ukraine's parliament is replacing an amnesty for detained antigovernment protesters but the radical right wing writers who refuse to accept the conditions and leave the streets. as president to take the fight to the republicans in his annual state of the union address but his promises to close guantanamo and tackle poverty ring empty for some after a year of legislative stalemate. see runs on tap the market value of the business world big shots hoping to be the first to cash in on opportunities following a partial lifting of sanctions. and that we continue to dance behind the scenes of the spectacular venues of the sochi olympic park at this time looking out of the arena is ready to stage the high flying battles olympic

gold. it's just gone possibly talk here in moscow you live with us on archie international if you just joined us a very warm welcome to you i'm to one with the ukrainian lawmakers about a very john an amnesty for those arrested during anti-government riots and protests in pos months this vote could make a turning point in the old going under arrest for them all to take effect i'm as straight as will have to leave the streets and take down the barricades something the more radical writers are refusing to do read all of our reports from kiev now with peter. does it look like a compromise is that hand at this point. well right now we're seeing

lawmakers thrashing out any kind of compromise that they can come to in the ukrainian parliament there they they're debating a potential amnesty for anybody who's being detained so far during the unrest that we've seen in the country now i was talking to some of the more extreme members the of the nationalist organizations that have been out on the streets here they've been telling me that there's no way that the city would see them put down their air the weapons that they have or leave the barricades that are set up around kiev here as well as in other cities now. that was a stipulation that the government had put forward the president victory in a covert you put forward in concessions he made to opposition leaders and talks that took place over the weekend he said that as long as people left the streets then those who had been detained would receive amnesty the opposition leaders though saying they want that amnesty without any conditions so these debates

ongoing right now to. highlight the seriousness of the situation of these debates that's going on they were opened with a speech by by. the president of ukraine between ninety one and ninety four now where he spoke about the the level of responsibility that's on the shoulders of those lawmakers taking part in the in the negotiations and said that ukraine was at a pier on the on the edge and on the coast of a potential civil war and it was up to them. to it so those right wing groups and nationalist groups though aren't just out on the streets it's not just right right sector who would be mining some of these barricades there's also nationalist elements in the parliament taking part in those negotiations particularly the freedom party and their leader new book. so here they are taking part in these negotiations that are ongoing in terms of what we're seeing from the nationalists

on the streets right now a group of around five thousand marched from here on independence square over to a monument elsewhere in kiev this is a monument to those who fought against the bolsheviks in one thousand eight seeing now they were waving nationalist flags a lot of them carrying some kind of homemade weaponry sticks helmets the likes so that's how it's looking right now but this isn't anything new crane's history with nationalism of my colleague alexey how to share ski looks back at some of the the more bloody incidents of between when nationalism is being involved here in ukraine i must warn you some of the images in lexi's report some viewers may find disturbing. 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 that 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 love survive 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 schools in ukraine shot is to destroy all pools living on a territory they considered their property after the bowling slaughter and the murders of the cold continued walls of the internal pain region just over there were grainy and try to help them provide shelter but those ukrainians are flowing

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 and 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 them i'd done a clearer you guarding him as a hero 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 miners which haven't been prosecuted well. always spawn new murders standing at his father's grave meus laughter musharraf 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 ukraine

the ukrainian president has already agreed to dissolve the government and cancel the empty reading laws which were fueling the protests by the demonstrators are still demanding he steps down steve i say from the u.s. police chief and police training expert says the crowds are being emboldened by the tolerance of the authorities the videos that i have seen have shown a remarkable level of restraint in 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 less than thirty minutes we'll have cross talk where peter lavelle's guess a debate on whether the tactics used by the protesters on the streets of the ukrainian capital were legitimate. there was president has once again promised to close guantanamo bay prison and bypass congress if needed to help lift people out of poverty but as the captain of reports his state of the union address is being seen as more of a bare bones wish list than a need to 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 the 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 seem to frankly a knowledge has 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 true 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 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 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 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. president barack obama's address comes as he faces a rapid decline in public trust recent polls show that at third of the nation i

think that he he's very pessimistic about his term in office now us journalists and a national policy analyst norman solomon say 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 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 exercised 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 new deal promises to unless the country stalls of comments turkey is setting the pace with its entrepreneurs planning to invest fifteen million euros and to run a prime minister everyone wants to trade but some critics are urging the companies to rein in the appetite for profit he's there in a political find out why. 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 up 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 construction oil production another industries linked with oil iran has. lots of resources. 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 tirado 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 country's 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 while some investors may be looking into making a first ever foray into ron's market others like auto giant renault are eager to get back to doing business in a familiar territory. ourselves and a lot of come on your 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 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 start to oil all 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 called r.t. . well some hawks in the u.s. congress don't share the first shoots of optimism over iran and i instead mulling more sanctions barack obama reiterated any such initiative would have to deal with his presidential veto reza marashi who's a research director at the national iranian american companies are things the push to increase the cycle 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 more sanctions will get america better be a lot of analysts and i suffered through 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 money haunt and hope to die politicians in scandal plagued westminster to get athletes training in the hope of putting morals and intensity back into public life also. copyright shots break their teeth on the pirate bay website in the netherlands as the courts say all attempts to block the file sharing portal have play old service make use the internet that's all after the

break. oh 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. ok. how do you operate dylan piggy i'm going to him was good sports such. as roof road rules i'm not an olympic hockey player bomb which is on the sunday we. eat my fly. wealthy british soil the sun. sometimes right on. target.

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 tune into khan's report. it's known as of the roller coaster of winter sports but you won't see any loops or cop screws the stunning new ski jumping center in so she will make spectators hold their breath while competitors fly it through the skies i just came back from the olympic venue way i took a closer look at how the jumps are being readied for action.

if the thought of jumping off a ninety five mi to ramp doesn't give you very then maybe one hundred twenty five meters will do the trick. these are the highs athletes will be braving at the winter olympics in sochi the russkie goal to jump essentail will see sportsmen and women flying without wings. the name. which translates to russian mountains in the english is quite fitting as the events held here known as the roller coaster of winter sports but will they be enough snow coasters what the read is that it collects the snow. ski jumping. even on the field the other can see.

it's interesting i mean it's a. joy which is controlling. and you've got all these really interesting buttons these. utilizing the well. water into the machines that are turning it into the official. goal set and don what's left is to get all the sports men and women out of the crowd into those seats sharing on their favorite one to win gold. so. definitely more to come from sochi and from the first day of the olympics will be. new special coverage from our very own studio in the heart of sochi keeping you up to date with everything that's happening the and in the run up to the big games will continue to give you a preview of all the venues with olympic series watch it here on r.g.p.

international and on our website at r.t. dot com. a new bill that puts limits on the amount of money they can be spent on the election campaign he has quipped through the british parliament but that won't stop the publishing of political influence agrees on at other times often ending in scandal as archie's a lawyer smith 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 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 cashman doing parliamentary work of course in the sunday times staying westminster is so scandal ridden that the standards

watchdog and its chairman lord you have decided m.p.'s need special training to help them not to abuse their position so it seems pretty obvious to me that m.p.'s shouldn't be for example accepting cash to ask questions in parliament or selling time with the prime minister why isn't the obvious to 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 in morally unpopular drugs certain or difficult situations or on predictable situations this committee has a long term role and the long term rule is to defend certain ethical principles of selflessness and take it to obviously openness of public life. we're looking at ways to actually promulgated those principles throughout the public sector see them properly embedded 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 mas and coca-cola these measures are meant to increase people's confidence in the people they elect to represent them but why. one wonders if it's cold feet in space thing that they means teaching right for the role and the real kicker the training will be based on courses given to lawyers and everyone's favorite ethical citizens bankers. file sharing service pirate bay will sail the seas of the dutch internet freely cultural provided no longer have to block the website now they exist in band had proven to be of little effect as uses easily found new polls to get to the torrent track and all but ted rall says the internet isn't much to hard to crack for those

seeking to regulate it anyone who tries to regulate the internet at this point seems to be failing to really interesting case though 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 sides obviously and if they were only going after this one and effectively 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. coming up crosstalk as promised and in the u.k. you can see going underground see see.

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and welcome to cross talk or 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 covert 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 affair is how incredibly weak and fragile the ukrainian state obviously is we had demonstrations here in paris on sunday demanding the resignation of the french president and the idea that those demonstrators who were about six.