transit. your best way to the heart of moscow. ukraine's ousted president asks russia for protection and bronze the new leadership illegitimate pulling for the previous government to be restored meanwhile in the south. local pro russian protesters anti-government and parliament buildings where demonstrators who refused to recognize the country's new leaders clashed with approach my don reilly. also this hour if there's one thing you don't want a potential ambassador to china to admit is there is. no real expert. while there is just one of the diplomats a gann surrounding president obama's choices for foreign service way it seems campaign contributions qualify you for global statesmanship.

and violence in venezuela unrest spreads from the capital where the fear street battles breaking out in the north over crime and poverty. and welcome to our team to national twenty four hour news live from moscow my name is you follow on to our breaking news this hour on do you crazy the president big to get a call that insists he's still the country's legitimate leader has also asked mosco to guarantee his security amid reports claiming he is currently in russia like to say guess housekeeper he's in kiev for us right now so i would say this is the first statement from the ousted president since he went on the run to tell us more about what he's been saying. well the story. looks like

a genuine hollywood thriller he has been on the run for almost a week now and it's actually the first time that he openly came up with a statement it's been certainly unknown about his whereabouts it's been pretty much speculated that he's still in ukraine now it looks he apparently may be in russia several of news agencies in russia reported his statement that he still considers himself to be a legitimate president of ukraine elected in a constitutional matter and everything according to the coverage happening now inside the ukrainian parliament all the decisions made by the new the so-called new power here in kiev is illegitimate according to the court which moreover he said that he himself and his compatriots are being threatened with with death of receiving death threats and that's why he's urged to the russian federation for assistance for help and to provide security for himself in the time

zone extremists according to misty on the call which are running the show in ukraine he also said that all the agreements which he and the opposition have reached on february twenty first here in kiev along with officials from russia and europe are not being fulfilled and he will continue his fight to bring constitutional order back to ukraine certainly those very interesting developments it is interesting to see how the ukrainian parliament will react to that because right now they're holding a very important session and they even suspended the election of a new government with the developments about victory on the garbage and the situation in the crimea. say thank you very much indeed for that update we appreciated the ousted president of ukraine because a unicorn which would has been missing for several days now has reportedly turned up in russia that's according to numerous russian news agency is citing a source who made a statement asking moscow for protection from extremists he also believes he is

still a major timidly and democratically elected and there's a timid leader of ukraine and we'll be bringing you more details on that as we get them and while you are still the having rights as the president of the ukraine after being driven out by this putsch in kiev he's released a rather powerful statement we have seen a complete deterioration of the situation in kiev this putsch has shown that they really have no power. to control what is going on certainly not in the entirety of the ukraine but even more locally the ultra nationalist mobs which which the cynically made an attempt to ride the tiger of their violence into power or are now in control of the streets so. i guess at this point must feel he

has no alternative except to try to restore order to the country. international relations expert mark. meanwhile protests against and in support of ukraine's new leaders are gathering steam in crimea will prob my down rallies are largely led by the local muslim todd community which is in the minority that most of the area's population are russians and over seventy percent of the people that are russian speakers and early on thursday a group of local pro russian protesters entered buzz the cabinet and parliament buildings in crimea. is following the events in the region. well a group of unidentified people entered the local administration buildings in the capital of the crimea and raised a russian flag on top of them and reportedly they are allowing local deputies inside but nevertheless the new authority is in kiev for specifically the acting

president has named the situation an attempt at the crimean independence and said that they are sending some sort of security forces to the crimea to what they say will be preventing any violence from erupting and keeping safety here all this happens after clashes erupt it's a very in the center of fire seems that operated in the same town between the pro russian supporters and those supporting political change in kiev with political tensions turning into ethnic once. allow bar more into ukraine here in the crimea national slogans are being shouted alongside pro russian ones they share the same length but definitely not the same political views. i have that. you would wish we all came out today to show that without our approval no decisions will be made

we see the crimea is a part of ukraine the majority of people here support russia in the u.s.s.r. the crimea belong to the russian soviet republic until nine hundred fifty four when the then soviet leadership decided to transfer it to the administration off so he did crean and won the u.s.s.r. collapsed in one thousand nine hundred one and the crimea was left as a part of independent ukraine. the crimea always used to be russian and was passed over to the crane and lawfully it's time for justice to prevail the square in front of the a local administration building here in secret all we have. division was political changes and it was the only when you and gulf war pro russian with the russian flags there for you playing wags here and the tensions are we seeing the boiling point. even though i knew several dislikes don't most of the crimean tatars

have been siding with the ukrainian nationalists but they were never able to agree on the march i was opposing tonto's one of their own crimean tartar government as it was on the idea as too far fetched under way at this point however nationalism is far more important than logic of the majority here are expecting the local crimean authorities to exercise the political will and not oh well a new ethnic conflict in europe to break out. reporting from the great need. the media outlets are raising the specter of russian troops getting involved in the crimea linking it to the turmoil across ukraine but local officials deny the reports they explain is that the person now who are being seen there are nanda regular forces serving at the russian navy base which has been there many. months of turmoil have done nothing to prevent ukraine from violence in on the edge of default the euro is preparing a plan to provide urgent financial support the i.m.f. to is expected to offer aid but that's likely to come with some painful conditions

and he are some of the reforms the i.m.f. was demanding from the previous administration so first of pension reform the government had to increase the retirement age and also a number of benefits and welfare payments should have been cancelled including those for school children and the elderly electricity and gas prices needed to be pushed up both for businesses and the private sector with households facing up to a two forward increase their state owned coal mines located primarily in the east were said to be privatized as well and on top of that agricultural lands had to be put up for sale would be existing moratorium eventually lifted and to a political analyst william and i suspect the west is taking advantage of ukraine's turmoil to devastate its economy. the conditions that the u.s. that wants to impose is simply a looting and plundering what of the prime economic areas that are interrelated

linked since the soviet union era to the russian economy the united states government is making verbal silence about money the u.s. treasury is not in any political shape to give billions of dollars to the ukrainian economy estimates are thirty five billion required this is a manipulation from the outside. donors may be preparing to give ukraine a financial lifeline but perhaps a little did a trans is required at studio exactly gets the money hardline is among the stable opposition on seeking more control of ukraine's new administration with some of them attending a local poland session while the ts get more on that side of the story at all. and his now a head scratcher for you why would one of the world's most powerful oil executives join a lawsuit against shale gas drilling. safe as they industry suggesting why would

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face. a pleasure to have you with us here are to you today. this is an international carries you lie from last go walkabout. to be an ambassador you need patients tonks and a sauna doze of statesmanship oh if you want to be a top envoy for bronco bamma just found his campaign and back recently for the us president his election bankroll is now out number career diplomats but some have never even set foot in the countries that are supposed to seven as ghana check our

reports confirmation hearings every deal that a number of president obama's nominees for of ships have little or no knowledge of the countries their assigned to serve in. the real expert on china that said the man who is confirmed as u.s. ambassador to china one of norway's major political parties progress party now expects an apology from president obama after the future bastard to norway apparently did know about their existence norway has been very quick to denounce. them. we're going to continue to work with norway to make sure government has denounced them the coalition government a part of the coalition the government but i would say that you know what again i seriously already i think correct it but what george tunis does know is how to run hotels and how to raise money he has reportedly bundler contributed more than one point three million dollars for president obama's election campaign he's not alone

more than half of the president's political appointees are his sponsors and or fundraisers the reported quote unquote price paid by his donors for ambassadorships stands at nearly two million dollars. to those concerned about the qualifications of its nominees the white house has a diplomatic answer your being a donor to the president's campaign does not guarantee you a job in the ministration but it does not prevent you from getting many are worried about the message that some of these appointments sends to the world this structure reinforces the perception that. the americans are not listening to their counterparts because the policies are made in washington and the people who are delivering that policy really are instructed to deliver and what they're getting back isn't going to have any input whatsoever into the decision making process that is of course if they know what bosch and his policies are do you agree that the

u.s. embassy in china should be an island of freedom that's a question i am going to have to get back to. work with ministration i do not know that the destruction policy precisely on that point career diplomats and some lawmakers here are now worried not just about some of the current nominations but about the standards for future diplomats they don't want the message to be oh you don't have to be an expert on the country where you are going to serve on behalf of your government and then there's the broader question what kind of diplomacy can you expect from such diplomats in washington i'm going to check out our team. underline for you right now as if the polemic over genetically modified products wasn't an out for the biochemical giant monsanto a new study suggests the side produced by the company which is used for oil cultivation may cause fatal kidney disease dot com has that story. and also in its talks all the tried and tested at least the injection drugs are run

out just as states resorting to cheaper controversial replacements which are blamed for poisoning is an execution. and rest in venezuela is now spreading beyond the capital caracas and there have been street battles between antigovernment protesters and police in the northern city of valencia over crime levels and the struggling economy there security forces were attacked with some homemade explosives they responded with rubber bullets and tear gas protesters also looted a large supermarket and mark a city near the capital there have been two weeks of writing and well involving sounds of people angry at living conditions and soaring crime sixteen people have died in the violence which some suspect is being fueled from outside. the major force driving the opposition is really u.s.

support venezuela is crucial to a block of countries in latin america that have broken free of total u.s. domination venezuela is key to this and the u.s. is making an all out effort through creating artificial shortages courting speculation and it's used in popular ways in the media to try to connect it to the occupy wall street movement but these are occupiers who are fighting for wall street at every at every single point they want to connect re colonise and control a whole number of countries that have broken free and that's really what is going on in country after country but in venezuela in a very sharp way right now. and some old sounds wild news in green police in peru fired tear gas to disperse protesters who were running against the budget cuts five people were reportedly injured and several arrests were made the clashes broke out on the first day of a strike that has already brought business and transport to

a standstill that west began after the president where shuffled his cabinet and announced the budget cuts but also salary hikes for his new cabinet ministers. hundreds gathered outside london central criminal crew demanding the execution of the mantras of british soldier lee rigby last may there were several arrests in clashes between foreign groups and the police bravery was filtered as he returned to his barracks in south east london on his killers will spend the rest of his life in prison the other will serve a minimum of forty five years in training. and egyptian court has sentenced twenty six people to death for organizing a terror plot local media reports that the group was preparing missiles and bombs to try ships in the suez can now the waterway is one of the world's main transport

hubs for global shipping connecting the visitor rain and the red seats. britain's prime minister will launch a charm offensive or later one believes over europe's most powerful country because it's london behind it is a desire not only to change the terms of the u.k.'s membership of the easy but to reform the bloc itself it's unclear about how far angela merkel will be won over asked our senior reporter. for german chancellor angela merkel's visit to london it's a red carpet welcome fit for queen dubbed by foreign secretary william hague as britain's most important partner on seeking e.u. reform and the first german chancellor to address both houses of parliament starkly different to british prime minister david cameron's low key pub lunch with his french counterpart last month all that seemed to be placed on getting the backing of europe's economic powerhouse it redrawing loved his relationship with brussels

after all most nerd out american expression if not of course in this europe incentives on birth to find a suitable agreement so what exactly does campbell want for the u.k. curbing. immigration by possibly putting a cap on workers from europe entering the u.k. at restrictions of benefits claims for migrants casts are in protections for financial regulations on britain and repatriation of certain powers back to westminster to name a few but the question is what you want in return but would be some wins for the u.k. but you could imagine it's a tit for tat. they would have to accept something in return amid all the fuss summer of lowering the excitement of the british foreign office has repeatedly advised ten downing street to bear in mind that any reform will require the agreement of all other states that naturally germany won't do anything against its own interests are weak the foreign minister initiating the financial transactions

tax once again which could cost u.k. savers three point five billion pounds you have certain current it's actually the long term strategy seems to be very different the u.k. has many more friends around the world should really be focusing on the end game the world is there. and in the end it still boils down to this one who wants a little less europe while the younger wants a whole lot more of it tests are still there r t. the suffering of foreign low paid workers in qatar stretches far beyond those building the infrastructure for the twenty twenty two world cup foreign maids cleaners and other domestic staff are also reportedly being subjected to slave like conditions as well as complaints of physical and sexual abuse it's intensified concerns about

the country's suitability to house football's most prestigious event and which talks a german filmmaker who was detained in qatar when he investigated the blind awak and he described them as prisoners of circumstance all we did was basically collecting food for a big documentary on the human rights situation on the workers in the migrant workers situations there. tracked down for more than two days we didn't even know film a single site we were talking to obviously workers there at night time it daytime we're talking to human rights activists but we were far from spotting any kind of riot but it shows after all the exiled the fear they obviously have there. for foreign press and film people over there reporting on the problem the reality is that obviously police indian workers as we're reading these days are being taken their passports away first they're not able to really file cases in

court against the company they're working for there is a major lack of medical care for these people they are trapped within the system comparing is against trunking in the united states are getting some unexpected support from one of the world's biggest oil producer is the head of exxon mobil has joined a lawsuit against the construction will also tower near his home which is planned to be used for hydraulic fracturing although some of these arguments left one environmental accidents attended one of the hearings some want the voted. ironically i was sitting in the room full of people who were there to beg this the town of barton bill to enact a mock moratorium on new drilling permits and so it was very surreal for us to hear rex tillerson talking about unsightly water tower that my disrupt his

view when these people sitting in the audience had water that would phone like dish wash dish water they had rashes there were so many toxic release is of gas near their homes that they had to evacuate five hundred and one release is in just one year they had to wait their small children up at night and evacuated in the middle of the night to to get away from these toxic gases. and recount all top story this hour ukraine's ousted president viktor going to college has reportedly turned up in russia after being missing for several days that's according to several russian news agencies signed a souls has released a statement saying he still considers himself ukraine's illegitimate leader and he also asked moscow full protection from extremists adding that the decisions of the new parliament and key of a not legitimate in a college pledge to do everything to resolve the political crisis in ukraine stay

without international film the details on these developments as we get them and right after the break aaron eight breaks down the financial headlines and boxed. democratic revolution or government cool as russia and the west trade blows ukraine lies. what does the future hold for the deeply divided country. speak your language. programs and documentaries in arabic in

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methods to help american five billions of dollars from the i.r.s. have that story coming right up plus we have part one of my interview with the host of our kids kaiser report max kaiser on today's show. he'll tell us all about his personal venture into the world of crypto currency with maps point you won't want to miss my interview with him also we have american macro economist and co-founder of the center for economic and policy research dean baker and is studio today we're talking to dean about the u.s. economy both house and president you won't want to miss a moment and it all starts right now.

credit suisse is under investigation by the u.s. justice department for allegedly helping its rich clients of aid paying their taxes now a senate investigative report released on tuesday claims that bankers at credit suisse used cloak and dagger tactics to help wealthy american clients stash billions of dollars in assets out of sight from the i.r.s. that is now senate investigators say the bank went so far as to open a special zurich airport branch now listen it's in the airport and this was so that customers could fly in meet their private bankers and then quickly hit the slopes right after not too bad if you're one of those v.i.p.'s now according to the report the v.i.p.'s would use a secret elevator to be whisked to a private banking suite while bankers use peltry meeting rooms to avoid sending account statements or leaving a paper trail now credit suisse held more than twenty two thousand accounts for u.s. customers that's a lot of accounts and with assets valued between ten and twelve billion dollars it

adds up to quite a pretty penny executives from credit suisse are set to testify to the justice department in a hearing on wednesday chief executive brady dougan will hit back saying only a small group of private bankers were involved. helping americans conceal their wealth however here's the quandary we know that there are politicians who have offshore bank accounts mitt romney comes to mind for example i think he's got a couple and why do people have offshore bank accounts well there are a variety of reasons but a lot of the time it's to avoid paying taxes however the current colossal colossal tax code here in the us permits these abusive accounting gimmicks and there are billions more lost in accounting gimmicks right here in the us gimmicks like for example the ability for people to earn wages that much lower tax rates thanks to long term capital gains i'm talking carried interest here horse what else for the job and carried interest now are officials turning a blind eye to a problem here at home or are they employ distraction tactics with this whole

credit suisse business we'll let you decide. tokyo based mt gox was once the largest because an exchange in the world now it appears to be bust the question today however is whether the whole propos currency movement has been dealt a fatal blow max kaiser the dynamic of the report here on our two is a crypto currency evangelist and he thinks the mt gox episode is good for crypto currencies because it strengthens the community by a limiting exchange with poor systems and controls max has his own crypto currency max coin so i began by asking him to give us the full degree on going take a look.