two police officers kidnapped by riders in ukraine's capital have been released the authorities say both were tortured and have been taken to hospital. just seven people were killed in street clashes with security forces across egypt while a powerful explosion is reported outside a police building in the city of suez on the third anniversary of the twenty eleven revolution. and a ball with dollars social gathering of europe's far riotously triggers anger among sauza and in vienna.

this is our senior national coming to you live from moscow i'm marina joshie welcome to the program now two policemen held by anti-government riders in ukraine's capital have been released security forces say they were tortured let's get more now on this from r.g.p. all over who's joining us from the ukrainian capital live so peter do bring us up to speed with what's happening in the freed hostages. well the interior ministries issued a statement saying that those two police officers that were being held hostage here in kiev now being released the police officers have said that they had been told should by their campuses they occur only now in the hospital along with the policeman who was snatched from the streets of kiev on friday evening now he was released on friday suffering with stab wound injuries. the opposition initially said that they haven't taken any hostages or any place hostages at all but the interior minister now saying that those hostages. were

taken and they have now been released now and a further statement from the interior ministry they said this well from now on anybody who remains here on independence square just behind me all on the barricades over. the would be considered extremists they went on to say that they guaranteed the safety of any demonstrates is any threats of violence would be met with force no earlier on i was in amongst those barricades over by the phenomena stadium seeing how it all looks on saturday. well this is the scene here in kiev after the ukrainian capital to spend a week gripped by violence you now see rioters have barricaded themselves in on the one of the main streets here in the at the ukrainian capital near to the now miss stadium now this is being the major flashpoint in this city on the way to stay we saw this whole area cleared out. on the now by the right police of what was

a rather vicious running battle that was being forced between writers. on the right police there within about thirty minutes late already coming back into this area since then what we have seen is a large tire fire being set up on the front line between the between the police and the riot is now police are still continuing to try and extinguish that fire with its thick black smoke using water cannon now that's resulted in this whole area becoming incredibly icy freezing freezing temperatures here well below zero in kiev now on thursday we had seen something of a period of calm as talks were taking place between the opposition and the government however that didn't last on friday more violence again and the fire has been reignited this is the scene that we're seeing i say thousands of people still here anita near to the. stadium and these writers are quite heavily armed what we

have seen is a lot of molotov cocktails being made there's really a production line going on towards the reassurance of these these barricades in which molotov the being made stones are being broken up a stones around the size of a face that are being hurled over towards the towards the riot police now the police already have responded using tear gas throughout the week firing rubber bullets also using flash bang sound grenades as well but it is it has been a rather fish a standoff to say times here. with no love lost from either side and as they they've clashed and we've seen many of the rioters taken away injured also many police also ending up in a hospital to see what's being thrown at them these molotov and his rocks being hurled towards the riot place but it was it's a very ugly scenes over the past week here in kiev. that is our correspondent peter all over reporting live from ukraine capital for you well you can follow him on twitter as well for regular updates on what's happening at the barricades and one

of his most recent tweets is reporting on the riot trading being given to protest on independence square. in the. after tasker has died in hospital in kiev after three days in intensive care bringing the death toll from this week's riots to three meanwhile in over a dozen regions of the country angry mobs have besieged and in manic cases occupied local government offices the city of the same it's not as one of the latest to fall victim to anti-government turmoil hundreds of protesters stormed the local administration building there they were mad by riot police have so far been unable to drive them away meanwhile the local legislature in the city of the voth it western ukraine has declared that it no longer recognizes ukraine's state rada the national parliament in the west of the country is seeing the worst of the turmoil and articulation here chefs can now explain. these are

the scenes playing out across western ukraine one by one thirteen region so far have been overcome by protest rage rioters have stormed regional administration buildings it turned violent in some cases as angry crowds clashed with the police. and all that occurring to the west but on the other side there's hardly any disturbance that oh if we're talking about people from salt on the east and boss they get 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 be some order over though they seem confident they won't have to. this wave would never reach us but if it does our party is ready to provide help to law enforcers we would set up road blocks and not let anyone get inside crimea our party aloneness capable of mobilizing up to five thousand people. we're not talking

about seceding from ukraine yet we're talking about restoring constitutional order but we would never accept any orders from illegitimate bodies of power created as the mind. for a better understanding of what exactly happening in the. in terms of its territory we have this map over here the parts of the country marked in yellow are 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 and dragon is in between the two sides of the country have great concerns which had previously seemed unthinkable that ukraine my former yugoslavia scenario and break apart any sort of splits in the area which could happen within the next weeks must be described as quite possible

because government wouldn't have enough forces will be splitted probably in two parts. the 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 at the police hardly anyone in ukraine feel that the crowds are listening to anyone right now alexey version of ski r.t. reporting from kiev in ukraine while ukraine's president acknowledges meeting for crisis talks with the opposition again he offered several concessions earlier promising to reshuffle those arrested during riots in the capital this week now while the plan has failed to appease the demonstrators in kiev officials to the east of the capital are still enjoying strong support our disposal reports from the nancy. most of the east and south of this country is supportive of the government and the president i'm here in the city of donetsk where there has been

a pro-government rally happening just a short distance behind me and emotions here are running high there's been various speeches where people have been saying we support poisoned gena coverage that he has been truth and justice on the inside and that they will not hitting down i've been speaking to a number of people who turned out one particularly emotional woman told me that she came today because this is a fight for her children and grandchildren one of the accusations many here have been leveling at the protesters in kids that firstly they're small in number they do not represent the country and say can be that they believe powers in the waste and the united states are actually paying people to come to the streets and rejoice the concerns. and the group of foreign there should not be deciding the fate of our country is the people who are to decide. what i think they're so rusted spade for by the west to break ukraine is the united state. i think more people are supporting the government but they're working and doing their duties instead of

standing there on my down in addition to this demonstration there's some twenty cities in the east of the country that will today be holding pro-government rallies we're talking about tens of thousands of people who are expected to come to the streets now on the political level the latest word is that president coverage yesterday did agree to concessions and these include on the one hand retiring the head of the city's administration and at the same time reshuffling the cabinet but it doesn't seem as if these seemingly outward stretches of compromise are being met by the opposition. well the european commissioner for enlargement stefan feel has called on ukraine to put an end to the violence on the heels of his visit to kiev brussels and washington are blaming the government for the chaos and threatening sanctions while largely viewing the protesters as peaceful victims of a police crackdown and ukrainian affairs analyst told us that this is exactly what

the opposition wants 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 backwards and the other 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 ukraine in two thousand and four of all things so i think the protesters are trying to make a point that verda 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 that are saying the government is responsible for this it's not it's the protesters around two thousand protesters have reportedly sees a government building and now the ukrainian city of poltava so had to calm the

details and updates are available for you there on the situation and ukraine. up to seven people have been killed in clashes between pro islamists protesters and police across egypt on the third anniversary of the twenty eleven revolution and so as a powerful explosion has gone off near at the least building let's cross live now to bill true who is in cairo for us so bell do tell us what's the latest in agent at this moment. well the latest that we've heard is that a number the car bomb has exploded into police building this time in the key city of suez this is the sixth such explosion has taken place in two days we had four bomb blasts in cairo on friday and this morning egyptians woken up to a similar bomb blast in the eastern suburbs of cairo and then of course we had

serious today for security forces are really feeling very much under attack and has been reflected in their behavior today they've upped their presence in the streets large sections of the of the city have been roped off including in front of the defense ministry and also heading up to this presidential palace this comes of course on the anniversary of the genuity five evolution which ousted hosni mubarak and there have been rival protest groups that have taken to the streets across the country and it's been seeing lots and lots of violence security forces are essentially not allowing any anti-government groups to gather in the streets whether the islamist supporters of ousted president mohamed morsy or whether the secular activists they've met all forms of dissent with live ammunition tear gas and bullets we have reports of protesters having to hold pictures of t. but it's easy to guess just to get out of the area and live essential this is being heavily contrast it with what's going on in tahrir square which is essentially a military party that supports its all for armed forces chief general abdel fatah

sisi has come out in droves today holding images of him and post is wearing them around then next on t. shirts and hats they say they want him to be president and they need him to run the country to crack down even harder on the islamist groups like the mizzen brotherhood who they blame for these and bomb blasts what we're seeing here is a very divided egypt and it's becoming increasingly split which is really a been exacerbated by these bomb blasts now i was at the size of the explosions yesterday and i made this report. three years on from the two thousand and eleven revolution egypt was supposed to be celebrating instead deadly bomb blasts row. cairo targeting police offices as the country descends into chaos gyptian a dangerously split between those who back the military and those who support ousted muslim brotherhood president mohamed morsi crowds of people gathered at the site of the bomb blast which ripped open the facade of egypt's main police headquarters in cairo the people here like many in governments blame them is above

the heads and say this event attack on the state after they ousted islamist president mohammed morsi with anger mounting there is likely to be a harsher crackdown on the islamist group. exit the brotherhood 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 rising 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 roadmap and disturb the referendum on the constitution the muslim brotherhood is just a tool our enemy is the foreign element that controls these tools all egyptian 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 broaden 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 this kind of. explosions just to just to pick a to get as a typical justification against the people and we believe that they did this to three bombing this morning these three losers this morning. and they are just one to. have mourning the more massacre as against their patience in this street. three years after the uprising which saw the country unite against it it takes a ship egypt is now increasingly divided rather than celebrating a new democracy and much needed change egyptians steeling themselves ahead of more violence. from cairo. now the twenty a eleven revolution

and almost three decades of authoritarian rule by hosni mubarak after more than a year of transitional military rule the islamist backed candidate mohamed morsi was elected president and he's government pushed through and new constitution criticized for being over influenced by sharia law a popular uprising against morsi led to him being forced out by the army a year later the military then launched a crackdown on the muslim brotherhood with thousands of supporters killed and the unrest the group was then declared a terrorist movement cairo based journalist mohannad sabri says the brotherhood is responsible for much of the under arrest the keep harking of conspiracy theories they keep blaming the government for staging those bombings it's the fourpence which is absolutely nonsense but of the same time opposite the opposite side which is the regime and the regime loyalists them to what protestors are not peaceful themselves and are as hostile as the muslim brotherhood is what what should be

stopped now what the government should be working tirelessly to stop is inciting violence you know why didn't those gaps between sectors of the community and moving the country forward towards a phase of civil strife a state of their team because in a few minutes we try our luck with the puck. this venue is played and it's ready for the hockey. game as for me i think i need a little bit more practice in the rain to. get your skates on as we hit dice to see what awaits the hockey squads hoping for gold in a couple of weeks at sochi twenty fourteen. i know. tonya. well tell me how you are my little grandson.

i know. i don't like. being cut off. except it is an ecovillage that the spiritual side is destructive. i try to convince her try to preach that it was a sect but it's dangerous that she had to leave it was a story she had lost her mind. he'll he or she will come back i know it would and i will wait but would even if it means i must wait until my dying day.

welcome back you're watching r t international around six thousand fewer as demonstrators swarmed into vienna in protest at an annual ball of tanna by europe's leading foreign politicians holocaust survivors are among the strongest critics of a controversial event boy boy reports from austria began as academic a ball courts protest and courts have us be everywhere because of the names on its guest list it's become a gathering a far right political leader has come across europe it's hosted by all serious freedom policy 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 that the ball is and once and for all is not acceptable right when people are in the cars lovingly and dancing

celebrating the. mission is not so good because it's a closing bridge between a right to extradition in austria a. little of the society it's a cry to me to be human to stick human today the crowd gathered hey is typecast you have left wing groups representatives of shouldn't all the nice ations members of the curious community. hold up hold that i was on topic she says some simply don't like the fact that so i gather ng is taking place in the city's main palace where people with the hots extremist and unto semitic views are gathering but the reality is that these right wing groups are gaining popularity across europe it's very very scary to us that these parties are growing so much the crisis in europe the socialist or the social democratic parties they did not have

to ride on sue's crisis and along comes right the right wing extremist parties and they have very easy answers protest organizers say it's all right political leaders the said to be holding secret meetings planning on how to build will not surge in popular support but they have been uniting ahead of the european parliamentary elections in may one day 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 what the boy k. artsy vienna. farai movements have been winning support across crisis shrink in europe as more cash strapped citizens turn away from traditional parties and governments in austria the freedom party made a strong showing in september's general election with over twenty percent of the

vote the popularity of the dutch party for freedom is currently at the same level while the movement for a better hungary polls at thirteen percent and in greece the golden dawn party has become the country's third political force. martie dot com there are some long awaited good news for anti fracking campaigners in the u.k. the oil and gas firm is scrapping plans to tap into shale deposits in picturesque southern england but not because of public protest against the project find out what made the corporation give up on fracking at the site. because the us has developed so-called space cop satellites to patrol orbit but it's not people they'll be policing as we explained online. syrian government officials and their main political rivals have met face to face for the first time the talks of their own going geneva two conference were brokered and led by international envoy lakhdar brahimi while the opposing syrian delegations did sit

at the same table they have not yet started negotiating directly without a mediator the opposition wants the talks to focus on the resignation of president asad which has been rejected by syrian officials the u.s. and its allies are also calling for regime change but russia which helped set up the geneva two summit says foreign meddling is unacceptable. must decide themselves what to do there is no other way it's impossible to introduce some scheme like drawing a list of who leaves and who comes in their place that is social engineering and it never ends well if the task is simply regime change as some are trying to do syria could plunge into complete chaos and order must be preserved and there's no other method to do that except to maintain the existing institutions. now such as where the subtropics meets the snow but some of the world's premier ice hockey players will need a cool head to secure victory at the winter olympics which start in less than two

weeks to ballance a has been checking out what awaits the sport's best light. the bolshoi the 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 it 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 slight design to resemble a giant frozen. inside the traditional bowl shaped seating offer some flair with glazed glass on the complex. the ice rink to see where to live not screens cameras and sound systems so calm spectators to be able to get everyone the

puck on the ice. those with disabilities who also have easy access to the venue 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 i want to test the ice rink felt my feet my feet take a shock to my being cocky play on them for me. now i may have ended up looking impressive in on film but i thought that keeping the book is taking place across the pond while trying to balance on one stage i was doing 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. i think i need a little bit more practice in the rink so i'm with play inside of the ball so i stay in tsotsi r.t. . now from the news of today to the breakthrough is off tomorrow get ready for a technology update in a couple of minutes here on our team. recently facebook was ablaze with likes and shares of up to 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 all those thousands of participants all you do is walk around such a 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.

the world economic forum was created in nineteen seventy one and for over a forty years the dirtiest scuzzy is the names and business banking and politics i've met in davos switzerland and each year's meeting they claim they're meeting in order to devise new ways to save the world to deliver. prosperity to all. hello and welcome to technology updates on today's show. we'll listen to some pretty cool chuen. russia gets caught up in the next industrial revolution.

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