three year old girl was killed and ten civilians injured in an israeli strike on gaza as the i.d.f. rolls out tanks troops and warplanes in their tail against a sniper attack on the border. the un security council doubles the number of peacekeepers in south sudan amid reports of massive million deaths will look at whether a foreign clamor for the african states oil is among the factors tearing it apart. and arlen's crisis has been declared over and fought for homeowners it's anything but to do anything at all if you think i was this dish. i have no way i wish to speak to the people whose lives have been shattered by the banks in a country where one in five mortgages are overdue we have never evaluation how much

this is cost us in the motional and health terms. it is not in the russian capital you're watching r t with me marina joshie welcome to the program. an israeli airstrike on gaza has killed at least one person a young girl and injured several members of her family tanks and infantry have also been involved in a series of attacks on the palestinian territory all this in response to the fail shooting of an israeli civilian on the border the latest from our middle east correspondent paula sleep. one palestinian girl a three year old has been killed in the gaza strip among those injured all her mother and her brother this comes as some ten israeli air strikes hit gaza they targeted the hour in the hi-z.

refugee camp as well as islamic jihad and hamas sites both in qana yunis in the south of the strip as well as in northern gaza earlier on tuesday a palestinian man was killed by israeli these waste of beit lahia which is also in the gaza strip this was in retaliation to the earlier shooting and killing of an israeli man by a palestinian sniper now this is radio man was mending the border fence between israel and gaza when he was hit and he died in hospital what we're hearing now from israeli sources is that this is the largest operation that the israelis have carried out in terms of a strikes over gaza since the operation pillar of defense back in two thousand and twelve so the situation on the ground extremely volatile we're following it closely and everybody particularly concerned that this could escalate into something much bigger than what we witnessing at the moment. artie's kevin owen discussed the airstrikes on gaza with the u.k.

based defense consultant mon rove and he believes the reaction from israel will only escalate the situation as usual is disproportionate and overwhelming force being used against the people who live in the cage the israelis they have a ratio for everyone is rightly killed. figure is about a thousand palestinians must pay the price. but they have a right do they to respond when one of their nationals is killed. absolutely but there are political means or there diplomatic means that they can use to deescalate the situation rather than use disproportional force aircraft. combat troops are not a proportional response to a people who have no effective army and cannot fight back and coming out of the program a look at one of the stories that defined twenty thirteen or simple villagers were

stuck in a war that we didn't ask for or that we live in constant fear of another strike our teammates the people who paid a devastating price for america's drone strikes a campaign that's supposed to cleanly pick out terrorists that's ahead in the program. and serve the syrian government lashes out at the rebel forces foreign backers saying they are encouraging attacks on chemical weapons depos while the country struggles play by the rules and get rid of its toxic stockpile. the un security council has unanimously approved a plan to double the number of peacekeepers in south sudan more than twelve thousand international troops and thirteen hundred police will be protecting civilians in the african state which has seen deadly clashes break out between rival armed factions over the past two weeks artie's marina port now reports from new york. the security council after a meeting also condemned the fighting and violence against civilians and ethnic

communities that have caused hundreds of deaths across south sudan and raise concerns the world's newest country is on the brink of a civil war the u.n. says that investigators discovered mass graves in the rebel held city of the in two with fourteen bodies one site twenty bodies at a nearby site the possibility of there being either even a third site now tens of thousands of people have fled the country amid fighting between rebels that are supporting former vice president riek machar and president salva gears forces to hold more says a loyal to the president and vice president now. the fighting began last week in the capital juba and then tried to other cities in south sudan well you have to remember that south sudan is a young country and a civil war is what initially caused its breakaway from the north you know the united states campaigned for it some experts believe that washington's enthusiasm

for south sudan's autonomy had less to do with humanitarian issues and more to do about south sudanese oil reserves now the irony right now is that no matter which way you slice it the international community has another crisis on its hands that may be costly and complicated the country's top u.n. humanitarian official said the death toll from the past ten days has surpassed one thousand but added that there's no official firm counts it may be more it may be less nobody knows what we do know is that the violence is spreading and spreading quickly. apart from the u.n. peacekeeping force washington is sending marines closer to south sudan the state department says they will assist in the evacuation of american citizens from the area if needed by pat african newswire editor of a human as a key was says the u.s. needs to make sure this doesn't go any further. the problem is they're young

country they have very limited infrastructure they're really not a viable state in regard to. the scylla to its capacity provide services to people and i think it was an extreme tragedy that sudan was broken out it would possibly would have been better to have done as an autonomous region as part of a broader republic of sudan but the united states as well as the state of israel encouraged the republic of south sudan to break away but the united states has to be very careful because if they enter on a broader level i think it very well be bogged down in a guerrilla war and a civil war and they could lose a substantial amount of troops as well as military equipment in the fighting. with twenty thirteen drawing to a close we arity have been looking at the main events that shaped the outgoing year

. these are the ultimate comics out here braving the elements in order to stand up to us oil giants chevron. this comes after a massive hunger strike that returned the world's attention to the place that sums up jobs the gulag of our times. is an undeclared global battlefield in which yemen is just one of the front lines. well in the tribal zones of yemen and pakistan people will be hoping the new year brings some respite after nearly a decade of u.s. drone strikes despite repeated claims from the white house that these anti

terrorist attacks are pinpoint the annual civilian death toll seems to suggest otherwise in the latest incident up to seventeen people were killed at a rural wedding ceremony in yemen are just loose a coffin of reports on the human price of america's war. the locals call it death in the skies in pakistan's northwest tribal region an american drone as seen from the ground it's become the weapon of choice in the u.s. war on terror and this is the damage it can wreak under president obama more than three hundred such strikes on pakistani soil against alleged al qaeda and taliban suspects. but ordinary civilians also pay a price this man is one of them i mean was on his way to work at a mine near his village when a drone struck the area he lost his leg in the attack three other miners who were with them lost their lives we live in constant fear of another strike we are simple

villagers who are stuck in a war that we didn't ask for or it's a hopeless feeling what should be death is above our heads all the time. although the attack took place three years ago i mean the laws says the pain is still severe the sight of his injuries upsets his horse children meanwhile depression anxiety and lingering fear have pushed him to take up tranquilizer pills and modify that in the same arrogance should be able to tell an ordinary person from a television leader what i mean they should know who they're killing the what did we do to deserve this. this isn't my ex and he did it in the drawing arctic it's a question echoed by now darva who lost part of his hearing a short term memory and you're lee has. got the drones shockwave was so intense that it threw us outside far from the place where we were sleeping after several minutes there was another strike and it killed many more people attorneys out of bar has sued both the u.s. and pakistan on behalf of the civilian victims he says they're the voiceless people of the zeerust on isolated by geography and politics by simply call it

a concentration camp that you have build a wall of. military and militants and behind that wall you keeping more than eight hundred thousand people who are not allowed to come out and no one from the rest of the. entry is allowed to go in and that's a kind of tree which u.s. is using to use and test its drone program in many ways the epicenter of the cia's highly classified drone program is a black hole on the map a region of pakistan off limits to outsiders especially westerners now evidence of the drone strikes is almost impossible to get but these were smuggled to islamize bought from the tribal areas there are believed to be fragments of actual hellfire missiles retrieved from a war zone most americans never get to see that image fragments collected by an orbiting a local journalist who spent years documenting the civilian toll of drone use of especially on children just images of the living and the dead for nor it's personal

. but did you see him whenever my three year old daughter hears a plane she runs inside and won't sleep at night the children here have been traumatized by the drones the sound of a doorbell and shot is enough to terrify them all. and that fear can turn to anger a new generation radicalized by the war carrying no drone strikes killing innocent people who are not part of the conflict you just why did the conflict you're giving the reason to people who were not part of the conflict to become part of the conflict. of course this is make me hate the americans we are angry and want revenge they've destroyed our lives my parents my wife my children we all see america as our worst enemy now while promising to reign in their use the white house says drones are both legal and effective. politics.

when translated by defense that's cold comfort for the victims you see catherine of pakistan. anti drone campaign or new america believes. us on manned strikes is questionable to say the least we're seeing actual legislative bands coming out of countries where drone strikes actually happen the yemeni parliament has asked for a ban on drone strikes the pakistani national assembly passed for about on drone strikes when we hear about the drone strike that happened in pakistan that did end up getting the second commander in chief of the taliban and pakistan and you know you see everyone saying well you know the drone program is great this happened but we also have to keep in mind that he's been proclaimed killed at least four different times by drone strikes prior to this one so who died in those drone

strikes that happened before this one that finally word i didn't those are the questions that we need to ask when we think retrospectively about the many times the drones have supposedly killed people. the crisis may be just about over an island but for irish homeowners it's still tough keeping the wolves from the door up to twenty percent of mortgage payments are overdue with families across the country being forced out of their homes or repossessed why the homeowner told r.t. stocks are still yeah how she lives in fear of the banks. most people here remember the cold to tiger with this sense of melancholy economic boom times in the mid ninety's up until two thousand and seven that went bust in no small way the young for the structure behind me would have been the offices of the anglo irish bank one of the struggling banks that was effectively nationalized it was a stark reminder of the property boston the ensuing back in crisis and the painful

austerity that continues to today and for some irish families though there is also a daily reminder of the threat or reality of losing their homes we had a mortgage was very high on the value the property was falling below the mortgage so i ended up with a cash offer five hundred thousand dollars and two thousand and eleven and i was delighted but the banks refused to accept the offer because there wasn't more which was eight hundred i climb with arrears so instead they prefer terms of course and repossessed the house while arlo may have officially exited its bailout it's still mired in debt and the end of september almost one in five home loans worth a total of twenty five billion euros were still not being fully repaid homeless organization focus arland estimates that sixteen families lose their homes each month in the capital the banks who have had a catastrophic effect on dates their activity with art and on business that paralyzed the entire nation they have failed to deal with the mortgage debt crisis

but coming up with creative solutions we can measure how much the bailout has cost us in monetary terms we have never evaluation how much this is cost us in emotional and mental health terms i could barely push. one foot in front of the other because i just i just i couldn't sleep nights i couldn't think about things i get up at school run i mean and then go back to bed again and you know i couldn't do anything at all or think i was this dish. i had no way i wish a new law was passed in december which would automatically discharge a person from bankruptcy after three years as opposed to the current twelve year term personal insolvency arrangements can also be made for those who want to just and other debt with this perhaps there's a glimmer of hope for people like julia i would be bankrupt for christmas. you know what it's like and the reason why i'm hoping to be bankrupt christmas is that i can start again let me become what i was before does or assume you're r t r l and fifty

. coming up on the program the freedom to ban american schools and libraries and blacklisted around fifty books this year mostly on race and sex issues and the censors now have their sites and hundreds more titles stay with us. and hope quiet and sinker japan's fishing industry is doing all can to prove its catch is fit for almost three years on from the fukushima nuclear disaster. the syrian government says that foreign power is backing rebels are leaking information on the locations of chemical weapons sites and encouraging attacks on the opposition fighters aided by higher links factions with orderly launched assaults on two such facilities over there we can't the strikes where we're told by the army but come at an easy time for syria as a struggles to meet international deadlines to rid itself of chemical arms the rise of islamic extremist factions there something that russia's top diplomat described

as a number one hurdle hampering political solution to syria's almost three year old war sergei lavrov spoke exclusively to our. little girl who's with a whole year to cover there were lots of things to discuss it brought russia several diplomatic victories including the chemical arms deal with syria you would see what is the next step what is the just elaborate of preconditions from the syrian opposition remain the key obstacles including the one for president assad to step down something that the worst is now moving away from the threat of jihadists coming to power and setting up a caliphate is the number one problem for the realisation is dawning that regime change is not the way to resolve this problem oh western partners are becoming increasingly clear about this there are also changes in russia's relations with the west and apparently there are signals for more transparent and trustworthy times on both signs but of cold war mentality is still something that moscow has to deal with. some nato members have

a phobia against russia which is really sad that leads to some of our european partners still wanting to keep the dividing lines within europe and even move these lines eastward is that a country should either be with them or against them in the comments for the last november's nato drills near russia's western borders the largest in ten years six thousand troops from all member states as well as finland sweden and ukraine practice defending the baltics from an identified foot from the east while president putin's question of what was the point of still planning to build an anti missile defense system in europe with out of threat from iran still hasn't been properly answered by washington there aren't any firm guarantees the system want to be aimed at russia either you've got this kind of moscow. the full version of r.t. exclusive interview with the russian foreign minister on our website r.t. dot com. also online today were reports on the final preparations for the burial of a legend russia is mourning the death of kalashnikov inventor of the a k forty

seven the gone the change the face of warfare for good or ill was. find out how all the english having metal bands are in maiden has been cashing in on pirates by staging sell concerts where the earth songs were illegally downloaded the most. to the. reasons he has put there's already plenty to celebrate this december on this month's show how the future tense so lazy sex in stone how to make movies with an instant messenger on their revolution takes a skill to make slides were really. your.

welcome back you're watching r t international japan's seafood industry says it's blighted by contaminated catches nearly three years after the fukushima nuclear disaster but loaded surrounding land and waterways they can't convince customers their fish is safe even though the authorities insist they're doing their level best to show they've got a grip on the problem i'd like to ask you reports. work doesn't stop in the port of saumur despite being just a few kilometers from areas still ravaged by the twenty eleventh's tsunami and still contaminated by radiation seafood of all shapes and sizes lands here several times a day not only fish has traditionally been the integral part of the japanese culture but also one of its prized acts boards last year alone the exporting companies pocketed more than two billion u.s. dollars however there are serious concerns now this particular cat was made in the waters of the pushing my nuclear bomb station after it became known that he

drawling system at the fukushima nuclear power plant was severely radiated fears grew that the contamination could be spreading into the pacific there are significant contamination in the bottle sediment especially in the paul and the rebirth system. a very very high concentration of the right. fish factories around the fukushima prefecture now have to take radiation measurements but despite lab workers assuring us the fish was free of any harmful particles we're taking samples from every cage we make and if we ever find even the slightest trace of radiation will destroy the whole catch and so far there has been none cause this fish is safe and even the nuclear plant operator tepco standing firm that the nearby waters are clear of radiation this edition is pretty much on the control we've built fan says not to let the polluted ground waters leak into the ocean we were surprised to learn that most of the seafood we saw at the port of

soma will never make it to the shelves of fish markets or restaurant tables. most of the fish caught within the thirty kilometer radius is thrown into the garbage because it is radiated and tepco is paying local fishermen for it so they're happy and keep silent some of it though makes it to stores but only locally seafood firms here. the threat there of five reflectors possibly affected by contamination in the sea accounting for what was to two thousand tons of fish per year but things may get even worse as the third anniversary of the fukushima disaster approaches south korea has become the first country to bear a japanese fish and seafood boards the next you are reporting from. a look at some other stories from around the world a bomb and a rocket have reportedly exploded in the center of afghanistan's capital kabul killing three policeman local media say the blast struck near abdul haq square were there are

a number of military and diplomatic buildings it's not yet known who is responsible for the attacks. severe storms have caused a power outage at london's gatwick airport leaving thousands of passengers stranded on christmas day twenty six flights have been cancelled in the north terminal with manny passengers complaining they have been left in the dark about when they will be able to travel south of the country has been the hardest hit with a hundred and fifty thousand homes left without power forty nine books have been banned in schools and libraries across the u.s. in two thousand and thirteen and that's a fifty percent jump from the previous year the unwanted books mostly deal with racial and sexual issues or are written by minorities according to making health director of the anti-censorship group project censored the tran is widespread and even targets some history textbooks. there's a lot of different types of books that are quote unquote banned and in fact in two thousand and twelve there were over four hundred challenges since the banned books

week started as a project in the united states they're going over eleven thousand challenges to books to try to get books out of classrooms and off of shelves and basically it's it's a simple issue in terms of censorship it's people to try to control information and trying to control access to not just in permit it in but attitudes cultures history context differences and there can sort of efforts and interest groups in the society that would really. really work to selectively enforce the first amendment by disregarding the first amendment rights of others and the right to read the right to know is a fundamental right that is in fact outlined in the declaration of human rights article nineteen. and the next how was the blowing really works the first part of join us not just documentaries coming out here on r.t. .

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