the day before the e.u. summit to woo would say eastern european partners public fear in ukraine refuses to die down as the government hasn't since signing up to a trade deal. we are knocking disability in the general with the limited bill with one hundred days to go before the paralympians take over the sochi winter games are teammates amanda managed to turn his life around on the ice rink plus. i egypt all these the rest are two problems activists who spearheaded regime change in twenty eleven as police chase anyone define the new law which restricts public gatherings. and crackdown on terror here in the russian capital where police say they've arrested a group of heavily armed islamic extremists. very

good even for me kevin it's eight pm here in moscow this is r.t. how top story this is an eastern european economy get together starting on thursday but there's one country in the wings having trouble making up its mind ukraine is seeing days of violence and protest abounding that the president signs closer ties with the e.u. even though he knows being hasty could be costly. been following the protests. protesters 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 authorities 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 in a possible attempt 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 when i walked here to the government building i saw literally hundreds of riot police all over the place there 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 town camps across the city they're not willing to go anywhere until friday until the summit and still clinging to this last hope of signing association deal during the eastern partnership summit even though there are serious assurances coming from the government that this deal will not be signed ukraine's decision has also started a political street fight between brussels and moscow as the two traded accusations of pressuring kiev. 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. benefit public unrest in care from day one follow up on instagram for his images from the very heart of those demonstrations. ukraine's dar economy conditions are being cited indeed as the main reason lawmakers backed away from the e.u. deal correspondent next has been hearing reaction in europe with some believing it can't afford to accommodate kiddo. ukraine's decision not to push for closer association with the e.u. could turn out to be a blessing for those in european countries there was going to have to be some two hundred thousand pieces of regulation that would have had to have been changed to allow ukraine to fit into this new partnership all of which would have had to it

being 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 more problems. and say yes this will be expensive we have not realized it yet but we just have to wait and see. 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. it seems year it may have dodged something of a financial pull it following ukraine's decision not to push for those closer ties . egyptian prosecutors ordered the arrest of two leading activists know for the major role in toppling longstanding dictator hosni mubarak back in twenty 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 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 broad across the country egypt's committee of fifty 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. law the situation in egypt has obviously been deteriorating in the last few months but this new protest more effectively restricts demonstrations in some case criminalizing protesters not allowing people to even gather for a few minutes on the streets in numbers above ten through there would keep some of posted on the. twitter feed so it was a good place to go to get news coming out of our part of the world from us direct one of the leaders of all the major terror raids going to moscow today and that's

also a wall more world news after the break to. its technology innovation all the developments around russia. the future. the. economic downturn the find out all day long to do your shanghai and the rest of life during the case you will be every week.

just over ten weeks to go until the sochi winter olympic games on the countdown to the paralympics has just reached the hundred day mark to his top emotes a with the latest on the preparations. hundred days before the paralympics kick called here in sochi in twenty four and this day was marked a special leave by president of letting me to you made a surprise visit to the city to check for himself if the infrastructure and everything around around sochi is bad it's a find and ready for a bad start of day now because of the president toured around the infrastructure

facility and was quite impressed even giving the thumbs up and saying that everyone who's coming to this it to be able to enjoy she enjoyed the city as well as the olympics the palin pick so will start to on the seventh of march until the sixteenth. now that's almost nine days all balled limping feeble as well as sportsmanship. taking really important step in making. kids for last year they actually read to fight to the convention to why it's people with disabilities and then in the same way yeah they went on to introduce a program that made accessibility environmentally quite easy for the disabled so indeed those infrastructures have been seen they've been in place a. transport system with the stadiums the restaurants at the hotels all ready to welcome those with disabilities not only the athletes but also the

spectators of all the athletes will be preparing themselves for aiming for that gold will be almost seven hundred athletes competing in the paralympics there's also around forty five countries who will be taking these seven disciplines a five sport and a newly introduced called the parents snowboarding which has had everybody excited here in sochi and my colleague catherine often met up with the russian paralympics the hockey team to find out how they're preparing for that. ice hockey as it should be intense fierce determined and fast. or could be to do just with two sticks one in each hand with extra risks. and for a reason you're constantly flying around a high speed collisions and everything for it's all crazy fast and tireless commitment. from of water we're here training all the time morning to night every

day for these seventeen paralympic athletes are in the twenty fourteen russia sledge hockey team and thirty six year old body is their captain he was injured in two thousand and two while serving in the russian military in chechnya. before the age of twenty five i used to have a completely different life rules of football with the group but after the. injury i turn to sports to realize my potential. he went from swimming to taking up a chance to join russia's brand new sledge hockey squad. because the work are your words no one is going to bring you things on a silver platter but here we had an opportunity to work for it since two thousand and nine when we were told we were going to participate in the soccer paralympics it's been our driving force in a country that struggled to accommodate people's disabilities russia's paralympic coach says the team is helping to change perceptions in the demo so we're putting in the second huge in the world more of these guys managed to prove to themselves

their relatives and the entire society that they're not people with disabilities but people with unlimited abilities. he has been a part of paralympics this ninety ninety four but this is the first year that russia will compete this board only came here four years ago is by d.m. remembers. when we were just staring at one another not really knowing what to do first. let me show you work on this one here is the sledge what this is the blade and this small area is the seat. which means it's terribly unsteady so just imagine you have to keep your balance and simultaneously carry the puck you keep falling down then it takes a lot of time to get back up but now we're skilled at it. because of these sledge party players the road just so she hasn't been easy it's taken an immense amount of hard work personal sacrifice and dedication but the payoff is that it's just on the

ice the principles of. after this experience i believe that people who have survived a car crash or a plane crash will look at us and realize that even with an injury like that you can live on you can set your own goals and achieve them. you see catherine of our team to the region russia. and. ukraine and you turn on the. let's go live to pilin dr marcus curve is there is founder of the europe listening to dr evening to you nice to see you tonight we've heard a little bit early in the program fuel for your fellow germans they're not keen at all on the idea of paying for a ukraine to integrate further within the e.u. it would cost a lot to do it wouldn't it well the financial considerations. certainly an important argument but for the time being. what matters most is that. korean population is split between those who. have a preference for russia or those who have

a preference for the european union so the question of. financial consideration is not really on the agenda. as far as the european union in general is concerned you know we have enormous financial problems budget problems problems of public debt and this is not the best moment to talk about the hearings of the entry of such an important country like you but it is very back and here's why it's why we but i'm sorry to interrupt but it is a fight it is going to cost a lot of money that's one of the reasons are that the big reason ukraine has given so far the deal wasn't sweet enough for it to do it and surely that can't be ignored. i don't think that this is the reason for korea to say no for the for the time being the politics of mr putin have played a very important role. the inclination of the predeliction of the president of the

crean for partnership let's put it this in this terms with russia. obvious fiscal or financial considerations absolutely not on the agenda of those who tell this ignore reality what is on the agenda is the question whether you pay tribute to two different preferences within the ukrainian circulation if you leave your leg european union the other one in russia if you say you purely politically has nothing financially even though for instance the cost of factories would cost millions of dollars. well you know the even if tomorrow the crane registers as application to become a member of the european union this would only trigger of a process along during process of negotiations have a look at the turkey. entry process it takes has been taken many many years so that the decision to enter in such

a process doesn't mean that necessarily the day after a country becomes a member so for the time being and for the not too distant future there is new financial burden for the european union the question is whether the european union is capable of accepting a member is a having such a potential but having having such a financial needs as ukraine and secondly with the population of a creator has a clear preference for the european union because without paying tribute to self-determination we cannot solve that problem and for the time being this is a process which is going on it's a process within ukraine and we are observers to all that russia is part of you look to create is part of europe sherman is part of it so let us take the time to build a robot but in theory if if some sort of deal emerged before friday for instance

could the e.u. afford to forge closer ties with ukraine it would cost a heck of a lot of money could they afford it. well again my answer is crystal clear the question of how much an entry of ukraine will cost so the fiscal impact is not at all on the agenda and nobody can quantify that for the time being because before such an entry becomes effective you have the years of negotiations and years of an adaptation and adjustment process. take a look at the mediterranean countries portugal spain it took years to negotiate the terms of entry and it took years to find the final form in order to enter the european. union the european union is not a financial club which gives you take it to be bailed out at any time but it's a club of the member countries it hearing to certain principles. of free trade

so the quality of the country changes one once it enters into the european union for the time being although i love the crane it. has in the form doesn't have the performance to and to tomorrow or even after tomorrow into the european union but as a matter of culture and i repeat this russia and ukraine are part of europe how can we think of you without thinking of the wonderful gift or desert culture has given to your doctor thank you for your thoughts suppression of the programs are going to leave it there dr marcus kerber founder of the time thank you. police arrested fifteen members of al qaeda linked terrorists here in moscow the suspects reportedly caught red handed with a cache of guns and explosives artie's near concha never as the latest. that comes

after russian security forces detained and the 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 cells those people that are detained now are thought to be members so for an extremist islam a very good musician and were involved in a number of for criminal activities to fund it now this arvid ization is described as a you magics of terrorist cells which inspired some of the tactics and methods settled now that are going ization that was created back at the beginning of seventy's and egypt however a leader of the country's authorities banned it and back even twenty russia also banned its activities. for us to cross like a full professor absent a dorm room for his reaction a bit of inside to operations in russia are usually held of course not by far from moscow or the north caucasus now this has happened right here in the capital i

guess there's really underlines to everyone living in particularly that security is vigilant everyway yeah absolutely you know i don't even believe in moscow where i live in a small town not far from moscow when i don't teach in america it is true here in russia but not to do about two weeks ago a similar terrorist extremist islamist group was arrested just about ten miles from from me we are in pursuit no matter where we leave in moscow in sorts or in the countryside where these extremists getting their training or weapons from is running outside help how do they from themselves. absolutely that's why you know when the russian. law which is similar to fodder for an edge and sweetest creation act which was as you know were doctors in america in one nine hundred thirty six or thirty seven i was definitely a supporter of outlaw my american and european friends and colleagues where

sometimes upset but we're docked at the table because they were thinking that it was a jihad against american and western into a transition of western money into russian politics or russian russian social life from my point a few about law should be even stronger because it's aimed against these very kind of a hobby extremist islamist groups and then to get funding from overseas that's what sure you saying overseas where. saudi arabia qatar you see you name it we have the same problem here once again when i say we're in the same boat i mean not only we live in this russian countryside or in moscow or in sochi where in the same boat this is my message but they send to my colleagues and friends in america in great britain and elsewhere it's a big world but as you're saying it's a very small world as well as far as terrorism is concerned isn't it absolutely that's for sure there are no orders for terrorism. ok thanks your thoughts i said

in the program or professor xander tom in the just outside moscow thank you. now it's a big big day parity the cryptocurrency set the one thousand dollar value of mark for the first time ever it's not your everyday cash because here's a quick reminder of how it works it's remind ourselves traditional money as real world value behind it is controlled by governments because in those not backed by national assets and supervision they are no banks involved here just a digital code which allows it to be traded freely on the internet by those who have big coins at the beginning of the month the big traded just over two hundred dollars by mid november it soared to four hundred dollars right now as i'm saying it's just broken through the one thousand dollar mark nice if you've got one and let's bring in a court of a smartphone city's a senior fellow at the louvre one misses institute hi there i didn't ask if you got it because but i shan't start with that bit too nosy what you make of this milestone. well i think it's

a matter of just just. going to go over it what we've seen him recently is that there's a lot more acceptance of bitcoin by both merchants in by governance even amazon this week. what's that even amazon this week oh yes and even the economy says institute we now accept bitcoins for donations and bookstore sales so it's in other countries the exception retailers is even greater but more importantly governments have recognized bitcoin they're willing to accept it they realize that it's the type of currency going forward in the world where it's more secure it's more private it's more efficient and it holds its value better as well what about that i'll say you know what goes up must come down at some point in brackets. oh well this is a very very volatile medium of exchange it's not surprising that it's very volatile because it's reacting to world events and you know there's thirty six other cryptocurrency so that are also in the marketplace so we have

a lot of volatility to look forward to so it's not something you want to kind of put a pension and then really is it well the people who are putting their money in it are the people who face a lot of risks a lot of people in china are putting their money into it a lot of people in india are putting their money into it in a lot of people in iran are putting their money into it because they're facing hyper inflation and the prospects for a military attack on their country and of course said the american government and the f.b.i. looking very closely at it as well because it has been used as well for shady deals drug deals eccentric cetera yes but big point counts for less than one half of one percent of all of its transactions it entirety compared to the worldwide illegal trade in goods and services so it's a very very small player and actually it's the u.s. dollar that is the medium each of which genes of choice of criminals around the world it was we talked about how big points catching on just now it's really

catching only child there is no i guess no surprises but why particularly china well they had to go it is accepted it in full of chinese merchants have accepted it in full and of course there's also been a political turnover and with that political turnover there's going to be reprisals and some so some of those high government bureaucrats are probably putting their money into bitcoin in order to access the country but with the right has been going at the moment i put up a doubt whether going to be snapping at the dollars hales do you think. well yes i think you're going to see much higher prices for bit coin i don't forecast market prices but i think that over time you're going to see bitcoin rising in value because currencies are continuing to appreciate around the world we're in a world currency war and that's good things for investors and bitcoin economists phones and thank you for your thoughts nice to have in the program thank you ok thank you for being with us too is twenty five minutes past eight at night here in moscow and back with more news in about thirty five minutes time in full between

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