the head of the major party here that serves in the israeli knesset releasing a statement saying that trump is a quote hater that he is not interested in any kind of peace between israelis and palestinians by making because he's made his kind of move which really destroys he said the chances for peace so as we've been hearing there then politicians around the world have been reacting to trump's decision german chancellor angela merkel british pm tories in may and the foreign policy chief for the week and will go to any of all express their disagreement with the mic chancellor merkel about president trump's decision on jerusalem the german government does not support this move because the status of jerusalem is to be negotiated within the framework of a two state solution we disagree with the us decision to move its embassy to jerusalem and recognize jerusalem as the israeli capital before a final status agreement we believe it is unhelpful in terms of prospects for peace

in the region the british embassy to israel is based in tel aviv and we have no plans to move it the european union express a serious concern about today's announcement by the united states president trump the aspirations of both parties must be fulfilled and a way must be found through negotiations. in other news this evening the russian military has announced that syria has been completely liberated from islamic state terrorist artist. has more. the soup is slamming state of syria and iraq is a state no more for all intents and purposes says the russian defense ministry it is being destroyed as a fractured iraq still hot spots and isolated pockets with putin added but with the liberation of the west bank of the euphrates river isis has done seven hundred and ninety nine days off to russia got involved in september two thousand and fifteen

when isis was arguably at its peak fitness so. when the russian operation began isis held more territory in syria than any other faction two years in a few months on the caliph it has been reduced to clumps of villages and i don't have a dead that wasn't the russian air force saloon that did this the u.s. led coalition also played a huge pot we've been covering the syrian civil war in depth before isis even had its name before jihad hijacked the rebel schools here are some of the more

memorable moments filmed by my colleagues and i. are. this is the ad base from which russian jets. against this targets here in syria. there it's. time to. it's ready to go it's a moment's notice. it's quite incredible to be standing here in the pulse of the ancient city of palmira. people around the outfeed would be reduced to dust in this amphitheater laid down by the romans or most two thousand years ago that isis staged one of its

sickest massacres the russian military considers it the crowding jewel of the operation here in syria. you can see had just some of the impressive military hardware that isis have in the possession that has made the battle for palmira so tough we're extremely close to isis positions less than two kilometers away and.

were as a syrian artillery position overlooking the industrial quarter of their resort the battle is said to be fierce as isis fired back as we filmed shells began falling all around. we ran but the syrian batteries kept firing. life in did as order is still far from normal but at least they won't be starving to death. and the more. you're ultimately it wasn't russian or american jets that played the decisive role in this these victory belongs to the syrians the thousands and thousands who fought and died to defeat isis those who stood up to jihad ists even when it seemed

nothing could stop them unfortunately it's unlikely that this alleged here any isis fighters have escaped or god on the ground the sleeper cells will terrorize the world for years to come but now they'll no longer have a caliphate to fight for. well with russia saying eisel has been essentially driven and to syria there's still the question of what to do with the remaining fighters in neighboring countries such as iraq from man his artes you cause you donna. russia has effectively expressed its outright willingness to join the u.s. led coalition against isis of the very same coalition that has been conducting air strikes against terrorists both in syria and iraq now of course russia has yet to hear back from washington on this but donald trump has already made a statement and a rather peculiar one in relation to the russia's announcement today the u.s.

president has praised the fact that quote i still has been knocked out of syria and knocked out of iraq and just geographically speaking this may leave one wondering where i still has been knocked out too because i still can't really flee to say saudi arabia or to iran or to jordan i still only fleas either from iraq to syria or vice versa and we've already seen such cases for example when washington was pounding eisel in mosul they ran over the border and became a pain in the neck for both russian and syrian forces and now with moscow and damascus giving i still a pounding well their only escape route is back to iraq or just to get to the border and so this i should say fluid situation kind of stresses the fact stresses the need of cooperation between the two militaries between the russian and the u.s.

military but there is no love lost between them really the relationship was already very strained the russian announcement about the almost fall about the de facto victory over iceland syria has already seen some disagreement as the pentagon has said that they choose to respectfully disagree with the russians and the russians have the russian military has responded with concern that this is just a pretext to leave u.s. forces on the ground in syria even after the operation even after the victory over i so it will be really interesting to see how all of this unfold especially. with the u.s. state secretary rex tillerson the meeting of the russian top diplomat sergei lavrov on thursday in vienna. has officially announced his bid for the twenty eight presidential election in russia with more on that his. it was widely expected that lattimer putin would decide to run for reelection next year however he has

played coyle on the topic so many times i in recent months and one can help but wonder whether he was genuinely conflicted on whether to run for the presidency again or whether he was just being really good at keeping a secret and playing the media nevertheless we were put out of our misery when he said this but you go i'm surprised you for your support yes i will present my candidacy for the president of the russian federation. for super bowl sure thank you for your reaction but first of all spoil your work. and i was rumored that this big announcement would come earlier in the day when he attended a volunteers for and here in moscow in fact i was here ready and waiting to bring you the breaking news of his decision however he played quite once again and also seemed to seek validation from the audience there and they seemed very clear on

what decision he should make. your point and shoot you if i make such a decision. and the people close to you support it. but it still should prove to be an interesting race over the coming weeks and months with quite an eclectic mix of candidates throwing their hats into the ring one of the most prominent being a stop child she's considered to be the russian paris hilton and what's also quite interesting about her is that she putin she's attended opposition rallies and she's promised to unite people against vladimir putin is the first time we've seen any woman and to the race for the presidency in russia in fourteen years and of course there are the usual suspects as well including the liberal democratic party head of lady mir she were not scare the communist party is again r.d. . on of the liberal yabloko parties grigori yavlinsky up five also business on

but boris titov who is from the party of growth he has pledged to champion the rights of entrepreneurs so quite an eclectic mix there for the russian people to sink their teeth into ahead of the elections in march next year. reporting but we also spoke with gary about this he's the managing editor of the news website www dot com. president putin will be all too aware of the unfinished challenges that remain ahead and that will certainly remain after march of next year these include further consolidation and cooperation of the one by one road project of which russia is incredibly important it includes finalizing the peace process that russia has instigated for the syrian arab republic finding a last thing peaceful solution for the free people of donbass finding a peaceful solution to the are in a golden or a bar conflict as well as using the momentum of the brics and other international

bodies like the shanghai cooperation organization to the rise the rising east and south as people tend to call them this will include making the gold system more centered in asia rather than in europe and north america it may include increased trade will certainly include i should say increased trade in national currencies between partners in southeast asia and your asia even africa in some cases especially if we're talking about metallic standards we're talking the russian federation is going to introduce a crypto ruble next year joining venezuela in being the only two countries to officially have the crypto currency and then of course there's the matter of increasing people's wages without damaging inflation so all of these very important things are on the table of any president and it seems that for dimia putin wants to ask the russian people for their trust so that he can continue to work on all of

these incredibly crucial matters. ok let's return to our top story this hour because donald trump has announced the u.s. will officially recognize jerusalem as the capital of israel to discuss the implications of this when i joined by the co-founder of the electronic intifada website alley. alley good evening t. thanks for coming on we've seen and heard a lot of hot. reaction over the last few hours to this announcement we also understand the u.n. security council is planning to meet with trump's decision what would you expect to come out of that. i think we'll see more of the same which is a lot of statements criticizing the decisions just about every european government an arab government has made such a statement the question is will there be any action because i think the reason we're here is because first so many decades the so-called international community

has abdicated its responsibilities towards the palestinians and leaves all these to the united states based on the fiction that the united states is somehow an honest broker when the reality that has been plain for all to see is that the united states is basically israel's main agent an arms supplier and financier so if people don't like this decision the question is not what they're going to say about it but what they're going to do about it in terms of sanctions on israel for its continued occupation illegal occupation interest and of course of the occupied west bank and gaza strip as well. he think as he would actually see that. that sort of action i know a lot of people as you say have come out and have been very hostile to what's happened but she think will actually see some sort of physical response if you like

to what's happened. we're already seeing it in the form of popular response around the world the growth of the boycott divestment and sanctions movement which israel sees as a major strategic threat and that movement has grown up because of the inaction of the complicity of governments who have refused to put their money where their mouth is and hold israel accountable and make it pay a price for its violations of international law it settlements its confiscation its demolition of protestant homes and so on so i think in europe and in other countries we're seeing popular grassroots pressure pressure from trade unions from churches to move from lip service to international law to actually implementing it and you know there is now a consensus among international jurists for example that trade with israeli

settlements should be back on you know the hypocrisy is incredible back in twenty fourteen says the european union imposed sanctions on trade with russia because of what happened in crimea where as fifty years there has been clear. the european union says occupation settlement illegality by israel and we have european union countries refusing to take action and i think that that's where we are now no one can continue to hide between a fake peace process and a fake talk about a two state solution if they're really concerned about the situation it's time for action it's time for sanctions a good place to start it would be the minimum but a good place to start would be banning trade with israel settlements and

preventing each country to prevent its national. i did corporations from having any involvement in israel settlements that would be a good start and just finally al e.g. think essentially the u.s. is now giving up its position is mediator in the middle east effectively by coming forward with this announcement today and if so who's likely to fill that void. well i think what trump has done is sort of polo away the curtain or pole away the fig leaf the u.s. has never been a mediator or honest broker and now it's made that plain and as i said i think if we're going to prevent a continued deterioration where israel and the united states both led by extreme the most extreme right wing governments that history if we're not going to let them continue to push this situation towards chaos that others do have to step in and if governments won't do it people around the world ordinary people civil society need

to escalate the campaign of boycott divestment and sanctions to hold israel accountable for its occupation settlements and other crimes we have to wrap things up there but really nice utility there is alley founder of the electronic intifada website thank you. so in britain opportunities to prevent a series of recent terror attacks in both manchester and london were missed according to a new report carried out for the government but the details on that his. well this is come from an independent report that was carried out by the u.k. home office and it was looking at how well the security services did their jobs in the run up to the string of terror attacks that took place in the u.k. over the past year and one of the things that it found was that three of the six attackers that they were looking at they were on the radar so the domestic

security services were watching them already perhaps more worryingly the reports concluded that the attack carried out by soundman a baby in manchester arena in may that was the one that took the lives of twenty three people among them many children it says that with hindsight that attack could have been preventable the cards fall and differently that's not actual quote from the report take a look at how the cards did end up falling. but to give you an idea of the extent to which the perpetrator of the attack in manchester was all the security services radar well m i five were meant to have a meeting about whether or not to up his surveillance nine days after he was able to carry out that bombing the report also says that m i five denies that the

bombing was preventable and all this is coincide with a rather dramatic story here about two men who have been arrested for plotting to bomb downing street and assassinate to reason may i give you an illustration of the sort of read that the security services here are having to deal with take a listen to the home secretary amber rudd commenting on this report not to developing more quickly from radicalization. and becoming harder to detect although it's got to be said that a foil plot is clearly better than one that has been carried out but in the run up to christmas this severe threat level is going to be weighing heavily on many people's minds. now elsewhere violence broke out on the streets of athens on wednesday multiple cars and shops caught fire as protesters throwing petrol bombs

police. and hundreds of protesters that went to mark the ninth anniversary of the killing of the teenager alexander could go up for this he was shot dead by police in two thousand and eight the riots were also fuelled by unemployment and the continuing economic crisis more than two thousand police were deployed across athens to contain the violence every year people to take to the streets to commemorate the boy's death the police officer who killed the teenager was found guilty and sentenced to life imprisonment in twenty. so that's unusual for this out there if we get to get a chance to have a look at our website to that article.

here's what people have been saying about rejected in the us exactly it's the law and author of the real the show i go out of my way to find you know what is there really pack the park how bleak yap is there john oliver of harvey americans doing the same thing we are apparently better than nothing. to see people you've never heard of love redacted tonight was the president of the world bank oh ok i'm going to write a serious look send us an e-mail. list and is getting international recognition with the help of israel at least in the world of zoos a member of the commission to loving you i can do. this using my compass appears going up to study how we did it. no charge. the only palestinians who gets the most help from its jerusalem counterparts i don't think some of those who are in the world on the local vision they're not going to

get it. and that's there's a lot at that age to have this lady of the muscle that you had an identical t.v. in the doesn't seem to do more in the middle sauce but there's also. plenty of walks selling you on the idea that dropping bombs brings peace to the chicken hawks forcing you to fight the battles but ultimately you stops by to tell you that somebody's gossiping probably by falsehood one day. off about eyes and telling you i'm not cool enough and let's not fight. things are the hawks that we along with our audience will walk or get. her.

hello and welcome to cross talk where all things are considered i'm peter lavelle if you trust the mainstream media well then you're in the minority sadly a great deal of media today is not designed to inform but rather confirms political bias this approach of the news is not only polar.