from. iranis works by mouth pro and anti-government rallies with at least twenty one people killed with external pressure and fake images of protests online further fueling tensions. over u.s. and north korean leaders engage in one upmanship over the size and power of the nuclear button new hope emerges for a possible deescalation of the crisis with pyongyang agreeing to talks with the south for the first time in years. thousands of migrants are still sleeping rough on the streets of paris to pass despite president mccraw as promised to find a solution before the end of twenty seventy we hear some of their stories. this moment. is this the life you thought you would have.

suspected saudi led air strikes in yemen have claimed more than twenty four lives just this week. a very warm welcome you're watching the weekly here on r.t. international all the latest headlines and a round up of the stories that shape the week and. now 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 in the country but later at least one first political and then violent with twenty one people killed in the clashes.

since protests started to washington has been openly supporting the anti-government activists. and ignoring the mass rallies in support of iran's 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 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. 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. 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 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 charlotte was about they understood what america had done to iran are to us the theater can have more on washington's rather selective approach when it comes to 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 say when they say 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 it's a little bit when you know i mean 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 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 was always. written in. the west of the powers. back of the arena. because it's only with. that being the iranian people. can go all the way securing their freedom of 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 he will. 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 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 associates are going to r.t. london as the protests in iran began to gain more international attention and number of fake images was circulated widely on social media the following tweet shows a photo of a woman attacking police officers with the caption iran but it turned out to be a screenshot from an iranian movie after being exposed to the man who posted it claimed it was supposed to be symbolic and a video which gained thousands of views and was said to show a march in iran was later proved to be a protest in bahrain from twenty eleven other fakes were perhaps less clear one poster claimed to show the uprising when it was actually a photo of a pro-government rally. now hopes for a diplomatic resolution to the north korean crisis are now in sight after the country agreed to hold formal talks with its neighbor south korea ahead of the winter olympic games but it didn't take long for the u.s.

president to take credit for the possible crisis deescalation. but of people 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 is also hoped it will address recent tensions in the region it will be held in a so-called peace religion the demilitarized zone on the border between the two countries and other diplomatic breakthrough this week saw 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 crises but dean for dirndl school tom brokaw think that the white house has actually only made 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 the steps i think this is something by the efforts of others and not of him i think here to the white house and help this progress happen that 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 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. from donald trump. 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 after the u.s. president bragged about the size of his nuclear button and it seems that for donald trump size really does matter. look at those hands are they small. and he referred to my hands of this ball something else most peaceful i guarantee you there's no problem. the biggest crowds. because standing ovations best the best in the world the greatest health care plan very very successful i would build the greatest war you have ever seen finest i happened to be underrated by the way. i

mean they were bragging about who has the bigger but who got the big but you should be bragging about the size of your missile. in the first week of twenty eighteen comes to an end thousands of migrants are still on the street so fronts waiting for permanent shelter the french president vowed to clear the streets of rough sleeping my quince by the end of twenty seventeen but this promise seems to fall in flight. the first battle is to

house everybody in a dignified manner and by the end of the year i want no more women and men in the streets or in the woods last. r.t. solid speaks to my growing flavoring in these rough conditions as they wait to start a new life in france 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. look because of 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 is pose 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 so the a billion here already calling about more food no water but body no you know you call your local one one just one one i'm a little one another 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 a 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 a boy they come it's a reception center where migrants can register to possibly start a new life in drugs every day hundreds few up outside incentives like bass and bass just simply won't cope with the demands despite a pledge that no migrants would be sleeping rough and that she thousand and seventeen president might call and has failed to keep his promise and migrants across the country see no end in sight to their suffering. altie paris still to come here on r.t. international more than twenty four people have been killed in saudi that are strikes in yemen we have all the details for you after this short break stay with us.

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them selves worlds apart. to look for common ground. welcome back now just a week into the new year and yemen the arab world's poorest country has already seen a second saudi led air strike according to local media one person was killed and at least three more injured the strike took place in the early hours of saturday morning hitting a busy market in the northern promise of sada and on the first of january more than twenty people were killed in an air strike on the key port city of how data. it would. be.

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 we sleep right on the sidewalk. in. there is no help comes very rarely once a year maybe but now we have no health or blanket. people sleeping or a. saudi arabia's incursion in yemen is in its third year the devastating war has killed more than ten thousand people and displaced more than three million sounded as strikes have obliterated 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 reopen the cape port in yemen so allowing supplies of food and fuel we discussed the situation with a representative from the red cross them and as 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 many 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 that 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 is when is offering african migrants money to get out of the country the israeli prime minister has labeled them infiltrate and said force will be used if they don't comply. show me something here that is completely legal and completeness and the infiltrators have a clear choice cooperate with us and leave voluntarily respectively humanely and legally all have to use other legal tools our disposal the cheese to cooperate with us as well as migrants who voluntarily agree 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 will go into a third one the alternative is incarceration israeli authorities say most of the migrants came for economic reasons despite the fact that they claim to have fled persecution and war. officials estimate that around sixty thousand migrants have

crossed the border from egypt since toward two thousand and five a third of those have already been deported of those that remain nearly one and a half thousand are held in detention centers one of the detention centers in whole also 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 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 i just wanted to see where there's peace where i can take care of myself where i can protect myself i said as the deportation plan a pit the un refugee agency reminded israel about its duty to protect those who need it where lighted to guests to debate the issue. and not refugees they're criminals who crossed the border illegally and 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 they salame seacrest they want to benefit from our rich from merciful society and 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 wherever 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 regime would experience and if israel is going to expel them by force it will be one of the most shane stone. 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 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 provide through time it's also good tools things to fix and the fact is that the rate of crime but among those migrants is much lower than the ever interest of crime it is good it's not true oh it's absolutely no new. those. false statement i'm not going through speak as though because this man is interrupting me eighty percent over the i would trains in europe are recognized as refugees in israel less than one percent how can you call it but the races how could you quoted but. i wouldn't say we love to hear your thoughts on all of our stories so i didn't get in touch by following us on facebook on twitter on the back of the latest in about thirty five minutes all three of us.

hello my name's peter and i've been living in bush now for about seven years and this is a film about just some of the crazy things i've gotten through time. when you're going to get. along you've got to just punish the what you describe because it's going to. start is not sufficient. to predicate.

power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely and the color they match up with 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 but america is like that's reform meanwhile ok already they're actually on. in the process of reform but that's about the evil. little bit about. mr.

barker. plunged welcome to worlds apart an old latin adage goes that if you want peace prepare for war countering or deterring aggression 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 well to discuss that i'm now joined by still worth it this advocate and founder of oxford research group it's great to

talk to you thank 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 and 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 nature 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 monella 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 to shivers on my skin thirty minutes later i still had what we call an english goose bumps 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 we still happens today but i think the most cruel forms of violence these day the associated 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've formidably disagree with you have to treat them as a human being. with the same concerns fears and so forth as everybody up first 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 disagree with one idea but you know one particular feature of groups like isis is that again violence is not just a means to an ad.