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. he said primly it was. fantastic this is the safest city that ever been and we've been all over the world here so i looked a little police so this feeling i was feeling the whole say. plus is donald trump a 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 are joint islamic state celebrated new year back home after an r.t. campaign helps reunite them with their family.

broadcasting live direct from our studios in moscow this is art international i'm john 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 held spectacular fireworks shows to celebrate here are some of.

i. i. moscow's vibrant landscape was illuminated as fireworks lit up in the sky over st basil's cathedral in the kremlin with the holiday season underway large numbers of the tourists are enjoying the festivities. who's. become american has not apparently all you can probably delete it from italy i

can't possibly get my mom comes to new jersey. young it's a first time yet the first time that i'm here in new year is 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 a policeman so this feeling because feeling the full safety lights everywhere and the people i was all nice to everybody was trying to help us so clean here and i like the food the here we'll come back for sure because we find the city really amazing. don't you how do you say happy new year in russia and somewhat snow you got it cut off a. two thousand and seventeen. a raft of new faces in the world's political arena with

plenty of opportunities to get up close and personal with the old guard though things did not always go so smoothly. what happened. was that a colleague i thought that such a. cut. both china and this was a. few

. per. 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 the country great again here is a quick look back at the man who has turned u.s. politics on its head. did you think. i'm like a smart person. being fully how my doing my job ok ambrosia president do you believe that. 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 might. make you. feel that. 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 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. 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. right now and thinking about what's going on and the love that's all over israel. and all about jerusalem the president has

had plenty to boast about in twenty seven sand especially his range of very dangerous toys we are so proud of our military and it was another successful offense. to what happens as i said we just launched a. missile. heading to iraq. headed to serious. 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 world war three we are totally prepared for the second

option totally destroy north korea these are sick puppy rockets men is on a suicide mission for him so what presents to this city the strong message you'd want which is you know you're going to meet 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 a mentally deranged u.s. 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 eight thousand 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 on the bus and 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 d.p. is highly irresponsible and is. all these. things why o. k. has the right to defend itself read 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 super know what the more and more sophisticated way the states has not to the point of deciding to use military means to solve the problem but i don't think everything has been exhausted to

a student need to try their 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 macron many saw him as a man of the people but he began with controversial labor reforms that triggered mass protests across wants to make it easier for companies to hire and fire people and reduce the power of collective bargaining that was angered french workers but the president thinks that they are just being too lazy. i will be absolutely determined that i will not yield in any way not to the cynics not to extremists. but paul 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 out 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 that deadly terror group.

thousands of women and children have been left without end orphaned after isom militants died during the fighting r t l. a campaign in two thousand and seventeen to bring back abandoned russian children from iraq among them our two sisters at the job and of the team here is their story. was. so close to school literally just so. mom or dad. that not only block. it all. out. she.

was. coming up more casualties are reported at protests rocking iran we will bring you the details after a short break you are watching r t international. how does it feel to be a share of the greatest job in the world it's as close to being a king as any job there is what business model helps to run a prison now we just do it on my radio visitation i don't no one comes in we don't have to serve them anymore is. this what they want to do that they don't give

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over night during protests across the country there have now been fourteen deaths as the unrest continues throughout a fifth day now 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 though state t.v. reported two other fatalities government officials stress that police did not open fire at the rally so the protests were originally against the rising cost of living but turn to political and spread across the country they have been met by mass counter-demonstration. in the support of iran's leadership president hassan rouhani then held a ministerial meeting to solve the economic problems causing public discontent earlier the reaffirmed 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 even. more meanwhile donald trump has posted his sixth tweet in just three days on the protests in iran he wrote that iranian people are hungry for food and freedom it is the country's government of human rights violations and claimed it is time for a change political analyst kamil was me says that it was the us itself it sparked the economic situation leading to these protests the problem started with with the policy of the united states the united states and using economic leverage against countries around the world the power of the united states actually discover life in iran they're not happy with every deal they wanted to change of regime there was

that very clearly in their strategy for two thousand and four two thousand and seventeen two thousand and eighteen i think mr hill meddling inside the parks of iran and basically that statement that has been coming from the white house and from his. story a story of a lot of suspicion specially the claim by the iranians some of those people who are shot there was without having that every indian police up in any fire so this is a call for a lot of questions always. meddling in 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 step on a symbol of ukrainian nationalism and a nazi collaborator sided with hitler in one war two militants loyal to him waged

an ethnic cleansing campaign that killed tens of thousands of polish civilians mostly women and children his popularity surged after nationalist backed protests over three greens 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 as well. over a dozen incidents of sexual assault have been reported at new year's celebrations in the german capital berlin. there were thirteen incidents of sexual harassment in the. gates we have detained seven suspects the suspects will presumably from syria or if. that is despite safe zones 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 we spoke to women who say the zones still don't make them feel safe.

i don't feel safe. three suspects were also detained in celebrations in cologne according to local media after nine women reported being sexually assaulted there this year a special wrist bands were introduced at the festivities as part of a campaign against sexual misconduct the head of the campaign claims 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 celebrations in germany which saw more than eight thousand women assaulted in cologne was among the worst affected.

we discuss the issue with british former intelligence officer and i'm a shawn she believes is safe zones for women may not be the best idea especially since the german authorities should tackle offenders not the victims. well i think it's a good initiative in order to make people feel women feel safe is perhaps targeting

the wrong group you know you need to investigate the people who might be perpetrating the attacks and stop those attacks rather than offering safe haven for women after those attacks happened i can start to understand why the general did this and that led to clear 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's 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 a strong women took action to prevent unrest on december thirty first twenty women under took street patrols. a city in the country's north most of them are mothers

who live in an unsafe district a city their main goal was to prevent young people from damaging property on new year's eve they told r.t. friends talking to teens is the most constructive way of stopping them from being out during holiday. we gathered here to have a good time and tell the youth that we don't want clashes of burnt cars in our district on the thirty first of december examples of it are not very common but there are still too many of them we don't want any such cases at all. if we meet people who are going to damage cars or 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 sense 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 well it has been a good three new year so far for our newsroom in the gallery. we wish you the same i'll be back with more news in about thirty six minutes stay with us.

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russian military has announced events syria has been completely liberated from the islamic state terrorist palestinians have protested in fury after donald trump chance to take a chance on wavering u.s. neutrality on juice in a. happy new year and welcome to our going on the ground twenty eight hundred special well what knowledgably catastrophic twenty seventeen it was from palestine to north korea and here to give us his take on some of the stories and what to watch for in the year ahead is abdel bari atwan editor in chief of the pallor of digital rajel you. happy new year old though i think we're going to be talking about a pretty catastrophic body to proceed to the. to be honest even even very depressing world there's a problem let's start with the occupied territories you were born in god's. world what did it make you feel when donald trump. the jerusalem would be the capital of a jewish state as well as washington was concerned my friend let me tell you

something which could be shocking actually i am among many people in the middle east who will come to this resolution's from a tramp to actually recognized jerusalem as the capital of jewish state why simply because honestly we needed this kind of shock hoping that people will awake the international community will a week again and look at the suffering of the palestinian people under israeli occupation looking at their way there are you know they can get is and i'm imposing jewish stamp on this actually would supposed to be a holy land for all religion so actually yes we expected this kind of horrible step from from to ignite then to father the uprising not only in.