news from today and the week israel and gaza settle into an easy ceasefire after eight days of airstrikes and walk in its tracks but a long term peace deal is yet to be agreed upon. crowds of protesters based here gassed in cairo as they marched out angry at the islamic president for granting yourself sweeping new powers. e.u. leaders leave brussels with no decision on their trillion euro common spending with a new round of the budget battle moved to next year. meanwhile as financial troubles taking their toll on european regions its separatist feelings are dominating the local elections and catalonia.

you're watching r t with me lucy catherine although it's time for the weekly the top collection of stories from this week and today's headlines the ceasefire in gaza that ended an eight day israeli offensive remains untouched despite the details of a lasting peace deal having yet to be negotiated more than one hundred sixty palestinians were killed in the assault while hamas rocket attacks killed six israelis but. many in israel are disappointed at the outcome of the operation and they see the truce as a victory for hamas. a listener and rachel are packing for the u.s. a cease fire might have been announced but they're not waiting around to see if it works the women were part of an internship program to see what it's like to live in israel so they came they saw and now they choosing to leave this and very anxious living on earth like knowing that at any moment the sirens right off i may have to go into a bomb shelter and like it's being scared of public transportation and staff.

the streets of tel aviv are far cry from the streets of gaza when news of the truce was met with celebrations and fireworks the somewhat muted israeli reaction to lies a growing disappointment in the way many here feel the government handled things but i do think that israel finished the operation just so and i think finished it very soon and i think we had a good momentum for this operation we have a very good start and i think that if we would have continued it could have achieved. more a better result from its i do think that we could have put some more pressure on the organization of hamas. it would probably. keep us from further rocket attacks in the future i hope. the government has good reason to finish it now many military experts and commentators believe the

ceasefire was a strategic victory for hamas for two hours off to officially came into force rocket fire from gaza continued it seems that the israeli government has given in to some of the demands of hamas and has made an agreement with a terror organization i think a lot of red lines have been crossed and among the disappointed i viewed friedman a lone protester on television campus he's frustrated his army didn't into gaza and was one of the first to call his officer to volunteer it's important for our safety for our. so civilians safety and that's what we should do against it i'm prepared to die for my country any day any time. but tel aviv insists its operation was a success enabling it to destroy a significant portion of the masses infrastructure hundreds of rocket launchers and dozens of smuggling tunnels i believe that the ceasefire in the day was just a means to an end and the end was peace and quiet however it came about is less

important as the result hopefully will be peace and quiet to return to normalcy for israelis and also innocent palestinians on the other side of the border but hamas claims tel aviv capitulated to its demands especially by agreeing to ease its blockade on gaza the group also showed its military prowess by sending rockets for the first time from gaza to jerusalem and later to tel aviv capabilities that have made hamas a real hero of the palestinian resistance the conflict also managed to silence the more moderate palestinian government of mahmoud abbas which is why some of pointing out that israel has sent a very dangerous message to the arab world if you want to get something from israel you have to go to war policy r.t. tel aviv. well israel hail the top aeration as being pinpoint on targeting only hamas militants refugee camps government buildings and media compounds all came under attack in gaza activists harry fear who's currently working there says the

press signs didn't guarantee safety for journalists. israel's military operation pillar of cloud has officially ended its stance against sas nation a senior hamas commander. buried here. more than one thousand two hundred palestinians were wounded overwhelmingly children and women and over one hundred sixty seven were killed half of them civilians including journalists israel says when it targeted the top and eleventh floor of this the show building and it was targeting hamas as operational communications and engine six when it struck the al could t.v. office just below here. at exactly one fifty three on sunday the occupying forces started bombing our office the satellite channel located on the eleventh floor in the western side of the building and the three rockets hit us my colleagues and i was wounded and one of the striking things about the eight day war was the number

of journalists that were explicitly targeted by israeli forces three appeared to be deliberately assassinated. killed. on monday israel called major local news agencies ordering them to evacuate their premises it then targeted a computer send belonging to the t.v. channel based in the building in gaza city setting into place killing two and injuring several star this is what's left of the second floor of the building in central gaza city reporters without borders says that this building is known as the reporters building. the targeting of any journalist or civilian and international law is a war crime and war reporting is explicitly protected under international humanitarian law the next day israel targeted a press car carrying two al aksa t.v. cameramen they burned to death i got an american i got in yesterday near our home

a car with a press logo drove past with two young men inside and all of a sudden we saw a rocket hit the car and those inside were killed we pulled one of them out in pieces but couldn't get to the other one he was literally on fire of course it was the press what else can you say. and i'll could say are the most popular t.v. stations in palestine israel says they're not legitimate journalistic enterprises and that they're associated with the islamic jihad group and the quote hamas terror organization. only had a camera was the press was the european press with the talk of democracy these crimes are being committed against women and children all of this democracy is a sham. israeli airstrikes targeted media offices those targeted journalists according to israeli spokes persons are neither press nor civilians at all therefore journalists are worried that the atrocities massacres perpetrated by

the enemy in gaza will be concealed. israel's. bombardment campaign was aimed at wiping out infrastructure personnel and capacity gazan reporters say that they will never be deterred from reporting that side of the story i was harry fair reporting from there all right while my colleagues haven't ellen talk to josh huntsman he's the spokesman of the israeli defense ministry who claims that hamas is guilty of civilian deaths in gaza. the israeli defense ministry who i represent and indeed the israeli public mourning civilian deaths on both sides i've seen it running around the south from bomb shelter to bomb shelter dodging rockets hearing the cries of israeli civilians and the cries in the wells of the air raid sirens let me see the graphic footage in gaza of dead children being pulled. out of collapsed

buildings to maintain that their deaths at the hands of israeli israeli airstrikes are the fault of the mass so i can tell you they genuinely generally breaks my heart you think that we want to see dead children on any side as i said we mourn every loss of life hamas on the other hand celebrating and they are putting their own civilians in danger i cannot tell you how much we desire quiet how much we desire true peace and calm in this region when we facing an enemy that's guilty of this double war crime whereby they hardly own civilians or shooting at our civilians for every decade now we are in this predicament that however with the most strategically surgical precision pinpoint strikes when they're hiding beneath their civilian population there will be collateral damage. bahrain looks set for more protest rallies as we report a little later on the program the country's main opposition group ballsy to fly a government to ban on public gatherings to spite

a crackdown by police and accusations of torture. and anger in the welsh valleys as locals expressed concern at the nearby testing of britain's costly drones knowing that the machines could be sent to kill abroad of those details just ahead. this week the president of egypt signed a decree granting him sweeping new powers that sparked mass protest and split the country security forces have fired tear gas to disperse angry demonstrators in cairo with morsi as opponents and supporters calling for more strikes egypt's judges have accused the president of stripping them of their authority now the opposition says that it will continue with the sit in it off where square pledging to fight what it calls the islamic leaders power grab more civil has defended the new decree is saying that he was leading the country on the path to freedom and democracy lawrence freedman from the executive intelligence review magazine says that egypt's political future is now being put to the test. i think britain morsi

is now. on a slippery slope and it shows you how fragile. this whole movement that was launched a couple years ago for democracy and i sometimes say so-called democracy be great is not really giving democratic rights to the people and it's the people are participating in the government and also the people or actually raising their standard of living i see morsi the president has made some kind of arrangement with the military a few months ago i think he's also has some kind of it's true he has strong backing from that where it's till the actual people of egypt like all these other countries have gone through the city to mold to respond to people are given real at the moment to grow until. real freedom this is going to continue to be a problem people risk their lives people stayed out of demonstrations people did pummeled by police for some of the morsi it's not going to stop until we actually

have a real policy for the future of the country. the leaders have lost the budget battle in brussels with a decision on their trillion euro common spending now moves to next sheriff weaker members had to rush to safeguard support programs while those poor even more caution to european coffers belt tightening the u.k. was among the loudest voices in favor of coughing up less as artists are furthur explains. with the european commission in london but in a week that seeing the brussels budget debate osome it lee ending in failure is once again britain's place within europe this back in the spotlight the european leaders ultimately failing to come up with a deal that would please everyone and the budget that would take us from twenty forty to twenty twenty that person very much wanted to be seen as leading the way in calling for the cuts indeed in the lead up to see the negotiations there was

a lot of concern that we'd see burson isolated from the other twenty six countries throughout england merkel who with the mediate these negotiations he stepped up to take person side an unlikely form of support perhaps she was very much adamant that person wouldn't be left to fight this alone an exercise that we saw happening in two thousand and eleven and so we saw all those other dana countries getting behind britain in this now at the end of it the prime minister said the person didn't get a deal but they didn't get an unacceptable deal but of course that leads us back exactly where we started with nothing happening and so those countries are going to be left to continue the negotiations to try and hammer out some form of a deal that's acceptable to everyone the old summit the way get to see this budget battle continuing now into the new year. so you can depend on this party has gained more support from the public to solution and with

a united europe there are skeptics party's leader nigel farage leaves of britain needs to pull out of the e.u. if it wants to prosper take a look. every time the big decisions for the next seven years come up there are always countries that are donor countries that are a bit reluctant and there are always recipient countries that are rather game to push the budget up and of course the french always make sure that the covered every culture policy doesn't get reformed the difference this time is that the split isn't just over the budget the split is also about the eurozone as well because it's those northern countries that are members of the euro zone who are really becoming increasingly reluctant despite the fact that the u.k. is the world's sixth biggest trading nation we are actually pretty hip it'd from having our own buy that we trade deals with any other part of the world that has to be done on our behalf so the u.k. message is simple we love europe we want to get on with our neighbors we want to trade with them through

a simple free trade agreement but then refocus british business to start concentrating on doing more deals around the rest of the world this european model this idea that europe is what matters and the rest of the world can go hang frankly is decades out of date as the syrian opposition looks to gain more support from the west we asked the rebel forces have enough power to oust president bashar al assad and represent the country star coming your way. separatist feeling is dominating the regional election in catalonia as he prepared to go to the polls there more than half of catalans are now said to want to form the newest state within europe well this is our first summer into exacerbated by the economic turmoil well arty's andrew farmer has more for us. there's a wind of separatism blowing through europe at the moment and it's reached the northeastern shores of spain catalonia is the latest region to officially are spent in the pendants it's something people here have long felt in their hearts but now

they're feeling it in their pockets too. i think is a good idea too to be in the band them from. country. which is. really really bad situation is a bargain for. it's a bargain for the cool cool to prague castle and flags can be seen hanging from balconies throughout barcelona reflecting a growing desire for home rule under a drive to break away from the central government in madrid this weekend's local election is being fought on that issue alone catalan president after mass has made it the centerpiece of his campaign his convergence and union party to hold an independent referendum if they win and say a free catalonia would be a cure all for the region's economic problems that have seen unemployment top twenty five percent the economic context in europe and in the south of europe has

been a catalyzer of the. movement we can see in the zones of people in cologne i believe that with our own resources human capital economy resources we could be better off if not being in the spanish estate this is a reality that a lot of economic research has show many cattle and find it a persuasive argument it's one of spain's wealthiest regions producing a fifth of the country's economic output but it pays around sixteen billion euros a year more in taxes than it gets back in madrid which has in turn insisted public services into austerity cuts. this is not fair i mean we are the ones who are. doing our best in an economy reasons we cannot have all the weight of this measure and the central government for us is the one who is spending the most and not in the best way last september barcelona witnessed one of the largest separatist

rallies since the nineteen seventies over one and a half million cattle and took to the streets to call for independence but the top . off to becoming a new european state smoot the proposed referendum is against the spanish constitution once more withdrawing from spain could also force this region to draw back to the european union those against separatism believe it could do more harm than good. symbolism for going to lunar would be an economic disaster multi-national companies located in barcelona for access to the spanish working and being in the e.u. that would be lost which more even of separatism does not happen just talking about it creates uncertainty and that is the last thing the economy needs during this current crisis. with poll suggesting after mass will win reelection. looks set free. the president the spanish military association sanchez has even suggested it might lead to another civil war political parties

dismissed that as extreme rhetoric but the remaining catalans of this weekend will mark the first step towards the breakup of spain. andrew farmer. if we had over to our web site r.t. dot com you can read all about the latest scandal which is hitting all the headlines in the u.k. what children suffering from the political games for own ups. in britain kids have been torn from their foster parents after social workers brand of them as a politically unfit because they were questioning their support for the new take independence party. also for you on our side to mapping out a controversy china's these passports are causing regional concerns after maps printed on its pages stake china's claims just in the territories all that for you r.t. dot com. the opposition in bahrain has vowed to resume peaceful street protests in order to defy

a ban on public gatherings imposed last month the ruling family had claims that the restrictions which sparked criticism from abroad were necessary in order to restore order. the uprising in bahrain has been ongoing for some eighteen months now and with shiites calling for more rights a democratic proposal forms part me from the sunni regime on wednesday a court sentenced twenty three medics to three months in prison for treating injured protesters and taking part in the rallies the u.n. team is set to arrive in bahrain next week in order to assess the progress towards a prompt towards its promised reforms is a follow up to a similar mission last year you know all this comes after a damning report by a leading human rights group which found torture and oppression are on the rise in the country. will we have time to out that actually the situation is much worse than it was months ago it's where you terry right in we're talking about at least twenty four people being killed after they were being dependent from bahrain issued its report last year a ban on not protest at the end to fucked over and only

a week ago there were a vocation of national to thirty one opposition activists were also talking about continuous harassment or human rights and one of them is now in russia the president of the famed center for human rights that was sometimes these some are two three years increased marilee for having exercised its right to freedom of expression and we consider him to be a prisoner of conscience and we are talking about hundreds of hands and hundreds of allegations of torture that that happen especially since the beginning of two thousand and eleven until now international community has not enough pressure on the one man to ensure that. any independent commission of inquiry recommendations are implemented it well into squad were not what we are seeing is that you are on your. report was issued we have seen that that main command day shows that would ensure a country we can to justice for victims have not been implemented. let's take a look now at some other world news making headlines right now the death toll from

a fire at a garment factory in bangladesh restored to at least one hundred twenty one dozens more have also been injured in the blaze as the search goes on for those who could be trapped in the upper floors of the nine story building now the cause of the blaze is not yet known but fires from short circuits and poor wiring are common in the country's clothing plants. the basque separatist group that has announced that it is ready to put an end to its campaign in almost half a century of us armed struggle for independence the organizations carried out violent countless violent attacks and claimed more than eight hundred lives the group is thought to be behind the madrid train bombings which exploded on the eve of spain's general elections in two thousand and four and is now speaking talks with the spanish and french governments and a total handover of arms in return for the release of its prisoners to the northern basque region. four people have been killed and dozens wounded during celebrations of the muslim holy day of assura in the capital of yemen summon up unidentified

assailants threw a grenade into the crowd of shiite worshipers observing the gathering authorities suspect that sunni extremists potentially links with al qaeda being behind the attack. rebels and democratic republic of congo are refusing to surrender the key city of goma and to lay down their arms this despite pleas from african leaders the country is facing a growing humanitarian crisis with around five hundred eighty thousand people displaced since the rebellion began on april the m twenty three group of users the government of failing to honor the terms of a two thousand i feel that have cooperated them into the national army of. syrian rebel forces looking to als president bashar al assad has received an important endorsement from the west the european union says the national coalition is a legitimate representative of the country's people but it stops short of giving the group official recognition friends in the u.k. . well among the first western powers to give rebel alliance their stamp of approval with turkey also doing the same and carr is now pushing for nato to

install a patriot missile system along its border russia is among the countries strongly opposing the move widely seen as the first step towards creating a no fly zone and the mohammad the editor in chief of the syria tribune says the rebel polish and is receiving western support despite clear to set it within its own ranks. we don't know this pollution and they don't control anything on the ground and you know the west want them to be the sort of project which does not make sense dr. france and turkey recognize the coalition has a leader in there as a sort of figure of the syrian people the funking groups and their leaders the release the video saying that this coalition does not exist out of them and they that they are they would be keep fighting until they reach their goal which is an influx davey's syria so i don't think that they would be able to control over. therefore we cannot focus. on the one black the muslim brotherhood is an important

member of the coalition and of the same time the muslim brotherhood is the main background so forth are all the you need to be a brigade that fights in the same brigade of the future if there is something of that matter and out there it's really. not clear what its purpose are for the coalition at all. the west's controversial use of unmanned drones in hotspots around the world looks set to go with the british government now developing a new technology to present his paw found out some locals that live close to the testing ground don't exactly share in the government's excitement. the victims in tribal regions of pakistan yemen i'm def gonna stand is the last sound heard before bloodshed in syria is a constant worrying it gets louder before it becomes visible but for residents of the quiet coastal town of alba porth in west wales the sound is synonymous with

daily life this is the area where the r.a.f. tests its watch keep a drone from as you can see there's one taking off behind me as we speak in good weather the drones take off throughout the day and during the night and as you can hear the noise is so high pitched and dominating that local residents have called this area the buzz box. for local people. because. they fly over this quite regularly the welsh government build it as a state of the art technology park that would create four to five hundred much needed jobs for the community the reality a hof deserted site where the ministry of defense employs about thirty people to help test the watch keep up there is a sense of frustration in the area a number of people who were for it in the beginning now opposed to it because they

didn't realise the level of nuisance that they was going to be there is behind the development of drones say it means less soldiers come home from war zones in body bags but civilian casualties a piling up we know from pakistan that somewhere around two to three thousand people have been killed in throwing strikes because of these online systems it's a lot. and therefore there will be much more around the world. the british government has already spent two billion pounds on development but they're about to commit another two billion on a new armed drone that is spent it could be spent on hospitals and schools rather than on killing machines despite drastic government cuts on welfare spending financing for the drones isn't up for debate to the dismay of locals the daily testing along with the bloodcurdling noise drones on.

west wales just south of the break we're going to look at the latest gadgets from russian inventors along with a pair of new browsers as well as an alternative exciting stuff on technology update after the break. you know how sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realize everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm tom harpur welcome to the big picture.

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