now mr putin also reiterated russia's readiness to hold a three way talks with the e.u. ukraine over trade on the economy but sticking with the ukraine and the european union mr putin had actually referenced turkey as a long standing bid for membership in the european union which hasn't been successful to date fifty year process he said he turned to to mr erdogan and jokingly basically said that he wanted to get mr erdogan input on this since the country had tried for so long to enter the european union mr aragon had entered that yes this is a fifty year old request that he wanted to answer with his own request jokingly saying asking for a russia to take shirky into the shanghai organization for cooperation part and that's of course the six party. cooperation agency that russia is a part of with several other countries essentially making a statement about turkey is an inability so far to join the e.u. since ukraine's decision not to integrate with the e.u. is believed to be based on economic matters we venture capital building whether the country will regret it in the fu

to organizing mass protests this is pressure on sticking with the ukraine and the european union mr putin had actually referenced turkey is a longstanding bid for membership in the european union which hasn't been successful to date fifty year process he said he turned to to mr erdogan and jokingly basically said that he wanted to get mr erdogan input on this since the country had tried for so long to enter the european union mr aragon had entered that yes this is a fifty year old request and he wanted to answer with his own request asking for a russian to take sharky into the shanghai organization for quite. heartening that's of course the six party. cooperation agency that russia is a part of with several other countries essentially making a statement about turkey as an inability so far to join the e.u. and to talk more on where you crane finds itself after putting the brakes on integration i'm joined live by patrick young is executive director of t.v. advisors there in london patrick president putin the said blackmailing ukraine rather than russia what do you make of it all. well it ha

now mr putin also reiterated russia's a willingness to host a three way negotiations between the european union and ukraine on trade and the economy that's what we heard on that matter here in st petersburg. and say you are in kiev right now place tell us what's happening the opposition is furious about the government's move isn't it. indeed some have had a very bitter reaction to the news that ukraine will not be signing the euro association deal next week and protests are now taking place all over ukraine they've been taking place since last night you're witnessing one of them right now at independence square the place where the orange revolution started exactly nine years ago in two thousand and four right now we can see only maybe a few hundred people but we are expecting these numbers to multiply as working hours finish here in kiev on friday we are expecting that the protests will last for friday saturday and sunday on sunday when the country officially marks the anniversary or it's evolution we're expecting maybe up to seventy thousand people to take part in the protests all across

sticking with the ukraine and the european union mr putin had actually referenced turkey is a longstanding bid for membership in the european union which hasn't been successful to date fifty year process he said he turned to mr erdogan and jokingly basically said that he wanted to get mr erdogan input on this since the country had tried for so long to enter the european union mr aragon had entered that yes this is a fifty year old request in that he wanted to answer with his own request asking for a russian to take sharky into the shanghai organization for quite. heartening that's of course the six party. cooperation agency that russia is a part of with several other countries essentially making a statement about turkey as an inability so far to join the e.u. . well we spoke to john laughlin from the institute of democracy and corp explained how he believes the e.u. pushes its own agenda eastwards. e.u. has conceived this is agreement like all the other agreements that it tries to time with european states as a geo political project is very important to understand that in the midst of all

mr. putin explicitly said that there is going to be no revision of the privatization history if the businessmen stay out of politics but after a while my father felt that it would be impossible to continue complying with this decision because there was no political, powerful political opposition in the country so that's why he started financing the opposition parties, but to be fair, he financed all of the opposition parties. >> rose: he financed all of them? >> he financed all of the opposition parties, and he actually provided funding for the presidential party as well. so when this deal was quote unquote broken it was because of my father's belief that the country needed a political system that balanced the powers. >> rose: take a look at this. this is friday night with mikhail prakav. >> just i am creating a really big budget. >> but if i tell you about the plight which you know well of khodorkovsky, does that scare you? >> no, because we have a lot of changes in russia. like he was sent to

netanyahu will be arriving in moscow for a shorter trip he will be meeting with russia's president mr putin now it is expected that on the agenda of the talks regarding iran's nuclear program will be there now as we know that these talks are happening from a two day onwards and this visit starts today here in moscow now in terms of iran's nuclear program mr netanyahu has been very very open in terms of how he feels about of the deal that's been presented to iran he said that it is exceedingly bad so what is the deal at the moment the p five plus one are offering you the chance to curb east some of those sanctions that have been put on them by holding their nuclear program letting out says that the deal is not protecting israel it's exceedingly bad and strong gave the people of why people live plus one. the round table talks a curveball last week when he came around and said that it will not vote for that deal now of course we know that just recently mr hollande has been to see mr netanyahu in israel saying that sticking to his guns and saying that he will not occur we will not move from his

and moscow nor the conflict in syria which we're in the focus of their attention but we defeat of mr putin'slleged friends and the former prime minister of italy silvio berlusconi of scrutiny facing a string of convictions including abuse of power and having sex with an underage prostitute and so local media was and still is a brewing with speculation over whether or not mr berlusconi will be able to avoid punishment and the latest girl in that sense was that the russian president was going to make mr berlusconi russia's ambassador to the vatican automatically granting him diplomatic immunity which in real life never of course happened in the end of the meeting of the president with the pope but it did show him out of attention being focused on going to visit and now the russian president left rome to the city of she has accompanied by eleven ministers where they are now meeting with the head of the italian government. right or thank you so much for bringing us this update from every orifice going off following the visit of the russian president to. only there. are other stories bahrain auth

don't think that this is the reason for korea to say no for the for the time being the politics of mr putin have played a very important role. the inclination of the predeliction of the president of the crean for partnership let's put it this in this terms with russia. obvious fiscal or financial considerations absolutely not on the agenda of those who tell this ignore reality what is on the agenda is the question whether you pay tribute to two different preferences within the ukrainian circulation if you leave your leg european union the other one in russia if you say you purely politically has nothing financially even though for instance the cost of factories would cost millions of dollars. well you know the even if tomorrow the crane registers as application to become a member of the european union this would only trigger of a process along during process of negotiations have a look at the turkey. entry process it takes has been taken many many years so that the decision to enter in such a process doesn't mean that necessarily the day after a country becomes a member so for the time bein

european union could have potentially severe consequences for the russian economy at the same time mr putin asked to start over the sizing the whole issue and supported the idea of voiced previously by the ukrainian leader to hold negotiations which would include all three sides of the european union ukraine and russia. meanwhile ukraine's parliament building remains besieged by protesters angry at their leaders rejection of the so-called association agreement with the european union. for r.t. if it's protesting again we could see it probably about twenty twenty five thousand people at the european square pretty much the same amount as last night and so far it's. been peaceful but we can never rule out that it may turn violent last night a minor provocation a minor incident led to a rather big brawl with the police with tear gas being used that was the thick of it i took pictures and videos with my with my camera store fire has been peaceful we'll have to see where it goes from here because in a roller coaster ride which is ukrainian politics we can never rule out anything violent in even y

>> some of the trust the deal that mr. putinhim and the administration was a lifetime opportunity for him to survive. and he was on the verge of being hit by the u.s. -- the united states. for sure he will -- and he did abide by the first phase of that -- of the decommissioning of his chemical weapons by destroy all the -- all the material that were used to build these chemical weapons which was november 1st. but the most important deadline is june. by that deadline all his chemical weapons have to be destroyed. >> in saudi arabia, there is a clock ticking. the oil is running out and america is beginning to pump out more and more oil and becoming less reliant on saudi oil. do you think people in saudi arabia fully understand the dangers of what is going on here? >> that is a very good question. it is very clear that the dependence of the united states on oil and even the western world is diminishing. the united states is on the verge of being an oil exporter. the dependence on oil has been diminished because of the discoveries o

a head line in a newspaper said "the bear is back", another talked about the possibility of mr putin wowing the egyptians with a $2 million aid package. nothing like that happened. there's the possibility that a deal will be announced. it's worth making the point that defence ministers of egypt and russian. are also meeting today. it is possible that a deal may emerge from that. at the moment nothing has come through. i don't think we can say there has been a public shift in policy. >> thanks very much, dominic kane in cairo. >> in syria fighting continues around the capital. pro-assad forces are said to be taking ground from the rebels. these pictures are said to show government tanks as they attempt to seize the district and fighters can be heard overhead. this apparently shows syrian tanks shelling the countryside outside damascus. al jazeera cannot verify the pictures. 5 million syrians have become refugees in their own country because of civil war. some have been forced underground. >> they are alive but not much more. a hole in the ground is now home for the syrians who have be

is that mr. putin who is behind the graphics? >> that is, indeed. in the bottom left-hand corner is the famous anna chapman. >> tell me why russia is the center of your book. are the russians still the great spy martins of old? >> yeah. the russians are really good at spying. we are not very good and we don't think about it very much. >> herein lies the issue. russia's exports to europe jumped 17% in october. we can be as indignant as we like, but while the russians are providing 38% of our gas and energy reserves, we have to hold back a little bit from the righteous indignation. >> their business model is bust now because we're getting lmg from all over the world. we have shale gas coming. >> they're getting a third of our energy from russia. >> we've built a resilient gas grid in europe, which means it's far harder to country one country off without supplying another. >> this goes on and on and on. the u.s. spying on its allies, russia and china spying on everyone, the british spying on everyone presumably, as well. this doesn't stop -- >> but it

on the low merkel -- we know how getpresident and mr. putin along. in had dr. rice here september.she is wrapping up a trip to afghanistan. power forgedsador their reputations. how is secretary kerry doing? >> we will have to have very short answers to those. well. >> that is an excellent answer. both ambassador rice and power are in difficult -- in a difficult situation, having libya andactive in outside of office. in office, both supporting the intervention in libya and to benly, i think wanting able to act in syria. part of what has happened in , at every turn, it looks awful. the action looks terrible and fraught with uncertainty. how are we going to do this and how are we going to get out of this? we are better off not acting until a year later when it looks -- if we had acted six months ago, maybe we could have done something. if we do not act now, we are going to be looking at the middle eastern equivalent of the 30 years war. wishing -- weo be have to act now. if i were sitting in the situation room in the white house and the president said lee's lay out what it is we are g

pick up the phone and call mr. putin, tell him here is what we are going to do. we are going to tell cyber command to start military plan ing for counterstrikes and start making similar calls. all sorts of stuff you can do that can start putting on military diplomatic pressure that stays within these asymmetries. cancelling visas. we've got so many other elements of state power we can use if we can get ourselves out of this technical bit. cyber exercises help encourage this view of worries about the technical bit. so many exercises seem to get us into this you can't tell who it is, it's happening speed of light aspect that make it more difficult. i think we tend to always jump to those difficult scenarios. i would love that we exercise simple scenarios. we know who it is. it's part of, we've got warning about this and we start solving the simple issues. then start solving the most difficult issues and using the exercises for that. last, a couple of years ago i asked to write about nonstate's role and cyber conflict. when we talk about nonstates, we almost all ten

below the piece and angela merkel probably the whole nsa affair and we now have the president and mr. putin get along so that is one question. you had doctor rice here in september wrapping up a trip to afghanistan. both she and the ambassador forged their reputations. how are they doing to claim that phrase command to the ambassador ross, how is secretary kerry during? >> that is one long questions we have to have short answers to those. >> go ahead. [laughter] >> i think both ambassador rice ambassador power are in an extraordinarily difficult situation from the point of view of having both been very active in libya and obviously outside of office, but an office of supporting the intervention in libya, and certainly i think wanting to be able to act in serious, but part of what's happened with all of this is at every turn, it looks absolutely awful. it is profit in certainty. or you going to do this and get out of it? we are better off not acting until year later or six months later when it looks like if we had only acted six months ago, maybe we could have done something. so the question

boiling with speculation over whether or not mr berlusconi will be able to avoid getting punished and the latest for all in that sense was that president putin was going to make mr berlusconi russia's ambassador to the vatican automatically granting him diplomatic immunity. speaking these rumors have not been confirmed but it does show the amount of attention being paid to visit. the pope and president putin also share an unusual distaste of shale gas frac ing and selling this recently pose with environmental activists indeed reportedly exposing strong concern about us all giant chevron exploiting shale gas in south america. all field executive turned anti fracking campaign and told us he blames an industry bent on profits for pushing harmful technology. this is a technology that basically has been proven not to work as the oil industry claims and it has resulted in contamination irrefutable evidence of contamination of water soil and the air and also significant negative health impacts on the population that live above the gas fields what it reflects is the fact that we are dealing with a cowboy industry that is driven by greed and little e

been boiling with speculation over whether or not mr berlusconi will be able to avoid getting punished and the latest in that sense was that president putin was going to make mr berlusconi russia's ambassador to the vatican automatically granting him diplomatic immunity. speaking these rumors have not been confirmed but it does show the amount of attention being paid to going to visit. now take a look at some other stories from around the world a series of bombings in and around baghdad of left at least twenty seven people dead and dozens wounded the attacks including the blast at a crowded marketplace which claimed sixteen lives and the assassination of a former lawmaker france's offer to help curb the rising bloodshed in iraq by providing weapons training and intelligence to security forces over seven thousand five hundred people have been killed in two thousand and thirteen making it one of the deadliest years since the u.s. led invasion. thousands of anti-government protesters have besieged several government buildings in bangkok and a third day of demonstrations the time prime minister has announced emergency powers to deal with the

been boiling with speculation over whether or not mr berlusconi will be able to avoid getting punished and the latest in that sense was that president putin was going to make mr berlusconi russia's ambassador to the vatican automatically granting him diplomatic immunity softly speaking these rumors have not been confirmed but it does show the amount of attention being paid to visit. now take a look at some of the stories from around the globe a series of bombings in and around baghdad laughed at least twenty seven people dead and dozens wounded the attacks including the blast at a crowded marketplace which claimed sixteen lives and the assassination of a former lawmaker france has offered to help curb the rising bloodshed in iraq by providing weapons training and intelligence to security forces over seven thousand five hundred people have been killed in two thousand and thirteen making and. one of the deadliest years since the u.s. led invasion. thousands of anti-government protesters have besieged several government buildings in bangkok in a third day of demonstrations the time prime minister has announced emergency powers to deal with t

been boiling with speculation over whether or not mr berlusconi will be able to avoid getting punished and the latest in that sense was that president putin was going to make mr berlusconi russia's ambassador to the vatican automatically granting him diplomatic immunity. speaking these rumors have not been confirmed but it does show the amount of attention being paid to visit. his can offer. and also share unusual bond their distaste for the oil and gas extraction technique known as fracking is held in this recently posed with environmental activists and did report links pressing strong concern about us all joined chevron exploiting shale gas in south america let's talk about this with a pigheaded a spokesperson for frack free south yorkshire is joining us from sheffield of the u.k. tonight evening to you sir thank you for your time mr kennedy first of all you would all surprise that the pope the head of the catholic church has got involved in this debate in the first place it's not kind of really within his remit is it. no i wouldn't a thought that it's anything to do with the pope i mean that's news to me i have not heard of the pope's

heating getting punished and the latest furore in that sense was the best of president putin was going to make mr bills for the russia's ambassador to the vatican up automatically writing and diplomatic immunity salty speaking these words have not been confirmed but it does show the amount of attention being paid to two of whatever putin's visit only time the pope and prostitution also share the usual bone think distaste of shale gas trackg facilities recently pose an environmental activists indeed important expressions pilgrims set about us or giant chevron exploiting shale gas in south america fuller of oilfield executive to the anti from the company mattel this the plagues industry but don't profits for pushing home for technology. this is the technology. that said basically has been proven not to work as the oil industry claims and has resulted in contamination irrefutable evidence of contamination of ports s soil. andy and analysts say that significant negative health impacts on the populations that live above the gas fields. what a reflex is the fact that we are dealing with a cowboy indust

russian president vladimir putin took the top spot from mr. obama who led the list last year. rbes says president putin has solidified his control over russia while president obama is seemingly having a harder and harder time with the u.s. here is a look at the top five. china's president is there as well as pope francis. angela merkel, chancellor of germany, comes in at number five and is the highest ranked woman. the list has 72 people on it. >>> nsa leaker edward snowden has a new job. he's now working a technical support job for one of russia's largest websites. snowden's attorney will not say which website. russia granted snowden asylum back in august. here in the u.s., snowden faces espionage charges for releasing information on the nsa's surveillance programs. snowden starts his new job tomorrow. >>> cuts to the food stamp program begin tomorrow. more than 47 million americans who get food stamps will see their benefits drop. it's the end of a temporary benefit from the 2009 economic stimulus. that stimulus boosted food stamp dollars. it means the family of four getting

orthodox but try to be seen over the past couple of years the relation between putin and his russian speaking counterpart mr yanukovich has at times been very frayed ukraine which pays over the odds for instance for its natural gas has always been for a historically. by the proverbial and of the day the ukrainians in the eastern port of the country the orthodox islam the files will always side with russia. look let's not make a mistake about this the history of the ukraine has historically been firmly in the ruck and can not not in the european camp the day a lot of people of ukraine was obviously wanted to in the european union but is instead. there's no way that fly the mare who is going to let this happen. i need to get to see him say it sits on an up close to step up in differing acts also outstanding them cdt on an inpatient in any of that didn't stop the bnp and spent six to six hundred million on something. it does seem like the european leaders stood up and said whoa. of course ukraine would want to join europe went with the pain and we have western democracy in all these wonderful things to offer t

mr hammer aims along elysee of pay steel between rebels and the government so cite something that will be discussed in the vatican today where the pope is preparing to host russia's president vladimir putin he will pay skin off isn't right a russian leaders have visited the vatican before but the heads of the vatican have never visited moscow since frankly relations have been frosty and perhaps one of the reasons behind all this commotion here now is there's a lot of speculation that the vatican wants to change that not meaning for the pope to go sightseeing to the russian capital but for the two countries to move closer to one another recently pope francis wrote a letter personally thanking president putin for his efforts to try to restore peace in syria russia and the vatican have been calling to protect the rights of christians in the middle east and northern africa following the arab spring so francis and president putin are on the same page on lots of issues they are set to meet later on monday and of course i'll be keeping you updated. well the pope and president putin also share an unusual bond their distaste for shale gas fracking his holiness recently posed with environmental ac

putin does not practice taekwondo but has earned a black belt in judo. >>> and the first lady spoke to vets at florida's walt disney world earlier today. mrs.address, encouraging private companies to hire former soldiers. and those are the things we thought you should know. that's fantastic. time now for the gut check. when a patient who may be overweight visits the doctor, it's typically up to the doctor to decide if he wants to suggest weight loss. however, new guidelines released by leading health groups encourage doctors to help them come up with a diet plan and lose weight. the groups say they're hoping this will push doctors to get more aggressive in the fight against obesity by getting them to treat it as seriously as other health issues. so what does your gut tell you? do you think doctors should treat overweight patients more aggressively? go to newsnation.msnbc.com. that's a tough one. and we have an update on yesterday's gut check. ohio governor john kasich has decided to delay today's scheduled execution of a condemned child killer to consider his last-minute request to donate organs to his ailing mother and sister. prison offic

mr. president, this is not only embarrassment -- embarrassing, it's disgraceful. this is a costly distraction from all the other important issues in ukraine. a nation which has such a great potential. it plays into russian president putin's hands, who would like nothing more than to see the european union association agreement scuttled because of the failure of the ukrainian government to release miss tymoshenko. why would ukraine's leaders want to sum come -- succumb to russian bullying and jeopardize political ties to the west over a simple grudge recording the previous prime minister? mr. president, i'm dismayed by the seeming inability to find a reasonable compromise that would allow miss tymoshenko to be released to seek medical treatment abroad, a move that would allow us to instead focus on strengthening the important ties between the u.s., the european union and ukraine. ukraine is our friend and ally. it helped us in libya and in afghanistan. its leadership rightly sees ukraine's future with the west. but when you join the community of democracies, you simply do not throw away your -- you simply do not throw your foreman political opponents -- your former political opponents in jail over policy disagreements. yo