ukraine's interim leadership calls on international donors to help them avoid default with the e.u. and washington promising to pump money into the play country however. the real. e.u. it's not the german. exports more than the help from brussels and then for national monetary fund may be painful for ukraine so handle. washington pushes for thousands of troops to remain in the governor's son after this year's draw that line passes as a security deal with kabul hangs in the air. and britain's muslim communities raise the alarm over their religion being used as a scapegoat by authorities in there and see terror policies.

live on air and online this is r.t. international with call survival come to the program well with ukraine's economy balancing on the verge of default the country's new leadership as welcome in western diplomats in the hope of getting urgent aid e.u. foreign policy chief catherine ashton has promised support as that washington and more trying to woo the donors ukraine's new leaders are cracking down on the old administration as artie's a go to skin off now reports. many are calling things which have been happening here in kiev since ousted president viktor unocal which has been put on a wanted list the new authorities are accusing him of being behind the deaths of civilians during the violent clashes between the rioters and the police in and around fifty former officials are now under investigation on the same charges the

whereabouts of unocal which are unknown but it is widely believed that he's somewhere in the east of the country where there's a completely different picture first of all eastern ukraine it's been widely critical of the events unfolding here in kiev it's also heavily populated by ethnic russians and so just recently tens of thousands of people took to the streets of kabul in the south and they've been protesting the political changes here in fact they voted for a new mayor and are now demanding local authorities to recognize them and this man gained his supporters by promising to protect the city from quote the fascist threat referring to the ultra nationalist more of whom have been coming to power here in ky if in the meantime the you foreign commissioner catherine ashton that has been in the ukrainian capital she's been meeting with the leaders of the opposition and the acting president and she's pledged the support of the european union including financial support to end to recognize the legitimacy of the ousting

of president you know the i.m.f. and the united states have also pledged financial aid to the new of thirty say they need at least thirty five billion dollars. the ongoing standoff has polarized ukraine deepening the divide between the west and southeast which has a huge russian speaking population is some provinces other countries powerhouse and home to the country's main industrial hubs now the south has all of ukraine's ports and in the second largest of those sevastopol is where ethnic russians make up over seventy percent of the population now russia's foreign ministry says western governments are acting out of geopolitical self interest political blogger william allison believes those supporting the interim government are benefits and from ukraine's turmoil the banks. germany and united states trying to get as much control as they can. as much of the country as the term at the moment they wish to. a certain degree of chaos which is why do turning

a blind eye to what i can really describe as the nazis talk to them and i think that suits them because it's a question of divide and rule. meanwhile ukraine's finance minister is calling for a donor's conference with brussels washington and the international monetary fund it says it needs financial assistance for the next see years as well as urgent aid in the short term but the i.m.f. requiring painful economic reforms in return that help would likely come out of our high price as foreign affairs analyst brian becker explains. e.u. is is playing with carrots and sticks the there's economic integration which was going to mean big parts of the ukrainian working population will see a deterioration in their living style the fantasy about entering your of the streets be in line with gold that's a fantasy because the real project is it is an i.m.f. based austerity program that's the real path into the e.u.

it's not going to be the german path it'll be the greek path for the ukraine. and we're closely following the situation in ukraine on air and online as well so i had to r.t. dot com for more end up analysis and minute by minute updates of what's happening in kiev as well as other very tense. as the that line for u.s. troops to pull out from of ganesan approaches washington this plan and so the three thousand personnel behind president karzai has so far refused to sign a bilateral security deal with the u.s. and as our as he's going to scam reports washington is now scrambling to preserve its footprint in the region. it's not easy for the obama administration to communicate reasons why the u.s. should say ghana's them past twenty four teams the administration hasn't been able to sell those reasons to president karzai is like nato troops presence made his country worse but washington definitely does not want to leave afghanistan for good

and one of the reported options is that those three thousand troops would be deployed to bases in kabul and bob graham and would not do much traveling across the country now the other option which the pentagon reportedly favors more is leaving ten thousand troops behind and also leaving more bases open the pentagon argues the closing of some of the bases would hamper drone operations in pakistan washington's main argument now remains that afghan forces cannot stand alone against the resurgent taliban to increase the pressure congress has recently slashed plans development and military aid to afghanistan to roughly half two by half to one point one billion dollars there is also an understanding here in washington that in order to not lose of ganesan completely they may have to make a now to the taliban force they'd been fighting for more than a decade. so many of the recent developments show how far we have come from initial declarations like the us saying that he would leave afghanistan by the end of

twenty fourteen in washington i'm going to check on our team. the u.s. says arguing this withdrawal from afghanistan will put. the minute since a neighboring pakistan at risk forcing them to seek alternative locations for their controversial drone bases meanwhile polls half of american surveyed thought the you asked has failed to achieve its goals and. that's compared to thirty eight percent who think it has almost succeeded former u.s. army judge advocate general and he. is interested in maintaining the. conflict in afghanistan. they know are definitely leaving why continue wasting lives trying to get us out but it seems that we're standing in opposite messy chocolate leaving town. which would still seem to be some kind of occupying force with or without cars concurrence. that might in fact just keep the. insurgency going on i don't know why it's being suggested now but certainly there's an element

within the us always wanted to maintain an occupying force so it's almost seems like they're saying this because they want to maintain the appearance that we're in a war so that they can therefore justify these claims of extra constitutional extra judicial powers on behalf of the. so-called commander in chief as they now identified the president. we're had a short break here now but this they would artsy ensor national for more news including reports on a small village in germany. the prospect of having their homes to make way for a coal mine. cutler.

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welcome back to artsy international will continue now with other news the u.k. government has spent millions of pounds in recent years on the so-called prevent program that's aimed at stopping muslims in the country from falling under the influence of radicals it's supposed to serve as a counterterrorism strategy but many claim it's counterproductive some muslims say it's plates and discrimination by authorities artie's laura smith reports. preventing terrorism a powerful phrase used to excuse all manner of the busa is from government spying on their own citizens to foreign wars now muslims in the u.k. are accusing the government of scapegoating them in the fight against terror and created what they're calling a cradle to grave police state they say the police strategy known as prevent

monitors muslims and tries to change ideologies in every area of their life so it's an all encompassing policy that is touching on every aspect of muslim life in a negative negative way which encourages discrimination you've got to remember that . when one person has been affected in this way the whole family as they tell their family they tell their friends they tell others so this is becoming a shared experience amongst the muslim community the whole community is now experiencing what's happening in prevent despite the fact that human rights organizations have branded the strategy unacceptably intrusive into the lives of ordinary muslims and based not on preventing terrorism but on changing ideology beliefs and values it appears set to be enshrined into law and it's not the only example of politicians seeking to make capital out of apparently discriminating

against muslims gerard batten is immigration spokesman for the u.k. independence party he wants british muslims to sign a code of conduct that affirms the equality of all people equal rights for women rejects violence and promote tolerance while i can't see how anybody could object to it i mean if you say to anybody anywhere in the world do you think that people should be treated equally men and women should be treated equally you know there should be no violence there should be no compulsion in religion everybody should be free to follow their own religion who would not sign it only people who don't believe those things batten. the document would help moderate muslims to distinguish themselves from extremists but muslims themselves say it's just another way of singling them out and it doesn't. lead to. you know fascism against other communities this is really what will happen as more and more people think it's perfectly right women who wear. a code of

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economic down in the final. and the rest i think. it's really. welcome back to artsy international protesters have clashed with riot police and then as well in capital caracas students threw rocks at security forces who responded with tear gas so weeks of armrests have already taken the lives of

thirteen people president zero blames the u.s. for supporting the opposition lots of american and alecky and bots believes those claims are not groundless yes there is a foreign interests absolutely terms of trying to roll back the kinds of contributions regionally and internationally that venezuela has accomplished the united states continuing to support financially and offer training to the opposition groups venezuela has a very strong suspicious kind of a standpoint towards the united states the leader of the opposition has declined salt surprise that madeira who says the protesters up on in the coup backed by washington can box also believes one as well is getting in the way of america's economic domination of the region. the role that venezuela has played historically over the past decade and a half. of promoting a kind of an independence movement within latin america which seeks to extricate

itself from u.s. control particularly economic control in terms of the broad economic policies that have been imposed upon the region as well as it is a key piece of the puzzle when it comes to trying to look for governments that may be more amenable to united states. last year the amounts of energy produced from coal in germany rose to its highest level since the one nine hundred ninety s. that's despite a campaign says shifts agreeing the sources of energy are c is this a calf in office it's a small town there which now risks being destroyed by the conference call it a. welcome to out of wash population two hundred forty one it's a place that steeped in history the bell in this church was forged before columbus sailed for america and locals here have centuries old claim to the land it's we're all rick schultz was born and it's where he intends to die his family has owned

this farm since fifteen sixty she learned a trade from his father and plans to hand the business down to his son. this has been our homeland for centuries it means everything to us but my family and my fellow villagers here face a terrible prospect our homes could soon be raised and our businesses destroyed but . it's what's beneath the land an estimated two hundred fifty million tonnes of brown coal that threatens to wipe out a wash and two nearby villages off the map they have machines or strip mining the ground lignite or brown coal and you can see of the vast size of this operation the coal mine behind me is already the size of several small towns but the company. wants to grow this we dish energy giant wants to double the size of the open cast mine vattenfall needs more lignite for its power plant one of the dirtiest in europe the local children call it the cloud making factory it's one of the most

polluting fossil fuels and it's supposed to be a thing of the past germany gets nearly twenty five percent of its electricity from solar and wind with a goal of eighty percent renewables by twenty fifty at the country burned more brown coal last year than at any time since the one nine hundred ninety s. the dirty downside of chancellor merkel's nuclear phaseout. more than nine hundred villagers are risk of being displaced and for some there's a feeling of history repeating itself in this region thousands had been resettled after the second world war when the communist government depended on brown coal to power its cities and factories with. it makes me furious just furious first the government comes in starts developing alternative sources of energy and now we've come back to brown coal i feel very disillusioned we simply can't go back to old practices. residents have launched their own campaign to keep the diggers at bay but it's question of all if they can keep up the fight these are tiny villages with

aging populations facing an energy giant with deep pockets a definitive decision has yet to be made on the fate of the villages involved in fall does move in it likely won't be for many more years and approval by state authorities is still pending although local activists aren't optimistic so these three villages will basically be gone if the plans of the prince. go through the parliament through. to be moved. our laws protect the interests of the coal mining industry and the industry managed to convince politicians that if the country abandon scald l.b. major problems with electricity supply quite honestly you don't seem to mind the company has said that it will recreate outer wash elsewhere a church for a church it promises house for a house but for residents like all rick schultz giving up is simply not an option

and of course on him by over here. my ancestors fought in the thirty year war with sweden in the seventeenth century and they defended this land and i will also stand firm and fight for my land i cannot imagine what happens if i lose this battle. reporting in outer wash germany and the sea captain of. well while people are not small town are forced out of their homes by a coal company some in london are pushed out of there is by growing inequality a new study finds that the salaries of the middle class and been growing much slower than those of the wealthy the policies have created this enormous gulf this enormous split so these cling on so it seems like an hour they're trying to cling on to having some modicum of middle class existence are being beamed out of out of out of the play is gone and it's not really a middle class at all it's just being split right down the middle so you've got the

tops of the brand and then you've got the everyone else the losers are being forced out of this median london area where all of the easy money being printed by the central bank is available for terms undisclosed and nontransparent. ok now let's take a look at some more world news in brief lebanese media report that israeli jets have a hezbollah position on the border with syria according to syrian officials the area is used by the group as a training camp and for storage israel does not confirm or deny the airstrike the radical shiite group has a strong influence in lebanon and is allied to the regime of bashar assad in syria . egypt's military backed government has announced its resignation the prime minister says the on the expected move is due to the rising number of strikes

in the country's workforce thousands of taxol workers have walked out of there it's all this and they were joined by postal workers doctors at a low ranking police officers the government came to power after the ousting of president mohamed morsi and said why is the country's six leaderships have left office as the arab spring began in two thousand and eleven. more news for you in about half an hour up next though have you ever wondered what once was like in the so hard all this is your chance to find out in our special report here on artsy international and a few moments. to

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it's no accident that ali built his cafe on the very edge of the desert. he knows that any adventure into the sahara will always take this road. he sells water coffee and coke but trading has been slow today. but on top of that he's heard worrying news on the radio unlikely though it sounds does snow in neighboring egypt. which could threaten that as its main event a festival that attracts thousands of tourists. the mild desert winter is when business usually peaks and when the sahara really comes to life.

geneseo a small wedge shaped slice in the north of perhaps the most famous desert on earth this small country is known as the sahara games. for fifty years the annual desert festival has taken place here it's an event that draws people from all surrounding countries. these people's lives are deeply intertwined with the death of. the many preparations for the festival began six months ago they've gone deep into the desert every day on an exhaustive training shuttle the main event is camel racing any prize in a sprint race is

a great honor but winning the forty two kilometer marathon is considered especially prestigious boys in the small town of doulas dream of such a victory seemingly endless sand dunes begin just beyond the town's borders. like every other man in the region image hopes to win two years ago he and his camel came first in a sprint race. i'm confident about this part of the race because my camel is quite familiar with the area but i do have some doubts about the long distance marathon i haven't entered it before with this camel. because the festival only takes place once a year image needs to make a living for himself and his camel so heat on his make up and colorful national costume to pose as an exotic sultan for tourists which is particularly popular with some women travelling on them. as camel though is less than impressed these are

pedigree racer and only interested in entering competitions he frequently and loudly expresses his disapproval. life is centered on his camels in the desert. with this in my life this is in my. and there my. no. no my time and this is not working interest now this is my friend everything for me in life because this government love me for one time this government like me. a man has always shared a special relationship with his camels there was a time when he trained these beautiful creatures to appear in a hollywood movie that was filmed in the sahara. and your own movie is named la guardia i am more with anthony when they.