with. images of protests. fueling the. u.s. . for the first time. on the streets of paris. to find a solution before the end of twenty seven. years.

welcome to the program of twenty eight. top stories of the. well this week has seen a series of rallies in iran both for and against the country's government it began with protests over the economic situation in the country. political. with twenty one people killed in the violence. since the protests washington has been openly supporting the government activists want to. the while ignoring what mass rallies in support also veterans leadership

the us also called 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 the events of the last few days in iran may be they do not constitute per se a 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 them know that you know. let iran deal with its own internal problems since this is precisely what is taking place you are wasting the energy of the security council. the fact that we get wholly turns around and says that you know we can we're seeing in inverted commas syria style 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 that 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 they knew what sharp. was about they understood what america had done to iran. now with more details on washington's rather selective approach when it comes to addressing protests outside of the us 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 say when they say that to you i support mad 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 not 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 it's a little bit when you have to be in any country people can protest against high prices but when have a such them astray sions happen in our country opponents of the establishment come out and support them 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. the west the powers. back in the arena. because it's only with. that being the. it's secure and can go all the way in securing your freedom and your previous regime but we've seen where this apparent pro-democracy fervor can lead. to in a year. 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 up. arrow

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 new jobs has 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 especially churkin r.t.

london well as the protests in iran began to gain more international attention a number of fake images were circulated widely on social media the following tweet shows a photo of a woman attacking police officers with a caption in iran but it. now to be a screen shot from an iranian movie after being exposed the man who posted it claimed it was supposed to be symbolic and a video which again thousands of views and was said to show a march in iran was later proved to be a protest in bahrain from twenty eleven another fake so perhaps less clear one posed claim to show the uprising when he was actually a photo of a pro government running. hopes for a diplomatic resolution to the north korean crisis now potentially in sight after the country agreed to hold formal talks with its neighbor south korea ahead of the winter olympic games i didn't take long for the u.s. president to take credit for the possible crisis deescalation. 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 their 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 another diplomatic breakthrough this week seoul 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 but 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 has 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 by the efforts of others in him i think he has the white house and helped this progress happen the white house has really done a lot to endanger it's 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 and despite progress being made on the

diplomatic front donald trump hasn't pulled any punches when it comes to his twitter exchanges with the north korean leader this week the insults reached a new level of the u.s. president bragged about the size of his nuclear button and it seems that for donald trump it's really doesn't matter. look at those hands are they small. and you referred to my hand to. something else post baseball i guarantee you this is no problem. 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. overhead bragging about who has the bigger but i have got the big. 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 when and shelter the french president file to clear the streets of rough sleeping migrants by the end of twenty seventeen but this promise seems to fall in. the first battle is to how is everybody in a dignified manner but the end of the year i want no more women and men in the

streets when the last. speaks to migrants living in these conditions as they wait to start a new life in front. a new year may have begun but for these my quince the problem is still the same ahead is yet another freezing night on the streets of paris. the 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 whose fault is that. 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 by you know you know very well known here local one hundred one one another one another this is my life. and this man i knew three people to put me through this story. is this the life you thought you would have to move. across france thousands of migrants a living in similar conditions all hand to mouth some are 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 more like

a farm it's a reception center where my kids can read. it's a possibly start a new life new drugs every day hundreds queue up my site sends his like thinks and base just simply won't cope with the demands despite a pledge that new migrants would be sleeping rough like the end of the two 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 see paris and still to come here on the program israel is offering a stop choice to thousands of african migrants take a payment to leave or go to jail that story and more just about. everybody i'm stephen both. task hollywood guy usual suspects every proud

american first of all i'm just george bush in our view to say this is my buddy max famous financial guru and we're just a little bit different i'm just going to learn to run your windows up with all the drama happening in our country i'm shooting the brood have fun every day americans . and hopefully start to bridge the gap this is the great american. power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely and they fell of the matches over their heads up saudi arabia these days is as corrupt as the day is long and he's just stealing money from folks and with us right to be had it but america is like that's reform meanwhile ok already there actually are in the process of reform

but that somehow evil. so sharing your sunday with us here on r.t. just a week into the new here and yemen the arab world's poorest country has already seen a second saudi led strike according to 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 sada on the first of january more than twenty people were killed in an airstrike on the key port city of her data.

i am poor i have no tender i can live i suffer from the cold. i was given a place to sleep when some people to warm up on hot days sleep right on the sidewalk. there is no help comes very rarely once a year maybe but now we have no help or blanket us tattered fifteen people sleeping on. saudi arabia's in cochin in yemen is into its third year the devastating war has killed more than ten thousand people and displaced more than three million saudi led airstrikes have a blitter rated much of the country's infrastructure and the blockade has 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 whole 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 in 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.

except to pay off or go to prison israel is offering african migrants money to get out of the country the israeli prime minister has labeled them as infiltrators and said force will be used if they don't comply. trauma show me something here that is completely legal and completely essential new infiltrators have a clear choice cooperate with us and leave voluntarily respectively humanely and legally and will have to use other legal tools our disposal of the cheese to cooperate with us those migrants who voluntarily agreed to leave by the end of march are being promised three and a half thousand dollars and a plane ticket they have the option of returning to their home country or go into a third one the alternative is incarceration now israeli authorities say that most of the migrants came for economic reasons despite the fact that they claim to have fled persecution and the war at home officials 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 of those that remain nearly one and a half thousand held in detention centers one of them being that a whole lot 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 and 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 as soon as the deportation plan appeared the u.n. refugee agency reminded israel about its duty to protect those who need it we have two guests to debate the issue. and not refugees they're criminals who crossed the border illegally not all man but you can add talk about this solemn seekers when the people come from that contrary to 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 israel they're not refuges not the asylum seekers they want to benefit from our rich from a 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 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 both of them have children here they should stay here they have to stay you know human regime would experience and if it is that is going to expel them by force it will be one of the most shane stone. ever taken no less than this. and instead of thanking israel for the years they spent here earned money were treated

by the way by israeli madison 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 as stories whoever 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. profit while they've done it from time to time it's also a good tool stick to facts and the facts is that the rate of those migrants is much lower than the ever interest of crime is that it is not untrue oh it's absolutely long years rose those. a false statement i am not going to speak as though because this man is interrupting eighty percent over there in three and in europe are recognized as refugees in israel less than one percent how can you call it but racism how can you call it but. your top

stories for the first week of this new year return in about thirty minutes. 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 found his own response to the problem and constructed dozens of tiny homes for people in need of shelter when you have nothing in order 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 craft someone monitoring the site otherwise it'll be a free for all and is there a better. to end the homelessness crisis. global war hawks selling you on the idea that dropping bombs brings police to the chicken hawks forcing you to fight the battles of. the new socks credit tell you that every gossip and by file for the most important news today. often advertising tells me you are not cool enough and let's buy their products. things are the hawks that we along with our loved ones.

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person every day within the black community. leaving me so never. to remove the victim's brother his visit. there was murder in and out sound was of course you know furtherest or no iraq is going to sit in the united states but. not at the start or it's always when you're in a better place doesn't help. putting to caribbean tradition if you must be joining. the funeral march turns into a celebration. dances jazz and alcohol companies to see this town is less. in the world starts today. let this little boy

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