only on our t.v. . craney leaderships concessions are followed by fresh violence as riders and key if ignore the agreements with the opposition to clear the streets. while western ukraine is rocked by more protest as local administration buildings are stormed or taken over by crowds in over a dozen regional centers. also this week face to face for the first time the syrian government and the rebels agreed to discuss humanitarian aid of peace talks in switzerland so far avoiding the toughest issues. then flew into thing that will mean stand have to leave and we have to plan for peace and life who can't give up.

amid the bombs and bullets in syria itself we visit a maternity unit there to find out how mothers and doctors battled through the horrors of the war. and dozens are killed in street violence and a wave of deadly bombings in egypt as apollo rise nation reaches the third anniversary of its revolution meanwhile the interim leader says the country's next step will be a presidential election. what you are to international coming to you live from moscow with me marina joshie. ukraine's security forces say two policemen were injured last night after an angry crowd stormed convention center with about two hundred officers inside they were later allowed to leave the siege came despite the president's offer to change the constitution and give the prime minister's job to one of the opposition leaders but

that wasn't enough and they are demanding further concessions has been all over and now reports. the opposition said they couldn't accept those concessions but they were willing to negotiate further they put forward what they wanted in speeches from the main stage in independence square here just behind me they want to continue negotiations they want elections this year they want a new government and a total amnesty without any conditions for anybody who has being detained in fatah the coach coach people from the station behind me said no way would anybody be clearing the streets right now he said that they'd come here they would stay here until they finish what they started well after those speeches that set off a large crowd of people marching towards the conference center a large group of right as they see that building thank you there was

molotov cocktails being thrown bricks thrown into windows even burning tires and. and fireworks hold in there as right as trying to get into that building and towards a group of police stationed there it is thinking of a standoff lasting a little while we saw the ministry give the orders to their riot police to to pull out of that building now also one of the opposition leaders former heavyweight champion vitaly klitschko was on the scene as well trying to negotiate a deal that would allow those right police to leave the building safely what we're seeing here in kiev right now is a large group of people surrounding a conference hall just over to my left from where i am here on independence square basically a standoff still going on the opposition saying that they're willing to negotiate but they have knocked back those concessions that were put forward by the government. all these pictures show the weapons allegedly used by hardline

protesters in key of assault rifles pistols and hundreds of rounds of live ammunition were seized by police they arrested an armed gang thought to be involved in the violent clashes in ukraine's capital authorities claim it was supplying arms to rioters police say three security personnel were attacked by radical protesters earlier this week one of them was wounded two others taken hostage allegedly tortured and later released all three are now being treated in hospital a little they too will cheerfully head and bound my arms and legs with tape and tape to my eyes as well he did not view more of the yes ones were attacked by a group of masked youngsters they surrounded us the screen of the cops a terrorist hands are sort of if you take everything from us our wallets ourselves along with everything. in them to through and we have done nothing to them because we were just coming out of a cafe after lunch with the mobs. of the with the actions of riot police and key of

throughout this turbulent week sparked much concern we asked a retired commander from dallas angeles sheriff's department what he thinks about their tactics and how american security forces would have handled a similar situation. from what i've seen of the video so although showing a lot more restraint than i think you could expect in most places nine states the use of the ball at all cocked tails of the throwing rocks and bottles of striking him with holmes would all be considered lethal force in the united states you know that's a lethal situation in the united states you could very quickly be shot with lethal force the thought of first of all mass the dragging of the police officer and equality and all you can now would be usable results on facebook we are forced to look for a police officer. the an arrest has been spreading from the capital to other cities across ukraine targeting the regional centers and these pictures are from the city

often enough where a crowd of around two thousand stormed the local administration building similar events are happening across half of the country with local governments either being storm door or have already been taken over by protesters and as if the words lose control western governments are urging them to secure democracy they said how the end rest is unfolding. those people in the streets of ukraine by seizing temperatures are writing the new data to for europe. ever since the first rocks and molotov cocktails were hurled at the police the key of my sunday officials in europe and the united states have started afresh wave of accusations aimed at the actions of the authorities against what they called the school protestors. thank you thank you thank you they have all been fun though but you know some of the good will we expect from the

ukrainian government then these should democratic free to in particular the opportunity for peaceful demonstrations then they protect life and the use of the violence does not take place. but people beating police on the ground somebody aligns with explosive project tiles and even taking them hostage can hardly be classified as peaceful even pictures of rioters carrying far arms are surfacing i'm quite skeptical that these riots will be. dealt with effectively in the near future but a nation of. neo nazi. therefore i do not saying that everyone will full of the opposition leader us to all of what a peaceful resolution of these of these quotes look some of these deals. will burn for a while and some day we'll continue for some time. yet i was. over the past two months there you know my done has changed in form and meaning what started as

a peaceful approach. has turned into a display of violence on both sides it has now grown in size two with almost half of the country's regional administration stake in over spawning serious concerns the country could fall apart any sort of splits in the area which could happen within the next weeks must be described as quite possible because gabby. around wouldn't have enough forces credible probably in two parts. we have two different causes the opposition is still working horns with those in power trying to get a better deal with the president. but the protestors storming a police base and doing the people's work for a few years their leaders suggest they no longer want to listen to anyone and care little about eighty agreed truth. reporting from key if you cry. while ukraine's capital and western regions are rocked by anti-government riots the

east of the country remains supportive of the current leadership people there are getting increasingly worried by the end rest fearing doubt the protestors could be pulling ukraine in the wrong direction as polish lear has been finding out. the industrial heart of the ukraine is a place where the majority has been silent until now the vine and pictures from kiev are spring people here into action but not in support of the anti-government rioters no but i was the bus not the top of i cannot sit at home when there are such things happening in ukraine the protests in kiev horrible we are brothers we are all ukrainians in the east and south of the country support for president gen a cough which is high tolerance for why it is low these demonstrators blame opposition parties for using hot headed students to destabilize the country years young people are like zombies they get information from the internet and this information is only one side the usa in the west are paying for this information to

be put out of the book of gregory greene is a correspondent with the local newspaper he wants order and for as long as the government provides it he says he'll supporters will open up much or the message of the protesters regularly changes their main idea in the beginning was to join the european union the next week and it was political change and they wanted the president to go now i think even the protesters cannot say why they're demonstrating unlike the demonstrators in kiev most of the more than four million people who live in the country's most populous region don't believe ukraine's future lies in europe losing off. russian market is or three all this region so that is the main reason why. people. don't. want to. give us a c. protesters complain the kids rioters on wasting time on the streets while it's the

country's east that keeps the economy alive and if you crane was to join europe now its factories would be turned into scrap people here in a vision a different future to the antigovernment protests. what they want is a quick into the demonstration and a deal to join the russian customs union this they say will give them the stability and security that the killer of protests a threatening to unravel policy on teeth donates ukraine. ukraine as the fans ministry has ruled out deploying the armed forces against the protesters and you can get more details and matter to dot com as well as following our minute by minute updates of what's happening in the country. how we take to the sochi slopes now in just a few minutes for some peak practice. we've made

a dog and loads and i'm still in tags no bones broken and i can tell you this it is absolutely magical out here we sent obama to say to sample the olympic highlife and debts coming up. this immediately though so we leave that maybe. by the seat cushions to the play you party years ago. where shoes that no one is that stood with to get that you deserve answers from. politics. are today.

i'm. welcome back you're watching our national syrian government officials and their main political rivals have agreed to discuss getting humanitarian aid to the besieged city of homes the opposing sides said down together for the first time on saturday at the geneva two conference where the talks mediated by international

envoy lakhdar brahimi but the toughest discussions add to the summit are still ahead as a group is going off now reports they face one another lets talk to one another a format simply impossible to imagine even at the beginning of the week just twenty four hours before the start of the conference the opposition couldn't decide whether to go to switzerland or not and when they finally did arrive i think that is the problem. i don't see the problem old any solution without us of going our separate go it became clear both sides had a completely different understanding of the talks goals the rebels pressed for assad to step down officials seem to be ready to talk about almost anything except the president's future but at least outside players agreed to this is strictly up to the syrians to decide. the seriousness of themselves had the primary responsibility to end the country determine their party to their system and future and start repeating their country but one world powers left and direct talks were

supposed to begin the opposition refused to sit down at the same table with the other side and i know we came here to truong and they are not ready to finally when it seemed the negotiations were complete way but special envoy to syria lakhdar brahimi announced he did manage to get both sides to meet and saw they finally did negotiate in through him with still in the same room and face to face prisoners and kidnappings humanitarian aid and localized ceasefires were the first issues on the table with more pressing topics awaiting discussion despite all the emotions accusations and preconditions were heard this week these talks are the first real chance for a diplomatic solution in syria and after nearly three years of bloodshed and ongoing violence it will be a bumpy road and there is a long way to go but the first steps in the right direction have definitely been made you go it is good all forty geneva switzerland while the diplomats try and

thrash out their differences in geneva syria itself is still succumbing to ever more lives being lost by the hour but even amid the rapid pace of killing there is hope for some as maria finishing reports from damascus. even in this dangerously divided country one place the differences don't matter is this children's hospital in moscow. a tiny relative of a government minister chose a room here whose babies are belonging to fighters of the free syrian army. who have patients from all over syria including areas held by the rebels because this is the only hospital of its kind in the country where babies born think can be treated and we treat them all the same they are all syrian children after all we all belong to one country and have to learn how to live together again. in sri years of conflict neither men or women or children were spared the according to

the un more than one hundred thousand people have died was in fact the number is so high it officially stopped cold to. the anger and pain in both sides kind of measure. but still it's peace that people want more than the range an idea who's married to a syrian government soldier has just fallen pregnant and the tough lives this is a beacon of hope this kidman so like to me and my husband it's a connection between us while we are away from a child there which is often for me this baby means life itself i live through this baby. wanted to help year old daughter was born during the fear is to attack damascus has ever seen. she says her fight has nothing to do with her. not want to think that war means their end that they have to leave and we have to fight for peace and life we can't give up now. it's a side of war that not many think about in the midst of violence and devastation

babies are still be borne in their thousands of new parents who run away from atrocities in their hometowns often end up in camps which like the basics of sanitation and security. but with death all around they're choosing life raif notion r t from damascus. russia house to geneva two conference come about now moscow is keeping a close eye on it holding together foreign minister sergei lavrov says he's seen no bickering between the rival syrian factions but does stress the diplomatic efforts are not progressing faster no more details from geneva two on our website. also on r g dot com as millions of cash strapped americans struggle to recover from recession no one banking giant is giving its c.e.o. a whopping reward will tell you all about it online. egypt's

interim leader says he is ready to hold an early presidential election as a step towards forming a democratically elected government the vote is expected to take place by mid april president on sors announcement follows days of violence across egypt as a country notched up three years since the uprising forty nine people were killed and street clashes security forces used tear gas to disperse anti-government protesters in several parts of cairo while on your square sounds rally in support of the military also this week a wave of deadly bombings shook the capital claiming six lives al qaeda inspired militants admitted responsibility but the authorities are blaming the muslim brotherhood the attacks highlight the threat of an islamist insurgency taking root in egypt based journalist mohannad sabri says both the muslim brotherhood and the army are at fault for the current situation. what's happening is we have we have a major ground for the pro-government the media inciting violence against anyone

who's not induce him to come in through the we have the muslim brotherhood who are definitely guilty for a lot of things that you have done or you not have done to their your empowered keep talking with conspiracy theories they keep blaming the government for as they did those bombings in the corpulent which is absolutely lunsford's but of the city in time for all the. opposite side which is the regime and the regime loyalists them to produce what protestors are not peaceful themselves or as hostile as that was and what are these what what should be stopped now and what the government should be working tirelessly to stop these inciting violence you know why didn't those gaps between sectors of the community and moving the country forward towards a freeze of civil strife. and a look now at some other stories from around the world one of the main leaders of thailand's anti-government protests has been shot dead he was reportedly gunned down while addressing

a crowd and died later in hospital the violence comes as demonstrators try to disrupt next week's general election this one polling station earlier on sunday to prevent advance voting from taking. the street riots have swept through brazil's largest city of some power with mobs smashing store windows and setting lights to cars the unrest began as a peaceful protest against the football world cup which the country will be hosting this summer opponents say vast amounts of public money have been wasted on the event leaving public services underfunded meanwhile similar protests were held in rio de janeiro and brasilia resulting in hundreds of arrests. a suicide bomber has blown himself up near a bus carrying soldiers in the afghan capital killing at least four people the taliban says it carried out the attack the victims included one civilian woman twenty two other people were wounded the taliban has stepped up its campaign a half of the pullout of nato combat troops at the end of the year.

and some news just in more than twenty people are feared dead following the capsizing of a tourist boat near the undermanned islands in the bay of bengal thirteen people have been rescued all the holiday makers are believed to be indian nationals while a very you more on the situation there as soon as we get it. well the snow must go on and it seems a subtropical black sea coast is up to the task of providing some perv slopes for the winter olympics of course you won't spot any flurries in sochi itself but up in the nearby mountains there's plenty as to bang with taze been finding out. if like me you enjoy a little bit of extreme sports then hang onto your helmets for the best skiing

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such experts to. prove i'm not an olympic hockey. league. my fire. and world apart is next on how electronic electioneering is powering tomorrow's democracies. 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 and such

a 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 such a pants on this idea must have been created by some people with 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.

hello and welcome to worlds apart of data mining is crucial for doing business these days but should the same tools that companies use to influence our choice of consumer goods be applied electing a president well to discuss that i'm now joined by harper lee who served as the chief technology officer for president obama two thousand election campaign thank you very much for your time sir now i know that before joining the obama campaign you're worked as the chief technology officer for a clothing company and you seem to have made

a very smooth transition but some people would fill a beat and lazy about applying some of the tag it makes and marketing tools to politics because some of us still sort of fill down that politics should be conducted in the same way as commerce is that too idealistic yes that well i think it i mean i think ultimately when you're talking about a politician you're talking about something i mean it's been marketing forever yes i mean it's all about going in knocking on a door talking i mean in the. ages of go it was very community based but it was all about marketing you know what this politician is the best for this reason and so i think it's what we're seeing now is instead of us you know the digital technology is that hope like the president we didn't all we did is kind of hope distribute his authenticity and the genuineness that he brought. two more people but at the same time in the united states as far as i know the every turn policy on goods is very

liberal you can always bring the product that you don't like back and get your money but unfortunately if politics doesn't work this way you have to wait another four years but i think that i think i think you're pushing too hard on the narrative that it's that it's like a product i do think that. it's true that you need to make sure that you vote for the right person and you can't return the vote but it is a permanent forever you know in the u.s. it's four years other countries have shorter and many many places it's for a mayor or a congress person it might be a year or two years but the thing that's important is. the candidate themselves you cannot use technology to make a bad candidate good you can only elect a good candidate and mystery let me push you on that you just said that four years is not that long of a time but i think what you are seeing or want to. happen big country can get through in the you know like look at syria for you know difference between life and death so a lot can happen in that period if that's what you have to make sure.