Hello there is just a day here in moscow youre watching international now our top story this hour the israeli Prime Minister has ordered the countries to redraw from the uns culture and Heritage Organization 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 people 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 with more on israels move his kind of baqubah. Comes on the heels of quite a bit of criticism from the United States and israel of you know asco his activities now you know asco is the uns Cultural Agency now the Israeli Foreign Ministry 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 you know its good it liberation no empty speech you know didnt want to be revolution. About. Recently we saw that the usa had withdrawn from the nasco that happened in october and when the United States pulled out of the nasco they specifically cited what they called an anti israel bias now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 Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called it a courageous and moral decision and praised the United States for doing that it stands for the United Nations Educational 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. When reporting there were unesco lists 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 throw 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 or again on friday in the Third Straight week of unrest in the region. The other. The latest violent demonstrations have left two palestinians dead and more than sixty others injured its all in the way the president from this decision for the u. S. To recognize jerusalem as the israeli capital meanwhile in the west bank city of ramallah Israeli Soldiers were filmed pushing back the paramedics who were trying to reach the injured troops use weapons and other forceful measures preventing emergency crews from reaching the wounded. On thursday the United Nations General Assembly voted overwhelmingly to condemn donald trump skinny unilateral decision concerned that the dispute over the city status should be resolved by talks only nine Member States including the u. S. Feted against the resolution even so the countrys u. N. Ambassador remained undeterred putting the focus on the few friends backing the jerusalem decision. This will make a difference on how americans look at the us and on how we look at countries who disrespect that in the way and this will be remembered. Meanwhile jewish communities in germany say they all facing growing anti semitism many say theyve been the target of discrimination or harassment on a daily basis and believe to the problem has been made worse by the us president s recent policies towards israel is all europe correspondent peter all of. That was 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 you know from your i six me your dimensions and the problem from i need my church. 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 bad and then you go to the gas chamber in five years you will be dead we have unfortunately a lot of cases different and its similar to do mostly its an anemic we get a lot of phone calls with. Israel saying in fact the leaders in the Jewish Community say that beast 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 you are a member of a community or an institution you get confronted with those kinds of incidents. Like really ever take 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 who were from a jewish background said that they didnt think until semitism. On a daily basis with almost thirty percent saying that theyve been targeted or harassed in the last year just this last month in the venting district of berlin a school boy was attacked by a group of classmates who told him that hitler was good because he killed the jews from the government side weve heard a strong response from the German Justice minister months any kind of anti semitism is an attack on everyone and sivits is a must never be allowed to have a place in society again but looking at an optic in attacks in germany targeting jews that may seem easier said than done peter all over r. T. Berlin. 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 a 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. Mckayla maroney americas a limp 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 usa gymnastics 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 and wherever this man could find a chance i was treated this charismatic 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 into in sixty mchale as attorney at the time Gloria Allred approached usa gymnastics requesting that the organization participate in a confidential mediation the process culminated in a system and to agreements that included a mutual nondisclosure tools and a mutual disparagement rules yet 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 a man you know pandered to me. In front of my mother when i was eleven the fact that he just thinks oh i flew to 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. Are something that 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 member com a portion that we did discuss moronis claims with former gymnasts dan hall and she was the first to publicly accuse former u. S. Team doctor larry nasser of Sexual Assault and isnt surprised about the claims to have a big cover up. You know i wish i could say that i was surprised but the reality with usa gymnastics is they have a decades long policy of covering up sexual abuse and of and of silencing victims some of the most prominent coaches in the u. S. A. G. Who have trained olympians those those coaches have been found guilty of sexual abuse too and again like like their member coaches they were allowed to continue preying on little girls and even their elite athletes for decades and usa jews response to that was to defend in under a testimony to defend their policy saying they wanted to avoid a witch hunt is that when you have an organization that has a decades long policy of supporting sexual predators 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 member gyms. Well you know 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 the legal activities occurred there are very legitimate questions about whether or not this nondisclosure agreement was even legal 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 that the safety of little children is not their priority that they see nothing wrong with how they have handled not just the larry nassar situation but with how theyve handled sexual predators in the organization for decades 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. Youre watching out international now and still ahead for you this hour there are red faces facebook which admits that its fake news flags to find during the moment but explain why just off the break. You got manmade Global Warming incinerating planet earth 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 and 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 in your car thats pointing over a cliff i dont care if the cliff is there by al gore themselves its not there so i keep driving i do a film with always going to go right over the cliff because after the data tells. Russianness leads to. Remains controversial what awaits the olympians in south korea and more important for the awaits them after the good. Fellow again that facebook has admitted that its efforts to combat just arent working has been trying to red flag articles which contain false information but the markers are instead attracting it seems even more if you use is. 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 it for this book 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 has 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 its spread on the contrary 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 biases they might not even be aware of their own biases well as facebook and others do struggle to contend them with fabricated news stories circulating on their sites the u. S. Ambassador to the netherlands isnt exactly helping matters at the moment after describing his own remarks as fake. You mentioned in the debate. That there are no go zones in the netherlands. We would call it fake because i never said. Yes there. Goes another ones. There and no gold no zongo knows no go zones. Not that its you have a problem with english is your second language ok. Fake news obviously i didnt call that big news i didnt you. Know no. I think that has to do with the fact that he said these words in the beginning from his stance as an politician and when he was the second time he was already elected as ambassador as an investor and just as the words hes 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 invested in the diplomacy. Now u. S. Intelligence chiefs or religion congress to reauthorize the National Security agencys far reaching spying program which does expire at the end of the year they say that it will make is to not when you get the Country Security will be undermined. If Congress Fails to reauthorize this or forty 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 two years and other foreign adverse reason to plan attacks against our citizens and our allies without detection 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 do 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 they are 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 going the same the same frequency you know keep listening for a few seconds and turn it off and start again turn off and 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 spy 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 this hour how would you feel if you looked up into the night sky and saw this citys a sinister looking shape and it was spotted above los angeles in the us on friday freaking out more people than you can imagine he contacted police suspecting it as being anything from a u. F. O. To a myside tac the explanation though is a bit more than two with is actually the final launch of the year from space x. Thats the private contract if it gets satellites into orbit and occasionally supplies the International Space station to you but amazing pictures nonetheless. And that brings you up to date more news from a just over half an. Hour. About your sudden passing ive only just learned you were a south and taken your last round turn. Your out caught up to us we all knew it would i tell you im sorry i could so i write these last words in hopes to put to rest these things that i never got off my chest. I remember when we first met my life turned on each breath. But then my feeling started change you talked about war like it was a cave still some more fun to feel those that didnt like to question our ark and i secretly promised to never be like it said one does not leave a funeral the same as one enters a mind its consumed with death this one so i speak to you now because there are no other takers. Claimed that Mainstream Media has met its maker. Im Afshin Rattansi were going underground here at the green felt tower in london arguably emblematic of a year of continuing post twenty zero eight crash collective economic punishment coming up on the show from grunfeld off varity to yemen and venezuela from legendary journalist john pilger the oscar winning director Barry Jenkins we look at some of our favorite interviews of the and riots this christmas we speak to jeremy call been shot a lot john so richard and the man who served seven years on an indefinite sentence about why the government just still not releasing thousands the have that time all the civil coming up in todays going on the ground but first while teresa mayes commissioned inquiry into the ground. Which killed at least seventy one people has already been met with skepticism by the local community it has media dominated by the effects of a financial crash nearly ten years ago and doggedly the powerful using identity politics to divide the working class Barry Jenkins who picked up an oscar this year for directing his film moonlight had faith in the usa saying donald trump will not be able to enforce division i dont think he will be able to. If he is i think it will say more about the country and it does about trump but i refuse to believe that he will at a certain point a policy is a policy and i think of certain things are taken from the working class economy taken from the entire working class black white mexican asian whatever so i dont think so i have faith again im a Glass Half Full person but when it comes to those this side of the pond doggedly fighting for work a solid arity they have merely come under personal attack from a british only god going to media that according to the shadow chancellor John Mcdonnell understands full well what Jeremy Corbin once for the u. K. I understand it all right. Just what were doing in the hands of the arms and hands of murder. And everything that we do the same with show them what they do they dont actually say you know what were doing very distraught distorted our view so much just switched off believe them. When the general election. Ever have another general election where the boat. Well i dont. Say the poet told us he was certainly getting discerning audiences for a revival of a play about the working classes Jim Cartwrights the road in london hopefully playwrights who are writing about now and poets who are writing about now will speak with the same kind of anger. As Jim Cartwright spoke in this play thirty years ago i think thats why its find in relevance with the audiences of london and of england its because it speaks to the place speaks to. You know there was a fire in london in a block of flats called tower which im sure youve heard about we started to ask the question why dont we know about the people who were inside that tower how how they become so invisible this play is about people who are not seen something echoed by one new labor m. P. Elected britains june general election universal credit is being rolled out in my constituency in december and whoever has decided that clearly doesnt understand either universal credit or what happened then where in class communities over christmas you spend money. Time you have nice food you get a family some gifts or whatever and to have universal credit row now and they are consigning many. Left right but importantly. Theres mustve problems with this system sometimes people the payments are in a real. Some have to go away in a week so that means this government is prepared for people with no money in january and february and im going to try a new place to stop that happen and in fairness the conservative party had its annual conference this year and men just did appeared to make concessions to Jeremy Corbyn socialist politics which we covered after the general election where tourism a lost her majority in parliament we had our Fish Food Bank in the country opened in my local hospital and instead of the being a protest outside it saying this is wrong why are people being amidst this hospital with malnutrition related diseases they celebrated it at a party defeated their drinks and their should. You know that couldnt abandon the site call in the fly fly into somebody you know i would highly if you salivate because this government is going to come painted discrimination against the polish and say its i spoke unspayed polis its commit suicide and they start to outside the job center of universal credit must absolutely everything including his family had no shoes on his feet the little activities that weve been doing all the way the government we hold him accountable its because a group site blocked
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