breaking news this hour in a move which could create a tsunami and internet for the elite u.s. lawmakers voted to scrap net neutrality in washington i've been protesting against the change for days and already. president vladimir putin concludes his. q. and a session with journalists on string more than seventy questions in almost four hours we've got the main points from the. palestinian protesters clash with this really sit in a way to evolve over jerusalem as muslim nations reject the u.s. role in the middle east peace process.

around the clock across the world this is r.t. international my names you don't know me welcome to the program the u.k. high court house and the british troops were in breach of human rights conventions abusing civilians during the iraq war including taking turns to drive over there but. more on today's ruling. 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 a 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 claims 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. ok we'll get some reaction to that later in the hour but for now breaking news from the u.s. where lawmakers have voted to scrap so-called net neutrality which could significantly alter the web experience for millions of people it will internet providers. extra to prioritize their traffic effectively creating a slow lane for smaller websites here's a breakdown of how it all actually works we access the web through internet service providers at the moment companies have to treat all online traffic equally but the

us federal communications commission sais that it's preventing websites from investing trillions of dollars in their services with net neutrality regulations golem i s p s will be free to charge a premium to prioritize certain ops and services west to the u.s. capitol and see your accounts mirrors been keeping a close eye on developments today tell us more about the votes and we were well the f.c.c. is latest decision will repeal obama's regulations that were passed in twenty fifteen and as expected the vote was three to two along party lines with republicans voting in favor of the deregulation order and democrats voting against it but one democratic commissioner who voted against the order made her feelings known and had some very fierce for marks for the committee to say the very least let's take a quick look. i dissent from this rash decision to rollback net neutrality rules i dissent from the corrupt process that has brought us to this point as

a result of today's misguided action our broadband providers will get extraordinary new powers. they will have the power to block websites the power to throttle services and the power to censor online content now our broadband providers will tell you they will never do these things they say just trust us. but know this they have the technical delivery and business incentive to discriminate and manipulate your internet traffic now many are outraged understandably so but with all the backlash that this could eventually end up going to court and activists might even pressure congress to overturn the vote but this is a partisan issue so we're really having any effect nonetheless these online democracy defenders should really lose hope as they aren't exactly without allies thirty nine senators sent a letter to the f.c.c. expressing their discontent our representative keith ellison he spoke at today's

protest and they even have the resistance on their side a representative maxine waters gave quite a storing speech earlier this morning but i asked a few protesters about the issue yesterday so let's check out what they say ok by ok you see what do i know you really that's the big problem here it's these giant ice 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. in case you see we want you to do part of democracy to have people communication. people access to communication not just the privileged. the super rich have every advantage in a so called democracy this is going to shut out

a lot of small businesses small websites and prevents. me from hearing the small voice now with all that being said scrapping net neutrality could very well affect how we surf the web but is it really the death of the internet like some are saying well that of course remains to be seen yes indeed it does bring us up to date with the vote a little bit earlier a few hours ago and i thank you for this. or let's move on to the russian president and you'll q. and a from earlier in the day. close to four hours of nonstop pretty diverse questions from the media our correspondent lisa tranquil 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 norm since the opposition here they have to offer not a short lived and good shrill agenda but a real one trick why visited. maybe because many are frightened the fact competition of. the opposition should present a programme of action that is clear to the public do you want someone with the intentions of a coup to toss the winners we've seen this already and if you want a list of which i'm sure that the overwhelming majority of citizens don't want it and 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 complained that new people comment things don't change but here's what he suggested in this particular sphere. 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 where we have an army before we have rotation of some one service for three or five years in one place and then transferred somewhere else so maybe it makes sense to organize something like that in law enforcement. speaking of us related questions there was one about the ways to

sort out the north korean crisis and lattimer putin said a few very important things about that take a listen do you think that cooperation on north korea could warm up u.s. russia relations. continuously would it be that you were very interesting people have you noticed that your congressman senators who were not in lucilla's shirts you seem to be eligible to they lump last year that with north korea and iran in the same time they've been wished there were a little to ask our studio result for iran nuclear deal and the north korean crisis is what you would is wrong with you people. then the russian president went back to russia stance which has remained the same for quite a while that is calling on both sides to were framed from hostile actions i think this indeed sums up the highlights of. the events for everything else you can go to our website and you tube channel all their questions and answers by vladimir putin

are available there. just want to share what president putin has i'm sure is to some of the major issues unoffensive twenty seventeen as well including allegations of collusion with donald trump on the bottom of team russia from the upcoming winter olympic games we discussed his entourage with a list. 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 in order to illegitimacy to his work that i can honestly say i find it strange it was made talking almost appear like they had no knowledge this would damage the country's domestic politics and to police the ability of the elected head of state to be simply means that they do not respect the voters who cast their ballots. trumps victory is entirely plain a ball through a thought

a number of well known social and political trends and had nothing to do with russia so yes there was a deliberate kind of attempt to blame russia rather than to engage in any kind of internal reflection or discussion about what actually happened in the election and why it was that clinton didn't win and it's still going on. my colleagues and i have said that it's obvious that the scandal was inflated to fit russia's domestic political calendar and no matter what anyone says we just know that was the case but at the same time we shouldn't blame ourselves when you gave a reason for these accusations they have indeed been cases of doping now there have been such cases in other countries but they're not surrounded by those politicized

so there's no doubt that there is a political motivation behind it it does seem that russia has been singled out that you know there's a lot of doping going on across and then pick sport crosspost in general but it does seem that you know this word is state sponsored. it's been used in relation to russia to justify. the whole team and on the russian flag and as today president putin said you know we share of the guilt. and i think that's quite interesting because it creates a different impression it's much less defensive and it's in a way it's. it creates a better impression i think than saying no no no we're totally without any blood. to another headline stories over a dozen palestinians have been injured in a nother round of clashes in the west bank is really police used tear gas against

crowds throwing stones there and overnight on wednesday israeli forces say they also intercepted two rockets fired from gaza well this week marks the thirtieth anniversary of the hamas is the midst organization and it's seen thousands of people in the region which they control celebrate israel closed its checkpoints in the region for an indefinite period of time since last week when donald trump recognized through some of the capital of israel violence between israeli authorities and palestinian protesters has been occurring on a daily basis. destroyed that the sea destroyed like this. is the cement is seventeen. i think that's a good it gives for the lord to give nothing he destroyed ah. god

. 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 majority muslim nations 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 donald trump's decision and jerusalem there to unexpected consequences as well for example in the israeli city of nasr refer thora these council christmas

markets and festivities it's considered to be the childhood home of jesus christ on a vital port to christians local media have been quoting the city's mayor who sees america as this issue has taken away the joy of the celebration trumps ruling on tourism affected his reputation globally as nicky explained. how much time do you think donald trump spent 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 as 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 as mediator 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. in this country israel. patients and terrorism is that 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 thought to deadly palestinian

uprisings against the israeli occupation known as the intifada us now we could be on the verge of a third slaughter in the name of allah. has 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 rivers. suzy's decision the palestinian people were involved in a continuous process and into fodder against the israeli occupation and we are calling for it to be asking late in the west bank oki pie jerusalem and the gaza strip against the occupation is on a lot of them became a little over a week since trump announced his decision to the tide has turned to a tsunami of potential natural disaster 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

a 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 guise of reasserting american leadership i think mr trump has actually made us more irrelevant to developments in the region and in some ways has lessened american influence in the region. and a move to garner international pressure on iran the u.s. ambassador to the united nations has shifted attention from tehran's nuclear deal to its ballistic missile program nikki haley produced pieces of a short range weapon during a presentation claiming that it was made in a run on fired by hooty rebels in yemen saudi arabia. we have said multiple times

that this is not just about the nuclear program this is about everything else they're doing because iran believes that they have been given a pass this evidence demonstrates a pattern of behavior in which iran so there's conflict and extremism in direct violation of u.n. security council resolutions this is from the last two attacks that we saw coming from yemen and so this is very recent this is not all these just happen and so that is the reason why we have the concern the nuclear deal is not something that we're focused on now is focusing on the threat that iran is posing as we know it all to iran argues that the evidence being presented by haleigh's father brocaded the u.s. along with saudi arabia accuse a realm of supplying weapons to yemen's who's the rebels however the u.n. which has studied missile decree from the region could not confirm the originated from iran to iran has repeatedly denied arming the saying that such i.q. stations are irresponsible and destructive nikki haley's whoever continues to claim

that iran has violated un resolutions if guilty it would be in violation of a u.n. arms embargo in yemen on selling weapons i know it seems the u.s. is planning on building a coalition against. you will see us build a coalition to really push back against iran and what they're doing does not the first time the you ask creates a coalition against iran again we've seen this through the different years and this has started since iran decided to stop being a us policy client the us is actually isolating itself and its it's also isolating itself on the international and regional an arena because of its different intervention in the region because of its intervention in syria because of its support of the saudi regime against its war on yemen which is suffering starvation and is that the brink of famine actually so we see that the us is gradually

isolating itself and will not have probably supporters are in the starn. british conservative lawmakers have given prime minister treason mayor briggs of bruising after voting to give parliament the final say over any deal struck on leaving the e.u. eleven rebels within her own party broke reich's to give m.p.'s the power to veto any agreement on breaks 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's taking back control extends the article fifty dead right before we leave the european union amendment seven is floor is just my view the worse of the unproductive negotiations to drag things out drag out the negotiations to delay 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 because. indeed 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 a sharp divide between britain's regions which wanted to remain but it was only in march this year that the government kickstarted the exit process on the often strained the go ca sions with brussels which followed opposition leader german corben said conservative m.p.'s delivered quote a humiliating loss of authority for the government and the power is now back in the hands of parliament earlier the prime minister had claimed the government's strategy was on track although her words were not met with a lot of approval. but there is there is i believe a new sense of optimism now in the two of us and i i.

know we will confirm the arrangements. in the european council we. will trees in may myself secured a better result in the house of commons had she not lost her party's majority in the snap election gambled earlier this year she would be maliciously 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 after after they get defeated at the hands of their own backbenchers to i think it shows that the government government is really up for grabs and it really demonstrates how insincere the conservatives were in their promise that they would. vote on the final deal to parliament because if they were sincere why would they be so determined even at the risk of

a parliamentary did defeat to resist making this into a legally binding commitment. finally this news hour an elderly woman in a smaller russian time is proving that the internet is for everybody she is surfing like a pro at the age of one hundred and what. too much chance. for. sliding the kid in taking. the. wrong.

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a cross-country tour he went to california to look at all the homeless and there you see extreme homelessness and california west virginia puerto rico in the deep south and he was looking he and investigating whether or not this is a human rights issue whether or not these people are being denied their human rights and he's supposed to be presenting a report in d.c. right that hepatitis a break. in. san diego we have hookworm in the deep south yes these are these could be public health epidemics that spread to other people who are you know not marginalized this is the problem with you know we're in medieval times remember during medieval times and in europe we had the black plague everybody died but now we have a similar sort of situation of people living in open sewers the problem is as we've been saying the a common may is no.