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Before we get to our round table, fast moving developments this morning. i want to go to richard engel live in the capital, as i said, kiev. richard, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, david. the parliament here has appointed its speaker as the nut interim president and an arrest warrant has been issued for i guess we can describe him now as former president yanukovych although he claims he is still president. there were never more than 20,000 dem mon straighters in the squire behind me bu...

As weve been saying all morning there. i want to go to our chief foreign correspondent richard engel. hes live in the capital, as i said, kiev. richard, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, david. the parliament here has appointed its speaker as the new interim president, and an arrest warrant has been issued for, i guess we can describe him now as former president yanukovych although he claims he is still president. there were never more than 20,000 demonstrators in the square behind me, bu...

Former president yanukovych although he claims he is still president. there were never more than 20,000 demonstrators in the square behind me, but in less than a week they managed to change the balance of power in europe and central asia. the revolution began with a fiery miscalculation by the government when last tuesday, riot police tried to storm a three-month-old protest camp in the center of kiev. the demonstrators held their ground, setting bonfires to keep the police at bay. police couldn...

We need tires. if people have cars they should donate their tires so they can burn them and keep the bonfires going. they believe the bonfires around the demonstrators are what is keeping the riot police from storming in. >> richard, we reported earlier this morning that vice president biden reached out to president yanukovych who has the diplomatic upper hand in this with the u.s. involvement and with the pro-russia policies from their government as well as the eus involvement? >> this conflict...

Space because we believe the security forces will try and force them out at some point during the night. at the front, there are young men with homemade shields and behind them, crowds of men and women of all ages beating them with supplies, stones, rocks, chipping away at the road and providing them with ammunition. lighting huge bonfires here, all of it a defensive effort to try and keep the security forces at bay in what has been the most deadly day of violence throughout this. >> phil it, ob...

Some still photographs. the main picture this long line of fires, you explained a little bit. those are fires set by whom? what exactly are we looking at? >> reporter: those fires have been set by opposition protesters themselves. today the end of the running street battles have fallen back to independence square. and theyre trying to build up their defenses as best they can. those fires are really the biggest part of that still going at the moment. they have built four of these bon fires, at on...

And its taking place in kievs independence square. anti-government demonstrators barricaded themselves in, setting bonfires, throwing stones, and lobbi inbin inbing cocktails to keep riot police 23r6 getting them out. they dared the police to kill their own countrymen. radical protesters tried to march on parliament. but rye i dont know police drove them back with rubber bullets, stun grenades and protesters say live ammunition. the protesters had weapons of their own, including, the government ...

And all of them working in one way or another to try and ensure they continue their occupation of this space. the front line, there are young men with shields, black helmets, feeding those huge fires, bon fires, all designed among the barricades that are being built here to try and keep the security forces away. because after a day of the deadliest violence they have seen in three months or so, the people on the square strongly believe the security forces are going to try and kick them out. toni...

Setting bonfires, throwing stones, and lobbing molotov cocktails to keep riot police 23r6 getting them out. they dared the police to kill their own countrymen. radical protesters tried to march on parliament. but rye i dont know police drove them back with rubber bullets, stun grenades and protesters say live ammunition. the protesters had weapons of their own, including, the government said, guns. police officers were reportedly shot dead. government forces tried to shut down kiev, stopping sub...

Independence square in the city of the city and here set up lines and barricades, all involved some way in an effort to try and hold on to this space because we believe the security forces will try and force them out at some point during the night. at the front, there are young men with homemade shields and behind them, crowds of men and women of all ages beating them with supplies, stones, rocks, chipping away at the road and providing them with ammunition. lighting huge bonfires here, all of i...