transit. your best way to the heart of moscow. ukrainian parliament votes to depose a president who refuses to step down saying the opposition is attempting a state. former prime minister yulia tymoshenko is released from prison and addresses protesters yeah. meanwhile local authorities from the east and the south of the country hold an emergency meeting vowing to take full control of their regions claiming the central parliament's decisions are unconstitutional. european mediators that help to broker a crisis deal for ukraine say they will support the new government while admitting the opposition has violated the agreement.

and broadcasting live from our studios in moscow this is thomas glad to have you with us now ukraine's former prime minister yulia timoshenko has urged protesters in kiev to stay put until their demands are met she addressed to the crowd at independence square just hours after being released from prison the country's lawmakers have voted to dismiss president and have set a date for an early election that's as the president has refused to step down and accuse the opposition of an attempted coup r.t.c. good enough has the latest the peace with which 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 deputies. she pledged to run for office address 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 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 i 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 sides you see if the city's 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 most well trained and loyal security forces in the country and now the situation clearly has changed and so have the guards off this area saying this street along entire city are under the complete control. protests are 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 we're 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 rod has been passing new laws like a hot printing press scores of people are still. 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 samir 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. or do you go to peace can offer for us there now according to reports radicals have now besieged a prominent orthodox christian monastery in central kiev and they are allegedly planning to hand it over to the jurisdiction of a breakaway king of patriarch charles shoebridge has 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. 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 cos was an activist being interviewed he 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 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 shall we say of the armed services. or at least the reluctance of the armed services to intervene in what is off to a public order security situation within ukraine can be seen if you like almost as

a mutiny it's also clear. 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 now the law that brings ukraine back under the two thousand and four constitution that limiting of 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 it's emboldened the city of hard 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 or he's very finished and has 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 authority is a paralyzed and that their decisions cannot be considered constitutional while deck which is unheard of adopt a resolution split in the country a 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 unocal issues major power base could stumble over the you brokered crisis deal but 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 grammys people that i thought that he'd hold on to the end of the hall now but i'm unhappy because then someone who joined the e.u. and be a them back i'm cool i say they're free to do so they can go on and live in the un way to be gently pull their master their orders and 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 young curbishley our president as a party of regions or a bunch of the leaves are suffocating the population after deadly clashes in the key of things are heating up here too the man is quickly surrounded by those who don't share his. peeing in. fact that he came in from the counter is my done brownies and i want to bring him in then tries to assure everyone that he recently hunk of the wind sorry just frankly ricky today is really in the center of heart of

brought together both supporters of those forces and the opposition and was quite peaceful 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 it's moot of and will not spread here results not see from. eastern ukraine. the areas that are now saying they will govern themselves make up the backbone of ukraine's economy let's take a look at southern and eastern ukraine comprise about ten regions it is home to a little more than half the country's population over twenty three of its of forty five million now the territory includes huge areas of fertile land with enormous agricultural potential it's also the nation's industrial heartland as well with most of the mines and factories located there as well as all of the country supports that are situated in. and in the crimea now earlier my colleague bill dodd

discussed the possibility of ukraine splitting into two with political analyst sergei stroke. i don't want to belong to that category of i know this we say in the 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 recession we have to explain what does this actually says this confidence and. in the sunni area of divorce in that type you remember that the rabbi would do well significant even where the loyalties towards that. would be recognized that's what i'll provide that's right 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. the us has

welcomed the ukrainian parliament's calls for the creation of a coalition government and early elections washington also hailed as 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 deal reached on friday will bring the country out of its deadlock 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 foot testers 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 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 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 got hold of a video of a polish minister rudd is 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 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 to ensure any kind of heat. meanwhile in a number of cities across the west and north of ukraine rioters have been tearing down the monuments of bloody lenin structures are coming under attack in apparent anti moscow sentiment as well. unknown the russian revolutionary was among those that brought about the formation of the soviet union mark slobodan senior lecturer in international relations and security studies at moscow state university says the armed rioters who have now taken over kids 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 my 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 of well of course we're following the situation in ukraine on air and online plus we have got our news crews in kiev and in eastern ukraine as well don't forget to check out the r t twitter feed for their latest updates.

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stories that impact your life choose the access to. play. and welcome back live from moscow this is our team now the second to the last day of the two thousand and fourteen winter olympics was marked by record achievements both by nations and individuals russia has moved to the top of the medal rankings after taking gold in the men's biafra lot really. has the details.

i mean 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 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 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 for hands 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 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 in the hallway and i'm not talking blitzer sitting out of the door outside when they. paul white students got out of there

there's a stray dog problem maybe they also have a stray wolf problem you've heard of the wolf of wall street how about the wall of the olympic village the well. that's not the man from wall street in the movie thing you know not just. 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 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 had 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 is 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 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 bare 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 around the twenty second the winter olympics and most 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 fans together especial meeting points and a social venue is there a taste of home away from home for many it's also an opportunity to buy merchandise celebrate and meet their sporting heroes outside the park the alpine themed austrian house is located at the mounting cluster of crossfire pollyana the wooden structure is partly open to all visit his for a small fee closer to the black sea coast holland heineken house is open for all that is at ten euros a ticket it has always been one of the top party spots at the olympic games with fans athletes and sponsors getting together for raucous celebrations night after night as one of the best known hospitality venues outside the park this will be its twelfth year of operation having made its debut in barcelona in one thousand nine hundred two where the olympics you know we know we're wrong and then we really fall know that the emotions of the olympics to show huge and that's one in sydney for

the first or we open it up for fans as well since then it's a tradition located next to the iceberg stadium this is swiss house hub of excitement and activity it is one of the few national guess 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 picked team. they've got they've got beer and they've got some 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 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 taking it out and use 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. 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 martin andrews r.t. sochi. well with less than twenty four hours left before the curtain comes down on the two thousand and fourteen winter olympics r.t.

international is keeping you up to date and bringing you special coverage of the games final there. the g twenty four team promising an exhilarating winter for ninety eight here in germany and it's now a make the rest of our lives take this team for sochi twenty four take. on. let's now take a swing around the globe to take a look at some other news making headlines this hour and we start in venezuela where riot police have fired tear gas on protesters in the country's capital mass demonstrations against the nation's leadership have been going on for ten days and have claimed the lives of at least eight people and israeli president nicolas maduro has accused several us paul political and media sources of plotting to overthrow his government. turkish riot police have fired water cannons and tear gas on thousands of protesters gathering in the center of the sun for the

demonstrators would rally is against 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 twenty five people this comes after dozens 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. the french city of non test has been overrun by twenty five thousand people violently protesting against the construction of a nearby airport demonstrators set fire to construction vehicles and threw stones at police who responded with tear gas and water cannons six officers were injured

in four protesters were arrested in the clashes. were coming up after the break all of the latest from the forefront of technological innovation watching r t international stay with. 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 the swiss population's democratic choice to restrict immigration is now actually 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.

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hello and welcome to technology updates this month we left the hustle and bustle of moscow i went to top stunt 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 pegged 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 the lie of very modern metropolis and this innovation friendly environment makes it the ideal based.