israel steps up its pounding of garza from air and sea with loud explosions heard throughout the night as the carnage enters its sixth day a total of eighty two palestinians have been killed the majority women and children despite israel's claim of targeting terrorists among other targets civilian homes and refugee camps while television comes under rocket attack yet again. another stories from this week israel's troops exchange for i would syria that the rebels are gaining more support from the west and to remove the assad regime. back into recession as millions take to the streets in the first coronated can you strike demanding an end to a sturdy. and this china finishes its once in

a decade power transfer with new leaders taking over the country's top posts find out what challenges lie ahead for beijing. you're watching artie's weekly news review i'm carrie johnston but first tensions between gaza and israel have risen again as the two sides exchange rounds of heavy artillery fire massive explosions can be heard rocking the area at the moment dozens of palestinians were killed on sunday what was the bloodiest day of the campaign filmmaker and journalist eric fear 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 rescue later 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 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 a full exception medical supplies 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. well meanwhile foreign reporters in gaza are forced to scramble their offices are targeted by israeli bombs several journalists have been wounded artie's put us there has 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 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 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 well 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 most 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 so we're hearing from the army that they were aware of 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 so he 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 there are also be an increase in strikes over that of a 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 make 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. put us there reporting that what our correspondents had been working in their media office in gaza just before israeli rockets hit it and this is what he told us. 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 work and go look for gas so that we can continue working early in the morning we left at around one am and had to at all have some of our friends are now in hospital just a little while ago there was a press conference where it with 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 muttering that has still ities of two thousand and eight in two thousand and nine eleven don't 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 some of our colleagues were injured and we know that we do a dangerous job. my colleague a bell dog interviewed israeli defense force a spokesperson of a tally of it he said the journalists are hurt in israeli strikes only have themselves today. 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 tanner's 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 they reckon 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 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 that should not be this way but of course we can also cause we can also cause the same question of course i beg to differ because you can't make this equation hamas the star getting sick. villianous we are not looking to target

civilians we are targeting terrorists and the why is he then 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 rough border it's open 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 their eyes are 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. well meanwhile u.n. spokesman chris gunness says gaza is headed for a humanitarian disaster here to political failure israeli bombing runs and then a taurus 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 you find unacceptable in must and it must end forthwith. when israeli officials have announced they've killed the global jihad militant but at what cost at our website to read about how

a baby three children and eight other members of the same family paid with their lives in the missile attack that destroyed a two story home. now in addition to the conflict with have asked in gaza israel has also been fighting on its northern front he's wary defense forces confirmed they fired artillery into neighboring syria they say in response to gunfire aimed at its troops in the disputed golan heights is the first time in forty years israel has fired into syria it came amid reports rebels captured an airport in the east of syria strengthening their hold of the iraqi border person this week western attempts to oust to president assad gain momentum france and turkey recognizing the new 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 would amount to terrorism but academic and a political activist. says arms deliveries 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. all designed to achieve i mean they are receiving very surprising weapons most silos their understanding across there is even concern inside syria that the rebels may threaten civil aviation they are sending huge numbers of jihadists across the across the borders however not military them from. 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 these nations around the syrian borders and that may change the balance that may not completely took me off some influence but it will be enough credit for them to start negotiating the syrian government. barack obama has become the first ever u.s. president to visit you know what to look for you are right in an attempt to counterbalance china. with a harrowing journey from space to the earth i'm sure thomas said mission control and quite a lot of heroes are home we've got the details coming up. the eurozone has been hit by a second recession according to figures published on thursday this just hours after a twenty four hour strike so more than twenty european countries virtually

paralyzed as people once again vented their frustration over disintegrating economies want to surf earth reports. saying. greece. italy. and portugal. your debt rating countries join together with many others for the continent's first cross border negat strike from the beginning it was clear that emotions were running high in many places the dreadful violence early on and after a brief calm the storm broke the anger and safety testing of the day for various thing played out between the protesters and the riot police of packer right almost the military it's not like you can really get more symbolic candy for the he's the by the people say there are right now all across the i three leg up. between the people themselves that is why they are there to be back there. where the bullets

and violent confrontations with the authorities are becoming an auntie familiar sights the constant leaders stand firm the disparity is a necessary evil cut the sky high deficit it's only been the fourteenth the people of europe seem to have formed a county union to fight back against the prevailing tide of sterett 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 out across the nobel peace prize winning. our great. sociologist carlos stoke loss who took part in wednesday's strike believes that with around a 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 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 you austerity where you cut basically all of those all of the social protection that keeps people from the sending down the 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 who's in town who saw through a decade long transformation which led to the country overtaking japan as the world's second largest economy and the leaders have vowed to tackle the challenges of corruption the growing divide between rich and poor and environmental pollution

among others and 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 chang from hong kong city university believes one of the main risks is that china's exports of an economy is vulnerable to dips in demand. china has certainly be doing been doing very well you know terms of konami role but at the moment is economic growth model be reached a spate of ministry in retail you certainly faces just the consensus konami reforms is strong stand to agreement on what needs to be. but at the same time is silvio re system from vested interests of example to state the big state owned enterprises to wall a lot of infrastructural you know spend probably jag say steal one lot of credit

from the state owned bands and so on. bomber has arrived in maine in mind his second stop of 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 and american foreign policy is the first u.s. president to pay an official visit to the nation's final stop of his asian tours come voda the summit of the association of southeast asian nations where you are tempted to boost u.s. relations in the region and they are ships as the 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. once they reach your area this. could legally speaking over here especially when there is going to be an economic community in dodo's not fifteen so united states does not want to be kept out and i believe that is troubled by obama is to promote not just security

agreements or deals you know partnerships with members of ponce on it would also include all economic country deals is part of the certainly a realignment book us for all the c stores the asia pacific region even more it's not like they were not there course they were always there when they were there obama they were going to. maine shoot for about three relations. the sex scandal which claimed the former head of the cia a general david petraeus this week turned on the man that took over from him as commander of the u.s. military in afghanistan general that john allen's career is now in trouble after it was revealed he had also exchanged e-mails with a tampa socialite linked to purchase is an extramarital affair former cia boss patristic down after admitting to a covert relationship with his biographer paula broadwell she's being investigated by the f.b.i. over an accusation or shielding access to classified data he however denies any

leaks turn into the kernel. on the cook who served in afghanistan for a home but these protests should have been signs of the town and his fate 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. the 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 into 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 hundred look we put young men in risk there and they give it everything they've got and at the policy has failed we have young man and ha school

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 mob real problem with it i was a soldier for over twenty years so i care deeply about those young men and women. we have more stories online and on our website right now because we're hard core football fans slipped past the ranks of security personnel and hit a goalie with a rock it wasn't a high profile game to be abandoned. also on like a thousand stage a march through dublin protest against the irish abortion has led to the death of a woman who was denied help to terminate her pregnancy.

a gun store owner in arizona publishes an ad in a local newspaper telling president obama supporters they're not welcome in the shop to r.t. dot com to find out more. the historic first ever public vote in england and wales for the local police commission is took place this week but hardly anyone turned up to the ballot boxes and recent polls of officers in the u.k. show murali among the nations of the enforcers is that rock bottom will smith who looks now 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 morrall in the force 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 have any offices the philippine supported by the government really is at rock bottom baines 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 we 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. 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 nights way networks in the country and we have no traffic department. so it's coming from all sides times are so hard in warwickshire 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. years ago they met with trumpeting a three million pound refurbish it spain was revolving starting now it's downsizing to a new size of the thames nearby and replacing smaller stations with counters in supermarkets and community centers to force feels it's being disproportionately targeted but 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 rank of chief inspector in england wales and the very question is 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. another winter of discontent in the face laura smith r.t. . well coming up the third part of cultures of resistance which examines how arts can serve as ammunition in the battle for peace and justice after the break.

good lumbered surely to mccurry was to believe a new age most sophisticated. who should leave. your new found anything tunes mission to teach music creation why you should care about humans in. this is why you should care only. you know how sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realize everything you thought you don't know i'm trying hard welcome to the big picture.

you have a war. to the notes we have. groups. all . right enough to my mouth it was like when you have that knowledge that wasn't. the smadi when i was fourteen yes you can liberate there when he certainly can't do it through the barrel of a gun salute the social changes will be the afghans themselves afghan men and women we believe are going to stand up to the cross. but. it's up to the shop and construction to stop people in the obama administration talking about how much they care about the women of afghanistan it's not true they don't care about the women of afghanistan.

mission free. accreditation free transport charges free. range minced free isp free tickets to tide free. download free broadcast quality video for your media projects and free media and dog r.t. dot com in. the fed nothing is ever and it will. spare no.