transit route. your best way to the heart of moscow. where bringing you live pictures from the ukrainian council right now chaos in kiev the number of dead rises with twenty five people confirmed killed as armed rioters clash with police on the streets of the ukrainian capital. videos and pictures emerge of first houses attacking security forces with guns explosives and molotov cocktails. in other news this hour the german chancellor will discuss how to keep europe's online communications safe from america's spies at a meeting with the french president. and farmers in greece are stopping traffic angry over their economic plight they're joining together in a protest motorcade against the tox regulations affecting their industry.

this is our senior national coming to you live from moscow and welcome to the program twenty five are dead and hundreds more injured in ukraine's capital which is consumed in fresh violence that the health ministry has confirmed the casualty figures after clashes between protesters and security forces nine policemen are among those killed by gunshots. is following the turbulent situation in kiev for us right now. well things have quite quieted down a right now compared to how the world over the nights but lots of people are still on my down square they're calling on the others to join the protest riot police are

there as well 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 offer essential key of looks like a battlefield so with boulders a ripped out from the pavements one small wooden barricades flames are still coming out of the house of trade unions we should be the headquarters also of the opposition but it caught fire with the night guys during the heavy clashes between the writers and to the police authorities are blaming the radical right wing writers for setting the house on fire allegedly they say they could have there could have been no arms there inside of it they wanted to destroy this evidence and forty one people were evacuated from the building several of the stories collapsed and it's really damaged right now from the outside now the president on the border

issue is that was sort of blaming also the radical right wing protesters the rioters for opening fire for firing their wives rounds at the authorities and he also met with the leaders of the opposition was calling for them not to take the side of the writers. have made a strong appeal against resulting to radical action but i was in the hood i repeat it once again and cool and it's not too late to stop the conflict is not too late to save you could tell frankly it's not clear who opened fire first but these were the wife round so shot there overnight and there are injuries and fatalities on both sides both on the air. riders and should the police would like a said right now a little bit seems more or less peaceful but tensions are really high and would almost book to happen next but for more about what was happening here in such a queue for overnight choose a record of my colleague alex e.u.

russia. just let me look there are things were going to come and it is the employer of the bullies just find this fire very good they're moving in on the protest looking at i'm sick of it. the police the time this is the part of the world which is the protesters preparing her that the police pretty much the scene we have been seeing over the past several months you need to get the gun. the gun so the blood right now you can get it because it's going up by the police forming the gun is famous my gun pretty much all over the place this new mayhem started to go because it's an organ of the so-called peaceful march to the parliament i know that things went bad and i'm still unclear in this respect that those riots but this is been pretty much the scene of if you close by told the

mayor the whole thing for to know the government of ukraine has imposed a curfew that no cars can get inside the city by midnight and still far to be frank we have seen major by coming from the police for several hours when they moved in to the square to report be decisive but right now it's very very low. very good time being dismantled over there the bank said to me for more than two months and not very good at that site over there will soon be dismantled so it will be no where is going to go it's much to do with a grenade situation. on season tix a guest have keeping apps up to date to and from kiev and he's also posting video from the center of the protests in santa on his instagram page the police lines at just twenty meters from way he took this on his mobile flood zone for most of us humvees is from the frontline. of course there have been accusations of the use of

the life of munitions by both sides let's not have a look here well so far we've seen pictures showing some protesters with the real guns there are flushed man allegedly foreign live ammunition the rioters are also attacking police with showers molotov cocktails and rocks and this is the moment protesters rammed a truck into the cordons foreign affairs expert anybody says those behind the protests are deliberately ramping up the violence that. i think just was a plan just calling industry supply and push the people behind the demonstrations and behind it are just organized in order to push the government into finally to be treating the demonstrators. which is take us for an answer no matter how hard a government trying to appease them to always push for more and i think this was a part of the of the push to going for broke to get out there for three months you know they need to show some results and they decided to do you decide they're going to be victory or death and they don't really care who needs or dies in the process

. let's now look back at how the situation unfolded in kiev on tuesday when violence returns to the ukrainian capital so as the opposition a rally the crowds and urge them to march in parliament trouble. was. trouble began when radical protesters broke through police lines and the situation escalated even further one rioters tried to storm the office of ukraine's ruling party setting it on fire police struggled to contain the thousands of protesters throwing rocks and molotov cocktails some even use trucks to break through the security cordon three people were killed becoming the first victims of the street violence which continued to escalate and less than two hours later a police officer was killed when protesters are tight security officials. and news just in the european commission present and. also says he expects you

member states to impose sanctions against those responsible for the violence in kiev while russia's foreign ministry is not opposition leaders to stop the bloodshed and immediately return to negotiations with the legal authorities also condemns the opposition for ignoring the actions of the radical elements among them western governments however lay the blame on the us or she's. reports now outside involvement goes way beyond 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 scene does not look like they want to leave it to the ukrainians 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 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. your 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 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 yes and you just got back from germany where they met with german leader anglo 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. meanwhile downdrafts has also spread to regional centers in western ukraine rioters have been seizing local government buildings and police stations in the cities of. polyvinyl from coast and involve involved the regional prosecutor's office was torched by radicals broke into the building and criminal files and around two sounds and stormed an internal ministry security base there. the sixty members of the military being badly hurt as a result andrew cry for such as they walk up to us government and geos in countries like ukraine and says they are continuing bad own history of meddling behind the scenes. there's a long standing 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 long term or independent status or even. in for its over the government as and pass are new and so that puts those demands to those requests by the western. governments 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 and also local journalist was among those killed in clashes had allegedly died from a gunshot wound some of the footage imagine from the street violence and key of demonstrators the confused situation that. and it's difficult to walk out just who

the people in uniforms on talking will talk the scene presumed to be ukraine security forces and we are called the situation of kiev and we'll be keeping you up to date on all the developments that our online team is providing a live minute by minute timeline of the ballots had to r.t. dot com they are. coming up later in the program angry with the desperate economic lines. about. the song is in crisis played greece staged a motorcade procedures claiming financial aid from the european lenders has made their life no easier they send just ahead. in.

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to try to alter the spine. find out more visit actuality. international welcome back the power trip to build a dedicated european internet will reach the highest levels in paris later when president francois hollande will discuss the issue with dr monaco she proposed a change to the current system which sees a large part of online traffic travelling by the united states but has also become fond of reports the idea of hiding days are from prying american eyes may just be a mirage 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 for owning all the. 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 because of the size and scope of american surveillance has outraged european leaders especially on glo markel 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 give her 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. spying and snowden revealed cooperation between countries may have been closer than german indignation would 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 u.s. for a relationship similar to the so-called five eyes agreement reached after the second world war a deal between english speaking countries not to spy on one another but the white house isn't playing ball there is no country where we have a no spy ring 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 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 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 where his future lies but one of the u.k.'s most vulnerable institutions is happy to give him

a position of trust students at glasgow university is called lund had nominated him as a director to explain. 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. carried out the role of the lester is to represent student issues do senior management at the university but previous and convents probably like to ask the logical 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 showed support for his flight as a wanted man after revealing the extent of global surveillance by the evans say 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 george polk award in journalism in new york. reaction to snowden his latest revelations on how the n.s.a. targeted of bleakly was quick and coming from a fellow whistleblower cheerleader founder expressed his outrage at the i'm telling you his calls for an investigation into the agency's exodus heat more details on that address that way. and also a huge explosion at a frightening well five day blaze and one person dead forced energy giant chevron to offer an apology to a small pennsylvania town find out how it's so a tree offer of free pizza went down at all to. traffic could be a nightmare for motorists in athens today with promise promising to use a protest motorcades to clog up the rows nationwide protests have been called after

negotiations between the farmers union and the government over new tax regulations reached stalemate last week. in a report. they left their fields and the them down to 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 the blog this state highway and attempted the war therefore it is a time for and they will do it again and again they say until their voice is heard their demands are nothing new greece a country that's been hit the hardest by the economic crisis 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 to produce or goods well the same time we have to pay for electricity or 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 are we go out to work 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 opposed to us survived the second world war 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 hell i could to a tobacco but the boy in my boring 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 bedtime

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 government promised to reduce prices for the truth to night time but they never did the broadest uncalled 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 otoh not just routes so did the traffic was unaffected greece faced a wave of violent protests back in two thousand and ten two thousand and twelve. that lots of policed by dad and hundreds of others injured no one here wants a repetition of those events and mocked many actually believe it will change anything. now these farmers who abandoned their tractors to make their voice heard

feel that they have reaped what the politicians in athens have so which nationality from greece. train blasts in the southern suburbs of the lebanese capital beirut have killed five people and wounded over eighty reports suggest that time not far from the calais to embassy on the iranian cultural center was carried out by suicide bombers in a car and on a motorcycle al qaeda linked group claimed responsibility via social media as a stronghold of the political and militant movement has been largely aries often a target of attacks. i. rushes ice hockey team ways heading into their winter olympic quarter finals facing a stand test against final against finland later today aussies and you're following our reports.

winning desexing in the world rankings one place head of russia and in my opinion i think russia will have to improve on their performance if they. show you the. against norway yesterday and 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 victory the 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 and 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 have boosted 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 she brought a new attitude because he has a way like he's way more aggressive than i am maybe a little more aggressive more like a more of a more robust if you if you will that. he made me engage in whatever i'm doing and do it one hundred percent so fingers crossed 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 of them and today we will see their best and merging 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 precise my ego. 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 a very busy day here in sochi of only picked out if you things there and i haven't even mentioned the team events need flown on a cross-country skiing say keep an eye out for those. stay with us here on our senior national to find out about the people behind the balaklava is an area of violence in kiev but if you're watching us in the u.k. perhaps a guy on the ground with. not

surprisingly bijan even to go she needs to end the civil war in syria the flounders all sides talking at each other today there hasn't been much with me particularly since the u.s. keeps demanding the transitional government be installed to replace assad can peace be brought to syria washington's only real goal is regime change.

one of the new cultural phenomena watch it. all the face people. thank. you should have you with us here today i'm sure. when i close my eyes i see people. to the people i remember best of all of a come back and they're all wearing masks. sometimes i think that you are my gun itself was a face covered by

a. good people in both sides of the barricades and sometimes you said it feels as if all of ukraine is no masked. i'm from. here all my life i have two children and a wife and i love very much yet interesting i want to say it because it's real history taking shape right before my eyes what's happening now will remain in history forever but only time will tell that it's a black or a white page in history. i was done in two thousand and four i remember the environment. people treated each other with. i was looking for the same people on the hoping to meet the same attitude the same wall from when you put

the. for some reason it turns out the people are getting ready to find. the school most of these people know what can you achieve on my gun if opposition leaders are popular there's a saying you know when there's no real alternative to going to go which. it's good to the people have shown in the next government that it can be. done if it fails to follow the will of the people. why do you think ukraine in the situation that it is. that you are supposed. to group of people who wanted to become part of europe gathered here they were beaten by the members of the beer special police unit which and it led to an uprising some people fought for an idea and others for money i doubt anyone.