therapy and renewed hiv treatment in a managed to survive unbelievably she was then bullied online by the denial lists for taking medicine again but says she can put all that behind her hoping that in a country with a worsening hiv problem her story could help others avoid fatal mistakes. r t. i the russian foreign minister has had a frank exchange with his american counterpart over washington's approach towards north korea the two spoke by phone with the details later released by the russian foreign ministry. so again a lot of room pointed out once again that heightening tensions over the korean peninsula through washington's aggressive rhetoric towards pyongyang stepping up military preparations in the region is unacceptable a phone call took place around the same time the u.s. sanctioned a two top north korean officials who were allegedly involved in the country's 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 likely 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 and i have made such a suggestion to the us and the us is currently reviewing them for these exercises a bit all going 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 suspected 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 see the forthcoming measures to be taken by the d.p. r. k. will cost the us the greatest pain and suffering it has ever gone through in its entire history but if it is forced to defend itself or its allies we will have no choice but to totally destroy north korea. control the man who had the range to talk with. little rocket man rocket fuel for the american dream is a sick puppy russia has repeatedly offered to mediate the situation but we've been hearing mixed messages from the trumpet ministration so it's unclear whether this phone call will make any difference whatsoever but it definitely seems like quite a positive direction. american reporting that now it is holiday season and each

culture does put its own stamp on making this time of year special for the african american community there is a relatively new festival known as cohen's a to you although its origins are a bit unusual this explains. the holiday season in the usa is rather intense there's lots of shopping lots of t.v. specials now with christmas festivities still underway americans are waking up to find donald trump sending out greetings for yet another holiday today marks the first day of kwanzaa a week long celebration of african-american heritage and culture that's a celebrate the richness of the post and look toward a brighter future never heard of kwanzaa don't worry you're not alone according to a survey taken in the last three years this holiday season is the african-american christmas is actually only celebrated by less than three percent of african-americans do you celebrate kwanzaa no i don't celebrate kwanzaa i don't so it kind of. i try not to get too involved with so much hype of all these different

festivities you know anything about the history is it something you identify with i really don't. i haven't really been exposed to much about kwanzaa i actually don't think too much about it i grew up celebrating christmas the thing about donald trump sending out a statement for kwanzaa you know today a lot of stuff that he does is pretty hypocritical so nothing he does because surprise me now kwanzaa has been around for quite a long time it's been endorsed by many presidents including george w. bush and barack obama the media covers it quite extensively this time of year kids are static at the start of kwanzaa kwanzaa a holiday that millions of people around the world hold dear a secular celebration to honor african-american and pan african heritage and values all week long holiday that inspires african-americans to take pride in their cultural roots and reinforce principles to live but see it in a number of places whether it's m s n b c whether it's the new york times whether

it's the l.a. times there's farming coverage of this event as if it's a real event more coverage i would dare say is given to kwanzaa considering. how few in here and there are then even christmas and hanukkah so what is kwanzaa what is it all about well the holiday was started back in one thousand nine hundred sixty six by dr melodic harang he was a black nationalist and he felt like the holiday would strengthen the african-american community and resist the white majority i wanted to give black people to hold a day of their own so i came up with kwanzaa and said it was african because you know black people in this country wouldn't celebrate it if they knew it was american now just five years after he came up with kwanzaa kurang actually went to prison for torturing two of his female followers now the media generally chooses to ignore his jail term and his nationalist views when they do coverage of the holiday and they also still invite him on to talk about it however at this point we've

learned that not everyone in the african-american community is a big fan of kwanzaa there is no holiday in the on the continent of africa associated with this set of events this is all made up by a person who when the radicals in the nineteen sixty's the black panthers were operating thought he was too radical for them and he wasn't able to be a part of what they were doing and he helped put this forward as a way of distinguishing himself and trying to build a greater following african-americans have a diverse and rich history but kwanzaa seems to have very little to do with it many african-americans don't see a need to celebrate what they consider to be an artificial holiday kaleb moppet r.t. new york now then the united nations will have to scale back its spending for the

next couple of years after the u.s. envoy nikki haley announced a drastic cut to its budget and with washington calling the world body inefficient perhaps it has more better uses for the money. with me. because. it lives up to the challenge of it's a great thing because it's always. in the. world the united nations on a regular budget has increased we are not seeing the results. with this.

has been filmed hurling insults the palestinians while they were on their way from garza to visit relatives in israeli jails. well shortly before that video was filmed. tweeted a photo of himself with an israeli flag saying he had come to comfort the families of what he described as animal he claims he was trying to garner support for a new bill that would prevent palestinian families from visiting prisoners in israel. declined to comment or. gained notoriety with a godfather style political ad he also tried to discredit. by creating a false identity in order to provide made up testimony and he once threatened to

execute the family of an alleged palestinian criminal in a facebook video. well the red cross which was escorting the bus from garza to the israeli prison have rounded on the israeli authorities for failing to prevent the incident the charity said it was the official's jus t. to ensure family safety during visits protecting human dignity as a humanitarian organization that is extremely important to us so people being treated this way being insulted at one of the buses that provided to them out to be able to going to visit their families is something that is acceptable because there were elderly or there were children and there were a lot of women and that so that's why we call on the israeli authorities still help us how close to shore up their instances and to happen in the future of. our friends children's magazine has been taken off the shelves after describe

israel and north korea is not being real countries in paris's charlotte dubinsky. a french children's educational magazine has provoked a firestorm of criticism here in france now in the latest edition of the opi it features a fact sheet for children which says we call these one hundred and ninety seven countries states like france germany and algeria you see the magazine then goes on to suggest that not all of the countries in the world agree that israel and north korea are real states the monkeys even has since been withdrawn from sale here in france and the publisher has apologized they go on to say that this does not mean that they do not recognize the existence of israel yet that apology made silly the no mention of tool of north korea well we've been gauging reaction on the streets of paris so what people think about this publication just would like you to

hazard a guess how many countries you think there are in the world. two hundred fifty. three hundred maybe ten closer to two hundred. three hundred. six hundred forty six out of a hundred ninety five closest one hundred and ninety seven well done a magazine in france for children it says that all of these countries all real cause i want you to have a guess what ones would spring to mind for you smaller countries because expanding ukraine maybe i don't know what countries wouldn't be a real country herds of the kurdistan that would necessarily be america america i don't know you start me on that one i'm sorry ok this magazine says that israel and north korea are not real countries what's your reaction to that i think that's big news i don't take so what about israel. as

a country i would never say that they were not. real countries i bet you think that would happen in france it doesn't sound very educational. in france because president macron has told his ministers to stay on standby and not venture too far from parish during these holidays and it's not going down well with several officials. from. the e.u. . in

. the north african country of tunisia is demanding an apology from the united arab emirates is after the country's emirates airlines prevented female tunisians from boarding flights to the last friday citing the threat of terrorism and the bans chords widespread indignation in tunisia. i just him she believed why would i go to a country that wonder exactly if that's the case and we should also be opposed visas on the united arab emirates. these appreciations are

a force preventing an hour of visiting our countries is unacceptable when we see the westerners going from country to country freely with the most rigid that is one of the tunisian state must defend the rights of two new zealand women and force the u.s. to apologize. while the ban was lifted the same day after to newseum some in the u.a.e. ambassador in the gulf states foreign minister later tweeted that the u.a.e. respects and values to nice young women in adding that they want to avoid any misunderstanding but that wasn't enough fortune is here which retaliated by banning all emirates flights from landing at its airports this tweet was posted by the airline shortly afterwards telling customers that all flights to tunisia were suspended indefinitely when you talk to a blogger and activist who says that the move was insulting on many levels it considered that what happened is lation of of titian women rights but it's

a violation of women rights and general the spokesperson for the national presidency talk about security problems but this doesn't justify what happened isn't small female babies who are not allowed to go or are on planes i don't think that a toddler is. the tunisian government is still asking for official apology and it happened under the pressure of people here in tunisia. an explosion has hit libya's largest oil pipeline causing major disruption to supplies triggered an instant spike to win the global crude price which reached up to sixty six dollars a barrel the highest since mid twenty fifteen the incident has reduced libya.