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ferociously beating dozens. but it's the wellbeing of the activists the e.u. and us the worried about threatening the office already as with sanctions unless they pull the police out of central kenya. also the syrian opposition threatens to drop out of the geneva two peace talks after the un invites iran to the negotiating table meanwhile international investigates fears that europeans are radicalized by the conflict could drag the war back home. the snowden leaks and freedom of speech the u.k. government finds itself the target of an investigation into its crackdown on media outlets responsible for publishing sensitive information.

to a worldwide headlines live on r.t. international law. welcome to the program today pockets of continuing violence amid smoldering cars and the mainland of the ukrainian capital right now that's after a night of violence in kiev which left at least seventy policemen injured antigovernment protesters angry at a recently adopted set of laws against demonstrations have been attacking police lines with clubs flash bangs our. correspondent. reports right from the thick of the fighting. 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 been used against the people the protesters a drawing fire crackers and bolts of called tells that at the police lines it's not exactly reaching the police but explodes right near the police lines and the police is responding by throwing back flash bangs and sound grenades as well as some reports suggesting that they are 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 regression of democracy which they believe to be oppressive in 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 presidential administration building when there were clashes with the police right now the atmosphere is very tense no one knows what. is actually happening on the other side of the police lines the structures 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 disperse the crowd because this gives them a valid reason according to the new legislation. so far it's down still it's. going to go. in the meantime foreign ministers are set to meet to discuss the events in ukraine they are in talks with america bringing sanctions to bear against the government and they say they are concerned

about violence being used by the authorities and demanding the riot police leave here. one advisor to 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 and his party. was in the city when the protests first erupted last year she shared her experiences with my colleague and i went. 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 are. 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. activists i would say this is exactly what they wanted the main. 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 the bulldozer into. 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 sillier of course it's much more colorful now rewinding the clocks. very briefly how all this started. back back in the day basically it was about the fact that you know college pulled out at the very last moment from signing 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 over the second month protests and they cannot agree on anything they decided not even to bring out a unified candidate should the elections take place and a lot of people i think were really upset by that but that's what people were chanting earlier today they were they were shouting because that's exactly what they need and they don't see. now president in a covert you're saying that he's ready to talks with the opposition to resolve the ongoing political crisis in ukraine neil clark a 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. it's the opposition. they claim to have and why don't they simply wait for the elections we're not talking about five years tom we're talking about the expense of everybody talking about thirteen months time so i think that the opposition are now trying to bring down the gulf to try to bring about very early

elections to think things through the elections talk to me some democratic fixes to you know this is the majority of people are not represented by them i mean there's no evidence that they think that the majority of people who grant you support them and i think that if the goal of just and this would be undemocratic move freely and the hypocrisy of the western leaders about this is quite striking because the code which was a democratically elected leader of 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 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. and you can set up a dead with the ongoing situation in kiev by going to watch dot com that's where you'll find out the latest pictures all the footage as well as analysis on the events unfolding in ukraine. it's all to international as the geneva

two conference on bringing peace to syria draws nearer the international we begin a special coverage of the diplomatic build up to the event which could lead to a possible breakthrough. and we are all very to meet him from the syrian national coalition to the un could mean the group isn't interested in a balanced and impartial outcome of the geneva peace conference that's according to russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov that the opposition group refused to sit at the same table as iran after the u.n. chief invited tehran to join the talks or 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 rub the table but also we have with the opposition 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 that iran should be as much as possible part of the talks because you were an easy very regional player and if we can have you run on board in discussing the crit crises of the region we are of course we will be much more efficient and the diplomatic model comes amid growing fears syrian a jihad is the violence could spread over to the e.u. latest estimates suggest up to seventeen thousand foreigners have now joined the rebel fighters 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 lottie's sarah firth went to meet one londoner who lost his brother to a war that is simply thousands of miles away from their home. young

british traveling to syria hungry people. and according to one expert 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 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 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 ticket was

active on social media placing video as an update. now in the first interview since his brother's death mistaken djimon exclusively tells r.t. he wants to set the record straight about who his brother really was and why he thinks he went to fight difference between. a uniform just because he was in uniform. or something. just because he was. 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 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 with. 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. down says to one of the major challenges in tackling gauge meant 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 because the country and europe white and the syrian conflict is gauging

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 have thought you know my brother one this one year older than me is. going to be who died in a belfort 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 of. reporting from portsmouth in the south of england welfare's have made it now to the highest echelons of global security the f.b.i. is director has said that one of the main problems was that radicalized citizens were very hard to identify ultimately giving them a lot of space to maneuver i want to cross the atlantic the head of britain's m i five has said that syria has now become the number one destination for all those

sympathizing with major terrorist groups such as al qaida. we can stay very much up to date on all of this here on r.t. international special coverage on the geneva two peace conference on syria later in the day we'll be bringing you the latest as well as expert opinion on the prospects for the talks. just over one hundred. commonsense come together with one. war does not. does chance. well it's good to have you with us here on r.t. international today do stay with us if you can more news coming up just after the break.

there were millions of dollars moving from a company in saudi arabia called sharpie fruit a fruit company and they were sending money to. the leading members of the muslim brotherhood in yemen so this is what. is allowing then facilitating that to happen here that causes political instability in the region and that causes i mean that's fine it's treason it's financing our enemies and what's crazy about it is that each s.p.c. admitted to the department of justice and to the world they've made it treason financing the enemy if you plead guilty to financing the enemy i don't think you should just walk with a fine that's not final that's jail. wealthy british style it's not on.

the. market why not. find out what's really happening to the global economy kinds of reports on. a pleasure to have you with us here on the program today it's artsy international the un's nuclear watchdog has confirmed iran has started to hold its most sensitive uranium enrichment and historic nuclear deal struck back in november under the agreement a number of a painful sanctions will be eased in exchange for to iran being its nuclear ambitions now the deal will last for approximately six months until the country and the other six world powers a agree on some sort of final compromise now when it comes to an estimated economic relief package you have provided to iran for the next six months. it will work out to about seven billion dollars access to

a large part of that some four point two billion dollars will be available through currently blocked iranian funds abroad now the rest will come through the easing of restrictions on the exports of petro chemical products gold precious metals and international financial transactions because of these 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 during this time frame that the international community and iran will need to reach a final agreement that many fear without which could ultimately see the border middle east descend into chaos and possibly even

a war what is clear is that there has been a good will and the wanting for this deal to work that has overridden the skeptics and the voices calling for fresh sanctions but what is not clear is how the united states is going to maneuver its way forward it has a very fine line to walk on the one hand you have 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 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 on the web site right now. to u.s. states saying they'll consider bringing back the death penalty by shooting it after

a failed attempt to kill a convicted in maid with a new drug cocktail in ohio. or so on the web site right now targeting terror online by russian lawmaker proposes a bill where people who set up fake social media accounts could be slapped with fines in the. thousands of dollars. it is an organization that's investigated complaints against press freedom and trouble spots like yemen and me in ma but now it's turning its sights on the u.k. and the world association of newspapers and news publishers is so why read about the reaction of a thorough he's there to the snowden leaks that is taking the government to task laura smith reports. 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 so 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 to see the threats of legal action. of the chief executive of the organization that said. you were already concerned about the state of press freedom in the u.k. before that. we've always as an organization. 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 public authorities the state and the freedom of the press basic principle which is . 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 publication of the n.s.a. there might be some risk actually. that the british instead of speaking. tends to believe. they could bypass the future of professional journalism it's a big. general. pete. to actually be that's 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 sustainability of.

put it to sions that's not penn admits that u.k. visit is unprecedented but his organization is worried that any violation of the freedom of the press heya 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 it quickly the all the world update to turkey we go where scuffles are broken out between riot police and protesters marching in memory of a journalist gunned down seven years ago during campaign for armenian rights and was shot by an ultra nationalist outside his newspaper's office detractors say the government's done little to one couple who didn't support to the killer at the rally takes place once a year it's become a general calls for justice and. to japan where

a man who was strongly against the relocation of a u.s. military base to a city has now been reelected 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 station to the base but many locals associate with pollution and questionable activities. are stepping aside for sophia and sophie shevardnadze coming your way just. 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 plaque 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 i.e. 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. after three years of. over one hundred. m. a c. and common sense come together with one. war is not. does the chance. us president barack obama's public opinion ratings are in the doldrums he may finish his days in office as one of the country's worst in least effective presidents how do historians and the public to determine the success. the failure of an american president and why are some presidents rehabilitated years or even decades after they leave all.

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

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