because you feel. lucky lucky for you guys to get this. the search continues for survivors of a deadly apartment block collapsed in the russian city of magnitogorsk on monday seven people died and dozens more are still unaccounted for freezing temperatures are diminishing hopes of finding anyone alive. united states exit the un's culture and heritage wait and by latest in a string of international law called flibanserin by the trump administration. the french president takes a swipe at extreme elements among anti-government demonstrators in his traditional new year's eve speech. and the world over people have been ushering in twenty nine twenty nineteen with celebrations now throughout north and south

america we have the highlights of the festivities in moscow and around the globe. a very warm welcome to you and a very happy new year to you from all of us here at r.t. international thanks for joining us this morning however it is a somber new year's day in the central russian city of magni to go people that are still coming to terms with the tragic collapse of an apartment block in the early hours of monday morning at least seven people died and the fates of dozens more remain unknown.

our correspondent is at the scene in magnitogorsk. the rescue and search operation is still ongoing as you can clearly see behind me in fact it hasn't stopped for a minute and the rescuers worked out overnight searching for anybody who could still be trapped under the rubble now according to the latest information from russia's emergencies minister the total of seven bodies have so far been recovered five of them have been identified now the figure of people still unaccounted for stands at could see seven so it has slightly climbed up from yesterday new estimates have come in those people still haven't made contact with the rescuers

here although all around us we can see signs saying please if you lived if you if you were housed in one of the collapsed two parts of the building please do make contact and there are telephone numbers here written as well in fact so well the buildings around here they stand with shattered blas so really you can clearly see around here how powerful the explosion was so far the total of five survivors have been recovered from the rubble among them a teenage boy who used to live on the third floor and who was saved rescue just an hour into the tragedy the russian president vladimir putin this spoke with them on monday on the condition. of. the. judge. because he came up with their fifty two week. to try

to bring this to. this is as close as we were allowed to get here by the emergency ministry workers in fact if you just look carefully enough you can see the crane over there which is that right now it looks like holding up the concrete plates of the building that still stands and that is because. really we're being told today the risk of very grave danger the more other parts of this residential building might collapse once we couldn't really get any closer and right now we're being moved even for a way. well donald trump used his new year's speech to list the achievements of his administration he believes his first two years where an absolute success only

mentioning deals he struck except breaking of the iran nuclear deal there is never been an administration and i'm very proud of this that's done more than the trumpet ministration in the first two years of office we made a deal with mexico we made a deal with canada we made that deal with south korea and then you look at north korea we're doing really well we moved our embassy to jerusalem in israel. well after years of bitter wrangling the decision by the united states and israel to leave the un's culture and heritage organization has come into force washington announced its intention to leave us in october husing the agency of israel bias on the twelfth of october two thousand and seventeen the department of state notified us co-directed general it mean a bulk of the us decision to withdraw from their goodness nation and to seek to establish a permanent observer mission to unesco this decision was not taken lightly and reflects his concerns with the mountaineer. the need for fundamental reform in

their going is ation and continuing anti israel liason. now at this point we can review that in twenty seventeen there was outcry from the united states and israel when unesco designated a hebron city in the west bank designated as a world historical site now there is a contested area in the center of that city to muslims it's the ibrahimi mosque to jews it's the cave of patriarchs and at that point we saw some loud outcry from the united states and from israel now it's important to note that this isn't the first time that we've heard accusations of a pro palestinian bias from the usa and from israel and twenty eleven when the body officially recognized a state of palestine at that point the usa and israel both stopped paying dues to you know they were then stripped of their voting rights and twenty thirteen after having not paid their dues so at this point we see the united states carrying out

a policy that it's long carried out which is when it doesn't like certain international accords and agreements or international bodies it simply withdraw let's review the united states we withdraw from the optional protocol in dispute resolution to the vienna convention on diplomatic relations the united states is officially withdrawing from the un human rights council we will not cooperate with the i. so you see we will provide no assistance to the i.c.c. baseless politicized claims are brought against us hypocritical bodies and his situation i'm just prosecution by this illegitimate court the council ceases to be worthy of its name we will commence a review of all international agreements that may still expose the united states to purported binding jurisdiction dispute resolution in the international court of justice so the united states continues to withdraw from international bodies and

international agreements in response to decisions it does not approve of. peter galbraith a former us ambassador to create croatia believes america's withdrawal from international agreements and organizations will eventually people of earth. so this is entirely political step you know everyone has pointed out that we already have that is that so many of these institutions the united nations the international court of justice were ones that were created a human rights were created by the united states the united states to leave. and now we withdraw but also this concept from a very good sized ministration are very experienced one one i have to point out that lost the election by three million votes and based on the midterm results is not likely to be around after twenty twenty five and so very likely these decisions will then be reversed so my advice to the rest of the world is take

a deep breath and america will be back. french president mccrum has used his traditional new year's eve speech to slam the extremist elements in the country . winners of all see we have perience great division and anger anger against injustices against the course of a sometimes in comprehensible globalization against an administrative system that's become too complex and lacking in empathy going to be there was also anger against profound changes that call into question our society's identity and direction so if all this anger has shown me one thing no matter how excessive or overflowing it is we will not quit building opposition leaders have criticized mccrone for message calling him an impostor and that he'll be held to account here in european elections before it even paris were primed to tackle the rest on new year's eve

with twelve thousand police officers placed on duty but the yellow vests protesters didn't march on the french capital as well live in america nonviolent french probably the publisher and writer ones of more demonstrations in the new year. with all the blunders the government and especially the peace making i don't see any soothing of this situation this movement through of course continue into two thousand and nineteen the movement is so popular between seventeen and eighty percent of the french support all approval movements that it is not excluded that especially in the provinces or on bombs or even produced men who have more in common with the protesters and with the officials in paris to because become sympathetic with their cause and refused to execute alders eminent mccraw embodies what the you know best rejects globalization and pro-business policies in a way he cannot really given without stopping did what he is he's lacking leeway

the sorts through to diffuse the crisis in the midst of december by announcing a ten billion euro package of measures which was which which was not so really convincing. france was hit by anti-government protests. for much of twenty eighteen starting from demonstrations against labor forms to the latest yellow vest protests over fuel taxes are powers correspondent. recaps of. let them eat cake this infamous praise often tribute you to marry on twitter has been used to demonstrate new blood livius nurse the selfishness of france's elites which in turn led to the french revolution now the attribution may be misguided but the lesson isn't if you can wall the cries of the social classes or you mock them you do so at your own peril. a lesson in the current french president should have perhaps heeded long ago as unrest has been bubbling throughout two thousand and

eighteen. things started to turn nasty as the french government attempted to a victim and she community land that they. did for a decade. it's a protest against external should be distributed to. the talks will be eco are just dug in deeper meanwhile the cold war dismissing these should should be built this period it must be that great it will be evacuated because the man with the money is the republican leader must be respected. mayhem first reached paris in spring over my calls for reform plans or may first

violence quickly spilled over and dozens were arrested. but the penny bill and didn't draw color he spent the summer offering advice to all who would listen to him raging the country in the process he said for giving these lutheran people who've lived through transformations in recent years i'm not exactly ghouls who are resistant to change. notes diplomatic he doesn't know how to talk to people he cannot say about love all of people all of the nations it's just bad like both sides to the foreigners and to the people like french people. who come for and by crossing the road

oh yeah you don't say that people people are really struggling to easy deciding when you don't have a problem how can even our job it think that everybody can do it just by working out crossing the street but it's not real life it's just a very rich get out service just sort of it's not great to say things like that to french people that people aren't precarious situation i think it's quite ridiculous for a president to be so far from reality so by the time he told pensioners to stop playing the french had come to follow him because i think if you do so in the general shoulder who told me you can speak freely the only thing we can do is have the right piece to clear the country would be different if everyone did the same. staying stuck trying to people in france you don't see people to stop complaining specially in france the people that complain all the time we love that it's causing us not kind i think arrogance i think

a little aggressive you know hence again. there's no other word for me in the good old french spirit of things anger and resentment towards the mind often described as the president of the rich really poor without a body of a seventeen they had had enough and. if we see these crazy you know you streets of paris. take your squashes who was called finally conceded and offered an olive branch to many to list to withhold two legs from the yellow best small still don't call me a new role the rules of play to include expected two thousand the like you could still see when the french government if the boy in school can use. paris. the cake yeah. it's

delicious. and tomorrow still to come including new year's revelers who are targeted in japan but the details for you after the break. join me every thursday on the alex i'm i'm sure and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business i'm sure i'll see you then. you know world of big movies lot and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door on the back and

shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now for watching closely watching the hawks. join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to guests of the world of politics small business i'm show business i'll see you then. welcome back to use in japan say a minivan was deliberately driven at revelers in central tokyo just minutes into the new year the attack left eight people injured one of them in a critical condition it happened in a tourist hot spot it's known for its fashion and pop culture police reportedly arrested a man in his twenty's local media say the driver told police that he intended it to

be a terror attack. and in the u.k. counterterrorism police have launched an investigation after a man stabbed three people including a police officer in manchester in northwest england. he was. the suspect was heard shouting allahu akbar while police arrested him officers use the taser and pepper spray to subdue the man with force used have not confirmed whether the incident is connected to terrorism the three wounded people are now receiving treatment for non-life threatening injuries. a plot plan to wouldn't be out of place in the t.v. blockbuster game of thrones has been unfolding in singapore is being revealed that the young brother of the current prime minister has been financially supporting a longtime government critic hellacious sethi picks up the story. new year to see

family and loved ones getting together to enjoy festivities and celebrations right perhaps not so much at the top level of politics in singapore meets the prime minister and his rival brother and sister whose family quarrels a well known in the country recently the leaders brothers been supporting this blogger has found himself in brawls in the scathing battle with the pm it all started off to the blogger posted a seemingly offensive article on facebook it claims the former leader of neighboring malaysia had signed secret deals in exchange for singapore's banks helping to launder money out of malaysia's state coffers accusations the singapore ian prime minister strongly denies the blogger is now facing defamation charges as the two prepared to fight it out in the courts in times of need you would think you could turn to your family for support but as the prime minister's brother is instead helping the bloke pay his hefty legal fees he sent me

a message that he has drawn support lo and behold the first one to do so into my account this sibling was of a safe when questioned about the actual amounts donated simply stating it was a meaningful some when pressed further joked it's not one dollar we might not know the amounts but we do know this is a prime example of a lengthy family feud ass's the dispute over this colonial era bungalow that belonged to the late father and the country's first prime minister who wanted the property demolished after his death the coral got so bad it's his brother publicly accused him of misusing his position for personal gain but the prime minister denies putting self interests before good governance. regarding the. continued existence and hunches my war as prime minister. if i needed such magic properties to pull some i started off the thirteen years as a prime minister i must be in

a pretty sad state the people of singapore were also reassured that the disputes would distract us from more important national issues over the last week singaporeans have been disturbed and confused by news of the private dispute between my siblings and me i deeply regret that this dispute has affected singapore's reputation and singapore ians confidence in the government much as i would like to move on and the most unhappy experience for singapore ians these baseless accusations against the government cannot be left unanswered they must be and will be dealt with openly and refuted but it's within and identified some in the blackest back pocket and as legal proceedings continue the least siblings will have to put their differences aside if they're to stop the public from speculating on any further family quarrels with a brand new year taking the reins we've been taking stock of the major stories we covered in twenty eight many of the important events and issues we've picked up on

received little all no coverage in the mainstream media. there's or as seen a committed long take iowans are at first glance peaceful and it. the lou reed mill went back to twenty thousand this is not constant it oscillates of recent releases are never constant so why now at eighteen twenty twenty two thousand twenty thousand twenty two thousand. leave them for you and it's time to run away from here as we're ready to stay too long twenty

thousand a cocky reason alpha particle is already a substantial value. and mostly means what we have a series of locations with extremely high levels of pollution caused by having my tolls on hydro carbons they have a magical step series of facts on how there are very high levels of lead in some of those copper zinc molybdenum all of them are heavy metals that in certain concentrations can cause the release the kinds that arrhythmia and neverending amounts of problems associated with the nexus of these substances. i think that's why i'm thirty four years old and i lived my whole life in prior to that audience right by the entrance of the american base all my family lived in that area both of my parents died of cancer my mom breast cancer and my dad was

a different kind of cancer like when i was thirty three i was diagnosed with breast cancer my mom had already been in the same situation as me and passed away on the same year and i was diagnosed with the same pathology is what they did. well it's much confusing the more cancer cases there are the more the population asks why is this happening why it why did it story rule which is that on one side all houses have had at least one kid some cancer and i'm on the other side it's almost every other house that is not going to the point. i want to raise my children in a place where i have a guarantee that i will be able to give them a good quality of life and this is

a doubt that i have that am i doing the right thing for the future generation. around the world people are still ushering in twenty nineteen the new year is now marching across north america overnight many capitals three lavish fireworks displays and moscow was no exception new year's celebrations hold a very special place in the hearts of russians here are some of the best moments from around the globe. i. i.

think. thank you. thank i thank i os positive. thanks for joining us this new year's day we'll be back in about thirty minutes with the latest oh see that.

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