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people think. of. north korea and south korea are holding. the negotiations are taking place in the demilitarized zone between the two countries and here's what proceed at the negotiations with the reopening of a cross border telephone line the following day agreed to. hold until the next month's winter olympics in south korea. in the program i discussed the latest developments with. it went well which is rare to hear these days when it comes to the korea's one north korea agreed to send

a delegation to the winter olympics in pyongyang chang sportspeople performance for the cultural events it's simple if the north attends the olympics it's much less likely to stage a provocation launch another missile to family reunions relatives separated by the war that haven't seen each other for decades could be allowed reunions the extra month and three perhaps most importantly south korea has proposed face to face meetings between the north's and the south's military officials in order to deescalate tensions at long last alternately to denuclearize the peninsula it's a long shorts but it's a start 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 tourists to the korean nations is.

as you mentioned earlier we hope to bring a precious gift to your people and matches the expectations of our plane with you it has been a chaotic year from escalation to escalation saber rattling and childish rhetoric near enough every month the u.s. and south korea would stage war games on the north's border it's send a message. they even send nuclear bombers to the north's borders north korea was no less provocative and it tested increasingly advanced ballistic missiles stage suspected nuclear weapons tests and. it now reportedly has the capacity to hate mainland united states and kim joe moon has boasted he has his own button and his desk is

part of who is button big contest with trump which is why these talks was so important they allow for a poor choice for hot heads to cool off and for titan fingers to ease off on the trick is 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 the probably our 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 act 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 the latest talks followed months of escalation in the rhetoric and saber rattling between north korea and the u.s. however that will trump claims his aggressive attitude towards pyongyang is exactly what made the diplomatic breakthrough possible. totally destroy north korea that's called the military option the nuclear and ballistic missile programs of that regime require a determined response. little rocket man is a sick puppy. a lot of people said a lot of people have written that without my rhetoric and without my. i mean this is this is what has to be done if it has to be done. they wouldn't be

talking right. hundreds of people have been protesting in the spanish capital against the violence towards my refugees come into the country the outcry was sparked by the government's decision to temporarily housed new comers in a prison. protesters demanded the closure of the jail holding banners reading no detention centers no borders just over a week ago one was found dead in his cell site. media outlets reported the death as suspicious 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 death 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 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 there's no drinking water yet the government has used this prison for five hundred seventy eight male migrants from algeria since november this is totally illegal first the spanish state is prohibited from holding migrants in a prison the conditions under which the migrants live are legally guarded by riot police and have been unable to see their relatives it were not given any clothes for the first few weeks. defended the spanish government's argument that simply isn't enough space to howl. well the new arrivals however the mayor of the town where the jail is located says that's no excuse my thumb of the up what it would or

not agree with the spanish government senior lateral decision to house almost six hundred immigrants in the prison they're not criminals and more appropriate than a commendation could be found but it's not just one spanish region that has been facing difficulties with the migrant influx recent figures show that more than twenty thousand refugees have crossed into spain via the mediterranean in just the past year it is more than double the number of twenty sixteen we spoke to maria has a survey gone from the un human rights council in spain and she compares the spanish crisis to similar cases in other european countries and claims that wealth or appease can do more. you will meet here has been always same refugees and asylum seekers should not be kept in detention our team is just the top of the iceberg of a situation that is not properly hundred and a situation that has been there a high level off in previous haitian for

a long time the figure thing two thousand and seventeen having crease over one hundred percent compared to the previous years but still we're talking about really the monitor board members there is no war there and twenty seven thousand people breaking in one year when in the past we've seen freeze with one million or if they leave receiving over one hundred thousand people want to hear the basis so we therefore believe that spain should be doing much more in this regard. or coals to boycott clothing giant h. and m. after the appetizer a black child in a hoodie with the words coolest monkey in the jungle h. and m. has now taken down the image and apologized however that has not stopped a large rao. the brand being labeled as racist. marketing failed him down puts a black child in

a hoodie that reads and the coolest monkey in the jungle and the white child is the survival expert and now fox are pretending like they don't know the black children have long been racially characterized as monkeys. is just irony i highly doubt they will like let's put the monkey hoodie on. making it seem there is a white supremacist who works for h. and the thought it was funny to make a blackboard mandala hoody that said coolest monkey in the jungle each and am is not an american company brands do not have to be familiar with usas or other countries historical conflicts no one has to do background research for advertising a simple hoodie you're all damn if you know how your feel about the nation and who to situation i thought to do was cute. 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. we discuss whether the is racially insensitive with get off a tour of spiked magazine. for

a models of diversity. the whole issue is with this artisan campaign it's an advertising company the. 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 block choice hold for the company and the 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 contentions whatsoever i think is a really sad i think what has happened to 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 cheek and mischief 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 rector's because even if it was even if there's that opinion there's just like a badly 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 to 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 black child is chosen as the monkey and the white child is chosen as the jungle survivor in a climate 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 by the by a whole class of when i was going into a class and then really had 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 race that should be the goal for everyone in society is making children not think about their race 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 the previous speaker just did exactly that they said well this is 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 isn't black or white who cares it doesn't matter and still to come on the program here on our reports from the u.s. that a dramatic number of highly skilled employees are leaving the national security agency details in about. power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely and the fellow they measure them with 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 try to behead it but america is like that's reform meanwhile ok already there actually are in the process of reform but that somehow evil. one else seemed wrong. just don't hold. me.

to shape out just days after. and engagement equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. unfortunately it appears that once people learn that you've reported a sexual assault or made been involved in an incident that they become scared of you instead of being scared of the perpetrator. quarter past the hour here in moscow the national security agency in the united states is apparently facing troubling times there are reports that a dramatic number of employees on leaving the service one reason being apparently a slump in morale with high levels of distrust created in the wake of various leaks

the former n.s.a. technical director turned whistle blower william binney says it's got to the point where n.s.a. workers are even spying on each other. the internally and 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 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 the you know creativity and in the penance and get get get the fear of actually trying to do some. thing out of the employees 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 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 alexander former director there and claim to the judiciary committee in the senate that they've stopped that the poor 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. well tunnel 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 united states and the european commission have been the largest individual donors providing more than a third of the funding the fears have been for the aggravated though by remarks made by the israeli prime minister. to 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. and officially any american. that's been they assisted the financial. leaders that didn't deserve it this time that he would do everything to secure the budget for our what if i were issues in two thousand and eighteen the un it really found work agencies about five million people to live in various parts of the region now according to israel's prime minister though the lion's share of those don't actually need the help while those to do should apply to the un's refugee agency instead across the palestinian administration those classed as refugees represent a significant share of the population and the un relief and works agency says with folding investments it is struggling to provide basic necessities to those in need .

when with age they're like the cutting of us the nations to the un r 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 masses everyone understands wishes to disavow the rights of refugees and push towards the end of this holy jussi. meanwhile several humanitarian organizations in palestine have said they are ready to reject us aid but this in the wake of chum's decision to recognize jerusalem as israel's capital and we spoke to the director of one local and. we will. any. any political conditions.

american administration would like to use. as a tool. differently if you. google engineer who was. is suing the. discrimination his lawsuit alleges the company. political views male gender. criticizing the company's culture went viral. i'm simply stating that the distribution of preferences in the billets he's of men and women different in potency to by large cuckoos is and that 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 would less suited to a certain tech world he was fired off the google's c.e.o. stated parts of the memo violated their code of conduct and crossed the line by advancing harmful gender stereotypes in the workplace neal mccabe a 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 is 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 it is all of the international thanks for joining us so far that ultimately wraps up this program for now but my colleague mickey aaron will be here with more world news in about thirty minutes. the two thousand and eight economic crisis turns some countries into paid. these are the countries with weaker economies that needed austerity policies if you are in a situational flow gloat even the recession austerity is a very bad idea it doesn't work it makes millions of people very unhappy those who are unemployed see their wages decline almost a decade how good are the results she saw a piece of her by the people gathered in greece to watch the world get people to see what i. believe will be she was i mean to for legal.

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and all that all or will watch. altie we have a great team we need to strengthen before the freefall world cold and your bets have been a legend to keep it so it's at the back. in one thousand nine hundred two that must qualify for the european championships at the very last moment no one believed in us but we won and i'm hoping to bring some of that waiting spirit to the r.c.c. . recently i've had a lot of practice so i can guarantee you that peter schmeichel will be on the best fall since my last will come on that story as well as three. thousand zero zero zero zero you didn't hear i called russia. nice dry. left left left more or less ok stuff that's really good.

i. i i. this is boom bust broadcasting around the world from washington d.c. bart chilton. coming up some apple shareholders want to test the effects of i phone and its addictive tendencies plus the new year is here but what's in store for commodities in twenty eighteen in a few minutes we will be joined by peter schiff the euro pacific capital for a look into what to expect and later we'll talk about the looming government shutdown showdown and about how it could actually cause all of us money now let's

get to the top stories in today's business and financial headlines. apple is being pushed by two significant shareholders to investigate the risk of i phone addiction among children and adolescents activist shareholder firm general partners and the california state state teachers' retirement system cal stirrers wrote to apple over the weekend to suggest that apple look into the development of software that would enable the parents to place time limits on their kids' smartphone usage and research the broader effects of smartphone use on mental health two entities writing to apple control two billion dollars in stock and callous toure's as one of the biggest pension plans in the united states some resurgence of found indications of a relation between online social networking and depression among teenagers and there's even reactions that they have uncovered dealing with the loss of

a smartphone access to at least partially resemble a withdraw from drugs alcohol or even nicotine. meanwhile more controversy is stirring in the tech world as analyst and lawyers rakes questions about a major sale of intel stock by intel c.e.o. brian chris an itch following revelations about a security flaw in the intel chips many are taking a look at the nov twenty seventeen sale by chris an itch of thirty nine million dollars in company stock that generated twenty five million dollars in profit intel was made aware of the security problem nearly six months before christianity has stock sale while the c.e.o. filed the required paperwork and plans about a month before the stock sale intel has so far refused to clarify when the c.e.o. was informed of the vulnerabilities in their chips the size and timing of his sale

raise real questions for regulators at the u.s. securities and exchange commission and the federal bureau of investigation although proving such cases is generally fairly difficult. what's in store for oil silver and other commodities going into the new year let's ask peter schiff the c.e.o. of euro pacific capital who joins us from connecticut peter happy new year and thanks for being with us again we've certainly had a crazy good equity markets in the last thirteen months or more what about commodity marker markets going on so far in the last year or so and going on in the future well i'm very bullish on commodities in fact more so than most stock markets particularly in the united states and commodities had been in bear markets up until i think just recently.