tensions with the police to my left and the protesters to my rights are clearly very high police in ukraine's capital pushed protesters from government offices dismantling barricades that have paralyzed work though the opposition still pledging to stand its ground. and the green peace. could be among those set to benefit under a new amnesty bill drafted by russia's president. and plans for a multi-trillion dollar free trade zone across the asia pacific struggles to overcome fear that some countries could fall prey to ravenous corporations looking to take advantage.

live from moscow it's r.t. international for you today. from all of us here thanks for joining us it's been a nervous night in ukraine's capital where hundreds of troops and riot police have been deployed around protest sites and there have been fears their presence was a signal that force was about to be unleashed but so far police moved in no need to dismantle barricades blocking government buildings while leaving demonstrators on kiev's main square in peace now let's look at this video here and you can see that police are not cracking down on protesters just pushing them back from walkways and civic offices where the work has been paralyzed the days of the opposition leaders however say they will stand their ground tensions are being stoked by the fact that some protesters with sticks of behaving aggressively and there has been even incidence of tear gas being. used against the police pole scott witnessed the night

standoff. tensions have been on the increase all day ever since the riot police surrounded independence square which is about two hundred yards to my left hand side you can see the right place formed a blockade to my right hand side whereas to my left hand side other protesters there is a meeting of troian a covert support is taking place not far from here which these protesters think explain and justify the current police presence. a further one hundred fifty yards down the street and you come to another standoff between the police and the protesters now the police have surrounded one of the protesters camps meaning it's impossible for them to get in and out it seems that both sides are keeping calm neither side want to antagonize the situation here although tensions with the police to my left and the protesters to my right are clearly very high. who are now the one thing i've noticed as we continue our walk around the governmental

quarters of kiev is actually how peaceful everything is when life does carry on as normal for example just there you've got the standoff between the police and protesters here the shop is open is normal well as we conclude our walk through the administrative hearts of kiev we've arrived here at a rally that is in support of president. what has really struck me throughout the course of the evening is how civil the situation has been we've been able to walk through blockades established by the police by pro-government supporters and by anti government supporters and we've been able to pass freely through them all maybe the fact we're clearly journalists has something to do with it plus it's quite a civil situation and i think the hope is on all sides that situation will extend. now as a tensions in the ukrainian capital grow so do divisions across the country demonstrators in crimea took to the streets to demand the government and opposition protests in kiev and political analyst on the bush of mileage explained what causes such

a class of opinion when it comes to e.u. integration. this is a cultural clash more than an economic or political one this is a clash between people who believe in the perception of the west such as europe or the united states and the people who are trying to make their future based on actual numbers based on actual work based on actual laws that help people feed their families and live their lives every day i think there are serious historical and cultural and even religious rifts in the territory of present day ukraine and on one side are the people who are trying to join this globalist transnational union of governments where there will be no nationalism but there will be this super nationalist bureaucracy regulating everything for the greater good of it all and then there are people who want their national states to run whichever way they decide by do they want the choice to remain theirs. and it will be bringing you

a more expert opinion and analysis on the events in ukraine as well as live updates from the capital throughout the day the latest developments also to be found on our website dot com. thanks for joining us tens of thousands of prisoners could soon walk free in russia for a new amnesty bill with sense of parliament on monday that some headline making cases may be dropped including one against thirty greenpeace members within a caution of a has more on who's likely to be pardoned and who's likely to have to sit around for a bit longer. some fresh high profile prisoners as well as so those awaiting trial will be following the passage of this a lot very closely as they along with the twenty five thousand others may see the charges against them dropped the end of their records are wiped clean now this

amnesty has been proposed to by the russian president lies human evolution and it also marks the anniversary of adoption russia's passaggio constitution and nine thousand and ninety three when you saw on the amnesty it first appeared of of course prompted a lot of speculation on who exactly could balance the out of this upcoming amnesty and whether it could be applied to the a members of the punk group pussy riot who are currently serving their two year prison sentence for no charges of hooliganism or to thirty greenpeace activists who have just risen the been released on bail and are awaiting trial in sin petersburg or will exchange of the fate of a number of anti kremlin activists who have been a charge to weapons citing riots and unrest however it is now quite doubtful whether me how will a fall into this category as the amnesty a does not impact of those convicted of various serious crimes and the one so russia's richest man has been convicted of

stealing billions from the state and of course of this falls into the category of a serious crime. meaning a caution if you are watching on t.v. international thank you for joining us for the program officials from twelve countries surrounding the purse if it rym are in singapore the aim of striking out a free trade mega deal which could form a twenty trillion dollar market and while the growth potential is proving a temptation weaker economies could find themselves at the mercy of foreign corporate giants as guy nature cut explains. the transpacific partnership treaty if and when agreed upon would establish a free trade zone stretching from vietnam. in composting eight hundred million people producing about forty percent of global g.d.p. negotiations are happening behind closed doors in secrecy the treaty will be designed to remove all so-called barriers to trade including regulations such as

those protecting agriculture safety and be their privacy i'm joined by lori wallach public citizens global trade watch thank you so much for coming my pleasure why the secrecy as i understand there are six hundred corporate advisors having access to these negotiations but for some reason not the public why well unfortunately we've actually heard directly from the u.s. trade representative he notes that the last time the u.s. public actually got to see one of disagreements they couldn't sign it now it's new green with it so bad that they can't sign it if we see it and where the winds are going to live with that they shouldn't sign it as i understand the treaty will establish a secret accord where corporations can bring their cases against governments when they don't get their way where does this leave leave the public what is the danger for the public basically to big say it's laws that we rely on would be attacked in foreign tribunals in secret and undone if you want any of those basic rights that

democracy normally would ensure that you can pass your laws in this is a direct threat to you now t p p is a much more expansive threat for instance under nafta the north american free trade agreements three countries and largely unfortunately the u.s. has been the one who's companies are suing everyone else apart from the transpacific partnership agreement another giant agreement is now being negotiated between the e.u. . and the us congress has already made it clear that any agreement must reduce e.u. restrictions on genetically modified crops for example chlorinated chicken and hormone treated. what does this mean for your. this would be a race to the bottom in their standards so there has been since nineteen ninety eight an attempt by the biggest u.s. and european corporations to use that sort of negotiations to roll back the strongest food safety environmental financial regulations things they could not

get undone at home and so now with this agreement being launched they are. thinking finally will get rid of those g.m.o. rules well maybe say these agreements. be for agreed upon leave people completely to the mercy of corporations lori wallach with me today and i'm going to check out the market. and the whistle blowing web site wiki leaks has published a chapter of the agreement outlining how corporations could have the treaty. work for a foundation which aims to defend internet freedom believes some of what is being suggested in asia pacific is way behind the times t.v. remains to be secret because really if it was shown in the sunlight and people were able to know what was in it then it really wouldn't what so long. in washington d.c. have been talking about the copyright provisions that we've seen from the lead from february two thousand and eleven and we've been warning about its provisions and

how we would impact people's freedom of speech and privacy rights online and the u.s. continues to be pushing for those provisions despite the fact that we've been talking to negotiators and talking and trying to communicate with our government about our concerns on the big problem with copyright is that technology has changed and they and a lot of these companies are just refusing to sort of adapt to the existing reality of the internet how we all just want to interact and share and contribute to the content that's out there. still to come here on r.t. international what's in a game and i say agents go undercover in the world of virtual online gaming to potential terrorists here in the program we'll look at whether pretending to be a troll an orc or an elf is helping keep the united states. now living in this cage of a house returning to our old house is a dream which we know won't have a come true trapped in tiny makeshift camps fukushima refugees lose hope of

returning to a life they sold washed away. i know c.n.n. the m s m b c fox news have taken some slightly but the fact is i admire their commitment to cover all sides of the story just in case one of them happens to be accurate. that was funny but it's closer to the truth and might think. it's because one full attention and the mainstream media works side by side with you actually on you. and our team we have a different brain. because the news of the world just is not this funny i'm not laughing dammit i'm not going.

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they look like. joy the sun and the ocean. years ago. these people are suffering the consequences. how much more poison. behind this there is what we call the bank on which there was 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 the coral reef about ten metres down. tests a never ending legacy. live

from moscow it's r t international for the modern spy hunter danger lurks in every corner even virtual ones new leaked documents suggest american and british agents disguised as computerized elves trolls and gnomes infiltrated online games to track down possible terrorists. or logs on to investigate. these revelations center around two games that's world of warcraft and second life these are basically alternative online universes where users can create avatars they can be no elves or trolls the fear that g c h q and the n.s.a. had was that this type of online game could be used to disguise shady activity on the part of terrorist networks or criminal groups which is why they have been

spying on the people playing these games which is basically involves them assuming fantasy identities and jumping in and getting stuck and we know that there are a lot of play is online playing these games around forty eight million according to the estimate by x. box live that in fact it seems to have been quite a big operation the cia the f.b.i. and the pentagon even had to reportedly create a special d confliction group in order to stop all the spies from spying on each other or effectively playing one massive washington game of world of warcraft and perhaps most embarrassing really from what we know from the leaked documents is that none of this buying has led to any successful counterterrorism operations which has led to some suggestions online that it could have all been an elaborate ploy by bored employees at g.c. h.q. in the n.s.a. to simply play computer games out of work but certainly the n.s.a.

have said that they can't comment on this said that they can't confirm or deny it but it raises questions once again about the online privacy of game is it doesn't come at a good time either today is the day that facebook microsoft google and other large tech companies have written an open letter to the u.s. government asking them to dramatically change their surveillance operations so no matter how you spin it it just doesn't look good when you find out that g c h q and the n.s.a. have been found to be playing world of warcraft. well looking for terrorists in online games was probably just a good excuse to play around at work the opinion of john hicks the editor of x. box magazine. i must confess to being in flux as to how you would actually track down terrorists and it's made it's not doesn't really seem like the sort of environment where you could do it we could do that easily there are no will be use ways to you know to turn the conversation around terrorism. seem to think it's all just. people so you are just playing games at work so i think. you know the scale

of the n.s.a. revelations from the snow files i think it's hasn't really come as a surprise to anybody like the fact that you know the n.s.a. is already monitoring social networks and i also see many more stories for you one line right now would include unexpected discovery u.s. astronomers are left more than a little dazed and confused over the appearance of a recently discovered planet but it's in entirely the wrong part of space. the n.s.a. spy scandal reaches russian officials as the country's lawmakers consider a ban on the use of foreign smartphones and we can tell you what could replace i phones and other android device. right. and i would think.

the. the hour's top headlines live from moscow is r.t. international when japan was hit by a giant tsunami and twenty eleven hundreds of thousands forced to flee literally saw their lives washed away promises were made that it would only be a matter of time before their homes were rebuilt. found out those people are still waiting for this woman can only fit me and my cameraman into her new home she apologizes but there's simply no room for the whole crew inside she's one of recent lawyers from the fukushima area forced to leave their homes amid the twentieth eleven nuclear disaster. when the tsunami hit we were told to pack only necessary

things and run away they said it would be only for two three days now living in this cage of a house returning to our old house is a dream which we know won't ever come true we are being fed with promises of a bigger house but that's as far as it gets promises. this is just one of the quickly erected residential areas where fukushima exiles have relocated to there are hundreds of makeshift camps scattered across the region accommodating more than three hundred thousand people all of the four hundred three settlers living in this particular area used to have a large houses before the focus accident now they are forced to live in this thirty square meter dwellings they were told that this would be just a short term measure but it seems in their case the old saying there is nothing more permanent than temporary suits very well. the majority of these people are pensioners suffering from different ailments they are jobless just as surprisingly

many of their younger neighbors this man used to run a profitable venture now he barely makes and meet. i had a one hundred thousand dollar a year business producing honey now it's destroyed forever just like my life on top of all that i'm offered neither financial compensation nor any job that's why i'm taking tepco to court. the government says it's working on improving conditions for reset but with the fukushima clear up draining billions of dollars out of the state budget it could take years maybe even a decade to do that even local officials are being kept in the dark. the government says is building bigger houses but will finish it in no sooner than two years and not all of these people will be able to live in those that's as little as we officials on the ground are told by the central government fukushima means a happy island in japanese but that's the last word these people would ascribe to their lives which are unlikely to ever return to normal especially with

a government that meeting the area around the nuclear site might never again be suitable to live in alexy russia skee r.t. reporting from japan. well for dealing with the aftermath of nuclear disaster but is there an alternative to atomic energy which poses less of a risk for the world one of the subjects explored today on breaking the set. for now the u.s. a defense chief is in pakistan trying to smooth over the cracks between the two countries but does that despite the warm handshakes done perfectly for the cameras chuck hagel has taken a rather tough stance on the key area of division on the deadly drone strikes he's warned that aid could be cut off if anti drone protests continue unmanned attacks of killed nearly a thousand people in just the last ten years experts say the u.s.

is unwilling to admit what's really going on. i don't think anybody in the united states including the people members of congress really want to face up to the fact that the drone wars may be really unsuccessful and one of the problems with the drone strikes are they do kill people but they also kill innocent pakistanis and that's why in the same is true in afghanistan and of course this is a problem that you may be creating more terrorists then you're create then you're killing tactically successful in killing some of the militants but they're strategically a disaster because they create more animosity and therefore generate more islamic terrorism not only for the united states but i think for other other parties involved as well well time here with the international let's start with italy where a rally to demolish tax cuts for small businesses turned violent hundreds of protesters blocked the main train station in. the hold stones of the regional

government headquarters a police resorted to tear gas to disperse to demonstrate is similar protests also taking place in several of the cities including. the leader of egypt's muslim brotherhood mohamed badie remained defiant against charges of inciting violence as he appeared in court on monday that's made fresh clashes between the police and brotherhood supporters of the university a body is on trial alongside the ousted president mohamed morsi and other key brotherhood figures of a lot of them accused of inciting the murder of protesters during an uprising in. the u.s. is sending transport planes to aid french and african union troops in the central african republic on monday the peacekeepers started to disarm rival militias but were firefights with some still refusing to give up their arms. in the african union have deployed over six thousand soldiers to the region after the country's

president was ousted in march of a move triggered confrontations between muslims and christians which left around four hundred. well some say it's the u.k.'s s.a.'s others it's america's navy seals what about russia's special forces perhaps save the best for last hour special report takes you behind the come a flush next. on . the world. sunny it's technology innovation called the list of elements from around russia we've got the future covered.

for the new whole show marginalise should be making news all the face time to time people. a pleasure to have you with us here on t.v. today i'm sure. deliberate torch is on its epic journey to such. one hundred twenty three days. through two thousand nine hundred ton two cities of russia. relayed by fourteen thousand people or sixty five thousand killings. in a record setting trip by land air and sea and others face.

a limp dick torch relay. on r t r c dot com. i am jamie you. are with the assault section of the 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 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 do. for

a special forces soldier thinking is paramount but he was down so he makes the right decisions. during that five militants tried to outflank the three soldiers led by. and started throwing hand grenades at them. both 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 had to come back because mom was waiting for me this is a thought the chems you down mom's waiting. x. is a series now before their. every one of us is ready for it well perhaps not completely ready to prepare yourself for death but we do know the risks we know what our task is and above all where it is that we serve

. that was a. gen xer. just prior to. good morning tape measure i often think of them especially if they was different to all the other near recruits. he approached me and asked if he could enroll in my group he wanted to see it. i showed him a blank sheet from my notebook and said see this sheet you two are a clean sheet at the moment it's up to you to prove yourself worthy like that everything's in your own hands. people have to make the decision themselves if a man wants to put himself to the test to go through this trial den he must do so

or becoming a soldier was always my ambition or. i'm usually the singer is a chosen arbitrarily fall in love with the first is mostly the soldier with the loudest voice. in this regard to you again it was always the best when he sang in the school choir and was never even barest. so he had no problem singing that army with so many people listening to him. we both thought there was still plenty of time before he left town so when the fifteenth of november when he had to go eventually came around.