if we. will. descend over discussion and the ukrainian prime minister's attempts to reason with the parliamentary opposition are drowned out by chance for the cabinets resignation. the divisions in ukraine become more visible with people in these to making it clear they're not as eager to move closer to the e.u. as the crowds on the streets of kiev. also this hour the episode the british newspaper that exposed the world wide braden's is called in for a terra gearing after threats the raids and pleas failed to stop the paper's exposé . guilty as charged dancer with russia's bolshoi

ballet will spend the next six years behind bars for most of my using a brutal acid of time on the company's director. and while some e.u. states struggle under the burden of a stary see we'll look at how iceland strategy of forgiving fortune people's debts has paid off handsomely. international news and comment live from moscow this is all seem to national with me. and welcome to the program. ukraine's parliament has voted against issuing a no confidence motion against the country's covenant in an emotional emergency session cold in the midst of widespread protests against the government the prime

minister armed opposition leaders met face to face and. joins us now live from kiev friday reynoso what happened to that parliament session. well true to form and the ukrainian parliament has started off essentially with a brawl albeit this time there were no blows thrown around which they're actually known for it was merely the verbal skirmish and when when the prime minister eyes are of to get the stage to speak you could hardly hear him from behind all that all the yelling and the screaming calling for resignation of the government coming from the rada and gets to the prime minister has tried to appeal to the protesters and to the opposition's logic let's have a listen to his words. because those who incite you could locate the cabinet ministers are absolutely reckless irresponsible people the ministry of finance is in this building the ministry responsible for paying wages of ukraine

stop and think. merge and she says this is the rule depend on the continued functioning of this government. and now the prime minister's also added that the government as well as ukraine itself are not thinking about switching off the course towards getting closer towards the european union and he's also called on the protesters who are still out on the streets in huge numbers by the way he's calling them to keep it civil and to abstain from violence but his words were met with a oh well you can say discontent from the opposition who still insist on calling them traitors those words were voiced by one of those problems ukrainian politicians as well as you can say media persons with. and the sentiments expressed by the opposition leaders are actually supported by those who are out on the streets we have tens of thousands of people pouring in to the central independence

square throughout the day but the problem with the ukrainian situation at this point is that what we've been hearing and seeing largely is the reaction of people in kiev or well for the integration or closer association to the european union however this is not the case in the entire country and this is what my report is about. the european union flags burning trash bins get to teenagers and the world revolution passed around like a football this is kiev but what about other parts of ukraine where people have a different opinion about what's good for the country and what isn't right. how many revolutions did we have in ukraine seven and did that bring us. together old people and students and use them so unpleasant i don't even want to talk about it right now the opposition is trying to sell the drive for e.u. integration as the choice of all but recent polls show that there's an equal split

between the pro european west of the country and the east and south which are historically much more pro russian because the people want to live like they do in europe it'll be must work like they do in europe they should not be school and work for the sake of being out on the street. in the e.u. we must meet certain criteria and that the moment we are simply not up to parts of the european standards in the way we produce things. so far do you claim your leadership has shown no sign of giving in quite the opposite the president the parliament and the cabinet remain firmly in place so perhaps the forecasts of an impending doom could be premature it in the galu scope r t. on the serene i just mentioned there. mounds of demonstrators in key of a not exactly a shared by people in the east of the country thousands have taken to the streets to voice support for the authorities on their decision to suspend the trade deal

with the e.u. a recent poll showed the country is sharply divided on be sure more than seventy percent of those living in the west of ukraine favored the deal with the european union compared to less than thirty percent in the east and then i would discuss this with political analyst dmitri babbage who believes pro western action is simply more accepted. historically the majority of ukrainians use production and usually the russian came to ditch or at least to create is to show that they were russian won elections in ukraine the only exception was the so-called orange revolution when broad question demonstrators in fact walked to the government buildings and took control of the electoral commission the pro western radios are much more active they travel to kiev every occasion been washed in there they have some financial support from some shady circles showing deed i think

that there will be more action from their pro western part of the country. one thing the government and opposition agree on is that the violent riots were deliberately instigated although each side blames the other and prominent foreign affairs analyst dr subject trip cabbage believes the authorities have nothing to gain from such tactics. it is obvious that the government has nothing to gain by school eton violence the government is actually hoping that it will gradually die down the only people who have a vested interest in provoking violence are the protesters themselves or to put it more precisely those who are behind the organized aspect of the protests because it would work wonders both in the western media and in the end to your code which segments of the ukrainian population who have the marches of the so-called

peaceful protests who are being suddenly beat savagely by the police the violence instigated perhaps by the fringe elements of the protesters but certainly not by the government because they have nothing to gain. several polish politicians including the former prime minister and the vice president of the european parliament went to kiev to support the purse has stood and drawn oakland from the institute of democracy and cooperation paris says this mirrors the balance of the orange revolution. rumors of a coup are to be taken with some seriousness but i would be surprised if the events of two thousand and four the orange revolution could be repeated i think it would be difficult for the pro western forces in ukraine to pull off the same trick twice it's absolutely disgraceful for european politicians to travel this way as they did ten years ago when members of the european parliament and other people from the e.u.

including of course particularly polish representatives played a very important role in disrupting the electoral process back at the time of the orange revolution it's very important to emphasize the role of poles specifically in this process with ukraine poland has always regarded ukraine as its backyard it has i would say a neo imperialist designs on ukraine it wants ukraine to come into its orbit into the european orbit but mainly into its orbit so there's no incompatibilities between kaczynski has professed euro skepticism and his deep desire to effect this radical geopolitical change and we'll of course be bringing you more updates from ukraine and expert opinion on this is haitians throughout the day plus you can always keep an eye on developments by logging on to r.t. dot com where you will also find the most striking videos and photos from the protests.

they had to tell britain's guardian newspaper will be grilled today by a special committee see over the publishing of stories exposing the scale of global surveillance which britain is no small part of the government says the paper is encouraging terrorism but others say that accusation is just an attempt to intimidate the media and investigative journalist tony gosling says is the secret agencies who should be questioned. what they're doing is they're informing the public criminal activity by our own intelligence services g c h q particularly because other newspapers and the people have been doing it over the last few years this is absolute rubbish i'm afraid when in front of the intelligence the security committee the bosses of m i five m i six and q were giving their evidence we we were asking them for evidence that there's been any kind of threat to national security and you know what they said oh we could tell you in secret this is no real

evidence they don't have any evidence they've been caught out acting criminally and we've got no proper oversight whatsoever over intelligence services right now our intelligence services even though they completely failed us on iraq in other ways have risen in power their budgets after the cold war doubling and it's absolutely ridiculous to see the. parliamentarian starting to interview the messenger shooting the messenger is what they're trying to do today and they're not going to succeed. and let's have a look now at how much pressure the guardian has phase these last months the paper began publishing revelations of surveillance this summer soon after police came knocking on the door demanding the paper hand over all the information it had that didn't work so the paper was threatened with legal action reportedly by figures close to david cameron the paper refused to yield in august the partner of a guardian columnist was detained and am to terror laws allegedly for carrying more

incriminating data and later that month the paper was forced to destroy hard drives containing sensitive data order that to fail to stop more regressions and here we are now waiting for the editor of the guardian to go before. this is asking internationally coming up this hour britain so we chit chat with china faces a great wall of skepticism. while david cameron visits beijing tweets in. written in promotes closer trade links between the u.k. and china many of the british chinese working in these shops and restaurants say that the immigration from down in london is chinatown isn't making them feel very welcome. for the break washington deflects cobbles accuse asians that it's manipulating afghanistan into signing a deal to let its troops stay at a time security is as bad as that.

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story to tell you. the arabic to find out more visit arabic don't call. your washing aussie international wife from moscow welcome back the lead down inside the bolshoi on two other defendants have been found guilty of a brutal acid attack on the russian companies theater director they called hundred down prison sentences for all three million of course now reports now from moscow theater. a four hour sentence reading brought the curtain down on the month long trial and it has lost the ball so you feel you are leaving so who is behind bars now probably three change who has been given six years in prison and to dispel the defendant's will and ten years accordingly now the judge has also given be relied

to surrogate bilin so lawsuits that miter change to house to be three point five million roubles in compensation now this case has tarnished the reputation of russia's balsa the feeler that last year reopened three spectacular refurbishment but some of the light has been taking off to see it or why the scandal and i've been looking back so this happens in russia's valley history let's have a look. the final act in a case as dark as anything to grace the famous stage an acid attack that exposed to the world that russia stop theater in reality as a battlefield where the struggle for glory when the curtains fool the all salt in the theaters artistic director siggy fill in that almost made him blind shocked the world leaving the question who was the monster mind behind it sort of filling was returning home after an evening at the theatre world gala to this apartment

building a man concealing his identity with a scoff called out filling his name and right after that through some liquid in his face saying it was a greeting for him and their leader a court appearance filling describe the pain as unbearable and terrifying he was left suffering in agony and the snow right outside this building it was late at night and it took him some time to get help and more than twenty operations before he showed his face in public again from the start of official sun investigators believe the solid had come from inside the bali community two months later. in the arrest of leading soloist bible dmitrichenko often in his career the onstage villain playing everything from von rothbart and swan lake to iran the terrible he was accused of planning the attack and chord need to change to admit it he did want

to rough up felon but sad he did not intend for acid to be thrown into his face i organized the state of crime but not on the scale that it turned out enjoyed vanity rumors and sooner ations even violence the dark underbelly of the bolshoi place and the spotlight. it will take a while to reste or the last of this famous and situation i don't wish no artsy moscow. with coin harker's chandon a major online black market on our website the read about the battle between robbers and drug dealers as cyber criminals steal millions of dollars worth of bitcoins for a lot of course it's not a play. and. a poll shows an absolute majority of americans want products containing genetically modified the gradients to be labeled but the government isn't listening to all that honestly.

a blitz of smiles and sweet talk from david cameron who is doing his best to new a china into investing more into britain's economy the prime minister is resorting to political charm in beijing they had of the u.k.'s largest at the trade delegation. some in europe and elsewhere see the world changing and want to shut china off behind the bamboo curtain of trade barriers britain wants to trade barriers and open britain is the ideal for an opening china. probably only while the big politics the sun chinese people already living in britain feel become less than completely open our london correspondent polevoy reports now on why many don't feel welcome in the country of positioning itself as a close ally of beijing. according to the local association here in london's

chinatown immigration officials would visit the eat series here once or twice a week but it wasn't for the food even that is just one of the restaurants raided by the u.k. border agency if you imagine where you are in a restaurant enjoying you your meal with your friends your family some uniformed people. who don't are so we know what's going on and on the one hand the staff will have to deal with a customer and they don't know what's happening in the near that they're being questioned by these guys who may not have to identify them so in the u.k. border agency insists that any immigration checks that carries out looking for illegal workers are always intelligence led but business is up and down the streets say that legal procedures weren't followed cheering the raids in fact some of them didn't result in any arrests whatsoever but the frequency and the reported heavy

handedness of the immigration officials led to on precedented action all of the businesses here shut down in protest against what they said was discrimination from the u.k. border agents say a consensus the genuine frustration and the level of the threat of anger. in the level of. discontent. flecked to. people who decided to try to close the business to support the action since the protests to take place community leaders have met with the u.k. border agency to discuss the way in which the raids were handled while david cameron visits beijing tweets in mandarin and promotes closer trade links between the u.k. and china many of the british chinese working in these shops and restaurants many of whom of work to for generations say that the immigration climb down in london is

chinatown isn't making them feel very welcome. azzi london. and that's to boost economic recovery is one of the reasons behind britain's turn eastwards but for a role model in europe iceland is leading the way having successfully got his finances back on track in the latest move a major write down of mortgages to pay a woman explained to my colleague when we so shy what that means. the icelandic government they're going to inject one and a quarter billion u.s. dollars to help people that are really struggling with higher cost of living so what they're going to do is they're going to get this money it's going to be in more good pay downs another half in tax exemptions it's going to help one hundred thousand people which probably doesn't sound a great deal but that such a third of the population of iceland some people say that since two thousand and eight iceland has actually come rather a long way it has done very much so we rewind the clock it was pretty much

a disaster the first domino to fall in the whole financial crash and we had international debt six times higher than the country's g.d.p. which is pretty startling stock market plunged ninety percent inflation surged eighteen percent we had unemployment rising nine fall that's just to give you an idea of what happened so the government they stepped up and this is what they did so they decided to go against what the rest of europe was doing so they paid off consumer loans first of all that's a person they desired to do they forgave mortgages as well so again they helped out the people that were struggling they burned bondholders instead of using taxpayers' money again the opposite of a lot of what the european union decide is they aren't interested in me enough they put some of the bankers in prison. they did indeed so they did go against it and also want to remind you that they've paid their i.m.f. loans back ok they're still in germany session there's

a long way to go but if we consider the situation they were in in two thousand and eight it's quite a comeback. for some more news in brief around the world in a sewer islam is going to have retaken the christian town of my luna from government forces according to state media hundreds of civilians have fled sixty kilometers southeast of the congress home in damascus a suicide bomber has struck in the center of the city killing at least two people since fighting began in syria well than one hundred twenty five thousand people have died according to the u.k. based see when observatory for human rights. a toxin bombings have killed at least nineteen people across a wrong armed militants besieged mayor's office in a town about an hour's drive north of baghdad two bombings were also heard in the capital targeting a police station and car dealership violence in the country's reaching record levels this year with more than eight thousand killed since january washington has strongly denied accusations that it's cutting back military aid to

afghanistan as a form of blackmail the afghan president says america is trying to force him to sign a security deal which would lead to u.s. troops stay after twenty fourteen. thousand if explains now why kabul is so reluctant. or getting out as often harder than going in and nowhere does that hold more true than in afghanistan president obama promised to would draw combat forces by the end of twenty fourteen. responsibility for their security. but the two countries have been at all odds over a deal that would keep some u.s. troops past that deadline washington wants the pact signed before the end of the year it's imperative that we conclude the bilateral security agreement as soon as possible but afghan president hamid karzai says not until the u.s. cleans up its act so the issue of. sovereignty ended detentions and

the continued presence of international forces and afghan villages and the very conduct of the war itself. the simmering tensions have erupted into a war of words on sunday karzai accused the u.s. of deliberately withholding fuel supplies to pressure him into signing the deal the nato led force in afghanistan says that's simply not true and it's not the only spat a u.s. drone strike last week killed a toddler and injured two women the top u.s. commander formally apologized but karzai wants a different apology one from president obama himself for harm done to afghan civilians during the war the u.s. response don't hold your breath of the there is not a need for the united states to apologize to afghanistan quite the contrary we have sacrificed and supported them in their democratic progress and in tackling the

insurgency and al-qaeda but the insurgency isn't over and in parts of again a stand residents are caught between hatred of international forces and fear of the taliban this man says he lost two sons in an errant nato attack that my children feel fear when they see a helicopter and run away to the rooms there is a lot of fear. but once the sun goes down another threat emerges be the one that anyone not the taliban the run there is one in the district government is just their name but there is no real security either and afghan forces are still heavily dependent on the west. of the us troops stop helping us as there are a lot of threats against us in the region will be facing big problems. although afghan tribal leaders indorse the pact karzai says he won't sign until after the spring elections and that's only if washington meets his demands among them ending u.s. troop raids on afghan homes and agreeing to peace talks with the taliban if the deal

is torpedoed that could mean no more u.s. soldiers but it could also jeopardize billions of dollars in aid leading some to accuse karzai of putting the country's security at risk in order to score political points at home lucy catherine of r t moscow nexus economic parasites and crypt occurrences in the kaiser report. 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 romanians 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 a fascist my point. welcome

to the kaiser report max kaiser you know wired magazine this week feature of the absurd creature of the week tongue eating i suppose. this parasitic i suppose consumes the tongue of the rose snapper fish and replaces it with its own body providing the fish with a fully functioning tongue i know what you're thinking you're thinking that sounds a lot like jamie diamond and in a way you're right jamie who is normally seen nesting in the large intestine of the chairman of the federal reserve bank of course and his fellow financial power.