american media washington says that would be all the reason it needs to intervene in the conflict and as artie's middle east correspondent policy reports the timing of these unsubstantiated w m d revelations may not be a coincidence. these rumors are verified as of yet they are just allegations what they do suggest is that syria's military has been mixing chemical weapons and loading them into a bomb the allegation suggests that the syrian president bashar assad is reportedly planning to use these on his own people this comes as the u.s. military is making contingency plans should be soon president bashar assad siding with the u.s. sources saying that they all know where that assad has received numerous asylum offers at the same time the united states has the quarter he deployed the u.s. eisenhower start straw. group which went through the suez canal from the persian gulf over the weekend and we understand according to reports that it is making its way to the syrian coast and it has been throughout this week now what this does indicate this latest development is that the united states now stands

immediately after the un voted to upgrade palestine to observer state status despite america's opposition artie's poorest leader looks now at how the vote affects the situation in the middle east. it might have been a foregone conclusion but that didn't dampen the jubilation on the streets of palestine overwhelming support for upgraded palestinian state has to a nonmember observer state in the un one hundred thirty eight voting in favor nine against looking at forty one abstentions it's an important political and legal victory to hold israel accountable in a practical way on its violations the national law and its violations of the rights of the palestinian peace. especially on the expansion of illegal settlements palestinians can now apply to join the international criminal court and the global organizations giving them better bargaining chips in dealing with israel but it came at a price within hours tel aviv a nonstop is building three thousand more homes in the west bank a sure sign that the situation on the ground won't change overnight does it's not a step forward it's a step aside or even

to have overshot the runway splintering into pieces and littering an outlying highway with debris artie's medina question of a report from vnukovo airport. the investigation as currently underway this is the sac and and the biggest a parade of the plane does still remains very close to the highway and looks quite terrifying the other parts of the plane of the cabin that through right on the highway off through the crash and where the forty two members died as well as the black boxes probably already been cleared over the night and there is also a video that captured to be exact a moment khalid this caused injury jobs that crashed into the finally got video appeared on the internet over the night because while it so far there are three main diversions why this tragedy happened just these versions are weather conditions pilot error and possible technical problems with the plane in particular there were reports that there might been something wrong with the plane's braking system that's why it couldn't stop while being on the. to geisha is currently underway adult age crew members for surviv

are slated to come into force in america and a deal to avert that is still nowhere in sight and was artie's going to take on reports the makings of this crisis were there for all to see. the u.s. congress created this cliff situation when they failed to agree on a budget that would help the country reduce its deficit and its you monger's debt and what they did was what they usually do they put off those important decisions until a certain deadline that deadline is now so they came up with this scary word cliff to create lots of drama around what should be the ordinary maybe somewhat boring working process of any congress or parliament that has to agree on a budget the need to deadlines so the cliff which actually describes the mode in which the congress is working their inability to make decisions until the very very last minute the cliff that u.s. lawmakers have artificially created could become very real for the american people the vast majority of them over one thousand government programs would be cut it would hit the unemployed very hard they would stop getting unemployment benefits th

watching artie's weekly news from gun sales in the u.s. have rocketed after president obama pledged to ban certain types of automatic weapons in the wake of the sandy hook massacre artie's college education now in a panic buying public getting up and while they still can't. about two weeks ago actually on this particular wall here. we are is four rows down four rows across. with everything going on in politics right now with the possible ban and everything everyone is flooding in. purchasing right away gun stores all across the u.s. are reporting record sales just two weeks after the tragic shooting at the elementary school in newtown americans are scrambling to buy the same type of weapon that adam lanza used in the connecticut shooting plus high capacity magazines and a lot of them panic buying trigger it out of fear that the white house is out to ban the weapons but this time the words need to lead to action no a r fifteen for this customer all sold out at the store while prices on line have gone through the rules have been going for a

child abuse cases as well with american foster families some even resulting in the death of the child artie'sguy takes a look. the adoption agreement that russia and the us signed in the vampire was designed to provide mechanisms for overside russian children adopted by american families but moscow claims it is still being met with obstacles when it attempts to inquire an adopted children schoolgirls here assume many lies about the real conditions of children adopted by u.s. parents we have no idea what's really going on the united states does not do follow ups once an adoption is finalized there is untold numbers of children that are enduring abuses that haven't been reported that haven't resulted in their gifts that are just surviving the case of alan who was adopted from russia and she was placed in the home of the head of file she was discovered because of a a child pornography sting and she told reporters and such that she waited every day and kept praying and believing that somehow the adoption agency that placed her there would come back and check on her and she would have been able to

presidential palace on tuesday the mall egypt's economy is deteriorating as economists explained to artie's tom barton in cairo. with protests continuing around the clock both for and against a gyptian president behalf. morsi the country's economy is facing increasing troubles with me to discuss this is very the time lapse an economist here in cairo had to thank you for joining me thank you first of all tell us briefly what was really going on when the stock market pull on just over a week on hearing most announcement in the next decade the shins are still small school shopping days it even coalesce around the turn first thing down this isn't mutual we have and this is love is most of the fun we are going to take home so i am after we are going to take on full point the billionaire goes how would you compare egypt's economy now walsh on the path at mubarak's speech is that a final meal somewhat the feeling that mubarak is service was thirty five one seats at central bank now will store down fifteen zero point five billion dollars and this is a huge cut at that would deserve and in fact the

and made harsh criticism from opponents who claim the draft undermines basic democratic freedoms artie's tom barton reports from cairo. unrest returns to the streets after the revolution that toppled hosni mubarak after the election that brought in mohamed morsi egypt is in turmoil once again these round the clock protests have been going on for over a week now it resembles early two thousand and eleven when hosni mubarak was removed from power but that was nearly two years ago shouldn't the revolution have ended by now the mood on top risk where became defiant again after last week's to creep president morsi meaning his decisions would face new legal challenge we had the revolution to get rid of a tyrant the dictator. in in order to that we made elections and rid of illusion and with elections to choose someone to the present us it turned out that this guy is also a tyrant himself however morsi claims his new powers are only temporary you know any of that he became too in the world here. he will tell you it is a temporary thing it is full emergency it did pull the seams same thing sift

ok we'll leave it there thank you meeting about somebody in the kitchen of artie correspondent at the new cafe at airport well a retired american airlines captain a member of the civil aviation team spectrum group says the experienced crew may have prevented a major tragedy. in a very prejudiced way because i'm a pilot and have more than twenty years for airline flying i want to say that it was probably some situational awareness that the pilots had that they saw what was happening to the aircraft and did their best either through new super murder pedals at this time using the engines to help also from their more thrust on one side or less on the other will also help to remove your when so you want to go to remember these things happen in such a short period of time that taking a look at what's happening and how to try and control over a situation takes a lot of skill it's not something you practice in the simulator going off the end of a runway so the experience and combine to prevent a more catastrophic situation from occurred and you will find plenty more pictures and eyewitness ac

backed monarchy is accused of amending the voting rules to influence the outcome of the poll artie's lucic half an office in the gulf state with the latest. kuwait may be a tiny nation but its regional influence as well as this strategic importance to the west is immense absolutely immense as an opec member anything any sort of unrest that happens on the ground here could have potential impact on the world oil market as well as global oil prices as well as the pentagon's plans to use this tiny nation as a hub for its ground forces as a counterweight to iran now kuwait already holds three american military bases and folks in washington are talking about increasing the troop presence here especially in light of the withdrawal of troops from iraq and the looming withdrawal from afghanistan now tolls have officially close here in kuwait and while we won't know the results the opposition is already claiming a victory here saying that the boycott was success that voter turnout was low and that the parliament therefore is illegitimate now what this means is this could spark further on rests

thousands of homes in the west bank in retaliation over the palestinians un status update upgrade artie'smiddle east correspondent policy or has more. what we're witnessing is that israel is continuing with its expansion of settlements and this new announcement is that it has approved the building of some one thousand two hundred new secure homes in globe which is a neighborhood in east jerusalem across the green line it comes in less than a month after israel's controversial statement that it was planning to build in the one corridor all which links jerusalem to the west bank and this is a real line for many states and certainly we've witnessed that kind of criticism and condemnation from the international community since the palestinians went to the united nations several weeks ago for upgraded statehood there have been some five and a half thousand new secure homes announced in terms of what the israelis were building israel has undergone as i say strong international criticism for these announcements with many in the international community voicing their intense displeasure at these a

deal slashes interest rates delays payments and even pushes back or stereotyped deadlines but is artie's peter all of an i reports those footing the bill aren't all that happy. germany will be giving more financial aid towards greece we saw m.p.'s voting with four hundred seventy three saying yes to this aid package one hundred saying no and eleven stand shin's now what this does mean no and it's been talked about throughout the week is next year alone it could cost germany over seven hundred million euros but we are seeing the politicians at least giving their support financial support towards greece but that support isn't being particularly backed up by some of the electorate here people on the streets of germany suggesting that perhaps greece should be left to its own devices. that is enough because we won't see this money ever again. at some point it should be stopped it's high time they were capable of helping themselves we're ok for now but some day we could also go broke there's arlen specter to vote this is all use we have already given at least so much more and they should start

them being children according to medical experts the victims were shot multiple times with a rifle artie's got it more from washington. there's still lots of questions as to what happened at that elementary school in connecticut the shooter has been identified at this point it was adam lanza twenty year old who went into his mother's kindergarten class she was a teacher at that school and wiped out the entire class twenty children were killed in the carnage eighteen children died at the scene to the hospital those were five year olds six year old small children the shooter also targeted and killed six adults and unless his mother the teacher was also found dead in her home near the school the suspected three is the suspected shooter had three guns on him as he went into the school two handguns and one semiautomatic weapon all reportedly registered to adam lanza's mother a witness said there must have been one hundred rounds fired after killing all these people at unless they were reportedly shot himself there has been a number of horrifying shootings at schools in the u.s. in the past but

ok well thanks paula we will have to leave it there that is a artie's paula slayer in television. russia to talk over the syria conflict in the face of a widening rift between the two is president putin. to keep which leads calls for international action on the conflict has asked night to deploy patriot missiles at its border with syria moscow says the move will only provoke more tension let's get more now on this from. thanks for joining. us on the table for the two we know syria is predicted to be a focal point that we. yes we actually do expect syrian issue to be the focal point of the meeting of course russia has repeatedly voiced its concern with the situation in syria and has repeatedly said that this is a privately it's a private syrian matter and turning it into a conflict between other countries and allowing a foreign or outside interference into the cause that is not just damaging but catastrophic for the entire region however turkey seems to be deaf and blind to all the calls coming from moscow or anybody else. point out to the fact that placing patriot missiles on the

be stripped of the prize artie's peter all over explains just what the people are unhappy with. the remark for little children. will one day live in a nation where they will not be deterred by the call about him but by the content of back character our appetite the one it can be probably would have become the laureate if the home be assassinated however the nobel peace prize is only awarded to a living person but this is when a test such trying terror especially when it comes to finances the announcement the european union was to pick up the twenty twelve gong sparked a heated debate the award was being discredited particularly after the outrage of who is picked it up. recently see what the e.u. done over the last twelve months to come vince the nobel committee it's with the of such a prestigious award. it supported regime change in foreign countries and several member states indulged in violent crackdowns on demonstrators outraged by the failure of the government's. skeptics and nuff it devalues the whole concept of the nobel peace prize what's really happening is that the euro

and artie can't take it. >> you are out. >> no, i'm not. >> oh, yeah.k him out. >> no, i didn't. >> three strikes you're out. oh! well, it's not boring anymore. >> i think the new way of raising kids has some really good things about it. and i think no abuse, no beating, no saying you'll never amount to anything. all that is -- i'm glad a lot of that is gone. i am. but on the other hand, everybody is the same, you know, everyone is equal. everyone is equal to a degree. but some people have a lot more talent than others. do you know what i'm saying? >> reporter: before you brush off their parent parent, consider this. we did some research about the two of you. do you know that the two of you share something that's very uncommon in hollywood? >> no, what is that? >> reporter: long marriages. >> long marriages. >> reporter: it's fascinating. >> it is fascinating. we're swapping next week. >> 43 years in june. >> 28. >> so 71 years of marriage here. >> reporter: what's good about getting older? >> not a damn thing. >> reporter: do you feel smarter? >> i do.

political institutions but campaigners say the nation's on a slippery slope to a sunni dictatorship artie's alexy our shares looked at the struggle between the government and the opposition and who could benefit from it. when it came to supporting calls for democracy in middle eastern and north african states while denouncing government sponsored violence leaders of the west were vocally critical former gadhafi has lost legitimacy to lead and he must leave one. takes that will be a reckoning for this dreadful regime but when scenes of violent clashes between riot police and reform campaign risk game from bahrain the definition of democracy shifted and there was a suspiciously muted response. in the summer of the us state department came up with a statement expressing its concerns over the human rights situation and alleged torture in bahrain this was only several months after washington had restarted weapons sales to this gulf state it is claimed that the weaponry is defensive but hardly anyone in the opposition believes that dissenters in bahrain have been directing anger at their governme

ok thank you paula that's artie's paula slayer live from tel aviv. but after stepping on the road to recovery the u.k. is preparing to begin the new year recession free but in the northeast one of britain's poorest regions the financial downturn widespread unemployment has had a potentially devastating effect on people's mental health according to a recent report the region has almost three times the rate of self harm and attempted suicide as london r.t. sara first reports. as we'll saying in its grim up north it's a perception of life in some of the nation's other major cities recessions hit the case hard it's been in the northeast where it's been felt particularly acutely. recession and that is right down in here i mean you know the very people who are living on the poverty line trade union leader about scott's furious with the government's decision to close sunderland's rempel a factory it's a government venture that began back in the nine hundred forty s. to provide employment the people with disabilities two weeks before christmas the government

only added fuel to the fire as media speculation about the royal baby reached fever pitch and as artie's a public boyko reports analysts say the frenzy had already hit almost a hysterical level of coverage all this taking place against a backdrop of intense media speculation as a real media circus a la the whole pos week i have right now is that tape middleton is pregnant we've seen discussions about whether or not they could be having twins if take has twins which of the baby. these potential babies would be the ones succeeding to the throne if it was if they were delivered by c. section it would be the physician potentially deciding it is the successor to the british want to key we've seen bookmakers taking bets on what this baby might be called predictions that this will already be the most popular name in britain as soon as the name is announced all this you know when we've got real news taking place in syria political crisis in egypt and. the press much more interested in kate middleton's acute morning sickness i'm joined by cost curve in the studio here with me he's in london journ

where a protester set himself on fire triggering the string of uprising has across the region as artie'sare going to go now reports many of those who helped usher in the changes in two thousand and ten say they are still no better off. it began here in tunisia two years ago when a poverty stricken fruit vendor serve himself on fire in an act of desperation so i'm saying he was a hero others say he was a drunkard with a history of psychological problems whatever more hala was this is real motivation was his act of self-immolation set up a string of events which became known as the arab spring decades old regimes were toppled what came to replace them is hardly what most of the people in these countries had in mind when they were doing the revolutions they wanted freedom of speech and free elections bred on their tables and jobs what they got seems to be a very different result situationist war strike comparison. and comparison to the us before. the revolution personally i don't feel safe. when we see. all the violence of the police sore or of salafist. in from kuala smash attacked by some

and you can watch artie's full interview with a surrogate lover of hair on monday. sanjay is promising wiki leaks will release more than a million secret files over the next year in publications that will affect every country in the world he gave a christmas address from the ecuadorian embassy in london where he's been ensconced for half a year what was his first public appearance since august. has more than. the world's media and a lot of supporters have come out for him this evening also holding a candlelight vigil he called the crowd when he came out a sight for sore eyes and then he marked his six months in the embassy by talking about it saying that he entered the building and it's become his home and his right to the principles of the dorians is people who have taken him in and then he said that he is able to communicate to the people here unlike two hundred thirty two journalists who are currently in jail all over the world he named a few of them and he also spoke of bradley manning who have put is accused of leaking documents to wiki leaks and he said he sub

for a transitional government as the country succumbs to being a fertile ground for terrorists but artie's news crews recall how they covered the conflict in twenty twelve. and president putin signals he will sign the bill which includes a ban on americans adopting russian children while pledging to improve the lives of orphans within the country. good to have you company watching r.t. live from moscow with may and tree farm. now gun sales are surging to record levels in the u.s. president obama's pledge to tackle firearms ownership in the wake of the sandy hook school massacre has seen the shooting spree develop into a shopping spree for guns. and spoke to some of the store owners who are cashing in . about two minutes ago actually on this particular wall here. they are four rows down four rows across. with everything going probably to trade now with the possible everything everyone is floating. or just to the right away gun stores all across the u.s. are reporting record sales just two weeks after the tragic shooting at the elementary school in newtown americans are scrambling to buy the

you're watching artie china's new government is ready fall for maker promising to revamp its image for de kittens and crack down on corruption so it's a huge entourages and bankers and the red carpets will be rolled up and stuart the aim is to save money and prevent any more of the recent high level political scandals dr chan gang from the national university of singapore believes it's all due to outside pressure. of course the new leadership on the. communist party know i was a big problem in its crisis which means actually the poverty all the bottom of the social media has caused them more and more dollars on the corrupt us lavish lifestyle. communist party congress we also witness to. a serious reports by the international media talking about. scandals in the corrupt do a.v.'s related to the communist party. officials so i think you see it's a kind of also i'm not response to the international critics of. ari. on our t.v. dot com the hit and run story although let's motorized john mccarthy go online well we've lined up the latest about the former anti computer virus entrepreneur and

thousands of lives and brought down several regimes and is still ongoing in some countries but as artie's reports many of those who helped to usher the changes in two thousand and ten say they are no better off now. it began here in tunisia two years ago when a poverty stricken friends vendor set himself on fire in an act of desperation so i'm saying he was a hero others say he was a drunkard with mr and psychological problems whatever more holland was uses real motivation was his act of self-immolation set up a string of events which became known as the arab spring decades old regimes were toppled what came to replace them is hardly what most of the people in these countries had in mind when they were doing the revolutions he wanted freedom of speech and free elections reading little tables and one thing that seems to be very different result situation this war strike on comparison to or. in comparison to the before. the revolution personally i don't feel safe. when we see. all the violence of the police. or of the salafist. if unpoliced are backed by some nationalist people. there are l

artie's your piece going to thank you very much for that update. for ages a mother international news in brief now susan rice has withdrawn her name from contention for the purpose of u.s. secretary of state she's been under fire from republicans off to her initial comments on the deadly raid on the american consulate in benghazi she claims it had not been a terror attack announcement make senator john kerry the front runner to replace hillary clinton when she steps down next year. tens of thousands of people have gathered in the streets and squares of north korea as a rally to celebrate winces successful rocket launch it was widely condemned around the world including by the un with washington and if you're a p. and l. ife demanding more sanctions for pyongyang north korea claimed the rocket put a weather satellite into space and made accusation it was disguised missile test. the british government will pay over two million pounds as compensation to the family of a prominent libyan dissident he claimed to bridges m i six and played a key role in h

london also heard evidence apparently implicating the russian state in his murder more on this a from artie's your smith. this is not just about the sort of salacious details of spying on the world there is there are wider implications to this and of course it has been the major stumbling block in the u.k. russian relations for the last six years since it happened and it comes up every time there's any kind of problem in the relationship between russia and the u.k. and of course the main problem at the moment is syria and how much involvement the international community could have in syria but we hearing that the inquest lawyer has said that the u.k. government has material evidence that the russian state is guilty but interestingly under the law the english courts can't pass judgment on the lawfulness of the behavior of another state so that's an interesting point which i'm sure will come up again when the inquest is held but of course we've seen no details of this evidence which is interesting the u.k. government has kept its evidence very close to its chest meanwhile there is convincing ev

isolate extremist groups while allowing the rebels to up the struggle against the syrian government artie's guy nature can look at who at the end of the day is fighting in the assad camp. they call themselves martyrs. all those you see around you of the fighters you see are living martyrs and the living martyr has already sacrificed a soul for this country the syrian rebels say they will stop at nothing to defeat us. some of them are so proud of their deeds that they post them on the web including the execution of prisoners. or having a child behead a man who was presumably an assault supporter atrocities are committed on all fronts during syria's bloody civil war according to many accounts on the ground islamic groups that do most of the fighting on behalf of the rebels dr tatar we come meet was a member of a jihadi spoken ization twenty five years ago he later became a vocal opponent of radical islam that you have this have no problem to behead people alive you deal with people like bin ladin and there are because of al qaida who have no his e.t.a. shin to use any form of whip around to r

went unnoticed in the western world but all of this is energizing the resistance even more there's artie's loosely counted off explains. the new dawn rises over kuwait tensions are simmering beneath the calm as those seeking political change are forced to wait another day. to one sleepy community into a powerful nation although it's been ruled by the same family for more than two centuries kuwait is widely seen as the most imma cry tick of the gulf monarchies get some young kuwaitis beg to differ there is a few countries you can see you want to see you definitely think this through to the people but. it's just for show it's not for you the government says it is doing all it can to maintain stability supporters of the ruling family point out that it boasts a robust public life with electoral traditions and a vibrant parliament for youth actually. that's not enough the opposition consists of an unlikely alliance of youth groups hard line islamists and local tribes who are ramping up their calls for reform increasingly they've taken their message to the street where peaceful demonstrations ha

does not deserve the award as artie's peter all are found out these aren't the only issues undermining the credibility of the prize. remark or little children. will one day live in a marriage from a web a will not be deterred by that quote about them but by the content of our current our our time the one that can be probably good if you come from some silly. however the nobel peace prize is only good to a living person this is when it text search criteria especially when it comes to finances. the announcement the european union was to pick up the twenty twelve gongs sparked a heated debate the award was being discredited particularly after the outrage of who's picked it up recently well to be frank inside the united states i don't think very many people pay attention to the nobel peace prize anymore large numbers of americans were stunned when yasser arafat received the nobel peace prize many years ago president obama was given a prize for reasons that no one understood see what's. done over the last twelve months to convince the nobel committee it's with the of such a prestigious awar

thousand euros some ten times less than last year's budget with a shortfall topped up by a donation as artie's peter all for found out all across europe leaders are wishing their christmas money worries would simply disappear. and since it's a time of goodwill and cheer and giving and for one particularly jolly gent it is busiest time of the year but santa has taken a little bit of time out from clear delivering presents to the boys and girls to join me here in central berlin high something. well if not come on the sled that i say no no it's just a segway it's more comfortable you know keeping within the twenty first century there and you've got some letters from the boys and girls that you're going to share with us something here ok all right now this one has come from a little boy in greece he says exactly what he wants for christmas and for twenty thirteen. dear santa for christmas i would really like a fiscal policy which would see my country's debt be reducing one hundred twenty four percent of our annual output from twenty twenty i know that this is a big ask but it will stop the interna

deploy patriot missiles at its border with syria moscow says the move will only provoke more tension artie's it in the now reports. russian president loves it which was quite extensive agenda for his visit in the sun full of course a lot of documents are expected to be signed concerning the cultural and economic cooperation between russia and turkey but it's not so much the issues which the two countries are agreeing on this the issues on which i was going for i had sort of disagreements about which will be the focus of the meetings of course these are mostly dealing with gaza and the us about that its recent conflict with israel and of course the issue with syria now you have to remember that uncle rod has just recently filed an official petition to nato which was dietrich missiles on the border with syria turkey says that it's afraid our possible spillover from the civil unrest in its closest neighboring countries into the produce territory but russian army adamant that putting weapons on the border with other countries. use possibility of those weapons actually being used in the search wh

covered by renewable sources by twenty twenty that could prove to be too costly for the public as artie's laura smith investigates. wind turbines turn in the breeze they might not generate much power but they're certainly putting people in a spin it's a route that dividing david cameron's coalition government to get his energy minister says he's against wind farms and enough is enough while his energy secretary says he's got no hope for them to speak for the government the energy secretary or the energy minister or the prime minister but in this case he doesn't seem quite sure there's been no change to alter newel energy but in the same breath he hinted the number of wind farms could be reviewed after current targets are fulfilled this would anger the liberals but greatly pleased those who say wind farms are an expensive waste of time such as landowner philip merrick's who lives near little cheney caught wind farm the locals were united against it every single democratically local organization that's the councils were against it but of course the developers very careful they dished out a

together europe's biggest energy giants and we'll see russian gas pump straight to the continent artie's met in a question about reports. on the school's winter day in may not sim like it but this beach is a gateway to fun and sun a so when you russians during their holidays and now this place will also become a gateway for russian gas into europe this day marks the start of the construction of one of the most ambitious and certainly expensive energy supply systems on earth no surprise that there was plenty of come out the ground breaking ceremony such as to the importance of being placed on the project that president clinton himself was fear of the gulf stream pipeline will go directly from the black sea to bulgaria and on to greece italy and austria the project was dreamed up on to the idea the more the merrier not the words of the more punch lines the more secure the delivery to customers will be now it's a need that arose from transit countries ukraine in particular disrupted deliveries on a number of occasions and the fazzt fifty percent of the pipeline will be owned by russian ener

accusing the ruling of monarchy of changing the election rules to influence the outcome of the poll artie's was a tough enough is in the gulf state with the latest poll the polls are closed doors olds are in but the battle over kuwait's political future has only just begun as expected the new parliament is largely consisting of folks who are considered to be closely allied with the ruling power but that is because the opposition didn't front any candidates in a boycott of the vote they've even questioned the outcome before the last ballot was cast voter turnout varied widely from polling place to polling place but with a very low numbers at some locations the legitimacy of the results are certainly bound to be. questioned now the crisis was sparked after the islamist dominated parliament who was dismissed over a row with the ruling power of the situation was then brought to a boiling point after the emir issued a surprise decree changing the country's complicated voting laws critics allege that it was a move in order to force a more compliant parliament which had sparked massive street batt

soldiers training the new libyan army artie's gan she can report on why america is so happy to help. the pentagon's new outlook forget about full scale invasion is and large footprint occupations instead think of special ops and fluffy are the next destination libya the obama administration has received congressional approval to allocate money for a special unit reportedly made up of some five hundred people who will train the country's forces according to one libyan militia commander a team of americans is already in the country looking for recruits a major obstacle in their wary a vastly divided society there isn't an army and libya now and the army is not going to be because whenever you try and get militias which have been beaten says to a variety of rays of things that the national interest so they have allegiance to a dr or to a sect or to a religion rather than having allegiance to the nation or to the country you cannot build an army but with training and aid fully via the us we have more pragmatic goals then the nineteen the army you were just teaching them the best way to f

was dependent on ifans buying back some of its debts before getting a vital cash injection but as artie's put all of the reports the deal might not be as good as the full eurozone. greece has given its financial backers something of an early christmas present by buying back a chunk of its debt from them however when they take the wrapping paper off but if they don't find it's a little less which they've asked for as part of a bone to buy back scheme which saw things buy back its own problems at around thirty four percent of their original value the international monetary fund how expected greece to be able to get its debt situation down to one hundred twenty four percent of all economic output by twenty twenty really does not seem likely right now this is cause the i.m.f. to say well we won't be lending any more money to any countries that can't pay back their debts however there is a dangerous precedent with this in terms of greece being able to return the money of course private investors private creditors see greece well a lot of banks and a lot of insurance companies are already have

intervention washington reportedly believes that president assad is preparing to use chemical weapons and as artie's granted he can reports allegations could be all it takes. u.s. officials said intelligence agencies have detected that assad's government has been preparing its chemical weapons stockpiles for possible use the obama administration's message to syria the u.s. is ready to act if you make the tragic mistake of using these weapons there will be consequences and you will be held accountable there will be consequences. there will be consequences we have sent a an unmistakable message that this would cross a red line how does america the media quickly picked up on the alarming news of the syrian government's alleged plans citing secret intelligence for fox news confirms that syrian troops now have the deadly nerve agent sarin gas weaponized and at the ready the syrian government flatly denied the possibility saying it would not use such weapons against its people. we would not commit suicide we fear there's a conspiracy to provide a pretext for any subsequent interventions in syria by these

is policy all right into the arty world update now some other global headlines for you in brief starting with a powerful site at one now approaching the islands of fiji it's already devastated parts of samoa leaving at least four dead eight injured and the cyclon is expected to make landfall on sunday night fiji's interim prime minister already warning the entire country will be affected. it's been announced that the computer hacker gary mckinnon will face no charges in the u.k. the forty six year old waged a decade long struggle to avoid trial for one of the largest ever breaches of u.s. national security shortly after the attacks of nine eleven and mckinnon managed to hack into the top secret systems of both the pentagon and nasa prosecutors said there was little chance of a conviction and earlier this year his extradition to america was finally blocked. now many britons are preparing for a scant christmas dinner with soaring food prices forcing people to ditch holiday delicacies the cost of food is up by a third in just five years leaving many families with slim pickings as the report

been killed in a war which has cost the government a staggering seventeen billion pounds and it's artie's twenty point two explains the sum is raising a few eyebrows especially with austerity cuts being felt at home. seventeen billion pounds the british government has just revealed that that's been the cost of the so far eleven year war in afghanistan now it was a very field at the same time as a clearer timetable was announced for troop withdrawal from the region but it's those seventeen billion pounds that are being spent that have been spent on for the war on top of the existing defense budget which means the estimates for the final price tag for the afghan war might be something around twenty billion half an ounce and of course the u.k. is going to keep sending money to afghanistan after twenty fourteen they're going to be spending from thing like seventeen million pounds for aid towards the afghan national security forces after twenty fourteen and this is all at the same time as the government announcing prolonged all series here at home that's going to continue until at least twenty

two thousand and eighteen pensions will be rated even more with those on welfare suffering as well arty's her first reports from london well everyone how not to be picking their way through the fact that i think it's a while was there or not i think it is one thing but it was very very clear enough that the u.k. is set to face even that all started you know what they say they say to the u.k. economy is going to shrink by nowhere. one percent by the end of twenty twelve now it sounds like a small amount but of course no sign of that all important in fact what we're seeing is that borrowing has gone up the debt has risen and fallen and most crucially i think is probably the fact that the government had no reduction target so we're now facing an extended austerity program this day so it's right the way to twenty eighteenth's a pretty gloomy outlook and this is what we're. also going to really not be more millions of families all across the again one thing here and of course this is really going to bring in real terms to speak to us more about this or some statement by the chance that today i

this is artie leading a bull ready he would write sex now bill rodgers had his prison term cut from three to two years rajib spent in prison since august charges of organizing and legal gatherings and inciting violence he said to have been expecting though to have been released since the international pressure is mounting on the monarchy to stop persecuting political activists the uprising in bahrain has been ongoing now for almost two years with a shia majority demanding democratic fold from the city really family but you have political analysts part of having said it does even if anything's going to change any time soon. to really genuine democratic reform in a country like bahrain it is a state housing the u.s. naval fleet there the same time washington and london are talking and television were talking restively baiting i read into a military conflict perhaps makes it a huge problem to see any real reform happening now in bahrain but you know the the opposition movement has been for the most part peaceful the danger is that a radical element could see through like we've seen in countr

country says it wants to aid small businesses and help rebuild impoverished neighborhoods but as artie's alexei jarosz of ski reports the gulf states investment is being met with suspicion. france is already no stranger to qatari dollars fans of parisian football club present your man cannot believe their luck ever since middle east and shakes invested into the team they've bought world class players and hired a top coach now this small business owner hopes he can also have a slice of the pie and huge economic crisis financing from governments are. too big to be obtained talking about cuts or we are talking about business we don't have any finance so we have the financing of financial. we can go ahead and that may soon happen nicolas sarkozy's administration cemented ties with doha placing a military base in the gulf state and signing an investment deal now guitarist invest fifty million euros into the french economy primarily to help small businesses and rebuild parisian slums mostly inhabited by immigrants from arabic and african states. who oversaw the deal says this will help many th