ending eight days of violence between israel and hamas remains intact critics say the truce is just the calm before the next storm. european union passes a resolution calling for greater unity critics say the move could further undermine the state's softened. bahrain sentences nearly two dozen medics to jail treating protesters just a day after amnesty international appeal the kingdom's worsening human rights record. around the world and around the clock your watching r.t.

. the ceasefire agreed between israel and palestinian group late on wednesday has now held firm for more than twenty four hours but the truce had a shaky start with several rockets fired from gaza immediately after the deal was sealed the main question now is whether israel is going to ease its blockade of the palestinian territory with reports from tel aviv. the ceasefire ends some of the fiercest fighting we've witnessed the 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 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 amusement of both people and goods while the since one of the moment is holding a lot of tension on the ground and a lot of questions as to whether or not it will stand the test of time. for author and journalist afshin rattansi says the battle was on even as israeli forces had the backing of powerful western allies and was no match for the israeli military backed by britain and the united states to supply them with nuclear weapons of mass destruction and so forth it's important because as a democratically elected government of gaza it's proved to have so many allies from

iran to egypt they have to be part of any peace negotiations for a one party state which will after. scored its victory with the most basic of rockets really these homemade things is a sea change in nature more like the thing to watch is the right in israel and how they react out of the polling numbers for the coming israeli elections show a swing to the so-called extremists. but israel's deputy foreign minister says that most of the people hit by israeli strikes deserved it claiming they were terrorists palestinian health officials and human rights activists say more than two thirds of those killed were civilians the most half of them children israel though says the ratio is lower perry a former senior adviser for israel's foreign ministry says the casualty figures 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 hadn't invested that money in the protection of our people there would have been far greater numbers on the israeli side so i don't think we need to apologize for the price 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. while the aggression may have stopped but deep divisions between israel and hamas remain sparking fears the truce is doomed from the outset what is going to change 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 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 radical forces among them rising in striking it is well with israel 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 cattle animal medicine musical latest romans notebooks at one point even lentils pasta tomato paste and chocolate were on the list of items not allowed into gaza it's not easy to gauge what the blockade meant for the people there and all the humiliation that went with it as

well insisted that the purpose of the blockade was to pressure hamas into ending the rocket attacks the attacks did not stop they intensified in two thousand and eight 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. a spokesman for the israeli foreign ministry and on a study says even with such a high civilian death toll in gaza the operation can still be described as surgical . 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 unit ammunition but i do agree that there are a once in

a while there were civilian cattle 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 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 our pilots were not given instructions to be very very precise and to aim is specially at the military terrorist leaders. a spokesman for the united nations relief and works agency for palestine refugees chris gunness says the people of gaza will never have decent living conditions unless the 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 looked to be certain the collective punishment of one point six one point seven million people it has to end even if all the current upsurge in violence even if

there was a crisis in almost every aspect of life to their walls crisis over to creation we are in the process of building one hundred 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 gaza is on to people millions of liters of fuel sewage flowing into the city or every day because the suit system is not functional it's not functional and the list goes on. well our website we're keeping our finger on the pulse of middle east of elements including the question of who was behind wednesday's tel aviv bus bombing israel says the list of suspects sponsible for the attack to twenty eight minutes and you have told us.

of the news that the european parliament has voted through a resolution calling for european national militaries to pool their resources and act with greater unity one of the justifications was a shrinking defense budget that's left many e.u. states cutting their forces m.e.p. david campbell bannerman from the u.k. conservative party says brussels has encroached on the sovereignty of member states it really does trespass international responsibilities for the friends and it's talking about the e.u. looking after it its citizens it's a direct assault on sovereignty as i said this really is about politics rather than the military this is about actually furthering the cause of it of one united states and europe because they want a single army a single of friends industry they want control from the e.u.

as part of their foreign policy and they're actually involved in they want to get in for all of the high intensity conflicts in their terminology and that means war in my terminology they want to actually you to be involved in wars and to commit our soldiers on our and our navy people into these kind of conflicts and that is not acceptable. a major battle is underway in brussels over the e.u. budget as it made gulf between us and contribute billions to the those who depend on its bonds to go later in the program. plus russian activists ramp up their attempts to sue madonna the material girl is a threat to run a tube society story after the break. i

never thought i could earn a living this way. natalee a shell of i as a lawyer should test small arms so that's what i was to machine building client natalee also lost count of all the weapons she's fired over the past twelve years. i got so used to it sometimes my friends ask me to join them at the rifle range and i say no way i'm so tired of shooting. the clowns history goes from making firearms during world war two to ballistic missiles from your class submarines during the cold war the bulk of the soviet industry was moved here in the 1940's to flee the advancing germans south here also became the heart of soviet military production closed off to for less for hoffa's century it thrived on the lesser wounds of the soviet military when the u.s.s.r. collapsed but life here was shaken to the core but some adapted to better than others. this is the year old truck factory brushes the number one truck

maker or gravel look at how well the workplace is organized everything's gone to make sure the workers don't waste time waiting there was so production is booming the factory has largely managed to get on to civil rails these johnsons sold around the globe hayabusa brand new be the way to. to be delivered to a client's seventy trucks like this one roll off the plants conveyor belt every day look at about this things that absolutely huge. well i'm no formula one pilot but hopefully if i can get up that. well i can go for a test drive. oh that was fun perhaps i should get one of these to travel to once every morning was with a cost of about forty thousand dollars i should start saving my. money

used today violence is once again flared up. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. trying to operation through the day. wealthy british style like it's time to let go. of the. market why not. come to. find out what's really happening to the global economy

with mike stronger on no holds barred look at the global financial headlines to cause a report. here with more international news now and then the bahrain twenty three medics have been sentenced to three months in prison for treating protesters and taking part in mass demonstrations they were arrested during the uprising last year along with more than ninety five other health care workers one of those directly affected not of they have told us what happened to churn how detention i was involved in treating the injured patients to us here testers are not it doesn't really matter. as a punishment for not obeying the authorities to abandon these patients all the doctors who were involved in treating the kid just tourist day where i listed myself personally i was at

a state of ducted from my house at three in the morning and i was badly mistreated i lost tortured unfortunately as long as i did stick to just ship the genes 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 yes there is a change in the policy of these citizens of these countries. the conflict between rich and poor was out in brussels but european leaders gather to hammer out a budget deal 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 his door smith reports on the looming showdown. the scene was set for this battle over the e.u. limited budgets two years ago when angela merkel and nicolas sarkozy desperately needing british backing for a euro rescue fund promised david cameron they would rein in brussels cash trough

now it's payback time for the brussels mandarins who control the e.u. one thousand billion euro 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. weakening political ties stock 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 spending greens a promise that goes down well at home popularity is at an all time low for 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 rebate will

be reduced by two billion pounds a year unless cameron can get more budget cuts from brussels he may face more rebellion in his own party and germany's angela merkel desperate for a deal to sow focus can back to saving the euro but the brussels budget tension has opened and angry in. 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 suggest the to tear europe so long demonized and denied by jose manuel barroso as brussels p.r. is becoming a reality. you can dependence party financial services spokesman stephen wolf 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 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 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. let's check out some other news making headlines around the world rebels in eastern syria claim they've seized a key military base containing large our two stockpiles put on a three week standoff some human rights organizations say the facilities the last

stronghold of pro us forces in the oil rich region it follows the rebels capture of a military airport in the same area last week forty thousand people have been killed in the civil conflict which started in the wake of arab spring protests last year. egyptian president mohamed morsi as you know that he extended his authority by barring the courts from challenging his decisions liberal politicians immediately labeled the dictatorial describing him as. usual quarters considering. around one hundred forty cars collided in a state of texas creating a massive thanksgiving day right now two people died in eighty more were injured and measures the workers are continuing their search for still trapped in the wreckage. blame the accident on dense.

now one of the world's most provocative pop stars is once again in the spotlight russian activists are trying to drag madonna to court for breaching state security and defying the sanctity of the family. details 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 told him during the concert will be involving themselves in all different sorts of good and thus 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 is still 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 senate is the 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. to india now where many tourists travel into the country drawn by a luxury with a cheap price tag as artie's reports even the most basic services they enjoy the hidden costs 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 a 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 the local go to during peak season sometimes only get access to running water for two hours every other day goings 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 emergency. room have. seen that plastic bangs and on and we have to keep the laws there's no law. but while the locals access to water is draining. just down the road water flows freely in the resorts or 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. so i know you've got a short video but what i. feel is so that i strain on our foods he has to buy from that thing because. no doubt 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 only for . the. i would be most of a 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 wasn't giving me because i knew i mean you've lived till you've you've grown up in this interview and you kind of assume there is this fear i mean is this just in the system to be assistance to misplacing to the so we'll respond to the question in this way to benefit something that isn't that cool but with no limit on how much water can be bought hotels will remain the highest bidder leaving the locals hanging out to dry preassure either r t go india coming up its spotlights with. us off the break. good to see good laboratory mukherjee was able to build on these most sophisticated

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hello again the welcome to spotlight the interview show on our it's a milder novel and today my guest on the program is alexandre amid the. russia's gazprom has recently secured a landmark deal with bulgaria the last one needed to start building the south stream arclight it's aim to do about the russian gas directly to european consumers just like its northern two in the north. the deal was signed amid accusations from the european union of unfair pricing and the other hand the middle lowering demand for gas and europe in general so how is the company going to face all those and those who discuss it with one of the cooperations main decision makers head of gazprom export alexander in madrid.