well handled. no resolution protesters in kiev pledged to continue besieging the government to the un despite the opposition losing a no confidence. we stand with the vast majority of the ukrainians who want to see this future for their country. western diplomats. to listen to demands full euro integration. i. remain. religious struggle against an american oil company. gas close to their homes. living. on the receiving end of public fewer the government's failure to bring

security or stability to the oil rich country. and i welcome watching international with me. now protesters in kiev are partially blocking the government building where the cabinet is planning to hold a meeting. is in the ukrainian capital. it's kind of a duplicitous issue at this point as you know the crimean parliament very recently did not pass the the initiative to give the vote of confidence to the cabinet of ministers essentially saying they're fine with the government and they're ready to go and resolve the issues in a democratic constitutional way and that is definitely not something that the opposition leaders who were hoping for they were hoping to see the government

dispersed as soon as possible so now they're calling on the people who are protesting out on the streets to glock as many government buildings as possible there have been calls to storm these buildings but they do enjoy quiet and have the police protection at the same time the events in ukraine seem to be closely watched by western politicians who stop short of giving advice to the ukrainian government all the way that they should be dealing with the situation in the country we stand with the vast majority of ukrainians who want to see this future for their country and we urge the ukrainian government to listen to the voices of its people who want to live in freedom and in opportunity and prosperity and then there is also the former president of poland alexander quest who in a recent interview has said did that the ukrainian protest has forty eight hours to make it or break it he said that while the protests have the momentum the

protesters should use it in order to depose them or the government otherwise the current ukrainian president viktor yanukovych show will end up or squashing their protests such expressions of of the viewpoints on the ukrainian domestic issues i have gathered to quite a surprise reaction from some of the russian officials. we consider the events in ukraine an internal matter i'm counting on ukrainian politicians to bring the situation to a constitutional and we're asking that no one interferes with this ongoing cry. so at this point the protests do seem to be stalling somewhat that people are not quite happy with the government but at the same time the representatives of the people the parliament seems to at least come to grips with the cabinet ministers and yes there seems to be this overwhelming pressure from the european leaders to see the events in the ukraine take a turn for perhaps

a is what they were hoping to be and their orange revolution. of the executive director of the rhone paul ince the chief of peace and prosperity says kiev has been seeing a pattern of provocation throughout the two weeks of public dissent the u.s. and the e.u. talk a lot about european values and western values but is it a western value to allow or for the country to come in and influence politics on the streets of course it's not see a pattern here of of escalation in provocation i think really the protesters on the ground they had a very large problem provocation a few nights ago they were using chains and tractors the question now i think is will the protesters ratchet up looking for a government overreaction so that they can get some new energy into their protests you know what's funny the u.s. has counseled. nonviolence but what would happen if i'm here in washington what would happen if someone drove a tractor and tried to drive it into the white house lawn you're going to tell me

that there wouldn't be violence against the hundred thousand people trying to break into the white house. on the rocks around the cranes mixed signals to be the focus of the latest edition of our crosstalk. there are voices in the european union and some prominent newspapers as well as probably 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 negotiations with it lightly throughly 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 was of course slightly apart from the outside but was also based on very very broad reasoning and problems of its own for the overall. fracking a technique designed to recover gas and oil from shale rock is making more and more

enemies around the world the anger stems from the potentially enormous environmental dangers posed by the extraction method the most recent anti fracking rallies have taken place in romania and northern england and this police reports it's a tough struggle for locals and that this. fracking and protests seem to be synonymous in 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 romania where police have forcibly removed local villages from where energy giant chevron was supposed to start test drilling well i can tell you i can believe that that crackdown 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 point to the death to avoid this fracking taking place. we hope to stop them even if you means paying with our lives if you want to send the army we will die who won't give up until the. rumanian says that a big issue in the u.k. as well people here on to new to 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 a wells and they're supposed to have more. drilling sites because the northwest of england is full of shale gas its reserves

could last the u.k. in terms of energy supply for up to fix years and i've been covering these fracking stories we've had protests in sussex as well. on the test sites and i personally spoke to a man in lancashire last year who showed me a crack on his wall from earthquakes but it take. place near blackpool from that one trailer fracking taking place there so these are things that are still these protests are still taking place and there is a sense of course that processed and women 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 let's get more reaction now from the meter a bit dragon present that we cancel of the remaining ecologist party he joins us live from bucharest thank you very much for coming on to r.t. we've seen here that the protests are not just to remain here they're also in the

u.k. and also we've seen in america over the last couple of weeks but do you feel that the protesters voice is actually having any impact on the authorities is anyone in authority listening. the proper authorities have a big impact in the public administration because you know in romania we have a low we are. contrary so it's very important to us to listen what the media is us through it is very important because the mayor of all sorts of local council. decision to stop a new frock you prefer doing this in this place so we think it's very important and you were you born in the government's. don't want to listen what the streets say to them it's very important because in these moments in all around the country into misrata in can stand for in bako in god in bucharest everybody want to be in

form everybody most about this big problem biggest problem because the showgirls the resource are now the most controversial but the source and the. problem in europe so we think the population have a right to know to claudie fight all the problems and after that the government can start or can try to stop any activity in this problem do you think that will happen there i know you want to believe that will happen because i know you want more information to be published into the problems of fracking that g. think the government will actually take that on board and stop the process of fracking yes the last this we see are very bad position of many on government it's in acceptable in this year to have such opposition from our european government you cannot stop the protestors you can not

stop the position of the popular of the population because the cities are one to be in form because a citizen want to know what is an over a month what is the whole theme of this show god's resources in his all the people lives so we think it's a big problem it is our position of this government. and this position we learn part of a big problem in all the contrary because i must. this year is the most important new year in the united to the european. conference because. you're off for citizenship relation. ok well let me just very will stop this and very will start to have a consultation to all the people all right let's talk about the impact the actual effects of fracking what are the hard facts what have you seen that concerns you

about fracking. about this problem we can told you it's a problem with. growth economic growth both on call bureau german economy x. its european strategy who employed a component focus on a green economy we should represent think commies thirty two thought economy industrial innovation education and recall child this technology have a big impact in what do you think about a culture of court and historical to this and this is a big problem because when we have this activity we cannot have a good record in this area all right thank you we do have to leave it there but we appreciate you coming on to r.t.

to express your thoughts that's the move through the dragon president of the council of the remaining ecologists party that fracking is also causing a stir across the atlantic the u.s. state of texas was shaken by several earthquakes last week some scientists pointing the finger at dozens of shale gas drilling wells in the area and went to find out about the concerns there. we're in a town called game ten in texas guess wells are everywhere here they're hard to mix there are two hundred 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 and i was has already had two heart attacks from it and they tell us it isn't environmentally basically

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 here 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 into suppression of gigantic profits many here are increasingly fearful about the water that dreamed 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 regulations in denton texas i'm going to shut down or take.

well to disco behind fracking works and why people don't want it anyway i need to take a look at ati dot com. top american officials are in kabul in brussels trying to push the signing of a security pact with afghanistan the deal only post nato was approved last month but afghan president hamid karzai refuses to put pen to paper until next april election artie's lucy caffein of joins me now from belgium for more. lucy what are what is the danger of this agreement signed. hi there wolf for the countries helping out ghana stand militarily after nato troops depart from the country both time and patience are quickly running out here in brussels the situation has essentially devolved into a high stakes game of poker veiled threats and attempts to try to force and

pressure afghan president hamid karzai to sign that deal with the united between the united states and afghanistan that would determine the size and the shape of u.s. forces after combat troops leave at the end of twenty fourteen now nato is very much affected nato troops were supposed to have some eight to twelve thousand forces in afghanistan after that deadline this is to help train and assist the afghan military to try to get it to stand up on its own two feet they want the deal signed to ask quickly as possible and the nato secretary general spoke out about this is take a quick listen. we meet their league of clarity before we can move or who it is planning our problem and be all in each clarity and certainty and we needed sure.

so they were supposed to be planning this mission here at the talks that is of course all in jeopardy because karzai is refusing to sign there's more than fifty nations involved and so a lot of logistics to discuss. now yesterday mr rasmussen decided to play hardball he said that if karzai doesn't sign the deal with the americans all nato forces could be withdrawn from of ganesan after thirteen years of war and that eight billion dollars in annual aid that afghans have so badly needs will that could be in jeopardy too but if this is a game of carrots and sticks approach we saw both the nato and the united states somewhat soften their stance today the u.s. secretary of state john kerry came out with a new proposal this morning saying all right if karzai doesn't want to sign the deal let's come up with a plan to help him save face we can get the defense minister to sign it anyone as soon as it gets signed quickly and soon now we also saw both nato and the white house refuse now to hold karzai to a deadline this is a major about face for the white house which had

a earlier insisted that karzai is signed the deal before the end of the year now they're saying they simply wanted done just as quickly as possible for cars i mean while he knows that he needs this money he knows that afghanistan does need more to help in terms of helping with the mission because the country simply isn't ready to take over militarily on its own however cars i wanted done on his own terms he doesn't really want to sign the deal until after the april elections and he also promised to get you to stop doing certain things for example controversial night raids he's also now asking for afghan detainees at guantanamo bay to first be released before that deal is signed so certainly a lot of politics being played here the fate of ghana stand in the balance as a result. thank you. live from brussels. coming up china's national currencies sweeping to success. you can look at it as

the americanization you can look at it to some extent as china seeking its own place in the global economy with the un not replacing the euro is the world's second most widely used currency for trade we hear expert opinion on what this means for international finance. dramas to be ignored. stories others refuse to notice. food since changing the world. so picture of today's. from around the globe.

what defines a country's success. faces three years of economic growth. or a factual standard of living. ante militia rages in govt another libyan town a mob of protesters and has reportedly driven out an armed group of islamicists libyans are furious at lack of government control which has allowed militias to run rampant throughout the country meanwhile the embattled authorities in tripoli have

given separatists in the country's east a ten day deadline to stand down militias have formed the self-proclaimed autonomy there seizing more than half of libya's oil supplies the crisis has already seen the export of crude from the country plummet to just ten percent of previous levels or libya's no longer able to satisfy even its own domestic needs for oil producing just half of what is required and meanwhile corruption is booming and the country has tumbled to among the world's worst for graft an estimated seventeen hundred armed groups have led to a nationwide security crisis and authorities have been unable to take control of the country's arms supplies which are mostly in the hands of militias some analysts say the western countries that helped usher in the libyan revolution and am reluctant to help act. participated in creating this to asian the current

situation is not too bad as far as the us thing countries because their interest is still there the libyans are buying goods from the from europe from the west they're selling oil from them and the west is interfering with various groups some of the country some of the western countries france britain and what have you there are actually about you more than one not one group or another so i am not so sure that the west is actually willing or interested in doing that of course they can do that if they so wish but i don't think they are doing that amid the power struggle in libya tribal groups are largely being left to fend for themselves and some are being targeted by militias for allegedly supporting the slaying colonel gadhafi poorest in our report on the plight of one embattled minority. 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 lib a 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 we are going to we're go and take three or four people how messenger 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 were not at risk for missile 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 see 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 too we have met with people from misrata to solve the problem we

apologize 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 former lives police here r.t. . meanwhile in tripoli libyan politicians have reportedly voted in favor of basing legislation on islamic sharia law the immediate ramifications of the move are unclear especially considering that the authorities in tripoli don't hold sway over the entire country but we will try and put that into more perspective for you in the coming hours with the euro still trying to find its feet china's u.n. has leapt to become the second most used trading currency share of world trade is now almost nine percent rising from just over one percent last year the un success marks china's efforts to influence the world's economic arena as financial analysts

and gather money explains. clearly it's a big victory for china. 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 beer that you won 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 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 global dot just the trade markets but in the global financial

markets thanks for being with international today up next a trip to north oaks christian retreat in northwestern russia. i was thinking somehow i have to come back because mom was waiting for me. i just knew that everything would be fine for some reason we were so confident because we were going to get married officially after he came back how could he not come back because the mere thought of it never crossed her mind. when the militants decided to try and break through her new guinea screaming grenade. googled the explosion blew them all run his back toward. and it was all over all of us. we know that our comrades

and our commander and won't leave us no matter how tough it gets we're team. you are both getting was a senior in his military trio. 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 friend. the windswept journey to follow can be an act of penance in itself. doesn't know for excitement or adventure yet many come here for months at a time some never leave it's old they say that the same system.

this is one of the holiest sites of the russian orthodox church home to a thriving ministry the lay community that woods with it and groups of volunteers that come and go throughout the year for the face full this is a journey for the soul a pilgrimage. this is the place that has been consecrated to god for almost a thousand of years. people came here twenty some years ago and so stablish the mastic life on this island. they deem dead.