ukraine's parliament is debating an amnesty for detained government protesters but the radical right wing. u.s. president takes the fight to the republican annual state of the union address but he promises to close guantanamo and. bring in. legislative. markets. hoping to be the first cash. following a partial lifting of sanctions. so we can. go.

studio center here in moscow where it's just past midnight and ten pm in kiev where . they won't stop their emergency session until there's some kind of agreement on amnesty for those arrested during anti-government protests in the past months now 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 dismantle their barricades something the more radical . 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 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 in a news conference she called on both sides to work hard to stop the conflict and encouraging them to to continue in dialogue one thing that the ukrainian politicians have voted on is that they say 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 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 wanted conditional on the city 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 having being removed from power some of the the right wing elements the extreme right wing elements in nationalistic groups they're saying they want really a full revolution here in ukraine if it were to be claimed to have been started by them but it goes way back my colleague. now about one of the bloodiest instances of nationalistic violence here in ukraine i must warn you some viewers may find some of the images in the report disturbing. chef skee 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 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 him or bird with pitchforks and axes i mean this 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 thousand forty three conducted a total ethnic cleansing in pools in ukraine that is to destroy all poles living on a territory they consider their property after the voting slaughter of the murders of both continue both of the internal people regions of their worry craniums we try to help 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 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 murders which haven't been prosecuted will always spawn new murders standing at his father's grave meus laughter musharraf skee 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 in ukraine. well today's cross talked abates whether the tactics used by the protesters on the streets of the ukrainian capital were 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 yannick over it you know covert for better or worse he's making compromises are he did over the weekend was rejected by the opposition i mean what more do they want first we should remember that while one 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.

cross 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 result he's loosely couple of reports his 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 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 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 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 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 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 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. well obama spoke for more than an hour 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 a recent poll suggests two thirds of americans think the gap between the rich and the pool is widening above 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 and 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 that tough situation u.s. journalist and national policy analyst norman solomon he 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 has 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 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'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 thing. big business is a beginning to circle around iran has progress on the historic nuclear deal promises to unlatch the country's doors of commerce he's setting the pace with its entrepreneurs planning to invest fifty million euros in tehran well prime minister also wants to boost trade but some critics are urging the companies to rein in their appetites for profit noughties and in english are not why. this could very well be the world's newest gold rush bots in the not so wild east a population of some seventy five million people a youth literacy rate of ninety percent and and some of the world's largest oil and gas reserves in a country that's been isolated from the world for decades if this doesn't sound

like a recipe for business but very little else well. right now iran is ready to host investors in segments like building royal ways construction oil production another industries linked with oil iran has. lots of resources. and these resources need investment and technology capability so when the sanctions are over and the western or service companies are allowed to go in i think there will be plenty of potential tehran appears to have fulfilled the first two requirements of the recent geneva agreement by halting production of high grade uranium and stopping its most powerful centrifuges now it's waiting for the other side in the talks to deliver on their promises and ease some of the sanctions iran's new president seems to be in with enthusiasm and determination to show his countries are ready for a new era of business that figure out their own goddaughter 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. selves and a lot of call 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 caused the french automotive company to write off five hundred million jewelers 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 statue while all reportedly sending planeloads of representatives to iran eager to talk operation

despite the fact the ink on the geneva agreement is barely dry after all anyone who knows business also knows the timing is crucial in a ghost r.t. . the us seems to be finding new ways to take action against assad's government it's claiming the country can produce biological weapons but also say there are groups and got out of hand and western nations in this selig's that after the break . thank. the interviewer. players. thanks.

to our. house. speaker language. programs and documentaries in arabic it's all here. the world talks of the r.p. interview true story for you. to find out because it are a big don't call. the elimination of syria's chemical arsenal steams the u.s. is now warning of a new threat from the assad government america's director of national intelligence

james clapper claims damascus may have the capabilities to produce biological weapons or he's made a point not joins me live now with more details on this marina just how it is then this technology according to clapper. well the u.s. director of national intelligence claims that syria has not successfully weaponized biological agents in affective delivery system but he says that the government possesses conventional weapons systems that could be used to launch biological weapons now speaking to the senate intelligence committee james clapper said that america's spy agencies believe that some elements of syria's biological warfare program might have advanced beyond the research and development stage and might be capable of limited agent production now the timing of these comments are quite interesting you have to understand them in context mr clapper is making these

allegations as damascus has been successfully complying with the russian u.s. brokered deal to remove and destroy its arsenal of chemical weapons the agreement was brokered as a way to avert u.s. missile strikes that president obama was threatening in september to carry out now it looks as though the u.s. administration may have a new reason to revisit their military playbook and one of the syrian threats to clap or point. well mr clapper is warning that syrian militant groups tied to al qaeda such as the al nasra front is aspiring to attack the united states he told the senate intelligence committee on wednesday that extremist groups in syria are conducting training camps to train people to go back to their countries and conduct more terrorist acts clapper says that some twenty six thousand rebel fighters battling the government of bashar al assad in syria are extremists and he also estimates that seven thousand of them are from

fifty different countries including europe you know with all due respect to mr clapper this is not a huge revelation we've been reporting for months about how an influx of extremist groups in syria has turned the war torn country into a terrorist training center now the u.s. is currently feed in quite a conundrum because the al qaeda members fighting with the rebels may pose a greater threat to american interests than the syrian president washington wants removed from new york thank you very much indeed for that let's cross over to our studios in washington and brought back and toward his joins us live from. his remark on a potential biological open a new diplomatic problem for syria similar to the one we saw concerning the chemical weapons. well it's a clear indication that the obama administration is looking for other rationales other pretext to keep the pressure on the assad government and when i say pressure that's kind of euphemistic what they're really doing of course is creating

a great international crime by funneling arms and weapons and money to an arms struggle in other words for mental and civil war so that they can destroy an independent nationalist government in this region of the world. yes they need rationales they can say well we're we really want to overthrow the assad government because we want to puppet proxy regime in syria so they have to say well we're doing all of this for other reasons and the other reasons are always some noble cause fighting terrorism fighting chemical weapons now fighting biological weapons but beneath it all is the real driving force of u.s. policy which is to to rule the roost in the in this resource rich part of the world cause chemical weapons weapons of mass destruction not only in syria but also in iraq were used as a pretext for military intervention are you really saying that this could be an excuse for something that i get like that again i would suggest that everyone should consider this to be another false flag another pretext irrational an excuse

to carry out u.s. policy which i consider to be a criminal policy because it's foreman thousand armed struggle in a nation that the united states is technically not anywhere near as such the regime is proof of had chemical weapons because they're removing them from the country no one not the bottle threat then is that not a valid accusation. well you know even even the u.s. government says these are not weaponized. components for biological weapons that they're in the research and development think we've gone through this script before we saw it in iraq we saw it in libya we're seeing it in syria it doesn't mean that weapons of mass destruction don't exist but what i'm saying is the united states government is carrying out an armed struggle policy a civil war policy and they need to keep up public rationales also they need a way to balance against geneva they need to find a way to continue to demonize the assad government because the ultimate goal is to get rid of assad not for a negotiated settlement and clapper also expressed deep concern over terrorism

being spawned in syria but of course becoming a threat elsewhere in the u.s. and in europe it is that really a cause for concern. well i think we have there to enter tangled agendas the n.s.a. and the u.s. intelligence agencies need enemies and they need enemies because the snowden revelations show they're actually spying on the american people in the people of the world so they need an al qaeda threat force but at the same time the u.s. has been the one funneling the arms to the armed opposition which in fact is strengthening al qaeda just as they did in afghanistan in one thousand nine hundred eighty nine some of bin laden was the precursor to al qaida then in the u.s. cia supported him brought to it both ways wrong great story thanks very much indeed for your perspective on this live from. but i've got a website dot com it's always there plenty for you to read including it's it's like something out of the pages of

a murder thriller an argument over whether prose or poetry is the highest form of expression has come to a bloody end in russia after a former schoolteacher maybe's point with a knife before fleeing the scene. and freezing radiation in its tracks well because it depends because human nuclear plant a building an underground wall of frozen soil the last ditch attempt to keep contamination from flowing into the sea all that and more it all to come. is known as the rollercoaster of winter sports but you won't see any corkscrews the stunning new ski jumping center in sochi will make spectators hold their breath while competitors fly through the skies and i must 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 vary then maybe one hundred twenty five meters the trick. these of the athletes will be braving at the winter olympics in sochi the russkie team jumpy sent the sportsmen and women flying with the wings. the name. which translates to russian mountains in english is quite fitting as the events held here known as the roller coaster of winter sports but will they be enough snow. storms.

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dot com well that brings up to date for the moment i'll be back with a news team with more from just over half an hour from now in the meantime a report on drug money passing from the u.s. to mexico but if you're watching us in the u.k. it's going underground with host afshin rattansi and we all get back to go ever again just over half an hour from now. take me out to the ball game and take me through the metal detector so wait that's not how the song goes well as the country changes sadly so must the national pastime they settle mariners released a statement that they like all other teams for twenty fifteen are setting up metal detectors to screen all fans entering their stadium for getting visions of hot dogs in home runs now everyone will be able to tell their grandkids about how their bags got searched because they had metal buttons at company name stadium baseball

memories the team's management is also continuing their ban on bags larger than forty by forty by twenty centimeters because if you're going to seek an explosive device it had better be compact their body maybe i'm jumping the gun metal detectors can't touch your genitals or do a naked body scan they are probably the least intrusive coming form of security scan then again think about it they want to prevent some terrorist from blowing up a densely packed crowd of people in the stadium so the m l b wants teams to create densely packed lines of people outside the stadium before the game starts with these security measures really stop a psychotic terrorist murder nope but that's just my opinion.

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