israeli forces respond with water cannon and tear gas to mass protests in the west bank following president trump's move to recognize them as the capital of israel. a landmark in the fight against islamic states the russian military says the terror group has been routed from syria. british soldiers could face trial of the international criminal court its chief prosecutor says there's reason to believe the war crimes were committed against captives in iraq.

hello from. moscow my name calling by welcome to the program this thursday it's now five pm. on what you can see at the bottom of your screen there and trump's decision which has led to a reaction as both a vocal and violent protests are being held across the palestinian territories over donald trump's decision to recognize jerusalem as the capital of israel demonstrators are burning posters of the u.s. president and clashing with israeli security forces also gave the go ahead to move the american embassy from tel aviv to jerusalem which is long being contested by israelis and palestinians. therefore i have determined that it is time to officially recognize jerusalem as the capital of israel.

no one has their eyes to play with the fates of appearance of people for the sake of one's personal ambitions. good nor even policy to missionary christian rights in jerusalem will only fuel for the extremism and i don't mind the war against terrorism. they cannot oppose people's feelings and beliefs this is a new type of adventurism and global arrogance of the us. king selman made our position clear during his telephone conversation with president trump 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 drizzle in may stay arab we've warned of the consequences there would occur in

case the us and president trying to this decision which will damage u.s. relations with the arab nations. while i was. as well as they are rest palestinians are also holding a general strike with more protests expected over the coming days if the most group hamas has called for a new uprising called an intifada and declared friday to be a day of rage palestinian president mahmoud abbas slammed trump's decisions well while the israeli prime minister described it as historic. and you have these deplorable and unacceptable measures deliberately undermine all peace efforts and proclaim that the us are abandoning the role of sponsor of the peace process that they have played over the past decade this is a story the president's decision is an important step towards peace for there is no picks that doesn't include jerusalem as the capital of the state of israel.

jerusalem of course 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 dome of the rock the oldest islamic monument still in existence and also the al aksa mosque which is the third holiest site in. the city is at the very heart of the decades long conflict between israelis and palestinians israel calls jerusalem its eternal capital a claim that most of the international community rejects because of the disputed no countries have an embassy there the western part of the city is predominantly israeli the eastern part predominantly palestinian but the holy sites there are a particularly sensitive issue and when threatened there's often been violence and unrest something that's very much in people's minds right now. no one knows what will happen the dangerous days are coming to jerusalem that is definitely my. fear

that it was part violence hopefully it won't. and i think that unfortunately a u.s. president makes a statement and the israeli citizens will need to pay the price for it. meanwhile the current u.s. embassy in tel aviv is gearing up for potential clashes outside its stores by implementing extra security measures it's also issued a travel alert forbidding employees from traveling to jerusalem's old city concerns over security growing by the minute as you know neal heard from two of our guests earlier. israel never got a consultant with any harder. in the way of the time they put these really capital in jerusalem at the times of the kingdom of israel never been a palestinian state the fact that the locks i use important to muslims doesn't turn it automatically to be somebodies capital only to the israelis this is kind of

obsolete rhetoric that people are bored of hearing derisive and you go to the un resolutions partition the resolution that speaks about it stipulates that jerusalem should be an independent entity in even the palestinians nor the israelis will be controlling this city in the final stages that's what they do in the security of the un is speaking about that's what the consensus of the international community is speaking about it's only donald trump himself and been given it any hope who think that now it's the time because of the turmoil of the other poor 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 to maintain. 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 the 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 job and a does have a kind of colonial mentality that is going on violating it's

a rogue state the palestinian capital should be everywhere. was a solution in the future this is the land of the israelis including jerusalem nobody can object to it this is just revived this is really just your last table we need to co-exist people need to find solutions european leaders and the un were also quick to voice their concerns calling washington step radical with multi tells his preferred option or in paris. the interims controversial decision to recognize jerusalem as the capital of israel has got a lot of angry reaction including here in europe france's president and what about kong has condemned the recognition this is what the french media has to say this is you know. this is a regrettable decision which friends does not approve of and which contradicts international law and un security council resolutions germany has also condemned

the decision with its foreign minister warning that it will not calm the conflict between israel and palestine but rather it fuels it even more the e.u.'s foreign policy chief has expressed serious concerns over the decision as well saying aspirations of both parties must be fulfilled and in this case clearly what we've seen is absolute the opposite. that it will send us into even darker tarns than those that we are already living in the case prime minister has joined the fear in terms decision will deteriorate the situation in this troubled region it's unhelpful in terms of prospects for peace in the region and this is the opinion that russia also shares we've heard from the russian foreign ministry that it doesn't promote progress in talks in the ministry has also added that russia's position is to recognize the eastern part of jerusalem as the capital for a future palestinian state while the western part of jerusalem as the capital of israel as you remember east jerusalem including the old city was taken by israel

are following the six day war back in one thousand nine hundred sixty seven but it was never internationally recognized as part of israel so it's you can see a lot of reaction a lot of anger and confusion and now we know that on friday the united nations security council is going to have an emergency meeting following the request from eight out of fifteen member states to discuss the decision and it's legitimate. other news now the russian military says islamic state no longer holds any ground in syria meaning that the main fight against terror in the country is now essentially over. looks at how the once powerful group was eventually defeated after years of bloody fighting. 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 days off to russia got involved in september two thousand and fifteen when isis was 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 clumps of villages and i mean the habits of dead that most of the russian air force the loon 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 based in the talkie from which russian jets. against islam mixtape targets here in syria. whether it's. the pilots are ready to go at 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 that possession that has made the battle for palmira so tough way 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 life even did as ordered 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 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 land here any isis fighters have escaped or god on the ground sleeper cells will terrorize the world for years to come but now

they'll no longer have a caliphate to fight for. the question now is what to do with the remaining arsenal fighters in neighboring countries like iraq as likely to be a major talking point to the meeting between the top diplomats from russia and the u.s. which is taking place at the moment on the sidelines of an international security conference in vienna our europe correspondent peter oliver is there. focus that this the council meeting is the the open coming bilateral meeting greet between russian foreign minister sergei lavrov and the u.s. secretary of state direct to listen 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 of for mr tillotson a mr allow for all of. the day will be the situation in the korean peninsula also the ongoing conflict in ukraine we are also definitely expecting them to discuss that against islamic state in both syria and iraq on wednesday as we just heard the russian defense ministry announced 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 tillerson mr lavrov. and we'll let you know what happens among all stories after the break why the u.s. military is spending big on pest control. corporations

are living. people know it's. worth a representation or an amazon stock analyst get a good. stock to participate in the growth of this corporate takeover i'm under no obligation to fulfill this. from. you on the idea that dropping bombs brings peace to the chickenhawk forcing you to fight the battle. to stop spreading tell you the gossip the public but. i'm telling you. all the hawks about me along the border good morning.

welcome back british soldiers could face prosecution at the international criminal court in the hague over allegations of war crimes committed in iraq the cold street prosecutor says the reasonable grounds to believe that some troops may have abused captives between two thousand and three and two thousand and nine only book reports . 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 chairing the iraq conflict i received three years after u.k. troops officially pulled out of iraq the only thing chief prosecutor has said that

there is a reasonable basis to believe that british soldiers unlawfully killed prisoners during the portrait acted the us led the war. powers and in investigations of these crimes which where they. are not there done that is it was. the in the cases where the fact that it was. intended 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.

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 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 and three. of iraq was based on the false pretext that saddam hussein had weapons of mass destruction. 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 backers 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. it's the most that the bulk of funding for research to wipe out disease spreading pests such as malarial mosquitoes comes from a u.s. military agency and the environmentalists who traced where the money's coming from a concern that the technology being developed misused or even lead to an ecological disaster. what's concerning about a dream dr is that genetically engineered organism that's designed to spread and it will spread inexorably until it takes over an entire population so that means you just have to release one single specimen of this organism says single mosquito or a single mouse and then through sexual reproduction it spreads its trait until it

takes over there's a strong concern that you could use a gene drove system to stretch the spread of dilatory a straight you could for example try to cause. to fail or there have been suggestions that you could genetically engineer a flying insects such as mosquitoes to potentially deliver something that's harmful and then spread that through a whole population of mosquitoes if you have a military agency or a couple of military agencies in the driving seat of a technology that could be used as a very powerful carrier for a bio weapon. obviously the question comes up whether it's going to have dual use that you heard at the research focuses on modifying species d.n.a. so the populations can inherit design changes however given the potential for abuse the united nations is considering a moratorium on the project and e-mails obtained by the e.t.c. group show that the u.s. military has invested something like one hundred million dollars in this project so

far the u.s. defense department darpa agency has seven research groups working on the biological engineering but many of its activities are believed to be kept under wraps in the interest of national security jim thomas again describes how the development of genetic modification technologies has progressed over time. we knew that the u.s. military was interested in jane drives and we were funding to a certain level but what's become clear is that probably the major funder of gene drive research and development files seem to suggest that they have in the case of darpa the defense advanced research projects agency around one hundred million dollars worth of funding the idea of a gene drive which spreads a genetic trait through an entire population is a potentially very powerful carrier for a bio weapon they say the reason they're interested is so they can pick up this bio weapon if it was used by hostile actors that they could be able to detect to monitor and disable gene drives as

a bio weapon but what's concerning of course in the process they're actually building this technology and acquiring the ability to use that although it's known that there's these military potential uses the field is always described as being about trying to deal with malaria or trying to be conservation uses but what we're now discovering is the u.s. military that seems to be significantly in the driving seat. and darpa responded to some of the concerns raised over its genetic research it says that the project's been mischaracterized and that it's committed to being fully transparent. well that's the way the world looks at this hour want to call it bright join me again for your next hour to world news update in about forty five minutes from now so that.

palestine is getting international recognition with the help of israel at least in the world of zoos remember wolf it was dismissive to do it loving you like you know that this isn't my cup of tea is going to have no phil saviano maybe they're saying they're old john without a telescope or they should be the only palestinians is gets the most help from its jerusalem counterparts i don't think there's some of those who in the world under the oak vision did not only could do this. and not fizzle off out there it's got to this lady of the muscle that you had an identical t.v. in the doesn't seem to do more almost lost there don't put this off. with no make this manufacture consent to instant of public wealth. when the

ruling classes protect themselves. with the financial merry go round the certainly the one percent told. to ignore middle of the room six. million more you mean. the world. com. hello and welcome to worlds apart just as the war in syria started to show some

promise of abating the violence in yemen has intensified to a degree that may once again put the middle east on the brink of a major confrontation does the idea of forging some kind of regional understanding amount to anything more than a deal task to discuss that i'm now joined by iran's foreign minister zarif minister it's great to see in moscow welcome good to be here and good to be with you now minister you've been in the city since monday and i assume the topic of syrian reconciliation always feature high on the agenda but i wonder if these fast moving events in yemen with the now confirmed killing of the former president saleh has forced you to shift your focus how vulnerable is the syrian peace process to outside the bounds. happy to be in russia the work we close even russia and other regional countries in order to help bring about an end to syria i'm here this

time for caspian which is an important issue for iran russia and the three other countries neighboring caspian we have made important progress in syria with russia and turkey are both true astana process as well as true sochi and we had hoped from the very beginning that a political solution could be found for yemen as we continue to hope that a political solution could be found for syria a few days after the breakup of the. now thirty. the old hostilities in yemen the mob bodmin tovia many civilians we proposed a four point plan for yemen immediate ceasefire urgent humanitarian assistance in-tray yemeni log and the formation of an inclusive broad based government that remains i believe the only solution to yemen that the minister i'm sure would agree

with me that that plan is now. perhaps even less realizable after the such a kind of profile killing do you think that complicates the international effort both in the yemen and in syria unfortunately the events of the past few days have not helps this process be hope. on fortunate developments over the past four or five days we do unfortunate developments of the past thirty months and beyond everybody in yemen and all the neighboring countries would come to the realisation that we have to put this nightmare to an end and we need to get together and put a plan to end the conflict in yemen now if i may share a personal impression of him because they have the video of the president's body wrapped in a blanket being mounted on to a pickup truck there is some very grim resemblance to the killing of moammar gadhafi six years ago and i was kind of surprised. mr saleh was

a controversial figure for sure but i was very surprised by the lack of sympathy in the arab or more broadly a regional media. when it comes to his faith is that faith is that the new political norm in the middle i certainly hope the leadership in the earlier would move in the direction of responding to the needs and requirements of the population so that they do not face this grim fate at the end of the bush the killing of came shortly after he pulled out of his tactical alliance with the who are these and signaled their willingness to negotiate with a salad a lot coalition shifting his alliance once again as he did many times throughout his very long for all. i think what i'm hearing from you is the regret about his faith but though what do you think about his change of political.