transit. your best way to the heart of moscow. chaos in kiev the number of dead rises with twenty five people confirmed killed as a clash with police on the streets of the ukrainian capital. kiev videos pictures emerging of protesters attacking security forces with guns explosives cocktails. in other news international the german chancellor will discuss how to keep europe's online communications safe from america's this in a meeting with the french president. and farmers in greece or stopping traffic angry over their economic plight joining together in a protest motorcade against the tax regulations affecting their industry.

the top world headlines live for you right here on r.t. international i'm rule resewn thank you for joining us the last twenty four hours have been the bloodiest in ukraine's history as an independent nation these are live pictures for you right here from downtown kiev at the health ministry has confirmed the clashes between protesters and security forces have left twenty five dead among that number nine policeman mostly killed by gunshots alexia chef ski is in the midst of it all. this is. going to. get the bullies to fire mary kay they're just going to get sick of the books. the police. the part of the world which

is the protesters rick perry the police pretty much the scene we have to see over the several months you need to cut the gun so the blood can get through this book and not by the police being the kind of. famous my gun to match up with a plan this may and started your own business and or going to the so-called peaceful march to the parliament no one planning to clear those riots. if you know by those who may have or didn't know the government just doesn't occur to you that no cars can get inside the city by midnight and still far before we have seen major coming from the police force that we're going. to the

square to report just. a very. very good time being. over there very good to me for more than two months and not very good not so good when there will soon be dismantled so it will be no way it's going to go with much to do with the need such. as election to show keeping us up to date with the latest from kiev he's also posting video from the center of the protest and on his instagram page the police lines just twenty meters from where he took this on his mobile phone you can follow election to chef ski for more first hand videos directly from the front line well for the meantime though there have been a lot of accusations of both sides of the on go. both sides are using live ammunition well so far we have seen pictures showing some protesters with real guns there are chemical men allegedly firing live ammunition at the rioters are also attacking police with showers of molotov cocktails and rocks and this is the moment

where the protesters used a truck to ram into the police and foreign affairs expert in the bottom alledge he says those behind the protests are deliberately ramping up the violence. he just was trying to school district a plan to push people behind the demonstrations and behind just organizing to push the government into signing. the demonstrators. with t.v.'s friends from the major part of the training. think this was a pretty interesting points of difference three months no need to show some results the deciding to do so it would be true your jenson didn't really care dies in the process let's look back at the how the situation unfolding on tuesday when the violence returned to the ukrainian capital first the opposition rallied the crowds and urged them to march on parliament the trouble began right there when radical

protesters broke through the police lines and the situation escalated even further when rioters tried to storm the office so if you crane's ruling party then setting it on fire and as it all continued to the police struggle to contain the thousands of protesters throwing molotov cocktails and rocks and. even using a truck to try and break through the security caught on. now three people were killed becoming the first victims of the street violence which then continued to escalate and less than two hours later a police officer was killed when protesters attacked security forces. or western governments which have been very supportive of the ukrainian opposition a calling for an end to the unrest and putting the blame largely on the thora he's now u.s. vice president joe biden has phoned president told him to pull back government forces and exercise restraint another statement from the white house urged the

ukrainian leader to take steps to resolve the crisis as sweden's foreign minister warned the e.u. is ready to retaliate and punish anyone they believe is responsible for the violence in ukraine and his oxys guy nature can reports outside involvement goes way beyond the statements calling for 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 does in one of the two the opposition decide on its future in the leaked conversation between u.s. assistant secretary of state and the u.s. 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. the producers are you sure you get 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 this is the guy who's got the economic experience the governing experience he's what he needs his cleats into any book on the outside he needs to

be talking to them so that would be great i think to help blew 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 we have seen 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 the violence on the streets of kiev. right there just want to show you again these are live pictures coming to us directly from downtown kiev it has been the scene

now for the past thirty six hours of extreme violence we've had at least nine police officers killed allegedly from gunshot wounds so let's get the very latest what's happening of what's continuing in the ukrainian capital got a pretty good offer now joining me live from there and do you go it's daylight where you are we still see the smoke. we thought that was that it was over but now apparently it's it's still going on. well things have quieted down right now compared to how we were over the nights but lots of people are still on my down square they're calling on the others to join the protest right police are there as well and they have managed to push out the riders from a large part of the square so far it's more or less peaceful but tensions are really really high in fact several districts of the essential key of look like a battlefield so with boulders a ripped out from the pavement but small barricades flames are still coming out of

the house of trade unions which should be the headquarters all for the opposition but it caught fire over the night during the heavy crashes between the writers and the police authorities are blaming the radical right wing writers for setting the house on fire allegedly they say they could have heard there could have been arms there inside of it they wanted to destroy this evidence and forty one people were evacuated from the building several stories collapsed and while it looks really damaged right now from the outside now the president you know for the show. is about blaming also the radical right wing protesters the rioters for opening fire for firing a wide rounds at the authorities and he also met with the leaders of the opposition calling them not to take the side of the riders. yeah luckily it was

a quick on have made a strong appeal against brazil saying to radical action but i wasn't good i repeat it once again and coolly it's not too late to stop the conflict is no it's too late to save you could. come from you. know frankly it's not clear who. opened fire first but these were drowned so shot there overnight there are injuries and fatalities on both sides both among the rioters and to the police but like i said right now it seems more or less peaceful but tensions are really high and what could happen next. here to check in with you throughout the day to take what appears going off there in central kiev thanks very much. well in the meantime by the unrest has also spreads are regional centers in western ukraine rioters have been seizing local government buildings and police stations this in the city as part of the poll live off even though frank as well in fact in live off the

regional prosecutor's office was torched by radicals who broke into the building and quickly bundt criminal files and around two thousand still need an internal ministry security base there with thirty members of the military being badly hurt as well what andrew krieger such as the work of the u.s. government n.g.o.s in countries like ukraine he says they are continuing their 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 to a more independent status or even. influence over the government

as investor knew. but those demands those requests by the western. government have to be looked at that it's almost contradictory to. orchestrating changes in another sovereign country while saying we are in favor of democracy also a local journalist was among those killed in the clashes he allegedly died from a gunshot wound now some of the footage emerging from the street. demonstrates the confused situation and have a look at this picture it's difficult to work out just who the people in the uniforms are but they are attacking what many are presuming to be. security forces . are where across the situation in kiev here in international we will keep you up to date on all the developments. providing minute by minute timeline of the events you can. all those are just

a few clicks away. from the program here on our international. desperate economic plight. and the. crisis plagued greece. protests. made their lives more difficult.

stories others. to picture. are lost to cover for you today here on our teens a national often are the project to build a dedicated european internet will reach the highest levels and paris later as i'm

president francois hollande will discuss the issue with the german chancellor angela merkel as she proposed a change for the current system which sees a large part of online traffic first travelling to america and then going around to its final destination there are reports the idea of hiding data from prying eyes could just be one grand 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. with talk of european providers that offer security for our citizens so 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 that's. the size and scope of american surveillance has outraged european leaders especially on glimmered cole who 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 yet for all the fury merkel's initiative may have want to do with anger at home her government has been seen as lax on u.s. buying and snowden revealed cooperation between countries may have been closer than german indignation would indicate. america doesn't really. believe a blend. 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 region now it appears that germany is going on the offensive with plans for counter espionage against western allies as for merkel's internet proposal well 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 all fien 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 fugitive whistleblower edward snowden may be in limbo of a way his future lies but one of the u.k.'s most venerable institutions is happy to give him a position of trust students at glasgow university in scotland have nominated him as a rector tester australia explains. 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 but to 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 voted for him he would have to show support for his flight 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 award in october two thousand and thirteen you received the sam adams integrity and intelligence award and also just this week he's one of the recipients of the year two thousand and thirteen and george polk award in journalism in new york. well reaction to snowden's latest revelations on how the n.s.a. targeted wiki leaks was quick and coming from a fellow whistleblower julian assange. the leak

a renewed his calls for an investigation into the spying agency's activities many more details on that just a few clicks away. while you're out dot com check out this story here a huge explosion at a fracking well a five day blaze one person killed force energy giant sheriff wrong to offer an apology to a small pennsylvania town they would have would appear that their apology over free . didn't go down too well. traffic could be a nightmare for motorists in athens today with farmers promising to use a protest motorcade to plug up the roads and nationwide protests have been called off the negotiations between the farmers union and government over a new tax regulations reached a stalemate last week a maria phenomena picks up the story. 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 that's four hundred kilometers from the capital athens go to blog this state highway and out of tampa draw their thoughts into ten friends and they will do it again and again they say until their voice is heard their demands are nothing new in 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 today to produce or goods well the same time we have to pay for electricity or water bills along with education and medical treatment to pay for everything and we pay too much cost as has three grown up children and all three of them are without toric part of the twenty seven percent of greig's 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 opposed to us 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 but the good is 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 but they never kept to their word. the farmers are not optimistic they say things will only get worse and prices are rising and we can't afford this the comment promised to reduce prices further trist have 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 protest spec'ing two thousand and ten two thousand and twelve. deadlocks at least five dead and hundreds of others injured no one here wants a repetition of those events and not many assured belief 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. time to get some olympic action here on r.t. international rushers ice hockey team heading into the winter olympic quarter finals facing a stern test against finland later today farmer reports. i think in

dissension 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 that against norway yesterday i know they won 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 defensive 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 victory the team is doing a great job i support it no matter what fortune it will be a tough match but russia will win go to russia. starting at. four thirty local time at the bolshoi ice dome now appear russia's hopes on the slopes lie with a very special married couple snowboarders leaders of a very quiet will compete in the women's and men's parallel giant slalom is

actually from america but he picks up a russian passport after the pair got married three years ago and his arrival on the russian team seems should be 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 want 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 is the way he is way more aggressive than i am maybe a little more aggressive more like a more of a more robust if you if you will and. he made me engage in whatever i'm doing in life to 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 their 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 same event but also see a girl just a couple of years older. nikki over she's making her olympic debut but doesn't seem to be fazed by. it is the first adult competition for me in 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 a very busy day here in sochi i've only picked out if you things there and i haven't even mentioned the team events in the biathlon and the cross-country skiing say keep an eye out for that. so a busy day in solitary and a busy day in. we'll continue give the latest from the chaos in kiev here on r.t. international for now though our financial program boom bust is coming your way unless you're in the u.k. and then we're going to be looking at the hidden faces spurring on the destruction

in kiev it's all it's an international flight from moscow. yes i feel when i close my eyes i see people in mosques because. you know sometimes i think that you're a modern itself is a face covered by a mosque. with people in both sides of the barricades with your mom. sometimes it feels as if all of ukraine is no. cholesterol. depression. public street. to prove your life. are you so.

far those that's. probably. all hard. to place right close to. the first trip. and i predict future. on our reporters twitter. and instagram. d m o o o. o o there i marinate this is boston these are the stories that we're tracking for you today. first up former treasury secretary larry summers mark presidents then.

with the warning that the u.s. is headed towards a turn of the century british economic policy i'll tell you all about it coming up and then we have david stockman live on today's show all be asking him about the policy of debt and laissez faire capitalism you won't want to miss that and finally in today's big deal i'm joined by boom bust favorite rachel perseus will talk about a new book that's making always in the financial industry little craft the where coming up in all starts right now. mr crabtree this is my choose to the kind you succumbs. maggie

smith what a wonderful way to just love that was downton abbey and i'd truly do love that show now downton depicts the lives in a room in a risk to credit family and their servants and post a warning in error england and before i get started i want to make it very very clear that this is a fictional television show about the lives of upper class crawley family and the british social hierarchy that surrounds them now just yesterday former treasury secretary larry summers wrote an editorial in the financial times a british publication just warning that the u.s. is headed the way of downton abbey with the economy and social inequalities to match now some are says the solution to avoid this must involve raising incomes of the middle class and the poor and reforming tax codes tax codes that let a big share of the wealthy income escape taxation now summers writes quote a current tax code the current tax code is so badly designed the.