the. week's top stories from. the u.s. is left all but isolated at the u.n. as the vast majority of nations vote against the president from a recognized jerusalem as israel's capital a move that's triggered almost daily clashes in the region. the situation here. extremely volatile. boris johnson visits russia for the first time as british foreign secretary and the relations are a low point at least to try to break the ice by attempting a little bit of russian thank you very much so if you generous to you your hospitality in welcoming me in my team today specifically.

that's our program dependence parties gain a majority of seats in the castle and regional parliament that's prompted the spanish government to call for dialogue. from. hawkins were you while you're very welcome here with us this christmas eve. well there's tension over jerusalem again dominating the news this week on thursday the us was strongly rebuked by members of the un over its unilateral recognition of the city as israel's capital one hundred twenty eight states rejected president trump starts on a 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 u.s.

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 the story let him vote against us will serve a lot. of those in favor of the draft resolution at least raise their hand. there's a gain. for team foods in favor one voyage 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 actually sizing 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 obstructing the security council a media i'm able to perform his duties on to kids a work of the international community it is considered the police in violation of the rights of funds don't you think i must be resolved through negotiation between the two parties are un members very threatening or. this is bullying and john boehner will not walk to the dock.

or even countries that often disagree on major issues joined voices to condemn the u.s. move on jerusalem rivals such as saudi arabia and iran also india and pakistan they all came together at the general assembly or some of the geopolitical experts we've heard from so merrick is bullying tactics on the mind the united nations 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 drive greed or you can see your votes in the general assembly but this is the first occasion on which state security a major. member of the security council has resorted to search measures i do think very poor believe the united states will have to carry through the threats of this kind because they're called indicate constraints in future situations or give to a group against the united states they do so. languorous still are being felt in the palestinian territories with clashes in gaza and the west bank for a third week in a row no. right at the level of. the ark. it.

was. probably what would have been. a girl was. more guarded richard. reports now from all middle east correspondent paula slater in the west bank and also gaza journalist hind crew dari both witnessed just how tense things there have been. the situation has been extremely was no. grace because i've been running down the road now. so does that make their way to write ins he told them. my last time a final someone a said was firing tear gas and everybody's been running amok is to tell rich and. the soldiers are just you know yes that's. all the way into the.

you can have the ambulances so they certainly will be the sheep who has been in. and at the same time we're just in a common mode this is a backwoods hasi somehow exactly what. we've taken time so we've taken cover. in a petrol station. situation when thomas how can a man who often. uh 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 there which in the last few minutes just made their way some of the roads they now seem to be the precinct i also from but they really

have come all the way in now so. that. today's day of rage that has been called for by various palestinian factions is well and truly under way there are youngsters who have been here for the better part of the last hour who feel hurling rocks and pavements at these waving soldiers who speaks only been inching their way closer they've been firing tear gas in the stomach cell is still quite a strong smell of tear gas that is hanging over us. the protesters and demonstrators come here today for the third friday raid. 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 actor and polluted shins and activist

joining the civilians are 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 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. on other news boris johnson has visited moscow for the first time in his role as britain's foreign secretary the trip comes with relations between the two countries at a historic low it a trigger 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 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 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 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 excellent for a loose try mediately handed my coat 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. during the joint news conference with foreign minister lavrov and also tried out that one of russian as well. i'm i am in a rush so far. of a committee process. 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 right on the fourth. that i'm certain that i'm the first foreign secretary in the history of my own thoughts to be cool for its. customers as i said earlier on of buying. british things from a few cattle 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. so when it comes to trust our trust forests and trust him so much i'm ready to go in milford the body of the beast. thank you very much so get your general studio the hospitality and welcoming me in my teeth today specifically. the british foreign secretary also visited red square as well as seeing central moscow's landmarks in 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 of course against nazi germany rides around broadcaster married to jet ski things will bring positive results but only with time. 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 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 russian and i didn't give an inch. and then be with time that we'll see another 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. coming up but the deposed former president is hailing another win off the probe independence party is gaining majority in catalonia we continues here after the break.

what politicians do sometimes. they put themselves on the line. they get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president. want to. be close it's like them before. people are. interested in the law. they should.

welcome back to international law prohibits parties in the spanish region of catalonia secured a majority is a snap election a serious blow to the central government in madrid which had hoped to defuse the independence crisis having the now stuck to it was a referendum sacking local leaders well now though the deposed former president is hailing another woman. 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 think right we saw. the next morning that many of these movements. i let's take a look at exactly how the results are reflected in the castle and parliament

bennett's parties have taken seventy of the hundred thirty five seats available the pro citizens party did win the election by a small margin just in terms of vote share it's not enough though to form a coalition capable of taking power now the results left the spanish prime minister clearly disappointed. those who want to show you didn't get enough seats to carry it open a new period based on dollar low the not come from two surely still think it's a lunatic what about or back in october madrid's rejection of the castle and independence referendum was not only characterized by political pressure but also by the use of police force against the protesters and voters they left up to a thousand injured.

it's already people getting hurt and this is not the first week people did this or to be heard and taken 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 the madrid media. tools in their toolbox they've used violence they used media demonisation they tried to pin the color yellow they tried to go after the. autonomous t.v. station simply calling people go calling the president a president x. i don't and i don't know what other tools they have no just by trying to use all of these tools independent just want to do extraordinary wrong to democracy i.

saw another story that shocked the week of families of u.k. soldiers killed in the iraq war have now abandoned their legal battle to see former prime minister tony blair as well as other government officials tried for war crimes they've been advised by lawyers that the courts would not be able to rule on their case now 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. we 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 one man lost his brother in the war on numerous occasions of mystic and the like why is of course the cost 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 say the twins have a rare twin bond kind of thing and i never really believe in this kind of thing i'm quite pragmatic their daughter there is the 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 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 a 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 where does that leave the families 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 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 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 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 are all an aversion between so like the nineteenth for example was the. if you know the elevons when we brought him back well that

kind of stuff does feel like a little bit of a kick in the teeth you know consumer which saw along for the ruling. party darling ten. now it's been a roller coaster week for bitcoin investors after reaching record level highs of twenty thousand dollars last weekend currency suffered a dramatic drop to a third of its value the wild swings have raised serious concerns with observers and investors alike with more details here's artie's. so weeks we've been floating along with the bitcoin bubble call to pin a crypto currency daydream as bitcoin rocketed in value but off to witnessing incredible growth it was only a matter of time and so we also saw a drop and it hit the market cause when crypto enthusiasts woke up and face reality they didn't like what they saw so i took the opportunity to school what they call new be invested.

bitcoin has captivated observers and investors worldwide but amid the fascination there's been caution with even the k. found a bit quinta issuing a warning about investment and investment in between 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 works 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 enthusiastic said to the cryptocurrency it will bounce back i think this time next year and we're going to

be looking at the height of twenty thousand as a dip in 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 you know it's an it's been see i don't 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. they're 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 there 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 all the news from us for this i will be back at nine pm moscow time for more headlines from around the world see that.

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