to cross-talk ukraine i'm joined by my guest john laughlin in paris he is the director of studies at the institute of democracy and cooperation in london we have tony help and he is a journalist and a former moscow bureau chief for.

to cross-talk ukraine i'm joined by my guest john laughlin in paris he is the director of studies at the institute of democracy and cooperation in london we have tony help and he is a journalist and former moscow bureau chief for the times and in moscow we cross to dimitri bobbitt he's a political analyst with voice of russia all right gentlemen crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i very much encourage it john if i go to you in paris the government has resigned the cabinet has resigned you know covert has reached out to the opposition so is the ball in his corner or the opposition's. well in a sense it's in the opposition's because they have been making the running in this as you said in your question they have or you applied anyway in your question they have shown extreme violence the opposition they have shown themselves to be very radical they've demanded of course the resignation of the president which they haven't yet attained and the government for the most part has responded with proposals of compromise the earlier proposals to appoint one

to violence the riots in kiev of highlighted a rise in nationalist movements and extremism and john laughlin told us the far right nature of the ukrainian opposition is now breaking the surface. so-called pro or european opposition has violence in its d.n.a. what i mean by that is that as we know the european demonstrations are being led by two political parties by. and by vitali klitschko as particle dart dart of course means a hit and kicks ko is primarily known as a boxer in other words the very name of his party encapsulates an expresses a notion of violence the notion of aggressive violence is at the european level affiliated with various extreme right to near fascist political parties like your big kid hungry the family call all day in italy and the fun arsenal in france these parties are always attacked by the european elites as being anti democratic. parties who should whose role should be reduced to the minimum and it's an indication of the incredible hypocrisy of western elites that one of their members the party should instead now be being regarded as a pro western and pro-democra