one of the first things you notice here in erbil these massive gas lines some of the cars have been here for hours since the morning many people in fact camped out overnight to try to get online so they can get gas frustrated residents line up to get their share authorities have limited each individual to thirty leaders that's less than what it takes to fill two tanks the people we've spoken to said there haven't been lines like this for fuel since the outbreak of the u.s. led invasion back in two thousand and three and although there are shortages here in erbil parts of northern iraq have run out of gas even on the black market so people are stocking up they say that they don't know what will ring and the fear is the go a lot worse before it gets better that's a sentiment we heard from many here and it's not just a nice fleeing the violence we encountered shia refugees to talk till gonzi job or came here six days ago from baghdad i mean baghdad the situation has gone from bad to worse and to people who are arming themselves in the pentagon ready to fight one

another notch them up all they see in the future is bloodshed and violence if something does not change iraq will be a country of orphans and i don't like to see caffein over erbil iraq. they're going to fall will be back after this short break. i'm. i'm i'm i'm . this is a leave us so we leave the. motions. is it. that no one is asking with the guests that you deserve answers from.

are. we speak your language or not at the end of. the program some documentaries and spanish what matters to you. but will turn it into. story. here to. the spanish find out more visit. welcome back to the weekly here on r.t. ukraine has signed a trade agreement with the e.u. the failure to sign the same deal back in november though is what triggered protests and bloody conflict in the country that president poroshenko says this is the only the first step towards even closer ties with europe. we see that.

ukraine as a european country under the forty nine article will have an opportunity. for the membership perspective this is a very important character for ukrainians to work up. whether financially challenge to europe still doesn't appear to be quite ready for ukraine he use commissioner for a large winter said the kid still needs to prove its european credentials the blocks energy commissioner has warned the bailout for greece is pain it's compared to the billions that brussels would have to cough up to save kiev's ailing economy. the president of the european commission says that the e.u. is not ready to integrate a country like ukraine at this stage and that is a sentiment the source so echoed by the foreign minister of europe's powerhouse germany which all comes as no surprise to financial experts patrick.

ukraine which last year was in a catastrophic position how did signed a free trade association this year is going to associate with the european union are the point when it's on the brink already of economic disaster this is a how does draw for a move for the ukrainian economy the only winners either this or a few sadly deluded egos whether they are in brussels whether they are in washington who believe some higher rather they've achieved a great deal political victory for the people of ukraine there are no jobs to be hired here there's only going to be job losses there is no economic growth to be hired by suddenly having western european goods dumped at little cost onto your marketplace this deal is a disaster it's a very very tragic day for the people of ukraine who want to improve their economic outlook or calls for a new package of economic measures targeting russia have come up against big business across the atlantic the chamber of commerce in the national association of

manufacturers of lost an ad campaign to explain just why new sanctions will bank fire they say to leave u.s. companies scrambling to keep up with firms from other countries earlier we spoke to american economic research and president of the franco russian chamber of commerce and industry. it should have been because actually. the political system you. know. talking about it going to be called sanctions so we need two ways over them that they should not do it to the again they should use diplomacy to do so dude the ukrainian crazies using you know taking into host g.'s companies whether they are you with your pin or french company. something which isn't acceptable for us what the sanctions are doing is isolating the united states' economy instead of isolating russia they were meant to isolate russia but given the trend of world trade for all of the exports that russia has and for diplomacy there isin their

backfiring in isolating the united states it's a very strange business logic it doesn't make sense logically so it has to be. also speaking out against further sanctions aimed at russia were political and business figures in austria the russian leader visited vienna this week and the issue of ukraine came up during a light hearted exchange i don't want to feel it but is it in poutine. that the only. way they're going to call the name.

to get more details on the visit at dr com also there for you still think you are the boss of your own social media account well you might want to think again because it's been revealed that facebook has been playing with the minds of the users without their knowledge to get the full story online. and in addition to that a bureaucratic mistake sees hundreds of prisoners walk free find out what happened and how officials want to get them back behind bars. for thousands of israel bound refugees from africa the search for a better life and up in torture camps they fall into the hands of ruthless smuggling gangs and then simply vanish in egypt's sinai desert three thousand migrants per month come from the east african state of eritrea alone many of them are kidnapped for ransom and tortured until their families pay if they don't human traffickers reportedly execute the hostages or the four thousand people are

estimated to have been killed since two thousand and eight and around a thousand thought to be in captivity right now. despite the eritrean president calling for an investigation the international community has remained largely silent israel's prime minister won't even describe the refugees traitors as the fall of the swedish eritrean activists trying to raise awareness about the victims of torture by putting their plight on the big screen. there were melting plastic bags and dropping it in their backs this is. the political machine. on the mariners the foreigners told r.t. is nice and now is she really is that there's

a big difference in the way the captives the treated depending on the nationality i have seen kids children that are two years old being tortured there were some kids that have to watch their mother being burned alive and they survived so this is the kind of people that i talk to the torture is it's not any other tortured like we see horror movie or something it's where people are tortured twenty four hours a day deprived deprived of food deprived we have seen americans getting kidnapped in the sinai. it took only twenty four hours to release them last year norwegian woman was kidnapped in the same area and it took about a week for her to be released so this happens all quite often to westerners as well but they're out with days and they don't get to experience the torture as a free country so it has to do with race and if you like to watch the full version

of the interview which was recorded for in the now with a niece and now it's on a website that's altie dot com. now some other world headlines for you starting with anger over the huge amount spent on the world cup and it's led to more protests on the streets of brazil. hundred people tried to march to the american our state who did you know but they were stopped by police several demonstrators were wrestled to the ground and the world at rallies began last year and have been more or less held every day since. twenty people are now confirmed dead following two separate building collapses in india most of the victims were in new delhi where a dilapidated residential house fell down leaving at least eleven dead and trapping dozens more just hours later a twelve story building and construction came down in southern india officials say heavy rains at the end of the maintenance and low quality construction materials. and it's really plastics factory has caught fire after two rockets fired from gaza

hit the facility three workers sustained minor injuries it's already tanks reportedly fired across the border in retaliation for the assault on friday an israeli airstrike killed two palestinians allegedly linked to militants firing rockets into israel. the public in britain has long expressed fears about a tide of immigrants from rumania and bulgaria that's especially after e.u. employment destructions were lifted earlier this year it's estimated fifty thousand people a year could make the cross continent trip but it's not all one way traffic you go piskun off explains why a sizeable number of brits are actually going in the opposite direction. yes michael is british but spent most of his life outside the u.k. his father worked in the military and the family's done its fair share of globetrotting but it's in romania where mike decided to settle down and open a board he's been running for five years now i love the opportunity salad my life and my test still the nightlife and i like to party and that's one of the reasons

why i went into this business i love the people of the climates the kind of chance to unite and the medium seem more than welcoming since the beginning of this year they've been able to travel and work all over the e.u. some british deputies worried immigrants could start flooding in even suggested running a scare campaign to put them off coming to the u.k. there are many undress saw the letter side of the situation and started campaigning for british citizens to move here and work instead since romania is accession to the e.u. one thousand and seven brits no longer have to register when they move here so it's hard to say the exact number of them living here but according to the british embassy it's somewhere between three and four thousand and some have even made a business out of helping other newcomers to get started in this country like damon edgar another british ex-pat who's left the u.k. eight years ago after his eighty company went bankrupt he makes a living here by helping other ex-pats register firms find staff by property and

offers other help of foreign businessmen may need when setting up shop rumania has a long long way to go before it could be perceived as let's say a western european type country but for a guy like myself yes i would recommend anyone to come here romania is far from the wealthiest of the e.u. states in fact with the average salary of less than four hundred euros per month it's one of the poorest to the surprise of many word of a mass exodus of romanians to the rest of the e.u. this country has actually given thousands of westerners opportunities they couldn't find at home you got this going off r g book arrest. coming up next here on our say a financial take on the global top stories in french capital less with katie pilbeam and if you read what unique a real treat for you a backstage pass to what happens here in the usury of banks and.

the federal migration service of russia has recently received more than five thousand requests for political silence from ukraine its citizens these requests come from refugees who are fleeing the conflict in the eastern part of ukraine in fact i personally know people who are from the ukraine who are now essentially trapped in russia because their native regions are at war with the kiev government there is a classic mainstream media talking point about russian aggression and russian imperialism which gets repeated constantly in fact so often that is not even a question but if you stop to think about it if you were trapped in a region at war and you were going to escape where would you go into the heart of the aggressors imperialists no you go in the direct opposite direction interestingly enough in both this conflict and the two thousand and eight war in georgia the overwhelming majority of refugees flee towards russia excluding some

sort of bizarre stockholm syndrome it seems that for people in break we're republics in ukraine and georgia russia is a safe haven they often say that people vote with their feet and in the case of the most recent wars in european history it is clear whose feet are voting for whom and no mainstream media talking points can deny that but that's just my opinion. dramas that trying to be ignored. stories others refused to notice. faces change the world writes now.