that being said just because something that the iranian government doesn't want to do doesn't necessarily mean that it's something that it's won't do if pressure increases to the point where iran is backed into a corner or two governments that have been communicating for over three decades and when you don't have direct channels of communication that increases the likelihood of miscalculations and misperceptions and it reinforces a cycle of escalation and conflict and it increases the likelihood that you can you can take actions that might not be in the court and even with your own interests and rather than governments controlling the conflict the conflict begins to control the governments and we end up with an outcome that i think both parties independently would seek to avoid. an advisory board to the arab league has recommended the immediate it was joint of the organizations monitors from syria and the poem it says the assad regime continues killing government opponents despite the pressure of the 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 once they remove all security forces and having weaponry from

cities talks to start with the opposition and human rights workers and journalists to be allowed into the country and it also calls for the release of all political prisoners journalist afshin rattansi says the ongoing violence is a powder is a powder keg that could ignite the entire region it's certainly the viewpoint that we must believe the most believe opposition groups it seems that any mobile footage is no except as a source what is no doubt is the thousands of syrian soldiers dying and they have died because of peaceful protests this is a libya syria is a linchpin of the middle east and the united states and other countries are 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 is still recovering from the bert show 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 accountable files this report from tripoli in that 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 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 the 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 cd 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 has successfully styled itself as the state guards of libya's future the sword for forty two years our country had nothing no state institutions just one insane 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 good after 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 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 regime. their militias now represent the real axis of power in the country as their very soon their legacy and agendas as the tribes on the only base new tricolor the prospect of civil war in libya is always there and it has a hole which has been there but has been effectively mastered by the very strong centralized rule of the gadhafi regime but of course now that that has been the stabilized we see this all of the tensions there in the fabric of libyan society coming to the fore another militia commander in charge of tripoli rebels is preparing for an interview it's been

a month since he changed his military fatigues for a business suit 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 internat is his new front line of the armed assistant at his door is a sign that political process is still in its very early stages 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 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 militia has so far failed to translate into national reconciliation the competition among various brigades may have become less visible but not less in

towns the nato alliance would like to build up. and the 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 then turned rebels are screening passengers bags on to the posters laughed from the old regime to get out his golden frame portrait that madness at the airport the euro girl is gone he chewed of human have glued the levy in society for several months if you skilling the former units he appears to have died as well. artsy tripoli. and so heavy this hour a new year but not much cheer as the leaders of the dead stricken euro zone prepare for what could be a crucial twelve months with financial turmoil on their minds even as the rest of the world was celebrating the arrival of twenty that. would take the lead by just

a few of the men to stories that made the headlines in twenty levon and around the world. that's later first an age of pro-democracy protests is how the candidates vigil in cairo 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 raising 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 analyst 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. way of making sure. you can use more.

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 the struggle is going to be using going to go forward or is that a hoodoos and got to be molded and some dude into some missive role to the minute thirty but the military has to step aside and then disappear the government come to power once the election are held and the elections should be held as soon as possible they will not give up the body that easily but i think the egyptian people and then the arabs in general how the mosque the fear from corrupt government and they have restored of their dignity and they will not tolerate another minute that if they could ship in their country i think all the evidence indicate that despite the sacrifices that have been. and some world news and very few this hour and first

in nigeria where the country's leader has declared a state of emergency in areas hit by a wave of islamist attacks president goodluck jonathan hotshot borders with neighboring countries after a string of christmas day blasts which killed over forty people and he's vowed to crush book all around militants 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 for their conflict. south sudan's government is sending army and police to an area at the center of a volatile terrible conflict the town of the war was a target by thousands of fighters from a rival tribe who torched buildings stored livestock and for schools to flee un 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. north korea's president says he's ready to launch nuclear talks with north korea south korea should so of course and so claims the

north demonstrate sincerity a new era on the korean peninsula can begin the comments come after beyond young vowed in a new year's message that it would be all states military and defend the son of the late leader kim jung il into death. has been installed as supreme commander of the armed forces and as ruling party leader will move his father's death in the middle of december. and u.s. president barack obama has signed into effect a little which means any person can be detained indefinitely without charge so 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 authority to interrogate people denying them their basic constitutional rights. there's not much new year cheer from economics economists rather predicting a return to recession in europe or twenty twelve in factually. leaders use new year

messages to warn 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 so many governments have been forced to slash their spending to meet debt obligations as economic growth in europe has been at a standstill and some analysts believe that the e.u. leaders attendance at keeping the eurozone together is only deepening crisis. u. paean leaders are trying to shore up the eurozone by having greater degrees of centralization and more having contradict france and germany have the final say in a sense over the budgets 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 farms from the north to the struggling south or course have an orderly break up of the eurozone. israeli military has confounded carried out an ass try going to girls on friday one palestinian was killed in that time which time a claims was aimed at preventing militants from firing rockets into israel the country has been stepping up its airstrikes in recent months leaving dozens dead three years after the jewish state a time gaza killing out at fourteen hundred people military officials are saying they may have to start what they're calling a war of necessity and choose days rainy and palestinian representatives all meet in jordan to try to really don't talks stalled for more than a good change they continue to building a jewish settlements in occupied arab lines but it's really columnist gideon levy things that tell it is it really doesn't want to resolve the conflict. three years ago israel had the carte blanche to not only the west to pull out of this.

city but we are facing a new egypt and gaza ease in the backyard of egypt. 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 these and the palestinian authority has just launched another proposal for israel to get back to the negotiating table they even gave up the precondition of freezing the settlements which is a minimum. could be. just the just symbolic release

of one how the prisoners to get back to the gauche asian table it would be. no. the beginning of twenty twelve has been very festive for the ogier by wall street protests is whether on a seven to spending the night in custody new york they were arrested just before midnight absent 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. but were stopped by police and a public order by the protesters were under ten. no one had to the occupy wall street movement since its foundation formation has spread across the u.s. and the country say economic analyst mark stride wolf says that the number of protests isn't only a growing trend because the forces can't come out on a quick measures to talk all they can on the program. the occupy wall street movement has mostly given voice to a sense of frustration and anger about unfairness isn't and justices 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 that 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 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 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 you may see a bit more about 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 it

didn't want to back grew and got more and more attention and more and more adherence there was a little bit of a heavy handed over. sponsored 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 impressions group the new you wished him on social equality under now as a rule by the rich was one of the remarkable milestones of twenty eleven and anisa now look at how the movement started and other big developments of the past year. two thousand and eleven could easily go down as the most eventual year in years the killing of bin laden after a decade long manhunt libya's gadhafi after months of nato bombing and the death of north korea's kim jong il don't even begin to illustrate twenty eleven.

times shows the protester as person of the year and although there were different slogans signs and demands of solutions twenty eleven will ultimately be remembered as the year people came out onto the streets the arab spring bloomed into a european summer which harvested an american autumn from cairo to california moscow to madrid to 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 led down one road regime change in. 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 who 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 twenty twelve neared syria found itself in a similar set up for intervention russia and china fearing a repeat of the situation in libya a civil war intensifies this is a wreck it's the fact that i wrecked. 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 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 fined for influence in the debt rating so i think we will see an exit of greece given the situation in which the greek economy find itself that has become really unavoidable draining the economy a vague euro 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 boss to shop swer looted car set on fire and windows smashed across the u.k. the police the job center all the banks everything that's happening in 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. so the police. 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 roots 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 in 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. taliban became more and that in the in

the. scenario if you're right i mean. the army or 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 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. and we have known they were in that shape twenty eleven waiting for you on our website and also. see how the world celebrated their arrival of twenty twelve you'll find some spectacular footage of me as have racial surround the globe. also

the end of the years so u.s. troops away fab out to expose the implications and consequences of nine years of. demos and disasters of trying to leaven as seen through the eyes of our correspondents here their testimony is. this is. to history in the making. testimony. ten stories that shaped two thousand and eleven. that's the news for now i'm back with a recap of the main stories in just a few minutes stay with that. feeling

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and. welcome back this is the headline. u.s. president barack obama signs a bill imposing new tough sanctions on iran targeting the central bank and for national subset in response to ross threatens to cut off a crucial supply route through which fifths of the walls oil floods. a new wave of violence. syria with demonstrators claiming schools will have been killed by security forces to serve as a reaction with fury saying they may pull out and end their mission to broker peace . and while the world welcomes the arrival of twenty twelve with fireworks and champagne almost seventy occupy protesters have to wish each other happy new year in custody they were arrested just before midnight attempting to return to. the

place where the occupy wall street movement of three months about. the headlines up next aussies debate stay with us. and if you. still. want to. blow in welcome to rostov on beautiful what does the year two thousand and twelve hold for the world will be yours truly one day of the year before who will said the trends who will stay in power and who will fall with the protests that started around the world continue apace and will this year be just as violent as the year that just power.