i'm sorry welcome to the big show. at eleven pm moscow time a tense cease fire now tonight between israel and hamas comes into effect as we speak capping a frenzied international push for a truce. becomes a spider earlier israeli strikes on gaza which brought the death toll to over one hundred fifty and a terrible loss in the center of tel aviv in retaliation. also thousands of students in the streets of london crying out against rising tuition fees and a lack of financial support making it harder to get a higher education. and a human rights blow for bahrain as amnesty international publishes a report showing torture and oppression getting worse and making.

good evening and thanks for joining us if you just have one aims kevin zero in this is r t broadcasting live from moscow and a cease fire then between israel and hamas has just come into force something being hammered out during marathon negotiations hosted by egypt israel's been pounding the palestinian territory with missiles in both the air and sea for more than a week in response to hamas says cross border rockets a correspondent in tel aviv reports on the much sought after troops. a ceasefire has been announced and agreed to by both israel and hamas this is the second time in two days that we've heard such an announcement but this time it so does seem as if it's accurate it was earlier at a press conference between the u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton and the egyptian foreign minister at that press conference clinton said that the u.s. was committed to making sure that these raids face an increased safety and security

situation and also to improving the conditions of people in gaza and egypt for its side has said that cairo has a historical duty to represent and help the people of palestine now the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu earlier held a telephone call with the american president barack obama in that phone call he said that israel was ready to give the cease fire a chance of bombing responded by saying that america was on hand to assist as well with its problem visibility smuggling of weapons and other items through the tunnels that lead between egypt and gaza and sometimes even reaching a little bit into israel is what is of course very concerned around the claim that it needs to lift its blockade of the information we have is that while agreeing to this cease fire it has not given the nod that in fact it will lift the blockade it has had on gaza for several years now now the cease fire is a surprise to everyone it comes off to a bloody day both in israel and gaza we have no details at this stage in terms of

what exactly are the terms of the cease fire we need to wait and see exactly what the two sides have agreed on but earlier on wednesday there was a bus bombing in tel aviv twenty eight people were injured and very much the reaction after that bus bombing was that netanyahu was not going to launch a ground offensive into gaza rather than announce a ceasefire separate definitely here in tel aviv people have been taken by surprise today wednesday there were some eighty five rockets that were fired into israel at the same time for israeli soldiers were injured in response there. roughly one hundred twenty one israeli air strikes over gaza they have targeted rocket launchers as well as tunnels as well as. need to focus on everyone's mind if the cease fire and whether or not to be able to hold in the coming hours and the coming days the middle east correspondent more than

a hundred fifty palestinians have been killed in gaza so far around a quarter of them children. in the heart of the conflict what's happened in the last twenty four hours resembles increasingly. the reports of white phosphorus destroying off the bridge that connects middle north gaza with the south of the isolation of the south of gaza israel has intensified the. particular targeting of governmental police buildings in the biggest 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 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. 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 at any time spokes person for the israeli prime minister's office told us that the bombing campaign against it was aimed at bringing peace and safety to israeli citizens. we see the terrorists from the hamas terrorists they target only civilians and this sea of big three when the innocent people but why don't you kill that for twelve years already hamas terrorists fire rockets on our civilians on low on our civilians and now for the for this time the israeli government decided that we have to stop these terror attacks in our civilians and our children and our elders and belts why we target terrorists but unfortunately we know we see of reading in every word 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. the standoff between israel and hamas has gone beyond deadly attacks and diplomatic wrangles 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 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 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 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 as tightly as it's holding the people of gaza in its grip. well to select their knesset member and it wolf who sits on the foreign affairs defense committee says it's her must not israel that must decide for there to be peace certainly the situation is difficult just to day 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 think heard 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. despite dozens of civilian deaths in gaza washington has made it clear it supports israel something critics it wouldn't do under different circumstances as it is going to teach you can explain is no. 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 saw it but one may ask what about all those countries that the us has gone down as them pakistan yemen and others or is it that when you refer to civilian deaths as collateral damage from hell thrilling civilians around you nor by when it comes to down the situation you usually hear u.s. officials speak along these lines of course in a conflict like this civilian casualties are inevitable but because life 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

in washington sympathy for suffering tenby 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 goes the u.s. 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 cease fire looks temporary there was a major israeli assault on gaza four years ago took 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. what is going to kind of washington but keep our finger on a possible development in the middle east and i both on air and online know we've got you to check out our live updates section for the latest.

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head part of the instrument he did so i called the instrument again which means come back and this melody only instrument is called. culture is that so much of him and there's a huge percentage of americans on the mark when the carnage continues in gaza israel claims its own barmen of the gazans is in self-defense at the same time denying the palestinians. its leaves its.

well again students have taken the streets of london protesting against rising university fees and the loss of financial support it's the second anniversary of huge demonstrations caused by the troubling of fees r t sarah ferguson the english capital. well thousands the student protests this is taken to the streets of london today then launching in the face of the same put in

place in the case against cuts to education the most in. parliament which was completely closed off by. actually amongst the protesters themselves today a little bit of a disagreement that must find a breaking up is that if you can hear something. that i'm afraid and not somebody agreed very they say that that's not the right that they want to take they wanted to march past the parliament building the parliament. we see not a little bit of friction here today as they said amongst the protesters themselves as they came up the. parliament there was a little bit of pushing and shoving a little bit of the just going to feel today some of the students that he's faking he said that previous cases that they take the cancelling was

a bit of an issue that happened in the past when not particularly great state that might also have an impact thousands of people have. that one and then they point if they think credibly to something many. charging that spoke to the thousand pounds here and there it was the fact that the people that i love let's face the university that's really been one of the main points of the students here. the default clocks ticking for greece for this international creditors failing to reach a deal the next tranche of the thirty one point five billion euro bailout for the debt ridden state meantime thousands of layoffs agreed by the greek government to exchange for the fun spot more protests spoke to on to this brothers from the london school of economics and political science he says people are only. people are really not buying into this kind of what is a very blatant lie going on and he's going to excuses that were 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 oh out of the three hundred twenty five municipalities across the entire 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 the workers are for it and will immediately immediately lay off due to too late this kind of package i was working for the greek parliament to people are really bitter or eating on a flight on the ground it is just a matter of the international media picking up what right actually at least internationals condemned bahrain saying the country has delivered on promises to improve its human rights record report shows the monarchy is intensified its crackdown on the opposition the author of the document the bahrain research and amnesty international company told me oppression is getting worse in the kingdom. well we have on talent is that actually the situation is much for stanek was months ago it's really the terry right we're talking about at least twenty four people

were killed after the bombing in a fiery issued its report last year a ban on not protest at the end to fucked over and only a week ago there were occasional national took 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 increase and marry for having exercised its right to freedom of expression and we consider him to be a prisoner of conscience and we are talking about hundreds of hands and hundreds of allegations of torture that that's happened especially since the beginning of two thousand and eleven until now international community has not put enough pressure on the bahamian government to ensure that. any independent commission of inquiry recommendations are implemented great he's quite worried on what we are seeing is that a year after. the report was issued we have seen that that main well commendations that would ensure a country we can true justice for victims has not been implemented now there might

be no escape from the biting cold this winter for millions of u.k. residents soaring energy prices looks set to drive more and more people in the so-called sea with anyone stay warm there's an extra blanket out his or smith 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 see to the monkey in 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 founds 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 blanket his socks and the children just put it on the movie we call two thousand and ten and two thousand and eleven there were sick because. try to be mean not that would be god 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.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 in your bill for the world i don't know laura smith r.t. london. more world news stories in brief now turkey's officially asked me to the deployed defense missiles on its border with syria ankara says the move triggered by the growing concerns over the syrian war which if the which it feels could spill

over the border some alliance members including germany really welcomed the initiative which nato say they were not going to discuss without delay. as government protests as clashing with police for a third consecutive day in the egyptian capital cairo for violence has left more than sixty people injured it marks a year since the so-called second wave of the egyptian revolution to say the new government's hardline response to protest mirrors that of former president mubarak and they demanding further change. two suicide bombers attacked a u.s. base in afghanistan's capital kabul that's killed two afghan guards they apparently tried to reach the gate but detonated the device is when police spotted them local reports say the taliban claimed responsibility for the attack cobbles trying to beef up the city's security head of a holy day this week. you're watching r t with the ongoing situation in gaza is up for discussion and people of all cross talk show that's just a couple of minutes from now.

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welcome to cross talk i'm peter all of the carnage continues in gaza and israel claims its bombardment of the gazans is in self-defense at the same time denying the palestinians in the besieged strip the same right to work in israel possibly achieve in this operation called pillar of cloud beyond perpetuating still another cycle of violence. to cross-talk the gaza crisis i'm joined by harry fear in gaza he is

a documentary filmmaker and activist in amman we have money in rabbani he is coeditor of jabaliya and in pittsburgh we cross to greg roman he is the director of the pittsburgh jewish community relations council all right gentlemen crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want to here a year in gaza can you give us an update what you've seen over the last twenty four thirty six hours. the last time frame that you just said we've seen the killing of two baby children one two and one four year old today we saw the killing of a fifteen year old israel these are casual damage to us and to the gazan people these are unacceptable murders ok greg how do you assess the situation there is a lot more rumors of a ceasefire in the year how do you think this is going to play out. i believe there's a cease fire that's expected to go on the hill soon.