among. other things declare a cease fire amid the latest violence to a very limited on the gaza strip israel attacked one hundred sixty targets in just twenty four hours that's in response to hundreds of missiles fired from the territory. sit down. at the head of a major non-governmental organization is allegedly recorded discussing how she trains migrants to trick border control guards into letting them in. so high ranking policewoman takes her own life in the latest in a wave of suicides among officers in the country position party say it's indicative of the conditions police face.

good evening and welcome this is outing internet. groups have declared in a joint statement a cease fire against israel this is after the situation on the israel gaza border suffered what's being called its worst escalation of violence since twenty fourteen israeli warplanes unleashed a torrent of bombs hitting targets in gaza after hundreds of missiles have been launched by militants. the joint operation room of the palestinian resistance factions declares that the egyptian efforts have resulted in reinforcing the cease fire with the israeli occupation the resistance will abide by the cease fire agreement as long as the israeli occupation it has to the egyptian brokered truce earlier i discussed the latest dante's middle east correspondent paula sleep. well as we heard over there have mass which of course is in control of the gaza strip

and monitors what's going on with all the groups that operate there has called for a cease fire incorporation with islamic jihad primarily has been firing a lot of rockets at israel now half an hour before they made that statement they did issue on their twitter account a statement in which they say that israeli strikes were targeting civilians saying that they believe that israel had run out of what they say are military targets and they blame the whole aggression on the israeli side saying that israel started this whole flare up of course a very different narrative coming off from the israeli side where we hear that they are holding no surprise hamas responsible they say it was triggered by an incident yesterday in which a rocket landed on any israeli bus that was carrying soldiers and a nineteen year old soldier is in a critical condition and they say there they say has intensified and course the whole situation to flare up they also hold responsible the ran they say that iran is the one that is supplying weapons money and orders to both hamas and islamic jihad in the territories now the final figure we have at this stage is seven

palestinians killed and one israeli killed who of course was a palestinian worker unfortunately was on the israeli side during the conflict we are expecting that these tensions will continue to climb so it seems like a daily thing they're used to hearing about the violence and the deaths in the region how did we get to this point well the last war between israel and hamas was back in two thousand and fourteen and it really has been an unstable situation along the border over the last few weeks we've had the great march of return that has intensified tensions and there's a lot of discussion a lot of emergency meetings that are being held in israel today there was a six hour security. cabinet meeting with israeli side is still trying to decide how to deal with the situation and what to do so it's not certain right now that this will flare up into a full scale war but certainly the tensions on the ground and every so often we witness what we've seen now is this kind of flare up in tensions in the last twenty four hours there were four hundred sixty rockets fired at israel hundred ninety were intercepted by the iron dome that is the highest number ever that has happened

at the same time israel struck a hundred and seventy targets in gaza over the period of twenty four hours just take a look at what the last twenty four hours have been like for the ngo. i i. the i. i. it's looking those pictures there in the level of violence is it's terrifying to think that it's escalating you dredge where this was going luckily there is a maybe it's temporary but the you know there is a pause in the violence and i must mention to gyptian lead at this what were they referring to well egypt has always come to the party in terms of being a mediator between israel and hamas and it has the buy in from the israeli side has

the buy in from the palestinian side so they are and natural mediator in this situation they have been egyptian intelligence officers in and out of gaza over the last few weeks because we have seen this flare up happening a few times this is nothing new together with the united nations and in this case norway and switzerland they have brokered what seems to be a cease fire we're hearing from certainly the palestinian side that it's a ceasefire that they willing to die to if israel ends its hostilities so it always becomes that bit of tit for tat neither side really wants to see a flare up in violence it's not going to do the a man. and the palestinians in gaza any particular good and said israel wants to try and avoid it so the one good thing is that both sides will be trying to find common ground through the egyptians and reach some kind of mediated peace. laughter the ceasefire was declared citizens of gaza took to the streets to back that decision by hamas on your screens you can see them gathered on the ruins of the hour x. a t.v. station that was destroyed by israeli assaults.

and across the border in israel people took to the streets there to oppose the ceasefire with hamas they called for an immediate military operation in gaza we heard some interesting views on the conflict. i think neither. would like to see and to go as far as the war like what happened in two thousand and fourteen so i think that. only homicide at least this and that from the very beginning that we are committed to. down the whole thing but at the same time we need to understand that this is really our also going to do so as they thought in this last. they had achieved nothing to the contrary if we look at the israeli media absolutely wiping the government and say that there was a big failure by the government and the israeli army in even the you know dealing

with the whole thing. so the israeli government on the one hand would like to have a cease fire right now the problem is is the israeli government and specifically the israeli people want to put an end to this type of behavior and the way that hamas has been behaving in the violence and the terror of hamas which is seeks to destroy the very state of israel if the hamas or any of the palestinian terror organizations would just lay down their weapons and stop you know inciting and stop terrorist stop paying terrorist families stop encouraging terror stop encouraging palestinians to kill jewish israelis the israeli army would react. if it is being released allegedly showing the executive director of a major in which provides help to migrants discussing how she teaches refugees to lie support accounts. because you. are this is the. way that. this video that's been doing

the rounds online is part of a larger investigation project by the canadian activist laura sullivan the clip allegedly shows rekha who's the executive director of the legal aid in geo advocates abroad in this video clip she seems to be telling the undercover crew who were filming her against her knowledge that she coaches refugees and migrants on how they should how they should speak to border police into other officials. at the moment knowing that. this is working to determine if you're interested. in whether. we're. growing. well many of you watching would be pretty unfamiliar with the name advocates abroad

there are a legal aid n.g.o.s it's been operating since the beginning of twenty sixteen they provide legal aid legal advice to people going through the asylum application process the ngo operate in the e.u. as well as right across the middle east area their own web site says that they've helped fifteen thousand people cross into greece into the european union that way and another two and a half thousand into the e.u. through differing ways advocates abroad issued a tweet in which they said this was all right wing propaganda that had been the video it being altered and it was altered for political means now that tweet was later deleted they've also since deleted their online social media presence their twitter account has gone. and their facebook account is gone as well so expect certainly more to come of this video coming out in more on that investigation into

what's been going on there with n.g.o.s reportedly helping but in some cases asking to break the law those people who are trying to come into the country. the u.s. democratic party is reportedly planning to hit president trump with eighty five investigations the party will take control of the house of representatives in january following last week's midterm elections there is going to have to be investigations if the democrats do take the house president trouble wake up wednesday morning to a very different political scenario here on the hell they are going to investigate this president and his administration they do intend to request president's tax returns former speaker pelosi insisting that her party will be strategic when democrats take control of the house in january they're going to begin immediately to investigations on impeachment the democrats are expected to demand trump's tax returns which she has refused to release since taking office they could launch new

probes into alleged collusion with russia and they'll be looking into the president's alleged role in paying money to former porn star stormy daniels plus there are plenty of other items on the this ranging from the to galatea the travel ban from several muslim countries through to the administration spending on furniture. control of the lower house in congress the democrats will have subpoena power meaning they can legally require any witness to testify in congressional hearings and produce documents in september alone the republicans have blocked sixty four subpoena requests from the democrats. i'm joined on the line now by former illinois congressman and the president of flanagan consulting that is michael patrick planning in great to have you on michael out say that this looks like worrying times according to these reports for donald trump the house democrats they'll be able to probe every aspect of trump's life family business dealings tax returns do you think they will make full use of that power. oh i'm sure they'll try

they'll ask for the size of his hands and how he calms his hair i'm sure to have much ado about it their allies in the press will help them make the noise that they can make the president's defense of course is that he's done nothing wrong and he hasn't done anything wrong and i'm sure he'll weather the sol very fine but it will be an enormous distraction democrats who have no agenda and ran on no what john and have no desire to actually manage the business of the nation have only this to run on and the california new york billionaires that paid for their election will insist on this happening because they themselves wish to be president in one form or fashion backs tom styer the california billionaire who floated many of these local elections has made no secret of the fact that he wishes to be president so i can't trump having got himself elected president has made clear the path rather billionaires who now have a scorched earth view of how they now wish to be president so they're using the democratic party to get there there's lots of folks on the extreme left who are

very glad to introduce a president but unfortunately we've gotten to a place in this country where the extremes on the west and on the right to. you people who disagree with them as illegitimate and as soon as you view them as illegitimate well then you need to investigate them you're not allowed to disagree with them without having to suffer an investigation for it and i think the democrats are about to learn a very painful lesson about the legitimacy of alternate point of views and how they're going to wind up not being able to prosecute to their ultimate desires to get peace things done just because what a funk ticket interesting and i think something that will affect the way the public view any investigations is to what extent do you think these are legitimate and they all trying to carry out justice of any possible wrongdoing or all they just an excuse to get rid of a political opponent. it's just an excuse to get rid of a key political opponent i'm sorry to be so flatly and embrace that. but let me say

that. there are organs of government that are designed to find wrongdoing in the moeller commission is a is a very large portion of that and they are in the business of finding the wrongdoing and they found none at least now that they can report so far and what they have come up with our ancillary people with things that they've done years and years ago congress is not an investigative body it's not what it does it has the power of oversight but oversight of the administration in executing congressional will and spending and in the direction of the nation this is the sort of. inspector general role that has developed over the last fifteen years or so by both republicans and democrats where they we go after the administration with this permanent body that lives in opposition to whatever the administration doing is unhealthy for the republic it was unhealthy when their ally said that it was unhealthy when when when the democrats did it before him and it's and i'm healthy thing now. i think that if

nancy had approached it mrs grose who had approached the midterm election this saying we plan to work with the president on. points where we can agree and that we're going to try in advance the interest of the nation and we'll see some compromise with some things he wants if he'll see some compromise with some things we want she would have won sixty seventy seats and had perhaps a generational majority for going in loaded for bear and spending over a billion dollars of outside money and red states to do it if she does not quickly grasp that she needs to govern she's going to have a very short lived majority and as for the president he lives on conflict the man absolutely thrives on conflict will only make him stronger by hitting him with the with the investigations and his allies in congress will frustrate them in the same way the justice department is frustrated one request by after another by congress to to expose their wrongdoings and the obama holdovers that have run that department over the last two years so i. we're looking at gridlock which is not

uncommon in this town for a couple of years anyway nancy has the power to break the gridlock and i hope that she will i sincerely hope that she will because the nation needs a lot of good work done and this president has not always been a republican and they very well like working with the democrats once again i hope we get there it seems like donald trump's anticipating the assault to come he said just after the midterms that if the democrats do this again he will retaliate this is have a listen to what he had to say on that occasion are you offering in my way or highway scenario to the democrats you're saying that if it hadn't if they start investigating you that you can play that game investigate better than them can you come can i think you are no man alive and i know more than they know can you call part mental lies that and still continue to work with them for the benefit of the rest of the country or you are all bets off no if they do that and just all it is is a war like posture. so he calls it

a war like i mean it could just be you know bluster from the president he has been known to do that oh he may feel he has some aces up the sleeve how do you think this will play out. well the president both has aces up his sleeve and is engaging in a little bluster. the the organs of government that do investigations belong to him not to congress and so you know if if you're going to throw rocks in a glass house you you better you better be pretty clean and dirty pretty able to do this and i think that the democrats have behaved quite badly over the last two years particularly in regard to the justice work and. i think the nation would like everyone to just take a breath step back let's do some stuff if there's really some wrongdoing the democrats think are some are some genuine wrongdoing not just we need to see his

tax returns because we need to know he's not worth as many billions as he says he is we want to publish or perish which is all that tax returns thing is about that that's ridiculous and nobody wants to see time and energy spent on that but if they really think there's wrongdoing what i'm lay out their case to the public let him lay out their case to to everyone else let him then say we want to know about this give the president a chance to answer and my guess is that they really don't have anything other than window they want to distract this president from the work he's doing because again they just disagree with him they just don't want him to be successful and this is a way to derail him and the policies that he's doing right michael good to speak see we've been hearing the thoughts of former congressman and the president of flanagan consulting michael patrick flanagan thank you. record numbers of french police offices have been committing suicide with the latest victim a prominent campaign of officer welfare on the show that drew pinsky has more from paris well there's shock in france because this individual is. seen as being or

having been a leading voice in the protests in the movement of police against the attacks that officers have been going over the last few years she was a woman called maggie and she was actually the founder of that movement now the reports here in front suggest that she took her own life in the last day using her service weapon and she was found dead at home with a note nearby and that death now is being treated as a suicide here in france but why was she so important well the thirty six year old was actually also the founding member of the mobilization of angry policeman this was a group that was set up back in two thousand and sixteen after police officers received a massive attack they were attacked with protesters with molotov cocktails and in fact two individuals the police officers were severely burned with others being

injured as a result of that attack as well now she has also been under investigation over the last year for what she described as speaking out to the media about attacks against the police without permission from senior officers from the police service now police suicide is a burning issue here in france with the statistics showing just how incredibly high it is for this particular profession now those statistics show that in july it was the latest statistics showed that for this year nineteen police officers and sixteen had taken their lives that was back in july in two thousand and seventeen more than sixty police officers took their lives now it's such a burning issue that the government did launch a plan to tackle this earlier this year saying that they want to do more to help people realize if their colleagues needed support but there was criticism that that plan didn't go far enough well there's been a lot of reaction on social media today to the news of that death. from senior

politicians such as the interior minister and the leader of the national rally i was in very city on with a co-exist few days ago. and here i hear the anger of the police and we are responding concretely with more effective measures and more resources on the ground the suicide of my. president of the mobilization of police officers. is a terrible symbol of the police suffering she said tired as he denounced the suffering took and it's a big shock for all of us well we've spoken to many police officers over the last year or so who talk to us about some of the issues that they face some of the abuse some of the attacks that they face in fact one police officer we spoke to in the last six months said that as a result of that piece they had actually considered it taking their own lives let's look back now at some of the most serious attacks that offices have faced in fronts

. last received a mixed reaction from the european parliament after coming out in favor of a single army parts of the chamber booed and jeered the german chancellor. then it's wrong claude young some years ago already said that a common european on the wild. in europe so i'm not saying anything against nato

force not we can be a good second i don't need to thank you i'm really pleased about it this is great i'm annoying simply called. michael was echoing recent remarks from the french president of other micro-loan who said that he needs to combine its military resources to counter threats from russia china and even the u.s. those remarks triggered an angry response from president trump.

thanks. thanks. thanks. thanks. thanks. and. to take you. seriously the if you got to meet. let's bring in geo political analyst pierre emmanuelle tom very good evening to you

. we've heard your macro first voice the idea seems to think it's a pretty good idea too is it all talk or could we really see a combined european army. where the european army. is more a slogan pronounced by mr macro on the on going to america because in reality. is very difficult to fuse varied the different national armies in europe and france and germany or was it different ideas behind it france was always in favor of beak strong cooperation in military field in europe too or in order to make use of the european go ject more so for a more independent from the united states but germany always the one cheats. it cook their ration in the military field to weave in nato and be integrated into

greek t.v. nato to wed this super old ovi armor accounts but now because of. the election of mr trump varies it when sun turn. when certainty about the future or if the us some nato ridged to pull your pants and in case of crisis and verify all your pence start to think should we be more so friend more independent but behind very stupid are these different approach of french soon reese to paul to compare ition between national army s when germany should post small integration in a who are doing europe and now me in the future but strongly integrity to review

nato so where is a contradiction but this contradiction is explain by you story of the position of germany france has a nuclear bomb still can't claim to. the sovereign independent knew who like to apply a balance of power in different directions when germany since the second world war has no right to every it's own nuclear bomb soviet depend on the armor it can nuclear umbrella and is very difficult for them to. to be independent from nato all but to recently. mr trump. that america has spoken more openly if both the mole or sovereign europe but of course vis. created is chong reaction from the united states because united states doesn't want europeans to be independent they want them to be aligned

over your own particular objectives and to buy armor can weaponry. donald trump repeatedly talked about money thing e.u. countries don't pay enough towards nato is this the consequence of that is this europe saying you know maybe you're better getting what you're getting the not having as partners at all could it be just a bluff. yes. he's right eunice sense because or europeans they they would like to be. protected by the united states but that's the same time they don't spend enough on defense but of course if united states spend. the europeans they would like them to be a line of your own objectives and the question is who is the enemy and of course the strategy could rival or for the united states yes russia and china but

europeans have a different geographical position and they had divides and approach from united states you have countries like poland and bunty countries which are. suspicious of rush hour when when germany recently. would like to balance russia because of comrie a crisis but france for example or care more about the stomach terrorists coming from south hen a north africa so very different perception of security and. the armor accounts. if you are right to ten of them ok if you want to nato to be strong and given you have to contribute small but have a same time is difficult because we have different security perceptions and

different kind of protective so. we heard angela merkel being heckled when she was talking about this in the european parliament did this mean there really isn't going to be enough support for the idea anyway. europe is very complicated because you have very different ideas about european few ninety s. and he's more moral. pretty car or landscape is more more fragmented us if you are skeptics in new york and parliament who don't want a european army because they want me to stay out of the nation state leader and then you have a divided. parties who are more pacifists we don't want in our me a tour. and you've got or so different i.