russia calls on all involved in ukraine's political crisis to avoid further escalation as a manhunt launched for the country's i was the leader and members of the former ruling party. it's not really juice you need a bulldozer to push the consultant's from the us and the e.u. and. western politicians step up a pilgrimage to ukraine with the e.u. offering a financial lifeline to win over the new leadership in the hours other news. giant bear shedding a tear of farewell as the curtain falls on sochi two thousand and fourteen winter games that will go down in history for remarkable and record breaking performances . and president obama's attempts to tame the n.s.a.

may have failed as reports claim the agency surveilled hundreds of german officials after the president for made them from spying on the country's chancellor. nine pm in moscow i'm mad good to have you with us our top story the ongoing hunt for ukraine's ousted leader viktor yanukovych chinese once powerful party of regions has prompted some strong statements from russia. by the foreign ministry says moscow's quote alarmed by the dictatorial and sometimes terrorist methods chosen by ukraine's interim leadership to suppress discontent the text posted on the ministry of website urges quote all those connected with the crisis to show deep responsibility to prevent further escalation of tensions restore law and order and restrain extremists who are striving for power or desire piskun obvious lie for

us in the embattled ukrainian capital to give us the latest. while the situation here in kiev is referred to by many now as a witch hunt because now former officials are being searched for woods masked men having been seen stopping cars and checking the i.d.'s of drivers in the passengers and sides with the lists of deputies and other authors will sit there looking for the party of regions which just a few days ago was the political force in the country is now under the threat of being banned while ousted president. wanted list to build a new of the middle east accusing him of being behind the deaths of civilians referring to the violent clashes and street fights between the rioters and to the police in kiev for the whereabouts of. unknown but he's believed to be somewhere in the east of the country where there's a completely different picture the eastern ukraine is the country's industrial powerhouse and some of the also heavily populated by the russians and in general

they've been quite critical of what's been happening here in kiev for instance tens of thousands of people took to the streets of. protesting political changes in the current she said i still believe is the equating second largest seaport and also a form to both the russians and the ukraine's black sea naval fleet center meanwhile here in kiev the new of forty seven taken to the next stage in the fight against their political rivals. around five hundred officers will be now ex ruling party have been burned down those. the different political stance or physically attacked inside the parliament most of those which you should have right now it's more about emotions rather than political rivalry the most important thing right now is to prevent all targets from being found completely because then the situation would lose all rigidity. the president has fled the capital saying a coup has been carried out while the parliament passes new laws as fast as

a printing press. taking down officials and appointing their all to political rivals including putting a right wing party whiners even government such as i think might be from the nationalists the party taking charge of the prosecutor general's office because it's just. a new regime is taking shape really quickly and with the use of strong measures it has nothing to do with democracy because those coming to power will go on with pursuing tough policies and they will conduct massive expansion of the eastern territories. among the first laws adopted the banning of russian as the second official state language despite nearly fifty percent of those living in the east of ukraine being ethnic russians the public is stalled from now on the right wing is going to be heavily present in ukraine's law enforcement at the moment the situation in kiev is basically controlled by radical people with with us

who are pursuing a very very militant agenda which is a political call i think he is an utterly discredited man he cut deals with opposition who were quite obviously at a since the nineteenth of january no longer in control of the crowds and here there are reports that foreign journalists have been promoting different values from the rebels have now been put onto a wanted list as well as trying to temporarily ban a russian t.v. channels many are now raising the question if this is the type of democracy so many ukrainians put their lives on the line for. key of. meanwhile the e.u. foreign policy chief catherine ashton is set to meet ukraine's new interim leadership following europe's pledge to provide the state with twenty billion euros one city governments formed irrational monetary funds also confirming its commitment to support he has economy former soviet leader mikhail gorbachev though says the west has crossed the line when it comes to stepping into ukraine that

they're. no longer to treat in the donor of the will just what have you seen what's going on the it's not religious you need a bulldozer to push all the consultants from the us and the e.u. out of them and they should let the people decide for themselves issuing recommendations to nations is unacceptable we shouldn't send bandits in when both sides need to head to the negotiating table and talk one month or six months if needed the bill will come to an agreement eventually. christina stone a writer on the former soviet union says compromise may never have been a priority for brussels or washington when it came to ukraine. as far as we can see now the west will put up with anything for regime change in ukraine and. it is a cynical approach on the one hand we saw last week when it's proper pad to arrest nineteen year old concentration camp some on the other hand say give up

power has to be people. in groups like probably think. at least and in the orange revolution well that was an opposition that was a government that was in opposition all these rules that have been found so far in the last few days and the rather of all being passed unanimously even baroness ashton in the west surely will want to see. some opposition power at the moment there are none or not allowed one of these. he suddenly going to say you well the opposition and i will prevent the the price will sort of thing we don't know if we can let. position doesn't matter in the next few days weeks and i can't see how they can be close above the election quite frankly stay with us here on our national we're following developments in and around

ukraine and you can also find the timeline of the crisis and minute by minute reports online at r.t. dot com. right. first for you and i think the trick. is to. shifting gears now to some of the other top stories we're covering the two thousand and fourteen winter games in sochi wrapped up in style sixteen days of competition cap with a dazzling closing ceremony our own any sin our way has more from our sochi studios . this is sad and it's overwhelming we've seen so many big breaks and heartfelt waltzes cheers and tears here in sochi over the past weeks

a lot of nail biting competitions nerve wrecking races and great performances all of those are going to go down in olympic history and this great celebration of sport certainly was sealed with a finale to remember viewers were taken further on a journey through russian culture picking up from the opening ceremony it was a tribute to the russian greats in the arts music and literature and the organizers didn't miss the opportunity to poke a little fun at themselves over the infamous olympic ring that would open at the start of the games of course the biggest excitement came from russian fans after the host nation searched at the top of the medal count with a total of thirteen goals and a spectacular moment of course to the farewell show was the magnificent fireworks display. link ceremony there and plenty of olympic moments to remember we've put together our top five sensations of sochi we begin with the dutch they managed to grab eight golds

and all of them in speed skating and actually twenty three out of the twenty four medals they want in sochi were in speed skating and never for a rising star of figure skating seventeen year old mother nina so to cover she became the first russian ever to take individual gold in women's figure skating i'm very proud to have won a gold medal at the age of seventeen it's such a great feeling it's a blast with everything including with myself. sensation number three the new russians korean born speed skater victor on he won three golds for his new homeland an american snowboarder vic wild were married to siberia and join russia as the olympic team to become one of the gold medalist i didn't have any good for the united states and that was a good to reach the goals that i wanted. for sure. the opportunity to get records. or sensation number two is norwegian biathlete although born by then he became the most decorated winter olympian of all time

a great performance for his sixth and final winter games and of course the top stop goes to team russia for their overall performance of the host nation making a victorious comeback from the vancouver games and making it to the top of the medal table at home with thirteen gold medals thirty three overall. she has also welcomed some unusual competitors to for them it was about taking the podium but about enjoying the games and making everyone else happy and inspired artist paul scott has more on those athletes with a difference. for some athletes sochi twenty fourteen was simply about taking part take for example indian illusia shiva can shave in his commitment to his sport highlighted by his training regime winding his way down dusty tracks by passing goats and lorries along the way. my wife's insight

yes he may have come thirty seven thousand and thirty nine with the him the state following accusations of corruption the indian and limpy committee were suspended by the i.o.c. in two thousand and twelve. during these games meaning can shave and could finally compete under his nation's fly unfortunately there's a lot of politics played with the flag of india which i'm sure many people back home we're not happy with but that's over with so listen learn to everybody. that sort of thing is just. one of the more colorful characters at these games was prince you both just of hohenlohe in london the fifty five year old is a descendant of a former german royal dinner he's also a way photographer of the pop star who goes by the name of royal disaster. these are his sixth olympics the jewel nationality ski's for mexico he's never won a medal for the maybe deserves gold for p.r.

i think of russia the only problem that had these things for the p.r. person like it's a big head of p.r. before you know it's a very pretty big one the for. everything is really. just got a positive by over to europe and to america that we're so negative it's time to make his debut in these games you know banani went in the luge to tell his real name mind as part of a sponsorship deal he changed his name to the german underwear company but he told me he wants to be known for his sporting prowess if i didn't qualify for the olympics they wouldn't care at all what names i am so i think is the most important thing that i try hard in training hard to get to do anything. and is any winter olympics complete without the jamaican bobsled the main attraction for preston five raising their own funds to compete missing a connecting flight losing their luggage on coming second last still didn't dampen their party spirit proving that in amongst all this posting excellence there is

still room for sports to be for. sochi. for the sochi olympics are broken lots of records and it's not just sports we're talking about almost half of the planet was watching these games at some point with at least three billion viewers and talking about fans they set a surprising sound record with their vocal cords during one of victor and speed skating races but the cheers reaching that was one hundred ten decibels and here's another record quite an unexpected one thirty four babies were born in sochi on the day of the opening ceremony of the city's highest single daily total of newborns ever the sochi games will also go down in history for the weather becoming the warmest winter olympics in history are certainly not complain. there's been lots of sunshine and enough snow the olympics of course officially over we're left with a lot of things to look back at but we're also looking forward to the paralympic

games starting in less than two weeks earlier my colleague marina joshie had the chance to sit down and talk with the man who was in charge of making sure that everything went like clockwork in sochi now that the flames been and. go shares his thoughts with r.t. . the biggest achievements probably for us for russians the nation's. the best games ever in the history of my country obviously of us that we obtained the confidence that russia is scape ability to deliver ambitious projects and the most important decide that the gold that we generated to historical legacy for the generations to come well i have the games as you know russia has come under a lot of criticism so how do you feel about those reports i mean how the in any way overshadowed the games you know it's impossible to shadow the truth we were in the brick it's all of this too at the absence from the cold war and now it was broken

everybody who came in witnessed this. fish and transpired in a way hospitable they really changed from the criticism to the cover and the real positive things now looking at the object of infrastructure that have been created in the city had all the games what can you tell us about how they are going to be used in diffuse the future of my native city of sochi it's a very bright the land for the legacy it's all these very well. with the money allocated to maintain and of in this but the most important. events place where host in a couple of months host in the formula one the race in the form and no more to come in the vault of all championships so sure in the on from the ordinary soviet style summer resort to the all the around to international sports and laser

convention this is the nation. building a heartfelt goodbye to the winter olympics we asked you to submit your highlights and feel good moments of the games to our facebook page thanks for sharing your sochi moments with us you picked the russian golden league. figure skating is something that you were most impressed by people were also impressed by the national team's opening parade others selected the sublime performance by russian figure skating rookie an olympic darling yulia lipnitskaya and less than fifteen minutes kate partridge will be coming by to bring you a much more detailed wrap up of all the winter olympic action. i don't see how european countries who are member of the european union can solve the problem without leaving the european union so it's all obvious that countries like great britain or france you named friends especially with increasing poverty in my opinion they have a difficult they have

a difficult time to solve these problems but i think at least they should rearrange the principle rules of free movement of persons and improve the system. and a lot of these. i think you know. pleasure to have you with us here on t.v. today i'm sure.

nineteen minutes past the hour realize president barack obama's recent ban on moderate on to a merkel's communications force the n.s.a. to turn to other sources of european data reports say the agency to switch to spying on hundreds of german officials including the interior minister argues lucy cavanagh has more from berlin the national security agency was allegedly monitoring three hundred twenty eight people here in germany mostly politicians also business leaders and this is according to a german newspaper here built and so on tag which says its info comes from a high ranking n.s.a. employee here in germany now that source was quoted as saying the agency had the order not to miss out on any information and that the n.s.a. is no longer able to monitor the chancellor's communications directly the interior minister a close confidant of mr merkel was also allegedly watched as well as several firms such as s a p a competitor of the us company oracle this allegation was rejected by the us national security council spokeswoman who said that the united states did

not spy to give american firms competitive advantages the german interior ministry so far refusing to comment on what it called allegations of unnamed individuals but this is of course bound to make things quite difficult for on the merkel keep in mind revelations last year about mass u.s. surveillance in germany in particular of miss merkel's mobile phone had shocked this country sparking some of the most serious disputes between the two allies in a decade as a result we've seen a tougher stance here the german chancellor now pushing for a european communications network berlin also pushing for a so-called no spy deal with washington the german foreign minister is due to visit the u.s. on thursday but he has said that he has doubts that such a deal would have very much of an effect. a norwegian man has reportedly been arrested and charged with terrorism after returning home from the syrian war national media there says he's accused of fighting alongside jihad this is oslo

officials reveal dozens of people have left their home country for syrian frontlines western analysts figure that at least two thousand volunteers from across europe are involved in the syrian conflict around seven hundred of them from france according to the french government which has it's deeply worried about the trend meanwhile some two hundred fifty british citizens have recently returned from the war and london now considers them a potential home grown terror threat let's get reaction from u.k. based political commentator mohammed on sar joining me live so we understand you've been in contact with some britons who are fighting in syria why did they say they left their homes for the conflict in the first place. but i think about what we've seen we've seen a variety of reasons for people going out to fight in syria i think those relate to a combination of people believing that western governments have either been complicit and suddenly complacent in their approach to syria there's also a narrative now they have that suggests that american israeli and even iranian foreign policy would prefer to see bashar al assad remain in power. we can state we

see the humanitarian crisis of course of people getting embroiled in the conflict off to going out to support those we believe around one hundred fifty thousand people who are dead and two and a half million people displaced we've recently seen from the from the agency suggest that young christians are now being involved in the fighting with a group called. this is going beyond the usual jihad these threats or it relates to . isis and going beyond that so do you think that there is the possibility that when they return if they return to their home countries they will bring terror back with them is that something that you believe they're being told there is something perhaps is a duty of their is that upon returning to their home country it's their duty to bring jihad with them. i'm not sure that's necessarily the case i think certainly what we do know and this has been mirrored by piece of far he who heads the counter-terrorism prevent program here in the u.k.

and also come on to richard walton who is the head of scotland yard's so fifteen operation here in britain has been that we believe a number of these people in the people certainly here why i've spoken to becoming increasingly radicalized and the fear and the threat is whether they will turn to violence when they return to the u.k. in their attitude towards people they find unacceptable whether people that they consider to be the other of course towards the government and the governments foreign policy or do you think that could happen do you think they'll take that step. i think western governments have taken a variety of views in britain the home secretary has decided to take a very firm line and the criticism of her approach has been that the we essentially make people stateless if we. cancel their citizenships those who are british born british bred i think there is a threat from people that i've had discussions with that their views become very very hard and they know that james clapper and cia director john brennan have talked about al qaeda affiliates training americans and europeans who are out there

fighting and so the concern is when they return to the united kingdom or to america how will their approach be in relation to their fellow citizens i'm not sure necessarily sorry well i just wanted a bit of what do you think those governments can do do you think they can do an effective job of preventing any possible violence. occurring behalf of anyone coming back to their own countries from fighting in syria. i do the rhetoric in the u.s. has been certainly more ratcheted up and i think that governments need to be ensure that they don't paint themselves into a corner in dealing with people who become radicalized and who are fighting out in syria within the u.k. i'm not sure that canceling people's passports and making them stateless is necessarily going to be the right point of view what we're going to need is dialogue we're going to be engagement i've got to be some direct discussions of dealing with their they're not narratives in their rhetoric certainly i think part of their part of the popular course is going to be in addressing how they see their

treatment relates to people who go and fight with other foreign forces whether that . force is in israel or in other combat zones around the world are we have to leave it there i'm a political commentator thank you very much for joining us thank you gas magnates may claim fracking is safe but as we report online and they won't put up with it there are homes more on the controversy sparked by a statement from exxon c.e.o. online at r.t. dot com plus. internet giant google claims robots will eventually be able to understand us better than we understand ourselves at the bottom of that futuristic forecast on our website. still to come. our dream has all the sports news enter wrap up of the olympic glory stay with us for that there are t.v. internet.

judy cox a utah mother out of spite but an entire line of t. shirts at a popular chain store after a local mall the reason that she bought them was because she feels that the images of nearly naked women on them violate her local towns decency code she wants to make it clear though that she feels the store has the right to sell this type of shirt just not displayed in an exterior window ultimately her plan is to return the

shirts on day fifty nine of the store's sixty limit let's hope for her sake they don't have a no return policy i bring this up because this is a great example of a nonviolent form of protest that actually works cause the scandal and more importantly it will make the company lose a few dollars technically the girls on the shirts are even fully exposed believe me i checked thoroughly and i would even call them r. rated below communities have the right to be more conservative than the rest of the nation if they want to be and it's good that judy cox actually did something rather than just sitting at home on the air complaining about moral decay across the country if a housewife from a small mormon community can stand up to the man what's stopping you but that's just my opinion.

and i welcome to the sports special all the highlights from the last day of the winter olympics with me. plus the pick of the week's top. sport these are the headlines. goodbyes sought she rushes made in the winter olympics close with a lavish ceremony as the hosts finished top of the medal table with a record thirty three. loss swedish test russia are set to face him a bitch and sweden as the group draw for euro twenty sixteen takes place in france . while buying munich go

nineteen points clear at the top of the bundesliga and forty seven games unbeaten with a four nil triumph at home over. top gear formula one star ramos grows talks testing rule changes the sochi not propose to host russia's first f one race. but first let's turn to sochi where russia said goodbye to their maiden winter olympics with a spectacular closing ceremony after a thrilling final day of sporting action to finish top of the table and with more on that here's our correspondent richard feet. a wonderful closing ceremony which is reminiscent of the opening ceremony itself the organize even manage to poke a bit of fun at themselves the closing ceremony if you remember at the opening ceremony of final say ring failed to open and the organizers recapture about moments in the closing ceremony also if you hard back to the nine hundred eighty

olympics in moscow where the big bear he shed a tear the same thing happened here at the closing ceremony in solitude but it's been a memorable games of everyone and everyone who did attend a closing ceremony just had a absolutely wonderful time as a token wonderful the truly past time and musical past what russia has given to the world over the last couple of centuries was an amazing final day sixteen for the russians and especially for a cross-country skiers who hadn't brought home the medals than they would have hoped for a german course all of the soldier gave i will changed in the men's fifty kilometer myra fern has faced what the podium for the first time in history with cough. and cold serve claiming a gold silver and the bronze go by convair silver in the relay just the day before and also a great day for the bobsled as well alexander's recall of piloted the russian two man to gold earlier in the competition and again he teamed up with great man boy of order to up.