ready and steady a year long countdown to the soldier winter olympics a launches all across russia was all stars already on the starting block it wasn't easy listening with fresh paint and also shows cutting ribbons. droning on american america sees a media blitz aimed at enhancing perceptions of washington's i demand these questions over the news aboard only reynaldo. and attention that in a tunisia public anger of an opposition leaders killing comes close to boiling

point prompting the government to dissolve and raising fears of a second revolution. it's a may day here in moscow you're watching r t live all with me to say russia's black sea resort of sochi is marking a yeah until the start of one of the most exciting events for action love isn't real secret is the winter olympics giant countdown clocks have started taking in a major cities across the country arches lizzie france has the details. farther to the south zamboni says like this or having been a much bigger way a president who didn't choose his meeting with the cheetah by the international olympic committee along with her seventy's her delegation was representing those

countries participating in the olympics in the then his big celebrations down there and saw she kicking off today first off with emotion i had palin here and then of course you know gas and it is a big iceberg formants with some of the leading this is ours i love it russian figure skating when i never have it all out for the large fireworks display over now the hope is that russia will take home good at least eleven or gold medals here high end result two winter olympics and no doubt many experts are saying a wimpy olympics being on home turf or russia oh my goodness just very well carry that off now organizers are saying that even though the end is that is your business not being spared whatsoever to organize these olympic games at the ticket prices will still be affordable for the average person so you were badgering me then you give us a better idea of just what in you they considered a candidate i like i didn't get any areas of him but you know whether had information in a dossier to give us

a better luck of what to say if sim's piece by piece she's a limb picturing is coming together continues around the clock but with a year to go things are shaping up in the company in charge of construction has a simple message despite building everything from scratch russia will be ready for your shot but. we plan to introduce all the facilities before the games start training facilities are ready practically all of them of host a test competitions all hotels and olympic villages are in the final phase of construction being referred based unfurnished the show jewels to open in the old we plan to complete construction long before the end of the year so personal can train a man who just can gain experience in providing. good service but achieving this goal has come at a staggering price hosting these games is costing around fifty billion dollars making them the most expensive in the olympic history they've 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 do take a quick look around you can see what money can buy at the center of the olympic park which has six venues all within a stone's throw of each other to host the curling the skating and the ice hockey and this is the jewel in the crown the bolshoi ice day inside this past hockey arena is pristine and ready for use it will stage the under eighteen world championships in april when it does an international event that will test the venue before the games begin the slogan for saatchi twenty fourteen is hot cool because the limbic pakistan by the black sea coast here i'm cold because all the alpine events will take place the lower forty kilometers away. it is a similar story there not much was here before but there are also couture resorts

has sprung up from nowhere to become the home of alpine skiing biathlon and cross-country courses have also been created along with the bobsled track and then there's something you can't fail to miss but if you make your way down the mountain will eventually come to hit one of the most dramatic sights at any winter olympics the ski jumping the larger ramp on the left hand side is for the men and 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 and coastal clusters has not been easy over five hundred kilometers of road and rail lines have been laid and they have transformed sorties infrastructure with the city mayor 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 on this scale 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 a brilliant future so she has undergone huge change in just six years but the transformation is almost complete and the black sea resort believes he can and will deliver a gangster remember this time next year and. a soft change. yielding to an angry congress president barack obama has agreed to hand over classified documents which he says justify his policy of ordering targeted killings of

suspected terrorists u.s. lawmakers have been demanding the files for yes but the president had. recently and some senators had hinted they would block his nominee evil cia chief from taking office john brennan the man behind the u.s. drone program is to face the senate's at the confirmation hearing on thursday and as artie's gannett chief again reports his confirmation could only broaden the horizon america's phone 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 choose 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 individual since two thousand and one using remotely piloted aircraft contrary to popular belief actually provides the greatest degree of ethical oversight for their use of this young man in pakistan would probably disagree several of his family members died at the remote hands of a drone 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 number. this 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

u.s. justice department suggests the u.s. government can kill people even without evidence that they are actively plotting against america if you extend the logic or studio logic being proud by the white house now you come towards the cliff you might say that we're in danger of going over we're getting very close to of thought crimes that if somebody a u.s. citizen or otherwise is believed to be thinking something that could lead to actions against the 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 there an intervention in libya he never made the case that the war powers act in a pride 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 working john brennan often referred to as the architect of the administration's drone war how it's the new opportunities for the u.s. to wage wars without risking american lives there's another reason a targeted strikes can be a wise choice pfister chicha 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. and in britain for your i is the only private messages sent between internet users could be decoded and monitored and the government says it's to keep the country safe. a brand new wave of public fury in tunisia has seen the country's government dissolved the ruling islamists a nonpartizan tapenade of technocrats will be formed to manage the state until elections can be held but he's fired tear gas at thousands of angry protesters in the capital tunis on wednesday after they attacked the offices of the governing party the under arrest was sponsored by the assassination of a key opposition leader bella eat with some claiming the authorities were sponsible

political analyst day mike you believe the government reshuffle won't be enough to calm the storm. this could act as a calculus for more violence and the more i walk into museum of continuity with the hope of the arab spring we don't have an area where you have the arab street is so politicized any small change of course you can create content and hatred within society and this is essentially very different to museum now where you have mass protests there because the government 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 is a get out of the using government but this really shows that they are spring is 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 showed the muslim brotherhood they really have to go with her policies or they are more they

have done 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 their predecessors. and while some in tunisia blame in the high profile killing the on the ruling islamists to add minutes watching to his international radio says some believe also influence could be to blame. people believe that. it is might be behind the attack but the majority believe that we have to be patient in two weeks the final report to the nation from the interior ministry to be able to say whether this works or the other one. committed to see this crime to success in asian. leaders. they have mentioned they said there are probably three hands one trying to do straight out to an easy road this country to hijack the revolution it's.

where of course following the story very closely and we want to know what do you think of the story at r.t. dot com we're asking about a possible outcome from the latest showing of anger in tunisia and what do you think could happen here they are two you can choose from right a push for a new revolution islamist dominated government or will be forced to make concessions all a descent into widespread violence and evil and the last one being a religion crackdown on opposition protests let's have a look right now to see the results on our pied charges to see how far the voting has gone so far a majority of those who've already taken part on the in the vote think that tunisia will see a repeat of the arab spring that's there forty two percent of you say that while around a quarter believe that the country will plunge into further undress now nineteen

percent of you believe that they were human crackdown will go on the opposition and will things the harsh response from the islamic authorities the rest on the contrary have a feeling that the leadership is a ready for political concessions that only sixteen percent of you are right head to r.t. dot com if you want to take part and have your voice heard on that to another country in guy. some all the heaviest fighting in months erupts in the syrian. rebels that tried to take control of the key approach to the city. had been government resistance. a willingness to negotiate on that. mission. critical to free. free.

free. free. free. and free blog. free media. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you. see some other part of it and realize everything is. welcome to the big picture.

i. welcome back you're watching r t the british government is considering using so-called black boxes do monitor private citizens internet use they say in the interest of safety the move has been slammed as a pointless invasion of privacy and mccaw the deputy director of the big brother watch organization says of 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 away you'll fly friday may soon become illegal in russia the government is considering back down on alcohol consumption on passenger planes after a series of in-flight brawls one of which even falls an emergency landing the story is on r t v dot com. and argentina will

control the full plans within twenty as it says the country's foreign minister he claims it won't even take military action unlike the attempt to take the islands from the u.k. thirty years ago but i don't want to feel his certainty and out on. the news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. showing operation throughout 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 that's why didn't came despite an earlier awful by the opposition leader. to negotiate with president assad step you keep the us the government could

also be willing to talk of that's according to its ally iran whose foreign minister was quoted adequately egypt a sponsored islamic summit however there are splits within the opposition that make stability unlikely even if they bring down us such says syria drive united to keep up to of the most ominous or just i mean it's just like the rules that we'd be going through and the sun will be nicer ones different than it is now and that's not true really haven't even become are actually quite full of victims and the trying even when the you that's listed. that's it on. it's a black lives with not. defending it because they know they cannot control it. will not be because lucian is dreaming if the believe that they can control the group's off the top leader division the singing and the most important part is that these are the princes and they will if you feed people they are not full of the shows

they are not the 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 than they will lose this financing and 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 yet the west would like to see this big mess filling the country. now for some international news in brief the leader of hamas says he's in seoul with a scene in president mahmoud about forming a coalition government khaled meshaal says he's now laying the groundwork for elementary and presidential elections control of the gaza strip in two thousand and seven after winning an election in the year before this month to heavy fighting with the fatah movement headed by mahmoud abbas continues to control the west bank . the french defense minister says his client is has

fired rockets at his forces in in the north east of mali it's not known if there are any casualties there are now more than four thousand syrian soldiers in the country troops of the government in paris say it wants to withdraw from next month the defense minister says the war has cost seventeen million viewers. tens of thousands of students are expected to take to the streets was as plain as they continue their protests against educational reforms the last two days have been huge huge demonstrations but there is expected to be the largest yet there are calls for the country's education minister to music over the dress to as jimmy did by the student union to be nearly five billion euros many experts in responsible banks will spark in the economic crisis coming up later the kaiser report and looks

at how politicians who won to rein them in. well i mean is george osborne lying i mean that's the question is it just line bald faced lies you telling the british people i am george osborne i'm a despicable liar i lied to you i tell you that i'm going to prosecute bankers i've never prosecuted bankers bankers have their hands in my pockets i'm completely conflicted i take bribes i'm a liar my name is george. born i lie i'm a liar my name is george osborne and i lie i'm a liar my name is george osborne and i live. right coming your way i'll special report on the hall video games can affect the mind so with us all the.

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fourteen million of them. from kiev so deeply immersed in online games that force is the only way to get him to pay attention. for these people the real world is simply not enough so they bring the diversions of virtual reality into their real life. with my wife maria. i deal with the weapons psychologists and psychiatrists argue whether or not the human mind can be affected by computer games and if so which part of the brain is responsible. actions have a very negative impact on a person. this is the same in the cortex is responsible for developing addictions to what extent.

christina both twenty two met through online gaming during a tournament called point blank she played against sergei but couldn't beat him using a keyboard mouse but she managed to defeat him off line while he was. tougher in the gaming world christina turned out to be stronger in real life. we started talking. time here always we had to. chat and sure a lot is. now christina is here with him and every place where sergey qualifies even though she is his most devoted fan she won't play on the same team as him. the same as working to get a thought and means what kool-aid to documents then really needs that.

said captain of the russian team of the cheese is taking part in the major battle of the year at point blank. for the final of the largest european cyber arena will see action between twelve teams of gamers. point blank is a post soviet cyber championship league to be selected for the competition you need to be among the top three winners of the four online tournaments over the course of the year it started out with eight hundred teams that makes the four thousand on line more years to lie still atop a professional cyber sportsman must train hard for sixteen hours a day. but if i have to play for six hours a day doing one in the same thing as if that were worth i do it and everybody will

do it because we understand that this is the only way to victory. you can't just sit around doing what you like expect to get first place all the time you have to sacrifice something. good money through gaming after receiving his bachelor's degree in long he decided to focus on the online games his team has won tens of thousands of dollars in prize money and a car. professional gaming has opened up huge opportunities for sergt. same for. twenty five years. which could be found in every movie theater it helps people idle away time before a film started. in the office of a major. deals with the promotion and placement of popular computer games including blank this is.