hello and welcome to our weekly review i mean our first 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 on 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 terror run threaten to block off i keep all the expatriate in response and adding to the situation is a balanced plan to test long range missiles during naval drills in the gulf and that led to u.s. warships being sent to the area every search of the school of oriental and african studies in london shereen ship five says america is playing a dangerous game. 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 waging wars around doing iran with wars in iraq and afghanistan military bases all around iran that is provocative and iran is trying to defend is nationals are vanity and territorial integrity. the first day of 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 with the organization threatening to pull out of the monitors judit ongoing violence and journalist action returned says as 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 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 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 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. another arab country media is still recovering from the virtual civil war that toppled colonel gadhafi last year while there are signs of stability tensions are rising between the tribes and relations that fought together against the regime. 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 adeline's 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 the population of some pity thousand rise to national prominence since them is in time militia has 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 various and their legacy and agendas as the tribes on the only base knew tricolor the prospect of civil war in libya is always there and it always has been there but it has been effectively mastered by the very strong centralized rule of the gadhafi regime but of course now that that has been destabilized 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 their rival 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 gadhafi may still come back in some other shape or form and in that case we'll 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 the nato alliance would like to build up. on any division within the groups or the parties that they have revolutionised against the qaddafi regime 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 in town rebels are

screening passengers bags under the posters left from the old regime to get out his golden framed portrait that maddest at the airport the year a girl is gone hatred of him and have glued the libyan society for several months if you skilling the former units appears to have died as well as a work of art scene tripoli. this is on c.n.n. still ahead for you this hour the u.n. dream. about to not too much air as the leaders of the debt stricken years and prepare the world could be a crucial twelve months with financial time on their minds even as the rest of the world was celebration of the iraq war take twelve. so we take a look back at just a few of the momentous stories that made 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 meanwhile the u.s. says egypt's current crews have agreed to hold raids on pro-democracy rights groups 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 their foreign funding over graduations the group sickies the ruling military of using the same tactics of repression as the mubarak regime and foreign policy analysts dr abdul shiny things the generals who want to make sure they hold on to power but people won't stop until they oust him. this is part of the. forces. making sure. the revenue base you can use more. the government they want because that's those of the generals by the way who worked. so that's a really basic view is formed of that struggle going to go forward. and

some. role to the military but really the military has to step aside and see the. government once the election are held and the elections should be held as soon as possible they will be one of the ball. but i think the egyptian people. and the arabs in general how the mosque feel for our government and they have the story of the dignity they were not following another minute but if you think it should be on t.v. i think all the evidence indicates that despite the sacrifices that have been. and on world news in brief this hour to nigeria where the country's leader has declared a state of emergency in areas hit by a wave of islam mr tarbox president goodluck jonathan borders with neighboring countries after a string of christmas day blasts which killed over forty people and he's vowed to crush bako her run milton's who claimed responsibility violence has continued since

churches throughout the country were first attacked a week ago tens of thousands have fled their homes fearing further conflict. south sudan's government is sending army and police to an area at the center of the violent tribal conflict the town of people was a time to buy thousands of fighters from a rival tribe who torched buildings stole livestock and for schools to flee your own triple dip in order in the region were unable to enforce security and 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 prize time but critics say the military will now have more sortie to interrogate people denying them their basic constitutional rights. there's not much new year cheer from economists predicting

a return to recession in europe for twenty two world in fact leaders used their new year messages to warn of hard times ahead in their countries and chancellor angela merkel said euro was facing its most severe test in decades while 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 leaders attends that keeping the eurozone together is only deepening the crisis. leaders are drawing to shore up the eurozone by having great to do. 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 deficit but that really isn't the answer to the problems milt's really needs either a massive injection of cash into countries like greece and italy to shore up their

economies course 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. has confirmed is carried out and ask god on friday one palestinian was killed in that time which tel aviv claims it was aimed at preventing militants from firing rockets into israel the country has been stepping up its ass strikes in recent months leaving dozens dead three years after the jury a state briefly invaded gaza and militia officials are saying they may have to start what they are calling a war necessity attempts at brokering peace deal so far proving for eclipse but it's really common is skating on leaving things isn't really thinking and trying to avoid conflict. three years ago is the car bludger not only the worst

plow that is. the city but we are facing a new egypt and gaza is in the backyard of egypt and i'm not sure that egypt will remain indifferent visibly another. but having said this i'm not sure that this is enough to prevent the because unfortunately israeli politicians in general. is reacting the most racial and logical way that the current government of israel has no serious intention about serious dialogue with the palestinians maybe some photo opportunities but that's seeing more than. 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 had suggested just symbolic release

of one hundred palestinian prisoners to get back to negotiation table and what it is will say no. the beginning of times as well hasn't been very festive for the ok by wall street protesters with around seven to spending the night in custody in new york and they were arrested just before midnight often demonstrations suit to the streets of the big apple on new year's eve they try to return to the place where it all started over three months ago as a coach upon a horse told by police on the public. and marched on three lonely hearts and the occupy wall street movement since its formation has spread across the u.s. and to other countries state and economic analyst marks primal says that the number of protests is only growing twenty twelve because still so much he's come to come out with adequate measures to talk old economic problems. the occupy wall street movement has mostly given voice to a sense of frustration and anger about unfairness isn't and justice is both real

and perceived that a lot of people have about the economy i think it's only ambiguous that the u.s. economy doesn't work it doesn't work very well overall the g.d.p. growth is for our present eight point six percent unemployment is probably under reporting and it's quite high the high level of college debt that people are coming out with young people in student loan debt and their inability to get a jobs or b. jobs that pay them enough to live and pay back their debt makes very clear that the united states has serious economic problems we haven't really seen anything like a suggestion about a different plan or a different way of organizing the economy come out of the or occupy wall street movement yet you know it's also a very young movement so that may evolve somewhere down the line but this looks like to me like the early stages of something with a lot more to calm most of the story yet to be written so to speak and i think what we're seeing is frost duration and anger people beginning to coalesce around that frustration and anger but i for one haven't seen real proposals on economic policy yet we may see a bit more of that this year as it's election time and policy issues i think

authorities had hoped the movement would kind of fizzle out or go away and when they didn't want to back grew and got more and more attention and more and more it here and there was a. a bit of a heavy handed over response by authorities that involve using force part of the reason it's a problem is because what it tends to do is bring out more protesters and raise public sympathy for the protesters the ham handed and overly marshall response to protest has actually helped to build the occupy wall street movement. the formation of the persians group in new york which demands social equality under nines to rule the rich was wild a remarkable milestone on the twenty level and then he said now it looks back at how the movement started and 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 ladin 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 order 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 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 did 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 ranged against desperate austerity cuts to qualify for i.m.f. bailout well germany and france are primed 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 were 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 belt multicultural program and racism into the mix you know stop and so. on a sense of the place a certain institution. and 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 mainstream media stayed silent until seven hundred people were arrested on the brooklyn bridge and that was truly based in the end of his roots of american politics the crowd is easy since. they are disorganized they look funny what are they 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 great on campus heavy handed police and burning pepper spray only helped occupy grow and read their message of the need for economic equality and then 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 by. what you do with your. right our police forces have been militarized they are 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 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 vote was raked. 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 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 you see now way r.t. moscow. and we have known the buttons that shape twenty eleven waiting for you on our website and see the home and also the earth you. can see how the world celebrating the arrival of twenty twelve so you'll find some spectacular footage of

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