headlines in r.t. if if day of unrest in iran sees the u.s. and israel accused of trying to take advantage of the situation allison in teenager is charged a siege and a link to a rap song wiki leaks edited jr gets his followers guessing with the new year tweets. hello there welcome it's tuesday morning the second of january watching at r.t. international where it's just gone nine o'clock here in moscow now our top story a fifth day of unrest in iran has seen the number of deaths klein to at least fourteen rising living costs are the key driver for 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 saw the government

deny police had fired over a story that opened fire meanwhile around biggest protests in nearly a decade have been getting encourage women from its major political rivals the u.s. and israel more details now from jacqueline big guy. what began as discontent over economic hardship and alleged corruption in the ram has evolved into massive 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 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 chairs 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 obvious me 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 encouraged and for the anti-government protests 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 when this regime finally falls one dude will iranians and israelis will be great friends once again i wish the iranian people success in their noble quest for freedom and what's even more surprising is what's happening on his own doorstep sunday saw thousands gather in tel aviv for a fifth week of anti-government corruption demonstrations just last week over ten thousand protests and throughout israel yet the media have all but ignored them that israeli probably they're working very hard with america. to counter. basically that decision has been very clear and vocal by the israeli they

want the united states to actually attack 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. so jack said there have been protests in israel for the last month over the u.s. presence recognition of jerusalem as the israeli capital. please cut i believe how utterly utterly

utterly utterly clear. well with anger showing little sign of calming the palestinian leader's

posse has posted an online guide for young still how to throw stones at security forces the tweet from fast i 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 very explain to the children children 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 fossil damage please throw stones on the israelis and we're usually here is this 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 with for special program it certainly has nothing to do with god 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 checkpoints 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 locally. for my only body this is all capital and i believe that some day is policy indians will come to negotiate us instead of using their all again stars we'll have a couple of a model for the first time in history policy will ever state side by side by israel

and this is what we aim to but one palestinian who felt the brunt of the police response was this fourteen year old boy he'd been hurling stones at i.d.f. soldiers and was injured after being hit in the face by a rubber bullet his injuries were a step too far to you for the boy's cousin who confronted two heavily armed soldiers last week and was filmed kicking and hitting the. well i had to mean is now charged with assault and incitement along with her mother the court previously claimed the pair posed a danger and put them into custody i had father defended his daughter saying she feels she had no choice but to take action. political herself as of. what

a fighter for the palestinian issue she believes that we must struggle directly all the time she needs to be in the fruit of the salt in the. in the clashes with me. this is what she believe in. for that when i saw her when she saw. that audibly she became more active more of our. leader to fight. back 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 to use down of looks now at the referendums which made waves from europe to iraq. for hundreds of thousands twenty seventeen became a hero hope a year of promise and you hear it 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 dependence 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. day that. it . let yet ninety percent of the ballot box said slowly it should break the way. 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 neither was madrid's response.

i am. the catalan government was sacked by madrid independence leaders 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 who the pro-human party winning the most seats so would move back to square one and knew immediately independence promised of the referendum plus alone it was even planned from lighting its iconic fountains yellow with the colors deemed this 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. and this is a new era for the kurdish people point and we have to use this is a big victory but despite the kurds saying yes to independence that's not what the referendum achieved.

and those one spearheaded the push to break way down. having a form that will extend. although the briggs's though took place back in twenty sixteen if so many did headlines throughout the last year . with the result. in the bad guy to think that jamie. these national bank holiday. independence day. brits it was supposed to have moved far closer than it has by now but instead appears to be facing drifting further away and this is the divorce process wasn't painful enough prime minister may still particularly fail to sweep through britain's parliament into greenlighting briggs it plans. injured along even the

international trade secretary said bricks at negotiations would be the easiest in human history i was the prime minister still agree with that assessment some created do you feel that the confusion can be concluded quickly. and that the commission was trying to pull the british. about this resolution for twenty eighteen don't get your hopes too high for a friend of. the race today in the midst thrown out to people as a way of involved. the mass of the population and 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 is in our society. that we can excite is a junior song just kicked off a new year with a cryptic message they took to twitter with a singing indecipherable and also

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ahead few we'll have more on the devastating cost of victory in the iraqi city of mosul also how a purchase of the mosque a free market brought seizure to strangest together from different countries they stories on the way. good politicians do something to. put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president or injury. or some want to. have to go right to be close this is what before three in the morning can't be good get. interested always in the waters out. there should. show something seemed wrong all right old rules just don't hold. any gold

yet to shape out just they become educated and gain from an equal betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart when she's to look for common ground. though again now the head twenty seventeen we saw the defeat of ice still in syria and iraq but the human cost of the victory is staggering u.s. coalition air campaign against moses all the terrorists defacto capital in iraq all but raised the city to 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 a british artist embedded with the iraqi army. artie's during a hawkins talk to the award winning artist and illustrator about his experiences in the conflicts. and 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 are the 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 the i was touring and just begins to tell a story and isis fighters had fled the mosque next door during the fight firefight 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 is so so regular i guess is a 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 the point of the refugee camp as well you've made one painting in the. amount of recently suffered a heart. born just after the second world war. five days earlier. lying in this tent outside the main refugee camp conditions the heat alone was 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 and tell the story or whether you stand out from it because of course the chance of helping is very i think. 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 over 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 their 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. george butler talking about his experiences there now on a lighter note a chance finding a camera in a moscow flea market did set 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 to found it 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 of your picture that you. found me really. i got a what's up this age from dimitri saying i was a russian boy you are looking for like an indian i decided to color by skype and we talked for two hours about everything she turned out to be a very nice woman. but it turned out that my uncle had given it to his friend to sell it to market we had forgotten to remove the film from a. pretty body elizabeth the spine is 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 it is a key object in order that story and use it as a character and really photo in those of us of the camera and go back to the places where so picture was taken. they're not looking for fame i just want to share this amazing story with other people so that others might realize their life is not just about politics and done but includes room for small everyday pleasures. and the big. great story how you watch the national don't forget you can keep yourself updated and also have a look back at the big stories of twenty seventeen at a web site at r.t.

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every thursday on the alex i'm unsure when i'll be speaking to get off of the world of politics or business i'm show business i'll see you then. there is always some are saying and i build timing houses for the homeless. serious back and they are here why do these guys out me a tiny how if she is not a solution it will be a free for off. base nice safe conditions to live a. loser who supposed the rent of the city of los angeles for the. always good terrorist and. nobody should be homeless anywhere but especially in one

of the richest countries in the world. i build everything with truth 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 has some us in a battle with city authorities 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 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 crowd funding he's going rogue once completed they all have a new carbon pad they'll be alarms on the windows i put events these holes in the top you know it's really hot this summer here so that way the heat will rise and.