here on the slopes and bridges across napoli are undergoing the sternest examination yet head of the two thousand and fourteen winter games for both the organizers and the athletes it's a perfect chance to fine tune their routines ladies were the first to compete on the slopes for russia's downhill ski cup some compared the experience favorably with the two thousand and ten winter olympics in vancouver and i knew it was some silly beastly little piece here it can be compared to what i signed canada except there was ice and then covert too which made it even more difficult but the overall conditions here are good. alexander procopio came out on the top of the competition she says smaller events like this one offer an important rehearsal before the main event in sochi in two thousand and fourteen ishtar's it's a chance to train more and will have the advantage in comparison to other skiers who only come here for the olympics with thirty kilometers of new posts and world class accommodation the organizers hope to make the test competition something

gettable for spectators and athletes a lawyer but above all this experience is priceless for the salty two thousand and fourteen organizing committee that will use this competition as a dry run to give olympic preparations a boost. sochi. if you are looking for the great outdoors close to the city. later today as they delve into the winter activities on offer all around the capital some. snow that's coming your way here's a preview. for

twenty. twenty minutes past the hour here in moscow you with militants have been killed in a counter terror operation in russia's southern republican pakistan and the government was surrounded by special forces in a residential hideout and opened fire after refusing to surrender one police officer was killed another injured in. official sales members of a terrorist group. have been.

let's get to some other global news in brief for you this hour it's time for the r.t. world updater will start with you and whether there are banki moon is called in argentina and the u.k. to avoid an escalation in tensions over the disputed islands in the run up to the thirtieth anniversary of the two countries going to war argentina's foreign minister timmerman has made an official complaint about the u.k.'s so-called militarize ation in the south atlantic saying it threatens all of south america he also accused britain of deploying nuclear weapons near the folk and islands which london describes as absurd. nigerian authorities have rearrested an alleged leader of the radical islamist sect in the east of the country he escaped from police custody last month after being accused of masterminding the violent christmas day bombings that killed at least forty four the militants whose aim is to establish shari'a law in nigeria killed over one hundred eighty people in

a series of attacks in the city of kandahar last month. friends of thousands of pro-government demonstrators have gathered across iran to mark the anniversary of the islamic revolution it comes as pressure grows on the country with sanctions piling up against the republic from western countries over its controversial nuclear program the uprising in one hundred seventy nine toppled iran's pro western monarchy bringing hardline islamic clerics to power. and now with the race for the white house well underway. new york resident now asking people in the big apple their views about the process and the outcome. according to some polls ron paul is now back in in the us republican presidential candidacy raised does he really have a chance this week let's talk about that do you think ron paul has chance i

personally don't buy into that looks weak just physically don't know just looks like an old man and said to say it may be his values are great and everything but. that's interesting so do you think the battle affect the way people vote that's affecting the way i have a aluminite is going to have whatever they want so do you think they're going to choose them a private or that not a chance why now it is just too much on the fringe for the rest of america but he has such a strong contingent among the you for now well i'll tell you that any changes he'll bring forward will be on obama's good work that's what i'll tell you that he's laying down a foundation for the next president whoever he are exactly that's my belief you know her and i mean the strain here i think he's got his good chance any i think above the seeds of those effects of the public the novelty of his candidacy worlds within about twelve months of his arrival and ron paul certainly would be

a novelty in office he's been o.t. but that's what. politics is based on at the moment i think is interesting is a non-politician speaks very honestly but i don't agree with his policies and so if i were living here i wouldn't vote for him no he gets more independents then both then all three candidates of the candidates so why does the media not pay attention to him well basically because he's against the establishment he's against everything isn't a stance for you against the military national complex to against the federal reserve do you think he has a chance here oh he is there are ten zero why he doesn't have the finances and he doesn't have the team necessary to put together a serious campaign. so you're just talking about how he's running not actually his policies or whether or not he'd be good for the country well if he doesn't have the team in the money to get his message out nobody's going to hear whether or not you think ron paul actually has a chance to become the next u.s.

president the bottom line is if elected he certainly would shake things up and that seems to be something everyone is looking for. it's good to have you with us today you're watching r.t. extreme sport that seems to defy gravity and some of the basic laws of physics appeals to many two legged adrenalin junkie. appeals to a four legged one as well a dog in western ukraine has become an internet sensation over his passion for an active lifestyle r.t.s. i like. the story. of the two thousand and one french movie the game my car she launched a new worldwide craze the park or thousands of when he was here asked worldwide took to the six treatment activity performing breathtaking stunts on the walls rooftops this skill of running and jumping from one surface to another is not so hard to master. after

a few slip ups and bruises you will eventually get it right but imagine if you were doing that standing on four legs and not being as a gyle as a human being. but this ranji fellow proves nothing is impossible me to tread stuff or cheer a terrier from western ukraine you may see mean looking but in fact that is extremely kind hearted and he is one of only two dogs known to the world yes yes no i want there is a dog like that in hawaii it might have appeared before to it but honestly i knew nothing about it when we started training besides that dog is much later in the tricks are not a spectacular. owner you've guinea had been doing park or until a knee injury ruined his career his unfulfilled dreams suddenly reincarnated in a six month old puppy for more than four years tried has been doing some amazing stuff both in urban landscapes and historic landmarks.

when he was only six months old he jumped to a cheer and from there he jumped on top of the fridge that's when we thought he had talent this reed is very energetic and sometimes they're used in dogfights before the five years we've been doing parkway were true it has never been aggressive to anyone he hasn't forty or even aborted anyone. it looks like a case of serious animal training just like in a circus but you forget he says he has only invented a few tricks for trad believe it or not the dog makes almost all of the moves. he finds it interesting you can see in the video it looks like he's enjoying what he does i only cordon it on him and very often he improvisers some say that i field and park or myself and i will make the dog do what i was unable to come you can see for yourself nobody makes you do it with the. breath taking videos have garnered millions of you tube views and earned him global recognition in their hometown

you've gainey and his pet have not become offline celebrities just yet at least until a movie starring the unique dog hits the big screen in the summer but everyone in the neighborhood can rest assured that is not a threat. reporting from china i don't you graeme. all right i'll be back in just a moment with a recap of our top stories do stay with us if you can.

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those hospitals that are still in existence here what you don't see is any new hospitals because there are no new hospitals constructed in this area. if you look at this area from a health planning standpoint. that medical desert is to. say i came to try to get some medical records in security said it's close i couldn't believe it was closed down or when i went in the security guard told me that a so for sale and all the basically delirious film movies now and i was shocked can't believe that this is what's going on now you know it was a great hospital this is the last house but i was in in two thousand and two when i got shot you know. it was a sunday afternoon around twelve o'clock in just two cars came in and it was a big shoot out and i just happen to roll by and i caught

a bullet yeah hit my spine i came to my legs i'm paralyzed you know if it wasn't for the people that were here i don't think i would have made it the way i made it because that was a little kid i was seventeen years old when this happened to me i go to school and i go to college you know and if it wasn't for them i went forward i even drive now i do everything i'm independent and it's for these people and lick they can help nobody else you know and somebody might not get that opportunity i got the right to keep and cheat mccurdy the middle said yeah that's. martin luther king it's going to be a complete closure but the capacity is going to change from one hundred forty some beds to actually forty two beds so francis will be able while i'm pretty quickly so we're going to keep on two of the outlines of those. mysterious when the hospital to challenge you bill don't be fooled they're going to challenge you because they're going to be overwhelmed at times be professional don't engage don't get

angry when i hear judge you do need market research here to do other jobs. around and here questions i. the community had a big name from ok and everybody knows it's called killer king we would get. in first thing people would ask is where am i going to be transported and if we said mark was u.k. you know often the response was please don't take medicaid. they're understaffed and underfunded and they had too many patients that didn't have private physicians and with four or five hundred patients in an emergency room it's very difficult to treat those into the hospital through medical center is in critical condition and the cantor was in the bottom two and a half percent of all hospitals in the state of california health officials a patient there had been put in quote and media jeopardy patients with martin luther king medical center to get ready for fewer services and the next day we cannot assure that patients would be saved or that fundamental hospital standards

can be met the proposed closure of the trauma center will have an impact the l.a. county fire department i'm begging of you don't ignore this. don't marginalize this . warrant i'm thomas and i can. take my. notice of you just. used to be a very simple system that we have you took the every patient of the closest facility but you close ten hospitals with eight beds that i'm each as eighty patients out of our system in the city she didn't look well with six and it sat scores we close our doors here we are close to saturation when our waiting room is

for when our all of our yard beds are for and of these lines waiting in the hallway and we're. basically closing to saturation for safety purposes you know the sort of suppress right so diversion is a huge thing for some of our hospitals down here they're on diversion about ninety percent of the time so ninety percent of the time we're looking for another hospital we could be across the street from that hospital thinking a payment was not where you go with them let them do it god wants us. to have harbor u.c.l.a. by saturday say fast is a sad and they're going to kaiser bellflower because the you know on the work place for hospital work it's about a ten mile ride however we are in l.a. and there's a lot of traffic so. you

know. they're going to hurt anybody. a little bit of them here. they're getting. better they are not. going for the average american who has insurance they don't realize the impact of what's going on. let's call it on the obviously they think it's a problem of the uninsured of someone else he got a worst initial injury actually just put it in there and spread all this way under

here and you see something is interfering with the not ok ok so when you do this you can tell this is not in attendance which is are we really bad infection. if it gets really good intended going to bone to bone infection the worst sin or you can you know usually armed because we believe we're going to prevent actually going to feel good but none of us here. have been in the hospital says two o'clock and not just what is it six o'clock or no six fifteen. if you have insurance just a good thing you know if i may have insurance ok magister we standing aside we did say we're waiting six hours is not uncommon and if you go to surrounding hospitals people come in here tell me they're waiting twelve hours sometimes to get back however u.c.l.a. right now at this moment it's a twenty four hours meaning as soon as you walk in the door and they try and figure out you're not critical basically you're someone and they could definitely live for another couple of days before being critical they'll keep you in the waiting room

and you have to sit there and wait to be seen. it has happened at certain hospitals i've gone and actually did all the team itself i guarantee you we just waited so we're missing calls in our district because our he's tied up at the hospital because they don't have a bed to put that patient in the lady in the hospital that's that's normal i've had to rescue a couple weeks and waited four hours for being i've waited sometimes three hours i wouldn't say st francis in lynnwood for four hours and fifty minutes standing against a wall with patients if they don't have bad you're going to wait and because even though we're inside there you know words were still on scene with that patient if we if we leave the hospital don't transfer care to a bed is negligence or even the county can say you know what there goes your paramedic license and you're gone. the river here if we don't have a paramedic i said we go back to the firefighter only. so how many calls to get last night four calls after midnight three out of the four calls we had were

people just basic cold and flu symptoms sniffle snow sniffles and nausea vomiting diarrhea and been sick for three four days. and just said uncle. smoke anything at all that he did. when the fire broke for twenty eight years and i came on as a single function firefighter when i came on the job. and back then we actually respond by four or five different types of the m s calls responded on chest pain as heart attacks car accidents and drownings and if you called with a sprained thumb or a broken finger the dispatcher back then told you to get the car to go to the hospital so a lot has changed. take grow your own be on you for what's going on today i think things counted on when it was not hard to know yes you're right going on the

very you know what happens. when are you really this. tough being anime. season you've been here before you have been here a few times the past week five or six times over the last year found a mom to be a mother a grandmother the son and the twins and her when she was pregnant with their with their youngest and they have two houses this one another one down if you're. younger you're looking at it oh you know i don't remember the one time. i was thinking every time i guess. you could say he would skip security interests and yet six total rodent sisters oh yeah hey jose everything's looking ok all right you can relax in the ok else we can do i make it it could be good then. i will see going to later have a good day. a good station i think huge part i mean everybody's understanding what

emergency is different but i mean people been called out for a bandaid thinking that all we are is you know a system that they can call and literally to get a couple band-aids and i mean. look at the way it's called you want to show you that. some of the programs that we do send to we have things such as boyle's can't sleep they're hungry constipation to think but if somebody says they're hungry what do you tell them what are we have to do if i give him five dollars cable local calls. we've been called to you know broken sprinklers on the lawn to a dog and need the chimney you know second of all and what you know is all didn't have to cause it always makes it all fun at the same time it's like. where do you draw the line yeah you're always going to have the percentage of people who actually know the system and it was a jury of people that's not with him right now they're down i want because we truly

need somebody to tell him what to do because this is their first room so they've had to do our time we have a transportation policy on the farm and we offer transportation to everybody on this it's a minor extremity injury since we've had that system which is in about the last five years because lawsuits down to nothing it's paid for itself. at the expense. to the taxpayers of the expense of the individual who wants the right at the expense of the the ripple effect of filling the spittal beds. with non-critical patients. i know gas prices are high but. i know i can get to the local emergency room for a lot cheaper in my own personal vehicle if i have the flu and the insurance company will look at that and say wow we're paramedics really warranted on this and

then they will pay and then the citizens get stuck with a bill. i really do believe that every patient should pay something for their care because one of the problems we also have in this country is that health care is not valued we have the most expensive health care system in the world and it's probably valued the least people are going to have to begin to take responsibility for their health care. pay something they can start small. perhaps a five dollars co-pay for an emergency visit i think it will change behavior as well. something happened down the question is what. here we've closed hospitals in the last ten years and over a thousand donal's harvey burger king they contribute to the high blood pressure diabetes and everything else in the sense i mean if you could tax cigarettes.

and we searched. that's what restaurants pay for some of the stuff. the doctor thought it would help you. when you got it. now how can we help if he's a diabetic or what have you spoken six it's like two days of whatever he had to say no and instantly he never wants to. take off and let me have a look at him every second thing he says you know we can't force him out and talk to him and nothing we can say and yet not here this is just i know. we need someone who is this is autistic we need his permission to let my medics. know he's agreed to let. you know if he doesn't want to. repeat it

he's agree weren't taken aback. ok then he says you're welcome. i know you do you know what event for him and i'm going to check and start searching teary. if you can avoid all that stuff right now he has no complaints feels fine he's answering all or pushed questions appropriately. please let me finish and it sure is one three it's within normal limits. it's blood pressure after after that if there's nothing that he wants from us right unfortunate there's nothing else that we can do for him by law ok i'm yeah we do get frustrated and it's only us but it's the nurses in the hospitals it's also the doctors i've seen them just blow up you know like why i say this person every day for a last ten days why are they here again you know when you see a patient i got

a response going up there are you know hospice it's. mostly humans thirty detachments and sixty nine very. good start to get to a lot of. personnel down here and i'm pretty sure it's. seven california is not. the only area where it's happening now firefighters coming from different states who want to apply to have a city and the paramedics are experiencing the same thing i had a guy from houston you know mass we know paramedic burnout talked about in his area . a guy from new york. paramedic paramedic burnouts go through three big issues. in the field with the field but still there's a it still doesn't mean the other rescue at our station is available so they get the next cough which means we get the chance to take a shower and pressure teeth so we don't get our showers interrupted jimmy page that .