like. the week's top stories here. the u.s. is left all but isolated at the u.n. as the vast majority of nations votes against president recognized jerusalem as israel's capital a move that's triggered almost daily clashes in the region. the situation has. extremely violent. also the. visits from russia for the first time as british foreign secretary. try to break the ice by attempting a little bit of russian thank you very much so if you general your hospitality welcoming me in my t.v.

today. new research reveals the u.s. led operation to liberate the iraqi city of mosul from have led to ten times more civilian deaths than was initially planned. here in the russian capital on time christmas as well as i have a christmas from the whole team here at all to international and. being with us this hour. all 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 the president trumps thoughts 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 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 those votes where the vote against us will serve a lot. of those in favor of the draft resolution please raise your hand. with. those against. four 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 unable to perform his duties and do decades of work of the international community it is considered a blatant violation of the rights of palestinian people it must be resolved through negotiation between the two parties are un members very through. all the other members this is bullying and this jumble will not bow to the.

now even countries that often disagree on major policy issues joined voices to condemn the united states' move on jerusalem rivals such as saudi arabia and iran as well as india and pakistan all came together at the general assembly some of the geopolitical experts we heard from say america's alleged bullying tactics actually undermined 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 bribery in 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 such measures i do think that it will be deplorable if united states were to carry through and through it's of this kind because they're called indicator states in future situations if you play great against the united states they do so at their peril allowing are still being felt in the palestinian territories with clashes in gaza the west bank as well for the third week in a row. you know one of the. few

was that. i. was. really sort of. god i was. was your. emotions are running high as you can see in the video that we've got to reports from our middle east correspondent paula slee issues in the west bank as well as gaza's journalist and crew dari both men witnessing just how tense their things have been. the situation here and extremely was go. out of grace because i've been running down the road now and.

it's all just made their way and right in see them off to my left i'm a foreigner stun grenades in firing tear gas and everybody's been running amok the streets are rich and. the soldiers are just you know the house that's. all the way into the pit. you can have the ambulances so they certainly will be. who have been in. and at the same time are just going by coming over to the back of the posse somehow exactly what's going on but. we've taken private or we've taken cover in a way in a petrol station. going to be into a situation where informants how they can know how long they can. cause and.

we're standing right over 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 which in the last few minutes just made their way up the road they now seem to be the feasting also from allah 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've been here for the better part of the last hour who feel 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 really 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 in rage and yet this friday was different other than the two fridays people were very close to the fence this time and we this are very important leader actor and polluted sions 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 still protesting are still demonstrating people

are still expressing their anger. out on the news a strong son has visited moscow for the first time at least in his role as britain's foreign secretary the trip comes with relations between the two countries at a low point or 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 i'm afraid 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. but i want you to know it's a measure of my of my trust. to soon as i got into this exit 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 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 a joint news conference with foreign minister lavrov or is transferred also trot out a little bit of russian. i am in a rush so finally. they committed. a diplomatic relationship that is four hundred fifty years old and 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 office to be

called boris. russian customers as i said earlier on of buying a loads more british things from from kettle crisps to bentley's. somebody has just given me a pad from the fed they're only solution here's a puzzle that you get i guess that's the fs. so when it comes to trust our trust poorest and trust him so much i'm ready to call him not boris but by deeds i guess you could buy peace. thank you very much so get your generosity you want your hospitality in welcoming me in my team today specifically bolshoi. now the british foreign secretary also visited rhodes square you saw central moscow landmarks and he and his team laid flowers at the tomb of the unknown soldier that's a second world war memorial next to the kremlin as the war britain and the soviet union fought together against nazi germany roger

a broadcaster married to jeff do you think vizard know eventually bring positive results but this could take 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 so again after off 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 it would be with time that we'll see maybe they'll lease 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. well coming up in just a few moments the deposed former president is hailing another way after pro independence parties gain

a majority. so the weekly after the break. you on the idea that dropping bombs brings us to the chicken hawks forcing you to fight the battle. to stop spreading tell you that every gossip and probably.

tell you. that we. want. welcome back to weekly here on. independence parties in the spanish region of secured a majority in thursday's election that's a serious blow to the central government in madrid they hope to diffuse the independence crisis by having. a referendum on second local heads now though the deposed former president is hailing another victory. i want to congratulate the catalan people because they have sent a message to the world catalan republic has beaten the monarchy and article one

fifty five the spanish they has been beaten. so i think you're right we start. the next morning that many of these more men. i know let's take a look at the results how they're reflected in the castle and parliament the pro independence parties gained seventy out of a total of one hundred thirty five available seats the pro unionist citizen spot here you can see at the top there they won the election by a small margin just in terms of the vote share that's not enough though to form a coalition capable of governing now the results left the spanish prime minister clearly disappointed last year we need those who want to ensure you didn't get enough to see that to carry it open you know who are at least on dollar that will do not come from two shouldn't quote we're still think it's a lunatic or about 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 voters living up to a thousand people injured. i . disagree to people feeding them. and this is not the first three people did this or the third and the taking from here by ambulance so this is happening from the early hours of the morning. this seems to be escalating the federal government and the media. tools in their tool box they've used violence. media demonization they are trying to cover yellow trying to go after the kind.

of us t.v. station simply for calling people. calling the president a president acts i don't and i don't know what other tools they have no just trying to use all of these tools the tendentious what it's an extraordinary moment to democracy. now the u.s. led operation to liberate the iraqi city of mosul from eyesore 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 iraq you more as well as non-governmental organizations says as many as eleven thousand civilians may have been killed during the nine month operation only a third of these were said to have died during bombing raids the coalition only officially apologise three hundred and twenty six civilian deaths as the international as another organization to join calls to investigate the liberation campaign to find out the true cost and civilian deaths to be revealed our

correspondent what i 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 children had been killed when an explosive device buried in the wreckage of a house that they were playing 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 the rockies even the u.n. was a tenth of that barely

a thousand civilians and an realistic 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 most salafis and 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. 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 an iraqi. 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 strike 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. now in other news it's been a roller coaster week for bitcoin investors saw for a meteoric rise through record highs of twenty thousand dollars last weekend cryptocurrency suffered a dramatic drop or lost almost half of its value the wild swings have raised some serious concerns with both observers and investors with more details here. so weeks we've been floating along with the bitcoin bubble core to pin a crypto currency daydream as bitcoin rocketed in value but off to witnessing

incredible growth it was only a matter of time until 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 some day took the opportunity to school what they call new be invested. bitcoin his captivated observers and investors worldwide but amid the fascination there's been caution with even the k. found a bit quintal issuing a warning about investment and investment and be growing 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 theseus however certain the cryptocurrency 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 and it's been so you have 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 in. and 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 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 a very happy christmas from the whole team here at r.t. see you next hour for more global headlines they'd soon. thank. god thank. you. hey everybody i'm stephen bob. taft hollywood guy you know suspects every proud american first of all i'm just george washington and

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