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morning here and you're watching international come your latest news. the u.s. president donald trump says he doubts talks with north korea could lead to anything meaningful adding that his predecessors also failed in such attempts but his comments came after north and south korea agreed to go to the olympics under a unified flag in a breakthrough deal following direct talks between the countries. and has more on what trump said in his latest interview. i'm not sure the talks will lead to anything meaningful they've talked for twenty five years and they've taken advantage of our presidents of our previous presidents to 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 and south who marched together in the opening ceremony under the korean peninsula flag 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 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 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 now intensifying pressure on north korea was also the key agenda of a meeting in kind of between the west and allies of the nine hundred fifty s. korean war but the gathering ignored the fact the north and south will already holding direct talks and also failed to invite key regional players namely russia and china and lists we spoke to believe washington's military industrial complex is unlikely to be interested in talks that could lead to peace. president trump somehow believes that this pressure approach is the is something different than that has been applied before which it isn't and in reality he wants to pull

back some of the thunder if you will back to washington because you have again the north and south talking i think the u.s. is a little jekyll and hyde with its policies because on one hand it wants to have a resolution wants to have de mille nuclearization wants to have peace and on the other hand pumps up this rhetoric and so the motivations relate to finances they relate to geo political factors of the u.s. power in the region if you will and they relate to trying to ice out china and russia a little bit as a player in this as was evident in vancouver the u.s. is constantly menacing north korea constantly threatening north korea carrying out war exercises that simulate the destruction of north korea a country that was destroyed by the united states between one thousand nine hundred fifty three forty five million koreans died there wasn't one structure there one

story still standing as a consequence of u.s. bombers and the main complaint of american pilots was there was nothing left to bomb in that war so it the u.s. annihilated north korea here we have donald trump saying he's promising to do the same from the from the podium of the u.n. just a couple months ago and now trump will reflect that i think not just as own personal position but that of the military industrial complex in america fears that peace may be breaking out in the korean peninsula between the two koreas that that's alarming to trump into the military industrial complex but very welcomed by all the people in the world. turkey's security council has vowed to thwart washington's plans to create a kurdish led ground force in syria ankara has been moving military equipment to the border preparing for an operation against kodesh positions in the country. has more on how to of washington's key regional allies could clash in

a new conflict in that war torn country. isis as a so-called caliph it is dead job done i want to thank general manners for doing such a great job with respect this is not the hello the world can patted self on the shoulder mission accomplished and all that what's left of isis has gone underground and not the sort of thing you can fight with tags and jets so why is the united states now building an army in syria the coalition is working jointly with the syrian democratic forces to establish and train the new syrian border security force currently there are approximately two hundred thirty individuals training him to be assassin our goal class with the goal of a final force as of approximately thirty thousand blows be a clue. united states will maintain a military presence in syria focused on ensuring isis cannot really merge

considering syria already has an army that can reliably keep isis in check why would they need a second one but ok politics the u.s. really wants to stay in syria we're going to stay for several reasons stabilization assistance in the vital north and northeast protection of our allies the syrian democratic forces but for other reasons as well let me show you something outs these a turkish missiles tanks tillery turkey and coalition member preparing for an offensive against syrian kurds the y.p. gee who of the us led coalition the turkish president isn't happy about america building an army of it's. now america's acknowledged it's established an army of terror along our country's border it's up to us to drown this army of terror before it is born that's

a tough coalition trained to fight of or about to be attacked by a coalition member what kind of alliance is that the add to that the us apparently told no one it was building the new army any activities that we take part in with regard to the syrian democratic forces is something that's internal only internal only to syria internal not but s.d.f. elements been trained by the us are reportedly on the move preparing to defend against that offensive and need to member offensive with weapons given to them by washington how's that for a tragic twist to expend so much strength time and money to defeat isis who need to set the stage for another war a war within the n.c. isis coalition. regional analysts whether washington's kodesh allies will go along with the conditions they're being offered by the us. we have to be honest american

right now using the kurds as a boots on the ground nothing more nothing less and then also to put pressure on turks to put pressure on russians to bring a peace deal to syria and get iranian out of that area and really this is a sad thing you know america betrayed the kurds in iraq and they're about ready to betray them in syria at this moment they're only staying around just again to put a pressure on turks and russian to make a deal and syria and argue turkey will will not stand by invade the kurdish area and this is a serious mistake and maybe america is allowing this to happen to kind of get turkey in trouble even i think. friends of the usa don't get stuck with the usa want there is no clearance in politics towards the region especially for the kurds to. say members. there is

a problem if one member of not always treated. should. actually help them but you know. it is very difficult to see that as a threat because it's coming from the. fun usa which is supporting the strokes if there is a real conflict with to be sure usa will not. bags the kurds today that is the problem for me. minutes past the hour here in moscow green campaigners are claiming victory after the french government finally abandon a decade's old plan to build a new airport near the city of not opponents claim it would have harmed key environmental areas a protest group called zone to defend was first formed forty five years ago to fight the plans they stepped up their efforts in two thousand and eight setting up what would become europe's largest squad at the side announcing that no decision

about the airport the prime minister said the stiff opposition made the project impossible. we will put a stop to the no go zone which has flourished in this area for nearly ten years illegal occupants will have to leave voluntarily a few weeks before spring or they will be evicted the government will poor resources into modernizing the existing nine to airport and extending its runway as suggested by mediators between the two sides last month it was impossible to go ahead with the original plans given the climate of bitter opposition between two sides of the population that are nearly equal in size. a correspondent in charlotte when he visited the site and talked to the squatters who just by the victory have no plans to leave. fields and trees roll past as we head to not true don de land this hardly

a house in sight all seems peaceful but appearances are often deceptive for almost a decade this land has been a battlefield over the french government's plans to build a multi-million euro airport. off the failed to vixens in clashes with the police the government has finally given in there will be no. was we come to the focal point of the celebrations the flash this is where people have come together now to celebrate the fact that the french prime minister most decided to cancel much decision to build an airport. as you can see people are filling the space dancing singing this is a victory they say it's a victory they want to savor but how sweet that victory may feel now they may not

feel the street much longer as the french prime minister has also said that all of the people who've been supporting it since two thousand and eight will have to evacuate the site but the people here say they will defend their right to live in the lands that they now call their home. will be defend in this territory we're going to stay if the government tries to use and force it will see the year twenty twelve repeat itself. we are not going to leave our ground just like that we won the first battle now is the second. despite this victory some members of this informal and illegal community still want to remain anonymous these squatters have been called radicals by the french government and some media have even labeled them hardy's so are they

i asked. zeus if. i don't know what it means to be radical for them it means we're with knives between our teeth ready to cut the throats of everyone who is against our movement and it's ridiculous. for now the celebrations continue but all is still not one nearby hundreds of awaiting their wood is ready to gate crash the party and boot them out charlotte r.t. . and. after weeks of anticipation donald trump's announced the winners of a so-called fake news awards interest was so high the website containing the results collapsed in the first few minutes so american has the names of the winners . after such a long wait trump has finally held his fake news award ceremony and by award ceremony i mean he tweeted a link to

a blog post revealing the winners and in trump's own words the most dishonest and corrupt of the business but then the website crashed as soon as he tweeted due to high internet traffic will trump and the media have been saber rattling since before the election faxes his campaign days calling them fake news at every opportunity information that was false and fake and never happened get released to the public i'm against the people that make up stories i mean i've got to give you a big issue to use that kind of you are sure you can do and of course c.n.n. took home one of the top accolades mentioned on the list four times more than anyone else and arguably their biggest fail was when three of their employees had to resign after they released a fake russia story and a.b.c. in new york times were among the outlets listed in new york times was mentioned twice and trump announced these awards a couple weeks ago and he's been ridiculed for it ever since nothing gives you more credibility than donald trump calling you a liar and i of course don't want to get snub one of them to go special effects

team who made it look like the president through paper tells a puerto rican oh wow and while the award is questionable it shouldn't take our attention away from the false reports that were peddled by the news outlets that won awards tonight but after all this trump tweeted that there are great reporters that he respects however no names were mentioned i guess he must have forgotten but somehow he didn't forget to name the winners of his fake news award so not exactly sure what happened there and i'm certainly looking forward to seeing how the media reacts. switzerland may not be in the e.u. but it could still be facing its own version of it the swiss people's party has received permission to collect signatures in support of a referendum to end switzerland's free movement agreement with the e.u. the move would hand back to the country full control over immigration at the moment the current policy allows e.u. citizens to live and work freely in switzerland and vice versa that the s.p.p.

has until july next year to collect one hundred thousand signatures if successful the proposal will be considered by the government and parliament before being put to a vote the co-president of the youth wing of the s.v.p. is convinced the public would vote in favor of stopping free movement we are the biggest party in switzerland we are the strongest party and we have made a lot of initiatives and in two thousand and fourteen this is people's party has launched that initiative against mass immigration so why shouldn't it work a second time and i'm sure this is people will vote for that initiative that we can stop that free movement to deal with the european union or similar i'll be a soft vote aimed at reducing the flow of migrants was held in twenty fourteen with the majority voting in favor of the parliaments only introduced a system giving priority to a swiss space job speakers and avoiding actual quotas on who you workers. again

feels this country should be fully free and independent. but we have got massive problems with mass migration and we wanted to stop that we had emigration at the lead to switzerland for it with about eight hundred thousand persons that's really a threat to our democracy way to end always wants to remain remain independent neutral and free and then to parliament and the government of switzerland had to time to implement that initiative but they didn't implement that initiative from two thousand and fourteen because they maybe are scared after reaction for european union so i think it is really a big problem because we have got all those left wing politicians in our parliament and the government and that's the reason why that initiative against mass immigration couldn't be implemented. twelve activists in the californian city

of alcohol and have been detained after they were caught trying to feed homeless people in a park according to current legislation it is illegal to share food in public places that attention was caught on camera. you're going to have you not. going to get you. know if you know it's going to be. a ban on the public food sharing and alcohol was introduced to a back in october last year as a precaution against an outbreak of infectious hepatitis a the penalty for breaking the law can be up to a thousand dollar fine or even a six month jail time. but we talked to the activists who were caught by police they claim the legislation was the open sort of of what it was meant to do. homeless people who were there were a very sinkhole that we were standing up and they were very upset that the mayor in the city council members could pass such a heartless ordinance and none of those government officials come out to the park

and talk to those people it really seems like this is part of the city for to criminalize homelessness they've already made me that against the law to panhandle to sleep on the sidewalk so this is really like the next step in trying to push the homeless out of their city and the big justification that they use was the having outbreak in the indiegogo and they say all the parkers the parks are contaminated with hepatitis a that we don't want the homeless people to catch and so are trying to protect but everybody else can still go and have a party at the park and share food with each other and they wrote that into the ordinance and that's what makes it discriminatory because it targets the whole nature it's everybody else is not magically immune from have a tie to say within the same space so clearly there this is not about hepatitis a and the mayor has made comments in public session at the city council meetings where he has said we're trying to make the park less inviting to homeless people. but a recent report by the un outlined the drastic situation homeless people face in the

united states. an average of seven to eight hundred people every single day. congress has reached an agreement on tax legislation that moved deliver more joy higher wages and massive tax relief. since the recession we have not recovered the homeless homelessness has actually increased there's a problem with high property values air b.n. b. as fine a focal property isn't evicting the tenants the mayor about the home would like

everyone to think all homeless people are drug addicts and that is absolutely not the case we have a very high percentage of our homeless are veterans we have a high percentage of people who are working in this growing criminalization of people who are poor and powerless. really is also a bigger problem with mass incarceration that happens in our country where we have for profit prisons with companies making money off of jailing people. a facebook investigation into alleged russian and meddling into the vote in the u.k. has found no credible evidence that that's not stopped the social network relaunching it so you saw lee has the story. the social media giant facebook have contacted british parliamentarians to tell them that their why did in the scope of their investigation into alleged russian interference in the run up to the briggs it referendum here in the u.k. simon milner he's the policy director for facebook in the u.k.

writing to damian collins m.p. saying that previous investigations have found that there was very little if any interference in u.k. politics this work requires detailed analysis of historic data we estimate it will take a number of weeks to complete but the timescale was very much dependent on any findings during the course of the investigation now a little over a month ago facebook concluded that russians all russian backed groups spent less than one pound on advertising in the run up to the brags that referendum they consisted of three adverts which showed over four days and only had around two hundred people viewing them so not a very far reach there is the current atmosphere is one of trying to find evidence of russian interference wherever it can be found it a sustained campaign

a cyber espionage and disruption it is seeking to weaponize information and it seems the rhetoric around so-called russian interference continues that's despite the foreign secretary of the united kingdom boris johnson admitting that there wasn't a sausage of evidence to suggest russia was meddling in u.k. affairs but nevertheless the witch hunt continues. sweden is to send an updated version of a cold war era chips and guide booklet to almost five million households in the country the first edition was published in one nine hundred forty three with instructions on how to act if sweden went to war along with advice on how to survive it. nuclear strike now the new additional reflect modern threats such as cyber and terror attacks along with climate change we talked to the author of the new version of christina anderson who believes the government hopes to increase the alertness to war and crises the swedish government has decided that the

knowledge among the swedish citizens in how to prepare for a crisis but also for the threat of war it need to increase people find that the security in their world as a whole will about also in europe and in sweden has worsened we believe in a cry on safe we're out of the image of threat this is so complex and you can read about it almost every day in media so it's like it's always surrounding surrounding you all the time so to speak despite some of the stated issues of the swedish government is placing russia at the center of current security concerns the security policy situation in all parts of the world has deteriorated there are more more reports of russian descent from asian and impact operations and armed attack against sweden cannot be ruled out nor can we exclude military force or such a threat being used against us we've got reaction from independent journalist

martin some of us. all over the world we are being fed a dose of fear. about foreign countries immigration terrorism and this kind of comments being made in sweden a part of the general atmosphere of fear there are powerful forces in the west that want to push sweden into an anti russian stance and that's powerful forces within sweden who agree with that on the more conservative side of politics and this is all part of the ongoing debate and dialogue within sweden and within. europe in general thanks for joining us or in r.t. international we return in about half an hour.

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