unacceptable for a european democratic state now those comments came after a meeting with president yannick over his presidential palace in the center of kiev but before that she was seen out and about mingling with the protesters behind me handing out sandwiches and hot drinks to both the protesters and the police the more the e.u.'s foreign policy chief catherine ashton has also been in kiev and she says that last night's events make dialogue along. more difficult but she does say that president yanukovych has reassured her that he does still want to sign the a u association agreement agreement well but it's new and ashton may have to be in kiev for a little bit longer than the house they initially intended because right now we're

would all be brought into question because there's a political goal in terms of the the opposition to yannick overage they want to be part of the european union they want to have those that have opposed to his pragmatic decision to look towards agreement with russia potentially or that hasn't been actually discussed but actually to refuse to sign the agreement with the european union was very foresighted in terms of the saves ukrainian economy from a lot of damage which e.u. regulations would have actually caused so it would actually cause a lot of problems if you kind of it was overthrown and. didn't have any choice end of the day for all the skeptics the saying this is a bad thing to my all the people that want to go towards the you didn't have any other choice of his country was on the verge of bankruptcy you know a lifeline was being offered for russia a similar lifeline as we've been saying of any problem anywhere near that scale was not an offer from the e.u. and that they if you haven't got any money and someone offering it to you you have to go with the person who's offering i guess a

association agreement was a major missed opportunity however this all comes on the day the president yannick overage said to government delegation to brussels to try to negotiate on the deal which he says in its current form would simply be too damaging to the cranium economy which is fragile right now just by the article that has to stop washington saying it could hit the country with sanctions if violence returns to the streets of kiev. are strong message was on the ground all policy options including sanctions are on the table in our view but obviously that still is being evaluated. well the mood amongst the protesters right. now seems to be as defiant as ever my colleague alexy our is in the crowd behind me now there is a delay on the line but alexey if you can hear me what's the mood like down there. we're now outside one of the barricades which was installed to separate the protests square the heart of the protest and the rest of the ukrainian capital it is no bigger and stronger than before you can judge i'm one hundred and eighty six centimeters high and this barricade is almost twic

unacceptable for a european democratic state now those comments came after a meeting with president yannick ovitz could be full that she was seen out and about mingling with the protesters behind me handing out sandwiches and hot drinks to both the protesters and the police the more than a news foreign policy chief catherine ashton has also been in kiev and she says that last night's events make dialogue a lot more difficult but she does say the president on a coach has reassured her that he does still want to sign the a you association agreement now this is one of the barricades that was dismantled and removed. by the police on tuesday evening as you can see the opposition calls for a show of defiance have been met not only have the barricades been rebuilt they've been rebuilt bigger and stronger than they were before and if you take a look over here you can see there being force of fide by a line of sandbags filled with snow because the protesters have spent all day shoveling the snow and filling the sandbags to fortify the defenses. and with the opposition calls for more and more people

unacceptable for a european democratic state now those comments came after a meeting with president yannick over his presidential palace in the center of kiev but before that she was seen out and about mingling with the protesters behind me handing out sandwiches and hot drinks to both the protesters and the police the more the e.u.'s foreign policy chief catherine ashton has also been in kiev and she says that last night's events make dialogue along. more difficult but she does say that president yanukovych has reassured her that he does still want to sign the a u association agreement agreement well but it's new and ashton may have to be in kiev for a little bit longer than the house they initially intended because right now we're getting reports that the airport has been evacuated as has the central train station here in kiev because of a bomb scare. now this morning events where we saw the police try and retake the city hold the city administrative building here in the center of kiev which is being used by the opposition as a makeshift headquarters over the last few days and weeks now t

unacceptable for a european democratic state now those comments came after a meeting with president yannick of it's going to hold that she was seen out and about mingling with the protesters behind me handing out some which is a hot drinks to buy the protesters and the police meanwhile the e.u.'s foreign policy chief catherine ashton has also been in kiev and she says that last night's events make dialogue a lot more difficult but she does say the president on the coach has reassured her that he does still want to sign the a you association agreement now this is one of the barricades that was dismantled and removed. by the police on tuesday evening as you can see the opposition calls for a show of defiance have been met not only have the barricades be rebuilt they've been rebuilt bigger and stronger than they were before and if you take a look over here you can see they're being fortified by a lot of sound backs filled with snow because the protesters have spent all day shoveling the snow and filling the sandbags to fortify the defenses. and with the opposition calls for more and more peopl

violations following its establishment earlier this spring officer ramon boris stopped real estate broker yannick barton and allegedly first him for talking back to him that was all the way back on december twenty third of two thousand and eleven while he was waiting for his wife in the car morris eventually arrested martin and took him to jail leaving martin's car running martin claims his car was full of it was stolen as a result charges of disorderly conduct or thrown out and now martin is suing both the n.y.p.d. and officer gora's with this first ever prosecution of a police officer for violations and appears opponents of the n.y.p.d. as a stop and frisk policy finally have someone to fight for them and now to pennsylvania where a motorist checkpoint has got some citizens wondering why they had to have their cheeks swapped it began in downtown reading where a number of cars were redirected into a private parking lot last week their passengers were asked questions about their driving and then were asked for a swab from inside of their mouths local police were at the checkpoint and while they d

secondly they have made it quite clear that they will make things very uncomfortable for president yannick overture in the ukraine and they have done that because we have seen european union officials politicians including the sitting vice president of the european parliament in a flagrant violation of the ukraine saw. in the. square cheering on the protesters who are calling for revolution and regime change and frankly that is such an egregious violation of the u.n. charter and international law i think these officials should at the very least lose their job and something should be taken to the international court of justice ok yon in all fairness if you want to react to that before i go to alexander. yeah i think mark is getting worked up a little bit here on the international law issue and also on the sovereignty issue of course in a free and open society it's always possible for people to demonstrate on whichever side they would like to demonstrate i think there's a profound misperception of what makes model or influential just like dollar contract what marks an open society here and y

secondly they have made it quite clear that they will make things very uncomfortable for president yannick overture in the ukraine and they have done that because we have seen european union officials politicians including the sitting vice president of the european parliament in a flagrant violation of the ukraine saw. in the. square cheering on the protesters who are calling for revolution and regime change and frankly that is such an egregious violation of the u.n. charter and international law i think these officials should at the very least lose their job and something should be taken to the international court of justice ok yon in all fairness if you want to react to that before i go to alexander. yeah i think mark is getting worked up a little bit here on the international law issue and also on the sovereignty issue of course in a free and open society it's always possible for people to demonstrate on whichever side they would like to demonstrate i think there is a profound misperception of what makes modeler official just like a country what marks an open society here and yeah i mea

association agreement was a major missed opportunity however this all comes on the day the president yannick overage sent a government delegation to brussels to try to negotiate on the deal which he says in his current form would simply be too damaging to the craney an economy which is fragile right now despite the odds it hasn't stopped washington saying it could hit the country with sanctions if violence returns to the streets of kiev what our strong message was on the ground all policy options including sanctions are on the table in our view but obviously that still is being evaluated while the mood amongst the protesters seems to be as defiant as ever my colleague alexy our chefs kate is in the crowds behind me we're now outside one of the barricades which was installed to separate the protest square the heart of the protest and the rest of the ukrainian capital it is no bigger and stronger than before you can judge i'm one hundred and eighty six centimeters high and this barricade is almost twice taller than me let me just cross the wall to show you how thick it is these guys are here t

secondly they have made it quite clear that they will make things very uncomfortable for president yannick overture in the ukraine and they have done that because we have seen european union officials politicians including the sitting vice president of the european parliament in a flagrant violation of the ukraine saw. in the. square cheering on the protesters who are calling for revolution and regime change and frankly that is such an egregious violation of the u.n. charter and international law i think these officials should at the very least lose their job and something should be taken to the international court of justice ok yon in all fairness if you want to react to that before i go to alexander. yeah i think mark is getting worked up a little bit here on the international law issue and also on the sovereignty issue of course in a free and open society it's always possible for people to demonstrate on whichever side they would like to demonstrate i think there's a profound misperception that what makes marty's original just like on your country what marks an open society here and yea

secondly they have made it quite clear that they will make things very uncomfortable for president yannick overture in the ukraine and they have done that because we have seen european union officials politicians including the sitting vice president of the european parliament in a flagrant violation of the ukraine saw over duty in the. square cheering on the protesters who are calling for revolution and regime change and frankly that is such an egregious violation of the u.n. charter and international law i think these officials should at the very least lose their job and something should be taken to the international court of justice ok yon in all fairness if you want to react to that before i go to alexander. yeah i think mark is getting worked up a little bit here on the international law issue and also on the sovereignty issue of course in a free and open society it's always possible for people to demonstrate on whichever side they would like to demonstrate i think there is a profound misperception of what makes madiba refusal to similar country what marks an open society here and yeah

way because brussels isn't offering the membership or other privileges that most europeans get plus yannick over its indicated that the e.u. didn't offer enough cash to help combat the country's economic woes still many are saying there are major financial advantages to working with europe e.u. leaders for instance claim ukraine's economy would be boosted by more than six percent in that businesses would save money on import duties ukraine's leadership though thinks the deal could actually cause an economic downturn and we have heard some e.u. officials say that kiev was pressured by moscow not to sign the foreign ministers of sweden and poland among the latest to do so ukraine already has a free trade agreement with russia that gives it increased exports and other advantages to the east associate professor of political economy jeffrey summers says why he thinks the ukrainian economy could be hurt by the strengthening trade relations with the e.u. . if we take a look at eastward expansion of the e.u. we can see that it has in the past produced dnd us realisation in the east labor migration

announcement this week from the country's prime minister meanwhile the opposition has accused president yannick overreach of pulling the country's assets to win concessions from russia artie's elect ski takes a closer look now at who is leading the opposition movement in ukraine. an offer of support for ukraine z u s gratian it was not enough to persuade one of the country's opposition leaders elected a new book drop shoulders with the german foreign minister during his surprise appearance at the protests in kiev mr westerly is openly gay and they have to book sponsors for border has made its position on homosexuals quite clear attacking gay parades to move us to but we want to build a country based on harmony and social justice issues were being dragged into homosexuals values by the western states and we will not allow advance but homosexuals and people of different races are clearly not terribly books biggest foes what you want any treaty with russia is not worth the paper it was signed on. to the books forwards do not make up the core of the protest movement but there are clearly it's just

for the latest from kiev demonstrators are calling for a new ukrainian president now because victor yannick has refused to sign on with the e.u. professor mark all men in oxford historian though thinks the street protesters don't speak for them the majority of citizens. i think we should be careful of attributing what's going on to the majority of people in ukraine i suspect that the tragedy of the greatest great majority of people rather passive uncertain of all the dissolution about politics when both equation the risk now is that we have a hold of tickets to minorities and it may be that the group home the streets with kind of paramilitary nationalist support from the west not just western plane but also from some of the were pretty new countries they feel able to strip states of kind of who was seen anyone in time of the same time and this could change go but it could lead to a very violent situation and it could be questionable at the ukraine is viable state. of the west in general would prefer to be winners out of this and they hope that this yanik group which will shoot him so for no

represent the whole of the ukrainian population are simply intent on two things happening president yannick over cheesehead so to speak on a silver platter and secondly for ukraine to join the european union and they're using violence and they use in bully boy methods tactics to try and achieve this and that's completely unacceptable how democracy works and european union officials who are supporting some of these violent protests who are encouraging some of these violent protests should be ashamed of them so well they say they're there now to defuse the situation along with u.s. diplomats and it looks as if they've probably done that now. while they're certainly portraying themselves as knights in shining armor that's a save the day in ukraine and. that line is been spawned by western media. it would make a great hollywood movie it really would the reality of course is very different the reality is that the crisis in ukraine has been instigated by the west and i say the west just the european union because the european union is a key component of the west and what we see and it's not simpl

association agreement was a major missed opportunity however this all comes on the day the president yannick overage sent a government delegation to brussels to try to negotiate on the deal which he says in its current form would simply be too damaging to the iranian economy which is fragile right now despite the odds it hasn't stopped washington saying it could hit the country with sanctions if violence returns to the streets of kiev what are strong message was on the ground all policy options including sanctions are on the table and our view but obviously that still is being evaluated while the mood amongst the protesters seems to be as defiant as ever my colleague alexy our chefs kate is in the crowds behind me we're now outside one of the barricades which was installed to separate the protest square the heart of the protest and the rest of the ukrainian capital it is no bigger and stronger than before you can judge i'm one hundred eighty six centimeters high and this barricade is almost twice taller than me let me just cross the wall to show you how thick it is these guys are here to kee

. >> the national ease yannick an mid vagues releasing its report card, among the highlights and the migration of species never before seen in the region. the latest environmental invasion coming from the arctic. >> cutting deep into a distance past, what's being sliced here is the hard rocky ex-coe skeleton of a common algae, found all over the world, but especially in the far north. for several years scientists from canada and the u.s. have been diving beneath the ocean, looking for the pink glow of a living algae. they weigh up to 70-kilos and once wrestled up to the surface, they are laying there centuries of the north's changing climate. >> we can see these ring structures here, that extend across the algae, and they are very similar to rings on land. >> dying algae lay down a new calcium layer, but the size depends on how much sunlight they on serve when the sea surface isn't frozen. as things warm up, the growth rings show an arctic ocean free of ice. >> overall, there is -- starting around 18:50 which coincides with the beginning of the industrial revolution, which also coinc

it is estimated that annually bna covert family -- president yannick kovic and his family is taking a certain amount of money from his budget. can something be done? what is the answer to the people who are hoping for that? >> two quick points following on this about the sanctions. i'm sure you are aware about the whole issue of scapegoating. some of what we are seeing is reminiscent of what we saw earlier when we were talking about government corruption. they hired some lower-level employee or mayor. there's is a lot of hammering about russia and what russia is doing in terms of pressuring ukraine. on the other hand, what are we doing to express our concern about this when we hear about us purchasing russian helicopters.

secondly they have made it quite clear that they will make things very uncomfortable for president yannick overture in the ukraine and they have done that because we have seen european union officials politicians including the sitting vice president of the european parliament in a flagrant violation of the ukraine saw. in the. square cheering on the protesters who are calling for revolution and regime change and frankly that is such an egregious violation of the u.n. charter and international law i think these officials should at the very least lose their job and something should be taken to the international court of justice ok yon in all fairness if you want to react to that before i go to alexander. you know i think mark is getting worked up a little bit here on the international law issue and also on the sovereignty issue of course in a free and open society it's always possible for people to demonstrate on whichever side they would like to demonstrate i think there is a profound with perception of what makes these are official just really going country what marks an open society here

it is estimated that annually president family -- yannick kovic and his family is taking a certain amount of money from his budget. can something be done? what is the answer to the people who are hoping for that? >> two quick points following on this about the sanctions. about theou are aware whole issue of scapegoating. some of what we are seeing is reminiscent of what we saw earlier when we were talking about government corruption. they hired some lower-level employee or mayor. there's is a lot of hammering about russia and what russia is doing in terms of pressuring ukraine. on the other hand, what are we doing to express our concern usut this when we hear about purchasing russian helicopters. >> good point. it was only canceled because of congress and the administration that purchased the russian helicopters. on the issue of the , we have been assured that those demonstrators who are under detention will be released. if there is further violence against the demonstrators, i am confident that the administration and congress would move forward with a style of legislation. as far as the