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was. it. was. clashes breakouts the another day of rage is called a prosperous night in the wake of donald trump decision to recognize jerusalem as israel's capital. and. we're standing right here you can see that there's a number of injured people you can see the answers are i mean people would say i'm . boris johnson visits russia for the first time as a british foreign secretary talking trade election meddling and even attempting some russian companies just give me a pass for the for the run. because it is nice today i guess that's the at this the. world of sports is stunned after a limb pick gymnastics champion mckayla maroney claims she was paid to keep quiet
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about years of child abuse by a u.s. team doctor. a very warm welcome you watching r.t. international with me niki aaron great to have you with us this hour our top story is ready soldiers reportedly killed two palestinians and injured around sixty others as another wave of protests flared on friday then rest comes a response to donald trump's decision to recognize jerusalem as the capital of israel paula slayer who's in the west bank for us and gaza based journalist tend kookery report on the turmoil. the situation here is extremely wasn't so. great because i've been running down the road now and. as i made their way to the right. in see them off my last time
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a foreign look someone a said in firing tear gas and everybody's been running amok for some rich and. the soldiers are just coming out of yes that's. all the way into the pacific. you can have the ambulances so they certainly will be the sheeple who have been in the us and at the same time we're just going by coming over to the back of the posse somehow exactly what. we say can travel we've taken cover in a in a petrol station. going to be into a situation when form it's hard to know how long it can. cause and. we're standing right over here you can see that there's a number of injured people you can see the defenses are carrying people with them
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you can see the israeli tanks that which in the last few minutes just made their way from up the road they now seem to be the creasing also from but they really have come all the way in now so. now. that. 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 waiting soldiers who speaks only been inching their way closer they've been filing tear gas in the style it's 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 wreak this sort of 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 is 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 whether in guards are the west bank already jerusalem are stripped or testing are still demonstrating people are searched pressing their anger. comes after the united nations voted overwhelmingly to condemn donald trump's unilateral decision to recognize jerusalem
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as israel's capital only nine member states including the u.s. voted against the resolution the one hundred twenty eight who support for it believe the dispute over the city 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 even countries that usually clash on major issues such as rivals saudi arabia and iran were united in their condemnation of the us is
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a move on jerusalem. the use of the veto obstructed this acuity council unable to perform his duties undo decades of 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 want to do that or 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 directives from nikki haley then what's the point of having the united nations i
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think we all know. a new era in which a major. resort to blackmail 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 such measures i do think that it could be deplorable it's united states were to carry through and through it's of this kind because they're called indicator states in future situations if you play great against the united states they do so long. for a stance and has visited moscow for the first time as the u.k.'s foreign secretary the trip comes during a period of strained relations are trying to with following johnson's meeting with us 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 again. 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. you know i want you to know it's a measure of my of my trust. soon as i got into this excellent for a loose try mediately handed my coat my hat my gloves i mean did 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 i during a joint news conference with foreign minister lavrov published on thursday from
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showed off his russian language skills. i am who i am a russ a final and a 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 right in the fall. that i'm the first foreign secretary in the history of my office to be called boris. russian customers as i said earlier only buying loads more british things from kettle crisps to. somebody has just given me a pad from the figure around the sludge bar b. as opposed to that you get so i guess that's the fs the.
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opposite so when it comes to trust or trust poorest and trust him so much i'm ready to call him no boris nobody's. going to buy these stuff. as i think as i think. ronald reagan mikhail gorbachev used to say trust but there is. a come a war that is in russian but in our program i'm ready to trust without any verification . the british foreign secretary also visited red square as well as seeing central that landmark status tonight flowers at the tomb of the unknown soldier world war two memorial by the kremlin. we discussed the trip with political commentator and journalist john whitehead thinks it's unlikely to help improve relations between the u.k. and russia. the actual 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 an establishment press really the sources of this. russian
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hysteria this new mccarthy we also went near is b.s. messenger nor is the inner city of the british people which is his first function was that his own thing feel you're not the girl no progress will be made in terms of fermenting better relations between russia and the u.k. boris johnson really is is washington's placement 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 us three decades or more which is lucian i gave many because of the rise of russia in the rise of china and other countries economically geopolitically strategically and cultural. israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu has ordered the country's envoy to unesco to submit an official withdrawal from the organization here's how the envoy explains the decision. has broken records of hypocrisy incitement and lies against israel and
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the jewish people while polluting is noble core principles we politicize asian and diplomatic terrorism sometimes bordered on anti semitism your correspondent caleb morgan 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 asco is 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. about. recently we saw that the usa had withdrawn from unesco 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 the world now what is in question at the moment is what will happen to certain
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cultural sites now that both the united states and israel are no longer participants in this very important international body we took to his reign economist m a r and he thinks the israeli me if you suggested this shouldn't be taken too seriously. every u.n. agency. a battlefield in the foreign policy and diplomacy arena and unesco is no different than the human rights council and others but whether or not israel or should we drove from it is another matter altogether because just weeks rowing 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 the united
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states too would come back having symbolized. dad displeasure. if he is just a gesture one shouldn't read too much into it well u.s. intelligence chiefs claim that national security will be undermined if congress doesn't act quickly to renew an expiring surveillance law we've got that story and more coming up after this short break stay with us.
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got manmade global warming incinerating planet earth and causing an eco fall apart but the corporations feel like you know what that might cost us a penny at the end of the year so we do have donek adjustment to our algorithm it will take out the city and alaska that would flag us to take action appropriate first survival of the species and we're going to instead rely on our balance sheet and our algorithm like i'm going to g.p.s. monitor in your car that's pointing over a cliff or something i don't care if the cliff is there or my algorithm says it's not there so i keep driving i do a film with always going to go right over the cliff because after the data tells a. welcome back olympic gymnastics 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. olympic committee allegedly tried to bribe maroney not to speak out samir khan has more on the shocking revelations. mckayla maroney america's elliptic 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 your masters ever for your whole life has 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 sport it seemed whenever and wherever this man could find the chance i was treated this scariest nice 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 usa gymnastics to support its crown jewel but the organization claims that she herself chose to settle this all quietly in twenty sixty mchale as attorney at the time gloria allred approached usa gymnastics requesting that the organization participate in a confidential mediation the process culminated in a settlement agreements that included a mutual non-disclosure clause and a mutual norm disparagement moronis case is just the start over one hundred and
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fifty women have now accused the same doctor of sexual abuse i don't want to be in a courtroom telling about how. you know but. me in front of my mother when i was eleven 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
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success but this 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 we discussed moronis claims with former gymnasts rachel dunn hall and she was the first to publicly accuse former u.s. team doctor laurie nasser of sexual assault and then holland wasn't surprised about the allegations of a wide scale coverup. 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 bela and marta karoly 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 those 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 long standing policy of covering up sexual predators larry nasser's not an exception by any stretch of the imagination or 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 old u.s. gymnastics chiefs replaced by those who quote put athletes safety first rachel didn't hold on to things 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 illegal 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
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and i think there needs to be a complete board change from the top down because these board members have to 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 agencies that warrantless surveillance program it expires at the end of this year as they flew makers do not renew it national security will be
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undermined if congress fails to reauthorize this or thoresby 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 attacks is and other foreign adverse reason to plan attacks against our citizens and our lives without detection. the reauthorize 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 not allow for the interception of americans communication in certain cases to critics and social activists say they fear the renewal will actually lead to increased levels of survey that the proposed bill is not a reform measure on the contrary it would expand surveillance grants the government
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more authority and other provisions of pfizer and could be read to codify current unlawful surveillance practices attorney michael flanagan outlined to his 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. from 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
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welcome one all to the stan collymore show every week we're bringing you in cities with the stars of the world past and present today we start with the very biggest he scored one thousand two hundred seventy knowing career goals and he's the only living player to reform three world cups he's now in the ready i doubt if the national men's out but the world knows him is proud like i had the all out the absolute honor of sitting down with the king of football to talk about his fight for it well commemorates.
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the let's go back to the nineteen fifty world cup. watch lots of interviews read lots of interviews about the impact that world cup when brazil lost at home in the matter cannot against uruguay and what impact did it have on you as a little boy aged eight to annoying and your family. of first bo was a dream for me little because. everybody knows but my father was a football player professional a little boy will all of this into what i used to live. and then the world cup brazil. ten years or the. brazil is the best going to play world cup we're going to be champion and then brazil lost but i saw for the first time i saw my father he was with another players in my house too to listen the game at that time didn't have to.

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