the latest news in the week's top stories garzon militants are celebrating what they call victory after israel stop short of invading the strip following days of bombing. reuters karo face to gas yet again as protests over the president's grab for power continues for a third straight day. the leaders failed to agree on their trillion euro budget after rounds of talks with further discussion show jule for next year. citizens in strains of wealthiest region head to the polls for parliamentary elections driven by strong sentiments of separatism.

for the back of the past seven days top stories and the latest developments this is the weekly. gaza is recovering from the israeli bombing campaign that ended this week thanks to an egyptian brokered truce i mean sixty eight palestinians were killed around half of them civilians militant rocket far also claimed the lives of six israelis despite those numbers hamas claims it came out the winner and some israelis now say the government has failed them as reports. 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 at least then very anxious living on their like knowing that at any moment that sounds like me after going to a bomb shelter and. 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 to finish 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 it 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 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 turn 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 hamas infrastructure hundreds of rocket launchers and dozens of smuggling tunnels by belief 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 the results and 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 him us a real hero of the palestinian resistance the conflict also managed to silence the more moderate palestinian government as must not about us 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. international human rights watch dogs and they're investigating the conflict for war crimes militant rockets targeted israeli cities killing several civilians while tel aviv has been condemned by some observers for causing massive 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. 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 to settle i 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 t.v. channel based in the building in gaza city setting it to blaze 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 in gaza 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. 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 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 al could of 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 a european press with a turk a democracy these crimes are being committed against women and children all of this democracy is a sham. israel targeted media towers including the one in which r.t.s. sister channels office is how no r.t. journalist was injured targeted journalists according to israeli spokes persons neither journalists nor civilians at all therefore. are worried the detroit cities

and massacres perpetrated by the enemy in cars or will be concealed. israel says the. bombardment campaign was aimed at wiping out infrastructure personnel and capacity garson reporters say that they will never be deterred from reporting their side of the story carry fear for r.t. garza. israeli officials said they regret the collateral damage in gaza war started by their claims that the militants are responsible for the civilian casualties. we see the terrorists from the hamas terrorists they target only civilians and this see a victory when the innocent people for twelve years already hamas terrorists fire rockets on our civilians only on our civilians for the this time the israeli government decided that we have to stop these terror attacks in our civilians and

our children and our elders and that's why we target terrorists but unfortunately we know we see a redo in every one of the terrorists high behind civilians it's definitely big numbers and we do so please if you think that it must start so we call upon all the international community and we call upon everybody who really doesn't want this violence first of all to pressure on terrorist organizations to stop this violence and to call upon them not to use civilians we just want safety for us. to egypt now on the third consecutive day of clashes police and car tear gas or crowds protesting against the president's decree granting him sweeping new powers his decisions can no longer be challenged by any authority more than twenty egyptian rights groups have heard him to renounce the decision your position is

valid to fight what he calls a dictator like power grab until the very end and staging a sit in that car is to his square prison morsi though has defended the be saying it's intended to protect the revolution paid his way to. hosni mubarak in his latest comments the leader stresses new powers of temporary freeman from the executive intelligence review magazine says egypt's political future is now being put to the test. what have mohammad morsi done mobarak 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 their supporters it is very simple and the country was more than forty five percent of its population are illiterate to control them in the name of religion gyptian is are now seeing clear lead 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 source justice neither of these three. calls demands that they have called for and in the revolution have been achieved the state of the egyptian arcana me is in shambles this state of freedoms it's been marginalized people wanted to establish a democracy they wanted to establish solid to human rights they wanted to have social justice applied and not to turn it from the military to the religious fascism. that was ahmed forty apologies for saying it was somebody else a little there now this week european union leaders failed to reach a deal after days of negotiating the blocks financial future in brussels most members supported an increase in the budget while some including britain call for

cuts claiming that in a time of a sturdy nations don't have money to spare these reports. the year paying commission in london but in a week that seen the brussels budget debate olson it lee ending in failure is once again britain's place within europe is back in the spotlight the european leaders also 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 and merkel he 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 as we saw happening in

two thousand and eleven and so we saw those other dany 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 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. still to come here in the weekly the wind of separatism the people of spain catalonia go to the polls to choose a new parliament dominated by talk of independence. un says it will send experts to bahrain to see how the state can improve its whistling human rights record and even a position party val's to continue to protest despite the government ban that and plenty more for you in just a few minutes. texas

wants to pull away from the usa in fact at least twenty states have started petitions for independence after obama won the election with well just a few voting irregularities but guess what suspicion will never happen it is a very easy thing to do to sign a petition and it is another thing entirely to leave the usa that little civil war thing that happened back then does anyone the usa honestly think that they are governor has the ball determination to actual rebel i don't think there's a single george washington type among them well maybe just see fit tour a kind of but he's out of office how do what makes it seem like revolution or succession is this fun cool easy thing to do with cool slogans and texan flags flying but the reality looks

a lot more like the arab spring before you put your name on the dotted line as a seed you should really understand what that means and what your in for the founding father sure did but that's just my opinion. hidden sorrow. and hope for escape. barely surviving longing for a godsend. they live in

a search for gold. why doesn't it bring them well. the life here in lost go a growing threat to european unity is the talk of separatism actively growing in some areas issues of independence and sovereignty are dominating local elections in catalonia spain's richest region and the main contributor to the country's economy is under former is in boston and. 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 after matters promised 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 rich 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 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 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 send pollute seeing economist at university barcelona believes that catalonia will be a successful addition to the in u. . the show that the majority of katherine population was independence let's see what's the result of this election which is not a referendum with a general election to the catalan parliament up to now the turnout has increased by four point five per cent with respect to the last election laws of globalisation of

open markets it is more likely that small countries don't need to belong to the larger domestic market in order to exported schools they belong to the. regional bloc and from a fiscal point of view catalonia is very mistreated rice the spanish government of each year of the eighteen taxes they got their own citizens and businesses in the last twenty years only fifty cents has been spent in catalonia still it makes a lot of sense in catalonia has a g.d.p. per capita or similar than that of denmark and the european union is made up of a lot of countries that. are down that have up operations more than ten million an adult and so it is normal that you have to just stick to our to our local national government that is close to your preferences and then you belong to the latter

unity secular unity. syrian rebels looking to overthrow president assad of receive syria's backing this week the european union welcomed the new syrian opposition group the national coalition as a legitimate representative of the country's people or the e.u. ministers stopped short of official diplomatic recognition which must be decided by each member state france and turkey were the first powers 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 the move seeing it as a possum. well first step towards a no fly zone and foreign boots on the ground and in the comments editor in chief of the syria tribune online blog says the western backed rebel coalition will be able to control actual rebels. we don't know and they don't control anything on the ground and you know the worst one of them to be the sort of prison. which

does not make sounds right through france and it requires the permission as leader of this sort of preserve the syrian people. and to leave the earth. released this video saying that this provision to prevent them from doing that they thought they were fighting table. with. syria so i don't think they would be able to cross over. or we can focus. on the one flag it was the brotherhood is an important member of the coalition and of the same time the muslim brotherhood is their main backer and supporter of the humility brigade that fights in the same brigade if. there is something. there it's really. not clear but it's not a good start for the coalition at all. and staying with syria activists saying the rebels have captured a helicopter base on the outskirts of the capital damascus at least fifteen

fighters and eight government troops were killed in the fighting leading up to the takeover recently rebel militias have concentrated on military bases across the country hoping to stop the regime from using them one day they took over an artillery outpost in the only rich eastern province near iraq. the u.n. human rights commission plans to send a team of experts to bahrain next week amid growing concern the nation is slipping into protest chaos the main opposition party says it will resume pro reform demonstrations despite a government ban on all gatherings bahrain's uprising has been two years with activists calling for more freedoms access to jobs and education from. a. government crackdown dissent home wednesday a court sentenced twenty three medics to three months in prison for treating injured protesters and taking part in run is almost one hundred health care workers

arrested last year one of the doctors told us what she went through during her detention. i was involved in treating the injured patients to us jesters are not that doesn't really matter. as a punishment for not being the authorities to abandon these patients all the doctors who were involved in cheating the testers there where wristed myself personally i was at a state of directives from my house at three am in the morning and i was badly mistreated i lost later on being jailed for almost two months i wish disputed try to intimate it to the court and i was sentenced for fifteen years and prison meant we appealed the verdict and we were released who were on bail definitely they will not bring charges for you for treating the protest and they will come with any charges they fabricate any crimes but the main issue here is to

punish films who stood in the face of the regime and disobeyed orders unfortunately as long as these dictatorship the genes are backed up by international forces and power and they're protecting them and their allies with the united states and britain who don't see any chance for us i mean is there is a change in the policy of these. now to some of today's news in brief this hour at least five people have been reportedly killed and more than seventy injured by a bomb attack in northwest pakistan the blast went off in a shop on the roof of a shia muslim. the taliban has already claimed responsibility for the attack is the second explosion to hit the district in less than twenty four hours taking the number killed over the weekend to thirteen days glass comes despite a temporary mobile phone services which the authorities believed were being used to trigger remote devices. from the democratic republic of congo held for the rebels in uganda the group known as twenty three seized

control of a key city in congo last week and is threatening to overthrow the government the country's facing a growing humanitarian crisis with five hundred thousand people displaced since the uprising began in april and twenty three fighters accuse the government of failing to all of the terms of a two thousand and nine peace deal that corporate them into the national army. at least eleven people have been killed and dozens injured after two suicide bombers blew themselves up at a church inside a military base in northern nigeria no organization has claimed responsibility for the attack churches and security forces are frequently targeted by extremists fighting for an islamic state in nigeria which has a mixed christian and muslim population. and a close factory in bangladesh has claimed the lives of at least one hundred twenty one people dozens more were injured in the blood which started on the ground floor and spread rapidly trapping hundreds of workers because it's still being investigated from short circuits and

a common in the country's numerous textile plants. that's it for me for not be back with more news for in thirty five minutes from now in the meantime panning for gold may sound like a quick way to strike it rich but artie found out that that's not exactly the case in kind of his stand on the golden bread line how special report is coming away after the break. if you're passing through rushes to veer region you really can walk on the wild side thousands of kilometers of unspoilt countryside make up an area where it's still possible to live off the land such spectacular scenery makes it a paradise for fisherman and provides a business opportunity for hunters there are defined hunting seasons in russia but lax enforcement means many animals are killed out of the allotted times which can leave young animals orphaned and unable to survive the heart of just us forest

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