and. this is why you should care only. european diplomats dash to kiev to media crane's government and opposition while the u.s. secretary of state reaches out in support of the pro e.u. demonstrators. we stand with the vast majority of ukrainians who want to see this future for their country meanwhile protests are gathering steam once again with demonstrators walk hating the government building in the ukrainian capital. fights the fracking police in romania dispersed villagers struggling to resist a u.s. oil company that's exploring for shale gas close to their homes. as the us 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 wealth.

plenty of the russian capital you're watching r t international with me marina joshie the had all of the council of europe is in ukraine to attend meetings with the government and opposition leaders bads his skiff is gripped by mass demonstrations protesters are now gathering to block the government building where the cabinet is planning to hold a meeting later today or you know across to a correspondent who is in the ukrainian capital for. do bring us the atmosphere from of the graining capital what's happening where you are at the moment. well where in the days this really the protests have been going for you can say several weeks now just what i have been seeing is that the protests behind me. at the

independence square which is right in the center of this protest really have been going on for for a third day running and i mean there have been going on without a break for the night now to the right you can see that one of the first buildings that the procession protesters have got the control of. over the weekend there camping out there that's where their revolutionary base is that's what they're calling it are literally just a stone's throw away like literally hundred meters away from this place is another building in which which is the essentially an arts building but the protesters have used it to stay overnight there it's been getting increasingly cold in the ukrainian capital there the protesters having a would have brought to them they're literally burning fires on the square on the streets trying to stay warm and they are camping out overnight like i said so high really there is that there is this smell of burning wood for a meeting the atmosphere throughout the entire center of the city now the opposition leaders have decided to build the independence square has been the

center of the exhibit is a for the last several weeks they want to kind of spread it out so they have been taking trying at least to take control over several got a bunch of buildings and today they have decided to focus on the parliament where a parliamentary session is due to starts in just a little bit us are they going to train out there for the most of the day or take control of it and there's also the building of the presidential administration which they have. there which they have taken to last night and spent several hours there so really they're spreading all over the city and. we also know that at least nine people have been arrested in connection with the violent clashes that have taken place last week in which more than a hundred people have been injured muslim police officers and there's also information coming in that internal military forces who are coming to keep. from crimea you know whether or not that information indeed is. correct and whether

or not we will see those million internal military troops any time soon we have yet to find out but so far this situation has been rather peaceful really no violence has been no witnessed by me or any other journalists that are reporting from the scene of the protestors of the protests and of course the city is teaming up with the ever present from europe were here for the oas to meet and. there hasn't been there as of any and now they are however is that it's not just a meeting that the delegates are interested in but perhaps they would like to see a certain perhaps they're trying to pursue a certain agenda when it comes to the situation in ukraine. we stand with the vast majority of ukrainians who want to see this future for their country while kid is paralyzed by protests politicians are commenting quite publicly on the twitter sphere president 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 the 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 we've seen a hundred since the orange revolution. foreign influence the political process there is a lot of genuine protest sansom and. some pharmacists and. focus 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 some powers may be 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 yuschenko but things have teams 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 in kiev

if you go sco r.t. . the opposition has failed in a bid to topple ukraine's government with a 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 down mcadams executive director of the ron paul institute believes authorities are showing an adequate reaction to the violence and . you see a pattern here of of escalation and provocation we've seen it before in these previous revolutions i think really the protesters on the ground they had a very large public 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 crane's failed bid is

the focus of today's crosstalk peter lvalues 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 negotiations with it lightly thoroughly 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 was of course the flight report from the outside but was also based on very very you know. and comes with its own survival and i was going to live timeline of events in ukraine so had to our website r.t. dot com for all the latest pictures of food it's from the seat of the protests.

fracking a technique designed to recover gas and oil from shale rock is making more enemies and many are angered over the dangers posed by the controversial extraction method in romania riot police of crackdown and i for acting rally in a remote village in the country's north east protesters were beaten and numerous arrests made while officials say the police action was justified activists set up a camp to blog explore ation by u.s. energy giant chevron six weeks ago and they also won brussels to review their case and have launched an online and i franken campaign. of 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 vanished you can find out why people are so concerned. we're in a town called denton in texas guess wells are everywhere here they're hard to mix

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 that 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 bicycle coming from the actual well. 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 where your friends and family are being polluted you see people getting sick around you you have to keep moving forward 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 are 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 regulations in denton texas i'm going to shut down or keep still to come in the program china's currency sweeps to success it's replaced the euro as the world's second trade currency coming up we have expert opinion on what this means for the global economy. protesters in the libyan port city of during a half driven islamist militias out of their town on a third day of mass protests crowds marched 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

the material rating security during a is situated in the oil rich east of the country which recently you know adorably proclaimed its in the pants with levy as oil exports sinking dramatically the army is calling on protest and their occupation of the or oil fields their foreign investors are looking to exit libya fearing further instability two years since the toppling of colonel gadhafi. 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 second in this year index and authorities are losing grip of security with an estimated seven hundred armed groups operating in libya and out of around four hundred arms depos 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 don't think it's fair that they 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 then you know we would actually lead to the breakdown of libya as we know it was about with libya balancing on the verge of civil war it's those accused of supporting gadhafi that feel the most insecure people from the town of to work are scattered across the country and facing constant threats from militias are supposedly 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 in telecom at a refugee camp run by the aid humanitarian organization is home to one thousand five hundred of them that's around three hundred families the to work in say they're constantly under threat. of the camp is not protected militias make problems for us they killed people here they arrested people here who did nothing malicious come and say we're going to 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 in the water from his brother came from the 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 its allegations from the past that prevent him from attending her. brother 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 good they want to investigate us and apply justice so they are asking the libyan government not to allow us back until those guilty go to tribunals in our sentence the refugees 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 the people from two we are good have met with people from misrata to solve the problem

we apologized 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. and coming up in the program a choice in the u.k. it or hate. it 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 ahead. ukraine deeply divided kid sovereign decision to walk away from an association agreement with brussels has resulted in an explosion of street protests and violence some western pundits have even called for the overthrow of ukraine's

current political order it would seem those who alternately watch the orange revolution are bent on giving a second try. to limit torch. it's on it's a big journey to such. one hundred and twenty three days. through to some nine hundred twenty cities of russia. relayed by fourteen thousand people or sixty five thousand to one. in a record setting trip by land air sea and others face. olympic torch relay. m r t v dot com. please.

welcome back this is our team of the chinese yuan has overtaken the year were to become the second most used currency in the global marketplace and share in the world's trade finance has reached almost nine percent leaving the euro behind at a little more than six percent and the success marks china's efforts to influence the world's economic arena as financial analysts sasson told us. clearly it's a big victory for china to to get the number two spot this is this the big objective obviously of the of the government in beijing to further internationalize the redmen be of the yuan they have been working on this for quite some time and 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 because of the 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. and i world's train system remains dominated by the u.s. dollar as though it's 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 we talked today no longer at risk management advisor told us the global trade system is set to dance to china's tune. 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 pie 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 natural 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 undercover off the night find out what the pope is doing when darkness to say and on the vatican city ontario calm and see for yourself. plus the tip season under way

spirits are high in the russian capital in our in motion section there's a video from the heart of moscow where traditional christmas fare and a huge ice rink have opened for the public and. right from the scene. of. the first street. and i would think that you're. on our reporters twitter. and instagram. to be in the know. how britain's outages wires are under fire after the government pledged to cut bills but this comes as little comfort to the fountains of u.k. families stuck below the poverty line and still on able to heat their homes even with the promised help are she says her so he has more. it's that time of year

again when temperatures drop and a bill sure as the heating comes on. zero. zero zero zero eight people who are protesting saying that it was i'd like them 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 really so many jumpers you can wrap the p.c. in the ring itself isn't the c.s.m. leave early killing of his wife frieda keep the heating on for only two hours during the day and five hours at night i do worry the running particularly to me i'm obviously. afraid i will have to meet all the

costs summer oh it's affecting him 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 in england and wales rising by a third to thirty one thousand compared with the previous year the six big utility 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 gem said costs rose by less than two percent profits meanwhile have gone up by seventy five percent in the last year alone but these are going to see if you any go so that's what we're going to see to do to play out really. the pressure. and there's

a double whammy the national grid war that energy reserves are dangerously low the risk of blackouts this winter will be higher than it's been for almost a decade but the 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. and a brief look now at some other stories making headlines around the globe this hour . police have arrested eight greenpeace activists in geneva after they staged a protest at an energy conference protesters 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 is rock

pakistan's biggest city of karachi killing at least eleven people in one a sold armed man on motorcycles killed three clerks and two foreign students at a seminary the city remains tense with manny rhodes and markets closed. the european court of human rights has heard claims that inmates of so-called cia black sites prisons were tortured it's the first time the allegations have been addressed in a part of the 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 thousand and three and they're currently being held at america's guantanamo bay detention camp over accusations of carry out terror attacks and having ties to al qaida. to lebanon now were a commander of the shia militant group has been killed outside his house in beirut the organization has accused israel of carrying out the assassination israel has

not commented so far and we'll keep you updated on this as we get more information . up next as promised the turbulent situation in ukraine is at the center of debates in people of else cross-talk. war is probably the most complex and difficult human activity. are still locked up. in the phenomenon of friendly fire probably extends back to the invention of gunpowder. just killed

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pay back debts countries were drowning under the amount of debt that they should. and so every year they would borrow money. and they would use that same amount of money to pay back oh this can all that money really. the wages of debt. hello and welcome to crossfire all things considered i'm peter lavelle ukraine deeply divided care of sovereign decision to walk away from an association agreement with brussels has resulted in an explosion of street protests and violence and some western pundits have even called for the overthrow of ukraine's current political order it would seem those who ultimately lost the orange

revolution are bent on giving it a second try. to cross out the crisis in ukraine i'm joined by my guest alexander macarius in london he is a writer on legal affairs and an analyst in brussels we have you on how he is the director of the european center of the carnegie endowment for international peace and in moscow we cross to mark he is a senior lecturer in research or at moscow state university or gentlemen cross-talk rules and in fact i mean you can jump in anytime you want if i can go to you in brussels the ukrainian government survived a vote of no confidence today but at the same time 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 negotiations with it so are we experiencing a second or in trouble.