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is just one of the diplomatic surrounding president obama's choices. in venezuela unrest spreads from the capital with. breaking out in the north all over continued. all right it is. international with the top headlines for this hour. from the entire news team thank you for joining us today first breaking news story of the standoff between supporters and opponents of ukraine's new leadership is flaring up local authorities sources say in crimea around thirty men have seized

both the cabinet and the parliament building where the russian flag has been raised officials plan to hold talks with them later on thursday and go to continue to follow the events in the region. well i hug far more into the fray here in the crimea nationalist slogans are being shouted alongside pro russian ones they share the same went but definitely not the same political views i. was. there with we all came out today to show that without our approval no decisions will be made we see the crimea is a part of a crane business the majority of people here support russia in the u.s.s.r. the crimea belong to the russian soviet republic until nine hundred fifty four when the then soviet leadership decided to transfer it to the administration of soviet the crane and when the u.s.s.r. collapsed in one thousand nine hundred one and the crimea was left as

a part of independent ukraine but for the last few centuries mainly ethnic russians have been living on these less alongside minorities including the muslim crimean taught ours to the crimea always used to be russian and was passed over to the crane unlawfully it's time for justice to prevail the square in front of the a local administration good things here in secret all we had was a. division. was a political changes and you know what role you bring in and gulf war pro russian with the russian flags there was actually here and the tensions i received the following points i even though i knew several effects that would most of the crimean tartars have been siding with the ukrainian nationalist but they were never able to agree on much i was about tatars want their own crimean tartar government as it was but the idea is too far fetched to me at this point however nationalism is far more important than logic and the majority here are expecting the local

crimean authorities to exercise the political will and not oh well a new ethnic conflict in europe to break out i you go to school of art. reporting from the crimea. meanwhile as some media outlets have raised the alarm over military drills across central and western russia linking them to ukraine russia's defense minister says the drills have nothing to do with the mall of the neighboring country and are all part of a plan to retain. the grandmothers of the chief military commander has such a task to test the combat readiness of troops in dealing with crises situations that threaten the military security of the country as well as with antiterrorist santa tree and medical emergencies or technological disasters now the candidates for ukraine's top jobs have been chosen by activists in my down one of the key figures of the form opposition to send the same york was booed after being

suggested as prime minister. oh i even then. suggested cabinet as that of a comic government the whole process of putting together but ministers list has appeared a struggle limit the shouting crowd sharing and jeering the suggested candidates and many protesters are already unhappy with who is on the list oxys elected a chef he is continuing to gauge the mood in the ukrainian capital. i on saturday she was met with an ovation on my done and. i dreamt of seeing you the force that changed everything your heroes here is the best of this country has i twenty four hours later it was a protest within a protest as some openly voiced their refusal to having yulia timoshenko return to power with us a new book when they lift immunity of themselves that's when they will be

responsible for what they're doing the people who are now at my don and all the others across ukraine they all can survive on very little the opposition has shown unocal which is richest to us now to lead yet some new technique and then lashkar who is running around with a pitchfork let them show their own mansions to the people show them to us and then give them away. to my done feels it has won the battle by ousting president of the college but seeing who replaced the ruling elite many feel the struggle may not be over what you see at the moment is a complete restructuring of a country which is close to default say it's the new system what the new structure is going to be is uncertain given what you can have in challenges inexperienced. administrators politicians and officials with no real or with no real knowledge of lots of manage an economy but it's one thing to be concerned over who takes the reins and another to openly prepare for the worst again ukraine's gun owners

association chairman. says the illegal firearms market is now thriving. the previous government closed all gun shops thinking it would keep people from buying firearms it only made the black market stronger according to our estimates around four million illegal guns are now circulating in ukraine. this euro he says the only thing that can help now is the proper gun law to regulate or ship and prevent future violence. the use of knowing the people who own guns legitimately those in power would treat them in a different way fearing action. to a number of radical groups operating under the my dan banner and still stationary such an action could be unthinkably severe. however any influx of firearms into the protest movement with all the radical groups operating under the might done banner and still stationed there could make for an explosive situation and put the new authorities in the crosshairs the my downs ultimate goal was to oust president bush

now that he is no longer in power people are still here with their barricades and the bottom line is that they will not go anywhere until the political life in the country is completely refer based with so much distrust of those running the show at the moment this date seems to be quite vague. reporting from kiev in ukraine and months of turmoil have done nothing to prevent ukraine from balancing on the edge of default the e.u. is preparing a plan to provide urgent financial support the i.m.f. as well expected to offer aid that is likely to come with some very painful conditions or let's give you some of the reforms the i.m.f. was demanding from the previous administration first off the issue was that of pension reform the government had to increase the retirement age also a number of benefits and welfare payment should have been counseled including those for school children and the elderly also electricity and gas prices. need to be

pushed up both of businesses and the private sector with households facing a two fold increase and the state mine is the coal mines mostly in the east was said to be privatized on top of that agricultural lands had to be put up for sale with the existing moratorium eventually lifted and one former american ambassador to ukraine he told our program worlds apart that any financial help for ukraine will require a conducting a massive overhaul we really don't know how much money ukraine would need to get through this crisis though we've heard various figures the latest thirty five billion i'm skeptical that that much money is needed but i don't clique of the more important than the amount of money or the reforms that must accompany any loan because if the current system continues a current system where corruption is rife. any assistance whether it came from the

worst from the i.m.f. from russia would disappear to corruption annals and no one in ukraine should want that to happen. and donors may be very big if you care enough amount to a lifeline but perhaps a little diligence is required as to who exactly gets the money radical hardliners among the former opposition of seeking more control of ukraine as you have ministration some of them attending a local parliament session while armed to the teeth or details on that right now after you talk on. the meantime ten minutes past the hour here in moscow to be an ambassador you need patience tact and a solid dose of statesmanship or if you want to be a top envoy for barack obama just fund his campaign embarrassingly enough for the u.s. president his election bankrollers now outnumber the career diplomats but some have never even set foot in the countries they're supposed to serve in as this goes to guy in a church or can. confirmation hearings ever deal that

a number of president obama's nominees for a mass of their ships have little or no knowledge of the countries there are signs to serve in. the real expert on china said the man who is confirmed as u.s. ambassador to china one of norway's major political parties progress party now expects an apology from president obama after the future bassa to norway apparently did know about their existence norway has been very quick to denounce. them. we're going to continue to work with norway to make sure government has denounced them the coalition part of the coalition the government but i would say you know what a guy already i think corrected but what george sunis does know is how to run tells him how to raise money he has reportedly bundler contributed more than one point three million dollars for president obama's election campaign he's not alone more

than half of the president's political appointees are his sponsors and or fundraisers the reported quote unquote price paid by his donors for ambassadorships stands at nearly two million dollars. to those concerned about the qualifications of its nominees the white house has a diplomatic answer your being a donor to the president's campaign does not guarantee you a job in the ministration but it does not prevent you from getting many are worried about the message that some of these appointments send to the world the structure reinforces the perception that. the americans are not listening to their counterparts because the policies are made in washington and the people who are delivering that policy really are instructed to deliver and what they're getting back isn't going to have any input whatsoever into the decision making process that is of course if they know what washington's policies are do you agree that the u.s.

embassy in china should be an island of freedom that's a question i am going to have to get back to. work with ministration i do not know the destruction policy precisely on that point career diplomats and some lawmakers here are now worried not just about some of the current nominations but about the standards for future diplomats they don't want the message to be oh you don't have to be an expert on the country where you are going to serve on behalf of your government and then there's the broader question what kind of diplomacy can you expect from such diplomats in washington i'm going to check out our team right you come to you live from moscow here's a bit of a head scratcher for you why would one of the world's most powerful oil executives join a lawsuit against shale gas drilling it's a safe is the energy industry suggests why would a chief be heading to the courts to get it stopped we'll tell you a bit later here on r.t. international.

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we continue to closely follow what's unfolding right now in crimea in southern ukraine where the men have seized both the cabinet and the parliament buildings the russian flags have been raised above the. center of the city is blocked and police have encircled the buildings while the authorities plan to hold talks with those inside a local authority sources saying that early on first. the men started shooting at the doors of the parliament complex and managed to get inside here on r.t. international we'll keep you posted on exactly what continues to happen in the region. but for now on the program britain's

prime minister will launch a charm offensive later when the leader of europe's most powerful country visits london behind it is a desire not only has it changed the terms of the u.k.'s membership to the e.u. to actually reform the entire block itself it's unclear though at this point how far i believe merkel will be won over his test for australia reports. for german chancellor angela merkel's visit to london it's a red carpet welcome fit for queen dubbed by foreign secretary william hague as britain's most important partner on seeking e.u. reform and the first german chancellor to address both houses of parliament starkly different to british prime minister david cameron's low key pub lunch with his french counterpart last month all that seemed to be placed on getting the backing of europe's economic powerhouse in redrawing love his relationship with brussels after all. if not of course in this europe incentive on both sides to find

a suitable agreement so what exactly does cameron want for the u.k. curbing immigration by possibly putting a cap on workers from europe entering the u.k. and restrictions on benefits claims for migrants castes aren't protections from financial regulations on britain and repatriation of certain powers back to westminster did name a few but the question is what he wants in return but would be some wins for the u.k. but you could imagine it's a tit for tat. they would have to accept something in return amid all the fuss summer of lowering the excitement of the british foreign office has repeatedly advised ten downing street to bear in mind that any reform will require the agreement of all other states and that naturally germany won't do anything against its own interests or weak. financial transactions tax once again which could cost you. three point five billion pounds you have.

current. actually the long term strategy seems to be very different the u.k. has many more friends around the world should really be focusing on. the world. and in the end it still boils down to this one who wants a little less europe while the younger wants a whole lot more of it. tesser sylvia r.t. london. david cameron wants to appeal to those who want a slim down easy you by promising brits a referendum on whether to break from the e.u. has led to the prime minister being accused of holding brussels to ransom one of his fellow conservative party m.p.'s told us that the e.u. will offer concessions to try hard to make sure the u.k. stays inside the bloc. i certainly think that the case for reform of the european

union is overwhelming i believe the german government and chancellor merkel also accept that view as well their priority will be to sustain and secure the euro that's what their priority will be german parliamentarian's have told me that i think therefore if they can see britain playing a strong role in britain even though we are outside the euro zone which is what i think we can do they would rather have us in europe than out of europe and i think that they will work constructively to try and meet some of britain's concerns which as i say i think many people in germany agree with. always lots of stories being loaded up on the every hour at r.t. dot com right now for example as if the polemic over genetically modified products wasn't enough for the bio giant monsanto a new study suggesting the side produced by the company which is widely used for soil cultivation may well indeed calls fatal kidney disease has more on that story

at r.t. dot com. also online for you as stocks of the tried and tested lethal injection drugs run out of judges that states resorting to cheaper controversial replacements blamed for causing some torturous executions. now to be unrest in venezuela which is spreading beyond the capital caracas and there have been street battles between anti-government protesters and police in the northern city of valencia this over crime levels and the struggling economy i security forces were attacked with the rocks and homemade explosives they responded with rubber bullets and tear gas protesters also looted a large supermarket in america a city right near the capital there have been two weeks of rioting in venezuela involving thousands of people living conditions and soaring crime sixteen people have died in the violence which some suspect is being fueled from outside. the

major force driving the opposition is really u.s. support venezuela is crucial to a block of countries in latin america that have broken free of total u.s. domination venezuela is key to this and the u.s. is making an all out effort through creating artificial shortages courting speculation and it's used in particular ways in the media to try to connect it to the occupy wall street movement but these are occupiers who are fighting for wall street at every at every single point they want to connect re colonise and control a whole number of countries that have broken free and that's really what is going on in in country after country but in venezuela in a very sharp way right now campaign against fracking in the united states are getting some unexpected support it's from one of the world's biggest oil producers

the head of exxon mobil has joined a lawsuit against the construction of a water tower near its home which is being planned to be used for hydraulic fracturing although some of his arguments left one environmental activist who attended one of the hearings somewhat bewildered have a listen. ironically i was sitting in the room full of people who were there to beg this the town of barton vale to enact a mock moratorium on new drilling permits and so it was very surreal for us to hear rex tillerson talking about and unsightly watertower that my disrupt his e.u. when these people sitting in the audience had a water that would phone like dishwasher dish water they had rashes there were so many toxic release of gas near their homes that they had to evacuate five hundred and one release in just one year they had to wait their small children up at night

and evacuated in the middle of the night to to get away from these toxic gases but a quick global's not before you hear on the program police in peru using tear gas to disperse protesters rallying against budget cuts five people injured for the arrests were made but clashes broke out on the first day of a strike that was already born business and transport to a standstill progressed the gyno of the president reshuffle this confidence and announce your budget cuts all the while announcing massive salary hike there's a new company members. hundreds gathering there outside london central criminal court demanding the execution of the murderers are british soldier lee rigby last may there were several arrests and clashes between the far right groups on the police. rigby was slaughtered as he returned to his barracks in southeast london and one of his killers will spend the rest of his life in prison the other one

a minimum of forty five years. gyptian called his sentence twenty six people to death for organizing a terror plot local media reporting that the group was preparing missiles and bombs to strike ships in the suez canal. the waterway is one of the world's main transport hubs for global shipping connecting the mediterranean and redskins. now the suffering of foreign low paid workers in qatar stretches far beyond those building the infrastructure for the twenty twenty two world cup foreign maids cleaners and other domestic staff are also reportedly being subjected to slave like conditions and looting actual abuse is intensifying concerns about the country's suitability to host football's most prestigious event and we talked to a german filmmaker who was detained in qatar when he investigated the plight of workers he described them as quote prisoners of circumstance all we did was

basically collecting food for a big documentary on the human rights situation on the workers in the migrant workers situations there they a pedophile you know tracked down for more than two days we didn't even know film a single site we were talking to obviously workers there at night time at daytime were talking to human rights activists but we were far from spotting any kind of riot but it shows after all the exactly at the end the fear they obviously have there. for foreign press and film people over there reporting on the problem the reality is that obviously nepalese indian workers as we're reading these days are being taken their passports away first they're not able to really file cases in court against the company that working for there is a major lack of medical care for these people they are trapped within the follow

system. all right much more coming your way at the very latest from ukraine's crimea that's in about half an hour's time for now though i had for you the kindergarten kids learning how to shoot shotguns my first rifle that's coming your way next.

crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want. this is cumberland county in south kentucky deep in the american countryside far from the sprawl of life. a place where alcohol is neither sold not consumed in the

bible reign supreme. in a village of eight hundred people there are forty churches. it is a pious closed community get weapons are a part of every day life here for protection and so hunting. exposed from childhood it is not unusual to own your first gun in kindergarten. how many people own guns in this village more probably to window. with these things are you. saying that in the absence of opinion of your own go not everybody in accounting is quote a way of life here where everybody wants around here and they much else to do fish i would say you know a very hard majority of the country people own guns my grandson started her when he was probably three or four years out so he just and i got one and hans he wanted fishies. so so when you go to kindergarten you get your first gun. yes that's what

they want the family of a southern kentucky two year old girl shot and killed in her home says it was all an accident he received the rifle specially made for children as a gift last year. cumberland county hit the front pages of news world wide in may and five year old christina shot his two year old sister dead with a gun he received as a gift for his fifth birthday a real gun with real bullets the manufacturer has openly advertised to children as . rifle. i'm. sure many a cricket rifle i wish i had during the cricket is the perfect way to get young or small framed shooters started right with the safety promoting design itself shooting affordable and accurate. while the mother was in the kitchen christian picked up his gun and don't know whether she was too loaded he

accidentally shot his sister in the chest. was rushed to hospital but tragically she died soon enough to. i could hardly understand my daughter because she was so excited and crying and hysterical and said that you know you know it's easier been shot and i just not my heart just said and then as soon as i got in the car got in the back seat and i couldn't breathe i just i guess it was anxiety and i was so so scared that you know she was gone that i didn't know what to do i remember i rolled the window down to try to breathe because i could hardly take a breath and we went to the hospital and i just walked up to the nurses one said i was their grandmother can i please go back and see her and i don't usually they don't let you do things like that but they let me and i went back there and you know she was already you know in a coma. for that to help.