i made my day and night antigovernment protests in ukraine thousands gather in central kiev to support the president with the two rallies just a few hundred meters apart and they're the latest. reporting back to the screen. on the e.u. donuts with the european union flag are now available for sale we also take a look at how you craze businesses are trying to capitalize on the ongoing public unrest. and also to come this hour islamist rebels in syria target the kurdish minority yet again it's one hundred twenty civilians reportedly taken hostage near the turkish border. by shackles stoicism and hard work held silent to shake loose of the east financial diktats but there's still a way to go to get the country's debt.

hello again kevin owen here with you live this hour just after nine pm you're watching r.t. international from moscow and our top story political battle lines have told ukraine's capital into one thousand strong crowds keep up their anti-government protests activists of also gather to support their president the scenes there and then as you can see 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 heart 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 now we've got to try and show our press corps 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 disquietingly 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 the moment tensions are quite high but things are peaceful now on friday president. had

a roundtable discussion with members of the opposition here three on an amnesty 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. there will present a cohesive dismissed the deputies security defense secretary meantime and also the mayor of key have in the wake of the ongoing investigation into police conduct on the very the thirtieth but the past few weeks of unrest have been bad news for everyone with some businesses in central kiev capitalizing on the chaos elixirs eskies got their 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 they protest affects the life of his restaurant. but as to 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 euro 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're seeing among the locals some of them have been enraged by particular aspects of this unrest as someone who was born and raised in korea how do you feel that these protests protests are good i'm tired of your new coverage too because i think he is running 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 non-existent

after what has been a turbulent and hard weekly crane people are letting off steam in different nightclubs and bars and a band that's light goes on despite the some part of the city is still on the revolutionary lockout let's assess the party reporting from kiev in ukraine. but professor brought out rescued from the national institute of eastern studies in france he told me the unrest in ukraine has been misrepresented by the western media to majority of ukrainian people is not a man who face is not a man your face station if you look in old style all ukrainian cities they are very quite it's only in kiev so it's a very little part of the ukrainian society which is many. many stations and there is no proof that the majority of ukrainian people is on the side of the so-called pro european manifestation and apparently even it's the contrary if you look at the

polls of opinion so it's just a question of you know of many a creation in the west because objectively united states in western country how did you see it in middle east especially in syria and in a certain sense they wanted to change the balance of power the international balance and of power and ukraine is a good playground for them for the moment. in syria rebels have reportedly abducted under twenty kurds from a village close to the turkish border the news is reported by the u.k. based observatory for human rights who said all captives were taken to an unknown location and cmos a representative of the kurdish democratic union party in syria is calling on the international community to protect its people terror group. related.

and after later. about the nasser on this like state we're trying to persuade that international community and the whole my rights organizations and omar as a defender that they have a duty to protect the civilians all these people 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 this d.v.d. people they are not force people that are kurdish people living peacefully. the kurds are syria's largest ethnic minority and their armed standoff with this with his brother factions recently been intensifying unconfirmed reports point to hundreds killed or kidnapped earlier this month fifty one kurdish civilians are said to be taken hostage to defense consultant more and roof told us that he believes with the rebels friend to gain ground in the area the resultant is drastic and tentative. these are extremely just desperate measures being carried

out by the rebels are they they want to sabotage the geneva two talks that are due 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 they'll 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 any aid is lethal in effect the whole international effort is futile in every sense of the word. it's been years since the end of

apartheid in south africa but there's still plenty of unresolved anger. it's definitely unsafe because if you seen a white person close the nation mourns nelson mandela racial tensions a deeper than ever into some corners of the nation ahead we go to one such area just a few minutes in fact. the next three years of going capital and 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 e.u. bailout program while avoiding serious public unrest to test for a similar 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 light of austerity which was coming forth from europe was a good one the irish people will be devices to see the end of the troika to see the opportunity for a street gang or economic sovereignty to be have 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 a 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 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 known with celebration of the banner. be happy we're exiting from the banners yes will it have any impact. into the budget for this year or next year no we literally are the mortgage arrears figures take a dramatic change next quarter no two sources are t w. a recent poll shows that over half of all those population think the government did a good job in leading the country out of the bailout even so dearly three quarters hope that that means austerity measures will be ease we gauge some more opinion on

the streets of dublin. i suppose the positive move. said today we're still beholden to germany france the bigger economies in europe so. whether in or out of a bailout as we see the make much difference to the holding to you know we've come to a bad time we close with some for sale who likes us or if you like it i think it's good i think they have to stand on their own two feet if you take out yes it is. well it's not all over yet though the bailout exit relief are somewhat tempered with warnings from irish ministers that austerity does need to continue to drive down the nation's debt political analyst thinks the way the e.u. deals with the economic crisis can't be described as affective. what we actually like to see is more transparency and now it is we are in the situation in which basically the troika. acts like

a governor. and visits its colonies tells them what to do the measures they come out with are 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's 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 not if this is going to be stagnation zone for ten years to come i think this will have very serious political consequences. living in a cave in the twenty first century. but

the authorities are bombarding cave dwellers in spain with orders to move out surely we hear that from a man who claims the government has got hidden motives its attempt to deprive him of the dearest thing that he's. like down to. the ocean. years ago. these people are suffering the consequences. how much more poison. behind there is what we call the bank on which there is a deposit of plutonium by security test which caused this. despite previous

cleaning efforts there remains a deposit of a little less than two kilos of plutonium stuck in the rock the coral reef about ten metres down. a never ending legacy. modern day. facing eviction from their picturesque settlement despite years of pressure from the government out orders to leave the families have been digging in and they say they're determined to stay saying there's more behind the meets the eye. to one of these unconventional homes. although the tools used to dig out the

caves of san miguel have changed little over the centuries this home has been modernized and it's been a pain staking labor with one's hands this tunnel was dug out but it's been installed with modern comforts like white for instance now the resident that lives here has taken a lot of work to really try to make this into a home a comfortable for as you can see a hard floor so you can walk around a kitchen area in order to cook to entertain guests and most importantly he says these feeling reinforcements now this is critical because the city council says it's dangerous for the residents to live here whereas they say they've put in a lot of work a lot of labor in order to make sure these caves are safe for their residency for a moment specific. studies to build. a bridge in terms that for nothing you take some time to do it but it's about that the reason determination to do it. now

this is what the dealing looks like from the outside it's certainly not an easy kind of lifestyle there's no running water for instance that has to be carried in by hand from a fountain in a nearby church the residents who have built up these caves are very proud of their work but many simply have no other place to call home the case of son miguel has hosted people in need for centuries from gypsies religiously prosecuted minorities and and other so-called to save their homes they have been abandoned in one thousand six hundred because the flooding was an economic crisis getting worse recent years more and more of the managers have converted this is your community they can call home the city wants to addict them citing health and safety reasons but the people here say it's about money they believe the government is acting like a corporation for toryism that's it supposedly wants to build up this area into something less if people could use and enjoy it and that has being what i mean to

be the activity seems the sixty's. that's why the city council us working like a corporation it's like a class fight back up plan social exclusion you know people have always going to leave it there we fear yeah high places. now. reach people are willing to to to get them down the city council isn't likely to abandon its plans to evict the residents but for the people living in the caves of san miguel giving up is simply not an option reporting it we're not a space for our tea i'm lucy catherine of. checking a couple stories on our website to alert you to right now an offbeat approach to heating in siberia online from us they've burned three tons of poppy seeds party that was enough to keep locals one for an entire day find out the forty's took full advantage of the huge fall online from us and also explain why the number of u.s.

retailers applied to place cameras in their mannequins now during the holiday shopping peak kind of creepy that online r.t. dot com. members of south africa's government are paying their last respects to nelson mandela before sunday's funeral but as the country mourns his death appears to be revealing some sore spots in the still divided state fall asleep next then from johannesburg a suburb there were life is far from what mandela envisions for his country. it's definitely unsafe because they have you seen a white person around think. 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 a 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 move and stephen is one of the few who still call here brought home a broken every day visit no familia is gone because i think with the current government things the vis is going to. go going to go down twenty three years after the end of apartheid south africa remains plagued with unresolved racial tension. while people are they still have the opportunity. mostly maybe to distance themselves to the blokes c'mon over members well we couldn't be on the streets of hue brown after night at night some black south africans he admits are still angry it may be they have but

a good word or something because they know the door wired's with killing or for those there being that while they hate girls and while it's the thing 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 past the present and the future balanced precariously side by side as the nation mourns its most famous son and wonders what comes next policy r.t. johannesburg. and delivered from economic freedom fighters political party thinks it's not just whites the feel the pressure in south africa he also says the country needs to go much further in overturning the injustices of the apartheid era we must

first address the social questions and these questions largely i have to do with the exclusion of the black majority so there is no political instability south africa what we have is a missing crisis off social crisis for black people and this find expression in education in health care in quality in unemployment and the general state of hopelessness as we see these are the real issues let us change the economy transform it in the interest of the black majority and scores of people who would benefit if they want as a society based on a different mortality that is the only time we can and that the social message of social dislocation and happiness which is in our in our country our political system up to now is not been able to address these questions because they're willing party has avoided antagonizing white interest and white privileges at the expense of the black majority now twenty years later if we don't change things

drastically and they're fundamentally with the end of this off any grows in in society. world news a brief forty one years since the last u.s. astronauts set foot on the moon and other countries know him to conquer the lunar surface china's successfully landed a remotely controlled rover there aging says the vehicles mission is to search for natural resources but there's next steps to prepare for a manned mission which is planned for about twenty twenty five they say but it's not just humans exploring new frontiers now around the says it sent a monkey into space for the second time this year this is the lucky creature named fargo president hassan rouhani said the mission was a success and the private returned to earth in perfect health not everyone's happy their western powers are concerned that around space program could be a front for developing ballistic missile technology meantime around claims it's holding a british spy and this put him on trial officials say the captured m i six agent has admitted to being in contact with other u.k. operatives inside iran the british foreign office has refused to comment on the

allegations this comes despite efforts to try to revive diplomatic relations between the two countries after the u.k. shut down its embassy in tehran in twenty eleven. the afghan president's accusing the u.s. of pressuring him to concede on the terms of a key security deal washington's allegedly dictating its own terms for keeping troops in the country after the planned later withdrawal next year kabul wants u.s. forces to stop raiding civilian homes and help in forging peace with the taliban if the bilateral pact is signed it's going to give american soldiers of needed some from afghan law. police investigating what drove eighteen year old karl pierson to open fire in a school in colorado critically injuring one girl there are the shotgun the high school senior entered the building looking for a teacher apparently and then turned the weapon on himself after firing a series of shots that tragedy came just a day before the anniversary of the sandy hook elementary school massacre in connecticut where twenty young children died and six adults to joel stein who's

a former us presidential candidate for the green party shared with us what she believes. it is fueling the nationwide rising 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. thanks for watching out international tonight reveal to dinner around the world my name is kevin o. and here are th q. and moscow next news just over half an hour next though the story of two islands ravaged by nearly two hundred nuclear test explosions.

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 could 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 if the n.s.a. gave this list 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. so your know if you're confident that the irish people won't be asked to stop in the film why do you buy the private banks the only crisis that after hopkins for them to be fun not economically again what always happens that regulates central bank politicians they say this will never ever happen again and it keeps on happening. but what we have to ensure is that if this does happen again it doesn't cause such a classic case to make i'm all for costs for tots. cool

. i do every sunday morning most of the two hundred inhabitants of the village of gather in a small church. i am i was i packed. to go to a lack of interest in the seminary and it's just graphic isolation the parish hasn't had a priest for several years. i was. i . was what do you sometimes service has since been run by volunteers from the village i was never into with they pray for their souls but also for peace for the departed the family members and friends that have left them too soon i want to rear their own nose centenarians the average life expectancy was

in the sixty's was it people at work tomorrow or for years and no longer here to talk about what went on in many developed cancer especially cyanide cancer which is characteristic of radioactive contamination. thirty four people have been taken ill making therea one of the most contaminated atolls. this is far from the postcard perfect image there's very little economic activity. the. coconut trees and the culprit the dried kernel of the coconut shell which is one of the few ways to eke out a living here on the islands. one summer.