the bloodiest day in israel's onslaught on gaza military strikes raised residential buildings to the ground and killed dozens of civilians. grow that a ground operation is a minute israel issues a thirty six hour ultimatum to hamas to stop firing and also this hour. there's a whole raft of legislation which stops you so you what you believe we don't have freedom of speech or the. time time to end the u.k.'s controversial laws target people for saying anything which may be considered of counsel even if no one is actually insulted.

this is r.t. coming to live from moscow i'm marina joshie now israel's escalating its offensive in gaza the number of deaths has doubled within the past day now exceeds eighty almost half the palestinians killed are believed to be civilians mostly women and children with manny more feared still trapped under rubble journalist an eyewitness harry fear brings us his account of what's happening in gaza well you should be aware that some of the images we're about to show are graphic. this morning the death toll has risen he. writes that is excessive writing this is as israel targets who it considers terrorist militants particular of the hamas hamas is minutes into a hit in gaza it's doing so in one of the most densely populated places in the gaza strip home to more than one point five million palestinians yesterday was the

deadliest attack here since the beginning of operation pillar of cloud with too far too high number of children being killed we heard yesterday of the massacre in which more than four children were killed that is israel mistakenly struck a civilian building as it was hoping to assassinate the leader of hamas is a rocket launching unit that between sunday and monday that has been what gazans are calling another massacre of the family we've all of a five year old boy being killed a nineteen year old woman and a thirty eight year old man with more than forty injured in that one of the most deadliest strikes here in gaza of the most recent days having visited the hospitals here for example one of the most of the strongest hospital here in gaza. what we're saying is from a human point to fifty percent of the people coming in at least children crying parents as they come in with horrific banding injuries when i go to the mortuary

i'm seeing more than fifty percent of the people being children who are dead. meanwhile israel says it might be hours not days before it expands its gaza fans of its issued a thirty six hour all the mayhem demanding that hamas stop firing rockets at israeli territory or middle east correspondent paul's leader has more from tel aviv . those are the most ominous words we've heard so far that do suggest that the possibility of some kind of ground offensive could be imminent when we talk about the effects of what has been happening since wednesday in israel three israeli civilians have so saw the killed and left me around a dozen have been injured people have been talking about an imminent ground offensive since wednesday we know that roughly seventy five thousand reserve soldiers have been called up they and the regular army has been massing along the israel gaza border we have seen their movement of tanks and armored personnel vehicles for days now this certainly is a sense particularly because the army has closed all roads around gaza that there

is something on the go there have also been four straight days of rockets being fired into tel aviv speaking to people here in tel aviv something has shifted i'm hearing more and more israelis say that they all support a ground offensive that they believe it's the only one and only way that militants in gaza can once and for all be dealt with the problem though is that tel aviv is widely aware that if infected launches such an offensive it will lose international sympathy it's hurt these warnings particularly from the government of the u.k. but israel is relying on the united states as it has in the process to back it up we're also hearing more and more many israelis voiced the opinion that they believe that gaza is on not innocent and this comes from the point of view that we are looking at a grinding civilian death count in gaza what i'm hearing israelis tell me is that it is gone isn't that unique to the hamas government and as a result they want to live with the consequences this is almost

a justification for these way not me getting it won't be so frequently now in what it says all targeted killings that in fact when it lands uprooting and killing civilians policy are reporting there now israeli rockets also hit a media compound in gaza where a number of foreign and local journalists were based six of them were injured as a result of the attack artie's arabic channel was among those affected as one of its correspondents told us earlier. not in the hands of have. 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 at two 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. while israeli defense forces spoke with spokesperson telling village told us that journalists working at 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 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 now chris gunness from the u.n. says a humanitarian disaster is looming in 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 find unacceptable in must end and it was and forthwith now thousands have been protesting worldwide against the gaza salt including in israel and the strangers 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 i'm going coverage of what's really happening in gaza on our website right now. now more news to come after a short break here in r.t.

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here in this country we love a good provoking to debate so you would think that free speech to be protected and we'd be able to sell our opinions from the very right wrong 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 law in particular is section five of the public order act one is to close this causing big problem was a slower has been used for two particular ways firstly to stifle inconvenient political views so views which are against islam which are against christianity which are against the quality 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 a 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 the law and had to live with the consequences track to court cases many of which are eventually thrown out of 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 our right to a fair. yes and so 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 stations. lead to huge public outcry and the campaign to get the little changed. whether it's people or it is. 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 well that's a good. well if you've missed any of our stories to get always had a line to r.t. dot com and waiting there for you right now a government proposal causes public outcry in france protesters claim a bill on same sex marriage will undermine traditional family values and the foundations of society. and an island thousands marched through in dublin and

protest against irish abortion laws that led to the death of a woman who was denying help to terminate her pregnancy. three international space station crew members have successfully returned to earth after four months in space r.t. sean thomas fall the touchdown for us. can say that soyuz t.m.a. zero five m. has landed safely and it has brought with it the s.s. expedition thirty three crew with them sunny williams from the usa. where she died from japan and yuri malenchenko 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 suns 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 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 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 at three different space walks so never dull moment always something to do up there in space at the international space station. john thomas reporting there let's now take a look at some other stories from around the world a powerful blast outside a shiite mosque in the pakistani city of karachi a scale at least two people and left over twenty injured eyewitnesses say a bomb could have been fitted to a motorcycle and detonated by remote control the government has ordered extra security measures across the country following the incident karate has seen numerous cases of violence between extremist sunni and shiite muslims with almost two thousand people killed so far this year. the congolese city of gone i is in danger of being taken over by rebel forces militant groups and 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 fighting. president obama has become the first u.s. had of stayed to visit myanmar during his trip he is set to push for more intimate radical reforms in the country some experts believe obama's trying to realign america's foreign policy by expanding its influence in the region in order to constrain china the u.s. president will next go to continuing his asian tour. as the u.s. pursues its asia focus china welcomes its next generation of leaders next hour r.t. spittal valen his guest discuss how the changes could affect the shaky diplomacy between washington and beijing. for the time being still washington is putting a lot of. efforts to reassure china it 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 that the whole western media and the us government turned suddenly sharply to support that opposition against the chinese communist party that's an underline part of the politics and i think the chinese government knows that. well i'll be back with a world news update in just over half an hour before it and it's our team sports with kate after a short break. texas wants to pull away for the usa in fact at least twenty states have started petitions for independence after obama won the election with well just

a few voting irregularities but guess what suspicion will never happen it is a very easy thing to do decide a petition and it is another thing entirely to leave us a little civil war thing that happened back then does anyone the usa honestly think that they are governor has the ball determination to actual rebel i don't think there's a single george washington type among them well maybe just see for tour a kind of but he's out of office how do what makes it seem like revolution or succession is this fun cool easy thing to do with cool slogans and texan flags flying but the reality looks a lot more like the arab spring before you put your name on the dotted line to see you should really understand what that means and what your in for the founding father sure did but that's just my opinion. mission free accreditation free transport charges free. range

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what's coming up. talking points desk update on cost free meal to stay top of the russian premier league was a neat awaits the freight after the goalkeeper is hit by a flare. plus on the other russia a draw with the usa but how funny and capello finishes the year on being in charge on course for brazil twenty fourteen. and a blaze of glory we look at the top action. alexandrovitch can shine during the n.h.l. lockout. so let's kick off with the latest football it says state of top of the russian premier league but a flat hitting than i was goalkeeper dominated the headlines as constantine put up off reports. the crowd troubled at marge's in its match or deny and the consequent fallout has overshadowed all other events from last weekend the match at the him karina was abandoned after thirty seven minutes

with denominating one nil thanks to one demurred run on its long range effort the nama goalkeeper on tension was then stand by a flare thrown from the stand behind him containing zinni fans and the referee stopped the game shooting was diagnosed with a burnt cornea and will be out for ten days while the result will be decided this week. and car headed to moscow having lost all eight matches they have ever played it says and the only man faced few troubles at the link is stereo in the red and blues open from the sport rasmussen on net in his fourth in five league matches in the second half double do it on the break and the nigerian also turned provider late on for alexander downer three knew it finished as discussed a tough it's always nice to. to be a part of. the main thing is that we win the games and so for.

i. n g one second five points behind to sca being held to goal is droid home to struggling rust off despite dominating throughout the match cull aside failed to give it all eyes on their scoring opportunities. i. president for leg as i've replaced his second son bloodiness has a from the bench and suffered his first defeat in charge as rubin hit two goals in five second half minutes to clinch their fourth straight when he won mark on the book the deadlock with a header and local boyle and gus i have seen the final score dribbling past two defenders to fire home rubin one to name to go for a while line asleep to second bottom. i. sparred ducks three game winning run came to an end after being held one all by injury he pulled out the red and went captained me to come out of opened after thirteen minutes with this big dekel a free kick but deep into first half stoppage time on xander sullivan was unmarked

in the box and couldn't miss vulgar then held for the draw despite finishing with just nine men as to meet fielders picked up injuries after all the substitute had been made. i. finally combined clinched their thirty three in four games with a three nil hammering of rock bottom or do it the visitors took the lead after just ten minutes thanks to an unfortunate own goal by paddles to finance it but i am a ball demanded to after half an hour with a fantastic shot from outside the box and early in the second half hour as as bill is beat the keeper tonight his third goal in as many matches while the home side slumped to their fifth straight defeated. their winning streak to six matches and comfortably remains up while angie have gone back into second with third place to say needs likely to be handed at the fit. perhaps the prospect of playing some matches behind closed doors following the police investigation into the denominator

whatever the outcome that incident has helped make the champion's chances of getting to scot and defending their title that little bit harder concerning about out of r.t. moscow. or meanwhile the russian national team ended this year with a tell all friendly draw against the usa cousin of the despoiled play group stage exit from the sun as heroes the team will go into twenty thirteen top of their world cup qualifying group under unbeaten coach fabio capello which of important reports from the ignominy of resigning as a head coach of england just months before euro two thousand and twelve championships italian stock is nascar high as he's well on its way to helping russia reach that first world cup since two thousand and two i really had. a can see. i don't know much but the play.