22/02/2014 BBC Weekend News

Good evening. It has been a day of huge political upheaval in Ukraine.

Barely 24 hours after a deal was signed to bring stability to the

country. This morning, opponents of President Viktor Yanukovych took

control of government buildings in Kiev, amid reports he had fled the

capital. Then, this afternoon, he appeared on television reportedly

from his eastern stronghold of Kharkiv, saying he had no intention

of resigning, but the parliament he once controlled stripped of the

presidency and set a new date for elections. And tonight, the

opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko, freed from prison earlier in the

day, is reported to be in Kiev. Let's go live there now and join our

Europe editor, Gavin Hewitt. Clive, by any measure this has been

an extraordinary day. There are vast crowds on the streets, celebrating

what many are calling a Ukrainian revolution, the day began with the

riot police simply having vanished from the capital and then the

president also leaving the capital and by the end of the day Parliament

have voted to remove him from power. My colleague Steve Rosenberg

has been following these data's events.

They call themselves the self defence unit of Independence Square.

In the centre of Kiev today, they were the only kind of policemen

around. We found these activists on guard outside Viktor Yanukovych's

office. The protesters had taken over the building. There would be no

compromise with the president. Other units went to Parliament. Their

demonstration of people power. Inside on a parliament once

controlled by the president, demonstrated dramatically it had

turned against him. It voted to remove President Yanukovych from

power and set early elections for May. Viktor Yanukovych is thought to

be in his power base of eastern Ukraine. In a TV interview broadcast

today, he said that what was happening was a coup. He likened it

to the Nazis coming to power in Germany. He would spare no effort,

he said, to end the bloodshed. And there was more drama. To cheers from

her supporters, Mr Yanukovych's most bitter rival, Yulia Tymoshenko, was

freed from jail. The former prime minister may now run for president.

But perhaps this today was the ultimate humiliation for Viktor

Yanukovych. Protesters broke into his luxury residence outside Kiev

and let the public in. This is remarkable. People are streaming

into Viktor Yanukovych's back garden and taking what looks like a

Saturday stroll in the park and by coming here they are sending a

message to their leaders that there is no place for him in the

presidency. They stared in amazement at the size and the splendour and

took souvenir photos to remember how their leader had lived. Before today

I could not believe that such a place could exist in Ukraine. But

eventually they found a way into yet -- into Viktor Yanukovych's sauna,

complete with mass large table and tastefully folded towels. He has

lost the presidency and who -- and it seems his house, but Viktor

Yanukovych is refusing to recognise the decision to oust him. It is

unclear what his next move will be. So, where does this leave Ukraine?

Firstly, it helps enormously that it was parliament that voted to strip

the president from office. This was not a coup. Secondly, there is the

mood amongst the people. I met a woman tonight who said, I simply

cried when I heard about the president. But there are two big

questions. Firstly, will the unity that has been shown on the

barricades here amongst opposition leaders, will that remain as they go

to snap elections? And lastly, what will the president do? He has been

stripped from power but he is determined to fight on, so he says,

and will he try and get support in the eastern Russian facing side of

the country that could endanger the unity of Ukraine? All of these

things will be looked at in the days ahead.

Gavin Hewitt reporting live from Kiev, many thanks,

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There is more throughout the evening on the BBC News channel, with all

the very latest on the dramatic day's events in Ukraine. I