a day before the u. summit to eastern european partners a public fury in ukraine refuses to die down over the government's why you bring in signing up to try. to crack down on terror in the heart of the russian capital where police say they have the rest of the group of heavily armed islamic extremists i. ordered the arrest of two prominent activists who spearheaded regime change in twenty eleven as police chase anyone defying the new law which restricts public gatherings.

are welcome you're watching. an eastern european economic get together starting on thursday but there's one country in the wings which is having trouble making up its mind days of protests and violence in ukraine demanding that their president gets on and signs up to closer ties with the even though he's weighing up the cost his country in being high state election following the protests. protests are still continue in kiev they lost it overnight despite temperatures dropping well below zero and right now several thousand people are besieging the government building in central kiev and there's been a warning coming from the region as for the general public to abstain from any kind of provocations because they had information that some provocative groups were preparing some royals and even an impossible time to take over the government building that's why you can see there's heavy police presence riot police are all over the place i want i walked here took to the government building i saw hundreds literally. right police all over the place they're securing every governmental

building the parliament of the government building and the administration of president building and judging by the fact that these people have ten counts across the city they're not willing to go anywhere until friday until the summit and really as they're still clinging to this last hope of signing your association deal during the eastern partnership summit even though there are serious assurances coming from the government that this deal will not be signed and it's not so difficult to see why judging by the numbers and figures that may cause a serious collapse of the ukrainian economy let me break down some of these figures for you the u. turn may have standard few people but it's no surprise to those who've looked at the numbers the country's economy has been on a downward slope for over a year and a half with foreign debt at a staggering one hundred thirty six billion dollars it would have cost of one hundred billion dollars to modernize factories not all can so closures would trigger massive unemployment and risky of cannot afford especially since the e.u.

made it clear no immediate compensation then a huge drop in industrial output from last trade with russia which said ukraine cannot get loyalty points from everyone ukraine's decision has also started a political street fight between brussels and moscow as the two traded accusations of pressuring. i wanted to ask our friends in brussels my personal friends in the european commission to refrain from harsh statements do we really have to stifle an entire segment of our economy just to get them to like us. the fear is that with the free trade agreement already in place with key of the russian market could be flooded with european goods that could destroy entire industries and see tens of thousands of people out of work. but those camping out in kiev central square are adamant about becoming part of europe despite the risks to their own country's economic health. alexy has been in

the thick of the ongoing public unrest in kiev from day one and follow r.t. on instagram for his images from the very heart of the demonstrations. ukraine's dire economic conditions are being cited as the main reason lawmakers backed away from the e.u. deal are burning correspondent has been hearing reaction in europe with some believing it can't afford to accommodate kiev. ukraine's decision not to push for closer association with the e.u. could turn out to be a blessing for those european countries there was going to have to be some two hundred thousand pieces of regulation that would have to be changed to allow ukraine to fit into this new partnership all of which would have had to have been paid for by the european countries now these pieces of regulation range from quite big issues right down to things like the type of screws used on road signs and the gauge of railway tracks and those are things that really european countries can't afford to be paying for right now we're seeing eighty four million people on the

brink of poverty across the european union this is according to eurostar the european union's own statistics organization youth unemployment is endemic across most of europe all of these things are leading europeans here in berlin to tell me that well europe should look to put its own financial problems correct before it starts taking on the debts of others. so it's not the e.u. already has plenty of problems in its own right at the moment for example bulgaria will be joining soon i will only create were problems if you know we have one saying yes this will be expensive we have not realized it yet but we just have to wait and see what prima gibbs can do it's hard to say there are plenty of problems in ukraine in any case if we take them it should be done under different conditions . so it seems you may have dodged something of a financial bullet following ukraine's decision not to push for those closer ties.

the russian police say they have arrested fifteen members of an al qaeda linked to terrorist cell in moscow the suspects were reportedly caught red handed with a cache of guns and explosives artie's medina. has more. that comes after russian security forces detained and other member of the same group at the beginning of november now the man who was allegedly involved in recruiting young women to join the organization now all of those members so all of those people that are detained now are thought to be members self an extremist islam a very good musician and were involved in a number of for criminal activities to fund it now this organization is described as a you magics of terrorist cells which inspired some of the tactics and methods that now that organization was created back at the beginning of seventy's and egypt

however a leader of the country's authorities baron's it and back into any turn of russia also bound its activities. and egyptian prosecutor has ordered the arrest of two leading activists known for their major role in towplane long standing dictator hosni mubarak in two thousand and eleven the news comes after police broke off several protests in cairo under a new law that bans demonstrations of more than ten people without permission true reports now from the capital. we expect protesters to once again return to the streets against this very oppressive law which security forces basically enforced on choose day as there was mass public outrage at the behavior of the police towards protesters who were just standing peacefully for a few minutes and that's all the time they were given demonstrating now just before midnight on tuesday we had reports from fifteen prominent activist female activists that he had been sexually assaulted beaten and dumped in the desert after being

part of those who were arrested on tuesday for this demonstration this sparked uproar across the country egypt's committee of fifty you supposed to be drafting egypt's constitution suspended its session and many of the political parties called for the draft law to be revised saying that this was a return to the days of hosni mubarak where protests were basically and do to emergency law the situation in egypt is obviously been deteriorating in the last few months but this new protest more effectively restricts demonstrations in some cases criminalizing protesters not allowing people to even gather for a few minutes on the streets in numbers above ten. the olympic torch odyssey across russia is far from over while those raring to compete at sochi twenty fourteen are sweating it out to get in shape for the winter games the athletes with disabilities are also getting trained and psyched up for their moment to shine with the winter paralympics now just one hundred days away to not say is in sochi where the media

said this is where the media will be housed during the olympics and it's in the beautiful mountainous class even though it's raining today but we kicking out that one hundred days before the para olympics would take games the paralympics into game will start from that these seventh of march till the twenty sixth so you know march now that's almost ten days a lot of them think excitement as well as sportsmanship now russia has been taking a very important steps in making sure that those. disabilities are being cared for our one of them is a wretched find a un convention on the rights of persons with disabilities our we've seen how the transport infrastructure the restaurants be a little bit stadium as well as at the hotels have adapted for people with disabilities and that not only for the athletes who are coming to compete out here but also for the spectators now when we talk about to talking about the sports we

have about seven disciplines with the paralympics as well as five sports and newly added on the list is that the para snowboarding which has had everybody quite excited out here now in terms of out of the relay for the paralympics we know that the alleged pick torch has been going around the country going to places as far as outer space to late by car and at the hotel where the paralympics will kick off on the twenty sixth of february and i'm sure it'll be just as exciting so we'll definitely be keeping out of the rain had to be a little from now but will bring you more as soon as we get it. a recent study suggests britain is drifting into a color coded society ukase whites and ethnic minorities choosing to live apart the result is what's known as comfort zone segregation which is feed could lead to hatred and intolerance among communities it's even led to the country's long time figurehead on racial equality to say that britons have been in denial on the issue

for far too long so refer explains all that warnings that could be drifting towards becoming a color coded society coming from the former head of the equalities and human rights commission trevor phillips now mr phillips has been leading some research with think tank demos and the university of london and what they've done is stated from between the two thousand and one census and the two thousand and eleven census and what they found is during that time more than one hundred thousand people from ethnic minority groups had moved out of london but instead of moving to areas considered predominantly white have preferred instead to move to so-called mixed areas where there are already established minority groups here in sheffield the local community has hit the headlines over recent weeks the concerns raised over community tensions between the roma population and other ethnic groups in that

community but what this research is saying is that this could be a pattern that we see played out across the u.k. the segregation really needs to be addressed and acknowledged because of course it does have very serious implications for community relations. and it is estimated around six hundred thousand white britons left london in the last decade to settle in other parts of the country but are predominantly white politics professor kaufman from the university of london believes they are driven by the need to stay in the majority. one of the negative consequences is that you are getting white british people avoiding very diverse areas so it's not because they dislike anyone group but they just want to be in a comfortable but jordie so you can get a situation where like in parts of east london new him or in parts of south london . each census there are fewer and fewer white british there and it is possible that there will be areas that have very few not no but very few white british people

living there we see the same trend in the united states there are sections of the diverse cities like houston and los angeles where you are there are very few white people living there and that could be a concern for integration so it's just that inability to attract or retain white british population in some of these areas that are maybe not so close to central london but are not far enough away to be sort of leafy and green so it's that where you might get this effect edward snowden saying cruising down the streets of the u.s. capital well impulse to film anyway ahead we look at a prominent ad campaign to support the whistleblower as activist remind mag government they've had enough of being spied on. this is not a joke this really is red square at the moment not dominated by this. case but it's got muscovites and tourists divided as to whether it's weighty just excess baggage

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clean. and. i. welcome back you with r.t. now the syrian government has reiterated its commitment to taking part in the geneva peace conference in january but in the rebel camp there's a fresh drive to boycott the summit and battle on regardless the armed wing of the main opposition the free syrian army is now refusing to recognize the international peace effort the group's commander says his forces will keep taking the present the fight to president assad's government meanwhile radical rebel factions are formed an alliance called the islamic front and say their goal in is shiria law in syria

some analysts say any agreements reached at the geneva summit will have no effect on the ground. the government is one of the only two factions who can claim to present if actually part of the series and the only other party of the opposition who can claim to have such illegitimacy via representation or fear representing another group of syrian syrians but if the syrian government for example goes to geneva in the suits with all the politicians who have no representation on the ground what different is going to be agreed upon this isn't going to stick because anybody on the ground can actually prove. some international news in brief now demonstrations in bangkok invented a fourth day with protesters threatening to storm every state ministry they have already surrounded several government buildings cutting off electricity and water supplies to four star found silence capital has been engulfed by unrest since

a controversial political amnesty bill was introduced three weeks ago if passed it could pave the way for the return of former premier tanks in. china says it monitors the flights of two american b. fifty two bombers that flew over disputed islands in the east china sea on tuesday in defiance of a newly declared air defense zone beijing announced the air space boundaries on saturday and threatened action against any aircraft in the area that failed to identify themselves japan also lays claim to the islands and has dismissed beijing's declarations as unlawful german chancellor angela merkel's christian democratic party has reached a coalition deal with the center left social democrats under the agreement the christian democrats insisted on no tax increases while the key to a minimum wage and a lower retirement age however many s.p.d. supporters are wary of the deal after being dominated by the main party during

a previous grand coalition. police in iraq have discovered the corpses of thirteen men in two separate locations around baghdad they are believed to have been executed by sectarian hit squads that all been shot in the head with their hands tied behind their backs later on wednesday further bloodshed saw five people die in separate attacks in the capital twenty thirteen has been iraqi's most deadly year since two thousand and eight we have an online project of the human tragedy called a year of carnage at r.t. dot com. i.

edward snowden may have prepared a so-called doomsday cache of top secret data for releasing casey's captured or killed for his activities that's the fear of american and british officials who say the whistleblower probably hid the files online to make them accessible to his contacts meanwhile snowden has been cited prominently in washington although not in the flashes and explains. these things giving weaken the us a civil liberties advocates are saying there thank you to edward snowden it's a crowd sourced campaign so people across the country have donated small and large amounts to get this message across. in the eyes of the government edward snowden is

a traitor and civil rights advocates through campaigns like this one show there are many who don't think there are millions of people across the united states that recognize that edward snowden is an american hero. to democracy worldwide so it's important it's important to combat the message of propaganda that's coming from the obama administration in leadership that are trying to demonize him when what he's done is a case of classic whistle blow which the united states government classified its evidence of its own criminal misconduct its its violations of the bill of rights and all that that mr snowden did was revealed the basic facts that the public is entitled to know there's several legislative initiatives right now all stemming from edward snowden's revelations to make sure that legislators don't forget that edward snowden supporters plan on launching new boxes around january when congress is back in session in washington i'm going to r.t.

. or games against imaginary enemies are vital to training any army and cyber warfare units are no exception on r.t. dot com we look at. defense exercise against mass coordinated hacking attacks just a few kilometers from the russian border. also online red faces at the world health organization after it had minutes to an embarrassing blunder in a report on. more news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. operations rule the day.

from victory parades to mass executions over the centuries moscow's red square has seen plenty of history changing events but a suitcase the size and parliament block place right in front of symbolisms cathedral is a step too far for many people artie's margaret how went to find out why the marketing stunt is causing so much up. standing here right in the middle of red square what do you expect to find here the kremlin of course lenin's mausoleum very sacred ground here in russia an addition to these major landmarks we now have this gigantic leave aton box which is featured behind me you know it stands thirty feet high it's a huge monstrosity of sorts and there's been a lot of social outcry about this box on twitter photo shop images have come up on line regarding this gigantic box now twitter of people online have been commenting that this sacred ground has since been turned into a commercial space members of the duma have come out in regards condemning it

saying you know that it just doesn't belong here and the good department store has since decided to go ahead and remove this box now they're citing that it's not because of the outcry the public outcry but it's rather because it's just simply too big so we're going to see this major luba ton trunk being taken down in the coming days it was originally supposed to be here for six weeks now they're saying it will come down. well in the meantime the suitcase seems to have developed a persona of its own on twitter said come this way and i'll show you what i mean he's posted messages against its removal and here are some of them at the moment firstly there it says it's not just an object threatens to pin itself to the ground the artist that recently emailed his private parts to red square also claims to be symbolic of people's history well if you can don't miss your chance to see what has been causing so much public amazement before it is finally removed. but next to the

cia to guantanamo detainees into double agents find martine's breaking this. when the crisis leaves this traces everywhere. close rooms become the norm. children pay for the mistakes of adults. by working in a tobacco field or in the kind of thing. they are the ones who come back call them less. so his games are just in their memories.

what is up y'all i'm out in martin and this is breaking the set you probably heard about arizona governor jan brewer for all the wrong reasons after all her love for private prisons and disdain for undocumented immigrants ranked her among the worst governors in the u.s. unfortunately in this next story only helps him and her place on the list so it was recently disclosed that over six thousand child abuse claims across arizona have gone completely unvested and while that number refers to cases dating back to two thousand and nine the vast majority of them are only a few months old and wrong not blaming rural for the abuse it self of course she did take office in two thousand and nine so every one of these cases happened under her watch at the very least she could have fired the man alternately responsible

for child protection in this state clarence carter ironically burr even said that fixing up arizona's troubled department of child protection services was a top. priority as governor but it seems like she's been far more concerned with making sure all those brown people stay out of her state. of the league. the teams they are very hard to take that. lightly ever had sex with that her right there. was. such. a. little.

twelve guys i didn't think it was possible that the cia is officially ruined one of my all time favorite beatles songs that's right according to the associated press reporters out of goldman in matter who is zero one in mccartney's classic penny lane was the code name for a multi-year long program to turn guantanamo prisoners into double agents goldman approves oh talk to nearly a dozen u.s. officials involved in the program and while they owe all chose to remain anonymous these are the same guys that uncovered the n.y.p.d. is enormous muslim surveillance operations so i think it's safe to say they have some credibility according to their reporting as hundreds of detainees began flooding into guantanamo in the years following nine eleven the cia just couldn't pass up the golden opportunity to put get no prisoners on the agency's payroll which is where penny lane comes in in two thousand and three it began as the unofficial name of a cluster of cottages just outside of guantanamo's administrative offices after

prisoners were identified as potential candidates for the operation they were taken from the confines of guantanamo as main prison and placed in the. cottages complete with patios full size beds and even a collection of pornography if requested by the detainee now keep in mind that during all of this the cia wasn't interested in the hundreds of prisoners that were sent to guantanamo on flimsy or nonexistent evidence nope in fact a prerequisite for these candidates is that they had significant and deep ties to al qaeda so they could be you could be of use to the cia when released back in the world so while detainees with no terrorist ties continue to hold up in their cells of this day many of the most dangerous and violent detainees were freed long ago and placed inside of actual al-qaeda cells you know i'm beginning to think the cia uses the showtime series homeland as a training video for its agents so just to get this straight the cia.