israel hits military targets in syria in response to a mortar shell landing on its territory but spillover from syria's civil war blamed for in pain during the decades long truce between the two states. israel for markel in portugal the german chancellor is greeted with public anger and blame for the austerity that is strangling of that country as well as mass protests in greece against the cuts demanded by international lenders. and more heads rolling at the b.b.c. now the news chief and her deputy step aside over the broadcasters and botched handling of child abuse claims.

world news live from our moscow headquarters on lucy catherine of in you're watching our team the syrian conflict continues to break over its borders with israel now feeling the ripple effects of the jewish state has fired missiles over the border for two consecutive days now in response to mortar shells landing in the golan heights let's cross over to paula our correspondent in the room who is with us live now paula we're hearing that the israeli military says it scored quotes direct hits on targets in syria what's going on between syria and israel bring us up to date. well the information we have is that a mortar shell landed in an open area near the vicinity of in his lady defense force military base in the occupied golan heights it did not cause any injuries or damage but israel immediately responded and fired shells now according to israeli military sources they did hit

a syrian mobile artillery but we have no more information at this stage in connection with that but certainly the israeli army confirming that there were direct hits taken on the syrian side of the audio has also issued a complaint with the united nations forces in the area they say that any kind of fire into israel from syria will not be tolerated and that israel will deal with this in the poshest turns this is the second straight day that there has been a mortar fired from syria landing in northern israel the first incident saw israel responding with warning shots but what is significantly different today is that we are witnessing direct hits now there has been a truce him place between israel and syria since nine hundred seventy three and for the better part of the last four decades there has been an easy peace between these two countries but those latest incidents certainly is sending alarm bells and people are significantly that the situation could escape having said this though

israel does not believe that the mortars that landed in israeli territory were targeted to wardes israel but they're rather they are the by products of the fighting that is happening inside syria between rebel forces and forces loyal to the syrian president bashar assad not all of course turkey has also seen mortar shells fired onto its territory from within syria and turkey is a force a nato member allied country bring us up to date on the latest in that regard. well along the turkish syrian border the very tensions have been escalating for weeks already a syrian fighter jet earlier bombed a rebel held area near the turkish border and according to the information we have at least six people were killed and more than a dozen people wounded according to eyewitnesses on the ground there were at least three strikes we also know that the syrians used a rocket propelled grenade at the same time these rebel targets that are being

directed are about fifty yards from the border we know that particularly the town of ras. has come under attack and just last week we saw syrian rebels overrunning three security compounds along the border so we're witnessing a misconnection in tensions along the syrian turkish border as well all right and of course we're also hearing reports now that anders fogh rasmussen is saying he is the head of the nato secretary tech secretary general he is now saying that nato would step in and defend its ally turkey should this escalate paula thank you so much for keeping us up to date in the region. while marathon talks between syria's fractured opposition and qatar scapel doha have seen the formation of a new political body the deal as a result of relentless pressure from the u.s. as well as its allies in europe and an arab countries who want to see the current syrian regime toppled some analysts are questioning whether the newly formed rebel coalition is actually taking the syrian people's interests into account. from the

very beginning of the conflict in syria the big question is how much influence do these groups outside of syria actually have within syria and i shrink there's a strong argument to say that they don't have much widespread support within syria i think a fundamental point which has been missed is that the future affairs of an independent sovereign country are being discussed by foreign governments in a foreign country that is absolutely rageous we're talking about the united nations the pillars of the united nations states. being completely undermines i mean if there was a domestic crisis for example in spain would it be acceptable for foreign governments to convene in rome the capital bitterly to discuss your affairs of spain it's absolutely outrageous and it's also illegal ones are international who are. israel

is planning to conduct a large scale offensive against gaza after it soured by missiles from the top applied to territories more on that coming up later in this program. protests have started in portugal's capital lesbo where chancellor angela merkel is currently visiting people there blame the german leader for their nation's economic hardships the country had to adopt severe austerity measures in order to receive a bailout that was worth almost eighty billion euro last year artists our fourth is in the portuguese capital. political finances and back under the spotlight the german chancellor is meeting with the country's president and prime minister at the meetings coming at a very critical time for the country just ahead of the toughest budget cut the political scene in recent times and of course in today's time portugal's going to be joined by all the eurozone countries such as spain and greece in a euro a white general strike now the german chancellor is expected to deliver

a message of support for the very tough austerity measures that the government has been pushing through the prime minister has always been very supportive of angela merkel is a start he mentioned maintaining that the only way to get out of this that crisis is to stick to the very strict budget goes that was set under the seventy eight billion euro bailout deal at the whereas in the calls quote it goes into a a fairly broad consensus on the austerity measures we've really seen the need to in recent times souring the countries suffering from record highs of unemployment up to about fifteen percent at the moment it's about to enter is thirty years of recession and people are very unhappy with what that thing is most area to that they're afraid is going to choke off any chance of price in fact many people here in the country say that that is already happening that the state measures own ready pushing portugal into poverty but we've seen some of the largest protests the portuguese had in recent days expect more of that today is that england coast may

take a put up here we had a thirty smoothly protest has been very large chance johnson days one of the signs behind me reading merkel is just not working i think that really sums up the movie here in portugal at the moment and of course we seen that sentiment echoed throughout much of europe at the moment. artists are for a fair while there's more austerity plan ahead for greece which has approved next year's budget forcing new cuts on an already struggling population thousands gathered outside of the parliament to protest the new budget is massive an arrest against an austerity package voted through last week adopting both bills as a precondition set for greece by international lenders who have been blocking and without for months now don laughlin from the institute of the markets and cooperation in paris says that greece is sacrificing its own economy in order to stay in the euro zone we can see that the kinds of measures that have been imposed on greece for more than two years because this crisis has been going on for

a very long time these measures are actually making the situation worse by our economy is in the free fall it's been in three falls through every year and the fact is that the greek political class like the rest of the euro gives the class in a sense i think a prisoner of its own ideology it's the prisoner of the european ideology and this ideology exerts such a power over legal. heads to do things which by any rational measure of obviously counterproductive in order to preserve the european project or the euro in particular they are determined to do everything to keep the single currency intact even to destroy their own country just so and you certainly weren't up over fifty percent to the economy into a massive recession and so on. home is not so sweet for many u.k.

citizens these days find out why more skilled workers are searching for better lives abroad which could leave britain scrambling for professionals. well the b.b.c. is in a bad way botched journalism false child abuse accusations and revelations of decades of paedophilia are seeing a number of key executives feel the heat the broadcasters head of news and her deputy are the latest to step aside this just days after the director general had quit orgies or smith reports from london. director general george resigned over the weekend saying that it he felt it was the owner thing to do and that any dippin stance is ultimately his folds but what might not be seen as the honorable thing to do is that he's currently taking all four hundred fifty thousand pounds of his yearly pay packets despite having been in the job only fifty four days and of course much of that fifty four days he spent some would say ineffectually trying to

fight these fires to keep on breaking out of the b.b.c. and that money will be paid by the taxpayer just the latest thing is these allegations by a man called steve meston who said that he was repeatedly sexually abused as a child by a senior politician that was reported on the b.b.c.'s flagship current affairs program news night which led to a former conservative party treasurer being named a man called lord mcalpine and only after that was this steve mess and showing a photograph of lord mcalpine and he said oh no actually i'm sorry i was mistaken it wasn't him after all and that haven't been enough in itself or of the jimmy savile scandal again newsnight had done an investigation into jimmy savile who was a much loved children's entertainer back when i was growing up which essentially exposed him as a paedophile at that program though it was spiked by b.b.c. leadership they were ordered to drop it at least in part because other parts of the

b.b.c. were preparing a programme that said how wonderful jimmy savile was praising him in his lifelong charity work and of course it's not just news that the b.b.c. does they do a range of programs nature documentaries etc etc so it has been a much loved it loved institution and people hope i think that this change of management will will make that be so again let's have a listen to what they say i still followed b.b.c. news and. yeah i still just as easy say we wouldn't deter me from using b.b.c. xeni. i think you see a shift here and it's something that really is the unfortunate you can't control the charles my station will be so i still trust my bro in law here too late we will really be free. for a while at least the b.b.c. over a number of years has made a series of blunders and been involved in a number of decisions which have shown somewhat poor judgment they have been phoning competition's been rigged the results have been the b.b.c.

also has to do with the reporting of the conflict in the middle east and also an incident surrounding syria where the b.b.c. used a photograph that was taken in iraq in two thousand and three but used it to illustrate a massacre in the syrian city of houla and there was also back in two thousand and three a very serious incident where a b.b.c. journalist revealed that dr david kelly was the source for his report that the government had sex stop the dossier on the weapons of mass destruction in iraq which of course led to the invasion of iraq. after being outed in that way was subsequently found dead believed killed himself after being on massed again in the wake of that the director general resigned but this is this is an erosion of trust really that's been going back for some years according to british m.p. gerard batten the b.b.c. could actually lose its viewers trust as a result of the scandal. the institutionalized lity bias of the b.b.c.

i mean it's fairly transparent in many of the stories that i travel in stories sprigg sample and membership of the european union or mass immigration crime the riots in europe last year in london you get a very kind of left wing politically correct quasar marxist theory of the world from the b.b.c. states that they have an interest in presenting stories in a certain way and of course now we've got this added problem of the climb in professional standards that we've seen with the jimmy savile issue and now the live picture against the late conservatives here so i think that you know the power of the public are waking up to the problems with the baby same as you can apparently a long long time. well from a sex scandal in the k. to one in the u.s. the forced resignation of the former cia chief and it's snowballing part by the revelations of the affair simply part of a bigger political cover up. and terror raid in a moscow last police arrest six members of an islamist organization it was alleged

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brings us to the first six million cubic metres of wood is cut down in careers forests every year that goes to make everything from farm houses to firewood and with growing is proximity to europe and the baltic states big forests big business . welcome back israel is considering a full scale military offensive against gaza following the latest round of fire exchanges with militants from the occupied territory around one hundred or last rockets have landed in israel over the weekend while air strikes were launched against sites within gaza activist and writer joe captain says the potential military move would require strong public back. well we're seeing military

interventions on an ongoing basis air strikes have been occurring regularly since saturday by now i believe total of seven people have been killed including three children a thirteen year old was killed playing soccer east of khan yunus two more children were killed again on saturday and then two young responding were rescued also killed by israeli fire but in terms of ground invasion of the type we saw in two thousand and eight and two thousand and nine i believe the israeli government is laying the groundwork for a possible action of that sort and ball stir public opinion among israeli supporters so netanyahu is trying to move some pieces into place but at the present time i think he recognizes they simply aren't there. the u.s. congress is demanding more answers from the f.b.i. over the extramarital affair which forced the cia director to quit just a few days ago politicians say david petraeus his resignation hit them like

a lightning bolt and now they want to know how much national security was actually compromised as a result and also i don't want told them about this sooner and not to get a journalist james combat thinks that a much bigger political picture is behind the scenes here. the question has to be why this scandal is emerging now why is it it is embroiled in general petraeus and what information did he have that would potentially have have been interesting to people who would have been interested in bringing him down and this is actually we can start to get to see some of the pieces of this puzzle emerging as it becomes clearer now that that there is the indication that he will not be testifying in upcoming congressional hearings into what happened in benghazi in september and because of that some key information about what happened in benghazi might not come to light including some interesting information that just emerged in recently that in fact last month general petraeus is alleged mistress this of broadwell was going around giving speeches about how the cia annex in benghazi was being used as

a secret prison which is why it was cut why it was attacked in september so there are some very very big things that are emerging right now and it looks like the operation to take down but to petraeus at this particular moment might be motivated by some of those backdoor political dealings rather than the sex scandal that is that supposedly made out to be. we're also covering the developments in the petraeus scandal on our web site to the letter what's part of the investigation against the former cia boss and whether his indiscretions were hushed up in order to help the obama campaign. that are to dot com and demonstrate donate occupy activists question a plan to relieve hundreds of americans from their debt. russian

police have smashed a terrorist cell in moscow breaking into a hideout and making arrests more details now from our. the police of six people are suspected to be members of an international islamic terrorist organization of say that they recruited supporters in several mosques across the city spreading radical ideas that the investigators have also found nine doing the guns ammunition extremist literature and instructions on how to recruit people in their hideouts an investigation is still underway perhaps that's why their names haven't yet been released but we do remember a similar story just a few months back in august another man was arrested suspected of being a member of a different international terror network and from moscow as these are yet new reminders that international terrorism is not something very far away these people

could be here operating and scheming right in the russian capital. let's get on to some international headlines in a brief right now. iran has launched a massive air defense drills with fighter jets drones and thousands of troops taking part in maneuvers cover nearly the entire eastern half of the country and come amid escalating tension with israel which that insta strike iran over its nuclear program. dozens of tibetan activists have clashed with police in front of the chinese embassy in india they're protesting against beijing's policies in the region calling for the country's independence unrest independent tibet has risen in recent months including a new wave of self immolation. britain's brain drain could soon leave the country desperately short of skilled workers that is according to a recent report suggesting the number of professionals chasing work abroad has soared in the past two decades. looks at why for some u.k. citizens pardon me home is no longer where the work is.

london one of the cool overall financial sense says it was even voted the best place to visit on the won it last year but it looks like fewer people want to actually live in britain the u.k. home office has just released a poll that says that in reducing the number of executives scientists and academics are choosing to leave britain last year alone some one hundred fifty thousand new disciplines emigrated to the seas and now some five million brits live aboard and don't blame the unpredictable weather or the local cuisine experts now think that it's the high rate of taxation and the cost of living that could drive even more brits to move abroad people with a motor of the economy are people with a lot of property but perhaps with an education perhaps with ambition as well we

need to keep them in the country you have to face a life of living in london on a very small gross wage maybe even smaller by taxation to a net wage that's that which we fail as a country and perhaps some sort of system of graduated tax allowances might help us cope perhaps most alarming for the politicians who office findings but the majority of the people that opt out of the u.k. rat race do so out of an overall lifestyle choice signalling and the discontent with living standards here in britain that's normal most of. them we know in national government is hoping for me consider moving abroad to avoid big government slacking off and taking away the good things from the people that owning a little bit more even though it's through hard work and dedication over here is that he work until you drop dead they don't want to reward us so what's the point of continuing companies are already complaining that they find it hard to find

a highly skilled profession. no fun is to walking the talk a because of the u.k. government's top one migration in order to cut immigration into the country now the growing number of young and ambitious rates something that might leave the british government wondering why all the fuss and the fun. don't go away i'll have an update on the world of sports with kate writes their heart. catalonia wants to get its independence from the rest of spain locals feel that madrid texas all of catalonia economic success is a way putting the region into debt trust me who work hard only to have it all taxed

away is very aggravating i can see why people are frustrated but the people who want independence have a very odd slogan catalonia a new european state so let me get this straight you want independence but you want to stay in the e.u. is that what you mean what exactly would that change that's not really gaining independence that shifting dependencies stay in the e.u. means you won't have control of your borders you'll still be on the euro c won't have your own currency you'll be able to establish your trade standards those will be dictated to you by brussels and if you don't like the austerity measures from outsiders like in madrid then you might want have a conversation with the greeks because being an independent country in the e.u. won't save you from people messing with your finances all i'm saying is that big truly independent means answer to no one not madrid not brussels but that's just my opinion.

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hello welcome to the way to sport roundup and here's a taste of what's coming up. marching on up to noosa schools twice a test as they talk with a three one win but is a need and angie are breathing down their necks in the russian premier li. plus trading capitals we get up close and personal with ice hockey stop and examine that of education up to his move to washington to moscow. on building a future we take a look at how a stake in construction could benefit russia as the country prepares to host a string of top sporting events. but let's take off this week show with football at most a scored a goal in h.r. office to sky one three one that combine to remain top of the russian premier league and with all the weekend's action his confidence that's awful. of i says got handed to one day person on the street and more than one was so open ten

minutes into way and to all the rest as millis we poor little from the penalties for. but most us struck again knowing the second pierrette and russ was elevated the army man stood in his own for the season with a brilliant strike from outside the box says guy now in a quite match winning run and remain top of the loom. as i well zoot when second on goal difference with a two one win at the old portugal's miguel downie celebrated his return from a long term injury waiting up alexander a new coach who fired into the net from outside the box form as any player even much seem of snatched the nineteenth mean as equaliser but alexander kid rock off mark his three hundredth match for the st petersburg side within the political elite to give the defending champions another lake next reb by goose heatings in for months.