since look exactly like a capital city and yet it's here in the village of the outskirts of east jerusalem we visit an arab neighborhood crimes behind a concrete security barrier in east jerusalem touted by donald trump as the future capital of a palestinian state. that gets its final rubber stamping from the european parliament as much as any pays and bow out with their long stick curtain call. weiwei gets its way in the u.k. but leaves washington fuming at its ally for allowing the chinese telecoms giant to help build britain's 5 g.

network. very welcome to you watching r.t. international with me becky and it's great to have you with us. there's outrage among palestinians after the u.s. presidents unveiled a pais 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.

i may be outraged that that has and go through the streets of the west bank donald trump senior middle east advisor and son in law jared kushner has poured scorn on the ability of the palestinians to run their own state if they want to get to a conclusion they 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 according to the proposed plan palestine will be handed a capital in one of 3 our neighborhoods on the outskirts of east jerusalem these are the areas east and north of the existing security barrier including the eastern part of. this point to slip a visit to the last of the abu dis and spoke to people that about trans 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. 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 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 be fair he doesn't give anything to. 0 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 a shim 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 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 apple juice earlier we spoke to the mat dissed him self. 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 the only thing he

does come with this is a blow for to really act to the whole 1st floor of the new york swore here he busted care for himself and. for that therefore you're not to disturb it but he didn't represent the palestinian people and the palestinians. and around the session in the european parliament has seen the curtain fall on what if any peace for the final time after lawmakers approved the brakes the brakes at withdrawal agreements and what insight to quit the e.u. on friday evening setting in motion a year long transition period the leader of the braggs a party nigel ferrars had this parting dig at brussels. so this is a final chapter at the end of the road a 47 year political experiment we use our of europe we just hate the european union it's as simple as that nigel for she is loved and loaded with and pretty much

equal measure depending on who you speak to 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 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 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 ratified the own 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 cultus this would be unique no other free trade agreement offers such an access to our single market but now a 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 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 another thing coming it's going to be here for a little while yet to talk about. and earlier we spoke to her seemed to be ex any pain from the gregs that party here please britain will have to go its own way

whether brussels likes it or not. it's almost like when there's a divorce and one of 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 they're trying to control what the spouse spends and where they live and all these of the things know 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 the speech. 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 is he must walk away and say well no doing 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 the 5 g. network and had a meeting with the british prime minister barak's johnson washington's top diplomats one pump a 0 won't that intelligence sharing between allies could also be compromised. the chinese communist party presents the central thread of our talks 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 the special security information of your citizens to transit a network that they chinese communist party has the legal mandate. to obtain creates risk and so we've been talking 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 ukase in coming 5 g. network now it's important to note that access for why wait will be limited to only 35 percent of the of the network if you will and even that is only limited to normal 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 u.s. 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. governments have handled this properly a targeted approach. 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 play is in this space particularly around tech companies that feed into our telecom systems so this. rob saying that the u.k. really will have things under control 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. leaves the more evening and they will be looking to secure trade deal with the u.s. as well as of course trying to keep good ties with china so how they manage this particular fallout and how they face off from this pressure with 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 u.s.

had 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 bike 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 obviously not by any means the only threat. to. millions of locos chaos and destruction in eastern africa bringing the region to the brink of stunning story and small after the break.

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welcome back a modern day plague is wreaking havoc in eastern africa the region is suffering its worse locust invasion in decades hundreds of millions of swept across kenya somalia and ethiopia with the u.n. warning of the potential for famine it was drawn off 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.

even if they destroy everything in their path including all farmers who want the government to act fast and send planes to spray them but insecticide otherwise they will destroy everything. and. the way it looks like maybe. that's because they have desiccated everywhere here you cannot even eat outside whenever 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 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. oscar 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 if you have to watch the full interview on our website but for now here's a preview. but if you strongly criticized for your book let's delve deeper into why

that is firstly tell us how your military experience in vietnam changed your views and your life is a home. well. i think the 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 we cause 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 neo conservatives but

they're warmongers in the old fashioned way of talking to question of mood so. you spend a lot of time interrogating give us 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 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 me 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 democrats used to be against war in other words there's no real left in america in power it's all. right wings fighting with 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. well as always we'd love to hear your thoughts on all stories they do get in touch by following us on social media back at the top of the hour see you then. the russian state television propaganda machine propaganda outlet propaganda tools

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a propaganda machine mr walker. thank you. thank you. thank. you the the to. welcome to the alex i'm sure on the eve of bt the day that britain finally departs the european union after many false starts boris johnson has got breaks it does but it looks like the celebration of a new political dog will be somewhat understated we marked the day with an interview with britain's longest serving m.e.p. claude race who looks back with fondness at the concrete achievements of the european parliament for working people i'd read talk to the secretary general of new european the pro european campaign

a group today and i pack up their tents then we'll ask to old westminster hines former liberal democrat presidential candidate and rex a cheer led by opec and former pike commie president i'm through european north africa weekly to look to the future of britain's european commission shares but 1st to your tweets messages and e-mails and the mighty response received to our programs on scotland's future and last week sure on the homeless with 10 says amazing good guys out there you never hear about doing something constructive to help the homeless if you hope to see people doing this morning says it's amazing how such good intentioned people whether well in their hearts to make a difference can help those who fallen on such hard times they are brilliant and can teach us all how to be better people well said brian says a summer that was homeless for 3 and a half years it's great the homelessness is finally being shown that with help people can have their lives changed we never know what life holds for us

a lot i says so much admiration for the wonderful sea community who work hard to do this we. every russian indeed they are russian on scotland sask substances borders should be ashamed of themselves we have a right to our freedom we have rights billie hammett says the 2021 scottish parliament your holiday elections should be fought on the basis should the people of scotland vote for it you know that too declaration of independence will be declared that way the u.t.i. it voted for will be the undeniable democratic will of the sovereign nation alan says i think scotland should be that you and of course the u.k. however scotland should aim for being in efta and finally selma from british columbia says the question really is huge it is boris he says no on the scottish people who are already indeed 14 with the feet marching the streets say yes period we did civil and government disobedience now come on the club what are we waiting

for of course tomorrow will be hearing from nicholas sturgeon scotland's 1st minister asked to her next it tomorrow also mark speedy which stands for better day for 2 of our strongest exponents of britain's membership of the european union alex talks to m.e.p. from london courtney's and 2 former labor m.p. and secretary general of the new unit pianists roger caselli. and i'm delighted to welcome back to the shore claude morris britain senior member of the european parliament joining us from brussels welcome back to the show claude it's great to be on again alex. korbel is one deal we from the leaving of the institution the britons 70 plus any piece packed their bags and leave brussels what's the atmosphere lakers you as you bid farewell to that institution you've been a member of for more than 20 years to be honest alex it's a mixture of on the one hand quite somber and on the other hand sort of business as

usual the somber nature of it is the hard core of parliamentarians here have been here for a long time you know the kind of british contribution contribution from all parts of britain and i think that it's created a kind of somber atmosphere genuinely and in terms of business as usual there are lots of new members lots of people feeling well this thing is going on for a long time you know let's get on with things so it's a kind of a mix of those things and also you know there's been so many false starts so kind of this idea that my god is actually going to happen so i would say that that's also an element of it you rightly say a club blows that people have struggled often to work 0 point contribution m.e.p. a. key committees in the european parliament can you give us an example of ho the

work community in parliament as a real difference to the lives of ordinary people in the united kingdom i've worked in you know protection of workers so for a long time even kleiman many of the employment legislation measures that we saw of agency workers working time health and safety many of these things happened here not because we couldn't do it and i was involved in many of these things but because the world has become more global and it was right to do these things because we had a single.