headlining israel's prime minister orders the country's withdrawal from unesco despite having several recognized world heritage sites. the u.s. olympic gold medalist reveals years long abuse by a team doctor and accuses high ranking sports officials of buying his silence coming up we speak to another former gymnast who was the first to publicly come forward i wish i could say that i was surprised but the reality with us a typical six is they have a decades long policy of covering up sexual abuse. and facebook admits that it's fake these red flag systems having the opposite effect by attracting even more views to suspicious article.

from moscow it started the weekend with me kevin zero in today first this saturday afternoon and the israeli prime minister has ordered the country to withdraw from unesco the un's culture and heritage organization it follows a similar move announced by the united states in october over a perceived bias against israel here's how the israeli envoy to the agency explained the decision now you know asco has broken records of people crecy incitement and lies against israel and the jewish people while polluting its noble core principles with politicisation and diplomatic terrorism that sometimes bordered on semitism with more on israel's move his khaled mope and. comes on the heels of quite a bit of criticism from the united states and israel of you know asco is activities now you nasco 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 in 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 you knew. no empty speech you. know didn't want to be revolution will ever divide us from jerusalem recently we saw that the usa had withdrawn from the nasco that happened in october and when the united states pulled out of the nasco they specifically cited what they called an anti israel bias now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 you mesko lists world heritage sites across israel comprising with dozen places representing three thousand years of history israeli newspaper cold with amir over and believes you know. a film for diplomatic action and that israel may eventually reverse its decision media. every u.n. agency. battlefield in the foreign policy and diplomacy arena and unesco use no different than the human rights council

and others but whether or not israel or should we throw from it is another matter altogether because just withdrawing 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 states too would come back having symbolized. displeasure. is just a gesture one shouldn't read too much into it meantime clashes erupted in gaza again on friday in the straight week of unrest there. and other the latest demonstrations violent there were two left two palestinians dead more than sixty others injured it's all in the wake of president trying to sit

in for the u.s. to recognize jerusalem as the israeli capital over the west bank city of ramallah israeli soldiers were filmed at one point pushing back paramedics they were trying to reach the injured troops used weapons and other forceful measures preventing emergency crews from reaching the wounded. on thursday the united nations general assembly voted overwhelmingly of course to condemn donald trump's unilateral decision concerned that the dispute over the city status should only be resolved by talks in the end only nine member states including the u.s. voted against that resolution even so the country's u.n. ambassador remained undeterred putting the focus on the new 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 us and the way and this will be remembered.

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in another twist jewish communities in germany say they're facing growing anti semitism many say they've been the target of discrimination harassment on a daily basis and they believe the problems be made worse by the us president's recent policies towards israel with more of what's happening there in europe or europe correspondent peter all of. was israeli flags burning in the center of the in 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 the possible information need much. 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 is bad and then you go to the gas chamber in five years you will be dead 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. israel saying in fact the leaders in the jewish community say that beast 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. on a daily basis with almost thirty percent saying that they've been targeted or harassed in the last year just this last month in the bedding district of berlin a school boy was attacked by a group of classmates who told him that hitler was good because he killed the jews from the government side we heard a strong response from the german justice minister michael mass any kind of anti semitism is an attack on everyone and he said it is a must never be allowed to have a place in society again but looking at an optic in attacks in germany targeting jews that may seem easier said than done peter all over r.t.

berlin. the u.s. olympic committee on the country's gymnastics governing body are being accused of helping cover up the years of sex abuse and child molestation in a lawsuit filed by champion gymnast cullen maroney she alleges to have been abused by a u.s. team doctor for years and then paid to keep silent about it she also names other sports institutions prefer from preventing it from publicly coming forward covering this story today samir a car. mckayla maroney america's a limp 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 i left the sport it seemed when ever and wherever this man could find a chance i was treated this charismatic my leg happened when i was fifteen years old i had flown all day and night 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 alone with him in his hotel room getting 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 into in 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 system and agreements that included a mutual non-disclosure cools and a mutual disparagement 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 a man you know pandered to me. front of my mother when i was eleven the fact that he just thinks oh i flew to 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 lympics are 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 not without a price we discuss roadies claims with. the whole of the know she was the first to publicly accused former u.s. team doctor lawyer innocent of sexual assault and there's i'm surprised about claims of a big coverup here. you know i wish i could say that i was surprised but the reality with usa gymnastics is they have a decades long policy of covering up sexual abuse and of and of silencing victims some of the most prominent coaches in usa gee who have trained olympians those those coaches have been found guilty of sexual abuse too and again like like their member coaches they were allowed to continue preying on little girls and even their elite athletes for decades and usa jews response to that was was to defend in under a testimony to defend their policy saying they wanted to avoid

a witch hunt so when you have an organization that has a decades long policy of supporting sexual predators a decades long policy of silencing victims by literally shoving reports in 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. well you know 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 the legal activities occurred there are very legitimate questions about whether or not this nondisclosure agreement was even legal 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 nassar situation but with how they've handled sexual predators in the organization for decades but 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. live from moscow this is also international thanks for watching this weekend probably stay with me kevin i would too for at least the next fifteen minutes maybe more if you've got the time coming up the red faces at facebook which admits that it's fake news flags a flattering we'll tell you why.

the politicians to do something to. put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president one should. somehow want to. have to go on to be cross with what the full story of the morning can't be good that i'm interested always in the waters about how. this should. russianness leaks taking junk chung olympics remains controversial what awaits the

olympians in south korea and more important what awaits them after they get. high again before the break facebook's admitted that its efforts to combat fake news. he's been trying to red flag articles which contain false information but it seems the markets are instead doing the opposite the trucks and even more views as jacqueline brokers been finding out facebook sees itself on the front lines 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 at facebook and we're committed to fighting it after all people want to see accurate information and so do we. that 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 effective 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 u.s. 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 contacts 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 and 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 as facebook and others struggle to contend with fabricated news story said all this site seems the u.s. ambassador to the netherlands is not exactly helping him out to describe his own. you mentioned in debate. 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 go go's or. not if 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 the second he said these words in the beginning from his stance as an addition and when he was asked 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 any problems i think he will be sitting just like all the other best interests and. also in the headlines today u.s. intelligence chief in congress to reauthorize the national security agency's far

reaching spying program which expires at the end of the year so they need to get a move on they say that if lawmakers do not renew it the country's security will be 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 proliferator is malicious cyber outers and other foreign adverse reason to plan attacks against our citizens and allies without detection a potted history here this internet spying program was established back in two thousand and eight basically gives an authority to intelligence agencies to collect data from foreign targets it also allows for the interception of americans communications in certain cases to well critics and social activists no say they fear this 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 atlanta has his concerns about this program under the law they're 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 redialing 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 to 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 observed a backdoor way to be able to do that right away from something really different how

would you feel if you looked up in the sky and night and saw this what is that well a lot of people ask that question this in this look in shape there was spotted above los angeles in the u.s. on friday freaking out more than a few people who then contacted police suspecting that big anything from a u.f.o. to a missile attack to work out isn't it well that's when they should be can tell you if you were worried is a bit more down to earth it's actually the final launch of the year from space x. of course that private contract to the get satellites into orbit and occasionally supplies the s.s. seems all went well if so happy christmas. but down on earth friendly body guards are getting a boost in the hand to hand combat skills from another than a top mixed martial arts fighter his name has been training agents from the federal protective service his primary is to guard high ranking officials and even president putin himself.

that's been a dream of mine since i was a kid to visit it and of course i never in general to be invited to train special forces so i was very excited and joy there were second this were true professionals so we're always enjoyed a lot more when i get to coach people though that understand we're fighting is. the main thing in the fighting is not just the skill skill can be learned it's the heart this guy is a writer to give their life for their country so they were made great fighters more about a much. calmer versus like interviews and. this is this is the former. remover you sure hope how does the who play you know what our history or the different business is.

so every now by the looks of it share your thoughts on the day stories for us on facebook and twitter what is kevin though in folks watching us international live for most of the some of the afternoon has just moved off to twenty five past three . that's good but the survival guide looks stacey just like all the stored safely that the credit all the service. we should know there are you going to get a back pack to. know what's repatriations king will look at the rest of seven years. bill of the separate parts guys report. los angeles the city of luxury and fame but also an alarming number of people

living in the streets. the simple fact in l.a. is there's just not enough shelter even if people on the streets right now decided to come in there's nowhere to come in it's been a struggle. this man found his own response to the problem and constructed dozens of tiny homes for people in need of shelter when you have nothing in order to go. you know having something like this may as well be a castle but do the authorities accept such solution. me house on city parking space is not a solution. to have someone monitoring the site otherwise it will be a free for all and is there a better alternative to end the homelessness crisis. thank

. god thank you thank you thank you thank. god. taking yes this week let's talk about christmas and if you have any children in the room you might want to send them away or put their head inside some sort of bird for we're selling something because my goal before this segment is over is to 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 in a brutal truth the underage acted side of life then i can't let the fat bearded man escape on time star i got it ok. 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 but i did go. out of choices right there just not a day's bold just right than it's i just put to give me a pile of plastic choice made by chinese children or get out of my face ok. we're going to take my point and toys and my fourth get away i want to go. look at a religion you run in here. you want to travel religion oh we're going to take your toys and go to you know i don't like god 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 the people your ambivalent about but. the most obvious points are perhaps not the worst christmas or really santa clause is the first. kind of grand to 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 claus 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. it shows us 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 or the news the weatherman norad norad there's the decay reports santa claus. was nothing else in a miracle that all of adult society agrees on doesn't matter if it's not even your religion you don't have to be christian if you're if you're oh 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. if you do if you do you're a monumental proportions. if you don't agree to join in the law you're an outcast a problem for society to deal with and it gets worse.