headline stories. across the country leaving at least twenty. people well. the last few days in iran may be they do not constitute a threat to international peace and security the security council should not. issue the u.n. security council request tolls on emergency meeting over the situation in. the initiative is criticized by some members. reportedly continuing its bombing campaign in yemen. one

person is believed dead others injured in this latest strike. members of the jewish community and they fear for their safety in the country. because of widespread. views coming from the capital city of the world's biggest country is r t international my names you know neal hello and welcome this hour a fourth day pro-government march is being held in iran tens of thousands of people have been rallying to show their support for the country's leaders it comes in response to a seven day our pricing triggered by poor living conditions over eighty cities.

ah. ah. ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah. ah ah ah ah ah. ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah on friday night the united nations security council at washington's request held an emergency meeting to discuss the situation in iran russia criticized the move same should be left alone to deal with its own internal affairs that was echoed by a number of other members of the security council to. in the past week what has happened on the ground throughout the nation of iran is something the world must take note of will see pill could blow over laurie and the events of the last few days in iran may be they do not constitute per se a threat to international peace and security every un member state is sovereign but

member states cannot use sovereignty as a shield when they categorically deny their people human rights and fundamental freedoms only when the security council should not discuss the internal issues of any country or its human rights issues if the founding principles of this institution mean anything we will not only hear their cry we will finally answer we are witnessing an attempt by some delegations to bring to the attention of the security council issues that do not fully correspond with the mission of this body the united states stands unapologetically with those in iran who seek freedom for themselves change in iran will not come from outside it will come from the iranian people themselves nothing will stop americans from standing in solidarity with them . someone who was able to sweep let iran deal with its own internal problems since this is precisely what is taking place you are wasting the energy of the security

council we are really in foreign minister shared his views on the meeting he called it a foreign policy blunder by the trumpet ministration meanwhile america's top diplomat has been quizzed over washington support for the uranian government protesters. you've said that you want to support quote. elements in the country that will lead to a peaceful transition of government that sounds like regime change but i think the iranian people have suffered under this regime we do not support our troops actions of power but we do support peaceful transition of power. we discuss the events in iran with political analysts shapira hussen ali he says america helped to fire men the un wrist the reality is that many of the people who've been arrested off from. inspired groups and you've got these type of people who came in from the outside

from places like kurdistan from afghanistan very was supported by the swathe of sort of tweets that were coming out of washington now this is america israel saudi arabia interfering at least from a distance within iran's internal affairs yes iran has got economic problems absolutely but a lot of those economic problems we mustn't forget because the commitments that america had with j. c.p.o. way have been flagrantly abused the day j c p o j c p o it was signed america turned around and put some new sanctions on iran which is ridiculous. one person has reportedly been killed and at least three more injured in a suspected saudi later strike in yemen it took place in the early hours of saturday morning hitting a busy market in the northern province of it's was the second attack of its kind in yemen in twenty eighteen on new year's day more than twenty people were killed in

an airstrike on the key port city of who data. you've. got a little you could have. the u.n. has announced it's allocating on preceded fifty million dollars to yemen to try and alleviate the humanitarian crisis their organization says it is quote deeply concerned about the desperate situation in the country war broke out in yemen in twenty fifteen the last kind of claimed the lives of more than ten thousand people or further twenty two million are said to be in need of urgent help. and it is not

just human rights organizations trying to intervene to save lives in yemen and raise awareness of the plight of its people on the telly and journalist has become part of the drive corps throwing an illustrated book about the country. well the book touches upon many aspects of life in traditional yemeni society it also looks at the civil war there in some detail so the reviews intervention in the conflict is mentioned the problem of terrorism to laura sylvia who coauthored the

work our line to us her motivations for writing it there hey mom the book the yemeni bride is sort tracked their audience and especially also young people too to yemen some of them they don't know exactly where yemenis in them up some of them they heard about yemen olie by news but yemen is a country you need to know from inside and where we decide to do this case also to tell good stories about cook system so people inside the country we should to tell something for example about the reason why terrorism analyst cards are spread around the country or why some part of al qaeda target into high seas for example in yemen and you can tell there is also an specially led the people seeing where the drawings what i so as

a witness or with living conditions in the beleaguered country worsening in all areas of the economy suffering we heard from a number of fishermen about how their livelihoods have been affected by the war. i'll say i think. we are all suffering from this crisis only god knows how hard it is for us i used to have a boat i used to make my living by it but from the moment the crisis broke out i've been jobless for six months i sold the boat but i couldn't pay off my debts now i'm looking everywhere for my daily bread. is that of a safe person and i've been a tag both on the island senate seat they have shot up several boats and killed the crews and the gears sank they died because of that tax and aggression against you

and then. on. the in century new book by donald trump named fire and fury rocketed to the top of the bestsellers list this weekend it claimed to reveal who the president really is and what it's like to be under his wing. buyer and we've got a book to talk about here it is and all of gossipy details trump's rambling and his alarming repetitions had significantly increase he was no more than seventy literate when he has to be in the white house they took him into bed at six thirty it's not mentally fit you cannot do this job running in adult day care center moron and he should not be president he's not going to make it he said he's lost his stuff well the book quotes former senior advisor to the us president steve bahman one of the many people to exit the revolving white house door last year but at a media conference president trump responded in defiant. went to the best colleges

for college i went to i had a situation where it's a very excellent student came out and made billions and billions of dollars became one of the top business people went to television for ten years was a tremendous success as you probably have heard ran for president one time and one and then i hear this guy that does not know me doesn't know me by the way did not interview me for three city interviewed me for three hours in the white house it didn't exist ok it's in his imagination well here are just a few claims in the book it's written not donald trump found the white house daunting his own behavior contributed to washington's dysfunction it also claims that it was the us leader himself who was behind leaks of personal data on alleges that trump enjoys eating cheeseburgers in bed so he recounts being taking a look at why the book is proving just so popular. readers have been promised an

inside look into the q.c.'s scandals of the trumpet ministration and liberals all over the country have flocked to bookstores to get their hands on a copy and present trends lawyers even tried to block the book's publication which made it even more sought after so in this small bookshop we're talking record numbers they had eighty four copies just this morning and they were sold out within six minutes and yes people came out in the freezing cold to get their copy of fire in theory inside the trump white house has been the book of the day the question of the day i mean just it's all we're doing it has been a lot of fun really hectic all the phone calls people in the store had someone compared to almost like harry potter level like a new release crazy like it has been that fun and that hectic so why is it flying off the shelves if you're looking to confirm you're already in a bias this is the book you want to read i'm not a fan of the president at all i just want to find out what's in it and sort of satisfy my curiosity you know it's. tough for us booksellers to get

a copy but as soon as i can we will be giving in to lead however the authors reliability has been questioned and several claims in the book have already been dismissed as false our position is very clear that we think it is full of false and fake information but who cares if the claims in the book are true or not fire and fury will stay in the headlines as long as it for trey's trump in a negative light but with all the excitement surrounding the book everyone seems to have forgotten the last time this happened the infamous trumped us year that's now practically synonymous with fake news but also fair in times of war well at least in the media war against trump some iraq on our team washington d.c. a media legal analyst lionel told us why this is a goldson for the talking heads of many media outlets. nobody cares except the people in the mainstream media who can now focus on it they don't have to do any research they don't have to do any heavy lifting all they have to do is

pick out the particulars portions that they like it's a rehash of the same story it's not substantive it doesn't deal with any of the problems that really affect the country or the world it's easy it's easy to do just low hanging fruit it's perfect for that what effect is it going to have absolutely nothing the people who hate trump hate him the people who love drama love him now these going to change. members of the jewish community in france a very don't feel safe in the country they regularly face on t.v. semantic abuse concerns are also growing that the situation could worsen in the wake of donald trump's recognition of jerusalem as the capital of israel. saying the song to me used to be a whole lot of the jewish community in france but it's a heart that's no longer beating french jews fleeing the paris suburbs to escape

a royce in anti semitism. i was viciously attacked with a machete by an individual because i'm jewish. every day we are attacked they enjoy it. ridicule islamists stuck a knife in my chest i'm very scared for my family and myself. i'm scared of going outside and showing my face i am forced to wear a camp every day to hide my keeper. not all of these attacks made the headlines and according to one jewish organization they just the tip of the iceberg every day is what you are people that every day there are people that are inserted we can be heard by the worlds. we don't mind but when we heard. you can be. many families have decided to quit france pulled together jews

started leaving the country in record numbers back in two thousand and fifteen following a terror attack on a cruise ship supermarket in paris. if you are. in two thousand and fifteen almost eight thousand jews left france in two thousand and sixteen another five thousand flights and over the last decade more than forty thousand have packed their banks that's almost ten percent of the jewish population in france in few of the kids. know in france and with a problem in europe there are almost no drool that all living. so it's story with everything but they say that europe is continuing peace what.

i wore last month from acknowledge the scale of the problem semitism is alive it is not new it is ancient it is not superficial it is well rooted and it is alive and it hides always behind new mosques attempts to justify it so through diverse reasons that statement just came a few days off to donald trump made the. decision to recognize jerusalem as the capital of israel the decision triggering anti israel protests across europe and laying the ground for more semantic attacks. even ski send to me. this saturday marks christmas eve for many orthodox christians but the mood has been far from festive in bethlehem story and

more right up to. express your true self and america. is being counted out to fit the nations left behind but as history shows or just a few years ago the man who said to have created the cyber currency reportedly holds around seventeen billion dollars worth but needless to say it's not been plain sailing for everyone here's some examples one man accidentally threw away thousands of bitcoin when his hard drive broke and twenty thirteen famously a hungry customer paid twenty thousand bitcoin for two pizzas a year few years ago which is a hundred and sixty million dollars today ten million a slice and this person was jailed for money laundering after he sold his coin to

someone involved in illegal narcotics for more on the pros and cons we heard from some financial commentators. i am sure that it is our level in fact is probably the biggest bubble i've ever seen in my career as an investor and i've seen quite a few bubbles and i'm familiar with the psychology that surrounds them you know big quiet it took a rocket ship up and it's going to come down even faster because there's not a bubble because it actually is the pin that's the pin that's popping the legacy financial systems bubble. over a printing of money. over valuation of a stock the beauty of it the supporters say stay centralized it's everything that banks know the vid coin itself is not to take knology could be the reward but you don't need to have a block chain there are all these other cryptocurrency is that have block chains and they don't use big corn and you can use block change for anything what about the fido in a consensus the logic of what she is doing with that large of the largest block

sort of the only one that matters the one that does the most no it doesn't the most people there is the one that's most trustworthy you know the small if you've got a blockade in your pocket and not have all but a sense of model algorithm work meaning you don't have any minors and you don't have any consensus that doesn't mean a thing that's a really really slow data is what and that's what it is but what is it what is the value what is the inherent value of a bit coy what it what can you do with a bit quiet to make it worth seventeen thousand dollars if i have one big point what can i use it for what can i do with it you could buy anything as a matter of fact i could buy gold at this got i got a pack full dot com and i could buy gold at this guy go buy gold at sixty percent off with the situation we're in now how dangerous is it you know what people. and spending savings on but look it is very dangerous but what is it is that it terry you think they're going to get rich quick because right now the only reason that people are buying big quote is because the prices going up and what it turns around

that they're going to be selling it for the same reason. this saturday marks christmassy for many orthodox. christians around the world but in palestine celebrations have been marred by scuffles which occurred in bethlehem protesters trying to block the convoy of the local patriarch of greek orthodoxy he's faced the recent backlash from palestinians for allegedly selling property in jerusalem to the jewish community. special coverage all of the celebrations in the country later tonight don't miss it . all right in theory you're meant to be fighting in the army but the following. the military feared they would damage the units reputation for being

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if you have to die january is not a bad month to do it in that is your style to even use round up from moscow more programs right ahead and i'll be back with the big global stories affecting your world. los angeles the sony of luxury and fame but also an alarming number of people living in the streets. the simple fact in l.a. he's there's just not enough shelter even if people on the streets right now decided to come in there's nowhere to come in and it's been a struggle. to get this man found his own response to the problem and constructed dozens of tiny homes for people in need of shelter when you have nothing and nowhere to go. you know having something like this may as well be a castle but do the authorities accept such solution tiny house on

a city parking space is not a solution you heard someone monitoring the site otherwise it'll be a free for all the news there a better alternative to end the homelessness crisis. a place for many clubs over the years so i know the gaming so i gots. the ball isn't only about what happens on the pitch for the final school it's about the passion from the fans it's the age of the superman to just kill the narrowness and spending two to twenty million. books it's an experience like nothing else on to because i want to share what i think what i know about the beautiful guy but great so well with. the base it's going to.

for the third straight month we'll dig deeper into the details then take a little trip around the world and look at unemployment around the planet and what's in store for energy sector in twenty eight there's a heck of a lot going on as well as tyson slocum for his take now let's get to the top stories in business and finance. us tech stop started in twenty eighteen on a highway tech stocks outperformed health care energy and real estate with the tech sector averaging thirty four percent gains across the pond also the results are the same there despite brics it concerns investors broke all records for the u.k.'s technology sector with u.k. based firms attracting more than two billion dollars in new funding financial tech or fin tech was the u.k.'s leading investment sector like in the us for last year

firms like trans wire funding circle and non-zero lead the pack raising hundreds of millions of dollars in capital u.k. artificial intelligence companies also had a strong year with raising more than two hundred seventy million dollars in funds for the for a first that's a first for the sector. the december jobs report is just out the unemployment rate remains at four point one three times in a row three months in a row there were one hundred forty eight thousand jobs created which is still very positive but it.