you know all these guys. the search for survivors of a deadly apartment block collapse in the russian city of magnitogorsk has been suspended emergency workers are trying to prevent further collapse of the site freezing temperatures a diminishing hopes of finding anyone alive. the united states exits the un's culture and heritage wing the latest in a string of international calls abandoned by the trumpet ministration. the french president takes a swipe at extreme elements among anti-government demonstrators in his traditional new year's eve address. and people around the globe celebrating the arrival of twenty nine thousand revelers have been sharing in the new year and we've got highlights from the festivities in moscow and the world over.

a low and happy new year for me in the team here at r.t. h.q. in moscow i'm calling breaks now to in the afternoon here's how the world's looking so far today it's new year's day in the central russian city of magni to go ask people there are still coming to terms with the tragic collapse of an apartment block in the early hours of monday morning at least eight people died and the fate of dozens more remain unknown.

the search and rescue operation in magnitogorsk has been suspended teams there are trying to secure the remainder of the building against further collapse our correspondent in goshen i have met some of those touched by the tragedy she got out the day before our cat called out all you know the next davis was the last part of the block had fallen down and i was sleeping when i had the room we were at home but we were supposed to have gone there to my mom was supposed to be at a world of a day but at the last moment she got the day off and. my daughter called me at seven fifteen in the morning and told me that our entrance had been destroyed. when i went down i saw it was in ruins my wife was rescued by firefighters with a ladder. while for the first time since the beginning of the operation rescue workers have had to make

a pause basically they're saying that the risk of the collapse of the building is simply too high right now for them to continue clearing out the rubble so they say they will have to solve this problem first until they get back to what they were doing journalists have been moved even further away from are the epicenter of the blast as you can see just for safety reasons really also i talked to some people who used to live in this building and they are saying that even the condition of entrances that are further away from the collapsed part is causing concern by literature and by. group turns in the evening to check in now from the third floor to the tenth and we'll leave on the turn of the graphic had the period here on this violent we weren't home sleeping well who woken by our apartment shaking we didn't know what was going on and rushed our reach out there was a sudden nice as if something had exploded outside. my has been trying to see what

had happened and then returned and said we need to pack because our block had collapsed all in fact the danger of further destruction of the building was in focus on monday when vladimir putin was here discussing the situation with the ministers and in general with the emergency crews have a listen to the syrian regime would just today we assess the situation in the sixth seventh and eighth entrances as being dangerous all other entrances after a visual inspection seemed to be ok we need to find out more but there are no apparent dangers. because visually simming isn't enough of an accurate evaluation if you know what i mean but really what this holds in the operation means is that the chances of finding survivors under the rubble well it just gets slimmer and slimmer just to remind us still more than thirty people are unaccounted for their fate is unknown as for those affected by the tragedy well there are hundreds of them we've seen people who have had to skate the last taking very little with them

so they need the most basic necessities like a toothbrush or toothpaste and really we've seen how the city has come together and how others have been bringing warm clothes to donate to those in need right now in this sense the operation is going on twenty four seven. and donald trump used his new year's speech to list the achievements of his administration he took the opportunity to praise the deals he struck but amid most of the agreements he broke. 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.

one of the broken record to that wasn't mentioned was the decision by the united states and israel to leave the un's culture and heritage organization after years of bitter wrangling washington announced its intention to leave in october accusing the agency of anti israel bias well it's now come into force. 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 mounting your b.s. the need for fundamental reform and they're going to say sion and containing 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 the 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 unesco they were then stripped of their voting rights in twenty thirteen after having not paid their dues so at this point we see the united states carrying out a policy that its 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.c.c. we will provide no assistance to the i.c.c. baseless politicize claims are brought against us from critical bodies and institution on just prosecution by this illegitimate court the council ceases to be . are they have 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. former u.s. ambassador peter galbraith believes america's withdrawal from international agreements and organizations will eventually be reversed. so this this is entirely political step you know everyone has waited out that we already have that is that so many of these institutions the united nations the international court of justice or ones

that were critical human rights created by the united states the united states to leave. and now we withdraw our but also this concept from a very good sized ministration or very experienced one one i have pointed out that lost the election by three million votes and based on the midterm results is not likely to be around it after twenty twenty five and so very likely these decisions will then be reversed so light face to the rest of the world is take a deep breath and america will be back. the french president due to his traditional new year's eve speech to his house at extremist elements in the country. music hall and see if we beery in straight division and anger broke out to 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 there was also anger against profound changes that call into question our society's identity and direction so this anger has shown me one thing no matter how excessive or overflowing it is we will not quit people oh opposition leaders didn't like the crumbs message they called him an imposter and saying that he's out of touch with the french people the authorities in paris were primed to tackle more unrest on new year's eve with twelve thousand police officers on standby in the end though very few protesters turned out and those who did were blocked from joining the celebrations in central paris french publisher and all for a minute malvo predicts that the demonstrations might soon regime. with all of the blunders the government and especially the peace making i don't see any soothing of the situation this militant group will of course continue into two thousand and nineteen the movement is so popular between seventeen and eighty percent of the french support all approval of movements that it is not excluded that especially in

the provinces from dharm so even policemen who have more in common with the protestors and with the officials in risk because become sympathetic with their cause and refused to execute alders them and micro embodies what the yellow bastards rejects globalization and pro-business policies you know way you cannot predict given stopping because he is he's lacking leeway. to diffuse the crisis to me it's just number by announcing a ten billion you will take each of measures which was which which was not really convincing france was said by antigovernment protests for much of twenty eighteen starting from demonstrations against labor reforms to the latest yellow vests protests over fuel taxes paris correspondent recaps event blow. take this infamous phrase often attributed to mary antoinette used to demonstrate

livius nurse the selfishness of france's elites which in turn led to the french revolution now. misguided. isn't if you can watch the cries of the social class is all you. do so at your own peril. the current french president did go as unrest has been bubbling throughout two thousand and eight. things started to turn nasty as the french government attentive to. picton anti community but they keep for a decade. it's a protest against expulsion of the think the scientists who come to.

the talks will be eco optimists. meanwhile call falls dismissing this should some people feel this period must be evacuated we'll get back to it because the man that is mine is the republican order must be respected. mayhem to reach to paris in spring. before all may first thought he spilled over and dozens were arrested. but the penny still didn't roll call it he spent the summer offering advice to all who would listen to him raging the country in the process. of the lutheran people who've lived through transformations in recent years i'm not

exactly who are resistant to change. he doesn't know how to talk to people he can not say look all of people all of the nation it's just bad on both sides to the foreigners and to the people like french people. who. 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 need an hour job that everybody can do it just by working are crossing the street bet it's not real life it's just a very rich get out service just one of it's not grew. to say things like that to french people and people aren't precarious situations i think it's quite ridiculous for a president to be so far from reality as they did so by the time he told pensioners to stop complaining the french really had to come get elected so they refused to

do this on the shoulder he told me you can speak freely the only thing we do is have the rights of these two killings the country would be different if everyone did the same. staying stuck trying to people in france you don't see people complaining specially in france the people that complain all the time we love that it's causing. arrogance i think a little aggressive you know. there is no other word for me in the good old french spirit of things anger and resentment towards them and often described as the president of the rich really poor without him by seventeen they had had enough. to see the crazy on the streets of paris. squashes brute force cold calling making stupid offered an olive branch to many to list to

withhold too late from the yellow best small still don't call me a new role the rules of play to win for the expected two thousand a life and could still see well when the french government if the boy lives in. paris. new year revellers have been targeted in japan we'll report on that for you after the break. national survival guide stacey let's learn a salad fill out let's say i'm not sure i get. the fight.

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hello again the authorities in japan say a mini found was deliberately driven 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 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 terrorist attack. a british counterterrorism police have launched an investigation after a man stabbed three people including a police officer in manchester in northwest england. suspect was heard shouting allahu akbar while police arrested at officers used a taser and pepper spray to subdue the man its origins have not confirmed whether the incident is connected to terrorism in any way the three wounded people are now receiving treatment for normal life threatening injuries. it's been a rocky ride for the british prime minister and her deal and she seized on the

opportunity of her new gear speech to rally support new year is a time to look ahead and in two thousand and nineteen the u.k. will start a new chapter the breaks that deal i have negotiated delivers on the phone to the bush people in the next few weeks and these will have an important decision to make if parliament backs the deal britain can turn a corner. but brecht's it still hangs in the balance according to the international trade secretary minister liam fox it's urging britons to get behind the prime minister or face the reality of a no deal when the country finally leaves the e.u. and pisa due to vote deal in the mid january downing street says the prime minister has been in close contact with european leaders over the holiday period to seek assurances she faced a serious challenge to her leadership over the past couple of months why the government is what it was until the deal as a day has been ratified it is the responsible position of government and it is it would be the responsible position of any government to put in place contingency

arrangements for no deal no do y'all would be a disaster for our country and no responsible government would ever allow it i know it's christmas i know it's not to be stocking down the chimney and not christmas tree this still hasn't found. its the prime minister who is supposed to be undertaking a negotiation was the prime minister there trying to bring an acceptable deal but why didn't the prime minister stop the pretense and stop wasting four billion pounds in a cynical attempt to drive her deeply damaging deal through this house. is the right honorable gentleman doesn't want to see money being spent on no deal he's governed easy answer for this. but while parliament pressures for changes to the deal the european council president has made it clear that the e.u. doesn't want any more negotiations the union stands for it this agreement intends

to proceed to as its certification it is not open for action is growing dissatisfaction in the u.k. over the breakfast situation throughout the year there have been waves of protests the biggest happened at the end of october where more than seven hundred thousand rallied in london to demand a second referendum political commentator john white told me he thinks that the reason is now trying to use the countdown to breaks it as a weapon against. i think the idea that there will be no breaks is on the table no i said as not being in the last two years of these talks jurists negotiations but we have no as a crisis as mature to the point where two and a considerable comes no dominique the issue which is those who advocate outbreaks and those who are pushing for a second referendum the so-called people who do need music in the country is that they too should raise deal is washable world it doesn't satisfy anyone it's on the m eighty eight everyone on both sides of the issue in opposition to her and that

she's trying to use time on our say reno that taim is running out march twenty ninth this. is just the e.u. but she's trying to weaponize trying to leverage more pressure on the tory tory our precious years and i think she's. a plot that wouldn't be out of place on the t.v. blockbuster game of thrones has been unfolding in singapore it's been revealed that the prime minister's a younger brother has been financially supporting a longtime government critic and i think it's a story the new yet 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 lead us brother has been supporting this bloke a has found himself improved in a 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 the singapore spanx helping to launder money out of malaysia state cough is accusations the singapore and prime minister strongly denies the drug is now facing defamation charges as the two prepared to fight it out in the courts in times of need knew it think you could tend to your family. if a support boss the prime minister's brother is instead helping the bloke pay his hefty legal fees he sent me a message that he has transferred lo and behold the first one to do so into my account this sibling was of a safe when questioned about the actual amount stalemated simply stating it was a meaningful sub ams when pressed further checked 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 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 the personal gain but the prime minister denies putting self interests before good governance. regarding the house its continued existence and honks as my lord as prime minister. if i needed such magic properties to boast so my standing after thirteen years as a prime minister must be in a pretty sad state the people of singapore were also reassured that disputes wouldn't distracts from more important national issues over the last week a singaporean so 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 end a most unhappy experience for singapore he ends 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 pockets 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 . twenty nineteen has taken the reins around the world sends people from all walks of life welcomed in the name you are mortal countries in the middle east to afterward europe see a celebration sort of very special place in the hearts of russians to hear some of the best moments from around the globe. i os. i.

was i. i. i. i. i love the people having a quiet day today no doubt that your news from moscow this new year's day if you are celebrating enjoy the rest of your holiday i'll be back to you again after watching the whole.

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