this sort of case cons happen again the head of the european parliament regrets the the verdict of tomasz oco and he's calling for a review of the case on appeal now ukraine wants to enter the european union has been discussing a free trade agreement and the ukraine president is actually due here in brussels next week to discuss the first steps to joining the european union but the sounds we're getting here from brussels is that this may be put on hold and in fact stopped if if this case is not reviewed let's not listen to an expert for more details on this case but here in union has already made it clear that if you use this child very dimly it takes a great gives you this trial it doesn't like to see opposition politicians in prison and i think there is every chance that the european union may take some strong measures such as freezing the talks with ukraine frankly there is no chance at all of ukraine joining the so there were serious doubts about whether key of would actually go through with the ukraine would actually be able to join the european union but this verdict on yulia timosh

as well but just several hours ago as i mentioned there were tensions when these supporters of you tomasz ankara try to march through the streets of kiev and the police had to disperse them there was no real strong violence used against the crowd but still pushing and shoving and the atmosphere was very tense it could spark a major violence any moment just as some deputies of the ukrainian parliament had predicted earlier that this day would see some major violence now the reaction to the court ruling which sentence you like so much i'm going to seven years in prison with her property being confiscated and the damages of two hundred million u.s. dollars to be paid was rather calm the crowd here is saying that they must continue their fight for freedom and they will do it with no violent means but they will picket the court because the streets of kiev and other ukrainian cities in order to get the their position their stance heard and the u.s. much like was a verdict revised now. to herself has been saying that this case has been political through went through and she was very nervous insi

he was following events from outside the court where tomasz and co supporters have been involved in scuffles with police . at times it seemed that the tension would go over the top with the supporters of units of thousands of them trying to organize a march through the streets of kiev and being dispersed by the police with no real brutality but still some pushing and shoving and the situation was really explodes and still several people were injured in the pushing and shoving with the police one woman was saw as she was taken to hospital having fallen from a stage or from a staircase or something like that inside the courtroom of course it was very tense as well while the judge was reading out the verdict units in a sankoh was over shouting the judge was screaming abusive words at him saying that this decision this verdict was not done in accordance with the criminal law but was orchestrated by president viktor yanukovych indeed the reaction from the former prime minister when she learned that she's to spend seven years in prison to have her property confiscated and to pay out almost two hun

just said let's hear how european commission's foreign policy chief catherine ashton commented on tomasz anchor's guilty verdict. he means really disappointed with the verdict that's come out of ukraine in the case of yulia timoshenko the trial that took place didn't in our view respect international standards of being fair and transparent and having an independent legal process i've repeatedly asked for this in statements that i've made unfortunately what we're seeing confirms that justice is being applied so actively in what we see as politically motivated prosecutions of the leaders of the opposition and members of the former government i have to say six trini disappointing in a country that currently holds the chairmanship of the committee of ministers of the council of europe. in this law do you think that. will be ready to concede i think so at least it's widely known the victorian across which promised to several european leaders to set unity muttering free and to review with their results by the end of the year and the confidential conversations with those leaders. informally ini

of the opposition protesters here in the central street of steve in front of the court where the tomasz a trial has been happening since it's kicked off in june we've seen protests mostly every day but this is clearly the largest and the loudest we understand the verdict is being read out as we speak right now it isn't clear how long will it say we are expecting and we're hopeful that we have some information and some clearance on you to a sense of sight later during the day. of trial has been facing allegations of being politically motivated to one of the reasons behind. well the opposition protesters and the opposition have been claiming all along that the case has been politicized in fact they are describing today as the judgment day of ukrainian democracy they say should. be present then the democracy would and in ukraine this stance is being denounced by the country's leadership president going to question his recent interview has been saying that he has no worries and he doesn't care about the tymoshenko case and this case was not politicized at all it is interesting because one o

our website we're interested in what you have to say about this story today we're asking what the tomasz in can sentence means and some of the conscript you can see that about half of you believe the verdict is simply a politically motivated mockery almost a third think it's a clever ukraine employed to avoid paying for russian gas and the rest is split between two options whether the sentence is justice well done or it's a fatal error of blocking ukraine's right to that you cannot want to r.t. dot com and have your say. some of new york's wealthiest tycoons could come face to face with the rage of anti wall street demonstrators hundreds of activists are camping outside the homes of the elite in protest against the widening gap between the rich and poor in america not following the developments from new york. these people on the list are the five wealthiest residents of new york city bill and as you were mentioning in the introduction to the story this rage has already been unleashed here in new york city hundreds of demonstrators began visiting the homes of those on this list and those