is why you should care only. breaking news here on international work with. the trade deal negotiations with ukraine on ice. protests in the capital being cheered on by western politicians goes right. on the protests about protests a rally in spain turns ugly campaign against possible restrictions on unauthorized demonstrations which have now been labeled as an attack on democracy. russia does not want to dominate the world but it will stand firm in defending its values president putin delivers his state of the nation address. and ireland shakes off the bailout after breaking free of the aid program the government warns

that doesn't mean an end to austerity. it's all to international live from moscow. welcome to the program straight to our breaking news for you here on the e.u. has put on hold on the trade association deal with ukraine saying expectations have no grounds in reality live to aussies alexy standing by in kiev and good to see you what else do we know about the e.u.'s moves so far. well we do have a statement by one of the european officials. who is responsible for the enlargement of the european union particularly the eastern direction he tweeted on his official twitter account that i quote the words and deeds of ukrainians.

resident government regarding association agreement further and further apart their arguments have no grounds in reality end of quote he also went on to say that he had warned the prime of the deputy prime minister out abuse of several days ago in brussels that further discussions on the euro so sation deal what condition took on clear commitment by the ukraine to sign this deal and now the work has been put on hold because the crane inside did not reply this could essentially mean that ukraine is now trying to bargain itself a deal with the european union we've heard a statement from president bush several weeks ago in vilnius that the conditions which the e.u. offered to ukraine to sign this deal particularly in the economic sphere were humiliating for the country ask you put it but this also represents a huge blow for you in the coverage because he has been continuously saying that ukraine will not step down from the euro integration and will be working on signing the euro association deal and he fully expected actually this deal to be signed in the short future meanwhile obviously this will this may as well fuel more anger

among the protesters who have been here more than three weeks already in the protests continuing right now we are witnessing again tens of thousands of people in the streets of the ukrainian capital of protesting against their government and their president. elect you're just going to live in kiev thank you. let's get some more details on this and more analysis from a. foreign affairs editor chronicles magazine joining us live from bunn thanks for coming on the program today without breaking news are you are you surprised by the decision here. because i would ten weeks. the. way. we're in a whole huge. breezing the story. as you. heard him. in their hands there actually are we going to.

course the issue which is it. didn't call her a deal b. you all heard very few beers agree which would have opened ukraine to west european industrial products without the possibility of ukraine. exports to the east any longer but i mean that i mean that's what we were a lot of concerns a lot of concerns me voice from kiev that it would actually cost kiev an awful lot of money just to go forward with this agreement with the e.u. but what what what's the what's the e.u.'s long term game here do you think the deal doesn't exist as a group and we're looking at. old. german central europe which is germany austria benelux perhaps crowns but certainly not the southern fringe of the. and

they have. geopolitical interests in ukraine all along but you say you have so you say geopolitical interests what do you mean. the soft underbelly of russia which is. into southern russia by eastern ukraine but of course ukraine is the vine country ukraine is. to say but the true turn is. a country where in the west you had uni ice and can't. you have moscow. orthodox and in the middle you have people who seemed to e.g. of the capital speak russian but feel ukrainian and regional and talk about ukraine as a parachute intended to but i mean that the right sort of jump but there are there are many people that do say that ukraine is clearly divided between it between one

portion that supports your of the other portion that supports russia but what kind of reaction are you expecting now from the protesters in kiev our correspondent moments ago i said state of thousands are coming in terms of thousands nothing in ukraine which is a country of forty six million a million means something tens of thousands that neither there and let's face it if there is and the being and the kind of sustained regime change like you know koger of two thousand and two or the autumn generals of belgrade fish there were over two thousand or so that to be really see. i think there are enough ukrainian. troops customs union people who are not necessarily culturally close to russia but who realize that in order for their jobs to be champs they need to maintain the three customs so when the

russians below russians and cosmetics because each one so you have these bootlegs all be. you goods into ukraine the ukrainian industry or. if you wish you could give it some sort of jumping i'm running so low on time here with this breaking news we do you think there's going to be more violence an increase perhaps. you're not going to care survive you will hold my alliance and there will be no to gene change for the future of chronicles magazine joining us live here from thank you very much for that today. thanks for joining us here on r.t. international thousands of staged a violent protest in madrid venting their anger over a draft law that couldn't force tougher action against un sanctioned rallies.

about two dozen people were injured during all of this arrests were made as well at least seven people were arrested as crowds attempted to surround the spanish parliament activists condemned the proposal which would impose hefty fines for offenses such as burning the national flag as an attack on democracy the bill is likely to be passed into law it was strong support from the conservatives who hold the majority in the legislature but activist doris gas says the protesters need to show that they're not ready to give up without a fight. see i said you need this is only the beginning we need a lot of efforts to stop the terrorist nations who didn't want this year to end without at least starting to demonstrate against the sea and yes this is only the beginning because it will take some months before long to be considered and adopted yes it could hopefully she's going to want to meet that it's not the last time we need more people as this protest was mostly spontaneous we want to make our voices

heard and now we've wanted to say look if you always want to we don't be able to shut us out and we aren't very happy. in spain for the meantime it's a matter of save our cave as a community living in a hollowed out hills are ordered to get out by the or thora he is however subtle is refusing to cave in that story just coming up shortly. from now on the program russia's president has made it clear that he's ready to defend traditional values and this in his state of the nation address this week a lot of putin also says the country does not aspire to be a superpower or to lecture others on how to conduct their affairs though russia is ready to defend itself whenever necessary go to prison office details 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's top 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 why the world had to me russia isn't looking. but that doesn't mean it has to stop protecting its sovereignty and traditional values. you are mixed on that because 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 rainy a nuclear programming many analysts agree these are examples that diplomacy still works by the time when russia. suggested. the process of chemical

disarmament stars and syria. very few countries in the world we came to support the so-called obama option which would have been yet another bombing of yet and as a country so i think 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 get when you don't know what you do see it unless it was more sinister that it's 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 and 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 finally it be for. respects the desire. to be used as. heads in a beast. you're watching the weekly here on r.t. international ireland has finally got ready now to financially go it alone having managed to become the first e.u. state to work at so free of rescue learns this milestone is expected to dominate the irish prime minister's televised address later on sunday. and i spoke about it just a short while ago people know that in that decision they endured the three years of very very deep you had salaries going down and you had their benefits of being

slashed a lot of deep spending cuts so what the government really is trying to do is say that this today is symbolically stepping out of what they call the shackles of the kreutzer hoping that this will really give that morale boost to the people whoever they are there is no illusion here that there's still high unemployment that have to be tackled as well as a very high number of people skilled young workers leaving the country moving to countries like australia or canada to pursue better opportunities some of the businesses here construction businesses starting over again here in dublin however when you go just one hour out of the capital the story is really different you still see high unemployment and that's not something that they can quickly change overnight and again the government already said that austerity policies are actually going to be continuing so if this is to be seen as a success it's going to be a psychological or a success in terms of exiting again more closely monitoring of the troika economically there's still a long long way to go for our land to really be calling itself

a success. now south africa is looking to the future as nelson mandela is laid to rest but some migrants on the social later in the program here on r.t. international we hear their fears that tension under the surface is about to boil over also. in less than a week. we've been married and we've been on there it's australia's high court strikes down the country's first law allowing same sex marriages here on the program we look into the broader gay rights in different countries just after the break.

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in the afternoon on sunday this is r.t. international it's proving to be a tough month for gay rights this week australia's high court overturned the country's first floor allowing same sex couples to marry before that india upheld legislation that criminalizes homosexuality while the croatians overwhelmingly voted against same sex marriage in a national referendum guy nature can take the story. most western countries already recognize in some form the right of gay couples to get married in the program but in other parts of the world they raise yahoos that train in less than a week. we've been married and we've been 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 forum said no right to decide the matter

to live in a relationship of loves and trusts to do any seven australians couple of things saw their marriage and no dates 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 increased the legislation the more 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. i'm all for that absolutely amazing that. history britain jumping through hoops to try to make sure that every tree on the planet has its natural environment start 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 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 unconstitutional 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 you have about a. all the communities of this country. and each of the means thing you are seeing something similar. in a referendum how long. the most powerful the population. changes in prosecution 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. and earlier this year same sex marriages received the royal stamp of approval in england and wales but by pushing the legislation through prime minister david cameron only deepened the rift with within his own party i should say a conservative commentator. so such issues should be put to the public. it was actually that the same sex marriage station that was the straw that broke the camel's back but the conservative party remains divided and same sex marriage is one of the root causes of that so what i would have liked to have seen is first let's have a debate about it in the conservative policy work out how to get the legislation right perhaps a system like france where. religious institutions and hotels or whatever then you won't want to hold. weddings so all you can do say and then the state simply on the right say union between two people in the not interested really what form that

union takes extending civil partnerships all that would've been a better way to do it and i think a referendum would have been very important as well because it removes the controversy a big question for david cameron is can he convince the conservative philosophy that he's actually a conservative of to bring this legislation forward with a cave dwelling community in spain as standing up to the latest attempts to evict them hundreds of activists formed a human barricade this week to resist being forcibly moved. and the residents say the government wants them out to make way for luxury resort. to meet the defiant settlers. hammering out an existence on the outskirts of granada sprucing up the front yard with some of the best views in town it's an eclectic community that's literally burrowed into a mountain the residents of the hill of san miguel have converted dozens of caves into bona fide homes. we've been living here for two years now and do not

a look community it's the kind of place when they bruse help each other out. it may not be a life of luxury there's no running water or electricity but for residents like anna that's not a problem when it does that their lives are long and lay their eggs we've done nothing but i'm down with everything here. but those who have made their home here may have their days are numbered although they've lived here for years now the city council has been fighting to get them off the land. these are in proper houses and it is a residential area of the city that the caves are unsafe for any humans still have and that they could collapse at any moment. it's an argument this resident simply doesn't buy one tony opara has lived on the hill of san miguel for more than eight years he believes the city is over exaggerating the dangers in order to help

developers get their hands on the land i am actually one of the first united fans here and that's why because you sort of already. i mean i think of it said with the yards to protect the roof. they need to be done even in a venue and he's willing to do everything to keep on living here and have a well for a. big satisfaction. house. given the city council wants to clean up the hill years ago developers announced plans to turn this area into a tourist attraction and we think that's what's really behind their vision but for now only eight caves are facing the risk of eviction burma is one of the residents who could lose her home she too suspects and i'll tear your motive that would be like giving us the city council wants to shut down the killings but they don't want to tear them down that's why we think they really just want to. the land to use it

for their own purposes another concern cited by the officials is sanitation the caves they say are dirty and the area has been described as a slum that sits above the city we maybe not so the the residents 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 and we're not a space for our team of according to some other global headlines for you in brief by a series of killing at least twelve people school was wounded the deadliest six shia pilgrims killed by a car bomb at a rest stop on their way to karbala elsewhere a bomb killed three at an outdoor market while another sore a blast in a restaurant killed two more sectarian violence has worsened in recent years over eight thousand killed and twenty thirteen you can learn more about the civilian

during iraq's troubles a special online project right now is it all for you. that's mexico city protests where subway is have rocketed by more than sixty six percent activists have called for a march to the capital metro commuters to jump the ticket barriers in a show of defiance. rise was set by the government weeks after a survey showed that the majority would not oppose the hike. the russian adventure a few of those. who is are now six around the world trips under his belt. in his own unique style setting off on a solo trip across the pacific ocean in a rather small rowing boat you can see the details of the daring launch on the voyage right now. and google snatches up of providing. robots for the pentagon which keeps the reasons.

the breakthrough technology on the web site. has been laid to rest of his ancestral home. of international mourning for the iconic leader is going down in history as the leader who. bridged racial and ethnic divides with mandela's passing some africans fear the ghosts of the past may return . don't lean software feagin south africa from the congo because of one man nelson mandela causes though i know a lot of the do inside africa that had a camp but now he's gone and only means afraid she and other foreigners like her will be kicked out i think that they would as well but it was because they don't one foot in the area complaining that split in the were taking their jobs millions of africans have fled their troubled countries in search of

a better life in south africa but more often than not they've swapped one horror for another with no money work or prospects a handful have made this place a methodist church in downtown johannesburg home if you're a green or you for your german or if you're fringe and you come into this country you were in to experience what experienced here one of the things apart it did for instance was that it divorced us from the rest of africa who failed is struggling to support his wife and five children in a brutal attack she was beaten so badly she miscarried he was left for dead their crime being foreigners in a strange land i think we could we have. a right to life i think i should quote that you have to work in south africa prejudices run deep not only are african foreigners accused of taking jobs away from locals they're also held

responsible for accelerating crime so if you do is suing them over they're going to do the work to who is good and. why we have to deal with somebody going home though is not an option political instability acute poverty and violence awaits them. for twelve long months has been too afraid to step foot outside this church and now with mandela gone she's more afraid than ever lived to says something about the flood and but no one will talk about the flooding that's as night falls these schools close providing refuge to people seeking sanctuary in a country that doesn't want them. johannesburg south africa we are coming to you live from moscow thanks so much for joining us today i'm stepping aside for a kitty pilbeam venture capital the business news of the week it's coming your way .

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