A one way or hope that the people on the receiving end of these things would take them with a grain of salt because. You know trump may say those things but he cant act on them because hes got a whole bureaucracy behind him that doesnt agree with them so. Its very destabilizing and i think its undermining u. S. Ability to negotiate solutions to problems so whatever policy donald trump is concocting stirring trouble on twitter is something that is going to stay it was done of. Years we heard of all the World Leaders north Koreas Kim Jong un as perhaps being criticized the most in terms tweets and after the isolated countrys leader issued new years day need clear warning to washington trump was keen to hit back. The entire u. S. Mainland is within the range of our Nuclear Strike and the button is always on the table in my office space you clearly know that this is certainly not a threat but rather a reality when someone from his depleted and food starved regime please inform him that i too have a nuclear bomb but its a much bigger and more powerful woman his and my bomb works this is certainly not anything to joke about but i think the situation despite the confrontational rhetoric has been step allys somewhat theres a recognition that theres a stalemate Rex Tillerson a few weeks ago did indicate the possibility of negotiations even without preconditions donals from. This kind of talk remains popular with his right wing supporters certain me donald from at this state does not believe that he is ready to make the first small so perhaps a tool careers may make the first move other developments to tell you kim jong un has now reopened the Cross Border Communications link with south korea and whats being seen as a significant diplomatic breakthrough but all that said the standoff between the u. S. And north korea looks set to continue into twenty eighty after whats already been twelve months of personal attacks and vicious threats from both sides. The year of strategic patience. With the north korean regime has failed. Whats. Best not getting what threats to the united states. They will be met with fire and fury. The u. S. Neglects the international communitys will establish peace on the Korean Peninsula behave like children fighting each other in kindergartens and nobody can stop them. And we cant have mad men out there shooting rockets all over the place we will have no choice but to totally destroy north korea. Rocket man is on a Suicide Mission for himself no one of them trump himself is on a Suicide Mission ahead and i know youve. Got a plot you know we need to pause we need dialogue. Hes a sick puppy. The seventys whole world changing events but it was also a year when it was sometimes hard to tell fact from fiction the fake news. And global News Coverage more than ever didnt last year next Jacqueline Berger explains what propelled it into the Mainstream Media. Fake news the term that has filled the headlines and your social media feeds for the past twelve months has been deemed two thousand seventeens word of the year at least by collins dictionary they should realize and need to read truthful facts and i called say that sad which is of going on strike. So its news stories all sick. And the Mainstream Media would have you believe that fake news goes hand in hand with topics such as russia putin and the kremlin fake news thats being spread by russia fake news has dominated the true had lines fake news spread by russia big news fake news kremlin spread misleading or otherwise fake news certain outlets even to the battle against the fake news phenomenon to the front lines this is an apple. Some people might try to tell you that its a banana you might even start to believe that this is a banana. But its not. Is an apple. Facts first should go without saying but the Mainstream Media have found themselves in the wrong on a Staggering Amount of occasions even c. N. N. Has been guilty of it they were forced to retract their report on a connection between Anthony Scaramucci who was on trumps Transition Team and a Russian Investment Fund manager issuing an apology for the false story three people lost their jobs over that one but of course there was the breaking news one in september by most major outlets in the u. S. Dropping the bombshell that the russians had attempted to hack the election systems in twenty one states caught red handed it was the evidence everyone had been waiting for to prove the russians did it until one by one states came forward saying no hack here and the story of two thousand and seventeen quickly crumbled onto december and some of americas most influential news outlets spread another explosive and one hundred percent false news story to millions yes the wiki leaks token of help to the Trump Campaign and the hacks d. N. C. Emails wiki leaks equals russia therefore one. Plus one equals three and the kremlin and trump are in cahoots message sent in the final stretch of the twenty sixteen campaign if this email on september fourth they gave donald trump his son and others the decryption key for hacked wiki leaks documents illusion question right because we could weeks was simply acting as an agent of russian intelligence the media frenzy was however short lived the files had in fact not been handed over before being made public but after so not the knockout blow to the president they were all hoping for surprisingly about the whole story was based on one email from our random guy and somewhere in the build up to the revelation hitting the headlines numerous people had read the date incorrectly the list of fakes goes on and on especially for russia somehow in the mix and inflammatory claims centering on russia are some of the best click bait out there and thats despite one major outlet being caught admitting the hype was all just a big red herring what do you thinks going to happen this week to be told russia. It was going to be really so perhaps the word of the year should be anonymous i grabbing headlines and allegations quickly turned to guilt despite no evidence all it takes is Anonymous Sources jacquelines of the reporting coming up puts a sort of broad new year high dose of a deadly start for yemen to well tell you after this quick break. This periodic album number seventy nine thats unique attributes that make it great for money because without more in a vacuum it has got forty years of history to it its evolved through all these technologies its a unique protocol and it like it is attracting a huge amount of capital for for the for this achievement and you cant say that you can simply go out there and create another one there are competitors of course just like there are competing species on planet earth for energy and survival but there is only one the apex predator or that is at the moment before he dies from all the dark. And you watching out International Think she can produce afternoon yemen has suffered its first deadly airstrike in twenty eighteen with more than twenty killed in the port city of hadera on new years day in fact just a week ago three of the worlds biggest humanitarian agencies joined together to highlight that yemen has passed the grim milestone of ensuring more than a thousand days of war explaining that three quarters of the yemeni population needs humanitarian aid and that about two thirds are deprived of food water and even basic sanitation. I am poor i have no tender i can live i suffer from the cold. I was given a place to sleep by some people to warm up on hot days we sleep right on the sidewalk. There is no how comes to very rarely once a year maybe but now we have no help or blanket as tattered fifteen people are sleeping on. The Ukrainian Army is going to see a military post in twenty eighteen at least according to president Petro Poroshenko he tweeted that ukraines military budget is increasing to a record three billion dollars if all goes to plan and that the u. S. Weapons there will be bolstered by locally produced hardware a potted history of the war in ukraine started in twenty fourteen after an uprising saw the government opposed but it was met with resistance in the countrys pro russian east leading the much publicized conflict against Government Troops into regions the un says more than ten thousand people have been killed and whole campaign richard baca told us he thinks washingtons weapons sales now there have got little to do with bringing peace. The aim here on the part of the u. S. Government remains the same that it has had for several years and that is to attach ukraine not only to the European Community which the u. S. Doesnt care that much about but to bring the ukraine into nato as well which would pose a very great threat to russia if that were to take place considering that the im going house thats expressed from washington and from the nato headquarters is so prevalent so we cant really distinguish between draws some sharp between offense that in defense of weaponry in this case its all of the offensive and defensive weaponry both necessary for any modern and forces. For syria and iraq twenty eighteen does mean emerging somewhat from the shadows of brutal rule changes there but few families of course were left on scarred by what they went through and the horrors they saw a Senior Correspondent were has the story next to two young syrian girls struggling to survive he met them last autumn him after theyve been left alone in the ravaged city of deer is or. Meet sally shes five maybe six or perhaps seven she doesnt know and this market the streets home surviving isiss age of the resort was no mean feat so many perished as a result of starvation sickness violence. Sally is a survivor she her sister and brother were abandoned by their parents years ago they divorced and left the children to fend for themselves. Oh im. Almost done with the land she spends her days begging stealing playing and surviving no easy lot for them in this life for my neighbors who knew their family have taken pity on the kids and have looks out for them but its not easy. But i wanted to take her in and she kept escaping i sent people to look for her but she never stays in one place long show escapes. There. Sallys sister all she has left since her brother died of starvation we found the older girl at the end of this gloomy bullet riddled carville is a room with broken windows in it leaves a young girl with only flies bloodstain mattresses for company. About a month ago sagitta who doesnt remember her age was brought in with a head injury when she fell she damaged an implant that siphons away the fluid different people tell different versions some say the full was accidental others attempted suicide but if fluids keep building and there will be consequences she will lose her sight hearing and the ability to swallow the pressure on her bringing is growing. In hospital i dont know shell find no cure indeed as order as we were filming a nice a shell landed just a few hundred meters away sagitta needs to get to damascus to survive but lacking identification relatives and trapped in a war zone its difficult to see how thats possible. Sagitta doesnt get many visitors but there is one little person who always makes us smile. If left alone sagitta begins to scream and cry she needs people there is cool is for optimism. Sagitta suffering has touched a chord action is being taken to get the girls out of bed as order but for now all they really have the side from promises and p. T. Is each other or i guess the of artsy from there as or syria. So sad to say was it was three months ago i did want to leave it there one of the key was more news on it so weve got a little bit of positive news at least on youngster judy since that was filmed back in the autumn seems she has made it to damascus to put in some calls local source informed us she underwent some surgery there all spittle seems though she is now back in tears over this sister of the show any way look at it its going to be an uphill struggle for those girls so tony eighteen brings them a bit of a Brighter Future and. If you not done so already dont get downloader up the new year why not try it out and keep in touch there are things we do without international monitors kevin zero in thank you so much for watching this latest live news bulletin about with more just over thirty. About your sudden passing i have only just learnt your yourself in taking your last bang turn. Here at us we all knew it would i tell you im sorry. So i write these last words and helps to put to rest these things that i never got off my chest. I remember when we first met my life turned on each parent. But then my feelings started change you talked about more like it was again still some more fun to feel those that didnt like to question our arc and i secretly promised to never be like its one does not leave a funeral in the same as one enters the mind its consumed with this one. Estate as there are no other takers. Claimed that Mainstream Media has met its maker. Los angeles the city of luxury and fame but also an Alarming Number of People Living in the streets. The simple fact in elways there is just not enough shelter even if people. The streets right now decided to come in theres nowhere to come in and its been a struggle. To get this man from his own response to the problem and constructed dozens of tiny homes for people in need of shelter when you have nothing in order to go. You know having Something Like this may as well be a castle but do the authorities accept such solution. Me house on a city parking space is not a solution to your craft to someone monitoring the site otherwise it will be a free for all and is there a better alternative to end the homelessness crisis. I had a great education a good job and a family that loved me. I never had to worry about how i would eat somewhere i would sleep. Im facing christmas alone out on the streets of london. Well you know. I cut the. Pool you know to simulate it still give up food for the homeless. Perks. But you dont really feel like some human being in that. And then. The guy just came over to me saw me and gave me this book. Hello and welcome to cross talk where all Things Considered im diedre labelle bitcoin for some its the perfect marriage of technology and finance for others its a get rich scheme though no one can deny its market value was soaring and becoming an attractive alternative to the current Global Banking system is bitcoin revolutionizing the world. Across talking bitcoin im joined by my guest firesign in new york he is a fund manager and author of the book planet ponzi in atlantic we have Jeffrey Tucker he is director of content for the foundation for Economic Education and in cambridge we cross to Garrick Hileman he is a Research Fellow at the university of cambridge right gentlemen crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want i always appreciated gary let me go to you first in cambridge explain what is going on with bitcoin i mean im of the age and i used to work in finance ike i can remember the dot com bubble and then its melt down here and not being very well versed in bitcoin what is going on here is this just speculation or is this the new shiny radiant future go ahead in cambridge. Right i think i think a little bit of both to be honest and certainly weve seen you know some aspects of this story before as you mentioned you know after the dot com bubble exploded in two thousand two thousand and one there were a number of winners that emerged from that area and a number of new companies that were born after that have done quite well you know big has already been declared dead several times in two thousand and eleven wired wrote an article saying the rise and fall of a coin we saw the crash in two thousand and fourteen yet it keeps coming back so wouldnt surprise me if we have another crash maybe a few more in front of us but it does seem that there is something important happening here with regard to the future of finance the future of money yeah well at least a small number of people have become at least i guess technically in the cloud somewhere fabulously rich its really an amazing story jeffrey i mean gary called this i think in an article a minor miracle is that it would you use the word miracle here let me go to jeffrey in atlantic. I read that article and i of i appreciate that term actually it kind of is nobody ever thought anything like this was possible before two thousand and eight before the white paper of two of october two thousand and eight we didnt really have the means to do what the block chain does today just for background to block changes the real Underlying Technology of decline in the real reason for its value going to just an expression of that logical value. Allows us to do something weve always wanted to do with something actual but never had the ability to do it thanks to these distributed networks and cryptography we can do it now you know mitigates against jeffrey kind of put it in the same cli for me because you know i was in finance for a number of years and theres always you know whats it backed up by you know you know what are the assets you know you know you always look at that and then but would jeffrey just said theyre kind of explains it its the technology is the safety thats what backing it up here do you buy that because you know you can say this is a scheme its a get rich but i mean there is something to it and people are making money here and you have to makes everyone interested to get involved in it if you have the means go go ahead mitch how do you explain it all. Well i mean we need perspective i think bitcoin has come about in a time where the Ce