is those relentless shelling of gaza enters its seventh day killing over one hundred palestinians more than half of which are civilians. was hopes for a ceasefire becoming believe that israel resorts to online aggression to win support for its deadly strikes and a looming ground operation and. maybe because it's easy to be the european central bank they'll just print the money. europeans question where the cash is coming from to fund the billion dollar for europe central bank as thousands of families across the union struggle to keep a roof over their heads. this

is r.t. coming to live from moscow with me marina joshie israel's ongoing bombardment of gaza for the number of palestinians killed at over one hundred more than half the victims are civilians and the number is rising sharply as israel increasingly targets heavily populated areas journalist harry fear is in gaza and described the worsening plight of its people. the collateral damage toll is going up steadily 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 of the total destruction of the palestine stadium which is a football stadium here in central gaza city you also heard of israel targeting the ministry of youth another child has been killed at the hospitals here in 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 ah

civilians the overwhelming majority of those women and children i mean talking to some of these terrorized gazan residents my head of we were safely sitting inside our houses and all of a sudden rockets and bombs fell upon us from everywhere children woman and old men with terrified in the pictures as a tool you can see the destruction we tell the whole world no place to save hearing 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 house is empty there is no one living there and they know that but

you know the injured arriving in all of the hospitals around the gaza strip in the last two hours as as strikes are flecked 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. now increasingly indiscriminate killings are seeing chances of a truce between israel and hamas grow slimmer talks are happening but despite that israel still warning gazans that its rocket fire doesn't stop within hours they'll be subjected to a ground operation artie's middle east correspondent policy the years following the diplomatic wrangles the international community is warning tel aviv against launching any kind of ground offensive although we witnessing a lot of war mongering amongst these rated leadership. is one of the sons of a former israeli prime minister ariel sharon went on record as saying that gaza needed to be flattened like a machine we're hearing from the israeli parliamentarians who've said things like all palestinians need to be mowed down but there are no innocents in gaza there's

a school of thought that also believes that because the gazans elected hamas leadership everybody in gaza is potentially a target for the israeli army and the israeli transport minister went so far as to say that gaza needs to be bombed to the extent that everybody fees from gaza into egypt sinai peninsula another point that is also interesting and the point that we've been monitoring here at r.t. is the whole media war it's a wall that israel by and large has always had the upper hand of a war that it essentially has used through the social media to garner support for have a look. while israeli politicians weigh up whether or not to send their army into gaza they've had no hesitation in bowling up their p.r. machines into the social media battlefield. one israeli was killed yesterday in the attack from. my house took a direct hit from israeli citizens experience indescribable suffering this video offers a sophisticated alternative to the deadly reality on the ground

a growing civilian death toll in gaza at the hands of the i.d.f. today there is a battle the campaign online offline in the electronic media for the hearts and minds of public opinion it's very very important when the israelis killed hamas leader ahmed jabari last week they didn't just kill him they instantly posted this video on you tube and then tweeted a warning to all his comrades that they could be next their ability to pour longer active duty is also based on how it is being perceived internationally interestingly enough this war provides less pictures that for example of the two thousand and eight million war which was taking place in gaza padlocks equally again as cynical as it sounds one of the reasons that there are less for the same casualties is because israel would like the us would have less pictures of the war israeli citizens are reporting rocket alerts on facebook and twitter long before

the media and answers them it seems the more p.r. you put into promoting war the more justified it looks in the eyes of ordinary people of the al cause somebody great militantly car that is happy to fight fire with fire posting videos like this one a new cheap morning israeli settler everything are they will be hunted down and killed like this group of arab students from tel aviv university are taking a break from the political science studies to discuss the politics of the media war and israel's lying to its people how it is really reporters are inflaming. the situation there is a huge incitement and surely analysts say israel must demolish gases even if a rocket hits the target they don't see that and the these really need is very rude and they said that ten people from the same family have died but they see that it is legal because they will be hamas members in the future because there are rockets on to the house and the battle in cyberspace is well under way with

a twenty four seven back and forth exchange on the likes of twitter between hamas and the israeli defense forces it seems the two sides who haven't yet met face to face on the ground have wasted no time confronting each other on line policy r.t. television. and paul is keeping an eye on ceasefire efforts and can always check her twitter feed for the latest updates meanwhile the u.n. isn't deadlocked over how to respond to them going violence in gaza an emergency meeting of the security council brought little progress and led to russia to express frustration over the food dragging while we can get more on this from our first donna and igor has been up close to war while the offensive on gaza has been underway for a week now yet no action from the u.n. security council why is that. well first the u.n. security council rejected a draft put forward by morocco for being one sided russia proposed it's the draft

resolution to the u.n. security council is still hasn't made a decision on that we have heard from moscow's representative to the u.n. voiced outrage that the organization couldn't agree on a statement on the fact that it should go in as a q some members of the u.s. security council for dragging their feet they didn't specify which state exactly but he did hint at the u.s. we have heard from the american representative to the u.n. who said that washington doesn't want to spoil the negotiations clearly going on between the israelis and palestinians in cairo but frankly speaking it's difficult to understand how they could be spoiled some. obviously they haven't been very effective so far the u.n. secretary general ban ki moon is truly in cairo he's criticized both sides of the conflict for the violence but he's also condemned israel's plans for a ground operation meanwhile in come border russia's foreign minister lavrov has met with u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton and has called on both the israelis and

palestinians to put their weapons down immediately and get to the negotiations deeble at the same time he outlined that moscow is in talks with both sides off this conflict and he's called on everybody else to do the same to give way for all the possible diplomatic solutions to this in cairo or at the u.n. security council which pretty much reflects the main point all the draft resolution put forward by russia. all right laura thanks very much indeed for the something the work is going on there. and member of the israeli parliament told r.t. that the government has unnecessarily escalated the confrontation with hamas. we have two billion mine votes not all the civilians in gaza in gaza are gone but them all how mad they are civilians and deserve a normal life exactly the same heel in israel so we are politicians and israel exempt but i shall on all of government we think that this consultation has been

engineered and it's we call it electioneering actually really leadership in new lived with was a mutual sharing between gaza and israel for a long time and they chose this time to have this assault on gaza in order to gain from this confrontation coming elections and. we're following developments in the middle east conflict on air and online where we've got a dedicated section for live updates and comments on our team dot com. france has been stripped of its cherished top credit score by ratings agency moody's and another blow to the debt ridden european union and the blocs second biggest economy

has been warned of further slumps renewed fears that the turmoil is slowly dragging in the jains crisis strategist margaret bowman recess france and germany need to change track and quickly. the european union economically as it stands is an unsustainable organization it's an unsustainable financial and economic and so what this downgrade actually i think is pushing france and germany and some of the bigger countries to do is recreate the european union and i mean staff who are doing some of the other economies such as responsible spain italy and you know kind of regroup and recreate near kenya in order for the european union generally and france to restate it so the economy and the people are going to suffer there will be think shock to their comfort to their pocketbooks to their households there will

be a combination of both economic measures and austerity measures and meet seen across the european union and understandably so you know most citizens aren't ok with that so i do think we will start the war protests across france. now while europeans are bearing the brunt of buying a. main financial institution seems to be splashing out the european central bank is spending over a billion dollars building and this shows double tower a skyscraper for its have quarters. and often in our reports already become a symbol of the doomed future. at a time when many europeans are unable to pay their mortgages and are kicked out of their homes and spain's forced to approve a suspension of addictions after a woman killed herself in desperation the european central bank is preparing for a house warming party the european treasury symbolic new building will be the

tallest on frankford skyline when it's complete but so far it seems the projects faced sky high criticism first of all for its ten digit price tag. we think the project is to shoot an ugly we asked the e.c.b. to use its money more carefully for something taxpayers in trust are true then. stephen meissner from germany's party of reason doesn't see any reason to spend that much money on a piece of real estate but he says he sees a reasonable explanation of why the sky's the limit for the european union's economic monopoly they never run out of money it's they just come to me and the other taxpayers they go you have to pay more you're paying more of it more or maybe because it's easy be the european central bank just print the money and while some may see an upside down logic here german m.p. mr scheffler explains it's more than just a piece of architecture. the e.c.b. wants a palace a building to demonstrate his power through

a million more million less makes no difference is to make a statement about its power and credibility but that's a notion that's taken a serious knock in recent times the seventeen nation euro zone's unemployment is at a record high brussels and seized on a sterrett immeasurable which the government's cut spending and raise taxes increase in people's hands as well as euro skepticism here it is future european central bank headquarters here in germany and the building was initially supposed to be a symbol of integrity and competence efficiency and transparency of the year main financial institution. many now gloat that the project that there is already far behind shadow and over budget may be sending a slightly different message online cynics have compared to the bank's future premises with the biblical story of the tower of babel it was meant to reach up to heaven but ended up instead abandoned left as a symbol of hubris and conceit if you look at it it's considered i guess modern

architecture that sort of looks like sort of like it's been flattened and squeezed and turned around and it looks like it might even sort of collapse on itself so it's kind of maybe a fitting symbol i think it's very possible that the euro itself the currency may not even be around by the time they finish the building the construction is do you feel complete by twenty fourteen and it's already known that the president of the e.c.b. will have a room on the forty first floor some say he will not just see a breathtaking c.t. parama he also have a bird's eye view of the turbulent ops and downs of troubled empire the e.u. fated eurozone. grief notion r t germany and silicone this hour the formation of syria's new opposition coalition still fails to unite the us as on the spiders in a level refuse to recognize a block wound growing number of western states representing all syrian people.

texas wants to pull away for the usa effectively 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 i. they think that they are a governor has the ball determination and the actual rebel i don't think there is a single george washington type among them well maybe just see victoria kind of but he's out of office how do what makes it seem like revolution or so session 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 the seed you should really understand what that means and what you are in for the founding father shirt dead but that's just my opinion. you know 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 that everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm tom parker is a big picture. welcome

back you're watching r.t. live from moscow how the nearly four in syrian opposition coalition which has been battered by europe has been rejected by islamist groups a clear a schism between those trying to topple the regime the groups and aleppo say they're on their way to building as long as state the coalition was formed earlier this month and they'll have replacing the syrian national council which had long been criticized for its ineffectiveness it was immediately supported by gulf states and turkey with italy and france also quick to give it recognition followed by the e.u. that's despite claims that al qaida radical islamist out and some trade rebel forces

from the syrian tribune says these countries don't know who they are dealing with. we don't know this pollution and they don't control anything on the ground and you know there was one of them to be the sort of program. which took about make sounds right for our friends at the record by the coalition as a leader of the sort of the people. but if you go and. release the video you see this because. they were fighting. so i don't think they would be able to grow over. time because there is the background so forth are all your need to bring. the scene in the brigade of the future if there's something a bit more. there or it's really. not. in my book

and in rural west wales there is a noise in the sky is driving locals crazy but sad same sound of the air elsewhere in the world is enough to strike fear into citizens explains what it is. the victims in tribal regions of pakistan yemen and afghanistan it's the last sound heard before bloodshed in syria is a constant wiring that gets louder before it becomes visible but for residents of the quiet coastal town of abba porth in west wales the sound is synonymous with daily life this is the area where the r.a.f. tests its watch keep a drone from as you can see there's one taking off behind me as we speak in good weather the drones take off throughout the day and during the night and as you can hear the noise is so high pitched and dominating that local residents have called

this area the buzz box. from local people the noise is a great disturbance because. of whining not his sound they fly over this quite regularly the welsh government build it as a state of the art technology park that would create four to five hundred much needed jobs for the community. the reality a half deserted site where the ministry of defense employs about thirty people to help test the war. there is a sense of frustration in the number of people who were for it in the beginning. because they didn't realize. that there was going to be there is behind the development of drones say it means less soldiers come home from war zones in body bags but civilian casualties are piling up we know. that somewhere around two to three thousand people have been killed in drone strikes because of these unmanned

systems it's a lot easier to go to war and therefore be much more and the world isn't safe the british government has already spent two billion pounds on development but they're about to commit another two billion on a new armed drone had to spent it could be spent on hospitals and schools killing machines despite drastic government cuts welfare spending financing for the drones isn't up for debate to the dismay of locals the daily testing along with the bloodcurdling noise drones on. west wales well i'm next capital account with lauren lyster that's after a short break. the legacy no one should be proud. of scrap metal littering pristine arctic landscape

building stilton over their foundation pipes spilling black smoke over the snow covered peaks the traces of the soviet industrial activity on the bergen archipelago don't make a pretty picture the guiding principle here is the worse the better locals like to tell the story that back in soviet times when norwegians were visiting barons were they also an express. and how prosperous the settlement was well times have obviously i can't buy this so it lags say still attracting the region tourists or barons work coms watch native cash that's why when. our goal is common as was uncovered here a few days ago instead of throwing it away the local administration decided to paint the bin you and put it at barron's work central square that in the nine hundred eighty s. there was a burgeoning mining community the soviet union was determined to maintain its own

costs. are located halfway between north america and western europe in an archipelago is part of norway with a special status that allows other countries to set up industrial bases here in the middle of the cold war it served as the use of western most outposts now it's one of the last preserved relics. of union if it was cut off from any financial support for two decades it's a curious site for western tourists and i think it could be even more appealing for russians trying. to keep its presence on spitsbergen russia still maintaining a coal mine here but in terms of profit is far behind local shops so between. bill it is a big hit the defunct arne curtain still helps keep the money flowing because it's so rushing through your show what's your kind of playing the role models are almost

no good girl your local administration is increasingly under pressure to bring the infrastructure up to more than standards if these modernization efforts i'm not very popular with tourists operators if you come into a very authentic place like bond it should stay the way it is that would be my wish i mean that's the part also the let you know authentic traditionally up. to i should not i would not like to have it in the shiny condition to be on those this time to change even for the better is not always good for business something that even a local band has become attuned to when they try to add the morning russian songs to die repertoire the audience called all they wanted to hear it was a song comfortably from there we are.

good afternoon welcome to capital account i'm lauren lyster here in washington d.c. these are headlines for monday november nineteenth two thousand and twelve just thirty percent of s. and p. five hundred companies be top line expectations while about sixty five percent be. earnings expectations in the prior quarter according to bloomberg and wall street journal analysis found u.s. companies are scaling back on plans to invest at the fastest pace since the great recession so what bearing does all of this have on

a so-called economic recovery and what levers are left to pull well americans up their use of plastic average credit card debt per bar or in the u.s. rose four point six percent to just under five grand in the third quarter while these folks were less diligent about making payments on time that's all according to data from trans union doesn't sound great economist steve keen is here in studio to talk all things debt deflation and it is the business story that really hit home making the local news circuit in a town near you take a look. snowball cupcakes all of them will vanish. oh oh and twinkies are that list of course that's make or hostess brands made no wonder negotiations are going on it turns out twinkies will likely survive not only the zombie apocalypse but also this latest dispute what does that mean for the cottage industry of sellers

hawk in the snack on line we'll discuss let's get to today's capital account. all right as i said half of the nation's forty biggest publicly traded corporate spenders have announced plans to reduce capital expenditures this year or next according to a review by the wall street journal their filings and their conference calls meanwhile we're talking about consumers americans cranked up their use of credit cards in the third quarter which was july to september racking up more debt than a year ago but also being less diligent about making payments on time this is because of an analysis of consumer credit data it's what it showed us from trying to believe.