president vladimir putin concludes his. q. and a session with journalists on the string more than seventy questions in almost four hours we've got the highlights plus reaction coming up the. palestinian protesters clashed with us really police in a wave of anger over jerusalem muslim nations are rejecting the u.s. role in the middle east peace process. it's been cold. in the coming hours u.s. lawmakers will vote on the net neutrality the result could significantly affect the surfing of millions of people.

in denver and. in the evening right here in moscow this thursday december the fourteenth welcome to r.t. international we begin with the russian president a new will q. and a from earlier in the day of london where putin fielded close to four hours of nonstop pretty diverse questions from the press our correspondent was there. but the things that are particularly stupid out for me this time is that the share of questions that you might want to call challenging for white america about corruption about the silencing of political opponents in russia was perhaps a bit larger this time then previously he was indeed grilled about the lack of competition in russian politics and one question came from perhaps his direct opponent a person who wants to become

a presidential candidate in russia in twenty train a subject that's a major issue for those who want to represent that norman system opposition they have to offer not a short lived and shrill agenda but a real one why is it so difficult to be nothing vision maybe the government is frightened the fact competition of. the opposition should present a program of positive action that's clear to the public do you want someone with the intentions of a coup d'etat we've seen this already if you want to list the returns i'm sure that the overwhelming majority of citizens don't want it and will not let it happen. i mentioned corruption previously and in fact that is one of the things the current russian system of the government is often blamed for and yes a few times corruption was brought up a lot of report and said that he's not satisfied with what's gone on he was asked specifically about corruption in law enforcement agencies the russian president

says that people are being charged and there are investigations some people are being put in prison including government officials but he complains that new people come and things don't change but here's what he suggested and this particular sphere. means to him the judicial well it's not a secret but it's a tough question and i can't say that i'm satisfied with how this work is being done one solution i can think of is like we have in the army we have rotation there someone serves for three or five years in one place then transferred somewhere else so maybe it makes sense to organize something like that in law enforcement to speaking of u.s. related questions there was one about the ways to sort out the north korean crisis and vladimir putin said a few very important things about that take a listen. have you noticed that your congressman senators who were nice suits and

shirts who seem to be intelligent people they both korea and iran but at the same time they pushed their president to ask us to resolve the iran nuclear deal and the north korean crisis what is wrong with you people. then the russian president went back to russia stance which has remained that all sides two were framed from hostile actions i think this indeed sums up the highlights of events for everything else you can go to our website and you tube channel other questions and answers by vladimir putin are available there. you know a lot of questions a lot of topics let's go through some of them now. joined david coburn member of the european parliament for the u.k. independence party you're welcome to the program david yeah the main topic from this end anyway was that putin's announcement to run as an independent in russia head of next year's election what's been the reaction that you've seen maybe in britain's political circles on in your party as well because well my party

you know we mean losses as paranoid about mr putin seemingly all the people in the united kingdom especially the establishment seem to be very concerned about this but quite frankly i think stability is what we want to see in russia we don't want to see instability we want to see a continuation of the norm as it is at the moment i don't think we want to see. in the way russia is run if you look at mr putin answering questions for four hours we may not be a democrat and he may be not my cup of tea or my party's cup of tea but the thing is least he keeps you know keeps the the country running sanely. and he is willing to answer questions for poor us and world media and that is quite a tour de force as well the of knowledge of a man who can sit there and be grouped by the world's press and that shows a degree of openness we've never seen in russia before it's good and i think he has

been very open to what he said now and he seems very experienced in the job and i don't see anybody using reid to replace them with experience he's got one of the top as well as involving relations with donald trump we can actually just take a listen to how. responded to a question posed by an american journalist by the allegations of collusion between the russian. how would you explain to americans the sheer number of contacts between the trump camp and your government. it was all made up by the people in opposition to trump in order to a sense of legitimacy to his work i can honestly say i find it strange it was made to almost appear like they had no knowledge this would damage the country's domestic politics and deplete the ability of the elected head of state it means

that they do not respect the voters who cast their ballots in trump's favor our ambassador was accused of meetings with someone at meetings a world wide practice but someone saw something in it that is beyond all reasoning which why does it have to look like some kind of spying mania. very direct with his answer to that your thoughts on his point that trumps opponents use the allegations to hinder influence trumps foreign policy decisions in particular. well quite frankly i think mr putin son be very pretty frank on that point and i'm quite sensible. mania in america i mean because the old establishment absolutely hate donald trump and they'll do anything to get rid of him and they'll make up anything at all i mean i'm sure the next thing will be making up he was in league with the martians they used to be in the one nine hundred fifty s. used to mean years about martians and communists and all those awards well that

seems to be coming back in the states among the the liberal elite who work who are removed from power by the american people who are sick and tired of that we were doing things and i mean president trump has had meetings or there's been some sort of discussion i do always you know i think it's got to be expected that an incoming president or someone who will be an incoming president who may have had discussions over sea world issues with many sort of people from abroad. is to be expected in america year after four years are suddenly you come off the running board just was to be immediately become president united states and start running the world that's not too easy you got to find out who's thinking or who can i do business with and what i've seen since trump became president and the relations between russia and the united states has improved. and. speak to each other well that's good surely jaw jaw as mr churchill said is better than war war so what's wrong in

that it's a power annoyer among the liberal elite who can't stand the fact they have been beaten the don't like you well by block you know sometimes that happens. david coburn a member of the european parliament for the united kingdom independence party thank you. moving on this hour at least seventeen palestinians have been injured in another round of clashes in the west bank israeli police used tear gas against crowds throwing stones there overnight on wednesday israeli forces say they also intercepted two rockets fired from gaza well this week marks the thirtieth anniversary of the hamas school seen thousands of people. celebrating israel closed its checkpoints in the region for an indefinite period of time since last week when donald trump recognized jerusalem of the capital of israel violence between israeli authorities and palestinian protesters has been happening to.

you destroyed the destroyed like this for. the same month this haven't seen. a thing that's a given give for the war to give nothing to the story. i think doesn't know what is going on and i think he's just he doesn't understand the depth of the problem that he has just created.

the leaders of muslim nations excuse me are calling on the international community to recognize east jerusalem as the palestinian capital the organization of islamic cooperation met in response to the u.s. president's heavily criticized move to recognize the ancient city as israel's capital. put. the u.s. decision on your roof because of this great piracy against the historical and permanent rights of the palace. is important i want to point out to ignore some of the distortions and see the united states the solution to recognize jerusalem as the capital of israel is a dangerous one it will threaten security and stability and frustrates efforts to resume the peace process the president is committed to this peace process as committed as he has ever been or yet as i made it all every possible step must be taken to prevent the implementation of this illegal action by the u.s.

administration however there is one question that sticks out what's factors and no limits made it possible for the u.s. president's trip to take such an outrageous act of that type of rhetoric that we heard has prevented peace in the past and it's not necessarily surprising to us nikky or in explains the. jerusalem decision has affected his global reputation. how much time do you think donald trump spend considering his move to recognize jerusalem as the capital of israel a decision which doesn't directly affect anyone apart from the u.s. and its ally but has sent tremors across the world in ways that washington perhaps didn't see coming the u.s. loses its starring role in the middle east peace process in one swoop the president wait farewell to any hope that the united states can broker a diplomatic solution in the holy land from now on america is unwarranted in the

peace process. from now on american mediation between israel and palestine is out of the question this process is over. the united states has chosen to lose its competency. qualifies itself from play in a peaceful process the turkish president takes center stage in the regional resistance to both the us and israel an extraordinary all muslim nations summit is hosted in istanbul by president he wasted no time in calling trump's decision no and avoid branding israel a state of terror. are you back in this country this israel with or is occupation and terrorism is not what you are defending even more violence and a possible third intifada from nine hundred eighty seven to ninety one and two thousand to two thousand and five the region saw two deadly palestinian uprisings

against the israeli occupation known as the into fargas now we could be on the verge of a third slaughter in the name of allah firstly how mass is called on the palestinian people to face the israeli occupation and adopt the blessid into fodder against that and the hateful and racist recognition of jerusalem and to america river. says its decision the palestinian people were 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 oaky pie jerusalem and the gaza strip against the occupation was on a little over a week since trump announced his decision on the tide has turned to a tsunami a potential not to dissolve no one was ready for i do think we will see more of what we've been seeing so far and whether we're with the rock throwing and demonstrations and unfortunately something people being killed whether this results

in a in a another what they call third intifada i don't think we have any way of knowing if there's anything that may happen it's it's somewhat counter intuitive i think it will be taken by most of the regional countries and also by the europeans as indication that they can't trust the united states they don't trust american leadership and in a way in the in the guise of reasserting american leadership i think mr trump has actually made us more irrelevant to developments of the region and in some ways has lessened american influence in the region. the u.k. high court has fun the british troops where in breach of human rights conventions abusing civilians during the iraq war on the sea it brings the story i'm not writing. specifically we have seen four iraqi citizens being awarded damages in cases against the actions of the ministry of defense during the iraq war in the way

these people were detained now the court has decided that these four iraqi citizens are going to be awarded eighty four thousand pounds with thirty thousand going to just one of those men and the reason for this is the judge has ruled that the actions of british troops in the way they were detaining these people were in violation of geneva conventions as well as the human rights act citing cruel and inhumane treatment as well as unlawful detention the judge has said that these assaults quote involved the gratuitous infliction of pain and humiliation for the amusement of those who perpetrated them and quote we have to say that this comes just ten days after the international criminal court found quote reasonable basis to understand that british troops might have been involved in war crimes when it comes to detaining iraqi citizens.

the reason this this ruling is important today is because it's seen as a kind of test cases to see how similar claims could be handled in the future moving forward and there are over six hundred clean such as these currently ongoing and we have to keep in mind that also over three hundred claims were settled out of court by the ministry of defense who had paid out as much as twenty two million pounds and we do know that when it comes to this latest ruling the ministry of defense have said that they're studying this judgment a vote that could change the way you experienced the internet it's happening in the u.s. in the coming hours and we've got more alerts right after this. global warming are still in you on the idea that dropping bombs brings peace to the chicken hawks forcing you to fight the battles that don't. produce offspring to

tell you that what we gossip a couple of myself a little supporters today. off the bad guys and tell me you are not cool enough and lets you buy their products. all the hawks that we along with all those. benefit is. very much from the existing plurality rule system because he was so different from the other camp if you took any one of those mainstream candidates and you put him in the head to head contest with. that other candidate might well have won.

your back with r.t. international and u.s. lawmakers will have the final say later on thursday on whether to scrap so-called net neutrality which could significantly if alter the web experience for millions of people it would allow internet providers to charge extra to prioritize their traffic effectively creating a slow lane for smaller websites well this is how it actually works people access the web of course through their internet service providers at the moment the companies have to treat all line traffic equally but the us federal communications commission it's preventing websites from investing trillions of dollars in their services if the net neutrality rules are scrapped i s p's would then be free to charge a premium to prioritize certain ups and services well hundreds of people have been gathering outside the f.c.c. headquarters in washington d.c. to protest today's vote which cold spell the end for equal rights on line some here

account as the latest from there. protests have been raging on all week and they actually camped out here last night so you can imagine how dedicated they are to sleep here in the cold but they say that they seek to protect their digital civil rights and ensure equal access to the internet but these online democracy defenders are actually not without allies that keep ellison spoke today representative of minnesota and maxine waters who is known as the resistance she also spoke against repealing the net neutrality but i actually spoke to protesters about this yesterday so let's see what they had to say hey i can't you see everybody you drive really that's the big problem here it's these giant p.c. to think that they have they should have all the advantage and all the decisions to make about what should be content on the internet and it should be a public utility and especially in the twenty first century when you have a lot of communication skills that need to be improved and taught in schools the

internet is essential for from your job having a portfolio doing anything you can to get information. present. day by day you see we want to be free you. have people communication people access to communication not just the privileged and the super rich have every advantage in a so-called democracy this is going to show that a lot of small businesses small websites and prevents. heard. from here in the small voice while the f.c.c. meeting is currently underway and they're right about to vote so we're anxiously waiting for the results so we'll keep you updated with any developments yeah indeed in the meantime we've been getting reaction to see what it all actually means including from political analyst walter smaller who believes that altering webspace

free speech though of net neutrality would be nothing less than a declaration of war against free speech in this. three it's a corporate power grab it's an attempt by giant telecommunications corporations to be able to pick and choose which internet websites and applications they can that they prefer that they favor it would mean such a windfall of cash for these companies that would then be in the position of essentially being the operators of what is easily accessible and what is difficult to access or perhaps even completely inaccessible to customers especially those who don't have the ability to pay for extra pieces of the package which is how the internet would be structured without net neutrality so it's a clear example of this revolving door of the domination of corporations over the government and it will mean a lot harder to fight the domination of corporations over the government if net neutrality is repealed if these corporations can determine what information is

accessible and what is not and that's the real danger here it's an attack on democracy. british conservative lawmakers have given prime minister treason may have briggs a bruising now for voting to give parliament the final say over any deal struck on leaving new european union eleven rebels within her own party broke ranks to give m.p.'s the power to veto any agreement and breaks it. a meaningful vote a meaningful vote a meaningful vote article fifty has a deadline the date has been served we are leaving at the end of march and when the deadline runs out we leave leaving the european union and we should say no parliament taking back control extends the moment to fifty don't try before we leave the european union amendment seven is floor is just the worst it was an unproductive negotiations to drag things out drag out the negotiations to delay

project for months and months and months scrutinize what's of the government is doing proper scrutiny this is not the moment to try and defeat or go through i was just turn out. what. the order did tell eventually well it's been eighteen months since the referendum saw fifty two percent of voters choose to leave the european union although the poll showed as you can see here a sharp divide between britain's regions which wanted to remain in which to go but it was only in march this year that the government kick started the exit process and on the often strain negotiations with brussels which followed opposition leader jeremy corbyn said conservative m.p.'s delivered quotes a humiliating loss of authority for the government and that power is now back in the hands of parliament earlier the prime minister had claimed they government strategy was on track although her words were not met with much approval. but there is there is i believe a new sense of optimism now in the tour and i. expect

that we will confirm the arrangements on. the european account. we will trees in may might help secure a better result in the house of commons had she not lost her party's majority in the snuff election gamble earlier this year she only managed to stay in power with a one billion pound deal with the northern irish democratic unionist party some of the westminster watchers we've spoken to believe mrs make can no longer overlook the deep divisions within her own party. it's a humiliation and historically governments don't tend to last very long enough to after they get defeated at the hands of their own interest i think it shows that the government government is really up for grabs really demonstrates how insincere the conservatives were in their promise that they would. fight on the final deal to parliament because if they were some cea why would they be so determined even at

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readings and salutations this week despite the loss of alleged under-age girl harassed certainly truly terrible in the saddle roy more republicans and president trump are continuing to force their christmas gift the corporate power known as tax reform down the throats of u.s. citizens and while the democrats republicans pat themselves on their armani suit and backs toasting champagne over their respective wins u.s. citizens continue to lose this week the boston globe put out a startling headline blaring that was no typo the median net worth of black bostonians really is eight dollars. and boston is not the exception to the rule in fact according to a recent report by prosperity now in the institute for policy studies black americans median wealth is expected to fall to zero you heard me zero by two

thousand and fifty three and if that wasn't wasn't enough just a week before the boston globe story a headline in the guardian asked the question why are america's farmers killing themselves in record numbers yes according to a study conducted last year the centers for disease control and prevention found that the suicide rate for agricultural workers in seventeen states was nearly five times higher when compared to the general population but now experts fear the c.d.c. numbers may actually be wrong the suicide numbers may and back be higher because the original study left out some major agricultural states like iowa for example and it's been revealed that an unknown number of farmers have been disguising their suicides as farm accidents in order to collect insurance payouts i looked at the bill salesman two distinctly different segments of the population one a little city one a little country but both suffering an awful lot this is the reality that many of

the current political leaders of the united states continue to ignore in their never ending quest to appease big money corporate donors and when futile partisan fights for political power now let's start watching the hawks. that i got.