dozens of. a major port in crimea looking for troops from kiev while local leaders are forced from power by a group claiming self-defense appointing new russian authorities in their place. in the ukrainian capital spreads of right wing radicals get their hands on guns refused. to get their way. in detention riots. young man dies in police custody his family saying that he was tortured. in the cold the millions in europe who are struggling without a home as the houses that could accommodate them are allowed to stand empty.

it is friday morning here in moscow it's international with headlines. thank you for joining us an airport scare in southern ukraine's republic of crimea dozens of ahmed men suddenly emerged during the night they say they were looking for troops arriving from kiev as many in the embattled region rallying against the people that deposed president. now emotions running high with crime means even considering breaking away. in office following developments. it all happened quite suddenly in the middle of the night a group of armed unidentified men and the airport here in the crimean capital didn't make any threats or demands searched the airport and then the left as quickly and suddenly as initially arrived and reportedly they were looking for

troops who they thought had been sent here from kiev they didn't find anyone and the left not clear who exactly these people are they were carrying russian flags and presumably they could be among the so-called self-defense squad along with the same pro russian activists who the previous night got into the local problem and here and raised the russian flag on its roof however they did allow the deputies inside and they were able to work properly throughout the day freeing the prime minister of the republic from his duties dispersing the government appointing a new prime minister who is known for his pro russian views and setting a date for a referendum here in the autonomous republic to decide whether or not the crimea should stay with the ukraine or move away from kiev now at the same time the new authorities in kiev have been saying that here local authorities in the crimea have no legal rights to hold any type of independent referendums under the new laws that they've just passed recently but ironically of the date of the referendum that the

crimean is want to hold is the same day when the authorities in kiev are planning to hold the nationwide presidential election so the gap between the east and the west of train is clearly increasing now and many are saying that some of the new laws passed by the new authorities in kiev are not making the situation any better . they met in the grammy a and are now building a family here and on the mother is ukrainian but all the relatives on his father's side are from russia once they see is an ethnic russian from she claims to have left one of her native language became oppressed and what it doesn't as you know the more languages you speak the more you can learn and comprehend i want my child to be able to learn all of them without any restrictions but then you authorities in kiev where the nationalists presence among them seem to disagree one of the first things they did after storming to power was cancelled russian as the second official language in regions where ethnic russians make up the majority causing

confusion even among local civil servants but. most of the people who come here are russian speakers some don't even understand ukrainian not to mention legal terms how can they read and understand documents surveys indicate that an absolute majority of crimean speak russian as their main language but many are now practically forced to be taught in schools attend court or even get medical prescriptions in ukrainian. a few patients speaks only russian what should the doc to do given that prescription and ukrainian not only won't these laws work they're lonely aggravate the situation. aggravation which is for to ignore here in the crimea what about few days now pro russian activists have been gathering in the center of the crimean capital protesting against the new authorities in kiev and their policies and saying they are ready to protect their national identity everything that is seen as russian in any way is under assault so just by virtue of

the need for self defense one can see why crimea and other parts of eastern ukraine are moving ever closer to moscow as plans to hold a nationwide early presidential election in lead me crimean authorities have now decided to hold a different vote on the cd a referendum on the republic separating from ukraine altogether. right near. and in the meantime in ukraine's capital the new cabinet has been sworn in let's give you some names and descriptions here on r.t. international the deputy prime minister also happens to be the second in command of the ultra rights for board the party notorious for rhetoric that includes nazi like xenophobia slogans but also from the border is the new ecology minister he is known for promoting of open access to firearms but he is not known for having any expertise in ecology the new national security secretary actually the founder of the ultra right party he also took part in the orange revolution a new in

ukraine of course that was a decade ago the education minister has in the past promoted academic censorship and is also a member of another far right party and while the new anti corruption bureau chief is a supporter of the radical right national defense of ukraine party and also the interior minister spent some time on interpol's wanted list and was briefly detained in italy and twenty twelve are accused of stealing half a million dollars worth of state land. now as the new authorities are settling what had been a revolutionary enthusiasm on the streets says quickly turned into anxiety radicals who got their hands on firearms during the uprising appointed themselves in control and are dispensing their own brand of enforcement and when i go to go investigates . this was supposed to be a step towards a brighter future. but now it's heading in

a different direction because no no one tells us when to bear arms and when. you didn't give them to us and you won't take them away you want to take my gun but you want to take away my rifle you want to take away my knife you come here and take it the very same man who happens to be one of the leaders of the group known as the right sector could be seen someone acting in his words with actions. i said give me your id now and i'm warning you i'm sure i have a gun to my head a first. give me your id. what do you want from me and i'm bothering you. i said give me your id. and who are you sure is your id and. you were the press. the right secretary the militant arm of the my don has taken over two floors in kiev's central hotel artie's crew caught them

breaking into knock you by the room for your attention don't create problems for yourself we know you're inside there good are with your arms in the air this is a simple check of identification we will get inside one way or the other don't be afraid and this in the town of iran from called sq the tree draped with hanging nooses and this sign that reads traitors of ukraine this is not specified who the true leaders are in today's ukraine many can fit the bill former officials police russians jews anyone associated with the former ruling party of the regions instilling fear is now a tactic for those who claimed to be peacefully demonstrating critical critical forms it goes on. and ukraine's embattled president is now reportedly in southern russia local media in the city of saying his plane landed flanked by fighter jets earlier the ousted leader gave a statement as reportedly planning

a news conference later on friday or now from. the unocal which saga has largely resembled a hollywood thriller something along the lines of catch me if you can he fled the ukrainian capital five days ago after a huge outbreak of violence here ever since his whereabouts have been unknown some have been speculating that he is still in ukraine and the new ukrainian power and. and him as a criminal to slap a wanted tag on him and to declare him as a fugitive but apparently on a cause 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 and 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 currently nato spin military drills being staged by russia and the alliance is concerned that the maneuvers may be sending the wrong message with ukraine crumbling on russia's doorstep of the story here to wattis lucie county. they don't offense ministers expressing

a lot of concern over ukraine as well as their perception of the kremlin's response the nato secretary general 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 raising the alarm of the new german 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 surely goo disputed saying that the emergency military drills were routine and largely unrelated to the developments in the ukraine he did don't 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. you can get a full briefing on the unfolding crisis in ukraine from how it started to how it might tend to quote a dedicated online team gathering information as it will come to light available able for you right now i should say a few clicks away it on cd dot com. i saw here on the program officially there are more than four million homeless people across the european union now there are

houses they could live in it is obvious pretty boy reports many of the vacant properties that could accommodate them are often investment shells for society's richest to park their money. the guardian investigation has revealed that there are eleven million empty homes across europe enough to house the e.u.'s homeless more than twice over in some cases these are houses that have been purchased or inherited where owners simply don't have the funds to fix them back up but often the more valuable london properties have been bought by investors wishing to park their money in a safe place it's house banking this is property banking all they've done is said let's buy a huge house in mayfair for a multi millions of pounds because whatever happens whether the market goes up or down or around whatever in time it's going to hold its value and will probably increase people might say well it's my right to do what i like that with the rights

come responsibilities there's a dire shortage of affordable housing across the u.k. and your experts say that even on blocking the empties worth millions of pounds would through a ripple effect make more available further down the housing ladder macdonald is editor of inside housing magazine which is aimed at landlords of social housing so that from the point of view of our readers and said jose the exists to provide properties for people who are among the poorest and most vulnerable in u.k. society of course a frustration then when they see congress those empty homes across the u.k. is. obviously being used to host some of these individuals to help ease the shortage of affordable called asian across the country it's a picture that's repeated across the continent two million empty in both france and italy one point eight million in germany but the west offender is space and with more than three point four million homes lying vacant. back in london mayor boris

johnson is now urging local councils to impose an extra one hundred fifty percent tax on houses that haven't been lived in or rented out in over two years but critics say that's not enough of a disincentive boarded up homes have become a familiar sight and they're even changing the face of london's swank yes neighborhoods there are four empty homes for every single home this family in this country across europe that's about two houses for everyone i mean it's family personally i do think it's a scandal this should be a residential area but at night time it's solipsists demoralizing is nobody here is dying and these properties deserve to be lived in. london. and the director of a group that fights for the rights of europe's homeless told us that governments must be more proactive in making shelter available. of course it's not easy to just

put the four million homeless people in the european union in half of the eleven million and the floods often we hear from governments from local authorities that they cannot solve the homeless problem because of lack of housing options i think it's a little bit of a uncertainties different kinds of empty property this empty property that is empty because of for reasons of speculation i think the government can maybe think of levy sort increasingly to. to keep the four put the. that is emptiness because empty property because small landlords. have property that is not up to standard and then they'll have the money or the energy to put it up to standard to put it on the market maybe the government can provide some subsidies. to help them doing that so that is quite a number of possibilities this is r.t. international get their hands on some sourcing screenshots or without the computer users knowledge. g c h q that's how it's been intercepting web cam images from

millions of yahoo customers including some pretty private material as well that's coming your way here on the program. also israel's organized crime thrives its police find their hands tied in trying to battle it details just around the corner . now here on our team international police have quashed yet another government protest this time over accusations a detainee was tortured to death the twenty three year old man at the center of the route died in custody while being held on suspicion of smuggling weapons campaigners claim he was refused a vital medical treatment something or deny on the former president described to us what it's like serving time. according to what we heard from so many different victims that those people when ever they get arrested they will be subject to queue ssion they will be blindfolded for days they will be put in called rooms they will

they will face every kind of torture that no one could imagine me as a victim of torture and beheading in which i served my time there i know what it means to be in those and i know what it means when we would ask for medical care so . we will be leaving you and to your last breaths and then when once you are taken to the hospital it doesn't mean that you will get the treatment . now it's been more than three years since anti-government protests began in bahrain with human rights reform right at the heart of the demands and the time more than one hundred people have been killed and activists accusing the government of waging over the crackdown authorities insisting they have already made enough sessions and international human rights groups have repeatedly criticized the country's record on it. so ever wondered what goes on behind the closed doors of

the u.s. supreme court or you go the first of a video of perceiving is made public. and watch the rest of it right now. while almost thirteen percent of people worldwide a starving it seems we throw away about a third of the food we produce according to an alarming report we'll tell you about online. now if you thought the evening video chat with your loved ones was really private think again britain's g c h q has been exposed for collecting web images from almost two million clients of internet giant yahoo that includes a raft of sexually explicit content. that's more of what the optic nerve program has been snooping. this was the british intelligence agency. with the help of venice

a program code named optic nerve and this is essentially collecting still yahoo webcam chats 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 d.c. cheese 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 clearly put it it seems that a lot of people don't use the webcam chats just the 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 responded furiously to this saying that they had no

knowledge or involvement in this and if the report please true that it represents a whole new level of violation that's certainly something that's being echoed in a public sentiment in response to these latest revelations was one social media eloquently put it c.c.t.v. on the streets d.c.h. he in your sheets. well investigative journalist i turn to go slow and he believes that juicy h.q. may just as well make it so for the home right inside your different. well this is got nothing to do with counterterrorism has it because this is just yet another great day to trawl but there are very good reasons why this the people who have committed this actually should be your all criminals i'm talking about those that have authorized government level and. the individual operators who are collecting this data we've heard about spyware being put on viruses being put on our computers our computers being stopped on their way to our homes to have spy wear this kind of thing put on it we've also had denial of service attacks but this is actually the

most creepy so far i think getting into these web cams it's like an intruder in your living room and it's not just happening to people who are counterterrorism it's this is everybody there are two million users america is being rounded on by europe first deadly drone strikes on pakistan and afghanistan the e.u. parliament has now passed a resolution condemning the use of unmanned aircraft for former pentagon official michael maloof things it will do little to put the u.s. from using its using its weapon of choice the resolution i think reflects the will of a lot of lot of folks around the world on the use of drones because of so many innocent people have been killed the reality is that drone strikes are going to continue the really the use of drones is really going to be the new six generation type of warfare that the united states instigated initiated and we're seeing other

countries quickly adapt to. adapt in that process and i don't think it's going to diminish at all i think it's going to require being much more selective in the use of drones and and where they can be used. arda why do some global headlines are on the program at least fifteen people reported injured as national guard officers deployed tear gas to disperse protesters in venezuela hundreds of students marching through caracas demanding an end to excessive force on the release of anti-government demonstrators jailed in recent weeks thousands of pro-government supporters also rallied in the city celebrating. the late president. workers have staged fresh protests in the capital of cyprus the government plans the proper time. to use about two hundred police officers deployed to record barricades outside parliament will make is that discussing selling electricity and

telecoms for to raise one point four billion euros to fund the e.u. bailout program. israel's conflict of the palestinians takes up the lion's share of its security efforts and its claim that it's allowing criminals though to flourish as the accusation is that police are failing to deal with homegrown crime roads operating on israeli streets and calls to use anti terror methods to tackle them are being ignored fall asleep reports from tel aviv. another car explodes in the heart of tel aviv a familiar terror to the israeli public but this time the horror is from within and the police on mobilizing i've taken off my gloves i'm going with all my tools just like against the terrorists except this time the minister is not talking about palestinian terror he's taking on israel's crime lords they fight because of money they face because of control they want power well the fight for field of interest

they have their soldiers in less than six months ten car bombs have exploded in israeli cities the last three in the first week of february it's a gang war fueled by money weapons turf and plenty of ego and its recent surge is believed to have been caused by explosives and weapons stolen from the i.d.f. as well as a lack of support for the police unlike the military which has an outrageously large budget israel's police services barely receives enough to cover salaries and the minister tasked with making sure the police can do their job is frustrated he's urging his government to give israel security services the same powers to deal with criminal warlords that they have to fight terror on this exact spot twelve hours ago a crime lord was gunned down in broad daylight. administrative detention or expulsions are tools israel security services i don't know you have those who say i will hurt

human rights and i say no i'm all for human rights but i have to protect the citizens before protect the criminals. good luck charm or is one of israel's leading crime reporters he's been following the major players for years buries the anarchy of the street and that is because the people who used to be like very bring can be hired to for throwing cuba are are now doing what they want with what they want because their bosses are in prison among the first on a crime scene sees just how much israel's police are struggling to get a grip on the situation the police has a lot of technology to fight with organized crime but the people who do the crime where you know very simple measure they meet each other in wired very serious they don't use the internet be don't use their phones so now the police has to work in another way but the government says it's not willing to give the police more powers at least not for now which means scenes like this will continue as will demands to

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