it. was. the top headlines on the news this week at least twenty one people die as iran is wrong by mass pro and anti-government rallies with external pressure and fake online images fueling tensions. while the u.s. and north korean leaders engage in one upmanship over the size of a nuclear buttons you hope emerges for a deescalation of the crisis with pyongyang agreeing talks with south korea for the first time in years. thousands of migrants are still sleeping rough on the streets of paris despite president my promise to solve the issue by the end of twenty seventeen we hear some of their stories. in this memo. read the story in iraq is this the life you thought you would move.

this is r.t. international coming to you live from moscow i'm kate partridge thank you for joining us. this week twenty one people have died during a series of mass rallies in iran both for and against the government these began as protests about the economic situation but turned political and then violent. or washington has been openly supporting the anti-government activists and ignoring the rallies in support of iran's leadership the u.s. also called for an emergency un security council meeting about the situation. some

members 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. warning events in 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 money we disagree with the council should not discuss things so no 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 us no they do not know some of the works with iran deal with its own internal problems since this is precisely what is taking place. in the energy security council. however cia boss might pump a zero house threaten that european countries will pay for turning their backs only us at the meeting why is it that our top european allies fail to support us on this and in fact france when we brought it up before the emergency meeting of the united nations security council joined with russia and china and said this isn't a fit subject to bring up yeah that will have to answer for their behavior. well massachusetts politician pool areas says trump is pushing a harder line on iran the previous us administrations historically the united

states has tried to stay out of least publicly stay out of any internal oppressed was going on within iran happened in one thousand nine hundred nine to happen again in two thousand and nine but with the change in the administration the ministration the current mistress and trump of ministration want to take more of a hard line against iran and lend its support to the uprising and when you it sort of has a mentality where if you don't agree with us you must be against us and therefore you must be punished and that might not be the most prudent course of action when dealing with some of our allies especially our longest standing allies in europe. an associate check in now has more on washington's selective approach to protests outside the us 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 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 for that is not 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 in 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 demo. streeter's 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 wealth of iran is being looted time for change it is essential that western powers britain britain in. the west the powers. back in the arena. because it's only with their backing that the the iranian people will be secure and can go all the way in securing their freedom of the previous regime but we've seen where this apparent pro-democracy fervor can lead. to in a year. 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 here. 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. under the new year 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 associate churkin r.t. london. well as the protests in iran began to gain more international attention and number of fake images were widely circulated 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 the iranian movie after being exposed the man who posted it claimed it was supposed to be symbolic and a video which again thousands of views some are said to show a march in iran was later proved to be a protest in bahrain from twenty eleven where other fakes were perhaps less clear one poster claimed to show the uprising when it was actually a photo of a pro government rally. president transformer chief strategist has expressed his regret for comments

included in the sensational bestseller about the white house fire and fury my comments were in that pool manifolds a seasoned campaign professional with experience and knowledge of how the russians operate to read through those comments were not in the jr i regret that my delay in responding to the american reporting regarding julian has diverted attention from the president's historical accomplishments in the first year of his presidency well here are just a few allegations from the new book it's claimed that trunk found the white house daunting and that is own behavior contributed to chaos and dysfunction it also alleges that the person behind the leaks of personal data was the president himself and that trump enjoys eating cheeseburgers in bed or trump senior policy adviser was invited on to the mainstream media and trying to explain the revelations but was cut off by the presenter. four hours of negative and hysterical coverage on

this network lead in recent weeks or some spectacularly. report i think can answer to know that if you are storing title i have my dream lunch of the truth why should just give me three minutes to tell you the truth don't you know and over campaign because no one shown i don't want to do that. or heated exchange then let's cross live now to political analyst and also dr jean allowed in to discuss all of this well again i mean as we heard the interview on c.n.n. was cut short i mean why invite somebody from trump's administration the not give them the opportunity to talk this is what we see over and over and over again and all i can say is that my guess is most of the media likes business as usual the let they like the way things were under the obama administration where they had a lot of access to fancy parties and better jobs and better coverage perhaps and maybe they're just more in line with the president obama's politics but none of

that matters because right now president trump is president whether they like it or not that's how it is and they have zero impact even after not more than ninety percent of their coverage on this president so far this wildly successful president most of their coverage is the negative even after that this president's numbers are only going up in terms of popularity and in terms of his success was also look at steve balmer and he apologized for his comments and far if you really want to think he did got do you think that's damage control or do you think he was actually misquoted. but i think he was x. actually misquoted in a lot of ways i mean we know that this book has been widely discredited and that wasn't even just by friends that's been by some of those as well and this particular author is considered a tabloid writer he's not considered a legitimate author this book we all know is

a fiction and and so it doesn't surprise me at all that a lot of what was said is being disputed on all levels by both sides and by people that were quoted throughout well i mean since this book has released i mean we've had nothing but let me to go into speculation drawing about donald trump i mean do you expect this to calm down now that we found bonds apology. no we'll just move on to the next topic because they're religious and their attacks on really this is this is the people's president the people wanted this president people that feel like they haven't been heard in previous administrations both republican and democrat they voted for this president donald trump because they felt like he was one of them that he understood them that he spoke the things that they were concerned about and he's demonstrated that he's willing to keep their prophet keep his promises to them that he made during the campaign we're not used

to that in america usually there are politicians make big promises and then they don't deliver but that's not the case with this president and we've seen a wildly successful year we saw of course our stocks at an all time high we've seen unemployment at record lows we've seen our foreign policy and our national security at a better place than it's really ever been and most americans are really happy about that that's not even to mention the massive tax reform that we've seen in this country where a lot of americans are going to be getting big checks that i think are going to matter a lot more than what the same old media has been saying all the way through the campaign it's kind of tired to most americans. do you think the war between donald trump and the media do you think it doesn't seem to be showing any signs of abating at the moment but do you think there will be one winner and who do you think will win. well president trump has a really long record of winning he's won in a lot of ways he won as

a businessman he won on television as you know in hollywood he won the presidency despite against all odds and despite the entire swamp as we like to call it the insiders in washington d.c. being all against him i would definitely be playing the right odds if i said that i think donald trump will definitely come out on top but which means by the way that the american people are the ones who win ultimately and i'm not really dr gene allowed in political analyst and also thank you thoughts thank you. thousands of migrants are still seeking shelter on the streets of french cities despite president. promise of a solution that story often breaks. the

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welcome back hopes for a diplomatic resolution to the korean crisis so now insights after the north agreed to hold formal talks with south korea ahead of the ensure lympics but it didn't take long for the u.s. president to take the credit for a possible deescalation of the crisis 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 well this week it was confirmed that north and south korea will meet for their first official talks in two years the meeting on january the ninth will discuss the upcoming winter olympics in south korea was also hopes it will address the 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 while the diplomatic breakthrough this week saw north korea reopen a telephone hotline with the south and been close since twenty sixteen and on

thursday the u.s. president finally accepted souls' request to postpone joint military drills june the olympics but the dean for darren law school tom brokaw's thinks the white house intervention as i need 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 in him i think here to the white house and help this progress happen that the white house is really. to in danger it and i think it's a credit to both sides the 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. well as the first week of twenty eighteen comes to an end thousands of liberians are still on the streets of france waiting for permanent shelter president macklemore vowed to clear the streets over rough sleeping migrants by the end of last year but his pledge seems to foreign 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. well artie shalah dubinsky has spoken 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. look was on 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 so 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 i'm a little on another this is my life you know look this man i knew three people

sleep with me we hear the stories you hear. is this the life you thought you would have moved. across france thousands of migrants a 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 boy they come it's a reception center where my quit school registered to possibly start a new life in the arts every day hundreds who are outside the centers like this base just simply won't cope with the demands despite a pledge that no migrants would be sleeping rough why the end of 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 so it's even ski aussie paris. yemen has been the target of another saudi led air 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 saturday morning getting a busy market in the northern province of solder it comes after another attack on january the first when more than twenty people were killed in the major port city of data. it would.

be. i am poor and have not turned work and love 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 for help comes very rarely once a year maybe but now we have no help or blankets tattered fifteen people are sleeping or not. saudi arabia's campaign in yemen is now in its third year the devastation war has claimed ten thousand lives and displaced more than three million people saadi led strikes have also obliterated much of the infrastructure and the blockade of the

country's ports has left around twenty million people dying need food and medical help. with saudi arabia recently allowed a key port 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. yemen is a country that depends on imports ninety percent of its needs are from imports so when you have three years of the devastating 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 food that the 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. i'll be back with the latest headlines in just over half an hour meanwhile for more on all of our stories. here's what people have been saying about redacted and i says it just. really show i go out of my way to find you know what this is really packed a punch. yeah john oliver of r t america is saying we are apparently better than that at sea you never heard of redacted the night president of the world bank hey i'm going to. send us an e-mail. a plate for many clubs over the years so i know the game and so i got. the ball

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planned welcome two worlds apart and latin adage goes that if you want peace prepare for war countering or deterring it russia 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 attitude to discuss that i'm now joined by still worth it this advocate and founder of the 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 there injuring and i can give you a very clear example of that i think it was the second. time that i met mandela and he started speaking to a room of about sixty people and he's not an orator here's a rush to be voiced but as you started speaking i got the 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 which still happens today but i think the most cruel forms of violence these days. are so seed it's 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 treat them as a human being with the same concerns fears and so forth as everybody of us 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 in 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 and for them it is part of that doctrine they simply don't see. people like b.z.'s as humans and. i'm sure you've heard of some of the horrors they

perpetrated on the women and children maybe there are some grève and says that are driving their behavior but rather than analyzing those grievances don't you think that we have to stop them first i don't think that the methods for using at the moment to stop them or work. if you if you look at the way that we have ourselves fetishist them by putting there any time that a suicide bomber succeeds in paris or brussels or wherever we put their their faces on the front page of the newspaper they become martyrs they become heroes to their own society and it's high time that we stopped doing that that we for beda media to give them the oxygen of publicity i covered syria a lot that weren't there and i met people you know mothers who were raped in the view of their children some mothers who saw their children being killed in front of them.