ukraine's prime minister resigns saying it's a sacrifice to stop the violent unrest but the opposition is still not satisfied and calls for mass protests until the president steps down to. your. child. you russia summit brussels downgrades a summit with russia because of differences over the crisis in ukraine which is causing a long shadow over the talks. also in just ten days the games begin at soldiers and big but as the host city prepares to get down to business there are still occasions in the media to deal with. this way you create the debate graves the games the national media what do you know or. so one

senior member of the international olympic committee says his remarks and corruption in sochi were taken out of context and used by the media to great headline. this is aussie international coming to you live from moscow i'm your national hello and welcome to the program. ukraine's prime minister has resigned in what he says is part of an attempt to find a peaceful solution to the country's political deadlock the parliament is now reviewing several other concessions made by ukraine's president but the opposition is pledging to continue mass protests in the capital until the country's head of state steps down and. for us right now it's a what exactly is today's world in parliament going to address. it would

not be an exaggeration to say that today is the most important parliamentary session in the history of more new crain and has already started with some big news with the country's prime minister and the colors out of saying he is offering his resignation as a as a step to a stop the violence to bring the country to peace we do know that last night the sides of the political crisis have managed to agree to abolish the controversial anti-riot legislation and also to release the prisoners all those who were detained during the mass protest even the so-called right wing sector the hardcore right wing nationalists who are in the core of the protests they've said also last night that they would withdraw from the governmental court to dismantle the barricades and retreat to the pre january nineteenth position which is the independence square if a compromise between the opposition and the president is found so all these all these laws all these amendments will be voted within these bottom entry session was

certainly following it and also we do understand that even judging by this statement by the right wing sector that the opposition would not completely remove the protests that would continue on the independence square until they get what they want which is the resignation of the president in the latest news with the latest news that the government is stepping down its will be to just interesting to see whether the opposition would actually be willing to take the job because we do know that one of the leaders of the of the opposition has already refused to take prime minister's job when he was offered it by the president you know the news we also do know that e.u.'s foreign affairs chief catherine ashton is coming over to kiev tonight even though she was meant to come at the end of the week but we're still a we're still unclear we have no information as to why she decided to come earlier to the ukrainian capital certainly we're following all the developments on this very terrible and story carol and in ukraine thank you very much indeed and let's now discuss the political developments in ukraine with that barry's. a descent

publisher of business new europe who joins us now live from moscow. thank you very much indeed for your time now so as i have said that he resigns because he wants to calm down protesters because he wants peaceful resolution of the crisis do you think it will be enough i'm not sure it will be clearly the government looking for options for ways implicating the opposition them in the violence has been escalating and now it's spread into the regions the whole country is an uprising and so in a covert in his government in an increasingly difficult position and they're trying to cool tempers but the opposition has said time and time again that they will stop short of nothing except new elections and yes a new one of the the troika leaders has already refused the job of prime ministers so the question of who's going to take over remains open and pretty sure none of the opposition leaders will step into the role if they were offered the job the purchasing here have been ongoing for more than two months now with the opposition

actually demands to for the prime minister to resign why do you think took him so much time to decide. well. following the events of the weekend i mean you have to bear in mind up until now it's been a clash between principles on the one side the opposition is saying we have the right to protest on the other side the government is saying we are the elected government and therefore we have the right to the country but things went to a new level at the weekend where the opposition supporters started taking over the regional governments i mean it is outside and outside the constitution in effect you have a straight how a fashion or could if you could it in so much is you know unelected people are taking up the regional governments and so. she's finding himself increasingly put up against the wall in the sense that you know it's resolved one of the options is to put the army in and nobody wants that and indeed the army to

pull out of the equation by declaring their neutrality yesterday which is good news because it means the bloodiest solution to this won't happen but his options being reduced and i think this is. an offer on his part to find some sort of compromise and the conflict on the street yonder and also some experts are already suggesting that without a premier as desirable in the government a president here to call which is not essential a lame duck would you agree with that well the problem is i mean the government can work for another two months with the prime minister and under the new constitution that was in two state in two thousand and four most of the remains with the president but certainly the government looks. less legitimate without proper prime minister at the top and unocal which is clearly in charge of everything and for the opposition that's going to be even less acceptable i mean less legitimate government but it does mean that his authority has been reduced and just throws the

whole politics of the situation into chaos the prime minister's resignation was not the only demand from the opposition we know that that's not presidential election. also on the list should we expect concessions from the president on that i think that's the last thing that he's going to agree to he's going to try everything else before he or she agrees to elections but you know the country remains split you have to remember the last polls you know roughly fifty percent of the country supports. forty two percent sorry fifty percent support the opposition and forty two percent support you have a coach and his ratings have actually gone up a little bit recently the question is if you went to a second round you probably lose to the opposition and therefore i think it's going to try and avoid having elections in two or schedule which is february two thousand and fifteen if you can get away with. barry's editor and publisher of business new

europe live from moscow thank you very much indeed for that we appreciate it and the u.s. is urging the ukrainian government to remove riot police from the streets and ernest some e.u. members voiced their support for an idea of sanctions against kiev but as a policy of finds out ukrainian authorities are not the only ones missing the riots on. this one isa eastern ukraine many fear the violence from here will be repeated here police are not taking any chances with batons and shields they barricaded government buildings. in the mining town of the next 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 here 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 the police are going easy on the protesters and grisly don't want an international scandal in other countries they don't care about the little. ironically the international community disagrees it's coming down hard on here for being too strict with protesters it's a feeling that's not echoed here you pick you would go 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 mosque in 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 kids 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 happening in 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 their country whether europe approves or not policy r.t. donetsk eastern ukraine. and with the justice ministry in kiev still located opposition leaders have designs on the common cause movement which is responsible for they take over this whole process to france began over in the ukrainian presidency were because of the ukrainian president to freeze or to sign a partnership deal with the e.u. and on aussie dot com we're running a poll to get your opinions 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 that rest will scare any european partners away

a quarter of you say the rises will manage to force elections nineteen percent say a peaceful deal will be strung between the opposition and the president and only eleven percent believe president unocal which will give in and sign a deal with the you can always log on to r.t. of call and have your say. the political crisis and resulting turmoil in ukraine have constant shadow over a russia e.u. summit taking place today moscow and brussels have repeatedly accused each other of interfering with and putting pressure on key of the differences even falls the cue to come the plan today programme to just a few hours. has more. 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 relations have been strained ever since the ukrainian president viktor you had a cold which had taken the decision in the 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 negotiations with iran on its nuclear program reporting from brussels on tests or so. william and.

criticize the e.u. for attending the summit and undermining the chances of finding solutions to the shows that separate them. i think the european union is acting very childish on this whole question of the new russia summit downgraded to a 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 up 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 behavior of the e.u. and downgrading the e.u. russia some a very very childish behavior on the part of the e.u.

itself 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 adult responsible diplomatic negotiation and right after the break the latest revelations on corporation between the u.s. and u.k. and spying on people's private data that's after the break. the. gentlemen i get your holy. spirit. a few hundred a day come across the believe. things get so little that.

we've got people coming in with criminals we got people from it 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 to a concentration. concentration camp. we've got it doesn't the white house not even want to disclose the fact that he is a stranger. this is all saying to national welcome back. at just ten days until the russian city of

sochi welcomes the wait time a big hotels and venues are already welcoming thousands of athletes and spectators poles called spikes who they head away organizing committee say about the final preparations that. but the final stages of preparations the busiest stages yes we will learn and learn and train and train in now it's a final check of everything and i can conclude that everson in the perfect olympic everything is ready our purpose built state of the venice will be open for the athletes to perform the best you have to aussie i'm afraid about these these allegations of corruption they won't go away there's some in the russian media an 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 their parish no budget for the games which i'm personally as a manager in charge of roughly two billion dollars same late for the previous

winter games again as there's an investment into the olympic in for a social a competition non-competition venues and also this around in infrastructure to support this like power station and some roads which is dedicated falling pick needs is provided by a private investor from private funds and i have to ask he mentioned 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 in for this 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. the games in sochi have often faced accuse ations of corruption about two weeks ago the

media came ally with headlines quoting a senior internationally but commission member suggesting corruption had taken a set of the money spent on the games however franco kasper told aussie his words had been distorted by the media to create a bigger story. well i for sure didn't say that in 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 of a force in india in the national 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. i was just asked by a journalist there is so the percent of course upson and they said well i have heard rumors to be had no reason whatsoever to bring that i've been in the meeting if we would have had. really facts 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 don't forget a series of reports from sochi with to balance a is available whenever you want it that's all. you. how do you operate but i'm going to risk it with sports such. as i'm not an olympic hockey. league. by fire. the latest leak from edward snowden suggests it was in britain's cyber supply base jussi h.q. that showed americans and say how to monitor facebook and twitter without consent as your data protection day which is supposed to show e.u. citizens how to keep their own line data away from prying eyes. looks not 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 is the data protection is important or by the way many of them stop people spying on you i mean it's just absurd according to the snowden leaks the n.s.a. is prism program collects data directly from the servers of u.s. companies like google microsoft yahoo and a pole and i'm trying 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 the year ago most people have agree the european union's data protection rules are the best in the world the most rigorous spy agency the n.s.a. and usage q. 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 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 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. controlled by governments or n.s.a. does anyone like that i think it's dangerous and these are protectors this development goes on and on and on and to stop nobody knows it should be celebrating one day to which it should be something normal to have our very from a show secure. r.t.

london. and more of a show of data privacy i'm now joined live from. iraq and access from the crypt movement where nice to you to see you here on the program so today is that chilly day it's a protection day does anyone know about it. well people who are working all the time on the topic know about it and that's of institutions in all countries in europe know about it and they're trying to communicate to bitch about it on twitter and social media but the general public is mostly mostly doesn't know it. these days supposed to mark the international effort to educate people how to protect their privacy can they actually protect themselves do you know do you know that they know how to do so.

citizens people in europe well i think snowden leaks have done a lot more to educate people than any governmental action and also it's very. well the day of the tough texan is about privacy but it's also. other way to deal with you that you give willingly to go to organization company institutions and so on and what are your rights about that it has little to do with spying intelligence. what do you think should be done to secure dates what the government or maybe private data. well raising awareness is definitely good first step. we always say that technology low and politics are going all together that we need to acknowledge each to make civilians more costly we need political or werner's for people to care about it and to use

the solutions technology brings and you need to have everything. engraved and enforced so we need these three things and we're fighting for the three. right. activists from the party thank you very much indeed for your time we appreciate it and now some other news in brief this hour southeastern america is in the path of a heavy winter freeze that has already barges the midwest and grounded scores of flights the state of louisiana and the city of new orleans have declared a state of emergency while storm alerts were issued in several other areas schools and businesses will be closed in what officials have described as the heaviest storm in years. the last one just ran against the swearing in ceremony of the country's newly elected president has been held in her jurors to protest it was organized by supporters of the former head of state of minerals

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. and suspected militants from the bulk of her own group have attacks to villages in the villages in nigeria killing over seventy people that talk is detonated explosives in a market before moving in with heavy firearms and assaulting a christian church service this is one of the bloodiest a time by boko a run which is trying to create a breakaway islamic state in the region coming up next to its our ports the american walter 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 his opinion about speed traps that he set out to save his felt texans from being fined for speeding and much more importantly from potential traffic accidents caused by the hidden police and now he'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 precious my opinion.

why do you think this is for life on other planets why 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 for humans to mars will be a better.

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