it was. president trump threatens to cut aid to united nations members who voted against america's decision to recognize to reduce the left as israel's capital to these ideas is it dangerous to say here it's ok think it wouldn't be our correspondent reports on the un rest 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 under the inappropriate collection of users data. and putin says foreign intelligence services are ramping up their activities in russia trying to interfere in the country's internal affairs.

for one welcome you're watching r.t. international with me becky aaron good to have you with us this hour our top story president trump passed threatened to cut aid to un members who voted in favor of a resolution condemning america's decision to recognize jerusalem as israel's capital. they take hundreds of millions of dollars and even billions of dollars and then they vote against us where 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 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 two states should be determined through a negotiated settlement between the israelis and the palestinians and a decision and actions which purport to hold to the current term status of jerusalem have no legal effect to your any unilateral actions increase the risk of escalation to conflicts we support the just cause of restoring that you from

a national 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 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 what it calls threats from washington over the un vote ankara has called on its nato ally to change course. or the us has a new day of rage is declared by palestinians and a fresh wave of protests hit the city of bethlehem.

the. demonstrations also took place in the west bank city of ramallah protesters reportedly threw mahler's of cocktails and stones at soldiers who responded with rubber bullets and tear gas but were 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 there have been many days like this following the tribes 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 the. announcement 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 these and again. now. the officer is talking to journalists saying we have to have to move his ideas is it dangerous to stay here ok thank you i did. and you can follow maria on twitter for her updates from ramallah. now will trip 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 ziad ryad al hussein 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.

yesterday 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 was a great one too that from the beginning he was shot to the head between these hours so i was behind the bushes grew chair behind and scapegoats.

we discussed the situation with the 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. as collation of this spiral of violence the question is whether the raw 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 this is the fact that people in the west bank has actually reached to the conclusion that nothing can change reality jews and a couple of the israeli state and 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 if things are getting out of control

they are the ones to lose. ten times more civilians may have been killed during the u.s. led operation to liberate the iraqi city of mosul and previous. the thought was according to new research by associated press the news agency obtains data from iraqi moved as well as nongovernmental organizations it 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 and twenty six deaths murkowski have has the details. the associated press says counties are going to be really out of date if you consider the people who have died as a consequence of the battle has been so just this morning we got a clue that three move children were killed there when the exploded bed detonated under the wreckage of

a 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 and 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 associated press says that if there was ninety eleven thousand civilian casualties through a three thousand 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 deaths it clearly didn't have the resume assistance and 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 body count def time these embraer with two paths for iraqi moves but the number itself is entirely unsurprising he's

being to move slowly seen where the city of two million has been turned into this is a city of two million that is being. but leveled. to rescue is this morning there is still drinking buddies out of mosul that say the city of mosul which suffered the worst of the fighting the worst of the bombing is still lives near a rock and there's a small town 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 as strikes corpses cross these 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 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 that targeting the helicopter in turn over their six seven hundred meters away is the aftermath of an ash strike that hit minutes ago just before we got here no wonder he's off to rule a city of corpses more i guess. from mosul iraq. facebook stands accused of collecting excessive amounts of user data in germany we've got the story and more coming up after this short break stay with us.

but i don't want to leave you on the idea that dropping bombs brings can use the chicken hawks forcing you to fight the battles that are going. to salt spreaders tell you that would be gossip the tabloids i fell. off of my eyes and tell

me you are not cool enough to buy their products. i'll call me along the border. welcome back but to me a putin has 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 was 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 because it was you know. there is a great responsibility only 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 a lot of our potent 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 market position in germany and have limitless collection of users data piece on 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 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 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 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 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 and of course if we do remember facebook bought. bought out what's up buck in twenty fourteen what we wouldn't 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 about doing things when it comes to their users personal data. russia will remain banned from the upcoming winter paralympics in south korea the international paralympic committee will make a final decision on the russian team in late january that's just a month before the competition starts and assess it reports 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 chang and twenty eighteen this leaves the russian athletes really holding their breath until more or less the last minute of their going to be able to participate in those 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 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 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 cleaner fleets will be allowed to

compete but 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. it is a decision to see the facts that. if anything it gives them an opportunity for the russian paralympic committee to me to reinstate crisis here in time. you've got to understand that this is a situation that has been forced upon us direction paralympic committee was just trying sixteen. fire right 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. 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 but it was it was just watching the put it 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 negative attitudes towards them towards our training camps to see how they train and why they have excellent results this has nothing to do with. hawkins and alan moore a sports host on capital f.m. joined kate partridge in the studio earlier to discuss the i.p.c.c. decision well there were only three options really available to the p.c. in this case which was lift about altogether 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 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 cannot have the russians competing until 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 so in terms of a clean nation this could mean anything by we've got very change of weather here in moscow at the moment so it could be that the roads are dirty we're just 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 just kind of a leap from one fact to reflect sort of. ten donation screen 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 they you know this is one way day can be included in society as mates it's great strides and two weeks ago they had to be lit big switch 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. be engendering that's just a few weeks before the actual event itself so that these athletes are neither 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 us lease to go and compete there 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 find out next month we'll have you both on the day stories by following us on facebook and on twitter other back in about thirty minutes with the headline.

join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics or business i'm showbusiness i'll see you then. the single most important social equalizer of our time the internet is under grave threat the decision by the federal communications commission essentially gives internet service providers the keys to the internet without net neutrality will be economic opportunity only widening for all.

greetings and salutations street smarts teaches us many things talk watchers and one of the most important is the use of the phrase or words trust me like when the used car salesman with the one gold tooth looks you in the eye with a smile and says trust me chances are you're probably going to drive off the lot in a death trap or any time the words trust me or trust us escapes the lips of politicians and corporations or your big brother now this week it appears that the old trust us routine is being dropped on anyone daring to question the powers that be the republicans new tax reform bill that was hustled through the us congress this week trust us is what us taxpayers are being sold even as many major u.s.

corporations of publicly announced that they have every intention to use their newly minted tax breaks for mergers acquisitions and stock buybacks which is the complete opposite of what trump and company promised that these corporations would use their tax breaks to create jobs and reinvest in the workforce corporations and c.e.o.'s hoarding money and feathering their nests i mean who could get apparently our elected officials who voted for this or are leaving us really just two choices either that they are in the pocket of the corporations definitely or are go lactic lee stupid most definitely. and if that's not bad enough the biggest trust me of the week has got to go to the good folks at the national institute of health and i h who decided on tuesday to lift the funding moratorium on genetically altering

dangerous infectious diseases to make them even more dangerous and infectious now why on earth would they do this you would ask. because according to the n h again a function style research could be vital in finding a cure to some of the most diabolical viruses like ebola or bird flu but many like harvard epidemiology just mark lipsitz warned that these studies have done almost nothing to improve our preparedness for pandemics yet they risked risk creating an accidental. just in time for the holidays so trust me when i say it's time to start watching the hawks. it looks like. it's like. at the bottom if you. like you know that i got. this.

week. well the one the hard science i wrote the. song. so money and pathogens is the top of the day to day top hot topic of the day today a little unsettling a little unsettling he would just like get out of the way this is how you get somebody. something. here you watch every zombie movie it start we were just trying to say no you aren't no you aren't that's always happening to put out. the walking dead people how this happened was actually you thanks to the bird flu there was a breakout of the bird flu back in seventy seven because one of the labs that was story and called you know in cold storage actually they said it was an accident that they got. to put this it got out of my lab was that it was my but i mean the

biggest question that's the biggest question on the table is is is you know the national institute of health you know health and you know is this. smar like you know is this like are they really going to put the pre the safety precautions in because the whole idea is that you genetically altered like the pathogen in order to make it even more violent and dangerous than a was in order to kind of been retrace the steps and be able to see how to create a cure of things like that but there is that human error there's a potential terrorist you know there's someone going nuts and saying hey i'm going to leisha's on the public there's a million different things bad mojo that can happen from something like this so i ask you guys should they have reinstated this potentially dangerous form of research it's i mean it's a very vague question at the end of a day like yes i don't know enough as you know enough server to say distinctly is it all dangerous i think there is a definitely a certain need and desire to study viruses on the other hand as you said we can

create these super viruses that can.