more than a dozen people have reportedly been killed in the ukrainian capital today as all to protest does break a truce would be all sorts used by our talking riots please aussies crew was quarter in sniper fire in a hotel at the very epicenter of the violence. if you. look at the. acts of its resort to kangaroo courts to steal weapons and take prisoners as the crisis starts to resemble a war so as you say they could launch a full counterterrorism response. with . the full weight. of the u.s.

and the you make no mention of violence carried out by the opposition in ukraine calling only on the president to end there. and also this hour a dramatic day for russia at the sochi olympics with the ice hockey team the sun and the quarter finals and the women's figure skating prodigy. taking off all. this is our senior national coming to you live from moscow hello and welcome to the progress and we'll start with breaking news from ukraine a fresh violence in the ukrainian capital has reportedly claimed more than a dozen lives on thursday witnesses say more dead bodies are lying around the center of kiyo chaos was. when ryan has

a tongue police early in the day breaking an easy trees that had been agreed between the government and opposition that ukraine's parliament is being evacuated and several buildings in the sun tell the capital have been captured including the hotel where our correspondents have been staying and. joins us now live hi that it's a so we know that you're risking your life right now you want to show off please tell us what's happening to you right now what's going on around. you know wearing a bulletproof vest and a helmet inside a hotel in the capital of european cities something insane but that's the way we should be handling the whole situation right now and just literally last hour i was going i was about to go live on a broadcast. we were shot at by a sniper literally the bullet hit the wall broke the window just several centimeters from where we're standing right now we're speaking from the point i'm talking to you right now is risking my life for

a life or limb but we're confident that we won't be shot again this time though it is cold break hell breaking loose right now in the capital of ukraine after what seemed to be a cease fire truce agreed by the opposition of the government it's no longer the case we right now have information that at least a dozen bodies is. piled up at the independence square just above where i'm standing right now the unconfirmed information coming from different sources suggest that at least thirty five people have been killed in this latest spate of violence which is more than the violence which broke out two nights ago when the whole another spin of violence started in the capital of ukraine this could formation is not yet been confirmed but definitely we have seen a lot of injured a lot of dead people being carried inside the hotel ukraine this is the place where standing where we standing right now this is basically it looks like a wartime garrison at the moment with the dead and the injured player. up in the

law protesters riotous carrying firearms are patrolling the low b. and not even letting people on the face on certain floors of the hotel as i've said snipers are located on pretty much all the buildings around in the area they're firing in all directions we also have information that the parliament building is being evacuated because the protesters are trying to storm that building right now we don't hear any gunfire or flash bangs explode but this may change on a second in fact in the morning when i was getting here to the hotel ukraine to the life position i saw several policemen carried on stretchers beaten to a bloody pulp they looked like bits and pieces basically when i went inside the zone i went on a live growth gas and minutes after that the a sold by the right wing sect to the so-called white wing sector started i went down there in the thick of the action on a filed this report for you to see. this does not look like a truce at all last night the opposition and the president managed to agree on

a ceasefire but in the morning the right wing sects at the core of the protest the hardcore radicals decided to go on the offensive from the independence square which was generally looks like a battle of the rock now almost seventy two hours of fighting burning everything in its box now right now we saw that the films have been pushed away from this barricade that will keep going for the last forty eight hours last night i took a walk here it was all covered with the police now you can see for yourself now that i twigs are again reinforcing their barricades and we literally had to do it. during several of our attempted live broadcasts because it was very very unsafe here right now the police are pushed back we can switch is still here flash bangs exploded and we can still see most of cocktails being thrown the situation is very very tense we do know that the government of ukraine of ukraine has implemented the so-called concept terrorism operation mode which would mean tougher security.

across the country but right now the system you are made it is unclear where it's going to go the right wing the core of the protests their leader said last night that they knew nothing about the jews that they would not listen to anyone not the opposition not the politicians of the government has said that the revolution must continue until the very end we also saw already saw several wounded being carried from this. stand off point here. at the institute's street. what i saw i think it was a gunshot wound the man was bleeding heavily but it's really unclear whether this was caused by a live round or anything else maybe it was a flash bang or anything of the kind so the situation remains still virgins and it's definitely far from being a truce and we've just got more these you know showing protesters armed with more than just molotov cocktails and out of the agency ruptly just sent us this footage from the streets of kiev of the grenada being thrown into

a group of riot police officers and actually when receiving some video footage. wouldn't among police officers one policeman gets injured and taken away by his colleagues several dozen policemen have been injured since the clashes broke out a couple of days ago and more than a dozen policemen have reportedly been taken captive by riot as well 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 and you may find the following the disturbing gist of what a warning. you know me or never scored enough to defeat this guy you put it. on. the bill look at the beautiful country as a vehicle to see a love and yet here place it up next we'll give you. the knowledge that. the islamic water for it to be able to make you feel at

bare feet in the the in. this is a nation and here has a real chance of escalating thought i mean to report that radical accidents have got hold of more than a thousand firearms the arsenal now thought to be have been able to protect this includes the stills rifles machine guns and renee. have ways to prevent the opposition becoming a fully armed and as you can see on this india some writers are already using weapons that our correspondent he says cameraman had been shot at and here's what he told us on the phone. situated right in front in the square basically this is where we were filming the whole situation on my way down from or rooms were on the upper torso of the building over the night they were basically in the morning the rioters they moved back to the hotel so now it's in those all of the

control and we tried filming the cameraman tried to mingle is happening on the other side of the hotel so obviously you were no actual yesterday and he was fired three bullets thankfully the image but if you could just assume that they realized that there was a bullet. in the. fighting . we're really afraid or we don't understand. if we were to evacuate which we should go because apparently they were why for being fired over this building or to . actually covered our windows to. be like this we are being fired at you know we will bring food right there in. what. we in the ok. let's now take a look at the chain of events in ukraine over the last few days it all began when

opposition leaders urged protests just a matter of parliament crowds of demonstrators that attempted to block all take over the building the situation quickly escalated as. it is also trying to storm the office of ukraine's reading policies setting it on fire violence spread across the center of the city that people were killed becoming the first of many victims that the police attempted to disperse rioters but were mad with rocks and molotov cocktails several policemen died in the clashes and let's now take a look at where the protesters and police have been taking a position so by the time the truce was agreed security forces had managed to clear european square and push demonstrators away from governmental buildings however the situation is unstable to say the least the protesters are trying to purge the police box from the independence square and reach parliament and some reports suggest rioters are shooting at the security forces from the music academy building in while german journalist among your oxen writes the believes ukraine's opposition

has lost control of the crisis it helped create. well we should remember that for example of the germany's number one opposition to the dr vitali klitschko looks was already taken 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 in the meanwhile elements who don't listen anymore to anybody who just want to violence and to trust fund riots and to push that so deeply pessimistic that somebody off the opposition could stop this even if you want to. let's not discount the situation in ukraine with political analyst alexander cinnabon of he joins us now live on the welcome to latinas to talk to you so now that the ukrainian government has set aside

a lot of demands from the opposition but the rise is that still on the streets of kiev and the violence continues that do you think there rises won't any truce at. all i think. the final all timid goal of the rioters is rage then that is the capture of power or the protests will not stall and there will be more violence. if the authorities mandated the use of live rounds that will inevitably trigger the response from radicals and we have already seen. some stashes of explosives of firearms and i guess we are now heading in the ukraine in the situation of open our. crisis there will be more casualties there will be more violence i was some countries blame the ukrainian government for violence on the streets of kiev but actually they didn't break the

truce with the opposition tell us more about that. well what's what's again important within this situation like i said in the morning is that some of the leaders of the radical groups or example nationalists i've already said that they don't want to have any talks with the government they haven't signed any agreements with the government and they are not going to. obey orders of fries or the leaders of the incumbent government the president of the country or klitschko yatsenyuk or targeted they are out of control of all of those leaders of the opposition who claim they have control so actually in this situation the very prospect of negotiations between opposition leaders on the government as well seems very very vague because this is not going to bring immediate results and solve the crisis in ukraine right but we are seeing now the rises are using live ammunition

there and throw molotov cocktails as well what's the fine line between protesters and blatant criminals. well actually we are now talking about. militants rather than peaceful protesters because you know they have been using they have been murdering people and this is not the mains to achieve consensus this is not the means to achieve any peaceful resolution so whenever there is a threat to the lives of the ordinary people in the street this is a considered a criminal action so we can no longer qualify and classify those people as peaceful protesters this is actually criminal activity and those on militants that's what we should call them. of course we're seeing a lot of support from the western countries for the rebels for those protest and so

what have you called them brian says. the question is probably best said. few all of the rest thought that well gee if they. have already seen the information campaign launched by the western top notch politicians like carl bildt they present a stolen who has been rich twitting some lying tweets about russian special forces being. used in my done which is false and which has been confronted by the minister of foreign affairs of russia also there is some academic institutions in washington d.c. like brookings institute. jacob talbot already twitted that put news going after georgia maybe not to crimea so this is total nonsense and actually we're now seeing that interference from the west is only fueling the crisis in ukraine and all we're living through more of casualties and they have already announced the possibilities

of sanctions but i believe that they should consider imposing those sanctions on themselves because they are now to blame for the ask the lation of the crisis and for more casualties in the straits of ukraine how would rise of this kind have been dealt with may be have happened elsewhere in europe. well we have already seen germany france and other countries are very strict on on those protesters and had it been happening somewhere in the united states of america for example or in the center of europe i think the protesters would be crushed very quickly because this is the. direct threat to the litter ship of those states and all those european countries we have seen the government did to protesters in athens and greece we have seen what the u.s. government and u.s. police did to occupy wall street protesters when they were dispersed with gas with rounds and in all that the police say in the u.s.

for example they are authorized to use live rounds. against protesters which they already had a chance to to use in the past. alexandersson amount of. live from moscow alexander many thanks indeed for your time weapons shaded. washington was quick to respond to the violence in kiev turned to see new ukrainian officials accused of sparking the clashes on bond now from traveling to the u.s. brussels says it could follow the example from only reaction from america and europe has got to check our. president obama knows what the ukrainian leaders should do we are going to go merrily responsible for making sure. it's dealing with fees for protesters in appropriate ways. 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 head home from the 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 the crane and 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 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 political 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 is quote unquote work in the name of democracy. get a second party. and stephen cohen professor emeritus of russian studies at

princeton university believes the west is fueling the crisis but will not 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 of the molotov cocktails and somebody from the state department going to go on the street and get their names phone numbers and addresses it's provide stress 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 not as the media has played in but but the european williams also made back by russia and you don't have to be highly educated to understand that if that happens this new cold war divide between the two ukraine's on russia's. had decades of instability in the fortune

short for 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 under seven jet traffic of interest foreign affairs at such a chronicle as magazine and here agree is the way prose has have a vote from peaceful settings to violent riots indicates outside interference. we have witnessed brazen hypocrisy from the european union ever since the beginning of this crisis from the phase of demonstrations early on the protests had degenerated into hooliganism in mid december and into terrorism since january nineteenth and we can no longer use the term demonstrators i would rather use the term rebels because we are looking at de facto armed rebellion which to continue listening to the clarion calls from the west and he has also been called by biden

and by kerry and asked for restraint would be simply self-defeating because all of these people are up to no good they want regime change they are interested in a geo political control over the key country in central eastern europe. then rest is not isolated to the ukrainian capital here on this month you can see the main pockets of violence across other regions of ukraine and the western city of the mood has seen congress course at what size does it change the local government and demanded he step down he refused and was chained up in the city's central square while the cranes largest cities laval's radical scenes and then set several governmental buildings on fire and we can go back to kiev now where it isn't the very small hasanah hotel that was raided and captured by a riot says that it's a so we know you were shot to. give us the impression of just how serious the

situation in kiev right now where you are. you can get the best impression of what the situation is like in kiev right now just by looking at me i am in a bulletproof vest military helmet inside a hotel in the capital of a european city this is insane this hotel is no longer a hotel it's like a wartime garrison with dead and injured being brought into the lobby of the hotel the whole several floors of the hotel are controlled by armed men with wearing masks and helmets obviously those on the protesting side the rioting side of this conflict right now one of our crew a producer of our ruptly t.v. agency video agency also reported that he saw snipers of the writing group on the fourteenth floor of this hotel which is seven floors above where i'm standing right now also another producer of roughly video agency got hit by

a shrapnel obviously the shot coming from outside of the hotel and we ourselves just last hour we were getting ready for a live broadcast one floor below from where i'm standing right now and a sniper shot hit the window and hit the wall just centimeters from where we were standing also if we. trying to talk about our personal plight here in key of three of our crew to camera system send and the producer were also captured by the rioters brought behind the scene it only took us a call to the security officials we know in kenya for them to be released now they're in safety but this is the mayhem this is the situation happening right now it was supposed to be a ceasefire a truce which was agreed by the opposition and the government last night but it doesn't look like a truce at all in the morning the protesters there i just started charging at the police and i saw with my own eyes how things unraveled how violent it was with gunshots fired bullets flying we have information of course of snipers okupe buying

rooftops of just about every building around there at the independence square and also information off bodies being piled up in the end an independent square several dozen of them already we have unconfirmed information of at least thirty five dead from both sides so this is not true settles it seems that politics is working at the moment because the leader of the right sector the right wing nationals said last night in an interview that he would not obey any orders from the opposition or from the government he wants the revolution to go until the very end and this is exactly what we see right now in the streets of ukraine's capital this is unbelievable and. he's an expression scanning saying stay safe. and of course we'll be following the tunnel in ukraine for you and bringing you the latest from kiev as well as we get it on and online as well thanks for being.

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 the swiss population's democratic choice to restrict immigration is next to 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.

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