transit route to vnukovo rippled you'll best lead to the house of mosco. ukraine's former prime minister read from jail after a parliamentary vote as opposition rioters seize the political heart of the country . and the president leaves the capital to the east where local authorities and deputies say they're taking control of their regions for now they claim crisis deals with the opposition in kiev were made under duress. by pm in moscow matras there bring you our breaking news coverage here on r t ukraine's opposition figurehead and former prime minister yulia timoshenko now free from prison after a parliamentary vote opposition activists are in full control of the country's

capital and the new interior minister says police are now on their side the president's residence stands virtually abandoned after the head of state himself fled the country or he is live for us in kiev to give us all the latest so alexei what's the situation on the ground right now in the capital. well we keep hearing some banging noises from time to time of this is fireworks with people celebrating what they believe to be their victory we first of all know that the country's former prime minister jailed unity machine and go will be released according to the parliamentary decision more than three hundred votes in that favor although i just saw a report by a local journalist and who says that you would see much tangos currently in a prison hospital which has been taken under heavy control by the police so it's not we cannot say that the machine co is out of the prison just yet we also do know that a new interior ministry has been appointed one of the figureheads of the year to my down protest outside of a he's already made several statements including the statement that the right wing

sects of the so-called right wing sect of the radical wing of the protest may be included in the interior ministries troop force says this is also interesting development here as we talk about key itself it's free of any violence it's relatively calm because this is literally no one to fight there's no police in the city at the moment all of the governmental buildings including the government itself the parliament and the presidential administration i just went there and witnessed with my own eyes they're all by the protesters amazing to see that because particularly the administration of the president building was the scene of probably the fiercest battles over the past three months now it's calm there and it's controlled completely by the protesters the president has fled the gradient capital and it's the biggest question now who is under control he has literally there's nobody representing the government now in the capital only z. opposition who are holding their session within the parliament and progressing at

a very fast rate accepting laws and changing fast changing the situation in the country the biggest question now of course is how the east of the country will react to everything coming out of the few right artie's lex haris have seen a lot of for us from kiev with that update thank you very much. and president unico bitch now reportedly in the eastern ukrainian city of harkov where local officials loyal to him have gathered around they have declared that they are now taking control of their respective regions bypassing rulings from the capital artie's marouf an ocean has more.

you know cool rich 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 the i've prayed that opposition including right wing didn't do all those radical elements 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.t. and the region but from another hand those politicians and ordinary people here on the ground not totally happy with what victor new college is doing as a president and particularly in this region is disappointed by the early paul deal that victory in accord was 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 meeting that you can see i hope behind me there are those who support the

local authorities and even the president still here but also the raw those who call themselves opposition and they say that they don't want to live in the country ruled by unocal beach and his people and so far it's peaceful but no one can say 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 we're seeing our first reactions from outside the country from the e.u. germany's foreign ministry is calling on both president and the opposition to hold true to the crisis solution deal they signed on friday germany was one of the sides that helped broker the deal signed that day the paper included an early presidential election and a return to the. two thousand and four constitution where more power was allocated to the parliament and the formation of an interim government but the radical activists in the center of the capital have ignored the opposition's part of the

deal instead of pushing for more violence until the president stepped down let's get some reaction on this from mark sloboda international relations security studies professor at moscow state university so germany's calling for all sides to stick with this agreement here but whose keep control of the element in the streets right now. well as the congress and hard cost has clearly stated already the agreement that was agreed to on friday between the. so cozy leaders of the opposition who actually have no control over what the might don mobs are doing at this point who is actually in control on the ground and the government a victory on a covert overseen by the european union which has been instrumental in fomenting this coup over the ukrainian government has been completely broken the

street says not being cleared of these armed militants they continue to occupy buildings just last night they occupied the presidential administration the rada the interior ministry they essentially control the entire government sector of kiev at this point. the president has fled there are reports that he has just offered his resignation but that is not confirmed but what we can see is that there has been a coup the deal agreed to has been broken and the congress in harkov has declared that any decisions taken by this parliament now have been taken without the work to subpoena sion of the majority of the party of regions and communist delegates and that any of its decisions are invalid because they have been made under threats of violence and death by the mobs that were literally

sieging the parliament and are now in physical control of it. so who do you think's in charge of the country now. that is the question. essentially no one person is in control of the country right now and we have seen quite clearly that klitschko yes. it's in your can john to block the three main opposition leaders they are not in control of what they have agreed to multiple times first the truce then this deal with the e.u. has been broken by the militants of the might not. last night klitschko went to a meeting of the my don he was booed whistled at and made to apologize when he was interrupted from the crowd that was upset that he would shake hands with the murderer yannick over. so he they are definitely not in control

it is obvious of course that the president's victory yet a covert you be still is indeed the president is not in control. if anyone is in control and it is difficult to say that anyone is in control of a revolutionary minded armed militant mob which is what the might don is at this point but the two key figures that have the most control at this point are dimitri your roche the ultra nationalist head of the right sector movement. and. andre karoubi a former skinhead and member of the social nationalist party which is what's photo turned into who is the self-proclaimed the commandant of the self defense units these are the militants of the might done which at this point number close to four thousand so we have this other element now that's entered this is wild card if you will yulia timoshenko release from prison what kind of

influence or reaction could there be from that on the streets do you think well this is very unusual because of course to michigan has an extremely high score and profile and she certainly still does have her supporters within the country within the fatherland party however the. people of the might don are not overly fond of yulia timoshenko her photograph was displayed on the carcass of the national christmas tree which of them i don decorated with their propaganda however that itself was controversial and according to high placed people on the my dime it was actually informally made unacceptable for quite some time over the last three months to shout freedom for yulia. yulia tymoshenko she could be seen as a as a power threat to the other three opposition leaders who are still trying to

maneuver for power between the three of them between the klitschko of the strike party between us and york who has been rich representing the fatherland party well then we should go was in prison for her crimes. and bach but also by these militant leaders who are actually more in control of anyone else at this point the people of the might do not trust yulia tymoshenko they regard her as somewhat of a attention seeking and they were extremely unhappy with her previous performances prime minister and they regard that she is actually ironically enough they feel that she is quite close to him in russia so there is not an overwhelming amount of real support for yulia actually argument all right thank you

for a time march from moscow state university thank you for having me political analyst in ukraine specialist jeff ski told me that ukraine he thinks is veering toward a power vacuum. i think that do you call which companies zoom 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 a student leader of let's say a and t. and t. might down the come there are too many leaders in the opposition and emotion will be one no one more so i don't really. see how do you position can be still united especially we observe very strong differences between do you know them i didn't. people do leaders of the opposition so i think i mean the next two weeks we will see maybe strong differences between insight you. were following the situation in ukraine closely on air and on line we have our crew

on the ground in kiev and in harkov overhead to check out our twitter update feed for the latest. rival turning to some of the day's other main news the mood much brighter on the slopes of sochi where a snowboarder vic wild has just handed rush a second gold medal and snowboarding putting on an unforgettable show for the fans let's hear all the latest from our team is paul scott live in the olympic city for us so paul i hear a second gold for vick was anything but easy tell us more on the challenges that he faced on the slopes. yes history has been created yet again here in sochi vic wild has become the first snowboarder to claim two gold medals at a single winter olympics he won his second of the games and russia's tenth in the

parallel slowly amounting to the gold he already won in the giant parallel slalom and i was actually a u.s. born but he became a russian citizen in two thousand and eleven after he married his russian girlfriend who incidentally also has a bronze medal to her name from these games let's see how that medal has effected the very latest medals table and you can see that russia has actually now moved up into second place they've got ten gold medals to their name that just behind norway who lead with eleven in fact it's more than a record for russia the most amount of winter olympic medals they've got in there a recent history canada and the usa complete the top four. and i gather the crowd of played a big part in yesterday's skating as well i understand. yes they they certainly did because i know the person who has been granted our russian citizenship is a victor and he's now won three gold medals in short track speed skating on friday

he won the five hundred meters before helping russia to win gold in the relay event as well on the unofficial a limpet record was actually set in the iceberg skating palace with the home crowd reaching well over one hundred decibels a noise level but its own isn't the only person who knows how to entertain a crowd. explains. comedian jimmy kimmel knew that the u.s. media would take the bait when he conspired with kate hansen from the u.s. lucia team and posted a video of a wolf supposedly wandering the hallways 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 actually walked past her laugh in the hallway and i'm not talking blitzer to feeding out from the door outside the olympic village i'm glad you're not in this hallway since i got it out of there there's a stray dog problem maybe they also have a straight wolf problem you've heard of the wolf of wall street how about the war

of the olympic village the wolf so that's not dummies from wall street in the movie thing you know not just now ok. here it says the only bullied. because it chills people that's a wolf well it was a wolf 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 wealth of sochi we were all duped but that's not the point it's 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 around with their heads on fire and so this fit in there and so they loved it they gave it up and. shows how there is a very small. thought paradigm that's allowed on most of our media and the things that fit in the paradigm are perfect you think you're right be you doing a great job ok i'd love to do this again would you consider bringing a live bear to the closing ceremonies. yeah let me see right can find this kind of

a lot of force going on here it might have as well been impaired the media would still buy it 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 argue. jimmy kimmel's great as indeed there's only a day left of the game is one of the athletes and fans up to as the count clocks down. while in just over twenty four hours time in the fish stadium behind me the closing ceremony will take place forty thousand fans will be bringing the curtain down on the twenty second winter olympics and my colleague martin andres has been out and about to meet fans from all over the globe to find out how they're celebrating a sochi and just the home straight. fan houses play an important role in the

olympics they get the fans together a special meeting points and a social venue is there a taste of home away from home for many it's also an opportunity to buy merchandise celebrate and meet their sporting heroes outside the park the alpine themed austrian house is located at the mounting cluster of krasnaya polyana 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 we're wrong and then we really know that the emotions of the olympics is so 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 guess 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 fans who visit feel they are members of the swiss and picked. they've got they've got beer and they've got so i think shankly any good it's perfect yeah absolutely right even though every time. there's a lady. at the chic and stylish fine 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 pick champions fancy and olympic teams jacket for team usa still 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 i came to sochi from austria after the games is finished to be used as a hospitality space in russia and various european skiing about this. hockey and be a seemed to go well together at kind of the house unfortunately it's also only for canadian nationals fancy a beer and try all possible to 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 plan houses of the winter olympics it's the gold medals for dru's r.t. sochi more news coming your way after a short break stay with us on r.t.

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twenty three minutes past the hour a trade unions in the u.k. coming up hard against the government as they organize strikes and stake their claim for workers' rights in tough financial times artie's tests are silly reports . below the surface there's a burning anger out of frustration that fury has led to a storm of 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 whenever the job x. 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 so their friends can make bigger profits trade union members have gathered here in what they say is a show persistence of the government's 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 the one of the first actions they took when they

came to office back in two thousand and ten 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 somethings like increasing the minimum wage and introducing 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 cots new workers plan their move and that next round could very well be just right around the corner. tess or so you are to monday . data millions of schoolchildren in new york state hoarded and handed over to private companies part of a massive program that's angered many parents he's worried important i reports. a

new data gathering program in new york state shows that not even america's youngest citizens can be spared from having their personal information collected and stored the department of education is creating a statewide database that will include the names addresses test scores learning disabilities attendance and disciplinary records of every single public school students the data collection begins at the age of five and a private company called in bloom has been contracted to 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

r.t.e. about her concerns for her ten year old son and millions of others the new york state department did not notify parents they didn't give x. for consent. we kind of just stumbled on it and discovered it just seems like parents were taken out of the equation completely in terms of protecting the children's privacy we were not aware that the new york state department made a deal with bill gates in blue nonprofit organization to upload all of our children's personal data disinclined to parents as well. for the purpose of personalized learning for me this is particularly 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 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 and entities that we have no idea who they are and what information would be really horrifying to me as a parent björk officials say the in bloom student data program will begin in april in the meantime thousands of parents say they are prepared to fight the state to think and now in order to protect their children's privacy reporting from new york r.t. on the money coming your way next after a short break. 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 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.

but with the economic downturn in the final months they. sang night and the rest of life it's a neat little beat every week. welcome to on the money where 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 far from a gloomy picture the government.