so the past year is the launch of the north stream gas pipeline learn all about that in the business both in about twenty minutes. three pm in moscow i'm not good to have you with us here on r t our top story with more than twenty people reportedly killed in a fresh violence in syria fifty arab league monitors have arrived in the most turbulent city of homes they're due to assess president assad's response to the anti-government protests but middle east experts here in say gave the 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 week 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. the 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 that prisons. and see the even hillary clinton didn't recognize this and say they are. like that many. a mix between civilians and children because when they talk about people they don't mention. and we cannot deny.

those observers are going to see the. was going on. the claim that our extremists are fighting in syria is shared by some foreign journalist working on the ground terry mason tells us in detail later how efforts by some forces to turn the conflict into a full scale civil war failing is what's coming your way in the next hour. i think that would be to destabilize the country. we see a lot of people killed but this is not. quite. like the. proxy. problem because.

it's been three years since gaza was pounded by a relentless israeli bombing an invasion that lasted twenty two days the offensive killed almost fifteen hundred palestinians with many families being wiped out for many the battle has now shifted to the courts as artie's paullus leader explains. i 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 was december two thousand and eight for three weeks israeli soldiers bombed the gaza strip killing nearly one and a half thousand palestinians for out of five more civilians at the same time hundreds of rockets fell on southern israel killing three israeli civilians 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 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 some bricks. took his case to the palestinian center for human rights in a president sitting move they secured an out of court settlement with the israeli military it took seligson 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 itself and they feel justified the way so solid 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 is not enough but what we're fighting for here is a financial compensation that will offer some relief the palestinian center for human rights has more than two hundred cases lexile is on its books but the heavy

paperwork bureaucracy and expenses discourages many others from coming forward. this man however is a rare exception he folded 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 to outside with my hands up in the ear the soldiers told me to pull up my shirt and trousers i did with a suit but they found a rock i would behind me 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 before. for . them the state will be exempt from. where the sun just case will help

other palestinians is not. these really army is also said it's opened an investigation into what happened but so far no indictment against any israeli soldier has been filed. so at this hour getting to know kim jong il successor is the man the world knows all nothing about but now runs north korea he traces the wife back to switzerland to meet a man who says he shared a classroom with kim jong il. the insight into why the u.s. was telling the pakistani army your shoulder some of the blame for the death of its own soldiers in the last month's deadly american drone strike. but first russia's prime minister vladimir putin says the government's doing everything it can to make the upcoming presidential election as transparent as possible comments came at a meeting of top figures of his supporters organization. i

want to stress that we're the first who need the transparency because we need to be sure that people support us of course there are forces to which it's not the development that's important but the turmoil of course they have their rights but the problem is that they have neither a united programs no means of reaching their goals they just want to deal with the election that's the problem today blaming you listen listen the government's planning to equip polling stations with web cameras and make ballot boxes transparent and try to ensure there is no violations of the parliamentary vote at the beginning of december protests as tens of thousands rallied in moscow over alleged violations. of party has been reflecting on the year's most significant news events definitely an unusual year for russian politics the dhamma united russia party lost popularity in a parliamentary vote but that didn't stop protests against the results or he's a nice in our way covered the developments from the start and shared her experience of how it all 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 twenty two but no one expected it as early as september. the first ten and that this congress and 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 meet three men to do saying that he believes that putin 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 of 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 historic day in russia you had tens of thousands of people who came out to my 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 these white flowers are 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 moscow not a far telling the story about russia from outside of russia but being in the center of it all. right up to the new year will bring you more

personal reflections from our international team of correspondents on the events that dominated the headlines in twenty eleven and a case you missed any you can always catch them again at our teeth dot com. lol i did. hit.

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child free. download free blog just plug in video for your media projects and free medio dog hearty dot com. fifteen minutes past the hour in moscow thanks for staying with us here on our team north korea's late leader kim jong il will be buried tomorrow but what the world store wants to know is where he often unpredictable country will turn next few things are known about his enigmatic successor except that he's in his twenty's and studied in switzerland or he's where if an ocean i spoke to one of his former classmates to shed some light on the man who now heads what may be the world's most secretive country. you can 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 hundreds and you

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 is 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 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 the suisse mountains in late ninety's the businessman brought out his all the book to refresh his memory there were quite a few koreans some quieter than others. with the last name kim. as kim is the most common name in the koreas alexander remembers the

koreans always different from all the 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 do although some think the deceased leader's son may be a figurehead overshadowed by his recently promoted uncle who thought to wield the real power alexander 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 first 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 terran regime and begin to open north korea to the world and maybe their war old to north korea. r.t. moscow. remember plenty of video comment and analysis and click away and as the new year is fast approaching to watch russia's center was dead motos and gradually those who celebrated sixteen time cosmic christmas tree decorations and sat at the i assess group gets ready to watch the entire planet spin into one well. and

a video of the polar bear your heart this little fellow who's already got millions of fans because of this cuddly cuteness will tell you why he's having to be and denmark find out. pakistan's army is rejecting key findings from a u.s. investigation into how it's drones killed twenty four pakistani troops last month the u.s. report saying that both sides should share the blame will also do little to restore the all but shattered relationship between the country's military contributor says america's trying to offload responsibility for its blunders. their results of the investigation regarding the u.s. unfortunate raid across the afghan 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 then military leadership what enraged by the conclusions of the pentagon investigation. turning now to some other stories making headlines

across the globe first to japan where the scale of the nuclear accident at a nuclear plant is being blamed on a lack of preparedness and response failures a new government study found the plans operators didn't properly had to supply the impact of a massive tsunami that struck in march the facility was severely damaged in the disaster with explosions at four reactors after cooling systems failed officials said last week the plant was now stable but winding it down will take decades to complete. an al qaeda linked group in iraq says it carried out a string of attacks that killed sixty nine in baghdad last week the insurgents known as the islamic state of iraq save yourselves who are in support of imprisoned sudanese and in the memory of those who've been executed bombing struck populated markets and government buildings and it doesn't shiite neighborhoods where the fourth major attack since u.s. troops left iraq earlier this month. blooding which is destroyed parts of the philippines of now planes fifteen hundred lives decomposing bodies have been

discovered in the sea sixty miles from the worst hit areas the search has been why you did with emergency crews continuing for as long as bodies are being recovered most of the dead yet to be identified. the taj is up next with all the latest business news stay with us. hello and welcome to the business program as of twenty eleven comes to an end of business r.t. looks back at the highlights of the year this tuesday was focused on the north stream gas pipeline one of the most important international projects in the energy sector is sort of taking gas from russia to germany and of ember to me tremendous anchor 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

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 yuan 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 assisted to north stream was signed but now europe is worried is 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. let's now take a look at the markets or oil first crude prices a positive life three to shedding value and now adding more than ninety i am happy . dollars a barrel while brand is trading at more than one hundred ninety dollars

a barrel. and now on to european equities they are higher as most traders a back from christmas holidays the footsie is adding more than one percent while germany's dax is more than one percent in the block. and the russian markets are losing value in afternoon trading the r.t.s. is shedding almost three quarters of a percent of the sour than my six is down around a third of a percent all eyes are on the u.s. markets they're reopening on tuesday after a long holiday weekend. and on to some individual share moves most of the blue chips are trading in the red to spare bankers among the main losers on the russian market shares are down around two percent energy majors are also lower with loop oil losing less than a fifth of a percent is gold is in negative territory as gold falls below one thousand six hundred dollars an ounce but what i want remains optimistic. big

positions will be opened or closed till the end of this year i think everyone will really kind of done what they wanted to do in this year but i wouldn't exclude some speculative trading and maybe some when the trysting 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. russia's economy expanded more than five percent in november compared to the same period last year the economic ministry says mining and electricity sector is mainly contributed to the growth but there was a slowdown in construction and investments. that's all the latest from the business team but you can always find a lot more stories there online for you any time at our. business.

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video. feed in the palm of your. arab league observers arrive in syria's most turbulent city of homs to assess whether the government is keeping the deal to stop the months long bloodshed some experts doubt the mission will be objective and independent. tuesday march three years since the gaza war and the israeli airstrike followed by twenty days of bombings and a ground assault nearly fifteen hundred palestinians were killed in the offensive now.