the president of the palestinian authority suspends all ties with the united states and israel in response to donald trump's middle east a plan described by palestinians as a slap of the century also ahead. after 47 years the united kingdom historic day cutting ties with the e.u. as it breaks it officially comes into effect but the road ahead for britain is still unclear. and sweeping new study by academics at cambridge university finds discontent about democracy in developed countries is at its highest level in 25 years with american citizens among the

least satisfied. people get more votes and then they lose that's. not really democracy is a democracy 60 being taken out of the hands of the people. who are broadcasting live direct from our studios in moscow this is r t international i'm trying thomas. and the palace to the president of the palestinian authority mahmoud abbas has said that he is suspending all ties with the united states and israel the announcement came at an emergency meeting of the arab league in cairo following the release on tuesday of the trumpet ministrations long awaited peace plan. we inform you here that we are cutting 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 your solution simply by saying that jerusalem will not be part of israel i will not accept it in any way and i won't have it written in my history or my country's history that i have sold 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 god. there's also been a flare up in violence between the israeli army and hamas.

there are a number of points of 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 up with these

say that there's no way that this small city can assume of 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 post. unions 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 fun is next after we see now and hear the announcement of the cutting in ties respect to a number of experts from the wider region on the palestinian authority's cutting of ties with washington in 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 whole law

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. show if they are 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 understand the. university 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 and 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 to you know

taking the whole area into a little bit more of violence which you know that as a result. it has taken more than 3 years and it divided people up and down the nation but after almost half a century the u.k. has finally bid farewell to the european union 11 pm g.m.t. on friday the result of the biggest democratic vote in british history was finally enacted and parts of the u.k. burst into celebration with leaving voters turning out in force but while bricks and tears party did london's parliament square someone not enjoying the festivities north of the border in scotland candlelit vigil were held our colleagues in london were covering the historic event as it happened. so. it was a bit louder. we're all still here aren't we yeah it's like millennium bug

nothing's happened you know the big you all have. been campaigning this for this for your whole life i mean how do you feel very pleased very pleased i have to say i mean you know we're not allowed to be triumphalist and i don't want to be triumphalist but i am pleased you know finally from my point of view we got to the end of 3 and a half years worth of wrangling we've got a functioning parliament that's actually delivered a result and we've actually got a prime minister who's actually delivered a play which norman is a former lib 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 i answer very honest politicians 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 whether it's us over there it's china or russia the e.u.

and britain to a very small fish in a very big on full of shocks the. integrated absolutely and see you if we end up leaving a single mark and having. to columnist. and address the nation a pretty recorded video message and he claimed we are at the start of the new era. but the beginning the e.u. has evolved over 50 years in. this country and that is a judgment that you the people who. oppose not once but twice. the head 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 down in britain's offices in the city blocks high

representative for foreign affairs has stressed that the u.k. will remain a close partner of the comments by the commission president. meanwhile the leader of the party has hailed what he called an historic moment. i'm not sure 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 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 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 out it became a total mess but i came back in 2 years later with a policy that reset the agenda i am not going to run away i'm going to keep

a very close watch on all of this over the next year i will praise the prime minister of the rooftops if it's going well i'll sell. the bell of a if it's not me though this is a big moment in our history 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 nobody in that building that would leave the european union the newspaper one of the levy european union this was a grassroots campaign that succeeded so the real winner here is democracy and goodness me that is worth celebrating and i want to be run by a bunch of old men in the european commission the white house but feel like not really thank you thank you very much. u.k. has now entered an 11 month 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 by the last day of the year if an agreement is not reached and no extension is agreed upon in the u.k.

will leave without a deal boyko translates the political east for us. british prime minister boris johnson has been kind enough to answer the top such questions about greg's it in this video. are the pictures the photo complete interview boris is a pulitzer sion and he lives so let me try to answer those questions for you honestly. ok my whole day well not immediately but do expect an extra serving opus to bulls in your sangria when you hit the costa del sol also you're going to have to go on the slow line at the you know the one with all the people from the. countries like america but that won't happen until next year the british folk over there is british spuds a still going to be growing big and proud but get out your pitchforks because soon they'll be no one don't cheat lithuanians to dig them up as brits.

yeah probably well if the trade negotiations don't go well over the next 11 months the government will be 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 owners 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 hitting the country probably brags that day everyone. well still to come in the program twitter is under fire for silencing a big name alternative news site on its platform but much more after

a short break this is r.t. international. you know world of big. and conspiracy. to dig deeper to hit the stories that made stream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smart we need to stop slamming the door. and shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for truth the time is now we're watching closely watching the hawks. the world is driven by shaped.

thing. we. ask. for welcome back this is our to international now one of the internet's most popular alternative news web science has had its twitter account suspended 0 hedge the financial and political side which had over half a 1000000 subscribers was accused of engaging in abuse and harassment your head says there suspension was over accusations they revealed the personal details of a scientist from china and falsely 'd claimed 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 piece which could have prompted it twitter's decision 0 hedge denies all the accusations although twitter recently published guidelines on how it deals with posts regarding the coronavirus those were not the rules though that the company used to block a 0 hedge. 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 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 me gather enough information snohomish with abuse and harassment . and certainly competitors in the media the answer is yes in any case you have e-mail tweets a c.e.o.

a chick dosey who incidentally happens to follow 0 hedge twitter and facebook of course 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 merits of this individual case a 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 attempt by social media . to do the bidding of governments and to a 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 france in the midst of a massive backlash against pension reforms president micron has once again stirred anger this time by posting with a t. shirt denouncing police violence. the government features a cat with a bandage over one eye supposedly after being hit with a so-called flash ball. that riot control weapon is banned for use by law enforcement in several european countries but french police actively deployed it during yellow vest demonstrations many protesters were severely injured a bit of warning you may find the following pictures disturbing. but.

we asked people in paris what they thought about the president's photo opportunity . even though if you do prosecute if you miss it just proves that our president is completely stupid it's sad 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 they are it's something if you really. keep pretense 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 and he's showing off in his place i would question myself more i

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 for story corps yes 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 with a. i believe that since he's the head of state he has a susan responsibility. and 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 parties came up and comments. we're used to hearing that the usa is a cradle of democracy and in case you might forget they remind you at every opportunity trumps impeachment is no exception this is not a banana republic. if the democratic republic. of the united

states of america a moment when our democracy was gravely threatened embattled democracy being invaded by this by the by russia democrats accuse donald trump of using his political position for personal gain and thus corrupting the entire system trump shoots back that the democrats are manipulating the constitution in order to go after him by proceeding with your invalid impeachment you are violating your oath of office your breaking your allegiance to the constitution and you are declaring open war on american democracy interestingly new data has been published by the u.k.'s cambridge university showing that among americans there's been a dramatic decline in people's confidence in democracy we decided to talk to new yorkers and see why they might be losing faith in the founding fathers i feel most people are in misinformed more than anything and they need to understand that we don't live in a true democracy where you know specifically every vote counts directly we know

it's a representative democracy 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 i think right frame book are not being used or the loopholes are being exploited democracy 60 being taken out of the hands of the people it's in the hands of private cloud big money and 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 to you just going to do the right thing anyway they have their own agenda to people on trusting politicians as much i mean

there's a lot of groups and minorities. and you know democracy should be to serve everybody and particularly those who disadvantage 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 a you know you are not listening to the people one thing off on sitting that is i think people need to have. information morici cation to realize what you think people should fight 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 often artsy new york. we discussed of the story with investigative journalist dave lindorff he thinks that 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 in these states 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 that rich people and the average person is cut out of the picture i think at least in the us. fortunately people are not saying we don't like democracy they're saying we want to moxie that works so it's not people are saying oh we need a dictator the vast majority of americans have been brought up on the notion that people are supposed to run their own government and want to have a government that works for them but they're not able to get it. relations between russia and the u.s. might be going through one of their rockets periods but there is hope the ice can be broken and that's quite literally through sports that wasn't the message

america's new ambassador to russia gave while attending an ice hockey game on saturday and moscow john sullivan participated in the ceremonial drop to start the . game here is what he told r.t. and russia's 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 upon my arrival to say look americans and russians have a lot in common and i love that this is what's going with. ice right now so it's an opportunity for me to talk to rush the russian people about things that we haven't had and we love to trade stories with hockey legends. the $72.00 series it gave me 7 series between. canada. and the soviet.

you mean it's it's great fun for me but it's also i think a useful way to if you'll pardon the modern 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 russian fur does it for me i'll be back of the bell with more news this is our international it was. just. actually an hour a. there's

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environment is full of micro plastics during the course of the year you're going to and by ingest half a cup a plastic are more is growing every year where we will soon be giving birth to plastic babies. but who's to say that's not necessarily an improvement stacy well max indeed people should google that because we do 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 we're going to ban plastic bags and we're doing our good for the environment we're banning 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 and 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 you know i got to ask you you know look the plastic is a problem it's in the suit 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 is here people are committing suicide either slowly or quickly either by eating lots of plastic or by taking opiates.