a new israeli invasion looms over gaza as the palestinian enclaves battered with artillery and air strikes without a geisha the white phosphorus is being used against civilians. gaza militants come close to hitting israel's largest city tel of eve with rockets as the israel's military says this is only the beginning of its offensive from. bad news building just hours after a twenty four hour pan-european strike brought over twenty countries to a standstill you think it suggests the eurozone is back in recession. and beijing ushers in the new top officials which will lead the country for the next decade and fifteen minutes from now we look at how the world might be changed by china's emerging economic might.

live from a new center here in moscow this is r.t. with international news and comment we're with you twenty four hours a day the israeli military is converging on gaza as it continues to pummel the palestinians from sea and land the operation pillars of defense is on the verge of turning into a new invasion as television says it's prepared to go all the way under the pretext of self-defense three israelis and at least fifteen palestinians including children and a pregnant woman have already been killed tom barton is in tel aviv which has been targeted by return fire from gaza. garza militants fired two of their longest range rockets that they have available to them and narrow only missed israel's largest city all of this especially important because of the fear now that this conflict could escalate further into

a ground invasion by israel as we saw in the new year of two thousand and eight to nine what was then called operation cast lead and is now called pillar of defense. at the moment it's an intense aerial bombardment of gaza that's been going on over two hundred targets reportedly struck by israeli drones an aircraft also the navy and artillery pieces firing into gaza as israeli defense pokes people say that is to destroy the militants in gaza both how massive and groups like islamic jihad that claimed responsibility for that attempted rocket attack on tell of eve to try and destroy their infrastructure they reporting considerable success in that despite spokesman earlier saying that they think that they've destroyed quite a large number of those longer range rockets and severely damage their capability

that was however said before these rockets came towards the eve and with the situation as it is comments such as those of of the general in charge of israel's southern command that this is only the beginning of this operation those of the prime minister benjamin netanyahu saying that all measures necessary would be taken to secure the defense of the israeli people and another defense spokesman more recently saying that this was not going to be a quiet night ahead all of those points to the possibility that israel may be getting ready for that much. ground offensive because when teams have been mounting in gaza and it seems that there is possible although yet unconfirmed evidence that tanks and troops have been moving south towards the garzon border a question on everyone's lips will this spill over into such

a damaging and devastating ground conflict as happened back in two thousand and eight tonight the u.s. has come out and said that indeed it considers that israel does have the right to defend itself egypt said that its prime minister and the delegation will visit garza tomorrow on a mission of solidarity with the palestinian people and the egyptian president mohammed morsi has trying to put pressure on the u.s. to in turn put pressure on israel to try and stop these operations and they have denounced these strikes russia too has said that israel's actions are disproportionate to the amount of force being used the fear is definitely very very heightened at the moment that this could escalate even further than a house already. in their american human rights activist joe is in gaza and told us there's evidence to suggest that israeli forces are committing

war crimes by targeting civilians with a controversial weapon. late last night i witnessed what i'm pretty sure was the use of white phosphorus and in civilian neighborhood. i spoke as well this morning of the director of al shiva hospital who indicated to me that he thought some of the n.g.'s he had seen passing through their emergency room were consistent with the use of white phosphorus and he also spoke of the fact that the mounting casualties pouring into hospitals throughout the gaza strip are aggravated by the lack of essential medicines and medical supplies caused by israel's ongoing see it's not simply a matter of massive deaths and injuries horrific as that would be in and of itself there is also a lack of the basic necessities needed to treat them so it's a disaster here

a manmade disaster in more ways than one. where for more on the story that's not crossing live to gaza and speak to journalists julie webb pulman. julie tell us what where are you and what is it like to be in gaza at the moment. i'm in now mina and in the last. doing minute they've been simple method of explosion been mediately around my apartment safely quite terrifying. there is talk of perhaps white phosphorus being used but have you got any indication that that's true from what you've been talking to and what you've seen. from what i've think personally however the photographs that i've seen in the meeting. with the men that. just how far away from you was that explosion. well it was probably somewhere around the

hospital. maybe maybe five hundred meters maybe a kilometer and it was enough that how and is that one of many experience i mean just how many rockets have landed in your vicinity in the last two or three hours. well or just a little. and now i'm probably about seven. and. it's really been in the last couple of hours would you say would you say this is indiscriminate bombing or is it actually targeted action by the israelis they have claimed after all they are pinpointing their targets. and i don't know much but this is the civilian area and it is. my spleen many human rights organizations based in the neighborhood many new in. and international organizations. who live in the syria so it's very much a reason engineer what you say you're in

a residential area tel aviv is actually saying that hamas is hiding behind civilians saying that palestinians are actually purposely being put in danger would that be true well i'm sorry about that we have lost our connection with a. correspondent in fact to gaza journalist julie webb pulman as you heard rockets landing very close to where she was just a matter of seconds ago and i understand that many of the communication links are now down in gaza well hopefully we might get back to a little later in the meantime my colleague rory spoke to an israeli official who hailed the ongoing operation in gaza as a success despite the rising number of civilian casualties. this is been so far one of the most surgical pinpoint military operations in modern military history i think again you will see that the civilian to militant casualty ratio will show up

in israel to have unfortunately killed civilians but fall fewer then than any other comparable military. action but you have so far as a pin point operation you call this one of the most precise and exact and pinpoint military operations that israel's unknown in recent history and that can allow for what you might consider collateral damage the killing of children when you when you present it and you talk about civilians it's always said as all the civilian the israeli civilians being killed just today the three israelis who were killed but all of the palestinians who were killed seven are confirmed militants to use the like you know you are you. possibly you're just giving rise to anti israeli attitudes among palestinians let's let's have a listen to this quickly as the hamas leader that we spoke to just a bit earlier placed on by. the assassination of this great leader. really confirms that we are still in the heart of resistance with the israeli that we are designers generally knows nothing look the language of killing and blood but our battle with

the enemy is an open door to go to god willing and obey this battle will end with palestine and jerusalem liberate has been what we should wait for action and. we've seen their actions a situation which no sovereign anywhere in the world could accept what would you do were just one missile to land in central moscow where we talk about missiles and let's the scarify here we're talking about more rockets that are being attracted over some some might say that a mortar or rocket from the palestinian militants compared to your. health fire inside why the missiles from your super high tech fighter jets and well that's quite a big difference between fireworks and bombs but the truth of the matter is that we have a situation where just today three israeli civilians were killed call the mortars call the missiles. did civilians we have a situation where we were in the recent past some thirty percent of these re the children in southern israel who diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder but israel was heavily criticized by

a part of the world community i agree with you there i remind you and i point out that that was four years ago the lowest civilian to militant casualty rate in history twenty nine percent of those killed were civilians and i'm not belittling the death of any civilians but far lower than any other military campaign in the last century i think that we will see something similar this time we're hoping to achieve a number of things first and foremost to significantly degrade the command and control and operational abilities of hamas. middle east analyst nathan thrall believes the israeli government could be staging the conflict with gaza to show its on top of its going in a great deal of pressure on the israeli government which has looked very impotent during this escalation and this is not new a year ago in august two thousand and eleven the opposition party was screaming at the top of its lungs that that likud was impotent and that that could demon knew how to handle this problem looking at

a region in which there's really public feels imperilled they see mortars coming from from syria they worry about the conflict from syria spreading they worry about rockets from hezbollah and this was one thing that the israeli government could do to show that it is capable of protecting its citizens as as they desire israelis continue to to say that they are ready to to occupy gaza if need be and it's certainly a possibility. europe sinks back into recession as we report later on. twenty four on the right sweeps across the european union resulting in violent clashes with rob police the story in detail coming very shortly here at r.t. .

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if you live here in moscow good to have you with us this hour the eurozone has sunk into its second recession since two thousand and eight according to the latest data the report comes on the heels of a twenty four hour strike which saw people in more than twenty european countries take to the streets venting their frustration at spending cuts artie's. splaying. greece. italy. and portugal. europe's most debt ridden countries joining together with many others for 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 and asked a brief calm the storm broke the anger of those protesting at the don't feel various things put up between the protesters and the riot police is packed right almost three thousand meter it's not hard to really get more symbolic candy for the feast of 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 but . where the bullets and violent confrontations with the authorities are becoming an auntie familiar sights the constant leaders stand firm the disparity is a necessary evil to cut the sky high deficit only event of the 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 meeting for us is will have been watching closely as the scenes

of police and protesters battling one another played out across the nobel peace prize winning. in madrid the clean up operation is already under way only it was so easy the euro is saying to clean up the mess it finds itself in. r.t. the dreaded. china's weeklong power transfer has come to an end with ping being annoyed at the communist party's next leader who takes over from his garden so that beijing's for a decade of rapid growth and sort overtake japan as the world's second largest economy financial expert francis long who's based in hong kong believes that with china's economic and military rise it's the us that will suffer. the new leadership showed china very you'd sub brilliantly and continue edgy above everything else so . what this means that they will continue to grow economically i mean what china really do is to continue to strings when it's mooted to be swing to richard poland

china can achieve parity with america and if that is the case then i don't think america can for all its way around the world with out opponents like what it is now you can virtually can do anything it wants but if china becomes. images every power on the parity was at the u.s. that things will change. turkey has recognized syria's new opposition group the national coalition as the main representative of the country's people it follows france the first nation to recognize the unites which is now also money over officially sending weapons to the rebels well let's discuss this more with german journalist manual oxon writer. france believes that the e.u. arms embargo is preventing the syrian rebels from fully defending themselves how

can that be when the un earlier said that those who supply weapons to syria are spreading misery well good evening what what we have to say and what we witness here is that. follows its own political agenda which has nothing to do with security or the safeness of the syrian people and yes to do with the own french. the at the political aims in the middle east in the region and we have to see whole friends behave towards libya months before last year we have to see that the french intellectuals of the lao he was missing in the libyan rebels and promising them support even made a movie about this and that he is now traveling to the syrian rebels and showing up with syrian rebels so what we see is that france somehow tries to connect me to the former colonial times when currents used to be the colonial power in the better part of the middle eastern region about this national coalition then what are the

chances for this new opposition now to unite all syrians against the assad regime well here we have to see that there is a difference again in the mainstream media coverage and real situation we have to see that this new national the syrian national coalition was formed in qatar especially in that country where the t.v. station located where the propaganda the law propaganda on the rebel side was formed so qatar has also its own political aims there. qatar respect by the way by the united states so for the syrians itself it must look like foreign interference into you know syrian conflict and in a syrian things so i see just a little chance that really the majority of syrians might. make confirm or might be with this new coalition to talk with them is that turkey is recognizing its

coalition after all of course it is the main channel for those arms to the syrian rebels well this indeed is not very surprising if you see that within the last month turkey was supporting the rebels and i don't see the syrian rebels we know that the rebels who are fighting against the syrian government are coming from all over the region they are coming from the cultures it's reaching there are coming from of gonna start from yemen we know that they are rebels coming from newbie and even from sudan but that turkey is providing the infrastructure for these mercenaries are jihadists who are coming into the syrian country so we don't have to be surprised that turkey is doing also this there in the official recognition of this. of the national syrian coalition what we have to see is that this official recognition. this coalition needs far as that turkey tries now to justify and to somehow to legalize on the international law its support for it because now they are not anymore from turkish they are not anymore supporting just

a wider rebel group now they support the official recognize yes sort of exile government what makes it their turkey much more easy of course and they want as sad to go that's what they want and shortly though by ousting a sad from syria as many say this could lead to serious instability in the region turkey so close to syria could it be compromising its national security having this . of course and i think this is for sure that this politics the heart syria is a very. short term politics it's the fuel short term and in my opinion if horse disappear and if syria were to be split among the warlords in this country which i know is supported by the west by turkey and by the bush emirates countries should be able to witness sooner or later of taking also turkey and i think the turkish people knows that this politics is strongly against the interests of the turkish

people because we have an old key which demonstration. against it specially against that formal church publicly toward syria because you know that this is violating their interests and i know the facts very much indeed for joining us there. well coming your way herr on r t the only man on international t.v. who can get away with telling you everything wall street bankers don't want you to know it's max kaiser and the report coming up shortly stay with us this is r.t. . more news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada after. operations to rule the day.

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a surge was in fact needed yes and xana do did the us generals a stately pleasure dome to korea for all their biographers and unpaid 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 nookie on the side a then well why is david cameron protecting this 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 where 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 the.