you. know one of them. widely praised by the west as a model for the arab spring. economic protests which failed to get the same attention from western leaders when compared with the unrest in iran. the german army is signing up increasing numbers of mind with its school recruitment drive being slammed by the un. the us both democrats and republicans are accused of trying to hijack the moral debate over the dreamers migration initiative to score political points. eight am on wednesday here in moscow you're watching international from all of us

here welcome to the program. has been engulfed in violent protests with thousands rallying against rising prices unemployment and tax hikes police used tear gas to disperse protesters who burned tires and hurled storms with at least one protester reportedly killed in clashes and the unrest erupted around the same time as the demonstrations in iran but it went largely unnoticed. middle east correspondent paula has details. well these protests and head off for the new year and they came in reaction to the government introducing a new budget plan for two thousand and eight that included amongst other things a fuel prices and tax hikes the response from the street was one of anger and what we've seen is protests taking place in several dozen cities around the. tree

with the result that one person has been killed and several people have been injured now it is familiar 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 problem with the government a lot of the demands of the following are to spend the twenty eighteen film in slow returns to the original prices of goods recalls family these are in short order us to believe that we pay for this government's mistakes. we are protesting here because of high bryce's and employment we would ject the growth in these and we 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 but their protests should be in such a way as to aim to improve the situation in 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 and the e.u. highway present mahoney were quick to condemn the waning imposed american president donald trump calling for regime change in iran is failing at every level despite the terrible deal made with them by the bammer administration the great iranian people have been repressed for many years along with human. right the wealth of

iran is being looted one of democratic change but since then there have been no u.s. government in place engineers here 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 course for we've seen change and condemnation and criticism we've seen for example against him when he says that the different approaches to the similar protests in tunisia and iran can be explained by the fact that one of these countries is viewed as an enemy by some who. you know many people know about the. american. society. and the major obstacle for american policy in the middle east since it's the volution one hundred seventy nine in their case. very happy to look at anything more that happened any more portis to inflate the media to look as if this is the

end of the regime so it is totally different. in covering tunisia. portis totally the. german army is recruiting an increasing number of minors according to figures obtained by a national newspaper from the country's defense ministry over two thousand teenagers are now volunteering for germany's armed forces that's three times more than six years ago and germany is one of the few countries worldwide that allows under eighteen's to volunteer though only in a non-combat role teenagers can apply if they are seventeen and have parental consent the german military is currently conducting a recruitment drive sending officers to give talks in schools across the country and the campaign also features on online reality show.

i. i. the show follows ami recruits for twelve weeks and is one of germany's most popular online projects however its role in making the military more attractive to young people has drawn international criticism the united nations is concerned for example that the recruitment drive specifically targets children in the german army has defended its methods insisting that the training is done under strict supervision we spoke to an m.p. from germany's left. he's against the idea of focusing on under-age teens for the recruitment. it had been a huge campaigns in schools even in kindergartens. to. make the army more attractive to young people there have been some schools who have been working together with the army to put the young students in some kind of camp

we support some initiatives called don't want to bundeswehr for example which say i swear that education should take place without bundeswehr the people who are under age to they shouldn't be to. get into the army the united nation already in two thousand and fourteen. the german government to stop this and erase the the h. of soldiers i think this is a problem. but the main problem is if you do a foreign coach with us which is based on dialogue you don't need such a strong army also many soldiers i think that is the main problem behind it. the b.b.c. is being accused of censorship by its own staff some claim they have been prevented from talking about equal pay following the resignation of the b.b.c.'s china editor over alleged salary discrimination only boycott picks up 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. stuff gary gracie said 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 to treat it that 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 be. 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. all reporting must remain julie impose szell as well as a curate we need to ensure the b.b.c.'s impartiality is not brought into question and presenters or 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 independent journalist martin summers told us that transparency is vital to overcoming pay discrimination. well the fact of the matter is that a lot of that's all and we don't really know what people are paid what and i think the needs to be 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 all made public and they have been for you know for many years in britain we have a culture of secrecy around pay 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 do you know doing a deal with that with a company particular the b.b.c. is off and it's often turned out billing closed doors and nobody really knows what's going on but then you've got to ask yourself a why is the senior positions always filled by men and i think that this this kind of question is going to be asked not just at the b.b.c. but in general the. pressure is mounting on the israeli prime minister binyamin netanyahu after a controversial recording involving his son was leaked to the press. i would forgive me if. you come back and if it because.

i was in the. second year in that recording netanyahu son could be chatting to the son of israeli gas tycoon coby mime and outside a strip club the conversation reportedly took place in twenty fifteen back then israel was engulfed in controversy over legislation to drill newly discovered natural gas deposits the bill was drafted by the israeli finance ministry to stimulate investment but critics claimed it was corrupt here's how netanyahu has family reacted to the airing of the controversial video. every parent that watch the report should think how they would react if every force expression of their kids was turned into a headline and every conversation was turned into a hidden recording. netanyahu is already being investigated in two separate corruption cases the allegations include receiving bribes and negotiating favorable

media coverage prime minister strongly denies all accusations but in the meantime he is pushing for a special immunity law which could allow him to avoid prosecution middle east expert awkward albert i believe the scandal is unlikely to fade away this is not the first case that we are speaking about corruption in the family of binyamin netanyahu as the prime minister of israel for the israel is its may lead to draw well of confidence and that's the the main threat for binyamin netanyahu that's why they're trying as a family to play with words showing that it's not. a fact but it was just a matter of a guy who was hanging around with his friends and he was just chatting about different things but this is not a matter of fact who i think it's going to get worse and worse what's happening that he things that he enjoys a kind of a political immunity but on the other hand this is

a real. angry and you could feel the sentiment of anger and fury inside the social media of israel and that could retaliate against who and i think eventually this may lead to a kind of rizieq nation or even being prosecuted and even jailed as he has pretty disses. thanks for joining us here on r.t. international we return in just a moment. a cursory glance at the media environment could easily give you the impression that the vast majority of journalists studied psychology at university so many are convinced donald trump is not mentally fit to be president or the same journalist suffering from a rage in syndrome. unfortunately it appears that once people learn that you've reported in

a sexual assault or may have been involved in an incident that they become scared of you instead of being scared of the perpetrator. seem wrong but. just don't. get to stamp out the attic. and engagement equals betrayal. when something you find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground . good to have you with us today in the united states debate is heating up over a migration initiative aimed at protecting illegal migrants also known as the dream

. says he's ready to approve however only on certain conditions. surely. we can do that but it also has to be a bill where we're able to secure our border drugs are pouring into our country at a record pace so in order to secure it we need a wall well that deferred action for childhood arrivals also known as dhaka is a program created on the end of the obama administration it gives a temporary right to live study and work to those illegally brought his children to america and now u.s. lawmakers have two months to tun daca into law the dhaka initiative has been used by democrats as a tool to accuse trump of violating migrants rights at a recent revelations make it look like the debate is not so much about moral principles but about votes and support bases the media is also sharing a memo written by the former director of communications for hillary clinton's presidential campaign. the fight to protect treatments is mostly really

a moral imperative it's also a critical component of the democratic party's future and that tool success if democrats didn't try to do everything in their power to defend dream is that would jeopardize democrats not tour chances in two thousand and eighteen and beyond political analysts join how jar is unimpressed by the way the dream she was being used to score political points paul two has become very cynical in the us and you know i think that. it's somewhat of a dirty game we know that the left looks at immigration from a very cynical perspective. they have very wealthy interests that rely on a constant flow of cheap labor and also they need the votes and they're against any of the reforms that the president trump and the republicans have been pressing for. america's dreamers debate might actually have some resonance in

scotland where the local parliament is looking into the possibility of granting the right to vote to anyone granted asylum or a residency permit it would include a right to participate in local and scottish parliament elections the scottish minister of a parliamentary business claim that quote it seems only fair that those who have the right to live here have the right to vote and we have debated the issue with james dorgan from the scottish national party and david coburn from the u.k. independence party. the idea that any country allows people who are not their citizens to vote on any election basis on the head of an totally wrong the scottish national party want to gerrymander elections they want to give the vote to every tom dick and harry this is wrong anybody but the english i should think i got all of that goes died out so somebody might call that racist. rumble and run i just heard from david coble now the only person who sounded racist and it was him the

fact. is that in the recent people. and if they get the rate then i think it's only appropriate to get rate to have a c. they must have british citizenship all the scottish national politics well scottish guys lying about it trying to gerrymander it they'll have anybody in the country that will give them a view to give us something all a nation of it not a skull shasta darlington is just give us and they actually need to be quiet for a moment i would well you should be quiet let me speak i'd let you speak sensually they don't want anybody who's english voting but anybody else can have a vote no matter where they come from this is on had all countries normally only allow people to vote in the elections who are citizens of that country the ridiculous t.v. coupon continues to see only people we want only to the english the english people who stay here vote consistently or all sorts of issues the whole gist of it so

that it the most big deal for not i mean to still be for whoever they want to vote for not to quote democracy that is what you want to do as usual when all else are you to know that a lot of the scottish scottish soldiers scottish people were not given the vote if they were not resident in scotland all the referendum this is not that pathetic if the effort by the scottish national party to gerrymander a future independence vote this is not a game this is about trying to meet scotland the rate sort of country to the people who live in school and will get the opportunity to to say. hold. on the cool down every world within a small mining town in the east. is being forced to. through.

over the past five years. and fall in business. many people prefer to work get deliveries. in companies making the budgets. i've been in the. region it's a shame. but it's a good thing for the industry unfortunately we need to focus on employment.

the world. gathering of the world's elite heavily criticized by. reports. america first started off as trade protection and defending the american worker against a system rigged by the corporate elite and these bankers and c.e.o.'s get together at the world economic forum every single year to talk about globalist policy initiatives so surely that's the last place you'd find donald trump the president will attend and he welcomes the opportunity to go there in advance his america first agenda with world leaders and he is very much of import of being part of that process in fact america first is actually the opposite of the davos man philosophy popularized by a leading political scientist they have little need for national loyalty if you national boundaries as obstacles that thankfully vanishing and see national governments residues from the past he's only used to function is to facilitate the

elites global operations most u.s. presidents have steered clear of davos and bill clinton was the only one to visit back in two thousand and trump's decision is a far cry from his rhetoric on the campaign trail the establishment has trillions of dollars at stake in this election for those who control the levers of power in washington and for that global special interest they partner with these people that don't have your good in mind our campaign represents a true existential threat like they haven't seen before so what's changed that flies totally in the face of his rhetoric on the campaign trail says he sees his role in the u.s. as president. as one of helping to protect american workers from these bad trade deals his tax bill has been

a giant wet kiss to the rich so easy going to have to at least have a rhetoric that. that he can present to his. you know the sort of forgotten american worker otherwise he's in big trouble we're back in about half an hour with more farewells headlines. unfortunately it appears that once people. or may have been involved in that they become scared of you instead of being scared of the.

police local. police. they believe that you saw tell you that the public but. they. tell me you are not cool enough to buy their product please. leave. me alone. young children have worked in bolivia for generations almost three quarters of a million doing so today. this culture led to the development of bolivia's new liberal and highly controversial children's code in two thousand and fourteen which

gave children as young as ten the right to work under certain circumstances what is and is in this. case almost. eat them without having the end all. of the things years. but there are hundreds of thousands of children in bolivia operating completely outside the local. mining work is strictly forbidden by the children but it's never enforced and that means the school boy minus here continue risking their lives for the money they need to survive on.

in two thousand and sixteen the panama papers show the world with a tax haven the secrets to trilling and united states dollars pass through most. in the amount of time that we've been in 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 fun 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 was tough at that other politician 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 one american single this specially a lot of people from the brics countries specially brazil russia and china that their special project reveals what was missed in the media coverage. the panama chronicles. in the heart of the swiss. the shores of lake geneva. in the land of banks and discretion you will discover the most secretive place in switzerland.

in the middle of a warehouse complex. a stone's throw from the border with france the geneva freeport. watched by surveillance cameras and surrounded by barbed wire fences this complex is traditionally a custom zone where merchandise is stored before being exported abroad. but today it has become a permanent storage site with sixty thousand square meters of space rented by the city of geneva to transporters or to private individuals to safeguard their assets . behind these anonymous double locked doors there is gold and diamonds. and. it is also the largest wine cellar in the world with three million bottles laid to rest. bottles worth five hundred thousand two

thousand dollars quietly maturing and gaining in value at a constant temperature and humidity. these buildings are anti earthquake and the doors are resistant to explosives. and to protect these treasures from fire a special room houses hundreds of extinguishers that can be activated at any moment .