transit route to vnukovo ripples you'll best way to the heart of mosco. ukraine's parliament rules former prime minister an opposition icon yulia timoshenko must be freed from jail as anti-government radicals seized the political heart of the country. the president flees the capital to the east where local authorities in deputies say they're taking full control of their regions from now on a claim the crisis deals with the opposition in kiev were made under duress. six pm in moscow a mattress i bring you our breaking news coverage here on our t.v. ukraine's president says there's been a coup in the country while opposition icon and former prime minister yulia timoshenko is to be freed from jail after

a parliamentary vote on the matter opposition activists in full control of the country's capital and the new interior minister says police are on their side now the president's residence is standing virtually abandoned after the head of state himself fled the city or he's lex haris chef ski joins us live from the capital kiev with all of the latest alexei. yes indeed the biggest concern right now and the most unclear situation is regarding the fate of ukraine's president because some of the parliamentarians inside the parliament are saying that they had a conversation with the president and he virtually confirmed his willingness to resign from his position but there's come there's several quotes coming from the agency in ukraine which are quoting the president's advisor who said that the president will not be stepping down and described the situation as an attempted coup d'etat so this is very vague at the moment but we do know that the parliament has already voted with the overwhelming majority of votes to release the former

prime minister yulia tymoshenko an opposition icon from prison and we are expecting this to happen later on during the day we do know according to the reports in heart of that she is in a prison hospital still and the hospital is under the control of the police so only if the local governors allow this knowledge a machine to would walk free as far as we understand talking about key of here the situation is very unclear and unpredictable because it's completely out of control in the sense that nobody controls anything all governmental buildings now in the hands of the protesters even the administration of the president building where the fiercest fighting happened on december the first and on the wards now it's absolutely free to walk inside i've literally i managed to walk inside there and talk to one of the euro my down activist who told me that all this suggest that the president will never be returning to kiev amazing scenes coming from the residence of victory on the court which probably the former residents we can say right now with it completely being overrun by the protesters that are walking there taking

pictures and putting them on instagram we've seen pictures of documents presidential documents thrown into the pond nearby the residence and people are even playing golf on the grounds of the presidential residence next to kiev so this is the biggest question right now whether the protest is over because there is a certain set a feeling of victory. here at independence square the people are clearly feeling that they have won the firing fireworks into the skies and the biggest question now is whether this is all over because with the news coming from eastern ukraine it's hard to say whether ukraine will actually continue exist as a unified state alright artie's alexei live for us in kiev with the latest thank you much for that update and we have some more breaking news on this whole matter in ukraine to tell you about right now according to president on a covert she's made some comments on the record lately apparently the former speaker of the parliament has been beaten up and is now in a hospital in getting treatment for the attack that apparently he suffered that

according to president who is now reportedly in the eastern ukrainian city of harkov where local officials loyal to him have gathered they have now declared that they are taking control of their respective regions bypassing rulings from kiev if an ocean has more from that city. the resolution that the representatives of the your sources over 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 source is that they think are paralyzed and since today local sources will be unique poorest in charge of all political decisions here on the ground this resolution also says that the rock huge doubts that all a recent decisions and laws approved by the country's parliament are constitutional and deliberate overtly it was not yet particularly clear from this document to

whether local authorities here rick ignaz or don't recognize these decisions and these laws well this resolution in fact means a huge lead to 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 we are in hardcopy now and it's known as the capital of the eastern ukraine that traditionally supports the president viktor you know called rich and he 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 didn't hold those radical elements or 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 earth through social media to stand up and to defend the c.g. and the region but from another hand those politicians and ordinary people here on the ground are now. totally happy with what they do clearly she's doing as a president and particularly this reason is disappointed by the early poll deal that victory in the cooch signed with the opposition earlier their own friday and a vivid illustration of these division that we see here and we see in the entire country is this mixing to do you can see i hope behind me there are those who sit pulled the locals loosies 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 unocal beach and he's people.

in areas that are now saying they'll govern themselves are key to ukraine's economy southern and eastern ukraine comprise ten regions it's home to just more than half the country's population twenty three out of its forty five million the terry territory including huge areas a fertile land with enormous adjured cultural potential also the country's industrial heartland with most of the mines and factories there and of course all of ukraine's ports are situated here in the odessa region and the crimea were already have the first reaction from the e.u. germany's foreign ministry calling on both president and the opposition to hold a true crisis solution to hold rather to the crisis solution deal agreed to friday germany one of the size that helped broker the deal that was signed the paper included early presidential elections and a return to the two thousand two thousand and four constitution where more power was allocated to parliament and for the formation of an interim government radical

activists in the center of those seem to have ignored the opposition's part of a deal instead pushing for more violence until the president steps down mark sloboda a lecturer in international relations and security studies at moscow state university thinks the crowd in the streets lives by its own rules. agreement that was agreed to on friday between the. so close it leaders of the opposition who actually has no control over what the might on mobs are doing at this point who is actually in control on the ground there has been the deal agreed to has been broken and the congress in hard calls has declared that any decisions taken by this parliament now have been taken without the participation 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 what i call analyst new korean specialist jet ski says that ukraine is veering toward a power vacuum i think do you call which companies zoom more and more divided and i think that made quite a lot of errors so it's not sure he will be. student leader of let's say and t m t my down the come there are too many leaders in dio position and. more and 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. and to do leaders of the opposition so i think that even the next two weeks we will see maybe strong differences inside do you think you.

are following the situation in ukraine on air and online we have our crews on the ground in kiev and in harkov and remember to check out our twitter feed for the latest updates. turning now to some of the day's other main news the mood much brighter on the sochi slopes where a snowboarder vic wild has handed russia a second gold medal putting an unforgettable show on for the fans let's hear more about it now and more from marcie's paul scott live for us in sochi oh paul so i hear the second goal for vick was anything but easy tell us more. yes it's history created yet again here in sochi vick wild has become the first snowboarder to win two gold medals in a single olympic games he narrowly claimed russia's tenth gold here in sochi in the parallel slalom adding to the goat he'd already won in the giants' parallel slalom

while these u.s. born became a russian citizen in two thousand and eleven after marrying his russian girlfriend who incidentally has a bronze medal to her name here in sochi let's see how all of that affects the very latest medals table and you can see that russia are now up to second place just behind norway they have ten gold medals to their name their total of twenty seven medals in all is a record in the country's moten history it's kind of the in the usa who completes the top four. and i gather that the crowd played a big part also in yesterday's skating. they did another person to be granted russian citizenship victor and he's now won three gold medals in short track speed skating here in sochi on friday he won the five hundred meters before helping russia to gold in the relay and the atmosphere in the iceberg skating palace which you can probably just make out behind me was electric an unofficial

olympic record was set with the home fans reaching well over one hundred decibels but they weren't the only ones who may have had something to shout about gun a chicken 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 as we walked past her 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 since guys get out of there there's a stray dog problem maybe they also have a straight wolf problem you've heard of the wolf of wall street how about the wall of the olympic village the wall so that's not the me from wall street in the movie thing you know not just. here it's just unbelievable.

because it's still people that's a wolf well it was a wolf 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 dorm hallway in sochi turns out there is no wealth of sochi we were all duped but that's not the point that's fit with the whole the whole paradigm they 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's 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 love to do this again would you consider bringing a live bear to the closing ceremonies. yeah let me see what i can find in this kind of a lot of force going on here it might have as well be known bare 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 check out party. agree jimmy kimmel videos there are two well there's only one day left of the game one of the athletes and the fans are two now that the clock is counting down. yes and say in just over twenty four hours the closing ceremony will take place in the fish stadium that you can see behind me more than forty thousand fans will be inside bringing the curtain down on the twenty second of winter olympics and mark mandarin has visited a number of houses here in sochi to see how they're gearing up for the final. time 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 crossfire pollyana the wooden structure is partly open to all visit his 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 fall know that this is the emotions of the olympics to show huge and that's one in sydney for the first hour we open it up for fans as well since 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 fancy visits field they all members of the swiss and picked. they've got they've got beer and they've got signage on any it's perfect yeah absolutely right even there would never. leave us. at the chic and stylish 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 the 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 i came to sochi from austria after the games is finished it will be used as a hospitality space in russia and at various european skiing about. hockey and be a seemed to go well together kind of the house unfortunately it's also only for canadian nationals fancy a beer trial 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 socialising and various time houses of the winter olympics it's the gold medals for dru's party sochi. the g twenty four team promise this week ultimately an exhilarating winter for me

here in germany and it's now a make the rest of our lives take you staying for sochi twenty four take. on. stay with us plenty more coming your way after a short. transit route to vnukovo report you'll best way to the heart of mosco.

twenty minutes past the hour now the trade unions in the u.k. coming up hard against the government as they organize new strikes and stake their claim for workers' rights in tough financial times. reports from london. below the surface there's a burning anger out of frustration and 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 axe was wielded but once in awhile they score a point or 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 but 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 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 dollars 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 lea 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 on eligibility to claim unfair dismissal previously you had to be working for your current employer for just twelve months and change that two years the company is keen to undermine workers' rights businesses though beg to differ story clearly very soon is that pretty much help the british government's around somethings like increasing the minimum wage and introducing the living wage they actually increase unemployment to make it more difficult for employers to take on new people the second plan to block out of the month was called off at the last minute after concessions were made and talks resumed. score for the union this time but as more cots new workers plan to move

and that next round could very well be just right around the corner. to us or so you are to london. plenty more stories a click away on our team dot com including the c.e.o. of u.s. energy giant exxon mobil putting his weight behind a petition not to build a fracking infrastructure near his home and his reasons on r.t. dot com plus antigovernment protests heat up in venezuela as demonstrators light fires in the streets of the capital go to our web site to find out what's getting students riled up. data on millions of school children in new york state being collected and handed over to private companies part of a massive surveillance program that's angering many parents marine 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 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 dissing clues to parents as well. for the purpose of personalized learning for me this is particularly alarming because my child has special needs. and his school records are 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 your child's 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 to them it's 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 this state and now in order to protect their children's privacy reporting from new york r.t. take a look at some other global headlines this hour at least six people wounded in an explosion during an anti-government protest in thailand's capital bangkok local media say a grenade was pearled into a crowd violence has been rising in the country since five people including a police officer were killed on tuesday after security forces tried to dispose of demonstrators in the capital. funerals held the iraq after a mortar attack on the bustling capital market in baghdad killed at least twenty three rounds were fired leaving thirty five others wounded iraq has seen a recent surge in sectarian bloodshed to levels not seen since the height of the insurgency that followed the u.s.

led invasion extremist groups increasingly targeting civilians in their bid to undermine the government. iceland's government announced it will most likely withdraw its e.u. membership bid without holding a referendum in two ruling parties agreed on a bill to drop the application suspending e.u. membership talks have been one of the key election promises of the current government supporters of joining the bloc argue that the single currency would help stabilize their economy. breaking the set coming your way next stay with us after this short break. i just 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. and russia trees being gay is not criminalized there absolutely no punishment for

being gay in russia the only thing that these small occludes is spreading information family information on nontraditional sexual behavior what are you going to legislate against couples who swing you know who. you know trade partners or is it only a certain type of sex that you're legally able to you know is so why is propaganda you know it's so unclear. hello and welcome to technology updates this month we left the hustle and bustle of

moscow and went to tatarstan which is one of the country's innovation hot spots on today's show we meet some of cousins young scientists. we find out that making plane parts is a bit like baking a cake. and we can face to face with a modern day viking. cook first cousin has been pegged to become mrs capsule so it was the perfect place to kick off our trip. sun is the capital of the republic of tatarstan the city's historic site spawning back centuries of very modern metropolis and this innovation friendly environment makes it the ideal place for startups. on our first evening in the city we were met by a pair of young intrapreneur as keen to give us a demonstration of their road. as well as providing all the features of a traditional dash cam stop also uses computer vision technology to identify road

signs and display them on screen it's also remembers the speed limits of the road you on and politely remind you if you get a bit heavy on the accelerator the following day we went to i.t.v. parked right in the hearts of cousins business district builds in two thousand and nine with the sole purpose of boosting bush's i.c. industry the park's business incubator is a hive of activity which provides all the infrastructure and support necessary to help putting business men and women said the idea into a fully fledged company so it was the perfect venue for the russian starts approach shows stopping cars on the a bench organized in parts by skolkovo will pass through twenty seven cities by april this year giving a social of around three thousand stars hopes the chance to pitch their ideas to about five hundred investors and we arrived just in time to see the guys from bodog say to the stage. of stalls already pretty crowded with not endorsements and reality software.