live pictures from the center of the capital in ukraine rioters take over the justice ministry in the capital 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.

this is r t international broadcasting live from moscow headquarters i'm lindsey france thanks for joining me. molotov cocktails homemade bombs and cold steel has seen it all during the last two weeks and this is how it looks right now you're seeing live pictures from the center of the city sunday night songwriter's capture the justice ministry in the ukrainian capital and even the political opposition who are supposed to be on the same side could not force them out around fifty radical activists armed with metal bars and clubs occupied the building into city center opposition leader vitali klitschko tried to talk them out but instead the protesters called for backup 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 hole in the head i'll take a hole in the head of the opposition speeches are as fiery as ever but not all of the protesters are buying it. not even the

commanding presence if you tally can check or is enough to bring them in line. kiev's independence square 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 by using islam i'm not even listening to them everything is already been done by us but i applaud we are running the show they are forced to listen to us. and now the movements leaders have tossed off the president's invitation to leave the government but what pumping up when you thought of the only say one revolution now that we offered them to control government to fight corruption and change the law there with you isn't it their actions are deprived of a new object on the way they could not even agree on whether to accept

a presidential amnesty for the jailed protesters yes the new board or if they are new president and of course said he'll release the detained protesters if there is no for the resistance in central kiev and our position is the same you provided prospers that us masri i asked will only agree to you on a call that just terms on the release of the protesters if the interior minister orders police not to arrest our people anymore robert that but i did look at the shots but i just stood there not politicians who simply wants a result and fast and that is a snap reorganization of the country they're like children you see soldiers marching and trying to jump in front of the formation of the field like generals. 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 it seems there are no compromises that the crowds aren't ready to listen to. reporting from kiev in ukraine and just as authorities are trying to bring

political solution to the table the most impatient protesters are taking matters into their own hands and rioters are breaking into government buildings and city halls across the country while opposition leaders say 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 aide in one instance during standoff that was going on there know the violence that started here in kiev initially spread to the the west of the country to start off with no it's government buildings that have been targeted they've been the subject is sieges by rioters and in many cases they've just been simply overrun

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. 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 writers it's a scene we've seen across the west of the country something that's spreading into the central and southern areas of ukraine as we are seeing any movement from those rioters in any way that they would see. voluntarily remove themselves from any of the barricades in fact what we are seeing is that they're building for. 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 as close as it makes 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 to sections 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 behind us we could see the end and into the violence are to international keeping you up to date with the events in kiev twenty four seven on air and through our web site r.t. dot com.

talks between the syrian government an xterm opposition at geneva two seem to be finally bringing about some result the sides have reached an agreement to get humanitarian aid into the beseech city of homes and allow women and children to leave its war hit areas and meanwhile in syria's other major embattled city aleppo people are returning to their homes have to government forces recaptured large parts of the town for militants and this is what they're returning to their neighborhoods and historic sites in one of the world's most ancient cities many of which were protected by unesco almost completely in ruins refreshing our reports on the civilian struggle to bring their life back to normal. we learned at a little international airport on what is believed to be the first civil air plane 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 syrian

army 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 dollars 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 a tad hopeful peace is slowly coming back this village outside aleppo has just come back under government control out of fourteen thousand tragedians who fled 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 but they stole everything i mean just 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. rather coffee we need more and more residents here sharing these optimists have like some coffee to play out how's life all of life is good things god. family is returned with their kids muhammad twelve years old 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 we get locals involved in patrolling and helping the army secure the area and protecting the village and we call on all of us to come back soon he has interviewed who leave the village to drive to the c.-t.

. what used 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 time to actually say 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 cease fire plan

pushed forward by syrian and russian foreign ministers and they always 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 this force is large enough to threaten a carefully forged peace to this rule 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 still remains to be seen how the first step agreements reached in geneva will. implemented the talks are ongoing but middle east expert paolo refound says no major deal should be anticipated and last other key players in the region are involved in a process where you know the opposition in syria. is not at all sure that those who would be convened an iraq but these talks should be

able to transform decisions into action on the ground it is free to do so after the if you should look in iraq as being a step forward in the sense that we can conference you collapse but on the other hand. it's for almost all agree to find your role in sustainable solution in syria it is necessary to start a dialogue other tool parties 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 the small agreements which probably on the ground will not need to be implemented. coming up on r.t. international unstoppable spirit. while these guys manage to prove to themselves their relatives and the entire society that they are not people with disabilities

that people with limited ability will report from saatchi on russia's sledge hockey team. we cannot accept to live under those little bishan forever we cannot allow the presence of one sink it is very useful if you want to post here to italy we cannot accept china through nineteen there's a three stage. right to see. first response and i think you're. on a recorder splitter. and instead. of being the.

only twelve percent of young voters in the u.k. say they plan to cast their ballot in the two thousand and fifteen general election according to one study many say they no longer want to take part in politics artist has our cilia found out what's behind the growing apathy among british voters is nobody worth voting for i wouldn't vote i want you to point 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. case twenty fifteen the 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 have and 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 protest goes into anger because they're not being listened to and people have been going to stop taking direct are. 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 street feeling that this alternative may be more it's not up to them they're both.

young people are interested in politics and politicians and the responsible and political parties for not the behaving. people young people getting involved in a very diverse range of political parts patiences from the titians to boycotts to demonstrations doing stuff online gauging the occupy leave me. what we have to accept is that actually traditional politics is no longer the only game in town. there is a genuine the existential problem for traditional british see if turner turned were to continue politicians 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. to us are still there are london. and

over on our website edward snowden says that during his time there the n.s.a. has eyes not only on people's private data it also showed a great appetite for the industrial secrets of foreign companies off for the sake of america's economy read more and r.t. dot com. plus we've got the story on a japanese man believed to be behind the poisoning of hundreds of people by selling 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 parties to ban let's say went along to a practice session of russia's sledge hockey team which will take part in the paralympics for the first time this year. behind me is a shy but a readout 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. in this arena this is

a seven thousand multi-polar poses a real don't be surprised to hear the crowd chanting side but the name means proud in russian the only question left to be on stood what's teams winning who received the olympic gold medal now here's some of the spokesman ship to inspect it went in clear intense and fast just the way ice hockey should be. thank you. and for the first time since the introduction of the sports media lympics the russian team moved to be on firm ground something that the russian coach believes will change perceptions for those with disabilities in the grammars or work but if in the second you can work more with these guys manage to prove to themselves their relatives and the entire society that they are not people with disabilities but

people with limited abilities these men and women will be showcasing these skills at the cyber stadium come this february and march in sochi. to mom with a limp dick stadium are to. stay with our taylor national for a series of reports from the olympic city well i have a new one each day for you this week you can also catch them on our website r.t. dot com. here you. do it again i'm going to read was good sports. is not as easy as racing. and i live. somewhere. in 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 dela boss was shot and detained during

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 says 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 president francois along recently announced spending cuts of fifty billion euro till two thousand and seventeen. people have been killed by a mob using guns and machetes in the capital of the central african republic bengay 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 try to restore order. the virtual cash

bitcoin continues to impress in the global financial arena for the first time a university in the u.k. is even decided to accept the digital currency for tuition fees that's is the future of the cryptocurrency is being discussed at a conference in miami our correspondent perry and boring has been listening to some of the forecasts. and i'm here at these twenty fourteen north american bitcoin conference i went to the first ever becoming conference about a year ago and in a one year the amount of growth and the decline to me is you we see the number of big points in circulation increase fourteen percent and the number of declining 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 in a 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 vaults and the community 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 business is the regulatory environment is unclear and predictable and has already put a lot of businesses out of business regulating big point however it would simply 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 decline floodgates have been opened and that decline is here to stay in miami beach florida kerry and boring party. but it's not all rosy for bitcoin it's been

criticised for being the perfect platform for black market trade and as experts warn it may be a bubble that's about to burst jam bendel from the institute for leadership and sustainability says many people use a virtual currency in protest against the world banking system. think young people many of them are getting into big coin of the types of complementary oakridge to. graphic currency almost like an expression of. annoyance with the current banking system and the all the scandals and the 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 for some people it's a protest for other people they're nice actually just really helpful and it 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 to protest against the global financial system and ways to deal killing

blow to any quality is today's topic on pure lavelle's crosstalk the number one global risk going into two thousand and fourteen is social unrest a 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 were going to be sort of like sitting there at the top of the table telling but false majority want to do that no one really wants to help and the more you know about how the rich make their money the more it makes you angry. russia is marking marking seventy years since one of its largest cities was liberated from a nazi siege during the second world war people in st petersburg which was known as leningrad back then spent over two years cut off from the rest of the country unable to get food supplies and military support these are pictures from a reenactment of the battle which helped end the stage that took the lives of more than

a million people the moral services have been held in st petersburg to remember the victims here on r t we have a special report we turn first hand accounts from those who survived the intense bombing starvation and extreme cold you can watch that in about an hour from now. coming up what's two thousand and fourteen going to be like for the middle east and what are the chances of reconciliation between israel and palestine r t sophie shevardnadze will talks to the foreign affairs minister of the palace the palestinian authority next. i've always had mixed feelings about speed traps it seems like it's a waste of the police officers time but on the other hand they sure do make people paranoid and drive more slowly one man from texas is completely sure his opinion

about speed traps that 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 is the one who is in deep trouble according to fox news runner 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 bio speeding tickets i hope that mr martin finds a way to go right back to holding his sign but this time on private property but that's just my opinion.

welcome to surf and co on sophie shevardnadze the latest round of israeli palestinian negotiations has yet to bear fruit but while the size of voice their disagreement on almost every issue publicly that talks ill hold much promise what is to be done what a. settlements what will happen to jerusalem and how will palestine and israel resolve the most pressing the plastic problem of our time west the foreign minister of the palestinian administration. the conflict in palestine has been raging for decades. and list talks try to proclaim peace only to see war flare up once. now after five years of silence there is again hope. for the

world's most powerful diplomats brokering a deal is a question of glory for israel and palestine it is about the very survival how much are they willing to give up to and bloodshed in the holy land. is peace finally coming to the middle east. it's really great to have you on our program today a palestinian foreign minister welcome so mahmoud abbas has said recently that good progress has been made in negotiations with israel and there's a possibility of prolonging the talks so what have the palestinian negotiators minutes to get from the israeli side at this point. well first of all the person who is in charge of the sponsor will to declare if there isn't a progress in the negotiations is that it could be nobody else says. we can't talk about throw to us or lack of progress. are we going to put the two

along no one is talking about prolonging the. already allocated time for the negotiations which is really nine months we have rated it it. clearly that we are sticking to the. original dates which should end by the twenty ninth of. april this month is here and so i need talk about prolonging the negotiations or little this is. premature. and lacks of course knowledge of the status of the negotiations if we reach a stage worth it what is needed is an extra day to arrive at an agreement that needs to be signed maybe we'll talk about prolonging it with an extra day but i don't think based on what we have seen so far that there is

a need for prolonging the negotiations what are the main obstacles that disappoint that remain. the main obstacles are very clear if you know that israel is not seriously interested in the negotiations they are using the negotiations as means to. maintain the status quo to build more settlements and to put the blame on the palestinians when they try to divert the negotiations from the original final status issues into the newly presented issues like the jewish nation of the state of israel who are like the. security arrangements on the jordan valley these are not issues of the final status that has we have agreed to discuss since launch into the so.