the headlines in r.t. the death toll from the collapse tower block in the russian city of magnitogorsk has risen to thirty nine is devastated locals mourn their loss also to come. french police arrest the key figure in the yellow vest movement's anti-government protests have been raging in france since mid november some of the worst rioting there in half a century and looking back at last year's mainstream media coverage we look at why twenty eighteen might be considered is a year of trouble. there's just gone five pm here in moscow you're watching r.t.

international. now the number of people known to have died in a tower block collapse in the russian city of magnitogorsk has risen to thirty nine an official day of mourning has been declared in the city is thought a gas explosion is to blame for the disaster and rescuers believe there are still more bodies under the rubble with more he's done. the official day of mourning has really underlined how the city came together faced with the tragedy a makeshift sporadic memorial grew by the hour and it seemed as an endless stream of people came to stay in silence and commemorate all those affected by the tragedy but firstly of course came those who lost their loved ones in the blast the national crossing to go this is what you will about sleep should little sleep sleep eat no form would be simply to. get it when you're going to lose no sleep. you will. see don't go to the show. i'm

just. picked up the phone to conceal the bitch nothing. you. can with those ships to the closure with. this the lord would have before the bus living but really all sorts of people flock from all parts of town touched and moved by the grief others. like you. see it's got a bad supply chain gangs and of course paul said i'm not pushing for those who have been moved by the grief of people collected donated more than seven million roubles to those who lost something in this tragedy the search and rescue operation is still ongoing of course as you completely see behind me the rescuers in fact working the conditions got

a threatening their own lives in fact the only couple times they had to make the poor and take a break is when that threat would become too great for them so the first dismantle some of these structures that were literally about to fall on their head but the search and rescue operation is said to go on at least until every missing person is accounted for. one spot the grave to have been incredible stories of survival to a ten month old boy was found alive under the rubble on tuesday morning here's his story. please. you.

were 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 silence your people we started asking where are you and there was a noise we started working but there was a risk of further collapse we were afraid because the child was crying for how. probable sort of i could have shown him immediately where my son probably was but we weren't allowed at the site i managed to get there and show the rescuers the place i got acquainted with one rescuer who later called me to say that they'd found my son. given a few minutes of sleep. in the bullshit. of my kids you. know

that is the most famous. this isn't the. police in france have arrested a key figure has the best protest movement officials say they've charged eric through a with organizing an undeclared protest and carrying a weapon. was apprehended by riot police when he was trying to lay flowers for ten people killed during the eight week protest of the participants were also detained for identity checks a month ago the french prosecutor's office launched an investigation into true after he called on people to enter the lease a palace what's get more now from charlotte our correspondent for. paris good

evening to charlotte what's been the reaction and to this arrest. well outrage by many people who have described this is being an abuse of power describing this is a police politicizing the detention of eric joy as you said the key figure in the yellow best treatment here in france he was on his way to the uk to try to lay those flowers to light candles at the to move the unknown soldier to pay tribute he said to the people who've lost their lives in these yellow best protests that have rocked from since mid november now the prosecutor have said that he has been detained and placed under custody for organizing a protest without declaring that protest and that's because here in france if you organize a protest movement to alert the local authorities to that protest at least three clear days before that takes place to get that permission they say he did it on facebook therefore he's essentially through the north here in france and now if he

faces charges for that and it ends up going to trial he could find himself behind bars for up to six months and with a fine of seven and a half thousand euro's as a result of that now one of the cole founders of the best movement has described his detention as being moved for. we've always fought for fundamental rights in our country we've always fought and today we're realizing that our fundamental rights are being trampled on right in front of the plaster la concorde also an awful lot of reaction on social media people questioning how he was detained and the facade the fact that he says he was there going to just pay tribute to the victims of the yellow best protest so far and also a lot of criticism from opposition politicians in france who have been outraged by

his detention. enough violence convictions and arrests of yellow various free eric drew a make peace with the voice of the people the vows of spite of december thirty first and a systematic violation of the political rights of opponents dread terribly disturbing phase. have you ever seen such repression amnesty international has strongly denounced that there is an author of terror in drift to mr macross power to continue posing his policy at the service of the richest at any cost well these protests have been rocking france now since the seventeenth of november so we're into off physical months of these protests and during that time more than four and a half thousand people have been arrested as part of what we've seen of these protests has been some extreme violence not just here in paris but also in other cities across france of people who have been coming out to the streets to make their voices heard that violence has been described by some as being the worst

writing that france has seen in both inhofe a century. well the yellow vests movement had seemed as if it was running out of steam going from around three hundred thousand people taking part on the first protests to just a couple of thousand ten thousand taking part in the last sets of protests the question is now will this arrest of one of the so-called leaders of the yellow vests now be the powder keg ahead of act eight on saturday. ok thank you for

the update there shelley pinsky there for empower psychic. taiwan has expressed anger after china's president warned all necessary means would be used to ensure reunification and also reserve the right to use force tensions have been rising since the election of a pro independence candid it as president of taiwan in twenty six states. be that actually chinese don't fight chinese we're willing to strive for the prospect of peaceful reunification with the utmost sincerity and the greatest efforts because peaceful reunification is in the best interests of the comparator it's across the street and the chinese nation but we may no promise to renounce the use of force or taiwan will definitely not accept one country two systems china has to respect the twenty three million taiwanese peoples persistence on freedom and democracy instead of interfering with taiwan's choice of democracy or polarizing taiwan society and

luring talents. the tensions between china and taiwan have existed since the people's republic of china was founded back in one nine hundred forty nine in one thousand nine hundred two though by both sides to agree on the so-called ninety two consensus with its one country two governments policy however both china and thailand do have different interpretations of the green mint and also the concept itself and it's not the only thing to currently dividing the opinions of both governments now on december thirty first president trump signed the asia reassurance initiative act which allocates one and a half billion dollars for increased u.s. engagement across the in day pacific region the act august is also aimed at improving political economic and security ties between taiwan and also america and that includes additional u.s. arms sales to the island meant to counter a potential threat from mainland china china strongly condemned washington's actions may follow the sale of weapons by the united states to taiwan is

a serious violation of international law and the basic principles of international relations which songs of the relevant x. seriously violates the one china principle and grossly interference in china's internal affairs charlie strong a disservice fired and opposed to the us insisting on signing used into law and we have made solemn complaints with the us. well asia pacific policy expert. thinks that taiwan would be more open to working with china if it wasn't receiving hefty military assistance. china would ideally like that the u.s. does not sell arms to taiwan law or the level of diplomatic support because it believes in that in those circumstances that the taiwanese would be more forthcoming in taking a more constructive attitude in deepening relations with beijing the threat that the u.s. sees is primarily in the maritime theater as the chinese navy becomes more modernized

and has to do to push the u.s. navy back and create an. an empty access bubble in its spirit free. of twenty eighteen all wrapped up we have been looking back at the mainstream media's coverage for highlights because it found out that coverage are pretty much the same throughout the. i know way too much about your news watching experience last year how come easy you don't need superpowers for that look. this president could be impeached i do not think the president will serve out his term resignation resignation a huge incentive for president trump to resign it would be the beginning of the end of the term presidency of the beginning of the end denise a exactly the same thing last year. walls closing in the walls closing you know this is going to be the

achilles heel dykeman's could lead to trump's impeachment is still there may get america great again prompts impeachment. on this. this which is scurrilous i tried to put a hex on president literally multiple times donald trump has plenty to be scared. and so he is running scared yeah right probably another beginning of or speech been . about it some point a friend called you and they were like. no no. no bro but i have a look now. don't trump is cool control the sea with several of these statements on the wildfire as the president confuses their the number of missing people he visited the town of paradise california pleasure

a couple of times they put most weeks at the worst possible time when people's lives are being compromised he was playing politics and elected officials say he doesn't really understand what's causing the fire when america lost two very dear and important people for the nation here's some of what you must have heard on the news president's brother is not invited trump is facing backlash for his tweet on senator mccain. president who had repeatedly mocked and diminished mccain during his life was initially unable to offer up a single kind word descendent really well this is no night for name calling it's been well established that donald trump is no friend of the bushes president opposite to attend the state funeral for president george h.w. bush on wednesday but does the forty fifth president feel like he's really part of the president's. ok that's really what you want to talk about. so it's been a year of all kind of scoops from news on trump to news on track well at least

there are other shows on the box. beginning to understand what to do this again from nightmare no problem with the president switching out about a month before everything's falling apart sometimes i wish i had never been president. who are you would never president and. i think we can arrange that. and you're kidding me so me help me. sincerely j.j. p.s. why didn't i get my book. can you explain to me why one for holidays going wrong i seriously did it do you know actually i wouldn't be surprised if one of you out there have been trumpet ties to buy a dream of being sucked into the matrix of trump t.v. . you are going. no you

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oh again welcome back now over the next few days be are looking back at some of the stories we brought see you in twenty eight. the copywriting of a catchphrase in a disney classic last year did lead to accusations of imperialism and cultural appropriation. probably. well that phrase of tacit was made famous by the one thousand nine hundred four film the line king a new version of which is being released this year but is in barbarian activist has

launched a petition to remove the trademark from disney he claims the phrase belongs to african culture and cannot be owned by any company the petition was launched in late december and has almost one hundred eighty thousand signatures. well economists are sick comes from the swahili language and means no worries it was trademarked by does need two thousand and three for use in clothing and also footwear disney has never denied the origin of the phrase the company however still hasn't commented on the petition well back in december we discussed the issue with our guests so our we're seeing so much pushback from people on it they see this is another as you alluded to manifestation of cultural appropriation and it continues the capitalism entrepreneur africa and specifically africa a continent representing everything that capital is once everything capital is need but everything capitalist don't want to. for that's used to be looked at and i don't necessarily anti-capitalist stand i mean i don't want to find out anthony

that you're driving a jeep cherokee let me just leave it at that obviously i think it's unnecessary pressure as i mentioned earlier we live in an error of only outreach people are just looking for a reason to be offended i don't think this is a case about offending people right i mean everyone will find a way to get up to be offended i think what we're seeing here is the commodification of culture and we have to go beyond sharing the one thing that disney did do with davey d. investment in the lion king franchise which is created a lot of jobs disney's made a lot of money and let me tell you something disney has donated to africa and causes in africa last year two thousand and seventeen they donated over three hundred forty million dollars not everything is meant to be commodified and culture is one of those things especially when the culture does not belong to the corporation that is trying to appropriate and make money off of it at the end of the day disney is a global company so to that to say that they can appropriate or use phrases from other cultures let me tell you something right now where are we going to go with

this next is taco bell going to be under attack is the tilted kill pub franchise i think it's a faulty parallelism to compare a franchise like taco bell to language like requirement tata disney also tried this with dia de los went though so they also tried some copyright the day of the dead which is also something that is culturally sacre to people specifically in mexico you make money the way that you want to make money and that's fine but this is like cultural appropriation. funny to say we might be past the new year celebrations but there is one thing the internet consing to let go the u.s. central command's tweets about new york's famous drop the bull celebration. times square tradition rings in the new year by dropping the big bold if ever

needed we are ready to drop something much much bigger. we have become a nation run by ninth graders oh my gosh i'm not rocket scientists but it must hurt to be just down the tubes is not a phrase the world wants to hear from the operators of the most powerful nuclear arsenal on the planet. the strategic command sports person navy captain brook there wolf told c.n.n. the post is potable recap of commands priorities and is all about reassuring the american people that the u.s. military is ready at all times even on new year's eve. a previous new year's eve tweet was in poor taste and does not reflect our values we apologize. jason's got nothing on us.

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be home by that time the next day there's a culture on accountability and police officers know that they can engage in misconduct that has nothing to do with solving a crime. or . welcome to worlds apart it is often said that the united nations is only as good as its member states allow it to be but what happens when those number state deliberately start to act. itself its legacy the synergies it create cool for the

whole is greater than the sum of its parts while to discuss that i'm now joined by the united nations secretary general until this secretary general first of all let me welcome you here in moscow thank you very much for your time let me start with congratulating you on the portugal's victory over. did you have a chance to watch the game yes i watched the game and let's be clear we won the game but we didn't play very well exactly and that's what is your letting me to my next question because according to the game stats for a batter across the board in terms of the possession of the ball in terms of the shots shots and targets etc but they still lost and i wonder if. you often see this kind of dynamic of the united nations when that country puts up a good game but the final score is northern it's favor. not only everywhere i mean i remember in football in the past so we sometimes have very good teams on the rules lose the games and say we warn morally i think yesterday we have lost morally but. in the context of

international relations what is essential for countries to be able to come together and to face the global challenges we have today the challenges the understanding that we cannot do it's a little ones multilateral organizations and we need multilateral governance and you need international picking of the biggest most influential player in the united states mitch just recently from the u.n. human rights council i understand that the optics of it i'm not very positive but in actual terms what kind of a fallout do you expect from that. well of course i would strongly prefer they said since it is the first moment that united states would stay in the human rights council i believe human rights are the texture is a very important element in the un human rights is one of the pillars of united nations and i hope that. so little later sooner rather than later the us will be able to come back but as i said i strongly believe that in today's world we need

multilateral responses and their american side they're both criticism and bias as their reasons for their walkout and the united nations security council certainly is not the only body to criticize either israel or be united states for that matter i wonder if you have any concerns at all whether that kind of precedent could be repeated and if the united states can pull out from the united nations altogether accessible i mean let's let's be clear the united states plays a very important role in the where i sit is a founding member like the russian federation. and of course used to be out of one or two areas that are more i would say the other thing is to be of course involved in the center of the d.v.d.'s of the when and i believe these will go on more true believer that when one looks at united states and the russian federation the.