the final push towards a deal. with iran. president europe. after moscow's accused of derailing an integration deal between ukraine and brussels. in the e.u. to. polish people talk to. the ukrainian government. take steps to safeguard the country's economy. and the north pole even to space. to the world's. twenty fourth.

that's still alive and well. it's r.t. for you today live from moscow with. the news team welcome to the program. there's real hope that finally some kind of deal over iran's nuclear program is close all the foreign ministers from the six negotiating world powers are changing the rules to join the talks and help overcome any remaining obstacles to a landmark agreement. with the russian delegation headed by foreign minister for off. following the talks. john kerry and william hague are expected to join the foreign ministers had that have already gathered in geneva and certainly a sense that a deal is imminent we've had security beefed up around the intercontinental hotel

that's just behind me yesterday we were reporting from right outside of it today we've had to be pushed back and we are here with the russian delegation normally that affords you extra access an extra information but these talks have been shrouded this time around in a must say of degree kristie the negotiations taking place behind closed doors and that generalizations are extremely wary of any leaks coming through into the media before pen is put to paper and that deal is signed but we have heard from a chinese official that the talks all entering the final moments and certainly all the signs pointing to that we've had to progress on not sticking points that we've been talking about for the past two days of iran's insistence on the recognition of its right for your a medium enrichment apparently that's been overcome in the draft

of the agreement we know that coming into these negotiations iran has already made a number of concessions according to reports they've already agreed to stop enriching uranium to five percent so what are they getting in exchange well we should be receiving limited relief from economic sanctions but take for months now this is a deal that has eluded diplomats for over a decade but certainly all the signs the security the foreign ministers flying in the sea kristie around the talks today pointing to possibly a deal being hammered out today and we're going to be watching it very closely and bringing you all the details as it happens. another obstacle to a long awaited deal is that israel's staunch opposition to any compromise position is impacting on the negotiating stances of france and america. voted john limbert

before my us deputy assistant secretary of state for iran he was also among the diplomats held hostage in tehran over thirty years ago he says just as a ron has grown more flexible iran has grown more hardline but we've seen i think in the last three or four months since the election of president president rouhani and since some of the statements of the support of the supreme leader is i think a change of direction and a serious change of direction in terms of joining the international community but my israeli friends tell me is within israel itself there's a lot of controversy over the issue of iran and what should israeli what should the israeli stand be and some of the more extreme stands that are coming that coming out which oppose any any deal are creating concern and is concern in israel a lot of people are quite have been criticizing the prime minister look what. prime

minister netanyahu seems to be asking for is not a negotiated deal but in fact an iranian surrender where they are pressured into simply giving giving up well that's that's not a negotiation that's a so that's a surrender and if you get if you do squeeze somebody so hard that they surrender such an it such an agreement simply isn't going to last and here it all three will be following the progress of the nuclear talks in geneva throughout the day both on air and online dot com also on our web site we're asking you about the prospects of an agreement you can go there and have your say. now in the program the e.u. has accused russia of blackmailing ukraine into ditching plans for european integration and joining a regional customs union instead moscow however says kiev was scared away by the e.u.'s political and economic pressure discontent over the abandoned trade told

between kiev and brussels reached the streets of the ukrainian capital thousands joined a second day of protest despite the government insisting a deal would have devastated the country's economy. has a look at the broken expectations. back to square one for ukraine's politics or kiev central square to be precise in two thousand and four the orange revolution started here gives independence square the event which dramatically changed political life in ukraine and set it on the euro integration course nine years later the square is filled with people again only this time they are here because their president took a turn around well these protesters have been furious with the decision. for an independent ukraine we have to fight for tomorrow other people believe ukraine may have in fact dodged a bullet. the decision to suspend the preparation of signing the association

agreement and zone of free trade with the e.u. is the only one possible in the current difficult economic situation which we now have in ukraine do you have a delusion that life will be better in the e.u. talk to polish people talk to gary and right now the e.u. is you know kind of a death spiral may be you has little right now to offer craning hours after the korean government's decision reports emerged that unocal beach told his lithuanian counterpart in a phone call that russia economically blackmailed kiya out of signing the deal with the european union. i don't know what the ukrainian president was talking about with his lithuanian counterpart maybe we should all scar american friends about that well if saying that ukraine would not enjoy trade benefits with russia if it formed a free trade zone with the e.u. is blackmail how would one describe these statements by european officials i disagree that the agreement could be signed later it would be very difficult

because too much risk is involved ukraine has missed a chance to remove the main obstacle in its way through integration with the e.u. . when i heard some dodges found out yesterday that ukraine has suspended not canceled but suspended negotiations with the e.u. he wants to review everything we heard a threat from the e.u. to ukraine all the way up to organizing mass protests this is pressure and blackmail that having received no promise of compensation for potential economic damages from aligning with the e.u. give wants to create a three party commission with brussels and moscow to find a way to alleviate those losses which suggest unocal which has merely suspended not council the association strife the opposition meanwhile says it will continue taking people into the streets and demands that the president is impeached. reporting from kiev in ukraine just a short while ago i spoke with political analyst to me to babiche he believes the

e.u. never truly presented a realistic offer to ukraine this agreement is not on the ukraine's membership in the is just some kind of an association agreement which a lot of people say will be bad for the ukrainian economy at least in the short term at least during their next two or three years and ukraine is in a very difficult situation right now it's in a recession well i think that it became clear to the ukrainian president that if you signs their deal he is not going to get anything financially the e.u. so basically office thinks. tangible you know it doesn't offer immediate economic benefits it says that ukraine at some point in the future will have access to the e.u. markets but when will this happen. and online we've lined up the reasons why i decided against the european integration at r.t.

dot com you can share your thoughts on this story in the comments section. now it's been to the north pole even into open space but now the olympic torch for the twenty fourteen winter games in sochi has reached new depths it's plunged down into the world's deepest lake siberia's lake by cow and artie's james brown was there to see it. you're watching the climax of this very special torch lake baikal where the olympic flame is making history and once again it's been lit on the water by a team of three and now it's been given to the to the named by call who even without his wings is happily flying with the torch and his job is to take it to the shore where it will light up the olympic cauldron. a fitting climax to a spectacular show one of russia's most beautiful national landmarks.

it's good to have you with us today here on are still ahead for you this hour braced. fascist activists travel to the city to commemorate the death of a colleague twenty years ago. plus cracking down on the. washington considers putting a price on protest by america's old powerful oil lobby. to keep interest rates at zero percent he's helping to increase america's debt load until such time as the debt bubble pops everyone who is or the dad the bankers include bernanke on the size of the debt issues they don't make money based on profits and losses they make money based on the size of the debt they issue so in

a car is a debt issue a quantitative easing is debt issue getting the job of the donalds put yourself into debt that gives fees to the bankers it destroys the economy it destroys society it destroys everything but the fees for the bankers. this immediately so we leave the people. of the same motion to the. the way the party is it. shows that no one is as good with the guests that you deserve this is from. politics.

it's our to live from moscow several thousand people are expected on a march in berlin to remember an empty fascism activist murdered in the early ninety's germany's still striving to ban far right parties through no political and social views the country is certainly trying to forget. as the story the horrors of germany's history with the fall rice are perhaps no better illustrated than here in central berlin at the memorial to those who were murdered during the holocaust on saturday there with potentially going to see clashes between like neo nazis and anti functions streets both here and in other cities around the country now here and it's taking part in the memorial to the murder of a county fascist activist who was stabbed to death in a metro station twenty one years ago now in the past that house resulted in clashes between the far right and the far left now to find out

a little bit more about the role of the fall right in how they still exist in modern germany i'm joined by dr gideon bosch thank you very much a historian and political scientist now. we stood next to the holocaust memorial perhaps there is no more poignant memorial to the horrors of naziism how much do these neo nazis relate to the dictatorship of the one thousand nine hundred forty s. . definitely proud of this regime and so i want to establish a rule comparable to that so we know who all these people where do they come from within society i mean you look around in germany the reminders are still there of the the suffering of the german people. how can people turn towards images like this will stick it it's very different. to this movement very different ways

to get in touch with them but we find them many cases we find a fascination of national socialists they want to as they are really fast fascinated by hitler. and they do not believe they don't believe in what they. view of the ministry thank you very much that was dr gideon bush a political scientist in historian speaking to me about modern day neo nazis and fascism here in germany throughout the day i'll be bringing you updates on what's going on here on r.t. well there were unfortunate echoes of. the match a group of supporters lang out of. a passing resemblance to a swastika the full story online for you right now. by the name of uncounted dead that's how they'll stay in the u.s. congress rejects attempts to force intelligence services to admit how many people are being killed in drone strikes or find out why the web site right now.

good to have you with us thanks for sharing your saturday here on r t the shale gas boom in the u.s. has prompted congress to make amendments to the first amendment freedom of speech and assembly might now come with a price tag certainly when it comes to staging an anti fracking protest if the new legislation becomes law the fined for speaking out could be five thousand dollars guy in a church you can't report. when romania granted the us or giant chevron more than

a million acres of land to drill for shale deposits thousands of romanians took to the streets to protest they soon found out there was little they could do to protect their soil. in holland farmers stood up against chevron to fight fracking to no avail fracking pumps a high pressure cocktail of water sand and chemicals on the ground to release shale gas from bedrock environmentalists say it has the potential to trigger earthquakes as well as pollute the groundwater and the surrounding countryside the problems with shale gas mining in poland is a question of secretiveness and kind of not telling people the real truth about what's going on and not always telling never telling the other side the downside and i discovered this to be true with the polish government and poor old polish authorities because they are in fact on the side of these big corporations walski

partly shot his documentary drill baby drill in poland he says polish state television refused to baucus that you know normal people. can get the information to fight against these could be corporations and the normal people you know do the middle class people their objective is really to protect the land here to protect their place and the chevron. the corporations are here to exploit the land and they're going to leave but the farmers will be here and this is really what the fight is about us energy giant drilled both abroad and at home and congress has been more than helpful to them domestically this week the house of representatives passed a bill that would impose a five thousand dollars fee on anyone wishing to stage an official protest against the drilling project. to become law the bill also needs to make its way through the senate before being sunk by the president this is. pathetic sad silly attempt by industry to squelch democracy opponents of fracking on both sides of the

atlantic or even more fearful about the future of the democratic process as their governments and major corporations negotiate free trade agreements like the one between the u.s. and the e.u. that would effectively enable american companies to bypass european courts and challenge e.u. governments international tribunals whenever they felt that laws in the areas of public health the environment or social protection interfere with their profits and the opponents say it would give trans nationals even greater access to their soil and leave the people with a little less say about their land than a check on our team. twenty minutes past the hour here in moscow afghanistan's leader ahmed karzai is putting the brakes on a treaty which would allow american troops to stay in the country after twenty fourteen washington wants a quick deal but karzai says any agreement should only be ratified after next year's afghan presidential elections in the meantime elders from across the country

a currently debating whether to back the accord and he will activist brian becker says president karzai is in a very delicate position. karzai is worried of course that he owes his existence to the presence of the american forces that have kept him in power and yet at the same time he knows that millions of afghans resent our angry indignation about the fact of the united states government has run roughshod over their country for the last twelve years what the united states is proposing is that the united states will maintain military bases and soldiers in afghanistan for a quarter of a century twenty twenty four is almost a quarter of a century after the two thousand and one invasion this is a clear instance of a colonial relationship where the united states invades and occupies a country uses various pretexts and then maintains military bases so that ultimately whoever is the government after cars i the us will be the determine or

the real power in afghanistan welled up a time here on the program some of the global headlines for you in brief egypt a lot of clashes between supporters and opponents of the muslim brotherhood have left three people dead including a ten year old boy a police intervened firing into the air and showering the crowds with tear gas the rally one hundred days since security forces disposed of major demonstrations by supporters of the ex president killing hundreds in the purse. a twin bomb blast that killed at least five and injured eighteen in pakistan's city of karachi the explosive devices were hidden on motorcycles cafes and no one has taken responsibility for the blasts which were in an area where both sunni and shia communities co-exist. a mosque marking the fiftieth anniversary of the assassination of president john f. kennedy so protests and scuffles with police demonstrators chanting the cia killed j.f.k. accuse the government of covering up the real story behind the president's death

they also used the occasion to claim freedom of speech is under attack in america a memorial ceremonies were held in the city of dallas. kennedy was fatally shot. the u.k. should do more to explain why it's selling billions of pounds worth of weapons to authoritarianism in saudi arabia and bahrain the view of a report by british m.p.'s which concluded the poor human rights records of the nations wasn't a good enough reason to stop selling their moms laura smith investigations 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 it is 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 and not necessarily doing anything about those concerns and issues so for example the committee says that there is

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 have any purpose at all now the campaign against the arms trade is not impressed with that excuses the foreign affairs committee is providing cover basically for the government as it says it continues to pander to despicable regimes in the service of arms contracts particularly for the arms manufacturer so basically what this report is doing is recognizing the hypocrisy but not doing anything about it as a representative of the campaign against the arms trade believes the government's attempting to whitewash its times with despotic regimes. there is

a wrong attitude by the british government because it is they're always saying we've got to understand the saudis with quarter pounder to them with to try to understand that point of view that we will have influence over them if we take the extra steps if we sell them weapons if we try to foster good relationships we say that that's just the wrong way around you should put human rights human rights the saudis human rights and he expects workers in saudi arabia and of course in bahrain as well they should be at the center of the u.k. government policy it shouldn't be about selling arms it should be about supporting the human rights and that's the problem with this report human rights takes very much a second place to commercial interests and particularly to the interests of the big companies well thanks for watching today here on r.t. i'm rory sushi soon in a half an hour us of a valid is here and i'll go making mincemeat out of the world's money makers max kaiser because a report just

a sec. and 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 government what 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. 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 get the stuff back into the educational system but that's just my opinion. terrorists are simply a bad groups of people throughout the world no different than say a motorcycle gang or what have you that are involved in bad activities you're not going to solve that problem by invading countries overthrowing governments and occupying countries that's the solution madson saying if you're going to win it with good police work and intelligence gathering that's how you'll defeat terrorism

they are just simply little pockets of bad people throughout the world you have to deal with and creating an empire an occupying nations with your military is not the answer. welcome to the kaiser report imax kaiser you may have heard that absent m. has begun paying alcoholics and cans of beer that's right and exchange for a five cans of beer a pack of tobacco and ten year olds the alcoholics clean parks the streets the city's aim is to keep the drunks occupied so that they can no longer cause trouble in the parks and indeed one of these alcoholic park workers said that the structure has kept him out of trouble but that if it weren't for the beer he wouldn't bother

showing up at all i know you're thinking you're thinking that this sounds a whole lot like the policy of quantitative easing and you'd be right by central banks keep the debt a whole it's be at least spending by giving them a seemingly free lunch of low interest rate credit crack. one could think of q e as meals on wheels for over leveraged consumer holiday debt addicks of course feeding the addiction merely hastens the addicks demise but alas it keeps the addict da sile in the meantime is not correct max they're trying to keep us dead aholic so out here dose cyle of course with all this quantitative easing it apparently free money that's the important thing they feel like we're getting a free lunch so we stay quiet and we keep consuming or keep consuming debt at least now here's the first headline about quantitative easing what car salesman ben bernanke he said at dinner last night so this is simon black of sovereign man and

he was at a dinner with the national economy club and ben bernanke was the guest of honor he said at one point during the evening when pressed about whether his quantitative easing program was good for wall street at the expense of main street he being ben bernanke he flat out denied it saying that such a premise is simply not true he defended his printing eighty five billion dollars per month suggesting that fixing interest rates as zero is beneficial for society because among other things it allows people to buy cars right well and allows people to go into debt into ever deeper debt and it's funny because this idea of giving out all of the amsterdam's beer to keep them docile and keep them cleaning up the park clean up their their open air prison it reminds me of wal-mart and mcdonald's it was reported this past week that they themselves are out there giving the equivalent of a couple of beers to their employees to have him come into the store and perform menial label labor and slave labor so this amsterdam model is being picked up by

the likes of wal-mart amsterdam the people that work at those companies they don't have enough salary to maintain a living wage there are probably homeless a lot of them live in the parking lots outside of wal-mart mcdonald's they don't actually can afford homes. what you're talking about is that wal-mart they're asking customers to donate food for their employees and at mcdonald's they issued a notice for employees to how to keep yourself from feeling hungry by chopping up your food in little or bits and spreading it out over today exactly how is that different than just giving drunks beer to shut them up and of course the americans are quiet about it they don't mind being treated like a drunk in the park they love it so there we have it is that ben bernanke he confessed that what he wants was there are races to encourage the addicts to buy a car with using debt remember the car loans in america they're stretching out up to ten years now it's like longer longer used to be like two or three years the.