transit route to vnukovo report you'll best way to the heart of mosco. dorothy's in eastern ukraine say they're taking full control of their regions from now on claiming that prices deals with the opposition here were made under duress this after the president fled the capital here have got a very loyal deputies and local officials around him. and in kiev parliament votes to release the jailed former prime minister as the capital falls to the hands of anti-government forces. four pm in moscow i match reza starting off with our breaking news coverage from ukraine where lawmakers loyal to the president have gathered in the eastern city of

harkov declaring that local authorities must take control of their respective regions bypassing any rulings from the capital let's get more live from our g.'s maria for an ocean of who is in harkov so maria what exactly are those officials saying. but not the resolution that the representatives of the assume are cecil's the eastern and southeastern ukraine adopted here today after their emergency meeting here in the city of halakhah a says that since today they no longer. obey the central solutions that they seem to have realized and since today local source she's will be a unique poorest in charge of all political decisions here on the ground this resolution also says that the rot huge doubts that all a recent decisions and lows approved by the country's parliament are close to q. she. although it was not yet particularly clear from this document whether

local authorities here recognize or don't recognize these decisions and these laws well this resolution in fact means a huge split of power here in the country and of course that this will add to the division that we already see not only in ukraine but even here in the eastern part of the country that we are in height of now and it's known as a capital of the eastern ukraine that traditionally supports the president viktor you know cool reach and it used to be a very unanimous region supporting more distant policies that the policies of western countries but we see that today population here is divided from one hand they are afraid that opposition including right wing and all those radical elements that can come here from kiev and it's not very hard it's less than five hundred kilometers away from the capital and we're hearing serious calls mostly these

messages sent from her through social media to stand up and to defend the c.g. and the region from another hand both politicians and ordinary people here on the ground are not totally happy with what viktor new college is doing as a president and particularly this region again mostly poor eastern region ventral western is disappointed by the in europe broader early paul deal that victory in a quote which signed with the opposition earlier on friday and a vivid illustration of these division that we see here and we see in the entire country is this mixing the two you can see i hope behind me the rather those who support the local authorities and. even the president is still

here but also the raw those who call themselves opposition and they say that they don't want to leave in the country ruled by going to cool beach and he's people and so far it's peaceful but no one can see where it's going to lead and how it may end given all the tensions that we've seen already here in the country in the last months right artie's maria emotional life for us in the heart of ukraine thank you very much for that update. well if you look at the crowds in the center of the capital kiev it looks like support for yanick overshoes resignation is overwhelming but calls for his impeachment have been out there on the web for some time now let's take a look at how much response they've been getting so far now this is a petition that you can see next to me here from anti-government activists that was launched back in december and managed to get about one hundred thousand vote or signatures so far but it's a small margin of the total population of the country which is about fifty million people and has also can be seen. on the petition itself some of those who are back

in peach mint didn't even live in ukraine itself we also talked with. we are speaking now actually we have a live connection with bruno jeff ski in paris he's a lecturer at the national institution of languages and eastern civilizations thank you very much for joining us on short notice here so we have these latest statements coming from the heart of that officials are being encouraged to take their law and their authority from the ground up in their own regions what are we seeing here in your opinion in ukraine what is a start of is a some kind of civil split division here what's your take on that. it is of course it is a possibility that it will be a split but for the moment i think it's a question of balance of power do eastern and southeastern ukraine want to give the impression they can they can put scare. interest in developing.

for the moment it's not maybe it's good but it's a threat that the country could be split if the evans' go too far from that point of view and so thinking about the remaining government officials who are still in kiev still think they're in control of the country how do you think they're likely to react to these statements. you know i don't really know if the government now is very united i think that do you call which company is more and more divided and i think at the end of it's made quite a lot of errors so it's not sure he will be. still the leader of the let's say and my down the come. i think that we will see in the next soon but next time next next week's new leaders appearing on both sides of the. political scene and speaking of new leaders and now we have this new twist in that

yulia tymoshenko is said to be released from jail adding her voice to the already strong opposition voices that we have on the streets there how do you think that's likely to affect the opposition you know i think that there is there are too many leaders in the opposition and timoshenko will be one no one more so i don't really . see how the a position can be still united especially we observed very strong differences between the you know the might didn't. people and delete use of the opposition so i think that in the next two weeks we will see may be strong differences inside you. and i think on that aspect of that timoshenko we'll be back is not a very good information for for most. and so it appears now as we've been reporting many have been reporting that ukraine is sort of torn between two poles the eastern and western side speaking of the western side of how do you

think it tends to lean more european how do you think european leaders are going to react to these latest developments you know if. a western ukraine is supposed to be more through europe into question is first of all don't. do view western europe crane house. i'm sending europe is not really realistic it's not the real europe they date they date they can identify with but rather something like in my two months you can europe since you know they are very snatching the least and european union it is a rather empty site that's the first first point second point to start what european union proposed to ukraine was never there i said by most political leaders in ukraine and do you know what they are proposing for ukraine is not really really what the nationalist want to have in ukraine so i think that there will be. if we

started some didn't give the illusion of western ukraine concerning what he's doing really existing european union let's say let's see what will happen but you know there is no very clear anyway. because just many very strong is a very strong country you don't reopen union. if we really want to stop eating in germany we see that there isn't differences between some german leaders dr wants to have very good relation with. economically took us and the ones who prefer to do so it's. more independent from me so even germany's not very clear which. future all right political analyst just came by for us in paris thank you very much for your analysis there and we do have some late breaking news to tell you about apparently according to the ria novosti

news agency ukraine's interior minister is saying it is the first time we've heard this that law enforcement on the ground in kiev is beginning to take side with the opposition so a very important new development that of course we're keeping on top of here on our team in this very late breaking story with a lot of fast moving details that we are on top of dana rohrabacher a u.s. congressman we spoke with about this issue and ukraine says he thinks that what we're witnessing now is a dangerous violation of the law. there's a lot and so there are hot heads among the people who are demonstrating and the they all word is peaceful as is being traded 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 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 we're following the situation closely especially these latest developments that we've given you on air and online we're covering it we have our crew in the eastern city of harkov in ukraine and our crew in kiev covering all of it for you you can get all the latest details on our twitter feed for the latest updates. and we're totally changing gears now to a much brighter picture that's on the soaps the slopes of sochi orissa lympics snowboarder vic wild has just handed to russia its second gold medal putting an unforgettable show on for the fans in snowboard anything but easy for him the u.s.

born wild perform what commentators call a minor miracle to get back in the race after finding myself at a severe disadvantage during the semifinals and all russia is now second medal is second in the medal rankings with the highest total haul in its modern history and as our tease and as our tease sochi team tells us it's not the only record that's been broken. russian supporters also broke a record with their vocal chords 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 and ball alike goes lower in rank and the u.s. media were there to wolf it down to can has the details. even jimmy kimmel knew that the u.s. media would take the bait when he conspired with kim ten some 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 tangibly walked past her room wolf in the hallway and i'm not talking blitzer to getting out from the door outside her win the olympic village i'm glad you're not in this hallway since gotten 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 the world. that's not the me from wall street to the movie thing you know not just. took on here it is unbelievable.

because it chills people that's a wolf well it was a war except not in sochi but in a b. c. studio in los angeles in a specially constructed for the cajun replica of the athletes' dorm hallway in sochi turns out there is no wolf of sochi we were all duped but that's not the point this fit with the whole the whole pair. a dime they had created about oh russia 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 think you rugby you did a great job ok i love to do this again would you consider bringing a live bear to the closing ceremonies. yeah let me see what i can find kind of a lot of force going on here but it might have as well be fair 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 and going to argue. 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 our team's martin andrews finds out they're having a blast. and houses play an important role if you live pics 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 crossed my pollyanna the wooden structure is partly open to all but it is for a small fee closer to the black sea coast holland heineken house is open for all the city's 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 we're wrong 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 or 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 get 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 visits field they all members of the swiss and picked. it got it they've got beer and they've got so i think shockingly any good it's perfectly fine yeah absolutely right even. if there's a lot of us. at 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 them pick champions fancy and olympic teams jacket for team usa store is the only place you can buy their official branded products in sochi a 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 came to sochi from austria after the games is finished it will be used as a hospitality space in russia and 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 from sea appear to 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 the gold medals or more to them drew's party 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 we call to make an exhilarating winter for the ninety eight here in germany and it's now a make every now and the rest of our lives news team for sochi twenty four take. on . and stay with us after the break when we come back we'll have more on the fast moving situation in ukraine. you know there's a new game and it's the hunger games thousand games plus unger equals gains. user on my website name kerry calling the phrase it was david cameron who invented the brutal game in which there are no housing games with hunger games.

low cholesterol. depression. to prove you are like. are you. one of those. twenty minutes past the hour now back to our top story rioters in ukraine's capital kiev have seized the political heart of the city they've stormed administrative buildings demanding the president's immediate resignation the head of state's residents now stands abandoned with only minimal protection from security guards

the president had to go but yourself said to be in the eastern part of the country in the city of horror called with several close advisers and local officials are. joining us now live from the capital kiev with more on this situation now what we've heard the latest information from the interior ministry that security forces are now starting starting for the first time to side with the protesters from your vantage point what are you seeing of law enforcement on the streets there in what's been known as the main square the made. you know there's no evidence of police joining either side of the conflict at the moment simply because there is no police on the streets whatsoever the only few security officers we know off are now in the presidential administration building and they are pretty much in control of the building together with the protesters together with my don activists i just went there and it's a bizarre scene because literally several weeks ago several days ago these were the stages of the probably the most fiercest clashes between the protesters and the

police now it's first of all it's violence free and second of all it's now controlled completely by the opposition as well as most of the governmental buildings in the city the building of the defense ministry the building of the interior ministry the parliament and the government pretty much there's no control of the governmental control in the ukrainian capital at the moment we course heard statements coming from some of the some of the leaders of the radical part of the right wing sect even today that. is not resigned by the end of the day they will do it themselves and the same sentiment was heard from the independence square yesterday when the concessions made by the government by the president to return to the twenty fifth two thousand and four constitution the early presidential election did not seem to appease the right wing part of the of the crowd they said that they want the president to be gone by ten o'clock in the morning otherwise they will use force but the president is no longer in the capital and it's a big question who is actually controlling the situation here in kiev at the moment

we do know that the parliament has been fast tracking several crucial decisions they've already named the new interior ministry one minister one of the heads of the year i don movement as well as naming a new speaker of the parliament early in the morning the previous speaker resign now one of the closest allies of units in the shank of the former prime minister mr bush has become the speaker of the parliament unity michelle herself and this is the latest news we've received has just been released from the prison in the city of critic of and probably this would mean some more developed. on the political stage in ukraine of course we're keeping track of everything which is happening here at the moment but definitely the developments are coming every minute and i wanted to ask you about that also with the news of timoshenko release obviously spread around the crowd there at this point is there any reaction from the crowd to these that particular development. oh i haven't heard any particular reaction coming from the crowd to that news at the moment as just came in literally minutes

ago but given that what they've been chanting yesterday and on several previous days and the fact that it's previous several weeks here that they want the machine code to be free she is pretty much the the leader who can unite these people here at the my done and be the sole leader running for the election probably for the presidential election but of course again it's really early to say i've heard so many opinions coming on twitter on facebook last night that ukraine has just released its future president from prison obviously was released is the biggest news at the moment except for me considering that they did the events which are happening in the eastern ukraine as well all right he's like sara shares the live for us in kiev thanks for that update. trade unions in the u.k. coming hard up against the government as they stake their claim for workers' rights in tough financial times teachers groups planning a new day of nationwide strikes i could push tensions to a boiling point or teased us are silly reports from london. below the surface

there's a burning anger out of frustration that fury has led to a storm of bad government criticism take to be some 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 when 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 down 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 a steady cost the unions have seen their numbers grow for the first time in

a decade reaching six point five million members in two thousand and twelve in the one nine hundred eighty s. margaret thatcher's government went head to head with unions introducing legislation that essentially made it more difficult to carry out strike action and not much has changed since then one of the first actions they took when they came to office back in two thousand was to change the rules on eligibility to claim unfair dismissal previously you had to be working for your current employer for just twelve months for a change that two years the company is keen to undermine workers' rights businesses though beg to differ story clearly very soon is 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 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 cuts and lube workers plan their move and that next round could very well be just right around the corner. dozen or so you are to. report coming up stay with us. i did for 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. 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 this mysterious 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 is 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 pain.