i start is not just because i. i. i i. have migrants are still sleeping rough on the streets of paris despite president promised to find a solution before the end of twenty seventeen we hear some of their stories. you look at this memo. with me the story is this the life you still she would have. also to come this hour washington's cursing security

assistance to pakistan accusing its ally of not tackling terrorists pakistan says it's learned not to blindly trust the us anymore. sign of conciliation north korea agrees to the first official talks with the south in two years while the us finally accepts the request to suspend military exercises during the upcoming olympics. i welcome you watching r.t. international this friday morning where she's going to eleven o'clock here in moscow our top story this hour the french president's promise to clear the streets of thousands of rough sleeping migrants by the end of twenty seventeen seems to have fallen flat he had promised in one form or another but instead they face police pressure to move on. while trying to survive in freezing temperatures

charley dubinsky reports next from paris the new year may have begun but for these my clients the problem is still the same ahead is yet another freezing night on the streets of paris. president said he wanted to resolve the problem by the end of the year it's not resolved in the neighborhood there are another thirty camps which are settled like this and these migrants are seeking asylum there is a problem with violence between the people who are waiting in the queue at the reception center because they want to be the first whose fault is that. it's not the fault of the migrants it's the fault of the system is poorly organized which is pose problems for two years is completely dysfunctional and creates a situation of confrontation and violence people have been injured at the reception office the people are angry at the situation because it continues in the same way and because there is no solution. one of those waiting to find

a way off the streets is rafi he's been in france for seven months you look everybody's lips to him he had a very cordial about nor for no water but there were about you know you know very well known here local one hundred one one another one another this is my life your local. noon three people to bring me we hear the stories you hear. is this the life you thought you would have to move. across france thousands of migrants a living in similar conditions all hand to mouth some have found shelter in tents along the canals and streets of paris others in the metro stations all a just looking for a place to call home in the last two years more than forty thousand migrants have set up camp at chavez metro station. and. this is a boy

a heart it's a reception center where migrants can register to possibly start new life new roads every day hundreds of you up by outside entities like the base just simply won't cope with the demands despite a pledge that new migrants would be sleeping rough by the end of two thousand and seventeen president my point has failed to keep pace promise and migrants across the country see no end in sight to their suffering so what do you think ski r.t. parents. the u.s. is suspending its security assistance to pakistan which is long been in the fight against terrorism in afghanistan washington accuses pakistan of not making a serious effort in fighting terror groups like the taliban we are suspending security assistance security assistance only to pakistan at this time in till the

pakistani government takes decisive action against groups including the afghan taliban and the haqqani network we consider them to be destabilizing the region and also targeting u.s. personnel the united states will suspend that kind of security assistance to pakistan it is in the wake of trump's first tweet of the year which outlined his regret at the u.s. paying pakistan billions of dollars in aid he accused washington's regional ally of being a safe haven for terrorists in afghanistan which america is trying to defeat trump's twitter diplomacy sparked a furious response though from pakistan's foreign minister. has more on that and also the wider ramifications well the foreign minister of pakistan of course there are so it has issued a fierce response to trump accusing pakistan of providing safe havens for terrorists there fighting in afghanistan and not one tweet but three you ask what we've done from our bases you carried out fifty seven thousand eight hundred attacks in afghanistan. thousands of civilians and soldiers became victims of the

war you initiated we stood by you treated your enemy as i wrote we feel guantanamo bay now history teaches us not to blindly trust the us we are sorry they were not be but we were not to mean ourselves any more and the foreign minister hasn't exactly held back when it comes to this particular issue he even said in the past that the terrorists that pakistan is accused of harboring were once quote darlings of the us who are being wind in dined in the white house so trumps tweets rightfully struck a nerve and immediately following those tweets pakistani officials converge for an emergency security meeting to discuss the issue but pakistanis in general haven't taken trump's tweet so kindly and ironically enough it seems to have united the country's warring factions for example imran khan chairman of pakistan's they have akin soft party had a pretty interesting reaction calling truck mentally weak now the u.s. has even placed pakistan on a special watch list for allegedly violating religious freedom but with all that

being said the war in afghanistan is far from over and the u.s. has already lost thousands of lives and spent trillions of dollars but without its neighbor support it's unclear how far the u.s. can really go that was american when we talked to the author of blood on our hands the american invasion and destruction of iraq and he believes that washington's move may have a very different effect from the one intended. in the past when the u.s. has pressured pakistan to drive militants out of its so-called safe havens. this is not necessarily worked out as the u.s. would hope two years ago in twenty sixteen pakistan did exactly that and drove. you know hundreds or thousands of foreign fighters from the border areas to northern afghanistan and join the taliban there so and in fact helping to

strengthen what is being really a resurgence of the taliban in northern afghanistan i think in the larger geopolitics of the situation pakistan has always had a close alliance also with china and i think you know these kind of actions by the u.s. could simply drive pakistan into much closer relations with china which i'm sure is not really worth what the u.s. would want. now it's been confirmed that north and south korea will meet for official talks next week it will be the first time for the pair have spoken in two years and the meeting on the ninth of january will focus on the upcoming winter olympics in south korea but there are also hopes too it will address recent tensions in the region will be held in a so-called peace village in the demilitarized zone on the border between the two countries another diplomatic breakthrough this week saw north korea reopen

a telephone hotline with the south it had been closed since twenty sixteen and then also on thursday the u.s. president finally accepted souls request to postpone joint military drills during the olympics that's a complete u. turn from just a couple of weeks ago. but these exercises have been all going for many years i'm not worried really to change what is scheduled well even before the talks between sold in pyongyang were agreed to donald trump rushed to take credit for the progress in a tweet he touted his firmness and america's stance against the north the dean for durham law school though tom brooks things that if the white house indeed played any role in the dialogue it only made things worse. moves to have dialogue between north and south korea didn't start a year ago when trump was elected president they've been going on for some time

and i think you know white house has probably something close to nothing to do with this with these steps i think this is something the efforts of others in. i think the white house and helped this progress happen that the white house has really done a lot to in danger it and i think it's a credit to both sides in north and south korea that they've got to stick to open talks to open dialogue and one only hopes for the sake of the people who live on the korean peninsula some good comes out of that irrespective of what tweets from donald trump what donald trump and the north korean leader have exchanged a barrage of threats over the last year or so but this month the insults reached a new level after the u.s. president bragged about the size of his nuclear button and it seems that trump is pretty keen to tell the world about being the biggest and the best.

look at those hands are they small i referred to my hand. something else i guarantee you there's no problem. i have the biggest crowds. the biggest tanning ovations best the best in the world the greatest health care plan very very successful i would build the greatest world you have ever seen i happen to be underrated by the way. they were bragging about who has the bigger but who have got the big. bragging about the size of your soul i.

think. that time is running out for african migrants in israel they have only ninety days left to leave the country or they could face jail israelis currently offering them three and a half thousand dollars to relocate but if they don't the israeli prime minister says he'll use force. surely with something completely illegal and completely. have a clear choice. respectively legally who will have to use other legal tools disposal. well officials to estimate that around sixty thousand people have crossed the border from egypt in recent years a third of them have already been deported or those that remain. one and

a half thousand held in detention centers in fact one such facility is in israel's southern desert which some refer to as an open air prison just under a thousand migrants are held there at the moment but they can leave during the day if they have work authorities they have decided to close it we spoke to one of the residents the her whole or in a whole lot i just exist it's not a normal life to live in a lot is not easy ten people sleep in one room you have to queue to take a shower to do anything the doctor is only here from nine to three there's only one doctor for about twelve hundred people and why did i leave eritrea because eritrea is a dictatorial country i couldn't live there you cannot do anything that you work there like a slave for them it's all you can do you can only call it slavery but first i didn't choose to come to israel i didn't think about anything i just wanted to see where there is peace where i can take care of myself where i can protect myself what we

got opinion on this story from the writer and political commentator of india yes skin and also gideon levy he's from the israeli newspaper. we face the problem so-called problem of some city seven thousand asylum seekers refugees who lift both of them have children here they should stay here they have to stay you know human the regime would expand and if it is going to expel them by force it will be one of the most sharing food stamps that israel had ever taken note less than these they're not refugees they're criminals who crossed the border illegally not all man but you can talk about this solemn seekers when the people come from vatican three to not the commentary to save their lives they how well they they have done quite a long way they didn't want to stay in egypt for example for some reason they want

to benefit from our reach from a merciful society not people like you don't live a who are all true liberal radical bourgeois they live in pure white neighborhoods of tel aviv where they have no problems but the government duffey israel is here to protect this citizens of israel and the people in poor neighborhoods that maybe the roads are suffering tremendously from of this invasion of criminals who and third the contras now some of them of course behaved fine this is exactly the way that they spoke to the surtees in some european countries they change the nature of the country sixty says. they are off a country of nine million people i mean how race iostat that people are here both sombrero his i am older i needed to say that i said earlier it does

a lot of neighborhoods terrible problem we cannot accept any illegal immigrants no one no more. no more and we're sending them to the places where they will be safe with the mahdi in their pocket of with the money which they earned eighty percent over the eritreans in europe are recognized as refugees in israel less than one percent how can you call it but the races those people are fighting for their lives israel is a refugee society kid zorba surtees seven thousand people and it's unbelievable how. to speak in such a racist way but this is when you're watching our international just going a quarter past eleven in the morning here in moscow still plenty to come including despite saudi arabia lifting a blockade on yemen's capel the country is still facing a major humanitarian crisis we'll have a look at that in more detail just after the break.

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fall since my last world cup. we've. thousand zero zero zero zero zero russia. rice drive. left left left more left ok stop that's really good. welcome back next saudi arabia finally succumbed to international pressure last month to reopen a key port in yemen to wean supplies of food and fuel the blockade had been seen as worsening what the u.n. calls the world's biggest humanitarian crisis but as far as locals are concerned little has changed since he died reopened.

the summer is the blockade isn't lifted we won't be able even to imagine its consequences humanitarian organizations have already warned of the worst catastrophe in the history of the yemeni people. that we don't know where to get livelihood we are on the brink of begging for food people die from starvation i have nothing else to say it's too good to die and it's better than living like this. well the saudis have been leading a military campaign in yemen since twenty fifteen to back the government against the who the uprising but nearly three years of conflict in the blockade plunged the country into the world's largest famine and cholera crisis the director of the

center for strategic studies believes the saudis promise promise to lift the blockade was just a show and in reality little change there's a still a blockade on. this point so the saudis or the coalition rather is making it very very difficult for the ships that would pour. dock at the port authority to you know to roll. as fast as they possibly can if basically fix them to do that and they're not going to allow any more than they necessarily word probably a ship or something like that. to assure the world of the keeping their word in essence this war is far from over. in other news virtually all computers including smartphones and tablets are at risk of two major security flaws

discovered in processing chips no breaches have been reported as yet but the bugs could potentially allow hackers to get hold of users passwords photos and also e-mails both floors work by exploiting the way you were devise and lose your data it is supposed to be locked up and isolated but the meltdown bug potentially lets hackers grab it as it's being moved the problem affects intel chips used by almost all apple devices the specter bug works a little differently but affects almost all machines and cloud based services tricks applications into leaking your private information that makes it harder to fix the floor when in late november intel c.e.o. sold off a large chunk of his shares after he was apparently made aware of the problem with the chips you go she died of takes a closer look at the extent of the threat posed by the security flaws it is a safe bet if you own a computer or a smartphone

a newfound vulnerability has almost certainly opened the gates to your most intimate information whether you have a p.c. america a linux computer or an android phone it doesn't matter this all could be built in to billions of devices worldwide have some pictures you're not too proud of well a hacker can access an awful lot more on your passwords and chrichton keys emails and cached files all of the above from the comfort of the living room you can slip onto a malicious website have your private data exposed and you won't even know about it a perfect crime security experts say the attack leaves no traces behind what's particularly embarrassing normally companies won't publish this kind of information until a fix has been released this. however someone's been trigger happy with sharing their problem which means how it is everywhere and now know about it too while security updates are only beginning to come out and the fix itself is expected to come from many at

a cost researchers say computers that just three years ago could suffer up to thirty percent before men stumble manufacturers of course are downplaying the potential impact saying the average user won't notice the difference because done of r.t. . now in the first week of twenty eighteen we have been looking back at some of the major events and trends to this shape last year one of them of course was the feat of islamic state in syria and iraq after years of conflict. despite being driven from syria and iraq i saw was a volved in numerous deadly terror attacks around the world here's a timeline of eyesores reign of terror. islamic state a group whose name has become a synonym for bombings kidnappings beheadings and terror.

the group emerged in the early to thousands in iraq as a solid jihadist militant group and came to prominence in two thousand and three after the american invasion however back then the organization was too weak to terrorize the world but by two thousand and fourteen i saw a grown strong enough to proclaim itself a caliphate a terrorist state with its own currency lawless and vast territory both in syria and in iraq that's when the us pledge to crush it i can announce that america will lead a broad coalition to roll back this terrorist threat. our ject it is clear we

will degrade and ultimately destroy. the small syrian town of combat me was the first major loss for i saw. that. i still fought back and managed to make further territorial gains but ones not quite as significant as in the early days in september two thousand and fifteen russia joined the fight rolling out its large scale anti terror campaign in syria. six months after the start of the russian campaign another major symbolic loss for i saw the liberation of power myra the city where the terrorists filmed one of

their most horrific executions. russian air strikes destroyed oil trucks and tankers draining the terrorists' cash source and while i suppose money was burning the u.s. led coalition together with the iraqis and the kurds attacked isis biggest city mosul the battle for mosul turned out to be a long one waged over nine months and victory came a tremendous cost turning a city with two million inhabitants into rubble. after the liberation of mosul the coalition shifted its focus on syria backing its kurdish allies in their push against isis self-proclaimed capital raca in october

two thousand and seventeen the city was completely liberated was when. the final nail in the caliphates coffin was the liberation of dairies all the syrian city which i so besieged for three years. but the one. after the loss of their resort there was not much of a state left for i saw they suffer defeat after defeat being pushed from all sides and all parties u.s. and russian air strikes sads and iraqi forces kurdish militias and hezbollah. you're watching i see we'll have more news here in just over half an ass time but don't forget you can keep yourself updated to our website at.

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