i. fight the fracking police in romania dispersed villagers struggling to resist a u.s. company that's exploring for shale gas close to their homes. i european diplomats dashed 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. demonstrated. 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 islamist militias are driven out of the libyan town of crowds calling on the police and army for greater security is the government continues to lose its grip on the country and its. broadcasting twenty four seven live from moscow you're watching international. now fracking a technique designed to recover gas and oil from shale rock is making more enemies many are angry over the dangers posed by the controversial extraction method in romania riot police have cracked down on an anti fracking rally in a remote village and demonstrations have also taken place against drilling in the north west of england well for more on the anti fracking movement i'm joined live now by our tea party boy came in the u.k.

polly in europe in general there's a history isn't there of opposition to shell gas exploration. well fracking and protests seem to be synonymous to my experience of covering these stories there hasn't been an area where locals haven't been opposed to this technology taking place on their doorstep and there's just been a crackdown we've heard reports from remaining a weapon lease have forcibly removed local villages from this potential test drilling site for us and. now we did have reports. that those villages was brutal and i can tell you it would have to be because i was in that village and i was covering that story when those protesters were forming a human chain around that site and they said to me that they would fight to the death to avoid this fracking taking place in their local area

somewhere where they are very proud of their clean. water that gammick fruits and vegetables that they that the culture there and for them it was a big issue they were just enraged that the authorities had simply sold them out to this big company without telling them about any of the points of quinces all of the potential technology of the risks of this technology and i have to say that these protests aren't limited to places like romania this is certainly an issue that's not this is certainly a big issue in the u.k. as well the people here. at the moment we've got protests taking place in greater manchester where a company called i gas is supposed to start exploratory drilling and we know that protesters there have been trying to block roads in order to avoid trucks from arriving at the test site and this is just one particular test well but this

company is supposed to be. opening late wells and they're supposed to have more. drilling sites because the northwest of england is full of shale gas it's as a result of the last the u.k. in terms of energy supply for up to six years and i've been covering these fracking stories we've had protests in sussex as well. other test sites and i personally spoke to a man in lancashire last year who showed me a crack on his wall from earthquakes that had taken place near blackpool that were drilled of fracking taking place there so these are things that are still these protests are still taking place and there is a sense of course processed at the moment in manchester that is an exploratory drilling that's a test site but there is a sense that if companies are investing money into exploratory drilling it's going to lead to fracking. all right thank you very much polly. live from london

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 finds 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 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 when they start fracking will have to leave because of the diesel fumes more than anything else 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 where your friends and family are being polluted you see people getting sick around you you have to keep moving 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 in 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 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 our team. coming up a difficult choice in the u.k.

eat or heat. oh. temperatures drop highs whole bill skyrocket in the british government advisors those too poor to pay the bills to wear an extra jumper we've got the full story just ahead. protesters in kiev and i 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 rostrum meanwhile russia's foreign minister has touched upon the events in ukraine in a news conference after meeting with the nato secretary general expressed concern over nearly a question posed to the secretary general about the possibility of russian troops entering the crane. that is the issue of the road because.

i don't know why nato is making such statements i don't know why nato secretary-general anders fogh rasmussen answers questions concerning the possibility of russia sending troops to ukraine is there was i don't know why such questions are being asked you what was the i believe it creates a distorted picture and such signals could pick the wrong picture of events in some minds we consider the events in ukraine an internal. well the head of the council of europe is in ukraine to meet the government and opposition leaders are to use it in a looks now at who's 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 well kiva 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 countries to. see the pattern since the orange revolution. foreign influence the political process there is a lot of genuine protest sense and. some foreign assistance and to help 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 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. if it goes r.t. . the opposition has failed in its bid to topple ukraine's government with the cabinet upon surviving. elementary of no confidence.

and that's led to an outcry from the opposition only one hundred eighty six m. page voted for the motion falling fourteen 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 wrong poland she says kiev is seeing a pattern of provocation. 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 and influence politics on the streets of course it's not 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 we have got a live timeline of the events in ukraine head to our web site r.t.

dot com for all the latest pictures and footage from the scene of the protests. protesters in the libyan port city of dinner have driven islamised militias out of their town on the third day of mass protests crowds marched through this 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 he was one of the first of the town's leaders to quit and the deteriorating security dinner is situated in the all rich east of the country which recently you know that truly proclaimed its independence with libya's oil exports sinking dramatically the army is calling on protesters to end their occupation of the oil fields there foreign investors are looking to exit libya

fearing further instability two years since the toppling of colonel gadhafi. or the country's not even able to satisfy its domestic needs for oil producing just fifty percent of what is required meantime corruption in libya is getting worse ranked one hundred seventy second in the index in the thora g.'s are losing grip of security with an estimated seventeen hundred armed groups operating in libya and out of around four hundred armed stare pose just five percent are controlled by the government experts say the country is on the verge of disintegration with different groups buying 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 it's those accused of supporting the country's former leader feel the most in secure people from the town or to work who are accused of aiding colonel gaddafi 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 poorest 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 after were 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 in telecom at a refugee camp run by the live 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 not the militias come and say we are go to we're go and take three or four people how mistaken for him was the victim of such an attack on october twelfth my sons were at home and militia from misrata queen they stormed the house and to greet people i don't know what happened with one of them we're not at risk from rebel 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 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 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 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 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. . still to come in the program china's currency sweeps to success. it's replace the euro as the world's second trade currency coming up we have been experts and gives his opinion on what this means for the global economy. 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 it a second shot. this is a media lead us so we leave them maybe. by the same motions your. father your party

there's a goal. for sure is that no one is asking with the guests that you deserve answers from. politicking only on our team. choose your language. make it with the influential senators feel some. good consensus to. choose the opinions that differ greatly. the story is that if you. choose to accept. that i welcome back now the chinese yuan has overtaken the euro to become the second most used currency in the global market place last year and 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 this success marks china's huge efforts to influence the world's economic arena as financial analysts god i'm anani tell this clearly it's a big victory for china. 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 a visa be the united states or whether it's a reserve the japan of the rivalry that it has an asia both in strategic terms but also in economic and financial terms and also these are 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. well the international 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 the un to take over from the dollar and beijing is doing everything to become less dependent on the currency itself is key for the field from the center of policy studies explain its. needs investors are wanting to diversity were far away particularly from the u.s. 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 you also have to remember that some of the biggest sovereign wealth fund based in china and all the time you're seeing they're wanting to diversify their risk they're also wanting to invest overseas. our team has lined up plenty of stories for you as well on our website including under the cover of the night find out what the pope is doing when darkness descends on vatican city log on to r.t. dot com to see for yourself plus the festive season underway spirits are high in the russian capital and in our in motion section there's a video from the heart of moscow where every dish will christmas fair and a huge ice rink have been opened for the public. right to see. first street. and i think.

on our reporters. on. britain's energy supplies are under fire after the government pledged to cut bills but this comes as little comfort to the thousands of u.k. family stuck below the poverty line and still unable to heat their homes even with the promised help test recently has more. it's that time of year again when temperatures drop and to bill soar as the heating comes on. the. way here we are protesting saying that it will sound 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. this really saved me gently as you can read the piece in the wing itself is indeed a success was leaving 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. particularly to me then obviously. freedom 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 in england and wales rising by a third to thirty one thousand compared with the previous year six big utility 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 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 bringing in. 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 the week at doesn't make any difference to david cameron no i mean what if those tests are cilia r t london. it has just gone twenty five past three here in

moscow a quick look now at some other news. swiss police have arrested eight greenpeace activists in geneva after they staged a protest and 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 a vent and all spilled cocktails to conference delegates. a series of targeted attacks is rocked pakistan's biggest city killing at least eleven people in one assault our men on motorcycles killed three clerics and two foreign students at the seminary the city remains tense with many roads and markets closed. french medical experts have stated that former palestinian leader yasser arafat was not poisoned in could have died of natural causes that contradicts previous reports

by a swiss lab which cited radioactive polonium two ten as the possible cause of death for a long time leader of the palestinian authority fell ill and passed away in two thousand and four a list of names of suspected israel of poisoning in which television denies that over the now where a commander of the shia militant group hezbollah 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 any involvement. a bomb attack has been foiled in the russian republic of dagestan with the help of a robot passes by noticed a suspicious package near a shia mosque and called the police a bomb disposal unit came to diffuse the device the equivalent to ten kilograms of t.n.t. using a small radio controlled robot that removed the explosives and transported them to

a safe place detonating the bomb with no damage. up next as promised the turbulent situation in ukraine is the center of debate and people about cross-talk. what defines a country's success. faceless figures of economic growth. for

a factual standard of living. if you refuse economic up downs in the final months they belong to the old saying i and the rest because i think the case you believe everything they.

believe they see. is a. hello and welcome to crossfire where all things are considered on peter lavelle ukraine deeply divided 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 make your wrists 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 sun.