francaise prostin along those accused of family phobia and other major blow to its reputation as thousands marched against while supporting same sex marriage. fractured ukraine western governments put together an aid plan for the protests by country while energy giants crave some of its shell gas prospects. and the how to take a piece of the home with you we look at the unique souvenirs on offer for the gas for the winter games.

it's ten am in the russian capital you're watching our teams for national would mean merino call sort of. now over one hundred thousand protesters have rallied in paris and leon accuse some price on the lawns governments of what they call family phobia they want to scrap the bills legalizing gay marriage and procedures to help same sex couples have children it's seen as another blow to france's embattled leadership speaker all over and now reports. paris saw the latest wave of discontent to sweep across france as we saw thousands upon thousands of people come out onto the streets to vent their anger at what they see as the erosion of traditional family values in the country is being particularly anger toward suggestions that france could legalize homosexual marriage also that it could do laws could be brought in that would seem to get c. gay and lesbian couples either adopt or conceive children to i.d.f.

treatment they say that that's well isn't what the traditional family is about and that's why they've been coming out here and telling me that they want to get the french government in particular france warland the president to hear their anger their government is very firm. in this matter i mean they don't want to consider but there are many many people who just want to thank the right of two germans i just don't care that she's this is even also use for a long time his personal popularity well that is it an all time low and he's currently seems the the most unpopular french president in recent memory and what that seeing is more remore people coming out onto the streets to vent their anger against all and against the rules that he's trying to impose on them that they say infringes upon traditional family values here are to spoke to one french activist to sell on the happy with president a long performance that has gone on hunger strike so if it don't could reach him

it's been a day since i've been fast i only drink water because there are many people demanding the resignation of francois hollande because he's unworthy of representing france more and more countries including germany england and russia and making fun of france we are many french people who think that own land is not legitimate to govern this country he's ruining france. pres then alonso approval rating remains low with just twenty two percent in france satisfied with him as their leader has become record breaking only unpopular mid mountain frustration of a broken promises he pledged to cut unemployment by the end of twenty thirteen but the number out of work in france rose above the three million and five the largest since records began a long promised to restore growth but it's hardly left the above zero region about zero point one per cent so last year french journalist robert her nays believe it's

all lawns focus on sexual orientation issues as a smoke screen to the strength the public from his failures this is an issue that used to be raised to distract attention from his unpopularity want to get seed pression the ministries each year is actually looking into these issues that equally true reason i suppose about once is the population who do feel very strongly about this we talked about this a year ago at that time i said there is the settlements the population will not go on this subject and all the government issues that all they will go back to the background there is that which is it's going to try argue or if you like the she's not. in favor of a family pair of children. for. brussels and washington are putting together a significant short term assistance for ukraine which is equipped by mass protests in a standoff between the governments and the opposition if foreign policy chief catherine

ashton said the package is supposed to help the country for transition. will be dependent on the new ukrainian government approving political and economic reforms the west say plan comes after opposition leaders calls for greater involvement and more than just vocal support so the protests the new crave the assistance may be more than just cash with the help for investments also on the cards waiting in the way things are the energy giants who are keen to exploit the contras shale gas potential and that's got locals warry there's paulus lira now explains. western ukraine a beleaguered battleground for american oil giants two months ago kiev signed an agreement with chevron to use this area for fracking fifth. climate will tap water toxic chemicals pumped into the earth contaminated

environments just some of the risks that have sparked protests against fracking in the united states and europe. now it's ukrainian farmers. who are left in the cold sea with time our lakes and rivers will get dirty sporadic protests have fallen on deaf ears unable to match the might of the fuel lobby if america comes to ukraine we can lose our position and america will control ukrainian money and business meanwhile countries like france switzerland and the netherlands are worried enough to ban the technology the ten billion dollars deal allows chevron to operate in the country for fifty years it has the right to sell the gas it up tains with quotas to other countries so all claims that ukraine will make a lot of money are in fact nonces and in a place where i mean point his wife kids promise of thousands of new jobs is enough

bait for people next an asian forty four years old i'm employed and trying to care for his sick. mother. i hope you'll get a job people in ukraine are not scared of work we must just learn what to do the carriage for kiev is energy independence and cheap fuel for a country struggling to pay the bills even though russia dropped the cost of its gas by almost a third to calculate the shale spoils industry experts look at precedents in neighboring poland with companies promise the earth only to significantly scale back which is very high risk exposure because after the five years of exploration process companies may decide to stop their activities because they are trying to focus on places where it will be possibility to produce the gas pressure on peers to keep these firms out is growing but not fast enough it seems to quell the

government's desire to have its own gas whatever the cost or concerns of the people policy on our team have live coverage of western ukraine. and reaching out to chevron and shell ukrainian authorities say the firms will help the country achieve self-sufficiency and even enable its own energy exports the oil and gas giants insists fracking is safe but american environmentalists. begs to differ. the process itself is you cannot for millions of gallons of liquid laced with sand and with chemicals under super high pressures down into all of these drilled holes without having a consequence this whole fracking. madness is spreading all over the planet they want to frack as many countries as possible and so more people are getting aware of it and i'm getting people here from all over europe north america africa to come

here to see for themselves the science what they hear from the gas companies because the gas company will admit to no problems everything is hunky dory everything is covered all the bases are covered we have nothing to worry about folks we know what we are doing. say with our t. international as were reports on the viral video that caught out the cops in britain. being charged with assaulting a police officer obstructing resisting arrest practices and six months in prison and that would have weekly irrevocably changed my life a student tells us how a video on the he chewed proves that police took it too far with an unfair right but something. else. technology innovation all the developments

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new york london. the whole world is. a feature of the original one a further one down the end to verify that you hang up the point that the link at the end of the street another one the more transparent society gets the money or the puppet tears become we see military and state and police forces mobilized against people who blend into the city who inhabit the city the more people trust electronic devices the more defenseless they are the fear that as a thousand i. find archy. welcome back you're watching artsy ensor national it's time now for some moment more world news for you from around the world the iraqi army has stepped up its

bombardment all. reports of me ahead of a full on ground offensive. this it seemed was seized by militants connected to al qaida an early january and has been under intense shelling for days the government's been holding off from send in and troops to give local tribesmen time to oust the insurgents and security in iraq has been getting worse with almost eight thousand people killed in sectarian violence last year. explosions at a cinema in pakistan have killed at least five people eyewitnesses claim a man sits in the back of the auditorium through grenades dozens of people were hurt some critically there in the incidents and peshawar. clashes in kenya have seen see people killed after police opened fire and the mosque in the city of mumbai it's after youths will the daggers when some

worshipers raise the flag of the jihad this al-shabaab group police say they wanted to thwarts who meets an aim that recruits an extremist say they made over a hundred arrests. the u.s. will continue enforcing existing sanctions on their on efforts talks on the permanent nuclear deal fail that was made clear between the country's top diplomats at a closed door meeting in munich meanwhile former secretary of state hillary clinton wants congress to refrain from new restrictions saying it's time to give diplomacy a chance to work iran and cig's global powers are due for fresh talks in mid february that are hope to bring a solution to a decade long nuclear standoff the interim deal initially known as the joint plan of action freezes their arms nuclear work for six months and exchange for seven billion dollars and sanctions for me

a former advisor to iran's negotiation seems says washington's words do more harm than good. used to carry pressure tactics which is part of these two prong coercive diplomacy the other prying being rising military threats and these very dangerous. threat that we saw in prison obama's state of the union address is really can't to put duct here and it poisons the environment for the coming talks they've brought iran to the table by pressure and they need to escalate that pressure needed to gain maximum concessions and secretary kerry has been referring to dismantling aspects of the renia nuclear program which is contrary to the content of the geneva agreement and flatly rejected by the really and foreign minister. when it's your word against a major british police force you need a mighty strong witness as backup that something student ashok kumar knows all too

well when an officer around i don't have a rally says arcelor has a story. i was being charged with assaulting a police officer obstruction arrest and six months in prison and that would have completely irrevocably changed my life and. i couldn't make a more had intended to attend a talk by the education minister in june two thousand and eleven and found himself in a crowd of protesting students and just outside this university who was later arrested and the police officer said that a shop had pushed him twice before running away. i'm not really this video appeared on you tube where a shock is later seen and it offers a different version of events. thanks to this video the charges were dropped scotland yard agreed to pay a shock twenty thousand pounds in damages after he launched legal action for

wrongful arrest as a result of video evidence produced as part of a civil claim against the metropolitan police service three offices are the subjects of the i.p.c.c. supervised investigation but such outcomes may not always be so easy to come by it's very often the case. people have been wrongly accused by police often committed an offense but the evidence of the off court has given more credence to notch the accused individual they just have. to try and give his best accounts as they can to gather as much evidence as they possibly can and once again that the conduct of the police is put firmly under the spotlight in the twenty eleven two thousand and twelve period the independent police complaints commission saw a decrease in complaints but an increase in appeals made about the handling of complaints by police compared to the year before where it's found that offices are fully below

the expected. behavior the public would want to see and then of accountability that . police misconduct she is a socialite specific to being to be chilled. for someone who's been on the receiving end of this misconduct a shock says there's something he'll now keep in mind we need to videotape the police whenever we can because it's their word against ours the only way we're going to win is if we actually prove to prove to a court without a shadow over doubt that they were lying. to us or sylvia r.t. london. want to see what happens when you mix a skyscraper with a ton of explosives well take a look at this. the frankfurt skyline is now a little clearer after this huge block was raised in seconds and one of the largest ever controlled building explosions in europe it's captured on camera on our t.v.

dot com. also why new york swans are about sagat and then that a mass call us planned over claims that things elegant creatures are a danger to people and passenger chats. it was a. very hard to take a. look. at you ever had sex with her right there looking.

for the killer. this is obviously more for the ladies because it's pink. women wanted to avoid rate they really needed to buy guns environ how to use them. this is the one that i'm going to go with them once again it's the fear that. women are definitely the target of the gun lobby you don't kill them when you're killing money but if somebody would you would piss with her. i'm noticing more and more if that's really scary marketing tactics which implies that women have some sort of moral obligation to own guns to protect their family and young girls shoot out here too so we do have

a pink or. more kids young kids choke on food than are killed by firearms if being armed made us safer in america we should be the safest nation on earth. we're clearly not the safest. international we're continuing on with the news now syria's leadership is of violence who are jacked face to face talks with the opposition when the geneva peace conference restarts outside unless american secretary of state john kerry apologizes for same price that assad has no future and syria political activists tomorrow walk off told artie's kevin allen that such talks could hijack the next round of negotiations. u.s. congress is looted during the negotiations to arm the rebels so there is

a lot to answer for and from the language we're hearing from the americans they don't seem to be in having any shame about it what about the threat from washington that would use force of syria failed to get rid of its chemical stockpiles by the summer there are some political reasons why this is happening you know i know from from friends and family that whoever travels along that route between damascus and other know who or what there are certain segments of their own will they have to drive closer to like a hundred miles an hour or under sixty can or has an hour because of fear of sniper fire power or shots from moderate opposition so if you want to move military grade equipment and vehicles through they have to be moved you know a much slower than that and they would be vulnerable especially if they're carrying you know chemical. warfare material language that was used also questions the commitment and the you know the american position whether they went into this agreement in good faith or not because they might seem to be using this agreement

to punish syria's rather than using this agreement to get rid of the chemical warfare. twenty fourteen marks so tragic since january for one of mankind's worst catastrophes the stars of the first world war today's crosstalk looks at the global order as it is now and it's the billet seen across the century. we've seen the world shift instead of the various major capitals powers vying with each other they've been pulled together as a united front under the leadership germany of the united states first to do war against the socialist bloc countries but now to sort of ring colonize those countries that have become independent so the nature of the conflict has shifted fundamentally since world war one which doesn't mean it's a stable world the chinese would say they are being encircled ok and they're borrowing money. money to the united states through the american suits are round their country militarily it's interesting scenario there's doesn't seem to be any

real evidence that the chinese are really interested in becoming one of the great powers in the in the sense of the a colonial power of dominating other countries or other continents i think the parallel between. imperial germany and the united states i think is much more apparent. for the world's top athletes gold silver and bronze medals are the most valuable mementos of their time and that doesn't mean everyone else has to leave empty handed and pharma looks at how visitors can take a piece of the olympic spirit home with them. well if you're looking to buy a souvenir joining me lympics you probably want to get your hands on one of the mascots either the snow leopard or the polar bear and if you want to go to the high end of the market you could try one of these porcelaine figurines these have all

been made in a very famous village just outside moscow this workshop english has produced russia's famous blue and white china for the last two centuries but it's not plates and pots of the taking up at shelf an urban space at the moment smiling mascots for the sochi games are being produced in abundance crafted a molded from the region special clay sixty kilometers southeast of moscow that's poured into special molds made for the hair lettered back then factories forty crafts women get to work carefully having painting each one on average it takes fifteen minutes to load the letter it is a bit tricky and takes a little longer and is a whole day spent in the oven during which the black ink turns into that trademark blue after that they are left to chill boxed and sent to the shops it is an intricate process that even mirrors the slogan for the easy lympics cool yours

andrew farmer for our take and make sure you stay with us on our day for our special coverage from russia's black sea coast where on earth for outsourcing it's why it's a forty. up next us promise of a shaping of the world a century on from the stars of the first world war we have all the details and crosstalk.

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hello and welcome to cross talk where all things considered i'm peter lavelle

a century ago this year the first world war started it fundamentally changed the global political order later and even weakened international system set the stage for the second world war since the end of the cold war the global order has been in limbo under american domination in the twenty first century just how stable our world politics. to cross not parallels to nine hundred fourteen i'm joined by my guest george samuel in new york he is a fellow of the global policy institute of london metropolitan university and author of the new book bombs for peace nato's humanitarian war on yugoslavia in washington we have brian becker he is the national coordinator for the answer coalition and in london we cross to david stephenson he is an author of several books about the first world war as well as a professor of international history at the london school of economics are gentlemen cross-talk rules in effect that means you. jump in anytime you want and i very much encourage it george if i go to you first in new york

a century ago one of the worst catastrophes in history occurred it was the beginning of the first world war and looking at parallels to the present we had a very unstable international system then how stable is the system today. well it was not so much. stable system back then i mean it's more that there were foolish policy makers. and foolish policy makers are around today i think what happened in one nine hundred fourteen was a series of miscalculations due to the belief on the part of policymakers that there's an easy way to win a war and there's an easy way to get what you want through force rather than diplomacy ga ga i'm sorry to interrupt you george but it sounds like that sounds like afghanistan and iraq to me in the in our century now that's exactly right

that's. that's exactly right and i think that's what they're the parallels are there which is that even today we have policy makers in washington who are absolutely convinced that there's an easy way to win a war we'll just bomb a little bit and then we'll get a regime change and then we'll have the balance of power will be in our favor and of course it never turns out that way it always escalates and gets out of complete control and then once the war starts no one knows how on is supposed to get out of it or what even the original objectives were or what the objective should be brian how do you reflect upon the the balance of power house stable the international system is right now because as i mentioned we have a lot of unilateral action coming out of western powers and i mentioned iraq and afghanistan libya you could throw in there as well yugoslavia before that you know a lot of people will say that it's very similar to nine hundred.