people from all spectrums of the listing and civic society. reporters are there did you see a single palestinian and is the most russians with a gun with open with anything nothing women and children and men and all all from societies from all palestinian factions from all parts of the world but then israel's line is that you're on a mass has threatened destruction of israel they're destroying hitting syria they're hitting lebanon they did it killing the palestinians and then they clip their big limb to be the victims and that's the irony that's the irony of fascism we have seen such pretext given by all fascists who want throughout this history israel is killing and destroying a palestinian civilian population under occupation under israeli occupation under international law civilians should be protected and the international community must move in a direction of providing international protection for palestinians mr arafat as he

as you mentioned we do have reporters on the ground and most of them are attached to the very indeed peaceful nature of this protest they say that given how many people have participated in the demonstrations they were actually surprised how by how placid those demonstrations were on the palestinian side but i also have to know that there have been reports of some young men bringing knives and fans cutters to the demonstrations there were also reports of calls over the loudspeakers to burst through the stands and. i just wonder what do you think would be the proportionate reaction from their israeli side to those kind of actions let's say that people who cross the line ok which by the way there is no line because there's a good not defined it's one of those little bit here but you know there's a fence there and there are israeli soldiers guarding that fence the fence a self imposed self created israel has not declared its borders yet that's the question but when we saw that if it is coming from the middle east towards europe

then as of thousands. did you hear of any people being killed in russia or in oland or in germany or in france or in britain yes if as palestinians across the line you cannot is them you can arrest them you don't have to open gunfire and we have pictures of israeli soldiers killing our kids and our boys and girls and then celebrating grabbing. their happiness these are war crimes these are murderers i cannot accept any pretext other than saying that they defending how can they defend themselves to use a pretext of such massacres i think the message is very clear i think the message is telling palestinians we're here to stay as you're occupiers we're going to block it get there we're going to continue our control no it's back we're going to continue our settlements we have the full support of this american administration

that i'm administration which is really throwing the whole world thought chaos and lawlessness and axiom ism and its actions and then those nations where there are one hundred ninety four nations on earth not a single nation without a problem in its social demographic fabric or geographic fabric so if we're going to go on the backs of lawlessness. that drumbeat is pursuing the result will be chaos lawlessness the rule of the jungle violence and counter-violence and bloodshed and extremism is that what we want is that what europe want what russia wants what china wants mr arafat this is obviously not what we want but unfortunately the world has allowing has been allowing this for for a number of years if not decades already let me ask you one very specific question on the on may fourteenth advance because the protests in on the gaza border let's call it border around the gaza fans had been ongoing for more than

a month today there were victims and casualties before dozens of people killed and yet. the majority of the casualties occurred on that specific day of israel's founding and the opening of these reilley of the american embassy interestingly do you find these fact that the majority of casualties occurred on may fourteenth a tragic sad coincidence or do you think that these really army was tasked with being more forceful with using lie fire on that specific occasion well exactly the palestinians present come cambia as a fire and then he poured fuel on the fire then instead of being the fireman they became the arsonists and that's the meaning of the opening of the embassy and used the resentment like establishing a new settlement outposts and territory and then the message from israel ok we have

the united states here and look at what we're doing we're massacring palestinians and then in the united nations there are two israeli ambassadors one named and one member haley and we will blame the palestinians. we'll blame the palestinians will export fear and so on and i don't think that the international community has any on and their foreheads saying stupid because the lack of reaction of the international community is as any a threat is that he understood it to the stability and security of all nations extrema blood would brit will breed blood violence will breed violence this petition will lead to disparate acts and what israel is doing now and destroying a palestinian life social life economic life making people hopeless what will the it would be creating i'm a father of four a grandfather of seven i don't want them to be suicide bombers i want them to be

a lock your children in russia like the children's three didn't like the children and they're not states i want them to be a normal people with such massacres which up which such a crimes and israel getting away with that what you're doing is totally believing their way of for get so fell to open in this region mr erekat let me stop you there we have to take a very short break but we will be back in just a few moments say chant. you . join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics for the so i'm show business i'll see you then.

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welcome back to worlds apart but say bereket secretary general of the palestine liberation organization mr erakat there's some effort on the part of the former u.s. administration the obama administration to try to convince its european allies to centrally hold on for a few years until trump is voted out a fall for as you know they say idea that one day nerve ballots you will have returned i wonder if that is the perspective that you take as well that this current american predisposition which is clearly harmful and unfair to your cause that it is only temporary well look we we had meetings with tom administration and two thousand and seventeen thirty five times going in for so much material our president and president trump. and i held personally thirty one other meetings with them as negotiations we give them a possible chance with their decision in declaring israel is out of israel they

disqualify themselves from any role in the peace process we will not sit with them they're not partners they're not only biased the adopting there is really a position of dictation and that negotiations and you know once franklin d. roosevelt said the officer no i thought is an office of international morality and officers international morality needs john statesman nothing else that agents this administration cannot be a partner and of course we our only option is to stay on this land and to be in this land today between that of a jordan and limited in and we are the majority as palestinian arabs bustin and christian and muslim arabs we're fifty point nine percent jews are forty nine point one percent what are they going to do with us other than creating extremism and then you know when violence is spread and people are being killed and what side then is or i would say all of these people have it in their d.n.a. they are terrorists and so on i have devoted plenty five years of my life in

negotiations with israel to save lives raise ample us any and to live and let live we have a good night there's a right to exist we have accepted a policy and step with the reason of scab it will live side by side in peace and security when the state of his around the ninety six seven lines. what it is a good return more settlements more dictations more killing more murders more siege more closures more collective punishment on demolish and all these all these actions are being done in two thousand and eighteen by a member of the u.n. and they call it the only democracy in the world this is it's fascism and it never in the history of south africa darkest hours of apartheid where blacks prevented to use roads what we're using to there are in the west bank and this jerusalem roads we cannot use us palestinians and such diseases as bigotry and racism once in inflict on underneath our skins of any kind of any risk for any religion we had it in this is a justify it sometimes we give sociological psychological economic sexual explanations

and now israel is using the pretext security to justify its apartheid system being created and those bank is tourism and the gaza strip and this must stop and this we will stand up we will not depart this is our land and we will defend ourselves mr erekat let me ask you one more question i know that the you believe the trance announcement and his decision to move the american embassy to jerusalem was essentially the end of the two state solution that's at least what you said on record and i also heard you say that trans decision will force the palestinians to strive for quote unquote historic palestine from the jordan river to the mediterranean sea which is another way of saying that you too not only reject the two state solution but you actually don't recognize israel's right to exist on those territories i understand the emotions behind that statement i understand that but do you think it can bring your people any good in practical terms look what i

said i said i said our only option our option is a two state solution our option is to live and let live our option is for the state of israel which will be nice on the ninety six seven lines to live side by side in peace and security of the state of palestine that's what we said now israel. the nutter who as a person instead refused to stop settlements and so on so we're left with two options if israel is destroying the two state solution and benjamin netanyahu personally is in office for the last nine years destroying that was state solution and outcome came to them in order to be a two state solution we're left with two options one is needed now is option one step two systems up our side this will not be accepted to us the second option is one state equal rights for jews muslims and christians to live together that's a very civilized solution but the israelis will never accept it. so it was a distress a two state solution and of the option of a third is not doable for the palestinians and of the option of one state equal rights not the will for the israelis what will this leave palestinians and israelis

with i think the this narrative of historic palestine is definitely becoming more popular among the palestinian officials just the other day mahmoud abbas said that palestine is for the palestinians it is not as the jews claim the land of their ancestors so he does seem to be questioning israel's right to exist on those lands and i wonder if that does not make it easier for israel to paint you as anti semitic rejectionists president mahmoud abbas went to the security council in february twentieth two thousand and eighteen and his speech last week of the palestine national council and iterated our commitment to the two state solution where the state of palestine with his duracell limits its capital will live side by side in peace and security with a state of israel and he called for an international conference and he was willing to come to moscow about then with a shot president putin to meet with with prime minister netanyahu and prime minister netanyahu refused then with asian present put in place not once or twice

and accepted we are with a two state solution with organized israel and israel did not recognize us since one thousand eight hundred we have accepted resolutions two for two and three is rare and organize israel and since one thousand eight hundred israel has done nothing but to dictate settlements on the land that's obviously a palestinian state that's the reality that's a reality we never abandon that was their solution that's a two state solution as our line is our vision is to live and let live because we know that we realists this is the only way for palestinians and israelis is to have two states to live side by side in peace and security next to each other. now who is destroying the two state solution who is building settlements in the supposed to be a palestinian state on the hour every hour who is the dating life it was a limb of them from benetton you know was punishment and military means can you solve a political problem with military means you can't you can't so all these things our position is that we haven't as israel and the stance israel refuses

a two state solution present never mentioned two steps he mentioned in the context that if both parties agree the giver of it in and you know they did the administration's of the not steps in sixty seven considered is jerusalem as a territory now they said we'll have a nice jerusalem as defined by the government of israel that means they have abandoned their line that is there was a remark about it three so what do you do in such guess i think i think this region is being thrown to the hands of extremists i think moderates are being destroyed and i think this is their intention their strategy so they can say israel can say oh we're the only democracy we had we don't we don't we want peace but we're going to have a partner for peace and nobody will ask them but you had a partner for peace would have ignited you since one thousand area and then a bush ended with you for twenty five years and you did not move one inch to

announce that you accept the two state solution or you want to who knows the palestinian state or stop settlements or stop the collective punishment mr erekat we've talked about israel and the united states but i think it's also evident that one of your former strong backers in the arab world saudi arabia is also. well is no longer there for you if i may put it that way i'm sure you've heard about this leaked conversation of the crown prince saudi crown prince reportedly suggesting that this the palestinians should take what's on offer or shut up what's your reaction to that. this is absolutely baseless this is not true last night i was with the president when he when he received a phone call from his majesty king so remember i'm judges of saudi arabia he called for an emergency session tomorrow for a lot of foreign minister to be a push to fully support us they denounced and condemned the term decision and that's this is false accusation they're trying to shock to tell palestinians that you are wrong that's a lie we have a con men out of position i've made if i would it with each other over syria where

iraq over libya over yemen but when it comes to palestine. united the last summit held and riyadh. so amount of saudi arabia said it's the summer of jerusalem and condemnation of the times a decision that is the truth that's the truth there is no out of country that doesn't support us fully supporting us and that's the truth so all these lies being spread by and you know that are trying to to say that the way they see that geopolitics of that in that iran is the threat and that we join with saudi arabia and we join with the emirates with this with that that's totally got the lights netanyahu is occupation is this it stabilizing all countries well mr arafat may have to leave it there really really appreciate your taking time to talk sass today and i also invite our viewers to keep this conversation going in our social media pages i hope to see here again same place same time here and also part.

of. our. america was never great was founded on the rape and murder. nothing changed so we said in. response to these situations that we do in the ways. people get sad every day she is just sad people kill each other blood for the killing children. still is just no way that people are going to just sit back

and allow children to be shot down law enforcement. this country doesn't work for us it doesn't function for us. this this can't be happening in america we call from the streets we've got to deal with why this is the reason i have to ride like this is the reason. i.

the. white nationalists and the anti-fascists rally in washington d.c. on the very first anniversary of the deadly charlottesville riots. says it will view any further u.s. sanctions as an economic war after washington announces a new penalties over the poisoning of russian agent sergei screwball and his daughter in the u.k. . and we meet a russian woman who faces imprisonment for terrorism after following her husband to syria where he joined islamic state. i told my husband that i want to go back that i couldn't live there but the moment i started talking about it we had fights he told me if you want to leave leave but i will not let you take the kids away.

broadcasting live direct from our studios in moscow recapping the week's top stories with our weekly program this is r.t. international i'm certainly glad to have you with us a far right groups have held a rally in washington d.c. a year on from deadly unrest in charlottesville virginia they were met by counter-demonstrations last year's unite the right march in charlottesville left one woman dead and a warning you might find a video of those events to stroebel. terrorism

is is the use of violence to incite terror and fear and of course stir this egregious display of hatred bigotry and violence on many. many sets. ahead of sunday's anniversary rallies republican congressman tom garrett claimed that russia was behind the events in two thousand and seventeen i sat in a closed session briefing probably two months ago about charlottesville with the director of the f.b.i. amongst others and asked if russian intermeddling had to do with fomenting the flames of what happened in charlottesville i was told yes it did but he says he got it from an f.b.i. briefing which was not classified now look if he has information if the f b i has information i'd love to hear it so what america but it seems kind of bizarre to me

that a congressman who says he's not running for reelection because he's having a personal problem all of a sudden with a couple of months left in his term takes the opportunity on c.n.n. which will do anything to bash trump and to accuse russia of anything like used to even the food in a restaurant he knows something that nobody has ever heard of until this point that that was russia's fault last year well then what's the where's the information that's not classified tell us everything you found out so i don't i don't believe that it's information let's see it but until i see it i'm not going to go on and congressman garrett so we're so i think that's ridiculous crowds were rallying outside the white house throughout sunday artie's came up and was there for us. so we're here in lafayette park and as you can see we're surrounded by a huge anti-racist demonstration a crowd of thousands is denouncing the twenty four or so white supremacy white

nationalists whatever you want to call them that have gathered directly in front of the white house now there are thousands of people here representing a very broad group of organizations and we got church groups that are out here black nationalist groups marxists far left is anarchists we've seen the anti bomb a lot of them assembled actually a lot of folks assembled wearing gas masks helmets almost as if they're ready for some kind of confrontation now we're also hearing the sound of police helicopters that are flying above however at the moment it appears that no scuffles a broken out we have not heard any reports of injuries on now the white nationalist white supremacy what i want to call them that assembled in front of the white house neo nazis klansman. they seem to have assembled in front of the white house and a lot of them were wearing the hats make america great again supporting president trump they had a lot of american flags we did not see the confederate flag that is the symbol that they are most well known for displaying now this crowd here is out there we are

seeing the display of signs saying black lives matter and support of african-americans around police brutality issues we're seeing denunciations of donald trump calls for his impeachment where we did have an opportunity to speak with some of the people who had assembled here at the white house and we were here to talk to them and a lot of these folks who came out to to to counter the ku klux klan to counter the white nationalist a lot of them had different ideas some of them buy into this idea that russia is responsible for divisions in the usa but others do not you buy in the idea that it's russia's falls that the people having the rally over there is somehow the fault of russia russian bought stackers facebook yet not even a little and why do you think that's so big in the mainstream media why are they pushing that so hard. that's a good question i don't know i think it kind of it's comforting to hear that this is russia's fault and not something that's been wrong with america since the foundation of this country it's nice to say it's russia's fault go and it's trump's

fault and that once trump is gone and once you know the elections are more secure and all races not fade away because the russian bots or the russian hackers are no longer influencing people to be racist but that's not true it's just a nice story you can tell yourself say this racism and this is the white supremacy the united states is not the fault of the united states the fault of russia you know whatever else the media is kind of using the russia stuff as a way to. go after the laughs as they're saying all these left wing activists are you know being. you know misled by russia or russia is behind it and you know even though there are genuine grievances to be had with you know all sorts of things that and russia plays a minor role if any in you know on the internet do you buy the idea that all this racism and all this division and all these protests are all caused by russia. now i honestly think it's just what i want to highlight is the intersectionality of what happened today like there were

a small amount of white supremacist here but there are a lot of people who are coming to counter protest them so i don't blame russia very wide variety of causes represented here in front of the white house says thousands of people have come out other not unified around much but when it comes to opposing the ku klux klan opposing the white nationalists that is one thing that has brought all these people together caleb mopping r.t. washington d.c. . russia's prime minister has warned that if the u.s. goes ahead with sanctions against russia's major banks it will be viewed as an act of economic war that was after a first wave of measures was announced over moscow's alleged role in the poisoning of russian double agent sergei screwball and his daughter back in march. the new sanctions ban russian. owned firms from buying certain american electronic devices on security grounds a much tougher second wave which has yet to be passed into law could prevent leading russian banks from obtaining credit on international markets artes in each

of seti takes up the story. when it comes to global disagreement sanctions that the u.s. weapon of choice as russia's number two at the u.n. put it let us welcome the united sanctions of america well russia has been on the receiving end of plenty of them they stem from allegations of election meddling military aggression human rights abuses all cyber crimes take your pick and the latest well that's of the souls reports innings washington says it has determined that russia used a military nerve agent to attack form a double agent say script paul and his daughter where are you getting the conclusion that russia is behind the screen poisoning i would leave it to others to characterize the current state of our understanding of the screen but others haven't given any evidence either just various grades of highly likely it's highly likely that russia was responsible the two poles russia culpable culpable culpable culpable for the attempted murder and there's been uncertainty from specialists

investigating the case. as analysis of the p.c. w.'s repeat what i did to find the country. of origin of the agent used in this attack and we continue to see a sort of a series of corporate baggers here of insinuation that russia is involved which basically is a mood music which isn't feeding the population in the west with the idea yes it is the russians despite the evidence just a constant constant stream of these. people just accept oh yes it must be the russians then therefore that's ok we have most important more sanctions it's time that we did get all the evidence but my suspicion is that as i'm going to happen all the way that seems a valid till interest to washington which is found guilty slapped it with new sanctions and strangely given its ninety days to prove it wasn't involved or it will ratchet up the penalties to a whole new level with even talk of branding russia

a state sponsor of terrorism that regardless of trump. wanting russia as a partner in his fight against terror and the toll so it doesn't seem to matter that the u.s. itself is has a long history of consulting with groups branded as terrorists for instance america's support for the union movement which techie label to terror groups organizing an attempt to yes sooner or later the united states will make a choice either to. either the. country walkers. or how about the american officials here they are a in extremist group then wish i had the coke bombs the has courtis of the republic party there is a viable opposition to the rule of the whole was and that opposition is centered in this room today. and let's not forget how america.