let me. look at the global financial headlines to. breaking news for you this. ukraine official confirmation. negotiations on a trade deal with the country. cheered on by. i. protest about protests. demonstrations. and. president.

breaking free of the aid program. the world's top headlines for the. international with me. thanks for joining us ukraine is seeking official confirmation that the e.u. has put on hold on a trade association deal it's off to a tweet was posted by the e.u. commissioner for enlargement saying expectations have no grounds in reality details here. stefan if you will a who is responsible for the enlargement of the european in particular in the eastern direction he tweeted on his official twitter account that i quote the words and deeds of ukrainian president and 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 and even the deputy prime minister out of booze of several days ago in brussels that further discussions on the euro so say should deal with 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 statements from president bush several weeks ago in vilnius that the conditions which the e.u. offer 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 and the protests are 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 and diplomatic sources are citing money matters as the reason behind the alleged e.u. postponement kiev has been saying from the very start that the country's failing economy could not handle the deal being offered by brussels not to mention the modernization requested by the e.u. which would also cost a pretty penny. now the nonstop anti-government rallies have been gaining momentum in central kiev tens of thousands also took to the streets this weekend to support president gonna go bitch at the two rallies happened just a few hundreds of meters apart at a bit earlier i spoke to the foreign affairs editor of chronicles magazine he told me it's no surprise the deal's been frozen and yet again he didn't call her

a deal the e.u. all heard very dubious agree which would have. ukraine west european industrial products without the possibility of ukraine. thanks for the release and the longer the deal doesn't exist as it. we're looking at. all. this the german or central europe which is germany austria benelux. croutons and the. geopolitical interests in ukraine all along. it's r.t. international to spain we go where thousands of state of violent protests in madrid venting their anger over a draft law that could enforce tough action against un sanctioned rallies.

so far though about a dozen people were injured seven arrested when the angry crowds attempted to surround the spanish parliament activists condemned the proposal which would impose hefty fines for offenses such as burning the national flag calling it an attack on democracy and the bill is likely to pass into law a strong support from the conservatives who hold the majority in the legislature but activist doris that their gas says the protesters need to show that they are not ready to give up without a fight. see. the need 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 yes it would hopefully chivo if we want it that 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 want to be full of it and will always want to be able to shut us up and we aren't afraid. and elsewhere in spain it's a matter of save our cave as a community living in a hollow dollar hills or order to get out by the old thora tease the settlers refuse to cave in that story coming your way. from now on our international russia's president made it clear that he is ready to defend traditional values in his state of the nation address this week a lot of approach and also said the country does not aspire to be a superpower or to lecture others on how to conduct their affairs but it is ready to defend itself whenever necessary you've got a pretty good offer. 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 the elites gather at the

kremlin to listen to his idle address first head of just returned from there as well and here are some of the key points that i would had to make russia isn't looking a dummy needing the rule but that doesn't mean it has to stop protecting consumers in traditional values. we know that there are even more people around the globe who support our position in terms of ensuring 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 rain in nuclear programming many animals to greet these are examples that diplomacy still

works by the time when russia. suggested. the process of chemical disarmament stars in 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 at another country so i think that this is a very important lesson lesson and. crisis of this type should the sole 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 do. 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 that 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. heads or beast. moscow. arland is finally ready to go financially 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 star silly reports from dublin people know that in that decision they endured the three years of very very deep us stary 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 morale boosting 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. loads to come here on the program on c.n.n.

international south africa looking to the future as nelson mandela was laid to rest but some migrants affair and the worst. enemy they were going to be a little too good enough. to get on with something later in the program here on the international we hear their fears that tensions on the surface are about to boil over also. we've been married and we've been on marriage australia's high court strikes down the country's first law or allowing same sex marriages you're on our team we're looking to the board of setbacks for gay rights in different countries that's coming your way after the break. i play this street cleaner who's in love with

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from moscow it's on it's an international it's proving to be a tough month for gay rights this week australia's high court overturned the country's first law allowing same sex couples to marry before india held the distillation that criminalizes homosexuality while croatians overwhelmingly voted against same sex marriage and a national referendum guyon a church of congress. most western countries already recognize in some form the right of gay couples to get married and adopt children but in other parts of the world there is the opposite trend in los in less than a week. we've been married and we've been on there it's in australia just days after the nation's capital allowed same sex couples to get married the high court

there struck down that decision saying regional authority said no right to decide the matter to live in a relationship of loves and trusts to twenty seven australian couples then saw their marriage annulled. 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 offered it absolutely amazing that at a time in our history britain were 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.

the nineteenth century india has had a ten year sentence on the statute books for quote carnal intercourse 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 two years is highly unlikely you have. all the communities of this country. and each of the means is thing you are seeing something similar this december. voted in a referendum to outlaw same sex marriage of the most powerful the 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 going to check on our team. now in may saw thousands of protesters turn out the government's decision to legalize gay marriage and we talked about this earlier to investigative journalist robert are. you think so the french authorities are just afraid to put the issue to a nationwide referendum. there is increasing skepticism about it because indian susie as a human rights of every kind same sex marriage achieved a substantial majority of eighteen you know much of western society but there is perhaps a tendency now to look at it more carefully and start asking questions like well what happens about children while it's bugged option choice of the french people who does seem a civil union that the opinion polls 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

tell it school reasons because they wanted to and not in the direction of that is there left weeks daughters who very much in favor of same sex marriage 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 a case of trucks you have a referendum on this what do you have to rush have a referendum on a host of other issues and governments will find that hands tied they don't get the answers they want and they go to a referendum because it focuses attention on the problem in question of people actually start to think about it rather than je answering public opinion polls without giving it much thought. thanks for joining us today the russian adventurer . who has won six around the world trip so events he's got i'm under his belt is marking his birthday though in his own unique style setting off on a solo trip across the pacific ocean in a rather small rowing boat and those details right here at r.t. dot com you can see video of the daring launch on the voyage why are there lots of

other stories to check out as well for example google snatches offer for providing mobile research robots for the pentagon but keep the reasons for its purchase under wraps you can read more about the breakthrough technology on the website right now . a cave dwelling community in southern spain is standing up to the latest attempts to a victim hundreds of activists form a human barricade this week to resist being forcibly removed from their homes other residents say the government wants them out to make way for a luxury resort. caffein off went to meet the defiant settlers. hammering out an existence on the outskirts of granada sprucing up a 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 not and do not a look community it's the kind of place when they brews 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 goes. to live long enough ladies that we've done nothing but on their own without 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 to live 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. of the one of the first united fans here and that's why houses 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. big side is to. give you 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 the eviction. for now only eight caves are facing the risk of eviction irma is one of the residents who could lose her home she too suspects and alter your motive. given the city council wants to shut down the killings but they don't want to. that's why we think they

really just want to give 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 may be ready not so say 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 we're not a space for our to health and of. this week according bahrain sentenced twelve and he regime activists to fifteen years in jail they torched a car warehouse in february but their supporters say the tough sentence underlines the gulf kingdom's continued pro-democracy clampdown fears that the country is spiraling into a dictatorship a former bahraini parliament member. was charged with inciting terror for criticizing the monarchy earlier this year he says your authority is also bully

politicians into not participating with human rights groups the problem is that it is very they say to understand that we have. been behind families and we need. to be shared. by the people through an inclusive political system that is retaining the power to the people rule of law was never meant. illegal low compared to the international community stand and your own forces police and courts that is what people are you so i think is just part of the punishment and part of the threats and fears today position of the activists not to join the movement that calling for simple rights universal rights of their people to be equal to have dignity to participate in political system and to have the below comment that is fair with everyone i welled up a time here on the program let's get some of the global headlines for you in brief

to iraq a series of bombings in baghdad of killed at least twelve people and left school was wounded deadliest attacks or 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 attack or a blast in a restaurant killed two more sectarian violence has worsened in recent years over eight thousand people killed in twenty thirteen or you can learn more about the civilian cost during iraq's troubles in a special online project at r.t. dot. right now. oh i thought no protests very angry demonstrators in mexico city where subway fares of rocketed by more than sixty six percent activists who called for a march through the capital metro and new to jump the ticket barriers and a show of defiance the price rise was set by the government weeks after

a survey showed that the majority would not oppose the hike. now nelson mandela has been laid to rest of his ancestral home after ten days of international mourning for the iconic leader is going down in history as the leader who vanquished apartheid and bridged racial and ethnic divides but with mandela's passing some africans fear the ghosts of the past may return call us live reports. don't lean sought refuge in south africa from the congo because of one man nelson. mandela cause is the one who allowed us to do. and came but now he's gone and only means afraid she and other foreigners like her will be kicked out i think that there were tears well thought in my eyes because they don't one foot in the company that put him over taking them to all those 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 hover 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's experienced here one of the things the party did for instance was that it divorced us from the rest of africa who failed 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 of she will want to go 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 who is doing it and you know where 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 two dean has been too afraid to step foot outside this church and now with mandela gone she's more afraid than ever to says something about the flood of them but now is not no one will talk about the president as night follows the schools close providing refuge to people seeking sanctuary in a country that doesn't want them. to one is south africa. coming to live from moscow up next the story of a theater in some petersburg that takes disadvantaged children off the streets and turns them into high flies it's artsy international thank you for joining us.

as we all know the holidays are a great time for families to get together and sometimes on the alcohol 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 and the cia agents lists a 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 despite 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 if they 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. though. i mailed her if took aim of i'm seventeen and i live in the unit district of st petersburg this is my entrance. that fellow. this is my district. football field. my old school and my nine story apartment block. so this is where i live.

i used to take drugs and drink like a fish i skipped school and was a real hooligan i stayed out all night and well you know. listen to me watch superstar you come here sit down and have a chat alright guys i don't know what we can do about this scene it hasn't come together yet and full of holes please let's rehearse the final scene. to my. right action. the concept is pretty simple we're circus a poorly constructed and we break down stereotypes about kids from disadvantaged backgrounds. and also the circus is

a modern circus stuff by socially disadvantaged kids. yeah just about five years. ago i did ok thank you. guys we need to buy cloths just means we need to meet all the guests and think about their accommodation just everyone should be comfortable for channels and then we should finish the staging and we hurts it's a pity we don't have thirty six hours in a day both then would have plenty of time for everything that fills.