Hello there are you watching r. T. International this saturday morning where its just gone Eleven Oclock here in moscow our top story the israeli Prime Minister has ordered the countrys withdrawal from the uns culture and Heritage Organization us go it follows a similar move announced by the United States in october over a perceived bias against israel heres how that countrys envoy to the agency explained the decision. Has broken records of incitement and lies against israel and the jewish people while polluting its noble Core Principles with politicisation and diplomatic terrorism that sometimes bordered on them but with more on israels move his. Comes on the heels of quite a bit of criticism from the United States and israel of you know s. Goes activities now you know asco is the uns Cultural Agency now the Israeli ForeignMinistry Spokesperson specifically cited what he called the attempts to disconnect the history of jewish history from the land of israel now unesco has angered israel over the past year they passed resolutions in which they said that israel has no right to jerusalem they said that the temple mount and the old city are both muslim the holy sites now as far back as twenty eleven go actually granted palestine full membership in its organization now this is danny the israeli ambassador to the United Nations this is him touching on the recent decision no unifil declination no m. P. No do not want to be revolution we divide about. Recently we saw that the usa had withdrawn from unesco that happened in october and when the United States pulled out of the nasco they specifically cited what they called an anti israel bias now when that happened israels Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahu called it a courageous and moral decision and praised the United States for doing that it stands for the United NationsEducational Scientific and Cultural Organization it has a number of tasks it fights violent extremism around the world it promotes female education it promotes Media Freedom it also protects certain cultural sites around the world now what is in question at the moment is what will happen to certain cultural sites now that both the United States and israel are no longer participants in this very Important International body. Cudmore been reporting million esko does list World Heritage sites across israel comprising of a dozen places representing three thousand years of history israeli newspaper columnist amir oren believes unesco is also a platform for diplomatic action and that israel may eventually reverse its decision. Every u. N. Agency. Battlefield in the Foreign Policy and diplomacy arena and you know no different than the Human Rights Council and others but whether or not israel should grow from it is another matter altogether because. Just withdrawing just leaving the field to others is not acceptable to many israelis we have been through such cycles of un bashing. Eventually israel learned presumably the United States too would come back having symbolized. Their displeasure. Is just a gesture one shouldnt read too much into it meanwhile clashes erupted in gaza again on friday in the Third Straight week of unrest in the region. And other. The latest violent demonstrations have left two palestinians dead and more than sixty others injured its all in the wake of president trance decision for the us to recognize the recently as the israeli capital well in the west bank city of ramallah Israeli Soldiers were filmed pushing back paramedics who were trying to reach the injured. Weapons and other forces from measures preventing emergency crews from reaching the wounded. On thursday the United NationsGeneral Assembly voted overwhelmingly to condemn. Decision concerned that the dispute over the city status should be only resolved by talks only nine Member States including the u. S. Voted against the resolution even so the countries un ambassador ever maint undeterred putting the focus on the few friends backing that your recent decision. This will make a difference on how americans look at the us and on how we look at countries who disrespect us and the way and this will be remembered. Its. Meanwhile jewish communities in germany say they are facing growing anti semitism many say they have been the target of discrimination or harassment on a daily basis believe to the problem has been made worse by the us president s recent policies towards israel with more his our europe correspondent. Yeah the law israeli flags burning in the center of. The aftermath of the u. S. Decision on jerusalem but apart from protests its feared the backlash would overstepped the line into attacks against jewish people a Police Investigation is underway here in berlin following a shocking display of anti semitism outside of a jewish restaurant plus what i know from your i six me your dimensions and the possible information need much. Because. The owner of the restaurant says he expects these type of attacks considering the current climate it was a typical latest incident thing against jews the typical. Israelis bed story is better than they go to the gas chamber in five years. We have unfortunately a lot of cases different in this similar to do mostly its an anemic we get a lot of phone calls with. In fact leaders in the Jewish Community say that these type of incidents a far more common than we may think think its a horrible incident but i think its something what happens sometimes on a daily basis here in germany i wouldnt say that its that its a bad feeling as a jew living in germany but on the other side there are things happening and if youre a member of a community or an institution you get confronted with those kinds of incidents. Like really every day the u. S. Position on jerusalem has certainly added fuel to a backlash against israel but if you look at a study that was carried out just this year over sixty percent of the youths who were surveyed were from a jewish background said that they dont think until semitism. Saying that theyve been targeted or harassed in the. District of a schoolboy was attacked. He told them that. Because hed killed the jews. From the government side we heard a strong response from the. Any kind of anti semitism is an attack on everyone is a must never be allowed to have a place in society again but looking at an uptick in the turks in germany targeting jews that may seem easier said than done peter all over. The u. S. Olympic committee and the countrys gymnastics governing body is being accused of helping cover up years of sex abuse and child molestation and a lawsuit filed by champion gymnast Mckayla Maroney she alleges to have been abused by u. S. Team doctor for years and then paid to keep silent she also names other sports institutions too for preventing her from publicly coming forward more details now from some miracle Kayla Maroney americas a live big darling one of the worlds most famous gymnasts u. S. Household name and victim of childhood sex abuse that apparently took place over years and when she wanted to speak out both usa gymnastics plus the u. S. Olympic committee made her keep quiet rhody claims she was paid hush money and is now suing them for silencing her she hired a lawyer and asked for a settlement conference or mediation to get justice what she didnt 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 it said that you cant ever say anything bad about us if your masters ever for your whole life shes come forward with a horrific story of abuse by team u. S. A. s former doctor larry nasser it started when i was thirteen years old and it didnt end until i left the sport it seemed when ever in wherever this man could find a chance i was treated this carries night of my leg happened when i was fifteen years old i had flown all day and night with the team to get to tokyo hed given me a sleeping pill for the flight and the next thing i know i was alone with him in his hotel room. Getting treatment i thought i was going to die that night but one would naturally have expected usa gymnastics to support its crown jewel but the Organization Claims that she herself chose to settle this all quietly in twenty sixty mccool as attorney at the time Gloria Allred approached us gymnastics requesting that the organization participate in a confidential mediation the process culminated in a system into agreements that included a mutual nondisclosure clause and a mutual disparagement clause moronis case is just the start over one hundred and fifty women have now accused the same doctor of sexual abuse 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 now dr nasser admits to exploiting his position to abuse his patients and he was recently convicted and sentenced to sixty years in jail but his victims believe justice has still not been served and its not just nassar who they insist must be punished but the sports officials who failed to protect the child athletes the olympics are something there brings people hope and joy sure from the outside looking in its an amazing story i did it i got there but not without a price so american with that report what we discussed moronis claims with the former gymnasts rachel den hollander she was actually the first to publicly accused former u. S. Team doctor larry of Sexual Assault and isnt surprised either of claims of a big coverup. 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 bella and Martha 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 their 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 member gyms so i think we already know that u. S. C. G. Has a longstanding policy of covering up sexual predators mckayla said that she had signed her agreement in two thousand and sixteen but just a few months ago in august the o. C. Register which is a local california newspaper did publish that they had been able to confirm that another case had been settled in twenty fifteen with another victim of larry nasser in the lead gymnast so yes i think its i think its likely that there are others that have been silenced 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 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. Something more than the safety of their athletes and thats inexcusable. Youre watching on t. V. Red faces at facebook which admits that its news flags flying during what explain why after the break. A Global Warming incinerating plant or is it causing an eco 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 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 im going to g. P. S. Monitor your car thats pointing over a cliff i dont care if the cliff is there a biography so thats not there so i keep driving going to a film and always going to go right over the cliff because out of the data tells me. What you should. Put themselves. In big picture of the reject. So when you want to be president and you. Want. To go right to the press which was before three of them or cant be good. Interested in the waters of. The ship. Welcome back now facebook has admitted that its efforts to combat fake news just working it has been trying to red flag articles which contain false information but instead apparently attracting even movie. Expects. Facebook sees itself on the frontlines of the fight against fake news theres a huge amount of misinformation out there on the internet its a problem weve been working hard on at facebook and were committed to fighting it after all people want to see Accurate Information and so did we. That battle heated up in december two thousand and sixteen when facebook teamed up with Fact Checkers to flag stories it determined to contain socalled disputed content but when youre on the social media titans forced to admit not only is the method ineffective it may actually inspire the opposite of the desired reaction. Academic research on correcting misinformation how shown that putting a strong image like a red flag next to an article may actually entrenched deeply held beliefs the opposite of fact to what we intended apparently a fake news label actually makes people more interested for example facebook red flag this story by the new port buzz which claimed hundreds of thousands of irish people were brought to the us as slaves but the little red sign didnt stop it spread on the country traffic skyrocketed but facebook isnt daunted by the discovery that flagging stories has backfired coming up with a new plan to provide alternative articles on long side possibly false stories to give people more context but the question remains are those alternative stories definitely relevant and balanced and whos actually making that call the choice of the articles the choice of the outlets is going to reflect human bias he would bias is inevitable whenever human beings are involved theres always going to be a social political cultural and so on bias and the selection of those related articles is going to reflect that facebook obviously has an agenda the people who work at facebook have individual agendas and bias sees they might not even be aware of their own biases. Well as facebook and others do struggle to contend with fabricated news story circulating on their sites the u. S. Ambassador to the netherlands isnt exactly helping matters after describing his own remarks as fake. Mentions in the debates. That there are no go zones in their lives. We would call it fake which is i never said. Yes there are no go zones of the netherlands. Her no no zone go no no. No go zone. Not that you know its you have a problem. Which is your second language ok. Sic news obviously i didnt call that because i didnt you. Know not. A single to do with. Said these words in the beginning from his stance as a politician and when he was the second time he was already elected as ambassador of as an investor in the area just south towards his words thats kind of weird of course i dont think there will be any problems i think he will be sitting just like all the other ambassadors. Now u. S. Intelligence leaders are urging congress to reauthorize the National Security agencys far reaching spying program which expires at the end of the year they say that if lawmakers do not renew it the Country Security will be undermined if Congress Fails to reauthorize this or thirty the Intelligence Community will lose valuable foreign intelligence information and the resulting intelligence gaps will make it easier for terrorists weapons proliferation is malicious i broke his and other foreign adverse reason to plan attacks against our citizens and allies without detection while the internet spying program was established back in two thousand and eight and it gives an authority to intelligence organizations to collect data from foreign targets but it also allows for the interception of Americans Communications in certain cases to critics and social activists say they fear the renewal will actually lead to increased levels of surveillance the proposed bill is not a reform measure on the contrary it would expand surveillance grants the government more authority and other provisions of pfizer and could be read to codify current unlawful surveillance practices attorney Michael Flanagan outlined his concerns about the program. Under the law theyre allowed to listen for just a few seconds i mean its regulated down to two an actual time limit i dont know exactly what it is but its really a tiny amount of time that theyre allowed to listen but they get to keep redialing the same the same frequency you know keep listening for a few seconds and turn it off and start again turn off the start again and we have more than a little bit of evidence that that has happened in an effort to listen in on other calls and when theyre actually trying to listen to the american and so you have a ridiculous subterfuge gone through some some some crazy crazy handstands that have gone through simply to have intelligence agencies of the United States spying on citizens of the United States which is absolute theres no one in congress who would approve such a thing but this law allows them as you correctly observed a backdoor way to be able to do that. Finally decide how would you feel if you looked up into the night sky and so all of this this seemingly sinister looking shape was spotted above los angeles in the us on friday freaking out more than a few people as you might expect he did Contact Police suspecting it to have being anything from a u. F. O. To a missile attack the explanation though is far more down to earth it is actually the final launch of the year from space x. The private contract if it gets satellites into orbit and occasionally supplies to be International Space station. And pretty size isnt it that still a need for the moment dont forget you can keep across all the stories to our social media pages and each. Ive played for many clubs over the years so i know the game inside dives. Football isnt only about what happens on the pitch pull the funnel school its about the passion from the fans its the age of the super manager killian erroneous and spending two hundred twenty million on one player. 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Im bart chilton filling in on this day december twenty second in the year eight hundred seventy seven Scientific American published their issue announcing Thomas Edisons invention of the phonograph it could play and record sound back on a tinfoil cylinder it was seventeen years later an eight hundred ninety four that the german immigrant an inventor a mill berliner founded the United States gramophone Country Company to market his improvement on the idea a flat disk since then recorded sound has of course more through many commercial formats from l. P. s to eight tracks and cassettes the c. D. s and then of course you know digital files and online streaming the first major file format the m p three now has to compete with several high end formats offering much better sound Quality Music legend neil young was so irritated by the poor quality of most Digital Audio that in two thousand and four he introduced a crown funded device and company of his own pono offering master quality digital sound but pono lost its Online Music Store last year when apple the original commercial motor for the adoption of m p three s. Bought the company that hosted it and shut it down it seemed a continuing class between neil young who throughout his career has written various protest songs including corporate protest tunes but earlier this month young unveiled a free for now at least online archive of his entire collection using a streaming Service Called x. Stream that plays the highest resolution available for the strength of your internet connection. The recorded Music Industry really is an important component of the world in our National Economy and it is a larger part of the Music Industry valued at one hundred thirty billion dollars globally thats about three times more than just the actual recorded music itself and while some older folks are now discovering streaming many of the olds are actually going backwards retro in the other direction theyre listening to vinyl to analog for quality and sound and its really fueling a renaissance in sales of l. P. s and turntables and causing bottlenecks at record pressing plants i did my part being part of the trend but green days American Idiot on vinyl for my neighbor is a gift and it sounds great everything old is new again with music and we have a booming Music Industry in the states and around the world and we have a meal berliner and Thomas Edison to thank for the electronic start to all of that recorded music now check this out from the best of boom bust. This week the National Association of homebuilders where least a report showing a jump in home builder confidence in december most economists expected the rate to remain unchanged so it was a welcome surprise but what does it mean for actual Home Ownership to discuss that further were joined now by dr Clifford Ross a professor of finance at the smith school of business at the university of maryland dr ossie whats your biggest takeaway from this report how significant is that well i think its actually significant given given that this is some of the best numbers weve seen telling from the n. A. S. Peace index for some time and the idea that there