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president trump threatens to cut aid to united nations and this is a vote against america's decision to recognize jerusalem as the capital of israel. is it dangerous to stay here ok thank you. our correspondent reports on the unrest in ramallah as palestinians declare another day of rage against donald trump's jerusalem move. social media giant facebook is accused of abusing its monopoly in germany and of inappropriate collection of users data. putin says that foreign intelligence service is a ramping up their activities in russia trying to interfere in the country's internal affairs.
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of its now here in the russian capital my name is neil harvey this is r.t. international. president trump is threatening to cut a united nations members who voted in favor of a resolution that condemns america's decision to recognize jerusalem as the capital of israel. they take hundreds of millions of dollars and even billions of dollars and then they vote against us while we're watching those votes lead a vote against us will save a lot now we've heard these threats from donald trump and we've also heard threats from nikki haley according to her twitter she will be quote taking names at the upcoming vote in the united nations general assembly there's also a document that's been released in the authenticity of this document is not yet been confirmed but it appears that the usa is threatening to cut off the aid of countries that voted against the united states at the upcoming general assembly
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vote now this is going to be a non-binding vote now this comes just a few days after we saw some drama at the united nations security council resolution was put forward by egypt condemning the recent move of the united states recognizing jerusalem as israel's capital and in response to that we saw it fourteen to one with every other member of the u.n. security council voting against the resolution but the usa stepping in to veto it this is some of what occurred at the u.n. security council of jerusalem as the future of two states should be determined through a negotiated settlement between the israelis and the palestinians and a decision on actions which purport to the current term status of jerusalem have no legal effect to your ben the unilateral actions increase the risk of escalation of the conflict we support the just cause of restoring that you from a national right for the palestinian people now the upcoming vote at the united
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nations general assembly is along similar lines the resolution criticizes the recent move by the united states to recognize jerusalem as israel's capital so as we see these threats from tromping these threats from nikki haley this talk of taking names this document claiming that donald trump will be taking it personally the way countries vote we're forced to ask ourselves if u.s. leaders are really acting diplomatically or if they are being reduced to rather threatening behavior in response to the upcoming vote in the general assembly here at the headquarters in new york. turkey has hit back at what it calls threats from washington over the un vote drew has called on its nato ally to change course. this is a new day of rage is declared by palestinians and a fresh wave of protests the city of bethlehem.
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the mr ations also took place in the west bank city of ramallah protesters reportedly threw molotov cocktails and stones at soldiers who responded with rubber bullets tear gas. has been in the city for us. this is another day of rage here in the west bank city of ramallah the capital of palestinian authority there have been many days like this following the lead trumps controversial decision to recognize jerusalem as the capital of israel the palestinians as you know consider the eastern part of the holy city to be zero territory and of course the have been encouraged dramatically by. announcement there have been violent protests all over the world among palestinians and those who sympathize with that and of course here in palestinian would you go forward we hear that there are hundreds of protesters
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participating in today's event and again. now. the office is talking to journalists saying that we have to have to move it is ideas is it dangerous to stay here ok thank you i did. and you can follow me on twitter for dates from ramallah. wheelchair bound palestinian man who died in clashes with israeli police is becoming a symbol of the resistance to president trump's announcement on jerusalem the un human rights chief has called for an impartial investigation into his death. say and added that there is a strong suggestion the force used to get the victim was excessive is a look at the events surrounding the death.
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of their lives today my brother said to me while he was eating dinner with us brother forgive me this is the last night you see me as i intend to be a martyr i'm bored of this life i have no legs and i have nothing i want to die to rest from my. past i was with him yesterday when he fell as a martyr ibrahim wanted out from the beginning it was a shock to the head between his eyes so i was behind pushing his group chair and ducked behind them to scape the bullets.
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we discussed the situation with a senior leader of the democratic front for the liberation of palestine and an arab affairs commentator for the israel today newspaper. decision that was taken by the trumpet ministration is very shameful act and it is in control contrary to. international. norms the united states should. go back on this decision and we think that the palestinians should be expected to swallow this aggression on the holy city in a way that slaves will. accept the orders of their masters so we are we have a peaceful protest against this decision and this peaceful protest is being as i said by the israelis and this is what calls for the.
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as collation of this spiral of violence the question is whether the right yachts or all of this protest of some states in the world can change. and historical and religious fact that jerusalem is actually do ya capital of. these people acting and they are paid to do so this is actually and i'm sorry to mention this because is the fact that people in the west bank has actually reached to the conclusion that nothing can change reality jews there and a couple of these really state and then those who are paid are pushed into the garage but they know very well and i can tell you for sure that the palestinian authority know. very well and they are sure that things are getting out of control they are the ones to lose. ten times
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more civilians may have been killed by the u.s. led coalition in the liberation of mosul than previously reported. and this is according to new research conducted by the associated press the news agency of tame data from iraqi morgues as well as nongovernmental organizations and it added up to eleven thousand civilians may have been killed in the nine month operation nearly a third of them dying from coalition air raids coalition itself as that knowledge just four percent of a piece toll auntie's of has more. the associated press's counties are going to be revealed out of date if you consider the people who have died as a consequence of the battle have been solved just this morning we got a clue the three moved children were killed there when i exploded bam detonated under the wreckage of the house that they were playing on and such explosions are an everyday occurrence whether bams left behind by isis or unexploded bombs dropped
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by u.s. led coalition or iraqi jets nevertheless this count is ten times higher than official estimates we got from the iraqi government the u.s. led coalition or even the united nations to see the press says that if there was ninety eleven thousand civilian casualties through a three thousand booklist by the u.s. led coalition. the rocky air force previously the u.s. led coalition said that it was responsible for moving three hundred twenty or so that said clearly that it didn't have the resistance to send investigators to look at every reported incident this you see the press cited is that serious has various human rights agencies as well as an official body count def timings and there with two paths for iraqi moves but the number itself is entirely surprising he's
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deemed to move salafis and seem like a city of two million has been turned into this is a city of two million that is being leveled he stooped to rescue is this morning there is still digging bodies out of mosul that say the city of memphis which suffered the worst of the fighting the worst of the bad is still largely a rick and there's a smell that is harmless city for months and months and then years as some clips from the reports we've sent from mosul over the last year injuries astronauts . corpses cross this is the reality of war what you will likely haven't heard of is the smell it's noisy eating repulsive and it's everywhere the sort of smell that makes us in stink in sick the smell of rotting bodies this is what rescuers have collected just this morning three suspected isis fighters
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two women and two children. that's an iraqi. launching missiles. at isis targets in and you can hear isis small arms fire there targeting the helicopter in turn over their six seven hundred meters away is the aftermath of an airstrike that hit minutes ago just before we got here no wonder he's off to rule a city of corpses more i guess you have from mosul iraq we spoke to mohammed saeed collier and coordinator with the salaam for democracy and human rights group he warns that high civilian casualties are inevitable as the
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coalition made indiscriminate use of weaponry in densely populated civilian areas. the last reports by the un in a has addressed six thousand they were killed by a terrorist group by isis they're let alone by the numbers by the coalition groups especially against civilians because as you can stand most of them are terrorist groups who were hiding within the civilians houses or to consider. not doubt. their weapons are being used by the coalition especially by the u.s. army is does not discriminate between civilians or terrorist or by civilians or the isis because they used. a number of weapons but there's not. such a terrorist as you stand this is it a terrorist groups not an army where that clearly indicated the targets of the weapon they were used by the u.s.
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usually is used on a wide areas and also if you use if you look at the morsel as a city is very concerned very populated area is not an open space where you can target easy terrorist groups so they were targeting houses they were targeting. small rooms that were taken small neighborhoods this again the question is raised again why there's not as a thing. independence and instigation by the u.n. to look into how the operation has been handled. but imma put in as urged russia's security services to create a safe barrier against foreign interference in the country society and politics his comments go ahead of next year's presidential election has the details lattimer progun in his speech was talking to those who work in intelligence and security this wednesday is a professional hard for these people in russia in fact the russian security service
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is marking its. exactly one century of its existence so on this special occasion mr putin did something he doesn't often do the president directly accused foreign intelligence of interfering or meddling in russia's own affairs not that i've rarely heard words interference or meddling from others but back to mr approach but you should know that there is a great responsibility on the intelligence services to put up a barrier against external meddling in our social and political life and to counteract the work of foreign security agencies which and it's not a secret are doing all they can to ramp up their activities in russia it's no secret that throughout the last couple of years whenever and wherever there was an election or a major referendum eventually you'd hear some sort of news about investigations into alleged russian meddling or interference some sort of way of trying to pull
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the strings but in this case lattimer putin is talking about possible similar attempts and at russia where the presidential campaign just kicked off a couple of days ago. facebook has been accused of abusing its monopoly in germany and of inappropriate collection of uses data on these peter oliver has the details. well this all comes out of a statement from the wonderfully named federal cartel office there the main competition watchdog here in germany they've slammed facebook saying that its users have no idea and have given no consent for the levels of data from them which is being tainted by the social network and that is then being used to target adverts directly at them we mostly concerned about the collection of data outside facebook's social network and the merging of this data into uses facebook accounts
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we're not convinced the users have given their effect of consent to facebook's data tracking and merging of data into their facebook account but it also comes facebook's been accused of being overly intrusive after introducing new facial recognition software that can recognize a person's face even if they haven't been tagged in a picture it's worth noting this investigation is ongoing here in germany by the competition watchdog they say they are looking into how data is obtained but they're more looking into the fact that facebook seems to sit by and what should observe our lives and interests and then get information that way for facebook's part they say that the federal cartel office have misrepresented them by saying that they dominate the social media remit here in germany as far as facebook a concerned there are alternatives them if there wasn't alternatives only then would they be dominating it's put across what we are seeing and what we have seen
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already is sharing data with a third party here in germany is illegal and it's becoming more and more of an issue and more focus falling on social media outlets not just here in germany but across widely europe if we look over in france that's where what's up with the messaging application is facing a fine from the french authorities after they shared their users data with facebook and of course if we do remember facebook bought. bought out what's up back in twenty fourteen what we won't expect from this report when it's published in full in the summer it's a fine for facebook but what we're hearing from the main competition watchdog here in germany is they're going to tell facebook they need to change the way they go about doing things when it comes to their users personal data. russia will remain banned from the upcoming winter paralympics in south korea i.p.c. that the international paralympic committee will make
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a final decision on the russian team in late january but that's just a month before the competition begins and the see a church can have the details. there in london the international paralympic committee today has announced that they are maintaining the suspension of the russian paralympic committee and that they will indeed be announcing their final decision on the future of whether or not the parlin peons from russia are going to be able to compete and in january this leaves the russian athletes really holding their breath until more or less the last minute to find out whether or not they're going to be able to participate in those games another part of this decision announced today has been that they're going to maintain a measure that was implemented earlier in september that in fort sports russian athletes are going to be able to qualify in events under neutral flag which is quite important and those sports include cross-country skiing alpine skiing snowboarding and the buy off line it has been said that five criteria are still not being met by russia for the russian parliament committee to be reinstated and this
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comes after the international olympic committee bombed russia from participating at the two thousand and eighteen winter olympics however cleaner these will be allowed to compete underage neutral flank and as we heard the final decision about russia's participation in the paralympics will be made in late january that's not long before the game start and craig spends from the i.p.c. doesn't believe this will have a negative impact on the russian team but i think it's a decision by there you see first assess that. if anything gives them an opportunity for the bush era in the committee to me to reinstate crisis to the entire picture you've got to understand that this is a situation that has been forced upon us the russian paralympic committee was suspended in august and sixteen twelve months on we're still firing to you to meet for coffee see the ball here is very much in the cause of the russian parliament
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committee on the dorothy's. almost. our guys are being deprived of their dream some have just one chance some might have another but they've been preparing for the games for them they are a life goal for many guys with disability sport is the only thing they can do and this dream is being taken away. with it before it was just watching the bit on the power goes need strong support to move this huge pressure from the i.p.c.c. they're doing very well though i'd like to avoid all those who have legacy of attitudes towards them towards or training camps to see how they train and why they have excellent results this has nothing to do with. earlier artie's daniel hawkins and alan moore sports host on capital f.m. radio joined by colleague kate partridge to discuss the decision of the i.p.c. well there were only three options really available to the p.c. in this case which was lift about all together maintain status quo which is what's
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happened or perhaps go for a third option of allowing athletes of prove their claim to participate under neutral flag as they're doing already but if you look at some of the statements that have come out from before president phillip craven for example i believe earlier this year is demanding that russia prove not only that their sport is clean but that their nation is clean we can actually take a listen to that now. we care about how the russians. so they got the right policy but sure they are a clean nation never mind cleaned out they are to be a clean nation i mean you can take that to mean what you will but certainly questions are raised what exactly you mean xylem and some of you know the measures that russia have taken happen quite conference in fighting these allegations of doping in terms of a clean nation this could mean anything by we've got a very cheesy weather here in moscow at the moment so it could be that the roads are to where it makes no sense whatsoever and i think that mr craven he's been well
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known to be not a fan of russia so you know if you like clean athletes come from a clean nation if you want to see extend that kind of like you know link of your just kind of a leap from one factor of. ten to nations clean one thing i couldn't quite get my head around with this decision was kind of it's a lack of a decision it's a delay they've made a decision in the i.o.c. the i.o.c. say that ok we have a system here now that we think is what they say it's a presumption of innocence therefore russians who can prove that they can take part in the olympics so one of the paralympics you know this is the greatest event for a minute these people's lives and we know in every society people who complete the scores and partly because. this is one we can be included in society as mates is great strides and two weeks ago they had an x. which basically was the biggest ever gathering of people with. who are invalids in russia where they came from all over russia to take part in your work work
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skills in sports as well you know it started in japan know in russia how it's it was the biggest ever gathering globally so russia's be huge strides to get this inclusive and for people with difficulties whether it be education or physical i know have been told sorry you're not good enough final decision as you say. i'll be in general you know that's just a few weeks before the actual event itself so that the that fleets are neither here nor there do we train to be prepared to support it and we will go under a neutral flag or what's going to happen and it's affecting athletes really not only russians themselves because i think a lot about the leaks now as i don't rightly mentioned earlier on certain of the burden of proof the level of evidence that's required to prove that one is clean. the nuclear option of being stripped of e.u. voting rights is hanging over poland that's after brussels activated article seven for the first time in its history it is with
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a heavy heart that we have decided to initiate article seventy one. but the facts. leave us no choice. i stood before you in july when i clearly said. that we'd almost reached a situation where we would meet to talk article seventy one situation since then it's not approved but deteriorate it so we have no other option but to do this today or to the option with this full court decision it's about politics not the rule of law. the law was triggered over warsaw's refusal to scrap authoritarian to dish will reforms giving really conservatives more control over its courts poland's president just insisted they won't abandon those plans but the reforms are also under fire at home with thousands of people flooding the streets of the capital in protest last week it. was.
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learned of them both but then president. on us. but e.u. experts have told us brussels pressure on warsaw will only make an already tense situation worse for the entire union. eales goal is to impose its power and to show who is the boss in the room the political climate has significantly changed and it is very different comparing to the moment when these
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states were accepted so this whole situation will only deepen the political crisis it's clearly a political maneuver against directed against governments on the right in the group of fisa grab it's a threat to paul want to the czech republic to slovakia to hungary to austria which has elected the prime minister on the right. that's made the alliance with the right so clearly the european commission is getting weaker and the day to drawn thing take the wrong decision this will lead to a split within europe that will go much deeper. bitcoin is a rollercoaster ride over the past week the trip to currency hit a record twenty thousand dollars because by the weekend before sliding back down to under seventeen thousand on tuesday i discussed its ups and downs with max kaiser host of artie's kaiser report and dr jack rasmus economics professor at st mary's
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college in california. not going to be the currency of the future because the central banks will start issuing on digital currencies before it's threatens the money supply but it is definitely out of the speculative bubble big crimes and all the krypton's are a commodity play much like gold in fact there are second a lot of money capital investment out of the gold market. and it is a speculative play and i think it's going to go higher but it is a speculative bubble and the key question is will it pose some sort of danger to the financial markets in general and that that's a possibility what's driving the action a big point is people who are looking for a store of value and escaping the u.s. dollar which is the tulip bulb of our era the stock market and bond market are the tulip bulbs of our era the to the pub of sixteen thirty was driven by highly leveraged transactions that's what gave us tulip ball many of sixteen thirty
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because it is the opposite of that margin buying in retail buyers in japan are driving this market it's not there the nerds in the u.s. and whenever you did extreme margin buying and then that is about all the same and you're going to get a lot of volatility and it's going to collapse no it's not a fall it's a fact most of this distrait is look at now and the japan financial forty has legitimize this and the c b n c c b o a n c m e r legitimizing this and the hedge funds are jumping into this and you're going to get eighty apps and you're going to need t.f. is one of the things that drive in the stock market right now and passive in the index investing and when you get e.t.f. the coins with the volatility are you going to get a psychological effect of atheists collapsing in bed coin and it could spill over to the stock market and bond market e.t.s. that's a contagion channel and that's a big risk the banks are going to try and deregulate or change it into something
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that they can control because we've heard the french and german finance minister is calling for a deeper. at the g twenty summit for regulation a bit court are they going to try and make it something they can handle they can try but they'll fail because there's no way to stop it it's unstoppable there's nothing they can do to stop the adoption growth acceptance of big oil as a store of value as a currency and as a unit of account that's the history you all right that today thanks for staying with r.t. to nationalise same to my colleague mickey everybody here with the very latest news at the top of the hour. apply to many clubs over the years so i know the game and so i got. the ball isn't only about what happens on the pitch for the final school it's about the passion from the families.
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