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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 they're 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 one point spread out across a very large section of this wide road. really fire, embers giving off in...

And it's taking place in kiev's 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 don't 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,...

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. tonight, though, opposition party leaders have been negotiating with the government and the president a ...

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 don't 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 subway traffic to keep new protesters from the square, and issuing a chilling ultimatum to clear out o...

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 it a defensive effort to try and keep the security forces at bay in what has been the most deadly day...