the latest news in the week's top stories gaza militants are celebrating what they call victory to israel stop short of invading. protests over the president's grab for power continues for. e.u. leaders fail to agree on their trillion euro budget off the rounds of agonizing talks and further discussion show next year. votes are being counted in spain's wealthiest region catalonia the polls closed in the separatism dominated parliamentary election.

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 an egyptian brokered truce hundred 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 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 this then very anxious living on their mike knowing that at any moment that sounds like they go into a bomb shelter and. it's being scared public transportation and.

the streets of tel aviv are a far cry from the street. 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 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 the 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. turn civilians safety and that's what we should do against it so 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 as the results and result hopefully will be peace and quiet a return to normalcy for israelis and also innocent palace. 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. international human rights watch dogs are now investigating the conflict for war crimes militant rockets targeted israeli cities killing several citizens 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 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 building and it was targeting hamas as operational communications it 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 the satellite channel located on the eleventh floor in the western side of the building three rockets hit us my colleagues and i were 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 have been deliberately assassinated. so. 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 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 reporters building the targeting of any journalist or civilian and international law is a war crime and war reporting is explicitly protected under international humanitarian law the next day israel targeted a press car carrying two al aksa t.v. cameramen they burned to death when i got in yesterday near our home a car with

a press logo drove past with two young men inside all of a sudden we saw a rocket hit the car those inside were killed we pulled one of them out in pieces but couldn't get to the other one he was literally on fire of course it was the press what else can you say. and 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 where is the press was the 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. are worried that the atrocities massacres perpetrated by the enemy in gaza will be concealed. israel says the air 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 harry fear for our gas or. israeli official said they regret the collateral damage in gaza while standing 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 hamas terrorists fire rockets on our civilians on low on our civilians for the time really government decided

that we have to stop these attacks on our civilians and our children and our elders and that's why we target terrorists but unfortunately we know we see every day 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 that's up. to egypt now on the third consecutive day of clashes police in caro have fired tear gas and crowds protesting against the president's to create granting him sweeping new powers his decisions can no longer be challenged by any authority more than twenty egyptian rights groups have urged him to renounce the decision the

opposition is valid to fight what it calls a dictator like power grab until the very end and staging a sit in that car is tahrir square president morsi though has defended the move saying it's intended to protect the revolution that paved his way to power after the ousting of hosni mubarak and his latest comments the leader stressed his new powers are temporary lawrence freeman from the executive intelligence review magazine says egypt's political future is now being put to the test. i think that president morsi is now on a slippery slope and it shows you how fragile and delicate this whole movement that was launched a couple of years ago or democracy i sometimes say so-called democracy because they're not really giving democratic rights to the people unless 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 third tamal to its time until the people are given real economic development totally given real freedom this is going to continue to be a problem people with their lives people stayed out of demonstrations people didn't commonly by police first on the mubarak now and the morsi it's not going to stop until we actually have a real policy for the future of the country. this week european union leaders failed to reach a deal and off the days of negotiating the blocks financial future in brussels most you members supported an increase in the budget while some including britain called for cuts claiming that in a time of a sturdy nations don't have money to spare sarah for three ports. we're here at the european commission in london but in

a week that seeing the brussels budget debate over symmetry 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 the budget that would take us from twenty fourteen 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 see the negotiations there was a lot of concern that we see britain isolated from the other twenty six countries whose uncle and merkel who is 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 and exercise their veto 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 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. so you can depend as parties gain more support from the public's disillusionment with a united europe the euro skeptic party leader not you for a believes that britain should pull out of the e.u. if it wants to prosper. every time the big decisions for the next seven years come up there are always countries that are donor countries that are a bit reluctant and there are always recipient countries that are rather keen to push the budget up and of course the french always make sure that the common agricultural policy doesn't get reformed the difference this time is that the split isn't just over the budget the split is also about the eurozone as well because

it's those northern countries that are members of the euro zone who are really becoming increasingly reluctant despite the fact that the u.k. is the world's sixth biggest trading nation we are actually pretty hip it'd from having our own by actual trade deals with any other part of the world that has to be done on our behalf so the u.k. message is simple we love europe we want to get on with our neighbors we want to trade with them through a simple free trade agreement but then refocus british business to start concentrating on doing more deals around the rest of the world this european model this idea that europe is what matters and the rest of the world can go hang frankly is decades out of date. you're watching the weekly hearing on t.v. still to come this hour the wind of separatism polls close in spain's catalonia region which is choosing a new parliament amid widespread talk of independence plus. the u.n. says it will send experts to bahrain to see how the state can improve its whistling

human rights record as a leading opposition party founds to continue protests despite. that incredible stories point just a few months. waves of corruption are rocking russia hundreds of millions of dollars vanished from apec building projects and russia's got a nice satellite project a real estate scandal has also led to the defense minister being fired note i said fire in russia we hear a lot about corruption scandals and the reaction is usually a firing or a forced resignation and maybe that would be ok another country but russia has big dreams in a big country that has big corruption spoiling all of those dreams a country can't survive with every infrastructural or scientific project is sucked

dry from within whether the government is unwilling or unable to sternly punish these offenders is a huge topic by could tell you that if there's no real fear of punishment this will just keep going on for ever perhaps it's time to put a big asterisk for high level corruption next to the moratorium on the death penalty but that's just my opinion. more news today violence has once again flared up. and these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. giant corporations are the day.

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if you just joined us a very warm welcome aarti live here in moscow european unity is being threatened by the talk of separatism actively growing across the continent issues of independence and sovereignty are dominating local elections in catalonia spain's richest region and the main contributor to the country's economy has the latest for us now from barcelona. votes are being counted as i speak and there are an awful lot of them

because there has been one of the highest turnouts in decades at these cattle and elections but that said it is widely expected that arthur mass and his convergence and union party yes will be reelected so we're all waiting still to hear the results maybe we'll get them in a couple of hours' time but overall this election has been fought on one issue alone and that has been about the referendum for independence from spain and that has been the single issue that our masters put forward to the public they have come out in their droves today to vote on it and it is considered that many of the pro independent parties will actually make big gains it will probably mean that catalonia will be at loggerheads with the central government that is because the referendum is against the spanish constitution and the central government is desperate to keep hold of one of its wealthiest regions while the economic crisis continues to affect parts of europe so nobody's quite clear how this debate will pan out many argue it's being fought put forward in the press some are even

suggesting that aftermath could even find himself arrested but at this stage we can expect a big showdown between catalonia and the spanish government latest opinion polls do show that over fifty percent of catalans want independence and the reason really has been an economic one that's been the tipping point because catalonia is a wealthy region but it does pay more in taxes far more in taxes to the central government and actually gets back in terms of investment from madrid in this at a time when unemployment is at around twenty five percent and many people are having to endure very tough or stereotyped cuts so they believe in essence that they can govern the economy better themselves and would be better off. as an independent state and break away from spain but that is on the condition for many people that catalonia manages to stay in the e.u. some people do you fear that if it does withdraw from spain it would be forced to withdraw from the. and that would not be good for the economy so if that turns out

to be the case and they do have to drop out of the european union then perhaps many people would prefer the status quo. please the farmer there well let's talk now more on this with her she's a spokesperson for the european partnership for independence a group dedicated to helping separatist movements and i know that you've been very much involved in this bid for separatism how overwhelming though is the desire for independence in catalonia well less than a recent poor state has be showing a great majority of the sense of catalonia in favor of. it is so overwhelming because it is so great majority are not going to be normative really wants to stay at susie's a very exciting day because we have an election so we have to put society to cast the books to cast for our representatives and their parliament with this objectively and this to start the institution of process for the governance of along at which is a process those not all of these three in economic plan or door everybody may

believe that actually the reason side of this what we won is the political wing that understands which means the one to decide about the political and the social political and other policies like immigration education commerce stories existed except it's a first it's a short but economic issues really are high on the gender are they bearing in mind the instability now throughout the euro zone madrid is accused catalonia of spending too much money running up huge debts do you really think it could actually survive on its own if it does go on his own well absolutely it gets an audience of rich country we do have g.d.p. of two hundred thousand million which is like dead my economy we have to understand that in the european economic and context we are a country of super rabbit we are not that if should syria that country and. our world that we have six thousand. companies our products we export fifty five

products to the to the words we are the strong economy what happens is that the e.s.b. we have facing this tax burden from the spanish state and. who do all of that sort of draw all the trade and export be severely damaged if catalonia did lose its e.u. status and that's what many businesses are worried about are they. well we have to understand that actually spain now ordered it on the spanish state machinery and trying to fear campaign cancel and so we are european cities and no there's not such press of that that we would be out of the european union seven a half million of people suddenly in a house that would be more difficult actually to manage who to order what is necessary to be out and it's not a consideration and we don't believe we're going to be out of the european union like a scotland i'm not going to be outside the european union just because we are exercising universal rights as he's the grosser right of subtlety to nation talk about

democracy and catalonia of course is a major contributor to the spanish economy if it moves away from spain then court of course that would have a major impact on the spanish economy itself and wouldn't that therefore have an adverse effect on the catalonian economy. well guess why had silence we are so keen and that's what we are working to just have. announced and concepts with dialogue with the spanish a state to do does for us as like it seems like the u.k. has understood finally under the i doing with the scotland to say if you cannot prevent at a nation using democracy in peaceful terms like different nations of the european union are we try equality freedom justice peace using all of this plant the mentally ill or how about what about justice yes you talk about justice what about the law here you're encouraging your country to break spanish law because they've been warned that if they do hold a referendum is against the country's constitution one health or could madrid go to

stop all of this. well the reality is that we are in europe and we had a twenty first century we just saw war on the prize nobel prize for peace we know about democracy we learned a lot from the worse and. this is the way you had the only way you spanish states. well you got the chance would be actually preventing dick corley of the verandah because once by i work hard on the democratic. process and really interesting here thoughts thank you very much indeed for joining us and r.k. spokes person at the european partnership for independents joining us there in boston thank you. syrian rebels looking to overthrow president assad to receive 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 with 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 as a possible first step towards a no fly zone and foreign boots on the ground political activist dr years and of dollars thinks if nato grants turkey's request it would plunge the region deeper into chaos. the quien such mess 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 time for example this is clearly for a larger scale intervention where they want to secure. a no fly zone we've been

hearing the country especially britain and france advocating such intervention recently we've been talking about limited intervention how about how how. comprehensive. how 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. go and ignite a. response from the syrian side that may trigger a lot of chaos and in the region. with syria activists there say rebels have captured a helicopter base on the outskirts of the capital damascus at least fifteen fighters and eight government troops were killed in violence leading up to the takeover recently militias have concentrated on army bases across syria hoping to stop the regime from using them on thursday they took over an artillery outpost in the oil

rich eastern province in iraq. 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 a program form 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 sunday leaders up to eighty people have been killed and 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. it comes after report by leading human rights group amnesty international which concluded torture and oppression are on the rise. fall and we have to use that to mean the situation is much more spending months ago it's really the terry rate when we're talking about at least twenty four people being killed after that one thing depending on which may be

firing issued its report last year a ban on not protest at the end to fucked over and only a week ago there were a vocation of national took thirty one opposition activists were also talking about continuous harassment or human rights offenders one of them is now being the president of the famed center for human rights that was sentenced the summer to three years in three senate 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 of hands and hundreds of allegations of torture that that happened especially since the beginning of two thousand and eleven until now international community has not enough pressure on the bahamian government to ensure that. any independent commission of inquiry recommendations are implemented it well it is quite worrying what we are seeing is that you are on to her. report was issued we have seen that that main commendation is that would ensure a country we can to justice for victims have not been.