the week's top stories from all the u.s. has left all but i see later that the u.n. as the vast majority of nations vote against president trumps decision to recognize jerusalem as israel's capital a move that triggered almost daily clashes in the region. these situations have. extremely violent the. bars johnson visits moscow for the first time as british foreign secretary and although relations are at a long low point he tries to lift the mood by attempting some russian. thank you very much generous to. the g. . eight. and new research reveals the u.s.

led operation to liberate the iraqi city of mosul from i saw may have led to ten times more civilian deaths than was initially claimed to. be watching the weekly here on r.t. international live from our moscow studio with me in india a tutor so round up of the top stories over the last seven days and the latest news of the day welcome to the program tensions over jerusalem again dominated the news this week on thursday twenty eight united nations member states issued a stern rebuke to the u.s. voting to reject trump's recognition of the disputed city as 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. for. 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 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 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.'s move on jerusalem rivals such as saudi arabia and iran and also india and pakistan were all unanimous in their condemnation at the general assembly some of the geo political experts we heard from say america's bullying tactics undermine 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 all know. a new era in which a major. resort through blackmail and bribery or you can see if your vote in the general assembly this is the first occasion on which the state decree a major. member of the security council has resorted to search measures i do think that it will be deplorable it's united states were to carry through threats of this kind because they're called indicators traits in future situations or give them a greater gauge to rock 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 over the. fields of the ark was.

wasn't wasn't wasn't. the wasn't it i thought it was. probably sort of what it. was. was your. hair all reports now from our middle east correspondent paula slayer in the west bank and gaza journalists when the cuckoo diary both witnessed just tired tense things have been. the situation has an extremely was no. it's not a race 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 car into someone

a certain way in firing a gas and everybody's been running amok in such a rich and. the soldiers are just you know to have a school that's. all the way into the pit. you can have the ambulances so they certainly will be you. who have been in. 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 provoke we've taken cover in a in a petrol station. of a moon coming into a situation where informants how they didn't know who will pick. up and. we're sending right over here you can see that there's a number of injured people you can see the instance are 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 able to sing also from allah but they really have come all the way and how. 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 who feel hurling rocks and pavements at these waiting soldiers who speaks only been inching their way closer they've been fine. gas in the stomachs and you still got a strong smell of to a gas that is hanging over us. the protesters and demonstrators come here today for the third friday in rage. this

friday was different other than the two fridays people were very close to the fence this time and we could solve very important leader act and polluted shins 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 is another another injury right now and they're actually throwing gas bombs on the demonstrators as you can see despite all of the blood of bullets despite all the gas bombs despite all the rebel berlitz by listening protesters whether in gaza are the west bank already jerusalem are stripped of testing are still demonstrating people are certain expressions their anger. boris johnson has is in moscow for the first

time in his role as britain's foreign secretary the trick with relations between the two countries strained trying to 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 into theories. 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 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. you know i want you to know it's a measure of my of my trust. to students not going to into this. 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 in the joint news conference with foreign minister lavrov boris johnson also try that little bit of russian. i'm i am in a rush to find. a date committee russ 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 lewd british things from from kettle crisps to please. somebody has just given me a pass from the fed their only solution is a puzzle stew 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 no forest nobody wants to buy peace. thank you very much so get your generosity you want your hospitality welcoming me in my team today specifically. the british foreign secretary also visited red square as well as seeing central moscow's landmarks he and his team laid flowers at the tomb of the unknown soldier a second world war memorial next to the kremlin fighter and broadcaster married to jeff's 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 soon to be at that meeting between boris johnson and sergei lavrov but i also think that anything 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 maybe they'll use 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. pro independence parties in the spanish region of catalonia secured a majority in thursday's snap election dealt a serious blow to the central government in madrid which had hoped to diffuse the independence crisis having denounced october's referendum and sacked local leaders

now though the deposed former cast one 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 they has been beaten. by the six right. for. this movement. here's how the results are reflected in the cattle land parliament pro independence parties have taken seventy of the one hundred thirty five seats available the in is 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 ensure huge didn't get enough to carry. the not come from two surely starting council

back in october madrid surjection of the catalan independence referendum was not only characterized by political pressure but also by these a police force against voters living up to the files and injured. i. was told that if eating dinner there and this is not the first three people that this order to be heard and taken from here by ambulance so is this happening from their early hours of the morning it just seems to be escalating the madrid government and the madrid media harass us or have gone

through all of the tools in their tool box they've used violence used media demonisation they tried to fan the color yellow they've tried 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 left just by trying to use all of these tools dependent to stop what it's an extraordinary moment to democracy to europe i. another story that shaped the week the families of u.k. soldiers killed in iraq or have abandoned their legal battle scene former prime minister tony blair and other government officials tried for war crimes they'd been advised by lawyers that courts would not be able to rule on the case almost fifteen years have passed since the iraq invasion one hundred seventy nine british soldiers were among the estimated hoffer million who perished in the conflict. the official

british inquiry into the war known as the chill report was published last year in blasts of the government for rushing into the conflict based on flawed intelligence probably boko met one man who lost his brother in the. only 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 david 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 the reasons. you realise it's me who switched off together with the 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 to 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 the certainty that wasn't justified forging tony blair has been made immune from. prosecution in the high court seems that pretty much the can do what they want and get away with it what's that leave the family was destroyed some of the families you know to this day are 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 had weapons of mass destruction then we found out that it didn't and then when the chilcot inquiry came up out of the blue sort of we got the. the outcome was kind of like will what was all this for you know and all sort of from a sort of nine years down the line does not cause it 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 to 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 or and the reasons why we went in 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 the dissemination are never a great time for us as a family but you know all those little aversion betweens or like the nineteenth for example was the funeral the elevons when we brought him back in the stuff it does feel like a little bit of a kick in the teeth you know consider which saw alone for the ruling. party darlington. the pentagon the better the men say that it's been conducting full scale military operations in yemen this year the revelations came in a statement by u.s. central command u.s. forces have conducted multiple ground operations in more than one hundred twenty strikes in twenty seventeen to remove key leaders and disrupt the ability of al qaeda in the arabian peninsula and ices in yemen to use ungoverned spaces in yemen

as a hub for terrorist recruiting training and base of operations to export terror worldwide yemen's already been enduring deadly air strikes from the saudi led coalition since it intervened in early twenty fifteen backing the amany government against the rebel uprising in that time more than ten thousand people are thought to have died countless others injured and the survivors are enduring what the u.n. calls a humanitarian catastrophe. help them up who has destroyed everything around even in the neighboring villages we can rely only on a lot of people they say was bringing water tankers one or two tankers is not

enough even for the ten found many of them. were living happily inherit in the south the airstrikes began. but no one helped us here i've got you see the mattresses no milk of the children. next daniel hawkins has the broader picture on what's happening in yemen. a tripling of air strike numbers from twenty six the official confirmation of boots on the ground something many politicians have been keen to avoid mentioning to avoid bad publicity with the yemeni conflict raging for nearly three years now and spawning two u.s. administrations american policy has some more devolved since the first days of the war what we need to do is bring all the parties together and find a political arrangement it is not solved by having another proxy war fought

inside of yemen now aside from massive om sales to saudi arabia what began as a logistical support and intelligence sharing as part of the saudi led coalition moved to supporting combat operations in an advise and assist role drone of planes strikes now multiple ground operations the military involvement may have good intents on the surface comments in the sport of to harvest groups stabilizing a war torn country but as involvement has escalated the presence of terror groups has actually expanded now aside from the irony targeting militants allegedly allied to the saudi backed militias there's the question of a vicious circle air strikes and other military involvement in the region has led to terror groups capitalizing on precisely those sentiments among the populace which lead to heightened recruitment and support for jihadism just remember libya and syria and this actually comes from none other than members of the u.s.

congress the civil war inside yemen has aided the enemies for which we actually have declared war against al-qaeda is getting stronger inside yemen because as more and more of the country becomes becomes ungovernable because of this war al qaeda is moving into that territory isis against which we have not declared war but we are engaged in active military activity in the region against is getting stronger inside yemen two of these problems don't even touch upon the catastrophic humanitarian situation described by n.g.o.s as the worst in the world with mass civilian casualties famine and cholera spreading in the country. you've been watching that weekly here on altie i'll be back on the top of the hour with another round up so do stay with us.

as a civilization just a tiny bit more advanced than we are that they can already pick up jerry springer or any other sitcoms interview shows the nightly news they see what we're doing to our planet you know it isn't really a very pretty picture and so in addition to sending this chaotic messages that we use to communicate with one another we want to send a clear signal to the extraterrestrial that there's also some rationality on. our.

clone of welcome to worlds apart with less than two months to go until the killing chung olympics the participation of athletes from russia remains shrouded in controversy definition cratering have been sad the international olympic committee has drawn up a whole manual on how the sporting uniform should look like but what awaits the russian ellyn p.m.'s in south korea and most importantly after to discuss that i'm now joined by the chant russia strip will jump gold medalist at the ninety nine to five world indoor championship in barcelona. chan it's great to talk to you thank you very much for your time first of all let's talk about the latest development itself the international paralympic committee said it was maintaining its suspension of the russian paralympic committee to make the final decision on whether the russians can compete against twenty winter games in january but i think

it's called this little paralympic athletes are in a tough situation then it's from russia's can spot why do you think that suggestion shouldn't. they'd be treated in the same way since one talk human to world anti-doping agency reports started the whole thing through where do these differences in conclusions and policies come from. agree the treatment is very different as you remember our paralympic athletes were banned from the rio games which is very strange because team russia competed in the olympics well but without the track and field athletes you see for some reason or paralympic athletes have to deal with very harsh requirements and that's all i can parrot dance and other sports when the russians were banned or stripped of their medals those that the it goes without saying that it is simply inhumane these people have already suffered enough because of their life circumstances and now they have to face even more trials with the sanctions that it is but that it was. at the post it is just inhumane clearly people who do such things have no god in their hearts i have no

explanation for this but my guess is that they are threatened by russian athletes it's a funny especially in track and field and in winter sports as well the russian paralympic athletes are in a higher category they have more experience and they deliver better results than paralympic teams from other countries on. board and if so there is probably pressure on the international paralympic committee because the russians simply win too many medals more than in the regular olympic that's not in one basket maybe that's the reason it was a year you know i've heard comments from foreign paralympic athletes but in a piece of any on the old south don't even understand the current guidelines because of course have to be sick with disabilities who are on some kind of america including the ones that they used to treat their condition let's put it this way in the mckinney cine what do you save there are clear criteria.