seems recreating tonight breaking news on our policeman come on the vicious hordes of anti-government protesters in the ukrainian capital the buses have been burned during street battles. in some of the week's big stories that shape the last seven days the international criminal court may soon see top british military officials in the dock for the first time in history over allegations troops committed war crimes during the iraq war. the reforms i'm proposing today should give the american people greater confidence that their rights are being protected by the american president promises to restrain the surveillance habits of the n.s.a. but critics say the proposed reforms change a thing. of

their own kevin lowe nice to have a company that has joined us this is our t. international just after one am now here in moscow breaking news or just been talking about disturbing images now emerging of the violence in kiev earlier this evening around seventy policemen were hurt there in clashes with protesters according to ukrainian interior ministry. you seeing some of the footage coming out here so the most dramatic pictures we've received so far on the news all here is footage of marty's video agency ruptly see rioters beating the police officers with sticks there at some points the crowds also threw stones and firecrackers at police who responded with water cannon tear gas earlier i spoke to ukrainian journalist andrei brushed avoid he witnessed these latest protest firsthand this is what he had to say. i saw them out of cocktails thrown into the rows of police so it's

happening all the time when police is trying to stop the protestors and to come to them closer the protesters of the right activists from stones to right twenty girls young people tried to break through the fans of police and to go to the governmental area of the city and police are trying to trying to stop them people are building a barricade they are using the cars which are standing on the square the one to choose to achieve their goals now so they that one two three and of course to go away to be not president they want to have another government and they want to have this in the in one moment they don't talk to journalists so they can't explain what they want so they want to fight over their part activists and opposition leaders are pushing for the government to step down over a new law they say to breach the constitution the first legislation package they insist will make it easier to prosecute demonstrators

a correspondent ridiculous when protests first began last year she shared some of the experiences with me. it either had to. burst into flame earlier right when they started back in november or it got to the point where they have to do something and by they i mean the protesters and of course the government as well but most of the protesters because for a while there they tried to keep it coming in waves they were waiting for dispersed so they kept saying it's going to happen people kept getting messages through their phones and through twitter. threatening messages which were saying we're about to be ambushed at the police because there's going to be you know essentially all hell breaks loose and it never happened it's really quite safe to say that we probably had several hundred of nationalist activists but i would say this is exactly what they wanted them to me and at one point they tried to direct the bus somebody got into the bus and tried to direct them to the police if we go back to back to

december. there was already an incident when they tried to run. as well so this is sort of a repeat of what we saw just a month ago essentially but it does look a lot. worse it's much more colorful now. very briefly. back back in the day basically it was about the fact that you know pulled out at the very last moment from signing trade agreement with the european union but now they're completely different now it's against the government protest and now they're saying this is a revolution and one of the government to step down were. protests and they cannot agree on anything they decided not even to bring out a unified candidate should the elections take place and a lot of people were really upset by that that's what people were chanting earlier today they were shouting because that's exactly what they need and they.

spoke to a close because you know with. now. his part says he's ready to enter talks with the opposition in a bid to try and solve the political crisis talked about neil clark u.k. based journalist who's been monitoring the rest in kiev he says the opposition's trying to topple the government through on rest because it believes it would lose in genuine elections if the opposition had the corpse they claim to have then why don't they simply wait the elections we're not talking about five years' time we're talking about next february really talking about thirty months time so i think the opposition by now trying to bring down the government try to bring it out very early elections we call the elections talk of the government and the some democratic because you know the majority of people are not represented by party there's no evidence that they. do support them and i think that is the goal of this would be undemocratic move freely and

a caucus of the western leaders about this is quite striking because. each was a democratically elected leader ukraine is not north korea it's not saudi arabia it's a democracy and it democracy if you want to remove the government then what you do is you try to persuade people to. free elections and they're coming up as i say every twenty fifteen so why don't the opposition wait for the knocking what we're seeing in the ukraine is an attempt for a wedgie change. the next are just a few cover last year's protests in ukraine to fall in the turmoil and care for us he's got the latest on his twitter feed been falling for the most dramatic pictures in just a few of them of comfort tonight. the some other news now top british military officials could soon be tried in the international criminal court for war crimes victims of the iraq war submitted das syracusan forces and numerous cases of abuse and torture but the u.k. is fighting hard to prevent the service men from facing the tribunal is our go from london. up until now the international criminal court at the hague had mostly tried

to african dictators and tyrants but the i.c.c. has been asked to investigate thousands of allegations of war crimes committed by british forces in iraq could two hundred and fifty page dossier presented by a human rights organization a british law firm contains allegations of beatings of electrocution smoke executions and sexual assault committed by u.k. forces and according to the all says of this report the finger of blame extends to the very heart of the british government at the time so the head of the british army the former defense secretary and the former defense minister could face prosecution for what this dossier calls systemic war crimes there are many hundreds of cases where the people have been interviewed in the provided reports about this abuse and it varies from what people might think are.

relatively mundane examples of abuse to really quite appalling physical violence there of course says that british military commanders knew that their forces were committing war crimes and moreover that their civilians to parry as cautiously ignored such information at their disposal but the u.k. foreign secretary william hague has already firmly rejected the suggestion that those at the top here in westminster knew what was taking place on the ground in iraq we reject allegations of systematic abuse but whether all substantiated allegations of things going wrong these things have been or are being investigated that does not require references to the international criminal court the position of the british government has constantly been or were doing enough the point of this is simply that they still haven't done enough there are right now at the international criminal court two heads of state one of them

a sitting head of state of kenya and the other the former head of state of called d'ivoire they're both on trial at the international criminal court not for getting their hands bloody they didn't do it. people under their authority are people they should have controlled were committing the crimes so if it's good enough for the african countries it should be good enough for the u.k. to the international criminal court has come under increasing pressure to act against war crimes committed by western countries it's now up to the prosecutor at the i.c.c. to go through the claims of abuse and to decide whether to call high ranking british officials into the dark at the hague probably boy artsy london. the majority report content to be kept away from the eyes of the public but some extracts have seen the light of day the dossier contains reports of killing spree to exaggerate various torture methods that u.k. forces allegedly used on detained iraqis the families of the mates were also

reportedly targeted to in one case the eight year old son of one man was allegedly slapped by an officer when his father was arrested and somebody else went on to testify they were being interrogated by soldiers the soldiers then threatened to rape his sister we spoke to a legal advisor at the european center for constitutional and human rights who coauthored this dossier these accusations evidence shows that it's not only about individual and single cases and incidents it's really a systematic pattern of reparative acts which are. finding in our report or communication to the i.c.c. it's mars and single isolated incidents it's now is the time because the u.k. had ten years to investigate to prosecute the direct perpetrators but also the higher ups in the u.k. ten years. hardly any prosecutions in that country so now it's simply the time

that the international courts have to step in. very soon in the program tonight just a few weeks now of course the sultry lympics to begin russian president talks than about the price tag of the winter games as well as security at the event which analysts find out what he had to say just a few minutes and come up to syria's main opposition group says it will join peace talks in geneva that much look forward to geneva two aimed at trying to find a political solution the country's bitter conflict. millions around the globe struggle with hunger each day. what if someone offers a lifetime food supply no charge. they can be strong

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of the challenges of hosting the event to them a colleague of us spoke to r.t. is andrew farmer who's in this year's olympic city and he heard what the president had to say. these games are the most expensive in the lympics history and five times the original price tag but mr putin did stress that over the last five years sochi was the biggest building site in the world all the venues had to be built from scratch in this huge infrastructural development in terms of roads and rail links and he said because of that it was expected things would go over budget but he said where overspend has not been justified action has been taken and people have actually lost their jobs including a russian olympic committee member who was in charge of the ski jumper city which went six and a half times over budget and he was fired however mr putin did say that there was no corruption among government officials are they if evidence was presented it would be investigated pressures or against gay propaganda to mine is rose

a lot of calls to boycott the olympics from abroad so this issue was also mentioned wasn't it it was and again he stressed that homosexuality is not a crime in russia but he did say that calls for a boycott on the games on this topic was a throwback to old style thinking which he did not think was helpful and he said that he thought that the worst still people in the west they were looking to restrain emerging countries in the east that had become global competitors and you also drew a parallel with china saying they also experienced call for a boycott in the run up to the beijing games back in two thousand and eight and it was pretty well i don't think these are manifestations of the cold war but it is a demonstration of competition when such a powerful country like china starts showing rapid pace in growth it becomes a real competitor in global politics and being global markets and of course tools

to restrain such growth are switched on probably some old approaches towards russia still exist from the perspective that there is a need to restrain something. and finally security and. how it will effect big gains is of course what war is many people that want war the president's comments on that. it is a major issue particularly after the bombings in volgograd he did say that forty thousand troops and police are on duty in and around the sochi area at the moment he did say it was necessary but he also did stress that they would do all they could to make sure that they would not be too intrusive for members of the public and all these people will come to sochi to try and enjoy the games my own experience i was walking along the promenade yesterday and on the horizon was a warship and yes you do see small percentage of police on the streets and also regular police raid checks but i wouldn't describe it as overbearing in fact i would say that i think many people will find it reassuring certainly at the moment

with around three weeks to go before the start of the games and what occurred shit you could not watch the olympic interview with the russian president in full on our web site r.t. dot com. a hugely anticipated address from barack obama on the future of the n.s.a. surveillance in the week was widely criticized as failing to push forward the actual reforms the agency will continue its work with restrictions than on its activities authorities will now need judicial approval to tap someone's phone and foreign leaders of u.s. allies will no longer apparently be the targets of espionage she said any data that which is gathered will no longer be stored by the government of though there was no explanation to what would happen to it critics though say these measures will change literally nothing. i wouldn't call it a reform i would call it the ongoing normalization of the outrageous policy of violating the fourth amendment on an enormous scale we're learning more as every

week goes by about what they're collecting in terms of text messages and emails and admitted data and it's it's voluminous and the president is is not can admitting that anything has been done wrong is not proposing to stop doing it is not suggesting we restore the fourth amendment to the constitution he's suggesting that this will continue and it will be reformed perhaps in part someday but he claims it's been a great step forward i don't see it in a safe tactics cause outrage across the world many of competitive side committees to the full scale espionage of the cold war era correspondent peter all of a looks at the similarities or not. on finding out that the united states attempt to private mobile phone and confronted president obama with this claim. former

offices in the east german secret police which was known as the stars he have a warning for the n.s.a. if they think must surveillance is the solution to a nation's problems who quote if it's even the best qualified and most advanced secret service cannot save the state we showed you that away from the professed shock of the politicians at the n.s.a. spying ability how does it compare with the actions of the east german secret services during the cold war as can now it's really this is exactly as illegal as some of the tactics that the stars are used to employ it is a breach of human rights but the government machine is so powerful that you can't stop it edward snowden's leaks about the shape and scope of n.s.a. surveillance show in germany as one of the top targets for u.s. snooping again high up on top of the ominously named devil's mountain life the remnants of the last major n.s.a. spying program to look into the private lives of the people of berlin or its

abundant now back in the day this post with years to listen in only private phone calls of thousands of citizens and both the east and the west of the city. then it was thousands of calls now it's millions sometimes tens of millions of data connections that are tracked and logged with them and they move the way they do it now is much more intensive your web browsing history credit cards they can build a profile on you way easier than was ever possible in my day. didn't have access to this type of technology they rely on developing personal contacts indices even those who are working in counterintelligence in the west were ours even they said that we were pretty good even then the fear of being listened into was taken seriously as one former officer charged with looking into nato told us human those fyrst my superior officer is there any technology we have that i can use to stop

eavesdropping on my calls yeah answer yes just don't pick it up these veterans of the spy game might be impressed by the capabilities of the n.s.a. but they're cautious about the quality of the information collected for lessons as yet they relied too much on technology that technology might let you locate a person or listen to their cause it doesn't let you know what they think with the usa doing all it can to justify its intelligence gathering the operation dubbed two point zero by critics looks set to continue for some time yet peter all of a r.t. germany. on a website will bad news from japan's stricken fukushima nuclear plant radiation this is called levels late would you suggest the worst leak in no one of the reactors there's going to straight into the ocean the radioactive water a full story on our website also one u.k. politicians causing big waves back in britain right now express someone like cleve

hughes on why storms and floods and bring back you're in britain says it's all because the legalization of gay marriage but the weather system according to him is an article called. syria's main opposition group has finally said it will attend peace talks in geneva after months of hesitation that made the decision just a few days before the summit you begin the opposition however insists the removal of bashar assad from power remains its priority to go pers can off looks back at this week's diplomatic twists and. with time running out before the start of geneva two conference on syria it was a busy week for global diplomacy it's our hope that in the face to face meeting of the regime and the opposition will be the beginning of the beginning of the end to this unspeakable conflict never before have russia and the us been so united over syria holding damascus and the rebels both responsible for atrocities standing together for

a political solution and going further still we wouldn't be going to try to send the signals to all the syrian sides on the need to establish localized ceasefires to consider the lists of prisoners of war including civilians and also to allow humanitarian aid it's washington even turned around its stance on iran saying it could also take part in the conference so long as it supported previous international agreements on syria to keep our swaying the foundation for he would say you are on the same page when it comes to the most important issues are the same can be said about some western nations who may be risking and often have right now just one wrong move is enough to bring down this diplomatic house of cards such as the mc thinking all sent from france to the rebels who themselves took the whole week to decide whether they'll take part. we don't have the assad regime on one side and terrorists on the other it is the regime that is fueling terrorism. such

statements may be music to their ears but these are cynical statements the western military alliance has been recruiting right from the outset and it's confirmed by numerous. reliable sources from bears the diplomatic breach moved to moscow which was visited by syria and iran's chief diplomats there moscow's has confirmed it will be a geneva two when after much debate so has the opposition but still in question is iran's participation sway a widespread acceptance that it's a key player in the region and void all too peaceful solution for syria you've got it going over there is. the syrian coalition's hesitation in travelling to geneva further exposed the deep divisions in the rebel camp syrian presidential advisor persona siobhan who was with the country's delegation here in moscow in the week so the opposition exiles got little to do that with the people actually living in syria this part is first of all they have and they have been living outside the city out for so many years they are kind of syrian air in arbroath hole do not know

what the syrian people are going through and second i think because of the source of finance i think many of them are receiving finances from different parties but anyone who lives with the syrian people who want the interest of the syrian people to be above everything else would give the last priority to stopping this terrorism that is this throwing the lives of the state and people i believe it's a question of what is the one the priority is is it the sea that people and syria and its territorial integrity or is it something personal interest and being an ally for other forces in the key player in the region news participation in the syrian peace talks is up in the air is a run russia in the u.n. won't but washington sending mixed signals about it from a french prime minister dominique de ville pounds explain why he thinks it's crucial that iran takes part. it should be as much as possible

part of the talks because you ronnie's a very regional important players i believe the dialogue that the international community is having recently ran on the nuclear question is a very important one we should try to go forward and settle and if we can have you run the board in discussing the current crisis of the region we are of course we will be much more efficient how can we solve the iraqi crises how can we solve the syrian crisis without you and that's why i really believe that the dialogue with this country is important and we should really take into account the fact that without having you run a border days no solution in the middle east. just tip you off. will bring your special preview of the long awaited geneva two talks plus as we've got special coverage lined up of the whole event from wednesday.

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another whistleblowers facing eat including a wave of death threats but what did she discover some sort of dark secret cia plans or some other plaque for a new war of luxury no she exposed something far more dangerous and important to the zombies on their couches the university of north carolina athletes are mentally unfit for college and even high school mary willing come blew the whistle on the fact that between eighty. percent of the school's football and basketball players

read of a fourth grade level and many others are sub college level she also claims that these students were allowed into the university based on the screening process done by the university i.e. implying that the u. of n.c. knew exactly who they were letting into the university remember college football makes a lot of money i always had a feeling that something like this was going on i mean according to usa today many college athletes claim that during the season they put in more than double the amount of hours on sports that they are allowed that's fifty to sixty hours a week how can they possibly learn anything maybe it isn't so sad that the schools are and it is a reflection of economics what is sad is that the whistleblower is getting death threats just for saying that it is going on by those stupid hardcore fans but that shust my pain.

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