and is not going to pay any penalties second ukraine refuses to somehow solve the issue of gazprom is buying into ukraine's gas transportation system even though the talks take place almost every week so i'd say the guys from just decided to impose all legal claims to the full selling its gas transport system to gazprom is one of ukraine's options to get cheaper gas from russia and the other is participating in the customs union with russia kazakhstan and belarus but that puts its plans for european integration under threat so ukraine is looking for ways to become less dependent on russian gas but all its attempts from building elegy plant to shall gas projects have so far proven a pipe dream. america's oil boom is now so big it is visible from space in fact you can take a look at nighttime satellite images north dakota's bokken shale field which is right about here it is the oil field that transformed u.s. production in the past five years it shines almost as brightly as chicago and in fact this is chicago right here along lake michigan now the lights that you are seeing are flare st

most europeans still remember the harsh winter two years ago when the russian ukraine gas was left many households across the region with no gas supplies to keep them warm this year though russia's exposed to europe are on interrupted and the holidays have not been spoiled however ukraine now russia are again talking on the gas price discounts for you cry now russia's condition ukraine joining the customs union with russia kazakhstan about a ruse russian foreign minister sergei lover off will visit kiev on january the thirty to discuss ukraine's could to supply so right now i'm joined by top ten i put a caveat that he views. to get cheaper gas why is the relationship with russia. necessary then why is it so fundamental because it's crucial for their fragile economy ukraine now pays a market price for the russian gas which is around for its more than four hundred dollars per thousand cubic meters of course it wants to pay much less for example as its neighbor delarue switch gears just a hot foot it. pays just two hundred dollars per thousand cubic meter wife and why does batteries which

for ukraine to cooperate with russia and with the customs union his side to that ukraine's export to eastern neighbors amount to sixty billion dollars while exports to the european union found out only forty million dollars ok to tell you why doesn't i suppose in this day and age why can't they have both why can't the clay cooperate with europe have that relationship as well as get the cheap gas from russia is it really. cool that's probably will be on the agenda next week when they will be negotiating their participation in the customs union right tanya thank you so much indeed for all the information very very good to have a chat about it see what happened. ok moving on then and i did mention the u.s. fiscal situation earlier so we aspire as investors service majors on the bill passed by congress is for them to that is solely spare the biggest economy in the world a downgrade now their reasoning for this warning is that they expect the ratio of government debt to g.d.p. to peak at about eighty percent in twenty fourteen and potentially remain that way for a decade now the u.s. stil

eckstein: this is babiyar outside of kiev here in the ukraine. one of hundreds of killing fields from world war ii's holocaust throughout the former soviet union. there is a traditional memorial prayer of the dead that is recited when we come to visit this site. (speaking hebrew) lord full of mercy, remember those who died here. (singing hebrew) it was here in 1941 that in a period of five days over a hundred thousand jews were killed here by the nazis. holocaust survivor: they were all brought to babiyar and they were all undressed, everyone, and then they were killed. you can't, you can't even imagine, a lot of people can't imagine. announcer: those who managed to survive the nazis then suffered the post world war ii persecution, indoctrination and anti- semitism of the communists. jews were forbidden to practice their faith and were denied education and denied jobs. they lived in fear of the soviet people who were encouraged to roam the streets to find jews so that they could ridicule and beat them. hoffman: the elderly jews were victimized th

this is a train stunt translated into english somewhere in the ukraine.ort -- >> something stupid. >> how do you say crazy. >> around the world. >> the guy got on a crane and hangs with his arms and walking along with it and he doesn't fall. >> doesn't look easy. >> tonight try it. ginger, you are a not doing that. >> no, i will check it no. i want to introduce you to dexter the monkey. take a look at what dexter does when he sees his reflection in the mirror. bait for it. wait for it. his mirrors point to it. oh! who's that. he does that every time he goes to the bathroom mirror >> that's how i feel at 4:00 in the morning. who is that? >> so i'm fixated on girl scout cookies. they've got a new flavor. we have girl scouts. come on in, jordan sold more than a thousand boxes, impressive and victoria and dana and you are here to tell us about the new flavor. what is it. >> mango cream. >> in unison. i like it. what do you think? everyone will taste it. what do you think of the flavor. >> very tropical. >> very tropical. mixed reviews online but it adds to th

countries of the near abroad the former soviet union that the cold rove aleutians in georgia and ukraine which have fallen of their own accord in kurdistan as well what do you think that's a fair trade off i mean they failed a. lot of mail but the fear of the u.s. could have been pumping much more into these countries economically militarily politically in order to support them they backed off that after the end of the bush years i think that was the real trade off of the reset but i think that's about the end. well i think from the american side it reminds me all day long and well told. it was organized by a pragmatist by nixon and it was completely destroyed jimmy carter who was an ideologue in the united states france and folds over russia you cannot divide them by party lines democrats on all pro russian oil and i russian republics are not for arsenal and russia the real dividing line is between pragmatists and i don't look for russia he's not a threat to the next. states russian elite wants to be friends with the united states i would say almost desperately. and you know reset was a

project by expanding its partners to take gas to south eastern europe bypassing transit countries ukraine and belarus and russia's gas giant nearly seventeen billion dollars which makes the projected toto a staggering thirty eight point four billion dollars the pipeline is already thought to be an unnecessary expense by some analysts who questioned whether south stream is needed given the flagging demand for russian gas in the most lucrative market which of course is europe now russia's response is that the south stream is needed in order to diversify supply routes to the european union all of the disputes we've ukraine led to cut off for part of europe back in two thousand and six and two thousand and nine which was a major blow for both parties considering russia supplies around a quarter of europe's gas me. moving on cyprus is counting on european union leaders to allow russia to financially support the struggling economy the country's prime minister told a state radio station that the e.u. are trying to walk out of russia is able to participate along with international lenders and a f

>> from the animal kingdom to the ukraine, natural transition here.ugh one. >> well, anyway, check this out. this is a crane stunt translated into english here somewhere in the ukraine. apparently this is a popular pastime or whatever you want to call it, sport. >> yeah, something stupid. >> how do you say crazy in russian? >> around the world. >> the guy got on a crane and hangs with his arms and walking along with it, and he doesn't fall. >> makes it look easy, too. >> don't try it. >> ginger, don't try it. >> i will check that one no. i want to introduce you to dexter, the monkey. take a look at what dexter does when he sees his reflection in the mirror. wait for it. wait for it as his mirrors point to it. oh! who's that? he does that every time he goes by the bathroom mirror. he can't get enough of himself. >> that's how i feel at 4:00 in the morning. who is that? >> so i'm fixated on girl scout cookies. >> oh. >> they've got a new flavor, and we have girl scouts. come on in. this is jordan, who sold more than a thousand boxes, 9 years old. really

. >>> ukraine and shell will reportedly sign a major shale gas deal next week. $10 billion agreement will develop ukraine's vast shale gas reserves, believed to be the third largest in europe. >>> natural gas futures lept to a new six week high. cold weath forecast, falling inventories and expectations for rising demand have sent natural gas higher for six out of the past seven sessions. melissa: next own "money" the ratings for oprah's lance interview are in. is it a growth hormone for her own struggling network needs. oh my. how much have you spent so far to avoid the flu. was that purell bath i took this morning a huge waste of money i don't know. seems it was worth it. we'll give you a shot of reality coming up. do you ever have too much money? melissa: unless you live under a rock you know lance armstrong admitted to oprah he took performance-enhancing drugs during all seven tour de france wins. i don't know why lance is coming clean now but oprah got a huge ratings bump. numbers came in and got, wait for it, 3.2 million viewers. not too shabby considering

protesters in ukraine clashed during a demonstration against the russian foreign minister.e was in the city to meet with his ukrainian counterpart. there with the national freedom party -- they are angry at what they see as moscow's influence in this country. russia's newest celebrity citizen has gone on offensive against the opposition party. gerard depardieu said they had no programs to offer. he took out russian citizenship in protest against proposed tax hikes on french millionaires. the decade -- for decades, cuba has been derided as a prison island because of its tough travel restrictions. a new set of reforms will make it easier for cubans to leave the country. >> alisa garcia is getting her house in order before visiting her children in spain. a trip she has taken several times before, but like all other cubans, she used to need permission to leave the island. this time will be different -- starting monday, the government is using new travel rules, and cubans will for the most part be able to come and go as they like. >> now i have a lot more personal freedom. peopl

china is the fourth nation to develop a jumbo cargo plane after the u.s., russia and the ukraine. the russia and ukranian planes used technology inherited from the soviet era. >>> satellite was launched for national security and other purposes. the rocket blasted off from tanagashi space center in southern japan. the satellite went into orbit around the earth at the desired altitude. this marks the 16th straight successful launch of h2a rockets. it is equipped with a radar system. it can take images at night and in bad weather. it can identify objects on earth as small as 1 metre from 700 kilometres in space. the device will also be used in dealing with disasters. the japanese government began launching intelligence-gathering satellites in reaction to north korea's missile tests in 1998. with this launch, government officials completed a plan's reconnaisance system. it consisted of two radar satellites and rocket satellites. malfunctioning satellites put them ten years behind schedule. >>> african leaders are discussing measures to restore regional peace in the wake of the algeria

have criticized ukraine's handling of the case. now it's a big weekend in german politics with a major regional election taking place in lower sacks any on sunday. angela merkel and the struggling partner of the free democrats against the opposition social democrats and allies and everyone will be looking for pointers in which chancellor merkel will be trying to win a third term in office. >> hanover mayor is determined to unseat the incumbent. >> we are very, very close to a change of government here in lower sacks any. now let's get to work we won't give this away anymore. let's get out and fight, dear friends. >> the local democrats have sent in party these win over undecided voters. >> he will win together with the greens and that's a good thing. peek in lower saxoni worked well together. >> simple messages and fame otherwise faces are also the strategy. angela merkel made several appearances for david mcalister. >> he is a great state premiere so, do all you can do to ensure david can say i can continue to serve lower saxony t

four hundred million dollars in debt and ukraine has had to wash up. all that find out online now we've managed to get so far into the red and how it hopes to get out of it. and craving for cold energy hungry china is growing as much of the black south as the rest of the world combined with levels of a pollution in the country skyrocketing that's online for you. britain's government has raised taxes twice as fast as cutting them according to a new report putting a damper on david cameron's pledge to create a low what text country figures show almost three hundred thirty hikes from the ruling coalition for that complicated and already notorious system artie's party boy picks up the story. by the end of this parliament the u.k. public will have seen cuts to some one hundred nineteen various taxes that all sounds great but for a government that's promised to create a lower tax country news that they've actually increased some two hundred ninety nine of the taxes might be somewhat confusing the brits assume going to see an extra levy on carbon dioxide emis

across the ukraine and in russia, very cold and snowy.tral parts also seeing significant snowfall. that could cause transport disruption. simmering heading towards the mediterranean. heavy rain in rome, temperature 10 degrees. in the west, there's drier weather, but it is still chilly out. in the southeast, brightness guys, but london is just above freezing and paris is just below freezing. the iberian peninsula, there is a friend moving towards portugal. madrid should see highs temperatures of 11 degrees with brighter skies. some weather going across the coast of algeria. ties of 13 degrees expected indonesia. central parts of africa, the rain continuing to push farther south. still some showers at high temperatures of 30 degrees. the heaviest rain across the more southern parts of africa in angola and botswana and there's been heavy rain in south africa. there's more heavy rain in the forecast. >> welcome back. the top stories. france's army chief says the soldiers are preparing for ground assault against rebel fighters in mali. up unti

top three countries in winter when the world championships of finland poland and russia and ukraine the rest can all compete to play which could get it down to being used to winter a lot of afraid of minus conditions many people from northern parts of the country narrative really when no one likes to sit at home especially during winter so any idleness is quickly usurped by slick skates and skis and everything else just follow suit well it's no wonder that there are so many more. considering that it's called a lot of snow a lot of the time but let's not forget that even if it's not considered an it three or however when in rome. do you like the roads. or well. from extreme deeds let's turn to the spoken word as we hear the quite so the week. wells number one goal for rory mcilroy he said it wasn't about the money off to signing a multi-million dollar sponsorship deal with nike the northern irishman follows in the footsteps of second ranked tiger woods by smith the cut of the abu dhabi championship which was won by welshman jamie donaldson. i don't play golf for the money i think i'm wel

really challenge washington's foreign policy orthodoxies four hundred million dollars in debt and ukraine had to ask russia for time to pay find out online how it managed to get so far into the red and how it hopes to get out. and craving for call energy hungry china is burning as much of the black stuff as the rest of the world combined with levels of air pollution in the country skyrocketing that's online for you today. well gary is government is expected to block the russian finance construction of a new nuclear power plant this comes after a national referendum voted in favor of the project the vote however was invalidated due to a low turnout well gary is allies in europe and the us fear of the project would mean energy dependence on russia and of charo of says authorities did their best to bring down the vote. trams and trolleybuses come to a standstill and doctors walk out on their wards in greece as after the break we report on a new flurry of protests paralyzing the country as citizens face up to a government bent on still more austerity. plus eric smith says there are many monst

and also not just cheering crowds for the pope's prayer that says members of the notorious ukraine planning group stage and naked protest are right in the heart of the vatican online a go to the details a water park they woman's discontent this time. it is. is going to be a battle over austerity when they german finance minister meets the greek opposition leader who's been holding the phone against the berlin bank to stare as he strategery looks it's a process expected to demand international lenders change the terms of the international bailout for greece and political economist yanis the roof says there's also a particular reason. why germany's interested in this meeting what mr la was in a position from which is like a little oxygen and the fog of much harder to work relationship once he became president of the french republic similarly because the person may well be in government but after the next election in the future. me. mode of communication not in order to work. that you do as well but we. should look about that i wrong or we're thinking what i would be some good look at me commu

could be on the brink of a major hunger crisis this year after poor harvests in the united states and ukraine food prices already surged last summer with cereals hitting a record high in september last year food cost sixteen percent higher than in twenty ten and more than twice as expensive as a decade ago even after adjusting for inflation with almost a billion people already starving such a forecast could make things catastrophic worse and the latest controversy with goldman sachs has once again we ignited the debate on what actually stands behind the hike in food prices organizations like food watch say they are not the only ones financial players around the world to bear a large part of blame by investing astronomical sums of money into foodstuffs and speculating on the prices to make big profits in the last three years alone speculators have poured in as an extra hundred billion u.s. dollars into the sector and that is expected of driving prices even higher investment and central banks deny this saying futures trading is important for farmers and their bets have no effect yet the prices.

four hundred million dollars in debt and ukraine and such also russia for all time to pay find out online how we've managed to get so far into the red and how it hopes to get out of it. and craving for coal energy hungry china is burning as much of the black stuff as the rest of the world combined with levels of air pollution in the countries gone rocketing that's online for you. which is government has raised taxes twice as fast as cutting them according to a new report putting a damper on david cameron's pledge to grant a lower tax country for the show almost three hundred u.g. hides from the ruling coalition for the complicating an already notorious system. picks up the story by the end of this parliament the u.k. public will have seen cuts to some one hundred and nineteen various taxes that all sounds great but for a government that's promised to create a lower tax country news that they've actually increased some two hundred ninety nine of the taxes might be somewhat confusing the brits assume going to see an extra levy on carbon dioxide emissions that means energy bills are going to

preparing to take action in the irish capital dublin on saturday paula tell deputy leader of the ukraine of panels party can damns the violence and says it's down to politicians to find a solution. i think it is getting old ones and the reports that there are sort of quasi fascist groups and far right elements who are directing this this protest is very worrying indeed i think the decision taken by belfast council to lower the flag or only allow the flag to fly in certain days was a wrong decision i hope it is overturned but as i say i condemn the violence it's wrong and this should be done through politics and not through people out in the streets i'm not sure about the logical approach as. it is in effect obviously the republic of ireland is a different country to our only northern island as part of the u.k. i fear that there might be violence i hope there's not but as i say this is a job for the politicians this isn't the job for people out on the streets let's get the politicians on the table and let's hope that the council come to see sense and let's have the union flag flying and a

for hundreds of four hundred i should say million dollars in debt and ukraine has to ask russia for more time to pay find out all mind how it managed to get so far into the red and how it hopes to get out. and craving for call energy hungry china is burning as much of the black stuff as the rest of the world combined with levels of air pollution in the country skyrocketing that's online for you at our dot com. but various government is expected to block the russian finance construction of a new nuclear power plant this comes after a national referendum voted in favor of the project now the vote was invalidated due to a low turnout vogue areas allies in europe and the us feared the project would mean energy dependence on russia. room and. charles i should say says authorities did their best to bring the vote down. it was. very sorry about that having a bit of technical problems you can go online to listen to that we have corresponded for you next hour meanwhile trams and trolleybuses come to a standstill and doctors walk out on their wards in greece. after a break we also report on the ne

sees the pick of student basketball from course russia ukraine as a stand still in and with the one in united in the same combination is still far from catching up with nothing americas and c.w.a. march madness money set to develop and expand in the future the new league is supported by the russian government which has a lot of that control lovers and players who took to the court in the intermission alongside some of russia's great veterans for an indication game. although the show was still owned by the young guns twenty four of the best players representing the lakes and west. i'm never been a big basketball fan but i feel great today such that tech an action and so many handsome boys on hand i like it. despite being sold off as a shill to the all-star game so no lack of tough competition with it is comfortably beating the west one hundred thirteen points to eighty points. the difficulty to cut down the becoming a failed cut. but they are going to look a little sick of the look. of it will cut but thank you the fellow is a nearly i think. if you look at. it live a little less clear.

four hundred million dollars in debt and ukraine had to ask russia more time to pay find out online how it managed to get so far into the red and how it hopes to get out. and craving for coal energy hungry china is burning as much of the black stuff as the rest of the world combined with levels of air pollution in the country skyrocketing that's online for you today. oh. well gary as government is expected to block the russian finance construction of a new nuclear power plant this comes after a national referendum voted in favor of the project the vote however was invalidated due to a low turnout well gary is allies in europe and the us fear of the project would mean energy dependence on russia and paper money of charo of says authorities did their best to bring down the vote. trams and trolleybuses come to a standstill and doctors walk out on their wards in greece as after the break we report on a new flurry of protests paralyzing the country as citizens face up to a government ban on still more austerity. cuts eric smith says there are many monsters lurking in the dark spots of the wo

for hundreds of four hundred i should say million dollars in debt and ukraine has asked russia for more time to pay find out all mind how it managed to get so far into the red and how it hopes to get out. and craving for a call energy hungry china is burning as much of the black stuff as the rest of the world combined with levels of air pollution in the country skyrocketing that's online for you at our dot com. but various government is expected to block the russian finance construction of a new nuclear power plant this comes after a national referendum voted in favor of the project now the vote was invalidated due to a low turnout for vogue areas allies in europe and the us feared the project would mean energy dependence on russia room and. charo of i should say says authorities did their best to bring the vote down. very sorry about that having a bit of technical problems you can go online to listen to that we of course it for you next hour meanwhile trams and trolleybuses come to a standstill and doctors walk out on their wards in greece. after a break we also report on the new flurr

ukraine's jailed former prime minister yulia timoshenko could now be facing a life sentence prosecutors have announced an end to an investigation into the murder of a former ukrainian m.p. and prominent entrepreneur back in one thousand nine hundred six and crucially the tima schenker was among those who had ordered the assassination and if you go please can ask the story. investigators have been looking into the murder of the deputy of the ukrainian parliament which happened in one thousand nine hundred six and last year his son passed certain documents to them which point his connection to the murder and no ukrainian prosecutors have announced that the investigation is over and she is suspected of being among those who organized the murder and also allegedly paid over two million dollars for it now ukrainian authorities also say that the ukrainian former prime minister yulia tymoshenko has already been officially notified that she's now a suspect and if found guilty she could be facing up to wife behind bars and it's over two thousand and eleven you did see my show i was sentenced to

medals for bravery got a report of my online go a lot of interest not you monoculture but had to also ukraine's convicted former prime minister use of machine code could get a sentence extended to life find out why. it's thought that up to twenty seven million people in the world today a quarter of in some form or other of slavery about eight hundred thousand are being trafficked across borders every year might surprise you is that one magnet for those exploiting others for sex or forced labor is britain what is your smith best agaves why. isn't allowed out wasn't allowed to. i was the wonder or the claim. to the children. but i was never allowed to take the kids to school i was locked inside the house when i was nowhere and open the door side it sounds like something from an eighteenth century workhouse but it's britain today sarah was trafficked to this country aged twelve now nineteen she's still too afraid to talk about her experience but the fact that she's played here by an actor doesn't make her horrific story any less real i was getting beaten by then. i was slapped and right i kept get

ukraine's convicted former prime minister yulia tymoshenko could get her and her sentence extended it to life find out why at r t v dot com. up next i'll go no interviews a prominent russian american animator in the spotlight. all . the news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. giant corporations rule the day. hello again and welcome to spotlight the interview show on r.t. i'll do you know when today my guest on the program. as a child gandy told to call ski learned english from bugs bunny and cartoons moscow born he moved to america at the age of seven and like every kid he was a huge fan of katun son comic books but then he says unlike others you never grew out of it his childhood passion turned into a career marked with two emmys and a dozen other awards his cartoons dax's lab summer a jack and star wars have millions of fans worldwide.

ukraine's jailed former premier you could be put behind bars for life the opposition leader is now being accused of ordering the murder of a prominent political figure at her business rival's sixteen years ago was already serving a seventy year sentence for abuse of office she denies the allegations and says she is the victim of a witch hunt by president began a cottage. the artistic director of the ballet company of russia's bolshoi theater is being treated in hospital for severe burns following an acid attack sergei filin was assaulted on thursday night outside his home in central moscow as he's always here cesky discovered fillin had spoken to colleagues of other incidents during that week. well the bolshoi theatre the pride and joy of the russian culture is celebrating exactly one hundred eighty eight years since it was created but definitely this birthday celebration has been marred by this gruesome attack on a such a stick director so gay feeling was returning from work on thursday night when and not notified man called him out by his name sygate turned around to respond and the ma