best way to the heart of. and of mayhem in the ukrainian capital the number killed in clashes between radical protesters and police reaches seventy five as rioters contre more ground in central kiev. extremists armed with assault weapons are firing live ammunition but the ukrainian parliament decides to withdraw our police from the streets and stop the counter terror operation. the writers may be using lethal falls above the e.u. and the uart splays the blame for death solely on the oil storage fees we asked alice why the acts of the opposition are overlooked. this has nothing to do about democracy as they keep talking about this is all we do is that.

this is r.t. international coming to live from moscow hello and welcome to the program. heavy black smoke burning barricades and bodies the historic center one of europe's most beautiful cities now resembles a medieval war zone this is kia the cheering a resupplied following days of deadly clashes between radical protesters and police in the ukrainian capital now control the area around independence square and have captured a number of buildings and these are the latest pictures from kiev right now you can see them now so it's believed they use the rooftops of some of those buildings to targets police with gunfire almost eighty lives have been lost since the unrest started on choose a day and that's just the official figure the opposition claims the number of

casualties is much higher eyewitness reports and numerous videos. showed dozens of bodies lying openly in the streets covered only by a thing blankets the number of those injured is in many hundreds all she's korea has been at the very epicenter of the violence and alexei give cesky reports they descend into chaos that. druce it did not seem like that at all in the early hours of thursday morning despite a cease fire agreed during the night by politicians write we writers made it clear they will not listen to anyone and will not lay down their arms what we have now is that we have a radical elements that we have ready. many times there which is somehow here and driven by especially as we see using snipers and so on and which is not controlled neither by the in the opposition the

there by the west directly so everything went out of control beyond opposition as it is now they want power what they want to take power from a democratically elected government and for a new foreign ministers to not be condemning what we have seen this week in kiev is absolutely appalling it's intolerable kiev was consumed as the raging ground and police trying to hold them back exchanged fire crew even got caught in the middle of it at one point so this is our day started in kiev who were trying to do a live shot for one of our live positions were getting ready when somebody fired a sniper shot from the window breaking the glass and hitting the wall you can see for yourself this is definite suggesting a live round was fired here and later in one of the rooms of aa we found this seven sixty two bullet for some time the hotel located next to independence square became a fortress under siege windows and walls were riddled with bullet holes and snipers

from the protest movement occupy the top floor while the lobby was turned into something else altogether and this is not your typical hotel lobby now its reception desk is a makeshift hospital where the injured and the dead have been brought here all throughout the day i'll ask one of the doctors what exactly had to deal with here during the day your game is going to. with you i just don't get it you know we've dealt with a lot of wounded people. many of them died snipers were operating shoot to kill policy. when the sun set on after another day of bitter violence more dead in the streets and the. radicals continue to demand a revolution and fight to the end which is for now nowhere in sight. from. the ukrainian parliament has passed a resolution that would see the terrorist operations put on a hold and the government forces withdrawn from kiev more than

a dozen policemen have been captured by rioters and you can see them being escorted to one of the protests headquarters as many other officers have been injured and some were denied medical help after falling into the hands of protesters and he spoke to a former member of london's metropolitan police force response unit and he gave us his take on the actions of both the rioters and the. what we're seeing is a situation that's moved from protests and conflict into really really a was to do a lot of commentator into the revolution so i think it's gone beyond you know if the police will all be in this situation then i think we would be coming militarized very wide so we're not talking about the usual policing of protests but we're talking of something are much oil level so i think it's probably unavoidable it's going beyond that point on both sides this is because i struggle between greater forces of minorities are on the street there are great political issues

here there are void repercussions concerning the democracy in the foreign service or. on our website aussie dot com we've been following the dramatic changing careers landscape the once picturesque independence square in kiev a shown in contrast to what it looks like now a wasteland cluttered with debris and rubble as people pick their way through a raging fires and we can now see and go live to our deaths in eastern ukraine and discuss the latest events with nicolai petro from the department of political science at the university of rhode island mr petro welcome to r.c. is so a at this point also people on the streets of kiev fighting for and what are their demands. well one continues to hope that it is not just the extreme radicals but that there are still people there who are hoping to be with the government in

a go she added political solution and if indeed the political opposition political opposition reach an agreement thanks to the e.u. thanks to the intercession was also. the former russian human rights. chair or you were lucky and it was now and you if they do reach an agreement that this will indeed suffice to. lead to an end to the violence in the street but does the rebels actually controlled by the political opposition of ukraine that's always been the question on the one hand. the answer to that question seemed to be yes. as far as a brewery seventeen away and the amnesty agreement was reached with

members of the with the leaders the political opposition and an exchange was made for amnesty in return for the liberation of the. occupied government buildings but it lasted only one day and why it lasted only one day i think has to be a large measure attributed to the actions that were undertaken by militant groups in the streets do you think parliament has made the right decision by withdrawing the riot police from the streets. as far as i know and i may not be fully informed yet because i haven't watched the ukrainian news this morning. what we're talking about is yesterday's session extraordinary session of parliament which passed resolutions with a quarrel but without the majority of them out of the party of regions present.

the legitimacy of the decisions made will no doubt be called into question when the entire parliament convenes fully and in addition to whatever laws were passed. they have signed a motion that was the majority parliament. the majority of the full parliament or of the majority of the quorum of the congress for it becomes a technical parliamentary issue i saw one of the leaders on the of the. party regions faction on television i mean there last night he didn't. he did not approve of what was happening but if that is the decision of parliament. then we'll see what effect it have we don't know what's the way out of the crisis from your point of view should the government just surrender to the riot. i think

the optimal solution would be for the political opposition the official political opposition of the government to agree to an interim government of national unity but one of the key points of. trust each other in this sort of negotiation and arrangement is that both of these parties of the government as well as the opposition have to distance themselves from the radical elements of the street political opposition particular has been relying on these radicals to push through the roof aleutian forward i think it's time to show statesman like leadership and to avoid and to distance themselves from the radical elements that they're not going to allow ukraine to fall into an abyss professor petro development of political science university of rhode island mr petras thank you

very much indeed for your time lepper shit thank you. an hour from kiev chaos quickly spread to western ukraine the region is traditionally critical of the pro eastern government and people there are showing support for the nationwide riots extremists in some of the largest such as that government buildings by force and the city of lutes crunches the drug the government stage and front car came to a metal pole ne to step down also in the laval where riot has at times the local administration with most of cocktails and sticks they then looted some of the military equipment including hundreds of firearms and the battle was only to give it away to people protesting against the government the same happened in other nearby cities homemade bombs stones and guns were used to take control of the government offices. but it was not only west. in ukraine out on the streets authorities have been

losing control of cities one by one in the pro-government east including even in crimea and his hierarchy of protesters are blocking city hall and police headquarters and even here where the support for the current president is historically high rioters have attacked security forces government offices are also blocked in one of the east the biggest cities in the proper tosk and the crimean supreme council despite people expressing support for the authorities is now saying it could break away from ukraine in the event of a revolution they had to russia's institute of foreign policy things the president himself is partially responsible for how far things have gone. truce is not what they're looking for looking for the national revolution as the lead do of the extreme. right wing right sector says the have been dreaming about this moment for a long time they have been giving forces and actually part of the responsibility

lies also on president should he couldn't more about these danger grown in ukraine and still until now he hasn't been using the constituent means to preserve the constitutional order and. the president of the country has the duty to defend the citizens to preserve the constitutional order until now president you know for this has been the scene given all this to what we can foresee has north given them or all the necessary means to protect themselves and to prepare victories for. cities and so if you're growing so part of the responsibilities on him as well. as the central kiev have all sorts of weapons in their arsenal the following footage showing how the opposition has become an armed force speaks for itself stones and most of cocktails have become a common sight in the hands of rioters medium. well weapons like cancer polls and

bars have also made a comeback their rapidly growing death toll surged when radicals got their hands on real firearms snipers and gunmen now have the center of the capital in their sights but all this evidence of violence being employed by the rioters was not enough to sway western politicians the u.s. state department puts all the responsibility on the authorities imposing travel bans sanctions on some officials this follows similar statements from the e.u.'s high ranking officials on. reports on how the situation in ukraine looks through the eyes of the west. foreign ministers here in brussels have agreed to a targeted sanctions on individual states think all responsible for instigating the violence in the country now those sanctions would come in the form of asset freezes travel a visa bans and ols so a ban on export of materials that could be used they say for internal repression this could include to riot gear or military hardware as well however no names were

mentioned and the details were scarce so the actual implementation of these sanctions and action catherine ashton the foreign policy chief in making this statement have put the responsibility squarely on the shoulders of the ukrainian government in taking the lead in ending the violence on the streets but prior to this decision there happen several foreign ministers who would like a foreign minister who had said that some members of the protest leaders should also be included in that list and that's what we're hearing some of the corridors here in brussels it seems also that the e.u. is waiting to see what happens as a continuing discussions happening between the german french polish foreign ministers on the ground there speaking to both sides they want to see how that develops and it seems that they're positive that there's some sort of compromise that could come out of that possibly a transitional government possibly by the end of the year but if you remember the president of ukraine says that he is opening open a two holding elections action first of all from russia has been very strong on

this foreign minister sergey lavrov has likened the sanctions to blackmail and he said this is a form of bullying and the foreign ministry had said this is a way of the e.u. trying to get ukraine back into its into its fall and here's what else the foreign minister sergei lavrov had to say in this. government has repeatedly shown goodwill they offered compromises in the deal when they agreed to free those detained during the riots to protest is when he came to the administrative buildings there the government fifth fillets. all the opposition eventually just did the procession on the other hand are british. minister william hague had said that it is wrong to call the protesters terrorists because they are simply people who are seeking a better future for themselves however he said all sides should turn away from violence but again like catherine ashton he had put the blame and the leader squarely on the a shoulder said the ukrainian government. and there was spoke about the west's reaction was general celebrity a trance full cost and publish all the trends journal if things the u.s.

is trying to mask its beauty economic interests i would like to read you a quote by senator john mccain who is in ukraine in mid december so i put this all into perspective this has nothing to do about democracy as they queue talking about this is our only business and he makes it very clear here this is this is about the future you deserve a future in europe a future of peace with all of your neighbors the free world is with america is with you i am with you so they're talking about business deals here and that's all this is about. scenes of a war zone blazing barricades people on fire as well as dead and wounded being carried away from the streets overall and calm you'll find some of the most apocalyptic images from kiev that have shocked the wild.

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this is all seen to national welcome back. russia is celebrating another limbic stare at the twenty fourth such a game is perhaps surprisingly a gold medal in the women's individual figure skating has become russia's first ever in the band and now the breakthrough in games which have seen success in unexpected places for the host nation that's now talk to us he's and your family here is live in sochi for us either algeria so russia was hoping for gold invasive

and but they way that turned out to be a surprise what. they're that's very true it was a stunning victory but also a major upset because if they could manage to defeat south korea's yuna kim but also stepped in to save the day for russia after you lipsky fell for a second night in a row but certainly given managed to stay as cool as the ice under her blades to claim that historic gold and afterwards we spoke to each. and every coach wants his that lead to be the best especially in special competitions like the olympics had a long hard journey for her to find herself there were tears and falls but shoulders got up and she found her way because she has real fighting spirit. what that goal does count a fabulous olympic games russian figure skaters but it has to be said they've gone

through more twists and turns the hollywood script both on and off the ice it all started with the yearly gold if you remember in the pairs and team event then we saw that from new guinea pushing to have to pull out of his individual event with a bad back we then saw the rising star you didn't scarf fall during her individual event sparking much speculation that she was buckling under a lot of media pressure and that accumulated after her amazing performance in the team event to such a degree that she had to leave saatchi and head up to moscow to try and get away from the media glare and many people believe perhaps that was their. reason for her falling two nights in a row and then out of nowhere stop mciver pops up unexpectedly to put in the performance of her life to apply that historic goal that of course is russia's first in pick gold in women's figure skating although we'll see plenty more i'm sure of these two youngsters many more lympics to come we do have to remember this is the last time we'll see you get the push and get he is now retired but he does

leave sochi as one of the most decorated figure skaters ever and of course all this reasserts russia as a powerhouse in this sport but while we're all eulogizing over figure skating you have to remember that russia has also made breakthroughs in other sports new sports including short track speed skating it got its first medal in that a few days ago look at the names of victor on and bloody me good gordie at because they do go for more medals for russia in that sport again today that's very exciting indeed his and her farm life i'm sorry many thanks. how long after the winter olympics roadshow rolls out of town sochi well still have a lot to offer visitors although some of the attractions will involve one mind to leap of faith as our say is not interest found out.

hold on to your hats this is such as you've never seen before. a.j. hackett bungee has been stretching mine since ninety six starting out to bed zealand in pursuit of the ultimate adrenaline buzz almost three decades and two point five million bungee jumps later the company has set up shop in russia boasting the world's longest pedestrian suspension bridge and the world's highest swing facilities are aimed to impress this is by far the most inversions project was ever done. by far the most interesting in the most beautiful we've already done some private jumps from the sixty major germ that feels wonderful. and we normally opening opening to the public some time later in june this year and so it will be. an adventure in the trees here

and so it becomes really the world's biggest adventure playground with spectacular views of the black sea in the caucasus mountains the park will also have russia's highest bungee jump at two hundred meters as well as chief giant flying foxes that will catapult white knuckled guests across the gigantic goal which. is what a shame it is closed i really would have liked to have jumped off yes really i just look at the view absolutely incredible i miss is the flying fox station where thrill seekers will be catapulted across the valley here at a staggering one hundred and sixty kilometers per hour for. the centuries old ritual has changed dramatically from the days of jumping off trees attached to a vine leaves the technology is different now but the process of leap of faith stays the same taking people right out of their comfort zones and i think it's.

once i've seen this summer this new addition to the world of adrenaline junkies and extreme sports will only add to sochi spotlight on the international map they just might not be for the faint hearted. party. well it's need to have competition and so much of course getting more actually it's a chance to ride a name in history and without a special coverage will be telling you all about it throughout the day today. the g twenty four team promised to be able to meet in the exhilarating winter well it's an easy journey and he's in no way a make over though and on the last of our look at news team for sochi twenty four take. on r.t. . a russian pilot being held in the u.s. prison reportedly remains seriously ill after pressure from moscow it was given

a medical examination but received no farther treatment for what his lawyer says could be a potentially serious heart condition he's in a situation reports. an update in the case of russian pilot constantin your shine co who is serving a twenty year prison sentence in a new jersey jail for conspiring to internationally smuggle drugs and delegation spearheaded by russia's consul general in new york after three official requests following red flags raised about the health conditions of the russian citizen visited the man in jail despite official requests from moscow the doctor of the russian mission to the u.n. in new york has so far been denied a visit to the prison citing system regulations as the reason for. judging simply by constantini or shingles appearance visible that he has suffered from a serious infection which has added on to the chronic illnesses that he already had due to huge efforts to administration of the four dicks prison finally turned its attention to the numerous written and spoken requests of the russian to provide him

with medical assistance he or she was given an ultrasound on monday of this week and on tuesday a basic medical exam including an electrocardiogram none of the results however or their diagnosis have been provided to your show or the russian consulate despite numerous requests prison doctors keep insisting that there is no reason for concern this kind of response is not satisfactory according to constantin himself was extremely concerned about his health as well as the russian delegation and you. of course the medical exam that was conducted cannot be described as a full and qualified in this regard we will continue working with the prison authorities to provide constantini or shan't go with medical help. your schenkel was arrested on a sting operation conducted by u.s. officials in liberia in twenty ten and became the first russian to be sentenced to two decades behind bars for an intent to commit a crime in a third country he had never stepped foot on u.s. soil and has no criminal record anywhere else in the world and r.t.e.

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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 with 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 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 dissent fred.