israel as we can all offensive kills over one hundred palestinians with more casualties expected those gazans awards to stay at home or risk deaths. to see it official say they would welcome takesh on a trip to troops into gaza to monitor a possible truce but international cease fire at that still remains and. also this hour france again loses its cherished aaa credit scores ratings agencies sounds the alarm on a threat by euro zone recovery. got its sounds president calls you are stark county altering officials to take over the american run prison and by graham two months after control of the facility was due to pass into our.

international news and comment live from moscow this is all she was me thanks for joining us israel has reportedly warned all gaza residents to stay inside or risk becoming a target the death toll from israel's but involvement of the region has already exceeded one hundred victims around a quarter of them children on his heart of fear is in gaza brings us the latest. israel's assault has continued it's now day seven of operation pillar of cloud israel has over these last few days used naval and land attacks on the gaza strip so far today those attacks have been through and means only least four palestinians have been killed alone today including one fifteen year old boy his name is in the north of the strip israel continue to target almost every population

center in the gaza strip from rafa in the south which has been heavily pounds over the last couple of days particularly the beit lahia area in the north of the gaza strip as well as gaza city and khan yunis the middle area of the strip in the beginning of the morning israel said that no one should leave their homes and if they leave their homes they will become a military target of the state of israel so as you can imagine by statements being issued like that by israel and over the last few days we've seen israel leafleting northern areas of the gaza strip saying we're going to start a ground invasion soon that's happened three times now that lifting exercise that this is the civilian population here is totally terrorized and they are unable to continue their normal life the tool the same time obviously there's been stockpiling of food and fuel and bread and things like this as a result of that there's now a real on the supply of basic things that people are relying on for their normal lives business is a totally shut down educational establishments are totally shut down and the

humanitarian situation in terms of health is getting grave and grave and grave. with trying wreaking havoc in gaza dozens of aid groups are warning of an impending humanitarian crisis and british human rights activist and easy more missions monitoring the situation in gaza says the situation is desperate. everyone is a target now we've had. over thirty children have been killed now and frankly just days like. of us really it feels like we're in no man's land it just feels like. there's not many homes being targeted now so many civilians have been killed and now we call it even go in the streets and the n.g.o.s are being told to stay as well it just feels like we're sitting ducks every explosion options it's like a countdown you don't know exactly where it's going to land we've just been given a warning actually that over the next two hours israel is going to accelerate its assault on gaza and. this is obviously you know he's really catastrophic for

so many of the people here and this is what happened in the gaza talks last time people were going for days without without without serious regional food and of course this is this is a potential disaster the collective punishment of the siege we're hearing that the biggest humanitarian crisis is in the hospitals whereby they're short of so many things like they've used in one week the amount of bandages and searches and and some basic medical supplies in three months obviously they're really strapped the ambulance she's in the medical agencies because so many cases are coming in that we had yesterday the biggest the largest definitely more the day we can divert people killed punished enough officials say they would like to see takesh on the gyptian troops monitoring a possible cease fire and gaza they says attempts to reach a stable truce between israel and hamas failed to baffert what israel's threats of a ground invasion there had to house and whether it's possible the toll that's all

he's point to see you paul. well egyptian mediators are hardly trying to put together the general terms for a cease fire the idea is that both sides if they agree to a truce in theory then the specific details can be hammered out later at a meeting later on monday night the israeli government decided to give cairo more time to try and reach a ceasefire agreement and that is worth while today today tuesday they will be mediation talks happening in cairo those talks are expected to be decisive at the same time however there are tens of thousands of israeli soldiers who are deployed throughout the make of desert they are both regular army soldiers as well as reservists who've been called out so the situation on the ground certainly is tense the u.n. secretary general ban ki moon will today be meeting with the israeli prime minister netanyahu and the palestinian president mahmoud abbas he has said that any kind of an israeli ground offensive merely escalate the situation most israelis by and large are in support of a ground operation in gaza having said that though there are statements that have

been coming out from the israeli army that says that at least a third of the militants in gaza is short range missiles have been destroyed and that they've managed to destroy all round range rockets now this is a sign that israelis are greeting and it will cause some israelis to question whether or not a ground in principle the fact is still needed having said that though there is still a lot of rhetoric that is coming from the israeli parliamentarians we've heard from a large sharon who is the son of a former israeli prime minister that gaza needs to be flattened in the same way that hiroshima was we also heard from the transport minister that gaza needs to be bombed so that people they flee to the neighboring egypt in the sinai i mean we've heard other comments that the people of gaza are not innocent that they elected the hamas leadership and all of them are guilty and therefore entitled all deserve should be on the receiving end of israeli fire of course alongside this there is

another battle that's ongoing and as always that is the battle in cyberspace but here the israelis have an unfair advantage it's a sphere that they know well it's a sphere that they've operated in for years have a look. while israeli politicians weigh up whether or not to send their army into gaza they've had new his attention in rolling out their p.r. machines into the social media battlefield. one israeli was killed yesterday in the attack from. my house took a direct hit 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 a very is a battle a campaign online offline in the electronic media for the hearts and minds of public opinion it's very very important when israelis killed her must lead to homage to bari 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 the ability of the poor longer active duty is also based on how it is being perceived internationally interesting enough this war provides less pictures for example of the two thousand and eight million war which was taking place in gaza padlocks equally it is cynical and it sounds like one of the reasons that there are less specific casualties is because israel would like the policy this would have less pictures of the war israel explained its operation and rocket attacks in this way producing the deaths of more than one hundred civilians to a simplistic and slightly idiotic p.r. message 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 the al qassam brigades militant group in gaza is happy to fight fire with

fire posting videos like this one on you tube mourning israelis there wherever they are they will be hunted down and killed in 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 . israel is lying to its people it is really reporters are inflaming the situation there is a huge incitement. to israel must demolish gaza even if a rocket hits the target they don't see that. these really need is really rude they said the term people from the same family died but they see that it is legal because they will be hamas members in the future well because there are rockets under the house 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 online policy r.t.

television. paul is keeping a close eye on this. after days of why her toys trail and in one of her latest waits for reports that a hamas rocket has landed in jerusalem as the second similar attack on the set of says israel launched its offensive against gaza. and the russia has submitted a draft resolution to the u.n. security council arrest the violence between israel and hamas and it's going off explains russia's also accusing some u.n. nations of trying to filibuster international efforts to resolve the conflict. russia proposed a draft resolution to the un security council it still hasn't made a decision on that we have heard from moscow's representative to the un voiced outrage that the organization couldn't agree on a statement in fact with some members of the u.n. security council for dragging their feet he didn't specify which state exactly but he did hint at the us we have heard from the american representative to the e.u.

one 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 since obviously they haven't been very effective so far meanwhile income 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 all 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 inquiry or at the u.n. security council which pretty much reflects the main point all the draft resolution put forward by russia. and we're following developments in the middle east conflict on air and online well we've got a dedicated function for live updates and comments on.

some of the things oh now it's been another bond day for the euro zone with france stripped of its treasured aaa credit rating for a second time this year and this time they downgrade came from moody's which conducted second biggest economy has stuck in and exposed and crisis strategist margaret time is running out. the european union economically as it stands is an unsustainable organizations an unsustainable financial and economic. so with this downgrade actually i think is pushing france and germany and some of the bigger countries to do is recreate the european union i mean stop hoarding 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 this italy to reset it so the economy and people are going to suffer or there will be three shocks 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 no you know most citizens aren't ok with that so i do think we will see war protests across france. and those things might be making bleakly years on taxpayers in a few minutes report on hold for the unions bonkers optimism sky high the european central bank's billion dollars each new news completion but was intended to be a symbol of transparency and honesty has become a monument to delays and expands. and the u.k. recognizes the syrian rebel bloc as the voice of the people pledging support for the coalition despite and dangerous schism and that's right that's after the break

. 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 so social will never happen it is a very easy thing to do the side of the. it should 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 gov has the ball 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 it makes it seem like revolution or suspicion 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 you're in for the founding father sure dead but that's just my opinion. kid in sorrow. hope for escape. barely surviving longing for a godsend. they live in

a search for goes. why doesn't it bring wealth. good to have you with us the u.k. has become the latest european nation to recognize the recently formed coalition of syrian opposition forces as these soldiers are going to voice of the people foreign secretary william hague has invited the bloke's representatives to london and promised one million pounds of communications support it follows official recognition by france and italy and a joint statement of support by e.u. foreign ministers the coalition was formed earlier this month in doha replacing the syrian national council which has long been criticized for its ineffectiveness the

block however has been rejected by the nations islamist groups based in aleppo they say that building a state of their own and refused to have any links with the coalition ali mohamed the syrian tribune says european supporters don't know who they're dealing with. we don't know if they don't control anything on the ground and you know there was one of them to be the sort of prison. which did not make sense after of france after the effort by the coalition has a leader of the sort of the syrian people the one thing and the release the video saying that distortion the conflict is out there and that they are there would be fighting until they reach their goal which syria so i don't think they would be able to grow. or we can focus. on the one black muslim brotherhood an important member of the coalition and of the sometimes the

who is the main backer and so forth there will be uniquely. that at least for the scene of the future if there is something of them up. there it's really. not your regard for the coalition at all. afghanistan's president hamid karzai has ordered his top security officials to take full control of the prison and bug. so it's run by the u.s. despite an agreement to transfer politics. signed back in march. this is really an issue of sovereignty for the government of afghanistan we have to keep in mind that the prison is an enormous very controversial detention center here in afghanistan it has more than three thousand afghan prisoners who have been held there without any sort of trial or due process with the courts fifty seven of them were actually found to be innocent under the law by afghan authorities and what we've heard from karzai spokesman on monday is that actually as many as one

hundred new prisoners are being put into that detention facility by the americans mainly through special forces night raids. month one hundred new people are month and so you have this issue where afghan nationals on afghan soil are being held for and essentially occupying force and this is really prompting a lot of disconcerted by the government here within afghanistan what we heard from one actually human rights expert is that the afghans simply want the present and the ability to determine what to do with the fate of the prisoners and this is why karzai issued a statement saying. his officials take urgent measures to ensure a full afghanization of the prison and a complete transfer of authority although it is unclear that there's going to be any immediate changes it looks like this process will still take a bit of time to pull through the americans are saying this is a matter of security they say that they have found that the karzai government has released a number of prisoners who had ended up going back to the taliban or carrying

attacks against coalition forces or u.s. troops and they also say that they have the right under rules of war to detain so-called britta belligerence although of course when there is no due process no court system is sort of ensuring this it's hard to tell who is a belligerent and who is just a local afghan who's been swept up by this massive prison system and we have to keep in mind that this comes on. days after very critical tense talks between the u.s. and afghanistan over the future of american forces presence in afghanistan after twenty where the issue of sovereignty again came up as i strongly a poor opposes immunity for american troops who kill afghans on afghan soil he wants them to be tried by afghan law here in this country whereas u.s. military officials staunchly are against that and they want their military officials and such they to be brought back to the u.s. to stand trial there and this is of course become much more controversial after the recent high profile trial of the massacre of sixteen afghan civilians by an american soldier who's now being persecuted in washington state in the united

states so what this really boils down to is a lack of trust by both countries which is quite disturbing if you look at the way forward here unless you have a look at some of the international headlines and grief in the u.k. a number of current and former journalists from news international news international have been charged in connection with an ongoing bribery inquiry david cameron's ex communications director and former news international chief rebecca brooks are among those who face charges it's and legally paid to police and public officials for information the charges follow the phone hacking scandal that forced the closure of murdoch's news of the world lost and damaged the reputation of the news international brand. polish authorities say they've prevented a massive terror it's hot after police arrested a month and planning to detonate a full tony campolo and prosecutors believe the suspect motivated by national was going to carry out that's going to frontal the country's parliament targeting the

president and prime minister are false claim he was inspired by brave no wait last . rebels in congo have reported enters the strategical city of goma in the country's east on monday the government rejected the militant group's ultimatum to remove its forces from the city and begin peace talks. militants have already has allegedly been exchanging gunfire with the army which is supported by e.u. peacekeeping troops they call the police government accuse neighboring the one in the rebels. conceived in happier times the european central bank's new headquarters in frankfurt was intended to be a symbol of prosperity transparency and opportunity but today enthusiasm for the project has waned down by delays rocketing costs and an economy in crisis trees maria reports and just talk spasm make a little. 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 ask the e.c.b. to use its money more carefully changing taxpayers and trust to true then. stephen meister from germany's part of the 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 the e.c.b. 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. e.c.v. wants a palace a building to demonstrate its power through a million more a million less makes no difference as to make a statement about its power and credibility but that's a notion that's taken a serious not in recent times the seventeen nation euro zone's unemployment is at a record high brussels insist on a sterrett imagine his which the government cut spending and raise taxes increase in people's minds 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 u. main financial institution. many now gloat that the project that there's already

a fall behind shadow and over budget may be sending a slightly different message online cynics have compared the bank's future premises with the biblical story of the tower 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 that sort of i guess modern architect sort of looks like sort of like it's been flattened and squeezed and turn 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 that 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. panorama he also have a bird's eye view of the turbulent ups and downs of his own troubled empire the fated eurozone. nazi germany. and up next its

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market why not. find out what's really happening to the global economy with much stronger no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune in to conjure report. 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 the s. and p. five hundred companies beat top line expectations about sixty five percent earnings expectations in the prior quarter according to bloomberg add a 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 how about a.