the. twenty four hours after bloodiest day in decades more than a thousand weapons from the authorities including machine guns. but russia's foreign minister points a finger at the west for encouraging lawlessness and violence in ukraine and siding with the extremists. in albany. is meeting with to talk him into backing a plan to create a separate european internet free from the n.s.a. spying. and in sochi had gold silver and bronze for russia on day twelve but huge disappointment for hockey fans as the home side crashes out of the quarter finals.

this is international with the twenty four hours a day line from our studio center here in moscow which just turned eight pm and six pm in kiev where news of a concerning development is coming from ukraine more than a thousand weapons have been stolen from the authorities just a day after violent clashes left twenty six dead with hundreds needing hospital treatment for injuries now these a live pictures of the night time scenes there in kiev at the moment as i say it's just turned six o'clock in the evening. has the latest from there. there's a serious concerns judging by the statements coming from the security officials in the country which already as they say to implement a counterterrorist operation on the territory of ukraine we don't know for sure

what that main table but that will definitely mean loss of cordons by the police which are already existing in the central cities of of the country but this may mean more strict security measures across the country this decision by the authorities to implement this counterterrorist operation mode came off a rather disturbing information from one of the security officials in the country the chief deputy chief of the security service the s.b. you who said that during the takeover of the s.b.u. office in the city every one of them cost in the west of ukraine which happened overnight the alliances and protesters have managed to seize lots of weapons that is namely two hundred sixty eight ten pistols three machine guns ninety two grenades and about fifteen thousand bullets the security service has every reason to believe that this weaponry this ammunition may be delivered to kiev because there's only been documented proof that a live rounds are used in this protest by both sides in particular the protest as we've seen shields of the policeman struck by by real bullets as well as seeing

gunshot wounds on the protesters so this is a very concerning information and i can see with my own eyes at the independence square how the protesters are gathering pieces of pavement large draw to prepare themselves for a possible police assault which is something which being speculated at the moment that the police might assault the protest the barricades any time soon so they're getting ready there a rift a refueling of cocktail cocktails on the ground and this is definitely a very concerning situation at the same time the some rather harsh statements coming from the country's officials we only heard from the country's president who said that the riot on eighteenth of february was very well planned by the opposition that he wants the opposition some of the opposition politicians to go on trial and do that at the same time on a coach on the line that there is still time to find a peaceful solution and that he's hoping that the sides manage to agree on something in the near time of course we're following the situation in kiev and see what happens this evening whether there will be another of violence just as it happened over night. well you can get updates from the embattled ukrainian capital

by following a lecture on twitter where he's been posting video from the center of the protests there up to date reporting firsthand images from the frontline can all be found right now on his twitter feed. well let's get some analysis now from graham phillips he's a british journalist who's joining us from western ukraine now from what i understand you've been blacklisted for speaking out on the rest so what have you been saying and is that true that you have been blacklisted. i just turned to my attention the other day notifying me there's a facebook group which is so effectively asking people to up to let this instigate to know if anyone sees me around ukraine and that's been shared multiple times that's been passed on so i've received numerous threats for my position which is really good from the start and say you're mine down quite simply because i believe that in your mind. far rights do you not see elements not something i've said not

something i've stated and that's something i stand by that's also something which is seen you seem threats to my launch in ukraine where we're showing live pictures of the devastation and the destruction there with burning fire as the evening now gets under way there in kiev now you were there when the riots kicked off i understand the gender of the nineteenth so tell us what did you see that backs up your claims about the extremist elements you need to look at the fascist symbols need to look at the logos and you also need to look at the fighters and these are going on as a survey shows we're finally from the west of ukraine we've come to kiev and they perhaps came to kiev a couple months ago as comparatively normal in ukraine but maybe logic along lines they'd be militarized knowledge it's going to transcend it even terrorism they're guerrilla soldiers and what about those who are campaigning for change in the country is there not

a genuine grassroots movement there in kiev that actually represents a large number of people throughout the country who want to see a change or let's be quite clear about this let's be quite are in fact security miss this is traumatic for ukraine this is very what is it is really hurting sentiment for ukraine this is heartbreaking to see people killed on both sides of the barricades are member i was there twenty one months ago and euro two thousand and twelve that was a joyous with the trial for a moment for a country which is still very young but this what we're seeing today let's be quite clear this is the end of the crane as we know it there isn't any way. this you can pretty crane back in the bottle they states as we know it yeah we prayed for up so what's next time for the country when the deep has already indicated that it's instigated independence so in terms of her be functioning autonomous late that's already happening but the question is where do you draw independents you've got nice strong hope they wanted nationalism which is somewhat coliban the franking skin that feeds that is

a real hot bed and not just that most of the protesters emanate from and that is the core that is the scene of this whole operation right as well that you can tackle catskill which is actually quite provocative region so this is going to see the division of ukraine the question is going to be where do we draw those lines now for those who are familiar with those place names what you're talking about is basically places in the west and the east you can quite almost physically draw a line between the two whether interest pro european interests in the west and of course pro russian interests in the east when where you are do you see a lot of support for the government i mean what the opposition are asking for let me let's also break it down in numbers what you got done why done box full of thousand fighters that is zero point six. because any population all they're asking for a smile to call them asking for an election which will see you have a code which ousted but the majority of the country still back you have told me you

certainly showed action on a presidential election to be held so they're asking for what is diametrically opposed to what they purport suit before which is of course democracy what you see is the absolute opposite not what you see is terrorism what you make of the e.u. now saying that sanctions should be exerted on the authorities who are responsible for the violence in kiev it's hard to say anything the e.u. say or do serious they've been so candidates and hot cult throughout this of course the victoria nuland comments of completely undermined a lot of things it would undermine the us would be meddling and staring and who wants a play a large part of what we're seeing today which is men really believing making cold there are bullish and to go down and give their lives for a cause which is tenuous the presidential elections are year away and people are dying for this it's it's insane so just finally as we're talking with same shocking

images of severely wounded people in the streets that in effect the death and destruction that we witnessed last night you're talking about the elections next year then you don't believe that a snap election will resolve the situation right now i don't see there's any way you could return ukraine to not the ukraine there isn't a normal anymore laughs that's gone graham thank you very much indeed for your thoughts there british journalist there in ukraine itself thank you very much graham phillips. well let's look back at how the situation unfolded in kiev on choose day yesterday when violence returned to the ukrainian capital first the opposition rallied the crowds and urged them to march on the parliament. trouble began when radical protesters broke through police lines and the situation escalated even. when rioters tried to storm the office of ukraine's ruling party setting it on fire. undoubtedly the blame is on the

extremists who have been for weeks and months trying to bring the situation to this exact scenario but i cannot fail to mention the responsibility of many western states who have been trying to meddle with the events encouraging the opposition to act unlawfully and sometimes openly courting the extremists drawing out all tomatoes and threatening sanctions meanwhile they informatic be invaded any real assessment of the extremists and often nationalist action on my down and that russia systematically warned against burying heads in the sand over this. meanwhile there's been a wave of voices from the west all of them yet again mentioning sanctions among the loudest the president of the european commission saying there were needs to be targeted measures against those responsible for the mob violence and reports are saying the u.s. secretary of state john kerry is set to raise the issue in washington. which is the foreign affairs editor for the chronicle's magazine he believes western politicians are one hundred percent ople over the unrest. we have witnessed

brazen hypocrisy from the european union ever since the beginning of this crisis and from the phase of demonstrations early on the protests had degenerated into hooliganism in mid december and into terrorism since january nineteenth and we can no longer use the term demonstrators i would rather use the term rebels because we are looking at de facto armed rebellion. to continue listening to the player calls from the west and he has also being called by biden and by kerry for restraint would be simply self-defeating because all of these people are up to no good they want regime change they are interested in a geo political control over the key country in central eastern europe where we're closely watching the developments in the ukrainian capital from where we're

bringing these live pictures thomas for now on the city it's been a peaceful day after an extremely violent night but not before and tensions are now building as night falls i am waiting to see what the authorities will do with the protesters that in the streets of course we'll be keeping up to date with all the latest news from there online team is providing a live minute by minute timeline of events it was for those updates. the german chancellor angela merkel is taking a project of creating e.u. only internet to france in the hope of getting president land to back the idea here of pain communications network is designed to prevent user data from leaking across the atlantic that's lucy kabanov reports the task could prove far more difficult

than it seems. keeping european online communications within here and it's an idea that's gained traction amid revelations of widespread u.s. buying and now the german chancellor is on board. but will 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 glimmer of gold whose 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 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 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.'s revelations that sent shock waves around the world has a new job it was one of his being elected honorary rector of glasgow university in the u.k. find out what it means for him and for the students in a report a little later this hour. with economic downturns in the final months they belong to the deal and the rest

because it's a neat place you will be if we. put it on you will come on in washington d.c. all the face time you know alone. a pleasure to have you with us here on t.v. today i'm sure. russian ice hockey star alexander ovechkin and his team mates can forget about

their dreams of an impact gold at the home winter games in fact the entire squad won't be able to compete for any medal after a dramatic loss to finland in the quarter finals whenever to our correspondent scott who is in sochi so all over for team russia and the ice hockey then yes i think it's going to be some soul searching in and around sochi and in and around russia this evening the red machine have been eliminated at the quarter final stage of the men's ice hockey competition for the second winter games in a row and this time the defeats even more painful because it comes of course on home ice they actually took the lead inside the bolshoi in which you can probably just make out behind me over my left shoulder. set them on their way the atmosphere was electric and it seemed to be going to plan however finland scored three on answered goals to secure the victory three one and secure their place in the semifinals they're looking to improve on the bronze medal that they won in

vancouver four years ago their reward for the victory is a semifinal match up against sweden who beat slovenia five nil. and there was still reason to celebrate for local fans today there is some optimism and cheer in this. yes russia have added a couple of medals to that tally throughout the course of the day and it's a case of a pretty much keeping it in the family in the snowboard parallel giant slalom for russia now vic wild was actually born an american but he became a russian citizen in two thousand and eleven after he married his russian girlfriend elena rosina and today they have a double reason to celebrate because he secured a gold medal in the men's event or she won bronze in the women's competition before the games while explain to r.t. why he decided to switch allegiances i didn't have any good for the united states and i wasn't going to reach the goals that i wanted. it was an

opportunity to get people. 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 gauge in whatever i'm doing and do it one hundred percent. so i won gold and won bronze to russia's tally and added to that a silver that came in the cross country skiing men's team sprint meanwhile only dahlan was part of the norway team there's just one the next relay now that makes him the most decorated winter olympian of all time in the history of the games he has thirteen medals now to his name eight of them gold elsewhere the figure skating women's individual program is starting in the coastal cluster behind me now you

need sky has been one of the stars of the game so far she put in a foolish display to help russia to win gold in the team event and as i say her short program is just getting under way and she says she's a lot more calm going into tonight's performance. 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 but also competing for russia in that competition is adelina sotnikova not she's only a couple of years older than me skier and she says she's trying to ignore the size of the occasion. 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 so there is a reason to be optimistic for russian sports fans but still the narrow disappointment hanging around sochi after russia's defeat in the hockey paul thanks very much indeed for that live update that's all it is paul scott there in sochi well let's see what a busy day twelve has done to this medals tally so far well russia's gains on wednesday put it in fourth position with six golds with more silverware in the bag the hosts of the netherlands always currently ahead of all with at nine golds the germans are hot on long ways heels as you can see there. more from sochi throughout the day here on our team now fugitive whistleblower edward snowden may be in limbo over where 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 nominate him as rector. 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 the letter is to represent student issues do senior management at the university previous and convents have been elected as the logical statements of the group that have nominated edward snowden said that they did so because he stood for democracy and that voted for him he 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 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. expressed his outrage at the leak and renewed his calls for an investigation into the spying in to more details on that just a click away from me. and also energy john chevron decided the best way to compensate for a huge explosion at a fracking well in a five day inferno was to offer locals a free pizza and how the community welcomed that online. or some other international news now. i. don't hear police have clashed with hundreds of jobless people outside the central government building a peaceful march turned ugly when officials refused to talk to the protesters who were demanding unpaid bonuses rallies organizer was then arrested and he the demonstrators lost their jobs after state firms went bankrupt during the country's transition to a free market economy. an al qaeda linked group says it was behind twin

blasts in the suburbs of the lebanese capital beirut security sources believe at least seven people have been killed and more than one hundred wounded 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 on a motorcycle as a stronghold of the political militant movement hezbollah the area is often the target of attacks. i'll be back with more news when those developments in ukraine in kiev in about half an hour from now in the meantime breaking the set is next here on r.t. international. as a fool when i close my eyes i see people in masks with them. you know sometimes i

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a little sick so please bear with me on the heels of the chemical spill in west virginia coal ash dump in north carolina and fourteen thousand other oil spills that happened in the last year residents of bob town pennsylvania are the latest victims of america's addiction to dirty energy and last week a tanker at a fracking well owned by chevron exploded and caused an enormous fire that lasted five entire days michelle popper not resident half a mile from the explosion told a local c.b.s. affiliate it was very very scary you knew somebody had to be hurt somewhere with that explosion well she was right because at least one person near the accident site is presumed to be dead this latest tragedy highlights the many other dangers associated with the practice of hydraulic fracturing including artificial earthquakes and birth defects so what is chevron doing to quell the worries of the shaken up town are they up in their safety regulations is the corporation set up a compensation fund for those affected pocono no better free pizza actually free

pizza coupons you know what chevron is throwing in a two bitter bottle of soda as well i wish i were making this up aftermath of this terrible explosion chevron sent one hundred to certificates along with a cheery note from the chevron a community outreach team to town residents apparently these people are you're supposed to forget about the health and environmental risks associated living next to a giant exploding fracking rig and lower themselves to sleep with cheese and bread sticks you know would be even cooler than free pizza seeing chevron actually held accountable for poisoning the planet and the charade and let's break the set. but the piece of the ship was terrible a. very hard to take the stance against that so long as the club has never had sex lives up.