what was once peaceful protest shotgun pellets and tips of live rounds. police and protesters face-to-face. they feared escalation was ahead. are you ready they ask a young man? he may not be. ukraine may not be. what comes next? so brooke, here we are. the bramlames the opposition. they are trying to hamper resources and protesters gathering mind me and the barricades and a fear of what lies ahead. we will stay in close contact with you. thank you so much. two of the big tech headlines of the day. you are hearing what s ap, how
and hospital with live fire around. eight hours earlier, the president agreed of a truce and then something changed. police suddenly withdrew and protesters moved forward. it s unclear why. this man said he fired a shotgun at police once protesters have been fired upon by a sniper. he didn t want his face shown. and this man said that stone grenades have caused protesters to surge forward. opposition leaders blamed the provocation in what was once a peaceful protest, shotgun pellets, the tips of live rounds, ripples from grenades. on the road up to the parliament, police and protesters are face-to-face. barricades being reinforced as many fear an escalation is ahead. are you ready, one protesters asks a young man who is behind the shield. he may not be. the ukraine may not be for what
i mean, i don t think anyone is under any illusion that it s not going to be a lengthy process. but i think a lot of the survivors are looking forward to justice playing out. stephen, you had just graduated from syracuse university when you were shot and struck with 25 shotgun pellets in the face, neck, and chest and arms. a year later, how are you doing? you know, all things considered, i m doing very well. most of those pellets have been removed from my body. there are still eight in me but they will always remain there. and my scars are healing and the nerve damage that i suffered has come, you know, a long way from where it was 12 months ago. so, you know, i m just more than anything thankful to be sitting here talking to you today. so are we. stephen, thanks for being so strong throughout that time and moving forward in what you re doing. we appreciate your time today.
hotel, said, it s chaos down here two bombs just went off at the finish line within five seconds of each other. there must be casual advertise. now i m seeing fire trucks and ambulances. all of this is the earliest reporting. it was really loud explosion, quoting, glass and smoke everywhere. we just want. he said he found what appeared to be a shotgun pellet in his coat pocket seconds later. a shotgun pellet, which other would suggest to us we can t know this but if you re fining shotgun pellets, somebody has potentially rigged a device with shot gun pellets around it. so when the explosion happens, those pellets and whatever else they found were put in there to create terror. it appears from the facts before our eyes, the wilts statements,
provided explosive as propellant. shepard: got a number of reports from eyewitnesses who had been right there when one of the explosions happened. one particular man said i reached into my pocket, he said he didn t even know why and found what looked like shotgun pellets in his pocket. immediately, you know that is some sort of shrapnel. you don t know exactly what it is, but you know then somebody set a bomb. yeah. it s not very likely that someone found a pile of shrapnel there and stuck a bomb in it. certainly in this case it sounds like the shrapnel was all included. the thing with these bombs though is that there is so much energy contained in such a tiny amount of chemical that you can do tremendous damage with something, you know, essentially the size of a tennis ball. shepard: and now a matter to put it all back together. thank you. i need to get of course. finding out what it was isn t really the goal. the goal is finding out who did it and why. shepard: and from