on our t.v. a cease fire and begin eight days of violence between israel and hamas takes hold with over one hundred sixty palestinians and six israelis killed during the bloody exchange but critics say that truce is just the calm before the next storm as underlying disputes between the warring parties remain. also reporting on the stage set for a trillion euro showdown in brussels the eves next budget splits the block in two with poorer nations demanding continued aid and the rich are reluctant to up their contribution.

good evening if you just joined us it's eleven pm here in moscow my name is kevin owen and this is r.t. the ceasefire between israel and the palestinian group hamas reached a later wednesday's no been held up for twenty four hours it's still continuing but the truth out of shaky start nonetheless with several rockets fired from gaza or immediately after the deal was sealed and the main question now is whether israel is going to ease its blockade of the palestinian lands as artist reports 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 it a million israelis who live in the south of israel and who have 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 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 is a lot of questions still hanging over the whole issue of whether or not israel its blockade on gaza that has been in place for several years now we do understand that is what must begin talks re opening this for the border crossings and lifting the blockade and. easing restrictions on the movement of both people and goods 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 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 the middle east correspondent more aggression may have stopped the deep divisions between israel and hamas remain sparking fears that truce is doomed. if you can has more now 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 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 straight trans among many many other things including things like cement wood cattle animal medicine musical latest romans notebooks at one point even lentils pasta tomato paste and

chocolate were on the list of items not allowed into gaza it's not easy to gauge what the blockade meant for the people there and all the humiliation that went with it is well insisted that the purpose of the blockade was to pressure hamas into ending the rocket attacks the attacks did not stop 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 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 there are terrorists but palestinian health officials and human rights activists say more than two thirds of those killed were civilians of almost half of them children israel though says that ratios lower nationally perry is

a former senior advisor for israel's foreign ministry he 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 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 a spokesman for the united nations relief and works agency for palestine refugees chris guinness told me gazans will never have decent living conditions unless that blockade is lifted. but we have to see what is going to happen as far as the

regime is concerned we have always called for the blockade to be lifted you said that it's a collective punishment of one point six one point seven million people it has to end even to fall the current upsurge in financing that there was a crisis is almost every aspect of life to. their walls crisis over to creation we are in the process of building one hundred new schools because there was acute overcrowding in schools. there is a crisis of public health because for example ninety percent of all also in gaza is unthinkable millions of liters of fuel sewage slowing into the city or every day because the sewage system is not functional it's not functional and the list goes on we had come into from the israeli foreign ministry spokesperson and none the steiner says that even with such a high civilian death toll in gaza the operation see says can be called surgical

israel did the most possible not to hurt the civilians what we did is we pinpointed our operation first to the terrorist leaders and to their army and ammunition but i do agree that they are once in a while there were civilian casualties has happened and we feel very badly about that but as you know this is not an easy operation no military operation is led by any international standard the collateral damage here is pretty minimal the amount 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 i have highlights were not given instructions to be very very precise and to aim is specially at the military terrorist leaders will bring more news analysis on the cease fire in the middle east over the coming days coaching fully across a story as well in a web site r.t. dot com. in

bahrain how keeping you word might land you in jail the government puts dozens of mistakes by sticking to the hippocratic oath and treating protests as the job at the end of the day will suffer a damning report by amnesty international feel he would like the situation is getting worse because he got a report coming up also reporting two of the russian activists now ramping up their attempts to sue madonna this time claiming the material girl is failing to behave like a virgin it's just one of the stories not long 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 understand that wanting to fight your way up a ladder to buy a big car to 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 and 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 that's 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. and these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. trying to corporations through the day. wealthy british style stock. market. find out what's really happening to the global economy

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in the rich and the poor is out of the open in brussels today where european leaders are gathering to hammer out a budget deal the divisions are glaring they were side from disagreeing on whether to increase decrease or freeze the budget also threatening vetoes over what to cut so what to fund. reports on the looming showdown. the scene was set for this battle over the use polluted budgets two years ago when angela merkel and nicolas sarkozy desperately needing british backing for a euro rescue fund promised stated cameron they would rein in brussels cash trough now it's payback time and the brussels mandarins who control the e.u. one thousand billion euro 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 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 sew 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. you can depend as party financial services spokesman steve bull spoke to me he doesn't believe real growth can come from brussels 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 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 elites who are demanding more from them every single day whilst protecting their own interests we are not helping the public of greece and we're not helping the jobs being lost in the u.k. by defending a system that has palpably failed and will has no real way of actually achieving growth for the european continent in the future. you cannot check out a new star explosion will almost in the heart of russia take a look at this big bang it certainly is just a result of a massive military invasion the thankfully put so much negligence in handling volatile substances sounded russian funded more like. a dog or certainly a man's best friend specially it seems if it's made of steel and it's helping clean japan's fukushima nuclear power plant the dog can go places other dogs can.

in bahrain twenty three doctors have been sentenced to three books in prison for treating protesters and taking part in mass demonstrations they were arrested during the uprising last year along with more than seventy other health care workers one of those directly affected of the day if told we know what happened during her detention. i was involved in treating the injured patients to us his jesters are not it doesn't really matter. as a punishment for not being the authorities to abandon these patients all the

doctors who were involved in treating the kids are serious they were listed myself personally i was at a state of doctors from my house at three in the morning and i was badly mistreated i must torture and unfortunately as long as i did stick to just shoot the genes are backed up by international forces in power and they're protecting them and their allies leave the united states in britain who do see any chance for us and this is a change in the policy of this isn't of this country is. thousands of protesters have massed on the streets of the south korean capital seoul on the second anniversary of north korea's shelling of one of the country's islands pyongyang accuse the south of breaching naval borders during military exercises responded with an attack which saw four people killed on thursday north korea threatened to repeat that attack. rebels in eastern syria claim they've seized a key military base containing large artillery stockpiles following

a three week standoff some human rights organizations say the facility is the last stronghold of pro side forces in the oil rich region that follows the rebels capture of a military airport in the same area last week nearly forty thousand people have been killed in the civil conflict which started in the wake of the arab spring protests last year. congolese rebels for the militant group twenty three say they're ready to seize the country's capital the statement was made in the city of goma which the fighters captured on choose day after ousting u.s. backed government forces the rebel commander 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 asset freeze. while world's most provocative pop stars is once again in the spotlight tonight russian activists who are trying to drag madonna to court for what they claim is gay propaganda also accuse now 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 is told and doing the concert will be involving themselves in all different sorts of events 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 control. points that she exposed nipple during her concert in istanbul 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 same peter corke court 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 the reactions from the pop star we'll certainly deliver those news right away. at least my skies are always ready to make a profit of other people's pain this late show here on r t after this quick break. the sun rises over what seems like analyst forest but here in the new directions quite hundred kilometers north of light of all storm as in much of the world it's disappearing at a catastrophic rate. bloggers

both illegal and those finding ways to outsmart the system for filing down the forests of the more skewed region for them profit goes well beyond the future of our planet and the result could be an ecological crisis the world wildlife fund for nature makes regular trips to help local rangers do what little they can to stop the logging but it's not easy lager set up trucks making them hard to reach an already rough terrain and have mastered ways to jump through legal loopholes this is a nature reserve were only sanitary logging of disease trees is allowed according to law and not a single berry can be picked but loggers like this use their sanitary logging permit to cut down absolutely healthy trees and sell the profitable to member over the border in china we are on the hunt for illegal loggers and it's not going to be easy to forests or is in our chances are slim now for now we can stay in our dreams

but as soon as we find solid tracks we'll have to drop our wheels and get out silently in order not to scare the loggers off alexander someone in ca has been a ranger for over twenty five years he can spend weeks at a time tracking a single group of loggers easier to work when snow falls in autumn it's impossible to find human tracks and even transport tracks are hard to see after hours of driving we get sent in the right direction by word of mouth you can see that the ground is soft here which means that the twelve the tractor trails are very fresh which in fact means that we need to be quiet. or to not scare them off as we get closer. this team says they're illegal but have no documents now xander can now call the police to take over his work here is done he is overwhelmingly outnumbered there are too few rangers working in the promoter ski region and the w w f says the government isn't doing enough to stop it i guess the

government now as i started city for more whole forest legislation so assumes the thousand and so on and you'll forest court and according to be a lot of. the guys in waltham in the in the forest to the still forest courts deal doesn't work just do what should do it because no one tries to stop them in just five years the force will be gone they'll sell it all to china what will the people who live afterwards do like it's a question more and more people are aware of today climate change and the safety of our environment as a whole are being discussed around the world and perhaps it's those small steps that might be a start to people living in harmony with nature. live

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i max kaiser welcome to the kaiser report. who knows what evil lurks in the heart of the global financial system the shadow knows yes the shadow has the power to cloud men's minds so they cannot see the shadow stacie max kaiser i am looking like a shadow today in honor of the shadow banking system the shadow banking grows to sixty seven trillion dollar industry regulators say the regulators are the financial stability board and they say it's six trillion dollars more than they thought it was only a week or two ago but i have a parallel universe you have the global economy then you have a kind of death star that circles the globe run by banks there's fraudsters kleptocrats who prey on the poor things with their shadow derivatives and shadow

banking system and they commit all manner of fraud is totally unregulated and the shadow banking system as just being is the non banking system and it's the primary source of the fraud that's destroying the global economy and yet it's growing by leaps and bounds that's the very definition of financial accounts or it is where all fraud goes to hide a lot of it is something like repurchased agreements the repo one hundred five that took down lehman brothers they had fifty billion for example hidden in these repo one hundred five repurchase agreements out there in the dark pools the dark matter which sucks in all of the real wealth the real activity of our economy is sucked into this thing so the fs to be a global financial policy group comprised of regulators and central bankers found that shadow banking grew by forty one trillion dollars. between two thousand and two and twenty eleven the share of activity based in the u.s.

has declined from forty four percent in two thousand and five to thirty five percent in two thousand and eleven moving to the u.k. and the rest of europe so as you see there was a mammoth growth in it since two thousand and two right moving to the u.k. david cameron wants to defend the city of london he wants to defend the shadow banking system that has its headquarters here in london and you mention the lehman brothers recall one of five scam just briefly for people to understand what that means is that at the end of the quarter when they're supposed to report to regulators they're there they're their balance sheet the liabilities of assets that they have they will temporarily put all the liabilities they'll park them in the shadow banking system don't work they won't report the liabilities they therefore making their profits look greater than they are and then the regulators move on to the next company they download the liabilities once again and they do this on a quarter by quarter basis this is done by all the fortune one thousand companies engage in massive accounting fraud using the the shadow banking system to cook

their books to mit you know these foreign remaining big accounting firms are involved day in and day out with massive accounting fraud there they're just as guilty as lehman brothers and financial terrorism the deloitte and touche the k. p.m.g. they're just as guilty as the rating agencies and financial terrorism we're actually going to move on to them in a in the next story i want at this point i want to cover this shadow banking system because remember the shadow of the movie had the shadow had the power to cloud men's minds so they cannot see him and this is what i think the shadow banking system does it's cons people into not being able to see the fraud to see the theft because a lot of it is about theft about transferring that the mirror image real economy where every joe baca doenitz and joe schmoe are working they're transferring the wealth to this unaccountable unknowable dark matter out there now the size of the shadow banking system include.