european diplomats dash to kiev to media crane's government and opposition while the u.s. secretary of state reaches out and 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 blockading a government building in the ukrainian capital. fights the fracking police in romania dispersed villages struggling to resist us while company that's exploring for shale gas close to their homes.

as the most militias are driven out of the levy and town of durnovo with crowds calling on the police and army for greater security as a government continues to lose its grip on the country and its well well. what you are to international come to life in moscow i'm marina joshie and welcome to the program now the head of the council of europe is in ukraine to attend meetings with the government and opposition leaders that's asking if his grip by mass demonstrations protesters are now gathering to block a government building where the cabinet is planning to hold a meeting later today or just a meeting of the sco is in kiev for us. protests behind me at the independence square which is right in the center of key of these protests really have been going

on for for a third day running at i mean there have been going on without a break for the night to the right you can see the one. the first buildings and the processions protesters have got the control of. over the weekend they're camping out there that's where their revolutionary our 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 would brought to them their literally burning fires there 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 meeting the atmosphere throughout the entire center of the city now the opposition leaders have decided to double the independence square has been the center of the exhibit isn't 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 so they're going to try and come 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 interval military forces 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 is a problem here at work here for the o.s.c. . 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 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 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 country server and we've seen a pattern since the orange revolution. foreign influence the political process there is a lot of genuine protest sense and. some foreign assistance and. focus of who are you the better communications. strategy it's my primary concern as a former server is that there's a very large. ukraine. separatist movement one the very 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 new

imperialist designs on ukraine but 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 yushchenko but things have teams to over the years. the opposition has failed in its bid to topple in crane's government with a cabinet surviving a parliamentary vote of no confidence. and that's where to now cry 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 in while nine people have been arrested on suspicion of inciting young dressed in ukraine's capital on sunday anyone camps executive director of the ron paul institute in kiev seeing a key of it is seeing a pattern of provocation that's why he says. the us and the e.u. talk a lot about european values and western values but is it

a western value to allow a foreign country to come in. in influence politics on the streets of course it's not you see a pattern here 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 program provocation a few nights ago they were using chains and tractors and the debate surrounding ukraine's failed the e.u. then it is the focus of today's cross talk people values gas discuss the explosive reaction it's triggered. 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 really 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 flatly from

the outside but was also based on very very you know. in terms of its own survival and i've got a line of timeline of the events in ukraine so had our website r.t. dot com for all the latest pictures and students from the scene of the protest. fracking a technique designed to recover gas and oil from shale rock is making more anime's manny or angered over the dangers posed by the controversial extraction method or mania riot police have cracked down on and i fracking rally in a remote village in the country's north east for tasker's were beaten and numerous arrests made while officials say the police action was justified activists set up a camp on a privately owned field close to the side where the us energy giant chevron plan to explore for gas for taps there is one brussels to review their case and have launched an alliance i fracking campaign. fracking is also causing

a stir across the atlantic the u.s. state of texas was wronged by several earthquakes last week with some scientists pointing a finger at dozens of gas drilling wells in the area r.t. is going to find out why people are so concerned. we're in a town called benton in texas guess wells are everywhere here they're hard to mix there are 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 my wife has already had two heart attacks from it and they tell us it isn't 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 if 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 get into suppression of gigantic profits many here are increasingly fearful about the water that they dream about the air that we 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 even if it does come out 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 so the game of the program china's currency sweeps to success it's replaced the euro as the world's second trade currency and coming up we have expert opinion this

means for the global economy. for tast urgently be important city of dirt to have driven as well as militias out of their town on a third day of mass protests crowds marched through the city hall. for the proper enforcement of the security by the army and police at the same time a bomb exploded beneath the car a former city councillor and he was one of the first of the town's leaders to quit amid deteriorating security during a is situated in the oil rich east of the country which recently you know laterally for the wind it's in the pants believe us oil exports sinking dramatically the army is calling on protestors to 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. well the country is not even able to satisfy its

domestic needs for oil producing just fifty percent of what's required meantime corruption and he is getting worse ranked one hundred seventy second in this year's 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 there in 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 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 with

libya balancing on the verge of civil war if those accused of supporting gadhafi they feel the most insecure people from the town have to work are scattered across the country and facing constant threats from militias are just fall asleep or a visit at 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 there 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 debate 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. 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 to we are go to we're go and take three or four people how missing him to him was the victim of such an attack. over twelve 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 it's allegations from the past that prevent them from attending home . misrata 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 go 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 and are sentenced 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 that people from too we are good have met with people from misrata to solve the problem we apologized to the families of misrata the medium's 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. on t.v. . that's coming out in the program a choice in the u.k. eight or hate. it.

as temperatures drop household bills skyrocket and the british government advises those two poor to pay their bills to wear an extra jumper the full story is just ahead. i was thinking somehow i had to come back because mom was waiting for me. i just knew that everything would be fine for some reason they were so confident because we were going to get married officially after he came back how could he not come back the mere thought of it never crossed her mind. the militants decided to try and break through to her new guinea epic screaming grenade. go with a splosion blow them all run his back he will. lose it all and it was all over all

of us. we know that our comrades and our commander won't leave us no matter how tough it gets we're team. your boy is getting was a senior in his military trio. and you know he knew that if he didn't smother that grenade with his body more of his comrades would die he gave his own life to save his friends. welcome back you're watching r t international the chinese he has overtaken the euro to become the second most used currency in a global marketplace last year its share of world trade was just over one percent compared to yours almost eight percent and they won it has now reached almost nine leaving the euro way behind and the success marks china's huge efforts to influence

the world economic arena as financial analysts on armani told us. clearly it's a big victory for china to 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 that you want 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 the japan of the rivalry that it has an asia both in strategic terms but also in economic and financial terms and also 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 not just the trade markets but in the global

financial markets. the world's trade system remains dominated by the u.s. dollar tell its position as the 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 to daniel waldner a risk management advisor he 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 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 web site including on a cover of the night find out what the pope is doing when darkness stands on the vatican city. and see for yourself. plus with the sounds of season underway spirits are high in the russian capital in our in motion section there's a video from the heart of moscow where a traditional first was 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. instrumental. 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 stuff below the poverty line and still on able to heat their homes even where the promised help are these tests are silly has more. it's that time of year again when temperatures drop and to bill soar as the heating calm ozon. zero. zero zero zero. people here protesting saying that it was out of the can 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 the bill is accounted for to pay the bills they just simply put on an extra job well. this very same engine for as you can let me say in the winter isn't the same me 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 her running particularly to me then obviously. freedom will. meet all the costs on our own it's affecting every family in this country and this is britain two thousand and thirteen terrible depending on the provider the hike said to take effect this winter could be as high as ten percent with excess winter deaths in england and wales rising by a fruit to thirty one thousand compared with the previous year six big companies

controlling the market 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 rose by less than two percent profits meanwhile have gone up by seventy five percent in the last year alone but it isn't going to sink you any go to that's what we're trying to seem to be able to play out in britain. the the pressure the fund you bill. 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 the more pressing problem for many remains simply getting through this winter how many of the. cabinet truly live almost sort of money that the that we get doesn't make any difference to david cameron no i mean what it

does and does are cilia are to london and a brief look now at some other stories from around the world swiss police have arrested eight greenpeace activists in geneva after they staged a protest and an energy conference were to asterism polar bear costumes brought snow to the luxury hotel hosting the event before pouring oil on it and some of the activists dressed as waiters managed to enter the opening event and served oil spill cocktails to conference delegates. series of targeted attacks has rocked pakistan's biggest city of karachi killing at least eleven people and was sold armed man on motorcycles killed three clerics and two foreign students at a seminary the city remains tense with manny roads and markets closed. french medical experts have stated that a former palestinian leader yasser arafat's was not poisoned and could have died of

natural causes that contradicts previous reports by a swiss lab which sided radioactive polonium two ten as a possible cause of death a long time leader of the palestinian authority fell ill and passed away in two thousand and four palestinians have suspected israel of poisoning him which television denies. eleven and now worry commander of the militant group has been killed outside his house and beirut the organization has accused israel of carrying out the assassination saying that he had been targeted before but managed to escape multiple attempts on his life israel has not commented so far i will bring you more as soon as we get it. a bomb attack has been foiled and the russian republic of dagestan with the help of a robot passers by noticed a suspicious package near a shia mosque and cold the police a bomb disposal unit came to diffuse the device equivalent to ten kilograms of t.n.t. using a small radio controlled robot it removed the explosives and transported them to

a safe place detonating the bomb with zero damage. while you're up to date here in r t and up next find out why guantanamo detainees are suing the polish government in breaking the set that's just ahead for you. quite often countries rich in natural resources are the poorest africa's a colony it's a colony of the big corporations it's a colony of someone's home leaders who are under the thumbs of the big corporations so they have to beg from the world bank's development of social programs goes to pay back debts well the country is we're drowning under the amount of debt that they did and so every year they would borrow money. and they would use that same

event of money to pay back oh this can all that money really helped. the wages of debts. 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 passed 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 guns like this famous one day i'm. we don't oh look at your banking system going to throw trash on the groom for me. dollars it'll give a burke doing a trillion oh another trillion more trillions do they didn't make any.

of the. yo yo yo people's welcome to breaking the set on abby martin so turns out all those people that were cannot off the streets of their cities and black bag by the cia before they were subsequently tortured just aren't allowed to go yes to guantanamo detainees he mamma cherie and i. are no suing the polish government for helping carry out the cia's rendition program during this time the men were taken to secret prisons in poland and subjected to horrific abuse by interrogators the corner the guardian amrit singh of the open just society justice initiative excuse me who represented nashiri so that his client had been repeatedly tortured and incurred everything from naked in a hooded mock executions to painful stress positions that nearly ripped his arms apart and even threats to sexually abuse his mother considering how last year macedonia was forced to pay out thousands of dollars to

a victim of one of these cia black sites hopefully this story turns out the same and at the very least it should serve as a warning to any other country willing to host america's human rights abuses. the. it was a. very hard to take. place that had sex with her right there. listen .