it was one of. the top headlines from the news this week at least twenty one people die as iran is run 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 bomb you hope of urges for a deescalation of the crisis is pyongyang agreeing to talks with south korea for the first time in years. and thousands of migrants are still sleeping rough on the streets of paris despite president marc calls promised to solve the issue by the end of twenty four seventeen we hear some of their stories. this minute. would be for you to do if you is this the life you thought you would have moved.

you're watching the weekly news round up here at 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. on washington has been openly supporting the anti-government activists and ignoring the rallies in support of their ons leadership the u.s. also called for an emergency un security council meeting about the situation but

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. however worrying the events of 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 only we use a curacy 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 love someone who does not work says we let 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. however cia boss might pump aoe has threatened that european countries will pay for turning the banks only us at the meeting why is it that our top european allies failed 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 they'll have to answer for their behavior we are some of our experts for their reaction to america's stand on iran. 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 current mistress and trump ministration must take more of a hard line against iran and don't lend 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 open a prudent course of action when dealing with some of our allies especially our longest standing allies in europe what is so surprising about some people coming out to destroy complaining about you know that economical social he she if you look at france itself since micron's presidency didn't this and if that is the path to take for the security council that wherever there's some protest for the security council to take action that would seriously cause havoc and chaos in the

international community and that is the wrong path to take and with the united states now itself isolating and you know any anything you could sell from the international community on and these not as i read it three thousand people then to reflect on their behavior and reconsider their own wife course of action that only adds to the disorder in the middle east and beyond. you know if he's honest i see a check in a house 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 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 try 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 unrest seems to depend on the country in 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 to must ration is happened in our country the 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 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 to bring to the. american the west the power is. back in the arena. because it's only with. 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. scene where this apparent pro-democracy fervor can lead. to a new 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 iraq i believe want evolution not revolution.

arrow 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 as i said you're going to r.t. london. well as the process in iran began to gain more international attention a 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 screen shot for a rainy and movie and after being exposed the man who posted it caned it was supposed to be symbolic and. the video which games thousands of views and was said to show a march in iran was later proved to be of a protest in bahrain from twenty eleven other fakes were perhaps less clear one post came 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 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 plain that trump found the white house daunting and that his 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 one of four hours of negative hysterical coverage on this network ok the lead in recent weeks or some spectacularly embarrassing false report i think the value of that we're now going

to ascertain it was that if you are storing title i have my reminder of the truth why should just give me three minutes to tell you the truth about a diatribe that i know and all of our campaigns you guys know my show on and i want to do that. we asked political talk show host brian crabtree about steve bannon's role in the book controversy he told us the former white house advisor is pursuing his own ambitions i don't think this has much impact on the president going forward i think it just shows that there's a few people that he has put himself around that he maybe to take a second look at steve bannon was one of and that's already done if you look at this book this is the biggest bout of fake news we've seen in a long time they quoted the fact that donald trump didn't know who john boehner our former speaker of the house was he played golf with him he was the speaker of the house for four months when trump began his campaign so i think steve bannon if you look at what he's really doing here the agenda of steve bannon is to run for president run a large bit of political action committee and that's why i got fired i think steve

bannon was pro trump until he got a taste of the power that they came with president trump and then he became pro steve bannan he was doing interviews he seemed to go rogue i think it was all about steve bannon and his agenda and i think you lost the thought that he was damaging trump who helped get elected. hopes for a diplomatic resolution to the korean crisis and now in science after the north agreed to hold formal talks with the south ahead of the winter olympics but it didn't take long for the u.s. president to take the credit for a possible day escalation 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 but it's also hoped it will address the tensions in the region it will be held in the so-called peace village in the demilitarized zone on the border between the two countries. well another diplomatic breakthrough this week so north korea reopen a telephone hotline with the south and been closed since twenty sixteen and on thursday the u.s. president finally accepted souls' request to postpone joint military drills jury in the olympics but the dean for darren law school tom brokaw's thinks the white house intervention has only made things worse if 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 in 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 the north and south korea that they've got to stick to open talks to open dialogue and one only hopes for the sake of the people who live on the korean peninsula there are some good comes out of that irrespective of what tweets come out of from donald trump well despite some diplomatic progress donald trump hasn't pulled any punches in his twitter exchanges with north korea's leader this week the end salts reached a new level after the u.s. president bragged about the size of his new boss and it seems that for donald trump size really does matter. look at those hands are they small. and he referred to my hands of this ball

something else most baseball i guarantee you there's no problem. i have the biggest crowds big yes i do because standing ovations best the best in the world the greatest health care plan very very successful i would build the greatest wall you have ever seen linus happen to be underrated by the way. overhead bragging about who has the bigger butt got the big you should be bragging about the size of your mis sold.

thousands of migrants and still sleeping on the streets in france despite president micro promising a solution last year well i'm not up to the break. everybody i'm stephen. hollywood guy you know suspects every proud american first of all i'm just george bush and r.v. news this is my buddy max famous financial guru just a little bit different. in your windows up with all the drama happening in our country and i'm sure the road to have fun every day americans. hopefully start to bridge the gap this is. great american people.

power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely and they color the matter over 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 right 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 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 mccraw vowed to clear the streets of rough sleeping migrants by the end of last year but his pledge seems to have formed flat leppla. 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. r.t.

shalah do bensky has been talking with like ones living on the street still hoping to start a new life in france 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. 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 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 here already call about more food no water but everybody you know you know your local one hundred one one i'm a little one another this is my life. and this man i knew three people sleep during real three years of the story. is this the life you thought you would have moved. across france thousands of migrants are 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 as metro station. and this is the boy they come

it's a reception center where migrants can register to possibly start a new life new drugs 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 by the end of 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. even ski r.t. 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 only our 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 and more than twenty people were killed in the major port city of our data. it would. be. i am poor i have no time to work and live i suffer from the cold. i was given a free society for some people to warm up on hot days right on the sidewalk. you know how i'll carry where i want security but now we have no help or blanket i'm tired. of people in their sleeping or not.

saudi arabia's campaign in yemen is now in its third year the devastating war has claimed ten thousand lives and displaced more than three million people saudi led strikes have also obliterated much of the infrastructure the blockade of the country's ports has left around twenty million people in dire need of 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 a 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 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 good stuff are more important than humanitarian aid because you cannot feed a population of twenty seven million people just by providing humanitarian aid. for more on these and plenty of other stories dot com otherwise i'll be back in just over half an hour with the headlines. here's what people have been saying about rejected and i say it's full. of the only show i go out of my way to find you know what it is that really packs the party. yap is the john oliver of a party america is going to say we are apparently better than that and see they've

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a long day but it's worth it in the end yes that is overtime is paid for by the millionaire. the police officers of the task force collect. their equipment. those tablets with the app. and the small electric carts. that. once the app is turned on they head to the french quarter. sidney torres is having dinner there with his son. but he's always connected to his phone. drug dealing decatur and that's been a right here. and to his that people have reported the presence of a drug dealer in front of this bar. it's

a drug deal that they said was happening and that's you know i'm looking on the g.p.s. right now to see what the machine is because the machine should be on its way right now. less than three minutes after the warning car isn't already on site. but the drug dealers just left. back at the station. joey is in charge of dispatching the police are. calling sewage. he has just received a picture that raises his concern. was the problem with the history you know it's probably carry it should go to scratch carry guns n f h it's hot out here look i want to long sleeve heavy duty shirt coverup. so our guys look at those pictures and we're probably the term that if they can't recall.

he immediately sends a car. the men vanishes. a few weeks later. this man identified with the application or murder a nightclub bouncer. the killer is twenty two years old his name is terry mark he will be arrested for the murder a few weeks later. due to the large number of alerts received tonight. joy he decides to help out his troops on site. now to. come out of the and hold a gun point on a drug. we decided to check the small streets around the french quarter the criminals often use them to escape the police.

will try to. make. men with suspicious behaviors prostitutes. a crowd that doesn't seem to enjoy the officer's presence. of some theft was god's will. see a guy who can cause trouble. all he's not a fairly good that's for sure. at this exact location a man was beat up and robbed a few days earlier under the different eyes of the prostitutes.