gunfire rings out across the ukrainian capital as the protesters opened fire in the governmental district this despite a truce agreed upon with the president overnight now getting reports of yet more fatalities. to be able. to resort to. stealing weapons and taking prisoners as the crisis starts to resemble a war authorities say they could end up launching a full scale terrorism response. making sure. dealing with peaceful protesters in an appropriate way for the u.s. and the e.u. make no mention of. by the opposition in ukraine calling only on the president to

end the escalation. and a big day for rusher of the olympics with the ice hockey team beaten in the quarter finals and women's figure skating prodigy. taking a four. to international law from moscow with me rule re sushi i thank you very much for joining us today and breaking news for you this hour from ukraine riots in kiev have reignited the protesters attacking riot policeman of breaking the uneasy truce that had been agreed upon between the government and the opposition iraq has reportedly using firearms some witnesses say there are snipers shooting at security forces there are reports that more people have also been killed ukraine's

parliament currently being evacuated and several buildings in the center of the capital have been captured. following the turmoil in kiev now joining us live good to get you back on the line here and you're taking cover apparently inside a nearby building alexi the truce that was agreed upon in the overnight apparently in a state of. there is no truce at all rory at the moment just to give you an idea of what's happening right now i would probably love to give you a better view of the independence square which is just over here but we were just shot at we just saw a gun fire it literally broke our window over here you can see i asked my camera to zoom in we were standing meters look even meters maybe centimeters away when a gunshot hits the room where we have a live position where we have a life support where we're getting giving our broadcast this is pretty much the scene right now in kiev despite the truce which was agreed upon last night between the opposition and the government the riots as this so-called right wing sector went on an offensive several hours ago i was witnessing down there seven floors

down from where standing right now as they push the police from the barricades which they had reoccupy forty eight hours before now they're mounting barricades again we can hear bullets flying i've seen several heavily wounded people carried both from the side of the police and from the side of the protesters it's all true mayhem we also felt something some strong sense of i can't say what it is but it's something of a toxic substance in the air presumably it was used by rioters because they were standing at the side where the rioters were rushing at the police and i smelled some some sort of gas but i don't know what it is but it's quite toxic and it was really hard to breathe we do know as well that the government the parliament building is now being evacuated because the protesters the rioters are attempting to storm and they have also managed to recapture several of the buildings inside the city center area so it's all hell breaking loose right now we heard from the government early on wednesday that they will be implementing

a counterterrorism operation mode to providing more security especially off the information that the protesters have have stolen live ammunition fifteen thousand bullets three hundred handguns and machine guns from one of the security services arsenals in the west of the country and delivered them to kiev just on the way to this life position. and we saw a group of men maybe fifteen men standing in the low b. of the hotel which is pretty much the headquarters of the opposition of the rights movement at the moment we saw a man with with rifles and handguns just literally waiting for an order from their commander to move outside and attempt another storm of the police probably so this is not true that's for sure i mean it's far from from being settled definitely because the right wing sect of the core of the protest they say that they will not be a being to any orders coming from the opposition and they heard nothing about the truce which was agreed last night between the opposition leaders and the president i

think it's really important for everyone to understand that the violence the scene there is really escalating and frankly deeply worrying that you showed us this sniper bullet hole that occurred minutes ago through the window of the door right behind you the balcony door alexy as i've got you here i'm being told right now by management here at r.t. international that fellow correspondent chris going off you've got a chris going off in the same area as you has now allegedly been kept should by protesters and riders there in the region and three r t cameramen have been detained as well alexey keep your helmet on stay indoors we'll speak to you really soon. well thanks for joining us here in our international now more than a dozen policemen have reportedly been taken captive by rioters we've got hold of footage showing an injured man who needs an ambulance but protesters decide not to call one when they realize he's a special forces officer i should warn you the following video is just being.

get the beer. be out of. your. side just a moment ago radical activists are accused of stealing more than a thousand firearms that's prompting ukraine security forces to consider a full scale counterterrorism operation protesters managed to get hold of his still rifles machine guns and grenades and now the authorities are looking at ways to prevent the opposition becoming a fully. folds now as i said to alexey a few moments ago we are getting reports out of his going off has allegedly being captured by rioters just off the central square in downtown kiev earlier in the day

i got it did file this report. still we're hearing the explosions from the fireworks which 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's urged the leaders of the opposition to disconnect themselves from of the radicals or share the responsibility for the ongoing violence that we call the opposition in ukraine first to rule. the controlling the routes for illegal groups we have to do it in the ukrainian cities. are the to distance themselves from those extremists. or to take on their responsibility to hold when it's. well on when's the russia's president vladimir putin discussed the situation in ukraine the word the german

chancellor angela merkel saying that the west should condemn the actions of right wing ukrainian radicals and be more attention toward to 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 feeling to control the radicals and failing to prevent the violence from spreading. from over here take a look at the chain of events in ukraine over just the last few days it all began when the opposition leaders urged protesters to march on the parliament crowds of demonstrators then attempted to block or even a take over the building situation quickly escalated as rioters also tried to storm the office of ukraine's ruling party ultimately ended up setting it on fire and violence spread across the center of the city and three people were killed becoming

the first of many victims and the police attempted to disperse the rioters but were met with rocks and molotov cocktails and several policemen died in the clashes let's take a look at where the protesters and police have been taking up position by the time the truce was agreed upon security forces had managed to clear european square and push demonstrators away from government buildings all over the situation now is unstable to say the least the protesters are trying to push the police back from independence square and reach parliament and some reports suggest riot has a shooting at the security forces from the roof of the music academy building where we spoke to german journalist manuel oakes and writer 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 a speech so the of course they choose their leaders is the leaders say what they

want to hear and we shouldn't forget that there 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 to trust fund right and who will push that so deeply pessimistic that somebody or thought position could stop this even if you wanted. you know we're getting reports are right now very quickly here on r.t. international that three cameramen but work captured in the central square in kiev have they were detained they have been released and are going off our correspondent there with alexia chef ski going off is in a hotel that is now being entirely captured by rioters in the meantime the foreign ministers of france germany and poland have left kiev without meeting the president after of course as the violence escalated even further washington's response to the situation in kiev has been to band twenty senior ukrainian officials from traveling

to the u.s. brussels said it could follow the example 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 told the bringing together by merilee responsible for making sure. it's dealing with fees for protesters in the freed 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. 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 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. 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 are the ones who are obviously defying democracy by torchy new 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 who 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 tradable 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 work in the name of democracy. any shaken party. are we continuing our breaking news here on r.t. international just very briefly i want to bring about of these live pictures right here downtown kiev this is independence square you can see the crowds of reassemble since the morning hours they were certainly out on the overnight we're getting reports now that somewhere in this scene right here photographers are reporting seeing at least fifteen bodies under blankets are also i was speaking to our correspondents on the ground to go to prison office in a hotel but he tells me over the phone the hotel has been perceived and taken over

by rioters and alexia chefs if you saw his live report a few minutes ago showed us a bullet hole in the window that missed him by maybe a couple of feet allegedly from a sniper so we carry on with the breaking news here on r.t. international law we spoke to stephen cohen professor emeritus of russian studies at princeton university it believes the west is actually fueling the crisis crisis but will never admit it publicly. we get this incredible statement by the european union and washington that they're going to sanction people who resort to violence. it's rare at the present but how about the guys wearing masks in the streets and hurling the boards of cocteau's. molotov cocktails and 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.

also great back by walsh 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 hot war this could be the worst kind of unfolding. in there are people. taking their responsibility. now the unrest is not isolated just to the ukrainian capital on the map right here you can see the main pockets of violence across other regions let's go to the west of ukraine the city of has seen kangaroo courts at work protesters detained the local government governor and demanded that he step down while the governor refused so he was chained up in the city's central square and one of ukraine's larger cities that of off radical ceased and then set several government buildings on fire as well.

for let's let's give you a brief wrap up of exactly the latest information we're getting out of independence square central kiev here on our international the crowd back out in the square let's bring about the live pictures if i can just for a moment here live pictures of back up here the international many people in the square we are just getting information here on the program the photographers have witnessed at least fifteen bodies under blankets in a position somewhere out here on independents. where that then comes after another body count toll of possibly twenty eight people killed since the overnight last night and certainly least ten policeman among those killed but let's cross live now to our correspondent you've got a piece going off we have him on the phone in a hotel in kiev which right now is occupied by protesters who are apparently unable to leave the building reporting his cameraman has been shot at and there are suggestions on twitter that several people have been killed in that hotel restaurant but you go to right now you go hi it's rory

a moscow can you hear me can you give me the latest there henri i can hear it while the hotel is situated right in front of in the square because this is where we were filming the whole situation on my down from our rooms were on the upper floors of the building over the night basically in the mornings the rioters they moved. past this whole tell so now it's in the sole of their control and the hotel is completely controlled by the writers and we tried filming the cameraman choice filming was happening on the other side of the hotel so opposite to where actual was yesterday and he was fired at three bullets we have it on video we're trying to send this video now we still have the internet. thankfully the images today basically just disappeared soon as they realized there was a bullet they just dropped down on for two more shots fired and now the second school. just ran inside

a little said that they were fired as well basically the hotel is in the against italy at the center of the fighting and we're really afraid we don't understand which way if we were to evacuate which we should go because apparently the ground being fired all around this building so we're safe right now inside but downstairs there are lots of strangers and there is a makeshift hospital i guess down the. opposition as all rioters are pretty much suck it by in the ports right now especially the top two or . but we are safe right now of course we'll be reporting on the situation. you got i just i just briefly before i let you go hagar i understand you're safe in a hotel right now you describe your cameraman being shot at we also describe like you know staff ski him being shot at as well why he was actually near a balcony if as his hotel room we've we've heard that now western leaders have left ukraine after no meeting with the president do you think people understand the

level of danger where you are now and do people understand that it's not the president or the government forces but do they understand it's the rebels that are causing the violence. it's hard to evaluate the situation right now because it will change completely and significantly over the next just basically the. mealie appling on independence square or just right next to it but now this is all. expanded significantly. read the people that i've spoke to yesterday when we went out into the city sort of way from independence square they were saying that they were tired of these events these protests but they were saying that the people who take part in the protests from other parts of ukraine and the we do we do know that buses continue. to arrive to key of delivering sort of more

protectors more rights to take part in these events but it's hard to say what's going to happen next we have covered our windows after these shots we realize that they are being fired. inside the hotel. see what's going to happen next the situation. or you're going to think of these are you going to pissing off thanks very much for that breaking news live report speeches soon i just want to bring it all back to these live pictures here from central kiev i just off the center of of independence square we've got crowds of people who i've been looking at for the past a minute or two have been building some sort of a. deborah a mound here in the middle could be soon to be set alight like the pauls of they've been burning for days if not weeks when you look at the broader picture of it all here's more fire for you and i'm people we've seen the air and people walking around but the congregations of such new coming into place reports of more

buildings on fire and certainly over the past twenty four hours one of the headlines on international was a concert on all have people been using live ammunition well they have been and it's been used all over the place and now correspondents the press coming possibly under threat we're talking with more of this breaking news after a short break on r.t. international. it's the last. in london but no butter is being is this time even investor lives two hundred frickin years will never discover the vampire squid true nature investor may be able to understand the secrets of the houses but he or she

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latest now at the start of another day of olympic action russian fans and saatchi was there in a bit of a need of a big boost for the nation's ice hockey team crashing out in the quarterfinals that was a major disappointment and that was followed by figure skating one to gold and major gold medal hope fifteen year old yulia lipnitskaya taking a tumble during her routine well the pressure on the young star has been absolutely enormous after a gold medal in the team event she became the face of the saatchi games teen sensation teen prodigy the skating sensation skating into the pantheon of young superstars just a few of the hundreds of headlines which have followed her performance and now they are being blamed for ramping up the expectations on the teenager and possibly making the pressure too much andrew farmer has more. well it is a strong argument and the reason this is services that sky put in that amazing the form it's in the team event of the start of the limpets it seems the whole of

russia in fact the whole world has been tipping her to get gold in the women's individual it really has thrust under the media spotlight to such a degree she felt she had to leave sochi over the last few days to go and train in moscow and the result is that last night she fell only the second time in her career she's now in fifth place and the pace to be added to the running for a medal but there is a silver lining to all this because while she was taking the media heat thirteen maggie's only seventeen years old i doing this topic of a foot in the performance of her life visibly surprised in the schools came in she's now in second place and within touching distance of a gold medal in the senior members of the russian figure skating team say she is a hot talent that shouldn't be discounted. just the you know everyone has been talking about yulia she is great no doubt about that she is very hot working but we also have adelina sotnikova who is just a couple of years older and is also one to go sampras issue 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 her and of course i'm not putting any pressure on my mention there that russia hasn't done so well in traditional events such as the ice hockey where it's failed to medal now for a third olympics in a row also the playoffs on has been disappointing but russia has come on leaps and bounds in extreme sports and we have today the men ski cross and also the ladies skiing halfpipe and yesterday of course we had the wild getting cold 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 when that goal for russia but when i spoke to some americans yesterday they weren't angry in fact they paid him played him a little should you really play. the olympic village for the athletes of the olympics or super excited and perhaps a special special. but you know

no not at all it hurts a little bit but we're still going to play form right now. to spend incidentally called the dixie cakes the life man a. great one should never get. to watch and enjoy. but we will continue to have full updates from soft. hopes you can join us in our olympic studio throughout the day on our international. to. make seven zero and the rest of our lives take you to sochi twenty four.

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