former students. took to. the spanish capital shaken by violence as riot police clashed with demonstrators calling for an end to a draft bill that would see huge fines for taking part in unauthorized rallies. and mass demonstrations take place in kiev this time with tens of thousands of pro-government protesters voicing their support for the president while more high profile foreign politicians had to ukraine. island celebrates shaking off international lenders to become the first country to break free from a bailout program but the government warns of challenges still ahead. a lot of rebuilding delivers his annual state of the nation address saying russia

will stand firm in order to protect its values but it's not a maintain pose them on anybody. it is not and the russian capital are you watching r t international i'm marina joshing. the spanish capital madrid has become the scene of bloody violence as police brutally clashed with protesters outside parliament. at least twenty three people have been injured after a sow's and strong rally was hijacked by a mob that attacked police vehicles were tast or set cars alight and hurled bottles several arrests have been made crowds encircled the congress building furious over a draft law that would see demonstrators slap would have to find activists stories

banega says the protesters are not afraid of the government and will continue to make their voice heard. see. the nice you know this is only the beginning we need a lot of efforts to stop the speculation but we didn't want this year to end without at least starting to demonstrate against his will and yes this is only the beginning because it will take some months for the law to be considered and adopted this would hopefully achieve what we want it's not the last time we need more people as this protest was mostly spontaneous we want to make our voices heard now we've wanted before and will always want to some of these won't be able to shut us up and we're going to. you know while some spaniards have decided to literally live in caves stuck between a rock and a hard place the cave dwellers are being forced to leave their subterranean homes are two reports from the city of granada were citizens are defending their right to stay put. mass rallies gathered steam in kiev this week opposition and

pro-government activists showed up and there are thousands standing just meters away from each other that's as the ukrainian capital continues to attract foreign politicians with u.s. senator john mccain the latest to show up in kiev and make sure that. every effort is made to make sure that ukraine is aligned with your. he was there along with another u.s. lawmaker to meet with ukraine's opposition as well as government officials and they are now planning to tour the opposition in protest camps in kiev's main square meanwhile ukraine's president has a span of deputy security and a fan secretary as well as kiev city chiefs are being investigated for allegedly ordering the use of force against demonstrators two weeks ago as in kiev and he's met with some of the protesters camped out in independence square. conditions a tough temperatures alone but protest is remain determined.

we are here to fight for our freedom it is our right because ukraine must be in your thirty's that we will stay here until victory. at the end of the day the majority of people who are here are protesting against this government a government made of abandon. for more than three weeks demonstrators have come down from independence square initially unhappy at the government postponing plans to forge closer ties with europe but their focus has since widened now a change in government is the goal as expressed in this tweet from one opposition leader. who says the main issue is the resignation of president young coaches putrid administration. police attempts to remove protesters blockades on tuesday night despite apparent orders not to use force some scuffles broke out america's top diplomat john kerry said washington was disgusted by the events while assistant

secretary of state victoria nuland took to independence square to hand out food and drinks to both police and protest as sanctions even threatened all policy options including sanctions are on the table in our view but obviously that still is being evaluated e.u. foreign policy chief catherine ashton was also in town holding talks. with both sides leading some to question why there's such a high profile presence of officials from washington brussels. and union should should back off you should recognize that the democratically elected government of the ukraine which has. made the decision in should respect that decision but often the e.u. doesn't respect the decisions of democratic nation states we say that when. asked to vote again other nations in various before and the same is being what is happening in the ukraine you know the effort to break the deadlock president on a code which came face to face with opposition leader is just concessions were made

to including an amnesty for all person is arrested during the demonstrations he also promised that there's no will turn to to have to close the e.u. integration saying he could be ready to sign the association agreement by march that's if they can agree on more favorable terms of ukraine's already weak economy well tensions have been heightened over the last twenty four hours or so following the arrival of thousands of pro-government supporters who were staging their own rally just yards away from independence square on a bright side to provide resolute but only one making conciliatory noises signaling that this political standoff is far from over all it's a you have to drain. now let's take a closer look at how events have unfolded in kiev over three weeks ago government decision not to sign of association agreement with the e.u. sparked public outrage for a task force flooded central kiev paralyzing the city and attempts to disperse the crowds turned violent on the night of november thirtieth leading to accusations off

police brutality the next day opposition protesters turned on security forces attacking them with chains and driving a bulldozer into apple you scored on. the pro e.u. protests then turned anti-government but the opposition failed to push through a no confidence vote against the cabinet all foreign diplomats the sand on a kiev to lend their support to the crowds meeting with the opposition even offering snacks but the government is seeing plenty of support as well with mass rallies taking place and it's favor. tens of thousands of people have turned up to show their support for president viktor yanacocha activists have arrived in kiev from all across ukraine to rally for stability and show trust in the country's government while the european parliament has called for a snap election any crane as a way to appease the opposition protests. the editor in chief young wealthy

newspaper says that is simply fueling to divide even further. only a tactic to further increase the tensions. because. the. need to have tasted blood and they want the whole thing i think they want to crane back the best and food as it was after the old and this revolution with european government agreed to it is not the leg you have snap elections. in you know hundreds of thousands of people who went on the streets demonstrating against. the taxpayers' money being squandered on baxter's know. these demonstrations. and. club.

and were closely following events in kiev here on our team and had a line for more analysis so find out what russia's foreign minister says is behind the protests in ukraine our website is r.t. dot com. ireland passed an important milestone on this road to financial recovery this weekend and became the first state to break free from the eurozone bailout program the government says the country's economy is improving and can now go on its own but as our guests are sillier reports there's still a long way to full recovery. in two thousand and ten arlene received an eighty five billion euro bailout package for the national creditors after a property crash will lead to massive a balance sheet problems three years on our live is set to become the first bailout country in the eurozone to exit the program by receiving the

a law loan installment now three years ago the government took the decision to stand behind its banks a decision that still remains controversial among many in this country nevertheless it's been three years of sacrifices that people here tell me the government has had to impose separately more than two hundred fifty a stay already mesures cuts deep cuts in spending on the public sector we've seen a rise in unemployment to be seen higher taxes and lower wages now the government right now is trying to call this a victory by saying that it's regained economic sovereignty and also trying to dispel any warnings that the country may need a second to bail out moving forward however despite the confident. officials have been trying to put forward those i was one that i've been speaking to tell me that on the ground there really isn't much pause for celebration of interest come through the worst of the crisis but we shouldn't underestimate the size of the crisis it fixed because of the enormous holes in the banking sector which in turn

resulted from very cavalier lending by the banking system. citizens and taxpayers to pick up the mess the banking system and there may be some in europe pretty tempted to look at our lives and see it as the poster boy for a sturdy policies but that really is something that you'd be hard pressed to find someone here who would readily be accepting of that especially since they're well aware of just how fragile our lives economy is moving forward reporting from dublin . britain uses a minor increase in economic growth to boost its foreign aid budget. it's the response of the british government at a time where money is very tight for everyone. for family time the government to be sending more and more taxpayer money approval later on we find out why u.k. visuals are so keen to sand cash elsewhere and risk upsetting those still struggling at home. russia's president vladimir putin gave his annual

state of the nation address this week he touched upon topics from economy to international politics and he's championed russia's traditional values and stressed the country is capable of defending itself are going off as more it's traditionally become the place to be to find out the president's vision of the president and his plans for the future every year russia stop politicians businessmen economists and elites gather at the kremlin to listen to his annual address first head of just returned from there as well and here are some of the key points that i would add to me russia isn't looking at dominating the rules but that doesn't mean it has to stop protecting its traditional values. you are mixed on the basis we know that there are even more people around the globe who support our position in terms of insuring traditional values these are the values of traditional family and the value of human life including religious life that is not only material life but also spiritual of course this is

a conservative position but the point of conservatism is not that it hinders the movement forward and upward but that it precludes the movement backwards and downwards back towards chaos and a barbaric state. diplomacy was another point in the president's speech or specifically recent breakthroughs with syrian chemical weapons and the rayney a nuclear program many analysts agreed these are examples that diplomacy still works by the time when russia. has adjusted to the process of chemical disarmament stars and syria. very few countries in the world were keen to support the so-called obama option which would have been yet another bombing of the it and as a country so i think that this is a very important lesson lesson on how a crisis of this type should be sold u.s. plans to build an anti missile defense system in europe one of the biggest sticking

points in moscow's relationship with washington was of course also talked about the president's message was simple without a threat from iran what's the point of building it. moscow does see the shield as a threat to its national security and putin says powering up russia's military is one of the ways to protect against it. you know when you look at what you do see there was more space that it so no country should harbor illusions of achieving military dominance over russia we will never let it happen russia is ready to meet those challenges both political and technological we've got all the potential needed our military doctrine as well as our military equipment allow us without a doubt to ensure russia's security point before going to the current situation in ukraine which you said moscow respects the desire of those partners who want to be used as long as decisions aren't made by hotheads and are based on dialogue you've got to get off moscow. and we spoke to author and russian affairs analyst martin

mccauley he believes russia's diplomatic policy in the middle east is likely to lead countries in the region to see closer ties with moscow. if you like is in fact saying it's that it has his own culture its own tradition you can so on it will not go the way of the west it rejects the way the west is going the way society is going in the west and they want to keep their traditional values and that's very important for russians have been very very considerable. success in such as syria iran and you have gulf states and other states in the in the middle east saying that if the united states is leaving in the middle east then they've got to look to russia perhaps for protection and. and still to come in the program behind bars and in bahrain the country's rulers struggled to suppress the pro-democracy movement across the gulf monarchy. meantime australia's high court overturned the country's first bill allowing same sex couples to marry less

than a week after it came into force and another blow to gay rights campaigners india upheld the law criminalizing homosexuality are just going to take a closer look at the legal hurdles gay couples are forced to confront in different countries. most western countries already recognize in some form the right of gay couples to get married in adult children but in other parts of the world there is the opposite trend in less than a week. we've been married and we're going on there it's really just days after the nation's capital allowed same sex couples to get married the high court there struck down that decision saying regional authorities had no right to decide the matter to live in a relationship with loves and trusts to twenty seven australian couples then saw their marriage annulled base australia's high court ruled that gay marriage was illegal because the marriage act only recognizes marriage between a man and

a woman and only the parliament can change the legislation the most recent attempt to change the law in the australian parliament failed last year polls in the country show support for gay marriage stands at fifty three percent. and offer it absolutely amazing that you know history written jumping through hoops to try to make sure that every tree on the planet has its natural environments from far east that we would be challenging the definition of marriage which creates exactly that environment for a child requiring that it's between a man or woman in india the supreme court has just made gay sex illegal again since the nineteenth century india has had a ten year sentence on the statute books for quote court only into course against the order of nature four years ago a lower court found it on constitutional the supreme court just brought the law back into force by making a similar argument of the australian judges only the nation's parliament has the

right to change it but with the overwhelming majority of indians against same sex marriage and with a conservative nationalist group leading in the upcoming elections in legislative change in the next few years is highly unlikely but you have about it would. he just got to lead us. to all the communities of this country feel that albert if you didn't see that old friends at each of the main sort of thing you are seeing something similar this december voted in a referendum to outlaw same sex marriage two thirds of the mostly counseling population. changes in the constitution in the tug of war between those who are and those who are not allowed to say i do the conservative view on marriage seems at least at the moment to be prevailing in many parts of the world get a check on our team. well this may paris was engulfed by angry protests over the government's decision to legalize gay marriage investigative journalist robert

harneys believes the french government is afraid to submit the issue of a nationwide vote. there is a big crease sig's skepticism about it because. of human rights of every car and same sticks age civita a substantial majority in much of western society but there is perhaps a tendency to look at it more carefully and stop questions like well what happens about children adoption of choice of the french people would have steen a civil union the opinion polls are quite clear that the majority of people that's the solution they wanted but the government didn't want that they didn't want to commit the reasons because they wanted to the knowledge in the direction of that was their left weeks voters were very much in favor of same sex marriage it would be wise when you make a major change in society to do this but the reason they don't do it is because they're afraid to if you have a referendum this is certainly the case of trucks to have a referendum on this well then you would have to rush have a referendum on

a host of other issues and governments will find their hands tied and very often they don't get the answers they want when they go to a referendum because it focuses attention on the problem in question people actually start to think about it rather than the elite on soaring public opinion polls giving it much thought. i'll take a look at what our team has lined up for you in our on our website a miracle for some an extreme conditions for others severe winter storms for us government offices in some parts of the middle east to close while people are left of meiring there where winter scenery. to watch the video. plus mass surveillance causes even more controversy across the globe had to our website to find out what an english artist has invented to pass down the street undetected . in a rare style of life is under threat in a nation settlement in spain worth ortiz have renewed attempts to vig dozens of

cave dwelling families from their homes throughout the week dozens of activists have been protesting the eviction they deem unlawful and unfair are does lose a coffin if was welcomed in one of the unconventional homes. it's views like this one breathtaking isn't it that's made not a famous for drawing visitors in but it's the city's plans to force out a group of residents from this very hill that's drawing controversy now it's a bit of an unusual kind of story we're in the foothills of the sierra nevada mountains an area that's pockmarked with countless caves caves which people have called home for years now the residents are a colorful mix of characters we have spaniards immigrants students people who don't have a place to call home as well as people who prefer their home to reflect a bit of an unusual kind of lifestyle and several days ago we had seen a protest of about two hundred and fifty supporters coming out here saying that's

simply not ok meanwhile activists believe that it's not actually about the dangers of living here but perhaps there's profit motivation behind getting the residents out of course the views here as we mentioned earlier are spectacular and there's been some discussion of potentially building a luxury resort hotel something on this property this mountain they say could collapse and actually hurt the people who reside in the area but the residents here have a very different take i mean we are resisting with all the legal means we have like the authorities whose actions have been unfair and on lawful throughout the entire process there hasn't been a single collapse in the caves since they declared we were living in ruins three years ago this only suggests that they've been lying and simply looking for a reason to throw us out whatever the case the authorities say they're certain they want to evict residents from at least eight of the caves the residents of course say they're not going to budge we here at r.t. we'll be covering the developments over the next few days to do stay with us for

that coverage reporting from granada spain for r t m. and those take a look at some other stories from around the world suspected grenade attack on a bus has left at least four people dead in kenya's capital nairobi more than thirty people are reported injured and it is the latest in a string of assaults that have killed thirteen people since the beginning of the week khania has experienced an increase in violence over the last several years with much of it blamed on somalia and 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 suffered injuries due to the severe weather in some areas the water level was reported to have reached two meters high making some homes accessible only by boat the flooding was triggered by several days of torrential rain. and china has joined the moon claw its manned lunar rover has landed and rolled into the surface

of earth becoming only the third country to do so after the u.s. and the former soviet union the exploration vehicle was named the jade rabbit after story of a missile chinese moon goddess who kept a path rabbit the rover will spend three months carrying out geological investigations. and as you as a group calling themselves texas mothers have staged a bell ringing protest against gun violence on the anniversary of the sandy hook elementary school massacre ceremonies were held and towns across thirty five states to commemorate the killing of twenty children and six adults by a gunman in newtown the demonstration demanded action to curb the veil ability of high capacity automatic weapons just a day before the anniversary and the other shooting to place inside a high school in colorado when a student wounded a fifteen year old girl and later killed himself. in bahrain twelve anti

regime activists were sentenced to fifteen years in jail this week for setting a car warehouse on fire when the capital manama last february this brings the total of to forty since the beginning of this month as the government continues its harsh clampdown on pro-democracy activists we spoke to a former member of bahrain's parliament house. it was charged it was criticizing the ruling waterkeeper earlier this year and i think the authorities also bully politicians into not engaging with human rights groups the problem is very basic to understand that we have absolute. and we need. by the people in the through an inclusive political system that has. the power to the people rule of law was never meant.

to the international community to stand on your own forces biased police and courts that is why for you so i think is just part of the punishment part of the throat feels today it was an issue of the activists not to join the movement that calling for all simple rights universal rights of the people to be equal to have big need to participate in political system and to have the below comment that despaired with the one. now the u.k. has managed to squeeze out a little more than growth little more growth than expected it's increasing foreign aid budget the treasury chief is about to approve a one billion pound increase but most people yet to feel the benefits of economic recovery many saying that aid is going the wrong way or smith reports. britain's economy is growing better than expected so more money in our pockets to relieve some of the misery at home lift people out of poverty help them pay their heating

bills but controversially and despite cuts and hardship home the more positive figures will also mean increasing the amount the u.k. sends abroad in foreign aid not because there's more suffering in the world but to meet an arbitrary target not point seven percent of national income the british government seems set on increasing amount of money sending overseas aid merely for the sake of meeting a particular target not. target driven policy which is the worst kind of way to set policy but we think it's irresponsible of the british government at a time when money is very tight for everyone for family from the government to be sending more and more time spends money abroad particularly when a lot of the current defeat budget is not being spent very well money gets lost through fraud money's being spent in countries british even have their own aid programs to other countries it means sending a billion pounds more over the next five years and where's that money going well

over the last five years nigeria has received more than a billion pounds from the british taxpayer it's got its own space program and is mired in corruption an estimated several billion pounds are stolen from the states every year by corrupt officials and politicians and india also trying to push a man in space they get two hundred eighteen million pounds a year from britain and they've got their foreign aid program worth one point three billion dollars the g.a.c. accountability report shows the u.k. already spends more percentage wise on foreign aid than any of the g eight country and the greatest irony britain. is still borrowing billions of pounds every month and now growth is on the up it will be borrowing more than it has to just to give us away and coming up a look at

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