terms of a week israel and gaza settle into an uneasy cease fire after eight days of airstrikes and rocket attacks but a long term peace deal is yet to be agreed upon. crowds of protesters face tear gas in cairo as they marched out angry obvious drama president for granting himself 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 the next year. meanwhile with financial troubles taking their toll on european regions catalogs go to the polls in an election dominated by separatist feeling.

you're watching r t with me lucy countenance this is our the weekly show with the top headlines from the past seven days and today well the ceasefire in gaza that ended an eight day israeli offensive remains intact 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 and artie's post reports many of them are disappointed with the outcome of the operation and they see the truce as a victory for hamas. alyssa 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 to spend very anxious living on the air like knowing that at any moment the size right off i may have to go into a bomb shelter and like it's being scared by public transportation and staff.

the streets of tel aviv are a far cry from the streets of gaza when news of the truce was met with celebrations and fireworks the somewhat muted israeli reaction belies 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 we could have achieved. more better results 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 after 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 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 today for my counter any day any time. but tel aviv insists its operation was a success enabling it to destroy a significant portion of hamas infrastructure hundreds of rocket launchers and dozens of smuggling tunnels by belief that the cease fire 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 a 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 television 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 are 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. while israel hailed its operation as being a pinpoint one that targeted only hamas militants refugee camps or government buildings and media compounds also came under attack in gaza activist 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 it started with the assassination of senior hamas commander. barrett 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 injured 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 said ally channel located on the eleventh floor in the western side of the building and three rockets hit us my colleagues and i was wounded so one of the striking things about the eight day war was the number of

journalists that were explicitly targeted by israeli forces three appear to be deliberately assassinated. on monday israel called major local news agencies ordering them to evacuate their premises it then targeted a computer center belonging to the al aksa t.v. channel based in the building in gaza city setting it to blaze killing two and injuring several stars 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 when i got in yesterday near our home a car with

a press logo drove past with two young men inside all of a sudden we saw a rocket hit the car 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 in 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 and the the 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 . and reporters say that they will never be deterred from reporting that side of the story. the filmmaker and eyewitness terry fair are reporting there from my colleague kevin owen josh huntsman is a spokesperson for the israeli defense ministry and he claims that hamas is guilty of civilian deaths and 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 big pulled and dug out of collapsed buildings to maintain their deaths the hands of israeli israeli

air strikes are the fault of hamas. so i can tell you 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're 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 still to be double war crime whereby they hardly thousand civilians while 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. more than twenty egyptian rights groups have urged the country's islamic leader to withdraw and to create that granted him sweeping new powers under it no authority can revoke presidential decision this has sparked mass protests across the country

security forces have fired tear gas to disperse angry demonstrators in cairo but both morsi as opponents and backers calling for additional strikes now the opposition has vowed to continue with the sit in and talk or square pledging to fight what it calls the morsy power grab the president though has defended the move saying he was leading the country towards democracy and freedom well lawrence freeman from the executive intelligence review magazine says that egypt's political future is now being put to the test. i think president morsi is now on a slippery slope and it shows you how fragile and delicate 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 that's that people are participating in the government and also the people are actually raising their standard of living i think more see that president has made some kind of

arrangement with the military a few months ago i think he's also has strong backing. from the west i think until the actual people of egypt like all these other countries have gone through these thirty two most to his time until the people are given real economic development totally given real freedom this is going to continue to be a problem people risk their lives people stayed on demonstrations people did pummeled by police first on the bark now in the morsi it's not going to stop until we actually have a real policy for the future of the country catalonia as local elections could leave a beating a path away from spain people are heading to the polls the separatist party is looking set to winner and referendum and likely. also coming up for you know bahrain looks set for more protests rallies like the country's main opposition group ballasts defy a government ban on public gatherings the spite of profit out of by police and

accusations torture story and more just ahead after the by. looking at some jokes you simply do not believe they come speak and goodness how they can wrong oh. it's an international sled dog race with those driving the dogs. coming from as far away as a strand in canada and the us they come to russia and everybody is so very friendly they welcomed me with open arms and the scenery is so beautiful it's very much like alaska and so i felt at home the first sled dog was brought here from australia and now must come to this remote russian village to take part in the race it's not surprising they love it this trail ira mazie. but even more amazing is the

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application itself choose your language stream quality and enjoy your favorites from outside pal t.v. is not required to watch all its. all you need is your mobile device. any time. welcome back you're watching r t with me you will see how the e.u. leaders have lost the budget battle in brussels with a decision on their trillion euro common spending now move to the next year or weaker members had to rush to safeguard support programs while those pouring in more cash into the european coffers are spelt tightening well 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 over the ending in failure is once

again britain's place within europe but in the spotlight the european leaders all similarly failing to come up with a deal that would please everyone and each 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 the negotiations there was a lot of concern that we'd see burson isolated from the other twenty six countries whose uncle and merkel who with the mediator these negotiations he stepped up to take person side an unlikely form of support perhaps but 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 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 leaves us

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 but ultimately we're going to see this budget battle continuing now into the new year. the public as a solution meant for the united europe seems to be growing in the united kingdom later more market than transformer economics minister lord nigel lawson says britons trust their own laws and courts more than they use. the european union is changing and he's changing in a way that we would never of going to probably in the first place if it's been like that when we draw your. visions for even the great. but not be part of god so it may be possible so by the. public feel. whole lot of petty restrictions which come to us from europe or european law which

we can't change which you have to go along with even though we ourselves don't agree with them the public feels also that the decisions of british judges are actually better decisions than the decisions of the european court and yet we have to be subordinated to the european court they can see that the single currency is a mess to europe the european economy is a mess and therefore it is not particularly inspirational. and you can catch that full interview in about twenty five minutes time right here on our team. as europe struggles to find a common path separatist feelings are growing in some regions it seems to be dominating the local elections in catalonia where over half of catalan say that they want to make an independent state and with economic turmoil exacerbating

desires for someone to andhra farmer for r.t.a. explains in barcelona. well the polls have opened today in an election which could represent a step towards any final break up of spain and it is because the cattle on president arthur masses promise to hold a referendum on independence from spain it is convergence and union party actually wins and that is something that is striking a chord with many cattle lands the region itself a wrist pretty wealthy it has an economy the size of portugal's but it pays far more in taxes to the spanish government than to actually receive back in terms of investment from from madrid and that is something that annoys some people here unemployment is at around twenty five percent and also people are having to endure tough austerity measures at the moment but nothing is a done deal because after mass does need to record an absolute majority in order to be able to push through this referendum otherwise he would be forced to form some sort of coalition there is a sticking point to him that the referendum is actually against the spanish

constitution in the spanish prime minister mari only rush hoy's said he will fight it but some elements of the spanish media are actually saying that after mass could find himself arrested so nothing is clear cut at the moment and even though opinion polls do suggest that the majority of people are in favor of independence there is a strong lobby who are against separatism and their arguments are based on the economy too they say that if catalonia is forced to withdraw from spain it would businesses here would lose the spanish market but they could also lose the european union market because catalonia they fear could be forced to drop out of the e.u. and then reapply for membership which could be a long and then the process of the rim many arguments good arguments for and against these are issues that catalans have had to mull over over the last few weeks but today they do have to make their minds up and we should get a result later this evening. on our web site r t dot com you can read all about the latest scandal which is hitting the headlines in the u.k. where children are suffering from the political games of grownups that's after

a foster family has torn apart a local authorities the side the parents membership in the u.k. independence party makes them unsuitable as carers. plus from thanksgiving to bind we have the video and stories of black friday nightmares as america went on its biggest shopping spree of the year. the opposition in bahrain has vowed to resume peaceful street protests in order to defy a ban on public gatherings that was imposed last month the ruling family had claims the restrictions which sparked criticism from abroad were necessary in order to restore order now that uprising in bahrain has been ongoing for some eighteen months with shiites calling for more rights and democratic reforms from the sunni regime on wednesday a court sentenced twenty three medics to three months in prison for treating protesters and taking part in rallies a un team is set to arrive in bahrain next week in order to assess progress towards its promised reforms this is a follow up to

a similar mission that took place last year and now all this comes amid a report by leading human rights group which found torture and oppression on the rise in the country. alone we have found out that actually the situation is much more stunning west months ago where you terry right we're talking about at least twenty four people being killed there they were going to be firing issued its reports last year about i don't know what protests at the end too fucked over and only a week ago there were occasional national thirty one opposition activists were also talking about continuous harassment or human rights and one of them is now being the president of the fein center for human rights that was ten times the summer two three years increased merrily for having exercise his right to freedom of expression and we consider him to be a prisoner of conscience and we are talking about hundreds and hundreds of our. of torture that that happen especially since the beginning of two thousand and eleven until now international community has not enough pressure on the bahamian

government to ensure that. any independent commission of inquiry recommendations are implemented we're eighty's quite corina what we are seeing is that a year after that b.q. report was issued we have seen that that main commendations that would ensure a country we can to justice for victims has not been implemented. let's take a look at some other world news now the death toll from a fire at a garment factory in bangladesh has soared to at least one hundred twelve dozens more were injured in the blaze while the search goes on for those still feared to be trapped in the upper floors of the nine story building because of the blaze is not yet known but fires from short circuits and poor wiring are common in the country's closing plants. the basque separatist group has announced that it is ready to disband and put an end to its campaign in almost half a century of its armed struggle for independence in the organizations carried out countless violent attacks which have claimed more than eight hundred lives that is

thought to be behind the madrid train bombings which exploded on the eve of spain's general elections in two thousand and four the group is now seeking talks with the spanish and french governments in order to negotiate the total handover of arms in return for the release of its prisoners to the northern basque region. at least three people have reportedly been killed and more than fifty injured when a explosion rocked a shia muslim procession in the northwest part of pakistan the blast occurred in a shop located on the route that the worshippers pass by it's the second such explosion to hit the district in less than two days left in the weekend's death toll to eleven today's blast comes despite a temporary cut to mobile phone services which the authorities have believed will be abused to trigger controlled devices. rebels in the 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 m twenty three group say that they're willing to negotiate over the ongoing violence directly with the d. or c.

president now the country is facing a growing humanitarian crisis with around five hundred thousand people displaced since that rebellion began in late april now the m twenty three accuses the government of failing to honor the terms of a two thousand and nine peace deal that had incorporated them into the national army. as the syrian opposition looks to gain more support from the west. and carr on is now pushing for a nato for nato to install the trip missile system along its border and later in this program we ask what this move could mean for the region as a whole. process energy bills in the u.k. are rising millions won't be able to heat their homes this winter one of the details after a short break. and

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look i'm back here watching r t with means he can't find out well there may be no escape from the biting cold this winter for millions of u.k. residents sewing energy prices looks set to drag more and more people into so-called fuel poverty but the only way to stay warm and just be an extra blanket parties are smith has more. it's a bitter winter's day in london and inside this flat it's not much warmer single mother of four julie has only one thing on her mind as the cold bites how is she going to pay her ever rising energy bill i decided to take fewer libel. and i only use one in my room it's only sitting in my kitchen and my you just one like trying to cut down. off the bill next time. we spoke to julie last winter when she was already.