european diplomats dashed to kiev to meet a crane's government and opposition while the u.s. secretary of state reaches out to support the pro e.u. protesters. we stand with the vast majority of the ukrainians who want to see this future for their country meanwhile the protests are gathering steam with sauza is blocking presidential administration building. by the fracking police in romania disperse villagers struggling to resist a u.s. oil company that's exploring for shale gas close to their homes. as the most militias are driven out of the libyan town of daraa with crowds calling on the police and army for greater security as

a government continues to lose its grip on the country and its oil wells. thirty coming to you live from moscow i'm marina joshua welcome to the program they had a council of europe is in ukraine to attend meetings where the government and opposition leaders kiev has been gripped by mass demonstrations with tens of thousands blockading administration buildings activists camped out overnight in the center of the capital and they are now preparing to block the parliament building where the government is planning to hold a meeting later today across live to our correspondent who's following the man's for us in kiev really good morning to you so do tell us what's happening where you are. well as the protesters really are staying vigilant throughout the night they have doesn't seem like they have been sleeping over the past couple of weeks you

can say they're actually out in full force on the streets there's not that many of them on the independence square at the moment. that is because the opposition leaders have decided to switch the focus from the independence square which is right behind me and did two other places and key of but they are really close by so the protesters can essentially cover the parliament and wish there. to which they have already gone earlier in the day as well as the presidential administration where the opposition wants to stay for most of today's events so they can easily cover all these places within literally a two to three mile radius when it comes to the actual independence square which has been the center of the protests for the last couple weeks well i can tell you that they have put up a soviet union a flag at the entrance and are now walking all over it as well as storing the money a lot of people are actually wiping their feet and laughing while doing that. other

than that there are there is there is this year to be that much police presence in the city there are some of them in front of the parliament building as well as the as well as by the presidential administration but they are just standing still they're not to entering any confrontation with the protesters unlike was the case on sunday which has seen some extremely violent clashes perhaps the most violent the country has seen over the past couple of decades and of course the city is teeming with foreigners or europeans who are here to attend the. meeting which ukraine is chairing but there is opinion out there that perhaps the representatives from the european countries are here not just to attend the meeting but to observe the ones which they may hope to see repeating the events of two thousand and four here is reporting that. we stand with the vast majority of ukrainians who want to

see this future for their country while he was paralyzed by protests politicians are commenting quite publicly on the twitter sphere. president young a call which is miscalculating badly as regards the association agreement with the e.u. and towards the people of ukraine. ukrainian leaders are not ready to go further and signed the agreement with e.u. people of ukraine should be disappointed and the us and european countries stand accused of failing to demonstrate a lack of respect for a country seventy we've seen a hundred since the orange revolution. foreign influence political process genuine protest sense of. foreign assistance and. focus of who are better communications. strategy my primary concern is that for. years there's

a very large. ukraine could series separatist movements one neighbor in particular seems to be paying especially close attention to events in ukraine poland has always regarded ukraine as its backyard it has i would say neo imperialist designs on ukraine what's empowers maybe hoping for is a repeat of the events of two thousand and four when the country stood still for months in support of the western backed viktor yushchenko but things have teens to over the years. the orange revolution worked because people didn't know what it was about at the time. nine years later things are a bit more clear all the promises that were made then have been repeatedly broken the e.u. has run out of money to bribe people obviously it has enough to still pay activists on its payroll otherwise there wouldn't have been these demonstrations that is not to say every one of the hundreds of thousands on the streets of kiev is getting

paid by the west people are generally disappointed in get another government but that doesn't mean the whole country is willing to descend into revolution. if you go sco r.t. . the opposition has failed in its bid to topple ukraine's government cabinet surviving a parliamentary vote of no confidence. and that's led to an outcry from the opposition only one hundred eighty six m.p.'s voted for the motion falling forty votes short of the two hundred twenty six needed for it to pass meanwhile nine people have been arrested on suspicion of inciting unrest in ukraine's capital on sunday danila cat i'm sick zagat of director on the ron paul and believes that the worries are showing and adequate reaction to the violence in kiev. you see a pattern here of of escalation in provocation we've seen it before in these previous revolutions i think really the protesters on the ground they had a very large provocation

a few nights ago they were using chains and tractors and of course the police as police do everywhere reacted with violence to every where governments would normally protect their buildings and the debate surrounding ukraine's failed bid is the focus of today's cross talk people valid his guest discuss the explosive reaction it's triggered. there are voices in the european union and some prominent newspapers as well as some prominent european union officials are saying that the government now in ukraine is illegitimate which is rather strange isn't it because two weeks ago they were in the go with it lightly three as you say to talk about non-legitimate government that's very clear to me and the signal of the ukrainian government was one that will cause the flight people from the outside but all of all on very very you know through a grieving and problems of its own survival and we've got to live timeline of events in ukraine so how to our website r.t. dot com for all the latest pictures and food it's from the scene of the protests.

fracking a technique designed to recover gas and oil from shale rock is making more enemies many are angered over the dangers posed by the controversial method in romania riot police of crack down and take fracking rally in a remote village in the country's northeast tasker's were beaten and numerous arrests made while officials say the police action was justified act of a set up a camp to blog exploration by u.s. energy giant chevron six weeks ago and he also won brussels to review their case and have launched an online and i fracking campaign. fracking is also causing a stir across the atlantic the u.s. state of texas was rocked by several earthquakes last week with some scientists pointing the finger at dozens of gas drilling wells in the area are just gets to

count find out why people are so concerned. we're in a town called them ten in texas guess wells are everywhere here they're hard to me they're two hundred and seventy three gas wells just in this town fracking is responsible for the gas boom in the west but people here fear that they're going to be the ones paying for that. i'm very worried when they start packing i will have to leave because of the diesel fumes more than anything and i was has already had two heart attacks from it and they tell us it is an environmental basically coming from the actual whales. we do believe it's coming from fracking you know the gas industry holds a lot of weight with the government that is frightening but when you see here your friends and family being polluted you see people getting sick around you you have to keep looking for and you have to keep gathering you have to keep speaking out because you know it's right while energy giants are rubbing their hands you're

going to suppression of gigantic profits many here or increasingly fearful about the water that they drink about the air that they breathe about the land that their house is standing on and they don't trust the government assessment of the damage from fracking because they say the oil and gas industry will make sure that no conclusive study comes out and they believe the industry will make sure that it doesn't become a basis for effective regulation. in denton texas i'm going to shut down our team still to come in the program china's currency sweeps to success it's replace the euro as the world's second three currency coming up we have x. part opinion on what this means for the global economy. protesters in the libyan port city of during a have driven islamist militias out of their town on a third day of mass protest crowds a march through the city calling for the proper enforcement of security by the army

and police. at the same time a bomb exploded beneath the car of a former city councilor and he was one of the first of the town's leaders to quit and i didn't hear any security there and it is situated in the oil rich east of the country which recently unilaterally proclaimed its in a pan's with libya's oil exports sinking dramatically the army is calling on protesters and their occupation of the oil fields their foreign investors are looking to exit libya fearing further instability two years since the toppling of colonel gadhafi. now the country is not even able to satisfy its domestic needs for oil producing just fifty percent of what's required meantime corruption in libya is getting worse ranked one hundred seventy to seventy second in this year's index and authorities are losing grip of security with an estimated seven hundred armed groups operating in the country and out of around four hundred arms death pose just five percent are controlled by the government experts say the country is on the verge of disintegration with different groups vying for control of the oil industry

a lot of the people in the in the east especially of the country quite happy to sit some wait until they can they set up their own government their own their own country if you like independent of tripoli so they can then restart exports and oil sales themselves because they think it's fair that they have to carry on being dependent on the central government if they do set up a legitimate way of selling oil and if the international community agrees to buy it's been you know we would actually lead to the breakdown of libya as we know it now with libya balancing on the verge of civil war it's those accused of supporting gadhafi they feel the most insecure people from the town of to work are scattered across the country and facing constant threats from militias are spotlessly or visited their camp. this dirt track was once a building site teeming with foreign construction workers now it's home to

forgotten victims of the revolution the people of to where two years ago after the revolution rebel groups expelled them from their homes accusing them of supporting president gadhafi two month long siege of misrata to work is now a ghost town the only living things straight animals and the odd militia men the population scattered across the country terry come at a refugee camp run by the eight humanitarian organization is home to one thousand five hundred of them that's around three hundred families the to work in say they are constantly under threat. of the camp is not protected militias make problems for us they killed people here they arrested people here who did not the militias come and say we are good so we're go and take three or four people how mistaken for him was the victim of such an attack. over two of my sons were the more so from his rather get this from a house and took three people i don't know what happened with one of them. we're

not at risk from mobile attacks people complain they live little better than animals there's a lack of clean water or sanitation most families as many as eight or nine people are cramped in single rooms. we are building a room because the one we have is not enough for the whole family where seven and as you know we have young and old children and we cannot stay in a single room it's allegations from the past that prevent them from attending home . ms rather does not want us to return until there is a law that compensates them they say that there are women who are raped by two we are going they want to investigate us and apply justice they are asking the libyan government not to allow us back until those guilty go to tribunals in our sentence the way fiji's at the camp believe they are being collectively punished for the crimes of a few and we are sure some people did bad things we are not all guilty for that

people from too we are going to have met with people from misrata to solve the problem we apologize to the families of misrata the medians were good but there is no answer from their side. for now the displaced to work and can only hope and pray that one day they can return to the form of knives police here on t.v. . and coming up here on r t a choice in the u.k. it or hate. it's not. good as temperatures drop household bills skyrocket and the british government advises those too poor to pay their bills to wear an extra jumper the full story is just a hat. this is the place that has been consecrated to god for almost a thousand of years people came here twenty some years ago to reestablish and i

stick life on the silence. and people feel the love of christ working through. people say you can. come when something happens on this island that makes them return to it again and again they say the below saves them. join me james brown on a journey for the soul. only on a c. choose your language. actually we can without any financial plan to stay still some of. us choose to use the consensus to. choose the opinions that immigrate to. choose the stories that in high life choose b. access to often. welcome

back you're watching our hunter national the chinese won has overtaken the euro to become the second most used currency in the global marketplace and share in a world straight finance has reached almost nine percent leaving the euro behind a little more than six percent and the success marks china's efforts to influence the world's economic arena as financial analysts and told us clearly it's a big victory for china to to get the number two spot this is this a big objective obviously of the of the government in beijing to further internationalize the redmen beer the yuan they have been working on this for quite some time so you can look at it to some extent as china seeking its own place in what it believes to be its own rightful place in the global economy whether it's visa v.

the united states or whether it's visa v japan of the rivalry that it has an asia both in strategic terms but also in economic and financial terms and also these of a europe as well so clearly i think there is a desire for china to to to exert greater influence and to have a larger position in the global dot just the trade markets but in the global financial markets. the world trade system remains dominated by the u.s. dollar and though its position as a global reserve currency has been shaken china the world's second largest economy has been promoting its currency to take over from the dollar and we talked to dan a while there and risk management advisor it well if the global trade system is set to benz to china student. if you consider that the chinese government has only allowed a lot of trade finance with the outside world since two thousand and nine then its

status as the number two currency used for global trade finance is meteoric and very significant it's happened in a very short period of time the reason this has happened is that as we know china is the second largest economy that's the second has the largest foreign exchange reserves in the world and certainly is becoming a global power so this is consistent with its rise to that global power status what i think is likely to happen is that the year long is going to take in more significant chunk of the global payments i think most people realize that this is china's century china's economy will soon be the dom and economy in the world and it's a metro link that economies would want to trade and you want. and our team has lined up plenty of stories for you on our website including on the cover tonight how far will pope francis go to meet the poor while donta r.t.

dot com to find out. what's with the season underway spirits are high in the russian capital and our in motion section there is a video from the heart of moscow where a traditional christmas fair and a huge ice rink opened for the public. right to see. first street. and i think the true. on our reporters were very. inspiring. to be in the. now britain's amadou suppliers are under fire after the government pledged to cut bills but this comes as little comfort to the thousands of u.k. families stop below the poverty line and still unable to heat their homes even with

a promised help or he says are silly has more. it's that time of year again when temperatures drop and to bill soar as the heating comes on. oh wait people who are protesting saying that it boils out the dam to the choice between eating or heating they're angry at the price increases of the energy companies and the government's lack of action to helping those who are most vulnerable not to mention the comment from downing street that for those who can't afford to pay the bills they just simply put on an extra job well. there's only so many gym clothes you can let me say in the winter isn't the same thing me keeling and his wife rita keep the heating on for only two hours during the day and five hours at night i do worry the running particularly to me. then obviously. frieda will have to meet all the costs

on our own it's affecting every family in this country and this is britain two thousand and thirteen. it's terrible depending on the provider the hike set to take effect this winter could be as high as ten percent with excess winter deaths of england and wales rising by a third to thirty one thousand compared with the previous year six big companies controlling the markets and not deciding when to put up prices whether that's above the rate of inflation or not is another question the big six blamed a rise in wholesale costs but industry regulator off jam said costs by less than two percent profits meanwhile have gone up by seventy five percent in the last year alone but if you're going to see if you any go to that's what we're going to see to do to play out in green. the pressure. to build. and there's

a double whammy the national grid bore that energy reserves are dangerously low the risk of blackouts this winter will be higher than it's been for almost a decade but a more pressing problem for many remains simply getting through this winter how many of the. cabinet truly live on the almost sort of money that that we get doesn't make any difference to david cameron or anyone else if those tests are cilia r t london. now take a look at some other stories from around the world whisper lease have a rest during peace activists in geneva after they staged a protest at an energy conference for tasker's in polar bear costumes brought snow to the luxury hotel hosting the event before pouring oil on it some of the activists dressed as waiters managed to enter the opening event and served or oil spill cocktails to conference delegates. a series of targeted attacks

has rocked pakistan's biggest city of karachi killing at least eleven people and want to solve our man on motorcycles killed three clerics and two foreign students at a seminary the city remains tense with matty roads and markets closed. french medical experts have stated that for a palestinian leader yasser arafat's was not poisoned and could have died of natural causes that contradicts previous reports by a swiss lab which side of radioactive polonium two ten as the possible cause of death a long time leader of the palestinian authority fell ill and passed away in two thousand and four hours damien's have suspected israel of poisoning him which tell him he denies. european court of human rights has heard claims that inmates of so-called cia black side prisons were tortured it's the first time the allegations have been addressed in a partly open session the case was brought by two terror suspects who allege that

they suffered human rights abuses at a secret facility in poland in two thousand and two and two thousand and three they're currently being held in america's one town of a bay detention camp or accusations of carrying out terror attacks and having ties to al qaida. i think clear a bomb attack has been foiled and russia's region of dagestan with the help of a very special robot passers by noticed a suspicious object near a shia mosque and called police a bomb disposal unit came to diffuse the device using a tiny robot carefully picked up the explosive device and transported it to a safe place detonating it with zero damage. and up next a trip to north next question retreat in corral and vom so journey you're watching tina national don't go away. you know councils here in the u.k.

are calling for tougher laws to police aggressive beggars finally no longer will the banker beggars be shaking us down for yet more and outs and bailouts every time we pass the city no longer listening to them plead for more money printing and free credit facilities we're sick and tired of all the banker beggars harassing us every time we pass one of their toll booth phones like this famous one hey i'm sure we don't oh look at your banking system going to throw trash on the ground before me through some dollars it'll give a berk give me a trillion oh another trillion more trillions do they give me me give

. the windswept journey to villa can be an act of penance in itself. doesn't all for excitement or adventure get many come here for months at a time some never leave until they say that the love saves them. this is one of the holiest sites of the russian orthodox church home to a thriving ministry the lay community that would exclude it and groups of volunteers that come and go throughout the year for the face full this is a journey for the soul the pilgrimage.

this is the place that has been consecrated to god for almost a thousand of years. people came here twenty some years ago and so stablished the mastic life on this island. they do in that believing that. christ is the only source of true joy and happiness and life. that understanding penetrated into everything that surrounds us in a monastery and people i suppose feel that feel the love of christ working on.

so girls will divide into groups now so we need about. how many people do you need seven seven people who really choose one two three four five. six seven seven people good the rest will split into two one half will go to the farm the other to the op a girl who's already been to the upper garden you know that we're. going to go to the upper garden i'm allergic to any mother can go to the farm and me go to the fire cows. what comes of with a group of volunteers men and women of all ages who are here to give something back to god and in this case it means hard work this is the middle of the busy tourist season and there's plenty to do down on the farm. it's coming into the tech and.