and tried this special project reveals what was missed in the media coverage. of the panama chronicles. supporters of the arabian government hold a full stay of raw is 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 that's a threat to international peace and security to the security council should not discuss the issues of any country towards human rights issues the un security council at america's request holds an emergency meeting over the situation in iraq but sometimes think it's an internal issue for terror on. one person reportedly died on saturday as the saudi led coalition is apparently continuing its bombing campaign in yemen despite

a humanitarian outcry. and sunday is christmas for many orthodox christians around the world including russians these are pictures from christ the savior cathedral the center of paul set ups christianity here in moscow . thank you for watching the headlines here at r.t. international broadcasting live from moscow ok partridge. a fourth day of mass pro-government rallies has been held in iran tens of thousands of people have been on launches 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. but.

that. it was. on friday night the united nations security council that 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. however worrying the events of 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 security council 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 this. letter iran deal with its own internal problems since this is precisely what is taking place. in the energy of the security council. well 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's support for the arabian 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 well 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 analysts shall be a hoss and ali he says america helped to ferment the young rust 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. . was signed america turned around and put some new sanctions on iran which is ridiculous. now an inflammatory new book about donald trump has rocketed to the top of the bestsellers list this weekend five and theory claims to reveal who the president really is and what it's like to be around him but it's been met with skepticism from the white house and was ridiculed by trump himself position is very clear that we think it is full of false and fake information went to the best colleges the 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 that 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 bannon one of many people to exit via 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 is 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 in the chair is not mentally fit you can't do this job running adult daycare center

moron. 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 the white house daunting and 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 biased 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 a series i can be given to read media and legal analyst lionel 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 trump hate him the people who love trump love him now these going to change. the roller coaster ride for a bit coin seems to be on the up again after a recent slump of almost forty percent and 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.

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 is earning 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 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 the chip is being counted out of the ever growing army of bitcoin believers say 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 surpassing some countries economies included influential banks are being left behind but as history shows us is usually followed by bust so is bitcoin about to wilt. well some people have struck it rich with the currency internet entrepreneurs the winklevoss 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 cyber car in c. reportedly holds around seventeen billion dollars worth but it's not been plain sailing for everybody one man accidentally threw away thousands of bitcoins when his hard drive broke in twenty thirteen and the 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 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 their 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 from milieu where the psychology that surrounds them you know because it took a rocket ship up it is going to come down even faster record is not a bubble bricklin actually is the pin that's the pin that's part popping the legacy financial systems bubble. over printing of money. over valuation of the beauty of the supporters say stay centralized it's everything that you know the vid 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 anybody what about the fundamental consensus the larger white sheet is the only way 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've got a block in your pocket and not have a sense of well. model algorithm work meaning you don't have any minors or you don't have a consensus that doesn't mean a thing it'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 a bit quiet to make it worth seventeen thousand dollars if i have one big point what could i use it for what could i do with it you could buy anything has that effect the i could buy gold at this got i got a patch for dot com and i could buy gold at this i go buy gold a sixty percent off with the situation we're in now how dangerous is it you know

what people are really mortgaging and spending savings on but it could look it is very dangerous but what is it is terry you think they're going to get rich quick because right now the only reason that people are buying big quite is because the prices going up and what it turns around they're going to be selling it for the same reason. 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 saddam is the second such attack in yemen already this year on january the first more than twenty people were killed in a strike on the key port city of data. you're.

going to. get a look at afghanistan and iraq. well the u.n. has announced it's allocating an unprecedented fifty million dollars to yemen to try to alleviate the humanitarian crisis the organization says it's. a 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 others. 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 coles ring a graphic novel about the country.

well the book touches upon many aspects of life in traditional yet when he society he also looks at the civil war saudi arabia's intervention in the conflict and the problem of terrorism. outlined to us 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 buying news by

yemen is a country you need to know from inside and we decided to do dispute case also to tell good stories about cooksey sense of people inside the country we wish had to tell something for example about the reason why turkey's middle canada and spread around the country or why some part of al qaeda target into high it is 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. 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 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 in the sea 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. now twenty seventeen wasn't an easy if this channel r.t. was labeled a propaganda machine and a foreign agent by the u.s. government and also accused of influencing the u.s. electorate to vote for donald trump but our reporters america and may have found us

over lighting let's be honest twenty seventeen was the year our team made the headlines as opposed to just reporting the headlines that 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 us procedure democratic. sieges 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 the 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 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 moving 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 is 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 r t 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. so thank you for all of the free advertising samir han r. t. washington d.c. . i guess ations of russian interference in us politics seem to be all the rage that this isn't the first time the america has been gripped by anti russian hysteria.

german j. parnell thomas of new jersey all comes out in fiery unpassable commenters penetration of i want film industry to come into your city to determine if red party members have reached the screen with the first republican.

burrows the symbol the leader on the cover of the jackal. which is always found in the throat of anyone who dares to expose individuals coming the same to get off an evil one of your members are look at that it's a different empire max and i acknowledge we can donate to what a lot of our partners are being rich h.e.b. a man in europe plotting with lewinsky. if a person defends the activities of communist nations while consistently attacking the domestic and foreign policy of the. i don't think she may be a problem and i will say if they are objective they are now carrying out the desires and ambitions of lattimer putting. out. a bloodless coup engineered by russia with at best the traitorous indifference of

the republican party and donald john trump and the military apparatus of this country is about to be handed over to the stars who are beholden to sky russia and the. members of the jewish community in france say they don't feel safe in the country and that they regularly face 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 it's hacked they enjoy it's. stuck 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 but. not all of these attacks made the headlines and according to one jewish organization they just the tip of the iceberg every day people that every day that. we can be helped by words and we don't mind but when we are hurt by a knife. gun. you can be heard many families have decided to quit france all 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 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 that all living. through its story before they will say when they see that europe is continuing this is what . i wore 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 itself through diverse reasons that statement just came

a few days off the 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. now in syria are meant to be fighting fit in the army but these soldiers from spain are fighting found they'd been put on a crash diet after the military feared they damaged the unit's reputation for being a little too portly. i don't. think i've.

done has ended up in a situation that requires a series of measures to reduce excess weight among its personnel. i've. done.

well for on only stories think i saw c dot com otherwise i'll be back at the top of the hour with the headlines say that. los angeles the city of luxury and fame but also an alarming number of people living in the streets. the simple fact in l.a. is there's just not enough shelter even if people on the streets right now decided to come in there's nowhere to come in it's been a struggle. this man phoned 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're. someone wanted touring the site otherwise it'll be a free for all and this is there a better alternative to end the homelessness crisis. thanks guys or financial survival. when customers go buy your disappointing. well reducing lower. that's undercutting but what's good for market is not good for the global economy. eleven pm in the french quarters police station. the policemen using sydney's application are starting their shift.