competing causes simultaneous pro and anti-government protests in the ukrainian capital after tens of thousands arrive from across the nation to show their support for president got a call that. underneath the square of the protest you can literally chew on the donuts with the european union flag are now available for sale profiting from protests we look at how some people are taking advantage of the divisions in ukraine to make a pretty penny. the night turns bloody in madrid twenty three people have reportedly been injured as police clashed with protesters demanding an end to the draft legislation that would see them pay hefty fines for demonstrating that's as austerity is sending spaniards to literally live in caves or whether to. a lot of

work to try to make a home. but these efforts are being overlooked by spanish authorities who insist the cave dwellers must leave their homes are the reports from the city of granada where citizens are defending their right to stay put. also ireland shakes free of the e.u. lenders becoming of 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. and broadcasting live direct from our studios in moscow this is r t i'm sean thomas let's get right to our top stories now you're seeing rival rallies in the ukrainian

capital the pro e.u. demonstrators are here on your left and they've been camped out in kiev 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 yushchenko which artie's paul scott is in kiev for us. 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 you got 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 a government rallying to squash the presence of these pro-government supporters and the fact that they are just a hundred yards away from independence square things are actually quite calm at the moment tensions are quite high but things are all peaceful now on friday president . had a roundtable discussion with members of the opposition here three 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. now president yushchenko which has suspended the deputy sec curity and the defense secretary and also the mayor of

a kid they are among the four officials being investigated for allegedly ordering the violent police response to these rallies on november thirtieth of this year but while some are fighting ideological battles on the streets others are cashing in on the protests artie's oleksiak cesky 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 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. don't 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 in the protests affected your pub. the number of visitors has increased only slightly since these protests kicked off but now we've got a special offer menu which includes items such as tea and cake and will be open twenty four seventh's for as long as the year all 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 here 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 your area how do you feel guilt these protests just protests are good i'm tired of you look over to 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 but then its light goes on despite the some part of the city is still on the revolutionary lockdown let's see recess the reporting from kiev in ukraine.

well first it was the e.u. politicians and the assistant u.s. secretary of state mingling with of ukrainian protesters now american senator john mccain is doing the same his message if the police keep using violence against protesters the u.s. senate will quickly level sanctions against those responsible for ordering the crackdown but professor drew westen from the national institute of eastern studies in france says the unrest in kiev doesn't reflect what most ukrainians think. the majority a few communion people is not a man whose face is not among your face station if you look in old. 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 of those stations and there is no proof that the majority of ukrainian people is on the side of so-called pro-u. rippin manifestation and up aren't even it's the contrary if you look to polls of

opinion so it's just a question of. you know of many are creation in two ways because objectively united states in western country how did you see it in middle east especially in syria and in the senate to new 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 you can keep up to date with all of the events in ukraine by visiting r.t. dot com. well in syria al-qaeda linked rebels have reportedly abducted one hundred twenty kurds from a village close to the turkish border the news was released on friday by the u.k. based observatory for human rights it said that all of the captives were taken to an unknown location. kurdish human rights activist explains the reasons why

kurds are being targeted by islamist rebels. they could not get civilians are from the village of north or naive and a bold sixty one north east from the areas with jobless and his eyes on its are not people first supporters of secularism in syria or egypt every just sectarian or a program of the armed groups or the opposition of the opposition or does seems dummy's day islamists target kurds a secular tendency which is directed toward establishing a multi-religious a multi this week there is a tunnel mysteries in india a traditional seed introduced and. in madrid protests have turned violent with demonstrators setting cars on fire and throwing bottles while police have made arrests local media reports that twenty three people have been injured during these clashes police barricades prevented the so called

a surround of the congress movement from reaching government buildings crowds have encircled the congress with people outraged by an earlier draft legislation that allows authorities to hit those protesting outside government buildings with heavy fines activist. says the demonstrators are not afraid of the government and will continue their efforts to make their voices heard. this is only the beginning we need a lot of efforts to stop this legislation but we didn't want this year to end without at least starting to demonstrate against this draft law and yes this is only the beginning because it will take some months for the law to be considered and adopted but hopefully achieve what we want is not the last time we need more people as this protest was mostly spontaneous we want to make our voices heard now we wanted before and will always want it they won't be able to shut us up and we aren't afraid. meanwhile strict austerity policies are pushing people to look for

alternative places of settlement modern day cave dwellers in spain are facing eviction from their homes despite years of pressure from the government and orders to leave the families are digging in and are determined to stay there say there's more behind the objection than meets the eye. and off was welcomed in to one of the 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 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 for as you can see a hard floor so if 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 where as 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. be satisfied to be. put in chains that's for nothing except time to do it but. it's a bugger to reason determination to do it 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 gypsy is religiously prosecuted minority is and other so called the fate of their home they have been abandoned i think it's because of one day when economic crisis. more and more have converted this

community they can call home the city wants to make them fighting health and safety reasons but the people here say it's about money they believe government is acting like a corporation for tourism that is supposedly wants to build up this area into something . and enjoy you know no one has been planning. activities since the sixty's. that's why he's working like a corporation it's like. class fight back ups so thoroughly exclusion you know poor people have always going to leave perry ferry high places. now. reach people willing to to to get them down that's very powerful isn't likely to abandon its plans to the residence but for the people living in the caves of san miguel giving up is simply

not an option reporting or we're not a space for our team and that's a tough enough now to italy where hundreds of people have once again rallied on the streets claiming of it some of the government policies are leading to falling incomes and growing unemployment and he asked where the protests got a second wind across the nation and in some cities descended into violent demonstrators enraged with tax hikes and biting cuts to a handful of sectors have clashed with police on the streets of turin rome and venice spearheaded first by farmers and truck drivers the movement was later joined by students and small business owners earlier r t spoke to european asset manager erich krauss who says that the public's discontent is driven by the management of the country. the protests are very global. they have not clearly articulated any goals and you know why a mixture of left to right. everything from small intrapreneur there's to saumur

there's the laborers the unemployed students so it's polymorphous but the country is basically very tired he currently didn't speak governed and the problems with europe in the us ashes may be made outside of percent of the four county bills but you probably have more left with us a little sasha seniors for their main rowdy point just to discuss if they want all of the politicians to go home. and for there to be a new government but of course a new election would not return so that we can see fundamental reform of the system . bulgaria has also witnessed some unrest four people have been arrested at an anti-government march demanding the parliament step down protesters carried torches as they march towards 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 began in june after a member of the turkish minority party was appointed as head of the national security service. now on the eve of the anniversary of the sandy hook elementary school massacre tragedy strikes once again in the united states as a student wounds a classmate while hunting down a teacher at a school before turning the gun on himself coming up we were poor on what makes america a hotbed for gun violence that's after a short break. they look like bound to. enjoy the sun and the ocean. but what was buried here years ago. means these people are suffering the consequences.

how much more poison lies on the ground. behind this there is what we call the callet bank on which there is a deposit of plutonium left by security test which caused the dispersion of radio nuclides 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 meters down. tests a never ending legacy. i

mean welcome back you're watching our t.v. now ireland has become the first e.u. state to exit its a 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 it has to us are silly reports from dublin there are plenty of challenges ahead before the country experiences a full recovery. arlin will would itself be quote shackles of the troika on sunday and will wake up on monday as a quote normal european country standing on equal footing a confident claim by prime minister kenny ahead of the country's official exit from its bailout program for eighty five billion euros it cost the irish three years of painful austerity higher taxes slashed minimum wage which has since been raced back high youth unemployment and another wave of irish immigration i'm not sure that the hard ideological line of austerity which was coming forth from europe was

a good one the irish people will be too nice to see the end of the troika to see the opportunity for a street gang or economic sovereignty to be able to make our own decisions in relation to our future the government here is touting the exit from the bailout program as restoring economic and financial freedom but no one here is under any illusion that that exit would also mean an end to hardships or complete release from austerity while the idea of possibly having more control over their destiny as a nation is psychologically uplifting people really want is freedom from individual debt that so many here are so heavily burdened with. 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 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. celebrate the banner. be happy we're exiting for yes we'll 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 dublin. ireland 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 derek epping says that financial independence from e.u. lenders is still far away for many other crisis stricken states within the block. i suppose the positive move. said today we're still beholden to germany france bigger

economies in europe so. for the international bailout as we seem to make much difference pursued by holding to you know we come to a bad time we come out to something for sale you like sir. i think it's good i think they have to stand on their own two feet and they can yes that is 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 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 it will be very good but a video to be ten years is going to be very long and i'm afraid that many citizens in those countries will not accept this particular note if this is going to be a stake nations for ten years to come i think this will have very serious political consequences durkee yawn at being there and some friends now 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 for the extra cost for special schooling you can have r.t. dot com for the full story. plus a record breaking gingerbread village is on display in new york city on the in motion section of our website we've got it. footage of the world's largest edible community i plan on taking a bike. police are investigating

a what drove eighteen year old karl pierson to open fire in his school in colorado critically injuring the one girl armed with a shotgun the high school senior entered the building looking for a teacher after firing a series of shots he then turned the weapon on himself the tragedy came just a day before the one year anniversary of the sandy hook elementary school massacre in connecticut which killed twenty children and six adults thousands of people shot by one of the worst mass shootings in u.s. history mourned the victims jill stein is a former us 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 is a relationship between gun violence and economic trial and 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 under some more 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 somalia the rebel groups. more than five thousand people have been evacuated from flood damaged homes in northern gaza least one person was killed and over one hundred people suffered injuries due to severe

weather in some areas the water level was reported to have reached two meters high and making some homes accessible only by rowboats the flooding was triggered by several days of torrential rain. iran claims it is holding a british spy it has put him on trial for official save or captured m i six agent has admitted to being in contact with other u.k. operatives inside iran british foreign office has refused to comment on the allegations but this comes despite efforts to revive diplomatic relations between the two countries have to the u.k. shut down its embassy in tehran in two thousand and eleven. but coming up after the break we visit two islands ravaged by nearly two hundred nuclear test explosions. this is r t international away.

as we all know the holidays are a great time for families to get together and sometimes on the elko 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 and 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 with the n.s.a. gave this list to agents 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. every sunday morning most of the two hundred inhabitants of the village of psychomotor who gather in a small church. to boast to a lack of interest in the seminary and its geographic isolation. hasn't had a priest for several years. it was a sunday service has since been run by volunteers from the village reverent and

with fervor they pray for their souls but also for peace for the departed their 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 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 to which the works or number which had never been translated into the local promoter language entered into the local vernacular. the publication of the

document couldn't have come at a worse time just after the fukushima nuclear disaster and the following tsunami. well you know we're in the middle of nature here i really love this place i spend my time here sometimes we clean or collect coconuts. you can't stay here and wait for this tsunami that is coming to morrow we can't but if we hadn't seen on television what happened in japan and everywhere else then we wouldn't be worried but we were shocked. too we were told to go to her grown but there aren't any high places and to a move to it is flat here there are no mountains there is nothing. more or goes then so do we poor turia. a small laugh of contempt.