the view hence ukraine should hold the elections in reaction to ongoing process look at how the standoff is taking a toll on the country's economy. i do has drawn at soc devastates a wedding convoy killing at least seventeen people supposedly all of them civilians officials say the policy was mistaken for an al-qaeda perception. on behind him it is all about australia's high court overturns the country's first law allowing same sex marriage is. immersed in a week. we've been married and we've been on there each while india reinstated a ban on same sex relationships introducing jail terms as punishment a look at said bonds for gay rights in different countries.

international news life for moscow you altering aussie international this means you national. 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 you know wages have also called for intervention aid trade and other incentives to support those in favor of an agreement with the union ukraine's government has said it could really go say to the terms of the association deal if your provides more money the sides met in brussels and agreed to discuss a new road map towards a possible deal while in kiev antigovernment protests is going to need to define the also if he is blocking the city center with barricades and suspending the work

of government institutions. the next a year first in our polls is the only causing chaos on the streets but also taking a toll on the country's economy. the. key of sprawl just have ended its fourth week with no sign it will die down the recent attempt by police to clear the streets proved fruitless only hard on 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 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 said the budget for next year the gross issues for it 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 is a natural extension dantley needs the economic impact is being felt far from the rallies in the capital one of the country's leading winemakers factories are thousands of them are just away from the scenes playing out in clear times are tough but those the three would never know what's going on and give is complete chaos and it's causing serious economy damage to state enterprises like a fine ya know. 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 which to prison that's what we've been hearing at the queue 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. police in kiev her previous they're tempted to clear the streets of processed accounts to make way for traffic in the city center the move sparked criticism from foreign politicians washington go yes far as threatening sanctions against ukraine's government and stephen cohen a 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 as though they are. state department officials in united states are the leaders of this opposition in effect we are contributing to the tensions in the street and i feel that if we are more violent. that these american fishel with the and also the european union representing their people the bosses the governments that simply refuse in my view to clear are going to have some blood on their own hands i think it's a very very bad idea. and of course we are closely following the situation in kiev for you on our website we've got a live timeline of the events of surrounding ukraine had to ask dot com for the very latest.

and yemen a feast turned into a tragedy one as many as fifteen members of a wedding procession what killed by a u.s. drone strike local officials say an unmanned aircraft fired missiles at the policy after taking out for no kind of convoy dozens were also injured in that which happened near the southern city of raja traditionally known as a militant stronghold washington uses drones as part of its campaign to find extremists in the arabian peninsula but they do not comment on individual strikes on to the arsonist media benjamin says incidents like this only play into minutes and. 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 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. every month more innocent lives are being lost in world the american administration. and insist a precision a tox unmanned aircraft in pakistan yemen and somalia to have killed more than a thousand civilians in just over a decade that figure doesn't include afghanistan and drug krone targets happen on a regular bases but no casualties statistics are available despite america's operations al qaeda remains active in the arabian peninsula but as you drone boulder believes the drone strikes will go on anyway. 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 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 if 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 and illegal. so drones are being he's called domestic security in america to do what the f.b.i. is now under pressure on l.c. dot com find out just how much authority the viewer a saying is it should have to conduct warrantless surveillance according to new day declassified documents. and also online for you in the flesh the european parliament decides to formally invite whistleblower edward snowden to testify in

court about the n.s.a. and its spying by doubt on how he plans to do it. right to see. her story. and i think you're. on record. in. the the in. australia's high court has overturned the country's first law allowing same sex marriage left in a week after it came into force and another blow to gay rights campaigners earlier this week in india upheld legislation criminalizing homosexuality he's going there to chicken looks now at the country is refusing to recognize same sex marriages.

most western countries already recognize in some form the right of gay couples to get married in the program but in other parts of the world they were these yahoos that train in less than a week. we've been married and we've been on there it's you know certainly i just days after the nation's capital allowed same sex couples to get married the high court there struck down that decision saying regional authority said no right to decide the matter to live in a relationship of loves and trusts to do any seven australian couples then saw their marriage annulled 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.

for the absolutely amazing that you know history written great jumping through hoops to try to make sure that every tree on the planet has its natural environments 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 to 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 and feel silly and 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 meeting in the upcoming elections in legislative change in the next few years he's highly unlikely but you have about

a cold. he just didn't. know all the communities of this country that albert allegiance does advance and it should remain so if thing you are seeing something similar this december. in a referendum to outlaw same sex marriage two thirds of the most powerfully 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 on marriage seems at least at the moment to be prevailing in many parts of the world. was close to the unmarried australia new wed you've just seen in that report i've been hinton who is also an axe of his from australia at marriage equality pledge to press on with the financial same sex marriage. 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's sister. and she's also engaged to

a lot want. to do this is something that we need to work on not just with the prime minister but also his posse at the moment that goes according to the way he wishes them to we're 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. in core a shot for the majority voted to ban same sex marriage and referendum the government proposed. legislation for gay couples that will allow them to register their relationship but not to marry and american post is called lively praises the county's. 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 its top of the laws to be

taken off the books jamaica is showing resistance to the un to the united states effort. and it's a sign of how she looks like richard macon's are not going to go croquet on that i believe that that almost actual should have basic civil rights no one should be knocking down their door trying to find out what they're doing there. is a common they say this international mexico's national pride goes out the sail as the country opens its bost oil deposits to foreign energy giants an effort to boost the nation's struggling economy. and also i had to also international talks to refugees in south africa. about why this saying that it's not and after the death of nelson mandela break.

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your washing r.c. international life from moscow welcome back 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 law will allow foreign companies to explore for oil and extracted alongside the stage own giant paddocks and pocket the profits the country has known reserves of more than ten billion barrels making of this biggest biggest oil producer in latin america but thirty billion more are believed to lie under the gulf of mexico which the government cannot afford to develop global energy giants queuing up to offer the technology needed to get at the reserves but the country's opposition says the president is simply capitulating in the face of american presence on his international correspondent nic a list sundries o'donovan 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 toll now will obviously work prohibited under mexico's constitution opponents to the reform 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 a 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 meanwhile entry analyst alex caren's believes all that vantages of mexico sovereignty of its own resources are being pawned off. you know i don't guess 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 and up owning resources that should be controlled by the state doesn't even get control over employees rights

and it's clear that these rights will then be violated these proposals are then put before congress which passes while some of the most unpopular measures get included as reforms at a later date i can't imagine that any of these lawmakers then go on to work for all companies after their mandate expires and that's what is happening with the system where the public sector sets up the private sector the state starts to sell off bit by bit especially now in times of crisis and they sell it all cheap. just some other news making headlines this hour. hundreds of students clashed with police on through firecrackers outside a university road where government ministers were attending a close friends one of the demo banners read one university our university it isn't a class war proposed group will start receipt over the last four days the so-called pick for crime is have been held across italy from northern tiering to southern

sicily small businessman low paid workers and dudes venting their anger at poor pay and high unemployment. and. along the way to the un report has concluded chemical weapons were probably used as syria at five out of seven sites investigated in the country doesn't point to either the government or rebels being responsible for that tot's at this year's syria agreed to destroy its toxic also under the supervision of an international watchdog. north korea has executed the once powerful uncle of its current leader kim yong the former general was accused of seeking to overthrow the leadership it was executed shortly after a trial today is the biggest step he. succeeded his father two years ago. a car bomb has exploded in the northern egyptian c.c.r.

was mainly at killing at least one person and injuring dozens more the blast took place near the entrance to the security base and was followed by a rifle fire talks on police on the army have risen in the country since president mohamed morsy was toppled interim why. the spanish government has vowed to block an independence referendum in northeast and custom lonia local separatists policies have already agreed on the wording and said the date for november next year but madrid says any debates on the issue of the question and his and lucy and economists from barcelona university says pain can stop because of low news from trues independence. they have to show how are they going to trees and avoid from happening what are they going to do they are going to send us a twenty six electoral plus it's up to them to show in what kind of democracy they should vote first to vote catalans our people are an issue now long.

history time nation and they have been convinced that. the survivor losses are language of their culture. is a story says apply to their citizens are going to be better held by the only government that it. madge your of and we'll look to the government by your own government. any his life simon nelson mandela mohnish to break down society's divisions and smash a pos either south africa has stood with open arms welcoming refugees from far and wide and saw him as a father figure but without him to protect them many fear they will no longer be welcome. in our report. 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 inside of the

. camp but now he's gone and only means afraid she and other foreigners like her will be kicked out i think that it is well thought it was because they don't one foot in the area complaining that it's 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 harbor for another with no money work or prospects a handful have made this place a methodist church in downtown johannesburg. if you're a green or you for your german or if you're fringe and you come into this country you were into 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 lead to work 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 film are they going to do the work which is who is good and. why we want to give them a sense of 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 lose to says something about the flawed innocent but no one will talk about the flood and as night falls the stores close providing refuge to people

seeking sanctuary in a country that doesn't want them. r.t. johannesburg south africa. and up next a poisoned paradise i see travels to me the inhabitants suffering from toxic danger as masked by nature's beauty say in a few months. there's a million leave us so we leave that maybe. by the sea pollution ship during the. day your party years ago. for sure is that no one is asking with the guests that you deserve answers from. politics. are today.

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on this january after noon 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. to deny the environmental damage throughout the oceanic 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 this stone comes from or. it's and this is exactly what all of this is about this afternoon nothing else this. is what is all that's visualized the forty one flashes in the thermonuclear.