A russian spacecraft launches from the Baikonur Cosmodrome earlier today taking three new crew to the space station on the final manned mission of the year. I welcome to the program my names kevin owen here with a weekly for you the big stories of the past seven days here on r. T. International and first deadly violence between palestinians and Israeli Security forces still shows little sign of abating this weekend it follows Donald Trumps explosive decision earlier this month to recognize the disputed city of jerusalem as israels capital. City and. Its right to vote do you guys parts that are filling that place. We are still not here as buffer zone and tensions are in these days but it is taking a. Cut i. Bet it is a hope throughout the way carter has 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 th
Huge crowds denounced the president of ukraine as an antique her option rally led by former georgian leader Mikhail Saakashvili. A very warm welcome you are watching the weekly here on r. T. International with mina herring good to have you with us this hour. And the west bank and gaza protesters have gathered to burn u. S. And israeli flags as well as effigies of the two countries leaders this follows more than a week of deadly violence since Donald Trumps decision to recognize jerusalem as israels capital. City. Tensions east peace is right people are throwing tear gas bombs that are filling that place. Was. We still have nothing else but free zone and tensions are in the. Making. That is that throughout the week author has been haring reaction to the latest surge of unrest in the region people can open the bible and to count how many times jerusalem is a base and there they will find out told so that jerusalem is not mentioned even one time in the koran not even one time people will
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Upcoming in korea or is it too late anyway even if they do change their mind. I think they should but probably they would not because i mean all the affair has a political dimension my interpretation since the beginning is that there is clearly a campaign against russia and against president putin and of course course its also i mean to somehow discredit russia so if now they will accept the russian utterances they will provoke a political storm and made a lot of these a point probably to decide not to accept the atlas also because early enough is quite late you can fill in the speech start next week. Right but a telephone or Italian Journalist that thanks for giving us your insight into this story here knotty. Over to the United States now and a public clash between the white house and the f. B. I. Is seen in the u. S. President accuse the bureau of lacking investigative process this comes as donald trump looks set to release a classified memo alleging the f. B. I. Abused its surveill
Administration however the underlying tone of it is a throwback to. The you know the cold war what President Trump declared in his state of the Union Address was that we need to ramp up our Nuclear Capability and make us so strong that nobody would be even willing to engage in or even trying to gauge what the United States because we have a Strong Nuclear arsenal that actually is really dangerous thinking and its almost like into amateur hour so the u. S. Strategy says Nuclear Weapons may be used in case of a non Nuclear Attack but other Nuclear Powers for example china pledge no first use of Nuclear Weapons while russias doctrine says they can only be used for if attacked by weapons of mass destruction so why does washington insist on maintaining the right to use nuclear offensively. Well a moment ago i said this is amateur hour and i believe thats the case i dont think the president appreciates all of the strategy that has brought the United States russia and china to the point of ha