the body count rises among palestinians as israel pounds gaza again following a law in the violence with more definite injuries among children. but a truce remains elusive with the palestinians accusing israel of stalling the ceasefire. as the west pledges to work for call between the warring sides we'll look at why washington show sympathy for innocent civilians being killed in some parts of the middle east but not so much in other words.

the russian capital you're watching r t was made marina joshie. israel's bombardment of gaza has intensified over nine despite talk of a pending cease fire bringing more deaths and chaos into the besieged palestinian territory. this is the enclave as it's plunged into terrifying darkness after one of the night strikes caused a massive blackout the number of palestinians killed in the weeklong offensive now exceeds one hundred forty with more than a thousand people want it just take a look at how the tragedy of gaza has unfolded in recent days be aware that these images are upsetting. about the coverage of the no no no no no no no it's the law but it will.

go. through. these really bombs hitting residential districts and killing civilians are daily reality in gaza what's more media compounds and reporters are also increasingly becoming targets for israeli forces journalist harry fear is in gaza. two reporters two media workers that actually usually cameramen working as cameraman here for the television talent channel well also targeted tonight as they were in a civilian taxi a taxi it clearly labelled with press the same sort of taxi that i travelled around

the gaza strip and they were also killed here tonight and also a very high number of children entering the moves in the last few hours so we've spoken today with a volunteer doctor who's come from europe who's got a lot of reputation respect here in gaza as an emergency and he's come in the last couple of days to try and lend his hand in helping with all of these dead children coming into the mill will speak to him very disturbing number of children in the i.c.u. knowledge there are one two three four four or five minors on respirator with severe head injuries. you know they are civilians they should have been protected the international community should have protected that there are no shelters in gaza because the palestinians are not allowed to dig there are no desire eans early warning system so that they know when the incoming bombs are coming so this is one point seven million people who are absolutely naked as they

are being confronted with the world's fourth strongest army a friend of mine was killed as he attempted to go to rescue some injured today he has a civilian forty two year old from the get out of family he has seven children full girls three boys and he was killed earlier today i just attended his funeral now he is a civilian in the strongest sense of the word there's been leaflets saying near the border with israel saying evacuate go to gaza city via these routes stay in these areas of gaza city but then there's been signals from the interior ministry of hamas here in gaza saying don't listen to these messages they are merely psychological wolf from is. designed to further terrorize the population to give in with more compromises so when a ceasefire comes so also was confronted by a news agency today here in gaza that there were messages from israel to the gazan population saying that after nine pm local time anyone of any nature civilian or

otherwise will become a target for the israeli military if they do not stay home a clear signal the palestinians don't expect anything good to happen the palestinians are buckling down tonight not expecting any ceasefire to be realized meanwhile hamas blames israel for stalling peace talks in cairo hopes that a cease fire agreement was a matter of hours were earlier coie by as well as demands for more time to respond to proposals artie's polls leader brings us the details and last one is in the human system a key hamas spokesperson that the ceasefire would be in effect on tuesday night we are subsequently hearing from the israeli foreign ministry who say that they won't allow twenty four hours they say that this announcement of a cease fire was premature that the military operation is continuing parallel to all the efforts on the diplomatic front they are is trying to have a gaza the death toll there was more than one hundred forty people killed while the

whole south of israel is in the state of lockdown and there have been five israeli deaths to date his ladies are saying that they do want a long term solution and they also say they will be a decision within a day where they will not this cease fire will go into effect the u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton has held a brief press conference with israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu and what came out of bed conference with a lot of the same american with rick we've been hearing she really emphasize that the u.s. was behind israel that its support for what was essentially rock solid that it did not in any way condone any kind of rocket fire into israel and that the loss of every life was regrettable. well washington's almost unflinching support for israel is raising doubts but that the mediating mission isn't taking upon itself to bring unbiased results plus america's track record in selecting the word of push for peace and protect civilians isn't helping as artie's granted she can now explains

the crisis in the middle east probably like no other crisis reveals the double speak of u.s. foreign policy the us basically gave a green light to any of their actions with regards to palestinians and israel has been taking advantage of that quite extensively because as president obama explained there is no country on earth would tolerate missiles raining down on its citizens from outside its borders makes complete sense nobody should but one may ask what about all those countries that the us has bombed iraq afghanistan pakistan yemen and others or is it that when you refer to civilian deaths as collateral damage somehow killing civilians sounds more justified when it comes to the does a situation you usually hear u.s. officials speak along these lines of course in a conflict like this civilian casualties or inevitable but the u.s. is not always like that when the government was killing civilians the u.s. stood first to sympathize with the innocents there in most graphic terms but it

appears in washington sympathy for software intended selected this is hillary clinton on syria the shooting death of a one year old recently by the syrian regime's tanks and troops. is a very stark example of what is going on. one may ask what about those horrible shots of children dying gaza is somehow a less stark example of what's going on it seems america's world police mindset and standing up for the weak thing doesn't apply to palestinians instead we hear the same mantra from u.s. officials that israel has the right to defend itself which effectively implies that in the eyes of washington the killing of civilians in gaza is justified the u.s. is most recently blocked the u.n. security council statement calling for a cease fire in the israeli gaza conflict deeming the statement unbalanced against israel just as the us has blocked all other palestinian related un resolutions in

the past whether it was on israel continuing to build settlements on occupied territories or other initiatives put forward to ease the years long suppression of the people there by blocking all efforts of the international community to mediate a solution washington contributes to the status quo and the status quo here is that the root causes of the crisis have not been addressed and is the root causes remain any ceasefire looks temporary there was a major israeli assault on gaza four years ago to more than a thousand people did not solve the problem so one may argue the status quo almost guarantees that the cycle of violence will continue. and gaza sentiment is growing within israel with some politicians going as far as calling for the area to be flattened like roshumba israeli born political activists you are a horror she told us the country's rather it is becoming volcker rule. we've seen.

a good show on the son of the son of former prime minister ariel sharon in an opinion article in the jerusalem post calling for genocide i mean i you know i think it's i agree just not just that he he wrote this article but. the editors of of a distinguished newspaper in israel i mean albeit a you know unknown right wing newspaper but still and use the you know newspaper that is part of the mainstream allowed him to to to air a sense of pinions people in rwanda people in the former yugoslavia were sent it to the hague you know ever after having everything written words as cruel and inhumane as as as the ones there that mr sharon has has written and they have to say it's not it's not an individual politician here and there i am very sad i'm ashamed to say that recent opinion polls were published in israeli newspapers i believe in our midst recently have shown that the nearly ninety percent of the populace. in the

country support its operation is in support but it is considered by many to be collateral damage. of get the killings of children and women and the elderly. silence on the ground and diplomatic wrangles are not the only battlefield in the middle east they are also online and they are proving decisive icehouse asking now explains. the latest military conflict in the gaza strip may go down in history as the first war ever declared on twitter the official account of the israeli defense force announced the start of the pillar of defense operation and one of those literally told the enemy to run and hide but later hamas had their say using similar war rhetoric this exchange has been retreated thousands of times since and numbers do matter on twitter through hits likes replies and retreats more people than ever before turned to social media and the question is who is winning this

online warfare and numbers speak for themselves according to the hashtags dot org website the gods are under attack crash tag is ten times more popular than israel under fire pray for gaza is twenty times more popular than pray for israel and gaza hash tag is almost twice as popular as israel in a nutshell this is the battle between a heavily funded state propaganda machine and citizen journalism from the outside looking israel's content is better produced more powerful shiny and glossy take these banners for instance which were posted on i.d.'s official facebook page how mars has also been manning the information war trenches some say clumsily as these tweets may suggest but the effect of social media boom among young palestinian activists in changing public perception of the palestinian israeli conflict has been huge youngers the residents regularly rush to hospitals and take and upload photos and videos of tragedy and inhumanity and some of the pictures have become

symbolic of israel's disproportionate use of force the graphic and vocal message in those tweets is perhaps the reason why palestinian citizen journalism is proving more effective and why israeli social networkers simply cannot compete with the content coming out of gaza where this first war started on twitter can become the first war lost on twitter is a question but one conclusion seems evident enough israel has not grasped the destructive power of social media. as its holding the people of gaza in its grip. on air and online with the latest from the middle east at r.t. dot com now more reaction including an israeli defense ministry spokesman has asked hamas is so way to blame for civilian deaths on both sides. the graphic footage in gaza of dead children to maintain their deaths at the hands of israel and israeli air strikes on the fold of hamas. so i can tell you

they genuinely genuine breaks my heart you think that we want to see dead children on any side who are in this predicament that however with the most strategically surgical precision pinpoint strikes when they're hiding beneath their civilian population there will be collateral damage. and so i have for this hour avoiding past mistakes syria's opposition coalition is one step away from full recognition by the u.s. and the e.u. as they wait and see if the blog deserves complete backing. as u.k. families struggle to heat their homes there is cold comfort from power giants still trailing profits from soaring energy bills.

this is day starts at five am even earlier in the winter tending to his flock of story hundred sheep in the mountains and pains of t.v. thirty five years old it wasn't the life he dreamt of having studied accounting but you just unfamiliar dictated that he would take on the care of these animals after his father. he just made camp there winter founded setting up his ute judicial to fenian round tent made of diskin. his p.c. back amongst his family his job is a lonely one and tough going out in a way there's braving streams of plus to minus forty degrees celsius says that i'm with them there are certain difficulties there's not enough time for everything i'm almost alone my sister works with my mother my mother is seventy five she's very old and i miss mountains when i'm in town and i spend a lot of time here. so most of us are simply carrying out the work that his father

did and his father before him nothing has changed over many many centuries and that's half the problem it's hard work and many people don't want to come into the industry now and it's really fit there could die out altogether. it's difficult to manage everything alone i used to have people who helped me but they were no good they didn't take care of the sheep with all their heart they hurt the cattle. with more people leaving than coming to the countryside the region's government is having to act making the life of the herd and more attractive than promising largest subsidies for produce and livestock and organizing cooperatives for the sale of day put out to ensure the hoda gets a high at fair price i asked sympathizes with those youngsters leaving for an easier more profitable life day in their publics capital because hill but he no longer wishes to join them he enjoys his pastoral way of life now looking for a helper who shares his enthusiasm with more time on his hands he says matter of

fact we can start to look for a new wife. culture is that so much going on there you should be there to share the power. the carnage campaign using gaza israel claims it on the farm and of the gazans using self-defense at the same time denying the palestinians. more news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. china operations are old today.

welcome back you're watching r.t. britain has joined france in recognizing the new syrian opposition unity group as a soldier demand voice of the syrian people the u.k. has also pledged more practical support for the rebels but why their blog and the us stopped short of giving full endorsement to the coalition with washington saying the body must first prove its worth after its predecessor was dogged by feuding and accusations of domination peace activists john raise questions how much support the foreign based opposition at its western backers have was in syria. and i think many of the people on the ground below called noting committees have never

liked the business of western intervention they've made it a point in their statements in their press releases and the things that they've said that they don't like that it's they don't think they're genuine revolution can come by the above the western assistance and certainly by its military and so i think there are very very many people on the ground who are represented here but the danger is as we saw in iraq and in other places unrepresentative groups once they get the support of the west can come to dominate large numbers of people on the ground. to some other international news now the u.n. security council house unanimously decided to sanction armed rebels in the democratic republic of congo whose spiders have easily captured the resource rich eastern city of gone twenty three group formed after accusing congo of flouting the peace agreed after a decade of conflict with neighboring rwanda which saw up to five million people die but the un statement failed to mention randa or uganda which congo claims

support the rebels. india has executed the lone surviving gunmen from the two thousand and eight terror attack on mumbai. a pakistani citizen who was one of ten gunmen who laid siege to india's financial capital four years ago killing one hundred sixty six people the south was hung on wednesday morning after india's president rejected these plea for mercy. argentina's capital and several other cities in the country are now in the grip of union strikes hundreds of flights have been canceled underground lines have been closed the unions are voicing their anger over the state of the country's economy rising crime and corruption the reality is the second in two weeks against president cristina fernandez de kirshner's government. now in the u.k. millions are said to be left in the cold this winter as cash strapped families struggle to pay gas and electricity bills as artie's laura smith reports there is

little comfort from the energy giants where the race for profit in full swing. it's a bitter winter's day in london and inside this flat it's not much warmer single mother of four julie has only one thing on her mind as the cold bites how is she going to pay her ever rising energy bill i decided to take few libel from the sealy and i only use one in my room it's only supermarket jeremih you just one like trying to cut down. off the bill next time but in regard to bill. we spoke to julie last winter when she was already struggling and we've come back to see how she'll face this year's even bigger challenge five of the six big energy companies have announced price rises of around ten percent according to use which whose business it is to help people reduce their bills it will drive more into an

increasingly common form of poverty poverty is where you spend more than ten percent of your net income on your energy bills and we've seen these recent price increases pushed three hundred fourteen founts and people into fuel poverty that's on top of an estimated seven million people who already have one survey ahead of this winter found energy prices were the biggest concern for consumers ninety percent said the cost of energy was their main household worry ahead of rising costs for food petrol and mortgage payment julie shows me her energy bills carefully conserve to chart the inexorable rise since she moved in in two thousand and seven she's afraid that this winter her children's health will suffer again in a way that when accomplice or his extra blanket his socks and the children just put

it on the moon we will call two thousand and ten and two thousand and eleven there were sick. because trying to be mean not to. well julie's children are getting sick the energy companies are profiting british gas whose prices are up six percent is on track to make one point four billion pounds in profits this year and e.t.f. with the highest price rise of ten point eight percent announced profits of one point six billion in february where are you going to find the extra ten percent that's going to go when you both understand the world i don't know laura smith r.t. london and making ends meet is also a major headache for an increasing number of people in greece by there is a little relief on the horizon with a proposed cut of twenty two thousand more jobs down to the state by the i.m.f. so i had to r.t. dot com for the whole story. and that's laura lester and her guests discuss

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russia. but the keepers here hope their research and dedication. remains a place where visitors can truly understand all of the one. good afternoon welcome to capital account i'm lauren lyster here in washington d.c. these are your headlines for tuesday november twentieth two thousand and twelve the securities and exchange commission is expanding and forcing a probe intensifying scrutiny of the exchanges the f.c.c. is looking more closely reportedly at how they develop new products communicate with investors and provide incentives to trade this is all according to the wall street journal and it and heart stems from a probe order types

a number of which benefit high frequency traders sounder air con sader is here to help us read through this and speaking of high frequency trading australia is clamping down australian media outlets report federal officials announced changes to market rules including mandatory kill switches for algorithmic trading to avoid you know us dial flash crash down under our other countries ahead of the new whilst small disgusts and navigating the post-election economy i moderated a panel on the issue take a look behind me malden economics featuring john malden bloomberg vote for yammer own pimco c.e.o. mohamed el larry and barry ritholtz and more we'll play some highlights from the sideline and let's get to today's capital account.

take a look at this according to the wall street journal today in this article federal securities regulators are stepping up oversight of stock exchanges as they scramble to catch up to trading advantages that some say have developed for sophisticated clients at the expense of ordinary investors now i bet you can guess who those sophisticated clients with an alleged advantage are their high frequency traders and the f.c.c. scrutiny has increased in part the wall street journal piece says because of its findings from a probe into some order types benefiting high frequency traders now the concern is that exchanges might have given some firms more information about how their systems operate giving them an edge now as you see probe into order types was fueled by a complaint in two thousand and eleven from a former wall street trader turned once a lower he said a c m b c interview in september that he kept banging his head against a particular trade.