now or in the future against the american people. this is r.t. this morning ukraine sees clarification from the e.u. our free european commissioner says trade deal talks with the country are on hold all this amid nonstop anti-government protests in the capital that are being cheered on by western politicians. also this week a massacre as reported in syria with islamist rebel forces said to have killed dozens of civilians in the latest in a series of atrocities. arledge 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.

to see just after midnight here in moscow you're watching the weekly with me kevin owen here on r.t. international it's around over the top stories the last seven days first again ukraine's seeking official confirmation this morning now that the e.u. is frozen or work on a trade an association deal it was after a tweet was posted by the e.u. commissioner for enlargement saying kiev is expectations are unrealistic. we have a statement by one of the european officials who is responsible for the enlargement of the european union particularly doing eastern direction with the staff and feel a good tweeter more on his official account that i quoted words and deeds over the korean president and government regarding association agreement with european union after further and further apart their arguments have no grounds for reality with

the global mr he will also went on to say that several days ago in brussels when he was meeting a delegation of ukraine's government he had warned that any further discussion about the association deal is conditioned by the crater site the deal ended but now the wording of the signing this deal has been put on hold because the greenside like had no other to that of this latest statement by the european official also puts huge pressure on the coverage because he has been saying all along continuously during press corps it says that 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 nearest 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 the situation to see how the latest statements by european officials late

may or may not anger the protesters even more. diplomatic sources are citing ukraine's financial demands as be behind the campaign saying from the very start of the country's failing economy couldn't handle a deal offered by brussels not to mention the modernization requested by the e.u. which would also cost billions of dollars while the nonstop anti-government rallies meant getting momentum in central kiev that was the pictures to put earlier on while over here tens of thousands took to the streets this weekend to support president going to code which is well those are two corresponding rallies just happening a few hundred meters apart in fact but earlier we spoke to foreign affairs editor of the chronicles magazine and told me it's no surprise that the deals being frozen yet again here. real didn't call her a deal b. you all heard very few beers agree which would have opened your green to west european industrial products without the possibility few of your

creative ministry x. four can cause least any longer of course ukraine is divided country in the west you have uni i can probably see music you have moscow. all the dogs. in the middle you have people who seem to e.g. of the chair speak russian but feel ukrainian and regional talk about ukraine as it ended the. the latest in a string of high profile foreign visits to kiev u.s. senator john mccain to the anti-government protests comes and pledged his support for the rest of them a coup or a legal expert a blog told me the visit shows washington's real intentions in ukraine. 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 in kiev 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. focusing on syria now if the next few minutes the forces are fighting to reclaim the town of address mask it's come off the map in a sec it's said to have been the state of a massacre this last week carried out by al qaeda linked militants assisted channel arabic follow this ripple. r.t.

sources in the military say radical islamist fighters and toured 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 the streets and cross roads very quickly and snipers took positions on the roofs and houses they carried out the massacre the first reports said twenty had been killed but they were received outdated figures it's a horrifying situation and a scene of murder atrocities and clear our 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 in an address may in fact increase because the syrian army has not yet liberated the entire town of. well let's cross live to international affairs defense analyst les says the phrase a reaction in sight less saving to give thanks for being with out take front just a couple of days ago said it's skeptical about next month's peace talks with the moderate opposition in syria now and also a couple days ago as well we had that the u.s. and the u.k. were going to withdraw their backing for the moderate rebels what impacts that going to have on the mall radical rebels that if any well it's important to first realize that the east let me struggles members of the flood make strong as with the other nusra front and the islamic state. in syria or lebanon to the last two linked to al qaeda they're all supported by saudi arabia and the release or not

just saudi arabia members of the persian both sort of like a cult or a night that i remember it so these groups they don't want peace they don't want to . be settlement of this you don't want them don't want to play called or syria by force if necessary if the government goes nuts render for sunday the only time i suppose they're going to run so that we have a situation we united states great britain there were favoring peace talks and you got to there were people you know thought. he would be free is he going to army we should be there largely constituted by thirty percent this year or by governments to get it c c c b s but that doesn't include according to them east let me say none the less in my opinion. they will like you for those reasons i think you see these stories you need to be interesting in this regard

according to this report. and i was targeted by these islamists and that's one of the most. the excess in syria where. the syrians heard establishing a joint company it will be building of the facilities to assemble. and assemble cars but ironically by the way they are saudi and german and french just so interesting. an interesting you know it's the saudi bin ladden quote your home can be found to be a facade of a lot of things that cost structure of course any industry so it's a. would say that if the very kinds don't support. these let me just. championed by saudi arabia perhaps also by the turks the qataris are going to be the leading elemental theorist ceased and so i rebelled when i used and as far as

the west is concerned can any of these radicals sides of the opposition be reasoned with the have been trying to reach out a hand to speak to them cannot be reasoned with as far as the west is concerned on this saudi arabia says so according to a previous reports when. the chief intelligence greenspun met secretly with the president they were russia but you are full steam back in august for this year. p. control these groups so if the saudis one thought they will vote apparently saudi arabia would like to bring syria through a sword off it is the means to control it sort of. it personally will be a circulate that saudi arabia would then be. the current government syria so unless the west wants to assert that well then it would be probably says it based like afghanistan where us after the hullo ninety eight will become

a. terrorist against the west so now it was time to leave my base not that these terrorists now is like they fred this may well be these they kids going to turn there and that's a. very complicated difficult picture painting the international affairs and defense analyst thanks for your analysis. all the time the u.k. based syrian observatory for human rights is reporting at least thirty six people have been killed in airstrikes in the syrian city of aleppo fifteen of those victims is said to be for them. the latest update from. the island is finally ready to take its finances into its own hands in the past week having become the first state to work itself free of rescue loans the milestones expected to dominate the irish prime minister's televised address in

fact to the nation in about an hour's time test for a set of reports from dublin. 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 are still high unemployment that have to be tackled as well as the 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 and has come through the worst of the crisis but we shouldn't underestimate the size of the crisis that faced because of the enormous holes in the banking sector which in turn resulted from

a very cavalier lending by the banking system very st mary citizens and taxpayers have had to pick up the bill for the mess the banking system with 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 moral do sting 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. reporting bad of the program protest about protests. i heard saying there's a rally in spain the turned ugly against possible restrictions on the demonstrations we have been labeled an attack on democracy we're covering and the elsewhere in space suits matter of say a cave is a community living in hollowed out hills have been ordered to get out by the authorities but the settlers refusing to cave in this story to.

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russia's president made it clear he's ready to defend traditional values in the state of the nation address this week in a putin also said the country doesn't aspire to be a superpower or to lecture others on how to conduct their affairs but is ready to defend itself whenever necessary you go pers can often call the story 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 had just returned from there as well and here are some of the key

points why they were important 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. because 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 a barbaric state. diplomacy was another point in the president's speech or specifically recent breakthroughs with syrian chemical weapons and the reigning nuclear program and 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 this is a very important lesson. lesson on how prices of this stuff 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're looking at what you do see 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 referring to the current situation in ukraine putin said moscow respects the desire of those partners who want to be closer to the e.u. as long as decisions aren't made by hotheads and are based on dialogue you've got to get off r.t. moscow. so that africa's looking to the future as nelson mandela is laid to rest but some migrants on some shore later in the program hear their fears that tension under the surface is about to boil over. first thousands of staged a violent protest in madrid venting their fury over a draft law that could enforce tough action against un sanctioned rallies. but two dozen people were injured seven arrested two were angry crowds attempted to surround the spanish parliament condemned the proposal which would impose hefty

fines for offenses which has been in the national flag and calling it the attack on democracy bills likely to pass into the although with strong support from the conservatives who hold a majority in the legislature activists doris been aghast says the protesters need to show that they're not ready to give up without a fight. see here is there is only need this is only the beginning we need a lot of efforts to stop this legislation but we don'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 will hopefully cheve what 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 and now we want to do it before and will always want it how much we won't be able to shut us up and we aren't afraid. we tom in southern spain a cave dwelling community is also starting its ground hundreds of activists formed a human barricade this week to resist being forcibly removed from their homes the

residents say the government wants them out to make way for a luxury resort musicale from 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 bonafide homes we believe in here for two years not and do not allow community it's the kind of place when they bruise 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 to live long enough ladies that we've done nothing for them down with us cup 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. of the one of the here and that's why your house is because you sort of already. 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 for a. big. 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 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 i'll tear your motive that would be like giving up the city council wants to shut down the kings but they don't want to of them 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 made a very clean not so say the residents the city council isn't likely to abandon its plans to the residents but for the people living in the caves of san miguel giving up is simply not an option reporting or we're not

a space for our to help and of. it's not your typical birthday celebration maybe but a russian adventurer shows he's in no mood to sit back and take it easy despite just turning sixty two the legendary fielder of snow set off on a solo trip across the pacific ocean in a small rowing boat we wish him all best to log on to r.t. dot com to see the launch of his daring voyage safe also online to google snaps of a firm providing full of the search robots for the pentagon you might think rather weird move it's keeps it's kept the reasons why it's done it under wraps r.t. dot com has more on the particular breakthrough technology on the web site if you want to get more afresh on it r.t. dot com. also mandela has been laid to rest of his ancestral home after ten days of international mourning for the iconic leader of course has gone down in history as the man who vanquished apartheid and bridged racial and ethnic divides but with mandela's passing some africans fear the ghosts

of the past may return as poor sleep. darlene sought refuge in south africa from the congo because of one man nelson. mandela causes though i knew a lot of the do inside of the. camp 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 what it was because they don't one foot in the continent in that spot in the west 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's 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 the crime being foreigners in a strange land i think we could we have. a right to life i think i should put. that. 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 in the way they're going to do the work to who is good and. what 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 liz too says something about the forgiveness but now it's not no one will talk about the fighting this as night falls the stores close providing refuge to people seeking sanctuary in a country that doesn't want them police here r.t. johannesburg south africa. this week according bahrain sentenced twelve 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 clout with the country spiraling into a dictatorship for bahraini parliament member. who's charged with inciting terror for criticizing the monarchy earlier this year self he says the authorities also bully politicians into not participating with human rights groups the problem then is very very thick to understand we have absolute authority was concentrated in

beyond the family and we need dollars or thirty years to be shared. by the people in the floor an inclusive political system that is returning the power to the people rule of law was never meant. illegal law compared to the international community stand and your own forces biased police and courts that is walking for you so i think is just part of the punishment and part of the threats and feels good acquisition 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 blog meant that is fair with everyone. you're watching out international the next news the bulletin in full about thirty two minutes from now after the break though it's a business show venture capital with host capability.

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some ruble get to sign j.p. morgan guys but show. most gives his last as off a house trading technique is going to be a little bit sad but so let's get stuck in and talk about greece because as i was saying the greek authorities or now have the power to tap into people's bank accounts i haven't been paying money that they are into the stays home. faction has already been taken against people that have been avoiding their tax bills have already had two thousand arrests made over debts which which they osha this stays as a consequence the state has managed to gather over nine million euros to state coffers so is greece right to come down on people that aren't paying their workers is just a step too far well we're going to ask dr nick scott is he isn't all the economists an international lawyer he's joining me from athens just now hi nick so first of all what you make of this move.