the if we. look at the. ukraine president agrees to make concessions to the opposition including early elections and constitutional reform parliament even approves a law that would allow the former prime minister yulia timoshenko to walk free from prison. guards as another day of explosions and street fights right here where anti government riot has reportedly been shooting at police and blocking traffic the death toll from the recent violence has reached at least eighty with hundreds more injured. in western powers seem to be ignoring the vast arsenal now in the hands of the protesters as the washington slapped a large part of the blame on the government.

this is our international we need twenty four hours a day live from our studio center here in moscow and we start with the latest news from ukraine where a peace deal has been signed between the president and the opposition now its terms include an early presidential election which is to be held between september and october and december i should say and the parliament has now also voted in favor of a bill allowing the country's jailed former prime minister yulia timoshenko to walk free or despite all this the radical anti-government rioters are keeping up their fight and they're now vowing to start an assault on the parliament on saturday morning unless the president steps down. reports but we keep hearing from this stage or 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 . 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 who were essentially on the front line shooting at the policemen and driving this whole haven here whether they will accept this deal because from what we've been hearing from the movement's lead me to get us

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 cease fire agreed during the night by politicians write we write 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 already come up many times from up 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 direct. so everything went out of control beyond opposition now

they want power they want to take power from a democratically elected government and for a you 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 how our day started in kiev we were trying to do a live shot from 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 around the 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 put out this gym with you i just don't get it we've dealt with a lot of wounded people. with us many of them died snipers were operating 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 continued to demand a revolution and fight to the end well if the last several days have been sensational in terms of the level of violence we have seen in the streets of today is certainly sensational in terms of political things happening inside the parliament in the latest move the parliament has decriminalized the article of the country's criminal code. which landed unity machine for the former prime minister into jail for seven

years she's already spent two years of all the abuse of power now effectively she may go free some people are saying here on the ground that the defendants where the . future president of ukraine is now will now be released back from prison and also there are many other important laws have been passed by the rudder by the parliament today such as aiding the families of those who were injured in those protests from both sides from the side of the police and the side of the protesters it's also a meeting that things are looking really grim for the ruling party because we have already had reports that many deputies several dozen deputies have defected from the ruling party to the opposition well police have been withdrawn from the administrative area of ukraine's capital as the government fulfilled its part of the peace deal the unrest that's been raging in the country since tuesday has claimed at least eighty lives now that's the official figure the opposition says

the number though is much higher than that eyewitness reports numerous videos show dozens of bodies lying openly in the streets covered only by thin blanket of hundreds of also being injured now more than a dozen police officers have been captured by rioters and you can see them being escorted to one of the protests headquarters so far sixteen offices of being killed and more than one hundred injured when i 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 in kiev. what we're seeing is a situation that's moved from from protests and conflict into raleigh's really have was turn to another commentator into a revolution so i think it's gone beyond that you know if the place we're all doing this situation now then i think we would be coming militarized any white so we are not talking about the usual policing of protests but we're talking of something

a 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 in the finance etc. 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 any police force because most officers including many high ranking ones of joy in the ad government protesters on kiev's independence square at the moment possible to even call the police or report a crime in the valve as a surprise and that hundreds of firearms battens and other raw to military equipment have been looted from a local base and given away to anti-government rioters and throughout the west of ukraine radicals have been using guns homemade bombs and improvised weapons to take over government offices. such behaviors been causing outrage amid some in the east

now this part of the country is traditionally pro russian and has greater support for president in a covert chinese government and locals have been organizing against antigovernment relatives who've been emerging here to note here is where the radicals have blocked the city hall and police headquarters government offices also were also surrounded in one of the east's biggest cities in their proper troughs the people's militia squads have been joining forces with the police and they seem determined to fight off the spreading radical threat. this idea originated in the minds of our petri it's when there is 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 rioters in kiev 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 and homemade catapults and both are adding to a mediæval appearance to the bloodshed and violence writers have also got their hands on modern firearms with snipers keeping the center of kiev well and truly in their sights and forcing up the death toll while all this evidence of violence by the right is not enough to sway western politicians the u.s. state department is placing all the responsibility on the authorities imposing travel bans sanctions on some officials and this follows similar statements from high ranking e.u. officials they claim it is peaceful protesters who have been taking a battering from the government and urging those in power to take action and curb the violence russia's foreign minister said the west has added its fuel to the conflict often encouraging extremists in the streets well 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 debris and rubble as people pick their way through raging fires and the people most suffering from the unrest of those who attempt to protest peacefully so says derek munroe he's from the foreign policy in focus think tank. it is very troubling specific from a political standpoint where the current to different factions which are probably the most aggressive in an overall fight are really beyond any control the only control of the people who are really protesting peacefully also people control the nature of the position parties so it's basically a state of flux if it weren't individual party or faction what its load of whether there is a still left for a good how or whether that might be for their own interests or over mission command control and that they serve really are doing whatever they feel it's necessary for them to achieve their own goals which of this point i'm not even sure what the goals really are because it seems to be changing from hour to hour minute to minute

. this is all to international life in moscow more news for you after this short break. transit route to vnukovo report you'll best way to the heart of mosco.

eight protesters have been found guilty of inciting mass unrest in moscow and assaulting police during runs back in two thousand and twelve the defendants refute the charges and a crowd of us supporters is filmed outside the courthouse and he's done a push cover reports on what the judge 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 these 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 of people took into the streets protesting against the violations in the parliamentary elections and the protest that was also arised and peaceful initially turned into violent clashes with police dozens of people were injured over four hundred people were detained and the criminal case was opened and twenty nine people were charged now eight of the suspects were released in december

as part of a why the stay 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. a little more than two days now remain of the twenty second winter olympic games though dozens of medals of still up for grabs in the posture of the ortiz sochi studio where kevin and the crew have all the latest and greatest from the resort. whoa everyone what a night it has been over my shoulder the bolshoi serena don't if you can see it probably not. really the lights all over at the moment says canada one american ill over my shoulder than a biting semifinal america facing canada and the canadian fans ecstatic tonight

that game finished just a minute or two ago because canada won i guess one nil also an amazing shows for russia as well three olympic medals two of them gold the country therefore now in second place in the overall rankings with the highest medal haul in modern history it's been great going those two gold medals both coming from a short track of where speed is at it again victor and when the five hundred meter sprint and then a mere hour later led his team to victory in the five thousand meter men's relay he's been such a star here for russia four medals for him three of them gold in these games what a performance that just after the home side won silver in the win six kilometer biathlon relay an event in which the ukrainian team despite the turmoil at home one gold so our congratulations to all of them as well of course now another first for russia it's also one of limpid gold in the ladies figure skating the prize going to

seventeen year old adelina sotnikova she really fought the odds on that one beating very strong competition including that of her teammate the olympic sweetheart yulia need skier artie's rich of our porfiry caught up with a champion to hear her impressions. i corrected you on the russian championship in twenty twelve then you had to wait switching gears for you short of the olympics was it hard for most of us. it was very hard i've had some very tough moments in my life but i prepared really well for the start and it everything i was supposed to. not only remember you've been the leader of the russian skating team now he's also you don't know who has won a year on your championship you know what he means or titian did this will take some pressure off of us means dublin of course and of us i mean you know i didn't feel any pressure at all because i didn't read anything i also wanted to perform in the team competitions but eventually i had set a goal to win a medal in the individual program and it cost one.

so heading into just two days to go and i was still dozens of medals up for grabs very pleased to say let's have a look at the general standings as they are at the moment seventy minutes past eleven here in sochi russia therefore now has jumped up to position two and the leaderboard has been largely unchanged apart from that with norway having the gold card followed closely by canada's the us and germany. now as good as they've been so far the such a games will of course soon draw to a close in the city's authorities have been there for thinking about what to do next the black sea resort on its way to becoming a capital of entertainment tailoring not just to families but also to the daredevils amongst us you guessed it martin andrews has been out about to find out what's on offer for the thrill seekers that. hold on to your hats this is such as you've never seen before. a.j. hackett bungee has been stretching mine since nine hundred eighty six starting out

with too many new 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 aims to impress this is by far the most ambitious project was vivid. the most interesting in the most beautiful we've already done some jumps from the sixty major germ that feels wonderful. and we normally opening opening to the public sometime later in june this year and so will be will also have 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 two giant flying foxes that will catapult white knuckled guests across the gigantic gorge. and what a shame it is close i really would have liked to have jumped off yes really i just look at the view absolutely incredible and this 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. the centuries old ritual has changed dramatically from the days of jumping off trees attached to violate the technology is different now but the process of leap of faith stays the same taking people right. out of their comfort zones and a bit further. open this summer this new addition to the world of adrenaline junkies and extreme sports will only have to start she spotlights on the international map it just might not be for the faint hearted martin andrews

party such. well who flying foxes to crying wolf a new video from sochi is gone viral in a big way it's not every day that you see a wolf you're wondering the hallways of the olympic venues sounds unbelievable maybe that's because it is the a video purports to show us out leader hiding behind a door while filming the said wild beast now actually the footage spread like wildfire major u.s. news channels all over the picked up on it broadcasted as fact well turns out it was all a prank by an american talk show host in front of the back of the studio amazing what people believe what you say on t.v. . now to remind you just over the shoulder there with the last minute to kind of debate the u.s. one nail in the hockey though the events of today there are seven gold medals to play for tomorrow's us said so stay with us and check out our web site as well that for forecasts and more highlights from these fabulous of the big games.

the g twenty fourteen promises we call to live in the exhilarating winter for an hour to eat here join me at least an hour and make over an hour and the rest of our local news team for some cheap twenty four take. on arts. yes more from us watch a little later today here in r.t. international almost three quarters of a million holes in the u.k. is standing empty and this at a time when there's a serious shortage of residential buildings ortiz political went to one of london's most prestigious streets that's become a symbol for britain's bricks and mortar crisis. the bishops 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 ticks a lot of books but away from the leafy avenue the u.k. is in the midst of a housing crisis homeless charity shelter of warm but 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 of 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 earn 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 mer 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 polly boy you are seeing london. more global headlines in a world update this house suicide bombers affect the police compound in the afghan capital killing at least one policeman and wounding two more it's all the armed gunmen were disguising burkas and that's the nature of the device outside the building before three of them went inside. the taliban has claimed responsibility for the raid. nine minutes since have died after they attacked the presidential palace in the somali capital to government officials were also killed a fierce come fight raged near the building after militants blew a hole in the perimeter fence with two car bombs seven were killed last week when

an explosion targeting u.n. officials ripped through a busy street near the airport. and finally. in our world update the protests in venezuela against the government to enter the ninth day with activists burning day bring the capital part of rallies dominated by students that have spread to several cities across the country demonstrations turned violent just over a week ago leaving two people dead and dozens injured. mourners from in the team in just over half an hour from now the meantime crosstalk is next when peter lavelle and his guests pick through the rubble of the unrest in ukraine that's often.

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a change when you punch be ready for a battle for the speech and the difference in cost. one of the new rules for the moment what. policies you. pleasure to have you with us here on t.v. today i roll researcher.

hello and welcome to crossfire for all things considered i'm peter lavelle chaos on the streets of kiev after a short truce rioters are again wrecking havoc the so-called opposition appears to have no interest in the legally elected government force is being met with force where ukraine goes from here is anyone's guess. to cross talk developments in ukraine i'm joined by my guest marcus papadopoulos in london he's the editor of politics first magazine also in london we have robert oulds he is the director of the bruges group and in washington we cross to ariel cohen he is a senior fellow in russian and eurasian studies and international energy security at the heritage foundation or a gentleman cross-talk roles in fact that means you can jump in anytime you want and i very much encourage it marcus if i go to you first in london i've been watching the pictures coming out of care for the last day and

a half this it's like a armed insurrection this looks like an organized coup against the government in kiev and we have we have to point out here that the government of mr unocal which has reached out to the opposition numerous times over the last two weeks but still the violence continues and i want to make it very clear there is violence on both sides right now markets with what is your reaction. can i just say first of all peter that ordinary people in europe and indeed the rest of the world absolutely disgusted by what they've seen on their television sets this week in ukraine and that discussed is all the more pronounced because the violence has been perpetrated by right wing extremists by neo nazi mobs but even tents all over for in the democratically elected government of ukraine and that it's an intolerable situation and we must move away from what we're hearing by western journalists and western politicians that these so-called protesters are protesters they're not protesters they're.