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the. president trump threatens to cut aid to united nations members who voted against america's decision to recognize jerusalem as its wells council. these ideas is it dangerous to stay here so it's ok thank you it is. 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 terminator and an inappropriate collection of uses data. and bloody may putin says foreign intelligence services are ramping up their activities in russia trying to interfere in the country's internal affairs.
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a very warm welcome you're watching r.t. international with me good to have you with us this hour our top story president trump has threatened to cut aid to united nations members who vote in favor of a resolution condemning america's decision to recognize to receive them as israel's capital they take hundreds of millions of dollars and even billions of dollars and then they vote against this what we're watching those votes lead a vote against us will serve 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 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 vote 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. should be determined through a negotiated settlement between the israelis and the palestinians and a decision and actions which purport to alter the current turn status of jerusalem have no legal effect any unilateral actions increase the risk averse. we support the just cause of restoring that it used to manage the rights of the palestinian people now the upcoming vote at the united nations general assembly is along
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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 or turkey have hit back at what it calls the width from washington over the u.n. . has called on its nato ally to change course with the. well that's not the new a day of rage is declared by palestinians and a fresh wave of protests hits the city of bethlehem.
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mass demonstrations also took place in the west bank city of ramallah protesters reportedly threw molotov cocktails and stones at soldiers who responded with rubber bullets and tear gas memory of the national 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 law trumps controversial decision to recognize jerusalem as the capital of israel palestinians as you know consider the eastern part of the holy city to be zero turturro and of course they have been encouraged dramatically by these announcements they have been violent protests all over the world among palestinians and those who sympathize with that and of course here in palestinian authority we hear that there are
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hundreds of protesters participating in today's event and again. now. this officer is talking to journalists saying that we have to have to move if this is our ideas is it dangerous to stay here ok thank you wouldn't. well you can follow maria on twitter for all of her dates on the situation in ramallah wiltshire 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 varied rare doll hussein added there is strong suggestion that the force used against the victim was excessive here's a look at the events surrounding his death. if it.
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were the live yesterday 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 and rest from life. that was was. worth it was it was i was with him yesterday when he fell as a martyr abraham wanted out from the beginning he was shot to the head between his eyes was behind the bushes below chair and i ducked behind him to escape the fire.
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that. it. was. that yet such that i cut well 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. slaves will.
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accept the orders of their masters so we go 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. as collation of this spiral of violence the question is whether the raw yachts 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 am sorry to mention this this is the fact that people in the west bank has actually reached to the conclusion that nothing can change reality jews are in the capital of the israeli state and those who are paid are
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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 more civilians a u.s. led operation to liberate the iraqi city of mosul than previously thought were searched by associated press and he's agency up taper a set. they a third of everything as a result of iraqi and coalition forces bombing the u.s. however acknowledges just three hundred and twenty six deaths broadcast you have has more details. the associated press is counties are going to be really out of date if you consider the people who have died as a consequence of the battle have been sold just this morning we got a clue that three move children were killed there were not excluded bed and
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detonated under the wreckage of the house that they were playing on and such exclusions are an everyday occurrence whether bams left behind by isis or unexploded bombs dropped 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 books by the u.s. led coalition. the rocky air force previously the u.s. led coalition said that it was responsible for movement three hundred twenty or so deaths said clearly that it didn't have the resistance to send the best if you just look at every reputed 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
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there were two paths for iraqi moods but the number itself is entirely surprising if you've been to most alive you seem what a city of two million has been turned into this is a city of two million that is being leveled he stoops 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. that is hummer city for months and months on end. as some clips from the reports we've seen from mosul over the last year injuries astronauts corpses. 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 instinct sick the smell of
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rotting bodies this is what rescuers have collected just this morning three suspected isis fighters 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 the 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
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when we spoke to mohammad circle un coordinator with the salon for democracy and human rights group he told us high rates of civilian casualties were inevitable as the coalition made indiscriminate use of weapons in densely populated civilian areas. the last report by the un in me has addressed six thousand they were killed by a terrorist group by isis let alone by the numbers by the coalition groups especially against civilians because as you stand most of the terrorist groups who were hiding within the civilians houses or to consider. shields not doubt. their weapons are being used by the coalition especially by the us army is does not discriminate between civilians or terrorist or by civilians or the isis because they used. a number of weapons but does not.
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such a terrorist as you stand this is a terrorist groups not an army where they clearly indicate the targets of the weapon they were used by the us usually is used on a wide areas and also if used if you look at the mosul 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 rows that were taken small neighborhoods this again the question is raised again why does not of the thing. independence and instigation by the un to look into how the operation has been handled meanwhile in iraqi kurdistan five people have reportedly been killed by security forces during anti-government protests a further one hundred have been injured the demonstrators were demanding the resignation at the kurdish regional government and to corruption the only rest
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darted on monday when crowds attacked the headquarters of the region's political parties tensions have been increasing in iraq of kurdistan as its failed independence referendum in september which led to. swift from. facebook stands accused of collecting excessive amounts of the user data in germany we've got that story and more coming up after this short break. most of us when you don't. seem to. get a court. what are the most. space to. make. me . claiming to know german to see that. you speak french. that same year
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the. new. busy signal to. join me every thursday on the alex i'm i'm sure i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics or business i'm sure business i'll see you then. welcome back but they may appear to and has urged russia's security services to create a safe barrier against foreign interference in the country's society and politics
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his comments come ahead of next year's presidential election obviously trying to has the details. lot of our program in his speech was talking to those who work in intelligence and security this wednesday is a professional holiday for these people in russia in fact the russian security service is marking 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 as you know. there's a great responsibility on the intelligence services to put up a barrier against external middling you know 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
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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 the strings but in this case a lot of our 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 have an appropriate collection of these this day so i think peter all of a 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 slammed facebook saying that its users have no idea and have given no consent for the levels of data from them which is
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being tainted by the social network and that is then being used to target adverts directly at them we're mostly concerned about the collection of data outside facebook's social network and the merging of this data into uses facebook accounts were not convinced the users have given their effect of consent to facebook's data tracking and merging of data into their facebook account well 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 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
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dominate the social media remit here in germany as far as facebook a concerned there are alternatives that are met if there wasn't alternatives only then would they be dominating it's put across what we are seeing and what we have seen 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 that's after they shared their users data with facebook of course if we do remember facebook bought. bought out what's up back in twenty fourteen what we expect from this report when it's published in full in the summer is 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
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about doing things when it comes to their users personal data. russia will remain to remain banned from the upcoming winter paralympics in south korea the i.p.c. of the international paralympic committee will make a final decision on the russian team in late january just a month before the competition starts our season as to see a turkey now has the details the international paralympic committee here in london has announced their decision to maintain the suspension of the russian paralympic committee when it comes to the upcoming games and can chang in twenty eighteen 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 for sports russian athletes are going to be able to qualify in advance under
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a neutral flag which is quite important and those sports include cross-country skiing alpine skiing snowboarding and by offline it has been said that five criteria are still not being matched by russia for the russian paralympic committee to be reinstated this comes after the international olympic committee banned russia from participating in the twenty eighteen winter olympics however clear enough leitz will be allowed to compete and a neutral flag as we heard the final decision about russia's participation in the paralympics will be made in late january not long before the games start but craig spence from the international paralympic committee doesn't believe this will have a negative impact on the russian t.v. . but i don't think it is a decision to see first assess that. if anything gives them an opportunity for the russian paralympic committee to me to reinstate crisis here in tire. you've got to understand that this is a situation that has been forced upon us the russian paralympic committee was just
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trying sixteen. fire and here to meet the clock is ticking the box here is very much in the cards of the russian paralympic committee and the russian authorities. most of. 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 there was just much in the put on the power goes need strong support to move this huge pressure from the p.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. early r.t.
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that daniel hawkins and alan moore sports host on radio capital f.m. during my colleague kate partridge in the studio to discuss the i.p.c.c. decision well there were only three options really available to the to the r.p.c. in this case which was lift about all together maintain status quo which is what's happened or perhaps go for a third option of allowing athletes of prove their claim to participate under flag as the 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 completing it 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
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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 with it makes no sense whatsoever and i think that mr craven he's been well 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 discomfort to sleep 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 is 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 compete to scores and partly because. this is one we can be included in society has made his
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great strides in two weeks who had an ex which basically was the biggest ever gathering of people. who are invalids in russia where they came from all over russia to take part in your work work 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 well. b. in general you know that's just a few weeks before the actual event itself so that these athletes are here nor there to be trained to be prepared to supply it and we will go under a neutral flag or what's going to happen and it's affecting athletes really a decision may well be taken that will allow that athletes to go and compete neutrally certainly this is a psychological burden for those athletes you know will it be allowed to attend those games at all should they be training for those games it's something we'll
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find out next month and i would love to hear your thoughts on the day stories they do get in touch by following us on facebook and twitter other back in about thirty minutes with the headlines us either. you know the palestinians have used the united nations as a weapon of war against the future of peace both for palestinians and israelis the united nations general assembly has passed more resolutions against the democratic state of israel that it has against north korea and iran and syria combined so that you know it is a bubbling cauldron of hatred and prosy. level
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