a short term peace deal is struck between the government and ukraine after days of deadly violence in the capital. of the radical opposition. called steal weapons. as the. war. could launch a full terrorism response. and the u.s. and the e.u. are united in calling on ukraine's president. making no mention of the. other day for russia. with the ice. in the quarter finals and women's figure

skating. taking a full. international with me rule thank you for joining us. an easy truce has been reached in ukraine talks between the president and the opposition aimed at stopping the bloodshed which will stay in the country over the last few days in total twenty six people have been killed in the clashes with police offices both sides are now taking captives and what is beginning to look like a full scale conflict to warn you you may find some of the following images disturbing. really you know your the most surely doesn't know if you're going to put it. on. the building like it's like being in

a pool with the sun and at the end of the vietnam war gloves when you hear when it's going to make you even the you know you. really want water cooler in the field if you want it further than the. bomb if you will call. you know our correspondent like he had a shot he has been on both sides of the barricades so how quickly kiev turn into a battlefield he reports now on a delicate balance between finding a political agreement or pushing the country beyond the point of no return. we reported from the independence square from the protester side 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 policemen 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 is definitely meeting tougher security measures everywhere across the country tougher police cordons moving 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 the 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. radical activists are accused of stealing more than a thousand firearms prompting ukraine security forces to consider a full counterterrorism operation protesters managed to get ahold of pistols rifles machine guns. and now the authorities are looking at ways to prevent the opposition becoming a police force you go to prison off now reporting on the real risk of full blown civil war. since after the cease fire was reached still we're hearing the explosions from the fireworks which the rioters have been using to attack the police malls of cocktails are still being thrown around as well and earlier we spoke with the ukrainian foreign minister who was urged the leaders of the

opposition to disconnect themselves from of the radicals or share the responsibility for the ongoing violence we call the opposition in ukraine. controlling the groups we have to. keep. cities. to distance themselves from extremists. to take. its own wins they russia's president discuss the situation in ukraine the german chancellor angela merkel saying that the west should condemn the actions of right wing ukrainian radicals and pay more attention to what should the country's authorities are trying to do to stabilize the situation and keep this violence sort of under control and earlier the foreign ministry in moscow is also accused the leaders of the opposition of failing to

control the radicals and failing to prevent the violence from spreading. and we spoke to german journalist manuel he believes ukraine's opposition has now lost control of the crisis that it helped to create. well we should remember that for example of germany's number one opposition to the dr vitali klitschko was already attacked by his own protesters weeks ago when he delivered his speech so they of course they choose their leaders as the leaders say what they want to hear and we shouldn't forget that they are different protest groups and they are of course in the meanwhile elements who don't listen anymore to anybody who just want to violence and trust fund riots and who will push that so i'm deeply pessimistic that somebody of the opposition could stop this even if you wanted. and i

washington was quick to respond to the bobbins in kiev twenty senior ukrainian officials accused of sparking the clashes and now banned from traveling to the u.s. of more on the reaction from america and europe is ati's guy nature can. president obama knows what the ukrainian leaders should do we told the burning merrily responsible for making sure. it's dealing with a fuse for protesters in an appropriate way. president obama has however made no suggestions on how ukrainian authorities should deal with rioters torching the city shooting beating and sowing molotov cocktails at police. he there has he called to the so-called peaceful protesters to wait for elections to express their aspirations as he would at home find a different circumstances you don't like a particular policy. or a particular president then argue for your position go out there and win an

election. european leaders don't seem to want to wait for elections either all but calling for the ukrainian president to step down. the ukrainian authorities are by to lose all legitimacy the kind of authorities in ukraine need to make space for a transitional government of national unity and early elections in order to bring back the legitimacy of national authorities. was washington and brussels are considering sanctions against ukraine the u.s. has already barred a number of the korean officials from entering the country shouldn't there be sanctions against the opposition because they're the ones who are obviously defying democracy by torching the capital as opposed to accepting the results of a legitimate election and working to challenge them next next time around washington may stand up for democracy in the words that it is the people themselves that make those decisions and that's what the united states will continue to strive

. to achieve. but behind the scenes u.s. officials are apparently trying to decide who should be in the ukrainian government and who should not go 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 in terms of they're not going into the government just let him sort of stay out and do fast food or homework and stuff. it makes me wonder if paul martin the police with molotov cocktails and shooting at them is also part of the opposition's quote unquote homework in the name of democracy going to shake an article. i respect you are stephen cohen professor emeritus of russian studies at princeton university he believes the west is fueling the crisis but won't dare admit it publicly. we get this incredible statement by the european union in washington that they're going to sanction people who resort to violence now of course that's meant to be a threat at the president of ukraine but how about the guys wearing masks in the

streets and hurling them or two of cocteau's. them all in the molotov cocktails is somebody from the state department going to go on the street and get their names phone numbers and addresses it's preposterous it's a profoundly divided country but that's what this is about what precipitated it was in my judgment it's not the president of ukraine and not putin as the media has played here but the european union's ultimatum backed by russia and you don't have to be highly educated to understand that if that happens this new cold war divide between two cranes on russia's borders that you're going to have decades of instability in the cold control for a hot war this could be the worst kind of the unfolding. and there are people who made this happen who aren't taking the responsibility that the unrest is not isolated just to be a crane and capital here on the map in western ukraine you can see pockets of violence across other regions as well the western city of lutes because scene

kangaroo court said what protesters detain the local governor demanding he step down he refused and he was chained up in the city's central square i want to ukraine's larger cities live off radical cæsar and then set several government buildings on fire i hear an aussie international we continue to closely follow the situation in ukraine we will keep you fully updated throughout the day. it is an international live from moscow while at the start of another day of competition russian fans. the winter olympics are in need of a boost that's because the nation's ice hockey team crashed out in the quarter finals and the game's wonder girl and major hope for a gold in the women's figure skating took a tumble during her routine artie's team in sochi takes a look at

a dramatic day. has put a day of ups and downs for the whole nation of the winter olympics here in sochi for the biggest disappointment of course for many russians will be the ice hockey the country but expecting big things from the team but end of the day they couldn't rise to the occasion being dumped by finland in the quarterfinals his poor scot. 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 i stay in which you can probably just make out behind me set them on their way put them on a lot and it all seemed to be going to plan but 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 nearly in the other quarterfinal elsewhere there's a good news for russia at the halfway stage of the figure skating women's individual event adelina sotnikova is in the silver medal position after the short program however there's disappointment for fifteen year old yulia lipnitskaya of course she shot to fame after her stunning and foolish display to help russia to gold in the team event all eyes were on her this evening as she took to the ice in the short program in the women's individual competition however a stumble has severely damaged her chances of competing for a medal she actually finished seven points worse off than she did in the team event however it's not all are 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 wilde is actually an american but he received russian

citizenship in two thousand and eleven when 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 a bronze in the female event and before the game started while spoke to artane explain exactly why he has swapped allegiances i didn't have any good funding we had states that wasn't going to reach the goals that i wanted. to show as an opportunity to get the balls. to be able to do what i wanted to do well that's the gold in the bronze for russia the silver came in the cross country skiing in the men's team sprint event and i want to other bit of news for you. darling 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 rocketing down an icy track at speeds of more than one hundred kilometers an hour with your head out in front of us just

routine stuff for athletes in the sport of skeleton events in this discipline already over at the sochi olympics but of the owner to talk with the woman who won silver for team usa in this whirlwind sport. but you are so pleased you think you very excited yeah it's 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 loss just a fairytale and even more so too because that's retarded too 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 at that 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 such a terrific go ahead and i don't. go all the you know this is exceptional oh ok just just told me to. do you say you're talking about the reality of your family

but of all that that was built by your husband there 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 god people don't just fill the 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 in talking 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 i guess i don't think i'd use the word scared you know when i first started i did i would get scared but not anymore. right stuff well head to the node to find out who received gold silver bronze medals in women's figure skating obstacle will be about them with more tells of glory for some crushing

disappointment for others as sochi offers up another the golden opportunities for the other for me kevin though with the twelve he was the winter olympics but we will continue to have full updates from sochi on another day of medal hopes to join us if you can. studio throughout the day you will not see in so much. twenty fourteen promise the recall to make an exhilarating winter in our team means to enjoy me and you so now i have to make seven zero in on the rest of our lives take news training for sochi twenty four take. all the. right. the first strike. and i think that your.

reporters. one. of the journos have this specific tendency of seeking out negative stories about russia and what could be more negative the possibility of a major terror attack when it comes to the western media there's a tendency to look at the caucasus emirate for through the prism of what the russians do that is don't look at the idiology don't look at the actions of the caucasus emirate mujahideen instead look at the way the russians on occasion violate the political civil and human rights in combat in their job is.

joining us or else it's a national british and fracking protesters and not just refusing to leave shale gas excuse me a shale gas drilling side they've been camped out there since november last year in protest of the dangers posed by controversial gas extraction techniques and reports the u.k.'s reason for shale gas has many others worried in the country as well. britain's thought to be soft on large reserves of shell gas and with the british government having given the green light for shale gas exploration companies like to tell have come calling for the method of shale gas extraction known as facking has proven to be controversial having been linked to earthquakes and even water contamination many communities across the u.k. where fracking kids take place have been battling against the energy companies

plans and indeed against their own government the prime minister david cameron has made it clear that shale gas is part of britain's long term economic plan and that pushing forward with those plans to show up questions and edgy security we question taters president the gas and power division east think it's fair for the public in the u.k. who are concerned about shared gas exploration and fracking. that france's banned this and our government's pushing ahead with this clearly to different countries of different different views. we. confronted. here. with all our fracking. we have been speaking to each and. every summer speaking.

with people you doing what you say this is something that you know that can take place of course. but. we knew we could conditions. in order to prevent before getting up anything the problem for a lot of people who live in a community where fracking could take place if it is not david cameron it's not. he's going to be affected by these potential consequences would you say to those people in those communities when we try to convince them. people of these communities. division could be to develop a new city but it's not really a debate is it because the plans are sort of going forward that decision's been made essentially whether they like you don't know what's. going to be decided to do exploration but we really need to have the proper permits you know to start production if the exploration is successful. we are far from being a situation of the will we are going to put dismissively. because we are six more.

no guarantees when it comes to sail despite the u.k. government fishing ahead with exploration plans being questions gold and when it comes to shell gas exploration the consequences long term remain extremely unclear from international petroleum week before think. are some of the global headlines in brief for you with the world update now a rally against the visit of u.s. president barack obama turned violent in mexico demonstrators from labor unions and various anarchist groups clashed with police in the town of toluca president obama was there for talks aimed at boosting trade ties and engaging mexico into a broader asian pacific trade pact. the death tolls and the ongoing unrest in venezuela sparked by last week's antigovernment rallies has risen to at least six sporadic clashes between protesters and police continued in the capital caracas

until late on wednesday the opposition leader leopoldo lopez remains behind bars for his role in organizing the rallies and allegedly trying to overthrow the government. there was public anger in the spanish city of as well where thousands called them a government to scrap plans to change abortion laws fly zone effigies dressed in police uniforms were banned by the crowds a new proposed legislation would restrict abortions to pregnancies where the health of the mother is at risk or an. case of rape. israel is using conflict with the palestinians as a testing ground for as thriving arms industry years of fighting of allowed weapons makers to whom their craft and sell their goods to willing buyers from all around the world as are these policies near reports that leaves an industry with little real interest in peace i think there is a very big elephant in the room in israel very big fact in all reality which is

seldom spoken about and that's as far as most people go on israel's arms industry but how has a country the size of the american state of new jersey become the world's sixth largest exporter people don't really ask why and why the hell this small country became such a superpower of weapons your time feldman is a journalist and filmmaker he recently released his award winning documentary the lab in which he argues that israel's occupation of palestine and also to have such a prosperous weapons industry what armies all over the world want are weapons which were tested on real so to say guinea pigs in a real car we have this live quietly we have an availability of availability of conflict and availability of war it starts with the drones for decades israeli drones have been hunting for palestinian militants and they had an arms caches making as well the go to country for unmanned aerial vehicles soon to become the

world's largest exporter on the defense front the iron dome system proved its capabilities in the last hours the wall lining the pockets of these really military industrial complex nobody wants to talk about. because everybody is there peter. industry is very clear it's a lot of money the politicians we have a solution the idea of these are people who have a solution years of fighting in close combat in cars in the west bank have also given israelis the image first weapons like the guy and to avoid assault rifles and now something that even hollywood is copping a gun that shoots around corners and as controversial as israel's with bank barrier is its state of the art security system is being copied along america's borders with canada and mexico i think is really the most exciting in the country because they are developing something this thing immediately in the field so they're in

generic form billion dollars day goes directly to the army and can see if we do all day develop with a good run on it after three years of working on his documentary your time is adamant there is no weapon israel is successful exporting which the israeli army is not using in gaza in the with but it leaves the country with a lot to answer for it's doubtful the hugely influential arms industry has an interest in peace because for as long as israel's holds onto the west bank and gaza it has a laboratory for finding testing and showcasing weapons systems and industrial military front that remain secure police fear r t tel aviv or just some of the stories are waiting for you right now online courtesy of r.t. dot com some things are better left unsaid and in florida u.s. nuclear has fired for criticism of poor safety conditions there or ask dot com we

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live. a little. live. talk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want. everyone i mean martin and this is breaking at the set so if you're like everyone else i know you've probably spent the last couple days watching the entire second season of the best show ever not on t.v. house of cards not only is the show brilliantly scripted directed and acted its entire premise is based on the dark underbelly of d.c. politics the backhanded deals the bribes the cover ups and the political elites

complete contempt for us peons but that's not all and also displays how politicians use the corporate media to peddle their narratives clearly the writers of the show been paying attention to what's going on behind the scenes of american politics far beyond what's shown on the m.s.m. spoiler alert if you haven't watched season two yet cover your ears i was so happy to see a mention of internet activists bare brown a man facing one hundred year sentence for posting a link as well as the plotline of a sting operation conducted in order to entrap an eager journalist becoming a cyber terrorist but alas as exciting as it is to see the complete corruption and sleaze that defines d.c. laid out in such a way it's all fiction at the end of the day right while leading actor in the series kevin spacey who plays a democrat but is eerily reminiscent of dick cheney has done a media blitz to promote the show and which he says political insiders have told him house of cards isn't actually that differ.