ukraine's parliament is debating an amnesty for detained antigovernment protesters but the radical right wing rock has refused to accept the conditions on the streets . president takes the fight to the republicans in his annual state of the union address but he promises to close guantanamo and tackle poverty. after a year of legislative stalemate. markets look at the business world big shots hoping to be the first to cash in on opportunities following the partial lifting of sanctions. and we continue to the scenes of the spectacular. flying battles.

this is out international law from a studio in moscow where it's just past nine pm and seven pm in kiev where ukrainian lawmakers are about to vote on an amnesty for those arrested during government rights and protests in months this vote could mark a turning point in the ongoing unrest for the law to take effect demonstrators will have to leave the streets and take down their barricades something the more radical the refusing to do is one of the reports now from kiev. right now we're seeing lawmakers thrashing out any kind of compromise that they can come to in the ukrainian parliament there they did 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 of ukraine has seen bloody violence in the past involving nationalist groups my colleague alexy on the shelves he has this report so i must warn you though some of the images in alexa's report some viewers may find disturbing. sheff 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. is one of them car amp 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 saw. over 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 one nine hundred forty three conducted a total ethnic cleansing crane that is to destroy all pools living on a territory they considered their property after the bowling slaughter of the murders of both continued both of the new and third no people regions of their worry craniums we tried to help them provide them with shelter but those ukrainians riffling through. seven decades later when ukraine's opposition faced off with the government pictures of those behind the slaughter resurfaced in the heart of the protest the man who formed the 1940's insurgent movement in ukraine step on when there is still pretty much tearing the country apart while many call him

a killer and cannot forgive the atrocities his movement had committed some at them i'd done 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 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 it and running the laws which were fueling the protests but the demonstrators a still demanding he steps down still i am sees a former u.s. police chief and police training expert says the crowd to be emboldened by the torrent solve 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 looked like everything from metal pipe to large sticks which is internationally very uncommon mostly say agencies will not stand there and basically become punching bags for rioters it's pretty clear that when the crowd is that confident that they can be on the police and have nothing happen that they don't fear the police intervention pretty clearly and when crowds don't fear the police in my experience that causes the crowd to become much more dangerous much more active in property damage in assaults and today's crosstalk debates whether the tactics used by the protesters only 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 colbert 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 be should remember that violence started back in december one of the last 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. talk throughout the day here in r.t. international 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 resulted lucey couple of reports his state of the union address is being seen as more of a bare bones wish list than the 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 two he's been able to achieve so now obama did

try to assert himself by vowing to sidestep congress on a number of issues for example using his executive power to raise the minimum wage for federal workers but on the big ticket items his hands really are tied obama needs congress to play ball and given the current climate on capitol hill it's simply not very likely that he's going to get it now this speech was very light on foreign policy old obama did remind viewers that he's imposed limits on the use of drones and also promised again to reform u.s. surveillance but no details on how he 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 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. well 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 it's a speech from the president which was a kind of ocular to them their rhetoric was there about wanting to help those who are in financial need but it's a program going to proposals were basically absent this president has well least

power. over 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 pathway to bring that about even if you were truly interested in accomplishing such thing. big business is a beginning to circle around the room as progress on the historic nuclear deal promises to unlatch the country's duals of coldness turkey is setting the pace with his entrepreneurs planning to invest fifteen million euros in tehran while prime minister erdogan also wants to boost trade but some critics are urging the companies to rein in the appetites for profit in the girlish 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 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 and these resources need investment technology capability so when the sanctions are over. western companies are allowed to go and i think there will be plenty of potential to iran 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 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 common you factors 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 started well 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. or some hawks in the u.s. congress don't share the first shoots of optimism over iran and instead mulling more sanctions barack obama though 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 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 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 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 this. scandal plagued. ethics

training and putting. back into public life. copyright sharks. and the. cruise the internet. the break. playing out in ukraine a legitimate democratic movement or

a small number of highly motivated radicals forcing regime change is this movement is peaceful as western media claims is ukraine hopelessly divided west against east . we. can. choose to. choose to to. choose . sharing service pirate bay will sail the seas of the dutch internet freely after a court ruled providers no longer have to block the website the existing ban proved

to be of little effect as users easily found loopholes to get to the torrent tracker discuss the verdict now with she's the candidate for the european parliament elections and president of the young parts of europe this ruling is a big blow isn't it for those who are protected by copyright the likes of artists musicians and authors it's a bad moment well i would say a lot of artists are really tired of trying to wage a war against their own fans and there are more and more artists willingly giving away their music or videos online and our well being and rightfully so that their fans are going to pay for their content in other ways and you say giving away and of course there are a lot of people who don't want that to be given away the victors of this case say this is the freedom of information but many would say this is guaranteeing the freedom of it it's stealing isn't it people are now going to lose their livelihoods

in many respects i mean first of all the pirate bay isn't just used for copyrighted works if you have any information or any large file that you want to share bittorrent is just the best way of doing this. well i think you you have to see that a lot of people cannot legally buy the stuff that they are downloading online and if there were legal offers they might be willing to pay for it but where i come from in germany for example we don't have something like netflix because of copyright reasons and so people resort to file sharing of course the netherlands is a liberal country isn't it but this is just one ruling in that country doesn't necessarily mean the the battle is lost for the copyright. owners who are insistent that there should be regulation of the internet well i think this is a political battle we have to figure out as a society how we want to deal with culture and how we can ensure a fair sharing culture and at the same time that artists can live off their works

so i don't think a court ruling should finish the debate but it's still important that people in europe can share music and other culture with each other so that we can grow into one community of people so what do you stand for then as opposed to you saying that transparency is a good thing even though that transparency could compromise national and indeed personal security well you have to differentiate of course between like transparency of the state and transparency of the individual what we want to do is that the people in power are transparent and so that regular people have a chance of knowing what's going on and to participate in democracy for example and of course i suppose people like you would see this is a good day yesterday when the ruling was granted but as you said earlier people are finding all sorts of ways to find access to this anyway so it doesn't make much difference it's basically going to be impossible to regulate well yes the court

just kind of say that it's an ineffective way of trying to block people from accessing the site but they're also saying that as a matter of principle the access providers that sell access to the internet shouldn't be responsible for the content that is shared or talked to about selling i mean of course surely the very successful sites like of i tunes or whatever where people pay for content prove that people would prefer to go through the legitimate way when they were on the perils and dangers in the complications of going through a pirate site well i wouldn't say it's necessarily dangerous but of course well i mean you can get viruses from that. sort of thing i mean it's not safe is it well people want to have a convenient way of accessing stuff fast and this is often not done by the office but when it is like for example with i tunes or with spotify then yeah people are willing to pay a fair price for the content but of course if the illegal offer ends up being

more convenient and has a higher quality which is often the case then people are going to go with roger thanks very much good to talk to in the studio rid of the candidate for the european parliament elections and president the young power so europe thank you very much indeed. a new bill that puts limits on the amount of money that can be spent on election campaigning is now released squeaked through the british parliament but that won't stop the peddling of political influence that goes on at other times often ending in scandals auntie's the recent 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 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 and people are trying certain no difficult situation to unpredictable situations this committee has a long term rule and a long term rule is to defend 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 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 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. if you get a website there's always plenty to read including it's like something out of the pages of a murder thriller an argument over whether prose or poetry is a higher form of expression has come to a bloody end in russia reform

a school teacher made his point with a knife before fleeing the scene. and freezing radiation in its tracks workers at japan's fukushima nuclear plant a building an underground wall of frozen soil and a last ditch attempt to keep contamination from flowing into the sea all that more become. known as the roller coaster of winter sports but loops corkscrews the starting ski jumping center in sochi will make spectators hold their breath while competitors flies through the skies to say just from the and then pick 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 a one hundred twenty five treat.

these of the athletes will be braving the winter olympics in sochi the russkie jump you send the sportsmen and women. told. you. 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 being snow for little kids to. feel. joy. and.

utilizing the well of. the machines turning into this. all said and done what's left is to get all the sports men and women out in the crowd. cheering on. gold. from the. keeping up to date with everything that's happening there and in the run up to the big games we'll continue to give you a preview of all the venues without lympics series watch it here on r.t. international and on our website r.t. dot com. for some other news making headlines across the world in our world updates whistleblower edward snowden has been nominated for the nobel peace prize by two

norwegian politicians according to them his global surveillance revelations have contribute to a more stable and peaceful world order previous winners of the prize include the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons and us president barack obama . including a man dressed as a giant rat have been arrested occupied monsanto rally against the g.m. foods giant protest took place outside the company's shareholders meeting to discuss the labeling of genetically modified food cause at the center of the demonstration was seized by police. that's a brings up stay for the moment more news with just over half an hour from now in the meantime report on the drug money flowing self from the u.s. that's after a short break. i

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