detroit spanish find out more visit. counter-rally in kiev has more than sixty thousand gather in the city center to support of the country's government and you're looking at live pictures out of ukraine. plus you can literally chew on the e.u. donuts with the european union flag are now available for sale we take a look at how ukraine's business is trying to capitalize on the ongoing public unrest. is the most rebels in syria target the kurdish minority yet again as one hundred twenty civilians are reportedly taken hostage near the turkish border. and five by bailout shackles stoicism and hard work alba ireland to shake loose of the e.u.'s financial diktats but there is still a way to go to get the country's debt in check.

it is six pm in moscow you watching r t international with me joshie welcome to the program political battle lines have torn ukraine's capital into while sawzall strong crowds keep the are anti-government protests activists have also gathered to support president viktor in a car which. reports from the heart of the standoff. 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 pan 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 off 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. full here we are in the halls of the pro-government rally in disclosure the our 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 demand of his resignation and an early election another moment we're still left with this standoff. president has dismissed deputy security and the defense secretary and they have of caves administration in the wake of the ongoing investigation into police conduct on of amber the thirtieth meanwhile the last few weeks of unrest have been hugely disruptive for businesses in central kiev but some have been seizing the opportunity to cash in. 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. thank you very 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 college to prison to localizing international brands. it's no wonder 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 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 talked 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 kiev how do you feel about these protests the protests are good i'm tired of going to quote each two because i think he has run his course but as a kid resident 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 train 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 rossetti reporting from kiev ukraine. and following in the footsteps of several european politicians u.s. senator john mccain is heading to kiev to show solidarity with the opposition protests the u.s. senate has panned the resolution calling on washington to impose sanctions against ukraine if bullies 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. sensibly 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 in ukraine both an attempt to bring it into the orbit of western europe a century and also by the way to use ukraine as another source of the the looting that goes on if ukraine were to look at what its real future would be in the 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 of sect substract a group almost a colony inside the. an ally and we've got a wife timeline of events in kiev for you so now to our our web site r t dot com for the very latest from ukraine capital.

and syria al qaeda linked rebels 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 for human rights a set all captives were taken to an unknown location 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 and to home our rights organizations and omar as a 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 is their duty to protect the people they are not forced people that are

kurdish people living peacefully. and occurrence are syria's largest ethnic minority and their armed standoff with islam mr abol factions has recently been and towns are fine 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 main road believes that with the rebels failing to gain ground in the area you're resorting to drastic turn attempts. these are extremely desperate measures being carried out by the rebels they 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. 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 apportion 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 a is lethal in effect the whole international effort is futile in every sense of the word. there's been a more high school horror in the united states stay with r.t. as we report soon on the investigation to uncover why an eighteen year old opened fire on his classmates ahead of the first anniversary of one of america's worst massacres. now 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 euro bailout program while avoiding serious public unrest tests are still 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 divide of austerity which was coming fork from europe was a good one the irish people would be too nice to see the end of the troika to see the opportunity for a street gang or economic sovereignty to be up 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 up lifting 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 two years of us there 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 certain credit which 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 for those who feel they've simply been

kicked to the curb. of the banner. be happy we're exiting from we'll have any impact or. the budget for this year or next year no willing to read the mortgage arrears figures take a dramatic change next quarter no closer so your team doubled. in a recent poll shows that over half of iowans population think the government did a good job in leading the country out of the bailout even so nearly three quarters hope that means a stair any measures will be eased would gauge some more opinion on the streets of dublin. this was the positive move which. said today was the gold to germany france the bigger economies in europe so. for the internet a bailout as we seem to make much difference is that by holding to you know we've come to a bad time we've come over to somebody or say and say ok he likes us or you're like us i think it's good i think they have to stand on their own two feet if you take

our yes said hugh. and it's not all over yet. that relief was somewhat tampered with warnings from irish ministers that a sturdy needs to continue to drive down the nation's debt political analysts can epping says the way e.u. deals with the konami crises can 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 governor. and visits its colonies and what to do the measures they come up 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 signed for us 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 there 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 this particular note if this eurozone is going to be stagnation zone 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 on fusing to cave in to demands that they move into regular homes shortly we'll tell you why the authorities have a problem with the rocky residences. las vegas iceland jail some of its big bankers for fraud activists in america saying it's time dear financial scammers face the same fate that's i had here on r t.

thinking somehow i had to come back because mom was waiting for me. i just knew that everything would be fine for some reason they 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. the militants decided to try and break through to her new guinea above screaming grenade. go forward base blow them blow them all run is back here 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. you're getting was a senior in his military trio. he knew that if he didn't smother that grenade with

his body or if his comrades would die he gave his own life to save us friends. welcome back you are watching our theatre national heading rabat a modern day cave dwellers in spain are facing eviction from their picturesque selman despite years of pressure from the government in order to leave the families are digging in and determined to stay saying there's more behind the election the jackson that meets the eye this it often of explains. it's views like this one breathtaking isn't it that's made granada 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 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 but out of 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. and on our website right now and offbeat approach to heating and siberia burning three tons of poppy seeds was enough to keep locals. warm for an entire day find out how the authorities took full advantage of the earth huge hole online. also explained why a number of u.s. retailers are planning to place cameras in their mannequins during the holiday

shopping peak. 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 at the high school senior and toured the building looking for a teacher and turned the weapon on himself after a fiery series of shots the tragedy came just a day before the anniversary of the sandy hook elementary school massacre in connecticut which killed twenty young children and six adults joel stein who is a former us presidential candidate for the green party shared with r.t. 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 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 it's been years since the end of apartheid in south africa but there's still plenty of unresolved anger. it's definitely in sight because if you see that what goes through the room. as a nation mourns nelson mandela racial tensions are deeper than average in some corners of the nation and we had to one such area in a few minutes. 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 has word turned to one iceland convicted four 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 independent 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 a big 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 happened what happened inside of iceland is the government the people demanded of the government in two thousand and nine the march on parliament and said we're not going to take the project of failure these big slowing down the cordoned off these institutions the state banks and they looked at the problem head on and they helped the people rather than the banking institution. that was taking a lot of stories from around the world and iran claims it's holding

a british spy and has put him on trial in rain officials say the captured and i six agent has admitted to being in contact with other newquay operatives inside the country the british foreign office has refused to comment on the allegations and this comes in spite of her story of five diplomatic relations between the two countries after the u.k. shut down its embassy in tehran back in two thousand and eleven. the afghan 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 withdrawal next year kabul once u.s. forces to stop raiding civilian homes and help and forging peace with the taliban if the bilateral path is signed and 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 moving 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 lets tortures in response. members of south africa's government are paying their last respects to nelson mandela before sunday's funeral but as a country mourns his death appears to be revealing some sore spots in the still divided state policy reports from johannesburg were life is far from what mandela envisioned for his country. it's definitely unsafe because they have you seen a white person in iran of. our service corps. 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 or wouldn't get a 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 call here brown home it's a pretty very pretty busy. familial is gone because i think with the current government things all this this is going to. go going to go down twenty three years after the end of apartheid south africa remains plagued with unresolved racial tension some people they still have the opportunity. mostly maybe to distance themselves to the blokes. their members well we couldn't be on the streets of hubris after nine that night some black south africans he admits are still angry and maybe they have built

a good jew or something because they nor door wides with killing or for those they bring their wives they hate girls and while it's the good of this thing 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 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 i am going to use in just over half an hour here our team attacks though tabby martin was breaking the sound.

just imagine of foreign leaders like alexander lukashenko or vladimir putin to shoot up an anti e.u. protest 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 florida grows in india and e.u. vice president got 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 to moscow but the shust by painting. so you're north you're confident that the irish people won't be asked to stop in the y.p.u. where the private banks are and any crisis that after hopkins by them to be fun you know economic again what always happens that regulates who sent. bankrolls politicians they say this will never ever happen again and it keeps on happening but we have to ensure is that if this does company can it doesn't hold such a classic list make i'm all for cost for tots.

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