protests the mayhem in ukraine enraged protesters. police injuring dozens of. vehicles on fire. the question is about this is quite striking because. it was a democratically elected leader meanwhile the e.u. and the u.s. are getting ready to slap sanctions on the ukrainian government claiming it's the all thora he's using excessive violence against the protesters. also the syrian opposition threatens to drop out of the geneva two peace talks after the u.n. invites iran to the negotiating table meanwhile are investigates fears that europeans radicalized by the conflict could drag the. snowden leaks and

freedom of speech the u.k. government finds itself the target of an investigation into its crackdown on media outlets responsible for publishing sensitive information. the world's top headlines for this hour it's r.t. international with me thank you for joining us at least seventy eight policemen have been injured in a fresh wave of violence in kiev antigovernment protesters angry at a recently adopted set of laws against demonstrations have been attacking police lines with well with clubs flash bangs and fire bombs. reports right from the thick of it. just when everyone thought that the protests in kiev and the whole protest movement was dying down and all hell is breaking loose again

protestors have been trying to penetrate the governmental quarter that is about two three hundred meters from now behind those remains of the police buses which have been burned by the protest this is the police line it's really hard to say how many policemen are there but there could be hundreds of them this the riot police called be adequate it's a special regiment of the right police and they're trying to secure this perimeter here. we can see the fire still burning the water is being used the police as the water cannon is being used to extinguish the blaze but we have reports that people said that the water cannon have been used against the people the protesters a growing fire crackers and tells that at the police lines it's not exactly reaching the police but explodes right near the police lines and the police is responding by throwing back flash bangs and sound grenades as well as some reports suggesting that they're using rubber bullets against the crowd this is basically the people's reaction their anger towards a set of laws which was adopted by the country's parliament this week which they

believe to be a repression of democracy which they believe to be oppressive on many actions. actions can be punished with a prison sentence and as usually happens and give us the last at least two months or so people gathered for a meeting on for a rally on sunday which escalated violence even worse than what i saw and what we all saw in december not far away from here at the presidential administration building when there were clashes with the police right now the atmosphere is very tense no one knows what. he's actually happening on the other side of the police lines with the instructions and the policemen are having there is a chance and this is the word on the ground that the police may actually use this riot as a pretext to storm the independence square on the barricades which have been there for one and a half months already. this gives them a valid reason according to the new legislation. so far it's still it's very.

often no one knows where it's going to go. in the meantime e.u. foreign ministers are set to meet to discuss the ongoing events in ukraine they were in talks with the u.s. on bringing sanctions to bear against the government they say they're concerned about the violence being used by the authorities the riot police leave here. expressed his support for the ukrainian opposition he wrote on twitter that the protest was a direct result of the actions of president and his party. the protests first started last year her experiences with my colleague. 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 you know keep it coming in waves they're waiting for the 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 really quite safe to say that we probably had several hundred of these ultra nationalist activists 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 a bulldozer into. as well so this is sort of a repeat of what we saw the. just a month ago essentially but it does look a lot does look a lot sillier of course it's much more colorful now rewinding the clocks. very

briefly how all this started. back back in the day basically it was about the fact that you know college pulled out at the very last moment from signing a 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 their revolution and we want the government to step down for over a second month 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 but that's what people were chanting earlier today they were it was shouting because that's exactly what they need and they don't see. president now saying he is ready to talks with the opposition to resolve the ongoing political crisis in ukraine and the clock u.k. based journalist who's been monitoring the resting kiev he says the opposition is simply trying to topple the government because it knows that the government would

lose at the ballot box. opposition. they claim to have then why don't they simply wait the elections we're not talking about five years tommy to be back next february talking about thirteen months so i think the opposition are now trying to bring down a gun to try to bring about a very early elections to think through the elections to be some democratic fixes. you know the majority of people are not represented by them i mean there's no evidence that they think that the people who create you support them and i think that is the goal of just and this would be an undemocratic move freely and to focus to the western leaders about this is quite striking because yellow code which was a democratically elected leader of ukraine is not north korea it's not saudi arabia it's a democracy and to democracy if you want to remove the government and what you do is you try to persuade people to vote in free elections and that may not be as i say every twenty fifteen so why don't the opposition wait till now i think what

they're saying it is an attempt for a regime change. and you can stay up to date with the ongoing situation in kiev by simply logging on to. where you'll find the latest pictures and footage as well as analysis on the events ongoing in ukraine. now as the geneva two conference on bringing peace to syria draws nearer beginning its special coverage of the diplomatic build up to the potential breakthrough event. the united nations faces and all from syria's national coalition after u.n. chief banki moon invited iran to join the geneva two peace conference and the opposition group is refusing to sit at the same table as terror on demanding the u.n. retracts the offer which has reportedly already been accepted and the former french prime minister dominique de villepin thinks the coalition should not ignore iran's

political importance. i believe we have two problems today one is we need of cause the opposition to take part in this discussion because how can we have any settlement without having everybody around the table but also we have with the india position a very strong. very strong fight political opposition and the jihadist are fighting very strongly on the ground i really believe that iran should be as much as possible part of the talks because you were an easy very regional players and if we can have you run on board in discussing the crit crises of the region we are of course we will be much more efficient and the diplomatic model that comes amid growing fears syria as you hardest violence could spread over to the e.u. as our latest estimates suggest up to seventeen thousand foreigners have now joined

the rebel fighters the biggest european contributor is that of france as many as seven hundred of its nationals could be in syria right now belgium and the u.k. round out the top three. with one londoner who lost his brother to a war thousands of miles away from home. day young british traveling to syria hundreds. and according to one experts the now part of the largest european islamist foreign fighting contingent in recent times. to at least eleven hundred. two thousand nine hundred it was from this picturesque seaside town in portsmouth this a group of young men recently left to go and join the fight in syria about a month ago when news reached the community that twenty three year old man was

killed last fighting on the syrian front line this is the local mosque that if the current number of his friends attended before they left syria where they join one of the most radical opposition groups operating in the country isis the islamic state of iraq and show the before he died if it was active on social media placing video as an update. now in the first interview since his brother's death mistaken djimon exclusively tells r.t. he wants to set the record straight about who his brother really was and why he thinks he went to fight difference between. uniform just because he was in uniform. or something. just because. different. people in

uniform. people. benefit as a country. like many foreign fighters it crossed into syria via turkey it was only once he informed his family he'd gone to fight jihad or holy war do you think the young men listen to what you heard as. complete the music debate in the village and especially in the city a case interests in this completely wrong concept and wrong wrong idea the other members of the religious community we met in portsmouth agree and their own d.n.a. downstairs to one of the major challenges in tackling you think gauge moment social media friends in other places they get lead parts of who this looks interesting and suddenly they're listening to the teaching and i know that our leaders here in ports with would not support i don't think the problem exists within any of the

mosques in portsmouth per se the issue lies in where if those mosques and not delivering what the youth want they may look for it somewhere else cross the country and europe wide and the syrian conflict is engaging a young generation like note that the thaw two years ago a member of my friends we were just ordinary boys you know just never thought about this openness spoke about you know we're still. going around the world but we never thought you know my brother one this one year older than me is. going to be who died in a battle for it's just something that hasn't sunk in for me or a lot of people so i know it's happened but it still hasn't sunk in so for for the full force of. a reporting from portsmouth in the south of england well fears have made it of our highest echelons of global security the

f.b.i. as director said that one of the main problems was that radicalized citizens were very hard to identify that ultimately gives them a lot of space to maneuver while across the atlantic the head of britain's m i five said syria had become the number one destination for all those sympathizing with major terrorist groups of course with links to al qaida. well if you can i do state of us here on r.t. international for the coverage on the geneva two peace conference on syria later in the day as we'll be bringing you all the latest as well as an expert opinion on the prospects for talks. the. death toll of over one hundred. c. and common sense come together with one. war is not. does

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now the deal that will last for six months until the country and six world powers agree on a final compromise which. reports has two major stumbling blocks. from today a deal between iran and the international community goes into effect that will see iran freeze parts of its nuclear program in return for the easing of sanctions in terms of the agreement there will no longer be restrictions on the reigning exports of picture chemicals the country will also be able to import parts for its auto manufacturing industry and trade in gold and other precious metals the next six months are critical because it is during this time frame that the international community and iran will need to reach a final agreement that many fear without which could ultimately see the border middle east descend into chaos and possibly even a war what is clear is that there has been good will and the wanting for this deal to work that has overridden the skeptics and the voices calling for fresh sanctions

but what is not clear is how the united states is going to maneuver its way forward it has a very fine line to walk on the one hand you have this role that continues to say that this was a deal with the devil you also have u.s. congressmen and women who are calling for fresh sanctions but on the other hand you have iran's which essentially the american president barack obama is urging to come to the party and he himself needs to show transparency and commitment while not alienating for example his friend tel aviv in the region so the next six months are going to be critical the hope is that at the end of half a year you will have a permanent deal in place between iran and the international community policy r.t. tel aviv. a lot already is into u.s. they'd say they would consider bringing back the death penalty by shooting that's after a botched attempt to kill a convicted inmate with a new drug cocktail in ohio concerns and lethal drugs could become difficult to

come by boat details that are to dot com for you right now. while you're there check out this one as well targeting terror online a russian lawmaker proposes a bill where people who start up phase. social media. at. twenty minutes past the hour here in the russian capital it's an organization that's investigated complaints against press freedom and trouble spots like. but now it's turning its sights on the u.k. and the world association of newspapers and news publishers is so worried about the reaction of authorities there to the snowden leaks it is taking the government to tasca. the world association of newspapers and news publishes isn't an organization everyone has heard of but if you live under

a government that violates press freedoms it's likely they will have visited to investigate and document now they've sent out another delegation but not to a war torn failed state or dictatorship it's come here to the u.k. to look into international concerns that the government reaction to the guardian publishing edward snowden's revelations on the n.s.a. was way over the top and very worrying for press freedom the paper says its face says to sit out on the threats of legal action and you are the chief executive of the organization that said. you were already concerned about the state of press freedom in the u.k. before the snowden affair up. studying the religious and. we've always as an organization taking care of patients all over the world always concerned about the situation especially in the major democracy like u.k.

we set an example to the rest of the world where they can be potentially a risk to. creating an exceptional case of interference between the public authorities the state and the freedom of the press basic principle which is far as the mother of all the principles and civic rights and then of course following leveson the snowden affair blew up what specifically are you concerned about about the government's reaction to the guardian's publication of the n.s.a. leak there might be some risk actually be. that the british instead of speaking. tends to believe. they could bypass the future of professional journalism it's become. a general trend which could. should be. the rights of citizens might be a connection with the political environment with the state and as soon as there is

a connection with the state you can trust. the system the ability of. put it to. me. is unprecedented but his organization is worried that any violation of the freedom of the press here will give all those caught to oppress their own media and throwing away three hundred years of press freedom inside a single year is not something to be. part of quick snapshot of some of the global news now to turkey where scuffles are broken out between iran police and protesters who were marching in memory of a journalist gunned down seven years ago. campaigned for rights and was shot by an ultra nationalist outside his newspaper's office detractors say the government has done little to support the motor a rally takes place or once a year become a general call for justice in turkey. and tens of thousands of anti abortion

protesters have marched through the center of paris as a way of showing their support for the recent pro-life moves of the conservative spanish government it's mulling over a new law that would make it very difficult for pregnancies to be terminated the rally comes ahead of monday's debate in the french assembly over the possible relaxing of abortion in the us. we will join sophie shevardnadze shortly for now though vladimir putin has sat down with the international media saying security services will put out the stops to make sure the olympics are safe but we're remain at the security services as low profile as possible the russian president also on sort of questions on the cost of the games also saying that gay visitors would be welcomed by my colleague. spoke to r.t. as andrew farber who's there for us and so much in these games the most expensive lympics history in five times the original price tag but mr putin did stress that

over the last five years so cheap 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 jump the 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 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 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 is 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 really a whole i don't think that 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 bingo bull markets and of course tools to restrain such growth are switched on probably some out approaches towards russia still exist from the perspective that there is a need to restrain the. coming. and finally security and how it will affect the games is of course what war is many people that one of the president's comments on

that. 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 a 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 would come to sochi to try and enjoy the games from my own experience i was walking along the promenade yesterday and on the horizon was a warship and yes you do see a small percentage of police on the streets and also regular police write 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 for the full interview with the russian president on our website that's of ours he talked caldwell here on the program just a very short break then i will be joined by our sophie shevardnadze sophie and co

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hello and welcome just if you can kill i'm sophie shevardnadze big banks have been blamed for causing the global crisis in two thousand and eight still they were bailed out by governments and kept afloat to save the world economies from falling into rulings but even now what do we know about their activities while will definitely learn more talk to our guests today. in the reality of the big thank you called i mean how truly are the money currents operating with trillions to bankers remember to obey the law. ever it stirred looks money laundering in the face. blowing the whistle on his p.c. forcing it to pay billions in fines hoping the big banks notice its compliance but

how if they are they just more careful in the shadows. can they be brought to account. are they too big to jail. so our guest today is whistleblower everett star and former employee of one of world's banking giants h.s.b.c. everett it's really great to have you on our show today. now you have been very vocal about your experience with h.p. see can you tell our viewers in a nutshell in your simple world what it's all well what it's all about. sure. i mean this is a normal thinking sandal i mean this is about a bank sponsoring terrorism and killing people that's a this is about and it's about defending the united states and defending the world as a whole against terrorism and and saying that too big to jail is not an ok policy for any government to have.