european diplomats dashed to kiev to meet a crane's government and opposition while the u.s. secretary of state reaches out in support of the pro demonstrators. clashed 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 the government building in the ukrainian capital. find 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 most militias are driven out of the libyan 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 oil well. this is already coming to life for moscow with me marina joshie welcome to the program. protesters in kiev are now partially blocking the government building word cabinet is planning to hold a meeting opposition m.p.'s have also disrupted the work of parliament by blocking the roster and meanwhile the hat of the council of europe is in ukraine to meet the government and opposition leaders are deserving english he reports on who ows has been weighing in on the crisis in ukraine. we stand with the vast majority of the ukrainians who want to see this future for their country while keith is paralyzed by protests politicians are commenting quite publicly on the twitter sphere.

president young a call that 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 worst of the european countries stand accused of failing to demonstrate a lack of respect for countries to. see the pattern since the orange revolution for certain foreign and through the. political process there is a lot of genuine protest sounds of. some 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 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 in their 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 with a cabinet surviving a parliamentary. no confidence. 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 and sighing the unrest in ukraine to capital on sunday they all mcadams executive director of their own policy to it says key it is seeing a pattern of provocation. the u.s. 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 and influence politics on the streets of course it's not do 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 public provocation a few nights ago they were using chains and tractors and the debate surrounding ukraine's failed bid is the focus of the latest cross talk show peter lavelle and his guests 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 politely three as you say to talk about non-legitimate government and that's very clear to me and the signal of the ukrainian government was one that will cause the flight from the outside but also based on very very you know through grieving and problems of its own survival and we've got a live timeline of events in ukraine had to our website r.t. dot com for all the latest pictures and food from the scene of the protests.

fracking a technique designed to recover gas and oil from shale rock is making more anime's many are angered over the dangers posed by the controversial extraction method to remain iranian police crackdown on an anti fracking 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 on a privately owned field close to the site where the u.s. and a giant chevron plant explore for gas the protesters one brussels to review their case and have launched an online and i fracking campaign. well franking 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 going to 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 seventy feet 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 fracking 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 their 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. the

anticipation of gigantic profits many here are increasingly fearful about the water that they drink about the air that they breed about the land that their house is standing on and they don't trust the government assessment of the damage from fretting 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. indenting taxes i'm going to shut down our team. and so that on the program china's currency sweeps to success it's replaced the euro as the world's second trade see coming up we have expert opinion on what this means for the global economy. and only the imports city of durnovo have driven as almost malicious out of their town on a third day of mass protest crowds marched through the city calling for the proper

enforcement of security by army and police at the same time a bomb exploded beneath the car of a former city council worker and he was one of the first of the town's leaders to quit amid a tyranny security there in a situated in the oil rich east of a country which recently you know actually proclaimed its in the pants leaving as oil exports sinking dramatically in the army is calling on protesters tooth and the occupation of oil fields their foreign investors are looking to exit libya hearing fearing further instability two years since the toppling of conall khadafi. well the country is not even able to satisfy its domestic needs for oil producing just fifty percent of what's required meantime corruption in lee 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 the country 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 east especially of the country are quite happy to sits and waits 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 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 you know we that would actually lead to the breakdown of libya as we know it was libya balanced on the verge of civil war it's those accused of supporting the country's former leader feel the most insecure people from the town of to work or who are accused of aiding colonel gadhafi during a stage are scattered across the country and face constant threats from militias and they're not even safe in a camp where they are now forced to live their policy reports. 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 goose 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 debate humanitarian organization is home to one thousand five hundred of name that's around three hundred families the top wogan say they're constantly under three pts. 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 mr bieber

him was the victim of such an attack. like there were twelve my sons were in the most of from his brother came his 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 sanitation most families as many as eight or nine people are crammed in single rooms. we have 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. we are sure some people did bad things we are not all guilty for that people from to we are good 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. on t.v. . and coming out of the program a choice in the u.k. eight or hate. it. as temperatures drop household bills skyrocket and the british government advises those poor to pay their bills to wear an extra jumper the full story is just ahead .

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they say the below saves them. join me james brown on a journey for the soul. only on o.t. . welcome back to watching r t international chinese he won has overtaken the euro to become the second most used currency in the global marketplace last year its share of world trade was just over one percent compared to the eurozone most eight percent they want is now reached almost nine leaving the euro way behind this success march china's huge efforts to influence the world economic arena as financial analysts a song romani 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 b.

of 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 of the 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 not just the trade markets but in the global financial markets. the world's trade system remains dominated by the u.s. dollar 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 we talked to daniel wagner a risk management advisor he told us the global trade system is set to dance to

china stupid. 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 under cover of the night find out what the pope is doing when darkness to santa on the vatican city log on to r.t. dot com and see for yourself. plus with the festive season underway spirits are high in the russian capital and our emotional section there's a video from the heart of moscow were a traditional christmas fare and a huge ice rink have opened for the public. right to see. first street. and i think the trip. on our reporters were very. inspiring.

britain's outages of wires around the 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 markets are still you has more. it's that time of year again when temperatures drop and to bill soar as the heating camas on. fellow. people who are protesting saying that it was out of the jam 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 those accounted for to pay the bills they just simply put on an extra job well. there's only so many jumpers you can let me say in the wind itself isn't the same thing they only keeling and his wife rita keep the heating on for only two hours during the day and

five hours at night i do worry running strictly to me. then obviously. frieda will have to meet all the costs on their 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 in england and wales rising by a third to thirty one thousand compared with the previous year six big utility companies are 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 is going to see if you any go to that's what we're trying to see to do you know to play our part in creating. the pressure. high energy bills. and there's a double whammy with national grid war that energy reserves are dangerously low the risk of lockouts 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. truly live. with money that the. does it make any difference to david cameron or i mean what if those tests are cilia are to london and a brief look now at some other stories making headlines around the world swiss police have arrested a greenpeace activist in geneva after he staged a protest and 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 activist

addressed as waiters managed to anger at the opening event and served oil spill cocktails to conference delegates. series of targeted attacks as rock pakistan's biggest city of karachi killing at least eleven people in one assault armed man on motorcycles killed three clerics and two foreign students at a cemetery the city remains tan's with mary roach 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 sided radioactive polonium two ten as a possible cause of death the long time leader of the palestinian authority fell ill and passed away in two thousand and four i was to have suspected israel's poisoning him which tommy denies. and to love and now work commander of the shia

militant group has been killed outside his house in beirut he was shot as he returned from work at midnight 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 denied an involvement. a bomb attack has been for oil in 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. up next a trip to an orthodox christian retreat in karelia vom so journey you're watching r t international don't go away.

dramas the truth be ignored. stories others refuse to go to. places changing the world right now. to take your old days you know. from roads to to. doctors. are you a 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 ultimately lost the orange revolution are bent on giving it

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a thousand of years. people came here twenty some years ago it's. the mastic life on this island. they believing that. christ is the only source of true joy and happiness in the life. that understanding penetrated into everything that surrounds us in a monastery and people i suppose feel that fuel the love of christ working. 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

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