every year. at a study on the russian capital you're watching r t r marina joshua welcome to the program violence in syria continues unabated despite the arab league observers mission that started this week security forces have reportedly opened fire on thousands of protesters with monitors giving conflicting accounts of government snipers involved activists claim dozens were killed in recent clashes and clash points cities all of which are also being visited by the monitors the u.n. says more than five thousand people have died in the ten month long unrest with damascus blaming armed gangs for the violence james corbett editor of an independent news website based in japan dowd's if the observer mission will bring any plausible results. the final report will be

a pretty much preordained conclusion that there will be findings that the assad government is not doing enough to to listen to the concerns of its citizens but personally i'm not sure what these more ridiculous about this story be the idea that the the autocratic suggs of the arab league states are going to presume to pronounce on the democratic leaning so that the syrian government to work with the international community is supposed to take what they say with any sort of moral authority but clearly these are not people in a position to be lecturing on this but but i think as i say i think the the report has been pretty much preordained and i would be very surprised to see that that it concludes anything other than the fact that so that the assad government is to blame for what's going on in syria right now. former libyan rebels are now chanting for syrians to follow the revolutionary path hundreds of mercenaries some of whom are former terrorists are ready to take up arms again to help overthrow president. boyko reports from tripoli. a butcher our dad made the owner of these

kebab shop in tripoli still undecided what's the most fitting term for syria's bashar al assad. jealous of his economic the biggest game in the end the one that syria. other syria. you can't make it a lot of the people in syria. out of solidarity with their arab brothers the owners of the shop have even put on display the syrian rebels tricolor but they're very firm on where the revolutionary support should be and we don't want syria and its soldiers we have. an hour before something syria these are just landed on the subject we have to have enough but i think yeah we want to leave. in less than three months libyan rebels have gone from being celebrated as liberators to being called occupiers tripoli residents rally almost every week calling on the armed militia to leave and for some of the young man who looked on

adrenaline and willing to part with their rifles syria seems like the next logical destination i don't know what we're all ready to join the syrian revolution and with the help of allah we will make sure that what happened in libya will repeat itself in syria. libya mother of the portraits of shady bar i now ubiquitous on the streets of tripoli be some rebels even styling themselves to resemble the famous revolutionary. war with the help of we can all belong to give aren't fighting for peace and freedom around the world. and it seems that che guevara's idea of exporting revolutions have gotten a second birth in the middle east the arab spring has created a buoyant marketplace for soldiers of fortune they move from one revolution to another motivated by personal gain some by conviction all others by the venture if i put out on the vision of freedom and for now at least is the freedom to live by

the gun. as a romantic and spontaneous as it may appear aiding the syrian uprising with mercenaries may not be such a genuine move video women and children in syria gunned down by snipers are involved on you tube while it's still unclear who is pulling the trigger there are terrorists my prayers who are shooting at civilians men women and children blind terrorism random killing simply for the purpose of destabilizing the country or from libya or from afghanistan or pakistan foreign fighters have been brought in here by the cia and the other western services. one man's terrorist could easily be anonymous freedom fighter but for the united states it's now one day hiking but hodge one of the leaders of tripoli militia was once on the cia most wanted list today he's a face of the democratic leader who according to our to sources not

a group of several hundred libyan rebels to syria just last month. we can't do any to support the syrian people because we are they are facing the same situation as before and we appreciated that comes to be when. why the syrian people who they need help to get their freedom i think we should do what the use of soldiers of fortune is hardly new in this troubled region middle eastern rulers hard then for centuries a save garci against their own populations and it now looks like the history of mercenaries in the middle east has got to it's new and no less bloody chapter after the boycott artsy tripoli. u.s. president barack obama has signed a bill imposing new sanctions against iran the measures target the country's central bank and will particularly hit oil revenues but nations between washington and tehran reached a dangerous point this week islamic countries threaten to block

a vital oil supply route in the persian gulf where it's currently holding navy drills tehran promise to not let one drop of oil go through the strait of hormuz if the west goes on with sanctions the u.s. only were stepping up pressure over iran's nuclear program to run a sin said it's ready for a fresh tasks political analyst chris bambery believes the west is putting world peace at stake whether it's stubbornness over sanctions. that americans could probably force using their military which in the govt would probably force open the straits of hormuz but that would mean war with iran and that would be a huge huge escalation and would threaten world peace and therefore i think the iranians are really challenging the americans sensing the american weakness we know that from british sources that there are plans to attack iran and israel is egging on america to attack iran over the question of its nuclear program but i think

again in a comparison with iraq in two thousand and three iran is in a much stronger position iranian nationalism should not be should not be underestimated even important. to support iran's given britain and america's history in iran there's a long history of unfortunate british and american intervention in iraq so i think we're witnessing quite a dangerous escalation and it's the sanctions which the west the talk of the importance of iran which is responsible for that situation developing and i think we should be clear about that is the west who've racked up this situation every step. and still to come on the program why after down the world the future of north korea after its long time leader kim jong il was finally laid to rest and. the president of the day. i'm going to say you know i don't know you know. well we

find out that it's not only u.s. presidential candidates struggling with their knowledge of the world. israel says it's killed a senior militant in an airstrike against gaza on friday the army claimed the move prevented an attempt to fire rockets at israel this comes after israel said it's looking into the possibilities of a wider campaign against the blockaded strip just three years after a devastating war there israeli columnist says his country will be isolated if it decides to wage another bloody offensive. three years ago israel had the car bludgeon not only the west had plowed this. and didn't say a word against the city but this time we are facing a new egypt and gaza ease in the backyard of egypt and i'm not sure that egypt will remain indifferent visa via another thing but having said this i'm not sure that this is enough to prevent an attack because unfortunately israeli politicians in

general not always react in the most racial and logical way the current government of israel has no serious intention about serious dialogue with the palestinians maybe some photo opportunities but nothing more than the send the palestinian authority had just launched another proposal for israel to get back to the negotiation table they even gave up the precondition of freezing the settlements which is a minimum. condition and they suggest the just symbolic release of one hundred palestinian prisoners to get back to the go chaison table and will these words say no. no new year's message north koreans have been urged to make every effort to bring their country to perspire ready and to fan its new leader kim jong known to the death that's going against helps in the

west at the death of kim john ellwood heralding more open country but age especially as dr ten below thanks for nations have an interest in keeping things as they are. as far as we know he was educated in switzerland not sue that's going to have an effect but letting go it's grossly overestimating is freedom of action. part of the north korean system but also mainly in respect of the outside world immune respect to the americans so it is not north korea and since don't want to open up that soon merkel's and want to keep it. constrained somewhat like they want to contain china rather different differently but it's all part of the same same package so what kim jong un can do is in many respects fairly limited. and we will again will have sued but i don't really depend so much

on the americans. prospects for the struggling european currency remain low in the new year as the euro fell sharply at the end of twenty eleven debt ridden countries are racing to implement morris terry measures with spain announcing almost nine billion euros in cuts professor of you competition law dr marcus curse as whether the single currency lives or dies will be determined this year two thousand and twelve is going to be the decisive year for the europe are the we have some to boo breaking decisions. which means that we could even take into consideration whether or not to split up the u.s. or the euro will not survive anyway the rescue directors as we have see this form one of the hard hispano will not be able to continue because it is only curing the syndromes treating the symptoms without trying to put an end to the fundamental mismatch within the eurozone that there is

a lack of competitiveness having tighter fiscal controls mean that the nation states give up a fundamental part of the democratic policy there is a fiscal policy taxes but they no longer decide about major param it is of their national sovereignty i think that would be great for systems apart from that but it will not solve the competitive cost competitiveness problem of least. spader perhaps italy the markets are expecting tough decisions for structural reform of the eurozone in order to melt this down to something which is homogeneous to survive all of those things will not bring as a cure of the problems. the world is welcoming two thousand and twelve was mass celebrations and fireworks all over the globe on north america has become the latest with huge festivities along the east coast and new york thousands packed times square for the ceremonial ball dropping at midnight australia was among the

first countries. wealth really was among the first countries to open its doors to the new year with glittering fireworks a light in the skies over sydney harbor. asia takes up at a time with six tackler shows help across the region. russia also met twenty twelve with a bang thousands gathered in moscow's red square to tell us here and watch mcniff this and farmers over the kremlin millions of travelers also gathered in cities all over europe for the countdown. with celebrations sweeping the globe we remember what made twenty eleven it was a year of revolt and rallies as millions around the world went out on the streets to demand justice freedom and economic equality are doing the so now we look back at the protests that shaped the past twelve months. two thousand and eleven could easily go down as the most eventful year in years the killing of bin ladin after

a decade long manhunt in libya's gadhafi after months of nato bombing and the death of north korea's kim jong il don't even begin to illustrate twenty eleven. times shows the protester as person of the year and although there were different slogans signs and demands of solutions twenty eleven will ultimately be remembered as the year people came out onto the streets the arab spring bloomed into a european summer which harvested an american autumn from cairo to california moscow to madrid to korea or to occupy global rallies shared common themes but if one thing stood out in the middle east and north africa alone it was protests that lead down one road regime change.

tunisia and egypt got rid of their dictators without war but with an awful lot nato and allies began a humanitarian mission with a fierce bombing campaign the critics called it a mislabeled invasion to take down gadhafi for benefits the only reason they're interested in with libya is about the oil you hear anybody screaming and yelling about all those people last week they were killed in the ivory coast sudan gadhafi was brutally killed in october as the world watched the graphic video go viral thousands of civilians were killed over months of bombing and as twenty twelve neared syria found itself in a similar set up for intervention russia and china fearing a repeat of the situation in libya as civil war intensifies this is a direct. effect of that. clash between the u.s. and nato on one side and russia and china on the war and on the other side you know

what she ordered was in league protests continue in egypt libya syria and many more arab countries as the year ends. the battle to save the drowning single currency left to board rooms and banks in twenty eleven and flooded the streets of europe most commonly and violently in athens greek debt became the centerpiece of the euro crisis protests ranged against desperate austerity cuts to qualify for i.m.f. bailouts germany and france fined for influence in the debt ridden zone i think we will see an exit of greece given the situation in which the greek economy find itself has become really unavoidable draining the economy of big brother germany can't go on forever greece and italy are now led by on a lark to brussels back technocrat leaders who are trying to curb the crisis coming into a new year critics say twenty eleven or bust was the beginning of the end for the

single european currency there's every chance the euro is going to crash and. london burned for days in the summer of twenty eleven what began as a peaceful protests demanding justice over the death of a twenty nine year old man who was shot by police turned into days of riots and left authorities helpless talks of possibly bringing out the military bars the shops were looted car set on fire and windows smashed across the u.k. the police the job center all the banks everything that's happening the recession you know there's a lot of anger about that social experts also through a fountain multicultural program and racism into the mix. the prince. out of status at the place. but. the place has

a racist as well as the riots faded but the problems are still passing some say only a spark is needed to set the public off again. occupy wall street became a household name in the u.s. and around the world when the protests began in september if you were talking about it the mainstream media stayed silent until seven hundred people were arrested on the brooklyn bridge and that is really based on the end of his fruits of american politics but it is. disorganized they look on as one of the protesting nobody seems to know but negative coverage didn't stop o.-w. ass from spreading from small towns to huge ports occupied was not going anywhere rates on campus heavy handed police and burning pepper spray only helped occupy grow and spread their message of the need for economic equality and an end to

corporate greed their slogan became we are the ninety nine percent and they are the rich the one percent from oakland to boston the more people occupied the more brutality became more evident i was. sure if you're right but you're right our police forces have been militarized they are working more in cooperation with the pentagon there. and being given military surplus to quit meant that has been kind of designed for use in war and this is something that leads to treating the public as you would treat an enemy a public that has promised to come out in full force in twenty twelve. parliamentary elections were the push behind tens of thousands of people coming out

onto the streets of moscow after allegations the december duma road was raped. to protest at least fifty thousand strong the largest in recent history call for free and fair elections and remains peaceful ruling party united russia lost popularity in the vote with official results putting their numbers i don't most fifty percent but experts say a sixteen percent drop from two thousand and seven should be taken as a warning that i think a lot of people want to punish. russia for having power for so long and maybe not doing everything they could protest organized by vast groups of opposition members are set to continue in two thousand and twelve next year russia along with the u.s. and france holds presidential elections which makes it a safe bet people will be out on the streets in twenty twelve in europe america and around the world and he's now

a party moscow and more and sided analysis on the events that made twenty women are on our website our dot com health water especially new year coverage from the heart of moscow reports from various parts of the world an expert analysis on some of the most significant events of the past year. plus the major stories as seen through the eyes of our correspondents who were in the hot spots of events their testimonies are at our t. dot com. with this is. to history in the making. testimony. ten stories that shaped two thousand and eleven on our. now as we go to some other stories from around the world u.s. president barack obama has signed a family film with a price tag of six hundred sixty two billion dollars despite serious reservations by critics over how terror suspects will be handled under its provisions the new

law means any person can be detained without charge opponents also say the legislation gives more authority to the military to detain and interrogate people denying them constitutional rights. thank you and president goodluck jonathan has declared a state of emergency response to the wave a violent attempts by islamist sect. in a state address on saturday to crush the terrorist group and condemn the christmas bomb blast that killed more than forty people announcement means the closure of sections of nigeria's borders until further notice tens of thousands have fled their homes across the country because of the violence. in south in the south sudanese de jong glazed thousands of fires from the loony who are driving have played siege to a town of one of their rivals members of the tribe storm torching buildings

stealing livestock and forcing spores their homes when troops deployed in the town were unable to prevent the attack this latest spate of violence comes as the governor of the state and the vice president tam to mediate talks between the tribes. and chinese bus driver has died in the first reported case of bird flu in the country in over eighteen months man was hospitalized with pneumonia but later tested positive for the deadly virus according to health authorities it had no contact with poultry a positive test on a dead chicken at a market just outside of hong kong last week prompted an immediate import ban on hold for meat to control the epidemic. and russian court has ruled it will not be. at a religious book central to the christian movement it rejected claims that the book was extremist in nature the case has angered around the world and the court's decision was welcome by india's foreign ministry the trial was opened and the

siberian city of tomsk in june prosecutors claimed that the russian translation of the religious book inside of hatred towards nonbelievers and social discord indian officials have made high level of appeals not to ban the text before final hearings to play. in the new year americans will choose who leaves their country for the next four years but are the potential candidates as well versed in global politics as they are what's going on at home our jeanne meserve has been finding out. it's three agencies of government when i get there that are gone commerce education and the what's the third one there let's see he's looking to to actually fire tens of thousands of federal workers and eliminate an entire cabinet level position he can even remember its name asked me who is the president of you becky becky becky becky stan stan i'm going to say you know i don't know do you know it's not the fact that he doesn't know it's the fact that he doesn't think he should

look it up you agree with president obama. the basic knowledge of those attempting to spearhead a country can leave much to be desired where did this leave americans choosing their politicians and their country's potential future let's find out. heard of it or for some reason i don't know anything about libya do you know what a spec is stan is no i do not know what the pakistan is pakistan. though do you know the us is an airbase there. oh yeah what do you know about libya. you know how to spell libya yes yes do you know the united states was involved in a war with libya. ok. you know why.

i know absolutely nothing about sleep or about new mexico is that a state or a country what is that. i used to mean as if. it was my first and now. it's the old me under bush. while i actually. come on it was not that long ago you vote cheney who is the vice president of the us. you know i have no idea i know it's. the vice president. cheney so it was secretary of state police arise stella now we would be fools and nice to ignore their purpose and their plan some countries are at the top of politicians list to attack verbal eat i am literally but how much do people really know about those faraway places. was governor it. was a president. you know the president of iran is no capital

capital of iran do you know the capital city of iran. negative do you guys know what iran is oh yes yes. what's the capital of iraq. was the president. the president he just died what about the capital of the capital yes i do what is it you're asking me i can't tell you that either top secret come i don't want to. know libya or. anything. if the president of iraq iran iraq all right you know his name but a jet a giraffe or so when it comes to picking a future for the you was choosing what comes next may be tough without the knowledge of what has gone on in the past and even the very present. party.

shortly russia's ambassador to the u.n. shares with his views on some of the most pivotal issue i'll be back with a recap of our top stories before that. wealthy british style sun. has been tied to the tides.

market why not. come to. find out what's really happening to the global economy with mike stronger for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune into cars a report on our. talk about your watching our killer moscow these are the top stories. some highlights fresh clashes playoffs in syria with dozens reported killed despite the arab league observers mission there following is the koreas battles are taking their revolution to president abbas and store staff. president obama slaps new sanctions on iran over its atomic ambitions despite their ron saying it's ready for fresh talks their mom threatens a close.