nationalising kia take the revolution into their own hands saying they're fed up with a lack of determination among the opposition leaders had the deep roots of ethnic disputes in ukraine. also the u.s. president to meet with new promises for a better future in his state of the union speech but polls to jazz the public no longer trap him to follow through on his word. and to business bonanza foreign companies are ready to rush back into iran taking advantage of the partial suspension of sanctions following last year's historic nuclear agreement.

this is asking international coming to live from moscow my name is you thanks for joining us nationally say they are now taking charge of the attempted revolution in ukraine because they are unhappy with the opposition's leadership one senior member of the so-called right sector movement says the aims of the more moderate activists are too vague among the groups ideas is to reject the e.u. stable establishing a ukrainian only state and the ethnic minorities are now worried about the potential rise of extremism there as are his legs here cesky finds out this is a conflict that goes back generations. chef ski barely remembers the horrific events of nine hundred forty three when ukrainian insurgents came to slaughter his village in western ukraine but the most tragic things live well in his memory. is that one of them caught up and shot from close range there

was a huge noise a bullet hit an ear with it touched the temple my mom fell down she was unconscious the blood was everywhere they thought and sober and went to the village to murder they didn't kill they murdered with pitchforks and axes survived to become poland's first and only man in space nineteen members of his family including his father and more than eighty thousand poles jews and their medians were not as lucky some of murders in what was a genuine ethnic cleansing by troops were extremely gruesome people cut in pieces with a saw one nine hundred forty three conducted a total ethnic cleansing crane shot is to destroy a living on a territory they considered the property of the devolving slaughter of the murders of the both continued walls of the internal pain region just over there were grainy and try to help them provide shelter but those ukrainians riffling through.

seven decades later when ukraine's opposition faced off with the government pictures of those behind the slaughter resurfaced in the heart of the protest the man who formed the 1940's insurgent movement in ukraine step on when there is still pretty much tearing the country apart while many call him a killer and cannot forgive the atrocities his movement had committed some at the my john cleary guarding him as a hero of warsaw has been supportive of ukraine's protesters all along despite a chunk of the radical right there is supporting the man who brought so much pain to the polish nation unpunished minors which haven't been prosecuted well. always spawn new martyrs standing at his father's grave must not feel musharraf ski says he feels no hate towards ukrainians but he wants the truth to be told and things to be named as they should be moot. reporting from key of

ukraine the ukrainian president has a right to agree to dissolve the government and council the anti running nose which refuting the processed however protesters are still blocking central kiev and want him to grant amnesty to those arrested during the riots and then step down and one expert believes the crowds are being emboldened by the tolerance of they also receive. 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 rioters attacking the police and the police not even fighting back just holding the line and receiving the cutthroat bombs and the strikes from it look like everything from metal pipe to large sticks which is internationally very uncommon most police agencies will not stand there and basically become punching bags for rioters it's pretty clear that when the crowd is

that confident that they can be on the police and have nothing happen that they don't fear the police intervention pretty clearly and when crowds don't fear the police in my experience that causes the crowd to become much more dangerous much more active in property damage in assaults. and in today's cross talk with a guest consider whether the tactics used by the protesters on the streets of the ukrainian count as one at a time it. they have shown extreme violence the opposition they have shown themselves to be very radical they've demanded of course the resignation of the president which they haven't yet attained violence is deplorable but when you're in a revolutionary situation it's inevitable that extremists get attracted to large scale demonstrations and the responsibility for creating that situation unfortunately lay with the government and president yannick over you know covert for better or worse he's making compromises he did over the weekend was rejected by

the opposition i mean what more do they want first we should remember that violence started back in december one of the lawyers riot police attacked peaceful demonstrators on november thirtieth but they tried to attack the presidential administration and you remember what how terrible was the fight there i'm not going to call these people protesters i'm going to call them now on artists. the u.s. president made fresh promises of a better life in his state of the union address he pledged to combat financial inequality lower taxes and once again to close guantanamo but as i see is this accounted for of course obama has a history of saying that not doing. a year of action that was the rallying cry from the u.s. president at the state of the union address here in washington but it does of course come at a time when action is anything but guaranteed it has been an incredibly difficult

year for this administration obama is facing some of the low to lowest voter approval ratings of his presidency and a divided congress that has effectively blocked him at nearly every churn and so this year we saw president who seem to frankly acknowledge his limitations he wasn't able to get the gun control measures he called for last year the same goes for tax reform immigration climate change closing guantanamo i mean the list really does go on in fact according to some political scientists of forty one items that the president had asked for in a state of the union address only two he's been able to achieve so now obama did try to assert himself by vowing to sidestep congress on a number of issues for example using his executive power to raise the minimum wage for federal workers but on the big ticket items his hands really are tied obama needs congress to play ball and given the current climate on capitol hill it's simply not very likely that he's going to get it now this speech was very light on

foreign policy old obama did remind viewers that he's imposed limits on the use of drones and also promised again to reform u.s. surveillance but no details on how he plans to do that the president did also mention ukraine saying the u.s. stands for the principle that all people have the right to express themselves freely and peacefully and have a say in their country's future so really coming out on the side of the protesters they're not really straying from the administration response over the past few weeks and so when it comes to the actual call see proposals really not much in terms of what's new we really are seeing obama sort of try to call yet again for many of the things he's called for before whether it's immigration reform tax code overhaul things that he simply has not been able to achieve perhaps trying to to to hope that twenty fourteen will be the year that he'll be able to do it but also at the same time acknowledging his limitations that those promises won't necessarily turn to action. obama's state of the union address comes as he faces

a rapid decline in public trust recent polls show a third of the nation a pessimistic about the rest of this term in office and u.s. journalists and national policy analyst norman solomon believes the president's address is unlikely to change that basically what we had tonight is a speech from the president which was a kind of hollow populism the rhetoric was there about wanting to help those who are in financial need but the programs and the proposals were basically absent but the president has well least power than he ever had since he was sworn in in january of two thousand and nine and one of the means is that wall street exercise a measure of our program the obama administration during the first term and now with much less the leverage you're prepared to be to push anything through congress he's speaking about how he wants to achieve so much for the working people of the

country but in fact he has much work to do apparently to bring that about even if he were truly interested in accomplishing such thing. progress on a landmark nuclear deal between iran and other wild powers is leading to optimism not only among politicians but in the business community to turkish prime minister is currently in tehran seeking to boost trade ties and many western companies are also ready to rush back and and while washington says they should hold off warning iran is not yet ready for business their reality already appears quite different as his arena going to explain. this could very well be the world's newest gold rush bots in the not so wild east a population of some seventy five people a youth literacy rate of ninety percent. and some of the world's largest oil and gas reserves in a country that's been isolated from the world for decades if this doesn't sound

like a recipe for business but very little else will. right now iran is ready to host investors in segments like building royal ways construction oil production another industries linked with oil tehran appears to have fulfilled the first two requirements of the recent geneva agreement by halting production of high grade uranium and stopping its most powerful centrifuges now it's waiting for the other side in the talks to deliver on their promises and ease some of the sanctions iran's new president seems to be in with enthusiasm and determination to show his countries are ready for a new era of business that figure out their own growth iran's economy has the potential to be in the top ten within the next three decades ago which i pursued through a wider planning of social economic as well as wider domestic and foreign policy well some investors may be looking into making a first ever foray into iran's market others like auto giant renault are eager to

get back to doing business in a familiar territory. ourselves and all of come when you factor as would love to contribute to the development of the iranian market which is already the largest market in the middle east despite the sanctions those trading restrictions cost the french automotive company to write off five hundred million dollars last year so it's understandably keen to get back to its previous ten percent market share in the country and even expand on other giants like french german siemens italy's any and norway's star to oil are reportedly sending planeloads of representatives to iran eager to talk cooperation despite the fact the ink on the geneva agreement is barely dry after all anyone who knows business also knows the timing is crucial if you go score r.t. . so the u.s. congress is still mulling more sanctions against iran but president obama in his state of the union address rater rated he would have veto any attempts to do so but

resume russia was a recession erector at the national rain american companies believe that despite the u.s. leaders efforts the push for sanctions is far from over. now the united states. together with the state department gone out and made a concerted effort to show members of congress that new sanctions right now would be destructive to the diplomatic process and it would show the international community of the problem lies primarily in washington as opposed to tehran but this problem is far from over you've only bought yourself a little bit of time and this kind of crisis could very well come back up bubble back up to the forefront. long standing and unproven argument not just from congress but especially from congress that sanctions have brought the iranians to the negotiating table for more sanctions will get america a better deal a lot of analysts myself included dispute the notion that it was sanctions that

brought iran to the table what we need right now is to trade concessions on our end for concessions on the iranian and that's how you win the peace. we don't need to increase the cycle of escalation that brought us to the precipice of a war that's the worst possible thing that could happen right now. the rainy part from the decision making process in many countries but in the u.k. it's become a. lawmakers and officials regularly made the headlines for getting into bed with the money that's coming up and the problem after the break. the. gentlemen i give you a little you. are doing here. because you learned a. little you think. this is good news if. we've

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cut. you're watching nancy international coming here live from moscow welcome back for their libyans standing at the top of sochi is a one hundred meters ski jump it won't be the cold weather giving them the trails the takeoff and freefall ramp promises to deliver the biggest rush of adrenalin for

competitors and finds a like as i say now explains. if the thought of jumping off a ninety five need to ramp doesn't. then maybe a one hundred twenty five trick. these of the athletes will be grieving at the winter olympics in sochi the russkie junkies send the sportsmen and women with. the name. which translates to russian mountains in the english is quite fitting as the events hold

a note as the roller coaster of winter sports but will they be snow. storms. and. the machines turning into the. whole set in don what's left is to get all the sports men and women in the crowd. cheering. go.

on from the front today of bringing you special cover. joe be highlights as well as having our own studio there in sochi to keep you up to date with what's happening there but in the run up to the big games will continue to give you a preview of the olympic venues well child series of reports with to say here on out international and on our web site r.t. dot com your. great deal of the game going to win was good sports and such like speed skating. and olympic hockey. my son. the russian counsel general to sudan and he's wired how to been stabbed in the country's capital police say the suspect was from central african republic and was seeking revenge against any european for the killing of his brother for foreign troops there lawrence freeman from the executive intelligence review magazine

believes this spilling over of violence is an echo of decades of colonize asian there. it's very serious be great with you seeing is people acting out of uncontrolled rage and anger and desperation which means that people all over the region are in danger because you can't predict how people will respond when you keep oppressing people personally people it's like a spring they can spring back you don't know how when i find this insane extremely worrisome this is the result of colonial rule i will see three decades in people and you will be truly free you will be the animals and you just heard the sound of complete rape is grizzlies uganda strikes it worse than diplomats because something happened when you see or not makes no sense to people now you you hungry increased level of irrationality inside recovery is to go over to these countries were

destroyed and never develop. meanwhile the un security council has approved the deployment of six hundred eighty troops to the crisis hit central african republic to reinforce peacekeepers from france on the african union however x.-press estimate at least ten thousand soldiers all the needed to be to tackle the ongoing clashes between muslims and christians so far on the rest of the country has left over two thousand people dead. ten inmates died in a fire at a colombian jail and another forty have been taken to hospital to be treated for burns the blaze occurred after tear gas was fired to break up fights between prisoners and guards the trouble started during a searching of cells to confiscate drugs weapons and mobile files about three hundred officers later surrounded the prison to prevent and inmates policy papers. and place of device went off approaches counted thailand's just

a day after two opposition activists were wounded by a gunman in bangkok the fresh attack cause no serious damage but let's. several people with minor injuries assaults on anti government demonstrators now happen almost daily as the opposition tries to bring the prime minister down and do rail this sunday's parliamentary. liberties parliament house passed a new law being bill that restricts spending on election campaigns but that doesn't stop the widespread attempts to buy government influence at all other times often ending in scandal as laura smith reports. loping exerting influence or no make is this become something of a dirty word around westminster methods of lobbying according to the parliament website can include sending letters and making presentations of course it doesn't mention low paying m.p.'s awards of cash but it's the scandal that no big it's most

famous for officials taking cash for questions cash for cameron a quarter of a mill to have dinner with the pm and cash for doing column entry work course in the sunday times staying westminster is susanville written that the standards watchdog and its chairman do you have decided m.p.'s need special training to help them not to abuse that position so it seems pretty obvious to me the n.p.c. shouldn't be for example accepting cash to ask questions in parliament or selling time with the prime minister why isn't the obvious two m.p.'s themselves well you're talking about things there which are at the extreme end of the behavior and one of the things that we're concerned about is to which aren't quite so clear cut where people find themselves that morally and people are too old certain or difficult situation on predictable situations this committee has a long term road but the long term rule but certain ethical principles yourself

this is take all the city openness of public life. we're looking at ways to actually promulgated those principles throughout the public sector to the property of better back in two thousand and nine david cameron said sloping would be the next big scandal and sure enough the stories keep coming and the latest example experts who are advising the government told sugar consumption have been revealed. giants including malls and coca-cola these measures are meant to increase people's coldfoot it's in the people they elect to represent them but one wonders if it's cold feet in space thing that they need teaching right from wrong the real kicker the training will be based on course is given to lawyers and everyone's favorite ethical citizens bank has. a look now it's what we've got online for you right now keeping an a safety crews in the dark by the way while the outrage over the u.s.

government's monitoring activities pushes officials at not to limit the program but to look for ways to even greater. and could be blunt death returned from the middle ages find out why some scientists believe the danger of bubonic plague is alive even today. it's a story with a side ending for hollywood file sharing service pirate bay is back on line in the netherlands after an anti piracy group representing us called pride holders lost a lawsuit against local internet service providers the judge said trying to control

uses has been ineffective and actually led to an increase of those downloading and the author ted rall believes there's nothing companies can do to protect their products. anyone who tries to regulate the internet at this point seems to be failing it's a very interesting case because it seems to rely on the concept the legal concept of arbitrary and capricious ness in other words. the which applied specifically to this site would be which should apply to all sites obviously and if they were only going after this one and effectively at that what's the point and it's unfair but you know there's obviously broader implications of such as intellectual property rights the motivation of for example movie studios creative people cartoonists and writers those kinds of people have to be able to earn a living so it's you know it's an interesting balance between internet freedom and

the fact that digitization has made it very difficult for copyright holders to enforce those rights and now as promised to pay to have alan his board of experts debate on whether violence against the police in kiev can be a chance to find. the building behind me will become the center of startup community is from around the world come together to talk about the best way to new ideas. will. take place.

the. economic down in the final. days. and the rest. will be a prickly. hello and welcome to cross talk we're all things considered i'm peter lavelle how should we characterize events playing out in ukraine a legitimate democratic movement or a small number of highly motivated radicals forcing violent regime change is this movement is peaceful as western media claims and is ukraine hopelessly divided west

against east. to cross-talk ukraine i'm joined by my guest john laughlin in paris he is the director of studies at the institute of democracy and cooperation in london we have tony help and he is a journalist and former moscow bureau chief for the times and in moscow we cross to dimitri bobbitt he's a political analyst with the voice of russia all right gentlemen crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i very much encourage it john if i go to you in paris the government has resigned the cabinet has resigned you know colbert has reached out to the opposition so is the ball in his corner or the opposition's. well in a sense it's in the opposition's because they have been making the running in this as you said in your question they have or you applied anyway in your question they have shown extreme violence the opposition they have shown themselves to be very radical they've demanded of course the.