look. today's news on the week's top stories from artsy international ukraine's opposition secure support from the west that has security form and munich this spy russia's foreign minister asking the politicians to open their eyes to the violence and the protests. in the syrian crossfire artsy travel so our draw in the capital damascus to meet the survivors of an attack by hardline rebels still occupied parts of the stricken city. also this week big breaking bad one of the digital currencies and main advocates is arrested over money laundering connected to the silk road drug trafficking website.

you're watching artsy international would mean a ring the calls for leaders from ukraine's opposition won pledges of support from the united states and the european union when they appeared at munich security form appealing for greater involvement from the west russia's foreign minister called on politicians to look closer at the violence being used by products or services and so the question of whether that really has anything to do with democracy you go to school of reports from germany. clearly the west has already taken the side of the protests or so u.s. secretary of state john kerry said that the time has come for you have to decide whether it's one country or with the rest of the world and he added that washington supports the people of ukraine but some have been calling this a one sided approach and criticizing it including russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov you know. there are some fundamental questions that need to be answered in

particular about the situation in ukraine how does the fuelling street riots that are becoming more and more violent promote democracy and why is there no condemnation of the still occupying government buildings were those who burned police officers show and use the media and nazi slogans why do many leading european politicians and current such actions while any violations of the loot home until we've harsh least some strong words there from russia's chief diplomat also added joking that next time we meet was mr kerry is going to ask him what grades he had in school asking how many countries do you think are in that group that he called the rest of the world now there was some fiery exchanges between the two sides in the kremlin standoff to one boxer turned opposition leader the likely score was seated next to foreign minister. are you with the extremists groups

who are some. looks like. not see style. some of them are you with them police car get out the processors are defined in their european. called repressive measures and he used the opportunity to meet the ukrainian foreign minister face to face to show him an album which he said can send photographs of police brutality law enforcement consultant child joinery gave us his thoughts on the ukrainian security is handling the situation. if you are in the situation where i've seen videos of police officers on fire that's a deadly situation and they certainly in the united states would have the legal right to use deadly force in response to that so if a police officer perceives that there's a threat to themselves or somebody else they can respond with pepper spray but tons personal weapons strikes electronic control devices if the threat rises to the

level where they think either they or somebody else are being threatened with death or serious bodily harm then they can respond with deadly force i think throughout the history of variety you see if there's not a strong police presence then the the tag and eyes of the agitators they become emboldened and they become more violent and more aggressive so there needs to be a strong police presence in those circumstances to control the violence the latest polls show that see if there is of ukrainians are against the habit that's been plaguing kiev and the country's regions in over a dozen cities local administration officers were either seized or stormed then many feel the country is under the threats of civil war or has more on the cranium divide. 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's 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 wear and he on the cover 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 what the opposition as fragmented as it is that turley is the first to admit no yanna coverage could well mean an alkie whitley 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. the misa 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 the vehicle paths and sacks of snow they demanded police leave the building when 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 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 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 talk. of the country of course as a result in some years perhaps in the long term perspective. despite the criticism of coverage these protestors have nothing better to offer. r.t. even a front costs western ukraine. so it's calm here on r.t. better than by bitcoin one of the key advocates of digital currency is arrested suspected of laundering money for not working as drug trafficking websites. plus meet super hope our brand new type of superhero who lives on the streets while leading a mob of criminals that's a lot more still ahead. but first it's been more than a month since al qaeda sympathizers partly captured syria's industrial town of draw

north of damascus dozens of civilians were allegedly slaughtered there and hundreds displaced the rebels still occupying major parts of the city but artsy managed to make it inside and speak to some of the survivors. 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 attacks it's maybe longer but it's a safer route. where the first for him to be crude to get this close to our drive after the siege began a month ago it's still not clear exactly what happened and basin dust will see to 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 or to reported allegations the dozens of civilians had been executed that people were be hadad and burned in over ins 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 very blurred and the work is house and complex nearby a drama lier. both are now besieged and i could all use a lot of the old one maybe some maintenance here to separate other out by law and out room aliyah and to prevent the militants uniting because of. these corydoras go

all around the besieged cities with the army watching 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 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 animal to 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 a shelter around what used to be a large sum and factory but in this hotel's me he doesn't go to school anymore and when displaced because terrorist attacks the street and we had to escape they occupied and we cannot go there their old job blocked. he says his father is

a government employee this is why it was dangerous for his family to stay we ask where they leave now. yes mother appear from the darkness of a room barely ten square meters in a size and everything what is happening is wrong there was no need for any of this see where we are now to 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. 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 some who didn't escape so quickly and alone and up there were looking for anybody

serving in the syrian army and also the vitus or 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 stone i still see them in my nightmares. about how my fish out of they cut drinking water and they prevented the bakery from working for a cigarette and young children were about to die from a lack of water and they tried 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. meanwhile u.s.

intelligence is raising suspicions that the syrian regime is capable of producing biological weapons despite the ongoing chemical disarmament washington is also threatening force should syria fail to remove all of its toxic stockpiles by july and two more activist prime backer told us what he believes lies behind the scaremongering it's a clear indication that the obama administration is looking for other rationales other pretext to keep the pressure on the assad government and when i say pressure that's kind of euphemistic what they're really doing of course is creating a great international crime by funneling arms and weapons and money to an arms struggle in other words for mental and civil war so that they can destroy an independent nationalist government in this region of the world we've gone through this script before we saw it in iraq we saw it in libya we're seeing it in syria the united states government is carrying out an armed struggle policy a civil war policy and they need to keep our public rationales also they need

a way to balance against geneva he to find a way to continue to demonize the assad government because the ultimate goal is to get rid of assad not for a negotiated settlement. a canadian heavy muscle group has made it on to the guantanamo prison play list. and they're not happy about not getting paid for it they're planning to build a u.s. government which is allegedly using their songs as a means of psychological torture had online for more details. and lost in translation are two dot com reports on how britain's having to hire interpreters for people's assets revealed that english is no longer the first language in seventeen hundred schools. write the same. first story. and i think you're.

on the recorders were very. instrumental. in the. from the highs of being lauded the coin millionaire to signify on the darker side of the digital currency the vice chairman of the bad coin foundation charlie sram was arrested in the us earlier this week he's been charged with trying to launder a million dollars worth of bitcoins using the infamous outlawed website silk road if found guilty that's once a four year old faces more than a decade behind bars from is out on bail but remains under house arrest financial analyst mark thorson things that actual legal issues have very little to do with his case. the u.s. dollar is actually the major facilitator of illegal transactions of drugs and human

trafficking all sorts of nasty business is most of that trade is done with the u.s. dollar not bitcoin bitcoin is a small player as a small percentage of its transactions are illegal that's true but the majority are for legal goods whereas the u.s. dollar is the primary player in international trade in illicit items but this was a political event not a legal or judicial event this arrest it was a political event meant to intimidate people in the big coin space and it was a perfectly foreseeable event as well. now a snapshot of some of today's world news starting in athens where scuffles to have broken out between riot police and answer fascist protesters they were enraged by a gathering of right wing golden dawn party supporters officers use tear gas and stun grenades to disperse the troublemakers there were several arrests afterlife this riots for sports of an attack the man carrying

a greek fly the golden dawn rally was commemorates in the deaths of three navy officers which brought greece and turkey to the brink of war in one nine hundred ninety six. millions of voters in thailand are heading to the polls for a general election as for the sets by months of the government violence protesters have been calling for prime minister shinzo wants to step aside so that widespread political reforms can be conducted that was sparked after a few years she was forced into an amnesty to let her exiled although back into the country pre-election violence by two blasts than gunfire entered at least seven people at a rally. in the asia's mound cinnabon has erupted again killing at least sixteen people in the western island of sumatra clouds of think great action searing gas in the gulf nearby homes just the day after authorities allowed thousands of villagers to return saying it was safe they will cain has been active

with smaller options since september that's haven't been dormant for three years. in lebanon a car bomb has exploded near a school in the northeast close to syrian border at least four people died and eighteen others were injured in the town of her and that is a stronghold for the militant group hezbollah the interior ministry suspects it was a suicide attack sunni militants often target shiite areas of lebanon in retaliation for hezbollah sending its fighters and to syria. so i'm still get our skates on for another look out. for for some of the finest winter sports athletes of say he's been checking out the ice on the inside. we've just arrived here at the adler skating center this is where the speed skating competitions during the the twenty fourteen winter olympic games is going to be

taking place now we've been invited inside to actually take a look at the four hundred meters in length the skating rink it's very important that this rink be maintained properly particularly for the skaters and they going to show us how they do that so let's go and see it. as you can see it's spectacular on the outside but the real beauty is how it works on the inside no expense was spared in the creation of the venue at the olympic park and you can certainly see where the money went a krystle face speed is reflected by angular walls and triangular stained glass windows the gray and white color of the building in hunt's this is impression even the facade is transparent so the spectators inside the arena can see out the focus of the arena doesn't disappoint with leading sports men and women coming forward to trace the circuit it features two competition tracks and one training track all

designed to provide the best possible performance for athletes the quality of ice can make a huge difference in winning that gold and edler quality is the main priority with optimal micro climatic conditions to show a world class ice surface such as me that would just be a limb takes up doing the skating games every forty five minutes we'll have to bring. on machines and bring them on the circuit called four minutes all round of the floor one hundred metre length of the circuit it's very important that they do this because i will be a lovely lovely ice rink as well as making. all week a limb pins will be skating the. slopes on the machine is free to. well the how to do it is what it might mean it's a big games so that the libyans was beaten like and have a much smoother and last six it's going to be all about speed speed and more

speed and the endless stadium and sochi is ready to bomb the thing. for. more of our tour of the olympic park r.t. dot com and of course make sure you're here when the games go and we'll have special coverage on their routes all cheats one hundred fourteen. max he's not your usual handsome comic book hero but he's here to help burns down an ounce back on their feet this craggy face superhero dreams of beer while the

people who rush gag at his rican breath german fans can't get enough of him as paulie boy has been discovering. his muscles a firm 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 heavy charm so it's logical that the glorious superhero of. so bomb 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 this is 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 hoboes 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 thought of earlier the comic supplement makes

it heavier and i can't carry as many copies but it's not see bad you just don't carry on. now the customers are asking for this comic because they had super hard to. the document publication aims to brighten the fortunes of it says 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 the number of people. especially in the body is increasing in the next years enormously but there is trying to shift the papers daily say the comic strip has at the very least added that little bit of

comic relief. all right that wraps it up for you this hour up next we hear the dramatic stories from both sides of the border between the united states and mexico. interview.

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