for the good of. the jews and the election in ukraine as the prolonging pro european rallies that still disrupting the government along with the country's crippled economy. behind when is are about australia's high school overturns the country's first no allowing same sex marriage. and we've been on the air each. meanwhile india's reinstated ates ban on same sex relationships while people in croatia recently i don't know that for good will look at said box full day riots in different countries. and more than a dozen civilians that claim to have fallen victim to idolise drone strike in yemen which many wins only very simple save for al qaida terrorists in the region.

it will turn all seem to national coming to you live from the start and welcome to the program. members of the european parliament are urging an early election in ukraine and a bid to end the crisis that's been gripping the country and the peace have also called for a new museum mission at the highest level to establish dialogue between ukraine's government and what they called a democratic opposition the statements come as a ukrainian delegation isn't brussels able to discuss of the real world marketable is a possible trying to hold. on to government protesters continue to defy their sources blocking the city center with barricades and forcing a halt to the wildcat into situations and as our season exit assessed in our polls

is not only causing tales on the streets it is also taking a toll on the country's already faltering economy. the. 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 that 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 the gross issues for was drafting the budget for next year and the parliament should have an opportunity to work on it the protests are just shocked in many social projects like road construction and metrics mansions which here badly needs the

economic impact is being felt far from the rallies in the capital at one of the country's leading winemakers factories a thousand kilometers away from the scenes playing out in key 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 vine yard expert license has expired because work in the public often. it says 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. revolution down with the governor on the college to prison that's what we've been hearing at the q. brought our school weeks but a possible default or economic collapse is not the talk of the town behind the barricades. r.t. reporting from kiev ukraine. also the leaders of ukraine's opposition have announced they are said to me president in a college late on friday live now to rein iraq he's the editor in chief of the newspaper joining us live from berlin mr rubb welcome to you so do expect anything to come out of this meeting. i don't expect anything coming out of this meeting it is only a tactic to further increase the tensions and because i

fear that the e.u. and behind it need to have tasted blood and they want the whole thing i think they want you grain back in the western food as it was after the orange revolution and i remember very well situation when i was still only two headquarters for the political affairs division there was. a. but there are gay sure invited by the u.s. embassy of nato from kiev and i was invited to this meeting to be for the received of the members of the ukrainian parliament that was back in one thousand nine hundred two before we received the members of the ukrainian parliament the u.s. ambassador at the time today to say that if we meaning the racist need to restock seeds of getting the ukraine away from russia

russia view never be as will never be can never become as powerful as you can use to be with the soviet union and what you're seeing here is just a continuation of that idea that strategy sheryl you talk about some to political issues here well the latest development is that the added please have a snap election in ukraine to out these the public process do you think it would do the trick that. well just i would say just ask rich european country. who are pretending to be holier than thou right now with european government agreed to any snap election did we have snap elections in greece in spain in you know ireland where hundreds of thousands of people went on the street demonstrating against. the taxpayers' money being squandered on

the banks there's no we don't. pay these demonstrations were played down in our media and at home with tear gas to a club or just looking to leave germany what happened to the big demonstrations here against the bags too so frankfurt the occupy movement was removed by force many people heard goes into hospital etc i mean snap elections i mean they would have loved if you had suggest it's not a snap elections yes of course you have explained to us why a lot of very thin support was expressed it has been expressed by the and the peace had arrived in kiev but the question is that also washington now states considering imposing sanctions on ukraine what do you make of these tactics.

it's not a new tactic of the united states it is just part of the game with carrot and stick and they just make the stick a bit longer and a bit bigger in connection with the union and you have to remember washington with nato has the east eastern partnership for peace or the european union has an eastern partnership and they can both with the same purpose the same aim this is further isolating russia not just with the grain but the efforts of breaking the regular rules for their good will to more efforts going on right now is the fall but going on in the caucasus. the rain around at the same chief of the newspaper you can get out mr up

thank you very much indeed for your time and for sharing your perspective with us. and of course at work closely following the situation clear on our website will go tonight they dance around right at the dot com for the very latest. on the high court in australia of that the country's first slow allowing same sex couples to marry that's just less than a week after it came into force earlier this month india upheld its colonial era legislation criminalizing homosexuality while croatians overwhelmingly voted against same sex marriage and ash not referendum on she's gonna check on looks now into why some countries refused to give the rainbow a green light. 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 in less than a week. we've been married. and we've been on there it's 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 regional authorities had no right to decide the matter live in a relationship with loves and trusts to any seven australian couples then 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.

saying that you know history jumping through hoops to try to make sure that every tree on the planet has its natural environment so. that we would be challenging the definition of marriage which creates exactly that environment for a child requiring that it's between a man and woman in 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 cornel in 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 to 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 legislative change in the next two years is highly unlikely but you have

a lot of old really just got to lead us and all the communities of this country feel that albert allegiance does that all sense and it should remain so it's thing you are seeing something similar this december. in a referendum to outlaw 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 on marriage seems at least at the moment to be prevailing in many parts of the world get a shotgun or two. and let's not talk more about this was a robot harness strasberg a base investigative journalist joining me now live from france mr harness welcome to all see are these just isolated cases or always seeing a growing intolerance for same sex marriage stan. i think that the there is a there is increasing skepticism about it because it needs using as

a human rights of every kind same sex marriage achieved a substantial majority in the opinion of much of western society but there is perhaps a tendency now to look at it more carefully and start asking questions like what happens about children about adoption and if you look at what's happened in france you have a majority of about sixty percent in favor of same sex marriage and it was permitted in the summer of this year but today there is a substantial majority by any question of adoption of children within that marriage so it's a new last opinion and i think there is probably people looking more carefully. as all the implications of the votes are and all shouldn't governments first ask that you know that people as they did in correlation before deciding on whether or not to legalize such unions well last year there was a movement in the french parliament by the opposition to get a referendum because there is

a referendum can be called in the in under the french constitution but it was pointed out that it's only for major constitutional issues and that this was a one point zero. mr harness shane i guess we lost him. all right yes i do apologize for that and let's move on now. this is also international and coming up in the program mexico opens the floodgates of seventy five days of oil and gas nationalization are coming to an end with western companies lining up to swoop in and reap the benefits all the details in a few minutes after the break.

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and let's now go back to one of our top stories the criminalize ational homosexuality in some countries and gay marriages and that we can now bring back our guests to a robot han is from. mr han is so let's continue talking about this issue and to generally how much should the government be in charge. of safe sex marriages in your view well the. choice of the french people would have a civil union the opinion polls are quite clear that the majority of people that's the solution they wanted because it solves all the tax problems all all equal problems be galatea of treatment estrie in marriage and and other couples but the government didn't want that they didn't want to political reasons because they wanted to and nor did the direction of that is their left weeks daughters who are very much in favor of same sex marriage they wanted some any shoes let's be honest

to distract attention from france's real problems any six descent french people regard same stage sex marriage is important which is not surprising bearing in mind the tiny numbers of same sex marriages to take place since it's been legalized. there are only two force in countries in the. illegal nationwide do you thing this trend will continue and will we see more backlash from the general public well however i'm afraid i think it will continue for the reasons that it's happened in france because a splendid subject to the democratic government is to occupy the media and the people with well they have to deal deal in the background with the serious issues my unemployment and tax levels and the rest of. asia and australia been talking about these countries in particular put a comp on the legalizing gay marriage is there something in particular countries that's in place influencing that decision. well yeah i mean it's clear clear in india's case there is

a very strong feeling in religious terms against it and of course is a tradition that goes back to eight hundred sixty when the british colonialism ministration made sexual relations illegal. in india is quite clear australia i think is probably more law trumps is just a procedural question of how they go about it. based investigative journalist robert harness thank you very much. for this. it was supposed to celebrate a new beginning but in the matter of seconds turned into a disaster in yemen more than a dozen members of a wedding procession were killed by u.s. trust trike local officials say the missiles were fired in the group been mistaken for and. many others are also time to use drones as a key tool to wipe out al qaeda terrorists in the region but they do not comment on individual strikes and media benjamin says incidents like this one only play into

the militias. 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. every month more innocent lives are being lost in all democrat administration insists 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 iraq where drone attacks happen on a regular basis but no casualties statistics are available despite america's operations are kind of remains active in the arabian peninsula but anti drone

activists boulder believes the trial 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 there's no reason for this to continue and the world needs to rise up and point the finger at the united states. necessary damage and death you know they see their very precise their surgical and we can we see over and over and over again and there are many many examples of civilians women and children all 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 sosa nations and they're absolutely a foreign illegal. and on our website for you right now signs of medieval styles

try at the helm of north korea kim yong uncle is put to death within hours after pyongyang orders his execution i don't live why the nation's second most powerful man was given the death sentence along with the clues to the caves. and you don't often see on the streets of jerusalem but less than two weeks before christmas mother nature completely changed the face of the holy city and gave locals planted a chair about see it for yourself that slouch in fish. mexico over the government's decision to open the country's oil and gas sector to private investment for the first time in seventy five years some fear it means the nation's richest afore it is the law will allow western companies to top into mexico's fossil fuel deposits and pocket the profits the country's oil and gas boat has been waving in recent years and authorities say the moves designed to revitalize the

industry vast reserves are believed to lie in the gulf of mexico which the government cannot afford to develop but the opposition is accusing the president of giving in to american pressure as aussies nicholas sanchez 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 that until now will obviously work prohibited under mexico's constitution opponents to the reform say they fear

that that big corporations especially from the us 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 seventy local governments this this is step is really only a formality and groups on the left think that the measure is so big that should have been subjected to a national referendum under one analyst told us that western energy giants are celebrating victory as mexico will be selling its resources to them at bargain price. as you know i don't guess we're seeing not to resources being stolen by

businessmen with the government's help we see high flying politicians provide companies with all the legal assistance they calm so the companies end up owning resources that should be controlled by the state 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 while some of the most important measures get included as reforms i believe her date i can't imagine that any of these 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 starts to sell off bit by bit especially nine times of crisis and they sell it all cheap. and coming up next on c international it's other to larry king.

as we all know the holidays are a great time for families to get together and sometimes on the alcohol 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 and 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 there are members who may not be the best debaters on the planet ok. defend the positions of the organization and i would have no problem if the us a gave this

list they could answer questions from journalists but when the government wants you to propagandize your friends and family over christmas and thanksgiving it all seems kind of cultish to me that's just my opinion. the obamacare fix of failing health care system doctors with very different opinions are going to weigh in and why have the millennialism abandoning the president and obamacare with a deadline approaching to sign that 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. politics and 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 their frolics just 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 in 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 documentary 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 industrial.