sunday's news and the stories that shape the week ukraine's capital braces for a million man anti-government march the ukrainian opposition refers to as a last chance after the government earlier survives a no confidence vote in parliament. that has western politicians fan the flames of the protests flocking to kiev to pledge their support for the crown's anti-government sentiment. case of david versus goliath a tiny romanian village fighting to get an energy giant chevron off limits land. birdhouse service from the remaining village claim a small victory against a major us oil company that's exploring for shale gas near their home by the corporate giant is still looking to win the war. and its people across the globe mourn the death of nelson mandela we'll look at how the anti-apartheid leaders

image has changed over the years. and a special swedish relationship it's been revealed the scandinavian country has been helping america spied on russia's leadership. which is r.t. international coming to you live from moscow a marina joshing welcome to the program 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 with a new year of illusionary mood fueled by the support of some western politicians and our teacher in english could now reports the only way in is not the only mean your neighbors seeing the government anger on that street but for some reason keeps

independence square has captured the minds of politicians for. europe and the u.s. we have seen a veritable parade of them here on seymour running out was with the opposition leaders right here and sometimes it'll take you to the states to speak for the crowds and yet few seem to have made the past to hear it from both sides from the country's leaders and their supporters. from an assistant to a 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 here 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 we support civil society and democratic opposition in its claim to have possibility for the nation

to express its we are 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 we are hearing some internal affairs arsalan hodge and they're not even hiding more so this is something that's should be unacceptable as a bombing standard 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 rule 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. defeated by the democratic. process opposition m.p.'s when told to block the stage installing parliament. i side protest leaders called on people to take over as many civic offices as possible which would have been a public debate on the pros and cons of the e.u. friendship has descended into a foreign fuelled meddling to boost an opposition with a different axe to grind it in the go is go r t. and anti-government protest in the ukraine capital grow so do their 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. move is shared by less than thirty percent of people in the east

a prominent foreign affairs now as doctors who says in the unlikely case of a revolution people in the east will not sit idly by if there is a pro e.u. . orange revolution there would be a 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 will 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 we suddenly express an interest in buying. us through goods so even if the reason attempt at the violent overthrow of the government there would be

definitely a very sizable 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 a few years the upcoming so-called million man march could become fertile ground for a repeat of last weekend's violence and grass both government and the opposition agree the riots were deliberately instigate a but they differ on who's been behind they don't 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 this hour he also looks into the economic troubles ukraine faces in addition to the political crisis in venture capital with katie helping the . financial situation right now is the economy we really have ng 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 eastern remain here have managed to stop a u.s. oil giant exploring for shale gas near where they live at least for the moment demonstrators are now refusing to leave the drilling side despite a heavy police presence saying a controversial extraction method could permanently damage the environment of has the details. in a remote part of romania a day of rage and fury. protesters stormed a work site operated by chevron and 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 for 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 large reserves of valuable natural gas it's the sort of place that's changed little over the centuries 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 just 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 which is the root of this all my years i have been working on the land it is the only live the 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 of water supplies being polluted for it's no longer being green. everything for this company to make a profit off of 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 vassily. they could completely destroy us we just want to protect what's important once were in our land. and that's what they've done for more than a month 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 on the run i was punched in the face it was humiliating rumanian but the police treated us like criminals i felt my group were thrown down to do a few good looking retired ourselves together to form

a human chain they were kicking ass and beating us with their bottoms i was kicked here there's another religion who's in hospital now because of how hard they had 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 continued 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.e. i'm lucy catherine of ramen and campaigner helen rimmer says governments are using false promises to cover up the needles technology. extracting shale gas isn't cheap and one of the arguments that the government was putting forward to 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 year of pay in market that 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 major coverage we're getting more local people in the area becoming aware of the risks of for can three of these local protests so we think it's all i think up and it's all helping to build a movement against fracking because people 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 that don't want it in the u.k. and it's unnecessary. on thursday the world lost nelson mandela a leader who fought racism and inequality in his own country to become an international symbol of freedom and justice pact with conover see his transition

from a vilified armed radical to a freedom fighter has been regularly polished by the mass media and hollywood searches falsely or now reports. he's the man who pulled a troubled and divided land back from the brink of civil war 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 tirelessly published the image of nelson mandela an image recognized around the world only coca-cola is british unknown but a man who struggle for racial equality again south africa's ruling white minority had a dark side the world has conveniently forgotten about nelson mandela the leader of north. struggle. right because. someone.

braced for violence and as a necessary political instrument at a particular juncture in history this house was the secret hip quarters 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 these 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 have supported the apartheid government any opponent was therefore 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 british 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 it was moved all references to mandela and his colleagues as terrorists from its database mandela was not alone in world leaders who endured a love hate relationship at the hands of the west darlings of the west 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. the gentleman who are on trial the rivonia trial as they went from being the accused of being people on 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 turned 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. r.t. johannesburg south africa. mandela was of course are now. for his inspirational speeches and on our website right now we've lined up some of his words that rarely make it to the mainstream media so i had to argue dot com for a look at what the iconic leader's thoughts were on america's influence in the world invasion of iraq and the israeli palestinian conflict. well coming out here on our t.v.'s an instrument of order or card launch to climb

down critics of a new anti-protons law and fear it's a sign of countries turning into a police state plus. iceland authorities ease the debts of the euro country man in a unique solution to financial woes while millions in europe are on the edge of poverty . 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 someone's home 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 whole country is drowning under the amount of debt that they did and so every year they would borrow money. and they would use that same amount of money

to pay back oh that's. all that money really. the wages of debt. dramas that trying to be ignored. stories others refuse to notice. faces change the world writes now. the old picture of today's you know. from around the globe. welcome back you're watching r.t. international sweden has been a key provider of spy data on the russian leadership to the us apart from targeting high profile political figures the country's also been engaged in industrial

espionage against russia's anna g. companies the accusations come from swedish t.v. citing documents leaked by edward snowden in a recent program called mission investigate its chief editor told r.t. what they discovered we have revealed that. the 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're talking about classic intel against us 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 that spell it in these documents for a is the leading partner to n.s.a. then he says ok that's flattering he ses so that's the comment we have received so far with sweden strategic location in the baltics the country has always been the and the of america's national security agency that's according to investigative journalist duncan campbell. sweden always had a rather covert intelligence relationship with the west through in the years of the cold war. very being termed 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 we receive in security of all of their neighbors and money of foreign citizens sweden was the largest collaborator in europe with the internet tapping program run by the pride rights group are being restrained in countries. so it does so because of its direct access to cable through the baltic then it's no surprise that you see it few and they say with one half as well as everything else they can take from street. the spy public criticism some governments protect their spying programs as something essential earlier this week the editor of britain's guardian newspaper face questioning by m.p.'s who believe that the publishing of snowden's revelations that advantage in national security journal is going mood he 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 they view 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 are the limits of surveillance and what kind of oversight should we have and is really only david cameron and the u.k. government that's saying we shouldn't do that. and as we reported line the n.s.a.'s appetite for private data seems only to be growing as a technical savvy u.s. intelligence to t.n.t. and twine don't world after it successfully launched a new surveillance out wide with a logo speaking for itself. plus joyous sandra maines holed up in ecuador's london embassy the world famous was a lower marks his thirty years spent in virtual detention in the u.k. without having even been charged find all the details at her teeth dot com. right to see. her struck. and i think the jury.

on our reporters would. be. our gyptian activist are feeling the effect of the country's latest law which bans on authorized demonstrations to meeting campaigners are set to go on trial charged with taking part in legal gatherings are true reports from cairo. two leading secular activists ahmed mehan will be in court today for the first session of that trial they're being charged with illegally protesting and for allegedly assaulting police officers in demonstrations last month the two men who were prominent voices in the january two thousand every revolution among the first to be trying for the offense related to egypt's new controversial protest though it was in force by the

government last month and bans all rallies over ten people from gathering without permission from the ministry of interior there was mass aprile when the law was promulgated as people here say most protests are against interior ministry and the brutality of that police force and that it would give security forces a copy of the by let me disperse demonstrations this is something we've certainly seen in the last few weeks security forces have used tear gas water cannons on budget but it's against protesters attempting to donny without permission of the government that box by the military is defending the legislation saying is essential to restore law and order and also to help it is talk of economy the trial marks a key turning point in the summer the military in the government had targeted islamist supporters of mohamed morsy with trial is showing that the government is widely as cracked down to include all forms of dissent even people here in egypt as being the country is returning to a police state. now take a look at some other stories from around the world around one hundred supporters of the far right democratic party of germany have protested against asylum shelters

for refugees in leipsic the march was set to and near a one of the centers recently opened in the city but riot police stopped them before do you reach the facility the rally was met by anti-fascist activists chanting slogans about refugees being welcome in the country. the central african republic has declared three days of mourning for the nearly four hundred people killed in recent fighting between christian militias and muslim rebels sixteen hundred french troops have been deployed there to stop the violence after the u.n. authorized military intervention in the country meanwhile critics say france is trying to solve its. own domestic problems by getting involved in a military operation. recently france has become more active militarily and i think the problem with that france and britain have not given up their intent on having access to news of some of the resources and wealth of the

african countries or so i think france is suffering serious problems at home there is a devastating collapse in living standards throughout all of europe so many of these things i think combining to push france forward into somebody has moved very activities. more of them recently than we've seen before and i'll be back with more news in around fifteen minutes time but before that katie pilgrim talks ukraine's financial turmoil in her show venture capital. so the lesson we teach to the world is that the best way to defend yourself is to get yourself a nuclear weapon and of course the biggest culprit of using nuclear weapons and producing nuclear weapons and weapons about struction is my birthday should the united states and i find it absolutely insane that we sit here and talk about iran suppose of nuclear weapons program where you know the united states is producing

every kind of weapon under the sun is spending more than every other military on the planet combined and it's involved in more war and more death and more suffering than every other nation combined and yet it's sitting there on a pedestal talking about other nations developing weapons of mass destruction. that we even allow them to do this the first nation that needs to disarm without question is the united states. we speak your language. these programs these documentaries the spanish what matters to you. a little eternity bangles keep these stories. for you here. the spanish. visit.

hello welcome event have to with me katie pilgrim it's been a busy business week we've had the chinese currency the yuan taking over from the euro yes the second most widely used currency in the world we're going to delve into details and get analysis in just a minute or two on that one we're also going to be talking about ukraine because we know the protests ongoing and it made to the economy it's gone from bad to worse it's fragile as it is again we're going to delve into detail on that what we've also got the fact that russia's biggest employer russia melways its slashing jobs what does that mean exactly corporate news to come our in-house investor mr sean thomas he went over the course on us last week he was heading towards the financials with see how he's think getting on but first i want to start with the chinese currency because as i say it's now the second most widely used currency in the world so it's below the u.s. dollar but it's overtaken the euro so what exactly is happened in the last year that well can tell you that last year its share of global trade was just over one percent and now we fast forward it's reached almost nine percent so what happened

to the euro in contrast last year it had almost eight percent now it's got just over six percent now this is coming at a time when china is changing things up a bit it's in a state of transition now we know that the state is loosening controls on exchange rates as well as boring costs as well so i want to get expert analysis so i'm going to speak to david quote he's from motley fool and just see david i want to know when you're i was first introduced it was supposed to rival the u.s. dollar as the global reserve we've now got the one overtaking the year i said you think that that dream is well and truly dead. what a wonderful question i think as far as the euro is from sort of the euro is probably short a story from the foot because. the countries within the euro zone when they are dealing.