sunday's news and the stories that shape the week ukraine's capital braces for a million man anti-government march with western politicians lending their support to the demonstrations in kiev. against the odds broadcasters from armenian village managed to found off a major u.s. oil company that's exploring for shale gas near their home. people across the globe mourn the death of nelson mandela we'll look at how the anti-apartheid leader's image has changed over the years. and a special swedish relationship it's been revealed that scandinavian country has been helping america spy on russia's leadership.

in moscow watching r t international with me marina john. ukraine's opposition is calling for a million people to join anti-government protests in kiev on sunday for a rally that's feared to further heightened tension in the capital opposition leaders also say they will not talk to authorities unless the government steps down protests have gripped kenya for more than two weeks now was a near revolutionary mood fueled by the support of some western politicians as our teacher in english going to reports we were in is not the only one neighbor seeing anti-government anger on the streets but for some reason keeps independence square has captured the minds of politicians from europe and the west have seen a variable parade them to hear the rubbing elbows with the opposition leaders and even sometimes it would take you to the states to speak for the crowds and gets few seem to have made that. to hear it from both sides from the country's leaders and

their supporters. from an assistant u.s. secretary of state we stand with the people of ukraine who see their future in europe and want to bring their country back to economic health and unity to former polish president where the supporters of euro integration must remain firm and seize the momentum of the protest this is the only way they can get you know coach to make concessions and current members of the european parliament which of old civil society and democratic opposition in its claim to have possibility for the nation to express its will employees which means only election what began as a pro e.u. push descended into an out and out attack on the leadership the usual buzzwords of democracy justice and the will of the people were interspersed with not so subtle calls for a president they can acquire which to admit has been beaten this is clear here it's

in the internal affairs of the stalin conscious and they're not even hiding the more so this is something that's should be unacceptable. about them i think standing widely seen as a clear breach of diplomatic conduct it also raised questions in moscow. but i can imagine how our german partners would have felt if russia's foreign minister decided to attend a rally that was being held against german rules i don't think they would consider it a friendly step was meeting with opposition members is one thing but taking part in rallies that's interference in domestic affairs. early in the week the government survived a no confidence vote in the ukrainian parliament was removed from the defeated by the democratic process opposition m.p.'s went home to block the stage and stalling parliament. outside protest leaders called on people to take over as many civic offices as possible what should have. public debate on the pros and cons of the

e.u. friendship has descended into a foreign fueled meddling to boost in opposition to the different axe to grind it in a go is go r t. as the anti-government protests in the ukrainian capital grow so do the rallies in support of blocking the trade deal with the e.u. thousands of pro-government activists descended on the capital and towns across the east of the country to make their voice heard recent polls suggest ukraine sharply divided on the issue of e.u. integration with more than seventy percent of people in the west of the country favoring the deal while the pro e.u. mood is shared by less than thirty percent of people in the east and prominent foreign affairs allies dr subject drift of which says in the unlikely case of a revolution people in the east will not sit idly by if the reason a pro e.u. . orange revolution they would be pro customs union pro russian counter-revolution so it would be the path to the civil war because let's face it

in the industrial base in of the east they know that if they join the e.u. package they would of course they will never join the e.u. itself they would lose customs privileges in russia very industrial goods which are still being exported to russia in increasing quantities would suddenly become thirty five percent more expensive which would price them out of the market in the same time i doubt very much that e.u. countries will suddenly express an interest in buying ukraine goods so even if the reason attempt at the violent overthrow of the government there would be there finitely a very sizeable counterforce ready to come onto the streets it is no longer two thousand and four when no one was willing to risk their skin for for. meanwhile there are fears the upcoming so-called million man march could become fertile

ground for repeat of last weekend's violent unrest both the government and the opposition agree the riots were deliberately instigate a but they differ on who's been behind them daniel mcadams executive director of the ron paul institute think tank says such provocation is part of a pattern often used in coup attempts we see a pattern here of escalation in provocation we've seen it before in these previous revolutions i think really the protesters on the ground they had a very large public provocation a few nights ago and they were using chains and tractors and of course the police as police do everywhere reacted with violence the u.s. has counseled nonviolence but 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 so everywhere governments would normally protect their buildings and later today our g. also looks into the economic troubles ukraine faces in addition to the political

crisis venture capital is coming your way at eight am g.m.t. . to find out two situation right now is the economy we heading for a day felt the markets are expecting it dissipating it devolves ukraine so it is a very serious situation the ukrainian central bank. is almost broke and doesn't have any money and won't be able to support the ukrainian currency going forward unless you train gets credit. residents of a tiny village in ace rumania have managed to stop a u.s. oil giant exploring for. gas near where they live at least for the moment

demonstrators are now refusing to leave the drilling site despite having police presence saying a car herschel extraction method could permanently damage the environment there's a confident has the details. in a remote part of romania a day of rage and fury. protesters stormed a work site operated by chevron and the police responded with full force those who didn't leave willingly were dragged away so you can see. in what country we are living the police forces are behaving like a private protection company thought of so wrong. but what the people here want to know is who will protect them from big business. this is one of the poorest corners of the european union but it's believed to sit on top of a large reserves of valuable natural gas it's the sort of place that's changed

a little over the centuries forced on carts are still a common mode of transportation and most of the residents still live off the land land which could soon be pumped full of toxic fluid in order to get the fuel underneath it's a simple everyday action drawing water out of the well for the villagers here and put in jest this is really what's at the heart of the matter the environment and the water for them it's not so much about fighting chevron as it is about protecting both their lives and livelihoods but if you run the family here is there have been working on the land it is the only live time now during the day isn't your typical sort of protester a farmer all her life she and her husband were also some of the first villagers to speak out against chevron's plans to drill for natural gas in their community. we've heard horror stories. what a supplies being polluted for is no longer being green we don't want to risk

everything for this company to make a profit. without. it would be little. chevron says it's committed to working with the local community to drill without damaging the environment it insists that it is abiding by all safety rules but that's not reassuring for farmers like the silly. they could completely destroy us we just want to protect what's important and what's we're in our land. and that's what they've done for more than a months now braving the cold villagers set up makeshift tents across from the company's drilling site chevron did temporarily suspend its operations but last week the camp was raided by the police. i was punched in the face it was humiliating rumanian but the police treated us like criminals i felt my group were so doubt. we tied ourselves together to form a human chain across the road 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 religious reason hospital now because of how hard they hit him in the stomach. and on saturday more violence would began as a peaceful demonstration was broken up by force. another arrest the protests are at an end but demonstrators continue to get taken away in this car in some ways it's a case of david versus goliath a tiny romanian village fighting to get an energy giant chevron off of its land but despite the arrests despite the protests and despite the clashes the chevron trucks are already here and the work looks set to go on reporting and put in just romania for r t m d c calf and. environmental campaigner george barda believes when it comes to choosing between people and corporations politicians are trying to have their cake and eat it too. what you see essentially is this this battle between big

business and the interests of the people and a consistent pattern both in the u.k. and romania where you're saying major figures from the energy industry moving into into government directly but david cameron as i came to came to power on the promise of being the greenest government ever and what we've seen is exactly the opposite in romania it's exactly the same scenario we say. so it's not it's fracking because the people want it and then when he's in power he starts dancing to the tune as a these major players like chevron. are staring down fans as at chevron's fracking side and scuffles with police and see all our pictures from the scene online at our t. dot com. on thursday the world lost nelson mandela the leader who fought racism and inequality became an international symbol of freedom and justice looks at the

legacy of the man who built a new south africa ending decades of apartheid in a country. he's the man who pulled a troubled and divided land back from the brink of civil wall the man who after twenty seven tough years behind bars walks free from prison in his heart was not to avenge or i think that his greatest legacy to this country is reconciliation but in the last three decades the world timelessly polished the image of nelson mandela and image recognized around the world only coca-cola is better known better men who struggle for racial equality again south africa's ruling white minority had a dark side the world has conveniently forgotten about nelson mandela very leader of a struggle. a radical. someone. braced for violence and as a necessary political instrument at

a particular juncture in our history this house was the secret headquarters of the african national congress it was here in the early sixty's that mandela and his comrades launched the armed struggle it was also here that most of them were wasted put on trial and sentenced to life in prison at what was known as the rivonia trial in one thousand nine hundred sixty four mandela and ten of his colleagues faced the death penalty for sabotage nelson mandela was called a terrorist because he took up arms against the apartheid government governments lie to support the government they claim legitimacy the west had big investments gold mines industry the sea transport links to the east the cape route was very important they supported the apartheid government any opponent was there for a terrorist it's don't fall apart it would have lasted as long as it did if the world community hadn't closed ranks behind the white government but his prime

minister margaret thatcher denounced mandela as a terrorist and years later she welcomed mandela to downing street. washington also did a one hundred eighty degree turn although it was only in two thousand and eight that if we moved over fences to mandela and his colleagues as terrorists from its database mandela was not alone in world leaders who endured and love hate relationship at the hands of the waste darlings of the waste one moment villains the next libya's moammar gadhafi egypt's hosni mubarak to name but a few south african journalist chris bishop believes the one nine hundred sixty four trial that saw mandela and his comrades sentenced to life helped turn the world in their favor during the trial. these gentlemen who were on trial the rivonia trial as they went from being the accused of being people in the dark. transformed they became the benjamin franklin's of africa they became the freedom fighters they began the man of principle who is

standing up merely for the rights of others and it's only to turn world opinion around from a vile terrorist to one of the greatest freedom fighters to have ever walked the earth the story of nelson mandela is remarkable a man who stood up for the rights of people everywhere but also a familiar tale of governments putting a garland of flowers around your neck one day and a rope the next point of r.t. johannesburg south africa and coming up on our team and it instrument of order or a car blanche to climb down critics of a new type protest law in egypt fear it's a sign the country is turning into a police state plus. iceland authorities he is a dance of the year a country man in any unique solution to financial woes while millions in europe are on the edge of poverty.

sweden's been helping america's n.s.a. to spy on russia and provide a washington with a list of high profile targets swedish state t.v. side a dog. by was the lower edward snowden in a recent program called mission investigate its chief editor told r.t. what they discovered we have revealed. a very close relationship between the swedish defense radio authority f.r.a. and american counterpart n.s.a. and according to the documents. f.r.a. have spied spying on the russian leadership and they are passing this information on to n.s.a. we got access to these documents thanks to edward snowden so for we have don't have any details more than the documents are mentioning. that they're talking about. intelligence they talk about classic intelligence and they also mentioning cables

the spokesman of f.r.a. didn't give any comments but. when axed asked about being. seen as a leading partner that's the way they spell it in these documents for a it's a leading partner to n.s.a. then he says ok that's flattering he ses so that's the only comment we have received so far with sweden strategic location in the baltic the country has always been the envy of america's national security agency that's according to an investigative journalist duncan campbell. sweden always had a lot of a covert intelligence relationship with the west using the years of the cold war and they've been tempted secretly in to the club of the big spies in which they are for the goodies to give to their prime minister in return for betraying the slave

receipt and security of all all of the neighbors and many foreign citizens sweden was the largest collaborative in europe with the internet tapping program run by the prize group of being we speaking countries. so it does so because of its kind of direct access to cables to the voltaic then it's no surprise that you see it skewed and they say with one half as well as everything else that they can take from st despite public criticism some governments protect their spying programs as something essential earlier this week the outer of britain's guardian newspaper face questioning by m.p.'s who believe that the publishing of snowden's revelations put a dand in national security journalist glenn moody believes it's all part of a public flogging campaign. it's theater because it's actually for internal consumption it's really for the united kingdom and david cameron is trying to demonstrate that he's the strong man that he's tough on terrorism that he's not

going to let journalists you know tell him what to do and therefore he's coming out with these statements which for the rest of the world thinks pretty crazy because everyone is saying from president obama downwards that we should have this debate about what all the limits of surveillance and what kind of oversight should we have and is really only david cameron the u.k. government that's saying we shouldn't do that and as we report online the n.s.a. is appetite for private data seems only to be growing as the tentacles of u.s. intelligence continue to twine the world after it successfully launches a new surveillance satellite with a logo speaking for itself. lost and remains holed up in ecuador's london embassy the world famous whistleblower marks the third year spent in virtual detention in the u.k. without having even been charged find all the details at our. right to see. first. and i think the church.

would. be in the. iceland's alive and kicking the country's economy has rebounded after the recession with the state still treading its own path to financial well being instead of trying to save the bankrupt banks the government led them go to the wall of leadership then decided to reject a last deposit paid repayment scheme swayed by protesters who said the plan was unfair instead every household in the country will have twenty four thousand euros written off their mortgage banking executives accused of causing the crisis in the first place are also being pursued by the state professor of by the economics

rodney shakespeare believes that iceland is setting a remarkable example you must rely on your own national bank for your own use is for your own really called m a i for the spreading and if you don't do that you'll be trapped into debt in the same way that what you've got greece you've got iceland but you've got every country in the world is being chucked into increasing debt and all that happens is that they increase the levels of that and smash the populations down we need a revolt against this global financial system and in its own way iceland is setting a reasonable that desirable thank you iceland. considered controversial by international lenders iceland's crisis breakaway plan is proving effective in helping people keep their hands above water but here's what happens when gov measures fail today nearly

a quarter of the population live under the threat of poverty that's more than one hundred twenty million people and two of the latest additions to the blog bulgaria and romania find themselves topping the list of europe's poorest and even the founding states are now struggling more than ever as a group is going to find out. marco used to work as a pizza your many italians used to call it the golden skill which would always get you work in rome but it didn't hold true for marco one day he was sacked and has not been fired since he's been living on the street for about four years now and says at forty six he sees little chance of fixing his life he asked us not to reveal his identity. when you live on the street survival is what takes up most of your time simply getting a shower is a challenge it takes so much time to take care of yourself like a normal person you reach the end of the day and you're exhausted and depressed. would be an economy going through its longest recession since the second world war

over twelve percent of adults are unemployed while four out of ten young people don't have a job there are no official figures on the homeless we have any type of food that we can get for free from somewhere more italians are beginning to turn to charity and humanitarian aid for help two years ago we had about fifty five percent where for no surrender forty five percent then we have about sixty five percent valiant thirty five percent for us completed. everything on the shelves is free given in exchange for points allocated to low income families by the global charity network. most of the food is near its expiration date except for specially labeled aid it's really similar to an ordinary supermarket you've got bread pasta dairy products vegetables and sort of the one thing which really stands out are these packages with signs saying not for sale this is humanitarian aid from the

european union and altogether these products make up around a third of all the stuff here. kerry does is now raising the alarm saying around one third of all italian children are at risk of poverty and are lacking basic essential such as protein rich foods heating and clothes you've got the skin off our t. rome. look at some other stories from around the world around one hundred supporters of the raw far ryan democratic party of germany have protested against asylum shelters for refugees in leipsic the march was said to and near one of the centers recently opened in the city but riot police stopped them before they reached the facility the rally was met by anti-fascist activists chanting slogans about refugees being welcomed in the country. an attack on a police post in colombia's eastern community of and has left nine people dead including civilians the salem's believed to be from the rebel group far through fired mortars from

a truck and destroyed several buildings guerillas have been engaged in negotiations with the government for over a year aimed at stopping the ongoing conflict that has claimed over two hundred thousand lives. or french troops will be sent to the central african republic to confront the rising wave of sectarian violence they are there in force mccombs after the un authorized military operation to stop the bloodshed over the last few days nearly four hundred people have been killed in battles between christian militias loyal to the ousted president a muslim rebels who control the country. egyptian activist are feeling the fact of the country's latest law which bans unauthorized demonstrations to meeting campaigners are set to go in trial charged with taking part in illegal gatherings are just bill true reports from cairo two leading secular activists mehan will be in court today for the first session of the trial they're being taunted to be

protesting for allegedly assaulting police officers in demonstrations last month it's two men who were prominent voices in the january two thousand never revolution among the first to be trying to for the offense related to egypt's new controversial protest though it was in force by the government last month and bones the ten people from gathering without permission from the ministry of interior there was most opera when the noise. the gates as people here say most protests are against interior ministry and the brutality of that police force i'm going to give security forces a cop in the by let me disperse demonstrations this is something we certainly seen in the last few weeks security forces have used tear gas water cannons and birdshot but it's against protesters attempting to dani without permission from the government of that box by the military and defending the legislation saying is essential to restore law and order and also to help egypt's talk to the economy the trial marks a key turning point in the summer the military in the government had targeted islamist supporters of mohamed morsy with measure and trial is showing that the

government is widely is cracked down to include all forms of dissent leading people here in egypt to be in the country is returning to a police state and coming up we continue our story of the families of american servicemen who lost their loved ones and friendly fire.

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 a bit. the research of dr scott's nor a retired lieutenant colonel at the harvard business school highlights the difficulties in determining both the cause of and criminal culpability in friendly fire incidents so friendly fire have a perverse relationship with friendly fire paratrooper and eighty second airborne division.