economy for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines. comes a report. on rest of ukraine spreads to other cities where crowds are besieging local administrations while in the capital a temporary truce is holding as the opposition and the government valid to continue talks. with manning protesters dismissing and to go with the regime will look at the radical elements amid the trouble are fueling the violence. in other news no face to face meeting for the syrian government and the opposition as a warring sides agree to talk only through un mediators in different rooms at different times. cairo is rocked by series of deadly blasts claiming at least four lives and injuring dozens of others having anniversary of a twenty one an uprising.

what you are seeing a national coming to you live from moscow with me marina joshie unrest is engulfing more cities across western ukraine while in kiev government concessions have failed to appease the opposition the two sides plan to hold another round of talks and meant a fragile truce while in many other places the situation no it isn't so peaceful these are here on the map all the main regional cities and in all of down protesters have tried to seize local administrations police only managed to repel the crowds and just one of those are just bitter all over is in the capital. around a dozen ukrainian cities are under siege by rioters these people are targeting local authority building the said local government buildings police stations in the

like said barricading roads no three of the worst affected cities which has seen the worst violence. in the time the city of tennessee where we're hearing that right now where around one thousand rioters are besieging local government buildings there with around one hundred riot police trying to keep them away but of course they are they're outnumbered ten to one and not situation in which was one of the first cities outside of kiev to see violence biloba into it. right is how the occupied government buildings there. they've blocked roads and also barricading the police barricade and the police headquarters so that certainly say they seem to have the upper hand in that situation and in which was also one of the first cities to to see violence outside of kiev we're seeing similar scenes there as well as large groups of rioters take over the government buildings and try to barricade

make barricades there to form defensive positions now in response to this news prime minister is out of the ukrainian prime minister has called these actions the in an attempt at a coup d'etat so he certainly taking nice the very seriously the the violence that we're seeing spreading away from kiev and into western ukraine where say around a dozen cities currently under siege there right now in the ukrainian capital we have a tentative uneasy peace one bit of news that is just coming out that is quite worrying from here in kiev is coming from the the authorities here is that they have information that some groups could be planning what they're calling a provocation killing to attempt to kill somebody blaming it on the authorities in an attempt to him. reignites the violence now it seems that we've seen here of drawing attention from around the world but some of the comments that are being coming out have caused people to say that well you know they're trying to encourage

these riots is to go back on the offensive and to see more violence we can see my report now what the european union and the united states ought to say about what's happening here and. the violent scenes in ukraine triggered a strong reaction from abroad scenes like this so police attacking protesters need to tell us to protest is 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 these type of statements of led to accusations of encouraging the rioters in a way that's being seen previous conflicts so 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 council 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 the legitimate grievances of its people instead it has 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 overtures warned forward 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. germany and france have someone who cranes and basters over the protests in kiev and other cities let's now talk more on the european stance on unrest with emerick's abroad foreign affairs adviser for the french national front thanks so much mr shapiro for joining us here aren't international discuss the situation in kiev and around it so now let's talk about the recent developments and other western governments summoning their ambassadors what do you

think is the mass it's that they're trying to say and here. i think it's a very dangerous situation that's happening now in ukraine because the u.s. and european union interfere into ukrainian affairs and i think it's a very dangerous position because it could create very bad division of a country and there is a risk of civil war which is not the case no because we are talking about. most of our in of a country. which is quite stable. but there are some problems so what i think is. from western countries is then we could it could worsen the situation inside ukraine and the same time worsen the relationship between russia and the western world well you know as we speak there is an economic forum taking

place in switzerland in davos and in fact what happened there are police has detained demonstrators who were rallying in support for the unrest in ukraine should we expect the e.u. to react. i would say be you sure underlined the fact that part of these protesters are far right movement very dangerous some of them on their own and this is something that is a real risk for the ukrainian foundation of democracy and if we are talking about . we should defend the ukraine democracy because the president has been elected it's a regular election he has been elected he has been chosen by view crinan people so of course you can contest this election but not by using violence not by

invading. buildings and ministration not by creating very violence against your for it is to as i told you i really think the position of e.u. is dangerous because it will weaken the foundation of democracy in the crane and it could create a division between west and the war on east well if he had earlier those in the west i mean some people in the west are watching the situation unfolding in ukraine very very closely and the e.u. is even threatening sanctions so what impact in your opinion will these warnings have on the situation in ukraine. you know we should underline the real reason why e.u. and the u.s. are backing the protester are pushing in this movement in this situation against

the legal government the only reason the most important reason it is job political interest because these western government just want ukraine to enter a need to and to be a part of the nato project in order to roll back russia's influence in variations so for me it is clearly and the gratian against the balance between russia and the western world it is an aggression against peace and there's a reason why we have to be very cautious we in the western world if we want to keep peace we should not interfere into v.f. else of ukraine we should. defend. legally t. of democracy and not backing this movement some of them are very provocative. imagine but some opposition leader declared but they would create

a war against russia over i've said but this should become a kind of two year in order to create a situation of very strong tension between the different parts of the country so just defend the legality varies a president we have to do to push. back. we're told between the opposition and the president but as i told you present has been elected again brian thanks for your thoughts mr merrick shiprock foreign affairs adviser to the leader of the national front. thank you opposition leader metallic klitschko was booed as he publicly announced the results of talks with the government the boxer turned politician hasn't exactly been getting universal support from the protesters earlier this week he was sprayed by a fire extinguisher while trying to calm the rioting the opposition appears deeply

fractured with many protesters being firmly against any talks and calling for revolution radical groups have been at the core of a protest in ukraine's capital. investigates the unrest far right contingent. kiev can boast by violence. molotov cocktails pitched battles between protesters and police a capital city spiraling out of control. and demanded old it's the radicals and extremists who are spearheading this foreign lands. and his 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 unidentified 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 what. 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 lead death squads against the jews is apparent on the streets of kiev right beside the stage of kiev'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 sea surrounding his role in history in many countries this would hardly surprise anyone in today's kiev but that the other scene of the protest beside what seems to be future molotov cocktails we see a peculiar graffiti on the wall an old eric room which is unlikely to have any double meanings in european countries because back in the one nine hundred forty s.

it was used by some of the not social divisions. now that also wing activists have become the core of the protests some analysts say dispense bleak picture for the country. most of those rioting do not take orders from our legal opposition forces their 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 it's not only unsafe for the public but also for the future. alexi russia's ski odyssey reporting from kiev in ukraine. now in the central ukrainian town offer czerkawski crowds have gathered outside the local administration have quaters demanding their release of rioters who were arrested last night attempting to storm the building had to r.t. dot com to find out more about that also online we're providing minute by minute updates on the situation and the report on the improvised weaponry being used by

street mobs against police officers. and go between syria's warring factions have been postponed with a report saying the opposition delegation is refusing direct dialogue with the regime it is demanding a written commitment to the geneva one communique calling for a transitional government meanwhile the u.n. mediator on syria has met with a government delegation and it's warning that it will leave switzerland on saturday unless progress is me going off has the latest from the geneva two peace conference . the talks were supposed to officially start at eleven am with the both the authorities and the opposition sitting down at the same table and formally greeting each other with the u.n. special envoy on syria president as well and it was planned that after that he was going to hold separate meetings with both sides passing on information and thus

making this dialogue possible but since the rebels refused to sit down at the same table with the of tory's formally the talks haven't started informally they have been postponed one of the main sticking points is that the opposition continues pressing on their demands for president assad to step down while the authorities are saying that first they have to stop the violence defeat the terror threat in the country and then hold nationwide elections with anyone willing taking part for the syrian people to decide to the country's political future so clearly they are not on the same page when it comes to that the talks are going to continue at least with mr brahimi at the end of the day hopefully we'll find out if they'll bring any results. united nations mediator lakhdar brahimi is meeting with the opposition set to take place in a few hours time but anti-war activists brian backer believes the syrian rebels are not willing to make an compromises 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 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 in 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. well while diplomatic volleys are

exchanged in switzerland there's more trouble on the home front as rival rebel groups lock hands in a gruesome battle for supremacy with no unity inside for the anti asa camp our reports from inside syria is coming right up. to. ukraine or at least the country's capital kid has descended into chaos protests have turned extremely violent and the social order is on the verge of collapse to what degree do protesters in kiev represent the ukrainian people which of these protesters believe in and what do they really want is ukraine on the path to nowhere. right on the scene. first street. and i think that you're. on our reporters twitter. and instagram.

to be in the. welcome back you're watching r.t. as international mediators hit a hurdle against syrian unity adjenda a two there is fresh infighting among the opposition and a war zone itself activists say fourteen hundred people have been killed this month alone during clashes between raul rebel factions or even the front lines and just

to warn you that some images in her report are graphic. for me gingold in syria one of the richest and most developed before three device to eighteen years or more 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 qaida affiliated groups but now a different sort of war was raging on the same battlefield. in the war on us a gosh the moderates free syrian army an umbrella military organization united and forces since the beginning of the conflict is beslan numerous radical jihadist groups who they say hijacked the revolution in order to establish an islamic caliphate in syria doesn't 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

is a funnel after that and you know control the militants really fifteen others beyond the mosque and the area is just food of militants five hundred meters from there and beyond that it's just a pool of them and it's not efficient we had 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 as of isis when darkness comes will join the fight but for now we are on standby let her know if we don't have any troops there we are fighting between themselves for control of them so clearly. 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 jihadists broke out these january among the dead the hundreds of moderate rebels and nearly two hundred civilians in an audio message posted online on thursday carden leader i mun as

a harried 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 for 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. the syrian turmoil is also behind an escalation and cyber warfare on our website we are in for a pro-government group of syrian hackers targeted cnn's twitter and facebook accounts find out what sort of confusion the hackers were able to sell. plus if

facebook facing the and research whitening the websites rise to an epidemic says users are recovering read about the study which predicts when the social network could collapse. supporters of egypt's ousted president mohamed morsy are clashing with security forces in cairo and other cities across the country two people have reportedly been killed in the unrest and that comes just hours after a series of deadly explosions shook the egyptian capital killing at least four civilians and injuring dozens more toenail reports from the scene 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 face you're off a museum of islamic off the opposite and shuttered windows one hundred fifty meters down the road a second explosion outside a. metro station in the west of the camp to say that a bomb was placed under

a police truck and then you have reports of i. am explosion in the. area of the of the cop to me the pyramids 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 of hit egypt in particular the security forces over the months since president mahmoud morsy was deposed by the military following must protest against his rule. some other world news making headlines this hour a blaze has destroyed a care home for the elderly in quebec in canada five people are known to have died while at least thirty one residents are missing although firefighters arrived immediately they only managed to rescue a third of the people trapped inside the building it took several hours to put out the blaze as crews were hampered by freezing temperatures. and poland may have received fifteen million dollars to host secret cia prisons

a media investigation there says boxes containing the cash were delivered to warsaw through the diplomatic post system a decade ago the jails allegedly were active in two thousand and two and used to interrogate al qaida suspects and cloying itself declared nine eleven mastermind who was apparently it water boarded there are hundreds of times polish authorities are refusing to comment on the reports. much has been spent to get such as transport up to speed for the winter olympics which start in just a couple of weeks' time but there is actually a simple way for visitors to commute between the clusters esteban would say explains. the twenty four create a poetry olympic comics who have these the olympics to be very unique and it's not only because they're being hosted in a club or tropical environment it's also because for the very first time in on the big history they have been created into laughter this coastal cluster almost area in one

a circular area. spectators who move from one stadium to the next but how is the air grab well let's go find out. right right behind me is that the iceberg a stadium now we're going to take a walk from here to the other side to where the adler 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 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 walking

and we've now made it to gate to be of the adler stadium and they go ladies and gentlemen it took me two minutes in high heels when one venue will be either. coming up surely the crisis in ukraine is up for debate in crosstown with peter all about stay with us. recently facebook was ablaze with likes and shares about the twenty 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 of 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 who have a pretty decadent lifestyle because how could you even think of organizing people for the goal of spreading joy when 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 was volunteers please use it responsibly and productively but that's just my opinion.

hello and welcome to crossfire all things are considered i'm peter lavelle ukraine or at least the country's capital care has descended into chaos protests have turned extremely violent and the social order is on the verge of collapse to what degree do protesters in kiev represent the ukrainian people what do these protesters believe in and what do they really want also there are accusations of outside meddling is ukraine on the path to nowhere. to cross talk of ants in ukraine i'm joined by my guest alexander maturity in london he is a legal writer and an analyst in moscow we have mark sloboda he is a senior lecturer and we searched or at moscow state university and in washington

we cross to anders auslan he is a senior fellow at the peterson institute for international economics or a gentleman crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i very much encourage it mark if i can go to you first here and looking at some of the dreadful pictures over the last few days coming out of care it looks like an attempted coup of some sort and i don't understand why people are calling them protesters they will look more like rioters. well i think that can be exactly what has been characterized as happening in the ukraine in kiev for the last week i have family in laws in kiev and they're afraid to leave their houses right now because of what is happening it should be said that this is limited to the downtown section of the city and what we have are several thousand ultra nationalist. rioters because we can call them ra it's hers we can call them terrorists we can call them insurgents at this point but one thing is sure is not this has nothing to do with democrat.