More than. Just. The top stories for the first week of the new year welcome to the weekly. It was this week a series of rallies in iran both for and against the countrys government it began with a protest over the Economic Situation in the country but. First political violent with twenty one People Killed in clashes. Since the protests started washington has been openly supporting the Anti Government activists all the while ignoring the mass rallies in support of irans leadership the us also cold for an Emergency Un Security Council meeting over the situation in iran but other members of the body doubted that internal political unrest in iran is a matter of national security. In the past week what has happened on the ground throughout the nation of iran is something the world must take note. However worrying the events of the last few days in iran may be they do not constitute per se a threat to International Peace and security every un member state is sovereign but Member States cannot use sovereignty as a shield when they categorically deny their people human rights and fundamental freedoms. The council should not discuss the issues of any country or its human rights issues if the founding principles of this institution mean anything we will not only hear their cry we will finally answer we are witnessing an attempt by some delegations to bring to the attention of the Security Council issues that do not fully correspond with the mission of this body the United States stands unapologetically with those in iran who seek freedom for themselves change in iran will not come from outside it will come from the iranian people themselves nothing will stop americans from standing in solidarity with them. Let iran deal with its own internal problems since this is precisely what is taking place. In the energy of the Security Council. The fact that we get wholly turns around and says. You know we could were seeing in inverted commas serious situation in iran this is not going to happen this is a pipe dream iran is aware and the experience is that the world faced with the whole crisis in syria which was externally instigated. Learnt secondly. The government to be the system of Islamic Revolution the islamic establishment in iran is not something that was imposed on the people through a military coup or through a dictatorship or anything like this the people came out overwhelmingly in support of this revolution very knew what sharp. It was about they understood what america had done to iran. Has more on washingtons rather selective approach when it comes to addressing protests beyond its own borders when they ask for a better economy when they ask for the government to spend money on their own country as opposed to terror exploits overseas or in other countries sure we would certainly like that to you i support matt im not going to go im not going to see thats why youre trying to trap me into Something Like that im not going to go there to try that is no that is not our that is not our policy but we hear what the iranian people are saying poverty corruption and Economic Uncertainty have the potential to trigger protests in the world over. And they can quickly turn ugly. But the International Reaction to such unrest seems to depend on the country in question this is the precise picture of a long oppressed people rising up against their dictators its a little bit when you know i mean in any country people can protest against high prices but when have a such to mr ations happen in our country once of the establishment come out and support them and some western leaders are barely able to contain their enthusiasm for regime change and are rushing to throw their weight behind the demonstrators we are now seeing an organic Popular Uprising organized organized by brave iranian citizens on the Largest Scale since two thousand and nine the great a radiant people have been repressed for many years they are hungry for food and for freedom along with human rights the will is being looted time for change it is the same that was always. The. Marriage of the west the power is. Back in the arena. Because its only with. That being the iranian people. Secure and can go all the way in securing your freedom and your previous regime but weve seen where this apparent prodemocracy fervor can lead. To in a year. The american president says he supports the protesters but these protests are not protests against the government these kinds of demonstrations happen in any country and they are against rising prices but each time these demonstrations happen we see that the authorities opponents use them for their own purposes the majority in iran i believe want evolution not revolution or up. Arrow spring style which has brought so much suffering elsewhere on the other hand the west seems oddly quiet about the massive rallies that are being held across iran in support of the government to. The root of it is just a canard its the problem of youth unemployment i personally havent been able to find a job for a long time but if people have a job they dont have any problem with the government of course most of irans economic problems are domestically generation but another reason why investment and new jobs have been slow in coming is that contrary to their obligations under the Nuclear Agreement western countries notably the United States have not taken sufficient steps to facility normal financial flows when it comes to iran the west says its listening but clearly selectively is coopting democracy for its own ends is a difficult habit to break and as i said youre going to r. T. London. At the protests in iran began to gain more International Attention a number of fake images were circulated widely on social media the following tweet shows a photo of a woman attacking Police Officers with the caption forthcoming iran. But it turned out to be a screenshot from an iranian movie after being exposed the man who posted it claimed it was meant to be symbolic and a video which gained thousands of views and was said to show a modern iran was later proven to be a protest from rain in twenty eleven other fakes were perhaps less clear one poster claimed to show the uprising when it was actually a photo of a pro government rally the. Hopes for a diplomatic resolution to the north korean crisis are now in sight after the country agreed to hold formal talks with its neighbor south korea ahead of the winter Olympic Games but it didnt take long for the u. S. President to take credit for the possible crisis deescalation. People have said a lot of people have written that without my rhetoric and without my tough stance and such a stance i mean this is this is what has to be done if it has to be done that they wouldnt be talking about olympics that they wouldnt be talking right now this week it was confirmed that in a few days north and south korea will meet for their First Official talks in two years at the meeting on the ninth of january will discuss the upcoming Winter Olympics in south korea but its also hoped it will address recent tensions in the region it will be held in a socalled peace village in the Demilitarized Zone on the border between the two countries now another diplomatic breakthrough this week sold north korea reopen a telephone hotline with the south that had been closed since twenty sixteen and on thursday the u. S. President finally accepted souls request to postpone joint military drills during the olympics but despite the u. S. Taking credit for a potential deescalation of the crisis at the dean of the darwin law school tom brookes things the white house has only made things worse. These moves to have dialogue between north and south korea didnt start a year ago when trump was elected president theyve been going on for some time and i think you know the white house has probably something close to nothing to do with this with these steps i think this is something by the efforts of others in him i think here the white house and helped this progress happen that the white house has really done a lot to endanger it and i think its a credit to both sides the north and south korea that theyve got to stick to open talks to open dialogue and one only hopes for the sake of the people who live on the Korean Peninsula that some good comes out of that irrespective of what tweets come out. From donald trump. And despite progress being made on the diplomatic front donald trump hasnt pulled any punches when it comes to his twitter exchanges with the north Korean Leader this week the insults reached a new level after the u. S. President bragged about the size of his Nuclear Button and it does seem that with donald trump size really does matter. Look at those hands are they small. And he referred to my hands of this ball Something Else i guarantee you this no problem. I have the biggest crowds. Standing ovations best the best in the world to great is tell care plan very very successful i would build the greatest world you have ever seen i happen to be underrated by the way. Bragging about who has the bigger but who have got the big. Bragging about the size of your soul. As the first week of twenty comes to an end thousands of migrants are still on the streets of france waiting for. The french president vowed to clear the streets of sleeping migrants by the end of twenty seventeen but this promise seems to a full in flight. Plenty of it the first battle is to house everybody in a dignified manner and by the end of the year i want no more women and men in the streets or in the woods last. Arties speaks to migrants living in these conditions as they wait to start a new life in france a new year may have begun but for these my quince the problem is still the same ahead is yet another freezing night on the streets of paris. The president president said he wanted to resolve the problem by the end of the year its not resolved in the neighborhood there are another thirty camps which are settled like this and these migrants are seeking asylum there is a problem with violence between the people who are waiting in the queue at the Reception Center because they want to be the first whose fault is that. Its not the fault of the migrants its the fault of the system is poorly organized which is posed problems for two years is completely dysfunctional and creates a situation of confrontation and violence people have been injured at the Reception Office the people are angry at the situation because it continues in the same way and because there is no solution. One of those waiting to find a way off the streets is rafi hes been in france for seven months you look everybodys lips to him he had a very cordial about nor forthcoming no water but there were about you know you know very well in here local one hundred one one another one another this is my life you know look this man i knew three people sleep with me we hear the stories you hear. Is this the life you thought you would have moved. Across france thousands of migrants a living in similar conditions all hand to mouth some are found shelter in tents along the canals and streets of paris others in the metro stations all a just looking for a place to call home in the last two years more than forty thousand migrants have set up camp at chavez metro station. This is a boy they come its a Reception Center where my kids can register it to possibly start a new line he runs every day hundreds spew up by scientists and his like this and they just simply wont cope with the demands despite a pledge that no migrants would be sleeping rough and the two thousand and seventeen president might call and has failed to keep pace promise and my clients across the country see no end in sight to their suffering. See paris and still to come here on the program is rose offering a stark choice to thousands of african migrants take a payment to leave or go to jail that story after the break. 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Thanks for joining us on this sunday just a week into the new year and yemen the arab worlds poorest country has already seen a second saudi led air strike according to local media one person was killed at least three more injured the strike took place in the early hours of saturday morning hitting a busy market in the Northern Province of sada and on the first of january more than twenty people were killed in an airstrike on the key port city of whole data. I am poor i have no tender i can live i suffer from the cold. I was given a place to sleep when some people to warm up on hot days right on the sidewalk. There is no. Commentary around once a year maybe but now we have no help or blanket time fifteen people sleeping or not. So you are abusing coercion and you have been into its third year now the devastating war has killed more than ten thousand people and displaced more than three million saudi led airstrikes have obliterated much of the countrys infrastructure the blockade has left around twenty Million People in dire need of food and medical aid. So to arabia temporarily reopen to keep order in yemen to allow in the supplies of food and fuel and we discussed the whole situation with a representative from the red cross. Yemen is a country that depends on imports ninety percent of its needs are from imports so when you have three years stating war when you have restrictions on imports and people cannot have enough to eat and to feed their families every day this is when you see the Bigger Picture of things when you look at twenty four Million People who are deprived of the basic commodities that we all have free access to and the fact that this is handled by the restrictions on the arrival of goods humanitarian aid but most importantly actually commercial goods are more important than humanitarian aid because you cannot feed a population of twenty seven Million People just by providing humanitarian aid. Accept a payoff or go to prison israel is offering african migrants money to get out of the country israeli Prime Minister has labeled them as infiltrators and says that force will be used if they dont comply. About that actually with something here that is completely illegal and completely essential the infiltrators have a clear choice cooperate with us and leave voluntarily respectively humanely and legally and will have to use other legal tools at our disposal i hope to choose to cooperate with us as those migrants who voluntarily agreed to leave by the end of march are being promised three and a half thousand dollars on the plane ticket they have the option of returning to their home country or going to a third one the alternative though is incarceration now israeli Authorities Say that most of the migrants came for economic reasons just this by the fact that they claim they had to flee persecution and a war at home while officials estimate that around sixty thousand migrants of crossed the border from egypt since two thousand and five a third of those have already been deported of those that remain nearly one and a half thousand are held in Detention Centers one of them being called out of whole lot which some refer to as an open air prison. The whole lot i just exist its not a normal life to live in a lot is not easy ten people sleep in one room you have to queue to take a shower to do anything the doctor is only here from one to three theres only one doctor for about twelve hundred people and why did i leave eritrea because eritrea is a dictatorial country i couldnt live there you cannot do anything that you work there like a slave for them its all you can do you can only call it slavery and first i didnt choose to come to israel i didnt think about anything i just wanted to see where theres peace where i can take care of myself where i can protect myself as soon as the deportation plan appeared at the u. N. Refugee agency reminded israel about its duty to protect those who need it and we invited two guests to debate this issue. And not refugees theyre criminals who crossed the border illegally and theyve done quite a long way they didnt want to stay in egypt for example for some reason they crossed for via so done via egypt they came to use rail theyre not refuges not Asylum Seekers they want to benefit from our reach from our merciful society they are looking for rescue in their spirit in do Anything Possible to save the lives some of them of course behaved fine and theyve made it here that the government of thieves the world pays each one of them thirty five hundred dollars puts them in the nature of the environment whatever they are from or close to there i think israel must be admired and praised by everybody by doing so how we face the problem socalled problem of some city seven thousand Asylum Seekers refugees who lift part of them have children here they should stay here they have to stay here no human regime would experience them and if israel is going to expel them by force it will be one of the most shane still ever taken note less than this. Instead of thanking israel for the years they spent here earned money were treated by the way by israeli madison which is one of the best in the world instead of thanking they what theyre going to protest theyre going to do it and then they cant come back but by the way of stories wherever they are theyre welcome everybody is welcome but you have to keep the law they broke the law provide through time its also good tools things to fix and the fact is that the rate of crime but among those migrants is much lower than the ever interest of crime it is good its not true its absolutely no new. Those. False statement i am not going to speak as though because this man is interrupting me eighty percent over there. In europe are recognized as refugees it is less than one percent how can you call it but racism how could you quote it but. Followers of the wiki leaks chief have been left scratching their heads over a cryptic new years message left on twitter and posted a seemingly indecipherable code in a link to a popular song since then hes remained silent online has generated debate about what the tweet could actually me. And while the meaning of the tweets remains obscure a spokesperson for the Ecuadorian Embassy told us that a song is still in the building and that his Health Status has not changed well thanks for joining us here for the first weekly of twenty eighteen more highlights from the past seven days in about half an hour. Hello my names peter and ive been living in bush now for about seven years and this is a film about just some of the crazy things ive got in the time. When youre going to get. Along youve got this interest on their store duty from because. I still did not see. 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