leadership concessions followed by fresh violence as rioters in kiev ignore the agreement with the opposition to clear the streets. while western ukraine is rocked by more protests as local administration buildings are stormed or overtaken by crowds in more than a dozen regional centers. syrian government says women and children in be seized homes are able to leave under the first a deal reached at peace talks with the opposition but warns the situation depends on militant forces on the ground. and they have to leave and they have to find peace in life we can't give up amid bombs and bullets in syria we visit

a maternity ward there to find out how mothers and doctors battle through the horrors of war. dozens killed in street violence and a wave of a deadly bombings in egypt is the polarized nation reaches the third anniversary of its revolution while the interim leader says the country's next step will be a presidential election. ten pm in moscow good to have you with us our top story this hour ukraine security forces say two police were injured last night after angry crowds storm kiev's convention center trapping about two hundred officers inside they were later allowed to leave but the siege came despite the president's offer to change the constitution and give the prime minister's post to one of the opposition leaders it wasn't enough when they're demanding further concessions as artie's peter all reports from kiev. the opposition said they couldn't accept those concessions but

they were willing to negotiate that 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 a lections this year they want a government and a total amnesty without any conditions for anybody who has being detained in fatality klitschko speaking from the stage said there's no way would anybody be clearing the streets right now he said that they'd come here and they would stay here until they finish what they started well after those speeches that set off a large crowd of people marching towards their conference center they marched right as they see that building thanks there was molotov cocktails being thrown bricks thrown into windows even burning tires and. fireworks held 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 the riot police to to pull out of the 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 saying concessions that were put forward by the government is pictures showing weapons allegedly used by hardline protesters in kiev including assault rifles pistols and hundreds of rounds of live ammo seized by police they arrest an armed gang thought to be in. volved in violent clashes in

kiev authorities claim it was supplying arms to rioters police say three security personnel were attacked by radical protesters earlier in the week one of them wounded two others taken hostage and allegedly tortured released now all three being treated in the hospital. the plate it will the roof of my head and bound my legs with musk tape and taped up my knees as well he then that's more than yes we were attacked by a group of masked wiry youngsters they surrounded us cream and the cops terrorists hands up because of the take everything from us our wallets ourselves along with everything when the we had done nothing to them because we were just coming out of a cafe after lunch with the mob surrounded in the with actions of riot police have throughout the week sparked much concern we have a retired commander of the l.a. sheriff's department what he thinks about their tactics and how his main his men it may have handled a similar situation from what i've seen on the video so although showing

a lot more restraint then i think you could expect in most places nine states. he was the ball all cocked you know it's the floor in the rocks and bottles and straightening him with holmes would all be considered lethal force in the united states piers you know. that's a lethal situation in the united states you could very quickly be shot with lethal force with all the first of all the dragging of the police officer and quote we can while you can now would be very easily result in some type of what we are forced to . arrest has been spreading from the capital to other cities or our new crane targeting regional centers these pictures from the city of charity golf where a crowd of around two thousand people stormed the local administration building similar events happening across half the country with local governments being either stormed or already taken over by protesters as authorities lose control western governments are urging them to secure democracy or teams like sara chefs reports. those young people in the streets of ukraine by seizing temperatures

are writing didn't you get it before europe. ever since the first rocks and molotov cocktails were hurled at the police in kiev 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 peaceful protesters. thank you thank you you have all been fun but you know some of the good will we expect from the ukrainian government then the sure democratic freedom in particular there but unity for peaceful demonstrations they protect life and that the use of violence does not take place. but people beating police on the ground somebody aligned with exploded 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 that a nation of this. neo nazi. therefore i do not think that everyone will follow the opposition leader as tool of what a peaceful resolution of these of these qualities look to some of these deals. held down from the islands and they will continue for some time. and that was. over the past two months there you know my done has changed in form and meaning what started as a peaceful protests protest 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 god. and what

they have on our forces will be split it probably in two parts. with the two different that is the opposition are still working horns with those in power trying to get a better deal with the president. but the protesters storming a police base and doing the people who are acting as their leaders suggest they no longer want to listen to anyone and care little about any agreed truth lexy russia r.t. reporting from kiev in ukraine. while ukraine's capital and there's western regions iraq by anti-government riots the east of the country remains supportive of the current leadership people there say they're increasingly worried by the an arrest fearing protesters could be polling ukraine in the wrong direction as are his policy reports from the nets the industrial heart of the ukraine is a place where the majority has been silent until now the vine and pictures from kiev are spurring people here into action but not in support of the anti-government riot as. i cannot sit at home when there are such things happening in ukraine

the protests in kiev a horrible we are brothers we're all ukrainians in the east and south of the country support for president jan a cough which is high while tolerance for why it is low these demonstrators blame opposition parties for using hot headed students to destabilize the country 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 gregory green is a correspondent with the local newspaper he once order and for as long as the government provides it he says he'll supporters. the message of the protesters regularly changes their main idea in the beginning was to join the european union the next weekend 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 a poor theme for this region so that is the main reason why. people. don't. want to. european association protests just complain the kids riot has a 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 vision a different future to the antigovernment protests what they want is a quick end to the demonstration and a deal to join the russian customs union this they say will give them the stability and security that the key of protests are threatening to unravel policia r.t.

donates ukraine protesters occupying the administrative building in the north eastern city of sumi proclaim their own regional parliament you can get the details on that and more at r.t. dot com and by following our minute to minute updates of what's happening in ukraine. switching gears now we take to the sochi slopes in a few minutes for some practice. we've made it down the slopes and i'm still intact no bones broken and i can tell you this it is absolutely magical out yeah we sent to say to sample the olympic highlife that still to go.

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the spanish find out more visit. thirteen minutes past the hour a syrian government officials and their main political rivals have agreed to start evacuation of civilians from the besieged city of homs the deal struck after two days of talks mediated by international envoy lakhdar brahimi at the geneva two conference although women and children are now free to leave mail civilians will first have to be cleared for departure from homes by the government damascus also expressed concern over whether rebel troops will be out will actually allow the evacuation to proceed to go she will continue in geneva throughout the coming week with the tough issues still on the table as r.t.c. or has been awful. they face one another lets talk to one another in 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 think the problem will be any solution without going from our stepping down it became clear both sides headed. off the talks goals the rebels pressed for a son to step down officials seemed to be ready to talk about almost anything except the president's future but at least outside players agreed 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 finally when it seemed the negotiations were completely bust special envoy to syria lakhdar brahimi

announced he did manage to get both sides to meet and so they finally did negotiating 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 got this got off r t geneva switzerland while diplomats try to thrash out their differences in geneva syria itself succumbing to ever more lives lost by the hour but even amid the rapid pace of the killing there is still some hope as are his maria emotional reports from damascus. even in this dangerously divided country one place the differences don't matter is this children's hospital in

damascus. a tiny relative of a government minister chose a room here whose babies 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're all syrian children after all we all belong to one country and have to learn how to live together again. in three years of conflict neither men or women or children were spared the according to the un more than one hundred thousand people have died all in fact the number is so high they've officially stopped counting. the anger and pain they saw it's can't be measured. but still it's peace that people want more than giving an idea who is

married to a syrian government soldier has just fallen pregnant and the tough lives this is a beacon of hope this kidman salata mean 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. comes one and a half 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. the manhunt a thing that war means there and we 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 born 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 is security. but was death all around there choosing life

rafe notion r t from damascus. but the geneva two conference together now moscow is trying to keep it from falling apart foreign minister lavrov says he's seen no bickering between rival syrian factions but does stress that diplomatic efforts aren't progressing fast enough more details from the geneva two talks on our website. also on r.t. dot com as millions of people still struggle struggle to recover from the great recession one banking giant is giving its c.e.o. a whopping reward we'll tell you about it online. egypt's interim leader says he's ready to hold an early presidential election as a step toward forming a democratically elected government the vote expected to happen by mid april president months or as announcement follows days of violence across egypt as the country marked three years since the two thousand and eleven uprising forty nine people were killed in street clashes security forces used tear gas to disperse anti-government protesters in several parts of cairo while on tahrir square

thousands rallied in support of the military also this week away from the deadly bombings claiming six lives inspired militants admitted responsibility but authorities pin the blame on the muslim brotherhood based journalist mohamed salah briefings both sides are at fault for the current. what's happening is we have we have a major ground for the pro-government ripped through regime media inciting violence against anyone who is not in doing so because it is easy we have the muslim brotherhood who are definitely guilty for a lot of things that you have the have done or not have done is really there you are empowered the conspiracy theories they keep blaming the government for staging those bombings in it's the corporations which is absolutely nonsense but at the same time the opposite side which is the regime and the regime loyalists the. protesters are not peaceful themselves and are as hostile as the reason we got to

what we should be stopped now and 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. take a look at some stories making headlines this hour more than twenty people feared dead after the capsizing of a tourist boat near the andaman islands in the bay of bengal thirteen people rescued all the holiday makers thought to be indian nationals the cause of the incident remains under investigation street riots sweeping through brazil's largest city southpaw with mobs smashing windows and setting cars on fire arrest started as a peaceful protest against the football world cup which the country will host this summer opponents a vast amounts of public money of wasted on the event even public service is under funded similar protests were held in rio and the capital brasilia resulting in hundreds of arrests. a suicide bomber blew himself up near

a bus carrying soldiers in the afghan capital killing at least four the taliban says it carried out the attack victims including one civilian woman and twenty two other people wounded the taliban stepped up its campaign ahead of the withdrawal of nato combat troops at the end of the. one of the main leaders of thailand's anti government protests has been shot dead reportedly gunned down while addressing a crowd he died later in the hospital violence comes as demonstrators tried to disrupt next general election polling stations earlier sunday to prevent vance voting from happening. and as they say the snow must go on it seems a subtropical black sea coast is up to the task of providing the best slopes for the winter olympics of course you won't spot flurries in sochi itself but in the nearby mountains there are plenty as artie's to say reports.

if like me you enjoy a little bit of extreme sport then hang onto your helmets for the best skiing track in the black sea resort snowboarding and freeze diving competitions at this twenty fourteen olympic winter games will be held to the was on the rose a fucked up prompt also known as the hot extreme hot oh my god. that was. just seven years ago this regime but also for third was on top day was quite a different scene designed and build by french experts it's now a picture postcard see no ball point style hotels and chalets at over five thousand feet it's one of the highest lifts of mountains in the world the mountain carries over provides axes. and professionals in the alpine and freestyle as well

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we've made it down the slopes and i'm still intact no bones broken and i can tell you this it is absolutely magical out here the mountains are why i kept it in the snow it's just absolutely beautiful and i think i might have gone must also a new sports i might take up seeing next time so indeed for everyone who's coming out here to the new ski resort in the alpine ski resort of the black sea is going to be one you'll always remember for now i'm going to sign up get some hot chocolate on monday on the ski slopes of rather hot fartsy. but as be your guide to the games we gain from earlier with the venues that will make or break a live picture eames of the world's premier winter sports athletes you can check out our coverage on line and here on our t.v. in the coming days. how do you operate dylan but again

i'm going to was going to sports such expert status. as ruth. and i live in hockey. is on. my. next world a par with oksana boyko stay with us here on r.t. after this short break. 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 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 without your 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 it was 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 technologies that hopefully elect the president we didn't all we did is kind of hope distribute his authenticity and the genuineness that he brought to. 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 you think you're pushing too hard. 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 return that vote but it isn't permanent forever you know in the u.s. it's four years other countries it's shorter in many many places it's for a mayor 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 mr read 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 saying i want to. happen big country can get through and you know like look at syrian 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 you elect the right president how do you really make sure if as you just agreed that you are applying all that marketing tools to the political campaigns you're making a jump and i think this is an important jump distinction is that even with a product if we're talking about a product i can say that this is the best stereo and i can use all the marketing in the world but if the stereo sucks it doesn't matter how much money i pour into marketing i think that happens a lot with candidates where you have candidates that aren't very good and you have candidates that are very good and the people largely choose which one they want regardless of the marketing the marketing helps get the message out to a wider group so it's more especially in the us this is a this is huge is that we did not convince any republicans to vote for the president we only got democrats to vote and so in the us it's much more about turnout than it is about persuasion so using these marketing tools which were marketing tools that's exactly correct.