you're going to. lose. the i. subscribe to read people also get all lucky content for just twelve euros fifty per month. a palestinian teenager is killed and dozens of protesters in you during clashes with israeli soldiers in the west bank and gaza.

meanwhile france's yellow best movement inspires protests in tel aviv to where people are also angry about the high cost of living piracies its fifth consecutive weekend of demonstrations with police out in force there in case of riots and kosovo is the creation of its own army a move that's left some parts of europe very worried about possible military escalation and also british from the center list of topics he says not allowed to joke about before an appearance at a university is it a matter of respect or censorship perhaps we put the matter for the back of. trivial for me to sign this document and to be honest if you have to stop and go you know what they're asking me not to be sexist how could i maybe it's about time that you sort of thought about the fact that it's twenty eight and check out what your material is when you're with comedian and by virtue of what you're doing this

subject matter. in the spirit of lenny bruce and more soul and dick gregory. or the welcome you without international this saturday afternoon is just gone three pm here in moscow our top story a palestinian teenager has been shot dead by israeli soldiers in the occupied west bank this happened during street protests after the israeli army sealed off the seat of the palestinian authority during a security operation. was i i. was i.

was. i. was. i was i or dozens more palestinians were injured during these clashes on friday demonstrations came after over forty were arrested by israeli troops and raids in the ramallah district the latest escalation started after two israeli soldiers were killed in a shooting in a west bank settlement israeli prime minister gave a firm statement on thursday valin to avenge the deaths of the two soldiers. our guiding principle is that whoever attacks us and who have a choice to attack us will pay with his life. and we will find them on the right are to that statement then when netanyahu also issued a number of security orders including the accelerated demolition of alleged terrorists homes.

on saturday's rally defense forces blew up the sami home of the palestinian who'd been convicted of killing an israeli soldier israeli prime minister also warded the legalization of thousands of homes in palestinian territories and an increase in the i.d.f. presence there my colleague to deraa cheeta spoke with palestinian politician stuff gartin he says israel is using excessive force. how can further escalation of violence in ramallah be avoided in your opinion it can only be a avoided if there is an earlier army gets out of our cities and if they are to move their brigades better kids 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 and 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 marches got out of their conclusive and peaceful nonviolent or all forms of violence have been excluded and we have agreed with each other almost that if you go to commit school nonviolent resistance but when each peaceful demonstration is messed with the israeli army shooting the people and killing them of course there will be palestinian. actions and resistance to occupation i don't think it would be good to have missed the between the palestinians and israelis in this regard you have to remember that what we have here is a list in civilian population in the west bank. and in confrontation with the israeli army and there's

a very. productive. thousands of palestinians to gather on israeli border on friday and the latest march of return rally a local reporter uma. was there for us here at shifa hospital the casualties have branched from live ammunition explosives bullets rubber bullets and gas separately shoot as well as injuries by gas canisters that were fired on them this friday comes after two to israeli soldiers who were killed by an unknown palestinian soon after the israeli forces in nell's trauma list city as a closed military zone prime minister netanyahu or did what he called axillary to demolish an homes for those who israel considers as tourists in ya would legalize thousands of jewish settlement homes that were built without an israeli proof of palestinian homes in the occupied west bank now meanwhile the strain prime minister

scott morrison announced today that camera recognizes westry slim as israel's capital he made it clear though that the australian embassy in tel aviv would not be relocated until a peace settlement had been reached. a strategy of now recognizes him being the c.e.o. of the commission. and many of the institution is government. these the capital of israel is trying the government is also resolved to acknowledge the aspirations of the palestinian people for a future state with its capital in the streets. ok let's get the thoughts now professor but he's vice president of the astray palestine advocacy network and he joins us now welcome what did you make of today's announcement did it take you by surprise. well it did in its current government has been consistent in its broadest policies and people esteem policies we can see that through its votes in the u.n.

and also in its cutting afraid to the palestinian. specially don't want to go and also the composition of this current government this sort of heretical elements in the in the in the art of politics in stereo. mix such a decision sort of surprising in a way. but with regard to the motivation to you some have been cynical saying that he's looking internally and perhaps to getting the jewish vote in upcoming elections. is that something that you consider. well let the jewish vote in a state in general is not the time but i think there was the timing of the announcement something was made and. it's quite accepted now by many of the commentators that it had to do with the when to a politician or the. prime minister malcolm turnbull was and in that particular see it there forty percent of the waters were orthodox jewish background and spoke with us and was trying to get to the votes but it's important to know that. the

motives behind it is not just for that particular election but it's most of his own believes and also those in his government who sort of feel that it is it's their politics to actually support israel in sections. and here to international norms and. international law as well. in the united the prime minister said that it. might be recognised or at least the embassy won't be moved from tel aviv until there there is a settled peace. agreement do you think that today tonight we could actually hamper that. it's just going to generate more ill will between both sides. i believe the i think i think i'm decisions actually it's almost.

and not a good to support to israel's policy so israel has an excuse to use them as both settlements in there has made a lot of the palestinians in east jerusalem almost impossible and we've got. trying to sort of we smart about just going with jerusalem as the as the capital i think government's movie is should be seen as not as a balanced policy but as a policy you support for israel and its actions and if anything it encourages is to go on more of these on the ground and to try and actually force a solution on the palestinians what would that be much better is for a state or to do for example what russia and these little knows the state of palestine recognize east jerusalem as the capital of this palestinian state and then if it wants to recognize west jerusalem as that of the think of israel then we won't have any problem with. the current announcement in its form and in fact the

prime minister's clucked. careful to talk about the stand aspersion policy on drugs or supposed to be and has rights under international law to east jerusalem as a unanimous security council resolution for those that is specific lucian's on jerusalem itself in a way so that now this month may appear as to be done spent in essence those who are doing guns from the understand that israel has plans to take all of its tourism and indirectly trying to actually support this move through this announcement in my view so you don't think that the palestinians might say this is a step forward even if it's just a small step forward because just to come back to what you said the strain government did state that it is resolved to acknowledge the aspirations of the palestinian people for a future state with its capital in east jerusalem you don't think that that will be received positively at all by palestinians. well look i mean. i'm not rejecting this i'm not saying that this is a bad thing what he said standing here is that after also one twenty five years of

negotiation policies have more than aspirations but students have rights i mean if you are not client international law everywhere in the world we need talk live to boston as well israel should not be exempted from this in a way so what we're saying is that this is not in they still government has a two state policy and it has been for me more than twenty four years if that's the case then it's recognize palestine i mean this is an important fact about australia by the way that we were quite instrumental in actually leading to the partition of palestine for to certain we took part in on the scope we put the casting vote to go and the partition of palestine we we voted for the partition and we were nice to israel so we have at least you know a moral obligation to recognize the palestinian state if we really truly want a solution which is based on two independent states israel and palestine and then

you know what naturally follows is also sort of supposed to do on how it is using the most the capital of palestine and with jerusalem as a cover to the prison where i wanted this may have read to be semantics but actually it's very important what's a point of saying that you know we acknowledge desperation as if you know it's a look and wish in a way it's not a wish there are six million palestinians are living in historical palestine today equal to the number of jews and they have rights more than just aspersion. professor simon after leaving that was a professor sam dali vice president of the astride palestine advocacy network thank you thank you very much for the opportunity. now meanwhile protests of a different kind were taking place northeast of the garza israeli border in tel aviv on friday the city saw its own version of france's yellow vests movement taking to the streets protesting high taxes and also the cost of living.

i. i i i was. one hundred two part in the demonstration blocking off roads in the city center and it does come after recent hikes in water electricity and also food prices demonstrates accuse the government of ignoring the fact that salaries are not keeping up with the city's cost of living. much. look at what happened in france when they raised the fuel tax but here in israel the government is constantly taking similar measures and from the first of january the cost of living will become even higher but these really parliament members have voted to raise their own salaries by five hundred shekels is that reasonable we want our government to

take all this monopoles and all those corporations and make a game that it's fair game i don't know that. the price of. the phone the water everything they say is inspiration from. the. kind. of thing. they did. nothing. but they can. go to the french capital now because another saturday does bring another yellow vests protest to france for the rally just getting under way there in paris in fact this is the fifth consecutive weekend of demonstrations some of which have previously turned violent over seventy arrests reportedly being made today in the capital with more from his paper all. always see right now and he is a much different situation to what we've seen in the previous weeks there is if we

come over to my left right now as you can see a huge police presence there really did get a ring of steel around the dish also leads a right now leading up to the ark to triomphe bullet what we're looking at is hundreds as opposed to the thousands that we had seen previously what we understand is that a number of these people were told not to come today because they wanted people to respect and to. stay away because of what happened in strasbourg over the week likely left to explain me they've expressed their anger and this has been heard we ask you to be reasonable and not to attend any protests. now that's not to say that we haven't seen some of the violence aims that we have seen in the past there and other parts of the city to where i am right now we understand that tear gas has been deployed by the french police that's been the weapon of choice if you will for

them when they've been dealing with the the jacket demonstrators we have to look at is that now apparently only one in every five french people would support the policies of a money well michael that's compared to sixty six percent when he was first elected there is dissatisfaction here it's very clear however today it does seem that dissatisfaction isn't going to spill over into the type of riot that we saw in previous occasions. her.

her it was her. was. her. her. her. our british comedian booked to appear before students were shocked to find out he'd been sent to behavioral agreement the document was designed to quote avoid problems and also line which jokes needed sensitivity by signing this contract you are agreeing to

a no tolerance policy with regards to racism sexism classism ages i'm able as i am have a phobia by phobia transfer xenophobia islamophobia or anti religion or anti atheism consenting kissing was among five comedian shuttle to perform at the event being held to raise money for the children's charity unicef university's unicef on campus society sent all performers the behavioral agreement and stress that while the topics can be raised it must be done in a respectful way however university student union said the agreement was overzealous and later unicef on campus then issued an apology. given that unicef is a children's charity we wanted to make sure it was an appropriate event for because we would never wish to impose that guest with have to agree to anything that they do not believe in we apologize for the misunderstanding so is then this just perhaps a one off where the u.k.'s national union of students seems to think so and says it

has no evidence that universities are dictating what guest speakers can actually say however there have been several other cases in the u.k. over the last few months where comics have been stopped from performing or had their material sense that here are some examples that the laughs was banned from performing at cardiff university after hundreds signed a petition complaining his show trivialized rape and then activist and comedian kate smith wait had her performance cancelled at a london university because of her views on prostitution what she debated this story with the media commentator line. absolutely trivial for me to sign this document and to be honest if you have to stop and go what you know what they're asking me not to be sexist how could they then maybe it's about time that you sort of thought about the fact that it's twenty eighteen and checked out what your material is i find it weird that we're presenting this as though somebody is paying sense of the fact is that by agreeing to come on your show i've agreed not to swear

on air and if i didn't want to do that i could have not come on your show and you know your other guests are bound by the same thing if every time you see a cup of coffee you shout i hate coffee it's disgusting or you won't be working in a coffee shop next week now let me explain what the problem is imagine if i came on r t. my colleague here in the news they do not talk about this subject do not mention the word kremlin united states trump would say whoa whoa wait a minute hold it we wouldn't say well those are the rules it's like yelling fire in a crowded theater or coffee in a coffee shop we would say wait a minute you're let me what i'm saying you can make your own decision about what is and isn't ok and they're absolutely things i'm sure that you wouldn't allow me to say on air i know there are all the same and so by coming on air of course we've agreed not to say those things are not you know it's not down to every comedian to decide what kind of stuff they want to do and if that means that they don't want to

play you know there are shows that i know where the comedians perform to children and of course when you perform a show for children there are kinds of subjects that you don't go near because it's a children's show and personally i don't do those shows because i don't write the kind of material that suits those events and so i don't put myself forward we're not talking is not a question you can't define races you can't units of what he did say use a dictionary we know we can't know no yeah you know i have many you do and they didn't have a black man i swear about you and the rest of. all maybe you really. please stop it you know we're talking about your you're being sold stand to gain british above the rules and looking it up in the dictionary that's not the issue the bigger issue is that instead of us saying wait a minute what rules wait a minute why kid they speak no we're saying excuse me why aren't you abiding by the rules look at how we're giving in our first of all don't break the rules instead of

saying wait a minute he's a comic is this over eighteen what kind of a club is this i'm sorry but life's tough but i do think that the answer is that everybody is entitled here's my radical opinion i think we're entitled to free speech i think they're entitled to say this is what we think the rules should be and i think everybody else who's involved in that should be entitled to agree to disagree to say well actually i would like a change to this is something you haven't mentioned that i find to be quite problematic i think that you know we know that there are always going to be limits in society about what is and isn't ok to be said in certain forums and certain platforms and that's absolutely fine what's the matter with us we're used to be tough we're becoming a bunch of little snowflake trigger of trigger warning then then heard and be it it's listen to what we're talking about a comedian but by the way if there was no rules or what the heck was he being asked to sign we are losing our sense of humor we're losing our guts and our spine we're

losing who we are removing our personality so keep it up comics keep it up you'll be out of a job in six months go by we had here on our. thanks for your company today we'll be back in. president trump indeed has has his way of communicating but you have to hand it to him but sometimes it's better to try and shake up the established way of doing things in order to come to a different conclusion i think what's worrying is this focus on you know fake news and junk news because one of the foundations of a democracy has to be the trust in news facts and information and if that trust is fundamentally shaken and the independent media all criticized then i think that

that's a problem from a communications perspective. join me every week on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to guests of the world of politics sports business i'm show business. again now kosovo has declared it is creating its own army turning small security forces into full scale military units kosovo is a disputed territory in the southeast of europe it attempted to separate from serbia a decade ago and its latest decision has left some parts of europe concerned that

he's moving against the f. reports we like to think of europe as peaceful conflict less a place where differences a result in a civilized way but this place is different. with this vote today a new era starts for our country. from this moment if we have the course got the talk. europe has its darker aspects ethnic strife religious divides contested borders kosovo is all of that it is permanently on the brink of a new war it just needs a spark the self-proclaimed government there wants to appear strong escalate cashing in on ratings voters just love a good military parade where the course of zero is the right place for that you

decide. this world. although. the parliament of the republic. serbia which is sworn to protect ethnic serbs who live in kosovo is afraid very afraid that this new army will event. be used to targeted spread the word for ethnic cleansing belgrade says that this could only mean one thing kossovo doesn't want peace everything the president doesn't evidently it does it all with the support of the us and britain is against the law serbia says even a military intervention is an option anything to stop this given that they would

have to force their way past nato troops permanently stationed in kosovo which give you an idea of how serious they are on the topic of nato the alliance has long wanted to kosovo to join the process is already underway and even nato has called this move unwise all the transition of the kosovo security force is in principle and 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 engagement with the kosovo security force why would that be why would many nato allies be against this new army because it risks war in europe again no one in that neighborhood wants a repeat of the nine hundred ninety nine catastrophe no one wants to deal with

ethnic slaughter with war crimes genocide and refugees that is no one who has anything to lose now more than ever the government of course of them must engage with minority communities and coordinate closely with nato allies and partners as it begins the ten year transition of its security forces the u.s. will be there with you the united states has been added for years prodding and encouraging kosovo to raise an army despite every objection and why not if they do were american weapon manufacturers might have a whole new army to outfit tension j. . or a tip could guarantee an american presence in the area for decades to come and there's also a jab at china and russia which support serbia and don't recognize kosovo all in all i felt safe plan sell the firewood sell the matches convince someone to spark a fire and then be there to put it out. when i get if reporting that what we

discussed kosovo's planned create its own army with the political writer diana johnston. make their army the first scenes of the u.s. ambassadors and we'll be there with you wherever that means which sounds like you use cursive a little provoke a war because you know it is will be there with you this is simply a gesture to emphasize percival status as an american colony because the base there isn't a nato base it's an american base and and you look at his children their american flags all over the place if it came to a current between serbia and kosovo militarily. cause a causal army wouldn't have a chance so it's still depend on nato and the american army it can't have any significant military it's simply too good to do it tattered to the.