any toy. the bloodiest day in israel's onslaught on gaza military strives to raise residential buildings to the ground and killed dozens of civilians. while in israel there is a growing feeling the gaza ground operation is imminent by the international community increasingly pushing for a cease fire also this hour tongue tied in the u.k.'s controversial last. thing which may be considered a fan even if no one is actually. this

is r.t. coming to live from moscow with. now israel's escalating it's a fans of the number of deaths has doubled in the past twenty four hours and now exceeds eighty almost half of the palestinians killed are believed to be civilians mostly women and children with manny more feared still trapped under the rubble was cross to our correspondent policy joins us. paul why are we seeing such a sharp rise in casualties now. well what we witnessed from the israeli side is that they now are targeting the houses of militants and the idea has been as blatant as treatment that we have abused three cases where a whole families have been killed the worst was when eleven members of one family were talking here women and children were killed when a four story house in or in gaza city collapsed over them now these where the army has confirmed that while this was an escape it says that its target was in fact the house of a top could mastermind and not this house this is the single biggest loss of life

since the crisis began overnight israeli is tried several gaza killed seven people and we've witnessed the number of deaths in the guards enclave doubled in the last twenty four hours we also have these raids strikes that are getting revici camps and here we're talking about areas that are overcrowded with women and children with palestinian medical sources reporting that many of those they are in fact civilians the al-sharif a hospital which is the biggest hospital in gaza city also reports that at least half the people being brought there are civilians the hospital is overcrowded is running short of medical supplies and we are human reports particularly from the united nations that there is a mean humanitarian disaster in gaza we've also seen in studio instances where the i.d.f. has hit at least four media buildings in gaza able to care about journalists who work for both the arab and the waste and media who were also been the target of israeli gunfire so while on the one hand we are hearing things where the army says

it has very specific targets we are seeing an increase in the number who are seeking instead of being hit in this country. watch at this point paul what's the sentiment in israel regarding the ongoing offensive and of course the probability of a ground operation. well the a raid sirens continue mostly in the south of the country the schools there have been shut down and we're talking about a million israelis who essentially are not being able to continue with their lives on a day to day basis this has created the same that the situation cannot continue and so most israelis if you speak to them do you believe that a ground offensive is imminent thousands of id and troops that type by tanks and armored personnel vehicles are massed along the israel gaza border this has fueled fears that israel's need to expand its in the bombardment into a ground operation in time soon and of course we heard from the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu on sunday that he's country is ready to significantly expand and that's a quote its operation into gaza israel's to create goal has been to deter shysters

from launching rockets into its territory we witnessed again on sunday three rockets landing or trying to land in tel aviv before they were intercepted the fact that had mass and other militants had these long range missiles and are using them many here in israel say is just another reason why they believe that the government will go in with a ground offensive to try and be a great these kind of missiles it was not even an opinion it is one and i think it's we've mentioning that it says that the people of gaza are not innocent that they elected hamas and last we know with the consequences and what this does certainly suggest is that some israelis see gazans as potential terrorists in inverted commas and they will they feel that these kind of operations where they aerial operations on the fences are justified and while it won't necessarily support the killing of civilian life it does suggest that israel is a little bit perhaps more broad in its operations and not needing to be as the

specific and its targets as the i.d.f. officials themselves claim. are a part of her much for bringing us up to speed our middle east correspondent paula fleer wife from tel aviv now journalist harry fear is currently 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 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 lazy bum in west gaza city where most of the internationals abased 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 international's drive with has that lights on so that israel knows that these a civilian press 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 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 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 in war now israeli rockets also hit a media compound in gaza war

a number of foreign and local journalists were based six of them were injured as a result of the attack are these arabic tell was among those a fact that as one of its correspondents told us earlier. now i'm not going to happen 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 maturing the has still a tease 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. israeli defense forces spokesperson of the taliban which told us that journalists working gaza add their own risk. 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 and so on i think that if a journalist chooses to locate himself near hamas facility that's a mistake hamas is targeting 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 probably un says a humanitarian disaster is looming in gaza because of political failure and

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

a situation which we in the united nations and in under find unacceptable in must end and it must end forthwith. now thousands have been protesting worldwide against the gaza salt including israel demonstrators in several countries are calling for an immediate cease fire and are weighing in against governments that are backing israel the details on those public protests and going coverage of what's really happening in gaza on our web site right now.

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it's. 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. wealthy british soil it's time to pay. the. market why not. happening to the global economy because reports. while the math you're watching aren't the live from moscow the the foreign ministers are expected to discuss it. lifting the arms embargo on syria paving the way for direct weapons deliveries to the rebels western nations have already backed

the newly formed syrian opposition coalition but but michael analyst dan lay's world believes sending weapons will only inflame the violence the french and turkey have all planes 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 year so 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 all 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 backing up weapons supplies and even britain and france now seem to be trying to pave the way for a no fly zone which means an outright western invasion remember the west will settle 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 its jubilee tical top priority coming up later this hour bravo obama becomes the first serving american leader to visit myanmar. and the harrowing journey from space to the earth i'm sean thomas at mission control in quite a big girls are home we've got the details coming up. from protests against islamist extremists to scientology a u.k. public order act is being blamed for stifling open debate on

a whole range of controversial issues and a 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 ports. prints are a noun for the sarcastic sense of humor and here in this country we love a good provoke active debate so you would think that free speech to be protected and we'd be able to sell our opinions from the very right roll there's a whole raft of legislation which stops you saying what you believe it we don't have freedom of speech anymore and one piece of blue in particular is section five of the public order act one is to close this causing big problem with a slower has been used for two particular ways 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 if everything else fails they see being caught how simply 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 i 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 the law have had to live with the consequences to try to court cases many of which are eventually thrown out as appeal 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 all right wolf. yes and some democracy yes democracy some people wondering around. and smiling at one another it's about informed debate about a whole range of issues a must and should be off limits increasingly bizarre cases where the section five bills being led to huge public outcry and the campaign to get a little changed the minister damian green the police minister said on the seventeenth of september be responding to calls you would normally expect to be responded by nine so i sincerely hope that there will be a change in the. weather and people or it is souls people speaks must be free is the fact that so many people in this country believe that we see in such a fierce fight defending our rights to say whatever we want whatever the law we

want to. say. and if you missed any of our stories then you can always have a line to r.t. dot com waiting there for you now government proposal causes public outcry in france claim 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 not helped 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 a second term china's wary though ets concerned america is trying to constrain beijing's influence and its own region in a national affairs and the fans alice says that speech because washington wants to cement its i want to thorny there the united states wants to enter the regional economic area the sphere of influence speaking over the asia pacific region so you know this is also one to be towed and i believe that these troubled by obama used to promote the just security agreement sort of deals is part of certainly a realignment of u.s. foreign for the sea towards the asia pacific region even more it's not like they were not there of course they were always there but there are i think under obama there are going to eat for the main show for him to trade relations. as the u.s. pursues its asia focus china welcomes its next generation of leaders next hour to

his gas discuss how the changes could affect the shaky diplomacy between washington and beijing. for the same being still washington is putting a lot of. to reassure china it is not trying to do really its 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 us 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. now three international space station crew members have successfully returned to earth after four months in space thomas fall of the touchdown for us. well i can say that

so you see i'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. to 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 well shares 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 performed three different spacewalks so never a dull moment always something to do up there in space that you know national 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 i gave her to the most experienced woman that mean to you 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 in. 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 their analysis look at some other stories from around the world the congolese city of gone is in danger of being taken over by rebel forces the militant group i am twenty three has reached the outskirts of the city despite efforts by un peacekeepers and government troops to hold the advance meanwhile civilians have joined fleeing government forces as the international community voices deep concern about the firing. spain's has been hit by mass demonstrations with thousands of health workers protesting over deep budget cuts agreed plans to privatized parts of the country's health care may help the struggling budget bob could also wipe out some claims for rare diseases last week a staring measure is triggered general strikes in some of europe's 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 of sugar america's divans establishment and brought one of its most famous generals former cia chief the trends down the case that first looked like just an extramarital affair between two people is now more about issues of national security well tanna curl john koch who served in afghanistan for several years believes but 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 the bedroom he should have resigned when his counterinsurgency

strategy fails 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 high standard 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 men and ha school right now all over this country that will die in afghanistan next summer for no other reason than profiting off a corrupt and or locking 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 charlie here in r.t.d. we bring you a special report on how gold hundreds dream turned into a living hell. mission

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