at nine pm moscow time a cease fire ending eight days of violence between israel and hamas takes hold with over one hundred sixty palestinians and six israelis killed during the bloody exchange we've got the latest on the truce tonight but critics say it's just the calm before the next storm as underlying disputes between the warring parties still remain. and the stage is set for a trillion euros showdown in brussels the ears next budget splits the block to pour a nation into money continued aid and the rich are reluctant to walk their contribution.

hello this is r t is kevin owen here tonight very good evening from me the top story the people of garza have woken up to relative karma smalling a ceasefire between israel and hamas reached late on wednesday seems to still be holding up eight days of violence those killed six israelis are more than one hundred sixty gaza residents the truth heard a shaky start to several rockets fired towards israel after the deal was reached out is paul asli is in tel aviv. via ns 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 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 was left its blockade on gaza that has been in place for several years now we do understand that is what must begin talks re opening this for the border crossings and lifting the blockade and. easing restrictions on the movement of both people and goods the text 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 they said there's a lot of tension on the ground and a lot of questions as to whether or not it will stand the test of time a middle east correspondent will the aggression stop the deep divisions between israel and hamas remain sparking fears that the truce is doomed from the start has got to you can't get 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 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 radical forces among them rising in striking it's well with is well coming back at them so hard that he would most peaceful palestinian started sympathizing with radical forces without going too far back in history in two thousand and six the palestinians in gaza elected hamas that promised a more affirmative response to the story of the occupation in response israel put gaza under blockade the list of import was straight trans among many many other things including things like cement wood cattle animal medicine 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 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 are defending themselves. israel's deputy foreign minister told us that most of the people hit by the garza strikes quote deserve 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 and almost half of them children

israel though says that ratio is lower ice-t. parries a former senior advisor for israel's foreign ministry ministry told me the numbers demonstrate the country's military superiority. israel has invested billions of dollars protecting its people either through more protected rooms so every single rockets which emanated from cars or had the intent to kill in fact it intended to kill many people mass casualties and if we have 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 fact that we have invested money to protect our citizens where is the opposition the 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 journalists not war activists don't divide says if israel wants to protect itself from gaza or attacks it must improve living conditions for the people in the palestinian territory their condition degraded from being storing 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 in 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 . spoke to one of the country's m.p.'s who insists the government was protecting israeli citizens and conducted the assault with precision. israel is putting so much effort to ensure that civilians are not hurt. i'm sorry but look at what we're spending on our money we're spending our money on defending our civilians making sure they're safe and making sure that we can we do not hurt

civilians when we go to war what this hamas spend their money on they are hiding behind television crews they are hiding behind journalists and israel is doing something on paralleled in the history of warfare in 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 citizens but also for the fact that it is conducting itself in a way that is very proportional and very measured old bring you more news analysis of course of the ceasefire in the middle east available on my website right now in fact r.t. dot com. next

tonight the age old war between the rich and the poor is out of the open in brussels where european leaders are gathering to try to hammer out a budget deal but the divisions 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 montessori smith reports on the looming showdown. the scene was set but this battle over the e.u. is limited 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 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.

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 greens a promise that goes down well at home where 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 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 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 europe think tank says the growing wealth disparity between the states is big problem. the euro crises. and needs to go between different states. this however can cannot be sold throwing money at different states all these countries have to come at gauging in their own economic goals but i'm afraid it will be many more

nationalistic told. us to live amongst these recipients of the nobel prize for peace. this has always been like that but again i think you will crises media etc that makes you vision. european states generally much larger. coming up tonight with me kevin now in a bahrain how keeping you word might get the government now putting dozens of medics. to sticking to the hippocratic oath and treating protest is the job end of the day for a damning report by amnesty international reveal the human rights situation is going worse said the king the good report coming up also russian activists ramp up the returns to sue madonna this time claiming the material girl is fighting to behave like a virgin or not to after this 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 for men and women as. a feminist i would think you understand that wanting to fight your way up a ladder to buy a big 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. more news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images group world seen from the street and can of that. change corporations rules the day. speak your language. programs and documentaries in arabic it's all here on our team reporting from the world talks about six of p.r.p.

interviews intriguing stories for you to. see arabic to find out more visit our big don't r t v dot com. and we're going to bahrain twenty three doctors have been sentenced to three months in prison for treating a protestors and taking part in mass demonstrations now they were arrested during the uprising last year along with more than seventy other healthcare workers comes a day after imus international issued a highly critical report which states the bahraini government brokerage promised to improve its human rights situation and the country the front to suggest torture oppression and police brutality against protesters are on the increase don't stray should have been ongoing for more than eighteen months although they've been largely unreported by the international media covered over the world tom the report told me of her plight. alone we have found out is that actually the situation is

much more stern it was months ago it's well you know terry right we're talking about at least twenty four people being killed after the bombing the panic 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 national to thirty one opposition activists were also talking about continuous harassment of human rights and one of them is now in russia the president of the famed center for human rights that was ten times the summer to three years increased an american for having exercised its right to freedom of expression and we consider him to be a prisoner of conscience and we are talking about hundreds and hundreds of allegations of torture that that's happening especially since the beginning of two thousand and eleven and international community has not. no pressure on that one. to ensure that. any independent commission of inquiry recommendations are implemented. quite what we are seeing is that either our tour or. 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 has not been implemented. coming up dry spell for go we take a look at india's tourist hot sports well holiday makers give the best conditions locals have to pay for it the most basic income for the. next though one of the world's most provocative pop stars is once again in the spotlight russian activists who are trying to drag madonna to court for what they claim is gay propaganda and also accusing the entertainer of breaching state security at his luxury jet ski 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 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 for instance she exposed nipple during her concert in instils 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 up for the hearings in the st petersburg court for now definitely this would not happen but definitely the story has been a very interesting one and if we have any developments on it and your reactions from the pop star we'll certainly deliver those news right away. as far as fighting

continues in syria a rising number of foreigners reported for taking part in a sold some government forces with damascus providing the u.n. security council with a list of mercenaries it's compiled that it claims were brought in from abroad to support terrorist attacks we're going to have more on this interesting one and we've got it so on our website we've got a whole story also a dog a survey a man's best friend specially if it's made of steel helping to clean up japan's fukushima nuclear power plant that's with r.t. dot com.

many tourists traveling to india are drawn in by luxury and i cheap price tag but it's pretty straight to 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 the 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. 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 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 was. so. hard so that i still don't know if it was he has to buy from the bank. 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 we were. told to. 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 personally think is oh no i mean you've lived till you've you've grown up in this area you can assimilate is this fear i mean is this just in this instance to be assistance to misplacing to the. real respond to the. business who actually benefits from tourism 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. news headlines a brief thousands of protesters have massed on the street to the south korean

capital seoul on the second anniversary of north korea's shelling of the country's islands pyongyang accused the south of breaching naval borders during military exercises responded with an attack that saw four on thursday north korea threaten to repeat the attack. starts provoked by a series of terrorist attacks has left at least thirty six 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 the violence came just hours after the explosion destroyed a security vehicle in the northwest of the country and twin blasts at a shia mosque in karate. congolese rebels from the militant group twenty three say they're ready to seize the country's capital now the statement was made in the city of goma which the fighters captured or choose the. government forces the rebel commander called of the people of the city to join the march from kinshasa to topple president joseph kabila the un security council earlier agreed sanctions on

the rebel leadership introducing a travel ban an assett free. a site next that would certainly make you stop. your tracks if you had the misfortune to come across it let's take a look. now some you might think this is start of the military campaign but no this apocalyptic flash going to missiles that doesn't fill the rising is yeah the result of a gas blast the incident happened in western russia after a propane delivery truck exploded at a petrol station thankfully despite all that drama no one hurt. thanks for watching r.t. live from moscow we do appreciate it up next capital account with lauren list of for you it's after this short break.

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starts on t.v. dot com. good afternoon welcome to capital account i'm lauren lyster here in washington d.c. these are your headlines for once in about 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 a ok well we'll hear from volatility analyst chris call on what a more complete picture reveals about a bull market in fear and the latest out of europe is that leaders have failed to reach a deal on cutting the greek government's debt according to bloomberg more just spewed over budget plans are expected to head 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 avoid 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. now it's. 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 well 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 dull by the novacaine of easy money why we keep hearing about how the vix the stock market's volatility index is low the wall street journal blog post puts it is the 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. is 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. the first look the visuals have very special that is coming i mean . so these are what our guys called known unknowns things we know we don't know and then there are these type of where.