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it. was and. it. was. clashes break out as another day of rage is called across palestine in the wake of donald trump's decision to recognize jerusalem as israel's capital. and. we're standing right over here you can see that there's a number of injured people you can see the incense they are carrying people with them. for a strong sort of visits russia for the first time as british foreign secretary talking trade election meddling and even attempting some brush. here for the for the. beautiful games i guess that's the at this be. the world of sports is stunned after limping gymnastics champion mckayla maroney
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claims she was paid to keep quiet about years of child abuse by a u.s. team doctor. a very warm welcome to you your watching r.t. international with mina karen great to have you with us this hour. protests have again broken out across palestine another day of rage was called the demonstrations follow donald trump's decision to recognize jerusalem as the capital of israel pulis lir who's in the west bank for us and gaza based journalist hinde cruger a reporter on the on the rest. the situation here and extremely was. not a risk because i've been running down the road now. it's all just made their way to
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the right in see them off to my left i'm a car in looks i'm rene said in firing tear gas and everybody's been running amok the streets are rich and. the soldiers are just you know yes they've cut. all the way into the pit. you can tell the ambulances so they certainly will be the ship's crew has been in. and at the same time we're just going by coming over to the back of the posse from here exactly what. we've taken proper we've taken cover in a in a petrol station. got me into a situation when form it's hard to know who will. cause and. we're standing right over here you can see that there's a number of injured people you can see the incense are carrying people with them
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you can see the israeli tanks which in the last few minutes just made their way from up the road to emmaus into the precinct also from ana but they really have come all the way in now so. now. let's look at. today's day of rage that has been called for by various palestinian factions is well and truly underway there are youngsters who have been here for the better part of the last hour who feel hurling rocks and pavements at these waving soldiers who thinks only been inching their way closer they've been fired tear gas in the stomach so many still quite a strong smell of tear gas that is hanging over us. the protesters and demonstrators come here today for the third friday enraged. this
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friday was different other than the two fridays people were very close to the fence this time and we could solve very important leader act and polluted sions and activist joining the civilians during the protests as you see there are at least five ambulances waiting for any injury and ready to pick them up there are still hundreds of protesters as you can hear we can hear live bullets i think there's another another injury right now and they're actually throwing gas bombs on the demonstrators as you can see despite all of the live bullets despite all the gas bombs despite all the rebel berlitz by listening protesters what they're ingalls are the west bank already jerusalem are stripped or attesting are still demonstrating people are search pressing their anger. so it comes after the united nations voted overwhelmingly to condemn donald trump's unilateral decision to
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recognize jerusalem as israel's capital only nine member states including the u.s. voted against the resolution the one hundred twenty eight who voiced support for it believes the dispute over the city's status can only be resolved through talks the u.s. ambassador to the u.n. nikki haley has said however that the widespread criticism will not make any difference to washington. 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 we will remember it when we are called upon to once again make the world's largest contribution to the united nations america will put our embassy in jerusalem no vote in the united nations will make any difference on that. well even countries that usually clash on major issues such as why vel's saudi arabia
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and iran were united in their condemnation of the us move on jerusalem. the use of the veto obstructed the security council and made him a bill to perform his duties and do decades or work of the international community it is considered a blatant violation of the rights of palestinian people must be resolved through negotiation between the two parties are un members very threatened or the other members this is bullying and this jumble will not bow to the duck several analysts we spoke to think the un made the right decision to ignore the pressure and threats from washington. 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 if countries acquiesce to the us and if they accept being punching bag for the american administration and voting in accordance with
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directives from nikki haley then what's the point of having the united nations i think we all know. the new era in which a major. resort through. and bribery in order to secure votes in the general assembly this is the first occasion on which the state decree a major. member of the security council has resorted to search measures i do think that it will be deplorable it's united states will to carry through and through its of this kind because they're called indicator states in future situations or give to a vote against the united states they do so wrong. boris johnson has visited moscow for the first time as the u.k. foreign secretary the trip comes during a period of strained relations if a train car was following johnson's meeting with his russian counterpart. well we hadn't seen a u.k. foreign secretary in moscow for five years and i can tell you that i hadn't seen
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such a remarkable press conference at the foreign ministry villa behind me for a long time there were many jokes many ways to poke each other not necessarily in a bad way after listing all the essential topics that are usual for such talks ranging from north korea to ukraine russia and the theories that it meddled and the votes all around the world and the u.k. as well came up once before just to remind you the foreign secretary boris johnson said that he hadn't seen any evidence of russian interference he even used the words not a sausage well mr johnson seems to have changed his mind today he said that he hadn't seen any evidence of successful attempts to interfere and i asked boris johnson to elaborate on that a little bit there was last on the free abundant evidence of russian interference
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in the elections in. germany. from. america but as i say there is new evidence of any successful russian interference. in the u.k. other highlights of the press conference included boris johnson speaking russian a few times saying that he has committed to fall in response to another question by me the u.k. foreign secretary confirmed that once he was in tehran a couple of weeks ago he visited the russian embassy secretly to see the venue of the famous tehran conference during the second world war he was also asked about moscow travel advice that he received from one of the british m.p.'s which included warnings about drinking challenge game. and honey traps many other things so the question was about trust and the question was about whether he had encountered any
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of these threats so far in the russian capital. but i want you to know it's a measure of my of my trust. soon as i got into this exit from a loose try mediately handed my coat my hat my gloves i mean everything that was in my pocket secret or otherwise to sergei lavrov in the knowledge that he would look after it. would come to no harm more than just a few times boris johnson reminded of the differences in the views that london and moscow have on various international issues it seemed that he really felt it was essential to keep talking about this every time he said something positive about russia but at the end of the day the common message was from both top diplomats that dialogue needs to prevail during
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a joint news conference with their foreign minister lavrov the foreign students and even showed off his russian language skills. i am who i am a russ a final and they committed russ a thought. a diplomatic relationship that is my four hundred fifty years old and dates from the time when queen elizabeth sent an envoy to the terrible writing before. you so that i'm the first foreign secretary in the history of my office to be called boris. customers as i said earlier only buying a little small british things for a few cattle crisps to. somebody has just given me a pat from the fed they're only sludge but be as opposed to that you get i guess that's the fs the. other said so
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when it comes to trust or trust poorest and trust him so much i'm ready to call him no bull wrist nobody's. going to buy these. as i think as i think. ronald reagan mikhail gorbachev used to say trust but very good. come the war that is in russia but in the program i'm ready to trust without any verification. the british foreign secretary also visited a red square as well as saying central moscow landmarks here his team laid flowers at the table of the unknown soldier a world war two memorial by the kremlin. we discussed the trip with political commentator and journalist john white paint things that are likely to help improve relations between if you can russia. that your contents of the visit were deeply deeply disappointing because boris johnson just went over the as an echo chamber of this network over your corn think tanks in an establishment press are really the
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sources of this. russian hysteria this new york mccarthy we also went near is there a messenger not as the inner city of the british people which is his first function . is that his own thing feel you have in that regard no progress will of the made in terms of fermenting better relations between russia and the u.k. boris johnson really is is washington's place my in wonder and this is this is the team to maintain the domination of the washington consensus the so-called washington consensus which has enjoyed a game in it for the last three decades or more which is losing a game many because of the rise of russia and the rise of china and other countries economically geo politically strategically and culturally. israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu has ordered the country and boy to unesco to submit an official withdrawal from the is that the organization here's how the envoy explained the decision unesco has broken records of incitement and lies
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against israel and the jewish people while polluting its noble core principles with politicisation and diplomatic terrorism that sometimes bordered on and the semitism . i knew your correspondent kind of more pain has more on israel's decision comes on the heels of quite a bit of criticism from the united states and israel of you know goes activities now you know asco is the un's cultural agency now the israeli foreign ministry spokesperson specifically cited what he called the attempts to disconnect the history of jewish history from the land of israel now unesco has angered israel over the past year they passed resolutions in which they said that israel has no right to jerusalem they said that the temple mount and the old city are both muslim holy sites now as far back as twenty eleven go actually granted palestine full
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membership in its organization now this is danny the israeli ambassador to the united nations this is him touching on the recent decision no you knew. no empty speech you know didn't want to be revolution will divide about. recently we saw that the usa had withdrawn from the nasco that happened in october and when the united states pulled out of the nasco they specifically cited what they called an anti israel bias now when that happened israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu called it a courageous and moral decision and praised the united states for doing that it stands for the united nations educational scientific and cultural organization it has a number of tasks it fights violent extremism around the world it promotes female education it promotes media freedom it also protects certain cultural sites around
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the world now what is in question at the moment is what will happen to certain cultural sites now that both the united states and israel are no longer participants in this very important international body. we talked to israeli columnist meir r. and he thinks the israeli move is a gesture that shouldn't be taken too seriously. every u.n. agency. a battlefield in the foreign policy and diplomacy arena and you know no different than the human rights council and others but whether or not israel or should we grow from it is another matter altogether because just we throwing just leaving the field to others is not acceptable to many israelis we have been through such cycles of un bashing. eventually israel and presumably if united
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states too would come back having symbolized. dad displeasure. just a gesture one shouldn't read too much into it the best intelligence chief claims that national security will be undermined if congress doesn't act quickly to a new and expiring surveillance law we've got that story and more coming up on this . i think the international community as a whole must make a laugh on told brain peace to the middle east. i think this is not only in the interest of the palestinians and as i said before also the interest of jerusalem and the israelis because it is are these cars a true interest in stability and peace but such measures as taken by trump do not
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favor civility and peace in the middle east and ensures a. good politicians to do something to. put themselves on the line they did accept or reject. so when you want to be present. for something i want to be rich. to do right to be right this is what. three of the four people. interested always in the why. question. welcome back and then victim gnostics champion mckayla maroney has claimed she was abused for years as a child by the u.s. team doctor and then paid to keep silent the doctor michigan state university and
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the u.s. the limpid committee allegedly tried to bribe them of rhony not to speak out summer kong has more on the shocking revelations. kayla maroney america's a live big darling one of the world's most famous gymnast's u.s. household name and victim of childhood sex abuse that apparently took place over years and when she wanted to speak out both usa gymnastics plus the u.s. olympic committee made her keep quiet rhody claims she was paid hush money and is now suing them for silencing her she hired a lawyer and asked for a settlement conference or mediation to get justice to what she didn't ask for was a draconian confidentiality agreement that prevented her from telling even her brother and sister about this and then i think even worse it said that you can't ever say anything bad about us if you bastards ever for your whole life she's come forward with a horrific story of abuse by team u.s.a.'s former doctor larry nasser it started
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when i was thirteen years old and it didn't end until i left sports it seems whenever and wherever this man could find the charms i was treated this scariest night of my life happened when i was fifteen years old i had flown all day and nights with the team to get to tokyo he'd given me a sleeping pill for the flight and the next thing i know i was all alone with him in his hotel room getting a treatment i thought i was going to die that night but one would naturally have expected the usa gymnastics to support its crown jewel but the organization claims that she herself chose to settle this all quietly into in sixty mchale as attorney at the time gloria allred approached us a gymnastics requesting that the organization participate in a confidential mediation the process culminated in a system into agreements that included a mutual non-disclosure cools and a mutual norm disparagement clause yet moronis case is just the start over one
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hundred and fifty women have now accused the same doctor of sexual abuse i don't want to be in a courtroom telling about how a man you know be. handed to me in front of my mother when i was loving the fact that he just thinks oh i pleaded guilty and now you guys can start healing is ridiculous to me i don't think. i don't think he truly understands how many people are hurting and how bad people are hurting over this now dr nasser admits to exploiting his position to abuse his patients and he was recently convicted and sentenced to sixty years in jail but his victims believe justice has still not been served and it's not just nassar who they insist must be punished but the sports officials who failed to protect child athletes years say gymnastics chairman vice chairman and treasurer have focused their attention on money and matter while usa gymnastics is attempting to cover up the largest child sex abuse scandal in the history of sports they must be replaced by people who pose the health and safety of athletes first now the olympics is all about celebration and success but this
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scandal exposes the other side of the medal billion pixels something that brings people hope and joy sure from the outside looking in it's an amazing story i did it i got there the not without a price well earlier we discussed moronis claims with former gymnastics rachel downhaul and she was the first to publicly accuse former u.s. team doctor laurie now solved sexual assault and then hollander wasn't surprised about the allegations of a wide scale cover up. you know i think there's plenty of evidence that there was a cover up not just because of the way usa g. has handled larry nasser's case but again because this is their longstanding policy they have been covering up sexual abuse in the organization literally for decades you know some of the most prominent coaches in usa do you have trained olympians who have worked alongside bella and martha curley those those coaches have been found guilty of sexual abuse too is that when you have an organization that has a decades long policy of silencing victims by literally shoving reports in
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a file cabinet and then they can defend their actions by saying they want to avoid a witch hunt it shouldn't come as any surprise to us that they're treating their elite athletes the same way they're treating the youngest gymnast in their member gyms so i think we already know that u.s.c.g. has a longstanding policy of covering up sexual predators larry nassar is not an exception by any stretch of the imagination. more than twenty thousand people have signed a petition to change the usa gymnastics leadership in the wake of what's being called the biggest child abuse scandal in sports history is demanding all u.s. gymnastics chiefs are replaced by those who quote put athlete safety first right to downhaul and i think the allegations could impact the u.s. olympic committee just ahead of the winter games in south korea i think there needs to be an investigation into whether your legal activities occurred there are very legitimate questions about whether or not this nondisclosure agreement was even illegal under california law because it did involve felony sex offense crimes and i
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think there needs to be a complete board change from the top down because these board members have have made it very clear that the safety of little children is not their priority that they see nothing wrong with how they have handled not just the larry nassar situation but with how they've handled sexual predators in the organization for decades you know when you have an organization like u.s.c.g. that is in charge of our libyans that is in charge of the entire sport from the top down and they can't handle something like sexual abuse against little children yes i think it is time for the u.s.o.c. to look at simply removing their authority to run our gymnastics program in the united states because they have proven that they care about something more than the safety of their athletes and that's inexcusable. u.s. intelligence leaders have been putting pressure on congress to reauthorize the national security agency's warrantless surveillance program it expires at the end of this year they say if lawmakers do not renew it national security will be
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undermined if congress fails to reauthorize this or forty the intelligence community will lose valuable foreign intelligence information and the resulting intelligence gaps will make it easier for terrorists weapons proliferation is malicious cyber out says and other foreign adverse reason to plan attacks against our citizens and our lives without detection. then we authorize ation would allow section seven o two of the foreign intelligence surveillance act to remain in place for another four years the secret internet spying program began after the nine eleven attacks its purpose is to collect data from foreign targets but does allow for the interception of americans communications in certain cases to critics on social activists say they fear the renewal will actually be increased levels of surveillance the proposed bill is not a reform measure on the contrary it would expand surveillance grant the government more authority under other provisions of fisa and could be read to codify current
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unlawful surveillance practices attorney michael flanagan outlined to us his concerns about the program under the law they were allowed to listen for just a few seconds i mean it's regulated down to to an actual time limit i don't know exactly what it is but it's really a tiny amount of time that they're allowed to listen but they get to keep read dialing the same the same frequency you know keep listening for a few seconds and turn it off and start again turn off and start again and we have more than a little bit of evidence that that has happened in an effort to listen in on other calls and when they're actually trying to listen to the american and so you have a ridiculous subterfuge gone through some some some crazy crazy handstands that have gone through simply to have intelligence agencies of the united states spying on citizens of the united states which is absolute there's no one in congress who would approve such a thing but this law allows them as you correctly observe the backdoor way to be able to do that. for us on the day stories by following us on facebook and twitter
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hello and welcome to cross talk we're all things were considered peter lavelle it would seem the more the anti trampers push to have the president removed from office the more we learn about the media in such places as the f.b.i. how they really work to date the investigation known as russia gate has revealed preciously little though we're learning there was collusion elsewhere.
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across talking real collusion i'm joined by my guest richard goodstein in washington he is a democratic political strategist and a former adviser to hillary clinton's two presidential campaigns in miami we have john karr below he is host of off the cuff on rebel media and in phoenix we cross to josh bernstein he is a t.v. talk show host or a chilling cross talk rules in effect that means he can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate josh i'm going to go to you first because one of my one of the crosstalk rules is always go to the person that got up early is for this program and that is you want to talk about some of the things that's coming out of the the f.b.i. in the in the special investigation into. alleged collusion with russia during the election we have this peter stroke you know and he's written some you know with his girlfriend some pretty nasty things about donald trump you know he's. he's an
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