so there is news in the week's top stories from our teens for national ukraine's opposition secure support from the west that are security form and munich despite russia's foreign minister asking e.p. politicians to open the rise to the violence in the protests. caught in the syrian crossfire r.t. travels to our draw near the capital damascus to meet the survivors of an attack by hardline rebels who still occupy parts of the stricken city. also this week corns breaking bad one of the digital currencies main advocates is arrested over money laundering connected to the silk road drug trafficking website .

you're watching r.t. international coming to you live from our headquarters in moscow armoring acosta leaders from ukraine's opposition one pledges of support from the united states and the european union when they appeared at the 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 protesters and to question whether that really has anything to do with democracy you go to school off 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 have to do what it is when you get there if there are some fundamental questions that need to be answered in particular about the situation in ukraine how does fuelling street riots that are becoming more and more violent promote democracy why is there no condemnation of the still occupying government buildings were those who burned police officers shot ration anti semitic and nazi slogans why do many leading european politicians and start such actions while any violations of the load home until we've harshly. 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 calls the rest of the world. and there were some fiery exchanges between the two sides in the ukrainian standoff to one boxer turned opposition leader bitterly klitschko was seated next to foreign minister netanyahu

. are you with the extremists groups who were some. looks like. let's see. some of them are you with them klitschko argued that the protestors are defending their european them again so-called repressive measures and he used the opportunity to meet the crane the foreign minister face to face to show him an album which he said photographs of police brutality law enforcement consultant child joyner gave us his thoughts on the ukrainian security is handling of 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 baton

personal weapon strikes electronic control devices pick 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 riots you see if there's not a strong police presence then 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 two thirds of ukrainians are against the habit that's been plaguing kiev and the country's regions and over a dozen cities local administration offices were either seized or stormed that many feel the country's under the threats of civil war with far right groups the hearts of the protests warriors over the vi's of extremists are also mounting as alexie reports. chef ski barely remembers the horrific events of nine hundred forty three

when ukrainian insurgents came to slaughter his village in western ukraine but the most tragic things live well in his memory. is one of them caught up and shot from close range there was a huge noise a bullet hit an ear with it touched the temple my mom fell down she was unconscious the blood was everywhere they thought and sober and went to the village to murder they didn't kill they murdered with pitchforks and axes survived to become poland's first and only man in space nineteen members of his family including his father and more than eighty thousand poles jews in their medians were not as lucky some of murders in what was a genuine ethnic cleansing by troops were extremely gruesome people cut in pieces with a saw in one nine hundred forty three conducted a total ethnic cleansing schools in ukraine that is to destroy all poles living on

a territory they considered their property after the bowling slaughter of the murders of them both continued war of the and third option region of the worry craniums we try to help them provide shelter but those ukrainians riffling through . seven decades later when ukraine's opposition faced off with the government pictures of those behind the slaughter resurfaced in the heart of the protest the man who formed the 1940's insurgent movement in ukraine step on when there is still pretty much tearing the country apart while many call him a killer and cannot forgive the atrocities his movement had committed some at the my john cleary guarding him as a hero warsaw has been supportive of ukraine's protesters all along despite a chunk of the radical right there is supporting the man who brought so much pain to the polish nation unpunished minors which haven't been prosecuted well. always spawn new murders standing at his father's grave miroslav you know musharraf says

he feels no hate towards ukrainians but he wants the truth to be told and things to be named as they should be. reporting from kiev ukraine it's been more than a month since al qaeda sympathizers partly captured syria's industrial town of north of damascus dozens of civilians were allegedly slaughtered there and hundreds displaced the rebels still occupying major parts of the city but our team 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 moans 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. where the first for him to be crude to get this close to address

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 limerick's killings and violence after abjure 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 be handed and burned in over ends and one claim the doctors and patients were killed in a clinic which reveled 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 address the old

town admiral blood and the work his house in complex nearby a drama lear both and i'll besieged like a dog with eleven others with maybe some blankets here to separate other out and out room earlier and to prevent the militants uniting. these corridors 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 for 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 a shelter around what used to be a large sum and factory life in this hotel's me he doesn't go to school anymore but this place because terrorist attack the student who had to skate they occupied and who cannot go they have their own job 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. he has mother appear from the darkness of a room barely ten square meters in the silence 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. who knew 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 the loner they were looking for anybody serving in the syrian army and also the virus so 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 i saw with my own eyes people stoned i still see them in my nightmares. and i just sort of cut drinking water and they prevented the bakery from working for a sitter 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 year long 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 national t.v. from our drive in syria meanwhile u.s. intelligence is raising suspicions that the syrian regime is capable of producing biological weapons the spike the ongoing chemical disarmament washington is also threatening force should syria fail to remove all of its toxic stockpiles by july and two war activists 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 up public rationales also they need a way to balance against geneva he need 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. still to come bets and by coin the one of the key advocates all digital currency is a russ that suspected of laundry money for the tories drug trafficking websites. made super hobo a brand new type of superhero who lives on the streets while cleaning the mop of criminals and more still ahead.

community board alone more than one way around two hundred children all four of them they also found that child abusers convicted child abusers got access to those kids. already common phenomenon and what i'm saying is overall it's an amazingly rosy picture in that adopted kids international as well as domestic are treated better than regular kids growing up in untroubled biological families in the united states. right. and i were being put.

on a reporter's. instrument. from the highs of being a law that a bit coin millionaire to signify the darker side of that they're just a currency the vice chairman of the big corn foundation charlie shrem was arrested in the us earlier this week. has been charged with trying to launder a million dollars worth of bitcoins is in there and from this outlawed website silk road if found guilty that's when the four year old faces more than a decade behind bars from is out some bail 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 the 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. a canadian rock 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 r.t. dot com reports on how britain's having to hire interpreters for pupils as it's revealed that english is no longer the first language and seventeen hundred schools . right from the sea. search tree. and i think the true. on our reporters were very. instrumental. in the cold. time now for a snapshot of some of today's world news we start in greece four scuffles in athens have broken out between riot police an answer russia's protesters and they were enraged by a gathering of right one golden dawn party supporters officers you see here gas and

stun grenades to disperse the troublemakers there were several arrests after leftists rioters spots with an attack the man carrying the greek flag the golden dawn rally was commemorating the deaths of three navy officers with broad 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 that's been beset by months of answer 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 fear she was forced into an amnesty to lead her brother back into the country pre-election violence by two blasts and gunfire injured at least seven people at a rally. indonesia's mount cinnabon has erupted again killing at least sixteen people in the western island of sumatra clouds of thick

gray ash and searing gas in the gulf nearby homes just the day after authorities allowed thousands of villagers to return saying that was safe the volcano has been active with smaller options since september haven't been dormant for three years. in lebanon on the car bomb has exploded near a school in the northeast close to the syrian border at least four people died in one thousand dollars were injured in the town of her male and that is a stronghold for the militant group hezbollah then syria ministry suspects it was a suicide attack so in the militants often target shiite areas of lebanon in retaliation for hezbollah and its waters and syria. all right time now to get our skates on for another look out. for some of the fine this winter sports athletes it's about 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 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're 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 crystal face is reflected by and you know walls and triangular stained glass windows the gray and white color of the building in hans's this 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 goal and edler quality is the main priority with optimal michael climatic conditions a world class. games every forty five minutes will have to. machine on the circuit. around the four hundred meter. it's very important that they do this because of the lovely lovely ice rink as well as making pasta all week a limb pins will be skating. on the machine feeds. the well the have to do with everybody five minutes during the games so that the libyans was beaten like can

have a much smoother wall so. it's going to be all about speed speed and more speed and the endless stadium and is ready to bomb a thing. or two. next is not your usual handsome comic book hero but he's here to help or learns down announced back on their feet this craggy face superhero dreams of fear while the people here rescues a gag at his reeking breath but german fans can't get enough of him as paulie boy. 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's so correct or clean city but because of his shabby charm so it's logical that the glorious superhero of. the so bomb super hobos creator 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 stratum 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 so 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 has 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 too bad you just don't carry on. now the customers are asking for this comic because they had super car too. the document publication aims to brighten the fortunes of its fellows the soup kitchen and. station has an increasing number of hungry mouths to feed the crisis is doing and or bringing in bring much more people into difficult

situations a lot of foreigners you foreigners are 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 those trying to shift the papers daily say the comic strip has at the very least added that little bit of comic relief. now up next it's worlds apart but how sex on a bucket there stay with us. i've always had mixed feelings about speed traps it seems like it's

a waste of the police officers time but on the other hand they sure do make people paranoid and drive more slowly one man from texas is completely sure of his opinion about speed traps and he set out to save his felt texans from being fined for speeding and much more importantly from potential traffic accidents caused by the hidden police and now he's the one who is in deep trouble according to fox news runner martin faces a misdemeanor charge for violating frisco texas sign ordinance that says that you may only stand around holding a sign on private property martin claims that he was doing the exact same thing as a speed limit sign reminding people to slow down and i think ultimately he is right you should be able to tell other people where the police are setting up speed traps because that will cause them to drive more slowly which is the real goal of speed traps in the first place the only reason local authorities would be against this is because they love the income that comes from a nice big speeding tickets i hope that mr martin finds a way to go right back to holding his sign but this time on private property but that's just my opinion.

alone and welcome to world the part of the conventional wisdom is that a child is always better off in the family than in an institution even if that family means losing all existing social ties but it is international adoption of always the best interest of a child well to discount that amount time by elizabeth bartholet buckle to director of the child advocacy program at harvard law school. ms bartholet i really appreciate you being on the show i think it's a very sensitive issue and we are all for a very very interesting discussion thanks for having me now i know that you are one of the most vocal advocates in your country for international adoption but after

growing steadily for almost six decades the number of children being adopted into the united states has been. falling sharply recently if i'm not mistaken number drawn by a hospital in two thousand and four in two thousand and ten and russia just recently became yet another country in this growing list of countries banning or restricting adoption into your country how do you explain that well i don't think it has anything to do with any diminishing need for homes for children i think it's because the forces. or hostile to international adoption notice the numbers going out and set out to turn that around so i think it's very deliberate political action both by governments and by n.g.o.s and why would be those hostile forces those host governments interested in. doing what seems to be

against the interests of children well that's a great question i think the primary forces here are organizations that purport to be child friendly so. save the children and other child. human rights organizations are driving those numbers down even more than governments and i'm not entirely sure why that is i think press people have to ask those organizations what their motivation is now i heard the you say in one of your previous interviews that there is a lot of quote phony remand to says when it comes to justifying why children are better off in that home countries and the issue of heritage for example often comes up here but i wonder if there is there is not just as much phony remand to citizen when it comes to adoption especially international adoption because the default assumption here is that a child is always the better off in the loving family down in an institution but

the question is really how many of those adoptive children and up with loving families who can properly take care of their needs well i think the social science is very clear on that there have been lots of studies of adoption both domestic and international and the studies show overwhelmingly the almost all the children placed in adoption do extraordinary well bond with their parents and almost all the problems that those children may have have to do with being placed late in life in other words the problems they. may have in adoption some of them almost always have to do with the fact they didn't get adopted early and they got damaged by the life they lived when institutions but ms barr still isn't it also also the case that the studies that heretofore into they studied adoption in general as a phenomenon rather than a big.