israel is poised for a full scale invasion of gaza while fresh air strikes allegedly killed more civilians all of it international efforts to mediate peace. sirens and explosions echo across the tell of the for the second time in twenty four hours the longest range rocket attacks yet all the details just ahead. britain considers the lifting of an e.u. arms embargo to send weapons to syrian rebels and may join france and turkey in recognizing the new opposition group. but police in england and wales are raise the alarm as the layoffs are growing workload and no support from the government to bring morale in the force to an unprecedented low.

just after five pm on friday here in moscow this is r t fresh air strikes have allegedly killed two more palestinians in gaza despite israel's pledge to hold fire during a brief visit by the egyptian prime minister to the strip hamas and other militant groups vowing to retaliate by television come on a rocket attack for the second time in twenty four hours with an iranian made missile again falling just shy of residential areas and reports fraught. again a very unexpected event these are the longest range rocket attacks that of ever been managed from from gaza. by sending people running to those shelters really sending some moments of panic through through tel of eve and perhaps affecting

the resolve of the israeli defense forces and the israeli people to perhaps escalate this conflict to a ground attack tanks and troops there's been a lot of reports of them massing near the border with gaza we know that thirty thousand reservists are ready to be called up if necessary also earlier today a visit by egypt's prime minister to the garza strip there were supposed to be a truce on his visit which was broken almost immediately by both sides rockets being fired into southern israel and an israeli airstrike which killed two civilians one of them a child those bodies brought into a hospital as it was being visited by egypt's prime minister and hamas is prime minister on seeing those bodies egypt's prime minister saying that he felt he couldn't keep silent and that israel must stop its aggression in gaza backing up

hamas and the garzon people there all of this supposed to have been a truce period that wasn't held and firing by both sides intensifying now as a result of all these casualties and rocket attacks and bombings. reporting there from tel aviv all in the meantime garza's former health minister has told us here at r.t. that the israeli army operation is ultimately breaking international law. all studies have proved that israel is using internationally prohibited weapons quality and quantity they have managed to destroy many buildings and houses using percussion bombs which led to the collapse of many of the surrounding buildings. or the bodies of those killed were completely burned and this clearly shows they have used pretty good weapons others died in hospitals and we weren't able to diagnose the causes of their death we're talking here about one hundred sixty injured in

these attacks and with the majority of whom were children and women and the elderly the majority of those who died were children who suffered from seventy five percent to ninety percent burns. when israel has been maintaining its conducting a successful operation despite the rising number of civilian casualties in gaza i spoke to a tell everybody who denied causing any collateral damage i want to say that we have only one goal he's real has to defend its citizens i'm sure that there is no state no state no russia and no state in europe and no united states of america can agree with this kind of situation you know our children our elders are fired by rockets on our schools on our civilians and we target only terrorists with one very simple goal to stop this firing of rockets on our civilians and

we will target terrorists until they stop would you care to explain why the palestinian interior ministry has also been targeted in fact that building is basically left in a state of rubble and ruin that's hardly a militant stronghold in fact the the interior ministry is where people get passports visas it's where journalists get their permission to go into the strip why go off to why level the interior ministry the explanation is very simple unfortunately i must tell wrists while they target our sin. they hide behind their civilians they hide behind schools now the i.d.f. our army that wants only to defend our citizens targets only terrorists garson is an extremely confined area a very small area probably certainly overpopulated why are so many children being killed by israeli airstrikes if you're going after militants there are no children been heard by idea if only terrorists heard only terrorists are targeted while the

visit of egyptian of the prime minister of egypt israel didn't try and didn't attack any target in gaza but a mass here is the target israeli civilians while the visit of the prime minister of egypt and i suggest information because there it cannot be people hurt while the visit of the prime minister of egypt because we did also. you're absolutely right according to the i.d.f. no airstrikes were carried out on the gaza strip juror the during the visit of the egyptian prime minister although somehow two palestinians did manage to die the israeli army and the israeli government will do everything needed targeting terrorists only terrorists to stop the firing of rockets on israeli cities on these really schools israeli children and if we will need some ground operation we

definitely will consider so. is vowing to keep fighting as long as the attacks continue let's have a quick listen here to the prime minister speaking just a little bit earlier please stand by. we will never forget the blood of our martyrs and the blood of our leaders this holy blood will not go without a response the great palestinian nation which has sacrificed martyrs for generations will never forget the. hamas movement which no million supports will never forget the blood of its martyrs it is more than ten years. fire rockets were sitting on our schools and our citizens and we. act to defend we don't provoke and we don't attack believe me there was no provocation from the israeli side only one simple girl to be safe to have safe and peaceful life we want our children to go safely and peacefully to schools and leave

safely that's all. let's get more on this now from political analyst. live from gaza thanks very much for coming on the program today i hope quality of connection is good i understand you're in a bit of a war zone right now israel is describing its operation as quote so called strikes to root out hamas militants does it does it appear to be surgical from where you are. doesn't really seem to be surgical at all the there is an discriminant knocked over gaza strip and nothing more proving it and just keep in all night long and listening to all these bill marmion all over gaza i mean reports coming from the hospitals about children as young as eleven years old or even younger in this five year. old and i don't see any. description of the military operation in fact just it is just large and it seems

like the u.s. who are it was indiscriminate actually reached everyone in the gaza strip nobody was state. let's address the issue about about hamas and its ability to help its people all the civilians being protected any bomb shelters open all the able to get injured people to the hospitals for medical attention well unfortunately our medical supplies and hospitals are not really sufficient enough for all of these injured and wounded people sometimes we get them on the treatable. makes it really difficult to some of these people in the hospitals. hospitals are very very very small and cannot cannot accommodate is the number speaking of soldiers it's hard because gaza is and is an open air prison and there isn't really you know. pretty much with tact. i mean according to their statements that you can run but you can't hide in the market i mean it's very military so whatever shoulder you

build is going to be under target basically we're talking about years of aerial surveillance of the whole gaza. pretty much. the secret hike now we're hearing right now from the israeli defense forces israel's military now saying they've attacked five hundred targets in gaza since the bombardment began on wednesday you. what is the feeding where you are. pretty scary because it's. a little earlier you were setting up this interview with the person on the other end of the line could hear the bombardment close by our neighborhood and it could literally shook the whole house i mean the entire neighborhood. unfortunately there is going about every five minutes there are at least five or seven rounds of bombs coming in from the border lines and the sites. pretty much

it's not safe so i think we've been keeping an eye on this now ever since it all began we've been showing footage of the i.d.f. forces and troops if they were making telephone calls to call out reserve troops massing along the gaza border is there a sense any information where you are that the i.d.f. forces could be going ahead with some sort of ground invasion. from writing that we could literally see. huge numbers of the israeli troops and small. i gather around the borderline now let me say this i mean a ground invasion is not it's not imminent at the moment but it's not possible i think it. later on in this collation continues to scale we're going to people anticipate the ground invasion happening because clearly we hear reports coming from missiles are landing in tel aviv and i think that's a pretty much a red line for. government. retaliation mine might be. pretty

pretty harsh on gaza and it might be a really another one to a palestinian in the gaza strip so it is it might it's possible it's highly possible to happen i mean. what about what about medical medical supplies that has been sealed off you guys able to get any medical supplies or food as electricity as far as i trusted not working he was on the computer but what about the basic. reason i think this is the normal schedule going to get it for eight hours of that is going to go off later on tonight and then will stay in the first of the night without electricity speaking of food supplies and i think pretty much the whole thing creating a me and they've got this job and people are rushing into the bakeries and the market to collect the basic needs they need and pretty much the market is back and all the basic needs and to come in a few days i think we are going to see a crisis in basic supplies. medical supplies as far as i

know this morning to the prime minister. with. a convoy of medical supplies but that's about what i've heard nothing. coming from any of the arab countries pretty much i heard reports of from the hospitals talking about. the need of some of the medicine and some of the injection that are urgently needed in the hospital to just some of the ones i really really strange and just on a treatable and. medical staff are just told now that you're going to handle that medical. care and pretty much the care system you know that's not not sufficient doctors have problems and you look at all of these. injuries. at a political analyst on the up or shy about joining us live from gaza many thanks indeed for coming on today you're very welcome thank you. well he watching on t.v. and as we continue with the rundown here britain makes

a push to support the rebels in syria but the hosts the new position alliance and joins france in calls to lift an e.u. weapons in boggo to allow for direct deliveries to fighters on the ground. plus more on the order in dire straits for a short break here on r.t. we look at how british police morale is at rock bottom of the government cuts leave the fight against crime in that. things are just getting too expensive in london many families just can't afford to live in the city anymore so because of upcoming welfare cuts the government is buying or rented property to relocate people outside of the city the maximum housing allowance for welfare will go down to four hundred pounds

a month which is peanuts compared to the one thousand two hundred fifty pounds to pay for the average three room apartment expelling the poor from london seems a bit fishy to me so instead of say regulating prices or god forbid using the money from the welfare cuts to create jobs so people can earn a living for themselves rather than rely on handouts london has decided to make itself some official get to. what is to call a place where everyone from a certain economic classes forcibly shove to although this may sound like some. sort of help from the government it seems to me like a means to get rid of the poor rather than trying to make the poor less poor but that's just my opinion. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realized everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm tom are welcome to the big picture.

resistance is not of politics but a culture. is could get. on its own. cultures of resistance on our team. if you're just joining us welcome to the program here on our. show the german chancellor angela merkel says that the friendship between moscow and lynn is made stronger by disagreements merkel meeting president putin in the russian capital

said that important issues that should be brought into the open let's get details now are standing by for us live artie's you go to the spin off yeah go to good to see you today what have the two been talking about so far. as our meeting as we speak up on the key international issues is of course the escalating crisis in the middle east and the conflict in syria also trade and energy ties are a very important part off the relationship between moscow and bill is so they're being talked about. as well another issue is the human rights situation in russia in fact earlier the members of the german german problem and even put together this list of questions they wanted and go to discuss with the russian president including the controversial. piece is just to remember just to remind you rather last all winter of this group reform the so-called punk prayer right inside christ c.b.s. good visual they claim that it was an act of political brawl just found guilty of

hooliganism based on religious hatred and several members of this group are currently in jail and while the russian president has outlined to that this one career is not the only controversial events that they were all supporting over the years and stressed that it's really difficult to support people who have elements of religious or racial hatred in their activities but for more details of this meeting we are waiting for a media conference set to take place on friday and of course our report on that as soon as it happens. i got a check of what's going off their lot in central moscow thank you. now western nations have begun a crusade of support for the syrian rebels britain says it will discuss the lifting of an e.u. arms embargo to start sending weapons to the opposition france the first country to recognize the newly formed anti regime alliance the national coalition is also pushing for supplies of quote defensive arms that the syrian opposition is in

london lobbying for more support to overthrow the assad government britain wants to see a clear plan of political transition from the alliance could be next in line to officially recognize the new group a day ago turkey gave the rebels a major boost by recognizing them as the legitimate representative of the country's people german journalist manuel writer says turkey's move to help the opposition could eventually backfire against that country's people. in the last two. people supporting the red lights and i don't see the syrian rebels we know that the rebels are fighting against syrian government are coming from all over the region they are coming from because it's reaching there are coming from of yemen we know that there are rebels coming from movie and even from sudan but that turkey is providing the infrastructure for these mercenaries are jihadists who are coming into the syrian country this politics towards syria it's a very short term politics it's the fuel short term and if assad disappear and if

syria would be split among the lord or it's in this country which i know is supported by the west by turkey and by the bush countries. turkey would witness least more a lot sooner or later of taking also turkey and i think the turkish people knows that this politics is drawing against the interests of the turkish we have no demonstrations in east. against it specially against that formal church politics the word syria because you know that this is violating. the un yugoslavia war crimes court in the hague has freed it to form a croatian generals putting them of all charges including that of crimes against humanity and take over that animal out and not catch would jailed large jail for twenty four and eighteen years or suspected fully charged with killing hundreds of serbs during the breakup of yugoslavia back in one thousand nine hundred ninety five and they appealed their sentences and may disputing that they ever targeted

civilians the political analyst aleksandar believes that this occurred into a field a double stand. what out on the ground all here are. very nice and clear. where. our military our maximum. are at their. you know we're really would rather die in the water. and all the others were already with regard to the rear you're a little bit of a gradual beautiful all part of the iraqi. tribunal and. you can make your group renamed already there are. all going on there are pretty much. the first ever public vote in england and wales for local police and crime

commission as comes of morale among the nation's law enforcers at rock bottom a recent poll of officers suggested that almost every single one of them felt abandoned by the government. looks at why the thin blue line has the players. another day another demo and the police all with old hands to keep control but while the boys and girls in blue do their jobs sometimes it impossible conditions the government is reducing their budget by a massive twenty percent the net result more all in the force hits an all time low with just fifteen out of fourteen thousand officers saying they feel the government gives them a great deal of support rachel baines is surprised but not in a good way. to say those fifteen offices are certainly in the force i work in lancashire and i don't have any offices to fill up being supported by the government at rock bottom baines has lost five hundred fifty officers from her

force meaning more work for those left behind and a genuine fear that when people call nine nine nine there won't be anyone left to deal with the emergency and she's not alone so i'm in pain is chair of the war except police federation and says morale hasn't been this low in his twenty six year career. to have a plethora of issues over the last two years where the star or conditions of service pension reforms or were through forms of the police. twenty percent cuts and for give an example here in works prior to this government coming to power we had a thousand and fifty offices we're now down into the seven hundreds we have one of the biggest most way networks in the country and we have no traffic department. so it's coming from all sides times are so hard in war that the force is even selling

off its stations including its h.q. there's no for sale boards up here but the iconic scotland yard headquarters of the metropolitan police is also on the markets it's a real turnaround just. a year ago they met with trumpeting a three billion pound refurbished space was revolving starting now it's downsizing to a new size of the thames nearby and replacing smaller stations with counters in supermarkets and communities that. the force feels it's being disproportionately targeted but home secretary to reason may is on repentant lets stop pretending the police are being picked on they do feel picked on and critically powerless to protect themselves as legally the police aren't allowed to strike but that could change in february we are saying everyone can fall off the rank of chief inspector in england

and wales and the very question is do they want full industry rights and and the reason that is important is because our members need protecting from what they perceive is an unfair treatment by by this government a police force on strike it's the last thing the government needs to take you away as it stares another winter of discontent in the face laura smith r.t. london part just a couple of minutes here on our to you through our program to cut through the economic spin our regular financial check up with capital account host lauren lester. you can tell an ordinary russian siberian appalled in the blink of an eye roto

nineteenth century anthropologist in those days siberians were different clothes eight different food. different animals but what about. my journey began in two men but the big. city was all shiny all funded skyscrapers and shopping malls much like any other prosperous russian outpost. so i decide to. a small town just outside. many. dumplings came from here to dominate the russian cuisine but only in siberia to put them in super bowl filled with cabbage and jam making sure you can have many as a starter main dish. although it might draw the whole of us most people in siberia see nothing wrong with hunting

there only if you decide to participate. when you look upon martin. is in the middle of a swamp only accessible by air transport in the summer months and winter. it's inhabited by siberian a large muslim minority that migrated head before the russians. and this. israel siberia maybe not the stuff of tourist brochures but distinctive enough to show that after all these yeahs siberia still not quite like anywhere else.

good afternoon welcome to capital accounted for in the store here in washington d.c. the. easier headlines for thursday to remember fifteenth two thousand and twelve after brant crude reportedly rose to one hundred eleven dollars a barrel today because of supply concerns with fighting between israel and gaza the headlines then changed to reflect oil falling as the media said economic fears outweighed mideast violence these are the type of news making abends that some argue impact the day to day price swings in oil what about the bigger more complex picture of supply and demand to paint that is mehran could two such energy investment strategist casey research and house panel has released a long awaited ninety seven page report reportedly blaming placing the blame squarely on the shoulders of john corazon for m.f. global's collapse it also places blame on regulators and ratings agencies and makes

the case for civil action but falls short of accusing corazon of breaking the law also no democrat signed on so what does this mean for the case against the failed firms former c.e.o. lawyer from a lawyer representing m.f. global customers john l. roe and. explains. it's all one actors and that was the one you saw a famous french actor gerard depardieu is acting like he's trying to escape france's seventy five percent income tax plan for citizens like him making major dough we'll talk about the evidence in loose change let's get to today's capital account.