the week's top stories. rages following donald trump's decision to recognize jerusalem as israel's capital is between palestinians and israeli police of course it's a big. world reacts to try to move calling for east jerusalem to be recognized as the palestinian capital with turkey already planning to open its embassy there. also ahead kickstarts the drawl of russian troops from syria during a surprise visit from military chiefs to defeat in country. i

. saw a sense of people this central square in the you create me in capital in an government protest led by former georgian president. with the top stories from the past seven days and right up to the moment developments as well this is the weekly international alone welcome we begin this hour in the middle east where in the west bank protesters have gathered to burn u.s. and israeli flags as well as effigies of the two country's leaders well despite the on rest the rally is in contrast to the violent ones that have perceived it over the past week in which a number of protesters were killed it all comes after do. trump's expose of the

station earlier this month to recognize the disputed city of jerusalem as israel's capital oh. ten seasons he. is writing about how do you guys bonds that are feeling that place . was. i. i. am still the free zone and tensions are in the. clinic. i.

thought well throughout the week r.t. has been hearing impassioned reaction to the resurgence of violence in the region. people can open the bible and to count how many times jerusalem is invention there they will find out also that jerusalem is not mentioned even one time in the koran not even one time people will find out that jerusalem is the capital of israel since nine hundred forty eight the whole world is condemning this action because simply it's against international law it's and against the framework for the peace process is has for fitted the united states who fitted its position as a broker to the peace process and i tell you something the israelis have for palestinians in the past two days in peaceful protests while no israeli was killed there was an injury in an attack and was jerusalem everything is

a lie first everything my appalling says is a lie there were three terrorists killed in gaza strip which has nothing to do with the protests here because gaza strip they fired rockets and they forget about it they just forget that they fire rockets at israeli kindergarten when people who fought off followers of hijab in that whole say name hitler skull operator of the second world war those who created fatah before nine hundred sixty seven to destroy israel when this was the said personalities common to teach us morality it cannot be defended themselves why they are illegally on somebody else's land that is unacceptable what they done what they do and what i have been doing since one thousand nine hundred seven is an aggression and with your other guests this radical has never been to your land never been the old man in the history of those

land they were born in russia donald trump. kept his promises and his trying to do in his best way are grateful but the issue is not donald trump the issue as these people go around to other innocent europeans russians americans and we are here in the middle east the only democracy of the all only all need really a light in this very dark environment. reaction to president has reverberated throughout the muslim world where leaders of his quote no voyde decision the turkish president declared he wants his country to open an embassy suppose. the organization of islamic cooperation convening down emergency session in turkey and the president call for palestinians to lay claim to the east of the ancient city. the u.s.

decision on your roof because of its great virus against the historical and permanent rights to the most. important i want to point out to ignore some of the distortions at. the united states the solution to recognize jerusalem as the capital of israel is a dangerous one it will threaten security and stability restraints efforts to resume the peace process the president is committed to this peace process as committed as he has ever been born yet. every possible step must be taken to prevent the implementation of this illegal action by the us administration however there is one question that sticks out. what factors are militants made it impossible for the us president to take such an outrageous act and that type of rhetoric that we heard has prevented peace in the past and it's not necessarily surprising to us well the spite heavy criticism from our of bleeders european

allies president trump doesn't seem all concerned and explains. pilots' now the time of year in which israel celebrates hanukkah and this comes after donald trump's dramatic decision on jerusalem which may seem like a huge gift we a very happy hanukkah. and i think this one will go down as especially special. right now i'm thinking about what's going on and the love that's all over israel and all about jerusalem love that's all over israel trump one is far is actually praising himself for the all but controversial move his point his predecessors only made promises where he actually delivered. jerusalem is still the capital of israel and most remain unknown divided city accessible questions that take us as i would begin the process

of moving the united states ambassador to the city in israel and shows. i continued to say that. jerusalem will be the capital of israel so why is tom so gleeful about his decision as the international community praised him for it nope they dangerous decision we do know and agree clearly disagree these decisions i'm hopeful from the european union member states sites this move will not come so is it what the american people want well not according to this poll taken ahead of trump's decision sixty three percent of americans say that they oppose the move but it's popular in israel right well not with all israelis they think of only friends leave in years and they. are in much greater risk than they were with i think it will because of. people dead and. violence i think it was a reckless this season and it takes less time to announce it is like

a man who was playing in a coma defeated or in the. in gangsta. so it's taking us three still suddenly. oh my friends tell me and the day he announced that they're pretty much scared to go but the drizzle in the house going to be underscored to leave the house says but trump did win over some of his harsh critics in the democratic camp. jerusalem is the capital of the state of israel something the united states congress is refund on a fact of history that cannot be tonight. i support the decision to recognize jerusalem as the eternal capital of israel and to move the us embassy to this decision is long overdue and helps correct a decades long indignity there may be benefits for him personally you may be. tipping his hat to his base and saying you know this is a campaign promise that i made he sees it more important for his personal legacy

for his supporters to do this regardless of the fact on world opinion regardless of its effect on the united states in the world opinion and regarding the something in the palestinian. people the world is not happy with the move america is not happy with the move but donald trump thinks it's terrific a year ago at his inauguration donald trump said that from here forward it would be america first well it's starting to look like maybe it's trump first. r.t. new york. in time for christmas new years many russian troops are returning home from syria after president putin announced it was mission accomplished during a surprise visit to a base there monday and here you can see some of the soldiers being welcomed back home base just outside of moscow they were met by an orchestra received honors for their service of course from the members. press of. monday's visit

to syria was the first for the russian leader president putin told personnel. base that their work was complete after the russian defense ministry out earlier declared islamic state the feat it in surveyor. i mean you are on there to the defense minister and the head of the general stuff. so you got through all of the russian forces to that perma but if you were terrorists would raise their heads again and we will strike back with the strength of any method. but here's a quick timeline of events in twenty fifteen when islamic state was on the rise and control of syria request was sent to moscow for help in the fight against the extremists using syrian intelligence the russian earth force alone surgical strikes on terrorist positions dealing a significant blow to isolate infrastructure that's aerial support is considered one of the main reasons for the campaign success and many other forces also join the effort to liberate cities and the surrounding regions.

with. journalist and author of. coalition forces should pull out from syria too especially as their presence in the country could be illegal. i think the lash out is sending a strong strong message to the syrian to the whole of their middle eastern and ups

and muslims that you know there are very very supportive of their allies and they will never let them down if they're actually a good example by saying that we are pulling out our troops from syria i think this is. the american administration that they should actually pull out those troops from c.n.n. not only from syria but also from iraq so there is no need for them to be there u.s. troops in syria was illegal and now they will be more illegal i believe that pretext which actually was taken by the american or used by the american administration to send troops to the syria now is the only. persons have been protesting in the ukrainian capital this sunday against excessive privileges held by government ministers in the country the demonstration was organized by

former georgian president turned ukraine opposition leader mikhail saakashvili protesters stormed a concert hall in the center of kiev where it's believed saakashvili had hoped to set up a command center to continue the rally. it was i. was. artie's danny hawkins told me what triggered the demonstration in kiev. estimated thousands attending this particular protest they're calling for the impeachment of president poroshenko and the standing down of the country's prosecutor general. as part of the wider protests against corruption and against as we heard there excessive government privilege in the government structures so very much i don't go in situation really in the capital of ukraine well there's probably a pretty wide spectrum of people here many of them may have protested in the twenty

thirteen fourteen modern protests but for example the black flags you can see just the pinpoint one image they are actually carried usually by the followers of ukrainian nationalist parties right wing parties as well they may make up some element of the protesters as they play a factor several years ago in the modern closures as well though these are people again who are just unhappy with the continuingly political situation in the country who may have had their hopes dashed by the revolution of twenty thirty or forty this seem to be headed by. people who may remember the name would associate him as being the former president of georgia but he's involved in a separate country here he's quite a controversial figure isn't he here because this really actually had his citizenship revoked from georgia he gave that up to become a citizen of ukraine at the invitation of president poroshenko a good friend of his actually went and studied at university together they've got

a history together he was invited to be the matter of address or a region in ukraine that was later revoked when he became critical of the regime is now officially stateless and the ukrainian government or thirty's want to have a victim from the country deported from the country has been very critical of the regime using a very strong take a listen to what he had to say today at the protest u.g. we weren't shake the country we have only one country with the dog what we have is we go. into we demolish you so that it never comes back to you. you can see the sort of firebrand rhetoric he really doesn't mince his words actually one sort of criminal charges both in georgia and in ukraine where funnily enough he's accused by authorities of trying to organize a criminal who led by all people by a pro russian for president going to code which has there been a big reaction from the public there from authorities well i can bring you two reactions from western representatives in the country the canadian ambassador the

former british ambassador to ukraine judith girl they've said they condemn world rather than attempt to seize and damage public buildings on abuse of the right to peaceful protests both of their masters. have stated this that was a reference of course of the images you saw there of public trying to stall because of all being pushed back by police it was people inside the theater at the time as well we believe there was a concert going on inside at the time the police tried to stop and go again we have reports of police officers being usually don't know how many people have been arrested or injured but obviously there have been some minor skirmishes a lot of the levels we've seen perhaps of previous protests but so little of passion there going on and interesting to see the reaction of course from these western representatives who in twenty thirteen fourteen a level of criticism leveled condemnation at your thirty's at the security forces lot of the protesters on the streets perhaps there was a bit of different story there with those particular protests plenty to come on the weekly including why vladimir putin's been calling up donald trump we've got the

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elect. nineteen minutes into the program welcome back vladimir putin the house cold donald trump to find came on the cia for providing information that helped to foil a terror attack plot in st petersburg medina cost of a house more on the conversation. and a telephone conversation vladimir putin to thank the u.s. president donald trump for held in preventing a terrorist attack which was planned to take place in the city of st petersburg on saturday now he also added that the russian security services would always also

share information with their colleagues in the united states eve and when they need data concerning possible planned attacks on u.s. soil now the russian president said that the data that was provided by the u.s. security services was enough to track down and detain members of the terrorists out and in total russian security services detained a seven suspects and it was also revealed that the attack was planned for saturday with one location believed to be the ca's than cathedral which is situated right in the center of the city and is quite a popular tourist a landmark now during the raid a large amount blows if so where parents and ammunition was seized and it was also reported that the extremists were planning a serious of attacks including as suicide bombing however

a lot. of them happened thanks to this most recent example of a successful anti terror cooperation between russia and the united states. british lawmakers hounded prime minister treason briggs's bruising on wednesday after they voted to allow a parliament the final say on any deal struck on leaving the e.u. eleven rebels from within her own conservative party broke wrote to give m.p.'s the power to veto any exit agreement. 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 or go through i just turn our. heads now. well not much order from trees a maze point of view it has been a year and a half since the referendum saw fifty two percent of voters choose to leave the european union although the poll showed a sharp divide in desire to leave between britain's regions it was only in march this year that the government kicked off the exit process prompting the often strained negotiations with brussels which followed on the latest development the opposition leader jeremy corbyn said m.p.'s delivered a humiliating loss of authority for the government and the power is now back in the hands of parliament that's this by the prime minister earlier claiming the government's strategy was on track. there is i believe

a new sense of optimism now and that's what i would expect that we will confirm the arrangements that the european. well treason might have secured a better result in the house of commons had she not lost her party's majority in the snap election gamble earlier this year she only militia stay in power with a one billion pound deal to secure a parliamentary support from m.p.'s from the northern irish democratic unionist party political writer done glazebrook ses the pm can no longer overlook the deep divisions within her own party there'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 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. the value of bitcoin today briefly at an all time high of twenty thousand dollars it's become so popular with millennial that by the end of twenty eighteen it's thought one in three will have invested in the crypto currency the prediction was made by the london block exchange britain's first digital currency institution in light of this meteoric rise here's what you need to know about bitcoin. bitcoin he said financial models are not reached noma's for centuries has taken over the title of biggest bubble in history from what was known as man year in the netherlands bitcoins valley has surged byron sixty times in the last three years that's faster than to the bulbs in the

seventeenth century which are one point worth ten years of a skilled crossman's earnings back then prices were driven by greed or fear of missing out but as more people bolts into the bowels of quick profits a flurry of cells collapse the price and left many with crippling debts bitcoin is being called the digital tulip of the twenty first century is the same pattern emerges affair of missing out in new investors piling in critics say the perceived value of the currency like the tulip is being conjured out to finance but the ever growing army of bitcoin believers say it's here to stay with an operational market in full flow around the clock and new places all of the world ready to accept the cryptocurrency as payment even a church in london is happy to accept donations of the virtual kind with the size of the market already surpassed in some countries economies including new zealand influential banks are being left behind but as history shows us boom is usually

followed by bust and soon it could be that coins turn to wilt will blossom. well that's your wrap up all the week's top stories for no i'm back with updates in iran thirty minutes time in the meantime more programs are right ahead this is. when the. car of the city needed. it blew a new twist in the mood to call. this a rogue reserve the. following in. minton when they come up with

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