chaos in kiev the number of dead it's rising twenty five people confirmed killed as riot has clashed with police on the streets of the ukrainian capital. and now videos and pictures emerging of protesters attacking security forces with guns explosives untraditional molotov cocktails. in the meantime western officials are lining up to condemn the violence threatening sanctions against the ukrainian government.

the top headlines from around the world for you right now on r.t. international. welcome to the program the number of dead is rising in ukraine as a new wave of unrest spirals out of control the country's health ministry now saying twenty five people have been killed on both sides with rioters clashing with police on the streets of kiev security officials say nine policemen have died most of them from gunshot wounds let's get more now on that you got a piece going off is standing by for us in the ukrainian capital right now yeah go to good to see you it seems that forty eight hours ago the worst was over but it's all halted back up all over again. the city center here in key of look like the battlefields pavements have been ripped out on some streets apparently during the clashes to use them as the storms as weapons the house the labor unions you can see behind me there in that black cloud. smoke

that's still on fire the fire started overnight during the most havey clashes between the rioters and the police forty one people have been evacuated from that several stories of the building collapse and it's still flames could still be seen coming out of the windows there well the authorities have blamed should be right wing rioters radicals for setting his building on fire they're saying that they may have been weapons inside of us and this way they tried to cover up the evidence the opposition didn't give any explanation. about why it started and what began this fire would also know that president. met with the leaders of the opposition and has also blamed radical rioters so for firing live shots at afterwards and has also called on the opposition leaders not to take the side of the radicals. or have made

a strong appeal against resulting to radical action but i wasn't heard i repeat it once again and cool only it's not too late to stop the conflict is not too late to save ukraine when they continue. now there are injuries and fatalities on both sides both among the rioters and among the police it's still not really clear who exactly began firing first but right now it's really the deaths what matters and while at the moment it is a bit more quieter than it was over the night and for more about what was happening when there was still dark and during the most heavy clashes here's a report by my colleague i would say you know. it was mentioned. this morning everyone thought things were going to. happen. one player gets the

polies. player perry gets there just to get. the police to the part of the world which is the protest of repairing the police pretty much the scene we have been seeing over the several months you need to cut the gun so the blood can get because it's bad enough by the police being done is famous my gun to match up with this man started. all business and we're going to talk peace march to the parliament. to clear those riots but this is been pretty much the same if you close by those who may have the homes the courts know the government of ukraine has imposed a curfew that no cars can get inside the city by midnight and still far before

we have seen major mike coming from the police. to the square to report just. very very loud the barricades have been. over there the bank for more than two months and not a very good sign over there will be dismantled so it will be no the way it's going to go it's much to do with their needs which should. be right there keeping us all up to date from also posting video from the center of the protest in front of dots on a lexi's instagram page the police lines are just twenty minutes meters away from where he took this video here on his mobile phone you can follow a lecture to chefs from all firsthand videos directly from the front line in the meantime there have been accusations flying all over the place that live ammunition has been used by both sides in the on going conflict while us. so far we have

certainly seen pictures showing some protesters and possessions of well real firearms there are come of large men some points of firing what appears to be live ammo rioters also talking police with molotov cocktails and rocks and he was using a truck a minute ago and well you can see what happened as the protests continue to get worse so let's look back at how the situation unfolding kiev on tuesday when violence returned to ukrainian capital the opposition rallied the crowds and urged them to march on parliament i trouble began when radical protesters broke through police lines the situation escalated even further and rioters tried to storm the office of ukraine's ruling party setting it on fire now police struggle to contain the thousands of protesters throwing rocks and molotov cocktails some even using trucks to break through the security told three people were killed becoming the first victims of the street

violence which continues to escalate and less than two hours later a police officer was killed when protesters attacked security. now western governments which have been very supportive of the ukrainian opposition are calling for an end to the unrest germany said it wouldn't rule out sanctions while france blamed the deaths on the authorities excessive use of force the u.s. called the violence unacceptable and as artie's guy nature can reports outside involvement goes way beyond the so-called statements demanding peace. from their podiums administration officials say it's up to the ukrainians to decide their future for the work that they do behind the scenes does not look like they want to leave it to the ukraine to decide moreover it seems washington doesn't want to leave it to the opposition to decide on its future in the leaked conversation between us assistant secretary of state and the us ambassador to ukraine and we're talking about who of the opposition leaders should be in the government and who

should not here's a bit of that conversation. pieces are usually good complicated or charger i don't think we should go into the government i don't think it's necessary i don't think it's a good idea i think he is the guy who's got the economic experience the governing experience he's what he needs is clear on a book on the outside he needs to be talking to them so that would be great i think to help glue this thing and have the u.n. help glue it and you know the e.u. the context of the conversation suggests that they're talking about managing ukraine's opposition leaders sort of handling them and moving fast before those leaders figure out on their own what to do and the opposition leaders have certainly been looking to the west for support not just washington to opposition leaders are saying yes and you just got back from germany where they met with the german leader angle of merkel and discussed ukraine's political future these kinds of meetings of course bolster the opposition's profile and in a chaotic environment many things become possible opposition leaders know that at

the moment it may not be in their interest to really try and lower the temperature of violence on the streets of kiev. when all the unrest is also spread to regional centers in western ukraine writers have been seizing local government buildings and police stations in the cities of our live off the pole and even the front as well in the fall for the regional prosecutor's office was told by radicals who broke into the building and criminal files around two thousand stormed an internal ministry of security base there. with members of the military being badly hurt as a result well andrew craig is the work of u.s. government n.g.o.s in countries like ukraine and says they are continuing that long history of meddling behind the scenes. there's a longstanding effort of democracy building. and often that involves things like free press and

voting reform and things like that. and that's part of it but also part of it is more representation for those parts of the ukraine that want a more independent status or even. influence over the government as investor nuland said but those demands those requests by the western. government have to be looked at that it's almost contradictory to. be orchestrating changes in another sovereign country while saying we are in favor of democracy there are also reports coming in now that a local journalist was among those killed in clashes that i just lay dying from a gunshot wound some of the footage emerging from the street violence in kiev

demonstrates the confused situation and it's difficult to work out just who these people here are in the uniforms attacking what are presumed to be ukraine's police security forces. but we are across the situation in kiev we'll keep bringing you all the latest developments on the hour every hour online team is providing a live minute by minute timeline of the events get the latest dot com right now. in the meantime i know it's an international thank you for joining us today the project to build a dedicated european in. internet will reach the highest levels in paris later and president francois hollande will discuss the idea with german chancellor angela merkel as she proposed a change to the current system which sees an awful lot of its online traffic traveling via the united states before going to its final destination results he's losing confidence reports the idea of hiding data from prying western eyes may just be an illusion keeping european online communications within europe it's an idea

that's gained traction amid revelations of widespread u.s. buying and now the german chancellor is on board and given for owning a. talk of european providers that offer security for our citizens for that one shouldn't have to send e-mails and other information across the atlantic rather one could build up a communication network inside europe because of the size and scope of american surveillance has outraged european leaders especially on glimmer of gold his cell phone was allegedly tapped although germany is one of america's closest allies documents leaked by the former n.s.a. contractor edward snowden show it was treated as a third class partner spied on at levels similar to china and saudi arabia to put that in perspective the n.s.a. watched twenty million german phone connections and ten million internet data sets on an average day tapping only two million connections in france during the same

time give her all the fury merkel's initiative may have want to deal with anger at her government has been seen as lax on u.s. buying and snowden revealed cooperation between countries may have been closer than german indignation with indicate. america doesn't really. believe about plan. it doesn't seem that the conservative party is concerned with protection of the data of citizens at all it seems to be a point of pressure. put forward to the united states. but it's unclear what the actual purpose of this idea is merkel has been pushing the us for a relationship similar to the so-called five eyes agreement reached after the second world war i deal between english speaking countries not to spy on one another but the white house isn't playing ball there's no country where we have a no speired right now it appears that germany is going on the offensive with plans

for counter espionage against western allies as for merkel's internet proposal while the devil is in the details currently a message sent from one online user to another could have a long journey before it reaches its destination although the german government hasn't released specifics the european networks could potentially allow data to bypass that route but is that realistic well for one the internet is a global network walling it off in europe goes against the concept of a world wide web what's more different european countries have different laws on privacy so a shared policy would need to be adopted for a europe wide scheme to work and there's a bigger issue it's not going to stop the n.s.a. let's put it that way. the n.s.a. go where the data it is is the n.s.a. compiled text messages that a telecommunications networks in china they can probably manage to get facebook messages out of germany moving the data isn't fixing the problem securing the data

is the problem a problem that will take more than tough talk to fix reporting in berlin for r t m d c catherine of our still to come here on r.t. international i agree with their desperate economic plight. but. that. oxfam is in crisis play greece that staging a motorcade protest claiming financial aid from european lenders has made their life no easy. and much more ahead. this is the media leave us so we leave to be. by the same motions to cure. your party visible. questions that no one is asking with the guests that you deserve answers from. politicking only on our t.v. .

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whistleblower edward snowden has received a vote of support for one of the world's oldest universities snowden was elected to the position over rector by students at scotland's glasgow university details his watch these tests are awesome. former u.s. national security agency edward snowden has been elected as a student rector of glasgow university one of the oldest universities in the u.k. now the role of the rector is to represent student issues do senior management at the university bought previous incumbents have been elected as political statements of the group that had nominated edward snowden said that they did so because he stood for democracy and that voting for him would have shown support for his plight as a wanted man after revealing the extent of global surveillance by the n.s.a. as well as other spy agencies and they said that this would also said a message to governments their opposition to the intrusive nature of state security now as far as edward snowden is concerned this isn't his first of ward in october

two thousand and thirteen received the. integrity and intelligence award and also just this week he's one of the recipients of the year two thousand and thirteen george polk award in journalism in new york reaction to snowden's latest revelations on how the n.s.a. targeted we could leaks was coming from a fellow who was a blower there he is right there julian. expressing his outrage at the leak renewing his calls for an investigation into the spying agency's activities details on that just a couple of clicks away. also a huge explosion at a fracking well a five day blaze one person dead forced energy giant sheriff wrong to offer an apology to a small pennsylvania town and you can find out how a conciliatory offer over. how that went over with a lot of. traffic could be a total nightmare for motorists in athens today with farmers promising to use

a protest motorcade to clog up the roads nationwide protests have been called off the negotiations between the farmers union and government over a new tunks regulations reached a stalemate last week this story goes to maria for national. they left their fields and abandoned their tractors again greek farmers young and old took to the streets calling for revolution for the third time in just two weeks farmers of this region about four hundred kilometers from the capital athens go to blog this state highway an attempt to draw their thoughts of a time in france and they will do it again and again they say until their voice is heard their demands are nothing new greece the country that's been hit the hardest by the economic crises and has now been recession for six years but we want the government to reduce taxes and to cut prices for equipment and petrol we already pay too much to do not to produce or goods well the same time we have to pay for

electricity no water bills along with education and medical treatment pay for everything and we pay too much cost us has three grown up children and all three of them i'll go toward a part of the twenty seven percent of greeks who are unemployed. or politicians don't care about us there is no good infrastructure we sell our products at very low prices and while the european union gives greece money it never reaches us farmers. survived the second world war but says he can barely endure the current economic situation. because they were under the e.u. all our problems started the life of farmers was never easy now it's help i quit to eat tobacco but the boy my boral young people leave this country why i was supposed to become easier but it never happened. he's not alone feeling let down and people who seem to have no doubt about what went wrong would begin to see when we entered

the new things changed dramatically it was stuff but now it's even worse at that time they made golden promises and told us we're gonna eat from golden spoon it's but they never kept to their word. the farmers are not optimistic they see. will only get worse given his presence in iceland we can't afford this the comment promised to reduce prices further tryst had night time but they never did the protestant call for action what else we can do will fight until then but despite such calls this demonstration is little more than a symbolic act right police were at the scene but they never stepped in and the highway patrol simply opened otomo to routes so that the traffic was unaffected greece faced a wave of violent protests back in two thousand and ten two thousand and twelve. that led to this five dead and hundreds of others injured no one here wants a repetition of those events and not many

a short believe it will change and the same. now those farmers who abandoned their tractors to make their voice heard feel that they have reaped what the politicians in athens have so race nationality from greece i tried to get some us sporting action here on r.t. international now russia's ice hockey team heading into the winter olympic quarter finals after claiming a crucial win over no way other red machine that's facing a stern test against finland later today i spoke about it a short time ago with r.t. is a wonderful. thing to second in the world rankings one place ahead of russia and in my opinion i think russia will have to improve on their performance that they. showed against norway yesterday i know they won that for nothing but they were only two up with sixty seven seconds left and they did seem to struggle to break down that norwegian side

and even the defense defenseman for russia under markoff said as much after the match but the russian fans we spoke to aren't so you can say we're hoping for a big win even if we don't get a high score and we still expect a victory this. team is doing a great job i support it no matter what it will be a tough match but russia will win go to russia. that much starting at four thirty local time at the bolshoi ice time now appear russia's hopes on the slopes lie with a very special married couple snowboarders lena's the vic wild will compete in the women's and men's parallel giant slalom is actually from america but he picked up a russian passport after the pair got married three years ago and his arrival on the russian team seems to boost it both their chances of a medal. i didn't have any good for the states and i wasn't going to reach the goals that i wanted. to show as an opportunity to get the balls. to be able to do

what i wanted to do to me he brought a new attitude say because he's away like he's way more aggressive than i am maybe a little more aggressive more like a more of a more of a boss if you if you will and. he made me engage in whatever i'm doing and do it one hundred percent so fingers crossed for those two and they are just two names in what is a very strong snowboarding squad for russia now hardly a day goes past when i'm not talking about russian figure skaters such is the strength and depth for them and today we will see that best and the aging talent in the ladies short program fifteen year old unit skier takes to the ice again after helping russia win gold in the team event but also see a girl just a couple of years older model in a sort of a she's making her limping debut but doesn't seem to be fazed by. it is the first adult competition for me and my coach told me not to think about it as an olympic

competition but just an ordinary start there will be a lot of russian fans who are very loud and energetic i'll have to focus and just do my job i'm sure she will she's a very confident young lady at very busy day here in sochi i've only picked out if you things there and i. i haven't even mentioned the team events need biathlon and a cross-country skiing say keep an eye on the days. and all of this on a day twelve of the winter games in sochi so plenty to look forward to though as often as martin andrews i found out there will still be plenty to attract thrill seekers even when the elin picks ups and leaves town. russia is quite literally a land of opportunity as far as extreme sports are concerned from the g. force of the olympic bobsledder to various high adrenaline activities that take to the sky modern day russia truly has something to offer everyone bigger higher faster and the new a.j.

hackett bungee experience seem to open in sochi will not disappoint with only five similar locations around the world such as been chosen for its geography beauty and the fact that russians love adrenaline sports well the views of the valley here are just incredible and the bungee jumping the take place here in such here later this year isn't an olympic sport but it still has an incredible following around the world people are already always looking for that latest rush or thrill and extreme writhing in china is no exception. introducing if i deem my cut off and the tally on a scale of extreme climb as a blog is to have illegally scaled also to build exists around the world while that fellow russian sportsmen and women compete for medals in struggle with fear and pressure of the winter olympics this path thought nothing of slipping into the construction sites of the second tallest building in the world. the first which shows the countries want to visit we go there enjoy the atmosphere didn't leave

there like we were born there was this huge ratings in the music and you then which is a building or other project we want to scale and just climate than ropes hardhats cables or harnesses the real life spider-man slowly made their way up to the top of the six hundred thirty to meet it's our dead devils or mad men it was the ultimate challenge to attempt. that. which was a sort of study with lime to show people who live in those places their cities from a different angle a different perspective it's all principles go ascending further they continued on to a crane six hundred fifty five meters above shanghai's financial district looking down on the clouds below. clinging on for their lives with not a shake or sweaty palmed in sight they reached the very top with a side and a high five they felt on top of the world of course all they needed to do then was

to successfully get back down wanted andrews. and out international to come to live from moscow syria the focus of cross talk is it possible that the recent geneva two peace talks on syria could have been an intentional failure is doubly details coming away right now.

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