we believe. the we could please see. the refugees and. amnesty international points the finger at the countries over the plight of migrants in libya. protests are up for a sick day in the west bank and gaza against the u.s. recognition of jerusalem as israel's capital. and a deadly explosion at a major gas hob in austria on high alert with prices soaring and a state of emergency declared in italy.

national live from our moscow studio with me in india today welcome to the program amnesty international has issued a strongly worded condemnation of the way e.u. governments including italy in the migrant crisis the group has published a report titled libya's dark web of collusion focusing on the detention and abuse of people trying to reach. we believe the. complicity in a system of abuse and torture of refugees and migrants. because the exactly what these going on and they have chosen to support. the system of detention and their view of migrants without. placing any safeguards some of amnesty international findings are based on videos published by a volunteer rescue group called sea watch in november one of the videos shows a refugee being thrown off a libyan coast guard boats. the. it's.

it's. this video was shot from a sea watch search and rescue vessel other pictures show migrants being whipped with a rope. for him pictures of this boat seen in the video were reviewed by amnesty international they found it was the same boat donated by italy back in april it was handed over to the libyan coast guard in a ceremony attended by the italian interior minister amnesties research says that libyan coast guards are working closely with people traffickers that comes from the testimonies of fifteen refugees at the camp we sometimes see the may become the

maids with the smugglers who pay the navy they don't come by car to come by boat we're on the last boat when we departed a speedboat stopped as it was the libyan coast guard and they asked us from which man do you come we told them mohammed. and they said ok go on in libya it's either in prison or easily you cannot go back you cannot turn around last week the european commission issued a report on you programs in libya the document stressed the need to shut down smuggling and human trafficking operations in the country r.t. are several institutions to comment on the allegations against the new government we received the following reply from the committee spokes man deputy spokesman for the un secretary general we have raised our own concerns about the situation and particularly the human rights of migrants in libya as you know different organizations within the u.n. system have also been working with your thoughts to see what they can do to resolve the plight of the migrants who've been in libya and we again reiterate the need to

make sure that all the people who had been migrants can be resettled to other places where their rights and their dignity respected. professor of international relations lyle some good old us countries have a responsibility to protect migrants in libya because you're getting a number of reports from credible sources including u.n. agencies that there are systematic abuses there that is and and i think it's clear that there are italy has to do and the european union has to say well we're not going to send these people back to libya and we're going to find some way to give them a safe haven whether they're whether or not they are economic migrants or refugees to try to help with the resettlement isn't is not right their countries major powers. destabilize the situation and then later on complain that. there are mass migration movements from war and other difficulties so the whole

world will have to team together first of all not to. use force in an indiscriminate matter manner or in illinois ways and to make sure that people have job opportunities etc because a lot of people i mean they take enormous trysts to cross the military in so many deaths that happened and they want to be leading in less situations very dire. the west bank city of bethlehem has been thrown into turmoil since donald trump's announcement last week that he was recognizing jerusalem as israel's capital according to a palestinian health ministry four people have been killed and almost two thousand injured in six days of clashes more protests erupted throughout choose day local journalists tend countering reports from gaza. tensions is increasing on the buffer zone not heroes easier yet we can see an ad and see we're just right now i know i know life when it's our shot just right now

a palestinian kid got shot just right now we're live with it for days rallies palestinians are still protesting the demonstrations and protests are said going in gaza strip west bank and bet let him flirt that six day today and palestinians have been protesting i sense that. there is day night we can also see here tear gas pumps that is right knees are thrown at us tear gas bombs that are filling that place palestinians have been demonstrating and protesting in guys out west bank and beit ahead everyone is being asked and palestinians are expressing their anger everywhere. to the. palestinian flanks artie's europe correspondent peter on the phone reports from one such demonstration. the german interior minister

thomas thomas a cold scenes of pro published in demonstrations across berlin over the weekend disgraceful well that was because they were some say it was israeli flags were burned said other. accusations of on t. semitism it's a very different situation here on on monday evening it 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 doesn't change 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 these protests have been messick well they just unfounded is insane. we are see mights ourselves 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 ups are of such similar. service 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 on the. one 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 us 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 it's all here in berlin but there has been strong words from european politicians and leaders as well and as we're seeing this is the fourth day

of demonstrations here in berlin demonstrations from palestinians abroad and those who support them going anywhere here in europe despite the strong objections to trans decision both in the arab world and beyond the u.s. ambassador to the u.n. insists the move will bring peace to the region caleb moore print looks into that claim 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 which caused the violence and chaos throughout the region we are living in the reality that jerusalem is the capital of israel clearly disagree this is you. this is a regrettable decision there is the as the capital of israel will call on. this decision against something. 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 a spec puts to even times 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 as 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 shot 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 a shambles the main reason we went 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 kaleb up and r.t. new york. one person has died and more than a dozen people have been injured after a gas explosion in austria as you can see the cloth and huge flames billowing into the sky high and sniping attacks scientism major natural gas distribution near vienna austrian pipelines are likely to be shut down for days causing a major supply shortfall ati's polyploid has the details on. this was an explosion at the bound garson 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 third 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 political. some european countries are all for it others are worried that it would allow moscow 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 meanwhile the u.s.

officials have warned of a so-called russian monopoly on natural gas supplies in europe as a hearing in congress assistant secretary of state was that mitchell single out the north stream two pipeline which is currently under construction between russia and germany you sort of point to an oyster into you this is a project that would concentrate seventy five percent of the russian gas to europe in the one pipeline so it's not in europe's interests it's not in our interests it's also a political rather than a commercial undertaking and i think it's important to be crystal clear about that because north into would go through danish waters this is a potentially significant political and legal stumbling block that could really slow progress on the pipeline it's a positive development that we applaud and we've really closely with the danes the credit goes to denmark for moving in this direction but i think it's consistent with european or just purely i just wish we could get germans and other large you member states to see the same way keith boy field research fellow at the center for

political studies told us the u.s. wants to gain a larger share of the european gas market. but u.s. producers are looking to their own bottom line and that they would like to you know export. n.-g. liquefied natural gas to europe because they see a commercial opportunity there so you could argue that strategic. sort of view about the future of gas supply in europe are also have a certain commercial tip as well but they're certainly look looking to increase their exports of liquefied natural gas and looking at their own fracking capacity they're wanting to export it was only on till recently that they were importing natural gas now all those ports have been switched to exporting so they're looking across the world including europe to export that gas that they're producing in the states the

pentagon has been accused of losing track of thousands of its own soldiers stationed abroad story on more. good politicians to do something to. put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president in truth or somehow want to proceed. to the right to due process as a local group of people. i'm interested always in the what. do you think they should.

welcome back to the program. the u.s. state department for a clarification on a recent decision to remove the charles press credentials in congress but we're going to cross live now to our correspondents to me were calling for more details with at the state department briefing us can you tell us what was said well this all comes after r.t. america was forced to register as a foreign agent and stripped of their capitol hill press credentials but before that happened heather nauert she said that registration would not at all affect our ability to report clearly that wasn't the case now i asked the state department about this but i didn't really get an answer but when our t. was forced to register as a foreign agent and you said that it would inhibit our ability to report when the united states tells someone to register under

a foreign agent requirement we don't impacts or affect the ability of them to report news and information we just have to register it's as simple as that however just a couple weeks ago our press credentials were revoked so doesn't this contradict your earlier statement i think i think press credentials may have been revoked by congress and not necessarily the members of congress but rather the association of reporters that handles who gets to come in and cover congress. well after directing my question to congress as she actually tried to play the russian card and me a representative of the russian government let's take a look at exactly what happened. in fact the fact that you are here as a representative of the russian government is a perfect example of how we do you know not restrict any type of freedom of depressed they can get russian news if you well now i didn't really get

a chance to respond to that particular accusation but let me present a few question few questions b.b.c. journalists are they considered to be representatives of the british government france twenty four are they considered to be representatives of the french government i mean i could go on all day but it seems to me that after this exchange or the state department doesn't really have any intention of keeping its word and is now trying to shift the way men now just to avoid accountability some interesting words that were used to miracle in their reporting from washington thanks very much. president has unveiled to congress how many u.s. troops are stationed abroad only the by annual white house report and that in some key figures in the paragraphs talking about afghanistan iraq and syria not a single number was given numbers which disclose the jordan and lebanon the admitted figures come as a surprise given that the u.s. defense secretary apparently revealed them himself

a few months ago we have approached the eleven thousand troops in afghanistan and that is seen in our edition of what were thirty thousand u.s. troops arriving now and in the coming months to extend nato to advisory effort to afghan troops that are currently without. the number for iraq is fifty two hundred and the number for syria is two times. when the white house provided figures on troop involvement abroad six months ago i was somewhat surprised and number of u.s. lawmakers had no idea that american soldiers were stationed in the former u.s. congressman ron paul told us the level of transparency is surprising but i didn't know there was a thousand troops in niger you heard senator graham there he didn't know we had a thousand troops in the air did you no i did not well i'm fortunately we don't get like surprises it's sort of the routine especially with the new administration because the president has stated that he wants to keep everything under his best

under his vest because he doesn't want people to know and he believes that's proper policy but it's not good good law because the constitution says he's not a lot of send troops around the world without the people in the congress knowing about it is because it's very difficult especially if they say well this is secret we can't let the people know we can't let the enemy know where our troops are so they put the american people in the category of the enemy because we're not a lot of no and so it's really a government out of control but it's what's the what this reflects is a foreign policy that there are institute ron paul institute disagrees with we don't think it's in our interest we don't think it's an interest of our security and we don't believe this brings peace and we don't bring it proper process parity so we have practical reasons and legal reasons why we don't think these troops should be overseas and if there is any of them overseas we should know exactly where they are because who knows they may be shooting off guns and bombs and drones

and getting ourselves into a mess that we don't want to be in and according to a report by the u.s. military general stars and stripes as many as forty four thousand american troops stationed across the world are not tracked by the pentagon and around three hundred thousand u.s. pastilles out. side america in one hundred fifty countries we requested comment from the department of defense it said that some past now i mean deed marked as having an unknown location as they may for example be at sea adding that its data center may not accurately reflect the current force totals from paul again says the defense department's explanation just went to that's their excuse but that should not happen in a republic i mean people are supposed to know what's going on the people who are supposed to speak out the people are supposed to tell their members of congress when we should get involved in hostilities and once again it's

a theory of what our responsibilities are around the world most every country in rural is imperfect including ours but our immediate goal should be to improve ourselves and not pretend that we can tell other people how to live and who should run their countries even though there are plenty of problems around but i don't think other people like us to take this role of secretly putting troops around the world and interfering in saying well we're we're going to improve your your governments and we're going to tell you what to do if you don't do what we want we're going to put sanctions on you. now europe is moving closer to building a new military alliance seen by some as a parallel version of nato countries signed a defense pact called pascoe on monday it was some of the key goals.

twenty five e. states have already signed up pascoe comprises eighteen projects in different spheres of defense some of these will duplicate nato functions let's have a closer look at these crossovers like nato pascoe will conduct train and assist missions similarly it will dedicate resources to fighting and preventing cyber attacks and it will also establish crisis resolution centers nato heads yens stoltenberg says this project will strengthen the european pillar within nato top even officially have also praised eve foreign policy chief federico ma greeny called the move in historic while. also welcomed it pointing out that isa curity cannot be outsourced however the foreign minister of poland expressed his concerns he called pascoe an experiment and raise doubts whether you need a second defensive body in addition to nato political commentator john bridgeland

he believes that the venture is doomed to fail. the point of the military is to wage war you can either way to defensive work if you're on the attack on the offensive or if you attack of the counties now you can attack we can three sixty three now defending ourselves against whom against obviously against her but who can think for a second that close 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 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. 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 any of the the only problem is terrorism and that's not going to help fight terrorism. find us on social media or on facebook twitter and our web site that salty dot com i'll be back at the top of the alec more top stories so stay with us. join me every first day on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business i'm sure business. credit is one of the basic instruments to drive an economy but it can also lead to tragedy i did it i took the whole gist i came to god and meant that the debts tie came and it was fire not. many lives have been broken my picks us into

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