this is r t nineteen hundred hours now tonight the headlines are a cease fire ending eight days of violence between israel hamas takes hold with over one hundred sixty palestinians and five israelis killed during the bloody exchange you got the latest on that critics saying the truce is just the calm before the next storm is underlying disputes between the warring parties still remain. plus the stage is set for a truly in the bureau showdown in brussels the next budget splits the plot to coronations the money continued aid and the rich are reluctant to up their contribution.

good evening i'm kevin owen franks for being with the people of garcia woken up to relative calm today a cease fire between israel and hamas reached late on wednesday seems to be holding up still eight days of violence has killed five israelis and more than one hundred sixty gaza residents but the truce had a shaky start with several rockets fired towards israel after the deal was reached paula slee is scott moore from tel aviv. some of 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 spikes 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 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's a lot of questions still hanging over the whole issue of whether or not it is what 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 however does say that the whole discussion for the procedures for this will begin some twenty four hours after 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 falsely or there are a middle east correspondent a lot of question may have stopped did divisions between israel and hamas remain sparking fears the truce is doomed from the start out he's going to teach you can has more now on the tensions that led to this latest round of violence. this

ceasefire deal doesn't even begin to address the root causes of the conflict then 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 and 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 them a more affirmative response to the story of the occupation in response israel put gaza under blockade the list of import restrictions among many many other things included 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 as 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 israel launched a 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 american 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 are going to check on a correspondent in washington whispered to journalists not the war activists don't you told me if israel wants to protected so from gaza or it must improve living conditions for the people in the palestinian territories. 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 precondition to dealing with that is to give the people it's not just us at least you know enough to survive and have a decent life right now it's a million and a half people an opening 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 israel's deputy foreign minister says most of the people hit by gaza strikes quote deserved it because he claims they were terrorists but palestinian health officials and human rights activists say more than two thirds of those killed were civilians with almost half of them children as well though says that ratio is lower let's talk more about the consequences of the eight day offensive with ashley perry now he's a former senior advisor for israel's foreign ministry is joining us live on the line from tel aviv mr perry good evening to thanks for being on r.t. international five israeli people something killed on your side over one hundred

sixty on the palestinian side what are these figures say about the balance of force in this conflict in your view. well i don't think it says too much because israel has invested billions of dollars protecting its people either through more protected rooms so every single rockets which emanated from gaza had the intent to kill in fact it intended to kill many people mass casualties and if we hadn't invested that money in the protection of our people there would have been far greater numbers on the israeli side so i don't think we need to apologize for the quote that we have invested money to protect our citizens where is the opposition that hamas have actually spent millions if not billions of dollars trying to create a system of terror which bears no regard for the treatment of its own civilians so with hindsight you don't think this could have been done any differently no. obviously there's always details here and there that could be done differently but

i think the operational aims were achieved. peace and quiet to the residents of israel's south which have not known peace and quiet for twelve years twelve thousand rockets in twelve years has pounded the israeli communities of the south over a million people have had to live daily in protected rooms have fear to go outside and when they have the danger of death from these incoming missiles the question is how long will this peace last these mutual attacks for now finish but the tension between israel and hamas is now been resolved how do you expect do you expect this current fragile peace to last them. obviously we would hope for this peace to last a very long time the people of israel south of dallas might be realistic you know is is of it. why until the palestinian group hamas meets the three conditions of the quartet recognize israel recognize past agreements i renounce violence then the international community have said that they are not

a legitimate into mediator in affairs again taking a short breath in this interlude no this time of peace just a look back at the last week or so to think operation pillar of clouds proof we more successful than operation cast lead. i think so i think that the end of the day the chief operational aim was to bring peace and quiet to the south the residents of israel and we hope about what happened we see today there have been no attacks from gaza into israel we hope the hamas of received the message loud and clear the terrorist infrastructure has been severely curtailed israel took out the military command to other senior military terrorists and this wall this would have been a big blow for them and the fact is that hamas sued for peace and this shows that there were an organization really on the ropes and we hope that that coupled with this ceasefire agreement will mean peace for both israelis and palestinians in that region. with attacks on television threats of

a ground invasion the prospects of reaching a cease fire looks slim we're following the intense negotiations over the last forty eight hours or so who in the end of the day played a key role in securing this truce. but i think we can definitely think the united states we can thank the. authorities the egyptian leadership and many others we saw a real heightened sense of diplomacy the german foreign minister the french foreign minister was here as well as the secretary of state clinton. president morsi obviously played a very large role and what i think we have is we have a real guarantee from the international community that peace will be attempted from the palestinian side but obviously will be ensured from the israeli side that there will be some semblance of normalcy both as i said for the southern residents of israel and for the innocent palestinian people who are suffering in an open air prison put there placed there by the hamas regime which absolute does not want peace in fact its first line in its charter said it's quite clearly that israel

will exist until islam will look literally to it is that an organization that any sovereign nation would like to have on its borders throwing missiles across by the thousands every single year mr perry one final if you will spend thirty seconds a pledge to ease this blockade of gaza but wellness now you really are an israeli efforts to prevent arms smuggling to hamas now if you can. so i can you tell me the israel's pledge to ease the blockade of gaza now but my question was this measure only harm israeli efforts to prevent arms smuggling to hamas. now absolutely israel has always been interested in easing anything that restricts their life the normalcy of the innocent palestinian people in fact israel brings in more food more aid every day then the palestinians even need we have a greater capability if the palestinians would press that they don't need it it will cease to lead on

a daily need humanitarian wise down everything good the palestinians could meet so their idea is quite an easing of this group a but the most important thing is hamas are not able to reload and relaunch such an escapade in the coming months and i think that and i know that israeli authorities will do everything to prevent that actually perri former advisor to israel's foreign ministry thank you for your time on the program appreciate it. thank you. now we bring you more news and analysis on the cease fire in the middle east are online as well on our website r.t. dot com as well don't forget. the age old war between the rich the pause at the open in brussels today where european leaders are gathering to try to hammer out a budget deal the divisions that were glaring aside from disagreeing on whether to

increase decrease or freeze the budget leaders are also threatening vetoes over what to cut all what to fund parties or smith reports on this looming showdown. the scene was set but 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 david cameron they would rein in brussels cash trough now it's payback time and the brussels mandarins who control the e.u. has 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. and weakening political ties stock to visions 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 a new deals 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 too so focus can back to saving the euro with the brussels budget tension has opened and angry a new divide on the one side northern european countries like the u.k. which are demanding huge cuts in spending to match this all sterile home that's

making countries to the south and east who are dependent on cash from brussels very uneasy it suggests that to tear europe so long demonized and denied by jose manuel barroso as brussels p.r. is becoming a reality. for smith the director of the open europe think tank says the growing wealth disparity between the states is a big problem. the euro crisis has added to go between different states and this however can cannot be solved throwing money at different member states all these countries have to become comfortable gauging in their own economic force but i'm afraid it will be many more nationalistic tone also hostility amongst these recipients of the normal cries of peace and.

this has always been like that but again i think the usual crisis really adds to that makes the division between the different european states potentially much larger. in bahrain how keeping your word might land you in jail the government has dozens of medics sticking to the hippocratic oath and treating protesters suffer a damning report by amnesty international revealing the human rights situation is getting worse in the kingdom we've got a report lined up for you this half hour plus russian activists ramp other attempts not assume a doner this time claiming the material girl's failing to behave like a virgin is a cup of the stories after this quick break. was

. in the glow of russia's not far away from civilization in a three hour helicopter treat from the nearest village. he's still one family have been living here for a long time in tents made of reindeer skins. lodging runs in aid signal and minutes they also grew up in the two but left it at the age of six and never returned they now live in the city in apartment building but still remember their regions.

was planted here is a dancing teacher. was. still his den says he tells the stories about his mother lang. lives in a repeat in there has a one thousand strong reindeer had when the enemy only saw the light can and most around you it is gather their tens and move to another pasture they travel hundreds of kilometers in winter we men and children for them. the two families have less of a chance to come across each other they belong to different worlds even though these songs are similar.

in bahrain twenty three doctors have been sentenced to sri months in prison for treating protestors and taking part of my stem stray sions there arrested during the uprising last year along with more than seventy other health care workers to it comes a day after amnesty international issued a highly critical report which states the bahraini government broke its promise to improve it see the right situation on the country be. finding suggest torture oppression and police brutality against protesters is only increase demonstrations have been ongoing now for more than eighteen months although they've been largely unreported by the international media cover the middle a camper who worked on the report told me of a finding. well we have is that actually the situation is 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 that one thing that been a commission of inquiry issued its report last year a ban on not protests at the end of october and only a week ago there were

a vocation of nationality of thirty one opposition activists were also talking about continuous harassment of human rights and one of them is now the president of the famed center for human rights that was sentenced the summer to three years in three senate 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 happened especially since the beginning of two thousand and eleven until now international community has not enough pressure on that one. to ensure that. any independent commission of inquiry recommendations are implemented it already it is quite worrying what we are seeing is that either our general. report was issued we have seen that that main work on a day shows that would ensure a country we can to justice for victims have not been implemented. as fierce fighting continues in syria rising number of foreigners are reported to be taking part in a sold some government forces there and i would damascus know providing the un

security council with a list of mercenaries it claims were brought in from abroad to support terrorist attacks who want to more about that you get a heads up online from assad to dot com also got the story that of course a dog is certainly a man's best friend especially though if it's made a steal it is helping clean up japan's fukushima nuclear power plant interesting story from there going to catch its online from us. when the world's most provocative pop stars is once again in the spotlight russian activists were trying to drive madonna to court for what they claim is gay propaganda now also accuse the entertainer of breaching state security. reports.

not only according to these activists madonna poses 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 madonna has told them during 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 are willing to compensate ten million dollars from the pop singer and they are saying basically that the propaganda of homosexuality inside because it's outlaw and that's why they have the backing of the law on their side now but they want to certainly is not a stranger to all different sorts of controversies all throughout her career she's

been doing some crazy things sometimes exposing and nepal during a conflict 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 pop diva will attend court hearing seats in 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 so close with the new stories around the world now the protests that have massed on the streets of the south korean capital seoul of the second anniversary of north korea's shelling of one of the country's islands accuse the south of breaching naval borders during military exercises responded with an attack we saw four people killed on thursday north korea threatened the attack. pakistan's been rocked by a series of terrorist attacks have left at least thirty six people dead and dozens wounded the blood is to solve took place in a city near the capital islamabad when a suicide bomber attacked a shia religious ceremony killing twenty three the violence came just hours after

an explosion to. security vehicle in northwest the country in twin blasts it's a shia mosque in karachi. called leeds rebels for the militant group m twenty three say they're ready now to seize the country's capital the statement was made in the city of goma which the fighters captured on tuesday after ousting u.s. backed government forces the rebel there called on the people of the city to join the march on kinshasa to topple president joseph kabila. the un security council earlier agreed sanctions on the rebel leadership introducing a travel ban and an asset freeze. a site that make your stock in your tracks. in the summer a big start of a new military campaign it is not that apocalyptic floods nothing to do with it was there in fact the result of a gas gas blast the instant happened in western russia after a propane truck exploded at a petrol station amazingly no one hurt there in that incident of

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to do because you've never seen anything like armstrong. what's up guys i'm having martin so i'm sure you've heard the latest israel and hamas have now agreed to a cease fire marking a somber and eight days of the most violent fighting between the two countries in nearly four years secretary of state hillary clinton who sought to facilitate a role in the cease fire said the agreement will quote improve conditions for the people of gaza and provide security for the people of israel yes the fighting has stopped but will things really improve when the damage has already been done a ceasefire will never bring back one hundred forty palestinians that died nor will it make amends for the five israelis who died along with the twenty seven who were wounded in this morning's bus bombing in tel aviv you see death and destruction are never justifiable and really what was achieved in all of this just more fear more

animosity from those that were affected all of which breeds more terrorism look at simple violence begets violence terror begets terror until we realize that we will continue to be pawns in a vicious cycle of vengeance and hate and that's why i'm breaking the set. on this show i've been covering the israeli palestinian conflict in a way that you won't hear from the u.s. corporate media why because the corporate media lackeys for the u.s. government we already know that the u.s. government has complete allegiance to america's biggest ally in the middle east israel as i mentioned before last week and the r.t. office and gaza along with multiple other media offices were bombed by israeli forces while the day of the bombing of the hour.