transit routes. your best way to the heart of moscow. rises in the ukrainian capital opened fire on police in the city center shortly before promised a crisis deal between the government and the opposition is expected to be made public. that sounds the number of people killed in clashes between radical protesters and police reaches almost eighty and heavy smoke and barricades remain in the center of the city. the rioters may be using lethal falls but the e.u. and the you want lays the blame for dads solely on the authorities and we ask analysts why the acts of the opposition are overlooked here. this has nothing to do about democracy as they keep talking about this is all we business.

and welcome to our team to national life from moscow my name is you know. joining us. and we'll start with breaking news from ukraine radical protesters have reportedly again opened fire on policemen in one of caves main streets it comes as the country waits for details of a peace deal agreed between the president and the opposition they says won't be historic sent all the ukrainian capital looks like right now following this week's deadly clashes there so almost eighty lives have been lost and the rest started on cheese day that's just the official figures the opposition claims the number of casualties is much higher i witness reports and numerous videos show dozens of bodies lying open in the streets covered only by famed blankets the number of those

injured is in the many hundreds and off he is an expression of scale is able to go live here with us from here hi there any idea how these new outbreaks of violence could affect the prospects of a peace deal they include. well we're waiting for this new peace agreement to be announced any time soon and reportedly it will contain conditions like a return to the two thousand and four constitution providing parliament with more authorities down the president and earlier presidential ballot at least a month earlier than they were supposed to be held in january next year but they will be held in december according to the new peace treaty but we cannot talk about any truce in fact right now i'm reading the euro my down twitter account which says that at this moment the local administration the west of ukraine that is the city of good has been taken over by the protesters we also have information coming from the interior ministry that the protesters the riot just have broken the cease fire

and have opened fire on the police in kiev next to the parliament building i can confirm that i've heard several loud banging sounds within the last hour in fact we're hearing sporadic gun shots coming from the side of the parliament from time to time the interior ministry reports that have been several a term. full of the protestors of the right just to get inside the parliament but all these attempts have been repelled meanwhile inside the parliament tension is also very high as all there's already been something of a fistfight inside the parliament where they're still trying to agree on different new conditions for the peace treaty so definitely it is far from settled i just literally minutes ago i passed through the independence square just to listen to what the people are saying that both from the stage and inside the crowd the protesters are saying that they will not accept the new condition the new peace treaty which is about to be announced they want only one thing the main demand is

the resignation of the president the large chunk of the crowd is also demanding that the president must go on trial also there are reports although i can say it's confirmed reports that the mostly twitter reports from different sources that a group of at least one hundred heavily armed men supposedly from the west of ukraine have disembarked at the independence square at the barricades and it's hard to say what their intentions are but we cannot say it's calm here it's definitely a very very tense way despite what is nothing happening right here now in the hotel ukraina nearby whilst twenty four hours ago i would even say exactly twenty four hours ago in the very same room where i'm standing right now our crew was shot at by snipers this and many more details of how one of the oldest hotels in central central kiev turned into a fortress turned into a battle zone in my report. truce

it did not seem like that at all in the early hours of thursday morning despite the cease fire agreed to in the mind by politicians right wing rioters made it clear they will not listen to anyone and will not lay down their arms what we have and i want is that you have a right because i alamance that we have already come. many times there. which is somehow. driven by especially as we see using snipers and so on which is not controlled by the in the opposite the there by the west directly so everything went out of control beyond opposition as they say they want 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 it's absolutely appalling it's intolerable he it was consumed as the raging ground and police trying to hold them back exchanged our 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 with 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 put out this gym with you i just don't get it we've dealt with a lot of wounded people mostly with us many of them died snipers were operating

shoot to kill policy. when the sun set on t.v. if after another day of bits of violence more dead and injured littered the streets and exclusively in tatters radicals continue to demand a revolution and fight to the end and which is for now nowhere in sight. looks you researched you aren't. you great. in kiev keeping an eye on the latest developments and crisis region in ukraine if you want to be updated on the story you can follow him on his twitter feed where he is posting the most up to date news from my down square. the ukrainian parliament has passed a resolution that would see and to terrorist operations put on hold and government forces was drawn from kiev more than a dozen policemen have been captured by rioters and you can see them being a school to one of the protests headquarters so far sixteen officers have been killed and more than one hundred injured spoke to

a former member of london's metropolitan police force on response unit and he gave us his take on the actions of both rioters and they also were. what we're seeing is a situation that's moved from from protests and conflict into worley really have was turned to another form of commentator into the revolution so i think it's gone beyond that you know if it's a place we'll all be in the situation now that i think we would be coming militarized very wired so we are not talking about the usual policing of protests but we're talking of somebody a much higher 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 searcher. on our website dot com we've been following the dramatic change in caves landscape they want to speak trask independence square in kiev is shown in contrast to what it

looks like now a wasteland claassen with debris and rubble as people pick their way through a raging fires but it wasn't like when the protests first started again a church account looks now at how a once peaceful sit to end evolved into unarmed conflicts on the streets of. before there was blood there was peace nov twenty first fifteen hundred people gathered to protest the government's decision to hold off on an integration deal with the e.u. marchers hopes are high on independence square november thirtieth riot police try to clear the city's center the result half a million descend on my don protesters build barricades clashes with police intensify. rioters seize buildings see including the city council thousands of ultra nationalists march on new year's day to call for action the government hits back with anti protest laws slandering government officials is now

a crime and putting up tents without official permission is banned there is a surge in opposition violence weeks of clashes follow. february sixteenth hope emerges of a peaceful end to the crisis as the president orders the release of detained protesters but the next day the head of a neo nazi group calls for activists to storm parliament rioters torched parts of the city the first dead bodies begin to appear many more were to follow in the coming days in the span of just a few days death and chaos reigning king live. from kia chaos quickly spread to western ukraine the region is traditionally critical of the pro eastern government and people there showing support for the nationwide riots extremists in some of the largest cities that to government buildings by force and this is he of lewd ryan has drawn the governor on stage and handcuffed him to a metal pole after he refused to step down and he is now laval where rioters the

target the local administration was molotov cocktails and sticks there were looted some of the military equipment including hundreds of firearms and batons only to give it away to people protesting against the government the same happened in other nearby cities homemade bombs stones and gowns were all used to take control of government offices but it was not only western ukraine out on the streets and authorities have been losing control of cities one by one in the pro-government east including even the crimea peninsula and he is now heidecker of protesters are blocking city hall and police headquarters and even here with his support for the government for the current president is historically high rioters have a tight security forces government offices that were also blocked in one of the biggest cities deborah petrovsky and the crimean supreme council despite people expressing support for the authorities is now saying it could break away from ukraine leave the bend of the revolution and some officers from the crimea will

wounded while and shooting here and they have now returned home and this is what they told about what they saw. you know we've taken this from protesters they came to a peaceful demonstration with axes and stones they provoke throw things at us. i was put out few times yesterday i came home and i had no uniform and just people go people are very aggressive many drug addicts drunks those in the front line are under the influence we were not given any weapons or to. the head of russia's institute of foreign policy things the president himself is partially responsible for how far things have gone. part of the responsibility lies also on president from what you going to call the truth he couldn't not know about these danger growing in ukraine and still until now he hasn't been using the constitutional means to preserve the constitutional order and. the president of the

country has the duty to defend the citizen to preserve the constitutional order and until now president you know for this has. given all this to what we can force the north given them or all the necessary means to protect themselves and to prepared because food seated in cities and so few cranes so part of the responsibility is on him as well. and let's now talk to a senior fellow at the european council on foreign relations stuff and my sister who joins us now live from berlin mr meister welcome to r.c. very nice to see you here so european countries as well as the you are basically condemned and blame the ukrainian president the ukrainian authorities for the riots for violence there but what about the rioters who are actually not peaceful at all because they throw molotov cocktails and throw grenades and they are today have firearms. sure you have proof you have publications on both sides and

the problem is because of the in a scene of the president and because of violence from the side of the official order of the official side there is an increasing violence also and on the opposition side and these groups they play more one more important role as long as this conflict is going on my impression is that opposition leader has lost long time ago any control but i think this is a provocation from both sides and i think it's on the on the official site to stop this to some extent. but doesn't this one sided approach from your point to you by the west send a dangerous message because young called it well whatever with think about him good or bad whatever but he is a democratically elected leader he was a democratically elected leader with. his government and his force of state and i

think he lost his legitimacy because people have been killed also on the wrist and this is in the responsibility of the president tried to so i think he has to step back this is the only solution for this conflict and they have been earlier elections and i think this has been as soon as possible right but actually what started as peaceful protests are no longer peaceful protests is because those people who started as you know is just protesters they tend into violent aggressive and riot says and now what happened is it turned into a massacre destruction unleashing. i think will be of service is kind of a civil war you know where this is a war of of people against the gulf but yeah we had snipers from from the official site shooting people people have been killed so the reaction is that the press if the opposition is getting more and more powerful getting playing

a more more and more important role on the opposition side and civil civil solution it's becoming more and more difficult but i see the main folder on the official side than on the side of the demonstrations opposition leaders they always try to do to have taken protests but they couldn't control any more people because they responded to what the officials did meanwhile getting all of each has not promised an early election and has made many concessions to the rioters but they just want him gone immediately but if that it takes to write for a compromise don't you think i think it's pretty late for early elections in the end of the year on monday i think it would be no problem but until we have now this blot on the hands of both sides but this escalation of the conflict i think it's just a people want to go to see him out of the office and that's really a problem how to to to bring it in

a civil process and i think shown only election is the only option the question was when and how fast he will step back but protesters are using of course violence as the main instrument to get what they want breaking the truce and attacking police can violence ever be the onset in a political crisis. it should never be the answer in a political crisis but but i think. the government they missed a moment when civil and peaceful solution would have been possible they always put oil in the fire when it seemed to be possible. so i i see just the reaction on what happened from the from the government side and i always against any weiland but yeah we have to spear all of firelands we observe the spirit of ireland and we have responsibilities of on both sides sure sure yes of course when you say that you have a call that has lost his legitimacy but do you see any candidate to replace him to

succeed him i think this is at the moment not really to point to point at the moment is that there are only elections and that the opposition coming candidates which exists and maybe also a candidate from from the mind on movement can take part in free and fair elections i think this is this is important and then we will see who will win the elections but i cannot but there might be also a candidate from the government from the government campbell from the party of regions we have different parties in so i think it's mainly a question of early fair and free elections then we really really replace it absolutely too many questions too many maybe's but as far as we all know that ordinary people all the people in ukraine basically beg for calm and order that. have been my step from the european council of foreign relations and mr minister thank you very much indeed for that. scene's blazing barricades people on fire as well as dead and wounded being carried away from the streets over

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this is all seem to national welcome back. russia is celebrating another olympic first of the twenty forty in sochi games. perhaps surprisingly a gold medal for a dinosaur by in the women's individual figure skating has become russia's first ever in the band another breakthrough in games which have set success in unexpected places for the host nation and her father has city's health. it was a stunning victory but also a major upset because if they could ever manage to defeat south korea's yuna kim but also stepped in to save the day for russia after union 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. player like every coach wants his effort 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 and that gold medal does count remarkable olympic games russian figure skaters but it has to be said they have gone through more twists and turns than a hollywood script both on and off the ice if you remember it all started with the early gold medals in the pairs and same events but then we saw you get the play shank of the veteran having to pull out of his individual event with a bad back and then we saw the rising star fifteen year old sky fall during her individual event and many people are saying that was because she was buckling under media pressure she shocked to stardom after that fabulous performance in the team event but then after that the media scrutiny was so intent she felt she had to

leave such cheek and shine in moscow before returning to try and get a medal in the individual event which of course did not happen now on twitter many people have been speculating that simply you've been putting too much pressure on young shoulders and that's why she filed and of course while we're talking about this it does reassert russia. as a powerhouse in figure skating but there have been other breakthrough sports that these go from russia to particularly short track speed skating where they got their first gold medal in that just a few days to go and going for more medals in that school today russia a victory and bloody good gordie. and it's a new day of competition in sochi today giving more athletes a chance to ride their name in history and without a special coverage will be telling you all about it throughout the day. the g twenty four gene promises we call to make an exhilarating winter was in our team eight here join me and it's an hour and make every now and the rest of our

located news team for sochi twenty four take. on arts. now look at some other news making headlines around the globe demonstrators mostly students bond tires and ford police across a nice well a through our service day one of position leader has called on president maduro to design illegal groups that often at times anti-government rallies so far six people have died in crowds to demand the government resign over the mishandling of the country's oil rich but struggling economy. yuan chief ban ki moon has urged the international community to send three thousand more troops to the central african republic christian militias are continuing the types of muslims trying to leave the capital gang good peacekeepers from france and the african union have so far failed to tackle sectarian tension in the country where some theory could slide into trance. under more news for you in about half an

hour and right now larry king and his guests take on the issues that matter in u.s. politics. and. transit routes even you could report your best way to the heart of moscow.

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 and that is a lot of people and the swiss are worried that the increased foreigners will also mean increased crime rent prices burden of 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 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. here we couldn't have a hit list and will she use it in a possible two thousand and sixteen white house bid inside the revealing new book about the former senator kerry's date and first lady with the all those jonathan allen and amy plans plus new a hillary clinton journos unveiled coming up next. on politicking with larry king.

i. love digging i'm larry king it's a pleasure to welcome from washington the authors of the new book h r c state secrets and the rebirth of every clinton bloomberg white house reporter jonathan allen and amy parnes the white house correspondent for the hill newspaper john how did this book come about well larry we thought voters were going to be interested heading into two thousand and sixteen and what hillary clinton had been doing for the last four or five years as secretary of state of course she got some attention but not in real depth and we thought going back and looking at that record starting at the end of the two thousand and eight campaign and following that rise back to political problems we give them an idea of how she makes decisions who she puts

around her and of course how she might govern if she was present in the united states so we went about reporting that we talked to more the two hundred people for this book and we believe we've got a revealing and intimate portrait of a woman who may well be the next president of the united states great friend come up pictured to amy what do you mean by rebirth well you know this is her comeback story in a way and we think that we're trying to tell a narrative there were she has had to stop for a few fall for the course of her career the first being when she was pushing health care under her husband's administration then following the monica lewinsky scandal and then the two thousand and eight the brutal two thousand a primary campaign we thought she had a really interesting story to tell how she kind of drives it she faltered but then she rises higher than ever very phoenix like me well in a sense john along with i guess george h.w. bush. the best qualified person maybe if you run for the presidency forgetting your politics has the most qualifications to run they've done through this job

certainly in a long time as you point out george h.w. bush had a lot of jobs in government cia director of an embassador to china but for the most part the country's been electing governors people who come from outside the political process senator obama had only been in washington for a few years not the kinds of qualifications of being an eight year senator secretary of state first lady this sort of harkens back to the early days of the republican terms of the types of experiences that leaders had of course none of them were first lady unimaginable at that point that you would have a woman so close to running for the presidency and so close potentially to being a major party nominee or actually within the presidency amy how much jack says did she give you. we've got quite a bit of access we're not comfortable really discussing the people we need to talk to but we are very happy with the acts that we've got all across the board we've talked to people very low level.