demonstrators attempt to storm the u.s. embassy in beirut in protest of donald trump's decision to recognize jerusalem as the capital of israel protests have also been seen in best they have gone as. syria has been proclaimed free of islamic states although pockets of jihad this do remain . russia's banned from the twenty eight hundred winter olympics over doping scandal that erupted two years ago despite the i.o.c. saying there's no concrete evidence to support claims of state sponsored cheating. in announces that he will run for reelection in the two thousand and eighteen presidential race.

thanks for joining us just past one am here in the russian capital my name is neil harvey this is the weekly on r.t. international. 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 protest crying president trumps this isn't to recognize jerusalem as israel's capital. as you.

look. right now we are witnessing 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 will be in buttons 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 have calmed right down the police i think engaged in more of the cleanup and the rearranging themselves you can see behind me all sorts of movement of army personnel reposition themselves police start to take control of the area and these demonstrations are beginning to roll out now 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 governments love the leaks in the region and i think many of those same elites in the middle east will be wondering is this going to escalate sunday is also seen protesting gaza and clashes with the police in best behind local journalists in cowdrey reports from the israel palestine 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 asia a lot of confrontations and clashes are happening now between youth for testers 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 there are splitting 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 are not hit i almost border with the tear gas and there was a russian correspondent who was also affected by tear gas bombs. which were slim 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 houses the shrine of the dome of the rock now that's the oldest islamic monument the still in existence and also the al aksa mosque the third holiest site in islam while israel calls jerusalem the eternal capital but most of the international community doesn't recognize that play no country in the world has an embassy in jerusalem just consulates the western

part of the city is mostly israeli the eastern part palestinian is holy sites there are particularly sensitive issues with unrest frequently erupting over the israeli prime minister binyamin netanyahu is on his first trip to europe after america's recognition of jerusalem as israel's capital his first stop was france where he failed to see eye to eye on the issue with president emanuel macron with more his show the duty. israeli prime minister has been in france to start his european tour where he is due to meet the foreign ministers of countries at a business meeting but he started on sunday with a meeting with president of france where the two men discussed the recent announcement by u.s. president donald trump that the u.s. would recognize jerusalem is being the capital of israel that announcement has sparked a renewed tensions in the region and the two men agreed that peace was the only

option but how they see that peace unfolding they came down very different sides of the coin take a listen to what they said she and i expressed to prime minister netanyahu my disappointment of the u.s. president's declaration and explained that france sees it as a contrary to international law and is dangerous for peace because it doesn't seem in the short term because of security for israel and for the israelis themselves it's always been our capital in jerusalem has never been the capital of any other people i think the sooner the palestinians come to grips with this reality the sooner we will move towards peace and this is why i think present. and important peace president actually criticized that decision by donald trump and he's not the only leader has made big criticisms of that decision to say that jerusalem is the capital of israel we also heard from the british prime minister

theresa may she disagrees with that decision she also described it as being helpful meanwhile the german foreign minister said that he believes that it feels confrontation in the area that benjamin netanyahu the israeli prime minister says that he respects you but he isn't prepared to accept double standards and that's because he said that he hid. voices condemning that decision by don't trump to state that jerusalem is the capital of israel heard only condemnation of the rockets that are being fired at israel. the arab league condemned trump's move and some of its members even called for recognition of the state of palestine with east jerusalem as the capital of lebanon as foreign minister suggested sanctions should be imposed on the us and protests were seen around the world. no one has the right

to play with the fates of billions of people for the sake of one's personal ambitions. so the kingdom of jordan refuses recognition by the states or jerusalem as the capital of israel and we condemn it violates international law. the decision by the united states in its context gives legitimacy and recognition for occupation and the allowance of a de facto status using force i. i . 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 of them were united against just one

the u.s. . we regret the u.s. president's decision must go mad washington's decision with serious concern these decisions are unhelpful to the prospects for peace in the region our actions reflected an honest assessment of reality it is fuelling tensions and increasing instability in an already volatile and turbulent reach of israel like all nations has the right to determine its capital city you know that drill action. is it time to change the status of jerusalem putting 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 the decision by trump has sparked much debate so we asked about the issue with several guest. but 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 nerd into father really means a popular uprising and a popular uprising continue for a variety 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 israeli occupation. and to stay the russian team was banned from competing at the twenty eight hundred winter olympics international olympic committee chiefs restart 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 do their sleep so we'll probably see bates beat an

individual or team competitions under the name olympic elsley it's from russia. no one thought about what it actually means for the athletes to go to the olympics under a neutral flag and simply the murder of our national sport. the probe headed by former swiss president some real schmid found evidence of systemic manipulation of the anti doping rules and system it also led to the suspension of wrestling pick committee and a fifteen million dollars fine however the schmidt report says it's unclear exactly who was behind any doping efforts. 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 parker 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 russia is very useful to keep this one is a 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 sick a piece a new drum say russia's bad russia's bad because if russia is the only bad one in order of things or clean in the case you know enough of the case that there's a lot of bad guys everywhere. you know it's just it won't change and now with this

it will change even for the. dhimmitude inside the decision against the russian team was politically motivated saying it's wrong to impose collective responsibility for the i.o.c. president gave his assurance politics played no part. the eye 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 judgement 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 brags

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 about people are accepting some of it so i don't think you can disentangle the two things. so different putin is confirmed he will run for the russian presidency march of two thousand and eight teen more on that story after the break. the law of hard selling you on the idea that dropping bombs brings us to the chicken hawks forcing you to fight the battle. when you start to try to tell you that the gossip to have a. bottom up as you call and i like. that we all

know what. our. comeback this week the russian military announced syria had been completely liberated from islamic state but it warned that though no particular area is now

held by the jihadist there are still small pockets of resistance russian operation in syria began in september two thousand and fifteen when i still held more territory in the country than any other faction and u.s. led coalition has also been involved in the northeast of the country with the area west of the euphrates river now liberated isis self-proclaimed caliphate effectively no longer exists saturday the iraqi government also declared it had fully rid its country of islamic state during the russian operation in syria r.t. 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 mixtape targets here in syria. whether

it's. dinner time the pilots are ready to go at 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 had 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 even did is or is still far from normal but. at least they will be starving to death and the more. was. limited as announced he will run for president in the elections for march of two thousand and eighteen nikki aaron has the details it was widely expected that vladimir putin would decide to run for reelection next year however he has played korea on the topic so many times over in recent months and one constant 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 go into the bronx you for your support yes i will present my candidacy for the president of the russian federation. but you are both 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 the 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 putin she's attended opposition rallies and she's promised to unite people against vladimir putin one all the other interesting thing about her is that she happens to be the daughter of the former mayor of some painters berg a man who vladimir putin himself has referred to as his mentor in those early days so that should prove quite interesting but it goes 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 woman 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 her bloody near she were not scary either communist party is again r.d. zyuganov and the liberal yabloko parties grigori. five from that are also business men boris titov who is from the party of growth he has pledged to

a champion the rights of entrepreneurs so quite an eclectic mix there for the russian people to think their teeth into ahead of the elections in march next year . around two and a half thousand people have gathered in the center of demanding the impeachment of ukrainian president petro poroshenko all of the rest the former georgian president turned ukrainian opposition figure because circus fairly during a similar rally on friday successful is arrested supporters gathered outside the detention center where he was being held setting like the tires and dust bins this really is now on hunger strike 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 you see as though by law enforcement officers but a crowd of supporters so managed to pull him from a police van like it's what he later claimed his detention of being purely political in nature. this is

a dirty lying operation completely fake it's only being done to disorientate people and to prolong the life of hucksters keep these handcuffs and save them for poroshenko. live this year circus really was stripped of his ukrainian citizenship while abroad in september is supporters for the protective crowd around him and marched him across the ukrainian border from poland has since been pursued by ukrainian law enforcement. that say you are right today to stick around with r.t. throughout the night if you can the dear a tutor will be here to bring. all the like stores. we first like on you on us coming to inspect our property if somebody would've been told me that i'm going to spend my life for two plain committees or

a lot of historical or so of the sultan was clearly seen. every night although we were attacked by the arabs or we will attacking them and we will extremely shocked and saying but that's not possible i'll meet those moved in such scenes and then the soldiers and the myself and our constant kind of lose the wampus of the house without a prison or with all the god of the day all. believe much second class citizens in the on call. it was like a lightning in my head that there is no way to be able to live together without tearing down this was asked. of.

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all right what's going on leisure they were national player back on monday yeah well apparently we're all friends and. the liberals are trying to say that we reveal what should be a trump and all the liberals are the russian the liberals and we're cool russia is not right and then grocery i'm pissed because they did not treat me like shit right and then now they're on our other well i had top blanket with my son to school them from time to time for stealing up oh i know i know i read a. young tot he died tragically young man is trying to mind really upset my life i have a loss to serve. so some liberals are saying that russia has something to do with the election yet but yet they think that hillary didn't win because they bring the election that's my trump one really this election doesn't.