exchange of fire rages on between israel and gaza with loud explosions heard throughout the night sunday has been the bloodiest day of the carnage so far with dozens of civilians killed despite claims it's targeting terrorists among other targets civilian homes and refugee camps while tel aviv comes under walkouts attack yet again. another story 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. back into recession as millions take to the streets in the first coordinated pan-european strike smiling an end to austerity. and this china finishes its once in

a decade power transfer leaders taking over the country's top posts about what challenges lie ahead for beijing. broadcasting live from moscow this is artie's weekly news review but first tensions between gaza and israel have risen again as two sides exchange rounds of heavy artillery fire massive explosions can be heard rockey area at the moment dozens of palestinians were killed on sunday and what was the bloodiest day of the campaign filmmaker and journalist harry fears 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 related by me in west gaza city where most of the internationals abased and hear 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 press 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 going to fix is during the night in the early hours of the day that's yet to come hundreds of egyptians have arrived at one of the largest hospitals here in gaza for the precise and exact reason that this largest and strongest hospital in this tiny strip of land is suffering from

a total lack of strength in terms of medical provision they just inundated with over six hundred eighty injuries throughout the gaza strip in the last five days the i.c.u. beds are full exception medical supplies are in short supply medicine is in short supply normally in gaza outside of this war even paracetamol is in short supply so you can just imagine what is happening with this escalation and more. foreign reporters in gaza are forced to scramble as their offices are targeted by israeli bombs several journalists have been wounded artie's put us there as more. 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 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 are also witnessing an increase in the target of journalists all sister organization receive your 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 told me cation antenna on the roof of the buildings that are being used by her mother 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 we're talking to people here in tel aviv 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 launching 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 aimed at militants in gaza so we are expecting that there also be an increase in strikes over that of gaza city in addition to those 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 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 made 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 and now they indicated that a ground offensive could be just a matter of hours if not days away. we're reporting that. correspondents. have been working in the media office in gaza just before israeli rockets hit it this is what he told us earlier. had 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 that at that moment we decided to take a break in our working to look for gas so that we can continue working early in the morning we left at around one am and added to it all happen 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 the 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 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. well you know my colleague bill dogged interviewed israeli defense forces spokesperson avatar leibovich he said the journalists are hurt in israeli strikes and they have themselves to the way. 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 explosive some windows shattered in the one but this direction was not to the floors but rather and 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 joe sherman he claimed the mass is 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 you can also gazans we can also have the same question of course i beg to differ because you can't make this equation hamas the star getting sick. villian says we are not looking to target

civilians we are targeting terrorists why is it 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 region of 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 who entered gaza with a variety of supplies according to the requests this spite of the rocket fire what other country in the world would act this way. meanwhile u.n. spokesman chris gunness says guards are headed for humanitarian disaster due to political failure israeli bombing runs and the torah spoke eight. 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 was and forthwith. israeli officials have announced they've killed the

global jihad militants but at what cost that's what web sites read about how the baby three children and eight other members of the same family paid with their lives in the missile attack that destroyed their two story. in addition to the conflict with hamas in gaza israel has also been fighting on its northern front israeli defense forces confirm they fired artillery into neighboring syria they say response to dumb five and its troops in the disputed golan heights it's the first time in forty years israel has fired into syria it came amid reports rebels capture an airport in the east of syria strengthening their hold of the iraqi border. this week western attempts to oust president assad gained momentum in

france and turkey recognizing your position through the national coalition new ministers are expected says yes lifting an arms embargo on monday paving the way for direct weapons deliveries to rebels iran has already responded saying that what amounts to organized terrorism academic and political activist has an umbrella says arms deliveries that may help the opposition to achieve their goals. i don't think this is very unlikely i mean 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 sent or designed to achieve i mean they are receiving very surprising weapons mess souls there and downing rockets there is even concern inside syria that the rebels may threaten to simulate aviation be are sending in huge numbers of to her just across the across the borders however have not achieved military influence that is able to counterpart the syrian government recently in 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 took me off some influence it will be enough credit for them to start negotiating the syrian government. america bar is set to become the first ever u.s. president to visit me in march as washington the new allies intend to counterbalance china. and their harrowing journey from space to the earth i'm john thomas at mission control and got a lot of heroes at home we've got the details coming up. the euro zone 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 auntie's surface reports. saying. greece. italy. and portugal. it's most debt ridden countries joining 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 madrid saw violence early on and after a brief calm to break the anger of testing every day for various things between the protesters and the riot police is packing right almost things to make sure it's not really get more symbolic candy for the feast of by the people say there are right now all across there are three legged government and between the

people themselves who have the austerity but they have. where the bullets in violent confrontations with the authorities are becoming you know the familiar sight the consonance leaders stand for the disparity is a necessary evil cut the sky high deficit. only even the fourteenth the people of europe seem to have formed the county union to fight back against the prevailing type of stereotyping 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 only valid peace prize winning. rights so sure just a color stoke loss who took part in wednesday's strike believes that with around half of young spaniards already out of work more cuts won't 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 citizenry and in particular by the southern european citizenry the problem is what does that austerity mean is that neoliberal you 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 bailouts and and and areas like these. new leaders have been anointed this week in china with xi jinping becoming the communist party's new secretary general he took over from hu jintao who saw through a decade long transformation which led to the country and the taking japan as the

world's second largest economy and their leaders have valid to tackle the challenges of corruption divide between rich and poor and environmental pollution among others the main goal remains keeping the economy booming the i.m.f. predicts it will overtake its american rival in just four years time professor joseph chain from hong kong city university believes one human risk is that china's exports of an economy is vulnerable to dips in demand china has certainly be been doing very well you know terms of economic growth but at the moment is economic growth be reached the state of michigan is certainly faces severe rather than just the consensus of reforms is strong. and of agreement on what needs to be done. and the same kind severe recession from vested interest for example the state beat up big state owned enterprises still won

a lot of infrastructural you know spent projects a steel won a lot of credit from the state on panties and so on. well meanwhile barack obama has arrived in thailand kicking off his three day asian tour this is his first international trip since reelection making good on his promises of a shift towards the asia pacific an american foreign policy his next stop minima will make him the first u.s. president to pay an official visit to the nation following that he'll head on to come both here for the summit of the association of southeast asian nations to boost u.s. relations in the region and they are sasha the an international affairs and defense analyst says washington wants not only to keep its trading ties but also to increase its political influence in the region. the united states wants to weigh in their regional economic area this iraqi troops could legally speaking over here especially when there is going to be an as yet we could all be cooking on the windows not fifteen so united states does not want to be cute though and i believe

that is driven by obama is to promote not just security agreement sort of deals you know partnerships with members of us young people though so he could only economic country deals is part of certainly a realizing book u.s. foreign policy towards the asia pacific region even more it's not like they were not there or course they were always there but there are i think under obama there are going to eat first place the main show for him to trade relations. but a change of pace now and an experience to astronaut crew presenting the united states russia and japan has just landed back on earth in kazakhstan aboard the so use capsule today yuri malenchenko suni williams and that he was cheating to finish their four month mission to the international space station let's go live now to a correspondent sean thomas. in star city he's been following the capsule returned to show in the soyuz capsules just landed as we said the cold weather and thick

snow on the ground that have a bearing on its landing. certainly we're getting images of the crew now they have been recovered and it is snowing on the ground in fact they're wrapped in heavy blankets and it's always an exciting moment here in mission control when we get those first images of the crew coming out of the capsule i can say that soyuz t.m.a. zero five am has landed safely and it has brought with it the s.s. expedition thirty three crew with them sunny williams from the usa actually push it out from japan and europe go from russia now. making it from space to earth is inexact science but it's never routine in fact let me tell you a little bit about what happened the undocked about two twenty six am moscow time fire the rockets at four fifty eight which brought in nearly just under an hour long process of fall to the earth through the atmosphere from about sixty three miles in above the earth's surface in a rare pre-dawn in the dark and landing in the kazakhstan step where it's extremely

cold and there is snow on the ground and that landing happened at about five fifty three moscow time now what happens is when the. capsule hits the ground it launches a series of ground vehicles about twelve helicopters and three fixed wing aircraft that go looking for the crew they have now been recovered and are safely back and earth after one hundred twenty seven days in space. well precise technological stuff they have so what the crew actually accomplished with their mission. will certainly and you mentioned the precise technological stuff if they get this off by one second that could mean a difference of two kilometers in the actual landing zone so they really do have this down to a technical science while in space they did educational work as well as scientific and medical experiments. they even did maintenance on space aquarium with actual fish in space and they docked with a commercial spacecraft as well as performed at three different spacewalks so never

a dull moment always something to do up there in space at the international space station with the fish aside the fish is ok tell us a little bit about the crew members in the mission how they fared. well certainly this is an incredibly experienced crew in fact sunny williams from the united states has been three hundred twenty two days in space making her the second most experienced woman to have been in space she's performed seven spacewalks. from japan he's performed two flights as well and he's the second most experienced japanese astronaut and yuri malenchenko has been up in space six hundred forty two days in his career has done five different space flights and in fact that makes him the seventh most experienced person in terms of insurance in having been in space so incredibly experienced crew back on earth ready to share their experiences here now ok great stuff forty correspondent sean thomas thanks for that.

well then the sex scandal which claimed the former head of the cia agent david petraeus this week turned on the man that took over from him as commander of the u.s. military in afghanistan general john allen's career is now in trouble after it was revealed he had also exchanged e-mails in the tampa socialite to purchase his extramarital affair former cia boss petraeus stepped down after admitting to a covert relationship with his biographer paula broadwell she's being investigated by the f.b.i. over allegations access to classified data he however denies any leaks lieutenant colonel john cook got to stand on a home years these patris should have resigned on earlier his failure in the afghan campaign. there's a lot of discussions going on. and that it was all done for political purposes we still have the unanswered questions of the benghazi issue but as far as

his relationship with russia broadwell i give him much lower marks for his actions in combat than i do in india bedroom he should have resigned when his counterinsurgency strategy failed to produce results sometimes we take our 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 costly end or look we put young men in risk there and they give it everything they've got and it 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 propping up a corrupt interlocking criminal enterprise which is what the karzai government has become that's my real problem with it i was a soldier for over twenty years so i care deeply about those young men and women. and of course you can see one of our stories online as well and on the web site

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