mass protests across the middle east following president's controversial decision to recognize the. russian military says islamic state has suffered total defeat in syria after the remaining territories held by the terror group to liberate. british soldiers could face trial at the international criminal court prosecutor reason to believe war crimes were committed against the captives. international first off. in a move that met with worldwide condemnation the u.s.

president has announced the washington will officially recognized as the capital of israel donald trump also says the american embassy will be moved from tel aviv to the city which has long been contested by israelis and palestinians the move saw 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. i hear now different images from different parts solve the muslim world reacting to trump's decision mass demonstrations broke out in the west bank turkey and lebanon comes also facing a backlash from other arab leaders who favor it could have terrible consequences for peace in the region. and. no one has the right to play with the fates of either and so for people for the sake of one so personal ambitions.

i ignoring the policy the missionary christian writes in jerusalem will only fuel for the extremism and undermine the war against terrorism. such that. they cannot oppose people's feelings and believe this is a new type of adventurism and global arrogance of the us. king so made our position clear during his telephone conversation with president saudi arabia's policy regarding the palestinians will never change the palestinian issue is a primary concern to us. we warned the u.s. the jerusalem h.t. area we've been warned of the consequences there were occurring sees the u.s. and president trump to this decision which will damage u.s. relations with iran nations.

the reaction doesn't end there the palestinian fundamentalist group hamas has called for a new uprising called then to fatah its leaders declared friday a day of rage and is urging palestinians to go out onto the streets to protest. drusilla is considered sacred by jews muslims and christians the jewish quarter of the city is home to the western wall the last remnant of the second jewish temple which was destroyed by the romans the city is also home to the shrine the dome of the rock the oldest islamic monument still in existence and the al aqsa mosque the third holiest site in. the city is at the very heart of the decades long conflict between the israelis and the palestinians israel calls jerusalem turn all capital a claim most of the international community rejects and because of the dispute no countries have an embassy in jerusalem the western part of the city is predominantly israeli in the eastern part is predominantly palestinian of the holy

sites there are a particularly sensitive issue they have a special status quo which when threatened has led to unrest and violence journalists jordaan amila. told us more about the possible consequences of washington's policy overhaul. will soon after u.s. president don trump concluded his speech president mahmoud abbas in a televised speech an angry speech. with. the decision by the u.s. 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 the servers and proclaim that the us are abandoning the rule sponsor of the peace process the day of pleading with the past decade there has been minor clashes throughout the west bank and in fact we've heard that there has been some

demonstrations in east jerusalem there will be a general strike and calls for days of rage deferred also reports of demonstrations in jordan and also in ankara the capital of turkey in front of the embassy as well as demonstrations a few hundred 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 this if you have to live 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 that israelis 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. these are the latest pictures that we've been getting within the past hour or so here it r.t. this is from bethlehem a town just south of jerusalem in the west bank clashes have erupted between palestinians and local security forces we keep mortar on these cameras for the past hour or so now people have been throwing stones at soldiers who have been

responding with tear gas and. meanwhile the current u.s. embassy in tel aviv is gearing up for potential clashes outside its doors by implementing extra security measures it's also issued a travel alert forbidding employees from traveling to jerusalem's old city we were joined by two guests earlier to debate further the implications of trump's decision . never got a consultant with any harder. in the world at the time they put these really capital in jerusalem at the times of the kingdom of israel never being a palestinian state the fact that the locks i use is important to muslims doesn't turn it automatically to be some of these capital only to the israelis this is kind of obsolete to read through it the people are bored of hearing jerusalem you go to the u.n.

resolutions the partition the resolution that speaks about it stipulates that tourism should be an independent entity in even the palestinians nor the israelis will be controlling this city in the final stages that's what the general security of the u.n. is speaking about that's what the consensus of the international community is speaking about it's only donald trump himself and binyamin netanyahu who think that now it's the time because of the turmoil of the arab who are unfortunately the policy you know never accepted the arab states at the time didn't accept it and they ranged wars against regional using care or which has been turned to. be the only one start up the palestinians and contributed to the world and from that time on they are using their own if you are speaking about palestinians doing terrorist attacks who killed the palestinians in gaza in jerusalem who's trying to put the

may the meat of detectives in the. compound it's the israelis who are trying to push more radicalize ation the palestinians have the full right to resist peacefully israel is the only only state that maintains just freedom for all prayers in jerusalem and start to score is very seriously kept in jerusalem the real danger is mecca and medina are in danger by your lawn be united states donald trump and israel think that this is the right time to make this kind of propaganda iran is the only monster who has expansionist policy in the region but on the other hand israel does have the german a does have a kind of colonial mentality that is going on violating it's a rogue state the palestinian capital should be everywhere. warts solution in the

future this is the land of the israelis including jerusalem nobody can object to it this is just to revive this is really just the last table we need to co-exist people need to find solutions as for why the reaction european leaders and the united nations were quick to voice their concerns about recognizing to receive them as israel's capital calling washington step radical let's get a live update now we're going to paris a co-sponsor maria financial. donald trump got an elitist backing in the. yes indeed controversial decision to recognize drucilla mass the capital of israel has got a lot of reaction clued in here in europe france's president and u.n. mcconnell said it contributes the international law let's take a listen. this is your call that this is a regrettable decision which ones does not approve of which contradicts international law un security council resolutions. germany has also condemned the

decision with its foreign minister warning it will not calm the conflict between israel and palestine but rather it fuels it even more the use foreign policy chief has expressed serious concerns over the decision saying aspirations of the both parties must be fulfilled and clearly what we've seen in this case was absolute opposite the u.k.'s prime minister has joined those fearing that this decision may deteriorate the situation in this troubled region and the conflict between palestine and israel and. she said that they believe it is unhelpful in terms of prospects for peace in the region this is the opinion that russia also shares we've just heard from the russian foreign ministry is that this decision does not promote progress in talks the ministry has added that russia's position is to recognize the eastern part of jerusalem as the capital

a future palestinian state while the western part of jerusalem as the capital for israel as you remember the eastern part of jerusalem was taken by israel following the six day war back in one nine hundred sixty seven but it was never internationally recognized as part of israel so as you can see a lot of reaction is a lot of anger and confusion and we now know that the united nations security council will meet on friday following the request from eight out of fifteen member states to discuss the interim his decision and its legitimacy back to you and certainly been a sort of frosty phone call for mr trump all right for now maria from paris thanks very much. russia's central command says syria has now been fully liberated from islamic state or against the of next 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 so-called islamic 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 hotspots and isolated pockets vladimir putin added but with the liberation of the west bank of the euphrates river isis has done seven hundred and ninety nine days off the russian got involved in september two thousand and fifteen when isis was an arguably at its peak. please us. 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 clubs to villages and i've been

the habit to desert 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 guy. this is the ad big enough akio from which russian jets. against this state targets here in syria. there it's. like the. it's ready to go at a moment's notice. 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 when extremely close to isis positions less than two kilometers away and.

where is a syrian artillery position overlooking the industrial quarter of their resort the battle is said to be fierce isis fired back as we filmed shells began falling all around. we ran but the syrian batteries kept firing live in did resort is still far from normal but at least it will 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 the 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

god on the ground the sleeper cells will terrorize the world for years to come but now they'll no longer have their caliph it to fight for our serious likely to come up in the next couple of hours also there's a face to face meeting expected between russia's foreign minister and the u.s. secretary of state they're both in vienna right now for an international security meeting our europe correspondent to i talk to peter all of our earlier to get the lowdown on what we might expect. focus that this council meeting is the the open coming by lateral meeting greet between russian foreign minister for all of the u.s. secretary of state to rex tillerson the two no we chill that very well since february when mr tillotson took the job they've met more than seven times.

well among the hot topics for mr tillotson a mr louth rolf 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 russian foreign minister spokes person really is the cut over 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 expected to discuss the battle against islamic state in both syria and iraq on wednesday as we've just heard the russian defense ministry and mounts 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 not offer we may well here's something from the meeting between mr tillerson mr lavrov which is expected the few hours from now we'll let you know what comes out of their ass on the way claims that an italian energy giant toxic waste is causing birth defects. stories still to come after the break. we put themselves on the on the big get accept the reject. so when you want to be president or injury. or somehow want to preserve. it to be like to be for us this is what the forecast for you in the morning can't be good that i'm interested always in the waters of my. question.

corporations are living. on people no taxation without representation worth my representation or an amazon stop unless i get a commensurate share i'm a strong start to participate in the growth of this corporate takeover i know under no obligation to fulfill this ziai from just this. british soldiers could face prosecution of the international criminal court in the hague over allegations of war crimes committed in iraq between two thousand and three and two thousand and nine the court chief prosecutor says the reasonable grounds to believe that some troops may have abused captives only boy the report it's a court that seen a number of historic and high profile trials of war criminals including the cases

of slobodan milosevic. and charles taylor and now the international criminal court in the hague is looking into british troops ledge to war crimes against detainees cheering the iraq conflict i received three years after u.k. troops officially pulled out a very wrong the only thing the chief prosecutor has said that there is a reasonable basis to believe that british soldiers unlawfully killed prisoners during the acted u.s. led to war. in. iraq. i was an. investigation of these crimes which where they called. it was.

the indications were willing to do the fact that it was done. as a signatory to the room stat sheet 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. as 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 of rock 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 backus victims and their families will be hoping to see the i.c.c. deliver justice where the british government wasn't able to. london. italy's biggest oil for being accused of dumping tons of toxic waste off the coast of sicily for decades and creating a health crisis in nearby towns and absence of jail or 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 is missing the whole front of his mouth and the whole detail of inside we went to the hospital on our own and there we understood that it wasn't a generic issue that the doctors told us no and asked 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 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. italian all dry and to question any as head back of the allegations of triggering a health crisis it claims there is no connection between the high rate of birth defects and its activities near sicily and 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 it. and there are no months in which a malformation of birth is not recorded we decided to entrust to a judiciary inspection the explanation of the reasons and the means by which such malformations and schumer little mrs could have been linked to industrial pollution . a new threat for the south thanks very much for watching on column bright back in thirty five minutes with the next world news from r.t.

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long kept a justifiably skeptical eye upon its our good friends at the central intelligence agency from illegal assassinations to funding black operations through drug running to staging the overthrow of governments not aligned with the us business and political interest since its inception under president truman back in one thousand nine hundred seven the cia despite many aboveboard legitimate dry arms has also been at the heart of many of the dark as to covert stains on the soul of the united states in fact just last year in two thousand and sixteen an n.b.c. news wall street journal poll found that just thirty three per cent of u.s. adults have a great deal. of confidence in the cia and now according to journalist matthew cole in germany scale of the intercept some high profile trump team advisors including our good buddy erik prince the natori a sponsor of the blackwater mercenary group are apparently pitching the administration on a new globalized privatized version of the cia to circumvent official u.s.

intelligence agencies answering only to the white house and cia director mike pump a oh it's not like this apparently is true scahill in coal right that according to sources the plans have been pitched to the white house as a means of countering deep state enemies in the intelligence community seeking to undermine donald trump's presidency. so trump versus the deep state could bring us even more layers of deep state except this time it's privatized deep state because that sounds like just the thing the world needs most right now yet another globetrotting intelligence agency running out of control and behind the lines with weapons cache and very very very very very little oversight. now let's stop watch. what you good looks like real with this would be analyzed to

get to the bottom of it. just. like you know i got. with. the. limits of. the world number one the hard science i rolled with her to the top of the wall as. if i should never ever ever be shocked by anything that comes out of the administration when it comes to the intelligence community or any administration the intelligence community as we've seen over the years we're going to i got to ask you how bad has things gotten when when members of trump's circle are now advising him to consider the alternate version of the central intelligence agency a privatized version of the central intelligence agency to counter.