this is our team this morning i know to make some for ukraine's president his boy stood a massive protest of the capital where the opposition hopes to gather a million man march and lay siege to the government that. fanning the flames of forward politicians with the odd statement supporting the opposition some even coming to kiev the anti government. in all of the stories of the week a series of clashes at the shale gas site in romania seize all joyn chevron suspend operations and offering a brief rest by them to villagers who say fracking will destroy their livelihoods. day of prayer for south africans for their former leader an international symbol of pigs nelson mandela we look at how heal the pain pitted division countries are now giving them

a. scattering scandinavians it emerges that sweden buddied up with america's n.s.a. to listen across russia's leadership but also some major firms to. a very good morning says are to international if you just joined us it's just after midnight now here in moscow my name's kevin i'm here with a weekly i read over the top stories of the last seven days and the ongoing one right now at least one hundred thousand people gathered in the ukrainian capital tonight for a major anti-government protest the opposition's warning that this rally is the last chance for the government and the president as they put it full scots there. there's a still ambiguity over the exact figures but some of the certainty is that thousands to still remain in the square behind me despite the bitterly cold conditions on

this also our no one certainty over the key demands of the opposition as well heavyweight boxing champion batali klitschko taking to the stage behind me and urging the protest and the protesters to remain peaceful was a symbol ten years late giving the government an ultimatum but i have to say despite klitschko schools we can report this evening the mosque men carry nationalistic flyers pull down a statue a monumental lenin and smashed it with sledgehammers but elsewhere today there are a number of key demands being outlined by the opposition as part of that ultimatum these include the fact the protesters should be released any protesters who've been arrested throughout the course of these demonstrations on those that come down violently on the protesters last weekend should be punished and other key demands include the resignation of president viktor yanukovych china's government and an immediate election now on their part the opposition opposition have called for

a nationwide general strike and they continue to surround the blockade key governmental departmental ministers of buildings here in the center of kiev for their part the ukrainian security services say that investigating what they are calling in a tent to seize power in the country and it's also much on sunday that the e.u. foreign policy representative catherine ashton is set to visit kiev later this week to try and find a political solution to the crisis on the whole movement really has been void by support from european officials as my colleague arena galicia now reports the only way in is not the only one neighbor seeing anti government anger on its street but for some reason cleaves independence square has captured the minds of not politicians from europe and the u.s. we have. seen a veritable parade of them fairly similar running out was where the opposition leader is leader and sometimes it'll take you to the states to speak for the crowds and yet few seem to have made the pass to hear it from both sides from the

country's leaders and their supporters. right there from an assistant 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 share 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 suffer all civil society and democratic opposition in its claim to have possibility for the nation to express his will and saudis which means early elections 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 the president because going to college to admit has been beaten i mean

this is clear where appearance in the internal affairs arsalan hodge and they're not even hiding the more so this is something that's should be unacceptable. as a democratic 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 room i don't think they would consider it a friendly step of this 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. defeated by the democratic process opposition m.p.'s. went home to block the stage installing parliament. outside protest leaders called on people to take over as many see because this is a possible the idea of the whole process of walking is to show that ukrainians are

ready to be part of europe and they can protest a peaceful european matter of course majority of the people are trying to keep it civil or keeping it peaceful but what exactly will happen later in the day we have yet to find out. who will be covering it really i spoke to journalist neil clark he compares the mass protests in ukraine to vote seen in turkey this year and sees a striking difference though in the u.s. approach to it. there were hundreds of thousands of people protesting not just in the capital but throughout turkey and it was much more national protest this protest in ukraine is very much approaches in the western ukraine and we didn't get that we can get catherine ashton going out to. show solidarity for anybody from the e.u. really that the protesters in turkey were peaceful they would go to great brutality by the police there were no calls for them to be arrested. then to be sacked it's always easy craig and his russian glare it seems to go on the streets of brighton

demonstrate here it's fine to have european they encourage. turkey no they don't and here in spain they don't say the double standards are absolutely outrageous really. of their part ruling party officials are urging the protestors to go home saying their blockade of administrative buildings is preventing now the approval of the twenty fourteen budget that could have an impact on state salaries and pensions across the country so far there's no sign of the rallies abating thousands of pro-government activists descended on the capital in towns across the east of the country as well to make their voices heard in fact recent polls suggest ukraine is sharply divided on the issue of e.u. integration as we can see on the news war more than seventy percent of people in the west of the country favorite trade deal with europe that figure drops below thirty percent in the east analysts believe a revolution is unlikely but if it happened those in the east would be likely to support the government they think if the reason a pro e.u. neo orange revolution there 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 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 certainly 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 real 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. but he

thought the political problems rupture in ukraine there are more pressing economic concerns right now this hour a bit later this this hour of venture capital is on i would k.t. pilbeam revealing just how close the country is to going under and the ramifications of its predicament. also headlining this week it's cost them a beating but protests is nonetheless managed to now to hold again the work of fracking site in northeast romania the shale gas well has been developed by us energy giant chevron with an army of police to ensure security but the locals who make up some of europe's poorest were horrified at the prospect of thousands of tons of toxins being pumped into the land which provides their only livelihoods lucy caffein off covers the story for us. 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 a 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 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 you can run the beef all my years i

have been working on the land it is the only law of 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 forests no longer being green we don't want to risk everything for this company to make a profit 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. people they could completely destroy us we just want to protect what's important in our land and that's what they've done for more than a month now braving the cold to 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 for the one i was punched in the face it was

humiliating romanian but the police treated us like criminals i felt like we were found out. we tied ourselves together to form a human chain 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 they hit him in the stomach. and on saturday more violence what 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.e. . top of the chemical illusional top of the water contamination fracking is also

blamed for causing earthquakes to an offshoot of. texas communities have been wrong and explain tremors recently locals insisted for more than a website. sunday is a day of prayer reflection in south africa in memory of former president nelson mandela who died on thursday fall asleep next reports on how is life was a long walk from one point being labeled a terrorist to becoming the world's most respected freedom fighter. he's the man who traveled and divided land back from the brink of civil war the man who after twenty seven tough years behind bars walked free from prison in his heart was not to avenge and i think that his greatest legacy to this country is reconciliation.

in the last three decades the world tirelessly polished the image of nelson mandela and image recognized around the world only coca-cola is based on known better men who struggle for racial equality again south africa's ruling white minority had a dark side and world has conveniently forgotten about now some and i've been leader of the struggle. a radical. someone. embraced 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 arrested put on trial and sentenced to life in prison 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 are on trial the rivonia trial as they went from being the accused of being people on in the dark as slowly 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. r. t. johannesburg south africa. nelson mandela out america for inspirational eloquent comments to me put some of the gather some of the rarely seen ones elsewhere in our t. dot com you can look at the iconic leaders thoughts on america's influence on. the

world the invasion of iraq indeed in these blatant. case ramping up the pressure on journalists working to expose britain's pivotal role in global surveillance. if you. will to. brace for the notes the editor of the newspaper the forefront of the spy exposes cold to a terrorism hearing facing some seemingly far fetched accusations but also sympathy to bring up to speed on the other story been covering at length this week kidnapped in syria now in the last twenty four hours that have played on video saying that being treated well by the rebels but middle east watches tell us it's hard to believe that the anti assad fighters are entirely the good guys here. after the break.

down in the final. days. and the rest. will be every week. 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 birthplace of 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 it is insane that we even allow them to do this the first nation that needs to disarm without question is the united states. alone can know what i was promised update you on a story of being covering the group for syria nuns who went missing after rebels captured the christian village of my lula will have made contact with the world in the last twenty four hours saying they want to fact kidnap they weren't rescued from a shelling attack the video statement those raised questions of many suspecting the woman was speaking under duress money looks right as a journalist he's been to syria several times he's met christians there he doesn't buy claims of the rebels' good intentions. we have to see that. doesn't have any military strategic well you but it has a symbolic well you it is a very old it's an ancient christian pilgrimage with

a very old monastery so when we see now that we all wear the nun starfield when this one is telling that they are treated well and all like this we shouldn't forget that the shelling the attack on the monastery wasn't turned off by the syrian army it was turned on by the so-called rebels who are in reality nothing else then terrorists that's that's the fact so and we saw in the past the couple of the media will saw kidnap christians of course they are saying we are treated well we get good food we should look on the facts on the verified facts what we see is that. was attacked right now the second time within several weeks. time the right to use its deadly downward swing dozens of people have been killed and bombs explode in marketplaces and shops across the capital that later an activist speaks to us tells us how it compares now to life then under saddam

hussein. emerges last week this sweden is in on the n.s.a. spying game what's more it's accused of peeking through the kremlin's keyhole to swedish t.v. reported fresh leaks from edward snowden that stalker would fed intelligence from russia's leadership and also from some energy giants to the united states this is what the chief editor of the news program that broke the story told us earlier about their findings 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 unique intelligence they're talking about classic intelligence and they're 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 is a leading partner to n.s.a. then he says ok that's flattering he say's so that's the only comment we have received so far investigative journalist duncan campbell says sweden has historically helped the u.s. with intelligence betraying the previous year the citizens in neighboring states in the process. sweden always had a lot of a covert intelligence relationship where stealing the years of the cold war. being

turned to secretly and to the club of the big spies in which they offered to give to their prime minister in return for betraying we receive in security of all of their neighbors and money of her own citizens sweden was the largest collaborator in europe which the internet tapping program run by the private eyes group are being respected in countries. and so it does so because of its direct access to cable for the baltic then it's no surprise that you see it few and they say we want that as well as everything else we can take from street. across the north sea the editor of britain's guardian newspaper was grilled in the wake of a terror hearing for publishing stories exposing the scale of global surveillance which the u.k. is no small part of the government accuses the paper of encouraging terrorism though by revealing how they're being spied on have

a journalist good mood he believes it's all part of a public flogging campaign it's theatre 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. well your images as part of this the n.s.a. is as an aside to all this should think you probably would want to downplay the dragnet but this screams knows how the u.s. intelligence community regards his latest secret surveillance mission to the logo of an angry all seeing octopus gobbling up the world. and the a whistleblower is waiting game to reporting to r.t. dot com after clocking up three years now in britain under house arrest and

embassies political asylum look at why julius sanch still hasn't been charged. in a series of bombings and shootings across the iraqi capital has killed at least thirty nine people and wounded ninety the deadliest attack was in a shiite suburb of baghdad or a car bomb went off near a workshop iraqi journalist a peace activist told us the situation is worse now for many than it was under former dictator saddam hussein. six months after the bombings in ninety one there with the electricity there with telephone again there was a fair distribution. russians people. of angry people who did die because there was no and not enough clean water and so on a lot of diseases caused by the sanctions imposed by the united states but there were basic services that people have to work and it's not like the situation now

where after ten years. your patient eleven years know. that there are no basic services. still to come with me when it comes to crisis recovery islands' pretty hot stuff we hear a bit later how writing debt solve can really pay off even if it does mean rage in europe and also. may have you know that with almost one in five people across the e.u. under the threat of living in poverty those in the richest economies are aligned and that's really interesting report coming up about fifteen minutes time that in fact between now and then though the financial week in detail in our tease venture capital case you probably enjoy. just imagine

a foreign leaders like alexander lukashenko of lattimer putin just showed up at anti e.u. protests greece are hungry to urge people to leave the e.u. and join up with the eurasian customs union obviously the media would be on fire screaming that this is part of an attempt to use a democracy and steal the country's away some sort of imperialist agenda and you know what they might be right about that but the weird thing is that for some reason the mainstream media isn't talking about foreign politicians speaking to and or possibly agitating protesters in ukraine like speaker of the lithuanian parliament loreto. vice president just so proud to see of each and former polish pm yours love kaczynski you're the european union is just fine for their politicians to go to foreign countries and fire up protestors to start a pro you revolution but then all their journalist write about is how russia is trying to put pressure on ukraine to not join the e.u. the obvious hypocrisy of this stinks all the way up the moscow but that's just my opinion.

hello welcome to vent 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 going to delve into details and get out of his in just a minute or two on that one we're also going to be talking about ukraine because we know the protests that ongoing and it made to the economy it's gone from bad to was is a fragile as it is again we're going to delve into detail on that what my thoughts but the fact that russia's biggest employer buster melways it's slashing jobs what

does that mean exactly what needs to come in house of estimates to shawn thomas he went over the course as soon as last week he was heading towards the financials so we'll 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 in the world sits below the u.s. dollar but it's overtaken the euro so what exactly is happened in the last year that law 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. 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 quo he's from motley fool and just see david i want to know when

your 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 eurozone so i mean the euro's probably shot itself in the foot because the countries within the euro zone when they are dealing in international trade that perhaps you know weren't as strong in deciding that the rest of the world should use the euro as the base currency in other words where they want to buy goods from china they were quite happy to actually buy goods based in you were stormers so really i think i think the you know the euro the euro zone hasn't been as forceful as they could have been done so there may be you know the euro would have been more freely traded but at the moment i mean the euro still still quite freely traded in comparison to the euro.