palestinian territories see a six day of rage protests erupting in the west bank and gaza strip against the u.s. recognition of jerusalem as the capital of israel. deadly explosion of the major gas puts europe on high alert with prices soaring and a state of emergency declared. hundreds of protesters clashed with police in catalonia the madrid orders the transfer of holy artifacts to another spanish region in the wake of the independent good.

evening to you my name is you're watching r.t. international. the west bank city of bethlehem has been turbulent since donald trump's announcement last week that he was recognizing jerusalem as israel's capital according to the palestinian health ministry four people have been killed almost two thousand injured in six days of clashes war protests erupted this tuesday local journalist him reports from the gaza strip. tensions is increasing on the buffer zone nothing knows each year yet we can see and hear we just right now i know i know life when it's our shot just right now a palestinian kid got shot just right now in a live bullets and days release time seniors are still protesting the demonstrations and protests are so going in gaza strip west bank and that left him

floored that sixth day today and palestinians have been protesting a sense. thursday night we can also see here tear gas pumps that israelis are throwing to use tear gas bombs that are filling the place palestinians have been demonstrating and protesting in guys sell bank and bait everyone is being asked and palestinians are expressing their anger everywhere. ok. meanwhile the israeli army says that it hit back at hamas posting gaza in retaliation for a rocket launched towards israel locals describe what happened. stories you heard.

he can still hear in the new horse i think trump was wrong this time he made a mess we israelis all know that jerusalem is our capital we don't need him to say that protest against homs decision about jerusalem the found out across the globe one of the latest was in the chilean city of something i'll go where it's palestinian community rallied in front of the u.s. embassy. similar protests were seen in the lebanese capital beirut to the demonstrators also demanding the resignation of the u.s. ambassador despite the strong objections to troops decision both in the arab world i'm beyond the u.s. ambassador to the u.n. and says that the move will bring peace to the region auntie's course want to kill

him open assesses just how likely that will be. u.s. leaders seem to believe that if you repeat something over and over again it becomes the truth take a listen to nikki haley the u.s. ambassador to the united nations defending trump's recent jerusalem move which caused the violence and chaos throughout the region we are living in the reality that jerusalem is the capital of israel clearly disagree with you this is your hope that this is a regrettable decision as the capital of israel you know. this decision. yes it's the right thing to do. it is absolutely the right thing to do jerusalem is the capital of israel these decisions i'm hopeful to the prospects for peace in the region the announcement of the potential to send spec courts to even clear signs we are living in the reality that jerusalem is the capital of israel when both parties recognize reality peace

comes repeating mantras happens to be a thing in washington d.c. especially when it comes to controversial foreign policy decisions take a listen to the no regime change just a no fly zone montra that we heard regarding the libyan intervention the security council has responded to the libyan people's cry for help this council's purpose is clear. to protect innocent civilians the task that i assigned our forces. to protect the libyan people from immediate danger broadening our military mission to include regime change would be a mistake pretty soon nato cruise missiles were flying in order to back up fighters armed by western countries then eventually the country's leader moammar gadhafi was brutally executed here's hillary clinton retelling her version of the events yes we came we saw that he died there and then there was that whole weapons of mass

destruction routine performed at the united nations by call and powell even brought props less than a teaspoon full of dry anthrax in an envoy shut down the united states senate in the fall of two thousand and one iraq declared eighty five hundred liters of anthrax we have no ambition in iraq except to remove a threat so the weapons of mass destruction weren't actually there and now iraq was left in shambles the main reason we went and you're right it's a time was we thought he had weapons of mass destruction turns out he didn't well bush was forced to admit that he was wrong about iraq but nikki haley is certain there will be no retractions about jerusalem it will move the peace process forward i'll come back and tell you i told you so now if any that peace nikki haley is promising ever shows up it's certainly going to make people across the globe quite delighted but until then it looks like simply saying things doesn't make them so caleb oppen r.t. new york protests against trump's move also being seen in european countries where

right to his came out onto the streets with palestinian flags auntie's europe correspondent peter all of the reports from one such demonstration. the german interior minister thomas thomas they called scenes of propellants tinian demonstrations across berlin over the weekend disgraceful well that was because there were some scenes where israeli flags were burnt and other. accusations of anti semitism it's a very different situation here on burley and on monday evening a few hundred people gathered here outside of the german capital's main train station but speaking to people here they've said that their message hasn't changed they're still raging against donald trump's decision to move the u.s. embassy to jerusalem to accept jerusalem as the capital of israel and they say that accusations that the protests have been anti semitic well they're just unfounded.

as we are see mites ourselves and we were expelled so we are also against anti semitism and accusing us of that is just nonsense. all those people be under semitic most of them are of his nervous system of. seven the decision to move the embassy is unjust and tragic donald trump should think of better things to do you can just back one side in this case you have to see both sides and i'm. willing to say to the world only that we want to reduce limb to become the capital city of a palestinian nation if anyone thinks that we won't war they're wrong we strive for peace we want peace. but this demonstration had originally been planned to be held outside of the u.s. embassy however right there right now is actually seeing the lighting of the largest hanukkah menorah in europe so it seemed weis to move the demonstration here in the reason is that the tensions are very high we have seen violence at

demonstrations across the world germany of course making sure they don't want to see that us all here in berlin but there has been strong words from european politicians and leaders as well and as we. this is the fourth day of demonstrations here in berlin demonstrations from palestinians abroad and those who support them aren't going anywhere here in europe. one person has died and more than a dozen people have been injured after a gas explosion in austria the ensuing fire has now been extinguished technical problems have been blamed for the blaze eyewitnesses described flames soaring high into the sky the area around the site of the incident is currently on lockdown blast portably took place at a pumping station along a gas line with details his arteries probably break. well this was an explosion at the gas plant it's an austrian gas facility and it is a major hub for importing gas into europe it supplies a whole host of european countries including germany france italy slovenia and

croatia so the repercussions of the explosion have been quite far reaching italy has been the worst affected their having to declare a national emergency as a result because rome now has a serious supply shortage and market prices for gas have more than doubled elsewhere in europe the explosion is exacerbating existing energy supply issues for example here in the u.k. on top of that explosion the most important north sea gas and oil pipeline has been shut down in order to repair a crack to the pipe and to top things off there's a severe cold snap here at the moment so that's paralyzed travel in some parts of the country so gas is very much in demand people need heating and prices for suppliers have surged in the fair is at this moment though that price increase

could be passed on to consumers which would be at this time of year a very bitter pill for people to have to swallow so this perfect storm of just three variables just goes to show you how vulnerable the energy supply to europe can be at a time like this now the issue with the austrian facility is that it happened to be the main entry point for russian gas into europe russian gas accounts for about a all of the overall gas supplies to the continent and there had been a new pipeline in the pipeline so to say the nord stream to that was meant to create another way for russian gas to get to germany and the rest of europe but that project has been put on ice due to mainly. ical obstacles some european countries are all for it others are worried that it would allow more scope to wield too much power over the rest of europe and the sanctions against russia have made

it very difficult for anyone to invest in the project. europe is looking to bolster its joint defenses with post sco that's the permanent structure to cooperation pact which was signed on monday here are some of the pact trains. old. old. twenty five e.u. states have already signed up comprises of eighteen projects in different spheres of defense some of these will duplicate nato functions so let's take a closer look at then some of these crossovers like nato will conduct train and assist mission similarly will dedicate resources to fighting and preventing cyber attacks and it will also establish crisis resolution centers know to head the end stoltenberg says this project will strengthen the european pillow with nato top

e.u. officials have also praised her sco e.u. foreign policy chief federica morgan really called the move historic. also welcomed it pointing out the security cannot be outsourced but the foreign minister of poland expressed concern and called post go an experiment and raise doubt whether europe needs a second defensive body in addition to nato political commentator ron bricmont believes that the venture is doomed to fail. was the point of the military is to wage war you can either way to defensive work if you're on the attack or an offensive war if we attack of the counties now you can attack we can three so strong country is now defending ourselves against whom again obviously against russia but who can think for a second that question i would launch a war against one of its neighbors i mean you see i mean there are bound to lose that war because the relationship of strength this is not good and they don't want a nuclear war nobody wants

a nuclear war so i don't see how it mean makes sense to defend ourselves because we don't have any enemies now of course we could also attack russia but that would be suicidal too for the same reason that the only thing that's left is to attack your state and it continues the absurdity of the european construction i'm sorry this is this is bound to be a failure of course it will exist in that sense it will be a success but you know what's going to what is it going to accomplish preserve peace we don't have war we don't have in the jaw for the only problem is terrorism and that's not going to help fight terrorism. russia fleet's you want to take part in the upcoming winter games as neutrals will have the full support of their country you know it's been comes after the i.o.c. interest from the games for alleged state sponsored doping auntie's nicaea enjoyed my colleague kate partridge to discuss this earlier. the russian olympic committee revealed a unanimous decision to grant their blessing to any athlete still wanting to compete in the winter olympic games which will be held in less than two months as

you know a young child in south korea there will be competing as neutrals though so no russian flags no russian symbols no russian anthem and effectively no team russia will be referred to as ours or olympic athletes from russia now the other is the set that there are details that need to be ironed out with the international committee concerning things such as what uniform the russian team will be wearing they also said that they reached this decision after hearing the thoughts and concerns of each individual involved in the olympic team from the coaches to the athletes and most of them said you know despite everything they've been through over recent months they still want the chance to live out their dreams. every athlete has a dream we train every day for that dream this dream is called the olympics of course we want to perform at the upcoming olympics and have a chance to compete fairly but unlike our competitors we've been deprived of our flag and humiliated or basic rights have been taken away we want to compete from other learned for our loved ones for off and on mission has been one of the

greatest throughout the years we will dedicate every victory and every model to russia become true will be representing with great honor and this decision comes less than a week after the president vladimir putin also gave his blessing to any athlete still wanting to compete is that that russia fully supports them well how will the olympic officials decide who to invite well i'm sorry to say kate is not going to be clear sailing for these athletes who still want to take part in the games in february they still have to be officially invited by the international olympic committee there's a number of points they have to comply with possibly even sitting more don't think tests as well and the president of the r o c alexander as you call it also raise concerns that there may be even bigger roadblocks to come you sure one of the main issues of concern is whether or leading athletes will get an invitation to the olympics so it won't just be those with less chance of winning medals that go leading athletes will have to remain at home that would be very strange and surprising but i hope that the international olympic committee is interested in the

strongest russian athletes taking part in the gate now just to recap how we got to this point the decision to ban russian athletes followed an investigation by an i.o.c. backed commission headed by the former head of the swiss department of sport also the former president of the country sung ocean it and that report actually highlighted reasonable doubt that any of the suggestions that any knowledge of possible doping in russia went any higher than the national sports association take a listen. 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 so of course there are bystanders claiming that this whole decision is politicized as also people claiming that the whole investigation lacks transparency and also the clock is taking

a matter of weeks to go and that one step closer to the games but still so many hurdles yet to clear this to see the i.o.c. banned a further six russian athletes all of them iso key players in the meantime russian olympic biathlon champion so atlanta is more out of a belief that having to compete under a neutral flag is merely a form ot she thinks of russian athletes win any medals it will still be perceived as an achievement for the country in that particular night which is which commentators won't be saying that an athlete is from the international olympic committee or nothing is competing under the international olympic committee's flag and that's wrong anyway they will say that an athlete came from russia so the name will be heard yes there won't be our uniform or our anthem but it will still be our russian medal our people competing for our country the main words are our country russia and these medals will anyway return to russia i wish our guys will do what no one expects us to do that is to win violence against alone enough to madrid

orders the removal of holy artifacts from the local museum that story after the break. but politicians do something. they put themselves on the line. to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president. or somehow want to be rich.

to do like to be for us this is what the four three in the morning can people get. interested always in the waters of our. first sit. back just a month after its unsuccessful bid for independence the spanish region of catalonia has once again been struck by violence hundreds of protesters scuffled with police in the city of yoga. was one of the of the. inflaming separatist sentiments this time

disputed relics sings by the spanish authorities mediæval on to a fax from a convent in another spanish province that will learn to catalonia. when was the o.-o. o.-o. o. o.-o. led the central government has in effect basically ended the litigation they said we have the power now and we're going to end this issue once and for all the. law of the guy that was the law was on the way here what is happening in the museum in the there is nothing to do with our getting justice it is the spanish government and the authorities in arizona came to the museum looking at a moon was the guy

was i was we've already seen the marks against democracy in human rights today we also saw them ignore cultural values people in poser imbue these artifacts with perhaps greater actual value than what they have because they speak to a larger set of tensions between the two parties. i was allowed. to the authoritarian approach. on top of all the other authoritarian approaches that the catalans have been subject to that makes this particular case so important . the main suspect in monday's botched new york bombing had been

accessing islamic state related materials online that's according to a court statement twenty seven year old who'd had multiple charges pressed against him allegedly planned the attack for a year he used his facebook page on the day of the attack to say trump had failed to defend america three people as well as lyme self were injured in that explosion near times square. ceiling. you. got to see it start. this happens in every day if this happens on. the scale of the story i think it is straightforward but i think it's kind of normal for these times were particularly in new york city which is targeted many times and it's the new normal. surveillance cameras captured the moment of the plastic took place below the port authority terminal said to be the busiest bus in the world the suspect had a homemade pipe bomb attached to his body terrorism expert doug weeks says that

lone wolf attacks are here to stay. straying. are happening with increased frequency in the us and certainly from what we've seen in europe. are perhaps not directly. from reykjavik i. certainly have. in terms of sympathy with them. in syria it's not surprising i think the. networks. of security. think that needs are going to probably continue to happen for some time in the future. there's a federal security service is eliminated a terrorist cell run them funded by islamic states the group planned attacks during the new year celebrations is what is the presidential elections next march the

coach and has a story. russia's federal security service has for the plot of a terrorist group which planned attacks including suicide bombings there around new year's celebrations and also targeting presidential elections in march next here now the bombings were planned by members of an isis affiliated group which was from central asia and europe in the operation the security services confiscated improvised explosive devices they also destroyed firearms and ammunition now according to the released after speed data the security services fooled eighteen attacks and twenty seventeen alone they also busted fifty six terrorist cells which were planning to create bases in different regions across the country the f.s.b. director warns that the terrorist threat is especially high at this moment as islamic state militants are returning to their home countries and seeking to

continue their activities after the liberation of syria. meanwhile russian troops are starting to return home following that tolls of duty in syria follows monday's order from bloody met putin to start withdrawing russia's forces from the country these are the first planes touching down in russia they landed in the south of the country and brought home a russian military police battalion which have been serving in syria since my monday president putin made a surprise visit to the country decision to withdraw his troops from syria five days after it was the cloud the country had been liberated from islamic state. you all right up today if you like your news on the go don't forget you can follow us on facebook on twitter and there are plenty more news stories available on the web site.

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