if. the headline says a human rights organization accuses the israeli army of deliberately targeting the legs of protesters in gaza. i spent six hours in surgery and then one week in the intensive care unit and i didn't think my leg would be like this also to come calls for donald trump to be awarded the nobel peace prize after he takes credit for progress on the korean peninsula and europe braces itself for a trade war with the u.s. with a deadline to extend an exemption for aluminum and steel tariffs expiring tomorrow . or the welcome it's four pm here in moscow you're watching r.t.

international humanitarian organization has raised the alarm over the use of force against protesters along the israel gaza border human rights watch has expressed particular concern over what it says is the deliberate targeting of the legs of unarmed demonstrators by the israeli military palestinians started a series of planned demonstrators more than a month ago they've been protesting near a security fence which surrounds land the palestinians claim was stolen from them but they've been met by a heavy response from israel the palestinian health ministry in gaza says that more than two thousand people have received leg injuries with many said to have lost their limbs as a result for one palestinian athlete it meant the end of his career. with the. want to go rushing about the soldiers were brutally shooting people an old man got shot in front of me he was protesting peacefully not throwing any stones and he got

shot with an explosive bullet i spent six hours in surgery and then one week in the intensive care unit and i did. i think my leg would be like this i couldn't feel it i had fractured groans that my leg kept bleeding out i wasn't aware that it would be amputated it seems like my relatives told the doctors not to tell me that i was an athlete i used to play multiple sports and i used to play for the palestinian union or replying to a request for comment the israeli defense forces told us that issued repeated warnings to palestinians approaching the border fence they also cite their duty to prevent threats against their country for young for another young palestinian youth to becoming a football star his encounter with the i.d.f. was also life changing. during my food will career i hope to be one of the best players in gaza after this injury my football career is over these really response with live fire during the protest i was filming myself

to post it later we sure have the right to do while i was filming a sniper shot me in the knee and it was dislocated i was targeted without warning i wasn't a threat to the soldiers and all if god helps me i will be able to have surgery and hold the palestinian flock in the european countries my dream is to produce a p.d. in the european league well there's been a global backlash over the israeli military's response to the demonstrations in gaza since the end of march forty three palestinians died at protests during that period including four children.

now the south korean president has reportedly said that donald trump deserves the nobel peace prize for his efforts to deescalate the situation on the korean peninsula after a story meeting between the leaders of north and south korea which saw the two sides pledge to rid the potential of nuclear weapons before the end of the year well apart from. the states agreed on friday to formally end the korean war which dates back more than half a century. to sign a peace treaty to agreeing to involve the u.s. and china in the process. quick to take credit for the zing of tensions on the peninsula and supporters and i also saying he should get the nobel peace prize for his efforts in a recent tweet he suggested he's perhaps more deserving than barack obama who was given the prize just after he became president at a rally on saturday his fans seem to agree.

that. was. so does he really have a chance then of scooping the award with more his. the nobel peace prize an award for human rights champions peacekeepers and presidents who would later drop at least twenty six thousand bombs on seven foreign nations in just one year the prize is clearly viewed as such a meaty addition to donald trump's track record that someone under a stolen identity actually forged his nomination for the award two years in a row supporters of the idea have named the negotiations between the koreas as trump's main qualification for real this time. what do you think. president trump had to do with it i'll tell you what i like about everything

with and as we've been told the trump has the best words and those he applied to north korea directly he is a sick puppy rocket man is on a suicide mission for himself obviously he's a pretty smart cookie we all saw that intricate game of diplomacy we will have no choice but to totally destroy north korea they will be met. with fire fury witnessed trump a saying that whole quid pro quo thing we are sending an armada. for a pair of. we have submarines very powerful and i will say this. he is doing the wrong thing is making a big mistake let's be frank those who call trump a peacemaker more or less share the logic of those who nicknamed vish gun

a persuader trump style of making peace equally applies to iran big government that gives terrorists safe harbor financial back in i am speaking of course of a rare the rogue regime a rand can sprint towards a rapid nuclear weapons break no where no matter where you go in the middle east you see the fingerprints of iran behind problems for goodness sake here pointed as national security advisor a man who just last year thought this was a good idea and that's why this works twenty nine. here. syria is felt the full impact of trumps peace making if things keep going the way they are the country will be celebrating the annual tomahawked day sometime around

mid spring but again maybe a nobel peace prize and trump do fit together at the end of the day after all why does obama get to have all the nice things well we spoke to journalist and author max blumenthal who believes the improvement in relations on the korean peninsula actually has nothing to do with trying. donald trump's policy towards the koreas has been one of hostility at sanctions and threats of fire and furious defense minister jannat is directly north korea with extermination and their policy essentially failed because nuclearization in north korea succeeded because kim jong un extended an olive branch to the south and because. there's been so courageous of this effort to reconcile with the work and so really the cause for donald trump to receive a nobel prize really reflect how insular and parochial that view of right wing is

right wing supporters is donald trump is really not. then it's around north and south korea. well in the meantime from could be a back to start a new trade war because new u.s. tariffs on imported european steel and aluminum do come into force on may the thirst something that brussels is making last minute efforts to avert so let's get the latest on that from paid oliver he's in berlin for us covering this story good afternoon to you again peter so what are the chances do you think of europe perhaps averting this from happening well europe certainly launched a charm offensive to make sure that that exemption remains in place just last week we saw french president of money with the german chancellor angela merkel over across the atlantic in the white house talking about a number of things but in particular this exception in keeping it but the words in the loving embrace as we saw between particularly missed the mark on president

trump we're a long way shy of the stronger words we heard from the french president just last month. we can talk about everything with a friendly country that respects the rules of the w two yo but we can't talk about anything when it's with a gun to our heads. but whether they were to opt for the not quite all quit over emotional contact between president marco and president trump all the while just frankly quite awkward contact between the german chancellor and president trump it does seem that the man in the white house may have already made up his mind when it comes to these tariffs. you know it sounds so nice to. you know why i mean they literally did i say they formed to take advantage of the united states and i don't blame them. but the tariffs that are being talked about are a twenty percent want to be levied on steel exported to the united states and ten

percent on a mini and now the fact that these could come in this early the first of may that prompted an emergency phone call on sunday evening between chancellor merkel president mark on and prime minister to reason may of the united kingdom even though the u.k. is set to leave the e.u. it still remains a member up until the moment it actually leaves now they came to the conclusion that should these tariffs come into play then there has to be retaliation so what type of retaliations they say well we've got to look into what they may entail when we heard a little late a little earlier on i beg your pardon from sean claude younker the european commission president. so now we will also impose import tariffs this is basically a stupid process the fact that we have to do this but we have to do it now imposed tariffs on motorcycles harley davidson on blue jeans levis on bourbon we can also

do stupid we also have to be this stupid. the word coming out of the united states is that there will be an extension to this exemption but ultimately all that does is kick the problem down the road for another day and still leaves us with the situation that either the e.u.'s to cave in and say yes they'll pay these tariffs or the united states has to say don't worry about it you get let off with this one ok peter thanks for the update there on burden that was peter all of us thank you. now with local elections looming in the u.k. the alleged russian meddling saga has taken another twist the newspaper the sunday times claims that russian twitter bots did try to influence the twenty seventeen parliamentary elections in favor of opposition leader jeremy corbin shouting verger takes a closer the sunday times has provided us all with a little russian bar deja vu it's groundbreaking investigation with swansea

university has cracked the code on how the labor party did so well in this year's general elections and the answer is russian tweets of course. research that just that was not destroyed at its superbowl corban and to down the street by bombarding the public with positive messages in support of labor using twitter columns that were mostly created after the election was just that early last year so let's break down that research sixty five hundred russian twitter accounts identified by their primary language work to bash the ruling conservatives and promote the labor party in the run up to the election and a few examples are given as to how they achieve their meddling goals such as promoting stories condemning trees that may for cuts and police numbers and funding another point made in the article was the massive attendance seen corbin's rallies but even if the scores of people who showed up were only there are things to bots re tweeting corbin's location does that somehow make them not true supporters other suspicious activity it was a push by the bots on election day telling people to get out there and vote how

dare they say the article doesn't provide a list of the accounts they monitored and said that many of them have been deleted or suspended by twitter conservative m.p.'s have vowed to dig further into the claims russian interference in the politics of the u.k. is a breach of election law and something we've got to act to stop whereas labor representatives have slammed the article as a classic sunday times smear campaign the labor party's people power do election campaign attracted huge levels of public support online we're not aware of any from to me bought categorically did not pay for any not aware of any of our supporters doing so. other labor supporters have even chosen to embrace the accusations.

now the report does not comment on who specifically was behind the campaign or how many people actually saw the tweets nor does it say whether or not the attempt was successful but the point is if a vote comes up with shocking results there's clearly no other plausible explanation apart from the russians did it former m i five officer shown says it's all just part of a clampdown on alternative views. the west does not like dissent it does not like alternative views and the internet offered people the old the chance of developing these alternative news and as soon as you have one of those alternative viewpoints in the west you must of course be working as one of putin's useful idiots who is a russian troll bottle whatever it is we saw this last week as well there was a report on sky news and they were accusing two accounts particularly on twitter

saying that they are russia russia bots they were human beings and cisco news invited one of these people on the news and he came on to sky and argued that he was a human being strangely enough and it turned out he was the source seventy year old pensioner who is just angry at what's going on politically in the u.k. so it's really risible they're trying to stigmatize british citizens who have an alternative view. football's biggest event the world cup does kick off in russia in just forty five days time and football fever is starting to grip the country between march and the beginning of the tournament the fee for world cup has been touring the host cities and visitors can take part in master classes attend autograph sessions and hone their penalty taking skills to the like and also buy some souvenirs well this weekend the park did pick up a new katherine berg and among the visitors you might be able to spot him here is the french football legend marcel decide he the former defender was part of the

venn host nation france is winning team during the world cup in one thousand nine hundred ninety eight their side was nicknamed the rock because of his power playing technique in each shared his impressions too with r.t. and told us what he thought about the teams taking part in the upcoming tournament . people are very friendly and there you can see that they love the food bowl i can see in the faces of the people but the main thing is is when you see the people trying to speak the french trying to speak the english there's a real energy around this so this is what we're talking about we're talking about a major import the most important competition in the world sports competition in the world who brings you know different culture different language where the people have to open up so it's great. for asia's very dangerous argentina there they face difficulty to qualify so most of the time during the

tournament they are their best croatia wow like belgium they are one of those themes that potentially can be the surprise of the tournament saw let's see at the end of the day step by step france have you know they've shown that they can reach the final of the you roll in the almost one it. has never never see any politician or any poli sci controversy that have enter into the football system they've played their rules from the beginning they've done well thank you the infrastructure good you've inject money is good for the communities good for the cities good for tourism so now is the time for football you cannot enter into the system coaches will pick what they want to win into two to shining in and be the man of of you know it's walk up we're talking about work it is not something small sometimes all the time say to myself champions league was

good or you know the league was good but i walk out it's definitely something different different level different you cannot compare. still ahead this hour police in the u.k. have been accused of institutionalized racism we'll have a look at that and more details of the stories on the way it's. twenty eight team coverage we've signed one of the greatest goalkeepers of all but there was one more question by the way who's going to be our coach.

you guys i know you are nervous he's a huge star and a huge amount of pressure you have to be the center of the beach. and the great. you are the rock at the back nobody gets past you we need you to get the ball going let's go. alone. and i'm really happy to join. russia meet the special one. needs to redo the r t team's latest edition to make up a bigger. book. the un has expressed serious concerns over the disproportionate number of black people dying in the u.k. due to excessive use of force by police the deaths reinforce the experiences of

structural racism over policing and criminalization of people of african descent and other minorities in the u.k. . the accusation of racism came after an analysis of police data he did find that officers used force against twelve thousand people over three months last year and one in three was black though the proportion of black people in the population is actually far smaller attention to the she was highlighted by a controversial incident in july when a black man was killed by police. in. britain's

home office is to investigate these allegations we discuss the issue with experts. the police a bit like james bond they have a license to kill with impunity and i say with impunity because remember seems to be any justice i don't know of any policeman going to prison for killing a civilian on the streets of london at the end the evidence doesn't go so far as beyond reasonable doubt i think is one of the most impossible things to do. to prosecution officer the only reason is the officers are there to protect us so it's quite a natural when you see a police officer in the dock in his uniform crime isn't driven by race crime is driven by socioeconomic factors or young males in inner london and get involved in street crime and socio economic factors mean that there are more your miles of our black in areas of in on than our of other races that's not the same in other cities

and so when you look at the people involved in street crime in those areas the disproportionality is not bad. in other news today at least twenty five people have been killed and more than forty five injured in a double suicide bombing in the afghan capital that's according to reporters without borders nine journalists were said to be among the victims the first blast reportedly took place near the nato headquarters in kabul near a number of embassies around twenty minutes later when the emergency services and journalists had arrived at the scene a second explosion went off pieces it's chief are told in afghanistan was among the dead islamic state has claimed responsibility saying it was targeting the afghan intelligence services and there's been yet another suicide attack in the country two south of the capital in kandahar province at least eleven students were killed and more than a dozen people injured there when a car bomb targeted a nato convoy that's according to local officials cited by the media the attack

happened near a religious school where the convoy was due to pass. now today in moscow thousands of people are taking part in a protest against the russian government's decision to block telegram one of the most popular messenger in russia they say though the ruling violates the freedom of speech the rally was organized by the unofficial libertarian party of russia it was also endorsed by the creator of telegram puzzle doer of and by many prominent russian opposition figures including alexina valmy here there is a heavy police presence at the moment although the protest so far has been peaceful . telegram is an instant messaging service considered to be one of the best for online privacy thanks to its high level of messaging cripps in it was banned in russia because the company though refused to share user data with the government and that's in violation of russian antiterrorism laws. so that's

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welcome to sophie shevardnadze the violence by mental protests in north dakota and turnout tional headlines and has raised questions about extremism inside america's growing green movement is the danger of environmental terrorism real i ask former director of communications for the u.s. senate environment committee marc morano.

claiming victory in the white house. or coming out in force with the green movement also seen an increase in its ranks is radical is making a comeback among the defenders of the environment to be extreme green deserve to be labeled in charge that terrorists will environmental groups be the next big danger to the order in america. marc morano welcome to the show it's good to have you with us on this program now mark researchers of domestic extremism in the u.s. say that the next wave of terrorism will live from radical greens is that an exaggeration is that simply the latest scare crowd. no i don't think so i think if you go back to like the first earth day for instance the environmental movement has become in a sense activated and radicalized many elements of them the extreme elements and i think what's happened now to make this more relevant is first of all they see the

success of groups like isis and how one individual who may not even be organized with a larger group one individual act can cross chaos and draw attention to a cause so specifically right now what's happening is the climate change issue many environmentalist and mainstream environments are terrified and think that the planet is going to be doomed and the rhetoric coming from even top leaders of the united nations top scientists said you civility with nasa are in a way giving potential eco terrorists the justification to do it they're saying that essentially we are doomed that civilization is and that we must stop this so that the attitude by many activists looking at the climate scare is they have to act alone because governments are not acting or not acting enough or in many cases are just acting you know defiant to their concerns so i do think that the environmental move.