a roundup of the headlines this week on. lockdown protesters in the ukrainian capital clash with police in a dispersed violently after walking out over the government's decision to pull out of a trade deal with the e.u. . so if sanctions all diplomatic action was agreed the nuclear deal with iran is a breakthrough but what made it possible also. this agreement has moved much. it will make our partners in the region safer the obama administration is facing pressure from skeptics both at home and abroad to deal comes under fire from washington. to

damaging. to many people. corporation tax cutting free child care and raising the minimum wage scotland outlines how life would be better outside the u.k. repairing the ground for next year's independence vote. top stories of the week end of today here on our international. live in moscow a very warm welcome to you today. protesters in ukraine demanding both the president and the government step down after a crackdown on a mass demonstration in the capital of the use of brute force and tear gas by both the activists and security forces well left all rallies banned for a month and the commotion was

a direct response to the country's leadership rejecting a trade deal with the e.u. . now reporting on why ukrainian officials got cold feet. from smiles to host tiles after kiip said last week would not be signing a free trade pact with europe officials were jumping out of their skin to persuade president going to call the church. or. you could see ropy and politicians were not too happy to hear the korean president citing economic troubles and as it became clear kiev was not going to sign the deal at this point paired with a violent dispersal of protests in the capital that's when you rip assumed a different tone the unjustified use of force goes against the principles to which opened disciplines of the vilna summit we affirmed their inherent. such tactics from europe which have been accusing russia of pressure in ukraine not to sign the

free trade back raised some eyebrows that they should really really stop using the methods of the cold weather on their blackmailing ukraine add that to the e.u. offering no compensations to growing full potential economic losses which could have been catastrophic in practical terms it would be a disaster for the ukrainian people it would mean gas prices going up the prices going up unemployment going up the industrialisation so i think he didn't have a choice the e.u. deal is a very bad one ukraine already has a staggering foreign debt of hundred thirty six billion euro and just more denies the factories to either standards would have cost a staggering one hundred billion or more but the people in the streets cared little about such implications that human we deserved to be in the euro crisis the deal would have allowed us to get better education in europe during the week e of central square was the stage of the mass protest although supporting your integration opposing president acknowledges decision not to sign the euro association deal in vilnius and even in

a typically violent dispersal of their week long sit in on friday night with dozens detained and injured did not stop the protest has begun a call that still insists that the deal with the e.u. . will happen most likely in early twenty fifteen but off the ride police peaceful protesters thousands are converging on the capital kiev to join the opposition's calls for unocal which to hand over the reins. from to you. and here's why the ukrainian government is in over its head right now thousands of protesters as well as the opposition inside the parliament want to move the country inside europe but the government find the notion premature saying the offer does not include such perks as membership or privileges that most europeans enjoy then there's a belief that life inside the union would be cheaper seemingly attractive the government warns this comes at the expense of destroying the country's own economy and getting very little compensation for that now the opposition still insists that

kiev should break free of the pressure coming from moscow but close economic ties with russia including the free trade zone shared business landscape and increased exports and putting the states back together while the e.u. official say moscow is playing an unfair game. young believes brussels is just diverting attention away from its own failings. if the european union's leaders whether individually or collectively started to sing to their shortcomings there'd be no end of problems wouldn't there i mean look at the european union massive run tottenham flowing through ice the choice of the entire union we've got things like fifty percent plus youth unemployment in several mediterranean countries they have a euro currency project which is. built on science by the sort of technocrats who believe that they know the best thing for all people and therefore realistically the only thing the european union can try to do is keep me in storming anybody russia who cares because ultimately the european union this

started and has rendered wonderful supranational trip project is ultimately falling apart at the seams because it has become itself a crumbling soviet style empire which in many cases replicates some of the more ridiculous facets of the old soviet union. it's also the international earlier this week international headlines were dominated by an historic nuclear deal with iran how many out in geneva by six world powers to iran was promised a modest relief to sanctions in return for scaling back its nuclear program but other countries managed to set aside their differences to reach the breakthrough agreement they do still differ on what made it possible more on that point.

it's a deal that saluted diplomats for a decade and as the crucial make or break iran nuclear talks continued into the night details of how they were going for leading the journalists camped out in geneva so we waited and waited and waited while diplomats from six world powers and iran inched their way closer to an historic breakthrough than after sixteen hours a tweet from the e.u.'s top diplomat a deal had been done and the six negotiating powers agreed to recognize iran's right to peaceful nuclear energy including its right to nuclear enrichment on the conditions that its program is placed under street controlled by the i.a.e.a. . as we received word of the event we got details to iran had agreed to reduce its uranium enrichment from twenty to a maximum of five percent used for u.s.

centrifuges while holding construction of a new reactor near the town of iraq this throughout this long list of concessions everyone's foreign minister still had a smile on his face and red sand he won for his country for a partial easing of sanctions allowing to launch a regain control of billions of dollars worth of much needed funds and find banks we believe that it is the sanctions that have brought us to this negotiation and ultimately to the more significant negotiation to follow for a comprehensive agreement others have stressed that it wasn't the stress of more punitive measures but diplomacy that won the day over the night in the case of these talks the fact that that the iranians have shown time after time that there is no evidence that he was in their program is anything but peaceful is something that has been ignored by the western media and western governments but this. despite all that you want really serious has forced these countries to step. in

richmond and again the russians and the chinese have played a very constructive role in the studio in the superfood of the agreement is based on the gone forward by the russian president vladimir putin's demands new president hassan rouhani is also seen as having played a crucial role in making the deal possible he came to power less than three months ago edging to improve iran's relations with the west and i don't think that sanctions played as much of a role as a recognition by the united states and britain and other countries that we need to engage iran because iran is becoming increasingly influential it is only an interim agreements in six months time well how is that how to define a sense of return to the negotiating table that after ten years failed. to meet

with scientists in the middle of the night it's a game changer polyploid a hot seat to meet that. and in the very first moments after the nuclear deal with iran was reached it was clear the agreement left much room for interpretation. enrichment program will continue and will be a part of any agreement now and in defeat this first step does not say that iran has a right to enrichment we spoke to asia times correspondent pepe escobar he believes the u.s. has to perform a balancing act to appease powerful lobbies. despite being war has started at three am in geneva and he's going to be going for another six months kerry had to say that so he could of peace to israel lobby the u.s. congress and this hobby petro dollar law of the us not to mention some neal cons in

the us as well still very thoughtful and even iran it's different they are saying we still have our right to enrich. and it's correct because that deal keeping the reaching you ready until size percent for the next six months for the moment we have a breakthrough it's going to last six months there will be all sorts of interest to try to barge this to you but for the moment we have diplomacy in action something that we haven't seen especially between us and iran for thirty four years well despite celebrations in geneva the deal with iran left many outside the negotiation room rather unhappy i think lutes president obama's opposition at home and america's closest ally in the middle east a guy nature can report on the skepticism over the breakthrough deal. today that diplomacy opened up a new path toward a world that is more secure and flying in the face of president obama what was cute

in the geneva. last night in small is sort of agreement. it's a sort of state. does not mean a safer place in an environment where israel as well as many u.s. lawmakers don't think that iran should develop nuclear technology at all the obama administration had to engage in diplomatic acrobatics to both acknowledge iran's right to peaceful nuclear energy and not acknowledge it at the same time we approach these negotiations with a basic understanding of iran like any nation should be able to access peaceful nuclear energy but because of its record of violating its obligations iran must accept strict limitations on its nuclear program that make it impossible to develop a nuclear weapon the scope and role of iran's enrichment as is set forth in the language within this document says that iran's peaceful nuclear program is subject

to a negotiation. and to mutual agreement despite the official's attempts to obtain the hawks punches are flying security cameras it looks like we've tacitly agreed that they will be enriching for commercial purposes down the road so i think you're going to see on capitol hill again a bipartisan effort to try to make sure that this is not the final agreement another senator marco rubio call the deal quote a blow to our allies in the region who are already concerned about america's commitment to their security and i think a lot of people both in the middle east and on capitol hill are very concerned that this interim deal becomes the new normal opponents of the deal in washington and abroad are already working not too late and survive this six month trial the obama administration is walking on eggshells before congress israel and its allies in the golf as it's trying to convey

a carefully worded message which is you cannot threaten war all the time in washington i'm going to check out very shortly on the program here we take a look at a lawless libya that's in just a few minutes as the authorities are trying to crack down on an islamist militia factions are refusing to lay down arms and come under government control. they are not people with disabilities but the people with limited ability less than one hundred days before the paralympians take the spotlight of a softly winter olympic games he meets a man who managed to turn his life around on the ice for. the finale here on r.t. international the tension between edinburgh and london rose or not this week because the scottish government issued a blueprint for independence ahead of next september's referendum. he would also call a halt to damaging wissmann supporter sees a pushing soo many people into poverty the six hundred seventy page document

outlines plans to cut corporation tax extend free childcare and raise the minimum wage london strongly opposes the idea of separation clashing with edinburgh on issues ranging from currency oil reserves on the e.u. membership let's get more on this now here's our tease tesser us. should scotland be an independent country it's a six word question that requires a simple yes or no but breaking a three hundred year old unit could hardly be simple in the scots are not taking it lightly as it stands only about thirty percent of scots say they will vote for independence a figure those in the yes camp hope to increase by presenting that much anticipated white paper which a scottish national party says has the answers to all the questions about it depends on the prime minister david cameron and throws the ball into the no cap and says that in the car this is laden with risks and problems with warnings on just about everything scotland wants to keep the sterling pounded a currency union with the u.k.

an idea dismissed by westminster taxes and debt the no camp suggests deeper a steady and higher taxes e.u. membership london says scotland could forget about it the trident nuclear program david cameron claims getting rid of it is a bad idea in case of a north korean nuclear attack and there might even be roaming charges on mobile phones if the split happens at the list goes on it's dubbed project fear by the yes camp and they accuse the government of scare mongering scots into voting no and they'd says the white paper will prove that independence would bring about a jobs and a thriving economy cern's that resonate with voters cameron argued that an independent scotland will have to negotiate in the future for the things that house right now the london is signaling that it won't be making it easy for the crux of the matter goes back to economics a recent poll found. but if independents made the five hundred pounds richer more than half the spots were from. reporting from london i'm tests are silly. and

arguing about scottish independence the no campaign doesn't present any constructive reasons for rejecting it but that's the opinion of jonathan shafi the co-founder of the radical independence campaign for me some of the main headlines are just so different the scottish government's approach to key economic concerns are in comparison to basement discussion so far has been one in which what we've seen from the new count has been nothing concerning improved the lives of people on that and we see no idea about. for example start to think about the raising living standards or redistributing wealth in fact what we've seen is the opposite of that we've seen them put forward ideas that are going to maximize the bill for the very top of society not everything and this white people would agree with but i think what we've got to see is that this is the start of i hope a much broader discussion on what sort of scope that we want to live in by thanks

for joining us for today's weekly civil servants and oil company workers in libya's eastern city of benghazi have gone on strike demanding militias leave the area the latest fighting between government troops and armed groups in the city has left fourteen dead before he's ordering locals to stay indoors a freelance journalist reports from tripoli for r.t. . this is what he did want to have no more to you people were killed and more than fifty wounded in a recent clash between islamic militant group sharia and the military says a report by the interior ministry tripoli is witnessing security problems to over forty people were killed and more than two hundred injured at a rally last week in tripoli as protesters clashed with the militias a through central of a number of government buildings the gunmen gave into the demands of the libyan authorities and left tripoli but if he is truly down arms reportedly natives of the city of misrata say were among the first to seek to remove the gaddafi regime in

general the security situation in libya remains unstable believe me as deputy intelligence chief more stuff i know are recently kidnapped outside tripoli's international airport. now the libyan army has been struggling control groups to took part in the overthrow of the country's former leader of course or colonel gadhafi according to some reports there's up to seventeen hundred of them all with different goals libya is also facing an uncontrolled flow of arms estimates say there are around four hundred weapon depots with only twenty of them belonging to the government meanwhile about three thousand and thirty aircraft missiles that have the potential to bring down civilian airliners those have all gone missing regional affairs expert. he says the continued outside interference is causing only more problems for the country. the government is totally incapable of reining in these militias they're not going to disarm there's been

a problem associated with bringing together the various militia groups but many of them are motivated by sectional interests criminal activity and we've seen the fruits of this over the last two weeks and then of course there's the international aspect as well other forces that are coming in from outside of libya also participating in the internal political struggles that are going on in libya itself and then of course we still have the ongoing role of the united states and these other western states who are continually interfering in the internal affairs of libya and now the united states is talking about training some five to seven thousand libyans to be a part of this new national army and this of course could even more consternation inside the country because many of these militia groups even though they were against gadhafi they still do not support the u.s. or nato interfering in the internal affairs of libya at this stage and over on the website right now wheels on fire the russian city of siberia has witnessed an

unusual sight and. rolling down the road for you online right now all the details as well on the website. you'll also find the story of how british officials systematically destroyed secret files that included information on the abuse and torture of locals in former colony details. so i still think a fully functioning gun is something you simply can't make at home or seems it's all about to change as three d. printing makes enormous strides. visited a company that specializes in creating three d. guns some experts say it won't be long before you can do it all yourself. rhett's shooting range in austin texas is normally packed with gun enthusiasm.

today the difference is that he's 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 arena our t. 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 car 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. printing metal gun 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 be 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 gas as in

the chamber of it are just not commonly available so it's stuff only 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 patterns set to expire in february it's predicted that metal desktop printers will hit the consumer market before you know it five years and how 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 technology exists the price will come down. as the world has learned the convenience of technology has a downside we all love to 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. thing the astonishing capability 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 put people choose to physically train in the privacy of their home thing will be beyond the control of the u.s. government going up or naya r.t. texas and some other global headlines for you around one thousand supporters of greece's far right golden dawn party have rallied outside the parliament against the pretrial detention of that leda the movement's key figures are facing charges of forming a criminal organisation on involvement in violence against political opponents a crackdown on the polity followed september's killing of an unsafe fascist activist by a golden dawn meant. to be almost three thousand troops will deploy be deployed to reinforce security and buying cars. following clashes between government supporters and opponents two people dead so far protests have continued for a week now with demonstrators demanding the government resign the discontent by

a proposed amnesty which could see an. minister return from exile. and syrian rebels are reportedly rianne to the historic christian town of mali north of damascus the heavy fighting is currently underway between anti government troops including the al nusra front and the army it is the second attack. of the government forces repelled the rebel advance in the town back in september this year. now while the olympic torch is moving closer to such a day by day athletes with disabilities are getting ready for the moment to shine with the winter paralympics now less than one hundred days away. catherine often met some of russia's medal hopes. i copied as it should be intense fierce determined and. like you. just with two sticks one in each hand with extra risks. for human reason you're constantly flying around at

high speeds collisions and everything for it's all crazy fast and tireless commitment to work or just. training all the time morning to night every day of these seventeen paralympic athletes are in a twenty four team russia sledge hockey team and thirty six year old by doing so you can is their captain he was injured in two thousand and two while serving in the russian military in chechnya. still does more before the age of twenty five i used to have a completely different life were also for both of us but after the injury i turned to sports to realize my potential. he went from swimming to taking up a chance to join russia's brand new sledge hockey squad. no one is going to bring you things on a silver platter but here we had an opportunity to work with since two thousand and nine when we were told we were going to participate in the second paralympics it's

been a 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 demos over what a few minutes ago in eugene was more these guys managed to prove to themselves their relatives and the entire society that they are not people with disabilities but people with limited abilities that he has been a part of paralympics since one thousand nine hundred four but this is the first year that russia will compete this board only came here food years ago by d.m. remembers before the move we were just staring at one another not really knowing what to do first. let me show you. here is the sledge. this is the blade and this small area is the seat. which means it's terribly unsteady like yours so just imagine you have to keep your balance and simultaneously carry the puck you keep falling down and it takes a lot of time to get back up but now with skill that. these sledge hockey 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 crucible it's a proposal it's off to 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 if you can set your goals on the cheese. said captain of my team to the region russia. go on over sushi coming up ok pilbeam it's all about the big big business our financial program venture capital is coming your way.