transit routes. your best way to the heart of most. protesters take control of government headquarters in kiev as a crisis deal fails to pieces the radicals they threaten more violence if the president doesn't step down by saturday morning. wolf 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. prank at the sochi olympics as they forget to check the facts in their hunt for faults at the games. oh roger is so scary it's so crazy it's an pandemonium people rode their heads on fire and so this fit in there and so they loved it they gave it up. and the games have one unofficial gold medal reserved for the fans for raising the roof during the winter olympics.

which party the national coming to you live from moscow i'm marina josh and we start in ukraine where the entire center of the capital kiev is now reportedly controlled by radical protestors crowds on independence square booed the recently struck crisis deal that initiated the snap presidential election and some promising armed action if the country's had doesn't step down on saturday morning and the president himself has apparently left the capital with his current whereabouts unknown is following developments. it appears give us now one of the complete control of the opposition police have completely left the city center but nevertheless we're still hearing by some of the leaders of the right wing the radicals who are calling for more 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. i 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 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 to the two thousand and four prosecution 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 de facto and legally the city is still governed by the current of shorty's 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 well if you look at the crowds in the center of kiev it looks like support for his resignation is overwhelming but calls for his impeachment have been out there on the web in particular for some time now let's take a look at how much response they've got well this is a petition in to government activists launched back in december but as you can see they've only managed to get around a hundred thousand signatures so far and that's a tiny margin of the total population of ukraine which is almost fifty million people and besides as can be seen on the page some of those who backed the impeachment don't even live in the country. well we talked to her a u.s. congressman who says that what we are now witnessing in ukraine is a dangerous violation of the rule of law there is evidence that there are hot heads

among the people who are demonstrating and they are they all word is peaceful as is being birthrate in victims as they are being betrayed the most important thing however is the rule of law when a government is elected it should be the that is the group of people who were elected to make decisions are the ones who should set the policy now what we've learned ukraine now that if it looks like it you can't if you really disagree with what the elected government is doing you should go to the streets and just raise holy hell until those policies are reversed or until or some change made in the procedure. meanwhile in the southeast of ukraine where most people oppose the protests there are fears a mayhem may be getting closer the web is flooded with messages that radicals from the west of the country my dismantling the some of the south eastern regions and that's due to take place in the city of hard locals are calling on everyone to join

forces in order to fired off possible provocations here some of those on line posts while many are responding for me militia squads justin hark of but in several other cities across the east of the country if you're going to do it this idea originated in the minds of our patriots and there's a difficult situation when nationalist contagion spreads across ukraine when they capture one region after another on the attack ordinary citizens people organize unite and create structure of self-defense. our following the situation in ukraine an airline plus we've got our crew on the ground in kiev anime eastern ukraine don't forget to check that our twitter feed for their latest updates.

well the song just a day away from the closing ceremony international brings you special coverage of the day's events meanwhile and on official record was smashed last night correspondence orgy all about that in just a moment. russia's grading 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 the 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 are really having something to celebrate this final weekend with lots of events and sights to keep them entertained in the olympic park 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 and goes lower in rank and the u.s. media were there to wolf it down to can as the details. jimmy kimmel knew that the u.s. media would take the bait when he conspired with king ten some from the u.s. louche 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 second clip shows a large canine. wolf in the hallway and i'm not talking blitzer two 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 a straight wolf problem you've heard of the wolf of wall street how about the war

of the olympics. village well. that's not the way from wall street to the movie theater you know not just. here it's unbelievable. because it chills people that's a wolf well it was a war except not in sochi but in a b.b.c. studio in los angeles in a specially constructed for the rest of the athletes in sochi turns out there is no wealth of sochi we were all duped but that's not the point that's fit with the whole the whole paradigm they had 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 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 are 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 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 and their obsession with finding faults with the sochi olympics. in washington i'm going to shut down or keep. 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 they're staying on to enjoy the final moments of the games and artie's martin andrews finds out they're having a blast. on houses play an important role to get their pics they get the fans together

a special meeting. 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 pollyanna 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 you know we know where on and then we really fall know that this is 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 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 guest 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 fancy visit feel they are members of the swiss and unpick team. they've got they've got beer and they've got so i think. it's perfect yeah absolutely right even. at the chic and stylish primary 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 the team usa store is the only place you can buy their official branded products in sochi 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 to be used as a hospitality space in russia and at various european skiing about. hockey and be a seem to go well together kind of the house unfortunately it's also only for canadian nationals fancy a beer can try your passport 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 it's gold medals for bruce arty 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 to make an exhilarating winter. here in germany and it's now a make the russian team for sochi twenty four take. on. 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 as they are parents up in arms plus. growing tension in the u.k.'s trade unions voiced their outrage over new jobs and salary cuts or to reports on the stand off between the workers and the government and that's after this break.

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welcome back you're watching r.t. international the u.k. seeing a tense stand off between trade unions and the government and nationwide strike as planned by teachers over a new tougher rules on pensions and pay as follows a massive protest by subway workers that brought london to a standstill correspondent s. are still you looks now at the confrontation. below the surface there is a burning anger and frustration and that fury has led to a storm of bad government criticism take the recent flooded for instance unions say downing street scots 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 but one of the first actions they took when they came to office back in two thousand was to change the rules of eligibility to claim . previously you had to be working for your current employer for just twelve month

and change that two years the company is keen to undermine workers' rights businesses though beg to differ story clearly very soon is that pretty much help the british government to run something 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 plan to walk out of the month was called off at the last minute after concessions were made and talks resumed. score for the unions at this time but as more cots new workers plan their move and that next round could very well be just right around the corner. to us or so you are to. also to look at what's happening elsewhere in the world 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 cold for the opening of a major road there was closed in one thousand nine hundred four after

a jewish settler killed twenty nine palestinians at a religious site. a 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 of violence in iraq has claimed over thousand lives. an explosion 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 with security forces tried to clear a protest camp rallies have been ongoing for months demanding the country's prime minister step down. while 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

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 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 dissin clues 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 centrally 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 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 björk official savy in bloom a student data program will begin in april in the meantime thousands of parents say they are prepared to fight this state tooth and nail in order to protect their children's privacy reporting from new york r.t. and on our website a stare it takes its toll on the health of greeks as a four chose how the flashing of a country's budget recent years has left tens of thousands without basic medical care and over the door to dangerous diseases plus. some thai

government anger in venezuela seems to be far from lighting up we've got some striking images from the fierce protests there all those are now in vision section . coming up on our to international we talk global finance and on the money but if you are in the u.k. it's george galloway and sports nick. i did first 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 in 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 blasio 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 has to fashion just my opinion. with the economic downturn in the final. day of the deal sang night and the rest

because i think me being a prickly. welcome to on the money. the business of russia is business i'm peter lavelle today two thousand and fourteen has been a slow year for the economy and consensus growth projections remain modest while far from a gloomy picture the government has its work cut out for it to return the economy to dynamic expansion will it succeed i. discuss this and more i'm joined by timothy crouse he is the head of the russia bank opportunity fund it i see asset management company we also have simon phantom fletcher he is the portfolio manager at renaissance asset managers and we have you know softness of all work he is the chief economist at deutsche bank russia you had

a softball start out with you they had hoped january would have been a better month what kind of picture do you see unfolding for the first quarter. well i think certainly january was quite weak and the main culprit was fixed investment so the investment side continues to be the weakest link in russia's growth performance but there is hope that we might have some recovery especially on the consumption front because we have the olympics and according to various estimates the contribution from the olympics for russia's g.d.p. could be as high as zero point three to zero point four percentage points for the euro as a whole so on a monthly basis of could be even more emphatic. so for the quarter as a whole it will be a difficult period but there are some rays of hope and some triggers that may make

russia look a bit better than in january tim would you agree with i'm going to look just beyond the first quarter just a little bit because i think we're rushers today they need to think about dealing with some of the structural problems in the economy effectively getting away from the oil and gas and commodity reliance that they have which has been a theme no for quite some time but we're coming to the end of the sort of. decade when we could rely on those revenues and we need to diversify into different industries i think if we don't do that russia risks being stuck around two percent g.d.p. for an extended their to the economy hasn't been used to for a long time absolutely and this is this is really the big change here is that it's not that there's slow growth it is that compared to the decade preceding this is extremely slow growth now you know i mean two percent two percent feels like recession of one point three percent last year and it hurt you know russia has been used to five six seven percent growth and you know is significant slowdown that is

relatively speaking is feeling like like a recession even though it's not it's not forget that we are still seeing significant some some growth specifically within the consumer sector the consumer sector last year was that was the thing that drove russia g.d.p. growth as we already had you know fixed income capital expenditure which was down only you're not well we're hoping that that will pick up but a problem looking forward into the future is potential slowdown of the consumer if the conditions but always been the golden egg particularly the last five or six seven years absolutely the consumer was the main force and russia's economic growth partly it was due to the budget financing which consistently supported especially the lower strata of the population in the middle class and of course the external conditions were relatively favorable as well with high oil prices and that was a key factor supporting the consumer now more recently in the past several years we've seen the significant growth in lending and consumer lending that started to

become a major factor it even to such a degree that it became a concern for the central bank for the monetary authorities because it was actually too fast so too much you were putting bad muster in how bad it was on the greek so i totally agree i mean this i think peaked last summer it's now coming down a little bit but if you look at the level. debt that the average russian consumer has consumer debt it's really at a level that is very comparable with eastern european countries it can't go much higher right now and beyond that it's not secured debt it's not mortgages it's not cars it's basically cash loans that have been used for consumption so this worries me a little bit even though the consumer is still the major driver of the economy i am not confident that this can continue for a long time and we see we've seen and pounds across all banks and rising significantly and if you go outside of russia i believe it's about forty percent of net disposable.