inability police officers know that they can engage in misconduct that has nothing to do with all the cry. baby boys rescued from the collapsed apartment block in the russian city of magni to go after spending nearly thirty four hours in the rubble. united states exits the un's cultural heritage wing the latest in a string of international accords of pounded by the trumpet ministration. french president takes a swipe at extreme elements among anti-government demonstrators in his new year's eve address. on the world food. for twenty nine t. . we've got some highlights to bring.

out here in moscow i'm kevin i live for the here for the arts international news h.q. this i was up there for a good morning the first baby pulled alive from the rubble of that collapsed apartment block in the central russian city of mecca need to go the building was devastated by a suspected gas explosion in the early hours of monday morning. but and there's a little but one of the rescuers heard

a child crying we stopped all the machinery to listen in we were saying to keep quiet and the baby was reacting and kept silent we started asking where are you then there was a noise we started working that there was a risk of further collapse we were afraid as the child was crying for help. the ten month old boy is said to be in a very serious condition and is reportedly being sent to moscow for treatment he goes down of reports now from the need to guard. right now i'm right outside the hospital where the medics are fighting for the life of the vanya yes imagine spending more than thirty hours under the rubble in his crib when it's minus twenty celsius outside really the rescuers are telling us that it is just because the baby was wrapped in very warm blankets this is essentially what saved diviners life so the moment van his parents learned that their youngest son is alive they rushed to this hospital and we talked to them their. new film it's. a little just

exhaustion but of each other in america is you. know really is the first and most of them. for this reason. but perhaps the most incredible thing about this whole rescue is that it was called the making of dad's hands because he was at work when the disaster when the tragedy unraveled he came back to where he used to live and he really wanted to shill because he had an idea as to where the baby my degree and he wanted to show rescue support but because of the whole place was cordoned off and because of very grave risk of the demolition of the building he wasn't allowed to vote for a very long time eventually he told me he had to sneak into to tell the world rescuers that that approximate area where his son could be and he got

a number of one of the rescuers and would you know that very rescue and did manage to extract his son from under the rubble gave a call to the dad this is one of the families in the their stories one of the stories that struck this industrial city in russia as you are as we talked to other survivors who two other residents of this building who were affected by the tragedy she doubt will notice. the day before our cat called out only you know what the next day he said the left part of the block had fallen down obviously you know i heard only boom we were at home but we're supposed to have gone there too my mom was supposed to be there but it's a last moments ago today oh i love your papa's one your 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 but my wife was rescued by firefighters with

a ladder. as of now emergency services have had to put to a halt all operations outside the building because they say the danger that the other parts of the building might collapse are just too high for them to continue what they were doing or we just got these pictures in from still daylight rushes emergencies ministry saying nine people now known to die look at the mess there more than thirty others are reported missing still over a thousand people were evacuated from their homes following the collapse the building is what more the witnesses have said about what they went through.

the. where the past few hours to there's a second explosion magni to go system on a minibus a strange story three people reportedly died there the instant said to taken place on the same street where the building collapsed on monday at least emergency services have been deployed to the scene the course of that explosion currently unknown police are looking into it. uses new year's speech to list what he views as the achievements of his administration he took the opportunity to praise the deals he'd struck but neglected to mention most of the agreements he'd broken. there is never been and it ministration and i'm very proud

of this that's done more than the top administration 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 then you look at north korea we're doing really well we moved our embassy to jerusalem in israel i promised it and i did it. one of the broken records 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 you know school in october accusing the agency of anti israel bias now the move came into force. on the twelfth of october two thousand and seventeen the department of state notified unesco directed general it mean a bulk of the u.s. 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 being the need for fundamental reform

and they're going to say sion and convening anti israel liason. now at this point that 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 nasco 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 two thousand and 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 for critical bodies and institution unjust prosecution by this illegitimate corps the council ceases to be . are they have it's 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 was put to

us on bus a peter galbraith who believes america's withdrawal from international agreements mobilizations like this will eventually be reversed again. so this is entirely political step you know anyone 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 constant from a very sized ministration or very extreme 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 it after twenty twenty 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. in france present mccrone used his new

year's speech to head to the extremist elements in the country. mina's of all see we have perience great 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 of this anger has shown me one thing no matter how excessive or overflowing it is we will not quit building across message didn't go down well with opposition leaders they called him an imposter and accused him of being out of touch with the french people the authorities in paris were primed to tackle more unrest a new year's eve two with twelve thousand police officers on standby in the end though very few protesters those in dead were blocked from joining the celebrations in central paris french publisher and author emirate morville predicts the

demonstrations will resume soon though. with all the blunders the government and the especially the m.p.'s are making i don't see any soothing of this to ation this movement it will of course continue into two thousand and nineteen the movement is so popular between seventeen and eighty percent of the french support them all approve of the movements that it is not excluded that especially in the provinces john d'armes or even policemen who have more in common with the protestors and with the officials in paris could be caught become a sympathetic with their cause and refused to execute orders eminent mccraw embodies what the yellow vests rejects globalization and pro-business policies in a way he cannot really given without stopping did what he is he's lacking leeway he he 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 really

convincing. to government protests for much of twenty eighteen starting from the demonstrations against labor reforms to the latest yellow verse protest of the fuel taxes paris space correspondent sheila do bensky recaps events. let's. take this infamous phrase often attributed to mary on twitter has been used to demonstrate me a brute 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 where. the current french president should have seen it 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 that they. pool at kate. it's a creature speaking six dollars should be distributed. at the talks will be eco our risk joking meanwhile calls for dismissing the should should be built this period he must be evacuated will be back during the month that is mostly used in the republican field it must be respectful. mayhem first reached paris in spring over much qualms reform plans all may first violence quickly spilled over and dozens were arrested.

but the penny bill didn't drop for much cornice spent the summer offering advice to all who will listen in raging. the country in the process is to give it to these lutheran people who've lived through transformations in recent years i'm not exactly who are resistant to change. i know it's diplomatic he doesn't know how to talk to people he cannot say about all of people all of the nations it's just bad on both sides to the foreigners and to the people like french people comes down to. just kind of. crossing the road oh yeah you don't say that people people are really struggling to easy to sign when you don't have a problem with needing our 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 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 pension the status quo plaguing the french had come pocket full of him because i think if you do things on the general shoulder who told me you can speak freely the only thing we can do is have the rights of these computing 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 it's not. arrogance i think a little aggressive you know. there's no other word for me in the good old french spirit of things anger and resentment towards the been described as the president

of the rich really poor without i mean by seventeen they had enough. to bring his city crazy on the streets of paris. she's. finally. offered an olive branch. to withhold food late in the yellow that's not still don't call me old fool a lot of the play to win the expected two thousand the likelihood that the world will look like government provided for. elsewhere the north korean leader meantime delivered a stern warning to the united states in his new year's address kim jong un said

that while his country is still intent on denuclearizing washington must lifted sanctions if it wants to see further progress in such as a human to genetically if the us does not keep its promise made in front of the whole world and misjudges our patience and insist sanctions and pressures on the republic we may be left with no choice but to consider a new way to safeguard our sovereignty and interests and establish peace and stability on the korean peninsula. his relations between the united states and north korea's been improving since june when kim jong un met with donald trump in singapore for the storage summit he promised to work towards the nuclearization in exchange for security guarantees and a commitment to peace from the u.s. but washington has yet to ease its economic pressure on pyongyang which is being hit hard by the sanctions regime king john also used a speech to call on south korea to end its joint military drills with the us political analyst andrew long told us that washington does need to make some

concessions if it wants north korea to continue on its path towards a nuclear as a shared some administration the smaller piece of the most with all this race in the world we. experience shows that. some of the royalty. changing tactics maintaining sanctions even if the law is this giving up. some of those things on all the walls if they see that they. include the issue should be moved the part of the spirit. of the tension over them all. and they expect to see at least some easy to say she's that of an all seeing that that's what explains the warning all other. coming up a small place in the u.k. so the no trading in life attack in manchester the news even terror lay to it but other more when we come back.

now to be here out there time for some major prediction in the following twelve months guaranteed to be one hundred per cent accurate. what politicians do something. they put themselves on the line they get accepted or

rejected. so when you want to be president or injury. or somehow want to. have to go right to be cross the survivor before three in the morning can't be good . i'm interested all. it was a memoir about how. you. should. i get this is out international british police have confirmed that they are treating a stabbing attack at a major rail hub in manchester in northern england as a terrorist incident three people were injured including a police officer on new year's eve we are treating this as a terrorist investigation which is being led by counter-terrorism officers with support from grayson manchester police the suspect was heard shouting while police arrested him officers used a taser and pepper spray to subdue the man who's now in custody three wounded

people suffered serious but not life threatening injuries the police officers now have been released from hospital. a plot that would be at a place in the t.v. blockbuster game of thrones has been unfolding in singapore let me tell you about it it's been revealed that the prime minister's younger brother has been financially supporting a long time government critic and he picks up the story for you. the 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 blog has found himself in brawls 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's state coffers accusations the singapore

and 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 the 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 honks as my ward as prime minister. if i meet a tranche magic properties to pull some are stranded after thirteen years as prime minister must be in a pretty. sidestreet the people of singapore will all say reassurance that disputes what distracts from more important. 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 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 . so twenty nine teams come and take the reins around the world then people fall all walks of life welcome to the new year from the water in countries in the middle east a prosperous europe new year's celebrations at a very special place in the hearts of russians to put together some of the best moments for you from around the globe. oz.

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