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. the launch of a state of the art space x. well it's classified u.s. government not to like is to speculation about whether it made it into space with none of the usual information released. hundreds of people have been protesting in the spanish capital against the government's decision to house refugees in a regional jail. a

warm welcome you want to r.t. international casting live from the russian capital and nikki erin good to have you with us. north korea and south korea are holding their first official talks in over two years the negotiations are taking place in the dimmick demilitarized zone between the two countries and here's what preceded the negotiations january the first the reopening of a cross border telephone line the following day donald trump agreed to delay military drills with seoul until after next month's winter olympics in south korea auntie's more is following the developments. 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 manner to give a new year's gift namely the results of the talks to the korean nation so. that as you mentioned earlier we hope to bring a precious gift to your people but matches the expectations of our people it is 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 they'd 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 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 don't know trunk claims his aggressive attitude towards pyongyang is exactly what made the diplomatic breakthrough possible. totally destroyed during that call 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 will do 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 would be talking about olympics that they would be talking right. hundreds of people have been protesting in the spanish capital against violence

towards migrants and refugees coming to the country the outcry was sparked by the government's decision to temporarily house newcomers and i 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. some media outlets reported the deaths are 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 to be the cause of his death well jerry and migrants death added to the control the city 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 there that a place like this should not be considered a refugee town. 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 illegal guarded by riot police and have been unable to see their relatives they were not given any clothes for the first few weeks before moving 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 r.t. don't know the town where the jail is located so 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 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 as more than double the number in twenty sixteen we spoke to maria his this vaguer from the united nations human rights council in spain she compares the spanish crisis to similar cases in other european countries and claims that all thirty's can do more. u.n.h.c.r. has been always saying refugees and asylum seekers should not be kept in detention . is just the top of the iceberg of a situation that is not properly. and a situation that has been there 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're talking about really

the monitor board members there is no more than twenty seven thousand people free to mean one year when in the past we've seen greece with one million or if they leave receive in over one hundred thousand people on a yearly basis so we therefore believe that spain should be doing much more in this regard. a state of the art space x. rocket is carrying an expensive classified u.s. government satellite and successfully were turned off the lot however no information has been provided on whether the satellite itself actually made it into space a lot easier to truncate joins me now live in studio to discuss this further you know what do we know so far about this the behind well the fascinating thing about this is that ahead of this launch and during it there were so many stories in the media about you and mosques companies sending

a top secret or spy satellite into orbit and it is called zoom our but almost two days after the launch everyone is pretty much in the dark about what happened to the satellite late sunday's launch was lifestream but only until a certain stage and you may say fair enough that's a top secret mission and there was a practice of censoring such live streams but then we understand that need. the manufacturer of the satellite nor space six actually reported on the mission being successful is there any reason to think that something went wrong well this is first of all the reason to think that something went wrong the fact that there was no mission successful report but then also to respected news organizations in the u.s. wall street journal and bloomberg reported dead zuma may have actually fallen back to earth or burned in the earth's atmosphere and after getting the information from

anonymous sources within the u.s. government and also the industry the two news outlets tried getting comment from the pentagon from the satellites manufacturer and of course from elance they want musk sorry company and this is what they've got. we have nothing to add to the satellite cadillac at this time we cannot comment on classified missions we do not comment on missions of this nature but as of right now reviews of the data indicate falken nine performed nominally so once again if we look out the list of satellites which are operation which are in operation in orbit currently there is nothing new there and also this much secrecy where does that come from. does it mean that this mission is so.

much about spying the actual functions of the satellite are meant to be top secret . is it so bad that no one's entitle to know about it or on the other hand everything is in the current state or just because the act will fail or happened and maybe that's not a reputation disaster for you or mosque but it's definitely something that's going to tarnish his image with the mission actually failed and also that might affect how he's doing business with the u.s. government in this is something that space x. is really counting on we understand that the next prospect is actually sending. men crews into space so it will be interesting to watch and hopefully we can get more info from all the parties here from the u.s. government from the private contractors so we'll be looking at that absolutely and it almost is usually quite active on twitter as well as it is quite unusual that he hasn't already put a comment out there so we'll be keeping an eye on that thanks for that.

other cost of boycotts clothing giant h. and m. after it advertised a black child in a hoodie with the words call this the monkey in the jungle h. and m's now taken down the image and apologized however that hasn't stopped a massive row with their brand being labeled racist. marketing agent and 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 i'll make it say there's a white supremacist who works for h. and thought it was funny to make a blackboard modeling 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 by folks 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. we discuss whether the ad is racially insensitive with gets us the low as spikes magazine and remy for adare from models of diversity. the whole issue is with this advertising campaign it's an advertising campaign that international is 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 real time to say the least is what this campaign is it's really badly thought by a board of white. because even if it was even if there's that opinion it's just like badly thought it might be parents that are negatively thinking about this you cannot deny the connotation 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. 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 we'll be back after this short break. look.

what politicians do you should. put themselves on the line. to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to express interest. some want to listen. to the right. this is what. people. are interested in the law. they should. welcome that 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 and one reason big apparently is a slump in morocco with high levels of distrust created in the wake of various leaks 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 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 that they 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 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 the you know creativity and in the penance 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 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 xander general xander former director there and claim to the judiciary committee in the senate that they've stopped at 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 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 fair 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 the funding affairs have been further activated 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. and

officially any american. that's been. assisted to find i should. leave it to to the service. he would do everything to secure the budget for our impressions in two thousand. the un really found work agency serves over five million people who live in various parts of the region and according to israel's prime minister though the lion's share of those surveyed 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. really found work agency says with folding investments that 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 u.n. 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 is everyone understands wishes to disavow the rights of refugees and push towards the end of this holy jersey. meanwhile several humanitarian organizations in palestine have said they're ready to reject us aid in the wake of trans decision to recognize jerusalem as israel's capital 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 order that the underlining that because of that i was a senior national and. it's definitely we were if you will say that. a formal google engineer who was fired over his controversial diversity memo is suing the tech giant for alleged discrimination his lawsuit alleges that the company mistreated employees that are conservative political views male gender and caucasian race james doma 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 a ten page memo the former google employee suggested that women were less tooted 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 future 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 i'll be back in about thirty minutes with the latest headlines and i mean that. 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 gloat 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 decline off the almost a decade how good are the results she saw in a fifteen year old he's welcome by the people gathered in which to watch the world

get people to see what you are doing a choice. before you she still claim it was i mean if a legal. challenge was seeing with this young girl who was always think they see something then not even. while the same mission is still in place who one of the consequences is to weaken leiber. will first one of this is the truth you consider is the consequences are actually quite acceptable to the decision. when lawmakers manufactured to sentenced him to public wealth. when the ruling classes to protect themselves. when the financial merry go round lifts only the one percent told. us

to ignore middle of the room signals. the real news is the world. well when the kaiser report i'm max kaiser you know trillion dollars of new wealth popped into the wealth those fair last year the question is is that a good thing or a bad thing you know if it's all an evenly distributed it just goes into an ever smaller concentration of a few kleptocrats and pack a stock or nincompoops i mean it's not a good thing. yes max in fact in twenty seventeen the world's wealthiest became one trillion dollars richer that's just the five hundred richest people in the world on

the forbes list so that's one trillion dollars that's puts into context by the way the crypto currency market which is not yet a trillion dollars. you also have the u.s. housing market added two trillion dollars last year again a lot of that is owned by the likes of blackstone and all these other private equity groups. so just putting into context this trillion dollars to five hundred people all right two thousand a financial crisis when sub prime became the buzz word of the year and many people lost their homes they vulture capitalist a private equity groups warren buffett they swooped in and they bought hundreds of thousands of units for pennies on the dollar and now they have become america slumlord and yes they're making a nother two trillion dollar hit but the black community was completely disenfranchised and now they're on the streets of course because they.