ukraine's president vows to do everything in his power to stop the turmoil sweeping his country announcing an amnesty for those detained in the kiev riots while in other cities crowds lay siege to official buildings. and as many protesters reject any negotiations with the leadership we look at the radical elements in the midst of the chaos seeking to escalate the situation. syria's warring factions agree for the first time to hold face to face talks after separate meetings with the united nations mediator at the geneva two peace conference we go live to geneva a little later. and in cairo a fourth bomb goes off bringing the day's death toll to at least six with thousands

more injured ahead of the anniversary of the two thousand and eleven uprising our top stories this hour. this is r.t. international live from our studio center here in moscow which just turned ten pm and eight pm in kiev where the government is offering further concessions to calm the unrest with president at a covert pledging to free those arrested during the riots this week meanwhile protests are engulfing cities across the west of ukraine peter one of the reports now from the capital but been hearing from president. to the latest rounds of talks between the government and the opposition now he's announced what's been achieved so far he said the january sixteenth. demonstrations

that they would be changes to those laws and now the opposition and governments have agreed that there would be an amnesty for all people who were being detained by police during the riots that we've seen here in kiev we're expecting to see a reshuffle of the the un accord which is government now in terms of the violence that's being going on here that the on a covert you said that he points the finger towards a groups all foreigners who be responsible for the majority of the worst violence we're looking at about a dozen cities in the west of the country where police and rioters have clashed it's government buildings official buildings that have been the targets for these these new riots in the west of the country the worst affected cities where we're looking at the cities of ivanova their friend gulf where writers had tried to take government buildings on thursday night we now see after a vicious standoff that they have succeeded in breaking their way into government

buildings in that city. elsewhere in chad north sea. well what we've seen there is around one thousand riot is facing off against around one hundred riot police in one of the main government buildings there it's been some quite horrific scenes coming from from that standoff the police there of course outnumbered ten to one in that situation and in laval which was one of the first cities outside of kiev to see violence there they had to go to the buildings so major roads in the city how be barricaded some ways what we've seen here this well the ukrainian prime minister mr is out of has said that there will be negotiations over talking to the e.u. and switzerland about. trying to east tensions here in ukraine and see if they can help to perhaps broker some kind of peace. between opposition rioters.

the government here or his people over there while the u.s. secretary of state john kerry has issued a strongly worded statement against ukraine's government saying washington is disgusted by the storming of what he called a peaceful protest camp in kiev by a baton wielding riot police let's talk more on what is happening in ukraine in the role of foreign powers with political analyst alexander sullivan of his joining me live from moscow alexander despite the fact that the ukrainian government is making concessions it seems that the rhetoric from the u.s. seems to be getting stronger why is there. well because the targets all the aims of the protesters are not rich so far and then the government of the ukraine is not going to lighten up a lot on the union with russia and on the union with the customs union well. so actually the protesters are pushing for this i say popley we sold the uprising getting more intense on the nineteenth of january partly just because. they were

nudged in a way by someone from the al saud but there's talk of reshuffling the government indeed an amnesty to release those who have been held in prison after being taken during these riots being held by the authorities these sort of gestures by the government why won't they have some sort of positive impact on the protesters at this stage because there are protesters at this stage they don't really want to pacify the situation they want more as they are leaders of the opposition for example klitschko calling for for actually to change in the country they want to overthrow the government they want to take power of the want to take control but the problem is that they are not ready to take any control and another problem there could i just ask you is that klitschko is he really in control yes he wants to have a change of government and so do those nationalists those extremists who are part of the opposition but in effect have they hijacked the moderates the liberals cause

in all of this includes goes basically out of control now so i think they have hijacked the extremist part of the protest they are not in good shape to sit at the table of negotiation and actually have something some tangible things reached over so the state wants to ask only the consul can that's what we are seeing right now in ukraine so what should you do because the e.u. is putting a lot of pressure saying he should call a snap election an early election could that solve the crisis. well i don't think this could well this could so of course stop some of the most radical part of the opposition forces and those riders in straits but that is not going to benefit the ukraine in the long term because i think the ukraine is more than half way from the association with the european union and now it's getting it's getting closer to russia but anyway the situation in the country is getting more intense so if there

is a snap election i don't think that's going to solve the situation the long term i believe the writer is in the protesters are not going to stop right the next day after the snapshot election are announced alexander thank you so much great to talk to you alex on a sort of on of life here in moscow thanks well ukrainian police claim they've arrested an armed gang affiliated with the protesters there in kiev and police say they seized two assault rifles for pistols and hundreds of rounds of ammunition authorities also claim to have evidence that the gang has supplied to the protesters he's an axiom a chef he has more on the extremist ambitions in ukraine. he have convulsed by violence. molotov cocktails pitched battles between protesters and police 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 glickman is following it all from his hospital bed twenty four hours before the violence erupted he was beaten and stabbed by unidentified man 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 surrounding his role in history in many countries this would hardly surprise anyone in today's kiev but that the other scene of the protests beside what seems to be future molotov cocktails will see a peculiar graffiti on the wall and 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 nazi should divisions. now that ultra wing activists have become the core of the protests some analysts say dispense bleak picture for the country it. is most of those rioting do not take orders from our legal opposition forces they 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 rights they know how to handle themselves it's not only unsafe for the public but also for the few. reports.

and then your i spoke with the former foreign policy chief javier solana who was involved in mediating a deal to end the crisis in ukraine ten years ago and he insists that the growing pressure from the e.u. is in no way aggravating the situation but i don't see that the do to deceive flame in this situation i don't think so i mean i'm not to you know if he's now in a i don't know exactly what has happened they've just minutes we also understand that the e.u. in some ways as has been encouraging in effect a change of government they're saying there should be a snap election immediately in other words compromising any code which is democrat only. elected position. i don't think anybody would be careful or you would be i do not have said that to change the live person has had to take place i have said they keep on saying as the same theme did the government has said

a while ago that it would be a need to know the road to do that capital in the coming days if there may be a reshuffle of the government if that is so it is true to film a grievance between government and opposition with to the presidio procedure thing all the better. ukraine's leader said that he is ready for further talks with the opposition when you can head to r.t. dot com to find out more about that and also online we're providing minute by minute updates on the situation and reporting on the improvised weaponry being used by street mobs against police offices. rahimi the united nations mediator for the syrian peace talks says government and opposition delegations have agreed to hold direct talks and i quote in the same room let's go live now to europe is going on who is in geneva you go to this sounds

like a positive development tell us more what you know about this. well it began frankly to seem like the negotiations were turning into a complete disaster until your special envoy on syria lakhdar brahimi came out at the end of day and said that he did manage to get both the syrian authorities and the opposition present here in geneva to get in the same room and talk that's going to that's going to happen on saturday and he didn't really provide a lot of details about what they're going to talk about he said that even the ways that he managed to talk them into it really are his diplomatic secrets which she is not ready to share with journalists but he did say that right now the most important thing is for both sides of the conflict to understand what they're here for in geneva and what these talks are all about because the negotiations were supposed to start at eleven am this friday and. they were supposed to sit down at the same table and formally greet each other with mr brahimi present there as well

but since the opposition said they were not ready to sit down at the same table with the authorities formally the talks never started so throughout the entire day u.s. special envoy was meeting separately both with the authorities and with the opposition and their representatives have been coming out to journalists and accusing each other basically of sabotaging the in negotiations and it became clear to us that both say the only way out of this crisis is through negotiations based on the agreements reached at geneva one but what's clear is that. the interpretations of these agreements are completely different on both sides they're completely on a different page since the opposition says that they want to talk about. tional government in syria without president assad there while the authorities are saying they're ready to talk about cease fires they're ready to talk about joint efforts and when it comes to president assad's future and political future that has to be

decided by a nationwide election with anyone willing taking part and the people of syria deciding that and i want to mention that previously at the opening day of the conference which happened in montreaux the international community agreed that while the future of syria is strictly in the hands of the syrian people but these misinterpretations by both sides really became the biggest problem really threatening this only chance of a diplomatic solution to this ongoing conflict but really even having them in the same building may already be considered a diplomatic breakthrough so like i said the talks now are going to start really on saturday we don't really know what exactly they're going to be talking about but really getting even them in the same room is already quite a diplomatic success hugo thanks very much indeed for that. live update there well while diplomatic volleys are exchanged in switzerland switzerland has more trouble

all the home front to rival rebel groups lock heads in a gruesome battle for supremacy with no unity inside for the. report from inside syria coming up shortly this is r.t. international. the sooner the better the majority of the parliament we will be to say the majority of the people made clear the choice to join. the only thing we may expect is that the ukrainians themselves. i'll follow you do . parties government and opposition find necessary understandings especially necessary climb eight to defined. by you to.

kill right the sea. search tree. and i think that your. orders. could be in the. fourth explosion has rocked the egyptian capital killing one person that comes just hours after a series of deadly blasts shook cairo leaving five dead and injuring dozens more reports from the scene. the first and deadliest of these bombings killed four people outside a security building in the north of the capital and shattered windows hundreds of

meters away from the site of the explosion and this latest bombings appeared to target a police convoy outside a cinema in the west of the capital. and today's bombings are the most dramatic but the latest in the series which will hit egypt over the past few months as part of unrest which has followed the ouster of former president mohammed morsi of the muslim brotherhood back in the summer last year and also today three people have been killed in clashes around the country the clashes again have become commonplace every week we're seeing supporters of mr morsy and supporters of the government clashing often with police officers involved as well exchanging takeouts rocks bombs and really on the eve of egypt's revolution on the third anniversary which is taking place tomorrow a very uncertain feeling across cairo. well an islamic extremist group has admitted

to carrying out the deadliest of the attacks targeting the police headquarters of course alive to me he's from the institute of islamic political thought. so we're now hearing that an al qaeda inspired group was responsible for that first attack on the police headquarters but of course there were three other attacks do you think they were all linked coordinated. well i really have no knowledge of this but i doubt very much that there is. any such group and in this is a very ambiguous claim of responsibility people are very skeptical inside egypt as well as outside egypt because now we know and it's been documented that under mubarak as well as much as under. the reign of the nasser government security agencies did orchestrate such attacks to blame the opposition

so it's very likely that this is something that some security agencies are planning and perpetrating in order to stick the label of terrorism to the muslim brotherhood with the claims from this all coddling group and of course the accusations against the muslim brotherhood you think that they are unfounded there is no way that the muslim brotherhood would want to carry out such atrocities. what i am sure about one hundred percent is that the muslim brotherhood has nothing to do with this and they would never go down that course their best assets at the moment is to continue their peaceful protests because this is what will awaken those within the egyptian population who have not yet realized that what happened on the third of july was a coup and was an abortion of the revolution just how serious of these turns of events the these these attacks now people dying in the center of karo just how

serious is this now for egypt. well this is serious then this is bad and it's evil at the same time we can see what has before the syria we can see what violence leads to and whoever the perpetrators of these attacks. they are not really doing any service to the egyptian people or the injection values and do you see any way the divisions between the pro morsi supporters and the anti morsi supporters could be resolved or to see the tensions increase even further because we see the muslim brotherhood protesting in the streets today. while the tension is increasing because of the regime the authorities and the media they control. fanning the flames of fire between those who support president morsi and one term to be reinstated and those who support. and there is no way

on the first of three you can resolve this without going back to democracy without going back to the people and then the people decide through the ballot box what they want and just briefly will we see an election in the near future just very briefly. doesn't seem likely at the moment i hope something of this sort will happen sometime in the near future as and to me if initiative islamic political thought thank you very much indeed for joining us. well in syria there's been a fresh surge of infighting between rival opposition forces activists say fourteen hundred people have been killed this month alone in clashes between rebels refreshen is in syria for r.t. and just to warn you that some of the images in her report are graphic. in the film each and 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 qaida affiliated groups but now a different sort of war is raging on the same battlefield that. did it or a loss of gosh the moderates free syrian army an umbrella military organization united and to assad forces since the beginning of the conflict is battling numerous radical jihadist groups who they say hijacked the revolution in order to establish an islamic caliphate in syria dollars and 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 a mosque after that and have no control the militants are only fifty meters beyond the mosque and the area is just full of militants five hundred meters from here and beyond that it's just full of them and it's not a question 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 isp 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 jihadists broke out these 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 the brothers clashes exit q sions and torture between those who were once comrades. 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 home. 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 him and potentially undermine the prospect of peace that's been pursued at the current talks in geneva but here if no shafee from syria . the syrian turmoil is also behind an escalation in cyber warfare on our web site report how a pro-government group of syrian hackers targeted cnn's twitter and facebook accounts of what sort of confusion the hackers were able to cause. plus is facebook facing the end research likening the website's rise to a disease epidemic but there is apparently getting a cure read about the study which predicts when the social network could collapse.

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one in the meantime a quick line to the olympics on 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 there you go ladies and gentlemen it took me two minutes in high heels and one venue will be. international live here and most going to couple of minutes from now the european parliament's vice president gives his viewpoint on the chaos

in ukraine that's insight for incoherent about with more news in just over half an hour. in march the building behind me will become the center of startup communities from around the world come together to talk about the best way of birthing new ideas. post one of the most floats of the so i'm going to finish homeless with a place mosco. 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 a 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 at your pants on this idea must've been created by some people with a pretty decadent lifestyle because how can you even think of 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 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.

sigrid laboratory was able to build the world's most sophisticated robot which will unfortunately doesn't give a doing about anything mission to teach creation why it should care about humans. this is why you. only. welcome to survey in co i'm sophie shevardnadze brussels is striving to integrate more states into its union but some europeans who are already in want out but here are skepticism on the rise the upcoming parliamentary polls may bring some unexpected upsets what can be done to reverse the blocs fortunes well we asked the

vice president of the european parliament to get. here in our program. to move closer to the european union the watching of the streets of kiev we've molotov cocktails. but the europeans don't share the enthusiasm of the ukrainian protesters and the union has seen better days. with a record unemployment to stereo and rise of the far right brussels is losing public support so can the e.u. even afford to expand will it survive the consequences of its economic decline and how bright is that you know to europe's future let me get back to his martinez vice president of the european parliament welcome to the program it's really great to have you with us so we're going to go ahead and start with the latest news. so canvassing fighting on the streets a legal cry.