our breaking news this hour here on r t foreign media offices in gaza a coming under attack from israel which maintains its only targeting terrorists. among the targets of the i.d.f. media centers and the refugee camps in gaza. and on its northern front israel's troops exchanged fire with syria but the rebels are gaining more support from the west to get rid of the assad regime. but eurozone sings back in recession as millions take to the streets in the first coordinated plan european strike to demand an end to austerity. as china finishes its once in a decade power transfer with new leaders taking over the country's top post we found out what challenges lie ahead for beijing.

with today's headlines and those of the week this is the weekly on our t.v. with me rory sushi i will start immediately without breaking news for you this hour of foreign reporters in gaza forced to scramble as their offices are targeted by israeli bombs several journalists already have been wounded tel aviv says it wants to send a gaza quote back to the middle ages and is preparing a ground invasion while militants retaliate with unguided rockets let's cross over now live to our. the latest on this more israeli airstrikes taking place as we speak what exactly are the targets. well yes there has been a face wave of this radio strikes over gaza we know of at least two refugee camps that. i've been targeted and of course and well know these are places that are over

populated with women and children we are receiving reports of some sixty full six civilians who have been killed among them four children so what we're witnessing is a significant climb in the casualty count increasingly more and more of these casualties are in fact civilians now they want earlier to. hip cool to holdings that also hit by israeli missiles at least six people have been injured one of them is a come a man who they said had to have his leg amputated the i.d.f. the israeli defense forces has said that the journalists were not a great target that they were aware that there were journalists in these buildings and a statement released by the i.d.f. it said that a communications antenna used by hamas to target israelis was in fact their target but the thing is that you have in these media houses international journalists and the israeli army is fully aware of that fact we also are aware that in one of the buildings all sister organization. their offices were completely destroyed in the

strike unfortunately just an hour before all the stuff members had gone home we are now however receiving reports that the journalists and people inside these two buildings have been ordered again to evacuate we obviously reports that the israeli air force plans to strike these buildings again it's not something that the israeli air force is denying in fact and have said they have been on the eighth floor of one of these buildings is the office of hamas and that this is ultimately a target now the leaders of hamas have gone into hiding they are fearing for their lives this comes as a statement from israel's interior ministry that the goal is to send and i'm quoting here gaza back to the middle ages in tel aviv i am defames on this all system intercepted two missiles that were fired from gaza creating fear and panic in this city increasingly what we witnessing over the past few days is long range. missiles being able to reach tel aviv which is much further north in the country.

rather than the communities in the south it was silence that sounded which is that there is that town and it was also a direct hit on a home instead walked and its main city to the south but no one was a totally although their home was completely destroyed. i mean we've been hearing all of this morning here in moscow that israeli officials are looking to expand the operation in gaza and increase the power of the strikes there now we know about the massing of tens of thousands of troops along the border there with gaza the israeli gaza border military tanks armored cars do we know that it is a full scale invasion imminent at this point. well these signs so you do dictate that a full scale ground invasion could be imminent we heard earlier from the israeli defense force chief who has ordered to increase the number of sorties being fired against militants inside gaza some sixteen thousand israeli reservists have been called out they are all in the south of the country ready to enter gaza if indeed they given the order to do so now london has warned israel not to launch

a ground offensive saying that the country will lose a lot of international support we can do to goes ahead and does this but what we have witnessed in the past is that israel by and large often does what it wishes to knowing full well that the united states is there to support it and so many people here don't believe that the united states would withdraw its support for israel at this stage at his weekly cabinet meeting in jerusalem the israeli prime minister on sunday morning also said and i'm quoting here that he is ready to significantly expand the israeli operation into gaza so this certainly does send out alarm bells and raise questions as to whether or not those ground offensive is imminent there has been a lot of movement of tanks as well as on the personnel vehicles and on the israeli gaza border we've witnessed artillery shelling from these tanks also all the roads around gaza have been closed off by the israeli army now the arab league hold an emergency session on saturday in cairo where the arab league secretary general accused israel of war crimes he also called on arab states that had any kind of

peace treaties in place with israel to revisit this we are witnessing as a flurry of international activity trying to mediate between the two sides here egypt is playing a role we've also heard from turkey who has put forward some kind of peace proposal but certain at this stage it doesn't seem as it's as if either side is ready for peace what we're hearing from both the israelis and hamas is that they're only prepared to rain down if the other side does so first our daughters are alive and sullivan thank you for the polars are keeping us updated on air and online as well you can simply follow. twitter stream for the latest filmmaker harry fear he's beating gaza since the first bomb start affording let's get the latest from him right now join him live for the program here good to see you i must just warn our viewers that the internet connection where you are in gaza is very very bad we'll hope for the better quality with audiotape video here as we were just listening to talking about media and foreign officers being targeted there in gaza if i

understand correctly israeli agents did spend some time finding media companies threatening to flatten their buildings to the ground if they didn't evacuate what do you know about that. yes that is coming to us unless as i mean a lot can just fifteen minutes all media organization buildings traditionally apartment buildings here in gaza there are about six or seven big ones that are being evacuated so i was meant to be talking to you studio that the building has now been completely wasted here in central gaza city. does maintain that is targeted targeting terrorists any explanation of why they would go off to a refugee camps or even foreign media offices. well in the senate finance is that it on the historical record that doesn't like john lewis telling the truth and communicating facts and footage i didn't what did the most prominent example of

that is from may two thousand and ten when israel deliberately destroyed the memory cards of journalists. and also. communication going satellite communications and selling of communications on those navy vessel excuse me on those maritime vessels so the historical precedent for israel simply trying to suppress the truth so israeli forces are naval forces are sending in missiles ultimate is a god so you've also got the land based forces around around the border as well i mean you are right there in gaza what exactly is happening as we have speed. king right now. well in the trench minutes travis king shot strikes talking areas of the gaza strip a few hours ago was extremely heavy pounding of the middle area of the gaza strip about hamas on the strip from the sea and from the this while trying to such a maritime area just off the coast possibly down the strip apparently we're told by dolphins looking for the two downed f.

sixteen pilots but the outkast sound brigade a tree weighing all hamas supposedly downed in the last two days. now as we know as we know them and so i've spoken to you a couple of times in the past twenty four hours in the suggestions of the militants in gaza trying to hunker down at the moment obviously they've taken a very big hit already with the infrastructure with telecommunications what about the weapons of the militants how are they doing i mean all they getting weapons for example from beyond their borders. you know we understand that they are getting some important elections but i constancy really less than five percent missed that strike with launching a lot of them don't even go into israel chill but some of them end up landing in gaza. are a small number the important ones we learned some of them off farm iran thought enough three days learning that the i was under the sand by build in the rockets these new brands of rockets that they produced have the capacity to strike seventy

five kilometers from the gaza strip so that's a very very new development which i'm sure will take in stride counts when it considers it's an invasion if it's thinking and doing so we'll certainly know about militants are using the short range and short to medium range missiles perhaps now even up to long range missiles that's perhaps you're alluding to there but the israeli defense forces have this iron dome system that apparently is being somewhat successful in the king these these missiles out of the sky. well that they sent within the israeli. spokesperson about the efficacy of it. recently i think it was yesterday or the day before it's about another shift. unit. strength from the i and system but its efficacy is less than fifty percent so many calling it the iron swiss cheese system. all right a lot from filmmaker and activist a horrific thanks very much indeed for giving us an inside report there. was

bitterly here and also my colleague bill doughty interviewed the israeli defense ministry spokesman about of a judge when he gave no clear explanation as to why civilians are constantly being killed in what he calls highly precise bombings. but when hamas are hiding rockets beneath mosques and hiding rockets and missiles within school yards and firing 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 since flies out to the population even before we conduct these precision strikes a lot of minimize civilian what those precise munitions are doing to the people of gaza we want to speak to several girls insist the civilians who are suffering in this bombing campaign the moment here's what they had to say let's have a listen and then the civilian population here is going to every house there are

about twenty people until quarter to six everyone was asleep and last to begin show you can this entire area about the sixteen killings were bombing innocent harmless people many were injured my family had four injured. and 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 a lot of the or should we do now the roof collapsed walls or just roared the children of you under the rubble as they were doing and. we were all sleeping parents and me with my sisters and their sixteen missile hits our house we were taken to hospital thank god you're alive that's how it was going on so what do you say to these people in gaza. who 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 aboard 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 on air and online we are bringing you the latest from the middle east live updates on our twitter stream and the web site of course dot com. now aside from the ongoing conflict with hamas in gaza israel has also also been fighting on its northern front the israeli defense force confirmed they fired artillery into neighboring syria in response to gunfire and its troops in the disputed golan heights it's the first time in forty years that israel has fired

into syria it came amid reports the rebels have captured an airport in the east of syria strengthening their hold of the iraqi border plus this week western attempts to oust president assad have gained momentum with france and turkey recognizing a new opposition group the national coalition paris also says it will accept an envoy from the new alliance and e.u. foreign ministers are expected to discuss lifting an arms embargo on monday which could pave the way for direct weapon deliveries to the rebels a journalist neil clark says the west is using the libya blueprint to gain a foothold in syria with the long term goal of surviving iran but what we do is we get together some opposition puppets if you like not their heads together call them the government of libya and now 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 a sad actually the western powers actually glaring it's ok for us to arm the rebels

in syria but to anybody else around the syrians he's allowed so it's absolutely appalling the policy we had the constitutional vote back in eighty seven percent of syrians voted for it we had elections in may you know there is every possibility of a change in syria through the ballot box but the west don't want that because they know the president sorry to popular party has probably majority support in syria the last one is the people who will in syria to prevail they want to impose by force. and you know what would happen and leave your mark to it studies topple we have in syria more chaos we have more deaths 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 the new government in damascus which with the entire economy the links with iran and hezbollah are. you know that the move against iraq to take place and this is all about paving the way toward if there are. and r.t. was able to speak to the representative of syria's main armed opposition group the

free syrian army spokesman. says that president assad stays are numbered. in his statement to you and channel he said he would not leave syria we know this very well was not be able to move syria i mean these people don't know my needs to leave the country of the free syrian army do not let him do this but do not get out of syria alone you will be lucky if he means the same thing to. another tough week for the eurozone as we reporters a bit later on here on our sea of the single currency book is officially back in recession after a twenty four hour pan-european make a strike brought some twenty countries to a standstill plus trying to get his new chairman paying leading a new group of officials to herald the country's growth for their interest a few moments we'll look at what problems beijing's blistering economy might have to face.

catalonia wants to get its independence from the rest of spain locals feel that madrid texas all of catalonia economic success is a way putting the region into debt trust me working 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 stay in the e.u. means you won't have control of your borders you'll still be on the euro see all of 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 big truly independent means answer to no one not madrid not brussels but that's just my opinion. i miss it in. my daddy. a lot of.

there's a famous reuse benson. ransom business. twenty minutes past the hour here in moscow this is our two other eurozone has been hit by a second recession this according to figures published on thursday this just hours after a twenty four hour strike saw more than twenty european countries virtually paralyzed and people once again vented their frustration over disintegrating economies r.t. sarah for three points. saying. greece. italy. and portugal. your debt ridden countries join together with many others for the continent's first cross border

mega strike from the beginning it was clear that emotions were running high in many places the dreadful violence early on and i asked a priest can you still broke the anger of those protesting at the don't move various things between the protesters and the riot police is part of the right almost three the military it's not like you can really get more symbolic candy for the he's defied the people say there are right now all across the yard to train their government and between the people themselves this is why the austerity but that is. where the bullets and violent confrontations with the authorities are becoming you know t. familiar sights consonance leaders stance the disparity is a necessary evil cut the sky high deficits only bend the fourteenth the people of europe seem to have formed a county union to fight back against the prevailing title sterrett city ahead of next week's budget meeting for us is will be watching closely as the scenes of

police and protesters battling one another played out across the nobel peace prize winning. the dreaded. protests over cuts turned violent in the most burden european states like italy portugal and spain where unemployment is at unprecedented levels sociologists call a stock loss who took part in wednesday's strike believes that with around a half of young spine is already out of work more cuts won't save a thing. a protest isn't about a solution a protest is normally about something you don't want so in this case what they're protesting is easy to austerity is cuts in social spending and cuts in social rights and the expansion of social misery people can make the argument that austerity is a solution to the current problems being faced by your the european citizenry and in particular by the southern european citizenry the problem is what does that austerity mean is it neoliberal e.u.

austerity where you cut basically all of those all of the social protection that keeps people from descending down to a sort of downward spiral of social misery and with all of that escalating conflict or do you leave social protection in place and cut in places where there really is overspending such as in being bank bailouts in and and areas like these meanwhile on its way out of economic trouble the u.k. faces some disturbing problems of its own the morale of the police in england and wales is at rock bottom with almost every single officer feeling abandoned by the government those details are just ahead for you. new leaders are being anointed this week in china with becoming the communist party's new secretary general he took over from hu jintao you saw through a decade long transformation which led to it overtaking japan as the world's second largest economy and the new leaders of valor to tackle the challenges of corruption

the growing divide between rich and poor and environmental pollution among others still though the main goal remains keeping the economy booming the i.m.f. predicts it will overtake its american rival in just four years however professor joseph chang from hong kong city university believes that one of the main risks is that china's export driven economy is vulnerable to dips and. china has certainly been doing very well you know terms of economic role but at the moment is. economic growth model we reached this stage of the administering returns is certainly faces severe challenges ahead the consensus of economic reforms is strong there's genuine agreement on what needs to be done but at the same time there is severe recession from vested interests for example to state beat a big state owned enterprises steel one a lot of infrastructural you know cement draw a jab say steel wonder

a lot of credit from this state on panties and so on. the historic first of a public vote in england and wales for local police commissioners took place this week but they're hardly anyone turned up to the ballot boxes and recent polls of officers show that morales mung the nation's law enforcers is at rock bottom that laura smith reports on why the thin blue line has the players. another day another demo and the police always on hand to keep control but while the boys and girls in blue do their jobs sometimes it impossible conditions the government is reducing their budget by a massive twenty percent the net result morrall in the forced hits an all time low with just fifteen out of fourteen thousand officers saying they feel the government gives them a great deal of support rachel baines is surprised but not in a good way. to say those fifteen offices are certainly in the force i work in

lancashire and i don't know of any offices that they're not been supported by the government and that rock bottom bain's has lost five hundred fifty officers from her force meaning more work for those left behind and a genuine fear that when people call nine nine nine there won't be anyone left to deal with the emergency and she's not alone so i'm in pain is chair of the warrick ship police federation and says morale hasn't been this low in his twenty six year career. to have a plethora of issues over the last two years where the start or conditions of service pension reforms or were thought forms in the police service purse twenty percent cuts and if i give an example here in work prior to this government coming to power we had a thousand and fifty offices we're now down into the seven hundreds we have one of the biggest mightily networks in the country and we have no traffic department. so

it's coming from all sides times are so hard in war that the force is even selling off its stations including its h.q. there's no for sale boards up here but the iconic scotland yard headquarters of the metropolitan police is also on the markets it's a real turnaround it's just. a year ago they met with trumpeting a three billion pound refurbished space was revolving starting now it's downsizing to a new size of the thames nearby and replacing smaller stations with counters in supermarkets and communities that is the force feels it's being disproportionately targeted at home secretary to reason may is on repentant let's stop pretending the police are being picked on they do you feel picked on and critically powerless to protect themselves as legally the police aren't allowed to strike but that could change in

february we are saying everyone can fall off the right chief inspector in england wales and that very question do they want full industry rights and and the reason that is important is because members need protecting from what they perceive is an unfair treatment by this government a police force on strike it's the last thing the government needs to take. a not the winter of discontent in the face. ot london. you're watching the weekly you're on our team and a scandal gripped the very top of the american military establishment this week i think david petraeus is afghanistan became the latest victim of an f.b.i. uncovered love triangle more of that interest. plus your feel from countries that used to be magnets for migrants and are forced to move themselves as crisis of

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