a lot of. people became very draconian during those times very silty for presses and they would have supported the government to bring in the army to still talk about. rational series of reports on twenty eleven main events we bring you our correspondents inside into the five day for summer riot in britain. live from our headquarters in central moscow you're watching archie with me and use the now it's two pm here in the russian capital our top story fresh israeli air strikes on gaza have reportedly left one palestinian dead and several others injured earlier the israeli military confirmed it's preparing for a possible large scale attack it's three years since around four hundred palestinians were killed during a three week long offensive. player has more from jerusalem. for several days now

the israeli gaza border has been tense on monday four palestinians were killed and several others were injured in a series of targeted strikes carried out by the israeli air force at the same time and number of rockets were fired by palestinian militants into southern israel now last night when state evening the israeli defense force did confirm that it is preparing a large scale military operation in gaza it says that operation will be varied and different to the last operation that was carried out there three years ago what we're hearing is that the purpose of this operation will be to in hans is ready to terence now we are receiving reports that khaled mashal who is hamas as political bureau chief has called for all attacks on israeli civilians to be halted this comes in light of the recently conciliation deal that was signed between rival palestinian faction groups amass and fattah in cairo and this would be because of fear of

a massive israeli retaliation this tuesday marks three years since the last israeli operation in gaza that israelis referred to as operation cast lead that operation lasted about three weeks nearly one and a half thousand palestinians were killed four out of five of them were civilians what we're hearing from the israeli army this time around is that this operation will be much shorter and that the israelis will employ much greater use of fire power that certainly is it is still too soon to say what will happen. the arab league monitoring mission in syria is now heading to the city of whom are a focal point of the standoff between protesters and the army reports have emerged that on wednesday six people were killed there and a fresh outbreak of violence because it comes after observers said they found the situation in the flashpoint city of home grier story author and middle east expert tariq ali who's in london doubts of the observer mission will bring any possible result. oh god news to the syrians. show that they're not

going to hide it or thinking they'd find nothing but the arab league has been one of the most pathetic organizations in the arab world for a long long time doing nothing on palestine doing nothing to prevent the war on iraq and now it's being used as an ngo by the west so i don't take the arab league aside too seriously so we shall see what happens of it. r.t. spoke exclusively to russia's u.n. ambassador who said carrying out promised reforms may be too difficult for the regime and it's essentially involved in a civil war with extremists a full version of that interview with coming up later this hour but here's a preview. we believe that there has been there been some extremely troubling reports coming out of syria about excessive use of force by those sort is but also

telling that everybody must put pressure on. the destructive elements of the of the opposition or various destructive elements which may have found their way into syria that there are violent acts are not going to be condoned by the international community this is a this is a key to finding a peaceful way out of the situation some of the forms were announced. some of them we have pretty far reaching like changing the constitution and getting rid of the political monopoly of one party even under normal circumstances in any country forms of such magnitude are not easy to implement all that in a situation where. there is an armed conflict being encouraged from various quarters one would see weapons being moved. illegally into syria or that of course becomes a saturday conversation. libya

is heading into a new year as a completely new country with new leaders and new hopes but as the immediate post-revolutionary excitement fades the different factions of the former rebels are turning on each other in what may become a stark competition power on a boycott reports. flying high but still running low almost two months after the lifting of a no fly zone over tripoli the city's airport operates far below its capacity the passenger traffic keeps increasing every month as more and more airlines of putting tripoli back on their flight schedules the tripoli airport is once again buzzing with visitors a feller's have already been service and more are expected to follow in the coming months but while flight controllers and customs officials are back of their desks it's still the militia who call the shots here and the rebels themselves admit that the situation is still way to trouble and to cede control to civilian authorities

they're no longer flashing their guns to get make it very clear who is in control here the rebel brigades from the western cd of the captured the airport in late august as the rebels over on the capital the control of this key facility how the town with the population of sample fifty thousand rise to national prominence since then is in time militia has successfully styled itself as the save guards of libya's future. for forty two years our country had nothing no state institutions just one and same person. now we have a historic mission to overcome the difficulties of the transitional period we can build a new country. is one of the top guns in tripoli these days primarily a colonel in the good after his army he still keeps the good offices army cap in his office his subordinates are now holding the deposed libyan leader's son safe

will islam. we are against any dictator but if history repeats itself we will wage a war but we will let the rule of law decide his fate. didn't ghazi zintan misrata these libyan c.d.'s one after another rose against gadhafi is regime . then militias now represent and the real axis of power in the country as their various and their legacy and agendas as this tribes on the only base new tricolor the prospect of civil war in libya is always there and it always has been there but it has been effectively mastered by the very strong centralized rule of the gadhafi regime but of course now that that has been the stabilized we see this all of the tensions there in the fabric of libyan society coming to the fore another militia commander in charge of tripoli rebels is preparing for an interview it's been

a month since he changed his military fatigues for a business suit abdullah maker is now trying to transform rebels under his command into a political force a laptop has replaced every rifle as his main tool internet is his new front line of the armed assistant at his door is a sign that the political process is still in its very early stages but. we've seen many examples in the past when people's revolutions were stolen and we are very clear that our struggle is far from over gadhafi may still come back in some other shape or form and in that case who have to take up our weapons and defend our revolution. guns are still a common side on the streets of tripoli of their prevalence has visibly decreased the city's covered with posters calling on the rebels to turn them in the design element of militia has so far failed to translate into national reconciliation the competition among various brigades may have become less visible but not less in

towns the nato alliance would like to build up. and the division within the groups or the parties that they have that evolution against the qaddafi regime and according to my own understanding they would like to see certain provinces be divided inside the state of libya back in the arrival hall is in time the rebels screening passengers bags on to the posters left from the old regime to get out his golden frame portrait that madness at the airport the year ago is gone he should have he made have glued the libyan society for several months if you skilling the former you need appears to have died as well actually the work of art see tripoli. it's ten minutes past the hour coming up later in the program for you a trip to a life time report on brussels all this pilgrim who took a trip to mexico despite being more than a century old. looking back at twenty eleven is

a parking dam and the turbulence of the brush and stock market its highs and lows in the business bulletin in twenty minutes. the first hostility between washington and tehran is increasing with the u.s. saying it won't tolerate any potential quo jarreau the strait of hormuz by wrong earlier the islamic republic threatened to block oil shipments through the vital waterway if the west adopts sanctions against its petroleum exports a senior iranian commander said the move will be easy to implement a remark made while tehran conducts unprecedented war games in waters near the strait us also maintains a naval presence in the persian gulf and says its warships will stop the iranians from blocking the passage that iran has reported it's already detected an american aircraft carrier in the vicinity but political analyst chris bambery believes the west is putting world peace on the line with its stubbornness over sanctions.

that americans could probably force using the military in the gulf could probably force open the straits of hormuz but that would mean war with iran and that would be a huge huge escalation and would threaten world peace and therefore i think the iranians are really challenging the americans sensing the american weakness we know that both from british sources that there are plans to attack iran and israel is egging on america to attack iran over the question of its nuclear program but i think again in a comparison with iraq in two thousand and three iran is in a much stronger position iranian nationalism should not be should not be underestimated even opponents armitage about the rally to support iran given britain and america's history in iran there's a long history of unfortunate british and american intervention in iraq so i think we're witnessing quite a dangerous escalation and it's the sanctions which the west the talk or importance

around which is responsible for that situation developing i think we should be clear about that is the west who've racked up the situation every step. party continues to bring you the main stories of twenty eleven through the aisles of our international correspondents and it's been a tough year for the u.k. which saw its worst unrest in decades or several cities descended into riots looting and arson for a smith witness the five summer days of chaos. we first realized what a big story this was going to be on the night of the seventh of august that had been localized just says on saturday the six but we were tracking the news and we literally couldn't believe what we were hearing we decided that this was a story that we had to go and. we went initially to

the retail park in the field where we couldn't see anything it was already dark it was quite late. and then all of a sudden out of the darkness came a group of around two hundred youths running across the retail park dressed mainly in black dark colors with hooded top so and so you couldn't see their faces and gradually we realized they were smashing everything they could find. for me as a journalist it was an incredible story we were out on the streets every night wearing what i've come to call my riot. black wax jackets with everything i need in the pocket so that i can get away quickly if necessary it's an uneasy relationship . these. between the people who was the police and it's people

say a manifestation oh. we really felt two of the nights got the whole of london was on fire. you would you would arrive assist us in the area and you'd be able to see the flames on the smoke rising from two streets away and know that the writers had set fire to a car or broken into a shop and set fire to it or even on one occasion they set fire to an enormous coffin. house. arrest breads to different parts of love and. around london following it. almost anywhere that you went in the mall. of london there was some form of new say we went round and also days areas to have a look at what was going on there was streets that were just completely no go areas

no certainly for ordinary people but it seemed for the police as well we were talking to the police and it was clear from what they were saying that they had no idea what to do about the situation they just didn't know what to do they were looked to. they eventually settled on certainly for those two nights was charging into areas. just to show that presence and then running away again really purely running away and it wasn't until the third or fourth night that they really got into game and elements of control. on the second off to new we went to hackney west some of the worst unrest was taking place and it was literally shot down like who was a the police were not really less than anyone three they had surrounded the town center and when he goes into the towns and we saw all people and just smashing into shops and grabbing whatever they could. but not just young people adults as well.

as darkness just. the other frightening thing was the effects that it had on society if you had talked to people two weeks before the riots about whether bringing in the mill millet treat to take control of the streets was a good idea everybody would have said no it's quite in their rules society when you get down to it but the people i spoke to during the riots. and immediately genuinely felt that bringing in the army would have been a good idea using water cannon on the streets of london and other cities which would have sorted the proper about immediately so people became very draconian times very sort of repressive and they would have supported the government to bring in the army to sort the problem out. the studies that been done now into why the riots happened and a variety of reasons have been put forward maybe it's to bad relationship with the

police in these impoverished areas particularly amongst the black say that they are stopped by the police sometimes multiple times a day for having done nothing some people say that because young people in england particularly feel that they have no prospects there's no jobs for them unemployment amongst young people it's running at twenty five percent now they've got. those two things remain true. for i see no reason why this kind of thing wouldn't happen again. well a new report in our testimonies series is coming up for you tomorrow but if you missed any of them there all of the a bowl to watch right now at our tea dot com. let's take a look at what else is making news around the world we begin in pyongyang north korea. huge crowds have

gathered to pay tribute to can join you marks the second day of a memorial for the late leader the day of mourning for those wednesday's funeral service led by son and successor kim jong un thousands of people in two years lined the streets as they said their final farewell to the leader we've been in power since one thousand nine hundred ninety four for allowing the death of his father. turkish air strikes have killed at least twenty three kurdish villagers in the south east near the iraqi border is believe the group was smuggling gas and sugar into the country from northern iraq in may have been mistaken for rebels of the kurdistan workers party the groups considered a terrorist organization by ankara and much of the international community clashes between kurdish rebels and the army have a school late after a deadly operation last october. in nigeria turkish leaders say the christian community is losing confidence in the government's

ability to protect them christians have described recent assault as a declaration of war against them and nigeria as a whole and so they will respond appropriately to any future provocation that comes just after the militant islamist group boko haram attacked churches on christmas day killing thousands the group wants to impose its bhaumik shari'a law across the country or just quit between mainly christians of the south and muslims in the north. well she is high spirited and fearless despite being more than a century old a woman from russia's north caucasus has filled a lifelong ambition by traveling three thousand kilometers as a pilgrim to join the harsh artie's medina question of us set out to discover her amazing life journey. this is the largest annual pilgrimage in the world and also considered a religious duty to must be carried out at least once in every muslims lifetime.

as the only kello first that happen strictly at a certain time and place from the age to the twelfth day of the last months of the slum a calendar. my demand taking part has been a lifelong dream and what a long life it's been. i've done a lot in my life this house where i live now i built myself i've never asked for anything special only to help me go for the. relative say she was born in nineteen or one through the repressions of the nine hundred forty s. when she was almost starving in kazakstan and working in the cotton fields to a hard life back in russia laboring on construction sites in north she always dreamt of the harsh to america even when in later life she lost her sight she never lost hope. for you. years she was telling me every day how much she wanted to go i was afraid the trip would be too much for her but i knew how important it was

so one day i thought we should just do it. among corella tiffs and she has four children and grandchildren and no one really took it seriously but without even letting on to anyone else her grandson monday i mean it and his wife started preparing the trip of a lifetime in her home village hours every one knew about her dream but few believed that she would out for make it to mecca when her neighbors found out that she had actually been on the irish the news spread across the area far and wide. the field to jordan before taking a seti six hour bus journey to medina there they joined hundreds of thousands of pilgrims all similar tenuously converging on mecca for the week to perform a serious of rigorous first chills a testing time for people in their prime let alone someone who has an true to their twelfth decade. she had a difficult life but was always strong both physically and emotionally that's why

maybe she coped with the trip she's an example for me in our family and i know almost everyone here in north caucasus knows about her her strong drive and lack of financial only made her dream come true but also proved if there is a will there is always a way mind in the question or r.t. reporting from the north caucasus. that wraps up the main news block this hour headlines are coming up for you in a few minutes before about let's take him on the latest business news with the pasha. it's twenty three minutes past two pm here in moscow you're watching business and our team as twenty one comes to an end business or to looks back at some of the highs and the lows of the year today we're focusing on the russian stock market but in the course of a looks at how bears came to replace the polls. it's

been a roller coaster ride for investors to syria with markets being bashed by micro and political events like the unrest in the middle east and the earthquake in japan this over debt crisis in europe the u.s. rates in downgrades quantitative easing and bank recapitalization uncertainty regarding u.s. and china growth high volatility and low confidence leading to a flight safety then we had investors trading in the seas rather than individual stocks and finally trading volumes by historical comparison now let's take a closer look and see how the r.t.s. was affected we can already see some major drops throughout the year and this is the investor reaction to standard and poor's downgrade of the u.s. credit rating both the my six and the r.t. has beat the two thousand a record for the biggest one day fall prices for oil russia's key export

also signed to a five month low and we can see that figure a year in august the low point came on october fourth as a russian stocks closed more than five percent in the red and there's been little in the way of recovery since trade has been highly volatile domestic issues have also played a part following allegations of fraud in the parliamentary election in the same breath thousands gathered on the streets to protest the political uncertainty call some investors to head for the exit as we can see by the numbers for that period right here now in the end the r.t.s. has lost around twenty percent since the beginning of the year we can see where it started and all the way were down and analysts forecast an even deeper fall in two thousand and twelve but after such a turbulent year any predictions about the next twelve months must be taken with a large. a pinch of salt though international issues are likely to continue to

dominate son simmons on the home fronts of the russian economy is expected to consume needs to grow and flourish more moderate further and the governments will press ahead with its massive privatization program though this may seem like the recipe for success the truth of the matter is we've already seen how easily russia is dragged down by negative external factors so that's what investors will be looked into. and let's now take a look at the markets oiled birds they're gaining for the seventh session on supply concerns like sweet as and more that more than ninety nine dollars a barrel and brant is up almost one hundred eight dollars and now on to equities and europe they're quite upbeat the sour banks and telecoms are the main gainers and london and frankfurt all ours are in a long term italian bond auction is taking place later in the day. and here in moscow the losses are widening the r.t.s.

is now moving around two and a third of a percent while the my six is down more than one percent. and a quick look at some individual share moves on the my psych's most of the blue chips are down the sour financials are among the main losers was their bank down more than two percent there was committal is a little lower but says it plans to invest three billion dollars in production next year as one of the effort to become one of the world's five largest miners nafta's among the top gainers the company is planning to increase production by more than four percent next year. it's been a bad year for moscow drivers the capital suffered multiple kilometer traffic jams year round not to mention the notorious midsummer and we can't stand still the city hall says public transport is the solution it is open ninety five kilometers of bus lanes it now plans to introduce contraflow systems on seven highways and build three million parking spaces in the city the deputy mayor nicola blames the

deteriorating traffic on more than three hundred thousand new cars that have moscow roads annually and at this time of the year the situation is even worse as people drive in from the regions to go your shopping. little more than a million calls into mosco from the region every single day and they're not just from the moscow region that coming from all over russia before the new year holidays the amount of cars increases by no less than forty percent moscow is in gridlock at this time of the year five years ago it would be the same now. that's all the latest from the business team i'll be back in less than an hour of theater nine.

it's three thirty pm in moscow these are the top stories on our cheat tensions heat up on the israeli palestinian border as fresh air strikes on gaza leave one person dead and several injured in what televisa says is a prelude to a possible full scale attack. new leaders of the new libya melissa is now calling the sauce in the post-revolutionary country aren't rushing to disarm a trend some fear might result in the number of fights.