the week's top stories from all the u.s. has left all but isolated and the u.n. as the vast majority of nations voted against president trump decision to recognize jerusalem as israel's capital a move that's triggered almost daily clashes in the region. these situations here. extremely volatile the. boris johnson visits moscow for the first time as british foreign secretary and although relations are at a low point to try to lift the mood by attempting some russian. thank you very much said if you were generous to you your hospitality welcoming me. today specifically . 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. that we can hear a lot in international live from moscow studio with wanadoo today a roundup of the top stories of the last seven days and the latest news of today 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 trauma'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 turns on so they'll be a vote criticizing our choice. yes 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 their hand. those against. 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 made unable to perform his duties and do dec kids a work of the international community it is considered a blatant violation of the rights of funds to new people it 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 without.

even countries that often disagree on major issues came together to reject the u.s. says 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 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. the new era

in which a major. resorts through blackmail and bribery all you can see if your votes in the general assembly this is the first occasion on which the state decree a major. member of the security council has resorted to such measures i do think that it will be deplorable it's united states will to carry through threats of this kind because they're cool 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 the third week in a row. iraq. was . the and

the the. was was the leader of the other. forty three was. was was was. was at issue. here opposed from our middle east correspondent paula slay in the west bank and gaza janice tend to diary both witnessed just how tense things have thing. the situation here and 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 to my left i'm a foreigner of someone a certain thing firing tear gas and everybody's been running amok in such

a rich and. the soldiers are just you know to hear us that's. all the way into the pacific. you can have the ambulances so they certainly will be you. who has been in. and at the same time adjusting my coming over to the back of the posse from here exactly what. we've taken proper we've taken cover in a in a petrol station. waiting . gravity into a situation where informants how they can now who are sick. 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 that which in the last few minutes just made their way from up the road to emmaus into the precinct also from ana 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 underway there are youngsters who have been here for the better part of the last hour who feel hurling rocks and pavements at the israeli soldiers who speaks only been inching their way closer they've been filing tear gas in the stomach so many are 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 this friday was different other than the two fridays that people were very close to the

fence this time and week these are very important leader activists and politicizes and activists are joining the civilians and doing the protests as you see it 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 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 be live bullets despite all the gas bombs despite all of the rebel berlitz by listening protesters whether ingalls are the west bank or each arisen in our separate testing are still demonstrating people are still it's spending their anger. boris johnson has had it in moscow for the first time in his role as britain's foreign secretary it comes with prices between the two countries strained in

a patrol was falling johnson's painting 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 with us and the votes all around the world and in the u.k. as well came up once before just to remind you the foreign secretary boards john. 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 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 amy 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 value 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 games and honey traps and 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 soon as i go into this exit for a loose try mediately handed my coat my hand my gloves i mean everything that was in my pocket secret or otherwise to sergei lavrov in the knowledge that he would look after it and 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 a joint news conference with foreign minister lavrov. also tried that a little bit of. a rush so far and they committed. a diplomatic relationship that is four 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 called boris. russian customers as i said earlier on of buying loads more british things through from careful crisps to please. somebody has just given me a pad from the fed they're only solution here's

a puzzle. i guess that's the fs. most of us so when it comes to trust our trust poorest and trust him so much i'm ready to call in not both parties. to buy peace. thank you very much surrogate you are generous to you your hospitality in welcoming me in my team today specifically bolshoi. the british foreign secretary also visited red square as well as saying central moscow's landmarks he and his team laid flowers at the tomb of the unknown soldier a second more war memorial to the kremlin writer and broadcaster married to jeff ski 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 there seem 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 be some other 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 end first they snap election that's dealt a serious blow to the central government in madrid which had hoped to defuse the independence crisis having denounced october's referendum and sacked local leaders now the deposed former catalan president is hailing another win. i want to congratulate the catalan people because they sent a message to the world catalan republic has beaten the monarchy and article one

fifty five the spanish state has been beaten. to. the six right. not only for us but for this movement. here's how the results are reflected in the catalan parliament pro independence party have taken seventy of the one hundred thirty five seats available the unionist 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 have left as the spanish prime minister clearly disappointed last year we those who want to show you. really. don't know who did not come from two should still think it's a little bit 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 the files and injured. i. hold it if you think there are and this is not the first three people did this or the first and they came from your biography so i think from their early hours of the morning it just seems to me it's like the federal government and the madrid media forever or have gone through jewels in their tool box they've used violence used medium in a situation they were trying to defend the color yellow trying to go after the kind

of. autonomous 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 looked just like trying to use all of these tools dependent to say what to do extraordinary wrong to democracy. ten times more civilians may have been killed during the u.s. led operation to liberate the iraqi city of mosul than previously thought that's according to research by the associated press the news agency obtained data from iraq you know as well as non-governmental organizations it says as many as eleven thousand civilians may have been killed during the nine month operation nearly a third of these allegedly died as a result of bombings by iraqi and that forces the coalition however only acknowledges three hundred twenty six civilian deaths amidst international has joined the cause to investigate the liberation campaign and for the true civilian

cost to be revealed. as to the city force both during and after the hour. he's to see the presses body count 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 it's become outdated already hours after they released their report we got a cool 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 playing on dead today to ease explosions happened 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 seventy official milestone in the in and of itself because the numbers we previously heard 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 if you can see the city of two million has been tending to injuries and corpses.

this is the reality of what you likely haven't heard of is the smell it's noisy aging repulsive and it's everywhere.