this hour's headlines stories the president of the palestinian authority suspends all ties with the united states and israel in response to donald trump's middle east peace plan scribed by palestinians as the slap of the century coming up in the program. after 47 years the united kingdom marks a historic day cutting ties with the e.u. as parades it officially comes into effect but the road ahead for britain is still unclear. and a sweeping new study by academics cambridge university finds that discontent by democracy in developed countries has its level in 25 years with american citizens

among the least. people get more votes and then they lose that's not it's not really democracy is that democracy sexy being taken out of the hands of the people. live from moscow every hour of the day this is r.t. international my name's you know neal 30 minutes of news and views. the president of the palestinian authority mahmoud abbas said that he is suspending all ties with the united states and israel the a nice print came of an emergency meeting of the r. oblique in cairo following the release and choose the of the trump administration's long awaited peace plan. 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 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 so 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 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 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 wiring and the question is open as to what follows next after we see now and hear the announcement of the cutting in ties yet we spoke to a number of experts from the wider region on the palestinian authority is coming up toys with washington israel. 1st of all we have to restrict ourselves because there

are bus declare 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 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. now it's taken more than 3 years and divided people in the nation but after almost half a century the u.k. has finally bid farewell to the european union i believe 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 but while briggs appears party in the parliament square some were not enjoying the festivities north of the border in scotland though that vigils were held our colleagues in london were covering the historic event to happen.

so. we're all still here only you know yeah it's like millennium bug nothing's happened you know the big problem 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've got to the end of 3 and a half years with them frankly 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 would 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 win a world of power blocs with us over the china russia the e.u. and britain is going to have. small fish and very big sharks the whole economy is integrated absolutely you and if 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 judgement you the people who. oppose not once but twice.

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 stress that the u.k. will remain a part of the e.u. echoing comments by the commission president. meanwhile the leader of the brakes and party has hailed what he called. niger your watch your whole life. it was 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 western society europe it is you how the country what i did was to go in there and expose it 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 in 2 years later and 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. i would praise the promise of the rooftops if it was going well and the better if it's not. a big but you know 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. for the u.k.

has now entered an 11 month transition period with the. current arrangements will remain in place for trade talks set to start on the 3rd of march a deal then has to be worked out by the last state. has not reached a new extension is agreed upon the u.k. will leave with a deal. translates the politics it's. taped britain's prime minister has been kind enough to answer the top such questions about brands it in this media and. politics 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 tipples a new 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 british spuds 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 alero whatever comes their way. down right it will summer and he will be taken back from those pesky europeans and returned to his 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. still ahead this hour twitter in the spotlight once more for a silencing of alternative news website it's a platform with more after the short break. no 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 right 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 this and then shuffle off our mortal coil and that he owes . 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 ruthless mediation. hello again one of the internet's most popular alternative news websites it's

twitter account suspended 0 hedge the financial and political site which had over half a 1000000 subscribers was accused of engaging in abuse and harassment 0 ahead say their suspension was over accusations they had revealed the personal details of a scientist from 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 or through of the article later tweeted it was his piece which could have prompted twitter's the session 0 hedge denies all accusations although twitter recently published guidelines on how it deals with posts regarding the coronavirus those were not the rules of the company used to block 0 hage. 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 tends to undermine the public conversation are we then to understand that we have now reached a point where the may gather enough information is now snohomish 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. a check dosey who incidentally happens to follows their 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 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 sue limited forces 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. with fronts in the midst of a must of backlash against pension reforms president has once again stirred ungar this time by posing with a t. shirt the long. police violence take a look the government features a cuts with a dressing over wall supposedly after being hit with a so-called flash ball. that's right control weapon is bound for use by law enforcement in several european countries but french police actively deployed it

during yellow best demonstrations many protesters were severely injured you may find the following pictures the story. rather who did. a good job. well we asked people in paris what they thought about the president's photo opportunity. you mentally fit to prosecute if you miss it just proves that our president is completely stupid that it's sad to say that now we see him drowning in all these impossible excuses but i don't know what's next it's 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 we're suddenly only. pretense as if there is nothing wrong 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 because the so much as long as they behave with us correctly it will behave correctly with them sometimes they do such terrible things that we wonder where we'll all live. 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. right moving on now a major new study by academics in the u.k. has found that in developed countries popular discontent with the mark recy us

reach that level in 25 years the report by cambridge university says americans are among the least satisfied reporting on earth a killer blow up. 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 in battle 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 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. 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 are not being made and you know democracy should be to serve everybody and particularly those who are disadvantaged if it's not serving their disadvantage then i don't think that democracy is working in some of the parliaments in the world's especially the you know you are not listening to the people one thing. is i think people need to have. information morici cation to realise my democracies think the 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. are to see new york. relations between russia and the us might be going through one of their rocky experience but there is hope the ice can be broken quite literally through sport that 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 ceremonial puck drop to start the. game here's what he told r.t. russia's ria use 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 i'm sure.

we have in common we love this i use this is an opportunity just to upon my arrival the say look america is in russians have a lot in common and i love this game what's going on. right now see which 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 legend stuff. the 72 summit series at the 87 series between. canada. and the soviet union it's great fun for me but it's also. a useful way to. break the ice and start a conversation you know literally start a conversation about all of the interests and shared values that we have americans and russians. for this hour but don't stray too far as more great programs get

their start in moments. what politicians do something. they put themselves on the line and they get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president i'm sure most somewhat want to be. the 2 going to be close it's like the full story in the morning can't be good. i'm interested always in the was in the. first city hall. in a world of big partisan movie lot and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that made history media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door on the bath and

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in a referendum the british people decide our future in europe the british people have spoken and the answer is we're 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 at around half 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 but she was humiliated after 2 years of failed negotiations the house of commons as delivered its verdict on her brakes i have now tabled a bunch of no confidence in. bracks the 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

grown closer the last days of thought i will resign as leader of the conservative and unionist party i do so with enormous and enduring gratitude to have had the opportunity to serve the country i love morris johnson has spent years waiting outside number 10 downing street today the door has finally opened in this government will work flat out to give this country the leadership it deserves this court has already concluded that the prime minister's advice to her majesty was unlawful void and or a strong support 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 of our country the labor party determined to win the world with to deliver the people of this country yet. we are now in a position to say that this election has been won by the conservatives now is the

moment precise. once we leave the e.u. to let the healing begin. we're going away. from gender the 3rd for us what we're going to do. working with our principle is this is not to not to. destroy it mr president it's in my opinion. what. you were going underground hours after the u.k. officially left the e.u. ending 47 years membership of the world's largest neoliberal trading block with me in the studio of the daily mail's consulting editor and u.b.s. 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.