the urge is an early election in ukraine as they prolonged for a european run exists to disrupting the government and blasting the already crippled economy. honeymoon is over australia's high court overturns the country's fast law allowing same sex marriages in less than a week. we've been married and we've been on marriage meanwhile india is wearing stated its ban on same sex relationships while people in croatia recently outlawed it for good look at side box for gay rights in different countries. and medics at least seventeen civilians have fallen victim to a u.s. drone strike in yemen which many want only sympathy for al qaida terrorists in the

region. international news and comment line from moscow you will she also international has made you national. and welcome to the proper. members of the european parliament urging an early election in ukraine in a bid to end the crisis that's been gripping the country and the peace have also demanded mediation at the highest level to establish tunnel between ukraine's government and calling the democratic opposition and they've been mentioning kiev and aussies outpolls called joins us now live from kiev how the polls has anything come out of that particular meeting we're discussing. oh yeah this is over.

for those that will consider next year well as we head into the weekend numbers here in independence square expected to swell not only the opposition calling for more people to kind of support the movement and we're also hearing that that could in fact be true with the government of the rally taking place over the course of the week and we're hearing reports that up to two hundred thousand. present supporters could descend on utica ski square which is around one hundred yards to my left hand side where i'm one hundred yards away from where we are right now in the heart of the opposition movement now where this all comes as you say on the way the president young a crowd of those around three leaders of the opposition held round table discussions to try and come to some sort of negotiation to end the standoff the opposition reiterated their rocky demands which of the release of protesters who have been arrested the coolest of the demonstrations ah that those revived the calm down on the protesters a couple of weekends ago be released and that there was early elections now we're not hearing at the moment of any breakthrough in the use tools and as you can see

the protesters around me same as defiant as ever it's over three weeks now that they've been camped out here in independence square on the protesters the demonstrations beginning to take that's when ukraine's already fragile economy as my colleague now reports. the. close. key of protest have ended its fourth week with no sign it will die down in recent attempts by police to clear the streets proved fruitless and only hardline people who sold it to 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 a said the budget for next year to get us. yes for it it was drafting the budget for next year and the parliament should have an opportunity to work on it the

protests are the strongest in many social projects like road construction is a natural extension of its new needs the economic impact is being felt far from the rallies in the capital one of the country's leading winemakers factories are thousands almost away from the scenes playing out in two years' time chertoff at the moment what's going on in the here is complete chaos and it's causing serious economic damage to state enterprises like our venue our export 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 importance for the next 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 than they will default fearing ukraine's economy would not survive the unrest ukrainians rushed to the banks buying foreign currency and closing their accounts in november foreign currency reserves experienced a deficit of almost eight hundred million euros the second highest figure in the country's history there is a queen in line for foreign currency because definitely does not happen in the financial stability of the country foreign exchange reserves are going. to disappear very quickly and mean in that light the value people. basically are trying to claw deposits this commercial balance which also says. if it's three six on the commercial banking system and the country.

revolution down with the governor ridge to prison that's what we've been hearing at the king of protests for weeks but a possible default or economic collapse is not the top of the town behind the barricades let's you assess the r.t. reporting from kiev ukraine. also the leaders of ukraine's opposition have agreed to meet president called it and. at the same chief of the newspaper says the e.u. is simply fuelling the divide even faster. only a tactic to further increase the tensions and because. the e.u. behind nato have tasted blood and they want the whole thing i think they want to ukraine back in the western food because after the orange revolution which european

government agreed to any snap election did we have snap elections in greece in spain in you know hundreds of thousands of people went on the streets demonstrating against. the taxpayers' money being squandered on banks there's no we don't. these demonstrations play down in our media. or tear gas to the. club to. the high court in australia has overturned the country's first law allowing same sex couples to marry that's just less than a week after his came into force earlier this month india held its colonial era legislation criminalizing homosexuality while creation's overwhelmingly voted against same sex marriage

a national referendum osses ghana 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 the program but in other parts of the world they were these yahoos that train in less in less than a week. we've been married and we've been on there it's you know friendly and just days after the nation's capital allowed same sex couples to get married the high court there struck down that decision saying regional forum said no right to decide the matter to live in a relationship of loves and trusts to go in the same an australian couple of things saw their marriage and know. australia's high court ruled that gay marriage was legal because the merry go round was only recognised as marriage between a man and the woman and only the parliament increased the legislation the more 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. 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 you need 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 don't 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 leading in the upcoming elections in legislative change in the next few years is highly unlikely but you have about a old. just in. all the communities of this country feel that albert allegiance. thing you have seen something similar this december. referendum how long same sex marriage. the most powerful the population. changes in the prosecution 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 second or two. on this made parys sort of person poor into his traits on good government decision to legalize gay marriage and which talks about this. on is based investigative journalist things the french are just afraid to put the issue

to a nationwide referendum. there is increasing skepticism about you because indian susie as i'm sure human rights of every kind same sex marriage achieved a substantial majority of eighteen you know much of western society but there is perhaps a tendency now to look at it more carefully and start asking questions like well what happens about children why is bud option choice of the french people who does dean a civil union the opinion polls are quite clear that a majority of people that's the solution they wanted but the government didn't want that they didn't want to talk to little resistance because they wanted to and not in the direction of the us they're left weeks daughters who are very much in favor of same sex marriage it would be wise when you make a major change in society to do this but the reason they don't do it is because they're afraid that if you have a referendum this is certainly the case you trust to have a referendum on this what do you have to rush and have a referendum on a host of other issues and governments will find their hands tied they don't get

the answers they want to them they go to a referendum because it focuses attention on the problem in question of people actually start to think about it rather than gaily answering public opinion polls without giving it much thought. it was supposed to celebrate a new beginning but in a matter of seconds turned into a disaster according to medical sources at least seventeen members of a wedding procession were killed by what officials claimed was trans trade they say the missiles were fired at the group which had been mistaken for an all kind of convoy many others were also injured in that time washington these drones as a console to one found out time to time to send the returned but they do not comment on individual strikes until our system is it benjamin says incidents like this one only play into the militants hearns. 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. 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 have been lost and will dead merican administration insists persuasion at times 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 a gun a stone and iran where drone attacks happen on a regular basis but no casual sister to stakes are available that despite america's operations our kind of remains active in the arabian peninsula but to draw an activist. 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. 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 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. coming up. in just a couple of minutes the computer the haka taken the well and truly also flying a close sharing websites a pirate bay is reportedly being held in solitary confinement after being accused of a series of hiking at fox will speak to his mother after this. old

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mccurry was able to build a new most sophisticated robot which all unfortunately doesn't give a darn about anything tunes mission to teach creation why it should care about humans in. this is why you should care only on the. come out and this is all seen to national welcome back it's been claims the co-founder of the infamous file sharing website stay pirate bay is reportedly being held in solitary confinement in denmark has reportedly been denied common comforts such as access to books or a fun. text at the start. supporters and family members of twenty nine year old got freed while he was one of the founders of the bit torrent site pirate bay

have been expressing their concern over the conditions he's being held in in a danish prison now in june of this year he was sentenced to two years in jail in denmark for computer hacking now the charges that were brought against him related to alleged hacking into the the computer network of a computer systems company as well as the danish driving license database the head of the danish police force the national police commissioner of denmark said that the operation that was being run by mr watt had been incredibly sophisticated now he has drawn supporters from across the world including the likes of julian assange should actually called for him to be to be released or at least have his his is conditions in which he's being held in improved but these aren't the first legal problems that he's had he was part of the group that founded pirate bay which was used to share bit torrent surround the world now that was the subject of

a very high profile case regarding copyright infringement sampai isn't supporters come out and say well the conditions in which he's being kept have well certainly overstepped the boundaries for the crime that he's committed. brought in 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 sending the nation's riches to foreigners the law will allow western companies to tap into mexico's fossil fuel deposits and pocket the profits become trees the oil and gas output has been awaiting in recent years under sources say the moves designed to revitalize the industry vast reserves are believed to lie in the gulf of mexico which the government can't afford to develop but the opposition is accusing the president of giving in to american pressure as aussies nicholas sanchez of donovan our report. 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 a 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 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 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. 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 and recently now where cities across the country have been grabbed by a pitchfork process since monday samas small business owners and students have been blocking roads and staging mass marches demanding the government be dissolved and we're now joined live by dr anderson drug policy a political and strategic analyst professor of politics welcome to r.c. so do you expect these process to go on. for the time being

yes it is still at a very nasty on stage but it has been impressively called denatured from one end to the other of the peninsula how would you have says they cannot exist in the country probably the process is exaggerating it. unfortunately not of the official economic situation could be debated also in process but the reality of the grown beyond the numbers is that a lot of people not just the ordinary poor but a lot of middle class people and not just lower middle class. are in dire straits and this is a fact if you look at the costs of fool if you look up the downturn in sales even under christmas you see that the situation is really

difficult and watch a good part of the political class doesn't understand that the problem is starting small with these rebel use what they call minorities but it could escalate very seriously. the purse has a calling for all the politicians day in the country to be ousted as distinct it's possible no of course not all or better if it would happen we would go through a phase of political chaos that's evident but in this case you would see something very like you know. an arab revolution for the moment it's very similar to the israeli tend to movement they still haven't blocked but an early some prominent places but they could and these people i'll debate you know exploited but some minorities of right wing minorities are really despaired because they really can't

make it up till the end of the month and you know. in the discourse of the political discourse this is seen but in reality the action of the political forces is you know really near zero to helping these people to get out of the crisis and these rallies are not organized by by political groups or unions from your point of the maybe it makes them potentially more dangerous. not this session only there are a lot of people who are convinced that peaceful protest is even more effective than violent protests but they won't last long if the unser from the government will be no it's just a bunch of minority criminals who don't represent anybody it's not serious it's not true this would be

a serious political mistake. upon it's a political and strategic analyst mr policy thank you very much indeed for your time thanks to you good evening. and coming up next the story of people suffering from toxic dangers masked by nature's beauty to stand. what defines a country's success. faceless figures of economic growth. for a factual standard of living.

deliberate torch is on its epic journey to such. one hundred twenty three days. through two hundred two cities of russia. relate fourteen thousand people or sixty five thousand killings. in a record setting trip by land air sea and others face. olympic torch relay. m r t v dot com. as we all know the holidays are a great time for families to get together and sometimes on the l. call gets flowing there 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 can convince their relatives over the holidays of just how awesome effective and necessary the national security agency truly is despite all those little revelation things of mass spying by snowden trust me talking points exist. reason political social and religious organizations 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 if the n.s.a. gave this list to ages 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. i do every sunday morning most of the two hundred inhabitants of the village of fica morrow gather in

a small church. her. cause. to both to a lack of interest in the seminary and it's just graphic isolation to parish hasn't had a priest for several years. was. ready sunday service has since been run by volunteers from the village river into me they pray for their souls but also for peace for the departed the family members and friends that have left them too soon. and to relive their own no centenarians the average life expectancy is in the sixty's. people at work tomorrow or for years and no longer here to talk about what went on many developed cancer especially sinusoid cancer which is characteristic of radioactive contamination. thirty four people

have been taken ill making therea one of the most contaminated metals. this is far from the postcard perfect image there's very little economic activity. of coconut trees and the culprit. the dried kernel of the coconut shell which is one of the few ways to eke out a living here on the islands. once a month makes a stop here to collect the culprit. there is no porting to rare just a simple landing where basic provisions such as petrol and spare parts can be delivered.

at the edge of the village in an old atomic bomb shelter where the population have to take refuge during each atmospheric test the vegetation disappears little by little while the rust slowly a race is history. since january nine hundred ninety six when the last of the test was carried out has slowly been forgotten almost to the point of indifference and then the french commission on atomic energy published a report after which the works are numbers which had never been translated into the local promoter language entered into the local vernacular. the publication of the document couldn't have come at a worse time just after the focus shima nuclear disaster and the following tsunami . well you know we're in the middle of nature here and i really love this place i spend my time here sometimes we clean or collect coconuts. you can't stay here and wait for the tsunami that is coming to morrow we can't but if

we hadn't seen on television what happened in japan and everywhere else then we wouldn't be worried but we were shocked. to. we are told to go to higher ground but there aren't any high places and. it is flat here there are no mountains there is nothing. more or goes then so do we poor turia. a small lot of contempt and helplessness to forget about a very real fear. and anxiety that pushed the people to austria delegation to be sent to. their visit took place. but the new deal we visited more or. you could see that a part of more was underwater.