company sued egypt because egypt resists minimum wage democratic choice over trump corporate law joint says we try to fund one of the 2. peace plan that triggers violence don't trump's accused of taking sides in the israel palestine conflict as the palestinian authorities qatada some protests break out in the west by. the u.k. set sail from the e.u. on its post voyage but off to 47 years of cooperation there are fears of economic storms and mutiny and scotland and ireland. as fears global nears the corona virus outbreak does a report in spite of discrimination against chinese people on.

a french fire fight to strike tongues ugly in congress where riot police resort to take us on water cannon. you're watching a weekly here on r.t. international look back at the stories that gripped the headlines of the past 7 days while. before we do that let's start with a story just in from south london the metropolitan police say armed officers have shot dead a man suspected of carrying out a knife attack on stratham high road several people all believed to have been stabbed in the assault emergency services are at the scene london metropolitan police say that treating the incident as terror related would of course bring you those updates as they come in.

the trump administration's long awaited middle east peace plan was released on tuesday provoking a firestorm of criticism the president of the palestinian authority mahmoud abbas described it as a humiliating proposal which fails to respect the basic rights of palestinians. my vision presents a win win opportunity for both. a realistic 2 state solution that resolves the risks of palestinian statehood to israel's security today israel has taken a giant step toward peace it's a great plan for israel it's a great plan for peace frankly mr president. given all that you've already done for israel i'm not surprised. dear friends we heard a little while ago from president trump and prime minister netanyahu talking about

what they call the deal of the century which we described as the slap of the century we will say a 1000 times no to this proposal. mahmoud abbas said on saturday that he will now suspend ties with both the united states and israel the release of the plan also triggered protests in parts of the west bank with clashes breaking out near the beit settlement schools all demonstrated tires to voice that the u.s. proposal. trumps recognition over jerusalem as israel's divided capital is the 1st nonstarter for palestinians who want occupied east jerusalem to be their future capital israel would also control palestine's borders skies and the flow of goods in and out the fledgling state wouldn't be allowed its own military and israel would have the right to carry out security operations palestine would also

be barred from security or diplomatic arrangements with other countries without prior israeli approval but it would get a $50000000000.00 aid package to the state of palestine would consist of parts of the west bank and gaza which are currently cutoff from one another they would be connected by roads tunnels and bridges seen in the darker green lines on the map most of them have yet to be built for example this one down here west bank gaza tunnel under the proposed deal the palestinian state would be given a capital in a blue dis which is an arab neighborhood on the outskirts of east jerusalem just that now put a spoke with some of the residents. this doesn't look exactly like a capital city and yet its hero in the village of abu dis on the outskirts of east jerusalem that the american president wants the future capital of a palestinian state to be now not only has the issue divided israelis and palestinians but as you can see by the security barrier it's also divided palestinians from palestinians so on this side you have some of east jerusalem on

the other side you have the rest of it and it's anyone's guess how a city like this well if a function as a capital. structure. or capital of palestine. or the people who are is just sort of start everybody think it's. you know it's. one of the village in the town and we believe a 07 is a capital this is the parliament building here in abu dis now it's closed and it doesn't look like much but this is where presumably a future parliament will function from when trump says that this is a win win situation for both palestinians and israelis well it seems he's being cynical at best about a singer and be able to want to make peace but they have to give us what they give israel you know the fear he doesn't give anything to. be says he doesn't give us

from us most of what they have to hear our voice. i think this will lead everybody to the good to think and to conflict together say what we want to hear and the people here so want be uprising here don't be upset that key to the city of abu dis but when inhabitants here themselves are pessimistic as to the promise that it unlocks it's hard to understand why president trump is putting so much faith in it. r t. rights groups have also expressed serious concern over many of the trumpet ministrations proposals. you know vocals there because 'd that has been happening and what we're seeing with this plan is that is going to enable. and able to actually act it's a land school and next quarter which is biased getting into 3. big. thousands of palestinians i think it's a shoe is. this is

a violation of international law and to be american administration is saying that's ok we've got to go ahead and that's that's the major falls out of this that is copied to one side as well as the rest of universe what it's about is going to start where where or what are you this is being because they're going to go to one side of my obesity that i got to do that it's up to try it's going to be able to work with both that it works on a day to day basis we see that guy in the office could have a nation that inequality and injustice 'd that they have been through and historically and they are wrong on a day to day basis but the united states already declared war on the international criminal court over its investigation to afghanistan its examination situation in palestine it's put all these conditions you know to palestinian statehood negotiations that are clearly meant as has all their actions over the past 3 years meant to produce a palestinian rejection that would pave the way for israeli fixation the reality

here is the united states national criminal court plays a critical role quite literally as a court of last resort in a case like israel palestine where there has been impunity where israel has not held virtually anyone of significance to account for serious human rights abuses over decades and the policies have been the same. many thought it would never happen but the u.k. has finally bit its while to the european union bringing 2000 and almost tough a century and the people count an extended period of up people following the historic referendum back in 26 states but britain's new beginnings i would without one substantive. experience.

no it's not a late new year's celebration it's the u.k. setting sail from the e.u. after 47 years of being docked they're going to wave goodbye i will look forward in the future so working with you pays to chandra's you in your seats put your flags away you know anything a conflicted brussels bids them farewell you will be missed especially by european bureaucrats when it comes to london's money going into their coffers on the other hand westminster has been such a nuisance lately it could be just goodbye and good riddance almost half a century of the united kingdom's membership in the european union is over we want to have the best possible relationship with the united kingdom but it will never be as good as membership that could mean after the 11 months transitional period the u.k. finds itself in rough waters stranded at sea with no trade agreements unless

something can be ironed out before 2021 when they'll be alone months we will not be a rule to go we will not be in the single markets and we will not be in the customs union and we will do this by the end of the year so how are things going aboard britain's flagship well half the crew is celebrating they're free to sail wherever they want finally the country actually got together got on here and started now that we we've lived through your book you want to write reviews. i'm very excited for our future retain our sovereign say we're very to make our own decisions i wrote those controlled i write migration policy very patriotic it's a real right and the captain's ready to steer them to a brighter future. stores in the end but a beginning the e.u. has evolved over 50 is unit got rich and the logo suits this country but the other half is sea sick and predicting a doomed voyage for people to realize that if. we would because of that

it's good if you try to be very productive people try to be. civil it's what we have you. know it's we will be worse off but see the u.k. is. it's just really are is that some are even considering mutiny so angry they might abandon ship should the u.k. government continue to deny scotland's right to choose we may reach the point where this issue does have to be tasty i am not ruling that we must focus firmly on building and winning the political piece for the independence persuaded to climb aboard with concessions northern ireland is watching events closely while naysayers have dared to suggest the captain is ready to surrender british sovereignty into washington's hands the signs are that this government is prepared to sacrifice our country's interests and values for short term political advantage on ascent i'll

try to deal with donald trump. was foreign secretary he embarrassed this country and his prime minister he shows every sign of being prepared to sell itself when and if the u.k. find safe shore sometime somewhere it might be without the treasure it was once promised unless boris johnson finds his sea legs quickly x. marks the spot for brags that booty always picked a former deputy mayor of london watch athens and international paris to cheney and not and so on life off the box set. disentangling ourselves from the european union will be a long and time consuming problem because when the european union issued regulations they had direct a thick it and instead of just letting them be regulations in order to describe how

much we were ruled by the commercial we enacted those regulations verbatim as acts of parliament and the consequence of that is that we're poor parliamentary consul is going to for over the coming months and years have to review dozens of statutes in order to change the law because if they don't it remains the law of the united kingdom because we've already got a relationship with the u. a lot of the material is in place here already so it's not like we're starting from scratch in the same way that the trade deal the e.u. did with canada was and there's quite a lot of the regulations and mechanisms in place for deals around the world already i would anticipate that we probably won't want to change quite a lot of it actually we have to as my old boss the prime minister was saying look forward bring the country back together and work on making this a success over the next year in the years to come. and let's talk

a little bit about the crane a virus because the outbreak has now claimed its 1st victim outside of china a chinese national in the philippines on thursday the world health organization declared international health emergency but made a point of commending china's efforts to combat the spread of the disease this declaration is not a vote of no confidence in china on the contrary w.h.o. continues to have a confidence in china's capacity to control the outbreak. the world health organization also stressed the country should avoid stigmatizing chinese nationals over the virus. looks at a spike in discrimination borders on lockdown zombie like scenes of quarantine cities the world is united in trying to concoct a healing seram virus which has infected hundreds in china has now reached the

united states villages have started to physically block themselves off from the capital and new cases have been confirmed around the world including germany and japan. in the contest of deadliest bugs the new coronavirus doesn't even come close to the order from earlier flu but tables turn dramatically when it comes to the ability to strike fear in the masses and this fear is also bringing out the racist in some people with the chinese diaspora in canada among those at the receiving end our friend of mine has told the baby other day she dropped on her daughter and her daughter was just having a bad day she's 3 years old and. the daycare teacher kept saying if she said is she ok and she kept having to justify herself and say no we haven't travelled or we've

been back to a certain amount of time i had one friend that a colleague of hers went around to everybody who was asian in her office and says are you trying to lose our usual china are you chinese has become a frequent question faced by canadians of asian descent chinese school students whose parents have recently visited china have been urged to stay at home for a while in france a local newspaper published this on its front page headlines saying yellow alert and yellow peril and the internet. did what it does best made everything worse if we could all agree not to eat this things like that corona virus in china it wouldn't happen just seen it cooked the virus will die soon because it's made in china.

i just want to mask to protect myself from this corona virus but it's made in china so i'm playing myself. when it disgustingly ironic that people are being racist towards asian people as they get cynical rotavirus and back in the colonial era white people literally illnesses and killed thousands of indigenous people online jokes and adding to the mocking of the chinese cultural habits but the asian communities fighting back with a hash tag i am not a virus were already experiencing subtle forms of backlash people not taking reclast people's everyday away from minus 2020 what we should hope that our children wouldn't have to deal with the same things that we had to deal with growing up and that really is the biggest concern and calls for self quarantine are being. sounded all over the world by ordinary citizens and authorities alike such

tactics against the virus have been made into a trend by big governments who have cut ties with china and by beijing itself which however says that the isolation measures are a necessary evil to stop the new disease in its tracks the purpose of the government is to put 2 lives and health of the people at the top of all priorities therefore i have been personally directing and deploying the epidemic prevention and containment work this time now it seems it's a matter of whichever comes 1st either the virus all the hype around it has to stop but who knows whether the outbreak of racism will also be halted the reality is that the flu killed a lot more people people are comparing this to the sars outbreak sars killed 44 people in this country 41 people in my city alone the city of toronto are hit by cars last year. you know so the risk is much higher on the day to day life things

3500 people in canada die from the flu 70800 people a year die from air pollution so there are certainly rest that are much much higher that because we see them on the day to day will internalize those as risk right now and in all of canada there have been 3 confirmed cases of a chronic virus the odds of someone actually catching it are very very low and i think it's just fear based it's something that's unknown it's in the media there's a media frenzy so people have just reacted in a very illogical manner still to come this hour a look back at the latest demonstrations in the french capital where a mass rally by firefighters turn violent some of the best photos of from bat on the details of course off to the short break. excuse.

so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy confrontation let it be an arms race based on often scary dramatic developments only really i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful

very critical time time to sit down and tom. welcome back now some european politics because protests have continued to gretz france this week on tuesday thousands of firefighters were out in paris and yet again it descended into violent clashes with police. you know. it's a risky profession and they want to be back just like the police just give you

a sense of what's going on here in paris with the firefighters have come from across fronts to try and get their forces her up by the government they say that they support the need of my suv recruitment troy's the need to see students because they say that the number of old loves they receiving is increasing every year and they don't have the stones to cover it why are we protesting for 7 months because we've had no more spawns from the administration or from the government oh look what there are 2 problems firstly our work involves a high level of risk and this should be factored in a. secure in 2010 to 2018 firefighters have faced an increase and then. verbal and physical attacks against them our police colleagues get more because of the greater risk they face and we're demanding an increase also. we are facing a shortage of personnel that's partly because departments are having their budgets

slashed. so in terms of attacks on firefighters there are no specific figures just for them but there are figures for all emergency crews that firefighters police officers. billets working back in august of last year those attacks were said to reached a record high with many people claiming that there is a problem luring firefighters with the police into a situation and then attacking them in fact there were some 110 assaults or tags being recorded every single day you throughout the year those attacks reached 23000 so that's some of the reasons why the firefighters say that they deserve to have a risk premium just like the police are paid they're out on the streets again in paris hoping that this time. will be heard by the government show that even ski ulti in paris. also this week a meeting of the u.n.

security council russia at loggerheads with the u.k. and united states the russian representative called claims that syrian forces have killed civilians and in a province unsubstantiated as moscow blamed terrorists for using human shield tactics while targeting established humanitarian corridors. we are appalled by the significant escalation and syrian regime and russian violence in the escalation and it is not due to the operations of the syrian armed forces but the constant and deliberate provocations of the terrorists the lives of millions of civilians are now even greater risks as the combined forces of the assad regime russia the iranian regime and has escalated their offensive the problem of can't be resolved as long as the terrorists that have been recognized as such by the security council continue to reign there the syrian army recaptured one of the provinces largest and

most strategic town smart a woman full of a hotspot frontal government protests had been under rebel control since 2012 russia had opened humanitarian corridors for people to leave that area before the operation washington though has insisted defense stopped thought as more and does difficult things that washington has different standards when it comes to its own actions. the fall of newman came as a shock to everyone it was a cradle of the revolution late to the jihad against asaad rebels 2nd largest remaining city and they gave it up without a fight a fight for the city that is it but self had been a battleground for the past month. but then. in december the syrian military set off an

operation taking dozens and dozens of towns and villages in me a week's diplomacy kicked in washington and turkey mediated a ceasefire which then lost the islamists seemingly couldn't keep their fingers off the trigger. about it lip and the reason for the escalation is the reason is the militants control totally or nearly totally by chop out all nusra and ayad taria sham which al nusra has turned into and uses as a cover constantly bring the cease fire with the cease fire arrangements create special corridors for noncombatants so they can leave the combat zones by the way the terrorists keep striking those corridors hindering the departure of peaceful civilians trying to retain them as human shields. they've seen it all before in ghouta rebels caged the women and pensioners on the roofs to prevent the air

strikes i was in aleppo at the end when those same rebels held hostage 200000 civilians refusing to allow a single person human shield to leave the city and you wouldn't even know reading recent headlines it's the usual stuff assad is guilty of every scene and every hurt in syria ruthless actions by russia the iranian regime hizbollah and the assad regime are directly preventing the establishment of a ceasefire in northern syria we condemn these barbaric attacks and call for an immediate cease fire one would think if you really wanted the ceasefire you'd stop flooding rebel armories with weapons and advance the guided missiles but ok so what would america do if it was a to. x. during the season how would it fight terrorists who hide behind civilians in the state department preaches and voices his concern about the suffering of civilians

only when the terrorists suffer a crushing defeat and syrian citizens of finally liberated the state department also published similar hypocritical tweets when syrian cities that are now rebuilding themselves were liberated unlike raca that was wiped off the map by u.s. airstrikes they leveled mosul just like they obliterated raca in all tens of thousands of innocents died i remember them back then broken civilians running out of the city mosul every day horrified that isis sent us jets in equal measure but apparently what america leveled cities it's the right thing to do we're not perfect guys we can make a mistake and in this kind of warfare what happened but we are the good guys munition people on a battlefield know the difference isis knows that they can use human shields to avoid being hit it's their air defense system the enemy is using a tactic that actually has them become part of the target that is on them not on us

not entirely sure the dead would agree those pulver rise by coalition bombs or the survivors who are still years later cleaning up the rubble i'm surprised the pentagon hasn't blamed them too for forcing america to use so many bombs it's clear the cases in mosul iraq the american and british bombers targeted the jihad the islamic state opponents but these people were intermingled with the civilians they had base. and buildings which also house civilians were next to them it's a case of burying their head in the sand and not wanting to admit that both turkey or russia have helped at least to limit the human cost at least to many many hundreds of thousands of people i mean it is. i think part of the underlying dilemma of the western states that they committed themselves so wholeheartedly to

the fall of a sad that they turned a blind eye to who was fighting against him and so they have in the end said anybody who's against it is better than a double standards but it's also turning a blind eye to these groups who have after all spawned threats to western europe because some of the supporters have carried out radical terrorist attacks in western europe too. well before we go let's quickly recap our breaking news story that's coming from south london the metropolitan police say armed officers have shot dead a man suspected of carrying out a knife attack on stratton high road or thought to say 2 people have been stabbed in the assault there's no watch on that condition at the moment the scene has been secured the london metropolitan police say they're treating incident as terror related when we have more information one of those. that's all from me for today you know neil will be here in 30 minutes so stick.