the latest news in the week's top stories here. militants are celebrating what they call victory to israel stop short of. eight days of. protests over the president. continues for a third. talks with further discussion next year. votes are being counted in spain wealthiest region in catalonia after polls closed in a separate parliamentary election.

with a look back at the past seven days top stories and the latest developments this is the weekly. recovering from the israeli bombing campaign that ended this week thanks to an egyptian brokered truce one hundred sixty eight palestinians were killed around half of them civilians militant rocket fire also claimed the lives of six israelis despite those numbers claims it came out of the window and some israelis now say the government has failed them. alyssa and rachel are packing for the u.s. a cease fire might have been announced but they're not waiting around to see if it works the women were part of an internship program to see what it's like to live in israel so they came they saw and now they choosing to leave to spend very anxious living on the air like knowing that at any moment this sounds like blasphemy after going to a bomb shelter and like it's being scared by public transportation and staff.

the streets of tel aviv are far cry from the streets of gaza when news of the truce was met with celebrations and fireworks the somewhat muted israeli reaction belies a growing disappointment in the way many here feel the government handled things but i do think that this will finish the operation just so honored 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 our lives are being 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. that's what we should do against it i'm prepared today for my counter any day anything. but television since 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 believed 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 of 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 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. television. international human rights watch dogs are now investigating the conflict for war crimes militant rockets targeted israeli cities killing several civilians while television 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 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 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. 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 a massive infrastructure personnel and capacity garson reporters say that they will never be deterred from reporting their side of the story harry fear for r.t. gaza. despite the number of civilian deaths israel maintains the bombing of gaza was highly accurate this week my colleague kevin irwin interviewed an israeli official who placed all the blame for the collateral damage on unless. the israeli defense ministry who i represent and indeed the israeli public mourning civilian deaths on both sides i've seen it 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 of dead children

being pulled out dug out of collapsed buildings to maintain their deaths at the hands of israel if israeli air strikes are the fault of hamas. so i can tell you genuinely generally 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's guilty of this double war crime whereby they hardly own civilians or shooting at our civilians for every decade now we are in this predicament however with the most strategically surgical precision pinpoint strikes when they're hiding beneath their civilian population there will be collateral damage. to egypt now on the thirty consecutive day of clashes police in caro have

fired tear gas at 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 urged him to renounce the decision the opposition is vile 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 has defended the move saying it's intended to protect the revolution the pave his way to power to be ousted hosni mubarak's regime and the middle east analyst at the university of sydney believes the crisis is only deepening. sexual. you know you have to space in order to do it but i don't have a moment really it's anyone's guess because the situation is the law of. our eyes and it's very minute. and now i know you've been there was a buildup to this tension regards. imaginative approaches to the government.

already on. the bus crash on the truck is most critical to. this right now it's really a big confusing mess and some. really harsh words going on. this week european union leaders failed to reach a deal after days of negotiating the blocks financial future in brussels but most members supported an increase in the budget something clearing britain called for cuts claiming that in a time of a sturdy nations don't have money to spare for 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 this back in the spotlight the european leaders also failing to come up with a deal that would please everyone and the 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 see the negotiations there was a lot of concern that we've see burson isolated from the other twenty six countries who sounded the merkel who with the mediator these negotiations he stepped up to take personal side and then likely form of support perhaps she was very much adamant that person wouldn't be left to fight this alone an exercise that 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 continue the the negotiations to try and hammer out some form of a deal that's acceptable to everyone else some of the we're going to see this

budget battle continuing now into the new year. you can independents parties gain more support from the public's disillusionment with the united europe the euro skeptic party leader you for a large believes 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 the biggest trading nation we are actually pretty hip it'd from having our own buy that we trade deals with any other part of the world that

has to be done on our behalf so the ukip 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. well news of more breakup still to come this hour here not in the weekly the wind of separatism polls closing spain's catalonia region which is choosing a new parliament amid widespread talk of independence plus. un says it will send experts to bahrain to see how the state can improve its whistle human rights record and the legal position party pals to continue to protest despite a government that's incredible stories for you in just a few moments. 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 fired 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 what 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

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don't know i'm charming welcome to the big picture. live from moscow this is all to european unity is being threatened by the talk of several regions going their own way growing across the continent votes are being counted in the elections in catalonia which could lead to the breakup of spain exit polls suggest gains for the separatist coalition which has failed to hold a referendum on independence if it wins under former has the latest from boston and . 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 are 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 amasses 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 independence 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 in 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 arthur mass 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 into massive 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 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 you some people do you fear that if it does to withdraw from spain it would be forced to withdraw from the e.u. 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. and r.k. from the european partnership independent i spoke to her a little earlier she explains that fears of exclusion from the e.u.

are part of madrid's efforts to cripple the catalans independence argument the spanish state machinery and trying to fear campaign cancel and so we are european cities and no there's not such stress of that that the we would be out of the european union seven a half million of people suddenly enough how that would be more difficult actually to manage through the order of 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 european union just because we are exercising universal rights as is the grosser grant of subtlety to nation let's talk about democracy here it's an audience of rich country we do have side 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 and if you should syria that 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 protests chaos the main opposition party says it will resume program demonstrations despite a government gatherings bahrain's uprising has been going on for almost two years with activists calling for more freedoms access to jobs education from that's on the lead it's up to eighty people being killed and thousands thrown behind bars during the government crackdown and on wednesday a court sentenced twenty three medics to three months in prison for treating and to protest 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 there's testers are not it 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 were misted myself personally i was at a state of death to from my house at three am in the morning and i was badly mistreated i lost tortured later on and being jailed for almost two months i was disputed and tried in a meeting to the court and i was sentenced for fifteen years and prison meant we appealed the verdict we were released two were on bail definitely they will not bring charges for you for treating the protest and they would come with any charges they fabricate any crimes but the main issue here is to punish films who stood in the face of the rejean and disobeyed the orders unfortunately as long as these dictatorship regimes 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 and this is a change in the policy of this if it's of these countries. well more news for in

about thirty five minutes from now in the meantime technology update is coming next that's after a short break this is weekly here on r.t. . invented by the famed soviet orthopedic of really result of in the nineteen fifties these frames were initially used to treat fractures in deformities by cutting bones and slowly pulling them up or therefore stimulating tissue regeneration elizabeth was able to reshape arms and legs and people who thought they were crippled for life about a third of patients admitted to be it was out of center nowadays seeking syringe refocus magic reasons most of them a man and most are not what you would call vertically challenged professor know because who operated on many of them it usually comes down to man's pride summer first patient return to us with a leg like the mean request to meet is fifteen centimeters to the want to surgery

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seven more centimeters to the self-confidence she told me the whole time you're crazy you're normal you're perfect. so now or so they're call you so tall what a compliment for somebody who's used to falling short of his own expectations. which brightened if you knew me by phone from phones to. start on t.v. dot com. hello

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newest of the new and there's been no shortage of big announcements in the high tech world especially if the russian capital plays host to the open innovations forum. the first ever gathering under this name got kicked off at the. and investors from across the. country. exhibition hall. fields of science and government to encourage. seven hundred. days. only this time in. two thousand and twelve. this is one of the main organizers of the rodeo narrow certainly let its presence

be known the tiny take giant showed off many of its affiliated projects. exhibiting the size and breadth of its portfolio there are companies ranging from composite materials to solar panels. the one that caught our eye was a company whose main offering sixty keep yours in tip top shape my hotel which has grabbed a few headlines in the past. has recently come out with a new. they could be the first of many products. just like a pharmaceutical company so we need distributors. additionally such events are good for attracting investors and many times of medicine using our technology we have money for just two. for the rest we still need to find additional investment.