the week's top stories from our say the u.s. is that all but isolated and un is the past majority of nations voted against president trump's decision to recognize jerusalem as israel's capital a move that's calls almost daily clashes in the region. the situation here. extremely volatile. also to come boris johnson visits russia for the first time as the british foreign secretary and. are at a low point here at least try to break the ice by attempting a bit of russian. thank you very much to get you general should you want to travel to welcome meet me and my team today specifically. because i think you state.

and pentagon has admitted the u.s. has conducted full scale military operations in yemen as the humanitarian crisis that works. so i welcome the latest developments in a look back at what's been happening over the last seven days to you watching the weekly here on. the u.s. was dealt a strong rebuke by members of the united nations on thursday over it you know that for recognition of jerusalem as israel's capital one hundred twenty eight states defied president trump over the status of the divided city despite pressure and threats from u.s. officials.

they take hundreds of millions of dollars and even billions of dollars and then they vote against this what we're watching those votes let it go to get sets we'll save a lot. of those in favor of the draw brazil issue raised it. to her. but. those against. team foods in favor of both united states will remember this day in which it was singled out for attack in the general assembly for the very act of exercising our right as a sovereign nation america will play a part and. no vote in the united nations will make any difference on.

the sofa the to obstruct through the security council meeting the maintenance of the film's treaties until their kids all work on the international community it is considered the place in violation of the rights comes to believe if you shameful that didn't meetings they didn't they didn't make part of our un members they threatened all the other members this is bullying and this john good will not fall for the word of.

well even countries which often clash on major issues join voices to condemn the u.s. move on jerusalem rivals like saudi arabia and iran and also india and pakistan came together at the general assembly some of the geopolitical experts we heard from say that america's bullying tactics undermine the u.s. think it's unfortunate that the united states finds itself under this kind of leadership which is undermining the standing of this country internationally if countries acquiesce to the us and if they accept being punching bag for the american administration and voting in accordance with directives from nikki haley then what's the point of having the united nations i think we all know. a new era

in which a major. resort to blackmail and bribery only to secure votes in the general assembly this is the first occasion on which the state decree a major. member of the security council has resorted to search midget's i do think that it will be deplorable united states will carry through and threats of this kind because they are called indicators traits in theater situations that you play pretty against iraq you straight they do so. well anger is still being felt in the palestinian territories with clashes in garza and the west bank for a third week in a row. one of the. was . wasn't like who was that it.

was. probably for the love of. god i didn't see it reports now from our middle east correspondent poor slave who's in the west bank and also gaza journalist hidden could already both witness just kind of tense the situation his base. the situation here is extremely was no. kind of grace because i've been running down the road now. it's all just made their way to the right in see them off to my left i'm a car and look someone a certain way in firing tear gas and everybody's been running amok the streets are rich and. the soldiers are just you know yes they've cut. all the

way into the pit. you can have the ambulances so they certainly will be the sheep who have been in the us and at the same time adjusting my coming over to the back of the posse somehow exactly what's going on but. we've taken time so we've taken cover in a way in a petrol station. going to be into a situation where informants how can a man who are sick. and. we're standing right here you can see that there's a number of injured people you can see the insist on having people with them you can see the israeli tanks that which in the last few minutes just made their way from up the road to emmaus and see the tree saying also from allah but they really

have come all the way in now so. now. that. today's day of rage that has been called for by various palestinian factions is well and truly underway there are youngsters who have been here for the better part of the last hour who feel hurling rocks and pavements at these waiting soldiers who thinks only been inching they way closer they've been fired tear gas in the style it's still quite a strong smell of tear gas that is hanging over us. the protesters and demonstrators coming here today for the third friday enraged that this friday was different other than the two fridays that people were very close to the fence this time and we piece out very important leader actor and polluted shins

and activist joining the civilians who are doing the protests as you see there are at least five ambulances waiting for any injury and ready to pick them up there are still hundreds of them protesters as you can hear we can hear live bullets i think there is another another injury right now and they're actually throwing gas bombs on the demonstrators as you can see despite all of the live bullets despite all the gas bombs despite all the rebel berlitz by listening protesters what they're ingalls are the west bank already jerusalem are super attesting are still demonstrating people are searched pressing their anger. in other news this week boris johnson visit moscow for the first time in his rose britain's foreign secretary the trip does come with relations between the two countries and on the story. was following johnson's meeting with his russian counterpart. well we

hadn't seen a u.k. foreign secretary in moscow for five years and i can tell you that i hadn't seen such a remarkable press conference at the foreign ministry villa behind me for a long time there were many jokes many ways to poke each other not necessarily in a bad way after listing all the essential topics that are usual for such talks ranging from north korea to ukraine russia and the theories that it meddled and the votes all around the world and the u.k. as well came up once before just to remind you the foreign secretary boris johnson said that he hadn't seen any evidence of russian interference he even used the words not a sausage well mr johnson seems to have changed his mind today he said that he hadn't seen any evidence of successful attempts to interfere and i asked boris

johnson to elaborate on that a little bit there was last on the free abundant evidence of. russian interference in the elections in. germany. from. america but as i say there is new evidence of any successful russian interference. in the u.k. other highlights of the press conference included boris johnson speaking russian a few times saying that he is a committed rusa fall in response to another question by me the u.k. foreign secretary confirmed that once he was in tehran a couple of weeks ago he visited the russian embassy secretly to see the venue of the famous tehran conference during the second world war he was also asked about moscow travel advice that he received from one of the british m.p.'s which included

warnings about drinking challenge again. and honey traps and many other things so the question was about trust and the question was about whether he had encountered any of these threats so far in the russian capital. but i want you to know it's a measure of my of my trust. to soon as i go to this. try mediately handed my coat my hat my gloves i mean everything that was in my pocket secret or otherwise to say again that drove in the knowledge that he would look after it and would come to no harm more than just a few times boris johnson reminded of the differences in the views that london and moscow have on various international issues it seemed that he really felt it was essential to keep talking about this every time he said something positive about russia but at the end of the day the common message was from both top diplomats

that dialogue needs to prevail. joint news conference with foreign minister lavrov boris johnson also try that russian language skills. a russian find. a committee process. a diplomatic relationship that is hundred fifty years old and dates from the time when the queen elizabeth sent in boy to ivan the terrible right in the front. i'm certain that i'm the first foreign secretary in the history of my own to be cool for it. for sure customers as i said earlier only buying. produce things from cattle crisps to. somebody has

just given me it. for their own nice. use of. i guess that's the if is. so when it comes to trust our trust dearest and trust him so much already it's all in the forest nobody. in the police. thank you very much so get your generous you hospitality and welcome. to today's pursued the bolshoi while the british foreign secretary there also visited red square while he was here and as well as seeing central moscow mark c. and his team laid flowers at the tomb of the unknown soldier a second world war memorial next to the kremlin during the war britain and the soviet union fought together against nazi germany writer and broadcaster mary did you have skied does think that johnson's visit will be it will bring positive results but only with so high. you can see maybe some glimmer of hope on the horizon just in terms of the

sort of growing report that the seem to be at that meeting between boris johnson and sergei lavrov. but i also think that anything that is anything positive that's going to come out of that meeting seriously positive will only emerge in time i think boris johnson is going to come back to london he's going to say you know i really put it to the russians i didn't give an inch. and then it will be with time we'll see maybe they'll be some other maybe we'll have a reciprocal visit and maybe just maybe things will start to unfreeze but then you know i'm an optimist and we're coming up to new year so here's hoping. that it has been a roller coaster week the big corn investors the cryptocurrency hit closer to a new high of twenty thousand dollars last weekend only to see a spectacular tumble to a third of its value a few days later but much like before cohen is expected to bounce back with details

his artes and this is seth. so weeks we've been floating along with the bitcoin bubble cool to pin a crypto currency daydream as bitcoin rocketeers in value but off to witnessing incredible growth it was only a matter of time and so we also saw a drop and it hit the market cause when quick ten days the ass woke up and face reality they didn't like what they saw. some day took the opportunity to school what they called new be invested as.

bitcoin has captivated observers and investors worldwide but amid the fascination that's been cautioned with even the k. found a bit quintal called issuing a warning about investment and investment and be growing right now i would say is the riskiest investment you can make it is an extremely high risk as soon as people realize that this is how it works they will start selling now markets are attempting to make sense of the nosedive that seemingly came out of the blade although experts previously warned of its volatility and enthusiastic set and the cryptocurrency will bounce back i think this time next year and we're going to be looking at the height of twenty thousand as a dip in itself i think you're looking at the protests on the part of anything below one hundred thousand a coin is a bargain it's just right now you know cryptocurrency. kind of relate this to the

dot com bubble in the ninety's. and in the last two months we've had about a ten thousand dollar drop so when you look at the patterns you know this is a bubble and it's going to correct itself but then you have these influencers that are going on social media and are telling people you know what the right currency to invest in or i'm getting rid of this and you knew something on that was going to shake up on the horizon the future of bitcoin is anyone's guess but one thing's for certain two thousand and eighteen will be an interesting year for the virtual currency. issues i think reporting there now the pentagon did admit on wednesday that it's been conducting full scale military operations in yemen this year the revelations came in a statement by u.s. central command. u.s. forces have conducted multiple ground operations in more than one hundred twenty seventeen to remove key leaders and it's in twenty seventeen to remove key leaders and disrupt the ability of al qaeda in the arabian peninsula and ices in yemen to

use ungoverned spaces in yemen as a hub for terrorist recruiting training and base of operations to export terror worldwide well yemen has already been enduring deadly air strikes from the saudi led coalition since intervened in early twenty fifteen back in the yemeni government against the who the rebel uprising and that time more than ten thousand paper thought to have died countless of those injured and with survivors injuring what the u.n. calls a humanitarian catastrophe. have them up move has destroyed everything around even in the neighboring villages we can rely only on kind of people they say was bringing water tankers but one or two tankers is not enough even for the ten families.

were living happily inherited when the saudi airstrikes began. but no one helped us here i've got you see we had no the mattresses no milk of the children. up next hawkins is the broader picture of what's happening in the country. a tripling of air strike numbers from twenty six the official confirmation of boots on the ground something many politicians have been keen to avoid mentioning to avoid bad publicity with the yemeni conflict raging for nearly three years now and spawning two u.s. administrations american policy has some more devolved since the first days of the war what we need to do is bring all the parties together and find a political arrangement it is not solved by having another proxy war fought

inside of yemen now aside from massive sales to saudi arabia what began as logistical support and intelligence sharing as part of the saudi led coalition moved to supporting operations in an advise and assist role drone of planes strikes now multiple ground operations the military involvement may have good intents on the surface comments in the sport of to harvest groups stabilizing a war torn country but as involvement has escalated the presence of terror groups has actually expanded now aside from the irony targeting militants allegedly allied to the saudi backed militias there's the question of a vicious circle air strikes and other military involvement in the region has led to terror groups capitalizing on precisely those sentiments among the populace which lead to heightened recruitment and support for jihadism just remember libya and syria and this actually comes from none other than members of the u.s.

congress the civil war inside yemen has aided the enemies for which we actually have declared war against al-qaeda is getting stronger inside yemen because as more and more of the country becomes becomes ungovernable because of this war al qaeda is moving into that territory isis against which we have not declared war but we are engaged in active military activity in the region against it's getting stronger inside yemen two of these problems don't even touch upon the catastrophic humanitarian situation described by n.g.o.s as the worst in the world with mass civilian casualties famine and cholera spreading in the country. daniel hawkins there with britain is promising more emergency aid for yemen international development secretary penny mordaunt says saudi arabia has no excuse for cutting access to humanitarian assistance it is really clear that if you're using starvation as a weapon you are in breach of international humanitarian law i very much understand

the strategic importance of our relationship with saudi arabia but we do not help that relationship by not speaking about the facts of the matter if the route to be a breach of international humanitarian law that would put that relationship into difficulty when in fact an additional fifty million pounds is in aid is being made available to yemen taking the u.k.'s total for both this and next year to two hundred five million but that does pale in in contrast to the volume of british arms sales to saudi arabia since the start of the conflict britain sold more than four billion pounds worth of weapons to riyadh should be allowed here from the stop the war coalition says that if the u.k. really wants to help yemen it should reconsider those arms sales. when saudi arabia started its war in yemen in the first few months of the war britain's arms sales to saudi arabia went up by a thousand percent during the course of this war despite the evidence from human rights organizations that those weapons have been used in war crimes it has been

admitted that british forces are part of the joint operations. command in saudi arabia they've been part of training forces of picking targets so they're very much accountable these war crimes or this blockade has been discovered yesterday it's been going on for a long time and you know we've seen how the british government reacted to i think if britain really wanted to help the people of yemen then they should stop supporting saudi arabia stop selling them weapons stop giving them diplomatic cover . in other news this week pro independence parties in the spanish region of catalonia secured their majority in election it's dealt a serious blow to to the central government in madrid which had hoped to defuse the independence crisis having denounced october's referendum and sacking local leaders now though the deposed former president is hailing another victory. i want to

congratulate the catalan people because they have sent a message to the world the catalan republic has beaten the monarchy and article one fifty five the spanish they has been beaten. it's. the six right we saw. that morning that many in this movement. so then here's how the results are reflected in the catalan parliament pro independence parties have taken seventy of one hundred thirty five seats available where the pro unionist citizens party won the election by a small margin in terms of vote share although it's not enough to form a coalition capable of taking power spanish prime minister mariano horry expressed his disappointment over the results last year we need those who want to show you didn't get enough seats to carry a. new period based on the not come from two shouldn't start in cuts alone well

back in october madrid rejection of the cattle an independent referendum is not only characterized by political pressure but also the use of police force against voters which left up to a thousand injured. so what if people feeding him her not and this is not the first three people that this order to be heard and good taken from here by ambulance so is this happening from the early hours of the morning by this insidious placing the madrid government and the madrid media arrests or have gone through all of the tools in their tool box

they've used violence they used media demonisation they tried to fan the color yellow they tried to go after the cattle and autonomous t.v. stations simply for calling people. calling the president a president acts i don't and i don't know what their tools they have left just by trying to use all of these tools the independent to say what it's an extraordinary moment for democracy in europe. if you watch the week here not say thanks for your company this morning we'll be back with more news in just my behalf and.

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