trends arrow juba new people report your best way to the heart of moscow. moscow condemns ukrainian opposition leaders called saving to prevent the deadly violence in the capital as the considers launching sanctions against kiev where twenty five people have been killed in clashes. most of the victims died from gunshot wounds wild fire arms explosives and molotov cocktails are among the wide also a weaponry used by the demonstrate. in other news this hour markel is set to meet with francois along to talk him into a blocking help plantigrade a separate european internet free from the n.s.a. spying. and is so true there's a double bogey of success for the kurds made possible by a single family and eight american and his russian wife by golden bronze for team

russia. you're watching out international coming to you live from moscow and my name is your national thanks for joining us also has his how to have the ukrainian opposition blaming it for sailing to prevent the deadliest violence the country has seen since the beginning of the protests last year twenty five people were killed on the streets of kiev on tuesday with hundreds needing hospital treatment for injuries aussies alexei he has the latest from the ukrainian capital. the tension is now a smoldering just as the tires and all other things which are burning at the barricades at the independence square day my dad it's not as violent as it was on tuesday and

during the night time during the night it was pretty violent we saw flash bangs explode all the side motors call to tell startled the police we're doing here sometimes though at the moment flashbacks are being excluded and probably the scariest scene at the end of times square is the former labor union house which lost my money on position as a revolution headquarters which is almost completely burned it's building its own black right now and still fire scouting out several windows of this building is still an unpredictable situation because the police line is literally twenty meters away from the protesters and. the police will actually trying to storm the independence square that there is information that they may attack that you know a solution is found it doesn't seem that a new solution is going to be found in the research meanwhile the ukrainian capital itself isn't complete lockdown ukraine's authorities the president held more than two hour talks with the opposition last night about its doors which brought no

results whatsoever and it's the first time since the start of the conflict which when i heard the president going about it was using some hard bullets statements like for instance you know there is still time left to find a solution to just probably that this time would run out at some point it's still cold on the holy sites to find some sort of compromise a peaceful solution to end the bloodshed but at the same time he laid the blame for the latest spate of violence sgrena writes in ukraine directly on the opposition and said that some of the opposition politicians must go on trial for what is happening in kiev since tuesday with at least twenty five people already killed including one journalist a local newspaper who was shot dead with a gunshot wound to just last night so this is definitely terrible for ukraine even though. that's what was happening in january you know the governmental quarter things are much much worse now we are focused on four weeks situation to see where it goes here and q but so far no one can do any kind of predictions on where it's

going to lead to and you can get all the dates from the korean capital by following alexander shuts down twitter where he's been posting video from the center of the process up to date reporting on sas hand images from the front line can all be found on his twitter feed and they have been accusations of the use of live ammunition by both sides in the conflict let's now have a look here so protesters are well armed but it from clear just where they source that firearms from they were also using grenades fireworks and most of cocktails against law enforcers other threw rocks welded baseball bats and metal rods attempts were also made to ram trucks through police cordons foreign affairs expert new boysen mohnish says those behind the protests are deliberately ramping up the violence that. i think just resupply underscore industry supply and pushed into people behind the demonstrations and behind it are just organized in order to push

the government into play and to be treating the demonstrators is always appreciated yes for an instrument matter how hard the government trying to peace and evolution pushed for more and i think this was a part of the need to push the going for broke and get out there for three months you know they need to show some results and they decided to do you decide to going to be victory or death and they don't really care needs or dies in the process russia has hit out at the mob violence and ukraine and called on they also or she is in kiev to resolve the crisis by able to have a means they see if it is going to. russian's presidential spokesperson discourse has dispelled any rumors circulating around the subject matter of conversation that took place between russian president vladimir putin and ukrainian president viktor unocal was on tuesday night the spokesman said that while russia maintains the fact that ukraine is an independent country and therefore everything that's happening there should be solved by the country itself and those who are

involved in the conflict it nevertheless is still outraged at the violence that's taking place there at the moment at the same time where the western officials are concerned they have already started talking about sanctions not necessarily against ukraine but more of personal targeted sanctions probably against somebody in the ukrainian government or wide specter of various officials we have already heard expressions of the subject matter from. among all but also the european commission president and also the various ever present from france and germany have already said that that indeed is something they're going to be looking at during the european union foreign ministers meeting which is going to take place on thursday let's now look back at how the situation unfolded in kiev on tuesday when violence returned to the ukrainian capital first the opposition rounded the crowds and urged them to march on the parliament.

trouble began one radical protest was broke through police lines and the situation escalated even faster when 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 using trucks to break through the security cordon three people were killed becoming the fast to victims of the street baden's which continued to escalate and less than two hours later a police officer died one person security forces. and while that rice has also spread to regional centers in western ukraine riot has have seized local government buildings and police stations in the cities of loot and ivana from coffs while involved authorities have reported an overnight theft of a munition from local police offices rises that torched the regional prosecutor's

office and stormed an internal ministry security base with session members of the military being badly hurt as a result and a prime baquet is the direct so the anti will also coalition he believes the bidens is being stirred up by have brought the united states and nato and the e.u. together are using their combined forces to signal these demonstrators that we are with you and of course that emboldens them and john kerry and the e.u. and the nato leadership and the obama administration are neck deep in now a plan to carry out regime change in this extremely important part of europe trying to integrate a former soviet republic into the e.u. and of course into nato ultimately i think the united states government is playing a dirty game another dirty game they're trying to do what they've been doing for the last twenty years which is to incorporate all of the former socialist countries in the eastern and social and central european bloc those that were aligned with

the soviet union into an american western nato sphere of influence and you can see that it's going systematically and ukraine is a big prize it's a big country with a very big military and it's right on russia's border. where closely watching the developments in kiev and will be keeping you up to date on all the latest news from back online team is providing a live minute by minute timeline of the bands had to ask it out without. german chancellor angela merkel is taking her project crays hand only internet to france in the hope of getting press and all along to the idea the european communications network is designed to prevent the data from leaking across the atlantic but as lucy countered for polls that time could prove far more difficult

than it seems 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. but 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 a glimmer of gold 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 the 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 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's no country where we have a no spiral 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. goes 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. edward snowden the man responsible for leaking the n.s.a. the revelations have found shock waves around the globe as. new job the whistleblower has been elected as honorary rector of love to university in the u.k. find out what it means for him and for the students and our reporters later this hour. our.

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edward snowden may be in limbo overweighs future lines but one of the u.k.'s most venerable institutions is happy to give him a position of trust students at gloucester universe state and scotland have nominated him as a director as sassy explains 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 issues to 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 voted for him would have shown 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. reaction to snowden's latest revelations on how the n.s.a. targeted a wiki leaks last point in coming from a fellow whistleblower julian assange has expressed his rage of the andrew need his calls for an investigation into this fine agency activities all these hills on that just way. and also that energy try and shove wrong decided the best way to compensate for the huge explosion at a flanking well and a five day awful locals a free pizza check out how the community welcome back home like. i mean big glory kept in the family russian finds

a celebration to parity and finishes in big giant slalom snowboarding won by husband and wife and to find out more less and i had straight to salt and talk to a poor score father paul so to parody him finishes just minutes we're going to each other tell us more about that. yes it's very much a case of keeping it in the family for russia in the snowboard parallel giant slalom now vic wilde was actually born an american but he received russian citizenship in two thousand and eleven after he married his russian girlfriend. and today they have a double cause for celebration he won gold in the men's event or she picked up a bronze in the female competition before the games world explain why he did why he decided to switch allegiances. i didn't have any good funding in the united states and i wasn't going to reach the goals that i wanted. it was an opportunity.

to be able to do what i wanted to do to me he brought then you say because he's away 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 well elsewhere russia are looking to book their place in the last four of the men's ice hockey competition next taking on finland in the quarterfinals in the bolshoi stone that you can see behind me they currently trail two one at the end of the first period although russia did take the lead in that match is going to be a stern text for the red machine against the bronze medalist from vancouver four years ago of course russian our defeat would eliminate them from the competition so we really are on the business end of the men's ice hockey competition. and pole what how do the fonz have to watch out for tonight. well one of the

stars of the game so far has been a fifteen year old nice guy she put in a fruitless performance to help russia win team gold in the figure skating competition and tonight she starts her program in the campaign in the women's individual event. later on this evening and she says that she's a lot calmer going into tonight's performance than she was before the team event. here in cuba as well sure i was very nervous and scared but the head of my singles event i'm more calm to be honest i've got used to it and singles is a completely different event. well also competing for russia is adelina sotnikova who's only actually a couple of years older than leap nice guy and she says she's trying to put the size of the occasion to one side. the most of that 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 have to focus and just do my job. well elsewhere one male and one female team have already enjoyed success for russia today and another one will be looking to do likewise the biathlon the mixed relay gets underway in around ninety minutes time. called a live from saw paul thank you very much indeed for bringing us up to date. solomon is fed up with their government's tax policies are attempting to bring greece to a standstill by blocking the roads years of austerity have seen counts to their salaries and pensions and mass run is becoming something of an annual tradition. but 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 the blog this state highway and attempted border authorities attention 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 pay for everything and we pay too much cost us has three grown up children and all three of them i'll go out to work part of the twenty seven percent of greeks who are unemployed. in the. 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 hell i could to a tobacco but the boy. 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 with the grease the soup 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. things will only get worse if any crisis arise and we can't afford this the comment promised to reduce prices for truth to night time but they never did the broughton call for

action what else we can do will fight until the end 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 torrent of routes so that the traffic was unaffected greece faced a wave of violent protest spec'ing two thousand and ten two thousand and twelve. that left at least five dead and hundreds of others injured no one here wants a repetition of those events and not 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 race nationality from greece. and some other international news and brief now. i and macedonia police have clashed with hundreds of

jobless people outside the central government building a peaceful march turned ugly one officials refused to talk to the protesters who were demanding and paid bonuses the ranee's organizer was then arrested many of the demonstrators lost their jobs after state farm's went bankrupt during the country's transition to a free market economy. al qaeda linked groups as it was behind twin blasts in the suburbs of the lebanese cabinet pappa told beirut that times killed six people and wounded more than one hundred it all happened not far from the kuwaiti embassy and the iranian cultural center and was carried out by suicide bombers in a car and a motorcycle as a stronghold of the political and militant movement has by law the area is often the target of a tux. iraqi prime minister nuri al maliki is vying to defeat al qaida while defending his government's counterterrorism strategy this after

a bomb explosions in the capital baghdad and another sicko would nearly fifty people on tuesday last chair was the bloodiest in iraq since the thousand days once a terror and violence began to fall i missed iraq airfares schwann as a law like spain's why the country's leaders are failing to stop the increasing bloodshed. this is all happening in the backdrop obviously the next in the next in iraq election it happening in april is the talk of the prime minister maliki will be running for the third although according to iraqi or law where which was far too few years ago that he's allowed to run for it if you look at the spillover from syria tyler groups i mean for tracing iraqi borders they have joined in with the sunni insurgency within iraq and they have joined forces and they temporarily took control of the cities in the west of the country and unbar province in fallujah area and the fight is still ongoing the iraqi prime minister is adamant that these

are terrorists and they need to be dealt with him by force and he has used all the force he has and he he got new. military equipment from the u.s. apache helicopters will be delivered so. this will only sort of inflame the rest and inflame the violence and i don't see any end to the kind of violence any time soon. and coming up next financial regulations in boom bust. did you know the price is the only industry specifically mentioned in the constitution and. that's because

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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 us 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 that it is very likely to be having the effect of reducing economic growth and also allows the rich to shield a far greater portion of their income from taxation than the poor for example last year's increase in the stock market represented an increase in wealth of about six trillion dollars of which the lion's share went to the very well.