by the studios face the new year night israel warns of another deadly onslaught against wall battered gaza hitting the region with new day strikes. firefighters put out a blaze on a nuclear submarine in northern russia after scaffolding surrounding it went up in flames during repairs. iran says it's ready to strike ships sailing too close to its maneuvers near a vital oil route after threads to block passage of the west insists on tough sanctions also. people became very draconian jaring this time is very still super oppressive and they would have supported it. to bring in the army to fill a proper amount of britain boiled over countdown to twenty twelve continues with

more eyewitness testimony from our reporters as we remember the some of the british people said enough is enough. nine pm thursday night here in moscow welcome if you just joined us my name's kevin now in tonight's top story from r.t. israeli warplanes have launched two air strikes on what the army called terrorist sites in central and northern gaza has killed at least one person and injured ten others the israeli military earlier confirmed it's preparing for a new large scale offensive against the palestinian territory which hasn't recovered from the assault three years ago pulis leah's the latest from jerusalem for you. the situation along the israel gaza border has been tense for several days now since monday full palestinians were killed and many more way injured in

a number of targeted a strikes carried don't by these radio force at the same time several rockets were fired by palestinian militants onto southern israel now wednesday evening news radio on me admitted that it was considering a possible launch scale military operation into gaza it said that this operation would be very neat 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 of michelle finesses 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 maybe one of hope thousand palestinians were killed in a three week operation that these rabies referred to as operational costs 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 a was it three years ago and it will not want to risk losing more friends the kind of today's 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 or on standby. spoke to person heard or read from girls universe two told me it's unclear whether israel will dead or launch a new offensive given the latest changes to the arab world 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 in the words of the israeli depicted defense minister then. we were threatened with a greater show or a greater hollow call of course if the if the the organizations or the military organizations based in the gaza slim did not 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 girls are killed so many people and i think now what what is happening right now is that is that i has a different government a government that is considered by so many analysts to be the most fascist government in the state in the history of the state of israel we are talking about of a 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 we are witnessing a new era in the arab world and i think that israel is confused as in a dilemma with or to launch a new genocidal war against the palestinians of gaza and the godless of the reaction of the new other world or just to stay and wait and test the water of the arab world without launching a massive war against gaza. lot more opinion and reports on the timeline of the gods were offensive three years ago in a website if you want to refresh yourself all about that there you can also find out how the israeli palestinian conflict developing right now two it's about a dot com. arab league observers in syria have split into groups and the now heading into three more uprising hotspots they've already been to the flashpoint city of homs as we reported yesterday where they found quote nothing frightening meantime opposition activists in syria suggest that over thirty people were killed

by security forces on thursday he spoke exclusively to russia's u.n. ambassador who says the situation looks more like a war with extremists rather than a crackdown has some of what we'll hear my next from him. when there was a crisis all sorts of extremist terrorist elements show up for instance several days or 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 found their way to syria some reforms were announced. some of them were pretty far reaching would you expect that those real reforms 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 only 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 being ramped up over a vital oil shipping. which iran is now threatening to block to run is holding large scale war games in neutral waters near the strait of hormuz the us has its own continued in the region to merely to ensure passage remains free go to church of cans in washington d.c. for us to go on a hi there bring us up to date on what the latest is is here there's been no more utterances from iran today what's america's response to iran's latest moves being them. responding to iran's warning the u.s.

said no such disruption 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 the golf and the oil producing states of bahrain kuwait qatar saudi arabia the united arab emirates to the indian ocean about forty percent of the world's tanker shipped oil passes through that strait it's a major or artery potential cut off might cause turmoil in the global oil market although a saudi official said that gulf nations were ready to offset any loss of iranian crude from the statements here you get a sense that washington things iran is bluffing because there have been there had been such threats before but right now iran's finds itself in a situation where it's a livelihood its main source of livelihood is in danger the u.s. congress passed a bill that would dramatically complicate transactions through iran's central bank european and asian nations import iranian oil and use its central bank food for

their transactions president obama has yet to sign that bill that's going to be a severe blow to the iranian economy around eighty percent of its revenues depend on crude sales e.u. ministers say they will make a decision on whether or not to boycott the iranian oil in coming weeks iranian says that the west is now targeting their livelihood their life's blood basically and those threats that are coming from iran indicate that it's ready to take action to protect its interests so if those do don't fold what's the worst case scenario will be for the region of the world. well kevin to say get very serious the suez crisis in one thousand nine hundred fifty six nearly started a world war three tensions rice the west says all the rana has to do is to give up their nuclear program iran says they are not doing anything wrong by pursuing a peaceful nuclear program for civilian purposes the rhetoric here in washington

against iran is getting very harsh the u.s. spy drone shot down by the uranium before that a washington accusing iran of plotting to kill the saudi ambassador to the u.s. and blow up the israeli and 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 the strait of hormuz this could a route into an all out war going to. today with the thoughts from washington d.c. ok well grim if of course it did come to the let's try to talk a bit more about it the possible consequences of what might happen next in the strait of hormuz that when blackies in washington he's the ward winning investigative reuter of the plan to rescue society where they all stops or the day before mr bloody thanksgiving on r.t. good to see you tonight so if you heard our correspondent a group warning agree morning she gave the worst weather happen now the strait carries a huge part of the world's oil transport but thinking that no one has been nearly

as vocal in condemning urine spread as washington america poised. well when you say it's what are you referring to i'm talking about the strait of hormuz it carries a lot of the wind because most nights in this moaning the united states is not a waterway the strait of core or moves in fact united states is devoted to keeping the strait of hormuz open because it carries forty percent of the seaborne oil twenty percent of the world's by and twenty percent of americans by so i'm americans not condemning this waterway which is only two miles wide in each direction in terms of a navigable see what united states is faced with that the problem is dead or ran is on the fast track to developing a nuclear weapon it has a large number of centrifuges it is enriching it's your rainy and it has

a circular production process where it's got. its ation triggering delivery all being done all of the same time and the alternative to all the alternatives is some kind of a military strike is sanctions embargoed and things of that and things of that nature so that's why washington is acting because it's trying to avoid a military conflict but in a book by doing this by bringing on these sanctions by ramping it up maybe not trying to find another way to deal with iran surely isn't it isn't it bringing the threat of of a military outcome. the bring you full it isn't it no actually it's meeting the same type of threat that iran in the arab world has employed for many years dear embargo has been going on for it has been tried and tested for decades since the seventy's it's been out in the last that there was an arab that

there was a libyan embargo against switzerland by gadhafi when he was still alive in recent years. there is an arab oil there is an arab embargo for all it's israeli goods and malay the arabians are threatening and have threatened not just today not just this year but for many years to shut down the strait of hormuz one of the peaceful methods of resolving conflicts is to simply not buy the goods that are providing the petro dollars which is fueling the iranian nuclear program the problem is united states government is completely unprepared for this conflict . they do not have a plan for in oil interruption there's a fifty seven day supply of on refined oil that can be stretched in a draw down to about one hundred days it's more than the strait of hormuz or moves

it's the diesel for zation plants it adds which processes seventy percent of saudi oil and it is also a nerd terminal there's a triple solar plexus there and if that is done the world will be crippled the arabia says it can offset any loss of oil that would have come through the whole new strait you say that's not going to be enough if that was to happen do you have a map not in front of me no you tell me well where is rods to noora how does the oil get out of saudi arabia it gets out to noora it gets out of the persian gulf and still has to transit the strait of hormuz it's like saying no one can come out the front door but i've got a guy waiting in the closet to come out the front door effect a manner is if the media which has been reporting that saudi would make up the oil that's a complete nonsense saudi arabia cannot make up the oil and if saudi read your could make up the oil

a couple short medium range missiles to to be adequate facility would completely put out a sunder now there is a backdoor pipeline you. which has about one to maybe three four five million barrels a day but it's not going to make up to seventeen million barrels a day and the jambo pipeline can be bombed as easily as it has to build one. so how would how would anyone look at a map and think that saudi arabia which is still it has its supply lines trapped within the persian gulf industry before or moves to the to the rescue here and a real real conundrum here is the world is faced with an intractable problem iran will not back down from its nuclear weapon program the world will not suffice to have iran with a nuclear weapon so the look is indeed grim and the problem is that no one in the american government has been preparing for this day they've just been pretending it

doesn't exist there are no emergency. retrofitting procedures that are no conversion there is no conversion industry there is no alternative fuels we can policies here to dissuade energy independence. the real problem is the world is not prepared in large part because the governments the major media and large corporations have not given the facts to the people to make them prepared for such. a minute's day if they were prepared like brazil is prepared they would realize that they can have a petroleum free existence is going to be a very very very hard and painful conflict and it would be no winners edward thank you for your thoughts on the program suppresion coleman the edmund black well winning investigative right when all through the book the plan how to rescue society when the old stoltz old the day before and. it was he don't come for

insight into the reports about what's happening in your world here's some of what we've got lined up today from a seventeen thousand dollars dollar that to defend spending on carnival costumes will tell you the waste with brushes brush of shame for blowing public money. down from cal the skull find out why these monks started fighting for their faith with each other inside of bethlehem church. the fire that engulfed a nuclear submarine of the dockyard in northwest russia has been put out r.t.c. go piskun off scot the latest on this developing story of the last couple of. but morning two 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 whole of these nuclear submarine was on fire on

the dock around it they didn't fall on there any of your vocals from nearby those also tells to you that you eat and they needed be said that there is no threat to their health and that the levels of radioactivity are within the norm fortunately since the a submarine was being repaired there were no weapons on board no miss else but there wasn't still is the nuclear reactor and that's obviously why this fire caused so much attention but the latest news from the authorities is that this reactor was shut down as soon as the fire started we're talking about a pretty big vessel this is it's named 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 dock but just in the spring and summer it took for success he took part in the navy drills actually intercontinental ballistic missile a successful launch from its part of the six such submarines in russia's northern

fleet and usually they're on the way of the sixty even intercontinental ballistic missiles with nuclear warheads on them we're revisiting the key moments would show the world is ending twenty eleven very differently to how it began as saving for the eyes of our team global correspondents that was just very hot month for britain not least of all because it was shaken by the worst on rest in decades as thousands of writers rampage through key cities parties 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 of august that had been localized just says on saturday the six but we were tracking the news and we

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

. between the people who was the police in this case people say and state should know. we really felt two of the nights the whole of london was on fire. you would. arrive assist us in the area and you'd be able to see the flames on the smoke rising from two streets away and know that the rioters 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. a round london following it. almost anywhere that you went in the mall. 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 and there was streets that were just completely. ignore 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 tonight's show. just to show that presence and then running away again really purely running away and it wasn't until the third or fourth night that they really got into 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 he goes into the town center. people are just smashing into shops and grabbing whatever they

could. but not just young people adults as well. as darkness just 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 mill treat 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 during the riots. 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 sorted the problem of out 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 bad relationship with the police in these impoverished areas particularly amongst the black you 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. more of a. small test me to come as well on the world's big events of the year from our reporters who were brought you the big stories if you missed it in the series it's also available online dot com live business now it's twenty five it was my time

to make trixie. thanks kevin and once eleven comes to an end business our team looks back at the highlights of the year and right now focusing on the oil deal between exxon mobil and ross now off to work on the russian arctic shale joint venture not only any hopes b.p. had of reviving its own deal with ross but also caused friction within. the russian british joint venture but in the course of explains how the drama. it was a love and hate relationship from the get go which adventurously became an affair both parties would like to forget that's a hobbs 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 involve this 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 one said 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 the russia should go through the peat they took them to court and froze the deal there was a way out b.p. could include sank a v.p. in the project but rosneft refused and the deal went belly up while each side was blaming the other over the failed deal rolls never found someone new and that was exxon mobil 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 nafta has obviously moved on securing the deal of the year. so do the markets this hour and u.s. stocks are up that's despite job bush claims coming in with an increase standards up higher than nothing. point six in europe. close we are seeing a also a positive picture of bags and telecoms are the main gate as in london and frankfurt ikea tally. has had mixed results though the auction was oversubscribed but hughes remain uncomfortably high at just under seven percent a level that most economists believe is unsustainable. and here in moscow the

picture is negative at the close the r.t.s. is down one point three percent my six is up just a notch reflecting the weakening of your ruble so investors were dropping russian stocks ahead of the long period of new year holidays nobody wants to take the risk of having to catch up after russian markets opened and the financials were some of the biggest losers nora's nicole was gaining actually have more than three percent plans to invest three billion dollars in production next year as part of its efforts to become one of the top five largest miners and world and gas from nafta is also a big game companies planning to increase production five percent next year. and despite the crisis russia's top banks managed to boost their profits 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. headlines are next

on r.t. with kevin to stay with us. more news today violence has once again flared up.