crowds rally in the ukrainian city of sevastopol in a show of defiance against a self declared government in kiev and a voice support for a newly appointed pro russian mer. the real path into the e.u. it's not going to be the german path that will be the greek path analysts warn financial aid from brussels and the i.m.f. may prove a slippery slope for ukraine. the united states considers 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 their government's campaign against radicalism and say they're being turned into a scapegoat. nine

pm in moscow i match or is it good to have you with us here on r t our top story this hour political upheavals in ukraine's capital sparking a backlash in the south and east of the country where many are making it clear they don't recognize the new self-proclaimed leadership the movement's gathering pace in crimea an autonomous region that is home to major industrial hubs and prime torah spots also mainly populated by ethnic russians the largest rallies have been held in the naval hub of sevastopol where a pro russian mayor is just been appointed and wrote a wave of popular support his kind of has more. 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 the if in fact they haven't recognized the new of shorty's and war over they've taken down ukraine 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. but it has also voted for a new mayor who's gained his supporters by promising to protect the city from the ultra right to see what the 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 and we do want to see it what with our own eyes and were actually planning to go to see us cope with it later on to report about the events there from the ground. meanwhile russian foreign minister lavrov has once again warned western powers against encouraging the new regime including its nationalist extremist elements. radicals are now threatening to move on

those parts of ukraine the disagree with the methods being used by the opposition so our goal is to help the ukrainian people are brotherly nation we want to understand who will form ukraine's new government including how is twins to stabilize the economy we do not want ukraine to be influenced by radicals and nationalists who are now clearly trying to play a leading role on the web of this revolution they're also taking decisions that could harm a significant part of the country's population. and one voice was echoing russia's stance at least luxembourg becoming the first european state to voice concerns over the rise of radicalism in ukraine since the turmoil started details from our own arena the live show. personally i have seen at least five european officials parading through the independence square in its early stages and making statements about the fact how everything is fine and dandy and it's 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 my done also known as the independence square in three of. the european union has no right to support. those who using violence as you call them europe is familiar with we have to fight. 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 extremist 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 the is a man of radical views he's actually participated in the chechen war he went to the caucasus 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 resists initially one of the leaders of the of the my don of the independence square movement and he is openly not disrespectful but also to submit it 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 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. it's and these are the words of its leader but the more big .

which is nice if you can what do you what you like. so this is what we're looking at this is the type of people that the west has been until now is ultimately supporting and look at the fact that just on tuesday we have heard a synagogue that has had its castle run off in france sounds all this illicitly somewhat worried and apprehensive as to what exactly is going to happen and. we're keeping up with the situation in ukraine on air and online as extremist sentiment simmers within the ranks of the opposition our crew in kiev has been posting footage of the ultra nationalist even sometimes fascist symbols that are appearing around the embattled independence square find out more on our instagram account also with ukraine sliding toward bankruptcy the new leadership welcoming western diplomats in hope of urgent financial aid you foreign policy chief catherine ashton

has pledged support and washington is said to be ready to contribute in addition to an i.m.f. loan like sarah shift your reports many europeans though seem reluctant to see their money go to ukraine. 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 edu 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 in association 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 cell 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 rubicon 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 the van by 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 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 hard to afford . spain can't help now. i'm just speechless this idea is worth anything. first the greece. and then the old for ukraine all the

money. goes in from kiev ukraine. twenty billion euros the e.u. promise kiev is actually the amount that greece needs as it struggles to get back on track but brussels is so far kept athens waiting for a third bailout installment it's also about four billion more than the e.u. plans to spend on supporting growth and fighting unemployment this year earlier we asked patrick young a global markets advisor for d.v. advisors whether europe is capable of following through on its pledges to ukraine. this situation has not changed months ago the free trade agreement collapsed a 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 to scrim 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 is is effectively in la-la land that 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 yonder 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 stay with us here on our national as we bring you updates and analysis on the ukraine uprising. shifting gears to other top stories nato defense ministers will meet wednesday to discuss their military presence in afghanistan is the white house moles whether to start preparations for a total withdrawal of u.s.

troops by year's end the signing of a bilateral deal may look unlikely at the moment but artie's guide says washington may be reluctant to ease off its influence in the region. it's not easy for the obama administration to communicate reasons why the u.s. should stay you know against them past twenty four teen the administration hasn't been able to sell those reasons to president karzai has taken a toll truce presence his country's 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 you know order to not lose of ganesan completely they may have to make a now we have 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 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 the intervention in afghanistan cost u.s. taxpayers more than five hundred fifty billion dollars that's about average of about equal to the average annual salary of ten million u.s. schoolteachers throwing a porsche is the metaphor used by troops referring to the jabal an anti-tank missiles that cost eighty thousand dollars a pop dozens of nations committed forces to the nato led campaign but while austrian ireland sent only three in seven soldiers respectively the u.s.

now deploys ninety thousand more over recent polls show sixty six percent of americans think the war wasn't worth fighting one former u.s. army major told us washington is deliberately trying to maintain an image of conflict in the country. they know we're definitely leaving why continue wasting lives trying to get us out but it seems that we're sending an opposite message talking on leaving ten thousand twelve thousand which would still seem to be some kind of occupying force with or without cars ice concurrence certainly there's an element within the us and always wanted to maintain an occupying force they want to maintain the appearance that we're in a getting us war so that they cannot therefore justify these claims of extra constitutional extra judicial powers on behalf of the. no so called commander in chief as they now identify the president. more news coming your way after a short break including controversial plans to auction off you came visas to foreign millionaire.

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thanks for staying with us quarter past the hour faced with rising islamophobia at home in the urgent need to tackle the threat posed by combat and this returning from the syrian war the u.k. government stepping up a campaign against extremism but some members of the multimillion strong british muslim community say they are feeling victimized now as artie's laura smith reports . preventing terrorism a powerful phrase used to excuse all manner of the be uses government spying on their own citizens to foreign wars now muslims in the u.k. are accusing the government of scapegoating them in the fight against terror and

created what they're calling a cradle to grave police state they say the police strategy known as prevent monitors muslims and tries to change ideologies in every area of their life so it's an all encompassing policy that is touching on every aspect of muslim life in a negative negative way which encourages discrimination you've got to remember that . when one person has been affected in this way the whole family as they tell their family they tell their friends they tell others so this is becoming a shared experience amongst the muslim community the whole community is now experiencing what's happening in prevent despite the fact that human rights organizations have branded the strategy 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 in 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 back. 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 anyway it does what leads to. you know fascism against all the communities this is what it's about what will happen as

more and more people think it's perfectly all right women who were born will get them to sign a code of conduct to worry that as policies like these become policy of every day life because she will is not a food be a fully pitied community it gives community and to fighting society you're a smith. also in britain the media report says all homeless people across the e.u. could potentially be giving over their heads in the blink of an eye. it is with a shocking number of homes across the continent standing empty and had to r.t. dot com for more details on that plus. evidence comes to light in australia suggesting or implying that maybe i may have become habitable much earlier than previously thought all thanks to crystal evidence you can find on our website. the u.k. government could soon be auction off visas to overseas millionaires they'll be

granted permanent residence in britain if they invest or make donations already sarah firth has more from london. currently migrants can gain entry by investing one million pounds or more in the case and that typically goes into guilds it's very low risk and that's essentially a loan that they give to the government for five years that's then paid back at the end of that so you're not that much benefit to the british public so what these proposals are suggesting is that that minimum investment of one million pounds be doubles to two million pounds and they also suggest a system called an auction system that could replace these higher level the higher cost be that is already getting a bit of debate here in britain and join us and talk a bit more about this i'm joined by nicholas and he is the head of business immigration at king's enough. thank you very much for joining us to have you looked a little sounds wonderful even more controversial proposal this is these are all.

the problem i think with the auction is that while it will attract those very very high net worth individuals where money is no object to me to throw as much as they want i think the problem with these schemes is that every developed country needs a scheme and those schemes of widely known by people who are looking around to find somewhere that they want to live with their families to educate their children for whatever reason and the thing about those. schemes is that they have to have very clear rules and by that we mean a clear investment level whether it's a standard five year route or a fast track two year route or three year route and i think when you start saying well it could be anything from two hundred million upwards it could be thirty million and depending on when you apply you might get you might get a visa with ten million or you might not i think people don't like that uncertainty people like to know what they're getting for their money if you have a scheme that's clear where the rules are clear it's

a robot scheme it has integrity it checks that the people coming in all the people that we want and they're not you know. people who with with phones which are acquired in a nefarious way then i think you know people will feel much more comfortable with that and see that these wealthy people who are spending money are actually people that we want to thank you very much that they call those proposals will be under consideration if they're implemented that will happen in april of this year but as he said to be debated by the government before they make any full efficient about exactly what will happen around these changes to these requirements time for locals in sochi to take a break as the excitement of the winter games comes the city and gears up for the paralympics meanwhile russian media have been hearing from the one man without whom the sporting event would never have happened of course we're talking about president vladimir putin archies andrew farmer has more. 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 because we lack 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 little to do with sports their main concern is competition in international politics their job is different and they used 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. full interview with the russian leader focusing on the sochi olympics of course

available on our website. despite attempts to switch to greener energy last year germany produced its highest level of brown coal a tricity since one thousand nine hundred there's one a village in eastern germany that risks losing everything over the country's hunger for fossil fuels to see coughing off reports. 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 vattenfall needs more lignite for its power plant one of the dirtiest in europe the local children call it the cloud making factory it's one of the most polluting fossil fuels and it's supposed to be a thing of the past germany gets nearly twenty five percent of its electricity from solar and wind with a goal of eighty percent renewables by twenty fifty at the country burned more brown coal last year than at any time since the one nine hundred ninety s.

the dirty downside of chancellor merkel's nuclear phaseout more than nine hundred villagers are 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 governments 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 our practices. of the 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 plans of the prince go through the parliament. 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 innocently. the company has said that it will recreate outer wash elsewhere a church for a church it promises house for a house but for residents like all rick schultz giving up is simply not an option and of. the here. my ancestors fought in the thirty year war with sweden in the seventeenth century and they defended this land and i will also stand firm and fight for my land i cannot imagine what happens if i lose this battle. reporting in

outer wash germany and the sea captain of. told it on the future of net neutrality and japan's hopes of an economic turnaround in boom bust with our innate. judy cox in 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 it caused a 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 are raided 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 internet 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. little. more. pain for the young girls cammo 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 site is they large you know i mean this teaches them a lot of response ability to simply come to pay through the eyes of children if we can't do it for our children for our future what is the country the same. hello there i marinated this is boom bust and these are the stories that we're tracking for you today. first up we look into the matter and magnitude of a deal reached between netflix and comcast over the weekend netflix has decided to pony up to the cable provider but who really ends up paying in the long run.