tymoshenko played a central role in yew train's orange revolution in 2004. she was jailed seven years later for abuse of power. >> do not stop going forward. get a full and complete victory. if you stop now, without a full victory, then all sacrifice will be in vain. >> reporter: world leaders and diplomats have weighed in. u.s. vice president joe biden has been calling president yanukovych to urge him to focus on ties with europe. this week eu commissioner traveled to kiev for talks with yanukovych. but, russian president vladimir putin criticized the move, calling it foreign interference. >> i'm not sure that ukraine would need such interimmediacy. i think more mediators mean more problems. >> reporter: opposition leaders say they'll keep up the pressure on the president. demonstrators remain defiant in the streets. and there's no sign of an end to the clashes. yuji osawa, nhk world. >>> japan is out with the latest assessment of its economy, and ron madison is here with the details of that. ron? >> yeah, we've had a string of positive assessments on the s

without which a cooperation would be impossible then they included to the training of the idiot tymoshenko who is the leader of the seine gets a new spot in the form of prime minister has self control so the repeal of the coach of the soul that i see at the protest goals that will cost on the sixteenth of december said it sounded more like a refusal the one that so that i hate the way open to an extent it's about time if things are depending on the way things are both in the next few days i end up with the integrated seems perfect to meet any of those conditions interesting united this was reacting to how he felt that the crowd received his speech shortly after he went off stage us idiots in between says no deal be an economist who is rather confusing situation with this ambiguity from the opposition and their reaction to those on the crotch is understandable that the basic be ambiguous about to die because that they are trying to gauge the reaction of the ukrainian people not just those that have been reacting immediately at cannes on independence square and on the sheds the streets wet c

the banner of the former prime minister yulia tymoshenko who is now in jail indeed the euro might done has become something of a state within a state it lives by its own laws people are sleeping here they set up tent camps they're cooking food and it's really unlikely they're willing to disperse that anytime soon the opposition already said about its plan to hold the protesters at least until the end of january then in fact holding a huge national wide strike on a generally the twenty fourth that's how it is right now but definitely twenty fourteen will be a very turbulent year for ukrainian politics because in a little more than twelve months from now at the end of january twenty fifteen the people will take to the polls to elect a new president and that will be some very serious political battle especially considering everything which has happened in the last two months in this country like syria as you have school followers who different car know these pictures show host scotland welcomed in a new year which promises to be momentous for the scottish people also turn to the eighteent

the banner of the former prime minister yulia tymoshenko who is now in jail indeed the euro my done hasbecome something of a state within a state it lives by its own laws people are sleeping here they set up tent camps they're cooking food and it's really unlikely they're willing to disperse that anytime soon the opposition already said about its plan to hold the protesters at least until the end of january then in fact holding a huge national wide strike on a generally the twenty fourth that's how it is right now but definitely twenty fourteen will be a very turbulent year for ukrainian politics because in a little more than twelve months from now at the end of january twenty fifteen the people will take to the polls to elect a new president and that will be some very serious political battle especially considering everything which has happened in the last two months in this country. meanwhile around fifteen thousand right wing activists marched through the ukrainian capital they were celebrating what would have been the one hundred fifth birthday of. a divisive political figure in the

overthrow the government very soon by back keep sheena led by gets a new because he knows that if tymoshenko is released then his tenure is a caretaker leader of that party is over and you could believe that if they push now and let's remember that in any case an election for a president for a new president of ukraine is only a year away you get two parties who have a huge interest which is back if she runs for border the fact of the allied push for the election now and they believe that in that case they can effectively position their man be most likely only johnny bach as the president of ukraine klitschko simply doesn't see what's going on and as for you. he's coming out with a statement such as we need to go to the front lines and if it's a bullet in the head so be it well i saw him. sunday when tear gas was going off and i've never seen a man run so fast in my life so these are effectively very bold words from johnny bach who's telling his followers on twitter that it's revolution it's time to overthrow the government but they're effectively putting the bodies of these fundamentalists o

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constructive dialogue with the ukrainian government when this government was searched and by mr tymoshenko we talk to her about everything and this is not. subject for us i will talk to any government in ukraine but what is the. it's a pollutant to us and i will repeat it again is that to ukrainians economy is credit worthy that the ukrainian economy is able to generate a positive effect or much development for the government to to hold constructive changes reform so that we are confident that we can get this money back when you will despite us having a very significant reserves of gold reserves have fifteen fifteen billion. this is what i.m.f. was planning to give ukraine and russia is giving it a loan to you and we would like to be confident that the good will get this money back it's quite normal so it is important to us you know whatever political forces are and how a little bit of what is important to us is what economic policy they are going to pursue this is the first part of my answer and the second part for you. the people's rodders in ukraine and what to do i'm sure the ukrainian