i was. in the week's top stories on our t.v. u.s. is left all but isolated when this the vast majority of nations voted against president trump decision to recognize jerusalem as israel's capital a move that triggered almost daily clashes in the region. the situation here is extremely was. i was. also to come boris johnson visits russia for the first time as british foreign secretary and although relations are so low point he at least tried to break the ice by tempting a bit of russian. thank you very much sir a good few generous to you your hospitality welcoming me in my t.v. today specifically bolshoi and new research says that the u.s.

led operation to liberate the iraqi city of mosul from iceland may have led to ten times more civilian deaths than previously thought. and i welcome you watching the weekly here on 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 unilateral 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 while we're watching those votes let us vote against us will save a lot. will those in favor of the draft resolution at least raise their hand. and. those again. for team foods in favor one vote 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 and made unable to perform his duties undo decades of work of the international community it is considered a blatant violation of the rights of comes to be fought 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 without.

well countries which often disagree on major issues joined 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 geo political experts we heard from say america's bullying tactics undermine the un 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. resorts true blood whale and bridegroom order to secure votes in the general assembly but this is the first occasion on which the state to create a major. member of the security council has resorted to search midgets i do think very poor believe the united states will have to carry through threats of this kind because they are called indicators traits in future situations or give to a group against the united states they do so wrong meanwhile the anger is still being felt in the palestinian territories with clashes in gaza and the west bank for a third week in iraq. right of all of that. was . that i.

was. afraid of. god. god i should. reports now from our middle east correspondent paula slay who's in the west bank and also gaza journalist in darby but it's witness just kind of tense the situation has been. the situation here is extremely was no. out of breath because i've been running down the road now and. it's all just made their way to the right in see them off to my left i'm a foreigner 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 the yes that's. all the way into the pacific. you can have the ambulances so they certainly will be the ship's crew 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 way in a petrol station. very moving out of the into the situation where informants how can a man who was taken. 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 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've been hurling rocks and pavements at these waiting soldiers who speaks only been inching their way closer they've been filing tear gas in the stomach so many are still quite a strong smell of tear gas that is hanging over us. the protesters and demonstrators come here today for the third friday in a rage. this friday was different other than the two fridays that people were very

close to the fence this time and we could solve very important leader act and polluted shin's 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 by 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 separate testing are still demonstrating people are searched pressing their anger. 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 in the story close. 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 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 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. soon as i got into this exit from a loose try mediately handed my coat my hat my gloves i mean 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 well as india mentioned there during the joint news conference with foreign minister lavrov boris johnson or say try that his russian. i'm i'm in a rush so fond. of a committee process but. a diplomatic relationship that is not full hundred fifty years old and dates from the time when queen elizabeth sent an envoy to ivan the terrible writing the fourth. i'm certain that i'm the first foreign secretary in the history of my own to be cool for. russian customers as i said earlier on of buying. british things fruit from kettle crisps to please.

somebody has just given me a food for their only solution is a puzzle stew that you get i guess that's the fs be. so when it comes to trust or trust the poorest and trust him so much i'm ready for it but plenty. of bodies. thank you very much so get your general studio hospitality and welcome me in the teeth days perceive the bolshoi. and while he was here the british foreign secretary also visited red square and as well as seeing central moscow's landmarks c. and his team laid flowers at the tomb of the unknown soldier that's a second world war memorial next to the kremlin during the war britain and the soviet union fought together against nazi germany broadcaster mary did you have ski that johnson's visit will bring positive results but only 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 i didn't give an inch. and then be with time that we'll see maybe they'll use 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. still to come in the weekly reporting on iraq the research that says the liberation of mosul killed more civilians than previously admitted and also the bereaved families of british troops make a tough decision their stories on the way. our

. russian athletes take. remains controversial. more important what awaits them after they get.

welcome back the weekly now the u.s. led operation to liberate the iraqi city of mosul from iceland may have killed ten times more civilians than previously thought that's according to research by the associated press the news agency chained data from iraqi morgues as well as nongovernmental organizations and it says as many as eleven thousand civilians may have been killed during the nine month operation nearly a third of these were said to have died during bombing raids the coalition only acknowledges three hundred twenty six civilian deaths our correspondent visited the city both during and after the operation. this is seated presses counties arguably ready out of date if you consider the people would have died as

a consequence of the battle of men so just this morning we got a clue the three moved children were killed there when i exploded bam detonated under the wreckage of the house that they were playing on and such explosions in every day occurrence whether bams left behind by isis or unexploded bombs dropped by u.s. led coalition or iraqi jets nevertheless this count is ten times higher than official estimates we got from the iraqi government the u.s. led coalition or even the united nations the associated press says that after the lose ninety eleven thousand civilian casualties through a three thousand by the u.s. led coalition. the rocky airforce previously the u.s. led coalition said that it was responsible for a new move in three hundred twenty deaths that claim that it didn't have the resume assistance and investigators to look at every reported incident this you see the

press cited as it services various human rights agencies as well as unofficial body count death tallies and there were two paths from iraqi moogs but the number itself is entirely surprising if you've been to mosul if you seem what a city of two million has been turned into injuries astra corpses crossfire this is the reality of war what you will likely haven't heard of is the smell it's noisy eating repulsive and it's everywhere the sort of smell that makes us in stink see the smell of rotting bodies this is what rescuers have collected just this morning three suspected isis fighters two women and. children.

that's an iraqi. launching missiles. at isis targets in and you can hear isis small arms fire they're targeting the helicopter into us over there six seven hundred meters away this is the aftermath of an airstrike that hit minutes ago just before we got here this is a city. that is being leveled and the rescue is this morning there is still digging bodies out of that c. the city of mosul which suffered the worst of the fighting the worst of the bear is still lives in there's a smell that is hiram a city for months and months and then what are the cast of their reporting from iraq while human rights activists mohammed circle believes the coalition's tactics meant that

a large number of civilian deaths was inevitable their weapons are being used by the coalition especially by the u.s. army does not discriminate between civilians or terrorist by civilians or the isis if you look at the mosul as a city is very concerned very populated area is not an open space where you can target easy terrorist groups so they were targeting houses they were targeting. small rows that were to small neighborhoods this again the question is raised again why it doesn't answer the thing. independents and instigation by the u.s. to look into how the operation has been handled. well mc international has joined calls to investigate the liberation campaign and for the true cost of civilian deaths to be revealed the human rights group says the numbers quoted in this report are no surprise. the families of u.k.

soldiers killed in the iraq war have abandoned their legal battle to see former prime minister tony blair and other government officials tried for war crimes they've been advised by lawyers that courts would not be able to rule on their case when almost fifteen years have passed since the iraq invasion one hundred seventy nine british soldiers were among the estimated half a million who perished in the conflict the official british inquiry into the war known as the chilcote report was finally published last year it blasted the government for rushing into the conflict based on flawed intelligence. that one man who lost his brother in the war. on the numerous occasions of been mistaken to like a white as a ghost of course someone's out of memphis but not so long book and thought i was doing this mike wilson lost his identical twin brother lance corporal david wilson in iraq in two thousand and eight david was twenty seven he'd become a father to his daughter poppy weeks before his death people said the twins have

a twin bond kind of thing and i never really believe in this kind of thing i'm quite pragmatic. daughter there is the you realize a tremendous switched off together with other families of the soldiers fallen in iraq might push for a civil case against tony blair but lawyers have told them that british courts can't make judgments on matters of foreign policy military decisions or the legality of war for the grieving relatives the legal route here in the u.k. has been exhausted condemned the loss of a loved one in a conflict that the chill court report concluded was based on flawed intelligence will never be forgotten. the damning report revealed that saddam hussein presented no immediate threat and that politicians spoke of weapons of mass

destruction with the certainty that wasn't justified forging tony blair has been made immune from. prosecution in the high court seems that pretty much they can do what they want and get away with it west family the family was destroyed some of the families you know to this day you know some of them haven't recovered a lot of them still you know relive what went through you know from the day that they got that knock at the door it seems a bit pointless now that we know we were told to have weapons of mass destruction then we found out that it didn't and then when the chilcot inquiry came up out of the blue sort of we got the. the outcome was kind of like well what was all this for you know and all sort of from a sort of nine years down the line does not quote it at all it just all seems very very pointless with all the legal avenues closed off the iraq war families campaign group is launching a petition demanding that parliament hold the politicians responsible for the war

to account tony blair you know was you know even there the decision was his and he was in full fact. in full knowledge of the of all the facts that circumstances surrounding or and the reasons why we went in been privy to all of the information so dual him personally responsible the petition is mike's initiative his way of continuing the fight even after losing the possibility of a legal battle for politicians in museums the iraq war may have been pushed into the archives for families like mike's the wounds of losing their loved ones are is rule as ever the dissemination are never a great time for us as a family but you know all those little aversion between so like the nineteenth for example was the. you know the elevons when we brought him back in the stuff so it does feel like a little bit of a kick in the chase you know consumer which saw a long for that rule and. see darlington and you can watch the weekly here in r.t.

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