none of that was there seven years ago i mean what's the ideal time to plan for something like this or is it depend upon every different venue well it really depends on 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 you do and there's a core team of thirty to forty people with you working for years she organized the community and we hope of presenting qualities. in russian rail and local polls forces in all these eighty three in forty thousands of people who will be involved let me just get this right for all of you who've been thoroughly 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 was out of this world when russia puts on a show like support of a good show for the world you said that the event is pretty good what you're seeing

today how much back planning has gone into this to make it have nice things are lucky there no i mean for four years people have been planning this and like i said over the last two years is thirty to forty people with the organizing committee. with the operational agencies in addition and presenting porters there's a hundred people who've been working on this over the last over the last year and when we go in there all there will be thousands every day and all ok let's just take a look at the torchbearer. michael ware along the same not totally sure who that is could be. let me just have a little look. it's arena's ford school of export yes this lady's got a very interesting to. tell us a little bit about arena born in one thousand nine hundred eight export t.v. edited now stories interesting she had an incredible story she was a good all round. so when they decided to branch out from track and field and go

into into doing bob's lay and then in november two thousand and nine she was in clinics say in germany and there was a terrible accident whereby. there was some tissue over safety and she ended up in an accident whereby she almost lost her leg died her injuries were absolutely horrific she's been in that hospital had fifty plus operations but now she's so rebuilt her life she can't obviously compete in sport in a more insane way but she's gone off into sports journalism has been working for the main russian channel she's had an incredible story where she's really turned her life around turned away from from those all four. struggles that she faced again really proud moment for her to carry this. we're not going to come together the first few steps of epic journey around russia of the next one hundred twenty three days flame burning brightly and must give you some pleasure to see. in the

middle of it going so well these guys are doing their very best flying the flag for russia it's a fantastic story behind the forty thousand torch bearers and you can see your problem. and it's really building the excitement for the games so basically the celebrations talk no more everybody will realize what we three or four months till the games and we are carrying this message all of the games not. yet again live so for the next little bit of its journey who's got it no difficulty to see on this small ball or so but i'm sure the gallery can tell us i'm going to see you don't know you're on of the metro driver i think you know. if it is a different look i don't know exactly where they have such a gear on as well and they have the two. but if you don't vary on if you use the driver though you go the tragedy the most commitment to frozen is a six year he managed to stay calm while. all the praise was made he won

a medal if there was something on the line a forum or something right in front of any couldn't stop the train but he managed to control the situation before there is a multiple. out of interest we're seeing these people here they've all done so many good things in their various fields they've all put up or put up with so much in their personal lives etc etc but who chooses who does what because there are plenty of people around the country of course go through similar who chooses you know well their selection process were different category holders. number have been selected through campaigns with the presenting partners they have in public campaigns and people can argue a ploy or be nominated based on their merits and they're good. for communities. i mean how many people apply for this kind of thing do they apply or they picked up law and also more nominated but there's there's more than a hundred thousand applications behind this really so these guys are saying that these eleven initial torchbearers they must be so absolutely so. original when

canada i think it was the was the calgary games in one thousand nine hundred eighty they asked for canadians to volunteer to go to be torchbearers i think something like seven million canadians went through and said seven thousand you know so the whole point of the games i think is a brilliant galvanizing force because he brings all the russians together not only will it get all the eighty three regions one hundred thirteen million russians within my touching distance but the whole thing has an impetus of it so in that it focuses everybody on a time it's not just having the clocks that we've seen the clocks in the main also in red square cross in the main cities but it starts to bring everybody sense of anticipation together for the games ok as we watch the relay take a few more steps about to be handed over to the next person i think we just missed it will go back to just a second like to think of. where we go it being handed over here in. super.

student from the top three thank you for your time. as you would very much appreciate it thanks it was a most of the job so far it's going well. just right so it continues on his journey who's got it now who's got it now i want to maybe i can't quite see the shot so it's enough to see who it is could it be or less. lady if you really dreading the see in this here as in a sea of hours of sharks roy she said he was eighteen and she happened to be. at the seaside and see a lady going out on a big airbag that was going further and further out to sea and she had no fear and jumped in and saved the lady and her back to shore. and again when a medal for her heroism. if you've just joined this tell you what you're watching as we continue with these pictures you're watching the first stages of the olympic torch relay kicking off in red square just about ten minutes ago. to go on the

longest journey journey in the history of the winter games this marathon is going to last almost one hundred thirty days passed through two thousand nine hundred cities and villages from the north west to the far east of the country in total that flame and its near relatives you know the secret will cover the distance of more than sixty five thousand kilometers fourteen thousand you seen about seven of them already fourteen thousand top spirit is set to carry the flame of the country's most significant sites of storage and environmental interest organizers we just spoke to one of. the organizers save ninety percent of the russian population is going to be with and i was reached the top cheering its journey that's no mean feat the biggest country in the world it means about one hundred thirty million people in russia will be able to see the relay but also the places it'll go to and how they get there most places have been specially picked of course . various local interest etc etc all to give

a flavor of what's happening where we go look to continue with. red square just passing the soldiers the eternal flame there i know where it is. there we go call it continues its journey thank you for being with us and thank you for coming to the studio going to be here right now in the excitement. from sochi just a couple of days ago we were talking with you saying everything was covered if it happened snow there was a worry was make it a couple of mild winters if it hadn't snow. yet because so close to you have to store the snow up but when you were there it was bucketing to tell you i we were very surprised that we got to the top of one of the mountain clusters and what did you see there it was like minus two degrees in the middle of september it was just incredible but it kind of gave you a sort of feeling of how this new our pain like the environment that they've created is going to feel like you know when all the skiis of the and when you know

especially for those who want to come out to the enjoy those winter games and if that before we even delve into it i want to show you a little bit of what i saw what i did what i was out in sochi let's take a look right now i think it's going to play this moment. once to go before kickoff starts are for the twenty second winter olympics as well as the paralympics that will be hosted by a source here in russia of course we're giving you a taste of what are those winter games will look like and even feel like it's a little bit chilly here in sochi today but no worries we've got something to warm you up with as we show you a little bit of what these olympic venues are going to hold for you once you here i was standing right now at one of the i was supposed to be the longest bops late in the world we're talking about three slopes that are put together in order to give you the fastest and the longest railing for the bobsleigh as it's also called psyche which also means sledge in russia some of the venues are completed and the

rest awaiting the finishing touches the state of the art components can be seen in both the architecture and the technology used to make these games the best yet and it's easy to see how this russian resort city can be turned into the outline of the far east so of course the cable cars are also working making sure they transferred from the bottom of the mountain cluster to the top of the hills where all the sporting events are all of them including things like snowboarding it included things like we'll be going up here guru thought that once we get to one of the mountain clusters here this is what we would find a winter wonderland obviously mother nature telling us that the clock is ticking and she's ready for all those spectators as well as those sports men and women both paralympics as well as the olympics ready here to take part in there is games. have

evolved so they're back in the studio after a short report from what was it two weeks ago so it was i was about a week i was quite surprised it was a winter wonderland when you got up there and. it did look like a blizzard but you know what's funny is because when we watched early on we got. see lindsay at the stadium where you were there it wasn't actually that finished i mean there were a few things outside a few construction but the fact that it's sole everything looks perfect now it's amazing that within a week everything looks the original right now probably certain exactly early to do it and you do it right and they show it which is what i think the olympic committee really was impressed with is the fact that you know russia and so she took on this seven year project and they delivered it and they've delivered it in a way that is not only on the olympic committee very happy as well as a little. very very having such outstanding work within seven years i mean some of the forces the mountainous cluster some of the picture i mean we see the first of.

two of you with a small brain where we talk about russia sea resort the only one by the way isn't it. how far the mountains from the sea what's the difference in this poem and i'm really asked me that because that's actually what makes these winter olympics so special because everything the olympic park is basically all the venues are twenty minutes apart this is never been done for the mountains to the sea from them but from basically in the coastal area they are all twenty minutes apart and from the coastal to the mountain it's about forty five minutes but you know we're talking about you know you're taking you in a comfortable area you're taking your you know your cabin. because there we go we're taking the cable cars up to the mountains we're talking so everything really is in one vicinity making sure that it is cold you don't want to be running around for the next one and a half hour trying to get to your venue everything is such in such close proximity and this is what makes them so unique and when you're there you really do feel like

there's a buzz even though there's nobody there at the moment there is a sense of wow when there's so many people around you when the athletes out here this is going to be magic don't want to be a party pooper but you know a lot of people on the way civil despite all this money spread. it could have been spent better in other ways because of your too weak of a future for it you know what i mean we when we did the top of sorts that money was going to be needed anyway to sort of improve tsotsi and the infrastructure of the. walls and most of it it's i guess most of the people who think about socially they think also that russian sort of resort town everything is kind of date right now it's kind of reminds me a little bit of cape town you know down the beach everything bussing life of these balls and clubs and and there's a feeling of i don't know a new sort of miami but in the far east and what's important was that all the

infrastructure that was put the is so that the people who are left behind will be able to use it from the new roads that have been created through the new railway stations that have been added to the airport that's been added which by the way happens to be the one of the new terminals is the cleanest terminal in russian airports which is amazing because we need you can tell that they've a little a lot of their own i know there's a lot of what we hire environmentally friendly solutions to right now there's a lot of business interests out in sochi right now so all those things these other things of the future i would like to think about the environment about just the infrastructure and so forth the disruption if you like it was inevitable it's going to happen was an evitable i mean it was just being criticized by some locals and some people have heard from one of the. joints some would be moved. how large is the criticism how much of a problem was it compared to the bigger picture i think right now what of course if there's such big disruptions within normal life for the past seven eight years it's

going to get some people a little bit off but right now from where i was standing people are more excited about what this event is going to bring back it's going to bring opportunities for them in terms of jobs there's you. versus created for sports centers so it's all going to come back to the people at the end of this and that's what's really the olympics about it's about sharing sportsmanship but also leaving legacies that will be used by the rest of the public good was looking good so for what i'm saying i can't wait to get the material i'm excited was to. get you out the ok to have you think service so much like a partridge thanks as well what we can about you little bit later your insight into the let's not forget the most important sporting start is i suppose it's not about particularly the flame it's about where it's going to go to come but you for more than a little bit later right now but we talked about the flame and it is of course the story of the day a massive convoy of bikers brought safely to red square and a cheering crowd before president putin sent the torch on its way as you will

witness with us about half an hour ago let's cross live to r.t. if you could please can off he's in red square either well. the flame is gone what's happening there now the. musical performances and celebrations and so on the scores of people are still here i guess though going through the impression the motions that we've just received seem with all of these the actual olympic flame which has now been taken inside the kremlin and then taken around the problem as well the torch is being passed from one athlete to another athlete paralympic athletes as well and is basically in the sort of what's going to be the longest and probably one of the most epic torch relay in the history of the olympic games the way it was delivered here to red square was already quite unique since it was delivered to moscow while this special flight but then it was

a supported by two hundred bikers from the quake airport to our red square from one of the most well known biker games in the country the night the bulls these guys are known to be often getting involved in lots of charity projects lots of the more affluent so they say for them it was a great honor to be scored the olympic flame to the very heart of all the russian capital preferred from president vladimir putin would be out of here as well congratulating pretty much the whole country with the fact that four g. is going to host the olympic games now tell you a bit more about the olympic torch relay fourteen thousand people are going to take part in it hold together now it's believed that around one hundred thirty million russian citizens will be able to either see the olympic torch to their own eyes or even possibly one more to participate in the really since the torch is going to be moved through the entire country two thousand and nine hundred cities and villages

is going to be taken on top of the highest mountains like mountain elbrus or on the bottom of the biggest the lakes like lake baikal it's even going to be taken on board the international. space station is going to be taken outside into the open space now also how it's going to be moved around it's pretty much by all possible means of transportation not only trains blames them cars but reindeer swatches dogs ledges camels even and spaceships so this is truly an historic event what we're witnessing now and pretty much the beginning of the major show which is of course going to take place in sochi this february. we have just you're talking though what shakespeare the torchbearer is the pictures we saw back ten minutes or so ago the first guy that took it off proudly maybe in the first days done so well for his country sees rewarded with the first guy to carry the torch i just wanted to ask you something you're a bit of

a technology buff my space buff me go you say it's going up to the i assess how is it getting there. was i think first of all you would love to take planes into space or is that a stupid question well that is a very good question and that's pretty much the latest to go to the international space station these are these guys are actually going to be the ones we're going to have to take outside outer space somehow we were asked this question are you going to do that they actually said that it's a secret that they're not going to they're not going to tell tell anybody we're just going to have to wait and see how it's going to happen but one thing is for sure that's never been done before. it's a leap it's called a limb pick magic i think just before we leave you just sum up what you just spent a minute summing up the feeling of the people there we can hear everything going on in the background but the god you've been talking to the papal thousands of people in red square what are their to say whoa what's the vibe you getting haven't really

the level of excitement of the caribbean or the. weather. thousands of people gathered. red square they're really excited people are really excited many have been saying that when the news came out that sochi won the big to the olympics initially many of these people thought that all of it was sort of just an insult far away almost like a fairy tale which would never actually happen now here we were seeing a live shot with their own eyes these people these putting you really are getting to understand that this is the reality we are going to see because the games party wasting so much so much has been done and you know. that. one of the big games in the history of the games story big or love to see you thanks for bringing us flavor of what's happening there right in the very heart

of it as the celebrations to welcome the limping flame to the center of moscow the heart of russia continue now as the olympic torch relay kicked off and let's take a few minutes look at how olympic athletes can benefit from the latest sporting science in a special edition of technology update. it's the most hard road to retire for any atlee that's not here in russia have at it an experiment practiced by enough already and lingering training regimen. it seems cruel but despite all the hard work blood sweat and tears the majority of aspiring athletes will never reach these peaks of professional sport with that in mind researchers working with the university of physical culture and sport in moscow are

looking to harness the latest technology to get aspiring athletes over that hump is potentially dangerous and illegal doping isn't an option the new secret to success may lie in element ever present in the air we breathe but long before looked. it was discovered over one hundred years ago by sir william ramsey and morse travers' a novel finding certainly but practical applications for it were fleeting until the one nine hundred thirty s. when it found use in high speed flash photography and a bit later as an anesthetic in operations however it is prohibited lehi cost prevented from being adopted by the medicine that all could be changing. thanks to work being carried out here at the institute of medical and biological problems xenon could be on the verge of a major revival. amongst the hyperbaric chambers where many of the country's divers in astronauts have gone through pressure chamber tests and training docs are taking a look at just what xenon has to offer. in recent years what used to

just be observable favorable side effects of seen on base and has become objects of inquiry in their own right. exactly how the gas interacts with receptors is still under study initial trials and experiments have shown that xenon and its neuroprotective properties can relieve stress. anxiety and even help addicts get over withdrawal symptoms. and if we talk about the production of xenon in russia there's no better place to look than a color in the business for over twenty years it ships its goods all over the globe company officials placed their market share but around one quarter of total demand . for most of their history though the company has primarily dealt with so-called technical xenon that is not for human ingestion but over the years as the gases and medical benefits have grown the demand for alter peers seen on has followed accordingly. was seen on another noble gases are all around us all of the time they

just in such small quantities that getting our hands on them require sophisticated machinery and no small dose of know how as a result there's a very limited number of countries currently able to capture scene and then put it to use for human kind. you know if for me to portray it as all of us who are all human producers worldwide if we extract it from air but is one of them there are only five countries they produce it commercially around the united states france germany russia and ukraine. is recovered as a byproduct of oxygen production it's large mental or physical factories got its plants special air separating machines single out oxygen and also generate as an encrypted mixture as a byproduct of the next of those to gases is then shipped to us before they were fighting which we manufacture zenon for medical purposes on the encrypted mixture requires extra puti cation. the purity of the z.

and they will produce is ninety nine point nine nine nine nine percent or one that you know additionally we also limit the share of ten harmful impurities in the gas oh yes you are refining technology isn't paid indeed you need and allows us to remove all these impurities in pure medical. it can further be used to pursue juries and all kinds of other treatments and. at the end of the process they get it is bottled and nearly ready to be sent on to clinics and hospitals under the brand name med at the moment is still rather expensive especially when compared with other and statics. proponents argue that when you take into account problems in complications associated with other knockout gases the prices come closer together but before the medical xenon gets into the hands of a qualified doctor every batch is tested and checked for purity. requires them to control for six kinds of impurities they go the extra mile to control for

a full tin as a result the level of impurities in the medical xenon produced here is around two to three times lower than regulators demand. every year we discover new particularly using xenon as in an authentic as a result we're figuring out at the absolutely new ways to play zenon is that this is a truly unique medicine it is totally harmless to humans but at the same time it is still very powerful and it can be used to treat just about any organ in the body depending on what the problem is with. medical xenon has many potential applications researchers here are specifically interested in how we can improve the performance of athletes they recently organize an experiment to lay the groundwork for future use in sports. to be a very strong stress protector. in other words in all cases involving stress

whether it be acute of a chronic stress the best way to deal with it is small therapeutic doses of this substance and when we talk about spilled before competition with an athlete needs to relax sleep well unimproved he's a her functional capacities with this experiment we're trying to see just how xenon can help. so over a ten day period a group of young athletes were given a controlled dose of and had a healthy. research is allowing doctors and scientists to better understand how the gas actually interacts with the body's organisms as well as working out the best way to incorporate into one's workout after taking in the gas the experiments the subjects would spend a night in a controlled environment where their sleep patterns could be followed more closely . to see what the results of the experiment looked like from the athlete side of the coin we checked in on one of the inhalers are. training across country in

conflicts that will host a vince in two thousand and fourteen in his mind in the short experiment that a noticeable effect. after the experiment in the hyperbaric chamber it was much easier for me to train and i was able to recover much more quickly afterwards. during the test trainings at my ski club i posted the best results. more experiments are planned for later this year but of course it will take. breathing sessions to get to these guys level both the first results and hand researchers hope that they've done their part to bring hardware back home this time next year. this is a technique that with old to be used in professional sports. it's going to be up to

physicians and hopefully they will be able to use it to help athletes get. back at the olympic park. are already completed and starting to host their preliminary test events earlier this month the main hockey arena was packed to the . not for any competition but to mark the start of the final countdown following a decent amount of entertaining performances as well as speeches by international sports chiefs and national leaders there's not a minute. much less a second to waste. people like your county cutting ceremony here. or telling you that point that long coming to the technology of those the next time it's coming to an.

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see. this is our team today welcome to russia makes it here to moscow the first torchbearers are now taking the top show tomorrow for a through russia it launches she twenty forty. also headlining in the week's news to us special forces are reportedly forced to fall but during a militant raid in somalia but a separate operation in libya is he's a top terror leaders see his claims swirl that washington's suspiciously taking its morgenstern search of. the netherlands goes to the international tribunal to try and free the thirty greenpeace arg to go activists to russia is taken to court on piracy charges.