ukraine's president accepts the resignation of the prime minister and the entire cabinet while lawmakers roll back most of the new and protest laws but the opposition protesters stay put in their camps in kiev valen to carry on until the president go. european union is talking very childish on. the split over ukraine sees brussels scaling back in russia to a meeting of just a few hours as some political analysts say europe grow up. as such as olympic park is about to throw open its doors for the games and blow up allegations from the world's media continues to flood the host city. for sure didn't say the story you created to be great to be in the national media for what

we know are. a senior member of the international olympic committee claims the media used his remarks on corruption in tsotsi out of context to cause a sensation. you're watching r t international live from our moscow studios and lindsey france thanks for joining me ukraine's president has now accepted the resignation of the country's prime minister and the entire cabinet they will remain in their posts until a new government is formed that says the country's lawmakers voted in an emergency session to repeal most of the anti protest laws that triggered two weeks of while and kiev parties like is in the ukrainian capital for us. undoubtedly this is the biggest political day in the history of modern ukraine with the parliament voting

on very crucial steps and i was just seen scenes of jubilation here at the independence square when the news broke that the parliament voted to revoke most of the laws described as draconian here by those protesting the anti-riot laws which were passed on january the sixteenth this comes after the ukrainian prime minister announced that the very start of the session that he is willing to step down from his position as the country's prime minister on all the leaders of the opposition who was offered prime minister's job a little earlier by the president refused to take this position this is definitely big news because we heard from this so-called right wing sect on monday the nationalist hardcore basically engine of this riots and protests that they would withdraw from the governmental quarter that would dismantle their barricades if a compromise is reached between the opposition and the government particularly about those detained in particular about those laws we're seeing that these laws

are now being mostly abolished and this would mean that we could see the protest move to its original stage the independence square the pre january nineteenth position although we do understand of course that the people of the opposition would not stop the protests at all they would continue protesting until until they get what they want which is essentially the resignation of the president and early elections to be held in the country we also do know that the e.u. foreign affairs chief catherine ashton is flying urgently to kiev to be here tonight to hold talks with the country's opposition and the country's government we do know that she was supposed to come at the end of the week but we still unclear as to why she's coming here earlier but of course we'll be monitoring that as well . even if the opposition manages to force early elections now the outcome is far from clear because the protests have consolidated the supporters of both sides in ukraine that's the view of nicholai petro professor of political science at the university of rhode island who is currently in the south of ukraine. if the

president resigns and under article one awaited the constitution new elections have to be held within ninety days. i guess the answer just whether or not that will happen it will depend on whether the opposition thinks he would actually win those elections i'm not sure they would because positions on both sides here have hardened those who want you in the courtroom moved and the government of old cost and those who think the entire process has been one of. the most as the former now prime minister has said an attempted coup d'etat. an artists editor and publisher of business new europe says it will take much more effort to contain the protests now that they've spread all over ukraine. but 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 choice 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 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 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 but things went to a new level at the weekend with the opposition supporters started taking over regional governments i mean it is a side. of the constitution in effect you have a strange power or it could be in so much as you know people are taking over the regional governments. are to turn out all the latest from ukraine on air and online it's on our website our part after this and all our developing story.

well the ukrainian crisis has cast a dark cloud over a russia e.u. summit forcing the event to be scaled back from a two day program to a meeting of just a few hours besides fired accusations at each other of twisting the arm of kiev in pursuit of political gain artie's tests are still yaks planes. the twice nearly russia e.u. summit is taking place today it 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 taken the decision to not go ahead with signing traded political deals with the you in favor of closer ties with russia and 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. for it also said that there are quote a number of differences that have to be refined 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 u.s. and china as well as the syrian conflict negotiations with iran on its nuclear program reporting from brussels on tests or so. geo political analyst william and all thanks by curtailing the event the e.u. is automatically slashing the chances of finding ways to resolve political differences. 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 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 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 ukraine we don't need this childish behavior we need adult responsible diplomatic negotiation. it's data protection day in europe and edward snowden celebrated by leaking yet more damning information about the british and u.s. spy services looks like they're scrapping information from you by tracking your

phone apps that's coming up. and the american president is set to lay out his vision for the coming year and a key political interests and he may just be hoping he'll get a little approval rating pick up in the process. the. general and i guess you all know lee. you are here to. be a few hundred a day coming here to leave. them here so. we've got. criminals we've got people here who knows where in the world this is the united states and very tough by the way you know sure i

was worried that they may not know what they live on mars you know mars. so we picked up things like. turbans prayer rugs and we know they do they're coming from the middle east to turn situation in. concentration camp to the study doesn't want to not even want to disclose the fact that. a stranger. it seems huge amounts of personal information are being scooped up by the u.s. and british spy agencies from popular mobile phone apps like angry birds edward snowden's latest leak has got the public in a flap even as the e.u. attempts to educate its citizens about the importance of online security artist polly boyko reports. 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 absurd 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 the year ago most people agree the european union's data protection rules were the best in the world the most rigorous spy agency the n.s.a. and 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 because the data is not very protected other 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.

security agency isn't just gathering intelligence for national security purposes but indulging in industrial espionage as well he cited germany's engineering firm siemens as one target and still no admission from the top i can give assurances to the publics in europe and around the world that we're not going around snooping at people's emails or listening to their phone calls so on the eve of data protection day we are asked some europeans if they felt like celebrating do you know anyone who is happy about it that his private sphere is controlled by governments or n.s.a. does anyone like that i think it's dangerous and they should protect us this development goes on and on and on and better to stop nobody knows they shouldn't be celebrating to one day do it it should be something normal to have our already from

a show secure. london. an activist from the crypto party movement lucy fogger office says they'd a protection day is worthwhile but not as effective as the e.u. might like. snowden leaks have done a lot more to educate people than any governmental action day of that up protection is about privacy but it is also. the other way to deal with your child that you give willingly to. to organisation company institutions and so on and what are your rights about that we always say that technology low and politics are going all together that we need to acknowledge the to make civilians more costly we need political our work is for people to care about it and to use dissolutions technology brings a needle and we're searching for the three. and more stories for you on line a low blow in the thirst for fuel controversial trucking techniques might soon

right under the homes of british people out there permission being required that's is the u.k. government considers amending the laws. last minute the melt had to argue dot com to find out threat to humans posed by the feet approved for farm animals. athletes and spectators from around the world have begun descending on the russian city of softer your head of the winter olympics parties paul scott spoke to the organizing committee about the final touches being applied before the grand opening. of 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 fine old chair over everything and i can conclude that everson in the perfect. everything is ready our purpose built state of the. world 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 that duration the budget for the games which i am personally as a manager in charge of roughly two billion dollars it's same late for the previous winter games again as there's an investment into the olympic infrastructure like competition non-competition venues and also this around in infrastructure to support just like power station and some rules which is dedicated fall in pick needs is provided by 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 you excited are you nervous you confident. not over confident just confident because we're working hard days and night for the seven previous years

and for the right structure and thank you very much for joining us 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. as the most expensive games in one big history accusations of corruption have been hot on the skates of saatchi recently senor i.o.c. member john frankel caspar hit the headlines when he allege allegedly claimed a third of the money has disappeared into people's pockets he's since told us his words were twisted. 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 india in the national media for what reason i do not know and don't forget the interview was in german and 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. just asked by a journalist there is so deep percent of corruption in there said when i heard rumors we had no reason whatsoever to bring to the and i think the reason for that . everyday fact we would have done this but to tell you honestly b.b. didn't have any effect and this was never an item for discussion back to saatchi now where the olympic venues are ready to open their doors among the highlights of any one tour games are always the events on ice and saatchi the figure and short track skating events will take place in the beautiful iceberg palace so we sent back lots a to take a look. for those who love a little drama a little bit of shoot off in winter sports all those wonderfully june would cost you less than you have to make your way to the eye catching twelve falls in seed when you the iceberg. the other is great feeding palace which will be home full

signal skating and shot tricks speedskating june this twenty four d. a limpy 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. for us also get about the other event that will take place in the same arena the speed skating way olympic skater is will be competing to get gold in the battle of the blades well glory and.

i. i fear 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 those skating routines and the choreography that will be hosted illit those bunny come twenty fourteen winter olympics. and don't forget our series of reports from softly with a bang let's say it's available on everyone on our two dot com. you know you ok. how do you operate do it again i'm going to most good sports so track speed skating is it as easy as resoled i'm not an olympic hockey player.

my son. there's some other news making headlines around the globe now egypt's deposed president has gone on trial over his escape from jail in two thousand and eleven security was high in the country's capital as mohamed morsi arrived at court morsi was toppled by the military in july last year just currently facing four separate criminal trials on various charges. thailand's government has announced the general election will take place as scheduled despite calls for its postponement protesters had earlier attempted to make their way to the compound in bangkok where the talks were underway before pushed back by armed security forces two people were reportedly injured during a shooting in the latest violence during the ongoing enter government protests. the vice chairman of the bitcoin foundation has been arrested in the u.s. charlie shrem one of the key advocates of the cryptocurrency has been charged with trying to launder one million dollars worth of bitcoins using outlawed website the silk road if found guilty he is facing thirty years behind bars artie's marina

portnoy is 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 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 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 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. 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 for bank or government regulation proponents say that the currencies ability to exist without any centralization is what makes it so appealing last year of the use of bitcoin 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 because when i tell. 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 point may prove even more challenging reporting from new york marina portnoy r.t. . the state of the union address later today is a chance for the u.s. president to take stock and to set the agenda but it comes at a time when americans are increasingly negative about how they view their own country when asked in one word to describe the u.s. many citizens chose divided or troubled some think the situation is getting worse while just a small number think things are changing for the better. off reports previous promises made in barack obama's key political address have not always been promises kept. looking to put the toughest year of his presidency behind him baracoa 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 as locked down schools and public violence grow ever more familiar another broken promise no climate change bill and his 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 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 in 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 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 three previous presidents on foreign policy the main message that twenty fourteen will mark the end of the war in afghanistan but this pronouncement will come in. better irony

even after i 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 a war a warming that never 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 detail a permanent reminder of where the president secured victory and where he fell short reporting in washington for our team. i'll be back with more news in about thirty minutes coming right up our special report on the final frontier between the u.s. and mexico's drug money 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 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 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 bio 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 shows my opinion.

larry it is the fact is the place they take you to and detain you. yeah they're really root races and educated they are racist racist and root they check out every part of you they even look in your shoes. they also examine you in places that they shouldn't they trichy of worse than a dark these are good they say that the god takes his time but he never forgets the classical most times i hope that one day they will also have to go through this.

but i will try to go out and i'll ask to give you hope and protection and that he protects all my gran's because i 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 feel. i'm 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 at the mention our friend nepal a tunnel it's quite obvious that our borders are not secure as he'd like to make us believe secure all the time with obama and his bunch in office because they've got seem to have an agenda where where this open borders thing is exactly what they're looking to it's a foregone conclusion.