palestinians face a new year nightmare israel warns of another deadly small out against war battered like hitting the region and with renewed air strikes. iran says it's ready to strike ships sailing too close to its maneuvers near a vital oil route following its threats to block the house it if the west insist on tougher sanctions also. people became very draconian jaring those times very stilted for oppressive and they would have supported a government move to bring in the army to suit the proper amount when britain boiled over our duties countdown to twenty twelve continues with more eyewitness testimony from our reporters as we remember the summer the british people said

enough is enough. blood from our studios in central moscow you're watching archie with me and you say no way thanks for being with us our top story israeli warplanes have launched two air strikes on what the army called terror of sites in central and northern gaza killing at least one person and injuring ten others the israeli military earlier confirmed it's preparing for a new large scale of offensive against the palestinian territory which hasn't yet recovered from the assault three years ago argues paul the slayer reports 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 wyvil 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. well gideon levy who's a columnist with one of israel's rigorous newspaper says his country will face difficulties if it decides to wait another bloody war on gaza. three years ago israel had a car blunder not only a carte blanche the west had plowed israel and didn't say a word against the city but this time we are facing a new egypt and gaza ease in the backyard of egypt and i'm not sure that egypt will remain indifferent visa v another thing but having said this i'm not sure that this is enough to prevent an attack because unfortunately israeli politicians in general not always react in a most racial and logical way but the current government of israel has no serious

intention about serious dialogue with the palestinians maybe some photo opportunities but nothing more than the send 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 precondition of freezing the settlements which is a minimum. condition and they had suggested just symbolic release of one hundred palestinian prisoners to get back to negotiation table and what these were to say no. well we have more opinion reports and a timeline of the gaza offensive three years ago on our web site for you there you can also find out how the israeli palestinian conflict is developing its at r t dot com. arab league observers in syria has split into groups and are now heading to three more uprising hotspots they've already been to the flashpoint city of homes

where they found quote nothing frightening syria's fourth largest city of hamas is among the monitors next destination reports immersed that on wednesday six people were killed there and a fresh outbreak of violence that is expert tariq ali doubts the arab mission fully healed any possible results. obviously the syrians left in the morning it is to show that they're not going to go i did thinking they'd find nothing but believe has been one of the most fair to call them a safe rooms in the arab world for a long long time doing nothing of the starry doing nothing to prevent the war in iraq and now it's being used as a name here by the west so i don't take the arab league as such too seriously so we shall see what happens if it. r.t. spoke exclusively to our says u.n. ambassador says carrying out promised reforms may be too difficult for the regime

well it's caught up in a civil war with extremist. when there was a crisis all sorts of extremist terrorist elements show up for instance several days ago there was a horrible terrorist attack in damascus and the day before that the minister of defense of lebanon said that they detected some al-qaeda groups are moving into syria from from lebanon so i wouldn't be surprised that you know some terrorist elements from libya or other places have found their way into syria some reforms were announced. some of them we have pretty far reaching to expect that those groups reforms can be implemented in a situation when the the crisis is sort of teetering on the brink of civil war even under normal circumstances in any country or reforms of such magnitude on all these are implemented but i mean the point i'm trying to make is that the sooner the

crisis the military clashes stop in a better position the international community will be to demand that the syrian authorities move along the reform track as quickly as possible. but you can get ambassador churkin insight on all the recent middle east developments when we bring you more of that interview in less than thirty minutes here on our t.v. and elsewhere in the arab world what stage libya's out as we head towards the new year the punk revolutionary fervor has faded but libya's armed militias still patrolled r.v. reports on how the reluctance the reluctance to downed weapons might spark another power struggle that's coming up what's the amazing story of one very spiritual centenary him and increasingly infirm one hundred and ten year old rusty woman feels her dream of making the pilgrimage to mecca. we're revisiting the key moments which showed how the world is ending twenty eleven very

differently to how it began as seen through the eyes of our to use global correspondents august was a hot month for britain not least of all because it was shaken by the worst on rest in decades as thousands of rioters grampa's through key cities smith witnessed the chaos that left in delhi mark on the country. we first realized what a big story this was going to be in the night. that had been localized. 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 a sudden of the darkness came a group of around two hundred. running across the retail dressed mainly in black color as top so 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. between the people and the police it's people say and states you know. we really felt two of the whole of london was on fire. you would.

arrive assist us in the area and you'd be able to see the flames and the smoke rising from two streets away. the righteous had set fire to a car all broken into a shell. 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 more areas of london that was some form of new say we went round and also days there is 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 they want to do that 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 night that they really. 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. just. the other frightening

thing was the effects that it had to own 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 i spoke to you during the riots. and immediately genuinely felt that bringing in the army would have been a good idea using water on the streets of london and other cities which it would have the proper about immediately so people became very draconian jaring those times very oppressive and they would have supported the government to bring in the army to. 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 who 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. for them unemployment amongst young people it's twenty five percent now. two things remain true. for i see no reason why this kind of thing wouldn't happen again. and there's more testimony to come on the world's big of events of the year from our reporters who were there if you missed any of the series so far they're available to watch right now at our dot com. well the threats are being ramped up over a vital oil shipping route which iran's threatening to block the country says it's ready to confront any military ships crossing the security perimeter of its large scale war games being held in neutral waters near the hormuz strait iran has

already spotted a u.s. aircraft and other battles in the region earlier the islamic republic threatened to stop oil shipments through the channel if western backed sanctions hit its fuel exports america's valen to use its navy stationed in the persian gulf to stop the iranians from hindering passage 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 which 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 would rally 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 the talk of the importance of iran which is responsible for that situation developing i think we should be clear about that is the west who've racked up this situation every step. well i had to argy dot com for more insights and video reports of what's happening in your world with some of what we've lined up for you today from a seventeen thousand dollars door to defense spending on a crucial costumes we tell you who wasters who weighs about ways to slice and say we're winning brussels save for blowing public money. and scoring

big these two teams of elephants have indeed manservant passing and shooting all part of a three day elephant festival held in nepal check out who won the double game at our team. slowly but surely visitors are returning to libya with tripoli air traffic on the rise but what greets you at the gate are heavily armed militia the first sign of arriving passengers the country has a long way to go to restore trust as exxon avoid the reports the extremely diverse former rebel groups must urgently consolidate and transform into a civilian political force. flying high but still running low

almost two months after the lifting of the no fly zone over tripoli the city's airport operates far below its capacity of the passenger traffic keeps increasing every month as more and more airlines uprooting tripoli back on their flight schedules the tripoli airport is once again buzzing with visitors elyse have a ready within service and more expected to follow in the coming months but while the flight controllers and customs officials the back of their desks it's still the militia who call the shots here and the rebels themselves admit that the situation is 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 brigade 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 a population of some pretty thousand rise to national prominence since then does in

time militia have successfully styled itself as the save guards of libya's future the world saw for forty two years our country had nothing no state institutions just one insane person who ruled us now we have a historic mission to overcome the difficulties of the transitional period and build a new country not ours will be upon us. is one of the top guns in tripoli these days primarily a colonel in the get out 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 gazi zintan misrata these libyan c.d.'s one after another rose against gadhafi is regime

. their 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 internat 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 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 upon any division within the groups or their part is that they have revolutionised 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 home rebels of screening

passengers bags on to the posters laughed from the old regime to get out his golden frame portrayed that madness at the airport the year ago is gone he should have he may have glued the leiby in society for several months if he's killing the former uni appears to have died as well actually boyko r t tripoli a look now at some other stories from around the world this hour the turkish air force killed more than twenty people on border with iraq in a raid on suspected kurdish rebels local reports say the dad are civilian villagers who were smuggling fuel and other goods into turkey and were mistaken for militants clashes between kurdish rebels and the turkish military have as collated says a deadly operation last october across a separatist movement. tens of thousands of north koreans have spent a second day marking the funeral of their late ruler kim jong il his son kim jong un again led the ceremony where senior figures declared him the supreme leader is

thought the massive memorial in pyongyang will conclude thirteen days of mourning for his father. and it's never too late an ad as that's been proven by a hundred ten year old woman from russia's north caucasus despite her age and losing her sight she managed a three thousand kilometer journey of a lifetime to join the sacred islam excessed of all hearts are medina tracked her odyssey. this is the largest annual pilgrimage in the world and also considered a religious duty that must be carried out at least once in every muslims life time the haunch. as the only kello of islam that happens tricky at a certain time and place from the age to the twelfth day of the last month of this lamb a calendar. from i do not 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. her relatives say she was born in nineteen zero 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 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 her relatives and she has four children and such she grandchildren no one really took it seriously but without even letting on to anyone else her grandson mogami and and his wife started

preparing the trip of a lifetime in her home village avril one knew about her dream but few believe that she would out for make it to mecca when her neighbors found out that she had actually been on the ash the news spread across the area far and wide. first they flew to georgia and before taking a thirty six hour bus journey to medina there they joined hundreds of thousands of pilgrims all simle tenuously converging on mecca for the week to perform a serious of rigorous rituals a testing time for people in their prime let alone someone who has entered 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 you. know almost everyone here in north caucasus knows about her her strong drive from lego fan only made her dream come true but also proved if there is

a will there's always a way mind you the question you are reporting from the north caucasus. ok it's got the support later this hour including why deliver ball has been to their next mass without one of their top scores first though let's cross to our business to ask for a live update with jimmy. thanks for the last twenty eleven games two of them business out there looks back at the highs and lows of the year today we're focusing on the russian stock market but in a closer look at how the bass came to replace the bulls in russia. it's been a roller coaster ride for investors the c.e.o. 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 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 sex and the r.t. has beat the two thousand a record for the biggest one day fall now prices for oil russia's he export also sang 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 where 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 large. pinch of salt though international issues are likely to continue to dominate sun cement on the home front of the russian economy as expected so considering it's a grow and flay show 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 left in a. circular how the market is looking at the moment losses are widening actually in moscow that as investors are selling ahead of the new year holiday is the obvious down two and a half percent my six one percent secular the main movers on the. main blue chips legs burbank are. fairing in the red to more than two percent losses on nickel is a better than the market it's up point two percent or plans to invest three billion dollars in production next year as part of its efforts to become one of the world's five largest miners and gazprom now is among the companies planning to increase production by more than four percent next year. despite the crisis russia's top banks managed to boost their profits bank says the country's third 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 group. so we've got time for this our headlines are next with things. done.