a posin ukraine standoff protesters and security forces declare a temporary truce while the e.u. warns it will step in if the crisis is not result. he wants preparing the ground for syria's rival delegations to meet face to face on monday after day one of the long awaited peace jobs was marred by bitter changes. and a whistleblower as worries edward snowden is reportedly planning asking russia for personal protection after getting death threats. watching r.t. international coming to live from moscow with me marina joshie welcome to the program protesters and police in kiev have declared a truce which is expected to hold for the next five hours earlier the ukrainian opposition threatened to escalate street riots if the government refused to call early elections meanwhile the e.u. is entering the fray was ahead of the european commission voicing his concern and a phone call to president yanacocha are just peed all over reports from. well what we're seeing right now is a relatively peaceful scene and what's been the place where the most of the clashes the the most violent clashes have tak

pozen ukraine standoff protesters and security forces declare a temporary truce while the e.u. warns it will step in if the crisis is not resolved. the ones preparing the ground for syria's rival delegations to meet face to face on monday after day one of the long awaited peace jobs was marred by bitter changes. and a whistleblower is worries edward snowden is reportedly planning asking russia for personal protection after getting death threats.

e.u. is even threatening sanctions so what impact in your opinion will these warnings have on the situation in ukraine. you know we should underline the real reason why e.u. and the u.s. are backing the protester are pushing in this movement in this situation against the legal government the only reason the most important reason it is job political interest because these western government just want ukraine to enter a need to and to be a part of the nato project in order to roll back russia's influence in variations so for me it is clearly and the gratian against the balance between russia and the western world it is an aggression against peace and there's a reason why we have to be very cautious we in the western world if we want to keep peace we should not interfere into v.f. else of ukraine we should. defend. legally t. of democracy and not backing this movement some of them are very provocative. imagine but some opposition leader declared but they would create a war against russia over i've said but this should become a kind of two year in order to create a situation of very strong tens

e.u. commission president warned that he was ready to take action if the situation didn't change these type of statements of led to accusations of encouraging the riot is the way it's being seen previous conflicts very similar scenario to what was happening in. the beginning of the ninety's. we had people clamoring for democracy which was completely illegitimate and then. outside western support pretty much gave wings to the extremist who started calling not just for democracy but for the breakup of the country it's not just european leaders that have way you did on the ukrainian crisis the united states canceled visas for officials who believes were involved in the crackdown on demonstrators last year and all the time they've pointed the finger of blame for the riots directly at the ukrainian government now this increasing tension in ukraine is a direct consequence of the government failing to acknowledge the legitimate grievances of its people instead it has moved to weaken the foundations of ukraine's democracy by criminalizing peaceful protest and stripping civil society and political o

finance chief george osborne has issued a stark warning to the e.u. saying it needs urgent reforms to regain its competitiveness and britain could leave the bloc if it fails to do so let's get some details from march's laura smith who is in london for us so long as we can see is some very strong words from chancellor what has prompted this well i think the why it's pretty easily summed up by an analogy that george osborne used to the beginning of his speech on wednesday where he said europe's like a burning building with no exits basically he sees the political bloc as the falling behind india and china overspending on welfare becoming less and less competitive essentially an economic and political bloc in decline domestically of course here in the u.k. the e.u. is losing popularity people see it's very expensive increasingly power hungry and also the originator of an awful lot of red tape but also one central message today was that the u.k. is not pushing for reform for its own sake oh no it's pushing for reform for everybody else the stakes for euro

finances has given the e.u. a dressing down telling brussels behaviors that it's declining and needs an urgent overhaul george osborne was addressing think tank in europe when he also warned dad the u.k. will pull out of the e.u. fails to reform itself lora smith has details. said europe's like a burning building with no exit basically he sees the political block as falling behind india and china overspending on welfare becoming less and less competitive centrally in the economic and political bloc in decline domestically of course here in the u.k. the e.u. is losing popularity people say it's very expensive increasingly power hungry and also the originator of an awful lot of red tape but also one central message today was that the u.k. is not pushing for reform for its own sake oh no it's pushing for reform for everybody else's sake for europe's sake as a whole so he was talking about the tabling of legal challenges a year peer course of justice he said it's not anti european but in fact it's a way of preserving values that traditionally seem to be european such as known discrimination he talked about the calling for rejection of the financial services reform which of co

e.u. may have to rethink its entire relationship with ukraine and they are warning of further consequences he hasn't specified what those consequences might be but one m.e.p. one m.e.p. today spoke about the precise step of potentially checking the e.u. bank accounts of certain ukrainian guards that are linked to do you create new leadership now the implication there is that perhaps further down the line they could be freezing the various bank accounts but we are getting quite mixed messages from the european union one on the one hand there are these potential consequences that these threats but one namely p. today also speaking about the association agreement still being very much on the table for ukraine proof of that is in the fact that the e.u. official who's responsible for why didn't the e.u. netsuite just say the european commissioner for enlargement and neighborhood policy well he's visiting ukraine on friday so on the one hand we've got condemnation of what's taking place very tough talk and threats and on the other hand we've got talk of ukraine eventually still signing on that d

e.u. which did so much to support the process leading to independence ignore these warning signs? >> unfortunately i think a lot of the debate up to independence consumption was led by activists and advocates who had their own agendas and perhaps were not really down in the weeds of what was really going on. so a lot of signals were missed. by looking at this purely in terms of black and white, north and south, they ignored the deep fissures in the south that remained to be addressed and need to be addressed if there's going to be sustainable peace in this country. >> peter fam, thank you so much for joining us. >> thank you. >> across south sudan's border, united referee agency said more than 900,000 people have been displaced by fighting in the central african republic. that's almost faith of the population. and includes half the entire population of the capital city. there's been no letup in the violence despite the presence of nearly 6,000 troops in the country from france and african union. u.n. children's agency unicef said the violence in the country has reached a vicious n

the streets a legal crackdown on demonstrations deaths have been warnings of a civil war all over the rejection of an s.s. treaty with the e.u. now as a man who is directly in charge of relations with candidate countries could you all about to you are presenting have done anything differently. well you know what. the other fact you know what we are doing and what we might do is to treat. people with the highest respect. personally by have the understanding that. a potential member country of the european union it would be very hard very evil crain joins the union sooner or later because as long as who doesn't join we have the whole. of the european course of action but of course we have to first of all to wait and respect what the ukrainian people decides and decisions. are not taken by demonstrations in the streets are taken by voting in elections and by. giving viewable to nuti to the government and the problem in the chart of the representation of the people giving them the possibility to decide what we we hope that. the sooner the better the majority of the parliament will be to say the majority of the brilliant people m

streets a legal crackdown on demonstrations deaths have been warnings of a civil war all over the rejection of an association treaty with the e.u. now as a man who is directly in charge of relations with candidate countries could you all about a year presenting have done anything differently. well you know what. the other fact you know what we are doing and what we might do is to treat. the ukrainian people with the highest respect. personally by have the understanding that.

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 countries like very very czech republic or or any other that's my position. another person would be there i believe. that the british conservative politicians i mean it seriously. i'm afraid knowledge saw you so that's another story well if indeed they all serious and they a full time in a prime is so merriam on say who is also here most keen supporter opposed to the yarra he said that britain living would affect the progress of the reforms which he also thinks all necessary. walt deicing europe does leave these lower economic reforms. agreed to lower the roles for markets for competition in markets for market built in the square and the buyer

e.u. leader and is expected to speak in the next few months. of course we will monitor that when it happens and bring you more on that later in the program. >> the u.n. has repeatedly warned in central african republic, it is meeting now in new york to mandate further peace keeping troops. first the growing laws lawless. >> food from the unito the people of ban gee. they drove through a country of burned villages, deserted towns and ruthless militias. >> all the drivers were afraid, we left about 100 behind, because they refused to cross the border with their trucks. the drivers are mainly muslims and we have been warned that any muslim that took this rout would be killed. >> the trucks had an armed escort, rwanda peace keeper whose accompanied them for 550-kilometers. >> it's taken several days for the convoy to get here from the boarder. so, in this violent and law less country, bringing aid to hundreds of thousands of displaced people, is becoming increasingly expensive, and dangerous. >> watching the convoy, we find anti-fighters. wearing the magic charms which they say protect them. they tell me they have been chasing muslims away, but they are strong, and winning th

e.u. and toward russia. >> and it's a fascinating story from the "wall street journal." the u.s. is sending 40 security experts to sochi, fewer than any olympic games over the last decade. the news comes despite warningsnth. the u.s. says they're respecting russia's, but there is a growing concern about terrorism at the olympic games. >>> from the parade of papers, the sparks tribune, wildlife officials in sparks, nevada, are baffled by the death of 100,000 fish at a local marina. dead trout, bass, and catfish began to wash up along the shore last month, but more may have sank to the bottom. scientists say the issue could be low oxygen levels due to cold weather, but the actual cause is pending test results. >>> and san francisco chronicle, amazon is developing a new program called anticipatory products. they'll ship items before the orders are placed. they say they'll use order history along with wish list items to predict buyers' patterns. amazon says the practice may help eliminate shipping delays. >> "washington post," michelle obama celebrating her 50th birthday on saturday with a star-studded affair at the white house. the party featured a performance by beyonce. the guest list included paul mcc