ukrainian opposition leaders called on purpose just a stable government buildings are they were build barricades after an overnight attempt by police to remove the road logs paralyzing the capital set into. the west stands with the protesters as top diplomat slammed the police moved as a crowd down a high level u.s. representative is seen at the approaches comes handing out food and. also this hour who calls on iran on the world powers especially those who adopted a unilateral sanctions against tehran to play by the rules to make a landmark nuclear deal work as a russian delegation arrives in the islamic state. not only the

getting hotter but the race for its resources as well russia's military with focuses towards the cold new front a day off to canada and states its claim to a vast proportion of the freezing the world's. international news and comments live from moscow you will shrink all seem to national with me. and a very well welcome to the program. riot police have moved back from the central square in the ukrainian capital after an hour's long standoff with anti-government protesters during the night special forces trying to win moves barricades blocking traffic that the opposition says it was a violent crackdown that failed and aussies paul's called isn't here for us either

the whole social situation like and now compared to what you witnessed in the early hours of the day. well there's certainly more protesters in independence square behind me right now than there was than there was at this time yesterday follows calls from the opposition for people to come down and support the movement after last night's police operation at around one thirty in the morning the police began their operation to remove and dismantle the barricades that have been built up around this part of kiev effectively strangling the city over the last couple of weeks and they started to push excuse me pushed protesters back and although although both sides did show restraint some clashes did break out and this morning police tried to retake the city hall the administrative building is being used as a makeshift headquarters by the opposition for the last number of weeks but they were met by fish resistance from the opposition from the protesters who posed the police down with mortar timings and in temperatures of minus ten that's quite

effective resistance in the place and on the treating not only from the city old but also from independence square behind me and you've got the rather surreal situation now with the blockades that were dismantled and removed last night by the police being rebuilt by the protesters are not only are they being rebuilt they're being rebuilt bigger and stronger than they were before now u.s. assistant secretary of state victoria nuland is in kiev at the moment she has just concluded a meeting with president viktor yanukovych she's trying to find and help find a diplomatic solution to the problem she says that the western world is watching ukraine at the moment she says. there is still hope of a democratic and diplomatic solution to this problem and there is still hope of a european future for kiev but before i mating she was saying mingling with the crowd she was walking around with the protesters behind me handing out bread and i would say warm drinks to the protesters and to the police and all the situation at

the moment is quite calm the hasn't been the case particularly last night overnight when tensions were very very high at the moment that the police began their operation. they really are at the heart of the protest movements over the last few weeks so far as i say protesters have resisted using force the police are full of them by. 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 but right now the police have pushed the protesters back now the police of forms are there is you can since my left hand side 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 what they are right now the protest on state of continuing and we're left with another slightly tense standoff.

in authorities the u.k. foreign secretary said it's unacceptable while the u.s. secretary of state gave his opinion an even stronger tans i was he's a gang and check our reports now from washington. it's not 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 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 u. 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 us but of course in its statements the u.s. state department focuses on the rights and aspirations of ukrainian protesters that support comes not just the words but also in actions the state department is the ploy of the assistant secretary of state hillary 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. there's been friendly smiles and

handshakes at top russian and iranian diplomats not in toronto have shown they're seeing eye to eye when it comes to political challenges in the middle east the ongoing civil standoff in syria is one of them. is in iran's capital and she joins us now live from there hi there maria so they meeting comes after iran's historic nuclear deal and before landmark talks on how to resolve the war in syria and it looks like moscow and to ron had much to talk about didn't it. hour long meeting both russian and they read in ministers appeared in front of media smiling in a very good mood and be cruel to old friends they've struggled with the agreements reached only in geneva in the camera at the breakthrough talks over iran's nuclear program tehran agreed to i went through. parts of it the pope bad for those limits

of international sanctions the country has been suffering from in the last decades and the message minister library for ministers a room so until today in tehran was that now it is important that the sads keep the ends of the deal. they're going to go to. iran must hold up its side of the bargain and the p five plus one countries must do the same story specially those which fly past the un security council in leveling sanctions if iran reports as opposed to. those ministers have also discussed of course situation around syria that. catastrophe or human tragedy in just a month's time. diplomats had back to switzerland to take part in the. peace talks but that iranians. powers are invalid but rather teheran and this is something russia is very much concerned about and this is something most could well

change and today here in tehran mr amref has sent this message again saying that first crisis should be resolved peacefully and second iran has to be part of a solution and has to take part in the geneva two peace talks here's what he has to say. solution i've heard reports that some international think it would be more effective to use force instead of dialogue but these reports would not confirm. the initiative will be successful and any attempt to undermine it will be a blatant violation of the international will cemented in the u.n. security council resolution. but if you have well i was so and for size that it's up to syrian people to decide the country's future that international community has to help them and encourage

and support back to you thank you very much more if a national live in tehran maria thank you and to talk more about the specifics of russian iranian relations i'm now joined live by mohamed house uncanny international relations and political science axis. from subject university professor carney thank you very much indeed for being with us this hour. terror on says it will play by the rules when it comes to a landmark nuclear program but president obama doubts in saying that he rate its chances of success a fifty fifty at bats so what's your opinion. how do you think it will play out well i think there are a skepticisms on both sides but the fact of the matter is that are now ready to go ahead and they hope that the other side five plus one the united states

is also ready to kick promises and pledges that they meet. their readiness is something of course there are voices of opposition to the deal but the majority. said there is a consensus that if the americans saw how observed the observateur there is a chance to storage chance somehow find a solution for do so long because the conflict between iran under united states and the west in particular. course of iran is a very important regional player do you think it should take part in the upcoming geneva talks on syria's future obviously the u.s. is not sure whether it has to participate while big gulf states are clearly against it or do you think. well not to me or to all of us or analysts who know to region who know the dynamic of politics in the middle

east they are well aware of the fact that iran can play a very positive role in this regard and iranian participation can somehow benefit the finding a solution for the syrian conflict and more about that we have the a similarity of positions between trayvon and most schools the fact that sincerity a lot of is now listening to iran we can see that how iran or russia. mutually positive role for finding a solution not only to syrian conflict but also of wider regional issues iran and russia are neighboring countries i mean their cooperation can somehow improve the situation in central asia this is a caspian sea we know that both are somehow you know energy market just natural gas there are somehow cooperating with his father so there are plenty of room for more

cooperation between tehran and most school and one more issue out i would like to emphasize here that this last visit by a lover of two to wrong is somehow now just a few days after the new iranian ambassador ambassador arrived in moscow mr sonner you who are. on it has serious carnage and there are relation is not. a guess cario. most of. both. are russian or slogans here he was a member of parliament in you're on under the iranian parliament grid his resignation to go to moscow for his post shows that you want some how is a very important relations with russia. mohammed has an uncanny international relations and political science expert from in months to dick university professor canny thank you very much indeed for sharing your perspective quit this potential

military intervention in syria was narrowly avoided in september after the government agreed to destroy its toxic arsenal but efforts to rid the entire middle east of chemical weapons are being held up by israel and egypt refusal to join the international convention however with secret now on board as little space left for countries to maneuver as policy clear now explain. this could soon be a fing 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 all 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 entire stockpile by the middle

of next year the chemical weapons are among the most or of weapons ever known to man and we made friends of 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 is 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 is ready public's always shied away from asking too many questions the same reason all the time if it's security 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 regulars are sand letters to the non-state parties including israel and encourage you to join barges. without joining the convention it means your p.c. 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 the israeli government is facing growing international pressure to come on board. television. breaking and ensuring looting spreads in argentina stores hour round stops and water breaks down leaving eleven people dead as police refuse to go back on the job until that pay demands

are met that's coming up later this hour. on closing the deal to trace the e.u. could soon lose a big chunk of attractiveness and to brussels plans to defined how open borders can be for different businesses and more after the break. they look like bounty arlen's whether local joy the sun and the ocean. was buried here years ago. means these people are suffering the consequences. how much more poison lies on the ground. behind this zone there is what we call the callet bank on which there is a deposit of plutonium left by security test which caused the dispersion of radio

nuclides despite previous cleaning efforts there remains a deposit of a little less than two kilos of plutonium stuck in the rock and the coral reef is about ten metres down. tests a never ending legacy. welcome back to our senior national it's good to have you with us the commander in chief of russia's armed forces has pointed the military in a new direction towards the oxic the race for the vast resources of the ice a world in this is rapidly hating out and letting the pigeon says it's of utmost

priority for russia to defend its interests on monday kind of that claimed a vast swathes of the oxygen for itself including the north pole but most go south this part is an extension of russia's continental shelf and attempts to prove that it was made an expedition back in two thousand and seven and it culminated in russia planting its flag on the sea floor beneath the north pole of the four thousand meters underwater moscow also wants to step up its military presence in the region russia canada the us and norway and denmark all border the arctic which is believed to contain billions of dollars worth of oil and gas despite the posturing a leading canadian arctic researcher believes 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 the 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 pretreated 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 mean time countries can sometimes to play to the politics of their of their nations i think you know in russia where we're seeing a militarization 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 looting and violence have now left eleven people dead across anjan tina as police continue and they show why strike for better pay authorities blame the ransacking on agitators who they say are trying to

disrupt the thirtieth anniversary of the country's return to democracy punish correspondent ignacio you'd be a report saffron point as honorees. 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 misses 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 there are security forces have been sent into some areas where violence 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 call over 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 per 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 on small salaries this equation could get farther out of control if strikes are spread from police to nurses or other groups employed by the government. and political analyst adrian saw the chase has their authorities have brought they sometimes house. we are seeing regular criminals suburbs tourist hold law firms just plain sheens are taking advantage of the fact that the police are modern the streets to do all the looting this is the result of thirty years of so-called democracy because it's basically a system whereby people who are supported by the money powers finally get into

power and especially ten years of the curation of government that have done everything possible to lower the educational basis of the people so that as you see we have people who are trying to wanted to get something for nothing they have become used to working or just been living on government world here and now that there are more police on the streets they take the opportunity to do all the looting and it is the world's biggest market created by its very open open border very own open border policy is but that still doesn't promise businesses in the european union guaranteed riches some u.k. france says brussels is considering tightening the screws on this fundamental advantage was his point to point out explains. simon york likes cheese he and his partners have built up a surviving 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. of american cause the simple reason is complexity of doing it for the euro how hard it is to explore it whereas it's very easy because you're just interested. in trying to transform its way to be a diary of any of the great for this is rather to the heart 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 said benefits to the way that they export their products nor all businesses in the u.k. so fought in the european. union. has come just one thing in wales to talk to a business that says it's under threat because of the restrictions being confederated in brussels james dunn worth cells and electronic cigarettes online and in shops around wales the business is growing fast as more smokers try to kick the habit

that brussels is trying to regulate the industry is considering classing 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 short leases on their shop space in case the business is forced to shut down at any moment britain's chamber of commerce say that companies complain increasingly about the burden of european regulation making

them less competitive in the global market or use a 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 cheese and east cigarettes but a reminder about how differently the european union is viewed in british business. r.t. london. and coming up next find out what extremes corporations are willing to go to to get. modest intimate secrets breaking beset with.

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and. welcome to breaking us but i'm abby martin oh we're almost on the brink of war with syria yes that same like just yesterday that obama was in a pin drop cruise missiles over the basket because assad allegedly crossed the red line just days after the august. twenty first attacks killed nearly fifteen hundred syrians the administration released an intelligence brief place in seoul blame on assad of the deadly assault even secretary of state john kerry well aware of the fabrications told by the u.s. to get into iraq assured us quote we will not repeat that moment we've taken

unprecedented steps to declassify and make facts available to people who can judge for themselves and although those facts were never laid bare mounting pressure forced obama into diplomacy the legendary investigative journalist seymour hersh just wrote an article that tells a different story take a listen to what he said about the real reason obama decided to back down from a military strike. i'm telling you he didn't do it because the american people said no he knew it because he didn't have a case. there was incredible opposition there will be one of these days written about his maybe in history books there was a credible operation from some very very strong minded constitutionally minded people in the pentagon amazin and hersh went on to write obama failed to acknowledge that the syrian army is not the only party in the country's civil war with access to sarin and the months before the attack the american intelligence agencies produced a series of highly classified reports citing evidence that al nusra

a jihadi group affiliated with al qaeda had mastered the mechanics of creating sarin and was capable of manufacturing it and quantity. listen we may not know exactly what happened syria on that fateful day but we do know that this war's had been based on lives before and we can't afford to let that happen again now let's back to set. the. particulars they are very hard to take a. look at her with the terror threat there.