so liberations in fireworks light up the globe to mark the beginning of the new year two thousand and eighteen russia's capital is hosting large numbers of tourists with the holiday season in full swing. you see the premier league it was so. fantastic this is the safest city has ever been and that we've been all over the world there's so little police so this feeling of being the safety of. buses donald trump congratulates americans on the new year we look back at his first twelve months in office. and russian children abandoned in iraq when their parents joined islamic state to celebrate new year's back home after an r t campaign helped to reunite them with their families.

are broadcasting live direct from our studios in moscow this is our two international incheon thomas certainly glad to have you with us and countries across the globe have welcomed in the new year two thousand and eighteen cities worldwide have held spectacular fireworks shows to celebrate and here are some of the highlights.

i. i. moscow's vibrant landscape was illuminated as fireworks lit up the sky over st basil's cathedral and to come on with the holiday season underway large numbers of tourists are enjoying the festival has. become for american has not apparently how you can probably delete it from italy i

can't possibly get my mom comes to new jersey. it's the first time again it's 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 so. fantastic this is the safest city has ever been and that we've been all over the world for so a lot of all police so this feeling because of feeling the full safety of this life everywhere and the people are the nice everybody was trying to help us so clean here i like the food here it will come back for sure because we find the city been amazing. don't you how do you say happy new year in russia and us no more snow you got it cut off a. two thousand and seventeen saw a raft of new faces in the. the world's

a political arena with plenty of opportunities to get up close and personal with the old guard and though things did not always go so smoothly take a look. see . that foley's i follow us let's. see. both china and this was. her.

one of the most anticipated events of two thousand and seventeen was the start of donald trump's term in the white house the president took to twitter overnight to congratulate americans on the new year and stress that together they are making of the country great again here's a quick look back at the man who has turned u.s. politics on its head. thinking. i'm like a sports person. being really how my doing my job ok broke the president do you believe. 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. this is 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 rush of collusion the 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 second this could just go on and on and on. for me i see. 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 the special the special. way. thinking about what's going on and the love. of his youth. 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. so what happens is they said we just launched. missiles. heading to iraq. headed to syria. heading towards syria 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 get 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 is a sick puppy rocket man is on a suicide mission for him so what are you serious see your strongest you'd want which is your daughter who's going to show you the north korean regime is calling president trump's words a load of nonsense north korea's supreme leader fired back at trump accusing the president of being mentally deranged us 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 standoff between washington and pyongyang is set to continue in two thousand and eighteen with north korea's leader targeting the u.s. in his new year's speech kim jong un made it clear he had the nuclear button close

at hand. the entire u.s. mainland is within the range of zero nuclear strike and the button is always on the table in my office space you clearly know that this is certainly not a threat but rather a reality but the remark by the leader of kay's highly irresponsible and is. all these. things why oh ok has the right to defend itself is worried about threats from the united states in terms of regime change all assassination of its leader all simply invasion into its territory right now the situation is in a stalemate. he has gained a time to develop you know what the more a more sophisticated way the states as much as the point of deciding to use military means to solve the problem but i don't think everything has been exhausted to his student need to try the best even though all the

likelihood of a diplomatic solution is becoming remote and that remote another new political leader in two thousand and seventeen was french president emanuel across many saw him as a man of the people but he began with controversial labor reforms that triggered mass protests across the wanted to make it easier for companies to hire and fire people and reduce the power of collective bargaining that as it has angered the french workers but the president thinks they're just being lazy. i will be absolutely determined to do that i will not yield in any way not to slackers who is not cynics not to extremists. across was dubbed the king of the slackers and the king of the rich he was compared

to napoleon which was not helped when news leaked about his lavish fortieth birthday party.

two thousand and seventeen saw the fall of islamic state in syria and iraq but leaving behind a heartache and devastation for civilians here is a recap of the battle against of the deadly terror group. thousands of women and children have been left to widowed and orphaned after i saw

militants who died during the fighting r.t. launched a campaign in two thousand seven hundred to bring back abandoned russian children from iraq well them are two sisters how did john and here is their story. so close up again one of the schools was ready to start. this was the moment your mom or dad each and all of us not only. climbing in it or me out. only a. sister.

first a world that's. coming up more casualties are reported at protests rocking iran we'll bring you the details after a short break service. what

politicians to do something to. put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president and should. somehow want to be rich. but you do like to be close to see what the full story of the morning can't be good for the. interest of all those in the waters in the. first six. i. know welcome back this is r t international now

a man opened fire in the iranian city of. killing one and wounding three others according to state media they earlier reported that ten people had been killed over night during protests across the country there have now been twelve deaths as the unrest continues through a fifth day what caused the deaths is still unclear however several protesters reportedly tried to take over police stations and military bases and were repelled by security forces on saturday state t.v. reported two other fatalities government officials stress that police did not open fire at the rallies and protests were originally against of the rising cost of living but it turned political and spread across the country they have been met by mass counter demonstrations in support of president hassan rouhani then held a ministerial meeting to solve the economic problems causing public discontent earlier reaffirmed that people are free to rally as long as there is no violence. in recent days we have witnessed protests everyone must be aware of this point that

we are a free nation and according to the constitution and human rights the people are absolutely free to criticize the government and even protest with their protests should be in such a way as to aim to improve the situation in the country the government will not tolerate some protesters who want to destroy public property will disrupt public discipline and create turmoil in society people will not tolerate it either. meanwhile donald trump has posted his sixth tweet in just three days on the protests in iran wrote that iranian people are hungry for food and freedom he accused the country's government of human rights violations and claimed it is time for change political analyst was me says it was the us itself that sparked the economic situation lee. adding to these protests the problem started with with the policy of the united states the united states is using economic leverage against countries around the world to follow. the stuff of life in iran they're

not happy with the be one of the stages of the g.m. it was out very clearly in their strategy for two thousand and four two thousand seven hundred eighteen mr bill meddling inside the politics of the iran and basically that statement that has been coming from the white house from. the already if a lot of suspicion specially that claim by the iranians some of those people who were shot there was without having that every indian police opened fire so this is called for a lot of questions whose meddling and every indian security issues. more than a thousand people have gathered in ukraine's capital for a torch lit march commemorating a controversial nationalist leader january the first marks one hundred nine years since the birth of the pond bandara a symbol of ukrainian nationalism and

a nazi collaborator and sided with hitler in world war two militants loyal to him waged an ethnic cleansing campaign that killed tens of thousands of polish civilians mostly women and children its popularity surged after nationalist backed protests overthrew ukraine's government in two thousand and fourteen people at the rally chanted nationalist slogans carrying red and black flags of the nationalist movement similar rallies were held across ukraine. over a dozen incidents of sexual assault have been reported at a new year's celebration in the german capital berlin because. there were incidents of sexual harassment in the. gates we have detained seven suspects the suspects were. from syria or if. it is just. for women being set up there for the first time special tents were meant to help those seeking physical

and psychological help during the outdoor party near the iconic brandenburg gate now we spoke to women who say they still don't make them feel safe. i don't feel safe. well three suspects are also depicted excuse me three suspects were also detained at celebrations in cologne according to local media after nine women reported being sexually assaulted this year and special wristbands were introduced at the festivities as part of a campaign against sexual misconduct the head of the campaign claims that the wristbands remind people not to sexually attack others or shoot fireworks at individuals buildings or police it comes in the wake of the two thousand and fifteen new year's celebrations in germany which more than a thousand women assaulted cologne was among the worst affected.

but. there were. great debate where. we discussed the issue with

a british former intelligence officer i mean much sean she believes safe zones for women may not be the best idea especially since german authorities should tackle offenders not the victims. well i think it's a good initiative in order to make people women feel safe however it's perhaps targeting the wrong group you know you need to investigate people who might be perpetrating attacks and stop those attacks rather than offering safe haven for women after those attacks happened i can start to understand why the general services did this and that in particularly after the assault you mentioned in cologne two years ago as well as dortmund just a door i mean it was all across the country so obviously there are legitimate concerns but it sort of implicitly states that actually women are not safe outside that area germans germany is one of the leading western liberal democracies in the world and yet women cannot feel safe to go out on the streets to celebrate a public holiday what does that say about equality what's that say about human rights for women in germany these days. meanwhile in france

a group calling itself strong women took action to prevent unrest on december thirty first twenty women undertook street patrols in a city in the country's north most of them are mothers who live in an unsafe district of the city their main goal was to prevent young people from damaging property on new year's eve he told r.t. friends talking to teens is the most constructive way of stopping them from acting out and doing the hard. yesterday we gathered here to have a good time and tell the youth that we don't want clashes that aren't cars in a district on the thirty first two examples of it are not very common but there are still too many of them we don't want any such cases at all. we need people who are going to damage cars and buildings we come up to them and start a conversation i think we can settle things by talking to them this is a good undertaking particularly since in such districts the thirty first of december is an especially dangerous day if we can warn children and teens not to do

anything foolish and make a district safe it's the right thing to do that does it for me i will be back in about thirty four minutes with a full look at your news you are watching argentina. i had a great education a good job and a family that loved me. i never had to worry about how i would eat somewhere i would sleep. but i'm facing christmas alone out on the streets of london. while you look to be able to pull up a clip of the boy you like going to school you know to simulate the still give up food for the oldest. but you

don't really feel like you could be that. and then. the guy just came over to me saw me and gave me a change of this book. shows seem wrong why don't we all just don't call. me lol yet to shape our disdain you can stick out to him and gain from it because betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground.

themselves summers and i built tiny houses for the homeless. years back and they are here why do these guys now for me a tiny house is not a solution it will be a free for off. this nice safe conditions to live a. new super discipline and render the city of los angeles. always a good terrorist. nobody should be homeless anywhere but especially in one of the richest countries in the world.

i build everything was true because i make a lot of mistakes. and it's easy to back out your mistakes in compton south central l.a. a pint sized idea as well this summer as in a battle with city off already so when you have nothing in order to go. you know having something like this may as well be a castle. the mayor of los angeles has declared the city is in the midst of a homelessness crisis. is trying to solve it one tiny house at a time the tiny house idea is very simple it's shelter. food water and shelter are not optional they're required for human survival so it's a. temporary solution and like the first stone

a foundation if you will to helping people who are homeless. according to elvis these cheap and portable tiny homes are meant to be on the streets of l.a. . and they need to fix. but right now they're not moving anywhere because city authorities banned them so they used to belong to somebody yeah yeah. and now they're being used no now they've been sitting here for a better part of a year collecting dust. and people are you know struggling and suffering. so yeah it's really sad i mean it's you know this is human life here you know. los angeles authorities have accused his tiny homes of threatening public safety but elvis has seen the tiny house movement go viral online with support coming from right across the world so with the help of internet crowdfunding.