transit route to vnukovo report you'll best way to the heart of mosco. ukraine's divide people in the country's east are refusing to recognize the new leadership meanwhile the e.u. is promising to throw the former opposition a financial lifeline however. the real power into the e.u. it's not going to be the german capital be the greek. experts warned the help from brussels and the international monetary fund may be too painful for ukraine to handle. and washington pushes for thousands of troops to remain in afghanistan after this year's withdrawal deadline passes as security deal with kabul hangs in the air. and britain's muslim communities raise the alarm over the or religion being used as a scapegoat by authorities in their anti terror policies.

it is to be am in the russian capital you're watching r t international with me welcome to the program our ukraine's new leadership has set thursday as the deadline to form a government having missed an earlier target date meanwhile the country is becoming increasingly polarized with manny in the east refusing to obey interim authorities well you know cross live to our correspondent or piss going off who is following the latest for us in the capital kiev while you are to tell us what's happening there as we are understand there is the does seem to be much a unity far as the new leadership is concerned in the attitude towards them. well first of all here in key of the manhunt is continuing around fifty now former

officials have been arrested and they're being accused of being responsible for the deaths of civilians during last week's fierce street battles between the rioters and the police ousted president viktor unocal which is on a nationwide wanted list on the same charges and his exact whereabouts are unknown but it is widely believed that he's somewhere in the east of the country where. this is this is true and apparently more and more people are increasingly critical of the political changes here in kiev the east of the country is the industrial powerhouse of ukraine it's also heavily populated by ethnic russians and for the past few days in the city of sevastopol which is also the country's second largest seaport and home to russia's black sea navy fleet scores of people have been taking to the streets protesting everything that's been happening here in ky if in fact they haven't recognized the new authorities and moreover they've taken down ukrainian flags from government buildings and put up russian once moscow has been

saying that it will not intervene into the situation here and has been calling on western partners to follow its examples now but has also voted for a new mayor who's gained his supporters by promising to protect the city from the ultra right if what you are referring to the nationalist more of whom have been taking new government posts here in kiev so clearly the already existing gap between the east and the west is now growing and we do want to see it with our own eyes and we're actually planning to go to see us later on to report about the events there from the ground running i think is so much for bringing us the very latest and thanks for monitoring the situation there in the ukrainian capital kiev . well brussels and washington are not questioning the legitimacy of the interim government while russia's foreign ministry says western governments are acting out of geopolitical self-interest political blogger william elson believes those

supporting the new leadership are benefiting from ukraine's turmoil. the banks. germany and the united states trying to get as much control. over as much of the country as the term at the moment they wish to. a certain degree of chaos which is why they're turning a blind eye to what i can only describe as nazis starting with parties and i think that suits them because it's a question of divide and rule. now 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 and washington set a well way into an addition to an i.m.f. package but as our teams like here chefs reports many europeans are not so happy about saving ukraine from default. e.u. member state greece we don't have any jobs and at the same time we have debts to

pay they should support us now that we're in great need e.u. member states sprained. i'm unemployed i have two children we don't get any government help and it's hard to survive each month but if we don't have money for us how can we give it to ukraine and revolting you grade a country without even an association of you with the. plane with carrots and sticks the there's economic integration which was going to mean that 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. with questions about who will lead ukraine into the future and whether the country will stay together one thing's clear it's the rule going to be that needs to be revamped first even before the euro my down protest kicked off

there was a talk of a possible default in ukraine in november its external debt three hundred sixty billion euro it was one of the main reasons why king of refused to sign the trade pact with the e.u. fearing it could aggravate the situation even the more november last year europe offered only several hundred million euro to ukraine but with the opposition now taking the reins the e.u. is ready to give a whole lot more to luxury maybe even members such as greece and spain you know hard to afford mr spain can't help now. i'm just speechless this idea is worse than anything. first they put greece. and then they all for ukraine all the money. and see who was in from the ukraine. and we are closely following the situation in ukraine on the air and online as well so head to r.t. dot com for more in-depth analysis and minute by minute updates of what's happening

in kiev and other regions. now as the deadline for u.s. troops to pull out from of ghana stan approaches washington is planning to leave three thousand personnel behind president karzai has so far refused to sign a bilateral security deal with the u.s. and as artie's ganesh to can now 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 that needle troops presence his country is 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 ghana's them 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. now here are some figures from the war in afghanistan let's take a look well the intervention has cost u.s. taxpayers over five hundred fifty billion dollars which is enough to purchase

twenty i pads for every resident of america's third most populous city chicago now throwing a poor shade which is widely used metaphor by the troops referring to the javelin anti-tank missile that costs eighty thousand dollars each comparable to the price of a sports car and more than a thousand nations committed their forces to the nato led campaign but while austria and the republic of violent kicked in just seven and four soldiers respectively the u.s. deployed ninety thousand there recent polls show sixty six percent of americans surveyed believe the war was not worth fighting one former u.s. army general told us washington is deliberately trying to maintain the image of an ending conflict in the country they know are definitely leaving why continue wasting lives trying to get us out but it seems that we're sending an opposite message falkner leaving kind of twelve thousand which would still seem to be some kind of occupying force with or without karzai concurrence certainly there's an

element within the us always wanted to maintain an occupying force 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 or as they now identify the president. i we're heading into a short break now but do stay with r.t. international for more news and analysis. including our reports on a small village in germany whose residents face the prospect of having to leave their homes to make way for a coal mine. transit

route to vnukovo report your best way to the heart of most. thank. you.

ok back to what you are to international of the u.k. government has spent millions of pounds in recent years on the so-called prevent a program that's aimed at stopping muslims in the country from falling under the influence of radicals it's a poster serve as a counterterrorism strategy but manning claim it's counterproductive with some muslim saying it's a way to end discrimination by authorities aren't his lawyer 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 creating 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 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 but 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 on. 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. leads to. you know fascism against other communities this is what will happen as more and more people think it's perfectly right women who wear. a code of conduct to worry that as policies like these become part of everyday life casual islamophobia follow pitting community against community and dividing society.

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a dog you know going to. thank you no more we said. what you need a direct question be prepared for a change when you when you should be ready for a. freedom of speech little doubt the freedom to watch. welcome back you're watching r t international now protesters have clashed with riot police in venezuelan capital caracas students through rocks at security forces who responded with tear gas and two weeks of unrest have already taken the lives of thirteen people present blames the u.s. for supporting the opposition led an american analyst can pod 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 on the opposition has declined talks with president maduro who says of the protesters are planning a cool back by washington can pot also believes of venezuela's 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 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 and last year the amount of energy produced from coal in germany rose to its highest level since the one nine hundred ninety s. and that's despite a campaign to shift to greener sources of energy often of visiting a small town there which now risks being destroyed by the country's coal addiction . 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 above 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 vote 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 yet 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 at 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 in fall does move then it likely won't be for many more years and approval by state authorities

is still pending although local activists aren't optimistic so the three villages will basically be gone if the plans of the prince. go through the parliament through. to be moved their books of 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 a house for a house but for residents like all rick schultz giving up is simply not an option and of off on him by the here. my ancestors fought in the thirty year war with sweden in the seventeenth century object 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 when reporting in outer wash germany and the sea captain of. while people in that small town are forced out of their homes by coal companies some in london are pushed out of the earth by growing inequality. finding 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 created this enormous gulf this enormous split so these cling on so soon as 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 at the upper end and then you've got the everyone else the losers are being

forced out of this immediate london area where all of the easy money being printed by the subtle bank is available for terms undisclosed and nontransparent. now lebanese media reported that israeli jets have attacked a has a bill opposition on the border with syria according to syrian officials the area is used by the militant group as a training camp and for weapons storage israel did not confirm or deny the airstrike has is a long time anime of israel the two fought a war in two thousand and six which and it in stalemate. egyptian military backed interim government has announced its resignation some analysts 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 ousted islam as president mohamed morsi in july last year the government is the country's fifth leadership to have left office since the

arab spring began and twenty. somethings house tours in manila have demonstrated against the presence of american troops in the country to rally and in scuffles with riot police using fire hoses to disperse the crowd the activists wanted to show their opposition to the upcoming visit of president barack obama they claimed the presence of u.s. troops in the philippines violates the country's sovereignty. coming up here in our senior national we'll take you on a trip to one of the hottest places on earth it's hard to hazard which comes to life during the winter. 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 are even fully exposed believe me i checked thoroughly and i would even call them r. rated by 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 can stand up to the man what's stopping you but that's just my opinion.

i married join me. in part and. very conservative and much. only. it's no accident that you built his cafe on the very edge of the desert. he knows that any adventure into the sahara will 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 it as its main event a festival that attracts thousands of tourists. a 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 to 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 desert. 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 beyond 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. he and his camel came first in a sprint for us. 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 he dons make up and colorful national costume to pose as an exotic sultan for tourists which is particularly popular with some women travellers. as camel though is less than impressed these a particular race are only interested in entering competitions he frequently and loudly expresses his disapproval. omas life is centered on his camels in the desert. i know this in my life this is in my. in there my heart well done. you know my time in this not working interest now this is my friend is there anything for me in life because this government for one time this government like me.