the ukraine ukraine just needs to to handle all of turning jointly and to take a decision we should correspond with the national interest of ukraine and these national interests of ukraine are definitely inside of europe but inside of a united europe with all countries of the continent including and not excluded as one of the people. feeling the pulse of the russian foreign projects do you feel today that this tension with you is really pushing ukraine. closer to russia for example for example to the customs union leaders and well at least at least they know that the korean leadership has restarted the restart of the consideration of different options and i do not believe that this is just the can sequence of the sequence of the pressure which is now being said on ukraine from the opinion from the side of the rebellion you know this is a very sober. financial calculation and of the figures are there and the figures point out a very clear perspective there in case ukraine stayed outside of the customs union in case you're greenspace out of the common economics piece of the because th

put it in and ukraine and ukraine is pretty much afraid that that the response of the european union will be very negative to europe's and to ukraine's integration do you think that this is true that this is really the case will i believe that this is a very big political game and ukrainian surratt is are in are all being more or less blackmailed by by the repeal in union in order to to to motivate mr unocal which to to set pressure on the court system of ukraine again i do not believe this is a fear approach from the european union but in any case i want to bring europe was never big fan of commission which it was she was prime minister why such such interference now again. is being supported boy very influential political force in europe the european people's party which has the biggest party faction in the european parliament which has the biggest part defection in the parliamentary assembly of the council of europe and they can see how these specific they are living all of our time here seven years ago this is a specific political group initiates all the time these active approac

father that great i mean i mean our future leaders of ukraine into politics. was to and still is tried today to a certain degree for treason of the key of interests there is this accusation of treason of key have appeal to the. the west of the country. to her friends in the west. and before the presidential election after solve. some new queen invest in us were bitterly disappointed. both because of the content of the two thousand and contract condition and the relationship growing friendship between you and furthermore put it there to even talk humiliate than ukrainian president viktor yushchenko in publicly but now i think due to victoria no coverage due to the trial and the sentence. has got back all the support of ukraine investors they call solid data support so what you're implying is that the political preferences the political situation in ukraine is changing today because the because of this trial yes yes. and i think if you were not arrested the result would be so dramatic she understood the rest of the very favorable for her politically and that's w

well with ukraine's former prime minister yulia timoshenko sentenced to seven years in prison for abuse of power spotlight host all going to all of unease gets discussed about the wider implications of her trial that's next on r.t. and i'll be back with more news we in less than half an hour from now. they're. going to walk into a spotlight show you part. of the trial. the former ukrainian prime minister has. been sentenced to seven years in prison the court found her guilty overstepped while signing gas contracts. the verdict surprised and disappointed the world community and even russia in favor of the contract. the trial. so is it. to. go to prison and what's going to happen to him. we're asking the direct. cost. you tymoshenko was arrested in the summer on charges of abuse of office according to the prosecutors she signed an unfair long term contract with russia's gas exporter gazprom which resulted in almost two hundred million dollar losses all the ukraine russia the us you immediately condemned the verdict as politically motivated and europe even warned it could hold several trad

from outside would consolidate your it's emotional support us inside ukraine. the prosecution continues the investigation another corruption charges against the machine do you think that. these new accusations did this new threat of adding another twelve years to her a seventy year sentence may come true. it depends if it's a potential mechanisms of pressure onto your little machine if she is freed this year but if. victorian a car which will be wanting some some time in the future to bring her back to trial in prison so those new york use asians and investigation results could be used at the same time the ukrainian power wants to remind trash that russia has cleared. the general prosecutor's office of russia has given us a machine core of those accusations in two thousand and five and to such we will tell you our coverage and his cronies one for one to emphasize that russia has could have some confidential delicate relationship. and the details of the relationship between put into motion could could be disclosed if it would be political and necessary for yanac

and ukraine's attempts to spruce up its image ahead of its hosting of the euro two thousand and twelve football championships comes under fire from animal rights groups they are accusing the government of stray dogs of. heart and half an hour as my colleague old dog but for now though with ukraine's former prime minister yulia timoshenko sentenced to seven years in prison for abuse of power a spotlight post. discusses the wider implications for trial. hello again going to walk into a spot like the incident should be party i'll go along with you for they will be talking about the trial of uli had similar showing. the former ukrainian prime minister opposition leader being sentenced to seven years in prison the court found her guilty overstepping half hours while signing gas contracts with rushed the verdict surprised and disappointed the world community and even russia in favor of which the contracts were allegedly stopped many saying the trial is politically motivated so is it a fair trial or a political question to you it's a machine to really go to prison and what's going to happen f

to rethink its relations with ukraine and reports from brussels. there's been a whole stol reaction from the people in europe here the european union's from policy chief catherine ashton says that she's been following the verdict and that the european union main fact reassess its whole relations with key of as a result of this verdict we've had the e.u. saying is deeply disappointed with the judge's decision and the e.u. commission i did there rick serious consequences for by that relations and earlier today the european commission's they hoped for a review of this of this verdict on appeal and we've wanted to see changes in ukrainian law so this sort of case cons happen again the head of the european parliament regrets the the verdict of tomasz oco and he's calling for a review of the case on appeal now ukraine wants to enter the european union has been discussing a free trade agreement and the ukraine president is actually due here in brussels next week to discuss the first steps to joining the european union but the sounds we're getting here fro

tima shoko and is a ukraine's u.p.a. and bishan really at stake a game as opposed to firstly far i don't think europe would agree to sales of free trade zone agreement and association agreement with ukraine expected of literals this year unless you let him set free by the end of the year and i'm hopeful it's very macabre tranter stance this well. we may have some proof to what you just said let's hear how european commission's foreign policy chief catherine ashton commented until machine because guilty verdict. you mean it's really disappointed with the verdict that's come out of ukraine in the case of yulia timoshenko the trial that took place didn't in our view respect international standards of being fair and transparent and having an independent legal process i've repeatedly asked for this in spades that i've made unfortunately what we're seeing confirms that justice is being applied so actively in what we see as politically motivated prosecutions of the leaders of the opposition and members of the former government

of course ukraine is important for europe it is important for the for the west. so we should also is important who do you think is more important for western diplomacy for western politicians that may be deciding the fate of the former prime minister today whose most important ukraine. mr schank i think by this before the throw in washington has never been a hero for europe. she was note and is considered as a symbol of ukrainian democracy europe has been constantly suspicious about. business track record of not her connections with russia's official some big business and her personal connection was lodged in a person which had been established in generally two thousand klein when this country had been signed and so on and so on was the when you say personal relations with their group what do you mean business the business deal there the way they made business together is what i was doing. hardly to be fed from european view but do you believe there is mutual so there wasn't is merely our job to. solve the problem many times and now we see and hear. openly suppor

we have to protect ukraine against the authoritarian regime. it is unclear whether units machine cause fate has been sealed as some experts are speculating whether a presidential pardon is still a possibility that could sign an amnesty decree for you too much and that remains to be seen of course but we understand that the protesters several thousand of them will remain in central street for another week at least to follow the developments and to see whether their leader would be set free or any any other development could happen to her but for now as i said it's been very calm for the last several hours and as you can probably hear there's no music playing and now we can talk to you without over shouting the loud knows the noise of the ten thousand of protests here in central kiev. now as we know gas fields with russia were the center of this case at this point as moscow reacted to the vote. well moscow has been saying all along that those deals back in two thousand and nine were signed in full accordance with international law and with the tw

straight to our breaking news for you this hour ukraine's prime minister is jailed for seven years yulia timoshenko was found guilty of abuse of power when signing gas deals with russia just about two years ago. following the events now joins us live from outside the court where the verdict went down i know you've been there with the protesters you've seen them there you've seen the police as well we've been seeing reactions inside the courtroom outside the courtroom us up to speed on the latest of what you see. well it has been certainly a very wild and long day here in kiev in central kiev where at times it seemed that the tension would go over the top with the supporters of thousands of them trying to organize a march through the streets of kiev and being dispersed by the police with no real brutality but still some pushing and shoving and the situation was really explosive it could have been it could have led to serious violence that as it had been predicted by many deputies in the ukrainian parliament and experts thankfully it turned out to be rather on the violence still several pe

and ukraine's attempts to spruce up his image ahead of its hosting of the euro two thousand and twelve football championships come under fire from animal rights groups they're accusing the government of burning stray dogs of my. well with ukraine's former prime minister yulia tymoshenko sentenced to seven years in prison for abuse of power spotlight host all going to all of unease gets discussed about the wider implications of trial that's next on r.t. and about with more news for us i'm coughing up from the. hello again the welcome to spotlight into the show part c m calhoun obviously they will be talking about better trial of uli had said was. the former ukrainian prime minister at heart especially being sentenced to seven years in prison the court found her guilty of overstepping while signing gas contracts where. the verdict surprised and disappointed the world community and even russia in favor of which the contracts were allegedly so many saying the trial this is politically motivated so is it a fair trial or a political pressure to units in the country really go to prison and wh

frankly there is no chance at all of ukraine joining the european union and the idea that ukraine at least a neighbor in the next ten or fifteen years so these negotiations i'm afraid are really just for form's sake they don't have any real bearing on reality why as we heard from our correspondent earlier and day he was bringing us the latest on their reaction at helm to the verdict and there have been for thousands of people taking part in protests in the streets to support us so how do you think this divide back at home will affect their political climate in ukraine. well one has to be careful of course because you know a thousand people ok that's a thousand people but when they appear on a television screen they can under certain circumstances take on a greater importance than they really have that was certainly the case in the orange revolution where a mass movement was effectively manufactured. by television images nonetheless it seems clear that on. fortunately of all the soviet republics of all the former soviet republics ukraine continues to be more i think wrecked by divisio

want to protect ukraine again tarion regime. under stand of the protest the several thousand of them will remain in central street for another week at least to follow the developments and to see whether their leader would be set free or any any other developing could happen to her emotionally as the saying all along that those deals back in two thousand and nine were signed in full chords with international law and with the two countries legislation and the reaction which we have already received from the russian foreign ministry is saying almost the same that the court which had the verdict delivered basically neglected the fact that russia believes that that the deals were signed a law fully and the verdict itself has something over anti russian pretext that is what we'd be. hearing from the russian foreign ministry clear it isn't happy with the way things are going because we know that the russian foreign minister and president medvedev have been saying that this case should be transparent and that the gas deals were complete

ukraine's ex prime minister is sentenced to seven years in jail for abusing power when signing gas contracts with russia other verdict spot clashes between her supporters and opponents. going east moscow and beijing boost cooperation as china becomes the first country vladimir putin visits after stating he'll run for the presidency next year. america's anti corporate protests in boston meet a fierce response from the police who reportedly beat up war veterans taking part in a peaceful round. a very warm welcome for you this is on see live from moscow with me will receive a shock and straight to our breaking news for you this hour ukraine's ex prime minister is jailed for seven years yulia timoshenko was found guilty of abuse of power signing gas deals with russia years ago. he was following the events from just outside the courthouse where supporters have been having scuffles with police . at times it seemed that the tension would go over the top with the supporters of you to shake off thousands of them trying to organize a march through the streets of kiev and being dispersed by the police

frankly there is no chance at all of ukraine joining the european union the idea that ukraine at least in effect in the next ten or fifteen years so these negotiations i'm afraid are really just for form's sake they don't have any real bearing on reality. you with us you live from moscow still ahead for you in the program here the eurozone hangs by a thread slovakia votes on a crucial deal which could decide the fate of the debt to european nations and plans to bail them out. now reshuffling the world's political stage russia's vladimir putin and his chinese counterpart are looking to lay the first of bricks in beijing today russia's prime minister and china's premier wen jumbo signed deals worth an estimated seven point one billion dollars the agreements range from aerospace to nano development and large energy deals are the two sides say they've overcome differences over oil supplies and china has agreed on a new pipeline from russia there is still however the issue of gas with no news yet of a resolution in the longstanding pricing dispute for more on the much hyped meeting his aunt

very late between russia and ukraine. actually have developed in the context of those guess deals unpaid bills and different kind of conflicts in this way all this tries to maneuver between russia and european union and we have seen countless gears wars where you're a deal you're human you bring to my next point you talk about the countless gas was it tends to come around this time of year do you think now because if we could see ukraine use this case to once again review its gas agreements with russia could you see another gas war erupted between the two saluted absolutely i think that clearly is preparing for a changing of those deals and gas agreement you know that economic situation in the ukraine is not a good and money that crane gets from russia for transit and gas for private gas bill back in the soviet years is an important source of cash flow for the korean bhaji but also they have to understand the situation of the market is changing russia is the. right lines that bypass crane and will be able to pipe gas into

the experts agree entry to the european union is not unachievable for ukraine. going east moscow and beijing bruce cooperation of china becomes the first country to be approved in visits after declaring he will run for the presidency next year. on america's energy corporate protester targeting the society's elite as demonstrators plan a millionaire's march to the hells is some of new york's wealthiest tycoon. but from our studios here in central moscow this is. ukraine's ex prime minister is jailed for seven years unit to machine code was found guilty of abuse of power while signing gas deals with russia two years ago. he was following the events from outside the court where commission supporters have been involved in scuffles with police. at times it seemed that the tension would go over the top with the supporters of us in a cycle thousands of them trying to organize a march through the streets of kiev and being dispersed by the police with no real brutality but still some pushing and shoving and the situation was really explodes and still several people were

ukraine gets from russia for transit to gas for piping gas. back in the soviet years is an important source of cash for the credit and budget but also we have to understand the situation of the market is changing russia is be building pipelines that crane and will be able to. create and. also write a few major projects from the south region. into europe and also the market all three q. flight gas i mean for all. from the persian gulf is also developing rapidly so in this case they. will not be able to guess agreements and pressure onto european costumers as a powerful lever. now it's time for you to get a ball with us here and i'll see your opinion is always valuable to us or particularly on this story right now on our website we're asking what you think about the team a shank a sentence what it means and let's have a look at the numbers right here on artsy half of you believe it's a clever ukrainian employed to avoid paying for russian gas about a third think the verdict is simply a politically motivated mockery the rest of us split between t

their relations between russia and ukraine. actually have developed in the context of those guess deals unpaid bills and different kind of conflicts in this way of all all this tries to maneuver between russia and european union and we have seen countless. wars where you reveal your human to my next point you talk about the countless gas wars it tends to come around this time of the year do you think now because of this we could see ukraine use this case to once again review its get agreements with russia could you see another gas war erupted between the two absolutely absolutely nothing that kiri is preparing for changing those deals and gas agreement we know that economic situation in the ukraine is not very good and. that ukraine gets from russia for transiting gas for piping gas to resupply appliance build back in the soviet years is an important source of cash flow for the aquarian budget but also we have to understand the situation of the market is changing russia is the building pipelines that bypass ukraine and will be

of course, she was once ukraine's most popular politician. now she is looking at spending the next seven years in prison the bank the sentence was handed down for former prime minister yulia tymoshenko , found guilty of corruption in gas contract she signed with russia. >> sitting next to her daughter, yulia tymoshenko remained calm as the judge read the verdict. she dismissed the trial as a pretext for eliminating her from politics. >> i think the sentence being announced only give strength to ukrainians and make them realize that the regime does not end of the run free will. need to be removed. >> de charges center on a 2009 natural-gas deal between the ukraine and russia. prosecutors say she agreed to prices that left kiev poorer. the judge said the former prime minister criminally exceeded her powers, and then she rose her -- she rose from her chair to address the core. she got to take the case to the european court of human rights. her conviction has been condemned by governments abroad. >> this is a setback in relations between your bra

ukraine's ex prime minister is jailed for seven years unit to machine code was found guilty of abuse of power while signing gas deals with russia two years ago. he was following the events from outside the court where tymoshenko supporters have been involved in scuffles with police. at times it seemed that the tension would go over the top with the supporters of thousands of them trying to organize a march through the streets of kiev and being dispersed by the police with no real brutality but still some pushing and shoving and the situation was really explodes and still several people were injured in the pushing and shoving with the police one woman was saw as she was taken to hospital having fallen from a stage or from a staircase or something like that inside the courtroom of course it was very tense as well while the judge was reading out the verdict. was over shouting the judge was screaming abusive words at him saying that this decision this verdict was not done in accordance with the criminal law but was orchestrated by president viktor yanukovych indeed the reaction from the

approach to encourage democratic reforms in belarus and ukraine. if kiev relentsd, and they could get assistance by the end of the year. minsk boycotted the meeting in protest over the meeting the previous day between eu leaders and belarus opposition. the government must free all political prisoners and start a dialogue with the opposition. >> we are witnessing too little democratic reform. we will try to support belarus of that changes. what i heard from the opposition yesterday gave me little cause for optimism. >> recent developments in post- communist ukraine have raised concerns, especially the trial of the former prime minister yulia tymoshenko for alleged abuse of power. many believe that it is a bit by bit president to crush his political rival. >> -- many believe it is a bid by the president to crush his political rival. >> we do not approve of such measures as members of the previous administration. >> do you is insisting that any free trade agreement on ukraine insists -- the eu is insisting that any free-trade agreement is based upon d

ukraine's former prime minister yulia timoshenko is given seven years behind bars for abusing her or thorazine while signing gas deals with russia her supporters are in a standoff with police just outside the kiev call. the fusion of a new global voices asia because france russia and china build a union to translate political dominance over the western world. in the boston the wall street protests turned violent as police reportedly beat up war veterans during a peaceful demonstration this comes as people all across the u.s. joined a movement against bankers big business and we got. worldwide news live from the heart of moscow this is nazi with me. straight to our breaking news at this hour ukraine's ex prime minister yulia timoshenko has been sentenced to seven years in prison she was found guilty of abusing her oath or he was signing gas deals with russia alexy going to shift gears following events now joins us live right outside the court which machine because supporters have been involved with scuffles over the police there. seven years in prison or a surprise to the week before

and ukraine's preparations for your twenty twelve football championships are under pressure of animal rights activist accusing the of the worries of burning stray dogs like. you watching are you coming to live from moscow one pm in the russian capital the anti-corporate protests in america have spread and so have the arrest and the accusations of police having handedness dozens more activists have been taken into custody across several cities why do you work or was poor stays down into the pavement after apparently being run over by a policeman but hundreds of demonstrators camping out near wall street for a month claim a victory over mayor michael bloomberg his addiction or under the pretext of a cleanup was overturned by the park's owners said the protesters can stay for now the movement against corporate influence has gone global spreading to dozens of cities worldwide the american members of off if i together though claim they are still being ignored by the mainstream media. that an activist who is. breaking the information walking. from the mass demonstrations of support. to the

hello and a very warm welcome to our business update russia and ukraine near you come. from ice and gas negotiations president. counterpart speak to human cooch who is seeking global price for imported natural gas arches alexian a shift here is a fully gas talks in ukraine hello alexis so what's the bottom line of the meeting between the two presidents. well we haven't reached the end of this deadlock yet but the two presidents gave a clear hint that we may be seeing some developments on the story in the nearest future they said that and then you're a future they're planning to finalize the price for the russian gas which ukraine has been buying and bring this whole dispute to an end and resolve this crisis and they will all obviously and now it's their decision publicly now i'd like to remind our viewers that this whole issue about the gas price between ukraine and russia has been going on for more than six months already with ukraine being unhappy about the current price it is paying for the russian gas and is trying to find a new contract this of course cost some con

president miseries of says the controversial jailing last week of ukraine's former prime minister is a matter of work alone you get so much ankle was sentenced to seven years in prison for abuse of power over gas contracts with russia are seen as election year so joins us now with more from by now it's in eastern ukraine where the two countries presidents have been meeting so much i goes guns and has raised eyebrows across the globe but the president did have to say about the issue. well it seems that there's a present chemical which is aspirations to join the european union maybe in tatters as he is not going to even meeting in brussels whether that was cancelled by the euro commission or by president bush himself is still unclear but experts have no doubts this is related to the seven year prison term received by the country's former prime minister yulia timoshenko and we've also had a reaction from the russian president medvedev on that controversial trial who said that all trials in ukraine must be held only in this with a coup in accordance with the country's legislation must no

seven years sentence for ukraine's former prime minister of or alleged abuse of power linked to gas contracts with russia sparks public outrage and harsh criticism from moscow to the u.s. and the. plans in russia the indices to raise the early morning to clients will be r.t.s. climbing point six percent the solid more market in the us is in business in twenty minutes. eleven am in the russian capital you're watching r.t. with joshie welcome to the program iranians hiring mexicans to assassinate the saudi ambassador in america the details of a complicated plot the u.s. government says it has uncovered officials in washington say to iranian agents try to hire members of a mexican drug cartel to carry out the attack allegations iran dismissed as a comedy show or he's gonna shoot down as the latest from the u.s. capitol. the u.s. attorney general explicitly said that the u.s. will be holding the uranian government accountable for the plots to kill the ambassador of saudi arabia to the united states also the u.s. is accusing iran of conspiring to stage two bombings at these really embassy in washi

frankly there is no chance at all of ukraine joining the european union the idea that ukraine at least in a vote in me next ten or fifteen years so these negotiations i'm afraid are really just for form's sake they don't have any real bearing on reality. let's reestablish our connection with alexei yet here's. just outside the courthouse there in kiev where the team a chunk of supporters have been involved in scuffles with police alexia thanks for joining us again seven years in prison now your thoughts on. i. yeah i can just about hear you it's very. sorry i do apologize it's just that the noise is just too much we can see a lot of emotions the way you are in kiev outside the courthouse a lot of people voicing what seems to be frustration and anger over the verdict now that the former pm yulia timoshenko sentence not to seven years behind bars that was artie's alexy people trying to get back to him when emotions cool just a little bit now still ahead here on the program here on out see the eurozone hangs by a thread like you know votes on a crucial deal which i could decide the fate o