rioters take over the justice ministry in kiev and refuse to obey the opposition leadership who are trying to oust the country's government and refuse to take no for an answer. syria peace talks in geneva give hope to the residents of aleppo as they return to their devastated homes the city has seen some of the heaviest fighting during the civil conflict. and young voters in the u.k. become increasingly disenchanted with politics and politicians sparking concerns of a low turnout for next year's general election.

you're watching r t international live from moscow headquarters in france thanks for joining me rioters occupying the justice ministry in kid of seem to be beyond the control of political opposition around fifty radical activists armed with metal bars and clubs captured the building in the capital on sunday night when opposition leader of the telly klitschko tried to talk them out instead protesters called for back up and built more barricades and as alexie reports this is not the first time they have simply ignored party orders. yes. if i have to take a bullet in the head i'll take a bullet in the head the opposition speeches are as fiery as ever but not all of the protesters are buying it. not even the commanding presence of people you could score is enough to bring them in line kiev's independence square is still adorned with different color flags of opposition parties but the biggest question right now is whether they actually controlling anything at all there's a widespread opinion now in ukraine is that their inability to provide crucial

decisions let's to the violence uprising. i'm not even listening to them everything is already been done by us or they are put where running the show they are forced to listen to us and know their movements leaders have passed up the president's invitation to lead your government. but now you only say well now we offered them to control government to fight corruption and change the law but they're refusing it their actions are deprived of. they could not even agree on whether to accept a presidential amnesty for the jailed protesters yes the. president said he will release the detained protesters because there's no food or resistance in central kiev and no position is the same. you provided prospers that us masri i asked will only agreed to terms on the release of the protesters if the interior minister orders police not to arrest people anymore rob except i decided to get the shots

but i just stood there not politicians they simply wants a result and fast and that is a snap reorganization of the country like the children who see soldiers marching and trying to jump in front of the formation to feel like generals. a country in revolt is now holding its breath until tuesday when big decisions are expected from parliament including the repeal of an anti protest law but judging by the mood of my done it seems there are no compromises that the crowds are ready to listen to alexi russia skee r.t. reporting from kiev in ukraine. and just as authorities are trying to bring a political solution to the table the most impatient protesters are taking matters into their own hands rioters are breaking into government buildings and city halls across the country while opposition leaders say president the president concessions aren't enough they are losing control on the street artist peter all of our reports we saw at the convention center just near to independence square which is right

behind me stormed by rioters some quite ugly scenes at times we saw molotov cocktails rocks burning tires and apparently even a hunger an aid in one instance thrown during the standoff there was going on there now the violence that started here in kiev initially spread to the the west of the country to start off with you know it's government buildings that have been targeted they've been subject to sieges by rioters and in many cases they've just been simply over run by the numbers that have come out on the streets in the city of. we have heard that riot police have retaken the main government building there and also in the city you to nip of patrol of squeeze seen the government buildings there coming under siege by rioters the police were able to drive them off but they are now. cheering up their position to prepare for perhaps

a further assault there by rioters it's a scene we've seen across the west of the country something that spreading into the central and southern areas of ukraine as we are seeing any movement from those rioters in any way that they would voluntarily remove themselves from any of their barricades in fact and what we are seeing is that they're building more of those. the u.s. and the e.u. say more political restrictions might be used to restrain the authorities in kiev but legal expert and political blogger alexander macoris says europe is too out of tune to make such a decision i don't think it's actually a close as it breaks out one important change that's happened is that the presidency of the european union the rotating presidency has passed to greece and greece has made it absolutely clear that it's not frankly sympathetic to sanctions so there are divisions 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 and 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 and into the violence are to international is keeping you up to date with the events in kiev twenty four seven on air and through our website r.t. dot com. talks between the syrian government and external opposition in geneva seem to be finally bringing about some results the sides have reached an agreement that will allow humanitarian aid to enter the besieged city of homs and allow women and children to leave its war hit areas meanwhile in syria's other major embattled city aleppo people are returning to their homes after government forces recaptured large

parts of the town from militants arches where if a national reports on the civilian struggle to bring their life back to normal we lend a little international airport on what is believed to be the first civil airplane to touch down here in the last year. it's a special government flight but authorities say regular ones are due to start in a month's time this flight means the return of life to this airport and the syria. this northern syrian region has seen the most violent clashes during the almost three year long conflict leaving death and devastation behind it used to be four billion dollar factory where two thousand people were working now you can see there is left person is destroyed but while that is a common picture here it seems that help for peace is slowly coming back this village outside aleppo has just come back under government control. out of fourteen

thousand residents who fled it after the rebels a tag one third the government says is now back to discover the houses are the destroyed or looted in the middle of it all depends on how lucky you are our home was almost untag out they stole everything they are name and. this pregnant woman says she and her husband have been waiting for this baby for twelve years and they're happy to finally have it now instead of our home was destroyed we now have nothing but god gave us a baby and that's will give us power to build everything from scratch wherever to. another coffee we need more and more residents here and sharing these optimists have like some coffee to play out how's life as all of life is good things got. families returned with their kids together like best muhammad twelve years old who couldn't go to school for months but he still thinks of his school days i have

three friends and him how much and how many there my cousins while we are talking to many terran aid arrived people are in desperate need of simply everything and most importantly security measures did what we do now is be get locals involved in patrolling and helping the army secure the area and protecting the village from a call on all of us to come back soon if he hasn't already leave the village to drive to the city. or to use to take some fifteen minutes by highway takes an hour today roads are not yet safe enough but parts of aleppo loop secure at least at first glance we are a little bit surprised to see what used to be syria's biggest business center still so vibrant and actually safe we even took off like jackets with us expecting to see clashes in the middle of a completely destroyed city but don't be mistaken this is the western part of the

city. more to the east you will see a completely different picture moderate free syrian army factions fighting radical al qaida affiliated groups there for control with the government forces trying to fight them both. but militants still control half of the city and a big part of northern syria remaining the biggest challenge to the ceasefire plan pushed forward by syrian and russian foreign ministers we syrians are ready to reconcile with each other and the letter was a good place to start with so we can give an example to other regions but these guys from the news refrain from al qaeda the don't know what they want but it's certainly not peace but while they see force is large enough to threaten a carefully forged peace to this war torn country residents say they're not dreaded to give up their fight for their country to be at peace or if nationality from

syria. it's that remains to be seen how the first step and agreements reached in geneva will be implemented the talks are ongoing that middle east expert paolo rough on says no major deal should be anticipated and last other key players in the region are involved in the process too well know the opposition in syria is for major learns are is not at all sure that those who have been convened into iraq but these talks should be able to transform decisions into action on the ground it is clear that slightly if you should look in iraq as being a step forward in the sense that the conference the a collapse but on the other hand. experts must all agree to find your role and sustainable solution in syria it is necessary to start a dialogue other tool priorities which is iran and saudi arabia which are in fact

influencing the facts on the ground the rain in the soul the dialogue is necessary to find a solution for syria otherwise we would continue with such a small agreements which probably on the ground will not be difficult to be implemented. coming up on our to international unstoppable spirit. these guys managed to prove to themselves their relatives and the entire society and that they are not people with disabilities to come with limits. we were apart from russia.

so that on june sixteenth one thousand forty one we had a graduation party at school and the war broke out. the shops were always full of goods. but in september leningrad was blocked. one day mom went and saw that all the shelves were empty. in november they bombed the die of steel warehouses because the it was the main storage place for all the food in the city people eating the earth because it had small traces of sugar in it i tried to eat it as well but i couldn't. move that night that was incredibly heavy bombing. it was a direct hit on that very shelter and everyone was buried underneath. all of them with dead. film.

if we are going to. reach an agreement with with the israelis as well you just have to accept the fact that you know the patient has to. put your money oh good publicity you are a few to just folks and they have to realize that you know didn't have to didn't go the commission on the notion of hittleman and to allow the palestinians to have feet in old life to plant it on the future and still have sold it to you over the long tradition but you know to add conditions conditions conditions to me to move those to a state this and this so it is under the control of the of stimulus this is looking to i'm just not going to have good us nor the israelis nor the american the force

or the possibility of daughter arrived distribution to the truth of the conflict. area. how do you operate dealing beginning i'm going to it was good sports and such expert status. as proof rose i'm not an olympic hockey fan bon mots it is on to find out please. by fire. only twelve percent of young voters in the u.k. say they plan to cast their ballot in the twenty fifteen general election according to one study many say they no longer want to take part in politics parties tests are silly have found out what's behind the growing apathy among british voters as nobody worth fighting for i wouldn't vote i want you to point narrow corrupted sorry i'm not really sure what sentiments that don't bode well for democratic

legitimacy and british politicians as electoral engagement continues to decline and the public's emotions turn sour anger is the chief reaction to politicians across all sections of the electorate a recent poll found followed by boredom particularly among the youth with one study showing that only one in ten are definitely planning to vote in the u.k.'s twenty fifteen a general elections i have voted for i regret doing it i don't want to be involved with it and i don't want to give it legitimacy i think going to the ballot box gives to this particular system no i don't regret having a system in which i don't haven't i don't have a real choice you have how many people who are protesting against was government never even showed an interest in what it what happens to us all peaceful protests build into anger because they're not being listened to and people have been going to stop taking direct action many may have turned their backs on the ballot boxes

but there are those who continue their moment of society and politics by taking to the streets feeling that this alternative may be more effective than the boat that young people are interested in politics and politicians and the responsible and political parties for not painting. people young people getting involved in a very diverse range of political participation says from the petitions to boycotts to demonstrations doing stuff online gauging the uk. what we have to accept is that actually traditional politics is no longer the only game in town. there is a genuinely existential problem for traditional british democracy if turner termed were to continue portions are extremely aware of this problem and so they should be . brought to it seems not enough to us wage the anger that just keeps boiling over onto the streets. just are still there are

to london and over on our website edward snowden says that during his time there the n.s.a. had its eyes not only on people of a data it also showed a great appetite for the industrial secrets of foreign companies off for the sake of america's economy read more on r.t. dot com. we've got the story on the japanese man believed to be behind the poisoning of hundreds of people filling pizzas and chicken nuggets with pesticides . with less than two weeks left before the winter olympics kick off and saatchi athletes across the globe are putting in extra training artists about what's a once along to a practice session a russia sledge hockey team which will take part in the paralympics for the first time this year. behind me is a shy but a rematch this is where the paralympics will hold their eyes

a sledge hockey tournament now the women's a little pig hockey teams will also be playing raiatea in this arena this is a seven thousand multi-polar poses see to a real don't be surprised to hear the crowd chanting shy but the name means punk in russian the only question left to be on stood which teams winning would receive the olympic gold medal now here's some of the sportsmanship to expect at the when to limp p.s. intense and fast just the way ice hockey should be oh. thank you. and for the first time since the introduction of the sports in the olympics the russian team moved to be on the firm ground something that the russian coach believes will change perceptions for the disability in the governor's over what

effect on the sugar nutrition world more these guys managed to prove to themselves their relatives and the entire society that they are not people with disabilities but people with limited ability these men and women will be showcasing their skills at the cyber stadium come this february and mock insult. to mom with a limp dick stadium are to. stay with r.t. international for a series of reports from the olympic city we'll have a new one for you each day this week you can also catch them on our website. you know you ok. how do you operate do it again i'm going to risk sports and so track speed skating is not as easy as russo. an olympic hockey player but. my son. and some other world news now demonstrators in several

cities in bahrain have clashed with security forces following the funeral of a protester who died in police custody. shot and detained during an anti-government rally on the eighth of january police used tear gas against the crowds who attacked police with molotov cocktails reports say around ninety people have died since the beginning of the uprising in two thousand and eleven. and more public discontent in france at least seventeen thousand people marched through central paris protesting budget cuts soaring unemployment and high taxes one hundred fifty people were arrested and twelve officers injured after the rally ended in scuffles presidents francois alone recently announced spending cuts of fifteen billion euro and till twenty seventeen. eight people have been killed by a mob using guns and machetes in the capital of the central african republic bangui meanwhile leaders of the muslim rebels have fled the city as tensions in the country show no sign of easing so far two thousand people have died in violence

between muslims and christians as troops from france and the african union tried to restore order. virtual cash big coin continues to impress in the global financial arena for the first time a university in the u.k. has decided to accept the digital currency for attrition fees that is the future of the crypto currency is being discussed at a conference in miami our correspondent perry on boring listen to some of the forecast for the virtual money. and i'm here at these twenty fourteen north american point conference i went to the first ever becoming conference about a year ago and in one year the amount of growth and the declension unity is huge we've seen the number of big points in the circulation increase fourteen percent and the number of big client transactions per day have increased twenty five percent in just one year i spoke with nicholas carey he is the c.e.o. of block chain which is the world's biggest corina website decline has been growing

at an astronomical rate we say there's an unbelievable migration of human talent and capital moving into big i expect more volatility but all possibly even afford trajectory this will be a good thing for everybody though more money moving into the space more attention to it and greater adoption of decline twenty fourteen is all going to be about making that point more user friendly and having more start up companies to get more consumers and volves and the community now i also spoke with nick just at the a bit pay which was the first big point payment processing company asked about the kind of growth that he saw within the last year or so about this time last year we had maybe two thousand merchants on our platform accepting that going now we have over twenty one thousand so about ten times more in the course of the year and so i think the trend is going to continue more and more merchants are seeing the value that bitcoin can bring to their business government regulation is a big threat to big coin businesses the regulatory environment is unclear and predictable and has already put a lot of businesses out of business regulating big point however it would essentially be endorsing and so there are a lot of governments that are using

a hands off approach despite this the rads everyone here seems to agree that the big point floodgates have been opened and that decline is here to stay and miami beach florida kerry and boring are too. but it's not all rosy for bitcoin the virtual currency has been criticized for being the perfect platform for black market trade experts have warned it may be a bubble about to burst gen bendel from the institute for leadership and sustainability says many people use the virtual currency in protest against the world banking system. well i think young people many of them are getting into big coin and other types of complementary cryptographic currency almost like an expression of their annoyance with the current banking system and that all these scandals and a perception that not enough being done and so it's almost like a protest vote and saying well if you're going to change things we can do something our own way many people are into it for that reason so i think that for some people

it's a protest for other people they're nice actually just really helpful and is in the future it's certainly part of the future i call them complementary currencies that i think it will bring down national currencies but it will certainly make us think again about what is money and how to make money useful to us in the way it's designed. protest against the global financial system and ways to deal a killing blow to inequality is today's topic on pure lavelle's crosstalk the number one global risk going into two thousand and fourteen is social unrest and most of it stems from the understanding and awareness about the inequity between the rich and the poor i mean if you're a billionaire as i say this is a real drag your business side to get these people are going to be sort of like sitting there at the top of the table telling that false majority what to do that no one really wants that to happen the more you know about how the rich make their money the more it makes you angry. i'll be back with you in about thirty minutes with more news from around the world

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