this is why you should care only on the r.-g. dot com. fast approaching the preparation finish line there's just a month until sochi twenty fourteen gets going we'll check how the olympic city will keep visitors moving also. oh. oh. for spurs around the world mark or orthodox christmas as a grand service is held in moscow is christ the savior cathedral. when water leaves a bitter taste we look at how disputes over resources can spark major conflicts across the world and here what can be done to stop.

ten am here in moscow you're with r t international in and use now a ready study and only a month to go sochi is getting its final pieces in place for the winter olympics archies paul scott's been taking a look at what will soon be the world's winter sports wonderland hey we all on top of the russian the seasons hotel in sochi overlooking the coastal cluster or the olympic village behind me a six. each of the venues with the other five in the mountain cluster which is just a short train ride from here now let's take a look at exactly what we've got behind me the fish stadium is going to host the opening and closing ceremony rehearsals are ongoing at the moment for the opening ceremony it's a closely guarded secret at the moment but come february the seventh forty thousand lucky ticket holders will be enjoying what promises to be a spectacle and one of the main attractions during any winter olympics is the ice hockey competition which is taking place in the bolshoi cost one hundred eighty

million dollars they can house twelve thousand fans now with a month to go all these venues have been tested to international standards on more than one occasion and is difficult to imagine exactly what this area was like seven years ago before such it was awarded the games before then the area behind me was just barren wasteland and the whole area looks set to benefit for many years to come and in particular local businesses my colleagues about what say now reports. the caucasus mountains an angel i tried days with a love for nature and now they've become an attraction for new opportunities and business one family decided to leave behind the metropolis of moscow for a change of scenery and life sound and a new business saw them using the found in this landscape bad did the city win the olympic bid to play any influence to. sochi winning the olympics we had encouraged

us to take action as we became more sure that the region will now be developing fast and world so yes i'd say this frank did have an influence on on our decision to move here. leaving well paid jobs behind meant making a living was their number one priority so they turned to so. using his head called business to help his creative like christina at first it was not much more than a pastime but the business blossomed david product line consists of again except shampoos shower gels and creams you might even for a gadget looking at a bar so as everything looks appetizing there's a whole arsenal of bottles and flasks with essential and cosmetic. greetings are going to be a source locally water from the local mountains is used alongside herbs and spices which christina picks herself with no previous experience in the soap making

industry and no formal education in chemistry kristina studied up on her own time with the business is doing well this future looks even brighter with plans to open an eco friendly hotel but for now the magic happens in the kitchen so i really get an idea of a possible one of the games themselves will add potential clients raw business our future hotel and products or the rumors organizers of the olympics as say the new infrastructure created in the city will draw more tourists and help small businesses a host the olympics a home base business sourcing local organic products and materials and herbs from our own thoughts as well as the caucasus mountains now if the president thought is bubbling with fever for the winter games then it looks like its future of the olympic and paralympic games will blossom if you take big xampp all of upcoming

businesses like this one with a in sochi our team. the president of the sochi two thousand and fourteen organizing committee to me says his hometown is ready to roll for one of the world's biggest sporting events in the world can you get to your home you have to prepare the table of the good food and of course the atmosphere is the key because we want to reach the highest emotional level of excitement of the people who will arrive our professional staff is the place volunteers already have started to arrive from all around to come through the venues are fully ready to there were this births a lot of snow in the mountains where we came and very exciting to welcome the wall but there is one thing still missing the olympic torch which is still in route along the longest relay in the history of the games from space walks and diving to the bottom of the world's deepest lake it's now on its way through central russia

artie's james brown's been following its voyage which he described to be friends james brown welcome to the studio what do you have with you here the torch of the olympic games can you give us a look at this well as you say this is my. personal torch it's as you can see very one of the color and souvenir let me let me have a look at it i mean this this is not light by any means heavy this respect but yeah it is what two kilos about four actually really yes you could have your own train yeah you hold that you hold it out that it is heavy quite and this is a better record breaking relay for the olympic torch going places it's never been before you were following it which one of the milestones do you think was the last memorable or important i think for me i've been to several. going to by car was amazing they took the torch down under water into my car so you have the burning flare torches specially made then passed very impressive on the water and then blew

the top back with with a man with a jet pack on to the on to the shore very good video so that was that was a sight to be seen but there was one amazing moment and a real once in a lifetime moment was going with the torch to the north pole you see on t.v. and you read it and then you think wow that must be really must be very interesting never going to go there and then this opportunity came up to go on this nuclear icebreaker this huge. ship that can cut through to me to thick ice and is fueled by two gigantic reaction is so your which is a strange feeling in itself yeah go and stand by. but we were going to go to the north pole with the flame and we maybe it's the. lesson for the half day which was a world record pace and arrived in the middle of the polar nights with the libby torch in the north pole for the very first time in history. now that we're into the

final month until the games begin we continue our special coverage from sochi as it gears up for the winter sporting spectacle stay with r.t. international. i. it's christmas day but there's no need to check your calendar because it's orthodox worshippers celebrating the holiday this time here in moscow it began with a grand service in the price the savior cathedral. was there. this is a holy time for old russian also looks believe that there's around eighty percent of the country's population but there are also others who live abroad special christmas vigils held in around ten thousand churches and monasteries all across

russia including tries to save a cathedral here in central most good russia's main church where the ceremony is led by patriarchal mosco and all russia the real every year around five thousand believers attend the ceremony in this particular cathedral including the country's top officials these here prime minister medvedev attended the ceremony here but president putin celebrates christmas in seoul to this year where he traveled several days ago to monitor preparations for winter olympic games the truck show will soon be hostage in a holy relic a very important one for old also works believers. brought here to use christ to save a cathedral from greece's atthis mourner street which is paul to all of the magi gave gold frankincense and myrrh that according to the bible and christian tradition were given to jesus when he was born by a group of foreign travelers who covered thousands of kilometers to see the newborn

and to own to him as a king and starting tuesday morning and for the entire week afterwards all those who want to come here and see them will have this opportunity and just a legitimate question that i guess our t.v. audience may still have is why iran is also looks church celebrates the birth of jesus at the beginning of january not in december as most of christians do that is because of the julian calendar the thrushes orthodox church follows and the end which differs from going to go in calendar used by others after christmas we are going to see a week of so-called says that he does it hold it time for all believers as well. america's super snooping national security agency got backed into a corner by congress when pressed whether it's been spying on its members while the

agency still managed to dodge giving i.d.'s are no answer merely promising to keep lawmakers in the loop on their mission to get more on the n.s.a. is the lack of alien maneuvering at r t dot com. also learn about the cataclysm including super volcanoes that could erupt at any moment and what scientists discoveries mean for the rest of us. right from the sea. first rate. and i think that you're. on our reporters were very. instrumental. in the. water is life so they say but rivalry over supplies can lead to better conflicts

you can see here that since the mid twentieth century the planet seen nearly one hundred eighty conflicts connected to water resources these include both small the large scale clashes a lot of them in the middle east and africa so it might surprise you to hear that it's water rather than oil that could be what's fought over in the coming years in the region pole sitter reports now from israel. the bible tells us that within a short distance from here jesus turned water into wine two thousand years later the great american might be turning the wine back into water but has been living in the golan heights for over thirty years each day he attends to his vineyard in orchards keeping his wine in a center that was once a syrian bunker he is proud of the wine he produces but knows that in the absence of water none of this would be possible but i know for sure me water is important

because it's the second main resource that we have other than the land and each crop needs water and without it you will destroy all the crops and destroy all of the farming here you can turn the golan heights into a desert and it's not just about the golan heights rainwater from its catchment feeds into the river jordan providing a food of israel's water supply the disputed region was seized from syria after the six day war and residents of the golan remember that water was a key issue in the conflict and one of the stands here understands the importance of that word for what the supply of israel because every door was raining here all but one is prone to the security of guarding the food we can say that it is a must for. respect a prisoner to have been poured over these what the phone says it's a worldwide rule that whoever controls the water controls the land but the problem is in some places there's very little water to go around bring you have the common

waterfalls shared by several sovereign nations there's always the possibility of a clash of religious conflicts that should be manageable was put out of control and examples of possible conflicts are plentiful syria's major water sources travel through turkey and iraq making it vulnerable while jordan is reliant on a river with syria bill today egypt. recently expressed concern of a countries using the upper now to generate electric power in the dry landscape of the middle east is a prize most precious thing diamonds in its absence famine and drought are quick to follow but this is a region that's very seldom needs an excuse for war and water shortages might just tip the balance police here r.t. in the golan heights. as paul mentioned in her report there egypt is now locking horns over water supplies with ethiopia which is building

a dam on the nile but egypt which is massively dependent on the same supplies is worried the project might leave its entire population with no water when it comes online in three years political science professor sayed said it predicts tension o'boyle over we have to remember that egypt has only six to seven percent of its land land the rest of the egyptian territory is there's a bevin there's a so that can really be a serious affecting national security and that's why i immediately went to see o.b. and raise the issue of the high then the world's some. experts here is that the world talking about military option and go in to war was this your view because if you cut water on us we would be buying eighty five percent of the water. and water comes from and so it's serious in fact that in two thousand and fifty years it will be one hundred fifty million people and we would be needing in addition to the

fifty five point five billion cubic feet we need when the one billion cubic meter extra for when we get this nuclear no tools. then we go fifty five point five to pick me because what would happen to egypt in the year two thousand and fifty if we don't have more water. and then it meant is affairs journalist addled darwish thinks nations have no choice but to rationally share their common supplies and not politicize their disputes as the population grew and as agriculture grew and. grew or was all it was. water is when doing that probably will reach the hardly any fish with a live in the pond that would be averted if the idea was exploring why. the water bank i.e. the rivers or water resources shirred among nations if we can quantify the usage of

this what use for agriculture what you wish for and what you wish for apology innovation and complain see each other by sort of making the water dollar old daughter pound or whatever and then we quantify it into more cooperative projects but without giving the human nature and nature of politicians i probably not very optimistic. i had read your story here on our t britain's banking boley our fears claims that a major high street bank is profiting from small businesses was played over and financing said it being their safety net one couple tells us how they lost everything. her. mother. look.

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a. little to. welcome back you are the arts international live from moscow in iraq the government forces are preparing to storm the city of full lucia which has been overrun by al qaeda linked militants the prime minister is even urging civilians there to rise up and help drive out insurgents well earlier extremist forces crossed over from neighboring syria joining up with their allies already finding in iraq the radicals want to set up an islamic state and their ranks are swelling with thousands of new recruits iraqi leaders have been struggling to control the country in the aftermath of the u.s. withdrawal two years ago washington is promising to support baghdad but will not send troops analysts say iran will gladly weigh in with military backing but we

have seen and this town and washington for the past three years been so this some sort of a disinterested iraq you know like iraq does not exist it's off their radar screen so it really it's a volatile situation the military was never prepared it was always predicated on sectarian lines unfortunately it is does not have the kind of weapon that it needs to buy this buy it doesn't have combat airplanes it does not have combat helicopters bronze ally in the area its biggest ally is maliki so they are not going to stand by idly and see the country break up all going to war or very young indeed maliki overthrown by a guy that type so they i think that they would come to the aid or at least with in terms of arms and supplying arms and so on because the u.s. so far has fallen short of doing their jobs. meanwhile iran has refused to sign line roll of the upcoming international peace talks on syria tehran has not received an official invitation to attend the geneva two conference later this

month keep power players including russia and the u.n. chief have said they'd like to see the iranians at the table but the u.s. wants to iran to accept a sideline role for the a pharmac state rejected calling it a matter of honor. in other news moscow is demanding an explanation from senegal over the detention of a russian. ship and its eighty two crew members were seized at the weekend off the coast of guinea bissau now in western africa senegalese officials claim it was fishing you legally but found to produce evidence to support accusations sixty two russians are still trapped on the ship with their passports confiscated. washington is pressuring kabul to sign a bilateral security pact within weeks the treaty would allow thousands of american soldiers to remain in afghanistan after the nato withdraw in late twenty four team unhappy with some parts of the deal which would grant u.s. troops immunity from afghan law washington now threatening to pull out all of its

forces out of the country unless the deal is sealed well to get a small business off the ground you need the backing of a bank but choose carefully because not all seem to have your entrepreneurial interests at heart has been to meet one couple in britain who found their lender more predatory than protective and discovered they're far from alone chris richardson and bernstein used to own this hotel but not anymore three years ago out of the blue they say the bank took it from them nat west star will now hotel the photo below me here because i was always will and it will be coming back if there's justice in this country these guys will be arrested. we will be giving this october back in two thousand and ten chris and ernie had a loan from west to do up the coniston hotel and conference center in north kent

they were just eleven days from opening when their bank manager told them there was a problem releasing the latest tranche of their loan he said no worries don't worry about it. and that is the last we've ever heard of his vanished off we have not heard from him since late said the owners know the bank was saying they'd run out of money despite having one point six million pounds of their agreed loan left now west then revalue to the hotel at just over a third of its original price so the hotel found itself in administration from where it was snapped up by west register the bank's property. the kicker r.b.s. and its subsidiary now west are majority owned by the taxpayer but it's a ruse r.b.s. has been accused of many times over lawrence timing is a small business and by the to the government his recent report exposes the seemingly duplicitous nature of banking operations my report focuses on r.b.s.

and what we're saying is that they're restructuring division georgi acted in a way that the businesses that they were supposed to be helping get back to health were taken put into distress for the benefit of the bank we actually see b.s. has it's own property company called west register and we're seeing r.b.s. owning those customers property after they've been in distress told linton's report is twenty pages of examples and findings under headings like engineering and defaults and extensive fees in response r.b.s. said in a statement no evidence had been provided to support the allegation that the bank had systematically profited on the backs of their customers and they'd be looking into it fully christened ernie's hotel is now a thriving business fitted out exactly as they left it but it belongs to the bank and their lives have been destroyed which put me from

a very wealthy man back on tax credits. more family suffered heavily through this. west register the bank's property company in the hotel moore was birthday last year. she sadly. got cancer in march this year and she'd already my. three three goals that one answers and justice determined to fight back chris and ernie cling to the idea that one day they'll walk through these doors owners of the hotel again laura smith artie kent. i'm arens up next to debug the stories to sound by some other networks.

there are many internal battles in society liberals and conservatives will never agree on gun rights or abortion but there is one battle that is often more generational than anything the battle for school uniforms teachers argue that uniforms eliminate a big distraction in the classroom and break up the caste systems that can evolve at school between the cool festival kids and the ones who can barely afford lunch like me in my younger years but teenagers will scream uniforms crush their freedom

of expression and that they have a right to express who they are their individuality who has the right to dictate to them what to wear the thing they don't realize is that if the school doesn't tell them what to wear that big corporations and m.t.v. will all the cool individuals who dress alike and blindly follow all the trends are just obeying corporate marketing instead of their parents yeah for some reason it is bad if the school punishes you for dressing improperly but if the cool kids make your life a living hell for not wearing the right brand of shoes well that's all well and good for some reason hey look at this way school uniforms are cheap which leaves more money for parents to buy you video games being individual in your actions and not a fake. individual in trendy clothes but that's just my opinion. the peaceably gives a girl a very hard to take

a. look. at he ever had sex with her right there looking. for that. guys i'm abby martin and this is breaking the set november twenty second of this year will mark the fiftieth anniversary of the assassination of u.s. president john f. kennedy it's an incident still surrounded by questions that many americans are trying to answer one of the filmmakers made the best attempt to put the disparate

pieces together for a time academy award winning director all over stone now he's commemorating the canby anniversary by rereleasing has epic film j.f.k. and an ultimate director's cut the collector's edition also includes a segment from oliver stone's showtime series the untold history the united states a film adaptation of the joint book authored by stone and historian peter cousin that take a look. if the word go forth from this time and place to friend and foe alike. that the charge been passed to a new generation of americans. but with his murder three the torch was passed back to an old generation the generation of johnson nixon ford and reagan leaders who would systematically destroy the promise of kennedy's last year as they return the country to war and.