hello welcome to our weekly review i'm you know ship of our time main story now u.s. president barack obama welcomed in the u. year by signing into law a tough new set of sanctions for iran anyone doing business with tehran central bank will face punishment of science to the new measures directly targeting the financial sector the move comes at a time of heightened tension of iran's nuclear program and the threat of sanctions doesn't let it seem to run threaten to block a key export route in response adding to the situation is iran's plan to test long range missiles during naval drills in the gulf that led to u.s. warships being sent to the area a research of a school of oriental and african studies in london shereen sure 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 is 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 national sovereignty and territorial integrity. an advisory board to the arab league has recommended the immediate withdrawal of the organizations want to choose from syria the arab parliament says the assad regime continues killing government opponents and despite the presence of arab league observers activists say over one hundred fifty people have been killed since the monitors mission began last tuesday the arab league peace plan was the removal of security forces and how

the weaponry from cities talks to start with the opposition and human rights watch is and journalists to be allowed into the country and it also calls for the release of political prisoners journalist afshin rattansi says don't go into violence as 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 did 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 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 another country still 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 militias that fought together against the regime filed 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 a 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 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 sample fifty 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 and that i was will be upon us. is one of the top guns in tripoli these days primarily a colonel in the good af is the army he still keeps the good offices army cap in

his office his subordinates are now holding the deposed libyan leader son safe will islam. we are against any dictator of 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 the real axis of power in the country as their various and their legacy and agendas as the stripes 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 abdullah maker is now trying to transform rebels under his command into a political force a laptop has replace the rifle as his main tool internat 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 who have to take up our weapons and defend our revolution. guns are still a common sight on the streets of tripoli and their province has visibly decreased the city's covered with posters calling on the rebels to turn them in if 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 and the nato alliance would like to build upon 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 isn't turned rebels are screening passengers bags on to the posters left from the old regime to get out his golden framed portrait that maddest at the airport a year ago is gone hatred of him and have glued the libyan society for several months if he's killing the former unity appears to have died as well as in the work of art see tripoli. so let's head for you this new year but not much cheer the leaders of the death stricken euro zone prepare for what could be a crucial twelve months with financial time on their minds even as the rest of the world is celebrating their arrival to twelve. and we'll take

a move back in just a few of the momentous stories that made the headlines in twenty eleven iran the war. the place about now in egypt pro-democracy protesters held a candlelight vigil in cairo is stuff created 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 rulers have agreed to halt raids on pro-democracy rights groups earlier 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 of organizations the groups accuse the ruling military of using the same tactics of repression as the mubarak regime foreign policy and as dr things the journals want to make sure they hold on to power that's people won't stop until they asked them. this is part of the. forces way of making sure.

the. mall due to the type of government they want because that's those of the generals. who work for mubarak. so that actually basically is part of that struggle is going to go forward or is the. role to the military really. to step aside. government from the fall once the election are 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. the arabs in general lost the fear from corrupt government and they have restored the dignity and they were not following another minute if they did ship in the country i think all the evidence indicate that despite the sacrifices they have given. to world news and very for

you this hour for us to nigeria where the country's leader has declared a state of emergency in areas he'd been away by mr tuck's president goodluck jonathan has shot borders with neighboring countries after a string of christmas day blunt's which killed over forty people and he vows to crush boko haram militants who claimed responsibility 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 a violent tribal conflict the town of was a target by thousands of fighters from a rival tribe who torched buildings stole my stock 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 one thousand people dead. u.s. president barack obama has signed into effect

a law which means any person can be detained indefinitely without charge a major defense bill is aimed at dealing with terror suspects and comes with a massive six hundred sixty two billion dollars price tag but critics say the military will now have more thought he had 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 twelve in fact leaders used their new year messages to wall of hard times ahead in their countries german chancellor angela merkel said europe 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 are terms that keeping the eurozone together is only deepening the crisis. leaders are trying to shore up the

eurozone boy. having great agrees 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 bitit deficits but that really isn't the answer to the problems wilts really needed as 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. israeli military has confirmed it carried out in a strike over gaza 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 strikes in recent months leaving dozens dead three years after the jury a state at time to gaza killing fourteen hundred people live chat shows that saying

they were have to start what they're calling a society on tuesday israeli and palestinian representatives will meet in jordan to try to bring launch talks stalled for more than a year due to the continued building of jewish settlements on occupied arab lands but israeli comments to get in levy things that tel aviv is really doesn't want to resolve the conflict. three years ago israel had the carte blanche to not only the west to allow this. and. say it would again. but this time we are facing a new egypt and gaza ease in the backyard of egypt and i'm not sure that egypt will remain indifferent visa via another thing but having said this i'm not sure that this is enough to prevent an attack because unfortunately israeli politicians in general not always react in the most racial and logical way the current government of israel has no serious intentional about serious dialogue with the palestinians

maybe some photo opportunities but that's saying more than the send 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 the goshi asian table it would say no. beginning of ten to twelve has been very festive for the occupy wall street protests is what around seven to spending the night in custody. and they were arrested just before midnight after demonstrators took to the streets of the big apple. and they try to return to the place where it all started over three months ago zuccotti park and were stopped by police and the public order knows that

protests. and marched on three lower manhattan the occupy wall street movement since its formation has spread across the u.s. and the country's chief economic analyst marks from the poll says that the number of protests is only growing to twelve because it's come to come up with adequate measures to tackle the 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 on the ambiguous that the u.s. economy doesn't work it doesn't work very well overall the g.d.p. growth is poor 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 and student loan debt and their inability is to get a jobs or be 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 now it's also a very young movement so that may evolve somewhere down the line but this looks 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 adherents. there was a little bit of a heavy handed over response by authorities that involved 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 protest group in new york which demands social equality and announced

a rule by the rich was one of the remarkable milestones of twenty eleven and anisa now it looks back at how the movement started and other big developments over 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. 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 or them 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 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 here 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 effect that direct clash between the u.s. and nato on one side and russia and china on the war in 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 a 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. bailouts germany and france fined for influence in the debt ridden zone i think we will see an exit of greece given the situation in which the greek economy find itself has become really unavoidable draining the economy of big brother germany

can't go on forever greece and italy are now led by on a lark to brussels back technocrat leaders who are trying to curb the crisis coming into a new year critics say twenty eleven or bust was the beginning of the end for the single european currency there's every chance the euro is going to crash and burn. london burned for days in the summer of twenty eleven what began as a peaceful protests demanding justice over the death of a twenty nine year old man who was shot by police turned into days of riots and left authorities helpless talks of possibly bringing out the military bars the shops were looted car set on fire and windows smashed across the u.k. the police the job center all the banks everything that's happening the recession you know there's a lot of anger about that social experts also through

a felt multicultural program and racism into the mix you know stop and so. on a sense of place a certain institutional. and appropriate 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 but it is said. they are disorganized they look funny what a protest nobody seems to know but negative coverage didn't stop o. ws from spreading from small towns to huge ports occupied was not going anywhere

rates on campus heavy handed police and burning pepper spray only helped occupy grow and spread their message of the need for economic equality and an end to corporate greed their slogan became we are the ninety nine percent and they the rich the one percent from oakland to boston the more people occupied the more brutality became more evident by was. what you're doing. right now 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. the protest at least fifty thousand strong the largest in recent history call for free and fair elections and remained peaceful ruling party united russia lost popularity in the vote with official results putting their numbers i don't most fifty percent but experts say a sixteen percent drop from two thousand and seven should be taken as a warning i think a lot of people want to punish. united russia for having power for so long and maybe not doing everything they could protest organized by vast groups of opposition members are set to continue in two thousand and twelve next year russia

along with the u.s. and france holds presidential elections which makes it a safe bet people will be out on the streets in twenty twelve in europe america and around the world and he's now a party moscow. and we'll have more on the ones that show you twenty eleven waiting for you on our web site home and also there you. can see how the world celebrated their arrival of twenty twelve you'll find some spectacular footage of new year's celebrations around the globe. and also the end of the years so u.s. troops away found out to your world colleagues know the implications and consequences of nine years old. and the new good they are prizing demos and disasters of twenty eleven as seen through the eyes of our correspondents so we hear their testimonies at our.

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welcome back and this is the headline. here is president bronco golla signs a bill imposing new time sanctions alone targeting the central bank anti-national said so in response to iran threatens to count all the crucial supply read through which it's the walls all flows. anywhere the violence around syria with demonstrators claiming suppose you think oh by the security forces i don't need to observe this reaction with theory saying they might pull out and and then the shooting broke the needs. to grab the world while.