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[00:00.000 --> 00:09.280]  10pm here in Moscow this new year's day, warm welcome to if you've just joined us.
[00:09.280 --> 00:14.320]  My name is Kevin Owen, this is our tea and our top story, US President Barack Obama,
[00:14.320 --> 00:20.080]  welcomed in the new year by signing in a tough new law but has set a sanctions for Iran.
[00:20.080 --> 00:24.560]  Anyone doing business with Iran's central bank will now face punishment, thanks to the
[00:24.560 --> 00:29.520]  new measures directly targeting the financial sector. This move comes at a time of heightened
[00:29.520 --> 00:33.840]  tension over Iran's nuclear program and the threat of sanctions is already seen to
[00:33.840 --> 00:38.640]  land threatened to block off a key oil export route in response. Well, adding to the
[00:38.640 --> 00:43.440]  situation as well as Iran's plan to test long-range missiles during naval drills in the
[00:43.440 --> 00:48.240]  Gulf, that's led to US warships being sent to the area. A researcher at the School of
[00:48.240 --> 00:53.520]  Oriental African Studies in London, Shirin Shaofei told us America's playing a dangerous game right
[00:53.520 --> 01:01.200]  now. Iran said that if an oil embargo is imposed against Iran and Iranian livelihood
[01:01.200 --> 01:10.400]  is the economy is threatened, then Iran would take considerable measures to respond to that.
[01:10.400 --> 01:17.520]  So that is not a provocation but in terms of a real provocation, I think that what is provocative
[01:17.520 --> 01:23.600]  is the United States sending its warships thousands of miles away from its homeland into
[01:23.600 --> 01:30.480]  the Persian Gulf and also Beijing wars surrounding Iran with wars in Iraq and Afghanistan military
[01:30.480 --> 01:37.200]  bases all around Iran. That is provocative and Iran is trying to defend its national sovereignty
[01:37.200 --> 01:43.280]  and territorial integrity. To Syria now, we're violence that began in March has spilled over
[01:43.280 --> 01:47.520]  into the new year, Harrab League observers on a mission to the country of warm Damascus against
[01:47.520 --> 01:52.480]  cracking down on protestors, at least 13 were reportedly killed in the past day, despite efforts
[01:52.480 --> 01:57.520]  to oversee the implementation of a peace plan. An advisory group linked to the Arab League has now
[01:57.520 --> 02:01.920]  called for observers to pull out, claiming the mission is distracting attention from the
[02:01.920 --> 02:07.280]  ongoing crackdown. The advice is non-binding with the observers due to stay in Syria for three
[02:07.280 --> 02:12.960]  more weeks. Jealous Ashane Ratanzi says the conflict is a powder keg that could ignite the entire region.
[02:13.920 --> 02:20.480]  It's certainly the western media's viewpoint that we must believe. We must believe opposition groups.
[02:20.480 --> 02:26.720]  It seems that any mobile footage is now accepted as a source. What is in no doubt is that thousands
[02:26.720 --> 02:33.920]  of Syrian soldiers are dying and they haven't died because of peaceful protests. But this isn't
[02:33.920 --> 02:39.600]  a Libya. Syria is a lynch bin of the Middle East and the United States and other countries.
[02:39.600 --> 02:44.560]  Some of them are more intelligent people realise that there will be turmoil right across
[02:44.560 --> 02:50.320]  the Middle East if anything happens to destabilise the Assad government from outside forces.
[02:50.320 --> 02:55.200]  But certainly Syria, the Syrian government itself, has to step up the pace because it's certainly
[02:55.200 --> 03:00.960]  losing the propaganda battle. The Syrian regime claims its fighting and armed insurgency
[03:00.960 --> 03:06.000]  funded from a broad batch yet to be independently confirmed. But what is fact is that rebel fighters
[03:06.000 --> 03:10.400]  who helped overthrow Colonel Gaddafi in Libya allow eager to take the revolution to President
[03:10.400 --> 03:16.960]  Assad's door to hundreds of Libya mercenaries reportedly already going for regime change in Syria.
[03:16.960 --> 03:19.600]  At his Exxonoboy care reported from Tripoli in the week.
[03:21.600 --> 03:26.320]  A butcher or dad met. The owner of this kibbabshop in Tripoli still
[03:26.320 --> 03:43.440]  and decided what's the most fitting term for Syria's Bashar al-Assad.
[03:43.440 --> 03:48.000]  Out of solidarity with their Arab brothers, the owners of the shop have even put on display
[03:48.000 --> 03:53.680]  the Syrian rebels' tricolor. But they have very firm on where the revolutionary support
[03:53.680 --> 04:14.640]  should end. In less than three months, Libyan rebels have gone from being celebrated as
[04:14.640 --> 04:21.680]  liberators to being called occupiers. Tripoli residents rarely almost every week calling on
[04:21.680 --> 04:27.280]  the armed militia to leave. And for some of these young men hoaped on adrenaline and unwilling
[04:27.280 --> 04:32.000]  to part with their rifles, Syria seems like the next logical destination.
[04:34.000 --> 04:37.440]  We're all ready to join the Syrian Revolution and what a help of Allah
[04:37.440 --> 04:40.800]  we will make sure that what happened in Libya will repeat itself in Syria.
[04:43.280 --> 04:47.520]  The portraits of Sheikh ibarra are now ubiquitous on the streets of Tripoli.
[04:47.520 --> 04:51.840]  With some rebels even styling themselves to resemble the famous revolutionary.
[04:53.680 --> 04:59.200]  With the help of Allah, we can all be like Sheikh ibarra, fighting for peace and freedom around the world.
[05:01.600 --> 05:05.440]  And it seems that Sheikh ibarra's idea of exporting revolutions
[05:05.440 --> 05:11.680]  have gotten a second birth in the Middle East. The Arab Spring has created a buoyant market place
[05:11.680 --> 05:17.280]  for soldiers of fortune. The most wrong one revolution to another, some motivated by
[05:17.280 --> 05:23.680]  personal gains, some by conviction, others by adventure. They put for their own vision of freedom
[05:23.680 --> 05:27.120]  and for now, at least, it's the freedom to live by the gun.
[05:28.720 --> 05:34.160]  As romantic and spontaneous as it may appear, eating the Syrian uprising with mercenaries may
[05:34.160 --> 05:40.240]  not be such a genuine move. Videos of women and children in Syria gunned down by sniper's
[05:40.240 --> 05:47.600]  are bound on YouTube while it's still unclear who is pulling the trigger. There are terrorist snipers
[05:47.600 --> 05:52.880]  who are shooting at civilians, men, women and children, blind terrorism, random killing,
[05:53.840 --> 06:02.080]  simply for the purpose of destabilizing the country. There from Libya, there from Afghanistan or Pakistan,
[06:02.080 --> 06:06.720]  foreign fighters have been brought in here by the CIA and the other Western services.
[06:06.720 --> 06:13.360]  One man's terrorist could easily be an other man's freedom fighter, but for the United States,
[06:13.360 --> 06:18.960]  it's now 2 in 1. A day-hiking billhodge, one of the leaders of triple emellisher,
[06:18.960 --> 06:25.360]  was once on the CIA most wanted list. Today, he's a face of the democratic Libye who are
[06:25.360 --> 06:31.280]  according to arts sources that a group of several hundred Libyan rebels to Syria just last month.
[06:31.280 --> 06:38.480]  We can do any help to support Syrian people because we are facing the same situation as we
[06:38.480 --> 06:45.360]  faced before, and we appreciate the help comes to Libye and we provide the Syrian people with any
[06:45.360 --> 06:51.040]  help to get their freedom. I think we should do it. The use of soldiers of fortune is hardly
[06:51.040 --> 06:56.560]  new in this troubled region. Middle Eastern rulers hired them for centuries as safeguards against
[06:56.560 --> 07:02.080]  their own populations, and it now looks like the history of mercenaries in the middle ised
[07:02.080 --> 07:08.160]  has got to its new and no less bloody chapter. Extend the boycott R.T. Tripoli.
[07:09.200 --> 07:13.120]  Still ahead through this hour, the year in brief, we take a look back at just a few of them
[07:13.120 --> 07:20.000]  a mentor stories that made the headlines in 2011 around the world. In Egypt,
[07:20.000 --> 07:24.880]  pro-democracy protesters held a candlelight vigil in Cairo's Tariah Square on New Year's Eve
[07:24.880 --> 07:28.720]  and memory of those killed during the uprising that hosted Hosni Mubarak.
[07:28.720 --> 07:33.440]  While the U.S. says Egypt's current leaders have agreed to halt raids on pro-democracy
[07:33.440 --> 07:38.240]  rights groups. Last week, soldiers and police stormed officers of non-governmental organisations
[07:38.240 --> 07:43.600]  including some funded by Washington. Documents and computers were seized as part of investigations
[07:43.600 --> 07:48.240]  into the foreign funding of organisations. The group secures the ruling military of using the
[07:48.240 --> 07:53.440]  same tactics of repression as the Mubarak regime. Foreign policy analyst Dr. Adil Shama told
[07:53.440 --> 07:58.480]  me that the generals want to make sure they hold on to power, but the people will stop until they
[07:58.480 --> 08:05.520]  outstep. This is part of the military, the SCAB, the Supreme Council of Armed Forces,
[08:06.080 --> 08:15.520]  way of making sure that the revolution basically is molded to the type of government they want
[08:15.520 --> 08:23.040]  because that was the same generals, by the way, who worked for Mubarak, the dictator.
[08:23.040 --> 08:28.240]  So that's really basically a part of that struggle. Is the revolution going to go forward?
[08:28.240 --> 08:34.960]  Or is the revolution going to be molded and subdued into submissive role to the military?
[08:34.960 --> 08:41.440]  But really, the military has to step aside and let the civilian government come to power
[08:41.440 --> 08:46.560]  once the election outheld and the election should be held as soon as possible. They will not
[08:46.560 --> 08:52.960]  give up the power that is in it, but I think the Egyptian people and in the Arabs in general have
[08:52.960 --> 08:59.360]  lost their fear for corrupt government and they have restored their dignity and they will not
[08:59.360 --> 09:05.120]  tolerate another military dictatorship in their country. I think all their evidence indicate that
[09:05.120 --> 09:11.760]  despite the sacrifices they have given. We'll use in brief this in Nigeria first. The country's
[09:11.760 --> 09:16.000]  leaders declared a state of emergency in areas hit by a wave of Islamist attacks.
[09:16.000 --> 09:20.480]  President Goodler Jonathan shut borders with neighbouring countries after a string of Christmas
[09:20.480 --> 09:25.440]  day blasts which killed over 40. He's vowed to crush Boko Haram militants who claim
[09:25.440 --> 09:30.160]  responsibility. Violence has continued since churches throughout the country were first attacked
[09:30.160 --> 09:34.400]  a week ago now, tens of thousands of fledger homes fearing further conflict.
[09:36.160 --> 09:40.720]  South Sudan's government is sending army and police to an area at the centre of a violent
[09:40.720 --> 09:45.680]  tribal conflict. The town of people was attacked by thousands of fighters from a rival tribe who
[09:45.680 --> 09:50.880]  torched buildings stole livestock and forced scores to flee. You and troops deployed in the
[09:50.880 --> 09:55.760]  region were unable to enforce security. In recent months, ethnic infighting caused by cattle
[09:55.760 --> 09:58.160]  rustling. I was left around a thousand people dead.
[10:00.000 --> 10:05.120]  I'm a member of the Japanese cult behind an attack on the Tokyo subway in 1995.
[10:05.120 --> 10:09.920]  Turned himself into police just before midnight last night New Year's Eve. He had been in hiding
[10:09.920 --> 10:15.200]  for 17 years since the group released saring gas on the underground system at the time killing
[10:15.200 --> 10:20.480]  13. Our mission record started as a spiritual movement mixing Hindu and Buddhist police
[10:20.480 --> 10:23.840]  but then developed into a doomsday cult obsessed with Armageddon.
[10:25.600 --> 10:30.320]  US President Barack Obama signed into effect on law which means that any person can be detained
[10:30.320 --> 10:35.280]  indefinitely without charge. The major defense bill is aimed at dealing with terrorist suspects
[10:35.280 --> 10:41.200]  and it comes with a massive $660 billion price tag too. The critics say the military will now
[10:41.200 --> 10:45.840]  have more authority to interrogate people denying them their basic constitutional rights.
[10:47.600 --> 10:52.640]  This is our tea live from Moscow still ahead of the program with me Kevin Owen down with knowledge.
[10:54.640 --> 10:56.080]  What's the capital of Iran?
[10:56.080 --> 10:58.480]  All cares. Do you know the president of Iranis?
[10:58.480 --> 11:00.960]  No. All right, do you know his name?
[11:00.960 --> 11:05.760]  Madagena Ja for something. Well, we set out for the streets of New York to discover what Americans
[11:05.760 --> 11:09.360]  know about their countries policy at home and across the globe.
[11:12.240 --> 11:16.560]  There's not much New Year cheer from economists predicting a return to recession in Europe for
[11:16.560 --> 11:22.720]  2012. In fact, leaders used new year messages to warn of hard times ahead in their respective countries.
[11:22.720 --> 11:28.000]  German Chancellor Angela Merkel said that Europe was facing its most severe test in decades
[11:28.000 --> 11:32.320]  while French President Sarkozy's warned that the debt crisis blanketing the continent was far
[11:32.320 --> 11:36.960]  from over. Many governments have been forced to slash the spending to meet debt obligations as
[11:36.960 --> 11:41.520]  economic growth in Europe's been of a standstill. Some analysts believe that the EU leaders
[11:41.520 --> 11:45.120]  attempts at keeping the Eurozone together is only deepening the crisis.
[11:46.480 --> 11:52.880]  European leaders are trying to shore up the Eurozone by having greater degrees of centralisation
[11:52.880 --> 11:58.720]  and what having countries like France and Germany have the final say in a sense over the budgets of
[11:58.720 --> 12:04.640]  those EU member states that have excessive budget deficits. But that really isn't the answer to
[12:04.640 --> 12:10.240]  the problems. What's really needed is either a massive injection of cash into countries like Greece
[12:10.240 --> 12:14.160]  and Italy to shore up their economies. Of course, another option would of course
[12:14.160 --> 12:20.400]  to recognize that the single currency has hurt competitiveness in many remnations of the Eurozone.
[12:20.400 --> 12:24.640]  So really, there's a number of options either to transfer funds from the north to the
[12:24.640 --> 12:28.000]  struggling South. Of course, have an orderly break up of the Eurozone.
[12:29.200 --> 12:33.920]  The Israeli military's conferred carried out a mass strike on Gaza on Friday. One Palestinian
[12:33.920 --> 12:38.080]  was killed in the attack, which Tel Aviv claims was aimed at preventing militants from firing
[12:38.080 --> 12:42.560]  rockets into Israel. The country has been stepping up its air strikes in recent months, leaving
[12:42.560 --> 12:47.600]  dozens dead. Three years after the Jewish State briefly invaded Gaza, military officials and
[12:47.600 --> 12:52.960]  now say that they have to start what they call a, quote, war of necessity attempts at
[12:52.960 --> 12:58.560]  procuring a peace deal of so far proven fruitless Israeli columnist Gideon Navi spoke to us.
[12:58.560 --> 13:02.000]  Things Tel Aviv isn't really trying to avoid a conflict.
[13:03.520 --> 13:08.160]  Three years ago, Israel had a card blanche and not only a card blanche, the West had the
[13:08.160 --> 13:15.920]  plauded Israel and didn't say a word against this attack, but this time we're facing a new
[13:15.920 --> 13:22.960]  Egypt. And Gaza is in the backyard of Egypt. And I'm not sure that Egypt will remain in different
[13:22.960 --> 13:29.600]  vis-a-vis another attack. But having said this, I'm not sure that this is enough to prevent an attack
[13:29.600 --> 13:35.280]  because unfortunately Israeli politicians and generous not always react in a most
[13:35.280 --> 13:39.760]  rational and logical way. The current government of Israel has no
[13:39.760 --> 13:46.400]  serious intention about the serious dialogue with the Palestinians. Maybe some photo opportunities,
[13:46.400 --> 13:54.080]  but nothing more than this. And the PA, the Palestinian authority, had just launched another
[13:54.080 --> 14:00.480]  proposal for Israel to get back to the negotiation table. They even gave up the precondition
[14:00.480 --> 14:07.280]  of freezing the settlements, which is a minimum condition. And they had suggested just
[14:07.280 --> 14:13.840]  a symbolic release of 100 Palestinian prisoners to get back to the negotiation table.
[14:13.840 --> 14:16.080]  And what did Israel say? No.
[14:17.760 --> 14:22.160]  Okay, we're on a happy note. Russia welcomed 2012 in with a bank last night being the
[14:22.160 --> 14:26.000]  world's biggest country. It celebrated New Year. Nine times, as you can see on the map,
[14:26.000 --> 14:30.240]  there, thanks to his nine times owns. All kick started off in the Far East and then
[14:30.240 --> 14:34.720]  swept through Russia's to a rest of Russia's west of most point. The Baltic
[14:34.720 --> 14:39.040]  City of Kiliningrad, finishing offers and great fireworks there. While hundreds are also
[14:39.040 --> 14:44.160]  gathered in Moscow's red square, of course, to toast in the New Year's great show from Moscow.
[14:44.160 --> 14:47.280]  And the whole rest of the world was treated in mass celebrations around the globe. As well,
[14:47.280 --> 14:52.000]  that was the scene in New York, thousands packing time, square for the ceremonial bold
[14:52.000 --> 14:56.640]  dropping at midnight. Australia, beautiful fireworks. I was an iconic site from then.
[14:56.640 --> 15:00.480]  Among the first, of course, to open its doors to the New Year with glittering fireworks over
[15:00.480 --> 15:05.600]  Sydney Harbour. Great fireworks in Asia, too, picking at the bat in the spectacular show
[15:05.600 --> 15:10.080]  has held across the region. And Dubai, also putting on a spectacles, hundreds gathering
[15:10.080 --> 15:14.800]  at the world's tallest building to watch the amazing illumination there. And a super show
[15:14.800 --> 15:19.760]  from London, though, if you're quartered an op millions of revelers, packing cities throughout
[15:19.760 --> 15:23.840]  Europe, but a particularly good show there from London last night. The London Eye and Fireworks
[15:23.840 --> 15:27.920]  coming out from Big Ben as well. So, a celebration sweeping the globe, our teaser in this
[15:27.920 --> 15:37.840]  now. It looks back at what made 2011. 2011 could easily go down as the most eventful year
[15:37.840 --> 15:44.320]  in years. The killing of Bin Laden after a decade-long manhunt, Libya's Gaddafi after months
[15:44.320 --> 15:51.520]  of NATO bombing and the death of North Korea's Kim Jong-il don't even begin to illustrate 2011.
[15:51.520 --> 16:02.800]  Time chose the protester as person of the year, and although there were different slogan
[16:02.800 --> 16:10.320]  signs and demanded solutions, 2011 will ultimately be remembered as the year people came out
[16:10.320 --> 16:17.440]  onto the streets. The Arab Spring bloomed into a European summer, which harvested an American
[16:17.440 --> 16:24.960]  autumn from Cairo to California, Moscow, to Madrid, to a career to occupy. Global rallies
[16:24.960 --> 16:30.560]  shared common themes, but if one thing stood out in the mid-East in North Africa alone,
[16:30.560 --> 16:35.120]  it was protest that led down one road, regime change.
[16:39.840 --> 16:45.840]  Tunisia and Egypt got rid of their dictators without war, but Libya was not so lucky.
[16:45.840 --> 16:51.360]  NATO and allies began a humanitarian mission with a fierce bombing campaign.
[16:51.360 --> 16:56.720]  A critics called it a mislabeled invasion to take down Gaddafi for benefits.
[16:56.720 --> 17:00.080]  The only reason there is just a bit of Libya is about the oil.
[17:00.080 --> 17:04.320]  You hear anybody screaming and yelling about all those people last week that were killed
[17:04.320 --> 17:10.560]  in the ivory coast, or the Sudan? Gaddafi was brutally killed in October as the world watched
[17:10.560 --> 17:16.320]  the graphic video go viral. Thousands of civilians were killed over months of bombing,
[17:16.320 --> 17:22.720]  and as 2012 neared Syria found itself in a similar setup for intervention.
[17:22.720 --> 17:28.960]  Russia and China fearing a repeat of the situation in Libya as civil war intensifies.
[17:28.960 --> 17:36.240]  This is a direct, infected, direct clash between the US and NATO and one side,
[17:36.240 --> 17:40.800]  and Russia and China on the other side, much more than it was in Libya.
[17:40.800 --> 17:47.040]  Protest continued in Egypt, Libya, Syria, and many more Arab countries as the year ends.
[17:50.960 --> 17:56.400]  The battle to save the drowning single currency left boardrooms and banks in 2011
[17:56.400 --> 18:01.440]  and flooded the streets of Europe, most commonly and violently in Athens.
[18:01.440 --> 18:07.200]  Greek debt became the centerpiece of the euro crisis, protests raged against desperate austerity
[18:07.200 --> 18:13.360]  caused to qualify for IMF bailouts, while Germany and France vied for influence in the debt
[18:13.360 --> 18:14.560]  written zone.
[18:14.560 --> 18:19.440]  I think we will see an exit of Greece given the situation in which the Greek economy
[18:19.440 --> 18:22.400]  find itself that has become really unavoidable.
[18:22.400 --> 18:26.800]  Draining the economy of big euro brother Germany can't go on forever.
[18:26.800 --> 18:32.160]  Greece and Italy are now led by unelected Brussels-backed techno-cratt leaders who are trying
[18:32.160 --> 18:39.680]  to curb the crisis coming into a new year. Could it say 2011 bailouts or bust was the beginning
[18:39.680 --> 18:42.720]  of the end for the single European currency?
[18:42.720 --> 18:45.760]  Because every chance the euro is going to crash and burn.
[18:50.320 --> 18:55.760]  London burned for days in the summer of 2011. What began as a peaceful protest
[18:55.760 --> 19:01.200]  demanding justice over the death of a 29-year-old man who was shot by police turned into
[19:01.200 --> 19:06.800]  days of riots and left authorities helpless. Talks of possibly bringing out the military
[19:06.800 --> 19:12.880]  busts as shops were looted, car set on fire, and windows smashed across the UK.
[19:12.880 --> 19:18.320]  The police, the job centre, the banks, everything that's happening, the recession,
[19:18.320 --> 19:21.040]  you know, there's a lot of anger about that.
[19:21.040 --> 19:27.360]  Social experts also threw a failed multi-culti program and racism into the mix.
[19:27.360 --> 19:33.440]  The obvious stop and search and a sense of the police are certainly institution against
[19:33.440 --> 19:38.480]  young urban people and the public institutionally racist as well.
[19:38.480 --> 19:44.720]  The riots faded, but the problems are still passing. Some say only a spark is needed to set the
[19:44.720 --> 19:54.960]  public off again. Occupy Wall Street became a household name in the US and around the world
[19:54.960 --> 20:00.080]  but when the protests began in September, few were talking about it. The mainstream media
[20:00.080 --> 20:05.920]  stayed silent until 700 people were arrested on the Brooklyn Bridge and then
[20:05.920 --> 20:16.240]  truly based in the anarchist roots of American politics. What do they protest?
[20:16.960 --> 20:22.960]  Nobody seems to know, but negative coverage didn't stop OWS from spreading from small towns
[20:22.960 --> 20:30.240]  to huge ports occupied was not going anywhere. Rates on camps heavy-handed police and burning
[20:30.240 --> 20:36.720]  pepper spray only helps occupy grow and spread their message of the need for economic equality
[20:36.720 --> 20:44.320]  and an end to corporate greed. Their slogan became we are the 99 percent and they, the rich,
[20:44.320 --> 20:52.160]  the 1 percent. From Oakland to Boston, the more people occupied, the more brutality became more evident.
[20:52.160 --> 21:09.280]  Our police forces have been militarized. They are working more in cooperation with the Pentagon.
[21:09.280 --> 21:16.960]  They're buying and being given military surplus equipment that has been designed for use in war.
[21:16.960 --> 21:23.360]  And this is something that leads to treating the public as you would treat an enemy.
[21:23.360 --> 21:27.680]  A public that is promised to come out in full force in 2012.
[21:33.120 --> 21:37.280]  Parthamentary elections were the push behind tens of thousands of people coming out
[21:37.280 --> 21:42.160]  onto the streets of Moscow after allegations the December doom of vote was rigged.
[21:42.160 --> 21:50.720]  The protest at least 50,000 strong, the largest in recent history called for free
[21:50.720 --> 21:57.600]  and fair elections and remained peaceful. ruling party United Russia lost popularity in the vote
[21:57.600 --> 22:03.920]  with official results putting their numbers at almost 50 percent. But experts say a 16 percent
[22:03.920 --> 22:09.680]  drop from 2007 should be taken as a warning. I think a lot of people wanted to punish
[22:09.680 --> 22:17.040]  a United Russia for having power for so long and maybe not doing everything they could.
[22:17.600 --> 22:22.640]  Protests organized by vast groups of opposition members are set to continue in 2012.
[22:23.200 --> 22:28.160]  Next year Russia, along with the U.S. and France, holds presidential elections,
[22:28.160 --> 22:34.480]  which makes it a safe bet. People will be out on the streets in 2012 in Europe, America,
[22:34.480 --> 22:40.880]  and around the world. In eastern Norway, RT, Moscow. Well, we've got more than all the
[22:40.880 --> 22:45.520]  events in shape 2011, waiting on a website as well RT.com. Also there, if you see
[22:45.520 --> 22:50.240]  other worlds celebrated the arrival of 2012, the next year you can find some spectacular footage
[22:50.240 --> 22:54.400]  of the New Year's celebrations and fireworks around the globe. We've compiled them all for you there.
[22:55.200 --> 23:00.320]  Also, the end of the year saw U.S. troops wafer well to a rack RT.com explores the
[23:00.320 --> 23:07.040]  implications and consequences of nine years of conflict. And look at the uprisings that
[23:07.040 --> 23:11.040]  demos the disasters indeed of 2011 have seen through the eyes of our correspondence.
[23:11.040 --> 23:14.800]  Interesting series we brought your last week. If you didn't catch it, it's online.
[23:14.800 --> 23:35.200]  You can hear their testimonies at RT.com. The manning women hoping to become the next president
[23:35.200 --> 23:39.360]  of the U.S. A peer to spend as much time demonstrating the ignorance of the world as they do
[23:39.360 --> 23:45.120]  the political credentials. But as our teachers to see a joke and find out, that could just be a reflection
[23:45.120 --> 23:52.160]  of society. It's three agencies of government when I get there that are gone. Commerce,
[23:52.160 --> 23:59.840]  education, and what's the third one there, let's say. He's looking to actually fire tens of thousands
[23:59.840 --> 24:04.720]  of federal workers in eliminating entire cabinet level position. He couldn't even remember it's
[24:04.720 --> 24:09.440]  name to ask me who's the president of U.B. Becky Becky Becky Stanstein. I'm going to say,
[24:09.440 --> 24:14.640]  you know, I don't know. Do you know? It's not the fact that he doesn't know. It's the fact that he
[24:14.640 --> 24:20.400]  doesn't think he should look it up. Do you agree with President Obama on Libya or not?
[24:22.480 --> 24:23.440]  Okay, Libya.
[24:26.640 --> 24:31.760]  The basic knowledge of those attempting to spearhead a country can leave much to be desired.
[24:31.760 --> 24:36.560]  Where does this leave Americans choosing their politicians and their country's potential future?
[24:36.560 --> 24:37.440]  Let's find out.
[24:40.640 --> 24:45.360]  What's Becky Stan? I've heard of it through Borat. For some reason, I don't know anything about
[24:45.360 --> 24:47.760]  Libya. Do you know what it was? Becky Stan is?
[24:48.400 --> 24:50.560]  No, I do not know what a Becky Stan is.
[24:50.560 --> 24:51.520]  Was it Becky Stan?
[24:52.880 --> 24:55.200]  No. Do you know the U.S. is an air base there?
[24:56.400 --> 24:57.360]  No idea.
[24:57.360 --> 24:58.400]  What do you know about Libya?
[24:58.400 --> 25:01.120]  Not much. Do you know how to spell Libya?
[25:01.760 --> 25:02.400]  Yes.
[25:02.400 --> 25:03.360]  Yes.
[25:03.360 --> 25:06.560]  Do you know the United States was involved in a war with Libya?
[25:08.560 --> 25:11.200]  Okay. Do you know why?
[25:11.920 --> 25:12.880]  Nope. Nope.
[25:12.880 --> 25:15.680]  I know absolutely nothing about Libya, honestly.
[25:15.680 --> 25:18.000]  What about New Mexico? Is that a state or a country?
[25:18.000 --> 25:19.200]  Uh-oh, what is that?
[25:20.240 --> 25:23.040]  Our country is going to be on TV because we don't don't like it.
[25:23.040 --> 25:24.080]  It was my first person now.
[25:24.080 --> 25:28.000]  Um, it's the old man, under Bush.
[25:28.640 --> 25:29.280]  Uh,
[25:30.560 --> 25:31.840]  Wow, I actually
[25:33.840 --> 25:35.280]  Come on, it was not that long ago.
[25:35.280 --> 25:36.640]  Oh, oh, Cheney.
[25:36.640 --> 25:38.480]  Yeah. Who is the vice president of the U.S.?
[25:40.480 --> 25:43.440]  You know, I have no idea. I know it's Barack Obama, but
[25:44.080 --> 25:44.880]  The vice president?
[25:45.840 --> 25:46.640]  Cheney?
[25:46.640 --> 25:48.320]  So who is the secretary of state?
[25:48.320 --> 25:50.400]  Kind of a lie to rise still? No.
[25:50.400 --> 25:55.120]  We would be fools and knees to ignore their purpose in their plan.
[25:55.120 --> 25:57.360]  Some countries are at the top of politicians
[25:57.360 --> 25:59.840]  list to attack verbally and literally,
[25:59.840 --> 26:03.520]  but how much do people really know about those faraway places?
[26:04.800 --> 26:06.000]  Let's go up now, everyone.
[26:06.000 --> 26:06.960]  Give it to me.
[26:06.960 --> 26:07.840]  Yeah, it's here on, yeah.
[26:07.840 --> 26:08.560]  Who's the president?
[26:08.560 --> 26:09.200]  I'm was your dad.
[26:10.080 --> 26:10.240]  Who?
[26:10.240 --> 26:11.120]  I'm was your dad.
[26:11.120 --> 26:12.560]  Do you know the president of Iranis?
[26:12.560 --> 26:13.280]  No.
[26:13.280 --> 26:14.000]  The capital?
[26:14.800 --> 26:15.760]  Capital of Iran?
[26:15.760 --> 26:16.400]  No.
[26:16.400 --> 26:18.880]  Do you know the capital city of Iran?
[26:18.880 --> 26:20.000]  Negative.
[26:20.000 --> 26:22.800]  Do you guys know what Iran is?
[26:22.800 --> 26:24.000]  Oh, yes, yes.
[26:24.000 --> 26:25.360]  What's the capital of Iran?
[26:25.360 --> 26:26.560]  Who cares?
[26:26.560 --> 26:28.160]  Who's the president?
[26:31.280 --> 26:31.920]  No.
[26:31.920 --> 26:34.080]  Who's president?
[26:34.080 --> 26:34.880]  You just died.
[26:34.880 --> 26:36.480]  What about the capital of Iran?
[26:36.480 --> 26:37.600]  The capital?
[26:37.600 --> 26:38.640]  Yes, I do.
[26:38.640 --> 26:39.600]  What is it?
[26:39.600 --> 26:40.960]  You're asking me?
[26:40.960 --> 26:42.320]  I can't tell you that either.
[26:42.320 --> 26:42.960]  Top secret.
[26:42.960 --> 26:43.600]  Come on.
[26:43.600 --> 26:44.800]  I don't know why it's bothering me.
[26:46.160 --> 26:48.320]  It's not Libya, it's uh, Pakistan.
[26:48.320 --> 26:49.840]  Anything, he guesses?
[26:49.840 --> 26:50.560]  No.
[26:50.560 --> 26:51.040]  No.
[26:51.040 --> 26:51.760]  No, no, no, no.
[26:51.760 --> 26:52.960]  He'll go somewhere.
[26:52.960 --> 26:54.960]  Is the president of Iraq?
[26:54.960 --> 26:55.760]  Iran?
[26:55.760 --> 26:56.960]  Iran, right?
[26:56.960 --> 26:58.400]  All right, do you know his name?
[26:58.400 --> 27:00.400]  Metagetaget for something.
[27:00.400 --> 27:02.640]  When it comes to picking a future for the U.S.
[27:02.640 --> 27:05.120]  choosing what comes next may be tough
[27:05.120 --> 27:07.520]  without the knowledge of what has gone on in the past.
[27:07.520 --> 27:09.360]  And even the very present,
[27:09.360 --> 27:11.600]  is that they say a churcina or tea in New York?
[27:12.800 --> 27:15.200]  I like the Cantalia top secret response.
[27:15.200 --> 27:17.760]  Sport live from Moscow a little bit later this hour.
[27:17.760 --> 27:20.240]  Unions got news of why English football team
[27:20.240 --> 27:23.280]  Manchester City's New Year celebrations are extra special today,
[27:23.280 --> 27:26.160]  but it's headlines next in just under two minutes in fact.
[27:26.160 --> 27:49.600]  Go and I'll tea with me, Kevin Allen.
[29:27.120 --> 29:31.280]  Hello again, the headline from our team of Moscow at 10 o'clock 30pm New Year's Day.
[29:31.280 --> 29:36.240]  President Obama signed a bill which imposes new tough sanctions on Iran over its disputed nuclear
[29:36.240 --> 29:41.200]  program, most despite Iran's threats to shut off a key oil supply route in the Gulf,
[29:41.200 --> 29:43.760]  as tension between the two countries continues to build.
[29:45.360 --> 29:48.560]  The Syrian regime's crackdown on demonstrators carries on
[29:48.560 --> 29:53.200]  unabated forcing Arab League observers to warn Damascus to rain in the violence.
[29:53.200 --> 29:57.600]  The monitors were overseeing the implementation of a peace plan that President Assad agreed to.
[29:57.600 --> 30:21.920]  And the world