a short term peace deal is struck between the government. after days of deadly violence in the capital but the uncompromising stance of the radical opposition threatens to undermine it at any moment. the. young. protesters usually. steal weapons and take prisoners as the crisis starts to resemble a war. they could launch a full counter terrorism response you don't like a particular policy. or a particular president. then argue for your position go out there and win an election but the u.s. and the e.u. make no mention of carried out by the opposition in ukraine calling only on the

president to end the escalation. and a dramatic day for russia at the sochi olympics the ice hockey team in the quarter finals and women's figure skating prodigy. taking a fall. worldwide news live from moscow city center international with me will receive thanks for joining us and an easy truce has been reached in ukraine after overnight talks between the president and the opposition aimed at stopping the bloodshed with china stay in the country over the last few days in total twenty six people have been killed in the clashes ten of them a policeman both sides and taking captives in what is beginning to look like a full on conflict. you may find some of the following images disturbing. for sure

you know your memory is short enough here years ago you were. going. to be able to get lucky and it was fun to be at the seattle ring was when you. were you. know you know you're. going to be able. to get you fired first you can. already see if you will. and our correspondent alexia shaft has been on both sides of the barricades and he saw how quickly kiev itself turned into a battlefield he reports now on the delicate balance between finding a political agreement pushing their 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 police are 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 stall 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 cordon soon 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. now in the meantime radical activists are accused of stealing more than a thousand firearms prompted ukraine security forces to consider a full counter terrorism operation protesters managed to get hold of pistol rifles machine guns and grenades now the authorities are looking at ways to prevent the opposition becoming a fully armed forced out of this going off now reporting on the real risk of civil war. still we're hearing the explosions from the fireworks which of the writers have been using to attack the police mold 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 the radicals or share the responsibility for the ongoing violence we call the opposition in ukraine first of all if they are not controlling the groups we have today he would keep. cities. to distance themselves from the extremists. to take responsibility. and it's now on wednesday russia's president discussed the situation in ukraine with 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 all failing to control the radicals and failing to prevent the violence from spreading. and we spoke to a german journalist and. he believes ukraine's opposition has now lost control of the crisis that helped to create. well we should remember that for example germany's number one opposition to the dr vitali klitschko was already attacked by his own protesters weeks ago when he delivered a speech so they of course they choose their leaders is the leaders say what they want to hear and we shouldn't forget that they are different protest groups and they are of course who in the meanwhile elements who don't listen anymore to anybody who just want to buy a lens and trust fund riots and who will push that so i'm deeply pessimistic that

somebody off the opposition could stop this even if you want to. while washington was quick to respond to the violence in kiev twenty senior ukrainian officials accused of sparking the clashes now banned from traveling to the united states more on the reaction from america and europe is guy nature to kind of. president obama knows what the ukrainian leaders should do we are told going to go for a fairly responsible for making sure. it's stealing which peaceful 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 throwing molotov cocktails the police. neither has he called to the so-called peaceful protesters to wait for elections to express their aspirations as he would head home under 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 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 he craning officials from entering the country shouldn't there be sanctions against the opposition because they're the ones who are obviously define 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 we should not so 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 in doofus tradeable whole market stuff. that makes me wonder if paul martin the police with molotov cocktails and shooting at them is also part of the opposition's quote unquote new work in the name of democracy. danny schechter an article. that we had a chance to speak to our stephen cohen professor emeritus of russian studies at princeton university he believes the west is fueling the crisis but one never dare admit it. we get this incredible statement by the european union and washington that they're going to sanction people who resort to violence now that's meant to be

a threat at the president of ukraine but how about the guys wearing masks in the streets and hurling rocks off cocteau's. them all at the molotov cocktails the somebody from the state department going to go on the street and get their names phone numbers and addresses it's provocateurs it's a profoundly divided country well that's what this is about what precipitated it was in my judgment he's not the president of crane and not as the media is played here but but in your opinion williams alternate back by russia and you don't have to be highly educated to understand that if that happens this new cold war divide between you two ukraine's on russia's borders that you're going to have decades of instability in the for control for a hot war this could be the worst kind of history unfolding. and there are people who made this happen and we are taking their responsibility. the unrest is

not isolated just to the ukrainian capital we're bringing up a map for you now an r.t. international you can see the main pockets of violence across many other regions in particular the west in fact of the western city of lots seen kangaroo courts work protesters detained the local governor demanding he step down he refused so he was chained up in the city's central square in one of ukraine's largest cities the radical seized and then set several government buildings on fire we continue to follow the situation in ukraine and we'll keep your fully up to date. action here on the program on the start of another day of competition russian fans of the winter olympics are in a bit of a 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 she took a tumble during her routine. taking a look at a very dramatic day. in a day of ups and downs for the whole nation of the winter olympics here it is such a bit of 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 out by finland in the quarterfinals his poor scot . it's fair to say there's a real lair 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 stone 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 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 was. 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 want gold in the men's competition while she secured a bronze in the female event and 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. to show as an opportunity to get people's. 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 our other bit of news for you darlin he helped norway to win the by athlone mixed relay they want gold in 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 all us just routine stuff for athletes in the sport of skeleton events in this discipline already over at the sochi olympics part of the honor a little talk with the woman who won silver for team usa in this whirlwind sport. but you know so please do thank 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 also just a fairy tale 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 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 red and i don't. go all the you know this is just a little oh ok just just told me to slow do you talk about the reality of we've been involved in it 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 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 down the track it's crazy i mean you're running you spread as fast as you can forty fifty meters jump head first onto a little cookie sheet looking thing you go eighty ninety miles an hour if your chain just in talk 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 used the word scared you know when i first started i did i would get scared but not anymore. stuff well i had to know

down before that who receive gold silver bronze medals in women's figure skating months to come 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 from. twelve he would the winter olympics. oh i do have an awful up to us from sochi on another day of medal hopes to join us if you can about what lympics studio throughout the day or not so you. jean twenge your fourteen promises we told them that an exhilarating winter and a team you still need and use now and how to make seven zero in on the rest of our lives take news team for sochi twenty four take. on oxy.

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it's just twenty twenty minutes past the hour here in moscow it's oxy international france banned controversial shale gas extraction three years ago off to concluding that the environmental risks were just too high since then the country's energy giant toe towle has turned his attention to britain where fracking has been given the go ahead for the head of the company's gas and power division admits he's aware of the consequences but he told me that the exploration will go ahead anyway. at least think it's fair to the public in the u.k. who are concerned about shared gas exploration and fracking. that france has banned this and other governments fishing ahead what is clearly the different countries of

different different views. we wish more comfortable we've yet to give you a new q well it's also tracking here. so. we have been speaking about waste and. of course some of this is beaten back but who derives from the. people you doing what you think should say this is something that you know that can take place as a result of course and with clearly we know the technical conditions. in order to prevent before up in everything the problem for a lot of people who live in the communities where fracking could take place if it's not david cameron it's not. he's going to be affected by these potential consequences of what you say to these people in this community when we try to

convince the people of these communities to govern should be to develop a new safe place not really a debate is it because the plans are already sort of going forward so that decision's been made essentially whether they like it or not all of what has been the city to do exploration but we really need track to have the proper permits you know to start production if the explosion successful. we are far from being a situation of the will we are going to put this massive. in the commuter six mile for the last we heard in that interview there are no guarantees when it comes to sell gas despite the u.k. government fishing ahead with exploration plans far from being questions gold and gas when it comes to shells assets generation the consequent. main extremely. firm international petroleum week. are some of the global headlines for you for the program a rally against the visit of u.s.

president barack obama. in mexico demonstrators from labor unions various groups trashing police in the town of lucca president obama. trade ties in mexico into a broader asian pacific trade pact. the death toll from the ongoing unrest in venezuela sparked by last week's rallies against the country's ailing economy has now risen to at least six sporadic clashes between protesters and police cross the country and wednesday the opposition leader leopoldo lopez to the protests and remains behind bars for allegedly trying to overthrow the government. to stay out on the streets. it was published in the spanish as well as called on the government to scrap to change or. effigies dressed in police uniforms by the crowds a new proposed legislation would restrict abortions to pregnancy whether health of

a mother is a race or in the case of. now israel is using conflict with the palestinians as a testing ground for its thriving arms industry years of fighting have allowed weapons makers to hone their craft and sell their goods to willing buyers from all around the world and. leaves an industry with very little interest in peace. i think there is a very big elephant in the room in israel very big fact in a 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 is it 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 army 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 correlate we have an availability of death and availability of conflict and availability of war it starts with the drones for decades israeli drones have been hunting for palestinian militants and the hidden 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 a wall lining the pockets of these really military industrial complex nobody wants to talk about. because everybody is there peter. industry is very appealing 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 gaza in the west bank have also given israelis the age first weapons like the guy and to avoid assault rifles and now something that even funny would use copping a gun that shoots around corners and as controversial as israel's with bank barrier is its state of the art security system has been copied along america's borders with canada and mexico i think is really the most exciting in the country because they are developing something distinct immediately in the field so the engineering the four million 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 nowhere for israel as successful exporting which the israeli army is not using in gaza in the with that 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 limbo tree for finding testing and showcasing weapons systems and industrial military front that for a main secure policy r.t. television are some of the stories are up. for you this hour including some things are better left said an employee at a u.s. nuclear plant is fired for criticism of safety conditions at the site on the web site we look at what exactly drove her into blowing the whistle. plus too fat to fight chinese army engineers have to find some extra space inside their military vehicles as the world's largest army gets even larger. ups and downs of the finance world with talking to me bust it comes out and. it's.

recently swiss voters nearly passed a referendum to put a strict quota back on immigration switzerland is a relatively small country and some estimate that almost a quarter of the population is made up of immigrants from e.u. countries that is a lot of people and the swiss are worried that the increased foreigners will also mean increased crime rent prices burd the state and erode traditional local culture as modern immigration almost always does this was population's democratic choice to restrict immigration is next with being blasted by the e.u. brass what threats to cancel bilateral agreements how dare you have

a different version of democracy than we in the you have switzerland how dare you i don't think this event will have much effect on the e.u. bureaucratic machine nothing could make them change their hyper liberal minds but i think the swiss anti immigration referendum will have a huge effect on local populations of countries like germany and the u.k. which are seeing horrible effects of open borders and growing anti e.u. sentiment as i speak i don't like to make predictions by i think a lot of disenfranchised people across the e.u. are going to become quite jealous of the swiss move and demand the same type of changes at home but that's just my opinion. it sucks but. we're going to do it. did you know the price is the only industry specifically mention in the constitution and. that's because a free and open process is critical to our democracy. in

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