thank god. it was. it's already sturdy and a year long countdown to the sword two winter olympics launches all across russia with sports stars already on the starting blocks for some of the listening with fresh trained and of visuals cartoon rippling. tensions in tunisia public anger over an opposition leader's killing comes close to boiling point prompting the government to dissolve and raising fears of a second level. and droning on the american media blitz aimed at enhancing perceptions of washington's on men leads

while questions over the use of gold only when. it's eleven am here in moscow you're live with us on r.t. with me tom it's good to have you with us my drug shows the black sea resort of sochi is marking a year until the start of one of the most exciting events action lovers and thrill seekers the winter olympics giant counter clocks have started taking in the eight major cities across the country in part is that lizzie france is following the celebrations and now joins me live from moscow with the details lindsey there's been. quite a lot of this to me it is happening already they can you tell us what's going to be

celebrated today how today is going to be celebrated. yes i can be a bear of a. man and that is speaking just behind me they are about to kick off enough along here to count down i one year and still these saucy winter olympics with the opening ceremony here begins now there are nine of these clocks several meters high weighing nearly eight tons each now the color scheme on these clocks is blue but as you can imagine since this walk here in moscow is set just outside red square it is red farther to the south zamboni's just like this are happening in a much bigger way a president who didn't achieve his meeting with the cheetah by the international olympic committee along with seventy three delegations representing countries participating in the olympics to the then his big celebrations down there and saw a kicking off today for his off with the washoe palace and then of course you know gas it is a big iceberg with some of the leading is ours

a russian figure skating when i know we have it all out with a large fireworks display rover good enough now the hope is that russia will take home at least eleven or gold medals to winter olympics and no doubt many experts are saying with the olympics being on home turf for russia it could just very well carry that off now organizers are saying that even though there is events as this is not being spared whatsoever to organize these olympic games at the ticket prices will still be affordable for the average person to work that has a rhythm to give us a better idea of just what in you they consider to take a life or death will stay together any areas of him like you know whether he had information in the dossier to have us upset or learn of what to say of sim's. piece by piece of cheese and then picturing is coming together continues around the

clock but with things are shaping up. in the company in charge of construction has a simple message despite building everything from scratch russia will be ready. we plan to introduce all the facilities before the games start training facilities are ready practically all of them of host to test competitions all hotels and olympic villages are in the final phase of construction are being refurbished and furnished the show jewels to open in the autumn we plan to complete construction long before the end of the year said personnel can train and managers can gain experience in providing a good service but it cheating this goal has come at a staggering price hosting these games is costing around fifty billion dollars making them the most expensive in italy in peak history they cost ten times more than the last winter games in vancouver and ten billion dollars more than the beijing summer games however the results can already be seen and they are

impressive if you take a quick look around you can see what money can buy at the center of the park which has six families all within a stone's throw of each other to host the curling the skating and the ice hockey and this is the june in the crown the bolshoi i stay inside this basket hockey arena is pristine i'm ready for use it will stay to the under eighteen will championships in april want to keep does an international event that will test. before the games begin. for thought she twenty fourteen is hot cool because the park is down by the blocks in case there i'm cold because all the alpine events or take place just forty kilometers away. it is a similar story that not much was paid before but the loss of couture resorts has sprung up from nowhere to become the home of pints the biathlon and cross-country courses have also been created along with the bobsled track and then there's

something you can't fail to meet. you make your way down the mountain will eventually come to hey one of the most dramatic sights at any winter olympics the ski jumping around on the left hand side just for the men on the smaller one on the right is for the women he will be competing for the very first time in this event at an olympics next year. linking the so-called mountain in coastal trustees has not been easy even five hundred kilometers of bright lines have been laid and they have transformed infrastructure that the city made believing the region will reap the benefits for years to come. our residents are aware of the conditions they have to face during changes especially. we certainly have many inconveniences because there's not a single street in sochi without renovation going on the roads are regularly dug up which causes traffic jams all the time however the residents are aware that it's

necessary for their future brilliant future. she has undergone huge change in just six years but the transformation is a complete and the black sea resort believes he can and will deliver a gangster remember this time next year and. such. a brand new wave of public fear in tunisia has seen that the country's government dissolved the ruling islamists say a nonpartisan cabinet of technocrats will be formed to manage the state until elections can be held police wide guess thousands of angry protesters in the capital tunis on wednesday after they attacked the offices of the governing party

the andras was blocked by the assassination of a key opposition leader chokri belaid with some claiming the authorities were responsible political analyst danny mikey believes a government reshuffle won't be enough to calm the storm. this could act as a calculus for more violence and war and. of course the hope of the arab spring we don't live in an area where you have the arab street so politicized any small change of course you can create content and hatred within society and this is essentially a very good museum now where you have mass protests against the government and we have many calls for the government to resign you have outraged public outrage against its affiliation which has been deemed has been committed by people who have close links with the government this isn't good out of this is in government but this really shows that they are spring not necessarily going to force a change in good it has been

a force for aggression it has led to more backward policy and they show the muslim brotherhood they really have. what they are and what they have done is essentially replace the regime which they have supposedly overthrown and they have continued the same the same regressive and negative policies which have been undertaken by the previous us. and while and some in tunisia blaming the high profile killing of the ruling islam most a man that's watching host of tunis international radio says some believe this outside influence could be to blame. people believe that in. it is might be behind the attack but the majority believe there to me have to be patient in two weeks for the final report to the this occasion from the interior ministry to be able to say whether this board or the other one. committed this describe this situation

the leader of another party they are pointing to forty and they have mentioned they said there are probably foreign hands who are trying to spread throughout tunisia this country to hijack the revolution from its. yielding to an angry congress u.s. president barack obama has agreed to hand over classified documents which he says a justify his policy of ordering targeted killings of suspected terrorists u.s. lawmakers have been demanding the files for years but the president has staunchly refused struck but recent days and senators had hinted they would block his nominee for some take love as john brennan the man behind the u.s. drone program is to face the senate at his confirmation hearing on thursday and as artie's damage again his confirmation could only be brought in the horizon

america's drone fleet. in the shadows no more drones are moving into the mainstream was drone makers and the u.s. military pushing to defend the killing machine drones are more properly titled remotely piloted vehicles allow us to do is to project capability without projecting vulnerability in their revolutionizing work. by allowing us to see and hear from half a world away a major drone manufacturer lockheed martin has financed an hour long documentary on drones aired recently on u.s. public television carrying the technological capabilities of the killing machine. from trailers like this pilots of the predator and its larger cousin the reaper have killed thousands of individuals since two thousand and one using remotely piloted aircraft contrary to popular belief actually provides the greatest degree of ethical oversight for their use and this young man in pakistan would probably

disagree several of his family members died at the remote hands of a grown up more than a thousand other civilians were reportedly killed by u.s. drone strikes in pakistan and yemen we find ourselves murdering people in many cases children with no evidence whatsoever that they're involved in any criminal or terrorist activity the numbers should not come as a surprise considering the broad definition the obama administration gives us to who should be on their kill list the leaked memo on targeted assassinations on the us justice department suggests the us government can kill people even without evidence that they are actively plotting against america if you extend the logic or studio logic being pretty out by the white house now where you come. live you might say that we're in danger of going over we're getting very close to zero thought crimes that if somebody a u.s. citizen or otherwise is believed to be thinking something that could lead to

actions against united states then this illogical logic would present the idea that it would be ok for the president to order that that person be killed the spite the u.n. raising concerns about the legality of the use of drones the u.s. is said to expand its remote control warfare setting up new drone bases across the world the latest announcement a new facility in asia where obama has redefined war during intervention in libya he made the case that the war powers act in a quiet because there was no risk to american soldiers and so under that rationale he can expand the global war while in his state of the union address claiming that . we don't need perpetual war for peace but it is perpetual war when you can drop bombs on any country and then claim that it's not war john brennan often referred to as the architect of the administration's drone war counts the new opportunities for the us to wage wars without risking american lives there's another reason the

targeted strikes can be a wise choice to strategic consequences that inevitably come with the use of force . as we have seen deploying large armies abroad won't always be our best offense all in all the u.s. now has around ten thousand drones in its fleet not all of them carry weapons of course a lot of them are for surveillance both domestic and international there's a great push both from the administration and the drone makers to present them as america's next best thing john brennan if confirmed will soon be at the helm of the cia and no one doubts that under him the program will expand even further the goal is pretty much clear to be able to control the world with a remote control in washington i'm going to. some of the heaviest fighting in months erupts in the syrian capital rebels are trying to take control of a key approach to the city center of facing heavy government resistance that's just fine both sides vocalizing a willingness to negotiate that's in

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live live live live . it's good to have you back you're watching r t the british government is considering using saul called black boxes to monitor private citizens internet use they say in the interest of safety the move has been slammed as the point is the invasion of privacy and emma carr the deputy director of the big brother watch organization says the new measures would do nothing to catch people who pulls a real security threat the u.k. government seems to think that it's necessary to monitor the communications of

every person in great britain rather than actually looking for the people who are actually committing crimes that are going to drive those people further and further underground of the internet and they're only going to capture the the innocent and the incompetent as far as i'm concerned not by any means saying that communications data isn't important but when you have the director general of m i five talking about the evidence that was used to make their spill and calling it pretty heroic assumptions that we've been made that the m i five obviously going to need this information and will react to this information if they're saying that this bill isn't based on fact it's based on fund the full. imitations of facts and this is why we need to go and have a very hard look at this bill get more evidence have a much further in-depth consultation to actually get the facts about what is needed and how it can be done. drinking the way of flight of freida may soon become illegal in russia the government is considering

a crackdown on alcohol consumption on passenger planes after a series of in-flight brawls one of which even force an emergency landing that story is on a website. and you know will control the floor plans within twenty yet says the country's foreign minister he claims to want to even take military action unlike he had time to take the islands from the u.k. thirty years ago find out what feels his certainty at r.t. dot com. today violence is once again flared up. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. trying to corporations rule the day.

syria's capital damascus has witnessed some of its most intense clashes in months rebels attacked government forces trying to seize control of key approaches to the city center the fighting came despite an early fall by the opposition leader. to negotiate with president putin the government could also be willing to talk that's according to its ally iran whose foreign minister was quoted at the egypt sponsored islamic summit however there are splits within the opposition that make stability unlikely even if they bring down the us such says syria tribe united states dr mohammed. isn't just i mean it's just like. going through it and go from will be nicer ones different now and it's machiavelli you know if you come are actually quite poor victims in detroit even when the you. as listed. that's it on its black list the with not of defending it because they know they cannot control it.

will not be because lucian is dreaming of the believe that they can control the groups are. the most important part is there these are the princes and they will if you please of people they are not full of the shows they are not fighters for freedom they are just work princes and the coalition will only be able to do what its founder and main financing. entity will ask them to do and if they don't do it and they will lose this financing they would lose the support so they have to do this and simply have they don't know how to hold and they cannot because they are not united and they don't have the same view was so it's a big mess and you have the west would like to see this big mess fall in the country. now for some international news in brief the leader of hamas us is in talks with palestinian president mahmoud abbas about formal coalition government khaled mashal says he is now laying the groundwork for palm entry and presidential

election has become us or took control of the gaza strip in two thousand and seven after winning any lebanon the year before this fall to heavy fighting with the fatah movement headed by mahmoud abbas who continues to control the west bank. the french defense minister says islam is of trying to as have fired rockets at his forces in balad in the north east of mahdi it's not known if they are in several tunes now more than four thousand french soldiers soldiers in the country troops of the government in paris says it wants to withdraw from next month ago was the first time taken by french forces when the intervention began to weeks ago. tens of thousands of syrians are expected to take to the streets of halls of spain as they continue their protests against educational reforms the last two days have seen huge demonstrations thursday is expected to be the largest yet there are calls

for the country's education minister to resign over drastic cuts to the education budget the student union says it comes to nearly five billion a year we're just. coming up in a few minutes it's the latest edition the odd kaiser report speech. well. it's technology innovation all the developments around russia we've got a huge earth covered. government no longer represents the. people who are going to

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welcome to the kaiser report imax kaiser i told you to get out of. to get out of sterling and stricken tomatoes on wall street are agreeing with me yeah apocalypse which is by the way a term that i now claim ownership. u.b.s. tells clients to get ready for the bond pocalypse u.b.s. is planning a mass mailing to many of its brokerage clients alerting them that they have been reclassified as aggressive investors following a recent change in its market outlook that some people inside the firm say reflects

a growing bearishness in the bond market particularly over the long term so max yes why are they reclassifying clients as aggressive if you were a client or if you were the broker sending out this letter what is going on here right well when you open an account at a brokerage firm per the laws of going back to thirty three and thirty four the know your customer rules you have to fill out what the profile of the customer is whether they're conservative whether they're aggressive and typically if they are conservative then they would migrate over to the bond market which are perceived to be conservative investments however now that we've had round after round of quantitative easing and it create this enormous bond bubble here in the u.k. and in the united states and around the world the sovereign bond bubble u.b.s. knows that the bond apocalypse is upon us that bond prices like in one thousand nine hundred four will drop not just twenty five percent but fifty sixty seventy

percent so they're preemptively going in and they're reclassified all their customers who have checked conservative bond investor they've just without really having a discussion with those cut they should be telling those customers get out of bonds but instead they're just changing the classification of those customers from conservative to high risk so that when the bonds collapse as they most certainly will then they can claim well the customers indicated they were for risky investments so to practically making a legal maneuver ahead of the lawsuits that are coming their way because they put them into bonds knowingly that they will collapse it's amazing that the bank is is treating their customers again this is another missile. scannell this isn't the song scandal twenty four tinct this is the p.p.i. scandal twenty fourteen this is the you know i'm in the scandal of this year. the interest rate swaps scandal of twenty four this is a huge scandal we're seeing the birth of a massive scandal right now u.b.s.

a crooked bank in a crooked country with crooked bankers demitted crooked fraud once again so i want to look to this headline here on the telegraph banking system must be re set says born and in it he says he claims he's going to electrify the fence dividing the retail banking part of these big banks from the riskier investment banking side and the article says this means that if banks are judged by the new prudential regulation authority to be trying to flout the rules the government will have the power to order a complete break up of the bank so it says now the government will have the power to break up these banks they've had the power for years they've had the power to incarcerate all these misselling scandal they have the ability to incur.