well it. was no resolution protesters in kiev pledged to continue besieging the government to the end despite the opposition losing a no confidence vote these are live pictures you're looking at. with the vast majority of ukrainians who want to see this future for their country and top western diplomats weigh in urging lawmakers to listen to demands for euro integration also. remain in place quassia village's struggle against an american old company this fracking fish gas close to their homes and. militias are on the

receiving end of public fury over the government's failure to bring security or stability to the oil rich country. and i welcome watching r.t. international with me andrey farmer. protesters in kiev are partially blocking the government building where the cabinet is planning to hold it meeting these are pictures from the central. central square of kiev where the demonstrations continue will opposition m.p.'s have also disrupted parliament's work by blocking the rush through all this with support swelling from out west is. reports. we stand with the vast majority of the 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 opportunity and prosperity and the elected representatives of the ukrainian people made their choice deciding against giving the government a no confidence slap down for the defeated opposition it was back to the streets if the democratic process won't force the government out let the protesters do their dirty work blockading official buildings paralyzing give the protests while in the west calls of encouragement 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 one member in particular seems to be paying especially close attention to events in ukraine but the european union needs you and you need the european union and if you needed you will be with your poland has always regarded ukraine as its backyard it has i would say near 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 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 crowds in key of are clearly disillusioned and a bitterly divided parliament has a tough task in building bridges a job made all the more difficult by western nations fueling what could become another revolution and the demise of a democratically elected government in kiev in a close call r.t. . while the executive director of the wrong paul into chief peace prosperity says kiev has been seeing a pattern of provocation throughout the two weeks of public dissent. 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 see a pattern here of of escalation in provocation 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 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. non-violence 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 one hundred thousand people trying to break into the white house. and the rats are rounding ukraine's mixed signals to be the focus of the latest edition of artie's 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 thoroughly 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 from the outside but was also based on very very you know through grieving in terms of its own survival. 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 party boyko

reports it's a tough struggle for locals and activists. fracking and protests seem to be synonymous only 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 it means paying with our lives if you want to send the

army you will die won't give up until the. remaining start the 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 to 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. 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 that would rather 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 earlier we spoke to a campaigner with friends of the youth who believes the profit isn't worth the risk of causing europe or damage to the environment extracting shell gas isn't cheap and one of the arguments that the government was putting forward for shell gas was that it was going to bring down our energy bills but your energy analysts and even now the secretary of state has said himself that this won't bring down energy bills because we are in a european market so we don't think it's going to affect fuel poverty we don't

think it's going to have a huge economic benefit or certainly get media coverage we're getting more local people in the area becoming aware of the risks of fracking through these local protests so we think it's all i think it's all helping to build a movement against fracking because people here are saying they don't want to take a risk so we need the local councils to listen and we also need our members of parliament to listen and make sure that the government is hearing that this isn't popular don't want it in the u.k. and it's unnecessary and fracking is also causing a stir across the atlantic the u.s. state of texas was shaken by several earthquakes last week with some scientists pointing the finger dozens of shale gas drilling wells in the area. went to find out about the concerns there. we're in a town called dame 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 fracking will have to leave because of the diesel fumes more than anything was 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 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 you're 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 regulation. in denton texas i'm going to shut down or take. well to the sky behind fracking works and why people don't want it anywhere near the homes to take a look at take coal. top american officials are in kabul brussels trying to push for the signing of the security pact with afghanistan the deal on the post nato nato pullout was approved last month but afghan president hamid karzai refuses to put pen to paper until next april election artie's into careful of as the details. 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 between the united states and afghanistan that would determine the size and the shape of a u.s. forces after combat troops leave at the end of twenty fourteen now yesterday mr rasmussen decided to play hardball he said that if karzai doesn't sign a deal with the americans all nato forces could be withdrawn from of ghana sent after thirteen years of war and that eight billion dollars in annual aid that afghanistan so badly needs well 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 that anyone as soon as it gets signed quickly and soon for karzai meanwhile he knows that he needs

this money 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 wants the u.s. to promise to continue 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 a ghana stand in the balance as a result. coming up china's national currency is sweeping to success. you can look at it as the americanization. to some extent as china seeking its own place in the global economy with the yuan the replacing the euro as the world's second most widely used currency for trade we hear expert opinion on what they see international finance.

the. world's outlook them to the choice between eating or heating the government advised the brits who are poor to pay their bills where an extra pullover is higher bills rocket made rapidly dropping temperatures we've got more news stories. for 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 ultimately lost the orange revolution are bent on giving a second try. torch is on a journey to. one hundred twenty three days. through some nine hundred two cities of russia. really by fourteen thousand people or

sixty five thousand killings. in a record setting trip by. air. space. a limp the torch relay. on r t v dot com. anti militia rages in govt another libyan town a mob of protestors in durban has reportedly driven out an armed group of islamic it's libyans are furious at the lack of government control which has allowed militias to run rampant throughout the country meanwhile the embattled thora te's in tripoli have given separatists in the country's east

a ten day deadline to stand down militias have formed a self-proclaimed autonomy they're 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 libya is no longer able to satisfy even its own domestic needs for oil producing just half of what is required meanwhile corruption is booming and the country has tumbled to being among the world's worst 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 now reluctant to help that participate in creating this the current situation is not too bad as far as the western countries are concerned their interest is still there the libyans are buying goods from the from europe from the

west they're selling oil from there and the west is interfering with various groups some of the countries of the western countries france britain and what have you they 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. and amid the power struggle in libya tribal groups are largely being left to fend for themselves some are being targeted by militias for allegedly supporting the slain colonel gadhafi paula slay reports on the plight of one embattled minority this to 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 work 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 terry come at a refugee camp run by the live eight 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. of 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 miss 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 two 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 attaining 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 in applied justice they are asking the libyan government not to allow us back until those guilty go to tribunals and our sentence 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 are good have met with people from ms routed 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 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. while in syria a group of twelve kidnapped christian nuns have reportedly been relocated by their islamics rebel captors the women were abducted when opposition fighters storm the town of it's mostly populated by christians who are seen by the rebels as back is it the syrian government damascus is a pale for international efforts to free the captives mother agnes is a nun from syria and she's been on the phone with rebel officials to try to resolve

the situation. had some contradict. restatements the leaders of the free syrian army deny involvement in the incident and have condemned it they say it might have been carried out by extremist groups but others say the autonomy is pfizer's from homes could have been responsible and that the allegedly took the nonce to protect them from government forces this is what the free syrian army told me over the phone they say they will send someone to check up on the lines and provide video footage to prove they're all right. on r.t. dot com a truck hijack in mexico but it's got nothing to do with drugs or cash this time it's extremely radioactive material that has gone missing and online to learn more about this story and also bear find out how the pope fare with the long dark winter nights in vatican city by spreading a little light of his own. many british

households are wondering how they will stay warm this winter after being hit with massive energy price rises just as the cold begins to bite and that is on top of thousands of u.k. families trapped below the poverty line and unable to heat their homes even with the promise of government help is tesla's syria reports. it's that time of year again when temperatures drop and a bill sure as a heating comma zon. oh. here we are protesting saying that it was 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 the producer can't afford to pay the bills they just simply put on an extra job well. this really saved me gently as you can wrap the p.c. in the wing itself is indeed

a success was leaving early keeling and 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. frieda 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 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 if you're going to see if you really go to that's interesting to play out in reading. 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 we get doesn't make any difference to david cameron or anyone else if those tests are cilia r t london where the euro is still trying to find its feet china's un 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

un success marks china's efforts to influence the world's economic arena as financial analyst hassan got amani expects. clearly it's a big victory for china to 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 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 of these of the 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 the global dot just the trade markets but in the global financial markets now coming up as promised the divide of ukraine's future that's the debate in peace and val's crosstalk. quite often countries rich in natural resources are the poorest africa is a colony it's a colony of the big corporations it's a colony of some its own 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 country is drowning under the amount of debt that they had and so every year they would borrow money. and they would use that same amount of money to pay back oh this can all that money really helped. the wages of

debts. for this problem was the most complex and difficult to. answer. not. in the phenomenon of friendly fire probably extends back to the invention of gunpowder. to kill a bunch of people you don't know someone there on their premises there are a us people. right now reading. this summer shoots my brother in the leg not intentional because it because it was night times four in the morning even the best given the pouch sold. are going to make

mistakes this is this whole idea of brotherhood and author. and camaraderie in this sense it was in this context it has absolutely no place. hello and welcome to crossfire all things considered i'm peter lavelle ukraine deeply divided here of 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 up 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 center of the carnegie endowment for international peace and in moscow we cross to marc slowly he is a senior lecturer in research or at moscow state university or gentlemen cross-talk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want if i can go to you in brussels the ukrainian government survived a vote of no confidence today but at the same time 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 negotiations with it so are we experiencing a second orange revolution in ukraine a lot who are going to turn into a second orange revolution.