the week's top stories from the the u.s. has left all but isolated at the u.n. as the vast majority of nations vote against president trying to suggest to recognize jerusalem as israel's capital a move that's triggered almost daily clashes in the region. peace it's a simple. extremely well. also the week has gone boris johnson visited russia for the first time as british foreign secretary although relations are at a low point he at least try to break the ice by attempting a little bit of russian thank you very much so good fuel general studio your hospitality and welcoming me in my team today specific bolshoi. and

pro independence parties gain a majority of seats in the capital and regional parliament prompting the spanish government to call now for dialogue. why they're welcome for me kevin know when you're watching the weekly one hour to international law back to what's been happening in the headlines over the last seven days and tension over jerusalem again dominated the news this week big time on thursday the u.s. was strongly rebuked by members of the united nations over its unilateral recognition of the city as israel's capital in the end one hundred twenty eight states rejected president trump stands on 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 things we've helped to target tense. on thursday they'll be a vote criticizing our choice the u.s.

will be taking names. they take hundreds of millions of dollars and even billions of dollars and live against us while we're watching does drive letter vote against us will save a lot. will those in favor of the draft resolution at least raise their hand. those against. team foods in favor of 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. about the use of the deed to obstruct to the security council and made unable to perform his duties and do to kids a work of the international community it is considered a blatant violation of the rights of constantly must be resolved through negotiation between the two parties are un members they threaten all the other members this is bullying and this john boehner will not bow to the duck.

and of the even countries that often disagree or major issues joined forces that they to condemn the u.s. move on jerusalem rival such as for instance 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 undermined 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. resort to blackmail and dr green order to secure votes in the general assembly but 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 that it will be deplorable of the united states were to carry through threats of this kind because they're called indicator states in future situations or give they voted against iraq you slayed they do so carol was the politics continued on the ground and is still being felt in the palestinian territories with clashes in gaza and the west bank for a third week in a row thank god. that i. was. lady who.

was to you right. out of the club a third of what. was. was your. reports next from middle east correspondent paula slater in the west bank and also gaza journalist hindalco durie both witnessed just how tense the situation is being. the situation here is extremely was no. amount of grace because i've been running down the road now and. holders have made their way to the right instinct told them off my last time a car into someone a certain way in firing tear gas and everybody's been running amok in the town rich

and. the soldiers are just you know the house that's. all the way into the pit. you can tell 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 in a petrol station. going to be into a 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 from up the road to emmaus into to the precinct also from ana 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 has been 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 you still got a strong smell of to a gas that is hanging over us. the protesters and demonstrators come here today for the third friday raids and 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 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 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 by bullets despite all the gas bombs despite all the rebel berlitz by listening protesters whether in gods are the west bank already jerusalem are separate testing are still demonstrating people are searched pressing their anger. boris johnson visited moscow for the first time in his role as britain's foreign secretary the trip comes with relations between the two countries at the store a glow he were trying to 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 with us and the votes all around the world and the u.k. as well came up with them 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 fridge 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. but i want you to know it's a measure of my of my trust. soon as i got into this excellent for a loose try mediately handed my coat my hat 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 if a trying to reporting there during the joint news conference with foreign minister lavrov boris johnson also try to put a russian. i'm sure i am in a rush so far in the middle of a committee process but. a diplomatic relationship that is not full hundred fifty years old 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 from a few cattle crisps to please. somebody has just given me

a good for the romney stooge give the puzzles to that you get i guess that's the fs be. so when it comes to trust or trust poorest and trust him so much i'm ready to hold a little forward but plenty. of money. thank you very much said it was generous to the hospitality welcoming me in my tea to day specific bolshoi. away from the meetings the british foreign secretary also visited red square as well the same moscow's central marks in his team laid flowers at the tomb of the un they'd sold it to a second world war memorial next to the kremlin during the war britain of the soviet union for together against nazi germany broadcast of the jet ski things johnson's visit will bring positive results with time. and 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 sergey lavrov but i also think

that the thing 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 it will be with time that we'll see those nice 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 his hope. coming up soon also has caused to be optimistic pose for my presidency like another win after pro independence parties get the majority in catalonia big news of the week weekly continues after the break.

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again thanks for watching us this weekend so pro independence parties in the spanish region of catalonia secured a majority say snap election first l.t. a serious blow to the central government in madrid which had hoped to defuse the independence crisis of internet stock tobas referendum and sacking local leaders now though the deposed former council president is hailing another win i want to congratulate the cattle on people because they have sent a message to the world the catalan republic has beaten the monarchy and not a coup one fifty five the spanish state has been beaten. so i received the right result not only for that part of what it meant in this movement. but check it out on the news all here's how the results reflected in the cattle parliament pro dependence parties took seventy of the one hundred

thirty five total seats available the pro-union a citizens party won the election by a small margin in terms of vote share it's not enough to form a coalition capable of taking power the results left the spanish prime minister clearly disappointed. a lot of those who want to show you which didn't get enough to carry it out hope a new based on dialogue and not confrontation we're starting council about back in october madrid rejection of the catalan independence referendum was not only characterized by political pressure but also by the use of police force against voters leaving up to a thousand injured. it's

already people getting hurt and this is not the first three people did this or the third and the taking from here by ambulance so i think from the early hours of the morning it seems to me it's like the madrid government and of madrid media or else there have. rules in their tool box they've used violence they used media demonisation they tried to pin the color yellow they tried to go after the cattle and autonomous t.v. stations simply recalling all go 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 independent to support its extraordinary role to democracy to europe. to the big headline this last week the families of u.k.

soldiers killed in the iraq war have abandoned their legal battle to see the former prime minister tony blair and of the government officials tried for war crimes they've been advised by lawyers in the week the courts would not be able to rule on a case almost fifty years have passed since the iraq invasion under seventy nine pretty soldiers were among the estimated half a million who perished in the conflict now the official british inquiry into the war known as the chilcote reports finally published last year it blasted the government for rushing into the conflict based on flawed intelligence. one man who lost his brother in the war. on numerous occasions of been mistaken for the like why is of course the cost someone's out of memphis book store i was david 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 rare twin bond kind of thing and i never really believe in this kind of thing i'm quite pragmatic. bought the reasons. you realize it's me who 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 condemn 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 family seen or to this day or 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 had weapons of mass destruction then we found out that it didn't and then when the chilcot inquiry came out of the blue sort of we got the. the outcome was kind of like will what was all this for you know and all sort of from a sort of nine years down the line does not closure at all it just all seemed 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 her and the reasons why we went in eagle been privy to all of the information so dual him personally responsible for the petition is mike's initiative his way of continuing the fight even after losing the possibility of a legal battle for politicians and museums the iraq war may have been pushed into the archives but 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 betweens or like the the nineteenth for example was the. it will be eleven twenty we brought him back but a lot of the stuff has it just a little bit of kick in it takes you know consider which saw alone for the ruling. party darlington. what

a roller coaster week for the big co-investors after reaching record high levels of twenty thousand dollars last weekend the currency then so the dramatic drop to a third of its value the wild swings have raised serious concerns of the service and a vest as the like with more details is the shiz ceci weeks we've been floating along with the bitcoin bubble quarter and the cryptocurrency daydream as bitcoin rocketed in value but after witnessing incredible grace it was only a matter of time until we also saw a drop and it hit the market 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 call new be investors. bitcoin has captivated observers and investors worldwide but amid the fascination there's been caution with even the k. found a bit quint a call issuing a warning about investments and investment and beat cohen 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 work. they will start selling now markets are attempting to make sense of the nosedive that seemingly came out of the blue although experts previously warned of its volatility and enthusiasm however certain

the cryptocurrency will bounce back i think this time next year we're going to be looking at the height of twenty thousand and itself i think you're looking to dip your toe in the pond anything below one hundred thousand a coin is a bargain it's just right now you know cryptocurrency we can 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 they're telling people you know what the right currency to invest in or i'm getting rid of this and that you knew something on that it 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 that's where the news that this last seven days thanks to watching around it this sunday i'm kevin over the course if you're celebrating christmas next few days season's greetings from all of us to you and

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