ukraine southern republican sets a date for a referendum on further autonomy from kiev as thousands rally against the nationalism which has risen from the rubble of medan square. a new clue as to the whereabouts of the ousted president it occurred which he announces a news conference in southern russia after dismissing ukraine's interim leaders as just a minute and asking for protection. amnesty international accuses israel of using excessive force against palestinian protesters in the occupied lands saying some killings could be tantamount to war crimes.

from a city a center in moscow this is r.t. international with the twenty four hours a day the rise of ultra nationalism in ukraine is causing tensions in the south of the country the center of unrest is now in the capital of the autonomous region of crimea a local parliament there has voted to hold a regional referendum which could push them even further away from kiev control even to skin off is the force. the crimean parliament has released the local prime minister from his duties basically dispersing the the government as well and has set a date for a referendum over whether or not to stay with ukraine and this date is may twenty fifth which is the same day when the new authorities in kiev are planning to hold nationwide presidential elections in fact they said that crimea is have no rights to hold any sort of referendums independently under new laws which have been passed

recently in kiev and now in the meantime over in the over the night here in the capital of the crimea a group of unknown pro russian activists got inside the building of the local parliament and raised deal russian flag on top of that they however did allow deputies to enter inside and there are no reports of any sort of aggression from them now also several thousand people gathered outside of the palm and as well a pro russian activist with russian flags and well the people that i've spoke with they're very concerned about the things that have been happening in kiev especially about more and more nationalists coming to power there and they say that they are ready to protect their national identity just to explain the east and southeast of ukraine where we are now is heavily populated by ethnic russians now all of this is coming after clashes erupted on the wednesday also in front of the parliament between pro russian activists and probably ukrainian ones most of whom are a crimean tatar arse and it started as a rally but then political tension grew into one. bar

more rain here in the crimea national slogans are being shouted alongside pro russian ones they share the same went but definitely not the same political views i . i. know. we all came out today to show that without our approval no decisions will be made we see the. crimea is a part of grains this is the majority of people here support russia in the u.s.s.r. the crimea belongs to the russian soviet republic until nine hundred fifty four when the then soviet leadership decided to transfer it to the administration of saudi do crane and when the u.s.s.r. collapsed in one thousand nine hundred one and the crimea was left as a part of independent ukraine but for the last few centuries mainly ethnic russians have been living on these lands alongside minorities including the muslim crimean

tatars to the crimea always used to be russian and was passed over to the crane unlawfully 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 a political changes and what role ukrainian and gulf war pro russian with the russian flags there for you was waste year and the tension was reaching the boiling point. even though i knew several lesser extent order of the crimean tartars have been siding with the ukrainian nationalist but they were never able to agree on much i was about tatars want their own crimean tartar government as it was but the idea is too far fetched to me at this point however nationalism is far more important than logic but 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 i you go to school of r t reporting

from the crimea i mean one a video has surfaced online of alexander was it the current leader of the ultra nationalist group known as the right sector and this group was at the forefront of the violent protests that rocked the ukrainian capital the footage shows mischka. dealing with the way he deals with the remaining authorities. don't you just want to go on with a sort of key was what. was. what. was it into a prosecutor's office in central ukraine and then tacked an employee while demanding to see the prosecutor who was not there he then began to terrorize staff members assaulting one of them and threatening to tie him up and drag him out quote like an animal when a man of radical views visited joined the ultra nationalist party back in one nine hundred ninety one in the chechen war he fought alongside the militants and prides

himself on personally hitting three tanks and killing a number of russian soldiers has previously been accused of organizing an assassination attempt on a fellow party member and was convicted of kidnapping a businessman and causing him grievous bodily harm despite all that he ran for ukrainian parliament in two thousand and twelve and now stands at the helm of the country's nationalist movement. the whereabouts of ukraine's ousted president viktor yanukovych remains unknown but he did release a public statement earlier today suggesting he's in no mood to give up on the fight to hold on to power. reports the unocal which saga has largely resembled a hollywood thriller something along the lines of catch me if you can he fled the capital five days ago after a huge outbreak of violence here ever since his can his whereabouts have been unknown some have been speculating that he is still in ukraine and the new ukrainian power in kiev were quick to brand him as a criminal to slap a wanted tag on him and to declare him as a fugitive but apparently young

a call which may be resurfacing in russia here first of all he published a statement handing it over to several russian use agencies saying that he was still the legitimate president of ukraine elected in a constitutional manner every decision made in the key of parliament in kiev according to an accord which was illegitimate and he was willing to fight until the very end to bring the constitutional order back to the country at the same time he said that he and his competitors have been receiving death threats from people he described as extremists and that's why he asked russia to provide protection for himself some rumors and those are sources not yet confirmed by any official in russia have reported that in fact the russian government granted this protection for unocal which but now the latest news is that one of the officials close to the ousted ukrainian president said that the other which will hold a press conference in the south than a russian city of stuff on dawn on friday at about five o'clock local time

certainly a lot will be clear if this press conference takes place and which would probably clarify what his next steps will be. and with the country more polarized than ever there's no better time for the ousted president to speak out that's according to international relations expert mark sloboda while technically still the having rights of 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 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 meanwhile comments on the crisis have been coming in from high level ministers from nato countries for more on their reaction here's our correspondent you see coming off in. nato defense ministers expressing a lot of concern over ukraine as well as their perception of the kremlin's response the nato secretary general anders fogh rasmussen called on russia not to do anything that would quote escalate tension or create a misunderstanding he told a meeting of the nato ukraine commission in brussels the latest developments in the crimea were quote dangerous and irresponsible also raised the defense minister now she weighed in at her very first nato summit in brussels let's take a quick listen the situation in the ukraine particularly in crimea fills us with

great concern it is of the utmost importance that we prevent a breakup of the ukraine and that special forces in the country are strengthened. so lot of concern about whether ukraine remains in one piece or not the russian foreign ministry meanwhile issuing a statement in response to all this saying that the nato defense ministers were sending a quote wrong signal in their statements urging all sides to refrain from making what moscow referred to as provocative statements this alarm not just coming from the nato ministers but reflected in the western press as well the news has certainly made front page headlines with a lot of speculation that moscow's decision to hold military drills is linked somehow to the unrest that's a notion which the russian defense minister sergei sure disputed saying that the emergency military drills were routine and largely unrelated to the developments in the ukraine he did go want to say that russia is of course closely monitoring the developments there and there as well as around the russia's black sea fleet which

remember is based in the crimean. well the western media has a longstanding history of making moscow out to be the bad guy that's to be a political analyst dimitri babich course. certain people in the west and there are nationalist rodeos in your brain are interested in demand as in russia russia has no intention to recall a territory so the former soviet union by military force. our government and our nation we don't need new territory this is just at the edge of your door the global media in general all the media internet media newspapers television they will like to attract you so it's very it's a very painful way to attract viewers by creating the sort of painting but i think it's irresponsible it's clear to me by one hundred percent russia will not intervene militarily in ukraine russia will never find ukrainians. in

a military way. so in my view this is all just. i'm sorry break my head in russia show in there even if russia does not start a whore the foreign media can started for it. months of turmoil to push ukraine further towards a default both the e.u. and the i.m.f. of so far pledged to offer financial support but that's likely to come with some painful conditions here are some of the reforms the i.m.f. was demanding from the previous administration well first off pension reform the government had to increase the retirement age also a number of benefits and welfare payments should have been canceled including those for school children and the elderly electricity and gas prices need to be pushed up both for businesses and the private sector with households facing up to a two fold increase state owned coal mines primarily in the east were said to be privatized and on top of that agricultural land had to be put up for sale would be

a political analyst with him and are believes the west has been taking advantage of ukraine's fragile politics the conditions that the u.s. wants to hold is simply a lean in planning what of the prime economic areas that are integral you linked since the soviet union era to the russian economy the united states government is making. 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 or do stay with our international as we closely follow all the latest developments there in ukraine more expert opinion it's also available online at r.t. dot com more international news stories coming your way after a short break. its

technology innovation all the developments around russia we've got the future covered. drama. stories others refuse to say. thanks it's changing the world right. so picture. from around the globe

the brooklyn. international is accusing israeli forces of using violence in the occupied palestinian territories a new report from the human rights group goes as far as to suggest some killings may actually be war crimes. as the details. this amnesty international report that is some eighty seven pages views the behavior of the israeli army in the occupied west bank of a period of three years from two thousand and eleven to two thousand and thirteen and what it found is that the israeli soldiers behaved in an excessive and reckless way resulting in the death of multiple palestinians in what some might say is war crimes as you can well imagine the i.d.f. has dismissed the report it says that amnesty international has a complete lack of understanding of the situation on the ground and that in fact

during the same time period it was a marked increase in palestinian violence on the israeli army nonetheless the report documents the death of some forty five palestinians in this time period it talks about a pattern of unlawful killings it also says that in addition to these there were at least two hundred and sixty one people were seriously injured by live ammunition and an additional eight thousand who were seriously injured by other means including rubber coated bullets in the same time period there was only one israeli soldier who was brought to book he was sentenced to one year in prison with five months suspended and allowed to remain in the army albeit at a lower rank. pretty young thing he's director of amnesty international israel and he believes the authorities are killing children all md with nothing more than rocks one of the cases that we document in the report is the story of samir a word sixteen from the village. near ramallah he was shot by

israeli soldiers in the leg he tried to flee and then was shot two more times in the head and in the back to death nevertheless right dispersal right control measures do need to be used in some circumstances and they and they have been haven't they surely the military does have to maintain control let me give you an example i myself of a five year old son we live in to live if he were to throw a rock at a. he would be severely punished by his father for one perhaps a police car would come and you know be very concerned that could have hurt somebody that does not warrant. shooting a child that does not warrant arresting children for long. amounts of time without their parents these are patterns that we see seriously in the occupied territories this is the way that the israeli military treats palestinian society there is growing discontent in america's diplomatic community

and to barack obama nominated several of his big election backers to be ambassadors especially after a grilling at the senate showed the nominees to be more or less clueless about their future postings his critics say obama is simply returning the favor for the funding that saw him return to office is going to now reports. confirmation hearings ever deal that a number of president obama's nominees for of macedonia ships have little or no knowledge of the countries they're assigned to serve in. a real expert on china but 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 part of the coalition and the government

but i would say that you know what a guy already i think corrected but what george sunis does know is how to run motels 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 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 send to the world the 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 washington's policies are do you agree that the u.s. embassy in china should be an island of freedom that's a question i going to have to take back to. work with the straightest i do not know the destruction policy precisely on that point career diplomats. 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 is the broader question well kind of diplomacy can you expect diplomats in washington i'm going to r.t. . the bartek john to proclaim some of the most evil company in the world is

once again drawing find a new study suggests monsanto's roundup weed killer could be linked to a highly toxic and deadly kidney disease more about the dangers linked to the g.m. foods producer online. also on the website at the moment a struggle to discover seven hundred fifteen new planets outside our solar system almost doubling the number of planets known to humanity details on this story and much more is available for you right now and i'll take. your leaks about global surveillance practices. claim british intelligence agency g c h q has been intercepting and collecting web cam images from millions of people online some of which the users certainly didn't want spies to see he was getting details now of this from ortiz sort of for a fuse from the studios so how did this work what kind of things were they actually seeing where this was the british intelligence agency.

with the help of n.s.a.'s program code named optic nerve and this is essentially collecting still yahoo webcam chat images from one point eight million yahoo accounts to be exact and then storing them on databases now the the images were an experiment in what they call automated facial recognition and it was used to monitor not just existing targets but also to discover new targets but it seems they were getting a little bit more than perhaps they'd bargained for because as they quite quickly put it it seems that a lot of people use the web cam chats just for conversation and so it seemed they had quite a large number of images of a sexually explicit nature in fact the documents revealed between three to eleven percent of the data they were receiving was of undesirable nudity as they call it

now you are here you have over splendid furiously to this saying that they had no knowledge or involvement in this and if the report proves true that it represents a whole new level of violation that's certainly something that's being echoed spawn's to these latest revelations was one social media eloquently put it c.c.t.v. on the street g c h q in your sheets. thanks very much indeed for that. live in london and we'll be talking more about that revolution a little later in the next hour here on our team well look at downing street and tea with the queen it was a full british charm offensive for the german chancellor on her one day visit but all the pomp and circumstance wasn't enough to persuade angela merkel to get behind prime minister david cameron's push to reform the e.u. she said she doesn't support widespread change but urged britain to stay in the union to help strengthen in any way to cilia reports. for german chancellor angela

merkel's visit to london it's a red carpet welcome fit for a 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 bets seem to be placed on getting the backing of europe's economic powerhouse in redrawing love his relationship with brussels after all. it's not of course in this europe but incentives on both sides to find a suitable agreement so what exactly does cameron 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 he wants in return but would be some wind 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 and that naturally germany won't do anything against its own interests or weak. financial transactions tax once again which could cost you. three point five billion pounds you have so. it's actually the long term strategy seems to be very different. has many more friends around the world should really be focusing on.

the world is there. and in the end it still boils down to this one who wants a little less europe while the other wants a whole lot more of it. tesser sylvia r.t. london more news with me in the team in just over an hour from now in the meantime why would one of the world's most powerful oil executives join a lawsuit against shale gas drilling mexico as it explains just a few minutes. minnesota vikings football player jared allen like many pro athlete stereotypes is actually doing something for society with this n.f.l. fame and fortune he is providing homes for turning wounded u.s. veterans good job mr allan 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 bad economy and treat their wounds in a massively over expensive medical system here ellis plant 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.

welcome to the car as a report imax as are you know london housing is so expensive that even clinger can afford to buy here. for max not the from star trek these are called middle class cling on the headline reads middle class cling on squeezed out of london property market so the financial times looked at all the recent data from savile's housing market and what they found was that the f.t. findings show how the purchasing power of a wealthy goober middle is increasingly pushing the most desirable neighborhoods out of the reach of middle class cling on whose salaries have failed to keep pace

over the past forty years well the government's going to put them all into the transporter room and beam them onto another planet where you don't need a job to work you don't need food you don't need water you don't need air you just got to get out of there because the policies have created this enormous gulf this enormous split so these cling on just feels like. they're trying to cling on to having some modicum of middle class existence are being beamed out of out of out of the players gold well the clean ons or i guess you would call the lower middle class and they're the sort of people who could afford to live and say camden town which is not too far from central london but now those very people who only twenty years ago could have afforded to buy there based on their average salary at the time now that average salary today would only get you to like further out on the commuter lines in places like red bridge well i mean it's not really

middle class at all it's just being split right down the middle so you've got the tops at the upper end and then you've got the. everyone else the losers are being forced out of this immediate london area code where all of the easy money being printed by the central bank is available for terms undisclosed and nontransparent yeah and of course it proves once again that working for a living is a chump game because if you have to work for a salary. you have nowhere to live and you might have a commute that's two or three hours long to get into that job that can afford to pay for the house that you have way out in redbridge i missed a british working class you know these guys that come and eat their beans on toast and there's little to first of two pound or two pounds and then they go get a jack hammer and they're going to you know working people i missed them you don't see them much anymore in london you see.