limburg gorge really. ukraine's opposition is finding the flame of discontent unhappy with the government's move to e.u. integration with x. would say would be a disaster for the country's economy. as russia and turkey try to move closer for business is that wide apart positions on syria under ron that are likely to take up most of the talks. and london rules it's ok to sell weapons to gulf regime despite their poor human rights records as long as you try hard enough to solve the debt the deals to the public.

international news and comment live from moscow this is with me hello and welcome to the program the ukrainian opposition is bearing its t's threatening present victory going to college with impeachment and vowing to bring terms of thousands of people onto the streets by the end of this week all that after the government suspended work towards a free trade deal with the e.u. and some people have already been protesting overnight but as i. was that here it didn't last long. protests began in kiev during the night in some point there were more than three thousand people at the independence square in central ukrainian capital the place the epicenter of the two thousand and five orange revolution now several dozen still remain there despite heavy rain and wind or stand that in the evening more people will be gathering their protests will continue on friday on saturday and even on sunday when the country marks the anniversary of the so-called orange revolution of two thousand and five and that's when we're expecting

a very loud and big protest they have been unhappy with. notion from many a prominent post of political analysts already that ukraine made a very pragmatic decision by not taking this leap of faith that the moment i summed up the facts in mind in my report let's have a look at that but two months ago it was talented as a done deal on thursday ukraine's government all but completely ruled out that an association agreeing with you would be signed next week but instead would go to trade ties with russia and see i asked was made the priority at. some stage of ascending to the top and this is unfavorable. the 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 do 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 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 breeder fourth 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 had suffered in the last four months will be compensated by entry new markets and european markets strangely will need to hold the work of a dozen or more enterprises but our country can't afford firing tens of thousands of workers. alexy russia ski r.t. reporting from kiev in ukraine. opposition lawmakers have opened friday's session by waving flags and shouting shame the chant had already been heard within the walls of ukraine's parliament the day before. that was after draft allowing child former prime minister yulia timoshenko to

receive medical treatment abroad it was scuppered the documents were such as a precondition for integration with europe but it ended up just over a century of votes away from being approved the outcome was mostly due to the ruling party his refusal to pas the bush. since ukraine's decision not to integrate with the e.u. is believed to be based on economic matters i also venture capital hose cases failed them was that the country will regret it in the future. the e.u. have said that they're not going to be compensating ukraine for the money that would be lost from not doing business with the c.i.s. countries so i'm talking about no longer privy to the likes of gas discounts as well as twenty five percent of ukrainian goods make their way to russia as well just in anticipation of this deal that everyone thought was going to be stilled we've actually had a loss of five billion dollars between ukraine and russia really the industries that have been suffering the most is the ship building car industry materials

a metals a lot of that industry that really suffered since the two thousand and eight crisis has taken a blow in the last six months in anticipation of joining this deal also if they were to enter the free trade zone board it would mean is a flooding of cheap goods i'm talking about household brands that ukraine products would have difficulty competing with so actually just to quote yuri boyko who is the ukrainian energy minister he said the decision was based on the economic interests of the country so it means that the koreans economy is actually suffering ever indeed i mean at the moment they've just entered the third recession since two thousand and eight we know that their foreign reserves are dwindling at the moment they're going to widen in deficit to contend with they've been dealt plethora of downgrades and there's even talk as well about nafta gas which is the equivalent of russia's gas problem or if there's any exxon mobile from the us there staple

company could be purchased by a bar foreign buyers that's how delicate the situation is and that's exactly why they've had to really address the situation. this is going to be and still to come the sun rises on the ark six most of the greenpeace activists that took part in september or riga sold are granted bail in russia only one is still awaiting his fate while another world state attained until february. and also coming out of europe just doesn't know what to do with its calls between a public dead set against shale gas extraction and industry hell bent on it explore the options that are left to brussels. the diplomatic walls between the leaders of russia and turkey is in full swing as they meet in st petersburg and need to have a lead official the sideline discussions are expected to be the most hated with

syria their biggest concern obviously is a conference over is following the meeting for. 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 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 where i'm sure of course

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 al assad has publicly said that he wants to see him go on a run a lot more of basically seeing eye to eye. 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 timing of russia and turkey as this question over iran's nuclear program coincides with similar talks between iran and six world powers in geneva and as they bomb getting into europe and as it's said day. finds out about the

chances of a deal being struck back. five plus one in particular the united states and france are willing to stick to understanding is that the radiance thought they had reached verbal e on some of these issues 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. a report from british m.p.'s has concluded that saudi arabia is notoriously bad human rights record is no reason to stop sending billions of dollars in weapons to

the kingdom campaigners have accused the government of pandering to despotic regimes in return for profit laura smith has more now on the controversy of the report. it points out the ethical dilemma of the u.k. having this close relationship with bahrain and saudi arabia who obviously have such poor human rights records but it's those the most important thing is that the government finds new ways of selling that relationship to the public essentially explaining its approach to the british public not necessarily doing anything about those concerns and issues so for example the committee says that there's there are concerns about juggling human rights with these lucrative trade deals. recognizes that saudi arabia's role as a key purchaser of arms from the u.k. is quote controversial but it says it all balance there's no point in ending that relationship wouldn't any purpose of tall now the campaign against the arms trade is not impressed with that excuses the foreign affairs committee of providing

basically the government says it continues to pander to despicable regimes in the service of arms contracts particularly for a manufacturer so basically what this report is doing is recognizing the hypocrisy but not doing anything about it is the last of the so-called thirty greenpeace activists is waiting to learn whether he'll be let out of a russian jail most of his comrades arrested in september for trying to scale and already have already been granted bail and to more than halt the group have been released let's not get more lie with time and say that tallies so it must be quite an emotional moment for the acts of is that right. it's been a roller coaster of a time for thirty take activists who have who would charge you with with piracy and

then that those charges were reduced to one again as them after trying to scale and oil rig in the arctic and it is owned by russia now they were first held in moments where the charges were made and then they were transferred petersburg early november this meant that they'd be able to see their friends and also have the diplomatic help that they need now this environmental protester from the thirty twenty eight of them a greenpeace activist two of them a journalist who were on board that i'll take sunrise vessel they were by being out here that meant that they'd be able to see get some legal help as well now it's caused a lot of rift between russia and the netherlands the netherlands says that russia should have lead girl the thirty add to visit particularly because of the to sunrise vessel and by the netherlands they've also taken russia to the international mari time tribunals forcing them to actually also russia to release the thirty activists what we do know now is that those who are released on bail

will not be able to be sent petersburg they will be have to stay there and what's clearly now is that their legal fees are piling up with sixty one thousand each to secure that bail. thank you very much indeed for that. don't play with the a food they saying goes onto how why is biggest island has taken back to haunt later in the program we hear why the sunny retreat house kicks child genetically modified food companies and severely restricted the secular nation of g.m. crops. also laced when mase the marijuana israeli city has extreme views of buffeting the status quo i'm threatening to bring racism firmly into mainstream politics that's not a very short break stay with us. there's

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choose the stories that imply. choose be access to. hello again this is a live from moscow welcome back after a gaze of day of the are in the e.u. is moving to regulate the fracking industry there are plenty of ideas on the table but overwhelming public opposition is forcing europe rights to scrutinise measures so why is there so much ill will towards fracking to understand that you've got to know how it works and whole of is drilled deep into the a cocktail the water and toxins are then pumped into literally dissolve rocks and release gas molecules and that's where the trouble begins dangerous toxins some of which are radioactive often contaminate local water supplies up to seventy percent

of the few fluids also seep into the soil around the ball remaining how's that for decades and above the ground the process releases vast quantities of greenhouse gases that are all but impossible to keep in track all his point a boycott has been following the european experiment with 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 the story and i spoke to a lot of the locals there. 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 a lot of the guys 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 the sun and the food for animals and for us and children as well they see it as governments 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. when it comes to sharing you might want to think twice before you do this in saudi arabia a pair. free hugs can pay those have been arrested the police classified their actions as exotic practices and do more harm than good find out the details on r.t. dot com aland heart melting away to save the endangered population of polar bad as russian scientists plan to make a grizzly this hour get a mother of snow white cubs that's all online. the male the israeli city of nazareth was recently voted back into power on a promise to keep the city jewish and limit the growth of the arabic population and this and i diverse electorate of true christians and arabs as our policy in our

report is refusing to back down what my goal is to have as few arabs as possible blunt direct and to virtually racist shit from the shop or ninety five percent of the same but only five percent will say to the media i'm sorry i'm the only one who does so i have to stay true to what i believe. szymon 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's stopped the arab population in the city from growing among his friends he comes prime minister benjamin netanyahu and now he's just been reelected for another term in office you notice israel is first a jewish state and then a democracy the same goes for nazareth illit 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 residences arab it borders the biblical and much larger nazareth often called the arab capital of israel. 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 bills 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 become more racist then he will have more people devoted to claim make cheviot finkelstein angry she supports gap so and says their desire to live in a jewish city is what the country's founding fathers in visaged. 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 post as promised a jewish city forever gets those election campaign was soaked with racist undertones which many fear are now dangerously close to intrigue israeli political mainstream the most disturbing aspect he takes pride in us 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 policy r.t. nazareth the lead northern israel. and obviously more global headlines for you this hour at least thirty two people have been killed after a supermarket collapsed in the last ten capital dozens more were also injured emergency services are still working to free more people trapped in the rubble and investigation has been launched into what caused the building to crumble but a top politician had blamed failures to meet building standards.

a ruptured oil pipeline has exploded in china's north east killing twenty two people workers in the coastal city of qingdao were trying to contain a leak in the pipe when the blast occurred ripping through cars and damaging buildings barriers have been put up to try to stop the oil from seeping into the sea the cause of the accident is still being investigated. the number of people thought to have died in the typhoon that battered the philippines two weeks ago has risen to five thousand official say aid is now starting to reach remote areas decimated by the superstorm but damage to infrastructure is hampering aid efforts more than five hundred thousand people have been forced from their homes and turned a half million are thought to need food aid. workers are the damaged fukushima nuclear plant in japan have successfully removed the first batch of fuel rods from

a cooling pond the company responsible for the delicate operation says dozens of the rod bundles have been safely extracted but more than a thousand still have to be dealt with at the same time in tokyo thousands of people protested against a proposed secrecy act a thing could be used to hide information about the fukushima crisis. and on the other side of the pacific the u.s. government also has a nuclear problem that is how to deal with its waste twenty seven billion dollars was put aside but battles but was that actually help for she's breaking this out looks for the answer. 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 dio years quote the use from nuclear power plant operators of the tune of twenty seven

billion dollars over the past few years but in two thousand and ten obama decided to abandon plans of 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. how why is biggest island house passed one of the most stringent food laws yet banning genetic crop experimentation on its territory and furthermore growing modified seeds is now restricted to indoor structures as if this could see an interim the center for food safety believes the suit is beginning to reverberate across the world. this is actually a movement which is spreading across the country move actually it's the second week in hawaii there's the band obviously on the big island but also another piece of

legislation that was. a 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 country that have actually labeling laws except they have a close enough that says other states have to join them before the laws are actually enacted so this is a big movement that's happening it not only in the united states but particularly all across the rest of the world people wanting to have a healthier. food. coming after the break larry king talks to renowned american journalist bob woodward helen. in my research i randomly came across

a sad statistic according to the center for the constitution only twenty 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 see 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 of 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 how can the society advocate praise or defend values they don't have any idea about please let's go. the stuff back into the educational system but fascist my opinion.

one of the most celebrated investigative journalist of our time bob woodward of the washington post he's a reporter on every president since nixon and he's the author or co-author of a dozen number one best selling nonfiction book. considering what he's covered over the years it's appropriate that he joins me at the historic day adams otel overlooking the white house on next politicking. it's always great to go back to washington especially on

a lovely day like today and especially to be with an old friend like bob woodward the pulitzer prize winning journalist work for the washington post since one thousand nine hundred seventy one currently is associate editor author a co-author of twelve number one national best selling nonfiction books most recently the price of politics that is out in paperback with so many of them that is star a k. out on sotelo gate across from the white house the executive office buildings over bad as the white house president obama and his family say they have the two weeks prior to his first inauguration the president is approaching the end of his fifth year in office community says one obama at five well george will the columnist said obama's head the worst first year of the second term since nixon i think that's. overstatement. but obama is having trouble now and certainly with obamacare it's not just the technical website issue it's is it going to work what

does that mean to people and whenever there's a change like this a change i think is wise i think people should have health insurance and what the going to make it function for millions of people like they promised we were going to see any second terms when he said in terms get off well. and good question i mean the generally is a bump in the road. but if you look at the world right now i think the world is such a dangerous place all of the if you go from north korea down to libya in egypt and ask questions of china and russia one of the cia people came over recently and said the fuse of instability is lit in about a dozen countries whether it's going to go off this week or tomorrow or five

years from now or ever we don't know but just the level of instability these countries that are unhappy with so that that's in addition to all the domestic problems what keeps you going to bother me you're very successful you don't need the money here is seventy years old you could go watch the dancers at least stevenson used to say but confused one of these of the day it serves these and the most interesting dancers in the world and if you never get tired of this no because there are always surprises there are always things we don't know and try to dig into them i had the luxury of time to do these long books of projects for the washington post and. you start you think the stories this way in the stories and opposite direction want to get into a lot of current politics but i should ask you about the new owner of the post and what's that like over that first this is been so much the grahams and they're gone what's it like.