ukrainian opposition leaders call them first asked us to storm government buildings as they would build barricades after an overnight attempt by police to remove the roadblocks paralyzing the capital center. the west stands with the protesters as top diplomats landed police move as a crowd down a high level u.s. representative is seen at the protest camps handing out food. also this hour moscow calls on iran and the world powers especially those who adopted unilateral sanctions against tehran to play by the rules to make a landmark nuclear deal was as a russian delegation arrives in the islamic state. alloca also calls on teena stores are ransacked and water breaks down leaving eleven

people dead as striking police refused to return to work until that pay demands are met. this is also international coming to you live from moscow hello and welcome to the program rise police have moved back from the central square in the ukrainian capital after an hour's long standoff with antigovernment protesters during the night a special forces try to remove barricades blocking traffic that the opposition says it was a violent crime down that failed. isnt it. those are certainly more protesters in independence square behind me right now than there was than there was at this time yesterday follows calls from the opposition for people to come down and support the movement after last night's police operation meanwhile

the opposition have responded to events overnight vitaly klitschko the world heavyweight boxing champion one of the high profile opposition leaders of course has a tweet age we can't make a compromise with and dictate as we should get rid of them the number one issue is the resignation of president yana kovac and his putrid administration now u.s. assistant secretary of state victoria nuland is in kiev at the moment she's just concluded a meeting with president taking on a covert she's trying to find and help find a diplomatic solution to the problem she says that the western world is watching ukraine at the moment she says there is still hope of a democratic and diplomatic solution to this problem and there is still hope of a european future for k.f. but before i mating she was saying mingling with the crowd she was walking around with the protesters behind me and handing out bread and i will say warm drinks to devise the protesters and to the police at around one thirty in the morning the

police began their operation to remove just mantle the barricades that had been built up around this part of kiev effectively strangling the city over the last couple of weeks and they started to push protesters back. a little both sides did show restraint some clashes did break out and this morning police tried to retake the city hall the administrative building that's been used as a makeshift headquarters by the opposition for the last number of weeks but they were met by face was distance from the opposition from the protesters who posed the police down with water cannons and in temperatures of minus ten that's quite an effective resistance in the place ended up retreating not only from the city hall but also from independence square behind me well this is one of the blockades that was. removed by police on tuesday night and as you can say we've got the rather surreal situation of the fact that the protesters have simply rebuilt it and not only have they rebuilt it they've rebuilt it bigger and stronger than it was before

organizers are asking for more and more people to descend on made on square as you can see we're hearing reports that one university has canceled lectures and seminars to allow students to come down and protest and with the numbers in my down square beginning to swell in the barricades being built bigger and stronger than before the main question now is what's the response of the authorities going to be do they simply come in peacefully try and remove the barricades once more or do they change tactic. the west has already expressed outrage at the actions of the ukrainian authorities the u.k. foreign secretary describe them as an acceptable use top diplomat catherine ashton who's currently in kiev says it's making dialogue much more difficult while the u.s. secretary of state gave his opinion in an even stronger terms as if he's going to check out reports now from washington. it's not often that you hear the word discuss that from a diplomat it's usually reserved for some horrendous events while john kerry just

used it to describe the decision of the ukrainian leadership to dismantle protestors barricades in the center of kiev's and here's what he said the united states expresses its disgust with the decision of ukrainian authorities to meet the peaceful protest in queues my down square with riot police bulldozers and the tunnels rather than with respect for democratic rights and human dignity of course secretary kerry speaks so it sounds like he speaks from a position that the u.s. would never do anything like that but apparently completely forgot how two years ago riot police in the u.s. dismantled the arrested hundreds of occupy protesters across the country citing local anti camping laws already forgot how aggressively riot police dispersed the protesting clinton for example with regard to ukraine washington made no secret that it wanted this deal to happen of free trade agreement between ukraine and the e.u. could later fit into a much larger free trade agreement that is now being negotiated between the e.u.

and the us but of course in its statements the u.s. state department focuses on the right and asked for a sions of ukrainian protesters that support comes not just in words but also in actions the state department is deploying the assistant secretary of state dorian only to the streets of kiev to cheer up the protesters as well as told meetings with the opposition and government officials in order to push this deal forward and it seems the stakes are high for washington in ukraine at the moment the strong words from washington were echoed by the use foreign affairs chief who is in care of right now meeting with the opposition under storage fees but alexander mercury's a legal expert on blogger says nonstop visits by high profile foreign politicians is more a case of meddling in internal affairs than trying to find peace that. i cannot actually imagine such a thing i trying to imagine a situation where that say there was a riot in central london or

a big protest in central london and let's say somebody from a foreign country say russia came along and attempted to negotiate between the protestors and the government it seems most strange to me i have to say and i wonder whether it's a tool why is actually it seems to me that when outsiders involve themselves in the affairs of a country which they don't always understand very well let's remember mr ashton doesn't speak ukrainian she doesn't speak russian she's probably not very familiar with the political internal political situation in the ukraine one wonders what possible compromise was solution they can help to. raise prime minister says the protests separate venting keep payments from being made to keep society running point out how the government struggling to keep the economy afloat at all to.

have been friendly smiles and handshakes as top russian and iranian diplomats matter in tehran have shown they're seeing eye to eye i want to comes to political challenges in the middle east the ongoing civil standoff in series one of them. as a iran's capital. after an hour long meeting both russian and the red in ministers appeared in front of media smiling in a very good mood and clad crew with two old friends they've started to move whom the agreements reached earlier in geneva in the van were at the breakthrough tags every runs nuclear program run tehran agreed to either freeze or curb parts of the pope back when i was limited to leave from the international sanctions the country has been suffering from in the last decades and the message minister lab rafa ministers a roof sent here today in tehran where is that now it is important that the sides

keep their hands of the deal. is to go to. iran must hold up its side of the p five plus one countries must do the same specially those which fly past the un security council in leveling sanctions if iran puts those ministers have also discussed of course situation around syria that. i were a catastrophe or human tragedy in just a month's time. permits had back to switzerland to take part in the geneva to see where peace talks and today here in tehran mr library has sent this message again saying that first of suez crisis should be resolved peacefully and second iran has to be part of the solution and has to take part in the geneva two peace talks. solution i've heard reports that some international players think it would be more

effective to use force instead of dialogue but these reports were not confirmed i hope the initiative will be successful and any attempt to undermine it will be a blatant violation of the international will cemented in the u.n. security council resolution but if that happens i don't have all i was said and for size that it's up to syrian people to decide the country's future bet the international community has to help them and encourage them and support them. meanwhile the u.s. has confirmed it has suspended all non-lethal assistance to fighters battling government troops in syria's north the decision comes after radical islamists seized strongholds of the rebel free syrian army near the turkish border washington had committed to provide more than two hundred million dollars in a lethal aid i've reported earlier this year suggesting that rebels also receive american arms the us however fraying from direct involvement in the conflict in september after the syrian government agreed to destroy its toxic alsono but this

of his policy they are forced efforts to read the entire middle east of chemical weapons are being held up by israel and egypt refusal to toe the line. this could soon be a thing of the past israelis queuing for gas masks in the pipeline a recommendation to the cabinet to stop manufacturing them for civilians so is dismantling of its chemical weapons arsenal seems to have lifted the edge of israeli fears of a chemical strike where is a few months ago hughes was spilling into the streets today the paranoia has died down. it comes after syria destroyed all of its chemical weapons production facilities the country's on track to eliminate its entire stockpile by the middle of next year the chemical weapons are among the most or of weapons ever known to man and we the missions of the world had agreed to abandon that weaponry a long time ago only two countries in the middle east haven't come on board egypt

and israel television actually signed but not ratified the chemical weapons convention that outlaws the production stockpiling and use of chemical weapons the reason that one the resteal of some chemical weapons in the region and also does not want again form reasons of deterrence to our reveal. discover its capabilities tel aviv has always been vague on the topic of chemical weapons according to foreign media reports israel has a stockpile of various weapons but the israeli public's always shied away from asking too many questions the same reason all the time if it's security issue we don't have to deal with we have the differences stablished the nor the doing we don't have to do anything about it but with syria out of the picture israel's argument is weaker and the organization that controls chemical weapons is keeping

up the pressure we regular as i said to send letters to the non-state parties including israel and encourage the withdrawal without joining with conventional means the o.p.c. w. has no legal mandate to undertake verification activities to verify the compliance but as another chemical weapons arsenal in the middle east is dismantled with the power of diplomacy the israeli government is facing growing international pressure to come on board policy r t tel aviv. it's not only the oxford about swarming ah by the racecourse results is why out of his ministry over four this is towards the cold new front a day outside canada stakes its claim to a vast portion of the freezing north. and also later this hour closing the door to trade the e.u. could soon lose a big chunk of its attractiveness on to brussels wants to define how open borders can be for different businesses small after the break.

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round russia we've dumped those huge earth coverage. again this is all sea international welcome back. looting and violence have now left eleven people dead across argentina as police continue a nationwide strike for better pay authorities blame the ransacking on the agitators who they say are trying to disrupt the thirtieth anniversary of the country's return to democracy arcee is punished correspondent ignacio beer reports now from. looting is spreading across the country as people take advantage of

a police strike to smash their way into shops and still whatever they can they've been seen making up with all sorts of goods like mobile phones much recess and even beer some people are locking themselves in their homes and businesses and trying to keep out of the street others are arming themselves for there are security forces have been sent into some areas where violence has broken out and the government blames the situation on the looters he says they're trying to cause chaos before the thirtieth anniversary of argentina's return to democracy on tuesday this all started a week ago when police went on strike in the city of call over in the center of the country the violence broke out as mobs attacked stores and businesses the governor gave bin and doubled police pay to almost two thousand dollars per month to get them back to work strikes then spread and now security forces in almost eighty percent of argentina's regions of the job prices of retail goods are rising

rapidly by twenty five percent each year making it difficult for many people to make do on small salaries the situation could get farther out of control if strikes spread from police to nurses or other groups employed by the government. and now back to our top story the current political stalemate in ukraine let's get more novices with political analyst dimitri garbage metry welcome to our see says right a lot of activity we're seeing from from the. u.s. diplomats do you say that their trips and meetings will actually lead to dialogue. well we. give you just all of the european diplomats and all the diplomats from the united states there are not help in the dialogue instead they just tomorrow want one of the sides to win and their side ears the protesters i think they're

pretty you're state secretary victoria nuland went far beyond. the limits of the legitimate when she faired the protesters to the imagine some russian deputy foreign minister coming to the united states and feeding her or killed by a wall street protester so that would be viewed negatively by the west so it's quite clear that the raul or these so-called diplomats is very negative instead of helping your brain to find a common ground or this very difficult situation there in fact participating in their tears the country apart right and their reaction to the government's actions the ukrainian government's actions. has been quite pronounced right from abroad and let's not listen together to victoria nuland to say to gary just mentioned last night listening. to me that it was clear to him. this.

is. just because you're against us. but when in fact dimitri we haven't seen much violence so why there is such a response well because victoria nuland just below called the western diplomats in this situation is extremely biased in fact if you could read some of the slogans of these so-called protesters these slogans are racist these people are their ideological descendants of the so-called organization of ukrainian nationalists that helped hitler in one thousand nine hundred eleven and one thousand fortitude to fight the soviet. and indirectly the united states these are the successes of the people who helped heatless troops to destroy goosed in the west of ukraine so when this is all and feed them. that will be sixteen million not even in moral terms it's not the legal or political types the opposition leaders in ukraine right

now openly stated their goal is to bring down the korean authorities the president and the government so do you think there's no room for dialogue now. well i don't think there is a lot of room for dialogue with extremist nationalists the people whom i just described they view every weakness of the power as weakness that they can exploit you know when the government responds to violent action by fine people or by putting them under house arrest assiduous bikies you know yesterday to be then these people just get involved and i imagine what would happen if in washington d.c. people blocked the presidential administration. or the capitol hill i'm sure that there would be a lot more action than what has been on

a lot of the ukrainian authorities just the past so i think that the reaction from the ukrainian government was a hugely mild and certainly there is no legal reason for the resignation of the government because even though that the state and the us agree that mr you know college was elected legally in two thousand and ten he didn't commit any crime he didn't even really now as the so-called european integration he just postponed the signing of the agreement and here we have this all been pressure from the west and when mrs no one says that there is still a chance to save ukraine who is she to decide if there is a chance or not to save your great. and why is she interfering into their affairs of the sovereign state was so very unclear if you saw sensitive or bold when russia is concerned symmetry is thank you very much indeed unfortunately we'll have to leave it there political analyst at miter from moscow thank you.

the commander in chief of russia's armed forces has pointed the military in a new direction towards the oxic the race for the vast resources of the isobel dennis is rapidly hastening up and led to my patient says it's of utmost priority for russia to defend its interests on monday canada claimed a vast swathes of the arctic for itself including the north pole but most of this port is an extension of russia's continental shelf and at sams to prove that it was made in expedition back in two thousand and seven it's culminated in russia planting its fly in the sea floor beneath the north pole of the four thousand meters underwater mostly also wants to step up its military presence in the region russia canada the us norway and denmark all border the arctic which is believed to contain billions of dollars worth of oil and gas despite the posturing leading canadian arctic research it believes common sense will prevail that. the future of

the world economy to some extent is dependent on the arctic and i think you know russia and canada the united states and norway and denmark are very interested in exploiting these resources i think you know common sense will probably prevail in that you know that it's not the interest of any of these are the countries to go to war over those resources and i think there is mechanisms at play through the arctic council through a number of different pre-treating processes for cooperation to get this resolved while the un convention on the law of the sea makes its decisions but i think the problem is that you know in the meantime countries can sometimes to play to the politics of their of their nations i think you know in russia we're seeing a militarisation of the arctic and canada we're seeing canada claiming the north pole when in fact their scientific committee really didn't include in the draft that they were going to send to the united nations convention so this kind of

posturing i think can be very dangerous. is the world's biggest market created by its very own open border policy is but that still doesn't promise businesses and the european union the guaranteed success as. has been finding out free trade doesn't necessarily mean free of bureaucracy. simon york likes cheese he and his partners have built up a thriving businesses wholesalers of the stuff part of their success simon says is down to the single market importing french products or exporting british ones couldn't be easier we steered clear of american cars this inquiry's of the complexity of doing it for me how hard it is to export whereas you're very good sperry's you because you know you just make sure it's just. the field for it and try to transform its way to build our idea of the idea of what the price for this is well that he was coughing up to and it's distributed within and outside of

britain and although the big cheese of this company says that being part of the e.u. brings much it benefits to the way that they export their own dogs and all businesses in the u.k. so hold on the european union. have come to a small movie in wales to talk to a business that says it's under threat because the restrictions being can face it in brussels james dunn worth cells and electronic cigarettes online and in shops around wales the business is growing fast as most smokers try to kick the habit that brussels is trying to regulate the industry is considering classing the devices as medicinal products if the e.u. insists on regulating in cigarettes as medicinal products licenses for this stock would cost tens of millions of pounds the company would basically be out of business the problem is the cost and the bureaucracy involved it's just not

possible for small or medium size company to get these this license so what you'd be looking at is the big tobacco companies taking over their electronic cigarette industry of course they have the least motivation to push electronic cigarette industry forward james says the company. pays extra for short leases on mashup space in case the business is forced to shut down at any moment for since chamber of commerce say that companies complain increasingly about the burden of european regulation making them less competitive in the global market or used to preprogram europe a lot more skeptical now these regulations is disproportionate in the force business is out of business they're also potentially going to cost many millions of lives obviously that makes you more skeptical it is of course a case of apples and oranges or rather cheese handy cigarettes but

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