pm on friday here in moscow are you watching our team with me will receive welcome to the program around forty people are being killed more than one hundred wounded in double suicide bombings in the syrian capital the regime is laying blame for the attack on al qaeda in the first incident of its kind in a massacre since the uprising began in march this comes against the backdrop of the first batch of arab league monitors arriving to implement a peace deal of observers visited the site of awnings and called for calm before my belgian m.p. a load of i noticed things that the foreign powers are actually seeking a reason for military intervention. al-qaeda is active already in syria for some time and maybe i say maybe they are also responsible for d.c.

attacks so when the assad government is claiming that they are merely fighting an armed resistance from abroad. they do have a point but that does not change the fact that there also is a popular uprising in the country nato is indeed waiting for such and i i weigh my words waiting for such excuses to the day they do indeed intervene when i'll try this involved but not necessarily because they're against what al-qaeda is doing look at what they what to do real allies are in libya when something similar is happening in libya in syria sorry but the day will succeed is another matter the west if i can use that the shade the west wants to control the middle east and for the moment syria is dictatorship out of school out of their control the issue is not whether c. is addicted to porn or not i mean the nato is and the west is supporting data ships the saudi arabian bahrain and others that's not issued each issue is whether that's

true jean that is on their side or not. believe it is not on their side therefore they have to go. well a syrian government troops allegedly gunned down hundreds of civilians this week now the west wants the crackdown to stop but if users to acknowledge that the opposition is armed that's despite her legion of army desert is now fighting against president assad and saudis sara furthur porter from syria international monitors will now have their hands full trying to put a peace plan into action. 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 to the places where the colds and try to conflict is actually happening now that's been a real problem here in the cult you also 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 breaking out has proven 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 harrowing riposte the violence breaking out at civilians us but they seemed if anything to being free single force 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 both sides seemingly increasingly

increasingly bloody certainly that team of observers are really going to have their work cut out for them that everyone is going to be very much are you paying this some form of change can now be a force about that this is going to be an important step in the right direction but do remember it 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. to search for the port right that when the international opinion remains a split on exactly what the arab league observers can actually achieve in syria so . you know what you think if you just. have your say by voting in our. poll here your numbers. most of the mission of. foreign military intervention in syria. will produce nothing more than news headlines. more time to crush the opposition or force the two sides in the conflict to behave so if

you have. to be a part of a global. coming your way the. latest edition and special feature focusing on two thousand. thomas talks about the extreme grief and pain that he witnessed when covering the plane crash that killed. him. i remember we were at the scene when it was pouring down rain it was in the middle of the day we saw this one player. walking with two of his friends in this moment of shock in this very very moment that was 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. with. history in the making. testimony. ten stories that shapes two

thousand and eleven. seven minutes past the hour here in moscow this is on. the iraqi government punches a deeper into crisis with leaders engaging in a blame game following a wave of bombings that rocked the country on thursday and the atrocity comes only a few days after u.s. troops pulled out it was the worst attack in months with at least seventy two killed nearly two hundred injured in a series of blasts all across baghdad crisis talks between the country's political leaders were canceled on friday following a raul in which iraqi prime minister nouri al maliki was blamed by the opposition for the violence the u.s. administration insists it left behind a stable country nine years from the invasion joseph shorey a writer for the world socialist thinks the latest flare ups in the region are a product of that occupation. this was not a you know securing iraq and giving it freedom it was about securing the resources

and in the process. so very intensions devastated the entire society and this is really the product that you have different factions of the iraqi elite who are battling over power over control over resources including particular oil contracts and threatens to unravel into a civil war that conflict the violence in iraq is very much a product of the occupation itself and you know that's really the source of the crisis facing a rocky politics in iraqi society i mean look at what what does like your patient has produced over one million people killed by some estimates thirty five percent of iraqi children. living now is orphans destination of infrastructure the entire society has been scarred by this occupation by this war.

the u.s. troop withdrawal leaves behind a country embittered by occupation that's cost thousands of lives and the billions of dollars and as a u.s. soldiers return home for christmas for many their mood is far from joyful with suicide rates among veterans on the rise our correspondent liz was reports. being in this environment. is killing us soldiers but surprisingly the biggest killers are not enemy combatants fortunately inhabits 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 mathur 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 the tach to and conflicted the laws of decency don't apply to soldiers in combat and when you go back to having to apply those last 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 attempt it last year twenty percent of the thirty thousand american suicides was a soldier or veteran kind of cumulated in a. disaster. in 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 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. them for shooting is that's not the. average size 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 part. of those veterans who do

find the inner strength to face down the torment of life after service often have to take some desperate measures we report online we have the story of one former soldier forced to pawn his military medals just to put food on the table that a much more of a daughter called. also online are reckless men versus angry pools pretty startling footage or it is that i would too are you trying to also watch the feed featuring a no nonsense and bull fighting competition in colombia and. more news today violence is once again flared up. in these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. a giant corporations are old today.

in moscow now it's time to look at some of the major events that shaped the year of two thousand and eleven but let's do it through the eyes of our correspondents who cover the stories today we focus on the fatal plane crash that wiped out the. team in russia. some of the thoughts and memories that did not make it into his previous reports. you were hearing it on the radio in fact in the taxi on the way to work you know they were they were listening to it when everybody was it was just hitting them the gravity of what and how but. this was much bigger than a plane crash it was much bigger than. it was a worldwide event. as you got to you felt that the personal connection of

everyone in the town to the team. there was anger there was frustration there was sadness 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 practice it was just amazing to see such an outpouring of support. i haven't missed a single much since i've been living and you know. i go every season and that's why it's painful. i remember we were out of the scene when it was pouring down rain it was in the middle of the day my glasses were just. fogged up with the rain thousands of people came to pay their final respects to the team members and as soon as we finished our live shot we saw this one player in jersey walking with two

of his friends in this moment of shock in this very rare and very well moment that was 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 felt like they knew every single one of these players. 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 this 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 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 in the willingness for this team to go forward 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 inspirational thing to see. and every day right up to the new year we bring you more personal reflections from our correspondents who cover the year's biggest stories also showing you

a lot of footage the never made it to our original originally. costs but if you were with us to be with us every day through the thirty first just check out the videos they're ready for you now on our website at www dot cnn dot com. and about ten minutes at the business news for now though has accused france of genocide during the colonial occupation of algeria this comes off of the lower house of the french parliament approved legislation making it a crime to deny any genocide clued in the mass killings by medians in the early twentieth century the bill imposes a fine of forty five thousand euros a year in prison for offenders but still needs to be approved by the senate has already recalled its ambassador from france on hold at all military ties with. more than fifteen countries to recognize the slaughter of around one hundred sixty one and a half million armenians he denies genocide saying it's up to an international committee of historians. to decide what really happened here and go away

a professor of political science at paris west university things francis move is just a way of scoring political points so. first of all you have to realize that it's a build good thing through the lower house that are meant and then it has to go to the senate most probably it would not go to the senate before the presidential election and maybe it would die out a lot so little political game is played by various political parties. there is historical debate genocide has not been down there was a genocide and there's also the political games being played by various parties to get the armenian vote 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's not something that should be done and established by law. six eighteen pm here in moscow you were better watch what you say especially if you're set to ride in

a taxi in oxford i thought who's in the british city you plan to install an oreo and video surveillance system in every cab by two thousand and fifteen campaigners have called the city council's decision a staggering invasion of privacy and claim people's rights will be violated parties or smith investigates the story. in oxford surveillance cameras everywhere and now in the city council scheme taxis will become the latest targets of state 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're 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 some who fear for their security late at night are reassured others see it as a staggering invasion of privacy i think it's going to india i think it will make people feel a bit safer it's amazing and pretty same the dice we're talking tyson just like to not be pointed out i think it's heavy isn't it. puts a lot of pressure on people who behave. innocent person probably feels comfortable accident that 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 abused this let's remember this is not someone's front room this is not something better and this is the back of a taxi with a driver in the front seat who will be a able to overhear any conversation that you were having with

a passenger or someone on fire previously campaigners on the other hand i can't understand how the council can justify this and accuse them of refusing to hand over statistics on taxi related crime or council of coy threats which exist that requires them to record not just video but also the conversation of. passengers we simply don't accept that the first is greater than to war and every part of the conversation be recorded indiscriminately rather than for example a panic button system being sold it treats everybody as potential criminals. treating everybody as a law abiding citizen and while the council says it has the support of kapisa many at this local firm object to the blanket approach if people used. the car as well. as in the i was not working is a camera still going to be because they're not going to family and friends filmed while the puzzle be monitored. whoa that is you know for me.

they may question why are we monitored there's always that sort of fear that you know. this is actually like a prison. but city council doesn't think it's going to have any trouble pushing this measure through but privacy 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 state's prying eyes and ears into innocent people's lives nora smith oxford. in a moment it's katie with a business from out of the world up at her own start with the czech republic it's where world leaders have gathered in prague to attend the funeral of former president. died on sunday age seventy five the u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton former president bill clinton and a number of european heads of state are those among those in attendance the one

time dissident writer turned politician led the czech republic transition to democracy and overstored split from slovakia thousands of people turned out on thursday to pay their last respects during a state funeral procession. chinese riot police fired tear gas to break up the mast protests in a small town in southern china is the fourth day of rallies against the construction of a new power station and activists also say an existing coal fired power plant has contributed to a recent rise in cancer cases as well as heavy polluted sea by the crowd demanding authorities release a number of demonstrators was locked in a standoff with police at this point five people have been detained. in. the city of christchurch new zealand has suffered a new series of the strongest reaching a magnitude five point a couple of this footage right here amateur footage showing some people though screaming and running out of the supermarket in sheer panic the quake rattled

buildings and prompted mass evacuations despite its strength no casualties are being reported no tsunami warning issued by the city there was still recovering from an earlier quake in february that killed one hundred eighty and caused billions of dollars in damage. you without a little bit later on here in the program santa claus coming to town moscow team takes a look at the final preparations for christmas here and what will be at this point a very snowy russian capital is just coming down outside right now if another let's get to the business news joins us next. hello welcome to the business here and all day russia has cut its key interest rate as inflation drops to the lowest levels in decades the right has been cut by a quarter of a percentage point eight percent the government hopes cheaper loans will help business grow mood instability in the global economy others say what's happening on

the markets today all prices all mixed after posting strong gains the growth was supported by u.s. economic reports that indicated that demand in the world's largest crude consumer will excel right close way to trading at just below one hundred dollars per barrel and grads are one hundred seven dollars per barrel just talked about and in year out the stock market is also benefiting from the upbeat data coming from the u.s. well the volumes are typically low for this time of year we've got christmas weekend coming up and in london that already celebrating they've gone all to get festive back on the russian market in the last hour of trading here in moscow we also yes it is alluding just using just the knowledge while my stocks is over half a percent in the red and on to the individual and on the my sex blue chips makes this our all major new call is getting point two percent will be bag has been in the red for much of the day in this now shutting one another office and

telecommunications provider both telecom is among the top gun owners all reports the government will take around seven and a half percent of the company's. russia's biggest lender spag has made another step of brule which is bull swiss based s.l.b. commercial bank for almost eighty one million dollars from russian all major loophole. to use its own brand and use it to develop syndicated lending and trade financing businesses in europe. up to twenty five russian banks may lose their licenses next year a fifty percent increase on two thousand and eleven the federal deposit insurance agency says a key reason it would be doubling of the minimum capita acquirements to six million dollars the agency says some of the nine hundred banks currently operating in russia would not be able to meet the new standards problems with liquidity lending to fear among the biggest problems in the russian banking system. what

would be the weakest part of those banks which loan to their own there's an affiliate of structures this phenomenon is still here and some even going this is normal practice but that's actually an extremely risky business. russia's gas giant gazprom has to postpone plans to create its first electricity joint venture in western europe germany's second largest utility. supposes and talks to set up a venture after failing to agree on the deal the jumping was planned to operate power plants in germany u.k. and the netherlands the talks started in the summer as part of the all w. is plans to mitigate the cost of germany's decision to phase out nuclear power in ten years separately gas problem says it's considering taking part in up to five electricity projects in the area and that's all this is for now i'll be back in

about fifty five minutes for more business. this was the plant that was responsible for causing the world's worst industrial

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video. feeds in the palm of your. question. here in the russian capital this is with. the headlines now dozens are killed in syria's capital it's the first suicide bombing since the uprising in the country. besides arab league observers get down to business in an effort to mediate a peace deal. tensions are running high in iraq over seventy people were killed in a new bombing atrocity it happens just days after us.