crowds rally in the ukrainian city are sebastopol and a show of defiance against the sell declared government in kiev and voiced support for the new mayor chosen by popular will. the real have into the e.u. it's not going to be the german pav it'll be the greeks have. experts warn the financial aid from brussels and the international monetary fund may prove a slippery slope for ukraine. and washington mulls 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 they're being turned into scapegoats. what you might have a national life from moscow i'm marina josh welcome to the program and the 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 did not recognize the new self-proclaimed leadership the movement's gathering pace in crimea as artie's or corpus going off 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 navy 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. 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 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 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 ukraine's new leadership has set thursday as a deadline to form a government having missed an earlier target date and despite the russia once again urging the west to restrain extremists striving for power brussels and washington have not questioned the legitimacy of the interim government political blogger william also believes a further escalation would play into the hands of western politicians the banks.

germany and the united states trying to get as much control as. over as much of the country as the term at the moment they wish to cool a certain degree of chaos which is why they're turning a blind eye to what i can only describe as nazis talk to them and i think that suits them because it's a question of divide and rule. russia's foreign minister sergey lavrov has once again of war and western powers against encouraging the new regime and its nationalist and extremist elements. ridiculousness 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 start brotherly nation we want to understand who will storms ukraine's new government including how it's going to stabilize the economy we do not want ukraine to include was tried radicals

and nationalists who are now clearly trying to play a leading role for you on the wave of this revolution and they're also taking decisions that could harm a significant part of the country's population. and jack owing a russia stands luxembourg has become the first european power so far to voice concerns over the rise of radicalism in ukraine since the turmoil began details now from our. personally i have seen at least five european officials parading through the independence square in its early stages making statements about the fact how everything is fine and dandy 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 support extremists who using violence the nazis as you call them europe is

familiar with we have to fight all extremists 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 a look at some of the leaders of ukraine so-called revolution for example alexander . 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 brought 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 allegedly one who resists generally one of the three leaders of the of the my don of the independence square movement and he is openly not just

the but also just a mythic making numerous statements to in that regard that have actually gotten him into quite a lot of hot water with 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 kiev over the past couple of my. yes and these are the words of its leader but the more big. it was. so this is what we're looking at this 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 a synagogue in fact has been has

a house with its hassle one of the friends sounds all of this is leaving all of this really should leave us somewhat worried and apprehensive as to what exactly is going to happen there next. 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 aid e.u. foreign policy chief catherine ashton has promised support and washington sat away into in addition to an honest package but as are the reports many europeans are not so happy about saving ukraine 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 i'm wearing green made. member states sprayed by the movement 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 rubel do you grade a country without even association. playing with carrots and sticks the there's economic integration which was going to mean a big part 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 ruined economy 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 reached one 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 you november last year

europe offered only several hundred million euros 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 mr speight 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 like she rushes the auntie watching from kiev in ukraine patrick yong is an expert in the global financial markets from the d.v.d. visors group and we asked him whether europe is actually capable of following through on its promises to ukraine. 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 lavish with phones at the same time frankly the new ukrainian government azi it is is effectively in la la land i mean they're already asking for thirty five billion dollars that's 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 instantaneously they need to pay off about six and a half billion dollars this year in government debt over the course of the next eighteen months they probably have to repay about fifteen billion dollars of government debt 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 a say without international eyes will bring you updates and x.-plane analysis on the uprising in ukraine. coming up later in the program a village goes up against a massive industry. my family and my fellow villagers here would face a terrible prospect of our homes could soon be raised in our businesses and destroy our jihad a small community in eastern germany who stand to lose their homes and livelihoods due to the expansion of coal mining.

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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 on likely at the moment but washington is reluctant to release its hold on the region as are going to count explains it's not easy for the obama administration to communicate reasons why the u.s. should say against them past twenty four teams the administration hasn't been able to sell those reasons to president karzai is like nato troops presence 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 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 is take a look at how the war has played out in numbers the intervention in afghanistan has cost u.s. taxpayers more than five hundred fifty billion dollars equal to the average annual salary of ten million american teachers throwing a poor shape is

a matter for us by the troops referring to the javelin anti-tank missiles that cost eighty thousand u.s. dollars each and over a thousand nations committed their forces to the nato led campaign while austria and ireland sent just three and seven soldiers respectively the u.s. deployed and nine in the thousand but the recent polls show sixty six percent of americans believe the war was not worth fighting and one afghan activist told us the u.s. nation building project has been far from effective they haven't done much incidentally the only thing they have provided to the afghan military forces uniform and if you . do these weapons if millions of disciplined in afghanistan cost the lives of more than a million afghans they have not invested strictly into this. nation building and they simply intended to help build institutions is still fuchsias building is good but if the fusion building can be done in cannot continue to maintain itself

and it's not sustainable the newest edition billing is of no use and so they're going to military they have trained them but they have not provided only. now faced with 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 the multimillion strong british muslim community now feel they're being victimized as artie's laura smith now 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. . 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 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 among 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 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 general patton 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 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 does what leads to. you. no fascism against other communities this is what we never knew what will happen as more and more people think it's perfectly horrid to target women who wear

a job on the ball get them to sign a code of conduct to worry that as policies like these become policy of every day life casual islamophobia pitted community against community and society you're a smith. also in britain the media report says all homeless people across the european union could potentially be given roofs over their hands in the blink of an eye was a shocking number of homes across the continent standing empty and on the news and had to r.t. the more details. also online evidence comes to light in australia suggesting that our planet may have become habitable much earlier than previously thought and it's all there for you on our website. right to see. first rate. and i think the church.

on our reporters were very. instrumental. in the. and time now for locals in sochi to take a break as the excitement of the winter games columns and the city gears up for the paralympics meanwhile russian media have been hearing from that one man without whom the sporting extravaganza would never have happened and that of course as president would report well here's under farmer with the details. two days after 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 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 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 seen 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 and because we like the enormous experience from our friends from the 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 a little to do with. 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 you hope these olympics it shown russia's soul to the world and shown a new russia which the rest of the world should not be afraid of and. such a. well 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 our t dot com. now despite attempts to switch to greener energy last year germany produced its highest level of brown coal electricity since nine hundred ninety and there's one village in eastern germany that risks losing everything over countries hunger for fossil fuels as of

now reports. welcome to add a wash population in 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 of. 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 for lignite 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 field 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. that 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. 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 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 abandons cold l.b. major problems with electricity supply quite honestly. 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 when of and by the here. my ancestors fought in the thirty year war with sweden in the seventeenth century armed 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. it coming up next year in our tina national will take you on a trip to one of the hottest places on earth the sahara desert which comes to live during the winter.

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 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 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. the. banks don't want the competition they don't want the going to succeed the central banks that deal money don't want to they don't want to cryptocurrency. are going to report the news in a way that reflects their interests. sure objective news source anymore except for this.

it's no accident that ali built his cafe on the very edge of the dead that. 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 there's 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 way of shape 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.