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wide news. international with me. welcome to the program we start with the breaking news from ukraine where riot police have moved in on the capital's main square the main site of the anti-government protest so the pictures right behind me these are live and the opposition claims this is an attempt to disperse the crowds the authorities insist they're only trying to remove barricades blocking traffic in the center of kiev. has the latest from independence square. it's been an average for several hours at this point and the standoff between the protesters and the police continues at this point we have seen several clashes i know that several people have been injured among the police as well as among the protesters they were taken away by ambulance says at this point it doesn't look that good police are fully all salting the protesters camp in the independence square now the police and tories

have initially said that they didn't want to squash the protests the only ones to clear out the center of the city for traffic to go through this is the main square this is the main thoroughfare really has been blocked for more than a week at this point but again even though they said that the intention wars peaceful we did see some some violence taking place closer right now it's all in a standstill more people are coming in at this point we're looking at several thousand there are in the square and more people are coming in the mood has been building up since tuesday nights when there was information and rumors about the fact that there will be a major assault on the protest so people have been on edge they have been rallying themselves out they have been building up the tension and we have seen that tension come up to surface overnight and it's still a stand in there at the speak point and where exactly it's going to go from here really hard to really hard to say what my colleague told scott was right there when

they began dismantling the barricades and brings us this report from the action bill really all of the heart of the protest movement over the last few weeks so far as i say protesters have resisted using force the police force them back to single most certain the by the end of the seeming your thirty's a determined not to have any protesters left in this area. now if you take a look just to my right hand side you can see that's exactly where the barricades were of us this. the area that the protest was held right now the police have pushed the protesters back now the police of forms are here is you can see it's my left hand side right now we're in the area that's been held by the protesters over the last week or sorry but it's quite clear that the police want to try and clear this area but for some reason they've stopped what they are right now the protests

on state are continuing and we're left with another slightly tense standoff. and get some more on the events in ukraine and talk to pepe escobar an investigative foreign affairs journalist joining us here live on r.t. good to see you today what do you make of the night's events in ukraine gigi think the government is now trying to put an end to the protests although i must say we haven't seen any hardcore clashes between the security forces and the demonstrators . this is extremely tricky because look the protesters essentially and politically de already have said so they want prejean changed can you imagine if this was happening in you know wall street. or any european capitals can you imagine the response. or says they have to be very very careful it's a p.r. battle that they have to slowly try to diffuse the protests without using

violence we know that spread thickly impossible you know like to draw a comparison what's happened in ukraine and what's happening thailand here where i am at the moment it's like ukraine is silently in reverse in vice versa the protesters in ukraine from the point of view of the west they are looking for democracy they are fighting for democracy the protesters here in thailand they are branded by everybody in the west corporate media as a mall so you know. if i can jump in you bring in the issue of democracy here the u.s. secretary of state john kerry according to the author already has actions quote an acceptable and on democratic despite the fact we've seen no real violent to the moment if this was happening around the white house what would happen is sakit this is sexual what i said key measures this was happening in washington like it happened during my wall street they were evicted with tours from zuccotti square in

new york if this was happening alone don't you remember this to the demonstrations in london last time it happened the same thing so let me tell it as a people as you say but as you say i'm sort of jump in here but it's such a fluid discussion this as you say you know that it would be a very different response or probably be a rather violent response in washington d.c. but the question is you know does the ukrainian government actually know what to do because we've got a lot of high profile global figures who are down on independence square. right now exactly you and i i like to keep cool size and school sizes as forcible the context here goes of ukrainian government do you want to deal with you blipped beast only our own conditions. very essential do you won't. we seem to have lost you we seem to have lost you as we continue showing pictures

here from independence square from kiev the clashes although not hardcore clashes certainly the demonstrators are still out there we have lost pepe escobar the asia times correspondent and a covering international affairs live from bangkok we do apologize to you here on r.t. international we'll get back as soon as possible. our eyes were saying here on our high profile figures from the e.u. and the u.s. so they've come to the ukrainian capital they went there on tuesday to meet the opposition and the government but alexander macoris a legal expert and blogger he says it's more a case of simple meddling in internal affairs rather than trying to find some sort of lasting peace. i cannot actually imagine such a thing i trying to imagine a situation where they say there was a riot in central london or a big protest in central london and let's say somebody from a foreign country say russia came along and attempted to negotiate between the

protesters and the government it seems most strange to me i have to say and i wonder whether it's a tool wise actually it seems to me that when outsiders involve themselves in the affairs of a country which they don't always understand very well let's remember miss ashton doesn't speak ukrainian she doesn't speak russian she's probably not very familiar with the political internal political situation in the ukraine one wonders what possible compromise was solution they can help to. find a political analyst alexander package he believes that by taking sides the west risks are turning the ukrainian standoff into that of another yugoslavia. lives of this is something you're not using you just. want to. show them what the civil war did for years were we were actually. i'm seeing

a repeat of this unfortunately. i don't see the west having learned. policy. that's just not so you seem to be sort of peaceful. or not sure. there's a hole. and we will continue to bring you live updates from the ukrainian capital throughout the day of course the latest developments also the most dramatic footage show is available on our web site a click away at the top. is good to have you with us today on the program russia's foreign minister is in iran his first official visit since a diplomatic breakthrough on tyrone's nuclear program last month through negotiations with six world powers iran agreed to reduce its enrichment of uranium

and in return for an easing of international sanctions under the six month interim deal iran stopped one of its heavy water reactors which could potentially become a source of plutonium the material needed for nuclear weapons and transparency is now seen as essential to reaching a final binding deal all near richmond program and one professor from the university of tehran he believes the whole region stands to benefit. well i think. iran share a number of interests in this region of the world and also internationally iran is one of the very few countries may be the only country in this part of the world that does not follow us as lead internationally and i think it's valuable. russian government for the chinese government for other governments that are having an independent foreign policy the fact that iran is willing to. cooperate with

russia other countries on its nuclear program shows that the iranians are actually interested in the peaceful nuclear energy the point that iran was trying to make with its neighbors is that iran peace would quit this then this is going to be beneficial for everybody well it was diplomacy which made a rare breakthrough in neighboring syria as well and that too will be on the agenda in tehran a potential forceful intervention there was avoided in september after the government agreed to destroy its chemical weapons so far despite the many risks posed by the ongoing civil war solomon is going ahead with u.n. inspectors in place to supervise although the international watchdog overseeing the effort which charles just collected the nobel peace prize says there are likely to be some delays and in just a month before the second round of peace talks on syria russia is pushing for iran to be involved as a key regional player. however efforts to rid the middle east of chemical weapons

is being held up by israel in egypt refusal to join the international convention with syria now on board as little space left for countries to maneuver as artie's explains. this could soon be a thing of the past israelis queuing for gas masks in the pipeline a recommendation to the cabinet to stop manufacturing them for civilians so is dismantling of its chemical weapons also well seems to have lifted the edge of israeli fears of a chemical strike well as a few months ago kids were spilling into the streets today the paranoia has died down. it comes after syria destroyed all of its chemical weapons production facilities the country is on track to eliminate its entire stock power by the middle of next year the chemical weapons are among the most important weapons ever known to man and we were made for the world had agreed to abandon that

weaponry a long time ago only two countries in the middle east haven't come on board egypt and israel tell of it was actually signed but not ratified the chemical weapons convention that outlaws the production stockpiling and use of chemical weapons the reason that one there is still some chemical weapons in the region and also does not want again from reasons of deterrence to reveal and to discover its capabilities tel aviv has always been vague on the topic of chemical weapons according to foreign media reports israel has a stockpile of various weapons but the israeli public so always shied away from asking too many questions the same reason all the time if it's security issue we don't have to deal with we have the differences stablished the nor the doing we don't have to do anything about it but with syria out of the picture israel's

argument is weaker and the organization that controls chemical weapons is keeping up the pressure we regularly. stand letters to the non-state parties including israel and encourage you withdraw by. without joining. you. has no. verification activities. but as another chemical weapons arsenal in the middle east is dismantled with the power of diplomacy these way the government is facing growing international pressure to come on board. the international live from moscow let's get back to the ukrainian capital for a recap of breaking news for you today these are live pictures from independence square where a standoff between thousands of protesters and riot police has been going on since the early morning hours of the opposition claims this is an attempt to disperse the crowds. trying to remove barricades blocking traffic in the center of kiev now

there was some small scale violence when police pushed protesters from the barricades several people injured from both sides and here at the international we are following the developments in the ukrainian capital bring you the latest as soon as we get it in right here and if i just for a moment if i may just jump in here these pictures all the very latest from the area of independence square. international thanks for joining us still ahead for you this deadly looting spreads in argentina after police officers . people have taken the chance to raid supermarkets across the country. these regulations. more rules business. trade policies are putting their future at.

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to busy day for news here on r.t. international let's get straight into it for you russia has promised to defend its national interests on security in the arctic the energy rich region is contested by many countries including canada which claimed a large area including the north pole for itself on monday moscow says the spot is an extension of russia's continental shelf and conducted an expedition back in two thousand and seven to prove it the campaign culminated in russia planting its flag on the seabed beneath the north pole over four thousand meters underwater. also

wants to step up its military presence in the region or russia canada or the u.s. no way in all bordering the arctic which is believed to contain billions of dollars worth of oil. well despite the posturing and one leading canadian arctic research of believes at the end of the day common sense will prevail. the future of the world economy to some extent is dependent on the arctic and i think you know russia and canada the united states and norway and denmark are very interested in exploiting these resources i think you know common sense will probably prevail in that you know that it's not the interest of any of these are countries to go to war over those resources and i think there is mechanisms that play through the arctic council through a number of different pre-treating processes for cooperation to get this resolved while the un convention on the law of the sea makes its decisions but i think the

problem is that you know in the meantime countries can sometimes to play to the politics of their of their nations i think you know in russia we're seeing a militarisation of the arctic and canada we're seeing canada claim the north pole when in fact their scientific committee really didn't include that in the draft that they were going to send to the united nations convention so this kind of posturing i think can be very dangerous right on line for you right now it off renting prison cells on the web site we'll tell you where norway is planning to send its inmates with the country's prisons simply running out of space. a nice pic but maybe the wrong occasion a selfie taken by some world leaders during the service of nelson mandela that's not exactly getting a positive reaction from people around the world details about that right now dot com.

well if you're going to like these. pleasure to have you with us here today. all right it's a nine twenty am here in moscow it's international at least seven people have died in argentina in a wave of looting and robberies in the midst of a police trike over low salaries and the walkout last week and one of the provinces before spreading to most of the country say the unrest is treason and have accused the police of holding the government to run some. spanish correspondent. as the

latest. looting is spreading across the country as people take advantage of a police strike to smash their way into shops and steal whatever they can they've been seen making up with all sorts of goods like mobile phones much receipts and even beer some people are locking themselves in their homes and businesses and trying to keep out of the street others are arming themselves for their own security forces have been sent into some areas where by a lynch has broken out and the government blames the situation on the looters he says they're trying to cause chaos before the thirtieth anniversary of argentina's return to democracy on tuesday this all started a week ago when police went on strike in the city of cordova in the center of the country two people died in the violence that broke out as mobs attacked stores and businesses the governor gave bean and doubled police pay to almost two thousand dollars

a month to get them back to work strikes then spread and now security forces in almost eighty percent of argentina's regions of the top prices of retail goods are rising rapidly by twenty five percent each year making it difficult for many people to make do on small salaries this into asian could get father out of control if strikes spread from police to nurses or other groups employed by the government. now a political analyst adrian sell pucci he says the government in argentina should have seen this coming. this is the result of thirty years of democracy so-called democracy because it's basically a system whereby people who are supported by their money powers finally get into power and especially ten years of the curious government that have done everything possible to lower the educational basis of the people is not about the real needs of the people but rather common looting because they have been seeing so much

government corruption upstaters with the cuter shinners that in no way lonely people seem to be saying well if they are stealing so many billions of dollars from government our national and provincial level maybe we should do the same. by let's get some other global news for you here on our t.v. time for the world update us lawmakers have reached a two year budget deal which will avoid another shutdown when government funding runs out in mid january when approved by congress that there will be an easing of stranding cuts and a significant reduction of the deficit the government shutdown in october hit america's economic reputation very hard and sent at least eighty thousand federal employees home for the time being without pay. in colombia's capital budgets thousands of protesters gathered to show support for the city's remove mayor good stuff petro who is accused of mismanaging the collection of cities waste disposal banned from office for fifteen years their move all of petro who is

a former guerrilla is considered to be a blow to the current government's talks with the rebel group fark he described the move as a clue. francois hollande has defended the french intervention in the central african republic as necessary during a visit to the country just hours earlier two french soldiers are being killed amid a gunfight at the u.s. is planning to send sixty million dollars in financial aid to the african union led mission foreign troops were first sent following the ousting of the country's president in march that triggered a deadly confrontation between muslims and christians. now the e.u.'s open borders promised members full access to the world's biggest market for anyone with something to sell however in the u.k. many say the avalanche of rules imposed by brussels is making it hard to do any type of business at all boy who investigates. simon york likes cheese he and his partners have built up

a thriving businesses wholesalers of the stuff part of their success simon says is down to the single market importing french products or exporting british ones couldn't be easier we steered clear of american cars to simple reasons complexity of doing it for me how hard it is to export whereas you heard your kids very easy because you know you just make sure it's just a peculiar ford and toyota transport it's great to be with our idea of the idea of what the price for this is well the key the cost and also it's distributed within and outside of britain and although the big cheese of this company says that being part of the e.u. brings much good benefits to the way that they export their products normal businesses in the u.k. so hold on the european union. have come to a small movie in wales to talk to a business that says it's under threat because the restrictions being can fit in

brussels james done with cells and electronic cigarettes online and in shops around wales the business is growing fast as most smokers try to kick the habit that brussels is trying to regulate the industry is considering costing the devices as medicinal products if the e.u. insists on regulating cigarettes as medicinal products licenses for this stock would cost tens of millions of pounds the company would basically be out of business the problem is the cost and the bureaucracy involved is just not possible for small or medium size companies to get these this license so what you'd be looking at is the big tobacco companies taking over their electronic cigarette industry of course they have the least motivation to push electronic cigarette industry forward james says the company. extra for sure leases on my shop space in case the business is forced to shut down at any moment since chamber of commerce

say that company's complaining creasing li about the burden of european regulation making them less competitive in the global market are used to preprogram europe and a lot more skeptical now these regulations is disproportionate in the force business is out of business they're also potentially going to cost many millions of lives obviously that makes you more skeptical it is of course a case of apples and oranges or rather cheese and east cigarettes but a reminder about how differently the european union is viewed in british business. r.t. london. are we coming to live from moscow let's go back to the ukrainian capital for a recap of our breaking news story the pictures behind me right now these are live from independence square where a standoff between thousands of protesters and riot police has been going on since the very wee hours of the morning the opposition claims that this is an attempt to

end the protests but the earth already has and says they're only trying to get traffic into central kiev moving again these pictures right here these are the very latest from central kiev for you now there were some a small scale bouts of violence when police pushed the protesters but from the barricades several people injured it from both sides of the fence and here on r.t. international we are closely following developments in kiev we'll bring you the latest as soon as we get it. still to come here on our city kids with courage whether it's a trapeze act so high flying acrobats in just a moment here on our team international don't look down but if you're in the u.k. . take and you want to ground. nelson mandela he is almost universally considered one of the greatest individuals of our time he was a prisoner of conscience and

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