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israel's prime minister orders the country's withdrawal from unesco despite having several recognized world i would like. us olympic gold medalist reveals years long abused by a team doctor and accused high ranking schools officials of buying her 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 agent asterix is they have a decades long policy of covering up sexual abuse. and facebook admits that it's fake news red flag system is having the opposite of fact by attracting even more
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views to suspicious articles. you're watching out international live from moscow studio with mina do a tutor welcome to the program 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 that countries and four to the agency explain that position. has broken records of hypocrisy incitement and lies against israel and the jewish people while polluting is noble core principles we politicize asian and diplomatic terrorism sometimes bordered on anti semitism and with more on israel's move his caleb maupin. comes on the heels of quite a bit of criticism from the united states and israel of you know asco his
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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 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 know. no empty speech you know didn't want to be revolution. about. recently we saw that the usa had withdrawn
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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 know escalus ten thousand world heritage sites across israel representing three thousand years of history israeli newspaper columnist believes the organization is also a platform for diplomatic action and that israel may eventually reverse its
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decision every un 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 withdraw 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. meanwhile both girls and the west
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bank have seen more clashes in the third straight week of unrest in the region demonstrations on friday left two palestinians dead and more than sixty injured. in the palestinian hot our party has called for christmas celebrations to be canceled more days of rage instead the ongoing unrest in the region comes in the wake of the u.s. president on top decision to recognize to release them as the capital of israel. in the palestinian administered city of ramallah israeli soldiers before them pushing back paramedics who were trying to reach the injured the troops used weapons and other forceful measures preventing emergency crews from reaching the wounded. on thursday the united nations general assembly voted overwhelmingly to condemn donald trump's unilateral decision most members believe the dispute over the city status
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should only be resolved by talks only nine states including the u.s. voted against the resolution and voiced support for trump's move even so the country's u.n. ambassador remained undeterred but in the focus on the few friends backing the jerusalem decision. this will make a difference on how americans look at the un and on how we look at countries who do respect us in the us and this will be remembered.
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jewish communities in germany say that by saying going on to some it is and many say they've been the target of discrimination or harassment on a daily basis and believe the problem is being made worse by the us president's controversial decision to recognize she was slim as israel's capital his all europe correspondent peter. yeah. that
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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 you wouldn't mention any 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 that the typical. israelis bed story is bad and 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
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a lot of phone calls with. israel saying in fact leaders in the jewish community say that these type of incidents 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 don't think until semitism. on a daily basis with almost thirty percent saying that they've been targeted or
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harassed in the last year just this last month in the venting district of a school boy was attacked by a group of classmates who told him that hitler was good because he'd kill the jews from the government side we've heard a strong response from the german justice minister us 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 uptick in attacks 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 years of sex abuse and child molestation and a lawsuit filed by champion gymnast mckayla maroney she alleges to have been abused by a u.s. team doctor for years and then paid to keep silent she also accuses other sports institutions of preventing her from publicly coming forward more details now from
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samir khan. 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 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
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when ever and wherever this man could find a chance i was treated this carries night of my leg happened when i was fifteen years old i had flown all day and night with the team to get to tokyo he had 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 the 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 to agreements that included a mutual nondisclosure 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
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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. 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 moronis claims with gymnasts rachel and holland she was the first to publicly accused former u.s. team to. sexual assault and isn't surprised about claims of a big coverup. you know i wish i could say that i was
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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 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 jeez response to that 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
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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 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
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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. facebook fight again fake news has resulted in a boomerang effect the signs being trying to red flag articles that contain false information but a big tanks 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 to facebook and we're committed to for you after all people want to see accurate information. 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
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actually inspire the opposite of the desired reaction. academic research on correcting misinformation how 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 it 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
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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 of individual agendas and biases they might not even be aware of their own biases as facebook and others struggle to contend with fabricated news stories circulating on this time it's the u.s. ambassador to then that's and is not exactly helping matters off describing his own remarks as. you mentioned in the debate. that there are no go zones in their lives. we would call it fake news i never said. yes there are no go zones in the netherlands. her no no zone go no no no go zones. out that you know it's you have
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a problem with your second. which ok. the fake news obviously i didn't call that news i didn't use the word no no. i think that has to do with he 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 as towards his words that's kind of weird of course i don't think there will be and problems i think will be sitting just like all the other. people on the sea. u.s. intelligence chiefs are urging congress to real thrice the national security agency's far reaching spying program which expires at the end of the year they say that if the lawmakers don't renew it the country's security will be undermined if
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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 proliferation is malicious cyber out says and other foreign adverse reason to plan attacks against our citizens and allies without detection internet spying program was established in two thousand and eight it permits the n.s.a. to collect data from foreign targets but it also allows for the interception of americans communications in certain cases to critics and social activists they fear the renewal will actually lead to increased levels of surveillance and the proposed bill is not a reform measure on the contrary it would expand surveillance grants the government more authority under other provisions of pfizer and could be read to codify current unlawful surveillance practices attorney michael flanagan outlined his concerns
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about the program. under the law they are 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. from the same frequency you know keep listening for a few seconds and turn it off and start again turn off the start again and we have more than a little bit of evidence that that has happened in an effort to listen in and other calls 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. now how would you feel if you looked up into the night sky and saw this this innocent looking shape with bosses about cloth on
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his knees in the us on friday and freaked out more than a few people who contacted police suspecting it as being anything from a u.f.o. to a missile attack the explanation was far more down to earth it was actually the final launch of the year from space x. as the private contract of the get satellites into orbit and occasionally supplies to the international space station. kremlin and bodyguards are getting a beast in their 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 guard high ranking officials including the russian president.
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