on the finish line there is just a month left before the russian olympic host city sochi starts the ball rolling and we talk to the chief organizer about how the city is going to run the games and keep everyone safe. iraq is losing control of its biggest problems with key cities seized by al-qaeda militants flooding in from syria while the us promises to speed up drone and missile deliveries. battling for basics scientists warned that water may become a key factor in world conflicts with it already fueling tension in the arab middle east. and the youngest victim of the terror attacks in volgograd is on the man we're following the fate of the three month old girl survived the blast killed her mother.

bizarrely international coming to live from moscow with joshua welcome to the program and it's exactly thirty one days to go until the winter games kick off in russia and all eyes are on sochi as the city gets ready for its big a moment we don't cross live show correspondent paul scott who is in the olympic host city for us hello to you paul so do tell us what's happening in the city now what's the atmosphere there like given that the city has been preparing for seven years to host this wonderful sporting event. well as the darkness descends over the russian seasons hotel in sochi organizes all reiterating that everything is on track and they are ready for the start of the games not each of the eleven venues in the coastal cluster which you can see. just over my shoulder

on the mountain cluster have been completed and put to the test hosting international competition on more than one occasion and each of the brand new transport networks including the high speed rail link which is going to connect the two clusters are also up and running there is still some work to be done in and around the city of sochi in the final months but it's mainly cosmetic it's mainly superficial in terms of sprucing the city up so that it looks nice when she prepares to welcome the world come february the seventh and of course the question that is in everyone's minds right now at this point. is of course of the security in the city given last month's terror attacks in the city of volgograd so what more can you tell us about the level of security there in sochi. well security has been a top priority for organizes from day one but now with a month to go and choose day months ago until the start of the games that's the day that the security operation really began in earnest and what's happening here in

sochi what's going to happen throughout the course of the games is really not too dissimilar to what you would find anywhere in the world for any major public event such as a space in a controlled has been set up in and around sochi which contains not just all the venues but also a number of security checks which really just won't allow any spectators or officials into certain designated areas or venues unless they have a ticket or a proof of. their going to be over thirty thousand police and security personnel patrolling the region throughout the course of the games in the and in the build up to the. earlier on today i spoke to the chairman of the organizing committee dimitri who told me that every possible step is being taken to secure the games safety. to host the most innovative games ever. reach the olympic malta from the beginning of the construction. of security

is the paramount importance of the preparation for the games and then all for all international experts and. the russian to provide incredible measures incredible things to guarantee is the safest and most secure games ever. more security is clearly a top priority now you can see as i mention the coastal cluster you can probably make out the fisht just over my right shoulder that's going to host the opening ceremony come february the seventh forty thousand spectators will be packed into that stadium forty thousand lucky ticket holders. going at the moment the content of the show is a closely guarded secret it's all set to be unveiled on the big day the day that the game starts a month from now well curiosity. thank you so much for bringing us the very latest from the city of sochi. and the only thing missing in sochi is the

olympic flame it's now on its way through central russia on its longest relay in the game's history at a distance of over fifty six thousand kilometers its record breaking journey has been full of firsts with a historic space walk one of the most impressive records to russian cosmonauts to get outside the international space station and by the way the very torch will line at the olympic flame in sochi next month artie's james brown has been following its voyage which you 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 yeah you could train that it out

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 have the burning flare torches specially made them pass very impressive on the water and then flew the torch bike with with a man with a jet pack on to the on to the very good video so it was it was a sight to be seen but there was one amazing moment a real one so a loss on 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 and then this opportunity came up to go on this nuclear ice breaker this huge. chip and that can cut through to me to think oh it.

is fuelled by two gigantic reactions so your visitors which is a strange feeling in itself yeah go and stand by god. but we were going to go to the north pole with the flame and we made it. less and for half a day it was a world record pace that arrived in the middle of the pole annoyance with the never taught in the north pole for the very first time in history. by a stretch of repairs to while gas and the upcoming winter games local businesses appear to be winning from the city's olympic ambitions are just about let's say that a family that was actually so inspired they left moscow to start from scratch in such. the caucasus mountains are known to attract 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 lifestyle and a new business saw them using the found in this landscape bad to the city when the olympic bid to play in the influence to. sochi winning the olympic spirit 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 men's making a living was a number one priority so they turned to soon di manno using his head called business to help his creative white christina at first it was not much more than a pastime but the business blossomed david product line consists of again except shampoos showa gels and creams you might even feel gadgil looking at a bar of soap as everything looks appetising. there's

a whole arsenal of bottles and flasks with essential and cosmetic oils and greetings are going to 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 christina 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 little about the possibility of the games themselves will our potential clients rob business of future hotel products or. organizers of the olympics or 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 here as well as the caucasus mountains now if the president source is bubbling with fever for the winter games but it looks like its future after the olympics and paralympic games will blossom if you take the example of upcoming businesses like this one with a in sochi our team and the olympic clock is ticking and we are closely following shortly as a gears up for the games on air and online as well state here and thirty international . my eye. at least twenty nine people have been killed as iraqi troops continue to fight for the city's a full and ramadi which have been held by al-qaeda militants since last friday

while america has now pledged to help the government fight the exchanges by speeding up deliveries of surveillance drones and missiles province were the cities are located was a keen surgeon stronghold for years following the u.s. led invasion last week was reclaimed by syria based extremists who declared an islamic state their political analyst site erekat believes the current situation in iraq is evidence that the syrian war is spilling over its border you know i spend five years in iraq i've been out of nation spokesman in baghdad and i can tell you this is the worst it's been since probably. the american occupation of there was a fight in fallujah in two thousand and four but. this recent one is basically very dangerous because it bodes ill for the unity of the government and it is predicated on pure sectarian lines aided by the syria conflict the border is so so porous and it is really elastic so you have these forces that are basically the same size i

mean they call themselves they slam extrude of iraq and a sham which is syria so they have a spouse the same kind of ideology of islam and influx of weapons and money you know under the guise of aiding that syria rebels so that it would find its way to iraq all these things come together. now coming out for you in just a few moments britain's predatory bangs party talks to a couple of entrepreneurs a lost everything after a high street bank decided to cash in on them with sleight of hand financing instead of being their safety net that's just again here for you.

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welcome back you're watching r t international now the youngest victim of the volgograd terrorist attacks in southern russia and the end of december is now showing signs of recovery his just three months old had been in a medically induced coma for over a week i was here she was at the hospital for us. we have received some good news from the russian health minister and the father of the youngest injured infant in the volgograd terror attack she's only three and a half months old. still in hospital while her condition is no longer life threatening she is no longer in a medical and medically induced coma her father told me that she even started breathing by herself and now responds to objects by moving her eyes her father was kind enough to provide us with some family food for some home footage of the victorian baptism and here is what else he told me you can report there is still

a long way to fuel rehabilitation we hope it will soon be able to get rid of all of the tubes we're hoping for a positive outcome she has had a neurological examination and everything is fine the m.r.i. scan revealed no damage. the condition of another girl another injured in the volgograd terror attack a ninety year old olga is also positive she is no longer in a life threatening condition she's showing very good signs of recovery and we also know that sixty more people more than sixty people are still in hospitals all across the country after the volgograd bombing thirty eight of them are still in volgograd and twenty two in moscow and one more in st petersburg and certainly we are keeping track and following all the details and developments on that story. carville cryptocurrency bitcoin is hitting new highs again the virtual money is valued has passed the one thousand dollars mark after an online game company said it would accept bitcoins from its customers all the details on because later

success dot com. and also online for you a four month old giant panda cub in the u.s. has made its debut before the media we got foods from that meeting on our emotional page. to get a business off the ground most of us would need the help of a bank but choose carefully because not all of them seem to have your best interests at heart laura smith spoke to two business men in britain who found their lender bulling them rather than protecting and discovered they were 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 auto be on 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

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. we have not heard from 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 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 tomlinson 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 there restructuring division georgi to do in a way that the businesses that they were supposed to be helping get back to health . put into distress for the benefit of the bank we actually see. property company called west register and we're seeing r.b.s. owning those customers property after they've been in distress tomlinson's report is twenty pages of examples and findings under headings like engineering a default 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. family suffered heavily through this. the bank's property company and the hotel maid was but after last year. she sadly. got cancer and march this year and she taught him only. for three three girls that one of them justice determined to fight back chris and they cling to the idea that one day they'll walk through these doors of the hotel again laura smith otty kent now the world's resources have always been cause for better disputes among nations but for many it may be a surprise to hear that it's water braben or oil or gas that's becoming

a reason for conflict and you can see on this map right here that the world has witnessed close to one hundred eighty disputes over water resources since nine hundred fifty s. these include small clashes and protests as well as more serious large scale conflict why example is the tensions in the middle east were the struggle for water is a key issue and some ongoing conflicts are has more. 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 his vinnie arden 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 don't know for sure the water's important because it's the second main resource that we have other than the land in

needs water and without it you will destroy all the crops and destroy all 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 stance here understands the importance of the work that the model supply of israel because every door was raining on its throne to the security of god so we can say that it is and must. respect the resolve to have football over 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 officials by several foreign nations is always a possibility of pressure reaches 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 up anomaly to generate electric power in the dry landscape of the middle east is a prize more precious than 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 for this year our teeth in the golan heights. as mentioned in the report egypt is becoming increasingly concerned over a construction project on the opera nile the country rely is greatly on the river were upstream it is currently building

a massive dam but little science professor cites adak says egypt may face serious consequences when the project is completed in twenty seventeen we have to remember that. only six to seven percent of its land and the rest of the egyptian territory is there's a lot that can really be a serious effort to national security and that's why i immediately went to still be and raise the issue of the high that the world some experts here is that the work of about to go in to a war was this your beer 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 years it will be one hundred fifty million people and we would be needing in addition to the fifty five point five billion cubic meter when q one billion cubic meter of extra what would happen to egypt in the u.

two thousand and fifty if we don't have more water. and let's now take a look at some other stories from around the world in turkey three hundred fifty police officers have reportedly been sacked overnight as part of a crackdown over a massive corruption scandal in addition several high profile officials have been thrown behind bars following an investigation the revelations sparked fears into government protests on the streets but prime minister of the on claims the affair is a foreign conspiracy designed to discredit his cabinet. to thailand now where anti-government protesters have marched to drum up support for operation shut down bank on demonstrators are planning to blockade major roads in the capital to sward government work and continue their calls for the prime minister to quit. has already yielded to pressure from the streets and announced new elections but the task that's not enough ano pushing for citizens councils to carry out reforms for

any new elections are held. out a whirlpool of dance air has hit america's east coast was thousands of flights being canceled across the north american continent a shift in the weather pattern known as a polar vortex as drop temperatures in some parts of the continent to near record lows that's also causing a number of deaths shot schools parks and businesses and it was reported it was so cold that even the polar bears in chicago's lincoln park zoo had to be kept indoors moscow has a man of the explanation from senegal over the detention of a. ship and its eighty two crew were captured at the weekend off the coast of canada south in western africa later on tuesday it's hoped bessel will be freed as russian diplomats are due to meet with the president of senegal to discuss the issue at least two people including the captain were reportedly injured during the seizure and the official reason is over unlicensed fishing but the senegalese side

has failed to produce any evidence to support the accusations sixty two russians are still held on the ship was their passports confiscated. up next osgar winning director oliver stone is here is the untold history of the united states with adam arden in just a couple of minutes. 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 fashionable 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 were. money for a parents to buy you video games be an individual in your actions and not a fake individual in trendy clothes but that's just my opinion.

the peaceably gives a really very hard to take a. look. at you 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 filmmaker has 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. in an ultimate director's cut the collector's edition also includes a segment from oliver stone's showtime series the untold history of 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 torture has been. passed to a new generation of americans. but with his murder the torch was passed back to an old generation the generation of johnson nixon ford and reagan leaders who would systematically destroy the promise.