the ball boy walking. north from south korea to hold their first formal talks in two years after donald trump claimed his tough stance on pyongyang made the meeting possible. i. beat israeli prime minister faces mass protests over corruption allegations with thousands again marching in the streets of tel aviv. a new coalition talks are now in full swing in germany. and what some see as the country's worst political crisis in years. and welcome to our teens and ash live from moscow just here in the russian capital

one daniel wilkins thanks for joining us this hour. and north korea is set to hold official talks with the south for the first time in two years there are already some early signs of progress the start of the year saw the reopening of a cross border phone line the next day trying to lay down your military drills with seoul until after south korea holds the winter olympics next month face to face to go with the north are set for tuesday artie's caleb morgan takes a closer look. well it's hard to tell exactly everything that will be discussed now we know that one thing that is probably going to definitely be on the agenda will be the upcoming olympic games now we've heard from south korea's unification minister and he has said that he hopes that the talks become a place to ease the tensions now if you've been paying attention to everything that's been going on on the korean peninsula over the last few months you can tell there's quite a bit of tension there and you almost can't really imagine it being worse let's

take a look at what's been happening. now when the leader of north korea kim jong un was giving his new year's address he surprised a lot of people and unexpectedly called for talks or said he was open to talks between north korea and south korea this is what we heard from kim jong un during his new year's remarks that if the south really wants reconsideration in unity we will keep open the doors for talks contact and exchange to everyone including the south korean administration opposition parties groups from various fields and quantities and individuals now the moon administration in south korea as always you know called for

a more diplomatic approach to the north and so when they heard about the possibility of talks they jumped on it immediately now we did hear however donald trump first on twitter and then later in comments to the press and elsewhere take credit for the renewal of dialogue between the north and the south this is trump a lot of people have said a lot of people have written that without my rhetoric and without my tough stance and some just 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. here of strategic patience. with the north korean regime has noted states is prepared to use the full range of our capabilities to defend ourselves and our allies we will have no choice but to totally destroy north korea little rocket man rocket fuel for the american economy is

a sick puppy but unlike previous dialogue that has taken place at this point the usa will not be at the table so if donald trump himself is responsible it's odd that he wouldn't get a seat at the table for something that he arranged the whole world is watching the korean peninsula people have seen how the usa has paused its provided military exercises during the olympic games you know the olympic games are set to commence and now the world is watching as north and south korea are going to start talking to each other a lot of possibilities here in this moment people are waiting to see what could happen next and lauren government professor tom brooks believes the lack of any u.s. role in the talks is highly significant. i think the south koreans will be wanting to explore different ways they can lower tensions and i think it is a very important opportunity and a welcome one between the two sides but i also think that one or two meetings in the run up to

a winter olympics next month they're not going to achieve everything i think that these talks are happening certainly not because of trumpet in the sense some sense despite trump that it is very telling that usually the americans are always in the room and now the americans are nowhere to be found it what trumps rhetoric has done has increased the cons of threats if we were to get threats in the united states from north korea but increase the level of severity the fact that he's got no representative in the room for the talks no one will be actually there to help have anything to do with what goes on in the room or help the negotiations in any way is a sign of how powerless how much the united states has genuinely walked away from world leadership in areas like the korean peninsula. thousands have marched through the streets of tel aviv demanding the resignation of these really prime minister over corruption allegations what does the if as the full story.

for six weeks now its release have been demonstrating against the prime minister the prime minister as they've affectionately nicknamed him not just in tel aviv the capital but it's now growing but israel always been here for the last two years everybody is talking about it all the time to the media. there is a feeling that the government is corrupt. interests before the citizens the. government is corrupt. they're tired of it i think is going to get elected again. there are two publicly known cases against netanyahu in the first his wife and he

alleged to have accepted illicit gifts tobacco and alcohol from a hollywood billionaire luxurious champagne for the lady and fine cigars for the gentleman case number two netanyahu reportedly struck a deal with a major newspaper where in return for more favorable coverage he would weaken a rival newspaper using his office and powers as prime minister serious allegations stuff like this has put people in jail you think bebe's scared if there will be recommendations by police to endure so here's a fact i doubt the public knows the vast majority of police recommendations in with nothing more than sixty percent of police recommendations are thrown out here of course denies everything just like his predecessor who would or met also denied

ever taking bribes even as he was handcuffed and convoyed off to jail b.b. doesn't care police can recommend whatever they want it's only if the state prosecutors decide to act will he face trouble and he seems sure they won't they knew a year ago even before the investigation why did it take a year and a waste of time and public funds there's more of course questions about netanyahu has connections how bibi's cousin ended up in the middle of a controversial billion dollar deal to buy german submarines you know how these things happen but isn't it amazing how a man can be so flippant about corruption allegations against him and so righteous about corruption allegations against. others bridgie reunions are poor into the streets they seek freedom they seek justice i wish the rainy people

success in their noble quest for freedom. against the corrupted reduce the new learn but try to manipulate. criticism against the world it is really the. government police is still months away from issuing an official recommendation on whether to try the netanyahu or not the b.b.c. allies as striking back they've passed through legislation that would be the police for making any public recommendations on whether people should be taken to court netanyahu is a survivor israel's longest serving prime minister he has weathered and survived plenty of scandals and next time this law will make it even easier under the israeli law the prime minister does not have to resign even if he is

indicted and even when he's standing trial only after he has been convicted in a certain district court in jerusalem and after he's appeal has been denied by the high court which could take two years or so but this is only the legal point from the public and political point of view there will be a lot of pressure on him to resign or at least step aside for a while once he is indicted. on national security agency in the united states is facing troubling times with a number of employees leaving the service increasing dramatically we discussed the problem with former n.s.a. technical director turned whistleblower william binney you believe staff can no longer work in the commissions the agency creates. they've got the workers inside

and it's a watching the the other workers so that they can get their what their objective is to get somebody to tell them about someone who might be another edward snowden so that was the whole program that's what that's all about so i'm sure that that creates a very hostile you know kind of. a bad work environment and in addition to that i think some of the things they're doing like spying on u.s. citizens buying out everybody on the planet they too and they've even written internally some from some of the material from ed snowden they've read they've written articles about not being able to figure things out because there's just too much data for them to work with so i mean that just sets up a very bad work environment and i think their participation in this fake russia gate thing it's also discrediting them and so you know who wants to work for a corrupt organization and that's what that's what we have out there now. you

coalition talks have kicked off in germany in what seen as i'm going to michael's last chance to form a majority government and avoid yet another election the social democrats on the ruling christian democratic union will now have five days to enter into a so-called grand coalition both sides seem confident of success and form an alliance with the social democrats is now the only option left for angle muckle the previous coalition talks with the green party on the free democrats collapsed two months ago the current political crisis is seen by some as the worst in germany for years if a trend goes sizes up michael's chances of resolving it to put together a coalition it takes a match angle has been desperate to make any match she hoped her party could match with the greens but that plan also required matching with the ad d. p. or the free democrats are rights why appear to. but i know it's

a match pop ups angle almost got it right with the green party but she's still in favor of using coal power plus her transport minister in the old government called the greens tofu that has fallen into our meets when it comes to the d.p. these folks were nowhere near matching with deep divisions and how to deal with tax and solemn and environmental policies. we will not abandon our foreign policy with which we are not convinced it is better not to govern than to govern badly so that was it for the so called to make a coalition talks. one guy quit using the coalition building up all together but then signed up again. we are not entering a grand coalition we said this clearly in this room after the elections and we still stand by this. time politics and that's why these tools

necessary to meet the great challenges facing the world europe. so angle crossed paths with part there swipe left or swipe right the conservative leader is having another go at matching what the social democrats but here again angle may find herself matchless here's why. migration was much less of an issue in twenty third thing when agreeing on the c.d.u. s.p.d. grand coalition was no sweat today it's one of the main if not the number one issue for germans to worry about the success of the right wing force the conservative blog to get more tough on asylum seekers something the social democrats refuse to accept. instead what they'd love to accept that actually push for is more integration after all the s.p.d.

leader wants to see the knotted states of europe and while angle as c.d.u. as more hazard and varian wing of her block is turning increasingly euro skeptic you don't invite hungary's leader slash. viktor orban to a party summit for nothing. then there's the issue of how much to spend on the army the conservatives are seeking more military spending to reach the nato target of two percent of g.d.p. the social democrats though say that's not what germany needs if eventually these things are nuff to cause a mismatch angle or merkel may end up in real trouble. as the prospect of yet another election looms recent opinion polls show more than half of germans are against merkel running again we spoke to a political analyst writer office who believes a rerun is much more likely than people think trust to create a coalition. beginning to diminish quite considerably german population

there is already much of a majority of people calling for new elections as recent polls have showed a good negotiator would have seen much earlier that one of the three or even negotiating parties was why i'm to represent different points that were gathered to listen and obviously angela merkel failed at that point she did not realize how bad the situation was perceived liberals i can imagine that will be replaced. even if there are new elections already in twenty eight. the vice president of the german recently said he was in favor of limiting the chancellor's term in office to eight or ten years he called it the hardest job in the country and amid the political

uncertainty some are speculating merkel may not run again if the latest coalition talks fail the media spin up some potential successors. to. what is morally right. well. you know circus for the flight

crew. are you an expert in german wine. we were. it's pretty easy. right. now in other news the u.s. army and the department of homeland security have developed a virtual reality training game it's meant to simulate active shooter schools is intended for teachers and first responders helping them stay ahead of a potential tragedy. with. more than two hundred fifty school shootings in the

us in the last five years that average. week already this new year there have been two reported far on incidents in schools in the a third of all mass shootings in the u.s. since two thousand have taken place in educational establishments here's a reminder of some of the deadliest.

and we asked just how effective this new school shooting simulates a. growing problem. we have to really understand that we do live in a day and age when children are going to have to understand this at a younger age than we would have liked then we were probably raised with and because of that you know it is good to utilize technology in order to train them to either defend themselves against it or defend others against it and just to be ready for it because sometimes the worst things will happen when children or those in it situation have absolutely no idea how to handle what is happening in the group by teachers with at least some information in order to repair any of the dead that they're actually use and so on their school and what that does is it is sims that the assaults will come there will be more socks and dare i say this there will be there will be more shooting there will be more back shootings in schools across

the united states we have seen this and there's nothing that tells me that that's simply not true will technology and video games make decision ration safer i don't know i hope it will but here's what i do know i know that we have seen mass shooting after mass shooting after back shooting children in the united states but we're working in the schools with young students to help them understand the modern threats of that time and to better prepare with that to know exactly what to do in the case of the current modern threat happy in a plan their school in this case it is school shootings in united states and so you know teachers first responders being able to take part in the simulations is going to help them better train their students for what to do in the event of a school shooting this is to some degree and acceptance that that is the ongoing reality and that the only true response the only thing that the u.s. can do at this point is simply to prepare teachers for what is coming rather than

to point a legitimate alternative to stopping those actual shootings themselves. now you might think a successful businessman has better things to do than spending his days picking up litter on the streets but not so when you're a man on a mission. thank you. out . there i think it doesn't matter how much money. you are rich or poor you always need to pass on positive energy to society but it doesn't matter how old you are either. who. are in public i would pick it up and not to do it again because i collect trash to

remind and persuade others thank. you if ten percent of citizens were like him our environment would be much better. i believe that if i persist the environment will be better keep doing this as long as i can even when i'm seventy eighty years old. well so will from myself from the team here at r.t. for this hour you can check out any more news stories on our website ulti dot com i want to leave a comment on all social media as well we'll be back in about thirty five minutes for more global headlines.

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heart of my state i can't see. that not will follow me and my peoples for the rest of our lives. we won't see any shots of the faithful not in this film we never want to see that again. grenfell but for local and good old reasons there's a bigger picture that i love more about every day we talk politics now and how we can take power because we learned that we have to look off to ourselves. grenfell changed everything. it did the consequences we saw fit to make the cranes live in the horizon in different morph anyways no i live in cannes in the chelsea it's one of the richest areas in the whole country but the north where we live has one of the highest concentration of people of low incomes. the growing inequality is pushing so many out the area it's obvious global capital has no the god for people

like me it's the same story the world over from butt into rio madrid to new york but maybe because we haven't such prime real estate well. we had to live could be a warning for you all so i set out to learn from those who are in the know about here and tell you about. me they want to paris more due. here where they push everyone out to the outskirts in a suburb where you can easily control that outside of that of the inner circle where they have taken over and you go i have a income to even be there i was the only reason you're going to be going in is to commute go to work and do some menial task and come back out again and go back to the suburbs they look at this particular area as a gold mine and the thing that's preventing them from being able to mine that gold is the presence of the people here are social housing they were they were cutting

back on on all of it has a maintenance and i've been told nothing is quite literally in this process we call manage decline and i think data is praised as we'll as we'll believe that a cheap job was done if that's proved what you think it probably will be pan that will be and when it comes confirmation of our worst fears and that that's a very deterministic and unpleasant warfare against people flowing in having seen many of us now see a wool fair by the rich in collusion with their mates in local government they didn't represent us they light a car they deregulated it and it killed. the council's representatives deny social plans and they tell us with a straight face they care about our community i don't think that the issues are about social cleansing as you put it i can understand why people of. explain in those wise for me the issue is how though how is this council going to invest in

that area and invest in ways that delivers community value for the people they are not. moving the people they are out to somewhere else that's not on the gender it's all so-called regeneration is here our community we've wave after wave of gentrification for decades it swept away homes and communities spaces it replaced record shops with coffee shops music venues will be cheeks. where we feel like outside as the streets we want schools are now full of tourists and the rich i can't tell you how many people i've seen move out because it's just too expensive and you know whorish our sewer i've never felt such a difference between one of our off and them i'm talking cross on the ration if we hear regeneration we know it means the generation we know it means destruction of any community now we did a story of regeneration project that exists no doubt every generation comes to your party would you best watch out because he's look like if you don't battle against

and stop them they're going to wipe out everything that you all day basically you know everybody's been pushing the regeneration culture yet is actually part of including is that head we need to chop off because it is that beast that created the grain for itself land. is that culture that created it and is hundreds of years old and they still see us especially the african caribbean population as their former slaves had a bitch an activist around here lived in grenfell tower he won countless times about deregulation and the flowers in the fire safety standards he said only a catastrophe would lead them to see and he was right plan and.