street mayhem in ukraine enraged protesters lash out at police torching cars and beating. but it's the wellbeing of the activists that the e.u. and us so worried about. with sanctions unless they pull the police out of central kiev. also the syrian opposition threatens to drop out of the geneva two peace talks off the u.n. invites iran to the negotiating table meantime investigates fears that europeans are radicalized by the conflict could drive the war back home. plus the snowden leaks and freedom of speech government finds itself the target of an investigation into its crackdown on media outlets responsible for publishing sensitive

information. headlines live from moscow thanks for joining us on r.t. international i'm rule research. pockets of continuing violence amid smoldering cars and the main landmarks of the ukrainian capital right now it's off to a night of violence in kiev which left at least seventy policemen injured anti-government protesters angry at a recently adopted set of laws against demonstrations have been attacking police lines with clubs. and fire bombs. reports right from the thick of the fighting just when everyone thought that the protest 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 protesters 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 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 are drawing fire crackers and bolts of cocktails that at the police lines and 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 were using rubber bullets against the crowd this is basically the people's reaction there are two words 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 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 pro. administration building where the police. actually happening on the other side of the police structure. there is a chance and this is the word on the ground that the police actually use this riot as a pretext to storm. the barricades which. gives them a valid reason according to the new legislation. so far it's still it's. going

to go. meanwhile e.u. foreign ministers are set to meet to discuss the events in ukraine they are in talks with the u.s. on bringing sanctions to bear against the government there they say they are concerned about violence being used by the authorities and are demanding that riot police leave central kiev. barack obama expressed his support for the ukrainian opposition he wrote on twitter that the protest was a direct result of the actions of president. when the protests first erupted last he showed her experience 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. that the police. there is 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 nationalist activists. i would say this is exactly what they wanted them to 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 the police as well so this is sort of a repeat of what we saw back then just a month ago essentially but it does look a lot does look a lot so here of course it's much more colorful now rewinding the clock. very briefly. 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 in one of the government to step down 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 it was shouting because that's exactly what they need and they don't see the. president saying he is ready to enter talks with the opposition to resolve the ongoing political crisis in ukraine neil clark. who's been monitoring the rest in kiev so because the opposition knows it would lose at the ballot box it's trying to topple the government. the opposition. of course they claim to have been why didn't they simply wait for the elections we're not talking

about five years probably talking about next february we'll be talking about thirteen months time so i think that the opposition are now trying to bring down a gun to try to bring about that very early elections to think things through the elections talk to me some democratic fixes say you know this is the majority of people are not represented by them i mean there's no evidence that say that the majority of people who can do support them and i think that if the goal of this would be an undemocratic move freely and the hypocrisy of the western leaders about this is quite striking because you know coach 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 or not that may not be as i said every twenty fifteen so why don't the opposition wait till now i think what we're seeing in ukraine is an attempt for a regime change. you can say fully up to date with the ongoing situation just by

going to. where you can find the latest pictures or the. analysis on all the unfolding in ukraine. it's all it's international 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. as the united nations faces and us all vem ultimatum from syria's national coalition this after un chief ban ki-moon invited iran to join the geneva two peace conference of the opposition group refusing to sit at the same table as to run and demanding the u.n. retracts the offer which is reportedly already been accepted by the former french prime minister dominique de ville power he 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 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 what he ran should be as much as possible parts of the talks because you were uneasy very regional players and if we can have you run on board in discussing the crit crisis of the region we are of course we will be much more efficient the diplomatic model that comes amid growing fears syrian jihad is violence could spread over to the e.u. latest estimate suggesting up to seventeen thousand foreign fighters have joined the rebel forces are the biggest european contributor is france as many as seven

hundred of its nationals could be in syria right now belgium and the u.k. rounding out the top three so ati's sarah first quarter up with one londoner who lost his brother to a war thousands of miles away from home. they young british and they're traveling to syria in their hundreds of people. and according to one expert 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 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 joined one of the most radical opposition groups operating in the country isis the islamic state of iraq and sham now 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 mr kim jim and exclusively tells r.t. he wants to set the record straight about his brother really was and why he thinks he went to fight difference between. a uniform just because he was a 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 the young men listen to what you heard as. complete the music depicting the 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 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 where if

those mosques and not delivering what the youth want they may look for it somewhere else because the country and europe white and the syrian conflict is engaging a young generation like note that the four years ago a member of my friends we were just ordinary boys you know just never thought about this stuff in 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 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 i still hadn't sunk in so before for the full force of. surf. reporting from portsmouth in the south of england well fears have made it to the highest echelons of global security the f.b.i. as director said one of the main problems was that radicalized citizens are very

hard to identify by giving them a lot of room to maneuver i want to cross the atlantic the head of britain's m i five said syria had become the number one destination for all of those sympathizing with major terrorist groups like al qaeda. well you kind of stay tuned with the international for the coverage on the geneva two peace conference on syria later in the day or bring you all the latest as well as expert opinion on the prospects for talks. after two years of. just over one hundred. million common sense come together with one. war is not. does peace have a chance. or just on a quarter past the hour here in moscow thanks for joining us on r.t. international more news around the corner one of the stories including the first

results of iran's historic nuclear deal back after a break. i know. tanya laid it well tell me how you are my little grandson. i don't like i don't like. being cut off. except it doesn't mean. that the spiritual side is destructive. i try to convince her to try to preach that it was a sect but it's dangerous that she had to leave it was a story she had lost her mind. you know you see we'll come back i know it was and i will wait even if it means i must wait until my dying

day. it's all it's international thanks for sharing your monday with us and historic nuclear deal for iran struck back in november has come into force bring in the country long anticipated economic reform as well as an end to its political isolation under the agreement a number of painful sanctions will be eased in exchange for its hiran curbing its nuclear ambitions now the deal that will last for six months that is until the country on the other six world powers agree on some sort of final compromise all in

all the estimated economic relief to iran for the next six months will work out seven billion dollars access to a large part about some four point two billion dollars will be made available through blocked iranian funds abroad or the rest will come through the easing of restrictions on the exports of petro chemicals gold precious metals and international financial transactions paula samir 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 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 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 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 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 and on the hour every hour at r.t. dot com new stories going up for you including authorities in two american states saying they would consider bringing back the death penalty by a shooting that's after a fourth attempt to kill a convicted in maid with a new drug cocktail in ohio it's roast concerns that lethal drugs could become rather difficult to come by those details on the website for you right now i'll. show you there check out this one as well talk about targeting terror online. a russian lawmaker proposes a bill where people who set up fake social media accounts would be slapped with fines mounting to thousands of dollars and that's among the many other stories uploaded on this monday at r.t. dot com. for now in the program it's an organization that synvisc to get complaints against press freedom in trouble spots like yemen and me and ma but now

it's turning its science on the united kingdom the world association of newspapers and news publishers is so worried about the reaction of authorities there to the snowden leaks that it's now taking the government to tosk more from london with. the world association of nice paper and nice 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 so 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 freedoms the paper says it's face to sit on the threats of legal action and you are the chief executive of the

organization. and 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 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. general trend which could. 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 state you can trust. the system ability of. you to 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 others carte blanche to oppress their own media and throwing away three hundred years of press freedom inside a single year is not something to be ignored. some of the global headlines for your time for the. turkey we go twice scuffles have broken out between riot police and

protesters who were marching in memory of a journalist to gun down seven years ago. campaigned for armenian of rights and was shot by an ultra nationalist just outside his newspaper's office detractors say the government has done little to uncover who lent support to the murder of the rally does take place once a year it's become a general call for justice in turkey. and to japan where a mayor who is strongly against the relocation of a u.s. military base to his city has been reelected and the vote 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 has sat down with the international media saying security services will pull out the stops to make sure the olympics are safe but remain as low

profile as possible the russian president also said questions on the cost of the games and said that it gave visitors will be welcomed my colleague. who's in sochi for. these games are the most expensive in the lympics history and five times the original price tag but mr putin did stress that over the last five years sochi was the biggest building site in the world all the venues had to be built from scratch in this huge infrastructural development in terms of roads and rail links and he said because of that it was expected things would go over budget but he said where overspend has not been justified action has been taken and people have actually lost their jobs including a russian olympic committee member who was in charge of the ski 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 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 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 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 compared to 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 big games is of course a lot warmer as 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 g.c. 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 will come to sochi to try and enjoy the games my own experience i was walking along the promenade yesterday and on the horizon was a warship and yes you do see small patrols of police on the streets nor so 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 or you can find they are full of begin to view with the russian president on our website of course that is our dot com the next on r.t. international a special documentary called siberian apostles tells the story of a sect calling for people to abandon everything to achieve spiritual salvation why from moscow it's art and yet.

another whistle blower is 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 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 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 process 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 hard core fans but that's just my opinion.