breaking news on our t.v. police come under vicious attack from hordes of anti-government protesters in the ukrainian capital where buses have been burned during street. and a roundup of the week's top stories the international criminal court may soon see top british military officials in the dock for the first time in history over accusations of war crimes committed by troops during the iraq war. a price worth paying vladimir putin speaks out about the record breaking cost of the sochi games while dispelling fears about the safety and security of those attending. top ranking lawmakers on capitol hill attacked president obama's proposed n.s.a. reforms as ineffective walk criticizing the president for creating

a climate of uncertainty. for am in moscow i met reza bring you today's top stories and a look back at the week's news but we begin with breaking news disturbing images coming from violence in kiev dozens of people there injured in bitter clashes after anti-government protesters tried to break through police cordons this some of the most dramatic pictures we've received in this footage obtained from artie's video agency ruptly you can see rioters beating officers with sticks the crowd also threw stones and fireworks at police who responded with water cannons and tear gas ukrainian journalist andrei bosch to avoid told us what he witnessed. i saw them out of cocktails thrown into the rows of police so it's happening old a time when the police is trying to stop the protesters and to go go come to them

closer the protesters to the right and to a softer over and stones to write articles young people tried to break through the fans of police and to go to the governmental area of the city and police us trying to trying to stop them people are building barricades they are using the cars which are standing on this square they want to choose to achieve their goals now still be the one to victory and of course to go away to be not present 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. an opposition leader is pushing for the government to step down over the new law that says in breach of the constitution they say it will make it easier to prosecute demonstrators campaigning for change meanwhile an advisor to president barack obama expressed support for the ukrainian opposition across writing on twitter about the protester violence as

a result of the actions of preserving inappropriateness party this is the white house calls for the ukrainian police to have or so far as to threaten the government with sanctions or these are evolution goes in the city where the protests started last year and shared her experiences with my colleague have been over. there 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 essentially 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've probably had several hundred. accidents but i would say this is

exactly what they wanted them to mean him and at one point they tried to direct the bus somebody got into the bus and tried to direct them at the police if we go back to back to december. there was already an incident when they tried to run the bulldozer. as well so this is sort of a repeat of what we saw just a month ago essentially but it does look a lot 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. moment from signing i trade agreement with the european union but now they're completely different now it's against the government now they're protesting now they're saying this is a revolution and one of the government to step down for the second month of protests and they cannot agree on anything they decided not even to bring out

a unified candidate should be elections take place and a lot of people i think were really upset by that but that's what people were chanting earlier today they were it was shouting leave their leader because that's exactly what they need and they don't see. president you know nick hogan says he's ready to enter talks with the opposition to resolve the ongoing political crisis in ukraine neil clark a u.k. based journalist monitoring the unarrest and here says the opposition is trying to topple the government because it knows it will lose at the ballot box. if the opposition have the support which they claim to have then why don't they simply wait the elections we're not talking about five years time we told you about next february really took about thirty months time so i think the opposition might now trying to bring down the government try to bring it out very early elections to bring into the elections talk of the government and this is undemocratic because you know the majority of people are not represented by them i mean there's no evidence that they. do support them i don't think that is the goal of when this

would be undemocratic moves really and it has got to the western leaders about this it is quite striking because you haven't told each was a democratically elected leader ukraine is not north korea it's not saudi arabia it's a democracy and it developed to see if you want to remove the government then what you do is you try to persuade people to. free elections and that coming up as i said every twenty fifteen so why don't you opposition to the you know i think what we're seeing in the ukraine is an attempt for a wedgie change. parties like sarah show to cover last year's protests in ukraine is following the turmoil in kiev and he's got the latest on his twitter feed follow him for the most dramatic pictures an up to date information. turning now to some other top stories of the week u.k. military officials could be tried for war crimes for the first time in history or report by european human rights group claims britain is concealing evidence of abuse by its forces during the iraq war thousands of former detainees testify that they've suffered violence and torture at the hands of british troops the dossier

now being examined by the international criminal court polly boyko reports. 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 a two hundred and fifty page stuff see a present tense. by human rights organization of british norfolk 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 cools 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 they're put says that british military commanders knew that their forces were committing war crimes and moreover that this civilians to parry is consciously 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 being investigated that does not require references to the international criminal court the position of the

british government has constantly been oh we're 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 anything themselves the people under their authority or people they should have controlled were committing the crimes so if it's good enough for the african cup. these 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 dock at the hague ali boy artsy and majority of the contents of the report are being kept away from the public but some parts of it have come to light the dossier contains reports of killings beatings raping rapes

and various torture methods that the u.k. forces allegedly used on a rocky's families of inmates also reportedly targeted the eight year old son of one man supposedly slot by an officer as his father was being arrested and other former detainee claims soldiers threatened to sexually abuse his sister we spoke with one of the co-authors of the report for more on the allegations. evidence shows that it's not only about individual and single cases and incidents it's really a systematic pattern of reparative acts which will cure it and that's the finding in our report or communication to the i.c.c. it's mars and single isolated incidents it's not all 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 and there are still hardly any prosecutions in the country so now it's simply the time that international courts have to step in syria's main

opposition group votes in favor of attending the geneva two peace talks we'll look back at the week the diplomatic in turn just days before the start of negotiations that could pave the way for a political solution to the country's deadly civil war after this short break. down in the final. and the rest. will be.

what the american public hasn't really understood is that this is not a normal banking scandal and that these banks like h.s.b.c. have the blood of american soldiers on their hands that i.e.d. going off in afghanistan killing and killing an american or borg you know allied soldier that is being financed through our banks that's a problem. thirteen minutes past the hour amir putin says russia will do everything it can to ensure a safe winter olympics without making security measures too intrusive with less than three weeks to go before the start of the games the russian leader sat down with the international media he addressed the huge cost of staging the event and

dispelled fears that gave his orders would suffer discrimination my colleague julia shop evolve a spoke with artie's andrew farmer who's in sochi about the president's address. these games are the most expensive in the limping history and five times the original price tag but mr putin did stress that over the last five years so cheek was the biggest building site in the world all the venues had to be built from scratch and was 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 jump facility 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 about if evidence was presented it would be investigated russia's law against gay propaganda to mine is arose

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. or was that a pretty well i don't think these are manifestations of the code rule but it is a demonstration of competition when such a powerful country like china starts sharing rapid pace in growth it becomes a real competitor in global politics and being global markets and of course tools to restrain such growth on switched on probably some mode of pro-choice towards

russia still exist from the perspective that there is a need to restrain something. and finally security and how it will affect the gangs is of course a lot one reason many people that one of the president's comments on that. is a major issue. in the grand did say. in trade simply. he. didn't say it was necessary to do so i did stress they would do all they could to make sure that they would not be killing three members of the public these people come just to try and enjoy the games my own experience i was going to be long. yesterday and on the horizon was a yes you do you see small trolls you place on the street so regular please write checks you describe it is a very kind so i would say that many people find it reassuring and certainly the moment. you get

a chance to get you can watch the prelim big interview with russia's president in full on our website r t v dot com. a highly anticipated address by president barack obama reining in n.s.a. spying has been criticized some lambasted the proposed reforms as being cosmetic and most likely ineffective and others said they carried additional risks one of the key points of the speech was that any data gathered by the agency will no longer be stored by the government this part pharaoh's that a third party could access the information if it was stored beyond official control not only that but lawmakers also accuse the president of failing to bring forward actual reforms and creating a sense of uncertainty colleen to rally a former f.b.i. agent and whistleblowers among those who sessions are satisfied by the president's speech. well i think the speech was a few baby steps in the right direction but it was a lot of i dissembled lane and certainly it was a reassurance to the n.s.a. and its employees that they have been doing the right thing he talked really focus

was on the two fifteen telephone metadata program that is just one of dozens of massive collections nothing in obama's speech put any rain rain than this collected all approach there was a big revelation of our call dish fire program that huge fire program was collecting all text calls literally hundreds of thousands of text calls every day are going into the n.s.a. is collecting back you me it's gigantic hoover and i say tactics agard many across the world some comparing its activities to the full scale espionage of the cold war our correspondent peter all over takes a work. 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 of 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 good 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 cheering the cold war as can now as to elude this is exactly as illegal or 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 i read would 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 communist leaning 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 with

a bond and now back in the day this post with ears to listen in only private phone calls of thousands of citizens in both the east and the west of the fifty then it was thousands of calls now it's millions sometimes tens of millions of data connections that are tracked and logged with them electronically mukesh 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 manderson's version even those who are working in counterintelligence in the west were ours even they said it we were pretty good even then the fear of being listened into is taken seriously as one former officer charged with looking into nato told us you mind those fires my superior office. is there any technology that they can use to

stop eavesdropping on my calls yes 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 cost about the quality of the information collected for lessons yet they relied too much on technology that technology might let you locate a person or listen to their calls 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 germany right now to some other stories making international headlines in iraq government forces launched a long expected attack on militants who seized seized large parts of ramadi in december fierce fighting broke out leaving at least twenty police officers and their allied tribal militia dead or wounded the nearby city of fallujah also fell under the control of some of the same militant group that later declared an

independent islamic state in the city. violent. thousands mark the death of a journalist seven years ago at the time of his death the reporter was pushing for reconciliation between turks and armenians campaign sparked anger among nationalists in turkey in two countries are at odds over whether turkey engaged in genocide after invading our media almost a century ago. in egypt ousted president morsi facing a fourth trial on charges of insulting the judiciary when still in power he apparently claimed a judge oversaw a corrupt elections the military backed government has been stepping up pressure on the former leaders muslim brotherhood power base declaring it a terror group. norwegian village famous for its picturesque wooden buildings severely damaged by fire thirty properties burned to the ground at least ninety people sent to the hospital for treatment fire crews eventually managed to extinguish the flames but police warn there could be

another flare up because of the blaze is under investigation. french interior minister says about a dozen teens have left the country to join militant groups in syria he added the trend of young people traveling to the war zone has dramatically increased but as jihad has continued to gain ground hopes of a diplomatic solution to the conflict also given a boost for syria's main opposition group finally agreed to and attend the g. of a peace talks after months of wavering or piskun of looks back at the week's developments 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. 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't be said about some western nations who may be risking it all off and perhaps right now just one wrong move is enough to bring down this diplomatic house of cards such as the mixed signals 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 pairs the diplomatic pitch moved to moscow which was visited by syria and iran's chief diplomats now my focus has confirmed it will be a geneva two and after much debate so has the opposition. un chief ban ki moon says iran is officially been invited to take part in the geneva two talks former french prime minister dominique de villepin explained why he thinks it's crucial that islamic republic participate in the conference ron should be as much as possible part of the talks because you want he's a very regional important player is i believe the dialogue that the international community is how do you run on the nuclear question is a very important point we should try to go forward and settle and if we can you run

towards discussing the current crisis of the region we of course we will be much more efficient how can we solve the iraqi crises how can we solve the syrian crisis without that's why i really believe that the dialogue with this country is important and we should really take into account the fact that we've got out having you run a board days new solution to be released. starting later today will bring us special preview of the long awaited geneva two peace conference plus don't miss our full coverage of the talks that start on wednesday. after three years of. over one hundred. million common sense come together with one message. war is not.

does peace have a chance. to lead a russian officials go behind the guantanamo bay fence delegate from moscow give an actual russian citizen being kept there said they were reminded washington of its unfulfilled pledge to shut down the facility bus. as washington tries to president karzai to sign a crucial security deal eight civilians most of them children killed in a nato raid that's still to come on our team international but up next and her capital with. another whistle blowers facing a lot of heat 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 eight and ten 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. 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 the show just might bring.

welcome to venture capital with me katie purvis wait for it says johnson doolittle also called molds at the u.k. may leave the view for films do not take place look at global reaction from the former leader's office late on the czech republic who have very different opinions on that year there were plenty of international politicians in most cases week because it was the economic forum which i went imo to i caught up with the world renowned economist jeffrey sachs on tax evasion and they gave him still bain plays

a wall street that's all still scott but let's start with mr dawoud all's well because he ruffled. feathers this week by warning that the u.k. could be forced to quit if the organization does not reform and here is what the challenge is not once exactly the main points now he has been frustrated by what he sees as the storing of the free trade deal between the e.u. and the us by e.u. lawmakers themselves i think europe is being a show not by economies like china and india now the british public will get. to decide in twenty seventeen in a referendum if they want to continue as a member of the e.u. now the main sticking points for the british people are immigration social security and interference from brussels in british law especially when it comes to human rights now the czech republic is in a similar.