transit routes. you'll best way to the hearts of most. 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. not clear who's in charge and the president has left the city for these for the country where regional heads are meeting to mold their response to the crisis. 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 hall what's got out of their media swallowing the bait over a t.v. prank at the sochi games as they forget to check facts in a hunt for faults. well russia is so scary it's so crazy it's in and about people running around with their heads on fire and so this fit in there and so they loved it they ate it up. and the games have won unofficial gold medal for the fans

this time it's for raising the roof during the winter games. we begin in ukraine tonight where the entire center of the capital kiev is now controlled by protesters crowds in independence square rejected their recently struck crisis deal that initiated a snap election while the president has apparently left the capital we're following developments in ukraine earlier i spoke with lex harris in kiev and marie if an ocean in the city of hard call. we just heard from the stage here at the independence square one of the protesters saying that if the opposition fails to deliver yet a call which is resignation during the day they will do it themselves which pretty much repeats the sentiment of last night when one of the leaders of the radicals white we. spoke from the stage after huge concessions made by the government which

is the only presidential election which is the return of the two thousand and four constitution runs in more powers to the parliament well this right wing leader said that he gave ultimatum for the president to resign until teluk ten o'clock in the morning well this deadline has already passed and there is no attack simply because there is no one to attack now in kiev the president is not here since morning and most of the government officials and politicians the ruling party they have either defected on the side of the opposition or either left the city or even the country as some reports are suggesting 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 to the country that's where maria for an ocean is standing by for us so we have heard alexei's report on how president out of coaching 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.

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 an icky 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 key of and we see a large number of calls mostly sent through social media to stand up and to defend the c.-t. hand the region but from another hand both politicians and ordinary people here in hike up and in this eastern part of the country are not totally happy with what

victor new corvette she is doing as president and particularly they're disappointed with the humor of brokered early polls deal that to be true to quote which signed with the opposition leaders early on friday many of the politicians and again ordinary people here is seated 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 . last eric draitser tells us what he thinks pushed the korean president to striking an agreement with the opposite. 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 the code which 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 nationalists private sector and the rest of them

they are the ones who are actually engaged in the real struggle if you look at the crowds in the center of kiev it seems support for the nick over his resignation is overwhelming but calls for his impeachment have been out there for a while on the web in particular for some time stake a look at how much response they've gotten this is a petition anti-government activists launched back in december but as you can see they've got about one hundred thousand signatures so far that is though a tiny fraction of the population of the country which is about fifty million people and can be seen on the page some of those who backed the impeachment don't live in the country we spoke with dana rohrabacher a u.s. congressman who says that what we're seeing now is a dangerous violation of the law in ukraine there's a lot and so there are. people who are demonstrating and they are they all word is peaceful as is being brought trade and 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 is what we've learned 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 and we have just news into us on our team from ukraine the country's parliament voted to return to the constitution in two thousand and four is reduces the power of the president and establishes a parliamentary republic there will bring you more from the country as a meek at it or following the situation on air and online plus we have our crews on the ground in kiev and in eastern ukraine you can also check out our twitter feed on our team for their latest updates.

and with the sochi games just a day away from the closing ceremonies we take you to our the olympic city for our special coverage of the events or the unofficial record was broken last night our correspondent in the olympic city has all that and more. dresses 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 are really having something to celebrate this final weekend with lots of events and science 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 has the details. jimmy kimmel knew that the u.s. media would take the bait when he conspired with king penson 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 really want to. 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 hallway 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 wall of the olympic village well. that's not the way from wall street to the movie thing 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 occasion. of the athletes in sochi it turns out there is no wealth of sochi we were all duped but that's not the point this fit with the whole the whole paradigm they have created about oh russia is so scary it's so crazy it's pandemonium people running their heads on fire and so there's food 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 do a great job kate i'd love to do this again would you consider bringing

a live bear to the closing ceremony. yeah let me see where i can find this kind of a lot of force going on here but it might have as well be known bare the media would still buy 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 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 artist mark manders finds out that having a blast. thumb houses play an important role in the olympics they get the fans to get of

especial meeting points and a social values there are 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 krasnaya polyana the wooden structure is partly 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 athletes and spouses 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 that listen to 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 then 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 they constructed the building from scratch highlighting typical elements of the country and fans who visit feel they are members of the swiss and picked. they've got it they've got beer and they've got so i can shockingly ate it it's perfect yeah absolutely right even though there was never. little it out of. the chic and stylish fun 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 jacket for 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 can be a seem to go well together kind of the house unfortunately it's also only for canadian nationals fancy a beer trial pump sports 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 kind of houses of the winter olympics it's gold medals with monta andrews 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 promises week ultimately an exhilarating winter for another eight here in germany and it's now a make the rest of our lives make news team for sochi twenty four take. on. and stay with us here on r t plenty more still to come including school kids under surveillance later this hour a look at how the u.s. initiative in new york on gathering data on children as young as five years old has their parents up in arms plus. growing u.k. tension is trade unions voicing anger over new jobs and salary cuts we report on the standoff between workers and the government after a short break. trends

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nineteen minutes past the hour now the u.k. seeing a tense standoff between trade unions and the government a nationwide strike planned by teachers over a tough new rules on pensions and pay this follows a massive protest by subway workers that brought light into a standstill artie's tesser cilia reports. the surface there is 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 x. was real good 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 a shameful what's shameful is these vicious attacks on ordinary people the poorest in society they want to beat wages so that their friends can make bigger profits trade union members and gathered here in what they say is a show over systems to governments continued a steady 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 is such a we 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 the training for rules 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. historically very few news it pretty much help the british government to run something like increasing the minimum wage and introducing the living wage they actually increase unemployment they 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 course. score for the union time record is more cuts through. the next round could be just right around the corner i guess or so you are to. take a look now at some other stories making global headlines around the against israeli settlements left at least thirteen palestinians injured in gaza two more wounded in separate clashes in the west bank city of hebron israeli police used rubber bullets and tear gas on protesters who called for the opening of a major road that 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 killed at least twenty and wounded more than thirty suspicion over the attack has fallen on sunni insurgents have been targeting shiite civilians across the country since the start of the year violence in iraq has claimed more than a thousand. an explosion near an anti government protest site has wounded six people in thailand's capital bangkok no information so far who can 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 even going on for months calling for the prime minister to step down. new york state authorities planning to step up surveillance this time on schoolchildren the program which is to be launched statewide is supposed to gather information on students starting from age five as are he's a marine important i reports though the move is finding little support among 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 is creating a statewide database that will include the names addresses test scores learning disabilities attendance and disciplinary records of every single public school students that data collection begins at the age of five and a private company called in bloom has been contracted to store and protect the records of three point six million students education officials say the program can help companies who produce a teaching material to tailor their products to student needs however parents are not buying it more than four thousand have signed a petition rejecting the in bloom program including karen sproul who spoke with our

t.v. about her concerns for her ten year old son and millions of others the new york state department did not notify parents they didn't give x. for consent. we kind of just stumbled on it and discovered it just seems like parents were taken out of the equation completely in terms of protecting the children's privacy we were not aware that the new york state department made a deal with bill gates in blue nonprofit organization to upload all of our children's personal data. to parents as well. for the purpose of personalized learning for me this is particularly alarming because my child has special needs. and his school records are essential to his medical records whereas in any other instance releases would have to be signed for any of the information to be released to a third party you don't even know who will have access 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 of 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 austerity taking its toll on the health of the greeks as a report shows how slashing the country's budget recently as left tens of thousands are without basic medical care and open the door to dangerous diseases plus. as anti-government anger in venezuela seems to be reaching a boiling point we have striking images from the protests there all that's in our invision section.

and breaking the set coming your way next with host abby martin stay with us on r.t. 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 now actually 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 you 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. as a fellow when i close my eyes i see people who say. you know sometimes i think that

itself is a face covered by. those people in mosques on both sides of the barricades he was. with us sometimes it feels as if all of ukraine is no. was going on everyone i'm abby martin and this is breaking in. to me the feeling that a regular cup of joe just isn't enough to keep you up any more 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 is digital warriors and drone operators war alert the air force army and darpa are all participating in five separate studies with a price tag of two hundred grand a pop this government already relies on a video game methods to kill so is it turning soldiers in electrical conductors really the future of warfare i guess it's time we update that slogan the best part of waking up is an electric shock to the dome and let's break the set. it was a. very hard to take a. look. at her house back with that her 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.