and about twenty minutes of brush equities the reasoning value this tuesday of the latest details in the been going. on there and online twenty four hours a day you're watching r t 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 expert who incidentally 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 where the french league i don't think that it's an independent 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 but a director of the beirut based center for middle east studies says he doubts the observers can tell the difference between armed insurgents and peaceful civilians. no one can deny the presence of the answer drone in syria even hillary clinton did recognize this and said they are well equipped and well trained. as they mix between civilians and children because when they talk about thousand of people killed in syria they don't mention. it and also we cannot deny

that. about two thousand soldiers. those observers are going to see the sea on the land was going on while 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 however by some forces to turn the conflict into a full scale civil war of failing here's what's ahead next hour. i think that the reaction to destabilize the country. we see a lot of people killed but this is not. quite. troops inside. libya using proxy.

problem because basically. it's three years since gaza 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. a judge is unusual not because he laid a claim against the israelis but because he won victory though is bittersweet with the i'm a broken man the israelis say their army has morals what morals are they talking about it. 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 they left i went there and 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 some bricks. soulé took his case to the palestinian center for human rights in a person sitting moved they secured an out of court settlement with the israeli military it took so let's see weeks to achieve the bodies of his mother and sister because of continue fighting in the area these women military says this made the case since you know before justified the way said sally received just under one hundred fifty thousand dollars compensation. if someone loses his leg or his hand up or is killed or injured all the money in the world in we are now what we're fighting for here is a financial compensation that it will offer some relief. to palestinian center for

human rights has more than two hundred cases on its books but the heavy paperwork bureaucracy 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 we. saw him it was early morning there was showing any part when a bomb 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 with a suit but they find a rock i would behind me my mother had been blown apart i recognised her by the ears of my two year old daughter my father my aunt 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 operation thought according to the israeli case low. for. then the state will be

exempt from. whether saddle up will have 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 for you this getting to know kim jong il success is about almost nothing about what you learn runs north korea traces back to switzerland we understand some shared last came from. some insight into why the u.s. installing the pakistani army should show some blame that its own soldiers last month's deadly drone strike. party 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 parties and he's a long way with developments from the outset and she has now her experience of how it unfolded. 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 and 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 of the united russia wasn't going to be as simple as just the platform for the do being announced was glazier putin and to meet the demands of 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 lead singer putin and he made the big announcement which no one expected but he believes that the top of the list for the duma lections 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 to me three minutes of age of will be part of united russia if you believe the list that was in it. and then of course you have to do saying that he believes that. should run for president in twenty twelve and there was just a poor 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 lose popularity but then also referred 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 thing 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 that 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 a sanction 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 where 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 that they can they can work on all of these stories and cover elections and cover protests and and kind of be really in the thick of it here in moscow not a far telling the story about russia from outside of russia but being in the center of it all. where every day right up to new year will bring you more personal reflections from our international correspondents on the events that dominated the news in twenty them and if you missed any you can watch them anytime i talk to dot com. for. the phone lines motion to be soon which brightened a few about song from phones to impressions. to screen stunts on t.v.

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boom. more news today violence is once again flared up the phone these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. giant corporations are the day. north korea's late leader kim jong il will be buried tomorrow whirls towards an area where the often unpredictable country will go next to things unknown about his successor except that his twenty's and studying in switzerland what is more of a national spoke to one of his former classmates the shed some light on the man now heads of the world's most secretive country. and the death of the north korean dictator has raised questions and hopes over whether the dictatorship

one of the last in the world will follow or will this extremely close to society remain isolated handed its new leader to do so little is known about the late leader's great successor his third and youngest son kim jong un 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 said lead tracked it's a lot more interest an entrepreneur in moscow with russian origins alexander how good she believes he could have been one of kim's classmates when news prior that kim trannie 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 the koreas alexander remembers the 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 part in. fun and games at the other students were very hard studying to be top of the class they didn't like to lose 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 and xander says the three years china 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 country and make

a change in terms of. past experience his knowledge of foreign languages and the skills that he managed to attain being a world 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 taren regime and begin to open north korea to the world and maybe their war old to north korea. r.t. moscow. welty dot com has plenty more of a video content analysis to explore let's take a look at what's being lined up today the titanic attacks. on this replacement

non-target sastre approaches eight tourists and three. have a look back at your heart meet a little fellow who's already gotten millions of fans due to this cuddly video to tell you why he's really done well. artie. pakistan's army is rejecting the key findings from america's investigation into how its 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. their results of the investigation regarding the u.s. unfortunate raid 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 or action to that pentagon investigation was totally predictable the pentagon announcement states that the u.s. forces involved in this baleful accident acted in self-defense and be the appropriate use of force after being fired upon this particular warning 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 then military leadership what enraged by the conclusions

of the pentagon investigation. but more of the world's news now and first to japan where the scale of the accident she with nuclear plant is being blamed on a lack of preparedness and response it is a new government study found the plant's operators did not you probably have to support the impact of a massive tsunami that struck in march the facility was severely damaged in the disaster. four reactors of the cooling systems failed officials said last week that the plant was now stable but winding 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 and executed bombings populated markets and government buildings and it doesn't neighborhoods

want to first major attacks and troops now it's. the flash floods which destroyed parts of the philippines are now playing fifteen hundred lives decomposing bodies have been discovered in the sea sixty miles from the worst hit areas the search has been widened with emergency crews continuing. but most of the. different. business news now with natasha. it's twenty two minutes past the hour welcome to the business program here in r.t. as two thousand and eleven comes to an end to business hard to look back at the highlights of the year the stews they would focus on the north stream pipeline one of the most important international projects in the energy sector is surging gas

from russia to germany in november to mentor mentor duncan reports on what it took to launch the longest 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 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 windsor's hall and the on rule goes to fifteen and a half percent each and dutch get sunni and 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 and sure diversity and therefore security. and let's take a look at the markets now the oil first crude prices are trading pretty much fly out light sweet as shouting 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 i want 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 it's 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 there opening up on tuesday after a long holiday weekend figure from two of the dialogue says growth is likely to

continue but 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 and energy majors are also lower with lukoil losing a fifth of a percent gold is in the negative territory as gold for its below one thousand six hundred dollars an ounce. big positions will be opened or closed till the end of this year i think everyone already kind of done what they wanted to do in this year but i wouldn't exclude some speculative trading and maybe some will be trenching before the end of the year usually the last week of the year it's growing week so i would expect say ten or fifteen 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 jointly abouts. well for the finance technology innovation all the moves developments from around russia we've got the future covered.

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this is our team the main stories we're covering for you this hour. but league observers head to syria's most turbulent city of holmes to assess whether the government is keeping it sent to stop the months long bloodshed but some experts doubt the mission will be independent and objective. she used a mug's three years since the gaza war and the israeli air strike on a bike twenty two days of bombings and a ground invasion really fifteen hundred palestinians were killed in.