the e.u. of ukraine should hold elections to dig its way out of political crisis international look at how the ongoing protests are taking a bite out of the country's economy. u.s. drone devastates. killing at least fifteen people supposedly all of them civilians officials say the party was mistaken for an al qaeda. and the honeymoon is over australia's high court overturns the country's first law allowing same sex marriage . in less than a week. we've been married and we've been on the india reinstated a ban on same sex relationships introducing i should say. punishment in the program

we look at the countries following a more conservative path. well good morning on a friday international live from moscow now a moment. for me and the news team welcome to the program members of the european parliament pressuring ukraine's government to hold early elections as a way out of the crisis that's gripped the country e.u. lawmakers have also called for intervention using trade and other incentives to support those in favor of an agreement with the union ukraine's government has said that it could to renegotiate the terms of the association deal if europe provides more money. and agreed to discuss a new road map towards a possible agreement. antigovernment protesters continue to defy the autoroute he's

blocking the city center with barricades and so suspending the work of government institutions as well as he is alexia chefs he reports it's not only causing chaos in the streets also taking a toll on the country's economy. the. key of protest have ended its fourth week with no sign it will die down the recent attempt by police to clear the streets proved fruitless and have only hard into 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 creates 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 a said the budget for next year because the shows forget 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 dantley needs the economic impact is being felt far from the rallies in the capital one of the country's leading wine makers factories a thousand kilometers away from the scenes playing out in clear 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 fine expert license has expired because work in the public offices in the capital was disrupted by the protests that 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'll 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. revolution 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 let's you assess the r.t. reporting from kiev ukraine and police in care had previously attempted to clear the streets of protester camps to make way for the traffic in the city center or the move sparking criticism from foreign politicians washington going as far as threatening sanctions against ukraine's government stephen cohen a professor of russian studies at n.y.u. he believes the involvement of u.s. officials could have disastrous consequences. i'm not surprised but i am disgusted

that members of the united states government are standing in q. and a very dangerous and fateful moment for ukraine addressing. the protesters is no they state department officials the united states are the leaders of this opposition in effect they are contributing to the tensions in the streets and i feel that if there is more violence that these american. european representatives are there then the people the bosses the governments that sent these representatives from other countries. 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 in kiev on our website we've got a live timeline of the events surrounding ukraine. the very latest.

ok to yemen now where a feast turned into a tragedy when 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 the mistaking it for an al qaeda convoy dozens were also injured in the attack which happened near the southern city of traditionally known as a militant stronghold washington part of its campaign to fight extremists in the arabian peninsula but they do not comment on individual strikes people activist medea benjamin says incidents like this place straight into the hands of minutes. 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 hundred people joining outcry. 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. crofts reportedly killed at least eighty seven people since july this year more than a third of thought to be civilians with the least at least three children falling victim to water the water of water the pentagon calls precision attacks now despite america's operations al qaeda remains very active in yemen and activist layer 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 if there's no reason for this to continue and the world needs to rise up and and point the finger at the united states for causing this. necessary 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 assassinations and they're absolutely up for it in illegal . well drones are being used for domestic security in america as well where the f.b.i. is now under pressure at all to daughter called me going to find out just how much authority the bureau things we should have to conduct warrantless surveillance according to a new declassified documents. also online dramatic new footage of the asiana airlines crash the sama showing the jet smashing into the runway at the san francisco international airport three people died as a result more than one hundred were injured you can have

a closer look if you like in motion page on r.t. dot com. right to see. her story. and i think. on our reporters. in. the end. it's all too. international law from moscow 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 apel legislation criminalizing homosexuality artie's guy nature can look at the countries taking this 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 less than a week. we've been married and we've been on there it's really 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 to live in a relationship of loves and trusts to do any seven australian couples things saw their marriage annulled. 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. but

not for that absolutely it might seem that you know history 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 india 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 the course against the order of nature four years ago a lower court found it unconstitutional the supreme court just brought the law back into force by making a similar argument of the australian judges only the nation 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 legislative change in the next few years he's highly unlikely you have about

a. just. know all the communities of this country feel that i'll go to do. things i need to do means. something similar this december. in a referendum how long same sex marriage. the most powerful the population. 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 of marriage seems at least at the moment to be prevailing in many parts of the world. now australia and gay rights activists are pledging to press on with the fight for same sex marriage and according to ivan hinton from the marriage equality they have a clear plan on how to win the government back over. the work that we need to do from this point onwards is obviously. we have a very conservative government we have a conservative prime minister who is gay and she's also.

this is something that we need to work on not just with the prime minister but also his posse at the moment that. according to the way he wishes them to be working very hard to make sure that they have a free card a conscience forced to release those members of the 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 in croatia for the majority voted to ban same sex marriage on a referendum the government proposed partnership legislation for gay couples it'll allow them to register their relationship but not to get married american pasta scott lively praises the countries which choose to. i think that's a positive trend i think australia has just shown some courage in standing up to the gay agenda india has decided not to allow the laws

to be taken off the books jamaica is showing resistance to the to the united states effort. and it's a sign of looks like which make it'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 and there. are still to come here on our international mexico's national pride going up for sale as the country opens its oil deposits to foreign energy giants in an effort i say to get its nation's economy on the rise. also ahead for you to national talking to. about why they think their future is now an adult after the death of nelson mandela so after a short break. if

you leave the. economic up and downs in the find out all day long the deal shanghai and the rest it's going to be case you'll be a briefly told. her little. one of the wonderful moment along the bank of new knowledge face time sometime between mon. lenny was.

a pleasure to have you with us here on t.v. today i'm researcher. so you know if you're confident that the irish people won't be asked again to stab . you got to tell you what the what the private banks what the end of any costs and stuff for hopkins wasn't to be found in our economic future what always happens is the regulators central bankers politicians they say this will never ever happen again and it keeps on company but we hope to ensure that if this does company again it doesn't cause such a consequence make an overall cost for tots. good

to have you with us here on r.t. international mexico has approved a controversial bill which opens up state controlled oil deposits to foreign investors for the first time in seventy five years the new law will allow foreign companies to explore for oil and extract it alongside the state. and end up pocketing the profits of the country has known reserves of more than ten billion barrels making it the third biggest oil producer in latin america but thirty billion more are believed to lie underneath the gulf of mexico which the government cannot afford to develop a global energy giants are now queuing up after the offer the technology is needed though to get to the reserves that the country's opposition says the president is simply capitulating in the face of american pressure correspondent nicholas sanchez o'donovan reports although we have to say it was one of the. 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 message 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 reforms say they fear that the 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 now energy analyst alex corin's believes that all the advantages of mexico's sovereignty over its own resources and are just being pawned off for free. look at a case 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 come so the companies end up owning resources that should be controlled by the state does this is even get to the employees rights and it's clear that these rights will then be violated these proposals as they improve before congress which passes well some of the most unpopular measures get included

as reforms as a leader. i can't imagine that if these lawmakers name going to work for oil companies after their mandate expires it's not what is happening with the system where the public sector the private sector the state starts to sort of bit by bit especially nine times of crisis and they sell it all cheap quite quickly and some of the global headlines are in china a gas explosion at a coal mine trapped at least twenty two people on the ground in the west twelve workers managed to crawl to safety while a search for the rest is still ongoing this point that the cause of the blast. a long awaited u.n. report has concluded chemical weapons were probably used in syria at five out of seven sides investigate the country it doesn't point to either the government all rebels being responsible though earlier this year syria agreed to destroy its toxic gas in a lot of the supervision of an international watchdog. north korea has executed the

once powerful uncle of its current leader kim jong un general is accused of seeking to overthrow the leadership he was executed shortly after a trial on the first day is the biggest of people sions kim jong un succeeded his father now two years ago. a car bomb has exploded in the northern egyptian city of ismailia killing at least one person and injuring dozens more of the blast took place near the entrance of a security base and was followed by gunfire attacks on police on the army have certainly risen in the country since president mohamed morsy was toppled in july. the spanish government has valve's a bloc and independence referendum in northeast catalonia a local separatist parties have already agreed on the wording and set the date for november next year but madrid says any debates on the issue are simply out of the question and they send up a lot see an economist from barcelona university says that spain can't stop

catalonians from choosing their independence they have to show how is it going to trees and root for happening now what is it going to do they are going to send those twenty seven electoral to mass it's up to them to show what kind of democracy . first of all. people are an issue now. on the issue and they have been convinced that. it's to violence is a language of their culture. this is totally separate or so this is going to be there to house their own government don't. match or we'll. have the government by your own government or before joined by abby martin for now in his lifetime nelson mandela managed to break down society's divisions and smash apartheid in south africa he stood 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 paula reports. don't lean software feet in south africa from the congo because of one man nelson mandela causes though i knew a lot of the do. 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 they would just well thought it was because they don't want for their own thing that's put in there that's like in 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 harbor for another with no money work all prospects a handful have made this place a methodist church in downtown johannesburg. if you. agree 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 who is doing the remember they're going to do the work to who is good and. who want to get both sides of it going home though is not an option political instability acute poverty and violence

awaits them. for twelve long months two dean has been too afraid to step foot outside this church and now with mandela gone she's more afraid than ever liz too says something and by the foot of the bed now is not no one knows talk about the flooding and says. that they will continue to on a him holding memorial services like this one across south africa as night follows these two was close providing refuge to people seeking sanctuary in a country that doesn't want them. to hunt is south africa. it's friday here in the russian capital it's international law from moscow just a second i'll be martin breaking the set just.

as we all know the holidays are a great time for families to get together and sometimes on the gets flowing they're also a great time for us to argue about everything from politics to religion with the ones we love but if you happen to be an n.s.a. agent then the government has an official list of talking points that way you could win those family arguments for sure yeah that's right the government is now giving n.s.a. agents lists of very corny talking points going to firedoglake so that way they could convince their relatives over the holidays of just how awesome effective and necessary the national security agency truly is the spite all those little revelation thinks of mass spying by snowden trust me talking points exist for a reason political social and religious organizations and use them so that when their members who may not be the best debaters on the planet can defend the positions of the organization and i would have no problem with the n.s.a.

gave this list to agents they could answer questions from journalists both in the government. i want you to propagandize your friends and family over christmas and thanksgiving it all seems kind of cultish to me that's just my opinion.

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on this january afternoon under the magnificent dome of the senate the debate begins a debate which is not exactly popular maybe because it's about polynesia a country some eighteen thousand kilometers away with a different world yet this is a day that could go down in history nearly as to deny the environmental damage throughout in particular in french polynesia is to deny a part of every polynesians identity depriving them of their land their environment is to deprive them of part of themselves the guy who this stone comes from or. sits and this is exactly what all of this is about this afternoon nothing else this is

more. what is all that's visualized the forty one flashes in the thermonuclear explosions in the middle of the sky should move above more money shagnasty said some of your predecessors minister. visualize again the one hundred thirty one underground explosions and underwater blasts one hundred twenty three of which were and more or less atolls minister my dear colleagues if i offered you this stone would you feel safe placing it under the pillow of your loved ones every night or less wouldn't you at least like to have a choice know that there are none of the parents and none of their children had a choice.