north and south korea are to hold their first formal talks in two years after donald trump claimed his top stance on pyongyang made the beating possible. israel's prime minister faces mass protests over corruption allegations with thousands marching in the streets of tel aviv. and new coalition talks are in full swing in germany as i'm going to multiple attempts to end what some day even the country's worst political crisis in years. this is r.t.

international coming to you live from moscow i think partridge thank you for joining us. north korea is set to hold official talks with the south for the first time in two years and there are already some early signs of progress january the third saw the reopening of a cross border telephone line and the following day donald trump delayed the annual military drills with seoul until after next month's winter olympics in south korea face to face negotiations with the north are set for later on choose day and 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 if the south really wants reconsideration and unity we will keep open the doors for talks contact and exchange to everyone including the south korean administration opposition poems these 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 said 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 now. because it's clear of strategic patience. with the north korean regime has failed united 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 military exercises during 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 human rights lawyer eric surat can believe the talks will reduce the risk of a military confrontation. i think it's a step back from a military solution because there is no military solution it other than death and destruction of hundreds of thousands or a million people or more in the long run both sides would benefit from peace whether there are people within each government that have an objective to maintain

this conflict to maintain the battle state there probably are however you know so it's hard to say put north korea into one camp however i see what can come from the talks is a type of peace. treaty and the type of situation where these countries can learn to live in peace and that's only going to come from building relationships. thousands of people have marched through the streets of tel aviv demanding the resignation of israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu due to allegations of corruption where i guess day of reports. was.

for six weeks now its release have been demonstrating against the prime minister crime minister as they've affectionately nicknamed him not just in tel aviv the capital but it's now growing all over israel proper and always been here for the last two years everybody is talking about it all the time to the media. there is a feeling and puts its interests before the citizens that the. government is corrupt ten out of them are tired i think is going to get elected again that's enough. there are two publicly known cases against netanyahu in the first his wife and he alleged to have the excepted 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 good 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 like these his handcuffed and convoyed off to jail bibi doesn't do 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 babies 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 pouring

into the streets they seek freedom they seek justice i wish the ring of people success in their noble quest for freedom and you know. this support. against other corrupted or to learn but try to manipulate. their own criticism against him what is really. a corrupt government and lisa still. once away from issuing an official recommendation on whether to try netanyahu or not the allies as striking back they've passed through legislation that would forbid police from making any public recommendations on whether people should be taken to court that's in yahoo's 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 all of the after he has been convicted in a certain district court in jerusalem and after he's a real has been denied by the high court which could take two years or so but this is only beleaguered point from b. 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. new coalition talks have kicked off in germany in what seen as angela merkel's last chance to form a majority government and avoid yet another election the social democrats and the

ruling christian democratic union will now have five days to enter into a so-called grand coalition and both signed seem confident of success forming an alliance with the social democrats is the only option left for angela merkel previous coalition talks with the green party and the free democrats collapsed two months ago the political crisis is seen by some as the worst in germany for years and he signs up holding 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 d.p. or the free democrats are rights wide here too but no 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 meats 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 call the 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 needs a new politics and that's why these tools necessary to meet the great challenges facing the world europe and germany so angle crossed paths with park there swipe left or swipe right the conservative leader is having another go at matching

with 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 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 moore has it in the very end wing of her block is turning increasing the 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 well as the prospect of yet another election lives recent opinion polls show most than half of all genders are against running again and that we spoke to geo political analyst ron altruists who believes a rerun is much more likely than people think. the trust in the great coalition is beginning to diminish quite considerably and the german population there is already much of a majority of people calling for new elections as recent polls have shown

a good negotiator would have seen much earlier that one of the three or two or even negotiating parties was quite yet under reprise centered in two different portland will listen and obviously i'm going work will fail if there are new elections in the country. as a result herships in relation to the give the other side the second night that night. what is the delegate for on the right that. this is a well have any of you ever seen a circus with

a flat roof. are you an expert in german wine. we were here they were whining to us now yes it's pretty easy to distinguish between all brad i am quite why. the u.s. government has created a video game to help teachers deal with school shootings that story and more still to come.

it's a new year but the same stories persist out front is the chaotic trump white house followed by the steel dossier and a possible breakthrough with north korea. welcome back the national security agency in the united states is facing troubling times numbers of employees leaving the service are increasing dramatically former n.s.a. technical director turned whistle blower william binney thinks staff can no longer work in the conditions the agency creates. the internally

in n.s.a. see their program called see something say something about employees your fellow workers so they've got the workers inside n.s.a. watching the they 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 that destroys the morale the people do it work doing the work there i mean can you it's like you were in the middle of the i was in the original program set up by the stasi to they did the same thing in east germany so i mean well when you i mean anybody who had a vendetta or some gripe against someone else could say something about them you know in without giving their names and just to report them for something just to get them into trouble and have difficulty so i mean that just sets up a very bad work environment. they have to encourage you know

creativity and independence and get get get the fear of actually trying to do something out of the employee so they're not afraid to try things i mean when you have people watching you all the time for some kind of slip up i mean that kind of that kind of makes you an inhibited that kind of says i don't want to try to do things because somebody might perceive it incorrectly and if they do and i get reported i get in trouble so you know that's that's a very bad thing for them to be doing so they need to correct that they need to they need to also out a magically audited on what they're doing so that you know congress can really know what's happening and the people can really know and so can the justice department they're doing illegal things like violating the constitution of the united states which are currently doing now. so they need to correct all of that and then that will create a better work environment and actually see the big get the people who are working there to see that they're actually doing positive things. well i

mean i don't see them succeeding at stopping terrorism anyway i mean the only thing they stop for this set ups that the f.b.i. does you know they entrap people as far as the the attacks that have really been planned by terrorists or people who are in there who are intending harm to people i mean they haven't stopped this for any of them that i know of because xander general alexander former director there and claim to the judiciary committee in the senate that they've stopped fifty four attacks and he was challenged by senator leahy to prove it and he couldn't prove any of them so i mean the point is the thing that they're doing is unconstitutional illegal it's crimes against the laws of the united states and they need to stop that that would change some of the way the the work and employees working there would perceive the the job and the charter and the duties inside in a say well u.s. army and department of homeland security have developed a virtual reality training game to simulate shootings in schools it's intended for

teachers and first responders helping them stay ahead of a potential tragedy. the feeling could. well that help painting hundred seventy five school shootings in the u.s. in the past five years an average of almost want to week and this shit already there have been two reported firearm incidents in schools while nearly a third of all mass shootings in the u.s. since the year two thousand have taken place in schools here's a reminder of some of the deadliest.

and we also experts how effective this new school shooting simulator may be in helping to curb the 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 this and just to be ready for it because sometimes the worst things will happen when children or a those in it situation have absolutely no idea how to handle what is happening

that provides teachers with at least some information in order to prepare any addend that they're actually use and so on their school and what that does say is it is assumed that the assaults will come up there will be more socks and dare i say this there will be there will be more shooting there will be more bashing digs 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 decisions 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 happiness upon their school in this case it is school shootings the 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 but 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 actually shootings themselves. i'll be back with the latest headlines in just over half an hour meanwhile for more on all of us stories. i played for many clubs over the years so i know the game inside guides. football isn't only about what happens on the pitch pull the funnel school it's about the passion from the fans it's the age of the superman each kill the narrowness and spending to get to the twenty million and one player. it's an experience like

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