find them it knows where their office is located in the city of doha at this point we are not hearing moves from either side the taliban or the united states about resuming negotiations so at the moment it appears that the violence and chaos in afghanistan is going to continue at least affairs expert at risk believes that the latest move by the pentagon is a fake tiddly tantamount to an admission of failure in afghanistan seeming so horrific attacks launched by the time of the taliban and by isis which have now begun to target kabul the afghani capital previously we saw that you know there were attacks by these extremist groups but they won't focus so much from kabul couple was considered to be relatively secure what we've seen now is that even the capital is no longer so cool so in light of these failures in the sewer you were swore i think that the pentagon burned basically what the american mistreated as a home had no choice but to take this step to try and hide the reality which is

going on on the ground because i think that if the american people are exposed to the real situation of there will be huge amounts popular pressure for the u.s. to you know just cut and withdraw from that country. u.s. officials had to flee an event in the west bank city of bethlehem after angry protesters stormed the building they were in. no you know the. have been a business meeting at the berkeley home chamber of commerce and industry protesters arrived with a banner that donald trump's decision to recognize jerusalem is the israeli capital of the mind the clashes the meeting was cut short but before leaving the building the americans were given a clear message. so. you

should. know. story didn't the palestinian protesters then ran out of the building and threw tomatoes at the diplomatic cars as they tried to flee the scene. i. was in d.c. either as you can see here i was trying to gain entry to the vehicles has more now on what spock's the commotion. but this is just the latest incident in a string of protests that has been taking place on the palestinian street ever since the american president donald trump made an announcement back in the beginning of december saying that he recognized as israel's capital also on choose state there were protests in front of the palestinian prime minister's office in the west bank city of ramallah now there they were protesting against the reduction of services being offered by where the united nations relief and works agency for

palestinian refugees the agency was forced to downgrade the services off to the americans announced that they were cutting millions of dollars of aid this the american say is until to quote there is a fundamental reexamination of how the agency operates the protests and go on the palestinian street have gone as fast into the israeli parliament or the israeli knesset. where just last week the american vice president mike pence was visiting as he stood up to speak a group of arab lawmakers who constitute the third largest faction in the israeli parliament started shouting and holding up banners with antique american messages citizens of israel.

now mike pence during his speech at the israeli parliament only further infuriated the anger that is already here on the street by announcing that by the end of next year the americans would be moving their embassy from tel aviv to jerusalem since president trump made that announcement on jerusalem back at the beginning of december there have been more than twelve palestinians who have been killed more than a thousand have been injured and hundreds have been arrested so this is a situation that just won't go away and witnessing tensions continue to climb. the u.s. is preparing new sanctions against russia after the release of the so-called kremlin list which includes the names of some two hundred top officials and business leaders that's according to the u.s. treasury secretary steve he was pressed on the issue in congress. now we will take the basis of that report and look at kind of as we do in the normal course where

it's appropriate to put sanctions so there's no way be interpreted as we're not putting sanctions on any of the people in that report new sanctions were expected to be announced along with the list although officials stress no new restrictions were coming in right now. reaction from russia for now the russian government won't do anything about what was called the u.s. kremlin list and that's how the russian president for now made up his mind about the u.s. treasury document it had to be published before the monday night deadline under the so-called countering america's adversaries through sanctions act and so it was ten minutes before the deadline america's saying that being put on that list which includes one hundred fourteen top russian government officials as well as nearly one hundred richest businessmen doesn't mean receiving some kind of punishment so

you may well ask what's the point something to do with sanctions that's not actually sanctions by the way something that i found rather amusing was the fact that the putin administration section matched the kremlin website name by name while the part about the businessman was almost identical to the forbes list of russia's richest men. no wonder the treasurer didn't come out until the last minute six months is hardly enough time to copy and paste the forbes list of russian billionaire i know personally many of the business people on this list some very close to putin some are not obviously little what was done to distinguish between these two categories i think the list is of the russian version though before this list isn't available in english ranking russian official. even had a little laugh perhaps the deputy prime minister

a cardi dvorkovich said bad washington basically released a book that you may call hose who and russian politics anyway back to vladimir putin's first public reaction to the list he said that the u.s. officials weren't doing u.s. russia relations any favors shows muscle to get used to union human i don't understand the logic behind this move but it's definitely a hostile one and further complicates u.s. russian relations with our security services share intelligence that helps prevent terrorist attacks do they need this or not will we start working together or not we can do without that but i think it's in everyone's interests it would be absurd to reduce our relations to zero. while the united states is mulling further restrictions there's a different stance coming from the european union the belgian prime minister claim that the block is against new sanctions was during his meeting with his russian counterpart dmitri medvedev resourcefulness for sanctions are not the end goal

dialogue is the key and i would like to highlight that the youth has made a decision not to support the strengthening of restrictions in reaction to the new us less from several political analysts. i don't think it will have much of the effect at all the thirty thing i think it's the white house telling congress they passed this law to try to keep the pressure up on russia this concern about the last election and doing this list seems to have very little purpose other than just filling a legal minimum i don't know if it will really damage any u.s. russian ties it seems that trump is not certainly trying to make it any worse the situation already is it seems like he's really just trying to hope a lot of this goes away and bring it all to a speedy end people look at it i think and say this is a piece of lazy intelligence you've worked really taken a who's who of who's the rich and powerful in russia and copy down in names and it

doesn't seem to have much substance to it president trump signed it off literally minutes the goal with no enthusiasm for these sanctions forward but he's under pressure though he's under pressure i say from his own intelligence from the military and from the democrats and we nor that you know under pressure pressure presidents can buckle but the real question i repeat is why is russia the main threat at the moment to united states of america and the west that i think the answer has to be north. to pharmacies in the german city of frankfurt have found themselves at the center of the racial storm and it's all been whipped up over the centuries old names with more details his peter oliver. what is in a name well for frankfurt council the name of two of the city's pharmacies was enough to demand that change this is one of them the example so more and it's not final parts of the name that the city council here in frankfurt have

a problem with it translates as the moon rish pharmacy now traditionally what that meant is that this was a pharmacy that would have stalked alternative medicines all medicines from the east as well as western medicine this building here you can see originates from nineteen hundred however there are campaign is that say that this type of name has no place in modern germany. the reason for the complaints was that people said this using the term morrish was racist and offensive against people from north africa but we spoke to people here on the streets of frank first and gauge their opinion about the proposed name change i think it's a shame because it's part of maybe our culture too and it doesn't have any more to do with maybe we've. already seen we shouldn't change our traditions here on the cd for me if something is to be racist it has to either

diminish or belittle people in this case it has more to do with recognizing cultural heritage it didn't even appear to me that you know it's offensive because it is a historic it's simply historic terminal in the pharmacy doesn't for sure doesn't use it to be to be offensive the owners of both pharmacies politely declined to appear on camera saying that the news that they were going to be forced to change their name brought nothing but unwanted publicity. interestingly enough the name up a ticket or more and is much more common place in the state of north rhine-westphalia but when the integration council in that state will ask. if they'd be following frankfurt's example they said no they have far better things to be doing peter all of a r.t. frankfurt. in barcelona supporters of the sect catalan president colors put them on have broken through

a police cordon to reach the catalan parliament. i was. protesters gathered to demand the reinstatement of the local government they threatened to occupy the building unless the mom was reinstated session intended to reelect the former president they was postponed guaranteed his freedom and the result of the democratic elections was the mom faces arrest in spain for his involvement in last year's illegal referendum i. don't know russian flags flying at either the twenty eight hundred winter olympics or paralympics in south korea this is after the international paralympic committee upheld its ban on t.v. russia although it is allowing clean athletes to compete as neutrals two months ago a similar decision was taken by the international olympic committee but despite all eyes on russia when it comes to doping allegations are surfacing elsewhere in the world. in the run up to next month's winter games the issue of doping has taken the

main stage once again seeing the majority of russian athletes banned and those eligible to participate forced to compete under a neutral flag and frankly at this point when you hear doping you think russia but is the problem really reserved to just the one country i'm afraid the answer is a resoundingly no an investigation conducted by a group of international researchers at two separate sporting events back in two thousand and eleven produced a rather shocking conclusion where more than two thousand and eight athletes were surveyed anonymously to encourage honest answers though pin appears remarkably widespread among elite athletes and remains largely unchecked despite a logical testing the report revealed that at the thirteenth athletics world championships in south korea over forty percent of those competing emitted to doping in the past year and almost sixty percent at the pan arab games in doha whereas want to only came back with point five percent of test as positive in south korea and three point six percent of the pan arab games needless to say that is

a massive discrepancy and the other surprising thing is that the research was actually funded by wada and yet no one heard a peep out of them about the result which they've known about for years we would note that there was a delay of nearly six years between the completion of the data collection and the publication of this paper due to negotiations between want to and i w f and subsequently between us and the authors regarding the authority to publish the results now it goes on to say that neither of the organizations impose restrictions on the writing of the report although i'm not sure how he thinks here delay isn't considered a restriction the president of germany's athletics federation for one was infuriated by the hold up the publication has impaired the possibility of taking important measures in the deal being complain much earlier this is more than annoying you could also call it the scandal and guess what the report was actually released months ago but i'd bet good money that you haven't heard a thing about it because for some reason it wasn't made into nonstop breaking news

no probs were conducted and no bands were seen. we managed to speak to the authors of the reports they told us that the research indicates a doping epidemic at two international track in the us we are still made forty six percent. and fifty seven percent of the athletes at these international track meets were told been much higher than we expected our core did not results or this paper i would call average down man i mean when you're when you are talking that half of the athletes at an international track meet are asked to remain or to be doing some kind of don't thing i think that's a serious problem for athletics will be very very important to understand why do we have the difference they. think. is we don't know much about the

the athletes compliance and by compliance i mean whether or not they follow the instructions and they answer the questions as to be instructed because if not it could inflate the figure what we have to do in the future is understanding. how actually three act when they actually see that question because it's a quite serious question have you used prohibited methods in the past month and how to motivate athletes honestly even if they are actually dopers. responding to our request wada says that the study will actually be reviewed by a new working group of prevalence which will be a key priority for this year but investigative journalist rick stirling believes that was a voids uncomfortable issues this was a study which of course would raise alarms with the world anti-doping agency instead of pursuing it and doing further tests to determine the accuracy to try to

verify or disprove the results of their study they simply blocked the publication so in my mind it's an example of the lack of transparency and the bias and the efforts to censor. studies and news that is problematic from their standpoint. it seems the facebook wants users looking a little closer to home marks of copernic head of the social media giant has revealed that from monday people's news feeds will be centered more around local news stories and u.s. national unity appears to be the reason for that decision. many people told me they thought that if we could turn down the temperature on the more divisive issues and instead focus on concrete local issues then we would all make more progress together the move is the latest in a series of changes to the facebook news feed to other recent changes aim to show only trustworthy news and informative content to use is also last week facebook

reportedly acquired the software company confirmed which creates tools to authenticate official i.d.'s to be part of a plan to identify ad buyers and thus avoid the so-called troll farms blamed for alleged russian meddling technology analyst dmitri klein or so that facebook's moves may have a much more pragmatic and such it was one of the outcomes of that you have here i mean facebook makes their money by targeted advertising right so like a big able to reach people and manipulate them and like you know it whether whether it's for political or commercial reasons is the primary use of the platform so their primary motivation in controlling the timeline is to actually prevent people from effectively doing so without paying them and so you know they they say it's really about fake news but actually it's about any kind of kind of community based information that people are trying to get out there that aren't there that they are paying facebook to promote i suspect facebook algorithm will continuously be

refined to like make sure that their users are seeing and clicking on as much advertising as possible so even even any temporary benefit to local communities might get at the expense of whatever whatever it is they're moving from the timeline i think that will also be short term and short lived and that brings you right to date appreciate your company this evening i'll be about the latest news headlines see at the top of the hour. but. i.

find that i find. the release the memo moment is upon us republicans are billing it as some kind of silver bullet revealing political corruption at the highest levels of the department of justice and f.b.i. the democrats on the other hand and their supporters in the liberal media holiday

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