transit route. your best way to the heart of moscow. more than a dozen people have reportedly been killed in the ukrainian capital today brian says break a truce with the authorities and attack believes his crew was caught up in smiler fire in a hotel at the very epicenter of divine and. real. live . lives in this resort to hostage taking stealing weapons and conducting kangaroo courts as the crisis to resemble a war so much to say they could no longer afford pound terrorism response. to. dealing with stress properly. but big you are some of the view turn

a blind diet of the habit being awakened by the rioters calling on the government to answer the bloodshed that's despite opposition leaders at me saying they have no control over the radicals in the street. international news live from moscow this is also international with me. and with start with breaking news from ukraine the song rioters in the capital are trying to force their way towards the president's administration now gunfire and explosions are being heard in the city center meanwhile officials are demanding the militants one hundred in their weapons and return to protesting peacefully the interior ministry has issued a warning saying the police have been given lie weapons and are now authorized to use them if the tox radicals are now in control of several buildings in kiev

including the hotel where our correspondents have been staying and is and care for us right now. i am in a hotel in a european city in the capital in the very heart of it and i have to wear a bulletproof vest and a helmet simply because it's unsafe moreover i can tell you that i cannot give you a good view of the independence square which is just over there because it's unsafe to be in front of the windows just couple of hours ago we were getting ready for our live shot and someone fired at us the bullet hit the gloss and hit the wall literally centimeters from where we were standing we don't know where that bullet came from who fired it but we do know that that side right now this side of the square is occupied by the protesters moreover the hotel where i'm standing right now is ok by the by the protesters by the rioters they have set up something of a sniper point at the fourteenth floor of this hotel we managed to capture these shots our guys from roughly t.v. video agency that managed to film those riotous firing their sniper weapons from

the windows of the fourteenth floor of this hotel in fact this hotel now is the front line looks pretty much like a wartime garrison makeshift hospital was made on the first floor with the dead and the wounded carried inside i've seen scores of protesters dozens of protesters carrying firearms controlling the law be on several of the floors the talk of the town right now when you just heard it from the stage at the independence square that the emergency situation stay the emergency state in the country is now back on the table it may be implemented within the next several hours we also heard that most of the roads leading into the city of kiev have been blocked one of our crews cannot get into the city of the just arrived to the airport there nobody is taking them and they're saying all the roads are blocked at the moment so this is not true said all despite what the government on the opposition managed to agree last night of the cease fire the right wing radicals say that it's they're not obeying the any kind of laws they're not debating any orders from any sides they want the

revolution to go on until the very end i went down there in the thick of the action on our file. of 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 sector 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 path now 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 can still hear flash

bangs exploded 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 may have 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 from 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 and at the institute's k. 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 by a live round or and 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. street battles in the congress have reportedly claimed more than a dozen lives on thursday bring the death toll to at least four since the start of the week witnesses say bodies us churn around the area the bloodshed erupted one rioters broke a shaky truce with the government which had only been established hours before and out of the agency this footage of two police officers trying to help an injured call made and here you can see them being pushed an explosion of some sort more than ten policemen have been killed since the clashes broke out a couple of days ago several hundred officers have also been injured. and political analyst alexander said the brunt of believes at this point some of the protesters must be reclassified as militants that 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 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 considerable criminal actions so we can no longer qualify you classify those people as peaceful protesters this is actually criminal activity and those are 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 have any talks with the government they haven't signed any agreements with the governments and they are not going to. obey orders of fries or the little result of the incumbent government their president of the country or. they are out of control of those leaders of the opposition who claim they have control. more than a dozen policemen have reportedly been taken captive by the rioters they seen being

lined up and taken to the militants camp some of them were wounded and web tain footage said to show one man needing an ambulance but the rioters apparently refusing when they realize he's a special forces officer and you might find the following video disturbing. no you. get the beer. lover near where we. live. and i may be ongoing mayhem the foreign ministers of france germany and poland have rob stop that talks with the ukrainian government and all seems to has more now on their way out in front of europe now

tessa's so won't have the ministers been discussing that. all the ministers are in the middle of discussing though whether or not to impose sanctions on ukraine everybody is here now is safe for disagree foreign ministers of germany france and poland who are in kiev and they will be giving feedback to the ministers were here in brussels and in order to decide how to move forward now there are initial reports of some sort of a compromise has been reached with the article which and some are suggesting that it could possibly involve. stepping down at the end of the year old though if you remember a previously had a call which it said that he is open to holding a snap elections if this is the only diplomatic and democratic way of resolving the ongoing conflict in the country now as far as comments here are concerned that the general consensus is that the government the equation government has to take a good leader whether there are

a few of the ministers and diplomats who are saying that they like the dutch foreign minister who is saying that they could possibly consider imposing sanctions as well on some of the protesters not what those sanctions are there could be asset freezes travel bags and possibly some sort of an arms embargo so we. have yet to see where they are headed as some have been very vocal about imposition of sanctions while others have been very measured. as well. while the visit of the german for french polish ministers. got to see first hand the ground there in fact their meeting had had to be moved to a different location has been reported earlier because of the violence that had a rapid however there are also reactions coming from the russian side where sanctions are concerned russian foreign minister sergei lavrov said that this move because up until now the e.u. has not made such a move at this move today is

a form of bullying he said that this he likened to sanctions to some form of blackmail and he also said that a trade and government has already delivered some of the concessions let's listen to what he had to say on this matter. just the crimean government has repeatedly shown its goodwill they offered compromises in deals when they agreed to free those detained during the riots if the protest is vacated the administrative buildings they captured the government filled. all the opposition eventually just to the process. condemnation here from all the foreign ministers on the ongoing violence on the ground but we also did hear from the british foreign minister william hague who said that it is not right to call the protesters terrorists that they are simply people who are looking for a better life but he also said that all sides must turn away from the violence or whatever did put responsibility squarely on the ukrainian government to take the

lead on this. live from brussels tests and many thanks indeed. a long way ukraine's conflict drags on the more powerful. the radical opposition becomes. a professor of history at oxford university. maybe we could go ahead so new york feel that they can ride this tiger to par certainly i hope that they've tried to use it to in a sense the western backers have to every time the other coaches make concessions far from calming a situation that is a. revival of violence and i think what we're seeing is an attempt to inch by inch to force a change of regime the problem is that it's taken longer than perhaps the opposition hoped for and at the same time this is imposed and empower the radical right wing paramilitary groups and so we have to offer ourselves whether even if president of the code which was to step down this rush would lead to a peaceful solution would we not then see infighting amongst the opposition we saw

that after all in similar circumstances in georgia twenty years ago when there was a kind of push like this took place and it took four five use for the political situation settle and then eight years later there was another similar so-called people probert rather five or top evil. washington's response to the situation has been turbine twenty has seen a ukrainian officials traveling to america but has also has granted to take our reports the u.s. may only be seeing one side of the story. president obama knows what the ukrainian leaders should do. verily for making. dealing with stress in an appropriate way. president obama has however made no suggestions on how ukrainian authorities should deal with riders 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 under different circumstances you don't like a particular policy or a particular president. then argue for your position go out there and win an election. european leaders don't seem to want to wait for elections either all but calling for the ukrainian president to step down the ukrainian authorities are by to lose all legitimacy the kind of forages 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 oh 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 accept the results of

a legitimate election and working 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 treatable homework and stuff. it makes me wonder if i'm barking the police with molotov cocktails and shooting at them is also part of the opposition's quote unquote homework in the name of democracy. going to check on. the situation here has been father rated by reports that radical rioters have got hold of more than a thousand firearms reports and food to troll in these seas suggest they now have

access to the stalls of rifles a full blown aids just horses are looking at ways to revenge the opposition becoming a fully armed force and also use a gold piece cannot has more now in the situation your please give us the latest also you seeing around you. well the front line has now moved further away from our hotel and from independence square where most of the action happened before especially in the last few days now allegedly heavily armed a riot or. trying to storm government buildings located nearby for a few hours this whole tel basically became the center the epicenter of the fighting we couldn't leave. the building for a while since it was just under a constant fire apparently from both signs and one of our cameraman tried to feel

what was happening on the side and almost got a bullet. right in his camera he has it on video when it just when it hits a little bit lower than the camera and then just a ricochet off the wall thankfully it didn't hit him then another cameraman. a ruptly news agency a bullet also went through. the window and ricocheted off the wall and sort of skid off his. vast and my colleague. right after i finished doing his live report in this exact same room then a bullet went exactly through that hole over there which you can see there so that's why right now we're all still wearing bulletproof vests while we're inside and. hoping that it could help if anything such happens and now we know that ukrainian authorities have now given the green light

for riot police and forward police to use live rounds and the leaders of the ukrainian opposition have been calling on the authorities not to distribute the i mean ition to the police but we also are getting reports that the rioters are also heavily armed as well so even though. it seems to be much more calm than it was just a few hours few hours ago in this part of town definitely the tensions are still very high and like i said the rioters are now aiming to control government buildings and riots and similar events are happening pretty much in many other parts of ukraine and well clearly it's not going to stop this tension is not going to come down any time soon. because i have to be very careful that i stay safe is going to fly from kiev you very much indeed for that report and all the following

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gas and energy giant total is getting down to business in the u.k. apparently brushing all of the current the concerns of the locals off the south us with those more is to the head of the companies gas and power division. these think it's fair for the public in the u.k. who are concerned about shared gas exploration and fracking. that france has banned this and our government pushing ahead with this clearly but two different countries of different different views that. we. will be giving you well it's also fracking is going to. do we have been speaking about if quakes and. of course some of this is pretty bad but we do go through it with people you do it like you can treat thing the problem for

a lot of people who live in the communities where fracking could take place if their plans are already sort of going forward so the decisions being made essentially whether they like it or not all of what has been decided to do exploration but we really need to have the proper permits you know to start the exploration successfully. we are far from really should you should know where we are going to put. the green the six more closely you heard in that interview there are no guarantees when it comes to shell gas despite the u.k. government pushing ahead with exploration plans far from being questions gold and gas when it comes to shell gas exploration the consequences long term remain extremely unclear from international petroleum week and sarah first before sing for us. to some normal level headline is right now protesters in this spanish city. valencia have burned effigies of police officers before finals and marched through

the city angry at a government changes to abortion rules two people were reportedly arrested under the new legislation women would only be allowed to have an abortion in cases of rape or if there is a serious risk to the health of the fetus or the mother. ongoing clashes between opposition activists sunrise police have now left five people dead in venezuela a local beauty queen was the most recent victim of the violence reached the battles continued in the center of the capital as the opposition movement kept up its called the government to resign tensions have original caracas after a leader of the demonstrations hundred himself into police on tuesday. hundreds of protesters have gathered in thailand outside the headquarters of the company links to the family of the prime minister they're calling call people to boycott of the businesses for protesters and a police officer died in clashes on tuesday in the wild violence those protests

began at the end of last year opposition activists had held protests have a demand the premier to be replaced by citizens council. it was obese a pill to swallow for many russians to watch their red machine stall lose in the men's hockey to fill and there's hope yet for the hope audience the ladies sort of figure skating has just begun and that russia's going all out for sport on the podium more now with. a big decision for us how the pole so could be two medals for the russian side in this case and today is that hoping for too much. well it's been a relatively comparatively quiet day here at the twenty fourteen winter olympics but russia do have hopes for a least one medal possibly two in the figure skating competition which is just

concluding this evening all eyes are on the ice skating concludes with the free program in the women's individual competition and going into the final round. of all of russia is in a silver medal positions he's currently in second place but she's only north point three of a point behind the leader so there are real hopes that she could secure the gold medal elsewhere. the fifteen year old of course she's going into tonight's program in fifth place after the disappointment in the short program yesterday where she actually stumbled on the job of collecting a medal slightly trickier she actually scored seven less points than she did in the team event when she helped russia win gold on the first weekend of these games so all eyes are on those two russian competitors who are taking to the ice a little bit later as you say that competition is underway but has been a comparatively quiet day here in. the latest medals and you can see that

it's norway who lead the way germany the usa and russia not far behind russia up into fourth place now norway currently have ten goals to their name eight for germany seven for the usa and the host nation have six. all right paul thank you very much indeed for that. live from sochi. breaking to set is up next a very short break stay with us. 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 is populations democratic choice to restrict immigration is naturally being blasted by the e.u. brass with 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.

everyone i mean martin and this is breaking at the set so if you're like everyone else i know you've probably spent the last couple days watching the entire second season of the best show ever not on t.v. house of cards not only is the show brilliantly scripted directed and acted its entire premise is based on the dark underbelly of d.c. politics the backhanded deals the bribes the cover ups and the political elites complete contempt for us peons but that's not all and also displays how politicians use the corporate media to peddle their narrative is clearly the writers of the show been paying attention to what's going on behind the scenes of american politics far beyond what shown on the m.s.m. spoiler alert if you haven't watched season two yet cover your ears i was so happy to see a mention of internet activists bear brown the man facing one hundred year sentence

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