iran is. with at least twenty one people killed. by the us north korea. nuclear. possible deescalation of the. thousands of migrants are still sleeping on the streets of paris. to find a solution before the end of twenty seven on the program we hear.

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

now since the protests started washington has been openly supporting the anti government activists and all the while ignoring the mass rallies in support of iran's leadership the us also cold for an emergency un security council meeting over the situation in iran but 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. however worrying given for the last few days in iran maybe 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 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. and 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 to be the system of islamic revolution the islamic establishment in iran is not something that was imposed on the people through a military coup or through a dictatorship or anything like this the people came out overwhelmingly in support of this revolution very knew what shahr was about they understood what america had done to iran. has more now one washington's rather selective approach when it comes to addressing protests outside of 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 like that to you i support matt 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 killed on the one you know i mean in any country people can protest against high prices but when have a such to muster ations 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 great a rainy and people have been repressed for many years they are hungry for food and for freedom along with human rights the will is being looted time for change it is essential that western powers. bring to. the west the power is. back in the arena. because it's only with their backing that being the iranian people. can go all the way securing their freedom 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. arab 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 new 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 facilitate 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 as the protests in iran began to gain international attention and number of fake images were circulated widely on social media the following tweet or shows a photo of a woman attacking police officers with the caption iran but it turned out to be a screenshot from an iranian film after being exposed the man who posted it claimed it was supposed to be symbolic and the video which again thousands of views and was said to show a march in iran was later proven to be a protest in bahrain from twenty eleven other fakes were perhaps less clear one post claimed to show the uprising when it was actually a photo of a pro government rally. hopes for

a diplomatic resolution to the north korean crisis perhaps now in sight after the country agreed to host to hold rather formal talks with its neighbors south korea head of the winter olympic games it didn't take long though for the u.s. president to take credit for the possible crisis deescalation 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 now this week it was confirmed that in a few days north and south korea will meet for their first official talks in two years the meeting on the ninth of january will discuss the upcoming winter olympics in south korea but it's 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 durham law school tom brooks things the white house is actually only made things worse. these 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 the efforts of others and not of him i think here to the white house and help this progress happen the white house has really done a lot to endanger it and i think it's

a credit to both sides in north and south korea that they've got to stick to open talks to open dialogue and 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 despite the progress being made on the diplomatic front donald trump has not pulled any punches when it comes to his twitter exchanges with the north korean leader this week the insults reached a new level after the u.s. president bragged about the size of his nuclear button and seems donald trump size really does matter. look at those hands are they small i. referred to my hands if they're smaller something else must be sprawled i guarantee you there's no problem. i have the biggest crowds. 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 it. made me feel a warhead bragging about who has the bigger but i have got the big you should be bragging about the size of your soul i. was the first week of twenty eighteen comes to an end thousands of migrants are still on the streets of france waiting for shelter and the french president vowed

to clear the streets of rough sleeping migrants by the end of twenty seventeen but it appears that promise perhaps as folding flat. the first battle is to house everybody in a dignified manner by the end of the year i want no more women and men in the streets or in the woods last. speaks to migrants living in these rough conditions as they wait to start a new life in for. a new year may have begun but for these my clients the problem is still the same ahead is yet another night on the streets of paris. president. 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 whose fault is that so 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's lips to him he had a very cordial about no forthcoming no water but there were about you know you know very well in here mark one hundred one one another one another this is my life. and this man i knew three people to put me through you know the story. is this the life you thought you would have to move. across france thousands of migrants and living in similar conditions all hand to mouth some have 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 at chavez metro station. and this is why they come it's a reception center where my kids can register to possibly start a new life new jobs every day hundreds queue up by citing centers like this and base just simply won't cope with the demands this. a pledge that no migrants would be sleeping rough and that she thousand and seventeen president might call and has failed to keep pace promise and my clients across the country see no end in sight to their suffering so that you can ski all to see paris and still to come

here on the program ought to be accepted pailful go to prison israel is offering african migrants money to leave the country details off the. one else chose seemed wrong. why don't we all just don't call. me. yet to shape out these days becomes active. and engaged in equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. join me every first week on the alex i'm unsure and i'll be speaking to get us to

the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then. it is good to have you with us today just a week into the new year and yemen the arab world's poorest country has already seen a second the saudi. bombing campaign of course in the first week of twenty eighteen according to local media one person was killed at least three more injured but the strike took place in the early hours of saturday morning hitting a busy market in the northern province of saddam and on the first of january more than twenty people were killed in an air strike on the key port city of hold data.

i have no tender and i suffer from the cold. i was given a place to sleep when some people to warm up on her sleep right on the sidewalk. there is no commentary around once a year maybe but now we have no help or blanket time fifteen people are sleeping or not.

saudi arabia's incursion in yemen is now in its third year the devastating war has killed more than ten thousand people in displaced more than three million in saudi led airstrikes have obliterated much of the country's infrastructure and the blockade is left around twenty million people in dire need of food and medical aid . saudi arabia temporarily reopened a key port in yemen to allow in supplies of food and fuel and we discussed the situation with a representative from the red cross yemen is a country that depends on imports ninety percent of its needs are from imports so when you have three years stating war when you have restrictions on imports and 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. accept a payoff or go to prison israel is offering african migrants money to get out of the country israeli prime minister has labeled them as infiltrators and says force will be used if they don't comply. show me something here that is completely illegal and completely essential infiltrators have a clear choice cooperate with us and leave voluntarily respectively humanely and legally all have to use other legal tools disposal i hope to choose to cooperate with us those migrants who voluntarily agreed to leave by the end of march are being promised a three and a half thousand dollars on

a plane ticket they have the option of returning to their home country or going to a third one though the alternative is incarceration i was really authority to say that most of the migrants came just for economic reasons despite the fact that they claimed that while they had to flee persecution under war at home well officials are estimate that around sixty thousand migrants have crossed the border from egypt since two thousand and five a third of those have already been deported and of those that remain nearly one and a half thousand are held in detention centers one of them being that of whole lot which some refer to as an open air prison. the whole lot are 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 that 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 and i just wanted to see where there's peace where i can take care of myself where i can protect myself as soon as the deportation plan appeared the u.n. refugee agency reminded israel about his duty to protect those who need it and we invited two guests to debate 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 vaca not the contrary to save their lives they

how well they they've 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 the asylum seekers 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 baited fear 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 no less than this. instead of thanking israel for the years they spent here earned money were treated by the way by israeli medicine which is one of the best in the world instead of thanking they what 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. prophet well they've done it from time to time it's also good to stick to facts and the facts is the rate of crime on those migrants is much lower than the everett rate of crime and this is. true no

it's absolutely. those. false statements i am not going to speak as long as this man is interrupting me eighty percent of the i retrained in europe are recognized as refugees it is less than one percent how can you call it but racism how could you call it but. then we have wrapping up the weekly here and all the international the top stories of the first week of this new year but more to come in about half an hour. when you don't. see the. dead of course. not through only ten steps it. makes. no. claim to know. that. you speak french.

hello my name's peter and i've been living in russia now for about seven years and this is a film about just some of the crazy things i've gotten through time. yet . i mean because it is on their store due to the close up that there. are still does not seem to get.

through the paper. or. are. planned welcome to worlds apart and old latin adage goes that if you want peace prepare for war countering or deterring it russia through the use of force is part of the most basic human instinct the one that when they indulge righteously often

leads to barbaric waste of humanity what would it take for the world to adopt the prepare for peace rather than prepare for war actually cheered well to discuss that i'm now joined by still i was worth it this advocate and founder of oxford research group it's great to talk to you think you very much for your time well you've been an advocate for nonviolence for many decades you side the examples of mahatma gandhi nelson mandela and unsung city as people who personally inspired you they all strike me as heroes of the twentieth century i wonder if their life stories as inspiring as they are still valid today when the nature of conflict and the nature of politics have changed so dramatically i agree with you that the new. of conflict has changed dramatically but if you take the qualities of somebody like mandela they're enduring and i can give you a very clear example of that i think it was the second time that i met mandela and he started speaking to a room of about sixty people and he's not an orator he has

a rush to be voiced but does he started speaking i got shivers on my skin thirty minutes later i still had what we call in english goosebumps and i asked myself why what is this and eventually i figured out it was the sheer energy of his integrity and i received that bodily so this was clearly a man that you couldn't push around and who would not back down on what he believed but all of that were standing up to institutional violence an individual against the process machinery of the state which still happens today but i think the most cruel forms of violence these day. are so seed it's with non-state actors who not only rely on violence for practical purposes they faddish eyes it do you really think that the approach of mahatma gandhi could be a fact of with groups like the islamic state i believe that any group

one can talk to it's a question of finding the right moment in their campaigns and finding the right people to do it because what matters is the approach of the individuals or the group who are conducting that dialogue what i'm telling you is that when you want to open a dialogue rather than a monologue rather than a lecture with somebody that you feel formidably disagree with you have to treat them as a human being with the same concerns fears and so forth as everybody of us we found this. when we started a dialogue with nuclear weapons policy makers and those were people from the then soviet union from china from france the united states and the united kingdom all of whom had never met before and all of whom fundamentally.