to be able to go. to the. u.s. regulators vote in net neutrality this by protests in washington critics say the move could create a so-called internet for the elite. president vladimir putin concludes is a little more i think q. and a session with journalists more than seventy questions in almost four hours we've got the main highlights from also this hour. palestinian protesters clashed with us really police in a wave of anger over jerusalem as muslim nations reject the u.s. role in the mideast peace said.

twenty four hour news live from moscow this is r.t. international my names you know neil thanks for tuning in our top story u.s. regulators have voted to end called net neutrality which could significantly alter the web experience for millions of people. internet providers to charge extra to prioritize their traffic effectively creating a slow lane for smaller websites but here's a brick done that actually works we access the web through internet service providers at the moment companies have to treat all traffic equally but the us federal communications commission say that's preventing websites from investing trillions of dollars in their services with net neutrality regulations gholam. will be free to charge a premium to prioritise certain services speaking to me earlier in the.

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 i dissent from this rash decision to roll back 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 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 would it really have any effect nonetheless these online democracy defenders shouldn't really lose hope as they aren't exactly without allies thirty nine senators sent a letter to the f.c.c. expressing their discontent representative keith ellison he even spoke at today's protest and they have the resistance on their side representative maxine waters steve quite a strong speech earlier this morning but i asked a few protesters about the issue so let's check out what they have to say ok five k. you see what do i know you are 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 know 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. ok ok you see we want to be very new to the part of democracy to have people communication people access to communication not just let the privileged and 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 small voices heard and read me from here in 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 or say well that of course remains to be seen. but let's move now to the russian president. annual q. and a from earlier in the day on thursday. philip close to four hours of nonstop

pretty diverse questions from the press our correspondent. was among the things that particularly stewed 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 non-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 maybe the government is frightened of fact competition and. 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 complained that new people comment things don't change but here's what he suggested in this particular sphere. when you threw in the position of the 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 before we have rotation someone service for three or five years in one place then they're 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 do you think that cooperation on north korea could warm up u.s. russia relations. yes we would admit that you were very interesting people have you noticed that your congressman senators who were nine susan shirts who seem to be intelligent people they lump us together with north korea and iran but at the same time they push their president to ask ask you 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 the same for quite a while that is calling on all sides to were framed from hostile actions i think this indeed sums up the highlights of. events for everything else you can go to our website you tube channel other questions and answers by a lot of our proven are available there. you know just on this additionally president putin gave answers to some of the major issues and events of twenty seven dean including allegations of collusion with donald trump on the bar of team russia from the winter olympics. 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 illegitimacy 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 to basically means that they do not respect the voters who cast their ballots in trump's favor trumps victory. entirely by inable through that 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's the case but at the same time we should blame ourselves we gave a reason for these accusations they have indeed been cases of doping now there have been such case. as in other countries but they're not surrounded by this politicized uproar 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 sports in the crosspost in general but it does seem that you know this word state sponsored has 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. creates

a better impression i think than saying no no no we're totally without any blood. so the mideast there were over a dozen palestinians have been injured in another round of clashes in the west bank as israeli police used tear gas against crowds throwing stones over night on whedon's the israeli forces say be also intercepted two rockets fired from gaza this week marks the thirtieth anniversary of a massive islamist organization and it's seen thousands of people in which control celebrating israel closed its checkpoints in the region for an indefinite period since last week when donald trump recognized the capital of israel violence between israeli authorities palestinian protesters has been occurring. it destroyed the destroyed like this for. the same month the seventeen.

i think that's a good it gives for the war to give nothing he destroyed ah. 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. well the leaders of majority muslim nations are calling on the international community to recognize easter islam 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 but will trump suspicion on trees led to all my expected consequences as well for example in the israeli city of nazareth authorities council christmas markets and festivities is considered to be the childhood home of jesus christ and of vital importance to christians local media have been courting the city's mayor who sees america as the solution has taken away the joy of the celebration trumps ruling on tourism affected his reputation globally too it seems us. delves into. 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 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 as mediator qualifies itself from play in a peaceful process the turkish president takes center stage in the regional resistance to both the u.s. and israel an extraordinary all muslim nation summit is hosted in istanbul by president he wasted no time in calling trump's decision no and void and branding israel a state of terror. are you back in this country this israel. patient 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 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. 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 escalated in the west bank occupied jerusalem and the gaza strip against the occupation is on a little over a week since trump announced his decision on the tide has turned to a tsunami a 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 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. the u.k. high court has found that british troops were in breach of human rights conventions abusing civilians during the iraq war including taking turns to drive over their

banks to see a churkin who has more in 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 to understand that british troops might have been involved in war crimes when it comes to did isn't.

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 are 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 we are still is mike riley whether the ruling could pave the way for similar cases. i think this is going to open the floodgates really and i think that not only should or should the whole the soldiers be held responsible gets no good just just going after the soldiers then and actually a lot of the intelligence officials are in my six played this pantomime where they

they stepped out of the room while the detainees were being tortured as if that makes any difference to make them less culpable but yes i think if we're going to investigate and prosecute soldiers then we should investigate and prosecute their bosses. despite isel being essentially defeated in syria their military situation remains tense it has been revealed the russian and american jets in syria have been involved in yet another close encounter let's get some of the details that we know on this from marty's danielle hawkins i don't know how indeed up the two sides describe the incident well you know what we have here is one incident and two quite different versions of what actually happened let's just go through the facts what we know the incident took place in eastern syria near the town of my d.m. which is in the province of de resort on the euphrates river it involved at least to rush when they were approached by a f.

twenty two american stealth fighter now the russian minister of defense spokesman said this fighter fired flares and used the gress of military maneuvers in midair to imitate a dogfight hampering the mission of the su twenty five at this point the russians say the su thirty five one of russia's most advanced fighter jets approached the f. twenty two at which point the american plane swiftly left the area now what the americans are saying is quite different a that they deploy two russian jets who they say had crossed the euphrates line into the last about forty minutes of both sides of accuse each other of crossing the confliction lines of that that this could be avoided but this is another example of as you say human the fact that the fighting is leisel is pretty much. these tensions do remain how dangerous are. well you're talking about very close proximity with jets travel very very fast and the the danger is very

very acute and you're only talking maybe in some cases seconds and so this especially at high speeds and it's compounded by the fact that there seems to be a lack of coordination and and in fact the united states doesn't even belong in the country let alone. trying to assert some kind of legitimacy for its even even for its presence the de confliction zone that was referred to in the story is. something that the u.s. came up with not necessarily recognized by moscow or even syria which runs the country and it's all part of syria so it's really to guard the u.s. backed forces that are there in that area and it's near dyer's door so the point there is to try the u.s. wants to maintain a a a very strategic position and it's doing all it can to ward off any either syrian

or even russian. involvement in that area and in the story that you just brought out if they were escorting humanitarian aid which raises even further questions of why there isn't better coordination between the two air forces russian and u.s. it's not so long ago that islamic fundamentalist groups were overrunning that country both russia and the u.s. they're there to fight terrorists that's what they say it leads to the question why would the u.s. view russian jets as a threat. well again these are they probably feel that the jets got to kill well first of all they probably were not even us wasn't apparently aware of the. russian jets and secondly they the u.s. is trying to protect a certain area of where u.s. forces are located with that or provide an. advise an assistance to.

toot toot opposition groups in that region and this is potentially dangerous so you're going to get two stories there's no question about it the question is why isn't there better coordination if there is a hotline set up between moscow and the pentagon and apparently and there's been previous encounters in which no one was on the pentagon end to answer the phone and that's a problem can we just expound on one point you made earlier the pentagon referred to the east side of the euphrates river. conflicted earth space what kind of our space in syria is there are you know are there any legal grounds to claim that. no not at all and that's the problem u.s. doesn't have any legitimate role for being in syria doesn't have any authorization either from the united nations or even from the or from the syrian government or

even from the u.s. congress and so this this is the reason it's a very serious issues of what is the motive and what will the united states be doing in the future secretary mabus the defense secretary's already said u.s. forces are going to stay in syria well without an invitation with and and clearly that eastern portion east of the euphrates is is still part of syria and and that is under the jurisdiction of the syrian government legitimate syrian government yes speaking on an incident which could have led to a whole lot worse today a former pentagon official michael maloof thank you very much for coming on the program. and i move to raise the 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 iran and fired by hooty rebels in yemen

not 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 to rome sees about the evidence being presented by haley is fabricated the u.s. along with saudi arabia accuse iran of supplying weapons to yemen's hutu rebels however the u.n. which has studied missile debris from the region could not confirm the originated

in fact from iran to run has repeatedly denied arming the hutu you saying that such accusations are irresponsible the strip of nikki haley however continues to claim the other realm has violated u.n. resolutions if guilty it would be in violation of a u.n. arms embargo. on selling weapons to would have been broken and now it seems the u.s. is falling and building a coalition against their own. you will see us build a coalition to really push back against iran and what this 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 u.s. policy client the u.s. is actually isolating itself and its its 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 in the starn. british conservative party lawmakers have given their leader prime minister treason me a break bruising after voting to give parliament the fall all say over any deal struck on leaving the european union eleven rebels within her own party broke ranks to give m.p.'s the power to veto any agreement brokered 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 almost fifty deadline like before we leave the european union amendment seven is floor is just marking the washington

productive 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. all. well it's been eighteen months since the referendum saw fifty two percent of voters choose to leave the european union although as we can see here 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 kick started the exit process on the often strain negotiations with brussels which followed opposition leader german conservative m.p.'s delivered quote 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 that the government strategy was on frog 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. think that we will confirm the arrangements set out in the european council later this week or two.