riots in the ukrainian capital sparked concerns of possible at tops on the country's policies as strong as some local communities stepped in to help local police keep control also. european union is working childish of this whole question of the u. russia summit brussels downgrade the summit is worth the russia because of differences over the crisis in ukraine which is constant a long shadow over the talks. also the sound just ten days the games begin at. pong we'll bring you all the latest. to get down to business. on the one senior member of the international olympic committee said his remarks on corruption in sochi were taken out of context and

used by media to create headline. we didn't have any effect and this was never an item for discussion. this is our say international coming here live from moscow hello everyone welcome to the. the ukrainian government has warned that my eyes may have been planted on a gas pipeline and reports security breaches at two are with nuclear plants the authorities say this could be part of an attempt to prolong unrest in the nation rioters have been fighting with police for nearly two weeks now and have taken over city halls across ukraine but as one sees policia reports there are other groups

who made step in to stop these protests. it isn't easy in eastern ukraine many fear the violence from kiev will be repeated here police are not taking any chances with passions and shields they barricading government buildings in the mining town of the nets volunteers are arriving from around the region to help them the buses have been arriving since early this morning they've formed a block around the said ministration building the message is clear no one can enter dennis was one of the first to get the twenty three year old coal miner from the town of an hour away feels the police should be tougher especially when they're being attacked with molotov cocktails and stun grenades but he believes their hands are tied so gotten you've got good police i go easy on the protestors others really don't want an international gang go me other countries i don't care a little more i want to see the international community disagrees it's coming down

hard on tearful being too strict with protesters it's a feeling that's not a coach here used to pick you would cause i am a patriot and i do not want anybody to interfere in the affairs of this country i want to create or make its own decisions and solve its own problems. as it stands a protester in europe guilty of a riot gets ten years in prison in the ukraine it's a step of that for vandalism in france you get seven years in ukraine three covering yourself with a mosque in a protest in canada it's ten years in ukraine scheme days and so many charge the european union is guilty of double standards when pointing a finger at kiev when we see the levels of force being used against the police then obviously the level of force reasonable and necessary. by them in response to have been in contact would be very high as well as night falls denis

and his colleagues did in for the long haul they're staying put ready to protect their country whether europe approves or not policy r.t. donetsk eastern ukraine. and with the justice ministry in kiev still blockaded opposition leaders have the common cause movement which is responsible for the takeover this whole process defines began over the ukrainian president's refusal to sign a partnership deal with the and almost see dot com where running a pull to get your opinions on whether the current riots in ukraine and here's how the answers are shaping out so far almost say the rest will scare any european partners away that about a quarter b.s.a. the rioters will manage to force elections about seventeen percent of you say a peaceful deal will be struck between the opposition and the president and just nine percent of you the minority have you believe president will give then and sign a deal with the you can go to to have your say and also international is keeping

you up to date with events in kiev twenty seven and on our website. the police who cries and resulting turmoil in ukraine have constant shadow over a russia summit taking place today and brussels have repeatedly accused each other of interfering with and putting pressure on key of the differences of even the e.u. to come the plants to day program to just a few hours. the twice yearly russia e.u. summit is taking place today which has been consistently billed as a summit that furthers the strategic partnership of russia and the new however there is one big issue that's hanging over this meeting and that is the issue of

ukraine relations have been strained ever since the ukrainian president viktor yet of course the decision to not go ahead with signing traded political deals with the you would favor of closer ties with russia but the russian ambassador to the e.u. would says that this is not a summit on ukraine however did acknowledge that in light of the recent dramatic developments that is the source of serious concern for both parties. from above report also said that there are quote a number of differences that have to be clarified and discussed at the summit though the other topics that will be discussed include of course energy trade talks with russia being the third largest partner of the e.u. after the u.s. and china as well as the syrian conflict negotiations with iran on its nuclear program reporting from brussels on tests or sylvia. and mr william and. criticizing you for curtailing this summit and undermining the chances of finding solutions to the issues that separate them. i think the european union is acting

very childish on this whole question of the u. russia summit downgraded to the lunch discussion instead of a formal series of talks with an agenda and i think the reason for that is the european union is playing with a double face right now in terms of the ukraine question. certain countries are essentially following a neo conservative agenda being drafted out of washington by victoria nuland at the state department and others to punish russia to punish ukraine to punish russia for making an economic agreement that they invited ukraine to join but the obviously some people in the european union are not at all interested in a peaceful resolution that's why i call this the behavior of the e.u. and downgrading the e.u. russia some a very very childish behavior on the part of the e.u. it's so again we don't need that in this world today was so much danger and so much potential for things careening out of control in syria in the middle east. and now

and ukraine we don't need this childish behavior we need adult responsible diplomatic negotiation. this is all saying to national island still to come on the far more taxes on wall street as broke obama before his sixth state of the union address we'll look at some of the mishaps which may wish to avoid mentioning that. as just ten days until the russian city of sochi welcomes the winter olympics hausen venues are already welcoming thousands of athletes and spectators that paul scott is gauging the mood there for us right now hi there paul so does everything look ready for you that. well we've really entered the final stages of preparations now the city of sochi all the finishing touches being applied to the city of sochi in the surrounding area so that come february seventh this place

will be ready to welcome in the sporting world now we are in the main operations center at the moment is the heart of the organizing committee committee and it's going to an exceptionally busy time for the thousands of people who work here and in particular the chairman of the organizing committee to me to cherish and he joins us now live on r.t. thank you very much for your time first things first tell us just exactly what happens in this building when you see all the venues and all the screens behind us this is the part of the operation is not. in a coma over in the main the parisian center where representative for all stakeholders or task force group leaders leaders and functionally there are all sitting together they manage the situation everson is under control when the full olympic molds and were ready to welcome the wall to sochi i mean not just in this building but outside is ready asuka on the witness on the screen the weather is perfect with the sunshine here and a lot of snow in the mountains but the most important that sixty five solves and

make again as well trained and will be very eager to demonstrate how much russian. change and how we want to demonstrate that different from this to that and we want athletes to perform the best in less than two days ten days ago now i was here three weeks ago we had a conversation i'd say that this has changed in just stopped short period of time in some respects the final stages of preparations the busiest stages yes we learn and learn and then train in training and now it's a final check of everything and i can conclude that everson in the perfect olympic moment ever since read it and where a little bit hungry to comment everybody and to demonstrate how. did that in the great shape of a purpose build state of the venice will be open for the athletes to perform the

best i have to aussie i'm afraid about these these allegations of corruption they won't go away there's some in the russian media and international press as well it's well documented that the budget expert exceeded initial expectations where's the money go and i will repeat that this is not correct and budget that we should concede there and they're exactly the same we were committed or we didn't complain it was written in the candidate who filed. a budget for the games which i'm personally as a manager in charge of roughly two billion dollars it's same like for the previous winter games again eyes ears and infrastructure investment into the olympic and for a social a competition noncompetitive venues and also this around in infrastructure to support this ban just like power station and some rules which is the decatur

falling pickney it's it's about two hundred. eleven let's say been in rubles which is roughly depends on the concept of variation. about sound billion and half is provided by a private investor from a private funds and i have to ask mention you're champing at the bit to get the sport started how are you feeling personally you're excited nervous you confident. not overconfident just confident because we're working hard days and night for the seven previous years and we're fully ready. to thank you very much for joining us so there you have it it's almost time for the talking to stop and in ten days time it'll be time for the sport to take center stage a pause called live in some shape or thank you very much indeed for that's how date we appreciate it. and they celebrate three million surrounding some cheese clouded by accusations of corruption about two weeks ago senior international olympic

committee member. was quoted as suggesting corruption had taken a stat of the money spent on the games and we asked mr cost but what he meant by well i for sure didn't say this way and not at all or say there are rumors or people are saying that i would pay for any figures anyhow but it will create a big waves in india international media for what reason i do not know and don't forget the interview posting. the article about the thing came from an american journalist so i don't think that he understood the wonder of space to have it never came from my. first asked by a journalist there is the percent of corruption and i said well i have heard rumors we had no reason whatsoever to bring the thing really if it. really fact we would have done this but to tell you honestly we didn't have any effect and

this was never an item for discussion. our series of reports also show with to balance a continuous laser on the part while michelle gave you a tour of another and because i knew the iceberg skating palace stay with. here you ok. how do you operate dillon piggy i'm going to host the two sports and such expert status. as proof shows i'm not an olympic hockey player by much it is on to find me. my fly. gentle and i get you all the really. hard it was going to give you even

be a few hundred a day come across the guns leave the country go you. think i'm going to go to the members of the fair we've got people coming in littered with criminals we've got people from the who knows where in the world this is the united states i'm very tough by the way you go to sure but i was worried that they may not know what they live on mars you know mars. so we pick up things like. turbans prayer rugs so when we know they do they're coming from the middle east a concentration camp. concentration camp. the study as if the white house is not even want to disclose the fact that he is a stranger. this

is all saying to national welcome back the latest league from edward snowden suggests it was britain's cyber spied baze g c h q that showed americans and a say how to monitor facebook and twitter without consent as europe marks data protection day which is supposed to show e.u. citizens how to keep their online data away from prying eyes aussies point boyko looks now at how effective that's likely to be. happy data protection day you might not know it but january twenty eighth marks the day when governments try to raise awareness about how to protect yourself online the european commission has even made this video warning that what we reveal on the net could strip us of our privacy. and yet over the past eight months revelations by edward snowden have exposed must global surveillance conducted by the u.s.a.'s national security agency and often in

conjunction with its european partners makes them look stupid if they. are problem if the data protection is important. people spying on you i mean it's just absurd according to the snowden leaks the n.s.a.'s prism program collects the data directly from the servers of u.s. companies like google microsoft yahoo and a pole now trying to think of an individual household or a business that's not a customer wants more spy agencies in. spain and taking all the data that they hoover up domestically and posting it on to the n.s.a. for processing as the story on ravelled it's been revealed that emails text messages phone calls and internet activity of citizens across the globe have been hoovered up. most people agree the european union's data protection rules with the

best in the war most rigorous the spy agency the n.s.a. and in the u.k. basically just mean ignoring all those rules and just taking everything they want after it was revealed that the n.s.a. had intercepted angela merkel's phone calls it became clear that even the german chancellor is a new. spin. is spying among friends does not work at all we need trust among partners in this trust needs to be restored now obviously. data is not very protected otherwise those scandals would not have occurred whether it was germany whether it was in brussels in the know in france. it's not only the politicians and individuals but it's also and to prizes that are that are threatened according to edward snowden's latest leak the national security agency isn't just gathering intelligence for national security purposes but indulging in industrial espionage as well he cited germany's engineering firm siemens as one

target and still no admission from the top i can give assurances to the publics in europe and around the world that we're not going around snooping at people's emails or listening to their phone calls so on the eve of data protection day we are asked some europeans if they felt like celebrating do you know anyone who is happy about it that his private sphere is controlled by governments or n.s.a. does anyone like that i think it's dangerous and they should protect us this development goes on and on and on and to stop nobody knows we shouldn't be celebrating one date when it should be something normal to have our very formation secure. r.t. london. the european court of human

rights has demanded the u.k. justify. spying activities the latest reports show a joint who has worked or surveillance program was involved in industrial espionage and former british and the going forward believes that could have cost europeans thousands of jobs. i guess you're just being naive or. i mean when the americans have been tapping angela merkel's phone of the traffic the phones of hundreds of millions of people across the european union one would we expect them to leave this this alone is probably closer european europe tens of thousands of jobs every time america american companies win contracts that european companies are expected to win we must be suspicious now that's not because they actually had a better deal on the table they knew what their deal was an undercover. and even video games can be transferred any more log on to r.t. dot com to find out how play angry birds or any other popular up on your phone

could be handing your personal data directly into the hands of the n.s.a. . delivering on your promises is never easy ending the war taking from the rich and giving to the poor is the short list of arguably every popular politician barack obama will have to address all the promises his made during his sixth state of the union address and as our season issachar from the from falls somethings a better left unsaid. looking to put the toughest year of his presidency behind hamburger rock obama will deliver his sixth state of the union address to congress and the american people here in washington on tuesday yet again joe mystic issues are expected to take center stage as the president tries to pivot away from the controversies that march twenty thirty and now as the past few years have shown promises made are not always promises kept nearly every proposal the problem the president made last year from gun control to a minimum wage hike to immigration reform they all fell short warded by an

uncooperative congress in last year's speech the president called for legislation to address gun violence a year later those proposals remain highly stalled this locked down schools and public violence grow ever more familiar another broken promise climate change bill in its twenty time address obama called on congress to act on climate change that never happened legislation debated in the senate in the spring faltered after infighting over taxes and that never came up for an actual vote now comprehensive immigration reform well that hasn't happened either despite pushing for an immigration overhaul in two thousand and eleven and again in two thousand and twelve that effort has largely languished in congress up until now a tax overhaul that obama called for in two thousand and eleven and two thousand and twelve also never came to be same goes for infrastructure spending that was supposed to help put more americans to work now with the opposition in congress making major legislation difficult if not impossible obama is expected to outline

what he hopes to do using his executive powers his executive power in office expanding economic opportunity for middle class workers is expected to be the centerpiece of tuesday's speech but what obama is unlikely to say that income inequality has increased faster under his watch than it did under any of the previous presidents and foreign policy the main message that twenty fourteen will mark the end of the war in afghanistan but this pronouncement will come in. the bitter irony and even after a dozen years more than a trillion dollars spent on the loss of thousands of lives the basic danger that had prompted president george bush to invade not only remains but experts say is more alarming than ever president obama's state of the union addresses quite a story there's obamacare wall street reform gun violence the wars in iraq and afghanistan economic inequality immigration reform the list goes on it's all there and gory details are permanent reminder of where the president secured victory and where he fell short reporting in washington for r.t.e.

and lucy catherine. how website right now actress scarlett johansson once again trying to the attention of online users this time the hollywood superstar faces criticism over who she's chosen to help promote a whole set of photos pictures on the west and find my own life. a ukase gases pushing officials still risking their position on fracking with a report citing the controversial to be could be used under people's homes without that consent. not the news in brief this and southeastern america isn't the postle the heavy winter freeze that has already botched the midwest and grounded schools of flights the state of louisiana and the city of new orleans have declared a state of emergency while still. in several other areas schools and businesses will be closed in what officials have described as the heaviest storm in here. for

just run a gaze the swearing in ceremony of the country's newly elected president has been held in honduras a precious was organized by supporters of the head of state and money. was ousted in two thousand and nine demonstrators chanted slogans against a vast regularities during posed more demonstrations in coming to. among the highlights of any winter olympics are always the buttons or knives in sochi that figure and speed skating events will take place in the beautiful pilots so i was sent to take. for those who love a little drama a little bit of show off in winter sports all those wonderfully jeweled costumes then you have to make your way to the eye catching twelfth falls in seed venue the iceberg. the iceberg skating palace which will be home full sega skating and short

track speed skating june the twenty four d. a limping winter games figure skating has long been one of the most captivating and exciting sports at the winter olympics and the twenty four team games will see more action on the ice never. will be back flips. was butterfly effects and the returns. but let's also guess about the other event that will take place in the same arena the speed skating way olympic skaters will be competing to get gold in the battle of the blades full glory and. i.

i hear in the games it will take just two hours to adjust the ice at the iceberg skating palace when switching from figure skating to shot track so we're looking forward to all those costumes and all the skating routines and the choreography that will be hosted in that there's bernie come plenty fourteen winter olympics. and coming up next to a pastel stars of suffering and survival during the siege of letting rogering while water stay with us. in march the building behind me will become the center of startup communities from

around the world come together to talk about the best way to new ideas. those times when the five most loathsome old one the global financial hopes will take place most code. 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 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's 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 fascist my opinion. why do you think this is for life on other planets why the truth exists such disregard on the spot one of the things i think that's a human mission to mars will accomplish is to make humans here on earth more sensible about life about life on this planet about the planet itself about the environment so one of the one of the key benefits of a human mr marsh will be

a better. my dear dear diary i am so happy. this is been the best summer of my life. i am a student now and i am going to the village with mom we will have strawberries on the terrace i am taking my favorite guitar. what a beautiful summer what a wonderful life is waiting for me. you bet on. the chinese friends made me a guitar hold on the theme is this so i started playing the seven string guitar or i played it quite well he played it well to some.