iranis walks by mass and pro and anti-government rallies with at least twenty one people killed with external pressure and fake images of protests online further fueling tensions. while the u.s. and north korean leaders engage in one upmanship over the size and power of the new pier buttons new hope emerges for a possible deescalation of the crisis with pyongyang o'grady into talks with the south for the first time in years. thousands of migrants are still sleeping rough on the streets of paris despite president promised to find a solution before the end of twenty seven see we hear some of their stories. dismembered people. it's too easy is this the life you thought you would have.

done suspected sounded led air strikes in yemen have claimed more than twenty four lives just this week. a warm welcome you are watching the weekly here on r.t. international but i just had lines and a roundup of the stories that shaped the week on the air and good to have you with us well this week has seen a series of mass rallies in wrong on both for and against the country's government it began with protests over the economic situation in the country but later these turned first political and then violent with twenty one people killed in clashes. it.

says protests started washington has been openly supporting the answer government activists and ignoring the mass rallies in support of iran's leadership the u.s. 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 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 no doubt you look. at iran deal with its own internal problems since this is precisely what is taking place when you are wasting the energy of the security council. the fact that we get wholly turns around and. 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. that was to check and has more now on washington's rather for the elective approach when it comes to protest 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 say 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 for that is not that is not our that is not our policy but we

here with 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 an arrest 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 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

iranian 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 to bring to the. american the west the power is. back in the arena. because it's only with their backing that being the iranian people will feel secure and 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 you 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 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 especially churkin 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 a 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 two thousand and eleven the fakes were perhaps less clear one posed claim 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 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 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 confirms 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 for north korea reopen a telephone hotline with the south that had been closed since two thousand and sixteen and on thursday the u.s.

president finally accepted saul's request to postpone joint military drills during the olympics but despise the u.s. taking credit for a potential deescalation of the crises with dean for durham law school tom brooks thinks that 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 the steps i think this is something by the efforts of others and not to 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 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 progress being made on the diplomatic front and 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 brags about the size of his nuclear button and it seems that the donald trump size it really doesn't matter. look at those hands are they small. and they referred to my hands or if they're smaller than something else post baseball i guarantee you there's 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 it. made me feel a warhead bragging about who has the bigger butt got the big you should be bragging about the size of your soul i. think. is the first week of twenty eighteen comes to an end thousands of liberians all still on the streets of friends waiting for permanent shelter the french president vowed to clear the streets of rough speaking rest sleeping migrants by the end of twenty

seventeen but this promise seems to have fallen flat. but 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. artificial a day by the school speaks to migrants living in these were conditions as they wait to start a new life in france a new year may have begun but for these migrants the problem is still the same ahead is yet another freezing night on the streets of paris. 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 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 there were about you know you know very well in here look one hundred one one another one another this is my life you look. three people sleep with me we hear all the stories you hear. is this the life you thought you would have to move. across france thousands of migrants are 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. this is a boy they come and it's a reception center where my kids can register it to possibly start a new life new products every day hundreds of you up outside fences like this the base just simply won't cope with the demands despite a pledge that new migrants would be sleeping rough and she thousand and seventeen president might call and has failed to keep pace promise and migrants across the country see no end in sight to their suffering so that you can ski all to see paris still to come as well as offering a stark choice to thousands of african migrants a payment to leave or jail we have the details coming up after this short break.

los angeles the city of luxury and free but also an alarming number of people living in the streets. a 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 your path to someone want to touring the site otherwise it'll be a free for all the news there a better alternative to end the homelessness crisis. welcome back now just a week into the new year and yemen the arab world's poorest country has already seen a second sandy lead to 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 province of sada and the first of january more than twenty people were killed in an ass strike on the key port city of data. it would.

be. important to have no tend to work and suffer from the cold and. i was given a free society where some people to warm up on hot days cried on the sidewalk. you. know. very well once a year but now we have no health or blanket. people sleeping or. saudi arabia's incursion in yemen is in its third year but devastating war has killed more than ten thousand people and displaced more than three million sunny led

airstrikes 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 reopened a key port in yemen to allow in supplies of food and fuel we discuss 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 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 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 in full choices and said force will be used if they don't comply. with something here that is completely illegal and completeness and then for traitors have a clear choice cooperate with us and leave voluntarily respectively humanely and legally all have to use other legal tools disposal the cheese to cooperate with us . while those migrants who voluntarily agree to leave by the end of march are being promised 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 while the alternative is incarceration israeli authorities say most of the

migrants have come to for economic reasons despite the fact that they claim to have fled persecution and 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 in the one and a half thousand are being held in detention census one of the detention centers in 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 a pit the u.n. refugee agency reminded israel about his duty to protect those who need it we invited two 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 they are looking for rescue in their spirit in do anything

possible to save their lives some of them of course behaved fine and they baited fear that the government of thieves 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 still ever taken note less than this. 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 to time it's also good tools things to fix and the fact is the rate of crime but among those migrants is much lower than the ever iterate of crime it is good it is not true gold it's absolutely no need. those. data false statement i'm not going to speak as though because this man is interrupting me eighty percent over the i would trade in europe are recognized as refugees in israel less than one percent how can you call it but racism how could you quote it but. you can share your thoughts on the day stories by following us on facebook and twitter i'll be

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i build everything a sort of is good and i make a lot of mistakes. and it's easy to back out your mistakes in compton south central l.a. a pint sized idea as elvis some as in a battle with city off already. when you have nothing in order to go. you know having something like this may as well be a castle. the mayor of los angeles has to clear the city is in the midst of a homelessness crisis. is trying to solve it one tiny house at a time the tiny house idea is very simple it's shelter. food water and shelter are not optional they're required for him and survival so it's a. temporary.