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 disputes between the warring parties and still remain an earlier peace deals proved unsuccessful. this thing just sat for the four trillion euro showdown in brussels the next budget splits the blog and two with foreign nations demanding continued aid and the rich reluctant to up their share. of.

world news live from our moscow headquarters you're watching r t with me catherine of the people of gaza have woken up to relative calm a cease fire between israel and hamas reached wednesday seems to be holding up eight days of violence has killed five israelis and more than one hundred sixty gaza residents over the truce began shakily with several rockets fired towards israel after the deal had been agreed upon. has more from tel aviv. the ceasefire ends some of the fiercest fighting we've witnessed the 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 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 and 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 and 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 that 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 for 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 test of time but the aggression may have stopped but deep divisions between israel and hamas remain sparking fears that the truce is actually due from the start she's going to get 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 by using in striking its world with 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. elected hamas that promised a more performative response to these for the occupation in response is well put gaza under blockade the list of import restrictions among many many other things including things like cement would cat all animal by the same musical lindstrom and notebooks at one point even lentils tomato paste and chocolates

were on the list of items not allowed into gaza it's not easy to gauge what the blockade manned 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 american 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're defending themselves. well 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 but palestinian health officials and human rights activists say that more than two thirds of those killed were civilians almost half of them children israel though says the ratio is lower or she spoke to one of the country's

m.p.'s who insists her government was protecting israeli citizens and conducted the assaults 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 involved 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 journalists an antiwar activists don de bar says if israel wants to protect itself from gaza tox it has to improve living conditions for the people 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 in 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 while more details and analysis for you on the middle east cease fire throughout the day as well as on our website that's our team dot com.

well the age old war between the rich and the poor is out in the open in brussels today where european leaders are gathering to hammer out a budget deal the divisions though 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 parties or 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 stated cameron they would rein in brussels cash trough now it's payback time and the brussels mandarins who control the e.u. is one thousand billion euro 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 e.u. weakening political ties stark divisions are emerging david cameron is heading to brussels or more many a calling mission impossible he's under intense pressure at home to cut e.u. budget contributions and has threatened to veto anything beyond a spending greens 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 you deal with me in the u.k. is contribution to brussels is likely to go up in real time and it's cash rebates 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 defra for a deal too so focus can back to saving the euros but the brussels budget tension has opened and angry new divides on the one side northern european countries like the u.k. which are demanding huge cuts in spending to match they still staring at home 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. dr michael walden with he's a director of the open your berlin think tank says the growing wealth disparity between the e.u. states is a huge problem the euro crisis as an age to go between different states and. this however can cannot be solved by throwing money

at different member states all these countries have to become comfortable gauging in their own economic forms but i'm afraid it will be many more nationalistic tones . amongst these recipients of the nobel prize for peace. this has always been like that but again i think you will crises really adds to that makes the division in the different european states change in a much larger. well coming up it's an angry anniversary in london for the third year running thousands of students march to protest skyrocketing tuition fees which are making it even harder to get a degree and a job. bahrain puts dozens of medics behind bars for keeping to the hippocratic oath and treating protesters once after a damning report by amnesty international revealing the human rights situation is

getting worse in the kingdom. plus a look at india's tourist hot spots for holiday makers get the best conditions while locals have to pay for it with the most basic of comforts this and 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 essentially children are set back 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 the

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 marriage 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. more news today violence is once again flared up. and these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. giant corporations are ruled the

day. we speak your language or not of the. news programs and documentaries and spanish more matters to you. a little turn to bangalore stories. here. in the spanish. visit i. watch martina with me out of thousands of university students have taken to the streets of london to demonstrate against the rising cost of education and marks the second anniversary of huge demonstrations sparked by intuition fee is. more.

that we see put in place in the i guess that's the case to be most. completely closed off by police this is a promise by the before the last election that they would write the tuition that it goes. not a couple. of months at backlash about that i mean it's very tough because they said at the side even up until the point they were bringing in the right situation that you know every. other very much. that nine thousand pounds yeah what we've seen is a lot of us not talk about. the fact that the people that i love are that's a place. that's going to be one of the main points of the. kaiser

is always there to expose those making profits from people suffering because report is coming up later today but here's a little taste of what's cooking for. insider trading hedge fund shadow banking system accounting firms all committing massive pollution and fraud the austerity is right as a response because there's no leadership there's no government look at global insurrection against banker occupation continue a billion people in the streets with torches hunt down these bankers and do what they have to do to generate this scourge. x.-prize are free there in bahrain twenty three doctors have been sentenced to three months in prison for treating protesters and taking part in mass demonstrations they were arrested during the uprising last chair along with more than seventy other healthcare workers it comes one day after amnesty international issued a highly critical report which states department government broke its promise to

improve its human rights. situation on the contrary the finding suggests torture oppression police brutality against protesters are on the rise demonstrations have been ongoing for more than eighteen months now although they've been largely unreported by the international media covered on the telecom bar who worked in the court told us how her findings. alone we have found out that actually the situation is much more spending months ago it's really the terrier a thousand we're talking about at least twenty four people being killed after they were being dependent from firing issued its reports last year a ban on not protest at the end to october and only a week ago there were a vocation of national took thirty one opposition activists were also talking about continuous harassment or human rights and one of them is now being the president of the famed center for human rights that was sometimes these some are two three years increased merrily 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 happened especially since the beginning of two thousand and eleven until now international community has not enough pressure on the man to ensure that. any independent commission of inquiry recommendations are implemented it will into squad were not what we are seeing is that you are on your . report was issued we have seen that that main commendation is that would ensure a country we can to justice for victims have not been implemented. well as fierce fighting continues in syria a rising number of foreigners are reported to be taking part on assaults on government forces damascus is now providing the u.n. security council with a list of mercenaries that it claims are brought in from abroad to fight it online or we've lined up the story for you also for you on our website a dog is certainly a man's best friend especially if it's made of steel that's helping to clean up japan it's crippled fukushima nuclear programs.

so i have a lot of tourists who travel to india or are drawn in by the luxury at a cheap price tag but artist or reports even the most basic services they enjoy a hidden cost to 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 here 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 that tourists actually use eight times as much water the local go to during peak season sometimes only get access to running water for two hours

every other day goings 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 and run water is they really have to sin 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. required so right now you know what i wish 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 will. to pay off 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 we were. told i would be concerned 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 know i mean you've lived you've you've grown up in this area you kind of silly is this fair i mean is this just in the

system to be a faceless diminishment of the real respond. to the christmas who actually benefits from judaism. but with no limit on how much water can be bought hotels will remain the highest bidder leaving the locals hanging out to dry preassure either r t. let's check out some other news making headlines around the world right now. thousands of protesters have massed on the streets of the south korean capital seoul on the second anniversary of north korea shelling of one of the country's islands. south of breaching mabel before the storm military exercises responded with an attack i saw four people killed on thursday north korea threatened to repeat that attack. pakistan's been rocked by a series of terrorist blast that have left at least thirty six people dead dozens wounded the bloodiest assault took place in a city near the capital of islamabad when a suicide bomber attacked a shia religious ceremony killing twenty three people the violence came just hours

after an explosion just stored a security vehicle in the northwest of the country and twin blasts had a shia mosque and karachi. congolese rebels from the militant group twenty three say they're ready to seize the country's capital the statement was made in the city of golmaal which fighters captured on tuesday after a un back to govern. and force the rebel commander called on the people of the city to join the march on can show to topple presidential just look at the un security council earlier going to sanctions on the rebel leadership introducing a travel ban as well as an asset freeze. well a society that was certainly make you stop in your tracks. well look at that all somewhat think it's a start of a new military campaign but this apocalyptic flash has nothing to do with missiles that doesn't light which fill the horizon as the result of

a gas blast the incident happened in western russia after a propane delivery truck exploded at a petrol station no one was hurt in the incident. all right don't go away a capital account with lauren lister is up next right here on our team. looking at some jokes you simply do not believe they come speak and goodness how they can wrong oh. it's an international sled dog race with those driving the dogs. coming from as far away as a strength in canada and the u.s. they come to russia and everybody is so very friendly they welcomed me with open arms and the scenery is so beautiful it's very much like a laska and so i felt at

home the first sled dog was brought here from a stray i must have come to this remote ration village to take part in the race it's not surprising they love it this trail are amazing. but even more amazing is the story of how racing first started here a toll it wasn't the tough mushers of sled dog racing who set the trail ablaze but are none and for all fans who brought their idea to life. five years ago of a bill to dog kennel in the village kids from the local open h. came around to take care of the dogs and one day they state their life might seem extreme to some the boys wake up at six to feed to the dogs before school in the evening they spend up to three hours training their full legged friends but smother perske have also encourages her kids to become depth hands on the computer and internet the boys who regularly update their websites and they're in touch with their busy mother twenty four seven on the phone. but children are the most

important thing my own interests not play any rule any more and regardless of whether part of schemas huskies window race or not she hopes the competition will take place in the village next year. but called these dogs and the children it really is not the weaning but truly just the taking part that counts. good afternoon welcome to capital account i'm laura in the store here in washington d.c. these are your headlines for one to november twenty first two thousand and twelve the vix is the stock market so-called fear gauge and this measure of volatility is currently very low so does this mean that things are ok ok well we'll hear from

volatility analyst chris cole on what a more complete picture reveals about a bull market in fear and the latest out of europe leaders have failed to reach a deal on cutting the greek government's debt according to bloomberg more just spewed over into budget plans are expected ahead so despite the turmoil the euro crisis is a known unknown for investors but how do you protect against the unknown unknowns how do you all. being the turkey on thanksgiving we'll discuss plus in loose change with black friday the biggest shopping day of the year coming up in the u.s. this may be the type of thing that comes to mind when you think of wal-mart. right. totally crazy however this year you may see retail workers protesting what they deem unfair labor practices now we know public companies are focused on delivering quantifiable bottom line results but how do you value the unquantifiable of

treating your employees a little better look at another example let's get to today's capital account. well our next guest has said volatility is the market price of uncertainty so given these uncertain times with the u.s. fiscal cliff ahead europe on the rocks all dole by the novacaine of easy money why do we keep hearing about how the vix the stock market's volatility index is low the wall street journal blog post puts it is this stock market so-called fear gauge remains fast asleep and as we will contend so dated well it could be a much more complex picture but first let's be clear that there is more than one

type of uncertainty there are things to worry about like this. it's a risk the sovereign debt crisis could spread and destabilize the global economy than any of the slowdown in china the latest sign of trouble in the world's second biggest economy that could do what the first word the fiscal cliff brain for the largest coming i mean. so these are what are guys called no no no and things we know we don't know and then there are these type of risks when i ask them what the heck is going on down here i don't know there is fear this is capitulation really radiation at the daiichi plant and fukushima got so high today they were forced to leave temporarily but now they're back on the job probably the only thing we can do is create a weapon system and send it down eighteen thousand feet and made it the case in the case of the oil.