it was. human rights watch claims fifty two iraqi civilians were executed by using the fighters as well vengeful supporting eisel we talk to the group about alleged to prevent killings. but it is setting up safe zones for women for the new year's eve celebrations to prevent a repeat of the mass of sexual assaults and seen previously in colombia. to me it sounds it's a bit like i'm only be set up it's a good idea it's needed. i mean for today we. are to meet the doing tribal leader who insists on staying on alleged an s. and ancestral lands despite israeli authorities flattening his village more than one hundred times. the main suspect in this week's terror attack in some

petersburg that left over a dozen injured is detained by russian authorities. i am. i am. a warm welcome you're watching r.t. international with me good to have you with us this hour let's begin with this developing story in ukraine where a man has taken hostages at a post office in the north eastern city of kharkov five of eleven hostages have been released including three women and children the man claims to have explosives but that's not yet been confirmed his motives are also as yet unknown earlier police said he was told to surrender otherwise or dorothy's would be ready to use force we'll bring you more on this as soon as we get it. now a new report by human rights watch. which claims he is it

a fight has kidnapped and executed fifty two civilians from two iraqi tribes in june these it is are an ethnic religious group which abide by their own moral code what is claimed is it is forces killed men women and children who were fleeing fighting between islamic states and government backed forces the victims were from tribes that had reportedly sheltered and helps i saw militants will from 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 singe are 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 please you to turn women into sex slaves and to massacre other members of the

community since then i've 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 or what is now a group of u.c.b. fighters you see the militia empowered on the payroll of the baghdad government that has targeted members of these two tribes but what we understand is that they're targeting anyone from these tribes women children men not because they were specifically involved in nice abuses and abuses against the c.d.'s but just be care because they carry the name of this tribe according to top iraqi officials almost seven thousand his city people were kidnapped spy still in two thousand and fourteen alone and three thousand are still missing. listen.

to me. the man would offer us and skiffs in the evenings they would get together and treat the women and have their fun with us. it was indescribable funny laugh turned into endless suffering tears and hunger i couldn't do anything quite as i salute is ground in iraq bill kids will says the unlawful killings and torture of tribe members of the city forces or another doctor for the water in country if any in these battles against isis has been to end a horrific cycle of violence and year of 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 allowing them to torture and

execute with impunity really will spell disaster for for the next steps in iraq in any hopes of reconciliation through community it's. with the world gearing up for new year's celebrations but then has come up with a new way to ensure security safe zones for women are being set up at the brandenburg gate policy this comes in response to mass sexual assaults at celebrations in the german city of cologne two years ago artie's memory of the national 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 philly to see out the old and bringing 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 organize. so 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 who feel sexually harassed of just uncomfortable can get special help it's been 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 far fetched 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 a man after a freight but this is this is too it's good because it's needed. in front of many it's kind of interesting that they do it in a new year's as an event it's because i'd be better if it's like a long long get to like tutor or like that they're not just like one thing that you do first pressure because i don't know the south it's 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 paying attention when someone gets too close and in case of any danger reporting to police reason otieno r.t. from berlin. frank hearns a limb member of the f.t. party and berlin's parliament thinks instead of safe zones for women is migration

pollies policies that need rethinking we feel that there is a new step of. danger coming into our country we've seen it since we have to already build vols 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 count and see who the people are 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 go much further than the security forces or the politicians in germany goal so that's a problem and that i think this is not a good sign for the new year to come. 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 writers through rocks and bones tires as they confronted israeli defense forces while the soldiers responded with tear gas. the. one demonstrated died in hospital and dozens were treated by paramedics the israeli military retaliated after rockets were fired from the gaza strip although no casualties were reported mass demonstrations have become a weekly occurrence since donald trump recognized jerusalem as israel's capital on december the six. teresa lim is just one of many disputes in the area and israeli

court has sentenced to 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. is a village in iraq in southern israel but are in tribes had settled long before the state of israel was proclaimed israeli authorities claim the tribes occupy the land illegally and have stanton 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 policy or reports. i'm here in the nor the negev desert where there isn't much except a few dozen unrecognised bedwyn villages this is one belonging to the to eat tribe but there are some two hundred 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. the. it will take years until this fighting ends they looking to push out so will compromise and will give this land to the state. he my your duty 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 for nineteen zero five in the autumn an era 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 al tory family is buried in this cemetery no one else only al tory tried and their relatives. looking. like a suspect in this week's terror attack in some painters but has been detained jacqueline vogel has the latest. the russian security services put out a statement saying that they have identified and detained the alleged organizer and perpetrator of this attack that took place on wednesday they emphasize that they do

believe this was a one man working by himself he planned and carried out the attack all by himself and no further information about the suspect has been released yet but we do know that he's being questioned by the russian investigative committee and they have already come out saying that they are going to make a request to officially arrest him on that charge well a man who is believed to be seen i believe we can show you a video right now of the man he is seen entering a grocery store with a backpack on and it's believed that this is the man who left that backpack in a locker near the entrance of the grocery store and then quickly left and the resulting blast loved over a dozen people injured and some of which are still in hospital unfortunately and in the aftermath the president came out saying that this was a terrorist attack and the day after he said that islamic state did take credit for the explosion and of course now the suspect is in custody we will be hoping for more information on what the motivation was and what not of course many will

remember that earlier this year in april another terrorist attack did take place in st petersburg and there metro and that killed over that killed fourteen people and wounded over forty more and that was one of the most deadly terrorist attacks to have taken place in that city but of course it actually could have been in fact worse because there was a second device that just did not explode and was diffused in time. iran has been hit by mass rallies across the country both for and against the governments earlier this week protests against the high cost of living so place in iran's second largest city in the shah's which lay to turn political and spread across the country on saturday crowds nationwide then took policy in mass rallies in support of the government. and the country's supreme leader they were marking the anniversary of protests and rallies in two thousand and nine which condemned what they called foreign orchestrated and rest after the elections however u.s.

criticism is only focusing on the 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 broach 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 is complaining about legit russian involvement in u.s. elections even though they've never provided any evidence for this but i personally don't think that this is anything major significance i think the west and western media they want to exaggerate the importance these are protests. that were small most of them were expressing their economic grievances and very few were expressing hostility toward the government or the state and today they're

actually counter protests against those groups that were protesting against the political order and they were much larger and numbers across the country but again those were not reflected in the west for me. still to come at the son of an elderly french aid worker abducted in africa who says president macron isn't doing anything to help but the story and still to come after this 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.

we have. doctors here who will never know what about but we just care and to call for a year ago they felt 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 russia has had a very busy year in twenty seven c. plus if you 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. but if. we get the goods to put you. off work you do a new. option to reduce again there's nothing you post. he's. got that even us in the political news there's a simple user words. which as. we've said you know this the but the but will go 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 attention as this isn't i didn't know know that there's 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 u.s. election absolutely i think definitely changed 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 and even go further it's actually it's a prank video it was a comedy show that he did he was totally being second guy i miss him already i knew . he was being sarcastic ok much more sense 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 yet it's the way versions are pictured than western countries. and the song of an elderly french aid worker abducted in

africa. they her family is disappointed how little president mccrone has done to help free her so if you petra none is seventy two years old back in two thousand and sixteen she was abducted in the city of guile by local terrorists this july she was so in so-called proof of life that footage released by al qaeda showed her alongside of five other captives as one says despite an ongoing investigation he's received no information about his mother. the parents prosecutor ordered an urgent investigation but it has stalled we are now trying to find new materials to restart it so that it won't be apparent in due to a lack of results we were establishing contacts to try to trace or 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 of the hostage thirty two of so if it was posted online the french president pledged to eradicate the militants behind the kidnapping however after a year she's still trapped in mali. if your boss will do you're not looking but the odds of today my thoughts are with our competitor it's a few people not one who was abducted in girl on christmas eve be sure that all the resources of the state are being mobilized to find 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 our family has been disappointed by the government's failure to make any decisions on this case yes it's wonderful that we

are 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. so if you thought installing the latest antivirus software would protect you from being hacks well think again even a leading cyber security expert don't knock a fee hasn't been a mean claims his twitter account was breached and used as part of an elaborate cryptocurrency scout 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 is also behind a wide range of other cyber security products well we spoke to him about his own online security was and his take on the rise of cryptocurrency we live on a number of people are large areas of telephone terrorist around twitter my father was hacked through my character eighteen prior to being hacked my phone was totally disabled you couldn't call into it i got from it they sent it 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. cryptocurrency most people do not come and sit 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 and promised they can. from drupal. to professors from san diego state university claim farmers' markets in the u.s. are contributions into the oppression of the country's minorities their professors claim almost half of all markets are a catalyst for them to judge for crazy justification and this leads to the exclusion of poor 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 low income and minority communities and it's not the first time this year the race card has been played on apparently innocent issues. the. the poor the in. the in the or with the poor. the cotton the significance of the the.

cosmic the. ah the goin the new players all strings there they knew that they would be cutting off this community the poor the sick the gloom. about the latest headlines in about thirty minutes also a little. everybody i'm stephen both test hollywood guy suspects every proud american first of all

i'm just george bush and r.v. two sensed this is my buddy max the famous financial guru just a little bit different i've. only got one of the oh no one knows up with all the drama happening in our country i'm shooting the good have some fun every day americans come calling and hopefully start to bridge the gap this is the great american pill which. los angeles the city of luxury and fame but also an alarming number of people living in the streets. the simple fact in l.a. is there's just not enough shelter even if people on the streets right now decided

to come in there's nowhere to come in and it's been a struggle. to get this man from his own response to the problem and constructed dozens of tiny homes for people in need of shelter when you have nothing in order to go. you know having something like this may as well be a castle but do the authorities accept such solution. me house on a city parking space is not a solution to your craft to have someone monitoring the site otherwise it'll be a free for all the news there a better alternative. to end the homelessness crisis. thank . you thank you thank you thank you thank. god. k.v.'s

this week let's talk about christmas and if you have any children in the room you might want to send them away or put their head inside some sort of burlap sack or worse so it's out there because my goal before this segment is over is to come christmas for everybody. i know there is that something about christmas i do like but if the whole point of the show is that isn't in a brutal truth the underage acted side of life then i can't let the fat bearded man escape on top star i got it ok. by the way i grew up with both christmas and hanukkah in my house so i got to see first hand how much hanukkah socks to get but i did go. to toys is right they're just not a case of both right than because i just put do give me a pile of plastic choice made by chinese children or get out of my face ok. i'm

going to take my coins toys and my fourth get away i want to go. look at a religion you run in here. you want to travel religion oh we're going to take your toys and go to you know i don't like god i do not good start. so this. so there are the normal things people criticize about christmas is based on materialism and consumerism it's buying stuff you don't need putting it inside boxes that are necessary wrapped in paper you don't like to give to people your ambivalent about but. the most obvious points are perhaps not the worst christmas or really santa claus is the first. kind of gray and a lot you're told when you're a little i made unless your uncle is secretly your father in which case you're dealing with a whole bigger issue.