because. israel's armed forces target gaza in response to several rockets launched against. the. two calls to them hundreds of injured as a day of rage is declared in the region. plus a major breakthrough is reached in the break that talks as both sides agree to move to the next stage though senior officials warn that things will only get tougher.

broadcasting live from our studios in moscow this is our to international thomas certainly glad to have you with us we start with breaking news this hour israeli jets have hit palestinian militant targets in the gaza strip in response to rocket attacks that's according to the israeli defense forces palestinian medics report at least twenty five injured i twenty four news correspondent shy ben ari is in gaza for us. 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 this in response to earlier projectile fired towards israel with one rocket actually being intercepted by israel's missile defense battery i would go over the city of stare at 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. hitting two targets to hamas to get a weapons warehouse inside the gaza strip as well as a hamas training facility. hard to discuss this issue further we are now joined live by middle east analyst. thanks for being with us here on our team international thank you sean good signal to you. i guess let's get right to it we've seen is israel retaliate for rocket attacks from gaza with air strikes and also this day of rage across the palestinian territories that has left several dead and scores injured do you expect the situation to continue escalating or kind of backing off of any cost. sure but i was actually in gaza as a combat soldier in twenty fourteen and the last major confrontation there was and in the lead up to that in the lead up to this you know. there are some similarities

but i don't alternately see a large scale of escalation happening right now. if you will. continue to respond to it for tat proportionately to what's happening. as far as escalation you know there's been about five thousand protesters apparently if you seen the protests to happen at some of these you know funerals or maybe taking on the metal detectors on the on the temple mount they're not very they're not very big protests it's not you know as significant as as you would think. you know hamas is competing with the boss almost as a point to prove that they're tougher than their political competition among the palestinians will make some noise but we'll see what happens when you bring up mahmoud abbas the palestinian president let's talk about him for a second he says the u.s. has lost the right to mediate in the israel palestinian conflict what does the future hold in store for that peace process given this conflict within the palestinian groups and also with this outside provocation from the state. well in

interest as did america also give up the right to be one of the top donors to the palestinian authority which the palestinian authority would have a very difficult time even existing without the support of america so i think it's a little premature to for him to make those kind of statements for them to be burning the american flag. you know clearly this is just stating the obvious that jerusalem is and will be the future it will be it is the capital of israel and if there is a palestinian state a palestinian entity jerusalem may be. part of jerusalem may be the capital of that state as well. you know it was actually russia back in april made the first declaration of any country rule to recognize that western would be the capital of israel and there were these protests there wasn't this mass rage so it's quite interesting you know you bring up a point about this is something that is just a statement of fact the u.s.

administration they are trying to portray this as them having nothing especially controversial and recognizing jerusalem so why now while the protests across the world because of america's declaration. well the protests i think it's just popular in this region to be leading to be seen in the media to be seen by your peers to be seen in politics as leading up. against israel and in the states but as far as why now you know i think. that a straight action is open to changing the approach of the last thirty years were also sold as falling apart. you know we haven't seen anything tangible actually emerged other than more terror more instability from american and western policy so you know to have someone that's leading and respected and making morally clear decisions on fundamental issues. that might be you know a positive change in the long term so very interesting to hear thoughts middle east

analyst exactly thanks for being with us here on our to international thank you so much all right now two palestinians have been killed and hundreds injured in large scale protests according to palestine's health ministry several reports suggest more than seven hundred fifty people were affected tear gas rubber bullets and even live ammunition were reportedly used by israeli police as they clash with demonstrators tensions have escalated following u.s. president donald trump's decision to recognize jerusalem as the capital of israel. well clashes between protesters and israeli police have been seen across palestine in jerusalem people have been gathering near the damascus gate where there is

a massive israeli security presence and. reports. and bottles were hurled at the security services and 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 who says 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. there will not be a back of the questions consequence of. a wrong is the case of 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 a significant move i think it's going to cause trouble why do seem to be the capital of israel i don't know. here is in palestine it should remain in palestine the sound of cohen's in the end that sort of people showing support for the small number of demonstrators who hate taking challenging things like this is our capital these are palestinian demonstrate. meanwhile on the other hand the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu has described this is being a great decision and has. recognizing jerusalem as the capital of israel palestine says it will now reject any u.s. led peace negotiations it also says u.s. vice president mike pence won't be welcomed when he comes to the region later this month we discussed the implications of trumps the decision with dyker project

director for the drusilla center for public affairs and shaath a 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 done 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. and varieties of ways 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 this israeli occupation well if the palestinians want to wipe themselves off the face of the battle it equally 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 to have. learn to do and stop calling for days of rage in for terror and violence. and protests against trucks 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 benyamin netanyahu. meanwhile washington's a decision on the status of jerusalem prompted an emergency session of the u.n. security council came up and reports now from new york 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 midst of . 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. most good butin the 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 a go she ation 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 that you. too would lose the use imputed. and essentially this quote be funny. to see the soon to be in the aftermath of this announcement from tom 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 we spoke to the ambassador of bolivia to the united nations that is your entity he believes the decision on that jerusalem falls into

a larger pattern of behavior by the united states. i think that we should consider their disposition. in a brother from of rather perspective the fact that the united states in contradiction not just with international law but what the international community has been doing for the past decades. regarding jerusalem. and also. can see the rain its unilateral unilateral actions against syria not just that but also considering the fact that they have a less parisa call on climate change but they have abandoned the negotiations for the global compact on migration and the fact that they are also putting at risk the so-called iran nuclear deal those are examples that. right now the united

states it's of course not just. contradicted in the national law but also they are becoming increasingly a threat to multilateralism. closed its airspace to all drones including those are paraded by the united states as story much more after a short break you are watching our two international. why i want to raise it then how did return to london why it's a liberal city was it is a cool learning the more important. that i learned the plants the airports in the south and invincibility percent of the in many liberated why why do you think you have to meet.

no russian flag will fly at the twenty eight winter olympics but there will be russian athletes. the russian national anthem will play out during official ceremonies but fans will probably acappella rendition you can take the athletes out of the country but can you take the country out of the athletes. or welcome back you're watching our international have with us now britain's prime minister theresa may says that all sides of the budget negotiations are now ready to move on to the next stage of talks however there are still many obstacles the

u.k. is expected to face as. explained certainly in the bronx it's a deadline is looming time is taking at what we've seen so far is that these bribes at negotiations have been anything but very simple especially maybe according to voters who expected things to move forward much quicker we've seen on theresa may and european commission president john clarke huger basically pot themselves on the box for of br. 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 and to 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 to do. it. 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 brig's of vote the european union has

stepped up its efforts to bolster the block the latest push came from the former president of the european parliament german politician martin scholtz he proposed the creation of 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 in 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 european unity have previously been proposed among them the creation of a european army a european version of the international monetary fund and having an easy to finance minister earlier my colleague discussed this with the head of belgium's of people's party. very common he says europeans are worried by the prospects of the united states of europe. if you look at all the polls today from cities and from all over

europe they don't want to more severe in. 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 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 the proximately six million people are waiting. to get into europe and europe and want to block

that and you see that the e.u. . for example saying that we need more migration we need to open the borders this kind of i.d.'s are totally rejected so i think that a lot of. europe incident will be concerned and worried by mr shore's plans. aeration. the pakistani air force says it will not allow any drones including american ones to violate its country's airspace that is according to the air force chief so while i'm on we will not allow anyone to violate our airspace i have ordered the pakistan air force to shoot down drones including those of the u.s. if they enter our airspace violating the country's sovereignty and territorial integrity. pakistan has condemned u.s. drone attacks saying they have been damaging to the country and have caused deaths and severe injuries among civilians we spoke to

a retired three star general of the pakistani army he says it is time for the u.s. to stop playing a double game in pakistan. it is important to ignore that in the last the united states has been playing a good coffee bad game with. one off says something positive the other. strong threats in the past the drones have been attacking targets in pakistan. but haps with the approval of the government of pakistan but in the past couple of years the government of pakistan has not provided any such approval what would be the fallout of that the united states should actually and very its options because it has been using pakistan as an ally. against pakistan it will be to be detriment of the better it will be detrimental to the peace in the region . pakistan's air force chief also questioned whether u.s.

involvement in the region was actually helpful he raised concerns over washington's previous track record of attempting to build democracy. no outside power can engineer democracy inside a contrie nor is democracy the solution to every problem examples in iraq and libya are in front of us after the fall of gadhafi and saddam what happened in this countries did they get democracy for that it was tunisia over there it was libya whether it is syria currently and of course yemen gonna start iraq all of these countries have lost the stability and the c.b.s. problems in fact at the moment there are some scribes in the new york press in the washington press who are predicting that if pakistan doesn't go to the line of the united states of america like situation maybe three get over here now this has raised the hackles in pakistan because pakistan cannot allow its territory to be

used by others who in the name of democracy and me moves which will destabilize the country. former president of georgia me hile saakashvili now an active participant in ukraine's political opposition has been arrested in kiev saakashvili regards himself as an anti-corruption activist and is calling for the impeachment of the current ukrainian president poroshenko after the arrest saakashvili was placed in a temporary detention facility and advance of the court hearing crowds of his supporters are now gathering on the streets of kiev calling for a second release earlier on tuesday saakashvili was detained by ukrainian authorities on suspicion of assisting a criminal organization he tried to escape the authorities by climbing to the roof of his house from where he addressed his supporters he was later removed by officers for his part saakashvili claimed that security forces were trying to

kidnap him because he has risen up in defense of the ukrainian people and saakashvili first appeared on the international stage as president of georgia in two thousand and three. he served for two terms he left office in two thousand and thirteen but was charged with having abused his power for the following year in two thousand and fifteen he lost his georgian citizenship when he became a citizen of ukraine after a pro western government he came to power in the country saakashvili gained a new political life as governor of the country's adesa region less than two years later he resigned to do a spat with president bush and co who then revoked his citizenship in september this year saakashvili crossed the ukrainian border in a bid to gain regain rather political power for the time being he is still officially without citizenship in any country. and there's a for in this hour i'll be back in about thirty three minutes for the full of two news to watch our two international.

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president of the world bank a. seriously send us an e-mail. hello and welcome to cross talk we're all things 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 from of making america great again how is that. greg nice thing jerusalem israel's.