explosions and street fights where government rioters have reportedly been shooting at police and blocking traffic the death toll from the recent violence reaches at least eighty with hundreds more injured. radicals refused to leave the streets despite the deal signed between the president and the opposition on a number of concessions including early elections and a major overhaul of power a right to say they will only accept his resignation. as western powers seem to be ignoring the vast arsenal now in the hands of the protesters as washington slapped a large part of the blame the government.

is r.t. international the twenty four hours a day live from our studios and. we start with the latest news from ukraine where a peace deal has been signed between the president and the opposition its terms include an early presidential election which is to be held between september and december but the radical anti-government rioters are refusing to wait that long as . the reports. but we keep hearing from this stage over here at the independence square is that they want the immediate resignation of the president and some are even saying that the president must go on trial for everything which has been happening in the ukrainian capital in the past several months they laid the blame directly on the country's president the deal which the opposition and the president has just managed to sign is essentially the largest concessions coming from the authorities towards the opposition which include early presidential ballots which include a return to the two thousand and four constitution which essentially gives more

power to the parliament than the president the date of the early election has not yet been set and this is probably causing the biggest concern because of the early election could be held in december twenty fourth which is just a month earlier than they were supposed to be held anyway in january twenty fifteen and this is something which the protesting people here at the my down at independence square up particularly unhappy with and also the biggest intrigue right now is whether the so-called right wing sect the hardcore core of the hard core part of the protests the guys were essentially on the front line shooting at the policemen and driving this whole pavement here whether they will accept this deal because from what we've been hearing from the movement's lead me to the goddess over the past several days that they will not accept any kind of peace treaties with the government and the opposition furthering the concerns that they're no longer controlled by the opposition that they're on their own and there have been clean clear statements coming from them that they wanted the revolution to continue until the very end something i will tell you in my report.

in the early hours of thursday morning despite a ceasefire agreed during the night by politicians right we right has 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. made. mob 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 opposition the there by the west directly so everything went out of control beyond opposition as it is now they want power 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 it's 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 or we're 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 you're going 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 gunshot wounds many of them died snipers were operating a shoot to kill policy. when the sun set on after another day of bitter violence more dead and injured littered the streets and the truce lay in tatters radicals continue to demand a revolution and fight to the end. grain. police have now been withdrawn from the administrative area of ukraine's capital as the government fulfilled its end of the peace deal now the unrest that's been raging in the country since chews day has claimed at least eighty lives that's the official figure and the opposition says the number is much higher eyewitness reports and numerous video showed dozens of bodies lying openly in the streets covered only by in blankets hundreds of also being injured while more than a dozen police officers have been captured by rioters and you can see them being

escorted to one of the protest headquarters so far sixteen officers have been killed and more than one hundred injured he spoke to a former member of the armed response unit of london's metropolitan police force and he gave us his view on the actions of both the rioters and the authorities there in care what we're seeing is a situation that from moved from from protests from conflict into war is really over it would turn to a lot of talk only a commentator into a revolution so i think it's gone beyond that you know if the police will armed in this situation now then i think we would be coming militarized anyone so we are not talking about the usual policing of protests but we're talking of something are much higher level so i think it's probably unavoidable it's gone beyond that point on both sides this is because i struggle between greater forces and minorities are on the street there are great political issues here there are wider implications concerning the democracy and of searcher. on our website r.t.

dot com we've been following the dramatic change in the landscape of the ukrainian capital the once picturesque independence square is shown in contrast to what it looks like now a wasteland cluttered with de bruijn rubble as people pick their way through a raging fires and the people most suffering from the unrest of those who attempt to protest peacefully says derek munro he's from the foreign policy in focus think tank. it is very troubling specific from a political standpoint were the current a difference directions which are probably the most aggressive in an overall phrase are really beyond any control the only control of the people who are really protesting peacefully also people control the major league of opposition parties so it's basically a state of flux of words individual party or faction where it's where there is a. song where that might be their own interests their own mission control and be severally are doing whatever they feel it's necessary for them to

achieve their own goals which are at this point i'm not sure what the goals where you are because it seems to be changed from hour to hour minute to minute. from the capital chaos quickly spread to western ukraine a region traditionally critical of the government the city of laval has been left virtually without a police force most offices including many high ranking ones have joined the anti-government protests as kiev's independence square where at the moment it's impossible to even call the police or report a crime and evolve little surprise then that hundreds of firearms buttons and other rotted military equipment have been looted from a local base and given away to anti government rockets and throughout the west of ukraine radicals have been using guns homemade bombs and improvised weapons to take over government offices. all such behavior has been causing outrage amid some in the east now this part of the country is traditionally more pro russian and has greater support for president in a curve which his government and locals have been organizing against antigovernment

rock has been emerging here to his where the radicals of the city hall and police headquarters government offices were also surrounded in one of the biggest cities. but people's militia squads have been joining forces with the police and they seem determined to fight off the spreading radical threat. when. this idea originated in the minds of our petri it's when there's a difficult situation where nationalist contagion spreads across ukraine when we capture one region after another when they attack ordinary citizens people organize unite and create a structure of self-defense well in the past week in kiev of managed to heavily armed themselves getting a molotov cocktail in the capital doesn't seem to be all that difficult with the weapon becoming a popular choice homemade catapults and bows adding to a medieval appearance to the bloodshed there and writers have even got their hands

on modern firearms with snipers keeping the center of kiev in their sights and forcing up the death toll while all this evidence of violence by the rioters is not enough to sway western politicians the u.s. state department is placing all responsibility on the authorities imposing travel bans sanctions and some officials this follows similar statements from high ranking eve officials they claim it's peaceful protesters who've been taking a battering from the government and urging those in power to take action and curb the violence but russia's foreign minister said the west has added its fuel to the conflict often encouraging extremists in the streets what do stay with us for more news after the break this is r.t. international life here in moscow.

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only three days now remain of the twenty second winter and if we can use dozens of medals are still up for grabs policy given out of all teams such as studio now where kevin and the crew have all the latest on the greatest from the result. yeah hi bill everyone nice to see again the time has flown by as you say in the bell well some good news today for ukraine just now in fact in the mountains of sochi it up to the last hour where women's biathlon team just took the gold in the six kilometer relates to a bit of cheer there for the ukrainians the silver prize in the stanley went to the russians scored just behind their neighbors that adding them to the already high spirits here in sochi where you for your from yesterday is still in the air if you don't know what i'm talking about if you've been talking about russian records for

the first time in history winning olympic gold in the ladies' figure skating that prize going to seventeen year old adelina sotnikova she really fought the odds on that one beating very strong competition including that of a teammate the olympics we tell you lately skier we caught up with the girls right after their performance this is what they had to say to us. i did my best humans and humans all the elements of the program and it wasn't credible to finally see i had scored the most points here however i still can say i can feel the full spectrum of emotions of my victory you know it i've approached the individual program and be more tired because of the team competition but of course i don't regret anything i want to go to live nano now and feel just an amazing is what i believe in was perfect this is truly her best performance i've seen incredible it's not always all up. you know really great showing there was no well three days to go the news was so just still dozens of medals up for grabs the first take

a look at the a general standings as they are right now russia still in the top five the leaderboard largely unchanged though with norway heading of the gold coast followed closely then by kello the u.s. and germany and one of those medals for team usa came from u.s. lucia air in her i'm delighted to say she joins me now ed thanks for coming to the studio i live in a busy time all the rest of the media around the u.s. it before you came to see me congratulations on the bronze medal thank you larry wearing one of those just pretty great that expected kevin of these games so i'm really excited philip take it home is as heavy as it looks it is pretty heavy x. a lot of time going to be expected we don't see a great report and how much work went into that as well yeah i've seen some of the videos that phenomena talking about the work that went into it though the workers into winning it of course you not only were trading up for this for such a long time you're also studying at the same time as well tell us a little about your run up to it yeah you know i have taken a little bit of time off school so i can focus on the games but i definitely will dive right back in and you know it is a lot of work it's a full time job for for me and for the rest of my teammates but i don't you know

it's well worth it at a feels great to finally have one of these when you start preparing for it have fourteen years ago i've been in this far since i was twelve years old so right from the start the olympics is the biggest stage that lose can be and so for us that's really the top of the game so it's often what's response been like back home into the middle credit been pretty phenomenal and from a very small town in upstate new york so i think they're probably still fall writing and and will continue to especially when i get home but family are so proud yes they are and one of the interesting question of never really asked to win this year what about the other athletes here to look at the big green green oh yes or no you know now and out of all you know everyone we understand you know what each each and every one of us goes through to get here and we're all working towards the same thing so i think what we are very competitive we can appreciate what each other is doing and she's not support from them you know yeah no. i heard you saying earlier on you came here in november you saw the state of play here then. you saw the state

of play no no what were your thoughts in november where many of the mountains i didn't see much of the olympic park down out there but when we are here you know there is definitely still a lot of work to do but coming back when we got here on february second i was very impressed you know there is you know so much gotten done and they helped pull that off and they got everything together so it was called the c n n we got up to the mt everest now is the first time well apologies for that we've obviously lost our connection there from moscow to sort she we hope to get back to kevin a little later if we can again many policies for that in the meantime we'll continue with of the news here on r.t. international protesters have been found guilty of inciting mass on rest in moscow

and assaulting police during riots back in twenty twelve the defendants refute the charges and the crowd of their supporters is formed outside the courthouse ortiz reports on what the charge had to say. the courts found eight people guilty of inciting mass riots and using force against the law enforcers the prosecution had been asking for between five to six years in prison while all of the suspects pleaded not guilty the defense was actually saying that the protests could not be classified as mass riots however some of the convicted were actually videotaped while fighting with the police and throwing rocks at them and just to remind you that the big demonstration to place on the sixth of may two thousand and twelve when hasn't it people took into the streets protesting against the violations in the parliamentary elections and the protest that was authorized and peaceful initially turned into violent clashes with police dozens of people were injured

over four hundred people were detained and the a criminal case was opened and twenty nine people were charged now eight of the suspects were released in december as part of a wide amnesty as they didn't use any force against the police and the three other people that have been amnesty only this week the case has really resonated across russia a crowd of supporters gathered on friday in front of the board but the chords and the judge said they will continue reading the verdict on monday at ten thirty almost three quarters of a million hells in the u.k. are standing empty and this at a time when there's a serious shortage of residential buildings what is pretty boy who went to one of london's most prestigious streets that's become a symbol for britain's bricks and mortar crisis. the bishop's avenue in north london is one of the most expensive streets in europe it's been home to saudi

royalty film stars and media tycoon use this mansion is on the market for sixty five million pounds but some of the other properties here tell a different story an investigation by the guardian newspaper has revealed that large swathes of the most expensive part of the street have fallen into disrepair because no one is living in them that's about three hundred fifty million pounds worth of property boarded up and standing vacant but even as they stand derelict these houses are getting more expensive a former pakistani minister bought this house back in two thousand and seven for twelve million pounds it's now back on the market and expected to sell for thirty million pounds and it's a wreck there's nothing wrong with the road it is quite normal to have. maybe table twenty percent of the properties as we call it in the state of flux the ship's

avenue is after all an iconic road which is one of the best known names in the world and therefore it protects your investment it's a status symbol so for most people coming into this country i'm for local bars but ships i took some of the books is but away from the leafy avenue the u.k. is in the midst of a housing crisis homeless charity shelter of warm that house prices are spiralling out of control because of a shortage of affordable housing last year in london alone over one hundred eighty thousand people were on waiting lists for social housing against this backdrop critics say this so-called house hoarding shouldn't be allowed to take place a lot of these things are actually people are borrowing to leave their land banking they're just buying property in london because they think it's a good investment it's not actually a home it's just an investment and that they're just doing it to money and housing

should be the people's homes not just about investing in making money the problem is spreading to other affluent areas of london such as kensington and chelsea even the mare of london has waded in saying that london properties on blocks of bullion which rich often overseas investors can just park their money and councils now have the right to charge an extra hundred fifty percent in tax on homes that are being lived in or rented out but local authorities complain that for the people that are invested in these houses that's just loose change policy boyko are seeing london. as more global headlines this suicide bombers have attacked the police compound near the afghan capital killing at least one policeman and wounding two more is thought the armed gunmen were disguised in burkas destinated advice outside the building before three of them went inside. the taliban has claimed responsibility for the raid. nine al shabaab militants have died after the attack the presidential

palace in the somali capital to government officials were also killed. near the building after militants blew a hole in the perimeter fence with two car bombs seven people were killed last week when an explosion targeting u.n. officials ripped through a busy street near the airport. protests in venezuela against the government have entered their ninth day with activists burning daybreak in the capital that part of rallies dominated by students that has spread to several cities across the country demonstrations turned violent just over a week ago leaving two dead and dozens injured. tony's with me in a team in just over half an hour from now more from sochi in the meantime larry king these guests look at the rumors swirling around hillary clinton and politicking next.

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 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 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. british science. is not on. the. market. find out what's really happening to the global economy for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines two kinds of reports on r.t. . i think. everybody. should you know the price is the only industry specifically mentioned in the constitution and. that's because a free and open press is critical to our democracy allmers. in

fact the single biggest threat facing our nation today is the corporate takeover of our government and our cracks in a row we've been hijacked like a handful of transnational corporations that will profit by destroying what our founding fathers one skill set i'm john mark and on this show we reveal the big picture of what's actually going on in the world we go beyond identifying the problem. rational debate real discussion critical issues facing america i feel ready to join the movement then walk in the big picture. 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 secretary of state and first lady with the authors jonathan allen and amy pond's plus new with hillary clinton journos unveiled coming up next on politicking with larry king. live politicking on 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 in 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 the 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 of a picture to amy what do you mean by rebirth well you know if if it's her comeback story in a way and we think that we're trying to tell a narrative they were she is how to fall 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 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 rises she fall of the pen she rises higher than ever very few unix like me well in a sense john along with i guess george h.w. bush the best qualified person if you run for the presidency forgetting your politics is the most qualifications to run they've done through the job. certainly in a long time as you point out george h.w. bush had a lot of jobs in government cia director been embassador to china but for the most part the country has 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 access we've got all across the board we've talked to people very low level on her campaign all the way up to the top people who like her are people who don't like her and all of that is reflected in them how much time amy with her. we're not really discussing here prefer to larry for the centers for the senate john the book is about her you know going to tell me what they had access to that don't make any sense to me. let me do it this way we had access from the very low wrong to the very top wrong and you can see in the book there are plenty of fresh quotes from hillary clinton about various stages over the last four or five years including her thinking on whether or not to run for president so we might get those quotes was given to you. you can guess as you would

like larry and i certainly wouldn't deny ok amy the biggest revelation book is getting a lot of attention as this book deserves maybe the hitlist she and her staff made ranking supporters after not getting the nomination to designate the jihad did she she had a list of people she liked and people she didn't like true. true what she did was a couple of people on her campaign staff in two thousand a put together a microsoft excel spreadsheet and they kind of ranks the people who were friendliest to them a one and the people who were seen as traitors as a seven and some of those names you might be familiar with larry like ted kennedy for instance john kerry there were claire mccaskill their list goes on and on but there were some people who there who were seen as enemy combatants and people and they're not likely to forget these people any time soon john that is vaguely familiar to.