lynch is why you should care only. ukrainian opposition leaders call on protesters to storm government buildings as they were build barricades up to an overnight attempt by police to remove the roadblocks paralyzing the capital center. and the west stands with the protesters as the top diplomat slammed the police moved as a corridor down a high level u.s. representative is seen at a protest comes handing out food. and. also this hour moscow calls on iran on the wild hours especially those who adopted a unilateral sanctions against tehran to play by the rules to make it a landmark nuclear deal walk as a russian delegation arrives in the islamic state. of chaos across argentina stores are ransacked and order breaks down leaving eleven people dead as

striking police refuse to return to work until their pay demands are bad. this is the national coming to live from moscow hello and welcome to the program. riot police have moved from the central square in the ukrainian capital ten hours long standoff with anti-government protesters during the night special forces trying to remove barricades blocking traffic that the opposition says it was a violent crackdown that failed and a postcard isn't care for us right now as a whole so is the situation like that right now. well thousands have gathered in independence square behind me following calls from the opposition for

a show of defiance following last night's events the police dismantled and removed barricades that are being set up and built by the protesters and then started to push them back into the center of independence square now although both sides police some protesters did show restraint some violent clashes did break out now the opposition have responded to the events last night batali klitschko of course the high profile heavyweight boxing champion of the world a high profile figure in the opposition movement has tweeted saying that we can't make a compromise with thugs and dictators we should get rid of them the number one issue now is the resignation of president viktor yon a coach and his putrid administration so that seems to rule out any possibility of negotiations well american and european diplomats have been in kiev throughout the course of wednesday having them say u.s. assistant secretary of state victoria nuland has been. saying what she calls the

crackdown that's what she calls it was unacceptable for a european democratic state now those comments came after a meeting with president yannick over his presidential palace in the center of kiev but before that she was seen out and about mingling with the protesters behind me handing out sandwiches and hot drinks to both the protesters and the police the more the e.u.'s foreign policy chief catherine ashton has also been in kiev and she says that last night's events make dialogue along. more difficult but she does say that president yanukovych has reassured her that he does still want to sign the a u association agreement agreement well but it's new and ashton may have to be in kiev for a little bit longer than the house they initially intended because right now we're getting reports that the airport has been evacuated as has the central train station here in kiev because of a bomb scare. now this morning events where we saw the police try and

retake the city hold the city administrative building here in the center of kiev which is being used by the opposition as a makeshift headquarters over the last few days and weeks now the police were greeted a met by fish resistance from the protesters who has the police down with water cannons and when you've got temperatures as freezing or as cold as they are in kiev right now that was quite an effective response now authorities had only given the protesters until tuesday to remove themselves from the site and true to the word the police turned up on tuesday night to dismantle and remove those barricades that had been built by the protesters but as i found out earlier today that was may have been futile. 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 are 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 and peacefully try and remove the barricades once more or do they change tactic. there . paul scored there with the latest developments around the west has already expressed outrage at the actions of the ukrainian authorities the u.k. foreign secretary describe them as an acceptable the e.u.'s top diplomat catherine ashton is currently in kiev says it's making dialogue much more difficult while the u.s. secretary of state gave his opinion an even stronger as that is again a chicken 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 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 but tons rather than with respect for democratic rights and human dignity of course secretary kerry speaks 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 tens and arrested hundreds of occupy protesters across the country citing local anti camping laws already forgot how aggressively riot police dispersed the protesting all 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 way but of course in its statements the u.s. state department focuses on the rights and aspirations of ukrainian protesters that support comes not just in words but also in actions the state department is the ploy by the assistant secretary of state victoria nuland 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 sound as it was mentioned before that strong words from washington were echoed by the e.u.'s foreign affairs chief who is in kiev meeting with the opposition and authorities but alexander cories a legal expert and blogger says nonstop visits by high profile foreign politicians is more a case of meddling in internal affairs than trying to find peace there. 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 protesters and the government it seems most strange to me i have to say and i wonder whether it's a tool wise or 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. meanwhile ukraine's prime minister says the protests are preventing key payments from being made to keep society running point out how the government struggling to keep the

economy afloat and. there have been friendly smiles and handshakes as top russian and iranian diplomats matter until iran both have swarmed they're seeing eye to eye when it comes to political challenges in the middle east the ungallant civil standoff in syria is one of them. is in iran's capital for. after an hour long meeting both russian and i read and ministers appeared in front of media smiling in a very good mood and cried cruelly to old friends they've started to move home the agreements reached earlier in geneva in the van but at the breakthrough talks over iran's nuclear program run tehran agreed to either free or curb parts of the pope back when i was limited to move from the international sanctions the country has

been suffering from in the last decades and the message minister library for ministers a roof center today in tehran reza now it is important that the sides keep their hands of the deal. drawn must hold up its side of the body and the p five plus one countries must do the same specially those which fly past u.s. security council's you know in leveling sanctions at the ron paul those ministers have also discussed of course situation around syria that. catastrophe or human tragedy in just a month's time. determines had back to switzerland to take part in the geneva two syria peace talks and today here in tehran mr library has sent this message again saying that first sewer crisis should be resolved peacefully and second iran has to be part of a 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. 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 i may have as i do 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. 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 a stronghold of the rebel free syrian army near the turkish border washington had committed to provide more than two hundred million dollars a non-lethal aid of reports earlier this year suggests that rebels also receive american arms in september the u.s.

refrained from direct involvement in the conflict after the syrian government agreed to destroy its toxic arsenal that are seized on a theater for efforts to rid the entire middle east of chemical weapons are they held up by israel and egypt refusal to tell them why. this could soon be a thing of the past is radius 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 also seems to have lifted the edge of israeli fears of a chemical strike where is a few months ago kids were 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 telaprevir is 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 some chemical weapons in the region and also does not want again from reasons of deterrence to reveal and do 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 is ready public's always shied away from asking too many questions the same reason all the time if it's security we don't have to deal with it we have the differences stablish where they know the doing we don't have to do anything about it but with syria out of the picture israel's argument is

weak 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 a 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. television. it's not only the that's warming out but they raise resources as well russia's miter were focuses of all of the cold a new front a day else occurred at stake they claim to have lost portion of the phrasing. and.

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a living symbol conquering diversity however he was far more complex than most mainstream media are willing to admit windows legacy is so much more than merely being figure of inspiration reconciliation. welcome back saucy international living and violence have now left eleven people dead across altering taina as police continue a nationwide strike for better pay all sources blame the ransacking on agitators who they say are trying to disrupt the set ascent of us or of the country's return to democracy also a spanish correspondent ignacio gibeah reports now from bonus honorees. looting is spreading across the country as people take advantage of a police strike to smash their way into shops and steal whatever they can they've been seen making up with all sorts of goods like mobile phones much receipts 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 their own 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 bean 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 argentinos regions of the jobs crisis of retail goods are rising rapidly by twenty five percent each year making it difficult for many people to make do on small salaries and this situation could get father out of control if strikes are spread from police to nurses from other groups employed by the

government. and political. have brought this on themselves. we are seeing regular criminals so i would sure as i hold law and just going are taking advantage of the fact that the police are law in the streets to do all the looting this is the result of thirty years of so-called democracy because it's basically a system whereby people who are supported by the money powers finally get into power and especially ten years of the curation of government that have done everything possible to lower the educational basis of the people so that as you see we have people who are trying to wanted to get something for nothing they have become used to working or just living on got a better world here and now that they are all police on the streets they take the opportunity to do all the looting in. the rigor gets to make on our website hundreds of thousands of people voted to decide on

a new symbol for the russian currency and this is the winner a tweak the russians are similar to an english p spent some time at r.t. dot com for the details. and also that rounds rejoice in parliament as europe why legalizes marijuana but the decision has put some noses out of joint. the commander in chief of russia's armed forces has pointed the military in a new direction towards the arctic the race for the vast resources of the icy world and us is rapidly heating up and lemme pretend 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 moscow says the area is an extension of russia's continental shelf and attempts to prove that it was made an expedition back into silence seven is culminated in russia planting its flag on they sea floor beneath the north pole of the four thousand meters

underwater moscow also wants to step up its military presence in the region russia canada the you asked norway and. all border the oxic 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. the future of the world economy to some extent is dependent on the arctic and i think you know russia 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 that 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 where we're seeing a militarisation of the arctic and canada we're seeing canada claim the north pole when in fact their scientific committee really didn't include that 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 and that's now her look at her house is happening around the globe this hour tension in the streets of kiev have seeped into the georgian parliament where politicians have literally been trading blows over how to react to development the fighting was sparked one a member of the ruling georgian dream party reacted angrily turn opposition proposal to show support for pro e.u. press has the parliamentary session was halted with the speaker condemning the brawl. fire at

a farmer's market in southern china has killed at least sixteen people and injured five the blaze broke out late at night and it took more than one hundred firefighters hours to bring it control under. troll and it's not clear what caused the blaze but the local authorities are now planning safety checks at other markets . the united nations has expressed deep concern over hundreds of thousands of syrian refugees scattered across counts in the middle east i mean heavy snow storms and renshaw rains in lebanon eighty eight thousand of those displaced from brisk spending the winter in flimsy plastic tents amid temperatures well below freezing the lebanese army is helping to distribute emergency caves designed to help refugees survive the cold winter. is the world's biggest market created by its very own open border policy is but that still doesn't promise businesses in the european union guaranteed success as archie's

point of boycott 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 to simple reasons complexity of doing it for me how hard it is to export whereas you're married you're good spare easy because you know you just make sure it's just hard to kill for it and try to transport it's great to be with are you idea of what the price for this is well the key the cost and also 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 good benefits to the way that they export their products normal

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 worst struction is being considered in brussels james done with 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 costing the devices as medicinal products if the e.u. insists on regulating 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 is 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 the 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 my shop 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 use a preprogram europe a lot more skeptical now these regulations is disproportionate force businesses 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 and east cigarettes but a reminder about how differently the european union is viewed in british business. r.t. london. you're watching aussie international up next to its crosstalk with peter.

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lisa. low and welcome to crossfire all things considered on peter lavelle nelson mandela he is almost universally considered one of the greatest individuals of our time he was a prisoner of conscience and a living symbol adversity however he was far more complex than most mainstream media are willing to admit his legacy is so much more than merely being a figure of inspiration and reconciliation.

to cross the legacies of nelson mandela i'm joined by my guests rajon men and knew you. wark he is a professor at the city college of new york and a senior fellow at the atlantic council in london we have jeremy keenan he is the author of the upcoming book dying for change as well as a professor oriel research associate at the school of oriental and african studies at the university of london and in seattle we cross to elana mercer she is a paleo libertarian writer and journalist all right folks cross talk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want to lead if i go to you first in seattle you got up early as for this program i've been watching a lot of the coverage of the death and the funeral and the coverage of this passage of this really truly great man and it's basically two words he's an inspiration and he was a figure of reconciliation is that.