why. and. her independence party looks set to keep their absolute majority in the council and parliament a result that would likely lead to renewed political conflict with the spanish government the live pictures we're showing you now as a former counselor needed collars used in. the u.s. stuff is a stinging rebuke over its recognition of jerusalem as israel's capital as the un general assembly overwhelmingly vote to condemn the move. the use of the veto obstructed the security council to pull the meeting even be a. violation of the rights america will put our embassy in jerusalem.

and the vote over one hundred countries ignore the intense pressure from washington as the us president and ambassador both threaten u.n. members voting against america. a very warm welcome you are watching r.t. international with mina karen good to have you with us this hour now preliminary results from the catalan regional election indicate that pro independence parties all set to keep their absolute majority in parliament but are projected to win seventy out of one hundred thirty five seats the pro unity citizens party meanwhile took around twenty five percent of the vote although that makes it the single most popular party the unionist parties together that will only have fifty seven seats the official results will be announced on the fifth of january his journalist

martin roberts with more details. seven parties in the elections are vying for votes cast by record turnout and this is all the more remarkable when you consider that elections were held on a working day like today rather than the usual some day although this year holding them on a sunday would have meant conflicting with christmas eve so central authorities decided to bring the elections forward a few days the uncertainty seems likely to continue for several weeks now because while the three or four it pro independence parties do have a majority between them no single policy has anything like a majority of the folks and indeed they didn't even campaign together now cratylus puts them on the outgoing first minister of qatar the new who at the moment is in self-imposed exile in belgium because in spain he faces charges of rebellion and a possible jail sentence of up to thirty years tweeted to say this he hoped that voters would demonstrate the same pro independent spirit as they did when they turned out to vote in a referendum on independence held on the first of october now that was in defiance

of a constitutional court ban as you can see it may very violent resistance indeed from the authorities and the police. but. i. think. i. also agree that people are living in fear and this is not the first three people did this or that the earth taken from here by over thirty people in the early hours of the morning because in this incident it's too late now the central government called the snap elections when it decided to dissolve the council and parliament in late october hours after it unilaterally declared independence. meanwhile also

sacking the regional government now the international community is going to be paying very close intention indeed to this because of the kind of tension that we've seen in recent weeks and the violence that we've just seen. it to see whether the push for independence has increased whether it's remained stable or subsided because this is the biggest threat to spain's constitutional order since the country returned to democratic government in one nine hundred seventy eight so the best we heading for several weeks of protests reach a deal then their actions will just have to say it looks like we're going to have several interesting weeks ahead of us despite the high turnout to many people who voted for interment to be restored and not to be changing. the united nations general assembly hearing was wrapped up in new york after voting on whether to condemn america's recognition of jerusalem as israel's capital and tensions flared at the u.n. headquarters. the use of the beat ups truck to the security council and made unable

to perform his duties and do decades of work of the international community it is considered a blatant violation of the rights of palestinian people and you've shameful that this meeting is even taking place must be resolved through negotiation between the two parties are un members they threatened all the other members only and this jumble will not bow to the road out. of course but it 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 now a number of countries that don't normally see eye to eye on international issues

came together saudi arabia and iran regional rivals voted together to condemn the united states and israel furthermore we saw in north korea and south korea two other countries that don't tend to get along voting together we're seeing even some longtime 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 it tends to be a vote criticizing our choice the u.s. will be taking names. in favor of the draft resolution piece reads it. those against. team foods in favor one vote against. 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 by the international community one

hundred twenty eight countries around the world voted against the united states and against its decision to move the embassy to jerusalem this is a condemnation of the united states by the international community in big numbers we also discussed the herring with former un special rapporteur on human rights john doe guard he believes such open pressure on member states to sway their vote is unprecedented. digital expectation was. about one hundred fifty states would go to the resolution this really shows that the streets made by the us administration did have some growth in restrictor of the votes and it was the. 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

a major. resort to blackmail and broad green order to secure votes in the general assembly. obviously in most cases try to bring pressure used in a pretty subtle manner or in states to support a particular position but this is the first occasion on which a state a major member of the security council has resorted to sochi measures i do think. it's united states were to carry through and through it's of this kind because they're called indicator states in future situations or give a vote against the united states they do so. ten times more iraqi civilians may have been killed than previously thought during the u.s. led operation to liberate knows that from it i still that's according to new research by the associated press that is agency obtained data from iraqi morgues as

well as long governmental organizations is that as many as eleven thousand civilians may have been killed during the nine month operation nearly a third of the the allegedly died during u.s. led coalition bombing raids however just a fraction of that number if acknowledged by the coalition here when rights group amnesty international has joined calls to investigate their liberation campaign and we're feel the true cost of in civilian death did the numbers cited in this report come as no surprise where i go after the fighting. he who has seen what has happened to the from mosul from rescuers they're saying that three more children had been killed when an explosive device buried in the wreckage 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 in the iraqi air force the u.s.

led coalition had previously claimed responsibility for no more than three hundred or so civilian deaths reported incident susi the press an official borgs but as i say this number of injuries astra corpses. this is the reality of war what you 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 women and. that's an iraqi. launching missiles. at isis targets in and you can hear before we got here this was a city of two million that had been. annihilated during the nine months of the

battle of mosul rescue as we talk 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. the u.s. justice department continues to insist that out she is facing no substantial reporting restrictions in america left by the child. forced to register as a foreign agent back in november we examine the claim after this point. that it connected at good to have you with independence party and we had

a spanish it's over and over again what happens. in public or stopping the use of the dependent this one it's an extraordinary moment for democracy in europe but also it's a reaction to that we can expect right now i think the problem is that the madrid government and the madrid media are as or have gone through all of the tools in their tool box they've used violence used media demonisation they tried to ban the color yellow they've tried to go after the cattle and autonomous t.v. stations simply for calling people. calling the president a president exile and i don't know what are their tools they have left certainly what we've seen up until now is that negotiation is not one of their tools and sadly negotiation is the only tool the good of it all of this off long ago so i don't know what else they can do that used everything in their tool box and i don't

know what else they have the former council alida collins case to be on he's requested an apology from the spanish government do you think it's going to get one . i do not think he's going to get one because our group we have in madrid i think it's worth saying over and over again is a group that comes out of what they say in spanish is the sociology of franco it's these are the sons and grandsons ideologically in many cases familiarly of people who were very important in the franco his government and they have a vision of spain that says. culture is done it will always be done it and if you don't like that only use force as they did on october first and all of the other tools at their disposal to try and put the catalans back in their place but with this the catalans of said you're not going to tell me at least a strong majority of catalans have said you're not going to tell me what my polices and i want to i want to support the institutions of my work many of them consider their national government and want one per independence the politician has declared

that article one five five which allows madrid to can take control of consular nia is now dead and buried without something you would agree with. i think it's still on the books although it was misused in this case because it was only designed and this isn't being reported widely for our group going there was no such armed rebellion and nonetheless it was in a flood but article one fifty five seems to have outlived its usefulness but that doesn't mean that the people in madrid will continue will not continue to try and use it against the catalans but i think they've got a very strong message tonight that it won't go very far with that maybe it's time to negotiate. ok thomas harrington professor of iberian studies at trinity college to in hartford connecticut thank you for your time sir. thank you very much. now the u.s. justice department has suggested that this channel is not facing restrictions on its operations in the u.s. well after spying to r.t.

america being forced to register as a foreign agent back in november and congress then stripping our journalist of their credit taishan on capitol hill. continues to operate here continues to broadcast here without interruption as far as i'm aware well this channel didn't have to stop broadcasting but our journalists are losing their accreditation on capitol hill have hampered their work however us officials have stuck to the same message ever since we were first registered. when our t. was forced to register as a foreign agent and you said that it would inhibit our ability to report when the united states tells someone to register under a foreign agent requirement we don't see impacts or affect the ability of them to report news and information we just have the register it's as simple as that however just a couple weeks ago our press credentials were revoked so doesn't this contradict

your earlier statement i think i think press credentials may have been revoked by congress and not necessarily the members of congress but rather the association of reporters that handles who gets to come in and cover congress. but without joins live by political commentator and investigative journalist charles or tell mr or tell thank you for joining us on the program now what do you think do you think that u.s. officials are right to keep claiming about r.t. is not facing reporting restrictions in the u.s. . well i think you know many months after donald trump was sworn in we still face a situation particularly in the justice department where there are a holdover members of the obama even going back further are parading potentially to try to disrupt and resist the trump administration so i quickly checked into the background of the person you're talking about. and we must consider these actions in the white of the other investigations that are now heating up where four federal

prosecutors are asking what the f.b.i. may have been doing in regards to your anyone's situation regards the clinton foundation so there's a lot of the cross-currents that don't really make a lot of sense we're not behaving it would seem to me and i'm not a lawyer is if we're applying these rules concerning fair or and concerning the way in which foreign media operate inside our country we don't see to be applying them even handedly and that doesn't make a lot of sense to me so i think not only in russia but here in america we deserve answers to what is really happy what's really going on here. do you think being registered as a foreign agent and journalist sleuthing accreditation on capitol hill constitutes as an attack on on say well i think it does i'm familiar with the fair regulations and they're very very strict you know you could say that. there's no real penalty that people haven't been punished not that many people but punished

but when you read what you're supposed to do in filling out those forms the degree of disclosures that are required you know i would take it very seriously and i know that they don't go the fair regulations don't seem to be applied even handedly there are lots of foreign principals that should have registered it haven't registered and you know who is making the call to single out r.t. in this case i would like to know as an american citizen do you think it's bad to say that these actions indicate that freedom of speech is being undermined in the u.s. . i think it's very negative i think it is not it's i go so far as to say that on the surface just knowing what i see in the public record it's indefensible i'd like to know who is in charge of the fair operation what is that person's background how do they come to still be in that position what may have done if anything prior to the inauguration and are people trying to obstruct by this action inquiry into what really has been the state of russia's relations with

the united states going back many many years investigative journalist charles thank you for your time. well to get in touch and share your thoughts on the day stories by following us on facebook and twitter i'll be back in about thirty minutes with the had lines of thier. losers. then you don't. see the. two i. did a quick. walk to the north through space. let alone. said. no to me to see that. you speak french. the. busy.

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