take hundreds of millions of dollars and even billions of dollars and then they vote against us while we're watching those approach the u.n. general assembly is holding an emergency session on donald trump's decision to recognize jerusalem as israel's capital as the us president and ambassador both threaten u.n. members to vote against america. a new report claims ten times more iraqi civilians may have been killed in the campaign to liberate mosul from islamic state and previously sources. and a three year old russian girl is returned home after being taken to iraq by her parents when they joined islamic state.

cartridge and you're watching the latest headlines here totty international thank you for joining us now the united nations general assembly hearing is under way discussing the move to condemn america's recognition of jerusalem as israel's capital announced by donald trump two weeks ago let's listen to israel's ambassador how many times. for the palestinians to join us in dialogue how many times over these calls for peace have been rejected all of us. all of us have lost ground. when i mean. offered the palestinians a state in two thousand we were met with suicide bombers or our buses in the shootings in our streets in two thousand and five by mr sharon disengaged from gaza

removed everything go israeli home you will not find any thetan meant any occupation in gaza anymore since then we have been attacked again and again with the walkouts and missiles aimed at our civilians yet this body was silent. the united states simply stated a fact they officially declared what i've always been through jerusalem have been and always will be the capital of the state of israel. those. two days with pollution i like puppets. you are puppets pulled by the strings or you are palestinian masters you are like marionettes forced to dance while the palestinian leadership looks on with

glee you are blind to the life and i will of the manipulation surrounding you just like a puppet this vote you've nothing more than a performance of delusion the palestinians no beef with illusion is a fraud they know this with illusion that absolutely nothing for the lies of the palestinian people they know it won't create jobs for their people they know it won't provide better health care for the people of or gaza no this revolution is nothing more than a distraction all it will do. if they're the palestinians they can continue rejecting peace in if you vote for it you are sanctioning that view.

i think those brave countries that do not support this with illusion you have not fallen prey to the puppet show before us you are the defenders of real peace you are the leaders who prove that no un with pollution can rewrite the story because when a un resolution designates even the various presidents in power over jerusalem as illegal in reality you designate the presence of the jewish people at their western wall as easy legal. mr president for thousands of use jews are going to paschal axis over even banned completely from the western world other nations kingdom than empires that occupied jerusalem over the centuries had no respect for freedom of religion but when either

or was founded with stablished a strong democracy i would be mocked what he's based on individual freedoms one of those freedoms either freedom of religion. and all of these you later i would democracy and our commitment to go through them and continue to survive we know jews alone we think aired to billions around the world israel we suspect all religions and encourages everyone to visit and pray in the holy city. mr president there is a particular i wene with today's with solution countries that sponsor two days of aleutian accuse the united states and israel of violating international law countries like yemen where the terror

groups like al qaida and isis find fertile ground the irony continues in every other scenario this body which is human rights in peace but not when it comes to israel in fact you completely ignore all the if it acts of terror all that threaten these very citizens these past two weeks alone i've seen twenty three rocket attacks by hamas into israel we heard nothing from the un no security council meeting no emergency session of the general assembly nothing. the p.a. threaten violence and days of rage by the u.n. had no condemnation mr president let me be clear violence and

terror must never be tolerated if this body we really are now headed for peace it would pass it with aleutian condemning palestinian violence. this with aleutian only encourages more violence and instability it encourages the palestinian leadership to continue on these dangerous path. you permit them to pursue violence in the name of jerusalem this city of peace. mr president. the country we return to home after thousands of you then eg though we made it there the end defended their own country from countless attacks forty you have a goal this body you do the general assembly lives by the idea that different

shameful revolution it equated value only them with the very theme you took long use for that hateful with illusion to be revoked. i have no doubt when i was down a day in the israeli ambassador to the u.n. meanwhile the palestinian foreign minister also spoke strongly against donald trump's decision while u.s. ambassador nikki haley says america's move should be respected the use of the veto . obstructed the security council and made it an able to perform astute is in maintaining international peace and security despite the fact that for. one member states of the council supported the draft resolution tabled by egypt when we make generous contributions to the un we also have a legitimate expectation that our good will is recognized and respected.

for more on this we can now cross live trying new york correspondent caleb warping is there to discuss the hearing so caleb can you sum up what's actually been said so far. well the the eyes of the world at this point are on the u.n. general assembly hall now the meeting opened with yemen presenting the resolution condemning the recent move by the united states to recognized as israel's capital and we then heard from the palestinian foreign minister the representative of the palestinian authority who called out the usa for being isolated in this position and saying that even its closest allies are turning a blind eye and from there we did hear from the israeli representative the israeli representative as you just heard he said that jerusalem was israel's capital and he spoke very critically of palestinian leadership accused those who would vote in

favor of the resolution of being quote puppets of the palestinians now in the lead up to this vote which is taking place so we've heard some interesting words from u.s. president donald trump as well as from nikki haley there's been talk of cutting off aid to countries that would vote for the resolution condemning the united states nikki haley says that she'll be taking names of countries and how they vote let's take a listen to what nikki haley the u.s. ambassador has said. when we make a decision about where to locate our embassy we don't expect those we've helped to target terrorists on thursday they'll be a vote criticizing our choice the us will be taking names. resulting in favor of the draft resolution please raise your hand.

there's against. team foods in favor one vote against. as you consider the vote i want you to know the president and the us take this vote personally and he will be watching this vote carefully and has requested i report back on those who voted against us thank you for your consideration. it's the right thing to do it is absolutely the right thing to do. now as you just saw in recent days there was a vote at the u.n. security council around a similar resolution that was introduced by egypt and that vote was fourteen to one with the entire security council voting against the united states and the usa shooting down the resolution as a permanent member of the security council well that vote was fourteen to one now in the lead up to the vote now taking place at the general assembly as the meeting

proceeds in the lives of that vote we've heard the foreign minister the president of turkey rather we've heard him saying mr trump you can't buy turkey's democratic will that was arrow on turkey's president and we've also heard many countries around the world stating their intention to vote for this resolution condemning the united states so many analysts many of the observers are essentially anticipating another vote that would be like what took place at the security council with the world kind of standing in opposition to the united states at the u.n. security council a similar resolution was voted down fourteen to one and people are expecting a similar results from the vote that's taking place today so all eyes are on the u.n. security council as we hear speeches in the lead up to the voting all eyes are on the u.n. general assembly as we hear speeches in the lead up to the voting on this resolution condemning the recent move by donald trump on jerusalem you cannot realize what

will not voters kind of move in in new york thank you very much. joining me now live to discuss this hearing further is nor a former spokeswoman for the palestinian government no thank you very much indeed for waiting for me so we had ben from nikki haley be u.s. ambassador come up with that key threat that she said before which is money isn't it that's a look at her quote she says washington will use money for more productive aims than spend money on the u.n. if anyone votes against the u.s. we want to make of that. well i mean i think it's unfortunate that the united states finds itself under this kind of leadership which is undermining the standing of this country internationally the international community did not create the united nations because that was a luxury it created this body following two bloody world wars in order to prevent chaos and war in order to make sure that international law is is respected

and that countries act in accordance with the law the united nations of the united states was a major contributor not because not just because it was generous but also because under the u.n. charter the contribution of states is stipulated in accordance with their g.d.p. the fact that nikki haley is threatening to derail the entire organization puts the united states in confrontation with the entire world i'm not sure looking in retrospect what american historians will make of this they will make of this statement then of this administration which if it intends to make america great again i definitely sure it's going about it the wrong way what the palestinian foreign minister himself he said threats what what he said but do you think any of the member states will respond to threats. well i mean i've been there might be a few countries that would abstain instead of vote in favor but all expectation is

that this resolution will achieve a very solid and sizable majority and look the vote today is not just about jerusalem this is not about the palestinians and palestinian rights and the status of jerusalem this is about the international community protecting itself protecting the standing of international law protecting the integrity of the united nations because if countries acquiesce to the u.s. and if they accept being punching bag for the american administration and voting in accordance with directives from nikki haley then what's the point of having the united nations that's what the countries have at stake today and that's why the vote today is so decisive not just because the resolution under consideration is in line with international law there is absolutely no reason for any member of the united nations to vote against this resolution because even the text of the

resolution is based almost exclusively on language that was previously adopted by the security council there's nothing controversial about this resolution the only controversy that the u.s. is imposing on the united nations is that this resolution this language that international law in fact stands in opposition to the current american administration's position which is undermining the very prospects of feet peace as we as we saw very evident from the speech of the israeli representative and very briefly no if i can to ask you one final question what can we expect after this general assembly meeting. well sorry i didn't hear that after this general assembly meeting after this hearing what can we expect next how do we go forward. well i think from the palestinian perspective this is just the beginning of the road there will be several steps with the international community one to lobby countries especially at the european in the european union to recognize palestine

and create a balancing force to the american position back nice palestine on land occupied in sixty seven including east jerusalem to move forward in the international fora to also protect palestinian rights and hold israel accountable there are several things that are now being discussed in leaderships circles about you know concrete steps whether to go to the i.c.c. first or to. go to other international fora before the i.c.c. so several things are on the table but definitely keeping this international consensus maintaining this international solidarity and building on that politically to protect the prospects of two states is extremely or is to leave it that noida former palestinian government spokeswoman thank you very much for your thoughts thank you. ten times more iraqi civilians may have been killed than previously thought during the u.s.

led operation to liberate mosul from myself that's according to new research by the associated press the news agency obtained data from iraqi morgues as well as long governmental organizations it says as many as eleven thousand civilians may have been killed during the nine months operation nearly a third of these allegedly tonight during u.s. led coalition bombing raids however just a fraction of that number is acknowledged by the coalition. human rights group amnesty international has joined calls to investigate the liberation campaign and reveal the true cost in civilian deaths it added the number cited in this report come as no surprise but i guess the it has visited the city of mosul during and after the fighting. see the presses body count surprise anyone who's actually been to mosul and who is seen what has happened to the city you can also argue that the death count that they've given become outdated already hours after they released their report we got

a call from mosul from rescuers there saying that three more children had been killed whether lickspittles of devices buried in the wreckage of a house that they will play a lot detonated these explosions happen almost every day rescuers tell us that this is a direct consequence of the battle of mosul itself nevertheless the peace body count is a semi official milestone in and of itself because the numbers we previously heard from official sources from the u.s. led coalition iraqis even the u.s. was a tenth of that barely a thousand civilians in realistic numbers the associated press around that three to four thousand of those civilians killed in mosul died two where strikes carried out by the u.s. led coalition in iraq. air force the u.s. led coalition had previously claimed responsibility for no more than three hundred or so civilian deaths saying that it didn't have the resources to send

investigators to look at every reported incident susi the press didn't always numbers out of a hat they cited various human rights agencies as well as an official body count accounts that monitored events in mosul as well as with tip offs from iraq he morgues but as i say this number is i'm surprising if you've been to mosul if used and seen what a city of two million has been tending to 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 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. the helicopter went. over this six seven hundred meters away the aftermath of. that hit minutes ago just before we got here this was a city of two million that had been. annihilated during the nine months of the battle of mosul the rescue as we talked to tell us that the city the city the old city of mosul that bore the brunt of the fighting in the devastation it still reeks of decaying bodies thousands and thousands of corpses still buried under rubble

mixed with them or explosive devices that continue to claim people's lives. a three year old russian girl has been reunited with her family after she was found abandoned in iraq it's believed his parents took out of the middle east when they joined eisel after the little girl was flown back to russia it turned out she was the cousin of the year and a team r.t. helped bring these two sisters back home in august artes in a bitter anger as we're. busy i should like to take out that mud over as it was that movie was a chimp it did throw me over as it were the menu bar none doesn't work i thought. i did it got the size that inflamed so if they show another late let's go to their menu they thought their children and grandchildren had disappeared forever islamic state devoured speedball while letting go very few too few. to d.j. for team a lost their father they witnessed the death of their mother mum approach

it cleaned. up again this good mom or was it just so. this was a mom i knew only a mom or dad. but the girls were incredibly lucky to even be found sent back to southern russia and reunited with their grandparents that's what they call a miracle. but someone else was still missing. the summer session year. the persian rose there was still and after more than three months unbelievably syfy a was spotted in an iraqi jail. they're grateful to this man senators. who travel to iraq to handle the talks and paperwork. so sophie just arrived back in russia from iraq months

after her cousins were already reunited with her grandparents so we're going to try and see if we can talk to the person who made it possible and sophia herself liverpool misfit in front of. it that's a tough set list. nationally if this was the see this simple letter was never heard until ziad and his team received a photo it's nothing. what so here is noticed an image of a new what they mean is that it turned out so feel long with the woman who picked her up after a deadly mosul airstrike ended up in a prison with islamic state wives and widows the woman told of house of feel as mother had been buried under the mosul rubble arranging the girls' release and handover was tough to say the least it took over a month the papers were signed on a very special day for the sadness of that would you consider that the us and yet

it did. this without all the thirty or so that the trio can be together again on home soil effectively. leave them here sophia to see if the last of the. sufi is too young too shy or perhaps too traumatized to talk for now so the this company is going to put. a team of the police and. these nods were the only reaction from sophia so far a tiny gesture but a big sign she feels the future will be bright and filled with love you have to train co r t. twitter's regional vice president has revealed she believes it's no longer possible to stand up for speech at a british parliamentary hearing she was grilled over how effectively tech giants battle hate speech and extremist online content put it was in

a place where it believes that it's you know the most effective antidote to bad speech was good speech it was you know it was very much a job security and philosophy we've realized that the world that we live in has changed it's no longer possible to stand up for all speech in the whole that ultimately society will become a better place because racism will be challenged or over for we will be challenge or extremism we challenge. well this is in stark contrast with the corporations previous philosophy in twenty twelve twitters then general manager in the u.k. said the company's leadership likes to think of the platform as the free speech wing of the free speech party. for more on this let's go live to george bard a political activist and so short just as campaigner hi there george well let's have a listen to this philosophy then was all about free speech i mean why do you think this change in twitter's philosophy springs from. i think because the likes of twitter and facebook are some very complicated lee in between

a kind of neutral platform like the internet as a whole and news providers and as they have more and more power over the. vehicles via which people understand the world there is increasing pressure to make sure that particular kinds of sort of hateful material on there you know in the same way is you know you tube is under pressure constantly to remove you know videos of people being beheaded or child abuse videos or whatever there is a kind of. line that is difficult to place between you know violent speech and hateful speech and kind of violent and hateful imagery and there are no there are no clear boundaries between those two things and there is pressure from from within governments and from within the you given the platforms probably learn from previous experience i mean the fact that it's naive to think that racial slurs extremism in any kind of extremist thinking can be battled by people simply combat

it by pointing out that it's wrong is a case of they've learned from past experience. yeah and i think certainly there is an element of. you know the powers that be focusing on the messenger rather than the message you know i think i personally would far rather we spend more time in gauging with why it is the there is such a sort of epidemic of extremism in terms of increasingly sort of divided and you know bitter and angry society and i think you know the concentration of wealth and power that leads to a kind of divide and rule philosophy where the powers that be benefit from making sure that different groups kind of hate each other is very much part of that picture. but i think it certainly is a political activist i know that friends of mine frequently just sort of. have their facebook pages shut down for no good reason and this kind of thing you know happens all the time and doesn't get any kind of or twitter accounts that i don't doesn't get any of the kind of attention that some of the more kind of obvious

examples of you know there's some some obvious examples of hate speech get for instance so the horrible phrase phrase filthy jew bitch featured in the home affairs select committee discussed and this was a. tweet that had already been highlighted by the authorities in this country and twitter it said it would take down and then it still appears appeared to be that so these are complex questions in terms of you know these companies not wanting to spend the money perhaps to hire more people with their kind of generally jobless profit model. to make sure that stuff is obviously hateful and one would rather not see isn't there but then there is a huge problem with the heart you know horrible examples being used to justify removing really important dissident content and of course from the point of view of of the powers that be making sure that the internet isn't an effective resource for alternative and important views that expose the nature of power and corruption and exploitation is very much in their in their interests and as an activist i'm very

concerned that this stuff these things are you. used as an excuse to shut down important political voice ok george brought a political activist and social justice campaign or leave it there and apologise trav years if i found any of those terms offensive. now for more on our stories please go to dot com name one at the top of the hour my colleague neil harvey will be here with the latest headlines for me. is what a company is a profitable public firm that supplies cheap water has a more than a half a million households a small percentage five point four six is already owned by the french multinational suez. what it was like oh my goodness where is there is no civics and the use of force under the stars so your message really bot.