civilians are bearing the brunt as israel continues to pound gaza with a ground invasion in the works despite international efforts to mediate peace. television claims it's not targeting civilians and collateral damage is minimal. also rebranded the syrian opposition gets a role welcome in france as it is expected to discuss whether to openly send weapons to rebels. and the u.k. government's budget handling is on the far off trivial the peninsula spent on bank bailouts may all go down the drain.

from the new center here in moscow this is r.t. with international news and comment twenty four hours a day israel is intensifying its parallage of guards on the fourth day of hostilities and stepping up preparations for a ground invasion militants are hitting back another iranian made rocket fired by hamas has been shot down over television meanwhile israeli precision strikes are leading to a rising number of civilian deaths international efforts to mediate peace are also being stepped up the arab league's now pledging to stand with the palestinians and say israel is committing war crimes in tel aviv. but israeli defense forces have sealed off roads around gaza declaring the area a closed military zone this is just another suggestion that a ground offensive could be imminent also israeli officials have been meeting with foreign diplomats and telling them that they plan to extend the army operations this comes off to some seventy five thousand reservists were called out and we all witnessing an increase in activity along the israeli gaza border now there

continues to be heavy shelling from tanks along this border into gaza the tanks as well as all the personnel vehicles have been moved through off this border over the past few days we are also hearing from the chief of the israeli defense forces for an increase in the pace of strikes on gaza this comes just after a massive air strikes on saturday completely destroyed the headquarters of the hamas government now this is a building where just yesterday the egyptian foreign minister visited it is a building that has now been reduced to rubble at the time of the point minister's visit it was supposed to be a ceasefire in effect and according to the israelis they did not break this but we have heard from hamas that two people were killed during this time i must has issued a statement in which it says it will stand alongside its people we're talking about a government that was democratically elected back in two thousand and six and if you remember at the time the world hailed the election as

a sign of democracy in the gaza strip at the same time according to israeli statistics some four hundred and fifty rockets have been fired into southern israel since wednesday and there was a barrage of earlier today as well but no reports of deaths and light injuries it's worth mentioning that most of these missiles all homemade there are some that are long range missiles but they are unguided and they all by and large missing their target also most in being intercepted by the israeli side into this area earlier today here in tel aviv the israelis deployed and and i. during the system for the first time ever everybody does point to the fact that this cannot be a precisely targeted operation you have the number of dead that continues to climb many many of them in fact most of them are civilians and here too we have the number of injured people continuing to increase the foreign ministry spokesperson did stress the point that the israeli army is targeting only the militants

responsible for the firing of these rockets but he was hard pressed to answer the question as to why so many civilians are being killed the israeli government will do everything needed targeting terrorists only. to stop the firing of rockets on israel cities don't because really schools israeli children and if we will need some ground operation with who will consider so there are no children been heard by the idea of only terrorists heard only terrorists are targeted now one of the israeli air strikes to target the home of a hamas leader in the jabalya refugee camp which is arguably the most densely populated area on earth and then you have a majority of young people we are hearing figures that as many as fifty people there have been injured many of them children and many of them critical at the same time the international community is pushing up efforts to try and deal with the situation later on saturday they will be the meeting of the arab league between as

you know foreign ministry is in gaza to show his support for the hamas government and we're also hearing statements from both feet the u.n. chief banking moon and others in the international community of course but important and should be keeping updated all there as well simply follow twitter stream for the latest well let's get a firsthand account now from filmmaker greg monaghan he's just returned from gaza he's told me live now from dublin what were you doing there greg and what did you see what did you experience when the bombing first started. your question. in the first part of your question i was over doing a follow up for a film that we've been working on since may of last year which was a by the irish ship to gaza which was i have to say i was very curious why twenty five irish people would get on to a fiberglass cabin cruiser and take on the might of the israeli navy so it actually intrigued me so after they went through their ordeal at the pleasure of the israeli

authorities a week or eight days in prison i interviewed all of those people extensively but i need to get the background story i needed to know and you know why people would go out on a limb like that to take. what they would rather what they have actually called the war crimes of the is right and stay so i went to see firsthand rather than just take people's word for it i arrived last sunday and what i did is i went to see people that involved would be responsible for administrating things that would be an every day life stuff like i visited three hospitals a medical clinic i saw some sports and cultural people and we also met some of the people involved in education. and we also went and we saw some small workshops and factories where people are trying to build. some sort of.

self-sustaining industry because nearly everything that comes into gaza either comes through tunnels are the meager stuff that comes in over the israeli border but it got very own culture before wednesday afternoon on words we had actually been in the center of gaza city doing something going on some interviews at the football stadium which was blown up today. and we were invited to a festival that evening we decided to go away from the city and to the southern city of qom eunice and while we were there enjoying some. two missiles. we there from a drone our helicopter and basically struck a compound just right behind the house we were in and the blasts were so powerful that even inside the house i could feel my clothing shake. so that stage it was time to get out of continuous and i need to make the point that wednesday afternoon there was a massive market thought to be going in for hundreds of years in this there were hundreds of people actually leaving that market area when the missiles came down so

it was so it was hard to your support for whoever the order to our heavy ordinance like that into a very heavily populated area did you have any chance to visit hospitals to the bombing started you said you did go to hospitals beforehand you know we i what i did is i actually met the people some of the people in intensive care on the farm the farm these are some of the people who were killed. from last weekend's attacks . what they say was that the truth so by the time we actually started working there was a truce in place when well the bombs came in then into our we were at the same time that's when ahmed. jabari was. it was just as you tel aviv is claiming that the bombing campaign is highly accurate we are getting reports that there's been indiscriminate bombing that what was your impression you said that civilians were killed then but what was your impression when you with edges to get was pinpointed

targeted bombing you know i mean it's. ok it's not carpet bombing but it is relentless on there is going right up and down the gaza strip but if you hit a big city like gaza which is very densely populated and particularly if you hit the refugee camps and to give you an idea the refugee camps to people living in maybe you know twenty metres square shanties. they the streets there are barely a metre wide so if you strike a target in there the chances are you're probably going to take you know a couple of dozen people it will go one. the feeling amongst the gazans regarding the way that how mass is being seen is provoking the israelis and that's why that retaliation has why the israelis are really responding in such a tough way is there any feeling of sentiment against the hamas government. i have to say i didn't detect that the the the the palestinian people use the our board

called which means steadfastness and resistance and you know that they don't believe what the israelis are saying are saying i mean the i mean clearly this was a targeted assassination i got the same time where we where they were they said that they were hitting a. weapon still for grad missiles of some kind and you know starts why we were hit so close i am apparently was in the compound close to where we were staying. you know it's you know so from from doc particular salo that was definitely instigated by the israelis there's no question about that why did you say why did you leave was it just too dangerous i mean it was getting to the stage where the people that i was staying with in southern gaza we had a meeting on thursday night i was also getting contacts from my own family who were getting very concerned so i have to consider them as well you know i'm not a soldier i'm not even a you know a full blown antiwar activist i mean you know i'm a t.v. man like yourself so you know to be in

a situation like that yeah it makes good copy but it was just getting ridiculous heat and you're so mean. wednesday night i have to say was was an ordeal i mean we had f. sixteen heavy ordinance landing all around us and we turned shells and ending into the backyards the houses behind where we were. we could we could hear drones flying overhead and then when the f. sixteen come in they they just leash a huge bit of damage and at one point we were talking to people back in dublin and i saw fireball which was reminiscent of what we saw when george. w. bush i talked to rock back in. the huge big fireball chimney that went up and you know i just showed it to the other guy in the room i just said you know doc and that's when the compression wave hit us and i thought the whole house was going to come in and the people who were even closer to the house all of their front windows were smashed it was shrapnel smoke in the walls all over the street

and in the be all of fields that were that were actually his words of strewn with shrapnel you paint a grim picture thank you very much indeed greg monaghan has just returned from gaza thanks for your time thanks for joining us live in dublin and of course we are closely following the developments the escalating conflict on our web site r.t. dot com that's where we're asking you who is to blame for the on going bloodshed and the sort of the results so far on the screen while the majority of you think it's israeli oppresses blockading protestants who are responsible for the conflict just under a third saying it's prime minister netanyahu boosting his election bid for generally around two times less of you condemn hamas terrorists attacking from behind human shields and the minority put the blame on the un for not recognizing palestinian statehood you get to hear what you have to say about this party dot com is where you can cost you or vote.

a top flight russian a premier league game has been marred by violence the players were ordered to leave the pitch after fans had a goalkeeper with a rocket we got the details coming up. plus with the eurozone officially back in recession report on how in some of the better off countries that's the elderly who are taking the financial hit this i'm all for you just ahead. if you're passing through rushes to be a region you really can walk on the wild side thousands of kilometers of unspoilt countryside make up an area where it's still possible to live off the land such spectacular scenery makes it a paradise for fisherman and provides a business opportunity for hunters there are defined hunting seasons in russia but lax enforcement means many animals are killed out of the allotted times which can leave young animals orphaned and unable to survive the heart of just us forest

provides a sanctuary for the most famous beast in russia it's home to a group who rescue often bear cubs and raise them when they're old enough to fend for themselves the cubs a target taken to a remote location and released back into the wild but it's not just bears who find a haven here this is wolf island here wolf pups who've been captured by hunters or bought from zoos have a second chance at life and conservationists have a unique opportunity to observe them these walls are all around four months old and they'll stay in this area for up to three years then most will go back to the wild for good just viewing them from the car was an experience in itself but then after a bit of a bumpy ride came an opportunity i just couldn't pass up. this is what i was hoping for when i heard i was coming to a place called wolf island a chance to get close and personal with the locals and it's these guys are going to act as foster parents for the next generation will come here using the older walls

as surrogate parents has already proved a successful technique. every year i place infant wolves with one year old wolf cubs whose parental instinct is totally shaped and they take them as their own cubs it's going to continue to take time and money to rehabilitate the wolf's reputation in russia. but the keepers here hope their research and dedication will mean that the file and remains a place where visitors can truly understand all of the wild. party live here in moscow france says it will install an ambassador from the new syrian opposition group the national coalition the move came at talks in paris between president land and the head of the new alliance. this is the latest western tactic

to remove president assad talks in paris focused on the protection of rebel controlled areas aid to refugees and the need for a provisional government britain which also lobbies for the new coalitions that could follow france and turkey in recognizing them on monday the e.u. is expected to discuss official arms deliveries to the country's rebels but issues have been fighting against the syrian army for nearly two years with about one hundred people being killed daily middle east broader culture believes the opposition movement is in disarray and has no united voice. in syria of course the process has been much slower and the wave of defection that we saw in libya didn't exactly happen in syria and what's happening now in specifically in syria is that people there are kind of representing the syrian uprising are not the people who are underground 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 that 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 is to separate opposition bodies because the syrian national guard service. only exists alongside the national coalition then you're not sure of correlation so it's a recipe for a more diversion and kind of like call for coherence for moving the country forward . and online to find out how the pride of the u.k.'s nuclear submarine fleet is disappointed high command we reveal some of the vessel surprising flaws including flooding problems. plus a joint robot helping out the bolsheviks in the midst of russia's nine hundred seventeen revolution and about the shocking iona from an australian history exam on r.t. dot com. the u.k.

government's handling of its bank bailouts has come out of fierce criticism after it was claimed the sixty six billion pounds spent to rescue lloyds t.s.b. and the royal bank of scotland may never be recovered the report from and pieces the british taxpayer has already lost two billion keeping another financial institution afloat surface reports 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 sense of these around two hundred billion but that's not the worst of it because all b.s. and lloyds bank oh also had a lot of times payers money funded into these bailouts and the taxpayers for the least 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 what we have in the moment spending on social welfare 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 struggling to survive in the country in the midst of this very very tough. economic times and you kind of got this is a good report very hard hitting report telling us that there was a monumental collective failure of the treasury was unable to pull the response because they lacked the right kills and understanding so it really sucked a little bit of the billion sorry guys we've lost the sixty six billion you know we weren't quite up to the job one of the great the warning at the very beginning with the tax payers alive and doing our thing. 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 bass parts the pension scene a taxes 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 responsible with taxpayers' money you know all this report is a damning indictment of politicians you know despite their woolly 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 sides the political divide so we need to put out the barracks were ultimately what's happened is we've lost billions of pounds we've basically allowed politicians to gamble other people's money from the hold those politicians have got very good result as is always the case when politicians are spending other people's money it's incredible how often most empower managed to get every major crisis wrong and i think we're seeing the moment in a rejection of the way that our politics at westminster is out of touch the point here is that with the writing was on the wall whether any lessons will actually be learned of course remains to be seen but taxpayers they think there is 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. other world news this hour a train collided with a school bus south of the egyptian capital claiming the lives of at least fifty children exact number of fatalities is yet unclear a local doctor said that many of the victims were aged between four and six the accident reportedly happened because the railroad crossing wasn't closed while the train sped towards it egypt's transport minister has resigned following the crash. 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 country's volatile self setting five buildings and a bomber is to begin a three nation tour of southeast asia hoping to boost u.s. influence in a region where china is seen to be increasingly assertive. russian premier league football clash between the nominee and reigning champions is a need of some petersburg was abandoned after the nominee's goal keeper was hit by

a missile thrown from the stands. for the details anton sherman who is the goalkeeper for dinner moscow has been injured doctors have looked at him and they say that he has been blinded by this incident in france to see one i took you back through this matches between st petersburg and moscow didn't know it took place here to area which is a moscow region friends from st petersburg started putting the pitch with fireworks and flares none of those flares are fireworks went off in the face of the goalkeeper he went down on the pitch in pain and then after he was down on the grass a late start the game it is reported that the fans continued to pelt objects at the goalkeeper at that time so the decision was made by the officials and the referees to stop that game it's unclear whether or not that game will be continued at a later date or if it will be given a technical defeat if you will now turn choose between st petersburg transit moscow

fans have gone on since around two thousand and eight they've been at. the high level at that time there was a banner that was placed at a game in st petersburg that was questionable it got fans upset and more recently in september between a game between a torpedo and there was a similar incident with fireworks being thrown onto the field but much worse at that time and in the same month france then attacked their own headquarters saying that if the team doesn't play better they will start destroying it properly as well so there's a big problem basically between a football fans and the teams that they supposedly support but their actions at this point in time are being more disruptive to the game than being helpful now as of now there are no laws in russia that are designed to protect football teams or to punish fans right now that is being talked about as a possibility in the near future. despite the looming economic trouble in the euro zone one of its biggest economies france has always been praised as the promised

land for the retard the single currency zone hit with a second recession things are changing fast as alexia's reports 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're 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. for. say.

six. how can you survive in circumstances like 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 the number of seniors turning to us for help has increased considerably in or regions of rents it used to be only in the north but now all regions are of young people and children used to help but now with the grace of hitting the young seniors of on 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 for the government trying to do now is reach by all means this three percent deficit threshold that

was promised to brussels and there you know trying to find like every single penny it's the easy way to stop his encounters or have a say or do harm to the pensioners and to their spending power will be just really bad for consumption as a whole in france it was be a perfect solution for. creating french growth and beer at greece because in his case every cent counts it may be less than one percent of his pension deducted each month but it still threatens to take food from his mouth alexy rush of ski r.t. reporting from paris and france. well coming your way cutting through the economic spin a regular financial check up from washington it's the capital account with lower list and i'll be back with more news in thirty five minutes from now.

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