today's news in the week's top stories from r t international ukraine's opposition secure support from the west at a security forum and munich this point russia's foreign minister asking politicians to open their eyes to the violence in the pro-tax. courts in the syrian crossfire artsy travels on drawing 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 the corn's 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 our c international coming to you live from our headquarters and moscow i'm marina costs are. 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 closely at the violence being used by protesters and so question whether that rule has anything to do with democracy they 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 what one country or what 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 deal with it is when you get that from there are some fundamental questions that need to be answered in particular about the situation in ukraine i'll just fuelling street riots that are becoming more and more violent to promote democracy why is there no condemnation of the e.c.g. even still occupying government buildings were those who burned police officers show racist anti-semitic and nazi slogans why do many leading european politicians and courage such actions while any violations of the load hold are dealt with harshly some strong words there from russia's chief diplomat also added joking that next time they meet with mr kerry he's going to ask him what grades he had in school asking how many countries this you think are in that group that he called the rest of the worlds. and there was some fiery exchanges between the two sides in the standoff two one boxer turned opposition leader at that school was seated next

to the country's foreign minister are you with the extremists groups who were some . looks like. most c. style them some of them are you with them klitschko argued that the protestors are defending their european investments against so-called repressive measures and he used the opportunity to meet the crimean foreign minister face to face to show him an album which he said consigned 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 the tagging 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 poll showed two thirds of ukrainians are against the havoc that's been plaguing kiev and the country's regions in over a dozen cities local administration offices were either seen or stormed and many feel the country's under the threats of civil war policy or has a more on the ukrainian divide. 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 anti on a cosmic 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 call the church but with the opposition as fragmented as it is that tully 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 that 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 mean a group of writing 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 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 signify to furniture they smashed windows and threw stones at security forces. the anger has moved even further westwards. skee protests to send 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 symptoms 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 the army coverage these protesters have nothing better to offer. r.t. even a front costs western ukraine. elsewhere it's been more than a month since al qaeda sympathizers partly captured syria's industrial town of north of the mask thousands of civilians were allegedly slaughter there and hundreds displaced the rebels still occupy 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 foray into vickery to get this close to are dry 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 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. to reported allegations the dozens of civilians had been executed that people were beheaded 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 address the old town admiral blood and the workers house in complex nearby a drama lear both an al besieged and i could go a little salaam another one maybe some maintenance here to separate other are below and that room earlier 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 the 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 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 they 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 a terrorist attack this weekend we had to escape there compiled and we cannot go there they're owed to 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. yes mother appear from the darkness of the 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 we meet some who didn't escape so quickly and the loner 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 i saw with my own eyes people stone i still see them in my nightmares. like this sort of drinking water and they prevented the bakery from working for us here 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. the from address in syria meanwhile u.s. intelligence is raising suspicions that the syrian regime is capable of producing biological weapons the spoil the ongoing chemical disarmament washington is also

threatening force should syria fail to remove all of its toxic stockpiles by july and to 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. coming up for you this hour betson by bitcoin one of the can look at some. suspected of laundering money through the forest trafficking websites. hope our brand new type of superhero who lives on the streets while claiming them all criminals and more still ahead. today got a lot of housing for only people but the government. funding it and then a lot of the shelter today be having people down the street because people begin to shelter them right now ironically ironically i mean we're moving to the city of new

york he told me. personally. when you paid regular people like someone like a lawyer or doctor or some other madison avenue it's boring and sometimes the homeless people deliberately look like the alibi. is the same because the country runs to be restructured or as you need to be in this city to bridge a city in the world what people. pay money to do is give you. clues anybody can make you feel good you know. from the highs of being in a lot of the bitcoin to signify in the darker side to all of the digital currency the vice chairman of the bitcoin foundation charlie sram waltzer. that in the u.s.

earlier this week he's been charged with trying to launder a million dollars worth of bitcoins used in the infamous outlawed website silk road if found guilty that's once a four year old faces more than a decade behind bars fram is out on bail but remains under house arrest financial analyst mark thorson thinks 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 businesses 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 it they're planning to build the u.s. government which is allegedly using their songs as a means of psychological torture had online for more details. also lost in translation aren't so you don't call reports on how britons have been so hard in surplus stores for pupils as it's revealed that english is no longer the first language in seventeen hundred schools to. write the. first book. and i think the jury.

on our reporters would. be a. little. that's a quick look at what's happening around the world starting with agrees scuffles and acton's have broken out between white police and anti fascist protesters who 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 arrest after leftist riots were spotted an attack the man carrying the greek why the golden dawn rally was commemorating the deaths of three navy officers which brought greece and turkey to the brink of war and nine hundred ninety six. protesters in thailand are marking their presence felt at the general election that's already been besides by months of our government violence they forced the closure of polling stations in

the more than a third of constituencies by the struct in the delivery of ballots on iraq than blockades and government demonstrate. have been calling for the prime minister to quit to enable widespread political reforms the own rush was sparked by fear she was forced into an amnesty would select her exiled brother back into the country. in the asia's mount cinnabon has erupted again killing at least sixteen people in the western island of sumatra clouds of thick gray ash and seer and gas engulfed nearby homes just the day after authorities allow thousands of villagers to return saying it was safe the volcano has been active with smaller options since september having been dormant for three years. eleven 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 others injured in the town of her male which is

a stronghold for the militant group has been in the seuss suspects it was a suicide attack sunni militants often target shiite areas of lebanon in retaliation for has blossomed in its fighters and to syria. so i'm to get our skates on for another look at what salt she's got so all for for some of the finest once the sports athletes so buying let's 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 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 ring can 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 by angular 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 places . it features to competition tracks and one training track all designed to provide the best possible performance for after. the quality of ice can make a huge difference in winning gold and edler quality is the main priority with optimal michael climatic conditions. such as.

the limping. games every forty five minutes we'll have to bring. them on the circuit for. the four hundred metre. it's very important that they do this because they'll be lovely lovely ice rink as well as making. all we will be skating. close on the machine seats. the well the have to do to everybody by religion the games so that the libyans was beaten like and have a much smoother and last. it's going to be all about speed beat and beat and the endless stadium and sochi is ready to bomb with the park in sochi walked. and you can hear more of our tour of the olympic park at r.t. dot com and also make sure you're here when the game is kickoff we'll have special coverage on air throughout soffits one hundred fourteen.

next to start your usual hand some comic book hero bots he's here to help our lens down and now it's back on their feet this craggy face superhero dreams of beer while the people who rescues gag got his reeking breath but german fans can't get enough of him as polly boyd 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 rescued 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 shabby charm so it's logical that the glorious superhero of berlin so bomb super hobos create a 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 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 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 comic supplement makes it heavier and i can't carry any coffee so it's not just in carry on. now the customers are asking for this comic because they have super hard. but dark humid publication and stepped right in 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 bring 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 those trying to shift the papers daily say the comic strip has at the very least added that little bit of comic relief. and just ahead on our t.v. find out what it's like to be homeless and the concrete jungle of manhattan to stay with us.

take me to the ballgame 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 settle 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 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 with these security measures really stop a psychotic terrorist murder nope but that's just my opinion. there is a reason some people. sick to those of us. it's. really easy. for these reasons. so these. bonds

really it's your deal responsibility. this is many reasons why the tours. started beginning for example we can. talk about the case of close ate. slept in that. so he got referred here by his friend whose name was also jose. they both worked in times square. their kind of costume. and then and this was wrong too so they got to know each other and the other was a got to a financial situation that was going to enough that he was ready to. patch up his family he was in wrong and rental apartment was so you know with his

wife and children and they moved out on into apartments together. so that for a few you soon is that right what's the major you heard. how. i'm from cuba. because you're i've been in. the united states. and this is the best this is the top that you know what i mean before don't make it here. he will make it in no way. you know what i mean he said i report to here in the. mayor you know i don't mean i just get over enough money thrown from work and there was you were close. so thank you very much i really appreciated for this. that. you.