tempi a moscow time a cease fire ending eight days of violence between israel and hamas continues to take hold with over one hundred sixty palestinians and six israelis killed during the bloody exchange of the last week critics though saying that truce is just the calm before the next storm is underlined disputes between the warring parties still remain. on the stage is set for a trillion euro showdown in brussels the next budget splits the block in two with poorer nations demand a continued aid in the rich reluctant to up their contribution. for good evening it's kevin though in here tonight the big news of the day the

people of gaza woken up to relative calm earlier today the 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 troops had a shaky start to with several rockets fired towards israel after the deal was reached his paulus lee has more from tel aviv. 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 need 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 what was left its blockade on gaza that has been in place for several years now we do understand that israel 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. the aggression may have stopped but deep divisions tune israel and hamas remain sparking fears the truce is doomed from the start what is 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 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 is 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 directions among many many other things including things like cement wood cattermole 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 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 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 the 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 says most of the people hit by the gaza strikes quote deserved it because he claims they were armed 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 israel says the ratio is lower as well to actually perry a former senior advisor for israel's foreign ministry told me these 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 gaza 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 problem 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. let's talk more about the situation inside gaza now following the israeli offensive the last week joined live by a spokesman for the united nations relief and works agency for palestine refugees chris gunness mr guys thanks for being on r.t. international your agency's hit back at israeli allegations that we heard surface

that it allows its facilities in the gaza strip to be used by a mass to launch rockets towards israel sure you've got some thoughts on that the definitive question then to you tonight have your schools and hospitals been used for this and do have most fighters hide behind so-called human shields. well as far as our facilities are concerned there is absolutely no credible evidence at all but it's been produced to substantiate any allegations at all now on the question of whether behind the installations you must understand we are a humanitarian agency and need you want patrol the streets outside office so that since we don't have a police force we know how an intelligence service so it's very hard for us to see what's happening outside of office so that sees we are however responsible for what happens inside into the cities and although during the last fighting in gaza in two

thousand and eight two thousand and nine there were indeed accusations that there are militants inside walk on power we are calm in our installations these were ever substantiates why would israel make these allegations though each lost israel is that. how would you describe the a military situation in gaza now and how long do you think it's going to take for gaza to recover from these latest attacks well even before the current upsurge in financing there was a crisis in almost every aspect of life of their walls crisis of education we are in the process of building one hundred new schools because there was acute overcrowding in schools in gaza there is a crisis of public health because for example ninety percent of all also in gas that is unthinkable millions that liters of fuel salutes flowing into the sea

every day because the suit system is not functional it's more functional and the list goes on there's a crisis as i say in the every aspect of the economic you it's are not good the united nations muesli produced a report cards of twenty twenty which showed that there would be five hundred thousand new. garceau and all. that since. that's exactly what i was going to ask you actually twenty twenty was the deadline that in this report was issued earlier on saying that the place with no longer be habitable by has what summed in the last eight nine days brought the date forward. well it's hot sweep so anything meaningful about that but i can tell you that a humanitarian crisis and has given me more acute because obviously buildings are destroyed not on the scale i would venture to say as we saw during two thousand and two two thousand and nine but what has begun an assessment of the damage assessment

saying it's a long time but already as far as beneficiaries are concerned and there are one point two million benefits resupply in-car so you start to get rental subsidies for people whose homes were completely destroyed starts to give out subsidies for people simply put their homes and that's why we launched an appeal thought well. nearly in dollars to be mean to you it's recovery period that's enormously license and we hope we don't do that we'll respond generous we. can goes down don't we don't go under a door all that sort of. go thirty seconds while on the line i want to ask you something else how much claims that israel has made some concessions from the people of gars and they've heard that the blockade may be east to allow the flow of people and goods what's your understanding of this is it going to help the humanitarian mess in gaza briefly place or will we have to see what is going to happen as far as the regime is concerned we have always called for the blockade but

it's a collective punishment at one point six one when it certainly people it has to end and we have to see what's in this new arrangement is being has been decided in relation to you hope it's good news. chris going to appreciate your time spokesman for the united nations relief and works agency for palestine refugees. genocide war activist don de bar spoke to me says if israel wants to protect itself from gaza or attacks it must improve living conditions for the people living 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 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 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 . a spokesman for the israeli foreign ministry line is starting tell me even when such a high civilian death toll in gaza the operation can be called surgical israel did the most possible not to hurt the civilians what we did is we pinpointed our operation assess to the terrorist leaders and to their army and ammunition but i do agree that they were once in a while there were civilian cattle casualties and we feel very badly about that 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 die 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 terrorist leaders. but we've got more news analysis on the cease fire in the middle east throughout the day and throughout the evening of course more details analysis may have on a website as well i don't call. in bahrain coming up in the program how keeping you would mind one jew in jail the government puts dozens of medics by sticking to the hippocratic oath and treating protest as doing the job of the day suffered damage report by amnesty international feels the human rights situation is getting worse in the kingdom we talked to one of those health workers law if she was arrested during his uprising to call her thoughts 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 essentially children are 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 that be paternity leave out of a kind of see the logic of her view but my question is featherstone is why exactly is success in the corporate world the primary goal of life for men and women as a feminist i would think you'd 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

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well again something that is past time very good to have you with us tonight now in bahrain twenty three don't to submit sentenced to three months in prison for treating protesters part of the job on taking part in must demonstrations they were arrested during the uprising last year along with more than some of the other health care workers let's talk more about this july a lot of people who've been directly affected chairwoman of the bahraini rehabilitation and antiviolence organization. they were much appearing on the progress much appreciated tonight can you tell us first of all what your role was in this saga how were you treated by the authorities the place. well hello thank

you for having me. my role is basically i was involved in treating the injured patients to us his gestures are not it doesn't really matter. as a punishment for not obeying the authorities to abandon these patients all the doctors who went in called in treating the testers they were arrested myself personally i was at a state of doctors from my house at three in the morning and i was badly mistreated i was tortured later on after being jailed for almost two months by west disputed and tried in a military court and i was sentenced for fifteen years and president but you're not in jail at the moment. we've appealed the very big energy to the international pressure at that time. we were released on bail. to the city in

court later on from the military court. we appealed to at the very next nine of us were convicted mauer's among the other nine who were adequate did. how does it work what in twenty sorry no the lines break up a little bit before you folks will stay with us how does it work when you're a doctor to take the hippocratic oath he will treat anyone any time the regime they're dealing with how are they able to charge you if that's the case what's their thinking how are they putting their or their case to you. well. well definitely they will not bring charges for you for treating the protesters they will come with any charges they fabricate any crimes but the main issue here is to punish those who stood in the face of the regime and disobeyed orders is standing for the hippocratic oath or not it is indeed we met it depends where you live if you live in a democratic country yes you have to if he live in

a dictatorship regimes then it's a crime that you have to pay the price for this jailing of the jailing of these latest doctors medics comes right after the amnesty international report we're talking about it yesterday exposing ongoing human rights violations in bahrain indeed the report says go worse what does this ruling suggest about the government's ongoing willingness or not to embrace the findings of the report. well obviously this is one of syria's are lots of reports detailing the hunger of the human rights violations and behave but today willingness of their team to obey for this or despondent pressure is obviously issues the other direction to continue repression and suppression i don't see it's a change much on reality do you see any light at the end of the tunnel here these reports are released bahrain says it's going to do something doesn't seem to do that much and now we're hearing it's going to see any light at the end of the tunnel well you know unfortunately as long as these dictatorship

regimes are backed up by international forces and power and they're protecting them and their allies with the united states and britain who don't see any chance for us and this there's a change in the policy of this if it's of these countries that's the big question and less do you think will bear than less. well well unless yes always there is unless and there is always a light at the end of the tunnel. to see. the fighting from the. air hoping for democracy and changes in the area and for international awakening internationally there should be more pressure. it is not at all just part of a list we lost along we. then it is not a trade the line broke over the end but we do appreciably on the program we got the

majority of what you are to say not a joke third chairwoman of the bahraini rehabilitation antiviolence organization thank you very much. question activists ramp up their attempts to sue madonna reporting on but soon this time they claim the material girl is failing to behave like a virgin would like that find why later in the program. but next the age old war between the rich and the poor is out in the open in brussels today where european leaders are gathering to hammer out a budget deal 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 and what to fund parties or smith reports on the 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 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 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 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 too 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 suggests the to tear europe's old. long demonized and denied by jose manuel but also the brussels p.r. is becoming a reality. for smith there well for more on what's at stake for britain in the budget and the use old let's bring in to our church stephen wolfe you kid dependence party financial services spokesman joining us on the line from london

sir good evening and your party has been calling to bring the ied to accountability for years now nothing new there is that happening in some form today do you think i don't think so kevin once again you've mentioned at the beginning of your interview this is a battle between the rich and the poor but actually it's the rich who are the brussels mandarins demanding more for themselves and more money for them to spend and it's the poor people of europe the fifty percent unemployed youth in spain those starving in greece the people rioting in france and portugal are the ones that are suffering for the greed of the brussels mandarin of course the loudest complaints regarding this new budget have come from britain some of the loudest anyway but take into account the considerable rebate the u.k. enjoys from the e.u. some would say is that really fair. of course it is fair because we're one of the largest contributors in terms of gross cash to the european fund and if we didn't have the rebate one of the consequences of this would be that in terms of the agricultural budget which takes i think about forty percent of the overall budget

would mean that there is a difference between france and britain of some fourteen percent i don't think the british public should have to pay for the farmers in france when we have our own farmers and our own jobs being lost here in the u.k. just one of the points of britain's upset about of course is that you would ministration costs as one example revealed in a british paper today is that over two hundred year across get a higher salary then probably mr david cameron himself your faith that is going to change soon. well if you're running those large sums of money it's in your interest to protect and make sure that you can have the nice house the nice called the schools that are given to you as part of the rolls in brussels and therefore you will not want to try and lose them that is the great difficulty that we see across the whole of the european battle cameron has to try and break civil servants and the commissioners who are earning a fortune compared to that of the ordinary public no i don't use the winning this

is but you know this has been argued for years what's going to be done about it it's ever going to change i don't think it is but what is changing is actually the people of europe are finally waking up that this is a huge battle between them and this political elite who are demanding more from them every single day whilst protecting their own interests we are not helping the public of greece somewhere not helping with jobs being lost in the u.k. by defending a system that is culpable it failed and will has no real way of actually achieving growth for the european continent in the future another mode of course mismanagement without right to corruption a big issue is one example of. an italian farmer that filed apparently free you catch to build a food storage fruit drying facility ended up instead buying a building themselves a rather nice two hundred twenty thousand euro house just one little example there but how do you begin to address that kind of thing. well i think it's very difficult for some something as large as the e.u.

with a budget request to go budget of over a trillion euros to actually have people capable of enforcing the rules in the first place and this is one of the big problems you notice that the european union has not even signed it off its budget i think for nineteen or twenty years now and what we have is a situation there where they can't sign off their own budget they don't have people capable enough for spotting the frauds and therefore the solution has to be the break up of the european union and allow it and countries to get back to their own nation state where they are able to see the money spent safely and well and wisely because they have a proper control in their own country and this is inception final thought all those years ago the of the goal of the e.u. wasn't it is going to create quote an ever closer union man the people of europe where do you think we stand on that today all those years later well i think there is still demand this country called the european union i mean that this is the great driver behind the bailouts for all the countries the creation of the e.s.m.

they still want this nation state but as you've seen in failed situations such as in communism the ideal might be great in might be a wonderful thing between intellectuals over late night dinners at universities to create something like that and so was the european union but in practice the reality is that people suffer ultimately when these ideals fail and this is an ideal and has come and people should be set free stephen thank you for your thoughts stephen wall for you can depend as part of financial services spokes person on r.t. international thank you. ok right time for no let's say business but no eager to get to it i want to show you this first site that would make you stop in your tracks to look at this. even more spectacular in our business bulletin some would think it's the start of a new military campaign know that. it doesn't like which filled the horizon is the result of a gasp lost the instant happen to.