we'll the future cover. moscow time tonight a bus explosion in tel aviv brings the confrontation with gaza into the heart of israel with former rivals. both reportedly claiming responsibility got the latest on this development today while dozens more israeli strikes on the occupied territory take a body count of guards or over one hundred forty destroying lifeline tunnels and government buildings. and the u.s. declares a wavering support for israel after sinking a un resolution calling for a cease fire raising questions over the impartiality of its own troops an issue.

alone a very good evening if you just joined us is kevin zero in here at r.t. this is the harsh reality of war is being felt in tel aviv today were a bus explosions left fifteen people injured already labeled a terror attack an explosion said to have taken place near the israeli army said quarters israeli authorities are now hunting for two people thought to be involved in the bombing paula slee reports not far from where that blast took place. now the police have told us that what they think happened is that one of these two placed a bag with a bomb on the bus and then immediately ran off the whole of tel aviv is in shut down the schools are closed children are being prevented from going home because there's also growing concern that they could be a second last or potential second suicide bombing that is being planned now it was widely anticipated that such a blast could happen not to say that people here are not shocked but there has been warnings issued for the past few days by both the police and the army for people to

be extra vigilant that they are receiving that that the police have been receiving threats of terror at the same time we do understand that the martyrs brigade which is the military wing of fatah has claimed responsibility although the blast has been welcomed by him us through the al aqsa television a mass has said that this is a victory from god they say that they believe this operation and that it is the natural reaction to israel's killings and operations in gaza city there are also people celebrating and dancing in the streets of gaza certainly this was the reaction when the news first came through that a bus bombing had happened in tel aviv the last time that there was a bus bombing in this country was back in two thousand and six so it certainly does seem to have the effect of torpedoing become and cease fire talks on the way the hopes of any kind of cease fire deal now be reached certainly not today seem to have been done and we haven't yet had any reaction from the israeli government but no doubt that the action when it comes is going to be harsh and increasingly it

does seem now that instead of moving ahead with a cease fire we're going to be moving ahead with an israeli ground operation the u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton has finished a meeting with the palestinian president mahmoud abbas and she's on her way back to jerusalem and it is significant that when she met with him that meeting lasted a little less than an hour there were no statements given afterwards by comparison when she landed here yesterday and we think the israeli prime minister there was a press conference held at that. press conference clinton did that did say that washington support for israel was rock solid and she's now on the way back to brief natanya who in terms of the latest talks but this briefing comes in the light of this tel aviv bombing which has been confirmed to have been a terrorist attack by the israeli will flow to you so no doubt that briefing might take a very different way and a very different route to perhaps what clinton intended in the early hours of this morning paula slater there will knesset member and it will from sits on the foreign affairs defense committee says it's a must not israel the most is for there to be in the peace now certainly the

situation is difficult just today there has been a terrible attack intended directly at civilians something that israel never does on our buses in the little of tel of eve look we live in a tough neighborhood there is no mercy for the weak we need to understand that at the end of the day hamas is an organization that is ideologically committed to the idea that the jewish people are not equal they do not have the equal right to have sovereignty and a state we depend on being strong in an area where if we were only weak if we were to hand down our arms tomorrow israel would not exist we say very simply if hamas were to put down its arms there will be peace if we were asked to put down our arms there will be no israel. israeli offensive on gaza or enters its second week then with a barrage of missiles from air and sea still devastating the area more than one hundred

forty people have been killed there now many of them civilians and according to god's grace journalist hurry fear those who tried to report the conflict are also being targeted. they remember. the operation and what's happened in the last twenty four hours resembles increasingly. the reports of white phosphorus destroying off the bridge that connects. with the south of the isolation of the south of gaza israel has intensified the. targeting of governmental police buildings and. police station was totally leveled causing structural damage to nearby buildings some of the biggest governmental structures in gaza city were targeted including the biggest building here in gaza. in the southern area of the gaza strip heavily overnight particularly the smuggling tunnels which gazans called the survival smuggling tunnels killed three media

workers. two of them a cameraman for the t.v. channel. educational television channel according to israel these stations the media workers. and. israel is not winding down. for the israeli. bombing campaign against bringing patient safety to israelis. we see the terrorists from the hamas terrorists they target only civilians and they see a victory when the innocent people but why do you feel that you will hear from us terrorists fire rockets on our civilians on loan now you. will be this time the israeli government decided that we have to stop these terror attacks in our

civilians and our children and our elders and that's why we targeted. but unfortunately we know we see every day in every way that the terrorists high behind civilians it's definitely big numbers and we do so please if you think that it must start so we call upon all the international community and we call upon everybody who really doesn't want this violence first of all to pressure on terrorist organizations to stop this violence and to call upon them not to use civilians we just want safety for us that's all. patrick henningsen the jew political analyst for the u.k. color me thinks that some members of the israeli government to riga to radicalize the conflict even further. look at the overall dynamic because if you put pressure on any area or group you'll eventually it will radicalize so the

radicalization of a mosque really suits the heart right in israel it's a bit of a galeon dialectic so you know that people who want conflict with palestinians and want to keep the status quo they actually prefer to deal with a radical of hamas that you have a more gentle sort of political adversary in elliston doesn't suit the heart right in israel so this is a equation with and that has a very bad outcome in the end but it serves the interests of certain a minority within the israeli leadership gaza is probably the world's largest open prison with the most amount of people in densely populated area poverty level is extreme so this would be the equivalent of the prison warden clamping down on a prison riot or something to this effect it's like shooting fish in a barrel. what is hillary clinton travels across the middle east in an effort to mediate a cease fire the u.s.

secretary states made it clear that israel has america's backing clinton reiterated and countries unwavering support for television put also called for a deescalation of the conflict in order to protect civilians as that he's going to count reports it's not always so. 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 and nobody saw it 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 feeling civilians sounds more justified when it comes to

the doesn't mean you usually hear u.s. officials speak along these lines of course in a conflict like this civilian casualties are inevitable but the u.s. is not always like that when the government was killing civilians the us first to sympathize with the innocents there in most graphic terms but it appears in washington sympathy for suffering tembisa liked it 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 goes 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 in washington contributes to the status quo under 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. correspondent in washington.

gaza shows no let up despite talk of pending ceasefire but the current standoff between israel and hamas goes beyond deadly attacks and diplomatic wrangles of course even spreading to the internet. 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 reach weeds 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 shiny and glossy take these banners for instance which were posted on idea of 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 on 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 whether 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 idly as its holding the people of gaza in its grip. like serious reporting for us we're keeping our finger course on the pulse of all developments in the middle east both on air and online though we invite you to check out our live update section of r.t. dot com for all the latest. the news continues with me kev now in few minutes from now.

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there are special instruments that accompany the singing if gainey says there is even a legend about his instrument a gill it says it wants to leave to poor shefford who had the best horse that won every competition but jealous people killed it on the horse was revived as an instrument book at those that have suffered a fall is because of the spirit of the horse coming to his dream and said make an instrument from a tree the sounding board from the leather of my face the strings. and to remember me make an engraving of my head part of the instrument he did so i called the instrument again which means come back and this melody only instrument is called.

hello again crozier students are taking to the streets of london protesting against rising university fees and the loss of financial support hits the second anniversary of huge demonstrations caused by the troubling of fees of firsts in the english kaput. we saw thousands of protesters take to the street thirteen year old they want overweight pos parliament square this is a promise by. the last election that they wouldn't raise the tuition fees that of course we saw last week each time i don't know what indeed tuition fees were a couple of years the game had each month of backlash and feed about that i mean it's very tough because they said at the time even up until the point they were

bringing in the rice intuition that not every university was supposed to do other very maximum amounts that nine thousand pounds a year i was actually what we've seen is a lot of the universities are charging that top amount that people would say he said it makes a lot harder. every day people who don't have that sort of cash readily available to go to university i had a lot of concern as well that you know this is sort of changing towards the american system and they don't want a situation where you know if you're rich and steve you can still get into university if you're very well educated or you really really want to get and continue further education if you don't have the cash well that waste looks healthy and there's a big concern that maybe we're going to see that happening here. sara first announced internationals condemned to bahrain saying the country hasn't delivered on promises to improve its human rights record report shows the monarchies intensified its crackdown on the opposition as to whether it's now with you with

the bahrain research or times to international coverage i'm going to look i'm for coming on to hi there thank you for being with us to speak more if you could about what you found in preparing this report. well there we have is that actually the situation is much more stanek was months ago it's really the terrier eighteen we're talking about at least twenty four people being killed after the beheading the pennant commission of inquiry issued its reports last year a ban on all protests at the end of october and only a week ago there were a vocation of nationality of thirty one opposition activists were also talking about continuous harassment of human rights defenders one of them is now the president of the bahamian center for human rights that was sentenced these summer to three years increasing merrily for having exercise his right to freedom of expression and we consider him to be a prisoner of conscience capital that we are actually on the ground there yourself some of what went on to prepare this reporter was a colleague's are you will you in there we have been in touch with victims of human

rights abuses oh yes we are in continuous contact with oil down and we have been busy. previously we weren't there when the independent commission of inquiry should be issued its report last year i mean previous location. coverage just as we've been reporting ourselves coverage of the uprisings be very limited only by us and the other international media we touchin it even though it's been going on for over a year and a half now do you think your findings might change that. well the fact is that the international community has not proved enough pressure on that one. to ensure that . any independent commission of inquiry recommendations are implemented so it seems quite what we are seeing is that a year after. report was issued we have seen that that main loop commendations that would ensure a country to justice for victims has not been implemented and i was there and what we have seen is that for instance seven thousand security officers only seventeen

security officers are on trial on allegations of torture or killing protesters and we are talking about hundreds and hundreds of allegations of torture that that's happening especially since the beginning of two thousand and eleven until now this is probably the strongest criticism of borrowed human rights record to date how do you think borrowed is going to respond. well there were any government issued today a follow up report that actually the follow up report doesn't go actually into detail or not only investigations into torture another in treatment and on the on go in for pressure that we have. seen on our. own protests stripping off nationality on the thirty first opposition activists and also on the continuous enough human rights and errors of the monarchy how to cause problems to improve the human rights situation after a similar report that was issued by another group a year ago now you say that not only did they fail to do that but the situations

actually deteriorated says why does the regime feel so secure that it can go all of those caraway is apparently well or so what they were saying just now we feel that the international community including the united states and the united don't need to put much more pressure on locally condemned what is going on in bahrain so what is not happening. well that's a very good question why is it not happening this is something that should be how i mean. leave it there but it is so good to get your insight from service most covered under the camp of bahrain international so author of this most recent report on human rights abuses in bahrain thank you. the might be no escape from the biting cold this winter for millions of united kingdom residents soaring energy prices looks at the drug war more people in the so-called fuel poverty within women stay warm and extra blanket that is the recent reports. it's a bitter winter's day in london and inside this plot 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 ceiling and i only use one in my room it's only sitting among my 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 are already 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 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 i try to be mean not the board here dog while 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.d.s. with the highest price rise of ten point eight percent an ounce profits of one point six billion in february where are you going to find the extra ten percent it's going to go in your bill puts them well i don't know laura smith artie london . some other international brief you two suicide bombers attacked the u.s. base in afghanistan's capital kabul killing two afghan guards apparently tried to reach the gate but detonated their devices when police spotted them local reports said the taliban claimed responsibility for the turk couples trying to beef up the city's security ahead of a holy day this week. turkey's officially asked nato now to deploy trigger defense missiles on its border with syria says the move triggered by the growing concerns over the syrian war which it fears could spill over the border some

alliance members including germany have already welcomed the initiative which should nato say they will not discuss without delay. india is hanging the only surviving gunman from the two thousand and eight terror attack on mumbai. a pakistani citizen was one of only ten attackers who laid a sixty hour siege to india's financial capital four years ago one hundred sixty six people were killed in the attack was executed after india's president rejected his plea for mercy. thanks be with us tonight on r.t. the violent conflict between israel and palestine tops the list of subjects i should expect discussed in the late edition of the martins break in the set that show on air after the short break.

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