ukraine's parliament is debating an amnesty for detained anti-government protesters but the radical right wing rock has refused to accept the conditions and leave the streets. u.s. president takes the fight to the republicans in his annual state of the union address promises to close guantanamo and tackle poverty. after a year of legislative stalemate. markets the business big shots hoping to be the first to cash in on opportunity following a partial lifting of sanctions. we continue to glance behind the scenes of spectacular venues of the sochi olympic park this time looking at the arenas ready to stage the high flying battles.

this is not international live from our studio in moscow it's just past eight pm and six pm in kiev where ukrainian lawmakers about to vote on an amnesty for those arrested during government riots and protests in past months now this could mark a turning point in the ongoing unrest for the law to take effect demonstrators will have to leave the streets and take their barricades something the more radical rioters are refusing to do the reports now from. right now we're seeing lawmakers thrashing out any kind of compromise that they can come through in the ukrainian parliament there they they have the bait seeing a potential amnesty for anybody who's being detained so far during the unrest that

we've seen in the country you know i was talking to some of the 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 weapons that they have and leave the barricades 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 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 over homemade weaponry sticks helmets the likes

ukraine has seen bloody violence in the past involving nationalist groups my colleague. has this report so i must warn you though some of the images in alexa's report some viewers may find disturbing. 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. 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 thought and 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 the murders of both continued both of them and third know people regions of their worry craniums we try to hold all 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 are clearly 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 minors which haven't been prosecuted will always spawn new murders standing at his father's grave just after 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. and the ukrainian president has already agreed to dissolve the government and cancel the antique running rules which were fueling the protests but the demonstrators a still demanding he steps down steve arms he's a former us police chief and police training expert he says the crowds are being in 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 and assaults well today's cross-talk debates whether the tactics used by the protesters on the streets of the ukrainian capital 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 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 you know in a covert you know covert for better or worse he's making compromises he did over the weekend it was rejected by the opposition i mean what more do they want to ask we should remember that the violence started back in december last 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's. cross talk coming your way shortly here on. the u.s. president has once again promised to close the guantanamo bay prison and bypass congress if needed to help lift people out of poverty result he's loose

a couple of reports he's state of the union address is being seen as more of a bare bones wish list than a meaty 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 and 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 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 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 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. kevin of their will president barack obama's address comes as he faces a rapid decline in public trust recent polls show a third of the nation is pessimistic about the rest of his term in office u.s. journalist and national policy analyst norman solomon says the president's address is unlikely to change that basically what we had tonight at the speech from the president which was a kind of ocular to them the rhetoric was there about wanting to help those who are in financial need but the programs in the proposals were basically absent this president has well least power than it ever had since he was sworn in in january of

two thousand and nine and one of the sad thing was exercise tremendous power and presence in the obama administration during the first term and now with much less leverage your 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 a path to be to bring that about even if you were truly interested in accomplishing such thing big business is a beginning to circle around iran as progress on the historic nuclear deal promises to latch the country's duals of colas turkey is setting the pace with its entrepreneurs planning to invest fifteen million euros in tehran while prominent about also what. critics urging the companies to rein in their appetites for profit . to 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 broken struction 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. western a service companies are allowed to go and i think there will be plenty of potential to run 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 iran'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 when you factor us 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 it other

giants like french german siemens italy's any and norway's stand 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 party. well some hawks in the u.s. congress don't share the first shoots of optimism over iran and instead mulling more sanctions rucka bamma reiterated any such initiative would have to deal with his presidential veto reza marashi who is a research director at the national iranian american companies thinks 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 things 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 attack iran 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 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 safe and 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 a cycle of escalation that brought us to the precipice of a war that's the worst possible thing that could happen right now. you know what you ought to international come to the russian capital in the program. and hope to

. get ethics training in the hope of putting more rules and integrity back into public life. in the netherlands as a cold says. and this cruise the internet. that after the break. please. please please. please take.

so long to. do that that will make their. point of view to. the people. a new bill that puts limits on the amount of money that can be spent on election

campaigning has never really 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. reports. loping exerting influence on lawmakers 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 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 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 at morally unpopular drugs certain or difficult situations or unpredictable situations this committee has a long term role and the long term rule is to defend certain ethical principles of self this is taken to be honesty openness of public life. we're looking at ways to actually promulgated those principles throughout the public sector to the property 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 laws 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 means 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. what is more smith and what don't forget our website there's always plenty to read there including it's not something out of the pages of a murder threat of an argument over whether prose or poetry is the highest form of expression has come to a bloody end in russia a formal school teacher made his point with a knife before fleeing the scene. and leaving radiation in its tracks work as a japan's fukushima nuclear plant to building an underground wall of frozen soil in a last ditch attempt to keep contamination from flowing into the sea all that and plenty more for you right now at all t.

dot com. for sharing service pirate bay will sail the seas of the dutch internet freely after a court ruled provide is no longer have to block the website existing and prevent to be of little effect as uses easily found loopholes to get to the torrent tracker also ted rall says that the internet is a not too hard to crack for those seeking to regulate it 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 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 it 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. it's known as the roller coaster of winter sports but you won't see any loops or corkscrews these stunning new ski jumping center in sochi will make spectators hold their breath or competitors fly through the skies the members say just came back from the olympic venue where she took a closer look at how the jumps are being readied 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. the russkie jump you send tell me she sportsmen and women with. the name. which translates to russian mountains in the english is quite fitting as the events held a note as the roller coaster of winter sports that will be snow a little. on the field as you can see. it's interesting. joy. with.

these. utilizing the well. water machines turning into the official. all said and done what's left is to get all the sports men and women out of the crowd. cheering on. gold. will be bring you special coverage from a studio in the heart of. everything that is happening in the run up to the big games continue to give you a preview of. the international. period . how do you operate dylan but i'm going to him was pretty good sports

and such experts. as proof shows i'm not an olympic hockey player by much it is on the line down please. keep my flyer. for other news making headlines across the world this libya's interior minister has survived an assassination attempt in tripoli he was on his way to parliament when a government opened fire. the vehicle was damaged but there were no reports of injuries to place less than three weeks after the country's deputy industry minister was shot dead. this whistleblower edward snowden has been nominated for the nobel peace prize by two no we didn't politicians according to them his global surveillance revelations have contributed to a more stable and peaceful world order previous winners of the prize include the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons u.s. president barack obama. the un security council is deploying six hundred troops to

the central african republic to help french and african union peacekeepers defuse the crisis but experts suggest at least ten thousand soldiers a need to calm tensions between muslims and christians in the region the death toll from the ongoing unrest has already reached two thousand. and finally at least ten protests including a man dressed as a giant rat been arrested during. a rally against the g.m. foods giant protest took place outside the company's shareholders meeting to discuss the labeling of genetically modified food five cars at the center of the demonstration the seized by police. well that brings up to date for the moment i'll be back with a news team with more in just over half an hour from now the meantime martin and breaking the set coming up next on international.

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i'm not a martin this is breaking the set yesterday the world lost 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 advocated for issues ranging from workers' rights to environmental conservation he 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 i mean subpoenaed 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 first courage to defend and resist now let's break the sets. the police the killers they all are very hard to take the target. that he ever had sex with that her right there are those. that believe.

the three little. little. little. separation of church and state is 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 read.