that was. nothing compared to. your brains prime minister complains of threats against his family from anti-government protesters as demonstrations rage on over integration. a tiny village takes on a us energy giant we traveled to romania where locals are desperate to stop shale gas exploration close to their homes. the world mourns mandela the death of the anti-apartheid icon sparks fears and wide enclaves that racial tension could return to south africa. it is now i am in moscow watching our team with me marina joshing ukraine's prime

minister nicolas are says his family as well as the families of other officials are receiving threats from anti-government protesters activists have also rallied outside the homes of security officers as an investigation is launched over allegations of excessive force being used against demonstrators last week arches or in english carry forts from. the night of november thirtieth when peaceful protests in the heart of kiev were broken up by ukraine special right police force dozens and up in hospitals images of police beating defenseless people emerged on the internet was. the next day it was the police on the receiving end of the violence but at the hands of the mob and not the peaceful protesters who were dispersed just the day before i. mean i got hit by a brick or a piece of paper. score in the face it's hard to tell because everything was flying

but no one could predict it would go like this that there would be rocks bricks most of cocktails. i was scared for my units who were there because it was totally unexpected right in front of all of this there were these boys eighteen nineteen years old who serve in the army and everything was flying at them rocks molotov cocktails. and these men are among the officers still in hospital a week after the attack some received injuries severe enough to leave them disabled or to convince them to leave the force but both. i determined to return to service and so you don't have any animosity towards the crowd on independence square i can understand the people they want to express their opinion. people have the right to voice their opinion but without breaking the law it would not be an overstatement to say that many people here view is their enemy number one especially after last

week's intense clashes what's there is opinion out there that the special task force were simply following the instructions they have received and it's those who gave the orders that should be held responsible for the violence so. there are recordings on the internet of the actual orders that received an auction of paul to clear we must create a parliamentary commission and find the person who blew it all up and hold them criminally responsible i'm sure the orders came from someone higher than the head of police. as the protests enter their third week the tension is palpable no one wants a repeat of last week's nightmare but a resolution requires calmer efforts from both sides among people whose patience is already wearing thin. meanwhile ukraine's president has met with weimer putin to discuss strategic ties with russia

and he made a detour on his way back from china where he signed a number of deals that could bring up to eight billion dollars in investment economic troubles were the main reason cited by ukraine's leadership for rejecting an association agreement with the e.u. a decision that's left the country's population divided reporter martin see who's written extensively on ukraine says protesters calling for integration would be disappointed if the deal ever came soaring. i think it would be a nightmare come true in the long term ukraine and the european union have a lot to gain from increased relationships with each other but the package that the e.u. was proposing and the price you create would pay severed ties with russia and the east bloc would in the short term cause a very we'll drop in the standard of living for the ukrainian people much greater energy price costs and the european union and european commission given their own financial woes would not be in the position to give ukraine the necessary financial support it would need in these situations the european union has major problems

within its own area that it really must resolve before it can really new its all first to reach out to nations like ukraine and i think there really needs to be a fundamental reassessment in brussels of what ukraine needs which has not been adequately recognized in brussels. european and u.s. politicians have been lending their support to the opposition in kiev online we've got more on that and their reaction is caused cata r.t. dot com. yes hannity have you wait here ron has resumed its exploration for shale gas in northeastern romania the company earlier suspended the operation over environmental concerns raised by locals and now says it wants to build positive dialogue was nearby communities but as the government reports it's an operation that's gone hand in hand with violence and intimidation. it's a case of david versus goliath

a tiny romanian village pitted against a massive us energy giant chevron which is trying to drill for shale gas that's believed to be trapped beneath the ground in the rocks here now that the process involves a controversial process called fracking that means pumping water and chemicals at high pressures into the ground in order to unlock the gas that's trapped inside the problem according to environmentalists is that all those chemicals can contaminate the water release dangerous methane gas into the air even earthquakes and that is a risk that these villagers including just here in romania simply don't want to take this has been the scene of peaceful protests for more than a month now the villagers had gathered here to try to prevent chevron from doing this work when our t. was here last in october it seemed that the protesters one chevron had announced that it would temporarily at least suspend its drilling activities its exploration

activities here but earlier this week authorities had taken the chevron side with brute force. when the police came we couldn't do anything to stop this road to the camp and begin to tune in the one structure everyone here. retired ourselves together to form a human chain across the ruled the police officers came in just like grooves they were kicking ass and beating us with their bottoms i was kicked here there was another villager who's in hospital now because of how hard to hit him in the stomach but now as we can see over here chevron has now resumed its activities its exploration activities the police officers are guarding this area they are drilling exploring for for the shale gas of supposed to be located here and we're hearing unconfirmed reports of hundreds of police officers just spurstow in this area we also heard from villagers reports of police officers trying to potentially intimidate some of the villagers prevent them from from coming here. mourning

perhaps of consequences for them if they continue to protest reporting and put in just romania for r t i'm lucy catherine of fragging is also causing uproar across the atlantic the u.s. state of texas has been shaken by several earthquakes recently with some scientists saying dozens of nearby drilling wells are to blame environmental activist and professor at the university of north texas adam believes fracking activities should be subject to more thorough regulation but what needs to happen is there needs to be more empowerment for those who are most vulnerable to the harms involved here you know companies talk about conducting this in a safe way but the there is no objective answer to what is safe this is it's it's a system that's vulnerable to what was called normal accidents that can there's going to be something going to happen wrong with it at any time now whether that's too frequently occurring or whether the harms involved or of too great a magnitude i think reasonable people can disagree on that question so the real

question isn't whether it's safe it's who gets to determine whether it stays in the us and on that question the people who are more or most vulnerable to the harms involved have to have the greatest say and so we knew there needs to be sort of restructuring of the political dialogue around this. and coming up want to live in central paris then brace yourself. like it's from here the year. we take a look at garrett life and talk to those in the know about life in the city of light. france is leading its second major intervention in africa this year sending troops and helicopters to the central african republic and there are reportedly a thousand french troops on the ground already. paris began to send reinforcements hours after the u.n. authorized the mission to quell sectarian violence in the country and the red cross says at least three hundred people were killed in two days of firing in the capital

book as christian militias loyal to the ousted president clashed with muslim fighters currently in control of the country. dubbed as the policeman of africa france has been active on the continent since the colonial era and while we've got a map here of france former francis former colonies rather and over the past decade friends led interventions in mali its most recent operation chad ivory coast and democratic republic of congo that's aside from its involvement in libya of course as for the current conflict in central african republic earlier this year france refused a request to intervene from former president was easy who was ousted in march by muslim rebels now it's decided to act immediately lawrence freeman from the executive intelligence review magazine believes french domestic problems are behind the decision. recently france has become more.

militarily and i think the problem with that there france and britain have not given up their intent on having at the use of some of the resources and wealth of the african countries or so i think france is suffering serious problems at home. devastating collapse in living standards throughout all of europe so many things i think combine to push france forward into some of these military activities. more of them recently than we've seen before. to the u.k. now where the government is planning to bat extremist preachers from visiting mosques and islamic centers but as we are reports in just a few minutes prison authorities claim it's largely in the jails for people are being radicalized the full story is coming out of.

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to notice. faces change the world rights and. so picture of today's. from around the globe. look to the. welcome back you're watching our team in south africa's first black president a man who led the country out of apartheid nelson mandela will be laid to rest next sunday at his family's state but as people around the globe mourn the loss fears are mounting the death of the iconic leader could reaganite racial segregation this time though it's those living in wild enclaves in south africa they're worried or disposed to your has more. for many years south africans in particular have been asking themselves the question what happens when mandela pos is on and for

a long time there was a war we that everything he stood for which was essentially bringing white and black south africans to give it would disappear when he dies this question has become this urgent as the years have passed on and a new generation of south africans has come to the fore but certainly there are pockets of particularly white south africans who are today afraid now i visited the community of claim from tain which is a white on cave they you find only off the condos now these are white south africans who can trace the roots back to european settlers who came in the sixteen hundreds you need special permission to enter the area there are security guards everywhere there are statues paying tribute to the founders of apartheid which was some africa's legal system of discrimination between blacks and whites people there justified the existence of such on caves as merely a way of preserving their history the culture their language they argue against any

kind of claims of racism we feel strongly about our identity and we want to protect back and preserve it this together with the fear that some one tough week on this field has caused some to put in place contingency plans now there's a group called the state land is they estimate that the figures are around eighty to one hundred hours. and people and they are all linked through mobile phones in such a way that if in any time they believe a genocide happens and they do believe that a genocide is coming against white south africans they can then mobilize him selves and move to an area where they will be able to both protect themselves and be completely self-sufficient and i visited this community and this is what they had to tell me right now oh we're the stage or little six. little sort of is really a true convinced that these white south africans however are in the minority the majority really credits mandela with bringing the country back from the brink of

civil war regardless of the color of the skin they race the creed they've been made to and south africans were god mandela as the hero of the struggle against apartheid and seen him as one of the greatest sons this country has ever given birth to. well just a click away for you right now if recent u.s. spy revelations learned no new album for america the latest intelligence gathering satellite should leave you in no doubt judge for yourself the message the sinister octopus has party dot com. an issue of national security or an attempt to mask its failures japan introduces new state secrecy was all the details are in line. right to see. her story. and i would think that you're.

on our reporters would. be in the polls. the u.k. government has announced new measures to crack down on islam as a criminal and drawn up following a brutal murder of a british soldier by two muslim converts in may part of the plan is to blog extremist material on the web and ban those encouraging extremism from visiting mosques however as are due to laura smith now reports it's the jails were converts are becoming increasingly radicalized wormwood scrubs prison in west london temporary or longer term home to around fourteen hundred male prisoners apart from the inevitable gang activity and drug taking that goes on inside many prison inmates find religion while they're doing their stretch some are genuine of those not so much. and you get those who watch on to and use that religion is an excuse

for treatment and we're particularly concerned that when there's clear evidence that there are youngsters being radicalized. and forced to join the rest of causation of young a full report prisoners. who then can become a tree machine while evidence from the prison office's union shows prisoners are necessarily so much finding gods as having shoved in their faces muslim gangs have grown in power and influence in jails all over the country and the prison officers association is concerned that they target vulnerable new arrivals to conversion and that those who are muslims already are being forced into more extremist views do you speak to some prisoners or know to tell you it. is better food or a toilet to get more time a shower or just to be seen as to be part of

a gun culture i've done it for protection i've done it because i was buoyed extremists who are ultimately released from behind these walls back into society. now let's take a look at some other stories from around the world. since clashes erupted between police and students who were marking the fifth anniversary of a fatal police shooting of the officers used tear gas pepper spray and stun grenades to quell the crowds of youngsters who hurled pastoral bombs and set vehicles alight at least ten people were arrested and dozens more detained. workers and opponents of ousted president mohamed morsi have clashed in several cities across egypt police used tear gas to disperse demonstrations and dozens of arrests have been made the end rest comes despite the government passing a new law banning groups of more than ten people gathering on the streets.

police have detained six man suspected of stealing a truck carrying highly radioactive materials in mexico the suspects were sent to hospital as they may have radiation poisoning the truck was stolen a monday in mexico city and later found in a nearby field it was supposed to transport the material to a nuclear waste facility after being used for radiation therapy. deadly storm has struck northern europe with hurricane force gusts across battered countries at least eight fatalities are thought to be linked to the extreme weather conditions in the u.k. it caused the biggest tiles surge in sixty years why it's and real services were frozen in many regions poland how electricity cut off four hundred thousand homes. paris may be a dream destination but the romance of the french capital comes at a premium for those who want to live there are so we found out even if you are willing to pay the price home may still be

a cramped attic or basement. it all looks great on paper but anyone with an aspiration of living in central paris quickly discovers the nightmare and becomes looking for a flat here this picturesque center of the city might as well have a sign that says off limits to anyone with a tight budget but if you must prepare for very tight quarters when you first arrive to the fire i was completely shocked because this was the smallest area that i found myself ever but i didn't look it from here to here. danica pay seven hundred seventy euros for this tiny twenty square metres central paris flat in the popular lot to quarter area plus another hundred for bills and internet she chose convenience over price a choice that's not quite there for others like sabina who lives just outside paris with three other people her bedroom in the basement. was about five hundred euros when i moved. i was looking in internet for place for five hundred euros couldn't

find anything really. expensive visited a few places. couldn't find any so i decided to look for some way to sever close suburbs in more extreme cases not only do people end up far from the center but in apartments like this one where there's no kitchen or hot water so. it's a real problem in fronts this lack of housing we need a hundred to nine hundred thousand more housing this is what explains the high prices in july report released by france's national institute of statistics and economic studies found that one hundred forty one thousand five hundred people were without a fixed residency in france a rent control law was recently passed as part of a larger housing reform to address the lack of housing substandard conditions and the trend of people being pushed out of paris and other major cities but changes in

living standards won't come overnight a fact many in the city of lights have just come to accept to live in paris. you know. well ok. so just are cilia r.t.e. paris and i'll be back with news about thirty minutes time and coming up a report on the social programs in africa they're actually fueling poverty and debt and if you're watching in the u.k. for perry going to ground with afshin rattansi. we are the problem we in the west of the problem especially the united states government so it really is quite ridiculous that we get manipulated into saying oh we have to take care of this problem over there the problem is in our own backyard and we know this.

right see. first strike. and i think that you're. on our reporter's. instrument. to be in the know. on. the. war is probably the most complex and difficult to. believe. in the phenomenon of friendly fire probably extends back to the invention of gunpowder. kill a bunch of people who don't know something their families their review of people.

reading. this something shoots my brother in the leg not intentional the. is it because it was night times four in the morning even the best given the mesh shoulders. are going to make mistakes does this whole idea of brotherhood an author. and camaraderie in the sense that was it in this context that has absolutely no place. i was thinking somehow i had to come back because mom was waiting for me. i just knew that everything would be fine for some reason they 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 to her new guinea above screaming grenade. go forward base blow them blow them all run his back he will. and it was all over all of us. we know that our comrades on our commander won't leave us no matter how tough it gets we're a team. they're going to move get it was a senior in his military trio. you know 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 friends. long dependent on the world bank and the international monetary fund africa finds itself crippled by foreign debt and remains

a continent of great poverty and inequality is. as long as we are in thrall to him dominated by debt i've even go so far as to say enslaved to dead there is no attention paid to social affairs like health and education can you imagine if we have to sacrifice congolese children who have to die who cannot study because they have to pay for the debt. and the international community talks about generosity now they are talking about cancelling the debt as an act of generosity by controlling the country's resources. that date debt is used to keep countries with natural resources under control. it is used to control countries in the southern hemisphere both politically and economically.

today we've got less than five percent of the world's population living in the united states consuming almost thirty percent of the resources and roughly half the world is living in poverty close to starvation are actually starving that's a failure it's not a model it's not something that can be replicated in africa or india or latin america so it's a failed system we know that it's the failed system. like the world bank and the international monetary fund play a crucial role in the entire history of the debt crisis fact these two situations created in nineteen forty four began to lend on the large scale developing countries in the sixty's. they had actually started in the fifty's. the real surge

in loans in the sixty's. the roles of the i.m.f. and the world bank have changed radically since then it's all driven both institutions have become instruments of oppression. and control over new sovereign countries in the southern hemisphere. the most typical way that economic hitman work is it will identify our country that has resources our corporations covet like oil for example and then arrange a huge loan to that country. from the world bank or one of its sisters but the money doesn't actually go to the country and static goes to our own corporations. in the democratic republic of congo is the most powerful dam in africa it's also one of the best examples the workings of the system since it was built the demos had one problem after another this deborah.