range israelis as well as palestinians have voiced their fears over trump's decision. no one knows what will happen in the dangerous days are coming to jerusalem that is definitely my fear that it will spark 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. there has been a strong international backlash to trump's decision as well. joining my colleague andy farmer in the studio with the latest. so the immediate reaction after trying to declare jerusalem as the recognized capital of israel was concerned about how it would affect the arab world a number of world powers have expressed their grave concern but now with one militia group in iraq they have come out with this direct threat against the u.s. because of trams decision and if that threat comes to fruition there is really serious consequences the trump stupid decision will be the big spark for removing

his rule from the body of the islamic militia and the legitimate reason to target american forces so what do we know then about this militia group well the name of the group is the hezbollah. it's a prominent militia group shia militia group and it's made up of around ten thousand iraqis and they're also part of the round backed popular mobilization forces and it is considered to be one of the most important militia groups there and if this threat is real as it appears to be how many people would be a target well we can't forget how many people have been sent on a large scale operation according to the u.s. defense department and these are the latest figures apparently there is around five thousand two hundred troops there in the country an awful lot of troops to be affected if these threats become a reality that situation in iraq there but it's potentially not only very few soldiers there could be

a risk to no not at all there are 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 like the two coordinated attacks that were carried out by militant groups there so we've already seen u.s. embassies consulates government buildings attacked around in conflict areas and what does that mean for the u.s. staff who are thinking about or who will be forced to move to jerusalem as happens they're going to be really worried. we asked professor of political sociology dr saeed sadik whether he thought the shia militias would follow through on their threat against u.s. forces in iraq they don't think that this group is able to really attack highly. american force justice that and i don't think it will be

translated because they know that american will respond. more. aggressive way if this happens. but you have to also take into consideration that there is a war proxy war inside they are between iran and the united states and also has links to iran and iran feels that this is a prime where you can was all this muslim anger again is and i think states that such operations can take place even if it can live. troubled. european leaders and the un were also quick to voice their concerns calling washington's step radical. that you this is you hold that this is a regrettable decision which france does not approve of and which contradicts international law and un security council resolutions recognizing jerusalem as the capital of israel does not calm a conflict rather it fuels it even more it's in everyone's interest that that does

not happen it is a very fragile context and the announcement has the potential to sent back puts even darker times than the ones we know that is leaving and we disagree with the u.s. decision to move it sound to jerusalem and recognize jerusalem as israeli capital before any final status agreement we believe it is somehow for in terms of prospects for peace is considered sacred by jews muslims and christians alike now the jewish quarter of the city is home to the western wall believed to be the last remnant of the second jewish temple which was very heart eternal decision calling it historic he also invited more countries to follow the u.s. example america has long been an ally of israel with relations seemingly getting stronger since donald trump took office and. explained there is plenty of intrigue on just how close the ties between team trump and israel 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. on or about december twenty second twenty sixteen and then recently a member of the presidential transition team directed fully into contact officials from foreign governments to learn what each government stewed on the resolution and to influence those governments to delay the vote or defeat the resolution. 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 you. were. taking steps to try and get the. united nations security council. to. not go along this crowd and myself want to thank you for making that i will 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 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. and washington's controversial decision on jerusalem was among the topics discussed at talks between the top diplomats of russia and of the u.s. he's not r.t.s. but sergey lavrov and rex tillerson there's an r.t. for you in that on the sidelines of a security conference in austria from their r.t.s. peter oliver reports. we've been hearing from russian foreign minister sergey

lavrov he held a meeting with u.s. secretary of state rex tillerson on thursday here in vienna it only lasted for around thirty minutes but they certainly motored through an awful lot of topics the big news of the day really being that the decision by the united states to move the embassy to jerusalem said again a lot of said that he asked rex tillerson why the pursuit of assistance we asked them to clarify the points of the decision to move the u.s. embassy in israel from tel aviv to jerusalem we asked them about the consequences from this move but mediating efforts on the part of the un we have a lot of questions and drew their attention to the concerns from both the arab and muslim countries that could undermine or even bury negotiations on a two state solution also on the agenda was the future of syria with sergey lavrov saying that the sovereignty of the country must be protected in the integrity. the integrity of the borders of syria must be protected on

a rock we were expecting something a little more about the offer made on wednesday by the russian defense ministry for military cooperation with the united states in order to to read western iraq of isis nothing forthcoming on that elsewhere around the world the situation on the korean peninsula of course was on the agenda said he allowed rove saying to washington that their actions their military maneuvers both on the peninsula itself and in the nearby eskil to sit the nuclear issue must stick to what it signed up for in the minsk agreement in the violations of minsk agreed in iraq and of course chief prosecutor says there are reasonable grounds be used captives between two the 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 actually pulled out of iraq the only thing the prosecutor

has. said that there is a reasonable basis to believe that british soldiers unlawfully killed prisoners during that the war. i was involved in investigations of these crimes which where they call there. are not there done that is it was. the in the cases where where it came to the fact that it was done. and 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 pound 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 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 that 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. the cryptocurrency big coin has once again defied neat sayers by spiking above eighteen thousand dollars at one point on thursday but before you jump in here is a word of caution from. the. it's calling labels the hottest current see no one is using his past milestone off to milestone but the rising value of the cryptocurrency has attracted both investors and criminals alike here's an idea of how much has gone into the pockets of hackers and elsewhere as we look at three of the most infamous cases. this recent case involves mining

marketplace nice hash who faced in that it uses something was wrong when visitors were greeted with a maintenance notice quickly discovered that nice hash wallets were completely empty and all of the bitcoin had been transferred to one single wallet totaling over sixty two million dollars the company's advice to use this change in policy is . this involves a credit to currency exchange convinced it's multifaceted layers of security and hackable it created a system with multi signature wallets where keys were divided among onus and transactions had to be cosigned they're even bold enough to state the era of commingle and custom of bitcoin or of the associated skirt exposures is well famous last words one hundred twenty thousand units were stolen from the exchange platform valued then at around seventy two million dollars. now here's the low tech crypto fail a british man claims he accidentally threw

a hard drive containing coin private keys into a local rubbish dump along with his household waste he says he's now considering digging up that until well that could be eighty million dollars in there so that we have it the bitcoin community has been rattled by intelligent hacking exposing security flaws and even catus management these three cases alone including the final mishap have seen the loss of at least two hundred fourteen million dollars worth of bits going but despite the security issues that have plagued cryptocurrency is over the is the price of bitcoin. it needs to skyrocket is there even predictions that if this continues by this rate this time next year if it could be worth more than the entire world's wealth one single bitcoin will equal is it fifteen million dollars it's the use of bitcoin as a currency is still highly questionable at the moment it's being treated less like a currency and more like a store of value now and of course we should be forgetting the volatile roller

coaster trip it's taken to get hit so hang on for the right if you're brave enough . italy'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 towns residents of jell-o. 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.

got off to my son is missing the whole front of his mouth and the holy paladin aside 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 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 and like all the others he would have had a normal life. by fifteen year old son asks me if oliver 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 as i will not be happy because my daughter is like this and she will always be like this. the italian oil giant in question any head back out 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 however those who say they have been affected are now taking matters to court their lawyer at the. i mean there's no

family that hasnt been affected by it you merely a mess and there are no months in which a malformation at birth is not recorded we decided to entrust the judiciary inspection the explanation of the reason and the means by which search malformations and humor illnesses could have been linked to industrial pollution. it has emerged that the bulk of funding for research to wipe out disease spreading past such as mosquitoes comes from a u.s. military agency and the environmentalists who have traced where the money's coming from are concerned that the technology being developed might get misused or even lead to an ecological disaster what's concerning about a gene drive 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 say a single mosquito or a single mouse and then through sexual reproduction it spreads straight until it

takes over there is a strong concern that you could use a gene growth system to stretch to spread a deleterious trait you could for example try to cause a artist 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 skeeters if you have a military agency or 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. and the research focuses on modifying species d.n.a. so populations can inherit desired changes however given the potential for abuse the united nations is considering a moratorium on the project e-mails obtained by e.t.c group show that the u.s.

military has invested one hundred million dollars in the project so far now the u.s. defense department has been on the biological engineering but many of its activities are believed to be kept under wraps in the interests of national security jim thomas again he describes how the development of genetic modification technologies has progressed over time we knew that the u.s. military was interested in gene drives and we were funding to a certain level but what's become clear is that probably the major fund 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 the 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. darpa responded to some of the concerns raised over its genetic research it says the project has been mischaracterized and that it's committed to being fully transparent. that does it for me i'll be back in about thirty four minutes with your headlines you are watching our to international what have you if it's.

just. come to. the now corporations are levying taxes on on people no it's not exist without representation worth my representation on amazon stock and less i get a commands or a share of amazon stock to participate in the growth of this corporate takeover i'm under no obligation to fulfill this is ya from just based on. a partisan push on taxes can mitch mcconnell get a text mildewed president before the new year. and what happens to the economy if he does the experts weigh in on this edition of politics. rather than politicking on larry king thunders faces

a busy week in washington which includes avoiding a government shutdown and for the g.o.p. attempting to reach a deal on a text package following the senate's passage of a one point five trillion dollar tax bill the end of last week now can the house and senate reach agreement on the varying tax bills and will the president finally get a big legislative when he once before the holidays and if so what happens next we're going to talk about that with chris lew he was a senior official in the obama administration serving his deputy secretary of labor and white house cabinet secretary he is now a senior fellow at the university of virginia miller center and he joins us from washington d.c. chris can the g.o.p. put the two things together can the senate and house come together before the end the year. i think they will but i still think there's a while to go there are some significant differences between the house and the

senate version i'm sure that whatever gets the conference will make it through the house i'm a little bit less sure about the senate there's not a lot of room for error and there are a bunch of compromises that had to be made in order to win over a couple of senate republican votes and so we'll have to wait and see what the conference version of the legislation looks like. did truman complicate things when he said over the weekend that he would consider a higher corporate rate than the one the senate republicans fest ido i think he did and i think what has been most useful in the negotiations over this legislation is that he has largely stayed out of this i think the more he gets involved the more he starts to weigh in on various options i think it starts to complicate things and so i think he'd be best to kind of let mcconnell and ryan try to work this out among themselves does this compare to rig one nine hundred eighty six tax do. well it doesn't larry and it doesn't because what was important reagan's ninety six tax

bill is that it was kind of that once in a generation cleaning out of the tax code but importantly it lowered individual tax rates to the tune of about one hundred twenty billion and then it found about one hundred twenty billion dollars of revenue from increasing corporate taxes so in the end it was a revenue neutral measure and president reagan was very adamant back in one thousand nine hundred six that he wouldn't sign anything that increase the national debt what you have right now is a bill that will add about a one and a half trillion dollars to the national debt and there in there is a disagreement about how much economic growth will come out of this but i think even the most a wildly optimistic assumptions no one finds that will completely offset it the debt with increased economic growth and so this really is republicans abandoning their long standing opposition to adding to the national debt and the economic growth of the united. stock market is ok does

trump deserve credit for this well certainly you know there has been a slight strengthening of the economy the economic growth over the last year i think it's important that this really continues a long term economic recovery that began back in two thousand and ten under.