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i. call room for further agreements moscow claims the u.s. now has no reason to proceed with its controversial missile defense plans in europe if iran plays by the rules. police and protesters fired tear gas at each other in the ukrainian capital during a second day of unrest over the government pulling back from an e.u. deal. between oil industry propaganda and environmental panic it's hard to get a grip on fracking but decide for yourself later when we hear from a former oil executive and those forced to abandon their homes because of the controversial fuel extraction.
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and i welcome you watching r.t. with may and three pharma. now russia's foreign minister says that reaching a compromise on iran's nuclear program should eliminate any reason for the u.s. to construct an anti missile defense system in eastern europe the american led plan has been a longstanding bone of contention between washington and moscow which sees the shield as a threat to its national security while the u.s. has maintained that it is needed to protect europe from so-called rogue states like iran they could now be a chance though for this dispute to be finally resolved with the deal to bring to iran's atomic program under control with more on that is part of. it's a deal that saluted diplomats for a decade. and as the crucial make or break iran letelier talks continue to enter the night details of how they were going were leading the journalists camped out in
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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. just that the six negotiating powers agreed to recognize iran's right to peaceful nuclear energy business including its right to enrichment under the conditions of this program is placed under strict control by the i.a.e.a. of the issue. 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 this throughout this long list of concessions iran's foreign minister still had a smile on his face and written he won for his country
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a partial easing of sanctions allowing to iran to regain control of billions of dollars worth of much needed funds and 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 he was in their 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. trent and again the russians and the chinese have played a very constructive role and i don't think that sanctions played as much of a role as
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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 amy and the interior agreement in six months time well its powers and iran are set to return to the negotiating table but up to ten years in jail. the deal signed here in the middle of the night is a game changer and what people like to see some people. well it looks like the deal has made life more difficult for president obama while defending the administration's yes to the concessions he now has to come down israel as well as hawkish lawmakers who didn't miss their chance to criticize the motion is a washington correspondent jani. 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 the
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geneva. last night in small store. store and 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 equity 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 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
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to a negotiation and to mutual agreement despite the official's attempts to appease the hawks hunches are flying curity you know 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 call 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 its survival the six month trial the obama administration is walking on eggshells before congress israel and its allies in the coffers it's trying to convey
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a carefully worded message which is you cannot threaten war all the time in washington i'm going to check out. well i'm joined now by israeli national security expert i know what i'm going to talk more about israel's concerns over the deal with iran good evening ticky what she think will be the implications for u.s. israeli relations over this. well i think in the medium term it's very possible to repair the damage but in the short term obviously there is a lot of bad blood that's that's been spilled in the last couple of weeks and that will need to be somehow patched up and the wounds will have to be ilda and that will take an effort from both governments a why do you think the u.s. government went ahead with the steel given that they must have known israel would have reacted in the white hands. no question they knew our prime minister has been very clear very clear about this issue for years and
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years i think the us saw this as being in its interest and part of what seems to me at least a grand strategy in the region where i said i suspect the united states and the obama administration sees public opinion in the region as a key driver over the medium and long term and what they want to see is to somehow bring about a paradigm change in the way the publics here view the united states as we saw during the arab spring up evil in two thousand and eleven public opinion as a real force in driving politics here only recently so developments in information technology and so on and obviously the united states wants him to be there wants to be on the right side of that change that's not something that can be done in a day and a western sentiment is here in the middle east for two hundred years but it's something i think the u.s. administration wants to try to achieve over the long term and this is i think they see a step in that direction you mentioned public opinion that i think the public mood actually reflects the harsh rhetoric that we've been hearing from the israeli prime minister public opinion in israel you mean
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yes. i think that no well look we've seen over the past twenty four hours or so or increasing number of analysts and commentators who have come out and said that this deal is something israel could live with and even if it's not perfect and it's not something that we would have opted for ourselves that it's something that's not as bad as our prime minister has described so there's definitely a spectrum of opinion here on this issue as there isn't every issue so i don't know that the public is fully behind the prime minister but we'll have to wait and see and and when polls come out and what they say about what the public mood is what we do know is in the week or two leading up to the agreement there was a poll taken about what people felt about the prime minister's rhetoric towards the united states and a plurality supported him and only a very small percentage of the public thought that he was fully on justified but that may be different after the agreements come to come into being will have to sit and listen there are non-human hey that actually this deal will actually see iran's
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nuclear program come under control so israel should feel less threatened. well again a lot of it depends as you said in the segment that just aired on whether this interim deal becomes a final deal or whether there is as it's been designed a final deal that goes much further if the interim deal becomes the final deal then what that means is iran is a nuclear threshold state and it's true that at that point iran doesn't actually have nuclear weapons but it's in a position where it can break out two nuclear weapons in a span of weeks or months and to israel at least both to the government and i think to the public that situation is not acceptable and just put one hundred questions asking the council foreign relations for example one final question mr alterman. netanyahu has come out and said that all options are still on the table is the main military action she fail is still an option.
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the conventional wisdom here is no the conventional wisdom here i think is that without u.s. support either covert or overt and while the negotiations are going on israel just won't have the capacity politically and in terms of legitimacy to take that kind of step that said we have a prime minister who is very determined very focused on this issue and obviously right now very emotional a lot of the wrong and so i don't know enough to see we do have to leave it at how far teligent feels iran is and what our capacity is mr alterman thank you very much for your opinions and coming on to say that the israeli national security expert over an ultimate thank you. now unrest is into its second day in ukraine with occasional scuffles breaking out between protesters and police violence first broke out on sunday but people in kiev have been rallying nonstop since the day over the government suspending a deal which will which would give it closer ties with the e.u.
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skis in the ukrainian capital for. protesters appear to have set up town camps at european square suggesting that they may stay here for some more time and it's not always as miserable as it is here right now we see clashes between them and the police are up to from time to time with both sides the police and the protesters. against each other the people here they are strongly opposing the decision by the government to not sign the trade agreement with europe at the moment there are others of course that believe this was a rather problematic decision and rather well decision looking at potential damages which a great could have suffered a case in signing this agreement it's easy to see why first of all modernizing the factories in the country would have cost the boat a lot more than one hundred billion dollars something the country cannot afford at the moment but it's a modernized would have led to these factories being closed and tens of thousands finding themselves in the streets not such a good outcome for the country he as well as raising the sheriff for electricity heating and gas something the government tried to do because to comply with
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european standards also a very big problem for ukraine at the moment not taking all that into consideration and the fact that the euro would not offer any kind of financial compensation for what the actual damage is the government decided not to sign especially after the i.m.f. said it would not provide ukraine with another step i say shalom which would have helped the prime minister of the country in fact said that the country doesn't need help like that one its economy is in danger of completely collapsing some politicians in europe have said that russia blackmailed ukraine out of signing this deal russian president hit back saying that it is in fact europe which blackmailed ukraine in the course of negotiations stand off continues very interesting to see where it goes and we have to follow all the details and all the developments. of the european commission and the european council have released a joint statement saying the proposal to still stands i think an accused of pressuring key have signing but as an international cooperation. many in the e.u.
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belief russia's position needs to be headed. the european union is paralyzed. some voices in the european union are saying that we don't want to talk to russia at all but there are other voices in the germany for example which are saying well the european union should from a very beginning and involve russia in the stocks i think that is use a trilateral agreement between the russian of the european union crame on all kinds of talks starting from zero three to more of an. energy will be key for the over the next couple of weeks and months. for more on why he got cold feet over the deal to go to r.t. dot com and there we point to all the financial hurdle standing in the way of the cream in town and at the top of that list is the price of natural gas. may just find a way around that though by drilling fish tail gas the she trains signed cooperation
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deals with oil giant shell and chevron which could help the country slash domestic fuel costs but the benefits of this technology balanced. explore that a little later in the private ground. zero site coming up encouraging figures from the u.k. raise hopes of an economic turnaround that diet is say falling living standards and widening inequality is more trouble than the stories are coming up after a quick break. terrorists are simply a bad groups of people located throughout the world no different than say a motorcycle gang or what have you that are involved in bad activities you're not going to solve that problem by invading countries overthrowing governments and
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occupying countries that's the solution. you're going to win it with good police work and intelligence gathering that's how you'll defeat terrorism they are just simply little pockets of bad people throughout the world you have to deal with creating an empire or an occupying nations with your military is not the answer. we speak your language i mean some of the will inevitably. will use programs and documentaries and spanish what matters to you breaking news a little tune to angles stories. for you here. that troy the spanish find out more visit. i. welcome back now the second round of syrian
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peace talks has been set for january the twenty second that date announced by the un world powers are pinning their hopes that these talks will see a long awaited peace deal finally how my dad but even the date has been subject to intense politicking with various factions demanding a time best suited to their preferred side of the conference is also something that will be discussed in the vatican today where the pope is preparing to host vladimir putin the catholic leader has been staunchly against any intervention in syria fearing for the lives of civilians and minorities in previously thank the russian president for his role in averting an international escalation. well the pope i'm glad i'm a poet and also i share an unusual bownde distaste for shale gas frac ing his holiness recently posed with environmental activists reportedly expressing strong concern about u.s.
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oil giant chevron exploiting shale gas in south america will more on this story now from jim walsh from food to watch. mr walsh thanks very much for coming on to the program we've heard that the pope has apparently said that fracking exploits the pole how is that after all nobody's being forcibly evicted and also people are getting compensation. you know we've actually seen forcible evictions happen here in the united states pennsylvania community called jersey shore literally about one hundred residents were evicted from their community after a private water company started to sign contracts with gas trailers in order to provide water during operations in in the state we've also seen people whose drinking water is being contaminated and hurt which is a tremendous issue for many people in developing countries in low income areas and i think that those sorts of challenges are the reasons that you seem not just the
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vatican but tremendous numbers of people coming out into the streets to oppose this sort of gas development from going on in their communities you know we've seen very strong opposition to this in romania in france across the united states starting. up in australia and new zealand and other places around the globe with the relation to water contamination is this just a fear because the really big chain evidence that fundamentally shows that it is a danger to people's health and we actually seen that this isn't too much being made of this issue do us e.p.a. is actually identified contaminants in opera for the billion wyoming that were associated with fracking wells nearby they've also documented water. contaminants in water in dimock pennsylvania another community that has seen methane migration into their wells there was also most recently a study done by the university of north carolina that documents that the drinking
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water supply for pittsburgh is actually being contaminated with radioactivity from waste that was created through the fracking process so the issues with water contamination are all too real and all too concerned what we're literally faced right now with decisions about the how we're going to move forward in this country and around the globe with an energy future one that will essentially protect these vital resources you need to live are one that will allow the oil and gas companies to profit at the expense of the well being of our communities. people montage that the economy is also affecting their well being i mean there's a very strong economic argument isn't the full fracking well there are certainly people that are making a lot of money off of this process but those gains are not being shared amongst the broader public and i challenge anyone to look their grandchildren in the eye and tell them that we had to do drilling and sacrifice you were drinking water in order to ensure that we could have short term gains for
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a very small number of people that you know that's really what we're facing right now we cannot drink gas we cannot drink money these are about real. real life situations that we're facing we also have an issue where the development of natural gas is actually undercutting and hurting the development of. energy sources and many areas where because of the influx of natural gas what we're seeing here in the united states is very low gas prices are actually making it difficult for investors to see a return on investment in natural or in solar energy and wind energy sources because the gas prices are so low so we're actually losing jobs in those sectors of the economy because of the gas development we're also seeing losses in jobs and other sections of the sectors of the economy that relate to tourism and outdoors. if you don't want to go on hunting in areas once fracking was there you can are fishing in a stream that's been contaminated with fracking which these are real problems that are out also creating and hurting the jobs and job prospects mr wallace we do have
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to leave it there but we do certainly get a an impression of what your concerns are that's jim walsh activist food and water watch thank you for coming on to r.t. thank you to care we spoke to a former oil field executive turned anti fracking campaigner who blames an industry bent on profits for pushing harmful technology this is a technology that basically has been proven not to work as the oil industry claims and it has resulted in contamination irrefutable evidence of contamination of water soil and the air and also significant negative health impacts on the population that live above the gas fields what it reflects is the fact that we are dealing with a cowboy industry that is driven by greed and little else and in fact i would simply implore that people do a bit of research for themselves and they look at the damage and the contamination that has been wreaked around the world and basically we are doing everything we
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possibly can to ensure that this does not happen in the u.k. . in britain that the country's turned a corner and is getting over one of its worst ever financial dramas it's too early to start popping new champagne in some quarters though where critics say demick decline has set in and will leave some struggling for generations for smith explains. so the bank of england's forecasts 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 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
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worst in europe soon leading 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 say living standards education health these are all on the decline talking about that ever since the crisis began living standards be under a lot of pressure 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 if your standards of education are declining the new relative income in future relative to the rest of world is going to decline with it what does it all add add up to then the underlying economic into cases i mean where are we going when i think. an extreme wakeup call really i mean
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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 these underlying trends are very worrying and something needs to be done about them very very urgently warner says the government's doing some of the right things but to gingerly and ultimately unless radical actions taken in those key areas britain's economy is living on borrowed time. in other news the u.s. national security adviser susan rice is to meet the afghan president after he refused to sign a pact allowing american troops to stay on beyond twenty fourteen the planned accord is on very shaky ground despite influential afghan tribal elders recommending he ratify the green meant as soon as possible with a deal would allow up to fifteen thousand u.s. soldiers to stay in the country for ten more years they would have the right to
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raid afghan homes and would be immune to afghan laws critics say that despite being challenged on all sides jaime karzai will stand firm until his last day in office half way through next year contrary to the popular belief that prevails in the west that they call a president in his last year or last few months as a live duck president those principles dog apply in a poor country like afghanistan where everything is in the hands of the government the people of this country are completely hostage in the hands of a government that has the warlords the guns of the mafia as the drug cartel and the corruption so i think governments in poor countries would. hold are never going to experience the same winning allows these are normal in the west
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it's coming up to half six here in moscow you with r.t. and soft is next. 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 you like it or not human beauty is related to sex so when you try to make children beautiful and wear bathing suits or let's just say active poses yeah 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
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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. little conclusive. shavar not said ellen many titles jesse ventura is a politician thank you and maybe that's right and a former professional wrestler and now he wants to be president. jesse ventura does not associate himself with either side of the political establishment people in the seats of thirty eight governor of minnesota as an independent candidate he believes the same look will push him to the top of
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american power. tip's as he decides to run for the presidency in two thousand and sixteen what makes him but he will be with jesse ventura is he delusional or a fighter. pilot jesse nice to have you on the show today now he want to run for presidency in two thousand and sixteen realistically do you think you can win well first of all i didn't say that i was running but i felt that the opportunity was there for a third candidate to be successful in light of the fact that the way that our two parties have operated in the last few years in the last decade they've truly alienated the people to where like the approval rating of the congress is at ten percent i mean that's astounding nine out of ten people dislike them and don't approve what they do. so i just stated that in the situation of
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a third candidate you always wanted in a year where there's not an incumbent and twenty sixteen would provide that year there'd be no incumbent and that's where you'd have the motion excessed at being successful and i stated that if i did run i would run under one premise and i believe i could win on this alone in light of the way things are today in the united states i would run and give the american people the opportunity to make history and to elect the first president since george washington who does not belong to a political party imagine that we've had only one president who is attached to what i refer to the political games and i believe the public sentiment today that a candidate could literally win on that alone because people are so sick and tired of the way the these two parties have governed and the way that they.

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