speaks about the modern civilization of america. after the syrian army liberates a key terrorist stronghold in the province claims and counterclaims are exchanged in the un security council. blythe's of millions of civilians are now even greater risks to the escalation and it is not due to the operations of the syrian armed forces but the constant and deliberate provocations of the terrorists. who are going to wave goodbye. brags he gets his final rubber stamping from the european parliament as british m.e.p. spat out with the last curtain call. look exactly like a capital city and yet it's here in the village of peace on the outskirts of east jerusalem we visit an arab neighborhood behind a concrete security fire even east jerusalem touted by donald trump as

a possible future capital of a palestinian state. getting a welcome this is. russia has branded as unsubstantiated claims syrian forces have killed civilians the claims were made at the u.n. security council by the u.k. and us the past say the deaths occurred during an offensive on the northwestern province of idlib and it was launched more than a month ago to liberate the remaining terrorist stronghold from al qaeda linked fighters puts the blame on terrorists which it claims are using civilians as human shields and farming and humanitarian corridors we are appalled by the significant escalation and syrian regime and russian violence. 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 at 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 recaptured all of it live provinces largest and most strategic towns and no money to form a hotspot for them to government protests been held by rebels since 2012 moscow open humanitarian corridors for those seeking to leave the areas before the operation the u.s. insists all offensive should be stopped the result is broke as the of reports it seems washington has all the different standards for its own actions. the fall of the new month came as a shock to everyone 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 lip itself 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 then lost the islamists seemingly couldn't keep their fingers off the trigger for. 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 ayad taria 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. seen at all before in ghouta rebels caged the women and pensioners on the 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 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 want to the cease fire you would stop flooding rebel armories with weapons and advanced guided missiles but ok so what would america do if it was a to. x. during the season how would it fight terrorists who hide behind civilians in the state department preaches and voices his 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 in this kind of warfare what happened 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 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 and 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. a correspondent for arabic channel was seriously injured in a province on wednesday. officer bruni was hit by an explosion from

a shell abandoned by militants have been covering the aftermath of the syrian army's liberation of the area she sustained facial injuries and shrapnel wounds to her body. around the session in the european parliament to see niekerk men fall on british army piece for the final time of the lawmakers approved the brags that withdrawal agreement and set to quit the e.u. on friday evening setting in motion a year long transition period the leader of the briggs it party nigel farage had this parting dig at 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 for she is well loved and loathed in pretty much equal measure depending on who you speak to in the leader of the break the 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 there you want to burn our national flags or 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 slags 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 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 now a precondition is. but european and british businesses continue to compete on a level playing field. we will certainly not expose our companies to unfair competition or 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 any time soon got another thing coming it's going to be here for a little while yet to talk about. those outrage among palestinians after the u.s. president unveiled a peace plan which critics call heavily biased in favor of israel more than 40 protesters have been injured in clashes with israeli security forces in the west bank.

and according to the proposed plan palestine would be handed a capital in one of 3 arab neighborhoods on the outskirts of east jerusalem these are the every cease the north of the existing security barrier including kaffir to the eastern part of. this policy of his did the last of those i would just spoke to people there about trucks 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. our capital of palestine. or the people who are is just sort of start everybody think. you know it's. one of the village in the town and we believe 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 a singer 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 a shame and 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 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 policy a r t s. given took a very short break and then we hope to speak live to the mayor of abu dis to get his reaction to the deal of the century stay with us.

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worst locust invasion for decades hundreds of millions of them their way across kenya somalia and ethiopia the u.n. warning of the potential for famine exist on a fossil. 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. even if they destroy everything in their path including all farmers who want the

government to end fast and send planes to spray them but insecticide otherwise they will destroy everything. and i wouldn't. do it because it's their country that's what got us here they have desiccated everywhere here you cannot even eat outside going to 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 clog its 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. and you 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 so on the chest pains see all the reasons and biological reasons and so on and then went on a 1000000 miles that risk. that was one of the authors of the new study into

preventing youth radicalization which calls for a fundamentally different approach report says positive psychology supporting vulnerable young people is far more effective than managing them as risks ones 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 to 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 or the report's authors again explains why that's the wrong approach. but with the positive psychology or whatever you call it is that sas stopped looking at the pass as a potential risk because of their psychological or biological or source of logical implications look at them s. potential talent what is that 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 in schools and what we do you diversity's but we also piloted in actually youth offending is just so we worked with offenders with young often 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. ok i said that we were hoping to speak to the marrow of this and i do believe we have just managed to get him on the line. hello if you can hear me ok this is the lobby in this studio thank you for coming on. your plan thank your dick me with your 1st of all what's your reaction to this being named as

a possible a potential future capital for palestine. with the dole the limb is the capital of bullets done and i would this is. a suburb of drawers of them we will not be brought. from those to the city we will always be a barbed of doors on them. you are located behind the security barrier just tell us a bit more what is your life like behind the barrier. it is one of the hard. for us for the new job. it used to be a bar. and the wall is between you and

between. them and they're just that idjit. of doubles of them it's hard for us it's hard for the new do that it is. to live with journalism. just want to. listen. to gerry who was the architect of this suppose it peace plan let's just say what he had to say if they want to get to a conclusion they have to like people who are ready for a state and they're proving through their reaction that they're not ready to have a state 5000000 palestinians who are really trapped because of bad leadership if they if they screw up this opportunity which again they have a perfect track record of missing opportunities if they screw this up i think that they will have a very hard time looking the international community in the face saying they're victims saying they have rights this is a great deal for them so i quit jared cushion and came up with this plan

essentially saying that if palestinians don't accept his idea that they are not ready to have their own state how does that make you feel hearing that. both because of his nor all of the war. the palestinian they built some country from the economy and for what it takes. and it's except for the philistines to come belled their own country except build in some other country and. there's devil is in the end is that people didn't know palestrina all the war has the good an economy and they've built some countries they've built some countries and put a fear for the palestinians to come to come to build their new country except build in the other country. is there anything in this deal that you think we could

work with that that you could then build on to make your own suggestions and use it in a future deal. or care that. need fair . and honest blend but in this there is this the need the doors there's no need that are. on this and there is neither. fear for this bla. and finally is donald trump being genuine when he says that jerusalem will be the capital of israel and then in the same breath says that palestine will get somewhere on the outskirts of east jerusalem he's already said that israel gets an undivided jerusalem. mr that is the president of

the not to disturb it. yeah he does in the prison the palestinian and his land is only for nearly action. to the white house for the new terror. he didn't nor palestine he didn't know anything he does come with this a bland for to really act to the office for the new 4 year he must take care for himself and. for the for the united is there but he didn't to present the palestinian the wall and the palestinians and. i need to me one warrant clear we are only as a palestinian we are asking for. asking for the treated

fairly and humanity. treated fair and humanity. really appreciate you coming out international my guess is akhmed the marrow of just one of the locations touted as a potential capital for a palestinian state and that deal of the century many thanks. ok thank you. ok we said trying to bring in i guess we did hope it was worth the wait thanks for staying with r.t. updates. rather financial survival. with customers go buy yourself. well reduce and lower. that's undercutting but what's good for the market is not

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we have a top childer day so let's dive right in. the federal reserve concluded it's a balance the meeting wednesday and announced nothing's change rates will remain between 1.5 to 1.75 percent where it has been since a lot of 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. 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 exceed.