four pm from moscow israel's prime minister orders the country's withdrawal from unesco despite having several recognized world heritage site. the u.s. olympic gold medalist reveals that he is 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 is they had a decades long policy covering up sexual abuse. and facebook admits that it's fake news that red flag systems having the opposite effect it's been attracting more viewers to suspicious articles.

live from moscow it's all to the weekend with me kevin i went today and first the saturday afternoon the israeli prime minister's ordered the country to withdraw from unesco the un's culture and heritage organization it follows a similar move announced by the united states back in october over a perceived bias against israel here's how the country's envoys describe 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 and semitism is more in israel's move his. but comes on the heels of quite a bit of criticism from the united states and israel of you know asco his 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 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 know. 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 recently we saw that the usa had withdrawn from unesco that happened in october and when the united states pulled out of the nasco they specifically cited what they called an anti israel bias now when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 cultural sites now that both the united states and israel are no longer participants in this very important international body. you know lists world heritage sites across israel in fact comprising the dozen places representing three thousand years of history israeli newspaper columnist and pollution esque it was also a platform for diplomatic action to really think that israel may eventually reverse its decision here. 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 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 to come back having symbolized. their displeasure. is just a gesture one shouldn't read too much into it meanwhile clashes erupted again in gaza friday the third straight week of unrest now in that region. the other. the latest fall of demonstrations left two palestinians dead and more than

sixty others injured so will of course in the wake of president comes decision for the u.s. to recognize jerusalem as the israeli capital in the palestinian and ministered city of ramallah israeli soldiers were killed pushing back paramedics one point they were trying to reach the injured troops used weapons and other forceful measures preventing emergency crews from reaching wounded. in other developments on thursday the united nations general assembly voted overwhelmingly to condemn donald trump's unilateral decision concerned that the dispute over the city status should only be resolved by talks only nine member states including the u.s. voted against the resolution even so the countries u.n. ambassador remained undeterred putting the focus on the few friends backing this jerusalem decision here now. this will make

a difference on how americans look at the us and on how we look at country who disrespect and the way and this will be remembered. it's.

this 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 problem made worse by the us president's controversial decision to recognize jerusalem as israel's capital with more europe correspondent. oh god 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 i know from your i six me your dimensions and the

problem 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 is a bit and then you go to the gas chamber in five years and we have unfortunately a lot of cases different and it's similar to do mostly it's an anemic we get a lot of phone calls with. 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 those who were surveyed 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 venting district of berlin a school boy was attacked by a group of classmates who told him that hitler was good because he'd killed the jews from the government side we've heard a strong response from the german justice minister mass. any kind of anti semitism is an attack on everyone and it's as a must never be allowed to have a place in society again but looking at an optic attacks in germany targeting jews

that may seem easier said than done peter all over r.t. . the u.s. olympic committee in the country's gymnastics governing body are being accused of helping cover up years of sex abuse and child molestation in a lawsuit filed by a champion gymnast mccullough 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 too for preventing her from publicly coming forward or details from artists america. mckayla 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 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 carries night of my life happened when i was fifteen years old i had flown all day and night with the team to go 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 into agreements that included 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 penetrated me in for. 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 discussed brody's claims with. hall and she was the first to publicly accused us to dr larry nuts of sexual assault and she was surprised about claims of big cover up she says. 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 the u.s. a.g. 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 is that 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 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. 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 your 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 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 how they've handled sexual predators in the organization for decades when you have an organization like usa do you that is in charge of our libyan's 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 right children all under the talking to us the bright red faces you spoke we should miss that it's a. new thing for them all. the facts to keep people away it seems we'll tell you

more right after this eighty second right. you got manmade global warming. but the corporations feel like you know what that might cost us a penny at the end of the year donica just to our eyes. for them 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 a g.p.s. monitor your car that's pointing over a cliff i don't care if the cliff is there by god or themselves it's not there so i keep driving i'm going to have found little ways i'm going to go right over the cliff because that's what the data tells me. again thanks to this we could so facebook's fight against fake news has resulted in a somewhat unexpected boomerang effect the site's been trying to read flag articles that contain false information but forbidding fruit tastes the sweetest it seems as jackley burger explains 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 flank 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 contrary 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 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 so as facebook and others struggle to contend with fabricated news stories circulating on this seems the u.s. ambassador to the netherlands is not exactly helping them out is often described in his own remarks as fake news. 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 the netherlands. go nose to nose no go zone it's. not that it's you have a problem with english is your second language ok. fake news obviously i didn't call that big news i didn't use. no no. i think that's to do with the second he said these words in the beginning from his stance as an politician and when he was the second time he was already elected as ambassador as an investor and just sense the words he's words 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 ambassador in the. other news today u.s.

intelligence chiefs are urging congress to reauthorize the national security agency's far reaching spy program which expires at the end of the year so they have 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 the so authority 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 an other foreign adverse reason to plan attacks against our citizens and allies without detection the internet spying programs established back in two thousand and eight basically gives an authority to intelligence organizations to collect data from foreign targets but it also allows for the interception of americans communications in certain cases to now the worry as critics and social activists say they fear any renewal now will actually lead to increased levels of surveillance the proposed bill is not a reform measure on the contrary it would expand surveillance grant the government

more authority and other provisions of pfizer and could be read to codify current unlawful surveillance practices attorney michael flanagan told us about 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 read dialing the same the same frequency you know keep listening for a few seconds and turn it off and start again to 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 spy 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. why small that how would you feel if you looked up into the night sky and saw this sinister looking shape that was part of the bubbles angeles and us on friday freaked out more than a few people i contacted the police suspect it could be a u.f.o. or a missile attack or could it be the explanation is far more down to earth it's actually the final launch of the year from space x. your private contract to get satellites into orbit occasionally supplies the international space station as well so that mystery solved. it back down on earth. probably bodyguards are getting a boost in their hand to hand combat skills we hear from a top mixed martial arts fighter guy's name is artem lobo he's been training agent from the federal protective service whose primary aim is to guard high ranking officials need in the russian president himself if needs be.

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 enjoyed every second of this for trained professionals so one role is enjoyed a lot more when i get there with cold people those that understand the fighting is . the main thing in the fighting is not just the skilled skill can be learned it's the heart this guy is a writer to give their life for their country so they would make great fighters none of them are. the murderer says the interviews and. this is this is the former. no one knows where you're sure home how does it work play out what out there is there more than different businesses.

the holidays thanks for watching share your thoughts on the day stories by following us on facebook and twitter i'm kevin always but with more in just about thirty five minutes time live from moscow. all across europe municipalities are taking their water supply back from private companies to me to people this will simple song alone even if i company guess from elsewhere they invite private companies to take over the utilities. we bought a telescope. a lab from us you guys who got. us to quote them out. for you man but the lift hill brought up locals are ready to

stand up for the basic human right of access to water it's about water but it's also much more than it's about the hurt and the redistribution of. this. date downwards.

this is boom bust broadcasting around the world from washington d.c. i'm bart chilton filling in on this day december twenty second in the year eight hundred seventy seven scientific american published their issue announcing thomas edison's invention of the phonograph it could play and record sound back on a tinfoil cylinder it was seventeen years later an eight hundred ninety four that the german immigrant an inventor a mill berliner founded the united states gramophone country company to market his improvement on the idea a flat disk since then recorded sound has of course more through many commercial formats from l.p.'s to eight tracks and cassettes the cd is and then of course you know digital files and online streaming the first major file format the m p three now has to compete with several high end formats offering much better sound quality

music legend neil young was so irritated by the poor quality of most digital audio that in two thousand and four he introduced a crown funded device and company of his own pono offering master quality digital sound but pono lost its online music store last year when apple the original commercial motor for the adoption of m p three s. bought the company that hosted it and shut it down it seemed a continuing class between neil young who throughout his career has written various protest songs including corporate protest tunes but earlier this month young unveiled a free for now at least online archive of his entire collection using a streaming service called x. stream that plays the highest resolution available for the strength of your internet connection. the recorded music industry really is an important component

of the world in our national economy and it is a larger part of the music industry valued at one hundred thirty billion dollars globally that's about three times more than just the actual recorded music itself and while some older folks are now discovering streaming many millennia olds are actually going backwards retro in the other direction they're listening to vinyl to analog for quality and sound it's really fueling a renaissance in sales of l.p.'s and turntables and causing bottlenecks at record pressing plants i did my part being part of the trend of bought green day's american idiot on vinyl for my neighbor as a gift and it sounds great everything old is new again with music and we have a booming music industry in the states and around the world and we have a meal berliner and thomas edison to thank for the electronic start to all of that recorded music now check this out from the best of boom bust.

this week the national association of homebuilders released a report showing a jump in home builder confidence in december most economists expected the rate to remain unchanged so it was a welcome surprise but what does it mean for actual home ownership to discuss that further we're joined now by dr clifford ross a professor of finance at the smith school of business at the university of maryland dr asa what's your biggest takeaway from this report how significant is that. well i think it's actually significant given given that this is some of the best numbers we've seen coming from the n.a.s. peace index for some time and the idea that home builder optimism is picking up steam is consistent with the with the view that we need to get more construction activity going on into the home building market here in order for it to see some some.