good morning. welcome to the. anti-government protests in the ukrainian capital of keeping the situation with the main. building. of the authorities are not budging the country's prime minister has accused the opposition of trying to stage a coup not just peaceful protests. following developments in kiev joins us live here on the program expectations for the protesters today. well at this point we have had several hundred people actually staying overnight at the independence square in the center of kiev and i've just seen a quite a large for session coming from one end of the square that's behind me all the way to the opposite so we are being told that there are several hundred people that's what it looks like who are heading towards the country's parliament the rada and

they're intending to protest there and of course the garden is saying that there are they in turn have heard rumors that there could be a possible temps to as italy take over as the protesters have been taking over the government buildings and in fact that is the goal. control of all the government buildings and all the government offices in the. in the country's capital we haven't seen any police so at this point it does look like the protests have more of a peaceful nature than they have had over the weekend when there were violent clashes between the protesters and the police what is important to keep in mind however is that until now the focus has been largely on the country's capital key whereas in fact the country as of now seems to be rather divided depending on the region various regions of course in ukraine kerry different allegiances and this is what this report is about. the european union flags burning trash bins get it

teenagers and the world revolution passed around like a football this is kiev but what about other parts of ukraine where people have a different opinion about what's good for the country and what isn't. how many revolutions did we have in ukraine seven and more could bring us. they gathered old people and students and used them so unpleasant i don't even want to talk about it . right now the opposition is trying to sell the drive for e.u. integration as the choice of all but recent polls show that there's an equal split between the pro european west of the country and the east and south which are historically much more pro russian if people want to live like they do in europe they must work like they do in europe they should not be just school and work for the sake of being out on the street. to be in the e.u. we must meet certain criteria and that the moment we are simply not up to parts of

the european standards in the way we produce things. the split is so palpable some of the service suggests it could lead to no actual breakup of the state. we still haven't heard from the southeast of the country when they showed any political activity it always sided with the position of the government if the opposition gets the upper hand then we will see retaliation in this part of the country much harsher than anything we have seen until now. but so far do you claim your leadership has shown no sign of giving in quite the opposite the president the parliament and the cabinet remain firmly in place so perhaps the forecasts of an impending doom could be premature it in the gun party. and as a rino was mentioning the demands of the demonstrators in kiev are not exactly shared by people in the east of the country in fact are thousands of taken to the streets there to voice support for the author origins and the decision to suspend

the trade deal with the e.u. recent polls now showing the country is sharply divided on the issue more than seventy percent of those living in the west of ukraine favor the deal with the european union though while those with the same pro e.u. moods are actually shared by less than thirty percent in the east are let's get some more details on this now and speak to political analyst dmitri babich are joining us live on the program good morning to you sir so far we've only seen moderate pro-government rallies in the east do you do you still forecast them increasing do you think to try and match the protests in the capital. well historically the majority of ukrainians is pro russian and usually the broader russian candidates or at least the canadians who said they were barraged won the elections in ukraine the only exception was the so-called orange revolution in two thousand five hundred viktor yuschenko brought western kind of warning. after

a very. do you be a section in the center of kiev when pro-west and demonstrate this in fact walked to the government buildings and took control of the electro commission so i think that the people in the east and in the south of ukraine where almost all the ukrainian brought that suffered used where a most of the ukrainian industry is located but they're going to make their opinion known at the lections they sometimes go to readiness part nor too often it doesn't mean that there is piñon should not be of value and unfortunately the pro western radio hosts are much more active if they travel to kiev at every occasion that being bussed in there they have some financial support from some shady circles so indeed i think that there will be more action from that broad western part of the

country and but it shouldn't deceive us the majority of ukrainians want to retain good relations with russia and the problem is that no one has read almost no one has read in ukraine the so-called agreement with the u. because it is more than von thousand pages long and it is north accessible even on the internet a thousand pages long that will take a long time for the average person to weed through that dimitri there are some senior politicians keeping an extra impetus to the protests by addressing the crowds in independence square i know it's very noisy where you are right now but let's have a quick listen to these european politicians. use this to tell you who are part of europe and we will support you were never. this way to the european union it needs you and you need the european union and if you need it you will be with you over several years to do it dmitri what what what's your

take on this i mean some are saying this is directed into for. ference in the country's internal affairs. there is no doubt that this is a direct interference you know when the form of polish prime minister yet a soft. comes and speaks at the independence square i think this is direct you to fear in saying to the internal affairs of your screen imagine a russian official coming to kiev and doing the same that will be a scandal i'm sure there will be a lot of statements from bras so sunday one from washington so we have a clear double standard there you know that european union and the united states that are very sensitive about ukrainian independence and shoulder and when they need to protect it from russia they are doing to respect ukrainian independence and sovereignty and. how when there is some e.u. or american influence but the me back for you to me can you tell can you talk about

the so over and t. of ukraine there are some analysts that are already you saying it's not about having an e.u. trade deal it's about western powers getting a foothold in ukraine what do you think about that. oh well indeed. they say greenland although it has von thousand pages long it doesn't give. you crane any guarantees it doesn't leave the visa system with ukraine he doesn't give a near economic benefits to the brain in terms of law and sense financial support so indeed what we have here is just the european union who wants to or green with its own goods who wants to do is thanks to this free trade zone the european union doesn't care much about ukraine and saw her into the political or the economics over into ukraine suggested the middle ground you know that president bush suggested that trial

a true meeting russia ukraine and the you to find out the best form. for this program you rejected it yesterday. of the european commission the head of the european commission mr barroso said that this is going to be only between us and your great political analyst live in moscow thanks for joining us today and thank you for braving a very chilly morning here in the russian capital thanks. well russia's president vladimir putin he says the current unrest in ukraine is far from spontaneous adding that it's no longer about the country's failed deal with the e.u. but rather an attempt at a power grab. what's going on in kiev has little to do with ukraine's relations with the e.u. it doesn't look like a revolution but a well planned action we can see well prepared and organize militant groups your position is either not always in control of what's going on or it's a political shroud for extremist actions. where both the government and the

opposition agree the violent riots were deliberately instigated but they differ on who's been behind them a prominent foreign affairs analyst. who says the authorities had nothing to gain from such tactics. we need the question. who gains and it is obvious that the government has nothing to gain by escalating violence the government is actually hoping that it will gradually die down the only people who have a vested interest in provoking violence are the protesters themselves or to put it more precisely those who are behind the organized aspect of the protests because it would work wonders both in the western media and in the end tell you in a cove each segment of the ukrainian population who have the martyrs of the

so-called peaceful protests who are being suddenly be savaged by the police no that scenario simply does not sound convincing in my opinion the violence of the spring instigated ease perhaps by the fringe elements of the protesters but certainly not by the government because they have nothing to gain i would of course be bringing you more updates from ukraine and expert opinion on the situation all throughout the day here on r.t. international plus you can always keep an eye on developments by logging on to watch dot com it's where you'll also find the most striking videos and photos from the ongoing protests. thank you for joining us in the united kingdom the editor of the guardian newspaper is due to appear before the house of commons over publishing edward snowden's revelations on global surveillance the country's security services claim public

access to the documents has eroded national security but investigative journalist tony gosling he told us it's the secret service is it themselves they should be the ones facing a grilling. what they're doing is they're informing the public on criminal activity by our own intelligence services g c h q particularly because other newspapers and people haven't been doing it over the last few years this is absolute rubbish i'm afraid when in front of the intelligence and security committee the bosses of m i five m i six and q were giving their evidence we hard we were asking them for evidence that there's been any kind of threat to national security and you know what they said oh we can tell you in secret this is no real evidence they don't have any evidence they've been caught out acting criminally and we've got no proper oversight whatsoever of our intelligence services right now our intelligence services even though they completely failed us on iraq and in other ways have risen

in power their their budgets after the cold war doubling and it's absolutely ridiculous to see the. parliamentarian starting to interview the messenger shooting the messenger is what they're trying to do today and they're not going to succeed here in r.t. international let's take a moment now to walk through the story of the guardian made its first public revelations based on snowden's materials at the beginning of the summer soon after that in july the police knocked on the door demanding that all the leak data be handed over and what would become a common occurrence followed the paper was warned of a legal action against it then in august david miranda a partner to one of the guardian's columnists was arrested accused of trying to bring in fresh material on the n.s.a. and g c h q in a symbolic move the newspaper destroyed the computer hard drives which contained some of the secret data so here we are now waiting for the editor of the guardian to go before the members of parliament well still to come for you up here on r.t.

international today. well david cameron this is its base tweets in mandarin in promotes close it's trade links between the u.k. and china. many of the british chinese working in these shops and restaurants say that the immigration crackdown in london is chinatown isn't making them feel very welcome. a villain on stage but. off stage the court will deliver its verdict on the leading soloist of the bolshoi theater in a case that's raised the curtain on the backstage rivalry jealousy and the threat said one of the world's most famous.

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good to have you with us here on r.t. international going soft on human rights in tibet and tweeting in mandarin just some of david cameron's latest moves to win the good graces of the chinese in fact the british prime minister has been stressing at every turn that china is important and that it's a rise is an opportunity and not a threat he's currently in beijing on the largest ever trade mission to the country to bolster business links however back home in the u.k. chinese residents say they don't feel as welcome london's chinatown is frequently raided by the u.k. border agency forces and i went to visit the area. according to the local association here in london's chinatown immigration officials would visit the eat series here once or twice a week but it wasn't for the food or even that is just one of the restaurants raided by the u.k. border agency if you imagine where you session are. enjoying you know your meal

with your friends your family some uniformed people. we don't know so we know what's going on and on the one hand the staff will have to deal with a customer and they don't know what's happening in the near that they are being questioned by these scholars who may not have a tent for them so in the u.k. border agency insists that any immigration checks that carries out looking for illegal workers are always intelligence led but businesses up and down the street say that legal procedure is one followed juror in the raids in fact some of them didn't result in any arrests whatsoever but the frequency and the reported heavy handedness of the immigration officials led to unprecedented action all of the businesses here shut down in protest against what they said was discrimination from the u.k. border agent same concerns to the genuine frustration and the level of the

threat of anger. in the level of. discontent the lord. was reflected in the number of people who decided to try to close the place this to support the direction since the protest hits took place community leaders have met with the u.k. border agency to discuss the way in which the raids were handled while david cameron visits beijing tweets in mandarin and promotes closer trade links between the u.k. and china many of the british chinese working in these shops and restaurants many of whom of work to for generations say that the immigration clamp down in london's chinatown isn't making them feel very welcome. azzi london. forty minutes past the hour. the drummer of the acid attack on the artistic director of moscow's world famous bolshoi ballet is now reaching its conclusion.

joining us live with more details on the program good morning to you medina so what started off on the stage is now ending up finally in court. well last year the bolshoi theater reopened three spectacular refurbishment but some of the shine has been taking on the theater by the scandal we should be of this generate now judy is the on show month long trial and the fate of the alleged mastermind will be decided meanwhile of the future use trying hard to get the spotlight pointing back and what's happening on the stage rather than off it and now bill looking back at those opposite and the russian ballet is history at last have a look. the final act in a case as dark as anything to grace the famous stage an acid attack that exposed to the world that russia stop theater in reality as a battle of filled where the struggle for glory when the curtains for the all songs

and the theaters artistic director sid give fillin that almost made him blind shocked the world leaving the question who was the mastermind behind it so good filling was returning home after an evening at the theater world gala to this apartment building a man concealing his identity with a scarf called out for liz newman right after that threw some liquid in his face saying it was a greeting for him and their leader a court appearance for lin described the pain as unbearable and terrifying he was left suffering in agony and the snow right outside this building it was late at night and it took him some time to get help and more than twenty operations before he showed his face in public again from the start of our show officials. investigators believe the assault had come from inside the bali community two months later the arrest of leading soloist by the meat the chain coke often in his

career the onstage villain playing average thing from von rothbart and swan lake to evolve the terrible he was accused of planning the attack and other two men of the alleged a getaway driver and the alleged attacker himself were detained shortly after en corridor you can change i admit it he didn't want to rough up felon but sad he did not intend for acid to be thrown into his face i organized the state of crime but not on the scale that it turned out those. injuries vanity rumors and sooner ations even violence the dark underbelly of the bolshoi placed and the spotlight whatever the verdict here it will take a while to restore the lost or this famous and situation i do not question the arts he moscow afghanistan's accuse the united states of forcing itself into an unfair contract with nato force in kabul that is by cutting off fuel supplies to the

country's security forces president cause i recently rejected washington's deal to let the alliance's troops stay off the twenty four tane now says pressure is being applied to drag him back in there's a coffin off now reports on why kabul refused to sign the deal in the first place. in the war getting out as often harder than going in and nowhere does that hold more true than in afghanistan president obama promised to withdraw combat forces by the end of twenty fourteen. the responsibility for their security in this war will come to a responsible. but the two countries have been at all odds over a deal that would keep some u.s. troops past that deadline washington wants the pact signed before the end of the year it's imperative that we conclude the bilateral security agreement as soon as possible but afghan president hamid karzai says not until the u.s.

cleans up its act so the issue of. sovereignty and detentions and the continued presence of international forces and afghan of villages and the very conduct of the war itself. the simmering tensions have erupted into a war of words on sunday karzai accuse the u.s. of deliberately withholding fuel supplies to pressure him into signing the deal the nato led force in afghanistan says that's simply not true and it's not the only spat a u.s. drone strike last week killed a toddler and injured two women the top u.s. commander formally apologized but karzai wants a different apology one from president obama himself for harm done to afghan civilians during the war the u.s. response don't hold your breath there is not a need for the united states to apologize to afghanistan quite the contrary we have sacrificed and supported them in their democratic progress and in tackling the

insurgency and al qaeda but the insurgency isn't over and in parts of afghanistan residents are caught between hatred of international forces and fear of the taliban this man says he lost two sons in an errant nato attack that my children feel fear when they see a helicopter and run away to the rooms there is a lot of fear but once the sun goes down another threat emerges be the one that any one night the taliban run their area the district government is just there in name but there is no real security either and afghan forces are still heavily dependent on the west. of the us troops stop helping us as there are a lot of threats against us in the region will be facing big problems. although afghan tribal leaders indorse the pact karzai says he won't sign until after the spring elections and that's only if washington meets his demands among them ending

u.s. troop raids on afghan homes and agreeing to peace talks with the taliban if the deal is torpedoed that could mean no more u.s. soldiers but it could also jeopardize billions of dollars in aid leading some to accuse karzai of putting the country's security at risk in order to score. lucy catherine of r t moscow by backing off an hour's time with more of the world's top hourly headlines for now though abby martin and breaking this is that. ukraine is in a tough spot right now trying to figure out whether to join the e.u.

or the arrangements custom union it would be nice if they would you know maybe allow the populace to vote for their future via referendum but sadly it looks like the politicians will be making the historic decision i can see why some people want to look west and some people want to look east but i don't understand why so-called ukrainian nationalists want so desperately to join the e.u. first off any nationalist groups in the e.u. are automatically demonised as right wing extremists and the politically correct west patriotism is pretty much a dirty word generally nationalist like their culture and the people who are part of it but if you look at migration trends within the e.u. we see that the slavic part of it is flooding western europe looking for work i have many relatives from the slavic part of the e.u. and almost all of them have to work abroad and might sound nice to be able to work in europe but the reality is that ukrainians will probably be paid even less than bulgarians rumanians to clean toilets in london ukrainian nationalists don't have to like russia or join the customs union or join any bloc of countries but advocating a future for themselves the e.u. seems absolutely backwards at least to me but that's just my opinion.

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and less than thirty minutes the new unmanned door to door service is called primary and according to amazon c.e.o. jeff bays those the future is now at a g.p.s. alone and this future will consist of thousands if not millions of flying robots darting to the skies to deliver goods now look i'm not knocking the technology it's obviously going to be an incredible convenience for customers and it is a greener alternative to giant delivery trucks however does anyone else find this just slightly creepy other than the minority report turn this technology could take how can these things be insured as safe and be prevented from crashing into each other let alone the people below and then there's the question of privacy if safeguards aren't legislated now before the attack of the drones and we may never get them because once surveillance from above is as commonplace as pizza delivery no one is going to get government surveillance drones a second thought.