this is why you should care only. fast approaching the preparation of finish line or just a month until such a twenty fourteen gets going check how the olympic city will keep visitors moving and say. also when water leaves a bitter taste we'll look at how disputes over resources can spark major conflicts across the world and here what could be done to stop them. as iraqi forces face off with islamic extremists for control the key city the u.s. weighs in by sending drones and missiles to baghdad.

it is three pm in moscow watching us here national with marina joshua welcome to the program ready steady and only a month to go sochi is taking the final boxes in its winter olympics preparations scott is there. it's all confident that everything is on track in sochi all the eleven venues have been completed built and tested to international standards on more than one occasion and all the transport networks including the high speed rail service between the coastal cluster and the mountain cluster are also up and running now there is still some work to be done but it's mainly superficial in terms of sprucing the city up so it looks nice come the opening ceremony on february the seventh what you can see behind me is the coastal cluster or the olympic village where six of the venues are housed where six of the venues are based including the fish stadium which is going to host the opening ceremony on february the seventh forty thousand lucky ticket holders will be crammed inside the stadium that you can see behind me enjoying what organizers are promising will be

a spectacular spectacle at the moment rehearsals are ongoing but the content of the show is a very closely guarded secret well with a month to go today is the day that the security operation kicks in in earnest now a controlled zone has been around all of the venues with a number of checkpoints in the city basically spectators will only be allowed into the venues or to designated areas if they have a ticket and also proof of id however thirty thousand police and security officers are going to be on patrol in the region most of the course of the weekend president vladimir putin amended a decree saying that demos can take place in designated areas if organizes get private permission so it seems that the games organizers are taking every step they can to ensure the most expensive games in history passed off peacefully. one man definitely convinced the security is all sorted such as me now only is that

his hometown he's also president of the sochi two thousand and fourteen organizing committee. i can see that we are ready. to host the most innovative games ever all stuff in place that will reduce the beach on the olympic mall to all mean in transportation system including access to the venues and of course of this really calm and friendly environment from the beginning of the construction. security was the paramount importance of the proportion for the games and by being in of all international experts and. the russian as they soared to provide incredible measures and incredible things to very few of the safest and most secure games ever everybody will be everything. but there is one thing still missing the olympic torch which is still a route on the longest relay in the history of the games from space walks and diving to the bottom of the world's deepest like it's now on its way through

central russia james brown's been following its voyage which he described earlier to indifference 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 can have your own train that you no doubt that 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 had the burning flare torches specially made then passed very impressive underwater and then flew

the top back with with a man with a jet 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 in a real once in a lifetime moment was going with the torch to the north pole you see on t.v. you read it and then you think wow that must be really that 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 meet a thick ice and it's fueled by two gigantic reaction see your which is which is a strange feeling in itself you go and stand by. but we were going to go to the north pole with the flame and we made it in less than four half days which was a world record pace and arrived in the middle of the polar nights with the libby taught in the north pole for the very first time in history. such as undergone

quite a transformation to become the world's winter sports wonderland mom would say takes a look at the massive boost the entire region has been experiencing. bad the caucuses mountains are known to attract days with a love for nature and now they become an attraction for new opportunities and business one family decided to leave behind the metropolis of moscow for a change of scenery and lifestyle and a new business saw them using that found in this landscape but did the city win the olympic bid to play in the influence to. sochi winning the live picture it encouraged us to take action as we became more sure that the region will now be developing fast and well and so yes i'd say this bank did have an influence on the on our decision to move here. leaving well paid jobs behind and making a living was

a number one priority so they turned to so d.-ma 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 today this product line consists of again except shampoos showa gels and creams you might even for gadgil looking at a bar so as everything looks appetising there's a whole arsenal of bottles and flasks with essential and cosmetic oils greetings alga nicklas sauce locally water from the local mountains is used alongside herbs and spices which christina picks has cells 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 doing well their future looks even brighter with plans to open an eco friendly hotel for now the magic happens in the kitchen. so you could i

got a post by that the games themselves will add potential clients raw business future hotel i'm proud to say that. organizes of the olympics as say the new infrastructure created in the city will draw more tourists and help small businesses and the elim peaks a home based business sourcing the local organic products and materials and herbs from our own soil she as well as the caucasus mountains now if the president saw it she is bubbling with fever for the winter games and it looks like its future the olympic and paralympic games will blossom if you take the example of upcoming businesses like this one with a in sochi. now that we're into the final month until the games began we'll continue our special coverage from sochi as a gears up for the winter sporting spectacle so stay with r.t. international for this and more.

i. water is life so they say but rivalry over supply is can lead to bitter conflict well as you see since the mid twentieth century the planes were planted see nearly one hundred eighty disputes connected to water resources and these include both small clashes or protest as well as a large scale conflict so inclined to prizes to hear that it's water rather than oil that could be what's fought over in the coming years are disposed to reports now from one of the centers of amity over water the middle east. 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 bubby caballo has been living in the golan heights for over thirty years each day he attends to seventy odd an orchard 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 you push me water is important because it's the second main resource that we have other than the land 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 with cease 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 stance here understands the importance of the work that all the water supply of israel because every drop of water raining

here will be one is prone to the security of god so we can say that it is and must . respect the prisoner who have been poured over these what the fall 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 water the soles shared by several foreign nations there's always the possibility of a clash of riches 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 water is a prize most precious thing diamonds in its absence famine and drought are quick to follow but this is a region that very seldom needs an excuse for war and water shortages might just tip the balance police here r.t. in the golan heights and a spoiler mentioned in harry poor agents now locking horns over water supplies with the g.o.p. which is building a dam on the nile egypt relies massively on the river as worried about being left dry when the project goes online in three years political science professor cites a deck predicts tension will boil 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 sylvia and raise the issue of hi there the world some. experts here is that the world

talk 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 fifteen egypt will be one hundred fifty million people and we would be needing in addition to the fifty five point five billion cubic meter we need twenty one billion cubic meters of extra food where do we get it in the snow be it now tools. that need go fifty five point five cubic meters what would happen to egypt in the u. two thousand and fifty if we don't have more water. and middle east affairs journalist addle darwish thinks nations have no choice but to rationally share their common supplies and now politicize their disputes as the population grew and

as agriculture grew and. grew or is all it was. is when dealing probably will reach a point or hardly any freshwater live on the planet that could be averted if the idea i was exploring a while back what we call a water bank the rivers or water resources shirred among nations if the can quantify the usage of it what use for agriculture what do you wish for and what do you wish for power generation and complain see each other by sort of making the water dollar or daughter pound or whatever and then be quantify it into more cooperative projects but without giving the human nature and nature of politicians i probably not very optimistic. and i have for you shortly here on r t britain's banking boy these charges here is claims that a major high street bank is profiting from small businesses will sleight of hand

financing instead of being their safety net one couple tells us how they lost every . mother. in the. leg it was terrible they are looking very hard to make i. want to get along here a lot has never had sex with the perfect there's no. one.

going to. want. to. look into a bubble. welcome back to watching r c international with me marina joshing the u.s. war in iraq may have ended more than two years ago but washington is now rushing an emergency shipment of surveillance drones and missiles to the country the firepower is designed to help the iraqi government retake the city of fallujah which has been overrun by al-qaeda linked militants earlier extremist forces crossed over from

neighboring syria joining up with their allies already and iraq and the radicals want to set up at islamic state in 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 iraq has also offered to help baghdad and alice say the islamic state will fill the gap left by america 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 i thought their radar screen so. you know really it's a volatile situation the military was never prepared it was always predicated on sectarian lines unfortunately it 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 and there is 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 visiting and the maliki

overthrown by a tide the pipe 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 the roman has refused to sideline row at the upcoming international peace talks on syria iran has been received an official invitation to attend the geneva two conference later this month to 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 an offer of the islamic state rejected calling it a matter of author. in turkey three hundred fifty police officers have reportedly been sacked as part of a crackdown over a massive corruption scandal in addition several high profile officials have been thrown behind bars following an investigation of revelations sparked fierce anti-government protests on the streets with prime minister who want claims the

affair is a foreign conspiracy designed to discredit his cabinet. 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 was draw in late two thousand and fourteen cobbles unhappy with some parts of the deal which would grant u.s. troops immunity from afghan law washington is now threatening to pull all of its forces out of the country unless the deal is sealed. in other news moscow is demanding an explanation from senegal over the detention of a russian trawler the ship and its eighty two crew members were seized at the weekend off the coast of getting to sound in western africa senegalese officials claim it was fishing illegally but have failed to produce evidence to support the accusations sixty two russians are still trapped on the ship was their passports confiscated. and. now the youngest victim of the volgograd terrorist attacks in

southern russia at the end of december is now showing signs of recovery the cum is just three months old have been in a medically induced coma for over a week. is outside a hospital and he joins us now live for more on exceeds what kind of house at this point about the girls condition. what we have indeed received some good news from the russian health minister and also from the father of the youngest the youngest injured girl in the volgograd terror attack she's only three and a half months old. her condition is no longer life threatening she is no longer in the medically induced coma her father told me that she started breathing by herself and even responds to all objects with her eyes so nothing threatening to life at the moment still the father says that this may take several more months for the girl to only recover from this injury and that taking might take even several more years for the complete recovery following these injuries and the condition of other

a young girl who is also kept in this hospital here in moscow a nine year old olga is also much much better she is also no longer the critical condition and her recovery is going well as well as we're on the stand we do know confirmed by the russian health minister though that sixty more people are still in hospitals all across the country thirty eight of them are in volgograd twenty two in moscow and one more in st petersburg and the condition of ten of them is still regard. it as very very severe and of course we are following all the developments and keeping track of the state of the injured in the volgograd terror attack at the end of at the end of december. or i'd like to think so much for bringing us this update and as you just said we are monitoring the situation there and keeping our eye of course on the condition of the girls there next here shift your point there from outside the hospital now to have the stories america's super snooping national security agency god backed into

a corner by congress when pressed on whether it's been spying on its members. but the agency still managed to dodge giving a yes or no answer merely promising to keep lawmakers in the loop on their missions get more on the n.s.a.'s mcmillian maneuvering at a t.v. dot com. also learn about the cataclysm inducing supervolcano is to actually interrupt at any moment and what scientists discoveries mean for the rest of us. get a small business off the ground you need the backing of a bank but choose carefully because not all seem to have your intrapreneur interests at heart laura smith been to meet one couple in britain who found their lender more predatory then protective and discover they are far from alone chris richardson and bernstein used to own this hotel but not anymore three years ago out of the blue they say their bank took it from them nat west hotel this

hotel beyond me because i was always will and it will be coming back if there's justice in this country these goals will be arrested. and we will be giving this october back in two thousand and ten chris and ernie had a loan from the 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 valuable five we have not heard from him since later 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 it just a for 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 laurence tomlin from 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 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. 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 the one answers and justice determined to fight back chris and ernie cling to the idea that one day they'll walk through these doors as owners of the hotel again laura smith artie kent.

up next i'll ask her winning director oliver stone shares the untold history of the united states with abby martin. there are many internal battles and 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 it 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 fit. individual in trying to close but that's just my opinion. of the peaceably it was a really very hard to take a. look. at you ever had sex with her right there looking. for that.

guy's i'm abby martin and this is breaking the set november twenty second of the sear 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 church has been asked to a new generation of americans.