ukraine's parliament is debating an amnesty for detained anti-government protesters but the radical right wing writers refuse to accept the conditions and leave the streets. the u.s. president takes a point to the republicans in his annual state of the union address but his promises to close guantanamo and tackle poverty growing empty for some after a year of legislative stalemate. here on the run tab markedly a big shocker from the business world as they hope to be the first to creamed the property following a partial lifting of sanctions. and we continue to glance behind the scenes of the spectacular venue's of the sochi olympics all this time scaling new heights all be read as ready to stage battlefield three gold.

has just come paused four pm the afternoon here in moscow you love with us on r.t. international i'm to bomb with a ukrainian lawmakers about to vote on an amnesty for those arrested during the anti government drives and a protest of the pos months this vote could mark a turning point in the ongoing under arrest for the law to take the fat demonstrators will have to leave the streets and take down their barricades something the more radical writers are refusing to do it all over 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 jewing to go see a sions were 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 barricades 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 well it's not going to be enough the group right sector who are on the streets of kiev here are calling for a full blown revolution in the country and they have been it's claimed responsible for some of the worst violence that we've seen jiri in 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 the freedom party here and they are nationalist supporter the the history of 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. ski barely remembers the horrific events of nine hundred forty three when ukrainian insurgence came to slaughter his village in western ukraine but the most tragic things live well in his memory. one of them caught up and 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 so burned went to the village to murder they didn't kill they murdered with pitchforks and axes mules 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 in one nine hundred forty three conducted a total ethnic cleansing of poles in ukraine that is to destroy all poles living on a territory they considered their property after the bowling slaughter and the murders of both continue both of the new intern open regions of their worry craniums we try to help them provide them with shelter but those ukrainians are flowing through us 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 i clearly guarding him as a hero of warsaw has been supportive of ukraine's protesters all along despite a chunk of the radical writers supporting the man who brought so much pain to the polish nation unpunished minors which haven't been prosecuted will always spawn new martyrs standing at his father's grave meus laughed 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. the ukrainian president has already agreed to dissolve the government and cancel the n.t. reading laws which were fueling the protests but the demonstrators are still demanding he steps down seen by ems a former u.s. police chief and put a police training expert says the quality of being in boulder and by the tolerance

of the a fourteenth 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 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 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 and assaults well today's cross-talk of debates whether the tactics used by the protesters on the streets all the ukrainian capital will it to to mitt. they have

shown extreme violence the opposition they've 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 should remember that violence started back in december when all 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 an artist. the u.s. president has once again promised to close guantanamo bay prison and bypass congress

if needed to help lift people out of poverty but as long as you think nothing of reports his state of the union address is being seen as more a bare bones wish list plan of action. 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 a president who seemed to frankly up to 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 of 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 valli him 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 policy 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 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 a recent poll so a third of american all of the nation is pessimistic about the rest of his term in office u.s. journalist and national policy analyst naaman solomon says the president's address is unlikely 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 had 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 tremendous power and presence in 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 he were truly interested in accomplishing such things. big businesses are beginning to circle around iran as progress on the historic nuclear deal promises to unless the country's goals of comus turkey setting the pace with its entrepreneurs kind of to invest the fifteen million euros in to run a prime minister and one of the ones to be strange but some critics are urging the

companies to rein in the appetite for profit is their inability to find out why. this could very well be the world's newest gold rush bots 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. these resources need investment technology capability so when the sanctions are over and the western or service 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 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 is 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 euros 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 in a ghost r.t. . while some hawks in the u.s. congress don't share the same sprawls of optimism about iran and i instead molly ball sanctions broke obama they reiterated any such initiatives would have to deal with his presidential veto reason russia who's a research director at the national iranian american companies things the push to increase the circle of pressure is leading to a dead end. president 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 teheran 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 sooner rather than 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 so more sanctions will get america a better deal a lot of analysts myself included dispute the notion that it was say sions 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. still to come in

the program costs my heart and hope to die politicians. are going to get ethics training in the hague putting morals and integrity back into public life the proposal coming up. on the pirate bay website in the netherlands as the court says all attempts to block the file sharing. failed and the service from a crazy internet freebie to the break stay with us. led

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welcome back it's known as the roller coaster of winter sports but you won't see any loops or corkscrews stunning new ski jumping center and so she will make spectators hold their breath while competitors fly through the skies right i just came back from the olympic venue where i took a closer look at how the jumps are being graded for action. if the thought of jumping off a ninety five need to ramp doesn't. then maybe one hundred twenty five meters the trick. these of the athletes will be braving at the winter olympics in sochi the russkie jump you send the sportsmen and women flying with wings.

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. snow. storms. and. the machines turning into the. goal set

in don what's left is to get all the sports men and women out in the crowd. sharing. gold. right i go back as quick as possible to be here with him from the first a. well the olympic spirit will be bringing you special coverage from our own studio in the heart all sorts. keep you up to date with everything that's happening be and in turn will also run up to the big games will continue to give you a preview of all the venues with big serious what you hear on our team to national and of course on our website at r.t. dot com you're ok. how do you operate doing brigade i'm going to rehearse pretty good sports so track speed skating is not as easy as resolder i'm not an olympic hockey player but i'm much. a little

my son. a new bill that puts limits on the amount of money that can be spent on election campaigning has squeaked through the british parliament but that won't stop the peddling of political influence that goes on at other times often ending in scandal as artie's lowest reports. low being exerting influence will 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 lobbying 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 cash for 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 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 things which aren't quite so clear cut where people find themselves at morally and people are drawn certain no difficult situations are unpredictable situations this committee has a long term road and a long term rule it's to fed certain ethical principles of selflessness to 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 a 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 thing that they mean teaching right from wrong and the real kicker the training will be based on courses given to lawyers and everyone's favorite ethical citizens bankers. the russian embassy in sudan has tightened security after a knife attack on the consul and his wife the pair needed treatment and hospital police say the suspect was from the central african republic he was reportedly seeking to adventure the killing of his brother by foreign troops and alissa lawrence freemen told us the incident is an echo of decades of colonization 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 pressing people pressing the people it's like a spring they can spring back you don't know how when i find this extremely worrisome this is the resolve of colonial rule out to get in people who are merely being truthful you would be far more than just acting out of complete rage is grossly. strikes a russian diplomat because something happened when you see our makes no sense but people now you you hungry increased level of irrationality and savagery is to go over with these countries were destroyed and never develop. file sharing

service pirate bay will sail the seas of the dutch into that fraley after a court ruled providers and no longer have to block the website the existing ban had proven to be of little effect as users easily found loopholes to get to the tour and track up all the red roll says the internet is a not too hard to credit for those seeking to regulated. 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. stay with us for abby martin and breaking the said coming up next on our team tonight. wealthy british sunny sunny. spot on the six priceless little. market why not. find out what's really happening to the global economy with mike stronger for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines kaiser reports.

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a legendary man pete seeger was a folk musician who produced over one hundred records with hit singles such as where of all the flowers gone and guantanamera but seeger was also an extremely influential activist you advocated for issues ranging from workers' rights to environmental conservation and it was. certainly a radical especially for the one nine hundred fifty s. when he openly oppose mccarthy's witch hunt against communism he was even thrown in jail for a year or greens the piano by the house un-american activities committee in the sixty's continued to advance multiple progressive movements and helped popularize the civil rights and then we shall overcome so as we say goodbye to a true american legend or a number of people figure not only for his music or for his courage to defend resist now let's break the set. the relief seems a little very hard to take. to.

get back with that hurt right there the. separation of church and state as a notion ingrained into the minds of nearly every us citizen with a cursory knowledge of american history although this exact phrase does not appear in the constitution the language of the first and fourth amendments makes it crystal clear that government cannot force public officials to support

a specific church nor make any laws regarding the establishment of an official religion with this in mind what happened recently in a public school and with the ana should concern religious atheist and agnostic citizens alike last week the a.c.l.u. filed a lawsuit against a neg red high school for threatening a student to change his buddhist beliefs in order to conform with a curriculum that promotes creationism instead of evolution according to the lawsuit six grade teacher read a roark gave her students a test with this exact question is it to mazie in what the blank has. the correct answer though ward yes because how it's been written and what appears to be a year to control language i think it's safe to say that the question promotes a certain subjective agenda the boy in the lawsuit only identified as to protect his identity unfortunately got this one wrong because as a buddhist he said he did.