arab league observers arrived in the syrian flashpoint town of homs to assess months of bloodshed. the independence objectivity of. seeking justice for those killed in the gaza is three years since the israeli offensive but the battle is far from over the palestinians ahmed is going to call. routines rerun for the presidency to the parliamentary election that sparked mass protests is a landmark but it means in russian politics they are serious only twenty. and in about twenty minutes. to losing value this tuesday all the latest details

and the full. twenty four hours a day you're watching out. with more than twenty people reportedly killed in fresh violence in syria fifty arab league monitors are heading to the most turbulent city of homs due to assess president assad's response to the anti-government protests but middle east experts. doubts the observers can be objective. you have to kind of look at the history of the arab league which today many many critics might refer to as the american league or the british league or the french league i don't think that it's an independent weed and i don't think that anyone or many i believe many people would agree with me when i say that it's not clear whether their interests

are with the interests of the of the arab people i think it's clear that there are . opposing sides in syria right now there is the government but the government has different layers and their opposition groups and they're not all united by the director of the beirut based center for middle east studies says he doubts the observers can tell the difference between on the insurgents and peaceful civilians no one can deny the presence of the answer vary in syria even hillary clinton did recognize this and said they are one and was drowned exactly like that there are many. as they mix between civilians and children because when they talk about thousand of people killed in syria they don't mention . civilians and we cannot deny that. about two cars and soldier or

a security man or killed in syria wouldn't those observers are going to see to see on that was going on. well the claim that extremists are fighting in syria is shared by some foreign journalists working on the ground here in my son tells a single detail later how if it's by some forces to turn the conflict into a full scale civil war of failing that's what's ahead next hour. i think that would be the action to destabilize the country are not working we see a lot of people killed but this is not a civil war quite well if they want to enter we four in coops inside. or using proxies for a good concept. very big problem because this country is ready for.

its three years since garza was pounded by relentless israeli bombing and invasion that lasted twenty two days defensive killed almost fifteen hundred palestinians many families being wiped out for many the battle has now shifted to the courts. their experience. is unusual not because he laid a claim against israelis but because he won victory though is bittersweet with their lives again i'm a broken man the israelis say their army has morals what morals are they talking about. it was december two thousand and eight for three weeks israeli soldiers bombed the gaza strip killing nearly one and a half thousand palestinians for all to five were civilians at the same time hundreds of rockets fell on southern israel killing three israeli civilians and the government couldn't get to my home for sixteen days because the israeli soldiers were firing all the time so as i left i went down inside on the walls the soldiers

had written you'll find the bodies fifty meters away i found the body of my brother buried in the sand and the body of my sister much to cover with the bricks. soulé took his case to the palestinian center for human rights in a precedent setting move they secured an out of court settlement with the israeli military it took some let's see weeks to achieve the bodies of his mother and sister because of continued fighting in the area these women military said this made the case so it's no way for justified with the way said sally was saved just under one hundred fifty thousand dollars compensation. if someone loses his leg or his hand up or his skills or injury and all the money in the world in the are now. worth fighting for here is a financial compensation that will offer some relief. the palestinian center for human rights has more than two hundred cases on its books but the heavy paperwork

iraq received and expenses discourages many others from coming forward this man however is a rare exception he filed a claim three years ago and is still awaiting a response today. i thought. it was early morning there was showing in the apartment above was on fire i want out so i will my hands up in the soldiers told me to pull off my shirt and trousers i did what they said but they formed a rocket i would behind my mother had been blown apart i recognized her by the ears of my two year old daughter my father my aunts my cousin my entire family was killed at that moment but convincing israeli authorities that compensation is due can be a major obstacle and therefore. the military operation far according to the israeli case low. if leave their sector for. the state will be accepted from the city with judges case will help other palestinians is not yet

clear these radio army has also said it's opened an investigation into what happened but so far no indictment against any israeli soldier has been filed police here r.t. . well there are still ahead getting to know kim jong il success is about almost nothing about what you're learning runs north korea traces back to switzerland we've been here since macheda last came from. some insight into why the u.s. and staring at me should show some blame its own soldiers last month's deadly drone strike. has been reflecting on this year's most significant events and it's definitely been an unusual one for russian politics the ruling united russia party lost popularity in the parliamentary poll that didn't stop protests against the results of these in the way of developments

from the outset and she has now her experience of how to unfold it. well i think that day it became clear that russian politics are changing lots of people say that russian modern politics are stagnant that they're predicting bold but nobody that day expected that announcement to be made yes people expected there was speculation that they would run for president in twenty two but no one expected it as early as september. the first ten that this congress and united russia wasn't going to be as simple as just the platform for the actions being announced was. entering the hall on time exactly when it was supposed to start together and that's when the atmosphere inside the hall kind of changed everyone thousands of people at the same time you

could feel the energy going something's going to happen today. first to come up on stage was. and he made the big announcement which no one expected but he believes that. top of the list for the dumas elections in december. after that everyone thought ok that's it this is the big news we felt something in the air that something was going to happen and now it's been announced. will be part of united russia if you believe the list that was in it. and then of course you. are saying that he believes that. should run for president in twenty twelve and there was just this uproar explosion of applause at least certainly in united russia people there i think were genuinely surprised like i said no one expected this to come today they thought they were coming to hear what their plans for the dumas elections were . the elections this year. were

a big deal first of all because. clearly united russia has lost popularity and the ironic thing is you have people who referred to the vote to demonstrate how much they popularity but then also refer to the same exact vote saying that it was falsified so how can you refer to a vote that you don't think was real to demonstrate this kind of popularity think this was an interesting to thing to me as a journalist covering the elections. so we have a lot of western publications and networks referring to this popularity fall for united russia which certainly you can feel it happened a lot of people i think went out to vote against united russia it's not a secret that the opposition in russia for twenty years hasn't really been able to get it together you have these figures like journal. who are very well known and and they are part of that whole stagnation because they've been around for years

but you don't have any real opposition and i think that's what this young generation these so-called hipsters that that are part of social networking and are on twitter and facebook and trying to be part of politics that's what they came out to vote they really came out to vote to send a message to united russia and that became very clear they lost. you know two thousand and seven it was some sixty four percent and it's just under fifty percent this time around so clearly united russia has a lot of work to do in this became very visible in these elections also course in the protests that we're seeing straight after the elections on monday we saw people come out to choose to prove which is not very far from the from the kremlin thousands of people opposition members were arrested the interesting part about being in moscow at this time is to see how many different networks cover it differently you have. russian state television only covering it when it gets really big you have western media covering any little meeting that happens in the center

of moscow many times exaggerating the situation. and then the saturday after the election you really had it's fair to say a historic day in russia you had tens of thousands of people who came out to buy a lot in a square just around the corner from the kremlin it was the same some protest some fifty thousand people is the most common number we have all the figures do vary depending on who you ask peacefully protesting for fair elections and you had the riot police and officials just letting them do their thing and their symbol really i think a really strong example of this these white flowers or these white ribbons and there's pictures of actual riot police holding these flowers and it was certainly a feeling that day for me that it's such an interesting time to be in russia and i'm glad to be someone they can they can work on all of these stories and cover elections and cover protests and that kind of be really in the thick of it here in

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more news today violence is once again flared up the film these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada to find corporations are today. north korea's late leader kim jong il will be buried tomorrow worlds to austin that is where the often unpredictable country will go next to things unknown about his successor except that his twenty's in switzerland what is more of a national spoke to one of his former classmates they said sunlight on the back now heads of the world's most secretive country. the death of the north korean dictator has raised questions and hopes over whether the dictatorship one of the last in the world who follow or will this extremely close society remain

isolated and it's new leader to do so little is known about the late leader's great successor his third and youngest son kim turning is a bit of a dark course even his age remains a subject of speculation his thought to be twenty seven or twenty eight his new ascension to power increases the media hunger for information about him so his expensive education in switzerland suddenly tracked it's a lot more interest and entrepreneur in moscow with russian origins alexander how good she believes he could have been one of kim's classmates when news spread that kim charney may have gone to an elite school in this week's margins in late ninety's the businessman brought out his all the book to refresh his memory there were quite a few koreans. quieter than others. with the last name

came. as kim is the most common name in korea alexander remembers that koreans always different from other students they were very disciplined they were very disciplined as a group of students. very serious for their. they wouldn't always take porton for the games that the other students were very hard studying to be top of course they didn't like to do although some think the deceased leaders son may be a figurehead overshadowed by his recently promoted uncle who is thought to wield the real power alexander says the three years charlie has apparently spent in europe may change the country's future forever i think. it will make him realize that he has to do something good for his people for his culture and make a change in terms of. past experience his knowledge of foreign languages

and the skills that he managed to attain being able the outside world used to get most of the news from behind north korea's iron curtain through the country's strictly censored state run media covering the live of the secrets of society from the inside has been an almost impossible task for international journalists but the details now emerging about the new leader is exposure to the liberal west offer a glimmer of hope that he may ease bag the rigid control over the terran regime and begin to open north korea to the world and maybe their war old to north korea. r.t. more sco. welty dot com has plenty more up video content analysis to explore let's take a look at what's being lined up today the titanic task the. world's most wanted to make its eight tourists this week.

and. meet a little fellow who's already gotten millions of fans due to the couple video to tell you why he's really. arty. pakistan's army is rejecting the key findings from america's investigation into how the drones killed twenty four pakistani soldiers last not u.s. reports saying that both sides should share the blame with also to the hilt to restore the all but shattered relationship between the two countries. says america is trying to offload responsibility for its blunders the results of the investigation regarding the us unfortunate read. across the evident

pakistani border were neither conclusive for the u.s. military on the ground nor for the pakistani army in fact that pakistani military flatly denied their results in fact that pakistan erection to the pentagon investigation was totally predictable the pentagon announcement states that the u.s. forces involved in this baleful accident acted in self defense and to be the appropriate use of force after being fired upon these particular awarding is an awkward attempt to exonerate the u.s. chain of command for taking such an erroneous and baleful decision and tacitly shift the blame to the pakistani side small wonder that pakistani leadership at large and especially their military leadership what enraged by the conclusions of the pentagon investigation. for more of the world's news now and first to japan

where the scale of the accident she would nuclear plant is being blamed on a lack of preparedness and response rate is a new government study found the plant's operators to dissipate the impact of a massive tsunami that struck in march the facility was severely damaged in the disaster would expose four reactors of the cooling systems failed officials said last week that the plant was now stable but wanting it down will take decades to complete. an archive either linked group in iraq says it carried out the string of attacks that killed sixteen people in baghdad last week insurgents known as the islamic state of iraq so it's we're in support of presence in these memory of those been executed bombings populated markets and government buildings and it doesn't neighborhoods want to first major attacks and troops there it's.

the flash floods which destroyed parts of the philippines have now played fifteen hundred lives composing bodies have been discovered in the sea sixty miles from the worst hit areas the search has been widened with emergency crews continuing what is . most a. different. business news now with natasha. it's twenty two minutes past the hour welcome to the business program here in r.t.e. as twenty eleven comes to an end to business r.t. looks back at the highlights of the year the stews they will focus on the north stream pipeline one of the most important international projects in the energy sector it started taking gas from russia to germany in november to mentor major duncan reports on what it took to launch the longest subsea pipeline in the world.

they said it wouldn't be possible too expensive too long too complicated nevertheless not stream came to life it took four years of planning and eighteen months of construction and the pipeline was launched on the eighth of november twentieth levon with the valve like a wheel of fortune turned in europe's favor let's now take a look at this map over here the whole goal of building this immense one thousand two hundred twenty two kilometer undersea pipeline is to deliver gas to europe and of void having to go through countries like ukraine which at times prove themselves as not safe partners to russia the first completed line is transporting twenty seven and a half billion cubic meters of gas a year and will double once the second one is completed and that's expected in the fourth quarter of twenty twelve this will be enough for twenty six million european households and around a half of what's currently going for ukraine north stream goes through the

territorial waters of five countries so it took a lot of time to conduct all necessary ecological research to make sure it's safe there for the four years in the making and of course it took a lot of money to seven point four billion euros to be exact this meant many experienced partners gazprom understandably took fifty one percent a majority controlling stake in the project germany's winter's hole and the on rule goes to fifteen and a half percent each and the french g.d.s. whereas hold nine percent each this excess of the project made gazprom confident and in september the shareholder agreement for south stream a sister to north stream was signed but now europe is worried it's becoming too dependent on russian gas which already accounts for twenty five percent of its demand but with ongoing instability in the north african region projects like nordstrom unsure diversity and therefore security. and let's take

a look at the markets now while first crude prices are trading pretty much flat out light sweet as shedding value now at ninety nine and a half dollars a barrel while grant is trading at more than one hundred eight dollars a barrel. and now on to the equities trade is pretty thin in asia in tokyo the nikkei is dropping less than half her son giving up some of the previous day's gains bucking the trend this toyota is putting on almost a quarter percent after unveiling a new hybrid car the op one monday in hong kong the hang seng remains closed for the holidays you're seeing the closing figures from one friday. the russian markets a losing value the r.t.s. is shedding a third of a percent of the my sex is down under half a percent all eyes are on the u.s. markets they're opening up on tuesday after a long holiday weekend figure for a higher from twelve to dialogue says growth is likely to continue but too low volumes. and now on to some individual

share moves most of the blue chips are trading in the red spare bank is among the main losers and shares are down around half a percent revenue majors are also lower whoop oil losing a fifth of a percent gold is in negative territory as gold police below one thousand six hundred dollars an ounce. big positions will be opened or closed jill dando this year i think everyone already kind of done what they wanted to do in the year but i wouldn't exclude some speculative trading and maybe some would be trusting before the end of the year usually the last week of the year it's growing week so i would expect so you know if you two percent growth but i would be surprised to see both five maybe six percent growth till the end of the year and that's all the latest from the business team i'll be back in about fifteen minutes.

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