with at least twenty one people killed. and even images of. new hope emerges for a possible deescalation of the crisis. talks for the first time in years. on the streets of paris. to find a solution before the end of. the program we hear story.

twenty four lives this week. the top stories for the first week of twenty eight welcome to the weekly. this week has seen a series of mass rallies in iran both for and against the country's government began with protests over the economic situation in the country but. first political violent with twenty one people killed in clashes.

since the protests started washington has been openly supporting the anti-government activists and ignoring the mass rallies in support of iran's leadership of the u.s. also a cold for an emergency un security council meeting over the situation in iran and other members of the body doubted that internal political unrest in iran is a matter of international security. 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 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 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 the 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 know that you know. that iran deal with its own internal problems since this is precisely what is taking place. in the energy of the security council. the fact that we get wholly turns around and says. you know we could we're seeing in inverted commas serious situation in iran this is not going to happen this is a pipe dream iran is aware and the experience is that the world faced with the

whole crisis in syria which was externally instigated. learnt secondly. the government of iran the system of islamic revolution the islamic establishment in iran is not something that was imposed on the people for a military coup or through a dictatorship or anything like this the people came out overwhelmingly in support of this revolution very knew what was about they understood what america had done to iran. and i now has more on our washington's rather selective approach when it comes to addressing protests outside the u.s. . when they ask for a better economy when they ask for the government to spend money on their own country as opposed to terror exploits overseas or in other countries sure we would certainly do when they say that to you i support mat i'm not going to go i'm not

going to see that's why you're trying to trap me into something like that i'm not going to go there to try that is no that is not our that is not our policy but we hear what the iranian people are saying poverty corruption and economic uncertainty have the potential to trigger protests in the world over. and they can quickly turn ugly. but the international reaction to such unrest seems to depend on the country and question this is the precise picture of a long oppressed people rising up against their dictators so with all the fun you know i mean in any country people can protest against high prices but when have a such the most russians happen in our country opponents of the establishment come out and support them and some western leaders are barely able to contain their enthusiasm for regime change and are rushing to throw their weight behind the demonstrators we are now seeing an organic popular uprising organized organized by brave iranian citizens on the largest scale since two thousand and nine the greats

of rain young people have been repressed for many years they're hungry for food for freedom along with human rights the wealth of iran is being looted song for change it is essential that western powers. were convicted in the. american time of the west of the powers. back in the arena. because it's only with their backing that being the iranian people feel secure and can go all the way to securing their freedom in the of the previous regime but we've seen where this apparent pro-democracy fervor can lead. to. the american president says he supports the protesters but these protests are not protests against the government these kinds of demonstrations happen in any country and they are against rising prices but each time these demonstrations happen we see

that the authorities opponents use them for their own purposes the majority in iran i believe want evolution not revolution or. spring style which has brought so much suffering elsewhere on the other hand the west seems oddly quiet about the massive rallies that are being held across iran in support of the government to. the root of it is just a canard it's the problem of youth unemployment i personally haven't been able to find a job for a long time but if people have a job they don't have any problem with the government of course most of iran's economic problems are domestically generally but another reason why investment and thus you jobs have been slow in coming is that contrary to their obligations under the nuclear agreement western countries notably the united states have not taken sufficient steps to facility normal financial flows when it

comes to iran the west says it's listening but clearly selectively as co-opting democracy for its own ends is a difficult habit to break and it's going to artsy london now as the protests in iran began to gain more international attention a number of fake images were circulated widely on social media for example the following tweet shows a photo of a woman well attacking police officers with the caption iran but it turned out to be a screenshot from an iranian movie and after being exposed the man who posted to claimed it was supposed to be symbolic and a video which gained thousands of views and was said to show up march in iran was later proven to be of a protest in bahrain in twenty eleven other fakes were perhaps less clear one post claimed to show the uprising when it was actually showing a photo of a pro government rally. well hopes for

a diplomatic resolution to the north korean crisis now possibly in sight after the country agreed to hold formal talks with its neighbor south korea ahead of the winter olympic games but didn't didn't take long though for the u.s. president to take credit for the possible crisis deescalation a lot of people have said a lot of people have written that without my rhetoric and without my tough stance and such a stance i mean this is this is what has to be done if it has to be done that they wouldn't be talking about olympics that they wouldn't be talking right there this week and it was confirmed that in a few days north and south korea will meet for their first official talks in two years at the meeting on the ninth of january will discuss the upcoming winter olympics in south korea it was also hoped it will address recent tensions in the region it will be held in a so-called peace village in the demilitarized zone on the border between the two countries now another diplomatic breakthrough this week sold north korea reopen a telephone hotline with the south that had been closed since twenty sixteen and on

thursday the u.s. president finally accepted souls' request to postpone joint military drills during the olympics despite the u.s. taking credit for a potential deescalation of the crisis at the dean for the law school tom brooks things the white house only is making things worse. moves to have dialogue between north and south korea didn't start a year ago when trump was elected president they've been going on for some time and i think you know the white house has probably something close to nothing to do with this with these steps i think this is something by the efforts of others and not of him i think the white house and help this progress happen to the white house has really done a lot to endanger it and i think it's

a credit to both sides the north and south korea that they've got to stick to open talks to open dialogue and one only hopes for the sake of the people who live on the korean peninsula that some good comes out of that irrespective of what tweets come out of from donald trump but despite progress being made on the diplomatic front donald trump doesn't pull any punches when it comes to his twitter exchanges with the north korean leader this week of the insults reached a new level after the u.s. president bragged about the size of his nuclear button and it seems that science really does matter to donald trump. look at those hands are they small i. referred to my hands if they're small something else post baseball i guarantee you this is no problem. i have the biggest crowds big. standing ovations best the best in the world the greatest

health care plan very very successful i would build the greatest world you have ever seen i happen to be underrated by the way. overhead bragging about who has the bigger butt got the big. bragging about the size of your. eye. as a first week of twenty eighteen comes to a close thousands of migrants are stood on the street so france waiting for

a pub and shelter french president vowed to clear the streets of rough sleeping migrants by the end of twenty seventeen but this promise seems to a fault. the first battle is to house everybody in a dignified manner but then of the year women and men in the streets in the woods last. well arty's a charlatan once again spoke to migrants living in these rough conditions as they wait to start a new life in france a new year may have begun but for these my clients the problem is still the same ahead is yet another freezing night on the streets of paris. president said he wanted to resolve the problem by the end of the year it's not resolved in the neighborhood there are another thirty camps which are settled like this and these migrants are seeking asylum and there is a problem with violence between the people who are waiting in the queue at the reception center because they want to be the first who spoke to the senate but it's

not the fault of the migrants it's the fault of the system is poorly organized which has posed problems for two years is completely dysfunctional and creates a situation of confrontation and violence people have been injured at the reception office the people are angry at the situation because it continues in the same way and because there is no solution. one of those waiting to find a way off the streets is rafi he's been in france for seven months. you look everybody. about. water but you know. one one just one one. this is my life. and this man i knew three people sleep good reason for the story. is this the life you thought you would have moved. across france thousands of migrants and living in

similar conditions all hand to mouth summer found shelter in tents along the canals and streets of paris others in the metro stations all a just looking for a place to call home in the last two years more than forty thousand migrants have set up camp metro station. and this is why they come it's a reception center where migrants can register to possibly start a new life new products every day hundreds of scientists and just like this base just simply want cope with the demands despite a pledge that no migrants would be sleeping rough by the end of two thousand and seventeen president marc bolan has failed to keep his promise and migrants across the country see no end in sight to their suffering. r.t.

paris. just a week into the new year and yemen of the arab world's poorest country has already seen a second suspected saudi led coalition air strike in twenty eighteen according to a local media one person was killed at least three more injured the strike took place in the early hours of saturday morning hitting a busy market in the northern province of solder on the first of january more than twenty people were killed in a suspected strike on those on the key port city of data. i am poor. i suffer from the cold. i was given. some

people to warm up on the. right on the sidewalk. but it is you know. the area where once the gear but now we have no health or blanket. people sleeping or not. saudi arabia is in coaching and yemen is now in its third year and the devastating war has killed more than ten thousand people displaced more than three million saudi led airstrikes have obliterated much of the conferees infrastructure and the blockade has left around twenty million people in dire need of food and medical aid a saudi arabia temporarily reopened to keep order in yemen to allow in supplies of food and fuel and we discussed the situation with representatives from human rights watch on the red cross. far as we know that this is to reopen the quote of the day

that's temporarily. florimond slow but importantly or crucially these should be no thirty day window because that's what the coalition said i mean it has been emphasized repeatedly by the whole human rights and humanitarian community that the port of poti that needs to be opened to commercial and humanitarian goods full stop should be no condition or timeline to that i mean keeping such goods blocked and therefore endangering the lives of civilians including women and children this is a violation of international humanitarian law you have to remember that human is a country that depends on imports ninety percent of its needs are from imports so when you have three years sitting war when you have restrictions on imports when people cannot have enough to eat and to feed their families every day this is when you see the bigger picture of things when you look at twenty four million people who are deprived of the basic commodities that we all have free access to

and the fact that this is handled by the restrictions on the arrival of goods humanitarian aid but most importantly actually commercial goods are more important than humanitarian aid because you cannot feed a population of twenty seven million people just by providing humanitarian aid. israel is ready to offer african immigrants money to get them out of the country but if they disagree they could face jail the israeli prime minister has labeled them infiltrators and says force will be used if they don't comply. show with we're doing something here that is completely illegal and completely essential infiltrators have a clear choice cooperate with us and leave voluntarily respectively humanely and legally will have to use other legal tools disposal i hope the cheese to cooperate with us us and others migrants who voluntarily agreed to leave by the end of march

of being promised a three and a half thousand dollars and a plane ticket they have the option of returning to their home country or going to a third one the alternative is incarceration now officials estimate that around sixty thousand migrants have crossed the border from egypt since two thousand and five and a third of those have already been deported of those that remain nearly one and a half thousand they're being held in detention centers and one of the centers is hollow out which some refer to as an open air prison. the whole lot i just exist it's not a normal life to live in a lot is not easy ten people sleep in one room you have to queue to take a shower to do anything the doctor is only here from one to three there's only one doctor for about twelve hundred people why did i leave eritrea because eritrea is

a dictatorial country i couldn't live there you cannot do anything that you work there like a slave for them it's all you can do you can only call it slavery and first i didn't choose to come to israel i didn't think about anything i just wanted to see where there's peace where i can take care of myself where i can protect myself where israeli authorities say most of the migrants came for economic reasons this by the fact that they claim to have fled persecution and war at home as soon as the deportation plan appeared at the un refugee agency reminded israel about its duty to protect those who need it and we have two guests to discuss the issue. and not refugees they're criminals who crossed the border illegally not all man but you can talk about this solemn seekers when the people come from that conflict or not the contrary to save their lives they how well they they have done quite

a long way they didn't want to stay in egypt for example for some reason they crossed for via so done via egypt they came to use rail they're not refuges not they salim seacrest they want to benefit from our rich from merciful society they are looking for rescue in their spirit didn't do anything possible to save their lives some of them of course behaved fine and they've made it here that the government of the world pays each one of them thirty five hundred dollars puts them in the nature of the environment to whatever they are from or close to there i think israel must be admired and praised by everybody by doing so how we face the problem so-called problem of some city seven thousand asylum seekers refugees who lift part of them have children here

they should stay here they have to stay you know human the regime would expend and if it is going to expel them by force it will be one of the most shocking step ever taken note less than this. name instead of thanking israel for the years they spent here earned money and were treated by the way by israeli medicine which is one of the best in the world instead of faking they walk they're going to protest they're going to do it and then they can't come back but by the way of stories wherever they are they're welcome everybody is welcome but you have to keep the law they broke the law they're not refugees they're not asylum seekers they wanted to. no profit what they've done is provided through time it's also good tools things to fix and the fact is the rate of those migrants is march lower than the everett rate of crime in israel it's not true oh

it's absolutely no news for all of those. data false statement i'm not going to speak as though because this man is interrupting eighty percent over there in three or in europe are recognized as refugees it is less than one percent how can you call it but racism how could you quote it but. sunday is christmas for orthodox christians all around the world including here in russia and worship was. christ the savior cathedral in moscow the city's center of orthodox christianity. jaclyn to grasp. by 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 fifth for orthodox christians due to an issue of calendars and for them this is a holiday that has

a focus on religion just behind me you can see the cathedral of christ the savior where crowds have been pouring into attended services there actually being held by the head of russia's orthodox church patriarch heal and as the people have been coming to attend 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. which is my family always meets a christmas so it's a family holiday for me and wanted to bring my son with me when he went to sleep early i'm him behalf of my family and i will. for them. i have always dreamt of celebrating this holiday at christ the savior cathedral and my dream has come true i may start crying now. so while the majority of the western world is finally winding down for the holiday season orthodox christians all over the world are

still in full swing celebrating christmas day. the eyes of the world are so to be on the make and model and prince harry is they tie the knot later this year however earlier this week one official went a bit too far with the royal wedding preparations he called on the police to remove beggars from the streets of windsor ahead of the big day something that hasn't gone down too well with the public. prince harry and megan muckle. prince harry got in. touch and behind the way they still have yeah i know they have.

sadly there is an epidemic of rusli ping in vagrancy in windsor the whole situation presents a beautiful town in a sadly on favorable light. it's absolutely up forums that anybody has got these views in this day and age especially a meeting councillor of the bar. so a summary of top stories after the first week of twenty eight seen the weekly we're talking about half an hour this is r t international and thank you for joining us.

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