u.s. regulators vote to scrap net neutrality despite protests in washington critics say the move could create a so-called internet for the. president vladimir putin concludes his annual marathon q. and a session with journalists answering more than seventy questions in almost four hours we've got the main points from that also this hour. palestinian protesters clashed with israeli police in an enormous wave of anger over jerusalem as muslim nations reject the u.s. role in the middle east peace process.

you're watching r.t. international live from our moscow studio with lina to welcome to the program us regulators have voted to end so-called net neutrality which now could significantly alter the web experience for millions of people it will allow internet providers to charge extra to prioritize their traffic effectively creating a slow lane for smaller websites here's a breakdown of how it 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 says that's preventing websites from investing trillions of dollars in their services and now with net neutrality regulations gone i have peace will be free to charge a premium to prioritise certain apps and services reports while 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. elation 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 because 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 they have 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 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. and. and you see we want you to do part of democracy to have equal

communication people access to communication not just let the privileged. 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. 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 some are saying well that of course remains to be seen. the presidents of russia and the u.s. have discussed the north korean nuclear crisis in a phone conversation according to a statement from the kremlin for the details to make into cross life not to caleb moved to news in new york. tell us more details about that as well reports from moscow our indicated place between u.s.

president donald trump and russia's president vladimir putin and the phone call was initiated at the request of the united states the united states requested this phone call now among the issues that were discussed on the call were bilateral relations between the usa and russia as well as the most pressing international issues currently on the global scene the most pressing issues now earlier today we understood that there was a q. and a between russia's president vladimir putin and the press in which he made clear he answered questions about north korea and about the possibility of the usa and russia working together to resolve the crisis on the korean peninsula this is what food and said earlier today. do you think that cooperation on north korea could warm up u.s. russia relations. continuously to admit that you are very interesting people have

you noticed that your congressman senators who were 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 pushed their president to ask us to resolve the iran nuclear deal and the north korean crisis what is wrong with you people. now at this point those who are optimistic about the possibility of the usa and russia cooperating to resolve the korean crisis should feel even more optimistic about the phone call ok thanks for the update on the. reporting from new york. now to the russian presence annual q. and a from earlier in the day man to man putin feel that close to four hours of nonstop and very diverse questions from the press our correspondent was there 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 one question came from perhaps his direct opponent a person who wants to become a presidential candidate in russia in twenty or twenty subject that's a major issue for those who want to represent that norm 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 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 to task we've seen this already if you want to list the returns i'm sure that the overwhelming majority of citizens don't want to let it happen. i mentioned corruption previously and in fact that is one of the things the current washing

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 going 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 common 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 is like we have an army we have rotation and someone serves for three or five years in one place then they are transferred somewhere else so maybe it makes sense to organize something like that in law enforcement to 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 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 and of course president putin gave answers to some of the major issues in advance of twenty seventeen including allegations of collusion with. russia from the winter olympics. how would you explain to americans the sheer number of contacts between the trump can be 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 blame the ball threw a fit a number of well known social and political trends and had nothing to do with russia so yes there were never tempted to fit russia's domestic political one says are just know that's the case but at the same tiring there have been such not surrounded by this politicized lot going on across the lympics sport but it does seem that the russian flag has today. produced pieces of a short range weapon during a presentation claiming multiple times that 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 argue as though that the evidence being presented by haley is fabricated the u.s. along with saudi arabia came to the rebels however the u.n. which has studied mr brief from the region couldn't confirm that they originated from iran has repeatedly denied arming the hurty saying that such accusations are irresponsible and destructive nikki haley accused iran of violating the with former cia officer ray mcgovern thanks for coming on to the program ray let's start with nicky always a pleasure nikki haley says she said she's building a coalition against iran who will be in that coalition considering the terms move to decertify the iran nuclear deal was met it was met with criticism on it by america's allies in europe not so long ago. well you know you have to put this into context nikki haley is frightfully ambitious she's very prose ionise

and she's following the kind of talking points that are originating only in washington and in new york but in tell of eve now she thinks that she can get ahead this way and the rest of the world looks on at this and says my goodness we've seen this problem before iran is now the be the primary target but let's see what about iraq and what about syria and what about that deal we have that actually prevents iran from getting a nuclear weapon so i was teaching my son my grandson the word disingenuous recently and i think this is a good example it's also sort of giving hypocrisy a bad name when you look at the situation in yemen where the u.s. supported saudi just tax have indiscriminately killed so many civilians as opposed to this one one rocket that was sent by those who cheese it into saudi arabia.

to linda wherever it might if it was near an airport i was a piece of luck for them so the context here is that nikki haley and the washington seems to be in a unreal world largely because they've just lost big time syria they lost syria they lost to the russians in the syrians and the rain ians and has paula now what's the proper reaction to that well the proper reaction to be is to come back and sort of sort of reassess where we are but you know the saudis and the israelis who have this sort of unholy alliance now the israelis and the saudis are out to put all kinds of pressure. on the run for reasons well if they're going to they're going to accuse iran of forestry terrorism like no one else in the

world well they're about three decades late there are other countries that enjoy that title now one of saudi arabia and as far as moderate rebels are concerned of course the united states is a major sponsor ray why why and we can look at the timing of this why do you think the us is trying to put more pressure on iran now i mention syria and of course the alliance was formed wasn't it between iran was part of that kind of peacekeeping. mechanism that was put in place in syria and the us wasn't a real part of that. why now. well that's a very embarrassing that the us wasn't a part of that given the expenditure of men and materiel that they invested why now well i think that netanyahu is calling the shots look to receive them has just been recognized as the capital of israel nikki haley is getting on this on this bin

where again she sees this as being very propitious for her politically and also she's sort of the john bolton of the feminine world she's out there and she i don't know if she takes any direction from rex tillerson but i don't know what that direction would be he's pretty much not very effective let's say so this is the time to beat the drums against iran and the best thing they can find some missile parts i assume they probably are currently and made missiles and given to the who cheese years ago not able to hit much in the way of major targets in saudi arabia but to deflect the conversation from the fact that a million people even now have cholera that seventy percent of the yemenis depend on outside food to survive those kinds of things. are really

reprehensible and in a way if you blame iran for some of this for shooting a missile or the hoodies that are supported by iran. to a degree i suppose if you divert the conversation and you show a missile port well you have achieved a propaganda gain of some sort right where it says oh i am going to join another us i'm going to jump in there because you shouldn't of seeing a repeat of history only the situation as it is now we have had objections from america's allies in europe about this. and also we could take a step back and ask is this reminiscent of colin powell showing the alleged proof in iraq of missiles of mass destruction back in two thousand and three is this just a technique that the americans use to get the world on this side do you think. well we have a major propaganda apparatus to dwarf the significance of our chief example and of

course colin powell is the prime exemplar but you have people like general petraeus i remember when general petraeus was in iraq and he told the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff that he had discovered in a radian supplied cache of weapons and that there was a us a press conference set up in this part of iraq where they had been found ten days later. the press conference was canceled the chair of the joint chiefs of staff asked patrice what happened so would they turn out to be not a reunion made weapons so the way to success in washington and intel of eve of course is to bring in the arrhenius as violators of this that and the other thing haley said today that our western allies are going to have to rethink their approach to iran well she's in

a dream world ok we'll leave it to believe that we'll leave it at the dream i suppose foma of a mcguffin thanks famous for your expertise and thoughts on this something that most welcome. clashes are continuing in the west bank over the contested status of jerusalem that story is after the break. legal. leg. to. live.

on the idea that dropping bombs brings police to the chickenhawk forcing you to fight the battles they don't believe in you socks for the tell you that it's not because of the public but i fell for the reporters today. tell me you are not cool enough to buy their products little. things all the hawks that we along with all those little. welcome back to the program 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 overnight on wednesday israeli forces say they also intercepted two rockets fired from gaza this

week marks the thirtieth anniversary of the hamas infamous tokenize a sion on it seen thousands of people in gaza which they control celebrating israel closes checkpoints in the region for an indefinite period of time since last week when donald trump recognized jerusalem as the capital of israel violence between israeli authorities and palestinian protesters has been occurring daily. you destroyed that these two destroyed like this for the syrian christians the same month this seventeen. was a thing that's a given it gives for the war to think of nothing to destroy was. the. was. i think doesn't know what is going on and i think he's just if you don't know it doesn't understand the depth of

the problem that he has just created. the leaders of 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. presence heavily criticized made to recognize the ancient city as israel's capital donald trump's decision on jerusalem led. unexpected consequences as well for example in the israeli city of nazareth 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 says america's decision has taken away the joy of the celebration and donald

trump's ruling on jerusalem affected his reputation globally too as nicky aaron explains. how much time do you think donald trump spend considering his move to recognize jerusalem as the capital of israel it 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. 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 who wasted no time in calling trump's decision no and void and branding israel a state of terror. are you back in this country israel. 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 firstly how mass is called on the palestinian people to face the israeli occupation and adopt the blessid into father against

that and the hateful and racist recognition of jerusalem and to america reverses its decision. the palestinian people are involved in a continuous battle and into fodder against the israeli occupation and we are calling for it's be escalated in the west bank occupied jerusalem and the gaza strip against the occupation. a little over a week since trump announced his decision the tide has turned to a tsunami of potential natural disaster no one was ready for it and that's all roundup of the news for now why don't you find us on social media we're on facebook on our website that's all to you don't come i'll be back at the top of the hour with more top stories so do stay with us.

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by invasion by proxy war and by civil conflict our question for today is can lebanon solve some egypt what will crisis and reclaim the path to peace and prosperity. but first of all to trust me enough in the studio. thank you alex and now to your tweets and e-mails first up from at by starlight tell us is it good to hear them pitching their points without hectoring interrupting a pleasure to hear an adult conversation for once instead of the playground bullying of other play tickle shows i'm really glad you like her format stella and i agree with you i don't like the playground pulling type of interview either then jennifer hoffman says e.u. is a big deception a non representation of government that removes national sovereignty who would want to be part of that jennifer whilst i respect your viewpoint i don't share your presentation of the e.u. i for one would certainly like to remain a member of it at bretton bar says bracks it is

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