president trump says it's very possible the north korea crisis can be resolved peacefully despite the two koreas agreeing to compete under one flag at the winter olympics. the u.n. agency for palestinian refugees slams america's decision to cut the organizations funding calling it the worst crisis in its history. that there are russian agents in the zero parliaments right now. lies allies in the largest are being told throughout europe and we hear the same story over and over again. and talk about russia dominates in the european parliament's with members clashing over alleged threats and fake news coming from moscow.

or is r.t. international coming to you live from moscow i'm kate partridge thank you for joining us. donald trump says there's a possibility that the north korean crisis won't be resolved peacefully the u.s. president claims that's because having dialogue with pyongyang is next to impossible. and has more this recent interview given by u.s. president donald trump trouble repeated much of his typical rhetoric demonizing north korea for trying them as a threat to the region and from there he went on to say that sanctions and isolation of the country and threats were probably the best approach because dialogue with that country might be impossible this is donald trump's words i'm not sure the talks will lead to anything meaningful they've talked for twenty five years and they've taken advantage progress of our. siddons of our previous

presidents listen to trump's words you would think that the dialogue currently taking place between the north and the south was irrelevant that nothing was happening but it looks like some historic breakthroughs have actually taken place this is what's was recently announced. to the north from sound too much together in the opening ceremony under the korean peninsula flying from a single north south female ice hockey team. so here we have upcoming a joint women's ice hockey team that will be playing in the olympic games competing under a unified korean flag this is this is a huge breakthrough we also have two hundred thirty north koreans who are actually coming to the olympics to cheer and observe the games so there are some big breakthroughs going on but trump does not think they are significant is rhetoric trump did not only criticize north korea he's also called out shyness saying that he praised their efforts but he wished that they would do more and he said that

russia wasn't helping at all now russia was a signatory to the recent sanctions on north korea and they have stated over and over again that they have not at any point breached those sanctions that they signed on to now with all of this with his criticism not just of north korea but also of russia and of china donald trump seemed to be emphasizing that he believed that his approach and which the north koreans were met with more isolation more economic sanctions more threats and more of a punitive approach he believed that that approach was the best way to bring peace to the korean peninsula and it's not just don't trump sounding tough on north korea western allies from the korean war in the one nine hundred fifty s. have gathered in canada pushing for even more sanctions what i guess the explains whether the meeting has produced any meaningful solutions. the purser campaign will continue until north korea takes decides to do nuclear arms 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 diffuse things re-inforcing autonomous majors when

where available. including 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 with 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 so 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 this was unacceptable what the state department said about russia supporting this meeting that's

a complete lie we consider this meeting home for. the most important parties involved in the korean peninsula nuclear issue are now taking part in the meeting but 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 should 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 wargames.

i know 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 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. security analyst charles schumer bridge says it's ironic that while south korea is seeking peaceful solutions it supposed allies are escalating the rhetoric considerable course diplomatic achievement for the north and arguably

for the south but i think it's critically ironic that last this if you like not exactly a fall on the topham on it's going on at least a thawing of tensions between north and south that is happening in vancouver the former allies of the of south korea of course are tightening the noose as they call it increasing the rhetoric and raising the temperature south korea itself today is seemingly at least for the time being rejecting that belligerent approach and actually adopting an approach of talking and trying to ease tensions and seemingly with some first steps as results it appears to be the case that when the interests and the foreign policy and the actions of the united states are put to one side local players are to some degree at least able to start finding local solutions.

the u.n. agency for palestinian refugees has slammed america's decision to freeze more than half of its planned funding for the organization the agency is calling it the worst funding crisis in its history after a white house spokesperson announced the decision. 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 cancelled it's just being held for future consideration this is not aimed at punishing anyone well the move sponsored wide scale protests in gaza with many venting their anger out on americans decision people held up by a nurse and chanted slogans demanding further assistance for refugees probably started out of the world europe the arabs and everyone who has a connection to the palestinian course is responsible for this we are the palestinian people who were evicted from our homes towns and we have

a right to the support of the un r w n n r m which provides a minimum of assistance to the palestinian people what is now provided is not enough for a family to leave on for a month and artie's middle east correspondent paula slip takes a closer look at how the decision may affect refugees what we have heard from the united nations relief and works agency that this american money freeze will result in a dramatic reduction on the lives of palestinians this is a humanitarian and relief agency that supports some five point nine million registered palestinians and their descendants who fled away expelled from israel during the one nine hundred forty eight and nine hundred sixty seven wards they currently reside in the palestinian territories in gaza in east jerusalem as well as in jordan syria and lebanon and this is why there is some concern being expressed that particularly in those host countries this decision by the american president donald trump could result in any instability now this is

a huge blow to him because the united states is the single largest donor and it follows course from the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu to have the ages . see close down altogether. un 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. must become a thing of the past now for nearly seventy years on what has been a lifeline to the palestinians who say that without it basic access to services like education health care sanitation what some think vanished and leave hundreds of thousands of children even more vulnerable than they are today there is also concern about his latest news and the minds the ability of the united nations to respond in the future if and when there is a flare up of violence. we

spoke to dr mustafa barghouti the general secretary of the palestinian national initiative he says the decision will hurt palestinian refugees scattered across the middle east these are now more than five million or six million refugees that will be punished for being the refugees it will be deprived from the school to provide to the medical care to illegally people deprived from shelters to people with disabilities this is a very serious blow to the work of a very important agency that is providing humanitarian aid to palestinian refugees

in syria in lebanon jordan and in palestine itself back in june the u.s. ambassador to the u.n. nikki haley tweeted a picture of her posing with palestinian refugees at a camp in her post she explained how she had. managed to talk with them about their hopes and dreams however two weeks ago she changed her tone calling into question the future funding of the refugee agency i think the president has basically said he doesn't want to give any additional funding or stop stop funding until the palestinians are agreeing to come back to the negotiation table and what we saw with the resolution was not helpful to the situation we're trying to move for a peace process but if that doesn't happen the president is not going to continue to find that situation this american action is directed at eliminating the rights of the palestinian diffuser to progress you know what the gloom what you just said . being punished because we're not coming to the table of negotiations is

totally we couldn't get mr president put on has taken off the table of negotiations those who view it as a limb now is ticking off the issue of. he has taken off the issue of settlements so is the will is the empty why would the students come to an empty table aside under to him this will never happen. members of the european parliament have had a busy day discussing russia and supposed threats coming from moscow artie's europe correspondent peter oliver has more. now what we did see is this polarizing m.-e. piece on one side the group that said that russia was the root of all fake news and lies they were trying to drum up support an extra cash for the east struck calm task force now that's the e.u. body that tries to look into an expose what it sees as fake news r.t. and sputnik featured very heavy in some of the rhetoric coming from these m.e.p.

they're focused firmly on the fact that every vote in europe was potentially the target of a death of the russian plot and there are russian agents in this their own parliament right now and they're already trying to actively influence our elections russia today sputnik and other channels are dangerous it's quite interesting that the communists and the extremists nationalists in this chamber very can see russia and us information. and of course your carbs but we can see you are also voices pointed back towards those same any piece you just heard from saying that they were just looking for a bogeyman a scapegoat for their own political failings and that russia fitted that sicko perfectly we need to be careful when using phrases like fake means i'm not trying to defend the russian regime by that i'm just rather skeptical by references to

interference in the us and european elections there is no evidence of such interference. in that system lies and lies and lies are being told throughout europe and we hear the same story over and over again. should you say that the russian media spreads false figures and facts as when have russians provided false facts when i followed events in libya afghanistan iraq and syria and in all instances i've seen the transatlantic lies the media have been reporting published the findings of following from this debate on whether there needs to be more financing for the east struck on passports in the spring and keeping an eye on not expect to see this debate over fake news not going anywhere anytime soon. pro independence supporters have held a mass rally in catalonia celebrating the first session of the newly elected regional parliament which has a separatist majority. widescale

rallies have been a common site since catalonia is a vote for independence was declared illegal by madrid a move so a number of pro independence politicians jailed while former catalan leader wisdom all went into exile in belgium many are now expressing hope that he will turn to now. we expect that from here push them on can be proclaimed president the best option and what he that he swears in as president and brussels because what people have chosen and then he comes back to catalonia as an elected president. but i think there is a way that he can be elected and street in brussels. what is best for the country's disobey the spanish monarchies to make the catalan republic go forward there is a whole country behind him a social majority once the catalan republic we don't have anything to do with the spanish monarchy emotionally mentally speaking and we want to make the republic go forward. well after the first session of parliament wrapped up the question of

electing the region's president don't put. our claims he could run the region via school life or through a special representative who during the session the seats of the representatives absentia due to imprisonment or exile were marked with a yellow ribbons the symbol of the independence movement well apart from pro independence activists anti breakaway movements have also been gaining popularity meet tonia it's a fictional land inside catalonia which includes the regions of barcelona and tarragon are the activists who came up with it want to split from catalonia and join spain and this is their reasoning. especially from what i did i can i mean we went from being one of the main drivers of the spanish economy to a 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. russia's investigative committee claims that new evidence refutes allegations the state sponsored the swapping of athlete samples at the sochi winter olympics r.t. daniel hawkins has the details well this is the result of a law 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 right from coffs account before the head of masters and the broad treif now whistleblower and fugitive in the united states into some of the technical details in his allegations namely how allegedly these samples were transported 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 cards which was quite

different. people coming from the fire if you're. comfortable i was thinking in the book called. sort. of they're 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 blanket and subsequently on the team. himself of course is a controversial enough figure as we said he is the former head of moscow's antidoping abroad 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 buying blanket banning of russian athletes at the national olympic

events just last month we learned that are you see decided to oppose of by a. blanket ban on russian athletes at the south korean winter olympic games making them participate hundred neutral flags not under russian flag not playing the russian out of them. so this result really puts into question many of rocher graphs allegations raises more questions than answers but certainly a very interesting turn to this story very interesting to see to follow it and see where it goes after this. bitcoin has recently been on a roller coaster ride but the last twenty four hours have seen its value plummet to below eleven thousand dollars in fact all major critter currencies are down to fear him fell drastically in value by thirty one percent and is currently valued at just under a thousand dollars the crash follows a global crackdown on the regulation of digital currency is in brazil investment funds are now prohibited from buying crypto currency is while in china or saudis

are targeting online platforms that offer exchange services and india is actively targeting wealthy big corners income tax regulation with some believe asia will bring in even tougher measures and there are warnings this could now be a survival of the fittest for digital currencies. activists supporting the recent movement against sexual misconduct on our talking their peers or service actors and other public figures who have questioned the direction in which the so called me to campaign is going facing a few respond clash jacqueline vega has the latest examples i feel like every time you turn around another me too headline has hit the press with new accusations from directors to actors to fashion photographers but it seems we've reached a turning point as we're now in feminist are concerned that the campaign is becoming a witch hunt take margaret atwood author of a handmaid's tale an acclaimed work attacking mythologising who says she's starting to doubt the movement the structure of guilty because accused has applied to many more episodes in human history than

salem my fundamental position is that women are human beings the full range of sente and demonic behaviors does entails including criminal ones they're not angels in keep of all of wrongdoing the backlash she's received online and in the media has been ruthless strange how someone so brilliant can demonstrate some legal insight and self reflection i guess privilege is blinding which margaret and i wouldn't would get back to writing dystopian a fiction but a message in this world instead of you know actively creating it. i mean seventy eight year olds on exactly knowing that progressive takes congolese a right the first female african american secretary of state also says me too maybe changing perceptions of women and not for the better i do think we have to be a little bit careful let's not turn women into snowflakes let's not infantilize women over in france one hundred influential female artists are being

led by actress catherine deneuve and signing an open campaign letter against me to rape is a crime but in system comes the floor is not a crime nor is gallantry of sharpness aggression now this liberation of speech has been turned on its head but the reaction to that was furious and another was forced to issue a hasty apology a few prominent men have also voiced their reservations one of them was actor liam neeson there is a bit of a witch hunt toppling famous people suddenly accused of. touching some girls in the forest something suddenly their been dropped from their prove around or something and surprisingly nice and comments have also been less than well received by many the problem here seems to be that there's often a if you aren't with us you're against us mentality with movements such as me to those who are speaking out about their concerns are not condoning sexual assault nor attacking the campaign itself but more often than not their words are twisted

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