at midnight moscow time the ceasefire tonight. comes into force capping a frenzied international push for a true. comes despite earlier israeli strikes on gaza. over one hundred sixty and a terror blast in the center of tel aviv in retaliation. also. the streets of london crying rising tuition fees and lack of financial support making it harder to get a higher education in the u.k. . human rights. international publishes a report showing torture and oppression getting worse.

hello and kevin i mean this is r t it's good to have you company and the big news a ceasefire between israel and hamas has come into force having been hammered during marathon negotiations hosted by egypt israel's been pounding the palestinian territory with missiles from both year in the sea for more than a week in response to cross border rockets our correspondent in a reports now on this 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's a new does seem as if it's accurate it was earlier 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 the israelis 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 a bomb responded by saying that america was on hand to assist as well with its problem these are the smuggling of weapons and other items through the tunnels that lead between egypt 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 the 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 in gaza we have no details at this stage in terms

of what exactly are the terms of the cease fire will 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 definitely not he was not going to launch a ground offensive into gaza rather than announce a cease fire so 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 mass come on. need to focus on everyone's mind. and whether or not to be able to hold in the coming hours and the coming days . despite the truth they're still getting reports of sporadic. round of israeli

strikes on the strip more than one hundred sixty palestinians have been killed in total so far on a quarter of them children journalist terry figures in the heart of the conflict what's happened in the last twenty four hours resembles increasingly operation chaos the reports of white phosphorus destroying of the bridge that connects middle north gaza with the south of gaza the isolation of the south of gaza israel has intensified the pounding of gaza particularly the targeting of governmental police buildings and 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 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 any time the standoff between israel and. deadly attacks and diplomatic wrangles spreading to the internet. 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 on young palestinian activists in changing public perception of the palestinian israeli conflict has been huge youngers the residents regularly rushed 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 stately as it's holding the people of gaza in its grip. despite dozens of civilian deaths it does or washington has made it clear it supports israel something critics say it wouldn't do under different circumstances so he's going to she can explain 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 doesn't situation you usually hear u.s. officials speak along these lines of course in a conflict like this the civilian casualties are 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 suffering tenby selected this is hillary clinton on syria the shooting death of a one year old recently by the syrian regime change and troops. is a very stark example of what is going on. one may ask what about those horrible

shots of children dining gaza is it 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 a u.n. security council statement calling for a cease fire in the israeli gaza conflict the mean that proposed 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 in 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. you can keep. developments in the middle east both on air and online we want you to check that a live update section of our home for all the latest. so pretty more head to the program with me kevin zero eight right after this break .

british live demo minister lynne featherstone said that since women have babies it allows men to pass them up on the letter to power essentially children are a setback for women who want to be successful and equal to men so they want to give men the option of taking maternity leave or would that be a paternity leave i don't know i kind of see the logic of her view but my question is featherstone is why exactly is success in the corporate world the primary goal of life for men and women as a feminist i would think you understand that wanting to fight your way up a ladder to buy a big car or replace your short comings is a very male way of judging success are women who choose to have families failures or at least unsuccessful in your book even as a man i know that my pocket is really empty after having the first of hopefully many kids but i don't see our child as a financial setback keeping me from buying an x. box guess what success is relative to the goal and maybe

a corporate boardroom vision of success isn't for everyone women who have kids are failures in my opinion but then again that's just my opinion. more news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images group world has seen from history canada. child corporations rule the day. download the official. language stream quality and enjoy your favorite. t.v. is not required to watch on t.v.

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students have taken to the streets of london protesting against rising in the face of the loss of financial support it's the second anniversary of huge demonstrations caused by the troubling situation fees sarah firth's in the u.k. capital. thousands of pretenses and 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 to be much in. parliament square which was completely closed off by police. actually amongst the protesters themselves today a little bit of a disagreement march kind of breaking up the fact that you can hear something.

like that on the break and not. agree very they think that that's not the right that they wanted to take they wanted to march past the parliament building the parliament but we see not a little bit of friction head today as they said amongst the protesters themselves and 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 we faking she said that previous station that they. were canceling was an issue that happened in the past with no particular state that might 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 a year and. the fact of the people that i love let's face it you know

that that's really been one of the main points of the students here. so first of our team in london the full clock's ticking for greece with this international creditors failing to reach a deal on the next tranche of that thirty one and a half billion euro bailout from the debt ridden state meantime thousands of layoffs agreed to by the greek government exchange for the funds spot more protests as opposed to on to this rather it's from the london school of economics and political science he told me greek citizens are on the edge. people are really not buying into this kind of the what is a very blatant lie going on and he's going to 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 entire country two hundred forty of them have been either occupied or blocked by their workers who are refusing to just let go on of course these are the workers you're frightened with immediately immediately layoffs due to too late this

kind of package i was working for the greek parliament should people are really bitter or getting on a flight on the ground just a matter of international media picking up what i'd actually. arrested to nationals that bahrain saying the country hasn't delivered on promises to improve its human rights record report shows the monarchy has intensified its crackdown on the opposition the author of the document the bahrain research should amnesty international covered on google account but told me the pressure is getting worse in the kingdom. well we have is that actually the situation is much force than it was months ago it's for you terry right we're talking about at least twenty four people being killed after the beheading depending on the firing issued its reports last year a ban on not protests at the end of october and only a week ago there were occasional 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 increase and marilee 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 the international community has not put enough pressure on the bahamian government to ensure that. any independent commission of inquiry recommendations are implemented where it is quite worried on what we are seeing is that a year after that report was issued we have seen that that main well commendations that wouldn't shore a country we can to justice for victims have not been implemented. there might be no escape from the cold this winter for millions of u.k. residents soaring energy prices looks to drive more and more people into the so-called fuel poverty were they will stay warm as an extra blanket auntie's laura 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 it's only suitable monkey 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 payments julie shows me her energy bills carefully conserve to charge 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 detune are just put it on the move two thousand and ten and two thousand and eleven there were sick because. trying to be mean. 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 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 from them but i don't know laura smith artie london . international news in brief now turkey's officially asked nato to deploy profitted defense missiles on its border with syria and chris 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 initiative which nato say they'll discuss now without delay. anti-government protesters have been clashing with police for a third consecutive day in the egyptian capital cairo violence has left more than sixty people injured marks one year since the so-called second wave of the egyptian

revolution rioters say the new government hardline response to protest mirrors that of former president mubarak and they're demanding further change. two suicide bombers attacked a u.s. base in afghanistan's capital kabul killing 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 couples trying to beef up the city's security at a holy day this week. twenty two minutes past midnight here in moscow kate is in the studio must mean business creating. investors go for gold yes there is always been a popular can either say you know that kevin and it's really regaining that popularity at the moment and a lot of that is because tensions in the middle east that a year is a crisis is that u.s. fiscal cliff revelers talking about it's going to play its part as well as my slowing growth in china as well says that's all helping the goal to be as popular

as and that's all coming up in the business but as in after the break. flying north with me in this old soviet work or so the helicopter is dr run amir brodsky and his team from the region's medical aviation service we head across ever more barren tundra higher and higher into russia's arctic far north until eventually we see our landing spot with arrive at this tiny village after crossing hundreds of kilometers of snowy wilderness as a boy here suffering from favre and the doctors are going to see what they can do. inside a small building not one but two babies and their parents are waiting for us the doctors inspect them but can't make a diagnosis and decide to bring them to a regional hospital for better care spread lana doesn't like taking her baby away

from home but she's been before and agrees to go that's the usual practice with those who live in it to indra they keep mothers with their newborns in hospital for a month. on the way back another stop to check on the health of some native minutes reindeer herders out in the tundra it can take many hours to reach the nearest village so a medical problem simply fixed here in the tent that i wish they used to be but now we can go to civilized places so we call for emergency help. back at hospital other patients helped by the air ambulance are being treated the service costs fourteen million dollars a year to run and there's been controversy with some claiming that locals exaggerate or make up health problems and use the helicopters as a free taxi service by causations vladimir firmly dismisses your brother is not true usually the calls are perfectly justified sometimes we even reproach locals

waiting too long before calling us he's been working as a doctor now for forty three years but vladimir is confident the diva after he retires his helicopter doctors will remain a lifeline to the peoples of the russian far north. cultures that so much are different and there is a huge music to share power and find that the mark of the carnage continues in gaza israel claims its own bartman of the gazans using self-defense at the same time denying the palestinians. we speak your language anything that they will or not at their. news programs and documentaries and spanish what matters to you breaking news the alternative angles kitten's stories. are you here.

to enjoy our tea spanish find out more visit i. r t v dot com. hello there welcome to business s.l. gold is having a good year with the eurozone debt crisis ongoing slowing growth in china the u.s. fiscal cliff rearing its has told us regaining favor with investors earlier i spoke to nick parsons from f.x. strategy who thinks attraction of gold is becoming clearer. the attractions of gold are becoming a bit clearer it is

a hedge in certain times but most particularly central banks around the world including the united states most importantly are targeting asset prices so i think a lot of people would like to see asset prices higher and if they're going to do that they're going to be targeting higher gold prices higher commodity prices higher stock prices too so yes i think it's time once again to take another look at the gold metal we do have some rather famous gentleman buy up at the moment some very prestigious investors john polson george soros what do you imagine they're thinking right now. oh the thinking is that the market is generally not long that it's somewhat for an out of favor that exuberance that froth that was in the market nine hundred dollars has been blown away and that if we are going to see asset prices being targeted this sets a very good background i think they're also likely to be thinking that if we're

going to see any escalation of uncertainty and tensions geopolitically in the middle east and elsewhere but if that were to push up the price of commodities most notably oil then actually gold gives you a bit of a free ride there you don't have the same problems of storage and of the problems of physical delivery you don't have many of the problems associated with that you would have with actually buying and transporting and storing oil so in a sense gold is giving you a bit of a hedge against an increase in geo political tension in the middle east and if we've got these investors heading towards gold right now and safe haven where does that leave the ruble now there are some variable as a risky asset where does that stand at the moment. i think i've described the ruble currently is comfortably neutral if you look over the course of two thousand and

twelve we've been down to twenty nine against the us dollar at its best level and then up to thirty five and here we are trading around thirty one seventy roughly in the middle of its range for the year and i think that pretty much sums up invest their attitudes you know they could say they have lots of things go wrong if we do get the fiscal cliff in the united states if we do get a recession there if we do get a flight from risk then maybe the ruble can be back up at thirty five who knows maybe even thirty six if however things turn out pretty well we get a resolution to your if the fiscal cliff is avoided if asset prices more. really start to rise and we could easily be below thirty inside say the ruble current levels reflects that balance of race swith investors largely neutral i don't i've not spoken to any large investor who's got a particularly aggressive position one way or another in the ruble.