we are speaking to nicolai petro from odessa. we are also speaking to timothy snyder, a at the university, in vienna, austria. 's 18ths democracy now! birthday. went on air february 19, 1996. we are now broadcasting on over 1200 public collision and radio stations around the world. if you want to send in your photo holding him why you need democracy now!, that is what we are showing on the brakes. , we areracynow.org streaming the pictures. you can also send us video to democracy now! means to you. we are back with timothy snyder. he is in vienna, austria. his latest piece is entitled "fascism, russia, and ukraine." with us from odessa, ukraine is nicolai petro. i want to turn to statements made by yulia tymoshenko, following her release from jail. she was undressed and protesters in kiev. >> i know that all together we will be able to do it and i will never allow anyone to let you down. a singlet not politician or official to touch or lay one of their fingers on your life. nothing in my life will be more important. may god give

nicolai's employer, angel security, didn't respond to an e-mail from nbc news. disgruntled guards not the best sign on the eve of the opening ceremony with 40 world leaders expected to attend. russia continues to insist it has the threat of terrorism under control and that it treats all of its workers involved in the olympics well. >> richard engel starting off our reporting tonight. richard, thanks. and our own pete williams who covers homeland security for us has been looking into these new tsa travel restrictions. he is in our washington news room with that story tonight. pete, good evening. >> reporter: brian, good evening. this temporary ban on gels, liquids and powders has not been based on any new threat or new intelligence, it's the follow-on to yesterday's warning about the toothpaste and the gels smuggled on to planes applies only to a small number of flights from the u.s. to russia. there is one delta flight to new york, a few others from new york and los angeles, and a charter from washington, d.c. but it does not apply to any flights inside the u.s.

and we can now see and go live to our deaths in eastern ukraine and discuss the latest events with nicolai petro from the department of political science at the university of rhode island mr petro welcome to r.c. is so a at this point also people on the streets of kiev fighting for and what are their demands. well one continues to hope that it is not just the extreme radicals but that there are still people there who are hoping to be with the government in a go she added political solution and if indeed the political opposition political opposition reach an agreement thanks to the e.u. thanks to the intercession was also. the former russian human rights. chair or you were lucky and it was now and you if they do reach an agreement that this will indeed suffice to. lead to an end to the violence in the street but does the rebels actually controlled by the political opposition of ukraine that's always been the question on the one hand. the answer to that question seemed to be yes. as far as a brewery seventeen away and the amnesty agreement was reached with members of the with the leaders the

six men to a room, nicolai said he has only been paid a fraction of his salary. when he started to ask questions he claims he was fired. other guards who did not want to talk on camera had similar complaints and said they would like to quit. nicolai's employer, angel security, did not respond to an e-mail from nbc news. unhappy guards, not the best sign on the eve of the opening ceremony with 40 world leaders expected to attend. russia continues to insist it has the threat of terrorism under control and that it keeps -- treats all of its workers involved in the olympics well. >> richard engel, starting off our reporting tonight, thank you, and our own pete williams who covers the homeland security for us has been looking into the new tsa travel restrictions. he is in our washington news room with that story, good evening. >> reporter: good evening, brian, the temporary ban on gels, liquids or powders has not been based on any new threat or new intelligence, it is the follow-on to yesterday's warning about the toothpaste and the gels smuggled on planes applies onl