riots in the ukrainian capital spawns concerns of possible attacks on the country's policy as some local communities step in to help local police keep control also. european union is our only child each of the pushing you russia's summit russell downgrades a summit which russia with russia because of differences over the crimes as in ukraine which is causing a long shadow over the talks. also in the program in just ten days the games begin a song big pot where bringing you all the latest and the hottest city prepares to get down to business. you created a big grape seed in the international media what do you see most the most more in

a while one senior member of a big international olympic committee says his remarks on corruption and sultry were taken out of context and used by the media to create headline. international news and comment life from moscow you won't seem to national with me . thanks for trying. the ukrainian government has warned that mines may have been planted on its gas pipelines and reports security breaches at two of its nuclear plants the authorities say this could be part of an attempt to prolong unrest in the nation rises have been fighting with police for nearly two weeks now and have taken over city halls across ukraine but isn't she's policia reports there are other groups who may step in to stop these protests. there is an ease in

eastern ukraine many fear the violence from kiev will be repeated here police are not taking any chances with batons 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 got the police or go easy on the protesters obviously don't want an international scandal 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'm 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 sixteen 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 place and obviously the level of force reasonable necessary. by them in response had been in context would be very high as well as night falls then s. and his colleagues did in for the long haul they're staying put ready to protect

their country whether europe approves or not. the r.t. there nitz eastern ukraine. with the justice ministry in kiev is still located opposition leaders have designs the common cause movement which is responsible for the takeover this whole project began over the ukrainian president's refusal to sign upon a should deal with the e.u. and all now see dot com where running a poll to get your opinions on whether current riots a leading ukraine and he is how the answers are shaping up so far and almost half of our viewers say the unrest will scare any european powers away about a quarter of you say that the rises will manage to force elections seventeen percent said peaceful deal will be strung between the opposition on the president and just a nine percent of you believe present in a call that you will give in and sign a deal with the e.u. so you can always go on to ask dot com to have your say under all season two

national is keeping me up to date with the rounds in kiev twenty four seven and on our website as well which is on. the political crisis and resulting turmoil in ukraine have constant shadow of a russia e.u. summit taking place today moscow and brussels have repeatedly accused each other of interfering with and pursing prussia the differences have even falls the e.u. took out the plans today programme 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 e u however there is one big issue that's hanging over this meeting and that is the issue of ukraine the relations have been strained ever since the ukrainian president viktor

yet a poll taken the decision in the to not go ahead with signing traded political deals with the e.u. would favor of closer ties with russia or 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 it is a source of serious concern for both parties the e.u. council chief from a bug 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. political analyst william and. criticize the e.u. for curtailing the 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 new york conservative agenda being drafted over washington by victoria nuland at the state department and others to punish russia up to punish ukraine to punish russia for making an economic agreement that they invited ukraine to join but obviously some people in the european union are not at all interested in a peaceful resolution that's why i call the behavior of the e.u. and downgrading the e.u. russia some a very very charged behavior on the part of the e.u. 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

in ukraine we don't need this childish behavior we need of dog responsible diplomatic negotiation this is our saying to national and still to come when the problem of war turk says envoys trade as barack obama prepares for his sixth state of the union address look at some of the mishaps which a may wish to avoid mentioning. and also later the vice president of the bitcoin foundation faces says he is behind bars for allegedly trying to launder money through an infamous drug trafficking website stay with us for that. is just ten days until the russian city of sochi welcomes the winter olympics hotels and venues are already welcoming thousands of athletes and spectators their polls can't spoke to the head of the organizing committee about the final preparations. but the final stages of preparations the busiest stages

yes we will learn and learn and then to train and train in now it's a final check of everything and i can conclude that everson in the perfect. everything is ready for our purpose built state of the. world be open for the athletes to perform the best. i'm afraid about these these allegations of corruption that they won't go away there's some in the russian media and international press as well it's well documented that the budget his ex exceeded initial expectations was the money gone i will repeat that this is not correct that parish no budget for the games which i am personally as a manager in charge of roughly two billion dollars so it's same like for the previous winter games the guys there's an investment into the olympic infrastructure like competition non-competition venues and also this around in a structure to support just like power station and some roads which is dedicated

fall in pick needs is provided by private investor from private funds and i have to ask eventually if you're chomping at the bit to get the sport started how are you feeling personally excited nervous you confident. not over confident we're just confident because we're working hard. for this seven previous years to pull the right instruction 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. the games in sochi have been forced by a face rather by accusations of corruption in the media and senior international olympic committee member john franco has quoted was quoted as suggesting corruption had taken a third of the money spent on the games although he told r.t. his was have been distorted. well i for sure didn't say that this way and not at

all or say there are rumors or people are saying that i wouldn't pay for any figures anyhow but it will create a big rafe's in india in the national media for what reason i do not know and don't forget the interview was in. the article about the thing came from an american journalist so i don't think that he understood the wonder of space to it never came from i. was just asked by a journalist there is the percent of corruption and they said well. we had no reason whatsoever to bring to. the. civil effects we would have done this but to tell you honestly we didn't have any effect and this was never an item for discussion and a series of reports with to bang would say continues and later in the prog one will give you a tour of another venue the iceberg skating palace and also after the break the

latest revelations on no cooperation between the us and the u.k. in spying on people's private data stay with us. you know. finally over but have you paid your bill yet i see you didn't realize you had to pay for the self described great and good ha ha ha ha.

have you with us here on our t.v. today i'm wrong researcher. this is international welcome by the way to see from edward snowden suggests it was britain's cyber spying. that showed america's and a say how to monitor facebook and twitter without consent as europe mocks days of protection day which is supposed to show you citizens how to keep debt online data away from prying eyes all his point to point out looks 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 a bit stupid if they actually tackle the larger problem is that data protection is important by the way people spying on you i mean it's just according to the snowden leaks the n.s.a. is prism program collects the data directly from the servers of u.s. companies like google microsoft and yahoo and not try to think of an individual

household or a business that's not a customer wants more spy agencies in britain germany france and spain and taking all the data that they have optimistically 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 the year ago most people have agree that the european union's data protection the best in the world the 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 immune because they are data is not very protected other or otherwise those scandals would not have occurred whether it was germany where the ridge was in brussels. in france according to edward snowden's latest leak and then. 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 said protect us this development goes on and on and on and then have to stop nobody knows they shouldn't be celebrating one day doing it should be something normal to have our already from

a show secure. london. the european court of human rights has demanded the u.k. justify. spying activities the latest reports show a joint us birth or surveillance for a while was involved in industrial espionage and for british and they pay going forward believes that could have cost your pains thousands of jobs. i guess you're just being naive or hubert i mean when the americans have been tapping angela merkel's phone of the traffic of the phones of hundreds of millions of people across the european union why would we expect them to leave this alone is probably closer to your peers in europe tens of thousands of jobs every time america american companies win contracts that european companies are expecting to win we must be suspicious now that's not because she had a better deal on the table than you were there deal was an undercover. and even

video games can be trusted anymore log on to call to find out how playing angry birds or any other popular on your phone could be handing your past on days or directly into the hands of their say. delivering on your promises is never easy in 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 major in his sixth state of the union trads and as our season is a cover for paul's some things are 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 firmly stalled this locked down schools and public violence grow ever more familiar another broken promise you'll find a change bill twentieth 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 oil 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 from. 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 do tell quite a story there's obama care 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. devise chairman of the bitcoin foundation has been arrested in the u.s. china sram wanted to kill because so the cryptocurrency has been charged with trying to one million dollars worth of bitcoins using alkaloid website and the silk road if he's facing such years behind bars while she's more important eyes following the story. u.s. federal prosecutors are accusing self-proclaimed bitcoin evangelist charlie shrem of selling one million dollars in bitcoin to users of the website silk road prosecutors say those same users then to use the digital currency to anonymously purchase drugs in the deep web black market the twenty four year old c.e.o.

of vit instant and co owner of the manhattan bar ever was arrested at j.f.k. airport on sunday he's being charged with operating an unlicensed money transmitting business money laundering conspiracy and failure to file suspicious activity report no according to a release from the u.s. attorney general's office sram allegedly conspired with an underground exchanger who's also been arrested in connection to this case this arrest instantly made headlines particularly because shrum is known as the bitcoin wonder boy determined to help the digital currency go mainstream back in june i interviewed after his bar became the first new york city establishment to accept because he struck me as someone passionate and proud about the expanding cryptocurrency community came into the space. because i was the only person new york city had heard even heard of the

coin i was left out of a very firm in the city and now fast forward to two years there are so many startups that i start to meet ups now bit point is a virtual currency free from bank or government regulation proponents say that the currencies ability to exist without any centralization is what makes it so appealing last year the use of good point became so prevalent that its value searched from thirteen dollars to over one thousand by the end of twenty thirteen now of course this doesn't make everyone happy j.p. morgan chase c.e.o. jamie diamond recently called because when i. terrible store of value in part because international governments bankers and other officials are unsure whether they can trust the digital currency in the aftermath of strom's arrest securing confidence in big oil may prove even more challenging reporting from new york marina r.t. . and let's not have some other news in brief this hour and southeastern america is

in the path of a heavy winter freeze that has already gone to the midwest and grounded scores 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. and a mass protests to run against the swearing in ceremony of the country's newly elected president has been held in the protest was organized by supporters of the film head of state montreal is a lie or who was ousted in two thousand and nine demonstrators chanted slogans against a vast regularities during polls and vowed more demonstrations in coming days. to sochi now where the olympic venues are ready to open their doors and among the highlights of any winter games always the bands on ice in sochi the figure and speed skating abounds will take place in the beautiful eyes but pilots so i was

sent to say to take a look. for those who love a little drama a little bit of shoot off in winter sports all those wonderfully jeweled cost you less than you have to make your way to the eye catching twelfth balls and see the venue the iceberg. the iceberg skating palace which will be home full signal skating and short track speed skating june this twenty four d. a limpid 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 i never. will be back for it. was butterfly effects and the

returns. for us also get about the other event that will take place in the same arena the speed skating wave or limping skate is to be competing to get gold in the battle of the blades full glory and. i. i sure in the games it will take just two hours to adjust the ice at the ice big 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 let those bunny come plenty fourteen winter olympics. ok. how do you operate dylan but

i'm going to rehearse to do sports such. as resold i'm not an olympic hockey player is on the. beat. my son. and of course we're back with more news and i with such a minutes time but next moxon stacy take financial fosters to tuscon because the report. 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's 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 the fascist my opinion. why do you think this is for life on other planets by the truth of the 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 is to march will be a better. welcome to the kaiser report imax kaiser you know dab is finally over but have you paid your bill yet i see you didn't realize you had to pay for the self described great and good ha ha ha ha ha stacey max actually while we've been saying this as you see the german fighter naval ship is leaving exiting the city of london i think

speaking of bills that have yet to go unpaid they are trying to collect their gold they got thirty tons out of the us lord knows how much they're taking away now now all fat chance of getting any of that gold i mean we broke a story here a few years ago that the bonus bank didn't really have the gold and then that started a whole scandal and now looks like they'll never get their gold germany. regarding being finally over i wanted to point out this discount and this is from the economist and it's a chart of the underperformers i.e. those companies that send executives to davros in three of the past five years they've underperformed the s. and p. five hundred and c.s.i. world index by up to forty percent since ending their executives up to dabble it's now why could that possibly be but i think it's pretty obvious what out of smith talked about when you put a bunch of businessmen and.