u.s. regulators vote to scrap net neutrality this protests in washington critics say the move could create a so-called internet for the elite. also coming up this r t news our president vladimir putin concludes his annual more a thing q. and a session with journalists answering more than seventy questions in almost four hours we've got the main points from the.

palestinian protesters clashed with his really police in a wave of under over jerusalem muslim nations reject the u.s. role in the mideast peace process. live from our international news center here in moscow this is r.t. good to have your company on union only our top story u.s. regulators have voted to end so-called net neutrality which now could significantly alter the web experience from millions of people. internet providers to charge extra to prioritize their traffic effectively creating a slow lane for smaller websites and here's a brick donna have it all works we access the web through internet service providers i espied. at the moment companies have to treat all online traffic

equally but the us federal communications commission says that's preventing websites from investing trillions of dollars in their services a no with net neutrality regulations goldman i s p s will be free to charge a premium to prioritize certain services breaking down what happened earlier see your account 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 kids you see what do i know you are you 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 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 in case 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. super rich have every advantage in a so-called democracy this is going to shut out a lot of small business is a small website and prevents. voices heard and read 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 summer say well that of course remains to be seen. ok mr attention to the russian president and you will q. and a from earlier in the day on thursday and lot of feeling close to four hours of nonstop pretty diverse questions from the press among them our correspondent in europe a train go. 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 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 fishy and maybe the government is frightened the fact competition by 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 to tast we've seen this already do you want to list the return 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 and if you notice the word means two in the judicial 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 they 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. if we really believe that you are very interesting people have

you noticed that your congressman senators who wear nice suits and 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 us to resolve the iran nuclear deal and the north korean crisis what is wrong with these 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. the events for everything else you can go to our website and you tube channel other questions and answers by vladimir putin are available there. were just a few but this story a little longer president putin give answers to some of the major issues and events of twenty seventeen as well of course including allegations of collusion with donald trump on the bottom of team russia from the winter olympic games.

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 means that they do not respect the voters who cast their ballots in trump's favor trump's victory is entirely playing 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 just know that's the case but at the same time we should blame ourselves we gave a reason for these accusations there have indeed been cases of doping now there have been such cases 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. and on the russian flag as today president putin said you know we bear a share of the guilt. and i think that's quite interesting because it creates a different impression it's much more defensive and it's in a way. it creates a better impression i think than saying no no no we're totally without a new plan. let's turn our attention to the middle east where over a dozen palestinians have been injured in another round of clashes in the west bank as really police used tear gas against crowds throwing stones overnight on weapons the israeli forces say they also intercepted two rockets fired from gaza all this week marks the thirtieth anniversary of the hamas islamist organization. which they control celebrate israel closed its checkpoints in the region for an indefinite

period since last week when donald trump recognized tourism capital of israel violence between israeli authorities are still in protesters has been occurring on a daily basis. if you don't. make 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 on them led to on the expected consequences as well for example in the israeli city of nasiriya authorities canceled christmas markets and festivities nazareth is considered to be the childhood home of jesus christ and of vital importance to christians local media have been quoting the city's mayor who sees america as the solution has taken away the joy of the celebration donald trump's ruling on tourism affected his reputation globally as well it seems.

explains. 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 void and branding israel a state of terror. 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 father's 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 river. says it's

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 asking late in the west bank okie pie jerusalem and the gaza strip against the occupation was on the b.b.q. a little over a week since trump announced his decision and 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 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 in the region and in some ways has lessened american influence in the region. the u.k. high court has ruled in favor of four iraqi citizens who sued the british military for human rights abuses the ruling could pave the way for hundreds more claims over the u.k.'s actions during the iraq war bring us more about on the situation. in treatment and we have to say that that when it comes to detaining iraq the reason is as twenty two million struggling only until hundred by some accounts. a compensation by the british government in the case of the american presence which was far greater throughout iraq i mean i have friends who are who are now anti war veterans from the us army did was go around a bust down doors arrest the men in the family put hoods over their heads subject

them to extra sensory deprivation sleep deprivation stress positions they in fact turned against the war because they have them selves recognize that as torturers they resemble terrorists and they didn't want to go there for that so this is got big implications not just for u.k. but i would say especially for the united states where there has been no accountability for these greenness crimes against humanity the u.k. government the u.s. government said we are above the law we don't have to comply with the geneva conventions this ruling says yes you do you know just on the last point the u.k. high court ruled that the ministry of defense breached the geneva conventions the one nine hundred ninety eight human rights act through on lawful detentions who do you think should bear responsibility for that. well i think we know from the united states that the orders to violate the geneva conventions in fact to exempt

the country from the geneva conventions came from the very top of the us political establishment it came from george w. bush i believe it also came from the ministry of defense top officials in the u.k. with the a wink and nod or complicit agreement of the tony blair government so who is really being charged who should be charged i would say it's the top officials of these wars these wars in and of themselves constituted not only a war of aggression which is a crime against peace the greatest crime according to the nuremberg trials but they were also crimes against humanity and they were done systematically it was not accidental it was not done incidentally by soldiers in the field these came from orders from high up there's been some questions about where this no leads the implications of what was decided could the risk of prosecution discourage the british military from perhaps getting involved in future overseas conflicts and indeed make it harder for soldiers to do their jobs. well the soldier's job should

not be to violate. people's rights it should not be to commit war crimes or crimes against humanity if those are the soldiers jobs then yes the u.k. should never again do it will will the u.k. government be held accountable will it be a deterrent it's the only way for accountability to work is for deterrence to work is to show that there will be punishment that there will be accountability for grievous crimes against humanity here we have in the united states and in the united nations and with the u.k. government a system set up whereby all of the targeted entities by those countries they come to the hague they go to the international criminal court but the perpetrators of the aggression of the occupation of the torture of the violation of geneva conventions those who have really done this they exempt themselves they immunize themselves from prosecution there shouldn't just be civil penalties there should be war crime trials for tony blair and those in the u.k.

government and military and likewise with bush and cheney and rumsfeld there should really be accountability there should be criminal penalties brian becker director of the war coalition for your time in your thoughts this hour brian thank you. british conservative party lawmakers have given prime minister treason made a break did 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 ranks to give m.p.'s the power to veto any agreement on break that 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 ten 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 to go through i. just want to tell indeed well it's been eighteen months since the referendum so 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 northern ireland and scotland 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 corben said conservative m.p.'s delivered quite a humiliating loss of authority for the government and said that power is now back in the hands of parliament earlier the prime minister had claimed that the government's strategy was on track although her words were not met with

overwhelming approval. but there is there is i believe a new sense of optimism now in the top and i i would expect that we will confirm the arrangements. in the european account. we will treat them a might have secured a better result in the house of commons had she not lost her party's majority in the snap election earlier this year she only mellish the 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 may can no longer overlook the deep divisions within her own party is a humiliation and historically governments defeated at the hands of their own backbenchers to i think it shows that the government government is really up for grabs and 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 just defeat to resist making this into a legally binding commitment. despite still being essentially defeated in syria the military situation remains tense it's been revealed that russian and american jets in syria have been involved in yet another close encounter of breaking down what occurred on the a hawk. the incident took place in eastern syria near the town of dean which is in the province of de resort on the euphrates river it involved at least two russian jets and at least one american jet now what the russian ministry of defense is saying that two su twenty five attack aircraft were escorting a humanitarian convoy to the western side of the euphrates river controlled by the syrian government backed up by the russian air force 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 rest of. their 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 they say that they deployed two twenty two fighter jets to actually ward off the two russian jets who they say had crossed the euphrates line into the de confliction zone that's a zone established by the u.s. military in the russian military who it's worth noting of course are in syria without and with the syrian government's consent to avoid any such incident so they say it was the russians that were at fault for an incident they say last about forty minutes and put their own forces at risk. now it's worth noting that the u.s. and russian leaders have to have open channels of communication between themselves precisely to stop such incidents happening the concern though is that as the fires

against eisel against other jarvis groups has narrowed in syria this is bought these powers these actors these air forces into closer and closer proximity both sides of accuse each other of crossing the confliction lines of flying dangerously of saber rattling on the ground and the fear is that this could eventually lead perhaps to a more serious incident or former pentagon official michael maloof told me be u.s. wants to maintain a strategic foothold in syria despite having no legal basis for being in the country. 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 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 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 come up to thirty minutes past the hour is old news for law and if you're a cheater we'll be here at the top of the hour with plenty more but stay with us know from work r.t. programs and.

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