the carrot or the stick countries that unite in praising this story deal with iran differ on what led to the landmark agreement with the use of sanctions the main point of contention also. that the policy 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 it's part of a do you attract a flurry of criticism in washington and tel aviv. police used tear gas and sounds of protesters in the ukrainian capital kiev as the government breaks away from a trade deal with the e.u. right now you're looking at live pictures from kenya as riot police move in on the

crowds. this is going to live in moscow with me marina. world powers agreed on a groundbreaking deal with iran but opinions differ on what led to the long awaited success while some countries attribute the breakthrough to diplomacy others insist it's thanks to the pressure of sanctions a compromise was found records on the talks and their outcome. it's a deal that say you did diplomats for a decade. and as the crucial make or break iran neatly a talks continued into the night details of how they were going for leading 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 to 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 street controlled 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 use u.s. centrifuges while holding construction of a new reactor near the town of iraq this week throughout this long list of concessions iran's foreign minister still had a smile on his face and red sand he won for his country a partial easing of sanctions allowing to volunteer regain control of billions of

dollars worth of much needed funds and find 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 he was going to be a program that anything like 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. the geneva accord was the result of the goodwill shown by the six nations and the european union and the hard work of the negotiations team

rounds 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 edging to improve iran's relations with the west and i don't think that 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.b.c. and the interim agreement in six months time well its powers and iran are set to return to the negotiating table i don't think he is a big. deal signed here in the middle of the night it's a game changer what he'd like to see some people. despite winning praise around the globe a historic agreement failed to gather unanimous welcome in the u.s. let alone as close ally israel or washington correspondent granted she can take

full 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 true to geneva. last night in small store. so the store still. does not mean a safe 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 batiks 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. 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 obtain the hawks hunches are flying security cameras 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 senator 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 norm opponents of the deal in 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 coffins 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 ryder ryan dothan 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 piece you know we've basically. hundred seventy nine and this is a major step forward and we have everybody on board. they're enriching to twenty percent and they do it a scare a nuclear weapon here that was probably more the french who don't want to compete with 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. well some u.s. lawmakers are also voicing concerns that iran is gaining a lot while giving a virtually no saying venture capital explains just how much to iran why beginning 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 rand's 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 up forty percent along 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 us 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. meanwhile a striking a deal with iran has been prevented to

a g q magazine from naming the u.s. president among the top twenty five least influential people of the year later today in crossed off people of al and his gas discuss barack obama's plummeting popularity figures and here's a taste of what's to come. on this program we ask is obama serving bush's fourth term it's really it's not going to judge the presidency of barack obama and george bush in the same light whatsoever i think obama is way worse than bush and i am not a big fan of george w. bush there is no compare and contrast between either president whatsoever besides having a spending problem 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. riot police are firing tear gas at protesters in ukraine these are latest pictures from the capital kiev demonstrators are angry at the government which suspended in

association deal with the european union police have surrounded the crowds trying to prevent violence but some scuffles have already taken place for now it doesn't look like the crowd is going anywhere of course here and he will keep watch on what's happening there for you here gas was used yesterday as well as angry crowds attempted to storm the government building for now protesters have set up camp in the the city center was no sign that the protest will and sued. in the creating capital for. 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 brick magic one and was the correct one the notion which is shared by many political

analysts as well because looking at the possible disadvantages economic disadvantage such a great could have suffered from just joining the free trade agreement it's easy to see why first of all there was an isolation of the korean machinery factories could have cost more than one hundred billion dollars altogether the actually which ukraine cannot afford at the moment so the fact is a lot more denies they can get closed and the 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 our trysting gas for the ordinary population certainly this is something few in ukraine would have liked so looking at all this and other possible economic disadvantages ukraine's economy 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 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 have 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 although we have to organizing mass protests this is pressure and blackmail. exactly nine years ago hundreds of thousands of the greats took to the streets only. to change their political life political life was changed back to the country was set on the integration course anything of this sort will happen during these protests both boys will have to wait and see. party dot com

melissa financial hurdle is standing in the path of ukraine's way to the e.u. one of the factors named there is their rising price of gas and its impact on the cost of utilities. can have may just find a way around it by drilling for cheaper shale gas this here in ukraine signed cooperation deals with oil giants shell and chevron which could help the country lower the gas price by as much as three times the current level but sharon wilson who had to abandon her home because of onsite 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 all 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 knowing 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. the bank of england is optimistic about growth in the u.k. but there are many indicators more important than g.d.p. which suggest it's far too early to celebrate war and that coming up shortly. plus the president and the pope fly more importance on a visit to the vatican as part of a state trip and a sign that the two rival churches are now getting along much better where we live in rome shortly stay with us. this is the place that has been consecrated to god for almost

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be in. the book about 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 few reasons for optimism are just laura smith reports . say the bank of england's four costs for economic growth is on the up unemployment is 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 bowling more and more of it spends on basic essentials uniquely this generation of young people is worse educated than that parents and obesity female life expectancy and child mortality among the

worst in europe still needing 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 true but at the moment it's low very little sign and you say that these key indicators to living standards education health these are all on the decline talk to me about that. yes well there are some other were very worrying features about the u.k. economy. ever since the crisis began living standards have seen under a lot of pressure a 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 nets

big it's never happened before. in multan 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's that is a very worrying phenomenon for the future because any more of an economy depends all. continued growth and learning new skills and so on and so forth. if you'll get fuel standards of education all to colliding then your relative income in the 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 we go with 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

that a lot of things going 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 time. now president hamid karzai has refused to sign a security treaty with the us until next year's presidential election he ignored a council of elders recommendation to ratify within the next month and if city deal is sealed up to fifteen thousand u.s. soldiers will stay in the country for tan warriors and they will be authorized to carry out at a terrorist operations and have the right to raid afghan. that's this 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. 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 it in my view americans are tired of this mission tired of all kinds of fatigue the wars bring in that sense i don't think they have a big appetite and a larger operation in afghanistan. that's not the stories from around the world now in pakistan thousands have marched against u.s. drone strikes in the country protesters also will cave in nato supply routes and stop trucks demonstrations started after an islamist party asked the state

government to press the u.s. to tax and this comes just days after a u.s. drone strike killed five people in a remote tribal region and. three people have reportedly been killed as islam is battled government troops in the libyan city of benghazi the ultraconservative salafi movement has been a challenging authority is since the downfall of modern khadafi the salafist claim the country lacks islamised ideology and have forged ties with extremist groups in neighboring states including al qaida. and the law banning street protests without prior police notification has been issued in egypt it's been condemned this repressive by human rights groups man a believe the measure is aimed at supporters of ousted president morsi have been staging almost daily progress since his removal from power in july egypt. has been

in turmoil since the twenty you of an uprising which deposed president mubarak. have voted for scottish independence would mean breaking away from most of the u.k.'s institutions even the pound some scottish politicians say amber i has named the twenty fourth of march twenty sixth he is in the pan is de significant as the date when the acts of union between scotland and england were signed more than three hundred years ago by the idea of separation is strongly opposed by london wording that they won't make it easy for scotland to leave just are silly as 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 it

dependence the prime minister david cameron and those belonging to the no cabin says that in the service is laden with risks and problems with warnings on just about everything taxes and debt the no camp suggests and higher taxes e.u. membership london says scotland could forget about it the try to 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 of 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 eight says the white paper will prove that independents would bring about a jobs bill and the thriving economy since the president with voters cameron argued that an independent scotland will have to negotiate in the future for the things that it has right now a london is signaling 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 tests are cilia. your day for now up next it's a week for tyler hicks with a partridge don't go away. deliberate torch is on its epic journey to such. one hundred and twenty three days. through two thousand one hundred towns and cities of russia. relayed by fourteen thousand people or sixty five thousand kilometers. in a record setting trip by land air. space. a limpet torch relay. on r t r g dot com.

but i will only react to situations i have read the reports to put in the know i will leave them to the state department to comment on your latter point of the month so it's ok because all the talk is. no more weasel words. when you fade a direct question me prepared for a chase when you approach a punch be ready for a battle pretty speech and down to freedom to cost. hello welcome to the r.t.s. will show another half an hour of top sporting action from russia and around the

globe with me kate partridge and here's just a taste. captain marvel skipper christiane i run out i'll grab the hat trick is portugal qualify for the world cup finals with a thrilling playoff win against slots on the bottom of the cheers sweden. while the next every fighter's alley bogdanoff and vitali when a call of triumph in the u.f.c. and ballots through as russia looks to produce a new generation of m.m.a. stars. rolling in the day the olympic flame plunges into the world's deepest lake baikal as the record long relay continues ahead of the soft cheese winter olympics. but let's get the ball rolling with football author christiane hour now those hat trick eclipsed a brace by his lights on either him of it as portugal beat sweden three two in stockholm and four two one aggregate to qualify for next year's world cup in brazil

portugal were one nil up after the home leg of the playoffs prior to see of a lighter note i strike and after a cagey first talk to the swedish capital the captain again broke the deadlock soon after the restart but opposing skipper abraham of it headed home the equaliser from a sixty seventh minute on a before blasting in a free kick just minutes later to get the capacity crowd on their feet yet right now they're responded with two more goals in as many minutes to send portugal to their full straight world cup finals as the twenty eight year old also equaled power to his record of forty seven international goals while the red of each was magnanimous in defeat. to get his ability because he didn't. think we did of those three or that what we had over. there were a bit. well meanwhile former champions france became the first european team to overcome a two nil first leg deficit after beating ten minute crane's three nil in paris

goes through to their fifth consecutive finals three two on aggregate mamadou sakho scored his first international goal midway through the first half before a side bends and not made it to know after certain four minutes then it was a second tough to forget for ukraine right after the break yet again catch a reduced sentence under eighteen minutes to go and they do so netted an own goal to ensure it was well to be up to the number for the ukraine. well meanwhile russia were already guaranteed their place in brazil after picking portugal to win the qualifying group and fabio capello's men are now looking ahead to next month's world cup draw as they unveiled the new kit for a fee for showpiece tournament has got a bit out of reports. and disobey sion for the opening the government next summer's world cup finals in brazil is growing and as soon as the players were over and all thirty two competing teams decided the focus shifted to the drop on december the

sixth that will define the make up of the tournament's eight groups while bond and some fans try to predict and weigh up their nations opponents russia's players unveiled a new kid and said they don't mind who they will face. i can clearly say that i want to play against any particular team and we just want to go there and complete our goal to get to the knockout phase. we've only got a couple of league matches left before the winter break and after that all the start preparing for the final part of the season there's still a long way to go there are no weak sides at the world cup so there's nobody guessing it's just wait for the draw. people's world cup organizing committee one decided to bridge size four months of the draw until december third only the eighteen's inboard won a confirmed which other top ranked teams in the world wildfire they could bail as men will probably be in the fourth board with the rest of the european nations and meaning they will face one off world giants on their way.