i'm extremely more higher education the new global economic war. a human rights organization accuses the israeli army of deliberately targeting the legs of protesters in gaza. i spent six hours in surgery one week in the intensive care unit and i did not think my leg would be like yours also to come this hour the recalls from donald trump to be awarded the nobel peace prize after he takes credit for progress on the korean peninsula i. found your braces itself for a trade war with the us is the deadline to extend an exemption for aluminum and steel tariffs is set to expire tomorrow.

oh they're welcome it's six pm here in moscow you're watching r.t. international. palestinian medics are struggling to cope with the number of injured after a month of protests along the gaza border the international committee of the red cross points that hospitals only get only get around four to eight hours of power a day there ministrations have been met by a heavy response from israel notably by sniper fire the palestinian health ministry in gaza says more than two thousand people have received leg injuries a lack of medical treatment has also forced unnecessary amputations for one palestinian athlete it meant the end of his career. not to go rushing about the soldiers were brutally shooting people an old man got shot in front of us and he was protesting peacefully and not throwing any stones and he got shot with an explosive bullet i spent six hours in surgery and then one week in the. pensive care unit and i didn't think my leg would be like this i could

not feel it but i had fractured won't set my leg capital bleeding out i wasn't aware that it would be amputated seems like my relatives told the doctors not to tell me i was an athlete i used to claim multiple sports and i used to play for the palestinian union. well replying to requests for comment the israeli defense forces told us they had issued repeated warnings to palestinians approaching the border fence and they also cite their duty to prevent threats against their country for another young palestinian who dreamt of becoming a footballer 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 with these really response with live fire during the protest i was filming myself to post it leader we sure have the right to do it while i was

filming a sniper shot me in the knee and it was dislocated i was targeted without warning that i wasn't a threat to the soldiers and all of 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. where human rights watch has expressed particular concern over what it says is the deliberate targeting of legs of unarmed demonstrators by the israeli army the concern was raised by the rights groups israel and palestine director here and he joins us live now. good to have you on thanks for your time this afternoon. firstly what's your reaction to the i.d.f. response here they say that protecting the security of israel and we have repeatedly warned people to stay away from the fence. the reality is the israeli policy is not about protecting the people of israel right the closure policy of gaza going back for

a decade but restrictions that go back even further has been part of a failed political strategy to topple. the reality is when it comes to these really rules of engagement that we see in practice each of the last friday's they've been firing on people they deem to be instigators within the gaza strip and those that simply find themselves in a no go zone within gaza that are being fired on right these are people that are that are threatening maybe the security fence but certainly nowhere near threatening actual israeli civilians there's been no israelis target no claim in fact that their fire is in response to an end threat to life or limb which is the standard under international law quite simply disney's are calculated decisions being made at the highest levels of the israeli government that sanction opening fire on unarmed demonstrators in flagrant violation of international law so what sort of response do you think would be proportionate. look international law makes

clear that a country like israel has the ability to use you know force to protect an authorised crossings of course most of the cases of killings we're talking about are happening at demonstrations you know hundreds of meters away from the actual security fence but if people are actually crossing a fence entering israeli territory every right to use non-lethal means of a variety of swords to carry out arrest if there has been criminal act including crossing the border without authorization but using live ammunition right now using intentional lethal force is only permitted under international law in response to an imminent threat to life or limb and that's not what's happening here these are these this is using force to accomplish other objectives which are not sanctioned by international law of orders that are on their face unlawful and really responsibility for these awful killings go to the highest levels of the israeli government to expect these ready government to perhaps change tack to perhaps. you

know ease live ammunition considering the reaction from the global community. unfortunately it's now been five consecutive weeks roofs. sorts of killings taking place obviously the numbers of those killed have been followed but we continue to see every week hundreds of people injured very serious injuries we're talking about people whose you know bones have been pulverized shattered as aid workers on the ground have described as x. rays and photos we've seen in our visits to hospitals have shown people that have you know large massive exit wounds and we're building up to may fifteenth where there could be even larger scale actions and the concern is that not only will you see continuance of these killings but you could see something on a scale even larger than that i've as a human rights watch researcher have covered this egypt and seen mass protests or killings i've seen buildups of weeks and weeks of smaller killings combination and

large scale bloodbaths and i worry that we could witness the same sort of things given the confluence of events that will be upcoming in the coming weeks ok i'm on it we've got to leave. today it was i wish israel and palestine director of human rights watch thank you. now has resigned has been a global backlash over these writing miters response to the demonstration in gaza since the end of forty three palestinians died protests during that period including four children.

now another new 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 so after historic meeting between the leaders of north and south korea saw the two sides pledge to reach the peninsula of nuclear weapons before the end of the year but apart from denuclearization the states agreed on friday to formally end the korean war which dates back more than half a century they had to sign a peace treaty agreeing to involve the u.s. and china in the process was quick to take credit for the zing of tensions on the peninsula and his supporters are now also saying he should get the nobel prize for his efforts in a recent tweet he suggested to him he's more deserving than barack obama who was given the prize just after he became president well at a rally on saturday his fans seem to agree. that.

was. so what are the chances then of him scooping the award with more his ego should die off. 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 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. or 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 vicious gun a persuader trump style of making peace equally applies to iran big government that

gives terrorist 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 the word twenty nine. here is celebrate. syria's felt the full impact of trumps peacemaking 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 he spoke to journalist and author my experimental who believes the improvement in relations on the korean peninsula actually has nothing to do with donald trump. donald trump's policy towards the koreas has been one of hostility at sanctions of threats of fire and theory as defense minister jim mattis threatened 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 we're in j. and has been so courageous in this effort to reconcile with the north and so really calls for donald trump to receive a nobel prize really reflect how insular and parochial view of right wing is right wing supporters is donald trump is really not played

a role in the then it's around north and south korea. meanwhile donald trump could be back to start a trade war because new u.s. tariffs on imports if you are paying steel and aluminum to come into force on may the first something brussels is making last minute efforts to avoid with more on this story here's our europe correspondent peter odom. europe certainly launched the charm offensive to make sure that that exemption remains in place just last week we saw french president emmanuel 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 mr mark on and 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 more quite all quit over of emotional contact between president michel and president trump was 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 going to sound so nice the european union. you know why i mean they literally did i so they formed to take advantage of the united states and i don't blame them 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 minium now the fact that these could come in this early as 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

they came to the conclusion that should these tariffs come into play then there has to be retaliations or we've got to look into what they may entail when we heard from john 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 and we were now impose tariffs on. motorcycles harley davidson on blue jeans even is on bourbon we can also use we also have to be this youth 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. us 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 piece or all of our reporting there now where thousands of people have been out on the streets of moscow today protesting the russian government's decision to block

a popular messaging service we'll have the latest just after the break. a thing that interrupts free trade interrupt freedom and i think interim freedom is a reversion back to new little ism and we see that happening right now in the united states and presumably here in canada as well that is concentrated in the

fewer hands bradley river of the risk of neil feudalism on the horizon crypto is is the answer in my view and it is an asset class and it is gobbling up market share and the u.s. dollar is doing all three of money is. now with my collections looming in the u.k. the alleged russian meddling saga has taken another twist the sunday times claims that russian twits a boss tried to influence the twenty seventeen parliamentary elections in favor of the labor party leader jeremy cool but with more on the story he's shouting think the sunday times has provided us all with a little russian bought 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 the time 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 as a challenge to get there we have requested the times to comment on some of the details of their research we'll let you know there are soon as we get it in the meantime former british intelligence officer and he says the newspapers claims are 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 all of 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 or as 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 true russia bots they were human beings and cisco news invited one of these people on the news and he came on to sky and argue 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 that they're trying to stigmatize british citizens who have an alternative view. 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 a review of police data found officers use force against twelve thousand people over three months last year one in three was black the proportion of black people

in the population is far smaller attention to the issue was highlighted by a controversial incident in july when a black man was killed by police. in . britain's home office has vowed to investigate the 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 the never 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 it's one of the most impossible things to do to prosecution officer the only reason is the offices of that to protect us so it's quite a natural when you see a police officer in the dark in his uniform crime isn't driven by race crime is driven by socioeconomic factors or young males in inner london get involved in street crime and socioeconomic factors mean that there are more your miles are black in areas of and on than the. other rices 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 that. moscow today thousands of people have been taking part in a protest against the russian government's decision to block telegram one of the country's most popular messenger apps with the details his meeting

a question. thousands of demonstrators have gathered here in the downtown of moscow to protest against the state's decision to block the messaging app telegram police authorities say that around seven and a half thousand people came to the center of the capital protesters at this rally are calling for freedom of the internet and they're also calling for the government to stop it to its attempts to block the app now it was banned in russia because the company refused to share user data or with the government and that was in violation of a russian antiterrorism laws there is have a police presence those the protest has been peaceful telegram is a cloud based instant messaging service which was founded by a russian top printer. the app is considered to be one of the best for online privacy thanks to its high level of messaging corruption the rally was and doorstep

of by the founder of the app himself and also by a number of prominent russian opposition figures. so that brings you up to date as things are looking so far today here not same all from us in thirty five. to. join me every thursday on the alex i will try and i'll be speaking to get a feel of the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you. a little less sleep. it didn't last i used to fulfill some fantasy that i did just that my wife. when i left that i sat next to her on.

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follow in welcome across talk we're all things considered i'm peter lavelle we live in surreal times a short time ago even imagining a negotiated end to the tensions on the korean peninsula was a flight into fancy but here we are is this becoming a foreign policy victory for trying. crosstalk interims foreign policy i'm joined by my guest mark sloboda he's an international affairs and security analyst we also have exactly moreau is the

founder of the center for political strategic analysis and we have dimitri bob achieves a political analyst with the international right gentlemen crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate exhibit let me go to you first we're going to devote a good part of this program to what's going on in the korean peninsula however the president of the country that you come from france was visiting the united states how would you sum up my crohn's visit because if you want my two cents it was quite humiliating for the french president quite immediately it's exactly the word to use and in my opinion again sure there. is a meeting with the. chief of state and in my opinion you heard some rumors because it was in some mill yes. six or orientation and saw you played with him and he looked like he was being played with you i think you know even if you're not really interested in politics the visuals of their

encounter i mean it's gone viral and everyone's laughing i'm not going to put a big sadly mark exactly for exactly what do you think you're going to be if you're . not trying to protect america but in my opinion where did a maritime. trump isn't acceptable and in my opinion it's a mistake because. really. and you just given the evidence that. i can tell you because i mean we've been together this syria i guess the hard line was the try to dissuade him from going leaving the iran deal but he didn't get anything ok i mean living you had to admit to media that i didn't change his mind but apparently he made. did you make the claim you want him to eat he made commit to staying in syria to remind me because when he was chosen by french people it was the american image is first speech just after

being elected about the us. the problem is obama came a president and obama i don't know why i hated sarkozy because of good i did like him very much to their god we thought bob. dole and all the cases when we were going to get. it was because he was supporting the republicans but the result is after one year a poor. understand that there we are friend of. course not because he was a russian because when he came in russia and i hope it would be the same for a man we seen weeks when he came in russia you were. we have to admit you know going back through history here here's one of his foreign policy successes was to be involved in the mediation of ending this the conflict in south of. jump and you're afraid to file.