give up the fight to hold on to power and let's cross live now to auntie's ski so lexi any idea what yanick overages next move will be. all the unocal which saga has largely resembled a hollywood thriller something along the lines of catch me if you can he fled the ukrainian capital five days ago after a huge outbreak of violence here ever since his his whereabouts have been unknown some have been speculating that he is still in ukraine and the new ukrainian power in kiev which eventually came to power here after unocal which led were quick to brand him as a criminal to slap a wanted tag on him and to declare him as a fugitive but apparently young a call which at least on thursday it became apparent that he may be resurfacing in russia first of all he published a statement handing it over to several russian use agencies saying that he was still the legitimate president of ukraine elected in a constitutional manner every decision made in the key of parliament in kiev according to an accord which was illegitimate and he was willing to fight until the very end to bring the constitutional order

well if you look at the crowds in the center of the capital kiev it looks like support for yanick overshoes resignation is overwhelming but calls for his impeachment have been out there on the web for some time now let's take a look at how much response they've been getting so far now this is a petition that you can see next to me here from anti-government activists that was launched back in december and managed to get about one hundred thousand vote or signatures so far but it's a small margin of the total population of the country which is about fifty million people and has also can be seen. on the petition itself some of those who are back in peach mint didn't even live in ukraine itself we also talked with. we are speaking now actually we have a live connection with bruno jeff ski in paris he's a lecturer at the national institution of languages and eastern civilizations thank you very much for joining us on short notice here so we have these latest statements coming from the heart of that officials are being encouraged to take their law and their authority from the ground up in their o

people i thought that he'd hold on to the end of a legal expert alexander were curious tells us that yanick over his own policies during the crisis may have turned his people against him i think mr yanukovych which is a political call we've seen people in the eastern ukraine it's a saying how utterly betrayed they feel by him there was a release today by his own party what's left of it we've gone to the regions which accused him of betraying the ukraine i think he is an utterly discredited man he's made threats which he's never for through he's never supported cheat he's the police and the security forces who were very loyal to him right up until almost the end and he cut deals with opposition leaders who were quite obviously since the nineteenth of january no longer in control of the crowds and here so he's a political leadership has been disastrous and i think that he's recognized across the whole country. and after a short break katie pilbeam has that week's financial highlights in venture capital stay with us r.t. international. transit road to vnukovo report you'll best way to the hear

. >> and yanick node is with us. come in, come in. what did you say? >> i'm going there next week. >> are you? >> yes. >> fantastic. are you competing? >> no, no, i'm not competing. >> we'll talk to you about that. more from him in a few moments' time. plenty of other things coming up on this show. a tough week for social networking stocks, right? disappointing outlook from linkedin sent shares lower after hour after twitter lost a quarter of its value on thursday's session. >> what to expect from india's latest gdp reading where growth is expected to accelerate. >> purchase, telecoms. purchase? we'll find out. the latest accepting payments in bit coins. we'll be in chicago later in the show to find out with the company's ceo and find out why he's betting on the company's virtual currency. >> and the most powerful businesswoman list. is she being paid a lot less than her male predecessor? we'll dig into that story a little later on. >> yeah. we'll drive it through for you. first -- >> it's friday. and the month of january jobs report is due. forecast c