agnes. supporters of the iranian government hold a fourth day 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 say a threat to international peace and security the security council should not discuss the issues of any country or its human rights issues the u.n. security council that america's request holds an emergency meeting over the situation in iran but sometimes there's think it's an internal issue for toronto. one person reportedly died on saturday as that saudi led coalition is apparently continuing its bombing campaign in yemen despite a humanitarian outcry. on sunday is christmas for many orthodox christians

around the world including russians these are pictures from christ the savior cathedral the center of orthodox christianity in moscow. thank you for watching the headlines here at r.t. international broadcasting live from moscow. a fourth day 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 come in response to a seven day uprising triggered by poor living conditions that engulfed over eighty cities.

oh. 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 do with its own internal affairs well that sentiment was echoed by a number of other members of 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. given the last few days in iran may be they do not constitute per se the 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. the 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 us. and 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 been quizzed about washington 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 to me iranian people have suffered under this regime we do not support transitions of power but we do support peaceful transition of power. when we discuss the events in iran with political analysts should be a house and ali he says america helped to ferment the on the rest 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 they were 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 the chase e.p.o. way have been flagrantly abused the day j c p o j c p oh it was signed america turned around and put some new sanctions on iran which is ridiculous. and inflammatory new book about donald trump has 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 being met with skepticism from the white house and with ridicule by trump himself. position is very clear that we think it is full of false and fake information we went to the best colleges for college i went to 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 beat 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 ballmer and one of many people to exit the revolving white house door last year and it's caused quite an uproar in the mainstream media buyer for your we've got a book to talk about here it is and all of gossipy details trumps rambling and as alarming repetitions had significantly increase he was no more than seventy rhetoric when he has to be in the white house they took him to bed at six thirty assuming the chair of there is not mentally fit you cannot do this job running adult daycare center moron and he should not be president he's not going to make it

he said these last is stuff and here are just a few off the books claims apparently donald trump found the white house don't think that his own behavior contributed to washington's dysfunction it also asserts that the us leader himself is behind leaks of personal data and alleges that trump enjoys eating cheeseburgers in bed we asked people in washington if the book was on their reading list. 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 it a read on media and legal analyst lionel told us why the book is a godsend to 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 drum love him that these going to change. the rollercoaster ride for bitcoin seems to be on the off again after a recent slump of almost forty percent it's currently hovering at the seventeen thousand dollars mark after hitting highs of twenty thousand last year and here's a quick reminder of the journey so far. but cohen 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 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 bowls for quick profits a flurry of sales collapsed the price left many with crippling debt. is being called the digital shoes of the twenty first century as the same pattern emerges fear of missing out in new investors piling in critics say the perceived value of the currency like the cheer label is being counted out of thin air the ever growing army of bitcoin believers say it's here to stay open racial market in full flow around the clock and 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. with the size of

the bitcoin market already set passing some countries economies seen in the included the winchell banks are being left behind but as history shows us boom is usually followed by bust so a bit coin about to wilt. well some people have struck it rich with the coach will currency internet entrepreneurs the winklevoss twins they have massed a billion dollar fortune while this teenager is now a millionaire after investing a small sum from this crown mother a few years ago and the man who said to have created the sign but currency reportedly holds around seventeen billion dollars worth but it's not been plain sailing for everybody one man accidentally threw away thousands of bit coins when his hard drive broke in twenty thirteen and a hungry customer paid ten thousand big koreans 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 bitcoins to someone involved in illegal drugs well for more on the pros and cons my colleague neil harvey heard from some financial commentators i am sure it is or will in fact is probably the biggest problem 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 it is going to come down even faster record is not a bubble because it actually is the pin that's the pin that's part of popping the legacy financial systems bubble. over a printing of money. over valuation of a stock that the beauty of it the supporters say stay centralized it's everything that. you know the big quite 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 records and you can use block change for anything what about the i don't have a consensus the larger white sheet 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 right of is the one that's most trustworthy you know the small if you have a block in your pocket and not have a sense of what model algorithm work and. you don't have any miners and you don't have any consensus that doesn't mean a thing that's a really really slow day that blood 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 the big client 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 that i could buy gold out of this guy and i got a patch 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 dangerous is that you know what people all remote getting and spending savings on but look it is very dangerous for people with head as it is 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 then 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's apparently behind the attack after this short break. what politicians do something to. put themselves on the lawn. to get accepted or

rejected. so when you want to be president. some want to be. that you'd like to be close to see what the form of the more people. interested always in the water. there should. be. welcome back one person has reportedly been killed and at least three more injured in a suspected saudi led air strikes in yemen it took place in the early hours of saturday morning hitting a busy market in the northern province of sada it's the second such attack in yemen

in the ready this year on january the first more than twenty people were killed in a strike on the key port city of data. gotta look at afghanistan and iraq. the un has announced it's allocating an unprecedented fifty million dollars to yemen try to alleviate the humanitarian crisis the organization says it's deeply concerned by the desperate situation in the country who are broadcasting you haven't in twenty fifteen has claimed the lives of more than ten thousand people

twenty two million are said to be in need of urgent. and it's not just human rights organizations who are 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 coercing a graphic novel about the country. the book touches upon 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 lara silvia better area outline to us her motivations for writing news there haim of the book the yemeni bride is sort rocked their audience and specially also young people to to yemen some of them they don't know exactly where yemenis in them up some of them the heard about yemen all the buying news by yemen is a country you need to know from inside and where we decide to do with this case also to tell good stories about cook system so people inside the country we wish her to tell something for example about the reason why terrorism analyst cards are spread around the country or why some horrible car that aren't into her eyes is for example in yemen and you can tell this also and specially let 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 is 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 you and then. on. the. twenty seventeen wasn't an easy year for this channel r.t. was labeled a propaganda machine and foreign agents by the u.s. government and also accused of influencing the u.s. electorate to vote for donald trump but our reporters america on a may have found a sober lining let's be honest twenty seventeen was the year our team made the headlines as opposed to just reporting the headlines now it all started about a year ago when the u.s. intelligence community concluded that russia interfered in the us presidential election while providing not a shred of evidence to substantiate any of these claims and nearly half of the report was dedicated to r.t.e. explaining how we supposedly sway the election in trump's favor artie's criticism of the us election was the latest facet of its broader and longer standing and to

us messaging likely aimed to undermining viewers trust in you. democratic procedure is and on the cutting us criticism of russia's political system fast forward to march twenty seventh team senator shaheen introduces a bill to investigate b. russian propaganda outlet r.t. news as a foreign agent the foreign agents registration act was passed back in the late one nine hundred thirty s. and response to concerns about nazi propaganda i think is absolutely appropriate today for us to take a look at what russia and other countries may be doing to our news and since then switch on any congressional hearing and you'll probably hear our team mention once or twice propaganda machine contributed to the influence campaign by serving as a platform for criminal messaging using russian government funded outlets russian propaganda media outlets like r t we should be concerned about this propaganda arm r t and sputnik i think it's

a propaganda arm of nato to be looking in responding to some of the russian propaganda in a different way and then tech giants joined in starting with google who removed r t from you tube premium advertising service even though they didn't find proof of any violations going on to twitter who conducted their own investigation on russian meddling and then cited that to ban r t ads that's despite the fact that before the election twitter themselves sent us a multi-million dollar advertising proposal to propel our election coverage next thing you know r.t. america forced to register as a foreign agent or risk arrest and have all assets frozen in the united states it tells someone to register under a foreign agent requirement we don't see impacts or affect the ability of them to. report. news and information we just have the register it's as simple as that but soon after that we were stripped of our congressional press credentials

precisely because of the foreign agent status and of course the state department dodged my questions when i asked them about it when our t. was forced to register as a foreign agent and you said that it would inhibit our ability to report however just a couple weeks ago our press credentials were revoked so doesn't this contradict your earlier statement i think press credentials may have been revoked by congress and not necessarily the members of congress but rather the association of reporters that handles who gets to come in and cover congress and last but not least the n d a or this year's defense bill which contains a provision that will allow cable networks to cancel contracts with any network quote owned controlled or financed by the government of the russian federation prior to that federal law made it illegal for them to drop our teeth but now they'll apparently be allowed to do so so seems the us government is closing in on us from every direction possible and as a result all eyes are on our t.v.

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