top stories marty tonight a cease fire ending eight days of violence between israel and hamas takes hold with over one hundred sixty palestinians now and six israelis killed during the bloody exchange. critics though say the truce is just the calm before the next storm is underlying disputes between the warring parties still remain. and the stage is set for a trillion euro showdown in brussels the ears next budget splits the bloc into with poorer nations divide the continued aid and the rich reluctant contribution. a very good evening it's kevin owen here at r.t.

tonight's top story dade pm then the big news again of the day the people of gaza have woken up to relative calm a cease fire between israel and hamas reach late on wednesday seems to still be holding up eight days of violence those killed six israelis and more than one hundred sixty gaza residents but the truth of a shaky start to with several rockets fired towards israel after the deal was reached paula slee has the latest for you from tel aviv. in some of the fiercest fighting we 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 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 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 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. paula slater there will be aggression by a stop or deep divisions between israel and hamas remains sparking fears the truth is doomed from the start of his going to cannes got more for you on the tensions that 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 sure 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 a more affirmative response to these for the occupation in response is well put gaza under blockade the list of import restrictions among many many other things included things like cement would count all animal by the same musical latest roman 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 the intensified in two thousand and eight is where launched a major 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 who think they are defending themselves. israel's deputy foreign minister says most of the people who goes the 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 was civilians with almost half of the children is though israel is saying that ratio is lower let's talk about the cause. consists of this a defense

a bit more and go live and talk to the spokesperson for israel's foreign ministry stein started believing two things speaking with us your colleague danny just said says i quote the people here. strikes deserved it because there are terrorists have you got any comment on. well as you know hamas is a terrorist group and they were brought about power in the elections i don't say that civilians deserve to die or deserve to get hurt but this is what their own elected government is doing to them they shot rockets at israel for no apparent reason we withdrew from gaza so it is a questions that the palestinians have to ask themselves why some us doing this what is the aim what is the goal why are they bringing destruction to the people why bring death put a lot of the question to has been a huge loss of palestinian civilians the attempt to defend israel's own citizens.

could you repeat that there's been a huge loss of palestinian civilians in israel's attempt to defend its own citizens though you can argue with that can you. well yeah as you know israel did the most possible not to hurt the civilians what we did is we pinpointed our operation just to the terrorist leaders and to their army in the ammunition but i do agree that they were once in a while there were casualties and we feel very bad about it but as you know this is not an easy operation no military operation is but by any international standard the collateral damage here is pretty minimal amounts of civilians who died it's hard to say it this way it sounds very bad but it could have been much much worse if we weren't so surgical and if our pilots were not given instructions to be

very very precise in to aim is specially at the military a terrorist leaders so. the ceasefire is still in place but i guess the big question is has the main goal of the offensive to prevent further attacks actually been achieved you really believe in your will be no shelling towards israel any more. well we agreed to this understanding because we want peace for our region and for the people of israel so we had to reach it in some way we tried to prevent this operation in the first place by going through all different diplomatic channels as as you know it didn't succeed we also went to the security council and that didn't succeed now after this operation we did reach some kind of understanding and egypt is the one responsible to enforce it and we hope that this will take place we are doing the maximum we can to restrain ourself we are not doing any military operations at the moment and we hope that

they will have peace and quiet in the region that people here in israel will be able to go to sleep and not run to shelters every few hours but what will israel's reaction be if hamas does more shells into its territory in the coming days and months we saw some of it just after this truce was announced earlier. well we have other people in other countries here in the game and it's the united states as you know and egypt and there is some kind of understanding that if it's breaches also there's going to be consequences exactly what we're going to see what we're going to do we're going to see in the future but hopefully we won't get to that hopefully this understanding will be respected by all sides. is ready for a ministry spokesperson thank you ever so much going on to appreciate it thank goodness not to war it was done to bar says if israel wants to protect itself from gaza or must improve living conditions for the people in the palestinian territories is what he had to say. 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 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 in an open and 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 with a lot more news analysis on the cease fire in the middle east available for you on a website right now r.t. dot com.

the age old war between the rich and the poor is out in the open in brussels today where european leaders are gathering to try to hammer out a budget deal but the divisions there a 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 multi-source smith reports on the looming showdown. the scene was set for this battle over the budgets two years ago when angela merkel and nicolas sarkozy desperately needing british backing for a euro rescue fund promised stave it 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.

and weakening political ties stark 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 greens 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 deals mean the u.k.'s contribution to brussels is likely to go up in real terms and its 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 desperate for a deal to sow focus can back to saving the euro with the brussels budget tension has opened and angry new divides on the one side of northern europe and 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 the to tear europe so long demonized and denied by jose manuel barroso as brussels p.r. is becoming a reality. the director of the open you're a burly think tank says the growing wealth disparity between e.u. states is a big problem. the euro crisis. and needs to go between different states. however can cannot be sold throwing money at different states all these countries have to be. gauging in their own forms but i'm afraid it will be many more nationalistic told.

amongst these recipients of the nobel prize for peace. this has always been like that but again i think you will crises media. makes the division in. european states generally much larger. to live from moscow in bahrain tonight how keeping your word might land you in jail the government put dozens of medics to sticking to the hippocratic oath and treating protests today is the joy for damning report by amnesty international reveals the human rights situation is getting worse in the country we've got a report for you plus russian activists ramp up their attempts to sue madonna this time the material girl they say is failing to behave like a virgin that more after this short break.

british live demo minister lynne featherstone said that since women have babies it allows men to pass them up on the letter to power such a children or 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 the paternity leave i don't know i kind of see the logic overview but my question is featherstone is why exactly is success in the corporate world the primary goal of life from. and and women as a feminist i would think you understand that wanting to fight your way up a ladder to buy a big car 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 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. wealthy british style. time. market why not. find out what's really happening to the global economy with mike's cons or run no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune into cons a report on r g. hello

again one of the world's most provocative pop stars is once again in the spotlight tonight russian activists who are trying to drag madonna to cope what they can. gay propaganda also accused the entertainer of breaching state security now. the latest on this case goes on a bit this one doesn't have a dollars to a finish three months ago but she's still making noise here in russia exactly how is the pop star hurting the country's security one of the thoughts here well according to anti-gay activist from st petersburg not only madonna endangered the family institution in russia and insulted many people in the country with her gay

propaganda as the activists claimed she also they believe put the country's defensive capabilities under threat now according to these activists the things she was telling the people from the stage during her concert in st petersburg in august would turn young people away from serving in the army and of course breach the united are security in danger of the defensive capabilities of the country now these activists were determined to go to the end with a case they were determined to receive ten million dollars of compensation for moral damages but now the case has been turned down by the judge of the st petersburg court and now in fact these activists will have to pay a certain sum of money for the services of the defending lawyers of the company which was organizing the tour of the american pop star now certainly madonna has been no stranger to different sorts of controversies all throughout her career and she exposed nipple during her concert and is still she also put swastikas on the face of the french media during her concert in france also she supported the.

controversial punk band pussy riot during her concert in moscow and the biggest intrigue in the biggest question was whether she would turn out for the hearings in the st petersburg court for now definitely this would not happen as we understand we will be not receiving any comments from russia's defense ministry whether her alleged gay propaganda could somehow breach the national security but definitely the story has been a very interesting one and if we have any developments on it and the reactions from the pop star will certainly deliver those news right away we will thank you for that. as fierce fighting continues in syria rising number of foreigners are reported to be taking part in assault some government forces there with damascus now providing the un security council a list of mercenaries he claims were brought in from abroad to support terrorist attacks right about that get up to speed of it online we've got the whole story also talking to the fact that the dog certainly is man's best friend specially if it's made of steel and helping clean up japan's fukushima nuclear power plant still

a big mess there but this is an interesting bit of technology stories online from us. many tourists traveling to india are drawn in by luxury and a cheap price tag results he's pretty straight the reports next even the most basic services they enjoy have 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 than local coase 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 you mogens. that plastic. and we have to keep the was there. but while the locals access to water is draining. just down the road water flows freely in the resorts where 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 water supply. so. what it was. so that a strong no food he has to buy from the bank because. 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. think would be 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 first. think is

a no i mean you've lived till you have grown up in this area single you can assimilate is this fear i mean is this any system to be assistance to misplacing to the. realist and to the. business well to the benefits until it isn't and that was cost but with no limit on how much water can be bought hotels will remain the highest bidder weaving the locals hanging out to dry preassure either r t india around the world in brief reasons of protesters of massed on the streets of the south korean capital seoul of the second anniversary of north korea shelling of one of the country's islands accused the south breaching naval borders during military exercises and responded with an attack that saw four people killed on thursday north korea threatened to repeat that. pakistan has been rocked by a series of terrorist attacks that left at least thirty six people dead and dozens wounded the bloodiest assault took place in a city near the capital islamabad when a suicide bomber attacked

a shia religious ceremony that killed twenty three. just hours after an explosion destroyed a security vehicle of the northwest of the country and twin blasts hit a shia mosque in karate. congolese rebels for the militant group m twenty three say the ready to seize the country's capital now that statement was made in the city of goma which the fighters captured on tuesday after government forces the rebel commander called on the people the city to join in 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 asset freeze. dramatic pictures here a sight that would certainly make you stop in your tracks if you came across it. some think it's maybe the start of a new military campaign but no this apocalyptic flash nothing to do with missiles that does really light which fill the horizon result the gas blast the incident in

western russia after a propane delivery truck exploded at a petrol station despite what you do sore there thankfully no one hurt in an incident. in bahrain twenty three doctors have been sentenced to three months in prison for treating protesters taking part in mass demonstrations they were arrested during the uprising last year along with more than seventy other healthcare workers it comes a day after amnesty international issued a highly critical report which states the bahraini government broke its promise to improve its human rights situation on the contrary the findings suggest torture oppression and police brutality against protesters are on the crease demonstrations have been ongoing for more than eighteen months and although they've been largely unreported by the international media cover the middle of campus who worked on the court told me what she found. alone we have found out that actually the situation is much or any worse months ago it's well you know terry rate we're talking about

at least twenty four people being killed. in a commission of inquiry issued its report last year a ban on not protest at the end to october and only a week ago there were occasional 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 phone center for human rights that was sentenced the summer to three years in three senate 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's happened especially since it enough took us nine eleven and international community has not enough pressure on that one. to ensure that. any independent commission of inquiry recommendation. those are implemented we're at eighty's quite poor in on what we are seeing is that a year after that b.q. 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. now my scars as

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it's inhabited by so. it's a large muslim minority that migrated to it before the russians. this. is real siberia maybe not the stuff of tourist brochures but distinctive enough to show that all through all these years siberia still not quite like anywhere else. max kaiser welcome to the kaiser report. who knows what evil lurks in our other global financial system the shadow yes the shadow has the power to cloud men's minds so they cannot see this.