ukrainian opposition leaders called on protesters to storm government buildings as they rebuild barricades after an overnight attempt by police to remove the roadblocks paralyzing the capital sent. with the protesters as top diplomats criticize the police move as a crackdown high level u.s. representatives seem to protest camps handing out food. hold washington london turning their backs on the syrian rebels that says the end i suspend aid to the country's north has been flooded with extremist factions. and also holding the gate crashing thousands of students break through parts of london's biggest university for amassing outside parliament in march against violence.

from a student center here just turned eleven pm this is international. roadblocks rise again in the ukrainian capital rebuilt and strengthened by protest as well police recruits to security forces tried to move the activists from the city center to allow traffic through. with the nicest. but 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 had been set up and built by the protesters although both sides police and protesters did show restraint so 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 had cooled says over the last few days and weeks now the police were greeted a met by fish resistance from the protesters who have used 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 which only critic of high profile figure in the opposition movement has tweeted saying that we called to 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 administrations well american and european diplomats 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 something which is on 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 you association agreement now this is one of the barricades that was dismantled and removed. by the police on tuesday evening as you can see the opposition calls for a show of defiance have been met not only have the barricades been rebuilt they've been rebuilt bigger and stronger than they were before and if you take a look over here you can see there being force of fide by a line of sound bags filled with snow because the protesters have spent all day shoveling the snow and filling the sandbags to fortify the defenses. and

with the opposition calls for more and more people to descend on independence square and the defense is being fortified it's interesting to see what the author artie's response will be will they simply come and try and dismantle and remove the barricade as they did on tuesday evening in a peaceful manner all while they try and change tactic. reporting there ukraine's prime minister says he has also the e.u. for twenty billion euros of aid if it was to accept the trade deal the rejection of which brought the protesters out in the first place well and as chris we've seen a partner at the consulting firm advisor told me earlier that ukraine is just desperate to survive its financial crisis. crane is economies in recession this year next year the country needs to find at least ten billion dollars to repay debt now it doesn't have that money it cannot continue to muddle through it needs

to get an injection of cash it needs that cash from somebody and i think what you're hearing from the prime minister today essentially is saying look if you don't want us to talk to moscow if you don't want to take a deal from russia then you're going to have to come up with all this money. you know and obviously the ukraine government would like that directly from the e.u. itself without having to deal with the i.m.f. because it simply doesn't want to have to agree to these fairly onerous terms that the i.m.f. is talking about such as in a fairly sharp currency devaluation an end to fuel subsidies and of course massive austerity measures the west has already expressed outrage at the actions of the ukrainian authorities with the u.s. secretary of state among those giving this strong worded opinions are they going to come reports on what's being said. 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 baton is rather then with respect for democratic rights and human dignity of course secretary kerry speaks 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 in 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 a free trade agreement between ukraine and the e.u. could later feed into a much larger free trade agreement that is now being negotiated between the e.u. and the the west but of course in its statement as the u.s.

state department focuses on the rights and aspirations of ukrainian protesters that support comes not just in words but also in the actions of the state department is the ploy of the assistant secretary of state dorian not 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 united states embassy to ukraine has boasted it has handed out more than two hundred grants in recent years to various political organizations some of which are protesting right now on independence square but a senior fellow at the foreign policy research institute and former u.s. ambassador to the czech republic iceberg them earlier he says there's no ulterior motive to the u.s. presence there. 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 yet not preaching and

advocating revolution took victoria nuland tory newland would not be in the crowds if there were violence and she would certainly be discouraging any form of violence you're saying you're keen to see peaceful demonstrations but what about the so-called peaceful demonstrations for 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 as you call it brutality at a certain 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 were 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 in. our policy has been. peaceful. expressions of opinion and and elections truly free electoral processes. ukraine's prime minister says the protests are preventing keep payments from being made to keep society running found out how the government struggling to keep the economy afloat at all to. students in the u.k. have protested in their thousands against police violence they defied authorities to march through london university and along the city's streets recent footage of an officer punching a young man in the face during a confrontation sparks the latest in

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a breakdown in. police refused to go back on the job until the. still to come this hour on international moscow calls on iran and the world powers to play by the rules to make a nuclear deal work with the russian delegation arrives in the islamic state some more break. 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 conquering versity however he was far more complex than most mainstream media are willing to admit mandela's legacy to so much more than merely being a figure of inspiration a reconciliation. language. we could know if. someone. chooses to use the consensus to.

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a rat in ministers appeared in front of media smiling in a very good mood and clad crewing two old friends they've started to move home the agreements reached earlier in geneva in the van but at the breakthrough talks every iran's nuclear program run tehran agreed to either free or curb parts of it the payback when i was limited to leave from the international sanctions the country has been suffering from and the last step kids 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. to go to. iran must hold up its side of the bargain in the p five plus one countries must do the same specially those which fly past the un security council in leveling sanctions if 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 see where peace talks and today here in tehran mr library has sent his message again saying that first sewer 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. that 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 well i was so and for size 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

fighters battling government troops in syria's north have lost a huge slice of their foreign aid the u.s. and the u.k. of that non lethal assistance that report not explains why. islamic front forces seized headquarters and warehouses belonging to the opposition's supreme military council the incident happened friday evening at the. crossing on syria's normally northwestern border with turkey what's unclear is why he is on a run to seize the premises and if any stock has gone missing also on knowledge of whether the islamic private who is working with her had any qualms affiliation with the islamic state of iraq and syria known as isis or. those two groups as terrorist organizations by the united states right about now many u.s. senators may be calling u.s. president barack obama to say. just several u.s.

representatives have publicly war in the obama administration against supporting the syrian opposition predicting that american weapons will likely fall into the hands of terror groups also arguing that providing aid to the rebels acquits to finding al qaida some critics say that washington so-called suspension of non-lethal aid to northern syria doesn't necessarily mean that u.s. weapons won't continue to flow to other parts of the country nonetheless this development is being seen as a big blow to this military council and the syrian army opposition that the obama administration has been championing champion for the biggest problem of for the obama administration what it now faces is figuring out how to walk great and work with the newly formed islamic front in syria that claims to be fighting with the opposition but is clearly playing by its own rules despite his overwhelming support for the syrian rebels the u.s.

refrain from direct involvement in the conflict back in september this decision preceded by avalanche of war mongering in washington was made after the syrian government agreed to destroy its talks resulting reports efforts to rid the entire middle east of chemical weapons a big 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 says dismantling of its chemical weapons also well seems to have lifted the edge of israeli fears of a chemical strike well as 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 is on track to eliminate its entire stock power by the middle of next year the chemical weapons are among the most or of weapons ever known to man and we remain friends 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 there is still some chemical weapons in the region and also does not want again from reasons of deterrence to our reveal and 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 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 regularly. send letters to the non-state parties including israel and encouraging. without join. 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. . well in israel's neighboring region some gulf countries have stepped up their defenses coming up as six states boost their military cooperation those left out of it fear they will be oppressed by the emerging powers.

that's still to come but first looting and violence have now left eleven dead across argentina as police continue a nationwide strike for better pay authorities blame the ransacking on agitators who they say are trying to disrupt the thirtieth anniversary of the country's return to democracy or to spanish correspondent ignacio who are 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 off 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 cordova 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 top 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 this equation could get father out of control if strikes spread from police to nurses or other groups employed by the government. and there's a kindness asian soul but she says the authorities have brought this on themselves . regular criminals so it would sure a whole lot just playing seeds are taking advantage of the fact that the police are not on 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 wanting to get something for nothing they have become used to working in just living on government welfare and now that they are all police on the streets they take the opportunity to do all the looting the. ruble gets to make over hundreds of thousands of people voted the son of a new symbol for the russian currency and this in the winter it tweaks the russian are similar to an english please spend some time now at r.t. dot com for the details and also their. grounds for joyce in parliament a year ago i legalizes marijuana but the decision is put some noses out of joint. the gulf cooperation council is stepping up a gear deciding to form

a joint military command bahrain kuwait amman catarrh saudi arabia and the you have also agreed on a unified police force to deter any threats to the region so either lisa he's a political analyst and a writer on middle east affairs says this raises a whole heap of concerns this is responding to the deeply entrenched fears in saudi arabia which has been the first front spearheading the counter revolution in those countries which have already sent its forces to invade and occupy back brain in order to crush and quash the popular uprising and they demand the overwhelming majority of people in back the other gulf states the five smaller countries are deeply suspicious they have serious misgivings and they have deeply entrenched fears about the dominance of so with the idea which is by far the largest power and have been seeking to dominate this region. let's have

a look at what else is happening around the world in a world update tensions in the streets of kiev seeped into the georgian parliament where politicians have literally been trading blows over how to react to developments the fighting was sparked when a member of the ruling georgian dream party reacted angrily to an opposition proposal to show support for pro e.u. protesters the parliamentary session was stopped with the speaker condemning the brutal and massive market in southern china has killed at least sixteen and injured five the blaze broke out late at night and it took more than one hundred firefighters to bring it under control it's not clear what caused the blaze but authorities are now planning safety checks at other markets. the commander in chief of russia's armed forces is pointed the military new direction towards the arctic race for the vast resources of the icy wilderness is rapidly heating up and that to be a persian says it's of utmost priority for russia to defend its interests on monday kind of a claim to vast swathes of the arctic for itself including the north pole but

moscow says the air is an extension of russia's continental shelf and an attempt to prove that was made in the next position back in two thousand and seven it culminated in russia planting its flag on the sea floor beneath the north pole over four thousand meters on the water in moscow also wants to step up its military presence in the region russia canada the us norway and denmark all boarded the arctic which is believed to contain billions of dollars worth of on gas despite the posturing leading canadian 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 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 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 u.n. 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 stated 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 you're watching all the international cities cross talk with that piece of the film on these and often that. technology innovation and all the developments around russia we.

covered. they look like bounty islands where the locals can enjoy the sun and the ocean. but that was buried here years ago. means these people are suffering the consequences.

how much more poison lies on the ground. behind this zone there is what we call the callet bank on which there is a deposit of plutonium left by security test which caused the dispersion of radium you clyde's despite previous cleaning efforts there remains a deposit of a little less than two kilos of plutonium stuck in the rock and the coral reef about ten meters down. tests a never ending legacy. hello and welcome to crossfire all things considered on peter lovo 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 conquering 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 guest rajon men in new york 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 real research associate at the school of oriental and african studies at the university of london and in seattle we cross to illinois 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 only to find out.