biting the hand that feeds ukraine's opposition refused to vacate government buildings precondition for an amnesty put forward by the government in a bid to alleviate the crisis that's gripping the country. first foreign channel to reach the syrian town of an early morning attack by islamist radicals left thousands displaced and claims. he's homeless and he's here to save the day. in the streets of helping those down in the dumps to get back on their feet.

this is off the international law from a studio in moscow where it's just pasta levon pm and nine pm in ukraine where protesters are vowing to stay put into the presence resignation refusing to accept the conditions for an amnesty the bill passed by parliament and a late night emergency session says the protesters won't be prosecuted if they leave the two dozen administrative buildings they seized all over the country and reports now from kiev. last night on wednesday the parliament stayed almost until midnight to find a solution they managed to pass and then an animist a law which provided those conditions but the opposition says they are not willing to take these it to meet these demands they are not willing to make concessions of their own the opposition wants all those detained in the protests to be released from prison sandy criminalised the government the ruling party says they are ready for it only on one condition that other protesters dio keep by all the

administrative buildings they have captured over the past several weeks and dismantle the barricade in the governmental quarter in kiev and this is the sticking point right now here is what leaders of the opposition sad regarding the new amnesty law which almost here unfortunately did dr could deal with you know it is not the best solution to the crisis on the contrary it's good it deteriorates the situation heats up tensions in society because. how can we discuss negotiations today they're pursuing their own goals they pay no attention to the people they ignore the people's representatives in parliament they decided to go their own way we'll see where it leads. so it seems that the compromised which everyone thought was almost reached between the opposition and the ruling party hasn't been achieved particularly from the side of the opposition which is not willing to make any concessions the president last night warned that if a compromise is not reached between the sides of the parliament then the parliament

may be just solved so the tension is now in the political sphere and it's really hard to say where this will all go. ukraine's president has issued a statement while on sick leave saying he's done all he promised to do to alleviate the crisis i wish on his website the statement stresses that it's now up to the protesters to take a step forward but the president made a number of concessions after meeting with opposition leaders earlier this week lifted the ante rallying laws that enraged protesters shortly after that he accepted the resignation of the country's prime minister and dismissed the cabinet and now the amnesty bill which the opposition says it's not good enough because it requires that they leave central kiev with seventy or truth covert she's the foreign affairs editor of the chronicle magazine believes the unilateral concessions only encourage protesters to step up the pressure on the president you know coverage finds himself in a tricky position because we know from experience that

a regime in trouble which starts making unilateral concessions actually does not strengthen its position both weakens it because it displays unsureness of touch which the opposition then invariably uses to strengthen its interests huge ns and it's maximalist demands a reasonably the next step for your coverage would have to be told you're certain the authority of the state and the rule of law because let's face it the scenes that we've been witnessing with ministry in here over the past few weeks would never have been allowed in washington d.c. in london or in brussels or in any democratic european union capital. twitter statistics show the world is watching ukraine's unrest especially in the us and the e.u. the latest wave of public anger kicked off on the nineteenth of general and you can

see here on this map how tweets with the hash tag down are spreading each red flash represents a tweet and it's almost as many flashes over america and europe as there are over ukraine itself will stop to date with events there in the country twenty four seventh's a web site r.t. dot com where you'll find a timeline with photos from kiev as well as the latest reports from a correspondence. the international chemical weapons watchdog is meeting to bolster the drive to eliminate syria's toxic all spot on the eve of the gathering the u.s. national intelligence chief kick started a new wave of scaremongering saying the assad government remains capable of producing biological arms or james clapper also warned that thousands of foreigners have joint the rebels in syria where al qaeda linked groups are inspiring them to bring the jihad back with them even establish special training camps to teach

foreign recruits how to attack targets in the u.s. and other western nations german journalist mona oxer reuters says washington brought this threat upon itself. who shall know better about the military capabilities of the syrian or of the rebels in syria better than the us intelligence chief because he has to know he was arming them or the west was arming these people so they would have to know how many arms they have i was in damascus when security sources were saying that the united states delivered one hundred stinger rockets to the f.s.a. to the free syrian army which is known as so-called moderate army and a couple of days later the. slimmest terrorist group claimed that they trust god one hundred stinger rockets from the so-called moderate

rebels so you see those arms whoever you sell them in that region will end up in the head of the worst people. they snuck in through a sewer during a december snowstorm catching the army off guard but soldiers and civilians were allegedly massacred that early morning in syria's town of address as it fell into the hands of islamist extremists however those claims have been impossible to verify because of the chaotic situation there r.t. is the first foreign channel to get to the area if an ocean reports. is just a twenty minute drive from damascus but the highway runs through an area firmly under rebel control so instead we take a newly created pass driving through high mounds of sand and piles of old tires the army uses to shoot its convoys from a tanks it's maybe longer but it's a safer route talk about where the first foray into recruit to get this close to are dry after the siege began

a month ago it's still not clear exactly what happened in this industrial city last december back then reports emerged of numerous killings and violence after alger was attacked by militants belonging to al-qaeda linked groups and the free syrian army. they stormed into the city and they kept the civilians in their buildings using them as human shields which made our mission very difficult this is why it takes so long we want to avoid civilian losses. to reported allegations the dozens of civilians had been executed that people were beheaded and burned in over ends and one claimed the doctors and patients were killed in a clinic which revelled to address hoping to verify these reports but there is still no way of getting into the besieged areas of the town to confirm if any of that actually happened we got as close as the army can there actually to the old town are the real blood and the work is house and complex nearby

a drum aliya both and i'll besieged like a dog with a lot of the will maybe some blankets here to separate other our blood and that room earlier and to prevent the militants uniting. these corridors go all around the besieged cities with the army watch in the area day and night. this is one of the checkpoints of the syrian army behind this wall is territory held by militants and the soldiers strategy and the mission right now is just to watch this area and to shoot if they see the enemy approaching. and this is actually all they can do any military operation could threaten the lives of those who remain hostage and was no access inside it's impossible to tell just how many the are but luckily most of the residents managed to escape address we meet some of them two kilometers away they shelter around what used to be

a large summons factory but in this hotel's me he doesn't go to school anymore but this place because a terrorist attack the student who had to skate they occupied and we cannot go there their rooms are blocked he says his father is a government employee this is why it is dangerous for his family to stay we ask where they live now. the hours mother appear from the darkness of a room barely ten square meters and a silence everything what is happening is wrong there was no need for any of this see where we are now what degree we have reached now it's a question that many here are asking because these children haven't seen their mother for a month already seriously ill she couldn't get her medicine due to the siege with her condition deteriorating she was sent to a hospital far from her family when. we were living in peace and now where are we i wish peace would come back to all of syria. a month later it's still not clear

exactly what happened another drug most of those we talked to here in this camp fled before the militants arrived but occasionally we meet some who didn't escape so quickly and the loner they were looking for anybody serving in the syrian army and also the vitus of the syrian soldiers beheaded at the sewage system. we were in a group of about twenty people they were beating us three at a time and killing us and i saw with my own eyes people stole and i still see them in my nightmares. that are like this sort of they cut drinking water and they prevented the bakery from working for us and young children are about to die from a lack of water and they threatened us with machine guns. once an important industrial and peaceful city has become yet another syrian battleground for weary forces whose three alone confrontation has left well in excess of one hundred thousand dead and millions displaced and yet it's another place where no side looks

able to win and it's the ordinary syrian people left to pay the price roof notional tea from address in syria and the british prime minister says u.k. citizens farting shoulder to shoulder with radicals in syria are a threat to national security and seeing a barrage of questions from m.p.'s you also had to give his view on the flood of leaks from edward snowden a wave of public criticism over n.s.a. data collection artes to reports. the prime minister david cameron talked about the changing risks of the u.k. is facing he faced a lot of questions although not really challenge them he was basically asked on the way the security services functioned and where the security strategy was heading and the prime minister did not deviate much really from what was already said in the past on the various issues not just a few things that did stand out on the middle east and the arab spring he said is

a quote good thing in the long term for security but acknowledges that there will be bombs on the road now he may be challenge here on the basis of the ongoing instability in the region and whether these can be quite classified really as just bumps on the road and now in terms of syria you confirm that the situation there is an ongoing major concern for national security and acknowledged the potential for radical radicalization of british citizens he also said that the military intervention the contemplation in the past was purely about chemical weapons and not about regime change and of course one of the security issues that he was expected to be asked about is that of the n.s.a. and edward snowden's revelations that with david cameron stood by the work of the intelligence agencies and he even had a little message for the media and particularly a newspaper the guardian that is where he said that he would encourage newspapers and loosely dallying in this to think before they act and he said basically that

he's worried about the damage that the snowden revelations have on security and he said he thinks the u.k. is in danger of becoming less safe now because the government has sent a couple of officials to the offices of the guardian newspaper and destroyed some of the computers and hard drives over there containing those the said the revelations by edward snowden and all of this course in the name of national security and again they want to be arguments that he brought forth in the use of collection of data he said that a lot of the tea. police shows that he's watched it was through the use and gathering of mobile phone data information that criminals were caught this seems to be one of the arguments that he had put forward in defense of the activities of the intelligence services and going back to the general strategy he said that one of the goals is to enhance alliances of the u.k. however just a day before the german chancellor angela merkel criticized once again the cooperation between the u.s. in the u.k.

and spying on their allies and in fact she said the end result is not more security but less still to come in the program here not international britain and france get serious about making military drones together. as a whole since to use the deadly planes but the question to remain over just how they hope to avoid civilian casualties only way shortly along with other stories.

cross talk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want. i think. britain and france are looking to join forces and invest in building military drones together the two governments are expected to sign an agreement will pave the way for two years of joint research into building the land planes activists and

political analyst chris bambery believes when the u.s. goes militarily its european allies are sure to go as well. americans go for the british and french need to fold because the british and french are essentially american attack dogs in europe they're the only two european powers that have the military capability the americans can sometimes use so if the americans are investing in drones and never to be britain and france are also going to do the same britain is more open about it france is more. about the fight there has to it's a military alliance with the states but never where they're going to go go there and i think it's our warning actually in terms of europe because drugs are not just simply attack weapons they're also surveillance weapons as we know and i think it also highlights the fact that there is in europe potential instability that those drones could well be used for surveillance in the east. while the clock ticks down toward the grand opening we reveal some of the secrets of sorts

a limb pick coming up in our living series it's chess on ice a sport that seems to complex to many. that still to come first is not a bird or a plane it's super and he's here to get burnings homeless back on their feet shore with his loss for a beer and wreaking breath he's far from politically correct but. reports from the german capital he's readership is up up and away. his muscles affair but he has no fixed abode it's super hobo the unlikely superhero inherited his super powers accidentally after savoring some discarded beer. normally like bettman or iron man they are very very rich playboys who rescue all the world no it's the guy from the on the ground who rescues which gets to the city because

it's very attractive for people all over the world not because it saw correct or clean city but because of his shabby charm so it's logical that the glorious superhero of. so. super hobos creators says the idea was spawned while watching a homeless man trying and failing to sell a newspaper on a train. so stefan went to the stratton fagen newspaper which is sold by the homeless and unemployed and offer to launch the charity supplement in order to boost its sales for sure it's a little bit political incorrect but that's the only way to get more people into the subject homelessness and so we decided to do it the newspapers distributed through chaos such as this one said the city's homeless can come here and buy in copies for sixty cents apiece which they then sell on for one year

a fifty and they're able to make a profit but certainly in the time that we've been here several people have come up trying to buy in more copies of that super hobo supplement that has been selling so well super hobos breath stinks he dreams of oceans of beer and yet the homeless vendors don't take offense it's a very good idea it should have been fought over the comic supplement makes it heavier and i can't carry as many copies but it's not too bad you just don't carry on. now the customers are asking for this comic it would be good to have super to the document publication aims to brighten the fortunes of its fellows the soup kitchen. station has an increasing number of hungry mouths to feed the crisis is doing and or bringing in bringing much more people into difficult situations a lot of foreigners you foreign law to come and people are telling them germany is

a rich country and please come and you will have a good life but in fact it's very difficult to get jobs here and it's very difficult to get flats i'm thinking that's the number of people. especially in mumbai leaders increasing in the next years enormously but there is trying to shift the papers daily save a comic strip has at the very least added that little bit of comic relief. the olympic games may have show stopping venues but they're also about making competitors from all over the world feel at home on these pool scott went to the athletes' village where everything is set to provide a warm welcome to the cold winter games. well behind me is one of the three athletes villages that between them can house up to seven thousand competitors this is the one in the coastal cluster and for the next few weeks it's

going to be the two three thousand competitors it's where they're going to eat sleep train and of course socialize now the unique thing about this coastal cluster is that the athletes all of them are going to be within walking distance of their venues leading to a real sense of community spirit there are two other olympic villages based a thousand meters above sea level there are in the mountains and it's going to house all the competitors in outdoor events and of course any olympic games it's really just about the sport it's just about the athletes and with the first competitors beginning to arrive in sochi excitement is on the increase with the games now just a little over a week away. well of all the winter sports to the outside it curling can seem not one of the most complex the game has been chess on ice you should be strategic moves involved and at the winter olympics it has its very own venue.

it's curling up in sochi for the winter games and at the curling lympics stadium at least will be affecting this sweeping slide and ultimately the quest for gold the ice cube curling center is a three thousand multi-purpose arena it's one of the smaller centers here at the olympic park it will be hosting the wheelchair curling competitions the come the paralympic games now it's quite a spacious small center and those with disabilities will be able to enjoy this center so what it is proving you made one point have seen this all this weekend this to some it looks like a sweeping map but it's more than that physics and strategy play a role. the idea is to push the stone from one end of the ice to the other aiming for the center of the house which looks like a. sports car comes when the sweeping begins sweepers with what looks like

a mop the head of the stones melting the ice ever so slightly with the friction of the sweeping this is done to make the rope go farther they can straighten out the pot that the rock is traveling on. now the team with the rock closest to the center of the oldest throws wins in the end knocking the opposition's team stories out of the house of blocking it's possible a key parts of the game this involves intense strategy sessions and this is where curling really turns into chess on i. know you know so curl up at the curling stadium this winter olympics. say sochi olympic blog our team. will continue to. report. on.

time now for other world news in brief international a wave of shootings and bombings have shaken iraq's capital taking at least twenty lives no group has claimed responsibility for the attacks but the al qaeda linked fighters have mounted similar assaults in the past six suicide bombers stormed the new iraqi ministry building killing at least eighteen security forces regained control. more than a thousand people have filed a joint lawsuit against the companies that built japan's fukushima nuclear plant they claim the firm should take financial responsibility for the facilities two

thousand and eleven meltdown caused by a massive earthquake and tsunami accident as one of the worst nuclear disasters in history according to experts it may take decades to finish cleaning up operations around the crippled facility which is leaking radiation into the sea. in bangladesh fourteen people including the head of the country's main islamist opposition party have been sentenced to death there were charges smuggling weapons and ammunition to a rebel group in neighboring india after their cargo was intercepted by police three hundred people of one of the victim to the political violence plaguing the country since last year. about with a new team with wolf we just have a huff an hour from now in the meantime dives into mikey waters of the financial world as is the cause report on r.t. international after the break.

take me out to the bowl 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 said the 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 stick 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. welcome to the kaiser report backs keyser currencies are crashing markets are

tumbling taper no no no taper no no no no no i mean print print more no wait maybe we should taper no maybe we should print print print paper maybe paper print paper bring paper print tape or temper temper print think tent well markets are down two percent four percent away maybe we should print more money. you know having this whole thing as a command to control economy doesn't seem to be working yet milk we need milk bread bread. hurricane print command to control what the frick. stacy frick max it looks very difficult to do this commanding control is very hard because the series you control one single thing it's like i guess the theory of relativity it all changes you change everything and then you have to go control that and then you have to tell this lie and that lie and more lies on top of lies on top of fraud to cover the fraud more fraud so it's a never ending cycle of a whirlwind of chaos you know the central bankers invisible hand envy other words

the invisible hand as described by adam smith you don't need central bankers you don't need tapering you don't need print thing such. and it's a beautiful it's kind of the coin of a day you know from two hundred and two hundred forty or years ago or so that was the point of its time the enlightenment that i'm smith but then central bankers got very envious of the fact that there was something so beautiful perfect as the as the invisible hand so they started to degrade it and they come up with this new command and control central bank model that of course is utter failure well that's interesting because of course adam smith looked at nature and when he wrote wealth of nations and you look at nature to devise a perfect balance market and because nature destroys anything that's weak or bad so all of these enterprises that we've propped up all these banks they would have been destroyed ruthlessly.