this is why you should care only on the. violence on the streets of ukraine counter so as protesters clashed with police there are reports of injuries on both sides as unrest reaganites just a day after a government honesty came into force. same sex limits the kansas house of representatives waved through legislation that would have been trying to lure the right to discriminate against gay. also russian pilots suffering severe chest pains in the u.s. jailers denied a heart examination despite the joyous agreeing to let him see a doctor following strong demands from foreign ministry. i will survive it

all with only my son came home. he talks to the prisoners mother to find out how the families coping with the or d. . programs olympics over in this snowboarding course the nation's first ever medal in the sport it helped secure russia second place insulters overall medal count. international news and comment live from moscow you're watching aussie international with me you know. and welcome to the program. violence has flared up again in ukraine's capital a position demonstrators have broken through police lines in kirkuk there are reports that ten protesters have been injured some seriously with seven police

officers also hurt. their chances are burning tires and had apparently attempted to make their way to parliament there were also reports of grenades being thrown out of the headquarters of the ruling party in retaliation for police firing rubber bullets at the interior ministry claims there have been fire arms used prices are climbing on cars and blocking access to fishel buildings in open defiance of security forces it comes just a day after an amnesty for position protesters came into force after their vacated administrative buildings that had been occupied for two months that you are some busta to ukraine has been quick to react to the new outbreak of violence the statement reads the positive dynamics over the weekend in ukraine unfortunately been followed by violence began politics should be carried out in parliament not on the streets and.

decision by the kansas house of representatives to pass a bill which would have allowed the legal discrimination or gay couples was met with outrage across the u.s. a somewhat embarrassed state senate now plans to sing the legislation which would have allowed people to use their religious different beliefs to openly deny services care or employment to same sex couples he's going to check our reports. kansas lawmakers have outraged the gay community here in the u.s. says you know last year the u.s. supreme court ruled that the ban on same sex marriage is unconstitutional so you have states that have embrace this ruling and you have states that are trying to shield themselves from that ruling and here's how kansas is doing it kansas lawmakers have passed a bill that would allow businesses and state government employees to deny services to same sex couples if quote it would be contrary to their sincerely held religious

beliefs so according to these lawmakers forcing businesses or state employees to deliver services to same sex couples is a violation of their freedom of religion and speech gay rights advocates are of course outraged over this some say it could be worse than party simply not allowing gay marriage because we're talking about services that could include medical care so state hospitals can potentially turn away gay couples at the door and deny treatment and this bill would protect them from discrimination lawsuits if a gay couple calls the police an officer may refuse to help them on religious grounds that's how broad the language of this kansas bill is we're asking residents of washington d.c. one of the most gay friendly cities in the u.s. what they think about this bill. i think it's really terrible i think that employers should not be able to just like not let same sex couples have the same

benefits as regular married couples based on their religious beliefs that's a fundamental contradiction of separation of church and state he might think that's why. why why do you think that. i don't think that the state. should be able to force people to do things that go against their religious beliefs kansas's not alone so-called religious example law so be. proposing idaho mississippi ohio oklahoma and oregon twenty states have laws protecting residents from discrimination based on their sexual orientation but most states do not and it seems last year's supreme court's decision and be all trend toward equal advice for gay couples that prompted some of these conservative states to take an even more aggressive stance against the gay community in washington i'm going to check on our team. coming up this hour i read

snowden's noid denied and interrogated by constans officials in london is just the latest incident we asked her what she was put through and why she's saying so whistleblowers are being specifically targeted by some country. a russian pilot jailed in the us has not been given proper medical treatment despite experiencing symptoms of an imminent heart attack that's despite constantini or shango being allowed to see a doctor after russian diplomats insisted he was in need of urgent attention we spoke to your mother says her son is being left to suffer for no reason i sometimes look at his picture and think to myself let me take your pain away i will survive it all is only my son came home. i only get to talk to him once a week it's too expensive to call you know when you feel he's not guilty why are

they driving him to his death what did he do wrong i keep asking what evil did he cause to the united states what did he do did he kill somebody did he rob somebody no he's not guilty of any crime. still waiting for washington to allow a russian delegation of diplomats to visit here in prison to see tricking them takes a look back a big case of the ex-pirate. in twenty ten detained in liberia in a sting operation brought on to u.s. soil and twenty eleven sentenced to twenty years behind bars for conspiring to internationally smuggle drugs the case of russian pilot constrained stirring relations between moscow and washington returns to the headlines yet again a man with no previous criminal background anywhere in the world someone who has never even stepped foot on u.s. soil prior to his being snatched up by u.s. officials became the first russian citizen to be sentenced in the u.s. for an intent to participate in

a crime that was built by special agents posing as drug dealers arrested in a third country after the imprisoned pilots numerous cries for medical help remain unanswered in the u.s. his lawyer after visiting the man in jail recent alarm saying his client needs urgent medical care if he is still live seeing your shadow seems to be on the brink of a heart attack moscow is demanding that the russian citizen being held in a new jersey prison be allowed a proper visit from russian diplomats as well as russian and american doctors for a full examination of his health. some of the successful russian lympics today in due form of a silver medal in this noble thing that's holding nothing to home the host second place standing in the overall medal table and it was an unexpected support on the podium as offseason as an isa now reports from. russian fans certainly celebrating this tuesday russia wasn't tipped to take any

medals in the snowboarding but there you go that's the magic of the olympics nicholai noonan finished second in the cross the country's first ever medal in that sport he was put by his french rival but stayed ahead of us in third noonan is the twenty ten world junior champion and before the sochi games said he was planning to retire well if he does at least tell now go out on a high now for a wider look out the winter games so far i'm now glad to welcome to our sochi craig really the i.o.c. vice president thank you so much for finding time to come and talk to us are you happy with how the games have gone so far in sochi russia where the i.o.c. is ready. particularly for the us which because if you give the competition. if you give. to compete and full of really good fun then you're going to get great sport so we're very happy what do you think makes

sochi special as opposed to other olympic host cities other games that you've been i worked at but what i can't remember part. of the way there's been true before winter games the other thing too is that if you are building a winter site. and you go to the motor show you end up with the reno for the zero point of entry with all these trucks all finishing with the she will read and then weeks a great deal of change that i was to the people we needed to. people get used to it right sir craig reedie vice president of the i.o.c. joining us here in our sochi studio thank you so much for your time here on r t. well it is a day packed with action here in sochi tonight all eyes will be on hockey with russia needing a win against norway as artie's andrew farmer now reports. there's only one place to start of the time that's the men's ice hockey because russia take on

norway for a place in the quarter finals the pressure is mounting on the how you stuff they failed to reach the last eight automatically but they really should beat this norwegian side you have lost this great opening games and also many have something like one player in the n.h.l. compared to something like russia's sixty however there's been no word of caution from one soviet legend. i think it's going to be a. little bit of. a bonding for the team because you played a good story but it's you have to or understand you know there is no. fixed so you have to be aware they have to respect where played against you know that's the same time you have a chance like to see different lengths of nations and to see what's. what you have today and. what you plan for the next trial to a quarter finals well many people off predicting a russian win but what about the norwegians there are plenty of them here and we caught up with some i think part of the past that came with.

a rational response expect to be very interesting and i hope norway will do good but i think the russian bear will rush unfortunately for us and we'll see whether those predictions come true at the bolshoi manipulator almost before that norwegian fans will be cheering up here in the mountains because the heavy fog from yesterday does appear to have lifted and that means that the men's starting up by. will go ahead it's only going to be in dollar and you know wage and he's going in that he's off to the winter olympic medalist for the russian interests to do the kind of the name if you can get any chance he's looking to add to the bronze medal he's going to last. for the sochi games have been full of examples of limpid persistence number more so than canadian snowboarder dominic while time the thirty three year old won silver in the woman snowboard cross taking

some revenge for her heartbreaking defeat in vancouver four years ago back then suffered a bad crash in training before the race started injured and in pain she finished twentieth and failed to pass the qualification round so a great comeback for her here and sochi and she told us she was happy with the slopes too as well as getting a chance to meet some new people you know it's my third time in racing in sochi last year to get this nomination wasn't easy for sure but this year it's a totally spring condition and we we used to race in those kind of snow kind of condition and they would advocate me that many moons course was really good and they did a great job in the course it was there for sure they could get bigger and we used to write but it was really fun and good speed and a good show and. just good like a favor with the people to see us and say hi it's a great experience for everyone and i would like to see them for sure now we've seen some real breakthroughs here at the winter games we mentioned that snowboard

cross medal for russia quite historic here's what will go down in olympic history u.s. ice dancing pair meryl davis and charlie white skated away from their rivals being awarded a record one hundred and ninety five point fifty two points and here's another hero of the day belorussian athlete daria she won her third gold in the by awful on mass start race becoming the first woman to win three buyouts along gold medals in one olympics now the olympic games. can be a thrill ride for the fans just as much as the athletes but if the emotional roller coaster isn't enough for visitors maybe they would be interested in a real one artist martin explains. hold on tight saatchi park is here will almost be fishel opening is this summer for the guests to be in the park concurrently get

a taste of what's going to be on offer located next to the fish stadium it's taken an international team months to design and prepare the attraction estimated to cost over three hundred seventy million dollars that's of on the. supermarket hirsch on bushehr and fairy tales. we want to see the people at home sure experience the adventure park will feature thirty five rides and attractions based on mission total continue as a year round for the. medical five feet plans the highlight for many will be the adrenaline filled rights including russia's tallest and fastest roller coaster. for a different thrill seeking activity i head inland located near the olympic cluster of chrysler pollyanna and adjusting visitors here must be prepared to climb zip swings balance and jump through the forest the tree obstacle course blends the mountain views with a variety of elements ranging from easy to well extremely challenging i feel like

i'm a member of the moscow state circus and so far it's a good place to include this. in the winter olympics will keep you up to date with everything that's happening here at the olympics but for now back to you in moscow . and he said now that live from our source had courses and just star we are following of course all these forty trees right here and you'll find even more online on our twitter page for example of gold an overview of all the brands in the lists section for you and there you can find the latest comments and pictures from the athletes themselves before their competition sets off women's bobsled driver pulled from team great britain tweeted a preview of herself and some fancy new equipment while dutch athletes as come through is sent out a message of support with some very inspiring words we'll bring you all the latest from sochi so keep up to date on all the olympic excitement right here on our

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this is international coming to you live from moscow welcome back and also back to our breaking news story in kiev with your point so precious those armed with firearms and grenades and injuries on both sides violence has returned to the streets of ukraine's capital and. he's here with us and update us on the situation that is so eerie now it seems the calm is over before it even really started in ukraine bring us up to date absolutely seems like we're going back and forth well at this point what we're looking at is the police report which are saying that allegedly the protesters are firing live rounds so that is a breakthrough we haven't heard before that often the protesters in turn are saying the police are hurling. grenades. and using tear gas as well as some water cannons against the protesters also hurling stones you can see

the pictures that we're getting live right now from the very center off the of this is where the this is where the bulk of the tensions have been going on the last the last time that we've seen the sort of the absurd an uprising there. there are also reports of several other women on the street who are not clear whether or not those were protesters being wounded by rubber bullets or the protesters are saying are being fired by police at this point also it's important to know that the again we're seeing. those that are parked on the streets those are set on fire several trucks have been set on fire also part of the region as the ruling party in ukraine has been attacked by protesters it is burning right now they have started by throwing molotov cocktails and now the building is actually aflame according to reports from kiev also we're looking at various other information they're saying that all of this actually began earlier on to. day when the the

ukrainian deputies have convened at the rotty the parliament in order to discuss whether or not to go back to the previous constitution the constitution that the opposition would very much like to see however that vote did not go down most of the deputies parliament members have refused to vote on it so the opposition has blocked the scene the rada the parliament and then soon afterwards we have started seeing the reemergence of the protesters who insist on calling themselves peaceful on key of streets and of course the situation there continues to be going up in smoke so we're keeping a very close eye on it we'll be doing that throughout the day of course. obviously . live and we just saw the latest pictures from ukraine where protesters were throwing molotov cocktails and we are seeing live pictures right now from kiev

where the protesters are throwing molotov cocktails at police right now so the situation is a front from being told right now in kiev and of course to closely watching how this story develops in kiev and of fools we'll bring you up to date as soon as we get more taishan in kiev. in the meantime she's going to. if you can hear us can you comment on the situation there again what we're seeing is obviously extreme violence back on the streets of kiev again it is that's. doing before definitely much faster than it was on november and the pictures are just absolutely tremendous lee unflattering these are the streets they actually have a scape most of the violence before them for and then in january again but now we're seeing that people are back on the streets that are that are surrounding the ukrainian parliament the rada and this is the you see how the police

a very keeping them. selves against the protesters against the protesters aren't becoming increasingly more active you see molotov cocktails being thrown the protesters are you can say armed to the teeth the next we very well protected there are some people who are saying that their their protective gear is actually probably better than that all of the police who are out there in the very first ranks and you see that there is somebody probably trying to attack the police with a heavy duty truck of all things and then also we have heard for protesters again that the police are retaliating of with rubber bullets so again all you can see all hell is breaking news on the streets of kiev once again this one everybody thought that this was over important to underline that it's earlier in the day but important to underline that at this point we have heard from the basket or u.s. ambassador to ukraine who said that such things should be decided in the parliaments not on the streets obviously the cleanup of this doesn't indicate that

it's listening to any voices of reason at this point so again extremely tense of extremely tense up here in ukrainian capital this is both been going on for months at this point where and when and how it will end not quite clear at the moment. she's going to live there thank you very much for bringing us up to date. and news just in a way i guess you were pools that full members of protest punk band pussy riot have been arrested in song now there's a cornucopia and maria were allegedly detained after trying to steal something in a shop both of them walked free from jail in december following an amnesty and all they were convicted here to get isn't four approaches stunt in russia's main orthodox cathedral. and online for you as the you are supposed to put out a afghanistan the pentagon on these up another part of central asia unmanned aircraft could soon appear that was back east on as washington you can see. putting

new drone bases close to the al good border as details of the controversial plan are. conscious of the costs of hosting a major sporting about is being paid in human lives hundreds of immigrant construction workers have died while building stadiums and infrastructure for the twenty twentieth's or football world comp more details on our website. human rights advocates and snowden who are just going to roddick's as she was interrogated one arriving at london's heathrow airport she was detained by customs officials and faced well she describes as hostile questioning. they do look at the past for the nuff to see that i had to rush and visas in there and wanted to know why got to russia and i said i had a client there edward snowden this is where it got really weird they said who is

edward snowden my issue is just very factual he's a whistle blower and he's and i and then after that they asked if i represented bradley manning then the man asked where is bradley manning and i said in jail and he said yes he's a criminal and although i maintained a calm demeanor during the questioning as soon as i left i mean i was shaking and i cried i was just it was extremely intimidating. and coming up here right now a look at how drug companies are being accused of crazing the illnesses that medicines kill and disturbing report is next.

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backwards for illegal criminal immigrants this is the same logic that if i catch a guy breaking into my house as a gracious host i should offer him a pizza because it's his home too this is not just a slap in the face to rule of law but also to the immigrants who do go through the bureaucracy and headaches to become u.s. citizens the right way the legal way so the blasio if you're going to provide these illegal immigrants with some sort of document it should be a plane ticket back home with instructions on how to apply for a green card the legit proper way just like everyone else has to fashion just my opinion.

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