c. headline stories the president of the palestinian authority says spans all. states and israel. middle east. after 47 years the united kingdom. but the road ahead for britain. the university of cambridge finds that. democracy in developed countries.

people vote for things and then other things happen for other people you know people get more votes and then they lose that's. not really democracy is that democracy essentially being taken at the hands of the people and it's in the hands of big money and corporations. 11 pm here and the 1st day of february very warm welcome to. the president of the polish stinney in authority mahmoud abbas has said that he's suspending all it's what the united states and israel the allies when came to an emergency meeting of the are oblique in cairo following the release on choose the of the trip but ministrations a long awaited peace plan. here that we are

crossing 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 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 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 this 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 a cutting in thai is yes or what's the ramifications of this latest development or

we spoke to a number of experts from the wider region on the palestinian authority's cutting of choice with washington and israel. 1st of all we have to restrict ourselves because there are bus declared the ready 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 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 want to lose it leaves them in a very poor place maybe in the poorest things in the weakest point. when the entire world could couldn't care less and their frustration is really so understandable and so. innovative but 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 for the palestinians or for the palestinian 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. the thing on it's taken more than 3 years divided people up and down the nation but after almost half a century the u.k. has finally bid farewell to the european union i live in the 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 but while bracks it tears party to in london parliament square some more than 10 joined the festivities

north of the border for instance in scotland candlelit vigil held their colleagues in london for covering the historic event. so. it was a bit louder. we're all still here only now you know it's like i'm not even bugged nothing's happened you know the big issue i will have. you 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 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 the interview 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 think happen to believe the opposite why what's the problem what we want is that we want to win a world of power blocs whether it's us whether it's china russia the e.u. . very small fish in a very big shocks the whole economy is integrated absolutely you and i we end up leaving a single mark 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 that you the people who. oppose 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. flag was also taken britain's offices in the city of blocks high representative for foreign affairs stressed that the u.k. will remain a partner of the e.u. . commission president. as the leader of the breaks a party house hailed what he called his stark moment. nigel you've walked your whole life. it was said to me it was impossible. to go back to business it just shows you actually the truth of it is there was a massive disconnect between how western society europe it is you have

a country that's what 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 what 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 reset the agenda i am not going to run away i'm going to keep a very close. all of this over the next year i will praise the promise of the rooftops if it's going well and also the. if it's not i think this is a big moment in our history but it's not triumphalism it's celebration you know what's really happened here what really happened here is the people of the westminster establishment 10 years ago there was no building that would leave the european union the newspaper 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 i can't but feel like oh really thank you thank you very much. in the u.k. is no enter a low level transition period with the e.u. current arrangements will remain in place with trade talks set to start on the 3rd of march a deal then has to be worked. out here if an agreement is not reached a new extension is agreed upon the u.k. will leave without it. being translating the politics. british prime minister said has been kind enough to answer the tough questions about transit in this city and. i think this is the complete interview 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're 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 no want to let the way me instead dig them up. how cool is it 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 alero whatever comes their way. so damn right it will summer and he will be taken back from those pesky europeans and returned to his rightful open is the attorney is and finally will brags it still

only on doing about brags that. now is just 70000000 people alone on an island one off is accused of being racist and the other half is accused of anything that country have rebranded day everyone. polly boycott me case you missed it taking that would come on the program twitter is still in the spotlight this time for silencing the target of news website although it's a plus for we get into the more besides and moments. look the plastic is a problem it's in 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 and

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 why we did them then shuffle off our mortal coil and that he owes. what hope to. put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be present which. that's it right. this is what the. 3 of the big. interstate was in the. city.

just approaching 60 minutes into the program welcome back one of the internet's most popular alternative news websites twitter account suspended 0 hedge the financial and political sites which over half a 1000000 subscribers was accused of engaging in abuse harassment 0 hedge say their suspension was over accusation they'd revealed personal details of a scientist from china falsely claim that he had created the virus as a biological weapon those claims emerged all may both feed news sites the author all the article later tweeted it was his piece which could have prompted twitter as the solution 0 hedge denies all accusations although twitter recently published guidelines on how it deals with posts regarding the coronavirus it was where the

rules that the company used to block 0 age. we've launched a new data kate is search prompt to ensure that when you come to the service for information about the coronavirus you matt would credible authoritative information 1st we do not permit platter 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 snohomish with abuse and harassment . and certainly our competitors and the media the answer is yes in any case we have e-mail tweets a c.e.o. a check dosey who incidentally happens to follow 0 hedge twitter and facebook opposed to 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 ad out and

they're striking out more and more broadly and 0 ahead just by seizing the latest example of that increasingly sweeping effort. but i think of the the merits of this individual case are really secondary because i mean they really important thing is the is the trend that shows that that is the one ever more aggressive and sad attempt by social media to do the bidding of governments and to a limited choices 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. to a story that's got quite a lot of people talking this weekend with fronts in the midst of

a must of bottle ash against pension reforms president look chrome house once again sterling 'd or. this fund by wearing a t. shirt denouncing police violence the garment features a. with a dressing over one supposedly after being hit with a so-called flush bowl all this riot control weapon of sorts has branded for use by law enforcement in several european countries but french police actively deployed it during yellow vests demonstrations many protesters you may recall have been severely injured you may also find the following pictures the survey. brother who did. he.

really did not. but we asked people in paris what they thought about the president's photo opportunity. you know if you don't prosecute if you it just proves that our president is completely stupid it's said to say that now we see him drowning in all these impossible excuses i don't know what's next it's said that we have such a president he smiles and it seems to me that this is super insulting to all those who have lost their eyes or something it really. pretends as if there is nothing drawn as if it doesn't concern him although he is to blame for all of this it seem to me bordering on how to say it's a shame it's a shame he's there he's showing off in this place i would question myself more we have no confidence in the rule of law it cost us so much as long as they behave

with us correctly and will behave correctly with them sometimes they do such terrible things that we wonder where we'll all live if your equals yes i think that a man no micron doesn't understand what is happening and does not think about things especially what it's like to be left alone i believe that since he is the head of state he has a certain responsibility. a major new study by academics in the u.k. has found that in developed countries popular discontent with democracy has reached its highest level in 25 years the report by cambridge university says americans are among the least satisfied killa by the report. 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. is 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 your 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 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 the with the i think right frame book i'm not being jewish 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. 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 thought that 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 they're not being made and you know democracy should

be to serve everybody and in particular 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 the news i think people need to have. information marie cation to realise when people use these things that people should fight for it or 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 oppen artsy new york yet we discuss the story with investigative journalist dave lindorff he is all of the view that politicians are losing touch with what voters actually really will. 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 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. the relations between russia and the u.s. might be going through one of their rockiest periods but there is hope the ice can be broken quite literally through sport that's the message america's new ambassador

to russia gave while attending an ice talk again on saturday in moscow joan sullivan participated in the survey to start the day nama. game here's what's he told r.t. russia's ria news agency. they asked me about hockey to the sea and it sounds. almost perfect. but it's something that americans russians need to see. you have to love this so i use this is an opportunity just on my arrival the same look and see the rest of the box. that's. right so it's an opportunity to talk to russia russia. that we have a. great school it's a great hockey let's start with the 70 something series 7 series.

so he says it's great fun for me but it's also. going to start a conversation literally start a conversation about the city all of the interests and sure to be out there. not a single use plus the excuse for a poor treatment next some opening figures are. moments.

of. 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 but breaking with decades of fruitless mediation. i max kaiser this is the kaiser report you know the oceans are full of micro plastics. our environment is full of micro plastics during the course of the year you're going to go and buy ingest. half

a cup of plastic or more is growing every year. we will soon be giving birth to plastic babies. but who's to say that's not necessarily an improvement stacie well max indeed people should google that because we do eat an enormous amount of plastic every year and it's because michael plastics are in everything our water supply even up in the alps and tops of mountains it's all there and it's in our rain it's in our water it's all over the place so everybody's trying to do good right they're trying to say well we're going to ban single use plastics are going to ban plastic bags and we're doing our good for the environment bad in plastic straws well we're going to look at some of this because in the past week or 2 it was big news that china is going to ban single use plastic plastic bags so this is the sort of thing people mock california for now oby policy for over

a 1000000000 human plastic bags will be banned in all of china's major cities by the end of 2020 and bans an all cities and towns in 2022 so china is stepping up restrictions on the production sale and use of single use plastic products the state planner said last sunday as it seeks to tackle one of the country's biggest environmental problems and i got to ask you you know look the plastic is a problem it's in the food supply it's in the oceans we eat plastic or and obviously plastic in the human body is going to kill you right so life expectancy is down existential angst is up opiate crisis here people are committing suicide either slowly or quickly either by eating lots of plastic or by taking opiates and banning plastic is not going to change the equation one iota because it's too far gone so should we care or just consider that.