was. it. was. the. most indians are killed and more than a thousand are injured as violence escalates in jerusalem the west bank and gaza tensions escalated after donald trump's decision on jerusalem that was roundly criticized at the u.n. security council. we regard east jerusalem as part of the occupied palestinian terror. we therefore disagree with the u.s. decision we regret the decision announced by the president of the united states the arab republic of egypt denounces the u.s. decision. attempts to undermine the trump presidency continue to c.n.n. runs a full story on alleged conniving between team trump and wiki leaks we pick apart

other stories that claim to be the smoking gun of collusion with russia. and sweden's chief prosecutor claims stockholm district populated almost entirely by my gran's is fast becoming a war zone. m k politician you're watching the latest headlines here at r.t. international thank you for joining us. clashes have again erupted in jerusalem and the west bank three days of rage have been declared by palestinians following president trump's controversial decision to recognize the city as the israeli capital palestinian oh sorry to say two people have been killed in the unrest in more than a fun and injured. this is. similar

. mashallah de bensky is in jerusalem where there have been we need clashes today and she joins us now live why the loss here in can you tell us what the situation is like there now. it's incredibly tense we're here in east jerusalem where there's essentially a standoff between a group of protesters and the israeli security forces as you can see behind me they're all aligned up here almost three rows of those security forces and just further back you might be able to see the horses that some of those security forces are on now we have seen some already clashes between the protesters here and the security forces in fact i witnessed at the security forces actually sort of chucking over a man and hitting him to the ground in little bit earlier we've also seen some

people who have been injured as a result of this protest on this street in east jerusalem today and we ourselves are the o.t. crew came under fire within minutes of arriving on the scene here take a look at what happened to us. in some way oh in the middle o. . as you can hear we're having some tear gas that's being shot off. and we're going to approach our policy and demonstrating against the fact that president trump has named fish us as indices really kept. going to. get it cut out with me looks like they would last shot a day bensky in jerusalem s.o.s. get back to her later in the program. when we want at least twenty five

palestinians including six children have been injured after israeli jets bombed alleged hamas targets inside gaza. no no no no no other the. biggest. with. israel's defense ministry says the airstrikes were in retaliation for three rocket attacks launched from the area into israeli territory earlier warning sirens sounded in several israeli border towns. well meanwhile an emergency session of the un security council has been held to to washington's decision and during the meeting of the fifteen members fourteen were united against just one the u.s. . for nearly seventy years the city of jerusalem has been the capital of the state of israel despite many attempts by others to deny that reality. we

regret the u.s. president's decision in moscow meant washington's decision with serious concern these decisions are helpful to the prospects for peace in the region our actions reflected and honest assessment of reality it is fueling tensions and increasing instability in an already volatile and turbulent region of our actions are intended to help advance the cause of peace at stake is the respect of international law and the legitimate rights of each side at stake is the legitimacy of the security council israel like all nations has the right to determine its capital city unilaterally actions attempting to change the status of jerusalem respect for its in the long existing foundation for thirty two months of the israeli palestinian issue the united states took this step in full knowledge that it will raise questions and concerns where they would be this is a dangerous precedent this meeting reflects fear over repercussions of the

unilateral decisions that run counter to and threaten the system of political relations the united states will not be lectured to by countries that lack any credibility when it comes to treating both israelis and palestinians fairly well however the u.s. envoy to the united nations nikki haley there are attacks the u.n. itself accusing the global body of being biased against israel. over many years the united nations has outrageously been of the world's foremost centers of hostility towards israel and the un has done much more damage to the prospects for middle east peace than to advance them we will not be a party to that the united states no longer stands by when israel is unfairly attacked in the united nations we spoke exclusively to the secretary general of the palestine liberation organization as executive committee so you better code he

believes binyamin netanyahu and donald trump destroyed the principle of the two state solution without revealing their plans to the palestinians beforehand. on anyone from took the central issue jerusalem and decided its fate unilaterally and now in a matter of days or weeks the trumpet ministration will declare its agreement to the incorporation of settlements by israel might happen in another week's time this is my personal analysis based on my knowledge and evaluation of the behavior of this administration before of weeks straight i was in contact with the main washington they didn't raise a single question with us nor informed us about their plan they didn't tell us anything we deal with netanyahu government and the trumpet ministration which together have destroyed the principle of a two state solution if the us scuttled or if it's in the security council we would have to appeal to the general assembly and also perhaps will appeal to the international court of justice and the u.s. supreme court. well today marks thirty years since the start of the first intifada

the armed palestinian uprising against israeli occupation the peace process over the intervening three decades has made little progress and with palestinians now calling for a new intifada it seems the conflict is back to square one day richard explains. the events of the last few days in israel have daughters back to a time when you couldn't turn on the news without hearing about the intifada an armed resistance against israeli occupation. another outbreak of violence in the israeli occupied west bank in the gaza strip. the first intifada was triggered by a collision between an i.d.f. truck and a palestinian car for palestinian civilians were killed and all hell broke loose. the even before then political leaders had puzzled over ways to resolve the region's problems by nine hundred ninety three they managed to broker

a set of agreements between israel and palestine the so-called oslo process a supposedly road map to peace. was the following year israeli leaders it's hacked rabin and shimon peres as well as palestinian president yasser arafat were awarded the nobel peace prize in two thousand bill clinton brought together the two sides and once again at a summit at camp david it was the to the. it was no agreement came out of that. the faltering peace process was derailed when former israeli prime minister ariel sharon visited temple mount in jerusalem that enraged the palestinians who considered this site to be islam's third holiest place that's why. and the second intifada began.

it lasted five years. the. question was pushed down a little bit by some other events in the area. specially after the invasion of iraq and afghanistan and then all the other things and then by the beginning of the second part of the arab revolutions in six countries in two thousand and one came nine eleven the worst terror attack in u.s. history. that completely refocus global media attention away from the israel palestine conflict to return and intermittently when the violence flared up. fast forward to twenty seventeen. therefore i have determined. that it is time to officially recognize

jerusalem as the capital of israel israel and palestine are suddenly back on the agenda the world is in shock the us is falling out with its allies this is you. this is a regrettable decision which france does not approve of and which contradicts international law the announcement has the potential to send. even darker shines only once we are already living in the streets of jerusalem and across the west bank are on fire hamas has won that trumps decision has opened the gates of how locals and us missions across the region a bracing themselves for violence all of this need not have happened there was no real need for to come up with this collaboration which perhaps him self does not even understand the meaning of during biblical times we had two different kingdoms

and israel and was in good which is no longer with us apparently he did it out of some political. motives which israel and the palestinians are going to pay the price for the ninth of december two thousand and seventeen marks thirty years since the start of the first intifada are we now back to square one. r.t. . now the quest to prove donald trump colluded with russia continues c.n.n. recently aired a story that donald trump jr had been sent a direct link to wiki leaks documents on the democratic national committee before they were made public. it was september fourth two thousand and sixteen at the height of the campaign that's when candidate donald trump his son donald trump jr

and even trump jr's personal assistant they got an e-mail with a decryption key and a web site address for hacked wiki leaks documents well the documents were made public on september the thirteenth via wiki leaks twitter feed the e-mail was sent to trying jr the following day but he claims he neither or even read it well the two central figures of that story both julian assange and trump jr have tweeted asking for an apology and the stories retraction from c.n.n. well the network later run a correction saying it was presenting the proper context for the timing of email however the efforts to undermine trans presidency don't stop there reports in the u.s. media citing an anonymous source say russia's equivalent to facebook the v.k. social connection social network i should say got in touch with team trump it's claims they offered to promote his candidacy among russian speaking americans

during the election jacqueline berger goes deeper into the story. no news is good news but russian news is always breaking is no matter how shaky the connection. that explosive information comes from anonymous sources familiar with an e-mail sent by the british publicist rob goldstone he's the guy who arranged the infamous trump jr meeting with a russian lawyer back in june of two thousand and sixteen c.n.n. issued an exclusive report saying those e-mails are the first indication there was any follow up after that meeting and not follow up centers around what goldstone allegedly referred to as a cute marketing idea scandalous here's what happened the director of partnership marketing v.k. russia's equivalent of facebook hit up team trump to set up a page on their website to appeal to russian americans before the election finally the smoking gun right on the network confirmed they made an offer to trump just

like they did to a bunch of other popular people we welcomed international celebrities joining our social network we invited donald trump to create a v.k. account like many other celebrities but the media all but push those facts of the side choosing instead to focus on the young the exact himself when alex said they became manager represented a new point of direct contact between an influential russian and advisors to trump not really sure if influential is the way to classify this guy however. the media are also pointing out that the v. k. executive has taken photos of trump and at a separate event snapped one with president putin well apparently that didn't impress the trump team they didn't reply to the network's request. we never received a reply from donald trump's representatives it is absolutely ludicrous and it is part of the nature of how our media has covered this entire story for this entire

year and plan to continue to do for months and months and months as long as it keeps their ratings elevated because it's russia that's why this is so exciting to the media and a way for them to store up a story that is absolutely basis and yet another one of hundreds of hundreds of stories that have been and will continue to be nothing but sensationalism and russia phobia. now sweden's chief prosecutor has warned that a district in the capital with a large immigrant population is becoming a war zone brinkley is almost like a war zone when do police work there the operate as if they were de army migrants make up the boss majority of the stockholm suburb of ring can be with almost ninety percent first or second generation immigrants the district has now been placed in sweden's most severe category of urban areas with high crime rates as riots and

burn burning cars are becoming increasingly common in the area. but it's far from the only place developing a bad reputation the city of seventy kilometers from stockholm has been plagued by months of violence criminals have even used grenades to target police stations and find fighters and now resorting to military style door enforcement as backup well sweden's third largest city malmo has also witnessed a huge rise in crime this year already fifty nine shootings have left seven people dead and dozens injured almost eighty percent of the local population say they live in fear while over a third say they're afraid to even be out alone on the streets at night when we want armed police have been deployed to protect joggers at night we discuss the situation with political scientists and commentators stick b. are no longer and he notes offices now have to respond like an army formation there

are places that or. part of the time the years where british police. is moving into the area sounds like that form that they were in a. combat situation or as information all of our guard. there was a. grecian with a lot of people from example or for africa and middle east in this we perfect society or lot of people and now they are running over the edge downhill over the edge that's all he said had a very low profile for a long time so these groups have been managed to build the networks that are needed to keep the crime going. and we'll have more news after this short break.

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welcome back america is in the grip of an opioid crisis the worst drug epidemic in recorded u.s. history well that's according to the u.s. national safety council twenty two thousand americans die every year overdosing on prescription painkillers the council house launched a campaign to warn against the risks of taking these drugs. every one of those little old represents a person lost. and i want to tell you about. my son credit to the age of eight to someone who prescribed medication.

and i asked my son age twenty four and started with medication because attacked or it's right that the doctor knew what he was doing i never actually thought about my picture until now is really making me see things clear this can't happen to anyone this can't happen to you. don't let it. all the goals of the n.s.c. are to make people aware of the dangers of addiction in sixty four out of every one hundred cases misuse began with people using opioids prescribe to someone else well almost two thirds of americans don't know sharing opioid medicine is illegal national safety council program manager test ban them says overprescribing the drug is the main concern. it was recently declared a public health emergency and many organizations like the national safety council

are taking action to find solutions and save lives it's a multifaceted problem which is why the national safety council developed our stop every day killers campaign opioid pain medications were involved in about a third of drug overdose deaths last year and overprescribing is definitely a factor and so we're taking measures like implementing opioid prescribing guidelines educating our doctors and nurses but most importantly starting a campaign like this to educate the public about their breasts we have less than five percent of the world's population but we consume more than eighty percent of the world's supply of opioids and so it's a huge problem here in the united states everybody has a role to play including our government to begin to implement solutions that are going to save lives and help us in this crisis. pakistan's a force has warned it will shoot down any drones including american ones if they

violate the country says space it comes just two weeks after the u.s. reportedly conducted its latest s. strike on the country's border with afghanistan we will not allow anyone to violate our airspace i have ordered the biggest on 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 of august any officials u.s. drone attacks are doing significant homme since two thousand and four almost a thousand civilians are believed to being killed by the strikes including children we spoke to talat masood a retired three star general in the pakistani army he notes that islam abounds attitude to washington is changing. in the near past the united states has been playing a good cop bad cop game with pakistan one of the says something positive the other gives strong threats in the past the drones have been attacking targets in pakistan

a leader it was perhaps the approval of the government of pakistan but in the past couple of years the government of pakistan has not provided any such approval the united states should actually cut and very its options because it has been using pakistan as an ally and if it wants to turn against pakistan it will be detrimental to the peace in the region. and meanwhile pakistan's air force chief is also questioning whether the long standing military engagement by the u.s. in the region is even helpful so hell a man also slammed washington's track record on promoting democracy abroad. no outside power can engineer democracy inside a country nor is democracy the solution to every problem examples in iraq and libya are really front of us after the fall of gadhafi and saddam what happened in this countries did they get democracy it is a syria currently and of course yemen i've got to start iraq all of these countries

they have lost the stability and they are in serious problems in fact the moment there are some scribes in the new york press in the washington press who are predicting that if pakistan doesn't go the line of the united states of america if syria like situation may be created over here because pakistan cannot allow its territory to be used by others to engineer in the name of democracy and the farcical moves which will destabilize the country. for oceans wildfires have been burning in southern california now for six days as are to say the fires have claimed one life with hundreds of thousands fleeing their homes president trant declared a federal state of emergency in california on friday and ordered further relief efforts the largest of the six fires as charge over one hundred forty thousand

acres of land in northwest los angeles is thought firefighters could face more difficulties over the weekend a strong winds are predicted to strengthen the blaze well with the word wells focus on mounting tensions in the middle east the president of lebanon's given an exclusive interview touching on political turmoil difficult neighbors and peace efforts it's on r.t. next week on the alex sanchez. how can you as president of lebanon about the possibility of father is really incursions into your country. good bad. i think that's after the july two thousand and six war israel will no longer attack lebanon because it will not be able to penetrate the lebanese fronts which over the . last week in italy you said definitively the lead in your opinion as president of lebanon the crisis was orval how confident are you of that

position but. confidence because there is no disagreements among the lebanese about settling this crisis and i don't think that those who created this crisis will repeat it again. well we'll be back in just over half an hour with the latest news but more in the meantime at r.t. dot com. thank.

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there's a boom bust broadcasting around the world from washington d.c. i'm barred she'll be filling and then be on the scene coming up the wildfires spreading across california with you but obviously it's in us history are she correspondent we report more for us from los angeles and the jobs report is out and it is good two hundred twenty eight thousand jobs were created in november and the unemployment rate remains unchanged at four point one percent coming up will take a deep dive beyond those numbers with danielle de martino booth now let's get to the stories topping today's political and business headlines. in just a few months eighteen thousand will face off with the justice department in court over its attempt to buy time warner and the trial will begin on march nineteenth but a decision isn't expected to be handed down until after april twenty second which is the deadline for both sides to complete the deal while eighteen thousand now the plan to acquire time warner.