if you're a defense chief during the day guard the sensible been launched sooner or later has put it in and militants fired two rockets in retaliation strike. iran says it's ready to hunt ships that get too close to one gave me a bottle of oil every morning its threats to blow a soldier of the west for cities with towns. under prosecutors of course is great when the rights groups officers nationwide critics claim the ministry leadership is using the black market era tactics to the.

use of russia and iran the world this is also with me you national our thanks for joining us palestinian militants have fired two rockets into southern israel in response to a suspected terrorist science inside gaza at least one person has been killed and ten others injured the israeli defense chief of staff warned of a possible military operation 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 strikes carried don't by these way be a 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. deterrence in the area khaled

mashal from us was political bureau chief has called on palestinians not to target israeli civilians because of the fear of a massive israeli retaliation now back in two thousand and eight nearly one and a half thousand palestinians were killed in a three week operation that these rabies referred to as operational cost made four out of five people killed were civilians what we're hearing from the israelis now is that should they go ahead with another operation this operation will be short and it will see the use of more firepower but it's not clear that the timing is right for tel aviv to go ahead with another invasion of gaza certainly the netanyahu government is isolated on the international front moving it was 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 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 the israeli army has admitted that it is considering such an operation has people here all on standby. and professor from gaza university says it's unclear whether israel will launch a new offensive given the latest changes to the are. 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 are great the holocaust of course if the if the the organizations or the. military organizations based in the gulf are 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 gaza and 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 a liberal man and binyamin netanyahu who are intending actually the complete eradication and destruction of the girls us today 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 way of 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 jet 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. out of league monitors are heading to three more syrian cities to witness the government's peace plan implementation of their delegation was moved by all the protest is in the city of homes demanding protection contest that forces have criticized the mission saying that is their only coordinating with government officials and not with them and all began as peaceful demonstrations against president assad and much descended into an armed insurrection a fountain joined a self-proclaimed syrian free army. why a thousand people have died as a result of the government crackdown while the regime says three thousand of its troops have been killed and i should return said journalists nice to what kind of reaches the alba 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 most 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 the reports we've been getting on t.v. channels of massacres continually going on what is no doubt is that thousands of syrian soldiers are dying and they don't they haven't died because a peaceful protest. iran is ramping up threats to block a crucial supply route where it's holding large scale war games the maneuver is not taking place neutral waters near the vital whose strait the u.s. has its own contingent in the region mainly to ensure passage remains free on his

gun and chicago has more on the story responding to iran's warning the us 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 gulf and the oil producing states bahrain kuwait qatar saudi arabia the united arab emirates to the indian ocean about forty percent of the world's tanker ship oil passes through that strait it's a major oil artery a potential kind of might cost turmoil in the global oil market although a saudi official said that gulf nations were ready to offset any a loss of iranian crude from the statements here you get a sense that washington think 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 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 the 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 uranium economy around eighty percent of his revenues depend on who sail e.u. ministers say they will make a decision on whether or not to boycott the iranian oil in coming weeks the threats that are coming from iran indicate that it's ready to take action to protect its interests tensions rise the west says all the rent 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. of. spy drone shut down by the uranium before that of 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 or much this could erupt into an all out war. research at the school of oriental and african studies in london sure ensure finances u.s. is playing a dangerous game. iran said that if an oil embargo is imposed against iran and rein in livelihood is economy is threatened then iran would take. considerable measures to respond to that so that is not a provocation but in terms of real provocation i think that what is provocative is the united states sending is warships thousands of miles away from his homeland into the persian gulf and also waging wars surrounding iran with wars in iraq and afghanistan military bases all around iran that is provocative and iran is trying to defend is national sovereignty and territorial integrity egyptian forces have

been writing be raising the offices of human rights groups around the country reports so you soldiers stop employees leaving and interrogated them while searching their computers and earlier we spoke to also david wilson and he sings the you are. not doing enough to help egypt. the gyptian military wants to stay in power the egyptian military does not want open and fair elections it wants control we're talking here about many many n.g.o.s with different agendas some from the united states with a record of ties to the cia and a record of attempts to influence the outcomes of elections in other countries these are not these are not the groups through which foreigners and good intentions can attempt to assist the people of egypt it is the people of egypt who are going to build a civil society in their own country if anybody is so easy going off that the they

the good news coming out of this is the threat if it's serious from the united states to stop giving the egyptian government one point three billion dollars worth of weapons each year which is obviously not sufficient to protect civil and human rights in egypt if the state department in the united states is even interested in that and it's not necessary in fact it's harmful us weapons are being used against the people of egypt. and you can always get coverage of all the stories online at home waiting for you there right now. a pledge a clash of biblical proportions as months and filmed taking the call to cost and world to the people from the temple to literally inside the church of the nativity so we'll tell you the bottom line plus. need football's biggest stars where full feet and trunks prove best for hitting the net in this huge much so get the elephant skills lost

a class at home. if you please had a currency christmas present is boring rates have plummeted in recent days allowing it to cheaply raise some much needed money to save us its debts but prime minister mario monti is not popping the champagne saying more is needed to be done to calm the markets and that means more cuts and business journalists you know have been overwhelmed things the eurozone economy has a gloomy prospect ahead 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 dept equal to one hundred twenty five percent of g.d.p. and given the very poor growth prospects of the delhi an economy this is an interest rate that will read lead to a rapid 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 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 buttons of twenty eleven through the eyes of our correspondents who covered them and today we focus on britain which was shaken by the. decades thousands of rioters rampaged through the searches in august. 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 out of the darkness came a group of around two hundred youths running across the retail park dressed mainly in black dark colors with topsoil and so you couldn't see their faces and gradually we realized they were smashing everything that 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. these parts of north between the people in the police i don't 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 in the area and you'd be able to see the flames on

the smoke rising from two streets away. 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 brads to different parts of london to. around london following it. almost anywhere that you went in the more areas of london that was some form of new say we went round and also days areas to have a look what was going on there was streets that were just completely. 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 looking. they eventually settled on. tonight's show. just to show that presence and then running away again really purely running away and it wasn't until the 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 you go out into the town. people are just smashing into shops 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 it's quite a liberal society when you get down to it but if 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 people became very draconian. very oppressive and they would have supported the government to bring in 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 some 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. remain true. for i see no reason why this kind of thing wouldn't happen again. and every day our new year we're bringing you more personal reflections from team of international correspondents on the bones that dominated twenty two twenty eleven and if you've missed any we've already shown them right now it's. a massive file on one of russia's biggest nuclear submarines has been successfully contains to a small area the vessel called yeti and called fire early on thursday while undergoing repairs in the northwest mormon screeching officials say there are no casualties and no radiation leak as all nuclear missiles and conventional rockets

were removed before maintenance began it took eleven firefighting crews and a navy fire boat to battle the ten metre high plains the emergences ministry also says the sub had to be partially submerged to extinguish the biggest fire and it's not known how the fire started and an investigation is underway. and let's now look at some other news stories making headlines around the south people have protested across turkey against and i was trying to kill thirty five people it's after a wage that tsongas had suspected kurdish rebels on the wrong border but mistakenly struck villagers was smuggling cheap goods civilian loss of life and take his turn seven years trial against secretary had just demonstrated that the most simple answer is his in the south west calling for taking teams to quit. in venezuela thirteen people have been killed thirteen more injured after a petrol time gets laid off a major highway in caracas they tongo flipped of the guard rail and bust into

flames engulfing several cars and a public bus with passengers on board police say the driver lost control of the vehicle but the cause of the accident is unclear president did get charged it has already expressed his sympathies to victims' families and the dismay at the tragedy . nor do riyaaz the claims of the late leader kim jung il son as supreme leader of the policy state and darby state t.v. showed surrounded by top government and all the officials and he now takes the reins of power after his father's death from a heart attack could be alluding to is that his late twenty's and has little political experience raising fears from neighboring countries that the public could plunge into political infighting and all give really the best place to do inside about the violence making headlines this year is the un's most powerful group the security council and he is coming out and talk to russians and border the border of italy turkey and who shared his thoughts about tackling the world's divisive

troubles so part of that interview is coming your way right now. the u.n. security council rejected russia's proposal to investigate civilian deaths from nato strikes in libya one of members avoiding it or there's 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'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 that on december eighteenth of this a disturbing investigation published by the new york times which it showed that there were dozens at least civilian casualties so it makes sense to us and seems to be a 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 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 on 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 loose and nineteen 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 that they're to the 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 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 proposal 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 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 by those or 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 resolution seasonal greetings to you wish you all the best twenty twelve and thank you for being on all the best all the best to you thank you. whether you die from high or to the depths. catch the power of the wind or drift in the puti of the currents.

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