the modern civilization of america. the president of the palestinian authority says all the time with the united states and israel in response to donald trump's middle east the scribed by palestinians. of the century also ahead in the program. after 47 years the united kingdom marks a historic day cutting ties with the e.u.'s breaks it officially comes into effect but the road ahead for britain is still on. sweeping new study by academics cambridge university finds that discontent about democracy in the countries is of its highest level in 25 years with american citizens among the

least satisfy. people vote for things and democracy sexy being taken out of the hands of the people it's in the hands of private cloud big money and corporations. just a few moments into a brand new day here in moscow sunday february the 2nd welcome to r.t. international i mean and. the president of the palestinian authority mahmoud abbas said that he is suspending all ties with the united states and israel the announcement came out an emergency meeting of the art oblique in cairo following the release on tuesday of the trumpet ministrations long awaited peace plan. that we are. 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 this 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 that they were excluded from the whole process 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 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 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 thai is. just all vast particular theme we spoke to a number of experts from the wider region on the palestinian authority cutting of all took place 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 we. 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 you know taking the whole area into a little bit more of violence which you know that as a result. well 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 although 11 pm g.m.t. or 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 bragg said here is party in london's parliament square somewhere not enjoying the festivities north of the border in scotland condo that vigilance where our colleagues in london were covering the historic event it's.

so. it. was a bit louder. we're all still here only you know yeah it's like millennium bug nothing's happened yeah 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've 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 dems minister how do you feel bearing in mind the lib dems want to revoke article 50 well i did not she was up particular policies 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 to believe the opposite why what's the problem what we want is that we want to win a world of power blocs with us over the china russia the e.u. and britain going to various. very big shocks the whole economy is integrated absolutely to see you and if we end up leaving a single mark and having and how are you trying. to calm the street. 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 a direction. this country and that is a judgment you the people who confirmed the polls not once but twice.

well ahead of the brains a deadline on friday the union jack was quietly removed from the european council building in brussels the e.u. flag was also taken down and britain's offices in the city blocks high representative for foreign affairs and stressed that the u.k. will remain a partner of the e.u. echoing comments by the commission president herself. meanwhile the leader of the breaks that party has hailed what he called a moment. niger your watch 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 that i'm absolutely thrilled when you go from here to your political career and your opinion what in 26 days after the referendum i believed more for me 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 enough years later a party to reset the agenda i am not going to run away i'm going to keep a very close watch on all of this over the next year. i would praise the promise of the rooftops if it was going well and the better if it's not i think 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 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 for like not really thank you thank you very much. so what is next will be u.k.

has now entered a leavened month transition period with the e.u. the current arrangements that will remain in place trade talks set to start on the 3rd of march by the way a deal though then has to be worked out. this year if an agreement is not reach no extension is agreed upon either the u.k. will leave the deal probably boyko translates the politics. to british prime minister blair said has been kind enough to answer such questions about transit in this city and. politics is the complete interview but boris is a politician and law so let me try to answer those questions for you honestly. think my holiday well not immediately but do expect an extra serving of tipples in us 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 no one giant sheep 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 a lira whatever comes their way. so we're damned right it will somebody will be taken back from those pesky europeans and returned to its rightful owner as the attorney is and finally will bragg's it stop all the arguing about plagues it. 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 probably brags that day everyone. the in case you missed it still to come this hour twitter in the spotlight once more for silencing a little turn of the news website it's. about something more besides off the shortest look pretty. lead.

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alternative news websites twitter account suspended 0 hedge the financial and political site which has over half a 1000000 subscribers was accused of engaging in abuse on harassment and 0 hedge say their suspension was over accusations they had revealed. the personal details of a scientist from china and falsely claimed that he had created the corona virus as a biological weapon and those claims. both feed news site the author of the article later tweeted it was his piece which could have prompted twitter's decision 0 hedged in is all i could say sions although twitter recently published guidelines on how it deals with posts regarding the coronavirus those were not the rules 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 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 thames 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 that 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. 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 the merits of this

individual case are really secondary because i mean really important thing is the is the other trend that shows that that is so when ever more aggressive it's had an attempt by social media to do the bidding of governments and sue 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. with fronts in the midst of a muscle baka lush against pension reforms president mccrum has once again stirred anger this time by posing with a t. shirt denouncing. police violence the garment features a tatts with addressing over one eye supposedly after being hit with a so-called flush bowl. will not riot control weapon is bombed for use by law

enforcement in several european countries but french police actively deployed it during yellow vest demonstrations many protesters were severely injured you may find the following pictures disturbing. well we asked people in paris won't be full of about the president's photo opportunity. even though if you do prosecute if you just proved 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 to 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 seemed 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 will behave correctly with them sometimes they do such terrible things that we wonder where we all live. i think that a memo 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 a quarter of a century the report by cambridge university says americans are among the least satisfied going through the report for us killer bob 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 and 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 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 as much as 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 disadvantage if it's not serving a disadvantage then i don't think the democracy is working 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 why democracy the 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 acted and they are not happy about it. are seeing new york. it just expanding the point we discuss 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 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 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. relations between russia they us might be going through one of their rocky experience but there is hope the ice count. quite literally through sport was the message america's new ambassador to russia gave while attending an ice hockey game on saturday in moscow joan sullivan participated in the service drop to start the. tuc game here's what he told r.t. . news agency. they asked me about hockey diplomacy and it sounds.

almost frivolous it's a game. but it's something that americans and russians and canadians and. we have in common we love this i use this is an opportunity just to upon my arrival to say look americans and russians have a lot in common with love that this game let's go with. a straight now switch an opportunity for me to talk to rush the russian people about things that we have in common and we love to trade stories with hockey legends to. this 72 summit series in the 87 series between. canada. and the soviet union it's great fun for me but it's also. useful way to. break the ice. and start a conversation you know literally start a conversation. all of the interests and shared values that we have americans and

russians and just in case you're wondering. for this hero of the weekend. be back at the top of the hour with all the latest updates to stay close this is 247 our team international. i max kaiser one for my guide to financial survival this is. a device used by professional scallywags to earn money. that's right these hedge funds are simply not accountable and we're just getting more and more to the. totally destabilize the global economy you need to protect yourself and get informed kaiser. 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 breaking with decades of fruitless mediation. whatever exactly good night is a comedy show where americans in america covering american news are called foreign agents i don't know about you but when i saw the president say he could grab

women by. 0 or when i saw him calling obama a muslim or when i saw him call countries like haiti whole countries i thought to myself. i bet this guy could solve the palestinian israelis. finally someone who's up to the challenge. this week he announced his long awaited 2 state solution for palestine and israel and it was everything we all hoped it would be if your an israeli prime minister. or the announcement trungpa netanyahu surrounded himself with with with people like billionaire ultra zionist sheldon adelson basically if you were cheering when israeli snipers shot palestinian children then this announcement was a goddamn ratman tabs and nothing says israelis and palestinians coming together like a peace plan created and approved without any end point from palestinians that would

be like me announcing i have an agreement with poor and to star in all their foreign projects here on our. just haven't consulted pornhub yet. they're going to be all for it. but i'd probably announce the peace plan anyway and he was quite the poet during his speech but israel is an agent home a sacred place of worship and they solemn promise to the jewish people that we will never again repeat history's darkest hour yes we can all agree don't want to recreate the whole.