accusations fly back and forth at the un security council as the syrian army successfully liberate a key terrorist stronghold in it live province lives of millions of civilians are now even greater risks years collation and needless is not due to the operations of the syrian armed forces but the constant and deliberate provocations of the terrorists. don't i'm still trying to get away from. here a peon parliament gives final approval for breakfast as british i mean staging a rowdy farewell and their last ever appear. look exactly like a capital city and you just hear that in the future of peace on the outskirts of east jerusalem we visit an arab neighborhood crammed behind

a concrete security barrier in east jerusalem held by donald trump as the future capital of a palestinian state. you're watching are to international bring you your live news update from our studio here in moscow welcome to the program. unsubstantiated accusations that's how russia has branded u.k. and u.s. jobs at the u.n. security council on syria they cues damascus and its allies of killing civilians in an offensive on the northwestern province of italy it was launched more than a month ago to liberate the remaining terrorist stronghold from al qaeda linked fighters also points out that the terrorists using civilians as human shields and firing at humanitarian corridors are the ones to blame. we are ripoffs by the significant escalation in syrian regime and russian violence in the escalation and

it is not due to the operations of the syrian armed forces but the constant and deliberate provocations of the terrorists the lives of millions of civilians are now even greater risks as the combined forces of the assad regime russia the iranian regime and has escalated. the problem of can't be resolved as long as the terrorists that have been recognized as such by the security council continue to rain there it comes as the syrian army recaptures one of the provinces largest and most strategic towns or out on them on a former hotspot for anti-government protests has been held by rebels since 2012 moscow has opened humanitarian corridors for the 2nd to leave the area before the operation the u.s. insists that the offensive should be stopped but as mark got it reports it seems that washington has rather different standards for its own actions. the fall of my new month came as a shock to everyone it was

a cradle of the revolution late to the jihad against asaad rebels 2nd largest remaining city and they gave it up without a fight a fight for the city that is it but cells had been a battleground for the past month. in december the syrian military set off an operation taking dozens and dozens of towns and villages in me a week's diplomacy kicked in russia and turkey mediated a ceasefire which didn't last the islamists seemingly couldn't keep their fingers off the trigger. about islam and the reason for the escalation is the reason is the militants control to. or nearly totally by chuck hagel nusrat and i at tarin al sham which al nusra has turned into and uses as

a cover constantly bring the cease fire with the cease fire arrangements create special corridors for noncombatants so they can leave the combat zones by the way the terrorists keep striking those corridors hindering the departure of peaceful civilians trying to retain them as human shields. we've seen it all before in ghouta rebels caged the women and pensioners on roofs to prevent s. strikes i was in aleppo at the end when those same rebels held hostage 200000 civilians refusing to allow a single person human shield to leave the city and you wouldn't even know reading we sent headlines it's the usual stuff as that is guilty of every sin and every hurt in syria ruthless actions by russia the iranian regime hizbollah and the assad regime are directly preventing the establishment of a ceasefire in northern syria we condemn these barbaric attacks and call for an

immediate cease fire one would think if you really wanted the ceasefire you'd stop flooding rebel armories with weapons and advanced guided missiles but ok so what would america do if it was attacks during the cease fire how would it fight terrorists who hide behind civilians in the state department preaches and voices its concern about the alleged suffering of civilians only when the terrorists suffer a crushing defeat and syrian citizens of finally liberated the state department also published similar hypocritical tweets when syrian cities that are now rebuilding themselves were liberated unlike rocca that was wiped off the map by u.s. airstrikes they leveled mosul just like they obliterated raca in all 10. of thousands of innocents died i remember them back then broken civilians running out of the city mosul every day horrified that isis sent us jets in equal measure but

apparently when america leveled cities it's the right thing to do we're not perfect guys we can make a mistake and this kind of warfare will happen but we are the good guys and munitions people on a battlefield know the difference isis knows that they can use human shields to avoid being hit it's their air defense system the enemy is using a tactic that actually has them become part of the target that is on them not on us not entirely sure the dead would agree those pulver arise by coalition bombs or the survivors who are still years later cleaning up the rubble surprised the pentagon hasn't blamed them too for forcing america to use so many bombs it's clear the cases in mosul in iraq are the american and british bombers targeted the jihad the islamic state opponents but these people were intermingled with the

civilians they had bass. and buildings which also house civilians were next to them it's a case of burying their head in the sand and not wanting to admit that both turkey of russia have helped at least to limit the human cost at least to many many hundreds of thousands of people i mean it is. i think part of the underlying dilemma of the western states that they committed themselves so wholeheartedly to the fall of a sad that they turned a blind eye to who was fighting against him and so they have in the end said anybody who's against it is better than a lot of the double standards but it's also turning a blind eye to these groups who have after all spawned threats to western europe because some of the supporters have carried out radical terrorist attacks in western europe to. reenroll an r.t. arabic correspondent was seriously injured in the igloo province on wednesday morning you may find the following images disturbing. of the.

burning it was hit by an explosion from a shell abandoned by militants their partner was covering the aftermath of the syrian army's liberation of the area to use the same facial injuries and trouble rooms to the body. marking farewells resulted in the european parliament and british i mean final ever session on wednesday as lawmakers approved the withdrawal agreement britain set to quit the e.u. at last on friday evening setting in motion a long year long transition period leader of the brics it party nigel farage had this parting dig brussels. so this is it the final chapter at the end of the road a 47 year political experiment we use our europe we just hate the european union it's as simple as that nigel ferraro she is a lives in lower than pretty much the whole measure depending on how i speak to you

in the leader of the breaks apart and i wasn't going to let his last chance to address the european parliament go without making a bit of a scene in the chamber there you want to burn our national flags we're going to wave goodbye i will look forward in the future to working with you please sit down resume your seats put your flags away you're leaving and take them with you if you are leaving now and i know the issue with the flags comes after just last week david so i saw you who's the president of the european parliament said that flags fell foul of current rules that prohibit ban is being shown in the chamber as you might imagine mr for us a lot to say about that he said it just showed how the european parliament in brussels institutions was trampling over the rights of member states well away from the sideshow in brussels on wednesday there was some serious business being

done in fact the deal that will see the door for certainly happen was ratifying kyoto and parliament we heard from the lion the european commission president who said that brussels was putting a very good deal as far as they were concerned on the table for the u.k. to sign but this in amongst all of the goodies they were offering the united kingdom that they were demanding regulatory alignment when it came to things like workers' rights like environmental concerns and social protections we are considering a free trade agreement with 0 tariffs and 0 cultus this would be unique no other free trade agreement offers such an access to our single market. but the precondition is that european and british businesses continue to compete on a level playing field. we will certainly not expose our companies to unfair competition for those talks on the trade deal between the u.k. and the e.u.

sprague's that get underway on the 3rd of march it may well put the united kingdom in a bit of a rock and a hard place situation between the european union on one side and the united states on the other london of course once lucrative trade deals with both however that may fall foul of those words regulatory alignments that the european union are insisting upon because if the u.k. agrees to regulatory alignment with the european union they may not get the trade deal that they hope to be able to get with the united states they certainly are leaving on the 31st but they're leaving into this transition period if you think briggs it's going away any time soon got another thing coming it's going to be here for a little while yet to talk about. there's outrage among palestinians after the u.s. president unveiled a peace plan which critics call heavily biased in favor of israel where than 40

protesters have been injured in clashes with israeli security forces and the west bank. no no. under the deal israel would get ultimate control over palestinian security and most of its resources under islam would be israel's undivided capital the palestinian ambassador to the un says the proposal attempts to destroy the national rights of his people and is doomed to fail. and that. which is an attempt to destroy the national of the palestinian people. and it will

fail by the unity and steadfastness over the palestinian people and the defense of the international community not that i said before the peace or justice it is not a recipe for the destruction of the national prize of the palestinian people palestine would get a capital and a cramped arab neighborhood on the outskirts of east jerusalem artist paul sierra talk to residents there about terms proposal. this doesn't look exactly like a capital city and yet its hero in the village of decent the outskirts of east jerusalem that the american president wants the future capital of a palestinian state to be now not only has the issue divided israelis and palestinians but as you can see by the security barrier it's also divided palestinians from palestinians so on this side you have some of east jerusalem on the other side you have the rest of it and it's anyone's guess how a city like this well if a function as a capital. structure to have b.o.'s our capital of palestine.

or the people who are is just. a start everybody think it's. you know it's. one of the village in the town and we believe his 07 is a capital this is the parliament building here in abu dis now it's closed and it doesn't look like much but this is where presumably a future parliament will function from when trump says that this is a win win situation for both palestinians and israelis well it seems he's being cynical at best about acing and be able to want to make peace but they have to give us what they give israel you know the fear he doesn't give anything to. 0 here. and. he has no demand for us he doesn't give us from us most of our lands but i think

there must be for the. machine and people as they have to hear our voice. i think this will lead everybody to the good to think and to conflict together to say what we want to hear and the people here so want be uprising here don't be upset that key to the city of abu dis but when inhabitants hear themselves a pessimistic as to the promise that it unlocks. it's hard to understand why president trump is putting so much faith in it. r.t. . we're joined live now by omar sheikh care israel and palestine director at human rights watch that what humanitarian concerns would trump a proposal raised this plan is basically meant to consolidate the status quo and that's the status quo of serious rights abuse israel would remain in the occupying power in full control of the west making the gaza strip so all the sorts of issues

we see now restricted free movement demolitions of palestinian homes discriminatory access to water and electricity that keeps for example the gaza strip perpetually on the brink of of despair and disaster all of those realities will continue this is not a serious plan this is a farce it's a sideshow that's meant to consolidate and entrenched the one state reality that exists on the ground today we've heard from palestine's envoy to the u.n. that he says that this would be a plan paving the way for israel to steal more land do you agree with that. israel's been stealing palestinian land and you know for decades now since 967 you know you have one of the main architects of this plan jason said he's never found occasion to criticize the israeli government a plan that's built on that premise clearly will do nothing to stop the ongoing you

know war crime which is settlements and that in their in their continued expansion in fact just the opposite this plan would seek to make the settlements part of israel which of course raises very serious rights issues and violations of international law so it not only would allow you to further allow israel to steal land but it would say that that's that land that's been stolen is officially part of the state of israel of course you know this is not only contrary to our national law but it's clear that it's contrary to the international consensus regarding this area being occupied territory that's not a controversial point it's basic international law and at the same time transplant demands palestinians dismissed all pending actions before the international criminal court what's your reaction to that and what does that mean for palestinians the international crew the united states already declared war on the international criminal court over its investigation to afghanistan its examination situation in palestine its put all these conditions you know to palestinian

statehood negotiations that are clearly meant as has all their actions over the past 3 years meant to produce a palestinian rejection that would pave the way for israeli antics ation the reality here is the united states national committee for it plays a critical role quite literally as a court of last resort in a case like israel palestine where there has been impunity where israel has not held virtually anyone of significance to account for serious human rights abuses over decades and the policies have done the same the international court was created precisely for. he says like this but it is a fact that the national committee or un has shown a willingness to tackle difficult cases like that that leads united states to want to in effect sanction and put the court out of business and this has what the courts needed. marcia care of human rights watch thank you so much for your time

and your comments thanks for having me. more global news after this short break. we don't want to tell the m.p. with an axe and the monument we want the kind of urban streets filled with events the theater with this myspace has come from some to us maybe i love going to come close as an debates of such events like the battle of ideas at the end of the bobby can for instance these are the kind of things will it be striving on gives us that impala making connections with other people to set up projects. you know world a big part of the new lot and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig

deeper to hit the stories that made stream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smart we need to stop slamming the door on the back and shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now for watching closely for watching the hawks. welcome back israel's prime minister is flying straight to me at bottom or putin and moscow after unveiling the palestinian peace plan with all the trump in washington d.c. and addition to talks over the proposal there are reports he will fly back with a pardon israeli woman sentenced to 7 years jail for drug smuggling for more details let's go live now to donald quarter what can we be expecting from this meeting. well jackie netanyahu has visited russia on diplomatic business quite

a lot in the past actually 16 times to be exact and the last time he and president putin saw each other was in jerusalem just last week it was at the opening ceremony of a monument to the victims of the leningrad blockade and they also took part in an international remembrance forum for the victims of the holocaust which also took place on the 75th anniversary of the liberation of auschwitz concentration camp by soviet forces now on the list of discussion topics for this meeting is trump's plan for peace in the middle east which he proposed just a couple days ago it calls for the demilitarization of the palestinian authority and giving israel basically exclusive rights over palestine's borders and the country's airspace all of which of course outraged palestinians who took to the streets in protest shortly after the plan was unveiled but like you said it's also important to mention that in the run up to this meeting president putin gave

a presidential pardon to israeli national. who was convicted of drug possession and sentenced to 7 and a half years in prison just last october but today she took her 1st breath of freedom in several months it came after putin received personal pleas from the israeli prime minister for her freedom and he even met with the mother of nama issachar who is clearly devastated by the loss of her daughter so the meeting hasn't even begun yet and we've already seen the real the reunification of a family so it should be interesting to see what developments await us in just about the next hour when they do meet netanyahu and putin. are teased on the quarter saying across those meetings for us thank you. as the world focuses on the corona virus outbreak eastern africa is suffering its worst locusts invasion and decades hundreds of millions of the bugs have swept across kenya somalia and

ethiopia with the u.n. a warning of a threat of devastating hunger for people in the region are just on that has the story. less than a month into 2020 and there's already been a whole year's worth of doomsday panic from fears of world war 3 to the coronavirus and now a biblical one africa is suffering from one of the worst locust outbreaks in the continent's history. namely destroy everything in their path including our farm who want the government to act fast and some planes to spray them with incense the side otherwise they will

destroy everything on. the way it looks like. that's about it as they have desiccated everywhere here you cannot even eat outside never do you have to lock yourself in the house. for the locals the infestation means much more than just having to stay indoors they've eaten everything farmers complain brought to the brink of desperation with their plantations left barren people facing famine by the veracious swarms of insects swarms larger than cities.

one airline had to turn back out of fear as the bugs would claw gets engines but as apocalyptic as it already sounds experts fear that if not contained now the situation will get much worse locusts breeding season starts only in march so the swarms will be roaming around ravaging people's food supplies for some time yet there is no limited impact on last season's crops coming season is due to be planted around march or april and this will cause side with a new generation of swarms so that the potential to impact of food security and livelihoods in the horn of africa is tremendous kenya has started spraying the swarms with pesticides

a desperate measure as it's fear the chemicals could poison what little of the crops remains in the past giant nets flame throwers and even lasers were proposed as weapons of mass locust destruction but were never used perhaps now is the time. that's a news wrap up for now but i'll be back at the top of the hour thanks for tuning it . but politicians do something. to put themselves on the line. to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president injury. or some want to be rich. but you going to be cross it's like the for freedom or can't be good. i'm interested always in the waters of our. best city.

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a look at how the virus has slammed markets so far and what could still be on the way we have a partial today so let's dive right into. the federal reserve concluded its epilepsy meeting wednesday and announced nothing's change rates will remain between 1.5 to 1.75 percent where it has been since the latter part of last year surprise surprise as a fed continues to try to assure the markets that they've had found a stable rate and that rates should remain unchanged in 2020 that is until they eat their words again and are forced to lower them again as a result of the virus outbreak threatens to current growth projections money markets are currently predicting $125.00 bit rate cut this year and a small chance of a 2nd one in 2020 as such the focus of the meeting centered around 5 topics the outlook for the policy rates persistently low inflation t. bill purchases aka q e financial stability risk and the implications for global markets the us data continues to be a mixed bag with january's consumer confidence exceeding expectations and at the

highest level since august however december capital goods or data shipments and core cap ex orders declined month over month to equities market is rallying to all time highs but the health of the companies as poor as earnings growth continues to decline year over year analysts speculate that this market melt up is the result of the fed pumping in 60000000000 die. a month into the market so what will happen when this all comes to an end polities expected to decide how much longer it will continue its current practice of steady liquidity injections and how to scale that unsustainable program back so low in place that crutch well the fed officials have been in talks to cap yields on short to intermediate term securities to fight the next downturn this was last used during and after world war 2 in order to help finance more spending and recovery with the benchmark interest stays so low and the fed running out of road to cut further they're now looking for more creative options to expand its toolkit and now here to help us break down the media and what

should be on the horizon let's welcome ron paul former you.