president bruce in denies allegations blackmailed ukraine into giving up its long to e.u. trade pogge and instead claims it's europe that's been applying the pressure. in a while ukraine's opposition is finding the flame of discontent unhappy with the government's a move to integration which experts say would be a disaster for the country's economy. also as russia and turkey try to move closer to the business of pot positions on syria that take up most of the talks. and london rules it's ok to sell weapons to gulf regimes despite the full human rights records as long as

you try hard enough to sell the deals to the public. plus mixed hopes for a breakthrough deal over iran's atomic ambitions as key talks and a third day with world leaders trying to overcome major stumbling blocks. international news live from moscow this is all she with me you know thanks for joining us. who is blackmailing president vladimir putin has addressed immigrations that russia ukraine into a u. turn of its integration plans with the e.u. . standing by in the ukrainian capital kiev for us but first let's speak now to this accompany of this listening to what the russian leader had to say hello to

both of you so where do these allegations lucy come from and what did the president have to say that. hi there well russian president vladimir putin was actually meeting with the turkish prime minister here in st petersburg and he in remarks to the press accuse the european union for pressuring and putting blackmailing putting pressure on ukraine over its decision to essentially hold preparations for a trade pact with the european union now answering a question about a phone call that was reportedly made by the ukrainian president to his lithuanian counterpart in which allegedly the ukrainian president mentioned russian pressure on ukraine over the deal putin actually deflected and made a joke about the u.s. national security agency's spying scandal and its wiretapping of e.u. leaders phones let's take a listen to that comment. the ukrainian president was

talking about with his counterpart maybe we should. but so far they haven't told us anything. now president putin then accuse the european union of pressuring ukraine. when i heard some dodges found out yesterday that ukraine has suspended not cancelled but suspended negotiations with the e.u. he wants to review everything we heard from the e.u. to ukraine all the way up to organizing mass protests this is pressure and blackmailing. now mr putin also reiterated russia's a willingness to host a three way negotiations between the european union and ukraine on trade and the economy that's what we heard on that matter here in st petersburg. and say you are

in kiev right now place tell us what's happening the opposition is furious about the government's move isn't it. indeed some have had a very bitter reaction to the news that ukraine will not be signing the euro association deal next week and protests are now taking place all over ukraine they've been taking place since last night you're witnessing one of them right now at independence square the place where the orange revolution started exactly nine years ago in two thousand and four right now we can see only maybe a few hundred people but we are expecting these numbers to multiply as working hours finish here in kiev on friday we are expecting that the protests will last for friday saturday and sunday on sunday when the country officially marks the anniversary or it's evolution we're expecting maybe up to seventy thousand people to take part in the protests all across the city and in the great in general this is one part of the greatest society which is furious about the fact that ukraine will not be entering

a free trade zone agreement with the european union or the other part and this part includes some of the prominent political analysts i've heard their notions already they're saying that in fact by not jumping into this deal not taking this leap of. ukraine may have actually dodged a bullet in my report i've compiled several statements and facts about how ukraine evaded the signing this deal 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 agreement with the e.u. would be signed next week instead regarding trade ties with russia and c.i.s. was made the priority of. some stage of ascending to the top when the weather is unfavorable. the one hundred eighty degree turn around 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 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 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 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. and back to you later now what tells dominated the margins of the meeting between adeline and place him there in st petersburg. hi there well of course the focus is economic and energy cooperation the two countries

have very strong ties and that's you know this is really the annual meeting where they get to set the agenda for that on the sidelines of course syria was the main topic the main issue that we in the present been waiting for comments on the two countries basically reiterated previous. that they've stated before they've essentially agreed to disagree prime minister erdogan blamed more than one hundred fifty thousand deaths in the syrian conflict on the regime of president saddam whereas mr putin had raised the issue of a radical islamist militias that operate in the country blaming the violence on those groups another issue that actually came up we're hearing reports basically that mr putin had asked the vice on how to deal with the european union everyone had reportedly answered that this is a fifty year old process and job or replied with a request to please take turkey into the shanghai organization for cooperation another topic that doesn't deal with the middle east that was discussed as of course greenpeace here in st petersburg court hearings had continued through friday

a turkish activist who had been arrested on the greenpeace arctic drilling protest was released on bail she had problems leading the country because she doesn't actually have a russian visa and so one of the reporters here had a jokingly asked mr erdogan whether he'd be willing to take her home with him he responded with a bit of a joke pardon me mr putin responded with a bit of a joke pointing out that had a wife who was here and in that case he was not able to take a woman home with him. at least a confident line from st but as well as. from kiev thank you very much indeed for those reports thank you to have you. know to do with its frock cost between a public debt set again. and an industry held band on it or explore the

options that are left to brussels that's coming up. with or without the prime minister greenpeace activists won't be leaving russia just yet. twenty nine out of the six said sea have now been granted bail as a court in st petersburg 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 he is say with more. it's been a roller coaster ride for the thirty acting activists who 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 trying to receive for trying to scale that article oil rig the russian authorities said they put everybody on that oil rig in danger as well as themselves and other charges of piracy were later reduced to holligan ism 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 at this point what we do know is that the hague the 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 leave st 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 bailout. a report from british m.p.'s has concluded that saudi arabia is notoriously bad human

rights record is no reason to stop selling billions of dollars in weapons to the kingdom campaigners have accused the government of pondering to a despotic regimes in return for profit laura smith has more now on the controversy out there of course. it points out the ethical thailand of the u.k. having this close relationship with bahrain and saudi arabia who obviously have such poor human rights records but this is the most important thing is that the government finds new ways of selling that. so the public is actually 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. basically the government. it continues to do 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. the world's political elite to have descended on geneva amid cautious hopes a deal can be reached with iran over its uranium enrichment program and optimism about the potential agreement and evenly divided between the six countries participating in the talks which have now entered that day and. at. geneva so is there a feeling of a breakthrough can be reached this time around. well

let's take a look at where the negotiations stand right now you know. top diplomats catherine ashton who is representing world powers in negotiations with me and counterpart gerard's a reef she's said that she's got a good chemistry in talks with him they seem to be going well that they've got a good reporter and they're progressing that sort of optimism has been echoed by russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov who said that he thinks that they can hammer out a deal here and he's actually joining in these talks shortly but there has been a sense over the past few days that these talks the number of stumbling blocks still remain here it hasn't just been a case of costing the t's and dotting the i's as perhaps many people had hoped and there are sticking points now specifically one of the sticking points is the wording of the draft agreement and iran is said to be insisting that the

world powers publicly recognize its right to enrich uranium now that was a major stumbling block the previous negotiations that happened just ten days ago here they fell apart at the eleventh hour. reportedly france was said to have demanded conditions for it to be set out for iran so at the moment the mystery remains will they be able to. overcome this vital stumbling block and get down to the practicalities hammering out the details of this agreement but at the moment it looks like that mystery may not be solved today and it looks like these talks are over spilling into the weekend. point of local reporting there live from geneva paula thank you very much indeed for that update will be talking to you later thank you. and of course as it was mentioned the timing of russia and turkey discussion over iran's nuclear program coincides with

similar talks between tehran and six world powers in geneva and as the bargaining in europe and as its third day and she's debate show cross-talk points out of are the chances of a deal being struck there. unless the five plus one in particular the united states and france are willing to stick to understanding is that the radium thought they had reached verbal e on some of these issues i you know i don't think the rainy and sir 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 the deal. don't play with your food they say and how wise biggest i am and has taken back to

haunt later on the problem we have one of the retreat has genetically modified food companies and severely restricted the secular nation of jam crops. well talking about language as well but i will only react to situations i have read the reports so i'm left with the no i will leave that to the state department to comment on your latter point to save. the security of a car is on the job you know it's going to. take you know more weeks of work. when you need a direct question are you prepared for a change when you when you should be ready for a. pretty. little down the freedom to watch.

dramas that can't be ignored to. stories others use to know. for instance changing the world right. to make your day. from a good long. look to. hello again this is a move on aside from forcing all giants to file damage reports you're a prisoner can get more ways to regulate the fracking industry one of the heads at the e.u.'s environmental department 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 you've got to know how it works and first stop a whole is dro deep into the a cocktail of water and toxins have been pumped in to literally dissolve rocks and release gas molecules and that's where the trouble begins dangerous toxins some of which are raging actually often contaminate local water supplies after seventy percent of fracking fluids also sequin to the soil around the bore remaining a hazard for decades about the process releases vast quantities of greenhouse gases that are all but impossible to keep in check and lumbered and the people the u.k.'s green party tells us subsidies for the franking industry are a big part of the problem. we're looking at governments who are very willing to subsidize fossil fuels to give tax breaks to for so feels to nuclear energy in a way in which many of them are really reluctant to do that to renewables 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. now when it comes to sharing you might want to think twice before you do this in saudi arabia a pair we had campaign it up and the rest of that has police classify their actions as exotic practices that do more harm than good find out the details on our side of . the heart melting away to save the endangered population of all aback as russian scientists plan to make a grizzly this target of snow white cards that's all online for you.

the mail the israeli city of nazareth elate 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 that day bus electorate of jews christians and arabs as are. using 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 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 that 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 out of interim go to arabs from as a ref 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 built in the city but it's not going to happen on this mayor's watch in this country when they get to the. 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 there's a much a 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 forever gets those election campaign was soaked with racist undertones which many fear are now dangerously close to entering israeli political mainstream the most disturbing aspect he takes pride in the 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 elite northern israel. and let's not check some more global headlines

this hour at least thirty seven people have been killed after a supermarket collapsed in the lantern capital riga dozens more were also injured imagines his services are still working to free more people trapped into the rubble and investigation has been launched into what caused the building to crumble but a top politician had blamed their years to meet building standards. a ruptured oil pipeline has exploded in china's northeast killing twenty two people workers in the coastal city of qingdao were trying to contain that leak in the pie when the blast occurred ripping through cars and damaging buildings arias have been put up to try to stop the oil from seeping into the sea because of the accident is still being investigated. the number of people thought to have died in the typhoon bed but of the philippines two weeks ago has risen to five thousand official say aid is now starting to reach wild 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 at the damaged fukushima nuclear plant in japan have successfully removed the fuel rods former cooling pond the company responsible for the delicate operation says. dozens of the wrong bungles have been safely extracted at 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 this official accounting. and on the other side of the pacific the government also has a nuclear problem that is how to deal with its ways and twenty seven billion dollars was put aside but what was it actually spent on breaking the set looks for the arms 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 to be used 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 bathtub 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. how why is the biggest island house passed one of the most stringent food laws yet botting genetic crop experience station on its territory furthermore growing modified seeds is now restricted to indoor structures and elizabeth could see an

issue in 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 it's the second week in hawaii there's the band obviously on the big island but also another piece of legislation that was passed in kuai 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 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 more pure source of food. next state safe hands on. role iran can play in solving the syrian crisis and.

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 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 a 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 i shift my opinion.

a little come to serbia and co i'm selfish ever not say it i'm really starting from my world scare growl 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 with the west stubborn in its nuclear ambitions. the past to change will justify its goals enough to avoid an israeli strike and those who run holds the solution to ending syria's war. and our guest today is it oncet deputy

foreign minister jose i mean. because. the conservatives very happy to have you in our studio today and so i had of the upcoming geneva. it talks it's own ways trying to come up with a deal washing your eyes dances with 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 did not hear each other. well actually you run is 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 can.