headlines an r.t.a. a fifth day of unrest in iran sees the u.s. and israel accused of trying to take advantage of the situation and seek regime change. in the palestinian teenagers charged with assault for punching two israeli soldiers while the palestinian leader's faster party issues a guide for children on how to throw stones at security forces. all what we see. is permanent insight for people to come and. the israelis have used live fire they have used tear gas this proportionately at. the cryptic message and a link to a rap song wiki leaks said it's a genius get his followers guessing what the new year twitter.

welcome is tuesday morning the second of january you're watching r.t. international where it's just gone eight o'clock in moscow our top story a fifth day of unrest in iran has seen the number of deaths climbing to at least fourteen rising living costs are the key driver of the protests which have seen violent clashes with police some protesters have also been trying to take over police stations and military bases two deaths at the weekend so the government deny police had opened fire meanwhile iran's biggest protests in nearly a decade have been getting encouraged and for most major political rivals the u.s. and israel more details and i think. what began as discontent over economic hardship and alleged corruption in iran has evolved into masse. nationwide anti and

pro-government demonstrations iran's president came out saying citizens have the right to protest as long as it's done peacefully you know. in recent days we have witnessed protests and 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 the government will definitely not tolerate some protesters who want to destroy public property will disrupt public discipline and create turmoil in society that's made hundreds of arrests violent clashes and even deaths and the conflict has now spread beyond iran's borders as international powers give their two cents donald trump unleashed a stream of tweets on the issue accusing the islamic republic of corruption human rights violations and squandering the nation's wealth on sponsoring terrorism hassan rouhani hit back at his american counterpart saying washington has no right to act as if it sympathizes with the iranians when trump not long ago called their

country a nation of terrorists iran he cherished nation like few others but if you look closely trump has ever so slightly adjusted his rhetoric he shifted the blame solely on the government while calling for change of course we've known for quite a while what kind of change the trumpet ministration would like to see in the ram our policy towards iran is to push back on the show germany contain their ability to develop obviously nuclear weapons and to work toward support of those elements and shout of iran that would lead to a peaceful transition of that government those elements are there surely as we know so trump may be hoping these protests will be the perfect opportunity to achieve just that but he's not the only one charming in the israeli government has voiced encouragement for the anti-government protests the brave iranians are pouring into the streets they seek freedom they seek justice they seek the basic liberties that have been denied to them. for decades and with this regime finally falls one dude

will your indians and israelis will be great friends once again i wish the renewed people success in their noble quest for freedom and what's even more surprising is what's happening on his own doorstep son they saw thousands gather in tel aviv for a fifth week of anti-government corruption demonstrations just last week over ten thousand protested throughout israel yet the media and trump have all but ignored them that israeli probably they're working very hard with america. to counter. basically the decision has been very clear and vocal by the israeli they want the united states to actually iran militarily so if they can use some incitement they will do but they know they're going to leave it to the united states to do the work on behalf of them backing protests abroad but ignoring mass

demonstrations in your and your allies backyards it may be a new year but good luck waiting for a new approach from the u.s. or israel on that. mention there israel does have a lot to contend with at home with almost a month of unrest among palestinians the u.s. presence red fish in jerusalem as the israeli capital violence is left around a dozen dead and many of this injured. please cut i believe i believe the touch. the touch

. clean clear cut clear. well with anger showing little sign of calming the palestinian leader's party has posted an online guide for youngsters on how to throw stones at security forces the tweet from fast was later deleted we had reaction from both sides. all what we see now in the territories is permanent incitement for people to come

and. and even the last. we saw when they explained to the children children you will you know what teenagers do to throw stones on the israeli passengers. innocent people in cars and they say don't underestimate the stones it's a fossil damage please throw stones on the israelis and we're usually here listening on an answer back listen it's not it's not proportional picking up stones and throwing at the occupier is not a palestinian invention and it's certainly not something that all of a sudden popped up in two thousand and seventeen the fact is palestinian protests throughout the past weeks since the announcement under islam have been peaceful there have been absolutely no use of arms while the israelis have used life or they

have used tear gas this proportionately and in a manner that many have said is not in line with international law or the standards used usually by other law abiding states we are not waking up in the only group of followers palestinians to to kill or to shoot what we hear on the palestinian policy no communication mean we hear every day incitement to kill israelis launching resize only exploding what do you expect us to do the fact that israel is the occupying power in palestine is a legal fact it's not up for debate this has nothing to do with opinion it has nothing to do. certainly have nothing to do line with what i what happens every day in palestine is the palestinian population confronting and millet. that is basically with the regional superpower

a military that has control over every aspect of life for palestinians we confront these israel these soldiers at the checkpoint we have to deal with them when we need to move from one point to another in our own homeland they decide whether we can build our homes or not whether we can keep our schools the control is absolute we do not. form any body this is all capital and i believe that some day. will come to negotiate us instead of using terror all against us we'll have a couple of our model for the first time in history policy will ever state side by side by israel and this is what we aim to one palestinian he felt the brunt of the police response was this fourteen year old boy he'd been hurling stones at i.d.f. soldiers him is injured after being hit in the face by a rubber bullet but his injuries were

a step too far for the boy's cousin who confronted to have a soldier's last week and was filmed kicking and hitting them. well ahead to me there is now charged with assault and incitement along with her mother the court previously claimed posed a danger and put them in custody it's father defended his daughter saying she feels she had no choice but to take action. we like to call the what a fighter for the palestinian issue she believe that we must study directly all the time she needs to be in the fruit of the salt in the air in the clashes with me. this is what she believe in. for that when i saw her when

she saw. the army she became more their active more of our. leader to fight. twenty seventeen did see a number of countries tackle independence campaigns from restive regions and they were met with legal clampdowns and sometimes violent force you could look at the referendums which made waves from europe to iraq. for hundreds of thousands twenty seventeen became a year of hope a year of promise and you hear of broken trust referendums the cornerstone of many democracies in the ultimate soon of transforming the will of the people into people power in practice has arguably broad far more disenchantment than results. leading up to its vote spanish catalonia saw it all from countless wool sprayed

with pro depend is graffiti two million strong demonstrations madrid has never approved of the referendum who ruled illegal under the spanish constitution but when a date was set anyway the future seemed bright for independence forces say. that it. did that yet ninety percent of the ballot box said slowly i should break away. we have the right to decide our future we've won the right to an independent state built as a republic. the outcome of the vote was hardly a surprise and neither was madrid's response. the current government was sacked by madrid independence leaders who accused of rebellion and sedition as they fled into exile or were arrested december's snap election brought a slim majority to separatist posses but would approve union party winning the most

seats so almost back to square one a new immediately independence promised of the referendum bus alone it was even banned from lighting its iconic fountains yellow with the colors deemed the session a symbol. iraqi kurdistan is another region that had a short of independence this year and miss two kids came out in force and voted overwhelmingly to secede from iraq then now this is a new era for the kurdish people it's a turning point and we have to use this is a big victory but despite the good saying yes to independence that's not what the referendum achieved. and those who won spearheaded the push to breakaway bowed down. have informed the parliament that will not extend. although the briggs's though took place

back in twenty sixteen domine did headlines throughout the last year. the sun was risen. in the band. jamie twenty days the national bank holiday. and the kind of. bridge that was supposed to have moved far closer than it has by now but instead appears to be. drifting further away and as if the divorce process wasn't painful enough prime minister may spectacularly failed to sweep two of britain's parliament into green lighting her briggs it plans . in july the international trade secretary said brakes in negotiations would be the easiest in human history i was the prime minister still agree with that assessment some created. but because fusion can be concluded

quickly and finished the commission was trying to bully the british people about this resolution for twenty eighteen don't get your hopes too high for a friend. or a full day in them is thrown out to people as a way of involved. having the mass of the population in an important decision but then what happens is after the result has been taken that's the process which is captured by politicians one of the things i think we have to jason is hope does democracy actually function there's a problem with our democracy there's a problem with with power law in our society. that wiki leaks that is a genius on just kicked off the new year with a cryptic message he took to twitter with a singularly indecipherable and also a link to a popular rap song and many have been trying to welcome that. international

still to come for you this hour more on the devastating cost of victory in the iraqi city of mosul that story perseveres to just after the break.

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twenty seventeen did see the defeat of eisel in syria and iraq but the human cost of the victory is staggering and u.s. coalition air campaign against mosul the terrorist defacto capital in iraq all but raise the city's the ground once a city of two million people hundreds of thousands were forced to flee and many others buried under the rubble the horrors of war were captured by george butler he's a british artist embedded with the iraqi army. one of. the other.

well arty's daniel hawkins talked to the award winning artist and illustrator about his experiences in the conflicts are. what was your first impressions when you when you arrived and became embedded with the iraqi special forces what i found i guess was huge destruction to. civilian life and as ever it's the civilians that. are losing out more than anybody and they're the ones with the stories and other ones that i as an illustrator and as artist i guess are trying to do to get justice to what was the most difficult almost striking thing that you that you saw there something that really made an impression on you on one side a pile of endless piles of rubble these houses been destroyed in an airstrike and this. came out and bought me

a chair to sit on next you could see i was touring and just begins to tell a story and isis fighters had fled the mosque next door during the fight a fire fight they'd come into his home where his family were living and then the iraqi army had called in an airstrike which it so often does in mosul of course killing but also killing his mother two of his brothers and one of their wives this attack actually happened on the same day that that there's an infamous attack hundred sixty people were killed in mosul you know the willingness to talk about it and the openness and the normality of it was perhaps the most extraordinary thing and that is the fact that i was so so regular i guess is was the difficult thing to accept you what was the fortunate to capture this in your drawing but is this something you really occurred all over the city but a lot of the damage that you see is not done by not done by car bombs or firefights but by a strike that story of people civilians being caught up in that it's obviously very

sad but it is happening in mosul over the last few months i just want to ask you on that point to the refugee camp as well you've made one painting in the. amount of recently suffered a heart attack. just after the second world war. five days earlier. lying in this tent outside the main refugee camp conditions the heat. and his wife you can imagine the desperation he hasn't eaten for five days or drunk and. it's a very private moment this man may well be dying maybe it will be dead by now but you're inviting strangers in into your tent for those last moments on the off chance that they can help for me was a difficult choice whether you whether you engage with that story or whether you stand out from it because of course the chance of helping is very i think very slim what memory you are will take away from from your time in mosul the one you know impression that really will will stay with you i think it's always this well i

suppose it's always been the same and that is. that it is the majority of civilians losing out. hugely. to something they have no control of and the lack of this kind of very vulnerable the moment and the lack of choice and the thing i guess it was sticks to me is the drawings that i'm doing are done with permission the best drawings i did were the ones that i was very much emotionally attached to the kind of desire to draw to do justice and draw exactly what was in front of me artist george butler speaking about his experiences then that on a lighter note a chance finding the camera bought in a mask a flea markets at a french photographer. impossible puzzle to solve his her story. sixteen beautiful pictures. black and white pictures which were all about

a boy. apparently an important moment of his life so i've got found him to find him to to give is photos back to him. there were part of that i was at the airport or my friend sent me a photo of a little boy who looked very much like me with a caption saying looking for a russian boy you know there are so many questions where's these photos come from and why is someone looking for me or who is this elizabeth and how did you get these photos over here for this. found me really. i gather what's a message from dimitri saying i'm the russian boy you are looking for. in the end i decided to color by skype and we talked for two hours about everything

or she turned out to be a very nice woman. turned out that my uncle had given it to his friend to sell it to market we had forgotten to remove the film from the. pretty body for elizabeth this planning to come here in february to visit all these places and photos of just written an amazing film script for the story that's going to be turned into a documentary i'll do my best to help her. is the idea would be to use a camera to litter a camera which is a key object in on the story and use it as a character and really photo you know those as a pass of the camera and go back to the places where as a picture was taken. i'm not looking for fame i just want to share this amazing story with other people so that others might realize that our life is not just about politics and done but

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waited until it was like twenty thousand dollars to even think about buying we told you to buy it at two or three that's the amazing thing isn't it people that we've been talking about it for years finally what is it what eighteen nineteen twenty thousand were suddenly curious about it and started buying it but that's the way it always is with these types of ideas they're completely dismissed at first and then when they end up changing everything game people suddenly get interested so that stuff's not unusual i also want to say you know because a lot of people will only be new to this and they have endured the drama of what's been happening with bitcoin since the futures were introduced and since the huge drops and. the huge volatility be cash or bitcoin kassam all this sort of drama over the christmas period on these exchanges they might be alarmed so what i would say is that you should go to you tube enterprise report bitcoin and look back through the years that this is kind of normal for this whole area. you know you have to think of it like that sort of that cambridge explode.