dependence parties to secure an absolute majority in catalan elections as polls close across the region catalonia the president has dubbed the vote the second round of the independence referendum. the u.s. suffers another blow for its recognition of jerusalem as the capital of israel but says the un general assembly overwhelmingly condemned the move. the use of the b. to obstruct the security council you show you feel that if we didn't even think. of the rights of palestinian people america will put our embassy in jerusalem this is bullying and it will not. in the vote over one hundred countries signal the heavy pressure from washington as the us president and ambassador both threatened un members voting against america.

for getting to my name is neil harvey this is r.t. international. the polls are closing right across catalonia in a vote that could impact the spanish regions independent spirit judging by the exit polls pro independence parties are set to secure an absolute majority in the regional election let's get an update now and cross over to spain who can speak to local journalist martin roberts who's been following events there working tell is there martin about the vote taking place. while seven passes have been trying to grab a share of votes cast by what looks to have been a record turnout this is all the more remarkable when you consider this elections are usually in fact held on sundays rather than on the working day like today it's

just the coming sunday of course is christmas eve so for that reason the authorities decided to bring the elections forward now catalyst pushed among who is the outgoing castle and president and is in self-imposed exile at the moment in brussels because in spain he faces rebellion charges and possibly up to thirty years in jail tweeted saying that he hopes that voters would demonstrate the same spirit they did on the first of october referring to a referendum on independence that was held in defiance of a bun by the constitutional court and here you can see how that went.

it's already people getting hurt and this is not the first greek people that this or that the earth taken from here by a number of people in the early hours of the morning. since it's too late. ok now these elections now these snap elections were called at the end of october when the catalan parliament unilaterally declared independence which prompted the central governments in madrid to dissolve the parliament and also to sign the regional carbon us now of course the international community will be watching these results very closely indeed to see whether the push for independence has increased whether it's remained stable or subsided and indeed whether that will stoke what has been a very tense situation and indeed the biggest challenge to spain's constitutional order since democracy was restored in one nine hundred seventy eight however the

i'm certain you see seems to you know likely to continue for several weeks now because no party has won a clear majority and while the pro independence parties together look as if they will have a majority no single party does have. a fifty one percent of the vote so we you know what it looks us to have several weeks of protracted negotiations before we even know who's going to form the government and before we know what policies they will try to pursue in future yes could be fascinating just look at the breakdown of the votes and just how close it is in indeed and it's a good point that thanks for bringing us up to date martin roberts local journalist reporting from spain. and the turnout is expected to be as high as eighty percent nevertheless many are frustrated that they've had to turn out yet again. they'll deal that got us now more i feel bad because in the first we were very excited about the referendum but now we see the spanish government has imposed elections on

us that are not the elections that we want to vote in and yet somehow we have been forced to vote because they have ousted a regional government and we want our form of government to be restored and not to be changed. university of barcelona economics professor policia told us that voting has been painful for people from catalonia remembering all the violence that occurred on referendum day it's been a sad the election in a sense because it's been done and they're very very sad succumb stances and. there are there are. not. very quiet conditions between the two blocs and these elections have been organized under our very extreme circumstances with two leaders of the penalties parties one in jail the other in brussels and so after a strong campaign of fear by this fine states after a lot of repression and economic threats with this high turnout.

in the final results my might be a little bit different seems that. things are very tight between the two blocks and then there's a small small little party that is immediately in the middle of the two blocks. united nations general assembly hearing has wrapped up in new york after voting on whether to condemn america's recognition of jerusalem as israel's capital and tensions at un headquarters got the use of the beat up struck to the security council and made i'm able to perform his duties and do decades of work of the international community but it is considered a blatant violation of the rights of palestine you've shameful that this meeting is even taking place must be resolved through negotiation between the two parties are un members. threatened or the other members this is bullying and this john boehner will not bow to the dock and your correspondent kill him or pin has been following

the general assembly hearing. the results are in one hundred twenty eight countries voted for the resolution with nine countries are voting with the united states to oppose it thirty five abstentions and another number of countries that did not attend the vote and did not formally vote now at this point we've heard some strong words from nikki haley in the lead up to the vote nikki haley took the floor in the general assembly hall and made some of these following comments this is nikki haley united states will remember this day in which it was singled out for attack in the general assembly for the very act of exercising our right as a sovereign nation america will put our embassy in jerusalem we're seeing even some a long time allies of the united states voting against it and voting for this resolution we saw members of nato european union countries that generally support the united states and agree with it in international bodies and decision making

entities they seem to have voted against it so now in the lead up to the vote nikki haley was very vocal saying that the united states would be taking names and we heard donald trump the u.s. president talking about how countries that voted in favor of the resolution may be losing foreign aid and assistance from the united states now a letter was circulated to one hundred eighty different countries by the united states that indicated that donald trump would quote take it personally the way countries voted at this upcoming vote. when we make a decision about where to locate our embassy we don't expect those we've helped to talk he tends to be a vote criticizing our choice the u.s. will be taking names. of those in favor of the draft resolution he reads it. goes against. us in favor well votes.

gainst. as you consider the vote i want you to know the president and the u.s. take this vote personally 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 so it appears that this is a repudiation of the united states largely also discuss the hearing with former un special rapporteur on human rights john do god he believes that such open pressure momus states to sway their vote is unprecedented. digital expectation was. about one hundred fifty states would go to table the resolution this really shows that the three made by the us administration did have some may in fact go to

restrict of the votes and it was the sea should i think there are two issues here one of course concerns the status of jerusalem i think we are now are inching a new era in which resorts to that mission. in a pretty subtle manner or in states to support a particular position but this is the first occasion in which a state a major member of the security council has resorted to search measures i do think that include be deportable united states we do carry through and through it's of this kind because they're called indicator states in future situations and give them a vote against the united states they do so there are. ten times more iraqi civilians may have been killed than previously thought during the u.s. led operation to liberate mosul for myself and scolding to new research conducted

by the associated press news agency obtained data from iraqi morgues as well as non-governmental organizations and said that as many as eleven thousand civilians may have died during the nine month operation nearly a third of these allegedly killed during u.s. led coalition bombing raids however just a fraction of that number has been acknowledged by the coalition. human rights group amnesty international has joined the call to investigate the liberation campaign and to reveal the true cost in terms of civilian death it added that the number cited in this report came to them as no surprise artie's marigolds there has visited the city of mosul both during and after the fighting. the associated press's bodycount surprise anyone who's actually been to mosul and who has seen what has happened to the city you can also argue that the death count that they've given it's become outdated already hours after they released their report we got

a cool from mosul from rescuers there saying that three more children had been killed when an explosive device buried in the wreckage of a house that they were playing on dead today to ease explosions happen almost every day rescuers tell us and this is a direct consequence of the battle of mosul itself nevertheless the body count is a semi official milestone in the in and of itself because the numbers we previously had from official sources from the u.s. led coalition iraqis even the u.n. was a tenth of that barely a thousand civilians and unrealistic numbers the associated press found that three to four thousand of those civilians killed in mosul died to ash strikes carried out by the u.s. led coalition and the iraqi air force the u.s. led coalition had previously claimed responsibility for a new movement three hundred or so civilian deaths saying that it didn't have the

resources to send investigators to look at every reported incident to see the press didn't always numbers out of a hat they cited various human rights agencies as well as an official body count counts that monitored events in mosul as well as with people from iraq the morgues but as i say this number is i'm surprised if you've been to most salafis and seen what a city of two million has been tending to injuries and corpses. this is the reality of war what you 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 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 and over the six seven hundred meters away as 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 rescuers 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's 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. three year old russian girl has been reunited with the family after she was found abandoned in iraq it's believed that the fears parents took it to the middle east when they joined islamic state the little girl was flown back to russia it turned out she was the cousin of a thinker and for a team helped to bring those two sisters back home in august with him or his audience. with. what the menu by now and as a book. i do think i thought of. this nation out of a way to get there when they thought their children and grandchildren had disappeared forever and sly mixtape devour spiegel while letting go very few too few. dejan for team a lost their father and they witnessed the death of their mother.

this was a mom i knew. 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. this summer since few years. persia players and after more than three months unbelievably saffir was spotted in an iraqi jail but. they're grateful to this man senator's subside b. who travel to iraq to handle the talks and paperwork. so sophie just arrived

sacked 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 since it is part of. that sort of set list. they're shifting the parcels. this civil authority until ziad and his team received a photo the first month or. so is the latest to an image of a new but. it turned out severe along with a woman who'd picked her up after a deadly mosul airstrike ended up in a prison with islamic state wives and widows the woman told of how severe 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 of the civil civility given the diversity yet it did.

this without all the dirty so that the trio can be together again on home soil the fact the man. who lives here. sophia fifty at the last to the. sufi is too young too shy or perhaps too traumatized to talk for now the other's company is there to put. these nods where 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 ilya train co r t. the pentagon has admitted it's conducting full scale military operations in yemen the revelations came in a statement by u.s. central command. u.s. forces have conducted multiple ground operations and more than one hundred twenty

strikes in twenty seventeen to remove key leaders and disrupt the ability of al qaeda in the arabian peninsula and ices in yemen to use ungoverned spaces in yemen as a hub for terrorist recruiting training and base of operations to export terror worldwide but is daniel hawkins brings us the broader picture of what's happening in yemen. a tripling of air strike numbers from twenty six the official confirmation of boots on the ground something many politicians have been keen to avoid mentioning to avoid bad publicity with the yemeni conflict raging for nearly three years now and spawning two u.s. administrations american policy has some more devolved since the first days of the war what we need to do is bring all the parties together and find a political arrangement it is not solved by having another proxy war fought inside of yemen now aside from massive arms sales to saudi arabia what began as logistical support and intelligence sharing as part of the saudi led coalition

moved to supporting operations in an advise and assist role drone of planes strikes now multiple ground operations the military involvement may have good intents on the surface comments in the sport of to harvest groups stabilizing a war torn country but as involvement has escalated the presence of terror groups has actually expanded now aside from the irony targeting militants allegedly allied to the saudi backed militias there's the question of a vicious circle air strikes and other military involvement in the region has led to terror groups capitalizing on precisely those sentiments among the populace which lead to heightened recruitment and support for jihadism just remember libya and syria and this actually comes from none other than members of the u.s. congress the civil war inside yemen has aided the enemies for which we actually have declared war against al-qaeda is getting stronger inside yemen

because as more and more of the country becomes becomes ungovernable because of this war al qaeda is moving into that territory isis against which we have not declared war but we are engaged in active military activity in the region against is getting stronger inside yemen two of these problems don't even touch upon the catastrophic humanitarian situation described by n.g.o.s as the worst in the world with mass civilian casualties famine and cholera spreading in the country. british foreign secretary has landed in moscow for talks with russian counterpart sergei lavrov anticipations hi is this is boris johnson's first visit to the country for five years but johnson's colleague warned him about the dangers that await chris bryant is concerned that johnson will have his food spiked is sleep deprived and his passions aroused by beautiful women johnson himself recently joined the russia bashing comparing the country with anti democratic and

militaristic spotter russia's foreign ministry brushed off the remarks. it's why do you call his claims comparing rationalists barna anti russian i think they're not directed at russia but against the british education systems it's an attack on its image of russia definitely wasn't harmed by this we just laughed and that's all. johnson earlier claimed that british politicians appearing on this channel are a scandal he seemed to be on the wherries own father just appeared here as a car of a suggested that the only way for britain's top diplomat to avoid being filmed by r.t. would be an invisibility hat. today . your because it. took. you to meet russia

today. the more gas goes to the one you want. to leave even. with the bigger share. with less than six months to go until the start of the football world cup in russia one astronaut's has come up with a pretty special way of celebrating the event. has been taking shots from space of past and future world cup cities they include rio de janeiro milan moscow and is own home town of samarra it's also working with somalia's local government to create a special calendar called planet football that will feature all of the stunning

nighttime images. had all of the work of itself on t. spoken exclusively to brazil legend pele the full interview will go on now this friday for now though just for you a quick preview. i saw my father he was with another players in my house two to loosen the game good that they didn't have to be then i saw my father with his friends i didn't understand as to why my father. because the only way they say to me ok mane them to go i made them. so you promised you'll fall that you would win a world cup one time that was a very bold statement for a nine year old's mike father going on one world cup before you. said my father brazil a world champions and it's your first world championship i want to know if my father my mother my parents in the present they knew about it but they wouldn't

have the time we wouldn't have strayed from just. the. we have to go outside we've got. somebody to make the connection but the connection sometime go out the. father we will walk the walk knowing seventy will come the brightest player in the world just like for you will. feel nervous i don't know what the new i can tell you. to give more. victories in my life you give it to me i cannot say goodbye as the last of us the men.

staying with us if you like your news on the go don't forget as always we're on facebook or on twitter and plenty more stories available on our website. across europe municipalities are taking their water supply back from private companies move to meet people in the cells with simple song alone even some company guests will elsewhere so they can find private companies to take over the utilities many by the telescope. allowed for mr gus he got me to buy them to pick him up to go. i've been this is

a stick with them now to put it on for you philip bill brought up locals are ready to stand up for the basic human right the access to water it's about water but it's also over much more than water it's about the hurt and the redistribution of all or whether purpose or debt downwards do you want or will. 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 anti democracy. hello

there i'm max kaiser this. guy's report. oh yeah. max you know there's one thing that you have been saying and quoted on many times and all the sort of financial media relating to bitcoin is that this black hole concept that. bitcoin is a black hole sucking in all these other investments and it is quite ironic that gold is kind of the result of those sort of universal forces universe the forces of the universe universal forces black holes explosion in exploding stars all that sort of stuff because you're black hole that is

called bitcoin black hole. black hole you know like and then all the rap to. that was on the koala drink and so drank on my black hole say hey buddy what's going on here is a bar a good rap song is a chart so. my you referred to. the chart from zero heads and it's going gold just going back to you know a few months into this year so you know it's only twenty seventeen. queen takes off gold falls remember when the queen hit one mr jonas of death this is called a crocodile if you get sucked into that you get. i.v. this the rest of the script. oh yes i'll give it to you for a because i'm. holding the script hostage so i'm taking over there is going to be no turning back at this toys. black hole so remember when

queen first passed the price of gold and that had been something that we had been waiting for for eight and a half years everybody in the bitcoin community has been had been waiting for will it ever hit the price of gold will they be one for a one and sure enough it hit that unlike september september october probably early september maybe the summer everything goes by so fast it's kind of like we're in parallel dimensions in the big space so it's now.