israeli forces respond with water cannon to gas to mass protests in the west bank following president trump's move to recognize jerusalem as the capital of his right . brushing the united states' top diplomats discuss syria ukraine and north korea as they meet on the sidelines of the security conference and also this hour u.k. soldiers could face trial at the international criminal court says chief prosecutor says there is reason to believe that war crimes were committed against captives in iraq.

but i welcome good evening you're watching r.t. international where it's just gone eight o'clock here in the russian capital. now protests are being held across the palestinian territories over donald trump's decision to recognize jerusalem as the capital of israel trump also gave the go ahead to move the american embassy from tel aviv to jerusalem which is long been contested by israelis and palestinians. but this is the latest video we have from the west bank protests is there have been burning tires and throwing objects in these israeli security forces which have responded with tear gas and water cannon authorities say dozens of people have been injured producer in fact marty arabic was caught up in the armrest and needed medical assistance protests against from the decision have been spreading across the middle east. therefore i have determined that it is time to officially recognize jerusalem as the capital

of israel. and that. no one has the right to play with the fates of the then so people for the sake of one's personal ambitions. are ignoring the palestinian muslim and christian rights in jerusalem will only fuel for the extremism and undermine the war against terrorism was such that. 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 saudi arabia's policy regarding the palestinians will never change the

palestinian issue is a primary concern to us. because. we were in the u.s. the drizzle and may stay year 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 or make sure. now there are reports to that dozens have been injured in clashes in the west bank and live fire has been used the israeli military day denies the use of life friends palestinians are holding a general strike with more protests expected over the coming days the islamist group hamas has called for an uprising called an intifada and the claim friday a day of prayer watch israelis as well as palestinians are voiced their phase of a trance decision. no. knows what will happen but dangerous days are coming to jerusalem that is definitely my. fear that there was violence

hopefully involved. and i think that unfortunately a u.s. presence makes a statement in the israeli cities and will need to pay the price for. what has been a massive backlash to trump's decision in india children in the school more. so far the focus has been on the possibility has need of more conflict between israel and the muslim world but it does appear that a threat has been made to the u.s. as well you know i mean this is exactly right and the reaction after trump's declaration that there was to be recognized as the capital of israel. was mainly the main focus was effect the arab world but actually time a number of world powers they did show grave concern including germany turkey and russia but this is the first time we've seen a threat directly to the u.s. and they will be serious consequences if this threat ahead of it comes to fruition

militia group in iraq they have come out with this direct threat against the u.s. let's just have a quick listen to what they said. trump's stupid decision will be the big spark for removing his rule from the body of the islamic militia and a legitimate reason to target american forces so what do we know then about this militia group well the name is her a cat the hezbollah they've got about ten thousand fighters according to reuters data and it's considered to be you know one of the main militia groups there in iraq it's backed by iran right by their mobilization forces one of the most important groups as i said so again this is a big statement to come from a prominent militia group in iraq and if this threat is real is it appears to be how many people will be a target we've got some figures here that we've taken from the u.s. defense department the latest figures about a large scale operation that they said that was there to fight i asked for me known

as isis around five thousand two hundred troops an awful lot of troops and people that could be potentially affected it would be an absolute disaster if they went ahead with their threat. i mean that situation in iraq there but it's potentially not only very few soldiers there that could be at risk to no not at all there are being worries again about the fact that trump has come out and said that the embassy the u.s. embassy will be moved to jerusalem what are the consequences of that never mind moving it would become an absolute target for various terrorist groups we've seen in the past in benghazi if you remember then in libya there were two attacks back in twenty twelve the first one was on september the eleventh by a terrorist group called ansar al sharia two people were killed there an american diplomat compound was attacked resulting the death of a u.s. ambassador to libya in the u.s. and also an information management management officer from the foreign service and

then very shortly after that literally down the road about one point six kilometers away there's another attack the following day on september the twelfth again by in a. the militant group. causing two cia contractors to be killed and ten others were wounded so we have seen in the past how the u.s. embassies or consulates or government buildings can become a target pretty sure that the staff working there and the thought of moving. very slowly did indeed carry banks certainly do that was a lady rich. well as we were saying there the current u.s. embassy in tel aviv is gearing up for a potential clash stores by implementing extra security measures it's also wish you to travel so you forbidding employees from traveling to jerusalem's old city concerns over security are growing by the minute you know new york got reaction early. 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 only to the israelis this is kind of obsolete rhetoric that the 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 did a 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 ranged 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 make the made to 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. their injury is met car. by

you on 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 worrying wards our solution in the future which is the land of the israelis crossing jerusalem nobody can object to it this is just story why this is really. your last table made to co-exist people need to find solutions well jerusalem 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 of the dome of the rock the oldest islamic

monument still in existence and also the mosque the third holiest site in islam well the city is at the very heart of the decades long conflict between israelis and also the palestinians israel calls jerusalem its eternal capital a claim most of the international community rejects that because of the dispute no countries have an embassy there the western part of the city is predominately israeli and the eastern part palestinian the holy sites there a particularly sensitive issue too and when threatened there's often been unrest and violence where european leaders and the un were also quick to voice their concerns calling washington step radical with more details his brief and 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 of an event 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 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 it is very project context. the potential to send. even darker chinese than the ones we already living in the u.k. is prime minister has joined the fear 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 while the u.s. has long been an ally with relations seemingly getting stronger since donald trump took office and its color explains there is 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 the current administration in favor of a foreign government michael flynn trumps 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 and. on or about december twenty second twenty sixteen and very senior member of the presidential transition team directed fully into context officials from foreign governments to learn where each government stewed 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 highest savin the israeli billionaire and jared christian 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 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 lobbyist spank rolling their activities well he threw in five million dollars to contribute to donald trump's inauguration now there is 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 journal how long we've known you. oh it was never small it was always big. always tall 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 is 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. not top diplomats of russia and the u.s. have finished their meeting on the sidelines of a security conference in austria rex tillerson touched on the crisis in syria be crying and north korea were among the topics to correspondent joins us live now

from vienna. what was said then what are we from this conversation that took place . when it was a relatively short meeting between the u.s. secretary of state and the russian foreign minister only around half an hour but they certainly did through an awful lot of issues on syria said again lead. rove told mr tillerson that after the fight against isis is being completed that syria's sovereignty must be respected and the territorial integrity of the country must be propelled on a rock we will perhaps expecting something more after the offer on wednesday from the russian defense ministry to cooperate militarily with the united states in the fight against islamic state in western iraq didn't hear too much more about that on the korean peninsula sergey lavrov warned the united states against potentially escalating the situation there through washington's military maneuvers both on the

korean peninsula and in the surrounding area sergey lavrov also urging a diplomatic solution saying that international cooperation was needed on not to bring about a peaceful solution to the nuclear issue regarding north korea on ukraine sergey lavrov reiterating that kiev must stick to the points it signed up to in the minsk agreement and then there was another issue that was something that first came to our attention on wednesday when the foreign ministry spokesperson marias the cutover said that there had been some unwanted attention from u.s. security services towards russian journalist based in the united states. said that it was unacceptable that washington would look to put pressure on russian diplomats or journalists that were based in the u.s. and said that that if it had happened certainly how to stop that's how it looks here in vienna after day one of the oas the conference that we're back on day two on friday with plenty more i'll be here to bring you all the latest on r.t.

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put themselves on the line. to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president and should. want. to go on to be this is what before you know more people. interested in the water. question. welcome back now u.k. soldiers could face prosecution at the international criminal court in the hague over allegations of war crimes committed in iraq the court's chief prosecutor says there are reasonable grounds to believe that some troops may have been or may have had peace 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. i was in investigation of these crimes which where they.

cannot be done that is it was. the in the cases where the fact that it was done. 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 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. now it's lee's biggest oil firm has been accused of dumping tons of toxic waste off the coast of sicily for decades and creating

a health crisis in nearby times residents of jailor 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 hell of 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 or a fine. in your neighborhood so i don't but i am 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 all my children be like me i ask myself where did i do wrong in life i mean you just cannot accept such as saying you will not be happy because my daughter is like this and she will always be like this. or the italian oil giant in question any has hit back at the allegations of triggering that health crisis it does claim there's no connection between the high rate of birth defects and its activities near sicily however those who say they have been affected have taken matters to court is their lawyer. just there's no family that hasn't been affected by a chimera illness and there are no months in which a mile from asian of birth is not recorded we decided to entrust through judiciary

inspection the explanation of the reason and the means by which search malformations and schumer illnesses could have been linked to industrial pollution . international thanks for company tonight will be back with just a thought and. so

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since its inception and there was one united states government institution that many folks both here in the u.s. and around the world of long kept they 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 injured since its inception under president truman back in one nine hundred forty 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 m b c news wall street journal poll found that just thirty three percent 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 dettori 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 quite this apparently is true scale and call right but 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. well let's stop watch

. you know what would you look like a real bitch this would be analyzing the bottom. line but the play like you're not i got. with. it would. be a good. way to tell. the world number one the hard science i robot to the top of the wallace. 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 i got to ask you how bad has things gotten when when members of trump.