yeah. territories of israel and palestine after scores of palestinians were killed during protests against the relocation of the u.s. embassy to jerusalem. the u.s. moves across the globe with several world leaders and even some of israel's traditional allies expressing furious condemnation. also ahead this hour on the american soldier subject to waterboarding in support of the controversial nominee for the cia. claiming that the brutal interrogation techniques. to torture. on with north korea set for talks washington prosperity in return for nuclear disarmament we look at

america's track record of current unstick the state. live from our international news center in moscow welcome to r.t. international my names you know knowing your company we will get to those headlines stories in a moment but first i want to bring you to southern russian for what is now officially russia is longest bridge connecting the mainland to the crimean peninsula it's right now it being officially opened construction workers and president putin are driving across it now the bridge was completed six months ahead of scheduled. tomorrow morning whedon state that bridge will be fully open to

the public at running part level will also be air realize that's expected to be finished next year twenty nine drinan will be the longest bridge in europe so right now that opening ceremony is longest bridge leading from the potential of crimea to mainland russian just being opened at the moment president putin doing the honors. now moving on tensions are running high between palestinian protesters and the israeli military after fifty nine people were killed and over two thousand injured during clashes with israeli defense forces today marks seventy years since the creation of israel known to palestinians as nothing or catastrophe flared on monday had protests over the relocation of the u.s. embassy to jerusalem.

water. this. was the word we extend a hand in friendship to israel the palestinians and to all of their neighbors may there be peace. we pray for the peace of jerusalem.

these radio soldiers who you might be able to see behind me have made their way into northern ramallah from where they've been firing rounds of tear gas this tear gas causes us to run from this position where we're standing and then return and then run again this is heavy stage of tear gas in the air that makes breathing and seeing almost impossible today is not the day and across the west bank palestinians are commemorating what they call the day of catastrophe it coincides with israeli celebration of what they say is the day of independence that harkens back to nine hundred forty eight when the state of israel was declared yesterday we did see the biggest number of casualties that we've witnessed here since the last gaza war back in two thousand and fourteen fifty nine palestinians were killed in protests along the as well gaza border more than two thousand we injured and those figures are from the palestinian health ministry the israeli army has insisted that it is acting in self-defense and they say that they're behaving the same way any

sovereign state would in protecting its borders so if you the situation here on the ground tense we will be following events throughout the course of the day and unfortunately we do expect the casualty count to climb. where protests against the american embassy being relocated to jerusalem have been held in the u.s. itself crowds marched in washington los angeles the crying donald trump's decision rallies have also been held in several other countries protesters burned us on this really flying in support of the palestinians they also expressed anger at the violence on the gaza and. well several international human rights organizations have accused israel of using excessive force against protesters they called what happened on acceptable and inhumane the scribing the military's actions as a war crime well the un security council is no planning a special session on the latest israeli palestinian violent. it's the french

foreign ministry say the u.s. that violated international law by moving its embassy dutch authorities echoed that idea as well and arlin says america has made the situation much worse while south africa and turkey strongly condemn the move and have recalled their ambassadors to israel and also withdrew its envoy to the us america didn't we think that the moving of the us embassy from tel aviv to jerusalem is an unfortunate decision we are rejecting once again this decision which violates international law which is against un resolutions with its latest step the u.s. has chosen to be a part of the problem not a solution and has lost its mediator role in the middle east peace process we don't agree with the decision of the u.s. to to move their embassy we continue to think that the playing the wrong card at the time. as you burn is concerned that the move could make the peace process in

the middle east even more difficult or escalate tension across the middle east to a ten year old. believe that the current us president does not have the ability to differentiate and judge about the long term consequences of his actions. or we asked our guests for their views on america's stance on jerusalem. only he'll be miserable some people around us want us to expose tolerance to those who declare that they want to kill us who declare that they want to get into israel by booby traps by clutching called by it are you fools poor that they're just you know that of the regional hamlet has always been aware that what is are the exact. or under some years later in that has only two for for eleven years you are the one who initiated this you initiated this you thought you brought the well your start

up steadily is what policy has brought to the world tell me you have anything resides racism schiffman and. a lot of and not anything if you define greater israel as the area between the river jordan of the mediterranean sea the area under effective israeli control jews are now a small minority and the population and the more of a minority they become the more undemocratic. and racist israel becomes there are zero israeli injuries zero israeli casualties over two thousand palestinians injured over fifty seven palestinians killed including l.o.l. how sorry how magic. what do all of these protests. all of these are all tests in guys that were happening on gazans inside the area

occupied by israel in one nine hundred sixty seven israel use disproportionate force in an illegal manner killing scores of palestinians and wounding thousands literally thousands more but you know hamas is not my favorite organization. you know hamas is a politically corrupt group which has completely failed to exploit israel's growth growth contradictions and to use them against the increasingly race a state where hamas has consistently by attacking. jews quiet jews and therefore forcing making sure that israelis will band together all the more tightly against what they see as an external threat i have something to

tell you we want to establish a palestinian state in the future the two state solution is the international solution it's not the palestinian solution alone i do believe still that there is a chance for this solution but it will take courage and it will take resolve from the international community to step up. a u.s. special forces soldier has subjected himself to waterboarding in support of donald trump's controversial nominee to head the cia tim kennelly posted a facebook video of being mocked drawn to try and show that it is not a form of torture or not everyone seems convinced by the stunt. imagine me having attainted does this look like torture to you guys it doesn't look like torture to be either the reason we're doing this at a base. hero is readied for our best to deploy to the direct of the cia i want every fishel who promotes water boarding as not torture to be required to

demonstrate the validity of their claim by being water boarded in the exact same fashion as it's practiced in prison there's this includes cheney and hospital i was a navy pilot and i went to the e.r. even one hundred eighty one water boarding each store sure bonus round if torture is so great and vital why don't we do it to normal criminal suspects the nominee for cia director mentioned in the video has been widely criticized after allegations of her involvement in hunston interrogation techniques which included waterboarding human rights advocates been urging u.s. senators to vote against her appointment or of a president trump who hand-picked jeana hospital for the job as openly by the torture tactic well waterboarding has been used by the cia despite being considered torture under international law it can cause serious damage to internal organs or death if the process is prolonged we discussed the waterboarding video with

a former guantanamo detainee who says it doesn't matter what one soldier thinks it's still months to torture. many people can withstand different types of torture for example i know it might be the pain of having his arm twisted or having that pain and help hold out to others who can't but it's not based on the individual's ability to be able to take that torture or not it's according to the definition of the law international law interesting just recently the two people captured by the syrian defense forces who are alleged to be water who look at what. their american captives through ice is also water audit that. they have to so here the americans are saying that these two individuals that have committed war crimes which include what or so this kind of notion of it isn't torture it's only torture when we say it is when it affects us it's complete hypocrisy and it's

complete and it opposes more importantly international law which which outlaws torture completely and it said is that not only physical torture out of those so it's psychological portrait that they use all to force confessions out of people's . now within the past half hour or so the russian president vladimir putin has opened the longest bridge in russian the nineteen kilometer long curch street bridge connects the mainland to crimea and it's been opened six months ahead of schedule and it's expected to boost the number of tourists visiting the peninsula which is a popular holiday destination for russians during the opening ceremony construction workers drove along it with the russian leader.

what a very own daniel hawkins is out the ground opening off the bridge in southern russia

danny would just be looking at the white pictures of that even you'd have a problem with it going for your morning jog and not one thousand kilometers long quite a feat of engineering isn't it. a soul or is it in a bit of a festive atmosphere going on right now just this person is finished his speech it is quite a feat of engineering force lines in economics along four lanes of traffic on a realm way due to open next year as well as to truck fell way this bridge the crimea bridge is now let out of a long list in russia but the lowest in europe construction began a couple of years back it's been built in record time for this size six months in fact ahead of schedule it only seems to be going to plan a full now a couple of celebrities have inspected the bridge already the fire. one big or you may expect feline captain was actually found on this bridge at all fun and adopted by the workers here the cat has inspected the bridge walked across the stand it's

to the cat satisfaction the second one of course i missed the birth of the russian president started his journey on the cross that our end of the bridge he got into a big truck truck. drove the trucks here to the crimea and just beyond the cameras line of sight there he's praised the work his efforts here saying they've been working day and night we understand unconfirmed room one worker says they were here for so long even though his child was born on the bridge quite spartan conditions obviously here now to put this into perspective just what a fear of engineering this is often there's rough conditions on the sea all the kurds straight here the only land link that they're linked rather to crimea previously was by air or by ferry which was not always available due to the rough weather now there is a link all the time forty forty thousand cars thirteen million passengers will be able to carry through this bridge at its peak hours required

a huge amount of supporting structures world to be precise more than thirty two hour equivalents of steel was used for the supporting pillars many of which extend the nearly one hundred meters below the sea that's the equivalent of a thirty thirty five story building so quite a big structure here now this will have a big impact on the crimean peninsula not only because of the increased tourists from across the region from russia also because of obviously goods that can now be imported for the bridge and not by the sea or by air this project that's pollution pointed out in his speech has been with planning for a very long time from the darkest times to the start of the soviet union era it's only been carried out now after hundreds of years of planning so very much. great achievement here for. all the festivities go on this historic day for russia. yes some great stories going along with. hawkins standing on

russia's longest bridge that connects mainland russia to crimea. france's plan to tighten the law to protect children from sexual harvestman experts who see it will make the problem much worse we get it right into that in ninety seconds. join me every thursday on the alex simon short and i'll be speaking to us from the world of politics. i'm sure. i'll see you then.

make this manufacture consent to the public wealth. when the ruling classes protect themselves. with the famous merry go round be the one percent. nor middle of the room sick. hello again north korea house reportedly started to fulfill its promises on nuclear disarmament talks between the north and south or expected on wednesday but with donald trump withdrawing from the nuclear disarmament deal with iran there are fears washington will renee on its promises picking up the story right guess they

have. we all know what carrot and stick diplomacy is but these these goes beyond that way beyond their will get private capital becomes in north korea's desperately in need of energy support electricity for their people we can deliver that and as i said earlier this week we can create conditions for real economic prosperity for the north korean people that will rival that of the south talk about extremes not so long ago people were seriously talking about nuclear war those with a penchant for the dramatic really made the best of the opportunity north korea. best not make it work threats to the united states. they will be met with fire fury. like the world has never seen well north koreans must be sighing in relief instead of fire and fury they're now getting the carrot

all they have to do is give up nukes nice let's just hope they have short memories so i think iran is on notice and they are going to have to make a choice are they willing to go down the path which i think ultimately will lead to greater prosperity and security for iran giving up the acquisition of nuclear weapons or will they continue down a path that is going to lead to confrontation or quit the radians gave up on nukes dismantle their program complied absolutely with every requirement in the end it didn't matter they gave up nukes and then america took back the whole perspire it's a thing we'll see how we do with the rand probably we want to very well with them but that's ok too they've got to understand. life

because i don't think they do understand life when life gives you lemons make lemonade so long as trump doesn't take the lemons too regardless perhaps this time things will be different iran was a one off right wrong i am pleased that the united states and north korea yesterday reached agreement this agreement is good for the united states good for our allies and good for the safety of the entire world in one nine hundred ninety four bill clinton made a deal with north korea north korea could tale's its nuclear program and the us builds two nuclear reactors for it to compensate energy loss gives it half a million tons of fuel per year and normalize relations they never built the nuclear reactors they never sent any fuel and they never signed an official peace agreement you're seeing a pattern here right perspire it seems to be the carrot except what no one seems

the realizes it's for dangling not for tasting that just life they've got to understand. life because i don't think they do understand life. plumbs to change french laws to give stricter punishments for child sex abusers have fallen foul of experts who say it will make the problem worse let's go to our part as correspondent for more charlotte dubin ski charlotte i suppose from the outside looking in here it seems like a a noble effort to protect children what why is it causing such outrage. well you may remember back in march there was a big hoo ha off to france announced a new law that was aimed to being sexual violence and sexism and it contained in that little function is going to put in the statute books for the first time and

age of consent in france not age of consent was going to be a fifteen and not was because there was much outcry over two particular cases in which eleven year old girls were deemed not to have been raped by adult men because when the incident had taken place they were not subject to constraints threats of violence or surprise so the age of consent was put in that you all but now the law has been revised and the age of consent at fifteen has been moved that has angered many critics who say that this is now a watered down law which is being debated by the national assembly in france on tuesday and also said that it lessens the protections for children and in fact now provides new legal loopholes for child rapists have to listen to what they've had to say. and you are to go to child abuse could be considered a new fans not a crime because they don't mr president there are two hundred fifty people who

demand the law be repealed. well they've launched a petition now against the revision of the low removing the age of consent which was to be set at fifteen a more than four hundred thousand people have. signed the petition supporting. the reason we understand that the revision was made is because it was deemed that putting an age of consent would actually infringe only defectives presumption of innocence well that's caused some heated debate in the national assembly on monday when they first debated this new rule. when they still don't have worked when you read and read this law from one point in another when you are sure that you have read and understood all. the nothing happened as if there was no me to movement as if all these chalking in a pond testimony did not provoke any reaction from the government. and

if you then total both you've been seen on the largest of the text to follow this we are proposing. to critics and now say that this law if it's passed in its current state without but age of consent will mean that france is one of the only countries in europe not to have a minimum age of consent lawmakers in france a debate further on tuesday afternoon before voting on that new revised law without that crucial parts as critics say it is. you have to keep this right up to date on that if you would charlie. live from the french capital this hour. is water set to be the next great bottle of our age that's in focus next and i'll see you in thirty.

when i was sure seems wrong why don't we all just don't call. i mean you get to shape out these days it comes to the ticket and in the game trip equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. the united states can always had a tool to use in its tax on other countries. economic sanctions are often just the beginning another thing you like to do is place some military pressure on the countries and talking about.

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