look suspicious. israeli forces responded with water cannon and tear gas to mass protests in the west bank following president trump's move to recognize jerusalem as the capital of israel. russia and the united states' top diplomats wrap their meeting on the sidelines of a security conference in austria for the two discussed anti terror cooperation will catch up with our correspondent in vienna. and british soldiers could face trial of the international criminal court its chief prosecutor says there's reason to believe war crimes were committed against captives in iraq.

from the studios of moscow money welcome to the program first that reaction to trump's decision that's been both vocal and violent protests being held right now across palestinian territories over donald trump's decision to recognize to rule as the capital of israel also gave the go ahead to move the american embassy from tel aviv to jerusalem which is long been contested by israelis and palestinians. is the latest video that we've got from the west bank we've been watching this for the past few hours now protesters have been burning tires and hearing projectiles that israeli security forces they've responded with tear gas and water cannon a producer from artie's arabic channel was caught up in the on last and is needed medical assistance a protest against from. across the middle east. 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. i give nor even the policy to missionary christian rights in jewish law to put only fuel for the extremism and i don't mind the war against terrorism. they cannot oppose people's feelings and believe 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 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 a stay area 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. as well as other unrest palestinians are holding a general strike more protester expected over the coming days to the islamist group hamas has called for a new uprising called an intifada and has declared friday a day of arrange a lesson in president mahmoud abbas islam from decision of the israeli prime minister described it as historic. 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 and this is the story the president's decision is an important step towards

peace for there is no picks that doesn't include jerusalem. the capital of the state of israel the reason it's so contentious and sensitive jerusalem of course is considered sacred by jews muslims and christians the jewish quarter of the city is home to the western wall that's the last remnants of the second jewish temple which was destroyed by the romans the city is also home to the shrine of the dome of the rock the oldest islamic monument still in existence and of course there's the mosque that's the third holiest site in islam the city is at the center of what's been a decades long conflict between the israelis and the palestinians drew sloan calls it a terminal capital a claim that most of the international community rejects because of the dispute no countries have an embassy there the western part of the city is predominantly israeli the eastern part of the city predominantly palestinian but the holy sites there i particularly sensitive issue and when threatened there's often been

violence and unrest something that's very much in people's minds there right now. no one knows what will happen the dangerous days are coming to jerusalem that is definitely my. fear that it was part of violence hopefully it was. and i think that unfortunately a u.s. president makes a statement in the israeli citizens will need to pay the price for 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 concerns over security growing by the minute and you know neal got reaction on that 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 there never

been a palestinian state the fact that the law is important to muslims doesn't turn it automatically to be somebodies capital or only to the israelis this is kind of obsolete rhetoric that they be people are bored of hearing derisively and you go to the un resolutions the politician the resolution that speaks about it stipulates that duracell them should be an independent entity neighbor 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 benjamin netanyahu who think that now it's the time because of the turmoil of the other poor unfortunately the policy in there never accepted the arab states at the time didn't accept it and they range wars against 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 is trying to put the may the mate 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 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 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. quarter solution in the future which is the land of the israelis including jerusalem nobody can object to it this is just a reply this is really just your last hable we need to co-exist people need to find solutions european leaders on the un were also quick to force their concerns calling washington step radical with multi telephone not his maria financial 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 anybody who has condemned the recognition this is what the french media has to say this is your . this is

a regrettable decision which france 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 come 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 it is very context. the potential to send. even darker. than the ones we already living in the u.k. is prime minister has joined the theory in terms decision will deteriorate the situation in this troubled region has seen its 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 drums decision and its legitimacy . really from national reporting there will the u.s. has long been an ally of israel with relations seemingly getting stronger since donald trump took office. but explains the plenty of intrigue on just how close the toys between 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 would defeat the resolution fully 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 cushion or trump son in law seriously you and you again. 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 up thank you very much and then there are sheldon adelson now he's an israeli billionaire newspaper owner and he's also a top contributor to israeli lobbyists bankrolling 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. know it was never small he was always big. 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. onto our other headline news 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 there i guess do you have looked at how the once a powerful group was eventually defeated after years of bloody fighting. the sioux 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 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 lifts . 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've been the habit to desert most of the russian air force a 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 big enough akio from which russian jets. against this namak state targets here in syria. the brits. the pilots are ready to go what'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 that 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 vs 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 even when it seemed nothing could stop them unfortunately it's unlikely that this will end here any isis fighters have escaped or got on the ground there sleeper cells will terrorize the world for years to come

but now they'll no longer have their caliphate to fight for. well the question now is what to do with the remaining eisel fighters in neighboring countries like iraq and it was said to be a major talking point at a meeting between the top diplomats from russia and the u.s. that's just concluded on the sidelines of an international security conference in vienna so let's go live there now peter all of it is there hi peter any clues yet as to what's come out of that conversation. well i can tell you that meeting between secretary of state to listen and four minutes the last roll of lasted for around thirty minutes it was all very pleasant out in the sphere in the room before they started that was before the journalists were kicked out they didn't take any questions from anybody but we understand that they were expected to talk about who was the ongoing situation on the korean peninsula the conflict in ukraine as well as a major point on the fight against islamic state in both syria and in iraq this

comes after wednesday's announcement from the russian defense ministry that they had defeated isis in syria in an offer to the united states to join forces and help them do the same in western iraq the u.s. delegation headed by to state clinton have left already the meeting of the organization for security and cooperation in europe here in vienna both will be hoping to do a little later on is to grant foreign minister love for all of you find out exactly what they've been talking about and where that line is in the is russia in the u.s. from forming a joint task force to try and fight isis in the west of iraq i'll be putting up to him a little later on as soon as i get any answers on that of course i'll be back here and giving you all of the latest on r.t. ok peter good luck with that we'll be back within a few hours in vienna thanks but i. think you this is r.t. after the break british soldiers could face war crimes trials at the hague over their conduct in iraq the details of that after the break.

what politicians do something to. put themselves on the line. to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president. some want. to go right to the press the cycle before the more people. interested always in the water. here's what people have been saying about rejected in the us actually just. the only show i go out of my way to. really pack the. yampa is the john oliver of r t america is doing the same we are apparently better than. the

c. people you've never heard of redacted the night president of the world bank ok. seriously send us an e-mail. a lot of british soldiers could face prosecution of the international criminal court in the hague of allegations of war crimes committed in iraq the court chief prosecutor says the a reasonable grounds to believe that some troops may have abused captives between two thousand and three and two thousand and nine reports. 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 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. 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 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 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. thanks to chile'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 residents blame the company for a string of birth defects as well as other 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. to my son that's missing the whole front of his mouth and the whole the palate inside we went to the hospital on our own and there we understood that it wasn't a genetic 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 am angry because without this pollution our children 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 my children be like me i ask myself what did i do wrong in life i

mean you just cannot accept such a thing you will not be happy because my daughter is like this and she will always be like this. the italian all john's in question and he has had back at the allegations of triggering a health crisis it claims there's no connection between the high rate of birth defects and its activities near sicily those who say they've been affected have taken matters to court has 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 asia at birth is not recorded we decided to entrust through a judiciary inspection the explanation of the reasons and the means by which such malformations and schumer illnesses could have been linked to industrial pollution ok that's the news for now we're keeping watch on what's happening in the middle east and the reaction there to donald trump's decision to recognize jerusalem as israel's capital a day when all that again and the next thirty minutes here on r.t. international see that.

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