to speak. to. ukraine's president proposes an amnesty for arrested for tass service and a moratorium on the use of force and demonstrations in a town to resolve differences with the opposition thousands of government supporters are now gathering in the capital and you're looking at the live pictures coming out of the ukrainian capital plus a bite you only you don't that's the european union flag are now available for sale . we take a look at how the ongoing demonstrations are affecting the daily life of people in kiev. one hundred twenty kurdish civilians are reportedly taken hostage by al qaeda linked syrian rebels near the turkish border where they ask minority caught in the crossfire once again. an island becoming

the first state to officially break free from the euro zone bailout program a milestone on its road to financial recovery. it is really at a mosque you're watching r t international with me marina joshie welcome to the program. ukraine's president has called for a stop to any forcible action by police an activist and also for the release of those detained during the protest this comes after talks with the opposition over the crisis that's gripping the country and while sounds are camped out in central kiev voicing their discontent with the government activists are also gathering to support president victory in a cottage for more on this we have artie's poll scott who is in kiev for us. well

you can get a sense of exactly how close the pro and anti-government supporters are the line of police separating the two camps just here to my right hand side now if we take you through to the main parts of european square where the main pro-government rally is taking place we will hear in reports over the course of the weekend that could be up to two hundred thousand pro government supporters descending on european square and i would go to try and show prescott to walk through this line of police at the moment to main in the main part of european square and as you can see the pro-government rally is in full swing. well here we are in the halls of the pro-government rally and to squash the presence of these pro-government supporters and the fact that they are just a hundred yards away from independence square things are actually quite calm at the moment tensions are quite high but things are all peaceful now on friday president on a code which had a roundtable discussion with members of the opposition here three on and on the

state for prisoners for protesters who were arrested throughout the course of these demonstrations but he refused the key demands of his resignation and an early election another moment we're still left with this standoff. and that was our reporting from the pro-government rally in kiev and our correspondent here she asked who's also in the ukrainian capital takes a closer look now at how the revolutionary mood is affecting everyday life in ukraine's capital. ukrainian 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 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 but their lunch. 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 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 as a protest 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 all 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 here that actually make it much harder for me to do my job and feed my family with the further we step away from the my down the more mood change we seeing 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 built these protests against protests. i'm tired of going to do that because i believe he is running his course but as a kid 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 vibe is going on exist and up to what has been a turbulent and hardly sleep rain people are letting off steam in different nightclubs and bars but then it's life goes on despite the some part of the city is

still on the revolutionary lockdown lets you assess the quality reporting from kiev ukraine. while u.s. senator john mccain is heading to kiev to join the opposition protests along with other u.s. lawmakers the senate's introduced a resolution calling on washington to impose sanctions against ukraine if islands 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 this being served by stirring up on the rest of the ukraine both an attempt to bring it into the orbit of the best in the sense that also by

the way you use your ukraine as another source of the the movie the cold so 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 substrata group almost a quality inside the. on line i'm gonna live timeline of events in kiev for you so how to our website or to com for the very latest from the ukrainian capital. i'll try to wing 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 fighters say all the captors including six women were taken to an undisclosed 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 force thousands of locals to flee the region sammo is a representative of the foreign affairs and relations office of the democratic union party in syria and he's calling on the international community to protect the kurdish minority. terror group. related. and i fellated to. you about that also on the islamic state we're trying to persuade that international community and the home. organizations defender that they have a duty to protect their civilian all these people who 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 forcing people that are

kurdish people living peacefully. and this incident is the latest in armed conflict between syrian kurds and extremists several of them from reports put a number of those killed by al-qaeda linked groups in the hundreds earlier this month fifty one kurdish civilians were taken hostage including eight women and two children the fans consoled mourn rove believes that with the rebels failing to gain ground in the area we'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 and 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. report on the chemical weapons use has not

a potion blames they were hoping that the syrian government would be flames and therefore there would be more if an international pressure against assad to step down that this hasn't asked them the judeo christian politicians in europe are paying lip service to the whole process they provide non-lethal aid and the a is lethal in effect the whole international effort is futile in every sense of the word. on the eve of the anniversary of the sandy hook elementary school massacre tragedy strikes once again in the u.s. is assumed wounds a classmate wow hunting down a teacher at a school down turn the gun on him self coming up we'll report why america's such fertile ground for gun violence. ireland has met an important milestone on the road to financial recovery it's the first country to break free from

a euro zone bailout program after three years of receiving loans from international bankers the country has decided it can't stand on its own two feet r.t. says arsole reports. arlin will with itself of the quote shackles of the troika on sunday and will wake up on monday as a quote normal european country standing on equal footing a confident claim by prime minister kenny 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 common for europe was a good one the irish people will be too nice to see the end of the troika to see the opportunity for a street gang or economic sovereignty to be a make or 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 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. long term slowdown and all 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 hoodoos you feel they've simply been kicked to the curb no one would

celebrate the banner. be happy were exiting from the banners yes will it have any impact on. just for this year or next year you know when the theory or the mortgage arrears figures take a dramatic change next quarter you know. a recent poll suggests that half of ireland's population believe the government did a good job while driving country out of the bailout the meantime seventy three percent hope that a sturdy measures will be eased we gauge public opinion on the streets of dublin. i suppose the positive move. said today was too bold to germany france the bigger economies in europe so. for the internet auto bailout has been seen to make much difference sued by holding to you know we've come to a bad time we've come out with something for sale sale who likes a certain period i think i think it's good i think they have to stand on their own two feet i think they can yes i do. the irish government has

a country's economy is recovering though it could take years to pay the loans back the spiral down political as dirk yon epping says ireland success send 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 shows that through fiscal consolidation it is possible to recover and i think that's a very good example for griese for portugal for cyprus and others the issue basically is how much time do we have when all the economies of greece italy spain portugal cyprus growing again if it is going to be one of two years like in ireland it will be very good but a video to be ten years is going to be very low and i'm afraid that many citizens

in those countries will not accept this take you know if this eurozone is going to be a stagnation zone for ten years to come i think this will have very serious political consequences and decades after the end of apartheid in south africa and there's still plenty of unresolved anger. it's definitely unsafe because if you seen a white person in iran. as a nation mourns the death of nelson mandela racial tensions are still strong in some places across the country and we go to one such area later in the program. i was thinking somehow i had to come back because mom was waiting for me. i just knew that everything would be fine for some reason we were so confident because we were going to get married officially after he came back how could he not come back

because the mere thought of it never crossed her mind. when the militants decided to try and break through to her new guinea screaming grenade. go where they explode and blow them all run his back war. and it was all over all. we know that our comrades on our commander won't leave us no matter how tough it gets we're team. your boy is getting was a senior in his military trio. he knew that if he didn't smother that grenade with his body more of his comrades would die he gave his own life to save his friends.

welcome back you're watching r t international with me arena josh hitting a rock bottom modern day cave dwellers are facing eviction from a picturesque spanish settlement and the protesters in the city of grenada are dug in and determined to stay after receiving orders to quit their subterranean homes they claim there may be more behind a vision that meets the eye and it has the details. it's views like this one breathtaking isn't it that's made not a 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 home as well as people who prefer their 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 collapse 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 unfair and unlawful throughout the entire process there hasn't been a single collapse of the 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 we here at r.t. we'll be covering the developments over the next few days to do stay with us for that coverage reporting from granada spain for r t i'm lucy. on air and online here is a glimpse at what is lined up for you on our website our 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 it stops spilling the beans find out more on r.t. dot com. also online a breakthrough leaves scientists pondering if our universe is nothing more than just a reflection of another cosmos so everything is seen glowing the screen you are now watching is just a mirror image to get the whole three d. review off their discovery on our website r.t. dot com. right from the street.

first street view and i think the true. on our reporters twitter. and instagram. are below. 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 critically wounding a fifteen year old girl who is now undergoing surgery and he is then under when he had been had a weapon on him self his body was found in a classroom armed with a shotgun he and her to school looking for a teacher students were evacuated from arapahoe high school in the town of centennial near down for and the incident comes just

a day before the anniversary of the massacre at sandy hook elementary school in connecticut where twenty children and six workers lost their lives are you spoke to dr jill stein a former u.s. presidential candidate for the green party 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. now take a look at some other stories from around the world in iraq officials say gunmen

have killed eighteen oil and gas workers and won it seven northeast of baghdad most of the data are reportedly uranium the attack happened as they were digging a trench to stand a pipeline running between iran and iraq sources say the incident took place in a predominantly sunni area. roads have turned into rivers as heavy rain causes chaos across brazil sauza of people have been forced to flee their homes manning out to be rescued from stranded cars and vehicles which were overwhelmed ma has flooded cities holding transportation and damaging hundreds of buildings and these four people have been killed since the extreme weather started to batter brazil. in northern mali a car bomb has killed at least two peacekeepers this as the french army stages a large scale operation against islamist fighters and there are reports the twenty two hardest have already been killed near the city often both to mali is battling to restore stability in the nation after al qaeda linked radical seize control of the northern region it while over sixteen hundred french troops have been deployed

to the central african republic to curb rising sectarian violence there. are several hundred teachers in mexico city have marched on the interior ministry building and what started as a peaceful rally turned on glee when high ranking officials refused to follow protesters demands a mob smashed through barricades and literatures after a face off with police the teachers vowed to carry on their protests against a controversial education reform criticizing it for leaning towards the american system of privatized education. for. now south africa's government officials are paying their last respects to nelson mandela before use burial on sunday and manny fear his death may reveal serious tensions and a still divided state are disposed the reports from a suburb of bourke were life as far from what went out in vision for his country.

it's definitely unsafe because if you seen a white person around. this core you can 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 wardle 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 of and stephen is one of the few who still call hillbrow home it's a pretty they're pretty busy. because i think with the current government things all this this is going to. go.

twenty three years after the end of apartheid south africa remains plagued with unresolved racial tension. and white people they still have the opportunity. distanced themselves to the blokes who remembers well we couldn't be on the streets of hue after night at night some black south africans he admits are still angry it may be they have but good words or something because they nor door wide so with. their being there why they hate girls and wired's they have the feeling that they have my own little movie they do 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 balance put can we see side by side as the nation mourns its most famous son and wonders what comes next. johannesburg. up next is breaking a sad to a hellish happy martin you're watching nine hundred international. as we all know the holidays are a great time for families to get together and sometimes on the l. call 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 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 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 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 with 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.

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little. little silly. little hey guys i'm abby martin and this is breaking the set november twenty second of the sear will mark the fiftieth anniversary of the assassination of u.s. president john f. kennedy it's an incident still surrounded by questions that many americans are trying to answer one filmmaker has made the best attempt to put the disparate pieces together for a time academy award winning director all over stone now he's commemorating the canby anniversary by re releasing has epic film j.f.k. in an ultimate director's cut the collector's edition also includes a segment from oliver stone's showtime series the untold history the united states a film adaptation of the joint book authored by stone and historian peter cousin that could take a lot. if the word go forth from this. i'm in place to

friend and foe alike. that the torch has been passed to a new generation of americans. but with his murder the torch was passed back to an old generation the generation of johnson nixon ford and reagan leaders who have systematically destroyed the promise of kind of these last year as they returned the country to war and repression joining me now to discuss j.f.k. and their five year long project oliver stone their cousin and excellent to have you both on thank you so much all or i want to start with you it's clear that your series sets j.f.k. apart from other presidents what makes you think he would have been different if you let. it was different in those three years he came into office after thirty years of national security state build up a monstrous build up we had we had three.