ukraine's president condemns what he calls a coup in kiev 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 their regions. and in the capital the now opposition led parliament votes to impeach the president while former prime minister yulia timoshenko is free from jail arrives in kiev and val's to run for office. and the european media that helped broker a crisis deal for ukraine say they will support the new government of meting the opposition has violated the agreement.

this is not international within twenty four hours a day live from here in moscow so our breaking news this hour in ukraine have voted to impeach the president viktor yanukovych for crimes against the people now that's the latest ruling by the now opposition dominated parliament. has the latest 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 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 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 top he even made a comparison to nine hundred thirty situation in germany when 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 michael if you go to skin off when 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 has been guarded by several lines of ukrainian alpha swat teams one of the most 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 tire city are under the complete control of the protests or so 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 and now the police have completely left the scene. and we were getting reports that the president's residence outside of town has also been abandoned by officials and now will calls 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 the officials fled the city in the meantime. has been passing new laws like a hot printing press scores of people are still on my down square on independence square where they're paying the respects to those killed in the violence and are

demanding for president to step down 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 protestors but the question is how long this format of sort of unusual living will be able to continue without officials present here. meanwhile in the eastern city of homs local officials loyal to the president have gathered they've declared that they are taking control of their respective regions bypassing any rulings from camp. has been. the resolution that the representatives of the us or seas over 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 that 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 can come here from kiev and from another hand those 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 the victor in a quote which signed with the opposition the rather those who support the local

solutions 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 which and his people. all the areas that are now saying they will govern themselves from the backbone of ukraine's economy southern and eastern ukraine comprise of ten regions that's home to just over half the country's population over twenty three out of forty five million the territory includes huge areas of fertile land with enormous agricultural potential it's also the country's industrial heartland with most of the mines and factories there and of course all of the country's ports there situated in the south in the adesa region and the crimea well the u.s. secretary of state has said that washington will put pressure on the opposition in kiev to comply with the terms of the crisis deal brokered on friday however british

and german top diplomats say they will support the new self declared government and these are among the countries that have been wielding their influence in the capital throughout the unrest what is your 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 from the very beginning condemning the authorities and and supporting the opposition seemingly in a 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 and now believe it or not we have 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 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 all that food and postering basically on able to ensure any kind

of heat. sloboda senior lecturer 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 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 over. my colleague not

trying to discuss the threat of radicals coming to power with charles hsu bridge he spent some time in ukraine watching political developments there now let's have a listen to this for us 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 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 protesters 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 analyst but in a jet ski told us that the situation is now very into words a complete power vacuum. i think that do you call which company is 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 do you position can be still united especially we observe very strong differences between the you know them i didn't. people to leaders of the opposition so i think that in the next two weeks we will see maybe strong differences between insight you think. we're following the situation in ukraine on air and online plus we've got news crews in kiev and the countries east that i forget to check the r.t. twitter feed for the latest updates.

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the slopes of so cheer balls as russia takes the men's seven kilometer relay gold and jumps to the top of the medal rankings well scott told us all about it earlier from sochi. been another golden day for russia here in sochi with twenty four hours or so away from the end of the games in the host nation has surged to the top of the medals

table two golds coming on saturday the latest in the biathlon men's related earlier history was created yet again here in sochi think 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 while the 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 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 it's norway and second place canada on the usa complete the top four brits are on 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 an unofficial olympic record was set with the home for hands reaching well over one hundred decibel 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 u.s. media would take the bait when he conspired with keep him from the us lose 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 off 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 wolf so that's not the meat from wall street or the

movie thing you know it's not just ok. here it's is unbelievable. thanks because it chills 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 duped but that's not the point that's fit with the whole the whole paradigm they had 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 is a very small thought paradigm that's allowed on most of our media and the things that the. not paradise or perfect thank you thank you rugby you did a great job ok i'd love to do this again would you consider bringing a live bear to the closing ceremonies i yeah let me see where i can find this kind

of all right of course going on here but it might have as well be named 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. thanks in washington i'm going to shut down parts of the closing ceremony will take place in the fish stadium that you can see behind me more than forty thousand fans will be inside around the twenty second the room full of bricks and mortar nondrinkers visited a number of houses in sochi to see how they're gearing up for the final. time houses play an important role in the olympics they get a found out of 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 the 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 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 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. and then we all know that the emotions of the olympics show huge and that's one. 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 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 fans who visit feel they are members of the swiss and the big team. they've got it they've got beer and they've got so i think shankly me it's perfect yeah absolutely right even. if there's a laugh. at the chic and stylish tan 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 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 seemed to go well together kind of the house unfortunately it's also only for canadian nationals fancy a beer can try your passport 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 time houses of the winter olympics it's gold medals or drew's arty sochi. the g. twenty four team promising an exhilarating winter. here in germany and it's now a make the rest of our lives for sochi twenty four take. on. and

plenty more from the lympics in the next international trade unions in the u.k. coming up hard against the government as they would as new strikes and stake their claim for workers' rights in tough financial times reports below the surface there is 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 and have a good job axe was wielded but once in a while they score a point where do workers go on strike london grinds to a halt quite literally for two days in february that's exactly what happened at trade unions were 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 be 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 cut 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 there was the first actions they took while they came to office back in two thousand was the training of the rules eligibility to trade. previously. you had to be working for your current employer for just twelve months for a change but two years the company is keen to undermine workers' rights this is. historic days you know still pretty much help the british government. run some

things like increasing the minimum wage and introduce him a living wage to actually increase unemployment or make it more difficult for employers to new people the second blood to block out a good month was called off at the last minute after concessions were made and talks resume score for the unions in this style but as more cuts new workers. and that next loud could very well be just right around the corner. dozen or so you are to. turn out to have a look at some of the international headlines in brief this these six people have been injured in an explosion during an anti-government protest in thailand capital bangkok local media say a grenade was holed into the crowd and violence has been escalating in the country since five people including a policeman were killed on tuesday after security forces trying to disperse demonstrators in the capital. iceland's government has announced it will most likely withdraw its e.u. membership bid without holding a referendum to ruling parties have agreed on

a bill to drop the application suspending even be shipped to one of the key election promises of the current government supporters of joining the bloc had argued that the single currency would help stabilize the economy. well that's it for the moment more news from the olympics also of course those developments in ukraine in just over half an hour from now in the meantime breaking the set of battles media fiction with all that cold fact that's next on r.t. international but for you in the u.k. it's george galloway's programs. yes.

i did first 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 bloods you 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. cholesterol. depression. are you. know.

what's going on everyone i'm abby martin and this is breaking in said to me the feeling that a regular old cuppa joe just isn't enough to keep you up anymore well the pentagon has a new solution that it's planning to try it on american soldiers and i know i say this a lot but the latest development is a little really shocking because they're planning to zap their brains with electricity that's right the pentagon has already begun to experiment with this new shock therapy which it says could keep the u.s. military's digital warriors and drone operators more alert the air force army and darpa are all participating in five separate studies with a price tag of two hundred grand a pop this government already relies on a video game methods to kill so is it turning soldiers in electrical conductors really the future of warfare i guess it's time we update that slogan bass part of waking up is an electric shock to the dome and let's break the set.

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you went back in time to be eighteen hundreds while in the grand canyon state gold fashion draconian discrimination so yesterday the arizona state legislature just passed a law allowing business owners to refuse service to gays and lesbians the naeyc will pay to females withhold birth control for unmarried women and skirt legal contractual obligations only name a religion yes that's right this wide ranging to korea allows individuals to skirt federal and state anti-discrimination laws if the reason for doing so is on account of religious beliefs arizona governor jan brewer has yet to decide if she will approve or veto the law and similar legislation scuse me has also been brought up in states like idaho tennessee south dakota and kansas but none of those bills have actually passed state legislatures and as such arizona is poised to become the first state in the twenty first century to codify discrimination on such a large scale and tovar the state democratic minority.