the carrot or the stick countries that unite in praising historic deal with iran and defer on what led to the landmark agreement with the use of sanctions main point of contention also that diplomacy opened up a new path toward a world that is more secure. storage. the u.s. fails to appease skeptics at home and some allies abroad as its part and do you attract a flurry of criticism in washington and tel aviv. police used tear gas on thousands of protesters in ukraine ian capital kiev as the government breaks away from a trade deal with. it

is ten am in moscow you're watching r t with me marina joshing welcome to the program our world powers agreed on a groundbreaking deal with iran but opinions differ on what led to the long awaited success while some countries attributed the breakthrough to diplomacy others insist it's thanks to the pressure of sanctions a compromise was found are desperately boyko reports on the talks and their outcome . it's a deal that some new diplomats for a decade. and as the crucial make or break iran nuclear talks continued into the night details of how they were going were eluding the journalists camped out in geneva so we waited and waited and waited while diplomats from six world powers and iran inched their way closer to an historic breakthrough than after sixteen hours a tweet from the e.u.'s top diplomat

a deal had been done the six negotiating powers agreed to recognize iran's right to peaceful nuclear energy including its right to nuclear enrichment on the condition that its program is placed under strict control by the i.a.e.a. . as we received word of the agreement we got details to iran had agreed to reduce its uranium enrichment from twenty to a maximum of five percent used for u.s. centrifuges while halting construction of a new reactor near the town of iraq. throughout this long list of concessions iran's foreign minister still had a smile on his face in return he won for his country a partial easing of sanctions allowing to iran to regain control of billions of dollars worth of much needed funds in foreign banks we believe that it is the sanctions that have brought us to this negotiation and ultimately to the more

significant negotiation to follow for a comprehensive agreement others have stressed that it wasn't the stress of more punitive measures but diplomacy that won the day over the night in the case of these talks the fact that that the iranians have shown time after time that there is no evidence that iran's nuclear program is anything but peaceful is something that has been ignored by the western media and western governments but this despite all that iran's resilience has forced these countries to accept. enrichment and again the russians and the chinese have played a very constructive role there students of that in this suit to go to the agreement is based on the concept forward by the russian president vladimir putin iran's new president hassan rouhani is also seen as having played a crucial role in making the deal possible he came to power less than three months ago pledging to improve iran's relations with the west and i don't think sanctions

played as much of a role as a recognition by the united states and britain and other countries that we need to engage iran because iran is becoming increasingly influential this is a really bad interim agreement in six months time well it's powers and do run a set to return to the negotiating table down to ten years and then you'll see the deal signed here in the middle of the night it's just a game changer what do you like that's. some people. now despite winning praise around the globe a historic agreement failed to get our unanimous welcome in the us alone and close ally israel our washington correspondent to count takes a look at how despite diplomatic triumph the obama administration has found itself between a rock and a hard place today that diplomacy opened up a new path toward

a world that is more secure and flying in the face of president obama what was new to geneva. last night in small store. sort of in state. a safer place in an environment where israel as well as many u.s. lawmakers don't think that iran should develop nuclear technology at all the obama administration had to engage in diplomatic acrobatics to both acknowledge iran's right to peaceful nuclear energy and not acknowledge it at the same time we approach these negotiations with a basic understanding of iran like any nation should be able to access peaceful nuclear energy but because of its record of violating its obligations iran must accept strict limitations on its nuclear program that make it impossible to develop a nuclear weapon the scope and role of iran's enrichment as is set forth in the

language within this document says that iran's peaceful nuclear program is subject to a negotiation. and to mutual agreement despite the official's attempts to appease the hawks punches are flying curators it looks like we've tacitly agreed that they will be enriching for commercial purposes down the road so i think you're going to see on capitol hill again a bipartisan effort to try to make sure that this is not the final agreement another set of marco rubio called the deal quote a blow to our allies in the region who are already concerned about america's commitment to their security and quote i think a lot of people both in the middle east and on capitol hill are very concerned that this interim deal becomes the new normal opponents of the dealing with washington and abroad are already working not to let it survive the six month trial the obama administration is walking on eggshells before congress israel and its allies in the

golf as it's trying to convey a carefully worded message which is you cannot threaten war all the time in washington i'm going to check out. now ryan no the dawson believes that despite having criticism at home and abroad washington will not back out of the deal the u.s. is not going to give up on this beast you know we've got a basic old war with iran since one thousand nine hundred seventy nine and this is a major step forward and we have everybody on board yes the they're not enriching to twenty percent it has nothing to do with the skin of a nuclear weapon you know it's probably more the french who don't want to compete on the market for medical isotopes but there's been a lot of negotiation and a lot of time put in this and they're not going to throw it all away because the israelis are having a fit. while some u.s. lawmakers are also voicing concerns that iran is gaining a law while giving virtually nothing artie's venture capital host pilbeam explains

just how much to iran might be gaining in financial terms. the country can now get a hold of around seven billion dollars worth of commodities and financial assets we know that sanctions have crippled the country since their introduction so let's break down some of these figures as they were a large proportion of these numbers are going to be coming from so the country can resume trade in gold petro chemicals and auto exports and of course this will equate to around one and a half billion dollars although the countries earnings will still be greatly improved to round earnings will still be thirty billion dollars less than before the embargoes were originally introduced golding the financial sector just over four billion dollars worth of offshore funds will be frozen now this is still a tiny fraction of the one hundred billion dollars that will still be inaccessible

to iran but it does mean that the country can finally relented the global banking system once again long term or the hope is that the country can drag itself out of recession seventy five million people the iranians are struggling on a daily basis because products are so expensive there we know inflation is at forty percent long term twenty thirty years it's all about investment investment into the country has been pretty much nonexistent we know in anticipation of this deal there's already been conversations going on with the global energy companies the european u.s. ones orning to get back into the country where they've been out of it for around thirty years now really make use of those oil assets and we're always eager to find out what you think are the stories we cover so we can always go to our website r.t. dot com to take part in our online poll and let us know what you believe will come out of a groundbreaking deal with iran. demonstrators in

ukraine have attempted to take the country's government office by force but were stopped in their tracks by police spraying tear gas around fifty thousand protesters blocked central kiev outraged that authorities disrupting a trade agreement with the e.u. for now the city center has turned into a tant camp with no sign the protest will and i think here she is in the ukrainian capital for our. ukraine is divided again the decision by the government to suspend the free trade agreement with the european union polarized the country these people participating in the largest protest rally i've seen in years in kiev say that they completely disagree with this decision they say the president must be impeached at the different rally just a few hundred meters from his supporters of the president say that this decision was a bridge magic one and was the correct one the notion which is shared by many political analysts as well because looking at the possible decide not just economic disadvantage that ukraine could have suffered from just joining the free trade agreement it's easy to see why first of all there was an isolation of ukrainian

machinery factories could have cost more than one hundred billion dollars altogether the actually which a grand cannot afford at the moment so the fact is a lot more than eyes they can get close to and people tens of thousands may find themselves in the streets without work and could create a social unrest another factor which was also crucial here is that in order to be in line with the european standards ukrainian government had to increase prices for heating other tricity and gas for the ordinary population certainly this is something new in ukraine would have liked so looking at all this and other possible economic disadvantages ukraine becoming decided not to sign this deal it was looking for some sort of compensation from the european union but the european union did not offer any kind of compensations for the put the full potential economic damages and the losses essentially this is what caused the signing not to happen next week another interesting twist in a story happening during the week is that the european union in fact pointed the finger at russia accusing russia of blackmailing ukraine to sign out of this free trade deal the russian president hit back saying that in fact it was the european

union who blackmailed ukraine it would had been blackmailing ukraine all throughout the negotiation process let's have a listen to the russian president when i heard 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. exactly nine years ago hundreds of thousands of the greats took to the streets and like i want you to change their political life political life was changed back because he was not going to go integration course more than anything of the sort will happen during these protests broke or still have to wait and see. are he calmed lists of financial hurdles standing in the path of ukraine's way to the e.u. one of the fact there is name there is the rising price of gas add to back on the

cost of utilities. ok if may just find a way around it by drilling for cheaper shale gas this here ukraine signed cooperation deals with oil giant shell and chevron which could help a country lower the gas prices by as much as three times the current level but sharon wilson had to abandon her home because of on site fracking says the benefits will not cover the damage i've learned about this industry the hard way i worked for industry first and then moved out to the country and bought my own place and then i experience the environmental impacts around me there's the possibility of water contamination water depletion and many many horrible air impacts and the traffic in just a huge disturbance noise why it's been a fitting a very few people the industry and

a few large landowners and it's coming at great expense to the people who live on the land. bank of england is optimistic about growth in the u.k. bonds there are many indicators more important than g.d.p. which suggests it's far too early to celebrate war and dad coming up shortly after this break. back in the day barack obama was elected because he was deemed to be the very end to sis of george w. bush now instead of seeing differences between the two presidents we were reminded about what both have in common particularly like the poll numbers for us on this program we've got these obama serving the issues fourth term. choose your language. appealing make over the internet you want to stay still some.

choose to use the consensus to. choose the opinions that you think are great. choose the stories that impact the. truth you access to. welcome back this is our team the u.k. is slowly recovering from one of the deepest and longest financial crises to hit the country but despite moderate growth some key indicators like living standards

health and education suggest a few reasons for optimism arches laura smith reports. so the bank of england's forecasts for economic growth is on the up unemployment down it sounds great but beyond those immediate fake is a darker picture that pretty much all the measures by which we track economic progress are in decline people's real incomes falling more and more of it spent on basic essentials uniquely this generation of young people is worse educated than their parents and obesity female life expectancy and child mortality among the worst in europe so leaving economics commentator jeremy warner says growth is good but warns it's unsustainable there's not enough exports is not enough business investment in this economy now provided the economy continues to grow the hope is

that these things will eventually come through but at the moment there's no very little sign of them and you say that these key indicators say living standards education health these are all on the decline talk to me about that. yes well there are some of them were very worrying features about the u.k. economy. ever since the crisis began living standards have been under a lot of pressure real wages have been declining we've probably see. a ten to fifteen percent erosion in living standards since the crisis began part of six years ago on nance big it's never happened before. in modern history really for the first time again in modern history we are seeing a situation where people leaving the workforce and retiring are better educated than the people joining the workforce and that stat is a very worrying phenomenon for the future because any modern economy depends on continued growth and learning new skills and so on and so forth. if if you

or if your standards of education. are declining the new relative income in future relative to the rest of the world is going to decline with it so it's a very worrying phenomenon what does it all adds up to then these underlying economic into cases i mean where are we going what i think. an extreme wakeup call really i mean britain has a lot of things going for it. it's still reckoned to be one of the most open economies in the world it has the biggest global financial center in the world so there are a lot of things going for the u.k. but these underlying trends are very worrying and something needs to be done about them very very urgent warner says the government's doing some of the right things but to gingerly and ultimately unless radical action is taken in those key areas britain's economy is living on borrowed time. now afghan president hamid

karzai has refused to sign a security treaty with the u.s. until next year's presidential election and he ignored a council of elders recommendation to ratify it within the next month if the deal is sealed up to fifteen thousand u.s. soldiers will stay in the country for ten more years and they will be authorized to carry out and a terrorist operations and have the right to raid afghan homes on their exceptional circumstances plus american forces will be immune to afghan laws critics say u.s. troops will only stay there to protect their government's interests. if there are ten thousand or twelve thousand troops in this country this would mean that they will only concentrate on their own special forces activities i guess i'll. give tribal area. operations and they will bash questions of the other side. their old enemies they will not worry about the security of afghanistan they will

not worry about our internal problems they will just pay attention to what their goal is and that's that in my view america's tired of this mission they're tired of all kinds of fatigues the wars bring in that sense i don't think they have a big appetite and a larger operation in afghanistan now take a look at some of the stories from around the world in pakistan thousands have marched against u.s. drone strikes in the country is also blockaded nato supply routes and stopped trucks the demonstrations started after an islamist party asked the state government to press the west and the attacks this comes just days after a u.s. drone strike killed five in a remote tribal region. and the long banning street progress without prior police notification has been issued in egypt it's been can downed as repressive by human rights groups man who believe the measure is aimed at supporters of ousted president morsi have been staging almost daily progress since

he's removed from power in july egypt has been in turmoil since the twenty eleven uprising which deposed president mubarak. on the twenty fourth of march twenty sixth eans scotland coup becoming apparent from the united kingdom if scots voted through next year meanwhile london is laying out a huge list of problems that will follow the separation has more. should scotland be an independent country it's a six word question that requires a simple yes or no but breaking a three hundred year old doing it could hardly be simple and the scots are not taking it lightly as it stands only about thirty percent of scots say they will vote for independence a figure those in the yes camp hope to increase by presenting that much anticipated white paper which a scottish national party says has the answers to all the questions about independence the prime minister david cameron and those belong to the no cap and says that in the car this is laden with risks and problems with warnings on just

about everything scotland wants to keep the sterling pounded a currency union with the u.k. an idea dismissed by westminster taxes and debt the no camp suggests deeper and higher taxes e.u. membership london says scotland could forget about it the trident nuclear program david cameron claims getting rid of it is a bad idea in case of a north korean nuclear attack and there might even be roaming charges on mobile phones if the split happens at the list goes on it's dubbed project fear by the yes camp and they accuse the government of scare mongering scots into voting no and they'd says the white paper will prove that independence would bring about a jobs bill and a thriving economy cern's that resonate with voters cameron argued that an independent scotland will have to negotiate in the future for the things that it has right now along with the signalling that it won't be making it easy for the crux of the matter goes back to economics a recent poll found out that if independents made the five hundred pounds richer

more than half the scots would vote for reporting from london i'm tess are cilia. and coming up next here in our teeth federal health crosstalk don't go away. one member of st petersburg's legislative assembly is trying to get child beauty pageants banned in russia starting with his hometown you know i couldn't agree more with this gent on this issue these kids' beauty pageants not only put a ton of pressure on children to achieve something absolutely pointless but they're also a pedophile's dream come true and are will very very creepy but why are they creepy that's because with you like it or not human beauty is related to sex so when you try to make children beautiful and wear bathing suits let's just say active poses

yet that's called sexualizing children and it's disgusting although adult beauty pageants are also sort of stupid at least the participants are all adults so see it because beauty pageants are obviously related to sexuality should be able to participate in them until you reach the age of consent in your country otherwise it is just a pedophile buffet but that's just my opinion. hello and welcome to crossfire all things are considered on peter lavelle back in the day barack obama was elected because he was deemed to be the very end to this of george w. bush now instead of seeing differences between the two presidents we were reminded

about what both have in common particularly lagging poll numbers for us on this program we ask is obama serving bush's fourth term. to cross off the presidencies of george w. bush and barack obama i'm joined by my guest austin peterson in washington he's the c.e.o. of stone gate an editor of the libertarian republic dot com also in washington we have daniel for achi he is the director of grassroots political consulting and in phoenix we cross to kimberly i'm a day old she is the president of world money watch and author of beyond the great recession our cross-talk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want kimberly you got up early as for this program and i like to go to the person i got up earlier so kimberly simple question is obama serving george bush's fourth term. not in any way shape or form. the most important difference between

george bush and barack obama is and you're going to laugh at this but it's really true bush increased the debt six trillion obama increased to five trillion and the reason that it's worse under bush than it was under obama is because bush had he had a small recession in the beginning of his term but in his second term the economy was booming and that's when you want to cut that that you want to have contracts unary fiscal policy when the economy is booming because he kept spending he didn't cut the debt when he should have as far as the business cycle then we ended up not only with a lot of debt by the time we were in the recession which constrained our fiscal policy abilities but we also ended up with a bubble that was much bigger than it ever should have been ok if i go to austin or that's cold comfort if you're unemployed and you've lost your house on what are the

comparison and i wasn't really i'm not a big fan of george w. bush as a libertarian myself i could not defend either one and there was a time actually where i would make that argument peter where this was the fifth term of george w. bush but let me just tell you something right now president george w. bush never claimed the right to extradition really assassinate american citizens this president barack obama should be impeached for crimes against the citizens and against the constitution because he has killed women and children in drone strikes initiates double taps when he fires as drones which means the first responders come in those people are killed women and children so i just like to say that i think that history is not going to judge the presidency of barack obama and george bush in the same light whatsoever this president is heinous with his record on civil liberties he's also raised more money than wall street than any perform wall street than any president in the last twenty years seventy three billion dollars he gave to his corporate. cronies from the troubled assets relief program i think obama is way worse than bush and i am not a big fan of george w.

bush ok often you could probably be co-hosting this program i guess i don't need to sit in very much depth can you reflect upon what we've heard from good ruby and from austin their good job their off to go ahead daniel. yeah i know there is no compare and contrast between either president whatsoever this side's having a spending problem i completely disagree with kimberly statistics this president currently has spend and ballooned the debt and deficits out of control more than all presidents combined however george w. bush did spend too much but his governing style foreign policy prowess vision for the future of the country taking a set of crisis and leadership style or night and day over what president obama's are and even the graph the irony here of the last week or so of the polling numbers and politico just ran a poll showing forty six percent approval for president bush while you have thirty

seven percent for president obama it's quite an irony at this point it's a very interesting you go to the poll numbers kimberly they may be for different reasons but i mean it's obvious that the american people are very dissatisfied with barack obama with his policies and his leadership style with over half saying that they don't trust him any more i mean is this a parallel with george w. bush or is this is the fate of second term presidents. i don't think it's either one here is the big problem and you mentioned it before peter right now too many people are unemployed they've been unemployed for too long and you can't get good jobs most of the jobs that's been created are low paying retail and temporary jobs i call it the freelance economy because i know pretty much what employers have been hiring so when people and i hear plenty of people who say to be you know i don't care what obama's done i can't find a good job now what's the cause of that the cause of that is the two thousand and

eight financial crisis which occurred in two thousand and eight that's when we were that close from the entire global economy falling apart. and we have not yet recovered from that and to me that's the biggest issue that most americans care about you know look at retail spending as we're coming into the all important christmas season every just about every even wal-mart is reporting lower earnings that they're expecting every retailer is worried and it's because there's no demand demand we were doing pretty well for the last couple years but now it has fallen off a cliff and i don't care what you do there is a model here right i mean look at a small business policy can really i don't i don't mean to cut you off but you're absolutely right i want to tell you because barack obama has passed eleven thousand three hundred twenty seven pages of new regulations that have been added during his presidency forty six percent of employers.