is ations fly back and forth at the un security council is the syrian army successfully liberate sake a terrorist stronghold in the province. lives of millions of civilians are now even greater risks. is not due to the operations of the syrian armed forces but the constant and deliberate provocations of the terrorists. european parliament gives final approval for briggs it is pretty. rowdy for well in the last ever appearance. look exactly like a capital city and yet it's here that unifil each piece on the outskirts of east jerusalem we visit an arab neighborhood behind

a concrete security barrier in east jerusalem has been touted by donald trump as being the future capital of the palestinian state. either thanks for joining us this is alt. russia's branded as unsubstantiated claims syria forces have killed civilians the claims were made at the u.n. security council by the u.k. and us the per say the deaths occurred during an offensive on the northwestern province of it was loads more than a month ago to liberate the remaining terrorist stronghold from al qaeda linked fighters moscow puts the blame on terrorists which he claims are using civilians as human shields and firing at humanitarian corridors. we are appalled by the significant escalation in syrian regime and russian violence in libya but it should be 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 their offensive 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 comes as the syrian army recaptured one of italy provinces largest most to teach in towns new money the former hot spot for antigovernment protests have been held by rebels since 2012 moscow has opened humanitarian corridors for those seeking to leave the areas prior to the operation the u.s. insists that the offensive should be stopped is not against fear of reports it seems washington is rather different standards for its own actions. the fall of newman came as a shock to everyone it was a cradle of the revolution later 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 self had been a battleground for the past month. but then. in december the syrian military set off an operation taking dozens and dozens of towns and villages in mia weeks the promise he kicked in russia and turkey mediated a ceasefire which then lost the islamists seemingly couldn't keep their fingers off the trigger. about an ellipse and the reason for the escalation is the reason is the militants control totally or nearly totally by chop out all nusra and i at ariel sharon 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 are seen at all before in ghouta rebels caged the women and pensioners on roofs to prevent 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 recent headlines it's the usual stuff assad is guilty of every scene 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 a. x. during the cease fire how would it fight terrorists who hide behind civilians in the state department preaches and voices its concern about the 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 raca that was wiped off the map by us as strikes they leveled mosul just like they obliterated raca in all tens 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 what 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 won't 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 rise 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 iraq the american and british bombers targeted the jihad the islamic state opponents but these people were intermingled with the civilians they had base. in 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 or 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. an r.c. arabic correspondent was seriously injured in islam province on wednesday. he was hit by an explosion from

a shell abandoned by militants the ripples of this covering the aftermath of the syrian army's liberation of the area she sustained facial injuries and shrapnel wounds to her body. mocking farewells resound in the european parliament in british army peace final of a session on wednesday as lawmakers approved their withdrawal the dream and britain set to quit the year last on friday evening setting in motion a year long transition period the leader of the briggs it party nigel farage had this parting dig to make at brussels. so this is a 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 for she is loved and loathed in pretty much the whole measure depending on how i speak to you in the leader of the break that party wasn't going to let his last chance to address the european parliament go without

making a bit of a scene in the chamber or 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 but 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 parliament we heard from those live on the line 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 that 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 quotas 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 under fair competition for those talks on the trade deal between the u.k. and the e.u. post breaks 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 alignment 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 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 more than 40 protestors have been injured in clashes with israeli security forces in the west bank. oh no.

i. know under the deal israel would get ultimate control of the palestinian security and most of its resources in jerusalem would be israel's undivided capital the palestinian ambassador to the u.n. says the proposal attempts to destroy the national rights of his people and is doomed to fail. netanyahu plan which is an attempt to destroy the national rights of the palestinian people will fail and it will fail by the unity and steadfastness of the palestinian people and the defense of the international community not that i said before peace or justice it is

a recipe for the destruction of the national rights of the palestinian people. this is a cramped arab neighborhood on the outskirts of. dispersal you talk to residents there about them from this proposal. this doesn't look exactly like a capital city and yet it's hero in the village of decent the outskirts of east jerusalem that the american president once 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. or 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. be says we're here here. and. he has not earned it for us he doesn't give us from us most of our lands but i think there must be for the. initiation and the of the people 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. here and there people here so want be appraising here and be upset that key to the city of abu dis but when inhabitants here themselves are 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 d s or tom's plan also demands palestinians dismiss all pending actions before the international criminal court as it moves ahead with the probe into alleged war crimes against palestinians rights groups that we spoke to voiced concern over the details of the u.s. president's deal. you know vocals there because that has been activated and what we're seeing with this bill is that is going to enable. and even as they do actually act it's a land school and next morning which is biased getting an editorial and. thousands of palestinians i think say show is. this is all about

a show of the russian aloft and i would be american administration to say that's ok 'd you go ahead with it and that's that's the measure goes out of this land is completely one sided where is the biased i mean voice what it's about is going to start where. this is being built without going to that it was cited it might have obesity that any government that was i guess up to try this instead of. the way that it is on a day to day basis we see the guy in the office going to nation and out of an equality and injustice that they have been through and historically and they are wrong on a day to day basis but the united states already declared war on the international criminal court over its investigation to get a state it's an examination of the situation in palestine it's put all these positions you to policy say the 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 israelis and an exception the

reality here is the united states national criminal court 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 been the same. and human netanyahu is holding talks only palestinian peace plan with lemon and then moscow with the details all thoughts after the break. we don't want to. be with an axis and the monument we want the kind of urban streets filled. with the theater with was misplaced as this conference

centers maybe i love going to conferences and debates and such events like the battle of ideas at the barbican for instance these are the kind of things we would be striving on gives as a component making connection with people to set up projects. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy. let it be an arms race. period dramatic. only really. i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk.

about this is our 2 international binyamin netanyahu has met with vladimir putin in moscow flying straight from washington where israel's prime minister hopes to unveil the palestinian peace plan with donald trump the talks over that deal there are reports that he will fly back with a israeli woman who was sentenced to 7 years in jail for smuggling drugs. has the latest netanyahu flew straight from washington to moscow after talks with donald trump about his so-called plan for peace in the middle east we also go. word that putin and netanyahu are discussing that very plan right now which calls for the demilitarization of the palestinian authority and giving israel exclusive ultimate rights over the airspace and borders of palestine all of which has outraged palestinians who took to the streets in protest after that plan was unveiled

a couple days ago now we also heard that netanyahu gave putin of a big thank you for his presidential pardon of israeli national harsh she was convicted of drug possession and sentenced to 7 and a half years in prison back in october and putin received a personal plea for her freedom from the israeli prime minister and even met with it's a car's mother who was clearly devastated by the imprisonment of her daughter but in the end putin sympathy saw it's a car released and reunited with her family and he sent them all the his best wishes moving forward now netanyahu and putin have long enjoyed a good relationship in the interest israeli prime minister who's visited russia on diplomatic business 16 times now reiterated that at today's meeting but last time he and president putin met was actually in jerusalem last week it was at the opening ceremony of a monument to the victims of the leningrad blockade and that they also took part in

the international remember forum for the victims of the holocaust which took place on the 75th anniversary of the liberation of auschwitz concentration camp by soviet forces so this meeting is really just a continuation of the long held good relationship between russia and israel. as the will focus is on the coronavirus east and africa is suffering its worst locust invasion in decades hundreds of millions of the bugs have swept their way across kenya somalia and ethiopia the u.n. warning of the threat of devastating hunger for people in the region he's used on of 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. and. the way it looks like. they have desiccated everywhere here you cannot even eat outside 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 bromine around ravaging people's food supplies for some time yet there is no limited impact on last season's crops the 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 locus destruction but were never used perhaps now is the time. and your report part funded by the u.k. government itself is scathing about its tough new crackdown on offenders i want

criminals to literally feel terror at the thought of committing offenses it's madness to conceive doing the same thing in expecting different results and what we have been doing traditionally we look at and friend or somebody who is at risk and we say psychologists because of psychological reasons or sociologist pays. reasons and biological reasons and so on and then which on a 1000000 mice that risk. that was one of the authors of the new study into preventing youth radicalization which calls for a fundamentally different approach the report says positive psychology supporting vulnerable young people is far more effective than managing them as risks it wants equal opportunities for youth in education and the job market while encouraging them to participate in society but the proposals are in stark contrast to the government's punishing approach earlier this month the u.k. government group tough new crackdowns including closer monitoring of offenders together with a mandatory minimum prison sentence for terrorist offenders of 14 years as well as

doubling the number of counter-terrorism probation officers one of the report's authors here again explains why that is the wrong approach. to positive psychology or whatever you call it is that is sas stop looking at the pass as a potential risk because of their psychological or biological or source of logical implications but look at them s. potential talent what is the interest that they have as a young person and support that interest and why doing so you would get an increased resilience when it comes to that risk it's not about replacing is not about stopping this is about prevention is about what we do schools and what we do universities but we also piloted in actually youth offending institutions so we worked with offenders with young offenders and when we worked with them to see what of interest and it was it hard was it football was it and then support that that talent that. what they wanted to do we saw

a completely different change in their approach. and i wrap things up for this news hour appreciate you staying without saying joe me for more tough now. during the great depression which i'm old enough to remember that it was and most of my family were unemployed working class and it wasn't it was bed you know much worse objective listen today but there was an expectation of the things were going to get better. there was a real sense of hopefulness there isn't today today's america where shape by the 10 principles of concentration of wealth and power. reduced democracy at tax so low down to engineer elections manufacture consent and other principles

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