ukraine's prime minister resigned saying it's a sacrifice to stop the violent unrest but the opposition continues to call for mass protests until the president steps down to. the union is working on the question will be. brussels downgrades a summit with russia because of differences over the crisis in ukraine which is casting and long shadow over the talks. in just ten days the games begin in softies olympic park but as the host city prepares to get down to business there are still allegations in the media to deal with. those who do say that it was created to give the graves in the international media what do you know . one senior member of the international olympic committee says his remarks on

corruption and saw were taken out of context and used by the media to create headlines. you're watching are to international live from our moscow studios i'm lindsey france thanks for joining me ukraine's prime minister has resigned and 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. for us. it would not be an exaggeration to say that today is the most important parliamentary session in the history of modern ukraine and has already started with some big news with the

country's prime minister and the colors are saying he is offering his resignation as a as a step to a stop the violence to bring the country to peace will be treatise 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 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 to during the mass protests 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 the opposition

would not completely remove the protests that would continue until they get what they want which is the resignation of the president you know the news we also do know that he used 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. than r.s. editor and publisher of the business news europe says he doubts a saros resignation will soothe the protests now that they have spread across the country. mccovey shouldn't his government are 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 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 that role if they will for the job 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 rights of the country that things went to a new level that the weekend where the opposition supporters started taking over the regional governments i mean it is outside the law and outside of the constitution in effect you have a straight pirate fashion or food if you put it in so much use you know i don't like to people taking over the regional governments. the u.s. is urging the ukrainian government to remove riot police from the streets and earlier some e.u. members voiced their support for an idea of sanctions against kiev but as policy finds out your cranium authorities are not the only ones meeting the riots head on . it isn't easy 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 got the police to 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 you should 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 ukraine it's a fuck 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 where more you see the levels of force being used against the place then obviously the level of force reasonable necessary. by them in response to have been in contact 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. with the justice ministry in kiev still blockaded opposition leaders have disowned the common cause movement which is responsible for

the takeover this whole protest first began over the ukrainian president's refusal to sign a partnership deal with the e.u. now are to dot com are running a poll to get your opinions on where the current riots are leading ukraine here's how the answer is shaping up almost half of our viewers say that the unrest will scare any european partners away a quarter of you say the writers will manage to force early elections one thousand percent say a peaceful deal will be struck between the opposition and the president and just eleven percent believe president yanukovych which will give in and signed a deal with the e.u. log on to our website r.t. dot com to have your say. the political crisis and resulting turmoil in ukraine is cast a shadow over a russia e.u. summit taking place today moscow in brussels have repeatedly accused each other of

interfering with them putting pressure on kids of the differences have even forced the e.u. to cut the planned to day program to just a few hours artists are selling out 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 the relations have been strained ever since the ukrainian president viktor yet a poll taken the decision to not go ahead with signing traded political deals with the you would favor of closer ties with russia for the russian ambassador to 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. from a bubble boy it 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. geo political analyst william and to r.t. 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 neo conservative agenda being drafted over washington by victoria nuland at the state department and others to punish russia 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. 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. so to come in the program the vice president of the big foundation faces thirty years behind bars for allegedly trying to launder money through an infamous drug trafficking website.

it's just ten days into the russian city of sochi welcomes the winter olympics hotels and venues are already welcoming thousands of athletes and spectators archies pos got spoke to the head of the organization organizing committee about the final preparations. of the final stages of preparations the busiest stages yes we will learn and learn and then we will train and train in now it's a fine old chair over everything and i can conclude that everson in the perfect. 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 that they won't go away there's some in the russian media an international press as well it's well documented that the budget has x. exceeded initial expectations where's the money gone i will repeat that this is not correct they perish no budget for the games which i am personally as a manager in charge of roughly two billion dollars same lake for the previous

winter games the geysers and investment into the olympic infrastructure like competition non-competition venues and also this around in infrastructure to support this like power station then some rules which is dedicated fall in pick needs is provided by private investor from private funds but i have to also mention you're chomping at the bit to get the sport started how are you feeling personally excited are you nervous you confident. not overcome for that we're just confident because we're working hard days in for the seven previous years and for the right construction 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. in the games and saatchi have often faced accusations of corruption about two weeks ago the media came alive with headlines quoting

a senior international olympic committee member a suggesting corruption had taken a third of the money spent on the games however john franco casper told r.t. his words have been distorted by the media to create a bigger story. 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 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 my it was just asked by a journalist there is the percent of corruption and there's a good rooms to be had no reason whatsoever to bring to. the reason. 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 from saatchi with to say continues later in the program should give you another tour of an olympic venue the iceberg skating palace and after the break the latest revelations on cooperation between the u.s. and u.k. and spying on people's private data. pleasure to have you with us here on our t.v. today i roll researcher.

technology innovation. developments around russia. the future covered. the latest leak from edward snowden suggest it was britain's cyrus by base juicy h.q. that showed america's n.s.a. how to monitor facebook and twitter without consent that says you're at mark's data

protection day which is supposed to show e.u. citizens how to keep their online data away from prying eyes artist polly boyko she looks at how effective it's likely to be. happy data protection day you might 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 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.'s prism program collects the data directly from the servers of

u.s. companies like google microsoft yahoo 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 have optimistically and posting it on and that's a fair process 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 the best in the world the most rigorous 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 the data is not very protected otherwise those

scandals would not have occurred whether it was germany whether it was in brussels . in france according to edward snowden's latest leak in the. security agency isn't just gathering intelligence for national security papa says 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 e-mails 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 those who protect us this development

goes on and on and on and then have to stop nobody knows they shouldn't be celebrating to one day do it it should be something normal to have our very formation secure. london. they are paying court of human rights has demanded the u.k. justified to c.h. queues mass spying activities the latest report showing joint u.s. british surveillance program was involved in industrial espionage and former british i mean going forward believes that could have cost europeans thousands of jobs. i guess you're just being naive or hugh could i mean when the americans have been talking angela merkel's phone of the top 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 if you work tens of thousands of jobs every time of american companies when contracts that european companies were expected to win we must be suspicious now that's not because you have

a better deal on the table than you would a deal with on the company. even video games can't be trusted anymore log on to r.t. dot com to find out how playing angry birds or any other popular app on your phone could be handing your personal data directly into the hands of the n.s.a. also online. the u.k.'s thirst for shale gas is pushing officials to rethink their position on fracking but the report saying be controversial technique could be used other people's homes without their consent. the vice chairman of the bitcoin foundation has been arrested in the us charlie shrem one of the key advocates of the cryptocurrency has been charged with trying to launch a one million dollars worth of using outlawed website the silk road if found guilty he's facing thirty years behind bars parties more important to follow 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 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 reports no according to a release from the u.s. attorney general's office shrum allegedly conspired with an underground cooling 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

trem 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 first 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 to the start of meet ups now that 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 big point became so prevalent that its value surged 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. 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 rahm's arrest securing confidence in bitcoin may prove even more challenging reporting from new york marina artsy. pancho analyst mark thinks the case has a political context linked to growing influence the us dollar is actually the major facilitator of illegal transactions of drugs and human trafficking all sorts of nasty business is most of the trade is done with the u.s. dollar not big coin bitcoin is a small player it is a small percentage of its transactions are illegal that's true but the majority are for legal goods whereas the u.s. dollar is the primary player in international trade in 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 event as well. some other news in brief for you now gunmen have opened fire at a large group of anti-government protesters in thailand's capital bangkok two people were reportedly injured in the shooting near where the country's prime minister was meeting members of the election commission this is the latest violent incident during ongoing protests and burning down the country's government and de barreling parliamentary elections which are set for this sunday. the southeast of the united states is in the path of a heavy winter freeze that has already battered 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 are issued in several other areas schools and businesses will be closed in what officials have described as the heaviest storm in years. well back in saatchi now where the olympic venues are ready to open

their doors among the highlights of any of the winter games are always the events on the ice in tsotsi the figure and shorts track skating events will take place in the beautiful new iceberg palace so we sent a bag let's 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 falls in seed venue the iceberg. the iceberg skating palace which will be home full sigel skating and short track speed skating june the twenty fourteen 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 i never.

will be back flips. was butterfly effects and the returns. but it's also good 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 glades 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 shut 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 twenty fourteen winter olympics. will be continuing our limbic search what to back him up say there's a new report for you every day of the week stay with our to international. ok. how do you operate dylan but i'm going to the most the sports such. as. the copy. is on. my fire. i'll be bringing in more news about thirty minutes but before that we were reports on it be american while that's right after this break.

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 but that's just my opinion. you know it is finally over but have you paid your bill yet. oh i see you didn't realize you had to pay for the self described great and good ha ha ha ha. that fact is the place they take you to and detain you. there really root races and educate their racist racist and root they check out in reply to. even look in your shoes. they also examine you in places that they shouldn't they treat you worse than a duck. they say that they got takes his time but he never forgets.

most times i hope that one day they will also have to go through this. i was trying to got and ask to give you hope and protection and that he protects all migrants because they have seen how much they suffer. gentlemen i guess you all know why you're here today. i guess at this point in time america is going through some sad times and unfortunately we feel. sure we all share the same same feelings about what's going on with law enforcement border patrol v.h.s. highway patrol the list goes on not to mention our friend no politician no it's quite obvious that our borders are not secure as she'd like to make us believe secure all the time with obama and his bunch in office because the.