ukrainian opposition leaders called on protesters to storm government buildings as they rebuild barricades off an overnight attempt by police to remove the roadblocks paralyzing the capital center. and the west stands with the protesters as top diplomats criticize the police move as a crackdown high level u.s. representative is seen at the protest camps handing out food. calls on iran and the world powers to play by the rules to make a landmark nuclear deal work as a russian delegation a rise in the islamic state. of chaos across argentina's stores are ransacked and breaks down leaving eleven people dead striking police refused to return to work until their pay demands that our top stories this hour.

live from the city center here in moscow where it's just turned eight pm this is international. police have moved back from the central square in the ukrainian capital after an hour's long standoff with antigovernment protesters during the night special forces tried to remove barricades blocking traffic there the opposition says it was a violent crackdown that failed. thousands have gathered in independence square behind me following cool's 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 although both sides police and protesters did show restraint some violent clashes did break out this

morning events where we saw the police try and retake 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 will greeted the met by fish resistance from the protesters who has the police down with water cannons and when you've got temperatures as freezing and as cold as they are in kiev right now that was quite an effective response now authorities had earlier given the protesters until tuesday to remove themselves from the site of metallica to go 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 victory on the coach and his putrid administration's what american and european diplomats who have been in kiev throughout the course of wednesday having that say u.s. assistant secretary of state victoria nuland are saying what she calls the

crackdown was unacceptable for a european democratic state now those comments came after a meeting with president yanukovych could be full 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 meanwhile the e.u.'s foreign policy chief catherine ashton has also been in kiev and she says that last night's events make dialogue a lot more difficult but she does say the president on the coach has reassured her that he does still want to sign the a u association agreement. well we've now got an opportunity to get some perspective on what the united states is doing that in ukraine with a veteran of american diplomacy joining me now is a german sora he's senior fellow at the foreign policy research institute and former u.s. ambassador to the czech republic well one can understand what officials have been seeing amongst the protests is that why u.s. diplomats handing out refreshments to protest is what's ukraine got to do with

washington have you perhaps heard of the transatlantic alliance and the strong alliance between europe at that time including the soviet union during world war two we had a very strong and long relationship and. wanted it to return to one of great friendship with the countries of eastern europe and eurasia ukraine is one of those and we. call president bush the father after the fall of communism. went to ukraine among the first visits that he made this is george h.w. bush. seeking a peaceful a europe whole and free europe that would include russia would be no threat to russia so the fact that we are continuing to pursue the u.s. has continued to this open arms policy of encouragement of democracy in ukraine is

should be no surprise at all and certainly not should not be seen as threatening to to russia but in that context why is the issue over the fact the ukraine may be forming a partnership with the e.u. or not such a concern to washington why are u.s. officials there because another aspect of these protests has now turned into a call for a revolution is that were of an interest to u.s. authorities. we are in favor of peaceful demonstrations and peaceful expressions of popular views that is the way democracy gradually grows from the grassroots from listening to the voices of the people we are certainly not preaching and advocating revolution took victoria nuland. if there were violence and she would certainly be discouraging any form of violence

. there is a very strong and understandable misunderstanding or differences of view between the people who are in the streets in ukraine and even other cities. we happen to take the view that the conditions that the united the european union was offering. for ukraine are very beneficial for the for the for the people of ukraine you're saying you're saying you're carrying a peaceful seem to agree with that you're saying you're keen to see peaceful demonstrations but what about the so-called peaceful demonstrations but the occupy movement in the states being handled in many respects brutally by the police pepper spraying peaceful protesters i would watching to react if kremlin supporters were amongst the occupy protesters that. there were there were i'm sure there were plenty of observers russian another observers moving around in that period and there was i strongly disagree with you call it brutality at

a certain the the protestors were permitted to camp out. in lower manhattan for weeks at a time and eventually they were moved out but they were moved out peacefully there are no injuries there was no brutality there was no confrontation and we certainly would hope not to see any such confrontation or brutality or bloodshed. are our policy has been. peaceful. expressions of opinion and and elections truly free electoral processes that permit that's why we are in favor of democracy and you will have a chance if lections your lower you know to favor democracy and yet the us did not it's the fact that you know which was elected freely and democratically in two thousand and ten what's changed what's gone wrong with that. nothing nothing has changed he was freely and fairly elected as president and he was elected on

a platform and that platform in that platform it is actions until just a few weeks ago he was saying he wanted to move ukraine to create a greater union has a better or a better more favorable economic relationship with the european union that was his platform when he suddenly backed away from that or refused to sign the agreement that he himself and to go see it again saying he was going to sign. it's not surprising that he lost the confidence of his own people or a large a large majority it was only when i have to question you there's a large majority of the polls that it's about to see a recent poll said that sixty percent of those in the east want to join the russian customs union so why would washington just listen to those in the east and not to the east. well the east as you well know you're obviously well documented the the eastern. the the russian oriented or right and russian speaking part eastern part of ukraine is a minority of the country so if you say

a majority of a minority want something but a majority of a majority in the other part of the country want to want something different by simple arithmetic an overall majority of ukrainians want a better relationship a more favorable economic relationship with e.u. this is about economics and this kind of the kind of cold war mentality or zero trying to define this as a zero sum game it's disappointing. let me make it clear i'm. i'm the head of a project that i think tank in philadelphia all the foreign policy research into the not speaking for the u.s. government i'm speaking based on eight years of our analysis of the situation in the post communist region and of our policies towards american and european west european policies e.u. policies towards the region in that perspective i think very frankly that the

current government in moscow has made a mistake by putting pressure defining this is a zero sum game where if you crane we win some economic advantage by joining more close closer trade union with the e.u. somehow moscow and russia must lose. that it's not an easy hearing in the one nine hundred ninety s. from moscow it is it's an economic advantage if ukraine does join the e.u. which in all intents and purposes absolutely there's no question about any a saying it be an economic disaster if you. that with all due respect i think you know that that's not true. the ukraine if ukraine if the country has a much more open access to a market of five hundred million people. and with a very hyper capita income higher than russia clear it will be to their economic advantage but that doesn't have to be to the disadvantage of russia on the contrary

the more prosperous ukraine is being given that it's a strong trading partner with russia the better off russia should be over the longer term and the same is true of the other nearby countries countries they should also benefit this is being defined as a zero sum game for purely political reasons but in effect even though a few years ago mr putin was talking about nato expansion of evil things but you. e.u. is seen as a neutral thing and all of a sudden he's dealing with this as if it were some kind of military expansion enter into russia some kind of teacher ploy that is directed against russia rather like you. with forty years of the america experience and. eight years of viewing it from a more academic and think tank perspective. with all due respect to mr putin i president putin i think he is wrong to define it this way and i think that it could

be very damaging to ukraine to try to make it a place thing that is pulled from. that is pull from one side or the other they should be allowed to work out sanctions it would only be a disaster because the russian point of view is russia that would in the kind of sanctions show mr putin has threatened him right ok let me just ask you russia's many sovereign issues of course is let the people decide for themselves and you've clearly made it very obvious that it would be a benefit to the u.s. if ukraine does join the e.u. just how much pressure is the u.s. then going to put on. the changes not because already we're hearing signs of him saying he may now renegotiate so what is exactly going on behind the scenes from the e. and the u.s. on him now. i think the u.s. has been skin system they trying to persuade him not to that he doesn't need to choose between russia and he you bet he does need to actually carry out what he

told the people he would carry out when he was elected as president three years ago . approximately three years ago and. i don't think we're putting a lot of we're not putting threatening him the way moscow is threatening him we are simply saying we believe that it is in your self interest mr president and you and the self-interest of your country of all ukrainians to take this very good economic deal and we will do our best to help make sure that the i.m.f. and the other internationally european development bank and other institutions will help ukraine out of its very difficult economic situation we saw that with the economic crash in two thousand and nine a lot of assistance was given to the countries of. the baltic countries and they have rebounded very very nicely for american out there let me quickly ask you trade has not because it has not had a it has not had

a good economic situation and the e.u. offer gives it a much better second time to audition poorly walter crane there it is being pulled from all sides it's caught up between the e.u. the russian russian interests and indeed washington i just want to ask you finally you've clearly studied the area and you really understand the political situation there how do you see all this panning out now is. in serious trouble or do you think with foreign pressure that there's some resolution going to be achieved a very soon what's your point your prediction. i don't like the word foreign pressure i think i think there can be a peaceful solution one in which young can remain as president even though some are calling for his resignation if he simply does what he said he was going to do. rather than simply at the last minute. negating all the values that he campaigned on then it is spoken of for the last three years so i think some kind of

a round the kind of round table discussions that have been offered by the. by the leader of the party his parliamentary majority leader and others in the article which camp with that is the proper solution. that there can be a peaceful and reasonable resolution and there should be dialogue with moscow to make it clear this is not against moscow this can and should be handled in a way that is to the economic benefit. to do to russia. and a good example of a peaceful resolution of differences rather than this suspicion returning to an old cold war mentality it is not warranted the united states is not trying to do this as you know to the extent that we have security concerns worse we're concerned about afghanistan we're concerned about freedom of the seas in asia and certain moves that china has made that seem aggressive. and we want to keep things peaceful

not get into this kind of confrontational situation where we don't need and i'm not seeking any sort of confrontation in ukraine or central and eastern europe on the contrary we would like that to be a peaceful prosperous zone and an area where through which more friendship and better cooperation between the united states and russia can be achieved rather than this zero sum game that it is now being defined ukraine is being defined as i think it's not in the interests of russia and certainly not in the interest of ukraine to define this as a pulling in one. on another pull both russia and both russia and the european union should provide positive incentives for ukraine to develop economically they have a very difficult economic situation and also for the people's will to be expressed through real democracy ok we really appreciate thoughts from the u.s. ambassador to prague a journalist or a senior fellow at the foreign policy research institute thank you so much for time

and your perspective really interesting to hear your thoughts thank you it's well ukraine's prime minister says the protests are preventing keep payments from being made to keep running how the government struggling to keep the economy afloat right now don't call. do we speak your language or not advance. news programs and documentaries in spanish what matters to you. but will turn it into angles stories. altie spanish find out more visit.

palladius street cleaner who's in love with a waitress i go on stage managing that there's an audience you should take drugs and drink like a fish called the police told me about the circus but i was such a punk i was like what circus. circus and clearly it's gonna. break down stereotypes about kids from disadvantaged backgrounds. i've been friendly smiles and handshakes and told russian and iranian diplomats met in tehran but it has shown that seeing eye to eye when it comes to political

challenges in the middle east the ongoing civil standoff in syria is one of them is in 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 cried cruelly to old friends they've started to move the agreements reached only in geneva in the van where at the breakthrough talks every runs nuclear program run tehran agreed to either freeze or curb parts of the pope back when i was limited to leave from international sanctions the country has been suffering from and the last step cade's and the message minister library for ministers a roof sent here today in tehran was that 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 the un security council in leveling sanctions that iran put those ministers have also

discussed of course situation around syria that. i were a catastrophe a human tragedy in just a month's time. permits 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 syria 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. i've heard reports that some international think it would be more effective to use force instead of dialogue but these reports were not good. 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 un security council resolution where flores that you have well i was so emphasized that it's up to

syrian people to decide their 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 seize strongholds of the rebel free syrian army near the turkish border washington had committed to provide more than two hundred million dollars in non lethal aid or thirty years just the rebels also received american arms in september the us refrained from direct involvement in the conflict after the syrian government agreed to destroy jobs because of. 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 agitated to say they are trying to disrupt the thirtieth anniversary of the country's return to democracy or to the spanish correspondent ignacio juba reports now from.

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 races 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 cordoba 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 argentina's 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 this equation could get father out of control if strikes spread from police to nurses or other groups employed by the government. the ruble gets a make over hundreds of thousands of people voted decide on a new symbol the russian currency and this is the way that it tweaks the russian are similar to an english spend some time dot com for the details on that. and also they rejoice in parliament as europe wide legalize marijuana and the decision is put some noses out of joint. commander in chief of russia's armed forces his point of the military in a new direction towards the arctic race for the vast resources of the icy

wilderness is rapidly heating up and let me put in says it's of us. most priority for russia to defend its interests when on monday kind of they 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 attempt to prove that was made back in two thousand and seven and in the special expedition when it culminated in russia planting its from ag on the sea floor beneath the north pole of a four thousand meter is on the water moscow wants and wants to step up its military presence in the region russia canada the us norway and denmark border the home which is believed to contain billions of dollars worth of oil and gas despite the posturing and leading canadian research it believes that common sense will prevail here in. 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 and that you know that it's not the interest of any of these arctic 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 stay to play to the politics of their of their nations i think you know in russia we're seeing a military zation 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. let's have a quick look at what else is happening around the world now on our world update

tension in the streets of kiev have seeped into the georgian parliament where politicians have literally been trading blows used and how to react to the developments their fighting with sports going on member of the ruling georgian dream party reacted angrily to the opposition proposal to show support for pro e.u. testers parliament session was stopped with the speaker condemning the brawl. also on a world update a massive far the farmer's market in southern china has killed at least sixty million injured five a blaze broke out late at night and it took nearly a hundred firefighters two hours to bring it under control it's not clear what caused the blaze but the local authorities are now planning safety checks and other markets. so that with more news for in just over half an hour from now in the meantime find out what extremes corporations are willing to go to to get at their rivals most intimate secrets break in the set with abby martin is coming up shortly .

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when the militants decided to try and break through to her new guinea airport screening grenades. were they split all should we know that our call moran's on our commander would leave us no matter how tough it gets we're a team. there who are both getting was a senior in his military trio. you know he knew that if he didn't smother that grenade with his body more of just comrades would die he gave his own life to save his friends. welcome to breaking the said i'm abby martin so we're almost on the brink of war

with syria yes that seems like just yesterday that obama was about to drop cruise missiles over the basket because assad allegedly crossed the red line just days after the august twenty first and gas attack killed nearly fifteen hundred syrians the administration released an intelligence brief place in seoul blame on assad of the deadly assault even secretary of state john kerry well aware of the fabrications told by the u.s. to get into iraq assured us that quote we will not repeat that moment we've taken unprecedented steps to declassify and make facts available to people who can judge for themselves and although those facts were never laid bare mounting pressure forced obama into diplomacy the legendary investigative journalist seymour hersh just wrote an article that tells a different story take a listen to what he said about the real reason obama decided to back down from a military strike. i'm telling you he didn't do it because the american people said

no he knew it because he didn't have a case and there was incredible opposition there will be you want to do. is maybe in history books there was a credible operation from some very very strong minded constitutionally minded people in the pentagon amazing and hersh went on to write obama failed to acknowledge that the syrian army is not the only party in the country's civil war with access to sarin and the months before the attack the american intelligence agencies produced a series of highly classified reports citing evidence that al nusra a jihadi group affiliated with al qaeda had mastered the mechanics of creating sarin and it was capable of manufacturing it and quantity. listen we may not know exactly what happened in syria on that fateful day but we do know that this war is have been based on lives before and we can't afford to let that happen again and let's bear.