israel's poised for a full scale invasion of gaza while fresh air strikes kill more civilians international efforts to try to mediate peace. sirens and explosions echo across televisa 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 aiming to oust assad. and police in england and wales raise the layoffs of a growing workload and no support from the government bring in the forces to an unprecedented.

it's seven o'clock friday night here in moscow this is the with me will receive shiny fresh air strikes have killed more civilians in gaza despite israel's pledge to hold fire during a brief visit by the egyptian prime minister to the strip. and other militant groups are retaliating. have just gone off in jerusalem hamas reportedly claims it launched a rocket at the city of tel aviv's also come under rocket attack for the second time in twenty four hours with an iranian made missile again falling just shy of residential areas. in the city. again a very unexpected event these are the longest range rocket attacks that of ever been managed from from gaza and 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 gaza 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 the hospital as it was being visited by egypt's prime minister and harasses 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 in the meantime garza's former health minister told us here at r.t. that the israeli army operation is ultimately breaking international law. the nuclear those studies have proved that israel is using internationally prohibited weapons in 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 are the bodies of those killed were completely burned and this clearly shows they have used prohibited weapons others died in hospitals and we weren't able to diagnose the causes of their deaths we're talking here about one hundred

sixty injured in these attacks the majority of whom were children women and the elderly the majority of those who died were children who suffered from seventy five percent to ninety percent burns. on israel maintains its conducting a successful operation despite the rising number of civilian casualties in gaza i spoke to a television fishel who denied causing any collateral damage i want to say that we have only one goal israel 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 on the terrorists with one very simple goal to stop this firing of rockets and 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 it's hardly a militant stronghold in fact the interior ministry is where people get passports visas it's where journalists get their permission to go into the strip why go after why level the interior ministry the explanation is very simple unfortunately a mask terrorists while they target our civilians 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 gaz but a master is the target israeli civilians while the visit of the prime minister of egypt and i suggest you check the information because there it cannot be people hurt while the visit of the prime minister of egypt because we didn't also doing i'll certainly go out with any. you are absolutely right according to the i.d.f. no airstrikes were carried out on the gaza strip jur in the during the visit of the egyptian prime minister although somehow two palestinians did manage to die the israeli army in the israeli government will do everything needed targeting terrorists only terrorists to stop the firing of rockets on israeli cities don't

because really schools israeli children and if we will need some ground operation we definitely will consider so. now the deputy leader of hamas ahmed it body who was assassinated by israel on wednesday had just received the draft of a permanent truce agreement with televisa that's according to a peace mediator who claims he helped to broker the deal. spoke to r.t. just a bit earlier said that israel has severely hampered the prospects of any peaceful solution to a long term middle east conflict. we decided to try and push forward. part wrote a new version of the draft he was presenting it to hamas leaders in fact on wednesday morning he was presenting it to himself i was supposed to receive later that evening the copy of the draft in arabic for me to deliver to the israelis were waiting for an intelligence. that by having a truce with them would strengthen them there were people who believe that what we

need to do is systematically we can that they will fall out of power and there is a belief that we need to create deterrents strong enough so that hamas want to attack israel the attack of rockets population in israel is intolerable by any country and they needed to take action i believe personally that we've tried everything we've assassinated leaders even assassinated military commanders we have put on an economic siege we have bombed them we did cast lead we've tried everything except a dialogue except an attempt to reach an understanding with. for verification and for compliance with the involvement of the egyptian military intelligence i think it had a chance to work but now will have to postpone it for some time. the russians called the israeli onslaught a disproportionate use of force and other countries have also weighed in with calls for restraint for the us has not joined the chorus of mediating voices and so on who's more important explains there's been several responses on the international

level most of the un's most powerful voices have called on israel's defense forces and gaza's militant groups to exercise restraint but the u.s. has remained the exception the u.s. has backed israel's decision to launch operation according to the white house president barack obama spoke with israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu by phone on wednesday reiterating washington support for israel's right to defend itself after coming under rocket attacks from gaza the two reportedly agreed that hamas needs to first stop its attacks on israel to allow the situation to escalate obama reportedly urged netanyahu to make every effort to avoid civilian casualties now the u.s. president also delivered this message to his egyptian counterpart mohamed morsi during a separate phone conversation that's of course according to the white house now meanwhile other major u.n. powers like britain and russia have issued more neutral statements calling on all

sides to exercise restraint and prevent any acts as collation of violence u.n. secretary general ban ki-moon echo those sentiments reminding all parties to respect their obligation obligations under international humanitarian law and to ensure the protection of civilians at all times the u.n. secretary general is scheduled to visit the region next week in order to advance a cease fire between israel and hamas but we should also mention that leaders in the arab world are also holding on israel accountable and blaming israel for this escalation of violence so clearly the u.n. as she has a lot on his plate if he is when he attempts to to to successfully achieve a cease fire. as for now this violence is clearly spiraling and escalating. let's not go into political analyst on the high marble southam or on the situation thanks for coming on the program today it's good to see you just getting our news here on r t that israel's channel ten reports to three rockets have landed outside

jerusalem another israeli channel saying they landed near the settlement blocks do you think what the israeli operation already drawing international criticism for example with these rocket landings now do you think perhaps that tel of eve's actions are justified no definitely the launching of palestinian missiles inside tel of the in jerusalem on loan to sort of is. there just development in this new cycle of violence the missiles might who israel into. a new. way of all bombing against gaza like we witnessed lots last night and it also michael will israel to start a new ground operation to try to put an end to the launching of these missiles and israeli cities we are definitely expecting the worse. in gaza as. a result of the need to stick to that when you talk about you talk

about excess expecting the worst we've certainly seen over the past twenty four hours the israeli defense forces are massing along the gaza border with armored vehicles even calling into reserve troops many suggesting a possible ground invasion is the next step is it was that what your assuming when you say you're expecting the worst. yes yes i this is what i meant by expecting the worst. as way to prime minister netanyahu on top this way to gentlemens are under extreme pressure from their own public. for israel and israel to be those that seem so to them that a ground operation is justified to try cope with and the launching of this missiles now when this operation is going to start it would be decided by it seems to me that by israeli military generals but it seems to me that israel will not start its a ground operation against gaza until then they're sure that they destroyed much of

the palestinian missive cavities through airstrikes which have been going on for more than forty eight hours now you are in gaza at the moment we continue to get reports up by the minute here in moscow regarding more minutes of rockets flying need to reduce eliminate tell of us well the i.d.f. amassing troops you all there at the moment can you tell us what's going on and what is the feeling as well way you are. well the feeling here in gaza is that this is not what we want a war is on that of the last thing on the mind of the palestinians of the one point five million palestinians who live in gaza we've barely just recovered from the israeli casket off where ition four years ago in which israel inflicted a lot of damage and destruction against the palestinians and the infrastructure here in gaza are we are very pessimistic that the situation is escalating enough that it didn't join us with

a list that is going to be an intervention who did that not some community of governments like egypt to try to convince four sides israel and the palestinian groups to. stop fighting and restore the ceasefire it seems to me that the situation is escalating in a very dangerous. well you make a mention about some sort of intervention going on you mentioned egypt as well of course the prime minister was that earlier today to show solidarity with the palestinians what who else rather needs to intervene to really bring this to a stop do you think we're already seeing willpower as well as leaders on the siding with the palestinians all the israelis who do you think should step in. now yes egypt send its prime minister today to gaza and in us in addition to the visit that it was a sort of got to with the palestinians we believe that the visit also was aiming to convince hamas and the other palestinians groups to do. to abide by

a cease fire with israel but the situation became more it did much more dangerous of the prime minister left because israel continued its bombing of girls are and the palestinian resistance to groups continued this as launching with missiles again is tel aviv and jerusalem it seems to me that the only country which might have a lot of influence on both sides is the united states they asked it must intervene at this moment to try to convince israel to stop fighting to stop stop the bombing of the gaza city and also the u.s. can use its influence with good you've shown i'll be qatari government who has very good relationship with us to try to convince hamas also to abide by a new cease fire at least the white was all right up the plan list and mohamed abu sada joining us live from gaza here on r t thank you very much for your time tonight and you. all to stay with us here in our for the latest on gaza plus we've

also got live coverage on our website and of course our twitter stream. well there are now it's he it's good to have you with us moving along here in the program britain makes a push to support the rebels in syria london hosts the new opposition alliance and joins france and calls to lift an weapons and bug to allow for direct deliveries to fighters on the ground plus. to form a coalition generals are acquitted of war crimes in the hague leading to cries of bias so for the bloody deficient of yugoslavia in one thousand nine hundred ninety five just a couple of minutes we bring you the details. 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 need 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 are caught for big 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.

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it's good to have you with us here on our to today are wrong research showing german chancellor angela merkel says the friendship between moscow and lynn is made stronger by disagreements merkel meeting president putin here in the russian capital said important issues should be brought into the open the details in ottawa to say go to preschool. leaders are 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 of the relationship between moscow and they're being talked about as well and another issue is the human rights situation in russia in fact earlier the members of the general german parliament even put together this list of questions they wanted to discuss with the russian president including the controversial. case to remind you last winter of this

a group who formed the so-called form of prayer right inside of christ the savior stood vigil they claim that it was an act of political protest but were found guilty of hooliganism east on religious hatred several members of the group are currently in jail and the russian president outlines that this prayer is not the only controversial events that the girls' to porton over the years and stressed that it's really difficult to support people who often have elements of a religious or racial hatred in their activities but for more details off this meeting or waiting for a media conference set to take place a leader on friday of course all the forum that as soon as that happens. going off right there 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 and france the first country to recognize the newly formed regime alliance the national coalition is also pushing for supplies of quote defensive arms the syrian opposition is now in

london lobbying for more support to overthrow the assad government wants to see a clear plan of political transition from their alliance and could be next in line to officially recognize the new group a day ago gave the rebels a major boost by recognizing them as the legitimate representative of the country's people german journalist a man who says turkey's move to help the opposition could ultimately backfire. against the country's people. within the last turkey was supporting the red lights and i don't see the syrian rebels we know that the rebels are fighting against the syrian government are coming from all over the reach and they are coming from because it's reaching there or 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 before to

disappear and if syria would be split among the border it's and this country which i know is supported by the west by turkey and by arab emirates countries such jerky would witness more lots sooner or later of taking also turkey and i think the turkish people know was that this politics is drawing against the interests of the turkish we have now demonstrations in eastern border in ankara against it specially against that form of church politics the word syria because they know that this is violating their interests. this is artsy other u.n. yugoslavia war crimes court in the hague has freed to form a croatian generals acquitting them of all charges including crimes against humanity and take over there and a modern markets were jailed last year for twenty four and eighteen years respectively to much audience for killing of circles of subs during the break up of yugoslavia in ninety five they appealed the sentences in the may disputing that they have

a targeted civilians political analyst alexander believes that this verdict reveals a true double standard at its. president in the ukraine what happened. all the years from all the. wrong very very nice. very clear where. our military officers. are. on our third we normally normal rather guys in the world. and all the others were really are angry not ready to be routed through our progress i don't mean to a lot of mines that are. remaining already there are war criminals all going on are pretty much going. into the day we go with the former head of the cia david petraeus he's arrived at

the u.s. capitol he's testifying about september's assault on the american consulate in the libyan city of benghazi which left the u.s. ambassador and three other diplomats dead oppresses appearance before the finals comes a week after he stepped down as cia director admitting to an extramarital affair with his biographer paula broadwell the investigators are also looking into claims that she gained access to secret data on his computer however the former general maintains he did not pass any classified information to broadwell. seventeen people were killed in western afghanistan when a passenger van ran over a roadside bomb the vehicle carrying mostly women and children was part of a wedding procession local authorities believe the taliban behind the blast that's claimed the militants main goal is to terrify the locals by staging such attacks. now the first of a public vote in england and wales for local police and crime commissioners comes with morale among the nation's law enforcers at rock bottom

a recent poll of offices suggested that almost every single one of them felt abandoned by the government artie's laura smith looks at why the thin blue line is the blues. 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 their fifteen offices are certainly in the force i work in lancashire and i don't have any offices that they're not being supported by the government really is 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 simon pain is chair of the war except police federation and says morale hasn't been this low in his twenty six year career with the have a plethora of issues over the last two to know is where the start or conditions of service with pension reforms or were through forms of the police service person twenty percent cuts and for give an example here in work 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 might sway networks in the country and we have no traffic departments. it's coming from all sides time's a so hard in war that the force is even selling off its stations including its h.q.

there's no for sale board 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 the mets with trumpeting a three billion pound refurbish it spain was revolving starting now its downsizing to a new size of the tens nearby and replacing smaller stations with counters in supermarkets and communities that. the force feels it's being disproportionately targeted at home secretary to resume a is on repentant let's stop pretending the police are being picked on they do you feel picked on and critically powerless to protect themselves as a 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 wales and

that very question do they want full industry rights and and the reason that is important is because all members need protecting from what they perceive is an unfair treatment by by this government a police force on strike if the last thing the government needs to to kill is it still has a not the winter of discontent in the face your assessment our team. on our website right now our three dog called more trouble for the u.k. as a parliamentary report says tens of billions of tax payers pounds used to bail out some of the country's banking giants may be lost for good. and the relative quality museum gets slapped with a lawsuit for ripping off visitors who were pushed into thinking admission fees are mandatory. why should we speak to a former energy adviser to george w. bush his views on the likelihood of a possible strike on iran this is art. looters

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