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you're watching artsy ensor national with me marina call survivor one world and. now over one hundred thousand protesters have rallied in paris suddenly on accusing president salon's 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 and battled leadership speaker all over 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 same day and lesbian couples either adopt or conceive children to i.d.f.

treatment they say that that 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 front to allow the president to hear their anger the government is not very fair exists in this matter i mean they don't want to consider but there are many many people who just want to hold back the right of two germans i just don't care and that says this is even more so use for a long time his personal popularity well that is it an all time low and he's currently seems the most unpopular french president in recent memory and what that seeing is more were more people coming out onto the streets to vent their anger against all odds and against the rules that he's trying to impose on them that they say infringes upon traditional family values here. are to spot someone french activist has so on happy with president a last performance that she's gone on hunger strike so if it don't 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. president alonso approval rating remains low with just twenty two percent and france satisfied with him as their leader has become a record breaking really unpopular amid mounting frustration over broken promises he pledged to cut unemployment by the end of twenty thirteen but the number out of work in france rose above three million the largest since records began along promising restore growth but it's hardly left it above zero written about zero point one percent last year french journalist robert her ney's believes all along

focus on the sexual orientation issues is a smokescreen to distract the public from his failures to seize an issue to use deliberately raised to distract attention from his i. want to get seed freshened at the ministry of the interior is actually looking into these issues deeply reason i suppose about one says the population who do feel very strongly about this we talked about this a year ago at that time i said there is the seventy population will not go on this subject all the government issues it all day back to the background there is the new code which is expiring and to try order if you like this is not. even favor of the family was a pair of children this is the phrase for the family. brussels and washington are putting together a significant short term assistance for ukraine which is gripped by mass protests and a standoff between the governments and the opposition if you foreign policy chief

catherine ashton said the package is supposed to help the country through a transition period now the money will be dependent on the new frame and governments are proven political and economic reforms there was a plan the commons after opposition leaders call so-called greater involvement and more than just a vocal support triggered protests and ukraine's assistance may be more than just cash with help for investments also on the cards why it's in the wings are the energy giants who are keen to exploit the country's shell gas potential and that's got locals worried as a policy or explains western ukraine a beleaguered battleground for me we can all jains two months ago kiev signed we went with chevron to use this area for fracking. clinical 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 not by me who are left in the cold sweat most times our lakes and rivers will get dirty sporadic protests have fallen on deaf ears unable to match the might of the fuel lobby for america comes to ukraine we can lose our positions and america will control ukrainian money and business need while countries like france switzerland and the netherlands of what we do not to them to technology the ten billion dollar deal to operate in the country for fifty years it has the right to sell the gas it up to us. with quotas to other countries so all claims that ukraine will make a lot of money are in fact nonsense and in a place where unemployment is rife kids promise of thousands of new jobs is enough

pay for people next ingenue forty four years old unemployed and trying to care for his sick mother of all of the able to hopefully 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 companies promised the earth only to significant be scaled back which is what is a risk. because after the five years of exploration process what is really decided to stop. their activities because they do not find. places where it will be possibility to produce 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 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 unable its own energy exports the oil and gas giants and says fracking is safe but american environments are less severe are squawking spags to the for. the process itself is you cannot or millions of gallons of liquid laced with sand and with chemicals under super high pressures down into all 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 little green europe north america africa to

come here to see for themselves the signs 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. and stay with our team international as we have reports on the viral video that's the cops and brits are. being charged with assaulting a police officer obstructed and resisting arrest i couldn't six months in prison and that would have completely. irrevocably changed my life a student tells us how a video on you tube proved that the police took it too far with an unfair arrest that subtext.

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from around the globe. looking. to. come back here watching artsy and her national we have some more world news stories for you now on the iraqi army has stepped up its bombardment. reportedly ahead of a full on ground offensive. oh. the city will see militants connected to al qaida an early january and has been under intense shelling for days the government's been the holding off from sending in troops to give local tribesmen time to oust the insurgents 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 four people eyewitnesses claim

a man sitting in the back grow of the auditorium threw grenades dozens of people were hurt some critically there in the incident and peshawar. clashes in kenya have seen people killed after police opened fire in a mosque in the city of mumbai it's after use wielded daggers when some worshipers raise the flag of the jihad this group police say they wanted to thwart to meet recruits in the extremists and say they made over one hundred arrests. the u.s. will continue enforcing existence sanctions on their on if talks on the permanent nuclear deal fail that was made clear between the country's top diplomats 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 cigs global powers are due for fresh talks in mid february that are hope it's a bring a solution to a decade long nuclear standoff the interim deal initially known as the joints plan of action freezes iran's nuclear work for six months and exchange for seven billion dollars in sanctions really a former advisor to iran's negotiation team says washington's words do. more harm than good. mr kerry's pressure tactics which is part of these two prong coercive diplomacy the other prying being rising military threats and this 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 brought iran to the table by pressure and they need to escalate that pressure in order to gain maximum concessions and secretary kerry has been referring to

dismantling aspects of the really a nuclear program which is contrary to the content of the agreement and flatly rejected by degree and for a minute is the. one that's your word against a major british police force you need some mighty strong evidence on your side that something students are shocked camorra knows all too well when an officer rounded on him at a rally has are selling one 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 devastated. i couldn't make a more had intended to attend the talk of 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 going to be this video appeared on you tube or a shock is later seen and offers a different version of events. thanks to this video the charges were dropped scotland yard agreed to pay a shocked 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 comment on the fence but the evidence of the off court has given more credence to notch off the accused individual they just have. to try and give his best accounts as they

can to gather as much evidences that possibly can and once again the conduct of the police is put firmly under the spotlight in the twenty eleven two thousand and twelve period at the independent police complaints commission saw a decrease of 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 full of the below the expected. behavior the public would want to see accountability that. police misconduct sure it's a sort of like specific to be individuals it was for somebody 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 if it's their word against ours the only way we're going to win. them to a court without a shadow over doubt that they were lying was or sylvia arky london.

something different for you if you want to see what happens when you mix a skyscraper with a ton of explosives and take a look at that's. the frankfurt skyline style and that's all clear after this huge brawl that was raised in seconds and one of the largest ever controlled building explosions in europe if you want to see it go down again it's captured on camera on r.c.u. dot com. also why new york swans are a proud suggests it's a not a mass call as climbed over claims that things are looking the creatures are a danger to people and passenger jets. is obviously more for the ladies because it's pink. women wanted to avoid rape they

really needed to buy guns and learn how to use them i. am sure this is the one that i want to go with them once again as the field for older women are definitely the target of the gun lobby one you don't kill them when you're killing money but if somebody would you would just prefer. 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 so we're clearly not the safest. but. they're going to do it's job did you know the price is the only industry

specifically mentioned in the constitution and. that's because a free and open press is critical to our democracy schreck albus. well. in fact the single biggest threat facing our nation today is the corporate takeover of our government and our press similar we've been hijacked like handful of transnational corporations that will profit by destroying what our founding fathers once told my job market and on this show we reveal the big picture of what's actually going on in the world we go beyond identifying the problem try rational debate in a real discussion critical issues facing up to five are you ready to join the movement then welcome the.

welcome back to our tea and turn action on syria's leadership is a valance who rejects face to face talks with the opposition when the geneva peace conference for it starts about some less american secretary of state john kerry apologizes for same president assad has no future in syria political activism are well cough told artie's kevin allen that such talk could hijack the next round of negotiations. the u.s. congress is looted during the negotiations to arm the rebels so there is a lot to answer for and from the language really really americans they don't seem to be you know having any 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 knew from from friends and family that whoever travels along that route between damascus and other will who are out there are certain segments of the road where they have to drive closer to like a hundred miles an hour or hundred sixty can orders an hour because of your last

night of power or shots from moderate opposition so if you want to move military grade equipment and vehicles through the they have to be moved you know 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 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 is use rather than using this agreement to get rid of the chemical warfare twenty fourteen marks that tragic sense than are a for one of mankind's worst catastrophes the start of the first world war so there is cross-talk locks up the global order as it is now and it's the billets a across the century. we've seen the world shift instead of the various major capitals powers vine with each other they've been pulled together as

a united front under the leadership the 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 from united states for the american suits are around 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 of momentos of their time and saatchi that doesn't mean everyone else has to leave empty handed andrew farmer looks at how visitors can take a piece of the olympic spirit home with them. well if you're looking to buy a souvenir enjoying the olympics 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 the taking up it shelf and of the space at the moment smiling mascots but it's not easy games are being produced in abundance crafted a molded from the region special clay sixty kilometers southeast of more sky that's poured into special molds made for the hand lettered polarbear benefactress forty

craftswomen get to work carefully how many painting each one on average it takes fifteen minutes to load the letter is a bit tricky and takes a little longer than is the 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 center to show us it is an intricate process that even mirrors the slogan for these lympics cool yours andrew farmer. and make sure you stay with us on our tour for our special coverage from russia's black sea coast where of course on air throughout sashi it's one hundred fourteen.

i'll be back in the half an hour from now about kate's on the way with the wake sports highlights right here on the artsy international games they would us. a century ago this year the first world war started it fundamentally changed the global political order later in the even weekend 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 are world politics. the u.s. military was built to square off against the soviet union over western europe but when you take that conventional military and now try to read task it as a counter-insurgency force it creates a lot of gaps and that's the kind of private sector stuff.

you know the playing. field and big spirit travels with the flame from its birthplace to greece. joining james brown for an elemental and epic journey around russia and beyond. where i supposed to go.

do we speak your language i mean come on. you will not advance. your programs in documentaries and spanish what matters to you. that will turn a different angle in this story. here to. the spanish find out more visit actuality. dot com. hello and welcome to this week's r.t.e. sports show another twenty six action packed minutes of sport from russia and around the world with me take partridge and here's a taste of what's to come. very didn't triumph the seattle seahawks rushed the

denver broncos forty three point two eight in super bowl forty eight to win their first at f.-l. title. last davis cup set russia plays a crunch autumn playoff to say their second tier status after the men's tennis team separate three two defeat to poland here in moscow. and the top field limping quite young champion even who called it leaps to gold as a star studded lineup takes part at the russian winter indoor athletics championships in moscow. but first american football and the celebrations are underway in seattle after the seahawks won their first n.f.l. title by thrashing the denver broncos forty three points to eight at the super bowl to lift the vince lombardi trophy in the battle between seattle's league best defense against denver's top off friends led by veteran quarterback peyton manning

it was the seahawks who triumph totally dominating the misfiring broncos at the met life stadium in new jersey in the first super bowl states at doors in a cold weather state marshawn lynch is one. a touchdown run and most valuable player malcolm smith sixty nine yard interception return helped seattle to a desert twenty two zero lead at the break then percy harvin returned to the second talk of eighty seven yards for another touchdown to effectively end the one sided affair that's the great challenge is can we carry our football and do the things that we've been doing all along on this stage with all the scrutiny and everybody said oh you got to be distracted you're not old enough and all because of that made a difference of all these guys totally understood how to do it they had it with class and the dignity job i think to take on this challenge a great respect for it and they did it perfectly so congratulations to pete carroll a staff of his team you know they're a great team that you know we didn't perform up to par to building with. now moving on to football of the suck

a variety and new all small signing tim shell stern will be out for at least six games after injuring his back playing vulnerable on a beach during sponsor moscow's pre-season tour in abu dabi the thirty one year old midfielder was brought in on loan until the end of the season to provide cover for the injured aaron ramsey and jack wilshere for those markets nominees who were suspended for three games but the injury discovered in the swedes medical needs one hundred eight caps we have been a tape with the gun is missed almost to know when i the crystal palace he'll also be at the two matches against liverpool plus those against manchester united by in munich and sunderland is awesome banga side target their first league title since two thousand and four. well meanwhile midfielder michael essien and has moved from chelsea to ac milan on a seventeen month deal the thirty one year old gone a star was the blues record signing when he joined from lille for over forty million dog.