Rebel Group Takes Key DRC City
ANDERSON: Welcome to CNN. This is CONNECT THE WORLD with me, Becky Anderson. Seventeen minutes past 9:00 in London this evening. Now, a fragile truce between Israel and Hamas continues to hold along the border of Gaza. This despite reports that Israeli troops shot and killed a Palestinian man there on Friday. The fatality is the first since the cease-fire went into effect two days ago. Now, the Palestinian Authority's foreign minister spoke earlier, condemning the incident.</s>RIAD MALKI, PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY FOREIGN MINISTER: The fact that, you know, a Palestinian was killed and nine were injured, they were not really killed by friendly fire from the Palestinian side. They were killed by Israeli fire coming from across the border. So this is really a clear violation of the agreement that earlier was signed, and I hope that, you know, Egypt has really to be very clear, very strong when a violation like this when it happens, are not to be repeated again.</s>ANDERSON: Riad Malki there. Let's look at the other stories that are connecting our world tonight. The battle over the European Union budget ended without an agreement. Leaders have walked away from the two-day summit in Brussels, reaching -- without reaching a deal on the size or structure of the plan. Now, the meeting was supposed to finalize spending for 2014 to 2020, but with tough times at home, countries are divided on how much the block can afford to spend.</s>DAVID CAMERON, BRITISH PRIME MINISTER: We're not going to be tough on budgets at home just to come here and sign up to big increases in European spending. From a budget of nearly a trillion euros, it is simply not acceptable to carry on tinkering around the edges, shuffling chunks of money from one part of the budget to another. We need to cut unaffordable spending.</s>ANDERSON: Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad has appeared on television for the first time in two weeks. Syrian state TV had footage of President Assad meeting the chairman of the Iranian parliament in Damascus today. Meanwhile, across the country, 43 people were reported killed earlier, according to opposition sources. We'll have a little more on Syria shortly here on this show. Meanwhile, a rebel group in the Democratic Republic of Congo is still far from reaching the capital. It is, though pushing forward after successfully capturing several towns this week. The insurgents have taken control of the strategically important town of Sake, days after capturing the key city of Goma. CNN's David McKenzie reports on the most recent developments.</s>DAVID MCKENZIE, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Rebels in the eastern Congo are pushing onto new frontlines on Friday, both to the north and to the south, leading to fears of a wider war in this vast country in the center of Africa. The M23 rebel group took the key town of Sake on Friday from government forces and aligned militia. Thousands of civilians were seen fleeing, sometimes carrying all their possessions on their backs. Oxfam, the UK charity says that more than 100,000 people need humanitarian assistance in this crisis. Now, there is a move to try and solve the growing conflict at the negotiating table. The political boss of M23 has been summoned to Uganda to try and find a way to find peace, but international observers believe that because the U.N. peacekeeping force watched as M23 took the key city of Goma earlier this week, that they might be emboldened to push on, and they say they want to, quote, "liberate the entire of the country," and move all the way to Kinshasa, 1,000 miles away. David McKenzie, CNN, Nairobi, Kenya.</s>ANDERSON: Well, a jailed member of the Russian punk band Pussy Riot has been moved into solitary confinement at her own request. State media reporting Maria Alekhina asked for the move because of tensions with fellow inmates. Now, you'll remember she's serving a two-year prison sentence for performing an anti-Putin song in one of Moscow's main cathedrals. She and two other band members were found guilty of hooliganism and religious hatred following a highly publicized trial back in August. We are going to take a very short break on this show, but when we come back, the host of the 2014 World Cup decides a change is in order for their (inaudible) size. That coming up after this.