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Police so far have been restrained in their response, unlike ferguson where at first police used tactical armored vehicles and were outfitted in camouflage, wielding automatic rifles. back in august, the president said he would review whether local police departments should be getting so much military-style gear. >> there is a big difference between our military and our local law enforcement and we don't want those lines blurred. >> reporter: but the obama administration just announced new plans that regulate the use of weapons but stop short of cutting the flow of military equipment to local ...

That the interior ministry has issued combat weapons to police and authorized their use. in the words of a ministry spokesman to protect lives in defense facilities. the concern that far from saving lives more blood will flow and eventually tanks could roll. the latest in a crisis that when we left it last night seemed to be deescalating before racheting up today. protesters firing shotguns, throwing rocks and molotov cock tails. security forces responding with automatic rifles and sniper fire. a lot to talk about it, none especially hopeful. joining us nick paton walsh in kiev and christopher...

Protesters firing shotguns, throwing rocks and molotov cock tails. security forces responding with automatic rifles and sniper fire. a lot to talk about it, none especially hopeful. joining us nick paton walsh in kiev and christopher miller editor of kiev english language post. nick what's it like on the ground now? . two bizarre parallel conversations happening here. if you listen to the polish president, he said he's spoken to viktor yanukovych. he may be willing to bring elections forward, perhaps establish a new government in the next ten days and even weaken the powers of the presidency. ...

The ground and the cab gentleman was with us. the next thing we know, we hear the car coming back and the police chase coming back toward us. and then there were all the police officers and federal agents. and they had enormous weapons. they look like automatic rifles or something. it was a very scary situation. they were telling to us get down and be quiet. >> i'm sure it must have been so scary for you, especially being there with your children. do you have any sense, we're trying to understand here from gathering together facts of what happened with the weapons. how many shots did you hear ...

Of rounds of fire. obviously they were trying to take him alive. i know he was also shooting. how much do we know about how that went down? >> reporter: i only know from what i heard. and it i didn't hear hundreds of rounds of fire. i heard about two dozen shots from automatic rifles -- not automatic rifles, automatic weapons. they were that quickly burst together. those were the only shots i heard until the arrest came. but again, we're down the street here. it was pretty quiet when that happened. but that's all i heard. >> and through some of cnn's other reporting, we know that he engaged po...