germany chancellor merkel admits that there were errors in the government's handling of the atrocity r.t. hears from people who lost loved ones that day. the u.k. parliamentary committee talked fake news and russia's alleged meddling in numerous country's elections but struggle through even get some of its basic facts straight . the same you're not used to see we just would like to offer that to point to a few of the songs too much of course he's holed up in the guns with emphasis.

r.t. we've been hearing impassioned reaction to the resurgence of violence in the region people can open the bible and to count how many times jerusalem is invention there they will find out also that jerusalem is not mentioned even one time in the koran not even one time people will find out that jerusalem is the capital of israel since nine hundred forty eight the whole world is condemning this action because simply it's against the international law it's and against the framework for the peace corps is has forfeited the united states for free did its position as a broker to the peace process and i tell you something the israelis have girls who are palestinians in the past two days in peaceful protests while no israeli was killed there was an injury in an attack and was jerusalem everything is a lie first everything my opponent says is a lie there were three terrorists killed in gaza strip which has nothing to do with the protests here because gaza strip they fired rockets and they forget about it they just forget that they fire rockets at israeli kindergarten when people who fall off a bi

r.t. and there's been a series of hearings on capitol hill directed at r.t. which are jesus' name has come up people are calling this atmosphere a witch hunt so this is yet another move in the champions in their job reporters only know so i repeat of a bill for as this for been through up in this country when you tell americans you can't do some. of the what helmets rescue group use again it was without water to the swiss press club to cancel a conference critical of the syrian activists the request was rejected by the head of the organization as censorship. if you were challenging our support for this conference with the name of our organization appearing on the list of media members we turn only dissociate ourselves from this event and do not wish to be associated with the conference we invite you to abandon this project which will damage the image of this wrist press club it was very surprising and very disappointing to see the journalist association asking for the kind of censorship that was my first reaction and so i decided to reply writing your letter

r.t. and there's been a series of hearings on capitol hill directed at r.t. which are g.'s name has come up people are calling this atmosphere a witch hunt so this is yet another move another amount of pressure making it harder for reporters like myself to do our job in the united states now we've got some reaction from media expose about how the actions of congress tony with the principle of freedom of speach. well it's monstrous really they are closing down free speech in the name of free speech they're closing down freedom whilst posing as the champions of freedom it's monstrous because it was a pack of lies when the four started to register as a foreign agent and then said the that would not affect the r.t.m. blois doing their job as reporters only know to make it impossible so it's part of this witch hunt while i a proud member of my republic i asked the question how does this look like to the world in the nation's capital the bastion of free speech the first amendment where scores hundreds thousands of people from every conceivable form of press that there is they ge

r.t. we love to hear your thoughts on a day story so to get in touch by following guys on facebook and on twitter i'll be back at the top of the hour with the headlines of the year that. a robot governments can be much more rational and much more compassionate than the . all the dark human governments that we have i suspect people will be more happy with that new situation than they are with the. greetings and salyut asians today hawk watchers it's time to celebrate the freedom of expression the freedom to reject the conventions of the status quo and the freedom of true individuality which means today we celebrate punk rock music in all its forms an attitude rooted in the garage bands of the one nine hundred sixty s. punk rock grew out of a rejection of the claustrophobic excesses of mainstream rock music in the one nine hundred seventy s. punk became a cultural phenomenon that shook the status quo to the core and change the face of music culture and even.

r.t. we love to hear your thoughts on the day's stories so do get in touch by following us on facebook and twitter and join me again at the top of the hour for the latest headlines. live. muddying up nobody's listening. to. look i. live. our. lives. lists. they call me a useful idiot i mean you called me a useful idiot a useful idiot useful idiots go expressing my opinions on t.v. there are thousands of us doing it behind his record is the same strategy we attack persons instead of talking about the org what's next why stop there you'll ban me from getting this close to the white house i'm with a group code pink why not ban the color pink one hour stretch beyond the rock i should be sent to the town because i'm going to try to break me on the wheel but what i long time is this sort of nonsense you don't scare me and i'll continue to voice my opinion i'll continue to speak out in good company i'm in good company you're going to be you want to do this because we're all free thinkers. washington d.c. faces a december day mukesh taxes government funding immigration are just some of the hurdles

r.t. correspondent david miller to hear more on how nuclear energy continues to play a significant role in the global energy mix. new reactor construction is happening now on a global scale with currently some fifty six new reactors under construction in addition many existing play. it's our adding capacity to meet those growing demand as nuclear energy does continue to play a significant role in the global energy mix the long term outlook for your brain remains positive despite current market uncertainty the challenges for the industry creates a pathway with the two.

r.t. correspondent david miller to hear more on how nuclear energy continues to play a significant role in the global energy mix. new reactor construction is happening now on a global scale with currently some fifty six new reactors under construction in addition many existing plants are adding capacity to meet those growing demands as nuclear energy does continue to play a significant role in the global energy mix the long term outlook for your brain and remains positive despite current market uncertainty the challenges for the industry creates a pathway with the timing of the transition from an oversupply market to promises of nuclear growth and positive market conditions in the long term and this industry is typically driven by energy and electricity consumption which continues to increase and the world's population is also growing from seven billion to nine billion over the next two decades population growth is feeding the expected increase in your brain in production currently there are two billion people who have no or limited access to electricity and proponents of nuclear energy sa

r.t. could incite a class war as a class war did you hear about it it was from watching r.t.doesn't make much sense does it and also you're accused of being too critical of the authorities can somebody be too critical of our thirty's what do you think about the times comments. too critical of authorities as a journalist it is a class war that's what i heard on the streets around the grand felt one of the worst fires in all history on the ground there you hear people saying that this is the result of austerity of british government policies this journalist dominic kennedy writing for the rupert murdoch times previously had to apologize around the semitism and homophobia not a good background to then i think he can cost stones this is a of course all part of a. well according to social media despicable campaign against russia and. one should i mean one shouldn't joke about these matters it was one of the worst tragedies in british history arguably but at least they didn't blame the russian government for the grand felt such is the histeria against the russian federation in this

hear it first. you're watching r.t. international just turned three o'clock in the afternoon here our top story this hour the international olympic committee has banned team russia from the twenty eight team winter games in south korea the body made the decision on tuesday night resorting to was a day earlier described as the nuclear option individual athletes who can prove their clean however will be allowed to compete under a neutral flag. these you know i did elsley so will participate between individual or team competitions under the name olympic else lead from russia. they will compete with a uniform bearing this label and under the olympic flag. the olympic and swim will be played in really. no one thought about what it actually means for the attlee's to go to the olympics under a neutral flag it's simply the murder of our national sport. russian athletes won't give up on their country or their flag as this is always in their hearts. over decision to ban russian athletes follows an investigation by an i.o.c. backe

this does not go against the minsk agreement but what we hear from apologies for interrupting their one r.t. international live comments from the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov day two of the o s c e summit in vienna key issues of european security let's just go straight to some of the questions from the press here a couple of subjects to bring to your attention when questioned about the situation in the future of syria. saying isis has been fully defeated only a few pockets of in significant numbers remaining but they will be eliminated and russia is directly working with turkey and iran in syria. with rex tillerson his u.s. counterpart in the past twenty four hours the issue of pyongyang in north korea north korea the leadership there wanting talks with the u.s. and security assurances but washington continues to stage military drills in effect ultimately saying that pyongyang is responding to the u.s. military drills in its back yard also the recognition. topic there with more details available for you right now dot com that's all the time we have for now but kate politics will b

call for more details on this hearing i can now cross live to r.t. is an associate in london not enough just so what were the most interesting parts of this meeting well kate a new day a fresh opportunity to discuss russia here in westminster indeed a parliamentary discussion that was part of an inquiry into feek news where two thirds of experts got together for parallels and they held this conversation for over two hours and yet again russia social media as use our role as well as this channel were discussed in abundance however not without hook up with one committee member admitting he doesn't even use twitter while trying to investigate it apparently not deeming it worthy as well as confusion about where it is that julian assange is actually been around advertising. and not on twitter because life's too short. of that she falls he's holed up in the service for them to go over it with a reader or it was the issue of the world that we need to resist that is worth it if you. well another topic that was researched was that russia's allege a potential

r.t. moscow. clever stuff that's a new site that i hear not say more from me in just about. believe. it's a. wonder when they hit it big i cry the city of new day. it burned when i knew nothing then we took on just a. little bit of. this i wrote reserves in the right channel or in the media in all the men to make a run with a foot on the cliff it's a moment up on the us as a local look at them they want us and the feeling to see a little. of those. settlers help us out it's just a thought that they'll fall. i'm after newtown see we're going underground here at the playhouse theater in central london coming up in the show there's a terror attack in the heart of the u.s. a financial capital have something to do with washington's decision to move its embassy in israel to jerusalem we investigate the dangers to make donations because of their government's policies in the middle east with a former vice chairman of britain's ruling conservatives. and. we talk to the director and stars of a west end revival of david mamet's play glengarry glen ross about real estate and the savagery of western capi

r.t. correspondent ashley banks will tell us how the internet responded and we'll hear from daphne this. university and what the future holds for big data as we go to break through the numbers at the closing bell. when you all know it's coming to inspect the property if somebody would have been told me because i'm going to spend my life to punk i'm going to sit out all distorted person who sold it was clear. every night over we were attacked by the arabs we will attacking them and we will extremely short. of saying that's not possible oh make those moves into such scenes and then the soldiers and myself from the. host with the prison or with gold with over will do. believe much sick and close citizens in the on call. the truce like and i think. that there is no route to be able to live together without. power. those who knew you when you don't says it was the teachers what did they could tell you. what did you not through only ten spaces you. made. left alone they. said. similar. no german did that. you speak french. those were. the. busy. field to be sure the greatest job in the world i

r.t. correspondent ashley banks will tell us how the internet responded and we'll hear from daphne this. university on what the future holds for big data as we go to break through the numbers at the closing bell. like when you all know it's coming through and spoke to if somebody would've been told me that i'm going to spend my life for two punk committees or a little disturbed person with salt it was clear. every night over we were attacked by the arabs we will attacking them and we will extremely short. of saying but that's not possible oh make those moves into such scenes and then the soldiers and myself from the. host without the prisoner we've all gotten over will do all the. really much sick and close citizens in the own home. to roost like and let me get my head that there is no room to be able to live together without. the straw poll. and what the politicians do you should. put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president i'm sure. most somehow want to be rich. but you'd like to be first to see what will befall three of them or can't be goo

r.t. correspondent ashley banks will tell us how the internet responded and we'll hear from daphne this. university and what the future holds for big data as we go to break through the numbers of the closing bell. like when you all know it's coming to inspect the top if somebody would have been told me to come to spend my life to plan communities and i'll talk to story corps some of them sold through was clearly some. every night all we were protected by the arabs we will attacking them and we will extremely short. of saying that's not possible oh make those movements such sentiments and then the soldiers myself from the. host with all the prisoner we've all dealt with over will do. believe much sick and close citizens in the oncoming. troops like him i think. that there is no room to be able to live together without. our. about under the rhythm i did not. know my mother. in this new school but i. still love. the little guys you know some of them the woman that sonny did not go by letting other people tell you that something is in the. time and most will go down. not from the unknown wit

r.t. dot com otherwise at the top of the hour my colleague neil harvey will we hear the latest headlines from me by phone and. healthcare and. i thought. well we are not l l o. please translate it to the end. of. the i. am not going out no. one else chose seemed wrong why don't we all just don't all. get to shape our lives just because the active. and engaged because betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. with this manufactured consensus instinctive public wealth. when the ruling classes project themselves. with the primary go live to be the one percent. who ignore middle of the room sick. hello i'm alex karras or this is the kaiser report you know the world is a finite place. in mary's capacity to generate garbage seems infinite oh my god how those two are going to work how do you square the circle so maxwell the circle is not being squared in fact there's a finite amount of space even in the financial system where many think you can print an infinite number of dollars well china saying yankee go home to all american toxic waste whether it is

right according to the recent rewinds which was later today we'll hear more from austria's side of the story join us in three hours here at r.t. for an interview with. a member of the national council for year which has been pushing for that. so twitter has implemented new rules in an attempt to combat hateful and abusive behavior on its platform has been accused of being selective of the account sister cited to purge his artie's jacqueline with more details. the twitter purge the social network has launched its campaign to root out hate speech be removed and repeated violation should among the first to go off line offensive anti muslim posts as hansan donald trump came racist terms and called for violence but the account is still active another tweet laying out a desire to kill pie is still readily available and it goes on from there active account school or fine and inciting violence even his wife and children were named and attacked and the past pie himself has called twitter out as one of the problems with an open internet company usually goes when it comes to give your mind service users but those who believe that. this

done right gentlemen i'm a chance to hear what you got it was short break and after that short break we'll continue our discussion on the state of the media stay with r.t. . trump fantasy it is. very much from the existing plurality system because he was so different from the other candidates if you took any one of those mainstream candidates and you put him in the head to head contest with trump. that other candidate might well have one.

r.t. new york. whether it's cause or christmas not everyone's getting the chance to get totally stuck into festivities we hear two going to which the french president has surprised his ministers but demanding they stay on standby this festive period and not ventured too far from paris during the holidays it's not going down too well we hear what some of them. the a. third of the. bunch more serious matters though threw up so far before ago keep in mind that the ongoing situation of that moscow confectionery factory where a direct is killed on site security guard seems a ghost in the on the loose the not quite sure where you can follow the common course of twenty four seventh's place full of news stories for now for me kevin oh and thanks for watching next live update out international for most go in minutes. los angeles the city of luxury and fame but also an alarming number of people living in the streets. simple fact in l.a. he's there's just not enough shelter even if people on the streets right now decided to come in there's nowhere to come in it's been a struggle. this man phoned his own response to the

r.t. for you in that on the sidelines of a security conference in austria from their r.t.s. peter oliver reports. we've been hearing from russian foreign minister sergey lavrov he held a meeting with u.s. secretary of state rex tillerson on thursday here in vienna it only lasted for around thirty minutes but they certainly motored through an awful lot of topics the big news of the day really being that the decision by the united states to move the embassy to jerusalem said again a lot of said that he asked rex tillerson why the pursuit of assistance we asked them to clarify the points of the decision to move the u.s. embassy in israel from tel aviv to jerusalem we asked them about the consequences from this move but mediating efforts on the part of the un we have a lot of questions and drew their attention to the concerns from both the arab and muslim countries that could undermine or even bury negotiations on a two state solution also on the agenda was the future of syria with sergey lavrov saying that the sovereignty of the country must be protected in the integrity. the integrity of the borders of syria must be

r.t. crews in jerusalem correspondent shot at do bensky anti-crime room and witnessed the violence firsthand. so his own in the middle of. as you can hear we're having some tear gas that's being shot all of us and jack we're in the middle of a project i probably shouldn't have been shaking against the fact that president trump has named vish us and i think this is really capital. so we just want to take a few moments to get some safety equipment on as we are in the middle of this protest here in jerusalem as you can see in the distance there are a group of youths who are here to protest that decision by don't trim to name jerusalem as the official capital of israel and if you look down this street you'll see some of the security forces present from the israeli defense force and also some offices on horseback they are used to right away some of these fires because the people. here. we've just come to the story to the streets because some of the protesters are actually throwing rocks and bottles down in our direction towards is where the security forces which are behind this. was you could see pieces i just i mean this is no these are eas

hearing seen in washington both words again were russian interference. discord disapproved of democracy european union about to fall to pieces form and division of this r.t. and split in the russian affiliate meddling in the one on russian trolls and russian forums the specific given to spreading propaganda to feed the goal was to polarize but despite all of those buzz words the committee's experts failed to provide any real evidence of meddling and they even to struggle to get the number of basic facts straight and churkin as more. a new day is a new opportunity to discuss who russia is and to at this particular parliamentary hearing focused on an inquiry on feek news was carrying on for over two hours and how does a panel discussions with experts sharing their opinions and of course russia social media's use our role as well as this channel were discussed in abundance yet again however not without a hick up from one member of the committee away admitting that he doesn't even use twitter apparently not even deeming it worth the two names of artes editor in chief basically invented as well as realisations that some committee members don't really know whe

r.t. crew is in jerusalem and our correspondent charlotte dubin skin to cameraman witnessed the violence firsthand. so we're here on the middle of. as you can hear we're having some tear gas being shot off. and jack we're in the middle of a project i probably shouldn't have been shaking against a factor that president trump has named vish us and he's going to she's ready capital. so we just want to take a few moments to get some safety equipment on as we are in the middle of this protest here in jerusalem as you can see in the distance there are a group of used to here to protest that decision by don't trim to name jerusalem as the official capital of israel and if you look down this street you'll see some of the security forces fresh from the israeli defense force. some offices on horseback they are used to the way some of these french. people. here. we've just come to the sort of the streets here because some of the protesters are actually throwing rocks and bottles down or direction towards is where the security forces which are behind this. as you can see the security forces are just coming past this now these are israeli security forces who

right gentlemen i'm going to chant to hear what you got it was short break and after that short break we'll continue our discussion on the state of the media stay with r.t. . everybody i'm stephen ball. hollywood guy suspect every proud american first of all i'm just george bush and honored to do so this is my buddy max famous financial guru just a little bit different i'm not. going to. go with those up with all the drama happening in our country i'm shooting the brood have some fun every day americans. and hopefully start to bridge the gap this is the great american to. make its manufacture consent to public wealth. when the ruling classes protect themselves. with the famous go around listen to the one percent. you know middle of the room sick. welcome to cross like we're all things considered i'm peter bell to remind you we're discussing the state of the media. ok let me go back to eric in new york and i think you would least concede that the liberal mainstream media has it out for trump and i think that's why they're making all of these mistakes because they have a certain goal and anything that they can get their hands on or even make up they're go

things which are not clear as we're hearing reports of the port authority building being cleared by the reputable department. we'll leave it there i mean we have heard the r.t. has contacted the police for comment but they've neither confirmed nor denied that lawson did not admit the anybody was in custody so we are awaiting details on that they also carry find that it was yet unfair whether this incident is being treated as a terror attack or not but we do have reports coming through that the bomb squad has been has been sent to the area we'll have more details on this later and probably hear from caleb again today thank you very much indeed. for me one it's been a very busy day for vladimir putin whose plane has touched down in cairo where the russian president was met by his egyptian counterpart and ever trying to explain the importance of the visit. president c.c. who is welcoming mr putin at the airport and also here at the presidential palace has many issues to sort out with the russian leader including joint nuclear power plant project and reopening direct flights but bear in mind jerusalem the arab league met here and the capital of egypt to and don

r.t. has spoken to the italian coach of spartak moscow and shared his views on football philosophy and his experience appearing right living right here in our moscow you can hear the full interview later in the day on the stand callable show but for now a quick preview. besame about that affair little spot that they. watch it doesn't arrive in the us yet this is going up what you thought those were but. they will get a spot comment you were doing was able to spot that and i thought it's over for sic ivy's but then when you know what i'm good see always a good time to queue for the. mass so on our squad. they can he come in they all know that if you force the vocal mic squad up call them with your knee. and with your knee about it in fourth down to anything it's off. in the meantime for now from media. your friday worldwide news headlines here on r t international we are back varies. and is getting international recognition with the help of israel at least in the world of zoos the middle of the commission to look before you like you know. these are my compass he is going up the study hall meeting to. build john philadelphia. the only palestinians is gets the mo

we will be hearing from new york city's mayor bill de blasio shortly about the incident thank you very much for that update that caleb moore and also we do have a line just coming i mean r.t. talked to the new york police department and they have confirmed that there are two other minor injuries besides the suspect who is in custody and will be having well we're bringing you more details as we have them thank you. well to remind you the cause of this explosion is still unclear and police haven't decided yet whether to treat it as a terror attack however all eyes are now on what's happening in new yorkers just a month ago the city's deadliest attack since nine eleven took place. just a father had been planning this for a number of weeks you did this in the name of isis. and moving on to other news here on our team president putin has ordered the start of the withdrawal of russian forces from syria that's just days after he announced the complete defeat obviously mixtape in syria daniel hawkins joins me in the studio earlier with more details. also in many will view it that way kate especially from a military point of view this of course was a surprise visit as you mentione