transit route. your best way to the heart of mosco. protesters take control of government headquarters in kiev as a crisis deal fails to appease the radicals a threat to more violence if the president doesn't step down by saturday morning. in the hallway and i'm not talking blitzer to getting out from the door outside the olympic village i'm glad you're not in this hall what's there to get it out of there the u.s. media swallows the bait over a t.v. praying at the sochi olympics as they forget to check the facts in their funds for faults at the games well russia just so scary and so crazy it's pandemonium people rode their heads on fire and so there's food in there and so they loved it they ended up at. the games have one unofficial gold medal reserved for the fans are raising the roof during the winter olympics.

what you are coming to you live from the russian capital a marine welcome to the program while we start in ukraine a word 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 and the president himself has apparently left the capital with his current whereabouts unknown group is good all of us following the developments for us there. it appears kiev has 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 the radicals who are calling for war armed action. to look at this. the president doesn't resign by

ten am we'll go on an armed siege i can promise you that. i here in kiev 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 a real be seeing one of the leaders of the opposition in the former prime minister yulia tymoshenko and before that they've also returned the country. which basically reduces the rights of the president and so here in kiev has been unfolding quite rapidly and said well we'll just have to see where the all of this is going to go since defacto the 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 while the initiative to impeach the ukrainian president is discussed in parliament some anti-government activists have been online trying to gain support for the move they launched a petition back in december but have only managed to get around one hundred thousand signatures so far well that is a tiny margin of the total population of ukraine and the sciences can be seen on the page right here some of those who bad don't even live in the country. well earlier we spoke to a political analyst there diets are about what's pushed a korean president into making all those concessions. it shows the the weakness of the government of uganda covert 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 this situation to become such that the code which essentially flees the capital the deal that was originally offered the deal that was originally accepted by yachts 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 that radicals from the west of the country my does say and on the summit of the south eastern regions and that's due to take place in the city but local activists seem ready to fight off possible provocations and some even forming militia squads. but it was this idea originated in the minds of our patriots and there is a difficult situation the nationalist contagion spreads across ukraine when they come to one region after another on the attack ordinary citizens people organize unite and create structure of self-defense. while the 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 so first of all it's the largest country in europe and as we can see here it's unique location makes it kind of buffer between russia and the e.u. will obviously both could benefit from such anality another factor is ukraine's agricultural potential has about a quarter of the world's reserves of

a highly fertile land known as black earth potentially making it europe's bread basket and you can forget of course a country is a transit point for most of russia's gas exported to you are and the vast pipeline network is shown here on the map finally ukraine is europe's seventh most populous nation and presents a forty five million strong market for the use or russia's imported goods. well here in our international we are following the situation in ukraine on air and online plus we've got our crews on the ground in kiev and in eastern ukraine so don't forget to check the r.t. twitter feed for their latest updates. now was the sochi olympics just a day away from the closing ceremony our team international brings you special coverage of the day's events meanwhile an unofficial record was smashed last night

and our correspondents in sochi it's all about that in just a moment. presses 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 entertained 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 goes 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 keith henson from the u.s. lucia team and posted a video of a wolf supposedly wandering the whole ways of her dorm in sochi but even the comedian could not imagine the scale of the media frenzy that followed the seventeen so. the clip shows a large canine as we walk past a room wolf in the hallway and i'm not talking blitzer two shooting out from the door outside the world in 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 so that's not the me from wall street in the movie . not just. here it's is unbelievable.

because it chills people that's a wolf well it was a wolf except not in sochi but in a b.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 wolf of sochi we were all duped but that's not the point this 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 this kind of a lot of force going on here but it might have as well be bare 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 olympics are already over for some of the athletes but this doesn't mean they're leaving instead there's. staying on to enjoy the final moments of the games and artie's martin andrews finds out they're having a blast by 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 a meet the sporting heroes outside the park the alpine themed austrian house is located at the mountain cluster of krasnaya polyana the wooden structure is poppy

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 is 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 when you think that's 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 we're wrong and then we really fall know that those are 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 then it's a tradition located next to the iceberg stadium this is swiss house ob 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 to limits 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 shine like a kid it's perfect yeah absolutely right even though there would never have written it out. at the chic and stylish area for the usa only invited guests and u.s. passport holders could enter meet fellow minded sports. levison come face to face with in the champions time c. and olympic teams track it for team usa is still is the only place you can buy their official branded products so cheap shot at the moment the space we use for different purposes in coming here is. very nice now the usa house is a temporary structure that will be taking it out 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 c.b.s. the trial possible to access cold beverages from the fridge grab a drink raise a glass to the champions and feel part of a big team when it comes to socializing and partying in the various planning houses of the winter olympics it's gold medals with monta and drew's. sochi. the olympic games of course coming to an end this weekend but still much more to come do stay with r.t. 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 for another team here in germany and it's now

a make the rest of our lives take news team for sochi twenty four take. on. and more news just ahead for you including school kids under surveillance later this hour how a u.s. initiative to gathering data on children as young as five years old has their parents up in arms. plus growing tension in the u.k.'s trade unions voice near our rage over new jobs and salary cuts are the reports on the stand off between the workers and the government attached to this place. you know there's a new game in town it's called the hunger games housing games was younger equals games. user on my website name

perry going to phrase it was david cameron who invented the brutal game in which there are no housing games without hunger games.

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welcome back to watching our c n. national 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 and this follows a massive protest by subway workers that brought london to standstill our correspondent s. our cilia looks now at the confrontation. below the surface there's a burning anger out of frustration that fury has led to a storm of bad 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 and have a good job axe 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 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 almost 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 the training of the rules of 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

though beg to differ story clearly very few news it 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 a second plant to block out of that month was called off at the last minute after concessions were made and talks resume of the. the score for the unions in this dial record is more cops new workers. 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 and 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 call for the opening of a major road there that was closed in one thousand nine hundred four after a jewish settler killed twenty nine palestinians and their religious site.

of mortar strike on a shiite 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 violence in iraq has claimed over a thousand lives. close and near an anti-government protest side has injured six people in thailand's capital bangkok so far there is no information on who could be behind the attack on tuesday five people including a police officer were killed in clashes when security forces tried to clear a protest camp rallies have been going for months banning the country's prime minister steps down right. now in 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 and as are 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 a store and protect the records of three point six million students education officials say the program can help companies who produce iching 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

r.t.e. 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 so essential to 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 to your child's records if

this 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 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 marino court niall r.t. . and over in our website a sturdy takes its toll on the health of greeks as a report shows how the slashing of a country's budget in recent years has left tens of thousands without basic medical care and opened the door to dangerous diseases plus. as i take government anger in

but as wales seems to be far from winding up we've got some striking images from the fierce protests there and all those in our invasion section. and up next as a kaiser report stay with us on the international. 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 the 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 naturally 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 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. on the money with the business of russia.

welcome to the cuz the report guys are you know there's a new game in town it's called the hunger games housing games plus hunger pains equals the hunger games while a user on my website named andy parry coined the phrase it was david cameron who invented the brutal game in which there are no housing gains hunger pains stacy yes max this is a brutal game welcome to this world where there are no wealth creation jobs or wealth creating industry we have just the financial eyes world of a zero sum game so therefore you can only have wealth redistribution and it looks like it's been turned into a game of gains versus hunger pains david cameron rejects helped by housing bubble fear prime minister david cameron has dismissed fear is the help to buy scheme is creating a property market bubble as they hailed it as

a success number ten says almost seven hundred fifty homes have been bought and six thousand offers made since the mortgage guarantee scheme started now this was in the beginning of january and now this week we hear that the average house price has now passed two hundred fifty thousand pounds in the united kingdom that's over four hundred thousand u.s. dollars yeah that's an interesting paradox if you were to the average british person hey guess what the price of gas just doubled or petrol as they call it here price of petrol just doubled isn't that great of course the average person would say now that's terrible if you tell them hey the average house price just doubled isn't that great well no not really because it causes an enormous economic strain that results and as we're pointing out here. hunger pains the number of people going hungry in the u.k. to afford for david cameron's reelection by the help scheme and housing bubble is

human tragedy of which he cares not well shelter which is the homeless charity here has warranted that prices are spiraling out of control and they're seeing a huge rise and homelessness because of not only the house price gains but also the inflation yes the way that inflation is calculated does not include the daily necessities in the proportion that people consume them if you were to do an accurate reading you would end up with an eight to nine percent inflation with wages barely moving which is leading to poverty so vince cable has said there is a raging housing boom in london and of course house prices here in london are up over twelve percent in the past twelve months but in general over the u.k. it's now two into the fifty thousand pounds average u.k. .