our headline stories this hour are supporters of the government hold out for. the rising that swept across the country leaving at least twenty one people dead. however the events of the last few days in iran may be they do not constitute a threat to international peace and security to the security council should not. treat human rights issues the un security council request holds an emergency meeting over the situation in iran however the initiative is criticized by some members who say it's internal issue. the saudi led

coalition is reportedly continuing its bombing campaign in yemen despite humanitarian appeals and support one person is believed dead and injured in this latest strike. members of the jewish community in france tell us they fear for their safety in the country many are planning to leave because of widespread. day in los angeles ten pm in helsinki and i live in at night here in moscow this saturday january the sixth welcome to our international i mean only a fourth day of must 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 op rising 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 ah ah ah ah ah ah ah well last night the united nations security council washington's request held an emergency meeting to discuss the situation in iran russia criticized the move saying that iran should be left alone to deal with its own internal affairs point of view was also 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. however worrying the events of the last few days in iran may be they do not constitute 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 we counsel should not discuss the 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. let

iran deal with its own internal problems since this is precisely what is taking place when you are wasting the energy of the security council. well the iranian foreign minister shared his views on the meeting he called it quote a foreign policy blunder by the trumpet ministration meanwhile america's top diplomat has been quizzed over washington support for the iranian government protesters. you say that you want to support quote. elements in the country that will lead to a peaceful transition of government that sounds like regime change well i think the iranians people have suffered under this regime we do not support the traditions of power but we do support peaceful transition of power as we discussed events in iran with political. he say's american help to foment the youngest 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 swathes 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 the chase e.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 on at least three more injured in a suspected sounding letter a strike in yemen it took place in the early hours of saturday morning hitting

a busy market in the northern province of it was the second attack of its kind in yemen in twenty eight in a new year's day more than twenty people were killed in an airstrike on the key port city of whole data. you've. got about a good afghanistan iraq. the u.n. has announced it's allocating on on preceded fifty million dollars to yemen to try to alleviate the humanitarian crisis there the organization says it is deeply

concerned by the desperate situation in the country war broke out in yemen in twenty fifteen cleaned up to the lives of more than ten thousand people twenty two million are said to be in need of urgent help. and it's 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 you know also looks at the civil war there so the arabia's intervention in the conflict the problem of terrorism. but who coauthored the work outline to us from motivations for writing it there haim of 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 yemen who is in them up some of them they heard about a young man all the buying news by yemen is a country you need to know from inside and what we decided to do with this book is also to tell good stories about cook system so people inside the country we wish had to tell something for example about the reason why terri's middle car either 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 with the drawings what i so miss with living conditions in the beleaguered country worsening all areas of the economy suffering we heard from a number of fishermen about how their livelihoods have been affected by the war. honestly i think. we are all suffering from this crisis only god knows how hard it is for us i used to have a boat that i used to make my living by 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 citizen and i've been a tiger both on the islands in the sea they have shot off several boats and killed the crews and the gears sank they died because of that tax and aggression against you and then. one. night today saturday is christmas eve for many orthodox christians are run the world through to russia crowds have gathered near moscow center of orthodox christianity the christ the savior cathedral and let's cross live there now to just clean food who has been taking it all in the hours coming up to be the service checking yet it's one of the most important days in the orthodox christian calendar what's the mood like give us a sense of what it's like where you are. both a very anticipatory insult retore mood here in the center of russia because this is the holiest day of the year and the holiday falls on january the seventh and not

december the twenty fifth fourth of us persons due to an issue of calendars the orthodox christians never adopted the majority of them that is didn't adopt the gloriana calendar sticking to the julian calendar which has a difference of thirteen days mean that christmas falls on january the seventh which means we're looking last hour of christmas eve here. and the russian capital and for them this is a whole day that has a focus on religion very much so. fast for forty days in the run up to christmas and they attend services today christmas eve and tomorrow just behind me you can see the cathedral of christ the savior where crowds have been pouring into attend those services that are actually being held by the head of russia's orthodox church patriarchy deal and as the people have been coming to attend the services we have talked about what the holiday means to that let's take a listen you just first of all on christmas for me is

a family holiday my grandmother was a very religious person so i'm here for her to one of my family traditions i mean that. my family always meets a christmas which is a family holiday for me to once it's a bring my son with me when he went to sleep with. my family and i will pray for them because he mused. so orthodox christians all over the world are getting ready to celebrate christmas whereas the majority of the west has already begun to wrap up the holiday season and here were in full swing. we're just looking at pictures live pictures from different parts of the orthodoxy around the world as you're speaking also of course from the christ the savior phaedra as well jackie thanks very much for let's just keep looking a little bit longer those pictures because you're seeing these from i believe inside the christ the savior cathedral in central moscow a lot of people will have been there of course are watching this broadcast or maybe

you're thinking of a trip there well this is one of the most spiritual days of the year and our correspondent. on surrogate brown from the russian icon museum will talk us through some of the service. we are still remembering to date so well you know it's a great question mark of the summer we will remember it's going to be one hundred years. since this article says second that his family was murdered so this we are entering a very much more real year. and we must remember our brothers and sisters in christ who are suffering right now as we speak of them at least we must remember that course we have the two great feasts of the nativity of christ which is celebrated because half of the orthodox church falls through reform to cover the koori and or the julian calendar as the cult and celebrate the nativity of december twenty fifth and half of the orthodox church. russia jerusalem serbia george george are

celebrated today but besides the author of the eastern orthodox church the oriental celebrates today so we have the syriac and the coptic christians in egypt to celebrate the feast of the nativity this night of we all must pray to god our coptic brothers and sisters in egypt or victims of violent attacks at our syria brothers and syria will be protected from any attack any terrorist attack this night the school. celebrated or. not this system of twenty fifth as in britain where i grew up somewhat off of the christian work which you just explained where this is a very interesting subject here we go into the calendar problem now. we have a problem with two roman calendars the julian and the gregorian but the julian calendar. is named after julius caesar who established

the calendar. as we know would put three hundred sixty five days and one leap year . that's known as the julian calendar so. it has a slight problem because it doesn't really account for some of the astronomical shifts so it begins to kind of slide away a little bit the problem you see in the for. centry when the feast of the nativity of christ was established it obviously existed in the church of rome and probably the latin churches of north africa in the third century it was unknown in the east actually originally. but then the christians decide it should we celebrate the date of the nativity of christ because the gospel doesn't say when christ was born. we don't know in what sees them actually. pretty much traditionally selected. supposed to be celebrated in the day of the winter solstice.

so wonderful that the fourth century the winter solstice was around what today is january the seven. but over time it began to shift so basically. by the sixteenth century quite a bit off so in the sixteenth century pope gregory the thirteenth ordered for a new calendar to become reformed to be shifted in accordance with our better knowledge of astronomy and everything else a new calendar was instituted the gregorian calendar. the orthodox didn't really want to hear anything about the catholic innovation for a very long time but in the twentieth century they began to shift the calendar so now the orthodox church has part of your truck church celebrates christmas on december the twenty fifth so that's if you have any greek orthodox or romanian orthodox or bulgarian orthodox or syrian friends.

many of them. you should do wish them. every christmas ok we've just been listening to sergei braun surrogates an expert in russian or at midnight. incredible pictures there from one of russia's most iconic places of worship and one of the most important days in the religious how to. orthodoxy well so we will be going back there and also we'll be showing the entirety of the service on our website. surrogate will be back you can go to our t.v. dot com for more. shows seem wrong. just don't call. me. to say proud to stay active. engagement equals betrayal.

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ninety minutes into the program welcome back on in century new book about donald trump rocketed to the top of the bestsellers list this weekend fire and fury claims to reveal who the president really is and what it's like to be around him but it's been met with ridicule by trump himself. went to the best colleges for college i went to a 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 in one and then i hear this guy that does not know me doesn't know me at all 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 said his imagination. well the book quotes former

senior advisor to the us presidents the ban and one of the many people to exit the revolving white house to war last year on house calls quite the opera or among the mainstream media. if you are we've got a book to talk about here it is and all of gossipy details trumps rambling and his alarming repetitions had significantly increased he was no more than seventy literate when he has to be in the white house they took him to bed at six thirty it's not mental driving it adult day care center moron. he should not be pro going to make it he said these last is stuff well here's just a few claims made in the book it's written dysfunction in bed true or not so here it comes being taking a look at why the book is proving so popular have flocked to bookstores to get there 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 all the phone calls people in the store new

release crazy like it has been that fun and that hectic so why is it 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 it can be given to read 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. on our t. washington d.c. media legal analyst lionel told us why this is a goldson for 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 there's going to change. the members of the jewish community in france meanwhile say we don't feel safe in the country and that they regularly face anti semitic abuse concerns are also growing up the situation could worsen in the wake of. 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. they enjoy. radical islamists are can argue my chest i'm very scared for my family and myself. i'm scared of going outside and showing my face i'm forced to wear a camp every day to hide my keeper. 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. we can be the world's and we don't mind but when we are hurt by your knife.

you can be mine many families have decided to quit france altogether jews started leaving the country in record numbers 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 bags 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 all living. so. it's terrible that we say but they say that europe is continuing peace what it by what last month france's prime minister like knowledge the scale of the problem in our country anti 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 do will trump made the exclusive 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 r.t. sen song tinny. they were just about to go to break more r t programs ahead but just to remind you what you're looking at in the bottom of our screen you can choose to watch that r.t.d. dot com it is the christmas orthodox service happening at christ the savior cathedral in moscow the patriarch of russia is no overseeing that

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kaiser this is the kaiser report happy orthodox christmas you know a lot of people en masse are shopping over the holidays and apparently they're suffering a big debt hangover oh is. yes of course it's an orthodox christmas day and that's why you look like a christmas present there. you could take the hat off. because

that is not a new shank and i want to bring that up because moscow today while we record this thirty six degrees raleigh where we are is twenty three degrees and this isn't fahrenheit and this should that be the case we should not be having a polar vortex is or more to seas or whatever however you plural.