yes. human rights watch claims fifty two iraqi civilians were executed by year's e.-d. fighters as revenge for supporting life so we talked to the group about alleged killings. burleson is setting up safe zones for women for the new year's eve celebrations to prevent a repeat of the mass sexual assaults seen previously in cologne to me it sounds it's a group like other early be set up it's a good idea it's seated. in front of me. and our team meets a bedouin tribes leader who insists on staying on alleged ancestral land despite israeli or solitude flattening his village more than one hundred times.

thank you for watching the headlines here at r.t. international broadcasting live from moscow and. the first we begin with some breaking news from ukraine a man has taken a post office hostage in the northeastern city of kharkov he claims to have explosives but that's not yet been confirmed in the cording to police there all eleven hostages including two children will keep you posted on this story as we get more information. a new report by human rights watch claims he has e.d. fighters kidnapped and executed fifty two civilians from two iraqi tribes in june the use it is our own ethno religious group which abides by their own moral code when it says playing a cd forces killed men women and children who were fleeing fighting between islamic state and government backed forces the victims were from tribes that had reportedly sheltered and helped i saw militants but is failing. human rights watch told us

that anyone in these tribes has now become a target but there are two tribes these are sunni arab tribes one called into it the other jaish these are famous tribes from the area of so enjoy the historical homeland of the according to the izzy these two specific tribes were complicit with isis and the day that isis arrived in the area these tribes helped isis to round up his east turn women into sex slaves and to massacre other members of the z.t. community since then i have spent much time with u.c.d. elders who told me they had drawn up a list of individuals and of tribes and would target them and kill them if they had the chance heard of incidents where what is now a group of u.c.b. fighters a u.c.b. militia empowered on the payroll of the baghdad government that has targeted members of these two tribes but what we understand is that they are targeting

anyone from these tribes women children men not because they were specifically involved in nice abuses and abuses against the israelis but just be care because they carry the name of this tribe according to top iraqi officials almost seven thousand years e.d. people were kidnapped by i saw in twenty fourteen alone and three thousand still missing. little. the men would offer us and skiffs and in the evenings they would get together and treat the women and have their fun with us. a cause of. it was indescribable funny laugh turned into endless suffering tears and hunger i couldn't do anything not quite. as i salute his ground in iraq says

the unlawful killings and torture of tribe members by his eating forces another dark chapter for the war torn country if any in these battles against isis has been to end a horrific cycle of violence and iraq violence in iraq allowing groups of armed actors to target tribes to target women children men and we have had nothing to do with the crimes of isis with complete impunity and i'm going to torture and execute with impunity really will spell disaster for the next steps in iraq in any hopes of reconciliation through communities. or with the world gearing up for new year's celebrations berlin has come up with a new way to ensure security safe signs for women are being set up at the brandenburg gate party well this comes in response to mass sexual assault at celebrations in the german city of cologne two years ago. has been gauging reaction

in the capital just like at new year's celebrations the world over hundreds of thousands of people are expected to flock to this place here in berkeley to see out the old and ringing the new you can see preparations are currently undergoing but keeping everyone safe without spoiling the atmosphere is a huge challenge for the authorities and these here organizers i go in one step further aside from usual safety berries and alcohol bans and so-called women's safety area is being set up it's a zone where female guests will feel sexually harassed of just uncomfortable can get special help is being manned by members of german red cross and comes in response to events two years ago back then hundreds of women who were sexually assaulted at new year carnivals they were groped robbed intimidated and separated from their friends according to leaked police documents there were more than. one

thousand cases reported in cologne in hamburg alone more than two thousand men were reportedly involved most of them asylum seekers the new idea of the women's safety area has received a mixed reaction that's a good idea many people feel like need help but they don't know who to ask to do and having these services kind of nice i think sexual harassment was people who were in groups and you were so how do you get from here to the safe place i mean. it seems a bit farfetched i don't think it's such a good idea it's to me it sounds it's a bit like an early be set up like oh man i feel freight but this is this is too it's good if because it's needed. in front of nearly it's kind of interesting that they do it in a new year's as an event it's because i do you know be better if it's like

a long long get to like tutor or like the big not just pick one thing that you do first pressure because i don't know you sounded a little commercial you know way too early in police has also issued recommendations for those who are planning to come here for new year's celebrations including avoiding aggressive groups pain attention when someone gets too close and in case of any danger reporting to police reason otieno r.t. from berlin. frank hansel a member of the a.t.f. tea party and berlin's parliament things instead of safe signs for women it's migration policies that need rethinking we feel that there is a new step of. danger coming into our country we've seen that since we have to already build vaults against our christmas markets this is a development we do not want to see really policy should change we should not continue to have this mass immigration of illegal mass immigration we do have. we have to call and see all the people who came to our country have to register

them this is a process which has not been come to an end and we must close the borders in order to have a stable society you can't go much further than the security forces or the politicians in germany goal so that's a problem because i think this is not a good sign for the new year. one protester has died and dozens more were injured after thousands of palestinians clashed with israeli forces in gaza and the west bank on friday rioters threw rocks and burned tires as they confronted israeli defense forces all the soldiers responded with tear gas. was. more of. the. the to the.

one demonstrator died in hospital and this is were treated by thorough medics the israeli military retaliated after rockets were fired from the gaza strip with ok shooters were reported mass demonstrations have become a weekly occurrence since donald trump recognized jerusalem as israel's capital on december the sixth. when jerusalem is just one of many better land disputes in the area and israeli court has sentenced a sixty eight year old bedouin man to ten months in prison and fined him more than ten thousand dollars for trespassing but he claims the territory in question belongs to him abu dhabi i am is a village elder in our ad i keep in southern israel that when tribes had settled there long before the state of israel was proclaimed israeli authorities claim the tribes occupy the land illegally and have sent in riot police and bulldozers to demolish the village whenever it's rebuilt so far they've leveled it more than one

hundred times artie's paulus lear reports. i'm here in the nor the negev desert where there isn't much except a few dozen unrecognized bedwyn villages this is one belonging to the to each tribe they are some two hundred and fifty people who live here and they say that this land is they is going back generations but the israeli authorities insist they here illegally. copied. the. zip. it will take years until this fight ends they looking to push out so will compromise and will give this land to the state. in my year already if i was jewish the soldiers wouldn't come here at six in the

morning on a rainy day they don't care this is just a bedouin house they don't think the bedouins are human beings they don't care that bedouins the citizens of this country they don't care that bedouins live on this land not the country's land. the trying to say is they've lived here for seven hundred and fifty years. this document is from nineteen zero five in the autumn and the era of the second one with the red stamps is also from ottoman times nine hundred twenty nine and this third one doesn't have to do with the land it's from nine hundred thirty six and these are receipts from taxes for the land. everybody here is family father mother uncle aunt relatives only the alps henri family is buried in this cemetery no one else only al torrey tribe and their relatives.

live. russia has had a very busy year in twenty seventeen if you were to believe the mainstream media especially when it comes to sowing discord and interfering in elections worldwide but russia's foreign minister had a few words to say about that in his latest interview. there's all the billboard for the age. of the what. do. we. the good to close. off the work you do in your. books you push was to reduce again there's nothing you post was right. up there with. the manuals and the political news there's a simple user words. people would choose. which is the group that we've

said the oldest about the bill will go go go go. so did you hear that russia's foreign minister actually admitted to meddling in elections around the world i don't pay tell you as i did no no that was actually a video. what do you think do you think that that actually i mean are you surprised by that that he would admit to actually meddling in the us election absolutely i think it would definitely change everything that the public was seeing right now and of course he would never meet if they did anyway right it's quite surprising that he would admit something like that and even go further it's actually it's a prank video it was a comedy show that he did he was totally being sarcastic i mean this only i knew. he was being sarcastic ok that makes much more sense if you're saying he's joking yeah it was a comedy program yeah right but who knows that he's joking do you feel like people

are predisposed to believe negative things about russia one hundred years ago and to say i think that we have a very negative connotation about people and yeah it's the way versions are pictured than western countries. now if you sort of storing the latest antivirus software would protect you from being hacked and think again even meeting slade best security expert john mcafee hasn't been rude he claims his twitter account was breached on used as part of an elaborate cryptocurrency scam is what happened. can who is hacked or has been notified of the day tweet was not me.

john mcafee is the creator of the popular mcafee antivirus software he's also behind a wide range of other cyber security products we spoke to him about his own online security was and his take on the rise of cryptocurrency we are on a number of people we will rely on our share is the telephone terrorist around twitter my father was hacked through my carrier eighteen prior to being hacked my phone was totally disabled you couldn't call into it i got calls from it they sent to my phone number a special code so that i could get in but it wasn't me it was the hacker. this is

something totally out of my control totally out of everyone's control what happened to me is not a threat but there's a great threat to all mind this is a great threat to our. crypto currency most people do not change their currencies on their own while we're living in a new world and a new world of risks for all of us using the internet hackers are becoming more and more efficient and more sophisticated in their hacking techniques this is going to happen to me i promise you they can have. coming up the son of an elderly french aid worker abducted in africa says president macros not helping to free the story until after the break.

it is the big countdown the ball is going to drop new year's starting resolutions will be created it's all so very exciting let's. we have. doctors here who never thought about it but we took care and to call for year ago they thought the relatives would hate them and i would just love them and they're just so absolutely inspiring to hear something at telephone call or a person coming actually i just had a man in my room at the same words. my wife has just died thank you.

welcome back the alleged main plan and perpetrator of this week's terror attack in st petersburg has just been detained on wednesday a blast rocked a supermarket in the northern russian city an explosive device had been left inside a look near the entrance which left searching people injured with claims like. now iran has been hit by mass rallies across the country post. for and against the government earlier this week protests against the high cost of living took place in iran's second largest city in russia which later turned political and spread across the country has a stake has nationwide then took part in massive rallies in support of the government and the country's supreme leader they were marking the anniversary of pro-government rallies in two thousand and nine which condemned what they called for an orchestrated unrest after the elections however u.s.

criticism is only focusing on the recent anti-government protests. many reports of peaceful protests by iranian citizens fed up with regimes corruption and squandering of the nation's wealth to fund terrorism a brooch. iranian government should respect their people's rights including the right to express themselves the world is watching but already we do see that foreign players are involving themselves in iranian affairs and this is ironic because the united states right now complaining about legit russian involvement in the us election be even though they've never provided any evidence for this but i personally don't think that this is anything of major significance i think the western media. want to exaggerate the importance these are protests. that are that were small most of them were expressing their economic grievances and very few were expressing hostility toward the government of the state and today

they're actually out of protest against those groups that were protesting against the political order and they were much larger in numbers across the country but again those were not reflected in the west when. the son of an elderly french aid worker abducted in africa say her family is disappointed how little president michael has done to help free her sophie pitts cannot is seventy two years old like in twenty sixteen she was abducted in the city of cow by local terrorists this july she was shown in so-called proof of life footage released by al qaeda and showed her alongside five other captives has science says despite an ongoing investigation he's received no information about his mother nor. the parents prosecutor ordered an urgent investigation into his stall we're now trying to find new materials to restart it so that it will be apparent in due to a lack of results we're establishing contacts to try to trace or seeking any

information to establish with the she's alive and where she might be found so far we have no news nothing concrete be the from the kidnappers not from any contact persons and also nothing from the. foreign ministry's crisis center. over the past five years the number of people kidnapped by terrorists has been rising sharply last year there were almost sixteen thousand kidnappings worldwide after hostage for shoes of sophie was posted online the french president pledged to eradicate the militants behind the kidnapping however after a year she still trapped in mali. ship also jewelry a little but the odds of today my thoughts are with our competitor at syfy prison on who was abducted ingle on christmas eve when she may be sure that all the resources of the state are being mobilized to foreign her and bring her back to her family but also be certain that as far as i'm concerned i will not give in to any provocation because that is precisely what our attackers want it's good that they

can be contacted for support but a family has been disappointed by the government's failure to make any decisions on this case yes it's wonderful that we have being supported but the one who really needs support is my mother we need to ask mr marquand about this he has power in the situation he can decide on a course of action it must be admitted that so far no progress has been made in tackling this matter. two professors from san diego state university claim farmers markets in the us are contributing to the oppression of the country's minorities. the professors claim almost half of all orchids are a catalyst for gentrification and this leads to the exclusion of poorer long term residents and people of color and also reinforces the consumption habits of white people this is despite markets often being established to help promote a low income and minority communities and it's not the first time this year the race card has been played on a power innocent issues. when

they planted those trees there. they knew that they would be cutting off this community. and. now let's return to our breaking news story from ukraine police reports claim a man has taken eleven people hostage including two children in a post office in the north eastern city of harkov the man claims to have explosives but that's not yet been confirmed and his motives are also as yet unknown officers are negotiating with them to release the hostages we'll have more information on the story as we get it and i'll be back for the latest headlines in just over half an hour see them.

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with the gorgeous talented smart. all oracle of the universe stacy herbert maxwell you bring up a few things our resolutions did you follow through on all your resolutions for twenty seventeen did i did i promise the never to sell any of my pick going so i hold on a hardliner and i told my new years resolution from twenty seven to eight i hold firm and of course we are on new year's eve the eve of new year's eve is when this episode is recording is airing but we will not be here on new year's eve because that's a sunday and our show airs saturday c that's why we're here on the eve new year's eve. i get it. which makes sense and the seer that hash tag me to is the person of the year for twenty seventeen according to time magazine so we like adam and eve exactly oh exactly. what the apple yet as they left the garden of

paradise so many people that are here even though many people this year were tempted by big queen and big point became a massive mass of phenomena of course had you been watching price reports since two thousand and eleven you'd be on your yacht right now in the caribbean and. that's where we will be over the christmas new year's vacation so what are your predictions max for twenty eighteen for big coin first let's call a price everybody's calling price people are up to a million two million some down zero what between zero and two million dollars for twenty eighteen when do you see what i've been saying i don't really like to give press predictions because it sets up false expectations and gets into the people's head decide if trading over this number i want to trade.