mission to teach me why you should care about humans and. this is why you should care only. the latest news and the week's top stories right here on our team. dozens of civilians. after an eight day bombing campaign. protests. in cairo with tear gas fired crowds venting their anger over to create granting president morsi. powers. parties. elections taking away for a referendum that could see spain's richest region go its own way. between member states and the summit in brussels over whether. another meeting has

been scheduled for next year. broadcasting live from our studios in central moscow this is r.t. glad to have you with us god is recovering from israel's anti hamas campaign that ended with an egyptian brokered cease fire 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 believes it came out the winner and some israelis now say the government has failed them. reports. and this one and rachel 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 the stand there.

anxious living on the air like knowing that at any moment the sirens 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 and i think to finish 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 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 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 television says its operation was a success enabling it to destroy a significant portion of the masses interest. 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 results of those 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 two group also showed its military prowess by sending rockets for the first time from gaza to jerusalem and later to television 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 move about us which is why some of 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 that's after

a huge amount of collateral damage caused by the airstrikes however israeli defense forces maintain the operation in gaza only targeted militants documentary filmmaker harry fear has been following events from inside gaza. israel's military operation pillar of cloud has officially ended it started with the assassination of senior hamas commander. 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 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 was wounded one of the striking things about the eight day war was the number of journalists that were explicitly targeted by israeli forces three appear to 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 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 was 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 the israeli defense forces maintain they bombed only militant targets while 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 tennis 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 and so on i think that if a journalist chooses to locate himself near hamas facility that's a mistake hamas is start 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. to egypt now where protests have are in their fourth day earlier police in cairo fired tear gas to disperse crowds the demonstrations are aimed against president morsi has decreed granting him sweeping new powers his 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 the last movement that backs the president the opposition is staging a sit in at a cairo's tahrir square while egyptian top judges have called for a nationwide strike mohamed morsi has defended the move saying it is aimed at protecting the revolution that paved his way to power in his latest comments of 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 president morsi is now on a slippery slope and it shows you how fragile and delicate this whole movement that was launched a couple years ago for democracy i sometimes say so-called democracy because it is 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 that 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 and i think until the actual people of egypt like all these other countries that have gone through these 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 parmalee by police first on the bar now in the morsi it's not going to stop until we actually have a real policy for the future of the country. in crunch elections in catalonia pro independence parties have won almost two thirds of the vote the region's president vowed to hold a referendum on breaking off from spain if the separatist coalition one party's enter farmers invest in one of the. well as expected arthur mass has been reelected

as the cattle and president albeit with a reduced majority but the result does at the end of the region's battle for independence and that's because mr mass will now be required to fulfill his pre-election promise of holding a referendum on secession and that would place the region and him on a collision course with the spanish government because they say any referendum would be against the spanish constitution and what's more the prime minister mariano horry will be desperate to keep hold of one of the country's wealthiest regions as he tries to stave off a european bailout why this all happened today and why people voted in this manner it's probably because of the economic crisis for many cattle and this was the tipping point they say that their region is very wealthy it has an economy the size of portugal's but in terms of the number in terms of the size of taxes they pay it's much more to central government than they actually get back from madrid in terms of investments in schools and hospitals so they're annoyed about that and particularly when you consider that unemployment here is around twenty five percent

so if a referendum does happen i suppose you could say that you would expect people to vote in favor of it although i say that those people who are against separatism do point out that if catalonia does withdraw from spain it could also mean it has to drop out of the european union and not many people in catalonia would be in favor of that if that turns out to be the case and maybe they would prefer the status quo so there are a lot of ifs and buts but what we do know as a result of today's election there is a growing sentiment of nationalism and a sense for independence here in catalonia. from the european partnership for independence madrid is using fear tactics regarding the e.u. to try and separate argument. on this by the state machinery and trying to fear campaign. we are european. i know there's not such press of that that we would be out of the european union seven

a half million of people suddenly you know how to get it would be more difficult actually to manage good to order when he's necessary to be out at the consideration we don't believe we're going to be out of the european union like it scotland i'm not going to be outside the european union just because we are exercising universal rights as you know us are going to suffer to the nation we're talking of democracy here it's an audience of rich country we do have some g.d.p. of two hundred thousand million which is like and dead mike economy we have to understand that in the european economy going context we are a country of super rabbit we are not if you should syria that country and more disunity in europe as budget talks and with no result. you leaders postpone further debates until the new year after failing to work out a deal acceptable to all that and plenty more stories in just a few moments right here on our.

waves of corruption are rocking russia hundreds of millions of dollars very much for 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 care survive whatever. infrastructural scientific project is such a drive 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. he used to. tell you to eat. real war lords war criminals we have a lot of illegal call new groups the new clothes and sluices also argues in the

whole more right enough to just like many of them that wasn't. the smadi when i was hunting yes although you can't liberate other when a you certainly can't do it through the barrel of a gun only affect the social change your kids can be the afghans themselves ask again men and women who believe i'm going to stun them not to across. the park to fish on its chemical for the shot and that it comes to actual stop people in the obama administration talking about how much they care about the women of afghanistan it's not true they don't care about the women of afghanistan. wealthy british soil the sun. must move on to the subscriber the funds will target .

markets why not. why. what's really happening to the global economy with my instructor for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune in to kaiser report. live from moscow this is r.t. certainly glad to have you back with us talks on europe's budget have been postponed until two thousand and thirteen after days of intense negotiations in brussels came to nothing most members hoped for an increase in spending while some including britain called for a freeze saying nations that simply don't have the money to spare are too sorry for has the details. the year of paying 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 just back in the spotlight the european

leaders also failing to come up with a deal that would please everyone in 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 the negotiations there was a lot of concern that we see an 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 an exercise that 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. euro sceptic parties are winning more and more support as many countries struggle to deal with popular disillusionment with the idea of a united europe u.k. independence party's leader nigel farage 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 a donor countries that are a bit reluctant and there are always recipient countries that are rather game to push the budget up out 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's it from having our own by the 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 in the rest of the world can go hang frankly is decades out of date now time to take a look at some other stories making headlines around the world this hour at least eleven people have been killed and dozens injured in twin suicide car bomb attacks outside a church at a military base in northern nigeria nor no organization has claimed responsibility for the attack churches and security forces are frequent targets of extremists fighting for an islamic state in that country. rebels who are fighting for control

of the democratic republic of congo have held a first round of talks with government officials the negotiations are being mediated by uganda last week the group known as m twenty three seized control of the key city of goma the country is facing a growing humanitarian crisis with around five hundred thousand displaced. severe storms battering the u.k. have claimed at least two lives and flooded more than eight hundred homes. people in wales and the cornal have been evacuated to safety as 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 california family's home in the middle of the night as they were sound asleep causing substantial damage to the house authorities report a total of nine people were inside you were lucky to escape on harm twenty four year old woman has been charged with drinking and driving. now syrian rebels

looking to overthrow president assad again to serious backing last 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 something 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 opposed to both seeing it as a possible first step towards a no fly zone and foreign boots on the ground ali mohamed the editor in chief of the syria tribune online blog says the western backed rebel coalition won't be able to control actual rebels. we don't know this pollution and they don't control anything on the ground and you know the worst one of them to be the sort of

preserve the whole process which does not make sense dry fast for france and turkey to provide the coalition has a legal manner as a sort of preserve the syrian people the fucking groups and their leaders the released the video saying that this coalition but not to preserve them and that they thought they would keep fighting until they reach their goal within it from a state in syria so i don't think that they will they would be able to grow older. therefore we cannot talk about the rebels marching on the white flag the muslim brotherhood is an important member of the coalition and of the same time the muslim brotherhood is the main backer and so forth are all of the unity brigade that fights in the info does seem pretty efficient to food there's something of them up and up there it's really. not clear but it's not a good sign for the coalition at all and coming up part two of our special report looks at the reality of daily life for women in afghanistan living under harsh

religious and social traditions that's on our t.v. coming up. invented by the famed soviet orthopedic is good for you is there a fifty nine hundred fifty s. these frames were initially used to treat fractures in deformities by cutting bones and slowly pulling them up or therefore stimulating tissue regeneration it was off was able to reshape arms and legs and people who thought they were crippled for life about a third of patients admitted to the it was out of center now days seeking series three focus medical 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 length the mean request to meet is fifteen centimeters to the want to surgery because it's panos to than him we like to say that we need to break their legs in

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this is why you should care. we see. many. wives. 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 new. book it's a big example. not be

housed. him 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 forced into marriage at the age of around thirteen and from somewhere she was getting a lot of abuse in this home and she was very unhappy and she found it in his up to run away which when you're coming from an area of the country where women are not seen on the streets alone imagine a girl she was now fourteen or fifteen making her way from the southeast of the country away to a couple and then she found shelter and she was lucky. that she then found that had husband's family rose up against a they called upon a lot of the tribal elders in that area they were furious they felt like she brought shame upon have they got the support of parliament they got the support of the minister of interior is an indication cooperation of.