i'm. saying here hundreds of thousands of pro e.u. protesters battle police and storm government buildings in the ukrainian capital there demanding that president quit for not signing a trade deal with europe. a breakthrough nuclear agreement reached between iran and six world powers is met with angry statements from israel and capitol hill hawks that claim the deal is a failure. scotland independence movement launching its manifesto. you don't pull the whole damaging to pull the seas are pushing so many people into pull the critics say the way the text is heavy on detail and light on facts.

and moscow i matras are bring you today's top stories and a look back at the week's news one hundred fifty people most of them police have been wounded in street battles in the ukrainian capital sunday's ban on demonstrations that didn't stop hundreds of thousands of pro e.u. protesters from throwing bricks at officers in storming government buildings are the reports from kiev. tensions are dying down here in the central capital although still it's pretty much at a knife edge ten twenty thousand protesting in the central square the city administration building was earlier taken over by the activist of a nationalist party they now describe it as the headquarters of the new revolution another boiling point here is the building of the administration of ukraine's president earlier during the day we saw enormous clashes happening at this building as a standoff continues with protesters and the police i went there and i saw the situation

how it was straight after a huge huge brawl with the police the building of the administration of ukraine's president now under siege with several hundred a riot policemen protecting the building they said are buses so that the protesters cannot reach inside and these few a few meters basically maybe twenty meters between them and the protesters we walked here we saw literally maybe several hundred of them over here we see shattered glass you can see probably over here some shattered glass on the ground the rocks which were used to throw a bit to throw at the police several hours ago the protesters that tried to assault a building the even used a bulldozer to try to break the police lines as we can see there fail the police are pretty much in control over here even though we're not even being let inside this perimeter because the policeman appearing that the clashes my erupt at any minute it's actually quite hard to speak here because of all the tear gas which was used still pretty much felt in the air and the situation is still very very tense here another incident i witnessed with my own eyes

a group of some activist attempted to take down the lenin monument in central kiev and also the police came to the scene tried to protect the monument in central kiev the focus of the protests has now shifted from the dissent disagreement with the current government that it did not sign the free trade agreement with the european union to rage at the government's actions particularly dispersing. the peaceful protest on friday night or rather a typically brutal dispersal by the police and this is the main reason why so many people have taken to the streets there demanding the impeachment of the president the demanding the resignation of the government and we saw how activists of a certain political movement set up steel fences around the central area blocking it for traffic but some statements coming from politicians here suggesting that things may calm down starting on monday because the speaker of the ukrainian parliament has called on the ruling party members of government and the opposition

to sit at the same table to negotiate how things will resolve in ukraine to avoid any more confrontations we also have this is not confirmed reports but some sources are suggesting that the delegation of ukraine's government may be traveling to europe next week to read to go see aid to the euro association deal but again this information is yet to be officially confirmed by the ukrainian government alexey keeping us updated about what's going on in the ukrainian capital by a twitter so make sure you follow him to stay current on events in kiev that mr rader is calling for a new ukrainian president now because president viktor yushchenko which refuses to sign on with the e.u. but professor mark allman historian at oxford university thinks the street protesters don't speak for the majority of ukrainians. i think we should because of attributing what's going on to the majority of people i suspect that the tragedy of the great majority of people rather passive and certainly all the dissolution about politics when both equation the risk now is that we have

a hold of tickets to minorities and it may be that the group home the streets with kind of paramilitary nationalist support from the west not just western plane but also from some of the were pretty new countries they feel able to strip states of kind of who was seen anyone in time of same time and this could change go but it could lead to a very violent situation and it could be a question of the ukraine is viable state just finally brussels it was very surprised when they made this u. turn and decided not to join up with this agreement is it worried about losing face over this is it was there more to it just finally. i think brussels of the west in general would prefer to be winners out of this and they hope that mr yanik group which will shoot him so for now the forty five against the world will handle this crisis very well so far that he will try to curry favor back with a good rescue group maybe simply there is nothing in the rest ukrainian situation easily all simply. state go into why the ukrainian government is taking so much

flak for not signing any you deal the opposition insists that a move toward europe is the right one but the government doesn't see it that way because brussels isn't offering the e.u. membership or other privileges that most europeans get many are saying there are major economic advantages to working with europe ukraine's leadership though thinks the deal may actually cause an economic downturn we've heard some e.u. officials say that kiev was pressured by russia not to sign but others say ukraine's ties with moscow are beneficial of giving them a free trade zone increased exports and other perks and associate professor of political economy jeffrey summers says the trade relations with ukraine have hurt the country. if we take a look at eastward expansion of the e.u. we can see that it has in the past produced the industrial ization in the east labor migration from the east to the west and so we've also seen western european

consumer products don't in the east and i think that the e.u. is again experiencing of course of the past four or five years economic crisis and it sees further eastward expansion as a way to resolve their own problems in the west here. so i mean you know politicians who blame russia for stalling here was a deal have been cheering on protesters right in the ukrainian capital international relations professor mark sloboda from moscow state university says what the officials are doing is a violation of international law the fact that they are essentially on the ground in kiev cheer leading the protesters on calling for a revolution in the country and this is a tantamount to the regime change that has been called for in german newspapers earlier today this is a most agree just violation of the united nations charter and international law a violation of the sovereignty and the not interference of the domestic affairs of other states and i think russia cannot take that the whole world community cannot

take this. act lightly. check out r.t. dot com for the latest graphics photos and news from kiev we have a detailed timeline of events in case you missed anything. it's coming week enron and six world powers are set to draft the first steps towards implementing the nuclear deal that was recently sealed in geneva the process isn't expected to be an easy one though although it's seen as a diplomatic breakthrough greene has already faced fierce criticism including from iran's longstanding regional foes plus capitol hill hardliners are his guy nature has details 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 needed in geneva. last night is not is over. it's a story in state. it's not new a series of stories 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 appease the hawks punches are flying and 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 called 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 norm opponents of the deal in washington and abroad are already working not too late it's a by the six month trial the obama administration is walking on eggshells before congress israel and its allies in the call 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 activists caleb up and says now you know who's persistent war rhetoric may eventually lead to israel becoming further isolated

iran has made clear they have no desire to develop nuclear weapons whatsoever they have no desire to develop nuclear weapons but yet they get this fear mongering this talk of you know this these words coming out of netanyahu they're very frightening and people of the world want peace they want they want cooperation between countries they don't want to hostility and war and if netanyahu continues to be committed to this aggression to this hostility he's going to going to be further isolated around the world because what he wants is dead diametrically opposed to what the people the world are striving for at this time. is fracking to blame or residents in the u.s. are arguing that the technology should be banned. the u.s. state of texas shaken by a string of earthquakes and some residents think that the controversial fracking technology is responsible more details later in the program. these are all the three d. printed forts that wouldn't of making this far and where there is progress there

could be danger after a break we report on technology know how that allows the creation of fully functioning guns with the use of a three d. printer stay with us for more. weeks between thanksgiving and christmas in the united states a conflict roughly twenty percent of the annual motor traffic during that period of time people are much less rational one day when they shall certainly in our modern people often spending money that they don't have and spending it on things they don't need to accomplish what they haven't really gone. dramas to try to be ignored. stories others refuse

to notice. food since changing the world's lights never. to picture posters days. from roads to the. fourteen minutes past the hour now it's been a critical week for scotland in the long lead up to its vote on independence late next year leader alex salmond launched a weighty document laying out what he labeled a mission statement for the nation's future or he's tests are cilia looks at the key points but forward by the pro independence movement. 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 doing it could hardly be simple and 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 dependents the prime minister david cameron and those belonging to the no conferences that independence is laden with risks and problems with warnings on just about everything taxes and debt the no 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 of mobile phones if the split happens at the list goes on it's dubbed a project fear by the yes camp and they accuse the government of scare mongering scots into voting no and they'd sist the white paper will prove that independence would bring about a jobs boom and a thriving economy concerns that resonate with voters this white paper answers some

six hundred fifty questions and the details here really are two main categories here one those that will be negotiated during the transition period and another of those will be made to an independent scottish government is formed they promise indeed a lot of breaking down of all the policies they want to pursue but let's listen to a bit of what they said that we would call a halt to damaging which mr policies are pushing soo many people into poverty abolish the bedroom tax and ensure that the incomes of the lowest paid keep peace with the course of living the main crux of the matter here is that many critics are pointing out asking if this white paper is going to be presenting the poor because a lot of the premises presented requires another party in negotiation. what if the part of the bag of england that the british government or even e.u. member states in terms of e.u. membership what if they don't agree to what alex salmond has been proposing but he

said that he is confident everything that's contained in six hundred seventy pages will be addressing every single question if anything this white paper is going to be a springboard for even more debates in the months to come one member of the scottish parliament who campaigns for independence has hit back at criticism of the new white paper is to detail. it's a very accessible document it's in a sort of catalogue style and very defined chapters and of course it's going to be online with easy search facility people will be able to look and see what particular issues they want to investigate new sounds for most of my life scotland has not the government such as voted for it and you don't think independents people will vote for their representatives to be school once and it's making choices and poses of choices and defining the future of us is base for scotland and the people who live in what can scotland very straight forward despise them can say and. a

school scuffle may have more serious consequences than just a black eye a student suffered a brain injury and remains in a coma after a texas sheriff's deputy tasered him following a fight in a school hallway click on r g dot com for the full story there. was an indian spacecraft for the red planet has left the earth's atmosphere starting its three hundred day mission on our website all the details. and unexplained surge of earthquakes have put many texas communities on edge and many residents think they know the cause they say the shale gas fracking industry is to blame or more specifically the methods they use the notion is nothing new but the proof has been hard to come by during fracking thousands of tons of toxic chemicals are pumped below the surface to loosen rocks and release gas but experts say that leaves the ground highly unstable earlier we spoke with a local resident sharon wilson who lived near a fracking site but was forced to abandon her home. 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 that my son could end up being sick from the chemicals that he was panic says to you 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 in demand where there fracking very very close steve hundred fifty feet in some cases from people's backyards. bahrain's government is again coming under fire for its alleged human rights violations despite calls from ministry of mashable authorities have failed to free one of the country's most well known activists who is now already serving most of

his prison term he was put behind bars in two thousand and twelve and is now eligible for release but is likely to stay locked up on top of that authorities have recently detained the leader of the european bahraini organization for human rights hussein jawad was arrested when he came to a police station to file a defamation complaint against a government or a newspaper his wife tells us that the bahraini authorities know her husband is innocent but still won't let him go. craney channels that they nor that my husband is innocent and he is just defending human rights and he is exposing them by nations practice by the government of bahrain i have tried to accompany it with a police station with a. north client has been narrowed accorded mr neville vegetables and sent and he is a peaceful and human rights defender he always calls for peaceful movements amnesty international and other organizations as well as e.p.o. which are has been pressuring the bahraini government to relieve him but there is

no cooperate from bahrain site the government has to respond at least it two or three of these letters being sent or calls are a joy to statements or whatsoever. taking a look now at some other stories making headlines across the globe a passenger train has crashed hurling off the tracks in the bronx borough of new york city killing four people more than sixty sixty others reported wounded twelve in critical condition firefighters and emergency workers are on the scene the derailment happened along a curve in a designated slow speed area according to several passengers the train appeared to have been moving faster than normal before the crash. egyptian security forces fired tear gas at cairo's tahrir square to break up a rally staged against the army backed government several hundred protesters descended into the notorious where chanting slogans are against military rule in egypt the riots follow the adoption of a draft constitution by a fifty member panel it's drawing criticism for putting even more power into the

hands of the military and prohibiting a religious based political parties from being. a second day of heavy gun battles in the lebanese city of tripoli has left nine dead and more than seventy injured at least one woman and an off duty soldier among the victims according to local media sectarian clashes erupted between residents of neighborhoods backing rival sides in syria's war the lebanese army deployed to the city seven shoulder is thought to have been among the injured. thousands of people marched through the streets of paris protesting a planned government tax reform it's the latest in a string of demonstrations across france the region of brittany has been hit by frequent rallies against a so-called new eco tax on trucks that's feared to undermine competitiveness of the local industry protests are seen as a sign of growing frustration with the socialist government's economic policies. as three d. technology rapidly gains grounds in our everyday lives regulators are looking for

ways to get a grip on it from sex toys to fully functioning handguns its range is quickly widening artie's marie important i reports that some lawmakers are concerned. rhett's shooting range in austin tex. this 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 eric much later is a project coordinator at solid concepts a company specializing in three d. printing here in prince arena r.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 bar after getting a federal firearms license the company used a process called direct metal laser simpering to produce this browning nine hundred

eleven pistol the three d. printed in metal gun has fired over one thousand rounds in the meantime solid concepts has manufactured its second nineteen eleven firearm 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 it will be years before metal printers become available on the consumer market not exactly the world's first mini metal maker has already been created and with laser centering patents set to expire in february it's predicted that metal desktop printers will hit the consumer market before you know it 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 house who. alongside the microwave and flat screen t.v. . what people choose to physically in the privacy of their home. will be beyond the control of the last couple. of point i am r.t. texas the first functional printed gun was created in may this year but it was a single shot model made of plastic six months later was developed a fully functional metal copies of the world's most iconic hand got what expert in the field told us that the biggest danger is hidden behind the ability of three d. printed firearms to have any shape. 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 the flower vase or something else and so that there is this ability to make things in any shape and for 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. coming up after the break worlds apart with stocks on a boyko stay with us here are two. ukraine is in a tough spot right now trying to figure out whether to join the e.u.

or the arrangements custom union it would be nice if they would you know maybe allow the populace to vote for their future via referendum but sadly it looks like the politicians will be making a historic decision i can see why some people want to look west and some people want to look east but i don't understand why so-called ukrainian nationalists want so desperately to join the e.u. first off any nationalist groups in the e.u. are automatically demonised as right wing extremists and the politically correct west patriotism is pretty much a dirty word generally nationalist like their culture and the people who are part of it but if you look at migration trends within the e.u. we see that the slavic part of it is flooding western europe looking for work i have many relatives from the slavic part of the e.u. and almost all of them have to work abroad and might sound nice to be able to work in europe but the reality is that ukrainians will probably be paid even less than bulgarians rumanians to clean toilets in london ukrainian nationalists don't have to like russia or join the customs union or join any bloc of countries but advocating a future for themselves the e.u. seems absolutely backwards at least to me but that's just my opinion.

what is the fate of the house of saud its list of complaints against washington is long and getting longer the saudis are furious over western dealings with iran disappointed that obama didn't bomb syria and one of its only real friends in the region is israel given all of this can the house of saud afford what it calls an independent foreign policy. economic down in the final. days. and the rest will be a really. long

welcome to the world of part before the shopping season just around the corner some of us can't wait to draw into bargain hunting while all those ancient the idea of having to shop for gas how to survive the many temptations and pressures of the holiday season without causing a down to your finances onto your relationship well to discuss that i'm now joined by environmental psychologist and consumer behavior bureau on the hill thank you very much for your time sir now the tradition of giving gifts is usually thought of something voluntary something that is nineteen pounds social relationships social interactions but i think nowadays it's almost become an obligation if you fail to come up with gifts for a new year all christmas you may suffer

a certain social consequences i wonder how much of that is due to the moguls of consumerism who i guess would benefit from feeling this pressure to buy something even if it's something that is totally useless being a good gift gift giver is giving the tokens of your feelings toward someone else and also it isn't the amount of money to. to spend it is the thought that goes into it. i agree with you but i think if you go around helping malls. pretty much all around the world in a couple of weeks prior to christmas or the new year you see a lot of people who are really stressed and they they feel this pressure to come up with a gift they want these gifts to be very special for their loved ones but ultimately they're just under very heavy burden of.