the ukrainian opposition rules out any compromise with the government as their refusal of the president's proposals intensified the political deadlock triggered by almost two weeks of riots. child. you russia summit brussels downgrades a summit with russia because of differences over the crisis in ukraine which is constant a long shadow over the talks. also in just ten days the games begin at such as an impact on the hard city prepares to get down to business there are still allegations and the media had to deal with it. for sure did say that you create a grave indeed the national media for what do you know. and one senior

member of the internationally because me too says his remarks on corruption and such are were taken out of context and used by the media to grade as line. international news life in moscow you want to note international with me you know. and welcome to the program the ukrainian opposition is pledging to continue mass protests in kiev until the president steps down the unocal which attempted to me to protest leaders way as the talks continued overnight let's go cross live to an extent for more now on this and say there's a vote in parliament today what do we know about that. well it won't be exaggeration to say that today is the most important parliamentary session in the

history of modern ukraine the biggest chance to stop the violence we heard indications coming from both sides of the political crisis particularly last night the president said that the agreed with the opposition to a bullish the controversial anti-riot laws the ones which actually sparked massive violence in the country as well as releasing all the prisoners who were detained in the course of these riots and we also heard from the so-called right wing sector the core of the protest the right wing nationalist driving the riots that they would also stop the violence if these laws would be abolished and the all the prisoners would be released they've said though that there are several more conditions under which they would completely stop their actions so that suggests that the opposition would still be continuing to picket the streets to hold the protest at independence square the fact is that if the agreements come into force today after parliamentary session then the the barricade at the government of course will be dismantled and the people would retreat back to the independence square and continue the protest there would you know that the position of the prime

minister was offered to one of the opposition leaders he refused officially so they suggest that the opposition would not back down until they get what they want which is essentially the rizieq nation of the president and the early presidential election in the country at the same time we also do know that catherine ashton is coming over to keep she was supposed to come at the end of the week but we do know that she's coming today it's still unclear what is the reason why she come here because she decided to come earlier but that is the facts of course we watching how the situation unravel in the parliament there will be voting on these on these very crucial several things and we've seen in the past years that sometimes the parliamentarians in ukraine fail to find an agreement there's still a chance for that but of course all eyes are now focused on the korean parliament or where supporters of the president and of the opposition are converging for a mass rally. that i say i have to live from care say thank you very much indeed for that under the uars urging the ukrainian government to we're move riot police from the streets and earlier some way you members of boys their support for an idea

of sanctions against here is policy able. it isn't easy and eastern ukraine many fear the violence from here will be repeated here police are not taking any chances with batons and shields they're 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. the police are going easy on the protesters and usually don't want an international scandal in other countries they don't care about the. ironically the

international community disagrees it's coming down hard on tears for being too strict with protesters it's a feeling that's not echoed here used to keep you i am a patriot and i do not want anybody to interfere in the affairs of this country i want to 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 ukraine it's a fifth of that for vandalism in france you get seven years in ukraine three covering yourself with a mask and a protest in canada it's ten years in ukraine fifteen days and so many charge the european union is guilty of double standards when pointing a finger at kiev they were and we see the levels of force being used against the police then obviously the level of force reasonable and necessary. by them in response has been in the u.k. context would be very high as well as night falls then us and his colleagues

did in for the long haul they're staying put ready to protect the country whether you're approves or not policy r t there near eastern ukraine and with the justice ministry in care still glow catered opposition leaders have designed a common cause movement which is responsible to take over this whole protest of farce began over the ukrainian president's refusal to sign a partnership deal with the e.u. and to own our seat of coal where running a poor to get your opinion on where the current riots are leading ukraine and here's how the answers are shaping up so far and almost half of our viewers say the west will scare any european partners anyway about a quarter of you say they weren't as well managed to force an election as only seventeen percent say a peaceful deal will be struck between the opposition and the president and just nine percent just minority who we believe present in a congress will get ben and sign a deal with the e.u.

so you can always log on to r.t. dot com to have your say. the political crisis and resulting turmoil in ukraine have constant shadow of a russian e.u. summit taking place today mosco and brussels have repeatedly accused each other interfering with and putting pressure on k. if the differences even force the e.u. to cut the planned today programme to just a few hours. there has more. than 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 relations have been straight ever since the ukrainian president viktor you had a cold which had taken the decision in the vent to a 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 that negotiations with iran on its nuclear program reporting from brussels on tests are still there. geopolitical analyst william and dull spokes are also international and criticize the youthful kept failing to summit and undermining their 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 out of washington by victoria nuland at the state department and others to punish russia not to punish ukraine to punish russia for making an economic agreement that they invited ukraine to join 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. so again we don't need that us 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 in ukraine we don't need this childish behavior we need

a dog responsible diplomatic negotiation this is all seem to national and subsequent to bog the vice president and they become a nation faces says he is behind bars by legendary trying to launder money in from those trying trafficking website that's right. has just done dave until the russian city of sochi welcomes the winter olympics how tells and then use our own reza welcoming thousands of athletes and spectators. spoke to the head of the organizing committee say about the final preparations that . at the final stages of preparations the busiest stages yes we will learn and learn and then we will train in training now it's a final check of everything and i can conclude that every send in the perfect olympic everything is ready our purpose built 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 gone i will repeat that this is not correct their parish no budget to host the games of which i am personally as a manager in charge of the roughly two billion dollars same lake for the previous winter games again eyes there's an investment into the olympic infrastructure like competition on completion venues and also this around in infrastructure to support just like power station and some roads which is dedicated falling 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 are you nervous you confident. not over confident just confident

because we're working hard days and night for this seven previous years and we're fully ready just from some 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. at the games in sochi i have been fazed by accusations of corruption in the media one international olympic committee member was recently quoted as suggesting corruption had taken a so out of the money spent on the games but john franco kasper told them say his words have been distorted by the media to create a bigger story. 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 have any figures anyhow but it will create a big waves in in the international media for what reason i do not know and don't forget the interview was in swiss german and the article about it then came from an american journalist so i don't think that he understood the wonder of space to have

it never came from my it was just asked by a journalist there is the percent of corruption in the said well i have heard rumors to be had no reason whatsoever to bring that up in the lead think if we would have had. several 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 our series of reports from social with to bang on day continues and later in the program which will give you a tour of another olympic venue the iceberg skating palace stay with us for that and also after the break the latest revelations on corporation between the us and u.k. in spying on people's private data status. the . general when i get your holy.

spirit here. even the few hundred a day coming from the believe. things i'm going to. be we've got people coming in with criminals we've got people here who knows where in the world this is the united states i'm very tough by the way you know to sure that i was worried that they may not know why they live on mars you know mars. so we picked up things like the rand. turbans prayer rugs jordan we know that they're coming from the middle east a concentration camp. concentration camp for you to leave but it doesn't. not even want to disclose the fact that he is

a stranger. this is all seem to national coming to life for most welcome by the major sneak from edward snowden suggests it was britain's cyber spying base j c h k that showed america's n.s.a. how to monitor facebook and twitter without cold calls sent and that's as europe mocks data protection day which was supposed to show his citizens how to keep that online data away from prying eyes. 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 a bit stupid if they don't actually tackle a larger problem if they're saying data protection is important or by the way people spying on you i mean it's just so 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 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 that the european union's data protection rules are 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 obviously our data is not very protected or otherwise those scandals would not have occurred whether it was germany whether it was in brussels in the know in france according to edward snowden's latest leak the nash. well security agency isn't just gathering intelligence phenomenal 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 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 does this development goes on and on and on and better to stop nobody knows they shouldn't be celebrating one day doing it should be something normal to have our very formation secure. london. the european court of human rights has demanded the u.k. just to find your sage spying activities the latest reports show a joint us british surveillance was involved in industrial espionage on four british and the p going forward believes that could have cost europeans thousands

of jobs. i guess you're just being naive or hugh pete i mean when the americans are . of the toughie the phones of hundreds of millions of people across the european union why would we expect them to leave this alone is probably for see your europe tens of thousands of jobs every time a murmur of american companies win contracts that european companies are expected to win we must be suspicious now that's not because you have a better deal on the table than you were there deal was another guy. and even video games can be trusted any more log on to n.c. dot com to find out how playing angry birds or any other popular on your phone could be handing your personal data directly into the hands of the n.s.a. and also for you online the case for shale gas is pushing officials to rescind that position on the fracking with reports saying the controversial technique could be

used under people's homes without their consent. the vice chairman of the bitcoin foundation has been arrested in the u.s. china sram one of the key advocates and they cryptocurrency has been charged with trying to launder one million dollars worth of bitcoins using outlawed web scientists so quote if found guilty he's facing such a years behind bars he's more in a part nice following the story. u.s. federal prosecutors are accusing self-proclaimed bitcoin evangelist charlie shrem of selling one million dollars in bit cooling 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 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 transmuting

business money laundering conspiracy and failure to file suspicious activity report no according to a release from the u.s. attorney general's office shrum 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 wonderboy 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 a bit coy he struck me as someone passionate and proud about the expanding cryptocurrency community came into the space. 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 start ups the start of meet ups now bit point is a virtual currency free from banks or government regulation proponents say that the

currencies ability to exist without any centralization is what makes it so healing last year the use of bitcoin became so prevalent that its value surged from thirteen dollars to over one thousand by the end of twenty thirteen no of course this doesn't make everyone happy j.p. morgan chase c.e.o. jamie diamond recently called. 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 rahm's arrest securing confidence in big point may prove even more challenging reporting from new york marina r.t. . and a financial analyst among. banks the case has a political context links to bitcoins growing influence the us dollar is actually the major facilitator of illegal transactions of drugs human trafficking all

sorts of nasty business is most of the trade is done with the u.s. dollar not big going big point is a small player it is a small percentage of its transactions are illegal that's true but the majority are for illegal goods where is the u.s. dollar is the primary player in international trade illicit items but this was a political event not a legal or judicial event this arrest it was a political event meant to intimidate people in the bitcoin space and it was a perfectly foreseeable of it as well and some other news and brief southeastern america is on the path of a heavy winter freeze that has already bosses of the midwest and grounded schools of flights the state of louisiana and the city of new orleans have declared a state of emergency while storm issued in several other areas schools and businesses will be closed in what officials have described as they have a storm and. a mass protest rally against the swearing in

ceremony of the country's newly elected president has been held in hunter as the process was organized by supporters of the fool head of state is a liar who was ousted in two thousand and nine demonstrators chanted slogans against a vast irregularities during polls and vowed more demonstrations in coming days. militants from the book or who ran group have a target villagers in nigeria killing over seventy people that's harker's detonated explosives in a market before moving in with heavy firearms and assaulting a christian church service this is one of the bloodiest at times by boko haram which is trying to create a breakaway islamic state in the region and now back to sochi where the olympic venues are ready to open their doors and among the highlights of any winter games are always the events or nights in sochi the figure and short track skating events will take place in the beautiful eyes bug palace and out with santa bang would say

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 twelve thousand seed venue the iceberg. the iceberg skating palace which will be home full cygnus gating and short track speed skating during the sochi twenty fourteen olympic 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 and 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 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 that there's bernie come plenty fourteen winter olympics. here ok. how do you operate dillon but again i'm going

to host the. sports and short track speed is that as it use it as ruth. and olympic hockey. is on the. fly. and our breaking news from the ukrainian prime minister has resigned him stepping down as a long standing request of the country's opposition the ukrainian parliament is also expected to discuss revoking the law was adopted two weeks ago that triggered months riots and violence there the laws imposed tougher penalties for taking part in unauthorized trade protests of course more news at the top of the hour and coming up next a personal stories of suffering and survival during the siege of leningrad during world war two stay with us.

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 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 precious my opinion. crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want.

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