iran is failing at every level despite the terrible deal made with them by the bammer administration the great iranian people have been repressed for many years they are hungry for food and for freedom along with human rights the wealth of iran is being looted time for change. public has been erupting in rallies and bryant says people have been swarming the streets both against and in support of the government people died the tweet hasn't gone unnoticed in iran urging against the violence president rouhani denied to trump the right to sympathize with the nation well when done with the middle east trump couldn't help but pay the classic twitter tribute to his one and only rocket man. sanctions and other pressures are beginning to have an impact on north korea soldiers are dangerously fleeing to south korea rocket man now wants to talk to south korea for the first time perhaps that's good news perhaps not we will see well apparently this was donald trump's knee jerk

reaction to south korea offering to hold high level talks with the north after pyongyang suggested the countries should meet to discuss the next olympics it's not government policy it's the. ravings of a person who speaks before thinking tweets before thinking in a one way or hope that the people on the receiving end of these things would take them with a grain of salt because. you know trump may say those things but he can't act on them because he's got a whole bureaucracy behind him that doesn't agree with them so. it's very destabilizing and i think it's undermining u.s. ability to negotiate solutions to problems so whatever policy donald trump is concocting stirring trouble on twitter is something that is going to stay it goes

down of. well as we heard there of all the world's leaders north korea's kim jong un has perhaps been criticized the most in donald trump's too it's after the isolated country's leader issued a new year's day nuclear warning to washington the u.s. president was keen to hit. the entire u.s. mainland is within the range of our 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 will someone from his depleted and food starved regime please inform him that i do have a nuclear bomb but it's a much bigger and more powerful woman his and my but this is certainly not anything to joke about but i think the situation despite the confrontational rhetoric has been step ally's somewhat there's a recognition that there's a stalemate rex tillerson a few weeks ago did indicate the possibility of negotiations even without

preconditions donal's from probably believe that this kind of talk remains popular with his right wing supporters certain me donald trump at this state does not believe that he is ready to make the first small so perhaps a tool careers may make the first move. or kim jong un has now reopened a cross border communications link with south korea in what's being seen as a significant diplomatic breakthrough but the standoff between the u.s. and north korea looks set to continue in twenty eight days after what's already been twelve months of personal attacks and vicious threats from both sides. era of strategic patience. with the north korean regime has failed. what korea best not getting what threats to the united states. they will be

met with fire and fury. the u.s. neglects the international community's will establish peace on the korean peninsula behave like children fighting each other in kindergartens and nobody can stop them . and we can't have mad men out there shooting rockets all over the place we will have no choice but to totally destroy north korea. rocket man is on a suicide mission for himself no one of them prompt himself is on a suicide mission and i know you've. got a lot of time you know we need the pools we need dialogue. he is a sick puppy. twenty seventeen saw

a world changing events but it was also a year when it was sometimes harder to tell fact from fiction the term fake news swirled around global news coverage more than ever last year jacqueline bouvier explains what propelled it into the mainstream media. fake news the term that has filled the headlines and your social media feeds for the past twelve months has been deemed two thousand and seventeen word of the year at least by collins dictionary nation relies on me to read truthful facts and i call and say that sad witches of god on strike. it's news stories. like. and the mainstream media would have you believe that fake news goes hand in hand with topics such as russia putin and the kremlin fake news that's being spread by russia fake news has dominated the true had lines fake news spread by russia big news fake news kremlin spread misleading or otherwise fake news certain outlets even to the battle against the fake news phenomenon to the front lines this is an

apple. some people might try to tell you that it's a banana you might even start to believe that this is a banana. but it's not. is an apple. facts first should go without saying but the mainstream media have found themselves in the wrong on a staggering amount of occasions even c.n.n. has been guilty of it they were forced to retract their report on a connection between anthony scaramucci who was on trump's transition team and a russian investment fund manager issuing an apology for the false story three people lost their jobs over that one but of course there was the breaking news one in september by most major outlets in the u.s. dropping the bombshell that the russians had attempted to hack the election systems in twenty one states caught red handed it was the evidence everyone had been waiting for to prove the russians did it until one by one states came forward saying no hack here and the story of two thousand and seventeen quickly crumbled

onto december and some of america's most influential news outlets spread another explosive and one hundred percent false news story to millions yes the wiki leaks token of help to the trump campaign and the hacked d.n.c. emails wiki leaks equals russia there for once. plus one equals three and the kremlin and trump are in cahoots message sent in the final stretch of the twenty sixteen campaign if this e-mail on september fourth they gave donald trump his son and others the decryption key for hacked wiki leaks documents illusion question right because we could weeks was actually acting as an agent of russian intelligence the media frenzy was however short lived the files had in fact not been handed over before being made public but after so not the knockout blow to the president they were all hoping for surprisingly about the whole story was based on one e-mail from our random guy and somewhere in the build up to the revelation hitting the headlines numerous people had read the date incorrectly the list of fakes goes on and on especially for russia somehow in the mix and inflammatory

claims centering on russia are some of the best click bait out there and that's despite one major outlet being caught admitting the hype was all just a big red herring what do you think's going to happen this week to be told russia. that's going to be really so perhaps the word of the year should be anonymous i grabbing headlines and allegations quickly turn to guilt despite no evidence all it takes is anonymous sources. well it's been a deadly start to twenty in yemen that's r t reports for the. local blog so you want the idea that dropping bombs brings police to the chicken hawks forcing you to fight the battles. that you saw spreading so you can be gossip the public. doesn't tell me you are not pulling out like. a whore on the

board no one. because gold is periodic album number seventy nine is unique attributes that make it great for money. but not more in a vacuum it has got forty years of history to it and it's evolved through all these technologies it's a unique protocol and it like gold is attracting a huge amount of capital for for the for this achievement and you can't say that you can simply go out there and create another one there are competitors of course just like there are competing species on planet earth for energy and survival but there's only one the apex predator that is at the moment before he dies from all the garbage. international yemen has suffered its first deadlier strike of twenty eighteen with

more than twenty killed in the port city of data on new year's day just that we could go three of the world's biggest humanitarian agencies joined together to highlight that yemen has passed the grim milestone of injuring more than a thousand days of war explaining that three quarters of the yemeni population needs humanitarian aid another run two thirds are deprived of food water and proper sanitation. i am poor i have no tender i can live i suffer from the cold. i was given a place to sleep when some people to warm up on hot days ride on the sidewalk.

but there is no help comes very rarely once a year but now we have no health or blanket on fifteen people sleeping on. the ukrainian army is going to see a military boost in twenty eighteen at least according to its president petro poroshenko he tweeted that ukraine's military budget is increasing to a record three billion dollars and the weapons being supplied by the us will be bolstered by locally produced hardware the war in ukraine began in twenty fourteen after an op rising saw the government posed but it was met with resistance in the countries pro russian east leaving two armed conflict against government

troops and two regions the un ses more than ten thousand people have been killed on the war campaign richard becker thinks washington's weapons sales have little to do with bringing peace. the aim here on the part of the u.s. government remains the same that it has had for several years and that is to attach ukraine not only to the european community which the u.s. doesn't care that much about but to bring the ukraine into nato as well which would pose a very great threat to russia if that were to take place considering that the i'm going huskily that's expressed from washington and from nato headquarters is so prevalent so we can't really distinguish between draw some sharp land between offensive and defensive weaponry in this case it's all the offensive and defensive

weaponry both necessary for any modern armed forces. for syria and iraq twenty thousand does mean emerging from the his shadows of i still is brutal rule few families were left on scarred by what they went through in iraq as the it has the story now of two young syrian girls struggling to survive after being left alone in the ravaged city of daraa is a war. meet sally she's five maybe six perhaps seven she doesn't know and the smog hit the streets. surviving isis's see each of their disorder was no mean feat so many perished as a result of starvation sickness violence. if. sally is a survivor she a sister and brother were abandoned by their parents years ago they divorced and

left the children to fend for themselves out on land. oh. now you are now almost done on the land she spends her days begging stealing playing and surviving no easy lot for them in this life former neighbors who knew their family have taken pity on the kids and have looks out for them but it's not easy to mock us now but i wanted to take her in but she kept escaping that i sent people to look for her but she never stays in one place long shallow escapes. there. sally's sister all she has left since her brother died of starvation we found the older girl at the end of this gloomy bullet riddled carville is

a room with broken windows in it leaves a young girl with only flies bloodstain mattresses for company. about a month ago sagitta who doesn't remember her age was brought in with a head injury when she fell she damaged an implant that siphons away the fluid different people tell different versions some say the full was accidental others attempted suicide but i believe the fluids keep building and there will be consequences she will lose her sight hearing and the ability to swallow much of the pressure on him bringing his graham. in hospital i don't know she'll find no cure in dead as order as we were filming a nice a shell landed just

a few hundred meters away sagitta needs to get to damascus to survive but lacking identification relatives and trapped in a war zone it's difficult to see how that's possible. sagitta doesn't get many visitors but there is one vigil person who always makes a smile. if left alone sagitta begins to scream and cry she needs people there is cool is for optimism. sides does suffering has touched a cool action is being taken to get the girls out of bed as order but for now all they really have aside from promises and p.t. is each other or i guess the see from dead us or syria.

thought provoking piece and indeed we have some positive news on young said teacher since the two report was filed in october she has since made it to damascus artie's local source informed us she underwent surgery out of hospital where she's now back indoors or with her sister it's going to be for sure an uphill struggle for those two girls let's just hope twentieth brings them a brighter future. now there's all our dot com as always and i'll see you in just under half an hour's time with more global world news from r t h q in. closing new when you don't. see the teachers who are. not true only ten best. left alone.

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controlled by them and they impose the opening times. it was just from his office the procedures in place of the strictest in all europe must to pieces by artists like picasso and modigliani i can't boards and sold inside this warehouse so that's where the report comes in because it covers a deals which are naturally discreet commercially discreet but also discreet because they concern fraud. definitely some of those paintings are linked to dark secrets nobody knows how many of these secrets a kept inside the geneva free pool it says from the position that you'll never obtain an inventory of all the works in the freeport who knows how many there are three hundred three thousand three hundred thousands is it's a matter of confidentiality only is it the world like the art business. in. leeds.

greetings and salutations you cannot have a revolution without dancing and you cannot have dancing without music revolution will always and forever be intertwined with music because most often it's the musician the poet who channels the rhymes and heart beats of change that often starts as a soft melodic whisper creeping out from the underground and then question nose into a grand opera of cultural change and up evil and that intertwined history is why the musician will always be an agent or instrument if you will of change their lyrics the melodies can shine a light on the injustices and bring attention to the under-represented and even helped bring down the giants themselves today. let's find out what comes

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. wherever in our food bank all flobots democrat and. alternative hip hop band we play music for the last ten years plus together and you know for us music is about engaging the crowd but it's also about kind of engaging people with the message so what brought you guys to get there. loving the x. men loving g.i.

joe lots of nerdy things we were too nerdy boys who were placed in a highly gifted and talented program he was in the fifth grade i was in the fourth grade. and it's a memory that i remember very clearly i saw him down the hall with i was with my father and everybody told him my dad's army and i see that boy the blue hat he's going to be my friend and here we are how many years later the twenty is when you get years later we thought we're going to be making comic books professionally. but the world that we crafted in comic books and becoming the worlds that we i started crafting and exploring with our wraps and we fell in love with hip hop together and we both came from families that were pretty social justice activist oriented so and hip hop especially like when we were falling in love with it also was just very much telling the story of the people who were experiencing like people from the south bronx experiencing problems like poverty and using their art to experience power and so for us that lined up with our families values lined up with our values

and then also brought in that creative aspect of being able to talk about the world and also imagine a world that is better than that and so for us that's always been like where we've been so you mix in some xmas. digable planets. hieroglyphics and. you know some side final ask and. you get flow as always and they might be giants we'd be remiss but i was going to say there is a reminds me a lot of there might be. this competition accomplished a lot of other. with the new album what do you want people to take away from so i mean we've always tried to make music that helps people feel empowered and feel like they're part of a story that's just larger than whatever they're doing with this album we want people really to to hear their own voice. as part of

a collective voice and to see that there's power in raising your voice with others and it's also that we want people to think more three dimensionally about what it means to get engaged because a lot of people are if you can listen to one song and just feel like i want to put my fist in the air i want to hold a sign but really stepping into the streets and being part of a social movement means you're going to go through a lot of different emotional experiences are going to go through the feeling of triumph you're going to go through feelings of heartbreak feelings of failure and so this album is really supposed to be a way to say to people like look if you're part of this these efforts to make the world a better place you're going to be on a journey and you're not alone whatever emotion you're feeling right now you're not alone that's part of the journey and don't leave but find ways to be compassionate for yourself compassion for people around you and to stay in the struggle so leslie what do you see going on in the in the political and social climate today what what

do you see are the biggest the biggest most important issues is kind of fascinating we've been working on the album but we started almost three years ago. and we decided that we're just really going to write. to our stories of our experience and just a wooden with what john if i have a saying. as an activist we had experienced the roller coaster of like we are going to topple patriarchy tomorrow and the next day it doesn't happen and everybody starts stabbing each other in the back and everybody starts blaming each other for all the different failures and that movement that was going to conquer the world yesterday now you have a group of enemies who used to be allies the next and we've seen that happen so many different times so we decided to as activists like why are people talking about the rest of the story. and so we were writing specifically to that we were writing to our heritage is our dynamic. and. we called it no enemies because we found that we were just so as

a country even at that time and working on it so beleaguered with the us versus them and so then when the album was done. shortly there after trump was elected and we were releasing singles and now it was this one of things that happened with people like oh that song pray is about trump well not specific no that's specific. but it is the type of thing where you see that with every new movement there's waves of people so occupy happens and waves of people step into the streets and then likewise matter happens and waves of people step into the streets and then you know the climate change that people keep step new people keep entering and you know it's from selection suddenly you have tons of new people that say the code now is the time i need to get active in there's always dynamics that happen when a new group of people step into something and there's been people there many many years before but it's important to find ways not to make enemies of those people

but to be inviting and to be well.