that. iran is. pro and anti-government rallies with at least twenty one people killed with. fake images of. the fueling tensions. the u.s. and north korean leaders engage in one upmanship with the size and power of their nuclear buttons 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 the president promised to find a solution before the end of twenty seventeen we hear some of the stories. this many new people. the story is this the life you thought you would have.

suspected strikes in yemen have claimed more than twenty four lives just this week . another welcome to the weekly here on our to international i'm daniel hawkins wherever you are tonight thanks so much for joining us on the program. now this week has seen thousands of people gathering in iran with 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 then violent with twenty one people killed so far in clashes.

since protests started washington has been openly supporting the anti-government activists and ignoring the mass rallies in support of the leadership the us also called for an emergency un security council meeting over the situation of the 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 this is 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. 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 very knew what shahr was about they understood what america had done to iran. i want to use him as the c.e.o. has more on washington's rather selective approach when it comes to protests outside the united states. 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

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. in any country people can protest against high prices but will have a such demonstrations 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 western powers. bring in. the west the powers. back in the arena. because it's only with. that being the iranian people are 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. yes. 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 here. 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 especially 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 of the following tweet shows a photo of a woman attacking police with the caption iran it turned out though to be a screenshot from an iranian movie after being exposed the man who posted it claimed it was supposed to be symbolic and the video which again thousands of views and was said to show a march in iran was later proved to be a protest in bahrain six years ago other fakes were perhaps less clear one poster claimed to show the uprising when in fact there was actually a photo of a pro-government rally. hopes for a diplomatic resolution to the north korean crisis are now in sight the country agreed to hold formal talks with its neighbor south korea ahead of the winter

olympic games it didn't take long though for the u.s. president to take credit for the possible crisis deescalation but 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 thirty wouldn't be talking about olympics that they wouldn't be talking right there 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 it's also hoped it will address recent tensions in the region will be held in a so-called peace village in the demilitarized zone on the border between the two countries now another diplomatic breakthrough this week saw a north korea reopen a telephone hotline with the south it's been closed since twenty sixteen on thursday the u.s. president finally accepted souls request to perspire on joint military drills with the south during the olympics but despite the usa can credit for

a potential the escalation of the crises the dean of the law school from 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 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 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 now despite the 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 brags about the size of his nuclear button it seems that for mr trump science really doesn't matter. look at those hands are they small. and he referred to my hands if they're smaller something else must be sprawled i guarantee you this is no problem. i have the biggest crowds at 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 butt who got the big. bragging about the size of your soul i. was the first week of twenty thousand comes to an end thousands of migrants are still on the streets of france waiting for public shelter president vowed to clear the streets of rough sleeping by the end of last year his pledge though seems to fall in flat. 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. shot it speaks to moderates living on the street 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 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 i want to be the first who spoke today and if 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 doing he had already called about no food no water but. you know. one one one one i'm a little and this is my life. and this man i knew three people three of the stories. is this the life you thought you would have. 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 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 by scientists and just like base a base just simply won't cope with the demands despite a pledge that no migrants would be sleeping rough by the end of two thousand and seventeen president marc bolan has failed to keep his promise and migrants across the country see no end in sight to their suffering. r.t. paris. well still to come on the program israel is offering a stark choice to thousands of african migrants a payment to leave the country or go to jail more of that story and more after this short break.

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many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. welcome back to the program now yemen has been the target of yet another saudi air strike the second so far this year according to local media one person was killed at least three more were injured the strike on the arab world's poorest country took place on saturday morning as you can busy markets in the northern province of solder it comes off to get another attack on january the first when more than twenty people were killed in the major port city of data.

i have no tender i can live i suffer from the cold. i was given a place to sleep by some people to warm up on hot days we sleep right on the sidewalk. there is no how comes very rare only once a year maybe but now we have no help or blanket in tatters fifteen people are sleeping on. on our rear its campaign in yemen is 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 brocade of the country's ports has left around twenty million in dire need of food and medical aid the saudi

arabia recently allowed to keep or simply haven't to be temporarily reopened so essential food and fuel could be brought in local soever say supplies have yet to arrive the red cross is now calling for the blockade to be further east. yemen is a country that depends on imports ninety percent of its needs are from imports so when you have three years of stating 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 that's the choice israel is offering african migrants to get out of the country is ready prime minister has labeled them infiltrators and said force will be used if they do not comply. the point where do something here that is completely illegal and completely essential infiltrators have a clear choice cooperate with us and leave voluntarily respectively humanely and legally or we'll have to use other legal tools at our disposal i hope to choose to cooperate with us as are those migrants who voluntarily agreed to leave by the end of march for 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 another one the alternative is incarceration now israeli authorities say most of the migrants came for economic reasons that's the spite the fact they claim to have fled persecution and conflict at home well officials now estimate around sixty

thousand migrants have crossed the border from egypt since two thousand and five alone a third of those have already been deported back to their home countries allow others of those that remain nearly one half thousand are held in detention centers one of these is hot which some refer to as an open prison. the her the whole lot are 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 there 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 is peace where i can take care of myself where i can protect myself. soon as the deportation plan appeared at the un refugee agency reminded israel about its duty to protect those who need it we invited two guests to debate the controversial 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 relevant not refuges not asylum seekers they want to benefit from our rich from our 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 made

it here that the government of here's 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 part of them have children here they should stay here they have to stay you know human the regime would experience and if it is going to expel them by force it will be one of the most shame still ever taken not less than this. place and instead of thanking israel for the years they spent here. were treated by the way by israeli medicine 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 tools things to fix and the fact is the rate of crime but among those migrants is much lower than the everett rate of crime it is good it is not true oh it's absolutely no new. those. false statement i'm not going to speak as long as this man is interrupting me eighty percent of the i was trained in europe i recognized as refugees in less than one percent how can you call it but racism how could you but. all more global headlines coming up in about thirty minutes from myself in the team here. good bye see about thirty minutes.

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that to. you speak french. those are the result. of that same year the. new president is told good people so only is busy at the bill to discuss. their. plans welcome to worlds apart and 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 actually cheered 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 to 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 they all strike me as heroes of the twentieth century i wonder if their life stories as inspiring as they are still valid. today while 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 here's a rugby voice but as he started speaking i got 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 a process machinery of the state which 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 feel formidably disagree with you have to try. them as a human being with the same concerns fears and so forth as everybody else has 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 fronts.