ukraine's president agrees to consider some of the opposition's demands as the country's capital becomes a hundred fold for e.u. and u.s. diplomats meeting with broad sides of the standoff. and that's after police pushed back onto government protesters and cleared some of the barricades that toppled allowing postle decision to return to walk up to days of paralysis. a business start to the week for vladimir putin having not become trysts top human rights watch told us to discuss last amnesty the russian president has the military to focus on the coldest of the oxygen. was the your eyes said the u.k. rather with companies against dealing with his radio baldness in the occupied territories saying that illegal staters and makes business highly risky for british

for. international news live from moscow international with me. thanks for joining us government offices in ukraine are functioning again after troops under riot police dismantled some of the barricades that paralyzed the sixty three it's a day of diplomacy with several key meetings shadowed. with the details. after weeks of stalemate and a number of violent clashes finally a breakthrough president viktor yanukovych has agreed to release all protesters who have been arrested throughout the course of these demonstrations now some could even be released as early as today that's according to the president's cristiana

coverage is also hinted that ukraine could be ready to sign the e.u. association agreement off the rule he said he could be ready to sign it is early as manjeet brussels and kiev can come to an agreement on a deal that works for the ukrainian economy officials had earlier said that the deal would remain on the table but it was not negotiated will now that have been no official response from the opposition as of yet it will be interesting to see whether these concessions satiate their demands of course they had a number of other key demands including the resignation of the president the government and a snap election now this all comes on a day of diplomacy going to met with three former u.k. ukrainian presidents to discuss the situation while high profile diplomats from america and europe are also in kiev assistant secretary of state the tory nuland and a huge following policy chief catherine ashton a meeting representatives on both sides and the opposition continue to be voided by

support that receiving from overseas but as i now report all the information find its way onto the streets of kiev is accurate. he traveled around the world in an instant he gave hope and support to the protesters ensuring freezing conditions on kiev's independence square he represented unity and solidarity only he was a lie it was even reach we had on the official twitter page of opposition party fatherland as real news with a common bend the whole world is supporting the cranium protesters were done created a hoax photo showing the united states and brazil had lit up their most famous monuments in the colors of the ukrainian flag as a show of support to kiev up. position movement people camping out are made and don't check this information says are spread to instigate people into more action to prevent protestors from running out of steam and to draw more support for a certain political power this is just one piece of false information that is

either helped fuel the protests or given them an injection of support in recent days media reports that ukrainian president viktor yanukovych had agreed to join russia's customs union hard in the resolve of many on may down even though the story was immediately denied by moscow and kiev those who remember those so-called orange revolution in two thousand and four will remember we were told then that the russian spetznaz special forces lurking in the woods in a careful way to correct they were and nothing happened so we're seeing a kind of propaganda war psychological war taking place using these rumors of both the crackdown domestically and even foreign interference rumors spread quickly on the internet and many a taken is fact one minute it's claimed russia is going to cross the border and help stamp out the protests the next special forces shipped in from all over ukraine and tanks are rumbling their way into central kiev all helping fear and agitation rumble their way into the minds of the protesters who right now you can see how tense the situation is we are in

a sort of no man's land outside the presidential palace and to my right hand side you can see a line of riot police who formed a blockade not allowing any protesters in but if you pan around to my left hand side you can see the protesters have set up their own blockade not allowing anyone in to carry out their official business and we're left with this rather tense standoff it's clear that when the situation is tense is there any misinformation whether deliberate or not has the potential for huge consequences both scots kiev ukraine the visiting diplomats are promising to defuse the situation in kiev but a role that old from the burj group think tank believes there simply piling pressure on ukraine's. catherine ashton going over there as the high representative of the european union will not be helping the situation it will be adding to the to the conflict which is taking place it will be stirring things up so it's actually quite a provocative move because she's not going in as

a neutral observer going into a situation where will only create more trouble and that i think is really ill judged at this time the european union should should back off you should recognize that the democratically elected government of the ukraine which is the whole policy of the u. towards ukraine has actually been one of pressure previously it's been saying we'll only import goods from the ukraine up to various quotas which hasn't been helpful for the ukrainian economy so they should be playing fair really and not not trying to pressure ukraine economically or politically as he's now trying to do. and of course will be bringing you more expert opinion and analysis on events in ukraine as well as live updates from the capital throughout the day all the latest developments are also available for you on our web site.

damage the company's reputation and a whole host of really go and economic risks these are the main threats outlined by the u.k. government to any firms thinking of doing any business with their partners in israeli settlements in the west bank. explains now what's behind their reaction. to the explicit expression of its position over israeli settlements in occupied territories which are considered illegal under international law the u.k. government's a trade and investment arm had issued a warning to british businesses over the risks of involvement in economic and financial activities in the settlements and one of those could be a potential damage to. the company's reputation now i spoke with the u.k. trade and investment or arm and they told me these are voluntary a guidelines but they did also confirm that the u.k. government does not recognize the occupied territories including the settlements as part of israel and insisted that business and respect for human rights should go

had it had been two thousand are the british government issued another voluntary guidelines to retailers and supermarkets to allow them to label the settlement produce so that consumers can make an informed choice on their purchases so this isn't the first time that such a warning has been issued here in europe earlier this year in july you had also said that it would stop granting of funds to bodies that include academic or research institutions and also anyone with links to israeli settlements and also said that any future contracts between the e.u. and israel must explicitly exclude the settlements now reaction to that warning. had drawn a lot of criticism for israel an official calling it an earthquake and israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu angry over what he called external dictators i was for is reaction to this u.s. u.k. warning is concerned it has been more subdued the israeli embassy here in london

had told the guardian newspaper that was troubled and concerned however it did welcome the confirmation of the guideline that the british government is also opposed to any outright boycott. and from this let's not talk to rachel shall be all journalists covering the middle east rachel shall be welcome to very good to talk to you right now so we've just heard our report from our correspondent from your point of view actually triggered this warning we're talking about. i mean this this warning will obviously be the welcome by palestinians of by campaigners for some years now officially we've been hearing that european politicians and including british politicians are getting increasingly frustrated that israel has continued to flout international law on illegal jewish settlements in the occupied territories the official british position is that it

sees as a breach of international law that it sees jewish settlements as the biggest block to peace the settlements and the infrastructure and the resources needed to maintain them as a business biggest obstacle to peace process with the palestinians and now finally we're seeing britain actually come out into the open and have a policy that reiterate what its official position on those settlements is how would you expect israel to react to these new u.k. guidelines so to speak. well of course israel isn't going to be happy about it and we've heard already israeli officials expressed their disappointment with this new measure and you know the disappointment of course is to do with the fact that for a very long time now israel has been able to continue with this policy of settlement expansion in the occupied west bank despite this being against

international law despite being urged to restrain and to stop doing so by the international community and it has assumed for a long time that it would just be talk that it would carry on doing what it wants and it will get calls and that's about it but now we're starting to see actual change and a change in policy and we saw that with the european directive over the summer that has issued guidelines on where it's funding used saying that those funds cannot be . used in israeli practices in the occupied west bank now we're seeing it with a directive on trade when the e.u. issued its directive in july in this very to peace organization likened it to pouring a bucket of cold water over a drunk house about sort of shock factor and shock effect on the israeli government . rachel xabi author and journalist covering the middle east thank you very much

indeed for sharing your years with us we appreciate it. thank you. hopes built on empty promises coming up next for pushing the citizens of his lies swept away by the tsunami disaster say they're giving up on their dreams of returning home despite big government's repeated pledges that after a short break. least

be cool language. programs and documentaries in arabic it's all here on. reporting from the world talks about six seven v.o.i.p. interviews intriguing stories are you. trying arabic to find out more visit arabic t.v. dot com. this is aussie international welcome bank a day after introducing an amnesty bill that would pardon turns of for thousands of people to knock twentieth anniversary of the constitution pledging the patient has

got together with russia's top human rights watch dogs the aim is to try and get the kremlin and some of its chief critics to work to get more now with this kind of has been listening in that for us hi there you are so they don't always see eye to eye how did it go out. well absolutely some of these people are among the most fierce critics of the kremlin but today wasn't about accusations but was more really about celebration it was a very informal atmosphere inside the residence of the head of state they did enjoy some champagne and basically more of the twentieth anniversary of russia with both sides stressing that human rights are the focus and the poor of the main document there was of course the only thing they discussed since the authorities clearly are working on a massive this huge. after which could affect up to twenty five thousand people and as soon as the news about this plan came out speculation started and is still continuing over who may benefit from it and i've spoken to some of the

representatives of the human rights groups who've met with the president just now and they say that there is a good possibility that these so-called arctics thirty the group of greenpeace activists who were arrested in the russian arctic they could see charges against them dropped also me be freed from jail before the sentence ends and other opposition activists may also see charges dropped against them as well but that's still speculation what we do know is that this draft isn't planned to fact. those who have been found guilty of serious crimes so it's very unlikely that that of course will be free from jail in the near future but in general this was like i said quite a friendly atmosphere the president also quoted nelson mandela saying that to be free not only enough to get rid of him but to continue fighting for freedom all

across the world. live that from moscow thank you very much indeed for that we appreciate it. russia's president has ordered the armed forces to focus first and foremost on a new frontier global warming is granted opening out the north pole to shipping and has spawned an international rat race for its resources let's have a child now about this with lucy calf now who's been following this story for us that is a lovely to see it as so the arctic of course is a huge and a very important place where on the stand that's what did let me patient have to say about that and what does he want right well basically mr putin said that the military russia's military presence in the arctic region is going to be one of the top priorities for the country he emphasized the importance of a soviet era military. based in the new superior islands which the military had started to overhaul earlier this year russian officials say that this facility is

very important for sort of protecting shipping routes that basically link europe and the pacific region across the across the arctic ocean but of course that's not the only base there's a whole chain actually of bases in that area that had fallen basically into neglect after the soviet union had collapsed and mr putin said that those would be referred bisht and built up again i'm sure of course there are so many contenders that so many countries want a piece of this pie is it call it so what's at stake right well basically it's the arctic's abundant resources while natural gas and minerals that are because of climate change are now becoming accessible where if they weren't really before now the arctic could hold some ninety billion barrels of oil and nearly one thousand seven hundred trillion cubic feet of natural gas that's according to the u.s. geological survey and that could be up to ten percent of the world's petroleum supply there's also precious iron ore rare earth minerals so a lot of very profitable resources that could make a lot of money for different companies and countries and that's why the bordering

countries all want to piece of the pie as you said and that's canada denmark norway russia and of course the united states the warming climate has also opened up a northern sea route that's basically ice free during the summer and that's got in countries like china interested as well because for example for china if they were to use that route to trade ship things to europe that cut thirty percent off of the costs and interestingly enough last year there was about forty six vessels that were able to use this route experts predict with the melting of the ice caps that many more ships not necessarily ice breakers will be able to go through there so again a lot of money and a lot of basically profits potentially at stake here with all these claims being made as well as those military forces being beefed up it seems a bit dangerous so do things their old experience it certainly doesn't mean the worry is that this could spark some sort of you know perhaps an arms race essentially. over there resources here because again i mean this area doesn't necessarily belong to any one country there's a un. law the un convention of the law of the sea that governs this area and

there's a bunch of countries that have signed on to it but again with the polar ice caps melting with more resources becoming available different countries are sort of haggling over political and economic leadership in the area and we've actually already seen an escalation of this for example on monday the canadian foreign minister said that canada and intends to lay claim to the north pole as part of its bid to assert control over the arctic that of course is raising tensions with russia and so it really is unclear how this will develop but certainly as those resources become more available more countries do want to take to this area that before no one really cared about the boundaries because the stuff wasn't really obsessive. thank you very much for letting us know thank you or appreciate it. around the figure szymon you can have there are areas where the radiation can kill you in just twenty minutes yet for the hundreds of thousands of locals displaced and twenty eleven minutes to live in hope of returning home as the government feeds

them with assurances it's just a matter of time but as. it's now as the years go by such claims look more like empty promises 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 research loose from the fukushima area forced to leave their homes amid the twin do love a nuclear disaster. when the tsunami hit we were told to back 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 come true well 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 house as before the focus accident now they're 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's nothing more permanent than temporary suits very well the majority of these people are pensioners suffering from different ailments jobless just surprisingly many of the younger neighbors this man used to run a profitable venture now he barely makes ends 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 the financial compensation or any job that's why i'm taking tepco to court. the government says it's working on proven 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 will describe to their lives which are unlikely to ever return to normal especially with the government meeting the area around the nuclear site might never again be suitable to live in. reporting from japan. top finances from twelve countries around the pacific rim have failed to hammer out a free trade mega deal during their security of talks in singapore the us wanted the document to be ready by the end of the year but the next discussion won't now take place until twenty four seen the plan is aggressively lobbied by in washington

which believes it cannot make partnership groups in the area don't do enough to promote america's interests in the region and these should make products cheaper by cutting the costs of foreign supply chains and getting rid of cross border tirades but if signed as it is now the treaty would reportedly allow corporations to challenge a wide range of national laws similar powers indorsed in america's previous trade deals allowed us energy giant exxon mobil to seek changes and counted as oil drilling regulations another concern is for the pharmaceutical industry in countries which can currently only a fool cheap copies of branded drugs corporate conglomerates could buy the use of peyton to medicine leaving the poor without access to vital treatment as he's going there to check on his city's sales. 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 this 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 this agreements 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 we're the ones 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 the public what is the danger for the public basically two big sense 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 for instance that your nafta the north american free trade agreements three countries and largely have fortunately the u.s. has been the one who's companies are suing everyone else. i'm dying so we can meet so we also know that under big peepee it's plan to extend copyright protection and indoors harsher penalties to internet providers they may face court cases of any pirated content ever appears on their networks this could and with restrictions to internet access and mayra sutton who works for a foundation which aims to defend internet freedom explains to us why she is against the potential trade to 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 pass what's alarming is that several groups in washington d.c. have been talking about the copyright provisions that we've seen from a leak 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 concern 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. with breaking descent.

just a bit of foreign leaders like alexander lukashenko or vladimir putin just showed up at an e.u. protest giri greece are hungry to urge people to leave the e.u. and join up with the eurasian customs union obviously the big media would be on fire screaming that this is part of an attempt to use democracy and steal the country's away as some sort of imperialist agenda or you know what they might. you're 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 florida grows in india and vice president got sick put to sea of each and former polish pm jaroslav kaczynski he had the european union brassfield is just fine for their politicians to go to foreign countries and fire up protestors to start a pro e u revolution but then all their journalists 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 to moscow but the shust by painting. this is a so we leave the people. closest to the. physical . issues that no one is asking with to get that you deserve answers from. politicking. what's up everyone i'm abby martin and this is breaking the set guys help and worry about the kind of literature children are reading in this country looks like the have a very hungry caterpillar are so outdated i mean those are so two thousand and eight

which is why today i'm very excited about the release of ted cruz's brand new children's book because richest oracle narrative not only outlines his rise of the senate but it teaches america's children how to take their country back cruise style it's called ted cruz to the future but you're probably recalled ted cruz of the past because that's where this book is taking our kids one of the themes is the importance of religion when it comes to politics because it all separation of church and state thing was just a suggestion another of course is obamacare that suggests that it's worse than mass murder for profit because according to ted cruz providing health care to poor people is quote worse than any war but the best part the absolute best part about this is that it's a coloring book which means your children will get a unique chance to interact with cruz's ideology and film the texas senator's hollow lifeless outline with color but surprisingly this isn't the first time that propaganda about the government has been made how to bowl for children who can

forget the nine eleven commission reports dumbed down comic book version or what about the bin laden raid coloring book titled the kids' book of freedom guys this trends go to and don't indoctrinate your kids with pre-established political beliefs before they can even read now let's break this that. it was. very hard to. get. results right there though. let's listen. lists lists .