and exceed their steps to live from kiev aleksei thank you very much indeed for that so be careful there and we have to apologize for the quality sound of from kiev right now but let's now get more on the situation in a ukraine with mark he's a senior international relations lecturer and research station of us he's here with me in the. welcome very nice to talk to you again so we are getting reports that the u.s. is revoking visas oh well they call violence towards protesters but it was violent because what we're seeing right now that the riot police moving in and trying to take in to take apart barricades that. we are seeing a range of five bombs or rocks that are coming from the side of the rioters other protesters who is one in that well obviously the vast majority of the violence is coming from the rioters themselves and i think we're all guilty of using the framing narrative of calling these people protesters i'm guilty of it myself if this was happening in london or in new york or in madrid these would be called by the press the governments there riots violent riots by extremists a

parties as the unrest spreads further it's becoming more and more extremist as artie's aleksey got to shift the reports. kiev convinced by violence. molotov cocktails pitched battles between protesters and police a capital city spirally out of control. and emitted all it's the radicals and extremists who are spearheading this violence. in his ready teacher in a key of synagogue dog glickman is following it all from his hospital bed twenty four hours before the violence erupted he was beaten and stabbed by unidentified man it was the second attack on a jew in his many days we asked the local jewish community to comment on the matter but they refused hearing retribution from far right groups those watching on from abroad are also deeply disturbed by recent developments what. of course we're worried about jews in ukraine at the moment because if there is anti-semitic violence there will be no mercy for anyone neither women nor children. with nazi off fascist images clearly on display the concern is that even the nationalist leaders are no longer in control of their supporters and the evidence of support for ukr

picture is very unstable that aussies aleksei your shots came reporting that live from kiev and i say thank you very much indeed for that update weapons shade and let's not hear more from historian mark almond he joins us now live in oxford to on and to welcome so we've seen a rise in the nationalism during these riots in kiev can be madrid opposition do anything to control the more extreme elements once the crisis is that. well we will have to see i suspect the problem is that the so-called moderate opposition is rather wanted something of this sort if we think about why the orange revolution went wrong in two thousand and four and five it was precisely that the mass protests were peaceful they led to a rerun of elections. last he lost very narrow and he remained a viable political player with a very large body of support and one of course the elections in two thousand and ten. so for the opponents of janak over the recognition that if you simply force fresh elections you don't fundamentally change the political system they want to marginalize and relegate you on a covert action his