reaching out to britain has to figure out secretary of state will meet ukraine's opposition leaders for the first time in munich this is washington considers sanctions against the government. a crisis in capital punishment a shortage of lethal drugs forces america's death penalty states to look at alternative often more painful methods of execution. or some stumbling in only partly. wishful to access was to find out what condemned prisoners face of there's no drugs to kill them. and he slips into the olympic sliding center to find out waterways the box lays and skeletons competing for medals in the winter games.

this is asking international coming to you live from moscow i mean you should probably our time a story now the u.s. secretary of state john kerry will meet ukraine's opposition leaders for the first stop on the sidelines of a security conference in munich on saturday and washington is also keeping out the pressure on president here to call bitch who's now on the sick leave calling on him to remain true. to chile where the minute to resolve the crisis and while threatening restrictions if he doesn't. we're willing to consider sanctions no decision has been made. meanwhile the divide in ukraine appears to be widening as aussies in exchange 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 the country right now half of it is now paralyzed with the regional administrations 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 this and some of the reasons authorities are actually running their regions online exchanging correspondence through different messaging services was there and label 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 event notes on cards skin waste in ukraine where up until a week ago the regional governor had his office but as you can see just liking kids there's now a giant barricade surrounding the building with snow tires and planks of wood

radical and he russian this is the heartland of nationalism wear and tear on a copy of 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 rule which is supposed to have no president then to have you know called which but with the opposition as fragmented as it is that tully is the first to admit no you have a cup which could well mean an alkie alertly bishop along with the problem is that we don't have any person to replace him and we will need to take someone from the 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 the knees a group of radicals some wearing masks stormed the municipal building chanting you

have the power they used fire extinguishers and within six again. in china gov demonstrators set up barricades made of vehicle parts and sacks of snow they demanded police leave the building similar scenes played out and she can see where protesters tried to set light to furniture they smashed windows and threw stones at security forces. the anger has moved even further westwards intern of ski protests and 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 symptoms 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 divison

of the country of course the result in some years perhaps in the long term perspective which is quite dangerous process and the process which might lead not of late or. disturbers of this in the ways of the internal situation in ukraine but my also process 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 the army coverage these protesters have nothing better to offer policia r.t. even a front costs western ukraine. president said their thirties have done everything they could to try and resolve the crisis but their position dismissed his statement as misleading foreign affairs expert and bush and knowledge says that ultimate goal is to topple the government but after. the opposition keeps moving the goal posts

obviously they want the government to unconditionally surrender on all of their demands whatever those demands might be they've made it obvious that only unconditional surrender will do they're like a dog chasing cars they have no idea what to do when when they catch it their whole gambit is to take over the government short of taking over the government the will their efforts will be a failure they need to capture the government to be successful this is these are the marching orders they were given by the people financing them so anything short of dismantling the government and handing it over to them would be a failure this is why they cannot compromise even if they wanted to. ukraine's open session said it doesn't agree with the president's claims to have done everything possible to resolve the crisis the had to ask dot com for more details on that and to follow minute by minute updates on the turbulence situation.

u.s. lawmakers are looking for alternatives to help them kill the lethal injection drugs used to execute prisoners on death row are in short supply and there is concern over how effective they are anyway but some of the other methods being considered are neither new welcome painters say humane or he's more important i report. 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. only partly. leading it you know these are things that are also prone to to error to pain to to you know from the public and so states. to protect the death penalty to lethal injection so to go back would certainly jeopardize their whole purpose of carrying to carry

out actually fusions 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. city. this is also international and so ahead for you this hour afghanistan faces the looming threat of taliban resurgence within minutes and group gaining strength just as kabul and washington wrangle over

a post pullout security deal. and also later britain france is said to pull that cash to come up with some new deadly drugs despite the growing evidence and criticism about the number of civilians falling victim to unmanned aircraft they said i'm always just ahead. today got a lot of housing for homeless people but the government is not funding it and then a lot of the shelter today be having people brothers down the street because people begin to raid didn't shelters to get involved right now ironically ironically i'm worth more to the city of new york. personally. if. you paid regular people like someone like a lawyer or doctor or so madison avenue it's boring and sometimes the homeless people deliberately look like i wouldn't buy. this is such

a great country right now i'm still urging restraint or it should never be in this city for me to bridge a city in the world what people. pay money to do is give you. the least down anybody could make you feel good you know get up. here washing all seem to national. from moscow welcome bark time is ticking away before american troops pull out of afghanistan and the security which warm up after the supportive role they will play when their combat mission is over is in limbo

relations between washington and kabul are heading for the deep freeze and catherine of her for the taliban could be the ones to benefit. after thirteen years in afghanistan washington is counting down together with our allies we will complete our mission there 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 when it comes to afghanistan peace is far from certain security situation is worsening in the country and. that americans. will be able to stop the war in afghanistan and. 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. in fact ministry of interior incident reports reveal clashes with the taliban in most of the eleven

provinces bordering pakistan the group also controls several districts in parwan 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 be the one that's any work night the taliban run their area of the district government is just me 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 our 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. now 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 who wins control over afghanistan a country that's 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 ton about him as a condition for signing the security deal and was. on the council of foreign relations who was a prisoner of the taliban he says the u.s. is not able to curtail the group which is on the rise. this war for over twenty years they have continued to fight some of them and since the american invasion in october two thousand and one they have if anything increased their their ability to attack their holding for the united states even with its surge in two thousand and nine announced by president obama has not been able at 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. washington has spend billions waging the war and is still spending despite the mission and

winding down since one two thousand and two it has cost the u.s. taxpayer seven hundred billion dollars and he is all still to come in twenty four seen every american soldiers serving in afghanistan of course an abberation two point one million dollars will join isn't cheap either the u.s. has decided not to ship back more than seven billion dollars worth of equipment so it will all be destroyed and a brand new military headquarters built in two thousand and thirteen at a cost of thirty four million will probably never be used with 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 s.a.'s office. 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 fifty in 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 probably says yes he's taking risk there but it's for a higher purpose and the higher purpose is clearly some form of political solution with the taliban. right now announcing dot com and i'll try and claim victory in court and stops an american woman from being able to move around almost always state all the calls she criticizes rocking the full stories online. and also that isn't just for your keyboard anymore chinese visitors have created genetically modified monkeys by copying d.n.a.

into living beings had to alter dot com to see how this could help humans. write the scene. and i think. the. rishon and france are said to pull technological and financial efforts to build the latest line in lethal cutting edge dros the production of the new predator type bros will not begin for at least three years britain and france want to produce an alternative to u.s. manufactured unmanned aerial vehicles despite the controversy surrounding the technology both sides insist it drones are essential for their militaries however

one antiwar activist told r.t. the u.k. and france are just following america's policies and devaluing 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 putting 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 is a crowd of people i think we carry on the right certainly the cia drone attacks of the known to do that. even when really when person in the vicinity we've run we've managed to kill a person. right to the very prince of really and this is going on in ukraine at the moment afghan civilians because their family members were killed. now to some other news making headlines around the world the u.s.

has expressed discontent of a serious 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 fuzz deadline has been missed and the postponed date of february the fifth is also likely to been that is just a day since america's chief of intelligence claimed seawards government laboratories are still capable of developing biological weapons. in bangladesh fourteen people including the head of the country's main is a missile position passy been sentenced to death as they were charged with smuggling weapons and ammunition after police in deceptive congo being ships to a rebel group in neighboring india about three hundred people have been killed during political violence in bangladesh over the last year. while the sun thousand people have filed a joint lawsuit against the companies that have built japan's fukushima nuclear plant they claim the fund should take financial responsibility for the facilities

meltdown in twenty eleven which was caused by a massive earthquake and tsunami that 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 leaking radiation into the sea. james clapper the director u.s. national intelligence has a should blistering condemnation of edward snowden calling his leaks to the press a perfect storm but would endanger american lives and later today i've been asked and i'm breaking the set pulls that issue apart. 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 to transcript clapper called on snowden in this 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 up 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 is in all its many forms then so much as some carry now will be central to that coming gangs to balance a continuous have peeped through the catacombs of the venues by heading to the sliding center and meeting some skeletons.

the olympic hopefuls in bumps later lucia and skeleton will be chasing the dream at the sunday sliding center them. happy. good movie cooling one me they used to telling on the true story of jamaican bobsled team could perhaps resume to inside this old sheep but i've always wondered how do they get the shape of the track to be the way it is i also how do they get it so smooth while i've already answered 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 floated like a vacuum machine so it was up all the food i often tried and then to move food over the causes

a for us in russia to have three up and slopes which help to slow speed and keep athletes safe but competitors can still pluck up to one hundred and thirty five kilometers an hour and get a tribe member of takes a few call the crews and to educate and convents i wasn't making my way all the way to an olympic track without testing my carving skills. i dig. well. and this is how we get the tracks need. to really isn't as easy as it looks so you really need men like you who know what they're doing they've been trained to do what they're doing right now to actually call the ice now twenty seven of them including jamie how will we add during the olympics basically taking care of this entire tribe making sure that the and the sledging competitions go exactly the way it is because

a 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 being you have been called sunk the russian word with. the bomb would they be sunk the sliding center. and of course. he's keeping you up to date with everything that's happening in sochi right now for our coverage on our international and online has a dot com over the coming. period. how do you operate doing but again i'm going to ring was pretty good a sports star trek speedskating is not as easy as i say was i'm not an olympic hockey player by much it is all. week. my son.

and next to a special report homeless in new york to stay with us. take me to the ballgame 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 get visions of hot dogs and 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're 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 when these security measures really stop a psychotic terrorist murder nope but that's just my opinion. there is a reason so be the. problem so sick you know so sick. to. robbers so. that it's going to work do you

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children and they move out on the two apartments together. so yes the city. soon is that this is what's unusual you heard. about. this from i'm from cuba. ready to come here i've been in the states of the united states and. this is the best. this is the top. you know what i mean don't make it. he will make it in no way. you know what i mean so. they are you know i just get over no room for work and. so thank you very much i really appreciate it for. you.

when you when you're young you have a lot of energy and headed because our and i went around painting beggars in the street and i went to the bowery i painted bums i'm sorry. i'm not that political i'm not that. you know to me it's more about. statics you know if i paint black people it's not because i love them or don't love them i say i find it beautiful i find it easy to paint. them in from. the city so close to you know. to me. it's like the rich get rich in a pool of people. who want.