really. aren't you going to. london rules it's ok to sell weapons to gulf regimes despite their poor human rights records as long as you try hard enough to sell the deals to the public. also this sounds as russia and turkey try to move closer food business is there wide apart positions on syria that take up most of the tools. and listening to others phone calls that's what president putin says he doesn't do when asked about a conversation and which ukraine's leader allegedly said he was blackmailed by russia and therefore abandoned the e.u. trade plan.

international news live from moscow this is all see with me hello and welcome to the program a report from british m.p.'s has concluded that saudi arabia's 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 on how the controversy over 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. it 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 it wouldn't serve any purpose of tall now the campaign against the arms trade is not impressed with that it accuses the foreign affairs committee of providing basically the government. 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. who is blackmailing who present fledging a pretend has addressed immigration is that russia ukraine into a u. turn away its integration plans with the e.u.

and also has this account for no one has been listening to will be much for me to have to say. and she joins us now live from a saying that is that hi there lucy so what exactly did the president say that. there was a lot of snow caster parsecs peterson her to him there had been fifty four to that he had to have had to. come in handy just the continental plan for integration of comedy to bring champ back now he didn't have to have children playing in the russia you know where i'm hoping that russia doesn't listen in on phone calls that was did of course that the n.s.a. spying scandal in the united states he also went to monitor to suggest that perhaps if there was blackmail it will be on the hook to be legal but it was hard to tell the sayers that he is in the things that he's been covering the developments there for so he does have plans because how much as you think somebody that let's go now

to the line there since he's reporting on what's going on in the freedom of he's just going to keep the seat. to six feet. or drive a decent know several dozen still remain there despite the heavy rain and wind or stand out in the evening more people will be gathering their protests will continue on friday on saturday and even on sunday when the country marks this 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 the other coaches decision but i've heard notion from many prominent both the political analysts already that ukraine made a very pragmatic decision by not. taking this leap of faith at the moment i summed up the facts in my in my report let's have a look at that 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 but instead were goading trade ties with russia and c.i.s. was made the priority do it legally 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 i 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 previous 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 we will need to hold the work of a dozen of our enterprises but our country can't afford firing tens of thousands of workers alexy russia ski r.t. reporting from kiev in ukraine. so let's see some important statements ok my space and that's where the his tech is counterpart as a one and what's al's did the leaders discussed that. very purpose here was a force that cannot make energy operationally the stuff that planned first the topic that everyone is pleading for is syria we didn't really hear much from either either on that basis and if we disagree yeah president blames much of the financial crisis on the fund stream a strip club revamp theory that. for president prime minister erdogan his part said that it's the regime that's primarily responsible for the bulk of the more than one hundred fifty thousand estimated syrians who have died in that conflict again sort

of reiterating their positions both sides to urge for diplomatic talks the geneva two conference that's due to a common that's been stalled of course for quite some time they said that they discussed iran although not quite clear what came out of that we do know that both turkey and russia share similar positions on that issue they support a peaceful nuclear program there was also a question about greenpeace because of course here in st petersburg the courts have been hearing bail cases on the greenpeace activists the thirty activists who had been arrested for protesting arctic oil drilling many of them have been released on bail including a turkish citizen the issue with the turkish citizen however is that she doesn't have a to leave the country so reporter here asked whether jokingly asked whether prime minister erdogan to would take her home with him in response to that said that mr erdogan is here with his wife so he doesn't quite see how the turkish prime minister could take the activist home with him rather interesting joke there so that's pretty much what we heard not a lot of firm news developments more of

a reiteration of statements and some to cast remarks. live from st petersburg thank you very much indeed for that. with or without the prime minister greenpeace auction this won't be leaving russia just yet twenty nine . fish have now been granted as a court in st it has been decided the fate of the last of them most of the group have already been released and only one will stay detained until february and his little. it's been a roller coaster ride for the thirtieth to activists you were arrested for trying to scale a russian oil rig in the arctic now the thirty that's twenty eight of them were greenpeace activists and two of them who are journalists to where charged with piracy for trying to scale that are take a while regular the russian authorities said they put everybody on that oil rig in

danger as well as themselves and of those charges of piracy were later reduced to whole again with them charges which carry up to a seven year maximum sentence at this point they will move from merman's good to st petersburg there was an early in november where they'd be able to get diplomatic help as well as be near to their families with this environmental case has certainly caused a rift between russia as well as the netherlands of the arctic sunrise vessel which the activists were on board was a flying of the dutch flag that at this point what we do know is that the hague international maritime has been ours to take a look at the case forcing russia to release the thirty activists and we know that the activists who have been released on bail will not be able to be in petersburg they'll have to stay there as they have no legal papers to move around the country or leave the country we know that their legal fees are definitely piling up as each of them had to pay sixty one thousand to get that bail out. europe just doesn't

know what to do with his frock because of course between a public dead set against shale gas extraction and an industry how belt on and explore the options that are left to brussels that's coming up. a mile the israeli city of the not harass a late was recently voted back into power on a promise to keep in the city jewish and limit the growth of the arabic population anderson de virus and the trick of jews christians and arabs as also his policy reports now is refusing to back down. 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 to the media i'm sorry i'm the only one who does so by 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's 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 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 residents is arab it borders the biblical and much larger nazareth often called the arab capital of israel. arabs from nazareth and other villages 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 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 they think if they go extreme right. if he become 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 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. posters promise to jewish city florida gets those election campaign was soaked with racist undertones which made me dangerously close to entering israeli political mainstream was the most disturbing aspect he takes pride in us in a way a microcosm of his role in the city's battle to preserve its jewish identity is

infused with history religion and discrimination depending which side you're on. with the heat northern israel. play with. how why is the biggest island has taken that to hot place on the way here why this sunday we're treating. food companies are severely restricted to. the. economic down so let's find out all day long. and the rest would like to join the case you believe if we want to. relieve.

one of the of the new knowledge base your life you lead. player. a pleasure to have you with us today on role research or. welcome this is our c. let's move on now aside from forcing oil dry ends to file damage reports europe is

looking at more ways to regulate the frightening industry one of their heads at the e.u.'s environmental departments also cautioned against buying into the hype saying its benefits in europe would be minimal so why is there so much ill will toward fracking to understand that you've got to know how it works and first off a whole is drilled deep into the it's a cocktail a water and toxins pumped into literally dissolve rocks and release gas molecules and that's where the trouble begins because dangerous toxins some of which are radio active often contaminate local water supplies up to seventy of a percent of fracking fluids also seep into the soil around the ball remaining how's that for decades about the process releases vast quantities of greenhouse gases that are all but impossible to keep in check so these point a boycott has been following the european experiment with fracking for us. 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 that. a great culture is our lives come to grow in our soil for sure will die because we've seen what they have done in other places when they grew up in london 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 one 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's 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 held a ban against fracking because of the environmental risks involved. and more now on the european fracking experiment with someone who is on the front lines in the fight against it and joining us now is gene lambert member of the european

parliament for the u.k.'s green party ms lumbered welcome to r.t. it's good to have you with us this hour so the u.k. is in the forefront of the so-called fracking revolution in europe so why do you see your fellow british lawmakers have no problem with that. why i think what they're saying is you know an opportunity for more money coming in you know they see it as part of an economic sort of recovery. cover and therefore you know there's a real rush for gas so. therefore i think they're not really looking at sort of the long term effects and the opportunity costs that if we really sort of open the market for fracking then we're rolling back in terms of our investment in renewable energy and energy efficiency. look now at the wonders of fracking has done for the

u.s. energy sector energy market what's not to like here. well i think with the u.s. energy markets what we've seen is a real sort of almost fossil fuel bubble being created here and a real rush for investment and. the situation of course in the u.k. your opinion is very different we. in that we have other opportunities where much more highly densely populated we tend to be have much more regulation in terms of environmental impact assessment and we also have much tougher commitments on climate change so therefore you know i think there's a different sort of consciousness with in many parts of the european union right but supporters of fracking say that it will give europe what it needs in terms of energy security isn't that what the vironment all risks.

of the environmental risk is a very long term risk of course you know in terms of what happens with climate change that is they have for generations there's also the issue about what happens to our water supply fracking is highly water resource intensive there's a whole risk their. activities sort of pollute our water supply as well so they these are long term things major health effects i'm real dangers and therefore you know we really should be looking much more at the renewables side of things energy efficiency we've got more jobs to be created there that's a long term solution whereas fracking is a sort of stop it's always seen as a stopgap solution i think we could be going straight to long term sure but we know that green energy in many respects has been trumped up to be more than it is clean

get very expensive is this really the right time to experiment or do you think. well the costs are. certain parts of the renewable energy are coming down solar energy for example is now much more sort of. cheaper terrible english much cheaper there than it has been in the past and also we're looking at governments who are very willing to subsidize fossil fuels to give tax breaks to fossil fuels to nuclear energy in a way in which many of them are really reluctant to do that to renewables and therefore if we had a level playing field here i think you would be saying that we new balls are much more cost effective much less polluting and you can also really do something much more efficient at the local level as well so it's a mixture of renewables energy efficiency is what we should be doing not simply investing in yet another fossil fuel which we know is going to be

a climate change problem. of course is no secret that people in europe are not happy at all with fracking but it doesn't matter here if numbers are good probably people don't have the right to say to express their opinion or jesting. oh i think if you're looking at the finances of it you really do have to look at how it's being subsidized what of the tax breaks that government a giving to it you know how much of the profits from those energy companies is actually going to be used but for the public benefit and one of the things that we've seen in the united states where shale gas is but he has been pushed as part of a self-sufficiency solution is about three they're now looking to expand this this energy rather than even using it for their their own sort of national security security so i think the risk here is that we go in for something that we think is

going to make us more energy self-sufficient that in fact it's really for the benefit of the big companies for their profit for other people's use and we are still left them with a problem about every view self-sufficiency and we haven't had that cash back into our own economy is to help people at the local level become more energy self-sufficient and to reduce the energy that they use right jean lambert and that the from the u.k. is green party but thank you very much indeed for your time we appreciate it. now when it comes to sharing you might want to think twice before you do this in saudi arabia free hugs campaign is have been arrested that police classify their actions as exotic practices that do more harm than good find out the details on a. heart melting way to save the endangered population pile of bad as russia scientists plan to make a reverse late this summer get them out that old snow white cobs that's all of life

for you. and i will headlines this hour at least thirty three people have been killed after a supermarket collapsed in the last head of cabbage so dozens more were also injured imagine says are still working to free more people trapped in the rubble of a sick. has been launched into what caused the building to crumble but a top politician had blamed failures to meet building standards. 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 and stop the oil from seeping into the sea because of the accident are still being investigated. that are 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 humphry 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 at the damaged fukushima nuclear plant in japan have successfully removed the fuel rods from a cooling pond the company responsible for the delicate operation so the 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 they think 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 what was it actually spent on breaking the sad looks for their

owners. we're all familiar with the ongoing nuclear power caper through her she meant to you we're a 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 collected these from 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 and cleanup fund end up being used for that turns out absolutely nothing and. why is biggest island house passed one of the most stringent. laws yet bunning

genetic crawled in on its territory the mold growing modified sees is now restricted to indoor structures elizabeth has seen it from the center for food safety believes the. mood is beginning to reverberate 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 quad which severely restricts and makes the 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 passed labeling laws except they have a close in them that says that 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 healthier more pure source of food. and coming up next it's about his debate

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or sixty thousand coming. in a record setting trip. there. are numbers made. a living torch relay. on our. welcome to cross talk all things considered i'm peter in which negotiations only a week ago the prospect of a deal with around tantalizingly close the french play the role of spoiler for 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.

to cross talk around i'm joined by my guest flynt leverett in washington he is a professor of international affairs at penn state university and co-author of going to run also in washington we have time here he is a turkey and middle east analyst as well as a journalist and in paris we cross to see she's the executive director of the wisconsin project on nuclear arms control all right folks. i mean she can jump in anytime you want and i very much encourage unfledged if i go to you first in washington we almost had a deal over a week ago what are the prospects of a deal right now and what are the prospects of. the radicals on both sides of the table winning. i'm have to say i hope i'm wrong but i'm not particularly optimistic about a deal being reached being reached this week i don't think that there's been a lot of progress on.