usually. the outsources attempts to restore order in central kiev leads to a lengthy standoff with protesters with riot police stunned by demonstrators while trying to retake city hall. russia's foreign minister is in tehran to follow up on last month's diplomatic breakthrough to curb to run its nuclear program and partially lift sanctions in the deal moscow help to push through. the race for the vast riches of the arctic steps up a gear as countries stake their claim for the taste is a slice of the end the tree part.

and welcome to our city international coming to you live from moscow my name is you know our ride police are leaving the main site of antigovernment protests in the ukrainian capital after hours of a tense standoff with demonstrators and we're bringing you live pictures right now they come courtesy of our agency ruptly special forces that moved into the square in the early hours to remove barricades blocking traffic but the opposition claims it was a failed attempts to despise the protesters are she's a pulse called has been following developments in kiev for. police maintained their operation was to remove the bookcase that had been strangling and suffocating central kiev in recent days they said maintain that they have and have no intention

of removing the protest tent city the capital that you can see behind me in independence square should be off to one am local time they began that operation now that was to push the protesters back into independence square to demonstrate his reinforced their barricades and took up that position expecting a full dispersal i then saw police proceeds to push the protesters back i know the predominantly by side resisted the use of force some scuffles and some clashes did break out while opposition leaders have responded to two events overnights of italy klitschko the heavyweight boxing world champion and of course one high profile opposition leader saying in a tweet that we can't make a compromise with folks in dictator is we should get rid of them the number one issue now is the resignation of president jiang the color of it and what he calls his putrid administration so seems the main demand of the opposition now is a complete overhaul of the government now this morning we've seen police try and

take back control of the city administrative buildings but they were met by. face resistance really from the protest as and then retreated from the area and looking down at this point behind me it seems as if police have now bucked off and retreated from down from independence square having removed those barricades and at times the situation overnight was tense and he did threaten to spill into our right but it's attention to a particularly high at the moment that the police began the operation i was that. bill really all of the hearts of the protest movements over the last few weeks so far as i say protesters have resisted using force the police the fullest them back . now if you take a look just to my right hand side you can see that's exactly where the barricades were that this is the area that the protest was held right now the place of the

protesters back now the police of forms are ok there is you can see it's my last time saw it right now we're in the area that's been held by the protesters over the last week or so but it's quite clear that the police want to try and clear this area but for some reason they've stopped where they are right now the protest on state of continuing and we're left with another slightly tense standoff. in the west has already expressed outrage at the actions of the ukrainian authorities the u.s. secretary of state john kerry giving his opinion in the strongest terms as us he's gonna check out reports now from washington. often that you hear the word discuss that from a diplomat it's usually reserved for some horrendous events while john kerry just used it to describe the decision of the ukrainian leadership to dismantle protestors barricades in the center of kiev's and here's what he said the united

states expresses its disgust with the decision of ukrainian authorities to meet the peaceful protest in queues my down square with riot police bulldozers and baton is rather than with respect for democratic rights and human dignity of course secretary kerry speaks it sounds like he speaks from a position that the u.s. would never do anything like that but apparently completely forgot how two years ago riot police in the you was dismantled in the arrested hundreds of occupy protesters across the country citing local anti camping laws already forgot how aggressively riot police dispersed the protesting clinton for example with regard to ukraine washington made no secret that it wanted this deal to happen of free trade agreement between ukraine and the e.u. later feed into a much larger free trade agreement that is now being negotiated between the e.u. and the u.s. but of course in its statements the u.s. state department focuses on the rights and as for a sions of ukrainian protesters that support comes not just the words but also we

have the state department is deploying the system secretary of state italy and only to the streets of kiev to cheer up the protesters as well as told meetings with the opposition and government officials in order to push this deal forward and it seems the stakes are high for washington in ukraine at the moment. as if to stress just how closely involved washington is the u.s. assistant secretary of state is back on independence square this time offering support and cookies the e.u.'s foreign affairs chief is also in kiev meeting with representatives of both sides and to discuss the growing involvement of foreign players in the ukrainian standoff that's not talked to dr alexander dormer in its prefer. a lot and several us universities welcome to our sea so assistant secretary of state of victoria nuland has visited in ukraine's independence square kiev's independence square to say twice in just two days. to

what extent does that reflect america's preferences in this standoff. thank you very much for having me i have known no long since the beginning i was in one thousand ninety's when she was working. in the u.s. embassy here in moscow she's smart and talented and should definitely knows what she's doing especially now when her position is so serious assistant secretary of state absolutely this is a direct involvement of the u.s. government into the internal affairs of ukraine and the ukrainian people. have of course will had some really strong was from seven percent the u.s. authorities and including john kerry he even cold events of this night is disgusting even that we haven't seen any any violence that so why. well listen as a system this is a policy of double standards my dissertation in russia was that it gated to

emergency powers my dissertation in america was a decade or two motions to coerce i can tell you what's going on in ukraine right now including the chance to disperse the protesters is being done a very delicate much more delicately but you can expect in many other countries of the world americans should not exist your exacerbation americans should not exaggerate what's going on in kiev right now and also one of the opposition leaders klitschko has already ruled out any chance of compromise back. from your point of view worries this heading if one side takes such an uncompromising approach and this standoff mr bush call it is just a puppet he's nobody. so his words should not be taken seriously everybody understands that he's playing somebody else's game. and ukraine belongs to the ukrainians you could see koreans themselves should decides if you. can see there

are any possible footing of all them first of all polished. european american involvement absolutely intolerable into domestic affairs office a great ukrainian nation. and finally how do you think the ukrainian government has been dealing with the battles that so far it has been doing very successfully there professionally much better than what happened nine years ago probably the lessons of nine years of the events that happened nine years ago the so-called orange revolution i'm not forgotten in the ukraine yet and resolute. alexander daryn professor of law and also live from moscow region mr durrant thank you very much thank you. and we've also heard from alexander marker is a legal expert and blogger says nonstop visits by high profile foreign politicians and more a case of meddling and trying to find peace i cannot actually imagine such

a thing i trying to imagine a situation where they say there was a right you sent along. or a big protest in central london let's say somebody from a foreign country say russia came along and attempted to negotiate between the protesters and the government is used most strange to me i have to say and i wonder whether it's a tool why is it actually it seems to me that when outsiders involve themselves in the affairs of a country which they don't always understand well let's remember mr 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. ukraine's prime minister says they process are preventing key payments from being made to keep society running find

out how the government struggling to keep the economy alive at r.t. dot com. mosco is interested in working with iran on a peaceful nuclear program russia's foreign minister confront that jury his visit since a diplomatic breakthrough on terrans uranium enrichment resulted in an easing of sanctions moskos also now pushing for iran to be involved in peace talks over syria . as in the iranian capital for us. this is the highest level russian delegation to visit iran since president hassan rouhani took power bringing with him an approach that has led to a real significant diplomatic movement after just several months in power at breakthrough talks in geneva early in november. ministration in tiger and agreed to

either freeze or curb parts of its nuclear program the payback was limited relieve from the international sanctions which have severely hampered the country's economy already we know that a group of international inspectors has been allowed to visit the iraq plant here in iran which is at the center of suspicions about iran's motives for have been in a. shutdown search fall for at least six months a cauldron to geneva deal of russia's massive is that is key to hold to this together iran's foreign minister has already warned that if the last senate decides to introduce new sanctions and this is something that is now being discussed. all diplomatic achievements already reached between the signs will be done in this. russia's foreign minister will think assurance that iran is keeping its end of the deal to the next hour of lunch rehabilitation on the international

nuclear could include syria in just a month's time diplomats had back to switzerland to participate in geneva two syria peace talks and at this stage all the major powers involved in the protected crisis in this. country will be there but not iran and this is something most who is very concerned about and wants to change it wants to get around involved too that will be another important part of the discussions here integrand today. assays correspondent maria for an audition is closely following sergei lavrov visit to iran check her twitter account for the latest. a potential source for intervention in syria was avoided in september after the government agreed to destroy its toxic arsenal efforts to rid the middle east of chemical weapons are being held up by israel and egypt refusal to join the

international convention but we'll see where now on board there's a little space left for countries to maneuver as policy explain. this could soon be a fin of the past is radius 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 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's on track to eliminate its in trying stuff but the middle of next year the chemical weapons are among the most or of weapons ever known to man. and we are making for the world had agreed to ban them that weaponry along farmers only two countries in the middle east haven't come on board with egypt and israel television is actually signed but not ratified the chemical

weapons convention that outlaws the production stockpiling and use of chemical weapons the reason it won the resteal some chemical weapons in the region and also. does not want to again form reasons of deterrence to our 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's always shied away from asking too many questions the same reason if it's security issue we don't have to deal with we have the differences. nor the doing we don't have to do anything about it but with syria out of the picture israel's argument is weak and the organization that controls chemical weapons is keeping up the pressure we regulars are. letters

to the non-state parties including israel and encourage the withdrawal. without joining the convention. has no legal mandate to undertake verification activities to verify the compliance 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. had figured this deadly shooting spreads and. the police officers walks out of a low pay people are taking the chance to raid supermarkets and homes across the country plus. use a pretty prove you're a lot more skeptical now these regulations this disproportionate more rules less business you came close complained trade policies of pushing their future at risk

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music good laboratory to mccurry was able to build a new most sins. tim's mission to teach creation and why it should care about humans and. this is why you should care only. international life from moscow welcome back. russia has promised to defend its national interests and 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 that it can paint culminated in russia planting its

flag on the seabed beneath the north pole over four thousand meters underwater school also wants to step up its military presence in the region russia canada they do us norway and denmark all border the wish is believed to contain billions of dollars worth of oil and gas despite the posturing leading canadian arctic we said she believes common sense will prevail in. 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 the countries to go to war over those resources and i think there is mechanisms at 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 care that we're seeing canada claim the north pole when in fact their scientific committee really didn't include 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 and online here right now renting prison cells on now si dot com will tell you when norway's planning to send its. inmates of the country's prison simply running out of space. on the ice pick up may be the wrong occasion a selfie taken by some top leaders during the memorial service of nelson mandela causes an online star.

for the new book the moment a lot of the. face can seem like. a pleasure to have you with us here on our to you today. at least eleven people have died in argentina and a wave of loosing and robberies in the midst of opponents of a police strike of the pay. the walkout began last week and one of the provinces before spreading to most of the country authorities say the rest is treason and have accused police of holding the government to try to run some punish correspondent ignacio u.b.s. reports now from buenos aires. looting is spreading

across the country as people take advantage of a police strike to smash their way into shops and still whatever they can they've been seen making up with all sorts of goods like mobile phones much races 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 biol is 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 bin and double police pay to almost two thousand dollars to 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 jobs crisis of retail goods are rising rapidly by twenty five percent each year making it difficult for many people to make do more salaries this equation could get father out of control right spread from police to nurses from other groups and lawyers by the government. and political analyst adrian salvage is has 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 out of power without one i mean especially ten years of the curious interim government that have done everything possible to lower the educational basis of the people as modeled by the real needs of the people of rather common looting because they have been seeing so much government corruption ops deals with the huge numbers that in

no way lol the people seem to be seeing world if they are stealing so many billions of dollars from the government of national provincial level maybe we should do the same. and our something is making global headlines right now u.s. lawmakers have resha to hear a bunch of deal which will avoid another shutdown when the government funding runs out in mid january when approved by congress there will be an easing of spending cuts and a significant reduction of the deficit the government shutdown up sober america's economic reputation hard and found at least eight hundred thousand federal employees home without pay. and france are alarmed has defended the french intervention in the central african republic as necessary during a visit to the country just hours earlier two french soldiers had been killed by a gun a time 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. the e.u.'s open borders promised members full access to the world's biggest market for anyone with something to sell but in the u.k. many sun say the avalanche of rules imposed by brussels is making it hard to do any business at all point by car has more. simon york lights. he and his partners have built up a thriving business as 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 were steered clear of american cars this inquiry's of the complexity of doing it for me how hard it is to export whereas here europe it's very easy because you know you just make sure it's just hard to kill the ford and

try to 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 worst struction is 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 company 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 pays extra for sure leases on the shop space in case the business. it's forced to shut down at any moment for since chamber of commerce say that companies complain increasingly about the burden of european regulation making them less competitive in the global market i used to preprogram and i'm a lot more skeptical now these regulations is disproportionate they're going to force businesses 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 cheesy and e.'s cigarettes but a reminder about how differently the european union is viewed in british business pretty boy k. r.t. london. you're watching all seem to national up next it's crosstalk with be so up out. i was thinking some heart i had to come back because mom was waiting for me. i just knew that everything would be fine for some reason we 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 her mind. when the militants decided to try and break through her new guinea screaming

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hello and welcome to crossfire all things are considered on peter lovo nelson mandela he is almost universally considered one of the greatest individuals of our time he was a prisoner of conscience and a living symbol conquering adversity however he was far more complex than most mainstream media are willing to admit his legacy is so much more than merely being a figure of inspiration and reconciliation. to cross the legacies of nelson mandela i'm joined by my guest rajon menin in new york he is a professor at the city college of new york and a senior fellow at.