the russian. president. none of the existing economic agreements with. europe not to put additional divisive. president accepts the resignation of the prime minister and cabinet. back most of. the opposition protesters say they. carry on until the president. is about to open its doors for the games a flow of allegations from the world's media continue to flood the city. create. a senior member

of the international olympic committee claims the media used his remarks on corruption. out of context to cause a sensation. to here in moscow which just now turned eleven pm difference is over the political crisis in ukraine have been tearing about the e.u. russia summit in brussels the event was scaled back by the block from two days to just a few hours over the route. has been following the meeting. this russia e.u. summit has been consistently billed in the past as a platform for furthering the street strategic cooperation between russia and the e.u. went to great extent it was in terms of the topics that they did touch upon however

we know that coming into this summit there was this huge issue out of ukraine that was hanging over the meeting and the relations were strained after the decision of . which not to go ahead to sign that agreement with the e.u. in favor of closer ties with russia so that was one of the sticking points of this is what came out of it basically all of the representatives. of the european commission. of the european council all condemning the violence also saying that violence is not the answer to this and the e.u. urging that those who are guilty of this violence be tried in the country however moving forward together russia and the e.u. says that they will go on with the consultation on the eastern partnership program . part of it now there were a lot of questions as to russia's position politically if in case of the opposition in ukraine does indeed take power and this is what my putin had to say on that matter. when they were boys and he credits agreements with the ukrainian government

no matter who's heading it we've never had any problems talking with political powers in ukraine this has never been what is important for us that is we want kiev's economy to be credit worthy if we wanted to be able to successfully restructure to develop to put in want to take a very pragmatic approach of where ukraine is concerned especially in terms of economic policy now there are also concerns about some e.u. officials appearing in a protest sites or joining protesters in front of barricades for instance and this is what he had to say on the matter russia is not going to interfere with ukraine's affairs i can imagine how our european partners would have reacted if in the midst of the crisis in greece or signed russia's foreign minister turned up at one of the anti e.u. rallies and addressed the people in them to do something we believe it's not right and considering relations between russia and ukraine it is totally unacceptable

putin also said that creating divisive lines won't be in the interest of both parties and he even suggested creating a zone a free trade zone between the e.u. and eurasia basically just suggesting strategies on how the two really can move forward the next summit between russia and the e.u. will take place in sochi on june the third. sensitive aaron professor mark almond from oxford university i spoke to him earlier he thinks they could be no healthy and promising relations between russia and the e.u. if the bloc keeps rubbing the kremlin up the wrong way. basic problem is that there are two issues being discussed here which in some ways are contradictory one is the huge amount of economic contact and cooperation between russia and the countries particularly between russia and certainly you countries like germany all those play a bit less a role and then the political dynamics where the e.u. and the other nato states in america the elephant in the room in these discussions

are pursuing a kind of strategic policy that were to go to probably up russia the lawyers trying to have good reconnoiter ration from the same time playing a game of all merciful you know for the ukraine is i think really a way in which this makes it very difficult to have a positive outcome. 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 as the country's norm makers voted in an emergency session to repeal most of the anti protest laws that triggered two weeks of violence in camp but the discussions are far from of a result of reports of the ukrainian president viktor yanukovych has accepted the resignation of prime minister mccaul as out of hand his cabinet they will remain in their positions for the time being until replacement saw are put in place in fact they can stay in those positions for as much as as long as sixty days according to the law here but tuesday also seeing

a much anticipated emergency session of parliament there's been plenty to discuss there by lawmakers and they have made some changes to the law is one of the the major changes that's taken place and it was voted for unanimously. by m.p.'s here by the the duma by the rather deputies here and that was to repeal the emergency anti demonstration laws that were put into force on the fourteenth of this month they've now been torn away and repealed now also all the major issues that were up for discussion and there's going to be a lot more discussion to come was the talks of amnesty for anybody that is being detained by police now and the session that was taking place on tuesday ended with them saying that the session on tuesday they said that they would continue long and tough negotiations about what form that amnesty would take if there was going to be any kind of amnesty before they could put it to a vote we're expecting to hear

a vote on that on wednesday morning know another bit of news coming to us on tuesday is that coming from a guy who's pretty much the mayor of independence square he set him up as the same self up as the commander of the area independence square being just over there that's where the the main by. of this demonstration has been taking place he said that the only way the demonstrators will leave that opposition supporters will leave occupied government buildings is when victory on a covert leaves power so despite decisions and concessions partly being tried to make decisions in middle ground be trying to be found by lawmakers there's still numbers here on the streets of kiev saying that they are not willing to budge on their demands that's how it looks right now all eyes now looking towards wednesday to see what comes when lawmakers vote on how or what form or whether they will have any kind of amnesty for those detained by police which are all of their own between

these splinter radical groups and the momentum the rights of gathered outside kiev it's unlikely the current political agreements will appease the opposition quickly well that's a view of a lisa lockwood she's the head of europe and c.i.s. analysis at i.h.s. country risk. this is not sufficient to appease the entirety of the opposition and this is one of the major challenges that ukraine is facing right now because clearly the new for one continues to call for the resignation of unocal which in itself and turn down the initial offer to take up the prime minister's position also currently the opposition has quite a lot of momentum in the regions we've seen certain regional administrations falling to the opposition and it's likely to want to capitalize on the momentum that it has in the radical wing of the opposition which has been largely involved in some of the violent incidents that we've seen is likely to continue as long as

it feels that it has an advantage over coverage. auntie international has a latest from ukraine and online visit our web site all to dot com for updates on this and all developing stories. head of the british spy agency g c h q is to stand down on the foreign office says it has nothing to do with new allegations personal information is being moved out from popular apps like angry birds it would snowden's latest leak has got the public in a flap over this even as the e.u. attempts to educated citizens about the importance of online security. 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 so according to the snowden leak the n.s.a. is 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 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 that the european union's data protection rules are 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 the know in france according to edward snowden's latest leak in the. 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 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 that have to stop nobody knows they shouldn't be celebrating to one day do it it should be something normal to have our or a permission secure. london. a gold dog might not be enough for u.k. citizens protecting their homes still ahead the british government is looking to

change trespass lords that would let frank has drill for gas right on the people's houses and without permission most about another story scummy surely. you know the data 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. how do you operate. i'm going to the most good sports such. as roof. and olympic hockey. league. my fine. dramas that can't be ignored. stories others refuse

to know. exist change the world right. so picture. from around the globe. to. u.k. governments looking to change trespass laws to make it easier for fracking companies to look for gas even under people's houses as it stands they have to get permission from homeowners before they start drilling and could be asked to pay compensation the former secretary of state for energy and climate change chris hughes says fracking might work for the u.s. but that doesn't mean it works for britain. now the u.k. situation is quite different until very recently in indeed until two thousand and

four we were actually exporting gas and we have substantial pipeline connections with the rest of europe and so even when we were a major producer and exporting gas the gas sold in the united kingdom was not cheap when the gas which was available in the rest of the european union i don't have any problems about fracking per se what i do have problems of art is the hype that surrounds fracking the view that this is going to be a major force any time soon it just isn't it's going to be much slower and it is going to have much less effect on the economy than people think. way more stories on life we at the moment including deadly statistics another search shows that at least one of the great american diaries every hour due to injuries from firearms and to a website for the full story on that plus. mine for the milk head to r.t.

dot com to find out the threat to humans posed by the feed approved for farm animals. for. the state of the union address today today's a chance for the u.s. president to take stock and set the agenda but it comes at a time when americans are increasingly negative about how they view their own country when asked one word to describe the u.s. many citizens chose divided or troubled and some think the situation is getting worse or just a slightly smaller 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 the opposition in congress making a 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. irony even after 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 more alarming. president obama's state of the union address. story there's

obamacare wall street reform violence the wars in iraq and afghanistan economic inequality immigration reform the list goes on and it's all there. a permanent reminder of where the president secured victory and where short reporting in washington for our. turn to one of our top stories this night is the concessions the opposition managed to convince the ukrainian government to break to make i should say brought about a lull in two weeks of almost unrelenting in well during that time protesters attacked police with cocktails and rocks and smashed buildings to discuss the reaction of. the. major former deputy chief of police in the us as an international police training expert thanks very much for being with us now you are as i say a veteran policeman an expert on crowd control tactics you've seen some of the raw

. what do you make of the way the police responded to it. the video that i've seen thus far has been pretty limited so it's impossible to talk about the actual reaction collectively but the videos that i have seen have shown a remarkable level of restraint basically riders attacking the police and the police not even fighting back just holding the line and receiving the petrol bombs and the strikes from it look like everything from a metal pipe to large sticks which is internationally very uncommon most police agencies will not stand there and basically become punching bags for rioters but that's what i saw in the video and you think that was a deliberate tactic all it did the police actually failed to do their job well again it's unclear unless you know what the thinking is at the command center but the appearance was that it was a deliberate tactic in that i'm not familiar with very many police officers who will be victims of assault and not react to that unless that had been

a directive and in some cases i have seen where the focus is to ensure that the officers do not hurt the crowd that they will take a pretty restrained position they've got shields they've got pretty good body armor and apparently some message was given for them just to hold the line and not proactively react so when you talk about proactively react what do you mean by that what should they have done. well it depends on what the mission objective was the lines that i'm seeing if they're holding a physical position to protect the building then what they should do is exactly what they were doing which was hold the crowd from going in. crowd control has to be emphasized that there has to be some focus and mission first and the absence of knowing what they were trying to accomplish it's impossible to assess the tactic. again if they're protecting property they're going to hold the line but if their goal is to disperse the crowd you certainly wouldn't just stand there and take the punches stunning then taking the punches maybe a direct order from high comodo maybe some kind of compassion coming from the lower

level office is that because obviously family and friends perhaps attacking members protested. well i would i would have difficulty putting that into the issue of compassion the interaction i was seeing was very violent petrol bombs chemical munitions being sprayed attempts with the pipes and pieces of wood to poke them directly in the faces. in my experience that's not friends and family and if that is what's going on i can't imagine fleece officers standing there and taking ls that was a particular directive and that directive might likely be involving management desiring to not have police officers injured protesters and that's what it looked like to me and this is often the police forces have to face that sort of level of violence molotov cocktails catapults all sorts of weaponry were you surprised about the level of weaponry used against the police that that's a level of intensity you actually rarely see in public disorder in my experience the petrol bombs specifically in the u.k.

i mean people go to jail for a long time for doing that and do just stand there and take it and do it for a prolonged period of time i'm not sure i've ever seen it quite like that at least in the videos that i saw indicated the officers were not going to react to that and i'm not sure i've seen it with that level of intensity before. just yvonne's former deputy chief of springfield police in the u.s. thank you very much indeed for joining us great to hear your thoughts on this thanks for joining us here at the international my pleasure thank you athletes and spectators from around the world have begun descending on the russian city of sochi ahead of the winter olympics auntie's pull scott spoke to the head of the organizing committee about the final touches being applied before the grand opening . well the countdown officially began in two thousand and seven when she was first awarded the winter olympics since then a lot of work has been completed and a lot of rewards have been spent to ensure that this place and the surrounding area is ready to welcome the sporting world come february seventh and this clock reminds

us what was once a distant prospect is slowly encroaching upon us now the final ten days promised to be extremely busy for the organizers and in particular the chairman of the organizing committee dimitri chamish and i caught up with him earlier at the final stages of preparations the busiest stages yes we ever learn and learn and then we train in training and now it's a final check of everything and i can conclude that everson in the perfect. ever since read it 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 an international press as well it's well documented that the budget his ex exceeded initial expectations was the money gone i will repeat this is not correct their parish no budget to host the games which i am personally as a manager in charge of roughly two billion dollars same lake for the previous

winter games again as there's an investment into the olympic infrastructural a competition non-competition venues and also this around in infrastructure to support this like power station and some rules which is dedicated fall in pick needs is provided by private investor from the private funds construction 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 mentioned accusations of corruption have been halted on the skees of sochi recently seen the i.o.c. members young franco kasper hit the headlines when he allegedly claimed a third of the money disappeared into people's pockets since told us his words were twisted. 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 pay for any figures anyhow but it

will create a big of a force in india in the national media for what two years and i do not know and don't forget the interview postings. and the article about the thing 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 deep percent of corruption and i said well i have heard rumors to be had no reason whatsoever to bring to the new thing to be able to. read the facts we would have to put a ten year on the sleeve be didn't have any effect and this was never an item for discussion if you get all serious reports from seoul she would say is available whenever you want at all to. you. how do you operate but i'm going to risk it with sports such. as i'm not an olympic hockey. league. by

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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 and he set out to save his felt texans from being fined for speeding and much more importantly from potential traffic accidents caused by the hidden police and now he's the one who's in deep trouble according to fox news runner martin faces a misdemeanor charge for violating fiscal 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 the fascist 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 of a human mr marsh will be a better.

welcome to the kaiser report imax guys are you know dad is finally over but have you paid your bill yet i see you didn't realize you had to pay for the self described great and good ha ha ha ha ha stacey oh max actually while we've been saying this as you see the german fighter naval ship is leaving exiting the city of london i think speaking of bills that have yet to go unpaid they're trying to collect their gold they got thirty tons out of the us lord knows how much they're taking away now well fat chance of getting any of that gold i mean we broke a story here a few years ago that the bonus bank didn't really have the gold and then that started the whole scandal and now looks like they'll never get their gold ha ha germany ha ha regarding being finally over i wanted to point out this discount and this is from the economist and it's a chart of the underperformers.