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fire from rockets. the only advantage we have on this side is we get the warning sirens sometimes. in the palestinians under threat from the israel air force don't have warning sirens. there's an element of danger. this is war and there's no question about that. while in some ways it's made to look surgical when you see the bombs coming in, laser guided, unfortunately civilians die on both sides. the rockets don't care what they hit. they enjoy hitting civilians and the jailers are -- israelis say they're trying to avoid hitting civilians. the casualties are inevitable. >> leland vitter with great sacrifice bringing us the story on the ground. stay safe. >> israel strikes targeting more than 1,000 terrorist targets in the nasdaq strip. gaza militants firing 500 rockets into israel territory and several hundred shot down by the iron dome defense system. it works by calculating each rocket's trajectory in the air and firing missiles to intercept only the rockets in midair shown through sensors and missile

they switched to rockets. the rockets don't work, they'll switch to something else.what's needed is a political solution. >> reporter: long term, not just the immediate cease-fire. ben wedeman, appreciate it, bob baer, barbara starr. when we come back, what we're seeing on the israeli side of the border. our coverage continues. >> announcer: 'tis the season of more-- more shopping, more dining out... and along with it, more identity theft. by the time this holiday season is over, an estimated 1.2 million identities >>> this is charles hodson in london. updating a story we brought you a short time ago. an israeli police spokesman has told cnn that there was an attack in tel aviv. the attacker slightly injured the embassy guard with an ax. he was also in possession with a knife. contrary to earlier reports which we quoted from reuters news agency, the police spokesman says that the attacker did not have a gun. so no shots but an ax attack instead. and the attacker has been arrested. viewers to cnn in the united states proactive to protect yourself from crime, and that'

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there's another rocket right now. to get out of here. >> israel's iron dome missile defense system has knocked down scores of rockets, but life in israel is far from normal. here again is fred. >> don, there was a lot going on in the area today, especially a lot of air alarms going on. in fact, we woke up early this morning and the first thing we saw waw a rocket had hit indowntown. we moved to the scene of the first air strike. there was another air alarm while we were there, we had to take cover, and it continues exactly that way. the israeli government says there were at least 120 rockets fired out of gaza into this area in israel throughout the day. one of the things the israelis have here is the iron dome missile defense system. i was on the scene of one of the missile defense batteries and it was in action the entire time. you could hear it fire off rockets, see it fire off rockets, and there was one instance that i remember where we were actually taking cover from a possible rocket strike, and we could see it i

we can defend ourselves and we can use our military to silence those rockets, to prevent those rocketswe prefer a diplomatic solution. and the diplomatic ball is in play. the two leaders, my prime minister and secretary clinton are meeting now as we speak. she's going obviously to egypt tomorrow to continue talks there. i hope that this diplomatic path brings fruit that we do get the peace and quiet that we want. we'll see. either way, we'll give a certain amount of time for this diplomacy. we hope it can work. we prefer the diplomacy succeed. but israel will not sit be idly. >> you're not ruling out a ground invasion by israeli forces, tanks, armored tender nel carriers, thousands of troops into gaza? is that what i'm hear sng. >> without going to the details of a possible military operation, i want to say the following, we prefer a diplomatic solution if it's possible to create a long-term period of quiet for israeli civilians in the south. we would prefer that. that's our first option. but if that appears not to be a real option, of course we will use other means to bring peace and

you could hear it fire off rockets, see it fire off rock rockets.instance where we were actually taking cover from a possible rocket strike and we could see it intercept seven or eight rockets at once, only about 200 yards above our heads. now of course, all of this is taking a heavy toll on the population that lives in this area here. especially in the town of ashkelon. the people here are concerned. they are trying to leave their houses as little as possible, venture out as little as possible. and also keep their children inside. it is also something taking a psychological toll. of course, especially on the littlest ones. the mayor of ashkelon told me a couple of days ago that he believes that commerce here in this town is down by about 80%. and you can see that. the streets are absolutely empty here in the evenings. normally people go out at night. they go to bars. they have their beer in the open. now of course, that is not having at all. the people that we're speaking to here say yes, they support the military operation that's going on, but the

rockets throughout the day being fired toward israel, a number of those rockets have been interceptedisraeli strikes on targets here in gaza city. most notably several hours ago. the media center building, which is four blocks behind me, you can't see it now in the darkness, was hit by three israeli missiles that slammed into the lower floor, one of the lower floors of the building from different directions. we actually witnessed the initial impacts and i should point out, right now we just heard another explosion off in the distance, not a very loud one. you probably didn't pick it up on the camera, but now that darkness has fallen, we anticipate this is generally when the number of explosions, the number of attacks seems to go up. that's the way it has been for the last six days since this conflict has escalated. the attack on what turned out to be the media center was actually the second attack we saw on that building on sunday. there had been -- the israeli defense forces say they targeted a hamas an ten why tenna on tha building. one member of islamic jihad was killed in this str

this is a rocket, you can tell by the fins that pop out when the rocket gets launched. whereas this is one of the homemade qassam rocket. >> he and his crew were forced to take cover a number of times. one american diplomat who understands what it took to negotiate the cease-fire and what it will take to maintain it. is george mitchell, special envoy from 2009-2011. he is schooled in the opposing viewpoints, and also in '99, chaired the committee to help with the agreements there. and i spoke to him about the difficulties that lie ahead. senator mitchell, how optimistic are you that this cease-fire can hold, and what would be the next steps in ensuring that it holds? >> well, it is critically important, the longer it goes on, with fighting and dying, the harder it is to solve any problem. on the other hand, past experience tells us it will be difficult to have a truly enforceable truce that will take hold over a longer period of time. they have been through it many times. but i think there is a recognition that both sides's interests can be at stake, the underlying issu

still getting rockets.refore, the goal of the operation is still to continue and defend the people of israel and also to target those terror organizations. >> the israeli cabinet is meeting right now, supposedly considering a cease-fire proposal that's come via the egyptians. what can you tell us about that? >> nothing right now. we are waiting for the orders from the political echelon. but the operation is still continuing, as far as we are concerned. for example, we targeted a couple of hours ago a stadium. it was an open soccer stadium. but also one that hosted launchers, launchers of ojer 5 underground -- >> these are the ones that threaten tel aviv and jerusalem. but i was under the impression almost all of them had been destroyed already? >> it's true. but still they have some rockets of this type. we see that they have difficulties to launch them nowadays and therefore they still use the grads, which was approximately 40 kilometers. >> what is your estimate? how many more of these missiles and rocket

on our civilians from schools from hospitals they hide the rockets in hospitals in schools we see that the fire rockets from apartments of buildings so if we do not want civilians in gaza to be hurt we call upon civilians and we do it before every strike we call upon civilians they will not be around the terrorists but they will not let the terrorists to use them to use their houses to use this schools so believe me we do know that civilians but hamas targets civilians they see a victory in hurting civilians we're really sorry for any casualty but if hamas doesn't want casualties in gaza stop firing rockets in stop hiding in using their own severely. but alex i mean you say they are targeting terrorists how do you legitimize that statement when the democratically elected leadership is hamas and when that make all public areas hamas affiliated where people supposed to go to me it seems like it's just a way to justify bombing any building in sight and say well they should have known better so why people let the terrorists use them why people let the terrorists use their houses for rocket

hundreds of rockets have been far from gaza since wednesday. people have been leaving promised to seek refuge in shelters. even hospitals are moving their patients. israel has started drafting in the thousands of reserve troops. the tipton prime minister on the left was welcomed by his hamas counterpart. lasted qandil's visit fro three hours, but that's longer than the cease-fire. two more dead bodies came into the hospital as he was there. >> israel's operation was a disaster. egypt cannot remain silent. >> israeli air strikes are ongoing. israel says in response to continued palestinian rocket fire. there's no end to the violence in sight. jon tumilson, bbc news, gaza. -- jon donnison reporting. >> despite hopes that there might be a brief cease-fire from the egyptian prime minister when he came to visit today, but did not happen. >> no. there was meant to be a three- hour truce. both sides accuse the other of breaking that. hamas rockets being fired towards southern israel and militants in gaza say that israel launched attacks against the ga

and we've seen much more sophisticated rockets in this conflict, rockets, as you know, that have been able to reach the outskirts of jerusalem, reach tel-aviv as well. >> anderson cooper reporting live from gaza city. we're going to take a short break. we'll be back with much more. not the taxes on our dividends though, right? that's a big part of our retirement. oh, no, it's dividends, too. the rate on our dividends would more than double. but we depend on our dividends to help pay our bills. we worked hard to save. well, the president and congress have got to work together to stop this dividend tax hike. before it's too late. to get our adt security system. and one really big reason -- the house next door. our neighbor's house was broken into. luckily, her family wasn't there, but what if this happened here? what if our girls were home? and since we can't monitor everything 24/7, we got someone who could. adt. [ male announcer ] while some companies are new to home security, adt has been helping to save lives for over 135 years. we have more monitoring centers, more of tomorrow's te

this one is a rocket that you can tell when the rocket gets launched. you can tell the fins are welded on. that was russ plenkin. an american bip ldiplomate is f maine senator george mitchell. he was senator from 2009 to 2011. he served as peace negotiations. i spoke to him about the difficulties that lie ahead. how optimistic are you that this cease fire can hold? well, it is a big step formed because the violence has ended. on the other hand, past experience tells us it will be difficult to have an enforce ab abletruce that takes place over a long period of time. >> both sides interest can be served by stopping the violence on the issues on both. >> in terms of the larger peace agreement, how complicated does it become? and also involvement of other groups. >> very complicated. by far and away the most complicated situation that i have been involved in. it makes it difficult. in fact both societies are divided. and, the arab spring has created a new dynamic in the region. which can be harnessed for the benefit in moving forward which could provide som

these are these rocket strikes near tel aviv there are other reports of rockets landing near a hotel in the south of israel a lot of sirens going off there as well all of this a dashing hopes are least reducing the hopes of the possible mission of egypt's prime minister to try and broker a cease fire we hear that tune is us foreign minister is also on the way to guard in a mission of solidarity as well as that disappointing possible failure of those cease fire talks also re ratcheting up the pressure and perhaps pushing israel towards that much feared ground invasion rather like two thousand and eight to nine operation cast lead it was called back then that led to nearly one and a half thousand deaths inside the gaza strip as israeli troops and tanks entered that territory there was a shortly after that the u.n. came out with a goldstone report illegibly putting war crimes against israel for that offensive so we'll see how it plays out are to tell of you thank you. but israel does maintain it's conducting a successful operation despite the rising number of civilian casualties in gaza

they said that, yes, they did launch rockets or a rocket at jerusalem and i can tell you from the people that i have been speaking to on the ground here, they were absolutely terrified of what's going on. as you said, this is something so uncommon here in the city, the last time this place was hit by rockets was in the 1970s and there was rocket alarms here or air radia larms in the 1990 gulf war but the people are not used to it. if you look at the people around gaza and the israeli cities there they have in a common place and the people here i would say somewhat in a mode of panic and now as i said the rocket appears to have hit an empty field and certainly what we can say is that it appears as though both sides in this conflict are upping the ante and not taking their foot off the gas. this conflict is escalating rather than deescalating >> i want to correct. i said there were three israeli soldiers killed. they apparently were injured and not killed. do you have any updates on the numbers who have been killed or injured in just the last few days of fighting? >> we have 24 palestinian

no rockets, no targeting our cities with rockets anymore. that's finished. no shooting across the border not at our farmers, policeman, soldiers posted on our side of the frontier. in other words, the total end of all hostile activity in gaza against israel. >> and what is your commitment as part of this agreement to hamas? >> it's very simple. if there's no violence from gaza towards israel, we don't have to respond. but that's not a problem for us. that's not even a concession. we've always said if it's quiet, we have no reason to act to protect ourselves. >> will you take steps though to improve the condition of the palestinians in gaza? >> of course. you know, the people of gaza are not our enemies. our enemies are those people who shoot rockets at us. that's the hamas people, that's the other terrorist groups. the people in gaza are in many ways victims of this terrible authoritarian regime. we can work with aid organizations today to facilitate badly needed medical and food stuffs and so forth for gaza. and as we work with the egyptians, we can talk al

in october, anderson, there was another flare-up, rockets coming over, more than 80 rockets coming over into israel and there was a peace deal or cessation brokered by egypt, similar scenario, not as public, but behind the scenes, egypt got involved, and things calmed down and here we are again in november, seeing this, although it ratcheted up to an alarming degree to a lot of people. i got off the phone with a senior israeli official who said, there is great optimism in his mind that they're seeing egypt do something they weren't sure they could count on. when mubarak regime is in place, they were able to count on them to at least be the intermediary. they're worried the new government, the fact that it is the muslim brotherhood, that's someone that hamas has real connection with, that may be a difference in the way that egypt acted. and they're very happy to see egypt coming in between and accepting being really the keeper of this truce, of the cease-fire. so some optimism there, despite the fact that we did see rockets come over just before and the air strike in gaza. >> the next ho

for instance, this one is apparently a grab rocket.u can tell by the fins that pop out when the rocket gets launched. whereas this one here is one of those homemade kassam rockets made in a workshop in gaza. you can tell because the fins are welded on in a rudimentary way. >> that was cnn's fred pleitgen. he and his crew were forced to take cover a number of times. one american diplomat who understand the difficulty what it took to negotiate the cease-fire and what it's going to take to maintain it, former senator george mitchell. he was president obama's special envoy to the middle east from 2009 to 2011. mitchell held the post of senate majority leader, schooled in the art of negotiating. and in 1990s, he served as chair of peace negotiations in northern ireland that led to the successful good friday peace agreement. i spoke to him earlier about today's developments in the middle east and the difficulties that definitely lie ahead. senator mitchell, how optimistic are you that this cease-fire can hold and what would the next steps be

that means the rockets stop. because if the rockets carry on, the israeli air strikes will carry on and what happens as we've seen is that in that, there will be innocent israeli civilians killed, innocent palestinian civilians killed. >> here at the united nations, there was an emergency meeting of the security council late last night. you won't be surprised to hear no action was agreed upon. shep. >> shep: in the middle of all of this, it's a very unstable and frankly, unpredictable egypt. and it could be the key. >> yeah. egypt is absolutely a key player in this. right now it's new muslim brotherhood president, morsi, appears to be playing both sides. he has reportedly quietly given the green light to his intelligence services to put pressure on hamas to scale back on those rocket attacks, while publicly he is sending his prime minister to the gaza strip tomorrow in what will clearly be a show of solidarity with the palestinians. now, the egyptian calculation may be that by having their prime minister there, t

they've gone after the rockets, after the rocket launchers and now they're sort of moving into another phase of the oranges and they say they are he' going after the homes of some of the militants and today they-- a newly installed hamas commander, and the person assassinated was replacing jabry, killed last wednesday by the israelis and now his replacement has also been killed and israelis today also went after communications facilities, used by the militants in gaza and they hit a media center that was also used by journalists and reports as many as six journalists were wounded and israel is also saying that it went off the master find of rocket technology, the palestinians say though, when they hit this home in particular, 11 civilians were killed, including five women and four children. and so, the israelis still have plenty of targets to go after and in addition to their military goals, the propaganda war begins. israel today, harris, took over a palestinian radio frequency and they delivered a message to the palestinian people telling them essentially, stay away from terrorist si

when the rocket moves away, but every three minutes when the rocket's approaching.ply this to time dilation. if the ship passes by the earth and moves away at the same high speed for one hour and quickly turns around and then returns in one hour, rocket ship time, this 2-hour trip is seen by the earth as taking place not in 2 hours, but in 2 1/2 hours. and this is because the ship and the earth have been in completely different realms of time. let's look at this in greater detail. suppose that when the ship goes by the earth, that clocks on earth and on the ship are synchronized to 12:00 noon. then, as the rocket leaves the earth, a flash of light is emitted by the ship every six minutes. that's six minutes rocket time. then the ship emits 10 of the 6-minute flashes while going away from the earth. the 10th flash is gonna be emitted 60 minutes after leaving the earth. then the ship's clock is gonna read 1:00, just when this 10th flash is emitted. now, suppose this is the moment that the ship turns around. our earth observers don't see the turnaround until they see t

we can see rockets just about 15, 20 minutes ago we saw another set of rockets come in.ooks like it is landing somewhere either near ashkelon or ashdod, the cities in southern israel so close to the border. we're still seeing that. i think everyone is hearing about this talk of the potential of a cease-fire, at least a quieting down, a 24-hour quiet period, but then they see the rockets and then they hear the blasts there, the air strikes there in gauze why and that sort of hope drains from people there are a lot of residents on both sides who they really want to see this calm down, but what they really want ultimately is something that is going to be a permanent solution. and that permanent solution just hasn't come for so long. to see this ratchet up like this, and hear about the talk of potential cease-fire, and then to see the rockets coming and then hear about the air strikes there in gaza, it is frustrating to a lot of residents who have been through a lot on both sides of the border. >> are you hearing anything from people about expectations now that hillary clint

this is a grab rocket, you can tell by the fines that pop out when the rockets get launched this onee of the home made kassam rockets. you can tell, the fins are welded on in a rudimentary way. >> before the cease-fire, he and his crew, forced to take cover a number of times. one american diplomat who understand the difficulty what it took to negotiate the cease-fire and what it's going to take to maintain it, former senator george mitchell. special envoy to the middle east from 2009 to 2011. mitchell held the post of senate majority leader, schooled in the art of negotiating. and in 1990s, he served as chair of peace negotiations in northern ireland that led to the successful good friday peace agreement. i spoke to him about the difficulties that lie ahead. how optimistic are that you this cease-fire can hold, and what would the next steps be? assuming it does hold? >> it's a big step forward, the violence has ended, and that's critically important, the longer it goes on with more fighting and dying, the hard ter er it i solve any problem. it will be difficult to have a really enfor

here in israel, rocket days.ket that came through the concrete roof of a major school here. high school. through here and embedded itself there in the ground. this is a bench where students would normally sit. we could see it's peppered with shrapnel. [ sirens ] okay, got sirens going. we're going keep going. this area was hit once before. we are going to keep moving. grab this. coming this way. we are getting inside. this is where israeli students would be hiding if, of course, they had been in school. today was rocket day. we just heard the explosions overhead. and that was really close. we literally just got to scene of the rockets that you heard inside the bomb shelter. this is what a rocket did to a concrete block walkway. you imagine what it would have done to any person who was standing out here. these are the ultimate in citizen soldiers. many of these are engineers or account tants who have now been called up. they are using every spare minute they can before the go order is given to practice through the

but the rocket ship doesn't wait there. the rocket ship travels up here. so that three-minute flash is gonna be stretched out a little bit. do you see that? so the flashes will be seen less frequently, same speed, but less frequently. difference now, okay? let's pretend that the rocket ship travels so fast that the rocket ship sees the flashes six minutes apart. can we see that that could be the case? okay, so the rocket ship sees them six minutes apart. it's like when you're listening to sound: neeeh... now you travel away from it, neaaaah... that kind of goes down, right? the pitch goes down. here's sort of that pitch is going down, the frequency at which you see those flashes goes down if you move away. this is called the doppler effect, okay? so this person sees them every six minutes. now we're gonna invoke einstein's first postulate: that all light is seen to travel at the same speed by all observers. what the ship does is every time it receives a flash, it's got its own little beacon here and it emits a flash and it directs those flashes to this obs

but the rocket aim for tel aviv was intercepted. cnn's cedrick prankins was where air raid sirens went off. one sounded when i was on the air with cnn international anchor colleen mcedwards. here's what happened. >> reporter: the crews working on the ground and that seems to indeed be part of all of the rocket that has handed here. people here spend most of their days indoors -- there is another attack. there's another rocket alert going on right now. we've got to get out of here. >> okay, go, fred. there you see it, a strike in ashca lan, just a short time ago, we're seeing pictures there, we've got the pictures you up as fred and our camera crew get out of the way. the sirens sounding again in ashcalan, a sign that another strike is coming. can we listen here? >> reporter: now we have the impact. colleen, we can stay on. >> we're with you. >> reporter: you still there? >> yes, we're with you. go ahead. >> reporter: okay. colleen, basically what just happened is the air sirens went off, and we then ran to a -- sort of a shelter we

militants fired at least three voyles of rockets. overhead we can see the iron dome missile defense system doing its job. there were no injuries. the israeli military is keeping up pressure on the militants in gaza. just a few hours ago, there were a number of air strikes among the targets, according to our producer on the ground, a bank with ties to hamas. we're also getting information that a building linked to hamas security services was also hit. in the last few hours we were told that there were five injuries on the ground in gaza. lastly, shawn, worth noting today, there were no rockets targeting tel aviv. the reason for this not clear. thertheir arsenal of these longr range rockets might be depleted or they might be saving them up for a future escalation. back to you. >> all right, david. thanks. be safe there. joining me now is the author of the brand new book, and by the way, i couldn't put this down. heroes prove, host of war stories. lieutenant colonel oliver north. we'll get to that in a second. >> it's all there. >> let

achieve its proclaimed objectives of deterring the palestinians and eliminating their long range rocket capabilities ok harry and this will be a huge blow to yeah i mean harry what is the morale like i mean how are people reacting to this is a seventh day as we're doing this program. well yes in the last half an hour to an hour there have been effecting. operations across the gaza strip basically five manger population centers in the north of the gaza strip have been asked to evacuate of course this is basically what david cameron calls an open air prison so it's very difficult to understand where the i.d.f. expect hundreds of thousands of others flee. well as the other guest said this operation is never going to be successful for israel because that will always be palestinians who resist resistance and at the moment they say that they're capable of doing are sending these unguided missiles into israel so this is going to go on perpetually so it's very difficult to understand what israel's objective is other than just killing a load of palestinians would you like to respond to that and.

when that rocket hit.here had been 11 rockets in the last few minutes. we were just talking to mark regev. he was telling us about the prospects for piece. he's a spokesperson for the israeli government. and here's what he said. let me play that first. >> -- i'm not going to question his word but it's a little late given all -- >> i'm sorry, sir, forgive me. that's not it. here's what he told me a little bit earlier. he said the bottom line for us, the israelis is that we want peace and quiet. it has to stop. no government on this planet would sit by idly and see its civilian population targeted the way the israeli civilian population is being targeted. it has to end. what is the solution here? there's a hold right now, but it doesn't look like it's necessarily going to hold for very long. >> well, thank you so much for having me, soledad. to begin with, i think it's a great sign that secretary clinton is on her way to the area. i'm very confident that she will be able to have some influence on this and ca

rockets from its schools. so thought i'd like to again i promise you i would not answer the question based on israel's p.r. machine so this isn't the hamas is words i'd like to turn you to an interview by a hamas member of parliament back with five three hundred who said in two thousand and nine that we the hamas guys glorify death while the israelis glorify life he openly openly boasted about using human shields there were numerous you tube videos don't just look at the i.d.f. propaganda machine as you call it look at thousands of youtube videos where hamas nicks posted billions into the fire so they can shoot at israeli civilians with this protection this protection of human shields of their own civilians we value life and we mourn every single civilian lost on both sides i cannot emphasize that enough new look at the hamas response to the deaths in korea malaki the ones you conveniently forgot this week and they were celebrating the deaths on the israeli side. i want to go back to that. film the animated fi

because he saw children running around that rocket and that area and one of the rockets later hit outsidetel aviv. it is the price we pay for what we do. >> it is an awful price that the israeli people have to pay for the endless rockets fired at them and there's also an increasingly large number of women and children being killed in gaza too and there is a humanitarian aspect of this. and the problem has got to get fixed. this has been going on for years and years and years, and it seems to be completely insoluble to any politician. what is the way to break through this? the way to break through it is for the palestinians to accept a state of israel that is permanent and legitimate and to sit down us at the negotiating table to negotiate whether it be borders, refugees, security, recognition. that's the position of the government of israel and the position of the obama administration and it's the position of the european union and the quartet. it is not the position of hamas and the terrorists. they're dedicated to our destruction. >> ambassador, thank you very much for joininging me. >>

the biggest rocket fire actually happened south of here in a town that's frequently a target of rocketkets were fired from gaza. 13 were intercepted. three did come through and impacted on the ground there. in one rocket attack an israeli reserve soldier was wounded. he's been brought to hospital so far. other than that there are rocket attacks going on across the board. i would say, however, brooke, that the intensity is somewhat lower than in the past couple of days. another very interesting development that we're sort of monitoring on the ground here. is that in the past day and a half we haven't seen any various long range rocket attacks. if you'll recall a couple of days ago hamas rockets were fired towards targets in tel aviv, as well as even jerusalem. of course, those are very far-receiving rockets. those are not been fired in the past day and a half. that could point to possibly the weapons arsenal being somewhat depleted there in gaza, or maybe the israeli military having taken out most of those longer-range rockets. of course, one of the goals of the israeli military had was

sirens and explosions echo across televisa for the second time in twenty four hours the longest range rocket attacks yet all the details just ahead. britain considers the lifting of an e.u. arms embargo to send weapons to syrian rebels and may join france and turkey in recognizing the new opposition group aiming to oust assad. and police in england and wales raise the layoffs of a growing workload and no support from the government bring in the forces to an unprecedented. it's seven o'clock friday night here in moscow this is the with me will receive shiny fresh air strikes have killed more civilians in gaza despite israel's pledge to hold fire during a brief visit by the egyptian prime minister to the strip. and other militant groups are retaliating. have just gone off in jerusalem hamas reportedly claims it launched a rocket at the city of tel aviv's also come under rocket attack for the second time in twenty four hours with an iranian made missile again falling just shy of residential areas. in the city. again a very unexpected event these are the longest range rocket attacks that of ever

there was rocket fire going on, rockets over us intercepted by the iron dome.it the deck. over the past couple of days it's been pretty tough. you can imagine how it is, for instance, in you're a family with a child and you have to deal with this constantly. certainly, yeah, it is something that's very real, it not something out of the ordinary for the people here and it's certainly something that they have to find some routine to try to live with. >> i can only imagine how difficult that must be. please be safe. take care of yourself as well as the crew there. thank you, as always, for the excellent reporting that you do. more after the break. oh, let me guess --ou see this? more washington gridlock. no, it's worse -- look, our taxes are about to go up. not the taxes on our dividends though, right? that's a big part of our retirement. oh, no, it's dividends, too. the rate on our dividends would more than double. but we depend on our dividends to help pay our bills. we worked hard to save. well, the president and congress have got to work together to stop this

if the israel's deadly response to hamas rocket fire was justified. i think that seven hundred rockets a year launched from gaza into israel do not demand justification we have one million israelis which are under immediate danger and they have between fifteen and fifty seconds this more than justifies this operation we took this operation in order to defend the people of israel and can you confirm that you continue this operation with ground invasion. ground invasion is an option we currently have an operational assessment following the assessment will decide how to proceed. all the options are currently on the table what do you have to achieve by an invasion is it's going to provoke a massive and just turned into a just kind of more violence and death well since hamas encouraged the firing of the rockets into israel don't you think it's a bit late for that i mean we are here. to feel our defense operation in order to protect the three million israelis that are almost under this rocket fire we currently are continuing the operation a few hours ago we