with the euro project could it be said the new right is really the right that we're hearing. ukraine's president condemns what he calls a coup and defies calls to step down he's now in the east of the country where local authorities say they're taking full control of the regions. and in the capital the opposition led parliament votes to impeach the president a former prime minister yulia timoshenko is freed from jail and vows to run for office. and the european mediators that helped broker a crisis deal for ukraine say the opposition has failed to comply with its terms of russia urges the e.u. to rein in the radicals. this is our international within twenty four hours

a day life from our studio center here in moscow breaking news now. in ukraine have voted to impeach the president viktor yanukovych for crimes against the people well that's the latest ruling by the now opposition dominated parliament artie's alexi had a chef he has the latest for us from the capital. a constitutional majority of more than three hundred thirty votes in the side of parliament would definitely impeach the president so as it stands according to the law he is impeached and moreover we know from from how to co-found this has been confirmed that the former prime minister yulia timoshenko the arc rival of unocal which has left the prison hospital and now on her way to kiev. is defined he says he will not accept any decisions coming from the parliament he still is the acting president according to himself and he earlier equated everything happening in the country to a quota tot he even made a comparison to nine hundred thirty situation in germany when the nazis were coming

to power he said that he will continue touring south and east of ukraine talking to his electorate because that's where he feels safe in a car which also said that he's car was shot out on friday when he was trying to leave kiev for the east of ukraine meanwhile kiev itself is no longer controlled by anyone we know that the opposition protesters are controlling all of the governmental buildings in the city and my call if you go to skin off went down on the streets of kiev to see exactly what the situation is there right now less than twenty four hours ago this area was probably among the most high security areas in the whole country the street in front of the president's administration which was guarded by several lines of ukrainian alpha swat teams one of the waltzed well trained and loyal security forces in the country and now the situation clearly has changed and so have the gores of this area since this street along with fire city are under the complete control of the protesters and now locals are just coming to

see the situation with their own eyes on the fighting has calmed down taking pictures and also just seeing this area since it was also one of the first spots where the first fierce fighting took place back in december. now the police have completely left the city and we've we're getting reports that the president's residence outside of town has also been abandoned by officials and now locals are just coming in there and taking pictures of exotic animals at the zoo inside the president's parents' car collection secret documents and other things were basically just abandoned as officials fled the city now the protesters are also controlling the exits from kiev especially the roads leading to the main airports checking the i.d.'s of drivers and passengers making sure that no more officials are able to flee the city in the meantime. has been passing new laws like

a hot printing press scores of people are still. square on independence square where they're paying respects to those killed in the violence and are demanding for president to step down like i said the police is out of the city pretty much most of the officials are gone the whereabouts of amir are also unknown and it's now under the complete control of the protesters but the question is how long this format of sort of unusual living will be able to continue without officials present here. well meanwhile in the eastern city of homs local officials loyal to the president have gathered and they've declared they are taking control of their respective regions bypassing any rulings from camp. the resolution that the representatives of the a source east of the eastern and southeastern ukraine adopted here today after

their emergency meeting here in the city of halakhah says that since today they no longer obey the central source is that they think are paralyzed local sources will be in charge of all political decisions here this resolution also says that the raw huge doubts that all a recent decisions and laws approved by the country's parliament are constitutional and deliberate this resolution in fact means a huge plate 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 we are in hardcover now and it's known as a capital of the eastern ukraine that traditionally supports the president viktor you know called richard 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 it's from another hand both politicians and ordinary people here on the ground are not totally happy with what victor new college is doing as a president and particularly the early paul deal that victor in a quote which signed with the opposition the rather those who support the local authorities and even the president but also the wrath of 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. well the areas that are now saying they will govern themselves from the backbone of ukraine's economy southern and eastern ukraine comprising ten regions is home to just over half the country's population twenty three out of forty five million other territories pleats huge areas of land with enormous agricultural potential it's also the country's industrial heartland with

most of the mines and factories and of course all of the country's ports are situated here in the adesa region down in the south and the crimea well graham phillips is a ukraine based british journalist he is in a death so right now let's go live to him now and discuss this ongoing crisis graeme where you are now what is the atmosphere what is the feeling in the south of the country there on the black sea coast is very intense and it's very also i mean this is being rollercoaster twenty four hours i mean you're looking at a day ago you had an agreement signed which was supposed to restore peace to you cry which was signed by the opposition leaders and then you had them go to lie down and be glad we did it this is of course. forcing you know iconic cigar goodbye to crowds who stated that they would storm that presidential residence and i hope iraq today which they did and in the last day we've seen a new speaker we've seen them shanker really seen both it's all in an absolute

floor and we've seen of course got to college i reported to him this morning the united arab emirates or america the poll of course he was then in hockey he so this is been an absolute what would be the day i think you just struggling to make sense of what's happened in the current situation is because what she needs we all know and doing every single second of the last time we spoke we talked about the divisions between the east and west in the country that split is really becoming very clear now did you expect it to happen that quickly. well you have to look at the theater in which you're changing the answers of action and it shows your low by the country when you leave which is fifty miles away from poland and united flight six hundred thirty miles across the country to hockey which is about seventy miles for russia and that really gives you an idea of the breadth of the nation and the signs that ukraine which is six hundred thousand over six hundred thousand square kilometers it's germany and then haul from there more again so it's huge of course a very important point today is crimea which is geographically land white small

twenty six thousand square kilometer its significance enormous imagine the where the action. is going on because they. have gone back here to. talk about the raw police there just just to make it clear the folks who the the russian police here lash roy and if we welcome back it's euros and you can't use movements last day in crimea today declaring their wish to be right it's like that with russia sure let's talk about the political political situation now germany in the u.k. have just announced their support for this new government there in kiev and yet they are criticizing the opposition for not complying with that peace deal so how much for publishers is that it's a good idea while that was the day alexander that searching walked through for so for a few days as acting prime minister under to machine because government he spoke to this b.s. speak out hope murata this is ukraine's parliament i'm going to you. prime minister

and the lady's become acting president so you've got a man who starts the day as a member of parliament is not the acting president and you go on really a problem which is it's hard to say in hockey have stated that they do not ratify that when it's all right then you can expect a lot of that what about what about the in effect the new player on the stage now who of course appeared on the stage a while ago euna tymoshenko she just before freed from jail what sort of impact and influence could she have bearing a much he's been in jail for a long time now you know this situation is absolutely laced with already is number two shanker release and you could really say that to machine course perhaps the most corrupt political leader that you claim has ever had you've got a coach or is being prime minister you playing three times and he's sixty three it doesn't look like in a coach's time zone what to machine code is the epitome of not only that yesterday's woman with the tall reached forward political leader out with a reputation for indemnity corruption and not of course presidential election set

for maybe twenty states however one could yesterday was an agreement which strips the president of any real powers so you're still going to be voting in a president who's going to be presiding over all that which is dominated still by party of regents technically although the fact that many of them have fled the country means that folks have been passed through i mean i think so the real calm and i mean it's from seeing the gods that my dad and dogs in the cold towards the whole were all to you what you would like to have to be very brave to quote against any movement of the opposition a person forward today british journalist graham phillips live from modesto thanks very much indeed for your insolence well britain and germany's top diplomats as i was saying now supporting the new government now this is the spot in the mission from european powers that opposition protesters have failed to comply with the terms of the crisis deal brokered on friday now these are among the countries that have shown themselves more than willing to use their influence in the capital

throughout the unrest smith reports now from london. we've seen slightly surreal things like polish deputies setting up tents on the my dad and making speeches distributing polish delicacies to the protesters we've seen the u.s. undersecretary of state victoria nuland distributing cookies we hear and we've also seen the lithuanian foreign minister handing out warm love to the protesters and these are also the physical manifestations of this seemingly unconditional support that western powers have offered to the protesters since the very beginning and in fact up until recently they've been calling them peaceful protesters and essentially they they took sides right through the very beginning condemning your thirty's and and supporting the opposition seemingly no matter what it did and then of course. they steal from germany and poland and also seemingly at whatever cost in fact the media's most to get hold of a video of a polish minister writers love sikorsky telling an opposition leader you will all

be dead if you don't agree to this deal talking about the possible imposition of martial law i know of this brew could deal in place brokered by france germany and poland but even they have now been forced to admit that the deal isn't working that basically the opposition leaders on sticking to their current of the side of the deal that their involvement was essentially worthless. they took the opposition's side it hasn't handed in its arms it hasn't stopped using force the barricades are still there the buildings are still occupied and that's despite the police force having pulled out of the center of kiev as we know so well that food and postering basically on able. seen electorate in international relations and security studies at moscow state university says the mob is playing by its own rules here. 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 there has been. a 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 over a million my colleague trying to discuss the threat of radicals coming to power with charles shoe bridge you spent some time in ukraine watching political developments there let's have

a listen to this first that. as long as i live i will fight against jews communists and russian scum now that is an activist from the right sector an organization that will be incorporated with the police according to one of the opposition leaders as a former police officer do you think that someone you'd want joining the ranks of law enforcement. i think your question is rhetorical because it's really clear that these kind of people who are advocating if you like the street violence even yesterday. deep inside one b.b.c. broadcast was an activist being interviewed who said that they didn't want for example in the rich to be tried or anything like this they just wanted him killed the media here and even government figures have started to question the makeup of at least some of these protestors including the fact that as we've seen on our own television screens unavoidably over the last forty eight hours and longer that many of them are heavily armed it's also clear that that i think we can see from the

rapid scale of what might be called defections amongst police the neutrality shall we say of the armed services in this or at least the elections of the armed services to intervene in what is after all a public order security situation within ukraine can be seen if you like almost as a mutiny it's also clear that. there may have been some form of negotiations some sort of activism going on behind the scenes with links with various political groups to the armed forces and perhaps even within the police itself certainly in the west of ukraine that wouldn't be a surprise political analysts new crane specialist bruno jet ski told us that the country's veering towards a complete power vacuum. i think that do cause which companies more and more divided and i think that he. made quite a lot of errors so it's not sure he will be. still the leader of the let's say anti anti might on the come there are too many leaders in the opposition and. more

and more so i don't really. see how the a position can be still united especially we observe very strong differences between you know the my didn't. people do leaders of the opposition so i think that in the next two weeks we will see maybe strong differences between insight you think. well of course we're following the unfolding situation and online plus we've got news crews in kiev and eastern ukraine and forgot to check the r.t. twitter feed for that latest updates. more international news for you after the break this is an international life here in moscow.

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the slopes of sochi are abuzz as russia takes the men's seven kilometer relay gold and jumps to the top of the medal rankings for scott's told us all about it and the lady here on the international. scene another golden day for russia here in sochi with twenty four hours or so away from the end of the games and the host nation has surged to the top of the medals table two golds coming on saturday the latest in the biathlon men's relay that earlier history was created yet again here in sochi vic wild becoming the first snowboarder to win two gold medals in

a single olympic games he ever so narrowly won the inaugural parallel slalom outing to the gold he'd already won in the giant parallel slalom wild as u.s. born but 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 while there was also a bronze medal for russia in the speedskating in the women's perceived in the ag arena behind me so let's see how all of that affects the very latest medals table and you can see russia the hosts lead the way now with eleven gold medals that total of twenty nine medals overall is a record in the country's modern history norway in second place canada and the usa complete the top four pick to ron was the man of the moment on friday he has 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 inside the iceberg skating palace was electric and unofficial a limp it record was set with the home fans reaching well over one hundred. but

they were the only ones who may have had something to shout about the night you can explains comedian jimmy kimmel knew that the us media would take the bait when he conspired with keith henson 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 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 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 war of the olympic village the world so that's not the man from wall street in the movie you know it's not just going. on here it's is unbelievable. is it 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 replica of the athletes' dorm hallway in sochi turns out there is no wealth of sochi we were all do but that's not the point is fit with the whole the whole paradigm they have created about oh russia is so scary it's so crazy it's pandemonium people running around 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 paradigm or 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 ceremony. 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 bear the media would still bite jimmy kimmel's prank like nothing else has called out the us media on their obsession with finding faults with the sochi olympics.

in washington i'm going to shut down. the closing ceremony will take place in the fish stadium that you can see behind me more than forty thousand fans will be inside the ground twenty second the room full of books and mark nine hundred has visited a number of houses here in sochi to see how they're gearing up for the final week a. fun house is play an important role in the olympics they get a fans to get a respectful 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 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 are wrong and then we really all know that the emotions of the olympics to show huge and that's one in sydney for the first all we open it up for fans as well. 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 guest sentence that is free and open to the public for the very first time switzerland has designed the construct of 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 so i think shankly any good it's perfect yeah absolutely right even. if there's a lot of 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 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 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.

hockey and be a seem to go well together kind of the house unfortunately it's also only for canadian nationals fancy a beer can 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 planning houses of the winter olympics it's gold medals for martin andrews r.t. sochi. thirteen twenty fourteen plus the week ultimate and exhilarating winter for ninety eight here in germany and it's now a make the rest of our local news team for sochi twenty four take. on. any more for me from sochi in the next hour and we'll be following those developments in ukraine in just over half an hour now making sense of the numbers next on the money.

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 and that is a lot of people and the swiss are worried that the increased foreigners will also mean increased crime rent prices burden of state and erode traditional local culture as modern immigration almost always does this was population's democratic choice to restrict immigration is next with being blasted by the e.u. brass with 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. but with the economic downturn in the final months they. sang night and the rest of life it's a neat way to be a prickly. 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 while far from a gloomy picture the government has its work cut out for it to return the economy to dynamic expansion will it succeed. discuss this and more i'm joined by timothy crouse he is the head of the russia bank opportunity fund it i see asset management company we also have simon phantom fletcher he is the portfolio manager at renaissance asset managers and we have we savor what he is the chief economist at deutsche bank russia you had a softball start out with you they had hoped january would have been a better month what kind of picture do you see unfolding for the first quarter. well i think certainly january was quite weak and the main culprit was fixed

investment so the investment side continues to be the weakest link in russia's growth performance but there is hope that we might have some recovery especially on the consumption front because we have the olympics and according to various estimates the contribution from the olympics for russia's g.d.p. could be as high as zero point three to zero point four percentage points for the euro as a whole so on a monthly basis of could be even more emphatic. so for the quarter as a whole it will be a difficult period but there are some rays of hope and some triggers that may make russia look a bit better than in january. groups are going to look just beyond the first quarter just a little bit because i think we're rushers today they need to think about dealing with some of the structural problems in the economy.