nationalists in cuba take the revolution into their own hands and say they have fed up with a lack of determination among the opposition party it looks at the deep roots of the ethnic disputes in ukraine. the us president or delivers new promises for better future in his state of the union speech but poll suggests that the population no longer trust him to follow through on his words. and a business plan ends up foreign companies are waiting to rush back into iran taking advantage of the partial suspension of sanctions following last year's historic new here gleam and.

a very warm welcome to you if you're just joining us here on our team to national i'm to would say. the ukrainian parliament has started a session that could mark a twenty point for the protests that have crippled the country's capital lawmakers will be voting on an amnesty for those detained during the riots opposition demonstrators have promised to leave the streets if it's past due to all of the reports from kiev. around a thousand people on independence square just behind me also over on the barricades in a stadium where we saw some of the fiercest fighting well that middle ground the president think the on a covert has been trying to reach that it's taken the form of a series of concessions that he offered to the opposition jury negotiations with the last of those concessions which is an amnesty for for anybody who's been detained by police during the violence that we saw on the streets here in kiev and across the rest of ukraine that will be voted on in parliament later on wednesday

basically the government is saying that they put forward an amnesty for anybody who's being detained as long as demonstrate is leave government buildings that have been occupied to remove themselves from barricades but the what we're hearing from those on the fire kates that are just a stone's throw or a way really about about two hundred meters away from that road a building they telling me last night that even if they do get vote for this amnesty that well it's not going to be enough the group right sector who are on the streets of kiev here are calling for a i full blown revolution in the country and they have been it's claimed responsible for some of the worst violence that we've seen during the problems here in kiev including that we are hearing of attacks on. minorities those sentiments are being echoed somewhat in the parliament by politicians like oh you know balkanized the leader of the freedom policy here and a nationalist supports the history of this this movement these nationalist

movements in ukraine goes way back and my colleague alexey out of takes a look at some of those deep roots of nationalism here in ukraine. chef ski barely remembers the horrific events of nine hundred forty three when ukrainian insurgents going to slaughter his village in western ukraine but the most tragic things live well in his memory. but one of them. it all been shot from close range there was a huge noise a bullet hit an ear it touched the temple my mom fell down she was unconscious the blood was everywhere they thought and sold her and went to the village to murder they didn't kill they murdered with pitchforks and axes commuters love 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 of holes in your crane that is to destroy all pools living on a territory they considered the property of the devolving slaughter of the murders of both continue both of the internet open regions of their worry craniums we try to help them provide them with shelter but those ukrainians are flowing through those 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 mike john cleary guarding him as a hero 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 matters which haven't been prosecuted will always spawn new murders standing at his father's grave must laugh in a machete says he feels no hate towards ukrainians but he wants the truth to be told and things to be named as they should be. reporting from kiev in ukraine. they ukrainian president has already agreed to dissolve the government and cancel the entier welling noles which was fueling the protests however a protest so that's still blocking central kiev and won him to step down save my arms as a former deputy chief of police in the us an expert in international police training he believes the crowds are actually being bold and by the tolerance of the authorities 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 petrol 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. well in today's cross talk of the guests the consider whether the tactics used by the protesters on the streets of the ukrainian capital where legitimate. 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 volman since

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 janak 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 to us we should remember that the violence started back in december one of the 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 an artist. 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 closing guantanamo but as our teams lose the

capital from ports obama has a history of things but 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 and has been an incredibly difficult here for this administration obama is facing some of the low to the lowest voter approval ratings of his presidency and a divided congress that is effectively blocked him at nearly every churn and so this year we saw president who seem to frankly up the knowledge 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 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 planned 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 cost of 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 the tax code overhaul things that he simply has not been able to achieve perhaps trying to do 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 and recent polls show a third of the nation are pessimistic about the rest of obama's term in office and he was sort of this a national policy analyst moment the fall of one believes the that the president's address is i'm likely to change that basically what we had tonight it's 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 this president has the least power that he's ever had since he was sworn in in january

of two thousand and nine and one of the sad things is that wall street exercise the message our president the obama administration during the first term and now with much less leverage or capacity 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 less capacity to bring that about even if you were truly interested in accomplishing such things. lobbying is rarely fall from the decision making process in many countries but in the u.k. it's become a dirty word so my cousin officials regularly make the headline getting into bed with the money men more on that coming up they say here in the program. progress on a landmark on nuclear deal between iran and other world powers is leading to

optimism not only among politicians but in the business community to think turkey's prime minister is currently in toronto seeking to be straight ties and then he was some companies also ready to rush back and while washington says they should hold off warning iran is not yet ready for business the reality already appears quite different as artie's arena gluco expands. this could very well be the world's newest gold rush but in the not so wild east a population of some seventy five million people a youth literacy rate of ninety percent and 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 invest in segments like building royal ways both construction oil production another industries linked with oil iran has. lots of resources and

these resources need investment technology capability so when the sanctions are over and the western i said us companies are allowed to go in i think there will be plenty of potential 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. 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 while some investors may be looking into making a first ever foray into rons markets others like auto giant renault are eager to get back to doing business in

a familiar territory. ourselves and all of calming effect 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 caused the french automotive company to write off five hundred million jews last year so it's understandably keen to get back to its previous ten. percent market share in the country and expand on other giants like show german siemens italy any and norway start to well are reportedly sending planeloads of representatives to iran eager to talk recession despite the fact the ink on the geneva agreement is dry after all anyone who knows business also knows the timing is crucial in the r.t. . well the us congress is still mulling more sanctions against iran but president obama in the state of the union address earlier reiterated that he would veto any

attempt to do so but reason rashi who's a research director at the national iranian american companies believes that despite the u.s. leaders efforts to push for sanctions as far from obama than of 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 in this kind of crisis could very well come back up bubble back up to the forefront sooner or later there has been a 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 and i started to dispute the notion that it was sagan's 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. more news off of the break including a look at how the conflict in central african republic is spreading beyond its borders stay with us. the worst. story others you know.

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you seeing is people acting out of uncontrolled rage and anger and desperation which leaves the people all over the region are in danger because you can't predict how people will respond when you keep pressing people pressing the people it's like a spring they can spring back you don't know how will i find this insane extremely worrisome this is the result of cluny own rules councils in three decades in people who are merely being truthful you would be the animals in the just the kind of complete rape is grossly straight's a russian diplomat because something happened in ca are makes no sense to people now you you hungry increased level of irrationality and savagery is taking over for these countries were destroyed and their lives out. of the un security council has approved their deployment of six hundred eighty two troops to the

crisis hit central african republic to reinforce peacekeepers from france and the african union however experts estimate at least ten thousand soldiers will be needed to tackle the ongoing clashes between muslims and christians so far on roads in the country has left over two thousand people. tens of thousand police officers will be deployed in thailand's capital bangkok for the sunday's parliamentary polls after protesters pledged to do a all the election they increased security is aimed at preventing violence are following almost daily attacks on anti-government demonstrations and their camps the joy prime minister called for early elections last december after weeks of under arrest with demonstrators accusing her of corruption. the british parliament has passed i mean the lobbying bill that restricts spending on election campaigns but that of those doesn't stop the widespread attempts to buy

government influence at all other times often ending in scandal as artie's laura's credit reports. 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 lobing m.p.'s awards of cash but it's the scandal that lobbying is most famous for officials taking cash for questions cash for cameron a quarter of a mill to have dinner with the pm and cashman doing parliamentary work course in the sunday times staying westminster is so scandal ridden that the standards watchdog and its chairman lord bew have decided m.p.'s need special training to help them not to abuse their 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 things which aren't quite so clear cut where people find themselves that morally on paper drugs certain or difficult situation on predictable situations this committee has a long term road and a long term rule is to certain ethical principles of selflessness 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 lobbying would be the next big scandal and sure enough the stories keep coming and the latest example experts who are advising the government on sugar consumption have been revealed to be working so confectionery giants including maus and coca-cola these measures are meant to

increase people's confidence in the people they elect to represent them but. one wonders if it's cold feet in space doing that they need teaching right for the role of the real kicker the training will be based on courses given to lawyers and everyone's favorite ethical citizens bank. for years once a look at what we've got on line for you keeping us a secret in the good dog the wave of outrage over the u.s. government's monitoring activities pushes officials not to limit the program but to look for ways for even great to secrecy. could the black death the return from the middle ages find out why some scientists believe the danger of bubonic plague is alive even today.

it's a sad story and doing for hollywood file sharing service pirate bay is back online in the netherlands often anti-piracy group representing you is copyright holders lost a lawsuit against a local internet service providers just trying to control users has been affected and actually led to an increase of those downloading off ted rall rail believes there's nothing companies can do to protect their product. anyone who tries to regulate the internet at this point seems to be failing it's a very interesting case though because it seems to rely on the concept the legal concept of arbitrary and capricious ness in other words the law 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 then 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 the digitization has made it very difficult for copyright holders to enforce those rights. now as promised pill a bell and has sport of experts debate whether violence against police and kim can be justified. wealthy british style. sometimes right on.

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hello and welcome to crossfire where 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 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 resignation of the president which they haven't yet attained and the government for the most part has responded with proposals of compromise the earlier proposals to appoint one of their members as prime minister was rejected and now the compromise has taken a different form and has included of course as you know the repeal of certain laws i think it is in their ball although the ball is in their court but at the same time what strikes me in this whole thing is how incredibly weak and fragile the ukrainian state obviously is we had demonstrations here in paris on the.