which brightened. from plans to. start on t.v. dot com. palestinians face a new year nightmare israel warns of another deadly onslaught against warpath and gaza hitting the region with huge air raids we've got a report coming up. iran says it's ready to attack ships sailing too close to its maneuvers near a vital oil route following its threats to block passage of the west insists on tough sanctions. people became very draconian jaring this time it's very silty for press and they would have supported the government to bring in the army to see the problem out when britain boiled over. the twenty twelve continues with more eyewitness testimony from our reporters as we remember the summer that the british

people said enough is enough. hello one i am here in moscow this is r.t. live with me kevin zero in and first 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 recovered from the assault three years ago paulus leah as the latest from jerusalem . 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 say 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 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 nearly one and a hop 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 convoy 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 or on standby. our middle east correspondent i spoke to professor aid from gaza university you told me it's unclear things whether israel would dare 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 a greater hollow call of course if the if the the organizations or the military organizations based in the gaza some did not stop you know launching rockets against against israel and israel lived up lived up to its word launched its genocidal war against the palestinians of girls are killed so many people 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 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 man 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. what with more opinion more reports on the timeline of the guards were offensive three years ago on our web site r.t. dot com there you can also find out as well how the current israeli palestinian conflict developing all the latest events website r.t. dot com. the threats are being ramped up over volatile oil shipping routes which are ram this 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 to the region to mainly to ensure passage remains free moving story artie's garniture canners got the latest developments for you.

responding 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 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 tankers shipped oil passes through that strait it's a major oil artery a potential cutoff 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 you are in finds itself in a situation where it's 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 rain in economy around eighty percent of its revenues depend on sales e.u. ministers say they will make a decision on whether or not to boycott the iranian oil in coming weeks and 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 strait of hormuz this could

erupt into an all out war. a correspondent in washington d.c. well we've been hearing how the u.s. has reason to be worried investigative right to edwin black told me that's because america's got no b. plan if iran makes good its thread the problem is united states government is completely unprepared for this. they do not have a plan for oh in oil interruption there's a fifty seven day supply of on refined oil to be stretched you know draw down to about one hundred days it's more than distribute of course. it's the diesel for they shall plant it. which processes seventy percent of saudi oil and it is also the rust and there are terminal there is a triple solar collector there and if that is done the world will be crippled. egyptian forces have been right in the offices of human rights groups throughout

the country reports say soldiers stopped employees leaving and interrogated them while searching their computers where this we're joined now by the move senior analyst from the foreign policy in focus joining us now from maryland in the u.s. thanks being on the line why do you think these rights groups and activists were targeted and why now what are your thoughts about it. well this is part of the military the scout the supreme council on forces way of making sure the who you should basically is molded to the to the type of government they want because that's those are the same generals by the way who work for mubarak. so that's really basically is part of that struggle is going to be using going to go forward or is that the hoodoos invent of being molded and some dude into some missive role to the minute could you just highlight for us what role n.g.o.s have

as egypt moves to a fledgling democracy and are they crossing the line of interference to think. i don't think they're crossing the line. as a matter of fact i'll quote a tweet by mohamed el baradei he who is a presidential candidate in egypt now and he said these organizations are the guardians of a nascent up of you ssion and that's the view of the south because a democracy without the infrastructure for the civil rights and human rights of its populace is really not complete how is this news going to go down with the already impatient egyptian people are these raids are going to do little are they to quell suspicion that the interim government is little different to the old regime just mentioned there a lot of people have voted the same people who were in power before. and i think that is going to backfire on the military again and they may take a step backwards but really the military has to step aside and let the civilian

government come to power once the election are held and the elections should be held as soon as possible they will not give up the power of that easily but i think the egyptian people and the arabs in general have lost their fear from corrupt government and they have restored of their dignity and there will not tolerate another military dictatorship in the country i think all the evidence indicate that despite the sacrifices there have been you mentioned the elections there i mean the taking place right now heidi how might this impact all those what's the military worried about. well the military is worried about big because many of these parties the overwhelming majority of them they read it truly want a parliamentary democracy not somebody who's who is going to just listen to the military and do what the military wants including the muslim brotherhoods they are not very moderate they are in a correlation with many other parties liberal parties many of them and they want to

have a civilian civilian government and that's really what mori worries them they thought of all the parties including the muslim brotherhood would be with them basically a similar dictatorship of the military you closely following events there you're told surprised by this move the aware of porting tonight this you know what they're doing looking at the information like that i am a little bit surprised because this law was passed by mubarak's regime in order to curtail any human rights activity and the country so they're using the mobarak city james law which no one really was a bitin by hoping that all these leftover laws from mubarak's regime will die as the new g.m. has died just recently a year ago have you any reason to be cheerful about how it's going to turn out in twenty twelve how do you think things are going to turn out oh i think i think i'm going to turn off the list in general and i think it will turn out all right i

think the civilian government will come and take power and but it will continue to struggle as you know to go usually are not completed within six months or a year or two or three years is going to be a struggle between two two forces the forces who want to have a true democracy and those forces and who wants basically a good deal of democracy so it's good to have an optimist on the program dr dale show movie. foreign policy in focus thanks ever so much thank you. let me bring you up to date now on the latest in syria there arab league observers have been attacked by armed men in the syrian city of homs which was the first stop you may recall on a fact finding mission as we were reporting yesterday now reports suggest there were no casualties there were among the team monitors a falling out now across the country to visit protest hudson flashpoints investigate how president assad's coping with the unrest in the country meantime opposition activists in syria suggest that over thirty people were killed by

security forces on thursday i spoke journalist i should retire as they used to work in the region he told me the arab league just said the mission to support its own interests in the country. 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 is viewpoint that we must believe the we must believe opposition groups it seems that any mobile footage is no except as a source certainly what the arab league said about holmes 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 don't they haven't died because a peaceful protest. we're revisiting the key moments which show how the world's ending tony lived very differently to see you through the eyes of global correspondents. organist was a whole month not least of all because it was shaken by the worst rest in decades as thousands of riots as rampage through key cities 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 there had been localized disturbances 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 it's running across the retail park dressed mainly in black dark colors with hooded tops on 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 gear a black jacket with everything i need in the pocket so that i can get away quickly if necessary but it's an uneasy relationship. these parts of north london between

the people and the police i don't think it's people say they might have been states you know. we really felt. the whole of london was on fire you would. arrive in the area and you'd be able to see the flames and the smoke rising from two streets away and. the righteous had set fire to a car or broken into a shell. or even on one occasion they set fire to an enormous call house. arrest grads to different parts of london and 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 at what was going on and 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 they were look . they eventually settled for the two nights was. just to show that presence and then running away again really 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. the police were not really less than anyone three they had surrounded the town and when he goes into the town we still people are just

smashing into grabbing whatever they could. but not just young people adults it's. just us. the other frightening thing was the effects that it had on 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. 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. 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. the studies of 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 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. unemployment amongst young people it's running at twenty five percent now they say. those two things remain true and so i see no reason why this kind of thing wouldn't happen again. correspondent in london laura smith of there's more testimony to come about the world's big events of the year brought to you from our reporters throat twenty eleven if you missed any of them they're also available our web site r t v dot com . updating you know on a story we brought you

a couple of hours ago massive fire of one of russia's biggest nuclear submarines has been successfully put out earlier on the vessel called a cut through bore caught fire earlier on thursday while undergoing repairs in the northwest will demand screen officials say there were no casualties and no radiation leak at all nuclear missiles and conventional rockets have been removed before the maintenance started it took eleven firefighting crews though and navy fire boat to battle the ten meter high flames at its worst the emergencies ministry also says the sub had to be partially submerged to extinguish the biggest fire it's not known exactly how it started but investigations underway one twenty one am moscow time arguably the best place to turn for insight about the events that made headlines this year is the un's most powerful group the security council earlier i talked to russia's envoy to the body for tally churkin who shared his thoughts about tackling the world's divisive troubles part of that interview coming your way

next. you. the u.n. security council rejected russia's proposal to investigate civilian deaths from nato strikes in libya but a members avoiding in order to simply a case the ongoing conflicts and i wore important. well you know first of all it was not rejected 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 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 that on december eighteenth of this a disturbing investigation published by the new york times which showed that there were dozens at least of civilian casualties so it makes sense to us and seems to be pretty obvious thing that they have this matter investigated in an impartial manner and it's a political but also a 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 undone that in the course of of the conflict we are 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 difficulties 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 how is the u.n. stopping any of those weapons maybe ending up in syria. the best thing i can report of this point is that we are told that 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 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 and reduce the 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 are basing our proposal our new draft resolution on the presidential statement which was adopted by consensus in 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 we 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 are been some extremely troubling reports coming out of syria about excessive use of force by those sort is we urge the syrian government to cooperate to face fully with the when it's ordering mission of the arab league but also telling that the everybody must put pressure on on the destructive elements of the of the opposition ovett is 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. we talk with all colleagues in the security council about all draft resolution seasonal greetings to wish you all the best twenty twelve and thank you for being on all the best all the best to you thank you.

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