arabic find out me visit don't eat dog call. russia slams ukraine's opposition for inciting violence in kiev while you members can see the sanctions against the government. he says the number of dead rises in kiev twenty five people are confirmed killed as armed rioters clash with police video footage shows protesters using guns against security forces. and now the news this hour the german chancellor will discuss how to keep europe's own line communications safe from america's spies at a meeting with the french president. and some was in greece are stopping traffic angry over their economic clients they're joining together in a protest motorcade against the tax regulations affecting their industry.

international news and comment live from moscow you're watching also international with me here national thanks for joining us. russia says the opposition is responsible for inciting a new wave of violence in kiev which has left twenty five people dead moscow slammed protest leaders for failing to condemn the actions of radical groups while accusing the e.u. of failing to understand their role being played by extremists the european commission president jose manuel barroso says e.u. members will discuss targeted measures to punish those he called excessive force by which he means the security forces the u.s. is also calling for an end to violence while continuing its support for the opposition and as all she's gained there check our reports 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 they were talking about who of the opposition leaders should be in the government and who should not here's a bit of that conversation. or charger i don't think leetch 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 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 the violence on the streets of kiev. health officials in kiev say nineteen people killed died from gunshot wounds the total number of fatalities has climbed to twenty five making these the bloodiest two days for ukraine since independence. skills in the midst of fighting for. this morning everyone there are things we're

going to. the polies are just this fire very good they're moving in on the protest ok i'm sick of the books. the police the time this is the part of the world which is the protests of rick perry the third that the police pretty much the scene which we have been seeing over the past several months just to me does the government good or the government is good so we're going to blow right now you can get because it's good to know but the police told me the gun is famous my gun to much over the place this mayhem started alter ego position or going to the so-called peaceful march to the parliament i know that things went well and i'm still unclear this week that those riots but this is been pretty much the scene of if you close by those who may have the whole scene or to know the government of ukraine has imposed

a curfew that no of course can get inside the city by midnight and so far to be frank we have seen major advice coming from the police over the past several hours when they moved in to the square to report me just first but right now it's very very low the very good that i've been. this over there very good to be here for more than two months another very good site over there will soon be dismantled so it will be know where is going to go is much of it within a situation. that had been accusations of the use of life by both sides there in kiev let's have a look well so funny seeing pictures showing some protesters with the real guns that there come a flash the man allegedly firing live ammunition the rioters are also attacking police with showers of most of cocktails and rocks and this is the moment protests as around a truck into the cordons hey we've got foreign affairs expert new boy somali it

says those behind the protests on deliberately running out the violence there. i think just was atlanta school and this was a plan the bush people behind the demonstrations and behind it are just organized in order to push the government into finally to be treating the demonstrators has always refused to take yes 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 you know to 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 i do believe to be victory or jackson didn't really care 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 for the oppositional ratted the crowds and urged them to march on parliament. i cried. trouble began one radical protesters broke through police lines on the situation

escalated even one rioters tried to storm the office of ukraine's ruling policies setting it on fire police struggled to contain the thousands of protesters throwing rocks and molotov cocktails some even using trucks to break through the security cordons as we just saw 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 one protesters attacked security forces. in a while the rest has also spread to regional centers in western ukraine rises have seized local government buildings and police stations and they say she's all of you and ivana from coughs and it was the same story involved whether the regional prosecutor's office was coached by roger coles had broken into the building and bonds may go files and around two thousand stormed an internal ministry security base that assessment is of the military being badly hurt as

a result and injured craig researches the work of u.s. government n.g.o.s in countries like ukraine and says they are continuing their long 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 reforms 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 for even. in forts over the government is and they asked for new ones that put 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. and also a local journalist was among those killed in clashes had allegedly died from a gunshot wound some of the food to imagine from this trade finance in kiev down strays they confused situation back and it's difficult to walk out just who the people in uniform zong are talking presume to be ukraine security forces of course we are following the situation the kids and we'll be keeping you up to date on all the developments that online team was providing a lot of minute by minute timeline all the brands had to ask dot com for the. coming up later this hour lot angry with that desperate economic plight.

damas in crisis blades greece stage a motorcade protests claiming financial aid from the european lenders has made their life no easier they stand much noise just ahead. the. economic downturn the find out all day long to do your shanghai and the rest of life during the ac will be every week.

for the like the new. it's a. pleasure to have you with us here on t.v. today i wrote researcher. welcome back to. the project to build a dedicated european internet will reach the highest levels in paris later when president francois hollande will discuss the issue with german chancellor angela

merkel she proposed a train to the current system which sees a large part of online traffic travelling by the united states but is also has this account of reports the idea of hiding data from prying american eyes might 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 with vivian for owning off the bus but we'll 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 that's. the size and scope of american surveillance has outraged european leaders especially on glow merkel 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 start 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. 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 a 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 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 it is is the n.s.a. compiled text messages that the 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 away 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 director to see him explain. former u.s. national security agency contractor edward snowden has been elected as a student rector of glasgow university one of the oldest universities in the u.k. the role of the rector is to represent student issues do senior management at the university but 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 would have showed 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 of 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 of intelligence award and also just this week he's one of the recipients of the two thousand and thirteen and george polk award in journalism in new york. reaction to snowden's latest revelations on how the n.s.a. targeted wiki leaks was quick spin coming in coming rather from a fellow whistleblower julian on sunday expressed his outrage at the leak andry need his calls for an investigation into the spying agency's activities more details on that are just a click away. and also

a huge explosion out of fracking well a 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 considered a treat on free pizza went down that aisle to dock. traffic could be a nightmare for motorists in athens today with farmers promising to use approaches motorcades to clog up the roads nationwide protests have been called after negotiations between the farmers union and the government over new tunks regulations reached stalemate last week. and now reports. they left their fields and the them down to their tractors again greek farmers young and old took to the streets calling for revolution father 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 the authorities are telling 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 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 to 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 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 here 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 come to their word. the farmers are not optimistic they say things will only get worse in the press the sun rises and we can't afford this the comment promised to reduce prices for electricity at night time but they never did broughton 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 old told to routes sold it to traffic was unaffected greece faced a wave of violent protests back in two thousand and ten two thousand and twelve. that led to these five dead and hundreds of others injured no one here wants a repetition of those events in march many assured believe it will change in the city. now these farmers who are bending to their tractors to make their voice heard feel that they have reaped what the politicians in athens have so race nationality from greece. top story moscow insists it's a radical opposition groups who should be held responsible for violence in kiev let's not get more from this going off that is in the ukrainian capital right now igor some very strong words from moscow is that right. well definitely the foreign

ministry in moscow came out saying that it's right wing radicals who are responsible for the violence in kiev and moscow is also blamed the leaders of the ukrainian opposition for failing to control the rioters and from preventing them from using firearms since overnight during the violence between the rioters and the police live shots had been fired by both sides and there are injuries on both sides and fake dalla these both among the police and the rioters and moscow has been saying that both sides have to sit down and negotiate and has also been accusing the european union of failing to promote dialogue and diplomacy in the situation since in the meantime the president of the european commission. made it very clear that brussels blames ukrainian officials for the violence and has promised e.u. sanctions against all the officials responsible for the fighting and the idea of

sanctions has already been backed by several e.u. states including france and germany and we're also expecting an emergency e.u. summit of emergency meeting of e.u. member states to be held on thursday may go tell us more about the latest violence please tell us what he's saying basically. well even though it seems to have calmed down a bit compared especially to last night's events still scores of people are right on my down square you can probably see the smoke coming from there that's burning tires and molotov cocktails are still being thrown around the riot police for the past few hours have been keeping a distance from the rioters they have been trying to slowly push them out of the square but still scores of people remain on it and they're calling for others to join the protests and the police have also been trying to extinguish the fires but

more mobs of. been thrown to create new ones and also i've seen rocks and fireworks being thrown around by both sides as well it is last night but still it's really hard to predict what could happen at any moment. now it's easy four percent off of live from kiev thank you very much indeed for that update. some of the global news in brief. i. did it please have clashed with jobless people outside the central government building a peaceful march turned ugly after officials refused to talk to protest is demanding and paid bonuses and the rallies organizer was arrested many of the demonstrators lost their jobs and just state runs away and bankrupt during the country's transition to a free market economy. twin blasts in the southern suburbs of the lebanese

capital beirut have killed six people and wounded over eighty reports suggest that target not far from the kuwaiti embassy and 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 by law the air raids often a target over time. and russia has claimed another medal in snowboarding alina. came and said in the proud giant slalom her husband make wild is also participating in the same discipline it's about to be decided whether he wins first or second place russia's ice hockey team is heading into their winter olympic quarterfinals facing a stern test against finland later today on his and.

been in just seconds in the world rankings one place head of russia and in my opinion i think russia will have to improve on their performance that they. show you 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 your 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. concert 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. 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 that 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 same event can also see a goal just

a couple of years older battling a sort make of or she's making her limpid 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 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 a cross-country skiing say keep an eye on today's. series the focus of course talk now is it possible that the recent geneva two peace talks on syria could be an international failure disturbing details coming your way now.

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hello and welcome to all things are considered i'm peter lavelle not surprisingly the geneva negotiations to end the civil war in syria. all sides talk to each other to date there hasn't been much particularly since the us keeps demanding a transitional government be installed to replace assad can peace be brought to syria if washington's only. real goal is regime change. to cross-talk developments in syria i'm joined by my guest daniel serwer in washington he is a professor at the school of advanced international studies and a scholar at the middle east institute also in washington we have richard.