street mayhem in ukraine enraged protesters lashed out at police torching cars and ferociously beating dozens. but it's the wellbeing of the activists that the e.u. and us are wired about. they pull the police out of central kiev. also the syrian opposition threatens to drop out of the geneva two peace talks after the un invites iran to the negotiating table meanwhile investigates fears that europeans radicalized by the conflict could drag the war back home. plus the snowden leaks and freedom of speech the government finds itself the target of an investigation into its crackdown on media outlets are the ones that responsible for

publishing sensitive information. the world's top headlines a line from moscow its artsy international with me rule received a very warm welcome to you today at least seventy policemen have been injured in a fresh wave of violence in kiev government protesters angry at a recently adopted set of laws against demonstrations have been attacking police lines 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 what remains of the police buses which had

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 is still burning the water cannon 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 the fact been used against the people the protesters a drawing fire crackers and bolts of cocktails 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

protests actions can be punished with a prison sentence and as usually happens in kiev as for the last. 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 no one is that it's actually happening on the other side of the police lines with instructions the border 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 and try to do so. the ground because 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. meanwhile e.u.

foreign ministers are set to meet to discuss the events in ukraine and they were in talks with the u.s. on bringing sanctions to bear against the government but they say they're concerned about violence being used by the authorities demanding the riot police leave. an advisor to barack obama expressed her support for the ukrainian opposition he wrote on twitter that the protest of violence is a direct result of the actions of president and his party these ridiculous was in the city when the protests first erupted last year showed 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 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 probably had several hundred of these ultranationalist 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 try to run a bulldozer into the police as well so this is sort of a repeat of what we solved. just a month ago essentially but it does look a lot does look a lot scene here of course it's much more colorful now rewinding the clock. very briefly 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 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 were over in the second month of 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 i think were really upset by that but that's what people were chanting earlier today they were they were shouting leave their leader because that's exactly what they need and they don't see that in the president going to coverts now and saying that he is ready to enter talks with the opposition to try and resolve the ongoing crisis in ukraine i mean all clogged journalist who's been monitoring the unrest in kiev he says the opposition is simply trying to topple the government because it knows it would lose at the ballot box. the opposition. they claim to have then why don't they simply wait the elections we're not talking

about the islamic to be back next february talking about thirteen months so i think the opposition are now trying to bring down the try to bring out very early elections to think through the elections talk to me some democratic fixes. you know the majority of people who are not represented by them i mean there's no evidence that they. are people who claim to support them and i think that if they go and this would be undemocratic move freely and to pursue the western leaders about this is quite striking because yellow code which was a democratically elected leader ukraine is not north korea it's not saudi arabia it's a democracy and a 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 said actually trying to do so why the opposition. what they're saying it is an attempt for a regime change. you can totally up to date with the situation in kiev just by

going to r.t. dot com it's where you'll find the latest pictures and footage as well as analysis of the events in ukraine. from now on r.t. international is the geneva two conference on bringing peace back to syria draws near a beginning its special coverage of the diplomatic buildup to the potential breakthrough event. the united nations is facing us all. from syria's national coalition of the u.n. chief ban ki moon invited iran to join the geneva two peace conference and the opposition group refusing to sit at the same table as terror on demanding the u.n. retracts the offer which was reportedly already been accepted by the former french prime minister dominique de villepin he thinks the coalition should not ignore iran's political importance. i believe we have two problems today one is we need of caused 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 is very strong. very strong fights between the two parts of the political opposition and the jihadists are fighting very strongly on the ground where you really believe in the book you run should be as much as possible parts of the talks because you were uneasy very in 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 whole the diplomatic model comes amid growing fears the syrian hardest of violence could spread to the e.u. latest estimates now suggesting up to seventeen thousand foreigners have joined rebel fighters and the biggest european contributor so far is france as many as seven hundred of its nationals could right now be fighting in syria belgium and the

u.k. rounding up the top three. caught up with one londoner who lost his brother to a war that was ultimately thousands of miles away from her. day young british traveling to syria now 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. 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 the 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 of the group's activities now in the first interview since his brother's death mistaken german 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. a uniform just because he was in uniform. or something. just because. different. people in uniform. people. as a country. people like many foreign fighters 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 go there listen to what she has. complete the music depicting the with. and especially in the city a case it is in this completely wrong concept and wrong wrong idea the other members of the religious community we met in portsmouth agree on their own d.n.a. downstairs to one of the major challenges in tackling you think gauge moment social media their 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. 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 gauging a young generation like now that the thaw few years ago my friends we were just ordinary boys you know just never thought about this often a spoke about you know we're still you know still aware of what's going on 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 about thirty just something that hasn't sunk in for me or a lot of people so i know it's happened but i still hadn't sunk in so before for the full force. reporting from portsmouth in the south of england. well fears have made it to the highest echelons of global security and the f.b.i. as director said that one of the main problems was that radicalized citizens are very hard to identify and therefore given them

a lot of space to maneuver i mean 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 like al qaeda. well stay tuned for a. special coverage on the geneva two peace conference on syria that will be later in the day and we'll bring you all the latest as well as our expert opinion on the prospects for talks. lists after three years of. suggest pull over one hundred thousand. lomas see and common sense come together with one message. war is not the answer live does peace have a chance. but all told you my language as well but i will only react to situations i have read the reports so i'm

likely to push the no i will leave the state clearly a comment on your latter point to say get to carry out a car is on the docket no. thank you no more weasel words when you fade a direct question prepared for a change when you have to run should be ready for a. freedom of speech and little doubt the freedom to cost. we have corruption like we've never had in this country you can say that this is a great economy right now it's a great economy if you're rich and we're trying to get the wall to wall street cranked up again if you've got all your money in stocks it's beginning to show a little life it's not if you're an average person in this country i would i have to tend to agree with doug i mean i see a lot of public relations here i don't see

a lot of really good policy for the average person i just like to pick up on an earlier point that doug made though which i also thought was quite important and significant especially in so far as historians can provide value by looking for trends and putting things in context which was the assassination of a u.s. citizen overseas really you might say the power of a king to have life or death over their citizens without without an open trial. with economic downturns in the final. days. and the rest. will be everything.

it's all it's international law from moscow thank you for joining us today a historic nuclear deal for iran struck back in november has come into force bring in the country long anticipated economic relief as well as an end to its political isolation idea the agreement a number of painful sanctions will be east in exchange for its nuclear ambitions and the deal will last for six months until the country and six world powers agree on a final compromise which. reports. does have 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 they will no longer be restrictions on the rein in exports of petro 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 stringless 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 goodwill 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 his 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 why 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. stories being uploaded to our website. by shooting. at. social media. right now. thanks for joining us today it is an organization.

like. the u.k. the world association of newspapers and publishers is so worried about the reaction . to the snowden leaks taking the government. takes up the story from london. 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 freedoms the paper says its face

says to sit and the threats of legal action. of the chief executive of the organization that. you were already concerned about the status of press freedom in the u.k. before the snowden affair up. studying the religious and. we've always as an organization didn't care about self-regulation all over the world always concerned about a situation especially in the unmeasured 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 you're right. that the british instead of

the speaking. tends to believe. they could bypass the future of professional journalism it's a big concern about. the general trend which pete. i think actually. 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 states you can trust. the system ability of. put it to. me think u.k. visit is unprecedented but his organization is worried that any violation of the freedom of the press here will give all of those caught to oppress their own media and throwing away three hundred years of press inside a single year is not something to be ignored or it is some of the global headlines

in brief to turkey we go scuffles have broken out between riot police and protesters who were marching in memory of a journalist gunned down seven years ago and drink campaign for armenian rights and was shot by an ultra nationalist right outside his newspaper's office detractors say the government has done little to uncover who lend support to the murderer the rally takes place once a year and is ultimately become a general call for justice in turkey. and tens of thousands of pansy abortion protesters have marched through the center of paris and they waved showing their support for the recent produce life moves of the conservative spanish government it's mulling over a new laws that would make it rather difficult for pregnancy used to be terminated the rally comes ahead of monday's debate in the french assembly over the possible relaxing. in japan who's strongly against the relocation of a u.s. military base to his city has now been elected. in the works for officials who have

been trying to move the current installation from okinawa for more than ten years thirty thousand american soldiers are still stationed at the base that many locals associate with pollution and questionable activities. vladimir putin sat down with the international media saying security services will pull out the stops to make sure the saatchi olympics are safe but they will remain as low profile as possible and the russian president also answered questions on the cost of the games and said that gay visitors would be welcomed my colleague leadership of oliver spoke with artie's andrew farmer he's in sochi for us. 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 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 to 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 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. 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 out approaches towards russia still exist from the perspective that there is a need to restrain something. and finally security and. how it will affect the games is of course a lot one reason many people that one of the president's comments on don. is a major issue particularly after the bombings in volgograd he did say that forty thousand troops and police. 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 to ensure you see the members of the public and all these people will 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 small patrols of police on the streets and also regular police 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 you can find the full olympic if you would the russian president on our web site of course that is called the next on our team to national it's the documentary siberian apostles it tells the story of a second calling for people to abandon their homes for spiritual salvation however if you're in the u.k. you're about to go underground with afshin rattansi. in

the heart of the impossible siberian tiger lissa group dedicated to following a man who calls himself the syrian every year on august eighteenth members of this community gather on a mountain that they say sacred to see that man who claims to be the modern christ in. the.