In the vote over one hundred countries ignored their heavy pressure from washington as the us president lambastes the both threatened un members voting against america. For war welcome to you my name is neil harvey youre watching our international. Now the polls a Close Encounter alone even a vote that could have major implications for its independence pushchair live pictures from the region exit polls there suggesting that separatist parties will secure an absolute majority in the Regional Election but the votes are still being counted at this point this is the scene at the headquarters of the Pro Independence party led by the spanish regions deposed president. Is the latest on the vote from local journalist martin roberts. Of votes cast by record turnout this is all the more remarkable when you consider that elections were held on a working day like today rather than the usual sunday although this year holding them on a sunday would have meant conflicting with Christmas Eve so centra
Campaign to Liberate Mosul from Islamic State than previously thought. And a three year old russian girl is returned home after being taken to iraq by her parents when they joined Islamic State. For getting to my name is the. International. United nations General Assembly hearing has wrapped up in new york after voting on whether to condemn americas recognition of jerusalem as israels capital and the tensions were flaring at the u. N. Headquarters. Could get out of the beat ups truck to the Security Council and unable to perform his duties maintaining International Peace and security youve shameful that this meeting is even taking place. The decision taken by the us is considered null and void and has no legal rights that would change the status of jerusalem it is considered a blatant violation of the rights of Palestinian People are un member state threaten the other members this will not bow to the unite america will put a country stick and what spencer also nikki haley of rotting bo
You know im Maryam Namazie in london youre watching aljazeera also coming up tense times in zimbabwe zanu p. F. Accuses the army chief of treason after he threatens to intervene over the president s party pudge. Frankly i had no recollection of this meeting. The u. S. Attorney general changes his story but insists he did not lie to congress about contacts between the russians and trumps campaign. And this information and manipulation of social media caused Global Internet freedom to decline for its seventh year in a row. Our top story thousands of iranians are enduring a second night sleeping outside in freezing temperatures after their homes were destroyed in sundays powerful earthquake on the iran iraq border an earlier report that five hundred thirty people have been killed is now been revised down to more than four hundred thirty almost all of them in iran but many victims have been buried without the knowledge of the authorities so the real figure could be much higher the number o
Congress from that. Look, i will say on my side of the aisle, we are one party. Obviously this is a hard issue to talk about but i understand and support what the nrcc is doing, i just think members of congress should be removed from it. To ricks point, i worked for 12 or 13 years on staff but largely in my professional life about 20 years with my predecessor, just a wonderful legislator, a wonderful man by the name of bill young. He came in in 1970. You know, when we first got elected in 1970, the nrcc raised money for us. The nrcc gave us money. Now we are in a world where you get elected as new member of congress and you get a bill, you are given your dues. Its one of the worstkept secretes around here. Members of congress are told this is how much money you have to raise for the party based on years of service and i got a 400,000 bill this year, im not paying it. Does that put me on the outs a little bit . Sure. Does that mean we cant find a way to continue to Work Together and i c
On extremism at George Washington University Center and cyber homeland security. Fellow at the internet law and policy foundry and was it fellow at the congressional internet caucus in the past. Lets get started. I will give a brief overview of the issue and then we will jump right into it and get into the real issue here with extremist online, what role do platforms like twitter, facebook and google play in this and what is the right way to be approaching the issue of dealing with extremist content online and recruitment for terrorist groups abroad. Seen going onhave but we have social media platforms like twitter and facebook have generally in their early years been quite in favor of leaving their platforms as places for free especially in the past few years, weve seen that being taken advantage of by groups like al qaeda and then we have the Islamic State beginning to use the platform even more actively than, that really bringing to it a totally difficult level and now the platforms