your best way to the heart of moscow. ukraine's interim leadership calls on international donors to help them avoid default with the e.u. and washington promised and to pump money into the laid country however. the real power into the e.u. it's not going to be the german capital be the greek experts warn the help from brussels and then to national monetary fund may be too painful for ukraine to handle. washington pushes for thousands of troops remain in afghanistan after this year's withdrawal deadline 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 for its season there and to terror policy.

live on air and online this is r t international with me marina costs of our balkans to the program with ukraine's economy balancing on the verge of default the country's new leadership is welcoming western diplomats in the hope of getting urgent aid e.u. foreign policy chief catherine ashton has promised support as that washington well let's get more now from our office following developments for us in kiev hi there you go or so can you tell us more about what the new leaders in ukraine have been up to in their friends for a stage of power. well the manhunt continues here in kiev former officials are being searched for around fifty of them have been arrested and are currently reportedly under investigation being accused of being responsible for the deaths of civilians during the violent street fighting last week between the

writers and the police the whereabouts of ousted president the three in the court which are still unknown and he's also wanted on the same charges in the meantime the e.u. foreign affairs commissioner catherine ashton has met with the leaders of the opposition and the acting president here in the ukrainian capital and has recognized illegitimacy of the ousting of president you know and has pledged financial support from the e.u. the i.m.f. and the united states have also pledged to do the same but we are talking about billions of dollars here and news about this these plans to help financially haven't been greeted with applause in the western states in the e.u. itself especially in the most economically troubled countries. greece. and then they all for ukraine all the money they should support this now that i'm wearing green if i find is completely wrong to the european union well

first of all this mines here crane we don't have any job and at the same time we have debts to pay it's not right to give us money. clearly is in need of financial assistance the ukrainian economy was in bad shape before the events unfolded here and now it's even in need of more help but the question is how expensive is this justice and is this the system's going to be and secondly are to say get out of this going off there with all the latest details on ukraine and we're actually continue talking about economy because ukraine's a 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 two years as well as urgent aid in the short term for the i.m.f. required painful economic reforms in return the help would likely come at a very high price as foreign affairs analyst brian becker explains. the e.u.

is playing with carrots and sticks the there's economic integration which is 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. 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 the ongoing standoff is polarized in ukraine deepening the divide between the west and southeast which has a huge russian speaking population is some provinces are the country's powerhouse and home to some of its main industrial hubs but when it comes to the south of the crane that has all of the crane sports it's in the second largest of those that civil stoppel ethnic russians make up over seventy percent of the population now the city has seen thousands protesting against the upheaval condemning the violent

actions of the are not seen radicals locals have refused to recognize the new parliaments and have a like their russian citizen as her new mayor political blogger william allison believes western power supports in the interim government are benefiting from the crane's turmoil. the banks. germany and the united states trying to get as much control as they can. as much of the country as they term at the moment they wish to pools a certain degree of chaos which is why they're turning a blind eye to what i can only describe as nazi star parties and i think that suits them because it's a question of divide and greene. are closely following the situation in ukraine on air and online so i had to r.t. dot com for more in-depth analysis and minute by minute updates of what's happened in kiev as well as other regions. so the news

now is the deadline for u.s. troops to pull out from of ganesan approaches washington as planned instantly three thousand personnel behind president karzai has so far refused to sign a bilateral security deal with the u.s. and as arts he's going to scale reports washington is now scrambling to preserve its footprints and never. it's not easy for the obama administration to communicate reasons why the u.s. should say ghana's them past twenty four teen the administration hasn't been able to sell those reasons to president karzai is that 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 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. is arguing its withdrawal from afghanistan will put its hands for al qaida militants in neighboring pakistan forcing them to seek alternative locations for their controversial drone bases meanwhile recent polls show that over half of americans surveyed thought the u.s. has failed. and the that's compared to thirty eight percent who think it had almost

succeeded with a former u.s. army judge advocate general and he told us washington is interested in maintaining the image of an unending call flecked in afghanistan they know we're definitely leaving why continue wasting lives trying to get us out but it seems that we're setting an opposite message leaving. which would still seem to be some kind of occupying force rather without. elements. always wanted to remain an occupying force they want to maintain the appearance that we're in a war so that they can justify the. extra constitutional extra judicial powers on behalf of the. so called commander in chief the president. we're heading into a short break and. your national for more news including a report on the small villages in the me face the prospect of having to leave their

homes to make way for a. well told from a language of love react to situations i have read the reports let. me know i will leave the state to comment on your monoplane. carryout a car is on the dock you know gonna. take you. when you made a direct question be prepared for a change when you. get ready for a. critical stage. of the freedom to.

i marinate join me. in that impartial and financial commentary interview and much much. only on the bus and. this is artsy international welcome back to the program 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 on the influence of radicals it's supposed to serve as a counterterrorism strategy but many claim it's counterproductive with some muslim say in its place in the scrim a nation by authorities are sees laura smith reports. preventing terrorism a powerful phrase used to excuse all manner of abuses 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 creating what they're calling a cradle to grave police state they say the police strategy known as prevent monitor's 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 kaput. discriminated against. 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 promotes tolerance but i can't see how anybody could object 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 argues 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 anywhere it leads to. you know fascism against other communities this is really what will happen as more and more people think it's perfectly horrid to target women who wear a. sign a code of conduct the worry that as policies like these become part of everyday life casual islamophobia follow pitting community against community and dividing society laura smith r.t. . and a quick look at what we have online while the u.s. sinks more drone bases near the pakistan border it's the jet powered persian so it's on land arsenal for more on the breakthrough and america's plans for it had so artsy. also their goal i phone might not be safe while apple desperately tries to patch holes in that security be careful when connecting your devices public wi-fi details of apple's oversights are just

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for news from r.t. international now protesters have clashed with riot police in the vanessa capital caracas students threw rocks at security forces who responded with tear gas two weeks of unrest have already taken the lives of thirteen people present blames they go us for supporting the opposition lots of american analysts botts believes that 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 the klein talks with president maduro who says the protesters are planning a coup backed by washington can bots also believes one as well is getting in the

way of america's economic domination of the region. the role that this whale 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 venezuela 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 and germany rose to its highest level since the one nine hundred ninety s. that's despite the campaign to shift to greener sources of energy are ceaselessly calf and a visit to the small town there which now risks being this royal by the country's call of action. welcome to outer 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. 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 or brown coal and you can see at the size of this operation a 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 bought in fall 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. 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 questionable 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 plant if the parents go through the parliaments 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 abandons called l.b.

major problems with electricity supply. the company has said that it will recreate outer wash elsewhere a church for a church it promises a house for a house but for residents like all rick schultz giving up is simply not an option. either 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 lucy catherine of all people in that small town are forced out of their home a spy a coal company someone long been pushed out of theirs by a growing inequality. the findings show how the purchasing power of a wealthy or middle is increasingly pushing the most desirable neighborhoods out of the reach of middle class cling on whose salaries have failed to keep pace over the

past forty years the policies have created this enormous gulf this enormous split so these cling on just seems like. they're trying to cling on to having some modicum of middle class existence are being beamed out of out of out of the place gold 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 operant and then you've got the everyone else the losers are being forced out of this median london area code where all of the easy money being printed by the subtle bank is available for terms undisclosed and nontransparent. and some more world news lebanese media report that israeli jets have attacked the hezbollah position on the border with syria according to syrian officials the areas

used by the militant group as a training camp and for weapons storage israel did not confirm or deny the airstrike has belies a longtime enemy of israel the two for a war in two thousand and six which ended and stalemate. egypt's military backed interim government has announced its resignation some on the list believe it's to make way for the now former defense minister to run for president in the upcoming election he was the one who oust of islam a surprise that mohamed morsi engine why last year the government says the country's first leadership to have left office since the arab spring began in two thousand and eleven. or news for you in about half an hour coming up next on r.t. international it's breaking the sats with house abby martin to stay with us.

transit route to vnukovo report your best way to the heart of moscow. judy cox a utah mother out of spite but an entire line of t. shirts at a popular chain store at her local mall the reason that she bought them was because she feels that the images of nearly naked women on them violate her local towns decency code she wants to make it clear though that she feels the store has the

right to sell this type of shirt just not displayed in an exterior window ultimately her plan is to return the shirts on day fifty nine of the store's sixty limit let's hope for her sake they don't have a no return policy i bring this up because this is a great example of a nonviolent form of protest that actually works cause the scandal and more importantly it will make the company lose a few dollars technically the girls on the shirts aren't even fully exposed believe me i checked thoroughly and i would even call them r. rated the local communities have the right to be more conservative than the rest of the nation if they want to be and it's good that judy cox actually did something rather than just sitting at home on the air complaining about moral decay across the country if a housewife from a small mormon community could stand up to the man what's stopping you but that's just my opinion.

with the economic downturn in the final. days that sank night and the rest because i think he may be a prickly. no c.n.n. m s n b c news. lately but the fact is i admire their commitment to cover all sides of the story just in case one of them. happens to be accurate. that was funny but it's close and for the truth from i think. it's because one whole attention and the mainstream media works side by side. is actually on here. at our teenagers we have a different brain. because the news of the world just is not this funny

i'm not laughing dammit i'm not how. you guys stick to the jokes well handled in the us ok. a. little lights around. the. plane for the young girls

camel for the future hunter. between two and three hundred million guns united states so you can act like they're not here and keep kids away from them. the plaza sound is the law or you know i mean this teaches them a lot of road sponsibility and simply come to pay through the eyes of children if we can't do it for our children move for our future what can we do the country will save. the day. happy monday all i'm abby martin and this is a great game does sat just today secretary of defense chuck hagel announce that the u.s. army will be reduced to its smallest size since before the second world war and it only took us seven years to do it now that's progress the size of the army will

drop to somewhere between four hundred forty and four hundred fifty thousand by two thousand and fifteen but before we all pop the champagne bottles keep in mind that less and ground troops are needed as this country continues to outsource its military to private mercenary forces and the spending cap for new military spending in two thousand and. in two thousand and fifteen excuse me is still four hundred ninety six billion dollars not not even including the wars that will be paying off for decades to come for perspective consider that the two thousand and fourteen budget provides only seventy seven billion for transportation infrastructure development and a mere seventy one billion for education so if you think that this tokenistic reduction doesn't do nearly enough to really address the out of control military budget then join me and let's break this. the please please please take another look very hard to

take a. look. at you that are back with the earthquake they're looking. for. by now the ninety nine percent versus the one person who has become a household slogan nearly every american who pays attention to the news knows that the idea refers to the ridiculous and coming quality in this country but apparently one guy didn't get the memo. two point five million americans have worn the uniform .