you coming out of programs not making a position so clear josh when the spokesman for the israeli ministry of defense thank you thank you sir. i'm kevin though it was just a couple of minutes ago an ati. texas wants to pull away from the usa effectively twenty states have started petitions for independence after obama won the election with well just a few voting irregularities but guess what suspicion will never happen it is a very easy thing to do decide a petition and it is another thing entirely to leave the usa that will civil war thing to happen back then does anyone the usa honestly think that they are gov has the bow determination to actual rebel i don't think there is a single george washington type among them well maybe just see fit tour a kind of but he's out of office how do it makes it seem like revolution or succession is this fun cool easy thing to do with cool slogans and texan flags flying but the reality looks a lot more like the arab spring before you put your name on the dotted line is a seed you should really understand what that means and what your in for the founding fathers sur

just last hour spoke to josh and he's a spokeswoman for the israeli ministry of defense of told me that how must bears the responsibility for the deaths of palestinian women and children in gaza the israeli defense ministry who i represent and indeed the israeli public are mourning civilian deaths on both sides i've seen it i've been running around the south from bomb shelter to bomb shelter dodging rockets hearing the cries of israeli civilians and the cries in the wells of the air raid sirens when we see the graphic footage in gaza of dead children being pulled out and dug out of collapsed buildings to maintain that their deaths. of israel and israeli air strikes are the fault of the mass. so i can tell you they genuinely cheney breaks my heart you think that we want to see dead children on any side as i said we mourn every loss of life hamas on the other had a celebrating and they're putting their own civilians in danger i cannot tell you how much we desire quiet how much we desire true peace and calm in this region when we facing an enemy that is guilty of this double war crime wher

of the drones. we visited the country's biggest defense manufacturer, israel defense ministries owned by the israel government and do $3.5 billion in annual sales. of that about a quarter goes to the israelie of israel's most valuable tools. >> we can see the position. >> reporter: the unmanned aerial vehicles are planes without pilots and here they are operated with the click of a mouse. >> sometimes you just need to get footage. and this is something that is better to be done by an unmanned capability. >> reporter: some uav service surveillance tools and others carry weaponenry. here's how they work. >> the flying we detract and i'm actually just commanding the direction and speed and altitude. and then the uav will follow my command. >> reporter: they are controlled by pilots on the ground. >> i just need to click and they perform. >> reporter: a short drive away a valuable part of drone is hand crafted. high-tech cameras. >> you can see a very small ball but inside there is a very much high-tech technology including stabilization and a lot of software. >> reporter: that allows the drones to function as a surveillance tool. >> the main requirement nowadays is if you see a person a few

response to this how mass has said that now exists a heightened state of affairs with israel we've also contacted the the israeli defense ministry here they refused to say very much we have heard reports of an operation cloud pillar. this been started by the israeli defense forces israeli forces over israel we're not sure exactly what that is and the precipices here refuse to tell us exactly what it is but they have said that this is all of this is for a targeted attack on terrorist infrastructure inside gaza it is difficult to state how potentially dangerous all of this is it only really started back at the weekend with the. hamas militants firing rockets from gaza and reportedly today israeli defense sources say rockets potentially fired from over the egyptian border into the south of israel and also there has been an israeli strike at the weekend which killed four were inside gaza including three children the potential for this operation and for hamas is hamas is replies to kick off. a real war in gaza over the scale of two thousand and eight to nine when israel launched operation cast lead with the same. purpose with ground

ability to rockets into israeli territory to an extent to a level of force a degree of force that they were not able to do previously before. now according to the israeli defense ministry it says it's limited to ninety percent of hamas' military capabilities of the same time the i.d.f. chief is reportedly ordered the army to increase the pace of strikes on gaza we've been selling seeing the swelling of troops on the gaza border now understand seventy five thousand reservists troops have been called up as well it would appear that a ground invasion is next on the cards you're in gaza what are you seeing what are you hearing. well we've heard very mixed bits of analysis over the last twenty four hours in particular last six hours we've got a ground invasion the streets here is generally it's like a ghost strip of land like ghosts people are still further violence further damage and people are trying to stop food and fuel exactly as has been going on the last few days since the operation started people here still feel overworked as they fear ground reoccupation of the gaza strip with time and commandos and so people are preparing for it but we have heard mixed rhetoric fr

gaza while some israeli officials believe all those civilian deaths are justifiable collateral damage and see how an israeli defense ministry spokesman commented on the growing number of palestinian children dying on our website. the graphic footage in gaza of dead children do you maintain that their deaths. of israeli israeli airstrikes are the fault of hamas. so i can tell you genuinely generally breaks my heart you think that we want to see dead children on any side who are in this predicament that however with the most strategically surgical precision pinpoint strikes when they're hiding beneath their civilian population there will be collateral damage. meanwhile hamas blames israel forestalling peace talks in cairo hopes that a cease fire agreements was a matter of hours were earlier aquash by israel's demand for more time to respond to proposals or brings us the details. the chances for ceasefire are increasingly elusive it's a far cry today wednesday what we witnessed from late tuesday when we were hearing that a cease fire was imminent at that stage a key hamas spokesperson said that the announcement would be made but now what we're hearing from hamas is that

was bitterly here and also my colleague bill doughty interviewed the israeli defense ministry spokesman about of a judge when he gave no clear explanation as to why civilians are constantly being killed in what he calls highly precise bombings. but when hamas are hiding rockets beneath mosques and hiding rockets and missiles within school yards and firing rockets actually next to the very hotel where most of the foreign correspondents are staying you just have to look at all the reports coming out across the world today unfortunately it's a very very difficult predicament and that's why the israeli government uses the most precise munitions is why the israeli army since flies out to the population even before we conduct these precision strikes a lot of minimize civilian what those precise munitions are doing to the people of gaza we want to speak to several girls insist the civilians who are suffering in this bombing campaign the moment here's what they had to say let's have a listen and then the civilian population here is going to every house there are about twenty people until quarter to six

the latest information i have, from the israeli defense ministry as of saturday, in the preceding three days they is taken 737 rockets fired at israel, 245 were intercepted so 400 actually landed, they got through the iron dome. that doesn't seem like a very high interception rate, i would say it is a failure. what about you? >>guest: i would not say that. here is the problem with iron dome. it is great technology and it has done a good job but there is not enough of the batteries. there are only five of them, and israel needs much more. not only in the south where rockets are fired out of gaza each day but for the north where hezbollah has some 40,000 to 50,000 rockets aimed at israel. israel needs more iron domes. >>stuart: can they get them? >>guest: they need them fast. what we have in gaza is i believe the beginning of a much larger regional war where iran is going to be involved, so, yes, israel needs more of iron dome and congress here in the united states is working to transfer funds to israel to build more of the anti-missle batteries. >>stuart: here is what i hear from k.t. mc

something that has been going on that i don't think has got an ton of coverage, is how the israeli defense ministry is using twitter to sort of talk about what they are doing. max fisher writing in "the washington post" -- skeptics particularly in the arab countries surrounding israel have seemed to consider the tweets posts overly triumphant or insensitive. the less pressure he feels from anti-israeli activists a s musl brother hood factions the better israel is likely to be served. we have tweets focusing on those who have been assassinated, quote/unquote eliminated. here's one that says since the start of operation pillar of defense the idf has targeted 1,350 terror sites through the gaza strip. we talk about the new age of war and the idea that not only are you having a live tweeting -- live twitter stream of what you're doing but what kind of message that sends in terms of your engagement and whether it's, perhaps, to as "the washington post" says, to triumphant? >> alex, i can't think of the new age of war when you're witnessing an age-old struggle here. for the sake of the children on both s

israeli defense ministry spokesman josh. joining me there in tel aviv now your bombing of gaza is aimed at killing militants but an increasing number of civilians are dying why is this when you have weaponry and intelligence at your disposal. well let's be clear object is not just to kill hamas militants in fact we have a number of strategic objectives we have to take out these mass storage facilities of long range missiles that can now cover over half of israel's population we don't think that any country in the world would take a situation would tolerate a situation whereby in the last decade over a million of our citizens have been under constant rocket fire from the hamas regime now let me point out that recently i must have made a decision to actually escalate the situation which led us to take the decision that it was time we took out the leader of the hamas military wing. and immediately conduct a pinpoint strategic strike on these long range project missiles we can hit all across israel pinpoint strategic missiles that are actually killing civilians i've spoken to eyewitnesses in guards on this very challenge the las

2000 targeted airstrike, israeli defense ministry confirming 19 hamas senior come centers, and 30 op practicetives, and funnelling tunnels were destroyed much operation pillar of defense lasting 8 days, and conflict coming to an end for the time being, a ceasefire com commencig just a few hours ago that the prime minister be benjamin thate nat warns needenetanyahu warnin. >> the army is ready when needed. the state of israel has to try to achieve a ceasefire which will be continuous. >> tha netanyahu added he agreeo give the ceasefire a chant after speaking with president obama. secretary of state clinton announced the ceasefire at a joint press conference with the egyption foreign minister, secretary clinton praised egyptian president, and muslim brotherhood member morsi for brokering the mosque. that is considered a terrorist organization by the u.s. government, of course. >> i want to thank president morsi for his leadership in ending the violent, this is a critical moment for the region. egypt a new government is assuming the responsibility and leadership that has long made this country a cornerstone of regional stabilitiy it peace. lou: the ceasefire hour

of gaza in its grip. on air and online we have the latest from the middle east at r.t. dot com now more reaction quoting an israeli defense ministry spokesman who says hamas is solely to blame for civilian deaths on both sides. the graphic footage in gaza of dead children to maintain their deaths at the hands of israel and israeli airstrikes on the fold of hamas. i can tell you genuinely genuine breaks my heart you think that we want to see dead children on any side who are in this predicament that however with the most strategically surgical precision pinpoint strikes when they're hiding beneath this of indian population there will be collateral damage. also i have for you this hour avoiding past mistakes syria's opposition coalition is one step away from full recognition by the u.s. and the e.u. as they wait and see the blog deserves complete backing. as case families struggle to heat their homes their spawn comfort from power giants still dreaming profits from soaring energy bills all that and more after a short break. closures that so much have been told there's a huge decision on the market the carnage used in gaza and israel

of the story perry fear for r.t. gaza and earlier this week my colleague kevin owen interviewed an israeli official who placed all the blame for the civilian deaths on hamas. the israeli defense ministry who i represent and indeed israeli public mourning civilian deaths on both sides i've seen it running around the south from bomb shelter to bomb shelter dodging rockets hearing the cries of israeli civilians and the cries in the wells of the air raid siren when we see the graphic footage of dead children being pulled out and dug out of collapsed buildings to maintain their deaths at the hands of israel and israeli air strikes are the fault of mass. i can tell you genuinely generally breaks my heart you think that we want to see dead children on any side as i said we mourn every loss of life hamas on the other hand celebrating and they are putting their own civilians in danger i cannot tell you how much we desire quiet how much we desire true peace and calm in this region when we facing an enemy that is guilty of a double war crime whereby they hotly to own civilians who are shooting at our civilians for over a decade now we are in this predicament that however with the most strategica

talked to a spokesperson for the israeli ministry of the fans josh hammond and he said mom is the only party to blame for civilian deaths on both sides. the israeli defense ministry who i represent and indeed the israeli public mourning civilian deaths on both sides i've seen it agree running around the so from bomb shelter to bomb shelter dodging rockets hearing the cries of israeli civilians and the cries in the wells of the air raid sirens when we see the graphic footage in gaza of dead children the hands of israeli israeli air strikes are the fold of hamas. so i can tell you they genuinely generally breaks my heart you think that we want to see dead children on any side as i said we mourn every loss of life hamas on the other hand a celebrating and they're putting their own civilians in danger who are in this predicament that however with the most strategically surgical precision pinpoint strikes when they're hiding beneath their civilian population there will be collateral damage meanwhile hamas blames israel forestalling peace talks in cairo hopes that a cease fire agreement was a matter of hours were earlier qua by israel's demand for more time to

of the country's defense ministry. in the nation's budget decision. plus a close call for iran as an israeli documentary reveals how tel aviv was. back in two thousand and ten. greece has been brought to a standstill by general strikes on the second day of what's been called devil's week we could public protest of the new austerity package about to be voted on by parliament. is in the center of athens. well the forty eight hour general strike is well and truly underway here in greece only seems thousands of people coming out onto the streets of athens to voice their anger against the latest round of austerity measures that's being put forward by prime ministers so maurice now that will be voted on a in parliament on whedon's stay it's around so seem point five billion euros worth of savings those savings taking the form of of budget cuts also of tax rises also we expect to see the the age of retirement rice and pensions cuts all of these things angering the people of greece and seeing them out on the streets to demonstrate against it now it's more than likely that that latest round of auster

once again i'm not a spokesperson for the ministry the goal of this operation pillar of defense is divided to two the first part is to defend the israeli population three and a half million israelis under current rocket danger for the past decade the second part is to make sure these terror going to. are getting a very severe blow for the arsenals for the huge amounts of rockets launchers launching sites so we can leave peacefully and quietly just like any other country in the in the world you make a very persuasive argument but of course what the international community is really concerned about now is the increasing number of civilian deaths now last night i spoke with one of your colleagues and he claimed that hamas is actually rounding up civilians to shield targets you're about to bomb now now how can a mass possibly know your exact targets and respond quickly enough. hamas is targeting only israeli cities you're more than welcome to spend just two hours in one of the biggest israeli cities that were targeted for the past two years either beer sheva or ashkelon which dog each of these cities have more than two hundred thousand peo

the israeli defense forces are going after militants would you care to explain why the palestinian interior ministry has also been targeted in fact that building is basically left in a state of rubble and ruin that's hardly a militant stronghold in fact the interior ministry is where people get passports visas it's where journalists get their permission to go into the strip why go after why level the interior ministry. the explanation is very simple unfortunately must terrorists while they target our civilians they hide behind their civilians they hide behind schools they fire next to schools they fire next to houses now the idea if our army that wants only to defend our citizens targets only terrorists and we call upon every civilians in gaza not to be around the terrorists and then you will not be hurt and then we call upon the terrorists not to use civilians and not to target our silence and you are saying you know terrorists are saying that terrorists are using civilian cigars it is an extremely confined area a very small area probably certainly overpopulated why are so many children being killed by israeli air strikes if you are going after militants. there are no child

he was, of course, a part of the special forces unit in the israeli military. he is someone who led the defense ministry for a very long time, and he was also very close to benjamin netanyahu, not only on the military policies towards gaza, but also, of course, towards iran, which was, of course, the major issue in the past couple of months really before the gaza offensive happened. if you look at public opinion polls here in israel, it's certainly not the case that people believe that the military effort in the gaza operation was futile in any way, shape, or form. in fact, most people believe that it should have gone on longer than it actually did. there were a lot of people who wanted to expand the air campaign. there were people who are for a ground invasion, but certainly there are very few people who believe that some form of military intervention in gaza was needed, so it certainly isn't that ehud barack would believe that israel's military policies were in any way futile, suzanne. >> fred, real quick. we spent a lot of time together last week as these rockets were being fired back and forth. ther

of the country's defense ministry made allegations that embezzlement has left a one hundred million dollar hole in the nation's budget about not decision online . plus a close call for iran as an israeli documentary reveals how it was all set to strike terror on the back in two thousand and ten that story. israel has announced plans to build over a thousand new homes in the occupied west bank the international community has condemned to the settlement policy saying they violate international law but the jewish state feel safe under the us some bread of which will remain whoever becomes the next president that's a view of jeff he's the head of the israeli committee against house demolitions it's true the international community opposes israeli policies but it won't do anything to say israel israel knows and it knows it whether obama is elected or romney is elected it's trump card is the american congress support that israel has from both political parties and it doesn't care anymore it will do this in the light of day israel has eliminated the two state solution as it's called it's completely imprisoning the palestinians and no one in the world is going to speak up against it so it doe

defense ministry there. hamas leaders praised that bombing calling it a natural response to israeli massacres in gaza. in gaza, however, people took to the streets in celebration of that explosion in israel. the white house condemning the bus bombing, going on record saying that the u.s. will stand with its israeli allies. joining me from cairo, nbc news correspondent jim maceda. jim, explain to all of us the reaction to secretary clinton's visit to the region and the impact that her presence has brought to the negotiations for a cease-fire. >> reporter: first, the reaction has been one of anxiety, anticipation, and of deep hope that secretary of state hillary clinton can now broker or help to broke err deal. they certainly don't want war right next door. many are asking where america has been for these past eight or so years. i think the overall feeling is one of anticipation, that something hopefully now can move forward. in terms of her impact today, she's met already with president morsi. she's also wrapping up a meeting with the foreign minister and we understand at the press conference she's supposed to give has not started yet. but i can guarantee you that