trends in the report you'll best way to the heart of mosco. protesters take control of government headquarters in kiev as a crisis deal fails to appease the radicals the threatening more violence if the president doesn't step down by saturday morning. along with the hallway and talk and live fire 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 now the u.s. media swallows the bait over a t.v. prank at the sochi olympics as they forget to check the facts in their hunt for faults at the games. russia so scary it's so crazy it's pandemonium people rather oh their heads on fire and so this fit in there and so they made it up. and the games have one unofficial gold medal reserved for the fans for raising the

roof during the winter olympics. welcome to international i'm maria josh now was started in ukraine where the entire center of the capital kiev is now reportedly controlled by radical protestors crowds in independence square booed the recently struck crisis deal that initiated a snap presidential election some promising armed action if the country's head doesn't step down on saturday morning we're going off following developments. 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. will go to . 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 unofficial you 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. there's 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 authorities 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 political alice eric draitser about what's pushed a grain president into making all those concessions. it shows the the weakness of the government of the on the code which 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 now meanwhile in the southeast of ukraine where most people oppose the protests there are fears that may have may be getting closer the web is flooded with messages the radicals from the west of the country why descend the summit of the southeastern regions and that's due to take place in the city of hard tough but local activists seem ready to fight off possible for allocations some even forming militia squads.

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

network shown right here on the map file ukraine is europe's seventh most populous nation and presents a forty five million strong market for the use or russia's import of goods. well here next year the national we're following the situation in ukraine and they are in a while of course plus we've got our crew on the ground in kiev and in eastern ukraine still forget to check the twitter feed for their latest updates. now was the sochi olympics just a day away from the closing ceremony r.t. international brings you special coverage of the day's events while an unofficial record was smashed last night and our correspondent in sochi is all about that in just a moment here on r.t. . russia celebrating after a record breaking night for the olympic host team three more medals are in the bag

two golds in short track and a silver in by alpha long bringing the total to twenty six medals and breaking their record from one thousand nine hundred ninety four games and will hammer russian supporters also broke a record with their vocal cords fans were so excited during the short track triumph that cheering in the arena broke a record sound levels so fans here really having something to celebrate this final weekend with lots of events and sights to keep them entertained in the olympic park and up in the mountain clusters as well fans just ecstatic like i said over that when trying to find things to do on this last olympic weekend and speaking of staying out during the sochi games u.s. t.v. host jimmy kimmel knows a way to do just that his prank inside the olympic village refresh the list of russian stereotypes bringing bears in bhola like those lower in rank and the u.s. media were there to wolf it down to camp as the details.

comedian jimmy kimmel knew that the u.s. media would take the bait when he conspired with keep him from the u.s. lose team and posted a video of a wolf supposedly wandering the whole ways of her dorm in sochi but even the comedian could not a man. the scale of the media frenzy that followed the seventeen second clip shows a large canine as we walk past a wolf in the hallway and i'm not talking blitzer two shooting out from the door outside the olympic village i'm glad you're not in this hallway since got out of there there's a stray dog problem maybe they also have a straight wolf problem you've heard of the wolf of wall street how about the war of the olympic village the world. that's not the me from wall street or the movie thing you know not just. here it is unbelievable. because it chills people that's a wolf well it was a wolf except not in sochi but in a b. c. studio in los angeles in

a specially constructed for the cajun 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 is fit with the whole the whole paradigm they had created about oh russia is so scary it's so crazy it's pandemonium people running 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 think you rugby you did 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 in this kind of a lot of force going on here but it might have as well be bear 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 arkie. both only some of the media would lighten up a little bit like jimmy kimmel and start enjoying the games as much as everyone else here in sochi now the winter. impacts are already over for some of the athletes but this doesn't mean they're leaving instead they're staying on to enjoy the final moments of the games and artie's martin andrews finds out they're having a blast. fun houses play an important role in the olympics they get the fans to gether especial 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 mountain cluster of crossfire pollyana the wooden structure is partly open to all visit his 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 you know we know were wrong and then we really followed all the news of the emotions of the olympics to show huge and that's one in sydney for the first hour we open it up for fans as well but 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 consensus that is free and open to the public for the very first time switzerland has designed the construct of the building from scratch highlighting typical elements of the country and fans

who visit feel they are members of the swiss and the big team. got it they've got beer and they've got so i can hardly say it's perfect yeah absolutely right even with that. we're going to have. at the chic and stylish fan 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 champions fancy and olympic teams track it for team usa still is the only place you can buy their official branded products so cheap shots 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 from sea appear the 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 planning houses of the winter olympics its gold medals or more to them drew's. sochi olympic games of course coming to an end this weekend but still much more to come do stay with our team for all the latest and our special coverage coming up on sunday for the closing ceremony. the g. twenty fourteen promises we call to make an exhilarating winter in our team here in germany and it's now a make the rest of our lives take news team for sochi twenty four take. on.

more news just to have for you including school kids under surveillance later this hour how the u.s. initiative to gathering data on children as young as five years old as a parents up in arms. plus. growing tension in the u.k. as trade unions voiced their outrage over a new jobs and salary cuts are the reports of the standoff between the workers and the government that's after this break here are.

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planned by teachers over a new tougher rules on pensions and pay as follows a massive protest by subway workers abroad london to stand still our correspondent as our cilia looks now at the confrontation. below the surface there is a burning anger out of frustration that fury has led to a storm about government criticism take the piece of flooded for instance union say downing street scotts meant lower budgets for flood maintenance and staff unions haven't been able to do much of a good job x. was real good but once in a while the school 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 a shameful what's shameful is these vicious attacks on ordinary people the poorest

in society they want to beat wages so 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 cost of 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 this is beg to differ story clearly various use of pretty much help the british government

to run something like increasing the minimum wage and introduce him a living wage to actually increase unemployment to make it more difficult for employers to take on new people the second plan to block out of that month was called off at the last minute after concessions were made and talks resume of god. the score for the unions in this style record is more cops new workers. and the next round could very well be just right around the corner. to us or so you are to . look at what's happening elsewhere in the world and a mortar strike on a shia town just south of baghdad has killed at least twenty people and injured over thirty others suspicion for the attack has fallen on sunni insurgents who have been targeting shiite civilians across the country since the beginning of the year of violence in iraq has claimed over a thousand lives. and a rally against israeli settlements has left at least thirteen palestinians injured 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 a cold for the opening of a major road there it was close and nine hundred ninety four after jewish settlers killed twenty nine palestinians at a religious site. and a 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 as are 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 the 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 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 disinclined to parents as well. for the purpose of

personalized learning for me this is particularly alarming because my child has special needs. and his main school records are centrally his medical records where as 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 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 to them it's horrifying to me as a parent new york officials say the in bloom student data program will begin in april in the meantime thousands of parents say they are prepared to fight this state to thing now in order to protect their children's privacy reporting from new

york r.t. . and over on our web site of stereotypes it's toll on the health of the greens as a report shows how the slashing of the country's budget in recent years has left tens of thousands without basic medical care and open the door to dangerous diseases plus. as a government anger in venezuela seems to be far from letting up we've got some the striking images from the fierce protests there all those in our envisioned section . that's coming up here and here the national the boom and bust of global finance with erin eight in just.

i did her state of the city address new york mayor bill de blasio said that he would put forward legislation for the city to issue special municipal identification cards to undocumented immigrants he summed up his feelings by saying to all my fellow new yorkers who are undocumented i say new york city is your home too and we will not force any of our residents to live their lives. the shadows yeah that sounds nice but the reason these illegal immigrants live their lives in the shadows is because they immigrated illegally why should new yorkers bend over backwards for illegal criminal immigrants this is the same logic that if i catch a guy breaking into my house as a gracious host i should offer him a pizza because it's his home too this is not just a slap in the face to rule of law but also to the immigrants who do go through the bureaucracy and headaches to become u.s. citizens the right way the legal way so the blahs you know if you're going to

provide these illegal immigrants with some sort of document it should be a plane ticket back home with instructions on how to apply for a green card the legit proper way just like everyone else past the fresh just my opinion. the. economic down in the final. day the deal sank night and the rest declined so unique everything. was going on everyone i'm abby martin and this is breaking in. to me the feeling

that a regular old cuppa joe just isn't enough to keep you up anymore well the pentagon has a new solution it's planning to try it on american soldiers and i know i say this a lot but the latest development is the literally shocking because they're planning to zap their brains with electricity that's right the pentagon has already begun to experiment with this new shock therapy which it says could keep the u.s. military's digital warriors and drone operators more alert the air force army and darpa are all participating in five separate studies of the price tag of two. hundred grand a pop this government already relies on video game methods to kill so is it turning soldiers into electrical conductors really the future of warfare i guess it's time we update that slogan part of waking up is an electric shock to the dome now let's break the set. they are very hard to take

a. look. at or how to act with that hurt right there. when it comes to natural beauty arizona has it all traveling around the state like sites like monument valley the painted desert the petrified forest all make you feel like in one thousand nine hundred cowboy and now there's another reason why it might seem like you went back in time to be eighteen hundreds while in the grand canyon state gold fashion draconian discrimination so yesterday the arizona state

legislature just passed a law allowing business owners to refuse service to gays and lesbians the naeyc will pay to females withhold birth control for unmarried women and skirt legal contractual obligations only name a religion yes that's right this wide ranging decree allows individuals to skirt federal and state anti-discrimination laws that the reason for doing so is on account of religious beliefs arizona governor jan brewer has yet to decide if she will approve or veto the law and similar legislation scuse me has also been brought up in states like idaho tennessee south dakota and kansas but none of those bills have actually passed state legislatures and as such arizona is poised to become the first state in the twenty first century to codify discrimination on such a large scale. tovar the state democratic minority leader even went as far as saying that quote many arizona will find themselves members of a separate and unequal class under the law because of their sexual orientation this

bill may also open the door to discriminate based on race familial status religion sex national origin age or disability but i guess we should expect this kind of medieval legislation from a state that has repeatedly had its laws overturned by the supreme court back in june the court struck down the requirement that said arizona had to provide proof of citizenship in the form of a birth certificate passport or another government id in order to register for federal elections despite the fact that no federal voting forms have this obligation the entire purpose of the law is the suppress minority votes according the a.c.l.u. in two thousand and eleven more than twenty one million americans or eleven percent of the total population did not have government issued i.d.'s including twenty five percent of blacks versus eight percent of whites furthermore a study by the civil rights group advancement project found as many as ten million hispanics across the nation were affected by these laws during the two thousand and twelve election and all that were in.