ukrainian parliament votes to depose president yana coverts who refuses to step down saying the opposition is attempting at state who this as a former prime minister yulia timoshenko is a release from prison and addresses protesters in kiev. meanwhile local authorities from the east and south of the country hold an emergency meeting to take full control of their regions claiming that the central parliament's decisions are unconstitutional. and of the european mediators that help to broker a crisis deal for ukraine say they will support the new government while admitting that the opposition has violated the agreement.

and live from moscow this is r t i'm sean thomas glad to have you with us now you ukraine's former prime minister yulia timoshenko has urged protesters in kiev to stay put until their demands are met she addressed the crowd at independence square just hours after being released from prison the country's lawmakers have voted to dismiss president jacobi each and have set the date for an early election that's as the president has refused to step down and accused of the opposition of an attempted coup or two so you get a piece going off as details. 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 you do too much junk of the country's former prime minister an opposition leader has been released from jail by the deputies of the fall and then 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 him self out of the game by leaving his post also 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 cities 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 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 walls. well trained and a loyal security forces in the currency and now the situation clearly has changed and so have the gores of this area since this street along with entire city are under the complete control of the protesters 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 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 little things 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 which were basically just abandoned as officials fled the city in the meantime the rot 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 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. according to reports that radicals have now be sieged a prominent orthodox christian monastery in central kiev they're allegedly planning to hand it over to the jurisdiction of a breakaway kiev patriarch charles shoebridge has it been watching the political developments in ukraine earlier he spoke with my colleague. about the threat of radicals coming into power here's an example of the rhetoric that prompted the discussion. sure 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. people cross was an activist being interviewed who said that they didn't want for example in the code which 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 thought that as we've seen on 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 should we say that the armed services. or at least the reluctance of the armed services to intervene in what is off to a puppet court a security situation within ukraine can be seen if you like almost as

a mutiny it's also clear that. that 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. the law that brings ukraine back under the two thousand and four constitution limiting the president's powers has now officially come into force meanwhile officials from the eastern and southern parts of ukraine have slammed a recent decisions by kiev as unconstitutional they assembled in the city of hama of and declared that they are taking control of their respective regions to maintain the safety of the citizens until order in the capital is fully restored if notion and 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 regions we have to protect our land. the sources of ukraine's eastern and southern regions

gathered 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 authorities are 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 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. i'm shocked and disgusted by the actions of the president i never expected anything like this from him i never thought he'd ever

betray the crimean people that i thought that he'd hold on to the end of your new government but i'm unhappy because those who want to join the e.u. and they are them back and cool as they're free to decide are they going to go on and live in the un way to be dealing with their masters or did resume used to being free cherishing on traditional. opposition views which are in the minority here sounds surprisingly similar but we are fed up with our government we no longer consider yanukovych your president as a party regions are a bunch of the leaves they are suffocating the population after deadly clashes in kiev things are heating up here too the man is quickly surrounded by those who don't share his. opinion or at least back that he came in from the cantons my head on brownies and i want to bring him in then tries to assure everyone that he recently hunk of the wind sorry just for the repeal of today's rally in the center

of heart of brought together both supporters of those forces and the opposition and to us quite place hole but 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 it's moot of and will not spread here regional if not seen from higher in eastern ukraine now the areas that are now saying they will govern themselves make up the backbone of ukraine's economy let's take a look now southern and eastern ukraine comprises of about ten different regions and it's home to a little more than half the country's population over twenty three of its forty five million other territory includes huge areas of fertile land with enormous agricultural potential it is also the nation's industrial heartland with most of the mines and factories also a lot of the most of the country's ports are situated there here in the region and

in the crimea as well earlier my colleague bill dodd discussed the possibility of ukraine splitting into two with political analyst sergei stroke on. i don't want to belong to that category of you know this we say in the ukraine it 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 realization of ukraine i mean we say for the recession we have to explain what does this actually this is. and we can do in the sunni area of divorce in that type of you remember that a rabbi would do or significant even where the loyalties towards that. would be recognized that's what i'll provide that's right but at the same time we have to understand that the new government were 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 has welcomed the

ukrainian parliament's calls for the creation of a coalition government and early elections washington also hailed the release of the nation's former prime minister yulia timoshenko meanwhile the president of the european council has said the bloc will stand by ukraine and that the terms of the crisis a deal reached on friday will bring the country out of its deadlock arty's lord smith reports. 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 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 write his 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 omes 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 well that food and postering basically on able to ensure any kind of heat. meanwhile in a number of cities across the west in the north of ukraine rioters have been tearing down monuments of vladimir lenin statues are coming under attack in apparent anti moscow sentiment as you. well known russian revolutionary was among those that have brought about the formation of the soviet union mark sobota senior lecturer in international relations and security studies at moscow state university says the armed riders who have now taken over kiev are playing by their 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 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 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 it and of course we are following the situation in ukraine on air and online plus we've got our news crews in kiev and in eastern ukraine don't forget to check out their twitter feeds or the r t twitter feed for their latest updates.

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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 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 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 on the usa

complete the top four richter 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 elim pic record was set with the home fans reaching well over one hundred decibels 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 us lose team and posted a video of a wolf supposedly wandering the whole ways 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 in the home. and i'm not talking blitzer to shooting out from the door outside the world in 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 man from wall street in the movie think he's not trying to get. 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 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 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 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 paradigm are perfect you think you rugby you did

a great job kate i'd love to do this again would you consider bringing a live bear to the closing ceremonies. yeah let me see what i can find 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 and 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 will be inside. the twenty second the room for the approach of most nondrinkers visited a number of houses in sochi to see how they gearing up for the final weekend. fan houses play an important role in the olympics they get the fans together

a special meeting points and a social venue is there a taste of home away from home for many it's also an opportunity to buy merchandise celebrate and meet their sporting heroes outside the park the alpine themed austrian house is located at the mounting cluster of 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 found all 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 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 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 it they've got beer and they've got so i think shankly ate it it's perfect yeah absolutely right you can every now and then there's a lot of that. at the chic and stylish fun 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 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 it will be used as a hospitality space in russia and various european skiing about this. 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 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 partying in the various planning houses of the winter olympics it's the gold medals or more to the andrews r.t. sochi. now with less than twenty four hours left before the curtain comes down on the two thousand and fourteen winter olympics r.t.e. international we're keeping you up to date and bringing you special coverage of the

games final day. the g. twenty fourteen promises week ultimately an exhilarating winter for our team here in germany and it's now a make over now and the rest of our lives take years team for sochi twenty four take. on ott. now to some other news making headlines around the world for you this hour turkish riot police have fired water cannons and tear gas on thousands of protesters gathered in the center of istanbul the demonstrators were rallying against the new legislation which is meant to tighten government control over the internet the latest round of clashes in turkey's largest city comes after protests over a large corruption scandal that was revealed in december. sunni islamists have shot down a helicopter and briefly occupied a town in northern iraq killing at least

a twenty five people this comes after dozens of died in a mortar attack in baghdad earlier in the day sectarian violence between sunni fighters and iraq's shiite led government has reached levels not seen since the height of the insurgency that followed the u.s. invasion. french city of has been overrun by twenty thousand people violently protesting against the construction of a nearby airport demonstrators set fire to construction vehicles and threw stones at police responded with tear gas and water cannons six officers were injured and four protesters were arrested in the clashes. and after the break we take a look at all of the latest technological innovations but if you're watching in london it's a boom bust which most of. 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 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 but that's just my opinion. i know c.n.n. m s n b c news have taken some knocks lately but the fact is i admire their commitment to cover all sides of the story just in case one of them happens to be accurate. that was funny but it's closer to the truth and i think. that. goods because one whole attention and the mainstream media work side by side the joke is actually on you. and our teen years we have

a different brain. because the news of the world just is not this funny i'm not laughing dammit i'm not you. guys sort of jokes well handled in the us ok. hello and welcome to technology updates this month we left the hustle and bustle of moscow and went to top stun 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. but first cousin has been paid to become mrs i-t. capsule so it was the perfect place to kick off our trip. on 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 start ups. on our first evening in the city we were met by a pair of young intrapreneur is keen to give us a demonstration of their bodog. as well as providing all the features of a traditional dash cam top 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 cars on this business district builds in two thousand and nine with the sole.