the end of. the day before the e.u. summit to woo its eastern european partners public fear in ukraine refuses to die down as the government has a tate's in signing up to trade deals also. the people with disabilities but those people with unlimited ability with a hundred days to go before the paralympians take over the sochi winter games are to meet a man of managed to turn his life around on the ice rink. also a lot of the small italian senators expel former promise to silvio berlusconi from parliament for tax fraud and a vote that the political public political veteran condemns calling it a day for mourning for democracy and a crackdown on terror in the russian capital where police say they've arrested a group of heavily armed islamic extremists.

just after midnight here in moscow this is out international for good morning schieffer just joined us my name is kevin now in our top story there's an eastern european economic get together starting thursday but there's some one country indeed in the wings having trouble making up its mind about it ukraine is seeing 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 the approaches for the general public to abstain from any kind of provocations because they had a information that some provocative groups were preparing some royals and even in a possible attempt to take over the government building that's why you can see

there's heavy police presence right police are all over the place i when i walked here took to the government building i saw literally hundreds of riot police all over the place they're securing every governmental building the parliament of the government building and the administration of president building and judging by the fact that these people have ten camps across the city they're not willing to go anywhere until friday until the summit in vilnius still clinging to this last hope of signing association 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 key if. 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 economic the fear is that with the free trade agreement already placed with key of

the russian market could be flooded with european goods and that could destroy the entire 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. but in the thick of the ongoing public unrest and have from day one follow on to instagram for images from the very heart of those demonstrations. cranes dire economic conditions are being cited as the main. the reason lawmakers backed away from the deal are billing 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 organization 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 were problems if you know what sean'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. it seems year or may have dodged something of a financial bullet following ukraine's decision not to push for those closer ties. well spoke twenty people nuttall from the u.k. independence party 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 your up how does. the european union wants create ukraine to eventually join if they were albanians to join they won't say happy it's a joint i mean they even want to take you to join you know ninety five percent of say 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 opened up 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 cold western 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. it's just over ten weeks to go until the sochi winter olympic games and they come to the paralympics has just reached the one hundred day mark has to say with the latest on those ongoing preparations. certainly a hundred days before the paralympics kick off. 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 iran so it's a point and ready for the start of. the president toured around the infrastructure

facilities and was quite impressed even giving the thumbs up and saying that everyone who's coming to the situ be able to enjoy she enjoyed the city as well as the balance so will start to on the seventh of march until the sixteenth. that's almost nine days are all balled limping as well as sportsmanship now russia has been taking really important step in making. the disabled kids for last year they actually read to. people with disabilities and then in the same way yeah they went on to introduce a program that made accessibility environmentally easy for the disabled so indeed those infrastructures have been seen they've been in place a. transport system with the stadiums the restaurants at the hotels all

ready to welcome those with a disability 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. seven disciplines of five sports and a newly introduced will also called the parents snowboarding which has had everybody excited here in sochi and to my colleague catherine often met up with of the russian paralympics the hockey team to find out how they're preparing for that gold. talking as it should be intense fierce determined and fast. like you. 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. and tireless commitment which is. we're here

training all the time morning to night every day 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 of them but after the injury i turned to realize my potential. he went from swimming to taking up a chance to join russia's brand new sledge hockey squad. because. no one is going to bring you things on a silver platter you've got here we had an opportunity to work for you since two thousand and nine when we were told we were going to participate in the second paralympics it's been a driving force in a country that's struggled to accommodate people's disabilities russia's paralympic coach says the team is helping to change perceptions in the demo so we're putting

on the second huge new world 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 paralympics 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 remembers before. we were just staring at one another not really knowing what to do first. let me show you. here is the sledge. this is the blade and this small area is the seat. it means it's terribly unsteady to just imagine you have to keep your balance and simultaneously carry the puck you keep falling down and it takes a lot of time to get back up but now we're skilled at it. and these large hockey players they're really just so she doesn't believe it's taken an immense amount of hard work personal sacrifice and dedication but the payoff isn't just on the ice

the crucible superballs 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 you can set your own goals and achieve them. you see caffein of our team to the region russia. the italian senators voted to expel former prime minister silvio berlusconi from parliament over his conviction for tax fraud a larger than life billionaire who led the country for much of the past two decades has now been stripped and to have political immunity and could be arrested on criminal charges he can offer us the details from rome. 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 as they've deemed his political rivals as the firing squad they've been saying that this is a day of mourning for italian democracy and that 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 you know his rivals on the other hand are celebrating comparing the former prime minister with 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 italian 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 loss of criticism the economy is going through the worst recession since the second world war youth unemployment is very high right now. political analyst pilar a phone founder of a sippy foundation think tank told me the government is using the berlusconi scandal though to divert attention from the country's problems and the dramatic

economic situation which need to be needs not only because of the difficulties of the current government but also because of the european are. extremely illogical in street measures unemployment's of the future for pensions and the share that he did he started sending parts of its assets i mean this is something that makes people very nervous and worried for the future thirdly the events concerning them strongly have been galvanizing the italian media and the onion people's attention and so the boost from the issue has been used also to cover up these kinds of problems which are worrying you lucia. just ahead we'll bring you details of a major counterterrorist right here in moscow after the break and on a lighter note as well face not

a trick of the cameras that you see here it really is red square really dominated by this super sized suitcase really muscovites not amused seems that voices have been. very sad. when the crisis leaves us traces everywhere. empty close rooms become the norm. children pay for the mistakes of adults. by working in a tobacco field or in a café. they are the ones who come back home the last. games are just in their memories. do you think humanity as a whole would benefit from living some parts of the wall g.m.o.

free just to play on the safe side through biotechnology 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 i believe they should have all of the tools. russian police say they've arrested fifty members of an al qaeda linked terrorist cell here in moscow the suspects were reportedly caught red handed with a cache of guns and explosives to the coaching of a report. 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 the organization now all of those so members cells those people that 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 r.v. is ation is described as a you magics of terrorist cells which inspired some of the tactics and methods. now that are going to say chanel was created back at the beginning of seventy's and egypt however a leader of the country's authorities banned it and back in twenty ten russia also banned its activities did a coaching over the defense on this of another joins us now live from washington to give us some of his thoughts about what's happened to excuse me terrorist attacks over the course of moscow before now it seems that this one has been thwarted a potential one i guess it looks like the security forces are currently keeping pace with the threat but what's the scale of what they're up against here.

well of course this is always hard to say like al qaeda this group seems to have the main group or seems to withered a little bit in egypt but it's branches all over the world still use its name and but they probably are very decentralized in their in their approach so of course each situation is different but i think you know we focus on the islamic part and that's certainly a part of it but there are also regional and. issues in specific countries that that are probably driving the terrorism as well as the religion the arab world has been flooded with extremist forces in recent years is to what extent are they linked to radicals here in russia or is there a connection is it a big will small world. well i think you know this is just like al qaeda al qaeda has been become more decentralized and it has these

franchises around it's unclear how how as with this group how much the center and the and the regional affiliates interact and also. it's a large you know it's probably very autonomous in how they plan their attacks and that sort of thing so this is become decentralized this group just as al qaeda has and so that's why you can't put too much. emphasis on a central diabolical person anymore you know orchestrating these attacks from afar i think it's probably done more locally nowadays with these groups the getting the funding to get weapons frome. well of course there are many countries that. fund these sorts of things sorry arabia fund some of the groups i'm not sure if it's funding this one but this group as you pointed out has gyptian roots of course there's not

a whole lot of money in egypt for that sort of thing nowadays but but certainly they can get their money from islamic organizations and rich islamic countries who want to you know foment islamic revolution in various places so it's it's kind of hard to sell also this group in particular gets a lot of a lot of money from criminal activities and that's really how most terrorists you know fund their activities not for anything else but just from kidnappings and other criminal activities and i think that's what led to the apprehension of these these people in russia was the fact they were doing doing criminal activities. and the criminal investigation uncovered this larger terrorist operation all right to know that in washington the thanks for your thoughts defense and just as you appreciated. a recent study suggests britain is

drifting into a color coded society with the ukase whites nothing when ortiz choosing to live upon the results what known as comfort zone segregation which is feared could lead to hatred and intolerance among communities the country's long time figurehead of racial equality to say that britain this is being in denial of the issue for too long reports. well that warnings that 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 has been leading some research with think tank demos and the university of london and what they've done is stated from between the two thousand and one census and the two thousand and eleven census and what they found is during that time more than one hundred thousand people from ethnic minority groups had moved out of london but instead of moving to areas considered predominantly white have 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 over recent weeks the concerns raised over community tensions between the 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 the. first in fact to the road six hundred thousand britons left london in the last decade to certainly the parts of the country that are predominantly white politics professor kofman from the university of london believes the drift where the need to stay in the majority. one of the negative consequences is that you are getting whites 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 newsroom 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 no 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 in that gratian 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 where you might get this the fact. it's been a big day for big coin the cryptocurrency said the one thousand dollars for the first time of course this isn't cash as most people know it is a quick reminder how it works if you need a refresher traditional money of course has

a value linked to real goods and services and is regulated by governments of value because in those entirely a matter of supply and demand there are no banks involved just encrypted strings of letters and numbers that can be traded freely on the internet while at the beginning of the month one bitcoin traded just over two hundred dollars then by mid november it had gone up to four hundred dollars now but if you right now as i just mentioned is broken through the one thousand dollars threshold you'd have ready to well if you got in early here economist mark forms and believes the new virtual currency is starting to win over the doubters. i think it's a matter of just just a matter of time at this point to go over and what we've seen in recently is that there's a lot more acceptance of bitcoin by both merchants and by governments the governments have recognized bitcoin they're willing to accept it they realize that it's the type of currency going forward in the world where it's more secure it's more

private it's more efficient and it holds its value better as well i think you're going to see much higher prices for bit coin i don't forecast market prices well i think that over time you're going to see bitcoin rising in value because fiat currencies are continuing to depreciate around the world we're in a world currency war and that's good things for investors in bitcoin. next for victory parades to mass executions over the centuries moscow's red square seen plenty of history changing events but now a suitcase the size of an apartment block no less right in front of some basil's cathedral is a step too far for many people even it is that partly for charity it is margaret howell and to find out why the stunt has 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 climb there is this massive leave a ton trunk standing thirty feet high it right in the center of red square no 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 are specific members began to speak out saying that the trunk was an appropriately place and didn't necessarily belong here in red square no 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 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 is something

ironic or incidental there is a v.l. featured on the trunk this famously of a tall 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. and i guess we'll never know well meantime it seems said cases developed a bit of a persona of its own it's been posting on twitter no less of a very clever case if you want to show the two of us where you can see who's been saying here if we go this way we'll take a look it says it's not just an object to threatens to pin itself to. the ground just like that performance artist though if you saw that city put your feet if you did recently nailed his private parts to red square anyway it's also claims to be a symbolic piece of architecture here and

a part of people's history well if you can don't miss a chance to check it out yourself if you're planning a visit to moscow go to red square it was a good place to see in my courses in it thanks play with this next it's going underground if you're watching it in the u.k. vingt if you are and for those watching the international run the rest of the world got investigation into child labor in the e.u. it's a disturbing report coming up. i hate to be a downer but i really think the olympics have lost all meaning in the past when there was the cold war it was like a battle between two ideologies taking place in the abstract and the one nine hundred thirty six olympics nazi pseudo science their self-proclaimed superiority was put on trial for the whole world to see and spent the olympics having the majority of the countries on earth participating they're now horribly horribly bland one could argue that they have become

a great way for countries to show off their ex used to build up some infrastructure by i think this is a big misconception let's look back to the two thousand a lympics in beijing yes china has really developed in the last twenty years but the olympics really teach us anything about this country with a radically different political system or anything about their ancient culture or the way they think or the way they live no nothing at all all we saw were some flags and some pandas that rather unique stadium which was mostly the work of a swiss company yeah i hate to say it but i think the olympic flame is kind of burnt out over the years although i have to admit that saying the torch in the space was kind of neat i think that when and if the world ever becomes an ideological battle ground again then the olympics will become worth watching but for now it's just generic sports from generic countries a generic stadiums but that's just my opinion.

i have to get up at seven in the morning school i go to school go easy do my homework. my work and finish it eight o'clock and then i do the same thing the next day. as time goes by and we see the crisis getting worse those who have a job have to hang on to it. because it's not easy to find another on and off. i don't think it's mobile that people my age of the responsibility of things like this. if i'm going to. like school. i'm not going to do well at school because i'm on

a tight. here in the countryside dreams do not come true very easily so i don't get my hopes up. southern belgariad endless green fields people in traditional dress. the region of the day as a natural paradise where time seems to have stood still. people have always worked in the fields. as a family a mother a grandmother and two children. it's midday the sun is scorching more than thirty degrees. apart and it's getting her a little one. and his sister ellie nine to school today.