and to ukraine reuters claimed they have left ukraine's justice ministry building but the barricades and blockade outside remain radical say they'll stay until their demands are met. hope for the syrian peace talks moved towards allowing trapped civilians out of the embattled city and to get humanitarian aid in. the british coaches who are to board for the ballots as anyone in ten young people say they'll be bothered to turn out for the next election. this is also international live from a studio center here in moscow which just turned eight pm and six pm in kiev where

both barricades and dugout pavements prevail that's how ukraine's capital looks after almost two weeks of relenting mayhem when i see government right is now entrenched outside the justice ministry it was stormed in occupied overnight by radical activists from the movement known as common cause and they now say they've vacated the building. has the latest. justice ministry is in a severe state of disarray after it was stormed by rioters on sunday evening all of its windows are being put out this now and most of the furniture is piled up against those windows to barricade those when we spoke to those guys who were on the door their huge line of people all in mosques and carrying shields and weapons there they were saying that essentially they were blocking entry to this building in an attempt to stop it from being occupied now that will position supporters inside that we could see when we were we were talking to those people now they were

saying they're trying to stop it from being occupied by what they're calling provocateurs however they telling us that they will let people from the justice ministry in if they show their passes that they work there however. if there we ought to get into that building as i say they have to go through this line of in mosques carrying weapons with with shields that certainly doesn't seem like it's going to be a way of them being able to get a lot of work done in that building with regards to who's actually in charge when it comes to the opposition here in ukraine we can now hear a report from my colleague alexy out a chef ski judge. if i have to take a hole in the head i'll take a hole 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 if you don't you 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 to the violence uprising by using it i'm not even listening to them everything has already been done by us or where we are running the show they are forced to listen to us. and now the movement's leaders have passed up the president's invitation to lead the government but many of the young we say will revolutionize now we offered them to control government to fight corruption in change the law they're refusing it their actions are deprived of and you object. they could not even agree on whether to accept a presidential amnesty for the jailed protesters yes the. president has said he'll release the detained protesters if there is no for the resistance in central kiev

and our position is the same provided prospers. will only agree to terms on the release of the protesters if the interior minister orders police not to arrest people anymore. but i just stood there not politicians who simply wants a result and fast and that is a snap reorganization of the country my children you 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 gun it seems there are no compromises that the crowds are ready to listen to. reporting from kiev ukraine he craney an insurgent army has no claim responsibility for the murder of a policeman in kiev on saturday on his facebook page the radical organization says it was revenge for the killing of protesters and you know was the cause such public

anger in ukraine introduce harsher punishments for protests but let's compare it to similar rules in europe and in north america now if you found guilty of starting a rotten britain you could find yourself in jail for up to ten years and nine years if you will. but in ukraine you get just two years vandalism in france from defacing statues to damaging streets is punishable by seven years behind bars but in ukraine. three attempting or even encouraging the overthrow of the united states government can see you thrown into a cell for up to twenty years and that's twice as much as in ukraine and finally don't put a mask on your face the rally in canada because that could land you up to ten years detention and that's against just fifteen days in ukraine where british security analyst and former police officer charles shoe bridge told us the scale of dissent being seen in the country there would never be permitted in the u.k. which is need to look at the way that the british police particularly going to have

dealt with protests that have occurred really in the last three or four years if one looks at for example the protests that occurred. twenty summit in london all props where it's demonstrations that took place against cuts in student grants and loans and frick and such like then the place for a very robust response to those demonstrations of course the police responsibility to keep them clearly undervalue countries and united states officially to facilitate peaceful protest particularly what i see protests of course mission in advance as is required but nonetheless when the kind of disorder that takes place that we could see quite rightly now kefford i swear and you claim the police would be expected here in united kingdom to respond very much more robustly. while the authorities an opposition leaders in kiev try to reach a political solution impatient protests as elsewhere are taking matters into their own hands writers have been breaking into government buildings and city halls

across the west of the country and opposition leaders seem to be increasingly losing influence over what's happening on the streets in eastern ukraine the situation has been relatively calm so far but locals do fear that back could soon changes. now reports. was road where afraid but we hope that these people will be stopped people internet scholar watching closely the demonstrations in kiev they fear the violence will spread from west to east ukraine and inspire upheaval and copycat protests here alexandra green is taking seriously remarks by the openly racist opposition party that there is no place for jews in ukraine. greenstein assuming you are ukrainian nationalists ukrainian patriots who can become the heroes that will today defend the land were standing your bag then during the second world war our soldiers took our guns and

went into the forests the fight the russians the germans the jews and other evils i wanted to take the ukrainian nation from us. this jewish mother of two is thinking about packing up and leaving these people protesters have already tasted the blondes and maybe they will become move while and already two jews have been attacked of many fear these was to come. in the children school now there is a security guard children out to pepper sprays to school to be safe i'm afraid for my family or people living here are bracing for more days if not weeks of grim uncertainty they worry the violence is spilling eastwards and so protesters are taking to the streets to show their support for president yannick coverage but more often than not these rallies are being disrupted by. the crowd of people in surgical mask suddenly appear the bats in their jackets they beat the protesters and kick them in the head asking when you muslim because we don't hide anything we

suspect that these people wanted to cause trouble with provocations from opposition supporters on the rise a growing number of ukrainians fear that the last few weeks might just be a dress rehearsal for what's to come policy r t donetsk ukraine now just as the justice ministry remains a blockade of the opposition leaders of disown the common cause movement responsible for the takeover in this whole process began over the president's refusal to sign a partnership deal with the e.u. while on r.t. dot com we're running a poll to get your opinions on where the car routes are leading the country and here's how the answers are shaping up so far almost half of you say the unrest will scare any european partners away about a quarter of you saying the writers will manage to force elections seventeen percent saying a peaceful deal will be struck between the opposition and the president the minority just one percent so far believe the president you know which will give in and sign the deal with the e.u. will log on to r.t. dot com to have your say and of the goal is to be up to date with the events in

kiev twenty four seventh's on their website. on the way here in the international a glimmer of hope for some syrians and the business secrets being scooped up by america's n.s.a. it's all ahead on all to international. to china for example they're growing exactly the way the west grew they creating more credit in the system they're creating more debt in the system and the rich are getting richer and the poor are staying poor eight hundred million people live below less than fifteen dollars a day in china and that doesn't seem to be changing it's the number one problem the chinese government has right now you know it seems to me that with what the rich

have done is that you know they've made themselves so comfortable but in the process they're destroying the entire process of where they got their wealth from in the first place the government stood me to look at people's welfare levels at derby to worry about these sort of into generational dynasties that created today i think if you're a billionaire as i say this is a real danger to society that these people were going to be sort of like sitting there at the top of the thirty two telling befalls majority what to do. you know. how do you operate dylan piggy i'm going to him was going to sports such. as ruth i'm not an olympic hockey player bomb which is on the big. league. by fire.

hundreds of women and children trapped in the middle of syrian warfare may be able to leave the besieged city of homs it's a hope that the rule that's a reason that the geneva two peace talks where the government and opposition have agreed to allow those civilians to flee to safety and allow humanitarian aid in while elsewhere people are slowly returning to the country's biggest city aleppo to find their homes demolished or pillaged some of the most destructive fighting has reduced large parts of the ancient site to rubble refresher looks at what's left for citizens to rebuild their lives with. we learned at aleppo 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 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 attempts for peace is slowly coming back this village outside aleppo has just come back under government control. out of fourteen thousand residents who fled after the rebels a tag one third the government says is now back to discover the houses are the destroyed all looted in the middle of it all depends on how lucky you are our home was almost untagged but they stole everything i mean. 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 is that our home was destroyed we now have nothing but god gave us a baby and that's who give us power to build everything from scratch wherever.

rather coffee we need more and more residents here sharing these optimists. like coffee to play out how's life life is good things god. family has 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 humanitarian aid arrived people are in desperate need of simply everything and most importantly security measures that 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 or you have to leave the village to drive to the city what used to take some fifteen minutes by highway takes an hour today roads are not yet safe

enough. but parts of aleppo look 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 texturally 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 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 newsroom front 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 wall torn country residents say they're not dreaded to give up their fight for their country to be at peace rich nationality from syria james corbett editor of the independent news website the colbert report says the fate of the people in syria is still in the hands of extremists who have no interest in peaceful diplomacy. in theory this won't be a particularly difficult part of the plan to implement logistically all it would take is this is sation of active hostilities during the time that these women and children are being transported out of the area but perhaps that's easier said than done as both the syrian foreign deputy foreign minister and. own political advisor have both stated recently this is not really a political breakthrough since the syrian government has had in place since two

thousand and thirteen a plan to deliver aid to these civilians populations in these terrorist held areas of the country since for the past year and all such delivery aid delivery has have failed because they have been fired upon by the terrorists themselves so this is not necessarily a breakthrough to it but it will hinge on the terrorists actually standing down and allowing this transferred take place. it looks like america's big brother has been getting its hands on big business edward snowden has revealed to german television that the n.s.a. has been using everything it's got to pry into the commercial secrets of foreign firms more on that ahead also. taking on the toughest or insult cheats i mean russia's paralympic sled hockey team stay with us all to international. and then saying isn't content just to spawn huge numbers of people that would snowden says don't ask keeps

a very close eye on business it's a whistleblower told german t.v. that the u.s. agency tries to siphon off any information it can get its hands on we're going forward as a former british spent years working to raise awareness of such as binoche organized not from brussels you seem to be aware all of these problems for quite some time why hasn't europe dunning about it then. i guess you're just being naive or superheat i mean when the americans have been tapping angela merkel's phone up and toughing the phones of hundreds of millions of people across the european union why would we expect them to leave business alone in fact what we've got to do is look at your own history james will sleep clinton's cia director actually said back in march two thousand yes we do spy on european business because we believe that they bribe people it's necessary for us to do that to stop bribery you mentioned angela merkel and the phone tapping incident siemens is one of the businesses being

targeted apparently by the n.s.a. what does that do actually for relations between russia between the u.s. and germany and indeed the u.s. and other european countries well i mean it's going to be very interesting at the moment or in the middle of negotiating the transatlantic trade and investment treaty i suspect that there may be some clueless easy enough to cleanly political cooperation agreement that the u.s. is not going to like very much glenn help damaging is this sort of industrial espionage. well i mean his cost is probably cost in europe in europe tens of thousands of jobs every time america american companies win contracts that european companies were expecting to win we must be suspicious now that's not because she had a better deal on the table than you whatever deal was another copy but firms often have that sort of information about each other already but the fact is a government level that that's the secret is actually how you know that you have you don't actually have if you want quite the level of sophistication is known as

a national security agency monitoring everything and anything that actually moves across the center in any way whatsoever i'm not naive yes industrial espionage goes on you don't actually have to collusion all of the world's most powerful government most powerful spying system and talk about everything and everything snowden has said in this interview the n.s.a. will take anything it can lay its hands on why would it be spreading such a wide net well i mean i think two reasons firstly they don't have the ability to actually be very sophisticated it's easier to hoover everything up grab the the try and target and then of course this method data actually all of it actually fits together is a picture it enables us or enables them to actually identify networks of people in a way that if you won't want to share in specifically calls wouldn't do just fine and you said you're as being naive about all of this what now do you think it will

take a strong stance on what it's discovering. in brussels well i mean i i would hope so i mean otherwise i mean actually it's something like the european data protection day tomorrow i mean it's going to be true glenn great to talk to you thanks so much for joining us live here on r.t. international glenn ford former m.e.p. there in brussels thank you. the brits just can't get themselves fired up about voting anymore would turn up for elections in recent years on a downward slide and it's young people in particular who are backing away from the ballot box only ten percent say they'll definitely take part in next year's general election reports now from london. there's nobody worth fighting for i wouldn't vote i want you to point. 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 have voted before 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 choice you have how many people who are protesting against was government never even showed an interest in what it what happens to. peaceful protests building to 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 than they're both. young people are interested in politics politicians and the responsible and political parties

for not appealing to young people young people getting involved in a very diverse range of political parts from the titians to boycotts demonstrations doing stuff online gauging the occupied. what we have to accept is that our traditional politics is no longer the only game in town i think there is a genuine the existential problem for traditional british democracy if turned were to continue processions are extremely aware of this problem and so they should be. but it seems not enough to last rage the anger that just keeps boiling over onto the streets. yes or so you are. some other news making headlines around the world at this stage of the day the egyptian army chief who led the charge to remove mohamed morsy from power has been

endorsed by the country's top generals to run for president in april. is expected to announce his candidacy in the next couple of hours and will be the clear front runner with no rivals yet to emerge he's a divisive figure in egypt supported by millions used against the muslim brotherhood but also blamed by islamists for the deaths of protesters during last year's unrest. extremists in northeast nigeria have attacked a village killing at least fifty two civilians and destroying hundreds of homes police said the attackers detonated explosives in a market before moving in with heavy harlem's authorities blame the assault on the terrorist network boko haram which is trying to create a breakaway islamic state in the region. in iraq at least eight people have been killed and dozens injured in clashes between security forces and al-qaeda linked militants in the city of fallujah five soldiers have been taken hostage and several army vehicles have been seized by the government which created a cordon around the rebel held city and intensified air strikes to oust militants

from the areas the standoff which has continued for three weeks now as for thousands of people to flee their home. the paralympic winter games following on the heels of these such impacts will see russia's sledge hockey team perform before a global audience for the first time say saw them sharpen their skills on the ice. behind me is a shy but a read out 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 punch in russian the only question left to be on stood what's teams winning would we see

the olympic gold medal now here's some of the sportsmanship to expect that went to the previous intense and fast just the way ice hockey should be. thanks to. and for the first time since the introduction of the sport 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 and none of them are sober 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 people with unlimited ability these men and women will be showcasing the skills at the cyber stadium come this february and mock insult. to them with a limp dick stadium. to preserve them for the moment you got with the news team

with morphine just have a hole for now for now the meter on global in quality takes center stage in peter bell's crosstalk that's coming your way in just a few minutes from now here on. 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 of his opinion 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 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 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 precious my opinion. is. hello and welcome to crossfire for all things considered i'm peter lavelle according to a new oxfam report the rich are getting richer at an alarming pace middle classes

all over. the world are under pressure and the poor well are only getting poorer with growing income inequality how can we expect democratic institutions to survive not to speak of maintaining social train quality is it time to start broadly sharing prosperity. cross-talk income disparity i'm joined by my guest share is our brand in washington she is the steve ross profess oriel fellow of international finance at the george washington university in london we have keith pilbeam he is a professor of international economics and finance at city university london and in sofia we cross the maksim he is a global p.r. expert and chairman of the board at the world communications form in davos all right cross talk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i very much encourage share as i go to you if i can read a short passage from the oxfam report is quite damning when wealth captures government policy making the rules bend to favor the rich often to the detriment of

everyone else the consequences include the erosion of democratic governance the pulling apart of social cohesion and the vanishing of equal opportunities for all on less bold political solutions or instituted to curb the influence of wealth on politics governments will work for the interests of the rich that's a pretty damning paragraph from that report and i'd like to point out to our viewers the whole report sounds that way what's your reaction to that well i don't think anyone who's in this business would find it surprising you know and this is going on it's no surprise that the pope opened up with his remarks that way he did and that is a rethink and a reset button on how countries develop and grow and specially with large economies like china and india and russia on how to have a fair way to move forward now that doesn't mean you tax the wealthy and the well to do and people who are doing well but you just have to find a different solution.