and respond to that so that is not provocation but in terms of real provocation i think that what is provocative is the united states sending its 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. to syria now where violence that began in march spilled over into the new year howard league observers on a mission to the country have warned about because against cracking down on protesters at least thirteen were reportedly killed in the past day despite efforts to oversee the implementation of a peace plan an advisory group linked to the arab league has now called for observers to pull out claiming the mission is distracting attention from the ongoing crackdown the advice is known by ending with the observers stude stay in syria for three more weeks cheerless i should returns he says the conflict is

a powder keg that could ignite the tire region 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 except as a source what is no doubt is that thousands of syrian soldiers are dying and they haven't died because of peaceful protests but this isn't a libya syria is a linchpin of the middle east the united states and other countries some of the more intelligent people realize that they will be turmoil right across the middle east if anything happens to destabilize the government for about forces but certainly syria the syrian government itself has to step up the pace because it's certainly losing the propaganda battle. but the syria regime claims is fighting an armed insurgency funded from abroad but yet to be independently confirmed but what is fact is that rebel fighters who helped overthrow colonel gadhafi in libya and now we get to take the revolution to president assad's door to hundreds of libyan

mercenaries reportedly already gunning for regime change in syria that is xander boyko reported from tripoli in the week. a butcher our dad made the owner of the ski pop shop in tripoli still undecided what's the most fitting term for syria's bashar al assad. jealous of his second term in the biggest game in the envelope the syria. other syria. yeah you can 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. and our people such as syria these are just life long if this soldier we have we 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 shipley 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 if we're all ready to join the syrian revolution and with the help of all our we will make sure that what happened in libya repeat itself in syria the libyan man or the portraits of shaky bar are now ubiquitous on the streets of tripoli be some rebels even styling themselves to resemble the famous revolutionary. with the help of allah we can all belong to give aren't fighting for peace and freedom around the world. and it seems that che guevara's a deal for exporting revolutions have gotten a second birth in the middle east the arab spring has created

a buoyant marketplace for soldiers of fortune the most from one revolution to another some motivated by personal being found by conviction all others by venture if i put out the vision of freedom and for now at least in the freedom to leave by the gun. as a romantic and spontaneous as it may appear aiding the syrian uprising with mercenaries may not be such a genuine. video women and children in syria gunned down by snipers are inbound on you tube while it's still unclear who is pulling the trigger there are terrorists who are shooting at civilians men women and children blind terrorism random killing simply for the purpose of destabilizing the country they are from libya or from. 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 of their hiking but hodge one of the leaders of tripoli militia was once on the cia most wanted list today he's the face of the democratic lead the who according to our two stores this not a group of several hundred live in rebels to syria just last month. we can do anything to support the syrian people because we are they are facing the same situation as before and do but if she comes to lead the will and if we could see why the syrian people who they need help to get their freedom i think we should do it the use of soldiers of fortune is hardly new in this troubled region middle eastern rulers hard them for centuries a save gars against their own populations and it now looks like the history of mercenaries in the middle east has got to its new and no less bloody chapter x. in the wake of r.t. tripoli. still ahead for you this hour here in brief we take a look back at just

a few the momentous stories that made the headlines and twenty eleven around the world. in egypt pro-democracy protesters held a candlelight vigil in cairo's tahrir square on new year's eve in memory of those killed during the uprising that ousted hosni mubarak meanwhile the u.s. says egypt's current leaders have agreed to hold raids on pro-democracy rights groups this week soldiers and police stormed offices of non-governmental organizations including some funded by washington documents and computers were seized as part of investigations into the foreign funding of organizations the groups accuse the ruling military of using the same tactics of repression as the mubarak regime foreign policy almost total sham we're told me thinks the generals want to make sure they hold on to power but the people won't stop until they oust that. this is part of the military the supreme council or forces way of making sure all of the revolution basically small due to the

the type of government they want because that's those are the same generals by the way who work for mubarak. so that's really basically his forte of that struggle is going to be using going to go forward or is that a good use in going to be molded and some dude into some missive role to the military but really the military has to step aside and let disagree. government come to power once the election are held and the election should be held as soon as possible they will not give up the power that easily but i think the egyptian people and you know in their house in general how the mosque feel and for a government and they have the story of their dignity they were not following another military dictatorship and frankly i think all the evidence indicate that despite the sacrifices they have. we'll do some brief this hour in nigeria first

the country's leaders declared a state of emergency in areas hit by a wave of islam is to tax president goodluck jonathan to shut borders of neighboring countries after a string of christmas day blasts which killed over forty he's vowed to crush boko haram militants who claimed responsibility violence has continued since churches throughout the country were first attacked a week ago now tens of thousands of fled their homes fearing further conflict. south sudan's government is sending army and police to an area at the center of a violent tribal conflict the town of people was attacked by thousands of fighters from a rival tribes torched buildings stole livestock and full schools to flee un troops deployed in the region were unable to enforce security in recent months ethnic infighting caused by cattle rustler has left about a thousand people there. a former member of the japanese coal behind an attack on the tokyo subway in one thousand nine hundred five turned himself into police just before midnight last night new year's eve he'd been in hiding for seventeen years

since the group released sarin gas on the underground system at the time killing thirteen we should recognize started as a spiritual movement mixing hindu and buddhist police but then developed into a doomsday cult obsessed with armageddon. he was president barack obama signed into effect a law which means that any person can be detained indefinitely without charge the major defense bill is aimed at dealing with terror suspects it comes with a massive six hundred sixty two billion dollar price tag too but critics say the military will now have more authority to interrogate people denying them their basic constitutional rights. this is r.t. live from moscow still ahead of the program with me kevin zero in down with knowledge. of what the capital of iran here's the president of iran is now. you know in name manager jaffery well we set out for the streets of new york to discover what americans know about their country's policy at home. and across the globe. there's not much new year cheer from economists predicting return to

recession in europe for twenty twelve in fact leaders use new year messages to warn of hard times ahead in the respective countries german chancellor angela merkel said that europe was facing its most severe test in decades while french president sarkozy's war of the debt crisis blanketing the continent was far from over many governments are being forced to slash their spending to meet debt obligations as economic growth in europe's been of a standstill some analysts believe that the e.u. leaders attempts at keeping the eurozone together is something deepening the crisis . you peon leaders are trying to shore up the eurozone by having greater degrees of centralization and more having countries like france and germany have the final say in a sense over the budgets of those e.u. member states that have excessive budget deficits but that really isn't the answer to the problems wilts really needs either a massive injection of cash into countries like greece and italy to shore up their

economies was another option would of course to recognize that the single currency has hurt competitiveness in many women nations of the eurozone so really there's a number of options either to transfer funds from the north to the struggling south or course have an orderly break up of the eurozone. israeli military has confirmed it carried out an airstrike on cars or on friday one palestinian was killed in the attack which television claims was aimed at preventing militants from firing rockets into israel the country's been stepping up its strikes in recent months leaving dozens dead three years after the jewish state briefly invaded gaza military officials now say live day after start what they call a quote war of necessity attempts at brokering a peace deal of so far proved fruitless israeli columnist gideon levy spoke to us thinks television is really trying to avoid a conflict. three years ago israel had the card larger not only carte blanche 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 visibly 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 this and 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 minimal. condition and they just just symbolic release

of one hundred palestinian prisoners to get back to negotiation table it would these were to say no. ok we all know how russia welcome twenty twelve a with a bang last night being the world's biggest country it celebrated new year nine times as you can see them out there thanks to his nine all kick started off in the far east so then they swept through rushes to rest of two rushes west of most point the baltic city of kaliningrad finishing off with great fireworks there while hundreds also gathered in moscow's red square of course to toast in the new year's great show from moscow the whole rest the world was treated a mass celebration for the globe as well but it was the scene in new york's times square for the ceremonial ball dropping at midnight a stray beautiful fireworks it was the conic site from then on the first of course to open its doors to the new year with glittering fireworks over sydney harbor great fireworks in asia to picking up about the spectacular show is held across the region and dubai also putting on a spectacle hundreds gathered in the world's tallest building to watch the amazing

illumination there are a super show from london the if you call of the not millions of revelers packing. cities throughout europe but a particularly good show there from london last my london eye and fireworks prepare for the big bang as well so a celebration sweeping the globe parties in this and now he looks back at what may twentieth. 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 libya's get daffy 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. artem from cairo to california moscow to madrid to her ear 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 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 that 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 that's 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 it's the fact that that rhetoric clash between the u.s. and nato on one side and russia and china on the war and 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 ranged against desperate austerity cuts to qualify for i.m.f. bailout germany and france vying for influence in the debt ridden so 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 an elected brussels backed 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 programme and racism into the mix. at the. institution. 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 us and around the world when the protests began in september if you were talking about mainstream media stayed silent until seven hundred people were arrested on the brooklyn bridge and that was truly based in the end of his fruits of american politics but. there are

a disorganized a look but there's 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 heavy handed police and burning pepper spray only helped occupy guo read their message of the need for economic equality and you know 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 occupy the more. talladega became more and that in the in the. i'm sure if you're right on the right there are are police forces have been militarized they are working more in cooperation with the pentagon they're buying and being given military surplus the quick meant that

has been kind of designed for use in war and this is something that needs 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 vote was raked. up 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 i think a lot of people wanted to punish. 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 said no way r.t. moscow. we've got more only events to shake when you know what you know website is what you don't call also that if you see how the world celebrated the arrival of twenty twelve the next year you can find some spectacular footage of the new year's celebrations fireworks around the globe we compile them all for you. also the end of the year so u.s. troops way farewell to iraq are to dot com explores the implication implications and consequences of volume of conflict. how to look at the uprisings the demos the disasters in data twenty eleven the sail through the eyes of our correspondents

interesting series import you last week if you didn't catch its own law you can hear the testimonies don't call. witnesses. to history in the making. testimony. ten stories that shapes two thousand and seven. the many women hoping to become the next president of the us appear to spend as much time demonstrating their ignorance of the world as the do the political credentials but ers are teasing us to see a choke and found they could just be a reflection of society. 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 and he can even remember its name asked me who is the president of you beki beki beki beki 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 so you agree with president obama. the basic knowledge of those attempting to spearhead a country can leave much to be desired would be this leave americans choosing their politicians and their country's potential future let's find out. a speck is heard of it or a for some reason i don't know anything about libya do you know what is the pakistanis know i do not know what the pakistan is backing for now. do you know the us is an airbase there. or do we know about libya. you know dispel 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 this or that new mexico is that a state or a country but is that it. hard every time you think that we don't like you know it was my first or now. it's the old me under bush. actually. come on it was not that long ago you know no cheney was the vice president of the us. you know i have no idea i know it's. the right time to. cheney. so with the secretary of state that kind of leads to rice 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 going to get to me it's here on here with the 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 harris was the president. president he just died but about the capital of the capital yes i do but if. you're asking me i can't tell you that either top secret comes out always calling me. now libya it's pakistan anything we guess is. if the president of iraq iran iraq ok all right you know his name but a jet a giraffe or something when it comes to picking a future for the u.s. choosing what comes next may be tough without the knowledge of what has gone on in the past and even the very present situation i think we are. well i can tell you

top secret responds live from moscow to a bit later this unit has got news of why english football team manchester city's new year's celebrations are extra special today but it's headlines next in just under two minutes inside your team with me kevin ollie.

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hello again the headlines from all to moscow at ten thirty pm new year's day president obama signed the bill which imposes new tough sanctions on iran over its disputed nuclear program most despite surrounds threats to shut off a key oil supply road in the gulf as tension between the two countries continues to build. the syrian regime's. crackdown on demonstrators carries on unabated forcing out of league observers toward damascus to rein in the violence the monitors were saying the implementation of the peace plan that president assad agreed to. the world rings in twenty twelve or the planning with vile words and celebrations across the globe in moscow hundreds gathered on red square to watch a large scale extravaganza like up in six. or twenty eleven was packed with world

changing events was made earlier in the week i spoke to russia's ambassador to the un vitaly churkin he shared his opinion with me on tackling the issues currently dividing the globe. the un security council rejected russia's proposal to investigate civilian deaths from nato strikes in libya one of members avoiding in order to simply 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 or is the need to have some clarity about civilian casualties as a result of nato bombings because for months we heard from made from a toll that they are adopting all those measures in order to make sure that there can not possibly be any civilian casualties and then.