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and prosperous and democratic. dismissing criticism the u.s. claims the decision to move its embassy in in israel to jerusalem did not inflame the protests in gaza or on monday in which israeli soldiers killed sixty. does not under mind the prospects for peace in any way and yet first on this is supposedly a cause for violence also tonight europe pushes to save the iran nuclear deal after the u.s. pullout with british french and german diplomats too for talk shortly with the iranian foreign minister. and connecting crimea to the russian mainland but in a putin and all grades europe's longest bridge which is being held is a big deal. this
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is out internationals use it live from moscow with me kevin i will welcome to you this hour for this update and dominating the coverage from us again that massive up scale in violence on the israel gaza border in the last twenty four hours the latest on that is america's u.n. envoy has claimed that washington's decision to move its embassy in israel to jerusalem did not exacerbate the mass protests across the occupied palestinian territories monday that see even though more than one hundred thousand gardens turned out to oppose the decision and were met with extreme force by the israeli military. it has no bearing on jerusalem's holy site it does not prejudge whatever the parties might negotiate in a peace agreement it does not under mind the prospects for peace in any way and yet for some this is supposedly
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a cause for violence speaking for the united states and nikki haley made clear that she was very supportive of israel and she won as far as to congratulate israel for its seventieth anniversary i want to take a moment to mark the seventieth anniversary of israel's independence in this united nations security council on behalf of the american people i congratulate our friends in israel on the remarkable achievement of seventy years of independence. people hit by catastrophe israeli celebrate seventy years of independence this is just another example of the u.s. totally ignoring our feelings and right moving the embassy from tel aviv to jerusalem is not up to the u.s. it's a question of international law the trump of ministration refuses to listen to what the world is say to work stated in the un resolutions in particular the security council resolutions and international law kuwait called the emergency meeting of
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the fifteen member body that leads the united nations and put forward a draft statement criticizing israel for its activities on the border we know that more than sixty protesters were killed on monday tens of thousands of mourners have been turning out in gaza for the funerals of the protesters killed by the israeli soldiers on monday at least sixty lost their lives in what's become the deadliest day in the israeli palestinian conflict since twenty fourteen more than two thousand seven hundred others were injured many with live ammunition the violence came as the u.s. controversially opened its new embassy in nearby jerusalem. i. was up the water glorious remember this moment why. this is history. i don't know but it
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was whatever the word we extend a hand in friendship to israel the palestinians and to all of their neighbors may there be peace. in the world we pray for the peace of jerusalem. such. that. i was right. and him face hell in the way it was since the day phase ended our lives have been arriving to protest against these may be soldiers who are just a short distance behind me as you can see they've kind of demarcated this area by burning tires and from hid their hurling rocks and stones at the soldiers who are just a short distance in front of us. here that holds the end in and says has been ferrying wounded people if we saw from the numbers of
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people who had to be injured we can get some of them serious these scenes i think the few should acoustically that this is comes off the not but taking aim at a certain kind as to. how to keep. getting least bit of a case maybe it will be the beginning of time to see if it just accept that they have more fires that have stopped it all along the road this comes just a day off to the americans' new film embassy from tel aviv to jerusalem and then to spot the would stay on when i've been since the last possible. battle two thousand and fourteen is a ticket. to take a look at that what was basically what was so we were running now because these tear gas coming in our direction and i am just as you can see the crowd is moving it's always difficult to tell where exactly it's coming from so we just had to make our way through the back and as you can see. the situation is extremely
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tense and it's just get out of where we were in a spider duty by these pointing to so we think that it's close firing tear gas on the crowd here and so we're going to move all the way back so we're not right on top of that soldiers and we'll see from here what's going on the. situation tests go from one moment to the next the canyon filippi ten spotlessly at r t. well new internet given everything that we've just been talking about a day on from the turmoil and bloodshed the u.s. president has tonight sent his best wishes to muslims around the world as they begin observing the holy month of ramadan donald trump's message said the holiday is a time for reflection and spiritual growth and praise the richness that muslims can add to american life the greetings were posted on the white house website let's get some thoughts about that and the timing of the doctor's name is professor of
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political sciences at university in the west bank city of ramallah i suppose it's meant with all sincerity and best wishes becoming an awkward time given what's happened on the on the gaza israel border over the last twenty four hours muslims in particular palestinians going to take this message of goodwill from president trump tonight. first of all the govern we have to understand that the palestinians do understand that. is absolutely correct hypocrite because last year he denied even that kind of message to the muslims and to the contrary he issued the orders of banning five seven muslim countries of entering the united states and now he's talking about how islam is adding to the society in america i think this is absolutely hypocrisy and apparently he's saying so now after he had just cashed whatever he could from saudi arabia so he's you know try to be kind of
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nice in a way or other to them but i don't think that he's sincere at all doing that especially his doing against the arabs and muslims and palestinians in your opinion personally would you prefer it if it's. yes absolutely if he was quiet it's much better than then you know saying this kind of rubbish because you know it's kind of awkward you know the person you know his deeds you know how he's doing on the ground against the palestinians against the muslims and against everything regarding the region and yet at the same time he's going to confront us with a few words this is absolutely you know. sixty dead nearly three thousand two thousand seven hundred injured some very seriously life america's ambassador to the u.n. claims of the really occasion of that embassy to jerusalem did not inflame the protests do you agree with that statement or not.
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no i hear the speech of overhead as much as. the present the terms of the united nations it's absolutely most of our. speech was absolutely not true at. totally differently what happened yesterday it was three ok the first one is the commercial of the act but for the palestinian seventy years of the displacement of the palestinians and the ethnic cleansing. ok gene was the moving of the. american embassy to jerusalem and recognition of jerusalem as the capital of israel differently and the third one is the march of the. which planned for quite a while so all these kind of things are absolutely important but deflect really the
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moving of the embassy has it triggered looks of palestinians to stand to be in this the most racially not only in gaza but also in the west bank and in jerusalem itself and you saw yesterday also the demonstration in jerusalem and that was in front of them you see that is supposed to be the best of all the americans. used the most. against them again there are no surprises in what's happened here it was full color so that what turned out this way well now for the future the u.s. prides itself as the mediator in the israeli palestinian conflict for that. well i think the palestinian had said their word regarding this issue because now the americans became quite clearly impartial taking sides quite quite well so they still have decided that america is no longer a mediator and no longer is
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a player in this kind of you know mediation between the palestinians and israelis and we are looking forward to find some other means of mediation between the person is and the israelis rather than the americas maybe the americans will be part is them but not the sole. agent in the middle is a two state solution in the palestinian state being able to have east jerusalem as its capital more and more of a pipe dream tonight though as it stands. yes so far the international community and everyone else is still talking about the two state solution but i think i think personally that the two state solution became today. because of the israeli measures. the one who's killing the idea of the two state solution here the speeches of mr netanyahu who said in many ok there will be no will for a palestinian state if there is no palestinian state so what did he left with the
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two state solution then and i think also the actual acting of the israeli government on the ground is also denying the idea of the two state solution such as granting more of them all and around seven hundred thousand settlers now in the west bank and jerusalem and that number is definitely. you know a huge number to be removed out in the case of two state solution the blast which over these israeli leaders is going to stand and say society that jerusalem is jerusalem will be the capital of the palestinian state so i think the israeli had moved forward over the two state solution and pushing us and pushing the whole region into either more conflict and more violence or to be more realistic we should think now of the one state because that's the only solution they left. out on the strip i mean with a sensible hats on with
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a pragmatic hat so what is the future for the place where you live. well it is absolutely horrible situation and i think it's shame on the international community to continue looking at not doing anything the first thing and the most important thing in gaza is the siege this siege of gaza by the israelis is absolutely killing the the. region of the. strip and there's no jobs no work no nothing so people are really in a very very bad situation and you know the density is one of the highest in the world since we are talking about like two million people who are really living in. a prison and open prison well it's not that much open though they don't have the right of movement they don't. happen in the last few days just an indication to tell you that people in gaza it doesn't matter that much for them to live or to die
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because both sides are equal in a way or another both options are equal to live or to die it's almost the same because there is no future today there was a report from young people talking about you know what the future they have and we are talking about this new generation which was created in the last eleven years under the siege will have no future he can't see even any light in the end of the tunnel so i think the desperation is so high no wonder that this kind of action would happen and i'm sure that if we didn't do something about it it will explode in a professor of political science as opposed to trying to make the time to tell us your take on this thank you. well other political ramifications over what's happened the last twenty four hours turkey has recalled its ambassador to israel and the u.s. over the israeli military's response to the protests in gaza turkish president
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described israel both as an apartheid and a terrorist state and chris also strongly condemned washington's decision to relocate its embassy to jerusalem america didn't we think that the moving of the u.s. 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 israel's responded by ordering the turkish consul to leave for an unspecified period of time now other countries have hit out at israel to france says washington's embassy relocation broke international law the dutch government echoed that assessment and island and said america has aggravated tensions in the region. the us has imposed sanctions on the governor of iran's central bank and another
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senior official at the institution it comes as britain france and germany hold meetings with the iranian foreign minister in an attempt to try to say the twenty fifty nuclear deal which washington recently pulled out of. we cannot accept the extraterritorial nature of the american sanctions we face a challenge then we need to tackle particularly at a european level when you will have your meetings in the next oh recently makes days to be sure that it's possible. to just keep doing a terrific collection temptation that this collection of. relationships around so many open and dozen companies we work together on the ways in which you seem to do this is not a good investment here in brussels massive attempts to try to salvage this iran deal better of course was seen as a breakthrough back in two thousand to fifteen what it was signed late this was a deal of course that was meant to lift punishing sanctions on iran in exchange for them to their nuclear program that had been there for
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a huge concern for the west for quite some time and of course now with the u.s. having announced that they will be withdrawing from this massive deal the question here in brussels is what to do next especially in light where there are some of the messages coming from washington in terms of the future for european companies that are drew doing trade with iran as we speak is the u.s. prepared to go after companies in our allies like britain france and germany if they try to continue to do business the sanctions regime that is now in place is very clear about what the requirements are europeans are going to face the effect of u.s. sanctions already are really why would any business why would the shareholders of any business want to do business with the world's central banker of international terrorism then also made clear by iran that it also wants this deal to keep functioning they just want to assure and says that there was benefits for them that they had agreed on a would remain in place because you would need to do to keep its deal on life to
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make sure that you don't confuse the benefit. obviously this is going to be a difficult process ahead as they try to figure out how exactly to move forward and possibly reach this deal if necessary prachi the meetings with the iranian foreign minister someone else to palm and said the u.s. and u.k. are ruling out pushing for regime change into. might conceivably achieve regime change at some stage in the in the near future but i try not to i cannot meet with any confidence that that would be a change for the better what the american seem to want to do is what has it done in previous times in iraq for instance as you sanctions to try to weaken the regime in order to bring about an agenda of regime change the americans are. no policing the europeans using the threat of sanctions to seen or you're not going to do this you're not going to help iran we're going to read you
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a quote of me and hopefully bring down the islamic republic aspirations america's growing intransigence towards iran over its nuclear programs in stark contrast and those dealing currently with north korea's or there is news on that to come to things that may look rosy right now but there is a warning that if trouble can bail on iran those promises to kim jong il might be on shaky ground as well explaining more a senior correspondent were. we all know what carrot and stick diplomacy is but these these goes beyond that way beyond their will get private capital the comes in north korea is 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
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best not make it even worse 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
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it didn't matter they gave up nukes and then america took back the whole the prosperity thing we'll see how we do with the rare 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 tells its nuclear program and the u.s.
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builds two nuclear reactors for it to compensate energy loss gives it a 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 risperidone seems to be the carrot except what no one seems the realizes it's dangling not for tasting that just life they've got to understand. life because i don't think they do understand life. well so there's more in all this tonight and there is some breaking news coming in on this big story straight. t.v. in north korea tonight it's now reporting that the country's canceled high level talks with the south chettle for wednesday the decisions said to have been taken in response to seoul still carrying on joint military drills with the u.s. pyongyang is reportedly now also considering calling off king kim jong un's meeting
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with donald trump which is set to take place in singapore much the big headlines in a month's time north korea always said it sees military drills in the asian pacific as a security threat but of updates and analysis on that big development tonight over the coming hours. to big structures a mega bridge linking mainland russia in the crimean peninsula has been officially unveiled earlier today six months ahead a shuttle once is fully operational it'll reduce the region's reliance on sea and air transport and allow more tourists to visit the area which is a popular place for many russians during the summer especially here's why it's being hailed by many as a big feat of engineering. president
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a veto the entire one thousand kilometers from mainland russia or into the crimean city from the bridges construction workers accompany the president only normal trip to that is the sun shone that you holkins reported back. is quite a feat of engineering for slides in economics is a long haul lanes of traffic on a realm way due to open next year as well as to truck railway this bridge the crimea bridge is now a lot 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 had only seems to be going to plan and now to put this into perspective just what a fee of engineering this. from is rough conditions on the sea all the current straight here the only learn link that the only link 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 thirty million passengers will be
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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 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 has been planning for a very long time from the times to the start of the soviet union here and it's only been carried out now after hundreds of years of planning so very much a great achievement here. plans to change french laws to give strict punishments
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for child sex abusers who've fallen foul of experts who say it'll make the problem worse with details from paris shot to do. in march france announced that it was going to legislate curb sexual violence to cut down on sexism i mean cleared it in that legislation was due to be in egypt consensual sexual activity here in frogs not age of consent was said to be at fifteen now the reason that element of the law was putting because there was outrage often choose cases emerged of an eleven year old girls who were deemed not to have been raped by adult men because they don't think of hers they don't been threatened there had been no violence or surprise when that incident had taken place well now the law is being debated in the national assembly on tuesday and that element the age of consent to fifteen has now been taken out of this nor critics say that that mean it's been watered down that it was less protection for children and actually creates new
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legal loopholes for child rapists this is what they've said advocate according to our to go to child abuse could be considered an advance not a crime because we don't mr president there are two hundred fifty people who demand the law be repealed well they've now launched a petition against the out revision of the age of consent and it's gone to more than four hundred thousand people supporting that to not be changed well those who'd all good for the change say they needed to take out that age of consent because they said it would infringe on the defendant's presumption of innocence that's led to some heated debate in the national assembly already in one session on monday. when they still don't have worked when you read and or read this law from one point in another when you are sure that you have read and understood it all was
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going to nothing happen at all 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. who could. i refute the in total both. the turks and those we are proposing. well critics say if the law is passed without the age of consent it will mean that france will be one of the only countries in europe which does not have a legal defined age of consent and they've also said that it means that they could pose a real danger if rapists are actually convicted under lesser charges meaning that they would be seen as rapists by society and the protections necessary to make sure that they don't commit such an act again won't be in place sure dubrovsky reporting the from paris and that's the way the world looks simple it so far the it was much more from us of course on our side talk to you don't come from a coven or to the rest of the mayor of moscow thanks for watching state too for
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