these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. trying to hope for asians to rule the day. welcome back here with our t.v. here's a look at the top stories as a government on the rest of the arab world reaches a critical point in libya was protesters in control of most parts of the country and golf by chaos frauds and forcibly is leading the world's a long time leader of our own for dolphins are believed to be switching allegiance and growing numbers from. the t.v. in crisis triggers oil price hikes affecting the global cost of everything from transport to suit their fear the real canonic recovery in the u.s. and around the world. the u.k.

is under fire for a court decision to actually guide julian assange was to sweden or rape allegations experts say it exposes the computer so you have a justice system that provides asylum to a number of suspected nor criminals and terrorists. as a final straight for the first race of the twenty fourteen winter games as a winning mascot for the sultan olympics is due to be announced later ten candidates are currently running neck and neck in the finals on the nationwide contest. next learn about the latest gadgets and high tech developments technology updates coming your way. street. hello and welcome to technology update this month we're embracing the snowy season

to bring you some of the latest innovations from the world of winter sports and think things off we're here at the rosa khutor complex in southern russia where the tracks for the sochi two thousand and fourteen olympics are facing their first test just a week after the first russian cup stages wrapped up in mid february sixty athletes from twelve countries chris and rosa khutor for a station alpine european cup men's downhill rave reviews were won by the brand new track defers to its kind in caliber on russian soil the top time however went austrian beaupré. back in september two thousand and nine we showed you will draw or version of frozen foods are already under construction but with a great deal of work ahead a long vision resort complex along i.e. the bridge tension is a key part of russia's sochi twenty fourteen olympic bid and the complex has come a long way in a short time span the technical backbone of any world class ski area is an extensive and efficient set up which is to make sure that rows of people had the best no expense was spared with total costs estimated at six hundred fifty million

euro the results in two thousand and eleven is stage one completion for the enjoyment of average ski and to see this as well as international start this season four of the projected. running opening of thirty eight kilometers of new runs helping fountains of visitors reach rosa hooter's heights is the russian aerialist producer scott. scott his production facilities in the volga river city of samarra are the birthplace of this high tech high altitude hardware along with their world renowned austrian partners dopamine they cover over three fourths of the alpine lift market in russia and the c.i.s. . skull is not a newcomer in the industry i myself have been running the company for over twenty five years. it's an enterprise with a long history of constructing roadways with god it was behind virtually all area. lifts in the former soviet union but the. supplied and set up the hard way full of

the. variations of the elevated group way have been used for many centuries but the real boost came with the invention of the steel broke aerial cargo transport was adopted by many industries because of its relatively high speed and low cost particularly for mineral extraction in a complex story. in the second half of the twentieth century enthusiasm for alpine skiing experienced a worldwide boom in the caucasus mountains in what was then the sylvia union were no exception with the unique climate in many of the highest peaks in europe resorts popped up throughout the region demanding developed infrastructure it is a task tailor made for scotto whose aerialists played a vital supporting role. today scott it was a post soviet private company with the same passion for aerial transport systems. modern lives require maskil metalworking to turn out sturdy pull wheels precise

guide rails and monumental support towers. time tested welding techniques help ensure a culture durable string of joints will be further inspected with x. ray ultrasound in magnetic tests it's a slow and tedious process to distill personnel has to make sure that each part is capable of withstanding not just the cargo load but also the cold the wind and the pressure nature is sure to file on. video if the ship since ninety ninety seven scott has set up more than two hundred fifty installations across russia and the commonwealth of independent states depending on the level of complexity got as input ranges from one hundred percent in the case of surface lift so you know if it's a good chair lift seriously or it could be fifty to sixty percent if we're talking about if it's roadways i mean very complex transport systems including high speed lifts with higher passing. the capacity is. with human lives literally in the

balance the middle underpinnings of the aerialists have to be absolute detail proves a process called how did galvanising is employed on scottish constructions by partner firm and some are in neighbors program much this is most in sync not about do you want to jump in to escape the russian winter bondsmen allegedly did to steal and forms a protective layer as with any steel or metal installation it towers and beams that hold up ski lifts are susceptible to failure from rusting corrosion the dangers of which are elevated in this case by harsh weather conditions positive galvanising offers more than a shiny exterior it should add to the structures life span by resisting these forces of nature. the end of the 1980's at one of the international exhibitions i got acquainted with a manages from double monthly fee australian company which is the world's leader in roadway design and construction of a nine hundred ninety seven of the long negotiations as we finally agreed to establish a joint enterprise at that point we have developed our own unique technical

solutions but we also want to introduce double miles cutting edge ideas in the russian mob which was a. jungle meyer has become a household name not just in the famous austrian alps but around the world today the company has built more than fourteen thousand installations in over needy countries scott a specialist travel frequently to dump her for training and a partnership has helped the austrians enter the growing russian market. and also there so. the installation of russia so i have to. here are my protocol. at praxis you check the brakes the second is the pension system for its own proof you have to write for the right to loads. is. sky. the main effect here in russia. your name for example the station. they're.

going to go to work together. reading and building lists for ski areas is no overnight study engineering it calls for painstaking geographical and topographical analysis scotto handles the full cycle from site inspection design and planning proposal until the polls are up and the chairs are full of snow seeking skiers to get there they spend weeks in the field making sure the right group is be selected the task is a careful balance between cost effectiveness and ease of engineering not every lift can be laid along the shortest line from point a to point b. often ski lodges in base areas are located in easy proximity to access roads and parking facilities leaving scotto slips a lot of work to get used to slopes as practiced in the sochi twenty fourteen olympics theory as shown there up to the test. when the international olympic

committee visited cross. to decide with us so she was eligible to play host to the twenty fourteen winter olympic games cecilia the aerialist set up by a company where the only technical installations that well up and running at that time. was showcased to the i.o.c. evaluation commission. scotto has been building in the present a pollyanna cluster since the one nine hundred eighty s. when it first put up for lace at the alpha consider this resort at the nearby gazprom complex scott has constructed six modern lines including one eight min gondola one six person chair lift two for chair lifts and two basic t.v. laws to use to dish and certain rules of the olympic ski hill where scotto is behind three hundred person gondolas and one six man chair lift in addition scott i will help build with the website claims will be the longest try cable people mover in the world to take skiers and eventually olympic spectators from the future train station. guess prone complex. right outside of must else

scotto built all season option if you want to hone your skills snowboard skills before the trip down to sochi. maybe a beginner but the show offs were still making me nervous about my first ever snowboard attempts scanners list solution for the concave curve the enclosed complex was impressive but already the least of my worries as natasha tried to get me started down the slope sliding cautiously i wasn't the fastest learner and despite helpful coaching i was starting to wish for more familiar skis since i seem to be spending the lion's share of my time on my backside. thanks for actually is feel like that doesn't hurt so bad thanks to the snow they got influences but if i'm going to. need to figure out how to train myself a little bit of going to this. luckily i didn't have to look too far and it seems nish kind of complex russian inventers me and we love and unity machine and have set up a training center using their one of a kind sky tech interactive carving simulator

in a market full of gym equipment for advanced athletes on one end and video games for casual consumers on the other the dinham found a use for me and filled it by combining and improving to two the result is an incredibly realistic training exercise experience to physical interaction here in just a short while earlier only now with a more impressive landscape in gates for targets. as you to coach me on the elusive key here was finding and properly controlling my balance over the board. obviously my form leaves much to be desired so let's break down how a properly trained athlete would look on sky tech simulator pushing off of one edge the skier snowboarder has to transfer their weight fluidly from side to side while maintaining a ford center of balance just as they would crossing and then turning on a real slope here's the contours of the. imitated by electric motors this skier board frame rests on rails and is pulled by still ropes connected to the motors and

reduction of years until the tronic sensors detect both the edge angle and position of the rider relaying this information through the computer to the motors to simulate a turn and to the software to reproduce realistic motion on the screen. the steel is made in russia the software and power try and being developed in cooperation with our international partners so the first prototype took a year to make and test currently we need three months to put together a simulation from scratch if you place an order for a model and we already have the spare parts for a rigid to supply the final product within a month give. back on my simulated board i was starting to get the hang of it and it's serious work out in the process before long tailed was able to personalize the experience and crank up the difficulty increasing my speed altering the course and penalize me for mr gates as yuri corrected my form and even

cheer me on. ecology he says the ability to control the characteristics of the sloop on the go. software allows the instructor to change the position of the gates as needed. these features make the training incredibly efficient. system for me you can change anything we say to come out at any of our team logo or. absolutely you can add any objects to your of virtual slew of this is the most serious that part of the code for a downer is so where would you place your logo the data will show that may not be your art scene so no we take them down or off onto the billboard. so you know it's ready and we go. your banner was a nice bonus but still more encouraging was the increase in. the sound of family gets and the feeling that sky tech was making a boarder at

a. company there's a simulated workout and he just hand it was in the traditional two g. format i think you'd agree closer very realistic much recently we have been testing our system in three d. which he tried out right now with the help of the stereo glasses. then the real thing or it's not a list after this i can't wait to. well i'm enjoying my newfound snowboarding skills it's easy to forget that not all the winter games are going to be on the slopes innovations are also popping up in preparation for other events on the black sea coast less than fifty kilometers from

krasnaya polyana smelting cluster the future olympic village park stadiums and arenas are rising up in the city of sochi itself technology of the first covered the state of the are construction and it's really stages back in the late summer two thousand and nine and while the best laid plans were already breaking ground they've come a long way in a year and a half from foundations and frames the future venues have begun to take shape the bolshoi ice palace will be the centerpiece of the complex built for the olympic hockey tournament in training it will play home to hockey heroes from around the globe along with hordes of flag waving fans to cheer the. palace you see here will host the hockey medal games and can hold up to twelve thousand people and we're going to work on the frame of the building made of solid cast reinforced concrete as you can see we've also mentioned the seventeen arched girders of the shape roof now we're working on the roof itself forty two percent of the constructions we completed up. which means we're right in line with the building schedule. one schedule in this case means not just ready for the feb twenty fourth

teen olympiad but even earlier by late twenty's twelve when sochi is slated to host a stage of the euro hockey tour this shiny silver show will eventually round out the intended frozen brain drug zine leaving a world class sports and entertainment arena to serve the city years after the torch is passed on. while builders have other big projects on their hands and the coastal cluster for more ice cold competition spectators will pack into the sochi olympics skating center builds a slightly bigger dimensions to meet the demands of figure skating in short track racing events this center will also hold twelve thousand people and start hosting international championships in late two thousand and twelve and you kind of didn't know you think this is so but this venue has a unique large span roof top structure in terms of middleware took two thousand times in total i think it was flexible connected to the main front of the building that it is engineering solution will help to meet the highest saws make requirements and is absolutely unique in the russian construction industry would

not exist with the. plans call for the skating center to be removable potentially for later use in another russian city is a cash conserving design that will give sochi a top notch skating facility for the twenty fourteen games as well as the chance to choose their own future for the site in the years that follow a speed cycling track is already among possible proposed. command center for sochi twenty four team preparations is the offices of the specifically creating construction company a limp steroid with so much under construction and deadlines approaching its and understandably busy scene special attention has been focused on the sliding center back in the mountain cluster future homes illusion bobsled and skeleton evidence the unique track is already approaching completion in two thousand and eleven unlike steam sports like hockey or track with tightly fixed layouts and dimensions each olympiad has a slightly different design. and for a sliding center based on the natural setting. this one of the of this particular

side has favorable conditions school it's in northern slope over monterey and there's less direct sun here but the ice will hold for long girl and so we'll do sports season with the. edges of the mountain relief conforms to the geometry of the track going to john ward meaning there will be fewer supporting structures. so as most of the track of it city contours of the slopes topography of the russian national sliding center hopes to overcome what many consider design flaws in previous tracks as the lose dead in frighteningly festering cooper last year reminded us these are dangerous sports and the builders are making for safer competition in sochi. no matter how much we love the beautiful milk not every day on the slopes to be perfectly sunny the same snow that gives us our precious powder can also rolled in really sick and we need special food and prevent

a healthy build up from turning to wood dead after. ski areas have a very fragile relationship with snow is no fun and too much is a ticking time bomb. when the levee breaks is an earth trembling wall of white weighing thousands of tons moving it hundreds of kilometers an hour sparing nothing in its past. the front line in the face of the snow situation is manned by avalanche control squads in the twenty first century they're a quick weaving creasing the versatile technology for accessing remote mountain areas even in inclement weather monitoring the size of drifts and easing the build up with remotely controlled snow blasts no amount of new gear will replace their vital role in alerting. years and running operations with innovative ideas can make their job easier and safer a key element in our avalanche defenses is

a system of nets designed to hold back the ever growing snow pile but how can we monitor the tension built up behind these barriers without having to dig our way up here all winter long the answer could just be right inside these unassuming little in case it's. the basic plastic box design might not have a kandinsky or monday image but they're still made by a st petersburg based firm called evan guard and they could provide a revolutionary function in the avalanche early warning system. the other sensors measure the length of the of the rope depending on the load it bears in the future when the rope is subjected to heightened tension it stretches and it's this like lengthening that is detected and measured by our sensors to be ready with a chronic modules inside chashma can transmit the information about the strength to a remote computer so that any operators can immediately order of a snow removal operation into remote headquarters a monitoring center that keeps

a constant eye on the distant southern russia they're not replacing boots on the ground just yet but they're collecting valuable data to model the snowdrift trends and alert their frontline colleagues to see what the sensor is run an autonomous mode of sending signals through wireless connection to feel pressure doesn't need to search for information in the twenty first century and data should be coming to us the way around you and detention centers are a new concept being tested and improved on the fly for hardware that means seeing what the weather's all seasons in the volatile mountain climate then there's the question of how the data received from the sensor net set up can best be incorporated into the sistine chapel and control efforts eventually reducing required manpower this is no she. wouldn't she until them in terms of scientific and technical developments with the we collaborate with a number. western companies for example with a v t t technical research center of finland several companies from germany

switzerland under france he's going to be participants in international projects and together we develop new promising products to speak you know who is deep. in the mountains of unguarded makes products for more than just ski resorts since roads railways and population centers also meet avalanche warning systems and the rugged terrain around them may be far more in excess of all for lack of slopes and lifts. production also includes all kinds of microelectronics detection systems with the most common applications for observing the state of urban infrastructure. monitor the stability of historical buildings to see flow of gas to residential complexes to smooth operational power stations and the structural integrity of roads and bridges. generates status timeline to help diagnose potential problems i mean guards technology is pinned on the principle that it's better to take defects in advance then deal with the aftermath of an accident. back in moscow we

can check out how technology is not just making winter sporting safer but also helping us separate winners from losers from rule breakers and system to be used for sochi olympic hockey is already in place and this must be how i serina. it might not be the first thing you focus on wearin the crowd at your favorite sporting event but own porton refereeing has a high tech new look since the outcome often hinges on close calls the choices companies slowmo t.v. has partnered with the kontinental hockey league teams in stadiums to maximize the odds of getting them right well you root for your team to put the result comfortably out of question video referee has its eyes on a game of inches. is adapted their strong background in video replay and multi-channel camera control systems to meet demands for professional hockey for precise officiating a system based on the client's budget in stadium infrastructure. up to eleven

channels of high definition video monitoring with all these angles at their fingertips for making any number of tough calls judges are most concerned with the versatile comprehensible interface when the pressure's on and time is of the essence unlike many other sports that have resisted moves to video based refereeing mechanisms hockey has fast paced close confines decisions in short and the russian league is actually out in front of the american n.h.l. in tackling the situation technology to give her. a referee system does not simply meet the international standards we set the benchmark meets higher requirements than those defined in the regulations so if the n.h.l. or the international ice hockey federation it were a good thing so it's a very vast tool helping referees to take the right decision in ninety eight to ninety nine percent of goalline cases about who. is dismissed and must go home said you know had a better record coming in and look strong in early play but the visitors from the

v.c. beautiful were not about to be bullied in the last match of the regular season by sure enough just six and a half minutes into the first period no suggest mounted a charge that had the lights flashing the crowd waiting anxiously and the refs making a call upstairs to the video referee down on the ice and. looked like a near miss off the pike but soon t.v.'s equipment was needed for a closer look gone noble were there any often suppliers in the crease after careful review to replay confirm the call and the number was stayed with no goal surrender . discipline it was that was the several years ago the referees took decisions in disputed incidents on their own and very often fans in teams management questioned the rulings saying it was biased since last year we decided to stop this practice and introduce the position of video referee for example when the puck crossed the line in the last seconds of the game it's not clear whether it was before or after the clock runs out so we asked the developers to display the time on the screen the

puppet salute the video referee could decide that we have five or six such moments not seen and thanks to the improvements the referees made the right call you call on the public to show the team's look if you don't believe us we can always play back the tape go to the field referee system works well for the cage shell confirming that the number would enter the playoffs coming off a two one overtime win. what about the hockey action slated for sochi twenty four team slim would see these products would be in the bolshoi ice palace where goals could translate to a limpid goal but is still choose to slow mo t.v. product first because it provides the functionality we need second because a reliable partner since many russian t.v. stations have used its equipment for many years million four months i camera shoots of concerts or shows so much interest and third that it's cheaper and them similar products of western companies and most importantly it's much better food t.v.

is already attempting to branch out to other sports basketball can come down to disputed close calls fencing to the slightest touch replays are often required to verify violations in short track speed skating su more slow move products could still make the sochi games our work for this edition is still on but the sochi twenty four team construction team is still working to make sure we have plenty more updates headed your way join us again next month and while the powder is still fresh enjoy the ride. so.

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