but. you know. human rights watch claims fifty two iraqi civilians were executed by using the fighters as revenge for supporting eisel we talk to the group about alleged revenge killings. berlin is starting up safe zones for women for the new year's eve celebration to prevent a repeat of the mass sexual assault seen previously in cologne to me it sounds it's a bit like i'm only be set up it's a good idea it's needed. in front of the. party needs a better when tribal leader who insists on staying on a legit ancestral land despite israeli authorities are flattening his village more than a hundred times. and the main suspect in this week's terror attack in some petersburg

that left over a dozen injured is detained by russian authorities. a warm welcome you're watching r.t. international broadcasting to you live from moscow and they care and good to have you with theirs this hour now a new report by human rights watch claims you see the fighters kidnapped and executed fifty two civilians from two iraqi tribes in june these cities are an ethno religious group which abide by their own moral code where this is claim you see the forces killed men women and children who were fleeing fighting between islamic state and the government backed forces the victims were from tribes that had reportedly sheltered and helped i saw militants both kids will of from a human rights watch told is that anyone in these tribes has now become a target there are two tribes these are are sunni. lives one called into it the

other jehane 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 he's turned women into sex slaves and to massacre other members of the u.c.b. community since then i have spent much time with u.c.d. elders who told me they had drawn up lists of individuals and of tribes and would target them and kill them if they had the chance heard of incidents where i what is now a group of u.c.b. fighters are using 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 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 is that a paperweight kidnaps by i saw in twenty fourteen alone and three thousand remain missing. a little with. the men 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 not quite as i saw loses ground in iraq belk his will says the unlawful killings and torture of tribe members by use of the forces are another doctor. so the war torn country. in these battles against isis has been to end

a horrific cycle of violence and your own violence in iraq allowing groups of armed actors to target tribes to target women children men and we have 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 communities. with the world gearing up for new year's celebrations burnin has come up with a new way to ensure security safe zones for women being set up at the brandenburg gate policy this comes in response to massive sexual assaults celebrations in the german city of cologne two years ago it is maria for 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 with 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 gas will 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 york 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 this service is 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 i'm an afro freight but this initiative it's good because it's needed. in front of nearly it's kind of interesting that they do it in a new year's events because i'd be better if it's like a long long get to like two or like the big not just like one thing that you do first pressure because i don't know it sounds that 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 from council a member of the f.t. party in balance parliament thinks instead of safe zones 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 it since we have two already built 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 grave of illegal mass immigration we do have we have to count and see who 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 go much further than the security forces or the politicians in germany go 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 as the west bank on friday rioters threw rocks and burns tires as they confronted israeli defense forces while the soldiers responded with tear gas. already. was.

one demonstrator 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 anderson but the say. what you are slim is just one of many bitter lands 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. madame is a village elder in. southern israel bedouin tribes had settled there long before the state of israel was proclaimed israeli authorities claim the tribes occupied the land illegally and have sent in why a police and bulldozers to demolish the village whenever it's rebuilt so far

they've leveled it more than one hundred times artie's poorest live reports i'm hearing the nor the negev desert where there isn't much except a few dozen unrecognized bedwyn villages this is one belonging to the to retry but there are some two hundred fifty people who live here and they say that this land is there is going back generations but the israeli authorities insist they here illegally. after. the. it will take years until this fight hence they looking to push out so will compromise and will give this land to the state. 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 they don't care that bedouins live on this land not the country's land. the tribes says they've lived here for seven hundred this document is from ninety five in the autumn in the air and the second one with the red stamps is also from autumn in times nine hundred twenty nine and this third one doesn't have to do with the land it's for nine hundred thirty six and these are receipts from taxes for the land. well everybody here is family father mother uncle and relatives and the worry family is buried in this cemetery no one else in the alto retried and. looking. like a suspect in this week's terror attack in st petersburg has been detained artie's

jacqueline's who has the latest but the russian security services has put out a statement saying that they hain 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 it and carried out the attack all by himself and no further information about the suspect has been released as of yet but we do know that he's being questioned by committee and they have already come out saying that they are going to make a request to officially arrest him on that charges well a man who is believed to be seen i believe we can show you a video right now of the man he's 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 left over a dozen people injured and some of which are still in hospital unfortunately and in the aftermath of president bush came out saying that this was

a terrorist attack 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 attack. 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 defused in time. iran has been hit by mass rallies across the country both for and against the government earlier this week protests against the high cost of living took place in iran's second largest city of mashad which later turned political and spread across the country on saturday crowds nationwide then took part in mass rallies in support

of the government and the country supremely they were marking the anniversary of pro-government 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 abroad iranian government should respect their people's rights including the right to express themselves the world is watching. let's not discuss this further with our guest market both trust professor of political science is a hell one university good to have you on the program mr barr trust now the us president donald trump is just lashed out once again as iran in his latest tweet he's been posting excerpts of his speech at the u.n. general assembly from back in september when he calls the call the iranian government quote an oppressive regime why do you think he's so focused on iran

right now. while he was cracking it on for a long time and this is one of these promises in his election campaigns however i believe that these crackdowns will have adverse. result on the. demonstrations in iran because iranians believe that this man is untrustworthy so i believe that. the shiite clerics have inserted in the minds of the young people that. america or the u.s. is their prime enemy and they shouldn't trust the leadership so i don't believe that. his comments will. evolve more demonstrations because the demonstrations were primarily food the poverty. and on

the people under the poverty line in the it on about eighteen percent if you add up another eighteen percent who are in the poverty line above the poverty line so you will have about thirty six people and. only known so the poverty and the six point four percent. of the g.d.p. . is. is bouncing back since two thousand and sixteen so i would say the. demonstrations are inspired. and motivated by poverty rather than political motives. do you think the iranian government will be able to so with these economic problems that have led to the protests against it. well. the nature of the theocratic rule in iran is different than its neighboring

countries it's a shia majority in iran and the shiites are. controlled primarily by the shia clerics rather than the sunni's the sunni clerics have no authority over the population so i would believe that if you go back to two thousand and nine when there had more demonstrations than what's happening now again is the. theocratic cool and again the results of the presidential elections and they didn't go anywhere i mean it was contained and i believe to a large extent that the ministrations would be contained as you could see the police brutality is prevailing in the five cities that those demonstrations hundreds of people detained so i believe they will contain. it was interesting how

the u.s. is it being by its pro-government rallies and anti-government rallies but the u.s. seems to be totally ignoring the prey doesn't it rallies why would you think that is. well it's the policy of the trump administration i mean we say that there is a line in the u.s. policy but trump administration has a different approach than obama's administration trump administration knows that the majority of the population of the young population the that's why they are targeting them with social media tweets and other facebook means so. they are not. concentrating on focusing on the pro government. because they want to topple the government so.

i believe that the younger population now. saudi pulse of to these situations in iraq that's why. i would believe that if this demonstration is repressed so another wave of demonstrations will take over. make it onto us political science professor at helwan university in cairo i thank you for your time. still to come the son of an elderly friend to aid workers abducted in africa who says president mcraney isn't doing anything to help like this story and more coming up after this short break.

so. it is common in 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 check in. with more make its manufacture consent to stick to the public well. when the ruling classes project themselves. with the final. we can all middle of the room sit. really. really.

welcome back russia has had a very busy year in twenty seventeen if you was to believe the mainstream media that is especially when it comes to sowing discord and into fairing 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 so each. ball would need if you. want but if you another what is the. we should get it useless the goods to close. off what you do in your. bush was to reduce again there's nothing you post. on us in the political. talk.

we've said you'll just about the 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 i didn't 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 us 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 certain guys i don't know any i knew . he was being sarcastic ok much more sense you're saying he's joking yeah it's a comedy program you're 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. i think that we have a very negative connotation about people in russia yeah it's the way the russians are pictured than western countries. the son of an elderly french aid worker abducted in africa say her family is disappointed how little president mccrone has done to help free her so i think petra non is seventy two years old back in two thousand and sixteen she was abducted in the city of gold by local terrorists this july she was shown in so-called proof of life released by al qaeda and showed her alongside five other captives her son says despite an ongoing investigation he was received no information about his mother. the paris 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 are establishing contacts to try to trace her and 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 nor 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 off the hostage for th 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. the ship also showed relooking but the odds of today my thoughts are with our compare traits of people going on who was abducted in go out on christmas eve you know and you 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 her 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. two professors from san diego state university claim a farmer's markets in the us all contribution to the oppression of the country's minorities the professors claim almost half of all markets are catalysts for identification 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 its markets often being a star place to help promote low income and minority communities and it's not the

first time this year the race card has been played out apparently innocent issues.

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