i. think. the classified u.s. government satellite leads to speculation about whether it made it into space with none of the usual information really. no from south korea holds high level talks for the first time in two years raising hopes of a possible diplomatic breakthrough. tons there are close to boycotts closing giant h. and m. after one of its ads featuring a black child is accused of being racist would put the issue of the debates. in a climb up of racial tension you know it's going to have connotations 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 empire involving children of all races.

a warm welcome you're watching r.t. international to you live from the russian capital and they care and good to have you with us. now a space mission already shrouded in secrecy has now grown even more mysterious as they made rumors about the fate of a top secret u.s. government satellites they were usable space x. well kate which no instead has safely returned to earth but questions of being asked i think what happens to the payload it by trying to has the details of the cryptic clue well the intriguing or mysterious thing about this is that ahead 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 you and mosques basics 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 show. we have had successful lift off of falcon nine carrying suma though then the satellites deployment into orbit wasn't shown or reported on at all now if the mission is so secret it isn't any fad at some stage is all to live stream based 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 possibly may have gone wrong then too respected news organizations in the us 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 question or comment from the pentagon from the satellites manufacturer and of course from you and musk's company as well and this is what we've got we have nothing to add to the satellite catalogue 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 nominally so why did these comments or rather no comment

replies leave us so let's put all the doubts aside and assume that the satellite delivery mission was a success does that mean that there is so much secrecy behind the payload that no one is entitled to know even about whether it reached orbit or not why was there no obviate in the us satellite catalog and what kind of spying is it out there for the questions are going to be there to stay on the other hand if it's confirmed that the mission was a fail or it's not going to be a refutation disaster for space six but we know that elon musk's next step was going to be to start sending humans into space and in this case it could prove to be an image problem and we will see whether that's going to affect elon musk's plans to do more space business with the u.s. government was trying to get to the bottom of this now and ask our guests the

questions the alien has just outlined it can bring in ali necessary at the space generation advisory council which represents young space professionals mr necessary welcome to the program now as even you know a lot more about this topic than we do what in your opinion could have happened to this that's why. thanks for having me. there are a couple of things and i guess that could happen here it might be because of the secrecy aspect that not a lot of information is being shared but there's also a lot of risks when you go to work that there might be objects that are. being watched and that it takes time to understand what happened or not and where their actions can be taken they have also been a lot of chases where the object has not been injected into the right orbit that's maybe something that might have happened here is not well if this is a top secret mission that we're talking about here surely space that the u.s. government would realize that the loan that they leave it without called and the

most speculation is going to going to arise so why is there no comment. i think. the fact that this is a secret mission always means that their policy is not to comment on this issues but also the fact that it takes some time to understand what happened and to understand who has to investigate it because from space. the launch was nominal so they don't they have done their part and i think then it goes to the manufacturer and the operator of the satellite to understand what they were sent the right place or not and that takes some time but this being a top secret and it is after all being as spy satellite is there any reason to be concerned about the lack of comment. i don't think so there are many satellites up there that people are not that much concerned about and i think. nowadays these missions happen daily there are so many settlers going up there that

if there is no comment about a specific satellite there's no cause for concern i think the only concerning part is for space x. from the perspective that obviously is the next their reliability status of their their launch system that would be something that they would be interested in but for the public no not really and they all must get usually quite active on social media about things like this are trying to ties to keep everything transparent doesn't he let's say he did fail at the multi billion dollar satellite alleged multibillion dollar dollar satellite is being lost or broken how would this affect the company's image and future projects it effects their image it also affects. a lot of the operations of what they do because obviously there's insurance involved in these launches so if their reliability status of the launch system becomes lower lower because of a past failure that effects the amount of money that they need to spend to ensure

the future launches so from that perspective it's really important for them and i think that's why you always hear that they say the launch is nominal from the images that seem to be nominal so i hope it was like that's that would be great for space activities but. it will affect. them from a financial perspective and from an image. necessary check at the space generation advisory council thank you for your time it's been great to get some expert opinion on this thank you thank you randi. north and south korea have held their first official talks in more than two years the negotiations were held in the demilitarized zone between the two countries and here's what preceded the negotiations january the third stall the reopening of a cross border telephone line following day donald trump agreed to delay military drills with seoul until after next month's winter olympics in south korea. 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 nations so. that as you mentioned earlier we hope to bring a precious gift to your people that 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 and send 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 hate 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 poor choice for hot heads to cool off and for titan fingers to ease off on the trigger 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 that probably are 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 followed 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 destroying 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 have been protesting across spain claiming gross mistreatment of refugees in the country they are cry was sparked by the government's decision to temporarily house newcomers and jail in the town of. it's not a question got to do so jail but a good. clue to better. your own internal 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 and been unable to see their relatives couldn't even embrace each other. in the prisons in the mountains in the southern

province of malaga in a town with a population of almost nine thousand after not hold nationally renowned both finds and has been declared a historic artistic site for its unique architectural heritage however are to donor is now gaining global attention for all the wrong reasons just over a week ago one migrant was found dead in his cell at the prison site however spanish authorities claim that the facility is brand new and serves as a convenient shelter we feel it is better that the migrants be held in the center with the latest technology with sanitary facilities share was heating beds sports areas than to put them in camps like in other countries and it's not just one spanish region it's been facing difficulties with the migrant influx recent figures show more than twenty thousand refugees have crossed into spain via the mediterranean in the past year that's more than double the number in twenty sixty

we spoke to maria has us 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 thorazine can do more. u.n.h.c.r. has been always. 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 the situation there has been a high level off 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's no war and twenty seven thousand people free to mean one year when in the past we've seen freeze with one million or you to leave receiving over one hundred thousand people on

a yearly basis so we've therefore believe that spain should be doing much more in this regard will be back after this short break. unfortunately it appears that once people learn that you've reported a sexual assault or may have been involved in an incident that they become scared of you instead of being scared of the perpetrator. the one almost sure seems wrong. why don't we just don't. let me. get to she. just didn't come out to me. and in detroit equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground.

power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely and the 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 right to be at it but america is like that's reform meanwhile ok already there actually are in the process of reform but that's evil. now there are calls to boycott the clothing giant h. and then after it advertised a black child modeling a thirty with the words coolest monkey in the jungle after a huge backlash h. and m. took down the image and apologized however that hasn't stopped a social media storm with the browns being labeled racist and insensitive.

marketing 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 who are. making it seem there is a white supremacist who works for h. and thought it was funny to make a black board model who did that 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 on how to do background research for advertising a simple thirty year old gam if you know how you all feel about the nation and to the 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. we discuss whether the ad is racially insensitive with

get off the editor of spike to magazine and write me a diary from models of diversity. the whole issue is with this artisan campaign it's an advertising company that hust to 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 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 context whatsoever i think it's 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 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 rector's 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 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 don't know 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 guards is that it reads into people's motivations a racist and malign motivation and the previous speaker just did exactly that. 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. the global civilian death toll from explosive weapons thought last year up forty two percent compared to twenty six d. this uprising is mainly due to an increase in deadly air strikes in syria and iraq as part of the missions to retake rucka and mosul well it's now across live it to james kearney the head of advocacy at action on armed violence which compiled the figures good to have you on the program with us mr kearney now did it come as a surprise to you this sharp increase in civilian casualties over twenty sixteen. it's part of a tragic but ever since twenty eleven through twenty seventeen the number of civilians killed as a result of explosive violence has been steadily increasing and as you say forty

two percent increase in twenty seventeen alone is startling on the figures or just under eleven flows and killed by explosive weapons in twenty sixteen in twenty seventeen that figure went up to fifteen thousand three hundred ninety nine as you so much of this is because of airstrikes the changing nature of war it's also because of where the violence is taking place where there is explosive violence in urban areas ninety two percent of the victims are civilians can we pinpoint the operations to retake the form i saw strongholds in mosul iraq or to be to blame for this there is significant rise. well certainly that's part of it but it's also ongoing campaigns for example in yemen. saudi arabia is playing a role there but it's also in in syria with particular with the russian involvement there also so there is

a steady increase there. it's not it's not just launched attacks that are also adding to this tragic total it's also the ongoing use of i e d's although it's being use of i.d.'s has been decreasing since two thousand and thirteen they still can't force thousands of deaths each year and again most of these are civilian deaths there are always those that the majority of the deaths were due to as strikes now with something that causes that take that is they have damage is it even possible to use as drugs and avoid civilian casualties. i mean i think the key word here is indiscriminate. essentially countries have a responsibility to responsibility countries militaries have a responsibility and they have a responsibility in three ways one is first of all they have to have clear rules of engagement and those have to be clear precise secondly countries shoot out here to the product the nine hundred seventy seven protocols to the geneva convention which

protect civilians and thirdly countries also need to bear in mind their responsibility to protect civilian populations in their own country. they expect any reaction to this report from the coalition forces responsible for the ass strikes. many parties have been trying to hold various powers to books the united states and the u.k. perhaps being the most accessible militaries who are involved in these sort of airstrikes and so forth united states for example releases monthly reports on the number of civilian deaths which have been caused at the hands of coalition forces the problem is that countries such as russia and saudi arabia are not so transparent even the u.k. and u.s. is figures have been criticized for being far far too low in terms of the saudi figures in terms of iraqi figures it's very very difficult to get a handle on what those are and it's the international community who has to stand up and urge these countries to be very very clear again about these rules of

engagement about their responsibilities and also about what sort of harm they are causing to the civilian populations and following the release of their by this report do you expect the public outcry. it's i think it's unfortunately we're in an era where i think there's a growing sense of bad things happen in war which is deeply unfortunate for many reasons and mostly because it ignores the fact that thousands of deaths happen in conflict zones each year across the globe and most of those deaths are civilians and i think the public is coming and i think it has to come in order to force the u.k. and the united states and countries across the globe to take the responsibility of syria seriously in conflict zones and to be sleep out here to the various u.n. conventions and to their responsibility to protect populations james county head of advocacy and action on violence thank you for your time. well about with the latest

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