they should know we have to come up with new infrastructure because it's very important to start thinking positively about the new tools to build a new system. the israel defense forces are striking the gaza strip off the rockets were fired at tel aviv the first such case of an attack on the city since twenty four c. we spoke with the israeli education minister naftali bennett on the latest violence . 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 in. the face of briggs it becomes more cloudy as british lawmakers vote for

a three month delay so it's back to brussels for to resume a to seek the e.u.'s permission. the last few days of government also and some defeats all of us now have the opportunity and the responsibility to work together to find a solution. a story a spacecraft with a fresh crew onboard to successfully dogs for the international space station the journey from earth took a total of six months from start to finish. a very warm welcome you're watching r.t. international with me. and we start with news just in new zealand police are responding to a critical incident at a mosque in the city of christ church local media reports there's been a shooting inside of the building according to witness accounts there are several injured. we'll bring you more on this as information continues to come in.

moving on the israel defense forces have launched strikes on targets in the gaza strip following a rocket attack on tell of eve earlier two rockets launched from gaza triggered air defense systems in israel artie's middle east correspondent paula slayer has the latest. the 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 the mass which controls the gaza strip declared a state of emergency and back you waited its people from both installed 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 thursday 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 they were read code simon and it said was sounded

throughout the city and while no people were injured there are a number of people who are being treated for hysteria now initially it will report at the israeli anti missile defense system the i know 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 theirs well 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 in 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 the need up to elections on the ninth of april so everyone is watching how he is going to respond and the response speculation in israel that the strikes could be entertained by her master to divert attention away from internal toward internal turmoil. and at the same time riots that have been happening inside gaza strip as a last point the israeli government has urged diplomats from both could tire and egypt to leave gaza as soon as possible so the expectation on the ground is that that my limbs and the strikes and which. operations are likely to continue and potentially even increase the israeli army report spotting another palestinian rocket launched after they started striking the gaza strip they say they miss out triggered an alarm in their border settlements but fell in five garza's territory we asked ramsey peru's the editor of palestine chronicle dot com to for comment. i

expect the situation to escalate as far as the israeli government want to be to meaning that in my opinion what is happening right now is a political ploy. to the elections in israel on april ninth. minute video the israeli prime minister is desperate for any political capital he can get order for him to defeat his. opponents in the upcoming elections you knows 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 induce the last few israeli. on conic neil harvey specter israeli education minister nothing he benetton 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 on civilian basis but we cannot accept the. 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. the moment we left they've been shooting rockets at us so we will not give up any more land it just doesn't make sense when we had land over to the arabs they turned it into a radical islamic terrorist state and now it's time to fight back to that state and we will the un says that. palestinian civilians were shot by israeli forces so are you surprised that there is an aggressive. response coming from palestinians they have the right of self-defense and they do not accept any sort of preach from folks on the other side of the world. and we're being shot rockets from

a piece of territory that we handed over to the arabs what i can see is that we will do that again. no one's trying to preach and i think everybody understands that 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 are my children's. home and kindergarten is the moment there will be peace we have to retore over gaza and they just need to stop it if they stop it there will be peace that's very simple. now for the latest from london where british m.p.'s have voted to delay the u.k.'s departure from the european union this means the british prime minister will have to return to brussels and renegotiate the current march twenty

ninth deadline early in my colleague neil harvey spoke to artes and this is their check in and peace to all of us to get the reaction from both sides of the tunnel. let's go first to london said that payson house of commons couldn't really agree on much they have agreed on something finally but not really much tangible it's just a delay as i understand it is more. well indeed neal 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 well 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 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 bracks 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 a deadline we're leaving on march twenty ninth eccentrics 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 some 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 and 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 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 such a difficult difficult process it's really i guess at this point going to be what it is that they're going to pull out of their sleeves to try to bring this forward. european reaction i was going to be to all of a who's in berlin. they are and. believe the u.k. says europe we don't want you know the left to go. back oliver twist like with

a begging bowl and say to e.u. officials please can we have more time how do you think you are 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 that 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 this. 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 claude young 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 both from 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 to side 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 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. we'll that the e.u. has already agreed with the reason may that they will of course it's already been voted down twice and they will 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 breaks 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 sabina whalen said she'd spoken to the dutch prime minister mark rita 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. straight to me crucially. you. know even. for 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 and has care is it a professor of european law at the n.h.l. university told us to resign may's influence is now well off them. i think that we will go for an extension my sense is that it will be a longer extension to. 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 lots of ministers resigning. all mass rebellion even by some miracle she won next week simply not ready but no doubt the media in this country tomorrow will start saying what a great victory it was for her so we'll turn a great defeat in other words she was forced to concede a vote on the lying and but it'll be termed as a victory how can a how can a defeat of that kind were prime ministers been 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 the mentor whole strategy the unity of the party is in tatters these are very very worrying times for the united kingdom very worrying times. breaks it comes down. the so is that math twelve

spacecraft has successfully docked with the international space station the approach and docking of the soyuz m s twelve with the station was conducted after a six hour flight now the clear is expected to check that the connection is secure and then equalize the pressure between the spacecraft and the i.s.f. after that they'll be able to exit the ship and then to the station early on thursday the soyuz rocket roared to live blasting off from the baikonur cosmodrome and carrying the astronauts into orbit rick maria phenomena witnessed the action. again here in the morning to you can see them fifty nine six petition to the international space station starts oh my goodness look at this line. it's. the.

russian space business from here to the rocket in this chain to national border russia aleksey of chanaan and to nasa astronauts nikkei and christina colgan here 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 is going to take another six every round six and a half hours to dog with the international space station alexander in a neat hagen mondo's and word as 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 harness and sure. this is where they were you think happy to pipe down from five hundred one of them from the launch pad microwave this way to within the vase on populated lending very healthy epstein and nick cage who lend it on farms on who move who have given that

the one with the fifty kilometers if he believed to be sent many times over the force of gravity while on the ground no one was hurt either you want me there single stafford obama into law before they leave the area never mind the power authority really isn't cool cool you think worth it they say girl power is bring me flowers here on they haven't found that as well as around the world in the world praise 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 while the space launch is always a very spectacular thing to watch as you can imagine especially during night time like today so we are kind of a lockie 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 quiz that we take 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 for all of the country we came last year in october to see the space launch and as you know is a wonderful experience but 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 moon so it's been

a long time we were young it was exciting and we're blessed 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 this is. the dream of mine since i was five years old and to watch a rocket go off and to come here which is the birthplace of russian space the russian space program for me is some emotional there is no long standing sort of ratio but it's just a long long standing journey you know i watched every launch at home i watch on the internet and i even arrange my working life around the launches so i can watch them 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. the fight against islamic states last remaining pockets of resistance in syria is entering

its final moments that's according to the kurds below us a massive military offensive a few days ago with the help of us. throughout the bloody conflict in the country millions of syrians have been forced to flee their homes with many ending up in refugee camps inside and outside syria but the conditions that are dire with many in desperate need of basic things like food water and medicine we discussed the situation on the ground with paula fitzgerald a representative of the international federation of red cross in syria. well the

situation is really very serious and i think the can't hold that it's probably the highest focus at the moment sees thousands of people arriving every day and the infrastructure is not there to support from what i do know is that whole camp yesterday had seventy two thousand people and. people are continuing to arrive in the numbers around sixty thousand sorry a very big numbers but most of the displaced people in syria are not living in camps situations a living from place to christ in the community you know in lebanon where a quarter of the population now a syrian. refugees similar numbers in turkey with three million refugees so it's an incredible pressure on infrastructure in the conversations we're having here and hearing over these few days in brussels is very

much around please don't start stop your support for us because the syrian people inside the. host nations continue to need so. people need to feel safe to start where. they need basic services to be able to really water help so notation education and of course widely people need to be able to work and make a living so and to repair their home printer to put their lives back on track. the u.s. state department has announced further financial support for the group in syria known as the white helmets the announcement of more money for the self described civil defense group was published online the u.s. plans to allocate five million dollars to support life saving operations conducted by the group's members this follows donald trump statements last year that the u.s.

would stop funding the organization despite being described as heroes by the state department the white house as have discredited themselves numerous times they were implicated in fabricating evidence of an alleged chemical attack in duma syria last year and also linked to all going trafficking here's a look at some of the white how much is other activities in syria but a word of caution some of the images may be disturbing. i spoke to ken stone from the hamilton coalition to stop the war he believes the

white house mates are key to western plans for further intervention in syria. if the united states is going to give them yet more money it's because the united states still foresees a role for the white house minutes in syria the united states knows that the russian and syrian governments are poised to liberate it live problems and to drive the terrorists out of there and so they expect the white how much to continue their their dastardly roles that they've played in syria over the past six years now. and the first one of which is to create a pretext for military intervention direct military intervention as occurred last year over the issue of dumas where the white house how meds were widely exposed as having staged a chemical

a fake chemical incident they have backed the white house once again to stage an incident which will allow the great powers to unleash a missile attack on syria it's a crime against humanity. well back to reports coming in of a shooting in new zealand earlier local police stated they responded to a critical incident at a mosque in the city of christ i would insist suggest an unknown number of people have been killed and that a gun month storms the mosque with three hundred people inside police have called on local people to stay indoors or bring you more on this as soon as it comes and. eight teams have advanced to the quarterfinals of the champions league on tomorrow's jewel will determine whose face is whom for the first time in a decade half of the last eight teams where former manchester united manager chose a marine gives his insight on predictions and his new show on r.t.

on the touchline. you predicted to act a fool correctly this weekend be sure you see it does show after the vote will come to that it does show you how hard it is to predict isn't it when you have in the box or on the box that special q. or like the always and the sync will happen you need to be use these words that i should not thought of he's the guy that brings everything we team more than the leader the guy that brings everybody with him let me tell you that i'm not happy at all because in the end. only one that one lead into anything for the whole season a great cross. believes will have the phenomenal safe and all of the managers we many times we try to find even for ourselves some excuse nah we has to build a team. the social media is changing a lot of the way people approach football and it's not just football as is

a bald society. in general. thanks for the full episode of on the touchline coming up next and we're back in thirty minutes with the headlines. join me every thursday on the alex i'm unsure when i'll be speaking to the world of politics or. i'm sure i'll see if.

the briggs's 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 you without a deal the problem is there isn't a parliamentary majority on what to do next maybe this was to resumes play and all along. q. were like the all the e's strike you need to use these or. is it a very difficult. time to. know. they're lucky. to be in the same generation grid cross. will have a phenomenal safe. the strongest.