of the new year two thousand and twelve for about forty five minutes now next on deck in baghdad nairobi and mint in less than fifteen minutes they will be bringing in the new year as well while two thousand and twelve is finally here in moscow happy new year to all of you watching our team wherever in the world you may be russia has been marking the arrival of the new year with grand fireworks displays and of celebrations across the whole country from all of us here we wish you a happy and prosperous two thousand and twelve twelve months ahead. now sports is next with. hello there thanks for watching the sport and these other headline party papers lowly black manchester united three two at old trafford on thirty seventieth day. while possible stall on breaker olenka turned his back on the n.b.a. to stay with his hometown club here to moscow. and eternal russia's mixed martial arts king immediately and careful with today chance at all should be chic for an easy win in japan. but first an incredible win for blackburn rovers in the english premier league they beat manchester united three t

. >> happy birthday to you ♪ ♪ happy birthday to you >> benjamin is celebrating his first in nairobi,came into the world here. >> so it went 18 feet? >> he was thrown into a now collapsed pit in a slum. a passing stranger heard his cry and spent two hours digging down into the muck to rescue him. this woman witnessed it. >> he said that she saw him, that he was brought up and that pretty much they thought they would take away this baby and the baby would be dead. >> but he didn't die. and when no one claimed him -- benjamin came to new life home trust in kenya, a series of homes that for 17 years has taken in abandoned babies and found new adoptive families for them. >> we have just reached 1,300 babies that we have been able to rescue. . >> reporter: missionaries have built new life into one of africa's success stories. inside its gates, children are in essence given new life. >> on the other side of the gate, life for new babies begins in the slums of nairobi. this baby is one of them. >> this is the newest baby we've had in just over a week. and he was abandoned outside and brought

and will ross, our east africa correspondent joins us from nairobi. can you give us a sense of how bad this is? it looks pretty fierce. >> yes, we understand the fighting began at around dawn and lasted for about four hours. as you say, difficult to get casualty numbers at the moment. but it was certainly some of the fiercest fighting that's taken place for several months, probably since august when most of al-shabab left the capital of mogadishu. now the government forces are saying al she bab attacked the government and african union peacekeeping missions and the government and a.u. troops then went on the offensive and we understand the area is now calm and in the hands of the government and they said six al-shabab fighters were killed and there were some concerns because the troops were useding heavy artillery and there was concerns that would put the civilians in great danger, but they said the area was actually not heavily populated and there weren't heavy civilian casualties, but it's hard to verify this information. >> there was a bit of a spi

political office to mogadishu from the kenyan capital of nairobi. he also visited refugee camps over the kenyan border. our correspondent is traveling with him and she filed this report. >> the secretary general wanted to highlight the plight of the nearly half million refugees who fled famine in somalia and ended up here on the kenyan border. his security people felt it is not safe enough for him to go to the camps, so he is here in the u.n. compound. the camp leaders and refugees are meeting here. the al-shabab militant group which controls central and south somalia has expelled a number of aid organizations, and the secretary general has condemned to that and raised the issue again on a whirlwind trip to somalia. while he was there, he focused on political issues. the u.n. is pushing a political road map that is meant to get the transitional authorities in somalia to come up with a new constitution and form a parliament by august. the u.n. is impatient with the transitional authorities. they are weak, divided, corrupt, so he wanted to send a stro

from russia's capital moscow this is our team would like to say happy new year to minsk khartoum and nairobi and also coming up in less than thirty minutes cairo and they'll be in two thousand and twelve as well now two thousand and twelve is finally here in moscow happy new year to all of you watching our team wherever in the world you may be russia has been marking the rival of the new year with the grand fireworks displays and celebrations across the whole country from all of us here we wish you.

nairobi's mayor said there is no chaps it will open on tomorrow. >>> security will be tight as a million people from all over the world converge on times square for new year's eve tomorrow. preps have been under way for days. some personalized notes on display at a wish wishing wall will be added to the one ton of confetti that will fall. got to test that confetti. >> you do. i don't know why though. >>> next, no stunt double for tom cruise. the actor tells our movie reviewer, kevin mccarthy, why he prefers to do his own stunts. >> he is crazy, man. some of those are incredible. we've got the latest on today's forecast. what is that? >> getting the day going right. >> it is 11 minutes after 5:00. we'll have the latest on the weather. we'll have a look at traffic as well. stay with us. fox 5 morning news will be right back. back.  beth! hi. looking good! you've lost some weight. you know these clothes are too big now, so i'm donating them. not going back there again. good for you! how'd you do it? eating right, whole grain. whole grain? whole grain. [ female announcer ] peop

to move its political office for somalia from nairobi, kenya to mogadishu in january. president joseph kabila of the democratic republic of congo has won a second term in office. he won 49% of the vote, according to provisional results announced today. but long-time opposition candidate etienne tshisekedi rejected those results and declared himself president. and his supporters have vowed to take to the streets in protest. election-related violence has killed 18 people and wounded more than 100 others. a u.n. climate conference in durban, south africa teetered on the brink of collapse as it neared a close today. the european union has proposed a 2015 target date for a new pact of binding cuts on the world's biggest greenhouse gas emitters. it would replace the kyoto protocol which expires next year. the u.s., india and china-- the world's three largest carbon emitters-- never signed on to that treaty. the european commissioner for climate change acknowledged negotiations are down to the wire. >> if there is no further movement from what i have seen until 4:00 this morn

i did a world service a little while ago from mexico city to nairobi for people there just instantly assumed that the police are corrupt and more likely to commit a murder than actually solve one. and so they were with me, and they said how lucky it was the dowlers have bright, enthusiastic, well-meaning journalists on their side also looking for milly. and how annoying it must be for the inept colleagues, you know, to hide away information and, you know, it's not such a bad thing. there was a number of articles that i wrote on milly dowler. i'll show you one. i was the first journalist to put a link to a railway that may have been -- that's my daily mail link, a career-ending story, that -- our intentions were good, our intentions were honorable. we were doing our best to find the little girl and the police are incompetent and there are other mothers without their children because of the police's incompetence and i felt the

. >> two bombs minutes apart exploded without warning friday outside the us embassies in nairobi, kenya, and dar es salaam, tanzania. >> we had turned on the tv watching cnn, and john o'neill put it together in relatively short order and was convinced in his own mind that al qaeda was behind that. >> that clearly was the event that changed bin laden's profile dramatically because it was such a major event. two embassies done simultaneously showed a great deal of sophistication in the organization. so this was a... was a major event. >> narrator: but at headquarters, the brass were engaged in a procedural dispute. >> we're in the command center, and people are being pulled in. i'm over there. there's all sorts of senior bureau people there. everybody's coming together. and the reason that this becomes a significant question almost immediately is because the fbi's got to deploy people overseas-- they're going to deploy people initially to kenya and tanzania-- and who's going to be the on-scene commander? >> narrator: o'neill believed his experience and expertise made him the obvious choic

massess, the people e rising up andherever they are assembled today, johannesburg, south africa, my nairobi, new york city, atlanta, georgia, jackson, mississippi, or memphis, tennessee, the cry is always the same, we want to be free. which is part of the anthem of the arab spring, part of the anthem of people everywhere. that struggle goes on. thank you. great to see you. >> thank you very much. >> rose: jacques pepin is her he began cooking in his parents' restaurant in france at the tender age of 12. over the next six decades he would become charles de gaulle's private chef, run the iconic new york restaurant and write 25 cook books and host 11 television series. he is credited, along with julia child, with helping teach americans how to cook proper french food. here is a look at the two of them together. >> togetr we're going to do souffle. as everyone knows, the heart of a good souffle is... >> egg whites! beaten egg whites. and i'm going to do mine in copper. i did hit in the machine. >> we're going to see if you're faster than the machine. one, two, three. >> rose: his latest book co