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this is a. thanks for joining us on. north korea and south korea are holding official talks in. the negotiations taking place in the demilitarized zone between the two countries and here is what preceded the negotiations on. the reopening of across the board a telephone line and the following. agreed to military drills with seoul in next month's winter olympics in south korea and just to discuss the latest developments with. but what we know so far that has been discussed well it's all hush hush and secretive obviously these talks are very sensitive for both sides in this

specially if you consider what's at stake but things have gone judging by the tidbits we've heard well which is rare enough these days when it comes to the to the koreas first they agreed that the north koreans will send a high profile delegation to the olympic games winter olympic games next month in south korea and this is important this is important because it means that north korea is much less likely to launch a ballistic missile for example while the games are going on and the united states and south korea in turn are much less likely to hold another exercises military exercises near the north's borders to family reunions we're talking here about families that were torn apart separated back in back in the fifty's during the war itself that separated the two the two countries and they'll be allowed to see each other potentially again next month and three perhaps most importantly the south

koreans have proposed direct face to face talks between north korean and south korean military officials the people that have all the gardens that the people you know that could deescalate the situation because the last year has been horrendous anyway you look at it and the south koreans say they're venture aim is full denuclearize zation of the peninsula. with number one i think we should be engaged in these talks in an earnest sincere manner to give a new year's gift namely the results of the talks to the korean nation so. it will as you mentioned earlier we hope to bring a precious gift to your people that matches the expectations of our people so that does seem to be some sort of sense of optimism here but it does come after quite an escalation in the region doesn't it but it was it was a very busy year we went from escalation to escalation the united states and south

korea holding near monthly war games military exercises along along the north borders for example. i i. and those those were continuous along with that the even sent nuclear capable boarders to circle around north korea sending a message the north pyongyang and self was not blameless they launched increasingly sophisticated advanced ballistic missiles and staged nuclear tests they have allegedly reportedly miniaturized those nuclear weapons doubt so they able to fit them in those nuclear warheads which can now target mainland united states code into reports which was for the united states

a red line and it provoked them to further war games the more military exercises and you know this was a vicious cycle one side would do something the other side would respond and then there would be another response so this is why these talks was so important to find common ground to give people breathing space to relax for a heart to their heads to cool off and for those fingers to loosen up on those triggers. so i live now to joe's of china political analyst and professor at hong kong city university joining us here on the program mr chang good to see you both the north and south expressing optimism do you expect any potential breakthrough at these talks. yes it is a small breakthrough certainly the entire korean negotiations have led to the participation of not career in the ping tongue winter olympics.

and the south korean side is the more eager party it openly proposes that the two koreas may continue to talk about family reunions about the rung the coming new year the reopening of the ties long industrial park as well as even. negotiations under nuclear weapons issues. certainly there will be continuing discussions on protocols of north korea taking part in the winter olympics like the arrangements for the opening ceremony and so on the international olympic committee is quite willing to facilitate as well mr chang we understand that one of the tentative agreements coming from the talks today is to the highest level military officials for boast both south korea and north korea will open up

a line for conversations how significant is it that the most powerful members in the military's on both sides of the border are going to open up the lines to be able to talk to one another. well the south korean government is the more l.t.r. state party because into a career in negotiations. with president bush in this. political press form the lection and south koreans in general. do well come into a career as though she can. under part of north korea on the part of the united states. they are both reluctant to demonstrate their eagerness to take part in negotiations because there's eagerness may well be interpreted as a sign of weakness. but nonetheless they certainly indicate that they are willing

to talk and that negotiations is not are now and accept that option to all parties involved now south korea and the u.s. still insist that pyongyang must de nuclearize it must get rid of any nuclear weapons it may have do you think that's still possible at this point. mr chang you don't you don't think it's possible that north korea will do you nuclear eyes at the request of south korea and of washington. i do apologize i think we've lost the connection here with the international i was speaking to joseph chang a political analyst a professor at hong kong city university will try to reestablish that connection thank you for your patients. hundreds of people have been protesting in the spanish capital against violence towards migrants and refugees coming to the country the

outcry was spog by the government's decision to temporarily housed newcomers in a jail in malaga. protesters demanded the closure of the prison holding banners reading no detention centers no borders just over a week ago one migrant was found dead in his cell at the site. now some media outlets report of the death as suspicious the spanish police however say the man hanged himself in his cell while his relatives allege that police brutality in the prison is more likely the cause of his death now the algerian migrants death added to the controversy surrounding the use of the prison as a refugee processing center the spanish authorities say they have resorted to using it only as an exceptional and temporary measure but they also stress that the facility is brand new and has never been used as a prison but local activists insist that

a place like this should never be considered as a refugee. it is not even acceptable to hold prisoners that there's no drinking water yet the government has used this prison for five hundred seventy eight male migrants from algeria since november saying this is totally illegal first the spanish state is prohibited from holding migrants in a prison second the conditions under which the migrants live are legal now guarded by riot police and have been unable to see their relatives who were not given any clothes for the first few weeks with a permit from them and that some have defended the spanish government's argument that there simply isn't enough space to house all the new arrivals however the mayor of the town where the jail is located says that's no excuse my time of the airport is that we do not agree with the spanish government seeing a lateral decision to house almost six hundred immigrants in the prison they're not criminals and more appropriate accommodation could be found but it's not just one

spanish region that has been facing difficulties with the migrant influx of recent figures show that more than twenty thousand refugees have crossed. into spain via the mediterranean in just the past year that is more than double the number of twenty sixteen and we spoke to maria hayes who is vega from the u.n. human rights council in spain and she compares the spanish crisis to similar cases in other european countries but still claims with ortiz do. you an eight year mean always same refugees and asylum seekers should not be kept in detention our team is just the top of the iceberg officer to ation that is not properly hundred and the situation there has to be in a high level often pretty station for a long time the figures in two thousand and seventeen have increased over one hundred percent compared to the previous years but still we're talking about really

the monotube all numbers there is no war then twenty seven thousand people free to mean one year when in the past we've seen freeze with one million or if they leave receive in over one hundred thousand people want to hear the basis so we therefore believe that spain should be doing much more in this regard. there are coals to boycott clothing giant h. and m. after the advertised a black child in a hoodie with the words coolest monkey in the jungle h m m's now taken down the image and apologized over that has not stopped a large row with the brand now being labeled as racist. marketing fail him down puts a black child in a hoodie that reads i'm the coolest monkey in the jungle and the white child is the survival expert and now fox has pretending like they don't know the black children have long been racially characterized as monkeys the h. and m.

is just irony i highly doubt they will like let's look the monkey hoodie on a bill like al make and see if there's a white supremacist who works for a train that thought it was funny to make a black boy model who did that set coolest monkey in the journal nature nam is not an american company not needed brands do not have to be familiar with usas are other countries hysterical conflicts on how to do background research for advertising a simple hoodie you're all gonna feel how you all feel about the nation i am new to the situation i thought that to do was cute see you me that got a little black boy in a monkey hoodie of course it's offensive but it's so obvious i'm hysterical over the lack of awareness by each of them. were discussed or whether the it is racially insensitive with a loop get also low editor of spiked magazine and. from models of diversity. the whole issue is with this advertising campaign it's an advertising campaign that it's international it's an international campaign and it's so obvious that if

you're going to use a connotation like monkey whether a child is a monkey you're going to choose a black child for the campaign and a white child as a survivor of the jungle there's not going to have connotations it's ridiculous to think it's not going to have any contagions whatsoever i think is a really sad i think what has happened is the word monkey has been used because this boy is a child and the word monkey is used to describe children of all races because they're cheeky and mr first and you can see this across children's clothes for children of all races and this was part of a jungle themed clothing line the idea that this was somehow racially malevolent i think is utterly ludicrous i'm so disappointed by this campaign i've seen them do they always use a mix of models but this is really not you know it's ill timed to say the least is what this campaign is it's really badly thought out all by a board of white. because even if it was even if there's that opinion then it's

just like buckley thought it might be parents that are negatively thinking about this you cannot deny the connotations that it held i don't think this has that connotation for the vast majority of people the vast majority of people think this is a perfectly innocent campaign involving children of all races involved in the jungle and i think it's really sad when adults pre conceptions about racism and race get read into childhood interactions i think that is potentially extremely corrosive if this kind of thinking gets into our school environment for example what are we going to end up saying that black children can't be involved in games that might involve jungle animals children are going to get involved in games involve jungle animals if you're going out specifically choose a campaign where the. block child is chosen as the monkey in the white child is chosen as the jungle survivor in a climb up of racial tension you know it's going to have connotations especially

for their parents i was bullied by a whole class called a monkey fatherhood by a whole class when i was going into a class. and it really has an effect and if that's going to have an effect on me that's going to have an effect on generations to come because you're the parent of that child you can't get away from the strongest way we can deal with this is by moving children beyond rice that should be the goal for everyone in society is making children not think about their rights that's the way we should be proceeding but what this thinking does is that it reads into people's motivations a racist and malign motivation and the previous speaker just did exactly that they said well there's a white board of people this must be a racist thing this must be racial why can't it simply be that this is a child a child who is black or white who cares it doesn't matter and still to come on the program here what are the reports from the u.s. today dramatic number of highly skilled employers are leaving the national security

agency details on that after the break. and when else should seem wrong. why don't we all just don't call. me. yet to see power just didn't come out today. and in detroit equals betrayal. when something find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground.

they did accept the reject. so when you want to be president. this is what will. be. interesting. thanks for joining us here on the national security agency in the united states is facing troubling times there are reports that a dramatic number of employees are leaving the service one reason being apparently slumping morale high levels of distrust created in the wake of various leaks a former n.s.a. technical director turned whistle blower william binney says it's got to the point where n.s.a. was spying on each other. the internally in

n.s.a. you see the 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 of 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 and 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 then 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 that 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 and who are intending harm to people i mean they haven't stopped this for any of them that i know of because alexander general xander former director there and claim to the judiciary committee in the senate that they'd stop 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 that the work and employees working there would perceive the job and the charter and the duties inside and say. donald trump threatening to cut funding for palestinians human rights defenders fear this could harm first and foremost the u.n. relief and work agency

a special body for palestinian refugees the united states and the european commission have been the largest individual donors providing more than a third of the funding the fears though have been further aggravated by remarks made by the israeli prime minister. so one of them in the united nations relief and works agency for palestine refugees must become a thing of the past for those. who have not. and officially any american. that's been they assess the financial. evils but don't use the service this time it would do everything to secure the budget for our what if our issues in two thousand eight

hundred the un relief and work agency saw of a five million people including most of those in the gaza strip according to israel's prime minister though the lion's share of those that don't actually need its help while those that do should apply to the u.n. refugee agency instead of the u.n. relief and work agency says with folding investments it is struggling to provide basic necessities that those in need. when with age there like the cutting of us the nations to the u.n.

our w.a.'s budget will weaken the agency's ability to provide a minimum level of services to the palestinian people which means that the us as everyone understands wishes to disavow the rights of refugees and push towards the end of this holy. meanwhile several humanitarian organizations in palestine have said they are ready to reject us aid this in the wake of trump's decision to recognize traversal them as israel's capital and we spoke to the director of one local and jihad. we will come any. assistance from any organization or the states but dick in your consideration we reject any political conditions so if. american administration would like to use this financial assistance as a tool for the political reasons in. the bill that i was a senior it. differently we would if use of that.

a formal google engineer who was fired over his controversial diversity memo is suing the tech giant for alleged discrimination his lawsuit alleges the company mistreated employees for their conservative political views male gender and caucasian race and james at the more it was fired last august after his internal memo criticizing the company's culture went viral i'm simply stating that the distribution of preferences in the billets ease of men and women differ in part due to biological causes and these differences may explain why we don't see equal representation of women in tech and leadership in the ten page memo the former google employee suggested that women were less suited to certain roles he was fired after google c. stated parts of the memo violated their code of conduct and crossed the line by advancing harmful gender stereotypes in the workplace and political journalist

speculates on the future of this case. i think the law in the constitution is on the side of the company but it is interesting that the courts are allowing this case to move forward i think it would be dangerous if private companies were being held to a first amendment standard that doesn't really apply you certainly don't want employees able to sort of provoke other workers and create this sort of animosity inside the workplace i'm very sympathetic to google's point of view by law but the spirit of the lawsuit is something i'm really enjoying watching thanks for joining us here on r.t. international on this tuesday will return very soon with more of your worldwide news headlines. the two thousand and eight economic crisis turn some countries into paid. these are

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