best way to the heart of. more than a dozen people have reportedly been killed in the ukrainian capital today as on drivers break a truce with the authorities and attack police all she's crew was caught up in sniper fire at a hotel at the very epicenter of the violence also. more of a real. fear of. militants resulting hostage taking stealing weapons and conducting kangaroo courts as the crisis starts to resemble a war all sources say they could no one try to counter terrorism response. dealing with peaceful protesters. but the u.s.

and believe you've turned a blind dying to a big problem bringing rigs by the rioters calling on the government to end the bloodshed that's despite opposition leaders admitting they have no control over the radicals on the streets. this is o.t. international coming to you live from moscow i'm going to have a lot on main story now and we start with breaking news from ukraine street battles in the capital kiev have reportedly claimed more than a dozen lives on thursday bringing the dasd toll to at least forty so as the start of the week witnesses say dead bodies us troon around the city center erupted again after rioters broke a shaky truce with the government which had only been established hours before radicals have since taken control of several buildings in kiev including the hotel

where our correspondents have been staying season executives have ski is there right now. you know wearing a bulletproof vest and a helmet inside a hotel in the capital of a european city 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 the broadcast we were fired 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 what we have information that at least a dozen bodies is 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 spin off by the 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 when i went inside the zone i went on a live broadcast and minutes after that the assault by the right wing sect of the so-called white wing sect started i went down there in the thick of the action i now 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 cease fire but in the morning the right wing sect the core of the protest the hardcore radicals decided to go on the offensive from the independence square which generally looks like a battle zone right now almost seventy two hours of fighting burning everything in its boss no right now we saw that the police have been pushed away from this barricade they have been occupying 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 the right wing's are again reinforcing their barricades we literally had to dodge

bullets during several of our attempted. live broadcast because it was very very unsafe here right now the police are pushed back we can switch is still here flash burns exploded and we can still see more of course just being thrown the situation is very very turns we do know that the government of ukraine has implemented the so-called counterterrorism operation mode which would mean tougher security across the country but right now this is you are made it is unclear where it's going to go the right wing sector the core of the protests their leaders said last night that they knew nothing about the truce that they would not listen to anyone not the opposition not the politicians on the government they said that the revolution must continue until the very end we also saw already saw several wounded being carried from this this stand off point here at the barricade 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 by a live round or anything else maybe it was a flash bang or anything of the kind so the situation remains still very tense and it's definitely far from being a truce. several hundred policemen have been injured since the clashes broke out a couple of days ago many of them have gunshot wounds and the agency run place and this footage of two police officers trying to help an injured colleague they are attacked with what looks like an explosive device all flash bang grenade meanwhile according to the interior ministry the police are only armed with no only so munitions. more than a dozen policemen have reportedly been taken captive by the ryan says some of them were wounded and we've got footage of one man who needed and the rioters apparently refused to call one when they recognized it was a special forces officer and just a word of warning you might find the following media disturbing.

going to. get a beer. when you're. i mean then going may have the foreign ministers of france germany and poland are reportedly staying clear of to meet with president unocal bitch and let's go live to. the reaction from europe high that has us so it's a busy day for easy diplomats isn't it. yes indeed it is an emergency meeting has been called here in brussels where is the twenty eight four and

a ministers of the e.u. bloc will be meeting but they are waiting for their colleagues the a german a french and a polish foreign ministers who are currently in kiev meeting a with the ukrainian president over there there were earlier reports that they had actually flown out and cancel the meetings because of security reasons but in the end that they had actually stayed and they had witnessed some of the chaos and violence that's been going on on the ground over there as are they going to me get a call vision a few other government officials tell us far sanctions are concerned that is a main goal of the meeting here in brussels that they want to decide whether or not to go ahead with imposing sanctions on ukraine they they may include asset freezes or travel bags of certain individuals that they deem are responsible for the violence that's going on the ground right now over there now the e.u. has refrained so far from doing that for making such a move but there is a growing consensus that sanctions are indeed coming out some of you a diplomats and a ministers have been asked whether you have a call that should be included in any of the lists which is should sanctions be

imposed they said unlikely. because they want to keep open communication lines but as it stands right now they're waiting for for their colleagues to come back here get some feedback and see how they can move forward. and test some will see the main on human behind imposing sanctions on the ukraine. well the main argument everyone here keeps saying is that they want to see an end to the violence that's happening on the ground and one of those options they see is of course imposing sanctions however there are always questions when it comes to sanctions on how much impact it will have on the ground as if the foreign ministers leave the country are already witnessing the chaos that's going on around there the foreign minister of russia sergei lavrov had actually likened sanctions to to blackmail he said and there are some four of their saw leaders who said that they actually do not have control of the violence going on in the streets and the leader of the far right group has said that they're they are not going to be involved in any truce between

the president and other opposition leaders there's nothing to go shake they say so while the goal over here is to see an end to the violence and hold those accountable people accountable responsible for the violence it could be a very different story on the ground in kiev. in their reporting there live from a brussels tasm many thanks indeed. mr alexander said the ban of believes at this point some of the protesters must be reclassified as minister rick wright. we are now talking about militants rather than peaceful protesters because you know they have been using they have been murdering people and as this is not the means to achieve consensus this is not the means to achieve any peaceful resolution so whenever there is a threat to lives of ordinary people in the street this is a considerate criminal actions so we can no longer

a qualifying classify those people as peaceful protesters this is actually criminal activity and those on militants that's what we should call them some of the leaders of the radical groups for 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 little result of the incumbent governments their president of the country or pledged co yachts and. they are out of control of those leaders of the opposition who claim they have control and john isner com has been closely following the crisis in ukraine and feels the protest is a nothing but two and a game of regime change there. it's quite outrageous that we've got the u.s. which has been bankrupt these writers need to be funding them because of all of that it's been orchestrated. they're encouraging them to set fire to kiev and to

try to take power and yet they're literally ukrainian government saying oh no account must you actually fight back or try to restore order this is fascism recorded what it is if this it had to be in washington if people are writing in washington government building setting fire to a political party headquarters all over trade union exporting for example then i think you have thousands killed by the u.s. will correct you to look at the violent ways they broke up the occupy wall street count which was a peaceful protest and so it's actually going to no doubt in my mind that the rioters get involved because they know they've got such quarter of the most powerful nation on the planet the u.s. and the e.u. they are not and these violent rioters they're not condemning the violence from the right is only condemning the government response to it and so i think that they are the people who are fueling the situation and they've got blood around here because it's only because the rioters know they have the support when the u.s. knew that it was embolden them to to to to stand up this and to try to topple the

government of the ukraine german journalist money also writes a believes ukraine's opposition has now lost control of the crisis as its health creates. 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 that they of course they choose their leaders as the leaders say what they want to hear and we shouldn't forget that they are different protest groups and they are of course with him 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 it's a deeply pessimistic that somebody off the opposition hooks even if you want to. talk will be back in a minute as well as more news from ukraine. why

this specific tendency of seeking out negative stories about russia and what could be more negative than the possibility of terror attack when it comes to western media there is 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 instead look at the way the russians on occasion violate political civil and human rights in combat in. august.

we speak your language. news programs and documentaries in spanish what matters to you breaking news a little too much of angles stories. for you here. in the spanish. visit. this is our senior national and breaking news about the situation in kiev right now and at the moment we can go to school a political scientist but how sure while come to our see very nice to talk to you right now earlier this hour we actually heard from our correspondent in brussels

about possible sanctions. from the e.u. do you think that imposing sanctions on key it would really influence the ukrainian standoff. well the sanctions cannot influence the situation there i mean they cannot bring an end to violence on the streets in new york right in no one controls those who commit violent acts i mean the people from the radical wing of the opposition who are responsible for what is going now in the streets in kiev not control neither by by the opposition either of course by the government and as far as i know most of the governmental forces are kept let's say i mean the military forces are still get outside of kiev outside of the capital and this means all what is going to there are means that the government does not control anymore the situation in the central the ukrainian

capital does this sanctions cannot influence any any decisions and can not influence the whole situation there on the streets this sanctions would of course impact first and foremost the oligarchs and that's that's a paradox be because most of the oligarchs like you've got a. good middle few of us now supporting the opposition so the sanctions i wouldn't have an impact it would be rather a kind of be our activities showing the european union is willing to and trying to do something to total let's say in the somehow. negative or mental so you can see in the ukraine is that dangerous that western support for the riots is actually you reading the crisis that. well first and foremost we have to trace back the whole situation the whole history of

the conflict and what we can say for sure is that most of the diplomats most of the politicians in the west and some of the western politicians did not only talk to. let's say the moderate systemic opposition like school payouts and york but they have also maintained close contacts with those radical right wingers running the right sector or and other organisations who do which are now responsible for all the violent acts in which means that they may have encouraged them and legitimize they are give you peace there on the ground which is quite of course strange because you know any and all for european union countries in every one of european union countries the activities activities of openly now nazi and ready militant groups would be banned in the case of ukraine i guess

that the politicians from european union did not expect our did not. know was that the situation might come out of control because what we have now is that we have a ready. elements that we have already. done to mob there which is somehow this feared and driven by especially as we see using snipers and so on and which is not controlled neither by the opposition neither by the way directly so everything went out of control but of course in the main source of the main reason of strengthening of the ready to lead elements was let's say the very polarized or even the supportive position of several western politicians who did not bother to. they're sold themselves surrounded by the right sector people by

the ready calls. that main squares of key of c. is in three months meanwhile barack obama as the ukrainian government should treat peaceful protesters as he said appropriately is it still the case. well i guess that barack obama or at least his advisers. movies from from radio recordings from ukraine and from the streets of ukraine just to see the militant opposition activists running away with weapons and so on and so it's it's just ridiculous to say about the patel about peaceful opposition now in kiev because as we see now there's no one representing the peaceful opposition taking part in the in the in the you know what is happening now on the streets of kiev on the streets of kiev we now have the minute under

a position which would be called in every civilized country. terrorist kind of terrorism opposition and opposition supporting our local methods opposition taking care that police man and even the peaceful let's say peaceful population and he had been solved as had been had tagged by those that say peaceful opposition from several to several days and weeks so we cannot tell that the opposition is peaceful and to see that we just need to do see some videos or some videos from. people who actually knew that violence and maybe done too much of the schools kept it funded from your consent. this is not ours thank you very much indeed for sharing your views with it and this is very clear what has been father graded by reports that ironical rises have got hold of more than a thousand firearms reports and footage from the scene suggest they now have axes

to pistols rifles assault rifles on grenades and so she's a looking at ways to prevent the opposition becoming a fully armed force and weapons are totally being used against the please and we can go live to our correspondent he is going on for the update on the situation that right now in kiev hi there you go. give us a heads up of the situation by will ya. well just in the last hour or so the situation seems to have quieted down a little bit we've heard much less shots being fired outside of the hotel where we are now it's right in front of independence square oh my don where most of the action was happening these previous days but now the hotel is in the epicenter of this whole situation and while really live rounds have been fired by ball scientists and this whole trial basically we've had to fly into the rooms especially on the top floors because there's speculation that rebel snipers have

occupied the top floors there were also reports that some of the snipers occupied the same rooms where a cameraman t.v. cameraman were positioned so that sort of de facto means that they that way have been calm themselves as the media but i guess that's stopped now since everybody really inside have covered their windows and just basically this is while this is a live position where we are reporting we have to report from this position now but i have taken cover at least behind this and because there's no right now no shots being heard coming from the mine done but there are reports that the rebels of the of the rioters rather have. got their hands on firearms and different types of weapons in large amounts and while. but opposition have called on president putin the courage to stop distributing firearms to their swat teams who have been basically fighting these are rioters really this is like

a war zone right in central idea of even though it's calmed down at this minute no one knows where they're going to restart again also we know that the riots are continuing you know other ukrainian cities including. in the south this particular hotel where we are based has been the fully occupied by the a rioters and the first floors has been turned into a makeshift hospital where the injured are being brought and they're treated there . we also know. least one hundred injured with bullet wounds from firearms among the police who are also being treated by doctors . is going off reporting there live from kiev you are thank you very much and stay safe oceans response to the situation has been to bond twenty seen in ukraine officials from traveling to america but there's also going to take our polls the

u.s. may only be seeing one side of the story i president obama knows what the ukrainian leaders should do we are going to go for a fairly responsible for making sure. it's dealing with fees for protesters in an appropriate way. president obama has however made no suggestions on how ukrainian authorities should deal with rioters torching the city shooting beating and sowing molotov cocktails at police. neither has he called for the so-called peaceful protesters to wait for elections to express their aspirations as he would at home on 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 calendar authorities in ukraine need to make space for a transitional government of national unity and early elections in order to bring back the missie of national authorities. to. washington and brussels are considering sanctions against ukraine the u.s. has already barred a number of ukrainian 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 we're going to challenge them next next time around washington may stand up for democracy in words or that it is the people themselves that make those decisions and that's what the united states will continue to strive . to achieve. but behind the scenes u.s. officials are apparently trying to decide who should be in the ukrainian government

and who should not go i don't think leetch should go into the government i don't think it's necessary i don't think it's a good idea in terms of they're not going into the government just let him sort of stay out in doofus tradable homework and stuff. it makes me wonder if bombarding the police with molotov cocktails and shooting at them is also part of the opposition's quote unquote homework in the name of democracy get a second party. or bring in races from kiev as we got says up next are its walls apart.

trends arrow to vnukovo report your best way to the house of mosco. 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 naturally 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.

oh and welcome to worlds apart telling picks are supposed to bring people together but the sochi games provided for some very odd bedfellows western media and terrorist in the north caucasus both claim the competition shouldn't have been held in russia and both was probably like to see turn into a major embarrassment is it a case of the enemy of my anime being my friend well to discuss that i'm now joined by gordon hahn a counterterrorism expert from the jews to teach it forecasting corporation 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 a possibility of something like that happening like for example in munich and nineteen seventy two or in atlanta nine hundred ninety six but whenever an attack

happens on a friendly territory the narrative that's beget 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 the games for some reason the line that's been most often hear here in russia from western media 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. i think it's a combination of both on the one hand. one can argue that you know holding the games so close to a region where a. 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.