Groups but they wont focus so much from kabul couple was considered to be relatively secure what weve seen now is that even the capital is no longer so cool so weve learned of these failures in this who are you were swore i think that the pentagon but basically what the american mistreated as a home had no. Choice but to take this step to try to hide the reality which is going on on the ground because i think that if the American People are exposed to the real situation there will be huge amounts popular pressure for the u. S. To you know just cut and withdraw from that country. U. S. Officials had to flee an event in the west bank city of bethlehem after angry protesters stormed the building. Without it being a business meeting at the Bethlehem Chamber of commerce and industry protestors arrived with a banner that condemned Donald Trumps decision to recognize jerusalem as these really capital the money clashes the meeting was cut short before leaving the building the americans were given a clear message. And the story didnt end there Palestinian Protesters then ran out of the building and throw tomatoes at diplomatic cars as they tried to flee the scene. And there was great wasnt easy either as you see from our video palestinians tried to gain entry to the vehicles all this lee has more now on what sparked the commotion. But this is just the latest incident in a string of protests that have been taking place on the palestinian street ever since the american President Donald Trump made an announcement back in the beginning of december saying that he recognized jerusalem as israels capital also on tuesday there were protests in front of the palestinian Prime Ministers Office in the west bank city of ramallah now there they were protesting against the reduction of services being offered by where the United Nations relief and works agency for Palestinian Refugees the agency was forced to downgrade the services after the americans announced that they were cutting millions of dollars of aid this the americans say is until to quote there is a fundamental reexamination of how the agency operates the protest and go on the palestinian street have gone as far as to enter the Israeli Parliament or the Israeli Knesset where just last week the american Vice President mike pence was visiting as he stood up to speak a group of arab lawmakers who constitute the Third Largest faction in the Israeli Parliament started shouting and holding up banners with and american messages citizens of israel. Now mike pence during his speech at the Israeli Parliament only further infuriated the anger that is already here on the street by announcing that by the end of next year the americans would be moving their embassy from tel aviv to jerusalem since President Trump made that announcement on jerusalem back to the beginning of december they have been more than twelve palestinians who have been killed more than a thousand have been injured and hundreds have been arrested so this is a situation that just wont go away and witnessing tensions continue to climb. Down to states is preparing new sanctions against russia after the release of the socalled kremlin list which includes the names of some two hundred top officials and Business Leaders thats according to the u. S. Treasury secretary steven itchin it was pressed on the issue in congress now we will take the basis of that report and look at kind of as we do in the normal course where its appropriate to put sanctions so theres no way be interpreted as were not putting sanctions on any of the people in that report when you sanctions were expected to be announced along with the list although officials stress that no new restrictions were coming in right now is not easily with the reaction from russia. For now the russian government wont do anything about what was called the u. S. Kremlin list thats how the russian president for now made up his mind embellished the u. S. Treasury document it had to be published before the monday night deadline under the socalled countering americas adverse stories through sanctions act and so it was ten minutes before the deadline americas saying that being put on that list which includes one hundred fourteen top russian government officials as well as nearly one hundred richest businessmen doesnt mean receiving some kind of punishment so you may well ask whats the point something to do with sanctions thats not actually sanctions by the way something that i found rather amusing was the fact that the Putin Administration section matched the kremlin website name by name while the part about the businessman was almost identical to the forbes list of russias richest men. No wonder the treasure list didnt come out until the last minute six months is hardly enough time to copy and paste the forbes list of russian billionaires i know personally many of the Business People on this list some very close to putin some and some see little work was done to distinguish between these two categories i think the logic of the list is that the russian version the course list isnt available in english ranking russian officials even had a little laugh perhaps the deputy Prime Minister. Said that washington basically released a book that you may call whos who and russian politics anyway back to Vladimir Putins first public reaction to the list he said that the u. S. Officials werent doing u. S. Russia relations any favor. Theres still some muscle to get used to union uma i dont understand the logic behind this move but its definitely a hostile one and further complicate u. S. Russia relations and our Security Services share intelligence that helps prevent terrorist attacks do they need this or not will we start working together or not we can do without that but i think its in everyones interests it would be absurd to reduce our relations to zero so. After all the United States is mulling further restrictions theres a different stance coming from the European Union the belgian Prime Minister claimed that the block is against new sanctions during his meeting with his russian counterpart dmitri medvedev. This morning sanctions are not the end goal so dialogue is the key and i would like to highlight the youth has made a decision not to support the strengthening of restrictions as. We go reaction to the new u. S. List from political analysts. I dont think it will have much of the effect at all that anything i think its the white house telling congress they passed this law to try to keep the pressure up on russia this concern about the last election and doing this list seems to have very little purpose other than just for filling a legal minimum i dont know if it will really damage any u. S. Russian ties it seems that trump is not certainly trying to make it any worse the situation already is it seems like hes really just trying to hope a lot of this goes away and bring it all to a speedy end people look at it and i think and say this is a piece of lazy intelligence youve worked really taken a whos who of whos the rich and powerful in russia and copy down in names and it doesnt seem to have much substance to it President Trump signed it off literally minutes the goal with no enthusiasm for these sanctions forward but hes under pressure though hes under pressure i see from you know the his own intelligence from the military and from the democrats and we nor that you know under pressure pressure president s can buckle but the real question i repeat is why is russia the main threat at the moment to United States of america and the west that i think the answer has to be no or. Seems that facebook wants users looking a little closer to home Mark Zuckerberg the head of the social media giant who feels that from monday peoples news feed will be concentrating more around local news stories the unity of the u. S. Nation appears to be the reason for the move. Many people told me they thought that if we could tone down the temperature on the more divisive issues and instead focus on concrete local issues then we would all make more progress together. The move is the latest in a series of changes to the Facebook News feed which at first affects only the u. S. Although a global rollout is planned to other recent changes aim to show only trustworthy news and informative content to use this also last week the Company Reportedly acquired the Software Firm confirmed which created tools to authenticate official i. D. s its thought that its a bid to identify people who buy ads and thus avoid socalled troll farms to blame for alleged russian meddling all the measures are part of a Broader Campaign to counter fake news and to make facebook more user friendly. Ok lets discuss the issue now with Technology AnalystDimitri Klein and joins me on the line dmitri all of these efforts by facebook to moderate the news feed there are those watching now will think this sounds a bit like censorship. Its censorship is one of the outcomes which are that you have here i mean facebook makes their money by targeted advertising right so like being able to reach people and manipulate them and like you know whether whether its for political or commercial reasons is the primary use of the platform so the primary motivation in controlling the timeline is to actually prevent people from effectively doing so without paying them and so you know they they say its really about fake news but actually its about any kind of kind of Community Based information that people are trying to get out there that arent there that they are paying facebook to promote of course that wont do anything for the gym and manipulation whether its russian or british or american it was because providing a platform for that kind of manipulation is what facebook is for you say its about you know making sure they get paid a mostly just reading that facebook is banning all ads from big currencies i. C. s now these are ads they get they get paid for so it seems like theyre also deciding what people can read and what they cant well i guess i guess when you have enough enough customers you can afford to be choosy and maybe maybe maybe facebook has more important clientele that dont like to have those kinds of advertisements there and so you know are kind of not so not allowing them into the garden what about the internets ability to open up the world i mean it has made the world a much smaller place. To get in contact with people near the side of the world why would anybody want to look inside a small local neighborhoods. Well i think the you know the internet as it was originally conceived wasnt based around social as you know centralized social Services Social platforms like facebook it was based around decentralized social platforms like usenet email or c. And so forth centralized social platforms like facebook emerged because of a catalogue rate Business Model the ability to collect large user base and sell them advertising and so the and so this is what kind of a concentrated the internet i think i think i think without without these kinds of without these kinds of centralized platforms we would have a more open more International Internet but such a thing could really only happen with public support and what would you think about the concept of Building Communities you think thats what will happen. I think that there might be some communities being built but i suspect i suspect facebook algorithm will continuously be refined to like you know make sure that their users are seeing and clicking on as much advertising as possible so even even any temporary benefit to local communities might get at the expense of whatever whatever it is that are moving from the timeline i think that will also be short term and short lived to appreciate your time so interesting views then i guess the meeting klein a Technology Analyst thank you. Learn in our supporters of the president colors put broken through a Police Cordon to reach the council and parliament. It was was. The protesters gathered to demand the reinstatement of the local government they fled to walk it by the building a last push for more was reinstated a session intended to reelect the former president today was postponed to guarantee his freedom and the result of the democratic elections which faces arrest in spain for his involvement in last years illegal referendum. To pharmacies in the german city of frankfurt have found themselves at the center of a racial storm and its all being whipped up over their centuries old names with more details he is peter oliver. What is in a name well for Frankfurt Council the name of two of the citys pharmacies was enough to demand that change this is one of them exist so more and its that final part of the name that the city council here in frankfurt have a problem with it translates as the moon rish pharmacy now traditionally what that meant is that this was a pharmacy that would have stalked alternative medicines all medicines from the east as well as western medicine this building here you can see originates from nineteen hundred however there are campaign is that say that this type of name has no place in modern germany. The reason for the complaints was that people said using the term morrish was racist and offensive against people from north africa but we spoke to people here on the streets of frankfurt and gauge their opinion about the proposed name change i think its a shame because its part of maybe our culture too and it doesnt have any more to do with maybe weve. Already. We shouldnt change our traditions here on the cd for me if something is to be racist it has to either diminish or belittle people in this case it has more to do with recognizing Cultural Heritage it didnt even appear to me that you know its offensive because it is a historic its simply historic terminal in the pharmacy doesnt for sure doesnt use it to be to be offensive the owners of both pharmacies politely declined to appear on camera saying that the news that they were going to be forced to change their name brought nothing but unwanted publicity. Interestingly enough the name up a ticket or more and is much more common place in the state of north rhinewestphalia but when the Integration Council in that state will ask. If theyd be following frankfurts example where they said no they had far Better Things to be doing peter all of a r. T. Frankfurt. But no russian flags flying at either the twenty eight hundred Winter Olympics or paralympics in south korea thats after the International Paralympic committee upheld its ban on team russia though it is allowing clean athletes to compete as neutrals two months ago a similar decision was taken by the International Olympic committee but despite all eyes on russia when it comes the doping allegations are surfacing elsewhere in the world. In the run up to next months winter games the issue of doping has taken the main stage once again seeing the majority of russian athletes banned and those eligible to participate forced to compete under a neutral flag and frankly at this point when you hear doping you think russia but is the problem really reserved just the one country im afraid the answer is a resoundingly no an investigation conducted by a group of International Researchers at two separate sporting events back in two thousand and eleven produced a rather shocking conclusion where more than two thousand and eight athletes were surveyed anonymously to encourage honest answers the open appears remarkably widespread among elite athletes and remains largely unchecked despite. Testing that report revealed that at the thirteenth athletics World Championships in south korea over forty percent of those competing emitted to doping in the past year and almost sixty percent at the pan arab games in doha whereas want to only came back with point five percent of test positive in south korea and three point six percent at the pan arab games needless to say that is a massive discrepancy and the other surprising thing is that the research was actually funded by water and yet no one heard a peep out of them about the result which theyve known about for years we would note that there was a delay of nearly six years between the completion of the Data Collection and the publication of this paper due to negotiations between water and the i w f and subsequently between us and the authors regarding the authority to publish the results now it goes on to say that neither of the organizations impose restrictions on the writing of the report although im not sure how he thinks here delay isnt considered a restriction the president of germanys Athletics Federation for one was infuriated by the hold up but i think that publication has impaired the possibility of taking important measures in the end still being can pay much earlier this is more than annoying you could also call this condo and guess what the report was actually released months ago but id