is there a better alternative to the homelessness crisis. her independence parties look set to keep that absolute majority in the council on parliament or those that it would likely lead to were new to political conflict to the spanish government. the u.s. there's 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 shameful that the meeting even pick the violation of the rights comes to america will put our embassy in jerusalem this is bullying. in the vote over one hundred countries ignore the intense pressure from washington and threats from the u.s. president and ambassador.

a very warm welcome you are watching r.t. international with mina care and good to have you with us this hour and our top story preliminary results from the castle and regional election indicate the pro independence parties are set to keep that 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 unions part unionist parties together will only have fifty seven seats the troubled spanish regions formally to carlos' proved a month has held the outcome as a victory. well the year you double that at the lawyer i want to congratulate the catalan people because they have sent a message to the world the catalan republic has beaten the monarchy and article one fifty five the spanish they has been beaten. and the official results will be

announced on the fifth of january here's jonathan martin wapas with monty to have a 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 independents 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 cutlass 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 the c. hope 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. all. the forensic 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 morning and it's instantly escalating 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 psyching the regional government 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 heading for several weeks of protecting negotiations if they don't reach a deal then their 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 many people who voted for independence from spain in october and frustrated that they've had to turn out yet again. but it will be all that got us are more i feel bad because in the first year 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 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 that trinity college in hartford connecticut he believes there was l.t. is a victory for democracy the majority government and the madrid media around us have gone through all the tools in their tool box and they've used violence used media demonization they try to pin the color yellow they try to go after the carolina autonomous t.v. stations plea for calling people. calling the president a president acts i don't and i don't know what their tools they have low certainly what we've seen up until now is that negotiation is not one of your tools in stanley negotiations the only tool that couldn't. go just by trying to use all of these tools the president has said i want it's an extraordinary moment for tomorrow mainly to condemn america's recognition of jerusalem as israel's capital in new york on thursday as the meeting of the general assembly be to obstruct. security

council work of the international community but it is considered a blatant violation of the rights of palestinian people and if you shameful that this meeting is even taking place must be resolved through negotiation between the state threatened all the other members this is bullying and this jumper will not bow to that i knew your correspondent caleb maupin was following the session. well 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 the 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 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. the four team foods in favor one voted 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. 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 meeting with a 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 table the resolution this really shows that the threats made by the us administration did have some impact 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 of the state to create a major. security council has resorted to search measures i do. see right straight through to carry through and through it's of this kind because they're called indicators traits in future situations or give to a vote against the united states they do so very wrong 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 created by the 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 us 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 fact that nikki haley is threatening to derail 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 isel that's according to new research by the associated press the news agency obtained data from iraqi mosques as well as

non-governmental organizations this is as many as eleven thousand civilians may have been killed during the nine month operation nearly a third of these allegedly died in cheering 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 tricks the true cost in civilian death it added the numbers cited in this report come as no surprise mike garcia of 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 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 paying 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 the rockies 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 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. 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 mosul if you've seen what a city of two million his been tending to injuries and corpses. this is the reality of war what you likely haven't heard of is the smell it's new. repulsive and it's everywhere the sort of smell that makes us in stink these sick 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 targeting the helicopter and over the six seven hundred meters away 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 the city the city the old city of mosul that bore the brunt of the fighting in the devastation it still reeks of decay in bodies thousands and thousands of corpses still buried under rubble mixed with them or explosive devices that continue to claim people's lives.

police in the u.k. have to taint format and a series of raids forming a suspected christmas attack all parties that the arrests came from intelligence received during an ongoing investigation one suspect unsufficient chips shop which was raided by police and an army bomb squad security officers evacuated residents from nearby homes place have until just december the twenty fifth to decide whether to charge the four suspects who were aged between twenty two and forty one no connection with islamic state has been made however the terror group has been threatening european cities. including london with christmas attacks most of the terrorist atrocities that have hit the u.k. this year have been claimed by i still.

well former london metropolitan police officer roger gray about safety tips for the holiday season and whether british authorities have adjusted to the new reality of the modern terror threats. doing i think. more as in yours the public extremely well. but obviously intelligence hungry and always live at this point any scrap of intelligence is worthwhile and it's helped to save probably quite a few dollars on this account and that's how there's not too much more going on out there but i do have a massive toss the first war going to be very relaxed of christmas but we have to be on all of the time we have to be a no show are you from going to a police officer or a telephone with every scrap of information that we would normally of saw another call the real thing we've got to devolve the information put it forward and let the

police decide whether it has values as a small part of a greater picture or already. the u.s. justice department has suggested that this channel is not facing restrictions on its operations in the u.s. well that's despite r.t. america being forced to register as a foreign agent back in november and congress then stripping on journalists of their credit taishan on capitol hill. continues to operate here continues to broadcast here without interruption as as far. well this channel didn't have to stop broadcasting but our journalists losing their accreditation on capitol hill has 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 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 he the d.o.j. official knew her has also said the department's request for r.t. to register under far was based on a report by u.s. intelligence agencies claim this channel played a role in russia's elected interference in the us presidential election but investigative journalist charles alltel told us he believes many of the intelligence community's findings to be questionable. 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 that's been a war. and you know many of the people who have made that assertion. i would argue have been in there 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 teligent agencies who may very well have a lot to hide. the pentagon has admitted its conducting full scale and military operations in yemen and revelations came 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 donna hawkins brings us the broader picture on 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 that 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 support of to harvest groups stabilizing the 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 it's 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 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 extremist online content pretty loose in a place where it's believed that it's you know the most effective antidote to bad speech was good speech it was you know it was very much a jon stewart movie in 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 would become a better place because racism will be challenged or over for we will be challenge or extremes of rich and. well this is in stark contrast with the corporations previous philosophy in two thousand and 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 policy we spoke with social justice campaign and george barda he 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 or somewhere very complicated li 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 easily as 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 a 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 you. now with less than six months left still start of the football world cup in russia one astronaut has come up with a pretty special way of celebrating the event like taking shots from space of past and future world cup host cities including rio milan mosco and even his hometown some are he's also working with the mars local government to create a special calendar called planet football featuring the stunning images now head of the football world cup in russia r.t. has spoken exclusively with brazil superstar pele the full interview goes on at

this friday but here's a quick preview. i saw my father he was with another players in my house too to listen the game good that they didn't have to be then i saw my father with his band the i didn't understand as to why my father. because the only way they say to me ok mane them grimy and on. 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 don't cry don't cry 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 of the members of the new about this but they wouldn't have the time they wouldn't have communicated straight from the state the. have the

waltz we got through the phone somebody make the connection but the connection sometime go out the. father will walk the walk off knowing seventy will call the brightest player in the world just pro-lifer you will . feel nervous i don't know what to do i can tell you. who will give more. victories in my life if you give it to me i can not say goodbye as i lost a lot of the men. how do you say on the day stories by following us on facebook and twitter and joining me again in about thirty minutes headlines.

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happy holidays by the way the tax bill come with we've got the latest on this edition of politics. and the politicking on larry king republicans on capitol hill did what many if not most political experts believe they would not be able to do in a matter of weeks they have successfully delivered the biggest tax overhaul in decades as they promised they would and in doing so they've also delivered president donald trump his first major legislative victory since entering the oval office but now begins the test of selling their tax reform to the public which poll numbers show has a very low opinion of the bill for analysis of this and what the tax bill vied to american workers i'm joined by chris lou served as deputy secretary of labor and

white house cabinet secretary in the obama administration and is presently a senior fellow at the university of virginia miller center and longtime d.c. and republican party inside a former congressman chris shays of connecticut he served on the house homeland security committee was also ranking member of the house subcommittee on national security and foreign affairs both gentlemen joining me from washington as we have two courses so as i ask the questions oh use the last name chris lew the tax bill is passed i know from previous appearances you were against it any change in your thinking not at all to the extent that the changes were made.