most influential intellectuals of our time speaks about the modern civilization of america. and. the israel defense forces are striking the gaza strip after rockets were fired at tel aviv in the first such case of an attack on the city says twenty fourteen we spoke with israeli cabinet member enough to leave bennett on the latest violence. we left gaza we want peace the moment they stop shooting missiles at my children's . hold in kindergarten is the moment there will be peace in. the soyuz spacecraft with a fresh crew on board is on its way to the international space station off the six hours of space flight the docking procedure is expected to be completed shortly

we're showing you live pictures now on our screen plenty more to come. the phase it breaks it becomes more cloudy as british lawmakers vote for three months delay so it's back to brussels for to resume a to seek the e.u. commission. off the last few days of the job and also in some defeats all of us now have the opportunity and the responsibility to work together to find a solution. a very warm welcome to you you're watching r.t. international with me making airing our top story this hour the israel defense forces have launched strikes on targets in the gaza strip following a rocket attack on television earlier two rockets launched from gaza triggered addison's systems in israel. artie's middle east correspondent paula slayer has the

latest israeli army is striking a number of targets inside gaza there are explosions and are being heard in the south of the strip in honolulu nurse earlier her mass which controls the gaza strip declared a state of emergency and evacuated its people from both instilled ings and its officers the i.d.f. the israeli defense forces has issued a statement in which it says that it is targeting terrorists now when as follows two rockets were fired from gaza at tel aviv on tuesday evening this is the first time since two thousand and fourteen that rockets have come anywhere near tel aviv israel's second largest city and there were raids code simon and it said what sounded throughout the city and while no people were injured there are a number of people who are being treated for hysteria now initially there were reports of the israeli anti missile defenses to me i'm interested to know one of the rockets and another landed in an empty field the israeli army deny it there's at the same time at this point there has been no claim of responsibility there

israeli media was reporting that islamic jihad was behind the rockets islamic jihad subsequently denied this and amasses also said that they are not responsible in fact an official has said that they are not interested in an escalation with israel and in a surprise me that actually offered the israelis to help assist in finding the perpetrators now late on tuesday night the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu held an emergency meeting with his security officials subsequent to that the israeli army issued a statement in which it said it would be given a strong but measured response and so even that is what we witnessing now in terms of israeli strikes in early friday in gaza all of this coming at a particularly sensitive time for the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu in a need up to elections on the ninth of april so everyone is watching how he is going to respond and there is some speculation in israel that the strikes could be an attempt by her master to divert attention. away into new tone internal turmoil

and at the same time winds that have been happening inside gaza strip as a last point the israeli government has diplomats from both could target and egypt to gaza as soon as possible so the institutional the ground incentive minus and the strikes in which. operations are likely to continue and potentially even increase striking the gaza strip they say the missile triggered an alarm in the border settlements but found inside gaza's territory well strom's a barouche the editor of palestine chronicle dot com comment. i expect the situation to escalate as far as the israeli government wanted to ask me to meaning that in my opinion what is happening right now is a political ploy. to the elections in israel on april ninth benjamin netanyahu the israeli prime minister is desperate for any political capital he can get in order

for him to defeat his puttin his opponents in the upcoming elections you knows that this time it's going to be a lot harder to get reelected again and he needs anything at his disposal in his power to be able to obtain those last few israeli folks. michael a male harvey spoke earlier to israeli cabinet minister enough that he benefits and got his reaction to this latest incident. it's time to defeat hamas it's time to demilitarize the gaza strip we are fine with thriving civilian basis but we cannot accept this. rocket fire on our homes here in tel aviv and down in the negev we left the gaza strip about thirteen years ago now and that. the moment we left they've been shooting rockets

at us so we will not give up anymore it just doesn't make sense when we had learned over to the arabs they turned it into a radical islamic terrorist state and now it's time to fight back to the state and we will the un says that an armed palestinian civilians were shot by israeli forces so are you surprised that there is an aggressive. response coming from palestinians who have the right of self-defense and they do not accept any sort of preach from folks on the other side of the world when we're being shot rockets from a piece of territory that we handed over to the arabs what i can say is that we won't do that again. no one's trying to preach and i think everybody understands no matter what the grasp of the situation in the middle east is that the violence the cycle of violence continues. begets more aggression. how is

you know the what you're suggesting going to improve the situation we left gaza we want peace the moment they stop shooting missiles at my children's. home and kindergarten is the moment there will be peace we have no territorial demand over gaza and they just need to stop it if they stop it there will be peace that's very simple. and fresh crew is heading for their new home on board the international space station in the next few minutes or so the soyuz m s twelve spacecraft will carry out the docking procedure with the international space station we're going to show you live pictures from old bit right now just to remind you the story as emma's twelve rocket lifted off from the baikonur cosmodrome about six hours ago now and on board a russian cosmonaut alexy of cheering on to u.s. astronauts chris do you know nick. page well it's the second manned space

missions since an unsuccessful attempt to reach the international space station last october one of the first stage boosters on the rocket failed around two minutes after the launch and the crew were forced to make an emergency landing so far so good with this particular launch however this was the first case in thirty five years of particular failure happening an emergency situation with their space craft of that type so of chinon and hague's lives were saved by that automatic emergency rescue system called the as a as an of course they've managed to get back on board with this second attempt the system detached capsule from the rockies and return him safely. goodness for that it landed about four hundred kilometers from viking are both men landed safely and of course suffered no physical injuries later in december twenty eighth in

another manned space mission was sent into war but it's the new crew it will be staying in space for two hundred and four days and during that time they will conduct dozens of scientific experiments in the fields of medicine and biology and physics. will live pictures coming up for you later but earlier on thursday the soyuz rockets to life blasting off from the baikonur cosmodrome as we said carrying those astronauts into orbit and our correspondent for national witness the accident. ok here it is the moment you can see them fifty nine six petition to the international space station starts oh my goodness look at this line. of.

rushes. this is just from here the rocket in this guy's painted national border russia aleksey of chanaan and two nasa astronauts dk and christina koch we can hear people who have gathered here from all around the globe to witness the launch of loading because that was spectacular it. is a little bit clouded right now here is so but i can still see the rocket in this cause in just eight and a half minutes it is expected to reach the orbit and that it's going to take another six every round six and a half hours to dog with the international space station alexander in

a neat hagan mondo's and worried because you remember their previous mission in october didn't go well it was aborted made flight due to technical problems and just minutes off to the left all for sneak and aleksei had to return to earth in an emergency capsule maybe you remember these dramatic pictures from the inside of this emergency capsule showing nique shaking a really dramatic sad pictures but it actually was a miracle that they had returned to earth on the hard. this is where they were who think kept to pipe down from five hundred forty two from the launch pad microwave this way to would mean they've gone on populated

lending very talented cina need paid to lend it on farm on who've given that they've one with a fifty to one majority of the ballistic defense many times longer than the force of gravity while on the ground no one was hurt either you want me there single shapard obama into law before they invade carrier never mind if our forests really isn't cool cool enough think worth it for a world power of bring me flowers here on they haven't found that as well as around me who were praying for the emergency system. i had a chance to talk to both the nikkei and alexei of chaining and they have assured me that they are full of confidence ahead of flight and looking forward to finally reach the international space station well the space launch is always a very spectacular thing to watch as you can imagine especially during nighttime

like today so we are kind a lot but we are not the only one to witness the launch from the ground people from all around the globe come here to baikonur to see with their own eyes this is a spectacular as seen and actually to wave spacemen while they're sitting already inside the spacecraft funny thing is that spacecraft has no we actually those who are on board cannot see those who are on the ground but still it is very emotional moment for everybody involved earlier i've had a chance to talk to some of these enthusiastic tourists the question. you can see such an event on there was in your lifetime one cannot miss it it's a great event it's very interesting and it's a huge step into space all of the contrie we came last year in october to see the space launch and as you know is a wonderful experience they got up didn't get all the way up into space it was an aborted mission so we just got our mind to come back again we were five years old

when they landed on the. long time we were young it was exciting and. because we lived near where neil armstrong the first man to step on the man he's from really close to where we live it's a special it's a one time experience and i'm glad all these people got to come to here and this is . a dream of mine since i was five years old. to come here which is the birthplace of russian space the russian space program for me is. there is no long standing sort of ratio but it's just a long long standing journey i watched every launch i watch on the internet and even arranged my working life around so. we heard about this last year and we were looking forward to it and we saw the launch problems last year and we're getting more and more excited about with. break.

you know world's big partisan group. and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door on the back and shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the troops the time is now we're watching closely watching the hawks. see negative interest rates coming to your bank account soon it's being done on the wholesale level right now between countries and now it's going to come to your local bank account so instead of getting thirty basis

points on your money market fund or on your savings account the bank will get negative three percent so that's three percent will be taken out of your account and give it to someone that a central bank says a systemic claims court. over the latest from london now a british m.p.'s have voted to delay the u.k.'s departure from the european union this means that the british prime minister will have to return to brussels on's renegotiate the current march twenty ninth deadline early in my colleague neil harvey spoke to the city a check in as paid to all of us to get reaction from both sides of the tunnel. to. the payson house of commons could really grill much they have agreed on something

finally but not really much tangible it's just a delay as i understand it. well. you're absolutely correct with your interpretation of these events i mean they have said no to a bunch of different things throughout this very very hectic week in westminster and they have indeed finally agreed on something which is they're not ready to handle bracks it which has become extremely clear in these last couple of days if it wasn't clear before with the original bracks a deadline of march twenty ninth looming just fifteen days from this evening it was clear that there is no consensus on what's going to happen it was a vote after vote rejected by m.p.'s in terms of how to move forward so the way things stand now is they have indeed supported the idea of pushing back article fifty delaying brax it despite if you remember throughout this whole very gruesome

process british prime minister theresa may has been saying over and over and over again she wants to stay with the deadline we're leaving on march twenty ninth eccentric cetera that apparently for now is not happening because of this vote yes for one hundred twelve votes no two hundred two a majority of two hundred ten so it's a very clear majority that. that many m.p.'s want more time to figure out what's going on the problem there is now to recently has to go back to brussels that has there they have told her many times that we have given you the best deal possible let's work with that that deal was rejected so what she's going to be able to it's seems likely that she's going to be able to secure an extension however what that extension is going to bring now is the big question because so many other options have been rejected. taken off the table just this week alone m.p.'s have said no to

her deal which was the best one possible according to may and her colleagues at within the european union or in brussels and they have also rejected the idea of leaving without a deal so where all of this is heading now who knows you know it's been said difficult difficult process it's really i guess at this point going to be up to what it is that they're going to pull out of their sleeves to try to bring this forward something. that's the least. european reaction i was going to be to all of a who's in berlin. the irony here is thick i believe the u.k. says europe we don't want you and now we're left to go back all of a twist like with begging bowl and so you to officials please can we have more time how do you think you're going to react to this. well i can tell you exactly how the european commission have just reacted to this they put out a statement through

a spokesperson in the last few moments saying they have been watching the vote in london with great attention and they've pointed out that if the u.k. wants an extension of article fifty it has to be approved by all twenty seven remaining e.u. members now this statement says the. they're going to have to come up with a good reason for extension now there's a little bit of good cop bad cop going on here at the moment between the european commission and the european council in their various presidents the european commission president john called you previously said it doesn't want to see a long extension certainly doesn't want to see the u.k. have to take part in any kind of a you parliamentary elections which basically means he wants to see that extension lasting no longer than the end of may we have heard from donald the european council president he said he would be an ally. to the united kingdom in trying to get the states trying to get those leaders signed with an extension however he said

if he's to do that he's going to need a good reason to sell it to the twenty seven during my consultations ahead of the european council i will appeal to the e.u. twenty seven to be open to a long extension if the u.k. finds it necessary to rethink its brags its strategy and build consensus around it well if we look at statements from other e.u. leaders we've heard from emanuel mark on the french president saying that he would essentially support a extension of article fifty however he was very clear to say that this wouldn't be a time for any negotiations this would be essentially a time for the u.k. to decide if it wants the deal that the e.u. has already agreed with to resume a that deal of course it's already been voted down twice and may well go to parliament again for a third time next week or no deal the only other option is of course this the u.k. council's article fifty entirely all but killing brags that that's the one thing

they can do unilaterally now we've heard from the negotiating team from the e.u. side as well the deputy chief negotiator sabine whalen said she'd spoken to the dutch prime minister mark rito who described the vote on wednesday evening to take no deal off the table a bit like the titanic voting to have the iceberg move out of its way it's not doesn't really mean anything apart from words we've also heard from the chief negotiator michel barnier he was speaking in bucharest and he said as it stood will certainly earlier on on thursday so wasn't sure what the goal of bragg's it was or what it what it intends to achieve. it is. it's a lose lose situation. if you can. get it straight to me. to prove to me the added value. of

the long and short of it is that now if there's an extension to break that it's going to depend on the leaders of the e.u. twenty seven if it happens or not if not britain still out on the twenty ninth of this month francesca was there to a professor of european law at tel university tell us teresa mayes influence is now at rock bottom i think that we will go for an extension my sense is that it will be a longer extension to the more letting on really the idea that we're going to turn all of this around in three months is is in my view in the sky really imagine allowing your party a free vote on look central pillar if you like of your policy because if you don't you're going to end up with either a lot of ministers resigning or. all mass rebellion if by some miracle she won next week that's simply not ready but no doubt the media in this country tomorrow will start saying what a great victory was for her so we'll turn the great defeat in other words she was

forced to concede a vote on the law and but it'll be turned as a victory how can or how can a defeat of that kind where prime minister is being forced to do things that she didn't want to do and persistently said she wasn't going to do in the end have to do it and do it in a way that meant her whole strategy the unity of the party is in tatters these are very very worrying times for the united kingdom very worrying times. well a teams have advanced to the quarter finals of the champions league draw will determine who faces whom for the first time in a decade half of the last day saw english teams while former manchester united manager jos a marine gives his insights on for dixons and his new show an r.t.

on the touchline. when you have in the box or on the box that special cue or like on all the ease and the sync will happen you need to leave the use these words that i should not thought of he's the guy that brings everything we tame or didn't believe that let me tell you that i'm not happy at all because in the end. only one that one leapt into doing for the whole season and now we has to build a team the social media is changing a lot of the way people approach approach football but you really have a half so you're. not really not really sometimes i run when the distance is. so short or is it a very difficult part of your job to have time to. know. that when i feel that i let it go i would still it would make great television cameras on the street honest

would you be happy without who he has i wouldn't i wouldn't be happy. but i would in the stand when you you would be the cameras to the dressing room before the game you filled the position of the dressing room while the dressing room ease. of the shin pads of display of the shift of the other one i think the c's go into a walled where you are not able to put the act of the teams that remain who would you say is the strongest. one is again in just over thirty minutes for all the latest.

although the. indian pakistani border has faded from the headlines. with approval ratings. in the polls. taking when the next confrontation takes place. the braggs saga continues a deeply divided british house of commons can only seem to agree on one thing it doesn't want the u.k. to leave the e.u. without a deal the problem is there isn't a parliamentary majority on what to do next maybe this was two resumes play and all along breaks again. this is a water bottle found in the stomach of a fish the brand is part of the coca-cola company which sells millions of bottles of soda every day the idea was that let's tell consumers they're the bad ones

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are good friends of facebook are probably wishing the winkle boss twins were in charge right now because twenty nineteen has begun with a thud for the almost two billion struck active users strong social media site this week not only saw facebook's three day ban on articles from the online alternative news site zero ads fall apart under scrutiny which later a facebook spokesperson told breitbart was nothing more than quote a mistake with our automation to detect spam as soon as we had done it by the issue we worked quickly to fix it but then on wednesday facebook and its monopoly of social media sites which includes instagram messenger and whatsapp found themselves victims of an epic outage that affected millions of users around the world and back and if that wasn't enough the cherry on top came late wednesday when the new york times dropped the bomb that federal prosecutors are conducting a criminal investigation into david deals space book struck with some of the

world's largest technology companies well now while not much is known about what exactly in the investigation is focusing on one can certainly imagine that it. might have something to do with the whole profiting off of letting other companies see a user's friends contact information and other data without consent so with facebook now looking almost almost as awkward as bait o'rourke's i was born to run vanity fair poto is it time to finally end these social media monarchy of the book of face two thousand and twenty presidential candidate list of war and certainly think so let's find out as we start watching the hawks. it looks like. it's going. to.