you know what was in the. headlines with the international community widely praised by the west as a model for the arab spring. in economic protests which failed however to get the same attention from western leaders out civil unrest in the world. the german army is signing up increasing numbers of minors as the un raises concern over its school drug. bust pressure is mounting on the israeli prime minister after a leaked recording involving his son suggests binyamin different yahoo helped push through a twenty billion dollars deal to the benefit of a gas tycoon. you wednesday worldwide news headlines live from moscow this is. to news you

widely praised by the west engulfed in protests we understand thousands rallying against rising prices unemployment tax hikes a police used tear gas to disperse the protesters who burn tires on the hurled stones with at least one reportedly killed and the on a restaurant that around the same time as the demonstrations in iran but went largely unnoticed. or investigates. well these protests intern is head off for the new year and they came in reaction to the tennessean 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 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 south of one. person has been killed and several people have been injured now it

is familiar to protests happening in another country mainly when 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 or 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 demands the following suspend the twenty eight hundred four minutes law returned to the original prices of goods and hire one member from every poor family these are in short. the rise in petrol prices this time is huge we have a lot of problems and have to pay a lot of fines it's on acceptable that we pay for this government's mistakes. but we are protesting here because of how braces and employment we were 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 that 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 or 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 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 wealth of iran is being looted time for change but when it comes to the current potest that are taking place in tunisia while here they've kept mum now it might be that two news here was the first country back in two thousand and eleven at the start of the arab spring to oust 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 my own government in place into his ear 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 regime change and condemnation and criticism against tunisia like we've seen for example against him when sociology professor so you decide to says the different approaches to the similar protests in tunisia there ron could be

explained by the fact that one of these countries is viewed as an enemy. you know many people know about the. american. society. too many in america have been the enemy i mean. a major obstacle for american policy debate if since its new pollution one hundred seventy nine in their case all to you are very happy to look at any small detail that happens or any small part this too inflated in the media to look as if this is the end of their vision so it is totally different. in covering tunisia and. politest totally different. the german army is recruiting an increasing number of minors according to figures from the country's defense ministry over two thousand teenagers are now voluntary and for germany's armed forces that is three times more

than six years ago germany is one of the few countries worldwide that allows under eighteen's to volunteer their only in a non-combat role teenagers can apply if they are seventeen and have parental consent for the job the military is currently conducting a recruitment drive sending officers to give talks in schools across the country the campaign also features an online reality show. i program follows on the 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 criticism the united nations is concerned that the recruitment drive specifically targets children 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 party modern day he's against the idea of focusing on the under eighteen's for the recruitment. 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 s. where that education should take place without going this way other people who are under aged they shouldn't be urged to. get into the army the united nation already in two thousand and fourteen asked 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 company with us which is based on dialogue you don't need such a strong army all so many soldiers i think that is the main problem behind it. pressure is mounting on the israeli prime minister binyamin netanyahu after a controversial recording involving his sagna ear was leaked to the press. god forgive me if. i wasn't. in that recording i could be chatting to the sun there was really gas tycoon coby moment 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 and the bill was drafted by the israeli finance ministry to stimulate investment there critics claim it was corrupt here's how and then yahoo's family reacted to the airing of this controversial video every parent that watched the report should think how they would react if every full six pression of their kids was turned into a headline and every conversation was turned into a hidden recording prime minister netanyahu is already being investigated in two separate corruption cases the allegations include receiving bribes and negotiating favorable media coverage the 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 believes this scandal is unlikely to fade away. this is not the first case that we're speaking about corruption in the family of binyamin netanyahu as the prime minster of israel told the israel is it's 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 raising nation or even being prosecuted and even jailed as he has.

north korea and south korea have held their first official talks in two years ago she took place in the demilitarized zone between the two countries the beginning of january saw the reopening of a cross the 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 are the two sides agreed on the participation of north korean athletes in the south korean olympics they also discussed the potential reunification of families separated by the korean war and in a significant breakthrough the two koreas agreed on talks between top army officials in order to avoid dangerous military incidents so that you have two points of view one is the buying time to perfect military capability the nuclear capability the other is that in. comforted enough no then accepted a nuclear power they can then become acting as a normal state and start negotiating with other states can do alone as one north

korea has won the democratic people's republic of korea as one no i think this is very very welcome news that there is a constructive dialogue going on between the two koreas and i hope something comes up and i mean that when all said and done the political arrangements on the peninsula between the two countries are paramount here and if they're talking i think that leaves a lot less room for other countries notably the united states to complain about things i think really everyone benefits here it's very hard to say who benefits most i suppose in one sense it is north korea because if there were a new war on the korean peninsula it is true north korea of it to be entirely destroyed i'm not sure south korea would be even though it would suffer great devastation so if you talk about total destruction as opposed to very serious harm in south korea i suppose in that sense the north has gained more but look for south korea north korea china russia japan the united states if we can keep on to this

track it would be a big win for everybody the latest talks followed months of escalation in rhetoric and saber rattling between north korea and the us however that all time claims his aggressive attitude towards pyongyang is exactly what made this 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 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. to come

on the program here on. the scottish government considering allowing refugees and non e.u. citizens to vote in local and scottish parliament elections details after the break . this is an amazing story because now we're seeing real geo political impact of going on a g. twenty country g seven countries japan actually spending power they called it the rise of big going in the millions of people have been buying it in japan the multi billion dollars that they have appreciated in value is causing a genuine effect in their economy and this is going to be the year twenty eight. currencies have this geo political influence. but. put themselves on the line. to get accepted or rejected.

so when you want to be president and she. wanted. to go on to be press this is what before three in the morning can't be good. i'm interested always in the waters in the. first. quarter past the hour here in moscow the b.b.c. is being accused of censorship by its own stuff they claim they're being prevented from talking about equal pay for lowering the resignation of the b.b.c.'s china editor over alleged salary discrimination. boyko 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 that 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 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 i cure it we need to ensure the b.b.c.'s 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 independent 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 needs to be a lot more transparency about what people are paid in general in scandinavian countries everybody's pay is it's 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 it's almost embarrassing to ask people how much they are 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 particularly the b.b.c. is off and it's often turned out behind closed doors and nobody really knows what's going on but then you've got to ask yourself 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. in the u.s. debate is heating up over a migration initiative aimed at protecting young illegal migrants also known as the dream and donald trump says he's ready to approve a law on them however only on certain conditions surely it should be a goal of love and 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 all. well the deferred action for childhood arrivals also known as dhaka is a program created under 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 tongue daca into law the dhaka initiative has of late 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 on support bases the media's 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 as that would

jeopardize democrats tonight says in two thousand and eighteen and beyond political analyst john howard jar is unimpressed by the way the dream as it is to you is being used to score political points. politics has become very cynical in the us and you know i think that. it's somewhat of a dirty game you 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 all they need to votes. against any of the reforms that the president trump in the republicans have been present for. america's dreamers debate might have some resonance in scotland where the local parliament has looked into the possibility of granting the right to vote to anyone granted asylum or with a residency that it would include

a right to participate in local and scottish parliament elections the scottish minister of a parliamentary business claim that it's only fair that those who have the right to live have the right to vote and we debate the issue with james gordon 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 in any election basis on the head of a totally wrong 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 don't know if that goes died out so somebody might call that racist . rumble and run i just hear from david the only person who did racist and. the fact interested 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 scottish

to outline what they are trying to gerrymander it they'll have anybody in the country that gives them of could you give us some explanation of it not me that you know. it is just give it be quiet for a moment i would well you should be. let me speak i'd let you speak sensually they they don't want anybody who's english voting but anybody else can have a vote no matter where they come from this is unheard of 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 that it moves big deal for the i mean look still be it we vote for whoever they want to vote for that's called democracy is what you want to do as usual when all else are you going to know that a lot of the season scottish scottish soldiers scottish people were not given the

vote if they were not resident in scotland of the referendum this is not that pathetic of 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 scotland will get the opportunity to say what it's a boat. michelin stars are considered a whole mako fine dining with the recipients gaining prestige in a cool and airy world but in a small mining town in the east of france one chef is being forced to turn in his star though through no fault of his own is the story. difficulties over the past four or five years have seen a steady decline internally in full and business customers for various reasons many people prefer to stay at work get deliveries in the office for up to come to the

restaurant and companies are making less so the budgets are tight in the field that is that. i've been in this town for eighteen years and we've had a michelin star for thirteen years for the region it's a shame to lose a star restaurant but it's a good thing for the industry overall unfortunately we need to focus on employment rather than high and sad but that's the way it has. to put. on this wednesday more of your worldwide headlines very soon.

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