the news from today and the week that israel and gaza settle into an un easy ceasefire after eight days of its strikes and rocket attacks but a long term peace deal is yet to be agreed on. crowds of protesters freeze tear gas in cairo as they marched out angry at the islamic president granting use of creepy new powers. e.u. leaders have brussels with no decisions on the of a trillion euro common spending with a new round of the budget battles moved to next year. meanwhile with financial troubles taking their toll on european regions scotland's go to the polls in an election dominated by separatist feeling.

you're watching r g eight live from moscow with me to bomb and say good to have you with us this afternoon the ceasefire in gaza that ended and aids day is really offensive remains intact despite the details of a lost in 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 as artie's policy reports and many israelis are disappointed with the outcome of the operation and view 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 edge like knowing that at any moment the sounds like laugh 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 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 anything could finish it very soon i think we had a good momentum for this operation we have very good start and i think that if we were to continue we could have achieved. more a better result from its i do think that we could have put some more pressure oh and the organization of hamas. 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 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 and 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 to tel aviv capabilities that have made him us 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 pinpoint and targeting only hamas

militants refugee camps government buildings and media compounds came under attack in gaza documentary filmmaker harry fear currently working there says press signs didn't guarantee safety for journalists. garza israel's military operation pillar of cloud has officially ended it started with the assassination of a senior hamas commander barry 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 our who story building and it was targeting hamas as operational communications and injured six when it struck the al kurds 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 three rockets hit us my colleagues and i was wounded 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 interplays killing two and injuring several staff 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 in gaza as the reporter's 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. cameraman 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 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 neither press nor civilians at all . released are worried that the atrocities massacres perpetrated by the enemy in gaza will be concealed. israel's. bombardment campaign was aimed at wiping out a massive infrastructure personnel and capacity gazan reporters so that they will never be deterred from reporting that side of the story so make an eyewitness harry fear they are reporting from gaza now the israeli defense forces spokesperson added to labor claim to our team that day as well as only target hamas communication facilities not general media offices. we're talking about two media buildings indeed but on the roofs of these media buildings hamas wisely positioned a whole system of communications and electronics for its own personal or

operational work we targeted only these and tennis these communications center and you can see an accurate hit on the roof none of the floors were targeted of course there was a little bit of. it as a result of the explosive some windows shattered in the law and i think that if a journalist chooses to locate himself near hamas facility that's a mistake hamas is start getting civilians we are not looking to target civilians we are targeting terrorists there is a border to reject the roughest border it's opened do you know that every day we allow patients from gaza to get hospitalization in israel despite the rocket fire do you know that we supply electricity to gaza what other country in the world would act this way. more than twenty gyptian rights groups have urges the country's islamic leader to what dollar a creed granting him sweeping new policy and i acknowledge or to can revoke presidential decisions there's a spot to mass protests across the country security forces why tear gas to disperse

angry demonstrators and higher and more scenes opponents and backers calling for more strikes the opposition has vowed to continue with the sit in into the square pledging to fight what it calls the power grab morsi there has defended the move saying he was leading the country towards freedom and democracy but journalist ahmed forty believes the military rule in egypt has simply been replaced by another kind of dictatorship. what have mohamed morsi done mubarak in the height of his power could not even dream of achieving morsi is part of the muslim brotherhood and islam or fascist group they have control over their members and supporters it is very simple and a country with more than forty five percent of its population are illiterate to control them in the name of religion gyptian is are now seeing clearly they have replaced the military fascist style regime of hosni mubarak into the religious

fascist regime of mohamed morsi and the muslim brotherhood egyptians have undertaken a revolution back in january twentieth levon calling for three simple things bread freedom and social justice neither of these three. calls demands that they have called for and in the revolution have been achieved this state of the egyptian arcana me is in shambles the state of freedoms it's been marginalized people wanted to establish a democracy they wanted to establish a solid to human rights they wanted to have social justice applied. and not from the military to due to fascism. god alone has local elections it could leave it beating a path away from spain to go to the polls will separate his party's looking sets to

win and to win and a referendum on independence likely to follow. and claim the set for more protests rallies as the country's main opposition group vols to defy a government bad public gatherings despite a crackdown by police and i can say short of torture this story and now more hades after a short break. british lib dem 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 a setback for women who want to be successful and equal to men so they want to give men the option of taking maternity leave or would that be paternity leave i don't know i kind of see the logic of her view but my question is featherstone is why

exactly is success in the corporate world the primary goal of life for men and women as a feminist i would think you understand that wanting to fight your way up the ladder to buy a big car to replace your shortcomings is a very male way of judging success are women who choose to have families failures or at least unsuccessful in your book even as a man 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.

it won't do the. good the old fashion but as the best and brightest take minds gather in moscow some came to work while others came to play get up close and personal with devices that recreate masterpieces and scan russian treasures from inside and from space to keep us safe from oil spills and forest fires unleash your inner gadget geek as i see major search for the next big thing in the computer world and russia's only giants growing tumors goodies cling to take the fight straight to their creditors no one jumping here on r.g.p. we dump the future covered. parents versus social workers docket nabby b.m.

now stop me than stop kidnapping children to become prizes to fight for why does the last threaten families of the social fabric to see in the form of a her right of the home anymore if they feel that they have any kind of suspicion about the world will think of your children are often a just better at bringing up kids than their own mom and dad. from what we have an industry that is so. concentrated on the other for trade to. their watching are to live from moscow elitists have lost the budget battle in brussels with a decision on their chilean euro common spending now moved to next we can members rush to save got support programs while those pouring more cash into european

coffers urged a belt tightening the u.k. was among the loudest voices in favor of coughing up less as our tea separate expats. we're here at the european commission in london but in a week that seeing the brussels budget debate also italy ending in failure is once again britain's place within europe is back in the spotlight the european leaders all similarly failing to come up with a deal that would please everyone and eve 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 merkel who was the mediator 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 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 with the calls that leads us back exactly where we started with nothing happening and so those countries are going to be left to continually 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. as europe struggles to find a common pother suffrage is feeling is growing in some regions it seems to be dominating the local elections and got the lumia over half of catalans us say they want to make an independent state with economic turmoil exasperating desires for servant team artie's and your former isn't boss alone. well people are voting today

in an election which could represent a step towards any final breakup of spain and it is because the cattle i am president has promised to hold a referendum on independence from spain if this convergence and union party actually wins and that is something that is striking a chord with many cattle lands the region itself a rich pretty wealthy it has an economy the size of portugal's but it pays far more in taxes to the spanish government it actually receives back in terms of investment 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. has 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 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 lengthy 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. right on our website to read about the latest scandal which is hitting all the headlines in the u.k. the children suffering from political games of grownups that's after force a family is torn apart after local authorities decided the parents membership of

the u.k. independence party makes them unsuitable as carers. plus of from thanksgiving to buying we have the video and stories of black friday nightmares america went on its biggest shopping spree of the year. the opposition in bahrain has vowed to resume peaceful street protests to defy a ban on public gatherings in paris last month the ruling family had claimed the restrictions which sparked criticism from abroad that they were necessary to restore order a un team is said to visit before him in early december to assess progress towards its a promise reforms a follow up on a similar mission at the beginning of the uprising some nineteen months ago comes after a report by a leading human rights group which found torture and oppression in the country were on the rise on wednesday a quarter sentence twenty three met its

a two three month prison for treating injured protesters and taking part in rallies one former bahraini m.p. told us that they were being powered by british and american backing. the government doesn't want the world to know that there have been lots of witnesses on the killings which have happened by the police force in bahrain government doesn't want to use old doesn't want to grow into a dialogue even though the opposition said this is our home that we want a dialogue we have to blame some of the big countries who are who are giving green large to do this big three to ship just two weeks ago mr cameron was in the area and he was talking that ok we have to live with whatever these governments want to be a political stage. united states is not doing whatever it should do it just talks about some mores on the table that sits down with the government and even with the people who are accused very much of violating human rights they just knowledge of the

bahraini government without putting any pressure on them. let's take a look at some other world news now a fire at a garment factory in bangladesh has claimed the lives of at least one hundred twelve people dozens more were injured in the place while some are still feared trapped on the upper floors of the nine story building the cause of the blaze is not yet known but flies from short circuits and poor poor wiring are common in the country's clothing plants. the buskers sever edges group the actor has announced it is ready to disband and to put an end to to its campaign in almost half a century of its armed struggle for independence the organizations carried out countless of violent attacks which have claimed more than eight hundred lives at aa is thought to be behind the madrid train bombings which exploded on the eve of spain's general elections in two thousand and three the groups are seeking talks with the spanish and french governments to me go see the total handover of its arms and

return for the release of its prisoners to the mildren. at least five people have reportedly been killed and more than seventy injured one an explosion rocked a sheer muslim procession in northwest pakistan the blast occurred in a shop located on the route to worshippers ponce by it's a second such explosion to hit the district in less than twenty four hours lifting the weekend's death toll to thirteen in today's blog so it comes of despite a temporary card to mobile phone services which the authorities believed would been used to trigger remote devices. rebels in the democratic republic of congo are refusing to lay down their arms despite pleas from african leaders the m twenty three group savior willing to negotiate but the government don't want to enter talks until the rebels surrender a key city of goma the country is facing a growing humanitarian crisis with around five hundred thousand people displaced

since the rebellion began in april the m twenty three accuses the government of failing to honor the terms. of a two thousand and nine peace deal that incorporated them into the national army. after the break it's tomorrow's world today technology update is just ahead here on our team. the legacy no one should be proud of heaps of scrap metal littering pristine arctic landscape building stilton over their foundation pipes spilling black smoke over the snow covered peaks the traces of the soviet industrial activity on the spitzbergen archipelago don't make a pretty picture if the guiding principle here is the worse the better locals like to tell the story that back in soviet times when no regions were visiting barons

were they also an express lane when it would be and how prosperous the settlement was well times have obviously a challenge when they saw it lags say it's still attracting the region tourists are barons work cons much needed cash that's why when based ballot awarding our goal is common as was uncovered here a few days ago instead of throwing it away the local administration decided to paint the venue and put it at barron's work central square back in the nine hundred eighty s. there was a burgeoning mining community there the soviet union was determined to maintain its own costs. are located halfway between north america and western europe in archipelago is part of norway but a special status that allows other countries to set up industrial bases here in the middle of the cold war it served as the use of czars westernmost outpost now it's one of the soviet union slask preserved relics. is essentially

a picture of. the soviet union if it was cut off from any financial support for two decades is a curious sight for western tourists and i think it could be even more appealing for russian travelers to keep its presence on spitsbergen russian film until a coal mine here but in terms of profit is far behind local seventy or shops. bill it is a big hit the defunct are incurred and still helps keep the money flowing guys it's a russian thing yourself but you can buy the rubbles for almost. euros the local administration is increasingly under pressure to bring the infrastructure up to more than standards these modernization efforts are not very popular with tourists if you come into a very authentic place like. it should stay the way it is that would be my wish i mean that's the part of the let you know authentic tradition here. i should not i

would not like to have it in a shiny condition to be honest this time to change even for the better is not always good for business something that even a local band has become attuned to when they try to add morning russian songs to die repertoire the audience called all they wanted to hear it was a song comfortably familiar.

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