baseless claims hypocritical bodies and i'm just prosecution damages the cause of the latest in a series of u.s. withdrawals from international justice commitments sees washington take measures to protect itself from being sued by the u.n. . the u.n. agency for palestinian refugees has hit hard times the u.s. cut its funding for the organization and we discussed the. work would be made easier if they all stayed with predictable funding arrangements sold to countries that. need to continue this next year. to the president amid a spate of. pleading with the president to help prevent

a possible civil war. a very warm welcome to. u.s. national security adviser john bolton has announced that america is pulling out of an optional protocol to the vienna convention a move that could ultimately prevent the u.s. from being the international court of justice it is in fact just the latest several international judicial commitments that washington has pulled out from just this year. the united states will withdraw from the optional protocol in dispute resolution to the vienna convention on diplomatic relations the united states is officially withdrawing from the un human rights council we will not cooperate with the i.c.c. we will provide no assistance to the i.c.c.

baseless politicize claims are brought against us hypocritical bodies and institution i'm just prosecution by this illegitimate court the council ceases to be worthy of its name we will commence a review of all international agreements that may still expose the united states to purported binding jurisdiction dispute resolution in the international court of justice policies is america now taking a closer look at the reasons behind washington's decision to quit this part of the vienna convention national security adviser john bolton tried to justify the withdrawal by portraying the provision as a violation of u.s. sovereignty citing a case brought on by palestine earlier testing the decision to move the u.s. embassy in tel of moves to jerusalem pearlie or pompei or announced to the world the u.s. was leaving a friendship treaty with iran that established diplomatic ties with the country back in one nine hundred fifty five it was apparently a response to the international court of justice ruling that ordered washington to

lift iranian sanctions on humanitarian goods which pompei are described as iranian propaganda. or as attempt to interfere with the sovereign rights of the united states to take a lawful actions necessary to protect our national security. and iran is abusing the i.c.j. for political and propaganda purposes this leaves one question how will the us or any western country be kept in check without an effective international governing body it looks like this will revive a some of those discussions as some arab just mentioned earlier on wednesday the un international court of justice ordered the us to partially lifted sanctions on iran which were imposed in may well july tehran filed a lawsuit against washington demanding it drop sanctions and compensate the damage of course to the iranian economy in the meantime it's roughly a video agency asked people in tehran what they think about the international court's ruling export the poor and you are going to take their own world knows that

the u.s. is while a to build war they don't of them will not die runeword they signed the nuclear deal now they've changed their mind even though there are problems with our country excepted that this act is illegal donald trump it's great really crazy what is is saying when he doesn't understand what his same. officials and even civilians say we should stand up against america's excessive. this ruling will not please mr trump and his friends and we will see their reaction but it will be futile record that in the us acted against human rights that he grew in is completely sound food medicine thirty was an old go towards people slowly hoods they should never have to leave them. so we got reaction to the latest u.s. moves from various political experts this is the another example of the united states talking about the rules based democratic order and expecting everyone else to follow it but when it comes time for the united states to follow what you know

they just simply changed the rules and i'm certainly not a fan of the united states being governed by world bodies and accountable world bodies but the issue with the palestine issue and also with the iran issue is that at the iran specifically you know we signed this agreement in one hundred fifty five agreed to be adjudicated by the international court of justice and then when they rule against united states we say ok we're going to take our toys and go home it doesn't look good it sets a bad precedent in it also makes the united states look like look like someone you can't do business with overseas the u.s. warrant to lay sanctions idea i.c.c. as well as a prosecution of judges would be under way by the u.s. actually because the u.s. believes that it's an exceptional state president trump is real manifestation of this wrong idea that the u.s. is exceptional all other nations should abide by the rules and regulations except for the united states so therefore the u.s. is adamant to the rule of the law it has proved to be an irresponsible act.

the united nations relief and works agency which supports palestinian refugees has withdrawn some of its staff from the gaza strip the decision was taken amid safety concerns off the protests erupted when the agency cut back its operations in the region its head describes how angry demonstrators surrounded u.n. vehicles. was. two days ago when i was meeting with some colleagues in the hotel here in gaza city because i count meet in my office and when angry demonstrators came and tried to prevent us from leaving that place one car was calling. got stuck and was surrounded by angry demonstrators for over an hour fortunately the situation was resolved peacefully that could've been a very nasty incident so fortunately so far no one has got hurt or directly

attacked these protests come after weeks of tensions triggered by the u.s. decision to cut its funding to the agency also known as un r e w a it now faces a financial crisis but the u.s. says that other countries should have shared the financial burden more equity. when we made a u.s. contribution of sixty million in january we made it clear that the united states was no longer willing to shoulder the very disproportionate share of the burden of un r w a's costs that we had assumed for many years washington's withdrawal of funding has also faced a backlash at home one hundred twelve members of the u.s. congress have signed a letter to the secretary of state demanding he reverse that decision they say the move threatens to destabilize the region we spoke to the head of the un agency in garza but he says that funding is just one part of the issue. work would be made easier if they are stable predictable funding arrangements sold

to countries that help does this year need to continue this next year and and hopefully we will get more the problem is not the us and its government the problem is that the international community including the e.u. is from my perspective speaking on behalf of the refugees not putting enough effort into finding a political solution what is needed is member states working together to bring israel and palestine to the table to have a proper discussion and negotiation about a peaceful solution that is what's needed most. examining documents from an f.b.i. probe the white house has reportedly found nothing to support the sexual misconduct allegations against supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh all. around the scandal doesn't questions about protesters putting pressure on republican senators to reconsider their support of. court takes

a closer look. since brett kavanaugh his controversial supreme court nomination we've seen a number of political confrontations in the u.s. by concerned citizens who have been looking to give their elected representatives and earful certainly this is. what. are you. sorry you are talking. about some of them like that was the senator majority leader mitch mcconnell after his call for the senate to vote on kavanagh asap he was a likely target for enraged activists take another republican senator jeff flake who was ambushed in an elevator i'm going to. leave me i didn't tell anyone and you're telling all we need that they don't matter what you want to talk to you don't tell me that might have something down or tell me something to me i don't think either you're the only. thing. pretty awkward

elevator moment there's also republican senator david purdue who ran for the restroom after he was confronted with the asian games project we ran into how can you not talk to women who have been assaulted how can you ignore our pleas the thing is though these are not random incidents they were all organized by the very same ngo the so-called center for popular democracy and its sister organization and harassing politicians isn't the only thing in their arsenal they've also organized a number of mass protests. that protest alone resulted in over one hundred arrests but liberal organizations aren't only taking direct action against their political opponents the man justice engages in similar activism making dramatic political advertisements he normally

does. and to the u.s. supreme court accusing cavanagh of sexual assault when she tried to scream she said he put his hand over her mouth we can't let breast kavanaugh decide on our rights for a generation in the us is. wondering how they pay for all that well these organizations all have one thing in common they're funded by the controversial billionaire george soros styling himself as a so-called philanthropist soros has given millions to liberal causes around the globe and democrats at home in the us and so to. me they would prefer that his organization has already given over two million dollars to these ladies alone and hundreds of thousands more to the fund that helps make and in our commercials donald quarter r.t. . now the story of a true hero an indonesian at traffic controller sacrificed his life to save others

during the earthquake on sulawesi island but the man refused to leave an airport control center and instead helped one last plane to take off to safety. i heard about the polo earthquake here in memphis are around the month praying time and my wife told going to one's grandmother directly about what happened and followed his grandmother was worried about his condition and called him all of the family here tried to call ago and many times again has two mobile phone numbers and

they both couldn't be reached. we didn't give up trying to call him and then call his father his father is a very calm person and said that are going might still be on duty so that could be why his mobile phone is off maybe after he finishes i will call back so we tried to call a go all night but couldn't contact him. and

at that time i told his mom. she said that i'd gone had died because he jumped from the air traffic control tower she cannot speak anymore she's only crying loudly his mother never thought that one of the victims would be one of our family antonius i'm gonna wanna go away. your program or times and just i'm. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy. let it be

an arms race. spearing dramatic development the only silly and. i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk. you know world of big partisan group. and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that made the stream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door on the back and shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now we're watching closely watching the hawks.

thursday stories here one hour to you now i'm all welfare activism under the meat is murder is becoming increasingly militant in front which is now seen a recent spike in attacks on slaughterhouses so we spoke to one french butcher who says the windows of his shop was smashed by. the incident happened around three in the morning i came down and saw that the door had been hit in three places they also painted. here on the other medium. i took pictures mediately the police arrive i will show you what you want there is the picture of the damaged door. these are the marks on. it is where it says speciesism and these are the rocks they use to smash the glass. this case is one of many including splattering shops selling meat with fake blood

setting slaughterhouses on fire and defacing a butchers with the graffiti and the incidents have prompted wired butchers to even send a letter to the french president emanuel macron in a bid to prevent more violence. this is the civil war this gang go on mr president should take up arms to defend themselves and their businesses. and i believe these people should be punished why did they attack large corporations only attack small businesses because it's easy the people who can see why does everybody have to start eating vegetables only because these activities. that everyone has their own preferences and we must respect the choice. meanwhile butchers have already gained some support from officials but the head of the republican party saying two hundred thousand euros in compensation will be paid out to those affected and we spoke to animal rights activist. who has mixed feelings about the

recent spate of incidents. if it gets on the these activists they get animal rights must be protected similarly to human rights so it's not surprising that the attack slaughter houses and butchers shops and if the law authorizes immoral acts they may think what they do is justified in terms of morality anything that may stop the killing of animals for meat is acceptable but i am not sure whether illegal actions are the best way to promote animal rights the question we should ask ourselves is whether it is an effective way to raise awareness about animal suffering and animal rights or if it's a good strategy then we should do it. this is our international or russian hockey teams concern for one of its injured female stars has resulted in well a pound of goal after the pictures of her posted spot a sexism row the star herself though doesn't see any problem. to.

cut. cut cut cut cut cut cut cut. cut cut live. or was. the way. they are going to go in the way you came as a great surprise to me that this photo of a normal i'm sorry naked bottom the whole of instagram is packed with photos just

like it i can't understand why it has triggered such response to hockey puck posted it because they admired my foot bottom the idea was a simple as that clear. cut . cut cut except for the truth of dr very concept of sexism is not appropriate here sports are tired my child a little bit of sexuality to their predominant female team was the exploitation of my sexuality is approved by me people who like themselves often face a public backlash but what's the point of staying fit that much and spending the most part of my life in the gym if i can display it no that won't change but. if you've been following the us media as of late you would be forgiven for thinking that deep political division in the country is a relatively recent phenomenon one that stalin essentially to just one. once

the three has divided america troposphere are trying to play on fears and divide us off the era of donald trump's divide and conquer agenda in. this to define the country he's for the dividing us and i'm really concerned about whether this could spill over into the streets however a new study argues that deep political divisions in america predate trump by quite some time he looked at the number of bills in congress that were co-sponsored by members from both parties and found since the seventy's when nixon was in office and divisions were already bad factionalism has only gotten worse and that this has not depended on who's in charge those behind the new study have released a video to illustrate their findings. in the one nine hundred seventy s. and eighty's the democrats mostly worked together and the republicans mostly worked together but they still sometimes worked across the aisle to pass important

legislation. here's what it looks like now the democrats and republicans almost never work together so we discussed the issue with political scientist horace cooper who claims that the term political division is currently being exploited by those who are still unhappy about the outcome of the last us presidential election . the idea that america is divided the way that it is because the president is in office is just simply not true what we see instead are a number of activist groups that are very disappointed with the election outcome and just as they were frustrated in the year two thousand even just as they were frustrated in one hundred seventy two these people on the left side of the political aisle. worked with. the question of disarray there. luke is that only around for more than fifty years the only

difference is now they speak openly and it's been a pleasure having you with us for the post our program here on r t international thanks for joining us today more if you'll use headlines in about half an hour. quite frankly i think only just in the season to be have deteriorated and have fragmented and it is extremely important that we have a new digital machine over a presidency that has the votes of the libyan people people who have aspirations like freedom indeed to have aspirations like living in dignity and quite frankly to deny them the right to vote with the pretext that oh it's not time yet or you don't

have bread so you should not be asking for the vote you should vote for people who will provide the breadth and what do you provide the services. what politicians do something to. put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president i'm sure. most somewhat want to be rich . but you want to be close it's like a full freedom or can't be good. i'm interested always in the waters of our. question. no you don't accept the sort of job as well that's because of the mullahs with. its.

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also the news. this is the movie is the quote you can swallow you see that. little girl all. it doesn't exist. on to this earth also believe in. so the community of st john ship father emmanuel off to bloody is so he wouldn't be anywhere near any kids. but when we leave the priory to coasters catch our eye if tetra seinfeld it or and. a theater inside the priory. tell you and then that the penny drops. to create this old oak it up. out of all of us and we all start at that source a bit though this is all. because of folks this is it still isn't as all.

of that other stuff that's here. if a tornado is off a bit but it is me that a minute i was the one feeling that he meant blow it is awful to bust. and after all these to ing and fro ing in the world of st john we had a few questions for the head. the community. on the case of virtue in cameroon but also on the other documents in our hands. the st john public relations director emailed us. dear sir we are prudent about the televised press especially when sensitive subjects are concerned after a long reflection we prefer to decline your request for an interview regarding the departure of the brothers from the cathedral imber to a we had any reason to believe that these rumors were ungrounded the same conclusion of the local police and justice obviously reached because they pressed no charges after their investigation i send you cordial greetings and my prayers

not exactly a satisfactory reply. so we check up on the schedule of the head of the community of st john. who is due to fly to alibi i need to be a today from the shall de gaulle airport outside paris. to wait for brother thomas york team with a sign to grab his attention. and it works. so that the law a little sign is the physic as i said it is for the good to go raise. the level work of school this is the limit i. ocean the all over the limit lives here it may have said often that these girls as all the fighting is not all those just

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