iran is rocked by months pro and anti-government rallies with at least twenty one people killed with external pressure and fake images of protests online further fueling tension. while the u.s. and north korean leaders engage in one upmanship over the size and power of the nuclear button its new hope emerges for a possible the escalation 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 as despite president promise to find a solution before the end of twenty seventeen we hear some of their stories. this memo. read your review is this the life you thought you would have

moved. and suspected sandy led air strikes in yemen have claimed more than twenty four lives just this week. a very warm welcome you are watching the weekly here on r.t. international or the latest headlines and a round up of the stories that shape the week i make you aaron good to have you with us well 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 they stoned first political and then violent with twenty one people killed in the clashes.

since protests started. shinton 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 a wrong 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 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 only we as a 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. in the energy security council. the fact that we get wholly turns around and says. you know we could 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 so it couldn't. 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. and i said to chuck and i has more on washington's rather selective approach when it comes to 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 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 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 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 them astray sions 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 radiant 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. were convicted in the. american time of the west the power is. back in the arena. because it's only with their backing that being the iranian people are 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. 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 generation but another reason why investment and thus new jobs have been slow in coming is that contrary to their obligations under the u.k.'s 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 is co-opting democracy for its own ends is a difficult habit to break and associate churkin r.t. london. 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 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 another protest in bahrain from two thousand and eleven the fakes were perhaps less clear one poster 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 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. 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 would be talking right now this week it was confirmed that in a few days that 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 hopes 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 weeks or north korea reopen a telephone part line with the south that have 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 despite the u.s. taking credit for a potential deescalation of the crisis but dean for durham school law school tom brokaw thinks the white house has actually only made things worse. 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 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 bragged about the size of his nuclear button and it seems that for donald trump size it really does matter. look at those hands are they small. and they referred to my hands if they're smaller than something else post baseball i guarantee you there's no problem. the biggest crowds biggest standing ovations bass the best in the world the greatest health care plan very very successful i would build the greatest war 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 got the big you should be bragging about the size of your missile i. was the first week of twenty eighteen comes to an end thousands of migrants are still on the streets of france waiting for permanent shelter president mike wrong to clear the streets of rough sleeping migrants by the end of last year but his

pledge seems to have for them flopped. 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 lost. speaks to migrants living on the streets still hoping 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 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 this and it is 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 doing here already calling about more food no water but your buddy buddy you know you know you call your local one hundred three one one i'm a little and 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 france every day hundreds queue up outside incentives like this and they just simply won't cope with the demands despite a pledge that no migrants would be sleeping rough idea and 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. even ski altie paris still to come on r.t. international as well is offering a stark choice to thousands of african migrants

a payment to leave jail but the details coming up after the show. hey everybody i'm stephen barbee russian task hollywood guy you suspect every proud american under stuart marsh and our view. this is my buddy famous financial guru where she's a little bit different i'm. going to. enter with no doubt with all the drama happening in our country i'm rude have fun meet every day americans. and hopefully start to bridge the gap this is the great american. power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely and the fellow 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 try to be at it but america is like that's reform meanwhile ok already there actually are in the process of reform but that somehow evil. welcome back to yemen has been the target of yet another saudi led as strike the second so far this year according to local media one person was killed and at least three more were injured the strike on the arab world's poorest country took place on sunday morning hitting a busy market in the northern province of it comes after yet another attack on january the first when more than twenty people were killed in the major port city of data. leave the.

poor have no tend to work and live 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. you. believe. there is no help comes very rarely once a year maybe but now we have no health or blanket. people sleeping or. campaign in yemen is now in its third year the devastating war has claimed ten

thousand lives and displaced more than three million saudi led strikes have also obliterated much of the infrastructure and its blockade of the country's ports has left around twenty million in dire need of food and medical a saudi arabia recently allowed to keyport in yemen to be temporarily reopened so essential food and fuel could be brought in however locals there say supplies have yet to arrive and the red cross is calling for the blockade to be further east. as 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 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 that 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 all go to prison as well as offering african migrants money to get out of the country here's where the prime minister has labeled them infiltrators and said force will be used if they don't comply. with 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 our disposal i hope 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 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 came for economic reasons first 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 one and a half thousand are being held in detention centers and one of those detention centers in whole lot some referred 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 day pour taishan clown the 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'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 shame still ever taken note less than this. 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 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 interest of crime it is good it is not true gold it's absolutely no new. rose those two data false statement i am not going to speak as though because this man is interrupting me eighty percent over there is true you. are recognized as refugees in israel less than one

percent how can you call it but racism how could you call it but. the eyes of the world are said to be on mega markel and prince harry as they take tie the knot later this year however early this week one official went a bit too far with well wedding preparations he called on the police to remove homeless people from the streets of windsor ahead of the big day something that hasn't gone down well with the public. prince harry and meghan markle. prince harry got in. touch and how i relate to this to have yeah one of the happened.

sadly there is an epidemic of rough sleeping in vagrancy in windsor the whole situation presents a beautiful town in a sadly unfavorable light. it's absolutely abhorrent that anybody has got these views in this day and age especially a leading councillor of the borough. want to get in touch and say you'll face my day stories by following those on facebook and on twitter and join me again for the latest headlines at the top of that.

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