industries in round one. and nm morning will . yet the extent you are twenty four one p m in washington d c e i has and you are watching artsy america. after two weeks of fierce competition trying to feed and record breaking a race is the twenty fourteen olympic games in sochi russia have wrapped up with a beautiful closing ceremony on sunday the final medal count the two weeks of competition russia cannot on top of the medals for twenty thirty three overall including linda kind of thirteen gold medals team usa came in second with

twenty eight medals including nine goals us was followed by norway has twenty six canada with twenty five and the netherlands with twenty four. i was joined earlier by rt smart and he answers his own wrap up of the final medal counts as well some of the big winners from such ease that winter games. while festival wants a week and one puppy was last night's and yes that's right. russia top of the men's three that thirty three medals thirteen gold if you compare about the results in taipei but this four years ago when they came away with only three goals and fifty medalist you can see the comparison they've done such a brilliant job. yep i'm the type that the cousins every last i was e coli just fantastic we had an attitude of the rest of the cherry on the history we looked out the way we look at sakae is an everyday was a great finish to what has been spectacular and very successful events here in russia. so the room look like ants energy during the last

weekend of competition and leading into those closing ceremonies. the men here was very tense cuz obviously we have the of the metal comparison between the u s patents and russia with the devil is not far behind them and especially the fact that they would eliminate that from the hockey without a victory for finland's which oversee depending on what site that you laugh you support them that i'd see is all fours he is. obviously everybody with even though it they would have to sign situation of the hockey was eliminated. you've already addressing the fact that she was doing so well. i also did a bike to the cousins have enough light to form tonight the little rings situation of the closing sale made they have to fight the better of jokes themselves in the part that was nice to have a santa came up with out they have a fifth green that did not open for the app. secondly they had dozens and hundreds of dollars says that in a throwback to the ring with a knife and at the beginning but the atmosphere was just in time and of course he got more to look for two with

the paralympic cycling almost seven. i was fine as india won a cap and organizers then solves one of those technical glitches happen in every of my pics but you are so many athletes that we should keep our eyes on in the future. i think the main fleet. i personally just a tool is that it's gone of course he's the fifty year old figure skater from a country back to the blog also quite disappointed the fact that she didn't score any medals in the freestyle skate sing she actually came fifth in total but she did however help russia. we and the gold medal in the in the team results and if you go back to korea. she is so young and cheese that exploded on social media with billy to go walking around the world to read this pans out. i'm than any of this case i've seen in my entire life and of course at the age of fifteen happy chap is that they simply want to look forward to. and you certainly have a long way to go just because she's only fifteen and because personally i think that she can continue to do and continue to compete the highlight for you

personally covering these games. the highlight for me has asked his coach. i expect a rush that is how much brush up on the salty has changed i was here seven years ago reporting on it i was awake i defrost in the early years in radio was just a small city its time holiday resorts out the black sea coast where people came in the soviet times and this entire region has transformed to what you can never even imagined. you can really see where the billions of dollars has been spent yet to come so close up of course the pollyanna when it reaches of mountain valleys but now we have been peaceful results like rise of the top. it's also important to set some realistic balance journalistic light on this entire situation grass surrounding sought to have more to control the state with the anti lgbt rights and gay issues with security which has been full list of the loss of anti western propaganda negative one sided press from many countries around the world has been

good to me. tri city of reports on the balance includes the bad zombie united in reality all twelve of sorts today. well now that the olympics are over what's being done in sochi to prepare for the kerala based and you talked about that little bit to chat with about a week to do with what you have three people now where nobody can get the heck to do the washing sweep the streets to sit again at some pace back to me on the mileage of the region we call the paralympics getting sammy is taking place on the seventh of march of course we have the app tens of thousands of people who are working on the on the main game still be a good tidings that countries but with the influx of davis' a writhing over the next week said asic's light winds out of the sweetie last one for many. um that would be closing off with us and again to swing the stuffing will ever again in a few days time i sense that she certainly isn't any closing doors are anything like that anytime soon. what's next for saatchi after the paralympics. yes

that's right got lots of fluids to say that it is not the end of the flame of force ot see we've got the g eight summit will be taking place in the sum of which got them for millwall and in a band that we've got the welsh cup in twenty eighteen with the bears to the mental stuff aside to filming. last week and we've got the lodges a bungee swing thus opening up in one of the values too also the infrastructure of solid state is complete stranger to the hotel's balaji to open this summer we got socks and thought it was the amazing out at least in part the pot which is the case the banks of the olympic hockey act in such about giving to sum up my sleeve. the saucy stuff for the moments that about half the full medium businesses every year but now that's all she is on the instep so mad that number i'm still putting crease what about the security issue has to do fail safe overall coming in from the lamp base. having experienced the games and now before the end of the first that went wrong when the games. astronomy many people look like and send my

mother in the before. you know she is missing me saying something the cat we call this press about security but really it was fall to less and less time activity was like the most well run apple in the wild if it wasn't a dislike to in annapolis around the world. it was. it was obvious it was tight but it was an overwhelming or scary was that just about the balance of what is needed to. i was reading money well spent but of course is not the end of security as we do have an idea takes over the next few weeks but sadly it's our job well done when it comes to security consultant martin correspondent martin and i say so much for joining us from the london games and such in russia. well this winter olympics was certainly one for the history books that were john dropping photo finish as heartbreaking defeats and the final and said surprise that the athletes are competing. i wrap up of the most exciting events from the twenty second annual winter alone pics here's our teens that kerry

and boring. a divided country go round the world cent over six thousand athletes and team members the sochi russia for seventeen days of competition at the winter when biggie it's the cause of all this a record fifty one billion dollars across a televised in the game was awesome historically high nbc had purchased the exclusive broadcasting rights to the olympics in twenty eleven to twenty twenty for four point three eight billion dollars. one might think what their names would be the center of the media's attention however it seems the mainstream media didn't cover the advanced as much as some expected. so here are the seven the winter olympic highlights that you might've missed. number seven norwegian my apple eating and all spend insane and began celebrating in gold medal victory almost too early in his hands up and just before crossing the finish line france's martin for cod with closely behind a new wing past and it was so close that

the winner had to be determined using a photo finish. another athlete you might not have gotten the full story on wednesday was a snowboarder shaun white after taking home the gold medal in the two thousand ten and two thousand and six winter olympics on the halfpipe. many expected him to bring home another from sochi. but her heating of the golden or silver or even the bronze. he ended up coming in fourth place and was quoted saying. i'm disappointed moving on to women's figure skating. you probably saw the russians fifteen year old julia looked at scott who made headlines with her and he likes what it stands in playdough flexibility. when did she get the scoop on abilene and suddenly come out. it really a foul not once but why is sadly now was a skater who took home the gold in the women's individual competition to russia for the first time in africa. and even as i made didn't make

too many headlines either possibly because he's a better violinist and skier most known for her techno infuse classical music. two more in singapore every british been refereed an untimely end at the olympics using her father's surname after coming in last place in the women's downhill. she quickly replied somewhat sick to work things that aren't telling the media. really cool. and our number three actually deserves the media attention is just in britain the alpine snowboarder from team usa to win gold in the shot of land most dedicated of the leeds won the best alpine snow boarders and america. he was i able to get adequate support from the u s ski and snowboard association. the sochi. so we went out of his truck during his olympic training. after coming in twenty fourth place he cried tears of joy for accomplishing his life's dream of becoming an olympian

and we didn't hear from many family members of the lesbians either. on the parents and siblings of the athletes who are unable to travel to the games. tell all interview to the media the sad story serves as the family members who decided to stay stateside after terrorism servants came about. and the number one in media missed was the medal count. so here it is for sunset believed was already thirty three medals. the us came in second with twenty eight followed by norway and canada. so was the olympic coverage wraps up the saplings bring those medals home hopefully in the media w athletes the warm welcome back. and washington easy to carry and boring parts. on southern new mexico federal officials have confirmed that a local nuclear plant is bleak the way sinhalese and radiation into the surrounding area the waste isolation pilot plant was leaking for dates

before state environmental secretary brian flynn found out about it. officials insist the plan poses no danger to the. the statement to our team reads quote new mexico environment department has seen no data to suggest any health threats to people have to have confirmed that no current as result of the february fourteen incidents that led to a release of radiation outside the waste isolation that the plants. however it could take weeks for crews to get underground to the dump to try to figure out how what happened in the first place this plant is the nation's first underground nuclear repository in the us. this alarming story and foreign look at some of the other nuclear stories that are taking place around the world i was doing earlier by polygon turner is a director of the reactor oversight project at the onset nuclear we first asked him how widespread the problem in mexico really hits well lou the waste isolation pilot project is then that the geologic repository is

fairly deep geologic were poster united states that houses from going nuclear waste primarily plutonium from the nuclear weapons program and did its licence for ten thousand years because of the facility now after fifteen years of operation. well we've already a thing know what recently was recorded at the fire underground but now where are the university of maine system that does mexico state university saying that they've detected plutonium contamination. half a mile away from the sides we have a nuclear accident that has occurred deep down underground but is now the contamination surface bought into the atmosphere sunday my apartment says that all estate should people take an after work. no amount of plutonium if you ingest it did get a ticket to inhale it is a safe amount. so um that the fact that the best italian contamination is now

being picked up in service monitors the union represents a health and safety concern you mentioned is that this is obviously one of the only place is the only place really pet stores this underground. it makes it more or less dangerous because it is being stored underground whoa it you know this is the only long term management strategies that we have for nuclear waste but clearly what we now see is the communication between an underground accident probably through the ventilation systems. that is now brought radioactivity escaped into the atmosphere and is being picked up by monitors. um you know that it could be on the idea of trying to isolate nuclear waste for tens of thousands of years. um is really daunting and you know it's not really good science it's really about you take these things on faith that come it will remain contained but we've lost containment now so what we have been better off if this was about

alchemy of contained us a little bit better. i don't think that there is in need reliable method for long term management of high level nuclear waste or plutonium which represents a biological threat for two and forty thousand years. clearly this is the man made hazards that will force. they are a hazard on future generations without any any benefit to all liability. so let's talk about the announcement it took a few days before they finally announced that there was radiation i was found outside of that building what took so long is that this tender process. well the part of the problem was that the department of energy denied access to the new mexico state university and the monitoring group. and so on. it's been. you know the game of catch up nowhere the independent monitoring is is you know that it had to have early access into the side so that's part of the problem that go

the information has been withheld essentially by the government for days now but if it's going to be days weeks months even longer to understand the full scope of this accident was the reason for withholding them. i'm not sure why the department energy denied access to the independent monitoring group very interesting meanwhile the obama administration sources say that the present finalized a six point five billion dollar loan deal to build the country's first nuclear reactors. dani more than thirty years so it's pretty it why are they considering building new nuclear reactors now well this is the part of an ongoing juggernaut guy that did you clean industries and you know looking to revive itself that they called it a renaissance in fact it's a relapse to the same economic failure of that stop this industry dead in its tracks thirty years ago. clearly what it does the department of energy for alone demonstrates is that it

takes the federal taxpayer of to be the guarantor on a beach these nuclear projects with the increasingly in the case with the mobile plant in georgia the ratepayer house to finance the loan so the nuclear industry has actually no skin in this game its taxpayer in ratepayer risk for a project that has probably of more than fifty percent chance of failure not only had half of the candidates the power plant had all of those problems i remember articles coming out criticizing the current state of american nuclear power plants what is the current state of our plans for that money be better served at updating ones that are both currently in use. well although i know there is a concern that it be these older nuclear power plants like to focus in the style reactors from the day of there. these ge

reactors don't like to consume and teaching are now more than forty years old and of the operators like excellent or in tuesday we're looking to put less money less maintenance of an hour up the reactors the same time so you were seeing the increase in the maintenance and oversight of these aging reactors so that the utility can protect its profit margins. indo ended the knees are these plants are very fragile economically as well. they don't compete anymore and so you know. profit margins financial margins are being played against health and safety margins and then that's an increasingly dangerous venture and finally let's talk about what's going on in japan three years after that plants have this catastrophic shutdown on right now they are starting to let thirty thousand residents can go back and they're going to go back after a two year process but at the same time there's

reports of new leaks the latest one was three thousand one hundred and seventy five gallons of highly contaminated water spill. would you hope that if you are one of the residence that was nothing there. these are essentially permanent isolation zones so that will represent a biological hazard of the arthurian clearly japan is a very small island and go they have the space problems and soul of the government is essentially of a lifting of restrictions when in fact radioactivity of that has gone out of that plan continues to escape containment represents a threat that should be widening the evacuation zones alice called actor director of the reactor oversight project at the onset nuclear well let's try to ukraine now want to press for it is out for president that soriano copics the mc and after protesters afghan protesters have now stormed

his resonates. ukraine's parliament sell quickly working to create an interim government after voting to oust president you know college and all this comes after the deadliest week of clashes to quit the country in decades. our team in corpus enough brings us the latest. the situation here in kyiv has referred to by me know as a witch hunt has now former officials laura was a nice man. i hadn't seen stopping cars and taking the eighties of the drivers and passengers inside it with melissa the party of regions wishes to his ego was. teams that won the presidency. a teasing him. he finds the attacks on civilians. referring to the violence and clashes in street fights between the writers and to the police

in whereabouts of fun. don't use leads to the summary use of the country where there's a completely different picture the eastern ukraine is that the country's industrial power. also at the pool when the russians and not only the quick political off what's been happening here in kyiv for instance. tens of thousands of people took to the streets all sorts of us will put it changes in the currency sauce but what is he going second largest seaport and also thinking of the gold rushes and ukraine's black sea. meanwhile in the opinion of claudius have to dig into the next village in the fight against their political rivals up around five hundred offices of you know actually what has been going down both the different political stance or physically attacked inside the toilet. it's good to achieve the right notes more of the emotions rather than lose the right to be the most important things

right now is to build apartments. completely. and the situation the president has fled the capital saying it has been carried out. well the moment passes new laws as fast as the printing press taking down officials and appointing to hold political labels including putting the right wing. from the onslaught of appointees to teach or to the prosecutor general's office. this is the new regime is good and cheap really quickly i would use of strong managers. it has nothing to do more to proceed. those coming to power. one pursuit of policies and they will conduct a massive expansion of the eastern territories of course was adopted to the banning of russian second official state language. he's quite nearly fifty percent of those living in the east of ukraine in the big russian the is told from now on the right wing is going to be the present the new trains and one in force the situation in kiev. he's

basically controlled body of work that could lead to a win with on this quilt was singing very very minutes to get into tuesday and it is a political corpse on the season on to the discredited man he cut deals with all positions what i was out since the nineteen began no longer in control all the crowds here. there are reports that foreign journalists who've been promoting different values from the rebels have now been put onto a wanted list as well as trying to temporarily banned the russian tv channels khamenei or no reason to question if this is the type of democracy so many ukrainians cooked in wine schooling for. so far tea cookies. american lawmakers are keeping a close eye on what is happening in ukraine officials at the obama administration urging the country to remain unified they also caution against foreign military involvement but dr ron paul's newest article on its website says that this is exactly

the opposite of what the west should be giving him out of the usual intervention nests in the us have long battled in the internal affairs of ukraine in two thousand for it was u s government money that helps finance the orange revolution as the us funded in geo as a favor and one political group over the other were able to change the regime. the same people have not given up on ukraine they keep pushing their own agenda for ukraine behind the scenes even as they ridicule anyone who claims us involvement. can you say why are u s government officials so eager to tell me ukrainians what they should do. has anyone bothered to ask the ukrainians what if it might help alleviate the ongoing violence and bloodshed if the ukrainians decided to remake the country as it was a confederation of regions rather than one tightly controlled by a central government's press and ukraine the nation peaceful trade with countries be on a bus to the west and east. it would benefit all sites but outside powers that seem to be fighting a proxy

war with ukraine suffering the most because it's all senses is in contrast dr paul has been a longtime critic of us involvement and us involvement in other countries. he is a liar by saying that it's time for the us to keep its hands on ukraine. interesting era where to go from here itself well it wasn't until he died at seventeen year old jordan davis' name became etched in the minds of americans. his face has been plastered over news stations over the past few weeks as the stand your ground trial of his shooter michael diamond. the courts now this faces popping up again in a different way. on a promotional posters and t shirts. none of which were authorized by jordan's parents one day this moc on the back. george's parents received word about a video show taking place just days before it was set to take the family lawyer john philips contacted the effect matter and said the family would not condone acts. this group does not represent

the values that jordan stood for. now despite the family's wish this patient when on as it was of originally planned the press release announcing the effect prominence that the davis family would attend something that they never consent to its tail and a player said the jordan davis insurance would be salt where's i also contacted the short sellers who said they were going to sell the shirts but collect donations. only jordan davis foundation had no knowledge of any donations that would be coming in from the sales nero. they have the shirts were in fact sold out events but not any of that money has gone to the foundation as it gets. in the family lawyer says florida state law is clear. it says quote no person shall publish its display or otherwise publicly use for purposes of trade or for any other commercial or advertising is the name the portrait photograph or other likely ness of the natural person without the express written or oral

consents. john phillips put out a statement on behalf of brawn and the cia saying close. we want people to think fondly of jordan immortalized jordan and more we cannot tolerate victimization of breakdowns by false representations of un authorized use of his likely nest using jordan for publicity and profits and outright deception. now it's true that this offence could have been innocently promoting information about the current status and your grandma's in florida and that they really are planning to donate the revenue earned from those t shirts and us but something that is equally true is that the fact that there has been over the past few years. case after case where people aren't using the names of deceased family members from newtown school shooting as france and are from the boston marathon bombing to stop fraudulent web sites make money for themselves solely events are websites pop up with the faces of victims on them without the family's permission. it's no wonder why they say they

feel victimized for second time. i write before we go don't forget to tune in at nine pm to larry king now what's next guest is that meatloaf one of america's legends in the world of rock here's a look at what's to come. tell me your endless whom it were me you'd never entered politics muscle to me before what led to the ultimately not normally i am a true independent. i walked the streets from uncommon. what to say me too intense and put fliers to moma new york apartment. and then iid the same thing for carter. then when reagan came around i went to the very end i was sure about reagan. but in the second term in on friday and i'm not going for bush and i voted for clinton both times. my conclusion on what you are an independent meaning that many people holding mcgovern and bush. i

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god be with us on this edition of nice line dance these days and a twenty cents and casting call and she ends her tail. law makers in ukraine and moving safely to transfer power to the new government. what the new prosecutor general annan you are headed to state security service and making plans. i like the new president voters responded to go to the polls and twenty fifteen the monitors have said the new dates in late may candidates will stop registering leader on