breaking news this hour authorities are negotiating with rioters in ukraine who are trying to storm the convention center where some two hundred police officers are based that's following the opposition's rejection of president proposals aimed at quelling in the ongoing anti-government riots. this is two police officers kidnapped by writers in ukraine's capital have been released both were allegedly tortured as fears are mounting of radical protestors derailing the concessions of the authorities. and in other news up to twenty nine people were killed in the street clashes with security forces across egypt meanwhile a powerful explosion is reported outside a police building in the city of suez on the florida anniversary of the two thousand and eleven revolution.

in broadcasting live from our studios in moscow this is r t i'm sean thomas glad to have you with us forty's in ukraine are negotiating with rioters who have been trying to storm a convention center in kiev members of the country's special police force are inside that building the siege began shortly after leaders of the ukrainian opposition turned down the president's proposals aimed at calming the unrest in the country they insist of viktor yushchenko which step down instead are all over has more from kiev. there's a convention center near to independence square that's currently under siege by rioters and we understand that they are in negotiations with the riot police that are stationed inside now the writers there have opened up a cauldron down the middle of the steps that go down from the main entrance there

telling police that they should come down those steps and leave the building now this would end up just being another building that has been occupied by this all started after. we had speeches from opposition leaders in which they said that they they weren't willing to accept the. the offers that have been made to them by ukrainian president viktor yushchenko which now to run through some of those offers the constitution would change in that ukraine would go back to a parliamentary presidential republic what that actually means is that the parliament here the the m.p.'s would have far more power it would actually remove some of the power away from the presidency stands at the moment and would basically revert ukraine back to the constitution it in two thousand and four some of those offers were was the offer of the position of prime minister for one of the senior

opposition leaders mr. york now he's the leader of the the group here called fatherland he's often offered the position of prime minister he has said that he hasn't decided yet and there will be discussions over whether he will accept that or not it's also understood that vitaly klitschko could well be coming his deputy should he accept that position now other offers that were put on the table was an amnesty for everybody that has been anybody that has been detained so far during the two week long violence that we've seen here in ukraine however there was a stipulation placed upon it and that was the right. this is would leave government buildings that they've occupied all across ukraine so we heard these speeches then we've seen the said these violent scenes it has all kind of calmed down right now but there has been a series of incidents involving the police here recently what we have seen is on

friday evening three police officers were attacked not very far away from where i am right now there was talk of a agreement between opposition leaders and the police the riot is in demonstrators would leave the streets of the ukrainian capital kiev. that certainly isn't happening right now from what we've seen artie's peter all of our forces there in kiev now rioters in the city also shot off fireworks and threw what looked like burning tires into the convention center where members of the country's special police force are based artie's election he was there for. chances are far from dying down in ukraine's capital kiev we do know now that the opposition had refused to meet proposals of the president about withdrawing protesters on the street in exchange for reforms forecasted to snow reform for tweaking the laws described as draconian in the country as anti-riot laws which were passed on january the sixteenth right now we can see the rioters are trying to storm the so-called cranes

to dome building which is literally hundred and fifty meters away from the barricades at the governmental quarter. reportedly there are two hundred riot policemen besieging inside sitting inside this building and the protesters want them out fearing that they may use this building to storm the barricades from two sides this is the concern of these of these writers right now that we've seen are small bombs most of cartels through and inside the building although there's been no retaliation from the police coming as of now we went to the barricades was the so-called riot second right wing search the people who are the core of the protest right now they basically indicated that they will not be willing to move away from this position regardless of what the opposition on any other politician says they are a man their main goal right now is to topple the government topple the president that's what they stand for we also heard that the opposition leader speaking from the

stage were on numerous occasions booed by the protesters that the euro my done and this suggests that they're not willing to listen to anyone right now and now the only situation the past week has actively fueled the talk which is something unthinkable off in the past several years in ukraine that the country may eventually fall into several parts early i did a report explaining this story let's have a look. there are 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 ministry. 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 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 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 at the mine. 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 antigun 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 which could happen within the next weeks must be described as quite possible because government wouldn't 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 into you again burning tires and hurling burning projectiles at the police hardly anyone in ukraine feels that the crowds are listening to anyone right now alexey rachet ski oxy reporting from keefe in ukraine. it seems that police officers have increasingly become victims of the rioters and not only during their standoffs on

the streets several policemen claim that they were kidnapped and then tortured by protesters and then released. today to those who would serve my head and bound my legs with musk tape and taped up my eyes as well he. was privy to more of the yes we were attacked by a group of masked wearing youngsters they surrounded us screamin the cops their wrists hands up because of the take everything from us our wallets ourselves along with everything when them to through we had done nothing to them because we were just coming out of a cafe after lunch with the mob surrounded. how are the ukrainian special police fairing when it comes to trying to maintain order in this chaotic and violent environment retired commander of city heal from l a's a sheriff's department told us that the police in the us would have reached reacted much harsher in the same type of scenario. from what i've seen on the video so

although showing a lot more restraint then i think you could expect in most places now and still use the mayors of the ball all cocked else throwing rocks and bottles and striking him with. would all be considered lethal force in the united states. that's a lethal situation in the united states you could very quickly be shot with lethal force with a lot of first of all the dragging of the police officer and club again while you can now could very easily result in some type of force police officer. now here is a map of central kiev and you can see the heart of the protests right here on independence square this is where people been camped out for weeks and it's also called it may don now the majority of the protests have set up barricades and action right here on agr street and this is where a lot of those government buildings are it became the scene of the most violent clashes geo political analyst eric draitser says that

a political solution to this crisis has never been the goal of the rioters. i think at this point it's quite clear that they don't have direct control over the rioters what control they do have is purely from the public relations perspective it's obviously a chaotic situation and it's gotten out of control and i doubt that anyone has a real handle on control of the situation their intention was never to win political concessions it was never to come to a political settlement there their true intentions have been quite apparent all along and that is regime change to bring forward regime change in the ukraine in order to overthrow that government and you see something quite similar in two thousand and four with the so-called orange revolution it's been done all over the world over the course of the last twenty years or so and this is no different and. more news ahead after this short break you're watching or to international.

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a pleasure to have you with us here on t.v. today i'm sure. and welcome back you're watching our t.v. international egypt's anniversary of the two thousand and eleven uprising has been marred by deadly violence at least twenty nine people have been killed in clashes across the country police descended on the protesters firing tear gas and shooting bullets in the air which comes at despite the interior minister has promised to provide security the un rest is just a day after a series of deadly blasts hit cairo leaving at least six people dead and another one hundred injured parties bill true. reports from the rest of the city. another car bomb has exploded at the 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 the dixons one cannot similar bomb blasts in the east in the suburbs of cairo this comes of course on the anniversary of the genuity five revolution which ousted hosni mubarak and there have been rival protest groups that have taken to the streets across the country that's been seen as a violent security forces are essentially not allowing any on to government groups to gather in the streets where the islamist supporters of ousted president mohamed morsi over the secular activists has been heavily contrast it with what's going on in tahrir square with a supporter of forces chief general abdel fatah sisi has come out in droves today holding images of him they say they want him to be president to crack down even harder on the islamist groups like the mission by the head and they blame to these 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 out at the size of the explosions yesterday and i made this reports three years on 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 site of the bomb blast which ripped open the facade of egypt's main police headquarters in cairo the people here like many in government the main the mission but the heads and say this intervention attack on the states on the ousted islamist president mohamed morsi with anger mounting there is likely to be a harsher crackdown on the islamist group. exit the brotherhood they are to blame for the. the terrorists one 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 who want to disable the country's political road and disturb the referendum on the constitution the muslim brotherhood is just a tool our enemies 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 broadened the army's power as it shields the military budget from cuts gives the armed forces the right to approve defense ministers and try civilians in military courts we are a war came together to oust and to crackdown this kind of regime. who was told the the illegitimate power from the legitimate link to residents and elected

government three years after the uprising which saw the country unite against a dictatorship egypt is now increasingly divided rather than celebrating a new democracy and much needed change egyptians steeling themselves ahead of more violence. for cairo. the two thousand and eleven revolution brought an end to hosni mubarak's three decades in power after more than a year of a transitional military rule the islamist a back to candidate mohamed morsi was elected president his government pushed through a new constitution criticized for being overly 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 in the unrest the group was then declared a terrorist movement cairo based journalist mohamed sabri says that the brotherhood is responsible for much of the turmoil. the keep talking of conspiracy theories the

keep going and blaming the government for staging those bombings in it's the poor plants which is absolutely nonsense but at the same time the opposite the opposite side which is the regime and the regime loyalists and religion media what protestors are not peaceful themselves and are as hostile as the muslim brotherhood is what what should be stopped now and what the government should be working tirelessly to stop 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 the syrian government and opposition tackled the issue of getting humanitarian aid into the war torn country as they held two rounds of face to face talks in geneva the negotiations were mediated by u.n. envoy lakhdar brahimi who said that they were moving forward only in half steps as the situation remains extremely complicated talks are expected to resume on sunday

as you get a piece going off is in geneva following the latest developments. i mean achievement saturday's talks in geneva is that the syrian authorities and the opposition are sitting in the same room facing each other and negotiating u.n. special envoy on syria lakhdar brahimi was there as well mediating the talks but given the fact that just earlier on friday the rebels said they were not going to sit down at the same table. having them talking in this format is already quite a diplomatic achievement. who is the key mediator of these negotiations has been conducting quite a careful slow sensitive diplomatic tactic taking the whole process slowly step by step for instance. have now agreed to start discussing prisoners and kidnappings on sunday possibly even allowing humanitarian aid into syria there are also talks about a localized ceasefires but no agreements have been reached as well but what the

main problem that we've witnessed here during these few days is that even though the rebels say that the only political solution to this whole problem based on the geneva one agreement the way the understand these agreements is completely different they're completely on the same page the rebels say they want to talk about forming a transitional government without president assad in it while the authorities seem to be ready to talk about almost anything except for president assad's future in fact they say the only way he could step down that if the people decide so in a nationwide election but really like i said after three years still ongoing violence and bloodshed even having them in the same room facing each other is already quite of progress right now it's not perhaps the piece of the diplomatic process which matters but really the direction in which all of this is going to

take a look at some other stories making headlines around the world. our philippines government officials have met in malaysia with muslim rebels to finalize a peace deal to end the conflict in the nation south the insurgency has been going on for about forty years with renewed efforts for a ceasefire having been restarted in october two thousand and twelve tens of thousands have been killed over the past two decades of separatist fighting. three people have been confirmed dead in a shooting at a mall in the us state of maryland shoppers were allowed to leave the building as police believe the suspect was among the victims officers searched to confirm that everyone had left the building the mall remains closed at this time for. protesters in sao paolo brazil have set fire to a car and smashed windows rallying against the nation's growing cost of hosting the fifa world cup the two thousand strong demonstrators say the price of holding the

tournaments has raised the cost of living in the country the protesters stated that they would rather see funds in vested in social services smaller rallies also took place in other cities in brazil. an annual ball in vienna has triggered widespread anger throughout austria's capital thousands gathered in the streets to protest against the occasion upset with the attendees of the event europe's leading far right politicians some demonstrators smashed shop windows and threw bottles with several arrests made parties political reports. he enters the academic a ball courts protest and critics of us 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 austria's 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 that the ball is and once and for all not acceptable right when people are in the council we are not dancing celebrating. mashes nazi adheres it's a closing bridge between our right to extremists who are in austria a. little of the society it's a crying to me to be human to stick movement today the crowd gathered here is dying you have left wing groups representatives she didn't organize ations members of the jewish community holocaust survivors on to africa to justice it is just simply don't like the fact that the gathering 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 all gaining popularity

across europe it's very very scary just that these parties are growing so much more to the crisis in europe but the socialist or the social democratic parties they did not have to ride on susanto christ's land along comes the right wing extremist parties and they have very easy on this is a protest organizers say it's far right political leaders said to be holding secret meetings planning on how to build will not surge in popular support but they haven't uniting ahead of the. european parliamentary elections in may one day inside the palace as the saying goes they're only going to be one saying so the rights and the diverse crowd that's represented here this evening is determined to show you that it's not be about us in playboy you see vienna. far right movements have been winning support across crisis stricken in europe as more

cash strapped to citizens turn away from traditional parties and governments in austria the freedom of party made a strong showing in september's general election winning 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 now in greece the golden dawn party has become the country's third strongest political group. well let's go back to what's happening in ukraine right now marty's alexy are cesky is there and he's tweeting that vitali klitschko has arrived at the convention center the rioters laid siege to that building in kiev and police were barricaded inside they were trying to break in by force before authorities began negotiating with them the seizure started right after opposition leaders turned down a series of proposals by president code which they neither accepted nor rejected his offer of top government posts for opposition leaders and it reiterated their

demands they want to the president to step down and hold new elections this year that is despite making a series of concessions over the past couple of days including saturday's bombshell decision to revise the constitution this could limit his own powers in the code which has also promised amnesty to antigovernment rioters on the condition that they leave occupied regional administration buildings stay with r t and visit r t dot com as well for the latest developments from ukraine. well coming up after the break its technology update here on r.t. international stay with us you're watching r.t. . maybe also reflect massive surveillance operation that is going on when we're

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hello and welcome to technology updates on today's show. we'll listen some pretty cool choose. russia gets caught up in the next industrial revolution. materials make for medical marvels. and we hold our very own. but first into these fast paced world the race is on to get more done in less time with the old saying more haste less speed was the the truer than on the roads of the world's megacities where crippling congestion slows progress to a snail's pace so perhaps a dose of high tech decongestion will help cities breathe easier. second way. moskos traffic jams are legendary in fact the capital was awarded the g.p.s. title of the world's most congested city last year by g.p.s.

make it tom tom with the average muscovite driver spending over five full days a year sticking tailbacks which altogether can stretch up to two thousand kilometers. high tech gadgets like the head up display from a sadie's show collision and lane departure warnings making for a safer driver reducing accidents and helping keep the city moving while certainly an improvement over traditional dashboards they do still require the driver to focus on the windscreen leaving the rest of the road a blur once again skolkovo lived up to its reputation. this contraption in the foyer may look like an arcade machine but under the bonnet it has more uses than just entertaining visitors the way rain of a geisha system puts mental reality into the driving seat by projecting the route onto the road ahead so the driver's eyes are kept firmly focused on the road this simulation of the device also display speed fuel and ref count information

rendering car does boards a thing of the past as well as helping drivers get about town or number gates treacherous cliffs holding roads the finished product will display up to date traffic information and can be installed in any existing vehicle. where it is now on the drawing board and in development but the simulator is far from redundant. we decided to build a simulator to refine the user interface in order to test the way the display works before installing it in a real car. to demonstrate the focus to infinity effect so that people quickly understand that this new type of navigation system is indeed more convenient because it doesn't distract you from driving. the way rates seem have bishops plans to network way re navigators with each other and the rest of the city to coordinate traffic and relieve roads of congestion so the burning question is when can we see them in our cars.