about humans and this. is why you should care only on. the carrot or the stick countries uniting in praising the historic deal with iran what led to the landmark agreement that the use of sanctions the main points of contention. that opened up a new path toward a world that is more secure. store still. the u.s. fails to appease skeptics at home and some allies abroad is its part in the deal attracts a flurry of criticism in washington and tel aviv. police used tear gas on thousands of protestors near craning capital kiev is the government breaks away from a trade deal with the. broadcasting

twenty four seven live from moscow you will take. my world powers may have agreed on a groundbreaking deal with iran but opinions differ on what led to their long awaited success while some countries attribute the breakthrough to diplomacy others insist it's thanks to the pressure of sanctions the promise was found a report on the talks and their outcome. it's a deal that saluted diplomats for a decade. and as the crucial make or break iran nuclear talks continued into the night details of how they were going for 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 holding 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 and its hand 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 real civilians has forced these countries to accept. enrichment and again the russians and the chinese have played a very constructive role in this team to go in the 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 it is only an interim agreements in six months time well now it's time to run a sense of return to the negotiating table but also to say you think you know. it mean that scientists in the middle of the night it's a game changer polyploid odyssey. but it won praise around the globe but the pivotal day you'll fail to get a unanimous welcome in the u.s. left alone its close ally israel a washington correspondent and takes a look at home 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. geneva. last in small sort of agreement. sort of and still. does not move 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 here 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 too late it's of by the six month trial the obama administration is walking on eggshells before congress israel and its allies in the

call 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. why peace told us that despite heavy criticism at home and abroad washington won't back out of the deal the u.s. is not going to give up on this beast you know we've had it be she called war with iran through the one nine hundred seventy nine and this is a major step forward and we have everybody on board. the they are 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 these realities are having a fit. well some of us will make is also voicing concerns that iran is gaining a lot while giving the really nothing artie's venture capital host katie pilbeam

explains just time much to iran might gain financially. 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 petrochemicals 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 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. but striking a deal with iran hasn't prevented g q magazine from naming the us president among the twenty five least influential people of the year the latest edition of crosstalk here in r.t. discusses barack obama's plummeting popularity on this program we ask is obama

serving bush's fourth term victory is 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 this side's having a spending problem politico just ran a poll showing forty six percent approval for president bush or you have thirty seven percent for president obama it's quite an irony at this point. let's cross talk a little later on now the unrest in ukraine news into the second day is riot police to gas demonstrators who are responding with violence the protests are over the government suspending an association deal with the european union and skis in the ukrainian capital for r.t. . if you keep still remains in protest mode and we see scuffles between the

protesters and the police now and then at times they're using tear gas against each other in fact this morning we saw something like that a fight between the protests and the police in front of the government building and again a gas was used against both the protests the police use it against each other clearly these people these protesters here at the european square in kiev they're against the president's decision the government's decision not to sign a free trade zone agreement with the european union but there are many others who describe it as a very pragmatic and a brave decision and a correct one as well because looking at a possible economic damages which great may have suffered it's easy to see why now the government saw several reasons first of all modernizing ukrainian factories to be in line with european standards which cost more than one hundred billion euro and this is the likes ukraine can't afford at the moment obviously the fated to modernize would have led to these factories being closed and tens of thousands finding themselves in the streets and if huge social unrest the european union would not be providing any kind of compensations for the potential economic damages

even the high you man decided to gangster fighting ukraine with a new law which would have stabilized its economy and the prime minister reacted to that already he said that the country does not need any gifts like that maybe why because it was somewhat almost serious that the load which i'm of could have provided during the week we saw some comments from european officials that russia blackmailed ukraine out of signing this deal the allegation which was staunchly denied by the russian president with facts that it was the european union which had been blackmail ukraine through the entire course of the negotiation of this deal so interesting to see where this protest will go still several hundred people remaining in this protest they have set up a tent camp over here which suggests that they could be staying here for a few more days at least. and you can watch live coverage of the rather unique iranian capital on a website. called most of this the financial hurdle standing in the way of ukraine's. so the one of the fact is named there is the rising price of gas and its

impact on the cost of utilities. may just find a way around it by drilling for a shell gas this year ukraine sign cooperation deals with oil giant 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 experienced the environmental impacts all around me there's the possibility of water contamination water depletion 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 looking at people on not the numbers paints a very different picture we've got more on this story in a couple of minutes. if you're thinking about an alcoholic drink associated with russia it's probably not going to be one that springs into your head but they've been making it here on the black sea coast for more than two thousand kids and there's an industry which really can compete with the best the rest of the world has to offer i've come to meet some of the people going the greats and to see if i can find out the secret to the perfect for.

some i. guess. the media leave us so we leave that maybe. i will see motion security play your part of the physical. issues that no one is asking with the guests that you deserve answers from it's all on politics only on our t.v. . hello welcome back now in a few hours president putin will visit vatican city as part of his state trip to rome artie's eagle peace is there you go what can we expect from this trip.

well a russian leaders have visited the vatican before but the heads of the vatican have never visited moscow since frankly relations have been frosty and perhaps one of the reasons behind all this commotion here now is there's a lot of speculation that the vatican wants to change that not meaning for the pope to go sightseeing to the russian capital but for the two countries to move closer to one another recently pope francis wrote a letter personally thanking president putin for his efforts to try to restore peace in syria russia and the vatican have been calling to protect the rights of christians in the middle east and northern africa following the arab spring so pope francis and president putin are on the scene on lots of issues they are set to meet later on monday of course i'll be keeping you updated. ok thank you for that r.t. piece of live from right. the u.k. 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 artie's who are smith reports. say 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 soon easing 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 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 talking about that ever since the crisis began living standards have been 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 five or six years ago and next 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's that is a very worrying phenomenon for the future because any more than economy depends on continued growth and learning new skills if your standards of education are

declining then your 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 well i think. an extreme wakeup call really i mean britain has a lot of things going for it. it's still reckon 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 and less radical actions taken in those key areas britain's economy is living on borrowed time. in other news afghan president hamid karzai has refused to sign a security treaty with the u.s.

until next year's presidential election he ignored a council of elders recommendation to ratify within the next month if the deal is sealed see fifteen thousand u.s. soldiers will stay in the country for ten more years they will be authorized to carry out anti-terrorist operations and have the right to raid afghan homes under exceptional circumstances plus american forces will be immune to afghan law 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 against al qaeda give certain tribal area. operations. questions of the other side. their 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 they're tired of all kinds of the wars bring in that sense i don't think they have a big appetite larger operation in afghanistan let's have a quick look at some other stories now five people have reportedly been killed this islamic battle government troops in the libyan city of benghazi the ultra conservative salafi movement has been challenging authorities since the downfall of muammar gadhafi the salafis claim the country lacks islamised ideology and a forged ties with extremist groups in neighboring states including al qaida. in pakistan thousands of marched against the u.s. drone strikes in the country protesters also blockaded nato supply routes and stopped trucks the demonstrations started after his arm his party asked the state government to press the u.s. to end the attacks this comes just days after a u.s.

drone strike and five people in a remote tribal region. a new law banning street protests without prior police notification has been issued in egypt it's been condemned as repressive by human rights groups many believe the measure is aimed at supporters of ousted president morsi you have been staging almost daily protests since his removal from power in july egypt has been in turmoil since the twenty eleven uprising which the post president. now vote for scottish independence would mean breaking away from most of the u.k.'s institutions even the pound according to some scottish politicians edinburgh has named the twenty fourth of march twenty sixth as independence day significance is the date when the acts of union between scotland and england were signed more than three hundred years ago but the idea of separation is strongly opposed in london with parliament warning it won't make it

easy for scotland to leave chester a syria 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 but prime minister david cameron then goes the ball into the no cap and says that in the service is laden with risks and problems with warnings on just about everything taxes and debt the no camp suggests sturdy 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 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 and they'd says the white paper would prove that independence would bring about a jobs and a thriving economy service that resonate with voters cameron argued that an independent scotland will have to negotiate in the future for the things that house 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 spots were growth rate reporting from london i'm tess are cilia . coming up here not to you look at wine making in southern russia around for all u.k. view is going underground whether a new anti social behavior will put an end to protests in britain.

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 well very very creepy but why are they creepy that's because with a 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 sex lies and children and it's disgusting although i don't do any pageants are also sort of stupid at least the participants are all adults so i 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.

when the crisis leaves us traces everywhere. empty close rooms become the norm. children pay for the mistakes of adults. by working in a tobacco field or in a café. they are the ones who come back home blasts. his games are just in their memories. the black sea coast is one of russia's top tourist destinations sunk sea and the

best one in the country has to offer but if those weren't good enough. come here there's also a little mystery. gets the ball from. long ago that there was a man named brown would come to russia's black sea coast to grow grapes and. he might not have been my ancestor the namesake in the region. excuse for a visit. one bottle of the family wine if there was another one i was going to find. if i had to have a few of the local vintage is a way that was a sacrifice i was willing to make. this is a venerable institution in russia's wine industry the miss haka has been running almost

continuously for nearly one hundred and fifty years and culture. is in charge of making sure it's still one of the country's top. nice to me. but can you tell us all about you know well this is one of the first places in the region and in russia was a whole after the crimea of course when the first video it was set up. to miss halcombe when you know it's a joint almost mediterranean climate protected by mountains close to the sea and with winds that blow in from the step to keep the temperature balanced it's been a recipe for great great for over one hundred fifty years and some of the workers have seen quite a few vintages come and go. how long have you worked here but about. the future i've been working here since one thousand nine hundred eighty five when i first came to the vineyard. and i still work here.

i really like this job so i've never worked in any other place i began after finishing seventh grade i got married here to. this is definitely a job that inspires loyalty grandma zhenya isn't the only person who returns for the harvest year after year but there's always room for new workers. the way the human with this one ok so you have to pay attention to the following small branches like this one we don't need the small ones just the big ones don't touch the little ones otherwise the one will be poor quality. carefully doesn't grasp it with your hand and cut it off like that but the great because job doesn't end when his bucket is full. james i'd like to draw your attention to the fact that the task of grape gathering involves not just gathering but you also have to put the

grapes into this container very carefully and sort through them see there's a leaf there ok they have to be taken out. each of these crates weighs between two hundred fifty and three hundred kilos so getting them to the factory takes some good team work. so now we've got. grapes. loaded up factory. down the way here. i. thought i. was. right.