leaders of majority muslim nations. recognize jerusalem as the capital of israel and call on the world to accept the eastern part of the city. because the violence and hunger continues over washington. we speak exclusively to the driving force behind the protests the islamist political group hamas. calling for the rest to be escalated in the west bank jerusalem and the gaza strip against the israeli occupation also ahead this hour the international see. much of the blame for the cruel treatment endured by migrants in libya. less than the price of

a cup of tea facebook how much it believes russia. to influence the u.k.'s breaks at referendum on the. live from moscow to the world this is r.t. international my names you know neil welcome to the program we begin with the big news from turkey this hour there the organization of islamic cooperation has called on the international community to recognize east jerusalem as the capital of palestine. has been following the emergency session for us. well i'm standing just outside of damascus gate in east jerusalem which now has according to the organization of islamic cooperation been named the capital of palestine interact

contradiction to what we heard from donald trump of the u.s.a.'s position just a week ago where they said jerusalem an undivided jerusalem was in their mind the capital of israel that extraordinary meeting came as fifty seven leaders from muslim countries across the world four continents met together at that meeting that was convened by chickies president now we also heard them condemn that pronunciation by don't trump and they called on all the nations of the world to recognize east jerusalem as being the capital of palestine we also heard from the palestinian leader mahmoud abbas he said he would now go to the you knighted nation security council meeting to ask for full membership for palestine. will go to the general assembly regarding the membership of his row because it's not in line with international resolutions we will also go to the peace and security council to consider the question of palestine's full membership we also

heard at that oh i see meeting that they believe that the usa has lost its ability to be a peace broker an honest broker between israel and palestine going forward saying that the usa was neither honest nor impartial neutral when it comes to the situation between israel and palestine mr one also went on to describe israel as being a terrorist state to look at that as a trump are you back in this country this israel where the roots occupation and sarazen is that where you are defending well that decision by donald trump a week ago to name jerusalem as the capital of israel has caused tensions. not just here in israel and palestine but of course tensions across the wider area and that's why that extraordinary meeting was convened on wednesday the question is is

this exactly what he wanted did he really want to put himself against fifty seven leaders of other nations and if so have they played directly into his hands chill it di vinci altie history so i'm. promoting peace that was the declared purpose when donald trump recognized jerusalem as the capital of israel but so far there has been none stop violence across the region. or one of the force is leading the protest movement is the islamist political group hamas seen by some nations as terrorist in an exclusive interview with r.t.

the movement reiterated its call for a third intifada a form of octave on rest against what palestinians call the israeli occupation of their territory. filo. feel old. it's a lot of little in the name of allah firstly how mass is called on the palestinian people to face the israeli occupation and adopt the blessid in safaga against that and the hateful and racist recognition of jerusalem and to america reverses its decision the palestinian people who are involved in a continuous battle and into fodder against the israeli occupation and we are

calling for it to be escalated in the west bank occupied jerusalem and the gaza strip against the occupation until america drops its recognition of jerusalem. without doubt the american president trump didn't know what would come of his racist and hateful decision and didn't expect this anger to sweep across the arab islamic and palestinian street. palestinian people are still under israeli siege they want to continue the into fodder against the israeli occupation and the american administration as a partner who has to take responsibility for this escalation and the consequences caused by this american decision on jerusalem. well donald trump decision was heavily criticized by european and arab officials but that doesn't seem to have trouble the american leader kill up and report. well it's now the time of year in

which israel celebrates hanukkah and this comes after donald trump's dramatic decision on jerusalem which may seem like a huge gift we wish you a very happy hanukkah. and i think this one will go down as especially special. right now i'm thinking about what's going on and the love that's all over israel and all about jerusalem a love that's all over israel trump one as far as actually praising himself for the all but controversial move his point his predecessors only made promises where he actually delivered. jerusalem is still the capital of israel and most remain unknown divided city accessible question does that take us as i would begin the process of moving the united states ambassador to the city israel shows. i

continued to say that. jerusalem will be the capital of israel so why is tom so gleeful about his decision as the international community praised him for it nope they dangerous decision we do know and agree clearly disagree these decisions i'm hopeful from the european union member states sites this move will not come so is it what the american people want well not according to this poll taken ahead of trump's decision sixty three percent of americans say that they oppose the move but it's popular in israel right well not with all israelis they think of only friends leaving the euro zone and they. are in much greater risk than they were with i think it will because of. people dead and. violence i think it was a reckless this season and they close trying to announce it is like a man who was playing in a coma defeated limbs or in the. in gangsta. so it's taking us three

still suddenly and is shooting over friends tell me it's a day he announces that they're pretty much scared to go but the drizzling because they don't know how it's going to be underscored to leave the houses but trump did win over some of his harsh critics in the democratic camp. jerusalem is the capital of the state of israel something the united states congress has reaffirmed and a fact of history that cannot be tonight. i support the decision to recognize jerusalem as the eternal capital of israel and to move the u.s. embassy to this decision is long overdue and helps correct a decades long indignity there may be benefits for him personally may be a tipping his hat to his base and saying you know this is a campaign promise that i made he sees it more important for his personal legacy for his supporters to do this regardless of its effect on world opinion regardless

of its effect on the united states and world opinion and regardless of its effect on the palestinian. people the world is not happy with the move america is not happy with the move but donald trump thinks it's terrific a year ago at his inauguration donald trump said that from here forward it would be america first well it's starting to look like maybe it's trump first. r.t. new york. moving on the international is accusing governments of condoning the detention and abuse of migrants trying to reach europe from libya . we believe they knowingly complicity in a system of abuse and torture of refugees and migrants. because they know exactly what is going on and they have chosen to support. the system of the tension and abuse of migrants without. placing any safeguards.

the group post published a report titled libya is dark web of coal luzhin focusing on the detention and abuse of people trying to reach europe nuclear and or explains the details of the slayings last year member states launched a series of measures aimed at cutting off the central mediterranean route through libya but to report by amnesty international says that these steps are in fact actively supporting a system of exploitation and abuse of the vulnerable people they should be helping and they have video evidence to back their claims to these are rescue boats that countries supplied to the libyan coast guard to intercept migrants at sea honesty says that this is the moment someone that had been rescued was thrown overboard and towed along the sea while here we see someone else being whipped. thank you it

was she was i was struck up. my. was my. this particular boat was donated by italy i can april and was handed over to the libyan coast guard in a ceremony attended by the italian interior minister who'd have thought it would one day be the focal point of accusations of human rights violations and then there is the detention center after being rescued at sea migrants are taken to these facilities run by the libyan department for combat saying illegal migration with the full support of e.u. countries in the words of amnesty is heya that they are exposed to a soul destroying cycle of exploitation and to cause for bruising thought

uprising to all our producers for business in libya to kill some people this or some people would be some poor dear departed. want to. use going to be tossed out finish he's going to be toast before. it was sort of water to drink fully mature arsenic. level of abusing. these people leaving feel. there is no will or food that provided that unless you can pay for it we've interviewed several people who. decided that the way to change the why their families were on the phone in order to extort the money for the torture to stop and for them to be released. and this is just the ordinary daily life in d.c. send us the rights group who wants european go. to rethink that cooperation with

libya when it comes to migration is that if they continue to support libyan authorities european governments are laying bare what their true priority is putting the closure of the central mediterranean route for the welfare of the global people meanwhile a report by the european commission on the blocks programs in libya has stressed the need to shut down smuggling and human trafficking in the country it went on to say about the efforts of a strong human rights component well. several institutions to comment really on the allegations against the you governments including the italian foreign ministry one reply we did get was from the un secretary-general deputy spokesman he expressed concern over the situation in libya and stressed the need for the proper resettlement of migrants we've also heard back from oxfam which says that while i can't comment on the report its own information seems to support these

findings. the e.u. has sacrificed people's safety and well being in order to stop a regular migration at any cost that is a view shared by international relations professor lyle sunga. 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 isn't is not right that country's major powers. the stable a situation and then later on complain that. there are mass migration movements from war and other difficulties. social network giant facebook has finished its investigation into alleged russian meddling during the

breaks it votes let's get straight into the details because laura smith joins us live from london i with all that info hi laura so yes bring us up a bit with the investigation what it actually reveal here what's the main findings . well give you a bit of background first because the idea that russia meddled in the brics at referendum is something that's really gain traction hair just over the last month really we've had headlines comments by politicians including two reason may last month who accused russia of undermining british democracy in the us media actually in particular really went to town in the in the media with headlines like signs of russian meddling in the referendum they talked about rising along and new evidence and of course what they're referring to is boortz and trolls and in particular paid advertising on social media that they think happened coming from russia in the lead up to the referendum and now the evidence is in the findings from an investigation

which was requested by the electoral commission and the chair of the select committee for culture media and sport they asked facebook to look into activity by russian accounts to ascertain the level of russian meddling in the referendum now you must be dying to know what the findings were thought just cut to the chase and tell you seventy six pence. facebook identified an ad spend of less than a dollar by no russian organizations in the lead up to the referendum three ad that was seen over a period of four days by around two hundred people facebook reckons and even those ads related to immigration and not directly to the bricks at referendum now damian damian collins who is the chair of this select committee has responded to these findings saying that facebook was actually asked to look in a more broad way it only provided details of advertising paid for accounts that

were linked to a russian organization called the internet research agency which is accused of meddling in the us elections and it hadn't he said done any work to look around that into other accounts and pages that may have been active russian around the referendum but tech crunch which is a very well respected online industry magazine says that it seems pretty unlikely that there's another layer to this less than a dollar is the answer. big spending but that's free speech you're speaking but there were accusations that other social networking sites were targeted to. that's right and in fact there were other companies that were asked to provide information along with this this this report so google and twitter also were asked to report on evidence of russian meddling now we don't know what twitter said to the electoral commission because it's chosen not to make its findings public but about a month ago there were various claims in the british media which were backed up by various rigorous pieces of research but the research findings didn't match up with

the headlines that they were reported under so in one case there was a database that was examined of more than twenty two million tweets and that was cross-reference with russian accounts that were again found to be active during the u.s. election campaign and out of those twenty two million only four hundred tweets were found to be from russian accounts about it and then similarly there was another piece of research which showed that seventy eight percent of tweets from russian accounts about bret's it were tweeted after the vote had already taken place google we mentioned as well google said that it had found no evidence of russian interference in the backseat referendum ok bring us right up to date on that aspect of things or to slow response live and direct from london thank you coming right up the u.s. is ready to turn the page in a big in the crisis on the korean peninsula all the details are not after the.

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hello again the u.s. secretary of state has opened the door for a face to face talks with north korea in a hopeful gesture to pyongyang rex tillerson said washington would be ready to meet without any preconditions we're ready to talk any time north korea would like to talk. and we are ready to have the first meeting without precondition let's just make. unless we talk about the weather if you will talk about whether it's going to be a square table or around that's what you're shouting about. but can we at least sit

down and see each other face to. all of bronze from rex tillerson could mark a significant shift in u.s. policy on north korea which previously demanded pyongyang give up its nuclear program before negotiations could begin they're not going to negotiate our way to the negotiating table d p r k knows what they need to do in order to get the united states to work with them and they know that has to be me or sation the secretary is that he's not going to negotiate his way back to the negotiating table plan is. towards the end of last month north korea tested its most powerful intercontinental ballistic missile to date the launch triggered global condemnation on a warning from the trump administration that the country would be quote utterly destroyed if it triggered a war this week the north korean leader again raised the stakes involving to make his country the world's strongest nuclear power and your kevin on spoke to asia's

security expert chris ogden he said it's difficult to hold work out who is holding the playbook in fact when it comes to u.s. foreign policy. so it is still very high in terms of an imminent conflict and i think the major thing that's happened is that. some leaders of science understand that the north koreans will not give up their nuclear weapons so. the change from being the star important negotiations and i think to listen to comments in terms of let's just talk about anything including the weather even though that sounds quote frivolous is actually quite positive that at least the leaders could sit down formally face to face as does president trump and rex tillerson see here we hear that rex to this is kind of one of the talk all along president saying no the time for talks over and they still say nothing's changed to what's actually going on as far as the american side is concerned you know who's holding the cards here this is the major question of u.s. foreign policy of the moment in terms of who really is this have an influence and this is the biggest issue really play in the north korean crisis which is where is

the consistency can we truly see. what trumper say will that actually be replicated . and we've seen this consistently between trump and to listen and terms of what will actually happen i think if they do meet then we can say firmly that that's an event but until that comes about it's still really rhetoric to some degree but hopeful rhetoric. switching gears the first official presentation of the twenty eight hundred fifty four world cup has taken place at the russian embassy in london the event attracted some high profile guests with football stars from around the world. the fast approaching competition and it will be the first ever of course to be held in russia that was a big talking point to we spoke to some of those in attendance about their expectations for sport's most watched it. one of the things is russia as well you know this world cup is. what you get. and the.

good around the country were in their countries so i think they understand how the world is. i'm sure they're going to make their do everything they have now is to make sure it runs smoothly i think though probably. you could never say never but i'm sure they're going to try to eliminate a lot of problems right now so i do will come in i'm sure i'll be a fabulous world cup another long term to prepare them she'll be a spectacle and i think like most neutrals. because my nation is not there scotland would like all missions to well i think it's important for the competition the russia go a long way maybe even the semifinals we hope that it will be a very positive toward i'm sure it will be very positive spiritual think that goes a long while before a sporting event such as a world cup or a new guy gives the country the opportunity to really show itself in its quest to the world that are very much hope and i believe that russia will do that. and from

tomorrow there will be six months until the first game of the twenty world cup here in moscow the first game take this leaves nicky stadium that's all the sport the news for now see you again what thirty minutes i'm lots more arty global headlines . this manufacture consent to step into the public well. when the ruling classes protect themselves. with the famous euro zone be the one percent.

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to the twenty million and one player. it's an experience like nothing else because i want to share what i think of what i know about the beautiful game great so one more chance with. the face. greetings and salutations with the holiday season now firmly upon us and money flying out of our pockets for food gifts and sparkly lights most us citizens are also busy hoarding their receipts this time of year as well because after santa makes his rounds in the mangers and menorahs are put back into storage we all know that after the new year the tax man is coming right around the corner but unlike

the rest of us one united states institution has never had to keep track of their receipts or answer the auditor's calls despite and you'll be receiving hundreds of billions and u.s. tax dollars and having more than two trillion in assets and i bet i bet you can't guess what department that is that has it so easy. yeah your favorite in the department of defense yes according to laura the u.s. war department in all its decade after decade after decade after decade after decade long history has never ever faced an audit or accounting of its obscene really large books. that is until. like a christmas gift from peacenik hippie sanam self the pentagon the biggest back you move us tax dollars on the planet with little to no actual oversight is finally just like the rest of us are going to have to account for its spending habits dana

w. white the chief pentagon spokesperson the u.f.c. ultimate fighting champion president declare that the audit demonstrates our commitment to fiscal responsibility and maximizing the value of every taxpayer dollar that is intrusted to us he guessed that new tour yes pentagon fiscal risk. it's ability to know the one goal responsibility that brought us the f. thirty five spending disaster that fit that brilliant fiscal responsibility that misplaced six point five trillion of our tax dollars is that the fiscal responsibility you're speaking about mr pedagog spokes person white hell according to a new report by the defense manpower data center our friends in the pentagon apparently can't even keep track of their actual physical soldiers stars and stripes is reporting that forty four thousand known.