released from prison ukraine's former prime minister yulia timoshenko addresses the crowds in central kiev and urges protesters not to leave independence square that's after parliament votes to free her and dismiss yannick of which. the president condemns what he calls a coup in kiev and defies demands to step down now in the east of the country where local authorities say they're taking full control of their regions. and the european mediators that helped broker a crisis deal for ukraine say they will support the new government one admitting the opposition has violated the agreement.

this is not international with twenty four hours a day live from a student center here in moscow so breaking news this hour ukraine's former prime minister yulia timoshenko has urged the protesters in kiev to stay put until their demands are met she addressed the crowd today independence square just hours after being released from prison lawmakers have now voted to victim which for crimes against the people that's the president has refused to step down and accuse the opposition of an attempted coup. is watching the situation in the capital which is transformed from scenes of deadly violence to united crowds. the peace with which that's have been unfolding here in kiev hasn't changed one bit it hasn't slowed down at all since. the country's former prime minister an opposition leader has been released from jail by the deputies of the fallout and shortly after coming out she pledged to run for office and that could happen very soon since the other thing

that the deputies voted on was the date for an early presidential vote according to their plans that's going to happen at the end of may and to also deputies of the rada have dismissed president you know from his duties basically saying that he knocked himself out of the game by leaving his whole soul so new ministers are being appointed now such as the minister of justice known to be quite a far right figure in fact is being announced that right wing radicals are going to be very present and involved in the country's a new law enforcement and we're also hearing that now the former justice minister and the minister of tax and revenues they've been arrested while attempting to flee the country now president viktor yanukovych he's not in kiev himself has been going around the eastern part of the country where he's originally from gathering supporters who rejects all the new laws passed by the deputies of the rada saying that he's still the man in control

of the country and basically saying that the power in ukraine has been hijacked by terrorists and hooligans and the police in the meantime have stepped onto their side on june thirtieth the city is completely controlled by the protesters and for more about how life here is right now here's a report we made earlier we went down to the streets to see it with our own eyes was on 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 walls. well trained and a loyal security forces in the country and now the situation clearly has changed and so have the gores off of this area since this street along with the city are under the complete control of the protests and so now locals are just coming to see

the situation with their own eyes 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 city and we've we're 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 off exotic animals at the zoo inside the president's parents' car collection secret documents and other things which were basically just abandoned as the officials fled the city in the meantime the rod 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 so like i said the police is out of the city

pretty much most of the officials are gone the whereabouts of the mayor are also unknown and it's now under the complete control of the protesters but the question is how long this format sort of unusual living will be able to continue without officials present here. and according to reports protests as of now besieged a prominent orthodox christian ministry in central can and educate planning to remove it from the jurisdiction of the russian patriarchy when i discuss the threshold radicals coming to power with charles shubert she spent some time in ukraine watching political developments there and let's have a listen to this first thing. 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 those 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 on 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 looks of the armed services to intervene in what is after or 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 meanwhile in the eastern city of harkov local officials loyal to the president have gathered they've declared they are taking control of their respective regions bypassing now any rulings from kiev. as more. a nation turning team russia one isn't starting today local authorities are in charge of all political decisions on the ground in these realists we have to protect our land. the sources of ukraine's eastern and southern regions gathers in how to for an emergency session and decided that they no longer take orders from kiev while in the capital parliament declare that these people must be brought to justice as separatists we think that the central authority is

a paralyzed and that their decisions cannot be considered constitutional while deputies in ca to covered up the resolution splitting the country's system of governance in their region has recently shown signs of being far from unanimous what happened in kiev left a local population base divided and dissolution and many fear that radicals from the capital could bring violence in their wake but others condemned the president's agreement with the opposition colonnade surrender the traditional russian region had his major power base could stumble over the you brokered crisis deal that the head of state signed on friday evening i'm shocked and disgusted by the actions of the president that i never expected anything like this from him years ago i never thought he'd ever betray the grammys people that i thought that he'd hold on to the end of a gun you love or not but i'm unhappy because then someone has to join the e.u. and be a them back i'm cool i say they're free to do this and they can go on and live in

the e.u. unreadability a little them lasted all day and resume used to being free cherishing ounce addition to his opposition views which are in the minority here sound surprisingly similar love the solid but we are fed up with our government we no longer consider curbishley our president as a party of regions or a bunch of thieves but they're suffocating the population after deadly clashes here things are heating up here too the man is quickly surrounded by those who don't share his. pinioned. back that if it's right to use my gun brownies and he wants to bring violence with him and then tries to assure everyone that he leaves one hundred of the police are insisting that the repeal of today's rally in the center of hard have brought together both supporters of those forces and the opposition and was quite pleased hall but here which recently became a symbol of players for many ukrainians and a source of great fear is less than five hundred kilometers away and no one can

guarantee that its mood of anarchy will not spread here written off not seen from higher in eastern ukraine. the areas that are now saying they will govern themselves make up the backbone of ukraine's economy now southern and eastern ukraine comprises ten regions it's home to half of just over the country's population twenty three of its forty five million other territory includes huge areas of fertile land with enormous agricultural potential it's also the nation's industrial heartland with most of the mines and factories and of course all of the country's ports are situated here in the self in the. crimea region well earlier i discussed the possibility of a country splitting into two with political analyst so he struck and his thoughts. i don't want to belong to that category of analysts who is saying that ukraine would fall apart tomorrow the scenario seems to be removed but at the same time we

should not rule out the idea of for the organization of ukraine i mean we say for the for the recession we have to explain what does this actually this is their confidence and. in the sunni area of divorce in that type of you remember that the rabbi would do well significantly you mean where the loyalties towards that. would be recognized that's right that's right but at the same time we have to understand that the new government will never go into. chaos and madness they would think all of the balance of the interests of regional political and business elites he failed to do this then of course ukraine me for all of. us if you just stated said washington will put pressure on your position in kiev to comply with the terms of a crisis deal brokered on friday with british and german top diplomats say they will support the new government is remotely countries that have been wielding the influence in the capital throughout the rest of the store smith reports 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 gloves to the protesters and these are also the 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 and essentially they they took sides right through the very beginning condemning your thirty's 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 rightists 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 of 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 create. more sloboda he's a 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. suppose it leaders of the opposition who actually has no control over what my done 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 and our cause has declared that any decisions taken by this parliament now have been taken without the participation of the majority of the party of regions in 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 well we're following the situation there on air and online plus we've got our news crews in kiev and eastern ukraine don't forget to check the altie twitter feed for the latest updates.

on international life here moscow we've got more news coming up after this short break including a look at saturday's heated competition at the some winter and then picks the last day. look. look it was terrible they are looking very hard to take a look a little longer here

a lot of that back with the earthquake there's no. place. to. live. look. upon. the slopes of sochi her buzzers russia takes the men's seven kilometers out relay gold and jumps to the top of all the medal rankings full scots as all of the tales

. mean another golden day for russia here in sochi 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 related 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 in sochi while there was also a bronze medal for russia in the speedskating in the women's perceived in the adler 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 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 if you can explains comedian jimmy kimmel knew that the u.s. media would take the bait when he conspired with keith henson from the u.s. 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 are still left in the hallway and i'm not talking blitzer

sitting out. in 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 the me from wall street or the movie thing this is not just ok what's going on here it's is unbelievable. because it chills people that's a wolf well it was a wolf except not in sochi but in 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 this 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 is

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 do 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 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 twenty second the winter olympics and most nondrinkers visited a number of. sochi to see how they gearing up for the final.

time high. his play an important role in the olympics they get a 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 know

that the emotions of the olympics show 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 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 me it's perfect yeah absolutely right even. 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 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 time houses of the winter olympics it's gold medals or martyrdom dru's r.t. sochi. thirteen twenty

fourteen promises week ultimate exhilarating winter and eight here in germany and it's now a make the rest of our lives take you sting for sochi twenty four take. on. 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 cilia has more in this. below the surface there's a burning anger out of frustration that fury has led to a storm about government criticism take the recent flooding for instance unions say downing street scots met lower budgets for flood maintenance and staff unions haven't been able to do much and have a good job x. was real good but once in a while 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 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 almost 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 something like increasing the minimum wage and introduce seem a living wage to actually increase unemployment or make it more difficult for employers to take on new people the second plan to block out of that month was called off at the last minute after concessions were made and talks resume. the score for the unions in this time recorded as more cuts new work was planned and that next round could be just right around the corner. to us or so you are monday. the news continues in just about half an hour from now in the meantime it is breaking the set with host this is the international and most.

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 this was populations democratic choice to restrict immigration is next with 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 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. i think that in all of these areas where you have the rise of what is called a new right there is dissatisfaction with. we keep jamming the my my friend in berlin does not seem to be aware of how widespread is this shit germany is and having spent the last forty years and in an academic lunatic asylum i assure you that. in many many quarters of american life. i was in academia for a while i found it in a straitjacket as well as john's so i'm going to jump in london yeah i mean i think spending time in the lunatic asylums is kind of the fact of his you know thinking

a little bit to the point is that the u.k. and the across europe values have changed cultural values have changed need to become much more tolerant much more open much more liberal and space even in the united states. was going on everyone i'm abby martin and this is breaking in. 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 and it's planning to try it on american soldiers and i know i say this a lot but the latest development is the literally 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 video game methods to kill turning soldiers in electrical conductors really the future of warfare i guess it's time we update that slogan the bass part of waking up is an electric shock to the dome and let's break the set. the problem it was terrible a problem very hard to take that. once again to put some money or a plug in that or had sex with that or make their lives let's call it was. just so. much.