palestinians for a city new year's nightmare israel warns of another deadly onslaught against war battered gaza it's in the region with renewed their rage it's. also in this news reporter who says it's ready to attack ships sailing too close to its maneuvers near a vital oil route following its threat to block passage of the west insists on tough sanctions. firefighters put out a blaze on a nuclear submarine the northern russia after scaffolding surrounded what up with flames earlier also. 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 when britain boiled over artie's down to twenty twelve continues with more eyewitness testimony from our reporters as we remember the summer the british people said enough is enough. midnight here in moscow now i'm kevin owen you're watching our top story israeli warplanes of launch two air strikes on what the army calls terrorists sites in central and northern gaza it's killed at least one and injured ten others the israeli military only confirmed it's preparing for a new large scale offensive against the palestinian territory which hasn't 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 air strikes carried out by the israeli air force at the same time several rockets were fired by palestinian militants onto southern israel now on wednesday evening news radio on the admitted that it was considering a possible. launch scale military operation into gaza it said that this operation would be big 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 hard 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 it was three years ago and it will not want to risk losing more friends the convoy of today is also very different to the cairo of two thousand and eight when the for me gyptian 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 these radio army has admitted that it is considering such an operation has people here or on standby. middle east correspondent. from gaza university told me it's unclear whether israel's dared to 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 deputy defense minister then. we were threatened with a greater show or greater the holocaust of course if the if the the organizations or 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 girls are killed so many people and i think now what is happening right now is that is that a 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 and we are talking about of ecuador liberman 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 and new era in the arab world and i think that israel is confused as in a dilemma with or to launch and you would you know side the 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. because more opinion more reports on the timeline of the guards were offensive three years ago on our website if you want acquaint yourself with it again refresh on it also we've got the latest on what's happening right now between the israelis and the palestinians in the conflict and how it's developing on our website r.t. dot com. the threats are being ramped up over a vital oil shipping routes which are rand is threatening to block to rand's holding large scale war games in neutral waters near the strait of hormuz the u.s.

has also got its own continue into the region mainly to ensure passage remains free spoke to r.t. is going to teach accounts got the latest for you. 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 oil artery potential cut off might cause turmoil in the global oil market although a saudi official says that gulf nations were ready to offset any loss of. 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 its livelihood its main source of livelihood is in the u.s.

congress passed a bill that would dramatically complicate transactions 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 rein in economies around eighty percent of its revenues depend on who to e.u. ministers say if they do make a decision on whether or not to boycott the iranian oil in coming weeks those threats that are coming from iran indicate that it's ready to take action to protect its interests pensions rice the west says all the rana has to do is to give up their nuclear program iran says they're 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 straight up. for most this could a route into an all out war a grim picture that's a correspondent in washington d.c. with all prices of course sensitive or the best of times let's get some energy industry insight now and look at where this could hold maybe had legs stephen behind the energy trading newsletter the show comports is with us now. if an armed conflict does break out how will that reverberate for the energy industry and the global economy well indeed if we do see armed conflict because of the situation now you have to think that oil prices are going to jump substantially higher at least in the interim so then we have to start to look at the risk in the real war what is the rand trying to get what is their reward well apparently they want to build a nuclear weapon that's their reward now the risk they're taking to me and simply

does not justify the reward so obviously right now i think washed in this correct i think iran's in a situation boxed boxed themselves in and i think they are bluff and simply cannot afford not to sell their oil to the world market it's a dangerous game of bluff so is no way which side you think will suffer the most from a confrontation if it did call for that is it possible that some companies some countries could even benefit from it well i think the other producing countries would certainly benefit with the loss of any sort of production out of iran keep in mind iran like maybe natural resource producing countries only derives its revenue from one source and that's the sell sell of oil so of iran cannot get its oil to the world market it cannot get petro dollars in and keep in mind or rather lacks the refining capacity to maximize its own oil production it cannot refine oil see its domestic demand so if iran continues on this path they will isolate themselves they

will not have access to foreign capital they will not have access to enough refined products it. it's a template civil arrest in the country again your reward nuclear program does not justify the of meds and risk that the leaders of iran are playing out right now . if there's no conflict and the u.s. sanctions on iran and go on as planned surely crippling one of the world's major oil exporter is going to affect the market somehow that way indeed but we have to keep in mind that there is storage excuse me there is supply in the form of floating storage here in the united states and the state of north dakota is producing almost as much oil with ecuador but how can i guess said it was only about one hundred days what she will tell you how much is stored up oh really the reserves are are not the reserves are just a temporary fix this points out that's not the answer the other gulf states the

opec producing countries are likely more than willing to step up and benefit from any loss of iranian barrels ok well saudi arabia or saudi official at least recently has said that other gulf produces as you're saying cut offset any loss of all from a blockade of the whole new strait using alternative routes what alternative routes are there if it's not out by the sea no one let's forget about to be careful here they can produce and this is the threat so if the right is not the production arena oil or even the loss of operating oil the direct of the right is the transportation and distribution of oil out of the region outside. of the pipeline space is quite frankly i haven't started yet i do not know how you get this oil out of the middle east this is why it is such a risky proposition a high stakes game of chicken at this point i simply don't know how they could get

it out if the strait is blocked it's pretty good to have a program so clearly put all those scenarios to esteem. from the energy trading news that a short report thanks for being our. hero. or a big observers have been attacked by armed men in the syrian city of homs which was their first stop on a fact finding mission report suggests there were no casualties among the team monitors are fanning out across the country to visit protest hubs and flashpoints for investigate how president assad is coping with the unrest in the country right now this is opposition activists in syria suggesting that over thirty people were killed by security forces on thursday journalists are should returns are used to work in the region told me the arab league has sent the mission does of course its own interests in the country he thinks. i think the arab league delegation has its own politics it's a very complex range of countries a lot of dictators of those countries definitely the arab league's intervention as

it were into the syrian crisis shows how arab powers are some of them being used as proxies by washington but others are trying to flex their own might we know that qatar intimately was involved with the libyan deposing of good after the libyan conflict but it's certainly the western media viewpoint that we must believe the we must believe opposition groups it seems that any mobile footage is now except as a source certainly what the arab league said about homes very different a great deal from the reports we've been getting on t.v. channels of massacres continually going on what is in no doubt is that thousands of syrian soldiers are dying and they did and they haven't died because a peaceful protest. a father go to nuclear submarines of the dockyard in northwest russia has been put out going off scott the latest on this story this evening. but

according to reports coming from the locals they saw huge clouds of small rising from the ground and all the way to the stars was already said that they had the fire under control although. before these nuclear submarine was on fire and dark around it they didn't call on there any of your mobiles from nearby those also tells you that you eat and they mediately said that there is no threat to their health and that the levels of radioactivity are within the norm fortunately since the submarine was being repaired there were no weapons on board no miss else but there was and 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 really 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 the dark but just in the spring and summer it's to force us three to four in the navy drills actually an intercontinental ballistic missile a successful launch product it's part of the six such submarines russia more than pleat and usually they're on the sixty nine intercontinental ballistic missiles with nuclear warheads on them. we're revisiting the key moments which show how the world is ending twenty eleven very differently to how it began as seen through the eyes of artes global correspondents august was a hot month to great britain not least of all because it was shaken by the worst unrest in decades as thousands of rioters rampaged through key cities parties laura smith witnessed firsthand the chaos that left an indelible mark on the country.

we first realised what a big story this was going to be in the night. there 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 retail park and field where we couldn't see anything it was already dark it was quite. and then all of a sudden of the darkness came a group of around two hundred youths 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 who was in the police it's people say a modern day should know. we really felt two of the nights 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 writers had set fire to a car or broken into a shelf and set fire to it or even on one occasion they set fire to an enormous coffee. house.

arrest breads to different parts of love and. around london following it. almost anywhere that you went in the mall in. 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. you know certainly for ordinary people but it seemed for the police as well we were talking to the police and it was clear from what they were saying that they had no idea what to do about the situation they just didn't know what to do they were. they eventually settled for the two nights was. just to show that presence and then running away again really purely running away and it wasn't until the third or fourth night that they really got into game and 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 town. people just smashing into shops and grabbing whatever they could. but not just young people adults as well. as. just just. the other frightening thing was the effects that it had to own society if you had talked to people two weeks before the riots about whether bringing in the military 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 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 would have sorted the proper about immediately so people became very draconian jaring this time it's very sort of oppressive 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.

with. the world's big events of the year from our reporters who covered those stories to you. want to catch more of that series. arguably the best place to turn for insight about the events headlines this year is the un's most powerful group the security council just yesterday or managed to talk to russia's envoy to the body batali churkin who shared with us for over half an hour of. the world's divisive troubles pallette interview coming your way next.

the security council rejected russia's proposal to investigate civilian deaths from nato strikes in libya but a members of order simply a case ongoing conflicts and i wore important. well you know first of all it was not projected the fact of the matter is that a number of security council delegations including the russian delegation raise the need to have some clarity about civilian casualties as a result of nato bombings because for months we're heard from made from nato that they are adopting all those measures in order to make sure that there can not possibly be any civilian casualties and then we had on december eighteenth of this

a disturbing investigation published by the new york times which showed that there were dozens at least civilian casualties so it makes sense to us and seems to be a pretty obvious thing to have this matter investigated in an impartial. and it's a political but also humanitarian case if there are people who became victims of those strikes maybe injured people or their relatives were killed then they should be given some assistance without waiting for a prolonged period of other ongoing investigations like the investigation by the human rights council or i.c.c. international criminal court which should deal with a whole range of possible. crimes transgressions which took place in libya in the course of the military campaign but i don't see anything. in this after all nato is a partner of the united nations after all nato has been acting on the basis of

a security council mandate so the security council we believe should play an active role also in having this matter clarified but also i think if you put too much emphasis on this issue you will forget that the security council is working quite harmoniously on a range of issues pertaining to the conflict situation in libya the u.n. mission is there supported by the security council the security council is working under the resolution which was adopted by at. russia's initiative on looking into the dangers which are there in terms of spreading weapons out of libya which were left of them that in the course of of the conflict. helping the libyans to rebuild their political and economic structures so a lot of harmonious work is going on in the in the security council of the united nations on libya even though we continue to have some ideological and political difficult is as to whether it is

a looser nine hundred seventy three was properly implemented bus you touched on it just i wanted to pick up the. aussie rules of post conflict libya how are they being made secure and how is the u.n. stopping any of those weapons maybe ending up in syria. while they may be ending up in various places the best thing i can report of this point is that we're told. the most dangerous of those weapons in terms of terrorist use the so-called manpads man carried anti-aircraft weapons have so far not been detected outside of libya so we hope that this concerted effort of the international community together with the libyan authorities can be successful in the containing the danger of spread of weapons from out of that country something else i'd like to ask you said libyan militants known to operate in syria what does that say about the nature of the syrian unrest that we've seen so far and why

indeed does it appear that he un members seem to be holding back from denouncing that what's happening there two weeks ago the russian delegation introduced a draft the security council resolution to the council trying to encourage the political process encourage the league of arab states money during mission which is being deployed now in syria but. we have basing our proposal our new draft resolution on the presidential statement which was adopted by consensus in the by the security council in august three which called on everybody to stop violence in syria and which stated that the only solution to the syrian crisis could be found through a syrian led all inclusive political process had all the members of the security council had all the influential members of the international community been guided by the principles of that presidential statement i believe the conflict would have been over in the months ago how much more leeway would you like to see the syrian

government given to sort out this from within. well way we don't give any leeway to anybody we believe that the syrian government should be extremely prudent and should refrain from excessive use of force we believe that there has been there been some extremely troubling reports coming out of syria about excessive use of force and by those sort it is we urge the syrian government to cooperate to face fully with the one into ordering mission of the out of league but also telling that the everybody must put pressure on on the destructive elements of the of the opposition or various destructive elements which may have found their way into syria that they are a while and acts are not going to be condoned by the international community and this is a this is a key to finding a peaceful way out of the situation there and this is one of the discussions we're having when we talk with all colleagues in the security council about all draft

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