protests in ukraine's capital grow in size and number as the so-called million man with a blockade of government buildings and an investigation into alleged attempts to seize power. a fresh round of arrests in bahrain brings the total number of jailed to nearly three thousand in the almost three year uprising activists claim the crackdown is intensifying. and the war on the british government's accused of attacking trade unions after ordering an investigation into so-called protesting tactics.

the world headlines live on the international. news t.v. welcome to the program ukraine's opposition is calling for the expansion of antigovernment protests urging demonstrators to blockade the whole government from of the early hours of the morning and investigation has been launched into an alleged attempt this following sunday's so-called millions march and that so protesters barricading the prime minister's office along with other governmental buildings. are now looking at the outcome of this mass rally. then toppled and smashed the statue of one revolutionary has fallen victim to a new generation of relish marys they call him the ultimate evil but somehow take their cue from his methods as lenin did a hundred years before them protesters in kiev have captured a barricade of a handful of civic buildings. right now the scene there is a mix of

a refugee camp gypsy village a hippie hangout. and a rock concert with a whole lot of political slogans thrown in. this is what ukraine opposition calls a revolution others though have a different name for it we've seen things happening in ukraine we've seen a storm a government building seen by others we see. all those being huge trash waiting to go if this was happening in the happening in front you get a better course these people would be denounced as writers and maybe given very stiff protests and the protest efforts are getting a financial helping hand from contributors who drop cash into special collection box that has been set up and securities provided by the so-called revolutionary guard youth and masks and helmets whose job is to ward off hostile forces from the gates of the citadel the movement has been blocking the heart of the city and its

major thorold there for two weeks now. you have the us those who incite you to blockade the cabinet of ministers are absolutely reckless irresponsible people the ministry of finance is in this building the ministry responsible for paying wages to all of ukraine stop and think teachers salaries doctors pay mergence the services they all depend on the continued functioning of this government. to no avail still protest leaders are certain this paralysis is the right way to go in order to reach their glorious goal. do you see a pattern here of of escalation in provocation a very large public provocation a few nights ago they were using chains and tractors and of course the police as police do everywhere reacted with violence 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 if you could imagine something like this happening in any other country for example in europe or in the united states i think about what kind of reaction we would be looking at from the authorities there and whether or not police actually would be blamed for dispersing these types of protests violently or nonviolently it in the party key of. and as a rino was saying just there the tensions in central kiev are being stoked on social networks were all sorts of theories of being posted let's give you some of the rumors that preceded sunday's mass rally the most wide spread messages were about the authorities planning a violent dispersal of protests using special forces pulled into the capital from other regions of the speculation was fueled by further reports that tanks were also on the way another widespread through there's been circulating for the past week is that or thora he's were about to introduce a state of emergency now none of those rumors came true but modern history

professor mark almond he says it's wrong to underestimate the danger of rumors just like this. there is a tent through a rumor mill to create a heightened sense of tension and alarm those who remember the so-called orange revolution in two thousand and four will remember we were told then that the russian suspects not special forces lurking in the woods in a careful way to crack down they weren't nothing happened so we're seeing a kind of propaganda war psychological war taking place using these rumors of both crackdown domestically and even foreign interference whilst at the same time the very western leader the western governments who report these rumors completely ignore the evidence of their own involvement in supporting the opposition providing technical training camps providing financial and other forms of assistance providing a media platform for them and so on. and ukraine's protests have changed from being pro e.u.

demonstrations are now mostly anti government but they remain the focus of attention for political europeans mark almond told us what's luring many of them to independence square first of all we see a parade of losers coming to care for the rest of the german foreign minister's party was annihilated in the recent general election it lost all the seats kaczynski the former polish prime minister is a loser. saakashvili the president of georgia reviled by the population for his brutality and the talks with his prisons coming because it gives them a sense of self-importance but also they're coming because the western power centers your congressional bustles mater and so on see ukraine as a key strategic factor they want to crane to be under their thumb under nato because they are deeply hostile to russia and poland based political and financial commentator patrick young he believes eve politicians are using the ukrainian opposition for their own domestic purposes. any piece members of the european

parliament are terrified that they're about to be outflanked by anti european forces in elections and four and five months time therefore they're doing anything to try and get a tinge of popularity and of course the way they do that in the socialist european superstate of the e.u. is try and be seen around liberal demonstrators at all times because it kind of inflates their ok credentials of looking like hippy liberals the truth is they have no coherent concept of why or what they could do with ukraine and in fact the worst thing that could happen in many senses is that ukraine not signs this economic deal because if it did a live free movement of labor it would be chaos for europe as usual the european union a super state of humbug and hypocrisy. and here in our international we are of course following the developments in the ukrainian capital on air and online also on the web site r.t. dot com you can find the most dramatic photos and the videos from the ongoing

protests. it's good to have you with us here on the program a twenty eight anti-government activists including some miners have been arrested since the beginning of this month in bahrain and protesters say the crackdown on their movement which started almost three years ago has only gotten worse in recent months in fact the first violent crackdown that was at the beginning of twenty eleven four people died during clashes with police in that event now just a few months later martial law was declared and gulf troops took the country under control after that time a nearly a thousand people have been arrested but now the number is about three times that high more than ninety people have been killed since then and twenty twelve kicked off with a rally attended by hundreds of thousands but the people's voice was left and heard so here we are in twenty thirteen and bahrain's king deciding to toughen the

penalties for demonstrators the result you protests and more arrests every week as paulus leader reports. oh it's the arab spring is forgotten revolution nearly three years have gone by since the people of the rain inspired by the infantry nazir and egypt goes up against an oppressive regime and demanded reform but their uprising was brutally crushed within a matter of weeks who have published their name in the picture of all the people responsible of the human rights violation in my country. starting from the small police officer and minister of interior reaching to the king of bahrain who is legally responsible of all the human rights violations and bahrain syud yousif elmo hafter has been forced to seek refuge in europe because of death threats against him and his family and i gather bahraini activists he criticizes washington and its allies for being quick to condemn crackdowns in some countries while ignoring

others oh it's better than the human rights in bahrain and it was said and to us it's better than human rights as a diversion or so that's where we are a victims. of the better standard because we live in oil going to be nasty weak u.s. secretary of defense chuck hagel made it clear in his speech that he was more concerned about military matters that science plays directly into the bahraini regime his hands they want to feel that there are some you are really body are slaves so that's why they don't want anyone to talk about the process of lifting the if they give them cross either they are losing a lot even. so very much that was so far according to amnesty international more than a hundred people have been killed and almost three thousand imprisoned in the bahraini protests many more have been tortured in a crackdown if it means

a father moved from the world's attention policia r.t. . and bahraini politician a hard look he was arrested this autumn is author of his are sending a clear signal to protesters to stay away. the problem back then is very basic to understand that we have absolute authority that is concentrated in behind all clearly and families and we need dollars or thirty years to be shared. by the people through an inclusive political system that is retaining the power to the people rule of law was never meant to have an illegal law compared to the international community stand and your own forces biased police and courts that is what party you so i thought was just part of the punishment and part of the fields today acquisition and the activists not to join the movement that calling for simple rights universal rights of their people to be equal to have dignity to

participate in political system and to have the bloc meant that despaired with everyone. here with all of the international still to come for you in this program iraq continues its deadly downward spiral dozens are dead as blasts rock marketplaces and shops sold across the capital just a couple of minutes here on r.t. international we look at what triggered the rise of sectarian violence. 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 these 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 my mind. when the militants decided to try and break through the. screening grenade.

go forward base blow them blow them all run his back you'll. lose it 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 team. you're both getting 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 us friends. 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 have 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 come by 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. cleaner. love with a waitress on stage managing that there's an audience used to take drugs and drink like of. the police told me about the circus but i was such a punk i was like what circus. circus and clearly can. and will break down stereotypes about kids from disadvantaged.

wealthy british. markets. find out what's really happening to the global economy for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines to cause the reports. it's a busy day for news here on our to international thanks for joining us shops and restaurants the targets for the latest wave of car bombings across baghdad and the blasts in predominantly shia areas took at least thirty nine lives and injured well over one hundred a duck adrian's an activist to campaigns against u.s. actions in iraq he says this is saudi and the country has just been ripped apart.

there was a mosaic of minorities in. in iraq and they were sort of hell together by a certain feeling of citizenship living in one country but when the americans again they imposed sectarianism they didn't appoint people to both because of their quality has been because of their ethnic background but it's what it all started that gave the chance to fundamentalist feudal figures. to come back to the scene do the balazs the concept of citizenship turns down you were not a citizen of iraq but you were a member up certain sect or member of a certain minority so this this creates big big problems in the whole of iraq. and i know that she has been one of iraq's most deadly as we are documenting at r.t. dot com with a timeline ultimately showing how many civilians have died since the intervention of a decade ago. i

. i. it's good to have you with us here on r.t. international texas has been hit by eighteen earthquakes in the last month alone scientists are linking the track most to fracking or the relatively new process of extracting shale gas from the ground and while the earth is literally shaking under the free feet of nervous locals and you corporations on the government are run shaken and their decision just keep on drilling these guy in

a chicken investigates the columns have shaken so hard it's actually pulled the tram if you look around here rebecca williams is showing me the cracks in her home after a series of earthquakes shook the area she has lived here for almost a decade and had never experienced an earthquake until fracking began in her neighborhood i never know when the next one's going to hear it i don't sleep at night because they keep me awake at night it seems like a lot of them happened during the wee hours of the morning or in the middle of the night to texas real world commission the local agency that regulates the oil and gas industries trying to calm the residents fears it claims there was no direct link between the recent tremors and fracking injection wells in the area but the locals are not convinced it's a lot like living next to a time bomb but there's no timer on it because we aren't being told when the fracking is going to start or what the emergency purposes eaters are in place if something does happen. and so you're just constantly sitting and waiting and

wondering is today the day is today the day so small a juice with the u.s. geological survey say fracking regularly triggers small earthquakes they foresee an even greater danger from wastewater disposal which involves pumping millions of gallons of water contaminated by chemicals deep underground where experts say it puts pressure on seismic faults and causes them to slip but despite seismologist warnings fracking wells keep popping up just a few steps away from private homes and even community water wells nobody knows about any of this until it's too late and if i already have it. even though the government is not concluded studies on how fracking can affect the environment well operations are in full swing here in texas there are thousands of them impossible to miss and it seems no study can get in the industry's way if in fact you're asking the question of whether something could happen to halt shale production the

united states i think that is highly unlikely it is extremely beneficial to the national economy fracking has been largely responsible for the boom in u.s. energy production but maybe like we're back a fear they could be left to pay the price for her every week there is another term or another crack in her house she says she can't even sell it and leave the area while energy companies are rubbing their hands in the anticipation of gigantic profits from fracking people who live just steps away from gas wells or increasingly fearful about the water that they drink about the land that their homes are standing on and they don't trust the government assessment of the damage from fracking because they say the oil and gas industry will make sure that no conclusive study comes out even if it does come out that it doesn't become a basis for effective regulations in texas i'm going to check on our team. let us a breakdown a few why people are so why read about fracking many believe that chemicals used in

the process could accumulate in the soil causing water and even air pollution activists claim there are over a thousand documented cases of contamination right near the drilling sites the health risks could include sensory and respiratory damage and for more on the dangers of fracking just head over to our website dot com why is that law to check out including record high radiation levels at fukushima but experts say it could kill an exposed human in just twenty minutes at all to dot com we've got more details on this and other problems plaguing the crippled nuclear site why is there a new interview with julian assange saying the u.s. government reacted to revelations from wiki leaks like scared beetles are reacting to suddenly being exposed to sunlight more on that online.

first trip. and i think you're. going to. be in the. wired in a moment a report on russian special forces for now the british prime minister is accused of waging a war on trade unions launched an inquiry into one organizations strike tactics david cameron he wants a review on the industrial standoff an oil plot in scotland would show must lead to the factories closure details here with internationals sarah. it was the industrial disputes that almost cost thousands of people jobs and sparks union protests the g. comparisons the aggressive tactics of the nine hundred seventy with apache chemical

plant grains mountain scotland's process any else since reached an agreement with the unite union involved in that dispute but it doesn't and the prime minister david cameron has launched an independent inquiry into the union's behavior of the scenes that were described as intimidating bully like tactics and mud style behavior when protesters gathered outside managers houses and the now infamous inflatable rat well the inquiry is also going to be looking at the employers behavior but the union unite have dismissed the inquiry as a tool the stunts whilst others have described this is a union bashing well earlier we spoke to one persist trade union leader bob crow to find out what he thought about it some of these chief executives and managers. around the place which you know exam of them who go to church on a sunday and sorry that they believe in fairness and equality and i was going around. michael moore's movie for work. then we've got

a. protest protest cambridge. in the valley and the fight for mary's is that what's really happened is that the government marries since up a commission really suppression. because they're not part. of anything beyond them and that's where you really want. to call to action to try and when i would go you know we would love to think you know. it's i will persuade people through. the vested interests you've got a vested interest in the employer concerned. he's making mommy mommy mommy expensive. private division three more.

to troy or for him to school that's the brutal reality of the jungle of capital. or to some of the global headlines for you get into the arts he was up to now start with thailand's prime minister which dissolved parliament and called new elections following sustained protests and bangkok that have left several dead and many injured opposition members who resigned from parliament on sunday have now gathered outside the forty five prime minister's office and vowed to continue demonstrations of more was triggered by an amnesty bill for an ex prime minister who was ousted in two thousand and six on charges of abuse of power he also happens to be the current leaders rather. the death of an indian man after a bus hit him has sparked severe riots in singapore's little in the district hundreds herald rocks at police and torched cars at least sixteen people were hurt most of them officers there were at least twenty seven arrests and this is the

first rioting in singapore for roughly thirty years. a football match in brazil ended with fierce fighting between hundreds of rival fans one person reportedly killed several of the seriously injured a riot police fired rubber bullets to break up the trouble a fan violence has become rather common in the country is raising security concerns ahead of next year's world cup. was a pleasure to have you with us here on r.t. international on this monday morning a look at the lives of russia's special forces coming your way but if you are in the u.k. ashton returns he is going to take the british mainstream media to task in going on the ground. well. science technology innovation all the list i'm elements from

around russia we've got the future covered. they look like bounty islands where the locals can enjoy the sun and the ocean. but what was buried here years ago. means these people are suffering the consequences.

how much more poison lies on the ground. behind this zone there is what we call the callet bank on which there is a deposit of plutonium left by security test which caused the dispersion of radio nuclides despite previous cleaning efforts there remains a deposit of a little less than two kilos of plutonium stuck in the rock and the coral reef is about ten meters down you can attest a never ending legacy. you know what i am jenny you. are with the assault section of a second platoon third special forces unit. and we were always on the alert for

a long conflict because if we get intelligence about militants in the neighborhood it's usually reliable that it was the squadron has played a part in conflicts before but this was the first attack of its kind on terrain like this. when we were expecting them we were ready for them at any moment but it was a very difficult area and they were able to open fire first. was not. used to the. armored one for a special forces soldier thinking is paramount but was that's how he makes the right decisions. during that five militants tried to outflank the three soldiers led by up off and started throwing hand grenades at them again yep off covered one of those grenades with his own body and. of course i was frightened but i tried to compose myself i was thinking somehow i.