olympic torch relay. m r g r g i. this agreement has made the world a much more dangerous place it will make our partners in the region safer israel sticks to its guns and sends a top security aide to washington to get answers on the nuclear deal with iran as world powers support the diplomatic effort made in geneva. the third day of anger over the ukraine u. turn which saw the indebted nation back off from the e.u. a deal which economists warn would have landed kiev in even more money trouble and . he would call a halt to damaging westminster policies are pushing so many people into poverty in scotland outlines how life would be better side to give

a reading the ground for next year's independence. day watching r.t. coming to you live from moscow a diplomatic triumph in geneva has done little to carm one of the harshest critics of iran's nuclear deal with the west israel's prime minister is now sending his top advisor to washington to convince president obama to hold out for a final accord with her on which is expected in six months time paula slayer investigates why israel isn't ready to break open the champagne israel's leaders are lining up to lambaste the iran's nuclear deal taking a cue from the commander this first step. could very well be the last of the

country's foreign minister vols the world is now closer to a nuclear arms race while the economic chief warns a nuclear suitcase could detonate a new york or madrid five years from now this agreement has made the world a much more dangerous place. but that world is hating the deal with iran as historic it will make our partners in the region safer it will make our ally israel safer while television threatening to isolate itself even further so the euro is not bob by this very validating it retains the right to act and yet for all the frustration there is one more hope for israeli politicians to use the next six months before a final deal is drafted to their advantage i suspect they're going to be continuously saying that iran is not keeping its commitment. sure they're going to be in close touch with. united states friends than anybody any

of the countries continuously pressing israel's demands for what should be in that final agreement but with the pressure on israel it's the only country in the middle east that has not and does not intend to sign the nuclear nonproliferation treaty if you want to avoid. nuclear weapons. we have to be part of a nuclear free zone with very simple even iran's president hassan rouhani has called on israel to join the treaty positioning himself as a major peacekeeper in the attempt to denuclearize the region never threaten israel with nuclear weapons on the contrary. a third iran military outcome. if a nuclear free middle east initiative was ever to work it's estimated israel would need to get rid of anywhere between seventy five and four hundred nuclear warheads israel is not going to agree even to talk about the uranium bomb in the context of

day nuclearization that's the last thing that israel wants to have in the equation . and for a country that has never officially admitted to possessing nuclear arms getting her to destroy them might be the most difficult deal the world has yet to secure policy r t tel aviv while the israeli prime minister's insistence that is country doesn't have to go along with the deal has got short shrift from britain's top diplomat william hague has warned benjamin netanyahu against undermining what was achieved in geneva . of course we would discourage anybody in the world including israel from taking any steps that would undermine this agreement time we will move very clear to all comes this also very important to explode into them to ask them what the alternative to this agreement would be because the alternatives would involve iran getting nuclear weapons threshold capability or having a nuclear weapon or

a conflict with iran or all of those we mark benjamin netanyahu is hardline stance on iran isn't winning him much support at home his refusal to budge has sparked angry reactions in israel's media some commentators suggest his harsh words were prompted by a sense of personal failure accusing him of behaving oddly in the international arena the liberal hereto newspaper question their prime minister's diplomacy calling it in your face bellyaching israeli national security expert in autumn and says netanyahu is handling of the issue is far from popular with the papal. an increasing number of analysts and commentators who have come out and said 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 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 we'll have to see. another news ukraine's parliament building remains besieged by protesters angry at leaders rejecting a deal which would bring the country closer to the mass rallies turn violent again i've a night with police and protesters far and take gas and pepper spray at each other and that. is in kiev. another day another protest rallies in kiev have heard today and people here clearly and believe in government's decision not to sign the euro association you illness by the end of this week they're still clinging to the whole despite that we need some serious assurances coming from ukraine's government the deal usual not even mention the sign we heard from the foreign minister ukraine was not ready to sign the deal this week the prime minister went even further and

talking about what's at solong the from the i.m.f. which will not be given to grant which could have stepped allies economy he said that ukraine did not meet hand-outs like that when there's a risk of the economy completely collapsing and the people here are waiting for the government officials to the building that's why we see the heavy police presence here and on monday we actually saw clashes here in the morning some of the activists clashed with the police tear gas was used such was the story on monday evening at the protest at the european square where a minor provocation a minor incident caused a rather big brawl with the police to gas was used again i was in the thick of it i actually managed to film part of the some part of this road with my cell phone indeed the situation was very tense and judging by the fact that the protesters still have ten camps get a hold cross the city the protests are unlikely to die down and least until the end of this week when there will be supporters of some of the building and where your brain still have a chance of signing your association deal. as for why the crying government wasn't

sold on the e.u. deal well it all comes down to money the country's economy has been on a downward slope where over a year and a half with foreign debt at a staggering one hundred thirty six billion dollars and moscow has made it very pretty you would cost each trade benefits causing a potential nineteen percent drop in ukraine's industrial output in kiev would also need to reorganize its factories i'm raise gas prices to match new levels costing it another one hundred billion dollars or more one financial analyst told us that ukraine can't sustain such losses. time is running and i mostly you put some money on the table i don't think it is going to be done to make obvious being put between a rock and a hard place you at the end of the day balance the checkbook and ukraine is in a financial situation i mean it's literally months away from the crisis unless it does one of these two deals because it needs money it's bleeding about

a billion dollars a month the russian gas bill at the same time its trade has been disrupted and that's costing the budget and the hard currency reserves sunk to about twenty billion dollars that's not enough money to cover three months of exports that's the basis of keeping your currency stable so ukraine is facing a massive devaluation. what kind of country would an independent scotland become if its citizens say yes to breaking away from the u.k. in a referendum next september the scottish government's outlined what he thinks will happen in a draft white paper as it's known test riseley has been looking through the six hundred page blueprint. this white paper answers some six hundred fifty questions and the details here really are key there are two main categories here one those that will be negotiated during the transition period and another of those will be made if an independent scottish government is indeed formed they promise indeed

a lot of breaking down of all the policies they want to pursue to listen to a bit of what they said that today we would also call a halt to damaging which mr policies are pushing soo many people into poverty abolish the bedroom tax and ensure that the incomes of the lowest paid keep peace with the course of living going in to this white paper there were a lot of sticking points that were debated heatedly by both sides those pro win against the independents first of all there's a question of currency scotland wants to keep the sterling pound and form a union a currency union with the u.k. but westminster has been adamant that this is not guaranteed and in fact is highly unlikely at another issue is that of taxes today alex salmond had insisted that there won't be need to raise taxes and that first of all scotland will be the better fiscal position there but the u.k. but this is against one of the new studies that have come out this saying that there will be a long term fiscal difficulty for scotland if it becomes independent and there's

also the question of who is going to be controlling the oil reserves there is definitely bound to be dispute between westminster and scotland if it does become independent again alex salmond insisting that it doesn't want he doesn't want any of the nuclear weapons programs in the country they will maintain some of the more conventional defenses and how the list goes on but i think the main crux of the matter here is that many critics are pointing out asking if this white people is going to be presenting the plan b. because a lot of the premises presented requires another party in negotiation what if the party the back of england and the british government or even new member states in terms of e.u. membership what if they don't agree to what. alex salmond has a has been proposing but he said that he is confident that everything that's contained in six hundred seventy pages will be addressing every single question if everything had this white paper is going to be a springboard for even more debates in the months to come what a little earlier i discussed why the brand new document is so important for

scotland with jonathan shafi from the radical independence campaign for me some of the main headlines just how different the scottish government's approach to key economic concerns are in comparison to basements of discussion so far has been one in which what we've seen from the new campaign has been nothing concerning improve the lives of people on breton we've seen no idea about how they would for example start to think about raising living standards or redistributing wealth in fact what we've seen is the opposite of that we've seen them put forward ideas that are going to maximize the wealth at the very top of society not everything and this white paper today i would agree with but i think what we've got to see is that this is the start of i hope a much broader discussion i don't want sort of scolding that we want to leaven coming up in a couple of minutes we'll take a look at lawless libya. the authorities are trying to crack down on some islamist militia factions are refusing to lay down arms and come under government control

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with. some of. the consensus to. choose the opinions that you. choose to stories that impact. i. welcome back you're watching r.t. now in the libyan city of benghazi an islamist militia is threatening to unleash a bloodbath in defense of shari'a law the group came under attack from government troops on monday at least nine people were killed and dozens wounded in clashes and

it is the latest crackdown or militias which have been ordered to disband or join the army local journalist karim analogy reports from tripoli for r.t. . over forty people were killed and more than two hundred injured at a rally last week in tripoli as protesters clashed with the rallies she has a to control of a number of government buildings the gunmen gave into the demands of the libyan authorities and left tripoli but refused to lay down arms reportedly natives of the city of misrata they were among the first to seek to remove the gaddafi regime in general the security situation in libya remains unstable libya's deputy intelligence chief more stuff on an aussie recently kidnapped outside tripoli's international airport. well libyan civilians have been demonstrating in tripoli against the rogue militias who've been causing chaos in the city and we've been getting some of their reactions. that's

a message to libya's government but she wants authorities to solve the program that there's a making the people suffer. we want everybody who is illegal it carrying weapons to disarm we want and then to the bloodshed so the people are rallying for security in libya for the army and police to play the roles they are supposed to. well the libyan government has been unable to control the militias you helped propel it to power when they were three and killed newmarket daffy there could be seventeen hundred armed groups across the country with no central leadership or unified agenda meanwhile some four hundred arms depos is spread through libya but only a fraction are controlled by the government and these caches contain some advanced weaponry thousands of anti-aircraft missiles have reportedly gone missing and in the wrong hands they could easily be used to bring down large aircraft such as passenger planes for some analysts the ongoing western interference is only fueling the crisis the government is totally incapable of reading in these militias they're

not going to disarm there's been a problem associated with bringing together the various militia groups but many of them are motivated by sectional interests criminal activity and we've seen the fruits of this over the last two weeks and then of course there's the international aspect as well other forces that are coming in from outside of libya also participating in the internal political struggles that are going on in libya itself and then of course we still have the ongoing role of the united states and these other western states who are continually interfering in the internal affairs of libya and now the united states is talking about training some five to seven thousand libyans to be a part of this new national army and this of course could cause even more cost of nation inside the country because many of these militia groups even though they were against gadhafi they still do not support the u.s.

or nato interfering in the internal affairs of libya at this stage. and here's what you're telling us about where you think libya is heading in light of the latest armrests so far almost half of you believe that the country is actually heading for civil war around a third think libya will become a safe haven for terror groups linked to al-qaeda and not many of you think the west will weigh in to help the libyan government and barely any of you there say the turmoil is temporary and will lead to democracy you can have your say all you have to do is go to article com. in bahrain the clampdown on public dissent is gaining force on sunday police arrested a prominent activist who led the european bahraini organization for human rights and charges of inciting hatred against the regime r.t. talked to his st joe ads wife and she says her husband is the latest victim of a campaign to gag all those who speak out he was defamed there are no knock it off

or should u.s. paper is the station to fire against that. but he got arrested for inciting he'd read. political or in bahrain wristing human rights activists or defenders and behind it is not something new bahrain year there are very few that i keep seeing as rest of human rights activists a day after another and if you will and have a clear outlook on on this scene in bahrain many human rights defenders are even either in exile or they are but this action or our president or sentence for several years. has more dollars also told us about another well known bahraini pro-democracy activists newbuild. he was arrested in june last year over his twitter based campaign against the gulf nations ruling monica. if you still cannot believe a job as that is a very obvious of our and their behavior after i just read human rights defender

they don't want anyone to step forward and talk about what people are suffering or to juanita are and these violations they want everyone to keep quiet and issue or accept what it has an. interesting security option on the political option and they are stopping those who are teaching people or making people aware of their rights or speak about them russia's president has met with pope francis for the first time to discuss among other things the civil war raging in syria it was slow to move putin's first meeting with the pontiff part of the presence of official visit to italy you could piskun off now reports from vatican city. there is pope francis on one hand a figure with enormous spiritual influence over one point two billion catholics across the world and president putin on the other a heavyweight politician also one of the most influential people on the globe he

may not be on the scene team but they do have much more in common than some may think for instance syria both have been standing firmly against any military intervention in france is even wrote a letter to the russian president personally thanking him for his efforts to help prevent military action and by the west both moscow and the vatican have also been paying a lot of attention to the rights of the christians in syria so they are on the same page when it comes to lots of issues but what's interesting is the way italian media has been reporting on this visit it's not the relations between the vatican and moscow nor the conflict in syria which we're in the focus of their attention to what's really the beat of alleged friends and the former prime minister of a little scornful scrutiny facing a string of convictions including abuse of power and having sex with an underage prostitute and the local media was and still is a brewing with speculation over whether or not mr berlusconi will be able to avoid

punishment and the latest in that sense was that the russian president was going to make mr berlusconi russia's ambassador to the vatican automatically granting him diplomatic immunity which in real life never of course happens in the end of the meeting of the president with the pope but it did show him out of attention being focused on going to visit and now the russian president's left rome to the city of accompanied by eleven ministers where they are now meeting with the head of the italian government. a new batch of leaks provided by edward snowden show the n.s.a. has infiltrated over fifty thousand global computer networks with malware the u.s. intelligence agency has reportedly been using the program to harvest sensitive information for purposes that have little to do with national security according to a investigative reporter david lindorff. if they're actually able to clear

these devices inside the servers that's a whole new level of. invasiveness and it's not just on the computers it's radio in the servers they're in the computers work through none of this is catching terrorists or even stopping terrorists this is really about something else the terrorism is an excuse for having this massive spying. with snowden continues to be viewed as a traitor by washington oppose the campaign on the city's bus routes is putting across a very different message the scheme launched by a free speech up because the group calls on the public to take a stand against america's notorious surveillance operations and thanks the former cia man for exposing wrongdoing. well the revelations on government spying have been flooding the media for months now an american and british officials are worried the worst is yet to come another snowden avalanche this time

a so-called tranche of highly sensitive and classified documents said to be include the names of intelligence personnel employed by the u.s. and its allies r.t. dot com reports on. what i would say web same has also been reporting on the cia practice of turning guantanamo bay prisoners into double agents to fight america's war on terror. and portugal public frustration is boiling over as the government prepares to introduce new spending cuts a large rally has taken place outside parliament in lisbon as it votes on the twenty fourteen budget thousands of off duty police officers have joined the crowd angered by government plans to slash their salaries and mourning such a measure would compromise public security the country has been gripped by weeks of protests against the. cutbacks aimed at reducing the budget deficit in order to receive rescue loans with seventy eight billion euros. in thailand the government

is facing increasing pressure over a controversial amnesty bill anti-government demonstrations have been raging for three days now and. activists have surrounded state ministries calling for the prime minister to step down the amnesty law passed it would grant pardons to politicians both past and present and pave the way for the return of exiled former premier taxi. as not a job for everyone but there's a good living to be made in a very specific kind of professional undertaking is artie's people of the discovered while visiting europe only academy offering a postgrad in post-mortem service. a small town college a class like any other except for the coffin in the middle of the room that is the students' learning how to be undertake is. what i want to work on help people

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until then sit back and relax for some russian wine come clear in a couple of minutes. 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 whether 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 you 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. go ahead.