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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 but in less than a week they managed to change the balance of power in europe and central asia. the re...

As we've been saying all morning there. i want to go to our chief foreign correspondent richard engel. he's 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, but in less than a week they managed to change the balance of power in europe and central asia. the ...

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't take the square, and by the next morning, they were reduced to throwing stones. the police didn't...

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 eu's involvement? >> this conflict which is playing out right here in independence square has enormous international implication. the...

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, obviously this crisis has been going on for several months but this has really tonight risen to a whol...