supporters and opponents of ukraine's self declared leadership clash in the southern region of crimea where lawmakers are at loggerheads over whether to sever ties with the. well in the capital a crowd on independence square the hub of the uprising gives a thumbs up to several ultra nationalist places in the new government. and then just leave these members of the public to be harassed part of syria patrols. vigilantes in armored vehicles patrol the streets of a muslim neighborhood in east london sparking fears of a cultural clash. an inquiry into the work of the

troika of international lenders to the struggling euro zone states flags deep flaws in the system is the european parliament admits the bailout hasn't quite gone to plan. eleven pm in moscow i met good to have you with us our top story the ukraine uprising has brought months of chaos to the capital in kiev but now it's the country's south where the tensions are boiling earlier today more than ten thousand people surrounded the parliament in crimea has main city these are pictures from simferopol where two rival factions are demonstrating for any against the interim government in kiev scuffles broke out leaving several wounded protesters also tried to storm the building where lawmakers are trying to decide on whether the region should break away from ukraine or is going to have reports. ukraine is becoming to

good example of the growing division between those who do support political change in kiev and those who do it at school or so both sides now there in the center of the capital of the crimea on wednesday showing up for it was started to be as a peaceful rally but ended in the violence we saw scuffles plastic bottles being sold around sticks and so on and there are reports of injuries no more the protesters who took the issues up with the ultra nationalists of western ukraine hate us in hate all the russians who have been living in crimea their whole lives but if russia gets involved here they will bring the law and order and we will be safe but this is one of the countries heavily populated by ethnic russians that's why the needy are standing strongly against the new off doherty's we saw coming to power in kiev since ninety of them are nationalists now we've seen some nationalist flags here as well and some of reporting about provocations local authorities were supposed to make the decision which way the republic should be headed i didn't

install the political changes and people were moved closer towards russia but the decision was not made which isn't helping to ease the tensions. the autonomous region home to major industrial hubs and tourist spots and the majority of the populace considers russian their native language the core of their resistance is the nabl naval hub city of sevastopol ukraine's second largest port which is also home to the russian black sea fleet while in the capital the interim leadership announced a list of new cabinet ministers to a crowd gathered on independence square the most has to be fully approved by the gathering and then by parliament for a government to be formed on thursday the crowd has also been paying homage to those killed in the three months of rioting that's been raging in the capital as you can see there are flags among them that flag on the right hand side of the screen there the red one that was an ultra nationalist flag members of that movement have been lining up for some of the top jobs artie's alexei or chosen to reports. are you. we lead ukraine and europe's biggest

battle you know vibrantly edited clip of the right sector movement of ukraine states its mission and well something that the revolution here ended with the ousting of the president of the college its leader dmitri jarosz has a different view. to see what's in disses just the beginning ukraine's resurrection europe's resurrection they started our my down. but does this resurrection require the storming of political party offices the torching of politicians houses and the manhunt for journalists from the new government recently the offer of your award for the whereabouts of a russian journalist from the r.t.r. channel for what they call providing false information so you can see where we are heading now the jewish community in southeastern ukraine thought they had returned but on tuesday identified the man tried to set the town synagogue ablaze with molotov cocktails pushed for masked men started throwing explosives at our

synagogue and around eleven pm our security tried to catch the perpetrators but they failed. in. the right sector is the core and the voice of the uprising but the extent of its involvement in the acts of vandalism and violence walking ukraine now is hard to verify the attacks are often perpetrated by unidentified masked men finding who exactly they represent is difficult the word on the street is that there are several armed factions operating under the my gun ban are now raising serious concerns about the rise of extremism just as the symbols of the tragic past resurface on ukraine streets we witness right now. a very hypocritical approach to politics it's especially by the european union and by the european states they say they fight against extremists inside the european union they signed extremists and. support extremists and also i think it will play in the

end. despite what is widely seen as a victory over the regime that might done remains intact with that right sector standing firm some of its members may leave independence square soon though possibly landing juleps in the ministry one parliament forms a unity government on thursday a looksee were set ski on sea levels in from key if. glyn ford a former member of the european parliament things the prospect of ultra nationalists gaining some of ukraine's top jobs is something the e.u. should be concerned about. clearly we have to look very carefully at this government of national unity we should be very interesting to bring people together not meet some hard and difficult decisions have to be made to incorporate people from all parts of ukraine in the new government if it's a sectarian government of of those that in quotation marks one the recent conflict

then this is just a recipe for further problems in the future and with the continued to merchants of the far right. this is video live video from the central of central square in kiev independence square where a list of government ministers is being put forward for the crowds approval we'll be watching developments there and online on our t.v. dot com also find out some of the intimidation techniques ultranationalist leaders have allegedly used. details that are. going to some of the day's other news with the u.k. government struggling to contain islamophobia at home some britons are making the job easier group of activists have started patrolling the east london streets in armored vehicles saying they want to protect people from being harassed by radical muslims but some locals fear the campaign is only igniting tensions our case our fourth reports. i want it to be so hard so that the vehicles given to the christian patrol includes there's any patrolling town halls on the hills of the small but

make sure it's muslim patrols any political group calling themselves britain first have responded by filming what they've dubbed christie and patrols and this patrol comes complete with vehicle proof the bullet proof the whole thing is on the t. joins them as they took to the streets in east london where we had in full. why the area taking. drugs behalf of the. boy was very fond of the group has been described as far right many of their members a former b.m.p. or e.t.l. they really get to differentiate themselves from these grapes and insist they don't want to be associated with violence but tactics such as baiting where members stand with empty beer cans to try and lure out the muslim patrols have proven controversial and some members of the group have already faced the rest we'll hear

during the. problems for any one of the. muslim extremists who are carrying the issue of drug dealing to confront them do you think the christian patrols intimidating. about despite having a plea condemned the muslim patrols at the time the east london mosque has been singled out by the christian patrol for criticism the mosques say they feel caught in the middle and are worried the patrol could inflame fragile community relations our community certainly feels threatened by his antics turning up to. any part of the country. is. putting across the street. a strong message the public me. to understand is that none of these groups represent the mainstream community or society out on london streets and while

there's not much support to be found here i. first wrote the book with you shouldn't have you shouldn't love the story. yeah. yeah yeah thank you very much for that do you think it's all going to be completely peaceful. there are going to be moments where obviously i think there's a potential for trouble there always will be there's nothing we can do to avoid that. yeah just leave these members of the public. patrols. in the back to some fun but that's not what we've been told since a number of arrests last year the muslim patrols have gone to ground it's unclear that patrols are actually still operating that will likely come as some relief to policing community relations work is in this diverse area of london that despite

the christian patrol activity the muslim patrols of safe are not taken the bait so . we spoke with u.k. independence party m.e.p. roger helmer who thinks the presence of vigilantes on the one in the streets shows authorities have failed to deal with social tensions. we shouldn't need those patrols if we were policing the streets properly and that is the it's you we need the police to get a grip we need the streets to be safe for everyone whether they're indigenous or immigrants whether they're christians or muslims but we must also insist that people do not seek to impose their beliefs on others that is absolutely critical and we must have a situation where the same law applies to everybody we cannot have bits of sharia law incorporated into british law. meanwhile two radical british

muslims have been said to forty five years and a life in prison respectively for the brutal murder of u.k. soldier lee rigby in london last may the pair all ran rigby down in their car before hacking him to death with cleavers in broad daylight the high court judge who handed down the said and said the killers betrayed islam and all peaceful muslim communities of britain the judge added neither defended had shown any remorse over the murder. and coming up a climate of intolerance in the powerhouse the council of europe's and racism watchdog criticizing germany for slow progress they say in wiping out discrimination more on that after a short break. transit

. you'll best way to the heart of most. revolutionary chew with the illegal overthrow of the democratically elected government in ukraine the country stands at the abyss politically economically and even territorially strongly supported by the e.u. and washington the new rulers of my don't perceive as ideological zealots can they reach out to all ukrainians or will we divide the country even more.

fourteen minutes past the hour the european parliament has criticized the work of international lenders had admitted to flaws in the eurozone bailout program their report states financial institutions have saved several euro zone members from bankruptcy but the so-called troika of lenders is accused of failing to consult with national governments and really giving them ultimatums also the report says the troika lacks accountability and transparency and applies a blanket approach to crisis at countries artie's peter all reports their hands on the purse strings of europe's cash strapped. with confidence in the euro zone's three biggest lenders known as the troika is wavering in terms of public debt in terms of potential rolph in terms of unemployment there is. worse now than before the troika intervention in the country like greece made up of the international monetary fund the e.u.

and the european central bank the idea behind the troika was to get the most indebted eurozone nations back on an even keel through bailouts and at times crippling austerity measures island became the first to leave the bailout program at the end of last year not before cutting thirty billion euro from the budget and seeing salary squeeze by twenty percent in southern europe in hopes of a light at the end of the tunnel arms high especially for the generation growing up in detroit unemployment is not shake you will to four so we are going to be facing a. a large number of young people i mean in countries like greece or spain youth unemployment is over fifty percent and these people have little prospect of getting a job and achieving some sort of economic security this is seen european lawmakers call into question the ability of the troika to deal with the scale of the crisis and to attack its methods the troika acts like a acts like

a governor. and his its colonies in the south of here are going to want to do the measures they come up with they're not they're not always very effective the credibility of its economic forecasts has caused most unease particularly concerning greece which is received two hundred forty billion euros in loans so far in twenty eleven the troika predicted economic growth in greece of one percent however the reality was a seven percent shrink just a one off you might think then in twenty twelve they predicted two percent growth which ended up as a further four percent downturn those running for election to the european parliament this year say that the current systems in place for trying to deal with the crippling debts in some parts of the eurozone just aren't working and that a new solution other than the troika will have to be found in the next parliament with some accusing the troika of trying to cover up its mistakes but there is quite a bit of propaganda going on right now trying to make people believe that there is

an improvement in those southern european countries in fact there's no improvement that i can see because the debt situation is verse than ever the banking crisis is still not resolved. r.t. germany. also in germany in europe or from the council of europe's anti-racism watchdog says the country is not doing enough to stamp out discrimination and homophobia here are authorities to take a firmer stance on hate speech or he says he has more from berlin. germany has done a good job of luring young people away from the neo nazi sea and the report also praises the country for a program that lets people applying for jobs anonymously in order to make sure that no one's discriminated for origin but when it comes to battling homophobia and racism the report says that germany simply has a lot more work to do one of the things that are recommends is tougher penalties for crimes against sexual religious or ethnic minorities as well as an overhaul of

the way in which germany registers these kinds of incidents because right now there simply is a lack of confidence among victims in the german investigation process as a result many victims of racist or homophobic assaults simply don't report them to the authorities that's a major problem the council of europe also took issue with germany's penal code like the legal system here basically in many european union countries racial motivation for one example is considered as a factor in a crime one passing a sentence well not here in germany over here racial incitement as well as hate speech is only punishable when someone is found to have disturbed the peace something which is really quite difficult to prove in a court of law now the council of europe issues these types of reports every five years the recommendations aren't binding and of course it's up to the individual countries to decide what if anything to do about it but the authors of the report do say that intolerance is something they see as growing all across europe not just here in germany french lawmakers over proved an extension of the country's military

operation in the central african republic pariset soldiers to stop a bloodbath between warring clans in the volatile state in december so in a campaign is a short term deployment historian bruno jet ski tells us that western powers are continuing to use local conflicts to further aims on the continent. friends knew what will happen in central africa for for a long time so i think it's just a pretext jaisha now is going to be long and we will stay very long. it will not be very quick it's just like ivory coast where the french intervention was done long good goal we can say and. ivorian people is not finishing it's the same case in mali it's the same thing in central africa basically i think broadly is. you know there is a competition in africa between western powers and. local tensions are you just used as a pretext for you to be there is something to be done but. it's

a little bit too late and the responsibility are partly. in france or in western countries. james bond once wielded a gun that could fire only when he was the one holding it as we report on our web site such a weapon no longer the stuff of fiction you can actually buy it in the states more details online plus. san francisco a beautiful city but this time as an unwelcome claim to fame is a watchdog reveals the golden gate bridge saw a record number of suicides over the course of the last year more details on r.t. dot com. you might think this here is deja vu and you'd be right but the torches this time have turned blue and the people carrying them have to work harder to bring the flame to sochi and their predecessors the paralympic torch relay has kicked off. tells you more. well the only how we can have to get said the torch

from the finest far as the far east of russia where the paralympic games are going to take place and that of course is inside and they will have to cover the length and breadth of the entire country forty five cities more than fifteen hundred people are going to be involved and still we're going to be we're going to be seeing rather impressive displays. emotional physical and of course human insurance when we're going to be looking at people with disabilities to form in some of the most amazing rise ports in sochi but because they have such a short period of time to do this the organizers decided that torch release will be happening single team you sleep in several cities at the same time so so on the wednesday it was the far eastern cities that have started but the real late and by the end of next week we're going to be seeing i did the paralympic torch lit out in sochi russia actually has traditionally performed rather well and paralympics in fact they came in second during the vancouver winter games and of course they are

hoping that the russian athletes in paralympics will be able to perform that feat during the paralympic games in sochi as well. as arenas said team russia no stranger to winter paralympic victory eight years ago in turin they topped the overall tally with thirteen gold last time in vancouver russia was just one goal shy of finishing first now with a home turf advantage there's little doubt they'll be giving everything they've got in their chase for gold earlier met with some of those who were able to overcome huge physical and psychological obstacles to achieve sporting excellence you can find their stories on our website and on our you tube channel. finally in the blood an israeli arms sales are rising but they're also coming under heightened scrutiny the industry sold more than ten billion dollars worth of weapons in two thousand and eleven and two thousand and twelve but is facing questions over a port detailing the use of palestinian lands as testing ground or he's paulus leader has more. i think there is

a very big elephant in the room in israel very big fact in a reality which is seldom spoken about and that's as far as most people go on israel's arms industry but how has a country the size of the american state of new jersey become the world's sixth largest exporter people don't really ask why and why the hell this small country became such a superpower of weapons your time feldman is a journalist and filmmaker he recently released his award winning documentary the lab in which he argues that israel's occupation of palestine and also to have such a prosperous weapons industry what armies all over the world want are weapons which were tested on real so to say guinea pigs in a real cause we have this live course we have an availability of and availability of conflict and availability of war it starts with the drones for decades israeli drones have been hunting for palestinian militants and they had an arms caches

making as well the go to country for unmanned aerial vehicles soon to become the world's largest exporter on the defense front the iron dome system proved its capabilities in the last gaza wall lining the pockets of these really military industrial complex nobody wants to talk about. because everybody is there peter. industry is very appealing to a lot of money the politicians we have a solution the idea of these are people who have a solution years of fighting in close combat in gaza in the west bank have also given israelis the edge first weapons like the guy and to avoid assault rifles and now something that even hollywood is copping a gun that shoots around corners and as controversial as israel's with bank barrier is its state of the art security system has been copied along america's borders with canada and mexico i think is really the most exciting in the country because

they are developing something distinct immediately in the field so their engine nearing the four million dollars deal goes directly to the army and can see if the door they develop with good or not after three years of working on his documentary your time is adamant there is no weapon israel is successful exporting which the israeli army is not using in gaza in the with bell but it leaves the country with a lot to answer for it's doubtful the hugely influential arms industry has an interest in peace because for as long as israel's holds onto the west bank and gaza it has a tree for finding texting and showcasing weapons systems and industrial military front that remain secure policy r.t. tel aviv. join the cross start debate coming up next after this short break on r.t. international.

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leave the baby. by the sea potions to cure the play your party isn't going. to push use that no one is asking with the guests that you deserve answers from. politics. are to. hello and welcome to cross talk or of things were considered i'm peter lavelle revolutionary care of with the illegal overthrow of the democratically elected government in ukraine the country stands at the abyss politically economically and even care a horribly strongly supported by the e.u. and washington the new rulers of my dawn are seen as ideological zealots can they

reach out to all ukrainians or will we divide the country even more. to cross talk of ends in ukraine i'm joined by my guest amanda paul in brussels she is a policy analyst at the european policy center we also have alexander me curious in london he is a legal writer and analyst and in moscow we cross to dimitri he's a political analyst with the voice of russia radio station or across talk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i very much encourage it alexander if i can go to you first in london. the government was supposed to be formed today and they're postponing it is this. a indication of what's going to come where we don't have unity even in kiev we have never had unity amongst the opposition leaders and that's been a serious problem they have never been able to agree which of them leads the opposition movement and to make matters worse we now know the two of the most

important opposition leaders mrs touma shane cole and mystic political have ruled have ruled themselves out ok i'd like to turn to our against amanda in brussels how do you see things playing out in care right now because we've seen is that the opposition is having a very hard time finding some kind of unity how in the world if they can find unity during a crisis situation. and we have right now how can we reach out to the east that is watching this with a very wary eye well i would agree that historically. the opposition parties in ukraine have found it quite difficult to cooperate with each of our but i still believe this time around we've seen a much greater degree of readiness to work together of course you could say the fact that they didn't agree this interim government today would indicate divisions but i would also say that we need to be extremely careful in choosing the personalities who are going to be represent.