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's 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 in that he wanted to answer with his own request jokingly saying asking for a russia to take shirky into the shanghai organization for cooperation pardon me that's of course the six party. cooperation agency that russia is a part of with several other countries essentially jokingly making a statement about turkey as an inability so far to join the e.u. . and of just did some great reporting by lisa thank you very much indeed we appreciate it. and to talk more on the way ukraine now find themselves after putting

president putin meanwhile denies allegations it was russia that blackmailed ukraine into giving up its planned trade pact instead claiming it's europe that's been applying the pressure we get expert opinion from london surely. london rules it's ok to sell weapons to go despite their poor human rights records. cracking down on the. washington consider slapping on a price for protest driven by america's all powerful oil lobby. live from our studio central moscow this is r.t. with the twenty four hours a day the ukrainian opposition is baring its teeth threatening president viktor yanukovych with impeachment and vowing to bring tens of thousands of people onto the streets by the weekend all that after the government suspended work towards a free trade deal with the e.u. and some protests are already taking place artie's alexy reports. indeed some part of the ukrainian society have had a very bitter reaction to the news that the country would not be signing the e.u.'s or sation deal next week protests have been taking place all over ukraine since last night you are now witnessing one of th

now president putin then accuse the european union of pressuring ukraine. when i heard some dodges found out yesterday that ukraine has suspended not cancelled but suspended negotiations with the e.u. he wants to review everything we heard from the e.u. to ukraine all the way up to organizing mass protests this is pressure and blackmailing. 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

by the expression he hold it is key meaning could he say something, do something that would cause putin to order his release? >> no. i don't think that is -- >> rose: too late for that? >> too late for that. you know, no deal has been offered to my father to say something or do something to get out of prison. the closest that has come is when there were speculations about presidential pardon. >> rose: right. >> putin responded by saying that my father needs to first admit guilt. >> rose: so if he admit guilt he might have gotten a pardon. >> but that was not an option for my father. he has gone back to fight the battle in court and to protect himself and the company. >> rose: does he see himself as a kind of sack i don't have. >> other people do. >> rose: does he. >> sakharoff. >> he sees himself as a person who went back to russia out of principle. he knew perfect he well that he would be arrested. he sees himself as a person who went to jail because of his convictions. whether in the long-term it is going to be perceived as one of the dissident stories, that is going to be up to socie

. >> and putin and miller and i big putin fans. form a putin fan club. to siberia and caught a pike that weighs 46 pounds. >> billy, the monitor is partially obscured here. did you just put up another anthony weiner photo. >> no time for small thoughts. >> that was putin. >> just scared the living hell out of me. this is getting really weird. that's beyond limit. you can't keep that. >> no. so he got it but here's the controversy. fishermen tell me putin is fudging it here. >> well, i love putin because he wears camo out on the lake and waders when he is inside the forest. i don't know what that is about. he is most interesting man in the world. >> stay thirsty my friends. >> put on the shirt after he caught the fish. >> billy, that is a solid cup. >> you want me to wear a bra? >> no, no. a bra is for ladies. meet the bro. >> and the problem is that you can't tell -- russians can't tell putin that he is fudging the fish or they will throw him in jail with those girls. >> the world has gone insane. putin alleluia ought to solve their fiscal problems and c

and putin is fudging it here. >> yeah.inue because he wears camo out on the lake and waders when he is inside the force. i don't know what that is about. he is the most interesting man in the world. >> stay thirsty my friends. >> at least he put on a shirt after he caught the fish. >> that is a solid cup. >> you want me to wear a bra? >> no. no. a bra is for ladies. meet the bro. >> the problem is that you can't tell -- russians can't tell putin that he is fudging the fish or they will throw him in jail with those girls. ♪ ♪ >> the world has gone insane. you know what? putin ought to solve their fiscal problems and come out with a double d cup of the month calendar or something. every time i see him he is out with a gun or a fish hook showing me a lot of areola. >> he is. >> get it together over there. >> he dances on saturday night moscow putin. >> da'da da'da da, do the sharpton. >> that is miller, everybody. let's get out, please. thank you. more from the d man coming up. >> did you see holder today? he is shakier than

was there ever an informal agreement between vladimir putin and the old guilty or not guilty. >> ollie --s. >> oligarch. >> was there ever an informal agreement that putin said you can keep your money but stay out of politics. >> this. >> this deal was certainly. is deal reined in place for a while. 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, perful 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 itwas because of my father's beliefthathe country needed a political system that balanced the pows. >> rose: take a look at this. this is friday night with mikhail prakav. >> so you

turkish prime minister erdogan is here meeting with president putin they had a joint press conference where the ukraine issued actually did come up in one of the questions mr putin was actually asked about allegations that came out in reports earlier on friday suggesting that the ukrainian president had spoken to his counterpart his lithuanian counterpart in a phone call in a which he brought moscow pressure on the ukraine to scrap plans for participation in this trade pact here's that mr putin responded to a question about that let's take a listen. i don't know what the ukrainian president was talking about with his lithuanian counterpart maybe we should merican friends about it but so far they haven't told us anything now he was of course joking but what he was referencing there is the u.s. national security agency spy scandal where the agency had been accused of wiretapping the phone calls of various e.u. leaders on a more serious note however mr putin lashed out at the european union suggesting that it's the e.u. in fact that's blackmailing and pressuring ukraine in regards to thi

the pope and putin. lowell. i use this to cover my bald spot. and richard. we should to be done by easter. "morning joe" starts right now. >> we got a big deal, nuclear deal with iran. they made some kind of an agreement. they will give up their enrichment program but something is not rightth

the suit to go to the agreement is based on the concept forward by the russian president vladimir putin iran's new president hassan rouhani is also seen as having played a crucial role in making the deal possible he came to power less than three months ago pledging to improve iran's relations with the west and i don't think sanctions played as much of a role as a recognition by the united states and britain and other countries that we need to engage iran because iran is becoming increasingly influential it is only an interim agreements in six months time well now it's time to run a sense of return to the negotiating table but also to say you think you know. it mean that scientists in the middle of the night it's a game changer polyploid odyssey. but it won praise around the globe but the pivotal day you'll fail to get a unanimous welcome in the u.s. left alone its close ally israel a washington correspondent and takes a look at home despite diplomatic triumph the obama administration has found itself between a rock and a hard place today that diplomacy opened up a new path toward a worl

the kremlin has no comment on putin's personal wealth. yet they still are telling you something that they don't stand a chance against the power of the kremlin. and so construction of luxury facilities continues unabated in nature preserves all around saatchi. now the houses in this village are starting to collapse these residents as the entire hillside their village is built on has been eroding for the past three years. ever since have a concrete rubble was dumped here illegally. the village can't afford to pay a lawyer even if they can find one prepared to take on the construction companies the citizens and environmentalists are essentially powerless. the eu has agreed to a scotsman this the colts with tacky ending a three year freeze. but the number of stumbling blocks remain techie as a long way to getting tons of grunting its citizens to democratic rights is priceless. and then there's the conflict surrounding the underside. tech is on the still occupies the north by the sound is inhabited by greeks. tech increase about the difficult

this is part of putin's two day trip to rome.f the topics of conversation, what's happening in syria. just a couple months ago, pope francis penned a letter to putin ahead of the g-20 summit telling the leader to quote, help find ways to overcome the conflicting possessi positions and lay aside the futile pursuit of a military solution. that was from the pope. joining me from rome, ben wedeman. and it's so unique and special to see the pictures of these two men who seem so far apart, perhaps idealogically in some ways, but tell me more about the visit. >> well, brooke, if there was a fly on the wall in that meeting, that fly is not talking. we do know that they met for 35 minutes. one-on-one with their translators. of course, we do know that, for instance, that vladimir putin did give as a gift to pope francis an icon of the virgin mary with the baby jesus, and what we saw in tape that was distributed by the vatican, both of the men ben over and kissed that icon. in a sense, symbolizing that even though the christian democrat spl

if it is low, that is bad for putin and russia.you don't have an effective rule of law there because companies cannot know what they can repatriate him because the capacity to innovate and russia is not what it ought to be. we have increased by about 3 million barrels a day what we are adding to the global energy pool because of what we are doing with our own developments, one of the reasons the price of oil has been relatively stable at a time when there is a lot of disruption within the middle east and because with -- because of what our policy has been, has been because we continue to increase. if you put iran to the side, in not increasing the way we anticipated, other disruptions like nigeria, if some of those disruptions were to disappear and are continuing from here, energy russia will not be in a great position. i am not sure he is as well positioned as he rephrased to the rest of the world. >> he is playing a good game now. the next half decade looks good for him. after that, it gets more complicated. every party has to ha

in putin's russia, grandeur comes at a heavy price. kirit radia, abc news, sochi. >>> back here at home tonight and to a consumer alert now after fears of an e. coli outbreak. a richmond, california, food supplier is recalling more than 181,000 pounds of ready to eat salads and sandwich fillings with fully cooked chicken and ham that may be contaminated with e. coli. 26 people in three states have been sickened. we'll have more on our website, abcnews.com. >>> and to a headline from the northwest tonight. a deadly attack at an animal sanctuary outside portland, oregon. one of the workers attacked. she did not survive. the remote area and the roaming cats making it extremely difficult for rescuers to get to her. here's abc's aditi roy. >> reporter: the sun had already set at wildcat haven in sherwood, oregon, when officers responded to a 911 call saturday night, looking for a 36-year-old caretaker mauled by an exotic cat. >> talking to the other officers, it's dark. this is a pretty remote area here. the area inside there also has wild

come to come into being we'll have to see the two men from very different walks of life but the pope putin have more in common than you might think coming up we report on their first meets again how they brought together by a shared concern over the humanitarian disaster in syria and. yet another leader of bahrain's pro-forma movement falling victim to a relentless government crackdown in about ten minutes time we have from his wife about the campaign to get him out of jail. next the clashes a broken out for second day in ukraine is protesters defied police efforts to disperse the rallies been ongoing since thursday in kiev over the government's decision to suspend the deal which would give it closer ties with the e.u. and legs here jeff skis in the ukrainian capital for ati. protesters appear to have set up town camps at european square suggesting that they may still have more time and it's not always as miserable as it is here right now we see clashes between them and the police corruption from time to time with both sides the police and the protesters using tear gas against each other t

skeptical prime minister benjamin netanyahu meeting with vladimir putin, diplomacysway russian to side with israel. it will be a complicated tax cut -- a complicated task, much more last 48ted -- in the hours israel gave russia if russia gives them guarantees that -- is israeli prime minister hoping to convince russian president vitamin put in that he should adopt a similar stance -- vladimir putin that he should adopt a similar stance. remember that russia is the country which built the first and haspower plants shown less suspension over -- suspicion over a rant. they know they will not be able to completely change russia's perspective, but it is hoping to change perhaps little things that could ultimately influence what goes on in geneva when these talks pick up again. >> gallagher, what about these comments from the air rainy and supreme leader today, among them that israel is "doomed"? could that give them ammunition, so to speak? you could expect the israeli prime minister to use this quote from the air rainy and supreme leader. it is proof that -- from the irani and -- from the

well the pope and vladimir putin also share an unusual bond their distaste for shale gas fracking his holiness recently posed with environmental activist reportedly expressing strong concern about us all giant chevron exploiting shale gas in south america more now with in crane next oil field executive turned campaigner who is against fracking thank you very much for coming on to the program the saffron in now you did give up a career over this why are you against fracking so much. well if we were looking at conventional oil and gas exploration i wouldn't be sitting here talking with you but this is the first attempt really in the u.k. to exploit unconventional gas resources from shale and the track record in the u.k. is pretty dire out of the four wells drilled and two of them resulted in seismic events in the file peninsula and although moratorium was put on two and a half years ago that moratorium was lifted one year ago by a lot john brown who advises david cameron on the british cabinet but lord john browne is also chairman of course driller one of the companies that has a very h

well the pope and president putin also share an unusual bond their distaste for shale gas fracking his holiness recently posed with environmental activists reportedly expressing strong concern about u.s. oil giant chevron exploiting shale gas in south america we spoke to a formal oil field executive turned anti fracking campaigner who 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 else and in fact i would simply implore that people do a bit of research for themselves and they look at the damage and the contamination that has been wreaked around the world and basically we are doing everything we possibly can to ensure that this does not happen in the u.k. . well artie also spoke to

of course putin is more powerful than obama.as given a tech job in russia. he was clearly protected by the russian government when we asked in no uncertain terms he please be sent back because of the nsa infractions. that was basically thrown back in our face. you look at the relationship has deteriorated to some extent with israel. you look at our relationship with saudi arabia which is not in any way what it once was on the world stage. and it raises a lot of these questions and, dick cheney, i know it is not going to come as a surprise to anybody he feels this way, but he spoke out about this earlier this week and i want to play that for you. >> if we had a presence over there, if we had been able to continue the policies that we put in place, if we had been able to work to keep governments, establish government that is are stable, willing to defend their own sovereign turf we would be much better off. now we're in a position where our adversaries no longer fear us and our allies no longer trust us. martha: jemu, what do you

and, of course, president putin and the russians have been supporters of the regime in damascus. september, pope francis did send a direct messagetom president putin expressing concern over the plight of the christians just before the g-20 meeting in st. petersburg. so they've been having something of a dialogue ever since. and we can expect that dialogue to continue. michael? halah? >> thanks, ben is in rome. as far as phil black in moscow, the pope and the president, very different men. sometimes it's even hard to picture them together. what does this meeting, what could it will tell us about their relationship, phil? >> yeah, hala, so different. image style and substance, the strong man of russia, the famously humble catholic pope. what it shows is what vladimir put putin is famous for when it comes to international policy and that is pragmatism. russia is prepared to talk to anyone where there is a point of specific shared concern to try and achieve mutual benefit. regardless of the broad broader state of the relationship. so while russia and the vats can have not historicall

russian president vladimir putin has called this historic deal on iran's nuclear program that was achieved at talks in geneva win win situation for all parties involved now the president said that this agreement is just a first step towards bringing a solution into this very complicated issue now he also said that it was achieved only things to a mutual diplomatic approach from all parties involved now the president said that russia has always been calling for a diplomatic approach in resolving the dispute over iran's nuclear program and it is very important that the grounds that russia had been offering were completely supported and acknowledged by the international community now the president said that this deal will bring a positive light to the development of the international situation especially and the middle east region and once again lettering putin said that this is just the beginning and russia will continue to seek the bass solution in this matter the agreement in geneva was hailed by u.s. president barack obama who says the lion's share of american sanctions will stay in place

president putin warns brussels against pointing the finger at russia over ukraine's decision to back off from an integration deal with the e.u. . this is pro european anger erupts for a third day across ukraine while economists warn the deal would only have deepened kiev's economic troubles gottleib comment on that coming up plus. this agreement is much more dangerous splits it will make our partners in the region safer israel sticks to its guns and sends a top security aide to washington to get on the nuclear deal with the rattlers world powers applaud the diplomatic effort made in your neighbor again love coming to this and. he would also call damaging wissmann support the seas are pushing so many people into poverty scotland learns how life would be better outside the u.k. reading the ground than for next year's independence about. this is r t very good evening chief you just joined us just after nine pm now here in moscow one aims kevin zero in first and russia's president surged to european politicians to avoid blaming moscow for ukraine's reluctance to move closer to the e.u. t

also on the way the first meeting between president putin and the pope and they brought together by a shared concern over serious humanitarian disaster. we speak your language. programs and documentaries in spanish matters to you. stories. here. the spanish find out more visit. hello welcome back now civil servants an oil company workers and libya's eastern city of benghazi have gone on strike demanding militias leave the area the latest fighting between government troops and groups in the city has left fourteen dead with authorities ordering residents to stay indoors freelance journalist reports from tripoli for. this is what you give all that i know forty people were killed and more than fifty wounded in a recent clash between islamic militant group and sat sharia and the military says a report by the interior ministry tripoli is witnessing security problems to over forty people were killed and more than two hundred injured at a rally last week in tripoli as protesters clashed with the militia as they took control of a number of government buildings the gunmen gave into the demands

russian papal flags flew together over the vatican when the pontiff welcome president vladimir putin on monday their first ever meeting was brought about in a large part due to their views on the crisis in syria the audience with the pope is part of the russian president's official visit to italy pieces of is following the trip. pope francis on want to end a figure with enormous spiritual influence over one point two billion catholics across the world and president putin on the other a heavyweight politician also one of the most influential people on the globe he may not be on the scene team but they do have much more in common than some may think for instance syria both have been standing firmly against any military intervention pope francis even wrote a letter to the russian president personally thanking him for his efforts to help prevent military action by both moscow and the vatican have also been paying a lot of attention to the rights of christians in syria so we are on the same page when it comes to lots of issues but what's interesting is the way italian media has been repor

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

putin himself is an avid skier. environmentalist so again has a gun has been campaigning to preserve the region's natural parks for years. he says the construction comes at a huge environmental cost two years ago. he made in your unbelievable discovery enterprise is built. this villa complex for some eight hundred million euros. inside a nature reserve. beat on clear if he hadn't building permits. as a young was told this was a children's hospital. but security personnel stopped him from taking any more pictures. now he's convinced this is in fact private howlett scored like a new protein. and he faces a possible three years in prison for trespassing. he says due to coney and penalties on the show house and to his discovery was a digital photo not only did we run into security agency but the guards responsible for the president and the prime minister in the news. he cuddles me cough was once a close cut the line. he confirms has a young suspicions. the more tranquil than the way it's the place is a huge palace. more

his twitter account he just typed this question how to live after this and also russia's president putin expressed his condolences to the family. solve all the victims she spoke to the president of the republic of the dutch son whose older son also was on board this plane and died and he just got made recently and he actually talked his pregnant wife out of taking this flight so theoretically she could have also been on board of that plane. so it was augusta night when the plane went down the winds were pretty strong about nine meters per second the track crashed as a descended a second time after pilots aboard as their first landing attempt it's not he is clear as to why passengers who traveled on the same plane from cousin to moscow early in the day said that landing was also made high winds and was frightening these pilots but instead. the flight itself went quite smoothly but just before the landing the plane started vibrating fiercely the plane was shaking it was direct from side to side landed to no first attempt but it was really bad landing and they felt like the plane was going

putin made the sign of the cross as they exchanged gifts.y did not talk about the strained relations between the catholic and russian orthodox churches and putin did not invite the pope to visit russia. instead their talks focus tonight war in syria. did you know the pope has something in common with mick jagger of the rolling stones? the pope took his name from francis of assisi and jagger's 21-year-old grand daughter is named assisi-- which brings us to the news today that assisi will soon be having a blessed event. jagger at the age of 70 will finally get the satisfaction of becoming a great grandfather. ann and john betar have 16 great grandchildren, but they had a head start. they eloped 81 years ago today-- the longest married couple in america. he's 102 and she is 98. john betar says they rarely disagree. >> it's only about cooking. that's the only arguments we have. (laughs) >> see? that's what he thinks. >> (laughs) >> it's only about cooking. (laughs) >> pelley: when the betars got married f.d.r. had just been elected president for

vladimir putin paid a visit to the vatican and basketed in the pope's glow on monday. russia's president discussed syria and the role of christianity in the pope's private library. the pope began a one man tourist attraction. the latin america tourists to italy is up thanks to the argentinian holy father. people like his humility and concern to those less fortunate. he's the most talked about person on the internet this year. he has 3.3 million twitter followers and pictures of him have gone viral several times in the past few months. the playful young buy who didn't want to leave the pope's sip. he played the moment perfectly, as he did with a man disfigured with boils. the pope's effect in the u.s. is harder to define, a pew research pole found it has not created a catholic resurgence. the number of americans is constant. he hasn't driven more people to go to church. he's rated favourably by the general population but catholic conservatives are upset he hasn't spoken out more strongly. the resistance comes as a university poll finds that two in three adults agree tha

that took place earlier in the day between president aka name and visiting russian president vladimir putin that is set down for talks on ways to expand bilateral cooperation mainly through rail and port development projects for presidential office correspondence aunt and two has this report the end of this minor rant was sentenced on economic cooperation. the two leaders agreed to support calls participation in a joint railway much as it did work for free at brunch at the fifty four km long railway would run between russia's eastern border town of haas done and the north korean port city of frogging the korean consortium comprised of coverup hospital and had emerged between leicester and passenger branch two hundred million wine or one aged ninety six million dollars in the project. but recovery in cantonese. oh actually take part in this project has yet to be decided but it seemed to participate. but represent an opportunity to initiate freeway projects that north korea and brash and lead the allegation for candy and have actually at an out of the teenagers also decided to set up joint fu

we are not going to operate them as other countries do it's not a video game we bring about him of putin's take on drone warfare and his assessment of the russian city that said to be hosting the winter olympics in just two months time. if you joined us from here watching around the world very good evening to you it's just after ten pm here in moscow watching r t international with me kevin i know in part top story this hour the e.u. is eastern recruits are just about to begin their summit shortly with ukraine's president firmly in the spotlight as he continues to hesitate over signing up to closer ties with brussels meanwhile pro european demonstrations in kiev are into their fifth day with hundreds of people besieging the parliament building day and night lecturers have skis there let's catch up with him lexi hi there we've been reporting a lot of people out there and they're still there tonight yes. indeed protests are growing in numbers in kirkuk right now i would say approximately thirty thousand people are curious. independence square in the city center the process the speech will bu

but we are not going to operate them as other countries do it's not a video game we bring of libya putin's take on drone warfare and his assessment to the russian city that's said to be hosting the winter olympics in just two months time. this is our teachers time for eleven pm now here in moscow my name is kevin our first this hour the easy student recruits of convene for their summit with ukraine's president firmly in the spotlight tonight as he hesitates still over signing up or not to close ties of brussels meanwhile pro european demonstrations in kiev are into their fifth day with hundreds of people perceiving the parliament building day and night lectures rescues there. protests are growing in numbers in kiev right now i would say approximately thirty thousand people on independence square in the city center the process the speech will but this may well be a calm before the storm because we've already heard a statement coming from some opposition leaders that in case that you know college has not signed the euro station deal on friday in vilnius they will be taking people into the st

>> well, i think that putin is not a strategy gist. and he can win a lot of small battles and he can lose. i would not see russia's vick on in foreign policy toirs due to russia did lose almost all friends and allies. we can see syria and ukraine and are to some extent these short p.r. victories but in the case of ukraine only if they will be not supported by longer rm efforts and long term failures. > thank you very much. thailand's embattled prime minister survifed a no confidence sflote parliament. but the protest shows no sign of stopping. this is day five of mass protest. dem trait tors have cut power at the police headquarters and a hospital in bangkok. >> with allies holding a comfortable majority in parliament prime minister could hardly envision defeat. in a vote d leader with 270 members supporting her d only 134 wanting her removal. >> i call all demonstrators to stop their rallies and to leave government buildings so that the government can resume their work. >> despite her call mass demonstrations are still taking place ac

and cozy up to russia instead brussels accuses moscow meddling president putin says it was europe using the dirty tricks. and. torches on another leg of its epic journey to sochi plunging to the bottom of the earth after concrete open space. center in moscow this is r.t. with twenty four hours a day there's an air of anxiety in geneva at the moment where a long anticipated deal on iran's nuclear program could potentially be signed although foreign diplomats and the iranian delegation optimistic any further details about just what's happening there at the moment have been almost impossible to extract. for us so tell us what's going on any idea that the parties are reaching some sort of consensus. we've just found out that the p five plus one foreign minister all the foreign ministers. except for iran's foreign minister they're currently knocked. together at the moment now just a little earlier the iranian foreign minister said that the agreement being discussed here in geneva today consists of three stages now he also said that he can assure that that agreement contains a public recognit

putt putin. antnshe alleged a whole number f terrible things how inmate are treated in that camp. we'll are made to sew for 16 to 17 hours a day and no more than four hours of sleep. they get one day off every six weeks. they would face frequent loss of bathroom and privileges and they would eat poor quality food and they would suffer beatings from fellow prisoners sand they could be pu punished for speaking out. >> when i read this list it's like going back to the russian go goolags. >> it does take it's legacy back from the goo lag days and it's the political system of the country has changed. the prison system in various regions did not have a chance to change as much as it was supposed to, to basically lift iitself up to basic human right standards. this is what we faced when nadia wrote this. >> verypowerful letter when youe are talking about extreme conditions in those prisons. that is far beyond what anybody would think would be going on in russia. was she threatened in the ma camp. >> gentlemeyes she was threatene camp and the problems come out of the threats and this is t

this is the first meeting of president putin with pope francis since he was elected last march the head of the vatican does have influence over one point two billion people roughly so this is quite an important diplomatic meeting perhaps aimed at moving the two countries closer towards each other and really the pope and the russian president do have a lot of points of view when they're in common on lots of issues syria for instance the vatican same as russia have been calling for the rights of christians in syria to be protected also ahead of the g twenty summit in st petersburg the pope pleaded with the international community not to intervene and militarily into the situation there pretty much which is what russia has been doing since the beginning of the conflict now finally recently the pope wrote a letter to the russian president personally thanking him for his efforts to try to establish peace in the country following the. chemical weapons breakthrough which many consider as a diplomatic victory of moscow and now this is not the first time that russian leaders are visiting the vat