. >> president viktor yushchenko fleeing the capital of kiev. >> waiting for may elections. >> jon: wait the putin guy fled? forces of freedom prevailed? i think it's pretty clear what happened here? the ghost of reagan. [ laughter ] haunted yanukovych, told him to leave p boo crane. there's no other explanation. >> two days before he fled an obama administration official says he was on the phone for more than two hours with vice president joe biden. biden told him the window for a resolution to the crisis was quickly closing. >> jon: no wonder he got the (bleep) out there. two hours on the phone with joe biden? [cheers and applause] we'll be right back. [ male announcer ] when you switch to sprint's new framily plan, friends are like family, so who's gonna be in yours? let's get a sound guy and some roadies. [ male announcer ] but the more people you add, the lower the rate. how 'bout sketchy jeff? he gets billed separately, right? [ male announcer ] get up to 10 separate bills and everyone gets unlimited talk, text and one gig of data for as low as $25 a month each. cool. one more. we

to have you with us our top story this hour the ongoing hundred for ukraine's ousted leader viktor yushchenko between his once powerful party of regions prompted some strong statements from russia issued by the foreign ministry this statement says moscow's quote alarmed by the dictatorial sometimes terrorist methods chosen by ukraine's interim leadership to suppress discontent the text posted on their web site also urges all connected with the crisis to show deep responsibility to prevent further escalation of tension restore law and order and restrain extremists striving for power is going off as more from kiev. the situation here in kiev is referred to by many now as a witch hunt because now former officials are being searched for words masked men having been seen stopping cars and checking the i.d.'s of drivers and the passengers inside with deputies and other authors also they're looking for the party of regions which just a few days ago was the political force in the country is now under the threat of being banned while ousted president. wanted list when they knew of accusing him of bein

one of the main figure is behind the orange revolution in two thousand and four hundred allied viktor yushchenko was elected president and redrawn elections tymoshenko was appointed prime minister. she had this office twice the second time from two thousand and seven to twenty ten the year she unsuccessfully ran for president against victory and called it. soon after her legal troubles began when she was arrested on accusations of abuse of power and in the summons. it concerns a gas deal she's going to russia by prime minister in two thousand and nine. she was sentenced to seven years in prison in twenty eleven european union and international organizations condemned to a conviction of them is to the mall to visit and said she'd been physically miss trees and present threat the room aiden protest in which ankles portrait has been a constant presence the door from the main messages of support to protesters tymoshenko in that it's sad to leave prison following a bill passed by ukraine's tournaments opening the way to a possible return to politics the iron lady. but an italian center left politicia

parliament has appointed to the speaker as interim president after voting for the resignation of viktor yushchenko which since taking over the reins in the capital the opposition has been hard at work establishing its own order her to go to peace get off is in kiev for us. the situation here resembles more and more a coup since the president's fled the city along with some of his supporters those deputies of state or from opposition parties and they have been passing laws like a printing press the latest include the appointment of the acting president and a russian as the second official language in the country even though in the east up to fifty percent of those living there are ethnic russians still under the full control of the protesters some of the former officials have been arrested while the appointed are known for their fire right. to say that events unfolded quickly here is almost say nothing and for more about how things went on and what's the situation here like on the ground here's a report by my colleague. own hell was breaking loose in kiev on tuesday to compromise with seemingly rea

nation's parliament and the ousted president and days after fleeing the country we hear from viktor yushchenko bitch what he sees or ukraine's future coming up. and a proposal is being pushed to break up the golden state's a silicon valley venture capitalist things california should be six separate states but how exactly would that work we'll talk with the man behind the proposal later in the show. it's friday february twenty eighth four pm here in washington d.c. i'm liz wall and you're watching r.t. america we begin today with the hot debate over privacy in the wake of the leaks from edward snowden revealing a massive government surveillance program there is a renewed demand for privacy whether it's online or on your phone the takeaway has been that none of your digital activity is guaranteed to be private and this new scrutiny over spying is fueling the demand for tech products that allow people to conduct their lives under the radar now a new smartphone is set to hit the market that aims to supply this demand for privacy artes and we're david has more for. what we have is deciding it may l

nation's parliament and the ousted president and days after fleeing the country we hear from viktor yushchenko bitch what he sees or ukraine's future coming up. and a proposal is being pushed to break up the golden state's a silicon valley venture capitalist things california should be six separate states but how exactly would that work we'll talk with the man behind the.

mark another twist in the already crazy hollywood style saga of the ousted ukrainian president viktor yushchenko beach who has been missing since saturday last week for almost a week now some reports claim he was in ukraine but apparently now he resurfaced in russia on thursday he sent a message to several russian russian news agency saying that he was still the legitimate president of ukraine elected in a constitutional manner that every decision made by the ukrainian parliament in kiev was considered illegitimate by him and that he would continue his fight to restore constitutional order in the country later on the demerged the ousted president the article which would give a press conference in the southern russian city of stuff on dawn now the local media are reporting that he's playing has already landed in this in that city and we're expecting the press conference at five o'clock five o'clock pm local time which is roughly in about three hours from now although a journalist on the scene are reporting that the whereabouts of this press conference are still unknown certainly we're waiting for

viktor yuschenko. that same year, yushchenko was poisoned with a dose of pure dioxin changing the face of a guy who onced like this to a guy who looked like this. >> mr. president, do you know who did this to you specifically? >> translator: i have no doubt this was done by my opponents in the government. that's who would benefit the most from my death. >> so, i said to myself, i'm definitely not on the side of whichever goons tried to poison that guy. keep in mind, one of his opponents he was talking about is the current president of ukraine, viktor yanukovych. that brings me to today. the protesters who are upset their government decided to walk away from a trade deal with the eu and move closer to a full embrace with russia. more pointedly, who are now really protesting a series of laws first passed then later repealed by ukrainian parliament that make ukraine at least on paper something lot looks like a dictatorship than a fully functioning open society. when i see people getting shot at and bleeding on the streets, i feel like i now whose side i'm on. when john mccain and chris murphy went to stand