are you. ready for. freedom of speech and. the freedom to watch. ukraine witnesses its largest protests in almost a decade hundreds are injured government buildings are assaulted and both sides accuse a child of provocations also. going to hear the founding fathers of the less unity party hoping the question isn't what it will give a voice to those of feel on the represented by the current government british leftists return to the grass roots in a challenge to what they call a rotten establishment that has sold out of the country's working class ideals. problem mass addiction to a single drug again than is being blamed for a nationwide shortage of drinking balls.

international news and comment live from moscow your international with me. and welcome to the program another day of tension in the ukrainian campus hold thousands remain in a key of central square while arthurs has moved to the prime minister's office process to stem the violence during the night government buildings was stormed and hundreds of people were injured including police protesters and journalists demonstrators are demanding the president's resignation following his rejection of an e.u. trade integration deal also is really going to watch in the events and. we cannot talk about the number of people subsiding as a matter of fact there have been more and more people coming in and sound the locals are saying that there are buses entire buses of people coming in from

various regions of ukraine to join the protesters and in the key and central independence square these are the largest protests ukraine has seen in almost a decade since the orange revolution unfortunately they are also they also seem to be the most violent protests and just as many years my colleague alex here said ski was in kiev over the past few days and he's been covering the events several hundred people have gathered in front of the government building there now blocking it obviously the book in the road as well so that no government official can get inside this is their way of telling that this government needs to go the night has been more or less peaceful there have been no clashes reported even though there were some warnings coming from the police at some point that they will try to get back the city administration building which the protesters took over last night during the protests the tension is pretty much tangible in the same protest is happening in front of the presidential going to stray should building i went there last night and i saw that the cord on between the protesters and the police there

still remaining there's a very thin line separating those protesting and those defending the presidential administration the administration of the president building became the scene of a battlefield yesterday when several hundred supporters clashed with the police in a very routine matter for ukraine with rocks flying towards the police tear gas use flash bangs it was pretty much a hell breaking loose we are certainly watching the situation how it unravels here and give but for now these people are here they're not letting one inside the ride police are inside they've blocked the entrance with these buses as you can see and the standoff continues in the korean capital we're talking about who threw the first stone there and the violence has taken place in kiev over the last couple of days it's really hard to pinpoint the origin of course if you. ask the supporters of the western integration and they largely seem to come from the western regions of ukraine and they're saying that it's it's their opponents whereas those who are

supportive of closer cooperation with russia saying all the provocations came from those who are looking for integration with europe and yet there is a third party of people who are saying that all of this is in fact done by forces from the outside of ukraine in fact when you look also at the reaction of some of the western politicians to the events in ukraine you will see that some of them particularly those of polish origin are very supportive. if you are bored of europe and we will support you reverse. you know. you can here to support your dream your striving towards the european union to support your march march towards but i know that there are forces in ukraine who think different. and of course how events in kiev will turn now to lou time will tell but at this point we are like more and more people to coming out to support the protesters and you

have central independence square. and we asked the school skate director of the european center of her political analysis whether it's acceptable for punish politicians to chairperson asses in ukraine. as far as i know no one knew that the president either the prime minister has entitled them to speak and avoids the polish. polish official opinion about the events in kiev. i don't know if mr protege vetoed the right to speak on behalf of european parliament i think they're trying to get some more political out and sooner rather here in poland for the polish public opinion done to earn some points on the into and they are enough so i didn't really seriously worry about that they are speeches but of course their speeches are let's say at least intolerable if we look at that point of view of the diplomatic relations between the two countries if we look at

the to from the point of view that means that both the chevy the deputy speaker of european parliament and he hasn't had the right to voice the opinion of the whole european parliament i guess. even footage from kiev here at rioters at the it's about organized groups misstep the school ski believes that's evidence of outside influence tearing out violence in order to put more pressure on the government. first and foremost we see professionalism of those who have organized the protests before that brought us we have heard about the activities of as several embassies and geos financed and supported by different countries by foreign countries so we see that this is the kind of president exerted by external forces for the ukrainian government for ukraine and i'll three days to think once again that box.

which ties these geopolitical choice which geo economical choice would be right and better for ukraine. ukraine said it needed time to sort out its ever growing foreign debt and work out how to fund a modernization program kiev said this would have helped save jobs before it ended into any deal with the e.u. but a foreign policy analyst veronica question in a couple things the e.u. won't let you grain profit from europe's economy as european union officials and has a few rypien states try to explain the advantages of european membership to ukrainian police. they couldn't name even a few ukrainian products that would be able to penetrate the european market and there is only one explanation for that is that there would be none indeed the european market is a very protected market and it is actually the ukrainian market that

europe needs particularly in this time of in economic crisis so it is ukraine is viewed as an extension of the european market. and let's now take a look at how the ukrainian procedures have unfolded in the past couple of weeks so they started on november the twenty first soon after the government said it was suspending a major trade deal with the new rallies on the capital's independence square last night and not the week with several thousand demonstrators and police occasionally engaging in scuffles on friday night however security forces ran out of patients and raided the camp using sheer force to disperse the crowd authorities were quick to buy any protest in central kiev but this has only served to encourage. the opposition that took a day to regroup and the left the square only to return in their hundreds of

thousands to retake the heart of the capital and call for a revolution now they protesters control the mayor's office have tried to storm the presidential palace and are demanding he resigns along with the entire government and of course we're keeping an eye on this is ration in kiev on our c dot com and there you can find all the news up days as well as the most striking videos and photos from the protests and rising. weary of what they see as the broken promises of britain's ruling factions acts of is laying the foundation of a new turn or two left unity party its aim is to revive the working class ideals of the labor party which they say now only caters to big business as sassier finds out

whether the time is right for change there. this area right here in front of the house of parliament the house of commons a scene of the worst protest from those who are gets the bedroom. or the very high cost of living that's simply unsustainable for many in this country the two thousand and thirteen british social attitudes survey found that about seventy five percent of people fear that the political system is not working for them so they're disenchanted dissolution and looking for another solutions gathered here found in the office of the left unity party hoping the creation of this new party will give a voice to those who feel like resented by the current government we conservatives and stooges launch an all out class war on the poorest people in this country and labor is doing nothing about it britain is different to the rest of europe in most of the european countries never call to the left people in poverty if that's the best they can do with their economy we can think of it better where would it be ok

has been quoted as saying that what the u.k. independence party had done all the right by creating a party that seriously challenged conservatives who want to do on the left now they acknowledge that change will not call me over night but if anything what movements like this highlight is that a recent trend of citizens reaching a point where they are looking for the truth of that which they feel simply do not exist within the walls of these institutions. reporting from london. and. he will be eager to point out the david cameron has gathered some of britain's richest businessmen and industrialists around him for a trip to china for the breakthrough or portion of the visit where the prime minister is going into overdrive to secure beijing's favor i'm counting. on those bahrain boasts about its achievements in ensuring human rights would talk to the wife of an axe of this who was jailed for complaining about an official newspaper.

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a tip angola's story. here. altie spanish to find out more visit i to allahabad dot com. this is a international line from moscow welcome back and i'm controllable says for one not caustic and yemen is threatening to leave the whole nation shortall wolf the country's capital has almost shoot itself dry already as also has this account for now for paul. it's midday in sun not like clockwork each afternoon these now only with people buying cut oh my god is the essence of nature if we don't chew we're not. banned in many countries but legal in yemen the leaves contain

a mild narcotic and almost everyone chews more than ninety percent of men according to the world health organization at this market countless varieties and plenty of customers. so when so this is about five dollars worth of caught stealing the substance of the moment national past time somebody will say and national a dataset without knowing anything about it diction comes out of a hole one that the country as a whole list of is it ok for that you to logically yemen has no shortage of problems but a shortage of water could make some not the first world capital to run dry current is one of the main culprits. yemen is chewing itself to death the country has limited water resources and ninety three percent of the extracted water goes to agriculture and that's mostly to grow product amid the rugged landscape on the outskirts of the capital got trees as far as the eye can see if they can be

harvested all year round and the farmers here say they earn more cash from drugs than food it takes an incredible amount of water to irrigate these got fields the more you pump in the faster these trees grow but even here it's taking its toll of the thirty wells that serve at this village ten have already gone dry and two more are on the verge. in some know the consequences are already visible those who can afford it by their water from these trucks the rest struggle to get by however they can there are public taps but. the water is often dirty and shortages are common the city's groundwater could be depleted in less than a decade but for the poorest residents it's as good as gone should be talking about out of water in ten years has actually run out of water it's a matter of definitions now. and that's not just some countries who have the most

serious was the problem in the world. it's a race against time and one that yemen is losing but here the evenings belong to cart men gathered together to talk smoke and chew though their chosen a scapes for a country that has precious few of them and for now escaping the water crisis we simply have to wait another day. to seek our front of our tea sun our yemen. still up ahead for you this hour leaving the promised land for good. news right for me at least life was like every day going to war. and bush's israelis line up to head overseas the struggling economy at home pushing them to seek money and prospects abroad that's late. a year or so missing the dalai lama it appears human rights concerns have taken a back seat for david cameron who is working to secure investment from china the

british prime minister is in a state visit with more than one hundred businessmen in tow and they're desperate for beijing's favor david cameron lavished praise on china stressing at every turn that britain was its best friend in europe the pm even promised to personally champion beijing's interests in europe back after china pledged millions to buy a share in the u.k.'s nuclear industry european style are more guarded fearing that and restricted trade would give china too much power and the european parliament member questions david cameron's motives that. time is clearly a very big and important power and the increasingly important if you want to any country in the world wants to see trying to present opportunity. if it cameron is saying that it should be you trying to free trade agreement many of us would agree with that at least in principle but actually less than ten days ago there was an

e.u. trying to summit one this is very firmly ruled out. trade competencies. at the moment lloyd tardy with your opinion the assumption nothing david cameron can do a lot she's actually saying to china that we're certain to leave. and then our website is the all seeing eyes of australia for a few weeks the germans they really signed up member of the anglosphere global spy network was keeping its own citizens under close watch to r.t. dot com for the details. and the international delegation says migrant workers used to build the infrastructure needed for. the world cup a little modern and modern day slaves were all about that on our website. barry's government has released a list of twenty six points it sees as milestones and efforts to reform the rights and freedoms of citizens but human rights groups and the opposition have dismissed

it as smoke and mirrors and there's already been international outrage over bahrain's decision to keep opposition leader in the billboard job in jail despite him being eligible for release another blow for the protest movement or the arrest of hussein jawad in another major right because rights campaigner and his wife asked darwish told r.t. husband is innocent and the government knows it. really channels ignore that when a husband is innocent and he is just defending human rights and he is exposing why he should write this why the government of rage i have tried to company. with the police station with the. confusion norris plant has been near record of mr neville burgess and and he's an evil and human rights defender he always calls for peaceful movement amnesty international and other organizations as well as our has been pressuring the bahraini government to release and there is no cooperation from

bahrain's the government to respond. to or these letters being sent or calls or joint statements or whatsoever in. saudi arabia that is the focus and crosstalk coming up in a few hours after the recent iran nuclear deal the saudi monarchy has expressed doubts on the loyalty of its old our lives and his gas debate the shifting sands. the saudis are furious over western dealings with iran disappointed that obama didn't bomb syria and determined to export its radical form of islam can the house of saud afford what it calls an independent foreign policy so are you arabia for years isolation they really cannot carry out independent foreign policy because of their regimes limited strength and durability every government the middle east except turkey in israel because their democracies every single other government is fragile you look at

a fairly stable country like jordan it is fragile as well i hope for side arabia's would become a constitutional monarchy more like jordan but saudi arabia has lots of work to do . young israelis are streaming out of their home country to start a life in greener economic postures as aussies policy or reporters this is roger saying of the tension between both the stay and those who go. their ancestors may have called it the promised land but more and more young israelis are seeking their fortunes far from its golden shaws a former israeli prime minister yitzhak rabin once branded those who immigrated from israel cowards but these days most of the people who are leaving are young educated smart and successful many don't come back there's a word in hebrew for those israelis who leave your dream which means descending until recently it was attributed to misfits lower class and people who couldn't

find their place in society but alone a is a straight a pupil she want to scholarship to study at the american university in washington d.c. the fact that that's the only jewish country crazy a certain role but it's not something that should limit ourselves. but the debate was reignited after two of this year's nobel prize winners in chemistry were israelis who left for the states an embarrassing reminder of the extent to which local talent has fled very bible has a computer technician who sitting up his own business in the german capital in his road for me at least life was like every day going to war your always fight with your customers you fight with your client i had my own business there and it was always a struggle and your life is more calm you can relax you can sit quiet you can sleep quietly like there remain is radius land up here which is why the country's finance minister recently funded from his facebook page that he's

a little impatient with people who are willing to throw the only country that jews have into the trash because burnin is more convenient actually pissed me off. to read this comment on why if i stay there it's because it's good for me financially it's good for me socially but bottom line it's still economics for many the most common complaint among those israelis living abroad is that back home salaries are low and prices high and it's almost impossible to make ends meet. it's sick lift israel two years ago with his ecuadorian wife after giving israel a try he decided to leave for her country if israel was in such a. good. i wouldn't have left. tens of thousands of israelis live today abroad to israel's founding fathers it's a sad limited goodbye to the beloved country. r t tel aviv. and now

for some more global headlines this hour as have been involved in violent clashes with police around the government buildings in the thai capital running battles around to death demonstrators continued to demand the prime minister's resignation but. is refusing to step down saying it would be unconstitutional over the weekend large crowd has passed on by a cop to a standstill. thousands of opposition activists have marched in hundreds to a journey there for show results of this week's national election they say the vote was arranged by their candidate. is the rightful winner for lead the procession of following the coffin of a party supporter who was killed by security forces hours before the demonstration . and stay with us for sophie and co one so for sure i know it is speaks to the prime minister of georgia that's coming up after the break.

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 the 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 in 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. says emilio so we leave the baby. poses secure. for the physical. forces that no one is asking with to guess that you deserve answers from . politic. talking about language as well but i will only react to situations i have read the

reports from. the no i will leave the state department comment on your letter. to carry out a call it's all your job you know gonna. take you no more weasel words. when you made a direct question he prepared for a change when you when you should be ready for a. critical stage in. the freedom to. go and welcome to. the shevardnadze today where in my native to b.c. capital of georgia though small in size this beautiful country has seen some major

changes in the last decade and police who has been at its very heart there was an hour slump has raised many hopes for a breakthrough but also fears of unknown today what's up to the new government's frontline or a new prime minister. after two terms in office mikhail saakashvili has just been replaced in the presidential seat just like his party was replaced in parliament. but also to such a powerful ruler who turned georgia's economic and political fortunes will the new arrivals be able to prove themselves will they be able to live up to the claim reflected in their policies name will they fulfill the georgian dream. mr prime minister thank you very much for being with us today great to have you on our show . only two years ago you were making your first steps in politics meanwhile georgia is transformed from a presidential republic into

a constitutional republic and all of a sudden you find yourself holding practically absolute power. were you expecting something this huge. frankly i never expected it to happen. however life is a strange thing and it's full of surprises i mean office or position does not imply a luxury neither is it a matter of honor fame once position implies a responsibility more than anything else it is the duty i have assumed before my country and my people and it is the responsibility i have before mr biggs in it when he severely who has put his trust in me and in trusted me with the feet of our country i'm extremely mart of ated i moderated to do it quality job in every way no matter what i do and most importantly i moderated to be honest to my people and my country we should.