be ready for. freedom of speech and little the freedom to watch. street mayhem in ukraine in range protest and lash out at the police still torching cars and for work just leave beating done. but there is the well being all the activities that you and you are so worried about is rushing there so where she is with sanctions unless they pull the police out of central. also the syrian opposition threatens to drop out of the geneva two peace talks after being you one invites iran to negotiation table meanwhile ossie investigates fears that europeans are radical lies by the conflict who drank the.

snowden leaks and freedom of speech the u.k. government find that sell the target of their investigation into its quiet down on media outlets responsible for publishing sensitive information. this is our team to national coming here live from moscow hello and welcome to the park one. pockets of continuing violence and made a smoldering cars and debris are the main line marks of the ukrainian capital right now that's after a night of violence and kyo which left at least seven to policemen injured anti-government protesters angry at a recently adopted set of laws against demonstrators have been attacking police lines of with clubs flash bangs and fire bombs on season except your chest they were both sound from the sake 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 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 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 a drawing fire crackers and balls 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 were 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 rich russian of democracy which they believe to be oppressive on many actions protests actions can be punished with a prison sentence and as usually happens in kiev as for the last at least two months or so people gathered for a meeting on for a rally on sunday which escalated violence even worse than what i saw and what we all saw in december not far away from here at the presidential administration building when there were clashes with the police right now the atmosphere is very tense no one knows what. it's actually happening on the other side of the police lines with the instructions of 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. to use force still for you to stand still it's it's a very tense. does standoff and no one knows where it's going to go. meanwhile you foreign ministers are set to meet to discuss the bunsen ukraine they are in talks with the u. us on bringing sanctions to against the government. they say they are concerned about they have a hundred toxic is being used by the authorities and demands that rise from these central cadia of the white house of suppressed its support for the ukrainian opposition while the national security council spokesperson said it spirit is that all the environment was going to those in the station i wonder which has first started last year and shared experiences with my colleagues have been. either 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 keep it coming in waves they're waiting for the dispersed so they kept saying it's going to happen people kept getting messages through their phones and through twitter. threatening messages which were essentially saying we're about to be ambushed at the police because there's going to be you know essentially all hell breaks loose and it never happened it's really quite safe to say that we've probably had several hundred of these ultra nationalist activists but 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 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 of year of course it's much more colorful now. 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 and want the government to step down were over in the second month of protests and they cannot agree on anything they decided not even to bring out a unified candidate should the elections take place and a lot of people i think were really upset by that but that's what people were chanting earlier today they were it was shouting leader leader because that's exactly what they need and they don't see. and barris at the same publisher and business new europe says he was denying their own to maccracken bali's and supporting the ukrainian opposition. it's not a democratic process i mean the problem with a series is that ukraine is actually divided fairly evenly the last polls i saw

fifty percent of the people supported the protests but of just over forty were against it was seven percent on undecided which means that the opposition doesn't have a clear moral authority a mandate from the people in order to change the government moreover you have to remember at the end of the day for his ills and he has many on a call this remains a democratically elected president and for the last twenty years we've been saying to the eastern european countries that we need to respect democracy however here we are in a situation where you know that the e.u. and the u.s. say well forget everything we said for the last twenty years let's support these guys because they are fighting for quote unquote freedom so this is a double standard going on here. today up to date when they situation kayo by going to see don't go away you can find the latest pictures and footage as well as analysis are being banned in ukraine.

as the geneva two conference on bringing peace back to see where draws near zero is beginning its special coverage of the diplomatic buildup to the band which could lead to a potential breakthrough in the ass or ban ultimatum from the syrian national coalition to the yuan could mean the group is not interested in a balanced and impartial outcome of the geneva peace conference according to russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov their opposition group refused to sit at the same table as a run after the u.n. chief invited to iran to join the talks former french prime minister dominic dog pound things 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 could we have any settlement without having everybody

rub the table but also we have with the opposition a very strong. very strong fights between the two parts of the political opposition did you jihadist are cited very strongly on the ground where you really believe that iran should be as much as possible parts of the talks because you really see very regional players and if we can have you run on board in discussing the crude prices of the region we of course we will be much more efficient. the diplomatic model comes amid growing fears see we're into hardest violence can spread over to the you as latest estimates suggest up to seventeen thousand foreigners have joined 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. round out the top three south caught up with one londoner who lost his brother to

a group of thousands of miles away from harm. they're young british and they're traveling to syria in a hundred people. and according to one experts the now part of the largest european islamist foreign fighting contingent in recent times. to at least eleven hundred. two. hundred it was from this picturesque seaside town in portsmouth that's a group of young men recently left to go and join the fight in syria about a month ago and 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 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 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 the young men listen to what you heard. completely misinterpreting the village and especially in the city it is interest in this completely wrong concept and wrong wrong idea there are other members of the religious community we met in portsmouth agreed and they're under no doubt this toward the major challenges in tackling you think gauge moment social media their friends in other places they get led a path of who looks interesting and suddenly they're listening to the teaching and i know that our leaders here in paul's 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 are not delivering what the youth want. they may look for it somewhere else because the country and europe wide and the syrian conflict is

engaging a young generation like note that the four years ago my friends who were just ordinary boys you know just never thought about this stuff and i spoke about you know we're still you know still were well what's going on in the world but we have to 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 for the full force as i'm in here. so if they are to see reporting from portsmouth in the south of england. for years have made it to the highest echelons of global security the director said while the main problems was that radicalized citizens were very hard to identify giving them space to maneuver while across the atlantic to be had a britons and why five syria has become the number one destination for all those

sympathizing with major terrorist groups like al qaida so stay tuned for part of special coverage of the geneva two peace conference on syria later in the day i will be bringing you all the latest as well as x. but opinion on the prospects for the talks. after to. see and common sense come together with what. war is not. peace have a chance. coming up later this hour iran box its nuclear rhetoric with action while media freedoms under scrutiny in the u.k. stay with.

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 or we're trying to get the wall to wall street cranked up again if you've got all your money in stocks it's beginning to show a little life it's not if you're an average person in this country i would i have to tend to agree with doug i mean i see a lot of public relations here i don't see a lot of really good policy for the average person i just like to take up on an earlier point that doug made though which i also thought was quite important and significant especially in so far as historians can provide value by looking for trends and putting things in context which was the assassination of a u.s. citizen overseas really you might say the power to have life or death over their citizens without without an open trial.

technology innovation all the developments around russia we. covered. right. first street. and i would think that you're. an army corps put. me in the. local. i know c.n.n. the m s n b c news have taken some slightly but the fact is i admire their commitment to cover all sides of the story just in case one of them happens to be accurate oh. that was funny but it's closer to the truth and might think. it's because when full attention and the

mainstream media works side by side the joke is actually on here. the kind that come. out our teen years we have a different approach to the fellow because the news of the world just is not this funny i'm not laughing dammit i'm not. ok. i got a sense of the jokes that will handle the stuff that i've got to. this

is all seeing to nationals good to have you with us let's move on now the humans nuclear watchdog has confirmed iran had hold of its most sensitive during which mint and a historic nuclear deal struck back in november under the agreement a number of painful sanctions will be eased in exchange for turn around curbing its nuclear ambitions so the deal will last for six months until the country and six world powers hope to agree on a final compromise under the deal the estimated economic relief to run for the next six months is was seven billion dollars access to a large part of that some four point two billion dollars will be available through currently blanks iranian funds abroad so the rest will come through the easing of restrictions on the exports of petro chemical products gold and precious metals there we go and some international financial restrictions transitions transactions rather as a point to say reports now there are still challenges ahead to search

a long term deal. 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 this role that continues to say

that this was a deal with the devil you also have u.s. congressmen and women who are calling for fresh sanctions but on the other hand you have iran's which essentially the american 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. authorities in two u.s. states say they'd consider bringing the death penalty by a shooting that up to abortion to tell said kill a convicted inmate with a new drug cocktail in a hurry or raise concerns lethal drugs can become difficult to come by that israel's or it out it at all. and also bear targeting terror on line a russian or wake up or poses

a bill where people set up fake social. cannons with fines amounting to thousands of dollars that too is on our website. it's an organization that's investigated complaints against press freedom in trouble spots like yemen and myanmar and now it's turning its sights on the u.k. their wild association of newspapers and news publishers is so worried about the reaction of authorities to these snowden leaks that it's taken the government task and or smith has more now 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 documents 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 freedom the paper says its face said to sit and the threat of legal action. you are the chief executive of the organization that. you were already concerned about the status of press freedom in the u.k. before the snowden affair up. studying the leveson case. 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. created 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 since generally speaking. tends to believe. they could bypass the future of professional journalism it's become. a general trend which could. for actually the it's the rights of citizens my connection was the political environment was the state and as soon as there is a connection it was the states you can trust. the sustainability of faire attitude pretty sions. admits the 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. and after some more global headlines this hour or so sign of bombing at a market near pakistan's military headquarters has killed at least thirteen people the blast also injured eighteen others the talabani has claimed responsibility for the time in the city a rebel painting not far from the capital islamabad is the second taliban bombing in two days the previous one killed twenty people in a military convoy near the town of banner. in turkey scuffles have broken out between riot police and protesters marching in memory of a journalist gunned down seven years ago around doing campaign for meaning and riots and by an ultra nationalist outside his newspaper's office. and the traitors

say big government done little to uncover who lend support to the killer the rally takes place once again has become a train or call for justice in turkey. and mary in japan has strongly against the relocation of a u.s. military base to his city has been reelected there were protests planned in the works for the shoals have been trying to move the current installation from now work for more than ten years thirty thousand american soldiers are still stationed at the base that many locals associate with pollution and questionable activity. glad to report it has a try as the international press to lay some of the concerns that have been cropping up over the approaching sochi olympics the russian president says security services will pull out all the stops to make sure this ultraliberal sa safe but remain as low profile as possible he answered questions on the cost of the gains and make clear that agave visitors were welcomed and he also said the threat of

a boy called by some western states was a sign of countries competing with each other. or should be and it was that. 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 pricing growth it becomes a real competitor global politics and being low ball 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. stay with us for our debate show const talk coming up next.

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 i.e. 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 whistle blower is getting death threats just for saying that it is going on by those stupid hard core fans but that's just my opinion. what the american public hasn't really understood is that this is not a normal banking scandal and that these banks and like h.s.b.c. have the blood of american soldiers on their hands that i.e.d. going off in afghanistan killing and killing an american or you know allied soldier that is being financed. that's a problem. lisa .

hello and welcome to crossfire all things considered i'm peter lavelle u.s. president barack obama's public opinion ratings are in the doldrums now called a lame duck by many he may finish his days in office as one of the country's worst in least effective presidents how do historians and the public determine the success or failure of an american president and why are some presidents rehabilitated years or even decades after they leave office. to cross-talk the worst american presidents i'm joined by my guest samuel put to leakey zero in moscow he is the president of the preparing global leaders foundation and a visiting professor at georgetown university in washington we have to we he is a presidential historian and a former white house advisor to two american presidents and in boston we cross to robert near he.