a terrorist suspect is arrested in new york after an explosion rocked a central bus station injuring three people. in visits turkey during his middle east horn announces the withdrawal of russian troops from syria. and the israeli prime minister is in europe seeking support for donald trump's recognition of jerusalem as israel's capital but the eve foreign policy chief makes it clear brussels will not follow suit. you're watching r t international live from our moscow studio with me. welcome to the program new york has narrowly avoided a deadly terrorist attack police have detained one suspect who along with three

other people sustained non-life threatening injuries in an explosion at the city's main bus terminal the state governor says the man was influenced by extremist groups including islamic state i would say influenced by i don't like the constitution of the word inspired but influenced by these groups here you can see what's believed to be the moment of the explosion we can't verify the authenticity of this video but you can see a flash followed by a cloud of white smoke and people fleeing as the smoke clears one person is seen lying on the ground. president trump issued a statement saying the bombing once again highlights the urgent need to fix the american immigration system artie's caleb moore has more from the scene of the attack. well we're here on eighth avenue and the city is breathing a sigh of relief in the aftermath of an explosion in the subways now rush hour in new york city is quite a big deal monday morning people are pouring in crowded subway trains and there

appears to have been a blast and now it's being called a terrorist attack or an attempted terrorist attack the attacker has been identified as a twenty seven year old male details are beginning to surface and at the moment the city is breathing a sigh of relief now eight avenue is now open up for traffic and the incident took place very close to the port authority building now the port authority building is the main bus terminal for manhattan people coming in from new jersey commuter buses as well as buses from around the country coming in on greyhound all come into the port authority building and that building was shut down in the aftermath of the blast there was reports of a stampede in fear people running not knowing what was happening but at the moment it appears that there are no fatalities only injuries in these injuries are non-life threatening so a lot of questions are being asked people are wondering how safe things are in the morning rush hour as you see crowds and crowds of people piled into subway trains

trying to get into manhattan people are asking about safety here in new york city police department is on the scene there helicopters have been flying above there are also a fire department vehicles around we understand that the f.b.i.'s joint terrorism task force is investigating this this is being treated as a terrorist incident here in new york city but at the moment the suspect is in custody and there are no faith tallaght ease. and police have identified the suspect as twenty seven year old. he had strapped a low tech explosive device to his body which badly injured him when it went off. just a month ago the city was hit by its deadliest attack since nine eleven i think. you are.

mr safe had been planning this for a number of weeks it did this in the name of i said. a state senator was hit by planes that it's inevitable that countries that i phone call it has become targets for attacks to some extent people are just accepting the fact that we live in a world of terror we never had terrorist attacks in the united states for you know four hundred years and then all of a sudden we have them almost on a weekly basis it's not just in the united states it's not happening in your own everywhere that opens its borders and allows people. who who are wrong have with with they often with religious belief that they have to use a way to be inhabitants of the country. it's inevitable that you're going to have

to we have very radical. function in this country and around the rock and they literally preach hate and they say look go out there you know it's your duty. to to murder people and they go out and they do it and sometimes it takes many years some of these people are not even religious and then they you know they have a religious conversion later on and if they go to one of these bad mosques then then the next thing that you have to say as a suicide bomber. the russian president is currently on a middle east tour which on monday saw him visit three countries syria egypt and turkey. was following putin's talks with the turkish president this was the eight meeting between vladimir putin and president edouard to boost the relations ties

between the two countries are getting stronger every day they also discuss the whole hoops the issue of syria of course was right up there they said that progress is being made on the ground and of course those words are being echoed by actual events on the ground the syrian civil war is entering its final stages but there is an interesting thing here recurring it seems to win since that keeps on happening in the middle east when one conflict appears to be dying down in this case we are referring to syria another conflict in the avidly erupts in this case where referring to the united states recognizing jerusalem as the capital of israel. both russia and turkey think that the u.s. administration's decision to recognize jerusalem as israel's capital and move the american embassy that doesn't help progress in the middle east process on the contrary it destabilizes the difficult situation in the region in fact it could

ruin the peace process altogether. denouncements and condemnation have come in hot and heavy from around the world have been protests worldwide globally and the specially in palestine in israel that palestinians are going out of the streets to voice their displeasure they have the feeling of hurt that they're experiencing a feeling of betrayal president there do and said that four palestinians have so far been killed two thousand people injured by the by the israel's israeli security services and this is just the beginning stages of dawn was also. very harsh in what he had to say he said that israel is using the situation to crack down on gas or to crack down on hamas on palestinians he also said that this is a crime what is happening and cannot be ignored by the international community in. the american decision to relocate these really capice

a lead to huge wave of criticism for protesters against this decision were killed by israeli soldiers thousand injured israel is. on the flames it sees in this wave of protests across palestinians i'm not used to receiving. lectures. about morality from a leader who bombs kurdish villagers in his native turkey. dreams. hopes iran. international sanctions and those. with so much going on the timing of this visit was also rather interesting because it had been planned well in advance but you know this so many of them to be taking place at this time and putin and president want to meet and to discuss them to central players in middle eastern affairs well that's a fortunate coincidence and that wraps up quite the top of lot to me of putin from

egypt to syria to turkey and then back to russia in one day. early on monday the russian president also made a stop in syria at a russian air base their hand as russia had started to pull its troops out of the country as i still had been defeated according to russia's defense ministry twenty three aircraft and two helicopters will be taken to syria as well as military police units a de mining center and a hospital here's a look back at i saw the rise and fall islamic state a group whose name has become a synonym for bombings kidnappings beheadings and terror.

was. the group emerged in the early to thousands in iraq as a solid jihadist militant group and came to prominence in two thousand and three after the american invasion however back then the organization was too weak to terrorize the world but by two thousand and fourteen i saw a grown strong enough to proclaim itself a caliphate a terrorist state with its own currency laws in vast territory both in syria and in iraq that's when the us pledge to crush it so i can announce that america will lead a broad coalition to roll back this terrorist threat. our ject it is clear

we will degrade and ultimately destroy. the small syrian town of kabbani was the first major loss for eyesore. i still fought back and managed to make further territorial gains but ones not quite as significant as in the early days in september two thousand and fifteen russia joined the fight rolling out its large scale anti terror campaign in syria. six months after the start of the russian campaign another major symbolic loss for i saw the liberation of power myra the city where the terrorists filmed one of their most horrific executions.

russian air strikes destroyed oil trucks and tankers draining the terrorists' cash source and while i suppose money was burning the u.s. led coalition together with the iraqis and the kurds attacked isis biggest city mosul the battle for mosul turned out to be a long one waged over nine months and victory came a tremendous cost turning a city with two million inhabitants into rubble. after the liberation of mosul the coalition shifted its focus on syria backing its kurdish allies in their push against isis self-proclaimed capital raca in october two thousand and seventeen the city was completely liberated.

and. the final nail in the caliphates coffin was the liberation of their resort the syrian city which i saw besieged for three years. after the loss of their resort there was not much of a state left for i saw they suffer defeat after defeat being pushed from all sides and all parties u.s. and russian air strikes sads and iraqi forces kurdish militias and hezbollah middle east commentator abdel bari atwan thinks america should now join russia in withdrawing its forces from syria. well actually it is a day of celebrations for russia and its allies in the middle east i believe it is

it is actually a huge achievement and president bush is not only visiting syria he is going to play another visit to egypt after that he will conclude because they have to visit there to meet the president. of turkey to say that we have to look at that to the stage all to that actually coming after the victory against isis i mean to make a permanent peace in syria. peace on the middle east us troops in syria was illegal and now a very will be more illegal i think this is a clear cut message to the american administration that they should actually pull our troops from syria not only from syria but also from iraq so there is no need for them to be there unless they're american actually would like to muddy the water in the middle east. israeli tanks and warplanes have bombarded hamas military

positions in gaza according to the i.d.f. the strikes were in response to an incoming missile which was intercepted tensions have flared up since donald trump's announcement that the u.s. would recognize jerusalem as israel's capital the move sparked a wave of anger in cars on monday. and on sunday hundreds of fan to try the demonstrators also rallied near the u.s. embassy in beirut lebanese security forces fired tear gas and water cannon to the crowd we discussed the situation with the. go to and from the palestine national initiative and you. and i tied israeli ambassador. stalling the american

decision to relocate the embassy to jerusalem for the last twenty three years since congress passed the law of the relocation of the embassy to jerusalem that stalling did not bring peace closer it only intensified the palestinian hate education exacerbated palestinian terrorism what dumbass sort of good do is absolute nonsense he doesn't make sense he's just repeating propaganda. what we had actually somebody for them is the zionist that it is against palestinians is nineteen forty eight that has led to. now the longest occupation in modern history the reality is with all due respect that jerusalem has been the capital of the jewish people more recently the jewish state for over three thousand years king david is

we have no matter how many wanted to. do what you like in the us and seventy how can you believe this is for the sophistication of history anyone who took his story one or one knows that king david was the one who initiated jerusalem as the capital of the jewish people over three thousand years ago anyone who studies religion knows that the koran does not mention jerusalem even once even ones i'm really sorry for this level of discussion because it's full of lies and misrepresentation but i'm not going to answer that the basic fact is that israel is a. gentleman you will keep buying most of fresh due to the second would that did not mean that companies would be a good night is that you patient because it's

a fact. now this is occupied france that did not mean the people who use the rounds because it's a fact as much as. a couple of years it is because you do that. and that somebody lucian for the promotion of. the u.s. ambassador to the u.n. reacted to the wave of criticism by doubling down insisting that america's you simply reflects the way the world is when you recognize the truth when both parties recognize reality peace comes we are living in the reality that jerusalem is the capital of israel present times announcement last week was at odds with the rest of the united nations in late november un members voted one hundred fifty one to six to reject jerusalem status as the capital of israel and last wednesday the secretary general stressed that there is no alternative to a two state solution of involved from the libertarian national committee told us

the u.s. announcement was deliberately provocative. the us is a sovereign nation and the us should be able to set up whatever rules or opinions it once but it should do so in ways that don't infringe on what other countries are doing now this particular latest action by trump looks to me to be deliberately inflammatory with no real good justification what we have over here is a direct reflection of the aggressive overreach of u.s. foreign policy now this isn't the first time that the us has decided to take a very unpopular position many of the recent actions in afghanistan in iraq have been opposed by the majority of countries u.s. foreign policy has stopped caring about what's popular what makes sense what's moral what's at the core what's any of it's business and this is the latest in a long line of similar behavior that needs to stop. the wave of protests sparked by donald trump's decision to recognize jerusalem as the capital of israel has now reached belgium pro palestinian activists took to the streets of brussels to show

their discontent the demonstration happened during the israeli prime minister's visit to the city where he met with the foreign policy chief for the recur more greeny gave a statement after the talks. by minister netanyahu allies the thing from the ministers themselves that the risk e.u. unity on this that the only realistic solution to the conflict between israel and palestine is based on two states with children as the capital of both the state of israel and the state of palestine from decision on jerusalem is clearly continuing to stir up trouble especially as israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu comes now to visit europe first for talks with the french president mccaul as well as for talks with his e.u. colleagues perspex ific lee e.u. foreign policy chief morgan really as well as european foreign ministers now he was matched by protesters in belgium and france netanyahu expected it seems his

european counterparts to follow in trump's footsteps he did expect some kind of support when it comes to this issue even having thrown around the word hypocrisy but we have seen that the e.u. foreign policy chief more greeny has basically indicated that netanyahu should hold his horses when it comes to the issue of jerusalem saying that quote here he should keep his expectations for others we've seen quite a similar story unravel in paris with the french president michael ware. and that's when you know who did talk about peace however it was quite clear that their vision of the path towards this peace is completely different it's always been a couple in jerusalem it's never been the couple of any other people so i think the sooner the problem students come to grips with this reality the sooner we will move towards peace and this is why i think president trump's announcement was stored and so important for peace she and i expressed to prime minister netanyahu my

disappointment of the u.s. president's declaration and explained the france sees it as a contrary to international law and as dangerous for peace because it doesn't seem in the short term the cause of security for israel. and for these release themselves to be clear netanyahu has not really received a lot of support on this issue from other leaders in europe along them of course german chancellor angela merkel here in the u.k. british prime minister to resign may has also made it quite clear that this is not an idea that is very popular here and that both merkel of course and me have made it clear that they don't think this announcement is going to be good in terms of the decades long attempts to try to come to some kind of viable solution to these really palestinian question now here in london we've also seen the metropolitan police as well as emergency services conduct some kind of training for the first time in a foreign embassy and this was an israeli embassy they were they were basically

training and preparation for a chemical attack they were saying that this was has nothing to do with the latest developments when it comes to jerusalem and also in europe really passions have been flying when it comes to this issue left and right there been several instances for one we've seen in sweden a couple hundred protesters come out on the streets with anti israeli messages we've seen in another lens an attack took place at a really restaurant by a man carrying a palestinian flag really other examples as well so it's clear that this is an issue and this announcement from trump has so far really just stirred a lot of trouble political activists and social justice campaigner george bolleter believes the change in u.s. policy could have a destabilizing effect on the middle east what is absolutely clear is the movie is an incredible provocation to what is an incredibly unstable situation as have the. pretense if you like of of the idea of

a two state solution with the u.s. as a broker of peace. but that i mean that is a more ridiculous claim than it has been for a very very long time and. another thing that i've been saying for a while and along with many others is is that the huge danger with donald trump is that when his when he sort of national divide and rule politics begin to break down and his sort of national issues start to catch up with him there's a huge danger the whole style inflaming and provoking tensions across the world to distract from that national context and i think that's what we're seeing at the moment. has again last time said what he calls the fake news media he called for a washington post reporter to be fired for tweeting a photo of the president's latest rally which appeared to show a small crowds. i

. british newspaper the times has thrown some accusations at this network regarding our coverage of the u.k.'s grunfeld tower tragedy in his article the times accuses

r.t. of attempting to ignite a class war in britain with its coverage of the tragic event it also accuses the channel of misreporting the ten million pounds has been spent on cladding so as to make the building less of an eyesore for rich residents nearby on top of the us the times says we should have made clear that one of our guests lisa mackenzie as research fellow at the london school of economics is also an activist for the anarchist group class war and finally r.t. host afshin rattansi and max kaiser are accused of being too critical of the authorities while covering the grunfeld towers tragedy as well as indulging in conspiracy theories. to crandon foul tower fire took place in june this year and came the lines of seventy one people in building had been on fire for sixty hours before it was extinguished the tragedy sparked widespread outrage in persists i see with many angry at perceived failings pine to local authorities

earlier we spoke to r.t. sputnik host and former british m.p. george galloway he called the article in paris saying the very idea the disaster in which seventy one at least seventy one poor people men women and children were burned to death as a result of the failure of the landlord which is the richest bar in england the royal bara of kensington and chelsea failing to make proper safety provision for them and clouding the building in arsenic i'm not making that up the cladding was made of arsenic which poisoned those who were not actually burned to death the idea that british and this is the responsibility of r.t.

and of the russians is beyond of pensive it is obscene and i live work in the area around ground felt our i have to look at every day i can still smell it every day i'm a school governor in a school well there are children who have still not been really housed six months after this in found on the idea that we're all angry because the russians told us to be angry is i see beyond. that is positively obs. police brutality in the us is making headlines again after body count footage was recently released showing an officer frankly shooting an unarmed lad the incident took place last year in the state of arizona and

a warning now you may find the following video disturbing you know do you. try. the new. preview. do you. cross. all. police were called to the hotel after it was reported a man had been seen pointing a gun out of his window the weapon was actually an air rifle the victim twenty six year old daniel shaver had been drinking with his friends in his hotel room he was showing them his air rifle which a witness thought may have been a lethal weapon mark garagos whose response presenting the victim's family said

it's the most horrific shoot but the jury acquitted of murder and but the jury acquitted of murder and manslaughter charges last thursday human rights activist randy short believes the officers claims that he felt threatened don't quite hold up first and foremost that officer was with the group of other people with guns there was no way that that man even if he had a weapon was going to be able to overcome that many people with body armor with high powered our automatic weaponry it is a friend a c a a joke there the officer claimed to fear for its life it was excessive florists it was an execution and i believe that many artists. are psychologically unstable they're dangerous people and essentially they have a license to kill that's all round up of our top stories of the day don't forget to check us out on social media facebook you tube on our website after you don't come

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