tensions heat up on the israeli palestinian border as fresh air strikes on gaza one person dead and several injured in what television says is a prelude to a possible gold scale attack. new leaders on the new libya the militia is now calling the stop so the post-revolutionary country aren't rushing to disarm a trend some fear might result in another fight for power. and exchanging threats the u.s. warns it will take action if you go ahead with its value to close a vital waterway for oil traffic in response to western plan sanctions.

it's three pm in moscow this is coming to you live now with our top story this hour 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 thousand eight hundred palestinians were killed during a three week long offensive paul the slayer has more from jerusalem. for several days now the israeli gaza border has been tense 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 but certainly it is still too soon to say what will happen over more on this

story i'm out i live by diddy and levy who's a columnist with the newspaper thanks for being with us mr levy how do you see the situation developing how determined is israel to launch a new offensive on gaza. no there is no real reason for him launching another. but the rhetorical sin is. becoming more and more harsh and you know rhetorical can lead to changing reality go to take. there's no reason whatsoever to launch another. new political conditions now there is a new egypt or old and then the true that egypt will remain indifferent to visa v another group that it takes off israel and gaza so are you that israel might

have any kind of repercussions because three years ago we saw an offensive that killed some fifteen hundred palestinians thirteen israelis yet no one was held responsible has that given israel a carte blanche to do what it wants without fear of repercussion or are you saying that the situation has not changed them to actually think about what could happen if they do launch a full scale attack. three years ago israel had the card bludgeon not only the west to allow do this. it would be against the city but the we are facing a new egypt and gaza ease in the backyard of egypt and i am not sure that egypt will remain in different degrees of you another. but having said this i'm not sure that this is enough to prevent an attack because unfortunately israeli politicians in general has not always reacted in most racial militant logical way it seems like

you're saying that it could go either way that you do think an attack is possible but it won't necessarily happen there are reports that the head of hamas has ordered an end to attacks on israeli targets but we keep seeing rockets being fired from gaza so why is the masses leadership in gaza undermining attempts to prevent any kind of escalation in violence. first a full note everybody in israel listens carefully to the new voices in the hamas and the new voices it's very clearly so calm us in the recent days speaking in a new language it's not only about snooks launching any terror but it's also about recognizing is very distinct the seven borders one way or the other but israel unfortunately is not listening to these those voices and these as usual may be missing another will put unity by ignoring those voices who come from hamas

and this is very growth of. we're also hearing very offensive rhetoric coming from israel do you think israel has its own plan which doesn't exactly include any kind of dialogue with the palestinians. this is not my view it's crystal clear the current government of israel has no serious intentional about this serious dialogue with the palestinians maybe some photo opportunities but nothing more than peace and the p.a. the palestinian authority had just launched another proposal for israel to get back to the negotiation table they even gave up the conditional freezing the settlements which is a minimal. condition and they suggest the just symbolic release of one hundred palestinian prisoners to get back to the go shake table it would be

easier to say no. if we were to see and i know this is of course is all still very much speculation some kind of full scale attack do you think it would be possible that we would see reaction from the international community in terms of a possible u.n. impose a no fly zone what and how will the world react to an attack. you must differentiate here between the public opinions in the world who are. maybe i have to say was quiet discussed and quite critical about israel you take their positions of the governments in europe and elsewhere i think that. just specially in an election year in the united states no american there we raise his voice against no official who will raise his voice

against israel you know election year and europe unfortunately also supports one way or the other. these are your patient is really a take so i guess that even if the toll will be more critical of this state i don't think that it will get to any kind of actions against israel all right speaking to us live from tel aviv gideon levy a columnist with haaretz newspaper thank you for your time. well the arab league monitoring mission in syria is now heading to the city of hamas' focal point of the sound off between protesters and the army reports have emerged that on wednesday six people were killed there in a fresh outbreak of violence and this comes after observers said they found the situation in the flashpoint city of holmes reassuring author and middle east expert to reka lee who's in london doubts if the observer mission will bring any possible results. obviously the syrians left in the monitors to show that

they're not going to hide it thinking they'd find nothing but really arab league has been one of the most fair to call them a solution simply 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 a name field by the west so i don't take the arab league as such too seriously so we shall see what happens. marty spoke exclusively to russia's u.n. ambassador who said carrying out promised reforms may be difficult for the ousted regime and is essentially involved in a civil war with extremists a full version is coming up for you next hour but here's a preview. we believe that there has been there have been some extremely troubling reports coming out of syria about excessive use of force by those sort it is but

also telling that the everybody must put pressure on. the destructive elements. of the opposition or very as 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 knobs. 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 when there is an armed conflict being encouraged from various quarters one would see weapons being moved. illegally into syria all that of course becomes a saturday conversation.

well 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 faints the different factions of the former rebels are turning on each other and what may become a stark competition for power parties next 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 yet 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 fellow lives have already within service and more 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 city 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 does in turn militia have successfully styled itself as the save guards of libya's future. for forty two years our country had nothing no state institutions just one insane person. now we have a historic mission to overcome the difficulties of the transitional period and build a new country and that animals will be upon us. is one of the top guns in tripoli these days primarily a colonel in the get off his army he still keeps the get off his army cap in his

office his subordinates are now holding the deposed libyan leader's son safe will islam. we are against i need to take her history repeats itself we will wage a war but we will let the rule of law decide his fate. didn't gazi zintan misrata these libyan c.d.'s one of to now their rose against gadhafi is regime. their militias now represent 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 has a hole which has been there but has been effectively mastered by the very strong centralized rule of the gadhafi regime but of course now that that has been destabilized 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 bob dylan 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 political process is still in its very early stages. 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 have their problems has visibly decreased the city's covered with posters calling on the rebels to turn them in the design and 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 and the nato alliance would like to build upon any division within the groups or the parties that they have revolutionized against the qaddafi regime and according to my own understanding they would like to see certain. robin says being divided inside the state of libya back in the arrival hall rebels are screening passengers bags on to depose to his left from the old regime to get out his golden framed portrait that madness at the airport a year ago is gone he should have he may have glued the libi in 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 quarter past the hour coming up later in the program. people became very draconian during those times very sort of repressive and they would have supported the government to bring in the army to sort the proper about the special series of reports on twenty eleventh's main events we

bring you our correspondents inside the five days of summer riots in wa. and in the business bulletin russia's top banks managed to boost their profits by more than fifty percent this year the details in about ten minutes. hostility between washington and tehran is increasing with the u.s. saying it won't tolerate any potential closer the strait of hormuz by iran earlier the islamic republic threatened to block oil shipments through the vital waterway if the west adopts sanctions as against i should say its petroleum exports the senior iranian commander said the move will be easy to implement remark made while to conduct unprecedented war games and waters near the strait the us also maintains a naval presence in the persian gulf and says its warships will stop the iranians from blocking the passage and tehran has reported it's already to tack to an

american aircraft carrier in the vicinity political analyst chris bambery believes the west is putting world peace on the line with its stubbornness over sanctions. the americans could probably force using the military in the govt 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 a going all in 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. we rallied to support iran's given britain and

america's history in iran and 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 of talk are important iran 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. r.t. continues to bring you the main stories of twenty eleven through the eyes of our international correspondents there's been a tough year for the u.k. which sides worst under arrest in decades and several cities descended into riots looting and are sent laura smith witnessed the five summer days of chaos. we first realized what a big story this was going to be on the night of august that had been localized

just 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. field where we couldn't see anything it was already dark it was quite late. and then all of us saw. a group of around two hundred. running across the retail dressed mainly in black colors with topsoil and so you couldn't see their faces and gradually we realised 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 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 in the police it's people say states you know. we really felt two of. the whole of london was on fire. you would. arrive assist us in an area and you'd be able to see the flames on the smoke rising from two streets away and know that the rioters had set fire to a car or broken into a shell. or even on one occasion they set fire to an enormous coffin. house. arrest breads to different parts of london to. around london following it.

almost anywhere that you went in the mall. of london that was new say we went round and also days areas to have a look what was going on there was streets that were just completely. you know 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. they eventually settled for the two nights was. just to show that presence and then running away again really purely running away and it wasn't until the fourth night that they really got into elements of control . on the second we went to hackney west some of the rest was taking place and it was literally shut down. the police were not really

less than anyone three they had surrounded the town and when you go into the town. people are just smashing into shops and grabbing whatever they could. but not just young people adults as well. as. just 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 tree to take control of the streets was a good idea everybody would have said no it's quite a liberal society when you get down to it but the people on the rise. 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 jaring those times very sort of repressive and they would have supported the

government to bring in the army to sort the problem out. the studies are being 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 who say that they are stopped and searched by the police sometimes multiple times a day for having done nothing some people say that's because young people in england particularly feel that they have no prospects there's no jobs for them unemployment amongst young people is running at twenty five percent now they've got no hope for the future. those two things remain true and so 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 it but if you've missed any of them they're all available to watch right now at our dot com. let's

take a look at the latest business news with. almost twenty four minutes here past the hour here in moscow you're with business on our team as twenty eleven comes to an end to business looks back at the highs and the lows of the year today we're focusing on the russian stock market and in the course of a look at how bears came to replace the bolz. 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 a 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 are out 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 sang 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 where it went 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 law. pinch of salt though international issues are likely to continue to dominate sun summons on the home front of the russian economy is expected to consume needs to grow inflation will 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 locked into.

and look at the markets first to europe they are quite upbeat the sour banks and telecoms are the main gainers of london and in frankfurt all eyes are on the long term italian bond auction deals fell from recent record highs but they remained just under seven sound which experts say is unsustainably high. here in moscow the losses a widening the r.t.s. is now losing just under two and a half percent the my six is down more than one in the water. despite the crisis russia's top banks managed to boost their profits the central bank says the country's thirty largest lenders posted a fifty two percent increase in profits for the first eleven months of the year that's compared to single digit growth for large banks in developed countries the regulator says aggressive lending brought in most of the growth. that's all from

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