resume settlement building he spoke to rabbi andrew by who said no solution regarding a palestinian state can exclude israel and that to some it is on the right. robert andrew baker thank you very much for being with us today so we'll start with a question do you think is anti-semitism rising or is it falling well it's sort of hard to give a simple answer except i would say a decade ago we imagine anti-semitism was. diminishing and we had hoped it would be more of the historical issue than a contemporary one unfortunately i think over these last ten years we've seen something very different we have seen a resurgence of. in countries where we wouldn't have expected it in western europe

we've seen it over the last persisting in many other parts of the world so i think we've given more attention to it during these years it's still with us unfortunately what do you think some other factor driving to increase. well again i think it varies from country to country clearly one aspect that has emerged more recently has been the vents in the middle east the state of israel essentially triggering anti-semitic incidents in various places particularly in the west but we've also seen what some people would call a new form of anti-semitism and that's where the state of israel itself is the is brought into question is the clear to races state essentially where that itself becomes a new form of anti-semitism so you do think that they ongoing stalemates in the middle east is affecting. really well at the very least we can certainly

demonstrate that conflicts in the middle east may trigger anti-semitic events elsewhere and particularly in europe western. europe when you have growing arab and muslim communities they have become a source of anti-semitic incidents at least elements of those communities so that's clearly one aspect but then i think even in public discourse there is something about the state of israel that has engendered very antagonistic reactions that cross over from a point of being mere criticism and to become something else when i think israel continues settlement building people around the world actually sell for dislike sometimes even hate it because of that you know i wish it were so simple as saying the issue is only settlements no advocate of settlements but i think we're the middle east conflict has sparked a. spike in anti-semitism it off in rages people who have no

love for the state of israel in any for so to blame settlements to blame israel itself is almost akin to what had been a more traditional notion of blaming jews for it i said this of jews behave in this fashion in this fashion don't play people would say bring it on themselves of course we know it's anti semites that be a responsibility for anti-semitism not jews and in the same way israel is not response so it's holding jews collectively responsible for the actions of israel is considered anti-semitism why does israel want to sanctify character of the state well i think from the very beginning the notion of israel was to be a jewish state to be a jewish state but also a democratic state with full rights for all of its citizens jewish word no one jewish i think in all of the world to have one state that is infused by jewish

tradition and by the spirit of judaism is fitting and appropriate i mean many countries have established a church is. be a good church that the. descended in great britain but no one would suggest that. in the u.k. there is not. freedom and democracy. rights for all of its citizens personally. foreign ministers put off their decision to recognize palestine how does this set back your mission well i think personally i would say my view shared by many others is that palestinian state should come out of direct negotiations between the palestinian authority in the state of israel and i hope that happens at some point soon but i think that's the way the state of palestine should emerge not by. recognition or decree from outside. recently the an interior ministry official

denied the holocaust and he called her legend and this sort of case is what impact protecting the holocaust have. i think you mean laws that would prohibit holocaust denial and it's something that we're all concerned about in the case of lithuania in fact shortly after this official wrote this article was published. he lost his jaw they mean period when the. then with the way they had a very strong statement about this i think that's important that we never discuss and of denial the question of the holocaust emerges there should be a quick and swift response in some cases some countries have laws they can be employed sometimes they work many times they take a very long time before they are implemented or before a prosecution leads to a conviction so it's all the more reason that political leaders need to speak

quickly and strongly also not see commemorations were allowed to take countries over the past year. these are the countries who are members of the european union have made. this organization want to do more to fight anti-semitism in their membership but you know you you point to a very i think a very serious issue and a problem that really began in the early ninety's after the openness freedom reestablishment of democracy in these countries you did have in latvia for example former walk for the s.s. veterans parading in their uniforms and in those early years government officials perceive there and i think this has been very much part of the discussions even as these countries we see membership in nato before any new exception and i think it has been much progress i don't think in any case is the progress always complete but these groups do continue to march but they're not received by by governments

they're not really condemning they mean they they're not for or against it they don't come out condemning it well you know i don't i don't think that's really entirely so i think you need to look more carefully we had many. discussions for example with president lee to freiburg or during her term terms in office and i think she became a very strong voice both in recognizing the holocaust that took place in latvia the importance of commemorating it and of making sure that these kinds of groups yes they do more actually were. there not received. commended by the government leadership they do they do criticize them but let's be honest too there's a segment in the society where this still remains and this kind of populism that plays on that fascist era passed not only in the baltic states it's present in slovakia and remaining in other countries that had

a difficult history during the nazi era this is something we need to keep working but you do believe as of today politicians are showing enough. leadership on such a fundamental issue i don't think i could ever say they're showing enough leadership because i think there's always more that political leadership can do and unfortunately it's the nature of politics that in too many cases leaders are calculating what they say or do based on voting or support in their localities. calculations in their countries i think what we do find more and more is that leaders know the difference between what is right and what is wrong and the importance is to get them to speak clearly about what they already know so your concerns for the rise of online anti-semitism happen heard never recorded quite a thing is to blame the media is it is it the media that's irresponsible or the legislators failed to protect the society you know this is

a real challenge everywhere i think the last thing we want is to say somehow governments need to control media need to somehow prohibit wholesale this kind of expression but they really need needs to be concerted efforts to figure out how to control this kind of hatred that is spreading as you've identified particularly on the internet these days and that means engaging internet providers that means developing good practices that means of course working with media so they recognize the responsibilities they have here the fact that what is reported what is misreported can often have real consequences but i think the goal is to engage media the goal is to engage the companies that provide internet services to try and get them to be more responsible i think governments legislators need to do

what they can to enforce at least where there are clear violations of existing laws but it's something that everyone needs to really be a partner in to address. ultranationalist staged to rally just outside of kremlin recently what are your concerns for russia you know i think this was very troubling to to observe in fact and we've so even as i'm here in moscow mail. here again i think it's a challenge for the government and for leadership these kinds of voices we see in the hope parts of the room. the real test the real notion is how you dress them in the short term obviously it's been false to call the police put in the long term in washington is sit in the sense for it looks like america every heterogeneous multi cultural diverse society. in greece we've got a lot of problems i think it also brings with it a lot of benefits it makes life much more i think enriching and

full. and a society that can embrace its diversity with full rights for everyone and respect for everyone is strengthened by to me this is a long term challenge that russia faces i hope certainly there are people i meet they give me reason to hope that it will measure up to read by baker thank you very much for this thank you very much. chosen from among many. he was given a clear cut mission. a mission he successfully accomplished. became the first ever encountered space. in the

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like this i don't know if you'd rather go. on our t.v. . the latest headlines and the week's top stories here without seeing opposition demonstrations turned violent in belarus with clashes at parliament buildings as thousands take to the streets in protest against an apparent landslide victory for incumbent president an example of . a camera crew have been injured as riot police tackle crowds while two opposition presidential candidates have also been. ethnic tension between russian nationalists and groups from the caucuses forces to take preventive security measures to avoid a new wave of clashes hundreds have been detained over the last twenty four i was taking the total to three thousand in a week as a result of isolated clashes and the response so the city. no topic was off limits

says prime minister vladimir putin to the whole cd in a session with the public man justice were among the issues that came up and for a long discussion obviously. covered included social security police reform and property prices. can't europeans speak out against their government and the methods used to deal with their volatile economies the single currency is increasingly being seen their favorite of the problem this came as natural as leaders agreed to set up a permanent fund to rescue failing the euro zone economy. those are the headlines up next the latest sports news with kate. hello thank you for joining me for the sports update and here's what we have coming up iceland easy china one cup winners russia russia finland six to end the tournament on the. well so whether rafa under pressure coach benito's claims

his first trophy with internet taking two people to win the club world cup. and so near that yet so far fighting veteran bernard hopkins just misses out on becoming the oldest champion in boxing. that start with ice hockey there where russia have ended the china one cup in style yet as love because men secured the trophy with a victory over the czechs on saturday and finished the tournament by beating the finns sixteen to keep their one hundred percent record intact robots that onion reports. found celebrate as the toll free comes back home the total was secure and certainly russia claimed their second victory winning the joan one cup game early. hosts still had some unfinished business on sunday. last year's tournament winners finland had recently proved to be one of the toughest opponents just love because man by the stun it turned out to be different story ten minutes in and looks on the

reduced score the opener to send that back nigga sport arena wild. and muster peace with the playing again and again. the visitors immediately followed back and they're furious pressure was soon awarded a beautiful a failing at home in front of russia's goal and levelling matters one one guy over there who side soon restore their lead on a pole play team russia's first line making it to one early in the second period and that's when the show started the red machine geared up to entertain the home crowd with a variety of ghosts. of finishing his teammates efforts with an arrogant and we shot three one soon if there are a duel and sergei mazak an easily found these two in one chance into the goal for

one and the gulf has continued to move by hosts six one by the second intermission . dylan finally managed to get a score shoot in the final period but to no will ail is russia rolled out six two winners. none of this in the first two games but as we had already fulfilled our main task of taking the title we just loosened up so today we could just produce our best game especially after we scored the first two girls. the first period was a bit tough for us as the game had started pretty early so we needed some time to wake up although in the second period we had big and scored five goals i'm sure this big tears enjoyed the way we played after their olympic bruce was sure in the disappointment of the world championships this triumph of home ice was a nice clear present for the russian fans. thirty moscow.

and in the later game the czech republic came back to beat sweden four one in the final match of the china one cup that victory means the czechs finished second at the top with five points from three games four points behind when it's russia the swedes were thirty three points off in only one and ended in a disappointing fourth. then on to football and european champions into milan have won the club world cup after three nil when over t.p. mazembe a from the democratic republic of congo interesting to golf openings that will took the late in the thirteenth minute goran pandev starting the ball and set up by some letter. and then four minutes later it was on the scoresheet himself i think the most expected to cross and how is it safe to make it so you know. and that's how it stays to half time and after the break into continued to surge forward maicon going close after a solo run. but it was wrapped up in the

closing minutes jonathan beer bionic giving them an emphatic three no when it's the fourth consecutive time a european club has made. to betray faith and to provide some response manager rafael benitez to sideline a disappointing seven zero on the same day we're proud to be the first african team to reach the final where they said they complained to face the about bias referee. let me tell it if the christian tradition of the players they were really focused we were talking about how to play against a team that physically was very strong and we knew that we have to work together they can talk because we were not physical at the national level because we had too many players coming back from injuries. tactically a thing which when i got the commitment of the player was really good and what he wanted to also do in the cup like everyone who prepared ourself. i think they tried their best and know what is making their most or they lose this

game was their forty's and i think that everybody if they can check i'm not a journalist this time i saw against muslim boys too much that really is not good for people i talked. to the president to say they have to check everybody's we cause they don't have to discourage young teams coming i think all these things is very important you agreed to. graduation to ac milan and. pick up and you did our best to i've been playing you know meanwhile the third place match was won by brazilian side internacional beats ten sask korean side china now for two. open for the south american assets after a quarter of an hour and aleksandra out of the second for just a few minutes later then the asian champions task was made even more difficult after so one john was sent off just before half time internacional made the most of their extra man thirty in the second half and those that are some for made it three

no alexandro netted his second magic formula with twenty minutes left john did fight back with two goals in the last ten minutes from modesty on my. but it was too little too late last year outsailed third place. we could have gone i think that the main difference today was that we scored the goals and even more so i think that in the first game masala technically the way we played and today with due respect to the korean team that made life easy for us i think it was a good game with good quality but our team is used to playing with the rhythm and if we had had the luck to score during the last game then of course today we would be in another situation but life goes on and we have to be humble enough to realize we made mistakes in the first game and all of us could have created something different for today in the car boot camp. staying with football as the winter weather has forced the postponement of all three matches shadowed for this sunday in the english premier league those three matches included black against this place

taught them middle and darby of west brom versus second bottom walls and the big matches stamford bridge between chelsea and leaders manchester united well one thing the weather couldn't stop worsts around expects and becoming manchester united's longest serving manager despite the game of chelsea being called off a sixty eight year old scott has passed some record of twenty four years one month and fourteen days ferguson has won twenty six major trophies since arriving at old trafford in november nine hundred eighty six we had two spells in charge of united between one hundred forty five and one nine hundred sixty nine and one hundred seventy and one hundred seventy one and won the club's first european cup as well as five titles. when i started i am two games survived sunderland went six after one there when i was bolton danny welbeck scored the first half when i steve bruce is like remained unbeaten at home while struggling west ham two one one it manager as blackburn junior sternness last netting equaliser after

a run nelson rovers however the point still leaves the hammers bottom of the table at christmas and the eighteen clubs who have been bottom of that kind of late on december the twenty. if only one is avoided relegation was west brom in two thousand and five. thousand after the first by mince pies of the weekend third place not just the city have the chance to go top of the title christmas for the first time since one thousand nine hundred twenty nine if their home much on monday does go ahead and sleep as it is everton. now in winter sports american lindsey vonn has taken her second straight well cup victory by winning the super combined race of valdez there in france the olympic champion put together a great performance in super g. and an assured slalom run win by just under half a second to australians is about to go gold and nicole haas in second and third respectively three time world cup champion also sees the overall lead from release of germany who finished fifth. wow over in italy ted ligety has extended

his domination of the world cup giant slalom by winning his third straight race to take the lead in the overall standings the american finished fourteenth hundredths of a second ahead of france's superior ryszard another frenchman from spain ira completed the podium. now american bernard hopkins has just missed the chance to become the oldest boxer to hold a major world title after the forty six year old light heavyweight fight with a teacher john pascal was declared a draw hopkins seen here the way it was not done by pascal in the first and third rounds but he well it after that and went on to last the distance and although one judge ruled the veteran had edged his opponent one hundred fourteen points to one hundred twelve the other two judges said the pair were inseparable and the fight was detailed in the draw to draw a line in most twenty two years hopkins junior to keep his double rio and i.d.c. bouts. and finally politicians artists and form a sportsman have been attending a goddess ceremony here in moscow to celebrate the achievements of

a charity called under the flag of good the organization raises money for children who need medical treatment while holding various sporting. bents is present that his assistant. explains. the sixth year of the shirty variant turned out to be very successful with finances and medical support to help two hundred children and over those six years the felt more than a thousand children this is our moral but i suppose very important contribution to developing charity work in the country and of course the main result is the happy faces of the children who go on to live full and available life's like and very very grateful to everyone who took part in the event. and that's almost sports news for this bulletin.

opposition supporters clash with riot police as thousands gather in the bella russian capital minsk to protest alexander lukashenko seemingly fourth consecutive victory. please here and haw alerts in the moscow region is over four hundred are rested enough to prevent more clashes between russian rightwing nationalists and ethnic minorities sparked by the death of football fun almost two weeks ago. all subjects were game as prime minister vladimir putin took the hot seat for his annual q. and a session with the russian public nationalism and they justice system were among the issues he had trust in the four hour session.

another week of protests about the government austerity measures in several countries across the continent and economic crisis as critics say the latest european union bailout plan will not be enough to save the euro. hello and welcome to the program this is aussie's weekly review i mean you know all of us thanks for joining us precious and batteries so with the presidential election have turned violent with to conduct some on over one hundred people detained following clashes with police tens of thousands flock to the central square of minsk demonstration after an apparent landslide victory for current president alexander lukashenko as catarina zero now reports and all she can recruit have also been hurt in the trouble. protest was heartfelt there were thousand.