yanks this is what happens to pensions in britain. as a report. the president told the palestinian authority all the united states and israel in response to middle east peace. this century also ahead on the program. after 47 years the united kingdom marks a historic day. breaks it officially comes into effect the road ahead for britain. and a sweeping new study by academics at the university of cambridge discontent about democracy in developed countries is up to its highest level in 25 years with american citizens among the leaves some. people vote for things and then other

things happen for other people when you know people get more votes and then they lose but. it's not really democracy democracy is actually being taken out of the hands of the people and it's in the hands of god big money and punctuations. 247 news live from moscow this is our international my name's you know neal hello and welcome to the program. our top story the president of the palestinian authority mahmoud abbas has said that he is suspending all ties with the united states and israel the enlightenment came out an emergency meeting of the arab league in cairo following the release on choose the of the trumpet ministrations a long awaited peace plan. inform you here that we are causing all relations with you 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 this often in 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 also the point that at least 30 percent of what is today palestinian territories senshi 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 assertive 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 wiring and the question is open as to what follows next after we see now and hear the announcement of the cutting in time is we spoke to a number of experts from the wider region on the palestinian authority cutting off . 1st of all we have to restrict ourselves because there bus declared

already few times in the past that he will cut the relations with israel and he never did so so it might also be another holo clear asian yes with the right it states the cuts don't forget that the united states also closed their embassy in washington the palestinian representative in washington was expelled from washington but with israel the only question is really about the. security. relationship and it's time time will show if they're really being cut or it's another holo they can ration i'm not sure that he's going to cut all the relationship because he has a lot of also will to lose it leaves them in a very poor place maybe in the poorest things in their weakest point. when the

entire world could couldn't care less and their frustration is really so understandable and so. innovative i would say because this is not a peace plan this is a human relations and they are expecting that a person are going to do something but i don't think that they were expecting the 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 lots of charges against him and to save as well. in front of the impeachment in by the congress so i think they didn't look that much at the results or how that is going to be or the reaction of the international community and what might be happening there for the palestinians or for the pristina struggle i think now they are opening a new gates will. they don't think of one of them is going to be the palestinian

resistance that is going to go on in this struggle and to you know taking the whole area into a little bit more of violence which you know that as a result. it's taken more than 3 years and divided people in the nation but after almost half a century the u.k.'s finally bid farewell to the european union of 11 pm g.m.t. on friday the results of the biggest democratic vote in pritish history was finally inducted. parts of the u.k. burst into celebration with leave voters turning out and. well breaks into your heart as you can see here in london parliament square somewhere know it's enjoying the festivities this is a north of the border in scotland where kumble officials were held but our colleagues in london were covering this story if it was it.

was a bit louder. we're all still here only you know yeah it's like millennium bug nothing's happened you know the big you will have all the. 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 form of the minister how do you feel bearing in mind the lib dems want to revoke article 50 well i did not she was up particular publisher of the site but i feel

very worried for the country i mean. on this politician 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 i thought and to believe the opposite why what's the problem what we want the best and we want to win a world of power blocs with it's us over there it's china russia the e.u. . and very small fish in a very big box the whole economy is integrated absolutely you if we end up leaving a single market and having and how we trade barriers. and address the nation a pretty recorded video message and he claimed we are at the start of a 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.

well ahead of the deadline on friday the union jack was quietly removed from the european council building in brussels the e.u. was also taken britain's offices in the city blocks high representative for foreign stress that the u.k. will remain a partner of the e.u. echoing comments by the commission president. meanwhile. the leader of the brakes at party what he called the historical. knowledge or your watch your whole life. said to me it was impossible. to go back to business that shows you actually the truth of it is there was a massive disconnect between how westminster sold to europe it is you have a country that i did was to go in there and expose it so i'm absolutely thrilled when you go from here to your political career and your opinion in 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 into it off years later and reset the agenda i am not going to run away i'm going to keep a very close why. 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 and 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 but 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 but feel like everybody thank you

thank you very much. well the u.k. has now entered on 11 month transition period with the current arrangements will remain in place with trade talks set to start on the 3rd of march a deal then house to be worked out by the 31st december if an agreement is not reached and no extension is agreed to pull the u.k. will leave with a deal on the. table british prime minister blair said has been kind enough to answer such questions about transit in this. complex is the complete interview but boris is a politician and a lie so let me try to answer those questions for you honestly. think my holiday well not immediately but do expect an extra serving of spectacles n.u.'s sangria when you hit the costa del sol also you going to have to get in the slow

line at the one with all the people from the. countries like america but that won't happen until next year. there is a british spud's a still going to be growing big and proud but get out your pits folks because soon they'll be in. don't cheat lithuanians to dig them up. how cool it is it's cool yeah probably well if the trade negotiations don't go well over the next 11 months the government will be panic selling my grannies to the highest bidder and want to make a quick buck or rupee or a lira whatever comes their way. so we're damned right it will sober and he will be taken back from those pesky europeans and returned to its rightful owner is the attorney is and finally will brags that stop only on 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. polly like on the in case you missed it team still to come on the program vis our twitter is in the spotlight once more for a silencing of alternative views website that's up for we get into that story and plenty more besides after the shortest. is you'll be a reflection of reality. in a world transformed. what will make you feel safe.

isolation community. are you going the right way or are you being led. by. what is true what is faith. in the world corrupted you need. to descend. to join us in the death. or inmate in the shallows. i actually don't think monopolies per se are the problem it's monopolistic access the police have to credit or to politicians and probably both the crony financial ism crony capitalism that's the big problem. welcome back to the program one of the internet's most popular alternative news

websites has had its twitter account suspended 0 hedge the financial political site which had over half a 1000000 subscribers was accused of engaging in abuse and harassment so you say there suspension was over accusations they've revealed the personal details of a scientist from in china and falsely claim that he had created the corona virus as a biological weapon those claims emerged on the buzz feed news site the author of the article later tweeted it was his pace which could have prompted twitter's the session hedge denies all accusations although twitter recently published guidelines on how it deals with posts regarding the coronavirus that was worth the rules about the company use to block 0 age. we've 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 thames to undermine the public conversation are we then to understand that we have now reached a point where the may gather enough information is knocks. none of us 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. jack dorsey who incidentally happens to follow 0 hedge twitter and that facebook of course dramatically increased their their censorship efforts in the last few weeks they have attacked a wide variety of sources that from venezuela iran for example and 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 the really important thing is the is the trend that shows that that is so an ever more aggressive attempt at tempted by social media to do the bidding of governments and to eliminate voices 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. meanwhile c.n.n. is also facing criticism over its reporting on the epidemic that's after it published an opinion piece on donald trump's recently appointed coronavirus toxic force which it accuses of locking time for city.

coronavirus taskforce another example of trumpet ministrations lack of diversity. who are these experts they're largely the same sorts of white men and a couple of women on the sidelines who've dominated the trumpet going to stray should from the very beginning. see those board of directors.

as long as c.n.n. wants to play quite a game why does the network have a grand total of one minority anchor across all the weekday shows and not one hispanic collarless news network. the coronavirus we try to have a task force but it wasn't diverse enough for c.n.n. . this is a scientific issue and you need the best people to. organize you know a defense against against the spread of the virus everywhere and you know it's to inject diversity and identity politics into this thing is just just a silly thing to do it's science. and science is nothing to do with diversity and racism you know there's a problem in the us of identity politics and that keeps everybody fragmented to

cross their various identities rather than uniting them and dealing with the real economic and political problems of the country. a major new study by academics in the u.k. has fallen that in developed countries popular discontent with democratic politics has reached as highest level in 25 years the report by cambridge university center for the future of democracy say's americans are among the least sufis fight caleb options been reporting 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. it's 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. 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 america 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 the right 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 a disadvantage 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 more. information morici cation to realize when to use these things that people should fight for not most of the people. 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 artsy new york. we discussed the story with investigative journalist dave lindorff he thinks the politicians are losing touch with what voters really want. i wouldn't say they're dissatisfied with democracy they're dissatisfied with the way our democracy is working these days it is 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 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 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. right that is our news for this hour on this 1st day off a break hope you're having a fun weekend live from moscow this is 247 international.

the plastic is a promise in the food supply in the oceans we keep plastic and i mean 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 the seder that humans had a great ride why we did then then shuffle off our mortal coil and.

in a referendum the british people decide our future in europe the british people have spoken and they wear out i do not think it will be right for me to try to be the captain of the steers our country to its next destination around her past 5 this afternoon to resume a took office as prime minister we will rise to the challenge was a vote that would shape our future for years to come and she was humiliated after 2 years of failed negotiations the house of commons as delivered its verdict on her bricks i have now tabled a bunch of no confidence in this. deal has suffered another huge blow british parliament rejected her plan for the 2nd time this is now the 3rd time the prime minister's deal has been rejected 48 hours ago she relaunched her withdrawal plan it was meant to win the support of her colleagues instead it simply seems to have

drawn closer the last days of thought i will resign as leader of the conservative and unionist party i do so with enormous gratitude to attach the opportunity to the country i love boris johnson has spent years waiting outside number 10 downing street today to draw on his mind only. in this government to work flat out to give this country the leadership he deserves this school has already concluded that the prime minister's advice to her majesty was unlawful void and that no if it corresponds to a call for an early general election hoping to win more conservative m.p.'s that will back his projects it. is a fight for the 3rd all of our country the labor party to time until now is the way with to deliver the people of this country yet. we are now with the. position to say that this election has been won by the conservatives now is the moment

precisely it's relieved the e.u. to let the healing begin. like. i know you want to. but we're going to work. through january 31st what we're going to do. work with our principle is this. to not. destroy mr president this in my opinion. of what the imaginary tenchi we're going underground hours after the u.k. officially left the e.u. ending 47 years membership of the world's largest neo liberal trading block with me in the studio of the daily mail's consulting editor and your peers former liberal democrat leader and century safer business vince cable and front man of sheffield band revenue makers john mcclure who campaigned for labor in the last election welcome to all of you we've got the eve of bricks it papers here not today's ones our time has come from the murdoch sun with the 50 quid they giving out saying 50

p. coins and your paper a new dawn for britain and drew a momentous day because the guardian will be getting to that in the in the 2nd pretty to be against it but i drew how do you stand up for this is a from page momentous day we salute a new dawn for britain directly from 10 downing street and yet the head has run because the white kids over there boris johnson speaks to the nation he doesn't do that very often this has been a long time in a controversial way no pool cameras well 3 and a half years been waiting for this and it's about time and i think she now get on with it and look forward to the new beginning so rense have campaigned against breaks it before and since the brakes at referendum your reaction well it's probably neutral. it's a bit of an anticlimax we knew this was going to happen a couple of months ago it's happened nothing material only affects the end of the year. and it was somebody.