it was. we will . russia's figure skating team claims the host nation's first gold as the second day of the winter games rides up and saw jay but aside from the celebration of winter olympic sports. something bad happening and such the western media dishes out an avalanche of criticism raising questions about whether the concerns and panic are justified. plus in the week's other headlines damage control in washington after a leak phone conversation made the depth of the countries that meddling in ukraine's political turmoil. enough on

eu. the message reportedly coming from the us assistant secretary of state thomas recalled unacceptable by german chancellor angela merkel. and switzerland but narrowly in favor of a controversial plan to put a limit on immigration in a nationwide referendum the we're watching a r t here on our international channel bought let's cross now lying to our studios in such a dork ever know when is there for us. he will be bringing you the latest from the twenty second winter looks kevin. eye. yes i show everyone that welcomes will find her rather than of the day all day to hear

the twenty fourteen when from the big switch cool the first gold to the hosting team think this country but not least of impressive performances in other disciplines as well winning silver and bronze medals as a result russia has not been tied for fourth place in the medal table with canada also breaks down the day's results for us the sanctions of beginning with the fly was behind the rushes towards goals came in the figure skating team of at least off challenges from canada the united states to play softball on they were helped along the way my folders display from one of russia's most famous sporting sons. if gagne pitched in to collaborate in the competition away in the men's free program i might miss it does fly when you consider in recent years he's been plagued by injury has undergone surgery. twelve time. meanwhile i'm still typing pool and fifteen year old beauty of it meets guy in france to the ladies free on show programs with pianist performance is in the price that she's become the youngest ever winner of

the winter and takes gold medal she is six days younger than the previous record holder american scholar who can skate. elsewhere on day two there were three of the medal success is for russia forty two year old veteran leader john howard but then turned to competing in a record breaking seventh and final winter knit picks he missed out on the fox and i'm in the gold medal but he did playing silva on stage all got dinner going on in the women's triathlon seven the hoff cakes breads theme of the owner for the first medal for russia in the sochi twenty fourteen winter olympics went to all the dropped early on sunday she claimed bronze in the women's three thousand meters speedskating events in the out of reno. sigh let's take a look out the ore imports of medals table then you can see that it is norway who still lead the way to the united states in the netherlands in all fall behind in russia stopped in to make their way up the leaderboard. the sun has been one only emotion to

success in the figure skating the less competitors fall behind. don't open this annihilation is lucky enough to watch the performances of the ice that staying prowess of the shoulder. this year tom i think we can say that playing on the home field as they say really benefited russia tonight there were tons of dresses in the audience were quite high at the whole section was was full of rust and everyone had a good skate but i think this is the editor from work and said that russia's i'm thinking. it succeeds on what to do them myself yet today he added that in a huge stadium lightly when it kicks off with i think it's a thing of course the russians when they came on for the i stands for anyone to talk to him at home. felt the advantage of having the home support in the store while i think that helped a lot of confidence to allow shows in the moguls comes to appear sick or you can pitch a coke or seasoned veteran. only thirty one to one of the oldest athlete here and on great shows just

phenomenal increase is not a horrible back trouble and injuries. and then the young muted sky just phenomenal. i hadn't seen that a fifteen years old but hadn't seen her skate surf course olympic debut i think percent since the pretense that the gulf and in the pairs as well they didn't score as high as some of the russian sitting next to me. she scored by puppet with not enough. but as a team the russian skating teams this week really really strong believer in prayer oh well back in vancouver and for this olympics of course at home is about taking it back. more news to the tune of millions us olympic committee to naughty old rumors that the us and russia have co conspired to bring the figure skating competition and even said that it's not going to investigate the claims first launched by french magazine because of the two thousand to take the champions of ice dancing friends from glendale designed to get his oh so chic. in the uk that will always be the tough talking you know people out talking

and they believe they can master and that management is happening on the ice the only thing that matters is how the cd skaters out there falling on the ice. you cannot make somebody who follows two when you cannot change the old course everybody has to skate at their best to do something to fill a stocking those trying to ruin changed in the course of that competition is just very bad for a sport and now i'm sorry that he'd had a good son to me again and people are talking about that again because it seems that the need to change that's a sort of things so that they're useful it would be more fair and that the cicadas with just her former band. and that if they are the best is the one we should win. lotion on soccer legend list of projects also result in our unity in the cauldron of coleslaw with iconic figure skates and we

know what even in the opening ceremony the hits the first impression so far above the games. isn't that lovely lace to make money and the main gate down in history for many years to come because as a cost. there is any given to the likes of peter in the most was the sportsman of all it means the world to me because i'm representing the seat of my teeth. the hockey team that isn't a time in the champion i feel almost passable but try as they chased me in some of the uv peaceful here to see palm trees and sky. i think these again to be one of the press olympic games that haven't been helped in my opinion a very good infrastructure was put together for the athletes here in sochi. everything is very compact the acidic seas on a ktm convenient place to each other make transport is needed is very aggravating when bosses inmates who is here. everything's very well put together. and the athletes as such despite the wheel that culminated in prisons in united states staying in all the mice favorable conditions. more

about the fuss of it for ten and two friends of mine from a team would compete to make pasta tuesday when a number of athletes would be accommodated in the backs of the featured present. today even though some of the western media they are holding of the song she then takes cocaine wars of overflowing with minor mishaps and quote typically though the collecting the competition itself the whole point of it. but these indices to chat to them whine so many news outlets across the atlantic still seem to be coasting such a clever though the event hundreds of world class competitions involving thousands of top notch athletes. sports fans older the world read julie's it's time for linking game finding that some of them are pretty does. i see the excitement sort of a possible new terror threat to the terror threat threat and third world champion and multiple gold medallist from buzz kill the western mainstream media

we olympics is a wonderful time for countries to get together in order to despise each other and or betray each other like crap. it's only live once every two for use in others is not a lot of time. you gotta come together and baby john and the second has gone to waste from taking any little thing that might be off to fifteen twenty minutes that no one that can be coaxed to toilet side by side issue toilets right next to each other just those party. that doesn't spell bad conditions three million years be exact route. one very tiny room that tape that paints a picture cd is the problem was that. every olympic games as though these were unique to sochi the trail and the stadium has always been accused of being an overpriced boondoggle that was constructed shot away but not really until the very last second. every single one that i can remember a media war against the succulent pics taken to a ridiculous extreme. my impression of fox

news is that they're just sitting around the office negotiate looks like no one's rush in to get to say that she and i write zuma to go eat lunch in the back and find exactly where sting tiny flaws in survival sensations thoughts or actual sports reporting be . it's really kind and pleasant to watch do more to the point it's pretty counter factual as well going so far as to say that the games are being held in a war zone as opposed to what's really at black sea resort. the even though plenty of work went into security hysteria rains the airwaves the threat of something bad happening in subject from its increasing by the day taking the fear of yes toothpaste to an extreme toothpaste containing explosive material in these terrifying alright did you hear all the toothpaste is going to explode and more pints even speaking tests on

hiding explosives and teams were cnn commission does to us. i stop brushing my teeth i stopped last thing i think that might help solve the problem. no matter how much the media after the doomsayers of the games toothpaste and will be toothpaste and nonsense will be nonsense in the end of the olympics will celebrate julie excitement and victory there will be winners. i will be losers. hopefully able to move on without me some snippets of dignity. and it all. you're really not funny and really truly complete the mp for now. why us to see chart about rt new york. he scores goals but to my disposal for persuading american tourists to come later so she says that joe has been made much more difficult by the negative coverage and me. some people off the couch. because of what they've heard the news the sixty i mean what you

see there is such negativity in some parts of america media cover the ground so keeping with the urine of his unjustified. i think it's because of the toppling of steel because a very secure place. the more top and secure an american classroom i will be in such itself discuss the security or whatnot when some of those groups and soloists decided to to help me to try and convince them how to use else looks into the wall warts all that to the place when we remove the sting would be very secure location. up to one of a major parts are so cheap that were touched upon and so i think those are prosecuted in again let's talk about the infrastructure that has sprung up around it so she redid the starchy set to become a tourist hotspot off to the games you think this could be a legacy of sorts. all their possessions family because of that build new highways. forgot to bring the great train transportation now. and there are more up to date with the electricity grid and

stuff like that so i think are preferred but as with any city that's gonna give birth to our modern resort. you have labor pains in your lives of adults not what you missed it of course is the end it is about the school. what about that that means helping out how the did not see the beautiful the ski jump when we saw immense. in short shorts on last night and as a credible when you're gone up the gondola and overlooking the ski jumpers is it's quite magnificent. as a cost. a great time he sure is a spectacular place we go all the latest music school was interviewed in coma he ate every day for the whole event on auntie liked efforts by the symphony condoning this is in the morning from nine am local time at five am gmt so as not to be told to continue studying for the night under the drink table and supplemental coverage to more than a question. in the thanksgiving we have our team and saatchi following the competition at all times

and had to get even closer look at the winter limp you can head to our histogram page a day or you can find an assortment of footage from the very onset of the games that is that instead grandma dot com slash our tea. i sent one to fourteen promises they are. now i make every now and on the west of ireland was taken to sochi twenty fourteen. all the arts now this week a major gaffe by one of america's top officials has left washington red faced the scandal erupted after a leaked recording apparently involving the u s assistant secretary of state comments caught on tape revealed the depth of america's meddling in ukraine's anti government unrest nineties when import my reports. in ukraine. we

stand principle that all people have the right to express themselves freely and peacefully. and i have a say in their country's future as it turns out to washington is it just hearing from the sidelines. in this video posted anonymously on youtube my understanding from that call us assistant secretary of state the torino winter and the us ambassador to keep our herd orchestrating ukraine's political future playing a game of verbal test with ukraine's opposition leadersthe onic xpernc. the company appears to be the guy you know what we need to create a tiny balcony and i need to be talking to them what time the week. the embarrassing the conversation goes from bad to worse when washington senior diplomat drops the f bomb while dismissing the european union's role in ukraine. that would be great and helpful if it came in at the un health clinic and email on the eu. the state department has shifted into damage control refusing to

confirm the authenticity of the audio while admitting that the torino winter has apologized to her european allies for the profanity she's apologize for comment issues not admitting she me which is itself a confirmation that the comment was being made. mobile she hasn't apologized for his plans to meet wif the new government. in other words he's apologizing for cussing out to you but she's not apologize for trying to overthrow government and kept calling it popular democracy the diplomatic scandal he has really arrived in ukraine for her second visit in less than two months. back in december she was seen walking around the independence square handing out snacks to protesters. this time around the assistant secretary of state promised to keep the country with financial support if necessary political reforms are implemented at a press conference appealing to refuse to comment on what she called up by the diplomatic conversation. this is a

devastating revelation and a very important revelation because it shows that washington is not only manipulating the washington is taking fool shall be in the government. and they've taken the power away from the people. reno fortnight artsy feel. store in humans it uses strong language was sharply criticized by germany's chancellor angela merkel who called the comment on acceptable mode of honest former deputy speaker of the belgian parliament says that the conversation is a clear demonstration of how america really regards other states. we lose. lucy behind those doors. this confirms a new home. stanza united states and the eu by the way to one of the continent to his data to show up for democracy. so in all the crimes he's just wants more than once. the whole

country of transparency and democracy including income to billion of political institutions. these are all ideological approach to influence politics in the other current and also by the way shows how casual these people to talk about the new politics of another country. switzerland has devoted a narrowing yes to capture the influx of immigrants. with the eu citizens among those denied access by critics warned the move could hurt the economy and relations with the block. the story much more a short break washington international the eye. i did. with that the sustainable operation focused on offering eighteen on what you are at a few lights and self interest

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the welcome back you're watching our tea. switzerland by a narrow margin has voted in favor of putting a ceiling on foreign migrants including eu citizens. the result of a nationwide referendum could adversely affect the nation's ties with the block. their net now has to re negotiate treaties on the free movement of workers adopted over a decade ago. the decision is also likely to hurt the country's economy as ortiz was the caf cup reports switzerland voted to shut the door to european union workers setting up a showdown with brussels as was a potential exit from the single european market now the so called stop mass immigration initiative was the brainchild of the right wing swiss people's party which wants strict quotas on the warners for switzerland to essentially abandoned its free movement of people treaty with the eu as a portable who you talk to say that they're worried immigration is driving up rents as undercutting local workers and an important

service as our opponents might argue that immigration to swim at cripple economic growth. experts do say that the swiss economy is booming because of not despite foreign labor. especially when it comes to poker skills to work in fields like health care. nineteen what is a big need for skilled workers. but despite the very real economic concerns despite the fact that no one carries just three percent. many voters want a nice way to the argument that switzerland simply cannot take in anymore people. in order to understand why you really do have to look at the numbers about a quarter of the country's eight million residents are swiss there's been a huge uptick in immigration in fact about eighty thousand new immigrants came to switzerland last year alone the bill will likely mean severe repercussions with the brussels after member that switzerland is a member of the eu but it has signed on to a lot of the blocks policies in order to gain access to the european markets or switzerland sells more than half of everything to produce as with five

hundred million customers there's a lot of money at stake here felt the historic vote that he is likely to have a significant impact on the swiss economy as muslim relations with the country's european neighbors reporting and burned for our team. lucy capital. the shooting has occurred on the russian island of some highly in a gunman burst into a cathedral and opened fire killing two people and wounding six the suspect was apprehended on site. in an artsy dot com for the full story. what the us isn't ready to accept refugees who may have links or could have given limited support to terror groups on the website we've got all the details details on washington to relax the rules for potential asylum seekers the turkish government is pushing through a new internet laws that would allow authorities to block websites without a court decision. internet providers who would also be asked to store data on what people are

looking at online the measures has sparked clashes between protesters and riot police on saturday crowds of demonstrators hurled firecrackers and roxanne security forces police responded to the fire and water cannons and tear gas and hundreds of protesters. he stumbles main square card base of journalists use of calmly says. in reality the authorities are losing the battle. today is all it has to do. josiah settlement advantage to doing. the drew decided what was good to get the footage that is asian kid you not to go but is getting an admission from parliament glad i only did they think the only alcohol can do this to be able to access the internet. there they made

the sights and sites to go they've made it closed the government it does and allies that it is getting one of our identity. this is the last big show up a copy of all the inhabited only by the government is all i did make it the yen today this evil little bit is the issue of kabul this one too the government is moving out of his own flock. look at some other news making headlines around the world is this hour. eight people have been killed in two thousand wounded in an attack on pakistan's port city of karachi. gunmen threw grenades at a religious gathering and then opened fire on praying so few muslims it is not yet known who carried out the assault although the column on and a rival muslim groups are suspected. last month militants killed six people at the city shrine in at the same city. hundreds had gathered again in the bosnian this time calling for the release of about forty people detained during friday and saturday's riots officials denied protesters claims of police brutality

and added that all but ten of those arrested had been the least anti government rallies in bosnia have been fuelled by high unemployment corruption and poor living conditions across the country the owners of a bond with a clothing factory have been denied bail after surrendering to authorities the husband and wife are facing homicide charges for massive fire that killed one hundred republicans to two years ago. the couple could face life imprisonment. that has remained blaze is the deadliest in the history of on the dash which relies on a garment exports to the us and europe. yemen a bomb planted under a car seat has killed a senior intelligence colonel and wounded two people nearby explosion happened outside the oil ministry in the capital sanaa. islamist militants with links to al qaeda suspected to be behind going out after the break it's the worlds apart with

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