peaceful protests supporting your integration in ukraine are growing in numbers and it may be a calm before the storm as the country awaits its d.-day. well here in vilnius e.u. leaders gather with all eyes on whether there's going to be a last minute u. turn from the ukrainian president over association agreement with the. also the tremors in texas an unusually high number of quakes hits communities as locals and scientists point the finger at fracking and. the drones are finding it increasingly why use all over the world but we are not going to operate them as other countries do it's not a video game we bring about him of putin's take on drone warfare and his assessment

of the russian city that said to be hosting the winter olympics in just two months time. if you joined us from here watching around the world very good evening to you it's just after ten pm here in moscow watching r t international with me kevin i know in part top story this hour the e.u. is eastern recruits are just about to begin their summit shortly with ukraine's president firmly in the spotlight as he continues to hesitate over signing up to closer ties with brussels meanwhile pro european demonstrations in kiev are into their fifth day with hundreds of people besieging the parliament building day and night lecturers have skis there let's catch up with him lexi hi there we've been reporting a lot of people out there and they're still there tonight yes. indeed protests are

growing in numbers in kirkuk right now i would say approximately thirty thousand people are curious. independence square in the city center the process the speech will but this may well be a calm before the storm because we've already heard a statement coming from some opposition leaders that in case that unocal is does not sign the euro station deal on friday in vilnius they will be taking people into the streets for a national strike and even inside what they describe as a euro revolution indeed this deal this is what it's all about that we heard strong assurances from the government from the president that the deal will not be signed still these people here are hoping that the agreement will eventually be reached indeed it's a tricky situation because the korean government explain the move of not willing to sign this deal by economic damages possible economic damages to the country the economy which is already ailing and has one hundred thirty six billion euro a low debt annual debt and modernizing the factories ukrainian factories alone for

the e.u. standards would have cost more than one hundred billion a year ost but in the case of ukrainian politics which is the growly coaster ride and it has always been like that you can never say anything with hundred percent certainty and despite those assurances by the government and the president i mentioned there's still a chance that unocal which may take a u. turn a last minute u. turn you turn and sign these deals but obviously that will michael the couple scott who is now in vilnius covering the summit will tell you more over to you paul. well a year leaders and heads of state have gathered here in vilnius for the two day summit german the german chancellor angela merkel and british prime minister david cameron are amongst the guests attending an informal dinner on thursday evening it's believed they're going to be discussing their next move on how to deal with ukraine politicking i decided that this isn't the right time for them to sign that association agreement with the you know of course the summit was meant to be where the formalities were completed on that deal of the last week decision from kiev surprise many off the years in negotiations to get to this point but the ukrainian

president viktor yanukovych says that the terms of the deal on to grable for. for his country at the moment he says that the six hundred million euros on offer from the e.u. and the i.m.f. to the country to modernize simply is not enough now that is something the president of the european parliament has come close to admitting earlier on today saying that the e.u. may have underestimated the drama of the domestic political situation in ukraine that the country is economically and above all financially in the deepest crisis for decades and he goes on to say that kiev needs money under steady gas supply suggesting that's why they're leaning towards russia at this time now another large stumbling block appears to be the fate of former prime minister and jailed opposition leader yulia tymoshenko she's currently in prison and in need of medical treatment on her back now the e.u. say that that was a precondition that she goes to germany to get treatment on not bad back however that move was blocked by ukraine's parliament now the e.u. offer does remain on the table with president going to college being given until

the eleventh hour to change his mind if you choose to do so but with the e.u. looking unwilling to budge on their stance that prospect looks unlikely ok polls call it will be as the elections here ski in ukraine for now it will become a bad year later. earlier we spoke to a little bit down then aide to the leader of france's national front marine le pen he says it's not surprising that ukraine is reluctant to go ahead with the daily. they're making interventionism inside the national politics of train i can totally understand the president of ukraine why he felt humiliated on this case there mixing up with the international intern this is difficult questions about you get emotional go in there and in a case we cringe should be thinking twice about these officers which were seen as really a thing and which even upsets the russian friends i mean what does the european

union have to offer when it is politically if i did when its depth is rising unemployment rate rising ukraine is divided into you have a pro european opinion you have pro russian opinion in this country for months history and its geography is complicated let's not make things even worse. reporting next to the russian embassy in damascus has been hit by mortar fire a syrian security guard was killed but apparently none of the russian staff are believed to have been what is our middle east correspondent paula sleep with the latest. we know that one syrian has been killed nine people have been injured including syrian security officials as of yet no information that points to any russian citizens having been killed or injured now the russian foreign ministry is calling this

a terrorist attack we are also being told that there is in significant damage to the russian embassy building now the attack happened when a bomb exploded in the embassy premises earlier there was a mortar attack by anti government soldiers in the vicinity of where this industry building is the russian foreign ministry has issued a statement and i'm reading from it it says the resent and condemned decisively the attack by militants in central damascus and we consider this as an act of terror. policy our middle east correspondent that i didn't see was russian diplomats not just being attacked on the ground in syria but also in the media too late to this reporting on why the foreign ministry is outraged over the way that c.n.n. edited its interview with russia's ambassador to the u.n. that's coming up. next though a three point six magnitude earthquake has struck an area in north texas that is there for the strongest travel to hit there in five years no damage or injuries

reported but locals obviously left emotionally shaken by it and not everyone is blown mother nature either for it some scientists now say that the drilling in nearby fracking wells is actually setting off those quakes the areas been hit by more than a dozen tremors this month alone it's seen in more earthquakes since fracking began there in two thousand and eight the joy of the previous four decades combined you make your own mind up on it one texas resident of the affected area shared his experience with us a bit earlier. we had like three or one more point five minutes and in that very point. and i like or aren't berman in the house urged again and we did have a. minor just a little crack and. my wife. and one lady. here appear in being how. very like we're.

shaking all over and caving in they were really concerned about it we're going to talk some also been affected by just a moment but let's remind ourselves how this controversial process of fracking works well is drilled often to run a thousand meters underground then into the whole mix of water sound as well as tons of toxins does is the crucial bit called fracking fluids are pumped in a high pressure creating fishes then that release the natural gas deposits but the harmful chemicals used for fracking accumulate in the soil and the resulting contamination of the water in the water table that's the big worry here also the toxins evaporate into the air and cause air pollution there's a growing movement to the process of what is the energy industries latest fad then to tap into lucrative fossil fuel deposits i said we did talk to someone affected by let's go live to texan and he fracking activist sharon wilson for more insight even t. sharon thanks for being on r.t. a par you would have moved house your house because of fracking in your neighborhood what's the worst thing what was the worst thing about it would you

start tell us about your experience. and it just totally changed the character or the country i moved into the country because i wanted my children to grow up in peace all clean air clean water and at one time i turned my tap on and nothing came out which was very frightening that the air was degraded horribly lots of air attacks trucks lights no i it was just it completely changed the character it's like living in the end i think it was so bad you want to move home. the worst concern for me was to end up without water or that my son could end up being sick from the chemicals that he was being exposed to and how do you know those chemicals were. where you can test the air and air and air testing results and also you can use a special camera that makes the invisible emissions before and of course if you

don't want to live there you're going to find that many of the people who are going to want to buy into your house either or you i lost eighty thousand dollars in property value so what actually you know taking against fracking what are you particularly doing. for years i was a volunteer activist and then two years ago earthworks oil and gas accountability billy project hired me to be their texas organizer so i stay very busy here people contact me constantly with all sorts of problems their experience and saying france of course introduced to a couple years ago and it will still be american from doing the same or is not a question well there are a lot of local areas that are that have passed band resolutions all over the united states pittsburgh that's one of the first there just recently four counties in colorado test bands so it's moving it's happening everywhere you just were very

very sorry case here or the a lot of cases like yours the kind of thing you went through others there's cases everywhere one thing that you can depend on is as they expand this practice more and more people are harmed and more and more people joining our position right now there's a an entire neighborhood over five hundred homes in jenin where they are fracking very very close to two hundred fifty feet in some cases from people's back yards and to talk about the earthquakes the tremors if you ever felt. i did feel while there was. a hummer i'm a little bit out of the car earthquake swarm i'm out of that area now but i'm in contact with people who have experienced there have actually been two three point six earthquakes and you really figure somehow tied in with the fracking drill you exert through your what we've known since the one nine hundred sixty s.

that injection could in earthquakes so this is not new news they're trying to say that it's only the injection of the waste that's causing it but this past year there have been. that happened during fracking so it's getting harder and harder for industry to say that it's not due to fracking of course your problem is the u.s. economy still got real strong demand for fuel can you really expect corporations are possible as profits not really i guess well there are great profits also in were able and energy i had solar panels on my house. manufacturing the solar panels created one time impact but now they're pretty synergy for twenty years with no impact at all so i think that the renewable energy economy is take it off and over eighty percent of americans want renewable energy tax on the front yard to share and will soon have a sort of hear about your story they'll bus to you from saying we're listening

thank you coming up in the. well coming up in the program stop and shoot. the sound of a maid using a three d. printer would you believe there are also fears it could bring about a deadly revolution in homemade firearms to. when the crisis leaves this traces everywhere an. empty close rooms become the norm . children pay for the mistakes of adults. by working in a tobacco field or in a cafe if. they are the ones who come back home last.

so his games are just in their memories. this is a leave us so we leave the baby. bush and secure. the party physical . issues that no one is asking with the guests that deserve answers from. politic only of our. own at night here in moscow now drones are not toys and that was the message from

the russian president gathering devoted to the country's edda friends industry and sought cheap it's been a busy few days for vladimir putin in the city this will of course set to host the winter olympics in just over two months now wrapping it all up top i might say is there for us. well at the presidential residence the president has had a very busy day sorry for now he went on to talk a little bit about of the defense and aviation industry particularly about the drones technology let's listen to what he had to say just the drones are finding an increasingly wide use all over the world but we are not going to operate them as other countries do it's not a video game however it's absolutely clear that manned systems have a big future let's not forget it's not all about the military it's also about sochi which is the host city for the upcoming olympics for twenty fourteen it's also the city that's going to host the paralympics not on the one hundredth day countdown for the paralympics president putin was he had to look for himself and how far the

infrastructure has gone he gave the thumbs up saying essentially dinner is ready to welcome the world as well as the athletes in terms of the infrastructure as well as the stadiums they've all been tested in the last couple of months of international competitions they've added two thousand more buses as well as vehicles for guests and athletes at the transport system is running as smoothly as they wanted to add more roads in terms of hotels and and all the restaurants that have been preparing for the last couple of months everything seems to be on point it particularly for would be able to also be joining us out here in sochi twenty fourteen they've also been added the amendments that they need to have a comfortable a limpy game so we just need to put on the final nail on it and of course we're all waiting for that snow to start dropping and it's all the way to sochi twenty fourteen for the olympics as well as the paralympics. you were about. cultivating a life for other products may sound like science fiction but it's a step closer

a breakthrough could be on the way to get a lot of clicks to about what you're reading up on it scientists are just apparently now a couple of years away only from solving the first plant seeds on the surface of the moon i don't mind for more details. and if you think you've had a bad day let me try and cheer you up a welshman we've got his story has chucked away a fortune he tucked away in big koreans and then chucked the code away on a landfill site by mistake you put it in the bin it's gone find out how he lost millions of dollars worth of big chords from us. revolutionary three d. printing technology spark to guns scared america after a workable firearm was successfully created now then philadelphia has become the first u.s. city to ban the unlicensed printing of guns miniport looks at how anyone could sue manufacture weapons at home. rhett's shooting range in austin texas is normally packed with gun enthusiasm. today the

difference is that these men are firing rounds with a do it yourself firearm the world's first three d. printed metal gun we wanted to showcase the abilities of what direct metal can do and what a better way than find something that can withstand a bunch of heat tolerance accuracy all wrapped into one which in america everybody knows which is a par. eric much later is a project coordinator at solid concepts company specializing in three d. printing here in prince or in the arts he was granted an exclusive tour of their austin facility which boasts ten three d. industrial printers and a glimpse of our technological future these are all the three d. printed parts that went into making this bar after getting a federal firearms license the company used a process called direct metal laser centering to produce this browning nine hundred

eleven pistol takes about twenty five to thirty five hours depending on the machine we put it on and what materials were grown in. this three d. printed in metal gone has fired over one thousand rounds in the meantime solid concepts has manufactured its second ninety nine eleven firearm we plan on making a few more prototypes for additional testing. and we don't we don't plan on going into full production on these we can afford to sell them. at the price of the required to get our money back while the prices of many three d. printers have fallen below one thousand dollars solid concepts insists the stainless steel firearm they've introduced to the world can't be replicated by hobbyists these machines start at six hundred thousand and go up to a million dollars they need to be in. industrial environments they require more electricity than is available in residential areas and they require inert gases in

the chamber that are just not commonly available so it's definitely an industrial commercial type process and it will be years before metal printers become available on the consumer market if at all not exactly the world's first mini metal maker has already been created it prints using precious metal clay and with laser centering patton is set to expire in february it's predicted that metal desktop printers will hit the consumer market before you know it five years you know small this is going to do it maybe five years after that you starts a whole workshops and and you know having one on your desktop at home so that we are going there that it took knowledge exists the price will come down. as the world has learned the convenience of technology has a downside we all loved the internet cell phones e-mail and social media before finding out that our beloved data is being monitored and stored by the n.s.a. . the astonishing capabilities of three d.

metal printers is no longer a secret. so when they become a part of our households have alongside the microwave and flat screen t.v. thing what people choose to physically create in the privacy of their home. will be beyond the control of the u.s. government arena point i r r t texas well of course plastic guns are obviously if a no cheaper than the metal ones to produce the first person pharmacy was printed it may so far as probing to be too unreliable to use but as major said in a report that metal printers are becoming more affordable making it feasibly possible to stop working replicas of proper firearm suit one expert in this field told me that the biggest danger is that three d. printed guns can easily be discarded used. it's a very universal kind of technology that can be used in loss of different ways some some good some not so good but it is alarming that people have started printing

guns i would say the most dangerous thing is let's say a gun that doesn't look like a gun but looks like a flower vase or something else and so the this is this ability to make things in any shape or form really defies a lot of the conventional thinking around regulating guns around detecting them and so forth and i think that's sort of it's a whole new world when it comes to controlling these kinds of things. and the story kicking off tonight russia's foreign ministry has said somebody's been running with the news network c.n.n. over an interview it conducted with the country's ambassador to the united nations the disagreement relates to vitaly churkin comments on the war in syria not even a caution of a explains mo. russia's foreign ministry says the situation over at c.n.n. added russia's ambassador to the truth in this interview as beyond was a resounding now is c.n.n. made some significant cuts to its entry and you let that be true again will soon

notably has your comments on the number of people that actually support syrian president bashar assad now their first ad it said question concerned the role in the interim period which the russian envoy sat should be up to the country's people and no one else and there was another topic that c.n.n. felt was necessary and that was to deal with the rebels and the conflict now it was the afterwards the airport to hound the humanitarian aid delivery to the population now later russia's u.n. representative expressed that the free entry of you did not. answer some of the most important and crucial as she used to this resolution of the syrian conflict. and the development on this in the last few minutes in view of the controversy you see and no sense is going to make the entire interview with the russian envoy to the u.n. available his website to show that they didn't try to conceal anything from the

discussion so there we go. some other news in brief and i want students been killed several more injured and street well and see the egyptian capital that's off the police used force to break up a rally outside car university great involved tear gas water cannons gathered was in defiance of a new protest held without official permission when this group of female activists some young as fifteen were given prison sentences for a recent protest against the government. what you're seeing there is so protesters in thailand they've managed to cut off power and water supplies to the national police said quarters there earlier in the day probably should know what urged to go straight just about. after she's developed a no confidence vote in parliament security has been raised to across the capital bangkok as the country faces its largest civil unrest in three decades crowds were marching on state ministry since sunday accusing the premier of acting as a proxy for excel but the tax in chile what he was forced from power back in two

thousand and six. next the impact of economic stagnation or the most vulnerable in society a disturbing report for you on child labor in europe right after the break. i hate to be a downer but i really think the olympics have lost all meaning in the past when there was the cold war it was like a battle between two ideologies taking place in the abstract and the one nine hundred thirty six olympics nazi pseudo science their self-proclaimed superiority was put on trial for the whole world to see and support the olympics having the majority of the countries on earth participating they're now horribly horribly bland one could argue that they have become a great way for countries to show off their ex used to build up some infrastructure by think this is a big misconception let's look back to the two thousand lympics and beijing yet china has really developed in the last twenty years but they do live picture really

teach us anything about this country with a radically different political system or anything about their ancient culture or the way they think or the way they live no nothing at all all we saw were some flags and some pandas that rather unique stadium which was mostly the work of a swiss company yeah i hate to say it i think the olympic flame is kind of burnt out over the years although i have to admit that saying the torch into space was kind of neat i think that when and if the world ever becomes an ideological battleground again and then the olympics will become worth watching but for now it's just generic sports from generic countries a generic stadiums but that's just my opinion. the speaker is used to working with under-age boys he makes no secret of it. he's easy yes yes it's true that there are so many asking me for work at least ten or twelve a week and they say they like the work they say it's a fine professional and well it's true that it's

a fine job but it's also tough. suck afraid of doesn't consider himself a child exploited this boss of a small family business feels that the current crisis leaves him with no choice to be a god. i used to have three employees then little by little because of the rise in taxes an increase in fuel prices i ran into difficulties and had to let them all go and. of course one of the advantages of having these boys working here is that i save a bit an expensive. but i have to say i'm still the one who ends up working the most since my sales are plummeting i'm forced to count on the kids. but i'm telling you if sales increased i'd immediately get a qualified worker who could lighten my load a little. here you are senora. have a great day. how many italian small business owners are taking advantage of this

cheap labor force. according to recent estimates there are sixty thousand kids working in the naples region today. the state what's the italian government doing about it. this is the headquarters of the labor inspection agency for companion. the director doesn't know the camera is already running he admits straight away but he's powerless. you see my figures on the control of under age workers are pathetic figures should reflect what we're doing about it but they're too weak look here in two thousand and eleven we only did controls on forty eight miners so you're going to tell us all about it now. you know i don't want to talk about it. i do want to talk about is the phenomenon of child labor in general in the city. you know about our activity in the region in general.