have you with us alright seven days of unrest in iran have now been brought to an end that is according to a cue from iran's elite military force the revolutionary guard but it has come at a high cost as at least twenty one people have died there in clashes over the past week or demonstrations are thought to have been triggered by widespread economic hardship and the prospect of a fuel price hike quickly in political in nature with protesters calling for the deaths of the country's leaders violence and then erupted in several towns with police posts attacked in the past several days there have been four hundred fifty arrests in tehran alone now the trumpet ministration meanwhile has threatened to impose sanctions if iran fails to respond in a way washington deems appropriate. don't get ahead of sanctions but that is one tool kit we are watching reports very carefully of any potential human rights abuses of these protesters who are protesting peacefully we are now seeing an

organic popular uprising organized organized by brave iranian citizens on the largest scale since two thousand and nine the united states supports the iranian people and we call on the regime to respect its citizens basic right to peacefully express their desire for change we asked people in tehran for their thoughts on the protests and the encouragement coming from abroad. i feel that if people's economic problems were addressed these actions that would never happen well you know if someone from the government came and spoke some of these incidents would escalate. the cost of living unemployment and lack of attention to people authorities say that this problem started with the surge of the prices of basic. we need to but this is time for change should think and be worried about their own country and the iranians should think about their country everybody should start by trying to

make progress. i don't think trump should interfere in our country's issues and i don't think our issues are any of his business. the u.s. is also calling for an international response to the unrest in the country washington's ambassador to the un nikki haley has even called for an emergency security council meeting to discuss the situation in iran it takes great bravery for the iranian people to use the power of their voice against their government if to rein in dictatorships history is any guide we can expect more outrageous abuses in the days to come the u.n. must speak out during the same news conference need to hear we also faced questions over the united states avenue towards the palestinian people. now you so strong when it comes to the freedom and dignity of the union people you have but you have a different meaning freedom and dignity when it comes to the palestinian people will be they will be in brutalized for over fifty years of occupation the

palestinians now have to show their world they want to come to the table as of now they're not coming to the table but they ask for aid we're not giving aid we're going to make sure that they come to the table and we want to move forward with the peace process or shortly after that the u.s. leader himself suggested cutting donations to the palestinian administration in a tweet he claims that despite giving them hundreds of millions of dollars a year they show no appreciation or respect to the united states and trump also suggested that cutting aid because according to him the palestinians are not willing to talk peace with israel now that is something that the palestinian administration does not agree with in fact the president's office says that jerusalem is not for sale and that they are not backing away from negotiations but stressed it should be based on international law last year the palestinian authority received around three hundred million dollars in aid from the united states now that is quite a sum but that pales in comparison to the three billion dollars that israel

receives from washington in any case though most often from the palestinian national initiative says palestine doesn't need foreign aid to sustain itself. the worst thing in his statement and his twitter was his declaration that he's taking off. from the table of negotiations he's deciding unilaterally what is it and one and he still wants us to come to the table which is simple demand been officially from the money that is coming to palestinian authority israel where you might be surprised about that but most of that money goes to funding security cooperation with israel and israel is in need for that security cooperation not palestinians we are not dependent on foreign is as a matter of fact the total amount of money that is coming from europe from the state and from other countries is no more than sixteen percent of the budget of the palestinian authority while the public palestinians are paying with their taxes

eighty four percent of the cost of the palestinian authority in my opinion. that money is not is not going to affect us seriously so he can take it away. iran palestine north korea all have been on the sharp end of donald trump's twitter outburst of late as the us president continues to pioneer his own unique brand of social media diplomacy and as you go to john f. explained concern is growing that his online invective could have a serious real world consequences christmas the new year even the seasonal holidays haven't put the brakes on trump's twitter train in twenty eighteen pakistan got it first. the united states has foolishly given pakistan moving thirty three billion dollars in aid over the last fifteen years and they have given us nothing but lies and deceit thinking of our leaders as food they give safe haven to the terrorists we hunt in afghanistan with little help no more no love lost their troops

administration has been walloping pakistan for months but it's not like anything in particular happened on monday to trigger the backlash but to say this tweet got islamabad and age would be an understatement three ministers including the prime minister the army the navy and air force chiefs all converged for an emergency security meeting following trump's post the u.s. ambassador was summoned for an explanation as protesters burned american flags in the streets then it was the turn of iran one of the biggest thorns in donald trump's side. iran is failing at every level despite the terrible deal made with them by the bammer ministration 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 the islamic republic has been erupting in rallies and briards as 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 if it is done of. 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 tweets and after the isolated country's leader issued a new year's day nuclear warning to washington u.s. president was keen to hit back. the entire u.s. mainland is within the range of zero nuclear strike 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 when someone from his depleted and. please inform him that i do have a nuclear 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 allies some walked and 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. at this stage does not believe that he is ready to make the first small so perhaps a tool careers may make the first move kim jong un has now reopened a cross

a border communications link with south korea in what is being seen as a significant diplomatic breakthrough by the standoff between the u.s. and north korea looks set to continue in two thousand and eighteen after what has already been twelve months of personal attacks and vicious threats from both sides . the year of strategic patience. with the north korean regime has failed. but the korea best not make any more 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 been

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 can prompt himself is on a suicide mission. oh yeah i guess. we need the pools we need dialogue. he is a sick puppy. french president has vowed to take the fight against fake news to the next level in two thousand and eighteen during a media conference also hinted at new regulations against media influenced by foreign states. the proof you are good at the hours of the regulator which will be profoundly redesigned during the year twenty eighteen will be increased to fight against any attempt at destabilization would like television controlled or

influenced by foreign states we will impose stricter transparency obligations on platforms for sponsored content in order to make public the identity of the advertisers and those who control them but also kept the amounts of channels towards this content an issue between fake news machines and the professional media we run the risk of losing the truth the barriers have been destroyed presidential campaigns and almost all modern democracies have displayed their weakness and our collective failure to come up with a response when i spoke to the european court of human rights which was i strongly demanded that turkey and russia who signed the e.u. convention on human rights at least respect their obligations implied by this convention specially in the field of press freedom. in wednesday's a speech of the french president wasn't specific about which countries could be influencing french media however r.t.s. but not have already been in line he denied both outlets accreditation during his

presidential campaign and later explained the move by labeling this channel and sputnik as propaganda. russia today and have been influential outlets that have several times spoken mistruths about me and my complaint that's why they were not invited to my headquarters all media including russian had access to my campaign russia today and sputnik have not behaved as media outlets and journalists but as organs of influence and false propaganda. at the end of two thousand and seventeen this channel branched out to the french speaking world with the launch of our newest station our two friends and immediately caused quite the stir several french public figures published an open letter calling for r t france's license to be revoked they supported their claims by saying that r t has repeatedly faced the various allegations from the us and different european countries earlier we spoke with a political commentator who said that i should be careful about taking legal measures

but. i think what he is now trying to do is to change the french civil code in order to prevent what he sees as a quote him from his press conference today i threaten the democratic life of the nation he clearly sees r.t. and sputnik as part of that but i think that he also wants to change the merit of the conversation to make this more about the use the pedal what he calls false news fake news and i think he needs tread very carefully i think it's a very thin line between exercising new laws that protect. people's rights and will have their views challenged by untruths and actually clamping down on freedom of expression so he could find himself acting unconstitutionally if you're not careful judging by my words the so-called fake news phenomenon looks set to continue dominating headlines this year jacqueline vogue explains what propelled it into the spotlight in the first place. 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 that i caught say that sad witches of god on strike. it's news stories. sick. 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 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. but it's. but it's not. this 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. therefore one 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 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. didn't. really so perhaps the word of the year should be anonymous i grabbing

headlines and allegations quickly turned to guilt despite no evidence all it takes is anonymous sources. german satirical magazines or twitter account has been blocked after it parody the anti muslim kinds this magazine was mocking a member of the right wing alternative for germany party who castigated german police for publishing a new year's greeting in arabic however a new a law against hate speech online puts every comment under the crosshairs even if tongue in cheek with more on this here is our correspondent american. well governments are now trying to regulate content on the internet by pushing the online world to crackdown on his speech extremism and of course the mysterious bots and trolls who somehow manage to elect presidents but so far there are attempts haven't exactly been successful for example in germany a new online hate speech laws only came into force on monday and twitter has already banned a parody account after users reported it as hate speech but under the law platforms

have to delete violent or slanderous content by a certain deadline or face a fine up to sixteen million dollars well the first case a far right politician of the alternative for germany party had her twitter account briefly suspended after users flagged her tweets as hate speech against muslims now that's after she lashed out against german police for putting out a new year's tweet in arabic and prosecutors are now examining whether or not her tweets do in fact incite hatred then on top of that twitter banned the account of a magazine that was actually mocking her but in doing so repeated her line now the magazine's editor said he was shocked by the decision and the association of german journalist said that it qualifies as censorship and that they've warned of this danger when the law was drafted last year that private company based in the united states decided the bone degrees of freedom of the press and opinion in germany now this is even going on in the u.k. where twitter and facebook are facing sanctions after m.p.'s said that they failed to thoroughly investigate how russia supposedly swayed the brig's it vote they need

to be able to tell us what they can do about it and what we need to be able to do is say to the companies we recognize that you are the best place to monitor what is going on on your own site and to get the balance right in taking action against it but also safeguarding the privacy of users so the only trace of russia the companies were able to find were three ads are worth less than a dollar however the idea that maybe russia didn't influence the election is apparently off the table so who exactly polices the internet is it good government or is it the social. it companies or is it the government through social media companies that's all very unclear at the moment we discussed this with dave perkins a radio talk show host and political commentator he told us laws against hate speech are directly contradict the principle that freedom of speech exists the law is too serious and grim and rigid and humorless as are by the way the group of people they're trying to prevent from rioting by them. on social media and in the

end it becomes a matter of law being inappropriate i think there's a definite intrinsic tension between freedom of speech which we call a god given right in texas not something that comes from government and hate speech which is a river very recent development that i saw coming a long time ago and protested from the beginning the idea that what you say is against the law is directly contradictory to the idea of freedom of speech. donald trump has publicly lashed out at his former adviser steve bannon over what he reportedly revealed to to the author of an upcoming tell all book on trump's presidency in a statement issued by the us president he did not mince any words saying that bannon had lost his mind had only worked for his own interest and was never really a part of trump's base as the man and left the white house in august a year after joining trump's election team later serving as his chief strategist

the mainstream media suggests a ban and it was a pivotal figure in the president's circle. the reality is steve bannon was involved in many meetings the president signed off on including steve bannon is a member of the national security council president trump referred to bat in this was shortly before his firing as mr bannon and i will tell you that that raised some have goals earlier we talked to a legal and media analyst lionel who believes trump relishes the opportunity to disrupt the mainstream media's narrative there's a simple rule if you don't go after trump he doesn't bother you go after him in any way insult him criticize him take him to task and he's on you with a death grip you've never seen does anybody think that anybody in the drug administration cares one i ordered about this i mean it's what it does is

it throws the mainstream media the washington press corps and the mainstream media news troops it throws them into disarray which trump thrives on and after he's done with bannon he's going to say something about france or italy or or some his neighbor has someone this is his pattern does anybody not pay attention trump for arrives on this he loves this. yemen suffered its first deadly air strike of two thousand and eighteen on new year's day with more than twenty killed in the port city of. just a week ago three of the world's biggest humanitarian agencies joined together to highlight that yemen has passed the grim milestone of enduring more than a thousand days of war explaining that three quarters of the yemeni population needs humanitarian aid and that around two thirds are deprived of food water and

proper sanitation. if. you. live and 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 cried on the sidewalk. but there is no help comes very rarely wants to gear but now we have no help or blankets tighter than fifteen people sleeping or not.

with his first year in office a drawing to a close the u.s. president has been talking up his economic record and while typical trump style economic miracle created more than two million jobs unemployment is at a seventeen year low the stock market is at an all time high fantastic for the economy for our economy has already searched just three percent growth unemployment is at a seventeen year low liberated the american economy and our economy doing well but one man who does not share president comes optimism is former u.s. congressman ron paul he told us that the growth in the u.s. economy has principle e benefited those already at the top if you're in the stock market now wealthy person here doing quite well but what we're forgetting here when we listen to this rhetoric of all this optimism is that there's a large segment of our population that's haven't

a difficult time where there is prosperity and more. jobs it depends on death yes an individual can feel very good if they have a line of credit to the bank but eventually that line of credit runs out we in this country benefit because we have the reserve currency of the world we can run up a lot of debt and we can spend a lot of money and even with that we've had a great deal of difficulty is last eight years trying to get out of the recession now i see everything we do is a big bubble and all those kiwis that we have dealt with in these last eight years have just created a huge bubble and everything is in excess whether it's our military budget our overseas engagements whether it's the welfare state and that bubble will come to an end we're going to have a sudden cataclysmic an which is sort of what happened to the soviet system it's not going to be identical and our states aren't probably going to break up but i do sincerely believe that we will no longer be able to afford our empire around the world and that does it for me i'll be back with headlines in about thirty two

minutes you are watching arch international and we're glad to have you with us. i'm afshin rattansi we're going underground in this season finale eighty one years to the day international brigade volunteers began arriving in spain to fight british backed fascism coming up on the show with barack obama's injuries amazed in fact so i think the rebels in syria all but defeated what next but nato nations

stabilisation around the world. we talked allegedly reporter and filmmaker john pilger about silence noise and distortion and the matrix islam ben wilson tells us about the odyssey's of jacques cousteau to educate human kind about the depths of the world all the civil war coming up in today's going on the ground but first when we began this season theresa may and our government are still banging on about using british taxpayer money to overthrow the only secular government in the middle east but as we hit high summer neoliberal austerity policies have destroyed. and donald trump has cancelled cia funding for isis linked rebels meanwhile nato nation mainstream media appears to have found new rebels to support this time in the nation with the world's largest known resources of fossil fuel bolivarian revolution revenge as well a former mayor of london ken livingstone to negotiate a deal with former foreign minister and now president of venezuela duro to provide cheap venezuelan fuel for london's buses said mistakes were made on the chavez let

alone the fact that killing some u.s. backed oligarchy could have prevented the current crisis that is one of the most cited scholars on earth he said when he shared the stage with the late a good chavez revolution it's not easy i could thank. you have as for the kind generous words generous and limiting the chance to say and i mean if he doesn't and i haven't asked me many times. that i write about peace and criticize the barriers peace. and love in the past because i can write a best human and i fastened. it was herders to create create a better world not to talk about. the moon to not only frame to fasten it have them there is. so exciting about. at last visiting venezuela you can see how better world is being created. speak to the person. that

sharing. a stage of the late hugo chavez well joining me now is that journalist and filmmaker john pilger his latest film is called the coming war on china john thanks for coming back on before we get to the world in may and what did you make of jeremy cool been condemning violence on both sides in venezuela venezuela is getting the kind of attention. rightly and used because there is not attempt to overthrow the government that's what this violence in the street is about and i think it would have been rather good of jeremy coburn had made it rather more specific who started the violence in this country.