best way to the heart of moscow. a short term peace deal is struck between the government and rioters in ukraine after days of deadly violence in the capital however the compromising stance of the radical opposition is to undermine it at any moment. protesters are caught stealing weapons and taking prisoners as the crisis starts to resemble a war. they could launch a full counter terrorism operation. you don't like a particular policy. or a particular president. that argue for your position go out there and win an election but the u.s. and the e.u. making no mention of the violence carried out by the opposition in ukraine calling

only the president. with the ice hockey team beaten in the quarter finals and women. taking a fall. a very good morning to you from all of us here at international live in moscow just after eleven am right now. an easy truce has been reached in ukraine after talks between the president and the opposition aimed at stopping the bloodshed which is staying in the country over the last few days now in total twenty eight people have been killed in the. at least ten of those were police officers both sides are

taking captives and what is beginning to look like a full on conflict only to warn you you may find some of the following images disturbing. the b.s. is. b.s. . yes some a very graphic footage right there of the protests over the last couple of days have been at the most violent time to this is healthy ukrainian capital looks right now you can still see a fair amount of action going on there of course all through the thick smoke of the bunning tires and the fires but the crowds are certainly out on the streets our

correspondent alexia chef he is on the spot right now that's across live to him alexia good to see you and any chance this overnight truce will hold. no rory it seems like this is not sure at all in fact right now ryan says that the independence square are on the offensive we can see over there some of them of already breached police lines you can see a moment of looting behind me a cloud of black smoke is covering the area the police have just literally retreated and maybe you can see over there this is the line of the riots as they're moving in on the police we just saw several police water cannons retreat from this position this position that they've been holding for the past forty eight hours or so but right now it seems like there's no truce it all i mean the leader of this so-called right wing sector this is the core of the protest the guys who are right wing nationals running the whole show right now they say you can see the flash bangs exploding he said that there are no it's a baying any kind of voters coming from the opposition they're pretty much on their

own and they haven't heard anything about any truce of any kind so right now i'm standing literally hundred meters from the independence square itself maybe even lower. yes it's just around the corner but you can see there's no more police the right wing sector the protesters are no here they're literally just behind me but it's right in the air it's not safe anymore here i'm afraid but i will bring you the report from last night behind the police lines you can see how tense it was despite the truce which was announced. we reported from the independence square from the protesters 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 divina from 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. we continue to show you live pictures right here from central kiev as radical activists are accused of stealing more than eight thousand firearms

prompting ukraine security forces to consider a full counter terrorism operation protesters managed to get their hands on pistols rifles machine guns on grenades now the authorities are looking a way to prevent the opposition from becoming a fully force. now reporting on the real risk of civil. so we're hearing the explosions from the fireworks which the rioters have been using to attack the police mauled of. 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. if. controlling

those groups we have. to distance themselves from the extremists. to take. right now on wednesday 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 all failing to control the radicals and failing to prevent the violence from spreading. he believes ukraine's opposition has now lost control of the crisis that it helped

to create. well we should remember that for example germany's number one opposition to the dr vitali klitschko was already taken by his own protesters weeks ago when he delivered his speech so they of course they choose their leader as is the leader 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 violence and trust fund riots and who will push that so i'm deeply pessimistic that somebody else the opposition could stop this even if you wanted washington has been quick to respond to the violence in kiev twenty senior ukrainian officials accused of spock in the clashes that now banned from traveling to the united states of more of the reaction from america and europe is ati's guy nature can.

president obama knows what the ukrainian leaders should do we've told me go for a fairly sponsible 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 sewing molotov cocktails at police but neither 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 authority is 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 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 the 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 and do fast food or hallmark 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 new work in the name of democracy. danny schechter and archie. and stephen cohen the professor emeritus of russian studies at princeton university he believes the west is feeling the crisis but will never 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 present but how about the guys wearing masks in the streets and hurling the mortar of cocteau's. 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 not as the media has played but rupie and williams ultimately 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 koreans on russia's borders that you're going to have decades of instability in the world control for hot war this could be the bush trying to push the unfolding. in there are people who made this happen we are taking responsibility. let's take a look at the chain of events in ukraine over the last few days that all began when opposition leaders protesters to march on parliament crowds of demonstrators then attempted to a law called take over the building as well and the whole situation was quickly escalated as rioters also tried to storm of the office

a few cranes ruling party and setting it on fire violence spread across the center of the city and three people were killed becoming the first victims first of many victims i perhaps should say that the police attempted to disperse riot has met with rocks and molotov cocktails several policemen died in the clashes as take a look at where the protesters and police are positioned right now in the heart of kiev for example by the time the truce was agreed upon security forces had managed to clear european square and. demonstrators are away from the government buildings now activists still control the city council building as well as some of the side streets but most of them are concentrated in the ravaged independence square where the outcome of the standoff remains well rather predictable now the unrest is not isolated just to the ukrainian capital here on this map you can see the main pockets of violence so italy across so he would go excuse me across other regions as a western ukraine for you now the western city of lutes because seen kangaroo courts

at work protesters detained the local governor they demanded he step down he refused and he was chained up in the city's square and one if you have cities that off radicals season and set several government buildings on fire while we continue to follow the situation in ukraine we will keep you fully updated here on r.t. international. it's our international live from moscow well at the start of another day of olympic action russian fans in soft she are in need of a boost for the nation's ice hockey team was well they crashed out in the quarter finals was a major disappointment which was followed by a figure skating one to gold and major gold medal hope fifteen year guyot taking a tumble during her routine well the pressure on the young star has been enormous

softer a gold medal in the team avenged. games teen sensation teen prodigy ice skating sensation skating into the pantheon of young superstars these are just a few of the hundreds of headlines which followed her performance and now they are being blamed for ramping up the expectation on the teenager and probably making the pressure a bit too much lottie's and your father was following all the drama on the ice joining us now live from the olympic capital let's get more on this and over to our team. right now i dig good to see you hello it's rory from moscow what's your take on all this was the attention just a bit too much the pressure too much for young lipnitskaya. but it's a strong argument and the reason is this when lipnitskaya put in that amazing performance at the very start of the lympics in the team event it seemed that the whole of russia in fact the whole world was tipping out to get gold in the women's

individual she was adventurous really rest on that media spotlight to such a degree that she felt she had to leave sochi over the last few days and train in moscow and the result was that she fell for only the second time in here in her career last night that was unexpected but the had a silver lining to this because it seemed that she took the media heat and in a place she has a teammate adelina. so i do so. to put in one of the performances of her own life she seemed surprised to so when the results came in and now she's in second place just within touching distance of the gold medal place which is currently held by a south korean in some of the senior members of russia's biggest gating team and said she's a hot talent that shouldn't be discounted. as let's just you know everyone has been talking about yulia she's great no doubt about that

she's very hot working but you also have adelina sotnikova who's just a couple of years old and is also one to. so i'm pretty sure we will see them competing not only with the athletes from other countries but also with each other they're both capable of making it on to the olympic pedestal. so fingers crossed and of course i'm not putting any pressure on you mention there that russia hasn't done so well in traditional events such as the ice hockey where it's failed to medal my throat. also known has been disappointing but russia has come on leaps and bounds in the extreme sports and we have today ski cross. skiing and yesterday of course we had the wild getting gold from russia in the snowboarding and apart from other things that to me underline the limp experience he in sochi because he's an american isn't he was born in america but he took a russian passport won the gold for russia but when i spoke to some americans yes they weren't angry in fact they paid him played him

a little cheap you. are going to play the olympic village for the athletes of the olympics or super excited and perhaps a special respect rendition for vick while he's an american but he's one snowboarding gold for russia but you're not no not at all it hurts a little bit but we're still going to play form right now take it away. from. this band incidentally called the dixie cakes they're all life and they are great fun she plans to never get a chance to watch and enjoy. but to see him. having so much fun thank you very much indeed we will see you soon. but for the marines i'm. wandering in and out of our studio for

a chat the head of the austrian olympic committee was the latest to share his impressions of the games without. i have to say that that sports venues are perfect in best conditions i can see and imagine you would without any wish is really very very excellent and the volunteers are very friendly. and everybody is so friendly and nice and their districts are so clean. i think russia did a very perfect job to present itself is supportive nation and i can just say. we will have a full updates from sochi on another day of medal hopes to join us if we can in our and the big studio throughout the day on r.t. international. the g twenty four team promises we consummated an exhilarating winter forcing our team

here joining us now i have to make seven zero and i am the last of our little clues team for sochi twenty four take. on ott. transit route to vnukovo report your best way to the heart of most. of the journos have the specific tendency of seeking out negative stories about russia and what could be more negative than 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 this. is good to have you with us here on r.t. international on rule researcher live in moscow. france the controversial shale gas extraction three years ago off the concluding that the environmental risks were just a bit too high since then the country's energy giant totalis turned its attention to britain where fracking has been given the go ahead of 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. police 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 governments pushing ahead with this clearly but to different countries of difference different views of the we are much more comfortable we've. give you a new q well of course we are tracking we're going to have some good we have been speaking about this quakes and. of course some are six weeks in fact but. people you do it but you say this is something that can take place so of course. which clearly we

knew the conditions. in order to prevent this from happening in the problem for a lot of people who live in the communities 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 this community when we try to convince the people of these communities to the vision could be to develop a new safe but it's not really a debate is it because the plans are already sort of going forward so the decisions being made essentially what they like i don't know what. to do exploration but we really need 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. six month heard in that interview there are no guarantees when it comes to sale gas despite the u.k.

government fishing a head with exploration plans far from being questions gold and gas he says when it comes to shells assets the ration the consequences long term remain extremely unclear from international petroleum week before sing for us are some global headlines or brief now a rally against the visit of u.s. president barack obama while into mexico demonstrators from labor unions from various anarchist groups fashion police in the town of to look up president obama was there for talks aimed at boosting trade time sunday gauging mexico into a broader asian pacific trade parked. venezuela where the death toll from the ongoing unrest sparked by last week's rallies against the country's ailing economy has risen to at least six sporadic clashes. between protesters and police continued across the country and so late on wednesday that the opposition leader leopoldo lopez who initiated the protests and remains behind bars for allegedly trying to

overthrow the government as your supporters to stay out on the streets. and there was public anger in the spanish city over landsea as well with thousands hold on the government to spread plans to change abortion. and effigies dressed in police uniform by the crowds new proposed legislation that would restrict abortions to pregnancies where the health of the mother is that of risk or in the case of rape. or thanks so much for joining us or analyse international law coming up next it's going to be worlds apart with the focus on a point. 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 populations democratic choice to restrict immigration is natural being blasted by the e.u. brass what threats to cancel bilateral agreements how dear 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 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. economic down in the final. days the. night in the red because i.

believe it's really. home and welcome to worlds apart the olympics are supposed to bring people together but the sochi games provided for some very odd bedfellows western media interest in the north caucuses both playing the competition should have been held in russia and both would probably like to see turn into a major embarrassment is it

a case of the enemy of my anime being my friend want to discuss that i'm now joined by gordon hahn a counterterrorism expert from the jews to change it forecasting corp mr han thank you very much for taking time to talk to us here thank you now russia is of course no stranger to terrorist attacks and there's always the possibility of something like that happening like for example in munich and nineteen seventy two or in atlanta ninety nine to six but whenever an attack happens on a friendly territory of the narrative that's we get from western media is that of resilience you know we regret the loss of life but we should never allow terrorists dictate our lives but when it comes to. they so much against for some reason the line that they most often hear here in russia from western media here is why was russia ever allowed to host those games and i wonder if this reflects the nature of the threat posed by terrorism or rather the nature of the coverage well i think

it's a combination of both on the one hand. you can argue that you know holding the games so close to a region where. considerably strong terrorist group has its base was high risk it probably seemed like less of a risk back in two thousand and five two thousand and six when they were deciding whether to hold hold in sochi because at that time the number of attacks was down quite a bit but the the movement was about to regenerate as it did in two thousand and seven when they declared the caucasus emirate and became a more jihad is the organization on the other hand there is a certain tendency in the west to on the one hand ignore this issue to a large extent certainly when it when it comes to looking at the terrorists themselves and instead focus on russian failure to guarantee security and so forth . and that's in part due to a certain bias in the western media if i will take your eye couple of here.