the cease fire 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 member states sovereignty. and bahrain sentences nearly two dozen medics to jail for treating protesters just a day after amnesty international feel that listening human rights record. news and much more twenty four seven year with r.t.

. the cease fire agreed between israel and the palestinian group hamas 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 as artie's reports from tel aviv. some of the 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 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 it 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 a new threat of both people and goods so one assumes one at 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 porter 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 who 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 actual nick 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. well israel's deputy foreign minister says most of the people hit by israeli strikes deserved it claiming there were armed terrorists however palestinian health officials and human rights activists say more than two thirds of those killed were civilians almost half of them children israel though says the ratio is never actually perry a former senior advisor for israel's foreign ministry says the casualty figures demonstrate nutrients. 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 of 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 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 where you aggression may have stopped but deep divisions between israel and hamas remain sparking fears the truce is doomed from the outset well ti's garniture 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 the radical forces among them rising in striking it is well with israel 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 is well put gaza under blockade the list of import restrictions among many many other things included things like cement wood cattermole 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 in the study says even with such a high civilian death toll in gaza the military 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 were 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 this way it sounds very bad but it could have been much much worse if we weren't so surgical and if our pilots were not given instructions to be very very precise in to aim is specially at the military a terrorist leaders. a spokesman for the united nations relief and works agency for palestine that refugees across gunness says the people of gaza will never have decent living conditions unless the blockade is lifted. well we have to see what is going to happen as far as the regime is concerned we've always called for the blockade to be looked to be certain it's a collective punishment of one point six one point seven million people it has to end even if all the current upsurge in flightsim if there was

a crisis is almost every aspect of life through 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 gaza is unthinkable millions of liters of rule sewage flowing into the sea every day because the sewage system is not functional it's not a functional and the list goes on. but our website where keeping our finger on the pulse of middle east of elements including the question of who is behind wednesday's to the bus bombing in israel and how arrest of a suspect the responsible for the attack twenty three had horses.

thank you thank you. european parliament has voted through a resolution calling for european national military is to pool their resources and act with greater unity i think justifications was a shrinking defense budget that's left many states cutting their forces and david campbell bannerman from the u.k. conservative party has brussels has encroached on the sovereignty of member states . it really does trespass international responsibilities for the feds and it's talking about the e.u. looking after it. so 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 one the united states and europe because they want to single a single defense industry they want control from the part of their foreign policy

and they're actually involved in they want to get in for the high intensity conflicts in their terminology and that means war in my terminology they want to be involved in wars and to commit our soldiers and. navy people into these kind of conflicts and that is not acceptable. a trillion euros question is in the spotlight as europe's leaders sit down to hammer out budgets for the next seven. program. russian activists around their attempts to. build a threat to the. story and more often the great.

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 are set back for women who want to be successful and equal to men so they want to give them the option of taking maternity leave. paternity leave i don't know i kind of see the logic of your 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 or a place for short come. as 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 mary 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.

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talk about the program in the bahrain the 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 alone with more than ninety five on the health care workers one of those directly affected not of they have told us what happened during the detention i was involved in treating the injured patients to us here's jesters 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 cheating the kids just yours they were arrested myself personally i was at a state of ducted from my house at three am in the morning and i was badly

mistreated i was tortured unfortunately as long as i did dictatorship 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 at least there is a change in the policy of these citizens of these countries. now twenty seven european countries have come together in brussels to hammer out a new e.u. budget the first day of talks has revealed that existing disagreements could become a major obstacle on the road to reaching an accord well it's a cross live now to r.t. sara first for the details of this. well how much closer is the e.u. to solving the one trillion euros question here well the long way to go of course all eyes have really been on david cameron for this brussels budget battle everyone wanting to see whether or not he can come up with a give if you watched in say five he looks very much like

a man trying to lead this fight trying to look like he thinks control of this of course most of britain his secret which is that really he's not in control of course in the build up to this big summit we've seen that is barry thing to be where he is backbench is that bite him calling for a real turn cut to the next budget a whether or not he's going to be able to achieve that that is really the question at the moment it actually seems pretty unlikely that what he's gone to the negotiating table where he'll actually be able to deliver a bit of course the talks are ongoing and these divisions that you seen within britain in the build up this very much setting the tone for the discussions that taking place in brussels at the moment it is already a summit that has been marred by delays by stalemate and say it remains very uncertain what the delegate if any dear little. what's the position of the

states whose economies depend on the brussels assistance because they want the budget to realise don't they. well as i said i mean really at the moment the pitches that you're getting is that the whole thing just seems to be in a bit of a mess as a whole has really seem to lost his vision recently you know we see these huge protests sweeping across the whole of the year is a very very big divide widening all the time and very much again this is mirrored in what's happening at the east summit now are you getting a picture of a c.t. european court because she's at the moment that is going to this negotiating table that has historically contributed much more in britain is amongst these countries and at the moment even now conferences like greece and like spain who are absolutely needing this budget to be passed without those cuts taking place britain's not alone for calling on these cuts cameron as i said very much trying to helm this quite. having calling for these cuts he's doing by countries like the

netherlands in calling for this he's not alone but of course we are seeing the euro zone in a very very tricky spot and i think the big discussions now are just trying to allocate this year is. a trillion euros a trillion years seven trillion euros that they have to allocate between these countries is a huge budget and everyone very you know decide on who gets what and as you see traditionally with these talks they did tend to go into the night as the thing with this summit they drag on a long time they have very late starts a very early morning they don't seem to be able to hammer out a deal so the concisely and in an organized manner and we think that very much the piece of it of course this time around much more important see a really get to specify who gets what in that seven trillion a year budget at a time of austerity at a time when countries like britain have never had the e.u.

membership in question this is never been so important we've seen the german chancellor angela merkel saying that there is a possibility. a very real possibility now that there might be no deal a thaw and that would be you know absolutely worst case scenario but unfortunately as the thing with the. worst case scenario is the reality. you have big figures indeed. sarah firth reporting there from london thank you. now let's check out some other news making headlines around the world this hour rebels in eastern syria claim they've seized a key military base containing large artillery stockpiles for over three weeks standoff some human rights organizations say the facility is the last stronghold of pro asaad forces in the oil rich region it follows the rebels capture of a military airport in the same area last week when they only 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 has actually extended his own thora team by barring the courts from challenging his decisions liberal politicians immediately labeled a decree dictatorial describing him as egypt's new pharaoh constitutional court is considering impeaching him. around one hundred forty cars collided in the u.s. state of texas creating a massive thanksgiving day planned up two people died in eighty more injured urgency workers a team a search for anyone still trapped in the wreckage from today's accident on dense morning fog. but one of the world's most provocative pop stars is once again in the spotlight russia not to try to drag the donor to court for breaching state security and defining the center of the family. as more 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 has told them 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 receipts 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 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. the reporting there but coming out the man feared by the banks and loved by other people because reporters next. admission of free cretaceous free transport charges free. range mentioned free risk free. to tide free.

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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 stacy 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 they have a parallel universe you have the global economy then you have it kind of a death star that circles the globe run by banks fraudsters kleptocrats who prey on the poor things with their shadow derivatives and shadow banking system and they commit a. 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 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 two thousand and 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 sea.