reaching out to first accident the u.s. security secretary of state rather will meet ukraine's opposition leaders for the first time when you know this is washington considers sanctions against the government. a crisis and capital punishment a shortage of lethal drugs forces america's death penalty states to look at alternatives often more painful methods of execution. stumbling in only partly you know. we talk to our experts to find out what condemned prisoners face and there's no drugs to kill them. he slips into the olympic sliding center to find out what awaits the box lays and skeletons competing for medals in the winter games.

hello and welcome to our team international twenty four hour news live from moscow i mean you know thanks for joining us the u.s. secretary of state john kerry will meet to ukraine's opposition leaders for the first time on the sidelines of a security conference in munich on saturday and washington is also keeping up the pressure on president he on a call that he's now on a sick leave calling on him to resolve the crisis while threatening restrictions have he doesn't. we're willing to consider sanctions no decision has been made meanwhile the divide in ukraine appears to be widening as ati's an expat ash s.k. 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 administrations taken over by the

protesters make 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 regions authorities are actually running their regions online exchanging correspondence through different messaging services was there and nabl 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 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 and he on a comic 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 it is supposed to have no president than to have you know called which but with the opposition as fragmented as it is that tully 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 where regional offices are being picketed and seized by protesters i believe 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 in the building one of the.

similar scenes played out and she can see where protesters trying to said like to furniture they smashed windows and threw stones at security forces. the anger has moved even further westwards. and 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 building a forbidden in symbols or sentiments of the ruling party. they claim it goes against the will of the ukrainian people no one knows where 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 for help. in the long term perspective.

despite their criticism of the army coverage these protesters have nothing better to offer policia r.t. even a front costs western ukraine. assistant secretary of state victoria nuland has plans to visit a crane again had to articles and more details on that and to follow minute by minute updates on the turbulent situation. u.s. lawmakers are looking for alternatives to help them kill then lethal injection drugs used to execute prisoners on death row are in short supply and there's concern over how effective they are anyway but some of the other methods being considered on either new or compared to say he rein. 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 torturers 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 someone stumbling in only partly. bleeding. you know these are things that are also prone to error to pain to to you know revulsion from the public and so states chain. to protect. to lethal injection so to go back would certainly jeopardize the 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. . so i'm ahead for you this time faces the looming threats over time about a resurgence with the militant group gaining strength. in washington iran go over a proposed pull out security deal. plus britain has to pull that cash to come up with some new deadly drug watering evidence and criticism about the number of civilians falling victim to. this and. just.

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least doubt anybody could make you. get out. you're watching on t.v. international live from moscow welcome back. time is ticking away before american troops pull out of afghanistan and a security pact which will map out a supportive role they will play when their combat mission is over is only about relations between washington and kabul heading for the deep freeze and the caffein of reports the taliban could be the ones to benefit here. 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 when it comes to afghanistan peace is far from

certain security situation is worsening in the country india is new sign that americans. 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 nanga har 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 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 on that if any with not 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 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 the time the ban as a condition for signing the security deal and was fox its heroism consultant dyke who was a prisoner of the town of bonn he says the table took a tale of the group which is on the rise. it is a continuous 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 search in two thousand and nine announced by president obama has not been able 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 should and has spent billions waging the i'm going to go and a still spending despite its mission winding down since two thousand and one it has cost the u.s. taxpayer just under eight hundred billion dollars and it is still to come in twenty four seen every american soldier serving in afghanistan will cost an average two point one million dollars was drawing isn't cheap either the u.s. has decided not to ship more than seven billion dollars worth of equipment so it will be destroyed and a brand new military headquarters built in twenty thirty at a cost of thirty four million dollars will probably never be used with the u.s.

troops pulling out they are going to government will now have to reach a deal with the taliban according to richard williams a former british ass as 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. you annoy the giant claims victory in court and stops an american woman from being able to move around almost. the state because she criticized friday it will star is only. paste isn't just for your keyboard and chinese researchers have created genetically modified monkeys like all paying into living beings had to r.t. to home to see how this has helped. write the scene. and i think that you're. going to.

be in the. on front to pull technological and financial. efforts to build the latest line in lethal cutting edge drug the production of the new prototype dros will not begin for at least three good as the two countries want to produce an alternative to u.s. manufactured unmanned aerial vehicles despite the controversy surrounding the technology both sides insist drones are essential for their militaries how about one antiwar activist told r.t. the u.k. and france are just following america's policies and to value the lives of civilian people. it becomes very easy to sell a war based on drones to the domestic audience because there's no shoulders there's no room and there's no pilots putting their lives at risk. this makes drone warfare . fairly acceptable to most countries but 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 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 being known to do that. even one study when person in the vicinity we've run we've managed to kill a person. right or that they've been civilians. going on in the moment nobody afghan civilians because their family members were killed. and now some other news making headlines around the world the u.s. has expressed discontent of a series of has destroyed 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 fire as a deadline has been missed on the postponed stage of february the fifth is also unlikely to be in that is just a day since america's chief of intelligence claimed syria's government laboratories are still capable of developing biological weapons. in bangladesh

fourteen people including the head of the country's main is going to stop the show party has been sentenced to death they were charged with smuggling weapons and ammunition after police intercepted cargo being shipped to rebel group in neighboring india about three hundred people have been killed during political violence in bangladesh over the last year. well for the thousands of people have filed a joint lawsuit against the companies that built japan's fukushima nuclear plant they claim the sun's should take financial responsibility for the facilities meltdown and twenty eleven which was caused by a massive earthquake 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 leaking radiation into the sea. james clapper the director of u.s. national intelligence has issued a blistering condemnation of edward snowden calling his leaks to the press

a perfect storm that would endanger american lives later today at the mosque and breaking the set pulls that issue apart. shortly after perjuring himself about how the u.s. government is not only 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 in 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 proper 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 essence of the winter olympics is sliding in all its many forms such as sign care every now will be central to the upcoming games to balance a continuous have paid through the passions of the venue's by heading to the sliding center and meeting some skeletons. the olympic hopefuls and bumps lady lucia and skeleton will be chasing the dream here at the sunday sliding center. the movie cool runnings they use retelling of the true story of jamaican bobsled

team could perhaps resume to infamous old shoes but i've always wondered how do they get the shape of the track to be the 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 was up all the office i often tried 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 safe but competitors can still pluck up to one hundred and thirty five kilometers an hour and get a tribe member takes a few call 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 have 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 bobsled and the sledge and 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 it is a form out of going up and that's why this thing you have to be called funky the russian word was. the bomb would say at the funky sliding center.

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take me up to the ball gain take me through the metal detectors 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 of the teams for twenty fifteen are setting up metal detectors to screen all fans entering their stadium for get visions of hot dogs in the 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 out. the stadium before the game starts well these security measures really stop a psychotic terrorist murder nope but that's just my opinion. dramas the truth be ignored. stories others refused to notice. faces change the world writes next.

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