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 while in the capital the crowd on independence square the hub of the uprising is a thumbs up to several ultra nationalists eyeing places in the new government. and then just leave these members of the public to be harassed out of syria patrols vigilantes in armored cars patrol the streets of a muslim neighborhood in east london sparking worries of a clash of cultures. and an inquiry into the work of the troika of international lenders to struggling eurozone states flags. flaws in the system as

the european parliament edits the bailout hasn't gone to plan. midnight in moscow i met good to have you with us here on r t the uprising in ukraine has brought months of chaos to the capital and it's now the country's south where the tensions are boiling where then ten thousand people surrounded parliament in crimea has main the city these are pictures from simferopol where two rival groups are demonstrating for and against the interim government in kiev scuffles broke out leaving several wounded protesters also tried to storm the building where lawmakers were trying to decide on whether the region should break away from ukraine or is going on it has been. held in ukraine is becoming the good example of the growing did this in between those who support political change in kiev and do it in school or school board son now there in the center of the capital of the

crimea at all. showing up for it was started to be as a peaceful rally but ended in the vote. well it's we saw scuffles plastic bottles being thrown around sticks and so on and there are reports of injuries among the protesters. the ultranationalists of western ukraine hate and hate all the russians who have been living in crimea their whole lives but if russia gets involved here they'll bring law and order and we will be safe but this is one of the countries heavily populated by ethnic russians that's why many are standing strongly against the new off doherty's we saw coming to power and gives its many 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 either to fall the political changes in kiev for move closer towards russia but the decision was not made which isn't helping to ease the tensions in the region home to major industrial hubs and prime

torah spots the majority of the populace considers russian their native language and the core of the resistance is the naval hub of sevastopol ukraine's second largest port and home to the russian black sea fleet while in the capital the interim leadership has announced a list of new cabinet members ministers to a crowd gathered on independence square that list has to be approved by the gathering and then by parliament for the government to be formed thursday the crowd has also been paying homage to those killed in the three months of rioting as been raging in the capital and as you can see on the right side of the screen there that red flag is a nationalist flag ultra nationalist symbols in view and several members of that party have aligned for top jobs with the new government or taze alexy or chef he has more on that. we lead ukraine's and europe's biggest battle in a 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 president

jiang the college its leader to meet the jarosz has a different view. this is 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 at this recently offered 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 we 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. to follow. 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 fund extremists and support extremists and also i think your plan won't. describe what is widely seen as a victory over the regime the might done remains intact with that right sector

standing firm some of its members may leave independence square soon though possibly landing jobs in the. really ministry one parliament forms a duty to government on thursday. from kiev ukraine. when for it a former member of the european parliament thinks the prospect of ultra nationalists gaining some top jobs in ukraine is something the e.u. should be worried about clearly we have to look very carefully at this government of national unity we should be trying to bring people together not be 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 for further problems if it in the future and with the continued to merchants of the far right these are some of the latest pictures from central kiev where

a list of government ministers is being put to the crowd for approval be watching developments there on air and online you can also find out about some intimidation techniques the ultra nationalist leaders have allegedly been resorting to details on that also on our web site now turning to some other stories. we're covering here on r t with the u.k. government struggling to contain a rise of islamophobia at home so britons are making their job easier a 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 some locals fear the campaign is only igniting tensions though as reports. i want it to be so hard for the vehicles given the christian prolific there's any patrol in town wholesomely hills the small but nato 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 bomb proof

their bullet proof the whole thing is off the tee joins the as they took to the streets in east london where we had info. why the area taking. drugs in behalf of the. boy was to make fun of the group is being described as far right many of the members a former b.m.p. or e.t.l. there we get to differentiate themselves from these grapes and insist they don't want to be associated with violence but tactics such as baiting when members stand with empty beer cans to try and lure out the muslim patrols have proven controversial and some members of the creep have already faced the rest we'll hear . problems for anyone to be. sure to draw. from them do you think the christian patrols

intimidating. about this point having a purely 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. a strong message the public me. to understand is that none of these groups represent the mainstream community or society in london streets and well there's not much support to be found here i think first to throw the book with you shouldn't have the solution. sorry. yeah.

yeah yeah thank you very much do you think it's all going to be completely peaceful here 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 at the front line 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 that's not taken the bait so. the. earlier we heard from u.k. independence party here roger helmer who thinks the presence of these on the london

streets shows authorities are failing to deal with social tensions. we shouldn't need those patrols if we were policing the streets properly and that is the issue we need the police to get a grip we need the streets to be safe for everyone whether they're indigenous or in the groups with christians all muslims but we must also insist that people do not seek to impose their beliefs on all those that is absolutely critical and we must have a situation where the same rule applies to everybody we cannot have bits of sharia law incorporated into british rule meanwhile two radical british muslims have been sentenced to forty five years and life in prison respectively for the brutal murder of u.k. soldier lee rigby in london last may the pair ran down in their car before hocking him to death in broad daylight with cleavers the high court judge who handed down

the said in the said the killers betrayed islam and all peaceful muslim communities of britain and the judge added that neither defendant had shown any remorse over the murder still to come here on r.t. international a climate of intolerance in you in the news our house is the council of europe and the racism watchdog calls out germany for sluggers progress and ending discrimination more on that after a short break. transit route to vnukovo report you'll best way to the heart of most.

fourteen minutes past the hour the european parliament has criticized the work of international lenders and admitted to flaws in the eurozone bailout program the report states financial institutions have saved several euro zone members from

bankruptcy but the so-called strike of lenders is accused of failing to consult with national governments and really giving them ultimatums moreover the report says the troika lacks accountability and transparency and applies a blanket approach to all crisis had countries artie's peter all over has more. their hands on the purse strings of europe's cash strapped. the 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 anti especially for the generation growing up in detroit unemployment is not trivial to afford 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 visits its colonies in the south though here event tells you what to do the measures they come up with are not they're not always very effective the credibility of its economic forecast has caused most unease particularly concerning greece which is receive 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 is no improvement that i can see because the debt situation is verse than ever the banking crisis is still not resolved. germany also in germany and europe are from the council of

europe's anti-racism watch charged says the country is not doing enough to stamp out discrimination and homophobia it urge authorities to take a firmer stance on hate speech as artie's missing caffein are reports. germany has done a good job of learning 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 age or origin but when it comes to battling homophobia and racism the report says the 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 commendations 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 approved an extension of the country's military operation in the central african republic paris sent troops to stop a bloodbath between warring clans in the volatile state in december selling the campaign as a short term deployment historian bruno jet ski says western countries though are continuing to use local conflicts to further bearings on the continent. friends

knew what will happen in central africa for for a long time so i think it's just a pretext. 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 gone long ago we can say. nightmare of the ivorian people is not finishing it's the same case in mali it's the same thing in central africa basically i think the good problem is. you know there is a competition in africa between western powers and. local tensions are you just used as a pretext willing 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 boasted a gun that he could only buy could only fire when he was the one who was holding it

as we report on our website such a weapon is don't longer the stuff of fiction but he bought in the states more details online at r.t. dot com plus. san francisco a beautiful city by the bay but has an unwelcoming claim to fame this year as a watchdog reveals that golden gate bridge saw a record number of suicides over the course of the last year one at an r.v. dot com. you might think it's deja vu the torches this time have turned blue and people carrying them have to work harder to bring the flame to sochi than their predecessors the paralympic relay has started in the styles artie's arena tells us. well the only how we can have to get to the torch from the fire as far as the far east of russia to 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 off emotional physical and of course human in durance when we're going to be looking at people with disabilities perform in some of the most amazing sports in sochi but because they have such a short period of time to do this the organizers decided that torch release will be happening soon will tenuously in several cities at the same time so so on the wednesday it was the far eastern cities that have started at the relay and by the end of next week we're going to be seeing a bit of 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 and 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 inter in the top the overall tally with thirteen goals that in vancouver russia was just one medal short of finishing first now with a home turf advantage there is no doubt they'll be giving it all in their chase for the golden earlier we met some of those who were able to overcome physical and psychological obstacles to achieve sporting excellence you can find those stories on our website and our you tube travel. finally in the bulletin israeli arms sales 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 in two thousand and twelve but now faces questions over report detailing the use of palestinian territories for testing grounds or he's policy reports. 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 is it 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 car we have this live currently we have an availability of the availability of conflict and availability of war it starts with the drones for decades israeli drones have been hunting for palestinian militants and they hit 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 people. in the street is very upset it's a lot of money the political service we have a solution the idea of deserve to 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 west bank barrier is its state of the art security system is being copied along america's borders with canada and mexico i think the israelis. most exciting in the country because they are developing something this thing immediately in the field so the engineering. goes directly to the army and can see if they all day develop it's

good on after three years of working on his documentary is adamant there is no weapon it's rather thick that's really exporting which the israeli army is not using in gaza and with ben 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 lot of finding tasting and showcasing weapons systems and industrial military front that remain secure placea tel aviv so the community international some straight talk on the world's most troubling issues and sophie co or if you're watching us from the u.k. you're going underground with often returns.

minnesota vikings football player jared allen and like many pro athletes stereotypes are actually doing something for society with us n.f.l. fame and fortune he is providing homes for turning wounded u.s. veterans good job mr allen generally for some reason wealthy people don't do much to help other people besides giving money to charity to get some sort of tax break kickback the thing they don't realize that helping other people out is actually in the best interest of rich guys too if they would ever just stop to think about it a little more so mega wealthy that you could live in total isolation you're going to have to deal with the rest of the people in your country and the better off that average guy is the less likely he's going to need to steal from you to get by ellen's work is fantastic because it gets veterans out of a desperate situation returning home wounded trying to struggle to find work in a. that economy and treat their wounds in a massively over expensive medical system yet well its plan is a drop in the bucket for the over twenty million american servicemen who have come back home but it shows that a wounded veteran with a place to live as a much better chance at a good life and the fewer vets there are living under

a bridge the better society will be but that's just my opinion. the so so the. hello welcome to sophie and co i'm sophie shevardnadze and ukraine's age old split between east and west is flaring up again because revolution unity is on the

balance what will it take for the people of ukraine to find a middle way and what does all this mean for russia ukraine's closest neighbor today we asked me how might the chief of foreign affairs committee of the upper house of russia's parliament. gives independence square has been extinguished but the barricades are still. following days of bloodshed the opposition is celebrating. but tell the people of ukraine they were hoping for. the end of the struggle for power or just the beginning. become like care for head of the for and affairs committee in russian federation council it's really great to have you know a program today thank you for so many things going on in ukraine right now talk all over the world now in your view what has taken place is it a cooler evolution. well you know as an artist as an oriental list unfortunately i

draw many parallels with what is happening in ukraine with what is called the arab spring. it started as a revolution it started as a protest of people who were deceived by mr unocal each and his party the party of the regions. mr to call the chief and his party were advertising the agreement between ukraine and the european union for almost two years they were promoting this idea explaining that it is the best way of development for ukraine and ukrainian people and then they turned in the opposite direction overnight and did not explain anything to the people of ukraine so people were outraged they went out to the streets and again the government missed unocal which were not able to talk to the people so after that the peaceful protest was handed by the extremists like it happened in tunisia for example or like it happened in egypt

when. the revolutions were made by western oriented people who are thinking about the more than a zation of our cake societies but as a result of the elections the islamist forces won here the similar picture it all started like a peaceful protest and then the extremists the warlords the field commanders appeared in kiev they started shooting this they started riots they started. real war in the streets of the european capital and when i saw the pictures on the t.v. screen i was really shocked it was not european capital it was oriental capsule that what now i mean at this point is it going to stay together ukraine t. think it will splayed maybe we'll see self-governing ranges like in the united states where she throws in with this constitution well.