what they've done is thieves. and trademarks. amid mass day and night anti-government protests in ukraine thousands gather in general key of to support the president was a two rallies just several hundred meters apart plus. can literally chew on that you don't that's with the european union flag are now available for sale but take a look at how ukraine's business is trying to capitalize on the ongoing public unrest. as the most travels in syria target the kurdish minority yet again as one hundred twenty civilians are reportedly taken hostage near the turkish border. and by by bailout shackles stories isn't and hard work how silent to shake loose of the e.u.'s financial diktats but there are still a way to go to get the country's debt in check.

this interview a national coming to you live from moscow i'm marina. political battle lines have torn ukraine's capital into wild thousand strong crowds keep up their anti-government protests activists are also gathering to support president viktor again a cottage artie's postcard walked along the front lines of both rallies. you can see the close proximity between the two opposing rallies right behind me is independence square which has been the halls of the opposition movement for the last number of weeks now you can see the barricades that have been built by the protesters and reinforced in the last couple of days but if we time around to the left hand side now this is european square and this is the scene of a rally in support of the president where 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 were hearing 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 in described 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 car 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. the last few weeks of chaos have been hugely disruptive for businesses in central kiev but some have been seizing the opportunity to cash in on the revolutionary mood has a story. 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 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 yellow coverage 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 if 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 seeing among the locals some of them have been enraged by particular aspects of this unrest as someone who was born and raised in kiev how do you feel about these protests protests are good i'm tired of going to quote each two 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 vibe is non existent 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 party reporting from kiev ukraine.

following in the footsteps of several european politicians u.s. senator john mccain is heading to kiev to show solidarity with the opposition protest the u.s. senate has panned the resolution calling on washington to impose sanctions against ukraine if police get tough on their rallies but don de bar a producer for c.p.r. news told us that support from the west has nothing to do with democracy. a member of the greek parliament goes there on the public treasury to stir up trouble with ukraine and to promote the e.u. that 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 under arrest in ukraine both an attempt to bring it into the orbit of western europe essentially and also by the way to use new crane as another source of the the looting that goes on if

the ukraine were to look at what its real future would be in the e.u. it should look to the countries of the south greece portugal spain 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 sect substract a group almost a colony inside the. online we've got a live timeline of events in kenya for you so how to our website r t dot com for the very latest from the ukrainian capital. in syria al qaida link travels have reportedly abducted one hundred twenty kurds from a village close to the turkish border the news was reported by the u.k. based observatory of human rights to send all the captives were taken to an unknown

location on samar a representative of the kurdish democratic union party in serious calling on the international community to protect his people. group. relate to. you about them not on the islamic state we're trying to persuade that international community. organizations to defend that they have a duty to protect their civilian all these people have been killed or have been from their area from their hole from their houses and this winter harsh condition of their duty to protect the people there are. people that are kurdish people living peacefully and the kurds are syria's largest ethnic minority and their armed standoff with islamist rebel factions recently been intensifying unconfirmed reports point two hundred killed or kidnapped earlier this month fifty one kurdish

civilians were said to have been taken hostage the fans consultant morning rove believes that was that the rebels failing to gain ground in the area they're resorting to drastic alternatives. well 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 a potion blame they were hoping that the syrian government would be blamed and therefore there would be more of an international pressure against assad to step down and this hasn't happened the judeo christian politicians in europe are paying

lip service to the whole process they are providing non-lethal aid and the a is lethal in effect the whole international effort is futile in every sense of the word well there's been more high school horror in the united states stay with r.t. as we report since this occasion to uncover why an eighteen year old of hope and fire on his classmates ahead of the first anniversary of one of america's worst massacres. three years after going cap in hand to international bankers ireland says it's now ready to stand on its own two feet the country's managed to meet all the major targets under the multi-billion dollar e.u. bailout program while avoiding serious public unrest to her silly reports from dublin. arlene will would itself be 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 line of austerity which was coming forth from 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 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 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 so heavily burdened with. facing in terms of 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 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 they've simply been kicked to the curb no one would celebrate the banner. be happy were exiting from us will it have any impact or a. the budgets for this year are next year no willing to read the mortgage arrears figures take a dramatic change next quarter no tissue says the fourteen double. that

a recent poll shows that over a half of the island's populations in the government did a good job in leading the country out of the bailout even so nearly three quarters hope that means the stary measures will be eased when gauged some more opinion on the streets of dublin. i suppose the positive move. said today was the gold to germany france the bigger economies in europe so. that the internet of a go to that would seem to make much difference said belding to you know we've come to a bad time we've come out to somebody or say it's a guy who likes a certain year like this i think it's good i think they have to stand on their own two feet i think they can yes i do. have a style over yet though the bailout exit relief was somewhat tempered with warnings from irish ministers that a sturdy needs to continue to drive down the nation's debt political analyst there can i think says the way e.u. deals with its economic crises can't be described as affective. what we actually

like to see is more transparency and now it is we who are in the situation in which basically the troika. acts like a government. and visits its colonies tells them what to do the measures they come out with are not not always very effective they also cause a stereotype and also the reduction of the economy at the moment the troika is free to do what it wants and that is not right in a democracy the issue basically is how much time do we have when all the economies of greece italy spain portugal cyprus growing again now i don't know how long it will take if it is going to be one or two years like in ireland it will be very good but if it going to be ten years it's going to be very long and i'm afraid that many citizens in those countries will not accept that this particular note is this . is going to be a stake nations for ten years to come i think this will have very serious political

consequences. and living in a cave in the twenty first century might not be to everyone's taste but several families in southern spain are refusing to cave in to demands that they move into regular homes shortly and we'll tell you why the authorities have a problem with a rocky residence. plus as iceland jails some of its big bankers for fraud activists in america say it's time their financial scammers face the same fate that had here r.t. . depravity as shocked australia and removed valley police discovered a family that has been interbreeding for four generations brother sister father daughter niece resulting in a gruesome outcome for all. all the police refer to as an incest

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welcome back you're watching our theatre national hitting rock bottom modern day cave dwellers in spain are facing eviction from their picturesque soem and despite years of pressure from the government and orders to leave the families are digging and and determined to stay saying there's more behind each action that meets the eye there's a couple of fixed points. it's views like this one breathtaking isn't it that's made good 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 we know activists believe that it's not actually about the dangers of living here but perhaps there's 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 on lawful throughout the entire process there hasn't been a single collapse in 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 a victim residents from at least eight of the caves the residents of course say

they're not going to budge are 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 catherine. and on our website right now and offbeat approach to heating in siberia burning three tons of seeds was enough to keep locals warm for an entire day find out. county authorities took full advantage of their huge haul online. and also we explain why and a number of u.s. retailers are planning to place cameras in there americans during the holiday shopping peak. right on the scene. were struck. and i think the jury. on our reporters. and.

the. police are investigating what drove eighteen year old karl pierson to open fire in a school in colorado critically injuring one girl armed with a shotgun and a high school senior entered the building a looking for teacher and turned the weapon on himself after firing a series of shots the tragedy came just a day before the anniversary of sandy hook elementary school massacre in connecticut which killed twenty young children and six adults jill stein is a former us presidential candidate for the green party shared with our team what she believes is fueling a nationwide rise in gun violence. 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's 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. well it's been a year or since the end of apartheid in south africa but there's still plenty of on result anger. if not to the right because if you see you know what this. as a nation mourns nelson mandela racial tensions are deeper than ever in some quarters of a nation we had to one such area in just a few minutes. well there is a fresh wave of calls in western countries for the architects of the two thousand and eight financial meltdown to be brought to justice had they were turned when iceland convicted for former bank chiefs of fraud the man illegally helped

a foreign investor buy into their firm just before it collapsed in two thousand and eight in the pan a news editor charlie mcgraw says it's high time for similar lawsuits in america. we take these so-called private corporations right these are free market capitalist corporations of which they are not we are to control the economy here we take these corporations you put them on a pedestal and when they fail we spread their debt to the people of this country that's something far worse than socialism it's the worst form of fascism so to pretend that government has no place in overseeing these institutions is to sit back and say go ahead bankers go ahead and take over the future the financial future of this nation and lead us into financial ruin and that's exactly what has that what happened inside of iceland is the government the people demanded of the government in two thousand and nine they marched on parliament and said we're not going to take the project of failure these big slowing down the cordoned off these institutions the poor state banks and they looked at the problem head on and they

helped the people rather than the banking institutions. now take a look at some other stories from around the world iran claims it's holding a british spy and has put him on trial rein officials say the captured m i six agent has admitted to being in contact with other u.k. operatives inside the country the british foreign office has refused to comment on the allegations and this comes despite efforts to revive diplomatic relations between the two countries after the u.k. shut down its embassy in tehran back in two thousand and eleven. president is accusing the u.s. of pressuring him to concede on the terms of a key security deal washington is allegedly dictating its own terms for keeping troops in the country after the planned nato was drawn next year once u.s. forces to stop raiding civilian homes and help in forging peace with the taliban if the bilateral pact is signed it will give american soldiers immunity from afghan law. hundreds of teachers in mexico city have faced off

with police outside the interior ministry building demonstrations were sparked by controversial education reforms which are being criticized for leaning towards the american system which started as a peaceful rally turned ugly after high ranking officials defied the protesters a mob smashed through barricades and lit torches in response. members of south africa's government are aplenty are paying their last respects to nelson mandela before sunday's funeral but as the country mourns is death appears to be revealing some sour spots some sore spots we should say in the still divided state policy reports from johannesburg suburb we're a wife is far from what mandela envisioned for his country. it's definitely unsafe because we 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 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 called hillbrow home after picking everybody busy. because i think with the current government things all this this is going to. mean. twenty three years after the end of apartheid south africa remains plagued with unresolved racial tension some people they still have the opportunity. vaguely. distanced themselves to blokes. there were members well when he

couldn't be on the streets of hugh brown 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 their wives they hate girls. wired's they have the feeling that they have miley in a movie they do don't know of 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 and twelve. the ponced the present and the future balance precariously side by side as the nation mourns its most famous son and wonder what comes next port of johannesburg. and i'll be back with the news in just

over half an hour's time and meantime it's max keiser taking on a financial fraud and if you are watching from the u.k. it's time to orbit the earth was george galloway. 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 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 and e.u. vice president got sick proto c. of h. and former polish pm jaroslav kaczynski he had 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 journalists 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 that's just my opinion. steady stream of snowden related weeks no longer surprises but the all encompassing scope of spying still does he even online gamers have not been spared all the while the powers that be are hesitant to rein in the n.s.a. they appear only want to make legal what is no illegal is it time for an international bill of digital rights.

welcome to the kaiser report imax kaiser a case of incest and depravity has shocked australia in a remote valley police discovered a family that has been interbreeding for four generations brother sister father daughter own niece resulting in a gruesome outcome for all involved in what the police refer to as an incest cult i know what you're thinking you're thinking that sounds a whole lot like wall street sons and daughters program where sons and daughters of the fathers and mothers aunts and uncles ruling the world are hard to see in the banking system with a generation of genetically identical dysmorphic debt products and it churn out collateralized cross-eyed did obligations commingled what they're really hypothecated twins and john cores on step pool and bogus mortgage backed securities

backed by contracts on which all of the t.'s are crossed but the misaligned i's are dotted with bulging growths of gruesome fraud yes four generations of incest in the privacy and the credit markets ought to shock the world with the gruesomely deformed economy it has spawned i bet this economy can squeal like a pig well. stacey ferber what makes looks like we got this south here instead of a bore in this first headline j.p. morgan chase the foreign corrupt practices act and the corruption of america the justice department has just obtained documents showing that j.p. morgan chase wall street's biggest bank has been hiring the children of china's ruling elite in order to secure existing a potential business opportunities from chinese government run companies according to internal e-mails released as part of this investigation one e-mail said quote.