shelling in airstrikes wreaked havoc across gaza for a sixth straight day as israel decreases the strip again palestinian medics say a quarter of all fatalities children. and israel could be just hours away from a gaza ground invasion having issued hamas with a six point alteration in order to avert a land war also. there's a whole raft of legislation which stops you so you know what you believe we don't have freedom of speech and the. brits fight for the right to protest as a public order aims to outlaw even the most harmless of insults regardless of whether anyone is actually offended. or.

international news in coming from moscow this is r.t. with twenty four hours a day israel continues to show of gaza with rockets from both and c. but the number killed in the strikes almost doubling within the past day the palestinian death toll reportedly exceeds one hundred and around half of them civilians including women and children journalist who's inside gaza tells us what he's witnessed so far. the building which roughly translates as the shut sunshine tower is home to various media organizations and i.c.t. organizations here in the gaza strip it's known as such as one of the two most principal buildings for this respect it was hit at the weekend already once and today just in the last two hours it's been hit a second time two palestinians were killed in that strike we're hearing too many incidents of collateral damage here just a day in the last while we've heard of the total destruction of the palestine

stadium israel which is a football stadium here in central gaza city we also heard of israel targeting the ministry of youth and sport here in gaza today in the last ninety minutes another child has been killed so the collateral damage toll is going up steadily the hospitals here on the medical professors except for the ministry of health is saying that eighty percent more than eighty percent of those being arrived injured to the hospitals here are civilians the overwhelming majority of those women and children and what is striking here in gaza is that the number of innocents being killed particularly children and women is of such a high proportion i mean talking to some of these terrorized gazan residents in the last few hours ahead of we were safely sitting inside our houses and all of a sudden rockets and bombs fell upon us from everywhere children women old men were

terrified in the pictures as a tool you can see the destruction we tell the whole world no place is safe here in gaza our house is a target our playgrounds a target the situation is horrific. yesterday just after midnight something unimaginable happened i only saw windows glass and shells flying here and there the houses around were destroyed and the sole target of the house identical to this one followed by the destruction of ten other homes what for. i don't understand that houses are empty there is no one living there and they know that. but the injured are arriving in all of the hospitals around the gaza strip in the last two hours as airstrikes are flicked in all of the gaza strip all of the usual places that have been hit over the last few days the situation is very critical in these last moments. as the civilian death toll mounts so does criticism of israel for what many see as a disproportionate response when earlier i spoke to paul hirsh on his foreign

ministry spokesperson who says israel does its best to prevent the killing of innocents. is operating in a way which is taking every possible step to avoid civilian casualties how do you account for the law save the children charity i will ask you here to save the children charity they are saying families are running out of food and water eighteen hours of power cuts are making matters worse you are in effect targeting an entire population. no absolutely not hamas is essentially a synonym for for a double war crime they deliberately get our civilians while at the same time with an element of pride hiding behind their own civilians just recently in the jerusalem post not sure on the side of the former prime minister ariel sharon he said that the residents of gaza and not innocent because they elected a mass therefore he's implying they are legitimate targets are they not and that is

why civilians are now being killed. both civilians are not being targeted but they're. referred to is an evil tool in every individual is entitled you know we still believe here in israel in the freedom of speech unlike for better or for worse in the gaza strip when he's a very influential character our imagine and of course sorry to interrupt is not just him referring to motives behind this bombing campaign the knesset member michael ben-ari he called for israeli soldiers to mow all palestinians down israel katz israel's transport minister he says the army should be bombing gaza until the population feels fleas on mass i mean these are coming from fairly forced to figures here and it's almost as if the true motives are now being displayed. you know you can come up with a lot of sometimes to the sometimes stupid and sometimes unacceptable comments but people on both sides we will see consistent comments on the other side than that but the truth of the matter is you have to judge people by their actions far more

than by their words. and yet the bloodshed could get worse and as israel wants its hours not days before it intensifies attacks on gaza the state issued a thirty six alternate and demanded that have mass stop firing rockets into israeli territory brings us now 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 when israeli civilians have so far been killed rashmi 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 have been massing along the israel gaza border we have seen their movement of tanks and armored personnel vehicles for days now there 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 are supporting 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 heard these warnings particularly from the government of the u.k. but israel is relying on the united states as it has in the past to back it up we're also hearing more and more many israelis voiced the opinion that they believe that god's is on not innocent and this comes from the point of view that we're looking at a grinding civilian death count in gaza what i'm hearing israelis tell me is that it is gazans that you take to the hamas government and as a result they want to live with the consequences this is almost a justification for the israeli army getting of the wrong so frequently in what it says are targeted killings that in fact when it lands up hurting and killing

civilians. well we've heard both from hamas and israel so let's not turn to another political group affected by the situation joining me now is arab israeli member of knesset dr. so you are. israeli what do you make of the hostilities in gaza. i have to say that we are not happy at all with what is happening. in the southern part of israel and especially the old guys we think. mutual shelling of guys and heavy casualties which happen there more than ninety is severely and killed in gaza we feel sympathy with the families there we are. not happy

with what's happening with. jewish families with israeli families in the southern part of israel we feel sorry for that and we call on israel which is the very active part of the. koran in countdown to seize the file and to enter a truce and to find. a permanent solution for this confrontation between israel and hamas in gaza because the syrians and both sides are paying the price for this confrontation is a mass deliberately sacrificing its own people by using civilians as human shields . i don't think about this is our place size difference. of what is going to really.

have to a very in mind. the civilians in gaza strip for more than five years of blockade from a siege and the israeli occupation actually it's effectively israeli occupation kl call it for the civilians in gaza how many calories whole money food we consume this is not a normal situation the civilians in gaza really suffer from this continuing situation but you are sorry to interrupt i was saying. that there is a delay here you're saying that negotiations should be pursued but while the mass continues to fire rockets into israel doesn't israel have the right to defend itself what else should it be doing when it's still receiving these rocket attacks from that. well

i believe really in the right of self defense for both sides you cannot emphasize the importance of. self defense right against missiles which hamas fired on israel it's not only how massive floods are going to ization actually from the gaza strip but on the other side the self-defense of the people of gaza over the civilians of gaza to have a normal life to have food to have the stuff to have normal life to go out and. strip the region. freely this is also our right of self defense so one should not be unilateral on this matter therefore i say we need comprehensive solution of the of the situation in gaza it's not only the firing of rockets against israel it's also the shelling of.

raids on gaza of killing of civilians over the general situation of the political situation of the local question actually we have to build in mind that the problems of girls are part of the plight of the policy of the people all right to suffer from the israeli occupation the current government is not in the village go on is the farewell for the new will of the peace process and for. a permanent solution of the. peace a peace process that really let me ask you to ongoing confrontation peace process seems very unlikely when you don't get much conciliation within the knesset where you are your fellow knesset member michael berry he called for israeli soldiers to mow all palestinians down saying there were no innocents in gaza now isn't there a very real threat that what has mass is doing is actually going to make the lives of all palestinians in israel even more difficult in the future.

look i have we have two billion minds not all of the civilians in gaza in gaza are combatants are how mass there are civilians and deserve a normal life exactly the same here in israel there are civilians. who pay the price for this confrontation so it is our attitude as members of the knesset as part of the peace camp in israel which includes our ups but our senior. members of knesset and parties today there were many. public figures here in israel mainly jews who said that this confrontation should in the for the best benefit of of the palestinians and jews for the civilians on both sides so we are as politicians in israel exert pressure

on our government we think that this confrontation has been. and it's we call it electioneering ok actually the israeli leadership in new lived with was a mutual shelling between gaza and israel for a long time and they chose this time to have this assault on gaza alone to gain from this consultation and the coming elections in israel hundreds wade thank you very much and if you thought sorry about a time delay that makes it very difficult for us have a conversation but we made it arab israeli member of the knesset thank you very much indeed. well i'll be back with more analysis on the valid exchange between israel and palestine in a couple of minutes this is in moscow. download

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even. returning to our top story here in r.t. israel continues to show gaza with rockets from both air and sea with the number killed in the strikes always doubling within the past day and now exceeding one hundred and the bloodshed could get worse and as israel warns it's hours not days before an intensifies attacks on gaza israeli schmidt from the palestinian center for human rights says a ground invasion is a terrifying prospect for those who remember the israeli offensive four years ago. there is widespread fear among the pa among the people here the prospect of a ground invasion is very frightening for people because it's inevitable that the

civilian casualties will rise rapidly if. people here are still traumatized by the memory of operation cast lead which happened less than four years ago in which more than eleven hundred civilians lost their lives and many many more were injured humanitarian crisis is imminent in relation to the hospitals and the supplies that they have i visited as chief a hospital stay which of course this current escalation and spoke with the director general of the hospital there and he advised me that they. were just interrupted there on an ongoing basis. that. they are always short of regular medical supplies. because the situation has worsened their lack and lacking in such basic supplies that antibiotics i.v. fluids. very basic medical supplies that they require in order to keep this we're.

looking after the palestinian people who are being continually injuries and really severely wounded so this situation is very grim in relation to the hospitals. you know rival palestinian party fatah in the face of the israeli threat that's amid growing skepticism over the possibility of achieving a truce in the region. i think it's extremely likely that if a ceasefire is a restrike now and the terms are the kind that have been discussed so frequently which is essentially calm for calm in the same kind of cease fire that has been brokered repeatedly in the last couple of years. than that of course it is not sustainable and it will be broken just as the previous ones had and egypt and the u.s. and israel and hamas everyone will find themselves in this situation again very shortly . as israel pounds gaza with air strikes in the occupied territories palestinian protesters clashed with israeli police israeli authorities and demonstrators in

various spots across the west bank in the village of. allegedly started by jewish settlers. to support palestinians in gaza. the latest israeli palestinian violence has also led to protests across the world activists and demonstrators a number of countries have rallied to decry the deaths and demand an immediate end to the fighting. pledges to raise the latest guards are offensive at the un official public reaction and ongoing coverage of the situation. on our website right now. when it comes to speaking the mind the british are finding it harder than ever to

voice their opinions a campaign to overturn a stifling public order act is heating up with critics saying it denies people their basic rights of free speech. or an ounce of sense of humor and here in this country we love provoke debate so you would think that free speech will be protected and we'd be able to sell our opinions from the very right. there's a whole raft of legislation which stops what you believe we don't have freedom of speech and one piece of blue in particular is. by the public order act one this is . what the slower has been used for two particular ways firstly to stifle inconvenient political views so views which are against islam. 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 you

if. 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. on the six hundred five of the public order there's no requirement to praise that the person intended any negative consequences from something they said or did i only has to be likely to have caused the phone 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 have had to live with the consequences to court cases many of which are eventually thrown out his 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 but 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 the essence of democracy your sense of democracy some people wandering around saying for. these and smiling at one another it's about informed debate about a whole range of issues a must and should be off limits be increasingly desired cases where the station five bills being led to a huge public outcry and a campaign to get the law changed. whether it hurts people orden souls people speech 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 whenever the we want to serve artsy. three crewmembers from the international space station successfully return to work after spending four months in space thomas report. but 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 him sunny williams from the usa. where she died 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. step where it's extremely cold and there was 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 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. is there will be crossing to a business desk with katie in just a few minutes stay with us here this is all to moscow. texas wants to pull away from 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 to sign a petition and it is another thing entirely to leave the usa that will civil war thing that happened back then does anyone the usa honestly think that they are gov has the bow determination to actual rebel i don't think there is a single george washington type among them well maybe just see fit tour a kind of but he's out of office how do it 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 is a seed you should really understand what that means and what your in for the founding fathers sure did but that's just my opinion. do we speak your language i mean some of the well i know that they're. all news

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