i. live pictures from central kiev where flames are roaring and protests continue there in independence square barricades in kiev set the country on fire rioters control seven local governments in the western regions while ukraine's east stands behind the president. and other bomb attacks on police in cairo marks the anniversary of the two thousand and eleven revolution that's just a day after a string of blasts around the capital killed six. and thousands protest against a social gathering of far right politicians in vienna as nationalist movements gain popularity across europe.

live from moscow you're watching r.t. international i'm lindsey france thanks for joining me rioters in ukraine's capital of kiev are reportedly holding two policemen hostage authorities also say an officer was found shot dead in the city center with another in hospital with stab wounds amid burning the barricades the protesters and riot police showered the streets with molotov cocktails and rubber bullets over night. the fury and kava spreading to ukraine's west as well as artist reports. these are the scenes playing out across western ukraine one by one thirteen region so far have been overcome by protest grange rioters have stormed regional administration buildings it turned violent in some cases as angry crowds clashed with the police and over not occurring to the west of the river which breaks the country into but on the other side there's hardly any disturbance at all if we're

talking about people from cellphone east and boss they are not eager to participate in any sort of military action in the southern region of the crimea authorities have had enough of the national wide uprising they are ready to defend peace and order although they seem confident they want to have to. this wave would never reach us but if it does our party is ready to provide help to law enforcers or if we want to set up roadblocks and not let anyone get inside crimea our party alone is capable of mobilizing up to five thousand people. we're not talking about secede from ukraine yet we're talking about restoring constitutional order but we would never accept any orders from illegitimate bodies of power created at the mind. for a better understanding of what exactly happening in ukraine in terms of its territory we have this map over here the parts of the country marked in yellow the ones where the local administrations have already been overthrown the red ones the

contest the territories the pink ones where riots and mass uprisings are still taking place and the blue ones where nothing is happening at all there is no revolt no uprising at all and you can see for yourself this is pretty much a fifty fifty division such strong antagonism between the two sides of the country have great concerns which had previously seemed unthinkable that ukraine my full yugoslavia scenario and break apart all enforcement. desk rooms have been moved to control the situation invest in regions in ukraine is very weak these days the any sort of splits in the area we could happen within the next two weeks must be described as quite possible because government would have enough forces so ukraine will be splitted probably in two parts. we have two different times on thursday the opposition declared a truce with the government for seventy two hours but with rioters in kiev again

burning tires and hurling burning projectiles that the police hardly anyone in ukraine feel that the crowds are listening to anyone right now alexey version of ski odyssey reporting from kiev in ukraine meanwhile president yanukovych has agreed to several concessions reshuffling his cabinet and pledging to review recent laws that introduced harsher punishments for rioters however opposition leaders have called for citizens across ukraine to form militias and take control into their own hands of his policy or traveled east of the capital to see if those calls are being heard there. here in eastern ukraine there's a lot of support for the president many did not support violence many do not support revolution they've been a number of rallies held in support of the government and we've been talking to people who do not want to see a change in power yes and look what i stand for unocal which the only thing i wish is that he would have declared a state of emergency in the country but he didn't because he's such

a gentle hearted person who. we're here to support our president viktor yushchenko bitch to support the constitutional order we want to see the calls for coup this time to stop as well as the violence to end people on my down should not be lied to anymore you know if we want to live in a year within the country well let's behave in a civilized manner and that's the opposite from what is happening right now this is anarchy and this is wrong the western media has been depicting the story as if the whole of ukraine is against the government but this is simply untrue you have a half the country here in eastern ukraine where people support the president and they have been gathering themselves in almost vigilante type groups to protect the government in the case of violence for now though they have been holding pro-government rallies and these will continue throughout the day here at places like october square rallies have been held in the past against association with the

european union r.t. donetsk ukraine the rioting that's been often care of has seen many western politicians voice their support for the u.s. also imposing sanctions against ukraine's politicians ukrainian affairs analyst the boy says that's exactly what the protesters have been aiming for. they're trying to force the issue this is this is your typical extortion tactic the whole point is to force the government to react the whole point is to force another police forces to confront the protesters and then scream bloody murder oh my god they're killing us they're oppressing us please help look what's happening help us foreign intervention and so on and so forth it is a very basic tactic from the rebellion playbook being implemented throughout the world in georgia and elsewhere in the ukraine in two thousand and four of all things so i think the protesters are trying to make a point that they're to ones that decide what gets done and who initiates the

violence as evidenced by mr klitschko statement that we will hold him to live until the negotiations are over but we have the power to actually go on strike and initiate attack and he's he's directly gainsaying his foreign supporters are saying the government is responsible for this it's not it's a protesters. meanwhile ukrainian police say they've seized a range of weapons when they detained a gang in kiev their arsenal included two assault rifles four pistols hundreds of rounds of ammunition authorities say they have evidence that the gang was involved in kidnappings and supplied arms to the protesters in the ukrainian capital we've been following the riots in ukraine as they kicked off since last november you can see behind me as the city wakes up and the protesters are still in place the drama unfolds there on the ground we will of course be keeping a very sharp eye on things you can check out a timeline on our web site with the latest updates and footage from kiev and much more.

a bomb has exploded near a police academy in cairo injuring one person this comes just a day after the egyptian capital suffered a series of bomb attacks which killed six people and wounded many more this is security footage of the first and most powerful blast outside the city's police headquarters which left four officers dead as you can see it was a car bomb attacks hyped up public hatred of the muslim brotherhood who supporters in turn continued to defy protest bans on friday and faced off against police various parts of egypt authorities say those outbreaks claimed at least twelve lives our correspondent felt true reports from the epicenter of the unrest. three is known from the two thousand and eleven revolution in egypt was supposed to be celebrating instead deadly bomb blasts rocked cairo targeting police offices as the country descends into chaos gyptian

a dangerously split between those who backed the military and those who support ousted muslim brotherhood president mohamed morsi crowds of people gathered at the science of the bomb blast which ripped open the facades of egypt's main police headquarters in cairo the people here like many in government the main them is above the heads and say this intervention attack on the states off they ousted islamist president mohamed morsi with anger mounting there is likely to be a harsher crackdown on the islamist group. exit the brotherhood whether they are to blame for this the terrorists want to break the country in half some are afraid to leave their homes but most are more determined than ever to go to the streets against the brotherhood for the revolution anniversary the military installed government accuses the brotherhood of being behind a wising insurgency and the spike in terror attacks the media has observed the scheme announced by the brotherhood at the meetings abroad we want to disable the country's political road and disturb the referendum on the constitution. the muslim brotherhood is just a tool that our enemies the foreign element that controls these tools people know

about this but hundreds of brotherhood supporters are in jail and they say they are under attack from the power hungry military this month the majority of the population approved a new constitution that broadens the army's power as it shields the military budget from cuts gives the armed forces the right to approve defense ministers and choice of billions in military courts the military coup that the always career these kind of. explosions just to just typically get the justification again it's the people and we believe that these three bombing this morning these three losers this morning. just to. have more on the more massacres against their patients in the street three years after the uprising or so the country unite against a dictatorship egypt is now increasingly divided rather than celebrating

a new democracy and much needed change. steeling themselves ahead of more violence . for r.t. cairo. the two thousand and eleven revolution eventual led to the toppling of longstanding dictator hosni mubarak following more than a year of transitional military world the islamist backed leader mohammed morsi was elected president his government trying to push through a constitution criticized for being over influenced by sharia law last july he was thrown out of office by the army command after months of popular uprising this signaled a return to an era of crackdowns by the military backed government the muslim brotherhood was choked and later declared a terrorist organization and editor with the pan african newswire says egypt's government is asking for more trouble by completely turning its back on the opposition. the army cannot guarantee security and sat of egypt as long as there's no political solution to this split that exists between the brotherhood as well as

the military and those who are aligned with the egyptian military it's a very tense atmosphere inside of the country there are many opponents to the military backed regime there was a significant boycott of the referendum elections are just last week and i believe that the tensions are going to grow and as long as the current interim government remains intransigent and wants to continue the requestion of the muslim brotherhood and other forces inside the country who disagree with their rule there's potential for more conflict both in the streets as well as the type of attacks that we saw earlier yesterday. so i had this hour a feeder of sport on ike's. this is very. late and it's ready for the hockey. game as. i think i need

a little bit more practice in the rain our correspondent tries out the stadium that will host all the ice hockey action at the sochi winter olympics next month don't miss that shortly plus. a confidentiality being maintained concerned about public awareness we don't think people really know yet what's going on. national health service moves to make patient's medical records public sparking a nationwide privacy debate. maybe also reflected the massive surveillance operation that is going on when we're talking about defending against terrorism which ultimately i think is it's where it is a catch twenty two right because you don't want to take a program away that is saving people and creating a safer environment but at the same time you know i truly believe that we all have

a right to freedom i believe we shouldn't be surveilled except for a. drama is to try to be ignored. stories others who refused to notice its. existence changing the world. to picture of today's. world from around the globe. broke through. thousands have rallied in vienna against a ball where some of europe's leading right wing politicians have gathered for the

social event parties probably boycott reports now how the movement numerous protests is sweeping across the continent. here enters the academic a ball courts protest and courts of see every here because of the names on its guest list it's become a gathering of far right political leaders from across europe it's hosted by our serious freedom party and for my guests include marine le pen francaise national front leader as well as far right wing politicians from belgium germany and italy several thousand protesters hit the city streets tomorrow i'm doing that the ball is once and for all not acceptable right when people are in the council. dancing celebrating the pleasing measures the nazi adheres it's a closing bridge between our right to extrude mission in austria a. little of the society it's a crying to me to be you mystic movement today the crowd gathered here

is giant bust you have left wing groups representatives she didn't organize ations members of the cherished community holocaust survivors on to africa she says it is just simply just like the fact that i gather ng is taking place in the city's main palace where people with perhaps extremist and anti semitic views are gathering but the reality is that these right wing groups are gaining popularity across europe it's very very scary just that these parties are growing so much with the crisis in europe the socialist or the social democratic parties they did not have to ride on cers on to the crisis and along comes right the right wing extremist parties and they have very easy answers protest organizers say it's far right political leaders said to be holding secret meetings planning on how to build or not surge and

qalqilya support but they haven't uniting ahead of the. european parliamentary elections in may but while they're inside the palace as the saying goes they're only going to be waltzing to the right and the diverse crowd that's represented here this evening is determined to show that it's not happy about ali boycott see. far right groups are indeed gaining ground across europe in austria the freedom party made a strong showing in september's general elections took over twenty percent of the vote the popularity of the dutch party for freedom is currently at the same level as that while the movement for a better hungary polls up at thirteen percent meanwhile the golden dawn in greece is the country's third most popular party. the syrian government and the opposition are due to hold their first joint meeting in

geneva about an hour from now that's after friday's negotiations almost collapsed amid mutual condemnation before they even began. the delegates are reportedly still not prepared to talk to each other instead communicating through the u.n. mediator lakhdar brahimi the broad political solution now looking to be too far off sides will spend the next two days focusing on humanitarian issues the syrian civil war has killed over one hundred thirty thousand people in nearly three years political analyst phyllis bennis is skeptical the meeting well resolved major issues with some of the key players absent from negotiations. i think if the sides sit in the same room even if they don't speak directly to each other ironically enough that will be a step forward it's critical all major players have said there is no military solution to this crisis i think that the leaders of both sides although it's hard to even say both sides given that there are so many sides right now but i think

that all sides recognize that to be true the question is how long is it going to take and how many more people have to die before a real agreement that would include a an arms embargo as well as a temporary cease fire can come into effect we can't afford failure but i'm afraid that without iran and without some of the crucial parts of the opposition that a ceasefire will only be partial that the an arms embargo is probably right now out of reach. on our t. dot com when news of fracking brings joy instead of anger the company's drops its plans for shale gas extraction at a controversial site in southeast england but the u. turn appears to have nothing to do with the protests of an area just last year find out what really prompted the move. plus space cops u.s. scientists have developed a series of mini satellites to patrol the earth's orbit and protect other satellites from collisions with space junk on our website we can talk all the

details. in ice hockey there's no other international competition that could be more exciting than the olympic tournament only once every four years the very best players from both sides of the atlantic get a chance to go head to head as part of their national teams and before these superstar blades begin carving the ice of the event's main arena in saatchi artes to bang let's say went to check it out for herself. the bowl sure ice palace is a twelve thousand multi-purpose arena now this is going to be home to the most anticipated all the events of the winter games hockey now bolshoi is rice anonymous with the russia and the words and means big in english so it's only fair to say that this stadium is the big ice palace but does it live up to its may. is located by the black sea coast line designed to resemble

a giant frozen water droplet inside the traditional bowl shaped seating also some flair with glazed glass on the compass. the ice rink to see quickly with lots screens cameras and sound system so powerful spectators will be able to see every one of the puck on the ice. those with disabilities will also have easy access to the new cheering on their favorite team now here's a taste of what to expect this olympic venue oh oh oh. oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh. oh oh oh i wanted to test the ice rink felt like beneath my feet and take a shot of being a hockey player on the limpid rina. now may have ended up looking impressive in our

film but i found the keeping the hockey stick in place across the pond while trying to balance on my skates was a job i was happy to be to the professionals ok so i'm not an olympic hockey player but one thing that's for sure is that this venue is flake and it's ready for the hockey a limping games as for me i think i need a little bit more practice in the ring go on my play inside of the ball so i stay employed r.t. . stay with us for more reports from where the athletes will be going for the gold plenty to share with you in the run up to the opening of the games it's all in the best place to gear up for the winter olympics. are you ok. how do you operate doing brigade going to room was good to go sports and such like speed

skating that as it use it as proof road rules i'm not an olympic hockey player on the big. leagues. my son. britain's national health service has announced that patient's medical records will be shared with the public for research purposes and despite promises of anonymity for those whose illness is are exposed the move has sparked debate as tests are still your reports. some twenty six million households in england will be receiving leaflets like this one from the national health service or the n.h.s. explaining how medical records and some confidential information may be shared with third parties which they say is in order to improve patient care all of this will be kept under a new giant database called care and everyone's n.h.s. information will be included unless people choose to opt out via the family doctor now mental health illnesses yet serious diseases and even smoking and drinking habits will be made available to research years but also insurers and private

medical companies and pharmaceutical companies now the n.h.s. has said that they do have measures in place to make sure that identities are kept private but i debate has been reignited between advocates of the benefits of such a database and campaigners we spoke with julia manning from twenty twenty health an independent think tank on the issue for the first time it would bring together. from the hospital sector from the community sector so that's what's really revolutionary about it we're concerned about. confidentiality being maintained concerned about public awareness we don't think people really know yet what's going on and also the accuracy of our records you might not mind a research or having access to your information to be able to inform clinical research but you might be very concerned that private information about you is publicly available and we really feel it should be an opt in system and so the

debate continues a massive drive for patient care improvement or a gross violation of patient privacy or the n.h.s. constitution does set out that individuals have the right to object to disclosures of their personal confidential data and that they also have the right for these objections to be respected thus are cilia r t london. and canada police and firefighters have suspended their search for the victims of a. massive fire that destroyed a nursing home authorities confirmed eight people died in the blaze in a small town in quebec province the most most of the residents were over seventy five years old thirty people are still missing with rescue efforts being hampered by subzero temperatures. aren't clashes have erupted in the central african republic between christian militias and former muslim rebels who sues power last year at least sixteen people were killed on thursday and that calls by the authorities on both groups to stop interreligious violence two thousand people have

died there since march with french troops and african peacekeepers failing to bring stability. cross border shooting in gaza by israeli forces has led to one palestinian man being killed another wounded the israeli military says the incident happened after palestinians threw rocks and rolled burning tires soldiers tensions are rising on the border this week israel said it killed a key gaza militant it blamed for a wave of rocket attacks. it's almost time for peter lavelle show on the money on our to international before viewers in the u.k. the next program coming up is sputnik with george galloway.

yes. 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 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 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 when 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 trousers volunteers please use it responsibly and productively but that's just my opinion. here you ok. how do you operate bill i'm beginning i'm going to it was good sports and such expert status. as proof shows i'm not an olympic hockey player by much it is on to find out which. by fire.

well in welcome to the money with the business of russia is business i'm peter lavelle with the start of two thousand and fourteen economists c.e.o.'s and investors are finalizing their plans for the new year the past year was a bit bumpy but two thousand and fourteen should see the russian economy rebound and the showcase called salty may make more than a few investors have a fresh look at the russian market. to discuss the russian economy i'm joined by robert may he is a managing partner at robert made consulting group we also have been heiress he's the editor in chief of business new europe and we also have john hello big he is the managing partner of a group ben let me start out with you what is the major theme you're looking for in two thousand and fourteen in one word investment investment we need to wait and

wait ok robert in one word yes what am i looking for here i think more of the same stagnation probably speculation ok john labor productivity ok why investment investment is the achilles heel of the russian economy and we had this horrible slowdown last year was the rushes and and as i read this and surprised everybody on the down side you can reverse the story and the reason is the investment just stopped i think it's to do with sentiment that there's a lot of uncertainty and people without being able to look forward to the future with any kind of idea of where we're going to go a lot of this was in the middle of last year it was self-induced where they changed gears they started going for what i call russian austerity is the hope of more quality growth in this year what is complicated i mean there's a lot of things a lot of factors that went into creating this atmosphere of pessimism or uncertainty and we had horrible external.