this guy has decided to send troops to the common border i'll report to become difficult if only for this pattern is free. reporters also it does not know. no not by martina so when i went to the best teams from around the world compete. already a few select teams stand at the top but not all lands but it's far from final boldly this on the olympic games just that. and since news broke about the death of actor philip seymour hoffman the danger of caroline is back in the news. a large portion of those drugs in the us comes from countries like afghanistan and mexico with a look and caroline in the us coming out. that means us marines and their families were exposed to toxic water at a military base in studio

two survivors share their stories of rt america a fan it sees a february eleven hundred p m in washington dc i guarantee that you're watching our team america begin today with the winner on monday set are underway in sochi russia on this until i fix my alarm this winter games in history. boasting twenty eight hundred athletes from eighty eight different countries as athletes are competing in ninety eight advanced us take a quick look at the medal count at this point. rain means that eleven medals four golds three silvers and four bronzes canada i'd take second with nine medals and germany takes the third with by the netherlands is in fourth place followed by the united states switzerland russia and austria. for more on

the games let's cut our tea correspondent hall scott was in sochi. and aside from talking about good merits at the olympics there is always why the top down good looks they don't exactly give out medals for beauty at the olympics in for good reason but our team was mall is taking a look at the olympians that would surely make the list of the day. the appellant nicknames a global event where people live around the world to read and to celebrate athletic achievement. my love brings together the world's most talented olympians there happens to be many quite attractive competitors. we've compiled a list of seven of the finance. no particular order. we'll start out with australian snowboarder torah bright it's bright is an olympic gold medallist at the two thousand and winter olympic games in vancouver she carried the flag for

australia at the opening ceremony is more like candy on the slope shaun white is a snowboarder on team usa. here he is at a press conference here still itchy gearing up for the twenty fourteen olympic games. a lot of pressure on light today as he competes in the sochi halfpipe in a bid to win a third streets. elaine think i know. didn't happen down he finished fourth place. and ashley wagner has the beauty its master grace in her figure skating competitions for selection into the olympic games this year was controversial as the critics thought she was not the best qualify. she made eric plays at the midway point and survived to the elimination. next weekend alpine skier herbert is on hold until he shows us what it's like a few gracefully here he as a leading the mexicans here to enter the stadium for the opening ceremony and sochi fifty five year old has represented mexico in six olympic games

auntie and team usa alpine skier bode miller has won many medals but came out today can be a regret for not getting late that i need surgery before this year's olympics in sochi. this despite competing on a crystal clear day. he finished eighth place in sunday's race. the gel is make by slacking like dad the american boss letter was reportedly fighting a cold night is back with her teammates and seventy. in addition to participating in the winter but the key aims of the hurler in the summer olympics. she is one of the few that has competed in both seasons peanuts. hand around to help the list is in dance theater of the russian beauty it brings some tough competition to the sport of curling. she is this gap of the russian curling team at the twenty fourteen winter olympic games before taking on curling she was a figure skater. celeb there you have just a handful of the folds of the beautiful than

physical effects. maybe like the tactical and sad happy olympic village and silky washington the small artsy for more and the games look at rt correspondent paul scott was in sochi. so one of the surprises all the cuckoo not tons but domestic success on to the international scene claiming the silver medal in the women's five hundred meter speedskating in the eye of the iranian now off to its she admitted that she was suffering from acute bout of knots before a final rice she credited the success of the sports psychologist elsewhere russia are on course for a second gold medal in the figure skating events of the awkward stage of the pairs competition. not marked in front of kentucky on the boat was only the overall standings the event concludes on wednesday while the european champions but in a faultless display on to the delight of the in crowd to family put themselves in medal

contention. by jon phelps well documented tempestuous nature. the car that success down to a special working relationship. i was familiar with. besides my pretty exciting game and i cannot seem to believe that so i get along just fine worst case when we first got to skating together. i tilted down a bit more than half of what people say well my personality is probably true. this told me she could get along with pretty much anyone. fine i said whatever people say don't mine or someone else's personality figure skating is a sport. and what matters is the result it doesn't matter what my personality is like some would say bout it goes for example he's insufferable as the most important thing is my training my performance and emails and women who cares if any difficult person well china called on voters already have gold medals to the names of these winter and thinks the south to success in the team events. fifteen your duty and it needs to

lash out to the label final defeat in his performances in the competition. she admits that before winter and it's debut. there was an ups. well sure i was very nervous and scared like my singles event and more calm to be honest. i got use to it and singles is a completely different events rush is ice hockey team rushes men's ice hockey team attended a press conference ahead of that for us not to go into the air in today's time the captain puddle duck soup. but he did attend a press conference he is taking in some shape despite fitness concerns he may support the site and until my sister and john january with injury in the nhl is actually on a mid season break right now so the nhl players can come and compete in the winter impeachment might be the final time that they allow that to happen it's only up to me at the colony up for discussion but it does seem that despite the fact there is good the increased pressure on the russian team playing on time on ice and in front an expected high and craft does in the spirit to hide inside the jovial

russian town. forty one here for. the counting of cool snow to go. i think because we're playing at all. we'll have a lot more brotherly support. the entire country will be cheering for us. we will be united. the day. i agree with our captain and he deserves his title is very experienced and respected by the entire hockey community and beyond. so with a captain like that we can aim for the top. as for our team weren't very friendly bunch there's a great atmosphere among us. the team and the coaches are on the same wavelength. among the best the most important thing everything is in our hands now. yankee is a mistake. i agree with everything he said so i days or so miles then phallic seventy nine kyle ahead of the men's ice hockey competition like the cars to foxton up in the mountains i can say that the winnings in

local ski jumping competition has taken place to make winning gold backed up in the mountains there is still one result remains open despite the fact the world and the taste of the world's most elite athletes are actually in town and is open office kazan snowboarders of all standards. that was our t's call scott. and more than six thousand websites including red a tumbler and mozilla are taking part in an online protest against government surveillance the action marks two years since one side black outs against bills like so by and pick up the february eleven on line contest has been calling the game the fightback parties' minimal as has the story something is very wrong when we as americans know that before we open our mouths to speak. rediculous balance. a work colleague or the political community. our government is listening listening to your calls that snooping on your emails but yes the government listening

to calls for reform. like a veteran statins revelations about the breadth and depth of america's surveillance infrastructure. ordinary citizens are banding together against governments by over fifty seven hundred web sites planned a day of action against the national security agency. many turning their home pages into the home front in the battle for digital privacy. february eleven was declared today we fight back. two years after tat giants like what the pedi and a little while i doubt their cages to protest against internet control legislation it's like some cayenne pepper. today's anti surveillance press conference as a physical demonstration of the protests that are already going on on line we heard from a number of people from the host of different groups. we heard from religious clerics from civil liberties advocates even a us congressman altering the nsa to keep their hands off their data and to respect their privacy. many of the speakers and differing views on exactly what should be done

and go twitchy that. but all agreed that something needs to change my mind. arthur was now one of the plaintiff in a lawsuit against the nsa said this minute infringes on his religious freedom. i'm not teaching or i would do it i'd be here by opposing like the leaning in that lawsuit against the anesthetic that's the kind of religion nor muir is a muslim american and she says the nsa could use for private conversations with her family and friends against our friendly standing here as a person of color with family and loved ones and caucus on a country label is the most dangerous country in the world. i fear that every person exchange an intimate moment in a phone call i made this morning please email us and after this. i will one day at work could be used against me in the shade spoke out for her right to protest whether we are on the left over whether we are on the right. we are standing here today to say our right to dissent will not be trampled even congressman

rush holt stepped away from his work on capitol hill and is in the winter cold to tell americans about a bitter reality. our own government is treating everyone of us as suspects first and citizens second. congressman holds surveillance state repeal act aims to change that by doing away with the laws that allow for the mass collection of phone records and intranet meditate at fault says progress is being made in the halls of capitol hill with other legislation as well. in the other speakers are afraid of this issue will be swept under the rug and his controversial practices will continue. everyday these abuses continue is one more day. then our constitution is copper mines in a physical demonstration of protest over a dozen rallies were also planned around the world from san francisco to serbia denmark to post a recap and everywhere and that we are also more than a hundred twenty six thousand people signed a petition urging the us to return to its

constitutional principles indiana's speakers agreed that it's up to the american to get the debate going. so i'm asking you to call to email to fax call every minute that you can in all his booming serve and you were gonna let congress know that we mean business. hands off our dad. today we fight back is using the tools the nsa so often surveillance to finally get the government to listen. in front of the capital. maggie lopez rt that's because airline that doesn't mean they don't have plans for the future. believe it or not find war on terror captives detained at guantanamo have designed a self sufficient agricultural business just west of yemen's capital. the detainee say they want to build a community of two hundred families one hundred farm houses ten pounds five hundred chickens fifty sheet honeybees subsidiary in hand and computer system powered by a wind mills. this is all

laid out in a seventy five page prospectus completed before the devil hundred strike that took place last year. it was part of a program that effectively worked as a business or behind bars. the prospectus has recently emerged dance release coincides with a time when the obama administration is searching for ways to justify sending prisoners home while closing the controversial detention camp of the one hundred and fifty five men that are being held at guantanamo seventy seven have already been cleared for release and the majority of them are from yemen. can i find data shows that the rate of carol independence doubled nationally in the decade between two thousand. well two thousand to two thousand well the number of users remains lower than for illicit substances such as tolkien. but experts are particularly concerned by the speed and its increase in recent years. it's a trend that was highlighted by the death of actor philip seymour hoffman who died of an uncaring carol and

overdose our teas from uncle and it takes an inside look at the narco trafficking that's contributing to its rise. sleeping late and by god because we now take jordan described to you for feeling that the first time he's . no pain. we get in fights anyone feel anything and that those cool thing to do. played well. with eleven assists. jordy became addicted to prescription painkillers in high school he then moved to smoking and at age nineteen he started shooting up from my neck and head wounds bleed the shop there even is human body. the rise in prescription drug abuse has been linked to an increase in the use of harrowing in the us. the problem transcends america's urban centers and has hit affluent suburbs like here in orange county california. in the cb ten in new port beach. we see that half of the narcotics arrests this year ball pair when they give is a close up look of so the black tar. it

took from the suspect a seller and has an awesome all income levels and all racial lines within eyesight of authority and the generation and millions of tea and then hop on and because of that addiction level because of the availability. and if you really cut into every community nationwide. there were more dishes to the state address was devoted to the plague of drug addiction in every corner of our stay carolyn an opiate addiction friendships. the judges remain cheap as production of opium has skyrocketed in places like afghanistan in mexico has a fifty percent increase in in opium supply which is the jurong ingredient in . in afghanistan last july. so it looks to me like what happened. a glut of on the market which is keeping prices low. afghanistan remains a top producer of opium. most of the harewood saluted us is like the poppy production in mexico according to the da dong

force that uses agree that the drug is also becoming more socially acceptable if you see a problem there is a problem. and it'll take your kids life or other narcotics are still more popular than their win in the us. but as people transition from pills our tree trunks. the third remains in even the most unexpected places. the new core beach california for modelling though. rt. and last virginians are still asking whether it will spell that contaminated the elk river last month could be dangerous to their house. but what happened to was virginia's alfred are only sheds light on an even bigger water catastrophe that took place many years ago at camp in june. the military bases most recognizable as the home to hundreds of thousands of marines and their families camplin june which is located in jacksonville north carolina also has a darker side. it's a sight of what is

not to be the largest water contamination and in american history. in nineteen fifty seven in nineteen eighty seven hundreds of thousands of marine corps members and their families were exposed to tap water containing extremely toxic chemicals during that time people living at the base being going out water drain pan and yesterday not knowing he had been compromised. the water had been contaminated with chemicals on to have stemmed from underground storage tanks at the industrial area with sales and lease for men on base dry cleaning business now years later thousands of the june residents have been dealing with the long term effects of being exposed to those chemicals for some the reality has meant dealing with illness like cancer or kidney damage and birth defects and for other more severe cases it has been down in a statement our team marine spokeswoman said the final and some of our marine family members have experienced a tragic health issues they believe are

associated with water they drank or use in the past at camp when gm. our goal is to use the best available science and an effort to provide our marine corps family members. the insert is a deserving keep them updated as information becomes available. but two men who have been personally affected by this toxic water. see the marine corps response is just not enough. carrie and sinker is a career marine who races family image and his daughter jamie died of leukemia when she was just nine years old and my current theme is the son of a marine who was born a catholic and at the age of thirty nine per team was diagnosed with male breast cancer. they are both here in washington dc to meet with lawmakers regarding some new research on camping and survivors. i first asked syrians meter to tom about the pauline animation realize his daughter's death was not just a coincidence i had no idea. meaning you know it when she was diagnosed. hey

it's a natural thing for a parent and as a child is diagnosed with a catastrophic illness too. to wonder why and i was no exception. it was until nineteen ninety seven. i found about a man about to contaminate drinking and how did you find out about it. i was. the fortune of two who retired in the area down close to camp liao. and when ptsd or was releasing their initial health assessment back in nineteen ninety seven. one local tv stations to the story down. mm and a side took over ten years to my now being fourteen years. and like you are actually guiding us of male breast cancer at thirty nine which is incredibly young age guy and of course it's a very rare thing for men to be diagnosed with autism come to the realization that you are alone and when you are

dealing with. well i mean two months after i was diagnosed we found out about conclusions to jerry testifying on capitol hill about the new children born there between nineteen sixty eight nineteen eighty five and i realize that the diet is one of those children are birthdays and aitken sixty eight. surely after the tour was a new story. my local paper one on the internet and to show show the power the end. a gentleman from alabama. saul the story and try to be in even a child i can put in during the nineteen sixties are to live in the same neighborhood that i was born and at the same time i was born. and he too was diagnosed with the breast cancer. once i realize that there was a double one out there that i wasn't a fluke and had to be more. and it's now seven years since my diagnosis and in that seven year period. we are located across the country eighty five of the men including myself who had the single commonality of exposure the bases of marine one pitch out of the morning and no breast cancer. and

it's the largest breast cancer costs for the time or if it's ever been identified it's incredible and hal are those people that you've connected with what's their kindness this holiday. i mean it's the disease itself only depending whether it made pesticides to the body. um they don't seem to survive the summer of virility. i'm seven years now and i'm cancer free at this point. we just lost a good friend right before christmas too and stop the disease they went into remission came back with a vengeance and he passed unfortunately for me and said just depends on what the answer that i'm sorry to hear back on what has and are seen it there were a number of different chemicals man made chemicals and this water to heat up a little bit like a ballot. add the ones that were certain while most attention on all orders for primary contaminants and edward m a from the water then we have testing can show that live there the man

in the first one's been saying for fuel. um over the forty year period operational currently home to a pumpkin on the base fuel farm. we're lost about one point five million have decided to break or last last minute one point five million gallons of fuel into the groundwater conclusion which is work admission prices for its waterfront there we have not touch or corn or a claim which is the dry cleaning chemical it's also used in cleaning on different agents and weapons guns things like that truck or a plane which is also used to soften the cream weapons on maintenance for the time for vehicles and tanks and things like that. and then the circle to foreclose on as a degradation article by a call right. three of the four known carcinogens. and gary and eight when you drop the city and to the attention of the marine corps what was the response from them denial. i mean basically

dumps. does the same stance and are taking today. i have a token phrase for a woman that it's blind and i can't confirm but i would let one of the correct one thing they use to do it in your introduction the contamination began the largest in the worst contaminated drinking water system on the base which was that had not point four with two marines called referred to is maine's i mean nineteen fifty three while so this goes way back it's an end and that's verified by ets steelers were the agency for toxic substances and disease ease registering their water model confirms that day so its enduring going on for one of the eu mean is it. was it difficult for you to see the marine corps respond that way home tonight and then i mean nobody could have been more disillusioned. in

the misconduct. of the leadership. old. mark or i mean i was just i couldn't believe it. i mean. i was a marine drill instructor. i'd trained over two thousand new marine. i instilled in them our model which has suffered by dallas was used to latin for always faithful. and we also had a mock another slogan and it was we take care of our own. and unfortunately our motto. is it only has a one way street i should mention that somber fry is a had a documentary best known for file was paid to lose a name of the documentary documentary that sort of charts this entire story and my aching i actually tried to secure a non family know this i can to secure an on camera interview with the green corps and they denied me that what's your sense as to why in the air so tight lipped about this. it

would be entering chorus the institution of our men and getting the truth out of the leadership of a marine corps from the beginning of the contamination has been like. the canton kind of nail jello to the wall. at the very onset in nineteen eighty five when the contamination became known publicly. we have the basin from launching air on record stating that people want to walk to expose the balloons. in this line suspect perpetuated mutated over the past twenty five years. and now they've got to the point where the tube requested. there's been numerous people the requests right interviews with them they turn everybody down because. now all but the truth is out there in the media knows what the truth this. they don't want to put a bunny out on camera where they can be trapped in to ask him to follow question great truth that i didn't get that sense nigerian thousand fall there was a piece of legislation passed. i mean that your daughter jeannie and sinker

can you tell us about when that's done and and also a of that sort of fallen short for the people that really need a break now. did that bill loose basically something together with the door down i knew it had a lot of shortcomings and don't we have a go for a suit. it's a band aid over a sucking chest wound. but it's a start and that was the unveiling of way i viewed it the president signed it in the wall the health care for the former service members started immediately upon his signature. but to this day not one of the family members has ever gotten any benefit them. you're still waiting for ben to fester and then there's the almost two years later the animals service members. there are only guaranteed health care because of all that lol. they

want the rest of their conductor and benefits they have to jump to the doofus like a real live action that wall. it was basically an admission of guilt. he actually stated that these people were poisoned by labor camp region and we were poisoned by our own government our own leaders that was jerry and sing their co founder of the few the proud and from dying and my hurricane these community member of the few the proud and forgotten. and any time to lay off that sell down according to a recent study conducted by consumer reports and golden brown color and usually found in your pets your cola comes with a dose of something called for now and that for now could pose a risk to your health potentially causing cancer now this chemical can be found in food. the concert for its focus. a study on beverage it's the sodas were purchased and analyzed in a

california lap. that said the it found that one twelve ounce serving of patsy want warm molten boy and exceeding the levels permitted without a warning label. keep in mind that in a state of california food and drink manufacturers are limited to twenty nine micrograms of exposure for the average consumer per day in succeeding now gonna have to carry the warning label that reads warning this product contains a chemical known to the state of california to cause cancer so technically though so this should carry a warning any one of the state of california puts limits on how much one hour can be used there are no federal limits on the amount of formality in foods and treats. the fda says it has studied the use of carmel as a flavor and color additive for decades but in response to this report the agency says it will bring you new data on its safety. and then does it for now for more on the stories we covered go to youtube dot com slash rt

america a better website r t dot com site usa. you can also follow me on twitter adam muir and even you right back here again thanks for watching. oh and welcome to a nice line it's wednesday said they ate whilst i'm casting call and she and tokyo the presence of the rat has had to warn of critics in this country who question how he's dealing with the iranian nuclear program. i said well honey has promised to conceal a diplomatic solution to an impasse that's lasted three years. annie says diplomacy will work. i spoke to hundreds of thousands of people who had gathered in central tehran on a whim i can get to the