street may have a new crane enraged protesters lash out at police torching cars and ferociously beating dozens. but it isn't the wellbeing of the activists that the e.u. and us so worried about threatening the author of peace 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 after the u.n. invites iran to the negotiating table meanwhile investigates fears that europeans are radicalized by the conflict could drag the war back home. plus the snowden leaks and freedom of speech the u.k. government finds itself an investigation into its crackdown on media outlets

responsible for publishing sensitive information. this hour's top world news live on r.t. international. very warm welcome to you today pockets of continuing violence amid small touring cars and dead at 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 government protesters angry at her recently adopted set of laws against demonstrations have been attacking police lines with clubs flash bangs and fire bombs as well. reports right from the thick. 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 protests 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 the fact been 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'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 in many actions. actions can be punished with a prison sentence and as usually happens in kiev as 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 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 orders 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 disperse the crowd 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. foreign ministers are set to meet to discuss the events in ukraine they're in talks with the u.s. bringing sanctions against the government they say they are concerned about violence being used by the authorities and i've been monitoring that riot police central have. expressed his support for the ukrainian opposition he wrote on twitter that the protest of violence was a direct result of the actions of president and his party. in the city when the protests first erupted last year she shared her experiences with my colleague. i would say 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 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 that 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 saw back then just a month ago essentially but it does look a lot. a lot so here 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 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 their revolution and want the government to step down over 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. president bush now saying he is ready to enter talks with the opposition to resolve the ongoing political crisis in ukraine neil clark the u.k. based journalist who's been monitoring beyond resting kiev he says because the opposition knows that it would lose at the ballot box it's simply trying to topple the government. the opposition. they claim to have and why don't they simply wait the

elections we're not talking about five years time it'll be about next february talking about thirteen months so i think the opposition are now trying to bring down the try to bring it out very early elections to think through the elections. and he's undemocratic because. you know the majority of people who are not represented by them i mean there's no evidence that they. people ukraine do support them and i think that is the goal of this would be an undemocratic move freely and focus of the western leaders about this is quite striking because. it was a democratically elected leader ukraine is not north korea it's not saudi arabia it's a democracy and it 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 you know i think what they're saying in ukraine is an attempt for

a regime change. you can stay up to date with the ongoing situation in kiev by simply going to r.t. dot com that's where you'll find the latest pictures all the footage as well as analysis of the events in ukraine. it's a hearty international the geneva two conference on bringing peace to syria draws near a beginning a special coverage of the diplomatic buildup to the event which could lead to a possible breakthrough. the united nations faces and all of them all to meet him from syria's national coalition the u.n. chief ban ki-moon invited iran to join the geneva two peace conference the opposition group refusing to sit at the same table as terror on demanding the u.n. retract the offer which has reportedly already been accepted and the former french prime minister dominique de villepin he thinks the coalition should not for a moment 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 opposition a very strong. very strong fights between the two parts of the political opposition and the jihadists 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 syrian she hardest by could spread over to the e.u. the latest estimate suggesting up to seventeen thousand foreign fighters have

already joined the rebel forces the biggest european contributor is france at least seven hundred french nationals in syria right now belgium and the u.k. rounding out the top three lotty correspondent sara caught up with one londoner who lost his brother to a war 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 that's 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 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 joined 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.

benefit as a country. 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 she heard as. complete decent debate in the village and specially 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 on their own d.n.a. douses 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 polls 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 cost 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 stuff in 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 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 something before for the full force and. say reporting from portsmouth in the south of england well fears have now made it to 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 giving them a lot of space to maneuver i want to cross the atlantic the head of britain's m i five said that syria had become the number one destination for all those sympathizing with major terrorist groups just like al qaeda. we can stay with us here on ozzie international for the coverage on the whole geneva two peace conference on syria just a bit later in the day more on that and also bring you the latest expert opinion on the prospects for the talks. after three years of. the death toll of over one hundred. million commonsense come together with one. war is not. does peace have a chance. or

a quarter past the hour here in the russian capital it's all at sea international a lot more news coming your way just around the corner that will be including the first results of iran's historic nuclear deal i have to say you know. as a new physician i swear to abide by that to go. to the best of my ability and judgment. i will prescribe for the good of my patients. i will not give deadly doses to anybody. or advise of those to do so. i will never do harm to. doctors of the dogs.

or the. technology innovation all the list of elements from around russia we. covered. it's a pleasure to have you with us here on r.t. international today and historic nuclear deal for iran struck back in november has now come into force in spring in the country long anticipated economic relief as well as an end to his political isolation under the agreement a number of painful sanctions will be eased in exchange for to run curbing its

nuclear ambitions now the deal that will last for six months until the country and six world powers ultimately agree on some type of final compromise now all in all the estimated economic relief provided to iran under the deal should work out to about seven billion dollars over the next six months access to a large part about some four point two billion dollars will be available through currently blocked iranian funds abroad or the rest will come through the easing of restrictions on the exports of petrochemicals gold and precious metals and international financial transactions as artie's fall asleep reports a long term deal still has two major stumbling blocks in the 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 during last 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 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. our internet team loading up stories of. one of them right now in two u.s. states they say they are considering bringing back the death penalty by shooting. off for a botched attempt to kill a convicted intimate with a new drug cocktail in ohio raising concerns that lethal drugs could become difficult to come by those details that are right now. why you that this story is just going to go. online and russian lawmaker proposes a bill where people who set up fake social media accounts. with fines mounting into the thousands of dollars. on the website right now.

before we get to the update for now it is an organization that's investigated complaints against press freedom and trouble spots like yemen. but now is turning its sights on the u.k. the world association of newspapers and news publishers is so worried about the reaction. to the snowden leaks taking the government to top. it off 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 on the threats of legal action pen 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 blew up. in studying the religious and case. we've always as an organization taking care broad self-regulation 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 be. that the british and generally speaking . tends to believe. they could bypass the future of professional journalism it's a big concern about. the 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. put it to. me. 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 inside a single year is not something to be ignored by let's get some other global headlines for you international this is turkey scuffles or broken up between riot police and protesters who were marching in memory of a journalist gunned down seven years ago. during campaign for all media rights and was shot by an ultra nationalist outside his newspaper's office detractors say the government has done little to uncover who lent support to the murderer at the rally takes place once a year and has become a general call for justice in turkey. a mayor in japan who strongly against the relocation of a u.s. military base to his city has been reelected and the vote was a 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 activities. vladimir putin has sat down with the international media saying security services will pull out the stops to make sure they're safe but remain as low profile as possible the russian president also answered questions on the cost of the games and said that it gave visitors will be welcomed my colleague. spoke to our farmer who's in sochi for. yes 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 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 was helpful and he said that he thought that the worst still people in the west 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 being global 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 secures. the and how it will affect big gains is of course a lot more as many people that one of the president's comments on that. this is a major issue particularly after the new year bombings in volgograd he did say that forty thousand troops and police are on duty in and around the search 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 start 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 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 watch a full interview with the russian president on our web site www dot com both for now i'm stepping aside for kate partridge who's coming in for a big recap of the past week's main sporting events. 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 war of luxury no she exposed something far more dangerous and important to

the zombies on their couches the university of north carolina athletes are mentally unfit for college and even high school mary willing come blew the whistle on the fact that between eight and ten percent of the school's football and basketball players read of a fourth grade level and many others are sub college level she also claims that these students were allowed into the university based on the screening process done by the university implying that the you 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.

u.s. president barack obama's a public opinion ratings are in the doldrums he may finish his days in office as one of the country's worst presidents how do the story and the public determine the success or failure of an american president and why are some presidents rehabilitated years or even decades to evolve. and i thank you for joining me for the r t sports show a pic of the best sporting action from russia and around the globe coming up and here are the top stories. forming cvs maria sharapova and world number one serena williams crowned shatter the australian open but victoria azarenka remains on course to defend her time still in the.