tonight a bus explosion in tel aviv brings the confrontation with gaza to the heart of israel with former rivals hamas and fatah both reportedly claiming responsibility. for dozens more israeli strikes on the occupied territory trait the body body counts in gaza or over a hundred fifty destroying lifeline tunnels and government buildings. in the u.s. declares a wavering support for israel after sinking a un resolution calling for a cease fire raising questions over the impartiality and so truce initiative.

good evening is kevin to tonight first the harsh reality of war is being felt in tel aviv where a bus explosion today is left fifteen people injured already labeled a terror attack the explosion said to have taken place near the israeli army's headquarters israeli authorities are now hunting for two people thought to be involved in the bombing. reports not far from where the 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 a growing concern that there could be a second lost 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 bet 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 the current cease fire talks on the way the hopes of any kind of cease fire deal now been 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 ceasefire we're going to be moving ahead with an israeli ground operation the us

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 a member of the israeli prime minister there was a press conference held at the. press conference clinton did did say that washington support for israel was rock solid and he's now in a way back to brief netanyahu 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 fight he said 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. because the news through actually from the reuters news agency now just as paula was finishing that report gyptian official now confirming to the reuters news agency that a cease fire agreement has been reached between the palestinians and israel so

that's breaking news coming through now but we want to get that confirmed from some other sources as well of course but at the moment reuters reporting that the gyptian official has told them that a cease fire agreement has been reached between the palestinians and israel will bring you more of course on that as we get it within the next half while the israeli offensive on gaza enters its second week there with a barrage of missiles from air and sea still devastating the area while the hundred fifty have been killed there on a quarter of them children according to garza british journalist harry fear those trying to report on the conflict are also being targeted. gazans don't expect to see a ceasefire they remember all too well the operation cast lead and what's happened in the last twenty four hours resembles increasingly operation the reports of white phosphorus destroying of the bridge that connects middle north gaza with the south of the isolation of the south of gaza israel has intensified the pounding of gaza particularly the targeting of governmental and police buildings in

a. police station that was totally leveled causing structural damage to nearby buildings some of the biggest governmental structures in gaza city were targeted including the biggest civil service building here in gaza. in the southern area of the gaza strip was targeted heavily overnight particularly the smuggling tunnels which gazans called the survival smuggling tunnels israel killed three media workers short journalists two of them a cameraman for the t.v. channel another for the educational television channel according to israel these stations that these media workers work for are not legitimate journalistic enterprises and therefore susceptible to being targeted. so israel is not winding down its assault on gaza. just to bring you up to date on a story again we're hearing from the reuters news agency just repeat what i

mentioned a second ago. in israel has been agreed according to a palestinian official with knowledge of talks talking to reuters we will get more we want to confirm for you before we go any further course on the line now to talk about the military aspect of the conflict between gaza and israel. colonel it's currently an advisor of national security on the line with us thank you very much for taking the time to be on our international we know potentially on the brink of a ground invasion. this cease fire i just talked about notwithstanding of course we're trying to get more information on the you served in the israeli army for twenty eight years do you believe an invasion though would solve the issue of rocket fire so the airstrikes have been able to do so far. i think the ground operation by itself is not. it's not the main goal the main goal is to make sure that no further

missiles and rockets. fired from gaza into israel now if ground invasion will be the only way to solve it in this case i believe that these really government will have to go for it but i believe the israeli government understand that even in this case it will not solve the one hundred percent so the main question is can we achieve more we doat going by ground forces into gaza and i believe that this is the case at least for now on mckay if you did have some israeli politicians including foreign minister leave and then a warning that it would be an extended stay could be an extended stay an occupation let's put it that way as a military man is that an outcome you would expect to i don't think that israel have any interest to occupy any part of gaza

of course not the whole of gaza and the. basic question we think that the main goal need to be to make sure that no fire we come from gaza and four bit we will go on using force even though we understand that using the force we can solve everything. israel's last occupation of gaza cause provoked the second intifada the rising of the gazans would it be any different this time around what would reaction you think if it were to happen. as i said first of them think it will happen but it's clear that controlling. and more than one million people within gaza oh even a huge amount of people even if it would be only a limited area it's not good for the palestinians it's not good for the israelis we

don't have any interest to control other people life and because of that to begin with it's not our interest later you can ask can we do it to be. the answer that i have on that is that yes we can but it will cost human life you too will cost human life among the palestinians it will cost human life among these rallies it will work against the interest of the palestinians and the israelis speaking about a third intifada i don't believe that a third intifada is really an option. we don't without any kind of invasion into gaza i think that the father have more to do we do what is happening in the west bank then in gaza because within gaza we are no better so at the intifada is a question about the relations between us and the palestinian authority in the west bank i also think that. though he stuck to fifty that took place in tel aviv today

. to ames one to him bus israel and to kill israelis but at the same time it was one of the goals of those that have done it was to embarrass the palestinian authority that controlled most of the of the west bank and i believe that it will not affect very much the negotiations between the palestinians and us basically because i don't see any difference between an explosion came by a big two a bus in tel aviv oh an explosion that came by. myside a rocket to the area of tel aviv which i don't have colonel it's about thank you for being on the line we appreciate it in your capacity condi as an advisor on national security thank you. you as a recluse and travels across the middle east in an effort to mediate a cease fire the u.s. secretary of state's made it clear that israel as america's backing clinton

reiterated his country's unwavering support for television but also called for a deescalation of the conflict in order to protect civilians but it's not he's going to shoot you can 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 nobody but one may ask what about all those countries that the u.s. has bombed iraq afghanistan pakistan yemen and others or is it that when you refer to civilian deaths as collateral damage somehow thrilling civilians sounds more justified when it comes to the dozens situation we usually hear u.s. officials speak along these lines of course in

a conflict like this civilian casualties are inevitable but the us is not always like that when the government was killing civilians the u.s. forced to sympathize with the innocents there in most graphic terms but it appears the washington sympathy for suffering can be 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.

has most recently blocked the un 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 contribute 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. to count a correspondent in washington will be above that of gaza shows no letup despite

talk of pending cease fire the current standing on the standoff between israel and hamas goes beyond deadly attacks and diplomatic wrangles it's even spread to the internet. side of it. 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 guards are under attack crash tag is ten times more popular than israel under fire 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 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 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 tightly as it's holding the people of gaza in its grip. there were just scanning the news wires well let's see we bring you that report i just want to bring you up to date on what we mentioned just now a couple minutes ago we heard the gyptian official confirming to the reuters news agency that the cease fire agreement had been reached between the palestinians and israel however that's unconfirmed but then got a got a report in from the associated press news agency of a palestinian official with knowledge of the talks apparently confirming that hamas and israel would announce a cease fire within hours that's the a.p. news agency reporting that the latest we have is that of course there's been no reaction from israel on any of the we heard reaction from egypt reaction from

palestine not from israel yet we are hearing similar rumors yesterday as well of course we will keep you very much abreast on this we're keeping our finger on the pulse of all the developments in the middle east on a here and online on our web site as well we've got a dedicated live section at r.t. dot com for all the latest. thank you very much for watching us tonight here of moscow my name is kevin owen of about with more news for you just a couple of minutes after this break. do we speak your language i mean some of the will not advance. music programs and documentaries in spanish matters to you breaking news

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kogan crowds of students take to the streets of london protesting against rising university fees the loss of financial support is the second anniversary of huge demonstrations caused by the troubling of fees artists are firth's in the english capital. thousands the student protests this is taken to the streets of london today then marching against the us in face of the same put in place in the case against cuts to education the much think the. parliament has completely closed off by. actually amongst the protesters themselves today a little bit of a disagreement in that march kind of breaking up. if you can hear something. faith that. they will not break and not. agree very they say that

that's not the way they want to take they wanted to march past the parliament building the parliament that we see not a little bit of friction here today as they said amongst the price at the south as they came up the. parliament there was a little bit of pushing and shoving a little bit it just going to feel today some of the students that he's making she said that previous patients that they take the cancelling was a bit of an issue that happened in the past whether or not particularly great state that might also have an impact thousands of people have. said one of them a point if they think credibly to something many. charging that much the thousand pounds here and there and the fact. that i live let's face it but that's really been one of the main points of the students here trying to make. the default clock is ticking for greece with its international

creditors failing to reach a deal on the next tranche of the thirty one point five billion euro bailout for the debt ridden state that still may start to some major divisions over how greece should fulfill its debt repayment plan as to whether this go live to rob is from the london school of economics and political science these overlong from athens tonight good evening. could the delay of this bailout for the greek economy. to be honest probably not many and you might recall given that if you weeks ago or prime minister summers had warned that should this. bailout not come in the degree to call it had to buy the sixteenth of november and we'll we're still here standing at. walton everything around the country hasn't to follow it seems like it was a beautiful to a lot of years they say the world ticks on what i've read in there but there is some worry about the wider impact of course after that meeting last night in

brussels e.u. leaders saying that if greece went could threaten the whole block and that. of course it's of course will the how bad the damage you think it could do to the block what do you think would happen if there were and how would the rest of the. to be honest in terms of kind of trying to assess the damage it would have to think very carefully about who we're talking about we would not like to take. this blow if we're talking about people like the ordinary people on the streets here and not injure people who've already lost their jobs and by now by the way they're in the majority even of course some regrets in brussels being angry about one one of the bailout or kind of money coming in is not going to affect them very much if you talk about greece's debt or is of course a completely different story and of course i'm sure there's a lot at stake for them still on the ground. in the greece has got to get its debt down by forty percent of g.d.p. by twenty twenty in order to get the money how is that possible if the deficit only

continues to grow out ever going to make the middle you think well i think you kind of answering your own question there kevin because if you have a kind of the policy that keeps kind of a growing economy leading the deficit took a lot of course there's no way. it will ever go down you don't really need an economist to tell you that. it's a fallacy in the entire system in an entire way that greece's. situation has been dealt with all together. i know what we said just now the world keeps true but we can't underestimate how many people are suffering in your country it's a tough tough time of course at this time as well the i.m.f. i don't you saw the story a state mistakenly sent out a letter to athens didn't it demanding more job cuts after greece already agreed to thousands of layoffs previously is a mistake but was saying anyway how can such a respectable organization make such a huge error when we're talking about people's lifeline their jobs. exactly you

tell me i mean as you sure you know in the journalism world these kind of don't really tend to happen and this is when you talk about a document being leaked is no smoke without fire is what i'm what i'm around. i think so and i think. what what you seeing there is probably one of the most spectacular episodes of what has been going on since may two thousand and one from the first kind of rescue package where you had this very odd kind of blame game going on between the greek government and i met robert reich all together if you want to kind of the dog ate my homework kind of excuses going on over and over again both of course were very disastrous and lots of fun at all or results from people here on the ground what reaction is the bin from a from people on the ground in your country it's been it's a tremendous it's a huge. kind of uprising people are really not buying into this kind of what is a very blatant lie going on and these kind of excuses that we just discussed and

just an example just to show you how many things are going on are not really being very much reported at all out of the three hundred twenty five municipalities across the country until yesterday and i may have already lost count two hundred forty of them have been occupied or blocked by their workers who are refusing to just let go and of course these are workers here for it and immediately immediately laid off due to get your latest kind of package that was working by the greek parliament should people are really getting on a flight on the ground and it's just a matter of international media picking up what might actually or antonius things to be on the line we appreciate your time and tell us about it london school of economics and political science thank you very much so it's national news a brief bring you up to date on turkey's officially asked nato to deploy patrick air defense missiles and more to syria says the move is triggered by the growing concerns of the syrian war which it is could spill over the border some alliance members including germany have already welcomed the initiative which nato says they will discuss quote without delay. antigovernment protesters have been clashing with

police for a third consecutive day in the egyptian capital cairo the violence has left more than sixty people injured it marks a year now since the so-called second wave of the egyptian revolution to set a new government hardline response to the protests were. that of former president mubarak they're demanding further change bring it up to date now with more news on our top story you know hearing as i've been reading to them look at the wires to reuters news agency again now reporting still to be confirmed israel it says has agreed to a truce in gaza but will not lift the blockade israeli sources are saying that to the reuters news agency we'll bring you more on that of course as we know it so israel we're hearing from reuters has agreed to a truce in garza but it won't lift the blockade according to israeli sources we want to get more on that we'll bring it to you as we do have ahead laura lister and i guess discuss high stakes betting by traders using that rapid technology they so love.

as his day starts at five am earlier in the winter tending to his flock of three hundred sheep in the mountains and plains of t.v. thirty five years old it wasn't the life he jumped off having studied accounting but he dition and familial duty dictated that he would take on the care of these animals after his father. he's just made camp at their winter farms did setting up his ute judicial to fenian round tent made of diskin. his p.c. back amongst his family and his job is a lonely one and tough going out in all weathers braving streams of plus to minus forty degrees celsius it's just that i've missed 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. and 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 hearts they hurt the cattle dogs. with more people leaving than coming to the countryside the region's government is having to act making the life of a herd and more attractive they're promising largest subsidies for produce and livestock and organizing cooperatives for the sale of day products to ensure the herd it gets a higher fair price i asked sympathizes with those youngsters leaving for an easier more profitable life they in their publics capital because ill but he no longer wishes to join them in.