trade deal with the e.u. . but the political. protest. rallies over the weekend. economic goals versus political differences.

with you today. you could join us for the program ukraine has suspended work towards a free trade deal with the e.u. the government says tougher regulations and a lack of financial guarantees from brussels and forcing kiev to look eastwards to keep its economy above water. two months ago it was talented as a done deal on thursday ukraine's government all but completely ruled out that an association agreement with the e.u. would be signed next week instead regarding trade ties with russia and c.i.s. was made the priority. at some stage of ascending to the top in this one are as unfavorable. their one hundred eighty degree turnaround comes after months of openly voiced concerns that ukraine's economy would simply collapse if it forms a free trade zone with the e.u. which in turn promised no compensations on potential losses you think it is a lucky escape really because i think that this deal was bad news for the ukraine it would be like somebody today go back in time to nine hundred twelve and buying

a ticket for the titanic it would have been a national suicide for the ukrainian government to sign this just a few days before the move moody's downgraded ukraine's economic index to a breeder fault level that led the government to openly admitting that the already ailing economy was not ready for a leap of faith. we haven't gotten a clear signal from our european neighbors that the losses which we have suffered in the last four months will be compensated by entry new markets and european markets will need to hold the work of a dozen of our enterprises but our country can't afford firing tens of thousands of workers finding himself now between a rock and a hard place on sunday and of which will watch tens of thousands hit the streets for the anniversary of the two thousand and five orange revolution and just like nine years ago it has every chance to be a very loud protest alexi russia ski r.t. reporting from kiev in ukraine. and the country's parliament voted against a draft that would have had let the former prime minister yulia timoshenko get out

of jail for medical treatment abroad the decision said as a precondition for integration certainly splitting the crimean parliament have a look right here. as you can see the opposition jaring the government's refusal. further statements on for spawning the idea of european integration were met with colds for the president in peach meant around a thousand activists launched a protest against the decision and called for a mass rally on sunday to coincide with the anniversary of the beginning of the orange revolution. and it will hold trade pact with europe on hold kiev is set to restore its close economic ties with the russian commonwealth earlier here on r.t. we discussed the pros and cons with venture capital host. according to the energy minister of the ukrainian energy minister he seems to think that it's all about economics and that it makes sense for ukraine to stay away from the e.u.

free trade zone at the moment a lot of that to do the fact that we rein in on the economy is now in during the third recessions it's two thousand and eight and they've got a widening deficit to contend with dwindling foreign reserves and not perceived. foreigners service so well what about the downgrade because obviously she realises absolutely from the big three s. and p. moody's and fitch or reduce them to near and around the junk status that the likes of cyprus and greece and that really is a dangerous zone to be sitting on and it gets worse than that because even conversations about nafta gatt which is their symbolic gas companies see a quiver in of russia's gasper arm of the u.s. is exxon mobil being sold on to a foreign buyers if ukraine doesn't go to the e.u. free trade deal don't know then what are the other options here well they'd have to come back to the drawing table renegotiate russia's union which is where belarus and kazakstan and potentially our media are sitting at the moment now this would

mean we've got exports of twenty five percent going to russia at the moment that would have to be fortified as well as that we've also got gas discount dollars discount on. we know that ukraine relies upon those if they were to go the european way they would have to forfeit. so we're seeing a bit of a bit of a dodging on both sides absolutely use not happy with clear decision not to allow you to get medical treatment i mean economically there are huge advantages to going towards the e.u. but they are long term in the short could ukraine default in its ambitions potentially because they would lose an immediate two billion a year it's all if you live from moscow racism doesn't get you very far in politics except in poverty where we're currently. reports on one man who won reelection on promises to build a truly jewish. christmas trees. and

a whole wind island. genetically modified food companies just a bit later here i will be talking to a member of the council about why that decision. but for now these attempts to talk about how to do more business could be affected by the strong differences on middle east politics the talk as prime minister is meeting vladimir putin in right now with syria expected to be one of the most contentious topics. following the high level meeting now joining us live here from some petersburg see what's going to dominate business or politics. well very all of this is the most important economic annual meeting between the two countries but as you well know with these kinds of gatherings often it's the unofficial agenda that dominates and in this case it's going to be syria what to do about that conflict and of course iran as international countries meet to discuss the fate of

iran's nuclear program now on syria turkey and russia haven't exactly seen eye to eye for the large part the last time the prime minister erdogan was here in st petersburg a very heated atmosphere turkey had been pushing for international intervention in that conflict they had largely come out on the side of the rebels the syrian national coalition force headquartered in turkey at the moment but since then we've seen a little bit of a closer movement together between russia and turkey both both countries do publicly support for instance the gathering of the syrian government and the rebels in the diplomatic talks known as the geneva two conference. about the time for that but both countries are pushing for it still a sticking point however at what to do about to president bashar assad has publicly said that he wants to see him go on a run a lot more of basically seeing eye to eye turkey is not part of the negotiations over iran's nuclear program but officials there have publicly stated support for

a peaceful nuclear program and iran but of course the meat and potatoes here is going to be the economy and business ties the two countries have a long standing economic relationship russia as one of the biggest trading partners for turkey they're going to be talking about trade they're going to be talking about natural gas. very heavily relies on russian exports for that also the construction of a nuclear power plant turkey's first which is being done with the help of a russian company here as well as the construction of an oil pipeline that's going to go under the black sea so no shortage of topics but certainly the conflict over syria is likely to be the thing that most folks will be focusing on when the. two presidents speak to the press in just a few hours all right now it's easy enough life is of petersburg thank you. but as lucy was saying as the russian and turkish leaders are they are probably going to discuss iran's atomic ambitions while they're in st petersburg today at the same time as nuclear talks between tehran and six world powers and to day three in

geneva and later today here on r t cross talk he'd live well asking his guests about any chances of a true deal being struck with tehran. unless the p five plus one in particular the united states and france are willing to stick to understanding the radio and thought they had reached least verbal e on some of these issues i you know i don't think the rain ians are going to feel they're not going to feel comfortable with going ahead with an agreement it's a matter of trust i mean do we have that here and if it's not here yet what does it take to create that level of trust then the rest of it is a lot of details i think that if iran doesn't soften its position on those three points the negotiations are not likely to deal. i. are just turning ten minutes past the hour here in moscow thanks for joining us on arts he. island has passed

a law banning companies which produced are now declared modified food from operating on its territory a modified crops will also be restricted to indoor structures and experimenting with new types of plants has also been prohibited more on the issue when i was joined by a moderate willie a member of the hawaii me who i counsel but actually pass the bill and hello to you all the way from moscow margaret good to see you today you are a member of the hawaii council behind this ban why go ahead with it. because we want to protect our island our soil our children and future generations from the contamination by these genetically modified organisms the end of the uncertainty of these organisms that have not been tested that are put into our foods and without adequate either animal or human testing. my bill focuses on preventing banning further open air cultivation of

crops so that. the organic farmers and neighboring properties are not contaminated by the gene drift from the dominating g.m.o. genes and. further further drift of the toxic pesticide but a lot of the longer you talk about toxic pesticides you talk about contamination of the soil do it is there actually scientific proof to support your claims here of this oh there's plenty but it does show how powerful sort of the media is if they just keep saying there's no consensus on harm there's plenty of science and you could just look at why county another one of our islands where there's all of these experimental. sea plantations and where everyone's getting sick

that's why so many countries latin america have kicked them out so as you say that the garden island of koala with some issues with g.m.o. foods as you're saying people getting sick but one question i must ask you margaret the world's population it's growing all the time with some would say we need technology to help us feed everyone sunlight say you're standing right in the way of that. ok and i'm glad you asked me that because that's really the whole issue about sustainability but i think that the people are spoken and they're far more advanced that they realize that i'm feeding people it's not just about the quantity of food it's also about how sate the now and healthy and how nursing that food is and how healthy the soil is if we don't take care of our soil it really don't protect it from being toxic or knows how long. we're just we're destroying the source of our food. from the hawaii county council on the

issue of no g.m.o. foods in hawaii thank you for joining us on the tank thank you for calling me thank you well and more news coming your way off the break here on our including the report on a controversial issue all fracking that's ignited debate all across europe. well talking about language as well but i will only react to situations i have read the reports but let me put it to the no i will leave that to stapling a comment on your latter point i'm so. sick yeah they call it on the job. well done. you know more weasel words. when you made a direct question be prepared for a change when you throw a punch be ready for a. freedom of speech. and the freedom to.

dramas that can be ignored. stories others refuse to notice. places change. to picture. from around the. globe. to. live from moscow to. considering much tighter regulation of fracking and the controversial new method of drilling for energy companies could be forced to prove they're not damaging the environment well it's out of moment here and a closer look at the practice to not perhaps more importantly its risks as well the

method involves breaking up a rock at least one kilometer below the ground and to create fracking fluid water is mixed with chemicals like uranium and mercury and then pressured into the ground during this process toxins are released from the system contaminating the nearby water up to seventy percent of the poisonous fluid is left in the ground and is not biodegradable the rest of it evaporates up into the atmosphere releasing gases but advocates of the technique say it will help to solve the energy crisis and create more jobs. it's been following the resistance of europeans to fracking. a number of european countries have had large scale anti fracking protests take place recently as sort of the prospect of more drilling has been rolled out across europe but one of the largest anti fracking stories to take place over recent months happened in for mania where locals actually formed

a human chain around an area where u.s. oil giant chevron was given the green light by the remaining in government to begin exploratory drilling i traveled there to cover this story and i spoke to a lot of the locals there. and a great culture is our lives if they come to drilling our soil for sure all will die because we've seen on the internet what they have done in other places where. i'm so afraid of this kind of gas exploitation people see they will be big problems for all animals because the wood will be affected and the sun and the food for animals and for us and children as well they see it as government siding with large corporations and not protecting the interests of their citizens who are talking about genuine risks that they see from this technology fracking has been associated with air pollution water contamination water depletion earthquakes and of course climate change the oil and gas companies have spent billions of dollars really

selling a story about how fracking is safe and the reality is quite different i think that something that anti fracking campaign is an protesters in the u.s. and in europe are no doubt reassured by is that large scale protests and citizens opposition to this technology really does work for example france has just up held a ban against fracking because of the environmental risks involved or just a click away lots of stories that are to dot com right now for example digital money the real life truth of the university. becomes the. except. to study. those details on our website right now. giving endangered species.

details. israel is a multi-ethnic community of. christians but is very open about his desire to change and he's open. to his reaction. to the story. what my goal is to have as few arabs as possible blunt direct and a virtually racist shit from a shop or ninety five percent of mayors think the same but only five percent all

say it to the media i'm sorry i'm the only one who does so i have to stay true to what i believe should one capsule has never shied away from controversy the mayor of nazareth elite is known for building neighborhoods for jewish citizens only banning christmas trees from schools and boasting that he stopped the arab population in the city from growing among his friends he counts prime minister benjamin netanyahu and now he's just been reelected for another term in office and you notice that the israel is first a jewish state and then a democracy the same goes for nazareth anyone can live here if they think there will ever be a church or mosque they can keep on dreaming but nazareth elite is in fact and if weakly mixed city one in five of its residents is arab it borders the biblical and much larger nazareth often called the arab capital of israel i don't see him shamgar am haps from him as well and other villagers come here to get away from

their crowded areas and improve their living standards other to stay we was born here he's been trying to get an arab school bus in the city but it's not going to happen on this mayor's watch in this country when they get to the power to think if they go extreme right. if he becomes more racist then he will have more people to vote for him to claim make cheviot finkelstein angry she supports cap so and says their desire to live in a jewish city is what the country's founding fathers in visaged visit michigan while their mother he is what is keeping me here because i know that if it wasn't for hair are we would lose our home this is without a doubt a war of existence recent municipal elections or gap so reelected with fifty two percent of votes. his promise to jewish city forever gets this election campaign was soaked with racist undertones which many here are now dangerously close to

entering israeli political mainstream the most disturbing aspect he takes mindedness in a way a microcosm of israel the city's battle to preserve its jewish identity is infused with history religion and discrimination depending which side you're on. t.v. to beat the newsroom. to the latvian capital of riego to open up the r.t. world update the number killed by the collapse of supermarket is rising twenty five confirmed dead including three rescuers that were trying to pull victims from the wreckage some people are still trapped meantime the tragedy happened while the peak timing of the hours in the evening as people were doing their shopping after work on the roof mayo fall and then because of the weight of soil being used to build a winter garden on top. of a string of attacks across iraq of killed at least forty eight the deadliest taking place in a city north of baghdad ripping through

a market killing thirty one iraq seeing its worst violence in years more than five thousand killed in the last eight months we've got a timeline marking all of it since the how many of died since the ultimate invasion of two thousand and three the full timeline for you at r.t. dot com right now. japan's fukushima nuclear power plant workers have successfully removed the first nuclear fuel rods from a cooling pool twenty two of the unused assemblies were transferred to a safer place but there are more than one and a half thousand potentially damaged december still deal with at the same time in tokyo thousands of people protested against the secrets act proposed by the government they believe the new law would seek to hide information about the fukushima crisis in particular. means i'm on the other side of the pacific the u.s. government also having a nuclear problem how to store its waste twenty seven billion dollars has been used but what exactly was it spent on breaking the set looks with the onset today. we're

all familiar with the ongoing nuclear powder keg at the fukushima daiichi nuclear power plant but here in the u.s. there's another nuclear problem that this government just can't solve the storage of nuclear waste is the department of energy is supposed to have a program in place to manage and store radioactive waste which is why the d.o.d.'s collected these from nuclear power plant operators to the tune of twenty seven billion dollars over the past few years but in two thousand and ten obama decided to abandon plans to develop the yucca mountain nuclear waste depository in the data leaving us with no long term storage site so what did the twenty seven billion dollars in clean up fund end up being used for that turns out absolutely nothing. or the. headlines of the top of the hour finale though stepping aside with technology update the latest from the world of science and technology only here on

the scene. in my research i randomly came across a sad statistic according to the center for the constitution only twenty eight percent of americans have actually read the constitution although the overwhelming majority claimed that they understood some of it and now we see why the constitution especially the bill of rights are getting whittled away the average person doesn't really know what their secret covenant with the government actually says which means the government can get away with reinterpreting the agreement to suit their needs and not yours because no one is the wiser but if you think i'm going to say boo where average american how dare you then you are wrong the problem is that any kind of philosophy or ideology or just even asking why seems to be

getting out. a favor in educational systems all over the western world and beyond i mean shouldn't the average american be taught in school about you know america and like the constitution and capitalism alchemic society advocate praise or defend values they don't have any idea about please let's get the stuff back into the educational system but fascist my opinion. right on the scene. first strike. and i think you're. on our reporters' twitter. and instagram. to be in the know. on.

hello and welcome to technology updates on today's show we learn about the technology that keeps the moscow metro rolling. new serving a modern techniques make waves in the oil industry. and we take a peek through the innovation looking glass in this month's focal point. but first today's technology means that robotic help is no longer yesterday science fiction making many walks of life both easier and safer and this is especially true if this next robotic dream team. brain is overbroad. the world is a dangerous place so robots are frequently used to scout how it's areas and perform tasks to positives for humans in addition to the classic humanoid design is often

since a nature for inspiration this is resulted. in myriad weird and wonderful creations but even if we have to go in harm's way a robots will put us back together again if things go wrong however building a machine capable of such precision in highly demanding environments still requires a human touch. set up in st petersburg twenty three years ago the accounts employs around a thousand people it's forged a name for itself as a top supplier of high tech inspection and maintenance robots for the nuclear and oil and gas industries the company is ships around twenty thousand pieces of equipment to twenty three countries around the world but the applications of these products on just limited to earth day a concert even manufactured components for space ship docking mechanisms and electro mechanical fuel valves for launch vehicles we call so with the company's deputy director to find out. to ensure complete

control over manufacturing processes and high tech product development we have over three hundred engineers and specialists who from project scope document drafting process development and implementation of create the technology to make the product which is then manufactured using the equipment located on our site here so there's still a samples tested and delivered to the client. one of the secrets behind the company's cosmic success is it takes production facilities which occupy around five thousand square metres and continue to grow many of the products play a vital part in the safe operation of energy production facilities so failure is simply not an option for ensure the quality of his equipments remains top notch the company's hundred takes the best tooling machines from supply is around the world while all these high end machinery may cost a pretty penny the full cycle production means that the company can design and build the products at the drop of a hot disability is not only the company oldest in the likes of general electric

but also resulted in a rather motley crew. since two thousand and five for the nuclear boiling gas and space industries the contest designed and assembled an entire family of robots and it continues to grow the first generation includes a pipe inspection robot which uses ultrasound to check for defects corrosion and other irregularities in high pressure gas pipelines. this snake like welding robots is designed for carrying house repairs inside nuclear reactors the machine is radiation proof can slither through a gap the size of a much box and slinks along the walls magnetically the company's remote inspection robots uses laser holographic technology to check the integrity of react to seals to prevent any cool it's leakage finally one of the latest additions to the family alignments of water pipes deep inside a nuclear reactor if any repairs are required a nifty mini robots can be deployed to a touch of metal brace to the pipe but even face high tech family of the humble

beginnings but we started off with special t.v. cameras capable of working in high radiation levels and underwater of but they're used to control the technical process is associated with refusing nuclear reactors and the most important equipment of a nuclear power plant. ordinary glass becomes tented in a matter of seconds when exposed to radiation. uses custom made radiation proof glass in its lenses which are then assembled on site for the camera itself the company is gone but so basics using a black and white video camera cheap avoiding the use of complex chipsets and placing as much of the electronics as possible in a remote block where lots of. take advantage of the video chip sensitivity sweet spot in the light spectrum they currently working on a color version that works by flickering between red green and blue and combining them to create a color image with whatever the products testing is key.