why you should care about. this is why you should care only dot com. watching r t tonight ukraine seeks clarification from the e.u. the european commissioner says trade deal talks with the country now on hold all this amid those nonstop anti-government protests in the capital being cheered on by western politicians will bring up to speed the latest also this last week a massacre reported in syria with islamist rebel forces said to have killed dozens of civilians in the latest in a series of atrocities. shakes off the bailout blues after breaking free of the e.u. is a program but the government warns that doesn't mean an end to austerity. and russia does not want to dominate the world but will stand firm in defending its values president putin delivers his annual state of the nation address.

very good evening if you just joined us for a few watching around the world this is r.t. internationally watching the weekly a round up of the top stories of the last seven days with me. first in ukraine seeking official confirmation that the e.u. is frozen all work on a trade association deal tonight that was after a tweet was posted by the commissioner for a large amount saying kiev is expectations are unrealistic. as the details we have a statement by one of the european officials who is responsible for the enlargement of the european union particularly doing. the step for. more on his official account called the words and deeds of the president's government regarding association agreement with the e.u. and your other further and further apart the arguments of all those grounds with. mr he will also why don't the same. that several days ago in brussels when he was

meeting a delegation of ukraine's government here that warned that any further discussion about the association deal is conditioned by the greatest side of the deal i did not know the wording of the signing this deal has been put on hold because the greens had no answer to that after this latest statement by the european official also puts huge brazilian a coverage because he has been saying all along continuously during press corps it is the leaders with the european officials and the opposition that israel would not step down from your integration. he was fully expecting to sign your association deal in the year is the future meanwhile the protests are continuing everywhere across the brain more than definitely more than one hundred thousand people are now in the central square of the capital and we're watching this situation to see how the latest labor the european officials wake up may or may not and the protest is even more. diplomatic sources is citing money matters is the reason behind the

alleged perspire been saying for a very start that the country's failing economy couldn't handle the deal offered by brussels right now not to mention the modernization requested by the e.u. which would also cost billions of dollars well the nonstop anti-government rallies have been getting momentum in central kiev the latest isaf the new meantime tens of thousands also took to the streets this weekend to support president in the code which is well the two rallies happening just a couple hundred meters apart in fact meantime the latest in the string of high profile foreign visitors to care of u.s. senator john mccain to the anti-government protest camps and pledged his support for the unrest i spoke to alexander mccurry he's a legal expert and blogger he told me the visit shows washington's real intentions in ukraine. well the reason they are there is bluntly because i think these people want to detach the ukraine from russia as they see it and they think that by supporting the protesters and here they might actually achieve that the problem with that strategy is that it's simply not working the bonds between the ukraine

and russia economically and culturally ethnically and simply too strong and i think for american politicians and indeed european politicians to go to the ukraine and to try to do that is actually very unwise and very dangerous and he simply exacerbating making worse the differences the divisions in the ukraine which are already very great. in syria government forces are fighting to reclaim the town of address damascus is said to be the scene of a massacre this last week curry. militants by sister channel r.t. arabic filed this report. r.t. sources in the military say radical islamist fighters and toward the town of address and massacred local civilians according to the latest figures at least

eighty people were killed in the districts which the syrian army has now liberated entire families were killed other families were kidnapped and are being used as human shields in the battle against government forces. that are out. militants from jabhat al nusra and the army of his lawyers seize control of all of the streets and cross roads very quickly first took positions on the roof and how did they carried out the massacre the first report said twenty had been killed but they received updated figures it's a horrifying situation on the scene of the murder atrocities and clear r t sources in the military also say that some of the kidnapped families have been transferred to areas south of the town they're now being held in strategically important zones which the rebels have been using as a base of operations in these places are heavily fortified sources also say the total death toll an address a main fact increase because the syrian army has not yet liberated the entire town

and this is western forces rather reported considering direct negotiations with jihadist forces but syrian political analyst says the islamists are unlikely to embrace diplomacy here. bickley say that democracy isn't part of their a chip objectives actually it's something bad because it is some sort of framework as they describe it for multiple beliefs and face and whatever it is to live with each other and that is pretty much contradictory to their idea of islam which is you know the main or the only true religion and so on and so forth and that is definitely not going to be permissible you know anyone who opposes them in the areas that they control they can easily take them and cut their head off under the the accusation of blasphemy and what they want is for others to for you follow through rather than to have what they feel is

a meaningless political game really that in their own point of view would only allow what they call the regime to survive and while the u.k. very serious observatory for human rights is reporting at least twenty two people have been killed in air strikes in the syrian city of aleppo fourteen of the victims are said to be children they're there with r.t. for the latest updates from the war zone the. island has finally ready to take its finances into its own hands barely after becoming the first e.u. states to work itself free of those rescue loans this milestones expected to dominate the irish promises televised address in about two hours time tesla said reports from dublin. people know that in that decision they endured 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

corps the 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 business is starting all over again here in dublin however when you go just one hour out of the capital the story is really different and has come through the worst of the crisis but we shouldn't underestimate the size of the crisis it faced because of the enormous holes in the banking sector which in turn resulted from very cavalier lending by the banking system irish treat our citizens and taxpayers have had to pick up the bill for the mess the banking system was the government had 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. boost of success in terms of exiting again more closely

monitoring of the troika economically there's still a long long way to go for our lead to really be calling itself success. up ahead of the program a protest about protests. watching a rally in spain during a campaign against possible restrictions on authorized demonstrations was been labeled an attack on democracy we're following up plus elsewhere in spain it's a matter of save cavers a community living in hollowed out hills have been ordered to get out by the authorities but the settlers say they're refusing to cave in middle their story to . russia's president made it clear he's ready to defend traditional values in the state of the nation address this last week but even with putin also said the country does not aspire to be a superpower or to lecture others on how to conduct their affairs but is ready to defend itself whenever necessary you can off the story it's traditionally become the place to be to find out the president's vision of the present 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 had just returned from there as well and here are some of the key points by the report had to me russia isn't looking at dominating the rule but that doesn't mean it has to stop protecting its sovereignty and 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 downwards back towards chaos and depart beric state. diplomacy was another point in the president's speech or specifically recent breaks loose with syrian chemical weapons

and the reigning nuclear program many analysts agree 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 it and as a country so i think 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. you know when you look at 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 everything to the current situation in ukraine putin said moscow respects the desire of those who want to be closer to the e.u. as long as decisions aren't made by potheads and are based on dialogue you go upscale of moscow. coming up south africa's looking to the future as nelson mandela is laid to rest and some migrants on the shore of the program we hear their fears that tension on the surface is about to boil over plus. in a way. we've been married and we've been on marriage straight is high court strikes

down the country's first low allowing same sex marriage is looking to the broader setbacks for gay rights in different countries but after the break. wealthy british style it's time to rise from. the. markets why not scandals. find out what's really happening to the global economy in these kinds of reports on r t. e speak or language. all programs and documentaries in arabic it's all here on. reporting from the world talks about six of v.i.p.'s interviews intriguing stories for you. then try. to find out more visit our big. dog called.

hello again thousands of staged a violent protest to madrid venting their fury over a draft law that couldn't force tougher action against un sanctioned rallies. i two dozen people were injured seven arrested two were angry crowds attempted to surround the spanish parliament because of it activists condemned the proposal which would to impose hefty fines for offenses such as burning the national flag calling it an attack on democracy the bills likely to pass into law two with strong

support from conservatives who hold a majority in the legislature but activist doris span ago says the tests need to show that they're not ready to give up without a fight. see if things really nice here this is only the beginning we need a lot of efforts to stop the surges lation we don't want this year to end without at least starting to demonstrate against a strong low c. and yes this is only the beginning because it will take some months for the law to be considered and adopted yes it will hopefully achieve what we want 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 follow it and will always want to be able to shut us up and we're going to bring out members up on that point also pretty appalling in the wake in southern spain cave dwelling communities been standing its ground hundreds of activists there formed a human barricade to resist being forcibly removed from their homes now the residents say the government wants them out to make way for a luxury resort lucy calf north 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 brewers 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 for them don't we don't have 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 aren't proper houses and it isn't the residential area of the city that the caves are unsafe for any humans to 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 actually one of the first united fans here and that's why houses because you sort of already. i think of it said with the arcs 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 to. give me 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 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 all teary or motive that would be like giving up the city council wants to shut down the kings but they don't want to tear them down that's why we think they really just want to. 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 maybe. not so to 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 tea i'm lucy catherine of. so entirely different online it's not your typical birthday celebration but we're talking about russian aventura showing

he's in no mood to sit back and take it easy despite turning sixty two for his birthday the legendary field office set off on a solo trip across the pacific ocean though a small rowing boat with a weigh them off log on to the launch of his daring book which also would r.t. dot com as well tonight google has snapped up a firm providing four legged research robots for the pentagon might seem peculiar move keeps the reasons why under wraps so we've got more on this breakthrough technology anywhere on our website and read up more about what's involved. now some of that has been laid to rest as ancestral home after ten days of international mourning for the iconic leader he's got that history of course as the man who vanquished apartheid bridged racial and ethnic divides but with mandela's passing some africans fear the ghosts of the past may return fall asleep reports. don't lean sought refuge in south africa from the congo because of one man nelson.

mandela causes the one while out of the. came but now he's gone and only means afraid she and other foreigners like her will be kicked out i think there were tears well but it was there during one foot in the area complaining that put in there that taking their jobs millions of africans have fled to a troubled countries in search of a better life in south africa but more often than not they've swapped one hundred for another with no money work or prospects a handful have made this place a methodist church in downtown johannesburg. if you agree or you for your german or if you're fringe and you come into this country you were into experience what's experienced here one of the things the prostate did for instance was that it divorced us from the rest of africa. well felt 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 because 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 going to know where they're going to do the work to who is good in. the world 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 to stretch and now with mandela gone she's more afraid than ever liz too says something about the flood and. no one will talk about the flooding this as

night falls these schools close providing refuge to people seeking sanctuary in a country that doesn't want them. on t.v. johannesburg south africa. is probably to be a tough month for gay rights this last month this week indeed this trail is high court overturned the country's first law allowing same sex couples to marry before but india upheld legislation that criminalizes homosexuality while croatians overwhelmingly voted against same sex marriage in a national referendum they held got it you can report. 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 there is the opposite train 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 office or

e said no right to decide the matter to live in a relationship of loves and trusts to any seven australians couple of them saw their marriage annulled takes off areas 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. 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 is just me gay sex illegal again since 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 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 two years is highly unlikely you have about. the 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 gonna check on our team. it may protest has turned out good at the government's decision to legalize gay marriage but. thinks the french authorities are just afraid to put the issue do nationwide referendum. there is increasing skepticism about it because indians use the as a human rights of every kind same sex marriage achieved a substantial majority of it in 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 about adoption choice of the french people who does mean a civil union 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 it for political reasons because they wanted to and not in the direction of that is their 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 that if you have a referendum this is certainly the case in france to have a referendum on this what are you going after i should have a referendum on a host of other issues and governments will find their hands tied and get the answers they want and they go to restrengthen because it focuses attention on the problem in question of people actually start to think about it rather than gaily unser in public opinion polls or giving it much thought. to stories making headlines right now and tonight a series of bombings in baghdad have killed at least twelve or less scores wounded the deadliest attack so sick she had pilgrims killed by a car bomb at a rest stop on the way to karbala elsewhere a bomb killed three in an outdoor market while another attack so a blast in a restaurant killed two more sectarian violence has worsened in recent years with over eight thousand killed in twenty thirty new learn more about the civilian cost during iraq's troubles two if you remember in

a special online project we've been running watching this last couple weeks and t. talk on. iraq to the suburb in stockholm with anti fascist protesters question with far right activists riot has held rocks bottles and firecrackers each other at least two people were injured twenty eight arrests were made there. it's twenty seven is possible midnight here in moscow thanks for company were you watching out international it was good to have you with us on the way after the break the story of a russian soldier who threw some for the good name to save his fellow brothers called the hero. but after this break.

as we all know the holidays are a great time for families to get together and sometimes on the it's 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 then 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. active 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 but that's just my opinion.

you know what i am jenny you. are with the assault section of the second platoon third special forces unit. and we were always on the alert for a long conflict because if we get intelligence about militants in the neighborhood it's usually reliable it was moving in the squadron has played a part in conflicts before but this was the first attack of its kind on terrain like this. when we were expecting them we were ready for them at any moment but it was a very difficult area and they were able to open fire first. was not. his movement . for a special forces soldier thinking is paramount but without tell you makes the right

decisions. during that five militants tried to outflank the three soldiers led by paul four and started throwing hand grenades at them again yep off covered one of those grenades with his own body and. of course i was frightened but i tried to compose myself i was thinking somehow i had to come back because mom was waiting for me this is a thought the comes you down mom's waiting. thanks it's a series now before they're. every one of us is ready for it well perhaps not completely ready to prepare yourself for death but we do know the risks we know what our task is and above all where it is that we serve .