protesters take control of government headquarters in kiev as a crisis deal fails to appease the radicals threaten more violence to the president doesn't step down by saturday morning. in the hallway and i'm not talking blitzer to shooting out from the door outside the olympic village i'm glad you're not in this hall what's this guy out of there the u.s. media swallows the bait over a t.v. praying at the sochi olympics as he forgets check the facts in their hunt for faults of the games. and growing tension in the u.k. as trade unions voice they are outraged over new jobs and salary cuts are two reports on the stand off between the workers and westminster.

in the russian capital you're watching r t international with me where even josh the optimism that a crisis deal reached in ukraine would help quell the i'm dressed has been short lived crowds in independence square booed the agreement that initiated the snap presidential election some promising armed action is a country whose head doesn't step down on saturday morning the entire center of kiev is now reportedly controlled by radical protestors are days ago it has been obvious following the developments in the ukrainian capital. it appears as now one of the complete control of the opposition police have completely left the city center but nevertheless we're still hearing calls by some of the leaders of the right wing radicals who are calling for war armed action. and if the president doesn't resign by ten am we'll go on an armed siege i can promise you that. president bush has left the capital to the

city of hike in the east of the country officially to meet with the heads of the south eastern regions of ukraine with other officially there are rumors that he need be looking at putting together a new separate government now back here in the rebels are also controlling the exits from the city especially the roads leading to the main airports checking the i.d.'s of drivers and passengers preventing the members of parliament from leaving the country in the meantime the parliament is looking at impeaching the president earlier they voted for releasing one of the leaders of the opposition and the former prime minister yulia tymoshenko and before that they've also returned the country to the two thousand and four constitution which basically reduces the rights of the president and so here in kiev has been unfolding quite rapidly and we'll just have to see where all of this is going to go since defacto

legally the city is still governed by the current of tories which apparently are not in the city anymore and when it comes to supplies of water gas electricity and saw in a while we're just going to have to see how that is going to turn out in the next few days earlier we spoke to a political analyst air dried her about what's pushed a graham president into making all those concessions. it shows the the weakness of the government of unico bitch it shows the weakness of their own position the fact that they have allowed the situation to be precipitated in the way that it has shows not only their weakness but it shows the fact that they have really backed themselves into a corner concession after concession have been made that have allowed the situation to become such that essentially flees the capital the deal that was originally offered the deal that was originally accepted by yacht's and you can the nominal

opposition leaders with regard to early elections and an overhaul of the constitution this was initially accepted and then it was rejected and it was rejected not by guts and you can the so-called opposition leaders it was rejected by the far right those who actually control events on the ground so i think the timing is important because it demonstrates that the those who posture themselves to be leaders of the opposition in fact control nothing and it is those on the ground the extremists the ultra nationalist private sector and the rest of them they are the ones who are actually engaged in the real struggle meanwhile in the south east of ukraine where most people oppose the protests there are fears that may have may be getting closer the web is flooded with messages death radicals from the west of the country my dissent at the summit of the south eastern regions that's due to take place in the city of hark of where the president arrived earlier but local activists seem ready to fight off possible provocations some even forming militias squads this idea originated in the minds of our patriots when there is

a difficult situation the nationalist contagion spreads across ukraine when they capture one region after another when the attack ordinary citizens people organize unite and create a structure of self defense. well the situation in ukraine has been a focus of politicians from both russia and the west but the question is why is it so important listen take a look at this map right here well first of all it's the largest country in europe and as we can see here it's unique location makes a kind of a buffer between russia and the e.u. obviously both could benefit from such an ally now another factor is that ukraine's agricultural potential and its about a quarter of the world's reserves of the highly fertile land known as black earth potentially making it europe's bread basket now you can forget of course the country is a transit point for most of russia's gas exported to you up and the vast pipeline

network is shown here on the map as well finally crane is europe's seventh most populous nation and presents a forty five million strong market for the e.u.'s or russia's imported goods well here next year national we're following the situation in ukraine on air and online plus we've got our crew on the ground in kiev and in eastern ukraine so don't forget to check your twitter feed for their latest updates. now less night went well for the russian olympic team it jumps to second position in the overall matto rankings and. one official record has been broken during the games. and the sound level at a stadium holding the short track of and went through the roof and reached its highest point since the beginning of the games and he said now it is in sochi for

us. so it is a good morning to you what god the crowd so excited last night. over us is celebrating after a record breaking night for the olympic host country three more medals are in the bag two golds in sore track like you said the crowd went crazy there last friday night and won silver in by a full on bringing that total number to twenty six that breaks their record from one thousand nine hundred ninety four in little hammer the latest wins put russia in second place overall in sochi so russian fans feeling ecstatic really had something to celebrate this friday night this final olympic weekend with lots of events to keep them entertained in the park and up in the mountains as well and speaking of staying entertained during the sochi games not just important for the russians u.s. t.v. host jimmy kimmel knows how to keep people entertained his prank inside the olympic village refresh the list of russian stereotypes that we've been hearing about ahead

of the games bringing bears and goes lower in the rank and the u.s. media were there to wolf it down so to say i need to camp has more. comedian jimmy kimmel knew that the u.s. media would take the bait when he conspired with some from the u.s. lucia team and posted a video of a wolf supposedly wandering the hallways of her dorm in sochi but even the comedian could not imagine the scale of the media frenzy that followed the seventeen second clip shows a large canine as we walked past a room wolf in the hallway and i'm not talking blitzer to feeding out from the door outside the olympic village i'm glad you're not in this hallway since guys get out of there there's a stray dog problem maybe they also have the straight wolf problem you've heard of the wolf of wall street how about the war of the limping village the wolf so that's not the meat from wall street in the movie for. not joining. the took on here it is

unbelievable. because it chills people that's a wolf well it was a wolf except not in sochi but in a big. the studio in los angeles in a specially constructed for the replica of the athletes' dorm hallway in sochi turns out there is no wealth of sochi we were all duped but that's not the point this fit with the whole the whole paradigm they have created about oh russia is so scary it's so crazy it's pandemonium people wrote their heads on fire and so this fit in there and so they loved it they gave it up and it shows how there is a very small thought paradigm that's allowed on most of our media and the things that paradigm or perfect you thank you rugby you do a great job kate i'd love to do this again would you consider bringing a live bear to the closing ceremony. yeah let me see what i can find out of course going on here it might have as well be fair the media would still bite jimmy kimmel's prank like nothing else has called out the us media on their obsession

with finding faults with the sochi olympics. in washington i'm going to shut down. good to see that jimmy kimmel can not take himself so seriously not as serious as the u.s. media we have course are going to continue to keep track of how the world is reacting to sochi what's happening in sochi and bringing you the latest from the russian black sea coast stay with r.t. for that back to you in moscow. thanks very much for the seventies and of course the sochi winter olympics are already over for some of the ass lets but this doesn't mean they're leaving instead they're staying on to enjoy the final moments of the games and as artie's mark manders finds out having a blast. fan houses play an important role in the olympics

they get the fans together a special meeting points and a social venue is there a taste of home away from home for many it's also an opportunity to buy merchandise celebrate and meet their sporting heroes outside the park the alpine themed austrian house is located at the mounting cluster of crossfire pollyana the wooden structure is partly open to all that is for a small fee closer to the black sea coast holland heineken house is open for all that is at ten euros a ticket it has always been one of the top party spots at the olympic games with fans athletes and sponsors getting together for raucous celebrations night after night as one of the best known hospitality venues outside the park this will be its twelfth year of operation having made its debut in barcelona in one thousand nine hundred two where the olympics we know were on and then we really followed all the emotions of the olympics to show you how that's one in sydney for the first hour we

open it up for fans as world since it's a tradition located next to the iceberg stadium this is swiss house hub of excitement and activity it is one of the few national guess sentence that is free and open to the public for the very first time switzerland has designed they constructed the building from scratch highlighting typical elements of the country and fans who visit feel they are members of the swiss and picked. got it they've got beer and they've got so i think i'm going to be it's perfect yeah absolutely right even there would never. leave out. the chic and stylish tan area for the usa only invited guests and u.s. passport holders can enter meet fellow minded sports lovers and come face to face with in the pick champions fancy and olympic teams jacket for team usa still is the only place you can buy their official branded products in sochi

a shot at the moment the space will be used for different purposes in coming years very nice now the usa house is a temporary structure that will be taken down and used for different events customized to different groups and sizes i came to sochi from austria after the games is finished it will be used as a hospitality space in russia and at various european skiing about. hockey can be a seem to go well together kind of the house unfortunately it's also only for canadian nationals fancy a beer trial possible to access cold beverages from the fridge grab a drink raise a glass to the champions and feel part of a winning team when it comes to socializing and partying in the various time houses of the winter olympics its gold medals or more to the andrews. sochi well after and still have two days left to win the rest of the models and our team

will be keeping you up to date with the latest throughout the events and we'll be back after this break status. the g twenty four team promising we call to make an exhilarating winter. here in germany and it's now a make the rest of our lives take years to for sochi twenty four take. on. talk a. little rights. the . more you. pay for the young girls camel for the future hotter. between two and three

hundred million guns united states so you can act like they're not here and keep kids away from them. the causes that if they learn you know i mean this teaches them a lot of are a responsibility and simply come to pay through the eyes of children if we can do it for our children for our future what is the country will save. the interview. feel. good.

i know c.n.n. the m s n b c fox news have taken some lot slightly but the fact is i admire their commitment to cover all sides of the story just in case one of them happens to be accurate. because that was funny. but it's closer to the truth from the right think. of off the clock it's because one whole attention in the mainstream media works side by side the joke is actually on you look. at our teenagers we have a different approach. because the news of the world just is not this funny i'm not laughing dammit i'm not i.

got a sense of the jokes well handled in the sense that i've got to. go back to watching r t international the u.k. is seeing a tense standoff between trade unions and the government a nationwide strike is planned by teachers over new tougher rules on pensions and pay this follows a massive protest by subway workers that broad london to a standstill i'll corresponding test our syria looks now at the confrontation. below the surface there's a burning anger out of frustration that fury has led to a storm about to government criticism take the recent flooding for instance unions say downing street scott smith lower budgets for flood maintenance and staff unions haven't been able to do much whenever the job x. was wielded but once in a while they score a point where two workers go on strike london grinds to

a halt quite literally for two days in february that's exactly what happened at trade unions with the talk of the town for them it was a fight for hundreds of jobs but business leaders said the strike cost london economy two hundred million pounds prime minister david cameron branded the walkout as shameful what's shameful is these vicious attacks on ordinary people the poorest in society they want to beat wages so that their friends can make bigger profits trade union members have gathered here in what they say is a show over systems to governments continued to stare the unions have seen their numbers grow for the first time in a decade reaching six point five million members in two thousand and twelve in the one nine hundred eighty s. margaret thatcher's government went head to head with unions introducing legislation that essentially made it more difficult to carry out strike action and not much has changed since then the one of the first actions they took when they

came to office back in two thousand and ten was to change the rules on eligibility to claim unfair dismissal previously you had to be working for your current employer for just twelve months for a change that two years the company is keen to undermine workers' rights businesses though beg to differ story clearly very soon is it pretty much help the british governments around simple things like increasing the minimum wage and introducing the living wage to actually increase unemployment or make it more difficult for employers to take on new people the second blood to block out of the month was called off at the last minute after concessions were made and talks resume. score for the union this time it is more cops new workers. and that next round could very well be just right around the corner. to us or so you are to. take a look at what's happening elsewhere in the world the mortar strike at a shiite town just south of baghdad as killed at least twenty people and injured over thirty others suspicion for the attack has fallen sunni insurgents who have

been targeting shiite civilians across the country since the beginning of the year violence in iraq has claimed over a thousand lives. a rally against israeli settlements has left at least thirteen palestinians endured in gaza at least two more were wounded in separate clashes in the west bank city of hebron israeli police fired rubber bullets and tear gas at protesters who called for the opening of a major road there it was closed in one thousand nine hundred four after a jewish settler killed twenty nine palestinians at a religious site. new york state authorities are planning to step up surveillance this time on school kids the program which is to be launched statewide is supposed to gather information on students starting from the age of five. now reports the move is finding little support among parents. a new data gathering program in new york state shows that not even america's youngest citizens can be spared from

having their personal information collected and stored the department of education is creating a statewide database that will include the names addresses test scores learning disabilities attendance and disciplinary records of every single public school students that data collection begins at the age of five and a private company called in bloom has been contracted to store and protect the records of three point six million students education officials say the program can help companies who produce a teaching material to tailor their products to student needs however parents are not buying it more than four thousand have signed a petition rejecting the in bloom program including karen sproul who spoke with our t.v. about her concerns for her ten year old son and millions of others the new york state department did not notify parents they didn't give x.

for consent. we kind of just stumbled on it and discovered it just seems like parents were taken out of the equation completely in terms of protecting the children's privacy we were not aware that the new york state department made a deal with bill gates in blue nonprofit organization to upload all of our children's personal data. to parents as well. for the purpose of personalized learning for me this is particularly alarming because my child has special needs. and his school records are essential to his medical records whereas in any other instance releases would have to be signed for any of the information to be released to a third party you don't even know who will have access to your child's records if there's breaches you wouldn't even know because it's so massive. and the extent to the information that's being uploaded is so huge that it will be available to many

different third party vendors entities that we have no idea who they are and what information would be released it's horrifying to me as a parent york officials say the in bloom a student data program will begin in april in the meantime thousands of parents say they are prepared to fight this state to state and mail in order to protect their children's privacy reporting from new york marino court nial r.t. and coming up on the program aaron a look savile latest mainstream headlines to find the stories that matter and our show boom bust and for our british viewers it's going underground with a few towns and stay with us.

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today i roll researcher. over there i marinate this is boom bust and these are the stories that we're tracking for you today. happy friday first and foremost now first up we will look at money laundering and the age of crypto currencies and how the laws have clearly not yet caught up with the alleged crimes. then we have absalom merck president and c.e.o. of merck investments on today's show he's talking all things macro economic you won't want to miss my interview with him finally in today's big deal i'm joined by don't want the o'reilly and ms abigail martin the breaking the set her sit down with one to discuss the disturbing trend is actually pretty sad in banker suicides had to get serious there for a second it's rocking the financial world and we're taking

a closer look at it you won't want to miss a moment and it all starts right now. with . our lead story today money laundering more specifically money laundering in the age of the. now many would argue that hiding or failing to report where money comes from is in and of itself a victimless crime yes yes yes yes h.s.b.c. helped to fund tens of thousands of murders and launder money for al qaeda and hezbollah which is unanimously considered a bad thing no one is debating that especially not me however when the hong kong shanghai banking corporation was found guilty in two thousand and twelve over laundering billions not millions billions for these terrorist organizations no one

spent time in jail in fact no arrests were even made what ended up happening was that h.s.b.c. was paid in fines that's all they had to do to pay a fine of one point nine billion dollars and the bank managed to still turn a profit of thirteen point five billion that year alone so they've turned out ok yet charlie shrem c.e.o. of big instant was arrested by federal authorities last week for allegedly laundering more than one million dollars worth of bitcoin and today he's sitting in jail story so why the boss discrepancies when it comes to those accused of money laundering to put it simply money now the d.o.j. pretty much said listen it's just b.c. it's just too big to jail and during the h.s.b.c. settlement announcement attorney assistant attorney general rather lanny breuer he said this now quote how the u.s. authorities decided to press criminal charges h.s.b.c. would almost certainly have lost its banking license in the u.s.

and the entire banking system would have been destabilized however destabilizing the fastest growing unregulated crypto currency in the world now that sounded like a good plan for the justice department they were all game for that now kathy reason wittes recently published an article on this very subject in which she wrote quote money laundering is simply the process of concealing sources of money while the standard image of money laundering involves murders mexican narco gangs and al-qaeda in reality that very many. and is that normal people would want to keep their transactions anonymous if your mom pays you in cash to mow the lawn and you don't declare that money you are indeed concealing the source of that money and laundering it but the real question here is this what are the moral and practical foundations of a law where those who violate it least are punished hardest is that just this money laundering may be a bad thing but is letting of.