hamas says israeli rockets have destroyed its headquarters in gaza on a fourth day of deadly strikes. massing along the gaza border some seventy five thousand reservists called out for team see all the details coming out. the syrian rebels are backed by overwhelming support the u.k. considers lifting an e.u. arms embargo from turkey recognize the opposition group as livid. and britain's banks emerge unscathed by the financial crisis while the public is left to pick up the tab. sixty six billion.

a very warm welcome to you from all of us here at the moscow i'm rule research. israel is stepping up its assault on gaza with nearly two hundred s. strikes early on saturday the headquarters of hamas certainly one of the targets hit overnight i mean while israeli troops are still massing on the gaza border with a number of reservists on standby seventy five thousand. followers in the developing conflict. the israeli air force has hit the headquarters of the hamas compound in gaza city in some three separate strikes with eyewitnesses reporting that there is extensive damage to the building now they were a number of explosions that were heard in and around gaza city on saturday this comes after the israeli air force struck a number of government buildings on friday including the interior ministry a number of police compounds several smuggling tunnels as well as

a three story building a mass has issued a statement in which it says that it will stand by its people so we are witnessing an escalation in tensions and muscles also said that in no way will it stick down now the israeli air force has said that it has hit some eight hundred targets in the gaza strip it says that this is part of its military campaign over the past four days that started back on wednesday when they took out the hamas military chief at the same time there are some four hundred and fifty rockets that have been fired by palestinian militants into southern israel and we're looking at a situation that the whole south of israel is in a state of high alert with some one million people who have been ordered to stay in bomb shelters the point that needs to be made that when we talk about how much we are talking about and look to government that was chosen by the people of gaza back in two thousand and six we're not talking about random fighters as i say these are legitimate representatives of the people bijection prime minister yesterday fine

day was visiting gaza to assess the situation and there was a cease fire that was called for but which israel admittedly broke and this is despite the fact that the israeli army denies this however we have heard there were at least some two people who were killed in gaza there are some seventy five thousand reservists who have been called out these troops are now nothing along the israel gaza border and speaking to is where you see here inside as well as outside the country you have israelis who are returning as they are called up for duty very much. is that we are going to look at an offensive that will happen remarkably soon yesterday we saw the first missile since nine hundred seventy targeted and then just before that there was at least two missiles that landed not far from tel aviv so certainly the sense you know is that these hamas militants now have long range missiles and this is an opportunity at least israelis believe for them to deal with the situation in gaza once and for all they do believe that the prime minister here

will call for a ground offensive you also need to remember that we're not that far away from elections for the parliament netanyahu has always been a prime minister when support by showing a very strong substance so he the mood here is that this is an opportunity for him to drum up support ahead of such crucial elections. that we are getting unconfirmed reports right now are saying that israeli tanks have begun artillery shelling along the gaza border area looking live pictures right here of course we're not seeing any action now however you can stay up to up to date on the situation from paula slip by following her on twitter apparently the israeli army is reported to have sealed off the main roads around garza and declared a closed military zone that is a possible sign of a looming ground invasion of course here in our two we are keeping a posted on an hourly basis. now at least thirty nine palestinians civilians women and children among them have all been killed since israel launched its assault on

gaza on wednesday we are staying in contact with activist and documentary filmmaker harry fear he's currently working in gaza he says much of its population is very young and that the most people they're heavily reliant on the support of aid agencies i've been to several sites to stream struck by israeli airstrikes and frankly being out and about in the gaza strip is the most dangerous thing to do this is our you know our massacre according to garp since that bridge most of the gazan population are under the age of eighteen seventy five percent youth unemployment over sixty percent unemployment. and most people in gaza refugee status and most people over sixty percent aid agencies for food handouts just they do not started that so that is what the situation is like a moment today in these there is no more gas it is a big pond with drones with f. sixteen s with helicopters with the name on it and so you can just imagine it's not

going any better out of sr resistance groups have been wanted by a majority of gazans for their strong resistance in her handling israeli forces and so it's not looking in the malls did this to me and narrative point of view that actually got some to who was is how or what seemed to be very likely an imminent ground by these very fancy forces. as palestinians are continuing to ask world leaders to help to put a halt to the assault that the u.s. remains firm in the backing of israel president obama spoke to israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu on friday to reiterate his support. an editor of a news junkie post says the consequences of further escalation in the conflict are not being properly considered. is well as the in tangshan of wiking the back of the hamas just like they have the intention of making the bug has a boat i personally think that even with a betting someone a pro it's only

a show which would normally be as well all they are doing something very very stupid because if there's one thing that you need the muslim world and we've been seeing not only in mostly actually all over the world including in the us is or not but this to me is something that is not really well thought out because what could very easily happen is not. on these whale coming on leave are not also some annoy us enjoy all the one where you have about two million but is not as well as there are some movement of the egyptian army that is very substantial so easy way out is basically applying was fire. we're now about to a live pictures for you right here there's

a live pictures from gaza we're streaming them nonstop at our dot com now this is gaza it's not the gaza border it's a current twelve seven right there it's two hours behind moscow and here with up on twitter and our correspondents in and around the area we are constantly updated whether it's on air or on line you can always join us to talk. now britain is considering following france and turkey in recognizing the new syrian opposition group aiming to oust president assad we hear from one exposure shortly he says western attempts to support the rebels will only take the war torn country deeper into chaos. buster the elderly people in france can't afford to even

buy food with their pension and will offer a pretty break up to snooze. 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 or cock 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 the side 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. admission of free accreditation free transport charges free. range humans free risk free studio time free. download free broadcast quality video for your media projects and free media oh don the r t dot com. world the true science technology innovation all the is developments from

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download. stream quality and enjoy your favorite. is not required to watch. any time any. good to have you with us here on r.t. today but the syrian rebels are gaining momentum as the national coalition towards western nations are lobbying for support the u.k. is officially recognizing the opposition movement and sending military aid to the alliance this coming after a meeting in london britain wants to see a clear plan of political transition from the alliance before becoming next in line to officially recognize the new group the coalition will now hold talks with the

french president francois hollande on saturday after power said it would also consider sending weapons to the rebels middle east. believes however that the opposition movement. voice of syria. in syria of course the process has been much slower the wave of defection that we saw in libya didn't exactly happen in syria and what's happening now in. syria is that people there are presenting this here in uprising are not the people who are on the ground so we started hearing for example support from different. rebel groups aren't mirabelle groups for the new opposition leadership but who knows the extent of or whether they would be able to exercise political control so what you really have to look at that there is a strong divide between leadership that is outside the country and doesn't have control on the ground and forces on the ground pretty much doing whatever they want after all we've ended with two separate opposition bodies because this syrian

national council still exists alongside the national coalition the new national coalition so it's a recipe for more division and kind of lack of coherence to it for moving the country forward. but our website r.t. dot com right now it's a look at the dark side of sanctions a teenage boy in the wrong dies due to a shortage of medicine caused by the strict embargoes against the islamic republic . and also online for you as well is the pride of britain drowning a report says the u.k.'s newest nuclear powered submarine fleet which cost almost ten billion pounds they say it's rusty unreliable and just too slow. british taxpayers who helped bail out two of the country's biggest banks at the height of the financial crisis may never see the money again a group of influential m.p.'s have warned that the sixty six billion pounds the

government paid to rescue r.b.s. and lloyds t.s.b. may well be lost for good to break down the numbers and to serve. this is all focused around the public accounts committee investigation into the sale of northern rock that was the bank that if you close your mind a couple of years back was one of the first to get the big banking bailout is estimated that for northern rock for taxpayers a set of these around two hundred billion but that's not the worst of it because r.b.s. and lloyds bank oh also had a lot of taxpayers' money funded into those bailouts and the taxpayers could be set to lease a staggering sixty six billion pounds on that is very very hard to wrap your head around those figures so we're going to try and compare it really the amount that was put into those bailouts to what we have in the moment spending on social welfare such as pensions education health care and defense these figures coming at

a time when everyone here is struggling in a daily we're talking to people who are really really struggling to survive in the country in the midst of this very very tough economic times and you kind of got this it was a good report very hard hitting report telling us that there was a monumental collective failure that the treasury was unable to pull to respond because they lack the right skills and understanding so it really starts a little bit of the billion sorry guys we've lost that seven sixty six billion you know we won't fight on the job one of the great the warning at the very beginning with the taxpayers in line and doing now by a campaign manager robert oxley thank you for joining us today these types of stories always make me so angry because you know every day we're covering stories where people are struggling with a living wage in the a chance to pensions that you know a tax is a rising all the time and then you have this report showing that you know sixty six

billion could be lost i mean it's just chiefly responsible with taxpayers' money well this report is a. politician to spoil it there will be words. that we were going to make money out of the banks and that propping up the banks would be you know it would be ok and there was a chorus of people from both side of the political divide saying you know we need to bail out about. what's happened is we've lost billions of pounds and we've basically allowed politicians to gamble other people's money and lo and behold those politicians have got very good results as is always the case when politicians are spending other people's money it's incredible how often those in power manage to get every major crisis wrong and i think we're seeing that moment in a rejection of the way that our politics at westminster is out of touch the point here is it was the writing was on the wall whether any lessons will actually be learned of course remains to be seen but taxpayers they think they've absolutely whopping losses at the moment at least a lot of people saying you know we saved the banks he's going to save us. right there now into the we go starting with forty seven children killed after

a train collided with a nursery school bus just south of the egyptian capital one local doctor said that many of the victims were aged between four and six the transport minister has resigned following the crash which happened about four hundred kilometers from cairo there are some reports of the railroad crossing wasn't closed when it should have been. there been scuffles in jordan between supporters of the king and anti-government demonstrators thousands of people have been pouring onto the streets since tuesday to protest the country lifting its fuel subsidies that move domestic gas prices by more than fifty percent with other fuel costs going up by about a third one person is being killed around seventy five injured so far during four days of unrest. security is on high alert in thailand following a terror attack ahead of a planned visit by barack obama on sunday at least one person was killed and many

injured when a motorcycle bomb exploded in the south of the country setting five buildings on fire obama is to begin a three nation tour of southeast asia hoping to boost u.s. influence in a region where china is becoming increasingly assertive. the attack on an american consulate in libya which left four people dead was an act of terror by al qaida that's according to the embattled former cia director david petraeus took the stand on capitol hill a former general had earlier stated that the incident a rose out of a spontaneous demonstration against a u.s. made film. maintains that he resigned from his cia post because of an extramarital affair and not due to the deadly incident in benghazi. just tuning in twenty minutes past the hour moscow time and the lower house of the u.s. congress has approved travel and finance restrictions against russian officials suspected of human rights violations it's the so-called magnitsky bill after

a russian lawyer sort of gave magnitsky who died in a police custody three years ago after being held for alleged tax evasion russia has called the move a provocation and promised to retaliate meanwhile lawmakers in washington have voted to lift soviet era trade or structures with moscow but author and historian dr gerald horne believes u.s. actions will mean a souring of relations. commences descending to moscow is that the research is dead and buried how russia quickly at that when one door closes another one opens what i mean is that the human rights situation united states itself it's quite terrible and i would hope that the russian duma and the russian authorities would begin to scrutinize carefully the human rights situation right here in the united states where for example dislike one example most many the black population is about twelve or thirteen percent of the population of about fifty percent of the prison population and they are disproportionately represented on the road those slated for execution by the state authorities for example why not

a miniscule bill you know moscow that would pose a visa restrictions on those businesses who would seek to do business with russia that are involved in violation of equal opportunity laws right here in the united states i mean i think there are a number of measures that could take that would be inappropriate to protect. when the financial crisis struck europe even one of its biggest economies that of france came under huge pressure and with the country still suffering hard times we look at how pensioners are among the worst affected with many struggling to even put food on the table this story to watch is alexia chefs. when you look at the elderly people in france you'd never think they could be in trouble there has been a common belief that france is one of the best countries in the world for pensioners and that they are very well cared for by the state but with the financial crisis raging across the european union and france being no exception to that more and more of the retired are finding it harder to make ends meet pierre

worked as an engineer for over four decades having retired he says he sometimes cannot afford to buy food with you spend. six. months of it to live. for. a lot of. people say. you have to do all sixty how can you survive in circumstances like piers is unclear but hundreds of thousands of pensioners across the country are in the same boat say the chairman of a large charity which is trying to help. the number of seniors. has increased considerably in regions a prince it used to be in the north but now all regions are of young people and children used to help but now with the crisis hitting the seniors upon themselves

isolated. but now these struggling people are in for another blow starting next year the pensions of over ten million french will be taxed says the minister for the elderly this will amount to zero point fifteen percent of monthly payments and the new government believes this will generate three hundred fifty million euros annually for the social security fund but economists believe it's pointless where the government trying to do now is reach by all means three percent threshold that was promised to proselyte. trying to find like every single penny. it is obvious you countries don't have a say or do you harm to the pensioners and to their spending power will be just really bad for consumption as a whole in france it will not be a perfect solution for reinvigorating french growth and beer agrees because in his case every cent counts it may be less than one percent a few spend deducted each month but it still threatens to take food from his mouth

alexi rush of ski see reporting from paris and france. just about what here on our city we take a look at how our arts and creativity can be a musician in the battle for peace and justice after a quick break here. looters that takes your breath away a few tourists travel to these parts no prepackaged confort but they joy is a while these guaranteed if gagne's a zoology professor he works in the u.s. and travels to these remote areas in russia every summer as he says he can't find untouched landscapes like these anywhere else in the world. we're going off to the still of the line. if i go wrong the wrong and surprising him will go through the

water and so we did our plan to get closer to the sea lion and shake its flipper field a little before. one animal whose par you definitely wouldn't want to shake here is the brown bear you can literally spot agrees the here by every small weaver who for the bears are fishing but they have a very low level to think that we have to keep an eye a wind direction and the before them of us up all that could be dangerous so we won't go to the. shell would be very quiet. and quiet we went but the wind was not on our side and the bear got away they're usually the first to avoid contact with humans but during spawning time when both people and bears go fishing people often shoot at them to scare them away and every

year here in the region you hear about someone being killed by the predators but at the mugger down nature reserve where we are no one disturbs the bears peons another local resident who hates his peace being disturbed here is the calories eagle in has a wingspan of two and a half meters ignace only here in russia so far east because of the bundles of salmon and sea gulls which feed the giant bird in his studies if gainey focuses on birds so he took me to one of his favorite places here mara island it has the biggest colony of seagulls in the region the climb up was tough. but the prize was worth it. if there was no security here it would be no residual tyndale you'll have tons of people coming here and all just to get some for only on the beach here nothing is guaranteed

you have to struggle to get your piece of bread there is nothing really all you can fly and oprah did you have to rely on yourself and go watch your back so you know who's a bear so we're going to have to be at that well pretty. maybe for the wildlife here the lack of physical resist for the better but when you stand on top of phenomenal and like this you just cantelupe wanting to share the beauty. of the nothing nothing is evident.

a spinor that as a syrian citizen it's my responsibility to work hard on the music of this country and now you're a democrat. len i want to present it to people who are convinced that syria is some terrorist country. we can help the politicians through music let them in when you develop culture in your country either your working through issues in the world of politics to the

women now you're going to see yes this is the best message we can send to the rest of the world to say come and see what syria is what it says and what it has. not. since i was young i have loved arabic calligraphy and i believe or should have a message. of justice means that the rates of the people. should be returned to.