crane should hold snap elections to dig its way out of the political crisis or analyse international look at how the ongoing protests are taking a toll on the country's economy. a u.s. drone a devastating. killing at least fifteen people supposedly all of them civilians officials say the party was mistaken for an al qaida. and the honeymoon is over. the country's first floor allowing same sex marriages activists say they will continue to fight.

the world's top headlines live from moscow international with me rule welcome to the program. members of the european parliament are pressuring ukraine's government to hold early elections as a way out of the crisis that's gripped the country e.u. lawmakers of also called for intervention using a trade and other incentives to support those in favor of an agreement with the union ukraine's government has said that it could renegotiate the terms of the association deal if europe provides more money the sides met in brussels and agreed to discuss a new road map towards a possible deal well in kiev anti-government protesters continue to defy the all thora he's blocking the city center with barricades and suspending the work of the government institutions as. the report says not only causing chaos in the streets but also taking a big bite out of the country's economy. the. spro

just have entered its fourth week with no sign it will die down the recent attempt by police to clear the streets proved fruitless and have only hardened the people's resolve it took the protesters only several hours to rebuild the barricades which the police i take it down in a matter of minutes and now they're even bigger than before the blockade has existed for almost two weeks now and not only create something of a traffic nightmare for the locals but also as the government claims it cripples the country's economy because of governmental buildings being under siege ukraine's prime minister says the country is still without said budget for next year gross issues figured it was drafting the budget for next year and the parliament should have an opportunity to work on it the protests are destruction many social projects like road construction and metro atlanta which here badly needs the economic impact is being felt far from the rallies in the capital it one of the country's leading winemakers factories a thousand kilometers away from the scenes playing out in kiev times are tough but

those that they would never know what's going on in kiev is complete chaos and it's causing serious economy damage to state enterprises like a vine yard expert license has expired because work in the public offices in the capital was disrupted by the protest we were unable to export five trucks of wine to russia and lost two hundred fifty thousand euros and now our contract with russian importers for the next year is up in the air because they doubt our reliability and that's happening to a country already on the verge of economic collapse with an external debt of one hundred thirty six billion dollars and what is widely seen by economists as a pre default level standard and poor's have recently warned if the violence continues they will need to lower ukraine's credit rating even further unless the country gets a large injection of cash from somebody over the next six months at the latest maybe even sooner then they will default. solution down with the

government to prison that's what we've been hearing at the key of protests for weeks but a possible default or economic collapse is not the talk of the town behind the barricades lets you assess the r.t. reporting from kiev ukraine. now police in kiev had previously attempted to clear the streets of protester to make way for traffic in the city center of the move a spot of criticism though from foreign politicians washington going as far as threatening sanctions against ukraine's government stephen cohen professor of russian studies at n.y.u. he believes the involvement of u.s. officials could have serious consequences i'm not surprised but i am disgusted that members of the united states government are standing in queue. and a very dangerous and fateful moment for ukraine addressing crowds of protesters is no they. state department officials of the united states are the

leaders of this opposition in effect we are contributing to the tensions in the streets and i feel that if there is more violence that these american facials of the and also of the european representatives are there then the people the bosses the governments that sent these representatives from other countries to kenya are going to have some blood on their own hands i think it's a very very bad idea. and we are closely following the situation on our website we've got a live timeline of the events surrounding ukraine and you get the latest right now if you just head over to our dot com. are turning our attention to yemen where a feast turned into a tragedy as many as fifteen members of a wedding procession were killed by a u.s. drone strike local officials say an unmanned aircraft mistakenly fired missiles at

a party author of mistaking it for an al qaeda convoy dozens were injured with choppers near the southern city of a traditionally known as a militant stronghold washington uses drones as part of its campaign to fight extremists in the arabian peninsula but they do not comment on individual strikes antiwar activist medea benjamin says incidents like this play straight into the hands of the minute. every time there's a drone strike that's the best recruiting tool for al qaeda and killing people in a wedding party i am sure that this will lead to not tens but probably a hundred people joining al qaeda and this guarantees the cycle of violence will go on in perpetual war the drone strikes actually are a support to al qaeda it doesn't get rid of al qaeda now every month more lives are being lost in america's war on terror. report. killed at least eighty seven people

since july this year now more than a third thought to be civilians and children worley's three children falling victim to what the u.s. calls a precision strikes despite america's operations al qaeda remains very active in yemen and anti drone activists bolger believes the recent incident will not be the last. this is just another example in a long list of despicable illegal and immoral combat drone strikes on the part of the government of the united states that it could be prevented it there's just no reason for this to continue and the world needs to rise up and point the finger at the united states for causing. unnecessary damage and death you know they say that they're very precise they're surgical and we can we see over and over and over again and there are many many examples of civilians women children old people being killed by these drones and even the is the drones attack people that the cia

intends to attack until they've been proven to do something that's against the law these are extrajudicial assess nations and they're absolutely a foreign illegal. well drones are being used for domestic security in america as well where the f.b.i. is now under pressure on r.t. dot com you can find out just how much authority the bureau think she should have to conduct warrantless surveillance according to newly declassified documents. also online for you right now dramatic new footage of the asiana airline crash this summer shows the jet smashing into the runway at san fran international airport looking through the air three people dead more than one hundred people were injured during that you can take a close look at now is in motion page. now australia's high court has overturned the country's first law allowing same sex marriage less than a week after it came into force and another blow to gay rights campaigners earlier this week india upheld the legislation criminalizing homosexuality aussies guy

nature can look now at the countries taking such a conservative approach. most western countries already recognize in some form the right of gay couples to get married in adult children but in other parts of the world there is the opposite trend in australia just days after the nation's capital allowed same sex couples to get married the high court there struck down that decision saying the regional authorities had no right to decide the matter if you live in a relationship with loves and trusts to twenty seven australian couples then saw their marriage annulled within days australia's high court ruled that gay marriage was illegal because the marriage act only recognizes marriage between a man and a woman and only the parliament can change the legislation the most recent attempt to change the law in the australian parliament failed last year polls in the country show support for gay marriage stands at fifty three percent and all four

that absolutely amazing that you know history written jumping through hoops to try to make sure that every tree on the planet has its natural environment from far east that we would be challenging the definition of marriage which creates exactly that environment for a child requiring that it's between a man or woman you need the supreme court has just made gay sex illegal again since the nineteenth century india has had a ten year sentence on the statute books for quote court only intercourse against the order of nature four years ago a lower court found it on constitutional the supreme court just brought the law back into force by making a similar argument of the australian judges only the nation's parliament has the right to change it but with the overwhelming majority of indians against same sex marriage and with a conservative nationalist group leading in the upcoming elections in a legislative change in the next few years it's highly unlikely you have all but it

would really just got to let us. know all the communities of this country feel that albert. this job. does that all things i need to do you mean so it's thing europe has seen something similar this december. in a referendum to outlaw same sex marriage. thirds of the mostly carefully population there approved changes in the constitution in the tug of war between those who are and those who are not allowed to say i do the conservative view on marriage seems at least at the moment to be prevailing in many parts of the world. to check on our team. and australian gay rights activists are pledging to press on with the fight for same sex marriage and according to ivan hinton from australia of marriage equality they have a clear plan on how to win the government over. the work that we need to do from this point on we've obviously on a federal level we have

a very conservative government we have a conservative prime minister whose sister is gay and she's also engaged to. this is something that we need to work on not just with the prime minister but also his posse at the moment that tod's according to the way he wishes them to working very hard to make sure that they have a free card a conscience forced to release those members of that posse it's actually a very strong supporters of marriage equality once we've got that we're going to be much closer to achieving reform across the country. and croatia the government has proposed life partnership legislation for gay couples will allow them to register their relationship but not to get married the majority of coalitions voted to ban same sex marriage in a referendum american pasta scott lively praises the countries which chose to outlaw gay marriage. i think that's a positive trend i think australia has just shown some courage in

standing up to the gay agenda india has has decided not to allow it stop any laws to be taken off the books jamaica is showing resistance to the un to the united states led effort. and it's a sign of a boss looks like the macon's are not going to go pro gay on that i believe that that homosexuals should have basic civil rights no one should be knocking down their door trying to find out what they're doing in their. thanks for joining us here on r.t. international today still to come for you mexico's national pride as a. country opens its oil to foreign energy. the nation's struggling economy. also head. to refugees in south africa about why they think. the death of nelson mandela short break with the rest of the

world. straight to mexico we go now approved a controversial bill which opens up state controlled oil deposits to forward investors for the first time now in seventy five years the law will allow foreign companies to explore for oil then extracted alongside. the profits the country is the third biggest oil producer in latin america with most of its vast oil and natural gas reserves along along the gulf of mexico and the country's president says private investment is needed to inject new life into the economy and create more jobs for the country's opposition accuse him of capitulating in the face of american pressure. reports.

we have to say it was one of the most chaotic moments ever seen in the history of mexican politics outside the barricade to build in hundreds of protesters rallied against the reform and inside the picture wasn't really so much different now the p r d and the modern no movement both left wing movements have called for massive rally on sunday regarded the content of the reform well it basically means that the government is now allowed to give private companies contracts and licenses to explore and drill the oil and gas in mexico deals and till now will obviously work prohibited under mexico's constitution opponents to the reform say they fear that that big corporations especially from the u.s. will we have complete domination over mexico's natural resources and the truth is that it can be a big very big deal actually for the u.s.

we can't forget that mexico remains one of the top five crude exporters to there not know the northern neighbors chip in over a million barrels a day this energy reform also modifies three points of the mexican constitution therefore it now has to be approved by a minimum of seventeen local governments this this is step is really only a formality and groups on the left think that the measure is so big that it should have been subjected to a national referendum and energy analyst alex koran's believes all the advantages of mexico sovereignty over its own resources are now being pawned off for free. you know out of this we're seeing natural resources being stolen by businessmen with the government's help we see high flying politicians provide companies with all the legal assistance they can so the companies end up owning resources that should be controlled by the state and businesses even get control over employees rights and

it's clear that these rights will then be violated these proposals by then put before congress which passes them well some of the most unpopular measures get included as reforms as a leader did i can't imagine that if he's lawmakers then go on to work for oil companies after their mandate expires it's not what is happening with the system where the public sector sets up the private sector the state's star system of bit by bit especially nine times of crisis and they sell it all cheap. or let's get some other global headlines for you brief quickly with the r.t. was up there now to china where a gas explosion of a coal mine trapped at least twenty two people on the ground in the west of the country twelve workers managed to crawl to safety while a search for the rest is still ongoing at this point are the cause of the blast and no. a long awaited a u.n. report has concluded chemical weapons were probably used in syria five out of the

seven sides investigated in the country it doesn't point to either the government all rebels being responsible for the attacks earlier this year of course syria agreed to destroy its toxic arsenal under the supervision of an international watchdog. north korea has executed the once powerful uncle of its current leader kim jong un the former general was accused of seeking to overthrow the leadership it was executed shortly after a trial on thursday is the biggest are people since kim jong un succeeded his father two years ago. a car bomb has exploded in the northern egyptian city of its value killing at least one person and injuring dozens more the blast took place near the entrance of a security base and was followed by rifle fire attacks on police and the army have certainly risen in the country this since president mohamed morsi was toppled in july. now the spanish government has vowed to block an independence referendum in northeastern catalonia local separatist parties have already agreed on the

wording and set the date for november next year but would reject this must be madrid saying any debates on the issue were simply out of the question but alexander pollute see an economist from barcelona university says that spain can't stop catalonians from choosing their own independence they have to show. how are they going to trees and root for happening now what are they going to do they are going to send us a trolley since electoral toss it's up to them to show what kind of democracy. first of all continents are people are an issue in our. nation and they have been convinced that. the survival of their own language of their culture. their plate is their see this isn't going to be better held by their own government don't. match or we'll

do the current day your own government. in his lifetime nelson mandela managed to break down societies divisions and smash apartheid in south africa used with open arms welcoming refugees from far and wide who saw him as a father figure but without him to protect them many fear they'll no longer be welcome as artie's polis leader reports. don't lean sought refuge in south africa from the congo because of one man nelson mandela causes the one more loud of the do nothing. that had a camp but now he's gone and only means afraid she and other foreigners like her will be kicked out i think that there are tears well thought in the eyes cause they don't one foot in the area on the new beds put in there that taking their jobs millions of africans have fled their troubled countries in search of

a better life in south africa but more often than not they've swapped one horror for another with no money work or prospects a handful have made this place a methodist church in downtown johannesburg home if you're a green or you for your german or if you're fringe and you come into this country you were in to experience what's experienced here one of the things apart it did for instance was that it divorced us from the rest of africa who failed is struggling to support his wife and five children in a brutal attack she was beaten so badly she miscarried he was left for dead the crime being foreigners in a strange land i think we could we have. a right to life i think i should call that. in south africa prejudices run deep not only are african foreigners accused of taking jobs away from locals they're also held

responsible for accelerating crime so if who is doing the number they're going to do the work to get in. here we have to deal with somebody going home though is not an option political instability acute poverty and violence awaits them. for twelve long months has been too afraid to step foot outside this church and now with mandela gone she's more afraid than ever lose to says something about the flawed innocent but no one will talk about the flooding events. but they will continue to on a him holding memorial services like this one across south africa as night falls these schools close providing refuge to people seeking sanctuary in a country that doesn't want them. johannesburg south africa. or i will be back with more headlines at about half an hour's time but for now politicking with larry king or r.t.

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to have you with us here on t.v. today i'm researcher. will obamacare fix of failing health care system doctors with very different opinions are going to weigh in and why of the millennialism abandoning the president and obamacare with a deadline approaching the signed up we're going to take a close look at the president's health care act from different perspectives it's all next on politicking with. politicking i'm larry king we start today with two doctors with very different views on the president's affordable care act in new york dr richard am reeling he's president elect of the association of american physicians and surgeons

a practicing nephrologist in washington dr george s. benjamin executive director of the american public health association he's a internist and emergency room doctor and he supports obama care we thank you both for coming doctor i am willing an overview and briefly if you can what's what's the rub what do you have against this concept since up until obamacare think we were the only industrialized nation in the world without a health care plan for its citizens. well we have a fractured and disjointed healthcare plan that is heavily government financed at this point almost fifty percent are on some sort of government can finance health care as of right now before obamacare and then we have this crazy private system where individuals purchase health insurance through their employer and that of course is a real problem because it limits the choice and it makes the. payment

a benefit in lieu of salary and gives you an incentive to spend so we have this massive third party system in reality very few people are without some sort of health insurance and that rationale for taking over this entire part of the economy was never a good one there were just like a relatively small number of people who had trouble getting insurance because of preexisting conditions and they could have been handled much more simply and more economically than the current program dr benjamin where is dr carolyn wrong well we have fifty million people who don't have health insurance that's a lot of people we also know that about forty four thousand people die each and every year simply because they don't have health insurance and i can tell you when i was practicing emergency medicine the first question anyone ever asked was what kind of insurance are you have so the affordable care act tried to build on our existing system provide as minimal disruption even though we having some challenges

compared to what could have happened this is really minimal disruption jamling how do you respond. well the fifty million figure was a fiction that was composed largely of people that were between jobs and didn't have insurance transient leave for part of the year and who eventually got insurance and it also included illegal aliens and people who were young and healthy and invincible and who felt that buying insurance was a bad deal for them so there is perhaps ten million twelve million hardcore uninsured who could have been handled much more economically and the help the affordable care act doesn't really address these people in fact it's putting people off of their insurance it's throwing people out of their insurance program they had perfectly good insurance that they were happy with that they bought themselves or next year you'll see that the employer sponsored health insurance is also going to get decimated that these are private contracts that individuals have with insurance

companies that were arbitrarily dismissed by the federal government i find that that's outrageous that your banker and you will admit it's off to a rocky start do you expect to see a big change well you know when it's time you do something this big is going to have some some bumps in the road but this is a good program it's a good plan i can tell you that fifty million is the right figure there are many many people into that in that number but i can just tell you anybody practicing medicine today anyone doing public health today can tell you that. the fact that there's no such thing as a hard core group of people uninsured it can happen the anyone and if you have a heart attack during that period when you have when you're not insured it's a catastrophic event for you and all the other nations of the world all the other industrialized nation of the world don't have this problem with the only one left. gambling you said i'm quoting you there are compelling reasons for patients to opt

out of obamacare medicaid and even medicare exclaimed and how would you respond to the fact that sure we are we lacked so far behind other countries and in providing health for all of our citizens well i don't think that we do i think everybody more or less with very few exceptions get health care and the issue is health insurance or obamacare or some sort of a card like a medicaid card doesn't guarantee you access to health care it just says you got this card and then the conditions apply how are things actually going to get paid for and who is going to be participating in the plans for example if you have medicaid you're not going to see very many private physicians in new york i can tell you that so medicaid is horrible insurance yet that is part a big part of what obama wants to do he wants to expand medicaid and put more and more people onto it so there are studies out there that suggest that you're better

off without any insurance than to have medicaid you'll have shorter intervals to get care or get to see a doctor and look. the real problem here is that we have a system of prepaid health care it is not truly health insurance they pay for every little thing which is absurd and that's why it's become so expensive we should have a system of perhaps universal catastrophic health care coverage and then everybody pays for their routine care out of pocket then we would have a rational system true insurance when you really need it and then the individuals assume responsibility for routine expenses this would drive cost down this would stimulate free market changes in the health care system with doctors and hospitals and other providers competing for health care dollars and it would open up the system to true competition.