any time. it's a bit into bearing the brunt as israel continues to with a ground invasion being prepared despite international efforts to mediate. television claims it's not targeting civilians and collateral damage is minimal. the rebranded syrian opposition gets a royal welcome in france expected to discuss whether to openly send weapons to rebels. and u.k. government budget handling is on the far after it's revealed the billions of pounds spent on bank bailouts may all go down the drain.

for money center here in moscow this is r.t. with international news and comment twenty four hours a day israel is intensifying its guards on the fourth of hostilities and stepping up preparations for a ground invasion militants are hitting back another iranian made rocket followed by hamas has been shot down over tel aviv 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 is now pledging to stand with the palestinians and says israel is committing war crimes. the 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 after 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 prime 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 from us 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 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 are by and large missing their target they are also mostly being intercepted by the israeli side into this and 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 is really schools is really children and if we will need some ground operation we definitely will consider so there are no children been heard by idea only heard in only terrorists are targeted now one of the israeli airstrikes to target the home of a hamas leader in the jabalya refugee camp which is arguably the most densely populated area on 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 the trinity

of foreign ministry is in gaza to show his support for the hamas government and we're also hearing statements from both feet thank you moon and others in the international community. should be keeping updated on. as well simply follow her twitter stream for all the latest. well filmmaker and activist harry theory has been in gaza since the first bombs fell and he says israel has the capability to avoid collateral damage but is instead chosen to attack indiscriminately. the streets here are still empty generally it's like a ghost strip of land like ghost town people are still fearing further violence further collateral damage and people are trying to stop food and fuel etc as has been going on the last few days since the operation started people here still fear the workers they fear ground reoccupation of the gaza strip with time and commandos except for and so people are preparing for violence well apparently israel boasts

such high quality military equipment but it is able to make accurate targeting we hear from israelis in the last few years that the drones have such high quality optics they can even see the color of women's head scarves on the ground in gaza at the same time we're seeing dead children including three under the age of two in the last few days we have to ask ourselves why exactly is this happening to me it seems obvious here on the ground that israel is willing to use disproportionate force to write recklessly attack the targets of it which it wishes to assassinate many of whom had been democratically mandated by the palestinian people gaza militants of several rockets at tel aviv and jerusalem the first time the cities have come under attack for decades the war activist sara flounders says it's so wake up call for the israelis. it's really a game changer and very significant that for the first time hamas or

from gaza attacks have come because israel is used to and has for six decades again and again hit the palestinians with impunity when they were totally and entirely defenseless and bombed again and again even during the time that i was there in gaza it's almost a daily occurrence the threat now of a ground invasion for the first time really the palestinians were able to follow fire missiles with a range to tell of the and jerusalem or to fire on us supplied israeli planes of course none of this could take place without the support the meetings a briefing beforehand in with washington without u.s. diplomatic military economic support. well so closely following the escalating conflict on our web site r.t. dot com online all the time that's why we're asking you who is to blame for this ongoing bloodshed in this hour the majority you see on screen think it's israeli

oppresses locating palestinians who are responsible for the conflict does not refer to saying it's prime minister netanyahu boosting his reelection to generate times less of you condemn hamas terrorist attacks from behind human shields the minority put the blame on the u.n. for not recognizing understanding statehood or you don't comes where you can go and cost your vote good to hear from you. top flight russian premier league game has been mobbed by violence the players vote to leave the pitch off the fans had a goalkeeper with a rocket called the details coming up shortly.

things are just getting too expensive in london many families just can't afford to live in the city anymore so because of upcoming will fare 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 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

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all you need is your mobile device to watch r.t. any time. this continues here on r t we live here in moscow activists in syria say rebels have taken control of an airport in the country's east after days of heavy fighting against government forces this comes as france says it will accept an ambassador from the new syrian opposition group known as the national coalition is the latest western tactic to remove president bashar assad while 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 coalition could follow france and turkey in recognizing them all monday the use expected to discuss official arms deliveries to the country's rebels and this is a been fighting against the syrian army for nearly two years without with about one

hundred people being killed daily when i get more on the story now from journalist neil clark he's in london so near london and paris they say they'll raise the topic of lifting the embargo in brussels on monday hoping for direct weapons deliveries to those syrian rebels do you think their wish will be granted. peace back to two thousand lebanese. libya mark to bill isn't it because think back to libya back in february march twenty eleven it was the same scenario we have what we do is we get together some opposition puppets if you like not their heads together call them the government of libya and syria and then we work to end the arms embargoes and very soon we'll be hearing talk i expect no fly zones this is all part of the plan to topple assad of course things haven't gone to plan for the west have they because president assad is still in power he is still in power and it's not meant to go on this way and so now they're going back to what they did last

year because assad still has his supporters in the region of western states begin to fish alarm supplies wouldn't nations that actually backed the syrian government have the right to do exactly the same oh absolutely but the hypocrisy on this isn't actually glaring but i think we've had william hague and we've had the french leaders and the americans you know claiming that iran is backing syria that all you have the. the turkish bringing down the syrian plane which they claim are carrying russian guns to syria or to give us all those so in poxy the western powers actually glaring it's ok for us to are the rebels in syria but for anybody else to arm the syrians it's not allowed so it's absolutely appalling the approximate you raise the topic of what actually makes up the syrian opposition well it's interesting isn't it that britain france and indeed turkey i mean london hasn't actually gone ahead to officially recognize it but why is it that western allies haven't all jumped on the bandwagon and recognized this new coalition well i think the americans but they're a bit concerned at the moment i mean obama is sort of caught between two shores

here he doesn't obviously after what happened you know maybe he's a bit concerned the weapons will go into the hands of people who may turn against the u.s. a year from now is it as they've done their so he's a bit worried about that i think the french are probably the most aggressive a lot even more aggressive than britain i think the french hollande is trying to recreate the french empire but frankly forty years ago the great charles de gaulle what an end to the french and. and now we have the grotesque spectacle of our so-called socialist francois hollande is actually trying to recreate the french empire while in arkansas cozy so it i think the french line is absolutely appalling what they're doing here and what i actually know right at all absolutely no right to talk or to say who is the governor of syria it's up to the syrian people to decide that and i expect britain will follow unfortunately on monday next week that the certain new opposition coalitions founding document expressly rejects any talks any negotiations with the assad regime so with that in mind how can the alliance

actually achieve peace why don't they don't want peace built you know what they want is the violent removal of president assad that's been clear from the start we've already got a democratic framework as you know we had the constitutional boat back in eighty seven percent of syrians voted for it we had elections in may you know there is a every possibility of a change in syria through the ballot box but the west don't want that because they know the president said he's too popular the baath party has probably majority support in syria so they can't go down that route therefore they need violent region change they need to go this way because at sea anywhere they can to get what they want which is a puppet regime in damascus but if they want that regime change would turkey be the country that would actually spearhead the operation the military very much of course is now in jets with nato to set up missiles along the border you know it's very likely that would happen because of course you know the likes the u.s. britain france wouldn't want themselves to be taking the lead in that they would like to have a muslim country preferably turkey take the lead because otherwise people would say

well this is just sort of western operation which it is and of course turkey has changed its policy on syria the last two years in the last eighteen months of course towards the qatari saudi gulf bloc so i think the west would much prefer the sort of intervention when it comes to come through turkey i think what we're going to get next week bill is going to get the more talk about no fly zones it's interesting isn't it we've got garza going on we've got the israeli air force bombing garza and there's no cause for a no fly zones there from william hague bonce well on but there will be of course cause for no fly zones in syria so removing assad would cause even more volatility and instability in the region would be better off to keep him there at the moment wouldn't. well it's up to the syrian people i mean my line of this all the way through bill is the syrian people must decide this is the syrian people. people want the government to stay i mean we had a rebel commander a few weeks ago but moaning the fact that in allophone in other cities seventy percent of the people of syria are behind the government this is why the present study still in power so your description spectacle of the western powers who shout from the rooftops while keeping our democracy to the last who they want is the

people's will in syria to prevail they want to impose by force a puppet government and you know what would happen and leave your mark to that if assad is toppled we have lost in syria more chaos we have more death and destruction but the west doesn't really care about that he doesn't care what's happening in libya at the moment all he cares about is a new government in damascus which will then privatized the entire economy cut the links with iran and hezbollah and allow that you know the move against iraq to take place because it is all about paving the way to war gets there are no clock live there in the u.k. thank you indeed for your thoughts thanks very much bill. you can government's handling of his bank bailouts has come under fierce criticism after his claim to sixty six billion pounds spent to rescue lloyds t.s.b. and the royal bank of scotland will never be recovered report from in pieces the produced taxpayers have already lost two billion people another financial institution afloat first 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 the taxpayers assent to these around thirty billion but that's not the worst of it because r.v.'s and lloyds bank oh also had a lot of typos money funded into those bailouts and the taxpayers could be set to release 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 the 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 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 taxpayers' alliance and doing now where 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 with people you know struggling with a living wage in the a chance to pensions the 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 cheating irresponsible with taxpayers' money well this report is a. politician to spoil 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 of the political divide saying you know we need to bail out about really 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 result 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 the 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 thing but taxpayers they think they've absolutely whopping losses at the moment at least a lot of people saying you know we think the banks he's going to save us a russian premier league football clash between the number moscow and reigning champions and have some petersburg was abandoned after dinner goalkeeper was hit by a missile thrown from the stands is artificial thomas with the details. anton shootin who is the goalkeeper for has been injured doctors have looked at him and

they say that he has been blinded by this incident in christ in that one i took you back through this matches between st petersburg and moscow took place in the he would be area which is in the moscow region fans from st petersburg started putting the pitch with fireworks and flares one of those flares or 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 and they had stopped 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 who stopped 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 tensions between st petersburg fans and moscow fans have gone on since around two thousand and eight they've been at a high level at that time there was a banner that was placed at

a game in st petersburg that was questionable got fans upset and more recently in september between a game between a torpedo and you know there was a similar incident with fireworks being thrown onto the field but much worse at that time and in the same month fans then attacked their own headquarters saying that if the team doesn't play better they will start destroying property 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. 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.

the legacy no one should be proud keeps of scrap metal littering pristine arctic landscape building stilton over their foundation pipes spilling black smoke over the snow covered peaks the traces of the soviet industrial activity on the spitzbergen archipelago don't make a pretty picture if the guiding principle here is the worse the better welcome to life to tell the story of that back in soviet times when norwegians were visiting barons were they also on the express lanes when it was great and how prosperous the settlement was well times have obviously changed by this so it lags they still attracting the region tourists are barons work i would then cons watch native cash that's why one big bad they're ruining our goal is common as was uncovered here

a few days ago instead of throwing it away the local administration decided to paint the venue and put it at variance work central square that can do nine hundred eighty barons work was a burgeoning mining community though the soviet union was determined to maintain its own costs to a degree located halfway between north america and western europe this busy bergen archipelago is part of norway but a special status that allows other countries to set up industrial bases here in the middle of the cold war it served as the use of sars westernmost outpost now it's one of the soviet union's last preserved relics. very strange is essentially a picture of what would have happened to the soviet union if it was cut off from any financial support for two decades he's a curious sight for western tourists and i think it could be even more appealing for russia's travelers to keep its presence on spitsbergen rushed. film until a coal mine here but in terms of profit is far behind local server near shops.

memorabilia is a big hit the defunct arne curtain still helps keep the money flowing guys it's the russians doing your show but you can't play in rubbles only. your local administration is increasingly under pressure to bring the infrastructure up to more than standards if these modernization efforts are not very popular with tourists if you come into a very authentic place like. it should stay the way it is that would be my wish i mean that's the part of the let you know authentic tradition here. i should not i would not like to have it in a shiny condition to be on those they tend to change even for the better is not always good for business something that even a local band has become attuned to when they try to add the morning russian songs to die repertoire the audience called all they wanted to hear it was

a song comfortably familiar. and that is evident. as a. i'm a citizen it's my responsibility to work hard on the music of this country.

len i want to present it to people who are convinced that syria is some terrorist country. we can help politicians through music when you develop culture in your country you are working through issues in the world of politics to. them and now you can 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 is and what it has.

not. since i was young i have loved arabic calligraphy and i believe god should have a message. that justice means that the rates of the people. should be returned to them and it's. over that then. after that there should be no more revenge. and i don't want to be an oppressed who becomes an oppressor.