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ready steady go a year long. winter olympics across russia sports stars in training facilities glistening with paint and officials already cutting ribbons. on america sees a media blitz aimed at improving perceptions of washington's. questions over the use abroad to become the. tension in public. position leaders killing comes close to. something that is of a reshuffle raising fears of a second revolution. and much more twenty four hours
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a day this is. the black sea resort of sochi is marking a year until the start of one of the most exciting events for sport lovers and thrill seekers the winter olympics joint account down cloaks have started taking in eight major cities across the country. reports from. several meters wide weight nearly eight tons each of the color scheme of these bonds is low but as you can imagine this club here in moscow is set just outside bets where it is read farther to the south but the senate is just like this or having it in a much bigger way president putin is meeting with the chief of the international olympic committee along with seventeen delegations representing countries participating in the olympics big celebrations down there and saatchi taking off today first stop with the bolshoi ice palace and then of course you guessed it a big iceberg formants with some of the leading the stars of the russian figure
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skating and that never happen all over the large fireworks display right now the hope is that russia will take home at least eleven a gold medal in the sufi winter olympics and no doubt many experts are saying with felix being on home turf for russia it could just very well carry that off now organizers are saying that even though that this is not being spared whatsoever to organize these olympic games at the ticket prices will sill be affordable for the average person if she were to give us a better idea of just what it takes to get a canopy like i did to get any areas of him that are either martin salem had information in the dossier to help us a better sense of what the state of sims piece by piece so she's a limp the train is coming together would continue to ram the call but with things are shaping up with the company in charge of construction has
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a simple message despite building everything from scratch russia will be ready. we plan to introduce all the facilities before the games start their training facilities are ready practically all of them opposed to test competitions all hotels in the olympic villages are in the final phase of. instruction for being refurbished and furnished of the show jewels to open in the awesome 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 tasting these games is costing around fifty billion dollars making them the most expensive in the intake 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 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
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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 bar hockey arena is persisting in i'm ready for geese will stage the under eighteen world championships in april going to keep does an international event that will test the olympic venue people the games begin the cycle for stocks in twenty fourteen is hot cool your thought because they don't think park is them by the blacks in case they're on call because all the alpine events or take place alone just forty kilometers away. it is a similar story that not much was here before but the loss of couture resorts has sprung up from nowhere to become the home of points the biathlon and cross-country courses have also been created along with the bob slate track and then there's something you can't fail to meet but if you make your way down the mountain will
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eventually come to hey 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 in coastal costumes. no the. five hundred kilometers of am i a lines have been laid and they have transformed infrastructure that is to 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 haven't any inconveniences because there's not a single street in sochi without renovation going on the roads are regularly done which causes traffic jams all the time however the residents are aware that it's necessary for their future. so she has undergone huge change in just six
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years but the transformation complete and the black sea resort believes he can and will deliver against remember this time next year and. now you are going to an angry congress president barack obama has agreed to hand over classified documents that she says justifies the policy of ordering targeted killings of suspected terrorists u.s. lawmakers have been demanding the files for years the president had staunchly refused most recently however some senators hinted they would block his nominee for a cia chief from taking office john brennan the man behind the u.s. drone program is to face the set i think his confirmation hearing on thursday
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that's all it is going to take on reports his appointment might boyden horizons corner because it's. in the shadows no more drones are moving into the mainstream 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 revolutionising. allowing us to see and. 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 counting 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
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of ethical oversight for their use of this young man in pakistan he 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 so the numbers should not come as a surprise considering the broad definition the obama admin straight. gives this to who should be on their kill list the leaked memo uncredited assassinations on the u.s. justice department suggest 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. lift you might say that we're in danger of going over we're getting very close to a thought crimes that if somebody a u.s.
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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 joe order that that person be killed despite 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 made the case that the war powers act in a private because there is 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
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opportunities for the u.s. to wage wars without risking american lives there's another reason a 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 pray. sent 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. i don't britain for your eyes only private messages sent between internet users could be decoded and monitored
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the government says it's to keep the country safe that's coming up. officials from two near zero ruling is this party have reportedly rejected the prime minister's plan to dissolve the government and hold new elections the p.m.'s decision comes after another wave of public fury police fired tear gas at dozens of angry protesters in the capital tunis on wednesday after they attacked the offices governing party the rest was sparked by the assassination of a key opposition leader made some claiming the authorities were responsible let's call him mr o'keefe and these the ministers concessions you know home the storm. this could act as a catalyst for more violence and the war and. of course tunisia with the help of the arab spring we're only going area where you have the arab street is so politicized that any small change of course you can create content and hatred within society and this is essentially conveyed museum now where you have mass
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protests against 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 things with the government this is the night of the using government but this really shows that the arab spring is not necessarily going to force the change in a good it has been a force for aggression it has led to more backward policy and it showed that the muslim brotherhood they really. want to see what they are and what they have done essentially replace the regime which they have supposed overthrown and they have continued the same the same regressive and negative policies which have been undertaken by the previous us. and today we want your views on that substantially at r.t. dot com where asking. now you see this playing out let's have a look at the results so far well as you can see a majority of those who've already voted think that tunisia will plunge into
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further unrest around. believe the country will see a repeat of the arab spring and twenty two percent think that protesters will face a harsh response from the rest of the country have a feeling that the leadership is ready for political concessions while that. country and dealt with unrest so the heaviest fighting in months has erupted in the syrian rebels are attempting to take control of a key approach to the city center facing heavy government resistance. saying that willing to negotiate.
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so-called black boxes to monitor private citizens into the u.s. in the interests of safety move has been criticized as a pointless and privacy in the car deputy director of the big brother watch organization so the new measures would do nothing to capture those who pose 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 this spill and calling it pretty horowitz 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 saying that this bill isn't
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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 your flight affright may soon become illegal in russia the government is considering a crack down on alcohol consumption on passenger planes after a series of. wanted which even. story. will control the falklands within twenty years according to the country's foreign minister it claims it won't even need military action. to take the audience from the u.k. thirty years ago. what's. more
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news today. these are the images. from the streets of canada. the day. syria's capital damascus has witnessed 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 earlier offer by the opposition that will rise to negotiate with the present ourselves differently the government could also be willing to talk that's according to its run foreign minister was quoted that. islamic summit there are splits within the opposition that make stability unlikely even if they bring down a. syria tribune editor in chief. just like.
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the nicer ones did. come out actually. right even when the you. listed. it's a black lives with not of defending it because they know they cannot control it so no more be because lucian is dreaming of the believe that they can control the groups up to the beginning and the most important part is that these are the princes and they will if you feed the 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 to support so they have
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to do this in the same plan they don't know how to hold and they cannot because they are not united and they don't have the same if you will so it's a big mess and the west would like to see this big mess filling the country. more international news in brief the leader of hamas says he's in talks with. us about forming a coalition government. says he's downplaying the groundwork parliamentary and presidential elections and asked to control the gaza strip in two thousand and seven winning an election for a spot of conflict with that. you can control the west bank. iran's supreme leader ayatollah khamenei has rejected u.s. offer of direct talks over its nuclear program it comes just a day off to washington economic sanctions on tehran and restricting cash from oil production the u.s. vice president joe biden made the offer of one discussions today.
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the french defense minister says is the most foreign. forces in. the east. any casualties more than the four thousand french soldiers in the country troops the government in paris says it wants to withdraw from next month but defense minister says the war has cost seventy million euros. and tens of thousands of students are expected to take to the streets across spain today a protest against education for the last two days have seen huge demonstrations but those days expect just. the country's education minister to resign over drastic cuts estimated by. many experts sponsible banks was. coming out later because. to rein them in.
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is georgia. i mean that's the question is it just why. the british people. i lied to you i tell you that i'm going to prosecute bankers i've never prosecuted bankers and bankers have their hands in my pockets i'm completely conflicted i take bribes i'm a liar my name is george osborne 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. coming your way all special reports on how video games can affect your state of mind that is.
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