so far be unable to drive them away in the local legislature here in the city of the ball in western ukraine has declared that it no longer recognizes ukraine's state rod and that's the national parliament western the country seeing the worst of the turmoil. explain. these are the scenes playing out across western ukraine one by one thirteen region so far have been overcome by protest right huge rioters have stormed regional administration buildings it turned violent in some cases as angry crowds clashed with the police. and over not occurring to the west but on the other side were scarred me any disturbance or. if we're talking about people from cell phone. they are not eager to participate in any sort of military action in the southern region of the crimea authorities have had enough of the national wide uprising they are ready to defend peace and order although they seem confident they want have to. this wave would never reach us but if it does our party is ready to provide help to law enforcers we would set up road blocks and not let anyone get inside crimea our party a lotus capable of

even a front costs western ukraine. and ukrainian protester dmitri blast off who has been missing for over a week has now turned up alive he said he was abducted and tortured you can have the water dot com for more details on that and to follow minute by minute updates on the ongoing turbulent situation. by joining us here on r.t. international a u.s. lawmakers are looking for alternatives to help them kill the lethal injection drugs used to execute prisoners on death row are in short supply and there's concern about how effective they are in the first place but some of the other methods being considered are neither new or campaigners say humane artie's more important i felt the story. in just the first month of twenty fourteen six executions have already been carried out on u.s. death row inmates however the shortage of drugs coupled with an increasing concern surrounding the efficiency of lethal injection has prompted lawmakers in some states to push for the reintroduction of long abandoned torture methods in missouri

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they have been an op with a nasty slogan that these out and that's there from western ukraine brought to the slogans like the fun of. going into the face of the sense that germany above everything else you know the famous nasty nasty slogan this is the only part of european football wage which is not prevented. by they are support or they are answer to the fall of. any large scale or in finland which where i like to nazi germany in a certain period. even though you don't have any difference and you don't have. the mainstream media saying openly that what was done in making for your long that what you thought was right in western ukraine from the people you can. support. it was they said that you know ukrainian science and followed you could use your period to rational you can read all of the terrible stuff in the newspapers you can read is the reason that method you're given i don't know what put such people like the todd akin standing for is it a slippery choice or a good to use them he doesn't condemn and i'm sure that. we'll find a way our people say that these are driven could tea

even a front costs western ukraine. presenting coverage said the authorities have done everything they could to try and resolve the crisis but the opposition dismissed this statement as misleading and foreign affairs expert. says they're also made goal is to topple the government but after that there's no plan the opposition keeps moving the goal posts obviously they want the government to unconditionally surrender and all of their demands whatever those demands might be they've made it obvious that only unconditional surrender will do they're like a dog chasing cars they have no idea what to do when when they catch it their whole gambit is to take over the government short of taking over the government the will their efforts will be a failure they need to capture the government to be successful this is these are the marching orders they were given by the people financing them so anything short of dismantling the government and handing it over to them would be a failure this is why they cannot compromise even if they wa

this is the regional administration building event at sun card skin western ukraine where at the till a week ago the regional governor had his office but as you can see just liking kiev's there is now a giant barricade surrounding the building with snow tires and planks of wood radical and and he russian this is the heartland of nationalism where anti on the cover of sentiment runs deep and that's the way an italian and her comrades want to keep it the twenty nine year old entrepreneur has been here since the building was overthrown she says work can wait this is more important it is better to have no president than to have you know called which but with the opposition as fragmented as it is that tully is the first to admit no yanna coverage could well mean an alkie of the problem is that we don't have any person to replace him and we will need to take someone from their position which won't be easy the sentiments blown across central and western ukraine where regional offices are being picketed and seized by protesters. the misa a group of right wing radicals some wearing masks storm

developments just seen here on r t international the local parliament in the city which is in western ukraine has declared that it no longer recognizes ukraine's state rada the country's parliament and its proclaimed one of the opposition's makeshift councils a legitimate power instead evolve administration office was one of the first cities to be taken over by protesters as the unrest started spreading from the capital to other regions while ukrainian interior ministry has accused the protesters of ignoring truce agreements so had to calm for all the details and real time updates on the situation there. well here on our terror national we are receiving reports that four people have been killed in clashes between pro islamist protesters and police in cairo meanwhile on to here square supporters of the regime are staging a mass rally to mark the third anniversary of the twenty eleven uprising the build up to the anniversary was marred by a series of deadly explosions across cairo with six people killed on friday dozens more were injured in a four blast which included a powerful car bomb outsid

and they cut a lot of success in fact i think all but one of the regions of western ukraine at least that the administration buildings that are under the control of the protest is but what's really new is that today for the last time that happened to scale demonstrations against president atm because it is governments in several locations in the east of the country cannot just let him eat guitars and as the policy a chain of very large industrial city where protests that have been trying that there is well to take over the regional administration buildings the bottom it said they'd been pressed about budgeting but said the pressure is definitely on. oh the dilemma help us understand why i did some rest is pretty dubious to say that this isn't just about done a conditioning is back on the un emo. they will keep him in eastern ukraine a lot less enthusiastic about having close ties with the european union. that said i think the two things really get to make them i realized recently that the way that the police had been behaving persistent reports that wicket to get people involved in t

these protesters particularly the ultra nationalists who were jordi of which you come from the western ukraine frankly driven back to live off when they come. in not feel about this in international relations lecture and research from the moscow state university thank you very bank you for sharing your views on this we appreciate it. so the riots in care highlighted the rise in nationalist movements and extremism in the country at the forefront of the bonbons is believed to be an ultra right movement known as the right sex had made up mostly of young people a statement has emerged on the internet that said she may from there when i say should and essentially calls for a revolution and political commentator alexander the cross and believes them breast is pushing ukraine to the brink. ah ah. ah. ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah in taking two they took a as basically a merging a in key of and i think what there's more warring is that the so called nationalists basically extremists who are trying to create there we

from western countries is then we could it could worsen the situation inside ukraine and the same time worsen the relationship between russia and the western world well you know as we speak there is an economic forum taking place in switzerland in davos and in fact what happened there are police has detained demonstrators who were rallying in support for the unrest in ukraine should we expect the e.u. to react. i would say be you sure underlined the fact that part of these protesters are far right movement very dangerous some of them on their own and this is something that is a real risk for the ukrainian foundation of democracy and if we are talking about . we should defend the ukraine democracy because the president has been elected it's a regular election he has been elected he has been chosen by view crinan people so of course you can contest this election but not by using violence not by invading. buildings and ministration not by creating very violence against your for it is to as i told you i really think the position of e.u. is dangerous because it will weaken the foundation of

this is the regional administration building in western ukraine, where the governor has his office. just like he have, there is now a giant barricade all around the building. snow, tires,cks of wooden sticks. people have been working all night to put up the barricade. yesterday, hundreds of antigovernment protesters stormed into the building and force the regional governor who had been appointed by the president to step down. today, they are marching around, digging up ice and stones to add to the barricade, and more food has been distributed. here i am inside this rather rant building, although it does not really look like a government office today. there is a study stream of people coming in and curious about what is happening here. apparently, it was a common nation of groups, trade union organizations, youth groups and ordinary people who took this building yesterday because they were angry about what was happening in kiev, angry with their government, and there are reports of similar regional offices in western ukraine either being picketed by protesters or, in some cases, bein

pro russian and western ukraine. well they forget that western ukrainians participated in the war on the side of it was germany and if this is the europe. you know is offered to ukraine then i think the majority of ukrainians would not want to go to this kind of europe they remember it by the times of the second world war and they remember the by extremist ukrainian nationalism which was very widespread in the post-war years and even recently you know during these twenty years or ukrainian independence so the shame is first that the odds when you reach war and other so-called moderate nationalists leaders although they're not moderate by european standards first they fail to sort of condemn these actions of no not as they failed to separate themselves from the known artists. sometimes even denied that no one answers were involved they said these were all provocateurs from newport beach you know which was a boy into life we see now that this is serious i mean how can you recall which burn his own boss and throw out of

that is possible, including two ukraine's. >> anton shekhovtsov, can you respond to professor stephen cohen? >> yes. this is basically what i said, a distortion in the westerna. i don't know if it is professor cohen has been to ukraine, i was there just a few days ago. i'm not in the right wing taking control of the streets. the streets are controlled by euromaidan, which is youth -- ideologically different. there is a right-wing wing element, but this is the element which is only a minor component of euromaidan. if you remember the solidarity movement in the 1980's in poland, it also comprised some right-wing elements. in the end, they built a democratic national -- national democratic poland. as for the neo-nazis and anti-semites in western ukraine, there were some, but at the same time, if you talk to them, if you interview them, and if you read their demands, you will not find any dissemination laws among third -- any among them. at the same time they support the pro-european protests and this is partly what euromaidan is about. there are many false reports about the beatings of representatives of national minorities in ukraine. mostly these reports are

events playing out in ukraine a legitimate democratic movement or a small number of highly motivated radicals forcing violent regime change is this movement is peaceful as western media claims and is ukraine hopelessly divided west against east. to cross-talk ukraine i'm joined by my guest john laughlin in paris he is the director of studies at the institute of democracy and cooperation in london we have tony help and he is a journalist and former moscow bureau chief for the times and in moscow we cross to dimitri bobbitt he's a political analyst with voice of russia all right gentlemen crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i very much encourage it john if i go to you in paris the government has resigned the cabinet has resigned you know covert has reached out to the opposition so is the ball in his corner or the opposition's. well in a sense it's in the opposition's because they have been making the running in this as you said in your question they have or you applied anyway in your question they have shown extreme violence the opposition they have shown themselves to be very radical they've demanded of course the resignatio

crowds have gathered in most major cities in western ukraine.ers have bare guided themselves inside the governor's office in the western ukraine's major city thousands have now surrounded the main government building. this is the scene right now. smokes and fires pouring in to the sky there. our correspondent is joining us live from kiev and it does look like that temporary truce has well and truly ended. >> reporter: that's right. overnight in the early hours of saturday morning we have seen protesters fighting with riot police, but on a very reduced scale. they have been throwing molotov cocktails and stones that they have got from broken up paving slaps. the riot police firing tear gas and reports that they were firing rubber bullets as well. we are not hearing of major injuries. we are hearing from several arrests from the frontline a few hundred meters from independence square here on the road leading up to parliament. although it seems that the truce that held for at least 24 hours has finished, we haven't seen a return to the deadly confr

will happen in the old western ukraine. only because they are also their base our dear so. we really see but i doubt it will be easy. to bring back some of the. well here is a map of central kiev and you can see the heart of the protest movement has been an independence square actually right down here otherwise called may done where the opposition has set up barricades and camps the riots have moved this week to a long street nearby of a street. it's the scene of most of the violent clashes international relations expert mikhail cut off from the st thomas university told us that it will be hard to contain these riots because some of the more radical groups that have joined in . i'm quite skeptical that these riots real be real be dealt with effectively in the near future or they will continue for some time there are national is there a. neo nazi. representative of the so-called right sector group we combine school begins and and you know nazi and the right is from all sides east and west and all sides of political spectrum therefore i don't think that everyone will follow o

the people who are out there on this so-called euro my done have been brought there mostly from western ukraine they're the ones who are thinking that ukraine should be with europe they're saying that ukraine is you are it's european country and it should take it isn't so you take a step away from russia that's what a kind of started with now it's mostly against the government but you also have to understand the fact that this is the western ukraine that has that opinion people in the east are a lot more russia friendly they do not want to get away from russia they do not want to step away from russia they're much more closer to moscow then they are say to warsaw also i think it's important to underline the fact that just when i was in kiev all you had to do was walk about a kilometer away from the my down from the state from the independence square and you would be in a normal city where people go shopping people go to their gyms people go have a great time go to school go. work there were only upset over the over the protests because you have to be seven it's the major leagues he had his main

these are the scenes playing out across western ukraine one by one thirteen region so far have been overcome by protest rage rioters have stormed regional administration buildings it turned violent in some cases as angry crowds clashed with the police. i and all that occurring to the west but on the other side there's hardly any disturbance at all if we're talking about people from cellphone east and boss they are not eager to participate in any sort of military action in the southern region of the crimea authorities have had enough of the national wide uprising they are ready to defend peace and order although they seem confident they want to have to because of my business this wave would never reach us but if it does our party is ready to provide help to law enforcers we would set up roadblocks and not let anyone get inside crimea our party a lotus capable of mobilizing up to five thousand people. we're not talking about seceding from ukraine yet we're talking about restoring constitutional order but we would never accept any orders from illegitimate bodies of power created as the mind on

unrest is an golfing more cities across western ukraine while in kiev government concessions have failed to a few days the opposition the two sides plan to hold another round of talks amid the fragile truce well in many other places of the country though the situation isn't so peaceful and these are all the main regional cities and in all of them protesters have tried to seize a local administrations police only managed to repel the crowds and just one of those are all over in the capital for us. around a dozen ukrainian cities are under siege by rioters these people are targeting local authority building the said local government buildings police stations in the likes of barricading roads no three of the worst affected cities which has seen the worst violence. looks in the toilet city of china sea where we're hearing that right now we're around one thousand rioters are besieging local government buildings there with around one hundred riot police trying to keep them away but of course they are they are outnumbered ten to one in the situation in evolve which was one of the first cities o

ii the heat of the scenes playing out across western ukraine. one by one the team region so far have been overcome by collectors were each. reuters notes torn region of new streets and buildings. he turned violent in some cases as angry crowds flocked to the police the and pulled her into the west. but on the other side there's hardly any disturbances old youth will talk in a bowl people from cellphone and easton cos baby on the eu to put it in any sort of military action in the southern region of the crimea authorities have had enough of the national white of pricing. they are ready to defend peace and order although they seem confident that they want to know that one. this wave would never reach us but if it does our party is ready to provide helped a lot of foresters who was set up roadblocks to not let anyone get inside crying yet. our party lotus capable of mobilizing up to five thousand people. i obligated new groomer. we're not talking evokes a scene from ukraine yet. we were talking about restoring constitutional order. but we would neve

agree to go back home and that's the real problem that will happen in kiev and in the in all western ukraine. also because they're also their bases are there so that's that's that we will see but i doubt it will be easy. to bring back stability. we will never doesn't regions of the country angry mobs of the siege and in many cases occupied local government forces offices i should say the city of in need sara is one of the latest to fall victim to anti-government turmoil hundreds of protesters stormed the local administration building where they were met by police have so far been unable to drive them away meanwhile the regional legislature in the city of evolve in western ukraine has declared that it no longer recognizes ukraine state rada the national parliament west of the country saying the worst of the mayhem while in the south and east support for the government is high literally splitting the country in half. he's a senior international relations lecturer at moscow state university told me earlier that the more liberal opposition leaders have no control over the situation . i mean is t

agree to go back home and dogs the real problem that will happen in kiev and in the in the old western ukraine. because they're also their base are there so. that's what we will see but i doubt it will be easy. to bring back stability. or ukraine's police have been coming on the harsh criticism for resorting to force over the course of the unrest security units have been facing a fierce standoff with the demonstrators well to discuss this how they've been handling the situation going to cross live now to retire commander charles cid he'll he's from las sheriff's department now said we're going to look at some of the footage from wednesday's clashes in kiev now we can see the rioters are acting violently towards the police from your experience how should those officers react to those sort of circumstances and what are for what i've seen on the video or so or they're shown a lot more restraint and i think you can expect. the ball octon also throwing rocks and bottles of the straightening with. would all be considered lethal force in the united states let's listen to some of the comments from the

people are somehow uneasy about the spirit of their history they say were forced to do it in western ukraine they say well brought out everything was done right and i think before we start to construct anything in ukraine or ukraine or start to construct anything the ukraine they should clearly separate themselves from these kind of people because these people are not european they are not ukrainian they're in fact unacceptable in any society and it's a shame that the us shutting its eyes on that and that the huge i would say the majority of european press pretends not to notice it john the press pretends not to notice it again these are i mean diem is a very good historian i know him very very well and he knows his history well here and i see these posters also i hear these chants and it sends you know i get my hair stands up in the back of my head is that i can't believe in two thousand and fourteen someone is marching in the streets of ukraine saying these things with torture swear to a lie to torture just like fascists did in one thousand so if you know and i mean. we had a big demonstra

and replicate the scenes that we've seen here in kiev previously and that we're seeing across western ukraine right now to get those type of scenes back on the streets of the ukrainian capital now this what's been going on here in ukraine has drawn headlines from around the world it's big news all over the place however some of the comments coming out from world leaders particularly in brussels and in the united states are being claimed well they're only serving to increase tensions and to provoke the rioters into continuing violence. violent scenes in ukraine triggered a strong reaction from abroad it seems like they so police attacking protesters. tell it to the protesters against the police has prompted the head of the e.u. parliament martin scholtz to call for immediate elections in the country while jose manuel barroso the e.u. commission president warned that he was ready to take action if the situation. didn't change these type of statements of led to accusations of encouraging the riot is the way it's being seen previous conflicts very similar scenario to what was happening in. the be

nice the very seriously the the violence that we're seeing spreading away from kiev and into western ukraine where say around a dozen cities currently under siege there might be to tell us what's happening in ukraine in capital right now how calm is the situation on the streets. but we have a very tentative and somewhat on the easy piece here right now what we have seen i was just we're just behind me is independence square is continuing to have speeches being delivered there to a crowd over where the main flaw. point has been either number stadium we were just over there before i was talking to you and the barricades are still being reinforced as much as they can the still more and more tires are arriving the fires aren't as severe as we've seen previous days but they are still burning there's still that thick black smoke in the air one of the most disturbing things though we have heard just recently comes from the authorities here which they are getting ready and they're prepared because of some information that they've received that they could be an attempt by hardline groups here to perf

donetsk ukraine the rioting that's been engulfed in care of has seen many western politicians voice their support with the u.s. also imposing sanctions against ukraine's politicians ukrainian affairs analyst the bush says that's exactly what the protesters have been aiming for. they're trying to force the issue this is this is your typical extortion tactic the whole point is to force the government to react the whole point is to force another police forces to confront the protesters and then scream bloody murder oh my god they're killing us they're oppressing us please help look what's happening help us foreign intervention and so on and so forth it is a very basic tactic from the rebellion playbook being implemented throughout the world in georgia and elsewhere in the ukraine in two thousand and four of all things so i think the protesters are trying to make a point that verda ones to decide what gets done and who initiates the violence as evidenced by mr klitschko statement that we will hold him to live until the negotiations are over but we have the power to actually go on strike and i

ukraine. unlike their western neighbors eastern ukraine is mostly in support of president vitriolic coverage people there are getting worried about what is going on in the country fairing that the protesters could be pulling ukraine in the wrong direction party's policy or reports the industrial heart of the ukraine is a place where the majority has been silent until now divided pictures from kiev are spurring people here into action but not in support of the anti-government riot has not but the most of us not beat up but i cannot sit at home when there are such things happening in ukraine the protests in kiev a horrible we are brothers we're all ukrainians in the east and south of the country support for president general cough it is high while tolerance for whiting is low these demonstrators blame opposition parties for using hot headed students to destabilize the country years young people are like zombies they get information from the internet and this information is only one side the usa in the west are paying for this information to be put out. gregory greene is a correspondent with the local