oh. 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 at the united kingdom marks an historic day cutting ties with the e.u.'s brags that 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 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 but it's not really democracy is a democracy 60 being taken out of the hands of the people. are broadcasting live from our studios in moscow this is r t international and sean thomas certainly glad to have you with us all right following mounting tensions things have turned hot between israel and the palestinians the israel defense force says that they have launched air strikes against multiple targets in the gaza strip. this video purports to show the moment of the strike the i.d.f. says their war planes and helicopters hit underground facilities of the 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 past 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 at an emergency meeting of the arab league in cairo following the release on tuesday of the trumpet ministrations a 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 this often is 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 few years even if the palestinians rejected it in the short run. the situation is hugely whiling and the question is open as to what fun is mixed after we see now and hear the announcement of the cutting in time is we spoke to a number of experts from the wider region on the palestinian authority's cutting of ties with washington and israel. first of all we have to restrict ourselves because they are bus declared already 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 cut 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 caught or it's another holo the curation i'm not sure that he's going to cut all the relationship because he has a lot of also will 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 understand and so. even a vegetable 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 a lot of charges. against a man to save as well. in front of the impeachment in by the congress so i think they didn't look that much at the result 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 which 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. it was taken more than 3 years and

a 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 enacted parts of the u.k. burst into celebration with leaving voters turning out in force but while brigadiers party did london's parliament square some were not enjoying the festivities north of the border in scotland candlelight vigils were held our colleagues in london were covering the historic events as it happened. so. it was a bit louder. we're all still here only you know you know it's like millennium bug nothing's happened you know the big you know how you can actually solve this. you've been campaigning this for this for your whole life i mean how do you feel

very pleased very pleased i have to say i mean you know we're not allowed to be triumphalist and i don't want to be triumphalist but i am pleased you know finally from my point of view we got to the end of 3 and a half years worth of wrangling we've got a functioning parliament that's actually delivered a result and we've actually got a prime minister who's actually delivered a play which norman is a former lib dem minister how do you feel bearing in mind the lib dems want to revoke article 50 well i did not should be without particular policies of the site but i feel very worried for the country i mean the answer for you on this 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 the best and we want to win a world of power blocs with it's us over there it's china russia the e.u. and britain going to a very small fish in a very big phone full of sharks don't. integrated absolutely and he you and i we end up leaving a single mark and having him and i were 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. the head of the brags that 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 e.u. echoing comments of the commission president. meanwhile the leader of the braggs

a party has hailed what he called and historic moment. i'm not sure your voice your whole life. it was said to me it was impossible wasting my time 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 have a country so 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 all the european union but 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 out it became a total mess but i came back in 2 years later with policy 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 will praise the prime minister to the rooftops if it's going well. the. it's not. a big 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 levy 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. he has now entered an 11 months transition period with the 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 the u.k. will leave without a deal he's probably boyko translates the political. british prime minister boris johnson has been kind enough to answer the tough questions about transit in this

city and. politics is the complete interview boris is a politician and. 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 going to have to go in the slow line. you know the one with all the people from the. countries like america but that won't happen until next year the british 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. 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 some and he will be taken back from those pesky europeans and returned to his rightful own as the attorney is and finally will brags that stop all the arguing about plagues that. i remember now is just 70000000 people on an island where one off is accused of being racist and the other half is accused of hitting the country every brags that day everyone. a popular internet alternative news website 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 and 0 hedge says their suspension was over accusations they revealed of the personal details of

a scientist from china and falsely claimed that he had created the corona virus as a biological weapon those claims emerged on the buzz feed a news site in the ard author of the article later tweeted it was his piece which could have prompted the twitters 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 however 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 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 none of us 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 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 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 and sad attempt by social media. to do the bidding of governments and to a limited choices they regard as somehow disturbing and controversial counter to

the official narrative i mean there's been a just a change in general attitude since 2016 when the intelligence agencies accused russia of using social media to manipulate. u.s. voter attitudes. 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 police violence the garment features a cat with a band inch 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 and during yellow best demonstrations many protestors were severely injured and a bit of warning you may find the following pictures disturbing. what.

we asked people in paris what they thought about the president's photo opportunity . even though if you do prosecute if you 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 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 that is really good she pretends as if there is nothing drawn as if it doesn't concern him although he is to blame for all of

this it seem to me bordering on how to say it's a shame it's a shame he's there 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 has a certain responsibility. for major news. study by academics in the u.k. 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 okies killam 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. 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 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 rights 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 . i'm not being jewish or the loopholes are being exploited democracy sexy being taken out of the hands of the people it's in the hands of what i would call it 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 you just going to do their own thing anyway they have their own agenda to people on trusting politicians there's a lot of groups and minorities and not being made and you know democracy should be to serve everybody and in particular those who are disadvantaged if it's not serving those who are disadvantaged then i don't think that democracy is working in some of the parliaments in the world's especially the a you know you are not listening to the people one thing off sitting down is i think people need to have. information morici cation to realise when people use these things that people should fight for it or not most of the people start. 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 enacted and they are not

happy about it caleb artsy new york. discussed of 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 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 united states 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 game while attending an ice hockey game on saturday in moscow john sullivan participated in the ceremonial puck drop to start the and spartak game here's what he told our team and russia's news agency. they asked me about hockey diplomacy and it sounds. almost frivolous seguin. 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 a upon my arrival to say look americans and russians have a lot in common and i love that this is what's going. on 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 stuff. 70. 87 series between. canada and the soviet union it's great fun for me but it's also i think 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 are that as a female be back with headlines of the top the hour this is our international stay with us. during the great depression which i'm old enough to remember there was a family were working. there wasn't it was bed you know much worse of drift and listen today but there was an expectation of the things were going to get better.

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watched as a report. well redacted nice this 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. 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 think that this guy could solve the palestinian israeli. finally someone who's up to the challenge. this weekend downstairs 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 tromping 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 hobb to star in all their foreign projects here on our i just haven't consulted pornhub yet. they're going to be all for it. but promptly announced the peace plan anyway and he

was quite the poet during his speech israel is an agent home a sacred place of worship and a 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 holocaust oh except at least 2 people in front of ministration mike pence and mike pompei you know who are even jealous called who actually believe all the jews have to be in israel so that the end times can begin in which the jews will be cooked up real nice. they believe all the jews will burn into hell that sounds a lot like you are trying to recreate history darkest hour if not recreated then at least look to for inspiration. but trump also felt bad for the poor palestinians i was saddened by the fate of the palestinian people they deserve

a far better.