let's listen and get a bit about this fishery for a minute let's take it full picture and sound. just going through it with vigor what if you say you know what. it's going to be greater lympics initially said what she said i could tell you a bit about that torture actually it's not just any old torture lots got into it a lot of thoughts got into that it was designed developed by a creative team led by vladimir protocol for the andrei. it's made with all sorts of light weight metals and plastics and made actually balance perfectly so it's very easy to carry when the run is occurring in the russian winter proved this is it is a part lot of thoughts got into what if it. is if it does blow well yet what it does is it disaster no it isn't because running alongside the torch

a person that you don't see is a man carrying out a little it looks like looks like the old bosses in your house but it's six lanterns all. riginal in a limb here and in case that flame goes out on the torch will use one of those two scenarios the original play which is not a joke i mean i like your joke but some people would say i go on or i really want it or they want it i saw it all because i saw it. it happened in a limpia right which is the birthplace of the games they started two and a half thousand years ago and in those days of course they were into greek mythology and the gods and they wanted to create the top from the sun and they did that using the sun's rays and parabolic mirror and a bit of olive oil and with that they managed to create the fire feeling picked fire and it's from that fire that they then used to light the torches and that's what happened in the limpia just a week ago. thank you andrew farber you learn something every thirty minutes and you wanted. i believe near

a silver plate with ok let's go to red square that's the way to go fisk an office there amongst the home will drink a full buzz go a can am a hope you can just take us through then what you're seeing there yeah i'm going to ask if the flames are rather let you tell me either way what's up well first of all it's really a way out here right now i can't. we're now wanting to go and dance performances by . the olympics drummers and the olympic dancers the clock on the spot skids our me down the kremlin says that while basically at any possible moment the olympic flame will arrive here to the very heart of the russian capital several thousand spectators gathered here there are pretty much no freedom no open seats laps lots of media lots of grass so the president is expected to appear shortly with a statement while the celebration is going to continue but of course we're waiting

to see the olympic flame to arrive earlier it was delivered to and landed via the special flight in the book away airport in moscow then it's securely being escorted by two hundred bikers from the most famous biker gang in russia the night will they are not only way cool but they are also lots of them are athletes they are also involved in lots of. events charity events and so on they said for them this is a great honor to take part in these celebrations officially the olympic torch relay will begin on monday and it will be the biggest one the longest one in the history of the olympic games are going to last for. before it. it ends up at its final destination in the olympic city of sochi but before that the olympic flame is really going to be taken throughout the whole country we're talking about three thousand nine hundred towns and villages the flame is going to be taken on to

the highest mountains like the el bruce or on the bottom of the biggest lakes like the bike called it's even going to be taken on board of the international space station and that is going to be taken right into outer space so this is truly a unique and historic event for the whole country possibly for the history in the history of the olympic games themselves fourteen thousand people are going to participate in the torch really the flame is going to be transported pretty much by all the possible means of transportation including dogs docks ledges and reindeers ledges candles even. hot air balloons and a space the rockets as well right now just moments literally moments are left before we go in to see the torch or the flame here on the red square as a lot of anticipation there i mean it seems to be running slightly up got the program in front of me maybe i should be saying this but all the plane arrived

slightly ahead of time but twenty minutes thirty minutes or so the actual event itself seems to be running slightly behind we were thinking it would be with you by now and that the president putin would already be speaking no well we just have to now i'm saying that it's very hard reading the motorcade company to the company and the olympic flame which has been delivered to russia. and now the for is pretty much welcome to russia so. this is the the welcome ceremony as it's called. well the crowds are now turning. the crowds are now turning into. directions waiting for the flames. let's just see what's going to happen.

this is the suspense moment when they're actually going to take it out and they are taking it outside now. the olympic flame. you probably see the officials walking with it on the red carpet with a lantern with the olympic flame inside there it is. now again this isn't the official start of. the really i mean that's going to be held at morrow i must truly unique event for the city and for the whole country. i'm ok let me go quickly. leave you in pace for a mo they're going to focus on these pictures at the end and i guess i shouldn't say my flame fishel flight well let's say it's certainly one hundred six but he was in for the moment as we discussed it all making its way now to the podium. and president putin is going to speak and then it'll be taken off by eleven

torchbearers sports men women paper both with disabilities and problems in their lives and also people who showed great bravery and courage of various ages young to old general people who put others before themselves they are going to be. taking the flame away when the official olympic torch is lit very shortly beautiful day as you can see there in red square sun shining lovely blue skies. and rousing chorus accomplished tonight from a lot of money if you don't believe it is you know. let's let's dip in it a bit more atmosphere is what's happening in the story. moment as the olympic flame arrives in the very heart of the russian capital just a few minutes away now from lighting the official saw cheap twenty fourteen olympic torch which will then take that epic one hundred twenty three day journey all

around russia from the exclave occluding grad right over to kamchatka and the far east the organizers have done it in such a way that they say at some point on its journey ninety percent of russians will be with just one hour's travel of being able to see that boy i do think they're going to turn out as well. ok let's let's take the full sovereignty let's take the patient.

coming out of the kremlin along the he's laid a red carpet their flag bearer is raising those flags as he makes his way towards the delegation. that flame and that lantern. begins a beautiful sight that iconic sight of some past as cleaver behind it as well always looks a treat doesn't it making his way to the stage in front the kremlin's famous clock towers but used the link to light a fire in a large crucible there before addressing the audience and as a set. a little earlier on eleven torchbearers will be taking the official olympic torch on the first of its travels it's heading to so many places and hopefully going to be seen by so many people as the anticipation builds. towards the big

winter olympics that russia has put so much time effort energy and indeed resources to over the last seven years since it was announced. of course that bid started many years before as we're hearing from andrew farmer as well and it's a thing for special for me to think gosh seven years ago i was sitting in a rather studios it was a young channel then it see seven years ago when i was talking with one of our senior members a staff the sports editor at the time runs the channel and we sat there as we had the build up to the decision on who would get the winter olympics and everyone had their fingers crossed and while russia got to i remember thinking there are seven years in such a long time but no it has flown by but during that time so much work and effort has gone in to building the construction making sure the top class facilities are sports presenters here in the studio as well and we were saying

earlier on the really our top class on the way they are they've built eleven brand new venues completely from scratch is as you were saying before that spread across a mountain and a coastal cluster covering forty kilometers that effectively built a sports city from scratch which they've done which they've set about doing since two thousand and five and seven since two thousand and seven and amongst those venues as andrew was saying before all of them have now undergone testing generally testing as has been super the feedback is has been phenomenal the only. building that is still slightly under construction there just finally finalizing is the fish to reno which will host the opening carriage the rain they wished the fish to reno which they would have to look like a fish very much so it's kind of tapered at the end. rather like a fish the fish the arena and that will be the hottest venue for the i think i'm closing ceremonies and looks like i want to be tightly and then you think twenty eighteen long island exactly so i mean we would look at it as well it's really

taste the event isn't even happened yet but there is a future for this whole development as well yeah absolutely the idea is that this is not just all about what is happening for the winter olympics. let's go back to the events in red square as your president addressing you with people gather the delegation to the lower russian citizens and athletes they takes the official sochi twenty fourteen olympic torch this spring so carefully designed. and looking like the first gold. little gold in history let's listen.

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you get the journey towards the twenty second winter olympics. now as. we speak of our newest c is the time we know well you are seeing torchbearer here in the piece you were real he's really just you can see silver medalist with the. run we were ok here they are mentioned earlier on it was a very proud moment for president putin this is his baby if you like he said at the very start that he would drive this through there would be no problems that sort she would reach the goals of the ready on time and. he's kept his word it appears to have happened with some style to. germany. so there they go let me tell you about the eleven torchbearers what we stay on these pictures for just a minute. can't so i can do them in order but i can tell you who they are as i said

sportsmen and women of various fields and also dignitaries as well the various ages amongst them silver medalist of the youth olympics games twenty twelve theatre of she's a figure skater. maxine morasca and he's a figure skater two silver medalist of if you pick a twenty twelve. skater that. i'm also we got where then you're coming up you have a guy called alexia shatov and he has a phenomenal personal story he used to play volleyball and so he went to a wedding where he tried to stop a guy with and he got stabbed in the leg and had to have his way out there is a leg amputated going east despite everything is he's been through their success continues for absolutely he became you know i mean playing parent. ali ball you also went on into the paralympics the discus and the shot you became the flag bearer for the two paralympics a truly amazing man it shows you can you sport to overcome adversity yet it's not

just sports medal winners were there taking a look at the list of other important people here during your career told no if you have grown pretty women of the most vulgar kid in contest and we are yet here into the central school of music at the moscow state can so she when he was only six years old he's a real project he's amazing on the piano then we've got a vision of a gold medal in grand prix winner of the young ballet dancers contest bolshoi theatre not a prima ballerina star not one there's also a guy called. who's. he's a real hero your incredible is an incredible swimmer and he had the either probably the misfortune to be in to be a witness to tragic accidents one where he managed to be in a bus where the driver had fainted or he was he was missing and the bus was careering off down a mountain he managed to break the glass and control the basket it was full of the three most so too many people going to me and then later yeah he happened to be going past it with his brother and he was going past the lake and so it's really

yes it was just this a look at the pictures look there we go your pattern of that is the shorts the sort she traded for to limp it towards a bird be lit it is lit and so it begins it's one hundred twenty three day journey big moment you're watching here breaking russians in all sports for. a live pick from zero the world extremely proud absolutely there he. has left athletic in figures but it shows this inclusive of all people involved here i wonder is that boris rudolph we're looking at them i wonder soviet union hero the learning or the holder born in nineteen twenty five. he's won so many owners on the wall. as for his country. though there are a couple of that all of the work of science and technology of the russian federation honorable soldier of the song of the soviet army lenin order holder red

labor banner the world war one level the red star orders the list goes on and on very proud to be taking this flame out of the very first few feet of its epic journey then to be heard of the course to the next person on an empty days across must cross moscow as well before it begins its trip all the way around here it's going to circle or moscow is near the mouth of the first big city goes to is small and it goes up to the northwest and then he follows it follows a pattern and then starts to head east and covers all of the markers sort of a snail shell which now wouldn't know where it's there it's going to scoot over to kaliningrad the russian city of clue in granbury of clue and grab the expletive of course it's over in europe pretty place you've been there isn't anyone going to christmas break it'll take some pictures now that for as president who is now seventy two he's heading towards the setting off we think it was a boris rudolph maybe you know but oh but anyway he's doing

a sterling job curry about flay handing it over to the next next person we're talking about this journey we're talking a lot about it because obviously it's the news today we're not forgetting for a minute the big event it's all leading up to. the after party it's the main event but this what we're seeing now it's speed getting to encompass the whole of russia as it makes its way around organizers say they're hoping the way they've planned it should be within an hour of everyone at least being able to see it when i was travel all around russia and that's no mean feat of planning is it now city one hundred twenty three days in the covers absolutely all means of transportation as well it's not just planes trains and automobiles as well we're going to be getting by reindeer are we going to be getting on on a sled we're going to be going on roller skates everything every way part of the bottom of the little bit off the. me like i don't go to north paul mentions i assess on a balloon on how my leaving one foot on the flight and you can try it i sprang criswell incredible stuff let's go along with it be a nice holiday wouldn't it nice to have loved to go all right now let's go to red

square is there again he watched the arrival of said torches notice where you go maybe i don't think you'd say i don't know maybe you can correct me was that boris rudolph the first guy more elderly guy carrying that flame away if you know. that you repeat that gem and i'm sorry now i just wondered if you knew the guy that carries the flame first of all was very proud god would just like to know his name make sure we got it right. the famous for you after. it's agreed on it was pretty much it's one of the pieces of russian and soviet war that's why it was his responsibility to carry the olympic flame right inside the kremlin where is that but just i was listening while you were talking about earlier about how you remember the moment when russia only won the bid to host the olympics i remember that moment too i was sitting in the newsroom and it really back then it seemed that it was so distant so out of the reach but here i'm actually just seen it being

the way well not the delivered judges red square the torch was lit and it's really happening is that the olympics are going to take place this winter here in sochi and what we're seeing here now is basically be unofficial start the official start is tomorrow this will slow the unofficial start of the longest torch relay in the history of the olympic games it's going to be two thousand and nine hundred pounds and cities and villages across the whole country is going to last for over one hundred twenty days it's pretty much going to be delivered the fire all the possible means of transportation not only cars and like you said nuclear icebreakers but dogs sledges reindeer sledges hot air balloon. it's even going to be taken on board the international space station by a space rocket. is going to be taken outside into outer space fourteen thousand people are going to be involved in the whole process and pretty much it's estimated

that they had sold at one point pretty much every citizen of russia will be in the responses distance to the olympic torch so around one hundred thirty million people will be able to either see it. but even participate in the torch or really until it finally ends up in its final destination the olympic city all sorts of. ok is going to thank you for that for now we're still watching the torch making it see its first of its epic journey is going to be handed surely to alexia's shipped off the absolute european champion in disks throwing among persons with disabilities he was the guy i was talking with on the cake that had gone through so much but he's still doing so well for himself. such a proud guy the whole. country actually what we missed apparently when we saw all that sausage being lit just now apparently it's the second time been lit it going

to add who found it going to look we've got in the studio we're very pleased to say to ellison from the torch relay team with us you've worked on this kind of thing for many years a video delighted to be in the program i'm sure you've been watching that with great pride as well because these things never entirely go smoothly no matter how much planning you put into it part of the torch had gone what we are witnessing the first time it was lit it was the second time so president say those are just one of those i mean it happens during the flame on the torch goals all normally then you go back to the land with them all the flame and you light it again so we can always go to the flame from olympia. the opening ceremony in sochi i've got one of the no other if you know much about this torch hoping to do this torch is not just a few it's not just. some work put in a rather fancy looking holder not a design efforts going into that work for years but we did so in the end incorporation with the manufacturer and it's

a mix of gas inside and it all for eight to ten minutes and it's absolutely wonderful to sign and it's tested and proven and then you get that right to the top you saying now that is the actual design that this is this high tech flame holder that's been designed it only actually burns every relay or only actually burns right when it goes out again is that right years and of course every torchbearer have their own talk made fourteen thousand torches for these really and that's where you get this wonderful moment of exchanging the flame when the new torchbearer start. and it's a magic moment and of course you don't want to add more gas than it's needed for. every night when this reaches its various cities and towns a crucible will be lit here you know there's a cauldron we called the cauldron that flip that the celebration solid when the celebration is over the flame will go into the lantern again and stay over night in this in this lantern and that's how we say the more the flame is burning twenty four hours a day stay with us for

a minute or two well or if you would let's convert your later video eldest in there from the torch relay city. and we're just watching now flame again it's making its way out of red square now isn't it it's too long is it due to go. to days in moscow before it starts to head off to towards the towards the northwest that moscow itself is obviously so big you have a population eighty three ten and twenty five million people it has a lot lot of regions actually cut down sixty days in the in the capitol hill for it starts its epic journey and hundred twenty three days as we said overall it's a super day for be there we talked about the planning we talked about. i'm sure you heard me just now on the set i was actually sitting it out if we broadcast live when we had that russia big seven years ago no. this flow. it's no time though is it to come up with something like saatchi seventy is is a very quick time to turn around to look at the pictures over your shoulder there

are none of that was there seven years ago what's the ideal time to plan for something like this was it depends upon every different venue well it really depends of course the size of the school and it's a very very impressive school i mean i'm just amazed by the pictures from this welcome ceremony i mean it's the most spectacular arrival ceremony i've ever seen and the plans will be really all course huge too and there's a quarter of thirty to forty people who are looking for years. and we hope the present importance. in russian rail and local tolls forces in all these. thousands of people who will be involved let me just get this right for all of you who've been fairly involved as well not just in past torture let's also this one as well you know we're going to work with the organizing committee here for the last time i went with russia puts on a show of thinking but. your vision contests for instance out of this world when russia puts on a show like support of a good show for the world you said that.