or marcus papadopoulos who's a commentator on russia and the balkans thinks that the e.u. is violating international law by threatening ukraine with sanctions. what rights does the government have to impose sanctions on another country to impose sanctions on a government that happens to believe that its economic pathway lies with russia as opposed to the european union who gives them that fight that's not in accordance with the internet with international law it's not in in accordance with the mechanisms of the united nations the only way that further bloodshed and civil war could be can be averted in ukraine is for washington and brussels to firstly categorically in unequivocal condemn the violent protests what with what we're seeing in kiev to violently condemn the militants what they've been doing in the last forty eight hours are killin injuring and capturing police officers and event the next step of washington and brussels would be to leave ukraine an independent sovereign country to deal with its own affairs well we'll be following the ongoing turmoil in ukraine and

to cross-talk developments in ukraine i'm joined by my guest marcus papadopoulos in london he's the editor of politics first magazine also in london we have robert oulds he used to director of the bruges group and in washington we crossed to ariel cohen he is a senior fellow in russian and eurasian studies and international energy security at the heritage foundation or a gentleman crosstalk rules in fact that means you can jump in anytime you want and i very much encourage it marcus if i go to you first in london i've been watching the pictures coming out of care for the last day and a half this looks like a armed insurrection this looks like an organized coup against the government in kiev and we have we have to point out here that the government in kiev mr unico which has reached out to the opposition numerous times over the last two weeks but still the violence continues and i want to make it very clear there is violence on both sides right now markets with what is your reaction. can i just say first of all pate.

of law is severely misguided because that argument is completely untenable marcus thank you fills in this market papadopoulos said it is all politics versus what is russian balkans commentator live from london thanks very much indeed for joining us here in our international where you can witness the ukrainian drama on. hold on a website don't call them the once picture arrest independence square and flourishing kiev has been turned into a wasteland plotted with a brilliant. people picked their way between raging fire to the it should have gotten shot screaming in clashes as bosses battled with security forces at what you don't come from or footage. of it back in just a moment with more news for you from ukraine this is the internet. transit. your best way to the heart of most. of the journalists have the specific tendency of seeking out negative stories about russia and what could be more negative than the possibility of a major terror attack when it comes to the western media there's a tendency to look at the caucasus emirate through the prism of what the russians do that is don't look at the idiology don't