country to save. rises in the ukrainian capital opened fire on police in the city's center shortly before a promise crisis deal which when the government and the opposition is expected to be made public. the number of people killed in clashes between radical protests and police reaches almost eighty and heavy swath of barricades remain in the center of the city. the rioters may be using lethal force but the e.u. and the uars plays the blame for deaths solely on the authorities we ask on lists of why the acts of the opposition up to that.

international news live from moscow this is r.t. international with me thanks for joining us and we start with breaking news from ukraine this hour where the country's president has announced he'll be calling early presidential elections following the arrest which has seized the country all the details ahead but earlier rioters reportedly breached another overnight ceasefire shooting at police in the streets of kiev and here you can see what the city looks like after a week of the deadly riots saying almost eighty lives have been lost since the end west began on tuesday and that's just the official figure their position claims the number of casualties is much higher eyewitness reports are numerous videos show dozens of bodies lying openly in the streets covered only by a thin blankets the number of those injured is in the many hundreds. of skiis and care for us. well we're waiting for this new peace agreement to be announced 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 in fact we're hearing sporadic gun shots coming from the side of the parliament from time to time meanwhile inside the parliament tension is also very high is 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 treaties 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 peace 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 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 the central kiev turned into a fortress turned into

a battle zone in my report. truth it did not seem like that at all in the early hours of thursday morning despite the ceasefire agreed during the night by politicians right wing rioters made it clear they will not listen to anyone and will not lay down their arms what we have now is that you have a ready cow elements that we have already called. many times more than half which is somehow here and driven by especially as we see using snipers and so on and which is not controlled neither by the the opposition me there by the west directly so everything went out of control beyond opposition i say scale they want cowart they want to take power from a democratically elected government and for a new form. ministers to not be condemning what we have seen this week is

absolutely appalling it's intolerable he it was consumed as the raging crowd 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 definitely suggesting a live round was fired here and later in one of the rooms of aa we found this a 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 you're going to put out this gem with you i just don't get it we've dealt with a lot of wounded people. many of them died snipers were ok to shoot to kill policy. when the sun set on the day of bitter violence more dead and injured looted the streets and exclusively. radicals continue to demand a revolution a fight to the end of which is for now nowhere in sight. from kiev ukraine. and it's. keeping an eye on the latest developments in a crisis a raid in ukraine if you want to be updated on this story you can follow him on his twitter feed where he is posting the most up to date needs from my town square the ukrainian parliament has passed a resolution that would see anti-terrorist operations put on hold and the government forces was drawn from kiev. more than a dozen policemen have been captured by riot says you can see them being escorted

to one of the protest headquarters so far sixteen officers have been killed and more than a hundred injured spoke to former member of london's metropolitan police force on force post unit he gave with haste take on the actions of both rioters and the authorities in kenya what we're seeing is a situation that from move from from protests and conflict into what is really a was turned on a little earlier commentator into the revolution so i think it's gone beyond you know if the police will all be in this situation now then i think we would be coming militarized very wide so we are not talking about the usual policing of protests but we are 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 larger implications concerning the democracy in the final search or. and on our website at aussie dot com we've been following the

dramatic changing careers landscape the once picturesque independence square in kiev is 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 there and from key of chaos quickly spread to western ukraine the region is traditionally critical big pro eastern government and people there showing support for the nationwide riots extremists in some of the largest cities to government buildings by force in the city of lutes corey instance rioters drowned the governor on to a stage and handcuffed him to a metal pole after he refused to step down and he is now what a riot is a time of the local administration with molotov cocktails and sticks that are looted some of the military equipment including hundreds of firearms and bottles only to give it away to people for testing against the government the same happened in another nearby city is made bombs and guns were all used to take control of

government offices. but it was not only western ukraine out on the streets radicals have been gaining control of citizens one by one and be pro-government east including the crimean peninsula and here is protesters are blocking city hall and police headquarters and even here with the support for the current president is historically high rises have a tight security forces government offices were also blocked and one of the east's biggest cities in the tribes 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 some officers from the crimea were wounded while on duty in kiev and they have now returned home and this is what they told above all this so. they can shoot peaceful demonstrations with. stones they provoke that says he.

i was put out four times yesterday i came home and i had no uniform and i just peeled off people are very aggressive many drug addicts drunks those in the front line are under the influence we were not given any weapons or too we were like chickens they had of russia's institute of foreign policy of things the president himself was responsible for how far things have gone. hard over the responsibility lies also on president should he couldn't not know about these danger growing in ukraine and still until now he hasn't been using that they can stick you should know means to preserve the constitutional order of. the president of the country has the duty to defend the citizen to preserve the constitutional order until now oprah's are going to know polish has been evading keeping all this to what we can force has not given them or all the necessary means to protect

themselves and to prepare the big. cities and so few cranes so part of the responsibility is on him as well and rioters in central care of have all sorts of weapons of 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 medieval weapons like cancer polls and both have also made a comeback the rapidly growing death toll surged one radicals got their hands on real fire arms snipers and gunmen now have the center of their capital in their sights but all this evidence of violence by the rioters is not enough to sway western politicians the u.s. state department pulls all the responsibility on the authorities imposing travel ban sanctions on some of their shawls this follows similar statements from the e.u.'s high ranking officials however russia's foreign minister lavrov says the authorities have done all they can to prevent bloodshed. and ukrainian

government has repeatedly shown its goodwill they offered compromises in deals like when they agreed to free those detained during the riots if the protesters vacated the administrative buildings they had captured the government fifth filled its obligations while the opposition eventually disrupted the process. and breaking news story crane's president has called for early elections and says the country will live back to the constitution of two thousand and four that's him more now from our correspondent in kiev alex take it off with the details and say hi that sound how big a concession is this and what it was like oh. well this is so far the biggest concession coming from the president earlier. he basically sacked the prime minister the prime minister's post to the now one of the opposition leaders that was little more than a month ago but now this is definitely the biggest concession i'm reading his statement of the presidential website which was respond this just just minutes ago

he says that he will initiate early presidential ballots although the day for that ballot is not specified also he says that the country will return to the constitution of two thousand and four providing that more authority will be given to the parliament than the president and also he says that he will now initiate the procedure of forming a coalition government which will obviously kind of contain many those of the opposition many politicians on the opposition side definitely this is a big concession but as far as we can hear from the independence square the protesters are not ready to take these conditions they have and they have only one demand after which they will be able to hold some kind of peace talks that is did immediately resignation on the present and also they have been saying some of them have been saying that he needs to go on trial so their mood is pretty much defined as ever we also have information from the interior ministry a little earlier that some of the protesters have broken the cease fire and fired

live rounds at the police next to the parliament building also they have been reports of several attempts to storm the parliament although all these attacks have been reportedly repelled silent confirmed reports are coming on twitter from different sources that a group of around hundred very heavily armed men have disembarked at the independence square presumably come. from the west of ukraine where the country is still in pretty much a full revolt mode we have information that in the town of good at the administration has been taken over so if we can we can definitely say this is not a truce and it's hardly coming to address standstill anytime soon. have skin from the center of the ukrainian capital i'm excited thank you very much indeed for brings us up to date and of course we'll be talking to your mates a gad and for more discussion on that arrest let's now go live to i daresay in eastern ukraine and talk to derek monro who works at foreign policy in focus at washington based think time derek welcome to all see very nice to see here

basically you were in care when the violence and the rest how up in that began i want to make of the protests his actions and the government's response well actually i think before we got this concentrated on the beginning of the violence you have to understand the whole overall the run up to it i was actually there for six days before it is called thing two ways and it was presented this basically by this is really if you pay to the cycles of which is being produced in the square it's itself specifically i think the humanization of the other side not only by simply. but also the degree of radio different movements as well as the creation of this i would say state of siege were which people would be base driven to the ultimate sacrifice it's truly surreal and i think it is very troubling specific from a political standpoint were the current to different factions which are probably the most aggressive in the overall fighting are really beyond any control the only

control of the people who are really protesting peacefully also be controlled in the journey of opposition parties so it's basically a state of flux of words and a vigil party or faction what it's where there is a. growing out will where that might be for their own interests their over mission . control and to be served really are doing whatever he oh it's necessary for them to achieve their own goals which out of this point on one be sure what the goals were you are because it seems to be changed from hour to hour minute to minute so basically you take all those forces behind this current transformation because basically there was a long way from peaceful safe hands in the beginning to a full blown bloodshed to full blown violence that yes there is actually in what also surprised me specifically disappear of the of the effort in order to defend themselves it created a new kind of offense a capacity specifically mobile phone cocktails i've seen people actually bring guns

to to to go out to the plaza itself and also in the review of the quote unquote control over how the media would it would have to rivers and this whole issue we had a situation for example at a press center and try to find a very troubling were some of the interviewers which were provided to the for me actually were not interest him cells but also they quote unquote party activists people who actually work on behalf of the party and simply you know deal with with the function of the image of her on the side for me for journalists of what had the position the person who was actually trying to interpret for me actually got fired and actually she was asleep i was told she was told to basically back to the party and she belonged to so i think there's also a degree of control messages being presented is truly troubling to me because that really kind of distorts the situation into the school who you know the demonstrators are people who are really kind of pulling the strings of. destruction presented by. what the leaders took you know about the ukrainian government being

responsible for the deaths but what about the opposition's actions because and basically what we saw we saw the government's reaction to the actions of the opposition because for us they look like peaceful protesters now they look like radicals on to with that with firearms and so on and so forth well i think they should a little bit more calm. ok because i think you're dealing with the situation here we're in traditional function itself because it's all common command and control system here and everybody simply is interested in specifically in their own different aims which actually also represents regards it actually also presents itself with a lot of a lot of the infighting for example there was that it was some situation with ministry of justice where one group who must problem was ousted by slobodan with fighting and good luck should be the injured both sides so that's not necessarily a situation here we're there simply the united front against the government itself but it's also a lot of fighting within the groups themselves and it seems to me that there is

really. i would say have no control over over the demands or what wall they would be in order to bring the whole situation to do some kind of positive conclusion and i think both u.s. and european union this point actually is playing extremely cynical and the game specifically when a country is really kind of verging to what many commentators including myself and save the civil war. have been a there's a real challenge of the country breaking out well yesterday. which is the problems of the west actually the governor announced that actually there would not be taking orders from the central government which in itself can be actually taken as a defacto declension independence for all practical purposes so you know there are also prophecies which grows and she told her and seven different places so it is really a very dangerous situation that can really escalate to to the level of need to know for sure title civil war and yesterday it was and then they reported by the polish media stating that i think officials from the from the eastern poland they're expecting local hospitals to make sure that they're ready for any kind of influx of

all the crime in the refugees from you know through the polish border so it's really truly a situation which is i think really troubling and it really needs to be result peacefully so so it doesn't get a lot of control and more and then have faith will be resolved peacefully well terry come on report at full foreign policy in focus life from my desk dark thank you very much indeed thank you. so scenes of all was blazing barricades people on fire as well as the dead and wounded being carried away from the streets over to our dot com you'll find some of the most apocalyptic images from care of that have shocked the world. break with news from that went to an imperfect canvas hole stay with the story from

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a pleasure to have you with us you're on our team today i'm real researcher. this is saying to the national welcome back to russia celebrating another and big fast of the twenty four seen salcha games. perhaps surprisingly a gold medal for argentina softening away in the women's individual figure skating has become russia's first ever be bent and all the breaks for the games which has said success and expected places for the host nation and her father has said.

it was a stunning victory but also a major upset because if they could ever manage to defeat south korea's by ina 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 false 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 in the hollywood script both on and off the ice if you remember it all started with the early gold medals in the pairs and team event 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 that she had to leave sochi and train 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. so it's a new day of competition and giving more ask charles to ride then they made history

and with special coverage we'll be telling you all about it throughout the day. the g. twenty four dean promised to be cultivated an exhilarating winter more than our team a team join me and he's in our make over now and the rest of our located news team for sochi twenty four take. on ott. now look at some other news making headlines around the world demonstrators most his children's burn tires and ford police across venezuela throughout thursday when it was a show leader has called on president to or to design illegal groups that often attack anti-government rallies so far six people have died in protests to demand the government resign over the mishandling of the country's oil rich but struggling economy. your entry of banking moon has the international community to sound three

thousand more troops to the central african republic christian militias are continuing attacks on muslims trying to leave the capital peacekeepers from france on the african union have so far failed to tackle sectarian tension a country which some fear could slide into chat site. fly a transit route to vnukovo report your best way to the heart of moscow. the

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a rat. chewing through faulty wiring that calls the cooling system to malfunction but honestly considering that three hundred tons of the contaminated groundwater are already seeping into the ocean every day according to japan's own government i doubt this latest mishap will make many waves in the corporate media so if you don't think journalists are putting nearly enough pressure on world powers to come together and fix this catastrophe and join me let's break that. it was a. very hard to take a. look. at her. with that her right there.

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