let me just use in the week's top stories girls the militants are celebrating what they call victory after israel stopped short of invading eight days of bombing. yet again as violent protests over the president's grab for power continues for a third day. e.u. leaders failed to agree on their trillion euro budget after rounds of agonizing talks and further discussion shuttle for next year. polls are closing in spain's wealthiest region catalonia where people are voting in a parliamentary election where separatist sentiment is dominated.

with a look back at 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. troops one hundred sixty eight palestinians were killed a round hole for them civilians militant rocket fire also claimed the lives of six israelis despite those numbers claims it came out the winner and some israelis now say the government has failed them as reports. 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 this then very anxious living on the edge 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 of 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 anything 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 more better result from it's 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. and that's what we should do against it i'm prepared today former 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 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 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 hamas 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 are now investigating the conflict for war crimes militant rockets targeted israeli cities killing several civilians while television is being 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 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 to set alight channel located on the eleventh floor in the western side of the building and the three rockets hit us my colleagues and i was wounded and one of the striking things about the eight day war was the number

of journalists that were explicitly targeted by israeli forces three appeared to be deliberately assassinated. killed. on monday israel called major local news agencies ordering them to evacuate their premises 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 a press car carrying two al aksa t.v. cameraman they burned to death i don't remember when i got there yesterday near our

home a car with a press logo drove past with two young men inside and all of a sudden we saw a rocket hit the car and those inside were killed we pulled one of them out in pieces but couldn't get to the other one he was literally on fire of course it was the press 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 there is the precise european press with the tarka 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 the targeted journalists according to israeli spokes persons neither journalists nor civilians at all therefore. worried the detroit cities

massacres perpetrated by the enemy in cars although we can see. 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 that side of the story carry fear for r.t. gaza. the israeli defense forces maintain they bombed only militant targets one admitting they knew journalists were in the firing line. 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 operational work we targeted only these and tanner's 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 one i think that if a journalist chooses to locate himself near hamas facility that's a mistake hamas is star 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. this week european union leaders failed to reach a deal after days of negotiating the blocks financial future in brussels most e.u. member supported an increase in the budget or some including britain called for cuts claiming that in a ton of a stir eighty nations don't have money to spare the sort of reports. can't the year paying commission in london but in

a week that seeing the brussels budget debate also mentally ending in failure is once again britain's place within europe is back in the spotlight european leaders old similarly failing to come up with a deal that would please everyone budget that would take us from twenty four 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 person isolated from the other twenty six countries whose anger love with the media these negotiations he stepped up to take person inside an unlikely home of the poor perhaps she was very much adamant that person wouldn't be left to fight this alone an exercise that peter as 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 president didn't get a deal but they didn't get an unacceptable deal for the calls that leads us back exactly

where we started with nothing happening and so those countries are going to be left to continue the negotiations to try and hammer out some form of a deal that's acceptable to everyone the ultimate leeway got to see this budget battle continuing now into the new year. you're watching the weekly here and still to come the wind of separatism polls close friends catalonia region just choosing a new parliament a record straight talk of the world after the short break. means . this is true even for specialists how a voice can produce several sounds it warms the to doing is the art of throat

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watching weekly on r t two egypt now on the third consecutive day of clashes police and car. crowds protesting against the president's decree granting him sweeping new powers his decisions can now no longer be challenged by any authority more than twenty egyptian rights groups have urged him to renounce the decision the opposition has vowed to fight what it calls a dictator like power grab until the very end and staging a sit in that car is told his square prison morsy those defended the move saying it's intended to protect the revolution that paved his way to power after hosni mubarak and his latest comments the leaders stressed his new powers are temporary lawrence freeman from the executive intelligence review magazine says that egypt's political future is now being put to the test. on a slippery slope and it shows you how fragile delicate. this whole movement that was launched a couple years ago or democracy i sometimes say so-called democracy be courageous

they're not really giving democratic rights to the people unless the people are participating in the government and all of the people are actually raising their standard of living i think morsi 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 done through the third tumultuous times until the people are given real economic development till the given real freedom this is going to continue to be a problem people with their lives people stayed out of demonstrations people didn't pummeled by police first on the mubarak now and the morsi it's not going to stop until we actually have a real power as the for the future of the country. 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 there says it will resume pro-reform demonstrations despite a government ban on all gatherings bahrain's uprising has been going on for almost two years with activists calling for more freedoms access to jobs and education from their new leaders up to eighty people being killed and thousands thrown behind bars during the government crackdown on dissent on wednesday a court sentenced twenty three medics to three months in prison for treating injured protesters and taking part in rallies that comes after a report by leading human rights group amnesty international which concluded torture and oppression are on the rise. although we have is that actually the situation is much or spend it worse months ago it's really the terry right in we're talking about at least twenty four people being killed after they were being dependent on the firing issued its report last year a ban on not protest at the end of october and only a week ago there were occasional national to 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 were sometimes peace some are two three years increased and marilee for having access it's right to freedom of expression and we consider him to be a prisoner of conscience and we are talking about hundreds of hands and hundreds of allegations of torture that that happened especially since the beginning of two thousand and eleven and international community has not enough pressure on that one man to ensure that. any independent commission of inquiry recommendations are implemented well it is quite worrying what we are seeing is that you are her. 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. syrian rebels looking to overthrow president sad have received 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 stop 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 possible first step towards a no fly zone and possibly foreign boots on the ground political activist dr yes and i think if nato grants turkey's request it would plunge the region deeper into chaos. deploying such missiles is not really going to be for the folks of measure what do they need to defend against at least turkey has an army and they can defend against more time for example this is clearly for a larger scale intervention where they want to secure a no fly zone area we've been hearing the country especially britain and france

advocating such intervention recently have been talking about limited scale intervention however how how. comprehensive and how and all 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. go and ignite a. response from the syrian side. a lot of chaos and in the region. european unity is being threatened by 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 and its policy is economist at the university of barcelona believes that catalonia if allowed will be a successful addition to the e.u.

. the poor shout that the majority of cattle and population was in attendance let's see what the result of this election which is that 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 elections world of globalisation of open markets it is more likely that small countries don't need to belong to a larger the rest of marketing other to exported schools they belong to the market or regional bloc and from a fiscal point of view catalonia is very mistreated by say the spanish government of each europe paid in taxes by catalan citizens and businesses in the last twenty years only fifty cents has been spent in catalonia so it makes a lot of sense in catalonia has a g.d.p. per capita. than that of denmark and the european union is made up of

a lot of countries that is more than in that have up operations north than ten million an abbott 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 read unities. now to some of today's news in brief this 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 procession the taliban has already claimed responsibility for the attack it's the second explosion to hit the district in less than twenty four hours taking the number killed over the weekend to thirteen days blast comes despite attempts to mobile phone services which the authorities believe were being used to trigger remote devices. officials from the democratic republic of congo held talks with rebels in uganda a group known as m twenty three seized control of

a key city in congo's east last week and is threatening to overthrow the government the country is facing a growing humanitarian crisis with around five hundred thousand displaced people since the uprising began april and twenty three fighters accuse the government of failing to one of the terms of a two thousand and nine peace deal and incorporated 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 is a mixed christian and muslim population. a fire at a close factory in bangladesh has claimed the lives of at least one hundred twenty one people dozens more were injured in the blaze which started on the ground floor and spread rapidly trapping hundreds of workers because it's still being

investigated from short circuits and poor wiring a common in the country's textile plans. well that's the weekly at the moment i'll be back with more news for you in about thirty five minutes from now in the meantime the reality for women in afghanistan deprived of any rights or prospects by harsh religious and social traditions that's the second part of our special report. looking at some dogs 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 u.s. i 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 a laska and so i felt at home

the first sled dog was brought here from australia now let's try and come to this remote russian village to take part in the race it's not surprising they love it this trail are amazing but even more amazing is the story of how racing first started here atoll it wasn't the top. grazing who set the trail of place but a nun and for all phones who brought their dia to life. five years ago about built a dog kennel in the village kids from the local open h. came around to take care of the dogs and one day they state their life might seem extreme to some the boys wake up at six to feed the dogs before school in the evening they spend up to three hours training that full legged friends but smother her schedule also encourages her kids to become dab hands on the computer and internet the boys regularly update their website and they're in touch with that

busy ma the twenty four seven on the phone itself. but children are the most important thing my only interests not play any rule any more and regardless of whether parsky has hoskins window race or not she hopes the competition will take place in the village next year. but called these dogs and the children it really is not the weaning but actually just the taking part that counts.

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beat who want to leave their abusive husband there is one story that was the worst story which is a girl who had been told off by her family and she was beaten by the older man who she was forced to marry and she tried to escape and they caught her and brought her back and because she had tried to escape she had to be punished her husband then cut off and cut off her nose. the reason is that it's a big example for i guess. that one should not be housed where both houses burned last week i'll tell you a story of a young woman i met i find inspiring i'm not going to promise a happy outcome but at least it was an inspiring story she was a young woman who was forced into marriage in a very conservative part of the country in the southeast she was for.