because that will is that. this was the final stage of human to see. the talks. so that it's like in the preparation for this into governmental commission i would like to thank my colleagues from the russian government. had the commission the sin of course the ukrainian government this well so there we worked together on this. but it is a let me be frank with you not that i know that we would not be able to work at such a high speed had it not been for the political and will of russian president vladimir putin but much i mentioned this when we met you know wider formats and i would like to read to read it now our talks were not easy because we had to cover

a lot of subjects would it be required if some discussion so. but. that's not to say. but it didn't it is a we reviewed our past. problems. as a result of which. you used and if you project. would were postponed or sometimes even terminated we need to learn. it for the future and we should never repeat the same mistakes again so the conversation we have to do. with this concluding conversation. gunstock to you it was very constructive. very specific zealot and when we met in the wider format we jury so much of it lucia. that it would always go to caucus on the practical aspect.

of our we were in the music's. konami operation and working together on our joint projects in all the different areas that are in two countries are interested in. us and as a foundation for this work. this foundation to be decades even centuries stream enough to be the built in the to miss least that our computers are especially did a lot to build this foundation and we all know what if they can do much. and of course. there is. everything we have two countries have in common. we just can't use it in any other way we should use them effectively

this. at the mature there is no alternative at the most of this. so naturally. all the work we did together. in the numbers of. this work was to receive positive dynamics in our trade. resolution that. we have a specific joint projects. much as the teachers emphasize is this true you can the nature of our relationship so i see ukraine's trade with russia but the whole milk at them what this it makes it impossible for us to act in any other way on the street we have is a value of this and we have to do crease at this. so when you get.

trade agreements between our two countries and their road map we prepared. for a joint action all of this isn't intended to facilitate access for our products to each other so markets and to increase trade between our countries. and. the efficient implementation of this plan will make it possible for our two countries to further develop their really should be shipped but there to do and it was directly that in fact the welfare of our people. are meeting today we return we have a strong foundation and good prospects for further development. after our talks we signed a large number of agreements. and

i would like to say. that what that in twenty fourteen says that you and. will have a necessary condition in cynical us for industrial copper relation and trade for. this place provides for a mutually beneficial trades supplies for its products. joint projects but do in order to produce competitive the goods. which we will sell not only in each other's markets but in the third countries as well and mr putin in. identified. certain projects it will help

those further develop our high tech operation including the aircraft manufacturer that should build. and build just. for example. that we will continue working. and seventy aircraft and jointly manufacture airplanes you also. find in the billions of other crossings for the courage. the first time we started talking about this project may be. eight years ago if not . slow so we are taking a definite step you would use that if. you will start a real work and we will implement this project did you have auto. in our talks in the us of course but we also talked about it.

i fully agree with a lot. and said this is not just a matter of special prices but. the pricing comes from our joint work and for the future in the long term we really need to consider what's. the best way. to work together. to. both thought ice what i mean is we need conditions we need transparency for the. gas transporting system what i mean is we need this not only. guessing about it for oil as well we need this kind of operation and we have a lot of. prospects we have a joint projects. that we can implement them to get to of course we'll soon.

peroration in transport. so that you can say when you have transport say and transport building. transports which. has a lot of potential. where we can work together in this theater credit is bitchin and instead of us that of protecting its rights this is the future. of it. and i think very soon we'll start working on that together also i would like to mention that. comp aeration at the regional level and across the water is trading. this directly involves the interests of the people

who. really. have been living for centuries side by side in the current situation is difficult on them and we need to address the situation together and make it easier for people to cross the border. because the agreement we signed. the agreement up the. border regions. in the new we also the specialist attention to the celebration will have next year but do you kind of years since the birth of . we will have a number of special events dedicated to this wonderful event who. would want to live. in the international arena it is an international organization and we have agreed as the final product

says that the next seven meeting will take place in twenty four in ukraine thank you. president putin and ukraine's president viktor yanukovych holding a news conference after they held talks earlier today in the russian capital this of course and with a month now almost of protests in kiev on my down square after he backed out of. an agreement that would bring ukraine closer to europe i just want to go over some of the main points as we were following this news conference first off gas prices for ukraine have gone down about four hundred dollars to two hundred sixty eight point five four thousand cubic meters that is a temporary sale i think we could say on gas of course the country ukraine in deep financial crisis we heard that. no talks of

a customs union in fact to quote putin none at all and we do know that russia is ready to invest in ukraine's securities of its reserves worth fifteen billion dollars so that's what we're taking out of this we will join our correspondent you corpuscle know who is near the kremlin for us following this developing story so do stay with us for that. now a new energy boom may be coming to the british countryside but so far it's had are far from warm welcome a government report has laid the groundwork to open up vast swathes of the u.k. for oil exploration including shell gas fracking for explains. well this is a regulatory roadmap on shore oil and gas exploration and it's the government setting out their stall for where they see this drilling technique taking the u.k. in the future and there are four reports for england scotland wales and northern

ireland so essentially all across the u.k. and it's been described as an important next step for the potential of shale gas in the u.k. energy mix now it's a bulky document but if you look at the actual wording of it and there are some parts where it seems the government is excepted that they don't fully understand the environmental consequences of this controversial technique known as fracking but nonetheless they are going ahead looking at ways to expand its use in the u.k. now is for you can to the department for energy and climate change this morning and they said that they've got more than a dozen applications that are under consultation at the moment so they're being considered and that consultation process usually lasting on average of about twelve weeks so you can expect early next year that we're going to find out where the new licenses are actually going to be granted chunks of the united kingdom as he said

the government has very much tried to highlight the benefits that will come from there saying that it was sure up energy security in the u.k. talking about job creation but the months local communities will be seen test sites already using this technique we have seen activities for activists and opposition groups just yesterday in fact in manchester near a test site we saw a group of activists laying down the wing of the wind turbine in opposition so certainly the government aren't going to have an easy time i think convincing members of the local community who are concerned if she's about water pollution about earthquakes in areas where test drilling has been carried out so a lot of can. i've been saying that still to be done this is a very bulky report that we seem to publish today lots of nitty gritty details quite hard to get a full understanding of it but as he said it's really made very clear that the government is going to want to push ahead with this technique all across the u.k.

. the u.k. is energy minister has held this report is the next step in unlocking britain's fracking potential but london campaign officer for the young greens ben ali says us tells us rather this is the wrong solution. fracking is an expensive way of not solving the crises that we face from a very little to bring down prices will do very little to solve the climate crisis that we face generates a false hope for the issues that we were looking to resolve it won't be done in two prices the government has admitted this is simply offers the opportunity to hoover up wealth from government subsidies and commodity sells up to holders and companies and it's not about people's wealth well being so what's down the road for britain if fracking revolution takes hold well look no further than texas the shale gas drilling capital of the world their property prices are tanking near wells rank smells stretch for miles and even earthquakes have been linked to fracking that's

not all as you can explain. the local government in texas tells steve lipski that the water from his well water that he can set on fire is safe to drink and to use in his home. you can hear it in here. thank you but steve has the assessment of other experts who say he's well is it ticking bomb in his backyard loaded with methane and other contaminants why the starkly different assessments steve claims that a fracking operation nearby contaminated his well and that texas energy authorities are shielding the gas company. they don't want the world to know that it really is this bad they don't want it in official documents it could be that the fracking allowed gas from lower formations into the aquifer and subsequently into steve lipski as well the gas company denies the claim the lipski is sued the range

resources corp but the firm counter sued and won in caution effect evidence a ground water is incredibly difficult to prove my use of us are is an engineer who worked with the federal environmental protection agency is not surprised that the state oil and gas regulator sided with the gas corporation concede that the rights it seen come in survival from oil and gas production issues should be putting in charge of also regulating the protection of groundwater from our going down swells and there's an inherent conflict of interest in that determined to fight for his home father of three steve has been shipping fresh water from the city on trucks at a cost of five hundred dollars a month but the family now faces another blow from the fracking corporation

a four point two million dollars lawsuit for defamation. steve lipski is dream house and it's a beautiful property has become his nightmare several of his neighbors apparently have the same problem but they're reluctant to speak out after they saw how the gas company went after mr lipski they shouldn't expect much help from washington either so why do you sell us our says the environmental protection agency has not put nearly enough resources into studying the effects that fracking has on groundwater but that didn't stop the p.a. from coming up with a report in favor of the practice. believes kids were advised to vent the gas constantly to keep it from accumulating under their property as their neighboring gas well continues to frack this guy thousand feet do you pretty much standing around on top of that one hundred years from now when somebody dies because there's some contaminant the border and they're able to trace it to this

fracking and we've got the office ted who cares invested a few loss of fee for now it seems that the authorities at all levels are so fired up on fracking potential profits that households like steve leaves his family are left to fight alone to get a healthy environment in their homes going to check on our t.v. parker county texas. we're going to take a short break more news coming out. of the book. it was

a. very hard to take a. look. at that act with senator gregg there. with. the for the. good fortune artie international live from moscow the syrian army has reportedly

liberated k. districts in the city of which has it seems witnessed atrocities described as the most barbaric since the war started almost three years ago local residents have told r.t. that adults and children were tortured and beheaded by a battalion of islamic rebels who tried to seize control of the area some estimates put the number of civilians killed at around two hundred across marty's arabic channel is there. when dawn was breaking over address the al nusra front and the army of islam gave a signal for their fighters to attack that they came in hundreds making use of bad weather and the element of surprise over government forces it was a year after fierce fighting with the syrian army the rebel factions achieve their objectives with the city soon falling into the hands of those who the residents of the city have dubbed the decapitated hours. how the friend of mine told me that he claimed he was insane in order to save his life and avoid the militants they

believe just story and let him go he also said his children have been emotionally scarred from the savage act they have seen on the road between their house and the places where the choir is gathered people's heads were chopped off and the bodies thrown all over the road ahead of the slaughter everywhere the eldest was only twenty years old he was slaughtered they were all children i saw them with my own eyes they killed fourteen people with a machete i don't know if these people were alawite i don't know why they were slaughtered they grabbed them by their heads and food and slaughtered them like sheep madra an industrial town is inhabited by thousands of workers and their families who were all trapped when the fighters surrounded the town the details of what happened there are still on certainly no we've only had leaks about massacres that have been described as the most of the gruesome since the start of the syrian crisis civilians told us that the workers of not to be crude were all legs accused

and burned during the first hours and they've attacked whole families were massacred we do not have an exact estimation of the number because we were unable to get into the town but the number is high the other the woman in your position the syrian army commanders in the region decided to besiege the town and protect civilians by isolating them from areas where fighting is ongoing and a move seems necessary by the military whose operation is not expected to be an easy one. r.t. . and back to you crane which has secured a lower price for russian gas as well as an injection of fifteen billion dollars by selling government securities to moscow the deals were hammered out at top level talks here in the russian capital which has been closely watched by the pro e.u. opposition back in kiev which has been suspecting something more sinister was afoot well our teacher was there at the meeting listening in arts and brings us up to date so the three main points that we've just heard of voiced by the presidents of

russia and ukraine is that first of all moscow and kiev did agree on the price for russian gas for two thousand and fourteen which came down from four hundred dollars to roughly two hundred seventy dollars per thousand cubic meters as far as well understand this is a temporary measure due to financial difficulties with the ukrainian economy secondly the country is getting a low interest rate loan worth around fifty fifteen billion us dollars from russia and the third key point confirmed by both presidents is that they did not discuss the customs union nor the did they discuss the ukraine's association agreement with the european union now. this meeting was definitely watched closely by the opposition in ukraine by the protesters who are saying that there are further actions that would largely depend on the outcome of this meeting and they did

spread the speculation and rumors that president bush was secretly brokering out a deal on ukraine's session to into the customs union which was now officially denied so basically the ball is now on their side also the other player watching this meeting was deafening the european union since throughout the events which have been unfolding in ukraine for the past several weeks largely and widely. to be trying to sit on two chairs at the same time either leaning more towards the european union or well meaning more towards a russia the country's economy is in poor shape but the european union did deny giving it financial aid and. knowing the easy knowing that these problems are taking place the brussels position has been changing from time to time and for more on this here is

a report by my colleague who took a closer look at the e.u.'s recent rhetoric. the threat of sanctions if he goes to most called afterwards is why. then it might be interesting to know that. the bank accounts in general cannot be open to any more for some criminals to open the questioning of the green government's credibility this government of ukraine has clearly discredited itself in terms of economic help from the e.u. the reaction of europe's officials to the events of last month in ukraine has indeed made to reach cocktail they've effectively played with ukraine's expectations some have expressed uncertainty about a future dialogue with. we lacking a decision by ukraine's leader in a situation when ukraine's president says the offer is not good for his country we need to take a break and think it over while others signaled there was still a whole political statements on twitter are not the best way to resolve the matter

the best signal we could make is to tell you crave that our doors are still open for it. all this marks quite a change from the sweet talk of many european leaders before the vilnius summit in november where president which had refused to sign the. deal the offer of signing the most ambitious agreement the european union has ever offered to a nonmember state is still on the table. we should always respect ukraine's suffering decisions but the. proposed. deal was in order it's a black. president. and of course it's connected with they are present connect that with the interests of those who want to get some benefits from joining the comprehensive free trade

area. the money is still the main sticking point ukraine needs billions. millions and. this continuing standoff. is going to. be the likely result of this trip despite harsh rhetoric coming from europe which has been insisting that ukraine will not step down from the euro association however they protesting crowd behind the barricades already made it clear that every step of ukraine's president in moscow will be closely watched. reporting from kiev in ukraine. breaking the site with abby martin is next.

they're calling obama's happy smiling sophie photo with the danish and british prime ministers at the mandela funeral and international and student 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 occurs 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 will just be banging our heads against the wall out of boredom. and i've probably checked 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 sophie photos at the wake after grandpa'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 a big error of etiquette there are plenty of real concrete things with real

consequences to be bad at obama over like our big religious wacko rebels in syria or signing into law the n.b.a. i wish with all my heart that we only had to be angry with obama over some minor etiquette errors but sadly they're just a drop in the obama bucket but that's just my opinion. of. what's happening folks i'm abby martin and this is breaking the set last week a sixteen year old texas teenager named ethan couch was sentenced for killing four people and severely injuring two others while driving belligerently drunk so knowing texas is penchant for punishment one can only assume that this kid got at least a couple of years behind bars nope instead the judge gave him ten years probation and a trip to a four hundred fifty thousand dollars rehab facility the indio hands style see the

poor kid was suffering from a debilitating illness called affluenza and it is goober rich parents of spoiled him so badly that he's never had a chance to develop something called morals because there's no better punishment for a spoiled brat than to send him to a celebrity rehab center if you don't think this is about class or race for that matter one only has to look at another verdict by the same judge from just last year where. fourteen year old black teen killed someone in a fight was sentenced to ten years behind bars but as ridiculous as this case is what's most terrifying is the precedent that it sets what's stopping bush administration war criminals and wall street crooks from pleading out the ones at the i.c.c. or new york federal court. look guys this is america where two tiered justice is now served on a silver platter now let's break this up.