hello and welcome to our series weekly review my name is u.s. and france u.s. president barack obama welcomed in the new year by signing into law a tough new set of sanctions for iran anyone doing business with terror and central bank will face punishment thanks to the new measures directly targeting the financial sector the move comes at a time of heightened tension over iran's nuclear program and the threat of sanctions has already seen terran threaten to block off key oil export crude in response and adding to the situation is iran's plan to test long range missiles during naval drills in the gulf and that led to us rule ships being sent to the area and resume russia of the independent lobby group the national iranian american council says a lack of diplomatic ties between the two countries is increasing the danger of a hostile outcome. iran said that if an oil embargo is imposed against iran and

the iranian 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 these warships thousands of miles of it from his homeland into the persian gulf and also reaching wars rounding iran with wars in iraq and afghanistan military bases all around iran that is provocative and iran is trying to defend his national sovereignty and territorial integrity. to recovering from the brutal civil war that toppled colonel gadhafi last year while there are signs of stability tensions are rising between the tribes and milters that at times that together against the regime marks on the boy go file this report from tripoli early in the week. 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 to the passenger traffic keeps increasing every month as more and more airlines uprooting 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 brigade 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 fifty thousand to rise to national prominence since then is in

time militia have successfully styled itself as the save guards of libya's future the sword for forty two years our country had nothing no state institutions just one and same person. now we have a historic mission to overcome the difficulties of the transitional period we can build a new country and that. is one of the top guns in tripoli these days primarily a colonel in the get off his army he still keeps the good offices army cap in his office his subordinates are now holding the deposed libyan leader's son safe will islam. we are against any 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 as regime

. then militias now represented the real axis of power in the country as their very soon their legacy and agendas as this tribes on the only base knew tricolor the prospect of civil war in libya is always there and it 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 abdullah maker is now trying to transform rebels under his command into a political force a laptop has replaced every rifle as his main tool internet is his new front line of the armed assistant at his door is a sign that the political process is still in its very early stages but. 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 he may still come back in some other shape or form and in that case will have to take up our weapons and defend our revolution. with guns are still a common side on the streets of tripoli of their prevalence has visibly decreased the city's covered with posters calling on the rebels to turn them in the design element of militias has so far failed to translate into national reconciliation the competition among various brigades may have become less visible but not less in towns and the nato alliance would like to build up. on any division within the groups or the parties that they have revolutionised against because duffy and according to my own understanding they would like to see certain provinces being divided inside the state of libya back in the arrival hall is interned rebels

screening passengers bags under the posters laughed from the old regime to get out his golden frame portrayed that madness at the airport the euro girl is gone he should have he may have glued the libyan society for several months if you skilling the former you need appears to have died as well. r t tripoli. because a the year has since thirteen protesters reportedly killed near the syrian capital by government forces arab league observers on a mission to the country to mask is to stop the bloodshed but they're going to ization threatening to pull out of the monitors gita the ongoing violence and journalist action what times he says the conflict is a powder keg that could ignite the entire region. it's certainly the western media viewpoint that we must believe the we must believe opposition groups it seems that any mobile phone which is now excepted 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 and the united states and other countries some of the more intelligent people realize that there will be turmoil right across the middle east if anything happens to destabilize the assad 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. and still ahead here this hour the year in brief so we take a look finally just step he'll be meant to stories that made the headlines in twenty eleven around the world. in egypt pro-democracy protesters held a candlelight vigil in cairo's tahrir square new year's eve in memory of those killed during the uprising that ousted hosni mubarak and while the u.s. says egypt's current rulers have agreed to hold a raise and pro-democracy rights groups and this week soldiers and police stormed offices of nongovernmental organizations including some funded by washington

documents and computers were seized as part of investigations into the foreign funding openness ations the group sickies they really military do using the same tactics of repression as the mubarak regime foreign policy analysts dr things the generals want to make sure they hold on to power but people won't stop until they oust him. this is part of the military. council on forces way of making sure. the revolution basic you small good you that the type of government they want because that's those are the same generals by the way who worked. so that's a really basic view is formed of that struggle is going to go forward or is that going to be more and subdued into some role to the military but really the military has to step aside and then you see the government come to power once the

elections are held and the election should be held as soon as possible they will not give up the ball that easily but i think the egyptian people in their house in general the mosque the fear from the rudd government and they have distorted the dignity they will not tolerate another minute that we think it should be i think all the evidence indicate that despite the sacrifices that. world news in brief and first to nigeria where the country's leader has declared a state of emergency in areas hit by a wave of islam the start time president goodluck joe borders with neighboring countries after a string of christmas day blasts which killed over forty people and has vowed to crush boko haram militants who claimed responsibility violence has continued since churches throughout the country were first of times a week ago turns of thousands have fled their homes fearing further conflict.

south sudan's government is sending the army and police to an area at the center of a violent tribal conflict the town of people was at times by thousands of fighters from a rival tribes torched buildings stole livestock and for schools to flee troops deployed in the region were unable to enforce security in recent months ethnic infighting caused by cattle rustling has left about a thousand people dead. u.s. president barack obama has signed into effect a law which means any person can be detained indefinitely without charge the major defense bill is aimed at dealing with terror suspects and comes with a massive six hundred sixty two billion dollar price tag but critics say the military will now have more sourcery to interrogate people denying them their basic constitutional rights here with our c.n.n. still ahead of the program down with knowledge. with the capital of iraq. you know the president of iran is. all right you know we've named him but

a judge or our fourth or. so are we sometimes the streets of new york to discount what americans know about their country's policies at home and across the globe. there's not much new good cheer from economists predicting a return to recession in europe for twenty twelve in fact leaders use new year messages to warn of hard times ahead of in their countries german chancellor angela merkel said europe while facing and was facing its most severe test in decades why . french president sarkozy has warned that the debt crisis blanketing the continent was far from over many governments have been forced to slash their spending to me debt obligations as economic growth in europe has been at a standstill and some analysts believe that the here leaders attends at keeping the eurozone together is only deepening the crisis. you paean 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 bodies of those e.u. member states that have excessive budget deficit without really isn't the answer to the problems what's really needed is 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 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 asse trike on gaza on friday one palestinian was killed in that time which tel aviv claims was aimed at preventing militants from firing rockets into israel the country has been stepping up its ass trying to leaving dozens dead three years after i think your state briefly invaded gaza military officials are saying they may have to stop what they're calling. a certain set of brokering a peace deal so far prevent first place but israeli calm is gideon levy if things

tell of it isn't ready trying to avoid conflict. three years ago israel had the carte blanche to not only the west to allow 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 say 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 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 prisoners to get back to the goshi asian table it would say no. the beginning of twenty twelve hasn't been very festive for the occupy wall street protests as with around seventy eight spending the night in custody in new york they were arrested just the food night after demonstrators took to the streets of the big apple on new year's eve they tried to return to the place where it all started over three months ago zuccotti park but were stopped by police and a public order as they protesters were undeterred and marched through lower manhattan the occupy wall street movement says its formation has spread across the u.s. and to other countries to. the formation of the protest group in new york which demands social equality and announced

a rule by the ridge was one of the remarkable milestones of twenty eleven and also now it looks bad how are some of the other big developments of the past year. 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. time joe's 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 or them from cairo to california moscow to madrid to her ear 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 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 effect that direct clash between the u.s. and nato on one side and russia and china on the what 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 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. bailout germany and france run 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 on a lark to brussels back technocrat leaders who are trying to curb the crisis coming into 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. 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 stop and so. on a sense of the place a certain institution. but people 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 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 was truly based in the end of his fruits of american politics the crowd is easy since. they are disorganized they look funny when i protest nobody seems to know but negative coverage didn't stop us from spreading from small towns to huge ports occupied was not going anywhere grates on campus

heavy handed police and burning pepper spray only helped occupy grow and read 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 occupy the more brutality became more evident by. what you're doing but you're right. that our police forces have been militarized they're working more in cooperation with the pentagon they're buying and being given military surplus to quit 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. 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 you see now way r.t. moscow. and norm the buttons that show twenty eleven waiting for you on our website and also that you see how the world calibrators the arrival of twenty twelve so you'll find some spectacular footage of new year's celebrations around the globe. and the end of the years so will u.s. troops on the way palau to. expose the implications and consequences of nine years of conflict. and a look at the uprising demos and desirous of trying to leaven a thing through the eyes of our correspondent so here that testimony is. witnesses. to history in the making. testimony.

ten stories that shaped two thousand to leaven on our t.v. . the men and women hoping to become the next president of the us appear to spend as much time demonstrating that ignorance of the world as they do their political credentials but as i said is this a trick and i found out that 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 entire cabinet level position and he can even remember its name ask 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 so you agree with president obama.

the basic knowledge of those attempting to spearhead a country can leave much to be desired where does 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 sam is no i do not know what the pakistan is pakistan. though do you know the us is an airbase there. oh yeah 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 sleep or that new mexico is that a state or a country but is that i or you don't really think. it was my first or now.

it's the old me under bush. while actually. come on it was not that long ago you know you cheney who is the vice president of the us. you know i have no idea i know it's. the vice president. cheney so with the secretary of state police arise stella now we would be fools and nice to ignore their purpose and their plans some countries are at the top of politicians list to attack verbal eat am literally but how much do people really know about those faraway places. with her. it's her own here was the president. you know the president of iran is now 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 here's. the president.

bush president he just died what about the capital of around the capital yes i do but if you're asking me i can't tell you that either top secret come on i've always called him and. it's not libya it's pakistan anything he gets a. little something if the president of iraq iran iraq right all right you know his name but a jet a giraffe or something when it comes to picking a future for the you want choosing what comes next may be tough without the knowledge of what has gone on in the past and even the very present situation our party we are. a sport a bit later this hour and find out why english soccer team manchester city's new yes liberations have been extra special but headlines are next in just a few moments here on r.g.p. .

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bond that has aussie the headlines. u.s. president barack obama signs a bill imposing new tough sanctions on iran targeting the central bank and financial sector in response to iran threatens to come to a crucial supply read their way face of the walls oil flows from. else a new wave of violence around still see where with demonstrators claiming schools more have been killed by security forces are illegal as react with hearing saying they may pull out and and those that initial to broker peace.