palestinians face a new year nightmare israel warns of another deadly onslaught against war. in the region with remuda air strikes. and nuclear submarines a blazer dockyard in northern russia the scaffolding surrounding caught fire during repair work. iran says it's ready to strike ships sailing too close to its maneuvers knew all route following its threats to block passage west insists on up sanctions also. people became very draconian jaring this time is very sober oppressive and they would have

supported the government to bring in the army to sort the problem out. when britain boiled over our countdown of the twenty lead and continues with more eyewitness testimony from our reporters but remember the summer the british people said enough is enough. hello eight pm thursday night here in moscow my name is kevin o. into night top story from r.t. 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 is preparing for a new large scale offensive against the palestinian territory which hasn't yet recovered from the assault three years ago. as the latest from jerusalem. the situation along the israel gaza border has been tense for several days now since

monday four palestinians were killed and many more were injured in a number of targeted airstrikes carried out by the israeli air force at the same time several rockets were fired by palestinian militants onto southern israel now when state. these radio on me admitted that it was considering a possible launch scaled military operation into gaza it said that this operation would be buried and different to the last operation that was carried out the three years ago and would aim at increasing israel's determines in the area khaled mashal from us his political bureau chief has called on palestinians north to target israeli civilians because of the fear of a massive israeli retaliation now back in two thousand and eight nearly one and a half thousand palestinians were killed in a three week operation that these rabies referred to as operational cost made four out of five people killed were civilians what we're hearing from the israelis now is that should they go ahead with another operation this operation will be short

and it will see the use of more firepower but it's not clear that the timing is right for tel aviv to go ahead with another invasion of gaza certainly the natanya who government is isolated on the international front more than it was three years ago and it will not want to risk losing more friends the congo of today is also very different to the cairo of two thousand and eight when the former egyptian president hosni mubarak was in power the leadership in egypt today is much more likely to go to the aid of hamas if indeed it is attacked by israel at the same time palestinian militants have more weapons at their disposal including antitank missiles that are capable of inflicting a lot of damage on israeli tanks so it's not a done deal that israel is going to go ahead with an operation but certainly the fact that the israeli army has admitted that it is considering such an operation has people here all on standby. all asleep with their will to discuss what's developing the region i was told to professor harder read from your girls

university professor thanks for being with us pretty sure you did and this must be an intensely worrying time for public stadiums in gaza right now we're still of course recovering as we've mentioned there from what i'm back in two thousand and eight. absolutely i mean three years ago the palestinians of gaza lost more than one thousand four hundred forty people ninety percent of whom were civilians including more than four hundred thirty four children and that was a time when we were threatened with the in the words of the israeli deputy defense minister then. we were threatened with a greater show or a greater hollow call of course if the if the the organizations the military organizations based in the gaza slim did not to stop you know launching rockets against against israel and israel lived up lived up to its word launched its genocide that we're going to war against the palestinians of gaza and killed so many people and three years on we are still under that head of medic didley siege that has been imposed on gaza since january two thousand and six when the

palestinians of the gaza strip and the west bank went to the polling stations and voted for a party that is opposed to the so-called deal or peace process i.e. the. peace process and i think now what what is happening right now is that israel has a different government a government that is considered by so many and this to be the most fascist government in the state in the history of the state of israel we are talking about i think the liberal men and binyamin netanyahu who are intending actually the complete eradication and destruction of the gaza strip and so yes we are bracing ourselves for the worst times to comes but we also on the other hand need to remember that there is a new world right now person who mubarak who was considered a great asset to the state of israel is out now syria there is there are some changes happening right now in syria does he is out of the yemeni president is out and therefore we are witnessing a new era in the arab world and i think that israel is confused as in

a dilemma with to launch a new genocidal war against the palestinians of gaza and the gardeners of the reaction of the new world order just to stay and and wait. test the waters of the world without launching a massive war against gaza so following on what you say you're telling me basically how much may have been bullied by what's been happening elsewhere in the arab world and it could began during support to counter a major israeli attack now it's more strength than it was back in two thousand and eight well as we speak right now myself and you mean the prime minister of the hamas government in gaza is on a tour in the arab world he has been received by the secretary general of the arab league dr nabil lobby he has been received by ministers and the prime minister even of egypt and he is he was in sudan yesterday received by the sudanese president and he would be on his way to qatar and other gulf countries in other words how mass has gained actually more political momentum in the arab world of course with the

winning of the islamic you know movements in egypt in tunisia and of course and libya so yes how mass has gained much much more momentum but at the same time we need to remember israel is being isolated right now because of the growing momentum of the b. the campaign the book called divestment and sanctions and what we are saying is that right now we are witnessing to our south african moment in palestine exactly like what happened against apartheid south south africa in the late eighty's when the appropriate system was isolated and ultimately it's come to that international pressure and accepted one person one vote everybody in south africa went to the polling station and voted no samantha mandela as the first black president of multi-generational south africa and i think that with the arab spring and with the spirit of the be the culture all over the world this is where we are hitting right now and that is why is that i is in

a limbo prefer suggest very briefly will go thirty seconds how would any moves against against a must be supported from the public of israel would they get some would they support the government. well exactly if you go back to two thousand and eight which is that i launched its massacre of his the palestinians of gaza ninety four percent of the is the only public supported the massacre of palestinians of gaza and i think the same percentage also voted for it began mean and i think the liberal man and yes this the israeli government will have the support of the is there any public thank you being on the program much appreciated professor gaza based expert on the israeli palestinian conflict going to get your expert thoughts on that. well we've got more opinion more reports on the timeline of the guards are offensive three years ago on our website if you want to refresh yourself or there's also information there you can find out about the latest on the ongoing israeli palestinian conflict developing it's at r.t. dot com. league observers in syria have split into groups now and they're heading

into three more uprising hotspots they've already been to the flashpoint city of homs where they found quote nothing frightening meanwhile opposition activists in syria suggest that over thirty people were killed by security forces on thursday middle east expert eric ali told me he doubts their admission will yield any plausible results. you'll see the syrians let in the monitors to show that they're not going to hide at all thinking they'd find nothing but believe has been one of the most fair to call them associations 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 leaders such too seriously so we shall see what happens. well i can let you know that r.t. spoke exclusively to russia's u.n. ambassador who told us that carrying out promised reforms may be too difficult for

the assad regime will is caught up in a civil war with extremists involved now i spoke to vitaly churkin at length for half an hour yes they've got full version of that coming up few little bit later this hour here's a quick preview. 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 the mosque on the day before that raid 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 found their way to syria some reforms were announced or. some of them were pretty far reaching would you expect that those reverdy forms can be implemented in a situation where no the crisis is sort of teetering on the brink of civil war even

under normal circumstances in any country forms of such a magnitude of these agree implement but i mean the point i'm trying to make is that the sooner the crisis is 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. the threats a big ramp up over a vital oil shipping route which iran is threatening to block to rounds holding large scale war games in neutral waters near the strait of hormuz the u.s. has its own contingent in the region to mainly to ensure passage remains free bring us up to date on this moving story gonna cheat you can't you know in d.c. studio either ghani what is america's response to iran's latest moves again today. well kevin reacting to iran's warning the u.s. said no such destruction would be tolerated and that the u.s. fifth fleet that's based in the gulf would ensure that doesn't happen the strait of

hormuz links to golf and the oil producing states of bahrain kuwait qatar saudi arabia and the united arab emirates to the indian ocean and that's about forty percent of the world's oil that's shipped on tankers by tankers. that all passes through that strait it's a major oil artery and a potential cutoff of might cost turmoil would turmoil in the global oil market although a saudi official said that gulf nations would you know are ready to offset any loss of your rhenium crude from the statement that you you've got here in washington you get a sense that washington things iran is bluffing because there have been such threats before but iran's finds itself in a very difficult situation right now where it's a livelihood basically is in danger of the u.s. congress passed a bill that would dramatically complicate transactions three iran's central bank european and asian nations import the iranian oil and use its central bank for

those transactions and president obama has yet to sign that bill that's going to be a severe blow to the iranian economy you can imagine around forty eight around excuse me around eighty percent of its revenues you know depend on crude sales e.u. ministers said a decision on boycott of iranian oil will be made to in the coming weeks so iranians says that the west is now targeting their livelihood and the threats that are coming from iran's indicate that it's ready to take action to protect their interests if it did kick off at this flashpoint what all the dangers for the region indeed the rest of the world other than the economic side of it. well kevin this could get very serious your i mean we all remember this was a crisis in one thousand nine hundred fifty six nearly started a third world war iranians feel pretty much cornered right now the west says you

know they will have to it will have to do. just has to give up its nuclear program iran says they're not doing anything wrong by pursuing a peaceful nuclear program for civilian purposes and that rather wait here in washington is very harsh against iran the u.s. spy drone shot down by the iranians and before that washington accusing iran of plotting to kill the saudi ambassador to the u.s. and blow up the u.s. really a saudi embassy in washington those were just some of the most recent episodes it all adds up and creates a lot of tension now if something happens over that strays strait of hormuz this could wrap into an all out war you know you must go to. certain who doesn't cover it up but of course very much across developments with your help thanks brings up to date from washington d.c. let's get small comments on it talk to share in chauffeured a researcher at the school of oriental and african studies in london a representative of the campaign against sanctions and military intervention in

iran and sharon thanks ever so much for being with us but if you heard our correspondent there in washington d.c. will pick up on some of that again i mean making threats like we've been hearing all performing a large scale military exercise isn't to run concerned it's going to be seen as a provocateur the moment well as your correspondent rightly mentioned iran said that if an oil embargo is imposed against iran and the iranian livelihood is economy is threatened then iran overtake you. considerable measures to respond to that so that is not a provocation but in terms of real provocation i think that what is provocative is the united states sending is warships thousands of miles away from his homeland into the persian gulf and also waging wars surrounding iran with wars in iraq and afghanistan military bases all around iran that is provocative and iran is trying

to defend this and nationals are vanity and territorial integrity we heard our correspondent there say that her take was that america was basically saying this is a bluff however of course it is not bluff experts who said the military conflict in the gulf is a threat to world peace could it escalate to that. well of course it could we can remember in one thousand nine hundred eighty eight when there was a war between iran and iraq saddam hussein invaded iran with the help of the united states and other western countries the united states it's a similar kind of warship shot down iranian passenger flight over iran's territorial waters and killed all its. passengers who were all civilians and said that it. took rain in. four f. fourteen tomcats fighters so you can see that if tensions escalate this

mismanagement and threats can also has been late and we can be find ourselves in a very bad situation at this and to everything that your correspondent said about the rising oil prices and the very dire economic situation globally and not just in the u.s. or in europe i think this isn't the first time iran's great piece right to disillusion made a threat to block the strait of hormuz back in two thousand and eight which again we referred to just now washington ben about times that would be considered an act of war one of the perils primos happening now what happened when. well now we see that they are we are seeing some unchristian then the aggressive measures coming from the west against iran for example. sanctions against iran central bank or threats of imposing an oil embargo against iran which according to many politicians including some american politicians for example diverters the

candidate ron paul said that this is an act of war in itself the russian foreign ministry said that this is a violation of international law and is a tool for regime change so we see that there isn't a further escalation of threats coming from the west specially from the u.s. against iran and if it is just escalate even there the seems to be like that develop iran's. actions will follow as the reactions to this threat sure if there should be a diplomatic solution here somewhere which side do you think must make the first concessions is it to be to rubber be more open about its nuclear program maybe you in the u.s. by easing their drive to impose these crippling sanctions or should blink first if you like. well of course all sides should realize that what we are in is a lose lose completely lose lose situation everybody is going to lose from this except for some military industrial complex in the spot if there is a diplomatic solution we have

a very good nuclear deal between iran turkey and brazil which based on vision iran . is drawing restrain you for nuclear fuel rods which you all really needs for its tehran research reactor for diagnosis of. complicated diseases like cancer for more than eight hundred thousand patients so that pill could be revived president obama after supported it in two thousand and ten in his letters to leaders of brazil and turkey and then backtracked in the security council impose more sanctions on iran so there should be more confrontation there should be participation and one more thing i want to mention is that there are in the united states has intervened in the region it has always brought this on destruction now maybe is a chance that the united states comes and facilitates negotiations with iran to participate cooperate in iran's nuclear program will be nice for the new year would make sure and show friday from the school of oriental and african studies thank you

for your input to the program today. let me take you on a developing story bring in over the last reporting a fire that engulfed a nuclear submarine in the dockyard near the northwest russian coast well the good news there is that it's now been put out let's get across the latest because one minute the series of these people is going off to cross this story one point just. to actually seem to be pretty bad but i think this is the first book example of the piece where speculation has to be divided from official information since according to reports coming from the locals they saw huge clouds of smoke rising from the ground. and all the way to the skies was already said that they had the fire under control although. the fall of these nuclear submarine was on fire on the dock around and they didn't call on there any of your mobile from nearby villages and towns to back you wait and they mediately said that there is no threat to their

health and that the levels of radioactivity are within the norm just to give you some background this submarine was being repaired at a dark here in the city of movements in northern russia and that's where caught on fire and forty's and specifically the emergencies ministry they tried to fight it all from the ground from the skies and from water while they succeeded in the end in fact b.c.c. that quite quickly they even were saying that if they would not be able to put out this fire then we would have to do it we sink the summary but since it was go it was being repaired it wasn't on no weapons on board but although there was and still is a nuclear reactor that's always the worry is no so you had there would need to be in the way of fire and that's that's why you're a nice break up it's good to know then that the fire according to the authorities at least has been put out was there any news of any casualties was anyone heard or they got no information on life and what do and why was

a nuclear submarine base there. but fortunately nobody got hurt in this incident despite all these rumors of huge cloud of smoke and a very big fire. the summary was there because it was being repaired following i guess it was just. a regular repairing job being done to do some marine there but actually we're talking about a pretty big vessel this is its name that you can see in the book it's a strategic nuclear submarine it's around one hundred seventy meters long which is over five hundred feet long and it was being repaired in that dark but just in the spring and summer. it's true for success three to four in need be true actually every intercontinental ballistic missile a successful launch from it and just tell you a bit more about it it's part of the six such summaries in russia's northern fleet

and usually they're on the way of the sixteen intercontinental ballistic missiles with nuclear warheads on them so thankfully this is not a peace and wall everything went smoothly no casualties nobody got very good to go girls got a little bit more news israeli authorities reporting that at the time the actual reactor was shut down as well that was going to be powering that ship so again another bit of good news all right thanks ever so much for updating us appreciate it. where it was revisiting the key moments which show how the world is ending twenty eleven very differently to how it began to seem through the eyes of artes global correspondents now let's look back to august next year way a hot month for britain not least of all because it was shaken by the worst of rest in decades as thousands of rioters rampaged through key cities our correspondent laura smith witnessed the chaos that left an indelible mark on the country.

we first realized what a big story this was going to be on the night of the seventh. 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 a sudden of the darkness came a group of around two hundred. running across the retail dressed mainly in black. hooded 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 who was the police and based it's people say states you know. we really felt two of. 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. the righteous 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 brads two different parts of love and. around london following it. almost anywhere that you went in the mall areas of london that 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. 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 third or fourth 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. and the police were not really less than anyone three they had surrounded the town and when you go into the towns and. people are just smashing into shops on 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 to see 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 after genuinely felt that bringing in the army would have been

a good idea and that using water cannon on the streets of london and other cities which it would have started to probably 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 youth 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 therefore i see no reason why this kind of thing wouldn't happen again.

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