demonstrators attempt to storm the u.s. embassy in beirut in protest at donald trump's decision to recognize jerusalem as israel's capital protests have also been seen in bethlehem and gaza. syria has been proclaimed free of islamic states though pockets of she hunters remain. russia's banned from the twenty eighteen winter olympics over a doping scandal that erupted two years ago that says the i.o.c. saying there is no concrete evidence to support claims of state sponsored cheating . and not to be uprooted announces he will run for reelection in the twenty eight eighteen presidential race.

i'm kate bolduan and you're watching the weekly headlines here a taliban international thank you for joining us. tensions are rising in lebanon where protesters have attempted to storm the u.s. embassy in the capital beirut the rally there is the latest in a string of protests decrying president trump's decision to recognize jerusalem as israel's capital. i. was he was.

right now we're witnessing a sort of a just a few minutes ago there was a charge from at least i'd say fifty or sixty new subs and some of them would in bottoms others actually carrying m. sixteen s we managed to push back. a number of. palestinian protesters one of two of which they managed to catch and take back to the base behind me which you can see now so that caused a certain amount of tension. but at the moment now things are calm right down the police i think engaged in more of the cleanup and the rearranging themselves you can see behind me you'll see when this army personnel reposition themselves please stop so when you take a look at these demonstrations you can see i think we're at the beginning of something quite big you know just in two thousand and eleven just six years ago or so we saw what sparked the arab spring then and now that i'm sure

a lot of leaks in the region and i think many of those same elites in the middle east will be wondering is this going to escalate and does this really pose a threat and itself will someday has also seen protests in gaza and clashes with the police in the city of bethlehem local journalists when who that it reports from the israeli palestinian border. the palestinians in gaza strip and the west bank continued their protest of the fourth day of anger palestinians in gaza are protesting on the buffer zone where i am now which is not helo's east a lot of confrontations and clashes are happening now between youth protest jurors and the israelis since the morning there were a lot of protests and demonstrations in students and press the journalists who were chanting slogans against trump's decision for recognizing jerusalem as the state of israel where now everything's asked elating especially in bethlehem there are lots

lots of that tear gas bombs and live bullets it's very dangerous now in bethlehem because it's the main act a lot of for testers in in palestine especially in bethlehem are very angry and moving to gaza strip there's only one injury on our us border with the tear gas and there was a russian correspondent who was also affected by tear gas bombs. meanwhile in jerusalem police have arrested a man after stopping us a bus station left one person seriously injured do bensky reports. i'm out side at the central bus station in jerusalem where this incident took place on sunday afternoon we've watched the footage of what happened and it appears that a palestinian man looks like he's trying to enter into the central bus station and then after nowhere stop the security guard in the chest now we have this on the security guard is twenty five received treatment at the scene for his injuries but was later taken to hospital he said to be in a serious condition sedated and on

a respirator now police say that they are treating this as a terrorist attack and have apprehended the palestinian man they believe that was behind that attack i've been speaking to some of the medical crew who were first at the scene just quite what they saw we were the first went on the scene. intensive care ambulance taken to the hospital all this took place within a couple of minutes and in the latest development today we've heard from the israeli defense minister who's called in israelis to boy caught our of the businesses in the area where protests of being held saying that the arabs particularly those in an area called wadi our which is in the north of a part of us are not part of israel but he did say later on in that interview that he hoped all would be calm soon and that normal life would return. well in response

to donald trump's move palestinians declared three days of rage which ended with several people killed in clashes with israeli police was. unfortunately a u.s. president makes a statement and the israeli citizens will need to pay the price for dangerous days are coming to drill syllables was. god . it's going to be in the wall but i think soon here in bethlehem there is a large deployment of israeli horses on the ground as has been used over bullets carlson is are using a molotov cocktail bombs as well as stone throwing at. i

. i was. listening. ok. well jerusalem is considered sacred by jews muslims and christians the jewish quarter of the city is home to the western wall the last remnant of the second jewish temple which was destroyed by the romans the ancient city also has is the shrine of the dome of the rock the oldest islamic monument still in existence and the hour x. a mosque the third holiest site in islam. well israel calls jerusalem it's heard all capital however most of the international community don't recognize that claim no country in the world has an embassy in jerusalem only some cultural it's in the western part of the city is mostly israeli and the eastern part of the

stadium is holy science are a particularly sensitive issue with unrest frequently erupting over there well a number of rallies in support of palestine have been held across europe and in turkey an emergency session of the un security council was also convened and during the meeting of the fifteen members fourteen or united against just one the u.s. . ok we regret the u.s. president's decision to moscow washington's decision with serious concern these decisions are helpful to the prospects for peace in the region our actions reflected an honest assessment of reality it is fueling tensions and increasing instability in an already volatile and turbulent region 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 these really palestinian issue 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 israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu prays trumps decision calling is historic as caleb maupin explains his reaction has come as little surprise. collusion is a popular accusation to throw around these days and a lot of what we're hearing working with a foreign government receiving money is what the trial team did with israel like undermining the policy of the current administration in favor of a foreign government michael flynn trumps former national security adviser admits he called russia and asked them to delay a vote at the un security council that israel didn't like and. on or about december twenty second twenty sixteen and then recently a member of the presidential transition team directed fully into contact officials from foreign governments to learn where each government stood on the resolution and

to influence those governments to delay the vote or defeat the resolution. informed the russian ambassador about being coming administration's position to the resolution and requested that russia vote against or delay the resolution now we don't know who engineered it but take a look at this video of hi i'm savin the israeli billionaire and jared cushion or trump son in law seriously you and you. were. taking steps to try and get the. united nations security council. to. not go along this crowd and myself want to thank you for making that i will thank you very much and then there are sheldon adelson now he's an israeli billionaire newspaper owner and he's also a top contributor to israeli lobbyists bankrolling their activities well he threw in five million dollars to contribute to donald trump's inauguration now there is

money and also personal chemistry the trump family is quite close with benjamin netanyahu according to the new york times netanyahu even borrowed the bedroom of jarrett cushion or when he was sleeping over at his mansion in new jersey now the relationship is no secret b.v. has even bragged about it can i review how long we've known you. oh it was never small it was always big. as always told but. i've known the president and i've known his family and his team for a long time so where is all this close and sometimes not so open cooperation gotten us well donald trump has now recognized jerusalem as israel's capital now this move is very pleasing to israelis but it's quite explosive for the region but no one is keen to shout about this blatant teamwork unlike some other country that's constantly in the headlines. r.t. new york. on tuesday the russian team was banned from competing at the twenty.

eighteen winter olympics international olympic committee chiefs reach that decision based on the findings of an independent investigation into alleged state sponsored doping however individual athletes who can prove they are clean will be allowed to compete under a neutral flag. these you know i did ask elites or will participate in between individual or team competitions under the name olympic else leads from russia. no one thought about what it actually means for the athletes to go to the olympics under a neutral flag it's simply the murder of our national sport. while the probe headed by former swiss president samuel schmidt found evidence of what

they call systemic manipulation of the anti joking rules and system it also led to the suspension of russia's olympic committee and a fifteen million dollars fine however the schmidt report says it's unclear exactly who was behind any typing if it's. nevertheless the independent and impartial evidence do not allow the i.o.c. d.c. to establish with certitude either who initiated or who headed this scheme on many occasions reference was made on the involvement at the minister of sports level but no indication independent or impartial evidence appeared to cooperate any involvement or knowledge at a higher level of the state the simple truth is that in order to compete at the highest level you have to do something to stay there and when you have a very well paying job at the level of mr barker and mr reid ian travers target and so on they need to do to kind of stay on on top of us into doing a new version is very useful to keep to the one of the thing i would question that

i have my mind is ok soros has been and so long as it was completely beyond what next who else will go after like my my money would be on nobody because they want to keep beating or sickie piece new drawn say versus bob rushes by because it is the only bad one in order i think for clean in the case you know not for the case that there's a lot of bad guys everywhere and. you know it's just it won't change and now with this it will change even further well another i.o.c. investigation looking into individual cases is still ongoing and has already resulted in lifetime bans from the games for twenty five athletes most of them insist they are innocent and accuse officials of violating their presumption of innocence. because the story is a little more as we got almost nose markel about the things probably with your fear of beach trainer she only now believes close your record is going to be that slow i . almost missed the by my mum converting is nice to your.

first of do it just reasonably just really should sit on the. board from us and pressed me and i want to shoot of the dish to get used to the beach asked me to go to a good national boiling though which sickly try it the cows are worth but almost a thing even though i've been thinking that you want your absolute joining water to your to the store to store. to be nearer to push a string over the lot being in leadership in europe where they see a good deal with the option of options but it would be a bit dull which in. the morning is not the. thing if you did that just. to say of what did you. watch in a beauty. of lattimer putin said the decision against the russian team was

politically motivated saying it's wrong to impose collective responsibility but the i.o.c. president has given his assurance that politics played no part in the outcome. the ai you see is politically absolutely neutral we would not allow her to be influenced by any kind of political considerations in. such a sporting matters they fielded exactly that question and they said this isn't a political decision but of course the world knows that it's exactly that this has been a controversy that has been clouded in political judgment and it's impossible to separate this particular decision from what's going on in the rest of the world regarding fake news and the allegedly intervention of russia into britain's bragg's it vote and even the american presidential election so there is

a lot of this kind of stuff swirling around the world at the moment a lot of it is beyond belief frankly but people are accepting some of it so i don't think you can disentangle the two things. and let me putin has confirmed he'll run for the russian presidency in march twenty eighth seen on that after the break. here's what people have been saying about rejected and this is. the only show i go out of my way to find you know what this is really back to. yap is the john oliver of r t america is doing the same we have apparently better than blue. sea people you never heard of. jack to the next president of the world bank he. was meant to send us an e-mail so there's no the all important as

a person but he is important as far as this leaving would cause a risk in the regime falling apart so. americans are on the americans for much less to have him leave although from time to dime they keep saying at the again so in the end though i think most countries are accepting that he will stay. welcome back this week the russian military and syria being completely liberated from islamic states but he warned the no particular area is now held by the jihadists there are still small pockets of resistance the russian operation in

syria began in september twenty fifth dean when i still held more territory in the country than any other faction and u.s. led coalition has also been involved in the northeastern part of the country with the area west of the euphrates river now liberated i still say self-proclaimed caliphate effectively no longer exists and on saturday the iraqi government also declared it a fully rigged that country of islamic state who during the russian operation in syria artie's correspondents were given direct access to the conflict. this is the ad based in love talk e-mail from which russian jets are launching the sorties against islam ix they tug it's here in syria. whether it's. dinner time the

pilots are ready to go it's a moment's notice. in this amphitheater laid down by the romans almost two thousand years ago that isis staged one of its sickest massacres the russian military considers it the crowding jewel of the operation here in syria. you can see here just some of the impressive military hardware that isis have in the possession that has made the battle for palmira so tough way extremely close to isis positions less than two kilometers away and.

were as a syrian artillery position overlooking the industrial quarter of their resort the battle is said to be theists isis fired back as we filmed shells began falling well around. we ran but the syrian batteries kept firing life indeed as order is still far from normal but at least. they will be starving to death and the more. was. a person has announced he will run for president in the elections set for march twenty eighth and here and as the details it was widely expected that vladimir putin would decide to run for reelection next year however he has played coyle on the topic so many times i in recent months and one contact but wonder whether he

was genuinely conflicted on whether to run for the presidency again or whether he was just being really good at keeping a secret and playing the media nevertheless we were put out of our misery when he said this but you going to the bronx you for your support yes i would preserve my candidacy for the president of the russian federation. but you were sure thank you for your reaction but first of all spoil you lost. but it still should prove to be an interesting race over the coming weeks and months with quite an eclectic mix of candidates throwing their hats into the ring one of the most prominent being a stop child who's been gaining headlines around the world she's a former reality t.v. presenter she's also a poster playboy amongst other things that she's considered to be the russian paris hilton and what's also quite interesting about her is that she and t.

putin she's attended opposition rallies and she's promised to unite people against vladimir putin when all all the other interesting thing about her is that she happens to be the daughter of the former mayor of some petersburg a man who vladimir putin himself has referred to as his mentor in those early days so that should sort of quite interesting but it girls aside there are an unprecedented number of women entering the race for the presidency next year which is quite extraordinary because it's the first time we've seen any. when i enter the race for the presidency in russia in fourteen years and of course there are the usual suspects as well including the liberal democratic party had a bloody media she were not scary or the communist party is again r.d. zyuganov and the liberal yabloko parties grigori yavlinsky five from that are also business on but boris titov who is from the party of growth he has pledged to champion the rights of entrepreneurs so quite an eclectic mix there for the russian

people to sink their teeth into ahead of the elections in march next year. two and a half thousand people have gathered in the center of kiev to modern the impeachment of the ukrainian president petro poroshenko the follows the arrest of former georgian president turned ukrainian opposition figure mikhail saakashvili during a similar rally on friday after saakashvili to arrest his supporters gathered outside the detention center where he's being held setting light tires dustbins was like us billy is now on hunger strike he was first detained on tuesday on suspicion of assisting a criminal organization on that occasion he tried to evade arrest by climbing onto the roof of his apartment block he was seized by law enforcement officers but a crowd of supporters pulled him from the police found was that has been he later claimed that his detention had been purely political in nature. this is a dirty lying operation completely freak it's only being done to disorientate

people and prolong the life of hucksters keep these cults are save them for poroshenko me but earlier this year saakashvili was stripped of his ukrainian city ship while he was abroad in september his supporters formed a protective crowd around him and marched him across the ukrainian border from poland or he since being pursued by ukrainian law enforcement. well for more on these a bunch of other stories that go to our website r.t. dot com at the top of the hour my colleague neil harvey will be here with a late. headlines but for me i find.

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