thank. you. live from moscow what i am this is r t this morning ukraine seeks clarification from the e.u. offer european commissioner says the trade deal talks with the country are on hold all this amid nonstop anti-government protests in the capital being cheered on by western politicians. also this 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. eilidh 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 doesn't want to dominate the world but will stand firm in defending its values president putin delivers his annual state of the nation address.

hello my name is kevin over this is r.t. international you're watching the weekly roundup of the top stories of the last seven days and first ukraine is seeking official confirmation that the e.u. is frozen or work on a trade in association deal it's after a tweet was posted by the e.u. commissioner for enlargement saying kiev's expectations were unrealistic alexia's yes q reports. 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 few labor tweeted more on his official account that i quoted words and deeds over the korean president and government regarding association agreement with their being a union of further and further apart their arguments have no grounds and the global

missed a few really also went on to say that several days ago in brussels when he was meeting a delegation of ukraine's government he had been warned that they defer the discussion about the association deal this condition. by the crate to sign the deal but now the board on the signing this deal has been put on hold because the green side had no uncertain that this latest statement by the european official also puts huge pressure on the coverts because he has been saying all along continuously during press corps it is the leaders with the european officials and the opposition that ukraine would not step down from the euro integration. he was fully expecting to sign the euro association deal or no in the year is the future meanwhile the protests are continuing everywhere across a train 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 statements by european officials late may or may not anger the protesters

even more. diplomatic sources is citing ukraine's financial demands as being behind the e perspire moment now kim's been saying that from the very start the country's failing economy couldn't handle the deal currently being offered by brussels 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 a good moment in central care these the latest pictures we had through earlier on well right over here tens of thousands also took to the streets this weekend as well to support president. those two rallies were taking place within a few hundred meters of each other at one point earlier we spoke to the foreign affairs editor of chronicles magazine who were told this is no surprise that the deal's been frozen yet again the e.u. didn't call her a deal b. you all heard very dubious agreement which would have opened ukraine to west european industrial products without the possibility of ukraine. thanks for the release any longer of course ukraine is divided

country in the west you have uni i can probably see in the. moscow. all the dogs. in the middle you have people who've seen the interior of the capital speak russian but feel your green yen and regional talk about ukraine as it ended the may one of the latest in a string of high profile fora visits to kiev u.s. senator john mccain to the anti-government protest camps and pledged his support for the rest i spoke to xander mccurry he's a legal expert and blogger he says 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 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 are 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. let's focus in on syria now for those couple of minutes their government forces are fighting to reclaim the town of address near damascus it's said to be the scene of a massacre this last week carried out by al qaeda linked militants by our sister channel r.t.r. a big file 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 law seize control of all the streets and cross roads very quickly snipers took positions on the roof and houses they carried out the massacre the first reports said twenty had been killed but today we're dated figures it's a horrifying situation and a scene of murder atrocities and fear 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 in address may in fact increase because the syrian army has not yet liberated the entire town international affairs and defense analyst les assessed he believes that without america's support his and his will be the leading element in the resistance movement. well it's important to first realize that the east let me struggles they don't want peace they don't want. to be settlement with us you don't want them don't want to take over syria by force if necessary if the government doesn't surrender for a sunday don't ask this is no going to sprint or so we have a situation we united states great britain it were favoring their peace talks in geneva two they were also the. treaty is syrian army well it doesn't include according to them these let me say none the less in my opinion the u.s.

government and they would like if not to bring down the moment in syria at least to destroy the country so i would say that if the americans though support these let's these let me just are going to be the leading elemental the resistance of the rebels. well meantime the u.k. based syrian observatory for human rights is reporting that at least thirty six people have been killed in a strikes in the syrian city of aleppo fifteen of those victims are said to be sure you stay with us he will bring you the latest updates of course from the. islands finally ready to take his finances into its own hands having become the first e.u. 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 less than half an hour from now test priscilla reports from dublin. people know that in that decision they endured three years of very very deep us terry 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 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 business is your 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 than 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 state and 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 or morale boosting success in terms of exiting again more of the 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. but enjoy a break so just a protest about protests. i . don't see in this rally inspiring the campaign against possible restrictions on oil for a demonstration which been labeled attack on democracy but follow that up at all sort of spying to it's a matter of saving a community living in hollowed out hills that we're told to get out by the authorities those settlers though are refusing to cave in this story to.

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picture. from around the globe. hello again russia's president made it clear he's ready to defend traditional values in the wake of his state of the nation address the duma put it 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 go pers going off scot 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 stop politicians businessmen economists and elites gather at the kremlin to listen to his annual address first head of just returned from there as well and here are some of the key points why the world had to make 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 rein in your group 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 yet another country so i think this is a very important lesson. lesson on how our crisis of this time should be sold us 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. south africa's look into the future is now so mandela is laid to rest coming up some migrants though aren't so sure later in the program we hear their fears that tension on the surface is about to boil over. thousands of stage of violent protests to madrid venting their fury of a draft law that could have forced tough action against some sanctioned rallies. two dozen people were injured here seven were arrested grown great crowds attempted to surround the spanish parliament condemned the proposal which would impose hefty fines for offenses such as very in the national flag they're calling it an attack

on democracy the bill is likely to pass into law though with strong support from the conservatives they hold a majority of the legislature activists doris but i guess though says the protesters need to show that they're not ready to give up without a fight see here is certainly need this is only the beginning we need a lot of efforts to stop the status lation 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 but hopefully achieve 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 now we wanted before and will always want it how much they won't be able to shut us up and we aren't a. story this past week from southern spain as well there are cave dwelling communities starting it's grown to hundreds of activists of former human barricade this week to resist being forcibly moved from their homes the residents say the

government wants them out to make way for luxury resort is caffein off went to meet these 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 now and they're really not a wood community it's the kind of place when neighbors helped 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 i believe long and ladies that we've done nothing for them down with us cut 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 the caves are unsafe for any humans still have and 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 houses 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 for a. big satisfaction to. 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 burma is one of the residents who could lose her home she too suspects and alter your motive. the city council wants to shut down the killings but they don't want to of them that's why we think they really just want to get 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 it were not a space for our tape and the. half an hour out of forty on line at r.t.

dot com it's not your typical birthday celebration but a russian adventure it shows he's in no mood to sit back and take it easy despite turning sixty two which is where the legend refused to. set off on a solo trip across the pacific ocean in a small rowing boat we wish him well the log on to our to go promise of the launch of his daring voyage also with r.t. dot com as well news that google snapped up a firm providing four legged research robots for the pentagon a strange move you make think look at the reasons why they've done this under wraps i don't r.t. dot com exam a bit closer this is a breakthrough technology and look at the ramifications of it. now also mandela has been laid to rest of his ancestral home after ten days of international mourning for the iconic leader he's gone down in history of course 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 paul asli

of. dolan sought refuge in south africa from the congo because of one man nelson mandela causes though i knew a lot of the do. that had to came but now he's gone and only means afraid she and other foreigners like her will be kicked out i think that out as well but it was because they don't one foot in the area in that spot in the attic in 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 harbor 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 the pastor did

for instance was that a 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 call that lead 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 the number they're going to do the work to who is good and. where we are to give them a sense of going home though is not an option political instability acute poverty and violence awaits them. for twelve long man stood leaning has been too afraid to step foot outside this church and now with mandela gone she's more afraid

than ever listless there's something about the foot interval that no one will talk of by the for violence as night falls these doors close providing refuge to people seeking sanctuary in a country that doesn't want them policy or r.t. johannesburg south africa. but being part of the european union member states have full access to cost a vast markets but with all the rules and regulations there's no guarantee that every firm could benefit from the open border policy indeed in the u.k. many companies say brussels is making it hard to do any business at all polly boy has more. simon york likes cheese he and his partners have built up a thriving businesses wholesalers of the stuff part of their success simon says is down to the single market importing french products or exporting british ones couldn't be easier we steered clear of american cars this inquiry's of complexity

of doing it for me how hard it is to export whereas here your goods very easy because you know you just make sure it's just a big deal for it in total transports rates abou diaby of the idea of what the price for this is well the key the cost and also it's distributed within and outside of britain and although the big cheese of this company says that being force in the e.u. brings much said benefits to the way that they export their products nor all businesses in the u.k. so hold on the european union. have come to a small movie in wales to talk to a business that says it's under threat because the restrictions being can fit in brussels james done with cells and electronic cigarettes online and in shops around wales the business is growing fast as most smokers try to kick the habit that brussels is trying to regulate the industry is considering classing the devices as

medicinal products if the e.u. insists on regulating cigarettes as medicinal products licenses for this stock would cost tens of millions of pounds the company would basically be out of business the problem is the cost and the bureaucracy involved is just not possible for small or medium size companies to get these this license so what you'd be looking at is the big tobacco companies taking over their electronic cigarette industry of course they have the least motivation to push electronic cigarette industry forward james says the company. pays extra for short leases on the shop space in case the business is forced to shut down at any moment for instance chamber of commerce say that companies complain increasingly about the burden of european regulation making them less competitive in the global market or use a preprogram europe and a lot more skeptical now these regulations is disproportionate they're going to

force businesses out of business they're also potentially going to cost many millions of lives obviously that makes you more skeptical it is of course a case of apples and oranges or rather cheesy and e.'s cigarettes but a reminder about how differently the european union is viewed in british business. r.t. london. it was appreciated company thanks for being with us again tonight second one twenty seven am in the morning here in moscow coming up of the break the story of a theater in some papers but it takes disadvantaged children off the streets in terms of their real life line is this the next program on r t international.

they're calling obama's happy smiling sophie photo with the danish and british prime ministers at the mandela funeral an international incident but before we rail on obama for doing something stupid a funeral we need to clear one thing up the washington post says that this action occurred at the memorial service after the funeral was over and trust me after about three hours of serious lectures at a conference or some sort of super long wedding most of us would just be banging our heads against the wall out of boredom and i'd probably check my email about seven times obama's place know i said most of us but the president isn't supposed to be like most of us because he represents all of us it's one thing when you're fourteen and too stupid to realize that selfie photos at the wake after grampa's funeral is a bad idea but it's another thing entirely when one of the most photographed and powerful people on the planet takes a selfie at the memorial service of someone he claims to respect although i might sound annoyed this sophie is pretty much irrelevant this is just

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