the president of the palestinian authority suspends all ties with the united states and israel in response to donald trump's middle east the palestinians slump of the century also ahead in the program. after 47 years the united kingdom marks on the historic day cutting ties with the e.u. as great as it officially comes into effect but the road ahead for britain is still on the clear. they sweeping new study by academics at the university of cambridge discontent of democracy in developed countries is

a level in 25 years with american citizens among the least. you're joining us from right across the globe this hour welcome to moscow and to our to international my names you know neil. the president of the palestinian authority mahmoud abbas said that he is suspending all ties with the united states and israel the announcement came on them urgency meeting of the art of plague in cairo following the release of the trumpet ministrations a long awaited peace plan. here that we are close. and with america we have said the same thing to america including security relations. 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. i won't accept the solution simply by saying that jerusalem will not be part of israel will not be accepted in any way and i won't have it written in my history my country's history but i have seen jerusalem 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. was was. there's also been a flare up in violence between the israeli army and hamas.

there are a number of points at the palestinians are not happy about 1st and foremost so they were excluded from the whole process or so 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 is 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 there is some kind of understanding that it would be the city of abu dis which is on the outskirts of east jerusalem. and i spent some time there and even the residents of our bodies'

say that there's no way that this small city can is 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 it doesn't 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 while we're in and the question is open as to what follows next after we see now and hear the announcement of the cutting in time is. well let's delve a little bit deeper into this story with dr saad professor of political science at birzeit university in ramallah in the west bank well 1st of all what does the severing of ties with israel and the u.s. mean for palestinian. good evening to you and all your

viewers 1st of all when the palestinian took that kind of decision today. mr r. mahmoud abbas and now said in the arab summit but this decision was taking early or by the revolutionary council of the p.l.o. the whole idea is to cut the ties with israel which is regarding everything related to all the agreement but it can early the security coordination as well as the other protocols of agreements such as you know paris agreement regarding the economy this is on the israeli side with the americans that we are not accepting now any role for the americans as a mediator officially in any kind of negotiations between the 2 parties that's was now clear now by mahmoud abbas we are waiting for his return to

palestine so these kinds of actions will be taken really on the ground what has got the palestinians so angry at the deal why is there no sense of compromise here. well it's not about compromises you know already the palestinian had given the biggest concession ever in their history when they agreed that. 78 per cent of historical palestine which is our land already and we accepted a state only it wanted 2 percent of what left of palestine which is the worst bank and gaza strip and overnight. in the last one to 5 years there was i'm going to standing that 2 state solution is going to be and the palestinian state will be established only one to 2 percent of the. what happens now in this legal. totally the palestinian state it's not going to be

a state in the 1st place and the area was reduced by the israeli settlements and by the next session of the land and especially after the deal when they talked about. 30 percent more of the of there was bank all this in addition to jerusalem in addition to the capital in addition to the nature of this estate. it is also. rather than a state because of all that palestinian just as you're speaking we were looking at pictures of attacks this week on israel is it the case that having no state is still better than many people recognizing israel in palestine if that is the case we're going to be an attorney will stay made are we not. well we know that this kind of a struggle is a long one on the one hand but you have to understand that itself was established

by united nations resolution and it was established by the help of the international community what we are looking for now is also this international community which recognized israel and created. the palestinian state and its own best you know to create a palestinian state not to leave the whole situation in the hands of america the problem is that we are looking really forward for much better russian role in this context as well as china and other european countries who are refusing the deal of the century. because it's not based on negotiations and it's absolutely going over all the palestinians the nuns so we need the international community to take responsibility. just another point to get you briefly your thoughts on the announcement came ahead of mahmoud abbas's address to the u.n.

security council with his resolution against the trumpet ministrations deal what do you think will be the main aspects of the document side. well he's going by the middle of this month to the united nations to address the. security general in. the united nations we know that there will be a veto by the americans but let it be because that will be the 1st step and after that we could address the general assembly in the united nations to have a decision and also we can go to step 3 to unite for peace decision by the general assembly and in this case. will be as strong as the security in the united nations so we are taking your role. taking so many steps on the ground in the diplomacy in this regard and it is going also to the african summit as well as

to the islamic summit in the next few days all these we are trying to gather as much as we could of the international community and islamic community arab community around the palestinian to protect the palestinians from the implementation of this road map the cutting of time. by the palestinian authority how do you expect israel in washington to react you think they were expecting this. well they are expecting a little better soon are going to do something but i don't think that they were expecting their results i think this declaration of this. plan in the 1st place it came in such time because they want to save netanyahu in israel who's facing charges against him and to save as well. in front of the impeachment. by the congress so i think they didn't look that much at the results

or how that is going to be all the reaction of the international community and what might be happening for the palestinians or for. i think now they are opening a new gates which they don't think of one of them is going to be the best in the resistance that is going to go on in this struggle. taking the whole area into a little bit more violence which you know as a result something that nobody wants to say dr. professor of political science university and ramallah thank you. it's taken more than 3 years and divided people up and down the nation but after almost half a century the u.k. has finally bid farewell to the european you get a live in pm g.m.t. on friday the result of the biggest democratic vote in british history was finally

inducted parts of the u.k. burst into celebration with leave voters turning out in force as well but while briggs and tears partied in london's parliament's worth somewhere not enjoying the festivities north of the border in scotland kumble the vigils where our colleagues in london were covering the historic event. so. it was a bit louder. we're all still here only you know you know it's like millennium bug nothing's happened you know the big you will have. 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 live minister how do you feel bearing in mind the lib dems want to 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. on this politics there are so you and she's absolutely straightforward in her views and she you know what i believe is the best thing for britain to believe the opposite why what's the problem what we want the best and we want to we're in a world of power blocs with it's us over there it's china russia the e.u. and britain is going to. very small fish and very big sharks the whole economy is integrated absolutely to you and if we end up leaving a single market and having it and how we trade barriers. to construct. and address the nation a pretty recorded video message and he claimed we are at the start of the new era.

but the beginning the e.u. has evolved over 50 years in. this country and that is a judgment you the people who confirmed the polls not once but twice. it was all happening this week ahead of the break the deadline on friday the union was quietly removed from the european council building in brussels by the way also taking on britain's offices in the blocks high representative for foreign affairs the u.k. will remain a key partner of the e.u. comments by the commission president. meanwhile. the leader of the brakes and party has hailed what he called a. nodule your watch your whole life.

it was said to me it was impossible wasting my time to go back to business it just shows you actually the truth of it is there was a massive disconnect between how westminster's all the europe is you have a country what i did was to go in there and expose it so that i'm absolutely thrilled when you go from here to your political career and all the european union 26 days after the referendum i believed. what the government said and i kind of stepped back a bit from it all and it became a total mess but i came back in 2 years later with a policy that reset the agenda i am not going to run away i'm going to keep a very close one. all of this over the next year i will praise the promise of the rooftops if it's going well and the. if it's not this is a big history but it's not triumphalism it's celebration it was really.

what really happened here is the people of the westminster establishment 10 years ago there was no building that would leave the european union. one of the leave the european union this was a grassroots campaign that succeeded so the real winner here is democracy and goodness me that is worth celebrating but i want to be run by a bunch of old men in the european commission who was like oh thank you thank you very much. the u.k. has an 11 month transition period with the youth current arrangements will remain in place with trade talks set to start a 3rd of march a deal then has to be worked out by the last year of being here if an agreement has not reached no extension is agreed upon the u.k. will leave with a deal in case you missed it think of. presence prime minister said has been kind enough to answer the top such questions about

transit in this city and. politics is the complete interview for us is a politician and he lives so let me try to answer those questions for you honestly . think jose well not immediately but do expect an extra serving of tipples a new sangria when you hit the costa del sol also you going to have to get in the slow line. with all the people from the. countries like america but that won't happen until next year. there is british spuds as well. to be growing big and proud but get out your pitch folks because soon they'll be no one don't cheat lithuanians to dig them up as brits. yeah probably well if the trade negotiations don't go well over the next 11 months the

government will be fine extending my granny's to the highest bidder and want to make a quick buck or rupee or a lira or whatever comes their way. so pretty damned right it will somebody will be taken back from those pesky europeans and returned to its rightful owner is the attorney is and finally will brags that stop doing about brags that. they now is just 70000000 people alone on an island where one off is accused of being racist and the other half is accused of anything that country probably brags that day everyone. followed by colombian case you missed it ok still to come on the program twitter is in the spotlight once more work for silencing i'll turn a good news or website on its platform and plenty more besides this saturday being right here in moscow after the shortest break.

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world of politics or business i'm show business. 20 minutes interview or you're very welcome back one of the internet's most popular alternative news websites its twitter account suspended 0 hage the financial political site which had over half a 1000000 subscribers was accused of engaging in a buse some harassment 0 hedge savior suspension concerned accusations that they'd reveal the personal details of a scientist from china who falsely claimed he had created the corona virus

a biological weapon now those claims emerged on the both feet and you cite 0 hedge denies all 'd the accusations although twitter recently published guidelines on how it deals with post regarding the coronavirus those were not the rules that the company used to block 0. we have launched a new dedicated search prompt to ensure that when you come to the service for information about the coronavirus you met with credible authoritative information 1st we do not permit platform manipulation and we encourage people to think before sharing or engaging in the liberated tends to undermine the public conversation are we then to understand that we have now reached a point where the may gather enough information synonymous with abuse and harassment. and certainly competitors in the media the answer is yes in any case we have e-mail tweets a c.e.o. check dosey who incidentally happens to follow 0 hedge twitter and facebook of

course dramatically increase their their censorship efforts in the last few weeks they have attacked a wide variety of sources that from venezuela iran for example. they're striking out more and more broadly and 0 heads is seizing the latest example of that increasingly sweeping effort. but i think of the merits of this individual case are really secondary because i mean really important thing is the is the trend that shows that that is to an ever more aggressive attempt attempt by social media . to do the bidding of governments and to eliminate voices that they regard as somehow disturbing and controversial counter to the official narrative i mean there's been a just a change in general attitude since 2016 when the intelligence agencies accused russia of using social media to manipulate. u.s.

voter attitudes. intriguing story a major new study by academics in the u.k. has found that in developed countries popular discontent with democratic politics has reached its highest level. in a quarter of a century the report by cambridge university center for the future of the marker c. ses americans are among the least kill up in spain digging deeper. 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 rights people vote for things and then other things happen or other people with you know people get more votes and then they lose that's not it's not really democracy is that 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. 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 you just going to do their own thing anyway they have their own agenda to people on trusting politicians as much i mean 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 a disadvantage then i don't think the democracy. parliaments in the walls especially

the a you know you are not listening to the people one thing. i think people need to have. information more education to realize my democracy think that people should fight for. the people. but this points to a bigger question what those 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. are to see new york. just all not very point we discuss the story with investigative journalist david lindorff he thinks that politicians are losing touch with what fota surely will. i wouldn't say they're dissatisfied with democracy they're dissatisfied with the way our democracy is working these days that 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 and rich people and the average person 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 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. corona virus crisis which appears to be spreading and it's epicenter of china affect the world's 2nd biggest economy been doing this.

trade and investment have become magic spills to economic development. most people think about trade they think about goods and services being exchanged between countries and the investment chopped or of a trade agreement as opposed to looking very different but won't when investment leads to toxic manufacturing that destroys secret something into the environment. that means local communities that are being poisoned the thing object if they do anything that the company feels is interrupting their profits they can be sued multi-nationals of taking on the whole nation philip morris is trying to use i yes yes to stop. implementing new tobacco regulations aimed at cutting domestic smoking rates a fringe company sued egypt because egypt raise its minimum wage democratic

choice trump cool groups will join us as we try to fund don't. know what the plastic is a problem it's in the food supply it's in the oceans we keep plastic and i'm a slave plastic in the human body is going to kill you so life expectancy is down and banning plastic is not going to change fee equation $1.00 iota because it's just too far gone so should we care or just consider that humans had a great ride why we did then then shuffle off our mortal coil and that he owes.

then this is boom bust one business show you can't afford to miss branch bore down fairmont here in washington and here's a look at what we have in store for you today. to face the threat of the corona virus which has little 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 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 corona virus 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 9000.