ukraine's president says any talks on a deal with the e.u. must involve russia says the european rallies are continuing to disrupt the government the already crippled economy. the honeymoon is over high court overturns the country's first law allowing same sex marriages. in less than a week. we've been married. meanwhile india's reinstated its sex relationships while people vote in a referendum. for good look at setbacks for gay rights in different countries. and medics say at least seventeen civilians have fallen victim to a u.s. drone strike in yemen which many. sympathy for al qaida terrorists in the region

all top stories. this is international president has refuted demands from the opposition to dismiss the government at a round table talk in kiev. from the european parliament for a snap election to appease the crisis. has the details now from. mccovey had a round table meeting today with opposition leaders three of the opposition leaders and the announcements come after that discussion where the opposition reiterated a number of their demands including a snap election now the president has refused to dissolve government but he has made

a number of concessions including an amnesty on all protesters who have been arrested throughout the course of these demonstrations and he also says the authorities will not use force on these protesters around me was the implications on any possible a huge deal of being sest by government now he has promised that there is no alternative to close the e.u. integration but does say for this to happen that close cooperation from russia now as you can see around me the protesters remain defiant as ever as we head into the course of the weekend and over the weekend we are expecting numbers here at independence square to swell not only the opposition. more and more people to come down to support the movement and we are also expecting a pro-government rally to take place over the course of the weekend we're hearing that up to two hundred thousand pro president you know the covert supporters could be descending on your piskies square which is just around one hundred yards to my left hand side around one hundred yards away from where we are right now in the heart of the opposition movement and these protesters they've been here now for

over three weeks on the demonstrations the protests that have suffocated this part of kiev a beginning to take their toll on the economy as well as my colleague. now reports . 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 i'm only hard in the people's resolve it took the protesters only several hours to rebuild the barricades which the police had taken 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. 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 because it shows for 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 metrics luncheon which here badly needs the economic impact

is being felt far from the rallies in the capital one of the country's leading winemakers factories a thousand kilometers away from the scene is playing out in kiev times are tough but. what's going on in kiev is complete chaos and it's causing serious economic damage to state enterprises like our vineyard 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 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 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 euro the second highest figure in the country's history there is a clean line for foreign currency because definitely does not happen the financial stability of the country foreign exchange reserves are going. to disappear very quickly. meaning that. i value your speech will basically trying to close the bad deposits this commercial man's. also significant three six on the commercial banking system in the country. the 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 oxy reporting from ukraine. while the european parliament has also called for mediation at the highest levels to ensure ukraine's association with the e.u. ruptly editor in chief of the german you use paper says this is simply fueling the divide even further. only a tactic to further increase the tensions and because i fear. the e.u. and behind it need to have tasted blood and they want the whole thing i think they want you. back in the western food as it was after the orange revolution 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 streets demonstrating against. the taxpayers' money being squandered on banks there's no we don't they these demonstrations will be played down in our media and. tear gas to a 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 it came into force earlier this month india upheld its colonial era legislation criminalizing homosexuality while croatians overwhelmingly voted against same sex marriage in a national referendum. looks into why some countries refused to give the rainbow a green light. most western countries already

recognize in some form the right of being 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 regional authority said no right to decide the matter to live in a relationship of loves and trusts to do any seven australian couple of things 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 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 into 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 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 audit. and all the communities of this country.

vents at each of the main thing europe has seen something similar this december motive in a referendum to outlaw same sex marriage who third of the most think happily population and move 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 a place at the moment to be prevailing in many parts of the world get a check on our team. and same sex marriages receive the role of proven in the u.k. but by pushing the legislation through prime minister david cameron only deepened the refs within his own conservative party earlier i spoke to ben harris he's chairman of the think tank the boat group and he says people what people think is the only way it should have been done is that she did the same sex marriage as a station that was the straw that broke the camel's back but the conservative party

remains divided and same sex marriage is one of the causes of not so what i would have liked to see his first let's have a debate about it in the conservative policy work out how to get the legislation right perhaps a system like france where. religious institutions and hotels or whatever then you won't want to hold. weddings where you can do so and then the state simply on the right say union between two people in the interest it really will form that union takes extending civil partnerships all that would've been a better way to do it and i think a referendum would have been very important as well because it removes the controversy a big question for david cameron is can he convince the conservative philosophy that he's a conservative to bring this legislation forward. 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 in yemen were killed by what officials claimed was a u.s.

drone strike they say the missiles were fired at the group should be mistaken for an al qaeda convoy many others were injured in the attack which uses drones as a key tool to wipe out all kind of terrorists in the region but they don't comment on individual strikes and he writes his medea benjamin says that incidents like this only play into the militants hands. every time there's a 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 support to al qaeda it doesn't get rid of al qaeda. every month more innocent lives are being lost in what the american administration insists a precision attacks. in pakistan yemen and somalia thought to have killed more than a thousand civilians in just over

a decade now that figure doesn't include afghanistan and iraq where drone attacks happen on a regular basis but no casualty statistics are available to support america's operations al qaeda remains active in the arabian peninsula but drone activity 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 no legal. coming up in just a couple of minutes here on alt international the computer hacker taken well and truly all flaw i'm a co-founder of fall sharing website power play is reportedly being held in solitary confinement after being accused of a series of hacking attacks more on the story. technology innovation all the developments around russia. the future covered.

the building. mission to teach. the co-founder of the infamous for sharing website the pirate bay is reportedly being held in solitary confinement. is reportedly being. such as access to books or

a phone takes up the story. 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 chief 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 he's committed or the mother of the detained computer specialist christina's father holmes says that she has no idea who has decided to keep her son in solitary confinement. his lawyer as far as i can get it she hasn't really found the legal reasons for this because the court when they decided about him being put into this arrest place they never made a decision about the solitary thing and the prosecutor according to what the

prosecutor said to media. week ago she said that i never made such a decision so it's difficult to find out who made this decision and since you don't know who made the decision you can't complain properly about it they have suspicions to it's him now. he has told me that this is specialists that the danish police claim that he is innocent that the claims they make them not public yet but he has told me about them and he says that innocent and says he has told me that i must believe him and definitely. let's not discuss this further with the computer specialist lawyer louise hoy louise to tell us more about the conditions your client is being held in at the moment.

louise can you hear me there we just heard a cancer yes tell us about the conditions your clients being held in at the moment . is what i would call in isolation under solitary confinement the thing is that the judge didn't say that he was to be in solitary confinement but. in reality he is because of a decision made by the danish prison service why did they make that decision because his mother as we just heard a few moments ago was unclear about why the decision was made and who actually made it. i'm also not sure why they made it. got fleet has been in denmark for sixteen days now and the restrictions were put upon him from day one and two weeks ago i asked for a formal decision from the prison service so that i could actually tell my client

what's going on and i received what was yeah three four sentences just stating that you know referring to this section in the danish legislation he is to be put under special restrictions and it was a big surprise to me because normal normally these restrictions are only used if people are very well violent towards other inmates and i have also i know one case where it's been used against someone who was charged of terrorism but for me it was a big surprise that this was that they used these restrictions on got that surprised you that such a lack of clarity could really be happening in a more democratic european country this i don't understand what's going on to be honest and i've been both a prosecutor many years ago and i've been employed with the ministry of justice and to be honest these days i'm bit embarrassed that they treat him this way i don't

understand why he's being accused i don't understand the legal short but he has been accused of a number of hacking attacks doesn't he do you know any more about that can you tell us about the geishas. i can't tell you much because at the moment you know i'm not able to talk about the investigation but what i can tell you is that he was put in solitary confinement for one month in sweden due to the danish investigation that was in june this year and then after one month one month the swedish prosecutor took him out of these restrictions and now after five months he's now put back under these restrictions which i don't understand why because i have been able to talk to him about the investigations and while he was able to take this it's without restrictions in sweden so he's been able to talk to people about the they meet investigation for months now and now he's in denmark and i guess it's because

i can't find any reason but i think it's because the case is just so extremely embarrassing for the danish states that apparently they have to do everything in their power just to punish him in advance will you and he will obviously be appearing in court at some stage or do you think he will be held accountable for his alleged crimes what do you think his fate could be no. at the moment no i don't expect so because if you look at the case which was in the in the higher court in sweden he was not convicted of the hacking. the bank the big bank is scandinavian bank and i think is the material is somewhat the same in the davis case so i'm expecting him not to be convicted of anything in denmark and how long do you expect him to stay in sort of chicken farm and then. yeah that's the thing if it was you know a decision or warrant that was made by a judge i was i was able to tell him you know for two weeks and then we we can go

and see the judge but now because it's a decision made by the prison service i'm not able to tell him if there is i can't give him in a deadline. no worries thank you very much i can make a complaint. ok well thanks very much indeed to the lore of the pirate base co-founder live there from copenhagen great to talk to you we really appreciate time coming here on r.t. thank you you're welcome. 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 on reports. don't lean sought refuge in south africa from the congo because of one man nelson. mandela causes the one more loud of the do 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 there are tears well thought in their eyes cause 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 horror for another with no money work or prospects a handful have made this place a methodist church in downtown johannesburg home if you're a green or you for your german or if you're fringe and you come into this country you were in to experience what's experienced here one of the things that protected 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 also let you 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 it in the way they're going to do the work to do is good and. where 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 has been too afraid to step foot outside this church and now with mandela gone she's more afraid than ever to says something about the flood and. no one will talk about the flooding as night falls the schools close providing refuge to people seeking sanctuary in a country that doesn't want them here r.t. johannesburg south africa. on

a website at the moment signs of medieval style strife at the helm of north korea if your uncle is put to death within hours of the film orders his execution had online for while the nation's second most powerful man was given the death sentence along with other clues to the case. and you don't often see snow but 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 plenty to cheer about see it for yourself at r.t. dot com slash in vision. russia may have been hit hard by the ever increasing drug flow from afghanistan but the authorities in one village of come up with a unique way to benefit from it after officials in siberia confiscated more than one hundred sacks of opium seeds they were thrown into a residential furnace and the flames were used to heat nearby homes drugs have been used as evidence in several criminal cases which have now been closed and literally cleansed by far. up next it is breaking the set with.

time magazine's person of the year france is the counterpart to according to the managing editor the pope changed the tone and perception of the roman catholic church this may be so but france was also showing himself to be critical of the global economic order and capitalism is their hope for the church or if france is really a p.r. problem. be always one of the people that want to go that route. where the rules haven't been written yet an open frontier a place not a place where they have a chance to make their own world instead of just living in one that has already been made for them and that's a fundamental kind of freedom and that's what having an open frontier means.

well it up i'm abby martin and this is breaking the sat so qatar is roughly the size of connecticut that the small persian gulf state is emerging as a major player on the world stage in fact it's set to host the twenty twenty two world cup of course an event this size requires an unimaginable amount of building and labor and that's where nepal comes in this in a country of two million people there are currently three hundred forty thousand nepalese migrant workers many of which has been assigned to world cup construction but according to several reports released by the guardian the workers face brutal working conditions long hours lack of pay and wretched living quarters and just yesterday it was confirmed that seventy napoli's labors have already died while working on world cup projects yet both the nepalese and guitar governments refuse to acknowledge this massive human rights problem so if you're sick of world powers treating migrant laborers like garbage and tell fifo to pressure qatar and put an

end to this modern day slavery. the that. it was a. very hard to take that. to. do that or how to act with that when there are those. that believe. that. well d.c. is officially closed for business and of course the mainstream media is doing

a wall to wall coverage on nothing but the shutdown. the united states government shut down our own that is the subject of this evening's talking points memo the two sides are digging in it is day number two of the government shutdown and the day begins with few answers as to how to break the logjam can honestly say that only the republicans are being sensible in all of this and only that and all the democrats are not being sensible really. yes it's everyone's favorite game show the capitol hill blame game first the clock was counting down to the shutdown and now the clock is counting up tell them what the american people won johnny actually nobody wins here in fact federal employees are the biggest losers of all as congress continues to twiddle their thumbs while still getting paid eight hundred thousand other government always won't be but while the corporate media is putting all the effort to treating this like a new year's countdown let's take a look at what they haven't been.