a senior member of ukraine's former orange revolution government well then on monday he faces the next he is in prison a key of course expected to deliver its verdict on the x. interior minister that was charged with abuse of office and corruption what is next here. noted that his speeches once ignited thousands of hearts during the two thousand and four orange revolution where your real center was one of the driving forces now with no less inflammatory rhetoric from ukraine's former interior minister is heard from behind bars. among the worst you know president yannick which in a gang fight against corruption that's lawful they are corrupt through and through that's why they orchestrated this case against me which has nothing to do with criminal law and me with their desire to get rid of political rivals. you know from unlawful distribution of high place jobs in the interior ministry to using state money to buy a flat for his personal driver the charges against son could land him in prison for up to four and a half years his trial has lost it for more than a year your ring which will

go to that his speeches once ignited thousands of hearts during the two thousand and four orange revolution where you deal with sankoh was one of the driving forces now and no that's inflammatory rhetoric from ukraine's former interior minister is heard from behind bars. president yannick which in a gang fight against corruption that's lawful they are corrupt through and through that's why they orchestrated this case against me which has nothing to do with criminal law only with their desire to get rid of political rivals from unlawful distribution of high place jobs in the interior ministry to using state money to buy a flat for his personal driver the charges against will send cool landed him a four year prison term and the confiscation of all his property his trial has lasted for more than a year during which would send all went on a hunger strike several times it is drawing clear parallels with that of ukraine's former prime minister yulia tymoshenko currently serving seven years in prison for abuse of power in both trials loud protests of support were ever present and say and spirit su

noted that his speeches once ignited thousands of hearts during the two thousand and four orange revolution where your real center was one of the driving forces now with no less inflammatory rhetoric from ukraine's former interior minister is heard from behind bars. president yannick over the gang fight against corruption that's lawful if they are corrupt through and through that's why they orchestrated this case against me which has nothing to do with criminal law only with their desire to get rid of political rivals with his trial has lasted for more than a year during which looks and who went on a hunger strike several times it is drawing clear parallels with that of ukraine's former prime minister yulia tymoshenko currently serving seven years in prison for abuse of power and both trials loud protests of support were ever present and say experts such strong public outcry has seriously changed the country's political landscape but it was. the ruling party's reading drop below you'll to mission calls party the public doesn't approve of persecution that's what i'm ashamed was reading is tw

a senior member of ukraine's former orange revolution government will learn one day if he faces the next few years in prison i can have court expected to deliver the verdict against former interior minister nuri let sankoh who is charged with abuse of office and corruption artie's alexei or chefs he reports. we should go to that his speeches once ignited thousands of hearts during the two thousand and four orange revolution where you listened to was one of the driving forces now in no less inflammatory rhetoric from ukraine's former interior minister is heard from behind bars in clovis new york among the. present yannick gang fight against corruption that's if they are corrupt through and through that's why they can. this case against me which has nothing to do with criminal law only with their desire to get rid of political rivals. you know from unlawful distribution of high place jobs in the interior ministry to using state money to buy f. lat for his personal driver the charges against could land him in prison for up to four and a half years so his trial has lasted for more than a yea

then we got the political situation would not benefit from orange revolution here. i would say that the protest wasn't successful because many were killed. in the past no one knew that the dictator tortured and arrested people that we are and what we. suffer from the revolution showed the world the cruelty of his regime you need to know yes that is what all of this is one tangible victory. over them and. the notion of what we do as people all around the world have huge consequences. for the extraordinary global mobilizations of february fifteenth two thousand and three when the world said no to war there were somewhere between twelve and fourteen million people in the streets that day all with the same slogan the world says no two in a hundred different languages it was an amazing outpouring was. the guinness book of world records that it was the largest outpouring of humanity on one issue in the history of the world. and truth is later the new york times wrote there are once again two superpowers in the world the united states global public opinion that was huge we

who would be complaining saying that they want a revolution in russia using the example of the orange revolution in ukraine in the chaos which country found itself after saying that they don't need. stability and not the revolution saying that russia should cut its times of instability and they didn't want to change the dark days of the ninety's now the good news for everybody concerned is just how peacefully everything is being carried off on start today the opposition on the pro-government protests going off relatively without a hitch however one of the pro putin rallies we did see the leader of that rally take it into custody by police now this is because the it was a sanctioned dryly and it was sanctioned to have a certain amount of people the amount of people far exceeded that sort of decency as they did say say protesters must remain within the law they did do that and everything going off very peacefully his stuff today becomes the day of demonstrations artie's peter all of our reporting for us there now journalist evolve. shares his view on the protest. i think our course was too late in

a revolution in russia using the example of the orange revolution in ukraine in the. country founded. in. the revolution. of instability and they didn't want to. hold the good news for everybody. peacefully everything is being carried off today the opposition. leader of take it into custody by police because the. people the. police and seize they did say protesters must remain within the law they did do everything going on very peacefully. becomes the day of demonstrations. the presidential election just around the corner the opposition is demanding a fair vote martin mccauley who is an expert on russia at the university of london believes the process must be visibly transparent to further protests are to be avoided. result of the election of course we're very very important because what these demonstrators want is if you like a clean election an absence of fraud and so on and it's up to the authorities to ensure that there would be cameras there and so on and therefore it's probably will be a fair election but what is important is that it seemed to be fair and that th

who will be campaigning saying that they want a revolution in russia using the example of the orange revolution in ukraine in the chaos which country founded. saying that they don't need. to revolution. it's times of instability and they didn't want to return to the dog days of the ninety's now the good news for everybody. peacefully everything is being carried off today the opposition the pro-government protests going on relatively with. one of the putin rallies we did see the leader of that rally taken into custody by police because the. amount of people the amount of people. we saw a lot of police in cities they did say protesters must remain within the law they did do that and everything going on very peacefully as becomes the day of demonstrations. peter all of the reporting for us there now with the presidential election just around the corner the opposition is demanding a fair vote martin mccauley who is an expert on university of london believes the process must be visibly transparent if further protests are to be avoided. result of the election of course we're very very important becau

one was in opposition to that kind of the see the other pro-government gathering protesters to orange revolution supporters of ukraine martin the corn an expert on russia in the west of london says the only hope the opposition has of winning like a single candidate. result of the election of course we're very very important because what these demonstrators want is if you like a clean election an absence of fraud and so on and it's up to the authorities to ensure that there would be cameras there and so on and therefore it's probably will be a very clearly election but what is important is that it seemed to be fair and that these people have no cause to claim that the election on the fourth of march whether president vladimir putin wins the first or are not that has to be seen to be fair and to be clean otherwise would be tremendous protest on the eleventh of march the opposition will not come together they don't want to compromise they don't want to arrive at a single candidate the only way they're going to defeat the will put in on the fourth of march just have a single candidate who is accepte

who been campaigning saying that they want a revolution in russia using the example of the the orange revolution in ukraine and the chaos which pushes that country found itself in after last saying that they don't need not in russia they were stability and not a revolution saying that russia had had its times of instability and they didn't want to return to the dark days of the ninety's now the good news for everybody concerned is just how peacefully everything is being carried off on saturday both the opposition and the pro-government protests going off relatively without a hitch however one of the pro putin rallies we did see the leader of that rally taken into custody by police this is because it was a sanctioned rally and it was sanctioned to have a certain amount of people the amount of people who turned up far exceeded that we saw a lot of police in cities they did say say protesters must remain within the law they did do that and everything going off very peacefully as such a day becomes the day of demonstrations where the presidential election just around the corner the opposition is dem

those who come paining saying that they want a revolution in russia using the example of the the orange revolution in ukraine and the chaos which which it is not country found itself in often us saying that they don't need not be in russia they were the stability and not the revolution saying that russia had found its times of instability and they didn't want to return to the dog days old the ninety's now the good news for everybody concerned is just how peacefully everything is being carried off on saturday but the opposition and the pro-government protests going off well relative you without a hitch one of the putin rallies we did see the leader of that rally take it into custody by police now this is because it was a sanctioned dryly and it was sanctioned to have a certain amount of people the amount of people who turned up for exceeded the police a lot of decencies they did say say protesters must remain within the law and they did do that today everything going on very peacefully his stuff today becomes the day of demonstrations are these people all over reporting on a day of political rallie

dealing with these crises they're trying to do the same template they used in ukraine with the orange revolution in georgia to bring saakashvili into power as a. president in that country and i don't think it will work in russia i whatever mistakes the. ten year has brought with it whatever discontent is i think there are a lot of things that have significantly improved over the last years since the time of the yeltsin era. but that that really isn't the point the point is us interference in terminal russian election affairs is something that ought not to be tolerated and it's quite right not to tolerate it. you can get more on this and other stories online twenty four hours a day at r.t. dot com here's a glimpse of what is waiting for you there right now. from tragedy to treasure hunt thousands of works of art are up for grabs the board of the stricken luxury liner. including jewels and antiques plus. lessons with michelle obama who's living up to her reputation as one of america's most vigorous advocates of a healthy lifestyle the full story and much more at r.t. dot com. iran says it will not

dealing with these crises they're trying to do the same template they used in ukraine with the orange revolution in georgia to bring saakashvili into power as a. president in that country and i don't think it will work in russia i whatever mistakes the. ten year has brought with it whatever discontent is i think there are a lot of things that have significantly improved over the last two years since the time of the so there are. but that that really isn't the point the point is us interference in total russian election affairs is something that ought not to be tolerated and it's quite right not to tolerate it. iran says it will not give in to international pressure and abandon its nuclear program even if it's banned from selling a single barrel of oil it's a tehran's response to this week's approval by a us senate committee of a package of new sweeping sanctions against the islamic state but the bill has yet to pass through congress america's initiative targeting tehran's nuclear program follows the adopting a total embargo on iranian oil which is due to come into force in july the islamic repub

revolution they don't want to go down the same route to say what happened in ukraine with the orange revolution that they don't want the chaos that follows they don't return to the the dark days of the early ninety's they want stability so several protests taking place across most of the largest probably where i am right now all quiet here at the moment but where tens of thousands of people expected to march from behind me on their way to pull out my square. into the kremlin vowed to make changes after december's votes what's actually been done since then. well since the print the parliamentary elections on the fourth of december what we've seen is the first play of let me uproot and following through on promises made to to him to put webcams into the polling stations into the they were to be web comes that people will be able to sit at home and really be become an armchair observateur they'll be all polling stations where people can log on at home and see what's going on there now we also established an independent league of electoral monitors now that's an independent body that will be lookin

dealing with these crises they're trying to do the same template they used in ukraine with the orange revolution in georgia to bring saakashvili into power as a pro nato president in that country and i don't think it will work in russia i whatever mistakes the putin. tenure has brought with it whatever discontent is i think there are a lot of things that have significantly improved over the last years since the time of the yeltsin era. but that that really isn't the point the point is u.s. interference in internal russian election affairs is something that ought not to be tolerated and it's quite right not to tolerate it. and there's more about moscow's rival rallies online as thousands gathered for a day of protests in our photographer. check out the pictures on our facebook profile and there's more analysis on this and more on other top stories at our. iran says it won't bow to international pressure and abandon its nuclear program even if it's banned from selling a single barrel of oil this is a response to the when this week's approval by a u.s. senate committee of a package of new sweeping

opposition to that contains kind of the see the other pro-government gathering compared protests to orange revolution supporters of ukraine mr ski says any opposition candidates campaign could come undone in this social policies so i think the course was too late in coming so we are seeing more or less usual suspects and even even if we take seriously proper up i mean he's a he's a smart man and he's a rich man but. he's. in a category that is not loved in russia reach and successful man we are not in america we are in russia and this is basically a social democratic country who has in store is social policy going to give support to so many people that's why so many people who together today to support i think that what is happening today is that there are so many people calling for sparrow actions my hope is that they will get the actions but i think that may be disappointed again because in cairo elections there is a fair chance that we can move. next hour we'll take a look at one of them that is designed to show transparency at next month's elections but tens of thousands of webcams will be sold a

certainly in some way replicate the scenario of two thousand and four in ukraine the so-called orange revolution and definitely these things warry the prime minister who reflected on that rather a rather stern warning saying that the people these people the opposition would go to any deaths to provoke serious violence to provoke some serious provocations to happen after the election that is probably they would even regular votes and try to pin that on the authorities they would even go as far as killing somebody as the prime minister said and then try to pin it on the authorities on the ruling on the wrong party and those that power so definitely we're in for some turbulent days before and after the election and certainly our extensive coverage will be everywhere in moscow in all of russia to bring the latest story of us. so world news in brief this hour in our world update it's a murder i should say james murdoch the son of media baron rupert murdoch has stepped down as executive chairman of news international he says he's leaving his position to focus on the company's global t.v. business the