the latest news in the week's top stories claims victory despite dozens of civilians. short of. a day bombing campaign. cairo sees a third day of clashes with the. protests continue over a decree granting president morsi unprecedented powers. early results suggest that the pro independence coalition will be returned to power in catalonia paving the way for a referendum that could see spain's richest region go its own way. divisions between member states. over whether to spend or save another meeting has been scheduled for next year.

and with a recap of the week's top stories this is with the week we have you with us god is recovering from israel's anti hamas campaign this week with an egyptian brokered ceasefire one hundred sixty eight palestinians were killed in airstrikes around half of them civilians while militant rocket fire claimed the lives of six israelis despite those numbers hamas believes it came out the winner and some israelis now say the government has failed the. 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 to spend very anxious

living on the air like knowing that at any moment this sounds like last time after going to a bomb shelter and like it's being scared of public transportation and staff. the streets of tel aviv are far cry from the streets of gaza when news of the truce was met with celebrations and fireworks the somewhat muted israeli reaction belies a growing disappointment in the way many here feel the government handled things but i do think that israel finished the operation just so and i think it's finished it very soon i think we had a good momentum for this operation we have a very good start and i think that if we would have continued we could have achieved a. better result from it's i do think that we could have put some more pressure 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 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 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 believe that the ceasefire in the day was just a means to an end and the end was peace and quiet however it came about is less important as the results and 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. tel aviv's international human rights watch dogs are now investigating the conflict for war crimes that after

a huge amount of collateral damage caused by airstrikes however israeli defense forces maintain the operation in gaza only targeted militants documentary filmmaker harry fear has been following events from inside gaza. 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 our building and it was targeting hamas as operational communications and injured six when it struck the al kurds t.v. office just below here. at exactly one fifty three on sunday the occupying forces started bombing our office 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 al sharia 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 was 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. 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 see 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. here 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 journalists 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. israeli officials 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 they see a victory when the innocent people for twelve years already hamas terrorists fire

rockets on our civilians only on our civilians and now for the. really 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 of really in every oh 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. on to egypt now where police in cairo have fired tear gas to disperse crowds as violent protests continue across the country for

a third day but administrations are aimed against president morsi is to create granting him sweeping new powers here's the decisions can no longer be challenged by any authority reports say one person was killed in an attack on a muslim brotherhood office the same as almost a movement that backs the president the opposition is staging a sit in at cairo's tahrir square while egypt's top judges have called for a nationwide strike and morsi has defended the move saying it's aimed at protecting the revolution that paved his way to power and his latest comments really distressed his new powers are temporary warrants freeman from the executive intelligence review magazine says egypt's political future is now being put to the test i think president morsi is now. on a slippery slope and it shows you how fragile and delicate this whole movement that was launched a couple of years ago or democracy i sometimes say so-called democracy because

they're not really giving democratic rights to the people and that's that 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 had strong backing from the west i think until the actual people of egypt but all these other countries that have gone through these sort of tumultuous times until the people are given real economic development totally given real freedom this is going to continue to be a problem people risk 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 do we actually have a real policy for the future of the country. national unity is under threat in some european countries as a number of regions that seek permanent home rule votes are being counted in elections in catalonia which could lead to the breakup of spain and early results

suggest a win for the separatist coalition which has vowed to hold an independence referendum if it wins artie's under former has the latest 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 yet will be reelected so 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 independents 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 austerity 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 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. artie's andrew farmer reporting for us there now an r k from the european partnership for independence explains that fears of exclusion from the e.u. are part of madrid's efforts to cripple the catalans independence argument on the spanish state machinery and trying to fear campaign cancel and so we are european cities as no there's not such stress of that that we would be out of the european union some a half million us people suddenly you know how 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 it's cutline i'm not going to be outside european union just because we are

exercising universal rights as you know us are going to suffer to the nation we talk about democracy here it's an audience of rich country we do have g.d.p. of two hundred thousand million which is like a dead mike economy that we have to understand that in the european economic and context we are a country of super rabbit we are not that it should syria that country and more disunity in europe as a budget talks and with no result. european leaders have postponed a further debate until the new year after failing to work out a deal acceptable to all that story coming up in just a few minutes short break. waves

of corruption are rocking in russia hundreds of millions of dollars vanished from apec building projects and russia's got enough 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 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.

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twenty four hours a day seven days a week live from moscow this is r.t. now talks on europe's a budget have been postponed until two thousand and thirteen after days of intense negotiations in brussels came to nothing most you members hoped for an increase in spending while some including britain called for a freeze saying nations simply don't have the money to spare r.t. sarah first has the details. with the european commission in london but in a week that seeing the brussels budget debate over similarly ending in failure is once again britain's place within europe just 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 see burson isolated from the other twenty six countries it was angela merkel who was 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 leaves us exactly where we started with nothing happening and so these 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. euro centric parties are winning more and more supporters many countries struggle to deal with popular disillusionment

with the idea of a unified europe independence party leader nigel from raj believes britain should say farewell to 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 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. now for a look at some other stories making headlines around the world for you this hour. at least eleven people have been killed and dozens injured in twin suicide car bomb attacks outside a church any military base in northern nigeria organization has claimed responsibility for the attack churches and security forces are frequent targeted by extremists fighting a foreign islamic state in nigeria which has a mixed christian and muslim population. rebels fighting for control of the democratic republic of congo have held a first round of talks with government officials going to go see asians are being it mediated by uganda last week the group known as m twenty three seized control of

the key city goma country is facing a growing humanitarian crisis with around five hundred thousand displaced persons. severe storms that battering the u.k. have claimed at least to two lives and flooded more than eight hundred homes people in wales and have been evacuated to safety as it major roads were closed off and train service is cancelled weather forecasters say there is no end in sight and predict more rainfall in the coming days. and a car has plowed into a californian family's home in the middle of the night as they were sound asleep causing substantial damage to the house authorities report there were a total of nine people inside who were lucky to escape on harm the driver a twenty four year old woman has been charged for drinking and drugs.

now. planning a panning for gold may sound like a quick way to strike it rich but archie found out that's not exactly the case in kyrgyzstan on the golden bread line it's coming your way after a short break right here on our team. a sacred place rising out of the waters of the lake the lawn ministry is home to one hundred fifty orthodox monks mostly younger than thirty five and they've come from many different places and backgrounds to live in isolation here spiritual life it takes up many hours on the road to becoming a monk requires both hard work and religious tele cation. salem's to become and herds cattle as part of this preparation. however these beasts get a musical company. they can remember sound sequences you know they react to the

sound signals the flutes the herders had in the old days they needed them it wasn't just a fun thing but these meadows didn't come naturally requiring decades of composting to bring the soil up to farming standard this island is mostly rock. the soil here is very thin on the monks can't just get more of it because they're surrounded by the lake so they have to work very hard in order to provide whatever food they need. they grow their own crops found their own fish and repair their own churches. but the central purpose of the lawn has always been religious the name on the street surrounded by smaller priories spread through the many archipelago the monks here know their existence is a little different from that of other i'm on the streets here we are out of the way and we do have. bill creams and song times tourists as

well but only. tranquility use discography. disturbed. and is that combination of high religion and down to earth hard work than motivates these men. do we speak your language any time of the will or not of the. news programs and documentaries and spanish what matters to you breaking news i will turn it into angles kitten's stories. for you here. in troy i'll teach spanish to find out more visit i to allahabad.

well our father. is the head of our family. our parents have five daughters and four sons they are tile a chain our elmira an hour to an hour. and coach emberg journey back. and.

my brother kill me is go on he is not with us anymore. back is thirty two his name means golden in the car good language as the youngest son in the family of gold mine as tradition demands that he must live in his parents' house but only a year ago that was his younger brother's responsibility he died this spring hill went up into the mountains and hanged himself no one knows why they rarely talk about akio now he's remembered only in the press as committing suicide is considered a sin and brings shame on a family but they have no time to mourn winter is coming so they must pan for gold before the rivers freeze over.

gold miners work by the river. and then make a purchase. whenever i can i exchange it for food and. taken this road from his home city of osh in southern kyrgyzstan to the remote district many times the journey is long difficult and can be dangerous. i've covered the road from. come down to the. compared to america this is like kurdistan's alaska people don't come here unless they really have to. and certainly does have to he knows his efforts will pay off because an indian summer is the best time to buy the precious metal so miners are preparing for the coming winter they'll need money for food clothing.