fresh casualties in gaza israel continues they've been bombed into the besieged strip after warning of a possible ground operation on boston is in the region. the latest hostilities in gaza coming after weeks of escalating tensions with israeli airstrikes and hamas rocket attacks over the border. also this hour the trying that brought europe to a standstill the continent trying to return to normality of to millions of walked out of their jobs in protest against austerity only to be matched with a heavy handed police response. china's communist party elects a new leader to steer the country's powerhouse economy as part of what once in a decade political change.

this is our see coming here live from moscow hello and welcome to the program israel is continuing its trying to sound gaza with at least three palestinians reported killed overnight this follows wednesday's barrace of rocket attacks which left ten dead including the military leader of hamas israel has also warns that in ground operation is on the table. and is in tel aviv for. overnight the bombardment continued from the air israeli air strikes killed three more militants those belonging to the same militant group in gaza as after jobbery the head of hamas his military wing who was killed in a targeted airstrike yesterday afternoon there's also reports confirmed by the israeli military of continued shelling via the israeli navy gunboats off the coast

and fixed land based artillery pieces from southern israel from hamas twenty five rockets were fired into southern israel over the night israeli missile defenses trying to shoot those down some of them land landing in southern israel as well this immediate escalation came about yesterday afternoon loud explosions rocking all the built up areas there about ten people reported killed including civilians the great fear now that a ground invasion is imminent israeli sources have said that they're fully prepared to start a gun of asian if they deem it necessary and they have called up reservists possibly the last time that we've seen any operation of this intensity was over the new year of two thousand and eight to nine when israel launched operation cast lead pretty much following the same pattern as we've seen so far with

a ground operation following the same stated objectives as israel says now to destroy the terrorist infrastructure on the ground in gaza meeting heavy fighting there was a lot of civilian casualties and damage as a result outside bodies such as the u.n. also calling for restraint on all sides. the u.n. security council has held imagined closed door meeting after palestinians called for an end to israel's offensive and again that you can now reports from washington the u.s. is supporting a zero despite the escalating violence. the u.s. response to the shelling of gaza was easy to predict and it says we stand by our partners in their right to defend themselves against terrorism the u.s. representative to the u.n. has released a statement saying the u.s. expresses regret at the death injury of innocent israeli and palestinian civilians caused by the violence there but made it clear that washington is clearly blaming

the palestinians for the israelis shelling of gaza palestinians are asking the security council to stop israel and what they call quote war crimes perpetrated by israel against the palestinian people israel of course is saying that the airstrikes are a justified response to the rocket fire from gaza in two thousand is for all it's worth noting that this wednesday while israel was storming gaza from air president obama was holding a news conference the president received no question about gaza and that was almost nothing on t.v. hear about it i've been watching very closely the israeli defense minister who has indicated that this could be just the beginning mr brock who broke the last this really ground attack on gaza four years ago this three week operation cast lead in which more than one thousand and one hundred palestinians and twelve israelis were killed this wednesday's offensive is almost certain to set off a new round of heavy fighting with gaza militants who are said to have

a significant arsenal of rockets and missiles now that the region may very well find itself in a devastating circle of violence we saw that happen in the past time and time again but essentially nothing has been done to address some of the root causes of this middle eastern tragedy and it is a very complex situation and the u.s. has basically told us well whatever you do to the palestinians in gaza we're not going to polls we're not going to intervene or then let anybody else intervene and the usual line is the one that we heard this wednesday and that is we stand by our way through. partners in the right to defend themselves against terrorism but does the word terrorism in this context justify any actions by israel because it very much seems like it from the u.s. point of view and that is what many people don't understand but it's also interesting how washington chooses which acts of care to condemn this terrorism and which ones not to condemn for example suicide bombings that happen in syria on

a regular basis the u.s. does not hurry to condemn them as acts of terror so the word terrorism may have different interpretations in washington often an act of terror may not be condemned as such if it's committed against someone designated by the you was an enemy and my colleague bill don't spoke to israeli defense forces spokesperson left and. if the israel's deadly response to hamas rocket fire was justified. i think that seven hundred rockets a year launched from gaza into israel do not demand justification we have one million israelis which are under immediate danger and they have between fifteen and fifty seconds this more than justifies this operation we took this operation in order to defend the people of israel and can you confirm that you continue this operation with ground invasion. ground invasion is an

option we currently have an operational assessment following the assessment will decide how to proceed. all the options are currently on the table what do you have to achieve by an invasion is it's going to provoke a massive and just turned into a just kind of more violence and death well since hamas encouraged the firing of the rockets into israel don't you think it's a bit late for that i mean we are here. to feel our defense operation in order to protect the three million israelis that are almost under this rocket fire we currently are continuing the operation a few hours ago we targeted underground tunnels and launching pads in these launching pads there were rockets of different types some came from iran i'm referring to the farther five these are rockets with a very long range that can merely reach the city of tel aviv we cannot allow this situation to continue our country deserves and has the right to defend its people

statistically many would say that the rocket attacks on israel have had not as much in the facts as what's happening with the retaliate three attacks from israel against guns are we getting reports of your civilians dying i spoke to an eyewitness earlier who were saying that even children were caught up in this what do you say about this i believe that there are casualties on both sides in the past decades now we don't have any intention to target people that are not involved directly in terror but hamas he's the terror going to zation that shows. deliberately to locate its warehouses of rockets its facilities of terror its outposts right in the middle of the population the gazans shows hamas hamas terror terror is rocket fire we will not comply with this kind of situation. and overnight riots are so they're sold starters she spoke to fear a documentary filmmaker and activist working in gaza and he said palestinian people

are terrified and expecting things to get. so far we've seen an absolutely over hospital system health system here in gaza an emergency crisis status was launched by that within an hour of the operation a pillow being launched as you said we've seen at least three dead children at least one woman we've seen at least ninety injured in just one hospital we've seen victims many people giving. reports of white phosphorous maybe being used again here on the gaza strip we've seen naval attacks attacks i have to be honest with you the situation is very very grave of how us and gazan population are frankly being terrorized internationals in the gaza strip recalled to an activist and the gazan people believe that this is the beginning of another full scale war akin to that of winter two thousand and eight winter two thousand and nine named operation

cast lead so i have to tell you the situation is expected to get graver and graver . to get live updates on the situation in gaza you can always log on to our web site called and will be closely following the story on out so stay with us. now the u. is feeling the aftershock of violent until terror here protests as demonstrators in more than twenty countries joined forces coming up we'll take a look at how the twenty four hour strike of the spending part of cairo unemployment to europe into us. all change at the top as china names the new need several rule the country for a night of decades to get a lot of this mean for the emerging superpower and its well in the wild wild reaction all the way after.

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this is on c welcome back china's vice president season pain has taken over as the communist party leader and will become the next president in march that announcement came as the government undergoes its once in a decade politico transformation with essential camisa meeting to elect a new leader let's not discuss this with financial expert who joins us now live from hong kong mr mood thank you very much indeed for joining us now so buy it some estimates china is due to overtake the us economically by twenty twenty something that will undoubtedly make some western nations ago nervous so can china keep good work going at the rate it has done. well i. am really

talking about is really very charged. for the next ten years given that. over the last three years every screw over has been above nine percent so it is really not a difficult task to do. the new leadership showed. you. continue it above everything else so. what this means is they continue to grow economically but politically there will not be any changes. the cost for the major world players in china keeps rising well we see a diminished influence for other countries especially in europe as a result. well economics is not a game is not is a game and should be as china grows the market for america for japan for

europe and asia even africa increases don't forget companies like folks who are going to get fifty percent of profits from china and general motors gets twenty percent of their profits from china countries resource countries like canada australia. all fifty percent of export go to china so as china grows and actually it will contribute enormously to global economic growth a right and china's enjoyed obviously enormous economic growth as you say but also widespread corruption just recently huge in tower warned it could trigger the collapse of the party will the new leader be able to tackle it. well i really did because corruption is so ingrained in the system but the fact is this.

corruption and all of their china still managed to grow about ten per cent per annum for the last thirty years so this means actually for better or for worse corruption and control if you look at other countries you know. so. observers are critics may be much too harsh on china in this respect talking about foreign policy but do you think the new leaders will adopt a hotshot stance against the u.s. attempts to establish its own dominance in the asia pacific. well being what china would do is to continue to strings that is going to richard poland china can achieve parity with america if that is the case i don't think america can for all its weight around the world. out of

poland like why did this now you. can do anything it wants but if china becomes. a military power on a parity with the us then things will change. financial accept france's lynn thank you very much indeed for sharing your views with us. with the election over in the you are not all americans are in a patriotic mood as we're not what are you more and more people in the state around the country want to see accumulating thousands of electronic signatures demanding they go it alone. and also online for you has already a billionaire and now is a comic book he wrote be hailed from or become the subject of a brotha called can't soon be released and b you are telling the life story of the self-made russian tycoon. the european union is reading from the twenty

four hour notice trying that saw millions of workers across the debt ridden block take to the streets the day of action against austerity so massive shutdowns travel chaos and to have a hundred police response to the protests some of the most disturbing scenes occurred in spain's to main cities where frustration with a deepening recession spilled into violence in madrid in barcelona. rubber bullets and clash with demonstrators over one hundred people were arrested and at least seventy five dangerous throughout the country that was at the forefront of the strike also has some after reports now from the spanish capital. saying. greece. italy. and portugal. your debt ridden countries join together with many others to the continent's first cross border mega strike from the beginning it was clear that emotions were running high in many places madrid saw violence early on and asked

a breeze. to break the anger of those protesting every day for various things put up between the protesters and the riot police is part of the right almost things that make sure it's not really get more symbolic candy for the he's the by the people say there are right now all across there are the three legged governments and between the people themselves this is why the austerity vote those. well the bullets in violent confrontations with the authorities are becoming an auntie familiar sights consonance leaders stand for the disparity is a necessary evil to cut the sky high deficit own november fourteenth the people of europe seem to have formed a county union to fight back against the prevailing title sterrett city ahead of next week's budget meetings brussels would have been watching closely as the scenes of police and protesters battling one another played out across the nobel peace prize winning. imagery of the clean up operation is already under way only.

the year is saying to clean up the mess it finds itself. all in all the way all anger over deepening spending cuts and soaring unemployment has swept through more than twenty european countries in portugal what the government plans to further intensify establishing measures next here protesters threw rocks and bottles at riot police guarding the parliament in the capital lisbon italy so we're demonstrations turning violent as well as tens of thousands of students and workers clash with police countries like france and belgium who've been less affected by the financial crisis also saw huge marchers and carlos del close a sociologist at a point through from green avastin barcelona took part in one stays try and explain what's driving people to demonstrate. a protest isn't about a solution a protest is normally about something you don't want so in this case what they're protesting is e.u. austerity cuts in social spending and cuts in social rights and the expansion of

social misery people can make the argument that austerity is a solution to the current problems faced by your citizenry and in particular by the southern european citizenry the problem is what is that austerity is it neo liberal you austerity where you cut basically all of those all of the social protection. people from this. sort of downward spiral of social misery and with all of that escalating conflict or do you leave social protection in place in places where there really is overspending such as a big bank bailouts and. areas like these. and with more insight into europe's who are going frustration with the stars as well as economists forecast on our website and also that the best pictures and videos from the mega strike head to r.t. dot com to explore all of that. time

now to take a look at some other stories making news this hour syrian rebels say they've taken from all of a key military checkpoint near the country's northeastern border with turkey at least eighty government troops some three opposition fighters died in the battle near the town of ras al-ain where the rebels which the rebels seized on friday meanwhile senior u.k. officials as you to discuss the growing violence including the option of a no fly zone this comes as friends became the western power to recognize the opposition coalition in syria. a series of bomb attacks have swept through wrong claiming the lives of at least twenty six people and injuring more than one hundred the deadliest blasts occurred in cocoa where three car bombs killed nine and injured dozens another car bomb targeting an army convoy blew up in bug done while a police station and an army patrol were targets in mosul the spate of dead less souls happened in a rug as iraq prepares to celebrate the islamic new year in the haraam. and shortly

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a stately pleasure dome to korea for all their biographers and pay social liaison officers yes afghanistan is just so frickin romantic this time of year but if the us generals are protecting the war in afghanistan for a safe gnocchi on the side a then well why is david cameron protecting the city of london calling for a doubling down of fraud who is shipping home david cameron stacy. yes max. david cameron use an annual speech to the guildhall to which is normally reserved for foreign policy and he instead talked about bankers and the city of london as an export as a sort of sort of foreign policy it is the currency war it is the financial war and max i think he was addressing you david cameron attacks trashers of britain's

banks prime minister uses annual mansion house speech to highlight strays and potential of banking sector david cameron gave a warning on monday night that critics of the nation's banks and up trashing britain as he mounted a strong defense of the financial services industry oh yeah i've been following closely david meister cameron's endorsement of the city of london doubling down on fraud i was reading in the telegraph here banks give us an edge in the global race says the prime minister the global race in laxity the global race and bank fraud and this is what frankfurt and germany understand this is why they're pushing the u.k. to get out of this banking union on the continent because they realize that the rise of frankfurt and the fall of the city of london is imminent and david cameron is scoring an own goal an own goal against him so.