exchange of fire rages on between israel and gaza the conflict enters its sixth day on sunday television targeted foreign media offices in gaza despite claims it's only aiming at terrorists. among other targets civilian homes and refugee camps while television comes under rocket attack yet again. in other stories this week israel's troops exchanged fire with syria but the rebels are gaining more support from the west in a bid to remove the assad regime. and the six back into recession as millions take to the streets in the first coordinated european strike mining an end .

you're watching artie's a weekly news review on the very latest developments well tensions between gaza and israel have risen again as the two sides exchange rounds of heavy artillery fire massive explosions can be heard rocking here at the moment at least six palestinians have been killed in the latest attacks by television but there are reports that several new rockets have been launched into southern israel filmmaker and activist harry fear is in gaza. in the last few hours we've been hearing increasing noises from the gazan population and political analysts here saying that they do feel that a ground invasion is impending still a few hours ago and yesterday that was looking increasingly unlikely but now it's looking increasingly likely as things have really. i mean west gaza city where most of the internationals are based and here things are better but if you leave this

small radius safe zone quite safe zone things become extremely dangerous all of the cars here for the press international's drive with hazard lights on so that israel knows that these are civilian cars most people are in their homes seeking refuge in the best way that they can i don't know bomb shelters here even for hamas government officials but people are trying the best they can to buckle down not knowing what is going to happen in these next few hours remembering that most violence is one of our is doing tonight in the early hours of the day that's yet to come. but it is very defense forces spokesperson has netted that an airstrike on a house that killed twelve palestinians was a mistake as its target had been a command that attack is believed to have caused the largest death toll in a single incident there has the latest. the reports we're receiving is that hoff of the people who have so far been treated at shifa hospital which is the biggest

hospital in gaza city off 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 there lived ten members of the same family killed when a three story building in which they were collapsed around him were also witnessing an increase in the target of german sister organization you see on your have an office in gaza city and just an hour after they risk 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 unfair to talk indication antenna on the roof of the buildings that are being used by her most and that the i.d.f. did in fact know that there were journalists in this building we do know that several people among them journalists have been injured 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 two rockets have been intercepted in the skies over television now they were intercepted by the iron dome missile defense system that was only launched of the city on saturday this is the fourth straight day that tel aviv has been on the receiving end of a long range ukrainian made missiles while talking to people here in tel aviv certainly immediately after we had these two missiles that were intercepted the general mood here is that the mall tel aviv comes under the firing line of missiles the more the government is going to be more prone to wards nor inching a ground offensive there has continued to be movement 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 eight militants in gaza so we are expecting that that also be

an increase in air strikes over that over gaza city in addition to this we having seventy five thousand reservists who 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 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 made well in the international community and of 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 william our colleague bill dog interviewed israeli defense force spokesperson the i'm

a bitch who said the journalists hurt in the israeli strikes and they have themselves to blame. 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 or 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 explosives on the windows shattered in the one but this direction was not the floors but rather intended 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 joe sherman he claimed 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 to start getting all the 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 be'er 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 in 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 also gaza as we can also happens the same question of course i beg to differ because you can't make this

equation hamas the star getting sick. we are not looking to target civilians we are targeting terrorists why is he then the very reason the call 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 reject 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 gaza 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 the spite of the rocket fire what other country in the world would act this way. but meanwhile u.n. spokesman chris gunness says the guards are headed for humanitarian disaster due to political fadia israeli bombing runs on the notorious 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 find unacceptable in must end and

it was and forthwith. on air and also online we're bringing you the very latest from the middle east live updates on our twitter stream and our web site r.t. dot com you can log on to find out but not expected third party joining forces but the people of gaza are outraged with a claim of ongoing abuse of human rights internet activist group anonymous declares cyber war on israel find out the details of their online campaign on our website. now in addition to the conflict with the mass in gaza israel has also been fighting on its northern front israeli defense force confirmed they fired artillery into neighboring syria response to gunfire aimed at its troops in disputed gun heights is the first time in forty years israel has fired into syria came amid reports

rebels kept an airport in the east of syria strengthening their hold of the iraqi border person this week western attempts to oust president assad gain momentum france and turkey recognizing the opposition group the national coalition the ministers are expected to discuss lifting an arms embargo on monday paving the way for direct weapons deliveries to rebels iran has already responded saying that to organized terrorism academic and a political activist has an afghan or says arms to the various may help the opposition to achieve their goals. i don't think this is very unlikely i mean that they may well decide to go ahead with this especially that they feel that the rebels so far have not achieved what they were what they were. all designed to achieve i mean they're receiving very surprising weapons missiles there and downing aircrafts there is even concern inside syria that the rebels may threaten to

simulate aviation being are sending in huge numbers of china herders across the across the borders however not achieve military emperors that is able to counterpart the syrian government recently the u.k. armed forces talking about safe havens or even. partial or very limited intervention on the syrian borders they may well benefit from very limited no fly zones provided by by these nations around the syrian borders and that may change the balance that may not completely me off some influence it will be enough credit for them to start negotiating the syrian government. well scandal grips the very top of the american military establishment this week trysts is the star became the latest victim of. the love triangle for not coming up.

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not surprising they love it this trail are amazing but even more amazing is the story of how racing first started here atoll it wasn't the top sled dog racing who set the trail ablaze but a nun and for all phones who brought their dia to life. five years ago model camera built a dog kennel in the village kids from the local open age came around to take care of the dogs and one day they state their life might seem extreme to some the boys wake up at six to feed the dogs before school in the evening they spend up to three hours training their fall legged friends but smother her schedule also encourages her kids to become depth hands on the computer and internet the boys regularly updated their website and they're in touch with the busy ma the twenty four seven on the phone itself but children are the most important thing my only interests not

play any rule any more and regardless of whether parsky has huskies window race or not she hopes the competition will take place in the village next year. but called these dogs and the children it really is not the winning but actually just the taking part that counts. resistance is not the politics but our culture. is couldn't get. it so. cultures of resistance are to. cultures that so much

about the taxpayers' money whether it's a charade a lot of people at area china has to have a plantation did fell through another leadership to the last decade has witnessed this country transformed a tremendous speed. welcome back to the program the eurozone has been hit by a second recession according to figures published on thursday this just hours after a twenty four hour strike saw more than twenty european countries virtually paralyzed as people once again vented their frustration over disintegrating economies on the surface reports. saying.

greece. italy. and portugal. here it's nice debt ridden countries joining together with many others for the continent's first cross pulled mega strike from the beginning it was clear that emotions were running high in many places the dreadful violence and after a brief calm to break the anger of those protesting is evident for various things put up between the protesters and the riot place is packed up right now almost three the military it's not really got more symbolic county for he stood by the people say there are right now all across there are three legged government and between the people themselves this is why the austerity but they have thought they were the bullets in violent confrontations with the authorities of the coming in on t. familiar sights the consonance leaders stand firm the disparity is

a necessary evil cut the sky high deficit only event of the fourteenth the people of europe seem to have formed the county union to fight back against the prevailing type of storage city ahead of next week's budget meeting brussels will have been watching closely as the scenes of police and protesters battling one another played . close to peace prize winning. ticket. sociologists call those who took part in wednesday's strike but if that's with a round hundreds of young spaniards already out of work more cuts want to achieve anything 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 european citizenry and in

particular by the southern european citizenry the problem is what does that austerity mean is that 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 a bank bank bailouts and and and areas like these. the sex scandal which claimed the former head of the cia general david petraeus this week ten than the one that took over from him is commander of the u.s. minute she in afghanistan general john out in squares known trouble it was revealed he had also exchanged e-mails with a type of socialite thanks to the traces extramarital affair of former cia boss petraeus stepped down after admitting to a bit of a nation shift and he's broadwell she's being investigated by the f.b.i.

of and she gained access to some of his classified data he have it denies any leaks and joan. for a whole year is police actually have resigned on before you know his failure in the afghan campaign. there's a lot of discussions going on that to tommy is suspect and that it was all done for political purposes we still have the unanswered questions of being ghazi issue but as far as his relationship with mr broadwell i give him much lower marks for his actions in combat than i do in in the bedroom he should have resigned when his counterinsurgency strategy failed to produce results sometimes we take military leaders and we build a very nice resume for them and it catches on and everybody starts to drink and from the same well i hold our military commanders to a very hostile gander look we put young men in risk there and they give it

everything they've got and if the policy has failed we have young man and hospital right now all over this country that will die in afghanistan next summer for no other reason than profiting off a corrupt ever locking criminal enterprise which is what the karzai government has become that's mob real problem with it i was a soldier for over twenty years so i care deeply about those young men and women. on our website right now i sent this bird's hardcore fans slip past around six security personnel and into the goalie with a flare rocket was in a high profile game to be abandoned. also online that thousands stage a march to dublin protests against abortion or was it the death of a woman denied help determine an entire pregnancy. and a gun store owner in arizona publishes in the newspaper telling president obama

supporters they're not welcome in shop to r.t. dot com to find out more. new leaders have been anointed this week in china with changing paying becoming the communist party's new secretary general he took over from hu jintao who saw through a decade long transformation which led to it overtaking japan as the world's second largest economy new leaders have vowed to tackle the challenges of corruption the growing divide between rich and poor and environmental pollution among others but the main goal remains keeping the economy booming i'm f. predicts it will that overtake its american rival in just four years whenever professor joseph chang from hong kong city university it was one of the main risks is that china's export driven economy is vulnerable to dips in demand you know china has certainly be been doing very well you know terms of konami role but at the moment is economic growth model we reached this stage of the administration

returns is certainly faces still be a challenge is that the consensus konami reforms a strong stand of agreement on what needs to be done but at the same kind is severe recession from vested interest for example the state be the big state owned enterprises still won a lot of infrastructural you know cement projects a steel one a lot of credit from the state on bands and so on. well coming up it's the second part of cultures of resistance which examines how the arts can serve as i mean isha in the battle for peace and justice that's after the break here r.t. .

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we can help the politicians through music let them in when you develop culture in your country your working through issues in the world of politics to. them and how you're going to 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 says and what it has. not months. since i was young i have loved arabic calligraphy and i believe should have a message. of

justice means that the rights of the people. should be returned to them and it's. been over. after that there should be no more revenge. and i don't want to be an oppressed who becomes an oppressor. a slave in the cause of the palestinian conflict is that israelis came from all over the world.