i european diplomat stache to kiev to meet ukraine'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 blockading the government building in the ukrainian capital. and fight the fracking police in romania dispersed villages struggling to resist the u.s. oil companies it's the shale gas close to their homes. and islamic militias are driven of the libyan town of with crowds calling on the police

and army for greater security as the government continues to lose its grip on the country and its oil well. it's nice to have your company watching international. protesters in kiev partially blocking the government building where the 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 head of the council of europe is in ukraine to meet the government and opposition leaders well let's cross live now to r.t. to get any clues to who's in kiev for us you're in the heart of the capital at the moment to be expecting to see the number of protesters. well as a matter of fact it's kind of hard to tell because i have heard just on the street

from a person just passing by eavesdropping on their conversation that i heard that overall over the past couple of days they brought in a million people from different players from different towns and regions of ukraine and you have secure in mind that people keep circulating around the city they're not just focused at the independence square although this certainly could be that pinpointed as the focal point of the protests but they're kind of walking around between the independence square the presidential administration the cabinet of ministers and the parliament all of these buildings are fairly close together it's a leisurely five minute walk from one building to another so really we really shouldn't be expecting that many people to come here at this point it does look like everybody who wanted to be here was already here and protesting camping out overnight taking over some buildings as they have done with the with the workers union building that that was done last week and they're also asking for

they have actually managed to get into another building that's also in the independence square and spend the night there because of the incredibly bitter cold evenings and nights that we've been having in the capital and we're also hearing remember they have regime their blockade of the government building what are their demands. well as usual it's basically they want the government to step down but does seem that while the opposition by the protesters want the entire government including the parliamentary is to step down the parliamentary is obviously don't want to leave even though they are the opposition even though some of them are the opposition parliamentary as representatives in fact of the the m.p.'s within the rada the ukrainian parliament have a block to the speaker's podium saying that they want to see the government the cabinet of ministers as well as present in the coverage to leave their posts and they will not let up until they see that demand met now all the streets are out of

surrounding the. parliament as well as the cabinet ministers have been blocked by the police but at this point it does look like the situation is still rather stable and peaceful you also have to understand that the city is also teeming with the members over as c.e.o. who are here for a meeting including of course the secretary general of the organization but some eyebrows are being raised by the observers who believe that the european leaders are not simply observing ukraine out of curiosity they actually have their own interests vested in this show in the country. 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 called 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 a country seventy we've seen a hundred since the orange revolution. foreign influence political process there is a lot of genuine protest sense and. some foreign assistance and. focus of who are better communications. strategy my primary concern is for. you know 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 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 changed 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 jet in their government but that doesn't mean the whole country is willing to descend into revolution even if it goes r.t. . for the opposition has failed in its bid to topple ukraine's government but the

cabinet surviving a parliamentary vote. of no confidence. that's led to an outcry from the opposition only one hundred eighty six m. pace 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 the unrest in ukraine's capital on sunday daniel mcadams executive director of the ron paul institute says kiev 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 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 public provocation a few nights ago they were using chains and tractors and we've got

a live timeline of the events in ukraine ahead to r.t. dot com for all the latest pictures and footage 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 extraction method and remain a riot police have cranked down on anti fracking on an anti fracking rally in a remote village in the country's north east protesters were beaten a numerous arrests were made one official say the police action was justified activists set up a camp on a privately owned field close to the site where the us energy giant chevron planned to explore for gas the protesters want brussels to review their case and have launched an online anti fracking campaign and the fracking protests have also reach

britain with mass protests being held in greater manchester over drilling tests there will artists who are smith joins us live from the u.k. how the activist calls to stop the fracking being received in manchester. well these as you say that they're about to start test drilling they say the place called barton morse which is. and then more sites it seems will follow surveys show that the north west of england could hold more than a thousand trillion cubic feet of shale gas which is enough to keep the u.k. going for around about six years but environmental campaigners are very angry about this testing they say that if the tests do you need to fracking then there are serious concerns about polluting water and damaging what is around there very green belt and they vow to protest every single test while it looks like there could be quite a few in the area they're not going to make easy for i guess the fracking company

that's operating in the area campaign has spent the last week blocking roads to make it more difficult for equipment to be delivered and four people were arrested but this is by no means you coach first protester one of them alone in bulk i'm in sussex you may remember process. managed to barricade the test site for two months before the company that central was forced to back down and they say they're going to follow the fracking wherever it happens and protest and then them they've got good reason to do it if fracking does go ahead then campaigners talk of things like dangerous chemicals and gas leaking out from under the ground threats to the integrity of the water supply risks to add quality and perhaps most seriously earthquakes and particularly to people in cells within the north west of england who have particular reason to be afraid of earthquakes because they're not far from

blackpool where two quakes were recorded and directly related back to fracking testing drilling but the government decided it's back in two thousand and eleven that that wasn't enough evidence to stop the fracking process ok we'll leave it there thank you laura laura smith live from the u.k. . where 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. and 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 my wife 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 away with the government that is great but when you see here your friends and family are 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 we're going to suppression of gigantic profits many here are increasingly fearful about the water that they dream 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 even if it does come out 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 take. protesters in the libyan port city of do and i have driven islamist militias out of their time on the 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 council he was one of the first times leaders to quit and leave the teetering a.t.c. . turner is situated in the oil rich east of the country which recently unilaterally claimed its independence with libya's oil exports sinking dramatically the army is calling on protesters to end their occupation of the all 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 is required meanwhile corruption in libya is getting worse ranked one hundred seventy second in this year's index and authorities are losing grip of security with an estimated seventeen 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 east especially of the country are quite happy to sit and wait until they can 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 would actually lead to the breakdown of libya as we know it. with libya balanced on the verge of civil war which those accused of supporting the country's former leader that feel the most in secure people from the town of tar word who are accused of aiding colonel gadhafi during a sea just scattered across the country and face constant threats from militias and they're not even safe in the camp where they are now forced to live as artie's paula slayer 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 wear 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 aid 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 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 to we are go to we're go and take three or four people how missing into him was the victim of such an attack on october twelfth my sons were at home and militia from misrata came they stormed the house and took three people i don't know what happened with one of them we're not at risk from rebel attacks people complained 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 two we are good have met with people from misrata to solve the problem we apologize to the families of misrata the mediums were good but there is no answer from their side. for now the displaced to work and i can only hope and pray

that one day they can return to the form of knives. on t.v. . that still to come in the program china's currency sweeps to success is replace the euro as the world's second trade currency coming up we have expert opinion on what they smain for the global economy. is probably the most complex. to. the phenomenon of friendly fire probably extends back to the invention of gunpowder . the budget. probably there really you

people. reading. this some shoots my brother in the leg not in touch because of it because it was night time or in the morning even the best given the batch. are going to make mistakes does this whole idea of brotherhood in order. camaraderie in the sense that we're in this context that has absolutely no place. welcome back now the chinese yuan has overtaken the euro to become the second most used currency in the global market place last year share of world trade was just over one percent compared to the euro's almost eight percent the un has now reached almost nine leaving the euro way behind well for some perspective on this let's

cross live to keith boy field from the center for policy studies thanks very much for coming on to the program mr boyd field. we now understand that the un is head of the year i was the world's second currency. what does this show us do you think . i think what you're seeing is that chinese investors are wanting to diversity were far away particularly from the us dollar you've got to remember that china is the largest holder of u.s. treasury bills and they got a nasty fright this year when you saw congress not really able until the very last minute to agree a budget package and what you're seeing here in london for example is the chinese investing and a lot of property commercial property very bought for example the lloyd's building here in london and they're beginning to acquire an awful lot of. major brands such

as volvo and even m.g. rover the iconic car company here in britain so do you think we can expect the un to get even more popular then what sort of growth could we expect in the future. and yet. you also have to remember that some of the biggest sovereign wealth fund based in china and all the time you're seeing there wanting to diversify their risk and they're also wanting to invest overseas china for example now has a twenty percent stake in standard bank which is the largest bank in africa and there's a huge wave of investment going into africa particularly in terms of oil gas and minerals so china all the time is looking around the world to really sort of die or invest in more and more assets and what do you think could be the repercussions for the global economy and we've seen david cameron in charmer at the moment you do

expect to see more world leaders trying to sweet talk the chinese to get more trade deals. here because they're they're following the money and china is one of the major investors in the world. also significant things are happening in terms of relaxation on for example insurance companies in china as a result of a change in the law insurance companies and now in china are able to start investing in commercial property around the world so before they were turning to invest just in the domestic economy now they're investing overseas and they're trying to invest outside america because there's i say they got rather a nasty fright this year with the. inability of american politicians to sort public expenditure programs and so how far away away from the un from perhaps replacing the u.s. dollar then is the major currency that the world uses. well i think you'll see that

gap closing and i think that. simply in terms of trade and the other extremely important thing will be how the w t o t o meeting goes in bali later this week and if they can actually achieve some. agreement on the doha round then i think you're going to see a tremendous acceleration in trade and that means a lot of investment coming from china and also the brits for example the selling of tremendous a range of goods and services into china. british goods in the fashion extremely popular in china so quickly to see an increase in trade and just finally kate when could you expect the un to rival the u.s. dollar because that is king isn't it we shouldn't expect that to change anytime soon yes but if i knew that i'd be a very rich man and i don't think i'm going. ok whatever i predict i suspect right

through wrong or right thank you very much we do have to leave it there that sir keith boy feel the research fellow from the research fellow at the center for policy studies thank you. a brief look now at some other stories making headlines around the globe this hour swiss police have arrested a greenpeace activists in geneva or are 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 event and oil spilled called tiles to conference delegates. a series of targeted attacks is rocky stands biggest city korat cheek killing at least eleven people and one of sold our men on motorcycles killed three clerics and see foreign students at a seminary in the city remains tense with many roads and markets closed.

french medical experts have stated the former palestinian leader yasser arafat was not poisoned and could have died of natural causes that contradicts previous reports by a swiss lab which cited radioactive polonium two hundred ten as the possible cause of death the 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. to lebanon now where a command of the militant group hezbollah has been killed outside his house in beirut he was shot as he returned from work at midnight the organizations accuse 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 any involvement. up next a trip to north oaks christian retreat in karelia in. czerny you're watching

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