A limb picked gymnastics champion Mckayla Maroney claims that she was paid to keep quiet about years of child abuse by the u. S. Team doctor. Very good evening to you my name is neil harvey this is our international. Protests again broken out across palestine after another day of rage was called the demonstrations followed. To recognize jerusalem as the capital of israel. In the west bank and gaza journalists. Both witnessed just how tense the situation is. The situation here is extremely was home. Out of breath because weve been running down the road now and. Holders have made their way right in see them off to my left im a car and look someone a third one firing tear gas and everybodys been running amok the streets are rich and. The soldiers are just you know just. All the way into the pacific. You can tell the ambulances so they certainly will be a few people who have been in the us and at the same time were just going by coming over to the back of the posse from here exactly what. We say can provoke weve taken cover in a in a petrol station. Coming into a situation where informants how can a man who want to can. Cause and. Were standing right here you can see that theres a number of injured people you can see the insist on carrying people with them you can see the israeli tanks that which in the last few minutes just made their way from up the road they now seem to be the feasting also from allah but they really have come all the way in now so. That. Todays day of rage that has been called for by various palestinian factions is well and truly under way there are youngsters whove been here for the better part of the last hour who feel hurling rocks and pavements at these waiting soldiers who speaks only been inching their way closer theyve been filing tear gas in the stomach cell is still quite a strong smell of tear gas that is hanging over us. The protesters and demonstrators come here today for the third friday raids. This friday was different other than that two fridays people were very close to the fence this time and we piece out very important leader act and polluted shins and activist joining the civilians during the protests as you see there are at least five ambulances waiting for any injury and ready to pick them up there are still hundreds of protesters as you can hear we can hear live bullets i think there is another another injury right now and theyre actually throwing gas bombs on the demonstrators as you can see despite all of the live bullets despite all the gas bombs despite all of the rebel berlitz by listening protesters whether in gods are the west bank already jerusalem are separate testing are still demonstrating people are searched pressing their anger. This will comes after the United Nations voted overwhelmingly to condemn Donald Trumps unilateral decision to recognize jerusalem as the capital of israel only nine Member States including the u. S. Voted against the resolution well one hundred twenty eight others believe the city status can only be resolved through talks the u. S. Ambassador to the u. N. Nikki haley also pointed out the voting we dont make any difference to where washington puts its embassy the United States will remember this day in which it was singled out for attack in the General Assembly for the very act of exercising our right as a sovereign nation. We will remember it when we are called upon to once again make the Worlds Largest contribution to the United Nations america will put our embassy in jerusalem no vote in the United Nations will make any difference on that even countries that usually clash on major issues joined voices to condemn the u. S. Move on jerusalem rivals including saudi arabia and iran came together at the General Assembly. The use of the deed to obstruct to deceive the council im able to perform duties on two decades of work of the International Community is considered the police in violation of the rights of palestinians the states must be resolved through negotiation between the two parties are un members they threaten all the other members this is bullying and this jumbled will not walk of the road out. Well several analysts that we spoke to think the u. N. Made the right decision to ignore heavy pressure from washington i think its unfortunate that the United States finds itself under this kind of leadership which is undermining the standing of this country internationally if countries acquiesce to the us and if they accept being punching bag for the American Administration and voting in accordance with directives from nikki haley then whats the point of having the United Nations i think we all know. The new era in which a major. Resort to blackmail and bribery or to secure votes in the General Assembly but this is the first occasion on which the state security a major. Member of the Security Council has resorted to search measures i do think that it will be deplorable its United States will to carry through and through its of this kind because theyre called indicator states in future situations or give to a vote against the United States they do so very wrong. Or as johnson has visited moscow for the first time as the u. K. Foreign secretary the trip comes while relations between the two countries are at an historic low on the set of a trunk was following johnsons meeting with his russian counterpart. Well we hadnt seen a u. K. Foreign secretary in moscow for five years and i can tell you that i hadnt seen such a remarkable press conference at the Foreign Ministry villa behind me for a long time there were many jokes many ways to poke each other not necessarily in a bad way after listing all the essential topics that are usual for such talks ranging from north korea to Ukraine Russia and the theories that it meddled and the votes all around the world and the u. K. As well came up once before just to remind you the foreign secretary Boris Johnson said that he hadnt seen any evidence of russian interference he even used the words not a sausage well mr johnson seems to have changed his mind today he said that he hadnt seen any evidence of successful attempts to interfere and i asked Boris Johnson to elaborate on that a little bit there was a mass on the free abundant evidence of russian interference in the elections in. Germany. From. America but as i say there is new evidence of any successful russian interference. In the u. K. Other highlights of the press conference included Boris Johnson speaking russian a few times saying that he has committed to fall in response to another question by amy the u. K. Foreign secretary confirmed that once he was in tehran a couple weeks ago he visited the Russian Embassy secretly to see the venue of the famous tehran conference during the Second World War he was also asked about moscow travel advice that he received from one of the british m. P. s which included warnings about drinking challenge game. And honey traps many other things so the question was about trust and the question was about whether he had encountered any of these threats so far in the russian capital. And i want you to know its a measure of my of my trust. Soon as i got into this exit from a loose try mediately handed my coat my hat my gloves i mean did everything that was in my pocket secret or otherwise to Sergei Lavrov in the knowledge that he would look after it. Would come to no harm more than just a few times Boris Johnson reminded of the differences in the views that london and moscow have on various International Issues it seemed that he really felt it was essential to keep talking about this every time he said something positive about russia but at the end of the day the common message was from both top diplomats that dialogue needs to prevail. And during the joint News Conference with foreign minister lavrov Morris Johnson even showed off some of his impressive russian skills. A rush so far and theyve committed so far. That thats not a relationship that is right for one hundred fifty years old. The Queen Elizabeth since an envoy to the terrible writing. For the first foreign secretary history. Became. Customers as i said earlier were going to lose more but usually after you get to go to bed. Somebody has just given me a pass for the for the wrong. Be as opposed to that you can i guess thats the. When it comes to trust or trust poorest and trust him so much im ready to call him. To the police. As i think. You have used to say trust but there is. A common rule that is in russia. Im ready to trust without any verification. The British Foreign secretary also visited red square as well as saying central moscow has landmarks he and his team laid flowers at the tomb of the unknown soldier a World War Two memorial by the kremlin during the war britain and the soviet union for together against nazi germany roger broadcast the mary jet ski thinks the visit will bring positive aspects but only with time. You can see maybe some glimmer of hope on the horizon just in terms of the sort of growing report. There seem to be at that meeting between Boris Johnson and so again after off. But i also think that anything that is anything positive thats going to come out of that meeting seriously positive will only emerge in time i think Boris Johnson is going to come back to london hes going to say you know i really put it to the russians i didnt give an inch. And then it will be with time that well see maybe theyll be some other maybe well have a reciprocal visit and maybe just maybe things will start to unfreeze but then you know im an optimist and were coming up to new year so heres hoping. Shocking revelations of emerged after a live picture of gnostics champion Mckayla Maroney claimed that she was abused for years as a child by the u. S. Team doctor and was then paid to keep silent the doctor Michigan State university and the u. S. Olympic committee all allegedly conspired to bribe moroni not to speak out a lawyer takes up the story to you hired a lawyer asked for a settlement conference or mediation to get justice which she did me ask for was a draconian confidentiality agreement that prevented her from telling even her brother and sister about this and then i think even worse that you cant ever say anything bad about us if your masters ever for your whole life dr larry nasser pleaded guilty to first degree Sexual Assault he was sentenced to sixty years in prison but this is the first time sporting organizations are alleged to have bribed victims to keep them quiet usa gymnastics insists that a year ago mchale is louis approached the organization to request a confidential meeting that resulted in a mutual nondisclosure settlement kayla shared her experiences in a series of testimonies but she was far from being the doctors only victim. It started when i was thirteen years old and it didnt end until my last sport it seemed whenever and wherever this man could find the charms i was treated this scariest night of my life happened when i was fifteen years old i had flown all day and nights with the team to get to tokyo hed given me a sleeping pill for the flight and the next thing i know i was all alone with him in his hotel room getting treatment i thought i was going to die that night i dont want to be in a courtroom telling about how. You know pandered to me in front of my mother when i was eleven the fact that he just thinks oh i pleaded guilty and now you guys can start healing is ridiculous to me i dont think. I dont think he truly understands how many people are hurting and how bad people are hurting over this early we discussed moronis claims with former gymnasts Rachel Ben Hall and she was the first to publicly accused former u. S. Team doctor Laurie Nasser of Sexual Assault and then hold that wasnt surprised about allegations of a wide scale cover up you know i think theres plenty of evidence that there was a cover up not just because of the way usa g. Has handled Larry Nassers case but again because this is their longstanding policy they have been covering up sexual abuse in the organization literally for decades you know some of the most prominent coaches in usa do you have trained olympians who have worked alongside bela and marta curley those those coaches have been found guilty of sexual abuse too is that when you have an organization that has a decades long policy of silencing victims by literally shoving reports in a file cabinet and then they can defend those actions by saying they want to avoid a witch hunt it shouldnt come as any surprise to us that theyre treating their elite athletes the same way theyre treating the youngest gymnast in their membership so i think we already know that u. S. C. G. Has a longstanding policy of covering up sexual predators larry nassar is not an exception by any stretch of the imagination. More than twenty thousand people have signed a petition to change the usa gymnastics leadership in the wake of whats being called the biggest child abuse scandal in sports history is demanding all u. S. Gymnastics chiefs are replaced by those who quote but athlete safety first rachel downhole and again thinks that the allegations could impact the u. S. Olympic Committee Just ahead of the winter games in south korea i think there needs to be an investigation into whether illegal activities occurred there are very legitimate questions about whether or not this nondisclosure agreement was even illegal under California Law because it did involve felony sex offense crimes and i think there needs to be a complete board change from the top down because these Board Members have to have made it very clear that the safety of little children is not their priority that they see nothing wrong with how they have handled not just the larry nasser situation but with how theyve handled sexual predators in the organization for decades you know when you have an organization like u. S. C. G. That is in charge of our libyans that is in charge of the entire sport from the top down and they cant handle Something Like sexual abuse against little children yes i think it is time for the u. S. O. C. To look at simply removing their authority to run our Gymnastics Program in the United States because they have proven that they care about something more than the safety of their athletes and thats inexcusable. Iraq has been declared free from Islamic State but the victory came at a huge cost when volunteer unit lost thousands of man in battles with the jihadists such groups dont always see eye to eye with the government but the ready to Work Together to defeat a Common Threat run against the of reports. The valley of peace the largest cemetery in the world millions of buried here and recent years have seen an upsurge in new arrivals of the. Isis was the cause of thousands upon thousands of iraqi fighters have come here in coffins wrapped in the iraqi flag most of these were volunteers have this boy is sixteen years old although he was forbidden to he still join the resistance. These are all offices they were afraid of dying and their parents to sacrifice pride. They all heroes we are proud of every single one of them and this with the shame. He killed three hundred forty three isis fighters. Ive seen those among those who volunteered for the hash the shah or Popular Mobilization forces when the call went out three years ago they proved key to defeating isis in iraq hundreds of thousands of men on a jihad against the hardest these paramilitaries largely on such a religious leaders in this case the shia cleric psystar knee but they quickly earned a fearsome reputation they participated in every major battle against isis and lost thousands along the way there were reports of atrocities carried out by p. M. S. Allegations of human rights abuses and religious persecution yet you can say that isis could have been beaten without the p. M. S. Besides an honor roll this battalion even has its own isis museum to show for itself. Isis flags and. Buttons it semed in private collections the hour outs in a valve over here are a bunch of sewards with a particularly horrible history these are the weapons that isis used to execute people to chop off peoples heads and arms for various offenses event in the next exhibits you have isis has been milking components here a bunch of sand for rooms as well as detonators grade use over here is a suicide belts grenades. Have a bits and pieces over in the next section is isis is air force rooms t. G. I. Phantoms and gliders. Thing is the stand up fight is almost done it would be wrong to claim that isis in iraq has been destroyed entirely but the jihad ists have certainly gone underground the pitched battles of finished why people ask do we still need these huge and well armed sectarian militias that are at the can the pm after played a huge partner and their sacrifice a lot but to be onus with you they should hand in their weapons this is the law of the country we should pay them and thank them and they in turn should disarm the lemon. But we follow the orders of the cleric al sistani he has told us not to handover our weapons and instead keep your eyes and your ears open for isis but it is more than that iraq is a divided country. Services more than fighters seen as protectors of their communities powerful armies that look after their own be they shias sunnis turkmen always edis there are still potential enemies be they neighboring communities countries even current allies the u. S. Led coalition. We know the americans very well they always have a stake everywhere both Iraqi Government and isis. The americans did to the kurds they encourage their referendum and the last moment. We dont take orders from the americans. And on that at least has the shah be agree with the government now. We hope that with isis demands the Coalition Forces will leave its that simple the question remains open what to do with hundreds of thousands of armed religious paramilitary fighters who threw away their lives to save their country from isis or i guess. See from baghdad iraq. Putin has addressed russias military at his annual meeting with the Defense Ministry has more now on the president s plans for military spending and Foreign Policy well ahead on a number of issues everything from pensions to the military budget with of course a heavy emphasis on International Defense strategies and he referred to americas current military strategy as being on the offensive and said that if you were to look at it from a Military Point of view and it was definitely have to be described as quote aggressive and in reference to the build up of nato missile launchers on russias doorstep who then said that his Defense Ministry cant ignore issues such as potential threats and well have to be ready to react to them he added harbor that moscow is not interested in anyway and being the least of the world and leslie extending its military might lets take a listen im seeing this without any irony we will rely on our peaceful Foreign Policy its important because we dont need all around the world and we dont want to be the worlds policeman. And when it comes to russias military budget will in fact be shrinking next year and already pales in comparison to a number of countries throughout the world and putin also mentioned that its better to take a brain over brawn approach to the world again we can take a listen to what he had to say on that. We need wisdom that says that we wont rely exclusively on our socalled will to remodel we wont be dragged into an economically pointless and exhausting arms race there is no way we will do that. If you were to do. So there you heard him while there is still fear as arising of an International Arms race putin himself says that russia will not be one to participate and. There have been sharp rises in the value of cryptocurrency is this year but the falls have also been spectacular bitcoin dropped under thirteen thousand dollars a coin today after hitting all time highs of more than twenty thousand just at the weekend it is the other two and my colleague Kate Partridge in the studio earlier to discuss the story. This freefall has triggered some very polar reactions to it because some are saying that bitcoin now is absolutely done and dusted others are saying that its just a correction nothing to be afraid of and this is a Good Opportunity to get more big corn at a more well attractive price and but theres also one other trend going on here some of the earliest and most passionate supporters of bitcoin are now looking at it from a more critical standpoint and investment in between right now i would say is the riskiest investment you can make it is an extremely high risk as soon as people realize that this is how it works they will start selling theres no fixed definition whether its a currency or not this issue is a difficult one it has not yet been proven to be credible enough to become a currency so i need to watch because in for a little while more imagine your average stock increasing in value not two not five not ten but twenty fold while this is bitcoin twenty seventeen in a nutshell for you this crypto currency has been really breaking one price record after the other as youve just mentioned over the weekend in fact on sunday it brushed the twenty thousand dollar mark now this is something insane and this latest plunge is the most serious hit bitcoin has taken so far this year and when i say serious i mean losing somewhat over a third of its value in a matter of days so no wonder that this skyfall may have very well caused a few heart attacks among the big newbies things group. To make you realize whats a maybe hold looks like a very volatile week for b. To coin a disappointing end to what was a very promising year thats it but going keep dropping let bennett ensue you let the want to be investors sell then ill buy its like the christmas sales have come early really youve heard it but corn is a is as high risk high gain as it gets so dont let yourself get deceived by these outrageous charts dont think its an easy profit because trust me there are as many big corn millionaires now as those who have lost fortunes on it. And thats why you are right up to date appreciate you staying with relatives or national they say you can join me in half an hours time for all the lights. So you got manmade Global Warming incinerating plan or is it causing an eco hole of but the corporations feel like you know what that might cost us a penny at the end of the year so we do have donek adjustment to our algorithm and will take out the city in alaska that would flag us to take action appropriate first survival of the species and were going to instead rely on our Balance Sheet and our algorithm like a good g. P. S. Monitor your car thats pointing over a cliff i dont care if the cliff is there my algorithm says its not there so on to keep driving im going to have found little ways im going to go right over the cliff because after the data tells me. Greetings and so you take its hard watchers i must confess i am a very very lucky man and i get to sit behind this desk with Tabitha Wallace and sean stone five days a week in the liberty you the various Important News stories that i hope will inform entertain and ultimately inspire you to always think for yourself question more fight for those who cannot fight and always know that what is certain today might not work tomorrow im able to live that dream because of the good work of journalists operating around the world and sometimes the most hellish of conditions so now with our youre winding down id like to take a moment to acknowledge all the hard work of reporters from Different Countries and cultures around the world that are imprisoned unjustly or have sacrificed their lives for the story. Sixty five media workers were killed on the job and twenty seventeen with forty two killed specifically because of their job according to the committee to protect journalists with another two hundred sixty two imprisoned for practicing their trade and well thankfully the number of reporters killed for doing their job is dropped compared to previous years and advocacy director for the committee points out that the number of incarcerated journalists for spreading big news has doubled telling the intercept that there appears to be a real life manifestation of the fake news rhetoric that seeks to denigrate and deal a generalized the role of journalists in journalism in a society particularly in democracies another sobering and tragic number to come out of the c p j report is the fact that the number of female journalists killed or murdered while normally sitting at about seven percent