triggers violence. in the middle. east with washington and israel. and the west bank also ahead. 47 years of cooperation there are. fears grow over the. there's a report in. a

french. turns ugly. stories from the past 7 days on right up to the moment. this is the weekly international a little welcome. suspected of carrying a knife attack in london has been shot dead by police this sunday authorities say 2 people were stuck in the assault high road. no word almost a condition all of. her and clearly london metropolitan police though say they are

treating this incident as terror related british prime minister boris johnson the emergency services for responding to the incident has expressed sympathy to those injured any and all details developments on this story we will bring them to. 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 feels to respect the basic rights of palestinians. my vision presents a win win opportunity for both. a realistic 2 state solution that resolves the risk of palestinian statehood to israel's security today israel is taking

a giant step toward peace it's a great plan proves wrong. it's a great plan for peace frankly mr president. given all that you've already done through israel i'm not surprised. dear friends we heard a little while ago from president trump and prime minister netanyahu talking about would lead to the deal of the century which we described as the slap of the century we will say a 1000 times no to this proposal. said on sunday that he will no suspend all ties with the united states and israel the release of the plan triggered protests in parts of the west bank with militants in the gaza strip firing rockets and mortar rounds at israel scores of demonstrators also burned tires to voice their anger at the u.s. . administration's recognition of jerusalem as israel's

own divided capital is the 1st nonstarter for the palestinians who want east jerusalem to be their future capital israel would also control palestine's borders is on the flow of goods in the fledgling states would not be allowed its own military in israel would have the right to carry out security operations their policy would also be barred from security or diplomatic arrangements with other countries without prior is really prove all but it would get a $50000000000.00 a package now the state of palestine would consist of a punch work of areas in the west by gallons of oil are currently cut off from one another there would according to the pub be connected by roads tunnels bridges shown here in them up most of them have yet to be built including over here as well now under the proposed deal a palestinian state would be given a couple abu dis that's an hour of neighborhood on the outskirts of east jerusalem

paulus leader and she's been speaking with some of the residents there. 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 who 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 b.o.'s or capital of palestine. refused. to start or the people who are is just. a start everybody think. you know it's. one of the village in the town and we really have 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 acing and be able to want to make peace but they have to give us you know what they give israel you know the fear he doesn't give anything to some pieces he doesn't give us from us most of our guards 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 hear 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 to express serious concern over many of washington's proposals.

the oval office there because 'd that has been happening and what we're seeing with this bill as that is going to enable. and able to actually act it's a landstuhl annex more which is biased getting an education and to. thousands of palestinians i mean it's a shoe it's. is on 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 roads out of this land is completely one sided where is that i mean voice what is the palestinians down where where or what are they this is being because without going to that one side it might add obviously the israeli government that it's up to show that. it's going to be able to the way that it is on a day to day basis we see the guy in the office going to nation and out of an equality and injustice 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 of the situation in palestine its put all these conditions you know to. save the 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. the u.k. has finally bit its for a while to the european union bringing to an end almost half a century in the block on that extended period of all people following the historic referendum back in 26 thing. but britain's new beginnings are in with all its

uncertainty those double quarter breaks. no it's not a late new year 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 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 while half the crew is celebrating they're free to sail wherever they want finally the country actually going to get going on here right now that. we've lived through you know you want to write really good. i'm very excited for our future over and so you were very to make our own decisions i wrote those controlled i write migration policy very. israel tickets are real bright and the

captain's ready to steer them to a brighter future stores in the end but the beginning of the e.u. has evolved over 50 is unit direction the lotus 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 disruptive we make you feel. similar to what we have you. know as we will be worse off by seeing the u.k. . 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 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. as 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 we heard from former deputy mayor of london roger evans international bar a star julian mullins on what might lie ahead for post breaks in britain. this

entangling ourselves from the european union will be a long and time consuming problem because when the european union issued regulations they had direct effect and instead of just letting them be regulations in order to do sky's 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 the 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 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. to moving on the coronavirus i break has now claimed its 1st victim side of china a chinese national in the philippines on thursday the world health organization declared an 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 deadly joe continues to have a confidence in china's capacity to control the outbreak. additionally the world health organization stressed the country should avoid stigmatizing

chinese nationals over the virus r t z e l it has been looking into that aspect of the crisis 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 need 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 or old familiar 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 other day she dropped out 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 traveled or with the bat or a certain amount of time i had one friend 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 wouldn't happen just seen it cooked the virus will die soon because it's made in china. i just bought a mask to protect myself from this corona virus but it's made in china so am i playing myself. when it disgustingly ironic that people are being racist towards asian people as they get seen the coronavirus back in the colonial era white people literally the illnesses the country 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 our

very class 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 schools 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 but because we see them on the day to day window internalize those as miss right now and all of canada there have been 3 confirmed cases of the coronavirus 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 on the program

a look at back up the latest demonstrations in the french capital for a mass rally high firefighters turned violent something was helping images from. albert einstein is often credited with defining insanity as doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result this is essentially the argument behind the trumpet ministrations deal of the century aimed at putting an end to the israeli palestinian conflict. is the american president indeed insane or a genius breaking with decades of fruitless mediation.

the world is driven by shaped by one person of those great. dares thinks. we dare to ask. you're very welcome back to the program protests continued to grip for us this week on choose they thought was and is our firefighters were it in part us yet again if the send it into violent clashes with police

4. it's a risky profession and they won't be back looks just like the police just give you a sense of what's going on here when power. yes where the firefighters have come from across france to try and get their food he says heard by the government they say that the smartly need a massive recruitment droid they need assistance because they say that the number of old lives they receiving is increasing every year and they don't have the staff to cover it why are we protesting for 7 months because we've had no response from the administration or from the government all of 2 problems firstly our work involves a high level of risk and this should be factored in

a. security or in 2010 to 2800 firefighters have faced an increase and the number of verbal and physical attacks against them 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 and ambulance workers back in august of last year those attacks are said to 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

$23000.00 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 their voices will be heard by the government show that even ski ulti in paris. also. this week a meeting of the u.n. security council saw russia at loggerheads with the u.k. and the united states the russian representative called claims that syrian forces had killed civilians and it led province substantiated moscow also blamed terrorists for using human shield tactics while targeting established about a tarion corridors we are appalled by the significant escalation and syrian regime and russian violence in libya but it should be 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 rain their let's actually just bricked of what's been spoken about there the serbian army recaptured while of it led provinces largest and most strategic. newman the former hotspot for anti-government protests had been under rebel control since 2012 russia had opened humanitarian corridors for people to leave the area before the operation washington though insisted the offensive the start of us morocco's the of reports it seems that washington has different standards for the films to its old. the form of my new month 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 meal weeks the promise he kicked in russia 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 tarina 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. we've seen it all before in ghouta rebels caged the women and pensioners on roofs to prevent 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 want to the cease fire you'd stop flooding rebel armories with weapons and advance the guy that missiles but ok so what would america do if it was a tad. x. during the season how would it fight terrorists to hide behind civilians mislead the public preaches and voices its concern about the alleged 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 us as strikes 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 and u.s.

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 and 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 pulled arised 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 in iraq are the american and british bombers targeted the jihad the islamic state opponents but these people were intermingled with the civilians they had based the souls of buildings which also house civilians were

next to the it's a case of burying their head in the sand and not wanting to admit that both turkey and 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 assad is better than a sad not 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 to.