i. 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 mike would be like. those calls for donald trump to be awarded the nobel peace prize after he takes credit for progress on the korean peninsula. i. europe braces itself for a trade war with the u.s. as a deadline to extend an exemption for many and steel tariffs is set to expire tamara .

thanks for joining us you're watching our 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 says the hospitals are only get around forty eight hours of power each day the demonstrations have been met by heavy response from israel notably sniper fire palestinian health ministry in gaza says that more than two thousand people every single leg injuries a lack of medical treatments also forced unnecessary amputations and for one palestinian athlete it meant the end of his career. the soldiers were brutally shooting people an old man got shot in front of me 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 intensive

care unit and i didn't think my leg would be like this i couldn't feel it but i had fractured groans that my leg kept bleeding out i wasn't aware that it would be amputated but 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. applying to a request for comment the israeli defense forces told us that they they should repeated warnings the palestinians who were approaching the border fence they also cite their duty to prevent threats against their country for another young palestinian who dream to 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 these really response with life 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 was in a thread to the soldiers and all of god helps me i will be able to have surgery and hold the palestinian flock in their european countries my dream is to produce a p.d. in the european league that. 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 the concern was raised by the israel and palestine director of the right scrape here we spoke to him. 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 that people are actually crossing a fence entering israeli territory every right to use non-lethal means of

a variety of swords to carry out her arrest if there has been you know criminal. crossing you know from border without authorization but using live ammunition right now i'm 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 you of mortars that are on their face on lawful and really responsibility for these awful killings go to the highest levels of these really government. there's been a global bank clash over the israeli military's response to the demonstrations in gaza since the end of march forty three palestinians died of protests during that period including four children.

the south korean president has reportedly said donald trump deserves a nobel peace prize for his efforts to deescalate the situation on the korean peninsula this was after and historic meeting between the leaders of north and south korea saw the two sides pledged to rid the area of nuclear weapons before the end of the year and apart from denuclearization the states agreed on friday to formally end the korean war something that dates back more than half a century they've had to sign a peace treaty agreeing to involve both the u.s. and china in the process. from trying was quick to take credit for easing the tensions and his supporters are now also saying that he should get the nobel prize for his efforts in a recent tweet he suggested that he's actually more deserving he says than barack

obama who was given the prize just after becoming president and at a rally on saturday drums fans seem to agree. the nuclearization of the korean ship it was it was it was you know were. it was very large there. so do they really have a chance of skipping the award with more is a good start of. 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 now there is a. what do you think. president trump had to do with it i'll tell you what i like about everything it was and as we've been told 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. very powerful. 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 nickname vish 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 this works fine. here.

syria's 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 what does obama get to have all the nice things. we spoke to journalist and author back blumenthal who believes that the improvement in relations on the korean peninsula has nothing to do with trump. donald trump's policy towards the koreas has been one of hostility sanctions of threats fired hereis defense minister jim mattis threaten your korea with extermination and their policy essentially failed because nuclearization in north korea succeeded because jim jong un extended an olive branch to the south and because we were and has been so courageous in this effort to reconcile the war and so really the cause for donald trump to receive

a nobel prize really reflects 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. in the meantime could be about to start a trade war new u.s. tariffs on imports of european stale and aluminum they come into force on may first something brussels is making last minute of it's the try avoid with more correspondent peter all of. 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 bullet in particular this exception in keeping it but the words in the loving embrace as we saw between particularly mr mccollum president trump

who are way shy of the stronger words we heard from the french president just last month that we can talk about everything with a friendly country that respects the rules of the w two you know we can talk about when it's with a gun to our heads but whether they were to opt for the not quite all quit a bit over of motional 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 to european. 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 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 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 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 we were now impose tariffs on. motorcycles harley davidson on blue jeans levis on bourbon we can also do stupid we also have to be this stupid 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. has 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. with local elections looming in the united kingdom the alleged russian meddling saga has taken another twist the sunday times claims that russian twitter bots tried to influence the twenty seventeen parliamentary elections in favor of labor party that jeremy corbyn taken a closer look at sardi's gently. the sunday times has provided us are with a little russian bought deja vu it's groundbreaking investigation where swanzy 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 box 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 our 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 with us for

a response from twitter for the times to provide additional information about their research will let you know their responses when they come in former british intelligence officer marshall fields the newspaper's claims are all just part of a clamp down on alternative v's. the west does not like dissent it does not like alternative views and the internet offered people the all 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 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 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. vectorization of racism came after a review of police data use it found officers used force against twelve thousand people over three months last year one in three of them was black though the proportion of black people in the population is far smaller tension to the issue was highlighted by a controversial incident in july which saw a black man killed by police.

britain's home office is valid to investigate these allegations and we discussed them with several experts. the police. like james bond they have a license to kill with impunity and i say with impunity because whenever 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 at 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 south yarra anomic 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 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 bad. here in moscow thousands of people have been taking part in a protest against a court decision to block a telegram that's one of the country's most popular messenger absentees medina coaching or has more. thousands of demonstrators have gathered here in the downtown of moscow to protest against the state's decision to block their 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 with its attempts to block the app now it was banned in russia because the company refused to share user dieter with the government and that was in violation of russian antiterrorism laws there is how the police presence those the protest has been peaceful telegram is a cloud based instant messaging service which was founded by a russian tapper now pliable dude up the app is considered to be one of the best for online privacy thanks to its high level of messaging corruption the rally was endorsed by the founder of the app himself and also by a number of prominent russian opposition figures. now run lied over its nuclear program that's according to the israeli prime minister binyamin netanyahu has just issued a statement presenting a large amount of data he believes can be used as proof to discredit tehran's

nuclear deal signed with powers why would a terrorist regime. hard. and meticulously catalogued secret nuclear farls if not to use them a good leader. you know who presented files that he claims can prove iran is developing nuclear weapons he promised to share the documents with international organizations and other countries the prime minister that his dossier could influence the fate of the iran nuclear deal. so this is a terrible deal. that should never have been concluded. and if you do you stronger . president trump. will design america's the solution on what to do with the nuclear deal. i'm sure you'll do the right thing. the right thing for the united states. the right thing for israel and the right thing. for

the peace of the world. the markings professor of history and international relations at the lebanese university in beirut very good evening t. it's hard to say at this point we see all of this evidence but do you believe that the israeli prime minister's proof is going to be real. well i don't believe the evidence presented by many i mean netanyahu especially this evidence should be of course the. independent community or committee international committee however i believe this comes in a concerted effort by him by saudi arabia and by the united states to. exert pressure on iran. to. block its program it's been a stick besides program on one hand to impose sanctions on it on the other hand and

at the same time to justify a possible war. led by the israelis on iranian station troops in syria so i believe that we might be heading towards a major regional war. with any israeli aggression against both lebanon and syria and that would target iranian and hezbollah troops stationed in. syrian territory because. it has been declared over and over again by israel by by and at any hour and israeli officials that they wouldn't tolerate any future presidents office block or iranian troops in syria after the end of the crisis would only one would think that any evidence provided would need to be pretty conclusive this point to think we will say that you know says he's probably still going to have this information made public do you think that will happen. well i

don't believe that this information is presented to give solid evidence against iran but to be used as a pretext to step up the israeli attacks on iranian troops in syria which has been the case yesterday evening. in the past few weeks so for the second time israel targets iranian. revolutionary guards who are stationed in syria and who are fighting alongside the syrian government against terrorist groups. that netanya and israel are very worried about this present so they need to use the. tendency of the american tendency to step up tension with iran on one hand to reimpose the sanctions and. the the nuclear deal with iran.

especially that it seems that the united states is. getting success in its effort especially after the visit of my craw. until america and the support of that is may do to. the policies against iran so i believe that netanyahu is stepping in to use this atmosphere to justify a possible aggression against syria that would target the iranian troops stationed there this is exactly what donald trump would have wanted to hear he says the reigning deals a terrible daley said it in the past and now he's got this supposed proof saying that they can't be trusted this is played right into his hands. definitely definitely and also plays into the hands of the saudis who are using any possible means to. reset the balance of power that have tilted

drastically to the favor of the syrian government in syria and against the terrorist groups and at the same time they want to use it. as a means to. overcome the palestinian crisis the palestinian cause this solved and established the israelis or the alliance against iran and against russia as part of the grand american strategy to contain the eurasian powers and block them from having access to the east military and this is the real purpose and that's why it plays into the hands of both donald trump and saudi arabia and this also. increases the possibility of a major israeli aggression and attack in syria that would target the syrian army the hezbollah troops and the iranian troops that are backing the syrian government against the. terrorist groups and at the same time.

the west have tried to intimidate russia and the president of russia vladimir putin in order to neutralize them in any upcoming. conflict in the near east and this explains also the the whole case of this double agent that russian double agent home. russia was accused of poisoning in great britain and france are working thank you my guest jamal wakim professor of history and international relations at the lebanese university in favorite. and as i always like to say because it's true thank you we appreciate you chiming in to us here in r.t. . the national this evening all about the latest news headlines and updates on our top stories in half an hour.

join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sport this list i'm showbusiness i'll see you then. time after time say we're going underground on the eve of international workers day coming up in the show half a century since the nine hundred sixty eight mayday uprising that threatened civil war and revolution how stable is paris in twenty eight teams let alone the blooming bromance between mccraw and trump we go to the french capital to talk to legendary

enemy a fashionable nonsense professor brick mold and we speak to world famous political cartoonist promise not to feel about cia back to corruption espionage ahead of brazil's workers party announcing another race for the presidency by jailed for the head of state. after reports that britain's arms sales to israel increased ten fold since the gaza war we speak to palestinian rapper and see gaza about how he is fighting back against illegal israeli occupation with his music full of civil coming up in today's going on the ground but first there's a lot of talk and even the u.k. mainstream media about how the british minority governments party the conservatives look set to lose most of london at this week's local elections some of og you that middle class urban britain is being swayed to the left. these days they'll be plenty of people who live over in the tower block to think well actually the concert to the trees made a better bet for me actually you know i rather support the more conservative nature

was that of plenty of progressives and affluent people who live here think well you know we are generally in favor of a change to society so this is our kind of party these days we live in complicated and fluid times so what has happened could it be allied to the resurgence of revolutionary politics over what was so long called postmodernism does anyone even talk about postmodernism anymore the philosophy expounded by ruling elites across nato nations before the rise of germany corbin and bernie sanders here's what know him chomsky said about postmodernism i think the effect is pretty clear it allows people to take a very radical stance you know more radical than there are but to be completely dissociated from anything that's happening well the biggest postmodernism scandal across nato nations was arguably the so-called bric moral affair in which theoretical physicists deliberately created a fake connection between hard science and post-modernism.