as the americans are about using it. our top stories today here on ukraine does a u. turn on a free trade deal with the e.u. the country looks east to save its ailing economy. however the political drift over the decision caused protests inside parliament and on the streets with the mass rallies planned over the weekend just a moment we've got the latest live report from the ukrainian capital just a few moments. economic goals versus political differences the turkish prime minister is here in russia to discuss business disagreements on syria could end up dominating the talks.

thank you for joining us here on our team today i'm with you top worldwide headlines ukraine has suspended work towards a free trade deal with the e.u. and the government says that tougher regulations and a lack of financial guarantees from brussels forcing kiev to look eastwood's to keep its economy above water. now joining us live from the ukrainian capital good to see you alexei we understand there's still a lot of people in ukraine who would like to be a part of the e.u. how did they take this news. well they took this news very unhappily in fact they started protesting in the night at some point the independence square in central kiev was filled with more than three thousand people several dozen of them still remain and now at the square despite heavy rain in the ukrainian capital and we understand that in the evening people will be gathering to continue their protest against the decision of the to suspend works on. signing the

association deal with their european union the protests will continue on friday on saturday and will culminate on sunday when the country marks the anniversary of the so-called orange revolution filled two thousand five we expecting maybe fifty sixty seventy thousand people in this streets of course those are ordinary people some of them of course are part of opposition movements they have been unhappy with his decision but i've heard notion from many prominent politician political analysts already that in fact ukraine made a very pragmatic decision by not taking this leap of faith at the moment what exactly happened on thursday and why it was why did it happen i summed up the fact in mind in my report let's have a look at that. for 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 we're building trade ties with russia and c.i.s. was made the priority. probably at some stage of ascending to the top when the

weather is unfavorable. the one hundred eighty degree turnaround comes after months of openly voiced concerns that ukraine's economy would simply collapse if it formed a free trade zone with the e.u. which in turn promised no compensations on potential losses 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 going 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 pretty full 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 the clear signal from our european neighbors that the losses which we have suffered in the last four months will be compensated by entering new markets and european markets we will need to hold the work of a dozen of our enterprises but our country can't afford firing tens of thousands.

as of workers. reporting from kiev in ukraine. now the country's parliament voted against a draft they would have let jailed a former prime minister yulia timoshenko get medical treatment abroad the decision set as a precondition for integration with europe has certainly split the ukrainian parliament have a look right here i think that is the opposition airing the government's refusal and further statements on postponing the idea of european integration were met with calls for the president's impeachment many m.p.'s supported the initial rallies in the capital and said they would join weekend demonstrations. and while the opposition is seeking a vote of no confidence for the government the government is sticking by its belief that integration with europe could do more harm than good here on the program we discuss 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 father of 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 not perceive talk about drilling for a new service or 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 company is the equivalent of russia's gas pramod 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 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 going to do it's got a lot of. 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 this is are three racism doesn't get you very far in politics except in parts of israel apparently. who won reelection to build

a truly jewish city with his few arab christmas trees. food companies. all around the world. but for now in the program. to talk about how to do more business could be affected by the strong differences on middle east politics the turkish prime minister is meeting vladimir putin and right now with syria expected to be one of the most contentious topics. 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 in this case it's going to be syria and 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 forces 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 of course is not part of the negotiations over iran's nuclear program but officials there have publicly stated support for a peaceful nuclear program in 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 is one of the biggest trading partners for turkey 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 the russian leaders are likely to discuss iran's atomic ambitions in some petersburg. same time though the nuclear talks between iran and six world powers now entering day three in geneva later today and cross talk to his guests all about the chances can a deal be struck between iran. and the international community. in the last five plus one in particular the united states and france are willing to stick to understanding the radium thought they had reached. on some of these issues i you know i don't think the rainy and 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 i think iran doesn't soften its position on those three points. are not likely to feel. sorry to minutes past the hour here in moscow to greenpeace activists find out whether they'll be let out of a russian jail today and they're hoping to be granted bail and the last of the thirty people arrested for trying to scale an oil platform in the arctic to appear in court and ask about it is now from a correspondent to buying more say be the final activists are they likely to be released do you think. well you know it must be some kind of relief for the thirty acting sunrise activists now so not everyone will be

going home just yet two of them are still in the detention center their fate will be considered later on a two day twenty seven of them had been granted bail and we now know that about fifteen of them were able to come up with that two million rubles needed for that deal that's all it was sixty one thousand dollars up for that bail we know that one australian activist will still be in the detention center until. next year since law this case has gotten so many twists and turns thirty activists away in india be trying to board the oil rig in at the arctic they were. arrested by the russian officials also say they would then listen to murmurs go oh upon that this month last month they were sent to st petersburg to stand trial now this environmental protest is now causing a lot of diplomatic tension between all of the all those involved we know that the netherlands had demanded that russia release that vessel together with the thirty

activists russia had said that it wouldn't do so because it had told the hague that those people were coming to towards the read in the arctic so far we know that the hague has gone to the merry time international tribunals to put the case she wants them and they said that they'll come up with the answer as soon as probably the end of the day we'll be waiting for that so it's all it's good news but not all good news for everyone at this point so we'll have to see if this bail grants indeed get them to be able to travel outside of the country as of now those details have not come out yet. thank you. for many more international stories coming your way in just a couple of minutes here on our t.v. we report on the controversial fracking technology and sweeping many in europe very worried about how it affects the environment back in just a moment. mission

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and a quarter past the hour here in the russian capital t. the e.u. is considering much tighter regulation of fracking the controversial new method of drilling for energy companies could be forced to prove they're not damaging the environment well let's have a closer look at the practice i suppose more importantly the risks as well and the method involves breaking up rock at least one kilometer below the ground to create fracking fluid water is mixed with chemicals like uranium and most curie and then pressured into the ground during this process toxins are released from the system contaminating nearby groundwater and up to seventy percent of the poisonous fluid is left. it's in the ground and is not biodegradable and the rest of it evaporates releasing gases into the air but as advocates of these techniques say they think

it's some saying the energy crisis will be less after this and it will create more jobs however. she's been following the ongoing 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 that. a great culture is our lives if they come to drill in our soil for sure all will die because we've seen on the internet what they have done in other places when they grew up and i'm so afraid of these kind of guess

exploitation people see they will be big problems for our animals because the wood will be affected and this sort of food animals and for us 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 on 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. you're right there now digital money for real life you wish and the university of nicosia cyprus . details on the website.

today. in israel is a multi ethnic community of. christians but the mayor is very open about his desire to change. his reelection. picks up 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 will say it to the media i'm sorry i'm the only one who does say 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 if you notice 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 an ethnically 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 out of interim go to arabs from him as a ref and other villagers come here to get away from their crowded areas and improve their living standards. stay we was born here he's been trying to get an arab school 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 russia go wild in the thick of it he is what is keeping me here because i know that if it wasn't for him 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. his promise to jewish city forever gets this election campaign was soaked with racist undertones which many are now dangerously close to entering israeli political mainstream the most disturbing aspect he takes pride in this 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. with the elite northern israel our. capital.

numbers update for you the number killed by the collapse of a supermarket roof is rising twenty six. that includes three rescuers trying to pull victims from the wreckage some people are still trapped under the rubble the tragedy happened a peak time as people do their shopping after work and the roof may have fallen in 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 assault taking place in a city north of baghdad where a car bomb ripped through a market killing thirty one iraq is seeing its worst violence in years with more than five thousand people killed in just the last eight months and we've got a timeline marking all the victims who have died since the invasion of two thousand and three. zero at japan's fukushima nuclear power plant workers have successfully removed the first nuclear fuel rods from a cooling pool twenty two of the on used assemblies were transferred to

a safer place but there are now more than one and a half thousand potentially damaged still to deal with at the same time in tokyo thousands of people protested against the secrets 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 has a nuclear problem how to store its waste twenty seven billion dollars has been spent on it so far but what's actually been accomplished in the set and they try to find the. we're all familiar with the ongoing nuclear powder keg of superhuman 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 going to use for nuclear power plant operators in 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 cleanup funds end up being used for that turns out absolutely nothing. so i hope why an island has passed a law banning companies which produce genetically modified food from operating in its territory modified crops would also be restricted to indoor structures and experimenting with new types of plants with that's also been prohibited but elizabeth the crew suits from the center for food safety she believes the mood is beginning to reverberate all across the world this is actually a movement which is spreading across the country they move actually is the second week in hawaii there's the band obviously on the big island but also another piece

of legislation that was passed in the cool why which severely restricts and makes chemical companies to regulate and report the chemicals that they're using on the land there are a couple of states in the kind of shape that have actually passed labeling laws except they have a close in them that says other states have to join them before the laws are actually acted so this is a big movement that is happening it not only in the united states but particularly all across the rest of the world people wanting to have a healthy. food. well thanks for joining us here on r.t. today on role research a stepping aside for sophie shevardnadze say our latest program coming up for you asking what role iran can play in solving that of the syrian crisis live from moscow it's not saying.

this is the media leave us so we leave the. other scene motions to to the other your party visible. which is that no one is their skin with the guests they deserve answers from. politic only on r t. enriching negotiations only a week ago the prospect of a deal with around was ten to life in a post then the french played the role of spoiler to the great delight of israel nonetheless negotiations continue much is made of the technical side of the talks in fact this is a side show but these negotiations are really about is the issue of trust. the olympic torch is on its epic journey to such. one hundred twenty three days. through two hundred two cities of russia. really fourteen thousand people

or sixty five thousand killings. in a record setting trip by land air sea and others face. a little big board srila. on r t r two dot com. welcome to survey and co i'm selfish are not say it out restarting from the world scare kral into a respectable negotiator and it's not only about its nuclear program and israel strikes threats iran is also believed to be the can't figure in finding peace in a syrian crisis what exactly is this well and how will it play out that's what

we're talking about today. sanctioned isolated threatening. iran has long stood against much of the rest of the world in feuds with neighbors and all this with the west stubborn in its nuclear ambitions. the past to change will it justify its goals enough to avoid an israeli strike on. does the rabbit hole to the solution to syria's war. and our guest today is iran's deputy foreign minister who i made on this. server very happy to have you in our studio today i'm so i had of the upcoming geneva talks done so in ways trying to come up with a deal of washing your eyes drives as well as the israel is against any topics with iran does seem like both of you are just talking past each other so you can anything change that. in the name of the merciful and the compassionate

i would like to welcome your distinguished viewers. you have just so we do not hear each other. well actually. negotiating with the five plus one group. and of course some countries are under the influence of israel because of their close relationship. it is not very good or efficient for the five plus one group when one or several countries are influenced to such extent by the pressure and tension that is being built up around this issue. some of them being provoked by these rally regime into a rhetorical which is not sensible and which would make it difficult to achieve mutual understanding or positive results. you don't wish to struggle with international sanctions have taken

a toll in iran and it's to ordinary people that are hit the hardest they are not involved in your nuclear program people will die but despite that are you able to retain public support or is it a matter of principle for iran and you don't really care what people think about it with the with. the truth is that the nuclear program is a source of pride for the iranian navy. it is well known that our research has a peaceful nature people enjoy the benefits of the nuclear program in such areas as an a gene medicine pharmaceuticals agriculture and others. the rainy a nation that has forged haulage to nationalize the oil industry and it is now looking at the nuclear issue as the one of national importance. the sanctions have indeed had a negative impact on some of the aspects of life. but on the other hand with us if

you look at the sanctions from a wide perspective they have given the iranian people a sense of confidence will require most do you believe that the people of iran have in fact benefit from the sanctions. in mind the sanctions have certainly harmed the people but you know at the same time they have also proved helpful in a number of ways. like encouraging self-sufficiency boosting confidence and self in. their in mind that iran showed remarkable achievements in scientific research and industrial production while actually being subjected to sanctions one way or another we think that the sanctions have been counterproductive not only for iran but for other countries as well.