no deal european leaders failed to rebuild the ruins of an agreement with kiev as the ukrainian president refused to revive the talks. and you can see it right there on the rest spiraling in egypt as one student just killed a police crackdown on protesters. jail sentences slapped on a group of women who held a peaceful demonstration. with the black friday shopping thought about to kick off in the u.s. we look at the wild a buying spree of the federal reserve and where it's taking the american economy.

the world's top headlines live on r.t. international. from everybody here welcome to the program ukraine will not be reviving its plans for signing a pact with the e.u. after the bloc failed to convince president of the eastern partnership summit currently in effect in lithuania and that's as mass demonstrations continue to take place in kiev. the protesters are against the government's decision to shelve the pact with europe thousands of joint rallies in the heart of ukraine with the opposition issuing calls for a nationwide strike and even pledging what they call a revolution in the e.u. ukraine deal was due to be concluded in a bill in the us. right now. since kiev announced that they would not be signing that association agreement with one of the interesting

questions has been how would your opinion leaders respond and last night we got a little insight. we saw european leaders and heads of state arrive on the red carpet for an informal dinner on thursday evening and cameras were allowed in to capture those those meetings the first meetings really between european leaders and president of the coverts now he was clearly coming under pressure you could hear the lithuanian president say if you sign the agreement well german chancellor angela merkel says to president going to tell you which we expected more we being the european union going to code which then can be just about her to defend is to justify his decision to markell said the economic situation in ukraine is very difficult we are facing serious threats and not appears to be one of the main stumbling blocks and one of the reasons that you know the coverage is standing so far on the six hundred million euros that are on offer from the e.u. and the international monetary fund as part of this deal is just in adequate for

ukraine so says president to close it at this moment he says that and that figure left his country feeling humiliated well of course the precondition of allowing jailed opposition leader yulia tymoshenko to germany for medical treatment was something that was never likely to be approved by the ukrainian government. write them all to discuss the situation around the e.u. ukrainian deal when i joined live by journalist and broadcaster neil clark i know it's good to see you neal thanks for coming on r.t. international today we are witnessing frustration on both sides of the fence brussels disappointed at the u. turn by president on a code which i'm going to cope with himself stressing economic pressures neal what went wrong. well i think he's made the right call here because i think the important thing is what we see is the best deal for the ukrainian people the russian deal or the e.u. deal and i think any objective analysis would come to the conclusion it's the russian deal because it's all right for western the e.u. fanatics to sit there in brussels or london to say ukraine should join the e.u.

should sign this trade deal putting things in practical terms would be a disaster for the ukrainian people it would be gas prices going up the prices going up unemployment going up industrialisation so i think you have a choice the e.u. deal is a very bad one the russian deal is much better it's a simple as that really neal but we're hearing that are ultimately european officials are saying that there is still a chance of an agreement could still happen neal but what do you think needs to change to make that a reality well the e.u. office got to be improved hasn't it because it's very poor at the moment i think the ukrainians are said if you signed this deal it would have been a disaster unemployment would have gone up even more it would have led to higher gas prices it would have led to higher prices all round in just relies ation so i think it would be national suicide to get a coach to sign this deal let's be honest so i think in order for it to change the e.u. has got to come back and the i.m.f. the i.m.f. terms were incredibly onerous a doubling of gas prices a doubling of utility bills freezing of salaries who's going to sign this i mean

certainly i mean they're not calling it all started to happen but there are some people that are discussing very various amounts of water economic warfare here one of the questions i do want to ask you quickly before we run out of time some international eyeless have said this has nothing to do with ukraine and e.u. becoming bed partners but rather for the e.u. or western community to get a geostrategic foothold in ukraine what do you think about that absolute hundred percent true isn't it because the e.u. doesn't need the ukraine really i mean the e.u. is is close to bankruptcy itself a lot of the country the bankrupt or very close to it and you think the e.u. will be concentrating on trying to solve the problems in france in portugal in italy and in spain but it is wants to expand. as you said this is all about economics it's about imperialism really the e.u. is need to project and in ukraine i think it would be a disaster for it to join at this moment in time i think russia's got the best deal and i think the bullying has come from the e.u. it's quite astonishing that russia is being blamed for bullying all the threats of come from the e.u. really and i think that yes there's people demonstrating in kiev but they're not

the majority of ukrainians should stay firm on this and if the e.u. the ukrainian then the office got to be radically improved i think and what's what's very interesting right now is that brussels leaders are right now meeting with the ukrainian opposition on the sidelines of the ongoing summit what kind of message is that setting to ukraine's current government thing. i think it's quite outrageous really because this is undemocratic isn't it is the lead of the ukraine the e.u. should be talking to him can you imagine if president putin was talking to opposition leaders in lithuania for example about trying to get them to sign a deal to support a deal with russia it would be absolutely condemned and the e.u. showing contempt for democracy here the majority of people ukraine don't want to stay there inciting people to encourage them to come to the streets and i think it's terrible really i think the e.u. ought to change its game really and stop this pressure ukraine allow you ukraine to make its own decision in its own time its blackmail its bully and its wrong

journalist and broadcaster neil clark joining us live here on r.t. international thank you very much for your time today. thanks roy bye well it's good to have you with us here in ukraine though has cited as we were discussing the economic difficulties as the main reason for rejecting the european deal some experts estimate it will cost up to one hundred billion dollars to implement the required e.u. regulations and standards ukraine's former finance minister. says there's no way for kiev to meet brussels to. its just of course neither the ukrainian businesses nor the government have this amount of money or will have any time soon that's why ukraine is not ready to take responsibilities is not capable of fulfilling. and the people of ellen his guests debating ukraine's rejected edu bid and just how attractive indeed it was attractive the deal was for kiev in the first place that's in today's edition of crosstalk. the fact is the european union doesn't have money

to hand out ukraine needs an awful lot of money and everyone knows that the european union and its member states are broke they have debt up to the polls and they can't afford to pay their own bills let alone other people's both russia and the european union like integration with ukraine but unocal which at the end of the day just said it's not a good enough deal i think he only called it if government was trying to probe and see where that the european union would be able to provide some financial assistance and also whether it would be willing to notch the i.m.f. to be more lenient and maybe have preconditions for unlocking the loans however the european union made it very clear that they're not going to make any concessions. on our website or right now we've got an expert opinion on the whole e.u. ukrainian association deal you can find out more of what's behind kiev's u.

turn just ahead online it's out r.t. dot com right now. good to have you with us on r.t. international today in egypt a student demonstrator has been killed as cairo university has become the latest battleground of antigovernment protests against a brutal police crackdown i just saw about a scene of officers clashing with use firing tear gas to disperse them the protesters chanting down with military rule one nineteen year old student died in the scuffles office sustaining fatal bird shot and shooting the protesters fieri has been rocking the country over a new government law banning more than ten people who gather without permission from cairo with this report true. it's harsh jail

sentences given to twenty one young women i cannot exam to who were arrested in october for protesting and suppose that islam is president mohamed morsi he was ousted in july by the military fourteen of those women have to be given the eleven years in jail for supposedly holding weapons and assaulting police offices seven of them are mine is that just fifteen years old sixteen years old the families say they were just protesting on the cornice of onyx on tear holding balloons handing out flyers it's not just isn't this protest this are being cracked down on we've also got elected activists who are being arrested. protesting by the government which the specific basically hits and protests at the mission from the interior ministry the latest news because he's a depiction blogger and i do think he's one of the keyboards he's joining to be part of the nation he's picked up this this evening his voice beaten as he was being summoned by the general prosecutor for inciting protest he is of course a liberal and leftist activists are saying that it's not just the islamists we're

going talk it's the question is whether the government can continue this has been massive opposition from a lot of the political factions including comments from one of the main you believe is he's going to be a presidential hopeful he tweeted asking the interim president to pardon the. sentence and there's been no question about this the protests the last name for it to be looked at again so the question remains whether this military led government will be able to continue this crackdown and continue issuing these very difficult. restricting freedoms are still to come on the program here peacekeepers on the streets of the united kingdom. people because a very small very densely populated and people as you can see so terraced houses people living on top of each other as migrants flow into the u.k. some locals hit the streets hoping to bridge the divide between the new arrivals and the established communities that fall. story just around the bend.

but for the meantime locals in northern texas have been experiencing a shaky thanksgiving with the area being rocked by two earthquakes seismologists are trying to get to the bottom of exactly what's going on though some are skeptical about it being purely down to natural causes now no one was injured although locals were understandably concerned by the tremors more than a dozen quakes of rattled north texas this month alone some scientists point the finger at nearby gas drilling wells for causing the seismic activity and the area has seen more of quakes since fracking began in two thousand and eight than during the previous four decades combined and one local residents told us exactly what he saw we had like three or greater one more the two point five minutes and in that very point. and sarka aren't berman in the house urged again and we did have some damage minor just

a little crack in the rock my wife. and one lady and she's here appear and being how. i have. been like we have. heard. they were really concerned about it. let's now i have a look at how the controversial process of fracking could indeed of course the reason earthquake activity in north texas and ultimately a well is drilled to more than a thousand meters underground makes of water sand and so-called fracking fluids which contain dangerous toxins are pumped into the well they create fish use that allow oil and gas to reach the surface but they can also cause potential tremors it's also possible that harmful chemicals accumulate in the soil and contaminate groundwater and cause air pollution through the out of evaporation. now the number of those calling for this process to be abandoned it's certainly on the rise but that's the lead all this with the big energy giants looking to tap into the

lucrative deposits that texas activist to sharon wilson she used to live near a fracking site until she realized she had no choice but to leave. at one time i turned my tap on and nothing came out which was very frightening so the air was degraded horribly lots of air attacks trots lie knowing it was just it completely changed the character it's so worth concern for me was without water or that my son could end up feeling sick from the chemicals that he was panic says to you i lost eighty thousand dollars in property values as they expand this practice more and more people are harmed and more and more people join the opposition right now there is an entire neighborhood over five hundred homes in demand where they are fracking very very close to two hundred fifty feet in some cases from people's backyards.

it's all of the international day off to turkey feast the peak of the shopping season is knocking on the door in america while shoppers in the us head out to the stores to pick up their blog and deals with it at the federal reserve's wild the buying and hold one of those behind the controversial policies are not all things he owes the taxpayer is one big apology. early in the iraq and afghanistan war it was much easier to do so well and you always work with the ground crew to be following a convoy came under attack i would work directly with the ground controller he would tell us where he needs help he would say you look up at a war you were taking fire from that arroyo and i would tell him what i'd see and

then he would clear me hot and the decision was on me for when to fire as the face of war changed those restrictions to be. greater and greater and greater we we could not lose weapons and towards the end of our occupation in iraq we were weapons to fight it to. the president to say yes that somebody would be destroyed. thanks for joining us on the program the holiday shopping season has kicked off in

the united states and many retailers have even broken tradition by pushing their opening hours into thanksgiving night instead of waiting for the official start of black friday now exactly five years ago the federal reserve announced its own unprecedented shopping spree but it's hardly been helping america's economy. at one of those behind the experimental policies who now says you things it was one big mistake lots friday the day after thanksgiving is america's busiest shopping day of the year millions standing in lines for hours or even days before stampeding into stores to snag door deals oddly enough the reserve bank has also used these pseudo holidays to launch its own our president did that means free otherwise known as. two thousand the financial crisis the fed began buying up massive bonds to drive down the cost of credit and experiment pitched at helping

main street as the program marks its five year anniversary the former fed official who helped spearhead the quantitative easing is publicly apologizing to all americans for the role he played his name is andrew who sar and he joins me now andrew what is so bad about quantitative easing that you felt you had to publicly apologize to the entire country i believe we had a very big wake up call with the financial crisis five years ago we had we realized we had this economy that was over we were lying on wall street where the banks have become too big and too too concentrated for the larger economy and what i feel quality quantitative easing all to me has done is to reinforce. that structure of the u.s. economy and a lot of the benefits of q.e. have ultimately gone to the banks rather to to to main street america so if we see that over the course of five years those that have benefited from q e have been the

richest people in the united states of the richest companies the richest banks in the majority of americans are not benefiting from this and why is still continuing the problem is. the fed at this point is the only one doing something and so it feels like it keeps on having to do something to help mild the argument is what it's doing is it not only helping but it may actually be hurting far for much about the u.s. economy for a moment let's have a look back at two thousand and eight when the fed on the failed its largest stimulus package in u.s. history. lending money mortgages out and not getting their money back in as financial troubles plaguing the border was well the federal reserve then comes to the rescue and launches a program of massive bond purchases printing more cash and by. lying the bad loans from the ailing banks now by pouring more money into the banks they intended to help the average job driving down the cost of credit so that more americans could

survive the financial meltdown however it turned out to be a big win for wall street and not the everyday average joe and with more was increasingly missing their credit payments it means interest rates are about to go through the roof the publisher of trends journal gerald he warns of grave consequences to come. the only reason there is any recovery going on in the united states or for that matter the european zone is that interest rates are at record lows so as i mentioned you could buy an order all below zero percent and what they go it's going to happen when interest rates go up the housing market again collapses the auto market collapses and worse than that the bond market collapses and so you're going to start seeing a decline again in people paying mortgages more foreclosures happening and that's when interest rates go up because when interest rates go up this phony recovery we

have in the housing market is going to stop and a lot of the new people that got into the market are going to have trouble paying off their mortgages and the web team is lined up plenty of stories for you on the web site this hour including how to cry there it's called the black hole in russia's fleet it's cold out because this brand new submarine ultimately is virtually undetectable if it's submerged those details right now out on to dot com . and why event check it out as well the u.s. war against intellectual property theft not looking so effective it's now being revealed washington has its own face right in the trunk the full story click away. now the u.k. now provides a roof to two hundred thousand roma migrants who move there in search of a better life some brits are angry that few of the newcomers are ready to change their cultural traditions and respect the rules of the new home in response locals

have taken matters into their own hands setting up so-called street patrols as aunties investigates. well paying up against the calls this team is setting off on one of their regular nightly migrant patrols organized by the pakistan community association their beat is this small neighborhood in sheffield in the north of england known as paige all the trying to save the community tensions here i don't know there are tensions in the area and people are angry because it's a very small area very densely populated and people as you can see so terrace houses people living on top of each other it doesn't take us long to see what some members of the local community is so concerned about even on a monday night in winter large groups of roma men congregated on this small high street i just saw in our. city so look around this mess you sensed a noise that night most of the roma here from stood back here and they're eager to

tell us that they don't want to cause any trouble for my friend you know my slovakia people who speak so if you have them in horrible you know looking for a drop in all your problems here for two thousand and nine pm curfew has been put in place here under sixteen can see that this thing coming down so that they have what sort of significant presence in the area in let's have got a presence here from eight o'clock in the name right the way through until i can i mean it's a very difficult thing to police the situation has gained national attention but some voicing concerns of a repeat of the race riots that blighted the north of the country to stave a decade ago it didn't concern me that it was going to happen what concerns me was how that would make very much population and the longstanding population feel that they're living in an area where tensions of perhaps not so hard either that might happen like all east citizens of roma have the right to move freely throughout the

european union but so what is the most persecuted ethnic minority groups in europe the michael patrol at. trying to aid the integration here but with restrictions being removed next year allowing both kerry and simon manias to enter the u.k. sparking white public concern it won't just be the patrol keeping a careful watch but what plays out on the streets this will. serve i see reporting from sheffield in the north of england let's get some other global headlines for you in brief here on the program as thousands of protesters in thailand forced their way into the royal headquarters of the angry crowd stormed the compound reportedly demanding to know who signed beyond the zone and they've since left the site and meanwhile hundreds of people seeking. what they gathered outside the building of her ruling party just last few days actually protesting

crowds at the seized several minister ariel buildings and even cut the power of the police headquarters and out in violence as possible military. and beijing is ordered to warplanes to routinely patrol its newly declared the friend zone over disputed islands in the east china sea this comes in the wake of america japan and south korea all of them sending their own military flights of the occupy. dispute threatens to overshadow u.s. vice president joe biden's trip to the region next week and the fuel tensions between china and its regional neighbors. for now on all its international is the olympic torch continues its momentous trip from the greatest to extreme depths those raring to compete at the sochi twenty fourteen olympics sweating it out to get in shape for the host city is also being put through its paces ahead of the sporting spectacular also used by moats

a now reporting from the centerpiece of the black sea resort. i'm standing inside of the fish a limb pig a stadium which will host the opening as well as the closing ceremonies for the olympic and paralympic of twenty four teams now president vladimir putin will be here a little bit later to tour the stadium itself we keeping everything under wraps we don't want to show you everything as a this is going to be the home of the olympic torch as well as for those opening closing ceremonies the finished a stadium it's quite a unique it is a shaped like a seashell and to myself that is being a black sea and to my left is the mountainous cluster where all of the beautiful alpine ski resorts are being prepared for the athletes as well as the spectators are what's also quite unique about the stadium is the fact that it is made out of glass so while you are when it's sunny the sun is reflected upon it and you can really see why it was chosen to be the host stadium for the olympics and of course

there will be no us sporting activities happening here because it is kept for the opening and closing ceremonies and after the olympics it will be used for twenty eight hundred fifty for the world cup so when everything is ready just waiting for the final nails and bowls to be put in on the fish a stadium and of course a president which has already stemmed russia ready to host the world in sochi come twenty fourteen well it been a pleasure having you with us here on r.t. international today and huff and our unit of oliver is here next oh i'm stepping aside for sophie shevardnadze thank you for joining us.

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 spent 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 acts used to build up some infrastructure by think this is a big misconception let's look back to two thousand a lympics in beijing china is really develop in the last twenty years but the olympics really teach us anything about this country with a radically different political system or anything about their ancient culture or the way they think of 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 have to say i think the olympic flame is kind of burnt out

over the years although i have to admit that saying the torch in the space was kind of neat i think that when and if the world ever becomes an ideological battle ground again 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. ukraine a country divided it's government's decision not to pursue integration with the european union and for russia instead as western politicians and media enough for brussels feel snubbed while moscow has a wait and see approach as ukrainian politics is anything but stable the so-called struggle for ukraine is far from over.