josÉ manuel barroso spoke in athens as greece assumed their rotating eu presidency. >> while we cannotsay that the [indiscernible] is behind us because we have an a high level of unemployment, and we still have problems with financing the economy, there is still a proble financialence, coherence in the euro area. the reality is we are solving, one by one, the different problems. >> the private sector in the united states added 238,000 jobs in december according to the report from adp. this is fueling hopes that american unemployment will head lower as we get the official data on friday. that is not doing a lot of wonders for the american stock markets. they are mixed this session. the dow jones industrial average 0.5%.n about in europe, the indices closed below the flat line. we got higher-than-expected retail sales in november. but it failed to bring a boost to stocks. it didn't fall by much, just marginally. shares in tobacco companies weighed on the ftse of london, just as china signals it may be and smoking in public places -- it may ban smoking in public places. it is the world's

because the president held a meeting on politics with the president of the european commission jose manuel barroso the sultan awesome i've talked about the volume of trade with the eu which reach out to fifty million dollars. now negotiations on an agreement on expanding partnership and cooperation with europe are taking place the sultan as a biased noted that the signing of this document should be celebrated this milestone sure that the european countries are interested in economic ties in kazakhstan the president also raise the issues the bbc creamy sheen to the european union and call to support the country an early completion of negotiations on the session to the world trade organization negotiations on subsidizing the agriculture sector on the way and they are scheduled to be finished in the first half of the year afterwards registration of technical documents on the session to the wto will begin. that is why the president of salt in the semis of the meeting with the director general of the wto report as middle according to a bar two is a video only issues on harmonization of the obligations

into force just hours before a group of commissioners led by a european commission president jose manuel barroso arrived in athens. thousands of people are fleeing the city of bend too in south sudan expecting a massive offensive by government forces to recapture the key oil rich area from rebels at least a thousand people have been killed in ethnic violence between supporters and opponents of the president since december when he accused his former deputy of plotting a coup a total of two hundred thousand people are now fought to be displaced across the country. furious interrupted outside a court in london after an inquest concluded that police acted lawfully when they shot at an unarmed man chance of murderers were heard as police spokesman responded to the verdict mark duggan's death in twenty eleven triggered one of the worst bouts of rioting in britain for a generation he had been under surveillance because of suspicion he was planning to avenge his cousin's murder. a group of n.s.a. whistleblowers want a conversation with barack obama about the systematic abuse is the agency is accused out

parliament martin scholtz to call for immediate elections in the country while jose manuel barroso the 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 in a way it's being seen previous conflicts so very similar scenario to what was happening in. the beginning of the ninety's. we had people clamoring for democracy which was completely legitimate and then. outside western support pretty much gave weighings 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 weighed in on the ukrainian crisis the united states canceled visas for officials who it believes were involved in the crackdown on demonstrators the end of 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

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president jose manuel barroso said when he held a phone conversation with the ukrainian president viktor on a covert which mr barroso expressed his deep concern over what was happening here in ukraine and said that if the situation didn't sort itself out it wasn't sorted out then the e.u. would be looking to take steps to try and help along. be looking to try and take steps of their own to try and solve the situation out here we also heard from martin shultz who's the head of the the european parliament he called for immediate elections here in ukraine misty on a covert use the opportunity to speak to both the east and the west saying this it really needs to stop the use of ukraine as a political football that ukraine is a independent nation it's a mature nation what we are going to see here is a special session of parliament that will be held next week no cheering that session of parliament we have are hearing that the issue of holding elections may be brought up maybe it will be discussed but what we also we could see. perhaps a repealing or a lessening of new laws that were brought in

president jose manuel barroso held a phone call with victory on a call which the ukrainian president and which mr but also pony express his deep concern about what is unfolding here in ukraine now in response was the on a covert said that there would be no state of emergency calls here that the army would not be deployed this is the coming off the back you know the things we're hearing from this phone call is that. the bottles to said that if the situation here in ukraine didn't improve that the e.u. could step in there is still a very large nationalistic ultra nationalistic element. controlling what's going on with regards to the to the riots here they're saying that ok we're going to respect this truce for now if the demands that are being placed upon the government on met on met in a suitable way that the writers do deem that they they should be that we could be seeing some quite some further violent clashes more war we've just seen vitaly klitschko one of the leaders of the opposition here he's obviously of course the former world heavyweight boxing champion delivering a speech t

president jose manuel barroso has had a phone call with ukrainian president viktor and which said that he was he was deeply concerned about what was going on however. which is told him that no there will not be a state of emergency here in ukraine we're also hearing that a senior. diplomats dealing with the foreign relations is expected to be to be heading. to kiev as well for talks this is the situation at the moment we're in a little proceedings as the. tentative peace breaks out between the the rioters and the riot police and waiting to see what those talks between opposition and government officials will result. well peter thank you so much for bringing us the atmosphere from of the ukrainian capital kiev which has calmed down for a now but we'll see how the situation pans out as you rightly said over there now the center of kiev has turned into a battlefield now let's take a look at the map here this is independence square known as my don which has become the main hub of the protests and that's where the opposition camp is but some of the most fierce clashes and was that wednesday