mass protests erupt across the middle east following the u.s. president's controversial decision to recognize troops of the capital of israel. the military says islamic state has suffered a total defeat in syria after the remaining territories held by the terror group a liberated. and british soldiers could face trial at the international criminal court its chief prosecutor says there's reason to believe that war crimes were committed against captives in. moscow this thursday the seventh of december is now two in the afternoon here welcome to the news from a. move that's been met with worldwide condemnation the

u.s. president has announced that washington will officially recognize jerusalem as the capital of israel donald trump also says the american embassy will be moved from tel aviv to the ancient city which is long been contested by israelis and palestinians the move seen huge protests break out across the middle east therefore i have determined that it is time to officially recognize jerusalem as the capital of israel. well here for you awesome images from different parts of the muslim world reacting to trump's decision mass demonstrations broke out in the west bank turkey and lebanon trump is also facing a backlash from other global leaders who fear it could have terrible consequences for peace in the region. i. no one has the right to play with the fates of the the people for the sake of one's personal ambitions.

i ignoring the policy the mission of a christian rights in jewish law to put all new fuel for the extremism that may be a little such that. they cannot oppose people's feelings and believe this is a new type of adventurism and global arrogance of the us. king selmer made our position clear during his telephone conversation with an interim saudi arabia's policy regarding the palestinians will never change listing the issues of primary concern to. reward the u.s. the jerusalem h.t. arab league warn of the consequences that would occur in fees the u.s. and president trump to this decision which will damage u.s. relations with the origination list.

of the palestinian fundamentalist group hamas has called for a new uprising called an intifada its leader has declared friday a day of rage and is urging palestinians to go on to the streets to protest. drew some considered sacred of course by jews muslims and christians the jewish quarter of the city is home to the western wall the last remnants of the second jewish temple which was destroyed by the romans the ancient city is also home to the shrine of the dome of the rock the oldest islamic monument still in existence and the al aqsa mosque of course the third holiest site in islam. most of the international community doesn't recognize israel's claim to jerusalem be. it eternal capital however israel says its right to jerusalem has both historical and religious basis and no country in the world has an embassy in jerusalem only got consulates there the western part of the city is predominantly israeli and the

eastern part palestinian it holy sites are a particularly sensitive issue they have a special status quo which when threatened has led to unrest and violence journalist giuliana miller and mr hamad told us more about the possible consequences of washington's policy overall. well soon after u.s. president don't trump concluded his speech president mahmoud abbas in a televised speech an angry speech. condemned the decision by the us president and criticize this decision saying that jerusalem will look for ever be an arab. capital of the palestinian future state and no one can change its identity these deplorable and unacceptable measures deliberately undermine all peace efforts and proclaim that the us are abandoning the rule of sponsor of the peace process that they have played over the past decade there has been in minor clashes throughout the west bank and in fact we've heard that there

has been some demonstrations in east jerusalem there will be general strike and calls for days of rage deferred also reports of demonstrations in jordan and also in. the capital of in front of the u.s. embassy as well as demonstrations a few hundred yards in front of the u.s. consulate in istanbul wide condemned nation throughout the middle east and the muslim world with a decision that the president don't trump talk by moving the embassy from the city of tel aviv in israel to jerusalem as well as announcing that jerusalem is the capital of israel i have to say that really across the political spectrum here israeli lawmakers and the majority of the public here support this move the prime minister benjamin netanyahu put out a statement on you tube this is a historic day the president's decision is an important step towards peace for there is no peace that doesn't include jerusalem as the capital of the state of

israel he went on to call this a just and courageous decision and he called on other countries to follow suit now it doesn't look at this moment like many other countries will follow suit but overall this is a decision. it is really have been praising now if we look at the israeli arab lawmakers of course a very different reaction there 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 the kind of move which really destroys he said the chances for peace meanwhile the current u.s. embassy in tel aviv is gearing up for potential clashes outside its doors by implementing extra security measures and also issued a travel alert forbidding employees from traveling to jerusalem's old city international leaders and the united nations were quick to voice their concerns

about recognizing to reduce limits israel's capital calling washington step radical sitting this is your hope that this is a regrettable decision which fronts does not approve of and which contradicts international law and un security council resolutions we disagree with the u.s. 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 european union expresses 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. the palestinians. totally lonely the americans the lead them. maybe for ever. and there is you know. any kind of peace process in

those circumstances well the immediate reaction is one of outrage. a little bit perhaps of pity towards the american people who are led by a man who seems to be as clueless as he is ignorant about this conflict about the implication of this reckless decision that he has just taken and about the diminished standing that he is taking his country to because of these policies and and because of this statement that is absolutely detached from reality and a slap in the face to the internet entire international system this is the first of all illegal under international law the message that trump sent out from the white house today is that the united states under the trump administration will reward countries for violating international law will reward countries for being bullies will reward countries for violating human rights and shield them from any form of

accountability the u.s. has of course been a long ally of israel with relations seemingly getting stronger since donald trump took office now it's come open explains next there's plenty of intrigue on just how close the ties between team trump and israel really are. collusion is a popular accusation to throw around these days and a lot of what we're hearing working with a foreign government receiving money is what the trial team did with israel like undermining the policy of a current administration in favor of a foreign government michael flynn trump's former national security adviser admits he called russia and asked them to delay a vote at the un security council that israel didn't like. on or about december twenty second twenty sixteen and very senior member of the presidential transition team directed fully into contact officials from foreign governments to learn where each government stood on the resolution and to influence those governments to delay

the vote or defeat the resolution when informed the russian ambassador about being coming administration's position to the resolution and requested that russia vote against or delay the resolution now we don't know who engineered it but take a look at this video of hi i'm savin the israeli billionaire and jared christian or trump son in law seriously you and your teen. were taking steps to try and get the. united nations security council. not go along this crowd and myself want to thank you for making that thank you very much. and then there sheldon adelson now he's an israeli billionaire newspaper owner and he's also a top contributor to israeli lobbyist spank rolling their activities well he threw in five million dollars to contribute to donald trump's inauguration now there's

money and also personal chemistry the trump family is quite close with benjamin netanyahu according to the new york times netanyahu even borrowed the bedroom of jarrett cushion or when he was sleeping over at his mansion in new jersey now the relationship is no secret even his even bragged about it can i review how long we've known you. oh it was never small it was always big. as always told but. i've known the president and i've known his family and his team for a long time so where is all this close and sometimes not so open cooperation gotten us well donald trump has now recognized jerusalem as israel's capital now this move is very pleasing to israelis but it's quite explosive for the region but no one is keen to shout about this blatant teamwork unlike some other country that's constantly in the headlines. r.t. new york we just want to show you some pictures of have come into out in the past

few minutes this is bethlehem which is just south of jerusalem in the west bank as you can see clashes there between palestinians and local security forces stones are being thrown at the soldiers. as you can see on responding with tear gas and with water cannon those pictures coming into well within the last few minutes. thanks russian central command says syria has now been fully liberated from islamic state and i guess looks at the role moscow's played in the fight against the group and what this latest development means for the war torn country. 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 is done seven hundred and

ninety days off the russian got involved in september two thousand and fifteen when isis was arguably at its peak. please. 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 that to deads it 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. this is the ad big enough akio from which russian jets. against targets here in syria. whether it's. the. it's ready to go it's a moment's notice. in this amphitheater laid down by the romans almost 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 palmeiro so tough when 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 fear isis fired back as we filmed shells began falling all around. we ran but the syrian batteries kept

firing life indeed as order is still far from normal but at least they won't be starving to death and the more. ultimately it wasn't russian or american jets that played the decisive role in this these victory belongs to the syrians of thousands and thousands who fought and died to defeat isis those who stood up to jihad even when it seemed nothing could stop them unfortunately it's unlikely that this land here any isis fighters have escaped or got on the ground sleeper cells will terrorize the world for years to come but now they'll no longer have their caliph that to fight for. ok new this hour the russian foreign minister in the u.s. secretary of state are going to start talks on the sidelines of an international security meeting in the austrian capital they're expected to discuss syria among

other things in vienna for us our europe correspondent peter oliver peter hi what's expected this afternoon. well a lot of focus is on not. lateral meeting between russian foreign minister sergey lavrov and his counterpart from the u.s. the secretary of state rex tillerson the two know each other very well since tillerson took the job at the beginning of february well him missed the level of how met more than seven times we can have a look at just what came out of those previous meetings.

well among the hot topics for mr tillerson a missed allow for all of on thursday will be the situation in the korean peninsula also the ongoing conflict in ukraine and we may expect to hear something relating to comments made by the russian foreign minister spoke first in the radius of on wednesday she said that there was evidence that the united states intelligence services had tried to recruit russian journalists so we may hear a little bit more about that we are also definitely expecting them to discuss the battle against islamic state in both syria and iraq on wednesday as we just heard the russian defense ministry and now it's the defeat of isis in syria they've now offered their assistance to the united states in an attempt to do exactly the same thing in the west of iraq we're still yet to hear back from the u.s. all mouth off or we may well here's something from the meeting between mr tillotson mr lavrov which is expected a few hours from now. ok and when you pick up on anything we'll be right back with

you peter for now though peter out of indiana thanks for that. you're with our british soldiers could be facing war crime charges over allegations of abuses in iraq a small story softer the break. what politicians to do something to. put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president. or somehow want to it's. going to be for us this is what will befall us three in the morning can't be good. i'm interested always in the water in the. first six. so that. the coalition that it has been has been basically destroying yemen killing yemeni civilians and now it's

a common. international talk the saudis refrain from even coming babies. in dead of indiscriminate bombardment of civilian areas in yemen for the past few months. welcome back british soldiers could face prosecution of the international criminal court in the hague of allegations of war crimes committed in iraq between two thousand and three and two thousand and nine the court's chief prosecutor says the reasonable grounds to believe that some troops may have abused captives playboy good report. it's a court that seen a number of historic and high profile trials of war criminals including the cases of slobodan milosevic rod crime lab ditch and charles taylor and now the

international criminal court in the hague is looking into british troops ledge to war crimes against detainees chairing the iraq conflict i received three years after u.k. troops officially pulled out of iraq the only thing the chief prosecutor has said that there is a reasonable basis to believe that british soldiers unlawfully killed prisoners during the portrait acted us led to war. powers and in investigations of these crimes which where they. cannot be done that is it was. the in the cases where where it came to the fact that it was. intended as a signatory to the room statute the u.k.

is one of the founding members of the i.c.c. but despite being one of the driving forces behind the creation of the court when it comes to allegations directed at britain itself the u.k. says there is no need for the i.c.c. is involvement we are confident that our existing efforts to investigate allegations preclude the need for any investigation by the i.c.c. . i had the british government sixty million pounds iraq historical allegations team was shot down earlier this year accused of a lack of professionalism it didn't result in any prosecutions and the long awaited chilcote inquiry which came a year before that concluded that the two thousand and three invasion of iraq was based on the false pretext.

in the past the international criminal court has been accused of racism and imperialism by pursuing predominantly african politicians the probe into british soldiers alleged war crimes would see the court investigating one of its main back as victims and their families will be hoping to see the i.c.c. deliver justice where the british government wasn't able to. see london. italy's biggest oil firms being accused of dumping tons of toxic waste off the coast of sicily for decades and creating a health crisis in nearby towns and habitants of jail a blame the company for a string of birth defects and a high incidence of serious illnesses. i

was born this way it's not easy i don't have friends like other people do the others tell me i'm normal like everyone else but these are just words. man got off to my son that's missing the whole front of his mouth and the holy hell of inside we went to the hospital on our own and there we understood that it wasn't an addict issue that the doctors told us no and ask you if there's a petrochemical refinery in your neighborhood so i don't but i'm angry because without this pollution of our children it would have been normal like all the others he would have had a normal life. by

fifteen year old son asks me if i'll ever have a family one day but my children be like me i ask myself why did i do wrong in life i mean you just cannot accept such a thing who will not be happy because my daughter is like this and she will always be like this. of italian oil giant in question is called any it's a back of the allegations of triggering a health crisis it claims there's no connection between the high rate of birth defects and its activities nears just so they are those who say they've been affected have taken matters to court is the lawyer. there's no family that hasn't been affected by a chimera limits and there are no months in which a mile from asian of birth is not recorded we decided to entrust through a judiciary inspection the explanation of the reason and the means by which such malformations and schumer illnesses could have been linked to industrial pollution and that's the news for now i will keep watch on what's happening in and around jerusalem your next update from me and i'll file.

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