western sahara. the trump administration announced the major policy shift on december 10, international human rights day, as part of a deal that saw morocco become the fourth arab nation to normalize ties to israel in recent months. trump's decision has received widespread international condemtion and the united nations has stated that its position regarding western sahara remains unchange meanwhile, a nearly three-decade ceasefire in western sahara also recently ended after the moroccan milary broke into a southern no-go buffer zone on november 13 to attk sahrawi vilians and exchanged fire with the polisario front, the sahrawi liberation movement seeking independence. as morocco and the polisario engage on the battlefront, dozens have been arrested in the occupied territory. many of the sahrawis in this film are currently under police siege or in hiding. all that and more, coming up. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace port. i'm amy goodman. today a democracy now! exclusive -

because modernization was seen as synonymous with western eyes a ship and. i reject this view because i actually have only got to understand a bit of china to say that that would never happen i mean you know there's an extraordinary continuity about china over a 2000 year period not least in government the idea that somehow western eyes a ship was going to happen was an illusion the other thing by the way i predict in my book if you of course china will replace the united states as the leading bear in the world which i think a very large number of people around the world probably now beginning to feel it's true now e.u. call this idea an illusion and many in washington now call it enemies they read what i'm surprised by is by the sheer backwoods existence and the ease with which it was adopted because i present a scheme the subject ramesses on details and it isn't it ultimately based on the assumption that all non-western areas are savages because the only salvation is in adopting western ways. yes i think there's a lot of truth in that. the west has dominat

is the only western nation to recognize moroccan sovereignty over the western sahara is there a chance from your perspective that u.s. president elect joe biden might try and reverse donald trump's decision or is it more likely that he would affirm it it's hard to tell you know he put political decisions made by politicians even legitimately elected ones like biden are very hard to predict the politicians react to all kinds of different stimuli and pressures and calculations that have to do with domestic and international affairs my suspicion is that you know biden. seems to respect international law and un decisions and things like that and consensus so it's unlikely that he will enthusiastically support this move or he might just kind of freeze it don't do nothing to overturn it but just freeze it and the not make it a. dynamic process or he might try to push for a renewed u.n. role to really get some something going on there that could implement the self-determination referendum that these are very hard things to predict what is clear is that this is a decision that was made largely

aid could be spent in western sahara. our country did not do that before and the united states opened that kind of venue and there has been a lot of nigeria because that is a defacto recognition over western sahara. european union signed treaties with morocco that included western sahara. before it refused to do that and that is defact hoy ho of western sahara. morocco spends by the agenda and by international law that the demark asal lines in 1967 is the only line that exists between the two-state solution and is the only solution and jerusalem is the capital of the palestinian states. and the that kind of negotiation. and i think that what is happening now, between the palestinians and israelis in terms of reopening the channels comes also because of this kind of momentum created by the fact that some other countries have recognized israel and pushing in the right kind of direction and negotiation between the israelis and palestinians. >> what do you make of the moroccan's reaction. it was perhaps a bit more muted. and

to recognize and accept its control over an annexation of the western sahara. the different countries in the world, the u.n., do not recogne moroccan control or anxation of the westersahara and neither did the u.s. is is a change in u.s. policy d a violation of u.n. resolutions that granted the sahwari, western sahara since determination possibly same wa as the palestinians every year told they have the right to self-determination, but with implementation we never get it so this has created a situation of quid pro quo where the u.s. exploits the weakness or the avarice of other countries in order to bring them normalize with israel and in two destroyed violatee initiative, to arab resolutions, and israel to place and at the heart of the region as a major economic military security court. now, morocco -- there is an article in, but the new york times." the moroccan people are among the most supportive of the palestinian cause, extremely patriotic and they identify with palestine. they're very unhappy with what is happening. . happy with the normalization with is

saw these clear-cut patches, it reminded them of the western front. there was a discussion after the war about the need for some sort of forestry policy. 1919 there is a creation of forestry policy to create sustainable forestry practices in the name of national security. the progression of the war accentuated the importance of petroleum. the u.s.ime, it was and mexico that supplied more than 80% of the world's petroleum, most out of california. but a fair amount along the veracruz coast in mexico. that is the spot i will focus on. to drill there, companies had to move mangroves, flatten sand dunes, and drain swamps along the coast. they would dig these deep pits to hold the petroleum once it was pumped out, and it disturb the soil that mimics the way it was on the western front. the petroleum was contained at high levels with hydrogen sulfide at high temperatures. it was common for these blazes and explosions to happen that would devastate land, some of which have not recovered. in great britain, there is concern on foreign oil, u.s. oil, and it was

precisely because it believes everyone should be motoring you know in a western direction. so it doesn't really feel the need to understand other cultures and i think that this is one of the great problems the west faces now is that it just doesn't understand china and i you know you can make sense of china well of course you come make sense of john if you know about the really studying it probably and you always assume that you're going to it's going to end up like you which is your requirement so that and so this is actually you know the west likes to think of itself has already cost the poets. and so on in reality the west is becoming more and more provincial they cook asians only represent about percent of the world's population and the west is roughly you know that's the size of the west . so the vast majority of the will live in very different very a very diverse circumstances with different histories and i think that's you know a beautiful saying about the world now i tend to approach this issues from a psychological perspective and what i find kind of ironic is that

those countries more than 40 countries have expressed an interest in buying sputnik 3 however many western critics have already written off the russian vaccine hawkins looks at why. the media today is full of big headlines pfizer's covert 19 vaccine is officially the 1st to be approved in a western country with the united kingdom leading the way there's a sense of excitement that lives can be saved on the 1st steps towards codewords final defeat have been taken i would like to tribute to and to those who made this possible it is the protection. that were ultimately allow us to recruit our lives and get our economy moving again this is a victory but the real winner in the race for a covert job has been vaccine protectionism to many in western media and establishment only western produced vaccines can even be considered as part of a global solution to the pandemic and other a break through from the last event is that field shares are seneca higher as pfizer makes a final push drug company pfizer says it is a great day for science c.e.o. of pfizer tweeting out his congratulations. but it was

correspondent for 7 western is and i'm. promised you know in the previous normalization deals has been stressing what it could mean practically for israelis and terms of trade in terms of tourism in this instance he's been talking about the fact that so many hundreds of thousands of moroccan jews came to israel in the early days of zionism and throughout the early days of the israeli state and that that is what he calls a bridge to morocco and so again he's been talking about the fact that there will be these direct flights that people can go and find families find trace their family histories in morocco presumably that is something that has happened in the past but in terms of organized to a groups having to fly by europe being able to do so independent the directly will be a major change for. israeli jews of moroccan heritage there's been obviously a very different reaction coming from the palestinian side the outgoing member of the executive committee of the p.l.o. how much were we has tweeted that between bribery and bl

if we take the western front, soldiers are noting this. they are noting that would once had been reviewed for pastureland, or forest, is now torn up and being taken over by weeds. and we talk about this in a book storm. what's interesting, though, is that if you are a french agricultural economist, you saw what was happening there, in a little bit of a godsend, because it was destroying these old property lines, it was obliterating ownership records. and finally, in the minds of these french agricultural economists, france can get out of its medieval farming, and get into the modern age. so, now, that was the hope. but in fact, there's this massive push. of course there was, on the part of local towns, and the part of the state governments, to return things as fast as they could to exactly how they were before the war. which is a whole another story about french agriculture, that's what we see happening there. whether it had been planned before the war, they will be that will be planned after the war. >> thanks. >> i have a couple of quest

policy with regard to western sahara as not simply being reversed the us had been alongside a united nations members african union the european union had all insisted that the way to get a peaceful settlement in the region was to get a referendum in western sahara now president trying to simply turn his back on all those years of discussion all those years of policy making and all those years of negotiation that happened and there's already been a consequence a very rare criticism from a republican in the senate jim inhofe has released a statement saying that president trump has traded the voices of the people of the no voice for this particular peace deal he really critical of president trump for taking this action for reversing u.s. policy now the question is when joe biden comes into office where the heat is follows along with what president trump does which could well anger many off his allies or whether he attempts to reverse the situation which could imperil this peace deal and of course there are implications on politics across the middle east to consider his hands from a whol

has western skepticism is groundless. what has happened is placed in exploited say that russians are rushing with a back seat back scenes to the tried and tested cliff and the long period of time and that we've done everything so fast. company can win a western counterparts make statements we need to look very closely it's who is saying it and exactly what they are saying for example they frequently complain that the gamma institute hasn't published enough data and so all of the same time we should realize that just a research institute is not a pharmaceutical giant like astra zeneca or pfizer a lot of p.r. specialists who are usually presenting the data selectively and in a favorable light so once again you shouldn't compare the data published by the government institute with the data published by western companies on the other hand if you still want to make a comparison that's compared to the oxford research group when they hadn't yet signed an agreement with astra zeneca no one knew them and no one saw the results unti

boy has up in this western experts say that russians are rushing with a vaccine seems any vaccines to be tried and tested for a fairly long period of time and that we've done everything so fast that they need to grow. up and then when a western counterparts make statements we need to look very closely at who is saying it and exactly what they are saying for example they frequently complain that the gamma layer institute hasn't published enough data and so on at this point we've seen convincing data that proves is safe it was proven during pre-clinical animal testing please consider that i'm talking about safety no not effectiveness then it was proven during clinical trials on healthy volunteers we've done all that and statistics do show that the vaccine is safe and. the most unexpected of places was to take holy orders to get round the lock down the 400 rabbits to caleb bar in central england applying for a church license in a tongue in cheek bid to highlight what it calls the absurdity of selective restrictions as places of worship worship can stay open but restaurants and bars can't

up and then when a western counterparts make statements we need to look very closely at who is saying it and exactly what they are saying for example they frequently complain that the gamma layer institute hasn't published enough data and so on of the same time we should realize that just a research institute is not a pharmaceutical giant like astra zeneca or pfizer a lot of p.r. specialists who are usually presenting the data selectively and in a favorable light so once again you shouldn't compare the data published by the gamma institute with the data published by western companies when the other hand if you still want to make a comparison that's compared to the oxford research group when they hadn't yet signed an agreement with astra zeneca no one knew them and no one saw the results until big pharma got involved. just how realistic is it to prove that the vaccine is safe. this point we've seen convincing the proof is safe it was proven during pre-clinical animal testing please consider that i'm talking about safety mail not effectiveness then it was proven during clinical trials o

take the western front. soldiers are noting this.they're noting what had once been a beautiful pastureland or a beautiful forest is torn up being taken over by weeds. and talking about this, in a book "storm of steel," which is really interesting that if you were a french agriculture economist, you saw what was happening there in a little bit of a godaccepted because it was destroying these old prop lines obliterating ownership records and finally when-of-in the mind of these french agriculture economists france can get out of its medieval farming and finally get into the modern hope. that was the hope. a push on the part of local towns, of course there was, on the part of state governments to return things as fast as they could to exactly how they were before the war. which is a whole other story about french agriculture but that's what we see happening there. what had been planted before the war, they're going to be damned that that's not going to be planted after the war. thanks. >> i have a couple of questions. >> ooh, good. okay

a german soldier looking out over the western front. how different is it from young boy looking out over these eroded lands in the american prairies? how different is it from what these lumberjacks are seeing? here we find french soldiers under fire on the western front. and mexican oil workers there, along the veracruz coast. crossing these landscapes, the cross between the war landscape in the piece landscape, created unease in some less obvious ways. the war simultaneously opened and closed frontiers. some of these efforts were linked to empire building agendas. others were part of capitalistic schemes. all of them extended state or corporate control over the natural world in some way. heavily dependent on dominions for energy, europe and it's increasingly more demands only through these subtler societies. only through these colonial landscapes. and in turn, these societies used imperial energy needs to further extend systems of colonial control over frontier lands and indigenous populations. wet the war is doing is reinforcing state

they all agree with that self-determination for the western saharan people. i was so sadden by the betrayal towards the people of western sahara for unilaterally recognizing mo row co's -- marrow co's claim but i'm colleague the unexpected results from the proclamation. if highlightings the injustice of these people pushes the rest of the world to get hem the referendum, it might be worth it. that's what i'm seeing right now. i remember so well -- it's now been some three or four generations of western saharans and the little kids that you see in the camps, in the refugee camps living in the conditions that we can't even imagine in this country, but happy little kids. and they carry around a sign. and i don't have the pronunciation in their language, but it says, we will fight until we get back our homes. these are little kids. the fourth generation of those who have been abandoned. so i remember -- and i called and i found out, what was the year? was it 2007? yes, in 2007 mark powers and i -- he's been with me in a the although of things in africa that we've

he would take the train to the soviet sector, hand over data on western intelligence operations and westerngents, and then drink champagne with his kgb handler. i don't know, maybe 500, 600.

brokered the deal promising in exchange to recognize morocco's claim over the disputed western sahara region well here's the area which up until now the us agreed was disputed western sahara and dark grey has been fought over for years by morocco and the suffer all we ethnic group. this is the foundation on which we can now build this peace will resume liaison offices quickly between israel and morocco and work as rapidly as possible to establish full diplomatic relations we also institute direct flights between morocco in israel and israel in morocco giving this bridge of peace and even more solid foundation this will be a very warm peace peace as never the light of peace on this hanukah day as never shown brighter than today in the middle east have a force that is a westerly sliman says. his being talking up the historic links between israel and iraq a promise you know in the previous normalization deals has been stressing what it could mean practically or israelis in terms of trade in terms of tourism in this instance he's been talking about the fact that so many hundreds of thousa

areas are savages because the only salvation is in adopting western ways.es i think there's a lot of truth in that you say the west has dominated the wealth of let's say roughly 200 years and the assumptions grown up that the the western model is universal in other words it's a predictable true and should be adopted by everyone and therefore progress a's progress towards adopting a western model and this is to me a nonsense i mean you know historically things don't work no.

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and they're going where no western counterparts make statements we need to look very closely at who is saying it and exactly what they are saying for example they frequently complain that the gamma layer institute hasn't published enough data and so all of the same time we should realize that is just a research institute is not a pharmaceutical giant like astra zeneca or pfizer a lot of p.r. specialists who are usually presenting the data selectively and in a favorable light just how realistic is it to prove that the vaccine is safe. at this point we've seen convincing data that proves it is safe it was proven during pre-clinical animal testing please consider that i'm talking about safety no not effectiveness then it was proven during clinical trials on healthy volunteers we've done all that statistics to show that the vaccine is safe still ahead america's claims that now the global share of what it comes to placing doping in sport we look at how i knew us nor could get that far reaching powers to jail and prosecute offenders in different countries with us. well i think israel has. ge

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present this but they could be backstage at the un as schools of countries look to by the job the western media and the authorities turn away. from the most unlikely place looks to take probably orders of bob pitts to reclassify as a church to dodge and lock down restriction. that the rest of the venue as a whole set off an application to reach for the venue is a place of worship. as the church for the drivers. on the eastern european members of the e.u. threaten the breakup of the entire block if brussels once listened to them and the hump bring you closer to recovery funding and there. is. a very good morning to you from our team here in moscow this is r.t. international with me. he's tried an army of lawyers and the social media tools at his disposal now donald trump is pleading with the u.s. supreme court to overturn the presidential election results trump is claiming quote tremendous of voter fraud and a stolen election. this may be the most important speech i've ever made i want to provide an update on our own going efforts to expose the tremendous voter fraud and irregularities whi

actor had to do a western.the same horse in every western they made. you want to hear a show biz story, stephen. >> stephen: i always do, i always do. >> all right, i'm just going to throw out a name. i'm going to drop a name now. you tell me if you recognize it or not. jimmy stewart. you familiar with the name? >> stephen: i've seen some of the work. >> through a fate that is grander than anything i ever could have imagined in my life, i'm in jimmy stewart's house getting my picture taken with him for one of the many incarnations of "life" magazine. yeah, i just dropped that. there you go. >> stephen: yeah. >> so he's showing me-- he's showing me around his-- his living room, his parlor. and there is no sign of jimmy stewart the movie star anywhere in this thing. actually, there is-- there's some photographs of a man, a woman, and a daughter in various places around the world in picture frames, and it's-- it's an elderly, balding man, and-- and a woman and-- sorry about that. answer that! ( phone ringing ). >>

clubs close clubs composed of mostly western diplomats human rights activists and so on and so forth you have a representative on the numerous again and or no other myanmar is out of mind all reports on this can you know we have this same reports on almost every country. we can present them you know and producing those reports is a profession for many many people really abductions utterly to tell us on the real it is a real it is torture ill treatment extradition feeling well you know i don't know months of many cases or for this appearance of people in ukraine for example russia itself soon as it was ability to rebel crimea for these things going on in crimea is that where the russian absolutely russia is absolutely responsible for the crime ear there is law and order there and there are no lot of warnings to the you are not a global nuclear missile against torture not according to the good mental part of that means they are producing fake information as all or very often the case but again whatever i say it doesn't matter to you you just don't listen to me because that for you is a