q. the speculation mines that a u.s. spy satellite may have gone missing despite the rockets launched me and hailed as a success. the b.b.c. finds itself at the center of its own storm up to some of its journalists accuse the company of censorship. and anti austerity protests sweep across the global attention remains focused on going to government demonstrations in iran . this is r.t. international coming to you live from moscow i'm jake thank you for joining us. a

rocket has safely returned to a softer mission to launch a u.s. government source to lines that question to the top secret code i've been trying to has the details 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 mosques 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 state issued. q. . 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 secret it isn't any fad at some stage is all to live stream but a sense that well 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 post 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 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 before md nominally so why did these combat is over rather no comment replies and with 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 update in the u.s. 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 sailor 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 you in mosques where to do more space business with the u.s. government when we were space x. has again commented on the launch saying the falcon nine rocket did everything as expected however in her statement the company's president refused to discuss the fate of the satellite saying it was classified. now the b.b.c. is being accused of censureship by its own staff some claim they have been prevented from talking about equal pay following the resignation of a senior journalist over a ledge salary discrimination polish white house has the story. carrie gracie has

resigned as the b.b.c.'s china editor and she's penned this open letter where she explains that last summer when the b.b.c. revealed the salaries of its highest paid staff she discovered that the two men who do the same job as her essentially as international editors but in other regions get paid much more than the two women who do those jobs as well take a listen to what she had to say master law i learned that in the previous financial year the two men at least fifty percent more than the two women these revelations damaged the trust of b.b.c. staff gary gracie said that the only solution that she had for her b.b.c. bosses would be for all four international editors at the b.b.c. to be paid the same amount and crucially she wasn't after a pay rise she simply wanted equal pay however her bosses at the b.b.c. instead offered her a substantial pay rise but one that was nowhere near equal pay and she says that

the b.b.c. told her that quite simply the men's jobs were worth more and those two men's jobs are north america editor and middle east editor by the way so on top of this original conflict with the b.b.c. there is now another issue and that is that often news of this story broke the head of news at the b.b.c. center polite reminder to all the staff saying that because of impartiality rules no one would be able to report on the story if they had expressed a view on it but the problem is that plenty of women at the b.b.c. have treated their solidarity with carry gracey over this issue and they are now accusing the b.b.c. of trying to keep them quiet and of trying to censor them the rules of also resulted in a situation whereby effectively because of this you've got the story being. reported almost exclusively by men now the b.b.c.

won't comment on the controversy however they have referred us back to that guidelines take a listen to what they have to say when dealing with controversial subjects concerning the b.b.c. or reporting must remain julie impulsion as well as accurate we need to ensure the b.b.c. is impartiality is not brought into question and presenters all reporters are not exposed to potential conflicts of interest the b.b.c. might have to get used to reporting on itself or to referring us back to those guidelines because this looks like an issue that isn't going away and there are likely to be more high profile resignations over this issue of gender pay inequality then dependent journalist martin summers told us transparency is vital to overcoming pay discrimination well the fact of the matter is that a lot of the time we don't really know what people are paid what and i think the least with a lot more transparency about what people are paid in general in scandinavian

countries everybody's pay is public knowledge because everybody's tax returns or made public and they have been for you know for many years in britain we have a culture of secrecy around you it's almost embarrassing to ask people how much they earn and therefore you know therefore people don't discuss it is also questions of commercial confidentiality when somebody is being given to you know doing a deal with that with a company particular the b.b.c. is off and it's often turned out they are in closed doors and nobody really knows what's going on but then you've got to ask yourself who was those senior positions always filled by men and i think that this this kind of question is going to be asked not just of the b.b.c. but in general. north and south korea have held their first official talks in more than two years the negotiations took place in the demilitarized zone between the two countries artie's what i'd guess they have has been 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 nation.

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 that send a message. they even sent 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 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 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 with the latest talks follow months of saber rattling between north korea and the u.s. however donald trump claims it was his aggressive attitude towards young that 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. the rocket man is a sick puppy. a lot of people said a lot of people 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. russian bases in syria have been targeted by a turk drones that story until after the break. our.

politicians think. they put themselves on the line. to get accepted or rejected. so we want to be president i'm sure. we somehow want to be preached. to the right. is what we. were able to get. into st paul's in the white house. welcome back to new jersey a has been engulfed in vendome protests with thousands rallying against rising prices on employment and tax hikes police used tear gas to disperse protesters who'd been burning times and toting stones erupted around the same time as the demonstrations in iran but his laundry gone unnoticed middle east correspondent paula smear has more. well these protests intern is here started after the new year

and they came in reaction to the tennesseean government introducing a new budget plan for two thousand and eight that included amongst other things a rise in fuel prices and tax hikes the response from the chin is in street was one of anger and what we've seen is protests taking place in several dozen cities around the country with a result that one person has been killed and several people have been injured now it is for many as you mentioned to protests happening in another country namely iran what you're saying actually have here are two countries with protests taking place on the street by people who are unhappy with the economic situation. the root of it is just a canard it's the problem of youth unemployment i personally haven't been able to find a job for a long time but if people have a job they don't have any problem with the government about the demands of the following suspend the twenty eighteen finance law returned to the original prices of goods and high of one member from every poor family in short i didn't see

a. rise in petrol prices this time is huge we have a lot of privilege and have to pay a lot of fines it's only acceptable that we pay for this government's mistakes. but we are protesting here because of high braces and employment we would judge the growth in these who have been subjected to violence by security agents now the two mr prime minister has said that there is no place for violence and the sentiments echo the words that were used by iran's leader what happened yesterday is a violation of the law since a state of emergency has been declared in tunisia these protests are the result of operations that aim to review social unrest that we are a free nation and according to the constitution and human rights the people are absolutely free to criticize the government and even protest their protests should be in such a way as to aim to improve the situation. the country we the government will

definitely not tolerate some protesters who want to destroy public property will disrupt public discipline and create turmoil in society western leaders for example the french president are crying and the e.u. high represent me were quick to condemn the ukrainian protests even have the american president donald trump calling for regime change iran is failing at every level despite the terrible deal made with them by the bammer ministration the great iranian people have been repressed for many years they are hungry for food and for freedom along with human rights the world of iran is being looted time for change but when it comes to the current potest that are taking place in tunisia well here they have kept mum and now it might be that two libya was the first country back in two thousand and eleven at a start of the arab spring to ask a dictator in a move that was widely approved by the western world as being one of democratic

change but since then there have been no less than mine governments in place intern israel all of whom have been unable to get a handle on the economic situation the question of course is whether or not we'll see these cause for vision change and condemnation and criticism against tunisia like we've seen for example against when. sociology professor saeed sadiq told us instability in iran is always exaggerated by the us government media. palooza is on the move there in a little small country not many people know about the. american our society. many in america are. american policy but they didn't says it's noble mission one hundred seventy nine clues or be along. the path of least more important to include the media to look as if this is the regime. covering

the news. i mean in part this the for. russia's defense ministry has revealed the details of two attempted drone attacks on two of its bases in syria but most were repelled and there were no casualties or damage caused by the wind so all of the attack was a g.p.s. guided homemade drone it's able to operate from a distance of up to one hundred kilometers and to carry a range of homemade explosives well russia's defense ministry as thirteen steps said thirteen such devices were used in the attacks and all of them were intercepted the find terrorists in syria use such technology has also raised concerns at the pentagon a spokesperson is worried that devices like this are freely available on the open market that international relations professor jamal wakim believes terrorists in syria are receiving support from certain government foreign governments. we see the

various states and governments misquoted the meeting and they are trying to use especially the west they are trying to use terrorist groups for geopolitical objectives but i believe that this could backfire on them and it could also raise concerns about security in the west in general and in the united states these terrorist groups have enjoyed at one point the backing of certain western states. which made them. develop there are techniques and that's why it is of big concern for every state every government to coordinate and cooperate with other governments to counter terrorism. the records to boycott closing giant h. and m. after it advertised a black child modeling the hoodie that had the slogan coolest monkey in the jungle h. and m. took down the image following

a huge backlash however that hasn't stopped a social media storm with the brands being labeled racist and insensitive. 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 i pretend i'm 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 it say there's a white supremacist who works for h. and thought it was funny to make a black boy model who did that said coolest monkey in the journal nature nam is not an american company non-native brands do not have to be familiar with usas or other country's historical conflicts on how to do background research for advertising a simple hoodie you're all going to feel how you all feel about the nation and who just 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 each of them. when we discuss whether they had heard his racially insensitive with new gets tossed nor editor spiked magazine and remy for dowry for mortals of diversity. the whole issue is with this advertising campaign it's an advertising campaign that passed its 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 and mischief first and you can see this across children's clothes for children of all races and this was part of a jungle fiend 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 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 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 involved younger animals if you don't know it 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 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 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 guards 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 what the swedish based clothing company has issued a statement apologizing h. and m. the controversial hoodies been scrapped from both its online platforms and stores across the globe the retailer also said the garment will no longer be sold. i'll be back with the latest headlines in just over half an hour meanwhile for more on all of our stories. in two thousand and sixteen the panama papers shocked the world with the tax haven secrets two trillion united states dollars passed through most conseco in the

amount of time that we've been in the panama papers exposure that's what it shows a lot of money it really is. journalism it's an act of journalism looking at things that people want to keep secret and asking why would they want to keep these things secret. millions of most like from psycho documents where examine. the all the people which basically have tried to get an advantage out of this sort of newspaper. and probably other politician which were tough attacking other politicians the media would point to find their targets such as the kings of morocco and saudi arabia the president of argentina several prime ministers. and russian president vladimir putin of course. oh my god i've had so i have sued so many newspapers for defamation some things don't just happen by chance it

was very striking there were no more americans to go especially a lot of people from the brics countries specially brazil russia and china that this special project reveals what was missed in the media coverage. of the panama chronicles. when lawmakers manufacture consent instinctive public wealth. when the ruling classes project themselves. the famous merry go round listen to the one. in the middle of the room see.

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changed everything. it did the consequences we suffered it made the cranes loom in the horizon and different morph anyways no i live in cannes in the chelsea it's one of the richest areas in the whole country but the north where we live has one of the highest concentration of people a low incomes. the growing inequality is pushing so many out the area it's obvious global capital has no regard for people like me it's the same story the world over from but into rio madrid to new york but maybe because we're having such prime real estate what we had to live through could be a warning for you all so i set out to learn from those who are in the know about here and tell you about it. they want to paris want to. hear what a push everyone out to the outskirts in the suburbs.