i want to show you a tweet by jonathan miller who had this photo of journalists carrying wounded chinut of the hotel. it makes you wonder what the personal toll is on the journalists that have to see many things first hand. >> the ongoing crisis in israel and gaza strip compelled the neighbouring areas into what many feel is an endless cycle of violence. reporters try to encapsulate a complicated issue in a few minutes. what challenges do they have covering a contentious crisis. with much to say and little time to say it, what is missing from the conversation. joining us out of the gaza strip , is al jazeera america's nick schifrin, from beirut, rula, and hayden cooper, a correspondent for the australian broadcasting corporation. thank you for being here. there's a lot of coverage about what is happening in gaza, a lot can be lost in the big headlines. what are some of the compelling things about the situation that the think u.s. viewers should know? >> the most compelling thing for an american to under is look into the eyes of a child as he or she listens to a bomb. there's a lot of

these are employees of the bbc outside of their building with signs that say free aj staff, and jonathan miller with his colleagues in gaza writes 200 days in an egyptian jail for committing the crime of journalism. we also want to show you this video posted today. more than 100 employees gathered at their london offices. many of them held signs over their mouths with the words free aj staff, and in unio said journalism is not a crime. petitions have received tens of thousands of signatures. >> all right, marie y thank you so much. m marmaria ines ferre, i'm david david. for news updates around the world you can always head to www.aljazeera.com. thanks for watching. >> rupert murdoch aims to make his media empire even bigger with his eyes on an archrival. i'll tell what you time warner has that 21st century fox wants. and also southwest airlines is flying high. we'll talk to the man who is piloting the company about the recession, and all the fees that it's industry slaps on passengers. >>> and the key to safety. i'm calling it something else. let's see if you agree with

. >> and the uk's channel 4 team in gaza, jonathan miller says: >>> the activist group has been campaigningor the release of our producer mohamed fadel fahmy, an egyptian and canadian citizen and pulled together 47,000 citizens calling on the canadian prime minister steven harper to take urgent action. >> the executive director of the international press institute joins us from vienna. you would expect us here to be partisan to call for their release. why should the outside world be concerned? >> well, if you silence the voce of a journalist, you silence a community. that is really not part of democracy. that's not part of engaging the community in the political process. that is why it's important. that is why you have a lot of citizens - members of civil society, regular citizens joining in the international solidarity among media, to call for the release of the journalists. >> and yet there are many hundreds of thousands of people imprisoned for what they describe as their conscience. that is what happened to our three. they don't get the headlines, do they? >> no, they don't. unfortunate

and the uk's channel 4 us in team in gaza, jonathan miller says 200 days in an egyptian jail for committingrime of journalism. an activist group has been campaigning for the release of mohammed fahmy who is a canadian citizen. they are calling on the prime minister to take urgent public action. allison is the executive director of the international press institute, she says that dozens of journalists have been unfairly jailed across the world. >> if you silence the voice of a journalist, then you silence a community. and that is really not part of democracy or engaging the community and the political process. really important not just today, but every day to keep up the noise about the imprisoned journalists, and to send out tweets and facebook postings, et cetera, asking for the release of these journalists, and bringing it to the attention of the public at large. i like the tweet you read a little while ago, that said let my people go. exactly. let our people go, and don't forget, free -- hashtag freeajstaff. and retweet it. >>> china says it has ended its drilling operations near the dis

jonathan miller of independent television news filed this report from gaza. >> reporter: ten past four there were two almighty explosions. israeli shells had hit groin used by gaza city's fishermen. many of their boats have already been targeted and sunk. people emptied out onto the previously deserted street and rushed to help. it was then we learned that a third shell had killed children minutes later, just down the beach. two still grabs from c.c.t.v. appear to show the four boys playing football. and then the shell strikes. israel's pledge had been to hit hamas hard. at 1:30 a.m., three missiles from an f-16 slammed into the gaza city home of hamas super strongman mahmood zahar. in all, four hamas leaders' homes were destroyed overnight. none of them was killed. the debris here, now a dystopian children's playground. shortly after dawn, an israeli aircraft dropped leaflets on three neighborhoods, all were close to the israeli border. one was in shajia, a district in the east of gaza city. and here is one of those leaflets. the translation from the arabic goes, "for your own safety,

miller will be with us after the break. ♪ >> i'm caroline hyde. joined by jonathan ferro. new, let's talk about the u.k..ay we get inflation data. midnight.a is out at it is pretty poor. it surprised many analysts. what is your feeling, we still great guns for the u.k. economy? >> the cbi did as well has been interrupted by some very big increases. it tends to have a ripple effect. i think it takes a few months really before the bank of england and analysts really know what is happening. we know that unemployment has been coming down and in comes up instantly moving higher. that is been one of the biggest drivers of the economy going forward. is moving in a nice steady fashion. now that we are on it one way stop all the way to bank hike. it is really matter what happens. remaking slowdown, but we would have to cease of the rebate to stop that journey, right? >> think you're right. there's a diode effect when it comes to sterling. weak data does not have an impact. they carry on buying it. that is a problem the bank of england have a moment. that is why is trying to keep some restraint on the whole rate h