top stories in the week there was the u.s. left all but isolated at the u.n. as the vast majority of nations voted against president decision to recognize jerusalem as israel's capital a move is triggered almost daily clashes in the region. peace it's a simple. extremely. visits russia for the first time as the british foreign secretary the relations or . at least try to break the ice by attempting a little bit a russian. thank you very much surrogate. hospitality in welcoming me. today specifically. reveals the u.s.

led operation to liberate the iraqi city of mosul from may have led to. more civilian deaths than was initially claimed. kevin oh in this is the weekly look back at what's been making headlines over the last seven days and tension over jerusalem again dominated the news this last week 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 a hundred twenty eight states rejected president trump stands on the divided city despite 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 wrote a letter vote against us will save a lot. of those in favor of the draft resolution at least raise their hand. there's a gain. for 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 veto obstructed the security council and made an able to perform his duties under the deck kids or work of the international community it is considered a blatant violation of the rights of funds to move the fight must be resolved through negotiation between the two parties are un members they threaten all the other members this is bullying and john boehner will not bow to the word out.

in the end even countries that often disagree on major issues joined voices to condemn the u.s. move on jerusalem rival such as saudi arabia and iran and also india and pakistan came together at the general assembly some of the geopolitical experts we heard from in the week so 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 are now are inching a new era in which

a major. resort to blackmail and bribery 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 such measures i do think that it will be deplorable it's the united states we have to carry through threats of this kind because they're called indicator states in future situations or gives a great against the united states they do so at their peril politics aside on the ground is still being felt in the palestinian territories with clashes in garza or in the west bank for a third week in a row. you know right now over the. years i was good i was out for. that. cause who. was that i.

was i didn't i did not write. the. club a third of my. god it was. god i'm sure. reports now from our middle east correspondent paula slater in the west bank and also goes a journalist in kodori both witness just how tense things have being. the situation here is extremely was no. great because we've been running down the road now. it's all just a made their way to the right in see them off my left i'm a foreigner of someone a city 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 pacific. you can have the ambulances so they certainly will be the ship's crew has been in. and at the same time adjusting my 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 will pick him. up and. we're standing right over here you can see that there's a number of injured people you can see the incense are 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 and see the tree saying 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 who've been hurling rocks and pavements at the israeli soldiers who speaks only been inching their way closer they've been filing tear gas in the stomach so many still quite a strong smell of tear 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 piece out very important leader act and politicisation and

activist joining the civilians and 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 rubble berlitz by listening protesters whether in gods are the west bank already jerusalem are separate testing are still demonstrating people are still it's pressing their anger. on the story believe me time to host the came up this last week boris johnson visited moscow for the first time in his role as britain's foreign secretary trip comes to the relations between the two countries and the story glow he put trying to follow johnson's meeting with his russian

counterpart them. 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 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. and if you're trying to reporting during the joint news conference with foreign minister lavrov for a chance and also try to add just a little bit of russian to. i'm sure i'm in a rush so far in the middle of a committee process but. a diplomatic relationship that is full hundred fifty years old dates from the time when 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 for it. i should customers as i said earlier on of buying. british things from a few cattle crisps to. somebody has just given me

a food for their only solution i give them as little stew that you get i guess that's the fs. so when it comes to trust our trust forests and trust and so much i'm ready to hold a little forward for buddy. buddy. thank you very much the surgeon general should also tell that you will. be in the days to see the bolshoi. well the british visited red square of course also took in central moscow. tennis team laid flowers at the to be soldier a second world war memorial to cram their mind during the war britain of the soviet union fought together against nazi germany and if we could get the thoughts of. many to ask she thinks johnson's visit will bring positive results but only with a bit of time. 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 the thing that is anything positive that's going to come out of that seriously 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 another visit maybe we'll have a reciprocal visit. 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. indeed coming up reporting on a rack of research that says the liberation of mosul killed more civilians than previously admitted the weekly here at international continues with me kevin zero in right after this break.

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with one. part of spain went to the polls again then pro independence parties in the spanish region of catalonia secured a majority and says a snap election that's tells a serious blow to the central government of madrid which had hoped to diffuse the independence crisis of an denounced october's referendum and sacking local leaders over it now though the deposed full catalan leader is hailing another win it another twist. 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. so i received the right restart. word that morning that many of these more.

so here's how the results reflected in the catalan parliament pro independence parties took seventy of the one hundred thirty five seats available the pro-union the citizens' party won the election by a small margin in terms of vote share but it's not enough to form a coalition capable of taking power the results understandably maybe left the spanish prime minister clearly disappointed lost could get here we need those who want to ensure your student in the north koreans who can you know who are based on dollar who will not come from two shouldn't quote we're still not in council and out of court about it back in october madrid's rejection of the catalan independence referendum then was not only characterized by political pressure let's not forget but also about the use of police force against voters living up to a thousand injured at the time.

i. i. sold it to people feeding her and this is not the first three people that i sold to the hurt and the taking it from here but i'm so coming from the early hours of the morning it seems like the madrid government and the madrid media are s.s. . guards who rules in their tool box they've used violence they used media demonisation they tried to kill the color yellow they tried to go after the cattle and autonomous t.v. station simply calling will 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 i something else revealed in the last week the u.s. led operation to liberate the iraqi city of mosul from i still may have killed ten times more civilians than previously thought is according to research by associated press the news agency obtained data from iraqi morgues as well as non-governmental organizations it says as many as eleven thousand civilians may have been killed during the nine month operation nearly a third of those were said to have died during bombing raids now the coalition only acknowledges three hundred twenty six civilian deaths and most international in the week joined calls to investigate the liberation campaign and for the true cost in civilian deaths to be revealed our correspondent road goes to visit that city both during and now. after the operation. to see the presses bodycount surprise anyone who's actually been to mosul and who has seen what has happened to

the city you can also argue that the death count that they've given become outdated already hours after they released their report we got a cool from mosul from rescuers there saying that three more children had been killed with an explosive device buried in the wreckage of a house that they were paying on dead today to ease explosions happen almost every day rescuers tell us and this is a direct consequence of the battle of mosul itself nevertheless e.p.a.'s body count is a semi official milestone in the in and of itself because the numbers we previously had from official sources from the u.s. led coalition iraqis even the u.n. was a tenth of that thousand civilians and unrealistic numbers the associated press found that three to four thousand of those civilians killed in mosul died to ash

strikes carried out by the u.s. led coalition and the iraqi air force the u.s. led coalition had previously claimed responsibility for a new movement three hundred or so civilian deaths saying that it didn't have the resources to send investigators to look at every reported incident see the press didn't pull these numbers out of a hat they cited various human rights agencies as well as an official body count counts that monitored events in mosul as well as with tip offs from iraq he moves but as i say this number is i'm surprised if you've been to move seymour the city of two million has been tending to injuries and corpses. this is the reality of what you likely haven't heard of is this. well it's noisy aging repulsive and it's everywhere the sort of smell that makes us in

stink sick the smell of rotting bodies this is what rescuers have collected just this morning three suspected isis fighters two women and two children. that's in iraq. launching missiles. at isis targets in and you can hear isis small arms fire there targeting the helicopter and over there six seven hundred meters away is the aftermath of strikes that hit minutes ago just before we got here this was a city of two million that had been. annihilated during the nine months of the battle of mosul the rescuers we talked to tell us that this city the city the old

city of mosul that bore the brunt of the fighting in the devastation it still reeks of decaying bodies thousands and thousands of corpses still buried under rubble mixed with them or explosive devices that continue to claim people's lives artist because they have on the ground well i spoke about the liberation of mosul with the head of an iraqi anti terror unit he told us that i still try to fuel hostility between faiths but people are able to unite and to the day to save the country. boredom in the sumatran way is our fight against eisel especially in mosul was characterized by great unity we were able to defeat the terrorists because of this nation or unity or everybody stood up to fight. the terrorists wanted to dismember iraq they tried to fuel has to lead to between the various confessionals but iraqis were able to unite because they understood that they had a mutual goal to preserve the integrity security and stability of the country and

the next step after this great victory will be the reconstruction of the country the rebuilding of the city. it's work that needs to be done step by step i still fighters destroyed everything in their houses roads bridges they blew all these things up that's our main challenge right now to reconstruct everything. and that's the way the news that these last seven days thanks for watching our weekly news round up this sunday here from moscow i'm kevin and of course if you're celebrating christmas next few days season's greetings from all of us the best years well for twenty eight hundred keep watching.

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