the president of the palestinian authority suspends all ties with the united states and israel in response to donald trump's middle east plan described by palestinians as the slap of the century also ahead. after 47 years the united kingdom marks a historic day cutting ties with the e.u. as gregg's it officially comes into effect but the road ahead for britain is still unclear. and a sweeping new study by academics at cambridge university finds that the 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 that 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 john thomas certainly glad to have you with us following the mounting tensions things have turned to hot between israel and the palestinians the israel defense forces say they have launched air strikes against multiple hamas targets in the gaza strip. this video purports to show the moment of the strike the i.d.f. says varo war planes and helicopters hit underground facilities of hamas and other assets the strike was said to be in response to an attack on saturday with a rocket fired from gaza an exchange of fire between the 2 sides has been ongoing

over the last few days and this comes as 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 out 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 a 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. there's also been a flare up in violence between the israeli army and hamas. there are a number of points at the palestinians are not happy about 1st and foremost so they were excluded from the whole process also the point that at least 30 percent of what is today palestinian territories senshi the west bank is to be ceded over according to this plan to a future israel and in this respect we've already heard from the israeli prime

minister benjamin netanyahu that is going to put forward at tomorrow's cabinet meeting and mixing the jordan valley and the west bank settlements the palestinians also hugely angry over the proposal of the future of jerusalem the plan talks about a future palestinian state with a capital in jerusalem that 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 abu dis 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 time. we spoke to a number of experts from the wider region on the palestinian authority's cutting of ties with washington and 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 all 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 their weakest point. when the entire world could couldn't care less and their frustration is really so understandable. in a very simple 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 to you know taking the whole area into a little bit more of violence which you know that as a result. it is taken that 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 at 11 pm g.m.t. on friday the result of the biggest democratic vote in british history was finally

and acted parts of the u.k. burst into celebration with leave of voters turning out in force but all brought to tears parties in london's parliament square were 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 have. so. that was a bit loud. we're all still here only you know yeah it's like millennium bug nothing's happened you know 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 if you we 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 minister how do you feel bearing in mind the lib dems what are the 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 politicians there are so you and she's absolutely straightforward in her views and she no doubt believes 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 for those of us over the china russia the e.u. and britain is going to a very small fish in a very big sharks. 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 a new era. but the beginning the e.u.

has 50. this country and that is a judgment you the people who confirmed the polls not once but twice. the head of the braggs 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 in britain's offices in the city blocks high representative for foreign affairs has stressed the u.k. will remain a close partner of the e.u. echoing comments by the commission president. meanwhile. the leader of the party has hailed what he called an historic moment. nigel 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 all the european union 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 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 to the rooftops if it's going well at all soundly. 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. the u.k. has now entered an 11 month transition period with the e.u. current arrangements or will remain in place with trade talks said 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 u.k. will leave without a deal. translate the political ease for us. british prime minister barak has been kind enough to answer such questions about transit in this media and . politics 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 spit 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 don't cheat let the way me instead dig them up. yeah probably well if the trade negotiation. well over the next 11 months the governor will be panic selling my granny's to the highest bidder and want to make a quick buck or rupee or a lira whatever comes their way. so when done right it will sober and he 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 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 hitting the country happy brags that day everyone. still to come twitter is under fire for silencing a big name alternative news site on its platform that much more after a break this it starts the international.

so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy confront ation let it be an arms race is on this very dramatic development the only really i'm going to lose is i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk.

welcome back this is our team international now one of the internet's most popular alternative news websites has had its twitter account suspended 0 ahead of the financial and political side which had over half a 1000000 subscribers was accused of engaging in abuse and harassment 0 hedge says their suspension was over accusations they revealed the personal details of a scientist from wu han in china and falsely claimed that he had created the corona virus as a biological weapon those claims emerged on the buzz feed at new site the author of the article later tweeted it was his peace which could have prompted twitter 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 that the company used to block 0 hedge. we have launched

a new dedicated search prompt to ensure that when you come to the service for information about the coronavirus you met with credible authoritative information 1st we do not permit platform manipulation and we encourage people to think before sharing or engaging in the liberated thames to undermine the public conversation are we then to understand that we have now reached a point where the may gather enough information to miss 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. . dosey who incidentally happens to follow 0 which 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. they're striking out more and more broadly and 0 heads is seizing the latest example of

that increasingly sweeping effort. but i think of the merits of this individual case are really secondary because i mean the really important thing is the is the trend that shows that that is so an ever more aggressive attempt at tempted by social media. to do the bidding of governments and to 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 posing with a t. shirt denouncing the police violence the government features a cat with

a bandage over one eye supposedly after being hit with a so-called flash ball. and 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 but of warning you might find the following pictures a bit disturbing. but. we asked people in paris what they thought about the president's photo opportunity

even though if you do prosecute if you 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 because the 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 without knowing i believe that since he is the

head of state he has a certain responsibility. a major new study by academics in the view kaye has found of 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 by his column 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. 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. and you know democracy should be to serve everybody and particularly those who are disadvantaged if it's not serving a disadvantage then i don't think that democracy is working 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 the sitting that is

i think people need to have. information more each occasion to realize what you think people should fight for not meant for 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 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 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 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 rockiest periods but there is hope that the ice can be broken quite literally through sports that was the message america's new ambassador to russia gave while attending an ice hockey game on saturday in moscow john sullivan participated in the ceremonial puck drop to start the. game here is what he told our team and russia's news agency. they asked me about hockey diplomacy and it sounds. almost frivolous. but it's

something that americans and russians and canadians and germans and thing 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 on. right now so what's an opportunity for me to talk to rush the russian people about things that we haven't and we love to trade stories with hockey legends. the $72.00 series and they gave me 7 series between. canada. and the soviet union and so it's great fun. but it's also i think a useful way to say if you'll pardon me 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 are that is for me this hour we're back next hour with more news this

is art. what politicians do something good. to put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president. or somehow want to. have to try to be closer that's what the 43 in the morning can't be good for i'm interested always in the waters in the house. yes sure. thinking of getting a new job on the ones we've gotten here shows from the problem was he didn't know until he was trapped in this tiny little wired how much we're going to hear the crate with him he will just stir freaking out and she will want to spray him

anywhere near and thousands of breeding dogs are caged in in human conditions on puppy farm i mean 67 years you know they've been locked up in a cage outside you see no protection from the weather the heat you know the cold air the rain the snow the founder nothing they have no protection. to get what you . get through kids. across the u.s. cruel puppy mills are supported by dog shows on pet stores most of the puppies that are coming from these large scale factory farming kind of operations are being sold in stores even joined a good businesses are involved like dog among santa there has been a shocking amount of organized opposition to adverts to increase the standards of care for dogs bred in commercial rating for so many most of that opposition is coming from huge agricultural groups and industries that have nothing to do with dogs don't buy dog on o.t.

. the world is driven by shaped by the 3rd person or those bred. well there is some things. we dare to ask. and. there is one organized force which traditionally plenty of flow has but with all

its flaws it's been in the forefront of the. efforts to improve the lives of the general population that's organized labor it's also a barrier to corporate tyranny so it's the one barrier to this vicious cycle going on which does lead to corporate tyranny. arar. a major reason for the concentrated on us fanatic attack on unions our guys labor is they are a democratizing force. to provide a barrier that defends their workers' rights but also popular rights generally.