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

international live from studio center here in moscow where it's just past eleven pm and nine pm in kiev where ukrainian lawmakers are about to vote on an amnesty for those arrested during anti-government riots and protests in past months and this could mark a turning point in the ongoing ongoing unrest for the law to take effect though demonstrators will have to leave the streets and dismantle the barricades now that's something the more radical right is refusing to do what peter one of the has the latest live from kiev it doesn't look like perhaps a compromise could be at hand. well lawmakers are locked in talks they've been going on all day here in the capital now.

the president has arrived at those talks he's taking part and in the ongoing discussions he had been in a meeting with the e.u. foreign policy chief catherine ashton we heard earlier from catherine ashton she called on a news conference she called on both sides to work hard to stop the conflict and encouraging them to to continue in dialogue now one thing that the ukrainian politicians have voted on is that they say this to extend the parliamentary session in order to continue these debates and we may expect to see that go on through the night perhaps even into the morning to see a a vote. on a vote tomorrow morning on this bill now what we have seen in the main stumbling point. is that the government put forward this amnesty bill as part of concessions made to opposition leaders now. they said that it's only amnesty for those detained

if demonstrators dismantle these barricades and leave buildings that they had occupied the opposition leaders saying that they just want an unconditional amnesty so that's what they're trying to hammer out at the moment in terms of what the guys who are on the front lines of these barricades have been telling us they're saying that they're not going to leave them voluntarily without a covert having being removed from power some of the the right wing elements the extreme right wing elements a nationalistic groups there saying they want really a full revolution here in ukraine in terms of those nationalists what we've seen from them is a march of a large group of them left independence square just behind me and march toward say a memorial to those that died in one thousand eight hundred forty one nine hundred eighteen against the bolsheviks during that march we saw them waving nationalistic flags and banners as well. but it's not just the the people on the streets the groups on the streets that are involved in nationalism here in ukraine they are

also represented in the parliament in the freedom party in particular and in particular in the embodiment of. their leader now these discussions are they say ongoing right now but the. worst violence that we have seen is being laid at the door of these nationalist organizations and ukraine does have a long history of problems with nationalistic groups some of the worst violence of the state to be claimed to have been started by them but it goes way back my colleague alexy out a report now about one of the bloodiest incident instances of nationalistic violence here in ukraine i must warn you some viewers may find some of the images in the lexus report disturbing. miroslav him a 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. 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 sober and went to the village to murder they didn't kill they murdered with pitchforks and axes mules 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 in one nine hundred forty three conducted a total ethnic cleansing pools in ukraine that is to destroy all poles living on a territory they considered their property after the bowling slaughter the murders of them both continued both of them and third in regions of their worry craniums we

try to hold all 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 of 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 cleary 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 matters standing at his father's grave must not feel musharraf ski 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 key of

ukraine the ukrainian president has already agreed to dissolve the government and cancel the anti writing laws which were fueling the protests but the demonstrators are still demanding he steps down steve i ams he's a former 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 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 was just a myth. 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 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 thirst we 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 or not. 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 busy couple of reports the state of the union address is being seen as more of a bare bones wish list than the meaty plan of action. a year of action and 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 seemed to frankly a 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 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 all 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 obama spoke for more than that but at times he was a little short on details he said what i believe unites the people of this nation is the profound belief in opportunity for all but the recent polls suggest two

thirds of americans think the gap between rich and poor is widening vollmer also said democrats have a bill to lift the minimum wage to ten dollars and ten cents he wants to boost pay for every u.s. citizen but one report says that's still less than what's needed in even the poorest parts of the country the president also said americans overwhelmingly agree that no one who works full time should ever have to raise a family in poverty but eight point nine million americans do find themselves in a tough situation where u.s. journalist and nationalist national policy analyst norman sullivan says the president's address is unlikely to change much 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 than he's ever had since he was sworn in in january of two thousand and nine and one of the sad thing is 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 is 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 thing. big businesses are beginning to circle around iran as progress on the historic nuclear deal promises to unlatch the country's doors of commerce turkey is setting the pace with its entrepreneurs planning to invest fifteen million euros in tehran with the prime minister erdogan also wanted to boost trade but some critics are urging the companies to rein in their appetites for profit artes are in english 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 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 railways construction oil production another industries linked with oil iran has. lots of resources and these resources need investment technology capability so when the sanctions are over and the western a service companies are allowed to go in 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 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 a lot of car manufacturers 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 jewels 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 status 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 called r.t. . or some hawks in the u.s. congress don't share the first shoots of optimism over iran and instead mulling more sanctions are though richard any such initiative would have to deal with his presidential vote 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 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 cross my heart and hope to die politicians and scandal plagued with how

to get ethics training in the hope of putting morals and integrity back into public life also. copyright shocks to you from the power of a website in the netherlands as a cold says all attempts to block the follow. through is the internet that's the right. call 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. as the media leave us so we leave the media part of the scene motion secure the. visible. shoes that no one is asking with the guests that you deserve answers from. politic only on

our t.v. . down in the final. and the rest. will be. 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 off and being in scandal solti's nor smith reports. low being 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 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 off 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 disk committee has a long term role and the 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 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 mean

teaching right from wrong and the real kicker the training will be based on course is given to lawyers and everyone's favorite ethical citizens bank so. we don't forget our website there's always plenty for you to read including it's not something out of the pages of a murder threat or an argument over whether prose or the highest form of expression has come to a bloody end in russia after a former school teacher made his point for the night before fleeing the scene. freezing radiation in his 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 morphy called. the file 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 had proven to be of little effect as users easily found loopholes to get to the torrent tracker. lead candidate for the european parliament elections and president of the young parts of europe thinks the ruling is an important milestone in the political battle for the internet. people want to have a convenient way of accessing stuff fast and this is often not done by legal office but when it is like for example with i tunes or with spotify then you have 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 if you have any information or any large file that you want to share bittorrent is just the best way of doing this 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 kind of 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 is known as the roller coaster of winter sports but you won't see any loops corkscrews these stunning new ski jumping center in sochi will make spectators hold their breath while computers is flowing through the skies to say just came back from the olympic venue where she took a closer look at how the jumps are being prepared 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 are the highs athletes will be braving at the winter olympics in sochi the russkie goal to jump essentail with the 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 for little coasters. jumping. on the field now as you can see. it's interesting. joyce.

and you got all these really interesting buttons. utilizing the well. water into the machines that are turning it into this official. all said and done what's left is to get all the sports men and women out of the crowd. cheering on favorite one to win gold. will be bringing you special coverage from. everything that's happening in the run up to the big games will continue to give you a preview of all the venues where the. international. the russian embassy in sudan has tightened security after

a knife attack on the consul and his wife the pair needed treatment in hospital police say the suspect was from the central african republic he was reportedly seeking to avenge the killing of his brother by foreign troops analyst lawrence freeman told us the incident is an echo of decades of colonization. it's very serious because what you're seeing is people acting out of uncontrolled ball raids and anger and desperation which means that people all over the region are in danger because you can't predict how people going to respond when you keep oppressing people pressing the people it's like a spring they don't spring back and you don't know how will i find is that in cynics stream the worse and this is the result of colonial imperialist coliseums for decades and people are literally be turned from human beings the animals and they're just acting out of complete rape his person sudan strikes a russian diplomat because something happened in the c.a.r.

makes no sense to people now you you have a increased level of irrationality inside victory is taking over because these countries were destroyed and never develop. this is also international law here moscow about when morning when just a half an hour from now i mean time to stay with us crosstalk is coming away as promised off to a short break. it was a. very hard to take a. look at that back with her back here good.

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leave me. alone and welcome to cross talk we're all things are 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 a former moscow bureau chief for.