a cease fire ending eight days of violence between israel and hamas takes hold with more than one hundred sixty palestinians killed and five israelis dead during the bloody exchange. but critics say the truce is just the calm before the next storm has underlying disputes between the warring parties still remain. and the stage is set for a trillion euro showdown in brussels the e.u. is next budget splits the block into with poorer nations demanding continued aid for the rich reluctance to up their share.

of world news live from our moscow headquarters here watching r t with me lucy cotton of all the people of gaza have awoken up to a relative calm today a ceasefire between israel and hamas reached a late on wednesday seems to be holding up for now eight days out of violence has killed five israelis and more than one hundred and sixty gaza residents but the truce had a shaky start with several rockets fired towards israel after a deal was reached artie's post leader has more from tel aviv. i in 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 spine now from what we've seen eight days of heavy bombardment at the same time it brings with it to roughly a million israelis who live in the south of israel and who've been on the receiving end of constant barrage 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 i don't 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 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 israel 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 ceasefire was announced while the ceasefire at the moment is holding a lot of tension on the ground and a lot of questions as to whether or not it will stand the test of time well the aggression may have stopped but deep divisions between israel and hamas remain sparking fears the truce was doomed from the start are going to judge a 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 the radical forces among them rising in striking it as well with is well coming back at them so hard that even 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 the story of the occupation in response israel put gaza under blockade the list of import was among many many other things including things like cement wood cattle animal medicine musical latest romans 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 the major of assault on gaza the 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 the right to defend itself it sure does but the tragedy is that the palestinians to think they are defending themselves. his deputy foreign minister says most of the people hit by the gaza strikes quote deserved it because he claims they were armed terrorists the 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 r.t.

spoke to one of the country's m.p.'s who insists that her government was protecting israeli citizens the conduct of 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 to villian 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 it making sure that 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 it is this but also for the fact that it is couldn't ducting itself in

a way that is very proportional and very measured blantyre war activists don de bar says if israel wants to protect itself from gaza attacks as 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 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 for a while more news analysis on the cease fire in the middle east available for you on our web site right now 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 in order to hammer out a budget deal the divisions however 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 our teams or smith reports on the looming showdown. the scene was set for this battle over the news limited budgets two years ago when angela merkel and nicolas sarkozy desperately needing british backing for a euro rescue fund promised 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 euros budgets are about to feel the pinch years of deal

making 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 stock divisions are emerging david cameron is heading to brussels or more many are calling mission impossible he's under intense pressure at home to cut a new budget contributions and has threatened to veto anything beyond a spending freeze a promise that goes down well at home popularity is at an all time low but his hands are tied by what's gone before tony blair as the new deal mean the u.k.'s 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 desperate for a deal to so focus can back to saving the euro 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 it's suggest the to tear europe so long demonized and denied by jose manuel barroso as brussels p.r. is becoming a reality. are all the director of the open europe berlin think tank says the growing wealth disparity between the e.u. states is a big problem the euro crisis has an age to go between the different states. this however can cannot be solved throwing money at

different 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 also hostility amongst these recipients of the nobel prize for peace and. this has always been like that but again i think you're a crisis really adds to that makes the division in a different european states potentially much larger. max kaiser of course is always keen to expose those making profits on other people's expense the kaiser report is coming up later today on r t but here's a quick taste of what's in store for you. insider trading hedge funds shadow banking system accounting firms all committing massive collusion and fraud the austerity is right is a response because there's no leadership there's no government look at global insurrection against banker occupation continue billion people in the streets with

torches hunt down these bankers and do with that the don't ever it is. coming up an angry anniversary in london for the third year running thousands of students march to protest skyrocketing tuition fees which are making ever harder to get a degree and a job. brain puts dozens of medics behind bars for keeping to the help a chronicle of sound treating protesters that's after a damning report by amnesty international revealing the human rights situation is getting more cynical. play russian activists ramp up there are times to sue madonna this time claiming the material girl is failing to behave like a version that it all more for you coming up in just a bit. british

lived a minister lived featherstone said that since women have babies it allows men to pass them up on the letter to power such a children or setback for women who want to be successful and equal to men so they want to give them the option of taking maternity leave or would that be a paternity leave i don't know i kind of see the logic overview but my question is further still is why exactly is success in the corporate world the primary goal of life for men and women as. so mr i would think you understand that wanting to fight your way up a ladder to buy a big card or place 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 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. it's the. least be cool language. programs and documentaries in arabic in school here. reporting from the world talks books of p.r.p.

interviews intriguing story to tell you. the troy salty arabic to find out more visit are a big don't know it's called. are at all one of the world's most provocative pop stars as once again in the spotlight russian activists who are trying to drag madonna into court for what they claim is gay propaganda now also accuse the entertainer of breaching state security. i want to turn now to alex here who is standing by with us live with more details alex and the story keeps getting crazier and crazier it seems now these guys are saying madonna somehow weakening russian state security with her antics break it down for us well no not only according to these activists madonna poses a great danger to the family institution in russia not only she has offended the feelings of many by openly supporting the gay community in russia during her

concert concert in st petersburg this summer but also these activists believe that she in fact poses a threat to the defense capabilities of russia they say that people who believe what we're going to install them doing the concert will be involving themselves in all different sorts of dust they will not be willing to serve in the army and protect their country we're certainly waiting for some comments from the defense ministry whether that may be the case but definitely the activists are willing to take this case to the end they're willing to compensate ten million dollars from the pop singer and they are saying basically that the propaganda of homosexuality in st petersburg is our law and that's why they have the backing of the law on their side now madonna certainly is not stranger to all different sorts of controversies all throughout her career she's been doing some crazy things sometimes exposing a nipple during a concert in istanbul putting a picture of the french leader during her concert in france with swastikas and supporting a controversial punk band pussy riot during her concert in moscow the biggest

question are certainly is whether the poor people will attend those court hearings in st petersburg but for now this seems very highly unlikely especially given the degree of the accusations against her but certainly we are following the story and will be bringing all the details as we get all thank you so much i giving us up to date on the rather unusual charges being leveled against a pop star alex they are shots there well don't go away coming up a dry spell for goa india we're going to take a look at india's tourist hot spots for holiday makers get the best conditions while locals have to pay for it with my space comforts. involved twenty three doctors have been sentenced to three months in prison for treating protesters and taking part in mass demonstrations there arrested there during the uprising last year along with more than seventy other health care workers this comes one day after amnesty international issued a highly critical report which states the bahraini government broke its promise to improve the human rights situation there on the contrary the finding suggests

torture oppression and police brutality against the protesters are all on the rise demonstrations have been ongoing for more than eighteen months tell all that they've been largely unreported by the international press coverage on the compound worked on your part told us of our findings. will we have that back to the situation as much or spend it was months ago it's really the terry rate we're talking about at least twenty four people being killed after they were being dependent from bahrain issued its report last year a ban on not protest at the end to october and only a week ago there were occasional national to 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 ten times the summer two three years increased merrily for having exercise his 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 happen especially since the beginning of two thousand and eleven and international community has not enough pressure on that one. to ensure that. any independent commission of inquiry recommendations are implemented it. were not what we are seeing 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. the fierce fighting continues in syria and the rising number of foreigners are reported to be taking part in assaults on government forces which mask us now providing the un security council with a list of mercenaries it claims were brought in from abroad to support the fight you can head online when we have all the details for the story. plus the dog is certainly a man's best friend of the especially if it's made of steel and is helping to clean up japan's fukushima nuclear power plant.

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 storing choice and fees artists are further has more. that we see in the ad again that if you case did maybe most think the. problem is. completely closed off by police and this is a promise by. before the last election that they wouldn't write the tuition fees

that it goes. a couple of years they gave each month the backlash and 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 the good note every university with . the very much now that nine thousand pounds but yeah what we've seen is a lot of the charging not. very good but the fact that. you have that level education event that's really been one of the main points of the street is they're being trying to make our let's take a look at some of the 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's shelling of one of the country's islands on yang accuse the south of breaching naval borders strong military exercises responded with an attack which saw four people killed on thursday on

thursday north korea threatened to repeat the attack. pakistan's been rocked by a series of terrorist attacks that have left at least thirty six people dead dozens have been wounded the bloodiest assault took place in a city near the capital islamabad when a suicide bomber attacked a shia religious ceremony killing twenty three people the violence came just hours after an explosion just roared a security vehicle in the northwest of the country and twin blasts hit 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. in the city of goma which fighters captured on tuesday after ousting going back to government forces the rebel commander called on the people of the city to join the margin can show in order to topple president joseph kabila the un security council earlier agreed to sanctions on the rebel leadership introducing a travel ban as well as an asset freeze. well many tourists traveling to india are

of course drawn in by luxury at a cheap price tag but as artie's previous reports even the most basic services they enjoy have a hidden costs to local communities. beautiful beaches and luxurious resorts make go on the western coast of india a tourist hot spot for people around the world who 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 than local coase 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. room have. that plastic. and they 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 hotel leaders 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. so right now you've got a shortage of war. so that a strong no food he has to buy from the bank has. 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 with. the. most of the concern for those born and raised here the 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. i mean you've lived you've grown up in this if. you can is this fair i mean is this just any system to be a faceless to misplacing to the to be over to the to the to benefits from to is of course cost 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 go india. well it's a science that could make you stop in your tracks take

a look. crazy site there are some would think it's a start of a new military campaign but this apocalyptic flash has nothing to do with missiles that housing light which fill the horizon is 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. but i'll go away coming up in just a few minutes we explore the hardships and the trials faced daily by the women of afghanistan all right here on r.t. . download the official application. choose your language stream quality and enjoy your favorites from alzheimer's t.v.

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