they say the below saves them. join me james brown on a journey for the soul. only on a c. no deal with the e.u. summit here in real news concludes without ukraine signing the association agreement however the e.u. would says the offer remains on the table. those of gardens are still in the streets of ukrainian cities both supporting and opposing the president's decision it's been peaceful so far but who knows this may well be a calm before the storm. i began to have some serious philosophical reservations about what the fed was doing and i decided to apologize to america. as the black friday shoppers song kicks off in the last look at where the wild buying spree of the federal reserve has landed the american economy five years after they started.

i turned my cap on and nothing came out which was very frightening that the air was degraded horribly lots of fear and hacks tried sly. it was signed afraid so frank a one to enough communities in taxes and also how doing to cope with earthquakes which some of blaming on the new method of drilling. international news live from moscow seem to national with me. and welcome to the program e.u. leaders have failed in their fight to move ukraine closer to europe president makes a young economy traf use an association deal during an eastern bloc summit and the news in ukraine's capital key of thousands that keeping up around the clock

protests to try and push the government into cozying up to europe and whole squad and police say you have been following the brands for as that and first to you paul we are seeing some sad faces in lithuania as capital today right. yes as expected the e.u. summit in vilnius has concluded without ukraine signing that association agreement however on friday the president of the european council herman van rompuy said that he is hopeful that the deal can be revisited at a later date. the european union's position remains clear. of signing the most ambitious agreement the european union has ever offered to a nonmember state is still on the table so the year insists that the author is still on the table however it is a deal that has already rejected president. maintaining the deal of the financial

deal on offer from brussels was not adequate for his country right now saying it left his country feeling now can recall the moment he came face to face with e.u. leaders and heads of state for the very first time since that decision now that. you can just about make him out on tape saying but if you signed the agreement he says to ghana i'm going to merkel says we expected more we being the european union in this case now going to cove it justifies his decision to markell by saying the economic situation in ukraine is very difficult we are facing serious threats and of course the e.u. precondition opposition leader yulia tymoshenko be released to go to germany for medical medical treatment on her back was never likely to be agreed in the ukrainian parliament so for now president you know the coverage has given a no to the e.u. deal in its current form. and scale has meant and they meant they

must have public protests in kiev how are people reacting to the news. well key if it's still pretty much in protest mode just as many other ukrainian cities all across the country protests are taking place right now at the independence square we have a little more than ten thousand of those who are opposing the president's decision they are supporting the integration process and they are clearly furious with the fact that ukraine was did not sign the euro cessation deal today in. on the other square just a few hundred meters from here we have the supporters of the presidential party who are standing there to support the president's decision and saying that this was a right brooke a magic move the biggest question is how long these protests will last provided that the summit has come to an end now it is certain that ukraine will not be signing this deal that's also a big question who will be leading this potential protest because all the opposition leaders and obviously they are the key factors here in leading the protest movement they are still in vilnius but we are certainly expecting numbers

to grow here i did abandon square as the day progresses as i work you know it's finished in kiev we also heard that the people here are planning to. life human chain from the independence square to the border with the european union to the border with poland that six hundred kilometers from here and we also already heard about several incidents with clashes between the two opposing political camps so the situation is pretty much i don't know despite looking peaceful so far and certainly will be following what's happening in kiev in the next several hours. and they say here in k.s. as well as polls called in vail news many thanks indeed. meanwhile the fundamental ukraine's for a year of opposition also in vilnius way you need is a suggesting an agreement may be possible when a new president comes to power and journalist and will cost klunk buildings but mostly he and ukraine a better off without a chance. 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 of its products in portugal italy and spain but it is it wants to expand 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 it in practical terms will be a disaster for the ukrainian people it will be gas prices going up the prices going up unemployment going up industrialisation so i think going to have a choice. and further analysis of ukraine's rejects is easier bed and just how attractive the deal was in the first place as up for debate in cross talk later this hour. 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 eyeballs and they can't afford to pay their own bills let alone other peoples both russia and the european union like

integration with ukraine but unocal over to the end of the day just said it's not a good enough deal i seeing the 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 nudge the i.m.f. to be more lenient and maybe have softer preconditions for unlocking the loan however the european union made it very clear that they're not going to make any concessions. on our web site we've gathered x. but opinion on the e.u. ukrainian association deal so to find out more was behind as you had online to see that.

the holiday shopping season has kicked off in the you are swept some retailers are breaking tradition by pushing their opening hours into thanksgiving night instead of waiting for their visual start on black friday and it's been exactly five years since the u.s. federal reserve began its own and precedented shopping spree back in two thousand and eight it unveiled the largest stimulus package in u.s. history that's now see just how it all panned out by one hundred now too many mortgages and that's financial trouble plagued borers people couldn't repay the debt the u.s. federal reserve launched a massive program of bond purchases printing more cash and buying a bad loans. by pouring more money into the banks they intended to help the average american by driving down the cost of credit so that more people could survive the financial meltdown but it turned out to be a big win for will's trade more than they talk spat and with

a reported increase in boras again missing their credit payments any rise in interest rates could leave a lot of people in severe trouble and all season marina porton i met one of those behind the fed's experiment who now sees it as a big mistake blah 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 busting deals oddly enough the federal reserve bank has also used this pseudo holiday to launch its own on precedented spending spree otherwise known as want to teach it easy two thousand the right answer prices 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 quantitative easing is publicly apologizing to all americans for the role he played his name is andrew use

are 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 have a very big wake up call with the financial crisis five years ago we got we realize we have this economy that was over we were lying on wall street where the banks had become too big and too too concentrated for the larger economy and what i feel quality quantities it all to me is done is to reinforce. that structure in the u.s. economy and a lot of the benefits of q.e. have all truly gone to the banks rather to to to main street america so. 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 and 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 third at this point is the only one doing something and so it feels like it keeps on having to do something to help mild to moderate is worth doing is that not only helping but it may actually be hurting for four more dramatic us economy. i had a nasty international peacekeepers patrol the streets of britain. people are angry a very small very very densely populated of people as you can see so terrace houses people living on top of each other. with some angered by the flood of immigrants into the country some locals take matters into their own hands to try and bridge the divide the full story is just a few minutes away. a fresh wave of fury tex's which has been struck by a series of small earthquakes some scientists blame the drilling for the tremors which caused the casualties but still left locals quite literally shaken the latest

three point six magnitude quake was the strongest in gears and fueled panic in some texan communities the state has seen a massive boom and fracking operations as oil and gas corporation seek to top into the most lucrative deposits and i was spoke with local resident sharon wilson who lived near a fracking aside but was forced to abandon her. at one time i turned my tap on and nothing came out which was very frightening the air was degraded horribly lots of air attacks trott's lie no i it was just it completely changed the character the worst concern for me was to end up without water or my son could end up being sick from the chemicals that he was being exposed to i lost eighty thousand dollars in property value as they expand this practice more and more people are harmed and more and more people join the opposition right now there is

a an entire neighborhood over five hundred homes and where they are fracking very very close to two hundred fifty feet in some cases from people's backyards and he is a fracking to extract fossil fuels is actually more hostages than burning them that's according to british franking acts of stephen hall. which better alternatives are the disposal of we don't need for the whatsoever not only the people such as me that is the transition feel old it america from the leakage is from all the wells that we've done is that there's lots of three to seven out the sense of leakage of the gas into the atmosphere is a lot more paulton greenhouse gas the whatsis c o two is so you know this is just a piece of it's actually a more harmful form of energy than burning coal in public stations.

and coming up later this hour carrying details on the latest allegations of rebel atrocities in syria that's been plenty more stories of a short break. ukraine a country divided its government's decision not to pursue integration with the european union and opt for russia instead as western politicians and media in an uproar 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. if you're thinking about an alcoholic drink associated with russia it's probably not going to be one that springs into your head but they've been making it here on the black sea coast for more than two thousand kids and there's an industry which really can compete with the best the rest of the world has to offer i've come to

meet some of the people going the greats and to see if i can find out the secret to the perfect. but. i. guess. you're watching. the u.k. is now home to almost two hundred thousand roma immigrants looking for jobs on cash many brits i'm worried because they believe few of the new condos are ready to adopt to the rules of their new home staff reports now on how some locals have made an unconventional step to deal with them not. repping up against the cold 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 hall the trying to save a 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 a say concerned about even on a monday night in winter large groups of roma men congregated on this small high street i did you see saw. me see something look around this mass you sensed that night most of the roma here from the back here and they're eager to tell us that they don't want to cause any trouble for my friend you know my people properly speaking just so if you have to live in horrible you know a pocket for drop you know problem here for two thousand and nine pm curfew has

been put in place here for under sixteen can see the police thanks coming down here so they have what sort of significant presence in the area in let's have got a presence here from eight o'clock in the flame right the way through until i can i mean it's a very difficult thing to police the situation has gained national attention with 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 concerned me was how that would make very much population and the longstanding population feel that they're living in an area where tensions are 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 one of the most persecuted ethnic minority groups in europe the migrant patrol at. trying to aid integration here but with restrictions being

removed next year allowing both gary and sam remain ians to enter the u.k. sparking wide public concern it won't just be the patrol keeping a careful watch what plays out on the streets of this small local community service r.t. reporting from sheffield in the north of england. international news and brave this hour hundreds of first class is storage the only half courters in thailand skeletal been called during the largest civil unrest in yaz demonstrators demand in the real goal of the prime minister. recently survived a no confidence vote in the last few days klaus had to say shovel ministerial buildings and come the power to the police headquarters the prime minister is widely seen as a puppet of her brother who's a tycoon convicted of corruption. china has sent fighter jets to retain a patrol it's nearly a declared air defense zone over disputed islands in the east china sea this comes

after japan and south korea or how their own military finds flights over the area in a challenge to beijing the disappeared it threatens to overshadow u.s. vice president joe biden's trip to the region next week washington maintains a robust military presence in the region trying to contain china's growing clout. in argentina construction workers clashed with environmentalists protesting against the building of a plant belonging to food to try and monsanto billie's had to use tear gas after union members of time around twenty demonstrators in the central cooled of a province the building of a corn recessing blonde was halted last month one purchases began disrupting supplies into the site actually to say genetically modified crops are dangerous but workers say their livelihoods are being affected. a u.s.

military commander has called the obgyn the president to apologize for recent drone strike which washington admits killing and wounded as civilians and child was among those killed in the deaths sparked outrage from the afghanistan government and come during a crunch talks on the security box that would outline the terms of america's military presence in the country beyond twenty four. another extremely disturbing video from syria has surfaced online and on it's a clip posted by the syrian observatory for human rights allegedly shows hardline islamist militants publicly executing members of a rival rebel group however they couldn't be independently verified and i have to warn you it's very graphic the kneading man believed to be from a moderate islamist group is claimed. by members of the islamic state of iraq live and another kind of fill aid operation in the region the terrorist cells been

pushing for more control and rebel held areas in syria against more moderate opposition factions and his job from the center for middle east studies believes says no chance of bringing radicals like this to the negotiating table that defines the prospects for peace. we're going to have in geneva two table is one on the right and nine members represent the regime and the other opposition. and in between that is a quick period you know to. assist that. regime doesn't have any problem he can nominate in five minutes. delegations the syrian official delegation but what we can do with the other is we have several the opposition we have did of course we have i don't see who did not accept to be on the brand of the coalition we're still talking about the opposition outside we have the opposition political opposition

inside what about the free syrian army and who are on the learned we do i still made the number sixty thousand on that if they are not the represented on a journey of all we can. achieve via. to ground zero of saudi arabia to protect the people from evil although in his eyes that means for venting women from getting behind the will of a car had a line to find out more on that. and a fully equipped kind of a u.k. bank designed as a shelter from nuclear strikes it's all been taken down by police now but you can read all about it at all to the. right to see. her story. and i think.

as the olympic torch continues its journey from the highest highs to the low as the depths those preparing to compete at sochi twenty four spain are getting themselves in shape for the winter games and the host city is working just as hard to make sure it's ready it's a reports out 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 this is going to be the home of the olympic torch now president vladimir putin for the stadium itself which is quite unique it is a shaped like a seashell and to myself that is the black sea and to my left is the mountainous

cluster where all 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're when it's sunny the sun is reflected up on 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 sporting activities happening here because it is kept for those opening and closing ceremonies and after the olympics it will be used for twenty eight feet for the world cup so we're here everything is almost ready and we're just waiting for the final nails and balls to be put in on the fish a stadium and of course our present body which has already stemmed russia ready to host the world in seoul she come twenty fourteen. and at nag stand how long the fat between poor ben brussels in the center of the base and piece of crosstalk.

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 excuse to build up some infrastructure by i think this is a big misconception let's look back to the two thousand lympics and beijing your china is really develop in the last twenty years but the 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 but 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. thanks for. the reply. did you know the price is the only industry specifically mentioned in the constitution and. that's because a free and open process is critical to our democracy which albus us role. in fact the single biggest threat facing our nation today is the corporate takeover of

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dropped. below and welcome to crossfire all things are considered i'm peter lavelle ukraine a country divided its government's decision not to pursue integration with the european union and opt for russia instead because western politicians and media in an uproar 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. to cross-talk ukraine i'm joined by my guest will it give all again.