dot com. is where the defense treaty belongs that's a guard's offense there will be launched sooner or later is but it's an element inside to rockets in return ation aboard a strike. iran says it's ready to attack ships that get too close to real games near a point where every morning it's threatens to blow presage of the west perceives with tough sanctions. and direction security forces break from revives groups offices nationwide critics claim the military leadership is using the barbaric textor detail they have evidence and.

international news live from moscow this is also you with me you there thanks for joining us palestinian militants have fired two rockets into southern israel and response to suspected terrorist sites inside gaza at least one person has been killed and ten officers injured the israeli defense chief of staff and earlier warned of a possible military operation in gaza. city. the situation along the israel gaza border has been tense for several days now since monday for palestinians were killed and many more were injured in a number of targeted airstrikes carried don't bodies radiate force at the same time several rockets were fired by palestinian militants onto southern israel now on 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 buried and different to the last operation that was carried out the three years ago and would aim at increasing israel's deter. and in the area michele from

us is 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 netanyahu government is isolated on the international front more than a was three years ago and it will not want to risk losing my 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 to 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. and professor gazi university says it's unclear whether israel will dead to france and 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 defense minister then. we were threatened with a greater show of great 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 will go against the policy as of girls are killed so many people and i think now 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 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 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. league monitors are heading to three more syrian cities to witness the government's peace plan implementation led delegation was mauled by own protesters in the city of homes demanding protection that forces have criticized the mission saying the reserves are only quote a meeting with government officials and that began began its peaceful demonstrations against president assad and not descended into an armed insurrection thousands joined the self-proclaimed syrian free army. more than five thousand people have died as a result of the government quite down the regime says two thousand of its tanks have actually returned said journalist to walk in the region the arab league mission is supporting 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 viewpoint that we must believe the we must believe opposition groups it seems that any mobile footage is no excepted as a source so only what the arab league said about holmes different very different a great deal from other 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. iran is run picking up threats to block a crucial oil supply route to a holding launch games taking place a new tool says nearly blind whole strait the us has its own contingent in the

region mainly to ensure so it remains free when he's going to check and has more on the story responding to iran's warning the us 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 a potential cutoff might cause turmoil in the global oil market although a saudi official says that golf nations were ready to offset any loss so. 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 and 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 rein 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 iranians 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 is 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. being hearing how the u.s. has reason to be worried investigated right at than blacks and that's because america has no plan b. run makes good it's that 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 into a draw down to about one hundred days it's more than the strait of hormuz or unload the diesel for they shall planted and which processes seventy percent of saudi oil and it is also the rostrum there are two or terminal there's a triple solar plexus there and if that is done the world will be crippled.

egyptian forces have been raising the offices of human rights groups throughout the country reports a soldier stopped and louise leaving and interrogated them while searching that computers and foreign policy and his doctor told as they gyptian military should step aside. but this is part of the military the scout the supreme council of armed forces way of making sure. that who you shoot and basically is molded to the to the type of government they want because that's those are the same generals by the way who worked for mubarak to go so that's really basically is part of the struggle is going to be usually in going to go forward or is that a hoodoos and got to be more all that and some dude into some missive role these organizations are the guardians of the nascent of it use them and that's the view of the south because a democracy without infrastructure for civil rights and who want to rights of its

populace is really not complete 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 that reasoning but i think the egyptian people and then and the arabs in general have lost their fear from corrupt government and they have restored of their dignity and they will not tolerate another military dictatorship in that country. and you can always get coverage of our top stories online at home and here's what's waiting for you there right now. a clergy clash of biblical proportions as monks in bethlehem filmed taking big coal to cost on the wanted people from the temple to literally inside the church of the nativity i'll tell you why i don't mind plant. meat bowls biggest stars wet four feet and trunks best for hitting the nesting needs and these

huge munch start at the end of the circus skills nonstick last at all. it surely is how that currency christmas present its boring rays have plummeted in recent days allowing it to cheaply raise some much needed money to some of us its debts but promise to marry you moment is not popping the champagne saying noise needed to be done to calm the markets and that means more counts belgian business journalist johan van over out sayings the eurozone economy has a gloomy post but the head of it. the intention was to raise eight point five billion euros italy could raise something like seven billion which is not bad but which is in any case below the target that was set and secondly the price the

interest rate on those seven billion was seven percent now given the fact that italy has already a government debt equal to one hundred twenty five percent of g.d.p. and given the very poor growth prospects of the talian economy this is an interest rate that will lead to a rep it escalation of interest burden for italy will undermine the health of the public finances of the country for the so indeed mr monti as big job to do to get things in the clear in terms of what can be expected for the coming year first of all i think we will see an exit of greece given the situation in which the greek economy find itself that has become really unavoidable secondly in terms of what will happen inside the euro zone a lot will depend on the attitude that is taken by the european central bank will they intervene more or less that is one of the key questions that need to be answered and it's very hard to predict what the

answer will be in terms of what will happen to the eurozone next year. right now to continue our series looking back at some of the major events of twenty through the eyes of all correspondents who covered them and today we focus on britain which was shaken by the largest count in decades thousands of rise as strong as a new august the worst witness they can else that left. 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 in a field where we couldn't see anything it was already dark it was quite late. and then all of a sudden else of the darkness came a group of around two hundred youths running across the retail park dressed mainly in black dark colors with 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 so a black white jackets with everything i need in the pocket so that i can get away quickly if necessary it's an uneasy relationship. these parts of north between the people and it's the police i think it's people say they might have been

state should know. we really felt two of. the whole of london was on fire. you would. arrive soon area and you'd be able to see the flames and the smoke rising from two streets away and the riots has had set fire to a car or broken into a shop. or even on one occasion they set fire to an enormous call house. arrest breads to different parts of london and around london following it as it happens. almost anywhere that you went in the more areas of london that was some form of new say we went round and also days there is 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 know what to do there 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 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 and just smashing into shops and grabbing whatever they could. but not just young people adults as well. as. just.

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 tree to take control of the streets was a good idea everybody would have said 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 using water on the streets of london and other cities which would have . immediately people became very draconian. very oppressive and they would have supported the government to bring in the army to. studies it 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 some people say that because young people in england particularly feel that they have no prospects. unemployment amongst young people it's twenty five percent now they. remain true and so i see no reason why this kind of thing wouldn't happen again. every day off to new year will bring you more personal reflections from our team of international correspondents all the bones that dominated twenty eleven if you're missed any we've already showed watch them right now it's on t. dot com. a massive file on one of russia's biggest nuclear submarines has been successful it contains to a small area the so-called you've got here in bug court why thursday while

undergoing repairs in the northwest moon's region officials say there were no casualties unnerved radiation leak as all nuclear missiles and conventional rockets were moved before maitland's began to collapse and firefighting crews and the navy fire about to battle the ten metre high plains the madness is ministry also said the south had to be partially submerged to extinguish the biggest fire and it's not known how the fire started and an investigation is underway. in other world news for you right now thousands have crossed turkey against and i was trying to find people it's after a raid that targeted suspected pettish rebels on the wrong must learn the truth. is the civilian loss of life in tact is twenty seven years talking against separate . demonstrators gathered in istanbul and sitting in the southwest wanting to talk as interior minister to. join the north korea has proclaimed the

late leader kim young male son as supreme leader of the party at state and dami state t.v. showed king young around by top government and army officials and he now takes the reins of power after his father's death from a heart attack to be alone is in his late twenty's has little political experience raising fears from neighboring countries that the republic could plunge into political right. arguably the best place to turn for insight about the events making headlines this year is the un's most powerful group the security council and i would talk to russia's envoy to the body vitale churkin bush and his thoughts about tackling the world's divisive troubles part of that interview is coming your way next.

they've u.n. security council rejected russia's proposal to investigate civilian deaths from eight zero strikes in libya one of members avoiding order case the ongoing conflicts that are more 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. and it's a political but also humanitarian case if there are people who became victims of those a 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 part 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 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 loose and nine hundred seventy three was a 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're 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 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 are basing. 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 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 have 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 and toting mission of the arab 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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