week's top stories from r.t. the u.s. has left all but isolated at the u.n. is the vast majority of nations voting against president from decision to recognize jerusalem is israel's capital a move that's triggered almost daily clashes in the region. the situation here. extremely but. also to come boris johnson visits russia for the first time as british foreign secretary and although relations are it's a low point he at least tried to break the ice by attempting a piece of russian thank you very much sir if you were generous to do your hospitality and welcoming me in my t.v. today specifically. the pentagon has admitted the u.s.

has conducted full scale military operations in yemen as the humanitarian crisis there worsens. hello there welcome the latest developments and i look back at what's been happening over the last seven days to you watching the weekly here on r.t. international. now the u.s. was dealt a strong rebuke by members of the united nations on thursday over its unilateral 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. that. when we make a decision about where to locate our embassy we don't expect those we've helped to

talk it says on thursday they'll be a vote criticizing our choice the u.s. will be taking names that. they take hundreds of millions of dollars and even billions of dollars of the go to get just what we're watching those votes let it go to go to church will serve a lot of. results in favor of the draft resolution raising. those against. fourteen foods in favor one voted against the 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 put our embassy and jury under no vote in the

united nations will make any difference somebody will now take a decision. that. the use of the veto obstructed the security council unable to perform. on their kids or work of the international community it is considered a blatant violation of the rights of people but here you saw through a negotiation between the two parties are you then members. throughout all the other members. this is bali.

well even countries which often clash on major issues join forces 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 political experts we heard from say america's bullying tactics undermine the west. i 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 in order to save your votes in the general assembly this is the first occasion on which the state security a major. member of the security council has resorted to search measures i do think felt it will be good for believe the united states will to carry through and threats of this kind because they're called indicator states in future situations and give them a very against the united states they do so wrong. meanwhile anger is still being felt in the palestinian territories with clashes in garza and the west bank for a third week in iraq. right now our economy was. i. was far. was.

the earth was. the. word of. god the. son of god who. reports now from our middle east correspondent paula sleep who's in the west bank and also garza journalist in darby both witnessed just how tense the situation his base. the situation here and extremely was no. not at risk because we've been running down the road now. holders have made their way to the right in st louis and off to my left i'm a foreigner someone

a third in firing tear gas and everybody's been running amok the streets are rich and. the soldiers are just you know to hear us that's. all the way into the pit. you can have the ambulances so they certainly will be you. who has been in the us and at the same time we're just going by coming over to the back of the posse from here exactly what's going on but. we've taken private or we've taken cover in a in a petrol station. ready to go and coming into a situation where informants how can a man who often pick. up and. we're standing right here you can see that there's a number of injured people you can see the insist on carrying people with sam 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 feasting also from allah but they really have come all the way in maui. now. let's look at. 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 speaks only been inching their way closer they've been fine. gas in the stomachs and then you still got a strong smell of to a gas pedal hanging over us. the protesters and demonstrators come here today for the third friday raids yet this

friday was different other than the two fridays that people were very close to the fence this time and week this out very important leader actor and politicisation and activist joining the civilians and doing the protests as you see it there are at least five ambulances waiting for any injury and waiting 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 of the rebel berlitz by listening protesters whether in god's are the west bank already jerusalem are separate testing are still demonstrating people are sure it's pressing their anger. now also this week boris johnson visit moscow for the first time in his role as britain's foreign

secretary the trip comes with the relations between the two countries in the story close if you prefer and kim 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 with us 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 i'm afraid abundant evidence of. russian interference in the elections in. germany. from. america but as i say there is no 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 weeks ago he visited the russian embassy secretly to see the value 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 games 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 exit from dry mediately handed my coat my hand my gloves i mean everything that was in my pocket secret or otherwise to sergei lavrov in the knowledge that he. i look after it and come to. 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. did mention that during the joint news conference with foreign minister lavrov boris johnson also tried to act his russian language skills. a russian foreign and a committee russian. diplomatic relationship that is hundred fifty years old dates from a time when. the sense of envoy to 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 its. customers as i said earlier on of buying.

produce things from careful crisps to please. somebody has just given me a clue to the only solution given as you'll see that you get i guess that's the fs . so when it comes to trust or trust poorest and trust him so much i'm pretty sure nobody. needs. thank you very much so get your general so you can tell that you will. keep the days perceive the bolshoi. well while he was here the british foreign secretary also visited red square as well as being sent from moscow as lamarck's he and his team also 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 for gether against nazi germany broadcast of ski things that johnson's visit will bring positive results but only

with so i. mean 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 and i didn't give an inch. and then be with time that we'll see another 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. you're watching the weekly continues after the break.

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. interested always in the logs. or should. welcome back to the weekly now the pentagon admitted 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 strikes 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 it intervened in early twenty fifteen backing the yemeni government against hoofy rebel uprising in that time more than ten thousand people are thought

to have died countless others injured and with survivors ensuring what the u.n. calls a humanitarian catastrophe. help them up who has destroyed everything around even in the neighboring villages we can rely only on kind of people they see was bringing water tankers one or two tankers is not enough even for the ten found many of them. were living happily inherited when the saudi air strikes began there. no one helped us here i've got you see we heard now the mattresses no movement of the children.

up next dan hawkins gives us 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 om sales to saudi arabia what began as logistical support and intelligence sharing as part of the saudi led coalition move to supporting combat 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 support of to harvest groups stabilizing the 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 is getting stronger inside yemen two of these problems don't even touch upon the catastrophic humanitarian situation described by. it's the worst in the world with must civilian casualties famine cholera spreading in the country. elsewhere this week pro independence parties in the spanish region of catalonia secured their majority in thursday's snap election it is dealt a serious blow to to the central government to madrid which had to diffuse the independence crisis having denounced october's referendum and also sacking local leaders now though the deposed former president is hailing another way. i want to congratulate the catalan people because they have sent a message to the world catalan republic has beaten the monarchy an article one fifty five the spanish they has been beaten. into.

these things all right we saw. that morning that many in this movement. so here's how the results are reflected in the catalan parliament pro independence parties have taken seventy of the hundred thirty five seats available the pro union is citizens party actually won the election by a small margin there in terms of vote share although it's not enough to form a coalition capable of taking power the results left the spanish prime minister clearly disappointed. last could get those who want to show you did me the north koreans. don't dawdle do not come from two shouldn't get settled in council who are going to court about a while back in october madrid's rejection of the castle on independence referendum is not only characterized by political pressure but also the use of political force against votes as per play sports sorry against votes is which left up to

a thousand injured. it's already people fighting. and this is not the first great people the place or to be heard and taken from here by ambulance so this is happening from the early hours of the morning it seems to be escalating the madrid government and the madrid media arrests have gone through all of the tools in their toolbox they've used violence they used media demonisation they tried to pin down the color yellow they tried to go after the kind of. autonomous t.v.

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hello and welcome to worlds apart with less than two months to go until the peeling china lympics the participation of athletes from russia remains trowed in controversy that mission criteria have been sad the international olympic committee has drawn up a whole manual on how the sporting uniforms should look like but what awaits the russian ellyn p.m.'s in south korea and most importantly after to discuss that i'm now joined by the chant russia's to pull jump gold medalist at the ninety nine to five world indoor championship in barcelona. miss chan it's great to talk to you thank you very much for your time. first of all let's talk about the latest developments of the international paralympic committee said it was maintaining its suspension of the russian paralympic committee to make the final decision on

whether the russians can compete against twenty winter games in january but i think it's called this little paralympic athletes are in a tough situation then there are threats from russia these can spot why do you think that just shouldn't they be treated in the same way since one talk human the world anti-doping agency reports started the whole thing where do these differences in conclusions and policies come from. agree the treatment is very different and as you remember our paralympic athletes were banned from the rio games which is very strange because team russia competed in the olympics as well but without the track and field if you see what she said you know but for some reason our paralympic athletes have to deal with very harsh requirements and that's all i can parrot dance and other sports when the russians were banned or stripped of their medals those that the it goes without. saying that it is simply inhumane these people have already suffered enough because of their life circumstances and now they have to face even more trials with the sanctions that it is but that it was. at the post it

is just inhumane clearly people who do such things have no god in their hearts i have no explanation for this but my guess is that they are threatened by russian athletes in sydney specially in track and field and in winter sports as well the russian paralympic athletes are in a higher category in that they have more experience and they deliver better results than paralympic teams from other countries. border is so there is probably pressure on the international paralympic committee committee because the russians simply win too many medals it would more than the regular olympic not in one basket maybe that's the reason it was a yeah you know i've heard comments from foreign paralympic cassavetes but in a piece of any on the old south they don't even understand the current guidelines because of course have to be disabilities who are on some kind of. including the ones that they used to treat their condition let's put it this way in the mckinney

cine would you save there are clear criteria for what is considered to fit almost in advance you know drugstore you realize what's allowed and who is allowed to take thousands of what was used there any kind of clarity or got the q what has that make of who should know there is no clarity there has never been any clarity on the issue and there will be no clarity but that was the space of you know for everybody who watches our program the most and they can find the list of performance enhancing drugs online with that war and it will drive them crazy at national but they're courting to the slowest is that every living person should be disqualified forever but if they sue nothing is a lot all your regular medical drugs are on the list from nasal draw they will get you several months of disqualification to die radix two a risk medications etc the fact that it's a huge list that has over twenty thousand drugs on it it is that saloon possum.