the iran and syria combine so that you know it is a bubbling cauldron of hatred and anti democracy. president trump threatens to cut to aides to united nations members who vote against america's decision to recognize jerusalem as israel's capital these ideas is it dangerous to stay here ok thank you wouldn't that our correspondent reports on the un dressed in ramallah as palestinians declare another day of rage against donald trump jerusalem. social media giant facebook is accused of abusing its monopoly in germany and of inappropriate collection effusive data. and flooding near putin says foreign intelligence services are ramping up their activities in russia trying to interfere in the country's internal affairs.

a very warm welcome you're watching r.t. international with mainak aaron good to have you with us this hour president trampin threatened to cut to aid to united nations members who vote in favor of a rhetoric 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 us while 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 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. the should be determined through a negotiated settlement between the israelis and the palestinians and a decision and actions which purport to the current term status of jerusalem have no legal effect to your any unilateral actions increase the risk of escalation because we support the just cause of restoring that youth menasha rights of the

palestinian people now the upcoming vote at the united 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 trump and 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 well turkey has hit back at what it calls threats from washington over the un vote ankara has called on its nato ally to change course. well that's a new day of rage is declared by palestinians and a fresh wave of protests hits the city of bethlehem.

mass demonstrations also took place in the west bank city of ramallah protesters reportedly threw molotov cocktails and stones that soldiers responded with rep of bullets tear gas maria for 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 to have been many days like this following the law trumps a 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 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 hundreds of protesters participating in today's the band again . now. the 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 from ramallah. now we'll check on 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 as i have read al hussain added there is a strong suggestion that the force used against the victim was excessive here's a look at the events surrounding his death.

with the list today my brother said to me while he was eating dinner with his 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 to do i want to die and rest from my. thoughts that i was with him yesterday when he fell as a martyr brain wanted out from the beginning he was shot to the head between these hours so i was behind the bushes grew chair behind and.

when i joined by political talk show host brian crabtree to discuss this further mr crabtree good to have you on the program now given the extreme hostilities we're seeing between is one of the palestinians right now how do you see the protests going from here was it going to develop. well we didn't expect this to go peacefully obviously the east jerusalem area sort of been taken away from the palestinians but i think this is part of the way president trump negotiates you take something away that is sort of assumed and then later in a negotiation he may give it back i don't think though it's really the united states place to decide what the capital of jerusalem is but i find it shocking that after three american presidents prior to trump said we need to move the embassy to jerusalem that such a move is creating such a disruption i mean that's our parag and in the united states just like israel

a country has the prerogative choosing its capital there's far too much outside pressure i think around the world united states has been guilty of this in the past of telling other countries how to run their own business and i create conflicts like this so why do you think jim did decide to recognize to resubmit the capital of israel especially when it's so obvious and apparent how damaging it would be for the peace process i think sometimes progress or the peace process sometimes requires breaking things down breaking it down and really kind of having rubble and picking it back up and putting it together listen we've not been able to make real good headway on this problem for decades now so i don't think there is a diplomatic solution that brings the israelis to the democratic nation you can't just negotiate with netanyahu and get it done you've got to get the people behind it and by contrast the palestinians haven't given much much headway this may seem toxic but in the end it might actually make progress i think that's what believes

whether it works out yet to be seen. what do you make of this latest development how the u.s. is so i can ing to cut aid to countries that condemn its decision on israel. well and the past several years we've had russia looking out for its own interests china as we should expect looking out for its own interest and the united states basically conceding our power to the world and this is a new day a new generation a lot of young people like it or not both inside and outside of our country and i think it's the right move listen we should be able to put our embassy where we should see fit just like israel should be able to declare its own bank capital and again there's a lot of political processes that play here but i think the president asserting that we're going to look out for our own interest is what america has been internally wanting for quite some time now why should i make an outright threat to the countries that lying in this way is going to have some effect on diplomatic relations it's dangerous is very dangerous and you know i don't know that i back it

fully i think it's an interesting thing happening here and it basically says if we're going to send these countries aid then you better have our back otherwise why are we sending you the money i mean i think the american people feel like that this money being sent to countries and africa and other places around the world why maybe desperately needed is a sort of bribery or a sort of ripping off of the american people and transferring wealth other parts of the world some of it's legitimate but if we're going to send money we should expect they have our back because we're giving him billions and billions of dollars and eight so if they're going to vote against this why would we write him a check of endorsement that's the viewpoint of the white house and i think many americans believe in that. brian crabtree political talk show host thank you for joining us on r.t. international and your christmas tree does look beautiful thank you very much you. are ten times more civilians may have been killed during the u.s. led operation to liberate the iraqi city of mosul than previously thought and

that's according to a new research by associated press the news agency obtained data from iraqi morgues as well as nongovernmental organizations is says that as many as eleven thousand civilians may have been killed during the nine month operation nearly a third of those were as a result of iraqi and coalition forces bombing the u.s. however acknowledges just three hundred twenty six deaths have has the details. 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 a smidgen we got a clue that three move children were killed there when i excluded them 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 an exploded bams strip by u.s. led coalition or iraqi jets nevertheless this count is ten times higher than the

official estimates we got from the iraqi government the u.s. led coalition or even the united nations to see the press says that 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 a new move in three hundred twenty or so deaths said clearly that it didn't have the resistance to send the best you can 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 count def timings and there were two paths for iraqi moves but the number itself is entirely surprising he's deemed to move salafis seem like a city of two million has been turned into this is a city of two million that is being leveled he speaks to rescuers this morning that

is still digging bodies out of muscle that say the city of memphis which suffered the worst of the fighting the worst of the battling is still largely rick and there's a smell that is humming misty for months and months and then he was has some clips from the reports we've sent from mosul over the last year injuries asked right. corpses cost this is the reality of war what you will likely haven't heard of is the smell it's noisy aging repulsive and it's everywhere the sort of smell that makes us in stink the sick the smell of 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 targeting the helicopter in turn over there six seven hundred meters away is the aftermath of an strike that hit minutes ago just before we got here no wonder. off to rule a city of corpses more i guess the of. from mosul iraq we spoke to mohammed circle the u.n. coordinator with the salaam 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 in me 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 taken syrian. schildt 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 they clearly indicate the targets of the weapon they were used by the u.s. usually is used on a wide areas and also if you use 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 there were tokens more neighborhoods this again the question is raised again why there's not as a thing. independents and instigation by the u.n. to look into how the operation has been handled. in modern iraqi kurdistan five people have reportedly been killed by security forces during anti-government protests thought that one hundred have been injured but demonstrators were demanding the resignation of the kurdish regional government the unrest started on monday when crowds attacks the headquarters of the region's political policies tensions have been increasing in iraq in kurdistan since its failed independence referendum in september which led to a swift retaliate and from baghdad. now facebook stands accused of collecting

excessive amount of amounts of excessive amounts of user data in germany we've got that story and more coming up after this short break. altie we have a great team we need to strengthen before the freefall world and you're better than a legend to keep it so i took it back. in ninety ninety two that must qualify for the european championships at the very last moment no one believed in us but we won and i'm hoping to bring some of that winning spirit to the r.c.c. . recently i've had a lot of practice so i can guarantee you that peter schmeichel will be on the best fall since my last will call on the road or three. thousand zero zero zero zero zero russia. twice

dr. no left left left more or less ok stop that's really good join me every thursday on the alex simon show and i'll be speaking to us of the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then. i. welcome back as a mere pittance has urged to russia's security services to create a safe barrier against foreign interference in the country's society and politics his comments come ahead of next year's presidential election and he's really trying to have that the south 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 you should know that there is a great responsibility on the intelligence services to put up a safe 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 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 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 if you use this data artie's piece all of the explain. 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 being attended by the social network and that is then being used to target adverts directly at them were mostly concerned about the collection of data outside facebook's social network and the merging of this data into uses facebook accounts 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 well it also comes as 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 gets information that way for facebook's part they say 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 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 buck in twenty fourteen what we won't expect from this report what 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 about doing things when it comes to their users personal data. russia will remain banned from the upcoming winter paralympics in south korea the i.p.c. the international paralympic committee will make a final decision on the russian team in late january just

a month before the competition starts artes and has to see a chicken and 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 a 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 well this comes after the international olympic committee banned

russia from participating in the twenty eight hundred winter olympics however clean athletes will be allowed to compete under 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 game starts but craig spence from the international paralympic committee doesn't believe this will have a negative impact on the russian team. but i think this decision by you see the first effects that. if anything gets to the charity for the bush paralympic committee to me to reinstate crisis here in time. you've got to understand that this is a situation that has been tossed upon us direction paralympic committee was suspended in august when sixty. five criteria to meet the clock is ticking the ball here is very much in the cost 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 but was it was just watching the put it on the power goes need strong support to move this huge pressure from the i.p.c. they're doing very well though i'd like to know what all those who have negative attitudes towards them towards or training camps to see how they train and why they have excellent results this has nothing to do with. what we have to hate your thoughts on the day stories so take it untouched by following us on facebook and twitter i'll be back in about thirty minutes with the headlines.

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a bank with virtually no support from democrats and even some republican opposition will he make a. for the final round former u.s. trading commissioner bart chilton and i will discuss and regulators have shot down trans canada request to edit its proposed route for the keystone x.l. pipeline in nebraska what happens next argue for funding tell it to listen now let's get to the day's top business and when. a judge in italy has officially ordered former oil executives to stand trial over a billion dollar bribery scheme the ruling which was handed down on wednesday requires the ex employees of oil dutch shell and any to stand trial on march fifth are being tried on allegations of aggravated international corruption regarding their role in a one point one billion dollars deal for a nigerian oil bloc in two thousand and eleven following the decision both companies released statements claiming their innocence but lobel witness and

finance uncovered which published a report connecting them to the scheme a day before the ruling came out said the nigerian people lost on over one billion dollars equivalent to the country's entire health budget as a result of this corrupt deal we welcome the prosecutor's efforts to bring this case to trial it will be the biggest corporate bribery trial in history and act as a warning to others who see corruption as a route for quick financial wins. saudi arabia is planning to put the billions of dollars it collected from a statewide corruption probe back into the economy in an interview on late tuesday with the wall street journal mohamed el don said whatever is going to be recovered will go to the treasury because it was taken from the treasury and then it will be used obviously in the years to come whatever is coming as part of the budget allocation he added that spending on certain sectors could get a boost from the recovered funds to earlier in the day the government announced

it's planned to spend two hundred sixty billion dollars next year including fifty one billion dollars toward. cation and thirty nine billion dollars for health and social development but still the kingdom is hoping to cut its budget deficit to seven point three percent of g.d.p. next year down from eight point nine percent of g.d.p. this year. earlier this week the national association of home builders released a report showing a jump in home builder confidence in december most economists expected the rate to remain unchanged so it was a welcome surprise but what does it mean for actual home ownership to discuss that further we're joined now by dr clifford rossi professor of finance at the smith school of business at the university of maryland dr ossie what's your biggest takeaway from this report how significant is it.