a ceasefire ending eight days of violence between israel and hamas takes hold with over one hundred sixty palestinians and five israelis killed during the bloody exchange. but critics say the truce is just the calm before the next storm has underlined just buttes between the warring parties still were made in earlier peace deals proved unsuccessful. lawsuits the trillion euros battle of brussels as european leaders gather to wrestle over the e.u. budget the people they represent continue to struggle with cuts back home.

world news live from our moscow headquarters who are watching r t with me lucy catherine of well the people of gaza had woken up to a relative call a ceasefire between israel and hamas reached late on wednesday is still being up held it is a violence have killed five israelis and more than one hundred and sixty gaza residents over the truth began shakily with several rockets fired towards israel after the deal had been agreed upon. as more from tel aviv. the ceasefire ends some of the fiercest fighting we've witnessed in years between israelis and palestinians if indeed the truce holds it will mean that roughly one point seven million gazans will have a spike now from what we've seen eight days of heavy bombardment at the same time it brings with spikes to roughly a million israelis who live in the south of israel and who've been on the receiving end of constant and watches of rockets but i say if it holds because it is perceived as being rather fragile it certainly is a truce that came by surprise it followed

a day of deadly violence in which some twenty eight israelis were injured in the first bus bombing in tel aviv since two thousand and six and there were massive israeli air strikes over gaza so the sense on the ground particularly in the hours leading up to the announcement of the cease fire was that israel was going to go ahead with a ground offensive now to know who has said that he is willing to give this truce a chance he says however he does hold open the possibility to reopen the conflict at a later stage he said and i'm quoting i know that there are citizens in israel that expected a more severe military action to be taken and perhaps we will need to do so there is criticism towards netanyahu particularly among people in the south of the country who would have supported a ground offensive and wanted to see a much harsher israeli reaction we've had protests in several cities in the south we still don't have too much information exactly what the terms of the cease fire do in fact say but i can tell you that israel for its side has committed to ending

hostilities in gaza and at the same time stopping with its targeted killings and mass for its side has also said that it will stop firing rockets into southern israel and staging cross border attacks now there is a lot of questions still hanging over the whole issue of whether or not is what was left its blockade on gaza that has been in place for several years now we do understand that is what must begin talks re opening this for the border crossings and lifting the blockade and. easing restrictions on the movement of both people and goods the text does say that the whole discussion for the procedures for this will begin some twenty four hours off to the cease fire was announced so while the cease fire at the moment is holding basically is a lot of tension on the ground and a lot of questions as to whether or not it will stand the taste of time. the aggression may have stopped but deep divisions between israel and hamas remains sparking fears that the truce was actually doomed from the start i was going to if you can has more now on the tensions that had led to the latest round of violence.

this ceasefire deal doesn't even begin to address the root causes of the conflict and as long as they remain the decades long cycle of violence is almost assured to continue by now most people lost track of all the previous cease fire agreements and more generally of where it all started and it became for the most part a chicken and egg conversation you have the years long suppression of the palestinians we saw a radical forces among them rising in striking it as well with is well coming back at them so hard that he would most peaceful palestinian started sympathizing with radical forces without going too far back in history in two thousand and six the palestinians in gaza elected hamas that promised a more affirmative response to these three occupation in response israel put gaza under blockade the list of import restrictions among many many other things included things like cement would cat all animal medicine musical lindstrom and notebooks at one point even lentils pasta tomato paste and chocolate

were on the list of items not allowed into gaza it's not easy to gauge what the blockade meant for the people there and all the humiliation that went with it is well insisted that the purpose of the blockade was to pressure hamas into ending the rocket attacks the attacks did not stop they intensified in two thousand and eight is where launched a major assault on gaza operation cast lead killed more than a thousand palestinians and thirteen israelis did not solve the problem again it got worse. and officials keep repeating the mantra israel has no right to defend itself it sure does but the tragedy is that the palestinians to think they are defending themselves. israel's deputy foreign minister says most of the people hit by the bombardment of gaza quote deserved it because he claims they were armed terrorists palestinian health officials and human rights activists however insist that more than two thirds of those killed were civilians but almost half of them children israel though says the ratio is lower spoke to one of the country's m.p.'s

who says that her government was just protecting israeli citizens and conducted the assault with precision. israel is putting so much effort to ensure that civilians are not hurt. i'm sorry but look at what we're spending on our money we're spending our money on defending our civilians making sure they're safe and making sure that we can we do not hurt civilians when we go to war what this hamas spend their money on they are hiding behind television crews they are hiding behind journalists and israel is doing something on paralleled in the history of warfare in me for the people who are not involve are not killed and israel is really been commended by all countries not just for having the right to defend its citizens but also for the fact that it is couldn't ducting itself in a way that is very proportional and very measured well journalist and anti-war

activist don de bar says if israel wants to protect itself from gaza tags has to improve living conditions for the people living in the palestinian territory. their condition degraded from being starving to being starving and bombed and now the bombing apparently will stop and so that is a reason to celebrate as meager as it might seem in the face of starvation again the the precondition to dealing with that is to give the people if not justice at least you know enough to survive and have a decent life right now it's a million and a half people and open an open air prison camp without food without medicine without the material means of survival except for those crumbs that are allowed to pass through the hands of israelis and until that changes israel will not see peace but i will more news for you an analysis on the ceasefire in the middle east throughout the day and of course all those details available for you on line right now just head over to our web site that's our team dot com.

the age old war between the rich and the poor is out in the open today in brussels where you peon leaders are gathering to hammer out a budget deal and evasions are glaring aside from disagreeing on whether to increase decrease or freeze the budget leaders are also threatening vetoes over what to cut and what to fund archies laura smith reports on the looming showdown. the scene was set for this battle over the budget two years ago when angela merkel and nicolas sarkozy desperately needing british backing for a euro rescue fund promised david cameron they would rein in russell cash trough now it's payback time and the brussels mandarins who control the e.u. is one thousand billion euros budgets are about to feel the pinch years dealmaking

is supposed to yield a budget to twenty twenty covering infrastructure education research and development but after three years of economic turmoil in the weakening political ties stock divisions are emerging david cameron is heading to brussels or more many a cooling mission impossible he's on the intense pressure at home to cut a new budget contributions and has threatened to veto anything beyond spending a promise that goes down well at home popularity is at an all time low for his hands are tied by what's gone before tony blair as the new deal with me in the u.k. is contribution to brussels is likely to go up in real terms and its cash rebate will be reduced by two billion pounds a year unless cameron can get more budget cuts from brussels he may face more

rebellion in his own party and germany's angela merkel is desperate for a deal too so focused back to saving the euro with the brussels budget tension has been. and angry divides on the one side northern european countries like the u.k. which are demanding huge cuts in spending to match this of. that's making countries to the south and east who are dependent on cash from brussels very uneasy is suggest the to tear europe so long demonized and denied by jose manuel barroso as brussels p r is becoming a reality. party's laura smith era let's get some expert opinion in terms of what's at stake for your about them at the sun that for that i'm joined by dr michael is the director of the open europe berlin think tank sir thank you so much for taking time to speak with us now let's get straight to the story i want to know if you're

optimistic that this whole situation will end quickly and that an agreement could actually be reached. some of. my friends in brussels tell me you know. so tonight perhaps we'll be in agreement on a somewhat modified. plan because all all the member states see that the alternative which would be a rollover of the two thousand and thirteen spending ceiling and certain. areas is not very attractive to all of the other states well well it does seem however that there is divisions within the countries over the budget i mean talk a little bit more about the unity or perhaps lack thereof in this walk. well there's certainly more than one block there's definitely the net contributor is the net recipients and then there are the countries that have only relying on arm and

regional funds in both camps. but that in a way it is nothing new but the gap between the member states has increased dramatically because of the euro crisis which has simply shown the huge differences in competitiveness and that that is the extra point and also one one thing is new that this time for the first time there is no german french deal before on agricultural spending and so on no deal before the summit. that shows that the divide it's rather large. but you want to get out another issue here in britain which is demanding the steepest cuts not a spending freeze or actually enjoy some of the most favorable contribution conditions do you feel that the u.k. is being reasonable here. i think it is i mean after all the u.k. is still a very large that contributor to budget and it is impacts on answering many

many you programs but it does not really like perhaps a certain. european union project which is high on the agenda of a. would also be reasonable and even better than simply. simply having cuts. present the budget as to. the structure of the budget and then what it does and what it does not really have to do it would be a more important decision however there is i mean golf in terms of contribution from member to member do you feel that this is a problem and could it get worse in the future. i'm afraid it is because as a as i said now the euro crises as added to go between different states and this however can cannot be solved by throwing money at different meant states all

these countries have to become comfortable by gauging in their own economic hold and certainly the countries have some chances but you know. labor markets and in some surprise side also to be in a much better shape. certainly can't be solved by throwing money at the problem as he said thank you so much that's professor and dr michael walden that he's the director of open europe berlin think tank thank you. right well coming up don't go away an angry anniversary in london for the third year running for the reasons the students marched to protest skyrocketing tuition fees which are making it ever harder to get a degree and a job. bahrain puts dozens of medics behind bars for keeping to the hippocratic oath and treating protesters that's after a damning report by amnesty international reveals the for human rights situation is getting worse in that ten. plus

a look at india's tourist hot spots where holiday makers get the best conditions while locals have to pay for it with the most basic comforts this and a lot more for you in just a. british lib dem minister lynne featherstone said that since women have babies it allows men to pass them up on the letter to power such a 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 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 to replace your shortcomings 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 and 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 aren't failures in my opinion but then again that's just my opinion. well for british scientists done. right in front of. the market why not. find out what's really happening to the global

economy with mike stronger for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines and tune into cars a report. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realize everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm tom harpur welcome to the big picture. welcome back you're watching our team with me this he tough enough thousands of university students have taken to the streets of london to demonstrate against the rising price of education and marks the second anniversary of huge demonstrations sparked by soaring to russian rights. as more. then launching the fight she was

in face of the same put in place in the case and again as the case did the most. parliament which was completely closed off by this is a promise by the. full the last election that they wouldn't raise the tuition fees and of course the so let me not a couple of years again. each months of backlash and students about that i mean it's very tough because they said at the time even up until the point they were bringing in the right situation that not every university with the other very much some of them out that nine thousand pounds a year i was actually what we've seen is a lot of the universities are charging not. very good but the fact that people do have access to higher level education in university that's going to be one of the main points of the students they're being trying to make. because a report is coming up in just a few minutes so here's a little taste of what is cooking for you. insider trading hedge funds shadow

banking system accounting firms all committing massive pollution and fraud the austerity is right is a response because there's no leadership there's no government look at global interactions bank regulation continue let a billion people in the streets with torches hunt down these bankers and do what they have to degenerate is scary. in bahrain twenty three doctors have been a sentenced to three months in prison for treating protesters and taking part in mass demonstrations there arrested during the uprising there last year along with more than seven the other health care workers all this comes a one day after amnesty international issued a highly critical report which states the behind the government broke its promise to improve its human rights situation on the contrary the findings suggest torture oppression police brutality against protesters are on the rise demonstrations have

been ongoing for more than eighteen months now although he's been largely unreported by any stream press. conference you worked in the report told us of the pundits. well we have. that back to the situation is much more spending months ago it's where you terry right we're talking about at least twenty four people being killed after they were being dependent from bahrain issued its reports last year about i don't know what protests at the un to folks over an only a week ago there were occasional national to thirty one opposition activists were also talking about continuous harassment of human rights and one of them is now being the president of the famed center for human rights that was ten times the summer two three years he increased mary 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 and hundreds of allegations of torture that that's happening especially significant enough to cause

when you have an international commute. no pressure on that i need to ensure that. any independent commission of inquiry recommendations are implemented it. were not what we are seeing that you or your. report was issued we have seen that that main welcome day shows that would ensure a come to justice for big teams have not been implemented well as fierce fighting continues in syria a rising number of foreigners are reported to be taking part in assaults on government forces damascus is now providing the un security council with a list of mercenaries that it claims were brought in from abroad to fight you can have online where more details for you are website. plus how dog is a certainly a man's best friend especially has made of steel and is helping to clean up japan's crippled fukushima power plants all that for you on line.

i think. well many tourists who travel to india are drawn in by the cheap prices that they get for their comfort but artie's prius trader reports even the most basic services that foreigners are enjoy at a hidden cost to the local communities. beautiful beaches and luxurious resorts may go on the western coast of india a tourist hot spot for people around the world really enjoy it we just arrived a couple of days ago so we really enjoy tourism drives the economy here and go up but it comes at a price a new study found the tourists actually use eight times as much water the local go away during peak season sometimes only get access to running water for two hours every other day go ins used to depend on wells in their neighborhoods for water but

the population in the small state triples during the peak tourist season and with no proper sewage systems in place many wells have become contaminated forcing locals to rely on the erratic public supply. for emergency. room have who says that plastic bangs and on and we have to keep otherwise there's no war. but while the locals access to water is draining . just down the road water flows freely in the resorts or tourists enjoy fountains fish ponds and splashing in the pools that's because hoteliers can afford to dominate the limited supply even if they do so illegally most five star hotels get water from tankers and most tankers operate without a license they take water from local wells in neighborhoods where extraction is banned by law was. required so. well whatever.

so the restaurant owner foods he has to buy from the bank. no doubt but he's forced to buy the average tourist enjoying go as water feature is here for less than a week willing to pay up for short term fun but most are unaware of the frail future in this coastal community in my perspective i'm going to stay here only for . the. most of the concern for those born and raised here disparity is infuriating half the population relies on tourists for their livelihood although it's one that leaves them without access to a basic human right i thought. because i knew i mean you've lived you've grown up in this area you can most certainly is this fair i mean is this just in the system to be a faceless dimmest listening to the real risk. to the quiz when those who actually

benefits from judaism. but with no limit on how much water can be bought at hotels will remain the highest bidder leaving the locals hanging out to dry preassure either r t go india rivals take a look at other headlines making news around the globe right now. thousands of protesters have massed in the streets of a south korean capital seoul on the second anniversary of north korea's shelling of one of the country's islands accuse the south of breaching enabling the spring military exercises and responded with an attack saw four people killed today north korea threatened to repeat the attack. pakistan's been wronged by a series of terrorist attacks that have left at least thirty six people dead dozens wounded the bloodiest assault took place in a city near the capital islamabad when a suicide bomber attacked a sheet a little ceremony killing twenty two people the violence came just hours after an

explosion destroyed a security vehicle in the northwestern city of the country and twin blasts at a shia mosque in iraq. well it's a sight that would make you stop in your tracks. well well some would think that this is a start of a new military campaign but this clash has nothing to do with missiles the dazzling light which fill the horizon as a result of a gas blast incident had happened in western russia after propane delivery truck exploded at a petrol station no one was hurt. but i'll go away the kaiser report is up next stay with us r.t. . 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 snow a world of us as a boy here suffering from fever and the doctors are going to see what they can do. inside a small building not one but two babies and that 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 can spread lawyer 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 and 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. we call for emergency help. back at hospital other patients helped by the air ambulance are being treated the service costs forty 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 accusations learn to me firmly dismisses it is not true usually the calls are perfectly justified sometimes we even reproach locals for waiting too long before calling us he's been working as a doctor now for forty three years but let him is confident that even after he retires his helicopter doctors will remain a lifeline to the peoples of the russian far north.

america as are welcome to the kaiser report who knows what it will lurks in our other global financial system the sad and yes the shadow has the power to cloud men's minds so they can see the shared stacy kaiser i am looking like a shadow today in honor of the shadow banking system this shadow banking grows to sixty seven trillion dollar industry regulators say the regulators are the financial stability board and they say it's six trillion dollars more than they thought it was only a week or two ago they have a parallel universe together.