situations to survive not to speak of maintaining social tranquility is it time to start broadly sharing prosperity. breaking news on r t ukraine's president viktor yanukovych has offered one of the leaders of the protest movement. to new the post of prime minister he's also agreed to make key changes in the constitution after another round of crisis talks with the opposition we go live to kiev very shortly. this is our international live from our studio center here in moscow where it's just ten ten pm and eight pm in ukraine where the breaking news is that the country's president viktor yushchenko bitch has invited a leader of the opposition to become prime minister in

a bid to quell the anti-government unrest that is sweeping the country is also agreed to make changes to the constitution giving extra powers to parliament that's the latest now from peter all of a who is in kiev peter this appears to be a dramatic and major breakthrough doesn't it. well this is all come about following the latest rounds of talks between excuse me this is all come about following the latest round of talks between the government and the opposition now the changes to the constitution that is the other covert he said he's going to make we'll see ukraine revert back to a parliamentary presidential republic that would essentially give the majority of the power in the country more power in the country to the parliament and not the. role of presidents now what we're also hearing is that he's offered the job of prime minister to our see any yet. the leader of the opposition group

fatherland. over this a coming out from these talks today as well addressing vitali klitschko the former world heavyweight champion turned opposition leader here saying he's willing to take part in public debates with mr klitschko to talk about the the big issues facing ukraine right now and also that in terms of what's going on with the rioters and demonstrators that we've seen he said that there will be an amnesty for everybody who is being detained by police but that amnesty is depending on rioters to to give up the government buildings that they're currently occupying not just here in kiev but in in cities all across ukraine so big news coming out from those latest round of talks between the opposition and the government here in kiev and talking all those rotters peter the story that they had taken some hostages and then they've released them what do you know about that. well on friday evening

three police officers were attacked near to where i am near independence square they were then taken captive a little later on friday evening one of them was released he was rushed to hospital with with stop wound injuries now throughout saturday the interior minister it said that they were demanding the immediate release of the other two police officers otherwise they would be looking to perhaps a place see case two to one building in particular that they believe they were being held and they were eventually released these two police officers and they said they talked about having being beaten and tortured while they were in captivity and they are now in hospital with their colleague who was who was treated for those stop were injuries now what we do know the thing we have heard coming out is there. any from the interior ministry saying that any people any rioters remaining on the barricades or in occupied buildings would be

termed as extremists and any threatening any threats of violence from them could be responded it's responded to with force by riot police was the latest with that situation thankfully those two those two police officers were free early on saturday but just very briefly peter you will that this is very very recent news what is the reaction the feeling in the streets behind you at the moment has it actually reach people is there any sort of tangible response to what happened. when it was seeing on saturday evening is very similar scenes to what we saw on friday evening we're seeing you can probably hear just behind me on independence square where speech is being given i can tell you about two hundred meters over to my my left we're in front of the dynamics' stadium that's where we've seen the biggest flashpoints over the last week people are still hurling things towards the police the riot police there there's still a fire raged. this type of fire that's being fueled by used tires being brought in

to those barricades that keep not going now these barricades went up. towards the end of this week because on wednesday what we had seen is some burnt out police vehicles that were being used as barricades there well police were able to storm in now on wednesday in trying to clear people out of that street they did clear them out in some sometimes vicious clashes between the as the rioters and riot police however after around well no more than half an hour rioters were back into the area and they've now built a quite sophisticated system of barricades there and we are seeing a. workshop almost of people chipping away at paving stones to make boulders a rock stole it police are also saying molotov cocktails being maize and then shipped up to the front lines there. so this is this went on this is god's going on now on thursday what we saw was something of

a truce between rioters and riot police this was his talks really got underway between the two sides however that truce really didn't hold it all and on friday we saw the fire is lit up again and more molotov cocktails more rocks being thrown at police we have seen over the past the past week we've seen injuries to both sides we've seen riot police being taken away suffering from from n.g.o.s have also seen rioters as well having to be taken away by ambulances in knots continuing right now over to my right hand side then as i say as we've heard now the interior ministry saying that anybody threatening violence well they can expect to be. they can expect to see responded to with force from them and that's currently the standoff that we're seeing on the main flashpoints here in kiev over in front of the did on the stage in that or at the moment thanks very much indeed peter for that update no doubt we'll hear more from you as the evening goes on law. from care of artes peter

oliver there let's now cross to professor bruno from the paris based national institute of instant civilizations so an extraordinary turn of events here we see two members of the opposition one day off of the post a prime minister and the other one deputy prime minister what do you make of that. i think the exact situation that will help to have to do is do situation in ukraine at least for a short time the problem is which policies they will carry on later because as you remember the problem began when ukraine did not sign the agreement with the european union and the question is what do you will do now what the new government will do now because this question is is much more important than to. just change the government is the question of the geopolitical in view economy glory unpaid creation of ukraine the question where we need to have an answer later

of course for the moment the most important thing is to have. lived which apparently it will bring well if you're talking about stability here but we of course know that much of the violence came from extremists and nationalist do you think that this appointment of these two people actually appease the more radical elements of the protesters. douggs the big problem because. the more radical elements were used to make detention more and more acute now. there is a compromise on that and a higher level but. in the same time i doubt that the extremist movement will agree to go back home and that's the real problem that will happen in kiev and in

the in all the western ukraine. because they're also their base are there so that's that's that's we will see but i doubt it will be easy. to bring back stability you know russia reserve because russia has accused the u.s. and indeed of interfering in meddling with the affairs there in ukraine do you think the pressure from particularly the you has had an effect on this latest announcement this major concession that overtures has made maybe because you know the situation was more and more out of control. more and more extremist movement were. stronger and stronger and now i doubt duckie european union leaders are. not afraid of what could happen in ukraine they need also to a certain extent. in the same time they want to have ukraine more and more

looking for western countries and that's not who are they. and that's the problem isn't it you know what will happen if you make a very good point there of course that the western leaning of course that's not going to be supported by those in the east because without a doubt we have a divided country that when ukraine. we have a divided country the problem that was. the last days was that this divided country could even split and would have. two strong consequences i think even for western leaders displeased of ukraine is something they do not want and doubts maybe the reason why do compromise was overturned but this compromise is also a bit too late. and. the situation is also good to do

general international situation i think it's been countries need to make pressure on russia and to a certain extent i think they used ukraine as the tool because they were too ill to a certain extent defeated in syria they needed to have another place in the world where they could. make pressure on russia and just now. do you create new situation. just briefly on a covert share how is it how is the only coach dealt with this position and what is his position now there was of course talk of a revolution is now appointed to members of the opposition to become part of the parliament that the prime minister the deputy prime minister could in effect still be shifted sideways pushed out of his position. you know i think we did not manage this grazes in a very clever way. he looked at least as if he didn't really new york nor

what he wanted to do and. i don't know what will happen the next day a bug in. the future i think it's a bulletin which is not very strong anymore in ukraine even in the region where he was elected i think that there is a quite a lot of people who were deceived by his behavior before to create a crisis but especially after the beginning. so i think he's position is not so strong as it was. for the moment to a certain extent he is. needed to do to stability but ok. in the future maybe. professor thank you very much indeed bruno rescue from the paris based national institute of eastern civilizations really interesting to hear your thoughts there from paris thank you. well we're just getting some more news in

that protesters are rup police will be leaving the streets of kiev now that's according to an agreement as we've just been talking about are breaking news reached by the opposition and the government will be bringing you more on what's happening in ukraine as the story develops stay with us here on r.t. international more news after this short break. the world economic forum was created in nineteen seventy one and for over a forty years the dirtiest scuzzy names and business banking and politics. they claim they are meeting in order to devise new ways to save the world to deliver prosperity to all. how do you operate. i'm going to.

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this then you offering to members the opposition post the prime minister and deputy prime minister do you think that the opposition will be happy with these terms offered by the president and indeed these two are to actually accept the posts well that is the big question is it is this a genuine offer on the part of yannick overage or is he calculating that yes york and klitschko will turn this offer down and there's more than just the opinion of the opposition leaders to take into account here because there is also a third opposition leader only john a block of the neo nazi leader of the slow boat a party and most of these aggressive rioters that we have seen on the ground several thousand on my. street and elsewhere on the my done from the right sector i find it very unlikely that they will agree to the details

of this agreement that we include all of the protesters of back you waiting the streets and the government buildings that they have an occupying. those people along with the liberals and the moderates did actually want to converge to go and he's clearly not going izzy's those but certainly the extremist elements could well carry on then in the streets protesting you think if they have been calling for revolution and i don't think at this point that the opposition leaders these liberal opposition leaders have shown that they actually have control of the situation or of the protesters the telly klitschko being sprayed by a fire extinguisher the other day when he attempted to. calm down the crowds there any attempt to attack the police lines was a clear indication of this just how significant a role have western governments had in order this you particularly being criticized for interfering i think they found it incredibly significant role and i think that what we have seen is incredibly agree just

a violation of this song or entity of the ukraine and of the principles of the un charter and their national law not interference in domestic affairs we have seen a parade. politicians parliamentarians as well us us senator state department officials all going to the protesters directly over the heads of the government. these protesters calling for revolution they are standing on the stage with the nationalists and openly neo nazi leaders like china bach and posing for photo ops i think this really calls into a doubt the supposed liberal values that they saw here too but then again do you want to say we had a kind of it eventually listened to them he's offered concessions to the opposition and now by one account everybody is going home and stopping the protesting so in effect the pressure could have worked well i don't think it's the ears pressure directly in this situation that has are the result i think that actually this is

a bow to terrorism what we have seen is an opposition that frustrated by the your inability to draw a critical mass of citizens out on the streets and polls showing that a majority of the citizens disapproved of the actions of the protestors their frustration caused them to lash out with violence and they hope that through this violence they could force the rest of society they could terrorize the rest of society and the government into accepting their political demands this is terrorism and the fact that the you know covert government appears to be bowing to this kind of political terrorism and this part is i think of a very. that development in the democratic state of the ukraine it's a broken country now is it we've we're seeing obviously the economy in tatters why would the e.u. even want to have some sort of agreement ukraine and indeed russia it's going to carry on supporting ukraine which is in desperate crisis now. well.

the exact foreign policy changes regards the agreements with russia and the e.u. association agreement and keeping comprehensive free trade agreement which the ukraine government rejected back in november the exact developments of what this will mean for that is as yet unclear. i think that the european union's interest in the ukraine is not certainly not for the people of the ukraine but only for their own geopolitical and expansionist goals in the region yet to come over to survive don't mess that has or perhaps that has clearly been a lot of weakness he didn't know which way to go towards russia or europe maybe the handling of the situation clearly has shaken him what is his position now i think mystery on it go over it with this development if the opposition leaders take it up is that it weaker position than ever he had recently been increasing in the polls by as much as ten percent in

a prospective first round presidential match off in two thousand and fifteen as a result of the protests of the protests were actually increasing his support and i think that his stance against. holding strong was a big part of that right however now i think even his own supporters will see him as weak and certainly the opposition supporters will seek to vote him out so what does that men do in order to setting the scene for those future elections will we see a fair elections is the country now in a position to go ahead with those elections in the spring of next year. well much remains. the scene about whether this deal will be accepted and what happens from here but the country did carry out elections in the wake during the cover letter revolution so i have years later yannick over which was freely and fairly elected president of the ukraine and i think. for

a further violinist elation if this situation continues to run out of control the protesters do not accept this agreement either the leaders or the mobs or the riot serves themselves. i think. ukraine should seriously be able to carry out the election and right now it certainly seems that mystery and coverage will. seem international relations like to recenter moscow state university thank you very much indeed for your response to the latest developments there in ukraine thank you kindly a protester has died in hospital in kiev off to three days in intensive care bringing the death toll from this week's rights to free me modern over a dozen regions of the country angry mobs have besieged in many cases occupied local government offices the city even if she is one of the latest to fully think to the government hundreds of protesters stormed the local administration building met by riot police and so far be unable to drive them away in the local legislature

here in the city of the ball in western ukraine has declared that it no longer recognizes ukraine's state rod and that's the national parliament western the country seeing the worst of the turmoil. explain. these are the scenes playing out across western ukraine one by one thirteen region so far have been overcome by protest right huge 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 but on the other side were scarred me any disturbance or. if we're talking about people from cell phone. 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 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 a lotus 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 the legitimate bodies of power created as 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 strawman dragon is in between the two sides of the country have great concerns which had previously seemed unthinkable that ukraine

might follow yugoslavia scenario and break apart 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. probably in two parts. we have different causes 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. and there will be bring you more on the latest developments there in ukraine and president yannick overages bombshell decision to change the constitution to turn ukraine into a parliamentary presidential republic he also offered one of the opposition leaders arseniy yatsenyuk the job of prime minister one another main opposition figure the

boxer turned politician vitaly klitschko may become deputy prime minister in a covert has also promised an amnesty to all those taking part in the protests on the condition if they leave occupied governmental buildings when after several rounds of talks the leadership and the opposition have finally agreed to clear the streets of kiev protesters camped out in the center of the capital and police are supposed to leave now there's still no reaction from those in kiev those in the streets to these latest announcements you can see live pictures now from one of the main streets of street right now and that's where much of the violence over the past few days has been occurring we'll keep you updated as we're closely following the situation in ukraine on air and online at r.t. dot com. to some breaking news now from america or at least three people are being confirmed

dead in a shooting in baltimore in arsing life footage from the scene and police have locked down the suburban shopping mall where the incident took place it's not clear how many suspects were there at least one shooter has been confirmed killed stay with r.t. for the latest on this developing story. i'll be back then with a news team with more for you and all those updates from ukraine and indeed from the states and just tough an hour from now first though it is breaking the set and for our viewers in the u.k. some hard hitting opinions from george galloway and he's guess this is all to mention. 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 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 could you would 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 trousers volunteers please use it responsibly and productively but that's just my opinion.

according to a new oxfam report the rich are getting richer at an alarming pace middle classes all over the world are under pressure and the or well are only getting poorer with growing income inequality how can we expect democratic institutions to survive not to speak of maintaining social train quality is it time to start broadly. sharing prosperity. for the. men videos i care but on the alice sat so i figure you martine a serious health crisis unfolded in west virginia that left three hundred residents seeking medical attention and over three hundred thousand on able to drink their tap water so it all went down after the company freedom industries admitted that a storage tank of the chemical for metho hexane methanol leaked into the water supply of charleston first of all great job putting corrosive chemicals into seventy plus year old storage tank just a mere mile and a half upstream from the city's main water supply guys but that's not it now we're

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