best way to the heart of moscow. protesters take control of government headquarters in kiev as a crisis deal fails to appease radicals they threaten more violence if the president doesn't step down. it's not clear any longer who's in charge and the president has left the city for the east of the country in the speaker of parliament has resigned. in the hallway and i'm not talking blitzer to you being out on the door outside the olympic village i'm glad you're not in this hall what. the media takes the bait over a t.v. prank on the sochi olympics as they forget to check the facts in the birth vaults of the game. well russia is so scary it's so crazy it's pandemonium people running around with their heads on fire and so this fit in there and so they loved it they

ended up at. the games of one unofficial gold medal reserved for the fans for raising the roof during the winter olympics will tell you more about that. two pm in moscow i'm out très a very good to have you with us we begin a new ukraine where the entire center of the capital kiev is now controlled by radical protestors crowds in independence square rejected the recently struck prices a deal that initiated a snap presidential election while the country's leader has apparently left the capital r.t. following developments in ukraine we go live now to our to let's hear a show of skiing marie if a notion in a heart in the east of the country first to you alexey let's start with you in the capital has the authority completely broke down there who's in charge in the center of the city right now oh well we just heard from the state here at the independence

square one of the protesters saying that if the opposition does not mean. president yanukovych should resign during the day they will do it themselves which pretty much repeats what's the right wing radicals lead to me to ya to shout from the stage last night when the big concessions from the government were made towards the opposition the constitution of two thousand and four was returned. early presidential election and a coalition government still be a right wing radical said that he was giving until ten o'clock in the morning local time for the president to resign otherwise they would have attacks with weapons but the thing is there's nobody to attack now the president is reportedly gone from kiev nobody knows where and the government buildings the parliament buildings the administration of the president are now under control of the protesters you can easily walk inside and everyone is roaming around so this is something a lawless this situation here in kiev with its own really unclear who is

controlling walks because we also received information about numerous a government and ruling party officials leaving the town some of them have already defected on the side of the opposition and even the parliament speaker has already resigned in the morning so it is really unclear where this is all going and who is controlling what but at the moment gunshots are not being heard and the opposition is pretty much controlling everything in kiev all right and now let's move to the east of the country that's where maria for an ocean is standing by for us so we have heard alexei's report on how president bush is nowhere to be found there is word that he's in the east of the country in about the harkov area where you are and tell us more about that. david hardaker where we are now is known as the capital of the eastern ukraine that traditionally supports president viktor nucor returning deed we are hearing now that the leader is now here but the reports are very contradictory and so far we can't confirm this information but what is clear

already is that what happened in kiev that my colleague alexey just now described as something close to anarchy has divided these usually unanimous region locals here are afraid that opposition including the right to eat and all those radical elements can come here bringing violence with them and that's not very hard just less than five hundred kilometers away from here and we see a large number of calls mostly sent through social media to stand up and to defend the city hand the region but from another hand both politicians and ordinary people here in hard to find in this eastern part of the country are not totally happy with what viktor nucor beach is doing as president these areas traditionally closer to russia than to western countries western policies and particularly they're disappointed with the humor of brokered early paul deal that we could you know quite reach signed with the opposition leaders early on friday maybe of politicians

and again ordinary people here see it as the authorities witness and surrender meanwhile the major political parties and politicians from all over eastern and southeastern ukraine are gathering here in the city center in sport palace to discuss possible ways out of the political crisis here in the country and we hear the speculation that they could try to establish and the government and of course if this happens that would only add to this huge division that has already started here in ukraine back to you absolutely thank you very much for pace where if. like sarah. or well earlier we spoke with her analyst eric draitser about what he thinks pushed the ukrainian president to striking an agreement with the opposition. it shows the

the weakness of the government of the un 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 the code which essentially we use the capital the deal that was originally offered the deal that was originally accepted by yachts and you can the nominal opposition leaders with with are 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 nationalists probably sector and the rest of them

they are the ones who are actually in well if you check out the crowds in the center of kiev it seems support for you on a coach's 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 back at how much response they've gotten this is a petition the anti-government activists launched back in december there as you can see it only managed to get about one hundred thousand signatures so far that is a tiny margin of the total population of ukraine which is nearly fifty million and also can be seen on the page some of those who backed the impeachment don't live in the country we talked with dana rohrabacher a u.s. congressman who thinks that what we're now seeing in ukraine is a dangerous violation of the rule of law. and so 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 and 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 learn in ukraine now that if it looks like it you can 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 there's some change made in the procedure or following the situation in ukraine on air and online we have our crews in kiev and in eastern ukraine you can also check out our team's twitter feed for their latest updates. with the sochi olympics a day away from the closing ceremony we bring you special coverage of the day's events while an unofficial record was smashed last night our correspondent in sochi

was all about that in just a moment. presses 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 buyouts along bringing the total to twenty six medals and breaking their record from one thousand nine hundred four games and will hammer the russians 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 as 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 those lower in rank and the u.s. media were there to wolf it down to can has the details. jimmy kimmel knew that the u.s. media would take the bait when he conspired with kim pence him 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 second clip shows a large canine. wolf in the hallway and i'm not talking blitzer sitting out from the door outside the olympic village i'm glad you're not in this hallway students 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 role of the limping village the wolf so that's not the man from wall street in the movie for. not joining. the took on here it's just unbelievable.

because it chills people that's a wolf well it was a wall 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 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 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. are perfect you find thank 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 ceremonies. yeah let me see what i can find out of course going on here 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 our team. 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 if you live pics they get the fans together a special meeting points and a social values 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 first morphy 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 affleck's and sponsors getting together for raucous celebrations night after night frankly 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 we're wrong and then we really fall know that these are the emotions of the olympics the show huge and that's one in sydney for the first all we open it up for fans as well since then it's a tradition located next to the iceberg stadium this is swiss house 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 two candidates of the country and fans who visit feel they are members of the swiss and the picts he. got it they've got beer and they've got signage on glee the kids it's perfect yeah absolutely right even if there were that. little bit of that oh yeah all. the sheik and stylish area for the usa only invited guests and us hospitals can tell me to follow my sports lovers and come face to face with in the champions fancy and olympic scenes jacket for team usa 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 taken down and used for different events. it's 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 at various european skiing about. hockey and be a seemed to go well together kind of the house unfortunately it's so only for canadian nationals from c.b.s. the trial postponed to access cold beverages from the fridge grab a drink raise a glass to the champions and feel for you who wouldn't when it comes to socialising and partying in the various planning houses of the winter olympics it's gold medals in this montana dru's the sochi. 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 promised the week ultimate an exhilarating winter in our team here in germany and it's now a make over now and the rest of our lives make news team for sochi twenty four take . on. still to come this hour school kids under surveillance later this hour we take a look at how we u.s. initiative to gather data on children as young as five has parents up in arms plus . growing tension in the u.k. as trade unions voice anger over new jobs and salary cuts are two reports on the standoff between workers in the government after a short break. the

. pain. of a future honner. 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. you know teaches them a lot of response ability and simply come to think through the eyes of children if we can do it for our children future.

eighteen minutes past the hour now in the u.k. seeing a tense standoff between trade unions in the government and nationwide strike planned by teachers over new tougher rules on pensions and pay following a massive protest by subway workers that brought london to a standstill tests are cilia takes a look. 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 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 were 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 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 to 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 was to change the rules. to. 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. historically very few news it pretty much help the british government to run simple things like increasing the minimum wage and introduce seem 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 union time record is more cops knew. the next round could be just right around the corner. to us or so you are to. take a look now at some global headlines this hour a rally against israeli settlements left at least thirteen palestinians in gaza two more injured in separate pashas in the west bank city of hebron israeli police fired rubber bullets and tear gas at crowds who called for the opening of a major road there it was posed 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 and wouldn't more than thirty suspicion on the attack has fallen on sunni insurgents who've been targeting shiite civilians across the country since the start of the year the violence in iraq has claimed more than one thousand lives. an explosion near an anti-government protest site is injured six in thailand's capital bangkok no information on who can be behind the attack on tuesday five people including a police officer were killed in clashes between security forces trying to clear one of the taps rallies have been ongoing for months demanding the country's prime minister to step down. new york state authorities playing to step up surveillance this time on schoolchildren the program which is to be launched statewide to supposed to gather data on students starting from age five so he's a very important i reports the move is finding little support though on their 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. 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 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 your 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 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 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. the release 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 on our web site austerity taking its toll on the health of green as a report shows how slashing the country's budget recently has left tens of thousands without basic medical care and open the door to a dangerous disease it. has antigovernment anger in venezuela seems to be far from letting up some striking images online and here's protests there all in our invasion section. and still to come after

a short break aaron aid looks at the latest financial headlines to find the stories that matter most and boom bust or for our viewers in the u.k. we're going underground with britain's. i just 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 blahs you if you're good. 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 asked but that's just my opinion. you know there's a new game and it's called the hunger games it's housing games plus unger equals games. user on my website perry called the phrase it was david cameron who invented the brutal game in which there are no housing games with hunger games.

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 are 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 the one the only in ms abigail martin the breaking the set her sit down with want to discuss the disturbing trend it's actually pretty sad in banker suicide how to get serious there for a second it's rocking the financial world and we're taking a closer look at it it won't want to miss a moment and it all starts right now. our

lead story today money laundering more specifically money laundering in the age of bitcoin 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 all along 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 they had 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 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 for a 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 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 alone. green 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 very many reasons 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 at least are punished hardest is that justice money laundering may be a bad thing but is letting a bigger more violent offender walk the solution i do not think so.