on a journey for the soul. only on. the day before the summit to woo its east and european partners public fury in ukraine refuses to die down as the government hesitates in signing up to trade deals also. there are people with disabilities and it doesn't go with unlimited ability with one hundred days to go now before the paralympians take over the sochi winter games are teammates amount of managed to turn his life around on the ice rink. also tally in sentences expel former prime minister silvio berlusconi from parliament for tax fraud and a vote that the political veteran condemns calling it a day of mourning for democracy. and a crackdown on terror here in the russian capital where police say they've arrested a group of heavily armed islamic extremists.

very good evening this is our to international it's just past eleven pm here in moscow where we're watching around the world it's good to have you company our top story there's an eastern european economic get together starting thursday but there's one country in the wings having trouble making up its mind ukraine is seen days of violence and protests demanding that their president signs closer ties with the e.u. even though he knows being hasty could be costly. protesters still continue in kiev they lost it overnight despite temperatures dropping well below zero and right now several thousand people are besieging the government building in central kiev and there's been a warning coming from villages for the general public to abstain from any kind of provocations because they had information that some provocative groups were

preparing some royals and even and the possible attempt to take over the government building that's why you can see there's heavy police presence riot police are all over the place i when i walked here to the government building i saw literally hundreds of riot police all over the place they're securing every governmental building the parliament the government building and the administration of president building and judging by the fact that these people have town camps across the city they're not willing to go anywhere until friday until the summer. still clinging to this last hope of signing a. deal during the eastern partnership summit even though there are serious assurances coming from the government that this deal will not be signed ukraine's decision has also started a political street fight between brussels and moscow as the two traded accusations of pressuring. i wanted to ask our friends in brussels my personal friends in the european commission to refrain from harsh statements do we really have to stifle an entire segment of our economy just to get them to like us salute

. the fear is that with the free trade agreement already placed with key of the russian market could be flooded with european goods. industries and see tens of thousands of people out of work. but those camping out in kiev central square are adamant about becoming part of europe despite the risks to their own country's economic health. what alexis put in the thick of the on going public arresting here from day one follow up to an instagram for his images from the very heart of those demonstrations. created dire economic conditions are being cited as the main reason indeed that lawmakers backed away from the e.u. deal burling correspondents been hearing reaction in europe with some believing it can't afford to accommodate kiev. ukraine's decision not to push for closer association with the e.u. could turn out to be a blessing for those european countries there was going to have to be some two hundred thousand pieces of regulation that would have had to be changed to allow

ukraine to fit into this new partnership all of which would have had to are being paid for by the european countries now these pieces of regulation range from quite big issues right down to things like the type of screws used on road signs and the gauge of railway tracks and those are things that really european countries can't afford to be paying for right now we're seeing eighty four million people on the brink of poverty across the european union this is according to euro star the european union's own statistics organize ation youth unemployment is endemic across most of europe all of these things are leading europeans here in berlin to tell me that well europe should look to put its own financial problems correct before it starts taking on the debts of others. so it's not the e.u. already has plenty of problems in its own right at the moment for example bulgaria will be joining soon i will only create more problems if you know what shaun's i

think yes this will be expensive we have not realized it yet but we just have to wait and see i am a gives canoe it's hard to say there are plenty of problems in ukraine in any case if we take them it should be done under different conditions. so it seems you are may have dodged something of a financial bullet following ukraine's decision not to push for those closer ties. just spoke to me people nuttall from the u.k. independence party he told us many ukrainians and europeans fail to appreciate the risks attached to the association agreement. they don't know enough about the problems that you're up how long the european union wants create ukraine to eventually join they were albanians to join they want sabby it's a joint i mean they even want taking to join you know ninety five percent of tear he isn't even in europe i mean this is an expansionist organization we in britain certainly don't want ukraine to join the european union because if they join that

means our borders will be open to forty six million ukrainians and in ukraine the average wage is around three hundred euro per month and we know that if they do join a lot of them will come west and at the moment we have twenty two percent youth unemployment here in britain and we can saturate out all market any further with any more people . there's just over ten weeks to go to the such the winter olympic games and the kind that the paralympics to just reach the hundred day is tough i must say with the latest on the preparations. certainly a hundred days before the paralympics kickoff the twenty fourth and this day was marked a specially by president. made a surprise visit to the city to check for himself if the infrastructure and everything around around sochi is bad it's

a point and ready for the start of day now because of the president's tour around the infrastructure facility and was quite impressive in giving the thumbs up and say that everyone who's come into the city be able to enjoy the joy the city as well as the olympics the paralympics will start on the seventh of march until the sixteenth of march. now that's almost nine days all of all limping feeble as well as sportsmanship now russia has been taking really important step in making sure that the disabled i cared for last year they actually read too fine to the un convention know why it's all but people with disabilities and then in the same way yeah they went on to introduce a program that made it such ability environmentally easy to disable so indeed those infrastructures have been seen here they've been in place a. transport system we've seen it in the stadiums the restaurants at the hotels all

ready to welcome those with disabilities not only the athletes but also the spectators noble the athletes will be preparing themselves for aiming for that gold will be almost seven hundred athletes competing in the paralympics there's also around forty five countries who will be taking ponte seven disciplines a five sport and a newly introduced will also called the parents snowboarding which has had everybody excited here in sochi and my colleague catherine often met up with the the russian paralympics the hockey team to find out how they're preparing for that for gold. hockey as it should be intense fierce determined and fast. are still hockey just with two sticks one in each hand with extra risks. you're constantly flying around at high speeds collisions and

everything it's all crazy fast and tireless commitment which is. we're here training all the time morning to night every day for these seventeen paralympic athletes are in the twenty fourteen russia sledge hockey team and thirty six year old is their captain he was injured in two thousand and two while serving in the russian military in chechnya. before the age of twenty five i used to have a completely different life were also for both but after the injury i turned to sports to realize my potential. he went from swimming to taking up a chance to join russia's brand new sledge hockey squad. no one is going to bring you things on a silver platter but here we had an opportunity to work for it since two thousand and nine when we were told we were going to participate in the stocking paralympics it's been our driving force in a country that struggled to accommodate people's disabilities russia's paralympic

coach says the team is helping to change perceptions in the demos there were quite a few minutes we're going to need more of these guys managed to prove to themselves their relatives and the entire society that they are not people with disabilities but people with limited abilities. he has been a part of paralympic since one thousand nine hundred four but this is the first year that russia will compete this board only came here four years ago as vadim remembers what we were just staring at one another not really knowing what to do first. let me show you. here is the sledge what it is this is the blade and this small area is the seat. it means it's terribly unsteady so just imagine you have to keep your balance and simultaneously carry the puck you keep falling down then it takes a lot of time to get back up but now we're skilled at it. these their chart the players the really just so she hasn't been easy it's taken an immense amount of

hard work personal sacrifice and dedication but the payoff is that it's just on the ice was appalled after this experience i believe that people who have survived a car crash or a plane crash will look at us and realize that even with an injury like that you can live on it you can set your own goals and achieve them. you see captain of our team to the region russia. the italian senate voted to expel former prime minister silvio berlusconi from the parliament over his conviction for tax fraud that larger than life billionaires lead the country for most of the past two decades and his ego has been off as the latest from rome. it was quite an emotional vote at the senate and the comments that we've been getting from mr berlusconi and his supporters are frankly just as emotional they've deemed his political rivals as the firing squad they've been saying that this is a day of mourning for italian democracy end of this was a political assassination but mr berlusconi himself is saying that he's not

planning to back down he's not planning to go underground and wants to stay with his supporters now his rivals on the other hand are celebrating comparing the former prime minister with al capone to the. the chicago gangster who for years managed to avoid prosecution but then was finally jailed for tax evasion and they're also reminding that since mr berlusconi was convicted of tax fraud under italian law he's banned from politics for the next six years now all of this is happening amid some serious problems with the can i tell you an economy the current government hasn't really been very successful in dealing with them they've barely managed to push through the two thousand and fourteen budget which is in the focus of a lot of criticism the economy is going through the worst recession since the second world war youth unemployment is very high right now let's go live to brussels three to hear from political analyst pilar a phone he's founder the sippy foundation think tank hi paul evening to you i'm only a couple of days ago prime minister enrico letta said he was working tirelessly to

bring a known chaotic situation to italy i guess that with this news tonight they'll be some quiet relief in the camp and they want to step closer depending on how you look at it no. well you know i. groaned a person in the parliament but it's not the end of the political life. certainly but the consequences are what. they. were the law. only three most probably friendly nation of. about these parties including mr berlusconi's party which is already so. but also we have to see what their hands on the other. parties are a little movement i do not see much of the stability of government but a very very difficult. situation for the government which has passed

by a few votes actually or we've heard people in the budget low which was imposed by a confidence vote so this is a spy for what may happen very soon if you haven't if you do with it if you turn on the television in italy there's a story about berlusconi every night isn't there it's always had lightning i mean yes he's a very charismatic character yes until recently he had big popularity but could you really say with a pragmatic hats on that the guy has been good for italy for the past five ten years really yes you don't say there's not been good for you to lead for the past years but certainly hears to be the cheerleader who has been. easily in the good order and everything has been turning around again and even now that he is ousted of a parliament. turns around his positions so it would be certain

that asking him of the parliament is east and there would be certain that this means the strength of the government towards the other big question tonight now parliament would be stripped of his diplomatic immunity of his a parliamentary immunity rather which opens him up for arrest charges what could face it now. well most probably for the procedures are followed a billion will. so he will have to do what is called within the lease or should services because of the siege it can't be completed in prison so his. conviction would be. changed into some kind of social service with an angel to interrupt for a social interest. but this is not problematic if this happens most probably berlusconi as he has no must do it in the past he can transform this is in

a sort of a winning position where he will show his good will of doing even a social service remaining a loss leader in the country although for whatever reason he looks as good as he does do you really think at his age now there will be some sort of comeback in what six years or not or is there the end of of a very long goodbye well certainly age is a fact that we can change he's approaching the eighty years and he is a man who who has been very much the solution to the last event but i could sense from his speech tonight in parliament so that he's not ready to just step aside and to be a grandfather at the social services and so i wouldn't see his legacy and in any case would remain in italian politics for

a long time. thanks for much for your thoughts tonight good to see you. well we'll bring you the details of a major counterterrorist radio moscow off the break on a lighter note it's not a trick of cameras this know what the red square but earlier all dominated by this . case. though it seems the voices have been. back after this break. with. technology innovation. developments from around russia. the future covered.

with economic downturns in the final. days. and the rest i think it will be every week. russian police say they've arrested fifty members of al-qaeda linked terrorist cell of moscow the suspects are reportedly called red handed with a cache of guns and explosives to the coaching of a reports. that comes after russian security forces detained and other member of

the same group at the beginning of november now the man who was allegedly involved in recruiting young women to join in the organization now all of those so a member's cells those people there are detained now are thought to be members self an extremist islam a very good musician and were involved in a number of for criminal activities to fund it now this arvid ization is described as a year magic's of terrorist cells which inspired some of the tactics and methods set out now that again is ation that was created back at the beginning of seventy's and egypt however a leader of the country's authorities banned it and back even twenty tanna russia also banned its activities professor dorman's international lecture on the terrorist problem i spoke to we told you the latest arrests in moscow highlight the global nature of the threat these kind of be extremist islamist

groups we're going to get from overseas that's for sure saudi arabia qatar you name it we have the same problem here once again when they say we're in the same boat i mean not only we believe in this russian countryside or in moscow or in sochi we're in the same boat this is my message but to my colleagues and friends in america in great britain and elsewhere. war games against imaginary enemies are vital of course to training any army in cyber warfare units are no exception so at all to dot com our website we look at nato as biggest ever defense exercise against mass coordinated hacking attacks and all this just a few kilometers partly from the russian border we're tracking it a whole song like two red faces that the world health organization after the mit student barassi blood in a report on a chevy infections in greece. a recent study suggests britain is drifting into a color coded society with the u.k.'s whites and ethnic minorities choosing to live

apart the results what's known as comfort zone so group geishas which should see it could lead to hatred of intolerance among communities it's even led to the country's long time figurehead on racial equality to say that britain is a bit in denial on the issue for far too long so of first experience but. all that warning that person could be drifting towards becoming a color coded society coming from the former head of the equalities and human rights commission trevor phillips now mr phillips is being leading some research with think tank demos and the university of london and what they've done is carried stated from between the two thousand and one census and the t. thousand and eleven census and what they found is during that time more than one hundred thousand people from ethnic minority groups had moved house of land but instead of moving to areas considered predominantly white preferred instead to move to so-called mixed areas where there are already established minority groups now

here in sheffield a local community has hit the headlines recent weeks the concerns raised over community tensions between the roma population and other ethnic groups in that community but what this research is saying is that this could be a pattern that we see played out across the u.k. the segregation really needs to be trashed and acknowledged because of course it does have very serious implications for community relations across the. system a to drown six hundred thousand white britons left london in the last decade in fact asserted in other parts of the country that really white politics professor a coach from from the university of london believes the driven by the need to stay in the majority. one of the negative consequences is that you are getting white british people avoiding very diverse areas so it's not because they dislike anyone group but they just want to be in a comfortable bitch already so you can get a situation where like in parts of east london new him or in parts of south london

. each census there are fewer and fewer white british there and it is possible that there will be areas that have very few to no not know but very few white british people living there we see the same trend in the united states there are sections of the diverse cities like houston and los angeles where you are there are very few white people living there and that could be a concern for integration so it's just that inability to attract or retain white british population in some of these areas that are maybe not so close to central london but are not far enough away to be sort of leafy and green so it's that felt where you might get this effect. in brief a part of the stadium is due to host the opi much the twenty four the football world cup in brazil collapses kill three people the accident happened when a crane plunged onto a huge metal structure of the brazil's be a real race against time to try to complete the world cup a release before the deadline set by three for next month. the instructions of

bangkok about the fourth day forcing the evacuation of thailand's top crime fighting agency protests is demanding that the government step down a list surrounding state buildings cutting off electricity and water supplies the government's pledge not to use force against the crowds but wants to rest a key protest leader the rallies were sparked by an amnesty bill that could see exiled former premier tax insurer what return to thailand he fled in two thousand and eight and the corruption charges. china says it monitored the flights of those two unarmed american b. fifty two bombers that flew over disputed islands in the east china sea on tuesday in defiance of a newly declared air defense raging announced the space boundaries on saturday and did threaten action against any aircraft in the area that failed to identify itself the instance being seen as a symbolic challenge from washington and part of president obama's asia pivot policy of containing china's growing close. victory parades to mass executions over the centuries moscow's red square is seen plenty of history

changing events but now a suitcase the size of an apartment block him right right in front of some basil's cathedral is a step too far for many people even if it was partly for charity is artie's margaret house went to find out why the stunned stunned so many. i'm standing right here in the middle of red square what do you expect to find here the kremlin of course lenin's mausoleum something you may not have expected to find there is this massive live aton trunk standing thirty feet high it right in the center of red square now this trunk originally sparked a lot of controversy and outrage first on social media sites people taking to twitter expressing that this is sacred ground and shouldn't be used for commercial space also members of the duma here specific members began to speak out saying that the trunk was in appropriately placed and didn't necessarily belong here in red square now it has been decided as of today that the trunk will come down it is currently being dismantled now there were two possibilities for where this trunk

would end up the first would be gorky park also the old exhibition center now we have heard that it possibly that they have confirmed that they would indeed accept the project it was supposed to have benefited the naked hearts charity foundation it's a charity here in russia that belongs to a very famous russian supermodel and she originally designed this project to benefit playgrounds to construct playgrounds in the area of moscow as something ironic or incidental there is a be held on the trunk this famously of a small logo some have speculated that maybe unintentionally this is emblematic symbol could also represent a lot of near lenin now if that was an unintended consequence placing these large letters on the outside of this trunk you know either way it is coming down and leave a ton it will be moved to a different place. so the mystery deepens well meantime the sukkot seems to develop

a persona of its own two on twitter has been posting messages against his own removal all really if you go this way we can see some of the broad ok it's saying here and it's not just an object and it threatens to put itself to the ground if you saw the. music of the day that's a performance artist who did this private nailed with private parts to red square probably best you can say that it also claims to be symbolic i'm part of people's history and of course if you were to go and see yourself it's still there at the moment anyway if you come in the moscow next couple days you might still catch it's called lot of public amazement before it's finally removed thanks for being with us tonight no talking to be on the case and i'm always abreast of what's happening around the world people of all he said next with crosstalk right after this break. do you think humanity as a whole would ban the sale from leaving some parts of the wall g.m.o.

free just to play on the safe side through biotechnology through research through genetic modification we can give those small holder farmers the opportunity to be able to deal with and survive all of those challenges and i believe they should have all of the tools. deliberate torch is on it's a big journey to such. one hundred twenty three days. through to some member town two cities of russia. really fourteen thousand people or sixty thousand killing. in a record setting trip by land air sea and others face.

a limp dick torch relay. on r t r two dot com. hello and welcome to crossfire where all things are considered on peter lavelle ideal has been struck well it will be some kind of deal there can be no doubt this first step agreement between iran and the great powers is of historic significance it could become the foundation for far reaching geopolitical shift in the region but have no illusions the naysayers are intent on scuttling the deal and the use of force we're told remains on the table.

to cross talk the un nucular you know i'm joined by my guess we should whites in washington he's a senior fellow and director of the center for political military analysis at the hudson institute also in washington we have daniel mcadams he's the executive director of the ron paul institute and in bangkok we cross to pepe escobar he's an investigative journalist and author i generally cross talk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i very much encourage it pepe if i go to you first in bangkok what do you make of the deal is that historic deal and will go anywhere of course it's historic i'm sure all reviewers remember real manly goal to around the neo cons ten years ago before during and after the invasion of iraq bunch of losers real men do deals with their round so this is the number one i would say the only one so far victory for the obama administration it could be the beginning of obama's nixon in china movement but.