video. omissions for now in the palm of your. machine on the. palestinians face and nuclear nightmare israel warns of another deadly onslaught against war battered gaza hitting the region 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 passage if the west insists on tough sanctions it's also. people became very draconian jaring those times very stilted repressive and they would have supported the government to bring in the army to still pull them out when britain boiled over artie's countdown to twenty twelve continues with more eyewitnesses witness testimony from our reporters as we

remember the summer the british people said enough is enough. the business of all is bad despite the crisis russia has told banks opposed to fifty two percent increase over the first eleven months more details coming up in twenty two. it's five pm in moscow this is r t coming to you live on news now with our top story this hour in israel israeli warplanes have launched two air strikes on what the army called terrorist 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 offensive against the palestinian territory which hasn't yet recovered from the assault three years ago paula slayer reports now 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 the israelis will employ much greater use of fire power but certainly it is still too soon to say what will happen. but gideon levy who is a columnist with one of brazil's biggest newspaper says his country will face difficulties ever decides to wait another war on gaza. three years ago israel had the card blunter not only carte blanche the west had their plow that is 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 via 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 the current government of israel has no serious intention about a 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 preconditions 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. we have more opinion reports and the timeline of the gaza offensive three years ago on our web site there you can also find out how the

israeli palestinian conflict is developing it's all there for you at r.t. dot com. arab league observers in syria have split into two groups and are now heading to three more uprising hotspots they've already been to the flashpoint city of homs where they found quote nothing frightening syria's fork largest city of hamas is among the monitors next destination reports emerged that on wednesday six people were killed there in a fresh outplayed outbreak of violence mideast expert to recall the doubts the arab mission will yield any possible results. obviously the syrians left in the morning it is to show that they're not going to i. think indeed find nothing but root 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 palestine doing nothing to prevent the war in iraq and now it's being used as a name geo by the west so i don't take the arab league as such too seriously so

we shall see what happens if it are to spoke exclusively to russia's u.n. ambassador who says carrying out promised reforms may be too difficult for the ouster of 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 now 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 are pretty far reaching to expect that those real 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 it reimplement but i mean the point i'm trying to make is that the sooner the crisis the military clashes stop the better position the international community will be to demand that the syrian authorities move along the reform track as quickly as possible. so you can get ambassador churkin since line on all the recent mideast developments we'll bring you more of that interview next hour here in archie elsewhere in the arab world we'll see what state libya's at this hour as we head towards the new year post revolutionary fervor has faded but libya's armed militias still patrolled r.v. reports sort of lay on how the reluctance to down by friends might spark another power struggle. but first 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 see as 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 rampaged through key cities maurice smith witnessed the chaos that left an indelible 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. came a group of around two hundred. running across the dressed made black. 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 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 and the police and based it's people say and state should know. we really only two of the whole of london was on fire.

you would. arrive versus us an area and you'd be able to see the flames on the smoke rising from two streets away and know that the riots has had set fire to a car or broken into a shop. or even on one occasion they set fire to an enormous call. house. arrest grads to different parts of london to. around london following it. almost anywhere that you went in the more areas 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 complete 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 there were. they eventually settled in the for the two nights was. just to show that presence and then running away again really 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. and the police were not really that see anyone through 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 on the rise. and immediately i genuinely felt that bringing in the army would have been a good idea and that using water on the streets of london and other cities which would have the proper about immediately so people became very draconian time is very oppressive and they would have supported a government to bring in the army to. the studies are being done now into why the riots happened and a variety of reasons have been put forward may be 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. 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 they. remain true. for i see no reason why this kind of thing wouldn't happen again. well there's more testimony to come on the world's big advance of the year from our reporters who were there if you missed any of the series so far they're all available to watch right now at our c dot com. both threats are being you can i should say head to our team dark com for more insight and video reports of what's happening in your world there are some of what we have lined up for you today from

a seventeen thousand dollars doormat to defense spending on carnival costumes we tell you the wasters who are winning brussels brussels say for blowing public money . and scoring big that these two teams of elephants have indeed mastered passing and shooting all part of a three day elvin that's a vote in the hall check out who won the jumbo game at our dot com. slowly but surely in 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 get a country has a long way to go to restore trust that's next on a boycott reports the extremely diverse formal rebel groups once urgently

consolidate and transform into a civilian political force. 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 to 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 the 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 a population of some pretty thousand rise to national prominence sends them this 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 and build a new country and that. 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 kept 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 as regime . the militias now represent and the real axis of power in the country as their various and their legacy and agendas as the tribes on the only base knew 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 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. 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 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. on any division within the groups or the parties that they have revolutionised against the qaddafi regime and

according to my own understanding they would like to see certain provinces being divided inside the state of libya back in the arrival hall as in town rebels are screening passengers bags on to the posters laughed from the old regime to get out his golden framed portrait that maddest at the airport a year ago is gone hatred of him a have glued the libyan society for several months with his killing the form a unity appears to have died as well the work of art see tripoli. it's never too late that's been programmed by a hundred and ten year old woman from russia's north caucasus despite her age who is in her sights last three thousand kilometer deserving of a life time to join the sacred islamic festival of hearts are to his medina course in iraq 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 with. 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 for so might 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 thirty grandchildren no one really to could seriously but without even letting on to anyone else her grandson mogami and and his wife started preparing the trip of her life time in her home village our very 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 a few georgian before taking us thirty 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 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 killed with the trip she's an example for me in our family i. know almost everyone here in north caucasus knows about her her strong drive and lack of fiann not only made her dream come true but also proved if there is a will there's always a way mind in the question you are reporting from the north caucasus. threats are being ramped up over a vital oil sipping group which iran's threatening to block the country says it's ready to confront any military ships crossing the security perimeter of a smart scale war games being held in neutral waters near the hormuz strait iran has already spotted a u.s. aircraft and other battleships in the region earlier the islamic republic threatened to stop oil shipments through the channel if the new western backed sanctions hit its fuel exports america's vowing to use its navy stationed in the

persian gulf to stop the uranium from hindering passage political analyst chris bam bam bury believes the west is putting world peace on the line with its stubbornness over sanctions. that americans could probably force use of their military what which 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 saying so. we know that both from. sources that there are plans to attack iran and israel is egging 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 even opponents are measured by the rally to support iran's 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 of talk are important iran which is responsible for that situation developing and i think we should be clear about that is the west who've racked up this situation every step. well coming up a russian basketball star cyrus has experience of what he had to overcome to become a foreign sport celebrity in the last first though let's get the latest from the business desk with timmy three. byrne welcome to the program now twenty eleven comes to an end business our team looks back at the highlights of the year today we're focusing on the oil deal between exxon mobil and ross now off to work on the russian arctic shelf the joint venture not only dashed any hopes p.p. had of reviving its own deal with rosneft but also caused friction within b.p.

but in the course of explains how the drama unfold. it was a love and hate relationship from the get go which adventure lead became an affair both parties would like to forget that's the hobs of seeing a v.p. we're going after each other for years the russians represented by a r. and the brits in b.p. what have gotten a divorce if this were a marriage their irreconcilable differences involved disputes over the company's corporate governance and strategy but any business is just like a marriage if there is a money at stake that sometimes keeps parties together but when ross north came into the picture and seduced b.p. they are wanted revenge b.p. wants it to partner up with russia's oil major and the share swap and explore the russian arctic they are said any deals made in russia should go through the p. they took them to court and froze the deal there was a way out b.p.

could include seeing k.p. in the project but rosneft refused and the deal went belly up while each side was blaming the other over the failed deal ross never found someone new and that was x. in mobile this new couple is now seen as a powerhouse that will not only develop oil and gas reserves but also open up one of the last on concorde drilling frontiers the arctic shelf has an abundance of mineral resources so the potential is huge both companies have already invested hundreds of billions of dollars and the money is expected to come back to fold now when it comes to the jilt of partner b.p. it's currently embroiled in lawsuits regard than the deal that never was so as the two halves of think a v.p. are going after each other ross naf has obviously moved on securing the deal of the year. two stories now despite the crisis russia's top banks managed to boost their

profits central bank says the country's thirty largest lenders person a fifty three percent. increasing profits for the first eleven months of the year as compared to single digit growth for large banks in developed countries regulator says aggressive lending brought here most of the growth. of the markets now while first now it's gaining for the seventh session on supply concerns light sweet is that more than ninety nine dollars and a half actually what we're seeing right now is a slight correction it's down thirty seven cents brant is also down nine cents but prices remain really quite high. now into equities in europe and they're quite upbeat they sell bank sent out a call these are the main gate as in london and frankfurt key italian the bond sale as had mixed results the ocean was oversubscribed but interest rates remain uncomfortably high of just under seven percent level most honest and sustainable. here in russia quite an opposite picture. losing as investors try to dump stocks

ahead of the along the new year holidays similar to was moving the my six most of the blue chips are down to burbank is one of the liquid stocks is down one point two percent this hour nor is the nickel is the stronger than the market up two point six percent he plans to invest three billion dollars in production next year as part of its effort to become one of the world's five largest miners and gazprom the after one of the biggest gainers of the company is planning to increase production by more than four percent next year. headlines are next on r.t. with an isa do stay with us if you can. if. you.

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