i. and hundreds more people injured as a day of rage in the region tensions spilled over after the donald trump's controversial decision to recognize jerusalem as the capital of his. decision on jerusalem is roundly criticized by the international community that has had an emergency meeting of the united nations security council. also a major breakthrough in the regs it says both sides agree to move on to the next

stage of senior officials have warned that things will only get tough. thanks for joining us this hour my name is neil harvey and your chin international we will start this hour with breaking news because israeli jets have hit palestinian militant targets in the ganza strip that is in response to rocket attacks according to israeli defense forces believe you can cross live now to twenty four news correspondent. who's in gaza right now if you can hear me ok what is the latest coming from the region. right we're here on the israel gaza border and indeed over the past hour or so we have witnessed that idea of response hitting

targets inside the gaza strip just behind me here on the horizon we could see very large explosions and we could hear them as well of course this in response to earlier a projectile fired towards israel with one rocket actually being intercepted by israel's missile defense battery i would dome over the city of steroid that's a little to the north of here in fact there was a an additional project also fired towards israeli territory that it's yet to actually have been found and a little while after that around nine o'clock local time we did see that the response from the i.d.f. apparently for the aircraft hitting two targets to hamas to the hamas group which of course rules the gaza strip hitting a weapons warehouse inside the gaza strip as well as a hamas training facility always really held responsible for these kinds of cases a projectile far even if it is not actually responsible for the actual firing. responsible in sort of thor to. hamas seen as the sovereign body inside the gaza

strip and israel expects it to restrain ballard's it actually does that sometimes but in this case of course to ok so far with an idea of response many thanks the latest there from news correspondents. to palestinians have been killed and hundreds more injured in launch scale protests according to ministry several reports suggest that of the seven hundred fifty people were affected take us rubber bullets and even live ammunition were used by israeli police as they clash with demonstrators tensions have escalated following u.s. president decision to recognize jerusalem as the capital of israel. clashes

between protesters and israeli police have been seen across palestine and jerusalem people been gathering near the damascus gate where there is a massive israeli security presence marty charlotte reports. both schools were killed at the security services and at the journalists who were trying to get out of the way and then the police in turn were pushing those protesters away and running off to them some on the back of horses as well trying to steer them away from damascus gate but this is just an indication a small indication of some of the scuffles that we're seeing across the israeli and palestinian territories today and over the last few days we've been talking to israeli citizens and palestinian citizens this is what they had to say. they will not be a back of the questions the consequence of. a ramification of that will it for another intifada or another our revolution it's going to be in default i think so

you know but this is this time is not going to be short one you know i hope thinks them outright but i doesn't look right you know policies or look for any excuse they can't call for delivery and. they don't they're not going to help us is to assist significant move i think is going to cause trouble why jerusalem is to be the capital of israel i don't know it's here is in palestine it should remain in palestine there is the sound of call her owns in the end that sort of people showing support for the small number of demonstrators who are here they've been challenging things like this is our capital these are policy. demonstrate. that announcement by donald trump meanwhile on the other hand the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu has described this is being a great decision and he has thanked trump for recognizing jerusalem as the capital of israel. palestine says he will now reject any u.s.

led peace negotiations it also says that the u.s. for vice president mike pence will not be welcomed when he comes to the region later this month we discussed the implications of troops decision done dyker project director for the jerusalem center for public affairs and with now bill scharf foreign affairs advisor to the palestinian president. now for the peace process it actually paves the way to peace because israel will be called upon by the same trumpet ministration to make concessions to its palestinian neighbor which it will be much more ready to do now that a basic wrong has been corrected which is to to rightfully acknowledge that they drew sloan is the capital the possibility is really seem blocked by what mr trump has done gruesome is a very very sensitive issue to the palestinians to the arabs to the muslims and to the christians of the world and what what he has. created a serious situation not only of mistrust but of instability and potential for

explosion in this part of the world the palestinian authority looks and the hamas is of course they look for any excuse to call for a day of rage so you know that the hamas is in business to kill israelis and to kill political opponents like the fatah and the p.a. uses the day of rage as an excuse in order to avoid making any headway on the peace process and word intifada really means a popular uprising and a popular uprising can take the varieties of ways and what is going on today is an intifada what went on three months ago in jerusalem was an intifada but it was entirely peaceful and that's what our authority really aims at a popular uprising that is nonviolent is the best way of expressing the feelings and the rejection of the palestinian people of the trump and israeli occupation

well if the palestinians want to wipe themselves off the face of the back politically they should continue in this in this line of political violence as well as threats of physical violence i would suggest that they go back to the table where they have israelis with open arms and open hands willing to negotiate with them but this is something they're going to have to learn to do and stop calling for days of rage and for terror and violence. protests against troops decision have been staged across the world many people rallied in front of u.s. embassies in support of palestine demonstrators burned american and israeli flags as well as posters of trump and benjamin netanyahu. meanwhile washington's decision on the status of jerusalem prompted an emergency session of the un security council with details from new york is killing more than well at the emergency session of the fifteen members of the united nations security council fourteen of those members stepped up and criticized the united states for its decision regarding

recognizing jerusalem as israel's capital and announcing that it would move its embassy we regard east jerusalem as part of the occupied palestinian territories. we therefore disagree with the u.s. decision to move its embassy to jerusalem and unilaterally to recognize jerusalem as the capital of israel before a final status agreement. we regret the decision announced by the president of the united states to recognize jerusalem as the capital of his room for in the glory of the midst of the arab league the arab republic of egypt denounces the u.s. decision to recognize jerusalem as the capsule of israel. china is highly concerned about the recent developments regarding the status of jerusalem. it was good to be out in. washington's decision with serious concern. now when nikki haley took the floor at the security council chamber she emphasized that trump's decision did not

really have any direct impact on any borders or ongoing territorial disputes it was simply a recognition of the israeli capital being in jerusalem the united states has not taken a position on boundaries or borders the specific dimensions of sovereignty over jerusalem are still to be decided by the israelis and the palestinians in the negotiations the united states has not advocated changing any of the arrangements at the temple mount hareem serif the president specifically called for maintaining the status quo at the holy site. finally and critically the united states is not predetermining final status issues we remain committed to achieving a lasting peace agreement during her remarks nikki haley argued that the united nations was not treating israel properly and she also went on to say that because the united states side facilitated previous agreements between israel and egypt and

israel and palestinians that they had been signed on the white house lawn with this show that the united states maintained credibility within the both sides those were her words the usa maintains credibility with both sides now we then heard from a representative of the palestinian authority and he seemed to strongly disagree with what nikki haley had said. to do or does the use impunity undermines and essentially disqualify its leadership rule to seek peace in the region in the aftermath of this announcement from trump we have seen quite a bit of chaos protests are taking place not just in palestine but also throughout the region with various various supporters of the palestinians protesting a lot of anger and the days of rage that have been called by palestinians and others so quite a bit of a strong reaction to the announcement from donald trump which was discussed at the

u.n. security council. is going to get new but it is a political science professor at birzeit university very good evening to the side we heard nikki haley repeating. claim that the decision would mean a change of borders for jerusalem do you think that haley was repeating what the president said because they are feeling a bit of depression here. no i think the american were surprised with the outcome today and yesterday over the top. speech especially that. apparently the israeli had gave them lots of assurances that there will be you know like few the most russians here and there and everything will be fine but what they found today that was alarming totally especially for the. administration in washington and especially for the

foreign ministry as well that arab countries or over there was the most stations we are talking about like in fifteen position in jordan alone let alone you know. tunisia algeria you are talking about all over the arab countries apart from also the palestinian territories where you know lots of. injured and two died today because of this incidence and anyway the escalation of the whole situation was apparently surprising so we feel like the mr tillerson and also. the haley speech today was reflecting a kind of the want to to absorb a little bit of the rage in the arab world trying to say that this decision of. tramp is not effecting the border they are trying you know to play on the words not nothing more than that they are trying to assure the palestinians that even

jerusalem might be also negotiated so i think that this is a very bad pathetic kind of way it's the. speech of term was so clear and it's the meaning of it is so clear and the israeli are celebrating now the administration also they are trying to send the vice president mike pence and also trying to contact the palestinians in order and. invited more than bass the brazilian president to visit washington but that all. we try to you know absorb the shock and try to absorb the reaction not only in palestine also in the arab world and as well as other arab islamic countries and tomorrow we are waiting also for europe because we understood that there will be many demonstrations in so many capitals around also europe the decision was

a huge mistake and i think mr trump should take it back and back off this kind of decision to bring things come otherwise i think things are more going to be escalated and more violence might be witnessed in the whole region not only in palestine well i just want to touch from what you just mentioned side because in the last couple of hours we've heard that israeli jets hit palestinian militant targets in the gaza strip the israelis say that was in response to rocket attacks i mean we're already seeing an escalation how worried are you that this could keep on . well we are worried definitely. but apparently by hamas and jihad in islam at least together with the palestinian authority and factor they agreed that it's not about time for another war today

with israel and i think the us try to contain any kind of. a scary action in the area that's the decision if you like now regard less you'll find sometimes some other smaller organizations who do not agree on that and they might tend to escalate and neutrally whatever happened from gaza i would blame hamas and will target hamas so i don't think that how masses are ready today nor they are wanted to start a kind of a new war in gaza but this israeli will target hamas anyway in any case anyone did something from gaza and the last two days we have witnessed like these two incidents yesterday there was some rockets fired from gaza and today there was some rockets fired from gaza in both. the israeli had retaliated directly against. which means that sometimes you will find you know some smaller groups who could

manage to just send our rockets to israel and that is not contained by the personal authority nor by hamas and it is really respond will be like that we are afraid that this israeli response will be sometimes. bigger than what we expected and that will trigger the whole area into a new war in. sight appreciate your insight never my guess a professor of political science is a university. in other news sprints prime minister treason may says all sides of the briggs in negotiations are now ready to move on to the next stage of talks but there are still many obstacles to the u.k. expected coming up parties on the situation explains. certainly in the bronx it's a deadline is looming time is ticking at what we've seen so far is that these negotiations have been anything but very simple especially maybe according to those

who expect to things to move forward much quicker we've seen a theresa may and european commission president john clarke are basically pot themselves on the box for breaking through with this first round of discussions when it comes to the issue of irish borders now they're looking forward to moving on to issues such as trade however we have seen the european council president donald tusk come out and say that they're going to be really some different harsh realities he's talked about specifically the transition period that the u.k. has put forward saying that britain wants this two year transition period on tuesday sad that this is going to come along with some pretty serious conditions he has said that not only will decisions be made without the u.k. in this time but he's also said that the u.k. is going to have to respect laws in that time including new laws including budgetary commitments as well as judiciary oversight let's take a listen clearly was in the transition period following the u.k.

withdrawal. decision making group continue among. the. states do you agree. that. seems to be dilutive reasonable solution well low following these latest developments reaction including some negative come from the likes of former you keep letter leader and pioneer nigel farage who has basically described the way things have been going a sort of an embarrassment so let's stay tuned to see how these negotiations will now continue to move forward. since the briggs's vote the european union has stepped up its surface to bolster the blog the latest push came from the former president of the european parliament politician multan schultz who proposed to create should the united states of europe. i want to new constitutional treaty to establish the united states of europe

a europe that is no threat to its member states but a beneficial addition the convention should draft this treaty in close cooperation with the civil society and the people its results will then be submitted to all member states any state that won't ratify this treaty who automatically leave the e.u. a number of other measures to boost your opinion it is previously been proposed among them the creation of a european army the european version of the international monetary fund and having an in you finance minister eleven discuss this with the head of the people's party michael modicum and who says that europeans are worried by the prospect of a united states of europe. if you look at all the polls today from cities and from all over europe they don't want two more severe and four for the e.u. they want to the contrary that the member states get back more seventy they want to take their first futures back in their hands particularly taking into account

that the e.u. looks to be a very undemocratic you know an elected official taking decision today in brussels that many citizens oppose and more to read the incapacity of the e.u. to tackle the major issues in europe and certainly one of the major issue for example is migration a lot of european want the borders because and we know today that they are approximately six million people waiting all along. to get into europe and europe and want to block that and you see that the e.u. . is to younger for example saying that we need more migration we need to open the borders this kind of ideas are totally rejected so i see that a lot of. european citizen will be concerned and worried by mr shore's plans or declaration. the e.u.

has blacklisted seventeen countries offshore state in an effort to combat tax avoidance but according to the charity oxfam some countries were left off that list because of political pressure 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. what fun claim is that for you members island luxembourg the netherlands and mugdha should be on the blacklist of tax havens if the you applied its own criteria to them oxfam also points out some e.u. members not only use so called conduit of shore financial centers that they are actually acting as once they do this by being an intermediate destination for money that transfer to tax havens they also provide favorable tax policies to ensure a quiet funds flow this enables mediators to protect the reputations of client countries financial come to charlie boyle believes that the e.u.

is made in effect shula turned to clean up its image after the two thousand and sixteen palomar paper 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 london as 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 vietti as well so again it's it's totally on. what i've found most interesting is the palomar papers and the 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 is 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 an individual western

countries are all across the world including the e.u. . and unusual foreign visitor has been causing a stir in the swedish capital russian ambulance that was helping somebody in need. many asking why it was that. a string given there must be a movie being filmed according to the number plate the ambulance came from from petersburg could be something like a russian party bus and bunch of people who hired an ambulance and went to sweden to party is it putin's guys whose goal is to kidnap someone on the streets and take them to mother russia. here's the real reason why russian ambulance was in stockholm. was this little paul or asterisk very patient first wheaten to st peter's for

a. while were passing to talk home without just another patient in the street and a crowd signalling towards. the people tasking by our vehicle asked us to stop and pointed at a man lying on the ground. it turned out that he had had an epileptic attack we had all we could to give him first aid. we waited for a local ambulance to come and handed the patient over to our colleagues.

back to our breaking news story this hour israeli jets of hit palestinian militant targets in the gaza strip in response to rocket attacks that's according to israeli defense forces palestinian medics report that at least twenty five people were injured by those jet attacks earlier sirens sounded in several israeli border towns this friday had been declared a day of rage of palestine with a mass calling for a new intifada an armed rebellion against israel that was all in response to donald trump's decision to recognize jerusalem as israel's capital. you are right up to date appreciate you staying with us this evening here on r.t. international i'll see you at the top of the hour. her.

mood. when i was a child seemed wrong wrong when all the world's just all. new world you get to shape out just the you can't get the ticket and indeed from an equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. and is getting international recognition with the help of israel at least in the world of zoos. dismiss it. like. this isn't my cup of tea is going up the study hall meeting. with.

the only palestinian gets the most help from its jerusalem counterparts. on the vision. and the desire to have this lady of the most of the i'm going to compete in the doesn't seem to do more. than piss off. hello and welcome to cross talk we're all things are considered i'm peter lavelle donald trump's decision to move the u.s. embassy from tel aviv to jerusalem signals washington now deems this to be israel's capital reaction was easy to predict various degrees of dismay how this is in

america's interest is difficult to fathom the law of unintended consequences is surely in play. across talking jerusalem i'm joined by my guest philip giraldi and personal he is a former cia counterterrorism specialist who is now executive director of the counsel for the national interest in washington we have grant smith he is the director of the institute for research of middle eastern policy as well as author of big israel how israel's lobby. moves america and in philadelphia we cross to greg roman he is the chief operations officer for the middle east forum on a german cross like rules in effect that means he can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate philip let me go to you first here donald trump ran on the platform of making america great again how is the. great igniting jerusalem israel's capital pursuit in advancing that agenda making america great

again and i would it's making american foreign policy great again i don't know go ahead philip yeah well that's that's the fundamental question here i mean basically people like myself. people who consider themselves a patriotic americans are wondering when donald trump is going to start deliver the levering on changing our foreign policy which has been destructive of the united states in this particular case. you have to ask what does the united states and what do americans get out of this they don't get anything out of this essential or this is going to create a lot of problems having been a diplomat overseas myself i can tell you that at the security is going to have to go through the roof of embassies and military installations around the world american tourists are going to be potential targets of terrorism much more so than they are now american businessmen are going to have to consider the security costs

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