he was. reaching out to protest is the u.s. secretary of state will meet ukraine's opposition leaders for the first time in munich they says washington considers sanctions against the government. a crisis and capital punishment the shortage of lethal drugs as he says america's death penalty states to look at alternative often more painful methods of execution . or something startling in only part of the. leave. which will to experts to find out what condemned prisoners face it there's no drugs to kill them. he slips into the olympic sliding center to find out what awaits the sleighs and skeletons competing for medals in the winter games .

this is all seem to national coming to you live from moscow hello and welcome to the program. the u.s. secretary of state john kerry will meet here crane's opposition leaders for the first i'm on the sidelines of a security conference in munich on saturday and washington is also keeping up the pressure on president unocal bitch who is now on the sick leave calling on him to resolve the crisis while sweating restrictions if he doesn't. we're willing to consider sanctions no decision has been made the comments come up to the ukrainian parliament passed and move granting amnesty for those detained during protests the condition was that those still occupying government buildings and leave but the opposition is refusing and the divide in ukraine appears to be widening as. he

reports from kiev ukraine is now in an absolutely unique situation i don't think there's ever been anything compared to what is happening in the country right now half of it is now paralyzed with the regional administration has taken over by the protesters making it completely impossible for this part of the country to be properly governed by the authorities there already been cases we've heard reports that some of the some some of the reasons authorities are actually running their regions online exchanging correspondence through different messaging services was there and mabel to go to their work their regional ministrations have been blocked and there's no chance of a compromise as of now and to give you a proper feeling of what it's like in the heart of the protest in the west of ukraine my colleague paulus near did this report. this is the regional administration building in even a song called skin western ukraine where at the till a week ago the regional governor had his office but as you can see just liking kiev's there is now a giant barricade surrounding the building with snow tires and planks of wood

radical and and he russian this is the heartland of nationalism where anti on a common sentiment runs deep and that's the way an italian and her comrades want to keep it the twenty nine year old entrepreneur has been here since the building was overthrown she says work can wait this is more important which is supposed to have no president then to have you know called which but what the opposition as fragmented as it is that tally is the first to admit no yanna coverage could well mean an alkie whitney bishop along with the problem is that we don't have any person to replace him and we will need to take someone from their position which won't be easy the sentiments blown across central and western ukraine we regional offices are being picketed and seized by protesters. in burmese a group of right wing radicals some wearing masks stormed the municipal building chanting we have the power they used fire extinguishers and wooden sticks against

police. in china gov demonstrators set up barricades made a vehicle pass and sacks of snow they demanded police leave the building similar scenes played out and she can see where protesters trying to signify to furniture they smashed windows and threw stones at security forces. the anger has moved even further westwards engine off ski protests descend ukrainian hymns while ignoring the governor's attempts to disperse them. in a van or from coffs those now laying siege to the municipality buildings have forbidden any symbols or sentiments of the ruling party they claim it goes against the will of the ukrainian people no one knows why. the head of the administration is there are parts of this building that are still functioning for example the day to day running of the city but on a political level everything is come to a standstill all this process might. lead to door division

of the country of course as a result in some years perhaps in a long term perspective which is quite dangerous process and the process with my late not only tall. disturbers of the situation of the internal situation in ukraine but my also processes in the neighboring countries like poland on the one hand hungary on the other hand those countries which are now in the european union despite the criticism of you on the coverage these protestors have nothing better to offer policia r.t. even a front costs waste in ukraine. e.u. norway because they accuse moscow interfering in ukraine's crisis in the resolution posit by the parliamentary assembly of the council of europe but most who criticize the document for being full of double standards the resolution also condemns the ukrainian parliament for fuelling the escalation of violence by passing on to protest laws most of them have been abolished now but foreign affairs expert new

boys from knowledge believes nothing the government does will appease the opposition that. keeps moving the goal posts obviously they want the government to unconditionally surrender and all of their demands whatever those demands might be today the rick requesting one thing the two days before they were rick demanding something else in a week before something else altogether if they are given this by the parliament they will demand even more they've made it obvious that only unconditional surrender will do releasing these people i think would send a dangerous message to everybody in ukraine that you can get away with murder literally if you happen to end in power and you get there by blackmailing the government by occupying the town squares by resorting to violence is not going to end well if these demands are pieced appeasement usually doesn't end well anyway. ukraine's opposition side doesn't agree with the president's claims to have done everything possible to resolve the crisis had to alter our consul more details on

that and to follow minute by minute updates on the tab events here. u.s. lawmakers are looking for alternatives to help kill them they lethal injection drug to execute prisoners on death row are in short supply and there is concern over how effective they are anyway and some of the other methods being considered a knife nor or campaigners say humane aussies were in a park now i reports. in just the first month of twenty fourteen six executions have already been carried out on u.s. death row inmates however the shortage of drugs coupled with an increasing concern surrounding the efficiency of lethal injection has prompted lawmakers in some states to push for the reintroduction of long abandoned torture methods in missouri

some officials have raised the notion of rebuilding the state's gas chamber and also proposed making firing squads an option for executions death by gun has also been proposed as an option in wyoming meanwhile in virginia there's been a push to make electrocution an option so why are u.s. states now advocating to bring back these relics of the past in recent years european drug makers have stopped selling their drugs to prisons because they say they don't want their products to be used to kill prisoners as a result many u.s. executions have been delayed in other cases the use of new drugs for lethal injection caused slow painful deaths lasting over twenty minutes richard dieter of the death penalty information center says old execution methods being advocated are prone to even more mistakes you can imagine with a firing squad you know stumbling and no only partly. leading it

you know these are things that are also prone to to error to pain to you know from the public and so states changed to protect the. two lethal injection so to go back would certainly jeopardize their whole purpose of carrying to carry out executions some us states already provide alternatives to lethal injection alabama arkansas florida kentucky oklahoma south carolina tennessee and virginia it administer the electric chair if requested by the defendant delaware new hampshire and washington state allow inmates to choose hanging while arizona. and wyoming legally allow gas chamber executions as an alternative currently lethal injection remains the only enforceable method of execution in the us but if states get their way somewhere down the line death by firing squad or electric chair may become the new norm in america reporting from new york. r.t.

. some ahead for you this hour i've got a stunning faces the looming threat of town about a resurgence with the medicine group gaining strength just as kabul and washington . post poll out security deal. also lays have written francaise set to pull that cash to come up with some new deadly. despite the growing evidence and criticism about the number of civilians one breaks into on. the right. and as you point out people who are leaving home the u.s. has to put pressure on the saudis. russia has some influence on iran on that is watching and try to get those two parties together here behind the scenes of have to be the conference they've got to talk and divide the thing and come up to some solution here one of the things i find extremely ironic here is that about a half a year ago obama was a few minutes away from saying fire but i don't think the poor have to disagree i

think that. obama think is very pro this is very president of the really reach a conclusion that he could get things done without the use of force and people really people here in washington do believe that if obama would not have stepped up this rhetoric you know would have done a good instructions to go on a military strike then perhaps the seriously also regime would only move on the chemical weapons for a. wealthy british sign a sign it's time to. markets why not. find out what's really happening to the global economy is a report on our team. here

watching all seem to national live from moscow welcome back time is ticking away before american troops pull out of afghanistan and the security packs which will map out a supportive role they'll play one that combat mission is over is a name bout relations between washington and kabul heading for the deep freeze and as for force the tone about it could be the ones to benefit after thirteen years in afghanistan washington is counting down together with our allies we will complete our mission bear by the end of this year and america's longest war will finally be over. but ending a war isn't the same as winning one and when it comes to afghanistan peace is far from certain security situation is worsening in the country india is a new sign that americans. need to will be able to stop the war in afghanistan and decrees that the activities of taliban and the taliban have been active in the past

two weeks alone the group has staged numerous attacks in kabul kandahar nimrods helmont and nangarhar are in fact ministry of interior incident reports reveal clashes with the taliban in a most of the eleven provinces bordering pakistan the group also controls several districts in power one just a short drive from the country's capital some provinces are believed to be controlled by shadow governments that answer directly to the taliban the one that's any with night the taliban run their area the district government is just there but there is no real security. and it could get worse a classified american intelligence assessment warns that the initial objective in afghanistan removing the taliban and disabling al qaeda as operations in the country could fail and that the taliban could return in full swing by twenty seventeen the u.s. wants some troops to remain in the country by the pentagon's logic the pursuit of terrorists is best based in the region same goes for u.s.

drones and without american help the afghan army could collapse but the u.s. first needs the afghan president to sign off on a key security pact something he has been refusing to do so far in our position continues to be that if we cannot conclude a bilateral security agreement promptly then we will be forced to initiate planning for a post twenty fourteen future in which there would be no u.s. or nato troop presence in afghanistan there's also the issue of talking with the enemy the consensus seems to be that the afghan war could only end in a negotiated settlement with the taliban not a military victory but that's proven elusive the taliban are internally divided and the rift between kabul and washington has reportedly empowered hardline commanders who want to keep on fighting at the expense of those who support peace talks the u.s. war has succeeded in toppling the taliban regime and many afghans have seen their lives improve but those gains could easily be lost depending on galveston

a country that once again could be up for grabs reporting in washington for our team i'm lucy catherine. president karzai is demanding washington and peace talks with a taliban as a condition for signing the security deal. from the council of foreign relations who was a present all the time upon his says the u.s. is not hable to curtail the group which is on the right. it is a continuous war for over twenty years they have continued to fight some of them and since the american invasion in october fifth two thousand and one they have if anything increased their their ability to attack their holding for the united states even with its search in two thousand and nine announced by president obama has not been able all to really curtail the taliban they are as strong as ever as committed as ever and i think this is one reason why there is such difficulty

throughout nato throughout the west figure out how to leave afghanistan what to do with the taliban. or shinton has spend billions waging the i'm going to war and is still spending despite its mission winding down says a thousand and one it has cost the us taxpayer over seven hundred billion dollars and his will still to come in twenty four c. in every american soldier serving in afghanistan will cost and every two point one million dollars was joint isn't cheap either the u.s. has decided not to ship more than seven billion dollars worth of equipment so it will be all destroyed and a brand new military headquarters built in twenty says here at a cost of thirty four million will probably never be used but the u.s. troops pulling out the afghan government will now have to reach a deal with the taliban according to richard williams a former british sas officer. president karzai. those who have teamed

with him as they approach these next elections. and his supporters and those who he is supporting in the elections need to do a deal with the taliban going forward in twenty fifteen the taliban in certain provinces the conflict provinces in the south certainly will be the dominant political element and as the president goes forward there's going to need to be an accommodation with them so this is a political gesture and so yes he is taking risks with the lives of his own soldiers the afghan army and afghan police are all fighting hard at the moment in these conflict provinces yes he's taking risks but it's for a higher purpose and the higher purpose is clearly some form of political solution with the taliban. right now in our city dot com i know oil giant claims victory in court and stops an american woman from being able to move around almost all others

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drones will not begin for at least three deaths as recent france want to produce an alternative to u.s. manufactured and mund aerial vehicles despite the controversy surrounding the technology but science insist drugs are essential for their militaries however one antiwar activist told r.t. the u.k. and france are just following america's policies and dividing the lives of civilian people. it becomes very easy to sell a war based on drones to the domestic audience because there's no soldiers there's no airmen there's no pilots put in their lives at risk. this makes drone warfare fairly acceptable to most countries in terms of the collateral damage yes we have we have missiles do kill those in the surrounding area and i don't think that even the british military take much care if they need to take out what they consider an insurgent if there's an in a crowd of people i think they carry on anyway certainly the cia drone attacks of

been known to do that but even when there's only one person in the vicinity we've run we've managed to kill one person and it's turned right or that they've been civilians this case is going on in the u.k. at the moment blow by afghan civilians because their family members were killed. and now some other news making headlines around the world the u.s. has expressed discontent over syria's efforts to destroy its chemical weapons calling on the country to comply with the u.n. resolution just four percent of the declared toxic stock has been eliminated so far the deadline has been missed and they postponed a date of february the fifth is also unlikely to been that it's just a day since america's chief of intelligence claimed syria's government there were trees are still capable of developing biological weapons. in bangladesh fourteen people including the head of the country's main islamist opposition party have been sentenced to death they were charged with smuggling weapons and ammunition after police intercepted cargo being shipped to a rebel group in neighboring a.d.r.

about three hundred people have been killed during political violence involved over the last year. more than a thousand people have filed a joint lawsuit against the companies that have built japan's fukushima nuclear plant they claim the farms should take financial responsibility for the said it is a meltdown in twenty eleven which was caused by most of us quake and tsunami the accident was one of the worst nuclear disasters in history experts say it could take decades to finish the clean up operation around the crippled facility which has been leaked ready ation leaking a rather radiation into the sea. james clapper the director of u.s. national intelligence has a shrewd a blistering condemnation of edward snowden calling his leaks to the press perfect storm that would in danger american lives and later today at the margin on breaking the set rules that a ship out. shortly after perjuring himself about how the u.s.

government is not spying on every american citizen national intelligence director james clapper appeared before a senate judiciary hearing to blow some more hot air according the transcript clapper called on snowden and his quote accomplices to return the remaining stolen documents pertaining to the n.s.a.'s global spying apparatus yes aside from painting snowden as a criminal clapper also seems to believe that the dozens of journalists who have simply reported on the league documents as his criminal accomplices copper stands on journalist simply doing their jobs sends a chilling message one echoed by the british parliament recently when it accused guardian journalists of aiding terrorists but equating journalism with terrorism seems like a trend that's becoming more commonplace among government officials on the plus side it seems like a desperate attempt by the intelligence community to stay ahead of mounting an uproar against the ever more invasive and pervasive surveillance state which means us troublemaking journalists must be doing something right. if the actions of the

winter olympics since lining in all its many forms then such a sign kerry now will be essential to the upcoming games. as a continuous have paid through the captains of the bank by heading to the sliding center and meeting some scant it. the olympic hopefuls in bumps later lucia and skeleton will be chasing the dream here at the sunday sliding center them. the movie cool runnings they use retelling of the true story of jamaica's bobsled team could perhaps resonate in sunny's old sheep but i've always wondered how do they get the shape of the track to be able way it is i also how did they get it so smooth while i was on the onset today and it takes one polit to actually solve all

of the shape of the track and once that's done this big baby here comes into action and what it does is it was flooded like a vacuum machine so it's got up all over the off of the drive and then moves that over the causes of for us in russia to have three upward slopes which help to slow speed and keep athletes sleep but competitors can still pluck up to one hundred and thirty five kilometers an hour here and get the tribe members takes a few called the to lose and educated convents i wasn't making my way all the way to an olympic track without testing my carving skills say i dig in. and this is how we get the tracks knave. well. it really isn't as easy as it looks so you really need men like you who know what

they're doing who've been trained to do what they're doing right now to actually call the now twenty seven of them including jane you know we'll be at during the olympics basically taking care of this entire tribe making sure that the ball play and the sledging competitions go exactly the way it is because the truck is too big to get through the narrow lanes it's done the old fashioned way with this new shovel and a broom. for russians speeding down snow reveals is a form part of growing up and that's why this venue has been called funky the russian word. the bomb would say at the sankey sliding center. and actually a to bang one's a scaping you're up to date with everything that's happening in such a fall our coverage international and online at onset of call over the coming days

you know you ok. how do you operate do limp again i'm going to rehearse pretty good sports and so track speed skating is not as easy as ruth's a rose i'm not an olympic hockey player by much it is on this. week i live in my son. who's coming up next to a larry king talks to a wrestler turned politician jesse ventura politicking is here in a few moments here washing international. home. for the on june sixteenth one thousand forty one we had

a graduation party at school and the war broke out. in the shops were always full of good well. what in september leningrad was blocked. one day mom went and saw that all the shelves were empty. in november they bombed the diversity warehouses which is that it was the main storage place for all the food in the city people would be eating the earth because it had small traces of sugar in it i tried to eat it as well but i couldn't . the third night it was incredibly heavy bombing and. it was a direct hit on that very shelter and everyone was buried underneath. all of them with dead.

well if you will show mom why should he make you all the face just like you. should have you with us here on t.v. today i'm always to show. jesse ventura is going off the grid we want you to join him he's opinionated of course outspoken american original bucking the political system and doing it in a bare knuckle no holds barred way yes he ventura has a lot on his mind and he's ready to un load it's all on this edition of politicking

. politicking jesse ventura on larry king or a t.v. has a new show featuring the former governor jesse ventura the show is called off the grid and that's exactly what jesse is doing he'll join me from his secret location welcome to aura t.v. jesse good dad be aboard larry it's great to be here i can't believe that we did an interview probably a little over a year ago when you told me this is where i should be and lo and behold i've ended up here on or a t.v. it's fantastic and i'm indeed off the grid larry and will be moving around constantly so they can never get a fix on me when i broadcast back into the united states ok we're going to turn

a lot off the grid in the next segment we're in a concentrated some politics in this obama's job approval rating is sitting around forty six percent does that surprise you. well it's not really because having been an elected official you realize that whenever you make hard decisions you're going to get people angry at you a lot of people are one issue people so if you go against them whatever that particular issue might be all of a sudden they don't like you for the other nine things you might do good so you never do hold you know polls like that fluctuate like the wind larry they're going to go up and down depending on which way the political wind happens to be blowing how do you or says how he's doing well i've been extremely disappointed in him because you know he ran to change there hasn't been any change we're the same country we were under jaw.