it was. it. was an. exception like a tropical city and yet it's here in the village of the outskirts of east jerusalem we visit an arab neighborhood crammed behind a concrete for the cure is a barrier in east jerusalem touted by donald trump as the future capital of the palestinian state. capital to begin to. break that gets its final rubber stamping from the european parliament as british army pays out with their last cuts and call. up the syrian army liberate the key terrorist stronghold in it live probably the claims and counterclaims are exchanged in the un security council. of millions of civilians are now even greater risks to the escalation in the group is not due to the

operations of the syrian armed forces but the constant and deliberate provocations of the terrorists. a very warm welcome to you you're watching r.t. international with me because. 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 protests have been injured in clashes with israeli security forces in the west bank .

amid the outrage that has long and goes the streets off the west bank at all times senior middle east advisor and son in law jared commission has pulled scorn on the ability of the palestinians to run their own state if they want to get to a conclusion they have to like people who are ready for state and they're proving through their reaction that they're not ready to have a state you have 5000000 palestinians who are really trapped because of bad leadership if the 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 now according to the proposed plan palestine would be handed a capital in one of 3 arab neighborhoods on the outskirts of east jerusalem these on the areas east and north of the existing security barrier including on the eastern part of. this policy of visited the last of these days and spoke to people

that about transfer poser. 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. or capital of palestine. or the people who are is just sort of start everybody think it's. you know it's. one of the village in the town and we really have a 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 one around for us he doesn't give us from us most of our legs but i think there must. be a sharon 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 hear so won't be uprising here don't be upset that key to the city of abu dis but when inhabitants hear 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. abilities. earlier we spoke to the map of abu dis himself akhmed abu hillel he says donald trump would do better trying to take care of his own country. with the. capital of palestine and this is considered as a suburb of drawers of them we will not be brought. from the historic city and we will always be a bar of the doors of them mr that is the president of the united the state. yeah he does in brazil and the palestinian and his if it's only for the live action to the to the white house for the

new terror. yeah he didn't nor palestine that he didn't know anything he does come with this a blow for to really act to the whole 1st for the new york for here he busted care for him and. for the authority and noted but he didn't represent the palestinian people and the palestinian steer. around the session in the european parliament has seen a cousin fall on british and he pays for the final time after lawmakers approved the brags that withdrawal agreement but instead to quit the e.u. on friday evening setting in motion a year long transition period the leader of the exit party for raj 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 for europe we just hate the european

union it's as simple as that nigel for she is well loved and loathed in pretty much the whole measure depending on how you speak to you 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 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 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 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 unfair competition for those talks on a 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 another thing coming it's going to be here for a little while yet to talk about well earlier we spoke to a soon to be ex m.e.p.a.

from the bragg state party who's been in the press and will have to go its own way whether brussels likes it or not. it's almost like when there's a divorce and one the divorce sees just will not accept that it's over that they have a person's going on and that they're going to create a new life for themselves and they're trying to hang on to that marriage and the trying to control what the spouse spends and where they live and all these over things no this is a real divorce we go in our own way there was going to be divergence the u.k. is going to go in one direction the e.u. will continue in the direction it's going in because it will not lend its lessons now what can britain do about it our prime minister boris johnson misspeak. must maintain and hold the promises he made in the general election in december and when he comes to it if the e.u. offered itself horrible deal because they want to maintain control over he must walk away and say even though the we're going to do

a deal with america we're going to do a deal with japan we're going to do a deal with china sells no deal with the e.u. we'll have to buy japanese cars and american cars instead of being w.'s i don't think that they're going to like. the u.s. has warned the u.k. has been put at risk of london's decision to greenlight the involvement of the chinese tech giant huawei and the building of britain's new 5 g. network and had a meeting with the prime minister barak's johnson washington's top top diplomat much pompei 01 that intelligence sharing between allies could also be compromised. the chinese communist party presents the central threat of our time our view is fundamentally this when you have a chinese state sponsored company deeply tied to the chinese communist party to permit the private information of your citizens or this national security information never said assistant transit a network that they chinese communist party has the legal mandate going about this with the united kingdom for so long. trying to put as much pressure on the u.k.

as possible to reverse the decision that they announced earlier this week to allow the chinese tech giants who i way to have access to and to help develop the u.k.'s incoming 5 g. network now it's important to note that access for y. way will be limited to only 35 percent of the of the network if you will and even that is only limited to non couper non-critical parts of the network so for example why we won't be getting access to critical parts of the infrastructure like military bases and so on but even so the us still trying to put pressure on claiming that y. way represents a security risk although the u.k.'s foreign secretary dominic robb was adamant that the u.k. government have handled this properly have a targeted approach and protects our security protects our relationship with our closest intelligence allies 5 eyes technology changes rapidly i mean we talk about

5 g. it's going to be here for a period what is the greater challenge for us is and as the own growing technological innovations happen in evolution happens is that we think a bit more smartly in strategically the u.k. but also i think with our 5 eyes friends in particular the us about how we build up a stronger diversification of players in this space particularly around tech companies that feed into our telecom systems so mr rob saying that the u.k. really will have things on the. no but there have been fears that and other u.s. officials would be looking to restrict the amount of intelligence that they share with the u.k. because according to the u.s. would never allow critical intelligence to go across networks that they don't have trust and confidence in now with that being said the u.k. again insisting that the special relationship between the 2 countries is strong and

of course this is all against the backdrop of rexx it u.k. believes the more evening and they will be looking to secure a trade deal with the u.s. as well as of course try to keep good ties with china so how they manage this particular fall outs and how they face off from this pressure with my pump could the fire not feature relationship. it's a question of severity this is something that often people say they tend to have identity politics where they name a person and that's the bad guy i think we need to be a bit more rational in my humble opinion because you can just have one incident on an aircraft or on a city or on a power plant that will shut down half the country or a medical service with ransomware it's not a matter of whether one country is better than another it's the nature of the threats and whether china has the best advance. weaponry the us have to have their

own weaponry all the countries are developing these iran and north korea i can go on and so the question is more by agree how much of this is industrialized nation hood. using this kind of technology to inflict damage and surveillance and intellectual property theft of other countries so china is probably a big player oversleep it's not by any means the only threat to. russia ground eventually unsubstantiated claims by the u.k. and us that syrian forces have. civilians during that eva offensive. coming up after this short break. you know world of big. lot and conspiracies it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell. me to be

smart we need to stop slamming the door. 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 watching the hawks. seem wrong. to me. yet to stamp out disdain because that's ok and in detroit equals betrayal. when so many worlds apart we choose to look for common ground.

it. welcome back russia's branded as unsubstantiated claims syrian forces have killed civilians the claims are made at the un security council by the u.k. and us the pair say the deaths occurred during an offensive on the north western province of idlib it was launched more than a month ago to liberate the remaining terrorist strongholds from al qaeda linked fighters mosco puts the blame on terrorists which it claims are using civilians as human shields and firing at humanitarian corridors. we are ripoffs but the significant escalation and 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 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 it comes as the syrian army recaptured one of the provinces largest and most strategic towns on the lawn they form a hotspot for anti-government protests had been held by rebels since 2012 mosco had opened humanitarian corridor also for those seeking to leave the areas before the operation the u.s. insists all offensives should be stopped but just war against every pause it seems that washington has rather different standards for its own actions. the fall of newman him was 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 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 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. about elin and the reason for the escalation the reason is the militants control totally or nearly totally by chop out all nusra and i at tarin are sharm 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 want to the cease fire you 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 happens but we are the good guys and munition people on a battlefield know the difference is 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 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 took

here to 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. ask a winning film director oliver stone claims that squandering money on foreign military campaigns has become something of a hobby for the united states he was speaking to former ecuadorian president rafael correia host on our sister channel r.t. spanish you'll be able to watch the full interview on our web site has a preview for you now. with that we're going to go strongly criticized for your

work let's delve deeper into why that is firstly tell us how your military experience in vietnam changed your views and your life as a home well i think a turning point for me. was when i went to vietnam and i saw the american army in vietnam fighting a war it was like moving a whole city into a country like moving huge amounts of equipment which we never brought back to the united states which we just disposed of and much of it went to the so-called enemy the north vietnamese a waste of money huge waste of money and i i say that because that is an american hobby a system that week because we become spoiled dick cheney you still think saying that we have to fight in afghanistan and iraq not to pull out and now syria he's added syria this is the wish list of these i would call them the open servitors but

they're warmongers in the old fashioned way of talking within a mood so. you spend a lot of time interrogates you know u.s. history you're a critic of the u.s. national security system you're considered to be against the system and this causes you problems within the united states. yes there is no party in the united states there's no democratic voice except 3rd parties that are small that say why are we fighting wars i don't hear it from any of the major candidates except one or 2 on the democratic side to but they don't have a chance of winning in other words hillary clinton and her group and joe biden are just as pro-war as any republican dick cheney they just do it in a different way maybe it shows you how locked up america is how right so far to the right as america gone that hillary clinton is recognized as a democrat i can't believe that democrats used to be against war in other words there's no real left in america in power it's all right wing's fighting with the

right wings as mr putin said at the interviews i did with him he said it doesn't make a difference who's president of the united states. thanks for joining us here on r.t. international we're back at the top of the hour. we don't want the instead empty with an access and the money and then the kind of buzz

of and bustle of streets filled with events of assisi it with this distaste this month and santas maybe i love going to conferences and debates and such events like the battle of ideas and on the bobby concern since these are the kind of things this would be striving on gives us that miss impala us making connections with with the set of projects. greetings and salyut a shim welcome to a brave new america watchers the one that only allows on to which shores of the world's best and the brightest yes we will no longer you know open the door for your tired and your poor huddled masses i don't think so this new

seed change in how the united states handles its immigration was codify by the united states supreme court on monday in a highly controversial decision to override a lower court injunction is against the white house broadening of what's called the public charge rule the new york times reports that the supreme court's decision now finally allows the trump administration to move forward with plans to deny green cards to immigrants who are thought to be likely to make even occasional and minor use of public benefits like medicaid food stamps and housing vouchers you see originally the public charge rule allowed officials to deny a green cards to immigrants who could end up on public assistance but it was narrow in its focus and only in 4. around one percent of the time but back in august yes back in august the trump. of the trumpeting of the times reports that the trump administration broadened the criteria to include non-cash benefits providing for basic needs such as housing your food used in any 12 months in

a 36 month period as well as other bureaucratic jobs of poor immigrants like you use 2 kinds of the benefits in a single month that month would now count as 2 months yes that kind of mouth because hey it's not like this country was built on the backs of poor immigrants slaves and servants always yes actually it really was so today let's break down the hypocrisy and cock cassidy behind the supreme court's new ruling on us immigration as we start watching honks. on a cd. player so let's see. this is joyce i'll see. grace suggests least systemic deception is. which i would. welcome everyone watching dogs. joining me to discuss the supreme court's decision on the public schools is

democratic strategist political democratic strategist and political analyst of the sheer cross thank you so much and thank you for having me all right i'm usually what i want to start off with this obviously you know that i'm not a fan of this by my little tirade at the beginning being very very i just bothers me deep down the mark or what this is one of the political and societal implications of the supreme court's decision this week will the supreme court you know issues the law of the land they think that what is showcased here for immigrant support groups and those who are fighting for basic human rights of immigrants is that they can't count on the supreme court to protect them what we're seeing here is an extension of an administration that has shown time and time again that they are pushing. poverty regulations not only for immigrants but also for american citizens we know that the top administration has pulled back a lot of the obama.