iran shuts off access to social media amid the largest anti-government unrest to grip in the country since two thousand and nine. calls for a rethink of the e.u. refugee policy saying migrant photos will not solve the crisis plus.

on a lighter note fireworks light up the sky as countries around the world welcome in the new year. broadcast live direct from our studios in moscow this is john thomas certainly glad to have you with us now the president of iran has addressed the nation for the first time since protests erupted across the country house on rouhani urged people to avoid violence while saying they have the right to express their views he also hit back at president for accusing iran of supporting terrorists and that was after the latest provocative tweet from the u.s. leader. big broad test in iran the people are finally getting why is this to how their money and wealth is being stolen and squandered on terrorism looks like they will not take it any longer the usa is watching very closely for human rights

violations. iran is seeing its most severe unrest since two thousand and nine the government has blocked access to the telegram and instagram mobile apps which were being used to coordinate rallies according to state media the step was taken to maintain tranquillity on sunday two protesters were killed in a route in the west of the country but officials say security services have not used that lethal force and the local governor has accused foreign powers of stirring up trouble daddy and deploying we have found evidence of enemies of the revolution type fieri groups and foreign agents in this clash take phiri is a term for sunni militants especially islamic states in this situation violent clashes broke out in the illegal demonstration in the city and unfortunately two people were killed no shots were fired by the police and security forces and all goals for this rally is finished peacefully. the u.s. state department says it is closely following the situation in iran and also

condemned any arrests and claim the protests are peaceful however the latest pictures coming out of iran suggest otherwise. and this video obtained by our video agency roughly you can see a police station being torched so far we have no information on possible injuries back in june though the u.s. secretary of state made it very clear that washington is willing to support people resisting the iranian government. our policy towards iran is to push back on the show germany contain their ability to develop obviously nuclear weapons and to work towards support of those elements inside of iran that would lead to a peaceful transition of that government those elements are there surely as we know what they are looking for is the legitimizing the iranian politics the iranian stablish mina's well as iran regional military build up and presence in syria in iraq and elsewhere in order to impose further sanctions on. country and

also in order to village's them is the policies on the international scene in favor of the united states they are trying hard through their media outlets and through some social media outlets that they are you know running and funding to politicize the unrest so into iran people are now angry at the administration because president rouhani had promised to strike a deal with the united states to resolve all the problems that was wrong he was already you know warned against giving such big colt's of the nation because everyone knew that the united states would not remain loyal to the deal and this happened unfortunately the united states defied all its undertakings under the nuclear deal and the president has failed in meeting you know his promises now people are angry to see that they are angry he has invested all the country's power

and future in the united states loyalty to the deal and they have come to realize that this is not going to happen. this week has shed light on the fate of an iraqi ethnic and a religious minority the despite the fall of islamic state thousands of the kurdish speaking group are still being held hostage many of them are children who have been abducted and sold and slave markets. over. there. the man went off for ice and skits in the evenings they would get together and treat their women and have their fun with us. it was indescribable laugh tending to endless suffering tears and hunger i couldn't

do anything not cry. according to iraqi officials in two thousand and fourteen alone almost seven thousand people were kidnapped by eisel and three thousand are still missing are the bad guys you have reports on the long way home videos from terrorist captivity. age and location. bid ten thousand dollars russia nine location turkey starting bid fifteen thousand dollars keenness age location syria starting bid. dollars and dollars. age fifteen. baghdad sold for two and a hot thousand dollars the d.c. was kidnapped by isis in mosul in two thousand and fifty for near enough three c. in july a horrible things things that new fifteen year old girl or any woman should ever

have to endure two hours ago she was bored back by her family here in baghdad no one called the police no one wanted to risk her life she spent the first hour of freedom crying in the hotel room where in my isis tells its hostages that their families will kill them if they ever return but her arrest would be brief as to how she was shown a choice of future. and up front about. this so many people are happy that she's. telling shortly after meeting her relatives took her shopping. she was rescued by a group of men who specialize in tracking down these e.d.'s kidnapped by isis they then either negotiate a sale or steal them back their big gun secrecy i don't and she got you know if i

say that if we show the girl still in that position with their relatives a parent t.v. deal will be on that they killed the hostages as such some of the. people involved didn't want to appear on camera but the stories are the chilling and what you get your good to this day one of the girls was kidnapped when she was sent the noise of rapes. is a consecutive house here where there are several girls son eleven twelve years old who were all raped gifted or sold as many as fifteen signs. if not for sexual pleasure isis brainwashes children and sends them on suicide missions or sells them for money oh when isis fighters flee to turkey they sell their slaves because they need money to go back to their home countries. you may

not know but when the u.s. led coalition and their allies in syria reportedly led hundreds of isis fighters neve then besieged raca whose jihad took not only the guns and families but also their hostages and slaves the same people that are now being bored back when the prices vary depending on where there are if they're in dangerous place you can be eighty thousand dollars otherwise around fifteen thousand. other is also tracking down missing people one iraqi m.p. has made a name for herself rescuing children. she spent her own money buying out several of these kids under the hatch you know one of the girls told me the story of her escape she and her aunts were in isis

captivity two of the terrorists watched them day and night to prevent them from running away and then the girl told one of them that she couldn't sleep and asked to see a doctor the isis fighters her gave her some sleeping pills she kept them and put them in the street the terrorists fell asleep and she and her on managed to escape the girl was eight years old. was too terrified to do anything so the girl told her let's try and run away they will kill us anyway and they skate three thousand years edis is still missing hundreds presumed held by isis the international community no longer really care as they see these doomed to track the same ratings as now that they aren't being slaughtered so it's up to them to recover their own children and to help them heal from what isis has done to them or i guess the odd see from the hawk iraq. a small passenger plane has crashed in

a mountainous area of costa rica killing all twelve people on board the aircraft was carrying ten american tourists and two local pilots these pictures showing the burning wreckage were released by the costa rican public safety ministry now the nature air charter flight to took off from point a is lead to on sunday and was heading for san jose another cause of the crash is being investigated and the u.s. state department is working with local authorities to identify the victims. austria's new chancellor says the e.u. migrant relocation quotas are not helping solve the refugee crisis sebastian curt's a believes the problem should be handled in the migrants home countries migrants who set off for europe don't want to go to bulgaria are hungry they want to go to germany austria sweden they should be held in safe areas in their own continent the e.u. should support that perhaps even organize it and back it militarily there have been

similar calls in the past from other european leaders last month french president manual macron proposed military action to help end the people trafficking in libya but. from the damascus center of strategic studies believe such an approach is deeply flawed to send european troops or european armies to abortive these. very. safe zones i think it's not practical in first of all these armies would be involved in the internal affairs of this country and their reaction from the law people will be may be negatively they will lose a lot of. soldiers first so i think to be engaged in internal a verse of any county it would be reflected on their internal affairs and i think they should read very good the story of syria during seven years they should

read the story of libya the story of him and the story in africa and i don't think that this is a good approach. these pictures show how desperate some migrants are they are trying to cross the alps from italy to reach france they're battling freezing temperatures in often inadequate clothing trying to seek a better life in europe european leaders are now increasingly looking towards the migrants home countries but. believes that they are using the crisis to exert their influence on the region you've been you know the feeling that they are. outside of the political settlement now example outside in libya they started to go shit against libya then they became not. the first of libya in yemen they say maybe in africa we cannot see that

the role is very important because of the trying to. to their rule in the mid east. and of the west bank have seen four weeks of deadly unrest since the u.s. recognized jerusalem as the capital of israel in the latest development the palestinian ambassador is being recalled from washington regular clashes have left more than a dozen palestinians dead and many more injured. the to. feel such. feel.

good. this is the floor it's friday of rage actually palestinians all over gaza strip east jerusalem and the west bank are demonstrating and protesting against donald trump's declaration that is right the army is throwing tear gas canisters on the

protesters as since the morning since that announcement was made. well you can smell the tear gas from here so those terms made that announcement fourteen palestinians have been killed and those figures according to the palestinian hope ministry they also report more than three thousand people have been injured it's escalating it's uprising but that is right the army has been at throwing tear gas canisters all prime the. testers are running away from the but for some fans those rallies have been shooting live i mean ac and i are probably it's one hundred very very very close to where we were standing so. the situation here like it has been for the last month. and quite tense and we can certainly smell tear gas every way does that mean nation there were at least five ambulances that. floor or three injuries stay with us for the

latest new year's celebrations from around the world right after a short break and you are watching our two international. los angeles the city of luxury and free but also an alarming number of people living in the streets. a 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. this man phoned 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 tiny house on a city parking space is not a solution. someone wanted touring the site otherwise it'll be

a free for all the news there are a better alternative to end the homelessness crisis. only one day before the birthday because i just think about that at nine years it went from absolutely unwilling piece of software to world shaking wall street transforming society bust a. import say. welcome back you're watching act international we thought we should lighten things up a bit because it is the new year the russians eleven time zones have now seen in the new year earlier the fireworks went off over st basil's cathedral and the

kremlin jacqueline vogel was there following the action for us. i'm here in the heart of moscow right outside of red square and thousands of people have gathered here tonight to ring in the new year and see the fireworks display. and it was amazing and of course not just here in the center of the city where people are gathering and celebrating those points all around that are having the fireworks displays and everything because here and russia new year's is the biggest celebration of the year families get together and have huge fees exchanged presents and see in the new year together i got to tell you this is the first time i've seen new year's and in the center of moscow and i have no regrets happy new year's everyone. will berlin and london have been pulling out all the stops with their fireworks shows after some impressive displays across asia and australia.

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especially with the sound turned off so we asked people on the streets to try and get. see what. i'm startup man i wrestle bad and you best made me less the rest of this good though years a big joke oh yeah very nice. they're talking about. them they don't talk about the street the takeover of the world i think it's a cold yes i think i do have a cold and because even here on this if. i think you should take. this twice. at night time to the moon you know but you know i was. talking to her because she would not listen to me i had the same problem she does when listening to try and say something between you two important leaders so tell

the future you are together with you in the middle. of. a job well done thing between the ruling. the yeah when i went i went on my lines couple of times i get good usually you know what to say don't get nervous ok i know you have stage fright ok. but i just just know ok i know i know you're trying. to run this country and of course. i know for some two thousand and seventeen was a year of conflict and tragedy our video agency ruptly picked out some of the darker and also lighter moments as well. the illegal. drug purchase. lead.

or lead. lead. lead. all right that does it for me i will be back in about thirty three minutes with a full of news you watch our traditional stay with us. thank. you bill.

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