the story you have to see. if you. subscribe to. just twelve year old. palestinian teenagers killed while dozens of other protesters are reportedly injured in a day of rage clashes with israeli soldiers in the west bank and gaza. italian governments forced into a virus sing u.

turn over its high spending budget plans in a bid to avoid the e.u. sanctions although critics quite double standards towards europe which similar french plans in the past. and kosovo votes to create an army to move not only serbia doesn't recognize kosovo's independence but also the e.u. and nato fearing it may threaten stability. it's nine o'clock and you're watching r.t. international live from all studio in moscow with me in a day or two to welcome to the program. tensions continue to escalate between israel and palestine and the day of rage riots in gaza and the west bank.

i. was. just one. palestinian teenager has been killed and dozens of protesters have been injured in clashes with israeli soldiers israel says its actions were in self-defense and to stop acts of terrorism the palestinian demonstrations follow rallies by hardline jewish protesters in west bank settlements where they clashed with police and demanded the closure of a major motorway to palestinian traffic tensions on high after the killing of two i.d.f. soldiers in

a settlement in the palestinian city of ramallah on thursday. the israeli military was launched manhunt in the west bank for the killing of those two soldiers that we mentioned and has already detained dozens of suspects checkpoints and roadblocks have been set up throughout ramallah israeli forces conducting searches in the area and will be operating there for the foreseeable future prime minister benjamin netanyahu has also ordered the legislation of fountains of homes for israeli settlers in the west bank and demolish the homes of those it considers. thank you the earth. in a fiery speech on thursday netanyahu also insisted that israel will respond to all attacks. our guiding principle is that whoever attacks us and who have

a troyes to attack us will pay with his life i really nice noises and we will find them. let's cross live now to the general secretary of the palestinian national initiative with the good team with a thank for coming on to the program now. let's start with the decision made to block off from all or what do you think about it. i think israel is imposing for the occupation i mean it's consolidating the fact that we are under military occupation since fifty one years this is the longest occupation in modern history there was a fad there come a flash as if there is a palestinian authority in charge of area and now israel is going into an area a full fledge with militarily huge number of brigades and that there are some present palestinians with with would live ammunitions during the last twenty four

hours we had one hundred twenty palestinian injured some of them were killed like they and the boy in jail is on camera was shot in the abdomen and just died and there's a really army is committing to develop crimes like shooting done a lot of the he was a fifty seven year old man who was just driving this car home and then they shot him if he times with it the bullets blew up his his head and shaft out of his body and this is the kind of behavior that there's rarely are misconducting an audition of course to illegal settlers who are armed what are taking on armed palestinian civilians on all roads of the west bank they're out of creating a status of war almost and they're committing war crimes and this order minds us men because of all this these problems is the continuation of israeli illegal occupation and the continuation of settlement expansions that are illegal and that

violate international law i mean you have described some terrible incidents but if we look at the escalation how can further escalation of violence in ramallah be avoided in your opinion. it can only be avoided if the israeli army gets out of our cities and if they remove the brigades barricades and if they stop the attacks of the settlers on our civilian population that's the first step but then the second step should be immediate initiation of a process of ending occupation this occupation has transformed into a system of racial discrimination and terrible apartheid every palestinian and now can be subjected to israeli violence every palestinian can be threatened and there is no accountability for on the side of the israeli government on the side of the very army mr netanyahu is running them with the most extreme radical x.

and this is the government in the history of israel and they are seeing that palestinians are not equal human beings and that we don't deserve freedom and we don't deserve to have a state of our own unless there is immediate international pressure on israel to stop these violations we will see further that is collusion and a much worse deterioration in the coming days and you mentioned accountability mystify should there not be accountability on both sides i mean there's been no apparent progress if we look at the last six months of the day of rage protests. is it an idea to change strategy perhaps. the palestinians have changed the strategy the palestinians have adopted the nonviolent resistance and marches that are taking place in peaceful nonviolent and all forms of violence have been excluded and we have agreed with each other on

a strategy that commits to nonviolent resistance but when each peaceful demonstration is met with the israeli army shooting the people and killing them of course there will be palestinian reactions to that and in the form of resistance to occupation i don't think it would be a grave mistake to if with between the palestinians and israelis in this regard you have to remember that what we have here is palestinian civilian population in the west bank that is totally an armed in confrontation with the israeli army and israeli settlers who are armed to the teeth you cannot equate with when palestinians and israelis because in this case it's israel that is occupying the palestinians it is the israeli army that has the upper hand and it is the one that is practicing oppression and suppression of the palestinian people so you can't equate between the oppressor and the oppressed as much as you cannot compare between reaper and raped woman this is the exact situation today

a very strong words general secretary of the palestinian national initiative mr barghouti thanks very much for sharing your views on the program ok. in what is seen as a major u.-turn by the new italian government has submitted a revised budget proposal to the european commission in an effort to avoid sanctions when a previously they would stick to its high spending plans which had been rejected by europe peter all of the reports. rome has made the decision to back down over the budget that they were trying to force through they've been trying to force it through the e.u. for quite a while now the plan initially was to run a two point four percent deficit they've now revised that they will be running a two point zero four percent deficit for twenty nineteen it does mean that some of the marquee policies that just because it wanted to push through in the new year are going to be hits to the tune of

a few billion euros seeing things like the universal basic income for the unemployed also plans to lower the retirement age are also coming in on the chopping block certainly not the plans themselves but the financing for those plans for twenty nineteen arguments for this being going on for a while though italy's decided to step down to back down i beg your pardon to avoid sanctions from brussels but there was some real heated arguments in the lead up to this decision but as a first time as a commission is obliged to the ghost country that it was that after budgetary plan this is the first time in budget the e.u. doesn't like no surprise this is the first italian budget written in rome and not in brussels they're going to meet. the italian economy is healthy and this is an economic move that will give italy distributing needs aids we won't change one comma in this document there is a plan b.

you know to go through that there we are note. that both the on. working future. it more than words as well when the e.u. issued a document rejecting the initial italian budget while the tally an m.p. employed a little punt of mine to express his dissatisfaction. so it's a leaf found themselves firmly in the u.s financial naughty corner over their budget that they've now backed down on but just this week france has announced plans to

appease the yellow vest protesters with a slew of social spending a manual mccrone while his government planning to run a budget budget deficit that could run from three percent to three point five percent the reaction from pierre moscovici the e.u. commission commissioner for economic affairs was quite different have a listen to what he had to say the eventually overrun of the three percent must not extent over two consecutive years noise see three point five percent over the one year there is no indulgence these are rules and nothing but our rules for the italian side on happy they say this is a double standard from the e.u. commission site they say that two slightly different scenarios for the french case this is a one off budget deficit that they're going to allow them to push them through and it most not exceed three point five percent in the italian case they were saying well this is going to be

a series of budget deficits that will continue for the future as they put forward their plans and that was something the e.u. commission couldn't couldn't accept it hasn't however stopped those in rome from looking over the border over open to northern europe towards france and thinking we wouldn't have got away with that why do you. strategic and political analyst the pallor of fanny told us that it's just acting in the interests of a little palace. the french. just to have how your deficit between three people and five percent. is a sort of an exceptional measures requested by france without putting it into question told the fundamentals on which the entire economic and monetary system is things the euro. that's a verse of the italian quest was tackling the fundamentals of the system saying that the. accents should be put into roads which in safety see the region in the in

the treaties but it doesn't have to be really implemented at european level you're trying to save france because france is essential in the continent to maintain. the approach that the commission has been implementing for the past ten years basically they don't want to feel you can only focus they want to go on as it sees interest of the two major continental countries which are france and germany. america's national security adviser has criticized the activities of russia and china in africa john bolton was unveiling a new u.s. policy for the continent. across the continent russia advances its political and economic relationships with little regard to the rule of law are accountable and transparent governance. it continues to sell arms and energy in exchange for votes at the united nations china uses broad's opaque agreements and the strategic

use of debt to hold states in africa captive to beijing's wishes and demands. very critical of russia and china as well and gas day for poland the policies of the west and africa have always worked out so well. this regarding that it reads more like a declaration of war than a strategy and this plan is for the good of the africa promises john bolton this coming from a guy whose boss trump infamously referred to several african nations as something that i can't mention on there the predatory practices pursued by china and russia stunt economic growth in africa threaten the financial independence of african nations and pose a significant threat to u.s. national security interest its interest in logic so when china or russia or someone else you don't like lends an african nation money that's debt colonialism almost

financial slavery when america does it it's investment for africa's own good if mentioning is that russia's trade with the continent pales into insignificance when compared to the us or china look at this realize this highway hydro power station all built with chinese investment aging is raising entire cities with more to come china is willing to provide another sixty billion dollars in support of africa to government assistance investment and financing the financial institutions and enterprises the phrase actions speak louder than words is entirely a political here the chinese leader xi jinping has visited africa nine times during his tenure tromp one sent his wife but what the united states might lack in tact it

more than makes up with guns american troops are stationed in fifty out of fifty four african nations it has thirty four military sites thousands and thousands of soldiers across the entire continent and a long history of military interventions china has. one base in djibouti russia has none american troops are there for africans own good washington would say speaking of which you remember the old chinese and russian money bad american money good thing well it turns out not so much our new foreign assistance strategy will ensure that all us foreign aid in every corner of the globe vance's u.s. interest countries that repeatedly vote against the united states and international forums or take actions counter to u.s. interest should not receive generous american foreign aid john bolton the views and

gentleman man who unveiled america's new africa plodded so much for financial independence africans good luck well we have to understand why china went into africa in the first place and it was because the u.s. was containing china for years china basically said since i'm shut out from the west the only way they can continue to grow was to go to areas that were more or less neglected by the u.s. africa so there certainly was one of them so china went in to put investments and to trade there and so now that they've actually turned africa into the fastest growing continent the u.s. basically feels like they need to do catch up this is actually good for african nations you know if there is more choice but you know it really depends on how the

u.s. goes about dealing with them. because of those polman has voted to foment oh nami with president how shameful the move. the creation of the course of the army is the best gift for the end of the year season. the vote to turn kosovo security force into a regular army is expected to have five thousand on duty personnel and three thousand reservists however it may take at least ten years to bring the legislation fully into force earlier this month serbia stressed that it might even consider military intervention if cause for went through with this move. i'm hoping we would never have to use the army but this is certainly one of the options on the table as we do not want to watch this ethnic cleansing because of a declared independence in two thousand and eight to move serbia doesn't recognize that serbia says the formation of such an army violates the agreements which brought the kosovo war to an end nato says chief also criticized the move saying

the alliance might reconsider its cooperation with kossovo while the transition of the cost of a security force is in principle a matter for kosovo to decide we have made clear this move is ill timed nato supports the development of the kosovo security force under its current mandate with a change of mandate the north atlantic council will now have to reexamine the level of nato as engagement with the course of a security force international affairs commentator marco told us why he thinks the u.s. and nato reacted differently to kosovo. stoltenberg is trying to really keep a kind of middle ground without saying anything to anyone that's very controversial therefore prefer presenting this as official nato policy but the real nato policy is the one that the us decides because nato is a vehicle for the us to get its way in europe as it's doing in essence the us is supporting itself in the heart of europe as it supported itself nearly twenty years

ago when it did the original aggression by which cause of this quasi state from the rest of serbia so the us is using kosovo as a strategic interests or real base of operations is built the largest military base since vietnam it doesn't have to ask anybody's permission to keep it there forever that's what the us likes about the course of leadership they know their place their colony and that's the way the us likes it. it's one giant hurdle after another for the embattled british premier theresa may just two days since surviving a confidence vote from her own party is now back in the lion's den of brussels she's desperately looking for anything she can take back from a meeting of the ministers which might win over her skeptical parliament to have planned and the said has more details what a week for to resubmit it really was the best of times it was the worst of times you know on one hand she managed to plow through that vote of no confidence that

would triggered by her own party here in westminster but on the other hand she continues to be stuck in this massive deadlock when it comes to the biggest job she now has to get done which is bracks said and all of this while sort of jumping like a tennis ball from one court to another going from westminster to the e.u. back to westminster to the e.u. and despite all this moving around not a lot of results seem to be getting produced tangible ones with lots and lots of roadblocks getting in her way you've had a trying week. what's been worse. that some. this week. one of the reports. oh you should believe everything the reason what was it was difficult was it in the malcontents at home or was it when the bullies over here negotiations like this are always tough the risk difficult times and as you get close to the very end then that can get even more difficult what

what drives me to can carry on doing this and making sure we deliver is that this is what's right for the british people well though that latest hurdle was in fact in brussels bound but also back at home it seems that for theresa may everybody is on happy with something at this point you know for some people are saying not her deal let's now move on to the heart bragg's it others are saying you know let's remain because things are going so badly at this stage others are saying let's have a second referendum because things are going so badly and you know we've seen earlier today progress of protesters trying to block a bridge in westminster so the british people that to recently is trying to do her best who are seem to have a lot so lots of mixed feeling on this issue and that in its own right seems to be the biggest problem that brussels now is a house with all of this because they've been saying to theresa may we need you to stop being so vague we need you to go back and get specifics from the house of parliament i was following. second but. those of confidence.

that there was a deep mistrust in those when it comes. to. future relations. we have to bring don't do temperature this question of whether theresa may is too vague or not and did up being part of an exchange between her and the president of the european commission and ended up grabbing quite a bit of attention in the media. you looked very angry when you respond to her earlier today what did you say to him and did he admit that he had called you medalists well first of all i had a robust discussion with him because i think that's the sort of discussion you're able to have when you've developed a working relationship and you work well together when you use that particular

phrase you've been talking about the general level of debate well whether these are robust discussions as theresa may has described them are actually going to end up reading somewhere are remains to be seen whether they're going to end up being able to reach some kind of solutions or whether the u.k. is going to be launched towards a new deal breck's it's something that's increasingly being talked about are remains to be seen and there's really not very much time left to see which one is going to end up being. both the u.s. senate and the house of representatives have debated america's support for the saudi military incursion in yemen senators passed a resolution demanding that washington halt arms sales to riyadh by fifty six votes to forty one however congress then passed on lacked the delays any vote on the matter until at least next year called the agriculture improvement act it doesn't sound like it has much to do with the many conflicts but it included

a last minute amendment blocking any vote on limiting american involvement until twenty nineteen republican house speaker paul ryan one of the amendments strongest supporters was slammed by democrats who had hoped for an earlier vote on the issue . this is why people hate congress speaker ryan is not allowing a vote on my resolution to stop the war in yemen because many republicans will vote with us and he will lose the vote he is disgracing article one of the constitution and as a result more yemeni children will die some democrats found themselves criticized as well as supporting me and a cultural imprint lacked among them a column patterson who was questioned by a washington post reporter over that. can you explain your vote on the yemen resolution yeah it didn't belong in there why not couldn't you just have

come back and done another vote no we worked for two years on this farm bill and i'll be damned if i let anybody screw it up do you have any thoughts about the war in yemen i don't know a damn thing about it and it should be in there and it it didn't do anything anyway what do you mean by that. what it did was say they couldn't have a vote or something didn't authorize anything it didn't you know our party gets off on tangents it's ridiculous and she will come painted tell about it says amendments that slipped in like this also known as right as a frequent to fall through unpopular messages. this is not uncommon in u.s. politics when they want to pass something that is not going to be palatable to the people of the united states they put it as a rider in another bill which some people would support and then the people that voted for it said well i'm really against that rider but i really had to vote for

it because i was for the main bill and that's what they were hoping to do right now and one of the democrats that did vote for this one of the five democrats was actually a sponsor of the farm bill so this is a way in which they can kind of fool the people of the united states and support. actions that are not very popular and give an excuse for. also on wednesday the senate unanimously approved a resolution blaming the saudi crown prince for the murder of journalist jamal khashoggi in istanbul two months ago the resolution is seen as a challenge to donald trump's policies towards riyadh and his refusal to scale back military ties with the kingdom though in recent months conflicting signals have come from the white house. we need to have a serious hard talk with the saudis to let them know we won't condone this we won't give you a pass just so you understand about make america great again it's about america

first we're going to say we're saudi arabia we have identified at least some of the individuals responsible including those in the intelligence services the royal court the foreign ministry and other side ministries who we suspect to have been involved in mr to show these death whoever thought of that idea. i think is in big trouble and they should be in big trouble to remind you jamal khashoggi was a u.s. resident who vote for the washington post he disappeared on the second of october after entering the saudi consulate in istanbul turkey blamed saudi arabia but riyadh strongly denies the crown prince had anything to do with the killing we spoke to a politics and media like the case at lancaster university who thinks the actions of congress and not democratic delaying the ability for people to speak or to take action is not a very democratic. part of the process if the resolution does go through will do

united states still be operating behind the scenes and another reason aren't so easily connected on pieces of paper i.e. you know supplying weapons and non discreet man this is absolutely a referendum on swords on donald trump himself and i think a lot of people quite frankly were shocked by his behavior related to relationships in saudi arabia and this particular murder that the way he talked about incidents to cavalier manner. and his delay in doing anything he still hasn't really dejan any steps in acknowledging what his own government is saying that. the head of the russian orthodox church is trying to draw attention to what he describes as the full scale persecution of his church in ukraine patriarch correll has written to the.