thank you it was. but. i was. the week's top stories on our t.v. deadly unrest continues in palestine following washington's decision to recognize jerusalem as israel's capital. muslim leaders response to the u.s. move by calling for east jerusalem to be recognized as the palestinian capital with turkey already planning such as its embassy there. also ahead president putin orders the withdrawal of russian troops from syria off the ice the loses its final strongholds and.

crowds denounced the president of ukraine as an anti corruption rally led by former georgian leader mikhail saakashvili. a warm welcome you're watching the weekly here on r.t. international with me nicky arun good to have you with us this out. in the west bank and gaza protesters have gathered to burn u.s. and israeli flags as well as effigies of the two countries' leaders this follows more than a week of deadly violence since donald trump's decision to recognize jerusalem as israel's capital. didn't get any. attention just sees the israelis are throwing tear gas bombs. it's our feeling that

place. was. we understand nothing else but freeze out and tensions are the thing that he's taking to me. that. i didn't know throughout the economy has been hearing reaction to the latest surge of unrest in the region people can open the bible and to count how many times jerusalem is in danger and 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 the international law it's and against the framework for the peace process is has forfeited the united states for fritted 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 in 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 that they just forget that they fire rockets at israeli kindergarten when people who fought for wars. of hijab it hosts a name hitler

a skull operator of the ring cycle world war those who created fatah before nine hundred sixty seven to destroy israel when this with exists the same personality it's common to teach us morality listen come on 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 and the only here syria there was a land they were born in russia donald trump. kept his promises and his trying to do it his best way are grateful but the issue is not the most problem the issue as these people go around. in a says europeans russians americans and we are here in the middle east the

only democracy of the only all really alive in this very dark environment shock waves from president trying to move house bright for the muslim world the turkish president has announced plans to open an embassy it took in palestine to palestine and east jerusalem the organization of islamic cooperation held an emergency session in turkey on wednesday and all fifty seven nations but the palestinians claim to be fifty but it was the us decision on your roof for them because of this great piracy against the historical and permanent rights of the palace is important i want to point out to ignore some of the distortions and see the united states the solution to recognize jerusalem as the capital of israel is a dangerous one it will threaten security and stability and frustrates efforts to resume the peace process the president is committed to this peace process as committed as

he has ever been born yet as i mean every possible step must be taken to prevent the implementation of this illegal action by the u.s. administration sure however there is one question that sticks out here what's factors and never once made it possible for the u.s. president's trip there to take such an outrageous act that type of rhetoric that we heard has prevented peace in the past and it's not necessarily surprising to us just by criticism from muslim leaders and european allies president trump seems unconcerned as chemical can explain. 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 question does 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 all my friends leaving you as i am 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 in a close turning to announce it is like a man who was playing in a coma defeated or in the. in danks their freedom. so it's taking us three still suddenly and is shooting over friends told me is the day he announces that they're pretty much scared to go but the drizzling because they don't know how it's going to be underscored to leave the houses 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 has reaffirmed and

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 u.s. embassy that this decision is long overdue and help 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 its effect on world opinion regardless of its effect on the united states and world opinion and regarding the suffix on 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. and the russian troops are returning home from syria in time for christmas and new year it's off to president putin announced it was mission accomplished during a surprise visit to the country on monday you see soldiers being welcomed home base outside of moscow they were met by an orchestra received they all this for their service elated family members were also present. monday's visit to syria was the first for the russian leader vladimir putin told personnel at the little base the work was complete after the russian defense minister. declared islamic state defeated in syria i mean you throw about on the to the defense minister and the head of a general star ordered start and draw all of the russian forces to their permanent bases and if the terrorists dare to raise their heads again we will strike back with the strength of their never seen before. here's a quick timeline of events in twenty fifteen when islamic state controlled almost

half of syria damascus sent a request to moscow for help in the fight against the extremists working with the syrian military the russian air force launched its surgical strikes on terrorist positions dealing a significant blow to isis infrastructure that aerial support is considered one of the main reasons for the campaigns the excess many other forces also joins the effort to liberate cities and surrounding regions. and the. need to be.

journalist and author. believes the u.s. coalition should now follow russia's lead and pull out of syria i think the russia is sending a strong strong message to the syrian to the whole middle east i'm at ups that muslims that you know there are very very supportive to their allies they will never let them down if there are sensitive a good example by saying that we are pulling our troops from syria i think this is a clear message to american administration that we should actually pull out basically from syria 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. they will be more illegal i believe pretext which actually was taken by the american or used by the american

administration to send troops to the syria and now with. dozens 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 and ukraine opposition leader mir haile fuckers really 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. i . was. at it on your hawkins told my colleague you know neil what triggered the demonstration in kiev just a mate of 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 protest 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. make up some element of the protesters as they did of course play a factor several years ago in the modern protests 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 forty this seem to be headed by. usually no 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 clearly and authorities 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 you did you we weren't shake the country we have only one country but the dog what we have is a government we will shake into we demolish it so that it never comes back we can see the sort of fire brought 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 gul they've said they condemn rather attempts 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 storm a concert hall being pushed back by the police service people inside the theater at the time as well where 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 as you don't know how many people have been a rest that really should but obviously there have been some minor skirmishes lot of the levels we've seen perhaps of previous protests but so little of power. they're going on 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 not of the protesters on the streets perhaps there was a bit of different story there with those particular protests president putin has thanked the cia for a crucial tipoff we've got the details still to come after this break. here's what people have been saying about rejected in. the long. the only show i go out of my way to punch you in the really packs a punch. is the john oliver of our two year marriage is going to say we are apparently better than nothing. and see people you've never heard of love or death for the next president of the world bank so very. seriously send us an e-mail. just by accident i discovered about the struggle.

that was a moment where isis targets the body looked like it was about to be destroyed and as someone who put themselves in this period some people struggling for on the kist ideology if i didn't somebody with the skill with the ability to go and help those people in the existential struggle in that moment of need then my whole life but not be a hypocrite. welcome back the president putin has called donald trump to find the cia for vital intelligence that prevented a terror attack in simpang according to a statement from the white house the two leaders agreed that the case quote serves as an example of the positive things that can occur when our countries work

together but he to caution of a has the details. and a telephone conversation vladimir putin is saying the us president donald trump were 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. it's also share information with their colleagues in the united states if and when they obtain a need data concerning possible planned attacks on u.s. soil now the russian president said that the data that was provided by the us security services was enough to track down and detain members of the terrorists out and in total russian security services detained a seventh suspects and it was also revealed that the attack was planned for saturday with one location believed to be the cause than cathedral which is situated right in the center of the city and is quite a popular tourist

a landmark now during the raids a large amount of explosives weapons and ammunition was seized and it was also reported that the extremists were planning a serious of attacks including as suicide bombing however luckily none of them happened thanks to this most recent example of a successful anti terror cooperation between russia and the united states. british lawmakers handed prime minister to resume a landmark to feast on wednesday eleven rebels from her own conservative party voted with the opposition to give parliament the power to veto any breaks that agreement a meaningful vote a meaningful vote a meaningful vote on school fifty thousand dead tomorrow the date has been served we are living at the end of march and when the deadline runs out we believe that leaving the european union and we should say no parliament taking control extends

the almost fifty tension only before we leave the european union amendments is. just the worst productive negotiations to drag things out drag out the negotiations to delay for months and months months and. scrutinize what of the government is doing proper scrutiny this is not the moment to try to speak because . just. it's been eighteen months since the referendum saw fifty two percent of voters choose to leave the european union all of the poll showed clear divisions within the u.k. itself it was only in march this year that the government kicked off the exit process prompting the often strange negotiations with brussels which followed on the latest development opposition leader jeremy corbyn said m.p.'s delivered a humiliating loss of all for eighty for the government and that power is now back

in the hands of parliament despite the prime minister earlier claiming the government's strategy was on track. but there is there is likely a new sense of optimism now in the talks and i. expect that we will come. to the european council later this week to resume a might have secured a better result in the house of commons had she not lost her party's majority in a snap election downbelow early this year she only managed to stay in power through a one billion pound deal with the northern irish democratic unionist party political writer down glazebrook believes the prime minister can no longer overlook the deep divisions within her own party is a humiliation and historically governments don't tend to last very long after 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 briefly hit an. all time high of twenty thousand dollars on sunday has become so popular with millennial that by the end of twenty eighteen it is thought one in three will have invested in the cryptocurrency prediction was made by the london block exchange britain's first digital currency and to cherish it a lot of this meteoric rise here's what you need to know about bitcoin. bitcoin he said the financial model still not reached no must for centuries has taken over the title of biggest bubble in history from what was known as judith mania in the netherlands bitcoins valley has surged byron sixty times in the last three years

that's faster than two bulbs in the seventeenth century which are one point worth ten years for skilled crossman's earnings back then prices were driven by greed or fear of missing out but as more people called since the polls were quick profits a flurry of sales collapsed the price left many with crippling debts bitcoin is being called the digital tulip the twenty first century is the same pattern emerges a fear of missing out in new investors piling in critics say the perceived value of the currency like the chill that is being conjured out of finance but the ever growing army of that coin believe this 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 crypto currency as pain 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 fit constanta wilt will blossom. well have you all sound the day's stories by following us on facebook and twitter and i'll be back with you in about thirty five minutes with a headline about. credit

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fun and welcome to worlds apart at first glance the day isn't much in common between defied of the syrian kurds against isis and the development of bitcoin but both causes have captured the imagination of an anarchist around the world dreaming about autonomy from them if it didn't state one of them is a mere talkie bitcoin developer and anti isis fighters he joins us today on worlds apart well mr tak it's great to talk to you think you very much for being with us today hello thank you for having me here now you are a committed an artist and a big part of the anarchist ideology is a rejection of the state and yet somehow you ended up in syria fighting alongside the kurds against isis which is also a group that rejects the syrian state at least in its current shape and form how do

you reconcile the struggle of the cut. in the middle east in know if syria. is based off of ideology called democratic come federalism which is. an ideology the takes a lot from. the nyquist ideology is really is something known go off as a way forward hasn't been able for the last century mabel on a case to be able to organize to shape politics around what the kurds have done is to make a very good critique of. and support for the proposal for how we can engage in politics in this century to be able to. advance the cause of humanity food with all due respect i think when it comes to the struggle in their fight i says it's not really so much about diet geologist much is about their survival i don't thing i says every li thinks much about. can federalism as you explained it i think for

them it's just. ethnic and perhaps religious hatred so from what i understand the kurdish fight was primarily for survival rather than their political or social vision. your main drive of the movement is the ideology that's what gives them strength as a movement in the middle east throughout the arab spring there are many political movements and all of them failed my friends if you look up in egypt there were a lot of use sites organized through facebook they went to tahrir square to the front the military dictatorship a lot of people were killed in a struggle and they threw out the military dictatorship and then after is it ok now what do we do ok we're going to sit down and have a discussion and then they side to talk and in rushed a group of guys with a vision with a plan with an idea that was able to rally enough people behind them to go to take the power and that group was the.