tensions are running high in iraq. every.

friday night here and. you're watching live with. around forty people. hundreds of. suicide bombings in the syrian capital. the first. arriving to implement a peace deal a group. called for calm. former belgian m.p.

a lot of honest things that 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're 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 breaking concerts excuses to the day they do indeed intervene when this involves but not necessarily because they're against what al-qaeda is doing look at what they're what who do real allies are in libya when something similar is happening in libya in syria sorry but that it will succeed is another matter the west if i can use that to shade the west wants to control the middle east and for

the moment syria is the day to ship out of out of their control the issue is not what they see is a dictatorship or not i mean nato is and the west is supporting data ships the saudi arabia and bahrain and others that's not the issue the age issue is whether that's true jean that is on their side or not syria is not on their side therefore they have to go now syrian government troops allegedly gunned down hundreds of civilians this week the west wants the crackdown to stop who refuses to acknowledge the opposition is armed soldiers spotted legion of army deserters now fighting against president assad ati's a surfer to report it from a syria that international monitors will have their hands full with a try to put together a peace plan. 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 concert is whether they're going to be able to cover enough ground to get to the places where the coltan trait of conflict is actually happening that's been a real problem here in the country was we've been here for the costs we are 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 reports the violence breaking out at civilians us but they seemed if anything to being creasing the force of sitting around two

hundred people having been killed in the past three days as the conflict continues what we are seeing is this becoming on 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 of course about that this is going to be an important step in the right direction but do remember it is of course just one step to many many more that are going to need to be taken before you see the situation here in syria coming down. to surface reporting that will meantime international opinion remains split on exactly what the arab league observers can even achieve in syria. so you need to know what you think so if you would. live global.

military intervention in syria. nothing more headlines. to behave if you have a. special feature focusing on two thousand and eleven. talking about the extreme grief that he witnessed when the. plane crash that killed. 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. 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. with. history in the making. of the. ten stories that shaped two thousand and eleven. and i do stay for that story from two thousand and eleven from our top ten now that's coming your way in a few minutes him for now the iraqi government plunges deeper into crisis with leaders and gauging at a blame game following a wave of bombings that's rocked the country this all happened on state the atrocity comes just a few days after u.s. troops took the final withdrawal 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 now crisis talks between the country's political leaders were canceled on friday following a rally in which iraqi prime minister nouri al maliki was blamed by the opposition for the violence the u.s.

administration insists it's left behind a stable country is often launching the invasion but. a writer for the world socialist thinks the latest flare ups in the region are a product of the occupation. this was not you know securing iraq and giving it freedom it was about securing the resources and in the process. so sectarian tensions devastated the entire society and this is really the problem 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 iraqi politics and iraqi society i mean look at what what does like

a patient has produced over one million people killed by some estimates thirty five percent of iraqi children. living now is orphans just nation of infrastructure the entire society has been scarred by this occupation by this war. now the u.s. troop withdrawal leaves behind a country embittered by occupation that's cost thousands of lives and billions of dollars and u.s. soldiers return home for christmas for many their mood is far from joyful with suicide rates among veterans on the rise. war explains. being in this environment. is killing us soldiers but surprisingly the biggest killers are not enemy combatants i am fortunate to have this 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 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 attempted last year twenty percent of the thirty thousand american suicides was a soldier or better and kind of cumulated in. disaster. and that you really start to wonder if you're 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 and then all of a sudden they're there back things happened in their families while they were gone the situation they can 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. so unless. for sure that's the. average time 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 toward his message is clear don't become one of us. and he hopes that message will prevent students from turning into a statistic from washington. or those veterans who do find the inner strength to face down the torment of life after surface often takes some desperate measures we report online we have the story of one former soldier forced to perform his military medals simply to put food on the table and much much more. now it's time to take a look at some of the major events that shaped the year of two thousand and eleven but this time through the eyes of our correspondents who cover them today we focus on the fatal plane crash that wiped out the entire. hockey team in russia. shows 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 you know everybody was it was just hitting them in the gravity of what and how but. this was much bigger than a plane crash it was much bigger than russia it was an over 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. i go every season and that's why it's painful. we were at the scene 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. 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 a procession of people including the prime minister 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 and 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 locomotive team so that there could be a team in the future and that was an inspiration. and every new year we were bringing you more personal reflections from our correspondents who have covered the year's biggest stories missed them i will be showing you footage from behind the scenes that you have not seen on our. costs if you can stay with us every day until december thirty first. on our web site. ten minutes away from the business though for now turkey has accused france of genocide during the colonial occupation of algeria this comes after the lower house of the french parliament approved legislation making it

a crime to deny any genocide including the mass killings of. 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 so he has already recalled. more than fifteen countries have recognized the slaughter of around one and a half million armenians but he denies genocide to an international committee to decide. what really happened pierre girl is a professor of political science at parris west university thinks that france is moving is simply a way of scoring political points. first of all we 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 be die out a lot with so little political game is played by various political parties. there

is that historical debate genocide is not written 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 historians it is not something that should be done and established by law. this is our to live from moscow you better watch what you say especially if you're set to ride in an oxford taxi authorities in the british city plan to install an order video surveillance system in every car by two thousand and fifteen campaigners of call the city council's decision a staggering invasion of privacy and claim people's rights to be violated laura smith investigates. 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'll being watched wherever you go on the high street 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 fifth best security late at night all reassured others see it as a staggering invasion of privacy i think is a good idea i think it will make people feel that same. token taxi just like.

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 this let's remember this is not someone's front room this is not some of these bedroom 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 the passenger side 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 or. threats which exist that requires them to record not just video but the conversation of passengers we simply don't accept that the force is greater toward everybody. indiscriminately for example

a panic button system. treats everybody as potential criminals. treating everybody . and while the council says it has the support of cappy many at this local firm object to the blanket approach if people. is going to be because. it's. just you know for me. that 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 state's prying eyes and is into innocent people's lives laura smith oxford. a russian satellite has reportedly plummeted it back to earth after failing to reach orbit on friday officials suspect failures to blame. just getting underway. couldn't take the meridian military communications probe into orbit the accident could cost the russian space agency around six hundred million dollars it's the latest in a series of unsuccessful launches to compromise the russian space program and the fifth space mission this year to have failed although none resulted in any casualties. but there are many more russian space successes than failures and one successful stories launch has reached its target the module is now in fact it's just moments ago docked with the international space station to put three new crew

members on board we're getting live pictures here and ultimately there is the i assess for you the very very small in comparison the capsule has attached and now docked to the eye assess cruising some two hundred miles above our heads at a speed of seventeen thousand miles per hour it takes three hours for the soyuz capsule to actually dock with the ice it took thirty five all bits just for it to get in line to make the docking possible now although it's snowing cloudy in moscow right now you can easily see the i assess as you look up to the skies above you in fact other than that when the moon is up the eye assess is the brightest object in the sky with the solar panels unfolded it's the size of two football fields you can't miss it if you look up there are numerous numerous websites that show you how to look for the ice and when to look for it and now with the new soyuz capsule attached to it they say according to nasa you can see some very very small note you

will attach to the glowing. small details on our website at c.n.n. dot com now though a time for the business news katie joins us next. hello welcome to business hey i say russia has cut its key interest rate as inflation dropped its lowest levels in decades the race has been cut by a quarter of a percentage point eight percent the government hopes it will help business grow instability in the global economy let's take a look at the market shall weigh all prices a highest supported by u.s. economic reports that indicated that to monitor the world's largest consumer which is close to us but accelerates suite is trading at just below one hundred dollars branches at one hundred eight dollars per barrel the u.s. is now and i've been toying off the economic data show durable goods rising in

november by the most the most fissures in four months but a separate reports have consumer spending rising a lesson for. markets also benefiting from the upbeat data coming from the us. is that time of year christmas is on the way this weekend and traders in london have already gone off to set up right on the russian market is closed. yes has lost a notch in my sights also and did in the right as well so both both down by the closing down here russia others have a look at some individual shadows on the mindsets blue chips closed mix all major point full percentage bank has been in the red for much of the day and lost almost two percent and telecom provide that was telecom is among the top again is on the force of government to take around seven percent of the company's stake. russia's biggest and isp

a bank has made another step of brewers it is all swiss bank s.o.b commercial banks almost eighty one million dollars from the russian all major luke all. to use its own brand and use it to develop syndicated lending and trade financing this is in. up to twenty five russian banks might lose their licenses next year a fifty percent increase in two thousand and eleven the federal deposit insurance agency says a key reason would be a doubling of the minimum capital requirements 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 the quantity and lending to affiliates are among the biggest problems in the russian banking system. and more. of those banks which to their affiliated structures this phenomenon is still here

and some of this is. actually an extremely risky business. russia's gas giant gazprom has to perspire does create its first electricity joint venture in western europe germany's second largest utility as apologies and it talks to set up with the fed into a grand a deal the j.v. was planned to raise in germany u.k. and the netherlands the talks started in the sun was part of the alter who is planned to mitigate the cost of germany's decision to phase out nuclear power in ten years separately gazprom says it's considering taking part in up to five electrodes and projects in both area. it was all the business news for now i'll be back in about fifty five minutes for much of the same time either by. the.

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