ukraine's president proposed an amnesty for arrested protesters and a moratorium on the use of force and demonstrations in attempt to resolve differences with the opposition plus a buy it into the. two only e.u. donuts with the european union flag. we take a look at how the young going to mr asians are affecting the daily life of people. one hundred twenty kurdish civilians are reportedly taken hostage by syrian rebels near the turkish border with the minority caught in the crossfire once again. and arlen becomes the first state to officially break free from the euro zone bailout program milestone on its road to financial recovery.

this is actually coming to you live from the russian capital i'm marina joshua welcome to the program. ukraine's president has called for a stop to any forcible action by police and activists and he also wants those arrested during the protests in kiev to be granted amnesty president's victory on cob which made the concessions after holding talks with the opposition over the crisis that's gripping the country but refused to dismiss the cabinet right now you're looking at live pictures and sauza and start gathering in central kiev as you can see in support of the president and it once again there's a live pictures coming out of a capital where several hundred thousand people are expected to show up it's taking place just meters from b.

opposition demonstrations are just like here chefs he's in kiev and takes a closer look at how. the revolutionary leader is affecting every day long. the korean capital has been in a protest mode for more than two weeks now it looks completely different than a month ago people are living here they're cooking food. and definitely life has changed when the protests kicked off talking about food underneath the square of the protest you can literally chew on the e.u. donuts with the european union flag are now available for sale. i think they're much. and the taste delicious local fridge magnet manufacturers were quick to pounce on the idea of the protest and now you can purchase a very peculiar more ability from sending your local bitch to prison to localizing international brands the one that central kiev is the place of many restaurants and bars and their lives have been affected in one way or another we decided to pay

a visit to one of the oldest pubs in the city center to find out. so we lost the pubs manager how the protest affects the life of his restaurant. but also how have the euro my done in the protests affected your pub. the number of visitors has increased only slightly since these protests kicked off but now we've got a special offer menu which includes items such as tea and cake and will be open twenty four seventh's for as long as the year on my down protests continue but not all and seem to be equally happy with the way the protests are going some of the local taxi drivers have complained to me that the barricade makes their life a true traffic nightmare i talk to one of them right now what do you think of the barricades in the center of the city i'm sick and tired of this government but being a taxi driver is my job so those barricades in downtown key that actually make it much harder for me to do my job and feed my family. the further we step away from

the my down the more mood change we see among the locals some of them have been enraged by particular aspects of this unrest as someone who was born and raised in your house you feel that these protests protests are good i'm tired of going to go to because i think he has run his course but as a key president i'm not sure why monuments needed to be destroyed it seems these demonstrations have been privatized by a bunch of vandals. but just one kilometer from the independence square there are places where the revolution by is known exists and up to what has been a turbulent and hard weekly crane people are letting off steam in different nightclubs and bars but then its light goes on despite the some part of the city is still on the revolutionary lockdown alexy recess the nazi reporting from kiev ukraine. now u.s. senator john mccain is heading to kiev to join the opposition protests along with

other u.s. lawmakers the senate introduced a resolution calling on washington to impose sanctions against ukraine a violence breaks out during the rallies don de bar is a producer for c.p.r. news in the u.s. and he says geopolitical ambitions are behind foreign involvement in ukraine's crisis. a member of the greek parliament goes there on the public treasury to stir up trouble with ukraine and to promote the e.u. stance simply well the e.u. was strangling greece these are some amazing images to me there's a geo political agenda that's being served by stirring up on the rest of the ukraine both an attempt to bring it into the orbit of western europe a century and also by the way to use you ukraine as another source of the looting that goes on if the plane were to look at what its real future would be in the u. it should look through the countries of the south greece portugal spain and ukraine will end up impoverished and exploited france is one of the policy makers in the

e.u. reemerging as a colonial power and ukraine they are attempting basically to treat as a lower tier of sect substract a group almost a colony inside the e.u. . online we've got a live timeline of events in kiev for you so have to our website r t v dot com for the very latest from the ukrainian capital. all kind of link travels have kidnapped one hundred twenty kurds in a syrian village close to the turkish border that's according to the syrian observatory for human rights the fire say all the captives including six women were taken to disclose location or rebels with links to the group often attack kurdish areas in the north of the country and they are seeking to take control of the area

and have forced thousands of locals to flee the region anselmo is a representative of the foreign affairs and relations office of a democratic union party in syria and he's calling on the international community to protect the kurdish minority. terror group. related. and after later. about the last one the islamic state we're trying to persuade that international community and the home rights organizations and omarosa defended that they have a duty to protect their civilian all these people have been killed or have been forced from their area from their home from their houses and this winter harsh condition. their duty to protect the people they are not forced people that are kurdish people living peacefully. now this incident is the latest in armed conflict between syrian kurds and extremists several firm reports put the number of those killed by al-qaeda linked groups and hundreds earlier this month fifty one kurdish

civilians were taken hostage including a women and two children the fans consulting on rove believes that with the rebels failing to gain ground in the area they've decided to try a different approach. these are extremely desperate measures being carried out by the rebels they want to sabotage the geneva two talks to be held on january the twenty second in twenty fourteen they're not gaining ground in terms of. of their operations against the assad government and they haven't been able to topple the assad government the report on the chemical weapons use has not potion blame they were hoping that the syrian government would be flames and therefore there would be more of an international pressure against assad to step down and this hasn't asked for the judeo christian politicians in europe are paying

lip service to the whole process they provided non-lethal aid and a is lethal in effect the whole international effort is futile in every sense of the word. and on the eve of the anniversary of sandy hook elementary school massacre the u.s. is hit once again by a similar tragedy. a student has shot two classmates while hunting down a teacher coming up we'll report on why america is such fertile ground for con violence. ireland has met an important milestone on the road to financial recovery as the first country to break free from a eurozone bailout program after three years of receiving loans from international bankers the country has decided it can't stand on its own two feet or just has her

psyllium reports. arlene will would itself be quote shackles of the troika on sunday and will wake up on monday as a quote. standing on equal footing a confident claim by prime minister kinney ahead of the country's official exit from its bailout program for eighty five billion euros it cost the irish three years of painful austerity higher taxes slashed minimum wage which has since been raced back high youth unemployment and another wave of irish immigration i'm not sure that the hard ideological divide of austerity which was coming forth from europe was a good one to irish people would be to nice to see the end of the troika to see the opportunity for a street gang or economic sovereignty to be able to make our own decisions in relation to our future the government here is touting the exit from the bailout program as restoring economic and financial freedom but no one here is under any illusion that that exit would also mean an end to hardships or complete release

from austerity now while the idea of possibly having more control over their destiny as a nation is psychologically uplifting people really want is freedom from individual debt that so many here are still heavily burdened with. facing and long term slowdown in our structural growth we still are facing. in other words when you look at the overall economic level of achievement in this bailout it's not really that significant yet at the same time that we should go to the nation to the government to the nation was. calling. in dublin city center sights and sounds of the festive season are present but it rings hollow to lose a feel. kicked to the curb no one would celebrate the banner. be happy were exiting from us will it have any impact on. the budget for this year or

next year you know will have to reread the mortgage arrears figures take a dramatic change next quarter you know just to see that fourteen double. and a recent poll suggests that half of our population believe the government did a good job while driving country out of the bailout in the meantime seventy three percent hope that a stereo measures will be eased we gauge public opinion on the streets of dublin. i suppose is a positive move but. said today we're still beholden to germany france the bigger economies in europe so. for the internet of a go to that would seem to make much difference to belgium to you know we've come to a bad time we've come out with something or say say ok you like sickness or you're like this i think it's good i think they have to stand on their own two feet if you take our yes i do. the irish government says the country's economy is recovering though it could take years to pay the loans back the spinal down political analysts

derek in that bank says ireland success sends a positive message to other bailed out countries. finally i hadn't achieved to get out of the hole get back to economic growth and leave the bail out so it's a welcome on the financial markets that's quite an achievement because it showed that through fiscal consolidation it is possible to recover and i think that's a very good example for griese full portugal for cyprus and others the issue basically is how much time do we have when all the economies of greece italy spain portugal sign those growing again if it is going to be one or two years like in ireland it will be very good but if it's going to be ten years it's going to be very low and i'm afraid that many citizens in those countries will look accept this to take you know to this euro zone is going to be a stake nations for ten years to come i think this will have very serious political

consequences now decades after the out of apartheid in south africa there are still plenty of unresolved anger. it's definitely unsafe because if you seen a white person run. as a nation mourns the death of nelson mandela racial tensions are still strong in some places across the country we go to one such area later in the program. what's 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 and twenty three days. through two thousand nine hundred two cities of russia. relate fourteen thousand people or sixty five thousand killing. in a record setting trip by land air sea and others face. a limb fake george really. m r t v dot com. welcome back you're watching r.t. international live from moscow to hit a rock bottom modern day cave dwellers are facing eviction from

a picturesque spanish settlement the protesters in the city ah grenada are dug in and determined to stay after receiving orders to quit their subterranean homes they claim there may be more behind the eviction that meets the eye are losing often if has a details. it's views like this one breathtaking isn't it that's made not of famous for drawing visitors in but it's the city's plans to force out a group of residents from this very hill that's drawing controversy now it's a bit of an unusual kind of story we're in the foothills of the sierra nevada mountains an area that's pockmarked with countless caves caves which people have called home for years now the residents are a colorful mix of characters we have spaniards immigrants students people who don't have a place to call phone as well as people who prefer the home to reflect a bit of an unusual kind of lifestyle and while several days ago we had seen

a protest of about two hundred and fifty supporters coming out here saying that's simply not ok meanwhile activists believe that it's not actually about the dangers of living here but perhaps there's a profit motivation behind getting the residents out of course the views here as we mentioned earlier are spectacular and there's been some discussion of potentially building a luxury resort hotel something on this property this mountain they say could lapse and actually hurt the people who reside in the area but the residents here have a very different take i mean we are resisting with all the legal means we have like the authorities whose actions have been. lawful throughout the entire process there hasn't been a single case since they declared we were living in ruins three years ago this only suggests that they've been lying and simply looking for a reason to throw us out whatever the case the authorities say they're certain they want to evict residents from at least eight of the caves the residents of course

say they're not going to budge and we here at our t. will be covering the developments over the next few days to do stay with us for that coverage reporting from granada spain for r t m lucy of. the air and online here is a glimpse at what is lined up for you on r.t.e. dot com america's national security agency says. it's ready to forgive the deeds of whistleblower edward snowden which revealed the real extent of the agency's mass spying program but only if you stop spilling the beans might have more power to dot com. also online breakthrough leave scientists pondering if our universe is nothing more than just a reflection of another cosmos so everything is seat and cooling the screen you're now watching his chest and the mirror image get a whole three d. review of the earth discovery on our website r.t. dot com. right to see.

the first one. and i think the trick. on our reporters with. the. eighteen year old karl pierson has been identified as the shooter who opened fire at a high school in the u.s. state of colorado one being two people one of them critically even turn a weapon on himself his body was found in a classroom armed with a shotgun he entered a school looking for a teacher students were evacuated from a robinho high school in the town of centennial near down for the incident comes just a day before the anniversary of the massacre at sandy hook elementary school in connecticut were twenty children and six workers lost their lives are just spoke to dr jill stein former u.s. presidential candidate for the green party and she told us what could be behind the

rise of gun violence in america. we have about one hundred times the rate of gun homicides and violent gun crimes relative to many countries of western europe and we should not be in the business of normalizing violence it's clear there is a relationship between gun violence and economic violence and poverty and racial disparities and economic disparities and all that and the more we become an unjust society. the more we are at risk for continuing gun violence and potentially growing gun violence. i'll take a look at some other stories from around the world and iraq officials say gunmen have killed eighteen oil and gas workers and wounded seven northeast of baghdad most of the dead are reportedly iranian and the attack happened as they were digging a trench to extend a pipeline running between iran and iraq sources say the incident took place in

a predominantly sunni area. and roads have turned into reverse as heavy rain causes chaos across brazil thousands of people have been forced to flee their homes many had to be rescued from stranded cars and vehicles which were overwhelmed ma has flooded cities holding transportation and damaging hundreds of buildings at least four people have been killed since the extreme weather started to batter in brazil. and in northern mali a car bomb is killed at least two peacekeepers but this as the french army stages a large scale operation against islamist fighters there are reports that twenty two hottest have already been killed near the city of timbuktu mali is battling to restore stability in the nation after al qaida linked radicals seized control of the northern region meanwhile over sixteen hundred french troops have been deployed to the central african republic to curb rising sectarian violence there.

several hundred teachers in mexico city have marched on the interior ministry building what started as a peaceful rally turned ugly when high ranking officials refused to follow protesters unmanned the mob smashed through barricades and with torches after a face off with police the teachers vow to carry on their protests against a conversational education reform criticizing it for leaning towards the american system of private eyes to education. south africa's government officials are paying their last respects to nelson mandela before his burial on sunday but as a country mourns many fear is death may reveal serious tensions in a still divided state are reports from a suburb of donna's birth where life is far from what mandela envisioned for his country. it's definitely unsafe because they have you seen

a white person around. this core. is taking us on a drive through the streets of his childhood this was a wealthy white neighborhood during the time of a party eight. is now a very different place i wouldn't carry a camera gary anything. of value i wouldn't wear a watch i wouldn't read anything that could make me vulnerable to be attacked they'll be robbed a handful of white south africans still live here most are too old or too poor to move out move and stephen is one of the few who still called hillbrow home it's a pretty they're pretty busy. because i think with the korean government things. this is going to. be. twenty three years after the end of apartheid south africa remains plagued with unresolved racial tension. while people they still have the opportunity.

vaguely familiar maybe to distance themselves to the blokes. over members well we couldn't be on the streets of hue after night at night some black south africans he admits are still angry and maybe they have but good words or something because they nor the door wide so with. their being their wives they hate girls and while it's they have the feeling that they have miley in the movie they do we don't have miley at times south africa seems very far from the country mandela hoped it would be instead of becoming a melting pot of different cultures and colors suburbs like hillbrow are today places where whites are too afraid to go and where the black population remembers very well they once were. the post the present and the future

balanced precariously side by side as the nation mourns its most famous son and wonders what comes next. johannesburg. and more easily get in your way and about half an hour sign but before that you're watching nine hundred national preparing to meet the inhabitants of some an asian islands whose face to face talks and dangers are amassed nature's beauty and if you are in the u.k. it's time to go underground with icy returns and. just imagine a foreign leaders like alexander lukashenko or vladimir putin just showed up at

anti e.u. protests and all garia greece are hungry to urge people to leave the e.u. and join up with the eurasian customs union obviously the big stream media would be on fire screaming that this is part of an attempt to usurp democracy and steal the country's away some sort of imperialist agenda and you know what they might be right about that but the weird thing is that for some reason the mainstream media isn't talking about foreign politicians speaking to and or possibly agitating protesters in ukraine like speaker of the lithuanian parliament loreto grows in india an e.u. vice president just sick proto c. of h. and former polish pm jaroslav kaczynski yeah the european union brassfield is just fine for their politicians to go to foreign countries and fire up protestors to start a pro e.u. revolution but then all their journalist write about is how russia is trying to put pressure on ukraine to not join the e.u. the obvious hypocrisy of this stinks all the way up the moscow but the shust by painting.

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

in the middle of the sky should move above more money she magnificent said some of your predecessors minister. visualize again the one hundred thirty one underground explosions and underwater blasts one hundred twenty three of which were and more or less atolls minister my dear colleagues if i offered you this stone would you feel safe placing it under the pillow of your loved ones every night or wouldn't you at least like to have a choice know that there are none of the parents and none of their children had a choice. after the first nuclear tests in nine hundred sixty in the midst of the algerian uprising france needed to find new frontiers as empty and as barren as the algerian desert.