syrian soldiers are dying and they did and they haven't died because of peaceful protests but this isn't libya syria is the linchpin of the middle east and the united states and other countries that have some of the more intelligent people realize that they will be turmoil right across the middle east if anything happens to destabilize the government from outside forces but certainly syria the syrian government itself has to step up the pace because it's certainly losing the propaganda battle. maybe it has stepped into the new year as a new state with new leaders and new hopes with visitors slowly returning to the conflict torn country greets them at the gate as have we are militia arty is a town a boy who reports there is still a long way to go before public trust is restored with extremely diverse former rebel groups having to transform into civilian political force. flying high but still running low almost two months after the lifting of a no fly zone over tripoli the city's airport operates far below its capacity yet

the passenger traffic keeps increasing every month as more and more airlines and putting tripoli back on their flight schedules the tripoli airport is once again buzzing with visitors a feller's have already within service and more expected to follow in the coming months but while flight controllers and customs officials are back of their desks it's still the militia who call the shots here and the rebels themselves admit that the situation is still way to trouble and to cede control to civilian authorities they're no longer flashing their guns to get make it very clear who is in control here the rebel brigades from the western city of the entire captured the airport in late august as the rebels over on the capital the control of this key facility how the town with a population of some pretty thousand rise to national prominence since then does in time militia have successfully styled itself as the save guards of libya's future.

for forty two years our country had nothing no state institutions just one insane person who ruled now we have a historic mission to overcome the difficulties of the transitional period and build a new country not animals will be upon us. is one of the top guns in tripoli these days primarily a colonel in the good af is army he still keeps the get off his army cap in his office his subordinates are now holding the deposed libyan leader's son say full islam. we are against i'm a dictator but if history repeats itself we will wage a war but we will let the rule of law decide his fate. didn't ghazi zintan misrata these libyan c.d.'s one after another rose against gadhafi is regime . their militias now represent and the real axis of power in the country as their

various and their legacy and agendas as this tribes on the only base new tricolor the prospect of civil war in libya is always there and it has a hole which has been there but has been effectively mastered by the very strong centralized rule of the gadhafi regime but of course now that that has been the stabilized we see this all of the tensions there in the fabric of libyan society coming to the fore another militia commander in charge of tripoli rebels is preparing for an interview it's been a month since he changed his military fatigues for a business suit bob dylan maker is now trying to transform rebels under his command into a political force a laptop has replace their rival as his main tool internet is his new front line of the armed assistant at his door is a sign that political process is still in its very early stages. we've seen many examples in the past when people's revolutions were stolen and we are

very clear that our struggle is far from over gadhafi may still come back in some other shape or form and in that case who have to take up our weapons and defend our revolution. guns are still a common side on the streets of tripoli have their prevalence has visibly decreased the city's covered with posters calling on the rebels to turn them in the design and of militia has so far failed to translate into national reconciliation the competition among various brigades may have become less visible but not less in towns the nato alliance would like to build upon any division within the groups or their part is that they have revolutionised against the qaddafi regime and according to my own understanding they would like to see certain. robin says being divided inside the state of libya back in the arrival hall isn't tongue rebels are screening passengers bags on to the posters left from the old regime to get out his

golden framed portrait that madness at the airport a year ago is gone hatred of him a have glued the libyan society for several months with his killing the former unity appears to have died as well as in the work of art see tripoli. while u.s. president barack obama has signed a bill imposing new sanctions against iran the measures targets the country's central bank and will particularly hit oil revenue as relations between washington and tehran reached a dangerous point this week islamic country threaten to block a vital oil supply route in the persian gulf where it's currently holding navy drills iran promised to not let one drop of oil go through the strait of hormuz if the west goes on with sanctions the u.s. and the e.u. are stepping up pressure over iran's nuclear program iran a sense that it's ready for a fresh start 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 both from british sources that there are plans to attack iran and israel is a going all in 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 opponents. we rallied 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 of 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 the situation every step . so i had for this hour here in our team dark corps we don't cover the story that surrounds the new leader of north korea people are heard to him. and the new year prediction is there a chance the european currency will survive find out in just a few minutes. 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 gideon levy says he is country will be isolated if it decides to wage another bloody offensive. go israel head

the car glad to not only the west had plowed this. and didn't say it would 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 but the current government of israel has no serious intention about serious dialogue with the palestinians maybe some photo opportunities but not seeing more than these the palestinian authority has 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 just just symbolic release

of one hundred palestinian prisoners to get back to negotiations table it would be these were to say no. in a new year's message north koreans have been urged to make every effort to bring their country to prosperity and to fan its new leader kim jong il into the death it comes after a two day state funeral was held for his father kim jong il and the streets of the capital pyongyang artie's marie ivanovna has been looking into what we now have a state. and the death of the north korean dictator has raised questions and hopes over whether the dictatorship one of the last in the world will follow or will this extremely close society remain isolated and its new leader too so little is known about the late leader's great successor his third and youngest son kim turning is a bit of a dark horse even his age remains

a subject of speculation his thought to be twenty seven or twenty eight his new ascension to power increases the media hunger for information about him so his expensive education in switzerland said led tracked it's a lot more interest and entrepreneur in moscow with russian origins alexander hug and she believes he could have been one of kim's classmates when news prior that kim charlie may have gone to an elite school in this week's mountains in late ninety's the businessman brought out his all the book to refresh his memory there were quite a few koreans. quieter than others. with the last name came. as kim is the most common name in korea alexander remembers that koreans always different from other students they were very disciplined very disciplined as

a group of students. very serious for their. they wouldn't always take part in fun and games at the other students were very hard studying to be top of the class they didn't like to lose although some think this is leaders son may be a figurehead overshadowed by his recently promoted uncle who's thought to wield the real power alexander says the three years china has apparently spent in europe may change the country's future forever but i think. it will make him realize that he has to do something good for his people for his country. and make a change in terms of. past experience his knowledge of foreign languages and the skills that he managed to do it in being a world the outside world used to get most of the news from behind north korea's iron curtain through the country's strictly censored state run media covering the

life of the secrets of society from the inside has been an almost impossible task for international journalists but the details now emerging about the new leader is exposure to the liberal west or for a glimmer of hope that he may ease bag the rigid control over the two terran regime and begin to open north korea to the world and maybe their war old to north korea. r.t. more sco. prospects for the struggling european currency remain low in the new year as the euro fell sharply at the end of two thousand and eleven debt ridden countries are bracing to implement more sturdy measures with spain announcing almost nine billion euros and cuts professor of competition law dr marcus kerber says 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 euro are the we have to be breaking decisions. which means that we could even take into consideration

whether or not to split up the us or the euro will not survive anyway the rescue directors as we have see this form one of the half years from now will not be able to continue because it is only curing 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 a democratic policy that is a fiscal policy taxes that 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 forty year old . 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 with massive aberrations and fireworks all over the globe north america has become the latest with huge festivities along the east coast eighty works down thousands packed times where the ceremonial ball dropping at midnight. and strip was among the first countries to open its doors to the new year with littering fireworks by the skies over city harbor asia the baton with spectacular shows how the process the region. well russia also met two thousand and twelve with a bang thousands gathered at moscow's red square to toast the new year and watch this of fireworks over the kremlin millions of revelers also gathered in cities all over europe for the countdown to make. what was celebration sweeping the

globe we remember what made twenty eleven and it was a year of revolt and rallies as millions around the world went out on to the streets to demand justice freedom and economic equality me so now we will get back to 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 laden after a decade long manhunt 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 where to occupy global rallies shared common themes but 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 libya was not so lucky 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 or whose 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. act that i read clash between the u.s. and nato on one side and russia and china on the war you know on the other side much more david was in libya 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 raged against desperate austerity cuts to qualify for i.m.f. bailouts germany and france vying 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 bell outs or bust was the beginning of the end for the single european currency there's every chance the euro is going to crash. 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 to 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 felt multicultural program and racism into the mix you know these pins. out of place institutions. will probably institutionally racist as well 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 but 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 then truly based in the end of his fruits of american politics. they are disorganized they look on any one of the

protesting nobody seems to know but negative coverage didn't stop us from spreading from small towns to huge ports occupied was not going anywhere raids on camps heavyhanded 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 the rich the one percent from oakland to boston the more people occupied the more brutality became more evident by. what you do if you're. right our police forces have been militarized they are working more in cooperation with the pentagon they're buying and being given military surplus quitman 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. mentary elections were the push behind tens of thousands of people coming out onto the streets of moscow after allegations the december duma vote was raped. by. the 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 at almost 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. a united russia for having power for so long maybe

not doing everything they could protest organized by vast groups of opposition members are set to continue in twenty 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. for more insight and analysis on the events that may twenty seven are on our website our team dot com also watch our special your coverage from the heart of moscow reports from various parts of the world and 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 work in the hotspots and beheads their testimonies at our team to come. witnesses. to history in the making. testimony.

ten stories that shapes two thousand and eleven on our t.v. now is take a look at some other stories from around the world u.s. president barack obama has signed the fans bill 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 right. here in president goodluck jonathan has declared a state of emergency in response to the wave of violent attacks by islamist sect. in a state address on saturday he vowed to crush the terrorist group and condemn the christmas bomb blast that killed more than forty people following the announcement racial clashes erupted in the east leaving dozens dead tens of thousands have fled their

homes across the country in the wake of recent violence. in the south sudanese state thousands of fighters from the loonier tribe have laid siege to a town of one of the arrivals members of the tribe storm and people are torching buildings stealing livestock and forcing scores from their homes un 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 attempt to mediate talks between the tribes. the chinese boss driver has died in the first reported case of bird flu in the country in over eighteen months the man was hospitalized with pneumonia but later tested positive for the deadly virus according to health authorities had had no contact with poultry a positive test in a dead chicken at a market just outside of hong kong last week prompted an immediate import ban and poultry to control the epidemic. of russian court has ruled it will not ban

a religious book central to the hari krishna movement it rejected claims that the book was extremist in nature the case has angered hindus around the world and the court's decision was welcomed by india's foreign ministry the trial was opened in the siberian city of tomsk in june. prosecutors claimed that the russian translation of their religious books and side of hatred towards nonbelievers and social the store indian officials had made high level appeals not to ban the text before final hearing stood quite still. just a few moments explore the remotest parts of siberia with r.t. before that i'll be back with the top stories.

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welcome back you're watching r.t. coming to live from moscow here's a look at today's stories and the week's highlight fresh clashes in syria with dozens reported killed despite the arab league observers mission there and the u.n. says more than five thousand people have died in the ten month long unrest. president obama slaps new sanctions on iran over its atomic ambitions despite iran saying it's ready for fresh talks iran threatened to close off the world wide group in the persian gulf. around the world. as a holiday sweeps the globe north america was the latest to greet the new year as hundreds of thousands packed new york's times square for the symbolic ball dropping at

midnight. well next hour to take on an exciting trip to parts of siberia few people have been before. eastern cyan is one of siberia's least explored areas. is the geographical center of asia the mountain ridge of east and cyan stretches for one thousand kilometers from east to west. secluded near the russian mongolian border south siberia's nature remains pristine and untouched by man. for tourists braving the nature of the plan is to run.