transit. your best way to the heart of moscow. live pictures from kiev which is once again. on independence square which twenty four hours ago witnessed the country's deadliest clashes in decades. that says more than the files and weapons are stolen from the authorities including machine guns raising fears of an escalation of violence. while russia's foreign minister points a finger at the west for encouraging more listeners involved in ukraine and siding with the extremists. of the news this anglo-american is meeting with to talk him into backing up a plan to create a separate european internet free from the n.s.a. spying. and gold silver bronze for russia but huge disappointment for

hockey fans as the home side crashes out of the quarter finals we go live to shortly here in all teams fashion. this is not international with the twenty four hours a day line from a studio sent to him in moscow which just turned eleven pm and nine pm in kiev where there is news of a development causing concern it's reported more than a finals in weapons have been stolen from the authorities just a day after a violent clashes left twenty six dead with hundreds needing hospital treatment for injuries. the reports from the heart of the unrest. which last night were reported from the independence square from the protest aside this time we'll take you to the other side of the barricade the police lines where obviously the atmosphere is very tense i just took a stroll through the police lines and the blue. seem to be very concerned of what's

happening here over there as you can see the police line is here and over there the protesters they lit the tires on fire again the coal areas covered with black smoke it's hard to see to breathe and the police are pretty much everywhere across the place heavy presence right now especially after the information that reportedly protesters in the western part of the country leave on a front cost city stole at least fifteen thousand bullets several hundred handguns and machine guns from the security services arsenals and they're bringing over to kiev that's why the authorities are implementing some sort of counterterrorism operation mode in ukraine would not do not know for sure what that is but that is definitely meeting tougher security measures everywhere across the country tougher police cordons moon but you can see for yourself the movement of the police is they're all taking all the time they're moving their forces now and then it's not particularly violent at the moment although just a few minutes ago we saw from this building over there which is used to be the police or the revolution headquarters in the form of a labor union building several mortar cocktails were thrown right at the place

where i'm standing right now as you can see it looks like a genuine war zone with all the rubble with all the rocks which were thrown at the police the remains of most of cocktails garbage everything so this used to be a beautiful area in central city of kiev is pretty much a telling story of what it has become over the past several days this is a true mayhem and right now you can call it a standstill you can call it pretty much a concentration compared to violence last night and violence on tuesday but you never know what's going to happen next because everyone behind those this line of fire behind the barricades over there they're expecting another assault from the police the police who are standing calmly and doing nothing at all they're just securing the perimeter as far as we can see i spoke to some of them they were not really aggressive they're not expecting any movement and i said you can move there because it's going to be quiet but again no assurances of that because no one else with cancer of that size there is documented proof already that protesters have used life weapons live rounds against the police as well as the police using some

of those against the protesters as well so we keep pointing the situation and we are hoping that no major violence will happen during the night as it happened on tuesday night in t. of. graham phillips he's a british journalist based in western ukraine he says this current turmoil is effectively ripping the country into. what you call down my dad box full of thousand fighters that is zero point zero one percent of the ukrainian population and all they're asking for is mile thick called asking for an election which will see any code which ousting bought the majority of the country still back out of college who suddenly showed action claim on a presidential election to be held so what they're asking for what he says is diametrically opposed to what they purport to be for which is of course democracy what you see is the absolute opposite of that what you see it's terrorism you need to look at the fascist symbols need to look at the logo yes and you also need to look at the the fighters and these are going on as

a surrogate show to finally from the west of ukraine they've come to kiev and they perhaps cain's accuser a couple months ago that's comparatively little more the cranes with a few logical long lines they'd be militarized and not it's going to transcend even terrorism there guerrilla assault it's all remember i was there twenty one months ago and there were two thousand and twelve that was a joyous for 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 after this you completely crane back in the fall to be more russia's foreign minister sergey lavrov has lashed out at the west for fueling the unrest in the country. 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 ultimatums and with threatening sanctions meanwhile they informatica invaded any real assessment of the extremist 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 on the embattled stay. to kernes been listening in. u.s. secretary of state john kerry may raise the possibility of imposing sanctions on ukraine there are already sanctions in place against a number of ukrainian officials barring them entrance into the u.s. and it's not clear what new sanctions john kerry may talk about we are talking about the possibility of sanctions or other steps with our friends in europe and elsewhere. in order to try to create the environment for compromise the sanctions

are presumably in response to the violence in kiev but in the footage that we've seen so far you have protesters attacking the police with guns are the sanctions going to target those forces on the streets of kiev as well we hear european leaders considering what are also described as targeted sanctions against those instigating violence in ukraine and the german leader angle merkel said sanctions would be applied against those responsible for the violence a u. foreign ministers have only to decide which sanctions should be applied she said the leaders have not specified who they mean when they say those responsible for the violence if it's the radical protestors how are they going to target them with sanctions and are they so lots of questions at this point. well senator two of coverture is the foreign affairs editor for the chronicle's magazine and he believes western politicians are hundred percent culpable over this unrest we have witnessed brazen hypocrisy from the european union ever since the beginning of this

crisis for the phase of their most creations 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 for each to continue listening to the play area and calls from the west and he has also been called by biden and by kerry and asked 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. well we spoke to green party m.e.p. rebecca homs who feels the e.u. is mulling of further involvement in ukraine's crisis is completely justified. what

we'd try it was to bring all the forces in ukraine all political forces on one table and to negotiate on a peaceful way out of this crisis and one of those who refused our president and people in his surroundings to talk about negotiations and talks but the opposition haven't engaged in dialogue because in effect it seems they've been hijacked by the extremists the nationalist so therefore does the e.u. still support the opposition when it has that very dubious vod an identity that this is terrorism that these are extremists in the streets of ukraine this is only a small part of the troops named there are very very normal people they come from east and west they are fed up with the corruption of the ukraine the rule of law therefore to attack control government buildings to attack parliament and

acceptable way of protest. this was not the way which has been shoes by the movement i can really i can promise you that i have talked to many people from east and west in ukraine they want a peaceful solution but surely also the fact that the authorities the police officers have been accused of brutality by the new any form of protests that we see in ukraine we see the likes of that happening in madrid and london and paris because you know it was very cold months of protests in independence square all the bloodshed in ukraine i think everybody who dies. a person too much fear since a long time that there might be a very very tough escalation but who can stop it. canada has closed its diplomatic mission in kiev until further notice of the violence reportedly broke out in front of the embassy we're closely watching the

developments in the ukrainian capital and we'll be keeping you up to date with all the latest news from there our online team is providing a live minute by minute timeline of events so you can head to r.t. dot com for those updates. right on the scene. first for you and i think you're. on our reporters' twitter. instagram. and. now time for an update on what's happening in this year's capital of winter sports cheap and over to our studio on the black sea coast and kevin.

yeah i get everyone i bill all the medals of day twelve of the winter olympics that have now been decided but perhaps what attracted most attention wednesday was a course that showed at saatchi's biggest ice arena of michelle to there where the hosts hockey team lost to finland it therefore means the dream of a limp big old glory and home souls been shattered for hockey star alexandrovitch kid and his fellow teammates paul scott's the man with all the details paul there was always a lot of pressure in front of a home crowd of course you can't underestimate that for a minute can you but it just wasn't meant to be end of the day. no this year i think it's fair to say there's a real air of disappointment in and around sochi right now russia losing three one to finland the red machine going out to the quarter final stage of the men's ice hockey competition for the second winter olympics in a row and of course this defeat is going to hurt more than most because it did come on home ice they actually took the lead in the bolshoi which you can probably just

make out behind me set them on their way put them up and it all seemed to be going to play finland then scored three unanswered goals to secure their place in the semifinals they're looking to improve on the bronze medal that they won four years ago their reward for the victory over russia is a semifinal against sweden sweden beat slovenia five nil in the other quarterfinal meanwhile this further disappointment a saving fifteen year old nice guy has just taken to the ice in the figure skating women's individual program you remember of course to global fame after stunning to performance to help russia to team gold in the first weekend of these winter olympics all eyes are on her there are real high hopes and a lot of pressure on her as well but she actually fell during her short program a few moments ago was severely damaged her chances of a competing for a medal she actually scored seven points less than she did in the team competition meanwhile another russian adelina sotnikova is just about to take to the ice for russia in the same competition. keeping

a close eye on. the final there the save a bit later but there was still reason to celebrate for local russian fans trying to find some private stuff. yes no it's not all negative news today russia did secure a gold silver and bronze to add to that tally and it was a case of pretty much keeping it in the family in the snowboard parallel giant slalom for russia now vic wild is actually an american but he received russian citizenship in two thousand and eleven. and he married his russian girlfriend. another was a double reason for them to celebrate today because he won gold in the men's competition while she secured bronze in the female event before the game started while it spoke to artane explain exactly why he has swapped allegiances i didn't have any good for being in the united states and i wasn't going to reach the goals that i wanted. it was an opportunity to get the balls. 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 like to do it one hundred percent. well that is the gold in the bronze medal accounted for the silver came in the cross country skiing in the men's team sprint event and i want other bit of news for you. he helped norway to win the by athlone mixed relay they want gold and in doing so he's become the single most decorated winter olympian in history he now has thirteen medals to his name and eight of them are now gold. ok let's take a look at the medals for the let's see what

a busy day twelve and has done to the tally russia's games on wednesday put it in fourth position with six goals and with more silverware in the bag the hosts are above the netherlands right now norway's currently ahead of all of them though with nine goals the germans are hot on norway's heels. well could be done and you see truck could speeds of more than one hundred kilometers an hour with the ahead. stuff roughly in the sport of skeleton events of this disapproved already over at the sochi olympics but of the owner really to talk with the woman who won silver for team usa in this whirlwind sport. to see. so please take a very excited yes been a long journey for not just me but for my husband my kids my family and so many people that have you know made this possible it's just

a fairytale and even more so to present retarded to what i did you. my husband he just said you know no regrets we're going to do this if we can do it as a family would you want to do and it was about time that we said yeah if we can raise enough money will make it happen and we were able to and we came on this journey and now here i am in sochi with a gold and i don't. think it is go all the you know this is exceptional oh ok just just told me to slow do you say you're talking about. me but involved in that was built by your husband that was then you know in two thousand it was right before the two thousand and ten olympics i had some troubles with my slider my husband said you know i'm going to build you a slide and i said people don't just build a flat and he said no i'm going to do it so he designed it using three d. modeling solid works and was able to design and build the sled that's absolutely incredible and i've ended up using it what was it lloyd going to try it's crazy i mean you're running as fast as you can forty fifty meters jump head first onto a little cookie sheet looking thing you go eighty nine miles an hour if your chain

just an inch off the ice it's it's it's great you have a skid there's times i guess once in a while i get a little nervous they get i don't think i use the word scared you know that when i first started i did i would get scared but not anymore. great lady hey silver gold medals medals ok i'm talking about the ice there's still one competitor to take part of the moment it's south korea that's leading talk about the ladies figure skating short program that will be concluding with the minutes when we get the final updates we will update you of course on that one in the next bulletin from here in sochi for now though it's back to moscow. has plenty more to come from sochi with kevin and full more news coming away after a short break. this

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the german chancellor angela merkel is taking her project of creating an e.u. only internet to france in the hope of getting president land to back the idea the european communications network is designed to prevent user data from leaking across the atlantic resulted lucy cover reports the tosca coup proof far more difficult than it seems keeping european online communications within here are up it's an idea that's gained traction amid revelations of widespread u.s. buying and now the german chancellor is on board. with talk of european providers that offer security for our citizens so that one shouldn't have to send e-mails and other information across the atlantic rather one could build up a communication network inside europe that's. the size and scope of american

surveillance has outraged european leaders especially on 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 yet for all the fury merkel's initiative may have want to do with anger at home her government has been seen as lax on u.s. 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 speired region now it appears that germany is going on the offensive with plans for counter espionage against western allies as for merkel's internet proposal well the devil is in the details currently a message sent from one online user to another could have a long journey before it reaches its destination although the german government hasn't released specifics the european networks could potentially allow data to bypass that route but is that realistic well for one the internet is

a global network walling it 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. the german chancellor angela merkel is taking her project of creating an e.u. only internet to france in the hope of getting president land to back the idea european communications network is designed to prevent user data from leaking across the atlantic but he installed but he's a speaker from the german power party believes that nobody except for european

telecoms providers would benefit from this proposal i hope that they are intelligent enough not to do it because what merkel proposes here is in my eyes just an act of desperation. is european and despite the agreement with the us and the big five ok but. building borders on the internet will simply not work in my eyes because the n.s.a. spying in germany or in europe is done within germany it simply is not really a solution but maybe it's something to subsidies up for the german telecom and for other fodder for the french orange telecom maybe . there's been a new development over ukraine we're hearing that russia's president vladimir putin has told the german chancellor over the phone that it is essential to condemn those responsible for the extremism that is unraveling there in the country and said the

west should stop blaming the government but we have more on this at the top of the hour here on r.t. international. in prison u.s. army will blow chelsea manning formerly known as bradley is being honored in absentia for revelations of u.s. war crimes and has been handed the twenty fourteen sam adams award for integrity in intelligence the prizes given out an elite by a group of former cia officers to whoever they think is champion the truth even if it meant breaking an oath running on day one for leaking secret u.s. military documents detailing atrocities committed by americans in iraq and afghanistan last year's prize went to edward snowden for his revelations on washington's torrie a spy network cia analyst ray mcgovern is among the group handing out the prestigious award explains b. earlier manning was recognized this year. injustice and lies will never be exposed unless they hold up to the light of human conscience and the air of national

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following welcome to cross talk for all things are considered i'm peter lavelle not surprisingly the geneva negotiations to end the civil war in syria have floundered all sides talk to each other to date there hasn't been much listening particularly since the u.s. 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 the 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 rubenstein he is an author and a university professor of conflict resolution and public affairs at george mason university and in berlin we cross to christophe horsetail he is a government consulting.