as for the world of politics or business i'm sure both of those i'll show you the. breaking news the south korean media says pyongyang and soul will march together at the winter olympics and a unified flag is the latest breakthrough in face to face talks between the two sides at the same time canada hosts a summit of twenty foreign ministers on the korean crisis and their solution is to put more pressure on the north. russia's investigative committee present evidence that it says refutes sixty claim advance alleged systemic doping by russia during the fall cherilyn pigs. plus thousands stage a demonstration in catalonia demanding the release of politicians as the first session of the newly elected regional parliament with the pro independence majority

is held. there they are watching r t international with me mickey aaron good to have you with us this hour now we start with breaking news on r.t. and north and south korea have reportedly agreed to march together under a unified flag at the winter olympics the breakthrough it was reached following a series of talks between the two countries south and north korean officials met for a third time in a space of just a few days to discuss peace efforts meanwhile western allies of the nine hundred fifty s. korean war have gathered in canada for separate talks on the current crisis with a seemingly different approach. the purser campaign will continue until north korea

takes decides to do nuclear i think. is to send out a very clear message that we want to intensify that pressure it is not the time to pressure or to revert career the surest path to peace is to keep threatening north korea into submission after a long and challenging meeting that's the best the value of a group could come up with the purpose of our meetings today is to improve the effectiveness of the maximum pressure campaign and combat north korea's attempts to evade sanctions the united states looks forward to hearing from our protest votes on how we can best do that more sanctions toughest sanctions though one might wonder what there is left of north korea to sanction or why they would work now when they haven't for the seventy years a few of the participants also proposed ripping up all diplomatic relations with the north that were to work and defuse things re-inforcing autonomous majors when

where available. to include cutting off diplomatic ties to his north korea solid meeting of north korea's former enemies literally almost all of these countries were participants off the korean war on the side of south korea states such as luxembourg colombia greece belgium difficult to imagine what relevance they have to the korean crisis these days but there you go noticeably absent two countries that are actually relevant to the crisis apart from north korea itself the two countries that actually share a border with the north china and russia. russia and china were not invited to this meeting they just said the meeting would take place on the sixteenth of january. you can come in the evening we will tell you what we have agreed on which this was unacceptable and what the state department

said about russia supporting this meeting that's a complete lie we consider this meeting harmful to. the most important parties involved in the korean peninsula nuclear issue aren't taking part in the meeting we don't know what the goal of this meeting is so i don't think this meeting is legal or representative from the very beginning china has been opposed to this meeting issues ok so you invited a bunch of countries that have little to do with the crisis and came up with all the tried tested and failed solutions they went a step further refusing any advice russia and china have long stood by a double freeze meaning north korea stops doing this. and south korea and the united states stop sending nuclear bombers to harass the north and poor's with the war games.

no said rex tillerson when the north does it it's a provocation when we do it it's deterrents have a jew away but couldn't you wait. at long last after years north korea and south korea holding direct face to face negotiations the olympics are around the corner and everyone with any sense once things settle down so what does the vancouver group do while it gathers all of north korea's former enemies and declares it intends to tighten the noose around kim jong un's neck how's that for a path to peace. international and independent china specialist andrew lung thinks the presidents of russia and china at that meeting would limit western countries

options to pressure north korea. well obviously. the trauma administration doesn't the feel the time is ripe for them to talk to the north koreans yet because they want to put more pressure on north korea and put it refereeing up the rhetoric and all sort of tactics of foreclosure for example they're not ruling out something like even a blockade problem seems to think that all his higher octane sort of rhetoric has achieved something at least the north koreans beginning to talk to the south koreans so they don't want to give up their option and hence. trying to talk with the allies so trying to group the allies together the exclusion as i said of russia and china is because they fear that if russia and china invited to join they're likely to scuttle. america's option for for for coercion.

russia's investigative committees claiming new evidence refutes allegations of state sponsored samples swapping at the start she lympics daniel hawkins has more on the story. well this is the result of a low inquiry by russia's investigative committee going all the way back to last year with regards to that doping scandal they've looked into some new details of course of google rots in coffs account before head of moscow's anti doping approach really from now whistleblower and fugitive in the united states into some of the technical details in his allegations namely how allegedly these samples were transported and tampered with they found out that these samples were transported to the social abode three under strict conditions of supervision and then processed during daytime periods of between thirty minutes and two hours so a very rapid turnaround that of course contradicts the counts which was quite different. people coming from the fire and here.

i was a. little. of their claiming that this alleged operation took place in the dead of night it was of course his claims that resulted in this scandal which resulted in the banning of many russian athletes and blanket ban and subsequently on the team. himself of course is a controversial enough figure as we said he's the former head of moscow's anti-doping brought tree he is wanted there in russia on drug trafficking charges on selling and moving dangerous and illegal substances we understand he's now under a witness protection program in the united states nevertheless despite these charges it was his evidence his allegations that led to the mclaren report subsequently used as a basis for this banning blanket banning of russian athletes at international olympic events just last month we learned there are you see decided to impose a ban on the blanket ban on russian athletes at the south korean winter olympic

games making them participate hundred neutral flag not under russian flag not playing the russian from. so this result really puts into question. allegations raises more questions than answers but certainly a very interesting turn of the story very interesting to see to follow it and see where it goes after this. barcelona almost twenty thousand people have staged a demonstration demanding the release of pro independence politicians the politicians face accusations of sedition after they took part in an excuse me they took part in actions promoting catalonia split from. protesters gathered outside the region's high court they accused the spanish government of repression they also held a minute's silence in solidarity with those arrested massive rallies have been a common sight since council only as vote for independence was declared illegal by

madrid. we demand freedom of prisoners and show that we won't accept repression and the spanish government's abuse against the democratic will it's a great injustice that is the reason we are here to free them now. and it's not just pro independence activists make nerve forces hurt and breakaway movements have been gaining popularity as well meet bania it's a fictional land inside council lonia which includes barcelona as a loner regions the activists who came up with it wanted to split from council lonia and joined spain here is their reasoning. we went from being one of the main drivers of the spanish economy to mediocre autonomy at the exit of more than three thousand companies was followed by encouraging the civil population to disobey the constitutional order to get a republic that lasted eight seconds and without any international support. the pro

and anti independence camps have been upping their rhetoric ahead of the first session of the new council on parliament which has just wrapped up after a recent snap election in the region pro independence parties gained a majority in the parliament seats of those parliamentarians who were absent due to imprisonment or exile marks with the yellow ribbons which are the symbol of the independence movement the question of the election of the region's president remains open one of the candidates is carlos purged amount of former president deposed after the referendum who fled to belgium where he currently remains he claimed he could run the region via skype or through a special representative. of the u.s. has frozen more than half of its planned funding to the united nations agency for palestinian refugees. we committed a voluntary contribution of sixty million dollars for twenty eight thousand so far

sixty five million dollars that is money that will be held for future consideration it's money that's been frozen at this time it's not being canceled it's just being held for future consideration this is not aimed at punishing anyone. let's get more details on this now and cross live to our correspondent paula slayer point what does that decision mean for the palestinians. well firstly onward stands for the united nations relief and works agency for palestinian refugees in the near east this is a humanitarian development and relief agency that supports more than five million palestinians who were either expelled or fled their homes in the nine hundred forty eight and nine hundred sixty seven war it assists palestinians in gaza in the palestinian territories in east jerusalem in lebanon syria and in jordan now the u.s. money freeze is a hard blow because the united states is the biggest contributor to this agency and

the decision by the united states follows course family israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu who wanted to see the organization shut down altogether. but we're going to once view an r. w. a is an organization that perpetuates the right to return for palestinian refugees narrative in order to eliminate the state of israel therefore the un r w a must become a thing of the past for the simple suggestion that the funds of the un would be gradually transferred to support the un refugee agency which has clear criteria to support real refugee status and this position was also presented to the us. now for nearly seventy years in what has been a lifeline to palestinians without it most of them would not have access to basic necessities like health care education and sanitation this decision also effects

tens of thousands of vulnerable palestinian children and it also undermines the agency's ability to respond and provide aid in the future should there be another flare up of violence between israel and the palestinians. i was artie's middle east correspondent paula thanks those details paula now we're going to be bringing you morning stories off of this story break so do stay with us .

join me every thursday on the alex i will be sure and i'll be speaking together for the world of politics or business i'm sure business i'll see you then. is iran must going to fit in to steve jobs is coming up with innovative products you know the electronic gadgets market is a little bit different in the car business because the car business is you know you kind of bound by the highway system and you're bound by the whole infrastructure that is the automotive industry and the lobbying of the automotive industry so it's a bit difficult to be disruptive in that industry in a way he's going to open up his charging stations with one nine hundred fifty style burger and shake joints with servers on roller skates ok that's that's an idea that might take off that might be a new like starbucks like third place that people go to to have an experience that might work.

welcome back not a new series the much to russian meddling in u.s. politics the kremlin supposedly behind us whistleblower telsey mountings decision to run for a seat in the senate and is again trying to subvert american democracy well that's the claim being promoted by some in the democratic party including the head of its leading think tank. senator cardin authored and released a two hundred page masterpiece on russian influence in western elections suddenly he has a primary from kremlin stooges songes weiqi leaks prime resource chelsea manning the kremlin place the stream left to swing elections remember that oh my god this

is how to arrange to fish to washington is the president of the launches them policy think tank genuinely believes chelsea manning's candidacy is a criminal implant conspiracy theory is throwing more in mainstream d.c. than on internet fringes now exact connoisseur a prominent member of the hillary clinton campaign also tweeted out purporting this conspiracy theory that somehow chelsea manning's bid for the senate was a lockout plot now interestingly and now those from porting this conspiracy theory they have quite a bit of explaining to do now with those who will recall chelsea manning was just in prison in a u.s. military prison for seven years now is it are they purported that somehow russia infiltrated the prison and was able to recruit chelsea manning at that point and then furthermore viewers will remember that barack obama pardoned chelsea manning as he was leaving office so then the question is was russia in on the plot to pardon chelsea manning did they somehow convince obama to pardon chelsea manning so

their operative could then get out of prison and run for the u.s. senate i it's not exactly clear so those who are trying to get to the bottom of this vast conspiracy theory that they have come up with have a lot of explaining to do about the details of how exactly russia is to blame for someone running for the u.s. senate in the united states vice chair of the us libertarian national committee often virus thinks the establishment has the reasons to trying to keep manning out of their way. blur's russia has become an american coated capital which i don't think is. there is nothing for russia the game there are many things however for established interest to gain from keeping an anti-establishment candidate out so many people in america or so excited to see a true american hero really stepping up and standing up to the establishment and we know she can do it because she's already done it she has already put her own freedom and safety on the line to fight for the american people somebody that that

even though i'm running against her even though i have some different policies that's someone i can respect. because been on a roller coaster ride of late but the last twenty four hours have seen its value plummet to below eleven thousand dollars in fact all major cryptocurrency s. are down theory and fell drastically in value by thirty one percent and is currently it is down to one thousand dollars the crash follows a global crackdown on the digital currencies in terms of regulation in brazil investment funds are now prohibited from buying crypto currency while in china or thirty's or targeting online platforms that offer exchange services and india is actively targeting wealthy bitcoin is through income tax regulation some believe a.j. will bring in even harsher measures and there are warnings this could now be a survival of the fittest for digital currencies. china has always been opposed to

or to but crime and korea now is becoming increasingly concerned parent is going wild but most of the action crowd and all crimes are you know they just sell the speculation is really extreme particularly in japan and they know that this is going to happen so i'm sure they're correct and you know china i might add. the communist crowd congress has has a taking a turn to deal with speculators the only issue right now is that this sector is so technologically advanced there it went in biggie big outside the bounds of the national government and what they're doing is catching up the world doesn't need on a business sense all of these. all of these projects they're not necessary some of them will outperform in our compete their peers just because they have a better management teams better products better solutions their technology etc

just look at them as very speculative start of business is some of them as it happened in the us that in the nasdaq bubble of the late ninety's some of them will be a dominant company dominating business in ten to twenty years but most of them will be wiped away the underlying technology watching technology is good is. a chief donald tusk alongside his counterpart to john claudian care have warned of the negative consequences of bracks sits and expressed their hope that they decay changes its mind if they ok government sticks to its decision to leave regs it will become reality was all which they got the fifth. next year. there was a change of heart there were british but. wasn't it david davis. if

a democracy cannot change its mind it ceases to be a democracy does and through skirt on it are duly remains open mics i hope not to be heard clearly in london. was discussed as five an hour so we were joined by ray finch a member at the european parliament for the u.k. independence party mr finch good to see you so do you think us getting young because i have a chance will be heard in london. oh i'm certain they will they'll be hit by the political establishment but they'll also be hated by the people of the u.k. who actually took this so fancy back and said we are having no more we are leaving your opinion the fact that the political parties in the political establishment of taken so long to do this is not our problem it's not the problem of the british people we asked to go out we want to go out and we will leave whatever mrs young or mr tooke say the decision of the british people is final. what are these negative

consequences of breaks it that tesco it was referring to that. well it might be the fact i lose my job in twenty nineteen i won't be in any pay anymore accounting of any opus apart from the fact that once we leave the rest of the countries in the european union will think well now the fifth biggest economy in the wales left what's in the photos where we're now having to pay more and we're getting less and we have less democracy you know well perhaps we should follow the united kingdom out to the exit door and then mr tosca mr juncker will follow me to the unemployment desk. that are happening colas for another referendum haven't they in a recent poll suggested that fifty five percent of people would now vote remain if they had the chance again what you think tipped the balance. you know most of the polls the overwhelming number of the polls say that we would actually vote

even more conclusively to leave this must have been a rogue poll i've never i've certainly never seen it and the people i speak to in the united kingdom are more determined than ever the more they see that the european union is trying to take away our democracy and doing things that we will patiently found repugnance such as a european army the determination of the british people is becoming more and more evidence as time goes on and if we were to ever know the referendum which god forbid we don't i am absolutely certain that the british people will vote even more overwhelmingly to leave mr very french member of the european parliament for the you can depend his party thank you for your time. on the back at the top of the hour with all the latest headlines to join is that.

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