does not. you must. breaking news this hour the president of the palestinian authority suspends all ties with the united states and its role in response to donald trump's middle east plan described by palestinians as the slum of the century. after 47 years the united kingdom marks a historic day cutting ties with the e.u. as officially comes into effect but the road ahead for britain is still unclear. how the u.s. democrats are not back in getting new witnesses just down to the donald trump pietschmann child means a final vote on the president's time in the oval office is expected next week.

you're watching arch international very warm welcome to the program for myself and the whole team here in moscow. the news just in the president of the palestinian authority mahmoud abbas has said that he's suspending all ties with both the united states and israel the announcement came at an emergency meeting of the arab league and karl rove following the release on tuesday of the trump administration's long awaited peace plan. here that we are close to a relationship with you and with america we have said the same thing to america including security relations. to cross we're going to cross live now to middle east correspondent paula took us through what's the significance of this announcement always saying a point of no return for the israelis and palestinians. well obviously the

palestinian president's remarks did not come as a surprise right from the start the palestinians have not been part of the so-called deal of the century and we've heard repeatedly the palestinians say that neither their aspirations nor the future of jerusalem is something that's up for sale we have also heard from the arab league that they adopt the position of palestine and this was at this emergency meeting that was held as often as saturday now over the past few days there have been protests at a number of palestinian cities and also in gaza city we've seen the israeli american flag being burned we've been seeing posters of the israeli prime minister an american president being burned and we've also seen some of the kind of demonstrations elsewhere in the region there's also been a flare up in violence between the israeli army and hamas the ought there are number of points at the palestinians are not happy about 1st and foremost so they were excluded from the whole process is also the point that at least 30 percent of what is today palestinian territories century the west bank is to be ceded over

according to this plan to a future israel and in this respect we've already heard from the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu that he's going to put forward at tomorrow's cabinet meeting and mixing the jordan valley and the west bank settlements the palestinians also hugely angry over the proposal of the future of jerusalem the plan talks about a future palestinian state with a capital in jerusalem but that capital is not in visit as the part of jerusalem where any of the muslim holy sites are and in fact is some kind of understanding that it would be in the city of abu dis which is on the outskirts of east jerusalem and i spent some time there and even the residents of up to d.s. say that there's no way that this small city can serve as a future capital of a palestinian state however the united states doesn't seem to be too disturbed or too concerned with what the palestinians themselves think we heard this from the american ambassador to israel david friedman. matter what the palestinians say

we're going to keep this option open for them for 4 years that's what we want israel is committed to negotiating a 2 state solution with the palestinians over the next 4 years even if the palestinians rejected in the short run. the situation is hugely wiring and the question is open as to what fun is mixed after we see now and hear the announcement of a cutting in time is well it's probably not quite the reaction president trump in march when he came up with the name deal of the century us policy of reporting from tel aviv many thanks. it's taken over 3 years had divided people up and down the nation but after almost half a century the u.k. has finally bid to the european union at 11 pm g.m.t. on friday the result of the biggest democratic referendum in british history was finally enacted parts of the u.k. bust into celebration with leave voters turning out in force but while bracks attends parties in london's parliament square someone enjoying the festivities

quite as much north of the border in scotland which voted to remain accountant victuals were held all colleagues in london were busy covering this historic event as it all on ruffled hair just some of the highlights. see. that was a bit louder. still here only you know yeah it's like millennium bug nothing's happened yet the big you will have all the. rights. of course from these early who has the truth of being in the thick of things that is appropriate that party is what is the atmosphere right now. well just as you do with me. not see these tent cities because the people just work out it's really really

should go to save the queen that i think just the you know. she's actually being sick was it officially called the quote very. cool story of the 11 month transition period and they're off to a bit and we'll have to read the charts it's all pretty different here as to what exactly is not called we live in detail but for many here at least the future represents one of trinity but of course in other parts of the cards. so there will be much less celebrating that. i hear. the crowd rally you've been campaigning this for this for your whole life i mean how do you feel very pleased very pleased i have to say i mean you know we're not allowed to be triumphalist and i don't want to be triumphalist but i am pleased you know finally from my point of view we got to the end of 3 and

a half years' worth of wrangling we've got a functioning parliament that's actually delivered a result and we've actually got a prime minister who's actually delivered a play which norman is a former lib dem minister how do you feel bearing in mind the lib dems were the revoke article 50 well i did not should be without particular policy of the site but i feel very worried for the country i mean tyrants are very honest politicians there are so and she's absolutely straightforward in her views and she you know what i believe is the best thing for britain i thumb to believe the opposite why what's the problem what we want to miss that we're going to we're in a world of power blocks for those us over the china russia the e.u. and britain are very small fish in a very big on full of sharks the whole ecology is integrated absolutely you if we end up leaving a single mark and having and how we trade barriers that we do immense damage to car history amongst others johnson addressed the nation a pretty good video message and he claimed we are at the start of the new era this is not an end but a beginning the e.u.

has evolved over 50 years in a direction that no longer suits this country and that is a judgment you the people who are now confirmed at the polls not once but twice well over on the continent the e.u. has been saying it's good byes be for the trade deal talks begin in our europe correspondent peter all of a joins us with all the latest bring us up to date with what's been going on be on the channel yes it hasn't been marked with the types of celebration we've seen in london all the type of commiseration you see you know the parts of the u.k. as well as in the british capital as well bought. we have seen is the british flag being taken down in brussels from the e.u. institutions from the the commission presidency the parliament and the council building as well we've also seen the european flag being taken down from british offices in brussels as well we also saw emi piece from the briggs party well being piped out of brussels as they were leaving heading back to london we've also

heard some reaction from the european institutions the high representative for foreign affairs yourself boyle who's basically the e.u. foreign minister to say that the u.k. will remain a very close partner of the e.u. both on a regional and global scale that's really emphasizing what we heard from the e.u. commission president on the line early on friday where she said that she hoped for a close and more productive relationship post breaks it between the u.k. in the e.u. but said that any deal that the u.k. got couldn't be as good as membership almost half a century of the united kingdom's membership in the european union is over we want to have the best possible relationship with the united kingdom but it will

never be as good as membership well one of the key areas it's well negotiations going to move on to as they look towards this trade deal is going to be the u.k.'s future relationship with ireland in particular that british border on the island of ireland well lay over and get the irish to show did have something to say about this about brags about the u.k. leaving the e.u. on friday he said that he wished the united kingdom well on its journey alone but did say that there was always a seat back at the table if it didn't work out for them we do hope. works out for them but if it does not there will always be a seat for the united kingdom at the european table as the united kingdom leaves the european union we enter now into this transition period of course all of those lovely trade talks that are set to start on the 3rd of march so it's not done with yet with bricks that day finally upon us the one question on everyone's lips is what happens next well it's the transition period until the end of the year where

everything essentially stays the same for you and me it's business as usual for the e.u. and u.k. trade negotiators it's game on or they have to get a trade deal signed off by december 31st though ideally 6 months before to give businesses time to prepare the alternative well will crash out of the e.u. without a trade deal something businesses on both sides really want to avoid so we better crack on with the trade talks as soon as possible now boris johnson has said he wants to get started right now but that's a bit of an issue for the e.u. the e.u. isn't just one save it's $27.00 countries needing to agree a negotiating position and that won't be signed off until the end of next month so march will be the earliest we can actually get started but what might the agreement look like well the easiest for would be what's called an alignment deal our trade rules already mirror the e.u. so let's keep it essentially the same and just agree on which areas to diverged

that's the a use preferred option for the negotiations. michele of set the level playing field is of utmost importance if social rights are inventive and environmental or a state aid or others or the advantage of that kind of deal is that it means the u.k. can access the e.u. single market and of course that means we get a deal and easily before the end of the year however that's not the way the u.k. government wants to. oh well we been very clear now for actually many months and of course in our recent election as well as we leave the e.u. we will not be in the single market we will not be in the customs union and we will not be ruled takers so let's try again boris johnson says he wants a free trade deal full comprehensive covering everything but how comprehensive could it be the one between the e.u.

and canada took 7 years to finalize. nor does this negotiation will be difficult and demanding. for one reason. we'll be extremely short. 11 months or so. and if he's right we'd crash out without a deal so let's try again johnson said he wants a deal based on 0 tariffs and 0 quotas no barriers that all sounds easy except some are worried that letting the u.k. in without guaranteeing it won't play by e.u. rules would mean it becomes a very attractive no regulation no business tax zone with watered down workers' rights econd to singapore poaching business from the block the key issue here is around level playing field issues there is no way the e.u. will ever sign up to a trade deal that allows tariff free quota free and frictionless access to u.k. goods coming into the e.u.

if there isn't a level playing field in terms of how they're produced because that would be unfair competition is there another way well then it gets tricky where in say sector by sector deals in some of those deals we've got a strong hand like fishing rights in others like financial services no deal could be the end of the city's dominance as banks and firms need to frankfurt's to ensure they can still operate in europe. but it all has to happen quickly as well because the clock is ticking and if the fine details aren't done in time you guessed it we crash out i hope that's made everything a little clearer i have a feeling the last time i saw you let's get this out of the way that you were indeed intending to stand for the breaks apart in the election is this a big change constitutionally for it's a huge change constitutionally because now we've become a fully independent sovereign state. disentangling ourselves

from the european union will be a long and time consuming problem because when the european union issued regulations they had a director think it and instead of just letting them be regulations in order to describes how much we were ruled by the commercial we enacted those regulations of abating as acts of parliament. that had this alice facebook news out of more than half a $1000000000.00 in a private battle in the u.s. we've got all the details for you after this short break.

albert einstein is credited with defining insanity as doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result this is essentially the argument behind the trumpet ministrations deal of the century aimed at putting an end to the israeli palestinian conflict. is the american president indeed insane or a genius for breaking with decades of fruitless mediation. you know world a big part of the lot and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door on the bats 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. welcome back let's head to the u.s. where the democrats have been dealt a blow when that push to impeach president donald trump and a close bond at senate republicans on friday defeated an attempt to allow new witnesses and evidence to stand in the trial yaser 49 nays are 51. motion is not agreed to troubled was impeached by the democratic controlled house of representatives in december on charges of abuse of power and obstruction of congress and his trial in the senate which has currently a republican majority got underway on january the 21st friday evenings vote paves

the way for a final decision on whether to acquit or convict trump which is expected next wednesday. we talk to the editorial director for the reactionary times dot com who believes trump is now really in the clear. as of wednesday they're going to have the up and down vote he's going to be acquitted you know where america is going to move on from this and i think the american people deserve that the democrats ultimately they had their crack at the apples in the house and they called i believe it was upwards of about 17 witnesses they had smoking gun evidence something that would have risen to the level of you know what what the burden of proof that it would have taken to prove high crimes and misdemeanors then they would have had a shot of removing the president book you know quite frankly you know it's their impressions of what the phone call was you know yes adam schiff kind of you know my means what he thought you know the content of the phone call was their only intention is to try to regain power this episode is

a horrible mark in american history in our system you're innocent until proven guilty whether you're. a pop for the president states and paupers in this country get more due process more benefit of the doubt than this president has got in this sham impeachment trial so in the 1st census in the house you have serious leaders in the house arguing that you could impeach somebody without showing crime you were supposed to give the defendant in this case donald trump. due process you were supposed to call witnesses that didn't happen in the house then we got the the managers getting up there are high horses and saying that they have already proven with the evidence they've marshall so far beyond a reasonable doubt that donald trump is is guilty and should be removed you can't say they wanted that in the other hand that you need to bring in more witnesses their whole behavior of positions i think are contradictory illogical.

and major new study by academics in the u.k. has found that intifada countries popular discontent with democratic politics has reached its highest level in 25 yes the report by cambridge university center for the future of democracy said that americans who are among the least satisfied caleb maupin explains. we're used to hearing that the usa is a cradle of democracy and in case you might forget they remind you at every opportunity trumps impeachment is no exception this is not a banana republic. if the democratic republic. of the united states of america a moment when our democracy was gravely threatened embattled democracy being invaded by this by the by russia democrats accuse donald trump of using his political position for personal gain and thus corrupting the entire system trump shoots back that the democrats are manipulating the constitution in order to go

after him by proceeding with your invalid impeachment you are violating your oath of office your breaking your allegiance to the constitution and you are declaring open war on american democracy interestingly new data has been published by the u.k.'s cambridge university showing that among americans there's been a dramatic decline in people's confidence in democracy we decided to talk to new yorkers and see why they might be losing faith in the founding fathers i feel most people are in misinformed more than anything and they need to understand that we don't live in a true democracy where you know specifically every vote counts directly we know it's a representative democracy writes people vote for things and then other things happen for other people when you know people get more votes and then they lose that's not it's not really democracy is it i do believe that within the system we need to do a better job of including everyone into the conversation and i also think that the current state of affairs is what makes people just really turned off. to supporting

democracy as a whole you know the institutions which were set out with the i think right frame book are not being used or the loopholes are being exploited democracy sexy being taken out of the hands of the people it's in the hands of foot i would call it big money in corporations but it's not just americans according to the poll that was conducted around the world there has been a decline in democratic values in countries like france and the u.k. people just don't feel they've got a voice anymore it seems that you have to you by just going to do their own thing anyway they have their own agenda to people on trusting politicians it's about time you know there's a lot of groups and minorities that. not being made and you know democracy should be to serve everybody and particularly those who are disadvantaged if it's not serving those who are disadvantaged then i don't think that democracy is working some of the parliaments in the world's especially the a you know you are not listening to the people one thing off on democracy being the news i think people need to have. information morici cation to realise when

people use these things that people should do fine tuning or not most of the people it's time for them but this points to a bigger question what does democracy actually mean now in theory it's supposed to be the rule of the people but it seems like around the world in many different countries many feel like the people's will is not being enacted and they are not happy about it caleb mufon artsy new york we discussed the story with invest coach on the state but mental from he thinks the politicians are using touch with what voters want. i wouldn't say they're dissatisfied with democracy they're dissatisfied with the way our democracy is working these days it has really lost its connection to the people all the money in the political system incredible amounts of money billions of dollars to run for president are coming from corporations that are rich people and the average person norm is cut out of the

picture i think at least in the us. fortunately people are not saying we don't like democracy they're saying we want to moxie that works so it's not people are saying oh we need a dictator the vast majority of americans who have been brought up on the notion that people are supposed to run their own government want to have a government that works for them but they're not able to get it. finally for a growing control the sale of a facial recognition technology has hit facebook in the pocket after a failed legal battle over how it tags on scans of photos on its platform a case filed in the u.s. state of illinois has resulted in a payout of more than half a $1000000000.00. here illinois interacted a statute not to fruit innovation but to protect individuals privacy as technology advances corporations must be mindful of the privacy of their customers and more importantly comply with the law the social network giant will have to pay $550000000.00 to

a group of account holders who argue that the facial recognition to violated state privacy laws facebook went as far as the u.s. supreme court took us to get the case thrown out but that was ultimately declined and worldwide the technology is being that but some growing concern. well we got reaction of why facial recognition is such a sensitive issue from privacy activists sound tech expert bill knew as well as from former u.k.

police officer peter clarke. you cold reset your face or your d.n.a. or your fingerprints in the same way you can reset a password when it's lost and therefore if for some reason there was a data breach in the data was lost or in some way it is used to responsibility then there is no comeback and that person's identity has been lost forever and there was an enormous caution needs to be sake not only only responsible use in the secure husbandry of this tons of data but we also need to start improving the effectiveness of the fake the recognition so it's actually more accurate and effective it's concerned me for some time how the likes of facebook and other social media platforms are using facial recognition. purely being used to further the interests of the social media platforms which at the end of the day combine to make you money if you are in a photograph with someone who is on facebook you may or may not wish to have your

name associated with that photograph your profile associated with that photograph spot enough trust in your friends not to tag you into it but when the software that in automatically. different coefficients. i think people really should worry more about what's normal reinforcement doing with this rover the more law enforcement doing with it. well about all from me for now but if you still want more dot com is the place for you to check it out next up but. look the plastic is the promise of the food supply in the oceans we keep plastic and obviously plastic in the human body is going to kill you so life expectancy is down banning plastic is not going to change the equation one iota right

because it's just too far gone. so should we care or just consider that humans had a great ride while we did and then shuffle off our mortal coil and that house. then this is boom bust one business show you can't afford to miss some branches or down fairmont thank you in washington and here's a look at what we have in store for you today. brad of the corona virus which has caused a growth business in the disease of epicenter in china but we take a broader look at both the economic and human toll of the virus and what the infection may hold the in store for the world and the recent surge in economic growth has been cooled by reports of the growing coronavirus but we take

a spin around the planet to get a big picture of how international markets have been performing so much to get to so let's go ahead and dive right in. and the latest on the coronavirus leads our global report today after the world health organization declared a global emergency related to the virus on thursday china's envoy to the united nations wayne kwan addressed member states in the press to give an update on the numbers of those affected by the virus reporting there are now 9809 confirmed cases in china with 1527 case the patients in critical condition now the envoy added that there are more than 15000 suspected cases now according to mr wang the number of deaths related to the corona virus is unchanged at 213 china's permanent representative the u.n. also spoke of the importance of the international civil solidarity in fighting the coronavirus. china to a transparent. and open. and this.

in promoting international cooperation we have reported to to w.h.o. . from the very beginning of all the relevant information seeking. guidance re while the united kingdom has reported the 1st 2 cases of the crow virus in their country as did russia. today we have diagnosed 2 patients with a new corona virus in the russian territory of the bike a lie in the region. of the patients are isolated and just under strict surveillance they are receiving necessary medical help both patients are chinese citizens. in an effort to fight the spread of the virus singapore as health ministry has banned entry of all chinese visitors and those who have recently traveled to china and mongolia will also close all ports of entry to and from china until march.