iranis walks by mass pro and anti-government rallies with at least twenty one people killed with external pressure and fake images of protests on line further feeling tension. while the u.s. and north korean leaders engage in one upmanship over the size and power of their nuclear buttons a 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 despite president promise to find a solution before the end of twenty seventeen we hear some of the stories you look . we are your words. is this the life you

thought you would have moved. and suspected saudi led and 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 all the latest headlines and a roundup of the stories that shapes the week nikky air and good to have you with us well this week has seen a series of mass rallies in a 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 the clashes. because.

since protests started its washington has been openly supporting the anti-government activists and ignoring the mass rallies in support of iran's leadership the u.s. also called for an emergency un security council over the me over the situation 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 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 we counsel 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. 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 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 the 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 shahr was about they understood what america had done to iran. and it's a situation that has 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 think 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 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 on 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 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. were convicted in the. america of the west the power is. back in the arena. because it's only with their backing that being the iranian people will be 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 generation 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 amber fake images were circulated widely on social media the following tweet shows a photo of a woman attacking police offices with the caption iran but it turned out to be a screenshot from any rainy and 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 two thousand and eleven the fakes were perhaps less clear one post claimed to show the uprising when it was actually a photo of a pro government wily. 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 at 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 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 saw 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 souls' request to postpone joint military drills during

the olympics but despite the u.s. taking credit for a potential day escalation of the crisis but 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 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 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 thought he's really does not. look at those hands are they small. and they 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. the biggest 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 finest i happened to be underrated by the way it. made me feel a warhead bragging about who has the bigger but who have got the big maybe you should be bragging about the size of your soul. as 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 vowed to clear the streets of left rough sleeping migrants by the end of last year but his

pledge 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 autumn shall the deep end ski speaks to migrants living on the street still hoping to start a new life in france. a new year may have begun but for these my clients 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 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 who spoke today 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 in here already calling about more food no water but you know you know your mach one one one one i'm a little and this is my life. three people to put me through the story. is this the life you thought you would have. across france thousands of migrants a living in similar conditions all hand to mouth some are found shelter intense 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 new rods every day hundreds queue up outside incentives like this base just simply won't cope with the demands despite a pledge that no migrants would be sleeping rough and the two 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 on r.t. international as well as offering a stark choice to thousands of african migrants a payment to leave or jail story and more after this short break.

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welcome back yemen has been the targets of yet another sounding lead as strike the second so far this year according to local media one person was killed and at least there were a more were injured it's a strike on the arab world's poorest country took place on saturday morning hitting a busy market in the northern province of santa it comes off to yet another attack on january the first when more than twenty people were killed in the major port city of her data.

if. 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. there is no help comes very rarely once a year maybe but now we have no help or blanket us tighter than fifteen people sleeping on our. we had to campaign in yemen is now in its third year the devastating war has claimed ten thousand lives under splays to 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 aid saudi arabia recently allowed a key port in yemen to be temporarily reopened so essential food under field could be brought in however locals there say supplies that have yet to arrive and the red cross is calling for the blockade to be further east. emon 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 when people cannot have enough to eat in 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 all go to prison israel is offering african migrants money to get out of the country the israeli prime minister has labeled them infiltrators and said force that will be used if they don't comply. with something here that is completely illegal and completeness and szell 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 the cheese to cooperate with us. well those migrants who voluntarily agree to leave by the end of march of being promised three and a half thousand dollars and

a plane ticket but have the option of returning to their home country or going to a third one 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 to since two thousand and five and a third of those have already been deported of those that remain nearly one and a half thousand of being held in detention centers one of the detention centers in whole lot of them referred to as an open air prison. the her home in a 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 can't do anything you work there like a slave for them it's all you can do you can only call it slavery. 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 appears the un 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 israel they're not refuges not

asylum seekers they want to benefit from our reach 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 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 the regime would extend them 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. place

instead of thanking israel for the years they spent here. were treated by the way by israeli magazine 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 whoever 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 to stick to fix and the fact is the rate of cry by among those migrants is much lower than the ever interest of crime in israel it's not true oh it's absolutely no new. those. false statement i am not going to speak as though because this man is interrupted eighty percent over there. in europe are recognized as refugees in israel less than one

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los angeles the sony of luxury and fame but also an alarming number of people living in the streets. the simple fact in l.a. he's 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. to get this man from his own response to the problem and construct 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. plainly house on a city parking. base is not a solution you craft that someone wanted to ring the site otherwise it'll be a free for all the news there a better alternative to end the homelessness crisis. on

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