hello. you're watching "gmt" on bbc world news. our top stories. one of the most ferocious bombardments of gaza so far by israeli forces. 60 palestinians are report to have been killed. seven families were wiped out overnight. it will only power station in gaza was hit and is on fire. 10 israeli soldiers were killed monday. we'll report on the latest efforts in egypt to reach a cease fire. the third day, fighting between pro russian rebels and ukrainian government force makes it too

dangerous for dutch investigators to reach the malaysian airlines crash site. aaron joins us. the eu and u.s. are putting pressure on russia. we're expecting more sanctions. >> an economic attack from both sides. european union and u.s. both announce another round of sanctions. instead of targeting individuals, they'll hit entire industries. will will the new sanctions finally break this man, russian president vladimir putin? it's midday in london, 7:00 a.m. washington, 2:00 p.m. gaza. people have endured one of the most intensive nights of shelling since the beginning of the offensive. 60 palestinians killed in the bombardment and gaza strip only pow erp plant that has been shut

down after it was hit. 10 israeli soldiers died monday including five killed when hamas militants entered through a tunnel. amongst the bloodshed, there's a flicker of hope for talks. a palestinian delegation will head for cairo soon to discuss the egyptian cease fire initiative. nick childs has the latest. >> artillery continues to pound gaza in one of the heaviest nights of bombardment since the confrontation started. the crumple remains of the hamas leader in gaza empty at the time. israel says it's been hitting leadership targets in determination to hold hamas raids and rocket fire into israel. palestinian health officials say 60 died overnight. >> this neighbor says they were

scared by bombardment but more so children that were deafened and frightened by the blasts. this the shattered shell of the hamas radio and television center in gaza city. this is what happened to it overnight. both sides are issuing defiant declarations with israel's prime minister warning of a prolonged campaign. >> we need to be prepared for a protracted campaign. we'll continue to act firmly and with discretion until we complete our mission to defend our citizens. the. >> the mounting casualties are mounting international alarm. fears of further fallout from confrontation and growing international call from both sides to cease fire. >> israel and particularly the military are paying a price including five soldiers killed in the hamas raid into israel through the underground tunnel.

a heavy ball is hanging over gaza city from the blazing fuel plant. it also casts a shadow over hopes to bringing an end to the fighting. bbc news. we often use this word bombardment to talk about what's happening. what exactly has the effect of the bombing been? palestinian security force have been speaking to bbc. they told us 55 houses were destroyed. people remain buried in the rubble of at least tree. four factory, two schools as well as the port have been destroyed overnight. the palestinian ministry of health say seven families were wiped out. meanwhile brigades say they fired 14 rockets into israel. let's talk to bethany bell in jerusalem. that was the picture overnight of one of the worst we've seen so far in the offensive. bring us up to date of what's

happening this morning. >> there's continuing air strikes on gaza. israel says it's continuing with its objective which is to try and take out hamas sites. they targeted one area where some financial support center was for hamas in gaza. their chief objective, one of their main objectives they say is the threat of the cross border tunnels. last night five israeli soldiers were killed when palestinian militants came up through one of the tunnels into northern israel in the north of the gaza strip from gaza. this is something which the israelis are seeing as a very bad threat to them. >> bethany, what's the latest we have in terms of talks that are going to be taking place in cairo. who is talking to whom and what can we expect? >> well, we understand that the

palestinian president will be on his way to cairo for talks we understand with egyptians and various people trying to work out some type of cease fire between hamas and israel. at the moment it's proving very uphill going. we saw this outbreak of fighting yesterday in a day that was supposed to be a temporary humanitarian truce for the first day of eid. that broke down extremely quickly. we had the large outbreak of fighting. the diplomatic efforts to try and bring about a cease fire are continuing. at the moment certainly the fighting is the thing that is dominating. >> bethany, thanks for updating us from jerusalem. we're going to talk about what appears to be the demise of the israeli peace movement as well. >> let's bring you up to date on what's happening in ukraine. for a third day, international

air accident investigators have abandoned plans to visit the crash site of the malaysian airliner in the east of the country. that's because fighting is ongoing. intense clashes between ukrainian troops and pro russian rebels have killed a number of civilians. we're getting this from officials there. rebels are pushed back towards their urban strong holds. the security defense council tell us the towns in the strategic rebel held donetsk region as well the luhansk region. the self-proclaimed people's republic of donetsk says militia reinforcements are staging counter attacks. here's tom with the latest. >> fighting in the town east of the rebel controlled strong hold of donetsk. we believe this was filmed over the past two days by pro russian

rebels. most of the fighting is now focused around donetsk after ukraine's army took the city of slovianviansk earlier this mont this is the city controlled by the russians. the leader of the pro russian rebels claim they're doing all they can to cut supply lines. >> i will knot estimanot estima battle. the enemy is throwing everything they have into battle. all possible resources are deployed to close the circle around the militia forces of donetsk. >> for two day, fighting has prevented a team of dutch experts and international observers from getting to the nearby crash site of flight mh 17. even with armed guards. >> for a third day running, it appears they might not reach the site.

ukraine's army is making advancements. here forces fire heavy artillery towards the city. hundreds of civilians have been killed in this war. ukrai ukraine's army denies it targets civilian areas. 230,000 people have now fled the fighting in eastern ukraine. bbc news in kharkiv. >> what's happening on the ground. what about in the meeting rooms of brussels? european ambassadors are meeting the to agree new economic sanctions against russia over actions in ukraine. we can join ben there for us. what do we know about sanctions, what could they include? >> well we expect the sanctions town announced possibly towards the end of today to go much further than anything the european union embarked on for now. there's travel bans on 90 people

advancing in crimea and ukraine. influential russians close to putin. going down the route of wider sanctions against the russian economy. there wasn't the will to do it and concern about economic self-enter and how it would harm europe's economy in different ways. as you heard in tom's report, the frustration now and anger among european leaders is palpable. they don't think russia has done enough in the last ten days to help secure the crash site area to allow the investigation to happen to deescalate the crisis in ukraine and stop the flow of arms over the border. there's a five way conversation yesterday between president obama and four of the main european leaders. they said russia had failed to do this and deescalate the crisis. in that call they agreed now is the time for tougher sanctions. we expect that is what eu

ambassadors agree over the course of today. >> americans to follow suit as well. what about the fact overriding concerns there's always been that a third of europe's gas supply comes from russia. our leader talking about that and what could possibly happen with important things like gas supply. >> we certainly are not going to see sanctions that jeopardize that. i think there are many countries. spain, germany, netherland, italy, that have deep lucrative trading relationships with russia. russian money runs through london. all these concerns are high on the list of government priorities over the last few months which is why they shied from going down the route of tougher economic sanctions. i think they probably have found agreement to embark on sector sanctions in a limited way. for instance, stopping russian banks that are largely state owned accessing european

capital. banning the export from europe of particular energy technology, for instance technology that would allow deep sea drilling that would enable russia to expand further oil and gas reserve. there could be an embargo on new sales, one that doesn't apply to existing sales to reassure the french. we're speculating. we need to see what ambassadors actually agree. i think whatever is hammered out will have to be seen to be fairly felt across the european union. the economic hit fairly taken for this to get agreement between all 28 members. >> thanks for the update from brussels. as soon as we have word on sanctions we'll bring the details straight to you. for now though in other news, libya says italy is sending aircraft and team of experts to contain a fire at a storage depo in tripoli. the government issued a statement urging all sides to

stop fighting so the team can do its work. it was hit in the crossfire between the militia battling to take over the country's main airport. all eight species of scaly animals are near extinction. the situationenned with ant eaters gone across the world. influential cousin of afghanistan's president karzai has been killed in an attack. hashmat karzai was a key backer of the government. let's go to that with david. do we know who's responsible? we seem to be having problems with our sound to kabul.

as soon as we get it back we'll return to david who's closely following that suicide bomb attack in kandahar. an influential cousin of president karzai candidate killed. there's family feuds going on there as well. david has the details and we'll bring those shortly. stay with us. still to come also on the program. worries about the environment and great barrier reef as australia approves plans for the biggest coal mine in the southern hemisphere. another left his shoes on the plane... his shoes! and a third simply doesn't want to be here. ♪ until now... until right booking now. ♪ planet earth's number one accomodation site booking.com booking.yeah! you owned your car for four you named it brad.

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let's get more now on our main story. the heavy overnight bombardment in gaza by israeli forces. gaza's health ministry says 60 palestinians were killed. chris morris has been to some of the sites hit overnight. >> this is a mosque in gaza city

which people say was hit at least twice during the night. a lot of mosques have been targeted in gaza since this israeli aerial campaign began. the israelis say there were 60 air strikes overnight and been more this morning. we've seen mosques targeted, seen security buildings. early early on we were down by the gaza port where areas were hit as well. you can see people are collecting pages from the karan. copies that have been scattered by the bombing are collected here on the floor to try to retrieve them. the overwhelming mood in gaza is becoming one of defiance even among people that don't support hamas. hamas' political popularity was

probably falling before this israeli bombardment began. faced with this kind of thing, people tend to come together. if israel says this is going to be a prolonged military campaign, it's quite clear the people going to bear the brunt of that are civilians of gaza. this is the only power plant in gaza. it was hit by an air strike overnight. you can just look at it. huge fire and flames and a massive plume of smoke stretching up into the sky. there's still israeli planes overhead and sounds of explos n explosio explosions. >> with this level of fighting going on, why haven't we heard more from the israeli peace movement? in the past, thousands have taken to the streets. during this offensive, numbers have been much lower. let's go to jerusalem and speak

to the political correspondent. thanks for being with us. it did used to feel like the israeli peace movement made their presence felt. this time barely anything. what's happened? >> it's fair to say the center are more eager than the right to see this campaign through and deal a very decisive blow to hamas. all of the major decisions taken by the cabinet in terms of the conflict and expanding the conflict, in terms of hunting down hamas with ever increasing velocity in military term ts we unanimous. they defined political agenda in terms of peace. i think there's a complicated issue with the israeli left feels it -- hamas is in the way

and preventing any kind of future that israel might ever withdraw from the west bank. the the example of fighting coming from gaza is turning the israeli electorate against the west bank. >> because we're not seeing people on the streets asking for peace, the palestinian families are being killed. the public appears to be rather indifferent. >> this is not -- it didn't start with this conflict. it started in the operation of pillar of defense november 2012. also prime minister netanyahu was at the time. there wasn't a ground offensive, only air offensive against hamas. with the same sort of rocket launches and rhetoric and b

brevado. support for netanyahu's war publicly and in press releases. it's important to understand whether you agree or not, israeli political analysts talk about the floating vote. these are israelis about 75 out of 120 seats. two-thirds of the israeli elector rat who are willing to sign peace if they believe it available and ready to go to war. >> can i ask in terms of the peace movement. i've read reports people are too scared to protest. they come out, and they're attacked. in tel aviv abuse is held. there's a feeling of fear about protesting and standing up for

peace. >> there's a small handful of radical protestors very naturalistic, very accepting the palestinian narrative completely. israelis on the far right, protestors are very radical and reject completely any kind of palestinian narrative. they fight in the streets. i don't think that explains why hundreds of thousands used to march in the 90s aren't today. that's not question of safety. that's changing politics. >> thank you for joining us. going to bring you breaking news coming in the past hour from china. beijing announcing the former security chief yongkang is under investigation for serious violation investigations. he's the most senior official to be targeted in the continuing campaign against corruption.

let's take you to damian who is in beijing. another sign they're taking this this crack down seriously against corrupt officials. >> yes. certainly. this is as you are saying an enormously significant announcement. the most high profile politician, most senior leader ever to be investigated for what is officially called serious disciplinary violations. that's code everyone knows here for corruption. the most senior leader to be investigated in the history of the communist party in china. in 60 odd years or so. this goes right to the very top of the communist party. he was on the standing bureau economy. that was nine men at the top of the party who ran china under the previous leadership. stood down a year or so ago. he was the security chief. he had the security portfolio. he ran the courts, police,

internal intelligence as well. very powerful figure. >> thanks for that update from beijing on that breaking news there. to australia now where the government has approved the development of what could po potentially be the country's biggest coal mine. it's angered environmentalists. >> living up to its name as the quarry of the world, australia's next coal mine will be the biggest yet. owned by the indian firm adani, it's predicted to export 60 million tons of fuel every year. >> huge benefits from supply chain to work force to supply of equipment technology, communications. this is a huge boom for regional land. >> environmental campaigners fear the mine would generate huge amounts of carbon dioxide and damage the great barrier reef when coal is shipped tout sea. the government however has

imposed dozens of conditions to limit potential damage. >> i don't take comfort from conditions on the biggest coal mine many the southern hemisphere. last month the report was to show that enforced. >> where the quarry is to be located is putting measures in place to protect the wild life. >> we believe in growth but believe in protecting the environment. we take it seriously to protect the environment. they'll strongly be enforced. i promise queensland of that. >> by boosting the economy $3 billion a year, there's no doubt the mine will be good for business. some say the cost to the environment is too great. do stay with us on "gmt." coming up, we take you through to look at the prospect for a cease fire agreement.

we understand the palestinian delegation including members from hamas and jihad on their way to cairo. we'll bring you more details on that. do stay with us. see you in a moment. ♪

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i'm lucy hockings. in this half hour, as the palestinian delegation heads to cairo, what are the chances of a cease fire agreement in gaza? let's take you to the west bank where the conflict has stirred tensions as well. some palestinians have little sympathy for hamas. she's in the news again. this time she's in charge of it. former republican vice presidential candidate sarah palin launches her own news channel. plus on the program, aaron joins us. there's a big meeting of the

aviation chiefs today. they must have a lot on the agenda. >> they are gathering in montreal to discuss the risk of passenger planes flying over war zones. we have a world some airlines fly over conflict areas and others take the longer route around. will aviation bosses clarify the rules and designate safer routes? the conflict in gaza is fuelling tensions in the west bank as well. thousands of protestors against israel's actions in gaza, at least 10 palestinians killed in clashes with the israeli army. many palestinians in the west bank have little sympathy for hamas. where they live is run by the group's long time political rival. a warning for you, his report

contains flashing images. >> palestinian grief, not in gaza but the west bank. this man was shot dead by israeli soldiers last week as he demonstrated against israel's actions in gaza. he was 47 years old, a father of three and worked for a children's charity. by his grave side his wife tells me he gave his life trying to protect children. in clashes with the israeli army, more than ten west bank palestinians have been killed and hundreds injured since the war in gaza began. at one protest, well over 10,000 turned out. >> just about every night the past three weeks or so, there have been clashes across the west bank here at the check point. you can see the rocks thrown by

palestinians littering the streets as well as tear gas canisters fired by the israeli army. it's not just israeli forces palestinians are battling with. >> these are palestinians trying to demonstrate clashing with palestinian security forces. the western banks palestinian authority that runs part of the west bank spent much of the last decade in conflict with rivals hamas in gaza. the authority has an agreement to cooperate on security with israel. some have accused it of work too closely with israel to crack down on hamas. >> we are not helping. there is an agreement that -- we are respecting that agreement. the aggression on hamas in gaza is aggression on all of us. >> his boss, the palestinian president, has been largely silent did during the conflict

focussing on diplomacy. some say he failed to capture the public mood. >> leadership should listen to street demands, what the palestinian people demand. we want to use this hard moment to be united again. leadership with the people, to be integrated. >> palestinian politicians have often been divided. on the war in gaza, palestinian people are united in their anger. bbc news in the west bank. let's take you to our senior member of the movement and former head of security in the west bank. thank you for being with us. we know that envoys from hamas and fat tar are on their way to cairo. there's a search for a cease fire. tell us how unified they are politically in terms of looking

for an agreement for a cease fire on israel. >> first of all, people are united against the israeli aggression attacks against our people in gaza. national concerns now is how to achieve comprehensive cease fire and to stop israeli aggressions and attacks on gaza. there was an egyptian initiative. last night there was a phone call between our president and president al-sisi. he invited presidential delegation to go and discuss the situation there. the list of the political factions including hamas and

jihad islamic is agreement escalation. last night in gaza by israelis. i don't think this gave any chance to any delegation to go to cairo in order to discuss what? first of all comprehensive israeli aggression should stop. otherwise i don't see any chance to go to cairo because there is nothing to discuss. only if we want to go with white flag. >> are you confident though that he will influence hamas, bring hamas into the fold and there will be unity in terms of working on cease fire? >> first of all, we believe that mr. netanyahu is war against

gaza. targeting politician national unity government which we achieved recently which concerned netanyahu. he did not want to see the people united behind political platform leading to two step solution. this war was initiated by netanyahu to undermine this opportunity. from our side, we are united. the people of hamas and jihad are cooperating with egyptians, with everybody in order to face this war. >> can i ask you briefly though, are you saying that you don't think an agreement can be reached in cairo? there's not going to be any immediate cease fire on the table that can be agreed on? >> unless israelis declare cut

cease fire from their side because they are attacking. they are bombing. they are shelling, they are destroying. the escalation last night was a message to everybody who is talking about any talks. first of all the egyptians, the americans, everybody should contend these attacks and a trosties and genocide war. then we can go and talk. this should be a starting point ending israeli occupation, ending the source of the situation which is the israeli operation and the strategy against the palestinian people. whether in jerusalem or gaza. >> thank you very much for joining us. let's bring you up to date

with business news. aviation chiefs in montreal, what a tough job ahead of them. it's a big agenda isn't it? >> big agenda and important about the risks of passenger planes flying over war zones or conflict zones. let me explain. thanks lucy. let's start with one of the largest airlines in the world. late yesterday it announced it will no longer fly over iraq due to the threat posed by islamist militants. following the downs of the malaysian flights mh 17 in ukraine, airlines are forced to reconsider flight paths over conflict zones. today in montreal, these are the world aviation chiefs. they are holding the high level meeting to discuss this topic. currently thousands of flights travel over volatile regions every day. these are the countries that have current ongoing conflicts ukraine up to the top of europe down to the democratic republic of congo in africa.

aviation authorities across the world can place restrictions on country's airlines and issue advice on flight paths. these are currently under flight bans or restrictions by the usfaa. they're the ones in orange or red. airlines generally prefer to take the most direct route to their destination time and saving fuel. some flights over conflict zones include london, johannesburg. atlanta to to dubai. new jersey to deli. it crosses afghanistan. let's go outside where the meeting is held or will be taking place. michelle is there. great the to see you. the airlines at the moment are basically responsible. that's how it's left now. responsible to decide what is safe and not safe. airlines will say, hang on. we're not security agencies.

right? >> you're hearing airlines whether malaysia or others saying hang on a second, we need help making these kinds of decisions. there's a growing concern they get information from countries. people want to know how do countries make decisions. is it some case by case situation? should there be more transparency? that's what the aviation chief behind me will be discussing today. how the current existing protocols that already exist work more efficiently. at the moment, the airmen will meet. this is a clearinghouse for notifications. then the airlines can decide whether or not to act on that or other information they gather for themselves. the question is are the alerts, notification system that's been

in place a long time, are they timely enough, accurate enough? what can be done to improve those? that's what they'll be discussing. >> another problem is airlines are a commercial business. they want to fly the most direct route at less fuel. i'm assuming it will cost the airlines more and passenger more money to fly longer routes. >> i think that is the down side. but you talk to people right now, and the main focus is on safety. further down the line that obviously will mean possibly more in terms of how much you have to pay for a seat, a flight. the question is will customers will being to pay that? when you ask them a choice between price and safety, they opt for safety. there is growing pressure on people to try to improve the

situation. the airlines of course feeling lot of pressure and not necessarily well equipped enough. they're looking to international bodies to try to come up with some sort of solution. it's hard to know what they can do. they're also relying on specific individual countries to provide a lot of information. sometimes there can be conflicts of interest there. that will be interesting to see how fast they can go, whether the organization behind me should be given more pressure or power to penalize countries for example that don't give accurate or timely enough information. >> i know you're there all day, all afternoon. going to talk to you again in an hour or so. talk to you again. thanks michelle at the headquarters in montreal. let's talk about this. president obama and european leaders have agreed to impose tougher sanctions on russia. they've seen no evidence putin is changing policy.

that's happening today, tuesday. how will will they be different from sanctions already implemented? for one thing, sanctions are expected to target entire sectors of russia's economy rather than individual companies and of course individuals themselves. financial, defense and energy sectors are among those likely to be targeted. they include a ban on investors buying new debt or shares of banks owned 50% or more by the russian state. future arms deals with moscow will be banned. things like deep sea drilling and gas. many eu members block up the heavy reliance on russian gas supplies. let's get more on this interesting stuff. andrew joining us. good to see you. there's been financial sanctions

in place. give us a break down. how different are these and how much of an impact? how significant are they? >> they do represent a significant escalation assuming the european union diplomats do stand by what they're talking about in brussels. the initial stages, first sanctions focused on individuals, specific businesses either associated with separatists in eastern ukraine or with putin himself. the idea was make life difficult for separatist or try to use vins that might bring pressure to bear on putin to change his mind. now we're talking much wider sanctions to affect important parts of the russian economies, the banking sector. if you make life more difficult for banks, you make it difficult for hem to do what they're supposed to do, provide the credit that keeps the economy kicking over.

thing temperatures like the exploration and drilling in the deep sea and arctic. that's important part of the strategy for the russian oil industry to get that more difficult but potentially lucrative oil out into export markets. we are looking at thing that have the potential to have a much bigger impact than what we've seen so far. >> what's interesting this this round, there seems to be a different tone certainly coming out of europe. a tone that says we are now prepared to take a hit in our own pocket to put sanctions on russia. >> that tone i think is particularly noticeable in relation to germany. germany has particular issues about the degree of entanglement with russia. big exporter of high-tech equipment. industrial machinery and that sort of stuff. it's also a big import of russian gas. not as dependent as smaller

countries in europe. it's still very important. increasingly the signs have been that german business and public opinion are prepared to take some sort of sacrifice. they're prepared to take an economic hit because they are so outraged by the events that happened ten days or so ago. the downing of that malaysian airliner has changed the political climate in large parts of europe. >> sure has. great stuff. andrew, our economics correspondent joining me there. couple of other stories making headlines around the world. how about this, the oil giant bp reported a 35% rise in profits for second quarter. what's paid out will increase 8%. sanctions imposed over the ukraine crisis have not affected business so far. the oil giant warns further sanctions could affect business. bp has a 20% stake in russian

energy giant rosneft. nissan reports a rise in profits. that's a 13.45% jump from a year ago. the strong rise helped the japanese auto maker off set slowing domestic sales. lots going on. tweet me and i'll tweet you back. world business report in 45 minutes time. going back to montreal and talk about the important meeting taking place today. >> looking forward to it. thanks. still to come, remember her? she's back this the spotlight making news. former republican vise presidential candidate sarah palin launches her own news channel. (vo) ours is a world of passengers. the red-eyes. (daughter) i'm really tired. (vo) the transfers. well, that's kid number three. (vo) the co-pilots.

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hello. i'm lucy hockings. our top story this hour. a powerful station -- power station continues to burn. 60 palestinians are reportedly killed. eu ambassadors heating in brussels to consider sanctions to russia over actions in ukraine. no longer regarding homosexuality as a psychiatric disorder, some clinics offer treatments claiming they can cure gay patients. that may change this week. a chinese court hears the first trial of its kind. there's been a long campaign in europe and the u.s. been successful shifting the medical consensus against such treatment. campaigners want chinese doctors

to follow suit. >> in an office block in the eastern city, down a gloomy corridor lies proof of prejudice that lie at the heart of the medical profession. china declassified homosexuality as psychiatric illness a decade ago. clinics like this one are easy to find. this doctor tells me he cures 70% of gay patients using counselling alone. he can describe the so called a version therapy offered elsewhere. one common method is electric shock he says. when the patient has a gay thought we electrocute them. china's gay community has begun to fight back. being gay is not an illness, this protest banner at a medical

conference reads. the delegates respond. we can't support homosexuality, these doctors say. we do try to understand it. now for the first time, china has allowed gay conversion therapy to be challenged in the courts. i had electric shock therapy only once this activist says. imagine those that have had it many times. he put himself through it to gather the evidence and now wants the courts to ban it. it's a battle that's being fought elsewhere. this video is of a gay pride march many london in 1979. more than 30 years on the notion of the gay cure has not gone a away. >> the medical consensus is

there's no way it can be chan d changed. there's the policy and heavy pressure on young people in the society to get married and produce a family. >> attitudes in china though are changing fast. the shanghai holds an annual gay pride event as proof of that. the court case is hoped to be another step forward sending a message the enduring medical prejudice needs to stop. bbc news shanghai. she's back in the middle of the spotlight. former governor of alaska and 2008 vice presidential hopeful has launched her own station. >> guess who's back? the politician sarah palin has launched an online tv channel where viewers can experience her patriotism for $9.95 a month.

>> are you tired of media filters? i am. >> she burst onto the political scene in 2008 after being chosen by john mccain to be his running mate. her new channel doesn't pull punches. sarah palin wants president obama to be impeached. the web page supports a number of days until obama leaves office. that's not all viewers have to look forward to. other features for subscribers including the ability to submit questions for palin. behind the venture, the los angeles start up who's driving a web for online channels. a woman herself, who over the

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