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 but also to come on r.t. a palestinian teenager is charged with assault for punching to israeli soldiers while the palestinian leader's fattah party issues a guide for children on how to throw stones at security forces. all what we see in that territory is permanent for people to come back to you so i lose the israelis have used live fire they have used tear gas disproportionately. plus a cryptic message and a link to a rap song wiki leaks edited. his followers guessing with the new year twenty eight .

day here in moscow you're watching the international. fifth day of unrest in iran has seen the number of deaths climb to at least forty 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 to death at the weekend so the government deny police it opened fire meanwhile iran's biggest protests in the nearly a decade have been getting encourage mint from its major political rivals the u.s. and israel with more mrs jacqueline vickey. what began as discontent over economic hardship and alleged corruption in the room 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 will disrupt public discipline and create turmoil in society that's amid 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 this as your money and telling their ability to develop obvious me nuclear weapons and to work toward support of those elements inside 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 street. they seek freedom they seek justice they seek the basic liberties that have been denied to them for decades with this regime finally falls and one day it will iranians in israel use 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 the israeli probably they're working very hard with america with these terrible lies and 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 and 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. said there have been protests in israel for the last month over the u.s. president's recognition of jerusalem as the israeli capital. i. there 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 kill or to shoot what we here on the palestinian policy no communication mean when we hear every day incitement to kill israelis launching resorts 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 nothing for specially it certainly has nothing to do line with god what happens every day in palestine is the palestinian population confronting a military that is basically with a 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 not need any other conclusion from anybody this is all capital and i believe that some day east policy students will come to negotiate us instead of using their all against us they will 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 who felt the brunt of the police response was this fourteen year old boy he'd been hurling stones that i.d.f. soldiers and was injured after being hit in the face by a rubber bullets were his injuries were a step too far to the boy's cousin who confronted to have any armed soldiers last week and was filmed kicking and hitting them.

like. well. god had to mean is now charged with assault and incitement along with her mother the call previously claimed to pair posed a danger and put them into custody i had father vote defended his daughter saying that she feels she had no choice but to take the action. to call the one of the for the palestinian issue she believe that we must study the weekly or the thought she needs to be in the fruit of the salt in the. in the clashes with me. this is what you believe in. for that with. saw her when she saw that there are me she would care more the more she won leave it to avoid. twenty seventeen did see

a number of countries tackle independence campaigns from restive regions and they were met with legal legal clampdowns along with violent force because you dan of looks now the referendums which made waves from europe to iraq. for hundreds of thousands twenty seventeen became a hero hope a year of promise and here 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 dependance 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 for a. fact. 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 neither was madrid's response. the catalan 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 with the pro-human party winning the most seats so almost back to square one a new uneasy independence promised of the referendum plus alona was even banned 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 missed 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 point some will 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 one spearheaded the push to break way down. i have informed them and that will not extend. although the brits it though took place back in twenty sixteen it dominated headlines throughout the last year. the sun would result. in the bad guy to king james at least the national

bank holiday. independence day. brits it was supposed to have moved far closer than it has by now but instead appears to be phasing drifting further away as if the divorce process wasn't painful enough prime minister may spooktacular leigh sales to suite two of britain's parliament into greenlighting home briggs it plans. into law even the international trade secretary said brics it negotiations would be the easiest in human history i was a prime minister still agree with that assessment some created do you think the fusion can be concluded quickly and then that the commission was trying to bully the british. 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. 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 poa law is in our society. that we can exert is a genius on just kicked off the new year with a cryptic message she took to twitter with a seemingly indecipherable code and also a link to a popular rap song leaving many scratching their heads.

your fiance still had fever we do have more on the devastating cuts to victory in the iraqi city of mosul plus a story about how a purchase at a moscow flea market brought two strangers together from different countries they stories on the way. seem wrong oh we're all just don't all. get to shape

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welcome back to r.t. now twenty seventeen did see the defeat of ice all in syria and iraq but the human cost of the victory is staggering a u.s. coalition air campaign against mosul 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 are still buried under the rubble the horrors of war were captured though by george butler he's a british artist embedded with the iraqi army. and

artie's daniel hawkins talked to the award winning artist and illustrator about his experiences in the conflicts. what was your first impressions when you when you arrived and became imbedded 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 an artist i guess are trying to do to give 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 and 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 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 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 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 you 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 that they have no control of over the lack of this that kind of very vulnerable the moment and the lack of choice and the thing that i guess that was sticks to me is that 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. to talk for george butler there and that was the artist talking about his experiences now finishing on a brighter note a chance find in a camera caught in a moscow flea markets at a french photographer a seemingly impossible puzzle to solve but she did manage to do it here's 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 it find him to to give is photos back to him. there were part of that i was at the airport where 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 and if you. found me really. i got a what's up message from dimitri saying i was

a 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. but it turned out that my uncle had given it to his friend to sell it to market we had forgotten to remove the flag from. anybody for elizabeth this planning to come here in february to visit all these places and photos of his written amazing film script for the story that's going to be turned into a documentary i'll do my best over there. is the idea would be to use a camera as a literary camera which is it is a key objective note 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 it's a fictional world taking. we'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 a. nice story to end on don't forget there are plenty of other stories for you to enjoy to you at a website www dot e dot com. when lawmakers manufacture consent instantly of public wealth. when the room in clusters project themselves. in the final merry go

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