more than one hundred. mixed messages from the united states. conflict. on the program we asked people in new york if they can guess which country might no longer take. action.

that's according to human rights legal watchdog. a very warm welcome to you from all of us here at international. more than one hundred palestinians have been injured after protests across the west bank. and tear gas rubber bullets and even live ammunition were used by israeli police clashed with demonstrators. spiked after u.s. president to recognize the capital of israel as jerusalem which is of course also claimed by the palestinians.

and the classroom stuff escalated beyond the main street scum which is israeli defense force tanks and aircraft carried out strikes on to hamas positions in gaza the israeli army says it was in retaliation for a rocket attack though that is despite the fact that a group not linked to hamas has already taken responsibility for that attack however 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 also on the receiving end of

some concerns do you believe that this decision in any way it appears that pursuit of peace in the united states. we've made clear the president is made clear that he hopes it hopes advance this process helps move it for a closer pushes do you think it in any way here the pursuit of peace and what you hope i want to know if you think it is impaired your efforts i can't make that judgment at this point nor do you can given the negative reaction was that you've seen in arab capitals among some of your allies. 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. to be driven by a state its intrinsic sin 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 which you think you are absolutely no think that you have but but the idea that it may be

that is that jerusalem is the capital but perhaps in final status negotiations that it might be not the divine the united capital i was 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 the u.s. vice president in time mike who was due to visit the region later this month may now have to counsel a senior official within the palestinian government says pence is not welcome in any meeting with the leader of the abbas is simply out of the question well an international response against america's unilateral recognition of jerusalem is gathering steam some world leaders have condemned decision and the u.n. security council will hold a special meeting on the issue today and one of the initiators of this meeting was

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 the global protest against trump's decision proves the palestinian leader mahmoud abbas said such a step that damaged 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 a travel alert for americans that's after friday was declared a day of rage is calling for a new intifada rebellion against israel with other pro palestinian groups are vowing that trump will pay dearly for his decision. to discussing the situation with my colleague andrew farmer 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 have a listen to what they have to say trump stupid decision will be the big spark for removing israel from the body of the islamic nation and a legitimate reason to target american forces so what do we know then about this militia agree well the name of the group is 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 will 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 could be a risk to no not at all there are been 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 a 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 well that happens they're going to be really worried. what we have seen today is that on

an iranian backed militia called the hoc it was below. the you us and its personnel in iraq that there will be a target for this militia as a result of this us declare mission and it will probably increase tension between the iraqi people and american personnel in iraq not just on me 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 sticking on edge and has instigated tension among the arab son 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 united states 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 now and will keep us posted as those decisions are made the spokes person had been quizzed after the u.s. ambassador to the u.n. claimed that america's participation in the upcoming games in south korea was open to question as the korean peninsula poses a security threat correspondent caleb maupin 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 q the u.s. ambassador to the united nations is that a done deal or 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've not had any discussions either internally or with our government

partners about the possibility of not taking teams to the twenty eighteen a limp it can power olympic 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 the effort to combat tax avoidance the e.u. is blacklisted seventeen countries hours off shore states however it failed to include its own members which act as tax havens that so called into the human rights and legal watchdog oxfam the blacklist in 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 that for e.u. member island luxembourg the netherlands and malta should all of the input of all not blacklist so-called conduit to offshore financial centers such countries act as a into media destinations for money transferred to tax havens they also provide favorable tax policies to ensure a quote quiet funds flow that means the media is ultimately protect the reputations

of their client countries and financial commentator charlie boyle believes the e.u. is made ineffectual attempts to clean its image after the twenty sixteen panama papers scandal. it was a an attempt to be seen to be doing something internationally about the offshore havens the problem is inside it's inside the e.u. london is one of the biggest financial centers and it has the 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. a saving in big saving of the eighty as well so again it's it's a totally unfair what i found most interesting is the panama papers and the paradise papers and the leaks to deal 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. quarter past the hour here in moscow cryptocurrency bitcoin has defied critics after its price reached new highs on thursday it blew past nineteen thousand dollars for the first time before slipping back slightly before you go ahead and jump in to try to invest is a word of caution from artie's and he's just happy. it's calling the labels the halt its currency no one is using his past milestone off the milestone but the rising value of the crypto currency 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 users something was wrong when visitors were greeted with a maintenance notice quickly discovered that nice hush 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 of policy which 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 become assigned there even bold enough to state the era of commingle and custom of bitcoin and all 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 bitcoin 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 bitcoin but despite the security issues that have plagued cryptocurrency is over the is the price of bitcoin. continues to skyrocket is there even predictions that if this continues by this right this time next year if it could be west 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 move like a store of value now and of course we should be forgetting the bonus how roller

coaster trip is taken to get hit so hang on for the right if you're brave enough. meantime great progress is being made an artificial intelligence experts remain divided on what the rise of autonomous machines might mean for humanity those details on more after the break. our.

global blog w one the idea that dropping bombs brings us to the chickenhawk forcing you to fight the battles that. you talk to try to tell you that we have what. you are not cool enough. that we all want to walk. international the austrian capital vienna is now playing host to day two of the summit of the organization for security and operation in europe the russian foreign minister started for office speaking let's have a listen. and he's staff for their excellent

organization. the presidency and to the session of the ministerial meeting of the o.e.c.d. you probably know the discussion that we had the whole day yesterday at the plenary sessions. and we discussed some acute issues but really. dramatically opposed views were expressed until time is short he said and i think it's very hard to argue against this point that the security architecture. their local point right now we see growing tensions particularly because ofa nato's policy to contain russia and expand eastward. the increase of its potential there we are also concerned about it texts on.

my language and educational rights mass media freedoms and new not see trends which is not properly addressed. by the european union and there is certain countries accuse russia propaganda hybrid warfare. nor to make themselves appear in assent even though the by a late to the fundamental principles of the o c in numerous occasions of course this discord stands in a way of us joining forces to fight a real threats like terrorist. drug trafficking and organized crime. and the ministerial meeting seem to be in a. rush and its allies from the c.s.t. you e.u. russia prepared in a matter of drafts for this meeting on the matters that are going to bring us together fighting terrorist ideology and support for resolution twenty three fifty

of the un security council integration process sees in our common space and also the need to counteract. the demolition of monuments to the. victors in the world war two also the russian federation. presented its draft resolution on the human dimension and the reform of this damage in the oversea unfortunately our partners were not prepared to discuss these issues in a serious way. and those decisions were not approved but we will continue raising these matters going forward because it's to go to the number of states that oh please say yes to your circulated their declaration. saying that it is unacceptable to demolish monuments to the people who. defeated.

the nazis and we also circulated documents on small arms and conventional weapons unfortunately because of their disagreement we were not able to get the document on militarist to build to prove their security cooperation the forums still we hope that this dialogue will continue but we tend to discuss political military issues in a specific and constructive manner. we don't any board association. this would be a very good step towards rebuilding trust. school. we have. been able to sign a want to document us cyber security with us we hope the. number of other documents that are still being discussed will be adopted on

environmental and ecology she's thirty minutes here in basket we welcome the fact that they document on. human trafficking was adopted in another document supplied by below sea level in the united states on sex sexual exploitation of children and protecting children is definitely what priorities in the human and mention of the always see unfortunately many other documents that's much better we plan to consider on humanitarian issues were not adopted primarily because of. the position of some of the countries this is the fourth year in a row that their position prevented us from approving a decision on fighting christian a phobia and islamophobia with the. declaration adopted on the twenty fourteen and semitism boarding schools and the boarding condemnation of

attacks on christians and muslims in europe. our western partners explain this law the need to issue some generic calls for universal tolerance i think this is there in your head in the sand this is insufficient yesterday we had a special event with our partners. and the christians who writes and we offered some specific facts illustrating how serious this problem is . so you could go and europe with its christian roots so. morris should not stay away from protecting the rights of christians. and they just it's a pity that the humanitarian aid janda because of the politicized position of some of the countries we were unable to make decisions on poor l o t. views in mass media we looked at the number of issues related to overcome income

puts. them in the way they would always see we mark some progress seen need transnistria conflict to reach over a nice theory of progress on some issues related to practical matters such as education and. mobile until often and also in the document that we doctored today we welcome to the tactic of small steps. we welcomed. and later this year there will be another five close to meeting and like i said on the transnistria we can say today that we've adopted a statement welcoming the progress we've made and. i would like to say that this progress was achieved because. talk to direction and agreed on the number of steps intended it to facilitate the daily life of people living in transnistria and

the rest of moldova because they were making their lives more comfortable i encourage our ukrainian colleagues to do this same not to ignore the year responsibilities as reflected in the agreement they should start talking directly to donetsk and lugansk just like you know went to russia talk directly and this is not even a request this is a demand that's been approved by the un security council when we unanimously supported the minsk agreements in the un security council we also approved a statement. by detroit. we're. going to russia the united states and france on the board of the caught up with a firm in their principles based on which on which this item should be based you know that our discussion on the ukraine was quite a chance i would like to point out the main points of difference everybody agrees

that there is no alternative to the minsk agreement and everybody supports always see efforts seen circling the conflict in the bass both within the context group and through the active it is carried out by the special monitoring mission of the always see in eastern ukraine unfortunately. because of the destructive position of our colleagues from keefe we were unable to agree a declaration that would reflect the supro of. the ukraine. we wanted to. accept to both points which are provisions to this document but like i said everybody agreed that there is no alternative to demean sq package of measures also we were unable to adopt a statement supporting the geneva discussion on the need trance can scare trance kasia because of disagreements between participants but most importantly let me go back to what i started with we discussed the key issues for european security yes

we heard a lot of rhetoric a lot of disputes. but but we still believe such extreme positions which are that we hear in these discussions and this is unavoidable this should not stand in the way for further practical steps in preparing a solution if we all even in this difficult situation in the euro and in international affairs in general if we say that there can be no business as usual we have to cooperate wherever it is serves the interests of all the parties involved. here's a chance for the always see to do just that to adopt a decision. and decisions. would not be based on confrontational rhetoric but would be based on the need to find things that bring us together things that we have in common and come to an agreement that would reflect our a consensus of the balance of interests. not just somebody demands.

so when you believe that he has some potential to be always see and to tap into this potential we have to. insist on the making practical steps in reforming this organization we've had russia's proposal zx and other countries proposals on the table for years to develop a charter for this organization and define the rules for all of its. institutions including or dear and all of the election monitoring we needed to. so clear guidelines for always see missions in other because in some countries by the way we welcome the fact that for the first time i give the entire history of the see in november the secretariat of this organization prepared a document which shows just what you need for the state of affairs to go with

projects that are being implemented where the non budgetary cons because up until recently. whenever we asked to show us how this one budgetary funds are worse they would tell us that it's up to donors it's. well if you are the donor you can do this directly but if you come to the always see if you say i give this money to a certain project in a country x. then i always see flag on this project i think. it is only decent to tell others what this. project these in the world what are the goals of this project so i strongly believe that. we still have a common goal. it was. asked on our summit in twenty ten to set up a community a universal community based on corporation an indivisible security you knew your atlantic and eurasian.