Youre watching the weekly news round up here at r. T. International coming to you live from moscow im Kate Partridge thank you for joining us. This week twenty one people have died during a series of mass rallies in iran both for and against the government these began as protests about the Economic Situation but turned political and then violent. On washington has been openly supporting the antigovernment activists and ignoring the rallies in support of their ons leadership the u. S. Also called for an Emergency Un Security Council meeting about the situation but some members doubted that internal political unrest in iran is a matter of international security. In the past week what has happened on the ground throughout the nation of iran is something the world must take note of. However worrying the events of the last few days in iran may be they do not constitute per se the threat to International Peace and security every un member state is sovereign but Member States cannot use sover
Sixty minutes after a chaotic start interruptions and delays the russian sponsored talks on the. Top. Two days of fighting in yemen and said have taken control of the port city of aden. Donald trump gets ready to deliver his state of the Union Address will he stick to script and can he rally a deeply divided nation plus. His main Opposition Leader declares himself the people president. Russian sponsored talks aimed at finding a political solution to the war in syria have ended with some progress in the black sea resort of sochi the conference final statement said elections should be held to allow syrians to decide their own future but there will be no formal agreements and the event was boycotted by the leader of the Syrian Opposition over what he called broken promises the us russian and france didnt attend the talks either they support a separate u. N. Mediation process with some delegates in foreign minister when he read a statement from president Vladimir Putin they accuse moscow o
Syrian opposition who boycott of the event in sochi say kid amals were ignored. U. S. President donald trump is set to deliver his first state of the Union Address to a joint session of congress in an hour its used to outline the president s legislative agenda for the year ahead well exits have been released ahead of the address the president will talk up his successes with tax reforms and also push for Cross Party Cooperation on immigration. I have attended every state of the union since one nine hundred ninety eight this president doesnt respect the office of the presidency at all its i dont want to normalise that there are many reasons firstly when you just look at his asshole comments about africa and about el salvador and about haiti my ancestors came from the continent of africa these are very racist comments and we see how they are translated into many of his policies secondly hes using our young people are dreamers in terms of a pawn in a political game and hes got them in limb
Hello im adrian for the get this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up fears that north korea is boosting its defenses after a weekend fly over by u. S. Bombers. Refugees are moved from an australian run prison camp to the u. S. Under a controversial resettlement plan. And theyve escaped violence and mayhem are now the hinge of children putting their experiences into pictures. Three members of the Israeli Security forces have been killed and one injured in a shooting at an israeli settlement in the occupied west bank the palestinian gunman was shot dead israeli media say that he opened fire after arriving with palestinian laborers at the settlement of. Near jerusalem lived out to that settlement of just outside it aljazeera is harry force it is there harry what more can you tell us about what happened. Well were here in the occupied west bank just a couple of hundred meters away from the entrance to the settlement of har dyer which you can see just on the hill behind us the entra
Corporate funding is provided by mutual of america designing customized individual and Group Retirement products. Thats why were your retirement company. Ditional support has been provided by and by the corporation for public broadcasting, and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. From the tisch wnet studios at Lincoln Center in new york, alison stewart. This is pbs newshour weekend. Stewart good evening and thanks for joining us. The inauguration of donald trump as the nations 45th president is five days away. Today in washington, there was a dress rehearsal for the ceremony marking the transition of power from democrat barack obama to his republican successor. But at least 19 democratic members of the house of representatives say they wont attend, including georgia congressman john lewis, the civil rights icon who has served in congress for 30 years. Lewis said in an interview broadcast today he considers mr. Trumps presidency illegitimate, because of