in a major policy overhaul the u.s. declares that it no longer views israeli settlements in the occupied west bank as illegal. the establishment of israeli civilian settlements in the west bank is not per se inconsistent with international law iran accuses the us of hypocrisy for supporting mass protests sparked by a hike in fuel prices. and alleged russian interference is said to be unquantifiable in a still classified u.k. intelligence report as russian media outlets including r.t. also get a mention. live

from our moscow studio where it's currently just a minute past 3 in the morning you're watching r.t. international thank you for joining us we start with this the u.s. secretary of state mike compare has announced a major policy reversal regarding israeli settlements in the west bank saying they do not necessarily violate international law. the establishment of israeli civilian settlements in the west bank is not per se inconsistent with international law conclusion that we will no longer recognize israeli settlements as per se inconsistent with international law is based on the unique facts history and circumstances presented by the establishing the civilian settlements in the west bank or decision today does not prejudice or decide legal conclusions regarding situations in any other parts of the world compos and now it's meant comes 8 months after washington recognized israeli sobriety over the golan heights that territory

was seized from syria in 1967 and formally at next in 1981 under the trumpet ministration the us has also broken with international consensus in deciding to recognize jerusalem as israel's capital both decisions were strongly condemned including by the un israel's prime minister meanwhile has praised the united states latest move claiming it quote writes a historical wrong. i will consider a true pump and the trumpet ministration announcement only galatea of communities in judea and samaria there is no dispute about the right of the jewish people to the land of israel this is an appropriate response to the european court decision and the boy could attempt against israel. well for some more insight on this we can now cross live to michael maloof he's a former pentagon security analyst michael thanks for joining us let's start here the u.s. has broken as we are saying with the overwhelming international consensus here let's take that that's the u.n. g.a.

you want to see red cross and international court of justice they all say the settlements all illegal so what has prompted this shift in policy from the u.s. . well i think it's just one more manifestation of. the united states supporting whatever the israelis want the agreed to the annexation of the go on which was to. and over by conquest. and. the same basically with the west bank and where these what he's doing as netanyahu is doing is just seen everything and he doesn't really care what the palestinians think and i think he's probably developing this from the mood and the signals that he's received from the saudis where they don't really feel that the palestinian issue is anything for them to to get all of of about like they used to so perhaps staring out of some of the reasons or there are other reasons so so are they just they just don't want to. go

ahead i'm sorry no no please do so you're saying there their fear netanyahu and his government there's a feeling of confidence that they're feeling stirred on so that they can go make these decisions. yeah it's as long as the united states is back in it who's going to who's going to oppose the people will pose a but who's going to fight it how who who's going to take it to the u.n. and make a big issue out of it nobody and and this is this is probably a crying shame for the palestinians but that's that's the way it is it is the u.n. is on record and the united states supported not agreeing to the takeover of the west bank as being part of israel and israel for years has been pushing the notion and what it astounded me one time were jewish newspaper actually made mention taking over the west bank where it was part of their labors realm and they use that

word their term it's a nazi term to to to be make a part of israel for for security reasons and it's just going to create castration and frankly the palace it's going to be the you're not going to have an end to this current conflict in the middle east as a consequence well let's talk about the palestinians from. aren't there because this is this decision that will affect them you know how likely is it there will be an immediate on the ground in the west bank these are going to give greater impetus to settlers you say there's going to be an ongoing conflicts. or you know i think it will why you're going to see you're going to see. bank people probably rising up in creating endless trouble for years to come. and come springtime wait till spring i think that we're going to probably see even further demonstrations and probably attacks against the the homesteaders and it's not

a it's not a pleasant thing now they could have worked out something now i think one of the things they want that months. this to do wants to happen is for israel to work with the palestinians to work up an arrangement whereby certain portions will be recognized by israel and that in turn certain portions will be recognized by the palestinians in order to not kill entirely the the 2 state concept but netanyahu basically doesn't support that anyway so he doesn't really care so pompei really wants the wants this to be put at the bilateral level once again between the palestinians and the and the israelis not withstanding the u.n. resolution that the u.s. agreed 2 years ago and you're not going to have favorable. feelings about this

from europeans and other in other countries that also voted. to not recognize settlements part of. israel the area of west bank well certainly a big policy change there from the u.s. and we'll be watching developments as they have michael maloof former pentagon security analyst thanks for your time. the president of iran has moved to quell mass anger over a 50 percent hike in fuel prices her son rouhani said on sunday the government will compensate those worst hit however there has been trouble in at least a dozen cities with buildings vandalized and pictures of iran's supreme leader burned.

well we've heard something coming out of europe finally and germany was the 1st european country to react and essentially berlin has said has called on the rainy and government to recognize what it called a legitimate plight of the people it is legitimate and deserving of our respect when people courageously aired their economic and political grievances as this card li happening in iran the iranian government should respond to the current protests was a willingness to negation dialogue while this statement is bound to rough quite some more feathers i should say into iran because from the beginning of the of the evolving ring in government has been saying that this hike in fuel prices is a less an evil that its economy has been backed into a corner and the other option is approaching for the country's economy to crumble under the weight of the u.s. sanctions indeed the american final season is something that iran has been citing

as the key reason for all the economic trouble and hardship and these really unpopular measures the general public that to lawn has had to go for. but a bilin is not the only one siding with the protesters washington itself was in fact the 1st for a nation to come out forward and side with the protesters which despite all the violence and rioting and looting and even deaths washington has called a peaceful protest. actually said to the people of iran almost a year and a half ago the united states is with you the united states supports the iranian people in the peaceful protests against the regime that is support. to lead them we condemn the lethal force and severe communications restrictions used against demonstrators but we certainly stand by the people of iran what you're seeing today is them standing up. to their government saying that you know we demand accountability such comments have been met with outrage and iran for instance the

leader of the country has said that he won't allow any outside force to hold his country hostage by sanctions and will not hire people who will not be taken advantage of by outside economic pressure of the nation. really of the country's economy runs economy of course has been in somewhat of a freefall of a nosedive since these sanctions were imposed against it its currency its national currency has lost some 60 percent of its value the inflation hiked over 41 percent by this. and it's not only the energy sector or or the nuclear sector that has been targeted by sanctions no the country's health care system has been targeted and has suffered badly from all the penalties for instance iran has been suffering from a severe shortage of lifesaving medications and just to give you a reminder as to what the where these sanctions came from vats last year donald

trump decided to unilaterally withdraw from the rons nuclear deal that move was met with criticism by all other sides who signed the agreement back in 2015 those sides include the european union and russia and iran too but when it comes to the european union an american they while criticizing washington's decision they have failed to take any action they have failed to pressure to make washington come back to the negotiating board and to sign the deal again and so this is what really didn't stand well with the 2 iran and iran has. drawn accuse the european. union of not being as committed to the nuclear deal as the claim the are and this recent reaction that has been you that has started to come out of europe with this recent bird statement from berlin this is not going to give iran any more whole pool or

any more trust in europe as its partner meanwhile on monday the international atomic energy agency said iran's reserves of heavy water have exceeded the level permitted under the 2015 nuclear deal tehran has condemned the european signatories to the treaty for failing to deliver on their promises to boost trade with iran after the u.s. withdrew from the treaty and apply sanctions since then iran has been scaling back its compliance with the accord professor of political science from the university of tehran 100 believes you didn't want to maintain the deal in the 1st place. the europeans wanted to keep the deal in place but they were unable to stand you know american pressure their companies weren't able to really invest in iran because of the us hegemony in the global economic order perhaps the europeans didn't want to do in place from the beginning rather the europeans were playing in

a good cop bad cop strategy against iran in which the americans were the bad cop and the europeans were the good cop when the u.s. decided to leave the nuclear deal it was the europeans that convinced you want to stay in the euro and they promised that you know they would shielding on from the sanctions and as a result of that iran actually stayed in the deal for a 4 year without backing away from any of its of the geishas because of those european promises in reality none of those promises materialized so i think there is actual the actual possibility that the europeans were insincere in any of the promises they made from the beginning. russian media outlets r.t. and sputnik are legibly named are still classified u.k. parliamentary report on moscow suspected interference in the $26.00 referendum the claim is made in an article in the british newspaper the sunday times and the report apparently also states though that the impact to suppose that russian

meddling is unquantifiable easily explains. well over the weekend the murdoch owned sunday times published an article with the headline saying revealed the russia report although this so-called reported self hasn't been released but this times clone served got access to it and seen what's within it and as far as they're concerned that much of the focused is on sputnik the news agency and also all it say and goes on to describe some of the numb. bers behind artie's online activity in the lead up to the 2016 breck's it referendum social media analysis revealed that articles published by the russian sites had 4 times more social media impact before the breaks of vote than the official leave campaigns more than 260 articles posted by r.t. in sputnik in the 6 months prior to the referendum was shared so widely on twitter

that they could have been seen up to 134000000 times so would appear journalism equals interference now the cross party intelligence and security committee they're the ones who have been investigating the so-called alleged russian interference and they're the ones who of drawn up this report but the government led by boris johnson vaguely accused of sitting on this record and not releasing it earlier this month and that's led to heavy criticism from members of the opposition by secretary tell me that it is unprecedented but we should have had no response o'toole explaining why any further delay is required in this case this is nothing less than an attempt to suppress the truth from the public and from parliament and it is an affront to our democracy if the report is being called for and written and should be in the public domain then what is it got to hide people will be justified

in drawing the conclusion that the reporters findings are compromising or worse for the government and the tory party now the opposition say that there could be information in that report which is damaging to the conservative party and that's why they haven't released it but number 10 deny any wrongdoing saying that they are following all normal procedures now those of us who have been following u.k. politics are used to open interference from us politicians going back to barack obama telling u.k. voters to vote to remain in that breaks it referendum to donald trump just read. simply telling the larger fraud. to come to some kind of leave alliance which it appears could have actually taken place now yet another u.s. politician has decided to wade into this latest row i'm dumbfounded that this government won't release the report about russian influence because every person who votes in this country deserves to see that report before your election happens

reporter like you and others should be absolutely relentless and trying to get to the bottom of it now that report hasn't been released in full yet and it's likely that it will be so off to those that actions are held on the top of the zumba. denmark has imposed checks of border crossings with sweden after a series of shootings and bombings in copenhagen we'll tell you more about that after this short break. there was an imaginary goes. enemy out there called russia during the russia gate hoax meanwhile huawei another 5 g. technology is coming out of china and other technology of china time is actually leapfrogging ahead of the us economically and now these are the currency war so now

that whole period of focusing on russia it would be is just a waste of time which had been focusing on the actual rival americas very dominant in the u.s. now is the time of. the world is driven by shaped by one person. who dares thinks. we dare to ask. welcome back now hong kong has seen some of its worst violence in recent months as

riot police continue to lay siege to a university campus that's become a stronghold for anti beijing protesters on monday off his fine take ass and rubber bullets at demonstrators and were bombarded in turn with fire bombs and other projectiles over 100 people were injured and there was an unusual change in the choice of weapons for the protesters as some of them have been equipped with homemade boat one police officers like was pierced with an arrow during a confrontation around the barricaded university there were also reports of the bottles hampering the emergency services china has want a continuation of the protests could lead to a dreadful future for hong kong. oh. sorry . this oh yes your. situation thank you. very. very. well since june anti-government rallies against plans to allow extradition to mainland china have escalated the bill was

withdrawn 3 months later but the violence has continued with people demanding full democracy and an inquiry into offices actions which they described as police brutality since the protests started some 4 and a half 1000 people have been arrested for unlawful assembly taking part in a riot and carrying a weapon former u.k. police officer peter kirk and believes the vast majority of the actions by the hong kong police were lawful as the city was being threatened. the boss annoying news that there is any use of force if it can be complained about when he's complained about his police brutality you say occasional instances of high use of force which maybe are excessive not sure of the ins and outs of phone call law but i suspect it's fairly similar to u.k. law in terms of a reasonable amount of force being used to quell riots and disperse protesters who are causing damage or threatening injury and so the vast majority of full speed

used by the police would be lawful would be reasonable but in most circumstances. in other news this hour a british university staff union has declared white people can decide to be black if they so wish in the latest inclusive or to drive to hit headlines. you say you has a long history of enabling members to self identify whether that is being black disabled l g b t plus or women you say you and your congress and further and higher education conferences policy and gender identity has been developed over many years. well this isn't the 1st time the idea of so-called trans racialism or racial fluidity has surfaced. when you change your race if you ask rachel dollars are the white woman who spent the past 7 years claiming she's a black woman she'd probably say yes like raised as a construct again as a fluid understanding ansley lennon has a reputation as a leading figure in british rock fare to the director was even awarded to

a grant reserved for people of color i just want to play with just a little white and i asked him specifically i said you know are you we go we are you we go we white or you biracial or you black or white he says i am biracial i said is that what is on your birth certificate he did not answer your genders are determined by your chromosomes race is a social construct not a matter of genetics judge do is simply taking that wisdom to its logical conclusion born a white male named adam we lurch i do know adenoviruses a filipino woman and i think it's very important that the 2 lived experiences are treated distinctly i am a transgender woman and i am not qualified to comment on race. how somebody identifies as primarily a matter for them and whether or not that is recognized by the legal system is an entirely different question i believe it's about lived experiences and it's

important in my view to troll a distinction between your live to experience and what the law and the state recognizes it's not for any other person to pass judgment on the lived experience all the other if however one wishes to access for example services provided for a specific group of people that could them become an object or matter where the state steps in. officials in denmark have temporarily imposed checks of border crossings into sweden the move was prompted by a spate of bombings and shootings around the capital copenhagen among them was the bombing of the tax agency in august. the danish justice system danish justice ministry claims the pep traces had traveled from sweet to evangelise success reports from the border. denmark has drawn a line in the bridge behind me they have put checks to stop and search anyone

coming from sweden after copenhagen has seen more than a dozen explosions in the city this year alone the danes blame it on rival gangs mostly from sweden and hoping that these checks will put an end to it the explosion at the tax agency and the double killing in her leave are examples of the serious crimes that can flow across the border from sweden we will not accept that to counter the threat of serious crimes by the crime we are now strengthening protection of the border with sweden by introducing temporary controls and strengthened police efforts in the area denmark and sweden are both e.q. and shag an area where members of the or is on bridge used to be a free passport bridge for nearly 60 years but not anymore for at least 6 months it is this bridge that the danish authorities believe perpetrators crossed into then more causing all the explosions.

but as bombings become a worrying trend in the usually safe country here in sweden criminal gangs are on the rise according to official statistics there have been $38.00 more explosions this year than 2018 but it's all movie explosions gun related crimes are fast becoming a concern to during the ninety's the average were 4 per year now nearly 40 and the public puts these incidents down to immigrants but a teligent chief says it is not correct to link newcomers to criminal organizations in sweden they do not there. a make a fist still counts off who says sweet is who is sex with an immigrant so in sweden they do not know this but we make these counts in denmark and we can see that a lot of those who are every day are sick in the 1st generation immigrants the

people who are arrested or from the street and who did this these attacks in copenhagen are also 2nd and 3rd generation immigrants and of course it would be normal to show that if there's a problem with the 2nd one 1st generation immigrants and that's also why we do this in denmark because we have to know. what the problem is before we can do anything about it from the famously soft approach that once worked well in sweden the government has gone to a 180 degrees by announcing a plan allowing police to have greater stop and search powers but also making it easier for them to search suspects houses and access their devices and all this with the backing of sweetest officials we welcome that denmark is taking action to fight crime in the orissa and region i have respect for the danish government strengthening border control you know that to keep criminals on a short leash the country of little mermaid bicycles and label had its fair share

of violence in the past in the ninety's this quiet country saw bombings and shootings by rival biker gangs but no checkpoints were introduced well whether you blame it on the migrant crisis or log borders in europe are becoming real again eventual slips us for r.t. . now you might have noticed a new feature we started today certain stories have a queue all code along side them in the bottom corner of the screen there and you can use that to get more information on the story so if you get a chance to give it a guy and that is your update for now i'm right on the law could not be back with more news new around 30 minutes time see them. good food descriptions sound up to tell using even for the owners so how to choose

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