week's top stories from the u.s. left all but isolated at the united nations as the vast majority of countries voted against the president trumps the recognized jerusalem as israel's capital a move that's triggered almost daily clashes in the region. these tasting have. extremely. visit russia for the first time as british foreign secretary. at a low point at least try to break the ice by attempting a bit of russian. thank you very much to get you general studio your hospitality in welcoming me in my team today specifically.

new research reveals the u.s. led operation to liberate the iraqi city of mosul from islamic state may have led to ten times more civilian deaths than was initially claimed. pm here in moscow. today you're very welcome thanks for joining us here on r.t. international. well tension over jerusalem again dominated the news this 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 one hundred twenty eight states rejected president starts 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 sense 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 does drop let us vote against such 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 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 unable to perform his duties undo decades a work of the international community it is considered the police in violation of the rights of constantly fight 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 road out.

even countries that often disagree on controversial issues joined voices to condemn the united states' move on jerusalem rivals such as saudi arabia and iran as well as india and pakistan they all came together at the general assembly some of the geopolitical experts we spoke to say america's alleged bullying tactics undermined the united nations. 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 in the new era in which a major. resort to blackmail and drive green order to secure votes in the general assembly this is the first occasion on which state security a major member of the security council has resorted to search measures i do think that it will be going to or believes united states will have to carry through and through its of this kind because they're called indicator states in future situations and give the impression against the united states they do so there are. still being felt in the palestinian territories clashes in gaza and the west bank have now been ongoing for the third week in a row. was. it was.

was. was. was. the. problem. was. was you want to. reports now from our middle east correspondent paula in the west bank as well as gaza journalists pinned dari they've both been witnessing just how tense things have been in the area. the situation here and extremely was no. great because we've been running down the road now and.

holders have made their way to write ins he told them off my last time a foreign office time when a third was 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 hear the ambulances so they certainly will be you. who has been in the us and at the same time we're just going by coming over to the back of the posse from here exactly what. we've taken time so we've taken cover in a way in a petrol station. going to be in for 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 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 feasting also from 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 the israeli soldiers who thinks only been inching their way closer they've been fired tear gas in the style it's 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 yet

this friday was different other than the two fridays people were very close to the fence this time and we kids are very important leader active and polluted shin's and activist joining the civilians and doing the protests as you see there are at least five ambulances are 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 ingalls are the west bank already jerusalem are still protesting are still demonstrating people are search pressing their anger. 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 i want you to look at franco 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 a mass 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 game. 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. you know i want you to know it's a measure of my of my trust. soon as i go to into this exit for a loose try mediately handed my coat my hand my gloves i mean that 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 at a joint news conference with foreign minister lavrov boris johnson also tried out a little bit of russian as well. 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 the 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 it. i should customers as i

said earlier on of buying. british things from a few cattle crisps to please. somebody has just given me a. bit there on the stoop gives a little stew that you get i guess that's the fs. so when it comes to trust the trust faurisson trust him so much i'm ready to settle in milford for buddy. buddy. thank you very much so generous to the hospitality welcoming me to the day spa see the bolshoi. the british foreign secretary also visited red square as you can see there as well as looking at central moscow's landmarks and his team laid flowers at the two of the unknown soldier second world war memorial next to the kremlin is the war of course britain and the soviet union were allies they fought together against nazi germany rise of broadcast their very strong visit will eventually bring positive results but this

could take some 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 so again after all but i also think that the thing that is anything positive that's going to come out of that meeting 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 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. coming up in just a few minutes the deposed former president is hailing another win off the pro independence parties gain a majority and we can continue to. just after the short break they. put

themselves on the line they did accept the reject. so do you want to be president and she. wanted. to be like the press was like before you know more people. interested in the war. here's what people have been saying about rejected and. the only show i go out of my way to. really packed them. is the john oliver of party america is going to say we are apparently better than. the c.

people you've never heard of redacted the next president of the world bank. seriously send us an e-mail. welcome back to the weekly here on our dependence parties in the spanish region of secured a majority in a snap election that's a pretty big blow to the central government in madrid of course hope to diffuse the independence crisis having denounced talk to it was a referendum and sucking local leaders now although the deposed former president is hailing another victory. 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 when we started. the next morning that many of these more men. i let's just take a look how exactly the results reflected in the castle out of parliament played out the pro independence parties took seventy of one hundred thirty five total seats available the pro unionist citizens party the top there they did actually win the election by a small margin in terms of the overall vote share it's not enough though to form a coalition capable of governing the results left the spanish prime minister clearly disappointed lost could get here we need those who want to show you a student in the city they're looking really into. a strong dollar who will not come from to shooting yourself in council who are going to court about it back in october madrid's rejection of the council on independence referendum was not only

characterized by political pressure also by the use of police force against voters leading up to one thousand people injured. i. told. her it's not the first week people think we're going to take it from here but i'm so looking from the early hours of the morning. to. the madrid government and the media. in there to listen to my own. media demonization they were trying to get on the cover you know they try

to go. on this stage simply calling. calling the president president. and i don't know what other tools they have not just by trying to use all of these tools don't just want to do extraordinary wrong i think in my this is i. know in other news the u.s. led operation to liberate the iraqi city of mosul from islamic state may have killed ten times more civilians than previously thought that's according to research by the associated press the news agency obtained data from the rocky morgues as well as non-governmental organizations they say as many as eleven thousand civilians may have been killed during the nine month operation and the third of these were said to have died during bombing raids the coalition only acknowledges three hundred twenty six civilian deaths just international as another organization to a joint calls to investigate the liberation campaign and ask for the true cost in

civilian deaths to be revealed but i guess the if was in the city both during and 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 call from mosul from rescuers there saying that three more children had been killed when 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 barely a thousand civilians unrealistic number 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 no more than three hundred or so civilian deaths saying that it didn't have the resources to send investigators to look at every reported incident susi the press didn't police 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 unsurprising if you've been to move slowly if you've seen what a city of two million has been tending to injuries and corpses. this

is the reality of war what you likely haven't heard of is the smell it's new. 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 an iraqi. launching missiles. at isis targets in and you can hear isis small arms fire that the helicopter and over this six seven hundred meters away is the aftermath of an extract 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 rescue as we talked to tell us that the 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. just come up to midnight here in moscow come up to a christmas as well for all those of you who stayed with us thanks for being with us here at all times of national back at midnight moscow time for more global headlines.

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following year but never happened. we have been living in limbo for decades and the women have now taken it upon themselves to clear the mines from the land they hope to return soon. to travel to meet these courageous women but get in there was no easy task as we were about to discover. who dropped off in the middle of nowhere. this is algeria near the border tens of thousands of refugees left here. this would be our new home for about three days while we waited for permission to cross the border. even the saudis have been here for over forty years now. they don't bother with cosmetic maintenance because they never expected to be here this long.