settling ideological scores. the headlines this israeli tanks lined up along the gaza border after jets attacked the palestinian territory in response to rocket fire. it comes as the u.s. officially recognized israeli sovereignty over the golan heights in syria a move that was condemned by the un the e.u. and also the arab league plus despite no collusion between donald trump and russia media hysteria isn't dying down with news outlets now blaming trump for making them suspicious in the first place plus also to come i would like to congratulate the house for taking control of the government's approach has been an abject failure and this house must now find a solution british m.p.'s tussle for control in parliament since these breaks it

from theresa may even the way for alternatives to her to force plan from the. working watching the international where it's just gone three pm here in moscow now the israeli army has stationed additional forces including tanks along the border with gaza after it bombed the palestinian territory on monday night in response to a rocket fire the hostilities come despite hamas announcing an egyptian brokered cease fire on monday israel knocked out a number of hamas linked sites after a rocket struck a settlement near tel aviv from there journalist martin reports. well at this stage it's sort of like an informal cease fire hamas says they're not going to fire because they think there's a cease fire israel doesn't know any. thing about

a ceasefire in quotation marks that means that they're saying basically if you guys keep it quiet meaning i must keep it quiet israel is going to keep it quiet so for now there's an options of basically got everybody to look away from the battlefield take a breather take a pause and each side is watching with the other side might do or not do you know there's a certain momentum now of quiet so maybe it's a lot of tough talk a lot of posturing everybody looking each other in the eye but as long as each hour stays quiet another hour of quiet follows we might be heading to more maybe somewhat of a relaxation of tension rather than resuming of attacks. but the exchange of fire does come as u.s. president or trump officially recognizes israeli sovereignty over a series going heights an area the u.n. does regard as a territory don of spoke with a dear a cheetah. well the international community has been somewhat pushed under the bus

by this whole decision is the most vocal and this have been of course the arab countries the whole of arab league made public a joint statement condemning the decision really standing out a condemnation by saudi arabia for instance you know washington's bestie in the gulf so it kind of tells the scale of the fallout this this trumps decision has had to also has condemned the move russia voiced its concerns in regards to the stability of the middle east because moscow believes that such a decision by trump really undermines that so also will syria of course it's a very it's their territories that's how the international community that's how the u.n. sees the golan heights as a syrian territory the u.s. policy on golan is reflected in the relevant resolutions of the security council and that policy has not changed near opinion in line with international law does not recognize israel's sovereignty over to territories occupied by israel since

june one thousand nine hundred sixty seven including the golan heights and does not consider them to be part of israel's territory i suppose we need to understand what exactly is at stake in the current absolutely absolutely the golan heights is a strip of land on the border between syria and israel back in the eighty's in the course of a war it was occupied by israel and that is how it is classified internationally that's how un puts it that it is the syrian territory or by israel.

i know for joe that a lot of use for you know we who live in the occupied golan heights we dismiss the u.s. president's foolish recognition of the territory as israeli we want to tell him our fathers and grandfathers build their blood on this land and you don't have a right to do that yesterday it was jerusalem today the golan heights and tomorrow it might be another syrian territory. these deal signed by us president donald trump violates all principles and standards of international law and here in the occupied golan heights we remember that syrian soldiers spilled their blood here and that it belongs to syria. now not the entirety of the golan heights is de facto under the control of israel there's a small portion of it that is still under damascus is control and i was lucky enough to visit that back last year back in twenty eight scene and really was something of

a turnaround moment i think for that part of the golan heights because when i went there it was meal weeks after the syrian army and the russian jets liberated that area from the control of i saw that there were certain pockets of islamic state there like dane for instance we have heard the opposing views obviously to charles decision from the international community what about israel though surely this is the best outcome that they could have hoped for indeed for israel it is the best outcome but i go out on a limb and say that they can name one person who's particularly happened that things are shaping out as the and that is the prime minister benjamin netanyahu because he's facing elections in a couple of weeks and in the run up to these elections he's been embroiled in a massive nasty corruption scandal now that he's thrown effectively these thrown a bone to all those in israel sharing the nationalist tension he not only has jerusalem recognized by the united states as the capital of israel but also he now

has the golan heights. well we heard arguments from both sides of the golan heights to back it. we are already in control of the golan heights for fifty two years the golan heights is actually heaven on earth unlike the rest of syria which became an where is there. some kind of a good thing for the britons and everybody else joe also it was also not recognize there's there is only copy done so what looked to was there was our of the jewish people. already for more than fleet thousand so what do we need this mission of the world the reason that they decided to go after the golan heights now they are under the impression that syria is weak and this interim government is incapable of really kind of establishing a clear and strong and decisive foreign policy it's barely trying to battle the

opposition and isis and other groups and this is the best time for charmed to hand this gift of the heights in one surely of course to international law and common sense to israel the united states stands on the side of israel one hundred percent and conditionally and blindly they are trying to give netanyahu everything that he wants at this point. you have u.s. president donald trump has hinted there will be payback for those who spread out a geisha of collusion with russia allegations that were rejected for two years. there are a lot of people out there that have done some very very evil things very bad things i would say trees are just things against our country those people. will certainly be looked at and i have been looking at them for a long time and i'm saying why haven't they been looked at they lied to congress many of them you know who they are we can never ever let this happen to another president again when only

a summary of what is reporting has been published democrats in the media and i demanding to see the whole thing in the hope of still pending us media has given lots of airtime to the infamous russia gate allegations an online media no less than t.v. one study showed over five hundred thirty thousand articles on trump russia collusion allegations or the moeller probe have gone online since the probe was launched in two thousand and seventeen but now according to the report from special counsel robert muller it was all for nothing no collusion took place so why did the us media run so long with something that turned out to be a total red herring well some voices blame trump for it they say that it's his fault the media went with the story for so long why did donald trump and why did his administration and why did everybody close to him lie about contacts that they had with russia throughout the course of the campaign why did he say that he

believes putin over the intelligence community why did he talk about leaving nato things that put our national security at jeopardy why doesn't he release his tax returns some say that it's just a cover up that william barr the u.s. attorney general is protecting donald trump attorney general barr who are dishing for his role with an open memorandum suggesting that it was almost impossible for any president to commit obstruction of justice and seize the head of the executive branch made a decision about that evidence in under forty eight hours given ms the bars public . heard of bias against the special counsel's inquiry he's not a new true observer and is not in a position to make objective determinations about the report now some voices are saying that two years twenty five million dollars and three thousand subpoenas just aren't enough they say that if you keep looking you can find collusion because it's there because we say so trust in his prosecutorial judgment but that doesn't mean

of course that there isn't compelling and incriminating evidence that should be shared with the american people this president has a way of trying to get into people's heads and indoctrinate them he's been saying no collusion no collusion no collusion he does this all the time this is not the end of anything now you might think that the media was to blame after all they kept this story in the headlines for so long examining every unproven rumor however certain voices are saying that they did nothing wrong and should be praised for their work i think we've done the media the press has done one of the great reporting jobs in the history especially of covering a presidency by the most news organizations some media outlets did so well they were honored with a pulitzer prize for. relentlessly reportage coverage in the public interest that dramatically further the nation's understanding of russian interference in the twenty sixteen presidential election and its connections to the trump campaign the

president elect's transition team and his eventual administration from once told the media that apologizing can be a great thing when you're simply wrong whether or not they'll heed his advice remains to be seen nobody wants to hear this but the news that special prosecutor robert miller is headed home without issuing new challenges is a death blow for the reputation of the american news media nothing trump is accused of from now on by the press would be believed by huge chunks of the population standard ploy is deny everything keep going to tell you right. all along never admit that you either lived or made a mistake or were or. based your your judgment on beliefs and opinions rather than on facts the mainstream media has a long history particularly over the past couple of decades of not admitting guilt we're seeing the disintegration of the media but also just seeing the

disintegration of professional politics in the united states at this stage and in many countries around the world was not international we'll be back with more just after birth. join me every thursday on the alex simon short and i'll be speaking to us on the world of politics sports business i'm showbusiness i'll see you then. after the previous stage of my career was over everyone wondered what i was going to do next about different clubs on one hand it is logical to sort of go from fields where everything is familiar on the other i wanted a new challenge and the fresh perspective i'm used to suppressing. or not if.

i'm going to talk about football not be or else you can think i was going to go. by the way what is it that's like here. the french president i'm on your macro and he's hosting his chinese counterpart today paris is the last leg is using pings three nation european tour which has seen him stop off initially and also monaco in france has also met with other e.u. heavyweights too so let's go straight to paris now correspondent nina question of a joint just get off me dana so welcome expect then from this visit.

china's president has been touring europe this past week and his official visit to france has just sounded and it seems it one step better than maniacs fact it's a bowl of sciences signed contracts worth billions of euros including our very to you bill. in euros airballs deal alone and right after the negotiations the french president called for a strong europe china partnership. cooperation is more beneficial than confrontation and we have more to gain from being open and closed the partnership between the e.u. and china must serve as an example of how to achieve tongil results another focus is the need to strengthen dialogue in order to establish a shared vision of a future more to a lot sort of. the words of the french

president rather or noticeably contradict what he said before as some annoying the micron cold earlier on he has the european allies to stick to a more considerate its approach towards china he even called it a systemic rival and warned over china's influence and europe. and we had a very important discussion about china and i welcome this european awakening since the beginning of my mandate our call for genuine awareness on the defense of european sovereignty don't the time of european naive if he has ended. we've put ourselves in a situation where chinese investment has taken over strategic assets and infrastructure i think that was a mistake. train this president arrived to france from it's really. rather successful trip as i agree to become the first g seven nation to sign up to try and as a road and a ballot initiative which is

a global infrastructure and it's nice but dissipation and that's particular project provoked a lot of. a lot of controversy among its european allies and especially with its partner on the other side of the atlantic the u.s. . ok thanks. with the latest from paris thank you. now in a mood it's unprecedented british m.p.'s have voted to seize control of parliament's agenda in a bid to take over negotiations from to resume a this does come as a new blow to the embattled u.k. prime minister who's facing growing calls to step down three ministers have also resigned in the wake of the vote adding to the long list of departure from the cabinet. i would like to congratulate the house for taking control of the government's approach has been an abject failure and this house must now find

a solution to this house is she keep it thank you we forwards when the government has us field to provide leadership there were folks who said just now this was a constitution and a vision i think you may just rather underestimate the fact is in fact it is a constitutional revolution and the house will come to. this government has failed this house must and i believe will succeed. in the tussle for control the government was ultimately defeated by m.p.'s in westminster he will now have a greater say over the next steps of breaks it and that includes a vote on alternatives to tourism age withdrawal agreement professor of european law francesco says that the prime minister has badly mishandled breaks it. i think this is really the final or it should be the final nail in the coffin i hate to use that term of the government's strategy it's failed

argument including lots of conservatives have decided that the way the government has been dealing with this in the prime minister in particular has led nowhere but the immediate challenge that has to be confronted well it's twofold one will we participate in european elections because there's no way we're going to be leaving by the twenty second of may god knows how the government's going to deal with what parliament asked us to do so the status you and then of course the second issue is what is the government who is the prime minister. or some of britain's biggest are galleries rejected large donations from the us trust it is over concerns regarding how the money was made and is connected to to america's current opioid epidemic. explains picasso once said that art cleanses the soul but for large and sometimes dubious corporation the tried and

tested method of sponsoring art was a way of cleansing that image well not anymore though what is this the u.s. opioid crisis which kills more than a hundred people per day over in the us have to do with london's national portrait gallery the answer the sackler family their immense wealth comes from the sale of oxy contin a widely used prescription painkiller that stronger than morphine last year u.s. senate report accused the sutcliffe family's purge you pharma company of acting as cheerleaders for the opioids and contributing to the opioid crisis in america but for years now the sackler family has also been a cheerleader and sponsor of the r. it's was until protests like these became more common. in

twenty seventeen british museums accepted a rest seven million pounds in donations from the sun clo trust london's royal academy of arts has a stack clear wing and there's a sack close courtyard in the victoria and albert museum but the question of ethical funding is forcing an increasing number of arts institutions to reconsider where they get their money from it's now emerged that london's national portrait gallery has returned on day one million pound drawn from the sound clip trust on the tape gallery and the south london gallery have also said they won't be taking any more spinal column money and then best sign the trust itself said it won't be making any more donations that's been seen widely as a face saving measure to avoid any more rejections a number of art institutions have come under scrutiny for corporate sponsorships recently last month the campaign is occupied the british museum in protest at its

continued acceptance of funding from british petroleum the oil company alleged to have lobbied for the war in iraq sponsored an exhibition of treasures for a modern day iraq in syria the tate museum ended its relationship with b.p. back in twenty six steam and last summer the netherlands van gogh museum stopped its relationship with dutch oil company shell both cases were presented as mutual decisions by the museums and oil companies but they also came after intense pressure from campaign is but when it comes to funding the arts some say there's no such thing as clean money if you have a mix of due diligence in the arts and you look very very carefully to the people who are offering. you know exactly where in time broncos made the remote possible for those visiting the museums or working outside them the issue of so-called art

washing is a tough call this scrutiny over ethical donations couldn't come at a worse time for cash strapped british arts institutions which have had their funding slashed in recent years but there are those that say that in order for the arts to prosper galleries simply can't afford to be picky. director general of the b.b.c. is obsessed about the way the term mainstream media is being used these days as a form of criticism although some say the b.b.c.'s own practices might be part of what's fuelling skepticism towards traditional journalism. the phrase mainstream media is now a term of abuse used by people of all political persuasions no additional persuasions and no additional journalism is paid to this part of the problem rather

than the solution. perhaps it's a quite extraordinary time. to say the right people are worried whether some of them a cd or a tour for six. months they're in publishing i would. just think that the media nowadays is facing the biggest problem. the problem today the metric for great journalism is not truth and verity and veracity and accuracy it's

how many likes to get how many re tweets are you viral because now social media and its various platforms and various iterations of such are being used that is the sole metric for good journalism it's about rating it's about clicks it's about impressions it's not about trolls so what i would suggest is rather than worry about what your calling. news media find out why you're calling it that and that i think a goal or rather a direction better suited to the problems at hand so that's how the news is looking so i thought today here not saying i would have more fuel just don't get plenty stories to you on a website at a hospital. to

get up off the ground. heard them freeze on the sounds of an mit grown man with mislead essentially. twisted away from the officer. the obvious or did they kind of lunge for the web in one smiths and then when it happened on trace one as i didn't i never saw any contact with. any kind of went back to where they were so the answer is back here there try again fifteen feet apart at this point and that's when the officer is gonna need to turn three. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy going foundation let it be an arms race off and spearing dramatic development only personally i'm going to resist

i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk. as a tense situation in venezuela is still all over the news the problem in venezuela is not that socialism has been poorly implemented but that socialism has been faithfully implement from the inside venezuela things are different we're going to announce sanctions against petroleum to venezuela associate the famous would have a son of a moment to sit down person that. data to say on the cutting. of the moment the focus of the who story is a new nixon told in henry kissinger to tell him that it would not be tolerated in latin america an alternative economic and social system could take hold

and therefore the policy would be to make the chilean economy scream so once in the making the economy of venezuela screech. what politicians do. they put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president one should. want to. have to want to be approached this is what before three in the morning can't be good. i'm interested always in the waters of my house.

the. come up. howdy imax times are this year's the kaiser report we won't talk about except i was right it was a total shambles from day one as i predicted but we will go into the. story that's a tedious story to cover as well so let's talk about the flow lists rally that is the title of this episode and first i want to look at a head was actually a tweet from matthew del who's in the space and he says so many people surprised

that rich people have been buying credentials wait until they realize how our money works ignorance is bliss' until it isn't of course you and i here on price report have been talking about this and it's a very interesting story it's much more fascinating than most other stories and that's a cantillon a fact because remember that you know the masters of our financial universe whether they're in the treasury department's the presidential palace or the federal reserve white tower or the ivory tower you know they will say that they're printing money exclusively for the top you know point one percent the bankers that is you know victimless crime this nothing bad that happens and but in fact that can tell and in fact happens and we see the likes of the l a vast movement we see that.