friday morning here and. more than one hundred. after protests across the west bank. and violent. rubber bullets. with demonstrators and tensions spiked off the u.s. president. the capital of israel. which of course is also claimed by the palestinians.

the clashes have escalated beyond mayor street scum issues israeli defense force tanks and aircraft carried out strikes on two hamas positions in gaza the israeli army says it was in her tally ation for a rocket attack though that is despite the fact that a group not linked to hamas did take responsibility for that attack however donald trump's decision to recognize jerusalem as israel's capital has been met with some frustration at home hundreds of protesters took to the streets of chicago to

condemn the decision and the state department was on the receiving end also as well some concern. as a veteran diplomat and presented at any a do you personally agree with president susan. we all and i speak of my boss the secretary and the other prince was the u.s. government we are all part of this team this is a decision of which we will work our best to execute in advance do you believe that this decision in any way it appears that pursuit of peace and of the united states . we've made clear the president has made clear that he hopes it hopes advance this process helps move it for a much closer closer do you think it in any way impairs the pursuit of peace and what you hope i want to know if you think it has impaired your efforts i can't make that judgment at this point not even given the negative reaction was that you see

in arab capitals among some of your allies in the palestinians now again we will judge what actually happens with those parties as we deal with this process as we carry on discussions with them again we're not going to be driven by a state it's engine system with the idea that you would also be negotiating at the table in less you can acknowledge what we're all trying to get you to say i will only address one more point on this what were the words the president he used it was a very simple statement recognition of jerusalem as the capital of israel there are words you might want to put in there he didn't there were jim i want to take out he did an international response against america's unilateral and recognition of jerusalem is gathering steam as some world leaders have condemned trump decision and the u.n. security council will hold a special meeting on this issue today and one of the initiators of the meeting is bolivia and we spoke to the country's u.n. envoy. the u.s.

decision to acknowledge jerusalem as the capital of israel is a threat to international order and safety of a global protest against trump's decision recruits the palestinian leader mahmoud abbas said such damage the u.s. image as a mediator in the peace process we hope that the situation will be resolved peacefully and that the international community will exercise its influence to help our stine become an independent state. meanwhile the us is boosting security in the region and its you to travel alert for americans that's after friday was declared a day of rage with pro palestinian groups vowing that trump will pay dearly for his decision. to to hear more details to my colleague. now we've heard the first threat against the u.s. because of trams decision and if that threat comes to fruition there is really serious consequences there so one minister group in iraq has been directly

threatening let's say trumps stupid decision will be the big spark for removing israel from the body of the islamic 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 around backed popular mobilization forces and it is considered to be one of the most important militia groups there and if this threat is real is 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's 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 value soldiers there that could be at risk to no no. 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 do research in what are the consequences of that never mind moving it 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 attacks around in conflict areas and what does that mean for the u.s. who are thinking about or who will be forced to move to as my lot happens they're going to be really worried what we have seen today is that. an iranian backed militia called the hoc it was below. the you us and its personnel in iraq that they will be a target for this militia as a result of this you are such

a declaration and it will probably increase tension between the iraqi people and american personnel in iraq not not just only in baghdad but also in other. capitals now with or without this group is going to carry out attacks against american interests in iraq and not it will be seen but definitely this you are stick knowledge and has instigated tension among the arabs and muslims all over the middle east and we will probably see more is commissions in the coming hours and days. there's confusion over whether the u.s. will take part in the upcoming winter olympics in south korea white house spokesperson sarah saunders tweeted that the country is looking forward to the games although security remains a top priority but just hours before she had implied the team might not even be going. no official decision has been made on that and will keep us posted as those

decisions are made or the spokesperson has been quizzed off of the u.s. ambassador to the u.n. claimed america's participation in the upcoming games in south korea was open to question of the korean peninsula poses a security threat well it's easy and has been gauging reaction on the streets of new york. it turns out that a very well known country may not be participating in the upcoming olympic games and it's got nothing to do with russia or doping in fact it's the united states cue the u.s. ambassador to the united nations is that a done deal or even as the united states recommending that our team goes or is that still an open question as environment there has there is an open question i have not heard anything about that but i do know that in the talks that we have whether it's tourism whether it's north korea it's always about how do we protect the u.s. citizens in the area now let's see if people here are aware that their team may not be going to the winter games what country may not be sending any athletes to the

olympic games is it a russia b. north korea or c. the united states a russia russia. the the united states and why it's unclear i get a chance to read the article i know nikki haley threw it out there and i'm not sure exactly why we're not going to participate but i'll be a little more for major the day i've been shammed all morning i see no reason why we should so as united states yes nikki haley at the un's yesterday said we may not be participating what do you think of that. wow it's ridiculous it's terrible the u.s. olympic committee says there is no need to worry that there is no talk of not going to the games we have not had any discussions either internally or with our government bug news about the possibility of not taking teams to the ten to eighteen limbic and paralympic winter games so no need to worry that well to be fair there are quite a few anxieties swarming around the korean peninsula north korea recently one as

far as saying that with a war it's not a matter of if but when the success of large scale nuclear war exercises conducted by the u.s. or creating a touch and go situation on the korean peninsula and the series of warlike remarks coming from high level u.s. politicians in these circumstances have made the outbreak of war on the korean peninsula a certainty the remaining question now is when will the war break out. now one chinese newspaper has actually issued a nuclear strike survival guide china is currently conducting military drills meanwhile south korea reassures everyone that everything at the olympic games is going to be completely safe and normal meanwhile there are u.s. bombers flying overhead in war games rehearsing for an all out war with the north cable mop and artsy new york. in an effort to combat tax avoidance the e.u. has a black listed seventeen countries as off shore states however it failed to include

its own members which act as tax havens that's according to human rights and legal watchdog oxfam. the blacklisting process has been surrounded by secrecy putting citizens in the dark and leaving tax havens free to use their political and economic leverage to get themselves off the e.u. blacklist. claims for e.u. members luxembourg the netherlands and malta should all have been put on this blacklist as a so-called conduit offshore financial centers now as such countries act as an intermediate destinations for money transferred to tax havens they also provide favorable tax policies to ensure a quote quiet funds flow meaning ultimately the mediators protect the reputations of their client countries and financial commentator charlie boyle believes the e.u. is made an ineffectual attempt to clean and similar to the twenty sixteen panama

paper scandal. it was an attempt to be seen to be doing something internationally about the offshore havens the problem is inside it's inside the london as one of the biggest financial centers and it has the this this transfer pricing policy which which makes it. virtually zero percent for the big corporations in terms of corporation tax and it's also. saving in big saving the v.a. two years well so again it's totally an unfair what i found most interesting is the panama papers and read paradise papers and the leaks to do with that there's a lot of uproar but i'm amazed at how quickly it's died down it doesn't matter who's on the list or who who's not on the list it's a case of the the existing. business practices in those countries as well but it doesn't address the wider problem of the tax policies or individual western countries all across the world including the. let me quote

a part of the hour here in moscow crypto currency bitcoin has defied critics after its price reached new highs on thursday it rocketed above nineteen thousand dollars for the first time before slipping back slightly but before you go ahead and jump into investor perhaps a word of caution for marty's. 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 elected 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 bit coin 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 own is 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 who 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 calling but despite the security issues that have plagued cryptocurrency is over the is the price of bitcoin. nice 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 be cool is a fifteen million dollars it's the use of bitcoin as a currency is still highly questionable for the moment it's being treated less like a currency a more like a store of value and of course we should be forgetting the volatile roller coaster trip it's taken to get here so hang on for the rights if you're brave enough in the meantime great progress has been made in auto official intelligence experts remain divided on what the rise of autonomous machines means for humanity details on more

after the break. why i want to do this how did this return to london why it's a liberal city why was it is a cool one the most important thing. that i learned the plans of the airports in the south and the invisibility of our sense of the family liberated sense and why why do you think you did to me she does. anyone else seem wrong. why don't we just don't call. me.

yet to see how it just did come out today. and in detroit equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. i. thank you for sharing your friday with us here on r.t. international as artificial intelligence continues to integrate into our everyday lives a growing chorus of criticism is highlighting the dangers of handing control to machines for example there's now a supercomputer that's able to create an artificially intelligent child you can recognize objects such as cars and people in real time well are performing any human made algorithms another system made by google has created a machine that took just four hours to learn the rules of chess and then be told

world's leading program meanwhile tech giant facebook says its program can detect suicidal behavior by analyzing user information and facebook c.e.o. mark zuckerberg believes this is just the beginning in the future they will be able to understand more of the subtle nuances of language and will be able to identify different issues beyond suicide as well. my colleague colin bray discussing artificial intelligence with a panel of experts well i don't understand the fear part of what we need to understand with artificial intelligence is that we're just at the beginning this is just the tip of the iceberg what's going to happen in the near future is that going to have predictive analytics which will allow ai to predict your desires before you even know what you want just the thought of a machine is telling me what i want it already makes me uncomfortable and what we see that happening you know in our lives for twenty getting recommendations from these systems and they're constantly intervening in ways that we don't expect that

we didn't ask for the future is technological so we need to everyone's part of this technology and was in paul in form single one of us is going to go with balances and the and so i disagree with the fact that we are self-aware machines finally arrived and you this narrative so the new narrative has to be technology as a part of us it's a reflection of who we are that is the narrative we should be thinking about. and usual foreign affairs that has been hitting the headlines in sweden after coming to the help of those in need. let's just let it all or asterisk very patient. fertile.

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some people took speakers of us without hesitation one girl from the house and you took a picture not with us again we do it our ambulance was a little slow to see the. head of the twenty eighteen feet for world cup in russia he has spoken to the italian coach of spot moscow he shared his views on football philosophy and his experience of living in the russian capital you can hear that it wasn't going up what you thought those were the better. stuff they were a little spock like a coma you would be able to spot that guy and i thought it's over for stick i.v.'s but then when the nice weather on the theory was at one time the queue for the. mass on our squad. enforced down to any pencil.

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