celebrations and fireworks lighting up the globe as the new year of twenty eighteen makes it into the world russia's capital playing host to shoes numbers of tourists as the holiday season gets into full swing all across the country. when you see. it was. this is a save the city that we've been all over the world you so the world police so just feel really safe to. congratulate americans on the new year here on the program we look back at his first twelve months in office. and russian children who have been abandoned in iraq when their parents joined i still get to celebrate the new year with their relatives back at home it's after an pain saw them reunited with their families.

welcome to the program here on r.t. international as we are kicking off the first day of twenty eight. and russia's vast territory encompassing eleven time zones all having now seen in the new year along with cities across the country at the heart of moscow erupted into a kaleidoscope of color as fireworks lit up the night sky over some battles cathedral and of course the kremlin and with the holiday season now in full swing in russia large numbers of tourists already enjoying themselves while others are just getting ready.

you come from i mean i was out of germany are you come from italy i'm from italy i come from us taken my mom comes from new jersey. young it's the first time we had the first time that i'm here in new year and there's so many things to see if you went to see the kremlin and it was. fantastic this is the safest city has ever been and that we've been all over the world for so a lot of a policeman so this feel like i was feeling more safety like everywhere and the people i was all nice everybody was trying to help us so clean here and leave i like this to the here it will come back for sure because we find the city really amazing look down to how do you say happy new year in russia and have somewhat snow you got it. off.

cities across the globe of welcome in the new year of course with fireworks and big celebrations here are some highlights from around the world.

a raft of new faces stepping into the political arena around the world and the year off with them plenty of opportunities to get up close and personal with the old god although not all things went entirely smooth me. i.

hope. now one of the most anticipated events of twenty seventeen of course was that of the start of the whole trouble in the white house the president has taken to twitter overnight to congratulate the american people on the new here and remind them that he is making the country great again faster than anyone thought possible so here's a quick look back at the man who has u.s. politics on its head. big thing could. be.

i'm like a smart person. being really how my doing my job ok ambrosia president you believe it right. as donald trump celebrates his second christmas after being elected u.s. president we're going to go over his top twenty seventeen stocking stuffers memorable moments from his first year in the white house. thank you everybody thank you very much. i'm. going to go to. work. for you mike.

this isn't the kind of behavior that you'd normally expect from a u.s. president during an official meeting you also wouldn't expect twitter to be turned into an official white house channel but as commander in chief donald trump has actually given america's teenagers a run for their money with over two thousand five hundred tweets. much like charles dickens fictional real estate owner manhattan's favorite scrooge

has his very own ghost of christmas past the russia collusion story just doesn't seem to go away as the probes and investigations continue despite the lack of any sustainable evidence now donald trump's twenty seventeen holiday wish list includes a second special counsel to investigate bob muller the first special counsel who was appointed to investigate donald trump now this could be a slippery slope next there could be a third special counsel appointed by congress to investigate donald trump's second this could just go on and on and on. you can't hide from me i see and hear everything you do because you're a ghost. so donald trump decided to make good on one of his election promises and bring peace to the middle east a way it was his other election promise to recognize jerusalem as israel's capital so far no peace we wish you

a very happy hanukkah. and i think this one will go down as especially special. way down. even about what's going on and the love that's all over is you. and all about jerusalem the president has had plenty to boast about in twenty seventeen especially his range of very dangerous toys we are so proud of our military and it was one of the successful offense. to what happens as i said with. heading to iraq. you had just serious. heading towards now this time of year

a lot of us enjoy word games with our family and friends well donald trump doesn't care what time of year it is or how dangerous the game might yet take his challenger kim jong un the north korean crisis left us all breathless wondering if the next word might be a world war three we are totally prepared for the second option totally destroy north korea this is a sick copy rocket man is on a suicide mission for him so what are you doing this to your strong secure line which you know. the north korean regime is calling president trust words a lot of nonsense north korea's supreme leader fired back at trump accusing the president of being mentally deranged us dotard a korean insult roughly meaning senile idiot obviously he's a pretty smart cookie well whether you support him or not twenty seventeen was quite a spectacular year for donald trump there's been explosions late nights on twitter

and a regional shake ups twenty eighteen is now here and it seems like the potest has plenty more up his sleeve. artsy new york the standoff between washington and pyongyang is like two to continue in twenty eighteen with the north korean leader already talking the u.s. in his new year's speech kim jong un stressed he has the nuclear button right at. the time the u.s. mainland is within the range of zero nuclear strike on the bus and is always on the table in my office space you clearly know that this is certainly not a threat a reality. well in the u.s. so there's a deep divisions since the unexpected election result. has been looking back at how the u.s. has been impacted by trump's america. why didn't they work. i would say we're more open minded we're kind of more moderate well educated people a lot of educated people that are sensible. they were kind of very good weren't

they i'm not to judge what other people's education and stuff is coming at them are not working at mcdonald's or somewhere even though they have a five year six year degree it's not surprising that the country is divided in half since one in the u.s. presidential election last november trump has been calling for the nation to set aside its differences and to unify i say it is time for us to come together as one united people we may have our differences we are strongest when we are unified but it seems that divides are already too deep. immediately after the election vicious protests broke out nationwide with america being split into two camps angry liberals eager to denounce the trump was not their president came face to face with trump supporters ready to defend their choice and america hasn't been given the slightest chance to unite with hate becoming the new

norm promoted on all levels. what if for the incoming president was immediate successors were wiped out on day one. i have thought an awful lot about blowing up the white house. now after it's rest to look just like strong as he sounds to me on stage. so within suggestion like this it's no wonder that. over the top again and again. the to those who used to be peaceful leftists morphed into the radical left

not shying away from using violence just like their political opponents across the spectrum the situation has gotten so tense that people even began. to protest violence led to violence pitting republicans against democrat americans against americans leaving the question of what else could happen and is there any way of fixing this divide. it's about you. divide. the to try to split the people of the. democrats. one of the reasons that. every.

leader that entered the political arena in twenty seventeen the french president. many have put high hopes on the young french president seeing him perhaps as a man of the people instead he kicked off with controversial labor reforms the trigger must. protests all across the country and mccraw now wants to make it easier for companies to hire and fire people and reduce the power of national collective bargaining that doesn't sit too well with french workers but the president thinks they're simply being lazy. absolutely determined to do that i will not yield in any way not to slack because you're not cynics not to extremists. and for that my crown was dubbed the king of the slackers and also the king of the rich and soon found himself being compared to napoleon it wasn't helped when you

was a leaked about his life ish fortieth birthday bash that he celebrated in a royal style.

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they put themselves on the line. to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president i'm sure. to be this is what the franks. people. interested always in the water. and it's good talking with us today. seventeen so the full of ice all in its major strongholds in syria and iraq with military offensives by russia a u.s. led coalition the codes on local government forces without sun avoidably meant heartache and devastation for civilians caught up in the battles here's a recap of the fight against the deadliest terror group in modern history.

so the victory on the battlefield hasn't stopped the suffering of those left abandoned and homeless thousands of women and children face a tough future left widowed and orphaned by their husbands and fathers who ended up fighting i still. mama as much as the more they help the palestine it says china.

because it's because it is such a dumb was a vision of. the earlier this year this woman's husband was killed in mosul he wasn't one of the good guys he was in islam extent fighting until you had no it's not simple and you know yes for that visit. with the full of what they had nowhere left to run the wives and children of presumed isis fighters finally surrendered the biggest concern now is safety and security the u.n. has asked us to blur these women's faces not to reveal their names and most importantly not to tell anyone where they're being held because isis so do a lot of hatred in iraq they spilled a lot of blood and there are people here who would come over just to throw a grenade across the fence we film these women. in order to avoid unnecessary attention for their room safety the first thing many told us is that they never

wanted to be here in the first place. please i mean at the un. almost all of these women a foreigner as a dead giveaway isis encourage bringing families over they're terrified they fear the iraqi army they're even scared of aid workers and the goal is to. get the first family. someone cuts off the tell us it is listening. to the words in the cradle. the song school just does the such as

a good soldier careers are these bridges that unit. and the china soon after they have followed the but one on the any such as this have had success yet but still a delusion in your goal of us mostly just as you could stand up and have to look what we did last as this was the number that.