so there is news in the week's top stories from our teams from national ukraine's opposition secure support from the west at a security for many munich this point russia's foreign minister ask an ebola positions to open their eyes to the violence in the protests. caught in the syrian crossfire r.t. travels to 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 bitcoins breaking bad one of the digital currencies main advocates is arrested over money laundering connected to the silk road drug trafficking website .

live from moscow this is r.t. international with me marina. now 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 so 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 is still 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 that 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 racially and use the media and nazi slogans why do many leading european politicians and current such actions while in any violations of the law and 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 called the rest of the world. and there were some foreign exchanges between the two sides now ukrainian standoff to one boxer turned opposition leader vitaly klitschko was seated next to the country's foreign minister. are you with the extremist groups who were some.

looks like. most c. style some of them are you with them klitschko argued that the protesters are defending the european ambitions again so-called repressive measures and he used the opportunity to meet the cranium foreign minister face to face to show him an album which he said contained photographs of police brutality law enforcement consultant child joyner gave us his thoughts on the ukrainian securities 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 the cranes are against the havoc that's been plaguing kiev and the country's regions and over a dozen cities local administration offices were either seized or stormed and many feel the country's under the threats of civil war with far right groups at the hearts of the protests worries over the rise of extremists are also mounting as alex been fined and outs you may find some of the pictures in his report the story . the u.s. love him

a chef ski barely remembers the horrific events of one thousand 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 that one of them caught up and shot from close range there was a huge noise a bullet hit an ear that 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 i mean this love 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 and 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 shot is to destroy all poles living on

a territory they considered the property of the devolving slaughter of the murders of both continued walls of the nice and third open 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 are clearly 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 miners which haven't been prosecuted well. always spawn new martyrs standing at his father's grave meus laughter musharraf skew says

he feels no hate towards ukrainians but he wants the truth to be told and things to be named as they should be to. see reporting from kiev in ukraine in other news it's been more than a monster inside qaeda sympathizers partly captured syria's industrial town of our drive north of the rascasse dozens of civilians were allegedly slaughtered there and hundreds displaced there are 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 mounds 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 pocket. 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 numerous killings and violence after our daughter 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 we traveled 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 admiral blurred and the work is house and complex nearby a drum a lier. both are now besieged like a dog whistle of another maybe some bankers here to separate other our beloved and out room aliyah and to prevent the militants uniting because of. these corridors go all around the besieged cities with the army watch in 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 any military operation could threaten the lives of those who remain hostage and with no access inside it's impossible to tell just how many the are but luckily most of the residents managed to escape are dressed we meet some of them

two kilometers away the shelter around what used to be a large sum and factory life in this hotel's me he doesn't go to school anymore men were displaced because terrorist attack the student who had to ski they occupied and we cannot go there they're on top blocked. he says his father is a government employee this is why it is dangerous for his family to stay we are six yard where they live now. the hours 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 but at least children haven't seen their mother for a month for ready seriously ill she couldn't get her medicine due to the siege with her condition deteriorating she was sent to hospital far from her family. through

here 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 and not drug most of those we talked to here in this camp fled before the militants arrived but occasionally we meet some who didn't escape so quickly and then add up to be ahead they were looking for anybody serving in the syrian army and also the virus of 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 and i still see them in my nightmares. like this sort of big cut drinking water and they prevented the bakery from working for a cigarette and young children are about to die from a lack of water and they threatened us with machine guns. are drawn 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 notional tea from address in syria. coming up here on r t international. scorn one of the key advocates of the currency is a rough suspected of long term money for the drug trafficking websites. of superhero who lives on the streets while cleaning them up criminals and more still ahead.

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from the highs of beating all that. signify on the darker side of the digital currency the vice chairman of the bitcoin foundation. charlie sram was arrested in the u.s. earlier this week he's been charged with trying to launder a million dollars worth of bitcoins used in the end for us outlawed website silk road if found guilty if it's once a four year old faces more than a decade behind bars from is out on bail but remains on the house arrest financial analyst mark thorson thinks that actual legal issues have very little it's a do with his case the us 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 it is 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 point space and it was a perfectly foreseeable event as well. a canadian rock group has made it onto the guantanamo prison play list. and they're not happy about not getting paid for its their plans to build the u.s. government which is allegedly using their songs as a means of psychological torture had online for more details. and lost in translation artsy 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 hundreds. right. were struck. and i think the jury. on our reporters were very. instrumental. in. afghanistan's for parents to kick off its election campaign on sunday while american troops are pulling out of the country but the security pact which is supposed to map out their surplus of role is still in limbo the sick half enough reports on how this holiday could be the ones benefits and from the friction between washington and kabul. 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 actually the security situation is worsening in the country and. that americans. will be able to see the war in afghanistan and. the activities of. the future 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 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 be the one that's anyone not the taliban run the area of 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. time now for snapshots of some of today's world news we start in greece where scuffles in athens have broken out between riot police and the fascist protesters they were raged by a gathering of golden dawn party supporters officers used tear gas and stun

grenades to disperse the troublemakers there were several arrests after leftists rioters spotter than attacked a man carrying a greek fly the golden dawn rally will commemorate in the deaths of three navy officers which brought greece and turkey to the brink of war in one thousand nine hundred six. millions of voters in thailand are heading to the polls for a general election. government violence protestors have been calling for the prime minister to step aside so that widespread political reforms can be conducted that was sparked by fear she was forced into an amnesty to let her go back into the country pre-election violence. gunfire injured at least seven people at a rally. in the nation's mts in the has erupted again killing at least sixteen people in the western island of sumatra clouds of

ash and searing gas in the gulf nearby homes just the day after authorities allowed thousands of years to return saying it was safe they will cain has been active with smaller options since september having been dormant for three years. in lebanon the car bomb has exploded near a school in the northeast close to the syrian border at least four people have died and eighteen others were injured in the town of her mell which is a stronghold for the militant group hezbollah then syria ministry suspects it was a suicide attack sunni militants often target shiite areas of lebanon in retaliation for has blossomed in its fighters and says syria. you get our skates on for another look at the software for some of the finest winter sports athletes. 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 to 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 crystal face is reflected 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. the focus of the arena doesn't disappoint with leading sports men and women coming forward to places. it

features to competition tracks and one training track all designed to provide the best possible performance for after. the quality of eyes can make a huge difference in winning that goal and at adler quality is the main priority with optimal michael climatic conditions to show a world class surface but it's just a limp during the games every forty five minutes will have to. be on machine i'm on the circuit for a lot of the four hundred metre of the circuit it's very important that they do this because i will be a leveling up ice rink as well as making it. all week a limb pins will be skating. close on the machine is doing feats. live well up to everybody but really big games so that the libyans was beaten like and have it must

be. lost. it's going to be all about being beat and beat and the endless stadium and sochi is ready to bomb a thing. or. get more of ours who are of the olympic park are to dot com and make sure you're here when the game will have special coverage on there throughout the fourteen. next two years not your usual handsome comic book hero but he's here to help down

announced back on their feet this craggy face superhero dreams of beer while the people he rescues gag at his rican breath but german fans can't get enough of him as paulie boyko has been discovering. 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 know it's the guy from the on the ground who rescues them 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. 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 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 kiosks 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 his several people have come up trying to buy in more copies of that super hobo 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 coffees but it's not too bad you just don't carry on. now the customers are asking for. it's comic because they had super hobo cartoon. the dark humid publication aims to brighten the fortunes of its fellows the soup kitchen. 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 only as 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 mumbai

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. up next we'll hear the dramatic stories from both sides of the border between the united states and mexico and stay with us. take me up to the ballgame 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

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 hurt 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 well these security measures really stop a psychotic terrorist murder nope but that's just my opinion. the fact is the place they take you to and detain you. really root

races and educate their races so racist and root they check out in reply to they even look can you shoes. examine you in places that they shouldn't they treat you worse than a duck. the good they say that they got takes his time but he never forgets icicle most times i hope that one day they will also have to go through this. i will turn to god and ask to give you hope and protection and that he protects all my gran's because i have seen how much they suffer. gentlemen i guess you all know why you're here today. i guess at this point in time america's going through some sad times and unfortunately we feel. unsure.