in the streets for weeks first in response to their president's acquiescence to russia over an e.u. trade deal now the protests have grown in the ukraine government has stepped up its crackdown on dissent just today at least two people have already been killed by police during clashes and the government has gone as far as an act in a new law which bans protests altogether restricts public assembly and just in case that doesn't send a clear enough message they're also doing little things to remind demonstrators that big brother is always watching see according to vice in a bizarre well ian twist many ukrainians simply in the vicinity of a protest yesterday were sent to stop a text reading dear subscriber you are registered as a participant in a mass disturbance well that's not disconcerting at all seems like something read of the pages of nine hundred eighty four but with cell phone companies and regimes working hand in hand tyranny by way of technology seems to be government's weapon of choice now let's break the side. of the. games they really are very hard to take a. look at your. life

in the streets for weeks first in response to their president's acquiescence to russia over an e.u. trade deal now the protests have grown and the ukrainian government has stepped up its crackdown on dissent just today at least two people have already been killed by police during clashes and the government has gone as far as an act in a new law which bans protests altogether restricts public assembly and just in case that doesn't send a clear enough message they're also doing little things to remind demonstrator.

in the streets for weeks first in response to their president's acquiescence to russia over an e.u. trade deal now the protests have grown and the ukrainian government has stepped up its crackdown on dissent just today at least two people have already been killed by police during clashes and the government has gone as far as an act in a new law which bans protests altogether restricts public assembly and just in case that doesn't send a clear enough message they're also doing little things to remind demonstrators that big brother is always watching see according to vice in a bizarre orwellian twist many ukrainians simply in the vicinity of a protest yesterday were sent a dystopia text reading dear subscriber you are registered as a participant in a mass disturbance well that's not disconcerting at all seems like something right out of the pages of one thousand nine hundred four but with cell phone companies and regimes working hand in hand tyranny by way of technology seems to be government's weapon of choice now let's break the set. of the. games are a. very hard to take a. look at he ev

prosperity, protesters saying no, no, we want an e.u. trade. it's something different. what do you think it is about now? >> as you say, it's not just about whether ukraine turns towards the european union or relies on russia for its economic prosperity, what has happened over the last few days changes things in terms of people accusing the security forces of brutality, accusing the president viktor yanukovych and his entourage of corruption, and all of these accusations on top of last week's security laws restricting not just the right to protest. they are saying, really, what they are fighting for is the sole of the democratic system. the people in power say that that's absolutely an exaggeration and they haven't turned their back on the european union, far from it. >> thank you. >> members of the pakistan's shia muslim minority are protesting against violence targeted on their community. people have barricaded streets urging the government to crackdown on the groups behind the attacks. the demonstrators are refusing to bury 38 victims killed in a suicide bombing on t

that was was the ukraine's leaders feared that a free trade zone with the e.u.would cause industry to collapse the crowds never bought that but when the police used force against peaceful bro e.u. protesters. they stopped caring altogether. the government building stormed barricades built and top western politicians dropping by the german and dutch foreign ministers and a deputy u.s. secretary of state before u.s. senator john mccain weighed in taking a swipe at russia stalks while stirring up the key of crowds himself premier others with a few american is where you find me but none of them dug grain out of its mess mosco later agreed to help with a discount on gas prices and a fifteen billion dollar loan for the now entrenched protesters the lifeline was a sellout. any treaty with russia is not worth the paper it was signed on. key of still has the crowds what's more twenty fifteen will see ukraine choose its next president a leader who needs to make a difference in whether its embittered sides continue to fight or unite. the one thing which ever to my eyes is

ukraine's leaders feared that a free trade zone with the e.u.would cause industry to collapse the crowds never bought that but when the police used force against peaceful bro e.u. protesters. they stopped caring altogether. government building stormed barricades built and top western politicians dropping by the german and dutch foreign ministers and a deputy u.s. secretary of state before u.s. senator john mccain weighed in taking a swipe at russia stalks while stirring up the key of crowds himself bremer others with a few american is where you find anything but none of them dug ukraine out of its mess mosco later agreed to help with a discount on gas prices and a fifteen billion dollar loan for the now entrenched protesters the lifeline was a sellout. any treaty with russia is not worth the paper it was signed on. key of still has the crowds what's more twenty fifteen will see ukraine choose its next president a leader who needs to make a difference in whether its embittered sides continue to fight or unite. the one thing which are to my eyes i

e.u. free trade aspects, the cost of e.u. regulations has been harmful, something we are following closely in the united states as we are looking at a possible trade, bigger agreement with the e.u. kept, may have some lessons to learn from the u.k.'s experience. >> even though the score dropped, it was a very small measure and after all the u.k. has a very high rank, fourteenth in the world sometimes trying to capture these differences become quite marginal. looking at the score there was a slight downturn, freedom from corruption, and business freedom but overall, the two categories with the u. k scoring the worst absolutely rather than trends going one way or the others taxes and government spending. >> let's go back over here. >> boys of america. can we talk a little bit about south central america, what is working and not working in the region, and if we could specify in colombia doing really well and venezuela not doing so great. thank you. >> two clear differences, the chilean approach which has been to embrace market ec

trade deal with the european union in favour of closer ties to russia. the political crisis in ukraine was on the agenda of a meeting with russian president vladimir putin and e.u. officials, both have been trading accusations about meddling in ukraine affairs during the unrest. >> translation: russia will never interfere but you imagine how the european friends will act we thing this in certainly is not nice. if you take the relationship between russia and ukraine, it is unacceptable. >> u.s. president barack obama outlined his priorities in his annual state of union address a few hours ago. it was not just limited to domestic issues, he claimed credit for the nuclear deal with iran. the white house correspondent patty culhane looked at what he said, and what is next. >> mr speaker the president of the united states. >> tens of millions of americans spent their evening watching the u.s. president outline his priorities. the family who called this family home had to wait 48 minutes to hear him address what they care most about, their former homeland, syria. and this was all he had to say. >> american diplomacy, backed by the threat of force is why syria's chemi

exactly the main points now he has been frustrated by what he sees as the storing of the free trade deal between the e.u. and the us by e.u. lawmakers themselves and the g.o.p. is being a show not by economies like china and india now the british public will get to decide in twenty seventeen in a referendum if they want to continue as a member of the e.u. now the main sticking points for the british people are immigration social security and interference from. also as a british law especially when it comes to human rights now the czech republic is in a similar situation to britain in the fact that it's in the e.u. but it doesn't have a year as its national currency so i also feel the president of the country applecart a form what he makes of those bones warning. more or less grevious such a statement the issue is whether there'd be a bill to make a change nor just course methinks changes but the fundamental transformation of the economic social political system i am rather skeptical in this respect so so i think that too great to leave the e.u. is definitely gonna lead you to maybe it was separated for

demonstrators are angry that viktor yanukovych walked away from a trade deal with e.u., in favour of closerer economic ties with russia. >> hundreds are returning home now that firefighters are getting hold of a fire in the suburbs of california. a campfire has been planned due to drought and santa ana winds. 1700 acres burnt. many have evacuate. five homes have been destroyed. one of the force fires led the governor jerry brown to call for a state of emergency, leading to to ask for aid and bringing in water. napper valley, the heart of california's wine country needed help. >> wine makers are not panicking but are watching the drought closely. to give you an idea of how serious the situation is, usually there would be green rolling hills, but all we see is brown. there should be grass up to my hips. we had a chance to speak to the vineyard owner. he tried to take a positive spin on the drought. >> if february and march - we get a typical normal rain fall for the rest of the winter, and we started out the growing season spring break with a wet soil profile, the vines will grow, star

initially people will say i remember this being about relation world trade center e.u. and people being upset with the fact that the president seemed to be aligning himself with trade agreements with russia, and that was at the center of the riff. but it seems to have moved on decidedly from there. i heard some members of parliament say that the reason this is really taking off now is that this is just not simply about trade. this is about western values, and we want western values to be a part of the new ukraine moving forward. >> that's right, tony. this did start as a trade as it dispute over a trade agreement. viktor yanukovych was expected to sign in late november. he did not do that. it was a surprise to people, and he came out on the streets in large numbers to protest that decision. in late november and early december the police cracked down on the protesters and that just brought down more people on the streets. it became more about trade, it became about freedom and concerns that this is becoming a police state. for two months people have been on the square beh

had a cold which had taken the decision in the vent to a not go ahead with signing traded political deals with the e.u. would favor of closer ties with russia or the russian ambassador to the e.u. would says that this is not a summit on ukraine however did acknowledge that in light of the recent dramatic developments it is a source of serious concern for both parties the e.u. council chief from a bug report also said that there are quote a number of differences that have to be clarified and discussed at the summit though the other topics that will be discussed include of course energy trade talks with russia being the third largest partner of the e.u. after the u.s. and china as well as the syrian conflict that negotiations with iran on its nuclear program reporting from brussels on tests are still there. geopolitical analyst william and dull spokes are also international and criticize the youthful kept failing to summit and undermining their chances of finding solutions to the issues that separate them. i think the european union is acting very childish on this whole question of the u. russia summit

ukraine's leaders feared that a free trade zone with the e.u.would cause industry to collapse the crowds never bought that but when the police used force against peaceful bro e.u. protesters. they stopped caring altogether. government building stormed barricades built and top western politicians dropping by the german and dutch foreign ministers and a deputy u.s. secretary of state before u.s. senator john mccain weighed in taking a swipe at russia stalks while stirring up the key of crowds himself premier others with a few american is where you find me but none of them dug ukraine out of its mess mosco later agreed to help with a discount on gas prices and a fifteen billion dollar loan for the now entrenched protesters the lifeline was a sellout. any treaty with russia is not worth the paper it was signed on. key of still has the crowds what's more twenty fifteen will see ukraine choose its next president a leader who needs to make a difference in whether its embittered sides continue to fight or unite. the one thing which ever to my eyes is th

demonstrations have gripped the capital for nearly two months after the rejection of a trade agreement with the e.u. . live you may be europe's fastest growing economy but it's also the e.u.'s youngest and poorest member and if there are quote sharp bends on the road to prosperity have proven too much for thousands of professionals who are leaving the country artie's paul scott met one who says the government negligence is to blame the surrogate is one of thousands of workers who will leave latvia this year but his destination is perhaps surprising to be leaving this state to work in azerbaijan and this is the. life is always hard but in this country it's harder as the government is much more concerned by politics not economics and the life of the common man so that he isn't the only one the world bank says not because population is shrinking by almost sixty thousand people per year i feel i'm not alone the governments are squeezing everybody wants and more and more from us for less money between two thousand and nine and two thousand and twelve not because population fell by around ten percent in

the main points now he has been frustrated by what he sees as the storming of the free trade deal between the e.u. and the us by e.u. lawmakers themselves i think europe is being shown up by economies like china and india now the british public will get to decide in twenty seventeen in a referendum if they want to continue as a member of the e.u. now the main sticking points for the british people.

exactly the main points now he has been frustrated by what he sees as the storing of the free trade deal between the e.u. and the u.s. by e.u. lawmakers themselves and the g.o.p. is being shown up by economies like china and india now the british public will get to decide in twenty seventeen in a referendum if they want to continue as a member of the e.u. now the main sticking points for the british people are immigration social security and interference from brussels and british law especially when it comes to human rights now the czech republic is in a similar situation to britain in the fact that it's in the e.u. but it doesn't have the year as its national currency so it also for the president of the.

won't be in the interest of both parties and he even suggested creating a zone of free trade zone between the e.u. and eurasia basically just suggesting strategies on how the two really can move forward the next summit between russia and the e.u. will take place in sochi on june the third. as a city there and professor mark almond from oxford university thinks they can be no healthy and promising relations between russia and the e.u. if the blog keeps rubbing the kremlin the wrong way basic problem is that there are two issues being discussed here which in some ways are contradictory one is the huge amount of economic contact and cooperation between russia and the countries particularly from certain e.u. countries like germany. and then the political dynamics where the e.u. and the other two states of america the elephant in the room in these discussions. of policy that we're going to probably have russia the worry of so trying to have. more same time playing. over the crane is i think a way in which this makes it very difficult to have a positive outcome. ukraine's president has now accepted the