latest news and the week's top stories gaza militants are celebrating what they call victory after israel stops short of invading the strip club play days of bombing. the crowds in cairo favored tear gas yet again as violent protests over the president's grab of full power to use one third straight day. e.u. leaders are failed to agree on their trillion euro budget after rounds of agonizingly to further discuss and scheduled for next year. and citizens and spain's wealthiest region head to the polls for parliamentary election a driven by strong sentiment of separatism.

it's one o'clock here in moscow you are live with r.t. good to have you with us this afternoon gaza is recovering from the israeli bombing campaign that ended this week thanks to an egyptian brokered truce i'm sure and sixty eight palestinians were killed around half of them civilians militant rocket fire also claimed the lives of six israelis despite those numbers hamas claims it came out of the window and some israelis now say the governments failed them as artie's policia reports. alyssa and rachel are packing for the us 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 if you spend very anxious living on air like knowing that at any moment besides like last time after

going to a bomb shelter and like it's being scared on 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 and i think it finished it very soon 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 a. better result from it's i do think that we could have put some more pressure on 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've had 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. civilians safety and that's what we should do against it i'm prepared today for my counter any day any time. but television says 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 by 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 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's. international human rights watch dogs are now investigating the conflict for war crimes militant rockets targeted at israeli cities killing several

civilians while televisa been blasted by some of the servers for causing mess of collateral damage filmmaker harry fear was inside gaza throughout the bombing. gasser israel's military operation pillar of cloud has officially ended it started with the assassination of 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 then just 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 said a lie channel located on the eleventh floor in the western side of the building and

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 center belonging to the al aksa t.v. channel based in the building in gaza city setting interplays 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 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 the press car carrying two al aksa

t.v. cameramen they burned to death to get an american i got it 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 but 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 and the the press nor civilians at

all. 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 a massive infrastructure personnel and capacity garson reported that they will never be deterred from reporting that side of the story. so make an activist harry fear their reporting from post conflict. that is by the number of civilian deaths say israel maintains the bombing of gaza was a highly accurate this week my colleague kevin i when interviewed an israeli official who placed all the blame for collateral damage on from us. the israeli defense ministry who i represent and indeed the israeli public mourning civilian deaths on both sides i've seen it i've been 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 siren when we see the graphic footage in gaza of dead children being pulled out dug out of collapsed buildings to maintain their deaths at the hands of israel and israeli air strikes are the fault of hamas . so i can tell you they genuinely genuine 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 is guilty of this double war crime whereby they hotly to own 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. on the third consecutive

day of clashes police in cairo have fired tear gas and crowds protesting against the president's decree granting him sweeping new policy his decisions can no longer be challenged by any authority more than twenty egyptian rights groups have aries him to renounce the decision the opposition has vowed to fight to what it calls a dictator like power grab until the very end and is staging a sit in at cairo's tahrir square present morsi that has defended the move saying it's intended to protect of the revolution that brought him to power after the all sing of hosni mubarak's regime lawrence freeman from the executive intelligence review magazine says 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 i sometimes say so-called democracy be great is not really giving democratic rights to the people and that's the people are participating in the government and also the people are actually raising their standard of living i think more see the 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 the city to mold to his time until the people are given real economic development early given real freedom this is going to continue to be a problem people risk their lives people stayed out of demonstrations people do commonly by police first on the bar now and the more i see it's not going to stop do we actually have a real policy for the future of the country more pictures of the violence or

ripping through the streets of egypt as well as act. good comment on the crisis all vailable on our website at our cheat dot com. this week european union leaders failed to reach a deal on today's of negotiating the blocks financial future in brussels may see you members supported an increase in the budget while some including britain called for cuts claiming that and the time of austerity nations don't have money to spare artie's surfer it reports with the european commission in london but in a week that seeing the brussels budget debate also met lee ending in failure is once again britain's place within europe is back in the spotlight the european leaders also macleay 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 alert cool he was the mediator these negotiations. to take person inside an unlikely home of the poor perhaps she was very much alan the person wouldn't be left to fight this alone and exercise their veto before happening in two thousand and eleven and so we saw those other day in a country 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 either but of course 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. robert oulds of the director of the bridge group believes their desire for unity is what drives you to pin countries down. if

countries had the violence to manage their own economies as they see fit then we wouldn't have this awful austerity that we're seeing we would have had these unsustainable which happened in southern europe and arland and of course we wouldn't have this enormous bust which is creating a massive unemployment if their countries had their own rights to manage their own affairs and set their own legislation to their own interest rates many german economies as they see fit without having to hand over billions each year to brussels as britain does we'd be generally a lot better off really the european union we're seeing is reached the limits of its levels of integration there are moves to expand more powers to the e.u. to have more e.u. control over national member states budgets even to have its own sources of income it's only you taxes that of course he's pushing it too far it's gone far too far in

the wrong direction which is centralization and it powers were turned i think the atmosphere in europe would be a lot better off course in terms of the britain's own deficit and the debts that the u.k. has it is a small amount that the european union's asking for because the european union has already taken so much power people are just loathe to accept a situation where they're going to get any more money. still to come this hour the wind off separately from people of spain the one you are going to the polls to choose a new parliament. of independents dominating. the un says it will send that space to the rain and you see how this data can improve in four i think human rights record of leading opposition party to continue to protest . that and that and plenty more stories in just a few minutes. trimmings

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you're watching our t.v. for this week's the weekly the growing threat to european unity is the talk of separatism actively growing in some areas issues of independence and sovereignty are dominating local elections and that the lonny of spain's riches region and the main contributor to the country's economy artie's endure pharma is in barcelona. 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 on president aftermath his 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 that actually receives 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 doesn't 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 force withdrawal 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 of how 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. and so i. believe the catalan president will have a lot of if he has to deal with if a he wins the elections. the issue that's kind of overarching throughout the elections is sort of cattle on independents however there's also. a lot of sentiment against the two of mass by people that are not in his party's i guess immediate ideological range i mean he just had a general strike against him on the fourteenth of november that's also drew nearly

a million people into the streets so the problem with this is that between the nationalist sort of sentiment and the anti austerity sort of majority view their opposition to article the mouse is either confused or doesn't really have a referential point in in the form of a political party to vote against him so he sort of has the strongest group out of all the electoral formations. and we're closely following they've got the loney in the elections on our web site at archie dot com the latest details and the full timeline of the region's protest movement for independence also available online. syrian rebels looking to overthrow president assad have received a serious backing this week the european union welcomed the new syrian opposition group the national coalition as a legitimate representative of the country's people although e.u.

ministers stopped short of official diplomatic recognition which must be decided by each member state france and turkey were the first polish to give the new rebel alliance a stamp of approval with britain following suit soon after turkey is now pushing for nato to deploy patriot missiles along its border with syria to defend itself russia and iran are among the countries strongly opposing them we're seeing it as a possible first step towards a no fly zone possibly foreign boots on the ground political activist. things if nato grants taking that request. would plunge the region deeper into chaos. deploying such missiles is not really going to be for defensive measure what do they need to defend against at least turkey has an army and they can defend against more tire for example this is clearly for a larger scale intervention where they want to secure a no fly zone area and we've been hearing the e.u.

countries especially britain and france advocating such intervention recently would have been talking about limited scale intervention how about how how. comprehensive and how a normal out war style this is going to be i think it is not going it's not going to be a war style it will be a war of attrition it's not going to threaten the syrian government of a sudden intervention they know very well that this is going to ignite a. response from the syrian side that may trigger a lot of chaos and in the region germany that has backed syria's rebels all the way now says it's willing to help turkey with the growing influx of refugees but as maria found out those fleeing syria may still have other battles to fight. with conflict in syria raging for nearly two years now the exodus continues around four

hundred thousand moved to neighboring countries two and a half million are internal refugees people run even though sometimes they have nowhere to go but recently seems at least one more door was opened to them germany is really in principle to welcome syrian refugees manual is german journalist has been covering events in syria this summer he was in the capital damascus during operation a volcano when rebels attempted to seize the city manual says the people of syria are being sent the wrong message he was supporting the so-called rebel side the so-called syrian national council the so-called free syrian army with they are terrorist activities toward civilians now our government discusses with a very nice face to take a large number of refugees from syria instead of saying we difficult with how we can that the people can stay in their country germany m.p.o.

turkish origin southern darlin rose to prominence after signing a petition accusing the us of preparing a war against syria and iran and calling it an aggressor along with turkey and germany she thinks guilt could be motivating barely dodged. germany's military forces have been pretty big thing in many conflicts around the war so they're partially responsible for the wards and as people are running away it means they're responsible for the refugees. but if syrian refugees come here to germany what will they get people in this camp in central berlin are all immigrants and they're angry they've come here to protest against harsh german laws that force refugees to remain at whichever camp the state sends them to that's after a twenty eight day march across the country which involved them breaking these very same laws if you want to. would you go with the alf eyes big if you can or

something. you go or if you come and then you don't show them you cannot enter even these small place then i say ok now i have nowhere to go in cities please i'm ok famous people here are from africa the middle east and asia they've been seeking a better life in a better place but it seems what they found here turned out to be yet another fight in their hopes. the people we are meeting here have been running away from atrocities and violence and dictatorship in their homelands forced to give up their homes and their lives there just to survive they actually had nowhere to go and they've come here in what may be their last hope but other welcome here enough. with the german leadership singling syrian refugees out the may have better chances but still no guarantees they will get exactly what they're looking for help in finding peace at home or how to be finding safety in the arms of other. reason

ocean archie from germany. the u.n. human rights commission plans are to send a team of experts to bahrain next week amid growing concern that the nation is slipping into protests chaos the main opposition party there says it will resume probably form demonstrations despite a government ban on all gatherings behinds uprising has been going on for almost two years with activists calling for more freedoms access to jobs and education from the sunni leaders up to eighty people have been killed and thousands are thrown behind bars during the government crackdown on dissent and wednesday a court sentence of twenty three medals to three months in prison for treating injured protesters and taking part in rallies that are comes after a report by lady human rights group amnesty international has completed torture and oppression in the life. alone we have found out that actually the situation is much

worse than it was months ago it's well you know terry rate in we're talking about at least twenty four people being killed after they were paying the penalty for firing issued its report last year a ban on all protests at the end of october and only a week ago there were occasional national tour 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 offense center for human rights that was sentenced the summer to 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 and hundreds of allegations of torture that that's happening especially since the beginning of two thousand and eleven until now international community has not enough pressure on the one man to end. about any independent commission of inquiry recommendations are implemented well it's he's quite worried what we are seeing that you are on your. report was issued we have seen that that main welcome day shows that would ensure

a country we can to justice for victims have not been implemented. bridges a military drones and disrupt the lives of a quiet town anyway as locals may be a testing ground for i meant a cross raise the alarm opposing the cost. plus a it looks like millions of resists should brace themselves for a cold winter as rising energy bills made heating the home more on an affordable walter this short break.