they had of the e.u. parliament says ukraine's president should call snap elections wanky of an hours long truce between protesters and security forces takes away. u.s. preparing the ground for syria's rival delegations to meet face to face on friday after day one of the long awaited peace talks was marred by bitter exchanges. how was the blower's worries and words snowden is reportedly planning to ask to russia for personal protection after getting death threats.

this is our senior national coming to you live from moscow with me marina welcome to the program and the e.u. is entering the fray in ukraine it was ahead of the european parliament saying the country's president should call an early election protesters and police in kiev have declared a truce which is expected to hold for the next three hours are just peed all over is there gauging the mood on the streets and the following international reaction. in terms of what we're seeing from pressure and people taking speaking about what's going on here in ukraine from the outside well we have seen some movement with regards to the european union martin scholtz the head of the e.u. parliament has said that ukraine must call snap elections now that came on the back of the of a phone call between the president of ukraine. the president of the european union but also which was to put also expressed his deep concern about the situation there

was unfolding here in ukraine and said apparently this well if action wasn't taken to rectify this then the e.u. would be looking to try and step in and see what they could do he didn't elaborate on what he meant by that and what he what he thinks that the e.u. could do in this situation in regards to the response from for misty on a covert she said that a state of emergency wouldn't be declared here in ukraine and that we wouldn't be seeing the military becoming involved in this now he went on further to say that a special session of the ukrainian parliament would be scheduled for next week in which they would be discussing the possibility of of new elections they would also be discussing the. the repealing of all how they would go about repealing new laws new measures that were brought in to try and tackle the violence that we've seen on the streets here now with regards to snap elections what we're hearing from the ukrainian prime minister mr out of is that well in his opinion that's just funds

the full that they'd just not possible it's not plausible to hold elections such short notice now he also was talking about those that have been involved in the clashes these rioters that have been involved in clashes with police describing them as militants not his day saying they're not demonstrators they're not protesters. the cuts in his words militants no we spoke to we went along over just behind me where the main flashpoint being as it's all quite know due to the cease fire but we went along there to find out what would be going on if no solution can be found war war let's just see vitali klitschko what is the position you see of course in the whole world heavyweight boxing champion delivering a speech to the right is here on the front line the very front line of the barricades here just in front of us say this wall of fire that exists between the

the rights and the right place right now. he's been talking to two to his supporters and giving them messages here's what we have heard is that this after this twenty four while was of this ultimatum that was delivered to the the victory on the corporations ukrainian president. that there could be potentially more violence and we would expect to see that if those if their demands are met well the center of kiev has turned into a battlefield and this is independence square right here on the map known as my don which has become the main hub of the protests that's where the opposition camp is but some of the most fierce clashes are when they took place near the street tires were set alight there and you just heard from our correspondent pete all over there reporting from the scene of back two people were killed both reportedly with

bullet wounds the authorities however say police on the streets do not have live ammunition and there do appear to have been vigilantes with firearms among the protesters as you can see and this picture right here british journalist graham phillips who returned from king of just recently says the protesters have been resorting to very aggressive tactics. i was a. sunday and i saw guys lining up with fuse the laws of missiles and cocktails and noise and weapons of every single man attacking police in every way they codes and i return from that we've been on the internet checking the news and it has been reported immediately that the us has introduced sanctions against the ukrainian government. police and government are being criticized but to be there on the ground it's it's absurd to reconcile that with what you see which is hardly military lines that in fact i've been in city hall just proceeding events these

guys were getting militarized were getting mobilized they were getting ready to go into war they knew exactly they were receiving briefings they were receiving instructions on that basis of going into war they went in on that basis and they went to that end to effectively instigate a civil war in ukraine and i think it would really be too dangerous to say that we have a moment isn't a degree of civil war in ukraine farai groups are gaining momentum in ukraine as those anti-government protests continue to rage and they are making it clear that they do not favor peaceful resistance nationalist factions are insisting that the government will only listen to the language of force meanwhile washington has responded to a grain street violence by revoking the visas of several individuals and threatening sanctions from the u.s. point of view only one side is to blame in all this. now reports. the obama administration had upped its rhetoric against ukraine on wednesday warning of possible sanctions that the government continues its crackdown on protesters there

the state department spokesperson here in washington said all policy options are on the table but did not offer any more specifics now the u.s. meanwhile has what we vote for the visas of several ukrainian officials who are allegedly implicated in the violence against peaceful protesters no members of the opposition however have their views has revoked by the united states this is something that did come under some scrutiny at the state department press conference when a journalist or raise the issue of a double standard the united states has already revoked visas of several people responsible for violence. several officials ukrainian officials several. so there's no position protesters nothing like this ukrainian official. now we also heard from the state department referencing two protesters that had been shot saying that they had been shot by members of the police despite the fact that the investigation on the ground in kiev had not yet concluded president obama

himself stayed silent on the recent developments to put the department spokeswoman did call on the ukrainian government to abide by the protesters calls for the country to sign a trade deal with the european union instead of turning towards russia the state department's top your of europe official victoria nuland has visited the country several times recently to argue the case vice president biden had also called the ukrainian president to express his deep concerns now the russian president's spokesman has reacted to western condemnation of what's happening in kiev dimitri pissed off so the moscow considers any interference in ukraine's domestic affairs is absolutely unacceptable adding the russia never has never would do such a thing the actions of ukrainian police officers have triggered much criticism and we asked a former british police officer with experience of crowd control to allies their tactics. the minute it starts becoming violent the way that they taste meant they

have no option than to react sometimes in the way they did because once that situation does get out of control like that well then there's two primary and the first they can still piece quickly and whatever way you can get the demonstrators moved away from what it wants to live and then primary that the second part will be just to do so as safely as possible for the public's side but then so they also says second so i think in some ways when you get back to grid vomits be nice against police officers in many ways it's not surprising that they have we acted as dignity as they have i mean it's not very nice is good for me and indeed a lot of colleagues and a very insulting you can inject as well about human beings at the end of the day you know they all strive however well equipped they all try and they are you know this is i mean it's a horrible no knowledge about it sort of combats in the field face to face with some dangerous people many of whom are actually intended plan course in the fall

while we are closely following what's happening in kids with peter oliver in the midst of the trouble they are across a western ukraine nationalists have captured the regional administration buildings in two cities soaking up more details on cranes turmoil on r.t. dot com was minute by minute updates. the international mediator for syria will hold separate meetings with the government and the opposition after the warring sides failed to find any common ground during the first day of the geneva two peace conference diplomats helped to bring syria's bitter rivals together for their first face to face talks on friday your office going off reports from switzerland. prime minister i'm sorry to. can you just read for yourself if you live in new york i live in syria i have.

to give you this. here in this forum the first day of the conference was expected to be spent listening to formal statements instead it was the scene of bitter exchanges as the syrian opposition pressed on with its calls for president assad to step down and i think that i said is the problem and i said i don't think the problem old any solution without us aboard our signal a change of power in damascus is something washington is pushing for as well bashar assad will not be part of that transition government but according to the u.n. secretary general of this is neither up to washington nor any other outside players to decide the seriousness of themselves had the primary responsibility to end the country to tom in their party to a system and future and start repeating their country while democracy is willing to discuss anything from commenting territory partial cease fire anything that is

except assad's resignation it seems the parties have a different understanding of the course of the talks indeed the only agree on the one thing that a political solution is the only way no one should. know one's trying to gloss this over that this is the beginning of a tough and complicated process more than forty countries and organizations and all suggest together how this must end. that it has to have an inclusive syria but it's because the stupid statements were indeed emotional the one that was new to us. but what's most important is that the parties involved want direct talks to start as soon as. if there is the blizzard that the first round of negotiations mediated by the u. what arab league special envoy on syria is expected to last one week after nearly

three years of extreme violence it isn't a surprise the two sides of the syrian conflict aren't getting along very well frankly just getting them in the same building may already be considered a diplomatic breakthrough not to mention the talks which are scheduled to continue on friday europe is going off r t montreaux switzerland. well despite the mutual who's still of a diplomat say the both syria's government and opposition forces have signaled their willingness to discuss cease fires prisoner swaps and the delivery of humanitarian aid analysts say help in breaking the deadlock rests with the international mediators afterwards. they must understand that neither one of them is able to really sort of the game military victory over the other in the battlefield so they need to reach some sort of accommodation for what the opposition cannot dictate and say that said be a part of any. future syria and the syrian government come out sort of lump everybody into sort of the basket of terrorists so each one of them must reach out

and i believe that they will love them a clear they can't this is going to take a great deal of time a great deal of attention and a great deal of goodwill on part of those who are advocating both sides of a touch with development the peace talks that are to brings you in-depth coverage from geneva two. well we stay in switzerland to bring you another king a global event that's underway there as business and political leaders address the world economic forum in davos among them iran's president rouhani has pledged cooperation with his neighbors and the rest of the world the details are coming out . you see good laboratory here mukherjee was able to build hundreds most

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to find out more visit our big. welcome back you're watching r t international average snow has been getting an increasing number of death threats and is expected to ask a russian authorities to help protect him the whistleblower his whereabouts here in russia is kept secret arena details of the indicative hunt for the former n.s.a. contractor. despite his temporary residency in russia it's fair to assume that n.s.a. whistleblower edward snowden follows what's reported about him throughout the world however it's the recent death threats robberies descriptive ones published in the us media that is causing the thirty year old to request extra security and protection from russian law enforcement the website buzz feed quoted an anonymous u.s. intelligence officer describing how he would have assassinated snowden if he had

the chance another unnamed pentagon official has been quoted saying he would have simply love to put a bullet in snowden's head or he not restricted from killing an american snowden's lawyer says the former contractor is constantly accompanied by private guards but that may no longer be enough to ensure his security. we clearly understand that there is a serious danger for the life and health of edward snowden and n.s.a. intelligence officer says that it's easy to imagine a situation where he walks around moscow for example after doing his groceries and he accidentally bumps into someone then he suddenly. goes home and dies in the shower in his situation he has to think about his security snowden's attorney stresses that according to russian law does. criminal liability he also says the

former contractors refugee status makes him only entitled to ask the police for help in the meantime a new poll by pew research shows that while americans are still divided over the benefits of snowden's n.s.a. leaks when it comes to just young americans ages eighteen to twenty nine years old the majority believe that snowden's leaks served the public's interest reporting from new york. r.t. . well even though the white house knew. the government considers snowden to be almost an anime for some people he's a hero worthy of being honored students and glasgow university have nominated him to be their rector which would make him their representative on the university's governing body we caught up with one of the people spearheading the bit the reason which shows edward snowden is because we know that he is a hero is a brave man who resists a lot of things to us that people know the extent of us media surveillance and

intrusion into our private lives and we just want to show him that we appreciate what he's done and it is a clear message sent out to those who are monitoring us that we will not stand for this and that we do not this we do not accept this kind of criminality it would be more symbolic than anything because he will be able to actually physically come to class go it will choose a representative. for him in situations where he cannot personally attend but his duties will be to hold the title of the rector of the university of glasgow we've had an overwhelmingly positive response of course we will do everything we can to make sure that this actually happens. family dinner date for tony blair saw the former prime minister's serve was more the food and wine one of barman tried to conduct a citizen's arrest to make him face justice over the invasion of iraq had to r.t. dot com to see how that worked out. plus details online of the tour his hacker

suspected of breaking into the computers of george w. bush and he's secretary of state has reportedly been caught by romanian police details on that story just a few clicks away on archie dot com. iran says it's ready to engage with neighboring countries and other world powers president rouhani has pledged came at the world economic forum in davos. is there. he is taking full advantage of the president of the country has done rouhani all of the devil's economic forum because it's incredibly timely for him we know that the six month interim deal struck between the six major powers has taken effect this week and the message from him is is open for business and as i say it's basically timely because in the audience you've got two hundred fifty people the to support some of

the richest people in the world eighty billionaires hey we got forty has of state so he's speaking to the right people and it's the first time in twenty years that an iranian leader has come to this of that and he is basically opening up the country to international investment he's willing the likes of any tell you tell shell as well as exxon mobil throughout the day he wants to be drum up support for the oil industry that has been really suffering in the last two years because as they sanctions which will now be partially lifted thanks that interim deal that has been struck now he's got great expectations for his economy let's listen to the man himself. iran's economy has the potential to be among the world's top ten in the next three decades that's our long term goal which we're planning to achieve through our social economic as well as domestic and foreign policy also to my government is pursuing ideals and economic development and democracy and the improvement of iran's foreign relations and that's impossible without our

international engagement now considering a run has one of the biggest if not the biggest oil and gas reserves in the world is a feasible goal for the country the relationships between iran and the west are now warming up thanks the sanctions being partially lifted and investors are keen to get involved as well. for more world news for you from our key international mask to do. the men on motorcycles have killed five policemen and one to two others in a trip it happened at a checkpoint south of cairo the attackers escaped from the scene and over two hundred fifty security forces personnel have been killed since the military toppled islamist president mohamed morsi last july. crash rally in thailand's capital has seen thousands of people defied a government imposed ban on marches there's a state of emergency in force under a sixty day decree aimed at maintaining law and order until seventy rizal action

but angry crowds are insisting that the government resign now and they're trying to hold work at state ministries while central bangkok to a standstill. and there's been a walkout of the pentagon of the united states it's not the generals though it's cleaning and catering staff to say they are fed up with low wages and they hope the strike will get president obama to put on a chance to poverty wages to contract employees at federal facilities are paid less than nine dollars an hour around forty percent less and what researchers see is a basic living wage an area. human rights groups say up to seventy muslims were killed by a buddhist mob in an attack on a village last week in western myanmar local security forces have been accused of complicity in the massacre which mostly target a women and children journalists have so far been denied access to the area

officials and state media are denying the killings took place despite numerous eyewitness accounts of a jail business partner a former oil tycoon kosky has been granted an early release by russia's supreme court proton labadee have been due to walk free in may but will now do so in a matter of hours or days or has the details. basically the decision was made in both cases of course key and put on a bit of blood seeing as we hope that that was actually released to receiving presidential pardon as part of the peru nationwide amnesty and it has left prison at that time there but if it was remaining in the colony and he sentence was reduced to just. over ten and a half years but seeing as he's already served and said he is free to go as soon as the official is in the prison that he's serving his sentence and in the north of russia receive the official papers it could be as early as today it could be tomorrow basically now we're just waiting for the papers to be delivered to the

prison officials now when it comes to the other parts of the case that the supreme court was looking at it has upheld the earlier ruling that whether you must mean burst the state just over seventeen billion rubles in taxes which he owes and that actually is part of the case because both of those conservative have been serving their prison sentences on charges of tax evasion as well as money laundering and embezzlement basically the case for the two men and now is closed and the supreme court has also left an opportunity for judicial rehabilitation for both. abby martin is next with breaking this out here on earth here in ash.

rajan jimmy so here's a guy who committed pedophilia with over four hundred children and he's taken to the court taken the old bailey and his defense is if you prosecute me i'm going to go to what your life that's what i just be you say if you prosecute me and are scared and school. wars and hundreds of incidents of fraud we threaten to leave the country and the government says pull we. play. such luck.

lead. to lose. touch. pretty of yet everyone i'm abby martin and this is breaking the set so if you haven't noticed

every country in the world seems to be wrapped up in revolt right now and ukraine over a million protesters about in the streets for weeks first in response to their president's acquiescence to russia over an e.u. trade deal now the protests have grown in the ukraine government has stepped up its crackdown on dissent just today at least two people have already been killed by police during clashes and the government has gone as far as an act in a new law which bans protests altogether restricts public assembly and just in case that doesn't send a clear enough message they're also doing little things to remind demonstrators that big brother is always watching see according to vice in a bizarre well ian twist many ukrainians simply in the vicinity of a protest yesterday were sent to stop a text reading dear subscriber you are registered as a participant in a mass disturbance well that's not disconcerting at all seems like something read of the pages of nine hundred eighty four but with cell phone companies and regimes

working hand in hand tyranny by way of technology seems to be government's weapon of choice now let's break the side. of the. games they really are very hard to take a. look at your. life that you ever had sex with her make her look. like.

earlier this month victims of the two thousand and ten gulf oil spill want to major battle against b.p. concerning the access to compensation funds see for over a year b.p. claim that the settlement process was unfair because individuals that suffered no harm were allegedly scamming the company out of billions of dollars unfortunately for b.p. the fifth circuit court didn't fall for that argument and rejected the corporation's appeal now of b.p. trying to block payouts isn't enough to convince you of its greed and moral bankruptcy statements from the company's own employees might and the article written by investigative journalist highlights current and former b.p. officials who are disgusted with how the company has reneged on its pension promises to employees and warns deepwater horizon oil spill victims to expect the same kind of treatment see according to russell's stouffer a former b.p. head of finance for the gulf of mexico the company has cut hundreds of employees pensions by up to seventy five percent from what they were originally promised back in one thousand nine hundred seven.