is going to face major trouble artie's marina portnoy explains. over the past decade america has spent hundreds of billions in the name of national security wars military intervention fighting terrorist and hunting online hackers meantime getting much less attention is a domestic danger lurking in and lighting up every corner of the country the u.s. power grid in recent months federal officials have warned that america's electric cables substations and transformers are not sufficiently secured and are vulnerable to attack by anyone with a weapon and some basic know how experts say the energy grid is also outdated and antiquated unable to prevent outages from cascading in october superstorm sandy hit twenty four states causing some sixty three billion dollars in damage more than four and a half million people lost power and new york was left crippled by massive floods leaving much of the city including half of the big apple plunged into darkness two months after the storm the streets of downtown manhattan remain clogged with tubes wires and heavy e

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reporting from berlin now artie's peter on. well it was all one shakes and slaps on the back of them a piece went through what cyprus is done in the six months tenure as the e.u. presidency as the president of cyprus saying that it was a time in which they the chief significant results and targets strange words considering that it was also a period in which the e.u. went through rising unemployment no agreement on an e.u. budget and in which cyprus continued to ask for a bailout i have to say a bailout which from here in germany many politicians of all across the bundestag are very reluctant to approve this amid allegations of widespread tax fraud cypriot banks but what happens next the baton gets passed on of the e.u. presidency gets passed on to the island of course the country has had its own problems this baton essentially saving to be passed on in the relay race of the fiscally toxic island of course had to receive the e.u. and i.m.f. bailout money they've also had their own problems with unemployment and it's up to them t

the actor citizenship after he turned his back on his native france in iraq over escalating taxes artie's medina courtin ever has the details. according to russian president's press secretary dmitry peskov currencies are as a preview is on a personal tweet to some achieve and there is a possibility of that he might attend an informal meeting with president flies middle pugin and there he might be given his brand new russian passport meanwhile gerard depardieu has already been granted russian citizenship and before that he really now needs his french citizenship and move to belgium where reportedly he has some real estate now this news comes as french president francois juan is trying to push forward a law that will see french citizens who earn more than one million euro piece seventy five percent of their earnings to taxes meanwhile in another french legendary movie i can brigitte bardot is also think in following the footsteps of georgi for you however firmly is backed by simply feel good reason you know she's also a veteran anymore rights campaigner and she has threatened to apply for r

billboard top with artie's or smith where exact about where exactly this cash is ending up. well let me give you three quite stark examples the first is the example of british aid to ethiopia which totals three hundred million pounds evidence studies b.b.c. investigation shows that in fact it wasn't used to help poor people it was used by the ethiopian government to cement a corrupt hold on power the u.k. government refutes that saying that the money doesn't even go through the government but according to human rights watch they say it does and this investigation showed that in fact supporters of the opposition weren't allowed to receive food or seeds or fertilizer which is what the aid was destined for a second example is in india a three hundred eighty eight million pound project aimed at improving indian schools the government here hailed as a huge success they said more children are going to school as a result of it but the indian government says that around seventy million pounds of it was either stolen or lost much of it was allocated to schools that didn't even exist

it rules it will follow and which ones it won't let's get more of what europe's been saying with artie's praeter all of us standing by live join us here on the program peter so france and germany not too happy apparently what's being said. well as you can imagine david cameron's speech was watched very very closely here in mainland europe and it's been greeted with concern pretty much all across the board here in germany the foreign minister it did or face the veil and said that a u.k. exit from the e.u. would be a bad thing he said that germany remained committed to trying to make the union stronger and it wanted britain wanted great britain to be part of that want the united kingdom to be part of a to help with their making the stronger but he said that you know germany have their own problems with brussels having too much power in their opinion over domestic policy of member states however the way that david cameron was looking at going about changing not wasn't the way forward a similar type of reaction in france from the french foreign minister he said that well it was that it could

involvement in foreign states artie's going to camp explains in his inaugural speech president obama sort of for spawn it to those who have been wondering whether the u.s. will continue on the track of interventions here is what he said we were new those institutions that extend our capacity to manage crisis abroad for no one has a greater stake in a peaceful world than its most powerful nation. we support democracy from asia to africa from the americas to the middle east because our interests and our conscience compel us to act on behalf of those who long for freedom so from asia to africa or from the americas to the middle east that pretty much covers the whole world so we could potentially see interventions by the united states pretty much anywhere and one wonders how different it is from george w. bush's speeches about advancing freedom and democracy in the world which the u.s. has been doing mainly with bombs but president obama's remarks do not come as a surprise to those who've been following his policies in the last four years which included the u.s. in gauging in undeclared

militant group behind initial attack claimed their avenging french intervention in neighboring mali artie's bully boy who reports from paris. what we have heard and the reports flying about that a number of the civilian hostages were executed by the islamic militants that were holding them hostage at the gas plant it's a very remote area where the gas plant is located so that's why the details are so hard to come by but from what we've also heard that the algerian army then in turn killed a number of the islamic militants so we've got an increasing amount of it looks like a dead civilian hostage is a very tragic turn of events it's a siege that actually has been going on since thursday it's been a standoff between the algerian army and the islamic militants who were trying to occupy this plant and. among the civilian hostages we know that there were brits americans japanese citizens know french citizens from what we know so the hostage takers have the hostage takers have said all along that this is a retaliation for the french intervention in mali now we've even heard one jihadist leader sa

but with more and more clothing being imported from overseas could prove tricky as artie's war smith reports. it's got the british flag on it but all these clothes made in britain a quick look at the label shows they're not made in china or made in vietnam anywhere but here and down on the high street the story's no different you'd be hard pushed to find anything with a made in britain label on it in any shop a recent survey by a daily mail journalist found just one item in sixty three with a british made label but now david cameron and his ministers are being urged to back british from their hats to their socks and wear only british made clothes it's not impossible there are companies that still make clothes in the u.k. including the firm that's doing the urging private whites p.c. but the vast majority of what we were ninety percent at the last count and including everything i'm wearing today is made abroad since two thousand and fifty two percent has jobs in the textile industry have disappeared and we imported twelve and a half billion pounds worth more clothing than we export it

militant group behind the attack claimed they were avenging french intervention in neighboring mali as artie's polly boyko reports many see france's military campaign in west africa as a hunt for natural resources. we don't always but it's terrorism was about to overwhelm the friendly country the terrorism that threatens not just all of west africa but also the entire world. he's vowed that france won't stop its intervention in mali until islamic extremism in the country is stamped out the military has announced that it's going to be sending more troops but the total set to exceed two hundred thousand a stated goal to help the government in bamako drive out his list insurgents before the francoise alarms talk of freedom and democracy critics say the french government you see as a for the military offensive could be linked to other elements u.a.d. of these fronts. and many people say a huge cost is a huge factor in its economy and it's something that not only mali but specifically niger and other neighboring parts where the tourist people reside. sits on top of almost every single light bulb in

status to a nonmember observer state but despite this the nation is still a long way from unity as artie's paul asli reports thousands of families are torn apart by barriers put up by israel. this is the arrows crossing one of five land crossings between israel and gaza getting through here is tough you need the right permission and papers but this crossing does not just separate israel from gaza it also divides families who are trapped on either side of the border these are the tears of a boy who hasn't seen his father in three years mohammed al qaeda run left gaza in search of a bit of a life for his family but what he found on the other side of the border was loneliness and despair and what he left behind destress and fear is i miss my father a lot and i want to see him i'm afraid a lot my father must come back here we must go and live with him but he can't come and we can't go. all they have now to remind him of him are photographs and the occasional phone call. loved me i can't live like this anymore i'm sick i'm having a nervous breakdown this happens when a man is very sad when he h

in the heart of the russian capital artie's tom barton has more for us. here at the christ the savior cathedral the main cathedral in the russian capital in churches and cathedrals both here across russia and in all for the communities across the world it isn't fact christmas it would be awful lot church in the in the crisis a few cathedral worshippers have packed in to take part in to listen to the liturgy chanted and to feel the presence of of the spirit of christmas eve which is here celebrated on the sixth to the seventh of january not the twenty fifth of december because of the use of the julian calendar here by the russian orthodox church rather than the gregorian calendar in other countries after the soviet union which is just over the end of the soviet union just over twenty years ago there was a a large gap in the number of believers after that long atheist period and even today most russians don't strictly observe the russian orthodox christmas for most russians new year is the real celebration but there is a significant number of of strict reli

still enjoys man a unique political and financial privileges its current state is less than secure as artie's folly boyko found out. one of the most religiously diverse nations in the world with one official state religion to some it's a paradox but i think any institute any faith institution like the church of england is going to have some potential threats on the horizon and those threats on the horizon are basically around its relevance to communities in general other faiths are significantly growing in their population but the voice in a social and political level so it's really important to have a plurality of opinion rather than just focus on one institution as being reflective of the nation yet the national church has twenty six on the elected members in the house of lords the upper house of britain's parliament and it enjoys financial privileges courtesy of the u.k. taxpayer by the church's own admission the number of people coming through the doors of this and every other church in england has hard over the past forty years the very same report even warns that in the longer term the

drew fire from abby martin the host of artie's breaking the set and she thinks things will get even worse in two thousand and thirteen. really when we're talking about drones actually a really serious topic because people are under this notion that drones are somehow precise they're the good way to fight the war on terror really they completely are counterintuitive they create in the harbor more terrorists they have a ninety eight percent failure rate i mean so why are we using and i mean it's just amazing to me that this president is rain on drones and taking on more and more drones and then not only that but i mean the surveillance drones are going to happen in this country in two thousand and thirteen congress passed a bill to now authorize surveillance drones all over the united states so this is just not going to stop it's going to get worse decide from the from the deaths and the double tap drones that we have in the middle eastern countries now is going to create a chilling effect where people aren't going to want to dissent as much and that's the real problem with the online priva

president bashar al assad is for regional and international powers to stop supporting armed groups artie's alexia share of ski was following what he said. but there has certainly been rather interesting quotes coming from the syrian president he in fact called to hold an international reconciliation conference to end of the violence and the military conflict which is going on be going on for almost two years now in syria and this initiative according to assad will lead to a national wide referendum and fair election which is the only way according to the syrian president that the political landscape in this country can be changed but this initiative can only be possible according to assad if the western countries and some regional countries as he put it stop investing into terrorist groups which are fighting to overthrow his his regime has been again pretty much a defined don't think that the only way that syria will listen to the outside world is through a device not through a dictating will this speech of the syrian president comes amid very serious concerns about the safety of journalis

so artie reporting from sunderland. that brings up today for the moment i'll be back with the news team and more free in just over a huff an hour from now in the meantime cross talk with peter navarro is next. right wing t.v. host glenn beck is going to build his own utopia beck plans to put together a massive social experiment building his own city which will be totally independent from the evil grasp of government and the outside world where residents will have to learn how to survive on their own make their own things and grow their own food the future city called independence usa will be based on libertarian principles with hints of iran flavor there will be no handouts and no help for the self-sufficiency minded residents but back may need some help himself because building the city could cost about two billion dollars the thing is that commentators about politics like glenn beck and horse truly have a very easy job and it's easy to point out what is wrong with society but it is another thing entirely to try to cha

you know a no suggestions just under a metre nervous law in belfast artie's thanks to both sides in the weeks old flood conflict as they struggle to explain what that demands actually are. and franz gives assurances its military operation against the minor islamists will be short and warnings the country risks being bogged down in the conflict for far longer than planned. news from russia and around the world this is r.t. was me. hello and a very warm welcome to the program the product of a criminal justice system rife with intimidation and overreach this is how the family of the celebrated internet freedom activist arash watts have described his recent surfside schwartz faced decades in prison after federal prosecutors allege he illegally downloaded millions of academic papers and planned to distribute them for free he has frequently interviewed transcend our own marina takes a closer look now at the man and his skates. he was a computer prodigy an online optimist co-founder of the social news website reddit and he was also a frequent guest on our team but twenty six year old aaron swa

i'm kevin all in this is artie. beyond borders and beyond the courts eleven years on guantanamo remains open for business and labor party looks at the interrogation nerve center of america's war on terror. the government no longer represents the people the people are going to take the term. at least in the traditional split in the evolution of the. the way our economic system currently is not a. little bit like. what. i. led a mission of free cretaceous free in-store charges free to make amends free risk free studio time free. download free broadcast quality video for your media projects and free media. dot com. live well. science technology innovation all the list of elements from around russia we've got the future covered. it. i live. hold it. hold it. please. please. explain. and over the speed. of her. i wish i. looked. like a missile good luck. just see the monitor and i'm a. little out front i'm a little. because of recent events guns have a become a big issue all over the usa both sides are throwing their tal

international powers are keeping silent on the incident which has sparked condemnation from russia artie's call of sleeper reports. if indeed this is waiting military strike inside syria is concerned moscow has condemned it in the strongest possible terms saying that it was unprovoked and it was a strike against a sovereign state that is in violation of international law and is unacceptable now what we understand is that israeli warplanes bombed and this is according to syrian sources a military research same time outside damascus where at least two sites workers were killed now there are also reports also suggesting. that the war planes bombed a convoy of weapons that were making their way from syria to lebanon allegedly to on his beloved now the syrians have denied this now we are hearing from an unnamed american official that prior to this incident tel aviv had in fact informed washington that it was planning a military attack inside syria there is the opinion that this attack could consolidate military forces inside syria against a common arab enemy namely israel and that it will merel

off to mentors of domestically predicting that europe will just walk out of the crisis this year as artie's kitty pilgrim reports that the rich and powerful who gathered at the world economic forum offered lots of promises but no clear strategies. double's twenty thirteen is now the world's most influential policymakers pack up their design a suit and head home at least me hair at meiring the beauty of the swiss alps as you can see but also trying to look beyond them to work out what exactly was achieved here well first of all we had russian prime minister dmitri medvedev now he spoke about the need to diversify the economy away from oil and crack on with structural reforms but you know we've heard that before that was something new we also had british leader david cameron he came here he had some tough words to say for tax avoiders but really the very topic people wanted to press him on here was the fact that he will be calling an e.u. referendum for the british public in twenty seventy the business community here they felt that that was a poor amateur announcement and that it would do the

international powers are keeping silent on the incident which is sparse condemnation from russia artie's polis leader reports. if indeed this israeli military strike inside syria is concerned moscow has condemned it in the strongest possible terms saying that it was unprovoked and it was a strike against a sovereign state that is in violation of international law and is unacceptable now what we understand is that israeli warplanes bombed and this is according to syrian sources a military research same town outside damascus where at least two sites workers were killed now there are some reports also suggesting that the war planes bombed a convoy of weapons that were making their way from syria to lebanon allegedly to on his beloved now the syrians have denied this now we are hearing from an unnamed american official that prior to this incident tel aviv had in fact informed washington that it was planning a military attack inside syria there is the opinion that this attack could consolidate military forces inside syria against a common arab enemy namely israel and that it will merely bring

show the coalition government has raced twice as many taxes as cut despite promises to ease the pain artie's probably boyko reports by the end of this parliament the u.k. public will have seen cuts to some one hundred and nineteen various taxes that all sounds great but for a government that's promised to create a lower tax country needs that they've actually increased some two hundred ninety nine of the taxes might be somewhat confusing the brits the same going to see an extra levy on carbon dioxide emissions that means energy bills are going to go up they're also going to see an increase in air passenger g.t. which means more expensive at travel and then some of the recent. changes to u.k. tax law quite simply bizarre revenue and customs recently increased. for hairdressers renting a chair in a salon and then who can forget the recent. good scandal when u.k. tax code stated that a pasty would only be taxed if it was sold at above ambient temperatures critics say the system is simply too chaotic britain has one of the most complex times. killed jobs increases prices and it lowers wages so t

with the country planning to build more defensive walls on its territory it considers its own as artie's alexei or said ski not reports. if you were allowed to invest your money into israel's construction companies those supplying materials for defensive walls you would have probably made a hefty profit government decision suggests they will never run out of business and . we intend to erect a fence along the golan heights we know that on the other side of our border with syria today the syrian army has moved away and in its place global jihad forces have moved in therefore we will defend this border against both infiltration and terrorism. that would make a third defensive wall in less than twenty years along with the one in jerusalem and on the border with egypt barriers with lebanon and jordan are also being discussed all have the same just difficult security reasons israel built a concrete wall in the west bank more than a decade ago to protect itself from palestinian terrorism years on not only it is still dividing the land and the people but the opinions as well supporters of the d

meanwhile diplomats in syria are friendly iran says the attacks whole significant implications for israel artie's policy is in tel aviv with more details. now we are hearing from syria that israel did launch a military strike inside their country israel has not commented neither confirming nor denying these reports the syrian ambassador to lebanon did say that it was not clear when ever tell you would happen and that it was up to the powers that be to decide on such decisive action but he did say that it was an option and that it was and would be a surprise now the iranian deputy foreign minister has also stated that this israeli attack has serious implications for the israeli city of tel aviv and those are indeed quite harsh warnings what we understand from syria from syrian sources is that the israelis hit a research center not far from the capital city of damascus and that at least two unsigned workers were killed there are also reports that the strike hit a convoy of weapons that was making its way from syria to lebanon and now washington reportedly was warned by israel obvious intention to s

held talks in cairo on wednesday in the latest attempt to bridge the gap between their parties as artie's policy you're now reports it means a lot for palestinian families which have been divided by the political rivalry. it's been five long years since this family was together one thousand eight hundred days since i'm in a muslim last saw her son his crime belonging to a group the gaza government was opposed to except this time it wasn't the israelis who forced him into exile but hamas. with their money and house in gaza and headed for the west bank but it was only after the negotiations began with seventeen of us were given approval to go back home. it was back in two thousand and seven in a surprise coup that a must to control of gaza from why of all faction group fatah one hundred sixty one people were killed and more than seven hundred injured when the dust settled the palestinian people were divided a mass was in charge in gaza fatah called the shots in the west bank hundreds fled their homes from both in fear of their lives like other fatah supporters from gaza mohammad took refuge

minister benjamin netanyahu the right wing likud party leaving many voters apathetic and disillusioned artie's porous layer reports. the countdown has begun but instead of scanning the papers to brush up on who's saying what in the final hours before his radios head to the polls. is searching for an apartment the twenty eight year old is desperate to move out of his parents' home but times are tough and he blames the government right i'm not going to vote i see who are the candidates and there is no one standing who represents me or who can change the general mood in the country at that or the recent political justing that's all candidates move from one party to another in joost even more pessimism in people like musharraf who have lost trust in israeli politicians the union between bibi netanyahu and his foreign minister avigdor lieberman into biederman government the return of leave me former opposition leader back into the fray just a few months after announcing her time and only frustrated and already election where we public many israelis don't believe that the present politicians of the

francois along believes that the latest developments justify the ongoing offensive let's get more from artie's poly boy who is in paris this hour for us polly thanks for joining us i just want to ask you first there are reports of reporting of conflict worsening and then at the border of course what is the latest you have for us on this. well in this of the picture is by no means clear what we do know is that the algerian military launched a rescue attempt to free the b.p. gas plant where there were a number of international civilians workers who were being held hostage by islamist militants that now what we know is that this rescue attempt seems to have gone horribly wrong and we've got reports of sort of bloodshed that since you'd in the gas plant it's unclear whether it's now over or not wildly varying reports as to the number of casualties how many hostages are dead but we do know that at least two civilian workers two brits have been killed and up to as many as thirty more international hostages could be dead now these are peaceful civilians from all around the world that were working at

acting in behalf of the people of this nation it seems like the people always take a backseat and artie's economic expert as i think is the deal might indeed bring some short term relief but in the long run well the problems just aren't going any . the fiscal cliff is just more a theater bank. trying to distract people from the underlying root catastrophe that is a bunch of bankers who are manipulating the system day in and day out the strong economy this fiscal cliff is just more more theater and it doesn't really focus on the true underlying problems and we're going to see more of this going forward in two thousand and thirteen anything to the tension from the mob what they're pitchforks and torches there are coming after these people they want to just delay that day of reckoning for as many months as they can but that day's reckoning twenty thirteen it's coming. all right that same old stuff as always but the crazy to say the least you can always get more financial analysis and forecasts for the new year. any time you feel like it just a click away at. now recently leaked f.b.i. docume

how and where the big decisions about the global financial future are actually being made there's artie's peter all of of. have you ever heard the wall about the bank is the billions and bars of the chances are you probably haven't but six times a year central bank heads from the u.s. europe asia and everywhere in between representing around three quarters of global economic output gather in the swiss city to talk shop behind closed doors i personally also don't like these secretive meetings because. you never know what in effect. is discussed in these meetings it's something that has a tradition that's put their way i mean bankers have always talked to each other in a more secretive way the whole business of banking is not really built on transparency but rather on trust and confidentiality the continuing global financial crisis has seen the banking sector firmly in the spotlight with more than a few accusing fingers pointed in the direction of bankers it's the job of the secretive bars all committee to set regulations on banks the chairman of the group says he wants the public to be bet

monarchy has been widely accused by rights groups of using tear gas and torture against protesters and artie's alexia's have ski reports even those who try to treat the injured demonstrators say they are being victimized nada dhaif was among a group of doctors who were trying to help the injured during a protest in bahrain she claims that after violently crushing the dissent the or forties turned their attention to her and her colleagues who were providing first aid they deny. health care to the patients and protesters. the doctors did not obey the orders for such. decided to punish those doctors i was taken to a place for ten days that i didn't know where it was. all that time i was blindfolded and handcuffed i was in a solitary confinement for back to twenty one days. and they would just open the door of the cell and beat me up and there was a member of the royal family who directly was responsible of my thought she she was beating me and she electrocuted me almost two dozen doctors were arrested back then this for the fuel the anger of the protesters and turned the hospitals grounds into th

is certain from what he said today in his speech that he's actually doing the right thing all right artie is under a farm with a live in london thank you. for the commenting on at the speech in question tory m.p. david campbell bannerman so is britain's stance may serve as an example to other european states. it's not just britain that wants more flexibility and more control by nation states a lot of countries like the vacuum for the czech republic but they get. the. the danish a lot of these countries do want more flexibility within the european union and i think actually this is a trendsetter and i think it's right of the prime minister to hold out for this to get a better europe it's too inflexible too rigid too undemocratic at the what. is the latest nato country to step up support for the french intervention ongoing in mali increasing number of our team up on the african islamists some experts believe france may have bitten off a bit more than it can chew opinions on that are coming your way in just a few minutes. from now though the swiss sky resort of davos buzzing with business ri

israel's huge separation wall means that many palestinian families have no choice but to live apart artie's paula slipper went there to find out what effect this ultimately has on every day life israelis cannot live in the west bank and most palestinians which leaves those israelis and palestinians who want to share a home out in the cold. one hundred my husband this from have been i'm from terrorists and i don't know husband this from have brought in jerusalem and used to live there with my children but without my husband because he is not allowed to live there he couldn't visit me even once at the end of each week i would go to have been to visit him but lived like that for four years well come to no man's land a neighborhood that is technically part of jerusalem but in reality is on the palestinian side of the security wall that israel has built some two thousand mixed couples live here. the problem of cooper archerd is that so many people are immigrating to the area because they have to so in four years we've had a group of thirty five thousand people it's become more crowded than gaza.

but the government trying to halt the exchange of digital content for free artie's new york red.d an opinion. kim dotcom just launched his new file sharing service mega he says by using it you're saying yes to internet freedom is file sharing the future of the internet this week let's talk about that have you ever stolen a movie or music off the internet i plead the fifth i'll take that as a yes if you think there's anything wrong with that you know why dude people get very angry about it and send people to jail that are not the problem is that they're being wrong is that people who need to make money don't make their money. should they just figure out a new way is it up to them or is that up to us to stop taking it. have you never stolen anything off the web for moral reasons or just because you never have never have known how to if it were easy and you did know how to would you do it more often if i knew how to do it i mean criminals every day doing bad things with expelling you know should it be for a should music or movies be free no artist because by you but. i don't think p

all right into the arty world we go and this news just in iraq at least twenty shia pilgrims have been killed and dozens injured after a suicide bomb attack in the southern city of mosul yob and the violence comes the same day as thousands of muslims across the country celebrate the holy day of eid by even now some other world news headlines for you this hour switching now to pakistan a u.s. drone strike has killed senior pakistani militant leader. and his deputy and the commander and eight others died in the missile attack in the tribal regions bordering afghanistan and his followers had ties to the afghan taliban and were accused of targeting the u.s. military in afghanistan on the same day a separate american airstrike to the north killed four. former french president nicolas sarkozy accepted over sixty million dollars in illegal campaign donations from ousted libyan leader moammar gadhafi according to a businessman who is currently facing corruption charges and allegations of money laundering between france and the middle east a man says he can provide the paperwork proving most of

acting in behalf of the people of this nation it seems like the people always take a backseat but artie's economics expert max kaiser thinks the deal might bring short term relief but does nothing to address the underlying problems. the fiscal cliff is just more theater. trying to distract people from the underlying root catastrophe that is a bunch of. manipulating the system. the strong economy this fiscal cliff is just more drama more theater and it doesn't really focus on the true underlying problems and we're going to see more of this going forward in two thousand and thirteen. the tension from the mobs pitchforks and torches there are coming after the people they want to just lay there for as many months as they can but that day's reckoning twenty. report has in store for the new year and you can watch it at any time. british prime minister david cameron says he's willing to fight to keep control of the full can dial and it comes after the argentinean president sent him an open last according to negotiations over the disputed territory which the two nations for to war in nineteen. ha

will quote have their say on europe if indeed his conservative party wins the next election but as artie's and your farm reports the uncertainty over britain's e.u. membership is being criticized at home and abroad. british prime minister david cameron has threatened to redraw the map of europe his pledge to hold a referendum on whether the u.k. should remain in the e.u. if they can win the next election in twenty fifty basically he wants more pounds return from brussels to westminster and will try to renegotiate britain's terms of membership but he has warned that he is not successful then the u.k. would probably vote to head towards the exit i was his long awaited european speech and dines at the place many of the euro skeptics within his tory party there are many dieties u.k. business leaders for example say that even talking about an exit at this stage will create uncertainty and could scare away tension investors germany's chancellor angela merkel has said that perhaps a compromise is needed but other e.u. members are less sympathetic denmark says the e.u. is not. where members can ch

diplomats in syria are friendly iran says that the attacks whole significant implications for israel artie's policy is in tel aviv with more details. now we are hearing from syria that israel did launch a military strike inside their country israel has not commented neither confirming nor denying these reports the syrian ambassador to lebanon did say that it was not clear when ever tell you what happened and that it was up to the powers that be to decide on such decisive action but he did say that it was an option and that it was and would be a surprise now the iranian deputy foreign minister has also stated that this israeli attack has serious implications for the israeli city of tel aviv and those are indeed quite harsh warnings what we understand from syria from syria and sources is that the israelis hit a research center not far from the capital city of damascus and that at least two on site workers were killed there are also reports that the strike hit a convoy of weapons that was making its way from syria to lebanon and now washington reportedly was warned by israel of its intention to

the economic stronghold germany appears to be harboring concerns over its sovereignty as well as artie'speter all of her found out. there's a rising feeling here in germany that it's not the germans who were really in charge of their country. the government is taking the sovereign rights of the german people and giving them away to bureaucrats in brussels civically with regards to currency this is a painful injury to the sovereignty of the issue is said to be fought out in the second tightest court this group calling themselves the civil coalition movement want to stop germany's fiscal future being decided by the european central bank particularly how much german cash goes to the eurozone countries and set the pressure to democracy because it's no longer the governments who have to make a policy but is the european central bank deciding which policy is paid for over five thousand people back their petition as they look to challenge one of the most common pieces of perceived wisdom in europe that germany is the success story in the eurozone there was no other country which had so little b

to read when dealing with many right wing voters now regarding netanyahu his policies as too soft artie's policy or looks into what challenges he could face if reelected. he's the surprise success story of the diction campaign one twin millionaire who says a palestinian state would be suicide for israel enough to be bennett used to work for prime minister netanyahu but now he's working at taking supporters away from him like this man who used to be a diehard supporter of netanyahu so he could party until these elections world around the likud is. a bus full of right wing members of knesset with a lift wing person driving the bus. as far as being i mean. even though i am opposed to it. i would say most members of the likud obviously when a minute is for it the irony is that while the world sees netanyahu as a right wing leader at home he's losing face among supporters for not being focused enough this is part of the right wing campaign he's up against there are some things we all know will never happen the sopranos will never return for another season. will not grow an afro and a peace agr

in the swiss resort of davos this week to discuss ways of driving europe out of the crisis but as artie's katie pilbeam reports there were many promises made at the world economic forum but no clear solutions offered. double's twenty thirty is now the world's most influential policymakers pack up their design a suit and head home at least me hair admiring the beauty of the swiss as you can see but also trying to look beyond them to work out what exactly was achieved here first we had russian prime minister dmitry medvedev now he spoke about the need to diversify the economy away from oil and crack on with structural reforms but you know we've heard that before that was something. british leader david cameron he came here he had some tough words to say for tax avoiders but really the only topic people wanted to press him on here was the father he will be calling an e.u. referendum for the british public in twenty seventy the business community here they felt that that was a grammar announcement and that it would do the economy no good already challenge and in a fragile situation with disma

i was artie's on laura smith right that now nato has begun deploying surface to air missiles and troops on turkey's border with syria and the alliance approved the reinforcements just last month after ankara requested support nato claims the move is to help defend its members from the conflict ongoing in syria but moscow said the deployment will only serve to escalate tension in the region germany and the netherlands are preparing to ship six more patriot batteries early next week they'll be operational by the end of january however jeremy salt a middle eastern history and politics professor from bill kent university says nato is actually now realizing supporting and ultimately. in syria there is no possibility at all no likelihood that syria will attack turkey the only circumstances in which those missiles would be used it was would be if there were a nato attack initiated from turkey into syria and then of course syria would strike back the situation has changed i mean it's quite clear that from the beginning of this crisis that this anti syrian coalition did want to attack syria but

high to many israelis that they are already snapping up gas masks and renovating bomb shelters as artie's policy here has been discovering. mushroom clouds confusion hysteria this is israel's last day according to a young filmmaker who wants to shock his country into taking action i've created more be to share my thoughts and my fears with the world about the potential threat that is coming from iran if you ask me this same question two years ago i will say that people don't think about it so much but today it is different we can see the the majority here of israel are preparing that so i think most mentally one inch grandparents are holocaust survivors from a mania a foreshadow he fears of what could come it took hitler six years to kill six million jews and he will take. on the sixty minutes. that's why and maybe some or many israelis are really uneasy fearing iran might be building a nuclear bomb and tehran isn't mincing its words threatening tel aviv it will teach it a listen if it tries to attack first warning is rainy and missiles will make sure israel does not survive the center of