after a month alexei has a little more experience and can do his research. to investigate the earth's climate he has to make a range of observations of the sky researching lunar reflections. and solar phenomena today is the last day to check the technical details with the help of his predecessor. you know you have to change the filter see here because of the bright moon so be easy take your time things have to be arranged in a proper way. tomorrow he'll leave the rest of the old crew and the new will begin their winter tour of duty. we have a new group of specialists here now all of them are young how are they going to get along with each other i don't know. how old are you twenty. i'm the youngest engineer here i'm twenty three i'm the youngest one here. here by two months. these last few days before winter is the busiest is when the men have to stock up a year's worth of infantry they work all day long. once again so there's a great deal to do and plenty of containers to unload. all of them waiting for the last helicopter. in my heart i already feel good h

going to show is there for us now and it's hard for us to see what is happening now at the moment alexey bring us up to date on what you have seen in the last hour. you're not the only one having problems seeing what's going on here we are struggling as well because the tires have been burning for the past several hours one. that black smoke just covering the time you don't see what's happening on the other side of the barricade when the police have their numbers and we have information we see photographs on the ground and twitter that. heavy motorized vehicle an army vehicle was brought in there possibly for an assault right now as i speak i can see from my vantage point that several hundred protesters are moving into the square the numbers are not receding here it's still pretty much i would say maybe several thousand people of protesters and riot just over here knowing flash bangs molotov cocktails and rocks at the police but see if these project was actually reaching the police lines because of this black smoke as i've said it's a very difficult situation for gee if i would never exp

for three days we can only take notes there's no time to make changes alexei siminoff dreamed about and talked to several he has for example if we take a contests in russia it will show us the north that way but if you take it here it will show north that way even though it's that way if we follow the compass as we used to do it in russia we won't end up in india as expected but in chile south america she as a student he proposed his own geological theory it was important to him to go to antarctica to collect the data he needed. this i didn't find anything new for him. here there are no influence like t.v. or anything like this. you have to sit and think. simply sitting and thinking. the station's ionosphere is to keep his instruments in a corner of the same room his job is to monitor high altitude conditions all the data he collects has to be sent to an institute in st petersburg and the equipment needs regular adjustment. in fact every poll a job has its own specifics such details are handed down to each new generation of polar explorer. these balloons can rise to forty two kilometers

political sphere and it's really hard to say where this will all go until the next line from the alexei thank you very much for keeping us up to date ukraine's president made concessions after meeting with the opposition earlier this week and last and he rallying laws were lifted shortly after that the country's prime minister offered his resignation there and the head of state accepted that and dismissed the cabinet and now we see the amnesty bill which the opposition says is not good enough because it contains a condition that they should leave central kiev the ukrainian president's attempts to broker a peaceful solution was not enough for one hundred brussels to ease the pressure they're putting on the u.s. is preparing sanctions for the authorities and the opposition responsible for riots while brussels remains highly critical of the violence seen during the protests global policy expert martin sieved believes the ukrainian leaders attempts to restore peace are being blocked. the united states and the european union nations are very much amiss and mistaken that what they should be d

is ready to join us right now alexei wants the latest i will can you tell us now. well things are a little calmer a little calmer sometimes of the noise produced literally ten minutes ago but this reminds of a tug of war situation we saw less than an hour ago the first the second attempt during this day that the police tried to push the rioters off the government built a corner here in central kiev. to push them off to basically where i'm standing right now literally. the position that my vantage point where i'm standing right now set up a better than the riot just came back again charging at the police and pushed them all the square then in ten minutes ten minutes later the boldest made another charge at the right and again pushed them back and as you can see the situation because again. it is very very violent here would see scuffles we've seen lots of rocks molotov cocktails different type of project. different type of steel bars and clubs thrown at the police the protesters rushing charging and attacking the policemen there were not much violence coming from th

his one year temporary asylum was set to end this is all according to remarks by russian lawmaker alexey push who spoke today at the world economic forum during a panel discussion alexey hinted that the extension of temporary refugee status for snowden could be indefinite saying he will not be sent out of russia it will be up to snowden the u.s. has charged snowden with the espionage act a charge that carries harsh penalties just yesterday attorney general eric holder said granting the whistleblower clemency would be going too far but holder did say that he's open to pursuing a deal with snowden if he pled guilty to criminal charges it's unclear however what that deal would entail snowden is also addressing the possibility of returning to the u.s. yesterday in the online q. and a snowden was asked what it would take for him to come back to the united states in response known and said that he knows his return is the best resolution but that it's unfortunately not possible in the face of current whistle blower protection laws for more on all of the different questions he answered yesterday

together must seek prior approval protesters say that these laws infringe on their rights artie's alexei is in ukraine and he brings us this report. it may have come down in terms of the noise at the governmental court in kiev but it's still far from settled only a few meters are separating the police lines and the line of the protesters or the rioters and still sometimes exchanging project hours at each other over the night we saw an attempt by the police to push the protesters off this particular place here the failed attempt when the protesters started charging with a writer started charging at the police the police had to withdraw and ever since then it's been like that the standoff continues over here it looks like yet another barricade with what remains of the police cars which were burned here on sunday night basically separating the line of the rioters and the police from time to time the protesters and the police are exchanging project these rocks over here still being used to be thrown at the police during the night we also saw something very completely peculiar for ukraine in

that was our tease alexei yera cesky reporting well it might not be neatly packaged with a made in china stamped sealed on the bottom but it appears as if the far east as exporting gets another product to american consumers although this one is much more nefarious than most a new study published this week in the proceedings of the national academy of sciences journal says that china is export pollution to california contributing to extra small going to los angeles area according to the study that uses statistics from two thousand and six one fifth or twenty percent of china's total population pollution is it caused by producing goods for export to the us wind blows the factory pollution across the pacific in about six days resulting in an increase of twelve to twenty four percent of daily sulfate concentrations so while the u.s. europe and japan brag about how brag about having lowered their carbon emissions significantly in recent years these scientists argue that they have lowered it so much as to shift away from china which is why air pollution levels are staying consistent and they h

after a month alexei has a little more experience and can do his own research is main task is to investigate the earth's climate he has to make a range of observations of the sky researching lunar reflections. and solar phenomena today is the last day to check all the technical details with the help of his predecessor. you have to change the filters here because of the bright moon so be easy take your time things have to be arranged in a proper way. tomorrow he'll leave with the rest of the old crew and the new will begin their winter tour of duty. we have a new group of specialists here now all of them are young how are they going to get along with each other i don't know. how old are you twenty years. i'm the youngest engineer here i'm twenty three i'm the youngest one here. here by two months. these last few days before winter always the busiest is when the men have to stock up a year's worth of infantry they work all day long. so there's a great deal to do and plenty of containers to unload. all of them are waiting for the last helicopter. in my heart i already feel here. the only thing

after a month alexei has a little more experience and can do his research. to investigate the climate he has to make a range of observations of the sky researching lunar reflections. and solar phenomena today is the last day to check all the technical details with the help of his predecessor. yeah you have to change the filter see here because of the bright moon so be easy take your time things have to be arranged in a proper way. tomorrow he'll leave the rest of the old crew and the new will begin their winter tour of duty. we have a new group of specialists here now all of them are young how are they going to get along with each other i don't know. how old are you twenty. i'm the youngest engineer here i'm twenty three i'm the youngest one here. or here by two months. these last few days before winter always the busiest is when the men have to stock up a year's worth of infantry they work all day long. so there's a great deal to do and plenty of containers to unload. all of them are waiting for the last helicopter. but in my heart i already feel good here.

after a month alexei has a little more experience and can do his research. to investigate the earth's climate he has to make a range of observations of the sky researching lunar reflections. and solar phenomena today is the last day to check all the technical details with the help of his predecessor. you have to change the filters here because of the bright moon so be easy take your time things have to be arranged in a proper way. tomorrow he'll leave the rest of the old crew and the new will begin their winter tour of duty. we have a new group of specialists here now all of them are young how are they going to get along with each other. how old are you. i'm the youngest engineer here i'm twenty three i'm the youngest one here. or here by two months. these last few days before winter always the busiest is when the men have to stock up a year's worth of infantry they work all day long. so yeah so there's a great deal to do and plenty of containers to unload. all of them are waiting for the last helicopter. in my heart i already feel. the only thing is to get

what's going to be interesting, though, is whether or not the president can show some strength -- alexei has been talking about getting that trust back. here's a place to do it in some cases he doesn't need congress to do many of these things. this is an opportunity for the president to look presidential, to look like an executive in charge -- john: do you think he wants to invest the time and energy to do that? >> i definitely do. in part because he sees that as something he campaigned and promised he would try to do and that it might be considered an -- a long-term legacy if he is in some way successful. john: there's one other foreign policy issue we've neglected that i think is going to help the president in the congressional election and that is the troops from afghanistan. this is the year where the last troops are supposed to come home. there will be parades, home coming and lots of speeches by barack obama saying i promised to do this and i did. >> two different kids. one is they're coming home and also, we're going to leave 7,000 to 10,000 there. and how do you satisfy that fric

history of this this movement these nationalist movements in ukraine goes way back and my colleague alexey had a share ski takes a look at some of those deep roots of nationalism here in ukraine. chef ski barely remembers the horrific events of nine hundred forty three when ukrainian insurgents going to slaughter his village in western ukraine but the most tragic things live well in his memory. is one of them car. up and shot from close range there was a huge noise a bullet hit an ear with the temple my mom fell down she was unconscious the blood was everywhere they thought and sober and went to the village to murder they didn't kill they murdered with pitchforks and axes survived to become poland's first and only man in space nineteen members of his family including his father and more than eighty thousand poles jews and their medians were not as lucky some of murders in what was a genuine ethnic cleansing troops were extremely gruesome people cut in pieces with a saw one thousand and forty three in a bottle conducted a total ethnic cleansing crane that is to destroy a living on a territo

that the police hardly anyone in ukraine feels that the crowds are listening to anyone right now alexey version of ski r.t. reporting from kiev in ukraine meanwhile president has agreed to several concessions reshuffling his cabinet and pledging to review recent laws that introduced harsher punishments for rioters however opposition leaders have called for citizens across ukraine to form militias and take control into their own hands party's policy or travel to the east of the capital to see if those calls are being heard there. here in eastern ukraine there's a lot of support for the president many did not support violence many do not support revolution they've been and number of rallies held in support of the government and we've been talking to people who do not want to see a change in power yes and look what i stand for unocal which the only thing i wish is that he would have declared a state of emergency in the country but he didn't because he's such a gentle hearted person. when we said we're here to support our president viktor yushchenko bitch to support the constitutional order

projectiles at the police hardly anyone in ukraine feel that the crowds are listening to anyone right now alexey version of ski oxy reporting from keefe in ukraine well it seems that police officers have increasingly become victims of the rioters and not only during their standoff on the streets several policemen claimed that they were kidnapped and tortured by protesters and then released. today to those who would serve my head and bound my legs with musk tape and taped up my eyes as well the little kid in the. well of the yes we were attacked by a group of masked wearing youngsters they surrounded us screaming the cops terrorists hands up whatever they take everything from us our wallets ourselves phones everything when the we had done nothing to them because we were just coming out of a cafe after lunch with the mob surrounded. so how are the ukrainian special police fairing when it comes to trying to maintain order in this a chaotic and violent situation retired commander city heal from l a's a sheriff's department to told us that police in the us would have reacted much harsher in the same

projectiles at the police hardly anyone in ukraine feels that the crowds are listening to anyone right now alexey version of ski odyssey reporting from kiev in ukraine and the country's leadership has said it's ready to continue crisis talks with the opposition and has offered several concessions president yet a college has promised to reshuffle the government and to release those arrested during riots in the capital earlier this week and while the plan has failed to appease the demonstrators in kiev officials to the east of the capital are still enjoying strong support or just fall asleep or reports from donetsk. most of the east and south of this country is supportive of the government and the president i'm here in the city of donetsk where there has been a pro-government rally happening just a short distance behind me and emotions here are running high there have been various speeches where people have been saying we support poisoned gena coverage that he has been truth and justice on the inside and that they will not let him down i've been speaking to a number of people who turned out one par

projectiles at the police hardly anyone in ukraine feel that the crowds are listening to anyone right now alexey version of ski r.t. reporting from kiev in ukraine. well earlier i spoke to professor bruno address he's from the paris based national institute of civilisations he is skeptical about the deal between the opposition and the government and thinks it will come up against resistance from the more radical elements in the protest movement. more radical elements were used to make detention more and more acute and no. there is a compromise on that and a higher level of bugs you know you can do the same time i doubt that the extremist movement. agreed to go back home and dogs problems that would happen in kiev and the only western. only because their own so their bases are there so. i've got to really see but i don't want to get to meet you know to bring back stuff. well here we have a map of central kiev and the heart of the protest movement is now over on independence square known as my dad and where the opposition has been camped out now the fiercest clashes broke out earlier this week on

alexey rush of ski r.t. reporting from kiev in ukraine. the head of a russian political thing tying a vote on the kalashnikov she says the leaders of the unrest are no longer in control of these ongoing demonstrations what we see happening today in my done on my done looks more and more as the events unfolding in on the square in cairo and we know what followed the events the ultra nationalists and fascists are driving. violence cannot be controlled and the so-called ukrainian opposition actually. gave them a lot to them to allow them to participate in peace violence or what we see today the answer seems to me to semitic. statements of those people this is a typical typical fascist behavior it will be very difficult to stop the pandora box off ukrainian fascism was open. and i made angry mobs refusing to back down the opposition frontman have been booed at by the crowds at independence square one leader's calls to maintain a truce were met by the crowds calls for revolution. all of a look at what's further fueling the unrest. the violent s

prosecuted if they leave the two dozen administrative buildings they've seized all over the country alexei reports from kiev. last night on wednesday the parliament stayed almost until midnight to find a solution they managed to pass and then an animistic law which provided those conditions but the opposition says they are not willing to take these to meet his demands they are not willing to make concessions of their own the opposition wants all those detained in the protests to be released from prison sandy criminalized the government the ruling party says they are ready for it only on one condition that other protesters dio keep by all administrative buildings they have captured over the past several weeks and dismantle the barricade in the governmental quarter in kiev and this is the sticking point right now here is what leaders of the opposition said regarding the new amnesty law which from syria unfortunately did dr bill which you know of you is not the best solution to the crisis on the contrary it could a deteriorating situation. in society because this is. the break how can we disc

by the mood of my gun it seems there are no compromises that the crowds aren't ready to listen to alexey risking r.t. reporting from kiev ukraine and. now the us and the e.u. say more political restrictions might be used to restrain the authorities in kiev but legal expert and political blogger alexander mccurry says europe is too out of tune to make such a decision i don't think it's actually as close as it makes out one important change that's happened is that the presidency of the european union the rotating presidency has passed to greece and greece has made it absolutely clear that it's not frankly sympathetic to sanctions so there are divisions within the european union itself there are some hardliners like mr shultz but i'm not convinced that everybody in the european union agrees to this i think the next week may be very important we will see what happens at the parliamentary session on tuesday if there is a political breakthrough there then by haps we could see the end and into the violence . r.t. international is keeping you up to date what events in kiev twenty four seven on a

economic troubles are forcing country after country to jump the euro vision chip as other teams alexei your reports. knowledge represented russia at the u. revision song contest in twenty ten despite only coming eleventh he describes his participation as a major highlight which propelled him to new heights our audience grew very very much many people to get to know us and so they began to come to our concerts it was great. music experience because it was a concert on the great greatest. auditory that i could ever imagine. from drag queens to hellish creatures and some of europe's brightest talents one of the world's most watched t.v. programs the eurovision song contest brought fame to the likes of celine dion and julio iglesias however votes have not always been spread purely for it to stick qualities say researchers from switzerland actually east and giving us a measure of specie international relations. between european countries is measuring the society and its culture and then she's influencing what will be their market and it's this nation's in twenty down three weeks after angel

parties alexei you covered last year's protests in ukraine is following the turmoil and has the latest on his twitter feed where you can follow him from the most dramatic pictures to date information. turning this into weeks other top stories top u.k. military officials could be tried for war crimes for the first time in history a report by a human rights group claims the burden is concealing evidence of abuse by its forces during the iraq war thousands of former detainees testified they'd suffered violence and torture at the hands of british troops the dossier now being examined by the international criminal court. takes a look. up until now the international criminal court at the hague had mostly tried to african dictators and tyrants but the i.c.c. has been asked to investigate thousands of allegations of war crimes committed by british forces in iraq could two hundred and fifty page dossier presented by human rights organization and a british law firm contains allegations of beatings of electrocution smoke executions and sexual assault committed by u.k. forces and according to the

it's looking right now but this isn't anything new crane's history with nationalism of my colleague alexey how to share ski looks back at some of the the more bloody incidents of between when nationalism is being involved here in ukraine i must warn you some of the images in lexi's report some viewers may find disturbing. chef ski barely remembers the horrific events of nine hundred forty three when ukrainian insurgents came to slaughter his village in western ukraine but the most tragic things live well in his memory. is that one of them caught up and shot from close range there was a huge noise a bullet hit an ear that touched the temple my mom fell down she was unconscious the blood was everywhere they thought and sober and went to the village to murder they didn't kill they murdered with pitchforks and axes love survive to become poland's first and only man in space nineteen members of his family including his father and more than eighty thousand poles jews and their medians were not as lucky some of murders in what was a genuine ethnic cleansing by troops were extremely gruesome peopl

projectiles at the police hardly anyone in ukraine feels that the crowds are listening to anyone right now alexey rush up ski oxy reporting from kiev in ukraine. a protester has died in the hospital in kiev after three days in intensive care bringing the total number killed in this week's riots to three earlier r.t. spoke with professor bruno dressy from the paris based national institute of eastern civilizations he thinks the more radical elements in the protest movement could end up with the railing the possibility of constructive talks between the government and the opposition. more radical elements were used to make detention more and more acute no. there is a compromise on that and a higher level of bugs you know you can do the same time i doubt the extremist movement will agree to go back home and dogs problem that will happen in p.d.f. and in the old western news crew. because they're also their babies our dear so does god so we really see but i doubt it will be easy if you want to bring back steve. alright and as promised we are going to cross the live to our t's peter all over now just a

some of my comrades remain in jail they are my fellow sufferers for example my friend platon lebedev alexeiprotrusion there are still other political prisoners in russia not only those related to the u. cos case i am free now and i'm asking you to think of it as something which symbolizes that the efforts of civil society can lead to the release of some people who no one thought would be able to walk free that you can was the head of security for mr hodder cost his oil company yukos he is currently serving a life sentence for five counts of murder in two thousand and seven a court convicted that you're going to ordering the shooting of up to the mayor of a town in siberia but the court had clashed with us over his insistence that the oil giant pay taxes due to his town by yukos was registered there so when it came to tax revenues it was answering to the mayor of nifty your guns would put the whole of they depended on him and that was the only reason why he even mattered only time will solve the mystery surrounding my husband's murder but i'd just like a cocky to confess and clear his consci

in the gotye suburb of damascus last august ideas alycia cesky is a writer in the studio with me alexey can you give us more information on this or this latest report is the result of several months of research the authors actually use the map which was presented by washington as the proof of that the assad forces used rockets against the syrian rebels now let's we made exactly that copy of the map by washington let's have a look at what the story is all about now at that map presented by washington they outlined the area controlled by the government forces and the area controlled by the opposition those yellow dots over there are the exact areas where the sarin gas was used killing hundreds reportedly killing hundreds so the basis of this new research is that the missiles which were found on the ground on the spots where the attack was performed could not have been fired from the regime from the government controlled areas simply because they were out of range those missiles were able to fly up to a maximum of two kilometers well this area for instance these are area which is the close

groups are calling for hada lying to be taken against enemies both at home and abroad while she's alexei or cheska looks how the trend may echo through the entire region. it's become a tradition in japan when some foreign officials are subjected to verbal abuse on this particular occasion japanese nationalists made their feelings known loud and clear to russia's foreign minister china and south korea have also been in their crosshairs one for an island dispute the other for sending too many labor migrants to japan where the latest protests korean workers were described as cockroaches which needed to be exterminated this man is one of those behind the nationalist rallies in japan he says he'd like to see japan a more closer citee more and more there was an openness and we've been to open to the world are now foreigners come here and commit crimes i want us to return to pre-war period when we were closed and south sufficient despite criticizing the government for its immigration policies the movement could not be feeling more comfortable since twenty twelve when she and so are there was re