People think this is a perfect. A very warm welcome to you from all of us here in. North korea and south korea right now holding their First Official talks in over two years. Taking place in the Demilitarized Zone between the two countries and heres what preceded the negotiations january third the reopening of across the board a telephone line and the following day donald trump agreed to delay military drills with sold until next months Winter Olympics in south korea lets get more details on this. Joining us live here in the studio good morning to you obviously the doors are mostly closed on this meeting happening in the socalled peace village but whats been discussed so far. Well as you say its all very secretive behind closed doors and highly. Tense. For size the point look at where its happening in a village along the most militarized border in the world the most heavily mined border in the world nevertheless weve heard tidbits coming out what the south korean News Agencies are reporting allegedly theyve agreed that north korea will send a high profile delegation to the Olympic Games winter Olympic Games due to be held in south korea theyll send fishel sporting officials musicians as well as performers for the you putting closing ceremonies is entertainment which is in and of itself a big deal because the fear was that north korea could launch Ballistic Missiles could you know there could be an escalation perhaps stage war games military exercises journeying the Olympic Games and thats much less likely if they send a delegation to participate and the North Koreans have appeared willing willing to do so they also talked about the reunion of families split divided by the war itself back in the one nine hundred fifty s. Siblings that havent seen each other for many many decades and they also and i believe this is the most important part theyve agreed on potential talks in the future south korea has proposed that the two countries military delegations military officials meet face to face in order to deescalate tensions on the Korean Peninsula in order to denuclearize the korean Korean Peninsula so as as we know at this very moment in time delegations delegates from most seoul and pyongyang a meeting right now in the d. M. Z. What made this meeting possible well officially its all about the olympics this was this was the cause the one they declared but. Officially everybody understands that theyre looking good and youll put unity to deescalate tensions because its been a heck of a year this last year with all those Ballistic Missile launches saber rattling and what not but the leader of north korea came out surprisingly and said now is now is a chance to better relations to prove relations as a gift as a new years gift to the korean people. Number one i think we should be engaged in these talks in an honest sincere manner to give a new years gift namely the results. To the korean nations. As you mentioned earlier we hope to bring a precious gift to your people and matches the expectations of our plane with the most amazing of this meeting is actually taking place as you may speak right now its what about her two thirty four in the afternoon in pyongyang and in that region it all comes after quite an unprecedented escalation youve heard all the fire and fury rhetoric from donald trump he likes to refer to him as as a rocket man theres been a lot of saber rattling coming out of washington its possible though that we could see some sort of compromise coming out of this do you think after such an unprecedented escalation theres theres never telling what will come next with the north korea specially but the saber rattling has been intense to say the least over the last year and not only from north korea the United States and south korea have staged endless and bigger war games along north koreas coast along its borders north korea in turn has launched increasingly sophisticated Ballistic Missiles which are now believed to be able to target making the United States all speculation there is very little concrete Information Available but you know its believed that they have significantly powerful Nuclear Weapons miniaturized that is made small enough to be fitted into a Ballistic Missile. Delivered thousands and thousands of kilometers way which is you know its a Huge Development in the north Korean Leader while offering while offering an olive branch he said also that north korea has that capacity as. A deterrent a Nuclear Deterrent that he has a Little Red Button that he can he can press you also have slammed in the north korean delegation indeed today as well slammed donald trump and his claims that this was these talks whats he achieved this is the this is hes you know hes worked there saying that hes boasting that hes diplomacy successful what its been utter failure complete complete failure that donald trump has nothing with his saber rattling and indeed is escalating tensions right but ive got to thank you. But we spoke to human rights lawyer erik cirrhotic and he believes the talks will reduce the risk of a deadly confrontation i think its a step back from a military solution because there is no military solution it other than death and destruction of hundreds of thousands or a Million People or more in the long run both sides would benefit from peace whether there are people within each government that have an objective to maintain this conflict to maintain the battle state that probably are however you know so its hard to say put north korea into one camp however i see what can come from the talks is a type of peace. Treaty and the type of situation where these countries can learn to live in peace and thats only going to come from building relationships the latest talks followed months of escalation and rhetoric and saber rattling between north korea and the u. S. However donald trump claims his aggressive attitude towards pyongyang is exactly what made the diplomatic breakthrough possible. Totally destroy north korea thats called the military the nuclear and Ballistic Missile programs of that regime require a. Response. They dont rock it hes a sick puppy. A lot of people have said a lot of people 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. But all traumas handling of another crisis this time in the middle east is raising fears among human rights defenders last week the u. S. President threatening to cut funding for palestinians activists say this will and foremost the u. N. Relief and work agency a special body you for Palestinian Refugees but the fears have been further aggravated by remarks made by the as ready Prime Minister. The United Nations relief and works agency for palestine refugees must become a thing of the past. Any american. Thats been. Used. In. The Un Relief Work Agency is a special body created specifically to help Palestinian Refugees this includes those who lost their homes or livelihoods through the creation of israel in one thousand nine hundred eighty eight as well as their descendants and those displaced in the Israeli Palestinian conflict of nine hundred sixty seven the United States and the European Commission have been the largest individual donors providing more than a third of the funding now the un relief and works agency serves over five Million People including most of those living on the gaza strip according to israels Prime Minister though the lions share of those it serves dont actually need its help or those that do should apply to u. N. Refugee agency instead but the relief and work agencys spokesman told us that one country alone cannot rule on the matter anyone you want to date or. He must. Do. To continue our continue our. Work there will be no change. In two thousand and sixteen. If you. Mean while several a humanitarian organizations in palestine have said they are ready to reject us a this in the wake of decision to recognize jerusalem as israels capital and we spoke to the director of one local and. We will come any. Assistance for any. Political conditions. American administration would like to use. As if. Its definitely. People have been protesting in the spanish capital against violence towards migrants and refugees coming to the country. By the governments decision to. Jail. Just over a week. Media report of the death. While his relatives the Police Brutality in the prison is more likely the cause of his death. With a controversy surrounding the use of the prison as a Refugee Processing Center the spanish Authorities Say they have resorted to using it as an exceptional and temporary measure. The new facility will its never been used as a prison but local activists insist that a place like this should never be considered as a refugee. Like a normal it is not even acceptable to hold prisoners that is theres no Drinking Water yet the government has used this prison for five hundred Seventy Eight male migrants from algeria since november this is totally illegal first the spanish state is prohibited from Holding Migrants in a prison for a second the conditions under which the migrants live are legal guarded by riot police and have been unable to see their relatives who were not given any clothes for the first few weeks from them and are some have defended the Spanish Governments argument that there simply isnt enough space to howls all the new arrivals however the mayor of water can order the town where the jail is located says thats no excuse my time of the airport is that we do not agree with the Spanish Government seeing a lateral decision to house almost six hundred immigrants in the prison theyre not criminals and more appropriate a commendation could be found. Its not just our one spanish region that has been facing difficulties with the migrant influx of recent figures show that more than twenty thousand refugees have crossed into spain via the mediterranean in just the past year thats more than double the number of twenty sixteen and we spoke to maria as was very eager from the u. N. Human Rights Council in spain she compares the spanish crisis to similar cases in other European Countries and claims that are thorough can do more. When a t. R. Has been always same refugees and Asylum Seekers should not be kept in detention. Is just the top of the iceberg office situation that is not pro pretty. And the situation there has been a high level off in previous Haitian Court time the figure two thousand and seventeen have increased over one hundred percent compared to the previous years but still were talking about really manageable numbers theres no war the twenty seven thousand people for eighteen one year when in the past weve seen with one medium to leave receiving over one hundred thousand people want to yearly basis so weve therefore believe that spain should be doing much more in this regard so to come here on Oxy International retail john plunging into hot water over a controversial childrens i could give you details about. Anyone else seems wrong. Why dont we just dont. Let me. Get to see how it just did come out today. And in detroit equals betrayal. When so many find themselves worlds apart weak she still looks for common ground. Put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. So when you want to be present. To be press this is what. People are. Interested in the water. With us today the National Security agency in the United States is facing troubling times there are reports that a dramatic number of employees are leaving the service one reason being apparently a slump in morale is high levels of distrust created in the wake of various leaks and n. S. A. Technical director todd whistleblower William Binney says its got to the point where n. S. A. Work has a even spying on each other. The internally in n. S. A. See their program called see something Say Something about employees your fellow workers so theyve got the workers inside n. S. A. Watching the the other workers so that they can get their what their objective is to get somebody to tell them about someone who might be another Edward Snowden so that was the whole program thats what thats all about so im sure that that creates a very hostile you know kind of. A bad Work Environment that destroys the morale of the people do it work doing the work there i mean can you its like you were in the middle of the i was in the original program set up by the stasi to they did the same thing in east germany so i mean well when you i mean anybody who had a vendetta or some gripe against someone else could Say Something about them you know and without giving their names and just to report them for something just to get them into trouble and have difficulty so i mean that just sets up a very bad Work Environment. They have to encourage the you know creativity and in the penance and get get get the fear of actually trying to do something out of the employee so theyre not afraid to try things i mean when you have people watching you all the time for some kind of slip up i mean that kind of that kind of makes you an inhibited that kind of says i dont want to try to do things because somebody might perceive it incorrectly and if they do and i get reported i get in trouble so you know thats thats a very bad thing for them to be doing so they need to correct that they need to they need to also out a magically audited on what theyre doing so that you know congress can really know whats happening and the people can really know and so can the Justice Department theyre doing illegal things like violating the constitution of the United States which are currently doing now. So they need to correct all of that and then that will create a better and Work Environment and actually see that they get the people who are working there to see that theyre actually doing positive things. Well i mean i dont see them succeeding at stopping terrorism anyway i mean the only thing they stop for this set ups that the f. B. I. Does you know they entrap people as far as the the attacks that have really been planned by terrorists or people who were in there who are intending harm to people i mean they havent stopped this for any of them that i know of because alexander general xander former director there and claim to the Judiciary Committee in the senate that theyd stopped that before attacks and he was challenged by senator leahy to prove it and he couldnt prove any of them so i mean the point is the thing that theyre doing is unconstitutional illegal its crimes against the laws of the United States and they need to stop that that would change some of the way that the work and employees working there would perceive the the job and the charter and the duties inside and. There are coals to a boy called clothing giant h. And m. After the advertised a black child in a hoodie with the words coolest monkey in the jungle h. And m. Has now taken down the image and apologized however that hasnt stopped a massive row with the brand of being labeled as racist. The Marketing Sales agent templates a black child in a hoodie that reads and the coolest monkey in the jungle and the white child is the survival expert and now fox are pretending like they dont know the black children have long been racially characterized as monkeys. Is just irony i highly doubt they will like lets put the monkey hoodie on a bill like al macon and see theres a white supremacist who works for h. And damn the thought it was funny to make a blackboard mandala hoody that said coolest monkey in the joke that go to a little black boy in a monkey hoodie of course its offensive but its so obvious im hysterical over the lack of awareness by h. In em. We discussed whether video is racially insensitive with get off law editor of spiked magazine and read me for a diary from models of diversity but i think its a really sad day i think what has happened is the word monkey has been used because this boy is a child and the word monkey is used to describe children of all races because theyre cheeky in mischief verse and you can see this across childrens clothes for children of all races and this was part of a jungle themed clothing line the idea that this was somehow racially malevolent i think is utterly ludicrous the whole issue is with this Advertising Campaign its an Advertising Campaign that its international its an International Campaign and its so obvious that if youre going to use a connotation like monkey if you dont know it specifically choose a campaign where the lap child is chosen as the monkey and the white child is chosen as the jungle survivor in a climate of racial tension you know its going to have connotations i dont think this has that connotation for the vast majority of people the vast majority of people think this is a perfectly innocent Campaign Part of involving children of all races involved in the jungle and i was bullied by a whole class called a monkey by the by a whole class when i was going into a class and then really had an affair and if thats going to have an effect on me thats going to have an effect on generations to come because youre the parent of that child you cant get away from the strongest way we can deal with this is by moving children beyond race that should be the goal for everyone in society is making children not think about their race thats the way we should be proceeding the more you allow that kind of toxic level of debate that happens on twitter to permeate our interactions in the real world the more we become distance from each other the more we so racial difference and the more any genuine racial solidarity becomes impossible because people. No longer trust each other. Form a Google Engineer who was fired over his controversial diversity memo is now suing the tech giant for alleged discrimination his lawsuit alleges that the company mistreated employees for their conservative political views male gender and caucasian race james the more it was fired at last august off to his internal memo criticizing the companys culture went viral im simply stating that the distribution of preferences and abilities of men and women differ in policy to buy legit cuckoos is and that these differences may explain why we dont see equal representation of women in tech and leadership in the Ten Page Memo the former google employee suggested women were less suited to tech roles he was fired off the google c. E. O. Stated parts of the memo violated their code of conduct and crossed the line by advancing harmful gender stereotypes in the workplace and neil mccabe a political journalist speculates on the future of the case i think the law and the constitution is on the side of the company but it is interesting that the courts are allowing this case to move forward i think it would be dangerous if private companies were being held to a First Amendment standard that doesnt really apply is certainly dont want employees able to sort of provoke other workers and create this sort of animosity inside the workplace im very sympathetic to googles point of view by law but the spirit of the lawsuit is something im really enjoying watching just turning twenty five minutes past the hour here in moscow thank you for joining us here on our teeth we are back at the top of the hour. 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Later on. This is bombast broadcasting around the world from washington d. C. Im barred shelter. Coming up. Some apple shareholders want to test the effects of i phone and its addictive tendencies plus the new year is here but whats in store for commodities and twenty eighteen in a few minutes we will be joined by peter schiff the Euro Pacific Capital for a look into what to expect and later well talk about the looming Government Shutdown showdown and about how it could actually cost all of us money now lets get to the top stories in todays business and financial headlines. Apple is being pushed by two significant shareholders to investigate the risk of i phone addiction among children and adolescents activist shareholder firm general partners and the california state state teachers retirement system cal stirrers wrote to apple over the weekend to suggest that apple look into the development of software that would enable the parents to place time limits on their Kids Smartphone Usage and research the broader effects of smartphone use on Mental Health two entities writing to apple controlled two billion dollars in stock and callous toures as one of the biggest Pension Plans in the United States some resurgence of found indications of a relation between online social networking and depression among teenagers and theres even reactions that they have uncovered dealing with the loss of a smartphone access to at least partially resemble a withdraw from drugs alcohol or even nicotine. 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