civilians are bearing the brunt as israel continues to pound gaza with a ground invasion being prepared despite international efforts to mediate peace. comes of television maintained it's not targeting civilians and its bombing campaign is highly precise. the rebranded syrian opposition gets a royal welcome in from since the e.u. is expected to discuss whether to open the send weapons to rebels. and the u.k. government's budget handling is on the far after it's revealed the billions of pounds spent on bank bailouts may all go down the drain.

from the new center here in moscow this is all to with international news and comment twenty four hours a day the girls and death toll from the escalating israeli bombardment has risen to at least forty five after four days of hostilities half of those killed are said to be civilians and as israel prepares a ground invasion the militants are hitting back with rocket attacks. have the latest now from tel aviv paula two more civilian deaths reported in the last hour how does tell of explain the mounting collateral damage. well certainly what we are witnessing is a growing casualty count and what we see is that many of the dead and injured are in fact palestinian civilians now tell of that is struggling to explain this particularly in light of the fact that they argue that all of a killings are targeted we have heard from the arab league secretary general not been out of the he says that. tel aviv is committing the mall's crime committing

war crimes that should not go unpunished he's also said that he has pledged to end the israeli occupation of gaza and to show solidarity with the palestinian people he adds to those that all arab nations should reassess any kind of peace treaties that they have with the jewish state now the statements came as the foreign ministers of arab countries were meeting in an emergency session held on saturday in cairo we also heard from the egyptian foreign minister who pledged to keep the rougher border crossing between egypt and gaza open now they are drafting a statement and from the information we have this statement will see the arab league chief lead a delegation of arab foreign ministers to gaza as early as sunday to assess the situation on the ground to look at the humanitarian needs and also to further put pressure on the international community to act so they want to see more from the

united nations security council we also with the seeing an increase of a flurry of activity from the international community we have heard for instance from the turkish prime minister that he has spoken with both the russian and the american leadership and he is putting forward a proposal that would see turkey egypt the united states and russia call for and managed to broker some old ten years cease fires between both israel and gaza now the turkish foreign minister on saturday was in gaza showing support for the hamas leadership there we also see egypt playing an increasing mediate free role but of course cairo has a very delicate balance to walk with on the one hand supporting them affecting the wool of the egyptian people which we see themselves as brothers of those that live in gaza while on the other hand not annoying its international backers such as washington. hope for those a full scale invasion now look. well it certainly seems as if

a ground invasion is not far off we have witnessed a flurry of activity along the israel gaza border there we have seen as well firing increasing rounds of ammunition from tanks and armored personnel vehicles that have been positioned and moved along the border over the past few days we've also heard from israeli officials who've been meeting with foreign diplomats and they say that they plan to extend their operations so this does seem to indicate that a ground offensive could be in the making we also know that all the roads around gaza have now been sealed and again this would be another indicator that there is some kind of program on the ground that would see an invasion they were earlier some seventy five thousand israeli reservists who were called up for g.t. suzuki the same as one gates and i get from talking to israelis on the ground that it's just a matter of hours if not days before we will witness some kind of ground offensive in gaza it is worth noting though that according to the israeli count there have

been some four hundred and fifty missiles that have landed in southern israel particularly southern israel since this whole operation began back on wednesday but early on saturday i was here in tel aviv when the missiles sounded and people ran for cover and it turned out that the i and go back three which had been deployed only earlier only a few hours early on saturday had managed to intercept a long range in rainy and so we are witnessing longer range missiles and managing to reach further into the jewish state and that is sending panic particularly in cities like tel aviv that are further inland the idea of army chief has also called for an increase in the pace of air strikes and this comes after massive it strikes on saturday morning so all the government buildings of the hamas leadership be completely destroyed and that is the same building where just a day earlier the egyptian prime minister had made it and when he was in gaza at this building that now essentially is a mound of rubble he. had hoped and certainly many of her party would be

a ceasefire in place now the israelis do deny the fact that they broke that cease fire but we have heard from the muscles on the ground that during that period of the so-called cease fire at least two palestinians were killed so it doesn't really seem to be any kind of real determination to actually bring this violence and this fighting to an end any time soon paula thanks very much indeed for that live up from tel aviv let's cross over live to embattled gaza i'm joined now by filmmaker and activist harry. so tell us what's happening there in girls at the moment well in the last twenty minutes we've had the confirmed death of one woman she's thirty years old i was in the last twenty minutes sun we have also heard has been seriously injured in the last twenty minutes is it taking the death toll up to now forty five confirmed dead gardens in less than four days and this is from so-called

targeted pinpoint accurate bombing. yes that's right israel boasts that it has capabilities so advanced that it can target as you say with pinpoints what we're seeing is dead children and dead pregnant women why. well i think the true answer to why is because israel has its mission it has its objective it's got the people that it wants to kill but the thing is it doesn't care about collateral damage it has the same policy if you like the united states with regard to collateral damage but it's happy to injure dozens of palestinian men women and children as long as it can kill one person who might have helped fire a rocket into israel that is the psychology and how the people coping under these devastating conditions at the moment. well i have to be absolutely honest with you that having spoken to palestinians all around the gaza strip in the last few hours

that they are some level terrorized by this state terrorism this is a largely defenseless third world population most of the population under the age of eighteen most of the population are reliant on food aid and they're being bombed with drones and f. sixteen by and by sea over these last few days and are they getting enough food aid and indeed medical aid at the moment. while the food a provision is regular. normal cycle we'll see if there's interruption of that at the next handouts for health has been and already is severe the i see you full long time ago we're hearing emergency declarations from the ministry of health here in gaza the situation is very severe in this respect is there any sense of anger against for its role in continuing the conflict a sentiment from the people there well i've spoken to hundreds of palestinians over

the last few days and weeks speaking about this matter with the resistance groups firing these rockets into israeli territory and out of these hundreds i've spoken to three gardens who are resentful of those attempts at striking israel but nevertheless why do you think a mass is continue with this campaign of launching rockets into israel which of course is provoking this this response. well i think the explanation just to pass it on as the messenger is that as long as women are being killed like this old woman and a woman in the last twenty minutes the resistance groups here feel that they have to do something to send a message to israel that it will pay some price if it continues to spill palestinian blood in this way but it's also sending a message to the outside world what sort of support does it feel it's getting from the international community well obviously that is very limited because under

international law these sorts of rocket firings into civilian areas is prohibited and from regional partners they're getting some support i'm talking about the resistance efforts now the giant general gazan population are getting regional support which is manifest and actually improved recent months and years we're seeing as your as your colleagues. egypt turkey russia etc are providing rhetorical and diplomatic support for the garzon population here who is being perceived as you say well indeed the arab league itself giving verbal support saying that israel is committing war crimes it is clearly it is using weapons in one of the most densely populated places on earth i've been to them in the last few hours excuse me in the last few days taking footage i'm seeing injured children crying for their parents as israel rains down drone missiles on one of the most densely populated places on earth what about you the i spoke to a filmmaker

a little earlier you left the country very quickly left gaza because he was in fear of his life your still learn what are the conditions for the likes of you. well i mean as far as i'm concerned someone has to be to do document what israel is doing because if everyone leaves then israel can get away with even more and increased barbarity and so someone has to put their life in some risk to try and act as a deterrent in that documentary respect since i've been here and since the wars escalated i've been in danger i would say three times to quite a severe extent but i'm trying to avoid that as much as possible so i can continue my work reliably and stable. thank you very much indeed for joining us live from gaza well a little earlier i spoke with the israeli defense ministry spokesman josh hanlon who gave no clear explanation why civilians have been killed in what he called highly precise bombings but when hamas are hiding rockets beneath mosques and hiding rockets and missiles within schoolyards and foreign rockets actually next to

the very hotel where most of the foreign correspondents are staying you just have to look at all the reports coming out across the world today unfortunately it's a very very difficult predicament and that's why the israeli government uses the most precise munitions is why the israeli army says flies out to the population even before we conduct these precision strikes you want to minimize civilian damage out what those precise munitions are doing to the people of gaza we managed to speak to several girls and civilians who are suffering in this bombing campaign in a moment and here's what they had to say let's have a listen. and then the civilian population here is then sleep in every house there are about twenty people until quarter to six everyone was asleep after daniel asked to begin shaking this entire area about sixteen killings were bombing innocent harmless people many were injured my family had four injured. we were listening to the news to find out what's going on in gaza. yesterday we slipped through because

we wanted to risk what we walk up and rubbed in their brothers you think god or alive but what should we do now. walls are destroyed the children under the rubble as they were doing and. we were all sleeping on parents and me with my sisters in a sixteen missile hits our house we were taken to hospital thank god you're alive but that's how it was going on so what do you say to these people in gaza. well first of all i'd like to point out that actually last night and every night but in particular last night even in the middle of the mission we had air force jets that were flying over and they had a precise target ready to be hit and the hamas organization or other organizations in the region board civilians to the location and we diverted the attack we are doing our utmost to protect civilians on both sides while hamas is going out of its way to not only put their own civilians in harm but attack our civilians on

a day to day basis and that we just heard here in r.t. that an emergency arab league meeting in cairo has concluded has indeed agreed to send a delegation to gaza more developments in gaza and other news for you coming up in the next hour also on air online we'll bring you the latest from the middle east and of course with those live updates on twitter stream and our web site r.t. dot com more news in just a moment. catalonia wants to get its independence from the rest of spain locals feel that madrid texas of catalonia economic success is a way putting the region into debt trust me who work hard only to have it all taxed

away is very aggravating i can see why people are frustrated but the people who want independence have a very odd slogan catalonia a new european state so let me get this straight you want independence but you want to stay in the e.u. is that what you mean what exactly would that change that's not really gaining independence that shifting dependencies staying in the e.u. means you won't have control of your borders you'll still be on the euro c. won't have your own currency you will be able to establish your trade standards those will be dictated to you by brussels and if you don't like the austerity measures from outsiders like in madrid then you might want have a conversation with the greeks because being an independent country in the e.u. won't save you from people messing with your finances all i'm saying is that being truly independent means answer to no one not madrid not brussels but that's just my opinion.

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if you just showed is a very welcome r.t. life 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 the national coalition is the latest western tactic to remove president bashar al assad and talks in paris focused on the protection of rebel controlled areas aid to refugees and the need for a provisional government britain which is for the new coalition 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 finishes have been fighting against the syrian army for nearly two years with about one hundred people being killed daily journalist neil clark has told me a little earlier that he thinks. libya mark two is underway. 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 a plan to topple assad 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 a policy we have 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's job is to popular party probably majority support within syria the last one is the people's will in syria to prevail they want to impose by force a puppet government and you know what would happen at libya is that if a saudi's toppled we have lost in syria more chaos you 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 probably tie the entire economy the

links with iran and hezbollah and all that you know that the move against iraq to take place because this is all about paving the way toward. the u.k. government's handling of its bank bailouts has come under fierce criticism after his claim 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 n.p.t. says the british taxpayers already lost two billion keeping another financial institution afloat so 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 cast 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 taxpayer is a set of these around two hundred billion but that's not the worst of it because all the s. and lloyds bank oh also had a lot of taxpayers' money funded into these 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 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 sucks a little bit of both the billion sorry guys we've lost that seven 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 in line and i'm 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 way they spots the pensions the unit 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 chiefly responsible with taxpayers' money you know all this report is a. politician 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 if there was a chorus of people from both sides of the political divide saying you know we need to back up our world really what's happened is we've lost billions of pounds of basically allowed politicians to gamble other people's money and low and behold those politicians haven't 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 the moment in a rejection in the way that politics at westminster is out of touch to the point

here is it was the writing was on the wall whether any lessons well actually of course remains to be thing but they if they think they've absolutely walking losses at the moment at least a lot of people saying you know we think the banks he's going to save us. head online to find out how the pride of the u.k. is nuclear submarine fleet is disappointed high command feel some of the vessel surprising flaws including flooding problems. plus a giant robot helping out the bolsheviks in the midst of russia's nine hundred seventeen revolution learn about the shocking from an australian history exam on r.t. dot com. more news in thirty five minutes from now in the meantime morten discusses the effects of the blockade against gaza on breaking the set that's coming your way next here on r.t. .

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