live from new central eleven amid mass day and night anti-government protests in ukraine thousands gather in central kiev to support the president with the two rallies just a few hundred meters apart we've got the latest for you this hour plus can literally chew on the donuts with the european union flag are now available for sale take a look at how ukraine's businesses try to capitalize on the ongoing public unrest. also ahead learning tonight islam is rebels in syria target the kurdish minority yet again as a hundred twenty civilians reportedly taken hostage near the turkish border bringing up date and. shackles stoicism and hard work helps to shake loose of the e.u.'s financial diktats but there's still a way to go to get the country's debt.

well over a good meeting chief just joining us is kevin irwin live here at r.t. h.q. in moscow just after eleven pm it is now our top story than political battle lines have torn ukraine's capital into these are the latest pictures from both sides while thousand strong crowds keep up their antigovernment protests there you can also see activists gathered a bit early to support president viktor yushchenko which is well that was a scene a bit earlier today scott next to the reports from the very heart of the standoff you can see the close. using 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 part of european square where the main pro-government rally is taking place we 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. here we are in the halls of the pro-government rally indescribably 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 peaceful now on friday president. had a roundtable discussion with members of the opposition here three. 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 other developments pressing on a coach has dismissed the deputy security defense secretary and also the mayor of kiev in the wake of the ongoing investigation into the police conduct on november 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 he's got the 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 coverage 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 seven 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 seeing among the locals some of them have been enraged by particular aspects of this unrest as someone who was born and raised in kenya how do you feel about these protests protests are good i'm tired of your new coverage too because i think he is running 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 after 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 let's assess the party reporting from kiev in ukraine. while following the footsteps of several european politicians to u.s. senator john mccain knows arrived in a cab to show solidarity with the opposition protests the u.s. senate and a resolution to call in a washington to impose sanctions against ukraine if police get tough in the future rallies that's what professor protests came from the national institute of eastern studies and friends told me the unrest in ukraine has been misrepresented to shulchan. membership of the average indian people is not that many face it is not a money if they station if you look in almost all ukrainian cities they are very quite it's only in kiev so it's a very little to do you say to. stick this man you through stations and there is no

truth to the majority to clean people it's only two cycles. and you can station and up aren't even the two countries you look at two poles 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 once do jones did balance of power the international balance and of power and ukraine is a good playground for them for your mom. in syria al-qaeda linked rebels have reportedly abducted a hundred twenty kurds from a village close to the turkish border the news is reported on friday by the u.k. based observatory for human rights who said all captives were taken to an unknown

location and those photos are dead well me occur nish a kurdish human rights activist explained why the kurds have been targeted by islamist rebels. they could know that civilians are from the village of north or nearly four and a bald sixty one north east all from the areas of jobless and holds on it's going to. first also supporters of secularism in syria who reject every religious sectarian program there as those of the armed groups or the opposition of the opposition or those of the regimes dummy's their islam its target kurds secular tendency which is directed toward establishing a multi religious and multi to speak directly to turn on the street in india traditional sitting through this and. it's pretty 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 in iran as south africa mourns nelson mandela racial tensions a deeper than ever in some corners of the nation and then we head to one the search

area in a couple of minutes. but next three years after going cap in hand to international bankers island says it's now ready to stand on its own two feet again 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 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 line of austerity which was common for a 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 uplifting people really want is freedom from individual debt that so many here are so 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 for those who feel they've simply been kicked to the curb. be happy we're exiting from we'll have any impact or a. the budget for this year or next year no we literally are the mortgage arrears figures take a dramatic change next quarter no tell us also your t w. well it's not all over yet though the bailout exit relief was somewhat tempered with warnings from irish ministers that the status he does need to continue for now to drive down the nation's debt political analyst thinks the way the eve deals with its economic crisis company scrubbers effect. what we actually would like to see is more transparency and now it is we are in the situation in which basically the troika

acts like acts like a governor. and visits its colonies tells them what to do or the measures they come out with are not they're 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 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 not if this is going to be stagnation zone for ten years to come i think this will have very serious political consequences coming up at r.t. living in a cave in the twenty first century might not be to everyone's taste but. for

a man in. the. house however the authorities are bombarding cave dwellers in spain with orders not to move out shortly here for a man who claims the government's hidden motives here in attempts to drive him from the dearest thing he's gone is how. jason depravity as 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. and 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 hired to see the banking system of the generation genetically identical to us war for dead products . we speak your language. news programs documentaries and spanish what matters to you. keep these stories. spanish. visit. a low again next hitting rock bottom open day cave dwellers in spain a facing eviction from the picture a settlement despite years of pressure from the government orders to leave the families though say they're digging in the need to stay saying there's more behind

the objection that meets the eye on the case she was welcomed into one of the unconventional. 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 he 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 dwelling 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 san miguel has hosted people in need for centuries from gypsies the religiously prosecuted minorities and and other so-called these caves are home they had been abandoned in one thousand six hundred because the flooding was an economic crisis getting worse in recent years more and more of the man years 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 another has been but i mean do you think activities in the sixty's. that's why the city council are you working like a corporation the slave. class fights back up the land social exclusion you know who people have always going to leave they receive 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 spain for our tea i'm lucy catherine of. on our website right now an offbeat approach to heating in siberia birding three tons of poppy seeds apparently was enough to keep the locals warm for an entire day the how and why well the authorities took full advantage of the huge haul online that story interests you

and read up more so online from us also explain why the number of u.s. retailers applied to place cameras in the manic kids during the holiday shopping peak r.-t. dot com. members a 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 paula slayer next reports from a johannesburg suburb where life far from what mandela envisioned for his country. it's definitely unsafe because they have you seen a white person around. this core. is taking us on a drive through the streets of his childhood this was a wealthy white neighborhood during the time of a party eight. is now a very different place i wouldn't carry a camera 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 here brown home it's a pretty they're pretty busy. because i think with the current government things all the vis is going to. go. south if it was. twenty three years after the end of apartheid south africa remains plagued with unresolved racial tension. while people they still have the opportunity. vaguely familiar to distance themselves to the blokes. there were members well we couldn't be on the streets of hubris after night at night some black south africans he admits are still angry and maybe they have but good words or something because

they nor the door wides with killing or they bring their wives they hate girls and wired's they have the feeling that they have my only louis how 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. the past. the present and the future balance precariously side by side as the nation mourns its most famous son and wonders what comes next policy r.t. johannesburg. and deliver germany from the economic freedom fighters political party thinks is not just words for the feeling the pressure in south africa either he 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 in south africa what we have is a missing a crisis of 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 added here issuance let us change the economy transform it in the interests of the black majority and scores where people will benefit if they want as a society based on a different what i mean 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 has not been able to address these questions because they're willing party has avoided antagonizing white interests and white privileges at the expense of the black majority now twenty years later if we don't change things drastically and that fundamentally with the end of this off any broken in society.

we'll be using brief now forty one years since the last u.s. astronauts for the moon and other countries able to conquer the loop china has successfully landed a remotely controlled rover the aging says the vehicles mission is to search for natural resources but china's next step is to repair for a manned mission which is planned for around twenty twenty five they say. but it's not just humans exploring new frontiers around also says it sent a monkey into space for the second time this year this is the lucky creature called fargo president hassan rouhani said the mission was a. excess of the profit returned to earth in perfect health but not everyone's happy western powers a conservative around space program could be a front for developing ballistic missile technology. violence has erupted in venice italy where scores of neo fascists carrying anti government posters have clashed with police this comes amid massive protests that have been gripping italy for six days and it was spearheaded by the so-called pitchfork movement started by farmers

in the south who played the government's putting the interests of the european union the head of the people. police arrested in what drove eighteen year old cole pierson to open fire in a school in colorado critically injuring one girl after a 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 the tragedy came just a day before the anniversary of the sandy hook elementary school massacre in connecticut which killed twenty young children six adults jill stein is a former us presidential candidate for the green party shared with us at r.t. what she believes is fueling this 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 trial and poverty

and racial disparities and economic disparities and all that and the more we become an unjust society are the more we are at risk for continuing gun violence and potentially growing gun violence. thanks for watching us now we're here to dinner around the world this is arts international the next needs of me in about thirty three minutes time next though after the break mike says see in my skies it was a bombing like going to work murky hiring practices on wall street.

just imagine a foreign leaders like alexander lukashenko or vladimir putin just showed up at anti e.u. protests and all garia greece are hungry to urge people to leave the e.u. and join up with the eurasian customs union obviously the big stream media would be on fire screaming that this is part of an attempt to use 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 vice president got sick put a sea of itch and former polish pm your arse love kozinski you have 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 to moscow but that's just by

painting. them to the kaiser report imax guys are a case of incest and depravity as shocked australia in a remote valley police discovered a family that has been interbreeding for four generations brother sister father daughter uncle 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 corazon is dead 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 providence and the credit markets ought to shock the world with the gruesomely deformed economy it has spawned i bet this economy can school like a big one. stacey herbert 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 you all know i have always been a big believer of the sons and daughters program says one j.p. morgan executive in an e-mail because quote it almost has a linear relationship to winning assignments to advice chinese companies. because j.p. morgan back in the news is always committing some kind of fraud or malfeasance or this is what happens when interest rates are low they kept artificially cheap. it's like if you have cancer and you're eating foods that help grow the cancer i forget

which would say an agenda of course. if you eat carcinogenic foods or a limb maybe next door to. radioactivity you might get some poisonous radioactivity and when you keep interest rates cheap as they do at the federal reserve bank or mark carney here in the bank of england you spawn cancer of cancerous incestuous ball because mel for middies like jamie diamond and j.p. morgan that are now eating up eating swallowing the economy as o'neill well not only is our global financial system banking system backed by seemingly maybe one or two units of debt and they keep on pasta caving in spending and turning and turning the same exact clients and debt but this same pool of so-called talent the same c.e.o.'s jump from one corporation to another to another bank to another you know.