high hopes for his story deal with the run over the country's nuclear approach as top diplomats gather in geneva to remove the last remaining hurdles in the three part document. as ukraine again is jumping into bed with the u. and coaches up to russia instead rockfalls accuses moscow leveling while president putin says it was europe using the dirty tricks. and the olympic torch is on another leg of an epic journey to salt plunging to the bottom of the deepest lake on earth after a concrete open space. hello

and welcome to twenty one years of life from moscow i am of our top story. and there is an air of an exile in geneva where a long anticipated deal on iran's nuclear program could potentially be signed although foreign diplomats and the iranian delegation sound optimistic any further details about just what's happening have been almost impossible to extract paula boyko is there for us right now and she joins us now live from geneva so poorly what's going on there where you are are the parties any closer to reaching the deal . well iran's foreign minister the result has just said that the agreement being discussed here today consists of three stages now he also said that he can assure that if an agreement is signed today it will contain that public recognition of iran's right to the radium in the richmond

but these talks to you are taking place. behind closed doors they really are shrouded in secrecy clearly the delegations here don't want any leaks to get out into the media before an agreement is hammad out and pen is put to paper. and tells to have been sent had been said prior to the negotiations only. all the foreign ministers before they went into negotiations this morning really expressed the same notion announce that there are still gaps that remain that need to be bridged a breakthrough is possible but it is not guaranteed now i spoke to russia's deputy foreign minister a little bit earlier and he explained to me that the one crucial remaining sticking point here is the irak heavy water facility in iran which could produce weapons grade plutonium now he also told me that remarks made

a little earlier and leaks in the mainstream media that we're pinning the blame on the lack of progress on iran on constructive according to the russian side but these talks are getting very he said right now all the foreign ministers looked into brutal talks as we found out this is a three stage agreement potentially but we're going to see and find out if it's going to turn into a real deals we're going to be watching it very closely and bringing you the latest absolutely archies line from geneva thank you very much indeed pauli. it's israel's staunch any deal which has cost a dog shadow over the talks in boxing on the american and french stances under we spoke to jointly by the former u.s. deputy assistant secretary of state for iran who was among the diplomats held hostage during the notorious crisis of the u.s. embassy in tehran more than thirty years ago and he believes it's not to run which

has become more hardline we've sheave 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 by 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 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 mohamed has done conny professor of international relations and the man said to king of asked into iran says the deal should not affect iran's right to enrich uranium bun important issue here or you are talking about a negotiation is that you are in invites for ingres meant according to article four n.p.t. this is in the end of adroit and i quote in a bit of adroit for every signatory of n.p.t. toured asserts devil of. nuclear technology so in response is surely included in this whole process. and of course we'll be following the progress of the nuclear talks in geneva through the day today on air and online at

. and also on our website where asking you about the prospects of an agreement go there to have your say on the show. the e.u. has accused russia of blackmailing ukraine interdiction plans for european integration and joining a wage an all customs union instead moscow however says care was scared away by the political and economic pressure is going to end where they abandoned trade talks between king of and brussels materialized on the streets of the ukraine capital crowds gathered for a second day of protest by the government insisting a deal would have devastated the country's economy and it looks now at the broken expectation. back to square one for ukraine's politics or kiev central square to be precise in two thousand for 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 we were ignorant independently writing to write for tomorrow other people believe ukraine may have in fact dodged a bullet. you decision to suspend the preparation of signing the association agreement zone a free trade with the e.u. is the only one possible in the current difficult economic situation which we now have in ukraine. will be better that you talk to. polish people talk to. right now the e.u. is in a. kind of a death spiral the e.u. has little right now to offer grain hours after the korean government's decision reports emerge that unocal which told his list we. counterpart in a phone call that russia economically blackmailed key of 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 of 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. because when i heard so and i just found out yesterday that ukraine has suspended not cancelled 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 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 there's also has been gathering expert analysis on how kids could benefit from signing potential trade pact and here's what we had. the opportunity to be part of an absolutely huge free trade zone it's a fantastic idea but the problem we really have is that already the european union model has been deeply compromised by the addition of countries that weren't ready such as bold garia and rumania the european union itself really has to concentrate on its own internal economic problems to say that this is a sort of with an unexpected totally unexpected move is very strange because of course you can quest to balance and see whether it's interesting as well. as for

example the european union to dictate to greece. or to perth to grow it to other countries and impose a state or two and franzen's and millions of people losing their jobs. i think that it became clear to the ukrainian president which that if you signed their deal he was not going to get anything financially the e.u. so basically office things which are not changeable you know it doesn't offer immediate economic benefits of that ukraine at some point in the future will have access to the e.u. markets but when will this happen. and on our website will be lined up to find reasons why a key is decided against the european integration go to auntie dot com to share your thoughts and the comments section that. thousands of

people spilled out to much in cities across germany to commemorate and on to function activists murdered in the early ninety's the government has is on a chris a gay is the views promoted by far right groups on of or is that the event in for us right now that piece as they were fears all violence breaking out as the has there been any signs of that. we. know it's all gone off relatively peaceful so far here in this march by anti far the anti fascist group is basically one of the the major events of the winter periods here in berlin for the anti fascist and far left movements in the past we have seen counter demonstrations by by far right it's a neo nazi greece but none of that seems to be to be taking place a certain where i am right now the march cheer is just getting underway now it's

a march the reason that they march on this day is it's now the this is the anniversary of the brutal murder of silvio meyer who is a left wing activist he was stabbed to death in a pearl an underground station twenty one years ago and that's why the anti fascist groups take place and take part in this march but it's not just on sci fi shows them that we've seen them demonstrating against not just on the fascism here in germany they're also campaigning against what they see as a brutal right wing regime rising up in hungary and they at that suppressing poor people they are also people out campaigning against the gap between the rich and the poor and as what usually happens at these type of events people railing against what they see as the terrorism of capitalism. he's put on a line from a bell and peter thank you very much. on the greatest high stakes trainloads after being taken on a historic walk in space to sochi twenty fourteen olympic torch has now plunged and

the depths of the deepest lake in the wild like made by cullen siberia james brown witnessed the dive. you're watching the climax of this very special. where the olympic flame is making history and once again it's been. on the water by a team of three and now it's been given 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. to a spectacular show. and ahead for you this hour here now say the u.s.

oil will be well and truly will sell some. of those. extreme expensive and federal regulation as a thing of the past time to boys coming to the. very . fact that they're.

of the. this is aussie welcome by nick berg testing could soon become a thing of luxury at any drill site in the united states catch a sea of new laws code crafted by the oil lobby aside from forcing demonstrators to shell out five thousand dollars for a riley apartment the bill would also excuse the federal government from regulating

the fracking industry magic trick and explains. when romania granted the u.s. oil 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 poland farmers stood up against chevron to fight fracking to no avail fracking pumps a high pressure cocktail of water sand and chemicals the underground to release shale gas from the bedrock environmentalists say it has the potential to trigger earthquakes as well as pollute the groundwater and the surrounding countryside the problems with show it 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 a polish government and proposal thirty's 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 broadcast that you know normal people. can get the information to fight against the corporations and the normal people you know 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 signed by the president this is. pathetic sad silly 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 and 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 transnationals even greater access to their soil and leave the people with even less say about their land going to check on our team. and dr attorney general alberto the leading environmentalist towns as they'll be a serious price to pay in the future makes more money for some people in the short

term and those people happen to have very powerful leverage over government institutions this is not about whether this is a better energy source or not in an economic sense it's basically a rigged market the environmental costs are not being paid for by the shale gas companies therefore we get a full solution as to this being a cheap energy source when in fact it's only cheap now because we're passing on the costs of it being used into the future for our children and grandchildren indeed we're already beginning to see some of the costs of this kind of energy being used in the in the present and that hurricane that hit the philippines a couple of weeks ago is an example of the kind of extreme weather conditions that we can expect to accompany rapid warming of the misfire. there's been an unusual twist in the political career one as rainy mad as his critics say he's political paul plumber should have landed him in jail for racism not in the hot seat we do

all the accusations always wrote plunging into radically. and ambitious plans will three d. printers as medics hope to use the technology will be no rudin's market starting with human hearts the full details to get on. the president on afghanistan will on sunday telling national meeting of elders to put off signing a security deal with the u.s. until holway through next year washington has put pressure on hamas to push through the agreement that would allow american troops to stay on afghan soil beyond twenty four saying but has been digging in his hails saying any quartered only bad grade after next year's presidential elections and he will accept his run back and says khan's i has to carry out a tough balancing act the elders assembly is largely handpicked i mean they're not supposed to make their decision until sunday but i think it's very likely that they

will approve signing the deal although we don't know that with certainty anything could happen but just think of it if you would 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 an occupies a country uses various pretexts and then maintains military bases so that ultimately whoever is the government after karzai the us will be the determine or the real power in afghanistan. now for some more global headlines for you this hour violent clashes have broken out in the turkish capital between riot police and protesters angry at planned changes to the educational system security forces despite demonstrators using tear gas and water cannon the government wants to close a type of education is situation that paired students for high school exams saying

it will replace them with private schools the typical may cost more money. for the song now where two bombs have ripped through a bustling area of qur'an killing at least seven people the devices were placed on motorbikes left in a larger share area of the city before they exploded outside cafes and street stalls the military and police have been placed on high alert no group has claimed responsibility for the. scuffles broken out between protesters and police in dollars during a rally to log fifty years since the assassination of president john f. kennedy in the city some held signs blaming the cia for his death others yell slogans in support of the freedom of speech the demonstration came hours before a large official event was held in memory of the former president near the street where he was. a lot of us have gathered outside a collapsed supermarket and at the start of three days of national mourning fifty

two people are now full to have died in the accident emergency services pick through the rubble for a second night but found no survivors a criminal inquiry has begun to walk out why the building collapsed. thousands of people have rotted in the spanish capital to denounce the latest round of austerity measures they also came out against a proposed new law that would find citizens for taking part in an authorised protest and installed police officers under the legislation demonstrating outside parliament without permission could result in a six hundred. i don't i find. the number of people killed and friday's oil pipeline explosions in the north east of china has risen to forty seven more than one hundred people were injured the company responsible for maintaining the pipes in qingdao say saved by the blast happened because of it a public apology incident authorities say was about clearing out

a lodge went to explosions reinforced concrete island over it three cars. breaking the site is up next but if you're watching us and break stay with us for a short time seizing new underground. 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 say boo 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 get the stuff back into the educational system but fascist my opinion.

and friday people on abby martin and this is breaking the sat well looks like big brother is a reared its ugly head again this time in oakland again this tuesday the oakland city council approved a resolution to go for the creation of a domain awareness center that sounds innocent enough but in reality the center would be a surveillance hub for oakland police align them to monitor the city's video cameras gunshot attackers and license plate readers being from oakland and experiencing firsthand the brutality from the police against peaceful protesters let's just say that oakland residents aren't going to let this happen without putting up a fight in fact the issue has been so contentious among the people that tuesday's city council meeting had to be cleared out by police after protesters continually shouted down the council members discussing the bill now the city council has to find a new contractor to help build the center because their original company science

apply applications international has deep ties of the nuclear weapons industry which is against oakland city law so not only is oakland potentially violating fourth amendment rights by creating the hub in the first place but the city council can't even abide by its own city logs of course city officials maintain that the center would only be used in times of emergency such as major fires and earthquakes but many activists have a more realistic perspective and see oakland's awareness center as a pilot program for the creation of surveillance hubs in other cities across the country and based on the never ending revelations surrounding the national peeping tom agency i tend to agree with them now let's break the stat. the please please please take and leave very hard to take a. look at the life that he ever had sex with that her

hair looking. like. the international union for conservation of nature has officially declared the western black rhinoceros extinct the subspecies of the black rhino is the only the latest example the disappearance of the world's most exotic and precious animals is a rhino horns and elephant tusks ivory is highly valuable in black markets around the world and poachers will go to extra room or lengths to kill these animals including the poisoning of their water holds with deadly cyanide to give you some

perspective of the decline there were roughly one point two million african elephants on the earth in one thousand eight hundred today that number is dropped to around four hundred twenty thousand so while they break down the spectacle ivory trade and how we can reverse the trend of extinction i was joined earlier by elie weiss president and founder of the wild eyes foundation i started by asking her how widespread the poaching industry is and why it continues to grow on abated. well it's it's international it's hugely widespread and it's been able to grow unabated because it's so. risk free relatively or it. being caught and taking the risk takes a long time the laws in in country in africa where the elephants the range states they are not geared toward prosecution and strong sentences so a lot of work is being done today to increase this ability of the magistrates and

the ministers to collect accountable evidence that is can be produced in court so it's a lot of training and it's increasing the strings and stringency of the laws last month were discovered that poachers killed three hundred elephants through cyanide poisoning in zimbabwe how does something like that happen without any oversight by authorities injury expect to see more types of these kind of drastic actions taken by poachers well if i'm not going to say it's without oversight of the authorities i mean each country each nation has a different set of rules and security situations for their perks so poachers and the syndicates are very very savvy we're not talking about the poachers who could come in and shoot an elephant and bury it and you know a one off guy this is highly highly organized they're highly trained against using high tech weapons and they constantly show.