i was. was. the week's top stories from all three the u.s. has left all but isolated at the u.n. as the vast majority of nations voted against president problems decision to recognize jerusalem as israel's capital a move that's triggered almost daily clashes in the region. the situation here is extremely was. johnson visits moscow for the first time and british foreign secretary added although relations are at a low point trying to lift the me by attempting some russian. thank you very much generous to you.

and new research reveals the u.s. led operation to liberate the iraqi city of mosul from myself may have led to ten times more civilian deaths than was initially claimed. you watching the week here on r.t. international live from studio with me in a day or two to toss around of the top stories over the last week and the latest news of the day welcome to the program tensions over jerusalem again dominated the news this week on thursday one hundred twenty eight united nations member states issued a stern rebuke to the u.s. voting to reject recognition of the disputed city is israel's capital the condemnation came despite intense pressure and threats from american officials. when we make a decision about where to locate our embassy we don't expect those we've helped to

target us 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 those votes let us vote against us will serve a lot. of those in favor of the draft resolution please raise your hand. with. one of. 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 and made unable to perform his duties undo 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 threatened all the other members this is bullying and this john boehner will not bow to the without.

even countries that often disagree on major issues came together to reject the u.s. as move on jerusalem rival such as saudi arabia and iran and also india and pakistan were all unanimous in their condemnation at the general assembly some of the chair political experts we heard from say america's bullying tactics undermine the new way pick 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

. the new era in which a major. resorts true blood whale and drug greed all you can see if your boats in the general assembly this is the first occasion of a good state to create a major a. member of the security council has resorted to search midgets i do think very poor believe the united states were to carry through threats of this kind because they are called indicators traits in future situations or gives a great against iraq you straight they do so wrong anger is still being felt in the palestinian territories with clashes in gaza and the west bank for a third week in a row. right of all of the peoples of the ark was such.

wasn't wasn't wasn't. wasn't it either way it was it. was. probably thought it was and. was. god i sure want to hear a post from a middle east correspondent paula slayer in the west bank and gaza journalists tend to be both witness just how tense things have being. the situation here and extremely was no. i'm not afraid because i've been running down the road now and. it's all just made their way to the right in see them off my last time a foreign office time when

a third one firing tear gas and everybody's been running amok the streets are rich and. the soldiers are just one thing i think yes that's. all the way into the pit but. you can have 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 say can travel we've taken cover in a in a petrol station. waiting . to be into a situation where informants how can a man who often pick. up 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 sam you can see the israeli tanks which in the last few minutes just made their way from up

the road to emmaus into the precinct also from but they really have come all the way in now so. now. we have no. 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's been 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 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 rage. this

friday was different other than the two fridays people were very close to the fence this time and we can solve very important leader act and polluted sions 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 protesters as you can hear we can hear a lot of bullets i think there's 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 of the rebel berlitz by listening protesters whether ingalls are the west bank already jerusalem are surprised testing are still demonstrating people are search pressing their anger. boris johnson has his in last go for the first time in his role as britain's foreign secretary the trip comes with relations between the two countries strained

trying to was following johnson's beating 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 and the russian capital. now i want you to know it's a measure of my of my trust. to soon as i go to this exit from dry mediately handed my coat my hat my gloves. everything that was in my pocket secret or otherwise to sergey lavrov in the knowledge that he would look after it and 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. conference with foreign minister. also tried that russian. a russian foreign and a committee process but. a diplomatic relationship that is one hundred fifty years old and dates from the time when queen elizabeth sent an envoy to the terrible right in the front. i'm certain that i'm the first foreign secretary in the history of my office to be cool boris. russian customers as i said earlier on of buying ludes produce things from cattle crisps to please.

somebody has just given me a pass from the for the only solution. beautiful. i guess that's the fs. so when it comes to trust i trust paris and trust him so much i'm ready to call him not boris. thank you very much if you generous to you your hospitality welcoming me and my team today specifically by showing the british foreign secretary also visited red square as well as things settle moscow's landmarks he and his team made flowers at the tomb of the unknown soldier a second world war memorial next to the kremlin writer and broadcaster married to j.f.k. things johnson says it 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 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 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 will be with time that we'll see maybe they'll use another 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 before the deposed president is telling another way in off the problem depends parties gain a majority in catalonia and weekly continues after this break. with

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welcome back to the weekly pro independence parties in the spanish region of catalonia secured a majority in thursday's stop election has dealt a serious but to the central government in madrid which had hoped to diffuse the independence crisis having denounced october's referendum and signed local leaders though the deposed president is hailing another win. 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 state has been beaten. to. the east exactly right. not only for us but for this movement.

here's how the results are reflected in the cattle and parliament pro independence parties have taken seventy of the one hundred thirty five seats available the unionists citizens party was the single most popular in terms of vote share but wasn't successful enough to form a coalition capable of taking power the results left the spanish prime minister clearly disappointed last year we need those who want to show you didn't get enough seats to carry it out. based on the not come from two should still think it's a little bit about back in october mantras rejection of the catalan independence referendum was not only characterized by political pressure but also by these of police force against voters living up to the files and injured.

i. think. i. was told it could be feeding her and this is not the first three people did this or the third and good looking from here by ambulance so looking from their early hours of the morning it just seems to be escalating the madrid government and the madrid media arrests there have guards who. in their tool box they've used violence used media demonisation they are trying to expand the cover of yellow they try to go after the cattle and autonomous t.v. stations simply for calling people. calling the president a president acts i don't and i don't know what other tools they have low just by trying to use all of these tools dependent to support it's an extraordinary moment

to democracy to europe. and that the story that shaped the week the families of u.k. soldiers killed in the iraq war have abandoned their legal battle to see former prime minister tony blair and other government officials tried for war crimes they've been advised by lawyers that courts would not be able to rule on their case almost fifteen years have passed since the iraq invasion one hundred seventy nine percent soldiers were among the estimated half a million who perished in the conflict. the official position choir 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. that one man lost his brother in the war. on the numerous occasions of been mistaken for the like why is of course the cost someone telling me on facebook 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 said the twins have a twin bond kind of thing and i never really believe in this kind of thing i'm quite pragmatic. bought there is. 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 the 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 when 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 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 the decision was his and he was in full fact. in full knowledge of the of all the facts that circumstances surrounding or and the reasons why we went in he'll been privy to all of the information so dual him personally responsible 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 december and there were never a great time for us as a family but you know all those little and aversion between so like the nineteenth

for example was the funeral the elevons when we brought him back but all that kind of stuff and so it does feel like a little bit of a kick in the taste you know consider which saw alone for the ruling. party darlington. even watching the weekly here on all today on the back of the top of the hour with another round up so do stay with us. russian athletes taking. a live picture remains controversial what awaits the

olympians in sales career and more importantly what awaits them after they get. join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to us from the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then. los angeles the city of luxury and fame but also an alarming number of people living in the streets. a simple fact in l.a. he's there's just not enough shelter even if people on the streets right now decided to come in there's nowhere to come in and it's been a struggle. this man phoned his own response to the problem and constructed dozens of tiny homes for people in need of shelter when you have nothing and

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