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

pentagon has admitted the u.s. has conducted full scale military operations in yemen as the humanitarian crisis there worsens. day here in moscow are you watching the weekly here in r.t. our look back at what's been happening over the last seven days now jerusalem is still dominating the news and on thursday the u.s. was dealt a strong rebuke by members of the united nations over it you know that for recognition of the city 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. when we make a decision about where to locate our embassy we don't expect those we've helped to

target turns on thursday they'll be a vote criticizing our choice the us will be taking names. they take hundreds of millions of dollars and even billions of dollars and then they vote against us what we're watching does approach let us vote against us will save a lot. will those in favor of the draft resolution please raise their hand. and. those against. team foods in favor votes 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 in jerusalem no vote in the united

nations will make any difference somebody will now take a decision. the use of the veto obstructed the security council a made unable to perform his duties undo decades of work of the international community it is considered a blatant violation of the rights of constantly thought must be resolved through negotiation between the two parties are un members very threatening all the other members this is bullying and this john boehner will not bow to the word out.

well even countries which often do 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 political 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 through blackmail and bribery all you can see if your votes in the general assembly this is the first occasion on which a state a major. member of the security council has resorted to search midget's i do think that it will be deplorable united states will have to carry through threats of this kind because they are called indicators traits in future situations or give they voted against iraq you state 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 of all of that. was.

the lady who was that. was. probably sort of. god i was. god i should. reports now from our middle east correspondent paula slay who's in the west bank and also gaza journalist daddy both witness just tense the situation has been. the situation here is extremely was no. breeze because we've been running down the road now. coaches have made their way to the right in see

them off my last time a car and look someone a certain way in firing tear gas and everybody's been running amuck the streets are rich and. the soldiers are just you know to hear us that's. all the way into the pit. you can tell the ambulances so they certainly will be you. who has been in. 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. coming into a situation where informants how can a man who was taken. out 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 them you

can see the israeli tanks that which in the last few minutes just made their way from up the road they now seem to be the feasting also from allah but they really have come all the way in now so. 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 has been hurling rocks and pavements at these waiting soldiers who thinks only been inching their way closer they've been fine. gas in the stomachs and you still got a strong smell of tear gas that is hanging over us. the protesters and demonstrators come here today for the third friday in rage. this

friday was different other than the two fridays people were very close to the fence this time and we piece out very important leader act and polluted shins and activist joining the civilians during 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. 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 what they're ingalls are the west bank already jerusalem are still protesting are still demonstrating people are search pressing their anger. now in other news this week boris johnson

visited moscow for the first time in his role as britain's foreign secretary the trip comes with the relations between the two countries and in the story close it 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 and 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 has committed to 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 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 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. so i want you to know it's a measure of my of my trust. to soon as i got into this. for a loose try mediately handed mike my hand my gloves i mean did everything that was in my pocket secret or otherwise to sergei lavrov in the knowledge that he would look after it. 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 but i did mention there during the joint news conference with foreign minister lavrov boris johnson also tried out his russian language skills. i'm in a rush to find. a date committee process but. a diplomatic relationship that is not four hundred fifty years old and dates from the time when the queen elizabeth sent an envoy to ivan the terrible right on the fourth. i'm certain that i'm the first foreign secretary in the history of my own to be cool. russian customers as i said earlier on of buying.

british things from a few cattle crisps to please. somebody has just given me a good for their only solution is a puzzle stew that you get i guess that's the fs be. so when it comes to trust our trust forests and trust him so much i'm ready to hold him in the forest nobody. could be so. thank you very much so get your generous to do your hospitality welcoming me in my teeth today specifically the bolshoi. during his time here the british foreign secretary also visited red square as well as things stand moscow's landmark 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 fought together against nazi germany a writer and broadcaster noted he does think that johnson's visit will bring

positive results but only with time. and you can see maybe some glimmer of hope on the horizon just in terms of the sort of growing report that there 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 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 visit 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. still to come on the weekend the pentagon has admitted carrying out multiple military operations in yemen we'll have the details both on the story staying just off the

price. is a civilization just a tiny bit more advanced than we are that they can already pick up jerry springer or any other sitcoms interview shows the nightly news they see what we're doing to our planet you know it isn't really a very pretty picture and so in addition to sending this chaotic messages that we use to communicate with one another we want to send a clear signal to the extraterrestrial that there's also some rationality on the world. russian athletes taking to film showing olympics remains controversial what awaits the olympians in south korea and more importantly what awaits them after they get.

the weekly now the pentagon did admit on wednesday that it's being conducting full scale military operations in yemen this year the revelations came in a statement by the 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 yemen has already been ensuring deadly air strikes from the saudi led coalition

since it intervened in early twenty fifteen backing the yemeni government against the who the rebel uprising in that time though more than ten thousand people are thought to have died countless others are injured and with survivors injuring what the u.n. calls a humanitarian catastrophe. have them up who 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 found many of them.

were living happily herit in the south the airstrikes began. but no one helped us here i've got you see we had no the mattresses no milk of the children. but next dan 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 arms 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 our side 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. that's the worst in the world with must civilian casualties famine cholera spreading in the country. so pro independence parties in the spanish region of catalonia secured their majority in thursday snap election and it dealt a serious blow to the central government in madrid which had hoped to diffuse the independence crisis having denounced october's referendum and sacking local leaders now though the proposed former president is hailing another victory 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 despondent has been beaten. so are these things right we saw. her that morning and then this movement. so here is how the results are reflected in the catalan parliament at the moment independence party there have taken seventy of the hundred thirty five seats available the problem unionist citizens' party won the election by a small margin in terms of vote share although it isn't enough to form a coalition capable of taking power the results left the spanish prime minister clearly disappointed last year we need those who want to show you the not to carry . the not come from to shoot stuart in catalonia but back in october madrid rejection of the catalan independence referendum is not only characterized by political pressure but also the use of police force against voters

which left up to a thousand injured. i think. it's overrated people fighting and they're not and this is not the first greek people that this order to be heard and taken from here by ambulance so is this happening from the early hours of the morning it just seems to be escalating 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 pin down 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 other 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. and you've been watching the weekly here not international good to have you company today we'll be back with more news at the top of the.

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