the launch of a state of the art space x. box it's carrying a classified u.s. government satellite these to speculation about whether it made it into space with none of the usual information released. north and south korea hold high level talks for the first time in two years raising hopes of a possible diplomatic breakthrough. and there are calls to boycott the clothing giant eighteen that after one of exact speech during a black child is accused of being racist but put the issue up for debate. in the climb up of racial tension you know it's going to have connotations i don't

think this has stifled 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 with mainak e aaron good to have you with us this now a space mission which was already shrouded in secrecy in the u.s. has now grown even more so mysterious as amid rumors about the fate of a classified government satellite well the real usable space x. rocket which launched it safely returned to earth questions are being raised over what happened to its payload well arty's a little trying to joins me live in a studio to discuss this further now you know what do we know so far they the holo well the intriguing or mysterious thing about this is that the head of the launch and during it and the media there were so many stories. about the top secret spy

satellite which belongs to the u.s. government being launched by illinois musk's spacex company it was called zoom but now almost two days after the launch everyone is pretty much in the dark about its fate sunday night's launch was lifestream to body space six but only until a certain stage. issued. a plea. we have had successful liftoff of falcon nine carrying soon. though then the satellites deployment into orbit wasn't shown or reported on at all now if the mission is so secrecy it isn't any fad at some stage is all to live stream but a sense that while on the one hand it is true and we know that the usual practice

for this kind of limited access to the stream is like that for missions of that secretive nature but then neither space x. nor the manufacture of the satellite confirmed that the launch was successful and this led to the first doubts appearing other any other reasons to think that something posted the math going wrong then too respected news organizations in the u.s. wall street journal and bloomberg reported that zuma may have fallen back to earth or burned in the planet's atmosphere and when they get that classified information from anonymous sources within the u.s. government and also the industry what they did is they were quested to comment from the pentagon from the satellites manufacturer and of course from u.n. musk's company as well and this is what they 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 full can nine performed normally so what are these comments or rather no comment replies well let's assume that the mission was at the end of the day success does that mean that there is so much secrecy behind this spy satellite that no one is entitled to know about this mission and again why can't we see any updates in that u.s. government satellite catalog so there are of course questions what's the actual function on the set of the satellite why is it so mysterious who is it going to spy on and to what extent is this kind of spying serious on the other hand if it was indeed a failure perhaps that's not going to be a disaster for the reputation of space x.

and muscles and to apprise but definitely it is going to be an image problem and it will affect the way he does business with the u.s. government we know that his next step for the company is to start sending manned missions into space and questions will be asked about that when things like that are basically happening months before the first instances of launches are to be seen in the u.s. and indeed the loveliest left with no official comment the more intriguing mystery there is thanks for coming in. north korea and south korea are 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 saw 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

. is following 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 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 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 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 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 hit mainland united states and kim jong moon has boasted he has his own button and his this is part of who is button is big contest with trump which is why these talks was so important they allow for a pause for hotheads to cool off and for titan 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 and 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 said just a stance i mean this is this is what has to be done if it has to be done that they wouldn't be talking about olympics that they wouldn't be talking right. hundreds have been protesting across spain claiming gross mistreatment of refugees in the country the outcry was sparked by the government's decision to temporarily house new comers in a jail and the town of r.t. don't know. it's not a question got to do so jail but it could have been treated better. the government has used this prison for five hundred seventy eight male migrants from algeria since november this is totally illegal second the conditions under which the migrants live there are illegal they guarded by riot police have been unable to

see their relatives they couldn't even embrace each other. the prisons are in the mountains in the southern province of malaga and a town with a population of almost nine thousand artist owner has been declared an historic artistic site for its unique architectural heritage the town holds nationally renowned bullfights it is also home to unique structures dating back to the middle ages but the small town is now also at the center of a migrant controversy just over a week ago one migrant was found dead. in his cell at the site in the prison the algerian migrants death added to the controversy surrounding the use of the present as a refugee processing center however spanish authorities claim that the facility is brand new and surface as a convenient shelter for the refugees we feel it is better that the migrants be held in the center with the latest technology with sanitary facilities share as heating beds sports areas than to put them in camps like another country.

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 the past year as more than double the number in twenty sixty we spoke to maria vega from the united nations human rights council in spain she compares the spanish crisis to similar cases in other european countries and claims that authours he's can do more u.n.h.c.r. has been always saying refugees and asylum seekers should not be kept in detention are just the top of the iceberg of a situation that is not properly handled and the situation there has been a high level of impervious station for a long time the figures in two thousand and seventeen have increased over one hundred percent compared to the previous years. still we're talking about really

manageable numbers there's no war twenty seven thousand people breaking in one year when in the past we've seen with one million what you believe receiving over one hundred thousand people on a yearly basis so we therefore believe that spain should be doing much war in this regard. there are calls to boycott the clothing giant h. and m. after it advertised a black child modeling a thirty what the word school is monkey in the jungle after a huge backlash took down the image and apologized but that hasn't stopped a social media storm with the brands being labeled racist and insensitive. marketing theo h. and m. 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 the fox are pretending like they don't know the black children

have long been racially characterized as monkeys. i highly doubt they were like let's put the monkey hoodie on a bill like al making it seem 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 it's an am is not an american company not needed 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 going to feel how you all feel about the nation i am new to situation i thought the hoodoo was cute sue 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 luke they toss the low editor of spike's magazine and write me for a diary from the models of diversity. the whole issue is with this earth ties in 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 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 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. because even if it was even if there's that opinion 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. not 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 the whole class 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 rice but 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 so to come on r.t.

international 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 short break. what holds it to you should. put themselves on the line. to get accepted or rejected. so you want to be president which. was something i wanted. to write. this is what. you would be that. interested.

well chose seemed wrong. why don't we just don't call. me. yet to shape our business comes after. and in detroit it was betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. but come back the national security agency in the united states is facing troubling times amid reports dramatic numbers of employees are leaving the service one reason cited is a slump in morale with high levels of distrust created in the wake of various leaks former n.s.a. technical director turned whistleblower william binney says it's go to the point where 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 and it'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 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 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 and work environment and actually see that to get the people who are working there to see that they're actually doing positive things.

well i mean i don't see them succeeding at stopping terrorism anyway i mean the only thing they stop for this set ups that the f.b.i. does you know they entrap people as far as the the attacks that have really been planned by terrorists or people who are in there who are intending harm to people i mean they haven't stopped this for any of them that i know of because alexander general alexander former director there and claim to the judiciary committee in the senate that they've stopped at the for 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 the n.s.a. has been embroiled in a number of damaging scandals over the past few years including alarming

revelations made by former n.s.a. contractor edward snowden back in twenty thirty. with donald trump threatening to cut funding for palestinians is fit the role of the un relief found work agency could be affected it's a special body that helps palestinian refugees the u.s. and the european commission are the largest individual donors providing more than a third of its funding the things have been for the aggravated by remarks by the israeli prime minister. some of them in the united nations relief and works agency for palestine refugees must become

a thing of the past. who have not. officially any american. that's been there since the benefit. of the due to service. illegal everything to secure the budget for our iterations in two thousand. the u.n. really found work ages of a five million people who live in various parts of the region according to israel's prime minister though the lion's share of those served don't actually need the help of all those that do should apply to the un's refugee agency instead across the

palestinian and palestinian administration those classed as refugees represent a significant share of the population the u.n. really found work i didn't say he says with phoning investment states struggling to provide basic necessities to those in need. well the more they say they're like the cutting of us the nations to the u.n. are w.h.o. 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 whole agency. meanwhile several humanize howry and organizations in palestine have said that ready to reject u.s. aid and the wake of trans decision to recognize jerusalem as israel's capital we spoke to the director of one local n.g.o.s. we will come. assistance from any organization or the states but dick in your consideration you detect any political conditions so if. american administration would like to use this financial assistance as a tool for the political reasons and the gold outlining the pillars of the senior national let's get it's definitely we would if you will say that join me again at the top of the hour for the latest headlines. for.

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