nations in the region is unacceptable a phone call took place around the same time the u.s. sanctioned two top north korean officials who were allegedly involved in the country's a ballistic missile program but in the phone call for mr lavrov mentioned the u.s. stepping up its military preparations in the region and he was unlikely referring to recent military exercises and even south korea has suggested postponing military drills until after the olympics but this proposal was swiftly rejected by secretary tillerson. it is possible for south korea and the us to review the possibility of postponing the exercises have made such a suggestion to the us and the us is currently reviewing them for these exercises have been ongoing for many years i'm not aware of any plans to change what is scheduled fiery rhetoric between washington and pyongyang has kept the international community on its toes for quite some time now but let's take a quick look at a recap the year of strategic patience. with the north korean regime has

failed united states is prepared to use the full range of our capabilities to defend ourselves and our allies our respective leader kim didn't only said that the u.s. would be unhappy to witness north korea strategic power on its independence day and called for frequently sending big and small news packages they will be met with fire and fury. like the world has never seen. but if it is forced to defend itself. we will have no choice but to totally destroy north korea. little rocket man rocket fuel for the americans because he is a sick puppy russia has repeatedly offered to mediate the situation but we've been hearing mixed messages from the trumpet ministration sosa. unclear whether this

phone call will make any difference whatsoever but it definitely seems like quite the positive direction. supporters of julian sauce got an unpleasant surprise on christmas day when the wiki leaks founder twitter account mysteriously disappeared medina caution of as the story. christmas morning arrives and julian assange just twitter account mysteriously disappears well this is what anyone trying to read his tweets was faced with for much of the day an error message saying sorry that page does not exist well if you're not familiar with twitter that appears only when an account is deleted rather than if it's been suspended by either twitter or the account owner the vanishing act didn't go on noticed by other so on twitter and that's when theories began to circulate about what might have happened to us account. twitter songs when he was prepping to drop some.

tweets or trying to protect his drug of information. because he exposed the democratic party and the clinton family i believe we can say without a shadow over. how. if true julian assange is going dark his next really significant development wouldn't want to be hillary clinton right now. julian's account disappeared haters of conspiracy theorists rushed to post the full attention seeking. twitter merry christmas people. but that's not the end of the story because also that day the u.s. navy fueled the conspiracists with this tweet just two words julian a son written in speech marks that tweets was deleted swiftly as it appeared but it was up long enough for people to. take

a screen grab the neighbor's explanation was that one of their twitter team and advertently posted during a routine monitoring of trending topics before taking it down again now that everyone was convinced by that explanation though sounds that it simply didn't wash while others felt that sound one and the u.s. navy might have been giving a cry for how to juliana stanch we also made a vague reference to the us navy but it concluded by saying that despite all the excitement julian assange just the situation remains the same. despite some auditors from the u.s. navy and tweeted today grist physical surveillance dylan song situation of the embassy reminds some all to confined without charge in violation of two un rulings requiring the u.k. to search him free. i suggest timeline was later resorted to but there's been no explanation from either twitter or mr a sound some suspect that he was being

prevented from making new earth shattering grab relations while others claim that the restored it count looks suspiciously different from the one that was temporarily taken down. in israeli lawmaker has been filmed shouting insults and palestinians as they were on their way from gaza to visit relatives in israeli jails just before he tweeted a photo of himself with an israeli flag saying he had come to confront the families of quote animals but. not. these really parliaments press service has declined to comment on the incident the politician in the video around hasan says he was trying to garner support for

a new bill that would prevent palestinian families from visiting prisoners in israel he staged numerous purposes he stands before hasan who is a member of prime minister benjamin netanyahu likud party first gained notoriety with a godfather style political ad he also tried to discredit a left wing and by creating a false identity in order to provide made up testimony and he wants threatened to execute the family of an alleged palestinian criminal in a facebook video and here you can see him taking a selfie with donald trump during the u.s. presence visit to israel in may. the red cross which was a school to the bus from gaza to an israeli prison has blamed the israeli authorities for the incident the organization said it was their duty to ensure the family's safety during the visit. from the regional red cross spoke to r.t. . protecting human dignity as a human if you're an organisation that is extremely important to us so people being

treated this way being insulted one of the buses that we provided to them to be able to go and visit their families is something that is acceptable because there were elderly are there were children and there were lots of women on that last so that's why we call on the israeli authorities to help us how close to shore up there is and to happen in the future there have been various no legs for following different conflicts that took place between that israeli site and between hamas there are several that there are people missing people like that that have been using israel and isn't also missing palestinians and where as a humanitarian you're going to say should the pain of the missing or the families of the missing people are one of the utmost priorities and we've been calling on the authorities of all sides to respect their obligation not to the international humanitarian law. an explosion at a major pipeline in libya a story angle still to come.

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going back to the program the united nations budget will be slashed by nearly three hundred million dollars during the next fiscal year that announcement came from washington's mission to the u.n. after a strongly worded statement from the u.s. ambassador the inefficiency an obvious pandan of the united nations are well known we will no longer allow the generosity of the american people be taken advantage of or remain i'm shocked this historic reduction in spondon in addition to many other moves toward a more efficient and accountable un is a big step in the right direction un members approved the new budget on sunday capping it at five point four billion dollars the united states is responsible for twenty two percent of the payments of the main budget country to war than a billion dollars over the last two years the us also accounts for nearly a third of the un's peacekeeping budget with more than three billion in annual

payments the funding cuts come just days after the un overwhelmingly voted to reject donald trump's decision to recognize jerusalem as the israeli capital only nine members including the u.s. voted against the resolution while a hundred twenty eight others supported it the u.s. has tried to pressure u.n. members with threats ranging from cutting aid to taking the names of those supporting the resolution. when we make generous contributions to the u.n. we also have a legitimate expectation that our goodwill is recognized and respected the united states will remember this day they take hundreds of millions of dollars and even billions of dollars and then they vote against us while we're watching those votes what a vote against us will serve a lot. we don't care just about everything that ambassador haley has done since assuming her post as being contrary to the spirit of the u.n. charter i've been quiet and diplomatic foray into the very notion of war diplomacy

complete packed list attack for listeners and without any sense of nuance so this kind of cool language of threat and punishment use against solving nations and so forth this really hurts the uses image and credibility of war why and united states is not helping it served by having someone representing the united nations who saw undiplomatic and for into the spirit of the united nations. a saudi coalition as strike has hit a busy market in yemen killing at least forty people and just a warning the falling victim does contain disturbing images dozens more civilians were wounded in the bombing range in the west of the country many of the victims are children saudi arabian horses international intervention in the amman back in march twenty fifth to support the government against little rebels the campaign has

claimed thousands of lives. daoud chiral a professor of international law at georgetown university believes the u.s. government should end its support for the saudi military campaign in yemen are crimes are being committed against defenseless. people. market absolutely unconscionable washington should be. very small responsibility than other countries why because it is so close to saudi arabia

because it is the fault of weapons that are rules in yemen and because it can go much more. than i think what the other part that i really would blame is the media international media and particularly the american media they don't do what is necessary to bring it to the attention of the public in general the scope of these atrocities. and explain libya's largest oil pipeline causing a major supply disruption it triggered an instant spike in the global crude price up to sixty six dollars a barrel the highest since mid twenty fifteen the incident has reduced realty supplies by up to a file under thousand barrels per day according to officials the blast is believed to have been set off by a militant group it's the latest setback for libya's economy which has been

devastated by more than six years of conflict since the overthrow of colonel gadhafi two rival governments still battling for control of the country. now and as you know if your home is being stepped on has been developed by american whistleblower an anti surveillance campaign that edward snowden it works on android devices and can spot shadowy electronic intrusion but as explains it might also reveal a few things you might want to keep quiet about edward snowden has set out to prove he's capable of much more the.