israel's prime minister orders the country's withdrawal from unesco despite having several recognized world heritage sites but also to come this hour a u.s. olympic gold medalist reveals he is long abused by a team doctor and accuses high ranking sports officials of buying his silence we spoke to another former gymnasts who was the first to publicly come forward. i wish i could say that i was surprised but the reality with us aged now six is they had a decades long policy covering up sexual abuse and also to come facebook admits that its fake news red flag system is having the opposite effect by attracting even more views to suspicious articles.

so i welcome you watching r.t. international this saturday morning where it's just gone ten o'clock here in moscow our top story the israeli prime minister has ordered the ordered the country's withdraw from the un's culture and heritage organization unesco follows a similar move announced by the united states in october over a perceived bias against israel is that country's envoy to the agency explained the decision. unesco has broken records of people chrissie incitement and lies against israel and the jewish people while polluting its noble core principles with politicisation and diplomatic terrorism that sometimes bordered on and to semitism . on israel's move. comes on the heels of quite a bit of criticism from the united states and israel of you know ask those 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 you know asco 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 the holy sites now as far back as twenty eleven go actually granted palestine full membership in its organization now this is danny the israeli ambassador to the united nations this is him touching on the recent decision no unesco declaration. no empty speech you. know didn't want to be revolution will ever 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 recently we saw that the usa had withdrawn from the nasco that happened in october and when the united states pulled out of the nasco they specifically cited what they called an anti israel bias now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 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 kind of reporting that will unesco world heritage sites across israel comprising of a dozen places representing three thousand g.'s of history israeli newspaper columnist believes sky was also a platform for diplomatic action and that israel may eventually decision.

every u.n. agency. 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 should 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 learned presumably the united states too would come back having symbolized. their displeasure. is just a gesture one shouldn't read too much into it. meanwhile clashes erupted in gaza or

again on friday in the third straight week of unrest in the region. but i just saw in demonstrations have left palestinians dead and more than sixty others injured so in the wake of president trump's decision for the us to recognize to receive them as the israeli capitol hill in the west bank city of ramallah israeli soldiers there were pushing back paramedics who were trying to reach the injured to treat shoes weapons and other forceful measures preventing emergency crews from reaching the. united nations general assembly voted overwhelmingly to condemn donald trump's you know lateral decision concern that the dispute over the city status should only be resolved by talks only nine member states including the us voted against the resolution even so the countries un ambassador remained undeterred putting the focus on the few friends backing the jerusalem decision.

this will make a difference on how americans look at the us and on how we look at countries who disrespect them and the way and this will be remembered.

it's. it's. we all jewish communities in germany do say they off icing growing anti semitism many say they've been the targets of discrimination or harassment on a daily basis and i do believe the problem has been made worse by the us president's recent policies towards israel with more his all europe correspondent peter all of. that was israeli flags burning in the center of. the aftermath of the u.s. decision on jerusalem but apart from protests it's feared the backlash would overstepped the line into attacks against jewish people a police investigation is underway here in berlin following

a shocking display of anti semitism outside of a jewish restaurant plus what you know from your i six me your dimensions and apart from from i need much of. it because. the owner of the restaurant says he expects these type of attacks considering the current climate it was a typical latest incident thing against jews the typical. israelis bed story trump is a burden they go to the gas chamber in five years. we have unfortunately a lot of cases different in this similar to do mostly it's an anemic we get a lot of phone calls with. in fact leaders in the jewish community say that these type of incidents a far more common than we may think think it's

a horrible incident but i think it's something what happens sometimes on a daily basis here in germany i wouldn't say that it's that it's a bad feeling as a jew living in germany but on the other side there are things happening and if you're a member of a community or an institution you get confronted with those kinds of incidents. like really every day the u.s. position on jerusalem has certainly added fuel to a backlash against israel but if you look at a study that was carried out just this year over sixty percent of the youths who were surveyed who were from a jewish background said that they had faced until semitism. saying that they've been targeted or harassed in the last. of a schoolboy was attacked. he told them that. because he'd killed the jews. from the government side we heard a strong response from the. any kind of anti semitism is an

attack on everyone is a must never be allowed to have a place in society again but looking at an uptick in the turks in germany targeting jews that may seem easier said than done peter all over. the u.s. olympic committee and the country's gymnastics governing body being accused of helping cover up hears of sex abuse and child molestation and a lawsuit filed by championship mckayla maroney she alleges to have been abused by a u.s. team doctor for years and then paid to keep silent she also names other sports institutions for preventing her from publicly coming forward with more details his america became a moroni 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 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 she's come forward with a horrific story of abuse by team u.s.a.'s former doctor larry nasser it started when i was thirteen years old and it didn't end until my last sport it seems whenever and wherever this man could find the chance 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. tell me i'm 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 mccool as attorney at the time gloria allred approached us gymnastics requesting that the organization participate in a confidential mediation the process culminated in a settlement agreements that included a mutual nondisclosure clause and a mutual disparagement clause moronis case is just the start over one 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. you know bandaged 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 as must be punished but the sports officials who failed to protect us must be punished but the sports officials who failed to protect the child athletes the olympics is something that brings people hope and joy sure from the outside looking in it's an amazing story i did it i got there but now without a price what we discussed moronis claims there with the former g.m. an ashtray jordan holland she was actually the first to publicly accused former u.s. team doctor larry nasser of sexual assault and isn't surprised either about the claims of a big 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 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 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 mckayla said that she had signed her agreement in two thousand and sixteen but just a few months ago in august the o.c. register which is a local california newspaper did publish that they had been able to confirm that another case had been settled in twenty fifteen with another victim of larry nasser in the lead gymnast so yes i think it's i think it's likely that there are others that have been silenced 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 and i 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 nasser 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. you're watching our international hour still to come this hour there are red faces that facebook at the moment which admits that it's fake news flags are actually floundering to explain why after the

break. global warming incinerating planet earth causing an eco but the corporations feel like you know what that might cost us a penny at the end of the year so will do have donek adjustment to our algorithm it will take out the city the 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 a good g.p.s. monitor a car that's pointing over a cliff i don't care if the cliff is there by al gore themselves 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.

hello again facebook has admitted that his efforts to combat fake working has been trying to read flag articles which do contain false information but the markers are instead appearing to attract even more views is. he explains. facebook sees itself on the frontlines of the fight against fake news there's a huge amount of misinformation out there on the internet it's a problem we've been working hard on it for this book and we're committed to fighting it after all people want to see accurate information and so did we at battle heated up in december two thousand and sixteen when facebook teamed up with

fact checkers to flag stories it determined to contain so-called disputed content but when you're on the social media titans forced to admit not only is the method ineffective it may actually inspire the opposite of the desired reaction academic research on correcting misinformation has shown that putting a strong image like a red flag next to an article may actually entrenched deeply held beliefs the opposite of fact to what we intended apparently a fake news label actually makes people more interested for example facebook red flag this story by the new port buzz which claimed hundreds of thousands of irish people were brought to the us as slaves but the little red sign didn't stop its spread on the country traffic skyrocketed but facebook isn't daunted by the discovery that flagging stories has backfired coming up with a new plan to provide alternative articles on long side possibly false stories to give people more context but the question remains are those alternative stories definitely relevant and balanced and who's actually making that call the choice of

the articles the choice of the outlets is going to reflect human bias he would bias is inevitable whenever human beings are involved there's always going to be a social political cultural and so on bias in the selection of those related articles is going to reflect that facebook obviously has an agenda the people who work at facebook have individual agendas and biases they might not even be aware of their own biases. what is facebook kind of the still struggle to contend with fabricated news stories circulating on mass sites the us ambassador to the netherlands is not exactly helping matters after describing his own remarks is fake . you mentioned in debates. that there are no go zones in the netherlands. we would call it fake because i never said. yes there

goes another one's. nose knows no goes. out to the kids you have a problem with english is your second language ok. fake news obviously i didn't call that big news i didn't you. know no. i think that's to do with. said these words in the beginning from his stance as a politician and when he was the second time he was already elected as ambassador as an investor and just has to work that's kind of weird of course i don't think there will be problems i think he will be sitting just like all the other. people on the. u.s. intelligence leaders are urging congress to reauthorize the national security

agency's far reaching spying program which expires at the end of the year they say that if will make his do not renew it the country's security will be undermined. if congress fails to reauthorize this or foresty 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 wrote to us and other foreign adverse reason to plan attacks against our citizens and our allies without detection well the internet spying program was established back in two thousand and eight and it does give authority to intelligence organizations to collect data from foreign targets but it also allows for the interception of americans communications in certain cases critics and social activists say they fear the renewal will actually lead to increased levels of surveillance the proposed bill is not

a reform measure on the contrary it would expand surveillance grants the government more authority and other provisions of pfizer and could be read to codify current unlawful surveillance practices attorney michael flanagan outlined his concerns about the program. under the law they're allowed to listen for just a few seconds i mean it's regulated down to two 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 redialing with 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 of congress who would approve such

a thing but this law allows them as you correctly observed backdoor way to be able to do that. finally this hour how would you feel if you looked up into the night sky and so face this seemingly sinister looking shape was spotted above los angeles in the us on friday doesn't speak it isn't it freaking out more than a few people who contacted police suspecting it of being anything from a u.f.o. to babs a missile attack the explanation there was far more down to worth it's actually the final launch of the year from space x. the private contract to get satellites into orbit and occasionally supplies to the international space station. we know that it does look quite beautiful isn't it and that's nice for the moment from a humph. good

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i tell you i'm sorry for me i could so i write these last words in hopes to put to rest these things that i never got off my chest. i remember when we first met in my life turned on each breath. but then my feeling started to change you talked about war like it was again still some are fond of you those that didn't like to question our arc and i secretly promised to never be like it said one does not leave a funeral the same as one enters the mind gets consumed with death this one quite different i speak to you now because there are no other takers. to claim that mainstream media has met its maker. hey everybody i'm stephen baldwin gosh i want to ask hollywood guy usual suspects they were proud americans first of all i'm just george washington and r.v.

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sack for worse so it's out there because my goal before this segment is over is to come christmas for everybody i. know there is that something about christmas i do like but if the whole point of the show is that isn't it a brutal truth the underaged acted side of life then i can't let the fat bearded man escape on time star i got it i got it. by the way i grew up with both christmas and hanukkah in my house so i got to see first hand how much hanukkah socks to get to go. to tourists right there just not a day's boat right there which i just put do get me a pile of plastic choice made by chinese children or get a. out of my face ok. you take my coin toys and my board get away i want to go. look at religion you run in here. hey you want to travel religion we're going to

take your toys and go to you know like you know. i do not good sir. so this so there are the normal things people criticize about christmas is based on materialism and consumerism it's buying stuff you don't need putting it inside boxes that are necessary wrapped in paper you don't like to give to people you're ambivalent about but. the most obvious points or perhaps not the worst christmas or really santa clause is the first kind of grand a lie you're told when you're a little i mean unless your uncle is secretly your father in which case you're dealing with a whole bigger issue. but for most of us the santa clause lie has a lot of important cultural lessons for our young impressionable brains if it shows us that it's ok to lie if everyone's involved in. the chills is that the entire

adult of thor and terry in society that tells us what to do where to go out of by the whole apparatus will jointly deceive us as a group like your friends your neighbors the news the weather norad norad this. reports santa claus. was there is nothing else in a miracle that all of adults society agrees on doesn't matter if it's not even your religion you don't have to be christian if you if you go a polytheist who believes every dribble water is a god in and of itself. you still can't walk up to a four year old and go hey you get hosed on this whole santa story the right way follow the money to follow behind. the kids you. know if you do if you do you're a monumental proportions in it if you don't agree to join in the law you're an

outcast a problem for society to deal with.