now the crimean insists that ukraine's president. vladimir putin did not discuss kiev joining russia's customs union at a meeting in sochi is refusing media claims that he has agreed to join e.u. . in return for an attractive gas stay alive paul scotties in the training capital for us but we know what they didn't talk about what did they talk about x. . well in quotes actor beauty to ukraine's prime minister monti under fire president victory on a covert stopped off in sochi on his way back from china for a meeting with his russian counterpart president vladimir putin in an attempt to strengthen economic ties between the two countries and in particular he was looking to strike a deal over gas the state of ukraine's economy means that they've been struggling to pay their bills of late it was described as a roadmap to eradicating the differences between the two countries in the areas of trade and the economy and as you say one thing that wasn't discussed was the possibility of kiev signing on and joining russia's customs union alongsid

twice that will be used to update crimean. >> trade between europe and china have to travel around the whole of europe. when this port is constructed ships can go straight across the black sea. the ukrainian company is sandwiched between its warships and russias, but has been building a profitable business exporting steel and grain. they've been battling recession in the world market and at home. the commercial director is optimistic about the future, despite the political turmoil in kiev. >> translation: as the grain and coal production grose in the future in you grain, we believe the investment in the port is necessary to match the trend in these sebbing tors. >> president viktor yanukovych has brought home an important prize. it sends a message to the european union and russia, that they are not the only players in this town. >> the chinese businessman made headlines with plans to build a $40 million canal in nicaragua. >> a car bomb attack on a police station in columbia killed eight. it happened in a town south-east of bogota. police believe farc are behind the attack. the blast d

preferences otherwise they swell on to my russian economy what do you put on them and in this case the crimean goods will have enjoyed most favored nation regime so we won't be able to give them any more benefits that will be too much to know. so if you weigh all of this all the pros and cons bent even the young people the young ukrainians will. be able to sort it out so they will say yes we want to accept. the european standards but we want to keep them in the machine there our national machinery our lives our aviation industry alive we want to. keep our space industry alive because we. still maintain a lot of cooperation with russia and with the russian markets. so remember i was talking volved to the helicopter engines. because we are already building a second factory producing helicopter engines in st petersburg and there is a lot more potential to develop for you more than. we can cooperate in shipbuilding areas space industry in nuclear energy and so on. so that you could one day they used american u.s. made fuel in ukraine and power of plums but that affected to really adversely that th

while ukraine's crimean a sense that the mass protests of the best in show on the situation resemble kick to the president appealed for calm in an interview with jen and it's an old tv channels. i know it no fake dna cuz it to pay to acknowledge the right to demonstrate and to free speech what is new moon. as for the people who came out to the rallies any show of when lisa was confirmed by everybody's freedom and right to speak them minds the truth in it is important that the sonics have a peaceful kind to. it does not say if it's the representatives of the government and or enforcement agencies all the participants of the rallies all must respect the gnome. position. panic as it also accused the testers of hiding behind children and occupying official buildings he called on government and opposition to unite to investigate any offence connected to last friday's on to identify what she called provoke that as it was a coup in march two thousand the hundreds of people marched through the armenian capital yerevan to denounce the visit of russian president but to be a putin and express t

palestinian people through the way they communicate through the way the present themselves to do want to crimean it can i need we need respectful of from all of the kind of governments good and to recognize this government which recollected a from the people actually. presented to from the palestinian people themselves respect our china says respect i what i would believe is our need someone runs. so the lesson we teach to the world is that the best way to defend yourself is to get yourself a nuclear weapon and of course the biggest culprit of using nuclear weapons and producing nuclear weapons and weapons about struction is my birth nation of the united states and i find it absolutely insane that we sit here and talk about iran suppose have nuclear weapons program where you know the united states is producing every kind of weapon under the sun is spending more than every other military on the planet combined and it's involved in more war and more death and more suffering than every other nation combined and yet it's sitting there on a pedestal talking about other nations developing weapons of m

and that's in the interest of the crimean people and also we were. guided by programmatic reasons it's not the first time. gasper on what has twice signed some attachments to the contract to postpone payments first so there was a. postponement. and then to november it's been done again we realize there are some difficulties. we in terms of payments so why should we. kill. partner no we won't do that. we hope that we'll be able to find some long term arrangement that will allow us to keep this prize to. keep in our corporation a lot of years ago when mr kuchma was president it we proposed using the pipeline he craning pipeline system and a joint venture would still be under the ownership of ukraine we propose there to set up a corporation that would include ukrainian russian and european partners everyone said yes but it was still a failure. but now we've. launched the north stream pipeline. and it's the price for the. pipeline system of ukraine is going down due to that the same is happening in the production sector which. we used to buy almost all t

the way they communicate through the way the present themselves to the wall to crimean they need we need respectful of from all kind of governments would recognize this government which recollected the from the people actually. presented it from the palestinian people themselves respect what china says respect i what i would believe someone needs someone run. the fracking in romania clashes erupt in a village between police and locals who don't want american energy giant chevron to drill for oil and gas in the area. politicians descend on kiev again reaffirming their support for the anti-government demonstrations which show no signs of dying down despite the cold weather. this morning for know some and continues why we look into concerns that traces of science africa's dark past may return this time for the country's minorities.

well it's kind of a duplicitous issue at this point as you know the crimean parliament has just very recently did not pass the the initiative to give the vote of confidence to the cabinet of ministers essentially saying they're fine with the government and they're ready to go and resolve the issues in the democratic constitutional way and that is definitely not something that the opposition leaders who were hoping for they were hoping to see the government dispersed as soon as possible so now they're calling on the people who are protesting out on the streets to go and at least block as many government buildings as possible we're talking about not just the cabinet of ministers but the parliament as well actually there have been calls to storm these buildings but they do enjoy quite a rather heavy police protection so this point the protesters are simply blocking the access to these buildings at the same time the events in ukraine appear to be very carefully watched by the western leaders who is stop short of giving suggestions to the ukrainian government on the way to deal with the s

that the you at the moment not the city it's to the crimean economy and remember the ukrainian economy is very closely tied to the russian economy and indeed to the economies of valorise and kazakstan because they used to be on country and that's something that must be taken into serious consideration when we're looking at the whole issue concerning ukraine and its. marcus papadopoulos publisher and editor of the u.k. a magazine politics fast and a commentator on russian and balkan affairs mark thank you very much indeed for your time. this week saw a diplomatic differences exposed by the historic deal between six world powers and iran over its atomic ambitions by cutting back on its nuclear program to run will say it cannot make sanctions softened or the big deal is still just a small and cautious step as r.t. has pointed out reports. it's a deal that's eluded diplomats for a decade and as the crucial make or break iran letelier talks continued into the night details of how they were going were leading the journalists camped out in geneva so we waited and waited and waited while diplo

people through all the way they communicate through the ways the present themselves to do want to crimean a need we need respectful of from all of kind of governments good and to recognize this government which recollected a from the people actually. presented from the palestinian people themselves respect of what china says respect i what i would believe is all a neat celeron. deliberate torch is on its epic journey to such. one hundred and twenty three days. through to see my number two cities of russia. really run fourteen thousand people or sixty five thousand killings. in a record setting trip by land air sea and others face. a lipstick torch relay. on r t v dot com. yesterday fourteen members of the hacktivist group anonymous appeared in california's federal court to enter pleas for their role in attacking the website pay pal known as the pay pal fourteen the group briefly took down the website in two thousand and ten after pay pal started blockading donations for wiki leaks eleven members of the group pled guilty to one federal count of conspiracy and one miss. damaging a protected

palestinian people through the way they communicate through the way the present themselves to the wall to crimean they need we need respect to live from oh you know kind of government's word to recognize this government which recollected the from the people actually. presented it from the palestinian people themselves respect what china says respect i what i would believe someone needs someone right. welcome back now a group of syrian nuns who went missing after rebels captured the christian village of malaria have made contact with the world saying that they were not kidnapped but were in fact rescued from a shelling attack their video statement has raised questions though with many suspects in the women we're speaking under duress i'm more right or a journalist who has been to syria several times and has met with christians there doesn't buy claims of the rebels good intentions. we have to see that. doesn't have a military strategic well you but it has a symbolic well you it is a very old it's an ancient christian pilgrimage with a very modest three so when we see now that reveal where the nun

people through all the way they communicate through the way the present themselves to do want to crimean they need we need respectful of from all of the kind of governments good and rigor going on is this government which recollected the from the people actually. presented from the palestinian people themselves respect our chances respect out what i would believe someone needs someone writes. glenn . leg length. what defines a country's success. faceless figures of economic growth. or a factual standard of living. fracking rage in romania clashes erupt in a village between police don't want america. to drill for shale gas in the area but. a delegation of e.u. officials descends on kiev once again to reiterate their support for government rallies the public gatherings show no sign of dissipating despite being told now they've got four days to stop disrupting the government. does the mourning for nelson mandela continues worldwide we look at the concerns that traces of south africa's tainted past may return this time for the country's minorities.

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