we're not certain that. the top stories on the news this week at least twenty one people die as iran is wrought by mass pro and anti-government rallies with external pressure and fake online images fueling tensions. the u.s. and north korean leaders engage in one upmanship over the size of a nuclear boson's new hope emerges for a deescalation of the crisis with pyongyang agreeing to talks with south korea for the first time in years. and sizes of migrants are still sleeping rough on the streets of paris despite president macro's promise to solve the issue by the end of twenty seventeen we hear some of their stories. you look to smell a new group people sleep good we are your stories your view is this the life you thought you would have to move.

and you are watching the weekly headlines here at r.t. international thank you for joining us. this week twenty one people have died during a series of mass rallies in the wrong both for and against the government these began as protests about the economic situation that then turned political and then violent. washington has been openly supporting the anti government activists and ignoring the rallies in support of iran's leadership the us also called for an emergency un security. so meeting about the situation that some members started this 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 given for 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 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 know some of the books will 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 pompei a house threatens that european countries will pay for turning their backs on the us 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 that will have to answer for their behavior when 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 tromping 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 your 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 districts and complaining about you know this that economical social issue if you look at france itself since micron's personally ceded link huge rallies 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 try out from the international community on and these not is i really think it's time for them to reflect on their behavior and reconsider that and wife course of action that only adds to disorder in the middle east and beyond. honest essay a chicken a 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 tear 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 it's a little bit when you have to be accountable in any country people can protest against high prices but when have a such to mr ations 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 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 of the powers. back of the arena. because it's only with their backing that being the iranian people feel secure and can go all the way to securing their freedom of the 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 or up here. 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 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 as 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 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 rain movie after being exposed the man who posted it claimed it was supposed to be symbolic. and the video which games thousands of views are said to show a march in iran was later proved to be of a protest in bahrain from twenty eleven well the fakes were perhaps less clear one post claimed to show the uprising but it was actually a photo of a pro-government rally. president tram's former 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 reiterate those comments were not in that. 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 his claim that 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. where trump senior policy adviser was invited on to mainstream media and trying to explain the revelations but was cut off by the presenter one of the four hours of negative hysterical coverage on this network ok the lead in recent weeks or some spectacularly verisign false report i think the value of that we're now going to ascertain knows that if you are storing title i

have my reminds 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 i show on and i want to do that. well we are political talk show host brian crabtree about steve bannon's role in the book control mysie 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 them 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 right of 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 came with president trump and then he became pro steve bannon he was doing interviews he seemed to go rogue i think this is 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 sight after the north agreed to hold formal talks with the sas ahead of the winter olympics 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 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 that they wouldn't be talking about olympics that they wouldn't be talking right now this week it was confirmed that north and south korea will meet for their first official talks in teen 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 a so-called peace village in the demilitarized zone on the border between the two countries. well the different breakthrough this week saw in north korea reopen a telephone hotline with the south that had been closed since twenty sixteen and on says day the u.s. president finally accepted souls' request to postpone joint military drills during the elim pics but the dean for darren law school tom brokaw's thinks the white house intervention has 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 to the

white house is really. 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 that some good comes out of that irrespective of what tweets come out of from donald trump. despite some diplomatic progress don't trump hasn't pulled any punches in his twitter exchanges with the north korea's leader this week the insults reached a new level lobbed at the u.s. president bragged about the size of his new clear boss and it seems that for donald trump size really does matter. look at those hands are they small. and they referred to my hands if they're smaller than something else first baseball i guarantee you there's no problem.

i have the biggest crowds biggest idea because standing ovations best the best in the world the greatest health care plan very very successful i would build the greatest war you have ever seen a client i happen to be underrated by the way it. made me feel a warhead bragging about who has the bigger butt got the big you should be bragging about the size of your missile i. think. is the first week of twenty eighteen comes to an end thousands of micro insisted

all on the streets of francois waiting for shelter president mccraw vowed to clear the streets of rough sweeping migrants by the end of last year but his pledge seems to have fallen 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 r.t. shall a day bensky has been talking with migrants living on the street still trying 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 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 when you call your local one hundred one one i'm a little one another this is my life. and this man i knew three people sleep with me yeah the story. is this the life you thought you would have known. across france thousands of migrants and 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 or 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. and this is why they come it's a reception center where my kids can register to possibly start a new life new cards every day hundreds queue up by citing centers like this and this just simply won't code. with the demands despite a pledge that no migrants would be sleeping rough by the end of two thousand and seventeen president matt called has failed to keep his promise and migrants across the country see no end in sight to their suffering so what do you can ski r.t.

paris. israel is offering african migrants money to get out of the country or go to prison israeli prime minister binyamin netanyahu has labeled them infiltrators and said force will be used if they don't comply. show me something here those completely illegal and completeness and infiltrators have a clear choice cooperate with us and leave voluntarily respectively humanely and legally all have to use other legal tools at our disposal i hope to choose to cooperate with us. all those migrants who voluntarily agreed to leave by the end of march are being promised three and a half thousand dollars and a plane ticket they have the option of returning to their home country or going to a third one the alternative is jail israeli authorities say most of the migrants came to the country for economic reasons despite their claims they fled persecution

and war at home. well 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 and of those that remain nearly one and a half thousand held in detention centers one of the detention centers is hold which some refer to as an open air prison. just. the her whole are in a lot i just exist it's not a normal life to live in a lot is not easy with 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 eleven why did i leave eritrea because eritrea is a dictatorial country that 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 and 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 well as soon as the deportation plan appears the u.n. refugee agency reminded israel about it's changed to protect those who need it we invited two guests to debate. and not refugees they're criminals who crossed the border illegally and they have done quite a long way they didn't want to stay in egypt for example for some reason they crossed for vi are so done via egypt they came to israel they're not refuges not the asylum seekers they want to benefit from our reach from our merciful society and they are looking for rescue in their this very thing then do anything possible to save their lives some of them of course behaved fine and

they've made it fair 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 certainly seven thousand. the asylum seekers refugees who are lift part of them have children here they should stay here they have to stay here no 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 not less than this. place name instead of thanking israel for the years they spent here earn money were treated by the way by israeli medicine which is one of the best in the world instead of faking they what they're going to protest they're going to do it and

then they can't come back but by the way stories wherever they are they're welcome everybody is welcome but you have to keep the law they bribe the law provide through time it's also good to stick to facts and the fact is the rate of crime bank those migrants is much lower than the everetts rate of crime in israel it's not true oh it's absolutely long years rose those to date false statement i am not going to speak as though because this man is interrupting me eighty percent over there it's rare in europe are recognized as refugees in israel less than one percent how can you call it but racism how could you call it but racism in. 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 an arab world's poorest country took place on

saturday morning hitting a p.c. market in the northern province of santa he comes after another attack on january the first when more than twenty people were killed in the major port city of data. i am poor i have no time to work i love i suffer from the cold. i was going to reach the sidewalk some people to warm up on hot days ride on the sidewalk. in the. borders no no back i'll carry where i

want security at the bottom now we have no help or blanket i try to return to the people of kashmir one of our. 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 of the blockade of the country's ports has left around twenty million people in dire need of food and medical help. so the arabia recently allowed to keep order 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. war when you have restrictions on imports when 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. or form or all of these and plenty of other stories that go to our web site r.t. dot com at the top of the hour my colleague lori sushi will be here with the latest headlines but for me.

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