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observers have reportedly arrived in syria's third largest city of homs which is witnessed some of the fiercest battles between the army and the opposition since the uprising started in march before they arrived government tanks were apparently pulling out of the city though activists say around thirty people were killed the latest violence there is the team of fifty moderate is said to assess the real situation on the ground and verify assad's profile ends with the plan to end the bloodshed there are doubts over the impartiality of the mission. 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 steve syria right now there is the government but the government has different layers and their opposition groups and they're not all united. pressure from outside being piled soley on the assad regime even though there are doubts there are even though those who are in no doubt that armed insurgents are operating in syria the director of the beirut based center for middle east studies says the observers can't seem to tell the difference between arm rebels and peaceful civilians no one can deny that presence of the answer of their own in syria even hillary clinton didn't recognize this and said they are a wonder that i am think that they're like that many. a mix between civilians and children because when they talk about those on the people they don't mention. civilians and we cannot deny.

those observers are going to see the to see on that and what's going on. the claim of the syrian opposition is backed by extremist fighters a shared by a foreign journalist working there on the ground later this hour he hears from a french reporter who expressed an arrest there were eyewitnesses. i think that would be the action to destabilize the country. we see a lot of people killed but this is not the civil war quite told us. to until we've throwing troops inside and they'd be. using proxies from the gulf can see. the problem because we succumb to these way before.

palestinians in besieged gaza remarking three years since israel said tanks and fighter jets to attack them the operation lasted twenty two days and cost almost fifteen hundred a lives and more entire families wiped out or his policy or discovered that time has yet to heal all warns. is unusual not because he laid a claim against the israelis but because he won victory though is bittersweet. 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 was civilians at the same time hundreds of rockets fell on southern israel killing three israeli civilians. couldn't get to my home for sixteen days because the israeli soldiers were firing

all the time as soon as they left i went 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 body of my sister much to cover with the bricks. so lay 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 so 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 face six you know they feel justified with 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 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. i thought. it was early morning there was showing in the apartment above was on fire i want out so i with my hands up in the ear the soldiers told me to pull off my shirt and trousers i did what they said but they find iraq 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. the military operation for according to the israeli case low. this before. 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 stay with us here on r.t. still to come memories of kim's school days. our correspondent looks into the secretive past of the new man at the helm of north korea by meeting a former classmate plus. we delve into why the u.s. is searching for loopholes to force pakistan into sharing the blame for nato's drone strike that killed twenty four pakistani troops. but first blood amir putin is pledging the government will do everything possible to provide transparency at the upcoming presidential election the prime minister says it's actually in his interest as a candidate. it could be a good you're going to misstate the species but as it is too little 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 with the turmoil of course they have the right but the problem is that they have neither a united programs new means of reaching their goals but they just want to deal with the election that's the problem today. during that vote ballot boxes will be literally transparent and polling stations will be equipped with webcams for constant monitoring this in response to the parliamentary elections earlier this month that sparked protests over allegations of fraud and vote rigging. well sticking with that topic we're focusing on the most significant events in the build up to this year's duma election as part of our series on two thousand and eleven key moments or he's a nice and now way covering that story and she shares her experience of the outgoing year in russian politics.

well i think that day it became clear that russian politics are changing and 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 that united russia wasn't going to be as simple as just the platform for the do most actions being announced was glazier putin and to meet the demands made to 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. the first to come up on stage was lead singer putin and he made the big announcement which no one expected but he believes that top of the list for the do

my 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 to me that means major will be part of united russia he will be the list that was in it. and then of course you have to meet through me today to saying that he believes that putin 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. it's 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 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 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 against they really came out to vote to send

a message to united russia and that became very clear they lost. you know in 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 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 the same some protest some fifteen 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 that 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 being in the center of it all. well every day right to the new year will bring you the personal view from our team of international correspondents who

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your media projects and a free meal dog party dot com. they are staying with us here on our t.v. sixty minutes past the hour in moscow north koreans finally allay their late leader to arrest wednesday but the world still wants to know what lies ahead in a post kim jong il country has annoyed its successor and youngest son is now in charge but there's a little known about him or his where if you know should i went back to school to uncover more about the man who has an intense act of follow. 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 closed society remain isolated condit's new leader to so little is known about the late leader is the

great successor his furred and youngest son named is a bit of a dark horse 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 and entrepreneur in moscow with russian origins alys on a hug and she believes he could have been one of keams classmates when news spread that kim trani 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 some quieter than others. with the last name kim. as kim is the most common name in korea alexander remembers the koreans always different from all the students and they were very disciplined they

were very disciplined as a group of students. very serious for their interaction. 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 leaders son may be a figurehead overshadowed by his recently promoted uncle who is thought to wield the real power head xander says the three years china has apparently spent in europe may change the country's future forever but 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 is his knowledge of foreign languages. the skills that he managed to to attain being a world the outside world used to get most of the news from behind north korea iran

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 of all that the new leader is exposed to the liberal west for a glimmer of hope that he may ease back the region's control over the two terran regime and begin to open north korea to the world and maybe the war old to north korea. if you missed any of our stories you can always click over to our team dot com which is the best place to get updated anytime they will find some heartwarming holiday treats as well just take a look at this. no need to be aware of those little bear the cute little cubs already captured millions of hearts and it's easy to see why we'll tell you why he has to be a rear end in denmark instead of getting an arctic start plus. celebrating

santa in the space the i.s.a.'s crew gets festive as they prepare to sea in the new year sixteen times. the u.s. wants pakistan to shoulder to share a map of its facilities on the border with afghanistan to avoid incidents like nato airstrike that killed twenty four pakistani soldiers last month as follows a u.s. report concludes both sides should share blame for the deadly attack or his military contributor says washington is trying to offload responsibility for its mistakes. 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 a reaction to that pentagon investigation was totally predictable that then to get an announcement states that the u.s. forces involved in these baleful accident acted in self-defense and to be the appropriate use of force after being fired upon these particular awardee is a noteworthy attempt to exonerate the u.s. chain of command for taking such an they were in is an baleful decision and tacitly shift the blame to the pakistanis small wonder the pakistani leadership at large and especially their military leadership within reach by the conclusions of the pentagon investigation. take a look now at some other stories making headlines across the globe japan says the fukushima nuclear crisis was down to the plant operators being ill prepared and

responding incorrectly to the earthquake and tsunami disaster a major government probe cites engineers abandoning the plant hasn't got into trouble due to delays in reporting significant radiation leaks explosions at four reactors severely damaged the facility after their cooling systems failed in march and since been made stable. in northern australia a freight train has been swept off a bridge destroyed in a torrent of water caused by a psych loan if our mental experts are looking into whether the cargo of iron ore from the train is a staple into the river drenching rains have been a ravaging parts of australia for more than a month now causing several regions of the country to suffer severe floods. katie's up next with the hours business update stay with us here on r.t. . my. hello welcome to the business program here in l.t. as two thousand and eleven comes to an end business outing looks back at the

highlights of the year this tuesday we 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 dmitri medvedev reports on what it took to launch the longest subsidy 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 went as whole and your own 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 unsure diversity and therefore security. ok let's have a look at the market shall weigh all for us crude prices lots of positive swedish adding value of more than ninety nine dollars per barrel while brant is trading at more than one hundred and eight dollars per barrel and now on to the markets european stocks are higher as most traders are back from christmas holidays the footsie is closed today while germany's dax is gaining around the crown point one percent of the russian markets are losing value adding almost point eight percent my sense is half a percent down all eyes are on the u.s. markets they are reopening on tuesday after a holiday weekend now let's take a look at those individual moves on the my sex most of the blue chips are trading

in the red bank is down almost a percent gas monopoly gets is losing point four percent bucking the trend is part of us gold is gaining half a percent this hour. high out of the troika dialog gives his outlook. big positions open door closed till the end of 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 maybe someone to trashing 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 ministry says mining electricity is that is maybe a contributor to the right but there was a slowdown in destruction and investment. and less often i'll be back in about

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