the ukrainian government if they are not able to negotiate with the people and to mr putin did they hear correctly that russia will not initiate a revision of the gas contracts and facility if an opposition government comes into power that they will not revise these arrangements thank you. very simple answer we didn't discuss in detail the internal situation in ukraine and we didn't discuss. events your speaking about about what's happening in some of the cities in ukraine of course this is part of the global instability of the country and as i said we do more as far as we can contribute with most to restore stability but the main aim of all meeting of our summit was our strategic partnership our strategic relationship

and ukraine and eastern partnership association agreements are a part of it and of course the global situation ukraine but we didn't enter into details on the very recent lucian's evil evolutions in ukraine. in the. i will tell you straightaway to answer your question by that we will revise this arrangement on the loan and on energy if a position comes into power no we will not it is not important to us because we had a very constructive dialogue with the ukrainian government when this government was searched and by mr tymoshenko we talk to her about everything and this is not. subject for us i will talk to any government in ukraine but what is the. it's

a pollutant to us and i will repeat it again is that to ukrainians economy is credit worthy that the ukrainian economy is able to generate a positive effect or much development for the government to to hold constructive changes reform so that we are confident that we can get this money back when you will despite us having a very significant reserves of gold reserves have fifteen fifteen billion. this is what i.m.f. was planning to give ukraine and russia is giving it a loan to you and we would like to be confident that the good will get this money back it's quite normal so it is important to us you know whatever political forces are and how a little bit of what is important to us is what economic policy they are going to pursue this is the first part of my answer and the second part for you. the people's rodders in ukraine and what to do i'm sure the ukrainian people are

going to sort this out themselves and russia is not going to interfere and i can imagine. what the reaction be from our european partners if in the midst of a crisis in greece or any other country. there would be a foreign minister would come to an end european rally he would urge people to do something this would not be very good but considering the specifics of the relationship between russia and ukraine is a simply unacceptable and impossible for us in an interpretive did not care that we hear the question and i am not sure that ukraine would need such intermediaries if they do they could say about this but i think that. the more intermediaries there are the more problems they are. mostly because so what i would say to which is. to our friends in your. friends european

friends have just said that the ukrainian government not to use force the use of force is the last resort and i agree with this but in the course of our discussion today i never did mentioned it and you never showed in the mass media what we see this. for example in the west of ukraine a priest is urging the crowd to go here and start storming the government and hell they explained this in order for our not if for the blacks not to. dictate the rules in our house we are going to do this. we're going to storm the russians and the jews this is the extreme expression of nationalism is completely unacceptable to the civilized world and do it when we call upon you can government present in the court which do you civilized measures we also need to look at his political opponents and we need to urge them to also

pursue civilized measures as well. francis and i'm from the people in prince speaking french. this is a question for the president but also on from the campaign you said. until i could tell you how to raise the question of human rights respect for civil liberties. free choice of nations i'd like to know very specifically how you discussed that with your and two lovely turkey and whether you had the impression that you were haired. girl. because your bubble. summit we have of course. released all of the matters of contention.

including human knights given that we have astounding dialogue on human rights with russia we've even set up a sort of an institution to pursue that dialogue. and all of the problems which can crop pop in this context there are many are raised. without a huge amount i take note of the fact that for its part as well russia has also published a report about the situation of human rights in the european union. by way of apply to your question on this specific topic and it was this was a short summit and it focused on the quality and the future of our relations. not you but we did not look in detail at our concern is relating to human rights however as i have said there is

a permanent dialogue going to have to be on the problems which should be raised are raised in that context. one there will be a further summit in june. which should have a normal agenda. before should provide the opportunity to discuss that in more detail in the future. yes i can confirm we have this dialogue fully. every meeting and including today. with. your. company until the end. i understand that's ukraine has introduced some changes until. today but still there is an opinion that year on year these are genuine the summit. between

the new russia do not change and they are fairly standard these agendas and you have talked about these items that this version of a framework agreement the visa free travel corridor that you like it is such a that we've seen is that it's just a list of a long standing and resolve the issues that we discuss every year perhaps after this summit can you tell us some things concrete some something specific will some things be implemented will you close any of these outstanding issues or not thank you. for you know really when you produce you will not reproduce. as you said ukraine has introduced changes into our agenda ukraine has not introduced it changes into the agenda and indeed we have a lot of attention to the issue of the eastern partnership in general and in this regard in this context we also talked about ukraine as one of the countries that is in gauged in the negotiations of this project. the first part of the hearing secondly we always look at the problems that we face so. if

you doubt our unfortunately. we have been outstanding for a while and these are very important problems usually today we have been saying that the european union is a applying and to dumping measures in the chemical industry etc based on. their assumption that we have unfair gas policies we feel this is unfair this is exclusive demand from our european partners but these issues are technical we have a longstanding issue with a third energy package but again our turnover of trade is growing almost ten percent ago last year and this will be a record breaking level we corporation high tech in aviation in space we have specific important projects in this area we have created a whole program. of corporation and science and research we have learned two

hundred activities we have created a separate program to modernize the economy and so we would be. less fifteen billion euros has been allocated for this is very serious and we continue our corporation and the energy fear and other spheres we have a lot of movement forward it's positive and very powerful there are some outstanding issues but we are fully committed to resolving them. assure that by the next summit will be able to move forward on this issues as well until we actually argued about the third energy package we had problems with the continuation of the north stream. while the pipeline got the open oh paul pipeline in germany and we have agreed that it will be that whole one hundred percent will be

used not fifty percent as before but we have movement even on the most difficult issues. drove through. a very. frank response to your bet it is true that sometimes it seems that some of the summit there are problems that remain just today i remind the president putin that the first time we met in this forum out it was already in two thousand and four we were addressing the issue of siberian overflights. and still to this issue is not settled in fact this is the nineteen or twenty summits with russia i have including other meetings like the commission to the government of russia and it is true because we have to be absolutely transparent with our public opinions that sometimes there are some issues like these ones in trade in energy as present put in just mention that become. permanent issues. where we

have to agree to disagree here. we have to agree to disagree nevertheless it's also fair to say that our relationship has expanded in a very important. ways at least i can speak personally from the last ten years in some cases in spectacular way new pinion is the biggest partner of russia. in trade and investment by far. russia is our first supplier of energy of gas namely and so it is a very important relationship and also we have developed with many matters like the ones mentioned on the partnership from an addition so on so precisely today as i said in my both to you have to quote that i mentioned also in our restricted meeting it was the time not to have things not to left to leave things

unsaid. and to try to understand some of the difficulties including the ones related to this in partnership because in fact there was as you know and we have to be honest different approach to this that's why we have agreed now to. discuss further and to all. have at the expert level these bilateral clarifications so that you can understand better but this is the reality i think that sometimes the impression regarding growth ship is also a result of the fact that we have to separate story here he with other partners we have only one and others even less than one so of course you as journalists are rightly impatient because you want every time to see what are the concrete results. this is a process. these cannot be considered as

a show at least we don't consider these are the show it's a process a process where two mature partners address the issues where they are close and the issues where they are not so close this was my reading of today's meeting so it was not a meeting to have here a spectacular list of deliverables as people say but nevertheless we have agreed on a common statement against terrorism we have decided now to commit to see. the last point so that we can if possible lounge the new agreement in the. next summit we have agreed on the needs to deepen our dialogue on matters regarding eastern partnership the president of russia has confirmed that he has no problem with the concept of distant partnership that he sees it as a contribution for a more in knighted europe but at the same time he wants to know the consequences of

some of these agreements in the russian economy and so forth and so from the point of view i think it was a useful. discussion and i think it's the way to be here we cannot pretend that everything is all right then everything is not all right yet difference on some of these issues on energy matters i've explained once again to my russian colleagues how important it is our sort package for us that is not discriminatory that we are applying these rules for. all companies in the world as we do in competition matters to all of you pin companies or american companies so we try to avoid to politicize ation of issues ok we have at the same time received the concerns of the russian partner and in fact we are committed to through a pragmatic dialogue to solve some of the concerns of russian partners by the way regarding this opel. issue and we are committed to find solutions but at the same

time it's true we have a different conception in what comes to regarding the trade on energy investment we have a different conception but we believe and i repeat that our conception is not discriminatory in fact the russian companies like from are now acting in twenty of our member states and they can also use the european instruments if they want against any kind of practice if you believe monopolistic or abuse of market these are good points and there is a fair recognition it's not spectacular i'm sorry but it is the honest assessment of the kind of dialogue i believe fruitful that we have with our russian partners. inside of words and of the press conference of a good evening. so that was the president of the european commission. wrapping up that russia summit in brussels he was joined on stage also with the

president of russia president putin along also with herman van rompuy he's the european council president now the air of this meeting was very much one of cooperation but and the main aim of course was to discuss the strategic relationship between the e.u. and russia but of course overshadowed by those events in ukraine where russia has accused the e.u. of interfering with those events there in kiev and so as a result of that obviously ukraine became very much part of the the main element of the discussion just to say though that started off by saying that russia consultations about eastern partnerships will continue despite what's happening in ukraine talked about a lot of cooperation between the two particularly trade and also the joint threat they're facing from terrorism and also the e.u. took a very strong stance against those guilty of violence in the country saying that they all should be brought to account and also but also who we just heard at the end there were saying that the use of force was certainly not the answer in ukraine . which is obviously

a criticism of the way the violent element of the protests of being ongoing there in the country now president putin he did have very much a positive and cooperative message for europe saying he's offering the idea of creating a free trade zone between the two and the ear asian economic community he said that european business of course is present in most european i should say russian business and european businesses are very much present throughout each of the countries so that the trade relations between the two are very very strong indeed and so very much a mood of cooperation but talking about the ukrainian problem at the moment president putin did say that there was no specific verbal agreement on the ukrainian government concerning that massive loan that russia had offered the country just before christmas before the violence really took off he said that this was a verbal agreement and he's not too sure whoever is in power as a prime minister how that agreement will continue but he said he doesn't have a problem with the ukrainian people he doesn't want to interfere with what happens

in ukraine is up to the people there in that country and he's saying that it's pretty much business as usual and the future financial and energy deals will stay the same and also urging the international community not to put pressure on a covert saying that he should be acting in a civilized way but saying also they should be demanding the same from the opponents so very much an air of cooperation between the e.u. and russia in that summit in brussels and we'll bring you more on that a little later but in the meantime we're going to find out more about those ongoing developments in ukraine that's coming our way very shortly here on r.t. international. liz. thank. you. the subtle search trick. and i think your.

daughter's. instrumental. in the told. the news continues here in austin international with ukraine's president now accepting the resignation of the country's prime minister and the entire cabinet will remain in their post until a new government is formed that says the country's lawmakers voted in an emergency session to repeal most of the anti protest and it was that triggered two weeks of violence in kiev. is in the ukrainian capital for us. undoubtedly this is the biggest political day in the history of modern ukraine with the parliament voting on very crucial steps and i was just seen scenes of jubilation here at the independence square when the news broke that the parliament voted to revoke most of

the laws described as draconian here by those protesting the anti-riot laws which were passed on january the sixteenth this comes after the ukrainian prime minister announced that the very start of the session that he is willing to step down from his position as the country's prime minister one of the leaders of the opposition who was offered prime minister's job a little earlier by the president refused to take this position this is definitely a big news because we heard from this so-called right wing sect on monday the nationalist hardcore basically and june of this riots and protests that they would withdraw from the governmental court or they would dismantle their barricades if a compromise is reached between the opposition and the government particularly about those detained in particular about those laws we're seeing that these laws are now being mostly abolished and this would mean that we could see the protest move to its original stage the independence square the three january nineteenth

position although we do understand of course that the people of the opposition would not stop the protests at all they would continue protesting until until they get what they want which is essentially the resignation of the president and early elections to be held in the country we also do know that the you foreign affairs chief catherine ashton is flying urgently to kiev to be here tonight to hold talks with the country's opposition and the country's government we do know that she was supposed to come at the end of the week but we still unclear as to why she's coming here earlier but of course we'll be monitoring that as well. well even if the opposition manages to force early elections now the outcome is far from clear because the protests have consolidated the supporters of both sides there in the country that's a view of nicolette petro he's professor of political science at the university of rhode island and he's currently in the south of the country. the president resigns and under article one always of the constitution new elections have to be held within ninety days. i guess the answer just whether or not that will happen will

depend on whether the opposition think he would actually win those elections i'm not sure they would because positions on both sides here have hardened those who want unocal which removed and the government of all cost and those who think the entire process has been one of. the most as the former now prime minister has said an attempted coup d'etat. international has all the latest from ukraine on air and online visit our website r.t. dot com for updates on this and all developing stories. it seems that huge amounts of personal information that being scooped up by u.s. and british spy agencies from popping a mobile phone apps like angry birds edward snowden's latest leak has got the

public in a flap even as the e.u. attempts to educated citizens about the importance of online security. has this ripple. happy data protection day you might not know it but january twenty eighth marks the day when governments try to raise awareness about how to protect yourself online the european commission has even made this video warning that what we reveal on the net could strip us of our privacy. and yet over the past eight months revelations by edward snowden have exposed must global surveillance conducted by the u.s.a.'s national security agency and often in conjunction with its european partners makes them look a bit stupid if they don't actually tackle the larger problem is that data protection is important or by the way people spying on you i mean it's just absurd according to the snowden leaks the n.s.a. is prism program collects the data directly from the servers of u.s.

companies like google microsoft yahoo and a pole and i'm trying to think of an individual household or a business that's not a customer wants more spy agencies in britain germany france and spain and taking all the data that they have brought domestically and posting it on to the n.s.a. for processing as the story on ravelled it's been revealed that emails text messages phone calls and internet activity of citizens across the globe have been hoovered up the year ago most people agree that the european union's data protection rules are the best in the world the most rigorous spy agency the n.s.a. and in the u.k. basically just mean ignoring all those rules and just taking everything they want after it was revealed that the n.s.a. had intercepted angela merkel's phone calls it became clear that even the german chancellor is immune because the data is not very protected or otherwise those

scandals would not have occurred whether it was germany whether it was in brussels . in france according to edward snowden's latest leak the nash. security agency isn't just gathering intelligence security purposes but indulging in industrial espionage as well he cited germany's engineering firm siemens as one target and still no admission from the top i can give assurances to the. publics in europe and around the world that we're not going around snooping at people's emails or listening to their phone calls so on the eve of data protection day we asked some europeans if they felt like celebrating do you know anyone who is happy about it that his private sphere is. controlled by governments or n.s.a. does anyone like that i think it's dangerous and they said protect us this

development goes on and on and on and to stop nobody knows it shouldn't be celebrating one day it should be something normal to have our very from aisha's a. london. we'll be back with the news team with more for you in just a hoffa from now in the meantime personal stories of suffering and survival during the siege of leningrad in world war two so after the break. i've always had mixed feelings about speed traps it seems like it's a waste of the police officers time but on the other hand they sure do make people paranoid and drive more slowly one man from texas is completely sure of his opinion about speed traps and he set out to save his felt texans from being fined for speeding and much more importantly from potential traffic accidents caused by the

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