ukrainian leadership concessions followed by fresh violence as rioters and he had ignored the agreement with the opposition to clear the streets. while western ukraine is rocked by a more protest as local administration buildings are stormed or overtaken by crowds in more than a dozen regional centers. that it will mean stand have to leave and have to fight for peace and life conduct with the bombs and bullets in syria we visit a maternity ward to find out how mothers and doctors are fighting through the horrors of battle. and dozens killed in street violence as a wave of deadly bombing strikes in egypt as the polarized country reaches its third anniversary after the revolution while the interim leader says the country's

next step will be a presidential battle. one am in moscow i am at present good to have you with us our top story this hour ukraine's security forces say two policemen were wounded after angry crowds stormed kiev's convention center briefly trapping about two hundred officers inside the interior ministry says a grenade was thrown at police during the siege but it didn't explode all this despite the president's offer to change the constitution and hand over the prime minister's post to one of the opposition leaders but that wasn't enough for the crowds there demanding further concessions peter all of a report from kiev. 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 fatality klitschko speaking from the stage 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 writers late seeds for the building thank you there was cocktails being thrown bricks thrown into windows even burning tires and. and fireworks hold in there is right is trying to get into that building and towards a group of police who were stationed there it is thinking after a standoff lasting a little while we saw the interior 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 that building safely 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 u.s. as opposed to creating officials who they feel instigated violence against protesters and the e.u. has discussed sanctions as well legal expert and political blogger alexander mark areas though i think it's a long shot because the divisions within the e.u. . i don't think it's actually a close as it makes out one important change that's happened is that the presidency of the european union will take some presidency has passed to greece and greece has made it absolutely clear that it's not frankly sympathetic this act. is within the european union itself there are some hardliners like mr shultz but i'm not

convinced that everybody in the european union agrees to this i think the next week may be very important we will see what happens at the parliamentary session on tuesday if there is a political breakthrough there then by haps we could see the end an end to the violence. is pictures show weapons allegedly used by hardline protesters in kiev assault rifles pistols hundreds of rounds of live at all seized by police they arrest an armed gang thought to be involved in the violent clashes in the ukrainian capital 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 was wounded two others were taken hostage allegedly tortured but later released all three now being treated in the hospital. or to the tills woodroof my head and bound my aunts and legs with musk tape and taped up my eyes as well the looky lous the. more the yes ones were attacked by

a group of masked wiry youngsters they surrounded us screaming the cops terrorists hands up that really took everything from us our wallets ourselves phones everything. in them to through and we had done nothing to them because we were just coming out of a cafe after lunch with the mob surrounded. actions of riot police in here throughout the week sparking some concern we are still retired commander from the l.a. sheriff's department what he thinks about their tactics and now here's a man may have handled a similar situation but from what i've seen on the video so far they're showing a lot more respect. most places night and still use the they use of the ball it's all cocktail it's the throwing rocks and bottles and straightening it with. 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 with one foot on the house the dragging of the police officer and then

quietly while you can now would be very easily result in some type of weevil force a police officer decides that he or convention center rioters continued storming government buildings in other parts of the country sunday they were driven away for example from the local administration headquarters in the southeastern city of that but osha these scenes from the eastern city of ny put that office where thousands laid siege to a government building there similar events happening across half the country with local administrations are being assailed or already taken over by protesters as these authorities lose control western governments are urging them to secure democracy or he's like sarah cesky reports do send people into streets of ukraine by freezing temperatures are writing didn't you. ever since the first rocks and molotov cocktails were hurled at the police in kiev months somebody who is in europe and the united states have started a precious way. and that the actions of the authorities against what they called

peaceful protesters. but you know some of the we expect from the ukrainian government then these should democratic freedom in particular the opportunity for peaceful demonstrations then they protect life and that the use of violence does not take place. but people beating police on the ground bombarding the lines 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 of the riots we'll be. dealt with effectively in the near future but a nation of. 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 conflicts some of these deals held down

from the violence and they will continue for some time. over the past two months there you know my don has changed in form and meaning what started as a peaceful protest broadcast has turned into a display of violence on both sides it has now grown in size too 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 gathering around wouldn't have enough forces so you will be splitting it probably in two parts. we have two different times 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 who are acting as their leaders suggest they no longer want to to listen. anyone and care little about eighty agreed truth.

while ukraine's capital and western regions iraq by antigovernment arise the east of the country's largely were largely remaining supportive of the current leadership people there say they're getting increasingly worried by the arrest fearing the protestors could be pulling ukraine in the wrong direction as artie's policy or reports from done at. the industrial heart of the ukraine is a place where the majority has been silent until now the violent pictures from kiev are sparing people here into action but not in support of the anti-government rioters but the most of us not the i cannot sit at home when there are such things happening in ukraine the protests in kiev are horrible we are brothers we're all ukrainians in the east and south of the country support for president general cause which is high while tolerance for whiting 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. gregory greene is a correspondent with the local newspaper he once order and for as long as the government provides it he says he'll supporters will open up much of 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. protests just complain the 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 end to the demonstration and a deal to join the russian customs union this they say will give them the stability and security that they key if protests are threatening to national policy r t donates ukraine. protesters occupying administrative building in the north eastern city of sumi have proclaimed their own regional parliament you can get the details on this and plenty more n r t dot com and by following our minute by minute updates of what's happening in the country online.

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on a reporter's. instrument. to be in the. fourteen minutes past the hour now syrian government officials and their main political rivals have agreed to start the evacuation of civilians from the besieged city of homs the deal struck after two days of talks mediated by international envoy lakhdar brahimi of the geneva two conference artie's more if an ocean is in damascus with the details. if you're in government and you're in a position agreed on sunday in geneva to allow this is the lens our clyde that if you keep your columns in central syria we can expect things to happen as soon as on

monday the horse has been badly injured we are clashes between your own army and the rebel forces for almost two years now last year we looked at the weekend we saw the press a picture at least two districts were badly destroyed in two others it was shelling many residents fled of course they didn't touch hands tied they were trapped in the fight and today up to roll this time of course they face a severe shortage and for food and medical supplies and it's the third largest city in syria and we're talking about thousands of people here mr bremer presenting the u.n. have never blinked at geneva two peace talks also told press that women and children as well as a number of adult male civilians conferred as normal militants and this is very important will be evacuated from the city of homs but it's still not clear exactly how it will be organized as the fight in the every still continues of course we can

consider it as a serious achievement in the talks between the syrian rival site the first dialogue they have in almost three years devastating war and a very positive one but still a lot has to be done as other areas here in syria remain besieged and even here in damascus it is the community tearing situation is harsh my colleague peace cannot has been following the talks in geneva. the previous one another let's talk to one another a former 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's that is the problem and i said that i don't see the problem or do any solution without us it going our separate though it became clear both sides had. completely different understanding of 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 do sign the seriousness it 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 we came here to talk 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 but 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 going off r.t. geneva switzerland our diplomats try to thrash out their differences in geneva syria itself are still succumbing to more lives being lost by the hour even amid the rapid pace of the killing though there is hope for some parties very often ocean as we just heard is reporting for us from damascus she visited a children's hospital there and filed this report. even in this dangerously divided country one place the differences don't to 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 out of the other. hundred 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 see

can be treated and between 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 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 paving both sides can't be measured. but still it's peace that people want more than giving had no 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 salata me 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. not to want to think that war means there and 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. new parents who run away from atrocities in their hometowns often end up in camps which like the basics of sanitation and security. but was death around. choosing life. notion r t from damascus. rochelle put the geneva two conference together not 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 are progressing faster no more details from the geneva two talks on our website. also

on r.t. to his millions still struggle to recover from the great recession of one banking giants giving its c.e.o. a whopping handout we'll tell you all about that on line. egypt's interim leader says he's ready to hold an early presidential vote as a step toward forming a democratically elected government the ballot expected to take place by mid april president months or his 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 using tear gas to disperse anti-government protesters in several parts of cairo while in tahrir square thousands rallied in support of the military also this week away from the deadly bombings shook the capital claiming six lives a kite inspired militants admitted responsibility but authorities are opening the blame on the muslim brotherhood cairo based journalist mohamed salah bree's says both sides are at fault for the current violence. what's happening is we have we have a major ground for the pro-government media inciting violence against anyone

who is not induce in the country we have the muslim brotherhood who are definitely guilty for a lot of things they have they have done or not they have done through their year in power the keep talking of conspiracy theories they keep blaming the government for staging those bombings in it's the portman's which is absolutely nonsense but at the same time the opposite the opposite side which is the regime and the regime loyalists and the pro version media or protesters 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 gap. between sectors of the community and moving the country forward towards a phase of civil strife. take a look now at some other stories making global headlines more than twenty people feared dead following the capsizing of a tourist boat near the andaman islands in the bay of bengal thirteen of putin have

been rescued all the holiday makers believed to be indian nationals the cause of the incident remains unclear. street riots sweeping through brazil's largest city sao paulo with mobs smashing windows and setting cars on fire unrest started as a peaceful protest against the football world cup which the country will be hosting during the summer opponents say vast amounts of public cash have been wasted on the event and even public service is under funded similar protests were held in rio and the capital brasilia resulting in hundreds of arrests. one of the main leaders of thailand's antigovernment protests has been shot dead reportedly gunned down while addressing a crowd dying later in a hospital violence is demonstrators tried to disrupt next week's general election they swarmed polling stations earlier on sunday to prevent advance voting from happening. they say the snow must go on it seems the sub tropical black sea coast is up to the task of providing superbe slopes for the winter

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about speed traps and he set out to save his felt texans from being fined for speeding and much more importantly from potential traffic accidents caused by the hidden police and now he's the one who is in deep trouble according to fox news ron martin faces a misdemeanor charge for violating frisco texas sign ordinance that says that you may only stand around holding a sign on private property martin claims that he was doing the exact same thing as a speed limit sign reminding people to slow down and i think ultimately he is right you should be able to tell other people where the police are setting up speed traps because that will cause them to drive more slowly which is the real goal of speed traps in the first place the only reason local authorities would be against this is because they love the income that comes from a nice big pile of speeding tickets i hope that mr martin finds a way to go right back to holding his sign but this time on private property the precious my opinion.

the abu ghraib pictures raise the question where were the doctors while this was going on either they directly witnessed they use or they witnessed the consequences of it why hadn't they protested. here the doctors were complicit they were the centerpiece of the torture they were enablers they were the selectors they will authorize years. from apocrypha used to now the standard for the healing professions has been simple bad obligation is first and foremost to the patients interest while being torture

satyrs back. how have american physicians and psychologists come to sanction and implement torture in our military prisons and why haven't they been held accountable for their actions. on. tonight we are a country awakened to danger. and called to defend freedom whether we bring our enemies to justice or bring justice to our enemies. justice will be done. i.

less than three weeks later u.s. forces invaded afghanistan in retaliation to the september eleventh terrorist attacks on the united states. in a radical new policy the bush administration declared afghan prisoners enemy combatants no longer protected by the geneva convention. before nine eleven prisoners of war were interrogated according to the army field manual that followed the geneva convention. the new interrogation methods involve torture. we have no alternative but to meet the enemy worried ways we must and we will use every means at our disposal to ensure the freedom and security of the american people. the experience of american p.o.w.'s in korea.