her independence party looks set to keep that absolute majority in the council and parliament a result that would likely lead to renewed political conflict with the spanish government. the u.s. suffers a stinging rebuke over its recognition of jerusalem as israel's capital as the un general assembly overwhelmingly votes to condemn the move from the use of the deed to obstruct to the security council feel that if we didn't even think. of the rights america will put our embassy in jerusalem this is bullying. in a vote over one hundred countries ignore the intense pressure from washington and threats from the u.s. president and on behalf. of

i will welcome you watching r.t. international with me nicky aaron good to have you with us this hour now preliminary results from the council on regional election indicate that pro independence parties are set to keep their absolute majority in parliament they 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 will only have fifty seven seats the troubled spanish region's former leader collars pushed along the outcome as a victory. well you you're probably look at the you know i want to congratulate the catalan people because they have sent a message to the world the catalan republic has beaten the monarchy an article one fifty five the spanish they has been beaten if issue results will be announced on

the fifth of january here's journalist martin roberts with more details. record turnout this is all the more remarkable when you consider that elections were held on a working day like today rather than the usual sunday 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 passy has anything like a majority of the votes and indeed they didn't even campaign together now cratylus puts them on the outgoing first minister of cuts alone you 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 and as you can see it mate with very violent resistance indeed from the authorities and the police. told. the story to people 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 warning in this instance. 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 sucking the regional government. he says the biggest threat to spain's constitutional order since the country returned to democratic governments in one nine hundred seventy eight so the best heading for several weeks of protecting negotiations if they don't reach a deal than they were actions will just have to be repeated so again. it looks like we're going to have several interesting weeks ahead of us despite the high turnout to many people who voted for independence from spain in october a frustrated that they've had to turn out yet again. but it will be all the two of us are 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 we discussed the results of the election with a professor of iberian studies at trinity college in hartford connecticut he believes the result is a victory for democracy. majority government media. have. the tools in their tool box they've used violence. media demonization they try to cover yellow they try to go after the kind. of us t.v. station simply for calling people. calling the president a president acts i don't and i don't know what other tools they have left certainly what we've seen up until now is that negotiation is not one of your tools and sadly to go she she is the only tool the could have. just by trying to use all of these tools the dependent to say what it's an extraordinary moment for democracy in europe. united nations member states voted overwhelmingly to condemn

america's recognition of jerusalem as israel's capital in new york on thursday and tensions flared at the general assembly hearing got 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 but it is considered a blatant violation of the rights of palestinians be funny if you've shameful that this meeting is even taking place must be resolved through negotiation between the two parties are un member states throughout and all the other members this is bullying and this john boehner will not bow to the doc i knew your correspondent caleb more pain was following the general assembly herring. well the results are in one hundred twenty eight countries voted for the resolution with nine countries 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 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 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 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. of those in favor of the draft resolution. please raise your hand. those against. 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 he will be watching this vote carefully and has requested i report back on those who voted against us thank you for your consideration. 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 was to discuss the herring with their former un special rapporteur on human rights in palestine and a political analyst based in the west bank. digital expectation was. about one hundred fifty states would go to table the resolution in this really shows that the

streets made by the us administration did have some impact growth in restrictor of the votes and in respect of the. should i think there are two issues here one of course concerns the status of jerusalem but i think we are now are inching a new era in which a major power resorts to blackmail and drug rewarded to secure votes in the general assembly. obviously in most cases try to bring pressure used in a pretty subtle manner to support a particular position but this is the first a case number which a state a major member of the security council has resorted to such measures i do think that poor believes united states who to carry through and threats of this kind

because they're called indicator states in future situations if you play vote against the united states they do so at their peril 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 to bloody that world wars in order to prevent chaos and war in order to make sure that international law is is respected and 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. added lesions fact that nikki haley's threatening to do real the entire organization puts the united states in confrontation with the entire world. ten

times more iraqi civilians may have been killed than previously thought during the u.s. led operation to liberate mosul from eisel that's according to new research by the associated press the news agency obtained data from iraqi morgues as well as non-governmental organizations is says that as many as eleven thousand civilians may have been killed during the nine month operation nearly a third of these allegedly died during u.s. led coalition bombing raids however just a fraction of that number is acknowledged by the coalition group honesty international has joined calls to investigate group honesty international has joined calls to investigate the liberation campaign and reveal the true cost in civilian deaths it and have been numbers cited in this report come as no surprise. has visited the city of mosul both during and after the fighting. to see the presses 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 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 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 in iraq east even the u.n. was a tenth of that barely a thousand civilians unrealistic number 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 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 counts that monitored events in mosul as well as with tip offs from iraq he moves but as i say this number is unsurprising if you've been to mussolini and seen what a city of his been tending to injuries corpses. this is the reality of war what you likely haven't heard of is the smell it's no. 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 as the oft about the strike 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 this 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 our team is facing no substantial reporting restrictions in america despite a child being forced to register as a foreign agent back in november we examine the claim after the play. here's what people have been saying about rejected and. just. feel the show i go out of my way to. really pack them. yap is the john oliver of the americas this is. you know apparently better than nothing. to see people you've

never heard of low down for the night the president of the world bank very. seriously send us an e-mail. the confidence in the system is collapsing and there is no turning back this is the collapse of the nation state and the central bank and the fractional reserve money system because is banks what the printing press was to the catholic church it collapsed it in many ways this is the end of this era this is the new beginning this is about everyone having autonomy and sovereignty with their own money. welcome back the u.s.

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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 hey k.b. d.o.j. official also mentioned that the department's request for r.t.a. to register under far was based on an intelligence community report their assessment claimed this china was involved in a campaign to influence the vote during the u.s. presidential election investigative journalist charles will tell gave us his thoughts on those allegations in the very beginning multiple holdovers of the of our ministrations went so far as to say that quote all seventeen intelligence agencies and reach a conclusion that russia had interfered in the two thousand and sixteen election and if that's been a walk back and you know many of the people who have made that assertion. i would

argue have been. in my mind discredited so we really haven't had any way as several members of the public to verify the stress test the analysis that was made by these supposedly tells its agencies who may very well have a lot to hide. the pentagon has admitted it is 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 . brings us the broader picture on what's happening in yellow. 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 combat 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 commenting 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. twitter's regional vice president has revealed revealed she believes it's no longer possible to stand up for all speech as a u.k. parliamentary hearing she was quizzed about how effectively tech giants are fighting hate speech and extremism online predators in a place where it's believed that you know the most effective antidote to bad speech was good speech it was evil which was very much against your community and philosophy we've realized that the world that we live in has changed it's no longer possible to stand for all speech in the hopes that ultimately society will become a better place because racism will be challenged or overfull the will be challenge or extremes of reach and this is in stark contrast with the corporations previous philosophy and twenty twelve twitters then general manager in the u.k.

for the company's leadership likes to think of the platform as the free speech wing of the free speech party we spoke with social justice campaigner george barda hey told us that as twitter's reach grows it will face increasing pressure to take responsibility for the content on the platform 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 of its. 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 it's 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. well i would i would love to hear your thoughts on the day's stories so do get in touch by following us on facebook and twitter on the back in about thirty five minutes with the headlines to hear that. oh yeah. i know. i know i know that but when i took.

a flight from many clubs over the years so i know the game and so i got. the ball isn't only about what happens on the pitch for the final school it's about the passion from the fans it's the age of the shaper money kill you narrowness and spending to get to the twenty million and one player. it's an experience like nothing else not to because i want to share what i think what i know about the beautiful game my great so will more chance with. the base

it's going to take. you know the palestinians have used the united nations as a weapon of war against the future of peace both for palestinians and israelis and 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. greetings and so you take it's hard watchers i must confess i am a very very lucky man and i get to sit behind this desk with tabitha wallace and

sean stone five days a week and deliver to you the various important news stories that i hope will inform entertain and ultimately inspire you to always think for yourself question more fight for those who cannot fight and always know that what is certain today might not work tomorrow i'm able to live that dream because of the good work of journalists operating around the world and sometimes the most hellish of conditions so now with our you're winding down i'd like to take a moment to acknowledge all the hard worker reporters from different countries and cultures around the world that are imprisoned unjustly or have sacrificed their lives for the story. sixty five media workers were killed on the job in two thousand and seventeen with forty two killed specifically because of their job according to the committee to protect journalists with another two hundred sixty two imprisoned for practicing their trade and well thankfully the number of

reporters killed for doing their job is dropped compared to previous years and advocacy director for the committee points out that the number of incarcerated journalists for spreading big news has doubled telling the intercept that there appears to be a real life manifestation of the fake news rhetoric that seeks to denigrate and deal a generalized the role of journalists in journalism in a society particularly in democracies another sobering and tragic number to come out of the c p j report is the fact that the number of female journalists killed or murdered while normally sitting at about seven percent this year shot up tonight teen per cent. today more than ever we need good journalism so moving into the new year let us remember the journalists we've lost free the ones who are imprisoned and celebrate those independent view that truly do speak truth to power and are always watching the hawks.

it looks like. to keep the ball out of it. like you that i got. this. week. watching the world with the capitalists. so for a boy oh boy that's that's high numbers thankfully the numbers are on a downward trend of as journalists killed in you know in the duties of their job but that's still you know forty to sixty two that's as too many really at the end of the day that you don't want to see and let alone the two hundred some odd imprisoned it is a dangerous dangerous profession.