blazing barricades go up again in kiev despite opposition leader's calls to maintain a truce and made on the rest spreading west across the country. if there is anti-semitic violence there will be no mercy for anyone either women or children amid intensifying nationalist attacks we'll look at where further division could lead the country. deadly explosions reached egypt's capital as a series of blasts stoked tension ahead of the anniversary of the twenty eleven revolution. this is our senior national coming to you live from moscow with me welcome to the

program now calls from the opposition leaders to maintain a truce with riot police have failed to prevent protesters in kiev from building new barricades and burning tires on embattled independence square let's now cross live to a correspond the author oliver who's following closely developments there peter do tell us what's happening where you are at the moment what's the atmosphere in the city. well what we're seeing right now is the continuation of the rebuilding of barricades reinforcing a barricade there were already there the building of new barricades in some positions and we are seeing a steady stream of people arriving here just behind me is independence square. now on thursday for most of the day there was a truce here between rioters and the riot police that didn't last in to stay evening after talks had taken place between the opposition and the government the fire that we've seen that's been separating rioters from riot police was was

reignited and we saw that burning throughout the night and a few bits of sporadic violence nothing like we had seen a few nights before but still continuous still the. incident taking place there now the violence has actually spread further beyond the field a far afield beyond kiev we're seeing in the west of ukraine. saying that a local government buildings have become targets for demonstrators also in the cities of. local administration buildings were occupied by demonstrators now we are hearing from the opposition and they're trying to convince people to get back on board with a truce to have talks but really the reaction it's getting from a hard line of riot is is that they're not paying much attention to that they don't really want to see this any kind of truce one of things that we have seen what we've been going around the barricades a lot of of premade bullets of cocktails that are ready to be thrown and it seems

in some cases people are really wanting to to throw those now what this has done is we've seen it international reaction to what's been going on here in ukraine and some of that international action is taking the form of of pressure from the e.u. the united states and others putting pressure on to the government you can hear my report about right now. violent scenes in ukraine triggered a strong reaction from abroad seems like they saw a police attacking protest as the brutality of the protesters against the police has prompted the head of the e.u. parliament martin scholtz to call for immediate elections in the country while jose manuel barroso the e.u. commission president warned that he was ready to take action if the situation didn't change the type of statements of led to accusations of encouraging the riot is in a way that's being seen in previous conflicts it's

a very similar scenario to what was happening in. the beginning of the ninety's. we had people clamoring for democracy which was completely legitimate and then. outside western support pretty much gave wings to the extremist who started calling not just for democracy but for the breakup of the country it's not just european leaders that have weighed in on the ukrainian crisis the united states canceled visas for officials who it believes were involved in the crackdown on demonstrators the end of last year and all the time they've pointed the finger of blame for the riots directly at the ukrainian government now this increasing tension in ukraine is a direct consequence of the government failing to acknowledge that legitimate grievances of its people instead it is moved to weaken the foundations of ukraine's democracy by criminalizing peaceful protest and stripping civil society and political opponents of key democratic protections under the law determined not to see his

country ripped apart president geonic over his wall and foreign politicians against trying to influence which direction the country will take care and politicians from the west and east really help us let's be frank they are fighting for their influence over ukraine or state is independent we can and we will decide our fate independently. the government and opposition have entered into tentative negotiations just as violence spreads to other cities with local government offices attacks in the west of the country while throughout it all thousands of demonstrators and police remain caught in a tense standoff right in the hearts of the capital peter all of a r.t. here. amid angry mobs refusing to back down the opposition's front man have been booed ad by the crowds in independence square one leaders push to maintain a truce were met by the crowd's demands for revolution and even getting louder as

articulate here chefs you know reports. kiev convulsed by violence. molotov cocktails pitched battles between protesters and police a capital city spiraling out of control. and demanded all it's the radicals and extremists who are spearheading this violence and is ready teacher in a key of synagogue dog glickman is following it all from his hospital bed twenty four hours before the violence erupted he was beaten and stabbed by ana defied men it was the second attack on a jew in his many days we asked the local jewish community to comment on the matter but they refused hearing retribution from far right groups those watching on from abroad are also deeply disturbed by recent developments. of course we're worried about jews in ukraine at the moment because if there is anti-semitic violence there will be no mercy for anyone neither women nor children. with nazi off fascist

images clearly on display the concern is that even the nationalist leaders are no longer in control of their supporters and the evidence of support for ukrainian wartime leaders who led death squads against the jews is apparent on the streets of kiev right beside the stage of kate's independence square the heart of the protest there is a big banner with step on going down on it the 1940's insurgent leader in ukraine but despite there's lots of control of the surrounding his role in history in many countries this would hardly surprise anyone in today's clear but that the other scene of the protests beside what seems to be future molotov cocktails we see a peculiar graffiti on the wall an old area groom which is unlikely to have any double meanings in european countries because back in the 1940's it was used by some of the nazi divisions. now that ultra wing activists have become the core of the protests some analysts say dispense bleak picture for the country because. most

of those rioting do not take orders from our legal opposition forces there are radical nationalists football fans revolutionary romanticists and inadequate people it's a mixed mob but radical nationalists are the only ones with knowledge and skill when it comes to mass riots they know how to handle themselves and it's not only unsafe for the public but also for the future. reporting from kiev ukraine. well sound get some more analysis from german m.p.'s haven't adeline who joins us live now mark thanks so much for joining us here on r t to discuss the situation as we can see the turmoil in the ukrainian capital kiev is spreading westwards in your opinion how much more violent can these protests be and how long can they last for. well. won't really compare the situation. with the situation in turkey but i wonder while

the. awarding of the war on the dictator in iran with new intensifying relations. union especially. on the other hand they are thinking about sanctions of us and. crane and i don't understand it because it seems that you are right no motivation at all for this sections all fall. but why is what i want you rang in this happens why do reckon i mean there is no there reaction from the west has been changing over the past few days as we saw the situation in the key of ask elating the violence ask a leading and what started as a peaceful rally turned into some really really violent scenes why has the reaction from the west been somewhat the same well i think that the human rights all the

things about democracy and human rights issues they are not at all the interests of the low make us in the us and the european union i think it becomes really more than obvious that the real a is the regime change in the ukraine because they think it's too close to russia that's the reason and i mean how far the western leaders prepared to go in their support of the opposition i didn't get to question how far do you think a western the west is prepared to go in its support of the opposition to the current legitimate government. it seems to me to too far very far because now the forces or the driving forces of the rest of the afresh is politics this would be and they with been supported by the e.u. and the german government and this is really a scandal because they openly call for

a coup for the violence and i mean as we can see in syria the west is supporting al-qaeda groups and indeed now freshest grooves and i think the question is how can this comply with the minimum of democrats and sunday why should the situation in kiev and this point is highly volatile we know yesterday there was a truce and the opposition leaders you know where in goshi asians with the government however the mobs the opposition the rioters with the opposition they were not happy with the fact that their opposition their leaders are talking to the government i mean what does that mean what do you see in this does that mean that the opposition doesn't have control over their supporters. well in a way i think most of the law make us into you

a you and i'm not interested in opposition leaders like klitschko or others which are openly calling for fide to all for no violence and then the other hand they want to control of course the whole of the opposition within the fascist privacy and they want to get that they're. the reality in due course against the government and i'm questioning myself for what price they doing that because every loss of life is a tragedy and we get the hotheads loss of. lives in the ukraine in this undress and that's really a credit to our time to land german m.p.'s thank you so much for your views. what we are closely following the developments in ukraine on the line also there they are for it on the lead so weapons used by the rioters you'll find all the

details at r.t. dot com. and some developments emerging at the syria peace talks we're getting reports that negotiations between the syrian government and the opposition have been postponed because the rebels are apparently refusing to take part or that's according to an adviser to the syrian president also the leader of the opposition's national coalition ahmed jarba has pulled out of the talks the government says it's still willing to negotiate with this team and will bring you more on what's happening in geneva two as we get it meantime time war activist brian backer believes the syrian rebels are not prepared to hold meaningful talks of peace in their country. syrian opposition has come to the conference kicking and screaming in the first place they don't really want to be there because there's nothing that they think

that they can get from the conference the syrian opposition only wants one thing which is to replace the assad government with their own government and clearly the assad government at geneva is prepared for a political settlement but won't agree in advance that the assad government will disappear or no longer be present in syria there are forces within the syrian armed opposition those affiliated with al qaida those who are getting the bulk of their arms from saudi arabia and from other regimes in the in the middle east they don't look for a negotiated settlement they're not going to agree to a negotiated settlement so it's not possible for the syrian government to see the syrian opposition is a real partner for negotiations when there are two wings two armed wings fighting each other and fighting the assad government and one wing is determined in advance that they will never agree to some sort of transition that allows the bath this party to remain in power in any shape or form and if the diplomatic wrangling goes on we'll look at the conflict on the ground in just

a few moments we'll report from one of the most stricken places in syria the city of aleppo as we follow the infighting between rebel groups and jihadist. was a. very hard to take. you. live right here. please.

please please. please. please please. please. please. for the. welcome back you're watching r t international live from moscow our rural idjit have seen deadly bomb attacks over the last few months and now the horrors of terrorism have come to the capital three explosions destructive for in areas of conroe this morning just hours apart more details are now from journalist tom dale reporting from the scene of the first blast. you can see behind me the scene of an

explosion which took place in the early hours of this morning as well as killing four people four police officers it tore the facial off a museum of islamic off the opposite and shattered windows one hundred fifty meters down the road a second explosion outside a. metro station in the west of the comp two reports say that a bomb was placed under a police truck and then we have reports of i an explosion in the heart of area of the of the cop who made the pyramids so it depends waking up today on the day before the third anniversary of the revolution to find a series of bombs striking that cut that capital what is the security situation right now i'd imagine the police are out on the streets of course police already on the streets that's right certainly in the area around the blast that's a kind of a palpable sense of nervousness. and really this is the latest in the series of bombings which have hit egypt in particular the security forces over the months

since president mohamed morsi was deposed by the military following mass protest against his rule and the students of his so far really seem to be unable to contain the militancy of one or two is the islamic militant groups which have been tossing their tanks on the security forces trying they say to disrupt the military declared roadmap and return president mohammed morsi to power the muslim brotherhood for their own part have denied any involvement in these attacks and have condemned them however behind me i've seen a crowd of people walking up and down calling for the blood of the muslim brotherhood so the the idea propagated by the state to the muslim brotherhood is a terrorist organization that is behind these attacks very powerful here on the ground. based journalist hugh miles says the government won't be able to stay in denial over the growing pressure from islam to supporters. what of course live shows us the the islamist movement who presumably responsible for this bombing know

that no one has no evidence has been produced but i mean this looks like it could well be the work of the one of these jedi groups inside of there who claimed responsibility for the previous attacks. they are not going to go away it's not going to be possible for the education government just to pretend that there's mists did not win five election was fair and square. kicked out of power they called just carry on business as usual and if they try and carry on business as usual then there's obviously we can see there's going to be efforts to disrupt that. as the amounts of force for talks in geneva two on the syrian battlefield radical islamist fighters and al-qaeda linked rebels continue to turn against each other for control of major cities are just riffing off the reports from the front lines in the northern city of aleppo. the aleppo region in northern syria one of

the richest and most developed before three divest eighteen years of war has been the scene of some of the fiercest clashes between government troops and the rebels fighting shoulder to shoulder with a number of different al qaeda affiliated groups but now a different sort of war is raging on the same battlefield that they're. in a good or or less a gosh the moderates free syrian army an umbrella military organization uniting anti assad forces since the beginning of the conflict is special in numerous radical jihadist groups who they say hijacked the revolution in order to establish an islamic a faith in syria. do not stand up he had up to the roof of one of the highest buildings in the city of aleppo but the syrian army's line ends at the who's a from mosque after that we have no. control the militants are only fifty metres beyond the mosque and the area is just food of militants five hundred meters from here and

beyond it's just full of them. and we hear clashes nearby but the syrian army is not even involved just about got the confrontation is now between the free syrian army and the jihad is of isis when darkness comes will join the fight but for now we are on standby let her know we don't have any troops there we are fighting between themselves for control. according to the syrian observatory for human rights the london based opposition group relying on activists in the field for their data around fourteen hundred people have been killed in the country since hostilities between the rebels and the hardest stroke out this january among the dead hundreds of moderate rebels and nearly two hundred civilians in an audio message posted online on thursday the al qaeda leader ayman al-zawahiri called on his militants to immediately hold the fighting between brothers but clashes exit q sions and torture between those who were once calm rates continue. and with the

syrian government and opposition now starting their first dialogue and three years the question is now how this internal rebel fight will affect syria as a whole some say it would most likely weaken the whole n.t.'s movement others fear the rebels would be completely taken over by the jihadists that's a scenario that could harm even potentially undermine the prospects of peace that's been pursued at the current talks in geneva. raif notion r.t. from syria. well there is one battle that's bound to rage on no matter what peace efforts are made it's the war online on our website where report of our group known as the syrian electronic army to control the twitter and facebook accounts of c.n.n. find out of the hackers managed to take full advantage of the intrusion plus. an apocalypse for the world's top social network researchers claim the days of

facebook could be numbered comparing a slump and its popularity to infectious disease. two weeks before the winter olympic games in sochi kick off all trains buses and cable cars are running like clockwork but if you decide to head to the eyes don't for top class hockey match right after watching a breathtaking speed skating event you'll find it's right on your doorstep are just about once a explains. the twenty fourth olympics comically you have dubbed the olympics to be very unique and it's not only because they're being hosted in a subtropical environment it's also because for the very first time in on the big history they've created into plaster this coastal cluster almost thirty m. in a one a circular area. spectator to move from one stadium to the next but how

easy or very well let's go find out. right behind me is that the iceberg a stadium now is going to take a walk from here to the other side to where the atlas skating ring is let's take a walk now let's see how far it's going to take us to get from this site to the next one in the meantime a quick line to the olympics the coastal cluster with all the five indoor ice stadiums will also be next to the opening and closing ceremonies stadium the fish also in the coastal cluster is the main international broadcasting and press center now the beauty of this design is that it shouldn't take you more than five minutes between venue right so where were we are our experiment how long does it take to get from one venue to the next and the verdict. right so it's two minutes. and we've made it to gate b. . b.

adler stadium there you go ladies and gentlemen it took me two minutes entitles one venue will be either. meanwhile the longest and probably the most diverse torch relay in history is drawing to a close right now the olympic flame is touring cities in russia's south nearing its final destination of course you can follow all the stages of the relay on our website our team job along we're doing this for you ok. how do you operate do it but i'm going to mostly to get a sports and such experts to do that as it use it as proof shows i'm not an olympic hockey player bomb which is on the. beat of my son. well it's thought to be the vanguard of democracy but can the u.s. congress relate to the troubles of everyday americans abby martin breaks the sat next on our team.

recently facebook was ablaze with likes and shares about the two thousand and fourteen no pants subway ride this is a yearly event that has grown in popularity and spread way beyond its native new york to cities across the globe according to fox news a century thousands of people ride the subway in their underwear as if it were a normal day what you're going to say is a prank collective the cause of scenes of chaos and joy in public places yeah i guess this is kind of funny i mean hey i like wackiness but think about the effort and propaganda takes to get thousands of people the world over to simultaneously do something and then with all that effort and all those thousands of participants all you do is walk around without your pants on this idea must have been created by

some people with a pretty decadent lifestyle because how can you even think about organizing people for the goal of spreading joy a lot of us can't even afford to put dinner on the table in the future could you guys please try some pantless food donating or pencils recycling or maybe best of all and artist of all pencils job creating wackiness is fine but when you have the power of thousands of trouser with volunteers please use it responsibly and productively but that's just my opinion. and your cultural. knowledge base i think you.

should have you with us here on t.v. today i roll receivership. the the the. folks up out here on i'm out in martin and this is breaking this set in recent weeks and al qaeda offshoot known as the islamic state of iraq and the levanon and eleventh cities may have taken control of major areas of the iraqi cities of ramadi and fallujah what's even more disturbing however is that iraqi officials including iraq's deputy interior minister now fear that militant forces could be gain enough strength to launch a full on assault on baghdad if baghdad falls and that means the entire country will be turned over to terrorist forces that didn't even exist in iraq until the u.s. open liberated the country using terrorism as an excuse to do so i guess mission

accomplished again now let's break this up. in the power supply the teams they are looking very hard to take on. the. one that had sex with the terror threat there's no. such. thing. i think the persistent single digit approval ratings for

a so-called representatives show quite clearly that members of congress don't share the same priorities as the average american this detachment might have something to do with the fact that more than a half. congress is part of an elite millionaire's club but some lawmakers stand out more than others and their ruthlessness to start there's thirteen term new jersey congressman rob andrews would take any issue with lawmakers benefiting financially from their political positions see andrews is currently the target of a house ethics investigation looking into the use of campaign funds for personal perks as well as the air marking of over one point five million dollars for his wife's institution next as tennessee congressman and medical doctor scott days are lame this is the type of politician who never compromise on the issues most dear to him like abortion unless of course facts him personally cheated on his wife repeatedly and knocked up one of his patients he forced her to leave the state to have up.