as russia reaches a milestone in preparations for its first ever winter olympics the celebrations are marred by scandal and president putin pledging to sack one of the key think is behind the construction and planning twenty. droning on america sees a media blitz aimed at improving perceptions of washington's unmanned. questions over the use of broad become louder. over an opposition leader killing comes close to boiling point prompting pledges of a government reshuffle placing.

well there isn't much more twenty four hours a day this is r.t. . russia's black sea resort of sochi is marking a year until the start of one of the most exciting events for action thrill seekers the winter olympics. giant countdown clocks have started taking in eight major cities across the country one in moscow weighs almost eight tons and six meters high sochi twenty fourteen the winter olympics are already the most expensive in history the organizers say this that they had to make the games affordable the cheapest tickets will cost slightly less than twenty dollars. farmers brings us more from the olympic

construction site. piece by piece sorties a limp dick dream is coming together work continues around the clock but with a year to go things are shaping up fast in the company in charge of construction as 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 referred and furnished to show jewels to open in the also we plan to complete construction long before the end of the year so personal can train and managers can gain experience in providing a good service but achieving this goal has come at a staggering price pasting 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 and they are impressive if you do take a quick look around you can see what money can buy at the center of the limping which is sixpenny is 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 stuck inside this past hockey arena is persisting i'm ready for use it will stay to the us. eighteen world championships in april when a dozen international events that will test the venue before the games begin the slogan for thought she twenty fourteen is hot cool your top because the limbic park is down by the black sea i'm cold because all the alpine events or take place just forty kilometers away. it is a similar story that not much was here before but there are also couture resorts has sprung up from nowhere to become the home of our points 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 but if 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 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 clusters has not been easy even five hundred kilometers of am rail lines have been laid and they have transformed 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 the disc and 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 almost complete and the black sea resort believes it can and will deliver against remember this time next year andrew farmer . soft cheek. the big day has been overshadowed by putin's decision to fire the deputy of the committee. failure to meet deadlines is behind the presidents and lottie's brings us the details of the scandal dowry. yes so basically what exactly was behind the president's decision well we're talking about deadlines being blown we're talking about extreme over expenditures of all the projects that are of course in the middle of the construction and we

only have just barely year lived before the olympic games get kicked off but basically of us who puts in on a visit to the olympic sites was extremely unhappy with what he has seen and has started asking questions and he was unhappy with the answers. other really cost overruns yes a serious increase in costs but since they use their influence for the construction phones. it's financed by the funds. but who's the shareholder of classical sped that's what about so it's largely finance at the expense of us and these cost overruns are paid for by sperm bank yes it's spending one of the costs of this whole facility because. what's the overall was too much and usually the recession in. europe slowly what's refers to. this initial crash of one point two billion dollars now it's a feel it was one point two billion has turned into

a billion yes well done good work let's move on. well you've heard it for yourself it went from one point two billion rubles to a billion rubles that's of course something that wasn't considered acceptable a by the russian president and the man who was in charge of all of this of he was also the vice president of the olympic committee he was the head of the northern caucus in the resorts of the northern caucasus kompany basically i'm saying was because we know that president putin has already ordered that the man be led go of all polls that he's been in charge off as a result of these failures. ok yeah. thank you artes are going to report to me thank you.

now you are going to an angry congress president barack obama has agreed to a hundred a classified documents and she says it justifies the policy of ordering targeted killings of suspected terrorists u.s. lawmakers have been demanding the files for years but president that story she refused recently however some senators him to they would block his nominee for cia chief from taking office john brennan the man behind the u.s. drone program is to face the senate confirmation hearing on thursday so he's going to take on of course his appointment broaden their horizons america's drone fleets . in the shadows no

more drones are moving into the mainstream was drone makers in 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 we're. 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 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 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 numbers should not come as the. price considering the broad definition the obama administration gives as to who should be on their kill list the leaked memo on targeted assassinations from the us 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 produced by the white house now you come. live a few 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 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 during intervention in libya he made the case that the war powers act in a private 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 is another reason a targeted strikes can be a wise choice fister teacher 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. pushed 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 then the u.k.'s for your eyes only private messages sent between internet users could be decoded and monitored the government says it's to keep the country safe that's coming up. officials from tunis is ruling is the party have reportedly rejected the prime

minister's plan to dissolve the government and hold new elections the pm decision comes after another wave of public fury police fired tear gas at thousands of angry protesters in the capital tunis on wednesday after they attacked the offices of the governing party going rest to a spot where the assassination of a key opposition leader. in the summer claiming the authorities were responsible for political analyst an iraqi believes the prime minister's concessions won't be enough to calm the storm. this is a calculus for more violence and the war. of course to see what the hope of the arab spring we know is an 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 out where you have mass 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

. close links with the government this is because of this is in 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 have no political qualities what they are and what they have done is to actually replace the regimes 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 story to r.t. dot com we're asking you how you see this playing out let's have a look at the results so far. well there we have it a majority of those who've already voted think to news it will plunge into further unrest around a quarter believe that the country will see a repeat of the arab spring twenty two percent think that protesters will face a harsh response from is the most of course in the rest of the country i have

a feeling that the leadership is ready for political concessions. to another country in gulf with an arrest some of the heaviest fighting in months as erupted in the syrian capital rebels are attempting to take control of a key pro church to the city center but are facing heavy government resistance at this point both sides saying they're willing to negotiate.

do we speak your language i mean some of the worn out of the. programs in documentaries and spanish what matters to you. but what will turn it into this story. here to. try to alter the spanish find out more visit to our. t.v. dot com. i. discovered it is considering using the so-called black boxes to monitor private citizens internet use so in the interests of safety the

movie has been criticized as a point this invasion of privacy when a car deputy director of the big brother watch organization so the new measures would do nothing to catch 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're saying that this bill isn't based on fact it's based on fantasy 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 to fright and soon become illegal in russia the government is considering a crackdown on alcohol consumption on passenger planes after a series of brawls one of which even forced an emergency landing at stories. that will control the falklands within twenty years according to the country's foreign minister it claims it won't even need military action on the right time to take the audience for me ok thirty years ago why not what's fueling certainty at r.t. dot com. today

violence is once again. these are the images the world. can't. operations. syria's capital damascus has witnessed some of its most intense clashes in months rebels attacked government forces try to seize control of key approaches the city center the fighting came despite an opera by the opposition. towards a negotiate with. the government could also be willing to talk as according to its ally iran whose foreign minister was. on it however there are splits within the opposition makes to but it's unlikely even if they bring down i sat so syria tribune editorial should be. too just like.

the nicer ones did. the actually. right even when the you. listed. it's a black market. because they know they cannot control it. will not be because lucian is dreaming if the believe that they can control the groups are. singing 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 ask them to do and if they don't do it and they will lose this financing they 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 more international news in brief for you the leader of have says he's in talks with palestinian president mahmoud abbas about forming a coalition government. is now saying the groundwork parliamentary and presidential elections and asked to control the gaza strip in two thousand and seven after winning an election the year before was sparked a conflict with the fatter movements in the past two to control the west bank. iran's supreme leader ayatollah khomeini has rejected the u.s. offer of direct talks over its nuclear program saying the two countries cannot negotiate when tehran has a gun pointed out it comes just a day after washington tightened economic sanctions on iran and restricting cash from oil production u.s. vice president joe biden made the offer of one to one discussions last saturday. the french defense minister says it's misfired to frog rocket scientists forces in

the northeast of mali it's not known if any casualties now more than four thousand french soldiers in the country troops the government in paris as it wants to withdraw from next month defense minister says the war has so far cost france seventy million euros. and tens of thousands of students are expected to take to the streets across spain they continue their protests against education reforms the last two days of seen mr ations but this is expected to be the largest yet. from the country's education minister to resign the changes to the education system. cost five million lives. coming up in a few minutes it's legs at the station of the kaiser report stay with us.

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welcome to the kaiser report imax kaiser i told you to get out of. to get out of starling and now the strictest models on wall street are agreeing with me yeah the bond 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 some acts yeah 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 misspelling another. scandal 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.