mayhem in ukraine protesters to lash out at police torching cars and ferociously. but it's well being over the activists the e.u. and us are worried about. pull the police out of. the syrian opposition has to drop out of the geneva two peace talks after the u.n. invites iran to the negotiating table meanwhile investigates fears europeans radicalized by the conflict could drag the war back home. plus of the snowden leaks and freedom of speech the u.k. government finds itself the investigation into its crackdown on the media outlets

responsible for publishing sensitive information. your top worldwide headlines live from moscow welcome to the program here in our international. at least seventy policemen have been injured in a fresh wave. of antigovernment protesters angry at a recently adopted set of laws against demonstrations have been attacking police lines with clubs. and five bombs as well. reports from right in 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 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 how to be 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 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 and given for the last at least two months or so people gathered for a meeting on for a rally on a sunday which escalated to 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 and border 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 disperse the crowd because this gives them a valid reason according to the new legislation. so far it's down 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 events in ukraine there are in

talks with the us bringing sanctions to bear against the government but they say they are concerned about violence being used by the authorities and demanding that riot police. here involving the advisor to the iraq obama expressed his support ukraine you know position he wrote on twitter the protest of violence is a direct result of the actions of president and his party. he won the protests first started last year she showed her experiences with my colleagues. 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 breaking loose and it never happened it's 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 the mayhem 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 a bulldozer into a police 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. and here of course it's much more colorful now rewinding the clocks. 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

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 a revolution and want the government to step down for over a second month protest 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 it was touting their leader because that's exactly what they need and they don't see. president now saying that he is ready to enter talks with the opposition to try and resolve the ongoing political crisis in ukraine neil clark a u.k. based journalist who's been monitoring the unrest in kiev he says the opposition is trying to topple the government because it knows that the government 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 five years' time or to expand very early talking about thirteen months time so i think the opposition are now trying to

bring down the government try to bring it out very early elections to think through the elections and he's undemocratic because. you know that the majority of people are not represented by them i mean there's no evidence that they. do support them and i think that is the goal of them and this would be an undemocratic move freely and the hypocrisy of 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 in 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 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 in ukraine is an attempt for a regime change or you can stay up to date with the situation in kiev by logging on to r.t. dot com it's where you'll find the latest pictures and footage or as well as analysis

of the events in ukraine. the international life as the geneva two conference on bringing peace to syria draws near a beginning its special coverage of the diplomatic buildup to the event which could lead to a possible breakthrough. now the united nations faces and or venom ultimatum from syria's national coalition after u.n. chief banki moon invited iran to join the geneva two peace conference the opposition group is 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 didn't the opposition is very strong. very strong fights between the two parts of the 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'd of course we will be much more efficient the diplomatic model comes amid growing fears that syrian jihad is the violence could spread over to the e.u. the latest estimates suggesting that up to seventeen thousand foreigners have now joined rebel fighters and the biggest european contributor so far is france as many as seven hundred of its nationals could be fighting in syria right now belgium and

the u.k. rounding out the top three. sarah first caught up with one londoner who lost his brother to a war ultimately thousands of miles away from her. they're young british and they're traveling to syria in their hundreds. and according to one experts the now part of the largest european islamist foreign fighting contingent in recent times. 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 a community that twenty three year old it's a kitchen 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 it crossed into

syria via turkey it was only once there he informed his family he had gone to fight jihad or holy war do you think that the young men listen to what you heard as. complete the music debate in the village and specially in the city a case it is in this completely wrong concept and wrong wrong idea there are other members of the religious community we met in portsmouth agree and their own d.n.a. down says 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 cause the

country and europe wide and the syrian conflict is engaging a young generation like note that the thaw few years ago a member of 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 have thought you know my brother one this one year older than me is. going to be who died in a battlefield 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 full full force doesn't mean. a reporting from portsmouth in the south of england well fears have made it at the highest echelons of global security the f.b.i. as director said that one of the main problem was that radicalized citizens were very hard to identify by giving them a lot of space to maneuver in time across the atlantic the head of britain's m i

five said that syria had become the number one destination for all those sympathizing with all major terrorist groups like al qaeda. well do stay with us here on our to international for special coverage on the geneva two peace conference on syria later in the day we'll be bringing you all the latest as well as expert opinion on the prospects for the talks. one hundred. c. and common sense come together with one. war is not. does peace have a chance. there's a lot more news coming your way here on r.t. international including that of the first results of iran's historic nuclear deal

it's after a short break. 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 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 insofar 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 eighteen to have life or death over their citizens without without an open trial.

it's all the international live from moscow thanks for joining us and historic nuclear deal for iran struck back in november has come into force bringing the country long anticipated economic relief as well as an end to its political isolation under the agreement a number of painful sanctions will be eased in exchange for terror on curbing its nuclear ambitions and the deal will last for six months until the country and six world powers agree on some sort of final compromise all in all the estimated

economic relief to iran for the next six. in work that should come out to about a seven billion dollars access to a large part about some four point two billion dollars will be available through we're currently blocked iranian funds of broad and the rest will come through the easing of restrictions on the exports of petro chemical products gold and precious metals and international financial transactions as artie's pullets lira reports a long term deal still has two major stumbling blocks in its way. 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 rain and 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 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 israel there 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 prison 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 torrid always a lot of stories on our website our to dot com including right now authorities in two american states say they would consider bringing back the death penalty by shooting after a botched attempt to kill a convicted in maid with a new drug cocktail in ohio raises concerns that lethal drugs could become difficult to come by but do house right now on the website for ya. why you there also this one just growing up as well targeting terror online a russian lawmaker proposes a bill where people who set up fake social media accounts could be slapped with fines amounting into the thousands of dollars right now that's also at r.t. dot com. it's approaching twenty minutes past the hour here in moscow it is an organization that's investigated complaints against press freedom in trouble spots like yemen and me and ma but now it's turning its sights on the u.k. the world association of newspapers and news publishers are so worried about the

reaction of both already he's there to the snowden leaks it is taking the government to tosk lower smith reports. the world to say you see a ship 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 the documents now they've sent out another delegation but not to a war torn failed state or dictatorship it's come 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 threat of legal action 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 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 of 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 ignored or let's get some other global headlines for brief a time now for the turkey we go also broken out between riot police and protesters

through a marching in memory of a journalist gunned down seven years ago. during campaign for meaning in rights and was shot dead by ultra nationalists outside his newspaper's office detractors say the government has done little to uncover support for the murder of their only takes place once a year it's become a general call for justice. and tens of thousands of abortion protesters have marched through the center of paris they waved flags showing their support for the recent pro-life moves of the conservative spanish government it's mulling over a new laws that would make it very difficult for pregnancies to be terminated at the rally comes ahead of monday's debate in the french assembly over the possible relaxing of abortion. who strongly against the relocation of a u.s. military base to a city has been reelected and the vote was just spanner 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 activity. he's. all right we'll get to cross talk soon for now they're on the program vladimir putin has sat down with the international media saying security services will pull out the stops to make sure the soft lympics are safe but the security remains as low profile as possible for the russian president also on sort of questions on the cost of the games and said that gay visitors would be welcomed and my colleague your leadership of oliver spoke to artie's and you farmer he's in sochi for us. these games are the most expensive in the olympic 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 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 are they if evidence was presented it would be investigated russia's law against gay propaganda to mine is rose 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 that's 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 which. 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 bingo bull 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 affect big gains is a. 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. 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 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 patrols 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 you can find the full olympic interview with the russian president that's on our website of course dot com as we come to you live from moscow next on our team to national let's cross talk with host peter lavelle.

another whistleblowers 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 plot for a new world 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 the 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. done by the university 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 this goes on 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's just my opinion. after two years of. over one hundred. lumens see and common sense come together with one. war is not. does peace have a chance.