breaking news on t.v. for a media offices in gaza are coming under attack from israel which maintains it is only targeting terrorists. among the targets of the i.d.f. media centers and refugee centers in gaza. and other stories from this week israel's troops exchanged fire with syria where the rebels are gaining more support from the west to get rid of the assad regime. the eurozone since back in recession as millions take to the streets in the first quarter they did the european strike to the mud and to austerity. and as china finishes its once in a decade power transfer with new leaders taking over the country's top post we find out what challenges lie ahead for beijing.

with a look back at the past seven days top stories and the latest developments this is the weekly on r.t. foreign reporters in gaza forced to scramble is their offices are targeted by israeli bombs several journalists have been wounded and the militants are returning waiting again got off in tel aviv from where i'm now joined by paula sliver paula so has the city come under attack yet again. well certainly in the last few minutes the sirens was sounding here in tel aviv holland and in neighboring neighboring cities the iron dome missile defense system has intercepted two rockets that were fired towards tel aviv now this is the fourth straight day that tel aviv has been on the receiving end of rockets from gaza it was one that front that was fired this morning it was intercepted and now is that say. in the last few moments

another two rockets our office here office in tel aviv was fully manned everyone started running to the stairway there were people gathering from all the floors you could hear from that stay away a loud boom presumably as that i am dome missile defense system intercepted the rockets but i can tell you that people here are a bit shaken it's now a few minutes later the mind has gone back to normal but certainly there is an increasing tension and weariness amongst the residents of tel aviv many saying that this is just happening now too often on saturday the iron dome system was deployed over tel aviv until then it had not happened this was the first time that this has happened then there's this increasing fear that you have long range missiles such as the five year missile that are increasingly aiming towards tel aviv now we have heard from the israeli defense forces they all saying that of these two rockets only one was fired from gaza we have no information it as to where the other one came from and the iron dome system is a system that has successful been intercepted

a large number of rockets that have been fired not only a tel aviv but also in the south of the country but it is not foolproof or there certainly are missiles that are hitting the target such as in the southern israeli city of the water earlier today very cost a standard direct hit and a number of casualties have come forward in various airstrikes and after day on southern israel what about the situation there in gaza for journalists including some of our colleagues they found themselves in the foreign land there today tell us more about. well certainly the situation in gaza is becoming increasingly alarming before i even talk about the journalists the reports we're receiving is that hoffa's the people who have been treated at spittal which is the biggest hospital in gaza city half of the people being rushed there are in fact children the hospital is simply not coping it's running short of space and also medical supplies at the same time there was an israeli air force strike earlier today that lived ten members of the same family killed when a three story building in which they were collapsed over. and them were also

witnessing an increase in the target of journalists all sister organization loosely of your own has an office in gaza city and just an hour after they left their office because of electricity cuts that office was destroyed by an israeli air force strike the israeli air force has targeted two media buildings and the army is not apologetic for this it says that it was in fact talking unification and ten on the roof of the buildings that are being used by her mother and that the i.d.f. did in fact know that they were journalists in this building we do know that several people among them journalists have been injured one camera man at least has lost an egg that was amputated after the office in which he works came under fire so we're hearing from the army that they were aware that these foreign journalists and that it's becoming increasingly more dangerous for foreign journalists to work inside gaza and get the story out you know as a ground invasion looms what prospects are there for a solution to this conflict paula. we're talking to people here in tel aviv so he

immediately after we had these two missiles of what intercepted the general mood here is that from all tel aviv comes under the firing line of missiles the more the government is going to be more prone to wards launching a ground offensive there has continued throughout the day to be amusement of tanks and armored personnel vehicles along the israeli gaza border we also heard from the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu at his weekly cabinet meeting that he will significantly expand his operation in gaza and many people are reading into that that that means that a ground offensive is on the cards the idea of cheats also ordered an increase in the number of sorties a day and militants in gaza so we are expecting that there are also be an increase in strikes over that of a gaza city in addition to this we having simply five thousand reservists who are gathering in the south of the country they haven't been given orders as far as we're aware but certainly they are positioned well positioned to move into gaza if indeed they are called on to do that in london however has warned. the tel aviv

government not to go ahead with any kind of ground offensive saying that this will merely not be met well in the international community and be hard to justify but we have however heard from the american president barack obama and he said that israel has the right to protect itself so there is an alliance amongst israelis that if they go ahead with this ground offensive they will receive support as they always have in the past from washington the army has also sealed all roads around gaza so those two another indicator that a ground offensive could be just a matter of hours if not days away parties paula slim live there and to live it thanks very much indeed for that update and of course support we'll be keeping us updated all throughout the day out also online simply follow her twitter stream for the latest. correspondent so you have been working in the media office in gaza just before israeli rockets hit it this is what he told us earlier. now to have that. no

one expected this during the strikes power supplies often get cut off and then it becomes really difficult for us to find fuel for the generator i had at that moment we decided to take a break in our work and go look for gas so that we can continue working early in the morning we left at around one am and added to it all have some of our friends are now in hospital just a little while ago there was a press conference where it was said that such an attack must be completely ruled out as a journalist can become targets for strikes a correspondent should share what he or she sees with the world even israeli journalists report from gaza it's unacceptable that media workers get attacked in such a way in situations like this we usually don't go to our homes just like we did maturing that has deliveries of two thousand and eight in two thousand and nine even though we know this is really dangerous up to the point of a ground operation however we prefer to stay at the office using any chance to do our job whenever the electricity comes on us and when the electricity was off we decided to go look for generator fuel and that's what saved us we're talking about

four tower blocks in gaza that have been used by media outlets since two thousand but during the war in two thousand and eight two thousand and nine israel struck these buildings to death and some of our colleagues were injured and we know that we do a dangerous job. and. spoke to documentary filmmaker an activist harry fan he says that if you are a reporter covering events in gaza it's best to avoid all media senses. understanding that the media centers in gaza of which there are about five to seven predominant runs in apartment buildings total on different floors by various media organizations including the sister organization of russia today it's a has been they have been targeted by israeli airstrikes and they have then been told to evacuate evacuate totally and some of these centers are actually basically been razed to the ground so i'm getting very panicked calls from friends of mine

and palestinians in gaza saying do not try and go anywhere near any of the live studios here in gaza it is too dangerous you're an international but you may well be targeted yourself so i heard from one source of within the i.d.f. say these are perception strikes for example one building of journalists when he says a precision strike he targeted one floor however the building then collapsed. israel is relying on the world not to doing anything while it uses disproportionate force or trying to assassinate its targets i don't doubt that it is targeting people accurately but it's using such level of force when it does that damage is occurring every hour in gaza so that israel has its objectives but it's the force and whether and really it's using which is international bridge it under the law. when earlier i interviewed the israeli defense force spokesperson of a television who denied targeting journalists. we're talking about two media buildings indeed but on the roofs of these media buildings hamas wisely positioned

a whole system of communications and electronics for its own personal operational work we targeted only these and ten as these communications center and i spread films earlier today showing this exactly and you can see an accurate hit on the roof none of the floors were targeted of course there was a little bit of. it as a result of the explosive some windows shattered in the one but the direction was not to the floors but rather than ten as the communication centers on the roof i think that if a journalist chooses to locate himself near hamas facility that's a mistake and we are now in operation defending half of this country's population and we are determined to continue with this operation until we bring some peace and quiet to this country the equation is very clear if there will be quiet in israel there will be peace and quiet in gaza but of course what the international

community is really concerned about now is the increasing number of civilian deaths now last night i spoke with one of your colleagues and he claimed that the masses actually rounding up civilians to shield targets you're about to bomb now now how can a mass possibly know your exact targets and respond quickly enough. hamas is targeting only israeli cities you're more than welcome to spend just two hours in one of the biggest israeli cities that were targeted for the past two years either beer sheva or ashkelon which dog each of these cities have more than two hundred thousand people did you ever feel what it's like to run into a shelter and have fifteen seconds to do it or to raise children and a family inside a shelter protected room and sleep there night after night this is not something normal this should not be this way but of course we can all see all of those we can also have the same question of course but in the meantime fuck you very. indeed for joining us live oh no way wait

a minute i beg to differ and i beg to differ because you can't make this equation hamas the star getting civilians we are not looking to target civilians we are targeting terrorists and why he is given the very reason the core reason why this is happening is because of israeli policy towards the gazans the way they've been suffering from this blockade that has been the provocation as. well blockade there is a border to egypt the roughest border it's opened do you know that every day we allow patients from gaza to get hospitalization in israel despite the rocket fire do you know that we supply electricity to guys are we supply truckloads with supplies every day even today it's a matter of fact more than one hundred thirty trucks entered gaza with a variety of supplies according to the requests despite of the rocket fire what other country in the world would act this way. you're in spokesman chris gunness says that gaza is headed for a humanitarian disaster due to political failure israeli bombing runs and the

tourist blockade. we were hearing as others that the situation in shifa hospital is deteriorating very rapidly and let's not forget that even before this latest flare up in violence shifa hospital had been hit by the blockade there was a lack of medicines there was a lack of training a lack of equipment so an already bad situation in that hospital one of the largest in the occupied palestinian territory has been made worse there are shortages according to the world health organization of essential and lifesaving drugs what we're seeing in gaza is the result of political failure we call on the politicians and the people who are able to make peace to redouble their efforts to do so because for every hour that goes past another child another woman another civilian the elderly the sick the dying they are in harm's way it's

a situation which we in the united nations and in under find unacceptable in must end and it must end forthwith. also online we bring you the latest from the middle east with live updates on our twitter stream and also our web site r.t. dot com. another tough week for the eurozone as we report later on the single currency bloc is officially back in recession after a twenty four hour pan european mega strike brought twenty countries to a standstill plus. china gets its next chairman xi jinping leading a new group of officials to herald the country's growth further in a few moments we'll look at what problems beijing's blistering economy might face.

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 needed 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 cut for big 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 a means to get rid of the poor rather than trying to make the poor less poor but

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live here in moscow now aside from the conflict with hamas in gaza israel has also been fighting on its northern front the israeli defense force confirmed they fired artillery into neighboring syria in response to gunfire aimed at its troops in the disputed going on hides it's the first time in forty years israel has fired into syria that came amid rebel reports that rebels captured an airport in the east of syria strengthening their hold of the iraqi border plus this week western attempts to president assad gained momentum in france and turkey recognizing the new opposition group the national coalition ministers are expected to discuss lifting an arms embargo monday paving the way for direct weapons deliveries to rebels iran has already responded saying that would amount to organized terrorism jenna's neil

clark says the west is using the libya blueprint the. in syria. 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 crowd a sad actually the western powers are actually glaring it's ok for us to are the rebels in syria but to anybody else to arm the syrians it's not allowed so it's absolutely appalling be a policy we have the constitutional vote back in some sort of serious 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 probably majority support in syria the last thing they want is the people who 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 it

saudis topple we have lost 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 a new government in damascus which will probably tire the entire economy the links with iran and hezbollah. that you know that the move against iraq to take place and this is all about paving the way toward if there are. the eurozone has been hit by a second recession according to figures published on thursday this just hours after a twenty four hour strikes or more than twenty european countries virtually paralyzed as people once again vented their frustration over disintegrating economies reports staying in. italy. and portugal. it's nice debt ridden countries dealing together with many others for the continent. naked strake from the beginning it was clear that emotions were running high in many places the

dreadful violence early on in our. the storm broke and the anger of protesting was evident for various things between the protesters and the riot police is. almost three hundred it's not really get more symbolic i need for that he's defied the people say there are right now all across the train the government and between the people themselves this is why they are. where the bullets and violent confrontations with the authorities are becoming in on t. familiar sights the constant leaders stand for the disparity is a necessary evil to cut the sky high deficit only then the fourteenth the people of europe seem to have formed a county to fight back against the prevailing title stereotypic ahead of next week's budget meeting brussels will have been watching closely as the scenes of police and protesters battling one another played out across the nobel peace prize

winning. r.t. . 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 as a rock bottom with almost every single officer feeling abandoned by the government . leaders bit annoyed at this week in china with xi jinping becoming the communist party's new secretary general he took over from his sort through a decade long transformation which led to overtaking japan as the world's second largest economy the new leaders of how to tackle the challenges of corruption the growing divide between rich and poor and environmental pollution among others still the main goal remains keeping the economy booming the i.m.f. predicts it will overtake its american rival in just four years as a journalist eric margolis says china could stumble on washington's so-called asia pivot in the process.

of the soviet union and fifty. is sure. civic alliance it's really zisha in the military forces in the region president obama announced the torrens in asia so this is very clear china is just the just announced that they are expanding the navy as a priority we're looking at something that looks like a contest we germany and britain before world war one so worried hopefully will manage the dangers of this. america's hour as noble japan. to daggers drawn with trying to right now over the same kind who islands and war breaking out there shooting could go any day we want but america could be drawn by brands fighting china america could be drawn into the conflict as it could be with . south korea. the historic first of

a public vote in england and wales for local police commissioners took place this week with hardly anyone turned up to the ballot boxes and recent polls of officers show morale among the nation's lot of forces is at rock bottom or smith looks at why the thin blue line has the blues. another day another demo and the police all with old hands 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 and they're all in the four states 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 their fifteen offices are certainly in the force i work in lancashire and i don't have any offices that are not being supported by the government and the bottom bain's has lost five hundred fifty officers from her

force meaning more work for those left behind and. the 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. i have a plethora of issues over the last two years where the start or conditions of. pension reforms or with forms of the police service person twenty percent could give an example here in work prior to this coming to power we had a thousand and fifty offices we're now down into the seven hundreds we have one of the biggest my twenty 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 it 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 just a year ago the mets with trumpeting a three billion pound refurbish its bay was revolving star and now it's downsizing to a new size of the thames near by and replacing smaller stations with counters in supermarkets and communities that it has to force feels it's being disproportionately targeted but home secretary to reason may is on repentant lets stop pretending the police are being picked on they do 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 balloting everyone can fall off the rank of chief inspector in

england wales and that very question do they want full industry right. yes and and the reason that data is important is because all members need protecting from what they perceive is an unfair treatment by by this government a police force on strike if the last thing the government needs to take you to stay as another winter of discontent in the face laura smith ality london. well coming up we take a look at how one woman raises eight children of all heading an international business that softer the break here but with more news in thirty five minutes from now. the mighty volga that runs deep through the russian soul it has provided

inspiration for songs and poems and is the country's main north south artery and decades ago she mn ingenuity connected it to the dawn river to the west the vogue the dawn canal is an engineering marvel within a day a vessel can pass the canals thirteen blocks ten million tons of shipping does so every year. another concrete giant is this finished fifty years ago it's the biggest hydroelectric plant in europe it powers the local city of volgograd and sends lots more electricity to moscow the hydroelectric plant behind me is a potent example of how much the volga can provide but harnessing the river like this isn't without its cost. fishermen have been watching fish stocks for years they see the slow damage the downing of the river has done especially to russia's prized sturgeon the source of caviar but in the president of the hydroelectric plant has done significant damage because it stocked fish swimming up river to the

spawning grounds. within a year all these houses would have gone fall into the river depending on how many of the hydroelectric plants turbines are on the water level can change suddenly and dramatically too suddenly for the banks to absorb. control of the river flow by the plant has made building on the shoulders floodplain more attractive serious floods are less likely but the water that is put into the drains is taken away from the fish that need it now but last the voice of the voters of color jay might start being heard. the first time in fifty years the rules will contain a point on maintaining biodiversity in the river we still have a chance to bring the volga back to life. meaning that the mighty volga is treated with the respect it deserves.

i preside over one of the most successful companies in the market its a consulting company. matters i can't imagine anything. before making millions of dollars a career began at the very bottom of the ladder this thirty eight year old woman is well traveled speaks four languages and is an excellent dancer. at first glance she might seem just another unmarried careerist with no children but is far from it throughout her career she has pulled to give birth as she leaves the maternity ward for the eighth time mother and child are greeted by her husband and seven children. number eight his beautiful. parents named him max.