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My minecraft launcher isn't starting minecraft! here is what it says in the console:

Launching game
Unpacking natives to C:\Users\yousef\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\versions\13w23a\13w23a-natives-10603486655358
Launching!
Running: "C:\Program Files\Java\jre7\bin\java" -Xmx1G -Djava.library.path=C:\Users\yousef\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\versions\13w23a\13w23a-natives-10603486655358 -cp C:\Users\yousef\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\libraries\net\sf\jopt-simple\jopt-simple\4.4\jopt-simple-4.4.jar;C:\Users\yousef\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\libraries\com\paulscode\codecjorbis\20101023\codecjorbis-20101023.jar;C:\Users\yousef\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\libraries\com\paulscode\codecwav\20101023\codecwav-20101023.jar;C:\Users\yousef\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\libraries\com\paulscode\libraryjavasound\20101123\libraryjavasound-20101123.jar;C:\Users\yousef\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\libraries\com\paulscode\librarylwjglopenal\20100824\librarylwjglopenal-20100824.jar;C:\Users\yousef\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\libraries\com\paulscode\soundsystem\20120107\soundsystem-20120107.jar;C:\Users\yousef\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\libraries\org\lwjgl\lwjgl\lwjgl\2.9.0\lwjgl-2.9.0.jar;C:\Users\yousef\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\libraries\org\lwjgl\lwjgl\lwjgl_util\2.9.0\lwjgl_util-2.9.0.jar;C:\Users\yousef\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\libraries\argo\argo\2.25_fixed\argo-2.25_fixed.jar;C:\Users\yousef\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\libraries\org\bouncycastle\bcprov-jdk15on\1.47\bcprov-jdk15on-1.47.jar;C:\Users\yousef\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\libraries\com\google\guava\guava\14.0\guava-14.0.jar;C:\Users\yousef\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\libraries\org\apache\commons\commons-lang3\3.1\commons-lang3-3.1.jar;C:\Users\yousef\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\libraries\commons-io\commons-io\2.4\commons-io-2.4.jar;C:\Users\yousef\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\libraries\net\java\jinput\jinput\2.0.5\jinput-2.0.5.jar;C:\Users\yousef\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\libraries\net\java\jutils\jutils\1.0.0\jutils-1.0.0.jar;C:\Users\yousef\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\libraries\com\google\code\gson\gson\2.2.2\gson-2.2.2.jar;C:\Users\yousef\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\versions\13w23a\13w23a.jar net.minecraft.client.main.Main --proxyUser theyoussef123 --proxyPass test --workDir C:\Users\yousef\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft
---- YOU CAN CLOSE THIS LAUNCHER IF THE GAME STARTED OK ----
---- YOU CAN CLOSE THIS LAUNCHER IF THE GAME STARTED OK ----
---- YOU CAN CLOSE THIS LAUNCHER IF THE GAME STARTED OK ----
---- (We'll do this automatically later ;D) ----
Client> Exception in thread "main" joptsimple.MissingRequiredOptionException: Missing required option(s) ['version']
Client> at joptsimple.OptionParser.ensureRequiredOptions(OptionParser.java:399)
Client> at joptsimple.OptionParser.parse(OptionParser.java:389)
Client> at net.minecraft.client.main.Main.main(SourceFile:36)
Game ended with bad state (exit code 1)
Deleting C:\Users\yousef\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\versions\13w23a\13w23a-natives-10603486655358

Do you have the new launcher? I see this error report but the comments make it sound like perhaps there is an update to the launcher.