north korea and south korea hold high level talks for the first time in two years raising hopes of a possible diplomatic breakthrough over the crisis surrounding the peninsula. hundreds of people have been protesting in the spanish capital against the government's decision to house refugees in a regional jail. and there are calls to boycott clothing giant aging them after it featured a black child in a thirty with the words coolest monkey in the jungle gets debated the issue in the calling much of racial tension you know it's going to have a connotation i don't think this hard stuff called attention for the vast majority

of people the vast majority of people think this is a perfectly innocent campaign involving children of all races. a warm welcome you're watching r.t. international go casting live from the russian council so good to have you with us . north korea and south korea holding their first official talks in over two years the negotiations are taking place in the demilitarized zone between the two countries and here's what preceded the negotiations january the third so the reopening of a cross border telephone line the following day donald trump agreed to delay a military drills with seoul until after next month's winter olympics in south korea earlier my colleague discussed the latest developments with artie's mark gusty of. 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 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 mammal to give a new year's gift namely the results of the talks to the korean nations.

as you mentioned earlier we hope to bring a precious gift to your people but matches the expectations of our people 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 borders that sends a message. they even send nuclear bombers to the north 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 hit mainland united states

and kim jong 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 pause for hotheads to cool off and for tightened fingers to ease off on the triggers 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. 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 follow months of escalation in rhetoric and saber rattling between north korea and the u.s. however donald 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 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. hundreds of people have been protesting in the spanish capital against violence towards migrants and refugees coming to the country they are cry was sparked by the government's decision to temporarily house newcomers in the jail in malaga. protesters demanded the closure of the prison holding banners reading no detention centers no borders just over a week ago one my current was found dead in his cell at the site. some media outlets reported the death as suspicious the spanish police however say the man hung himself in his cell while his relatives allege that police brutality in the prison is more likely the cause of is death. well jerry in migrant death

added to the control of the sea surrounding the use of the prison as a refugee processing center a 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 the local activists insists that a place like this should never be considered as a refugee camp. 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 second the conditions under which the migrants live are legal guarded by riot police and have been unable to see their relatives they were not given any clothes for the first few weeks. some have defended the spanish government's argument that there simply isn't enough space to house all the new arrivals however

the arche don't know the town where the jail is located says that's no excuse why time of the border would not agree with the spanish government's union lateral decision to house almost six hundred immigrants in the prison they're not criminals and more appropriate 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 and that's more than double the number in twenty sixty we spoke to maria has this from the united nations human rights council in spain she compares the spanish crisis in similar cases to other european countries and claims that or thirty's can do more. u.n.h.c.r. has been always same refugees and asylum seekers should not be kept in detention. is just the top of the iceberg of a situation that is not properly hundred and

a situation there has been a high level of in previous haitian for a long time the figure thing two thousand and seventeen have increased over one hundred percent compared to the previous years but still we are talking about really manageable numbers there is no more than twenty seven thousand people preaching in one year when in the past we've seen priest with one million you to leave receiving over one hundred thousand people on a yearly basis so we've therefore believe that spain should and could be doing much more in this regard. there are calls to boycott the clothing giant h. and m. after it advertised a black child in our thirty with the words coolest monkey in the jungle h. and m's now taken down the image and apologized however that hasn't stopped a massive row with the browns being labeled racist. marketing fail

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 the h. and m. is just irony i highly doubt they will like let's put the monkey hoodie on a bill like al make and see if there's a white supremacist who works for h. and thought it was funny to make a blackboard mandala hoody that said coolest monkey in the jungle h. and m. is not an american company non-native brands do not have to be familiar with usas or other country's historical conflicts no one has to do background research for advertising a simple hoodie you're all going to feel how you all feel about the nation i am new to situation i thought the who 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. we discuss whether the ad is racially

insensitive with a nuke toss the editor of spike to magazine and write me for a diary 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 the white child as a survivor of the jungle there is 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 in mischief verse 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 that 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 on specifically choose a campaign where the. lap child is chosen as the monkey and the white child is chosen as the jungle survivor in a climate of racial tension you know that'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 affair 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 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 still to come reports from the u.s. that a dramatic number of highly skilled employees are leaving the national security agency we have more details after this break. it's.

seems wrong. well we just don't all. get to shape our. culture. and indeed it was betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we try to look for common ground. to. talk about 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 a slump in morale with high levels of distrust created in the wake of various leaks

from n.s.a. technical director turned whistleblower william binney says it's got to be the point where n.s.a. workers are even 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 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 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 and work environment and actually see the picket 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 are the 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 alexander general xander former director there and claim to the judiciary committee in the senate that they've stopped at the 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. with donald trump threatening to cut funding for palestinians human rights defenders say 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 fund and the funding they face have been further aggravated by the remarks made by the israeli prime minister. love them in the united nations relief and works agency for palestine refugees must become a thing of the past for those. who have the. official leave any american. that's been

there since the financial. continue to service. it would do everything to secure the budget for our operations in two thousand. the un relief and work agency serves as a five million people who live in various parts of the region but according to israel's prime minister though the lion's share of those soft don't actually need the help while those that 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 the u.n. relief and work agency says withholding investments it's struggling to provide basic necessities to those in need.

when i'm with age they're like the cutting of us the nations to the un our w.a.c. 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 which is to disavow the rights of refugees and push towards the end of this holy gypsie. meanwhile several humanitarian organizations in palestine have said they're ready to reject u.s. aid in the wake of trunks decision to recognize jerusalem as israel's capital we spoke to the director of one local and shia but we will come any. assistance from any organization or the states but dick in your consideration we

detect any political conditions so if. american administration would like to use this financial assistance as a tool for the political reasons and that the underlining that because of that i was a senior nationalist. it's definitely we would if use of that. a formal google engineer who was fired over his controversial diversity memo is suing protect giant for alleged discrimination his lawsuit alleges that the company mistreated employees for the conservative political views male gender and koch asian race james de mall 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 use of men and women differ in part due to biological causes 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 women were less suited to certain tech roles he was fired after google 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 feature of the case. i think the law and 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 and a lot city 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 when he

goes down the day stories by following us on social media i'll be back at the top of the hour with the latest headlines i'll see you then. the two thousand and eight economic crisis turns some countries into paychecks these are the countries with weaker economies that needed austerity policies if you are in a situation of flow bloat even the recession austerity is a very bad idea it doesn't work and it makes millions of people very unhappy those who are unemployed see their wages the flying off to almost a decade how good are the results she's almost at the new year and he's welcome by the people gathered in which to watch it will be people to see what you are doing a choice that if you truly believe will be she still clematis i mean if a legal. challenge must be with this young girl who was always think they see

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the world is. still. going to. come. gratings in salyut asia it's all right january nineteenth marg your calendars talk watch your because that is the date the united states congress will face it's the next deadlines and september fourth deadlines and september thirtieth to pass the twenty eight to budget for united states of america is the whole budget january nineteenth twenty eighteen is they still haven't still haven't gotten around to giving us a budget you see unlike the rest of us who face real world consequences for missed

deadlines and unbalanced budgets the us congress gets to pass the old continuing resolution in order to continue to dodge their important responsibilities like say keeping the government funded and running properly january nineteenth marks the sunset of now their fourth continuing resolution but passing budgets on time isn't the only important responsibility congress has been ignoring now on a regular pretty regular basis. according to a recent survey by gov spend dot com congressional members and the u.s. voting public are incredibly far apart on spending priorities for example gov spend discovered that when it comes to just the discretionary funding budget americans thought military spending should be cut in half an education science and energy and environment deserved to be roughly doubled or more but congress on the other hand decided that allocating six hundred thirty nine billion to the pentagon while

giving just fifty nine billion project cation was a was a much better use of taxpayer dollars. i guess to our illustrious elected officials a brand new gerald ford aircraft carriers far more important to our well being than heating city schools and baltimore seems that congress is also ignoring the will of the citizenry they represent relegating us to a pretty low spot on the totem pole of congressional priorities which is why which is why it is time to break out the wood carver and start watching. the. real thing. as it gets to the bottom. like you said i got. this.

week so. rugland watching the hard science of tight rope and don't have it all if so yeah goodness gracious little bit of a divide between what congress makes a priority and what we what we what yeah i'm not allowed to just get to it seems like this administration over and over again sort of says we'll get to it next week willow later it's a little and all of us get or we got to it i was out of my taxes i don't consider that my light bill medical bills they don't take that. i'm just about where it is pretty amazing our congress can just keep going to kicking the can down the down the hill or what you had one job one job and your one job one really important job which is to make sure that the money one goes the right place which is a whole nother conversation but i think it's that idea of how do people even understand as do do people do most americans have

a concept of how much what i wouldn't really spend and on what i don't is the i don't think yeah all right now i know it's the illusion versus the. reality really tabby look when they surveyed the zero two thousand some odd taxpayers they. the average for they they thought that the average for defense spending was about twenty six percent of the budget you know you look at it also you know about twenty six percent compared to fifty four percent of what we actually spend so like they kind of assume twenty six that's right and you take a look at this graph they put up most taxpayers actually thought the militias military spending accounts for roughly twenty six percent of the discretionary budget spending not the about fifty four percent it actually does most taxpayers felt like a twenty six a good number that we should be spending on them we started the spending of not a fifty four per cent dang near they also look at that they also thought that we spend about ten percent.