supporters of the iranian government hold a full stay of rallies to denounce the uprising that swept across the country and left at least twenty one people dead. however worrying the events of the last few days in iran may be they do not constitute per se but threat to international peace and security the security council should not discuss the internal issues of any country towards human rights issues the un security council at america's request to hold an emergency meeting over the situation in iran but the initiative is criticized by some members who say it's an internal issue for terror on. one person reportedly died on saturday as the saudi led

coalition is a party continuing its bombing campaign in yemen despite a humanitarian outcry. on sunday is christmas for many also don't christians around the world and not includes russia these are the pictures from across the say because seadrill the center of all sit ups christianity in moscow. this is actually international coming to you live from moscow i'm kate partridge thank you for joining us. a full state of mass pro-government rallies has been held in iran tens of thousands of people have been on marches to show their support for the country's leaders these common response to a seven day uprising triggered by poor living conditions that engulfed over eighty cities.

that was. 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 saying that terror on should be left alone to deal with its own internal affairs well that sentiment was echoed by a number of other members on the security council in the past week what has happened on the ground throughout the nation of iran is something the world must take note of. the events of the last few days in iran may be they do not constitute . 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 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 delegation 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 this. letter iran deal with its own internal problems since this is precisely what is taking place. in the energy of the security council. the iranian foreign minister shared his views on the meeting he called it a foreign policy blunder by the trumpet ministration meanwhile america's top

diplomat rex tillerson has being quizzed about washington's support for the iranian antigovernment 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 mirai and people have suffered under this regime we do not support transitions of power but we do support peaceful transition of power. we discuss the events in iran with political analyst shelby a cousin ali he says america helped to foment the youngest the reality is that many of the people who've been arrested off from feeling 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 chain c.p.o. way have been flagrantly abused the day j.c. p.o. we just saw in america turned around and put some new sanctions on iran which is a ridiculous. and inflammatory new book about donald trump has rocketed to the top of the bestsellers list this weekend far and few a 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 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's in his imagination. well the book quotes the president's former senior adviser steve plamann one of many people to exit the revolving white house door last year how has caused quite an uproar in the mainstream media buyer and you're we've got a book to talk about here it is and all of gossipy details trumps rambling and is 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 in the chair is not mentally fit you can't do this job driving adult day care center moron and he should not be president he's not going to make it he said he's lost is

stuff well here are just a few of the books claims apparently donald trump found at the white house daunting and that his own behavior contributed to washington's dysfunction it also asserts that it was the us leader himself who was behind leaks of personal data and alleges that trump enjoys eating cheeseburgers in bed so miracle i mean taking a look at why the book is proving so popular. readers have been promised an inside look into the q c a scandals of the trumpet ministration and liberals all over the country have flocked to bookstores to get their hands on a copy and president trump's 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 inferi inside the trunk white house has been the book of the day the question of the day i mean just says it's all we're doing and 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 biassed 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 it a read however the author's 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 protrudes 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 syriac on our t. washington d.c. . and media and legal analyst model told us why the book is a godsend 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 digest low hanging fruit it's perfect for them what effect is it going to have absolutely nothing the people who hate dr hate him the people who love dr love him that these going to change. sunday is christmas for many orthodox christians

around the world including in russia worshippers have gathered to midnight services at christ the savior cathedral in moscow the city center of orthodox christianity jacqueline duca has more. quite the cold it's an extremely warm and silver tory atmosphere here on the streets of moscow where this is one of the holiest days of the year being recognized christmas day the holiday falls on january the seventh and not december the twenty fourth of us christians due to an issue of calendars and for them this is a whole day that has a focus on religion just behind me you can see the cathedral of christ the savior the crowds have been pouring into attend those services that are actually being held by the head of russia's orthodox church patriarch keel and as the people have been coming to tell the services we have talked to you about what the holiday means to them let's take a listen just first of all 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 that she

see me that what you did which is my family always meets a christmas so it's a family holiday for me and once it's a bring my son with me when he went to sleep early i'm a on behalf of my family and i will pray for them disagree as to which one you use god places and the soul of every person who's a small. i wish want everyone to hold on to their humanity and be kind and loving to each other but the closeness of the use of what i have always dreamt of celebrating this holiday it christ the savior and my dream has come true and i may start crying now. 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 here word full swing of. the roller coaster ride for bitcoin seems to be on the up again after a recent slump of almost forty percent it's currently hovering at the seventeen

thousand dollar mark up to hitting highs of twenty thousand last year here's a quick reminder of the journey so far. bitcoin has hit a financial milestone not reached in almost four centuries it's taken over the title of biggest bubble in history for what was known as shoot mania in the netherlands. value has surged by around sixty times in the last three years that's considerably faster than shoot bulbs in the seventeenth century which were at one point worth ten years of a skilled craftsman. back then prices were driven by greed or a fear of missing out but as more people bought into the bulbs for quick profits a flurry of sales collapsed the price and left many with crippling debts cohen is being called the digital of the twenty first century as the same pattern emerges that fear of missing out in new investors piling in critics say the perceived value

of the currency like that surely is being counted out of the ever growing army of bitcoin believe is sorry it's here to stay operational market in full flow around the clock a new places all over the world ready to accept the crypto currency as payment even a church in london is happy to accept donations of the virtual kind with the size of the bitcoin market already set passing some countries economies seen in the included influential banks are being left behind but as history shows us is usually followed by bust so it's bitcoin about to wilt. well some people have struck it rich with the virtual currency internet entrepreneurs for which the when cost twins have amassed a billion dollar fortune while this teenager is now a millionaire after investing a small sum from his grandmother a few years ago and the man who said to have created the slide becoming c reportedly holds around seventeen billion dollars worth but has not been plain

sailing for everybody one man accidentally threw away thousands of bitcoins when his hard drive broke in twenty thirteen and a hungry customer paid ten thousand bitcoins for two pizzas a few years ago which is worth one hundred sixty million dollars today or ten million a slice and this person was jailed for money laundering after he sold his bitcoin to someone involved in illegal drugs well for more on the pros and cons we heard from some financial commentators. i am sure that it all 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 quite took a rocket ship up and it's going to come down even faster because it is 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 stocks and 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 big 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 fundamental consensus the logic of life she is the only one that large is the largest block sort of the only one that matters the one that does the most no it doesn't the most people the life of is the one that's most trustworthy you know the small if you're going to block trade 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 book 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 out of this guy and i got

a pack full dot com and i could buy gold at this guy go buy gold at sixty percent off with bitcoin the situation we're in now dangerous is that you know what people all remote getting and spending savings on but look it is very dangerous for people what is it is that terry you think they're going to get rich quick because right now the only reason that people are buying big coin is because the prices going up and what it turns around that they're going to be selling it for the same reason. a fresh air strike in yemen has left one person dead and several injured we'll tell you who was apparently behind the attack after the short break. and. our.

politicians to do something to. put themselves on the line. to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president if you. want to be. if you'd like to be this is what before. people get. interested always in the water out. there.

welcome back one person has reportedly been killed and at least three more injured in a suspected saudi led as strike in yemen it took place in the early hours of saturday morning hitting a busy market in the northern province of saga it's the second such attack in yemen in twenty eighteen on january the first more than twenty people were killed in an airstrike on the key port city of. you're. going to. get a look at afghanistan and iraq. the u.n. has announced it's allocated an unprecedented fifty million dollars to yemen to try

to alleviate the humanitarian crisis the organization says it's deeply concerned by the desperate situation in the country war broke out in yemen in twenty fifteen and has claimed the lives of more than ten thousand people twenty two million are said to be in need of urgent help are they 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 and italian journalist has become part of the dr cold war throwing a graphic novel about the country.

well a book touches upon the many aspects of life in traditional yemeni society it also looks at the civil war saudi arabia's intervention in the conflict and the problem of terrorism and allowed us sylvia but lying to us her 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 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 who we decide to do with this case 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 juries menal qaeda and spread around the country or why some part of al qaeda target into high seas for example

in yemen and you can told is also an specially led the people seeing with the drawings what i so as a witness. living conditions in the beleaguered country are getting worse and all areas of the economy are suffering we heard from a number of fishermen about how their livelihoods have been affected by the war. you're. nothing more 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 think 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.

this is the devastation and i've been a tiger both on the islands and it seems they have shot up several boats and killed the crews and the gears sank and they died because of that tax and aggression against yemen. on. members of the jewish community and france say they don't feel safe in the country and that they regularly face anti semitic 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. same song used to be a whole lot of the jewish community in france but it's a hot 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 it's hacked they

enjoy it. radical islamists in 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. not all of these attacks made the headlines and according to one jewish organization they are just the tip of the iceberg every day of people that every day there are people inserted we can't be helped by worlds and we don't mind but when we are hurt by a knife. gun. you can be. many families have decided to quit from school together jews started leaving the country in record numbers back in two thousand and fifteen following a terror attack on a 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 but the kids. know in france. and there is also a problem in europe there are almost no juvenile the old living. so. it's terrible that we think but they see that europe is continuing this is what. i wore last month france's prime minister i can see 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 a life and it hides always behind new mosques attempts to justify itself through diverse reasons that statement just came a few days off to donald trump made the explosive decision to recognize jerusalem as the capital of israel a decision triggering anti israel protests across europe and laying the ground for more semantic attacks. jollity even ski r.t. sen song dinny. all about with the latest headlines in just over half an hour meanwhile for more on all of our stories.

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yes didn't i welcome to twenty eighteen we did that we did. was we would make it but we got to the final new year's this is exciting so something you guys got depressed on. it's kind of a rough you know if that if that guy had done we're in trouble. but here we are here we are we got it we made it it was kind of a rough year not a lot to celebrate you know with our slimy con artist president with his head so far up and he's he's getting to fracking a levels really he's so deep now i mean you get deep enough you can find new forms of fuel in there so i think he he's so far off his own he's causing minor earthquakes and nearby towns. but i want to make

this segment about the good news from last year i actually did see a lot of hope and promise and success in the past year i mean. not enough to beat the misery and despair but still it was up there was something to start with the obvious good news the obvious ones chelsea manning was released in two one who said they. could hear you if you continue to be a voice for in quality and justice also the first set of jays twenty defendants were found not. sure there were further more marijuana is now legal in california which is one. which is one of the larger economies in the world and no that doesn't mean the fight to keep it out of corporate hands is over and no it doesn't mean everybody already arrested for having a joint is released instantly but this is still a big step for

a number of reasons let's go through a few of them let's start with freedom have i prayed on you should be. ok to smoke i'll join you on your patio in your underwear in this so-called free country plant a plant that makes a lot of people mildly happy all right. then no no we can't have that you you could wave a gun around and threaten to kill people at an elementary school bake sale that's fine that's fine but you can't eat a pot rice krispie treat that makes you act not like a. like we have attorney in this country are cup runneth over with writing so why do you think that decrease is good grase you go should be supported and cheered on and probably subsidized ok ok. let's say some of that money that we dump into war and factory farming or congressional so.