the bloodiest day and israel's onslaught on gaza military strikes raise residential buildings to the ground and killed dozens of civilians. falling foul of the law for insulting of course the british have to watch their words over rules targeting people for saying anything offensive even if no one's actually been upset. and it's mission accomplished for the latest space station crew who returned home safely after their four months aboard.

am in the russian capital you're watching r t was me marina joshie israel's escalating it's a fans of on gaza the number of deaths has doubled in the past twenty four hours and now stand of more than eighty dozens of civilians including women and children were killed in strikes targeting the homes of alleged militants in heavily populated areas journalist harry fear is in gaza and brings us his account of what's happening there. in the last few hours we've been hearing increasing noises from the gazan population and political analysts 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 lazy bum in west gaza city where most of the internationals about and hear 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 internationals drive with hazard lights on so that israel knows

that these civilian trusts cause most people 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 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 medic medical supplies in short supply medicine as in short supply normally in gaza outside of this war even power see tomorrow is in short supply so you can just imagine what is happening with this escalation and war as israel

increasingly find itself in hamas a retail eatery firing line a ground operation and gaza is becoming more likely and here is there a middle east correspondent policy. 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 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 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 nandan 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 and now they indicated that a ground offensive could be just

a matter of hours if not days away. reported there now israeli rockets also hit a mediocre pound and gaza where a number of foreign and local journalists were based six of them were injured as a result of the attack are these arabic channels among those affected as one of its correspondents told us earlier. not now not have the phone about of 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 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 happened 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 that in situations like this we usually don't go to our homes just like we did during the 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 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 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. as railway to fans for as a spokesperson of a tele village tell us that journalists work and gaza at their own risk. we're talking about two media buildings indeed but on the roofs of these media buildings some us 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 and so on i think that if a journalist chooses to locate himself near hamas facility that's a mistake hamas start getting civilians we are not looking to target civilians we are targeting terrorists while 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 who 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 chris gunness from the un says a humanitarian disaster is looming and gaza because of political failure and the 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 a find unacceptable in must and it was and forthwith the israeli defense forces admit mistakenly bombing the home of a palestinian family while targeting hamas as rocket chief. that airstrike killed eleven civilians most of them children and infants at r.t. just on now find out more about the tragedy as israel explains the deadly terror. even foreign ministers are expected to discuss lifting the arms embargo on syria

paving the way for direct weapons deliveries to the rebels western nations how ready back the newly formed syrian opposition coalition political allies down ways were believe sending weapons will only inflame the violence. the french and the turkey have all claims that the syrian national initiative is the sole representative of the syrian people because clearly clearly not still has massive support in syria especially in the main cities in damascus and aleppo involves the end of last years of fifty five percent support for assad even amongst the opposition many of those in the opposition who oppose our side and want him to step down do not actually support the arms militias who are fighting in syria sponsored by the west in the south but really there's two possible outcomes for the war in syria we've seen that the rebels have stepped up offensives in july and all those who failed dismally so the only possible two solutions are either ceasefire negotiated settlement or on the other hand it seems like the rebels for them to win

and for the syrian state to be destroyed will need massive intervention by the west at least standing up for allies and even britain and france now seem to be trying to pave the way for a no fly zone through the outright western invasion remember the west will settle nothing for nothing less than total destruction of the syrian state has only this will guarantee that they can cut off their links. and guarantee that they can allow their corporations to basically take over the syrian economy. the u.s. shows asia it's a geopolitical priority coming up later this hour of president obama becomes the first american have state to make an official visit to myanmar. and the harrowing journey from space to the earth i'm sean thomas at mission control and big girls are home we've got the details coming up.

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nice friends don't talk t.v. dot com. welcome back you're watching r.t. coming to live from moscow from protests against islamist extremist to scientology a u.k. public order act is being blamed for stifling open debate on a whole range of controversial issues and the campaign to have it overturned is now heating up with critics saying it's depriving people of their basic rights are the sarah for three four pts. brits are renowned for their sarcastic sense of humor and here in this country we love a good provoking to debate so you would think that free speech should be protected and we be able to sell our opinions from the very tops right role there's a whole raft of legislation which stops you saying what you believe we don't have

freedom of speech anymore and one piece of law in particular is section five of the public order act one of the close this causing big problem was a slower has been used for two particular why use firstly to stifle inconvenient political views so views which are against islam against christianity which are against the equality of homosexuals so people who say that sort of stuff can be arrested the second way it's been used by the police. to arrest you if everything else fails they see being called house includes someone who insulted scientology by calling it a dangerous cult and wait for it someone who called the police. under section five of the public order there's no requirement to praise that the person intended any negative consequences from something they said oh that only has to be likely to have caused offense so i could be prosecuted for saying or doing

something even if no one was actually offended but the who's probably got a very pretty quickly these on the receiving end of this law has had to live with the consequences to try to court cases many of which are eventually thrown out in appeal not before costing the taxpayer a pretty penny i've been a victim to when i protested against islamist extremists who were advocating killing gay people and women have sex outside of marriage i was prosecuted for this alleged crime. really in a free society insults are not nice but they shouldn't be criminal offenses when it comes to defending free speech many feel what we're actually talking about is protecting our right to offend. democracy democracy some people wandering around. smiling at one another it's about informed debate about a whole range of issues a must and should be off limits the increasingly bizarre cases where the section five bills. led to huge public outcry and the campaign to get the little.

minister said on the seventeenth of september. we would normally have expected to respond so i sincerely hope that there will be a change in the. weather and people or it is. must be free is the fact that so many people in this country believe that we see this like defending our right to say whatever we want whenever the law we want to. say. well if you missed any of our stories you can always had a line to r.t. dot com waiting there for you now a government proposal causes public outcry in france plain a bill on same sex marriage will undermine traditional family values and the foundations of society. and in ireland thousands marched through dublin and protest against irish abortion laws that led to the death of

a woman who was denied help to terminate her pregnancy. now for the first time ever the u.s. president is visiting me amara barack obama's trip is to underline how asia is pivotal to his second term china's wary though its concern america's trying to constrain beijing's influence in its own region at a national affairs and a fan's analyst ally our size they says that's because washington wants to cement its own authority there the united states wants to enter the regional economic area this. speaking over the asia pacific region so united states does not want to be

towed and i believe that these troubled by obama is to promote the just security agreement sort of deals is part of certainly a realignment of u.s. foreign policy towards the asia pacific region even more it's not like they were not their course they were always there but they're there obama they're going to eat first place the main show for him to trade relations. as the u.s. pursues its asia focus china welcomes its next generation of leaders the sour artes people valen his gas discuss how they could affect the shaky diplomacy between washington and beijing. for the time being still washington is putting a lot of. foot to reassure china that is not trying to do religious growth but to some degree control it to make it manageable yes the united states is reassuring china but if there is a domestic opposition in china similar to what happened in iran in two thousand and nine or what happened in syria or what happened in china in one nine hundred eighty

nine with tiananmen you'll see it the whole western media and the u.s. government turned suddenly sharply to support that opposition against the chinese communist party that's an underlying part of the politics and i think the chinese government knows that. three international space station crew members have successfully returned to earth after four months in space r.t. shaun thomas followed the touchdown for us. 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 up from japan and europe go from russia now you know making it from space to earth is an exact 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 landing in the cosmic sun. 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 that. capsule hits the ground it launches a series of ground vehicles about twelve helicopters and three fixed wing aircraft to 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 in space they did educational letter as well as scientific and medical experiments they even did maintenance on what is a space aquarium with actual fish in space and they docked with a commercial spacecraft as well as perform three different spacewalks so never

a dull moment always something to do up there in space at the international space station 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 to the second most experienced woman to have been inspirational for reform 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 and having been in space so incredibly experienced crew back on earth ready to share their experiences here now. john thomas reporting there was not take a look at some other stories from around the world the congo city of gone is in danger of being taken over by rebel forces militant group and twenty three has reached a galaxy kurds in the city the spy efforts by u.n. peacekeepers and government troops to bring the advance to home meanwhile civilians

and joined fleeing government forces as the international community voices deep concern about the fighting. spain's camp at all has been hit by mass demonstrations with thousands of health workers protesting over deep budget cuts rates plans to privatized parts of the country's health care may help the struggling budget but it also by about some clinics for rare diseases last week a sturdy measures triggered general strikes in some of you were hardest hit countries with spain portugal greece and italy holding a day of action and solidarity. the u.s. is still reeling from a series of scandals that shook america's the fans establishment brought one of its most famous generals former cia chief the tress down the case the first look like just an extramarital affair between two people is now more about issues of national security lieutenant colonel john cook who served in afghanistan for several years

believes petra's should have resigned a lot earlier over his failure in the afghan campaign. there's a lot of discussions going on that to tommy a suspect 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 miss broadwell i give him much lower marks for his actions in combat than i do in in the bedroom he should have and when his counterinsurgency strategy failed to produce results some comes 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 iraq and criminal enterprise which is what the karzai government has become that's modern real problem with it i was a soldier for over twenty years so i care deeply about those young men and women who want to nineteen up had a spirit of males cross stock in just a few moments statement. with. technology innovation. developments in. the future.

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please. more news today violence has once again fled upland. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. china operations are all today please. it. alone we welcome across town peter lavelle china has successfully transition did sell through another leadership change the last decade has witnessed this country transformed at tremendous speed and become the second largest economic power in the world what can we expect over the next decade from china many are wary of china's

rise the real worry though is how the rest of the world reacts to that problem. and. to cross china's new geopolitics in the twenty first century i'm joined by jonathan whole slagged in brussels he is a research fellow at the brussels institute of contemporary china studies in washington we have brian becker he is a national coordinator for the answer coalition and in san francisco we cross to drew gladney he is the president of the pacific basin institute and a professor of anthropology at pomona college i gentlemen cross-talk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want jonathan i'd like to go to you first we have a transition in china a ten year transition now we're going to have another ten years under this leadership what's the difference going to be. well i think essentially it's a choice for continuation we have a line up here of seven fairly conservative leaders and surely the guys who could this.