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freedom of speech and now the freedom to question. crowds rally in the ukrainian city of sebastopol in a show of defiance against the self declared government and to voice support for the new mayor chosen by popular will on sunday the real path into the e.u. it's not going to be the german path it'll be the greek path. and experts warn the financial aid from brussels and the international monetary fund may prove a slippery slope for ukraine. washington miles over whether to leave three thousand troops in afghanistan beyond two thousand and fourteen as a bilateral security agreement with kabul hangs in the balance. and british muslims cry foul over the government's campaign against radicalism and say
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they are being turned into. watching on t.v. national coming to life from moscow marina joshie welcome to the program other political upheavals in ukraine's capital are sparking a backlash in the south and east of the country where crowds are making it clear they do not recognize a new pro western leadership the movement gathering pace in crimea as a group is going off now reports for the past few days soon the city of. which is also the country's second largest seaport and home to russia's black sea media fleet scores of people have been taking to the streets protesting everything that's been happening if in fact they haven't recognized the new of forty seven war over they've taken down ukrainian flags from government buildings and put up russian
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once moscow has been saying that it will not intervene into the situation here and has been calling on the western. partners to follow its examples now. has also voted for a new mayor who's gained his supporters by promising to protect the city from the ultra right to what you are referring to the nationalists more of whom have been taking a new government post here in kiev so clearly the already existing gap between the east and the west is now growing while we do want to see it what with our own eyes and we're actually planning to go to see us cope with it later on to report about the events there from the ground and ukraine's new leadership has set thursday as a deadline to form a government having missed an earlier target date and the spied russia once again urging the west to restrain the extremists driving from power brussels and washington have not questioned the legitimacy of the interim government political blogger william wallace and believes a further escalation would play into the hands of western politicians and.
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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 pool a certain degree of chaos which is why they're turning a blind eye to what i can only describe as nazis parties and i think that suits them because it's a question of divide and rule meanwhile 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 a e.u. foreign policy chief catherine ashton has promised support and washington said it will weigh in too in addition to an i.m.f. package but as are. reports many were peons are not so happy about saving a crane from the fault. 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.
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member states brain. 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 ukraine a country without even an association of you with the e.u. . the e.u. is as plain 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
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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 you 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 luxury maybe even members such as greece and spain can no hardly afford ways that 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 alexey russia ski on see you watching from kiev in ukraine well now let's get some more analysis on this from patrick young an expert in a global financial markets from the d.v.d. visors group patrick thanks so much for joining us here aren't international to talk about this while the sum of twenty billion euro sounds like you know quite a promise there but can't europe actually afford this.
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well let's put it one way i mean europe can afford incredible things if it really wants to spend it but ultimately can europe afford the political capital no and actually we've just gone back three four months here marina the situation has not changed months ago the free trade agreement collapsed eight because it was skewed in favor of the european union secondly because the european union offered a derisory eight hundred million euros knowing the european union's financial situation has not changed we've got all manner of people the governing party in the u.k. all sorts of politicians across europe even mr terse from neighboring poland is saying that effectively it's going to be impossible to manage to be very large with phones at the same time frankly the new ukrainian government as eat is is effectively in la-la land that mean they're already asking for thirty five billion dollars that's
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up from the fifteen billion dollars that had been agreed by the by the president mr young the cove it's just a few months ago with with russia and therefore it's really a mess the european union does not have the political capital to spend on rescuing ukraine from twenty years of economic mismanagement given the problems in the backyard of the euro zone well but actually you know let's take a look at the economic situation and in ukraine. judging from what you just said it's in dire straits here but how much money would actually solve their problems i mean ok twenty billion euros as you said is not really enough but looking at their state of their economy how much will they actually need. ok well to take the numbers very very quickly instantaneously they need to pay off about six and a half billion dollars this year in government debt over the course of the next
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eighteen months they probably have to repay about fifteen billion dollars of government debt commerzbank this morning independently verified that there is at least one billion dollars in debt to russia for gas supplies it could be as high as three billion dollars is owed at the moment the overall budget deficit the amount of money the ukrainian government is spending which it doesn't have is also about six and a half billion dollars odd to that the fact that obviously russia has already advanced three billion dollars into the kitty of the fifteen billion dollar program and as you can see we're very very rapidly up around a fifteen billion and beyond number for the ukrainian economy well interesting you said badgering over interestingly a sad story for jumping in i mean you said russia has already added three billion dollars here but you know in a press conference and key of catherine ashton said that quote let me quote her here as a neighbor we expect russia to support ukraine i mean how much more support does she expect from russia here. well i mean this seems to be this is
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exactly the total problem with mrs austin our complete known entity who in a typical brussels shuffle was put entirely i'd have her depth as the head of diplomacy for the european union i mean what on earth can she wanted indeed russia have already pledged fifteen billion dollars which would have actually got ukraine out of the hole that was actually inconvenient for the usa and the european union because although they weren't willing to put in any sort of reasonable amount of cash they were trying to get a greater degree of political control so we end up with a complete fiasco russia on one side is the only country whose feasibly offered some sort of funding for russia has five hundred billion dollars worth of total bank reserves at the moment so i wouldn't say that russia is totally happy about lending this money but it is in a position to do so if the ukrainian economy can be stabilized and the ukrainian government can be stabilized to prepare for it but you know looking at the
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situation the complexity there i mean why wouldn't you or peons offered help earlier in the vampyr for example. well that's of course absolutely a typical example of the european union's complete inability to not manage to meddle outside their borders while being economically incoherent they simply thought that there was a way to deliver democracy on the cheap and they could see some sort of incredible revolution in ukraine notwithstanding the fact that mr young the covert should already been democratically elected so therefore you saw the european union jumping in and meddling because they were determined to expand their influence the brussels euro crops love the idea of a free trade deal with ukraine and let's face it why wouldn't they they were going to destroy ukrainian industry they were going to stop the fridge manufacturers and others of car cough and other parts of the caribbean heartland from being able to
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export to the russian heartlands and further to the east with products that effectively weren't going to sell in the western markets moreover agriculture a staple of the ukrainian economy was going to be excluded because the most important thing you have to do in the european union is you always have to call that farmers especially french ones so this became a complete farce it was a for rago the european union are doing exactly what they did in the van but they're saying of course we're going to be here we're going to provide money our checkbook is open but unfortunately somebody seems to have lost the pen all right patrick thank you so much for giving us the economic perspective and explaining to us things and how they might or might not work in the ukrainian scenario patrick young talking to me an expert in global financial markets from the t.v. advisors group thank you ever so much now luxembourg has become the first european powers so far to voice concern over the rise of radical groups in ukraine since the turmoil began details now from one thousand. personally i have seen at least five
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european officials parading through the independence square in its early stages making statements about the fact how everything is fine and dandy and is absolutely a show of democracy in its best form but now we are hearing from the foreign minister of luxembourg who actually is the first person only an official level from the west to indicate that in fact there is something sinister going on on the my done also known as the independence square in kiev. the european union has no right . to using violence as you call them europe is familiar with we have to fight all extremist forces including those in ukraine this is very important. to hate violence and extremism need to find a compromise and restore peace. now about those who are russian foreign ministry is calling extremists and it refers to as nazis well let's have
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a look at some of the leaders of ukraine so-called revolution for example alexander the is a man of a radical views he's actually participated in the chechen war he went to the caucuses was fought on the side of the terrorists and prided himself on the fact that he personally had several tanks and armored vehicles and despite that he still managed to run for the ukrainian parliament a couple of years ago again he's one of the leaders of alter nationalist movement and then there's also a leg who is essentially one of the three leaders of the of the my done of the independence square movement and he is openly not just for civil but also to submit it making numerous statements to in that regard that have actually gotten him into quite a lot of hot water where the jewish population of ukraine one of the most active in propagating armed resistance against the ukrainian authorities has been the right sector and ultra nationalist group that has been becoming more and more active in
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kiev over the past couple of my. it's and these are the words of its leader but the more beat. that used to be the world's oil rich. countries are leaking are you. really. what you learned that you can or do you know you will see what you learn if you love fool yourself so this is what we're looking at is the type of people that the west has been until now is openly supporting and if you look at the fact that just recently just on tuesday in fact we have heard synagogue in fact has been as it has with its hospital one ought to be praying it sounds all of this is leaving all of this really should leave us the somewhat worried and upper heads of us what exactly is going to happen there next russia's foreign minister sergey lavrov has once again warned western powers against encouraging the new regime and
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its nationalist and extremist elements. listen we want to understand who will form ukraine's new government and what programs it will have including how it plans to stabilize the economy radicals are now threatening to move on those parts of ukraine that disagree with the methods being used by the opposition so our goal is to help the ukrainian people are brotherly nation and we're waiting for the programme of the new government we do not want ukraine to be influenced by radicals and nationalists who are now clearly trying to play the leading role on the way was this revolution they're also taking decisions that could harm a significant part of the country's population. and we are closely following the situation in ukraine on air and online so i had to call for in-depth analysis and minute by minute updates of what's happening in kiev and other regions.
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choose the storms that impact the life chances access to often. welcome back it watching r t international nato the fans ministers will be meeting on wednesday to discuss the western military presence in afghanistan this as the white house weighs up whether to start preparations for total withdrawal of u.s. troops by the end of the year the signing of a bilateral security deal may look unlikely at the moment but washington is reluctance to release its hold on the region as are going to count now explains it's not easy for the obama administration to communicate reasons why the u.s. should stay you know against them past twenty four teams the administration hasn't been able to sell those reasons to president karzai is that needle troops presence
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in 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 planned 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
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declarations like the u.s. saying that he would leave afghanistan by the end of twenty fourteen in washington i'm going to check on our team. let's take a look at how the war has played out in numbers on the intervention in afghanistan ask. cost u.s. taxpayers more than five hundred fifty billion dollars equal to the average annual salary of ten million american teachers now throwing a poor shape is a metaphor used by the troops referring to the javelin anti-tank missiles that cost eighty thousand dollars each over a thousand nations committed their forces to the nato led campaign while austria and island sent just three and seven soldiers respectively the u.s. deployed ninety thousand but recent polls show sixty six percent of americans believe the war was not worth fighting one former u.s. army major told us washington is deliberately trying to maintain an image of a never ending conflict in the country they know are definitely leaving why
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continue wasting lives trying to get us out but it seems that we're standing in opposite message charcoal 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 from 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. face was rising islamophobia at home and the urgent need to tackle the threat posed by competence returning from the syrian war the u.k. government is stepping up its campaign against extremism but some members of a multi million strong british muslim community now feel they're being victimized as laura smith reports. preventing terrorism a powerful phrase used to excuse all manner of abuses from government spying on
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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 unexpectedly intrusive into the lives of
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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
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way of singling them out and it doesn't lead anywhere it does what leads to. you know fascism against other communities this is what inevitably what will happen as more and more people think it's perfectly horrid to target women who wear a job only get them to sign a code of conduct to worry that as policies like these become part of everyday life because she will islamophobia fully pitted community against community and dividing society you're a smith. also in britain a media reports as all homeless people across the european union could potentially be given roofs over their heads in the blink of an eye what a shocking number of homes across the continent standing empty and unused had to accomplish more details. also online evidence comes to wind industry really is suggesting that our planet may have become habitable much earlier than previously
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thought and it's all there for you on our website. right to see. first rate. and i would think the church. on our reporters would. be. alive starting to return to normal in sortie after all the excitement of the winter olympics russian media have been hearing from the one man with whom the sporting extravaganza would never have happened and that's of course president vladimir putin here's anderson armor with details. these olympics have ended mr putin has been singing the praises of russia's athletes to the nation's media he said that before the games at best many people had said russia would finish third in the
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medals table of course they finished top with a record haul of medals including thirteen gold and he went on to give a lovely little anecdotes about one of the biggest stars of these games the figure skater adelina sotnikova he told the media that he'd actually met or when she was only twelve years old they had their photo taken with each other and then at that time she predicted that one day she would be an olympic champion how true that was mr peace and then also addressed the criticism that russia had faced in the run up to these games and said that basically it had come from two areas all these years we have been working in conditions of criticism but it was constructive criticism in the first place very friendly and helpful on the part of the international olympic committee i am sure that without such friendly criticism and support we would have still managed to do everything but i doubt whether we would have done it with such quality because we lack the enormous experience from our friends from the
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i.o.c. this was their gift to us however there was and i'm sure there still is another group of critics who have little to do with sport their main concern is competition in international politics their job is different and they use the olympic project to achieve their own goals in their anti russian propaganda efforts whenever a strong competitor appears russia in this case there is always someone who doesn't like this who starts working against it however they fail to understand how deep the changes are and watching society changes that have affected its very nature and mr putin ended by saying he hoped these olympics it shone russia's soul to the world and shown a new russia which the rest of the world should not be afraid of and. and a full interview with a russian leader focusing of course on the sochi olympics will soon be available on our website so be sure to check that out at r.t.
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judy cox a utah mother out of spite but an entire line of t. shirts at a popular chain store after a 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 because 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 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 can stand up to the man what's stopping you but that's
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just my opinion. for the young girls cammo for the future harder. between two and three hundred million guns united states so you can act like they're not here and keep kids away from them. that causes that if they learn you know i mean this teaches them a lot of for us both ability and. we come to pay through the eyes of children if we can't do it for our children love for our future what the country will say if.
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they all told me my language as well but i will only react to situations i have read the reports so i'm likely to push the know i will leave them to the state department to comment on your latter point to say it's secure yet a car is all your dog is no god. they kill no more weasel words. when you have a direct question be prepared for a change when you plunge be ready for a. privilege of speaking in a little down to freedom to question. hello dare i marinate it this is boom bust and these are the stories that we're tracking for you.

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