israel's prime minister orders the country's withdrawal from unesco this is why it's having several recognized world heritage sites in the country. also this hour a u.s. olympic gold medalist reveals years long abuse by a team doctor and accuses high ranking sports officials of silence we spoke to another former gymnast it 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 of covering up sexual abuse. and facebook admits that its fake news red flag system is having the opposite effect by attracting even more views to suspicious articles.

for their work and so are the international live from moscow. thanks so much for being with us this. hour the israeli prime minister has ordered the country to withdraw from unesco the un culture and heritage organization and follows a similar move announced by the united states in october over a perceived bias against israel that country's envoy to the agency explained the decision. has broken records of people crissy 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 and with more on israel's move. 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 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 recently we saw that the usa had withdrawn from unesco that happened in october and when the united states pulled out of the nasco they specifically cited what they called an anti israel bias now when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 cultural sites now that both the united states and israel are no longer participants in this very important international body. now you know world heritage sites across israel comprising of a dozen places representing three thousand years of history israeli newspaper columnist i mean oren believes unesco is also a platform for diplomatic action and that israel may eventually reverse its decision. every u.n. agency. a battlefield in the foreign policy and

diplomacy arena and you know no different than the human rights council and others but whether or not israel should grow from it is another matter altogether because just we drawing 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. their displeasure. is just a gesture one shouldn't read too much into it i mean while both gaza and the west bank have seen more clashes in a straight week in one rest in the region friday's demonstrations left two palestinians that more than sixty injured.

palestinian policy has called for christmas celebrations to be canceled following days of rage instead going on rest in the region comes in the wake of us president from decision to recognize jerusalem as the capital of israel in the palestinian administered city of ramallah israeli soldiers were filmed pushing back paramedics who were trying to reach those injured troops used weapons and other forceful measures preventing emergency crews from reaching. on thursday the united nations general assembly voted overwhelmingly to condemn don't trump 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 remain undeterred she put the focus on the few friends backing 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. and this will be remembered.

it's. a lot of german. jewish communities in germany rothsay they're facing growing it is a many say they've been the targets of discrimination all harassment at a daily basis they believe the problem has been exacerbated by the us president's controversial decision to recognize jerusalem as israel's capital with more here's all your correspondent. that was a half israeli flag 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 possible information 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 it's 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 the 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 are 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. attack. he told them that.

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. now the u.s. olympic committee on the country's gymnastics governing body are being accused of helping cover up years of sex abuse and child molestation and a lawsuit filed by a championship last mcadam maroney just to have been abused by 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 more details now from . 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 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 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 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 us gymnastics requesting that the organization participate in a confidential mediation the process culminated in a system into agreements that included a mutual non-disclosure cools and a mutual 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 front of my mother when i was alive and 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 nasser who they insist must be punished but the sports officials who failed to protect the child athletes the olympics 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 and we discussed more on his claims with former gymnasts right shoulder and hollander she was the first to publicly accused former u.s. team doctor larry not sar of sexual assault she's not surprised about claims of a big cover. 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 u.s.c.g. who have trained olympians those coaches have been found guilty of sexual abuse too

and again like like their member coaches they were allowed to continue praying on little girls and even their elite athletes for decades and usa g.'s response to that was was to defend under oath testimony to defend their policy saying they wanted to avoid a witch hunt 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 us to do 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. just rachel done all of the on those accusations now in other news the red faces at facebook which admits that it's fake news flags from the ring explain just why after this short break. so we want to press. you so. that's why. this is what. people. are still. so you got manmade global warming incinerating planet earth and causing an eco 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 a good g.p.s. monitor your car that's pointing over a cliff i don't care if the cliff is there my god where the says it's not there so i keep driving i do a film and always going to go right over the cliff because of the data tells me. welcome back to our facebook's fight against the fake news phenomenon has resulted in a boomerang effect the sidespin trying to red flag articles that contain false information but it does seem forbidden fruit tastes the sweetest. 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 did 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 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 dioceses they might not even be aware of their own biases was facebook and others struggled to contend with fabricated news stories that i had seen all the sights the u.s. ambassador to the netherlands isn't exactly helping much as you described his very own remarks as fake news. mentioned in debate. that there are no go zones in the netherlands.

we would call it fake because i never said. yes there. are no other words. there are no goals no zongo knows no goes or. not if you have a problem with evolution is your second language ok. fake news obviously i didn't call that big news i didn't you. know no. i think it has to do with. 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 as the words he's words 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 ambassadors and diplomacy. u.s. intelligence chiefs are urging congress to reauthorize the national security agency's far reaching spying program that expires at the end of this year they say that if lawmakers do not renew it the country's security could be compromised if congress fails to reauthorize the saw authority the intelligence community will lose valuable foreign intelligence information and the resulting intelligence gaps who make it easier for terrorists weapons proliferated malicious cyber actors and other foreign adverse reste to plan attacks against our citizens and i lies without detection. the internet spying program was established in two thousand and eight it 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 as well 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 i spoke to attorney michael flatley going to hear outlined his concerns about the program's renewal. 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 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 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. how would you feel if you looked up into the night sky and saw the following image a sinister looking shake that was spotted above signs at least in the us on friday for example more than just a couple of people they contacted police suspect thing of being anything from you a photo a missile attack the explanation though is. actually the final launch of the year from space x. the private contractor to get satellites into orbit and occasionally even supplies to the international space station. allowing the other news kremlin bodyguards are getting a boost in the hand to hand combat skills from a top mixed martial arts fighter. has been training agents from the federal

protective service whose primary aim is to go to high ranking officials including the russian president himself. has been a dream of. and 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 joined every second of this more trained professionals so the world is enjoyed a lot more when i get through college people to understand is. the main thing in the fighting is going just the skilled skill can be learned it's the hired this guy is a writer to give their life for their country so they were made great fun of.

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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 the 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 were joined now by dr clifford ross

a professor of finance at the smith school of business at the university of maryland dr ossie 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 that was 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 improvement in terms of the fate for borrowers basically well the current homeownership rate in the u.s. that's at sixty three point nine percent which is obviously below the two thousand and five peak of sixty nine point two percent so is this report reason to believe that we can actually see that rate jammed up a little bit. i think it's possible that we could see that i think in addition there with millenniums of have been holding back their their home buying at.