it. was. competing that causes a simultaneous or pro and anti gun. craney and capitol after tens of thousands are arriving from across the nation to show their support for the president. on the square of the protest you can literally chew on the e.u. donuts with the european union flag are now available for sale. profiting from protests we look at how some are taking advantage of the divisions in ukraine to make a pretty penny. ireland a shakes free of the e.u. lenders becoming the first state in the block to exit its bailout program but the country's government warns that financial independence may not mean the end of austerity plus. i rather think that what's fair has taken

a lot of work to really try to make home comfortable for us hard for so if you can walk around a kitchen area in order to cook to entertain guests but these efforts are being overlooked by spanish authorities who insisted that cave dwellers must leave their homes r t reports from the city of granada where citizens are defending their right to stay put. broadcasting live from moscow this is our town john thomas glad to have you with us let's get right to our top story now you're seeing a rival rallies in the ukrainian capital demonstrators are on your left they have been camped out in for several weeks now the pro-government crowd has joined in as well tens of thousands of people have come from all over ukraine to show their

support for president. 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 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 disclosure 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 peaceful now on friday president. 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. got for us there now president yana coverage has suspended the deputy security and defense secretary and also the mayor of key of they are among the four officials being investigated for allegedly ordering the violent police response to the rallies on november thirtieth but while some are fighting ideological battles on the streets others are cashing in on the protest parties alexia shafiq explains. 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 but 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. the number of visitors has increased only slightly since these protests kicked off but now we've got a special offer menu which includes items such as tea and cake and will be open twenty four seventh's for as long as the year all my down protests continue but not all and 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 korea how do you feel that these protests protests are good i'm tired of going to

quote each tooth because i think he has run his course but as a keep 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 but then it's life goes on despite the some part of the city is still on the revolutionary lockdown let's see recess the party reporting from kiev in ukraine. well first it was the e.u. politicians and the assistant u.s. secretary of state mingling with the ukrainian protesters now american senator john mccain is doing the same but meanwhile u.s. lawmakers are considering sanctions against ukraine if police get rough on the pro

e.u. rallies again now professor bruno de where ski from the national institute of eastern studies in france says the unrest in kiev doesn't reflect what most ukrainians think. the majority of ukrainian people is not many face is not that many if they station if you look in all it's all ukrainian cities they are very quite it's only in kiev so it's a very little part of ukraine to sightsee which is my. menu for stations and there is no proof that the majority of who continue to cycle through so-called pro european and his station and up aren't even it's the country you do polls of opinion so it's just a question of you know of many are creation in the ways 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 that and for the moment well this is what's happening in kiev right now these are live pictures and you can see that the barricades and camps have been set up by the pro e.u. demonstrators for weeks but the crowds appear to have dwindled somewhat and you can keep up to date with all of the events in ukraine by visiting r t dot com. and syria now telling to rebels have reportedly abducted one hundred twenty kurds from a village close to the turkish border and the news was released on friday by the u.k. based service torrie for human rights it said that all the captives were taken to an unknown known location as i do want kurdish human rights activist explains the

reasons why kurds are being targeted by islamist rebels. they could not it's really from the village of north or ninety two and a bald sixty one ne from videos with jobless holds on it's are not people just supporters of secularism in syria who reject religious sectarian or. the armed groups or the opposition of the opposition. dummy's day islam it's time to clear is a secular tendency which is directed toward establishing a multi-religious a multipass leak. in india could additional ceding to this and. to ireland it has become the first state to exit its bailout program the nation which was hit hard by the two thousand and eight crisis has climbed out of recession and its economic environment has improved significantly but as are silly reports from dublin there are plenty of challenges ahead before the country experiences

a full recovery. arlene will would itself be quote shackles of the troika on sunday and will wake up on monday as a quote mumolo 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 career of was a good one to irish people would be to 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 now 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 and all structural growth we still face and. 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 to lose you feel. kicked to the curb. brace the banner. be happy we're exiting for us will have any impact or

a. the budget for this year or next year no willing to read the mortgage arrears figures take a dramatic change next quarter no. or. no ireland's finance minister has called of the bailout exit a milestone however he also admitted that the government may have to continue with cuts to help drive the country's debt down political analyst dirk pink says that financial independence from the e.u. lenders is still far away for many other crisis stricken states within the block. what we actually like to see is more transparency and it is the situation in which basically the troika. acts like a. and visits. and what to do the measures they come out with are not very effective. and. 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 first growing again now i don't know how long it will take. but have to be ten years it's going to be very long and afraid that many citizens in those countries will not accept this. is going to be stagnation. i think this will have very serious political consequences. on the eve of the anniversary of the sandy hook elementary school massacre tragedy once again in the united states. down a teacher at school before turning the gun on himself coming up. on what makes america. violence plus. it's definitely.

wrong. south africa. nelson mandela racial tensions are still strong in some places across the country. after the break. these people are suffering the consequences. how much more poison the ground. behind this there is what we call the bank on which there is a deposit of plutonium left by security test which caused the dispersion of clyde's despite previous cleaning efforts there remains a deposit of

a little less than two kilos of plutonium stuck in the rock the coral reef is about ten meters down. a never ending legacy. the welcome back you are watching r t now hitting rock bottom modern day cave dwellers in spain are facing eviction from their picturesque a settlement despite years of pressure from the government and orders to leave the families are digging in and are determined to stay they say there is more behind the objection than meets the eye. was welcomed into one of the unconventional homes

. all of 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 light 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 floor 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 ceiling reinforcements 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. the saudis to be. a burden for nothing except time to do it but it's

a book that the recent determination to do. now this is what the boiling 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 some to go have hosted people in need for centuries from gypsies religiously prosecuted minority is and others who are close to fav their home they have been banned six weeks because of flooding or with an economic crisis getting worse in recent years more and more 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 and they believe the government is acting like a corporation for tourists. it's to build up this area and just something wealthy of people could use and enjoy it another has been but i mean do you think activity

seen in the sixty's. that's why the city council you 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. autism could be seen as a reason for deportation from australia an immigrant family faces the possibility of being sent out of the country over their son's mental disorder even though the parents are ready to pay the extra costs for special schooling had all the dot com

for the full story. about breaking gingerbread village. display in new york city on the end of motion section of our website we've got footage of the world's largest community i plan to go visit that. now police are investigating what drove eighteen year old karl pierson to open fire in his school in colorado critically injuring one girl armed with a shotgun the high school senior entered the building looking for a teacher after firing a series of shots she then turned the weapon on he then turned the weapon on himself 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 jill stein is a former u.s. presidential candidate for the green party she told r.t. what she believes is fueling the 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 trial 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. a protest mood is once again sweeping across europe as people angry with their government's policies have taken to the streets in a number of cities and madrid crowds have surrounded congress outraged by an earlier draft would read legislation which allows authorities to hit those protesting outside government buildings with heavy fines and spaniards are not the only

europeans angry with their government's policies in italy nationwide anti austerity protests have descended into violence and demonstrators enraged with tax hikes and biting cuts to a handful of sectors have clashed with police on the streets of that tour in rome and venice spearheaded the first by farmers and truck drivers the movement was later joined by students and small business owners earlier today spoke to european asset manager erich krauss who says that the public's a discontent is driven by the ill management of the country. the protests are very global there they have not clearly articulated any goals and you know why a mixture of left and right. everything from small engine preserves to star mergers laborers the unemployed students so it's polymorphous but the

country's basic needs very tired of the current way of speaking governed and the problems with europe the neo sashes may be made outside of percent of the four county bills but you probably have more or less we have use the needle session seniors for their meeting rowdy point just to discuss and they want all of the politicians to go home. and for there to be a new government but of course in new lection would not for themselves and we need to see from the people the form of deceased. bulgaria has also witnessed some unrest four people have been arrested at an anti-government march demanding the parliament to step. down protesters carried torches as they marched towards the government buildings marking six months since the start of their campaign demonstrators reportedly fired tear gas at police and threw torches at them protests in sofia started in june after a member of the turkish minority party was appointed as head of the national

security service let's take a look at some other international news making headlines around the world this hour a suspected grenade attack on a bus has left at least four people dead in kenya's capital nairobi more than thirty people have been reported injured it is the latest in a string of assaults that have killed thirteen people since the beginning of the week kenya has experienced an increase in violence over the last several years with much of it blamed on that somalian rebel groups. more than five thousand people have been evacuated from flood damaged homes in northern gaza at least one person was killed and over one hundred people suffered injuries due to the severe weather in some areas the water level was reported to have reached two meters high making some homes excessive only by rowboats the flooding was triggered by several days of torrential rains. iran claims it is holding a british spy and has put him on trial officials say they 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 revive diplomatic relations between the two countries after the u.k. shut down its embassy in tehran in two thousand and eleven. 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 policy reports from johannesburg suburb where life is far from what mandela envisioned 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 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 very pretty busy. because i think with the current government things all this visit is going to. mean. twenty three years after the end of apartheid south africa remains plagued with unresolved racial tension. and white people they still have the opportunity. vaguely familiar maybe to distance themselves to the blokes. 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 nor the door wide so with. their being their wives they hate girls and while it's the thing that they have my own in a 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 mourners and thirty minutes time stay with r.t. .

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 mainstream media would be on fire scream 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 put to sea of each 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 to moscow but that's just my opinion. every sunday morning most of the two hundred inhabitants of the village of psychomotor gather in a small church. to boast to a lack of interest in the seminary and its chicka chicka isolation. of the priest for several years.

but sometimes service has since been run by volunteers from the village reverend to move they pray for their selves but also for peace for the departed the family members and friends that have left them too soon. and to rear their own centenarians the average life expectancy was in the sixty's. people at work tomorrow or for years and no longer here to talk about what went on and many developed cancer especially thyroid 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. coconut trees and the copra of the dried kernel of the coconut shell which is one of the few ways to eke out a living here on the islands. once

a month a boat makes a stop here to collect the culprit. there is no port into rare just a simple landing where basic provisions such as petrol and spare parts can be delivered. at the edge of the village in an old atomic bomb shelter where the population have to take refuge during each atmospheric test the vegetation disappears little by little while the rust slowly a raise is history. since january nine hundred ninety six when the last of the test was carried out to rio has slowly been forgotten almost to the point of indifference and then the french commission on atomic energy published a report after which the works are.