tonight an r.t. on the finish line is just a month left now before the russian olympic host city salt she starts the ball rolling we talked into the chief organizer about how the city's going to run the games and keep everyone safe. iraq is in control of its biggest province 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 warm water may become a key factor in world conflicts with it already fueling tension in the middle east . and an update to on the youngest victim of the terror attacks in volgograd she's all the men who are following the fate of the three month old girl who survived the blast that killed her mother.

even if you just joined us my name is kevin now in this is r.t. international we're live from moscow it's just after eleven pm here now our top story it's exactly looking at the calendar thirty one days to go then until the winter games kick off in russia and all eyes are on as the city gets ready for its big moment paul scott reports now on the culmination of seven long years of preparation all focused on this international sports spectacle. organizes are reiterating that everything is on track and they are ready for the start of the games now each of the eleven venue in. 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 prepares to welcome the world come february the seventh security has been a top priority for organizes from day one but now with a month to go and choose day month to go to 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 this basically a controlled zone has been set up in and around sochi which contains not just of all the venues but also a number of security checks which really just won't allow any spectators or officials into certain designated areas are very nice unless they have a ticket or

a proof for i. we're 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. 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. reach the olympics more from the beginning of the construction. of security is the paramount importance of the games and the man all for. all the international experts and. the russian to provide incredible measures incredible things to go into this if it's more secure gives more security is clearly a top priority now you can see as i mention the coastal cluster you can probably make out the fish stadium 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 but rehearsals are ongoing 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. to go than so the only thing missing in sochi is that a limping flame is now on its way through central russia and its longest really in the game's history at a distance of over fifty six thousand kilometers is record breaking journey's been full of firsts with historic space walk of course one of the most impressive records two russian cosmonauts taking it outside the international space station that torture is by the way the very one that will light the olympic flame in sochi next month to see james brown has been following its voyage which he described a colleague lindsey for. james brown welcome to the studio what do you have with you here the torch of the olympic games can give us

a look at this as you say this is my. personal torch it's as you can see very one of a car in souvenir let me let me have a look at this this is not light by any means heavy this is yeah it is what two kilos about four actually really oh yes i'm going to. hold that you hold 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 are 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 also you had the burning flare torches specially made then passed very impressive underwater and then flew the top back with the man with the jets 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. 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 was cut through to meet a thick ice and is fueled by two gigantic reactors so your which is which is a strange feeling in itself when 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 there in the middle of the polar nights with the libby taught in the north pole for the very first time in history. james brown there was such a presenter well guess at the upcoming winter games local businesses appeared to be winning from the city's limpy combinations to ortiz to say next meets a family that was so inspired they left moscow to start from scratch.

bad for 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 mothball for a change of scenery and lifestyle and a new business saw them using the found in this landscape bad to the city winning 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 if 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. 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 she dated product line consists of again excess shampoos show a gels and creams you might even for a gadget looking at a bar of soap as everything else appetizing. 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 this future looks even brighter with plans to isn't an eco friendly hotel for now the magic happens in the kitchen. so i read it and i got a post about why the games themselves will add potential clients raw business future hotels and products to. organizers of the olympics says see the new

infrastructure created in the city will draw more tourists and help small businesses a place the elim picks a home based business sourcing local organic products and materials and herbs from our own thought see as well as the caucuses mountains now if the president thought she is bubbling with fever for the winter games then it looks like its future after the olympic and paralympic games will blossom if you take the example of upcoming businesses like this. one with a in sochi r.t. so then the olympic clock is ticking that we're closely following such as a gears up for those games all are an online as well stay tuned to out international if you can. i.

at least twenty nine people have been killed as a rocket troops continue to fight for the cities of fallujah and ramadi which have been held by al-qaeda militants since last friday america's no pledged to help the government fight the extremists there by speeding up deliveries of drones and surveillance equipment and missiles as well as province where these cities are located was of course a key insurgent stronghold for years following the u.s. led invasion last week for jews reclaimed by syria basic stream isu declared an islamic state there i spoke just last hour the phyllis bennis of the institute for policy studies she told me the crisis in iraq has been fueled by the syrian war and washington's pledge of aid to baghdad aggravate the situation here there. we risk the possibility of the extension of this militarization that we're seeing in iraq right now we're seeing it already in syria where a civil war has expanded to

a regional war and it's now spilling over into iraq the increasing militarization by the united states to the iraqi government is only going to make that worse not better course the irony is on the one hand you've got the united states supporting the rebels in syria have not come over the border into iraq and we're also hearing this week now offering drones or military support not personnel but military support to fight these very same people that for them they're against them indirectly you have this scenario where the sunni population which is the minority but a large minority in iraq feel completely disenfranchised disempowered disconnected from their own government and so the u.s. is saying instead of in insisting that the government change its policy of discrimination towards one of egalitarianism many quality for all something that we are in no position to brag about here in this country i should say but what the u.s. claims to withhold as a hold up as a as a model the u.s.

says well we'll send you told missiles so you can send more missiles and kill more people phyllis bennis well in syria itself the first part of the country's chemical weapons stockpiles be removed by a ship or danish vessel left the port of a turkey or for international waters without toxic cargoes going to be destroyed this is turkey's prime minister a move from him to win is insisting the upcoming peace talks in geneva should seek the removal of assad as opposed to independent political news go to colin about but he believes that of course is quite absurd. it's hardly surprising that arizona would come out with such a ridiculous line he's been behaving mostly radically since the very start of the war. talking about regime change is not on the agenda obviously though in this himself under threat of regime change in turkey so he's probably the last man in the region who would want to talk about regime change at this stage of course you can't have political negotiations if one side said ridiculous preconditions

and of course regime change is never really been an option in syria it's to be absolutely impossible to stage a regime the only way you can have regime change in syria is if the regime is overthrown as it were that has an obviously is not the case and they failed to defeat the syrian army and talk about regime change is really on helpful at this stage. coming up right after the break britain's predatory banks. financing the safety net. for three to. six the way of the british economy. he says twenty fourteen will be

a year of hard truths the hardest of all being that many must live so that the few marginal seats. at the property roulette wheel so the hard truth for twenty fourteen is that in the property market never must supply meet demand for the libyan foreign market pricing you know so hurry. to get the job they need to get a loan because if you don't get the government back. speak

to me the volgograd terrorist attacks in southern russia at the end of december the update is she's not a showing some signs of recovery. three months old a bit in a medically induced coma for over a week. 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 but her father was kind enough to provide us with some family food for some home footage of the victorious baptism and here is what else he told me. there is still a long way to fool 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. absolutely online controversial cryptocurrency bit coy again is new on. the virtual money's value swung now past the one thousand dollars game company said it would except its customers. get more details it has been a volatile year last year the. two pictures that make you want to go.

a four month old baby giant panda cub in the u.s. has made a dive you have before the media and we've got the footage of the meeting in a emotion section and hopefully it will be well for the little play there. to get a business off the grove most of us would need the help of a bank but choose carefully it seems because not all of them seem to be best interests at heart next article or a smith speaks to two businessmen in britain who claim that their lender was bullying them rather than protecting them and she's discovered they were far from alone either chris richardson and ernie 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 stole our hotel this hotel beyond me here is ours 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 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 laurence tomlin from is

a small business advisor 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 its own property company called west register and we're saying r.b.s. owning those customers property is after they've been in distress tomlinson's report is twenty pages of examples and findings under headings like engineering a default and excessive 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. recent 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 banks property company and the hotel more was but after last year. she sadly. got cancer in march this year and she'd already my. effort three three girls 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 r.t. kent the world's resources have always been cause for better disputes among nations but for many it may be surprised to hear that it's water rather noir gases becoming

a reason for conflict the experts worry you can see indeed on this map here on the news wall the world's witnessed close to one hundred eighty disputes over water resources since the nineteen fifties ok some of them were small clashes and protests but the bit more serious large scale conflicts to one example the tensions in the middle east where the struggle for water is a key issue in some ongoing conflict says artie's paul asli. 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 because below has been living in the golan heights for over thirty years each day he attends to one yard 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 i mean a question in the 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 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 the work that all the water supply of israel because every drop of water draining here will but it's grown to the security of getting the food we can say that it is a must will. respect the resolve 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

water souls shared by several sovereign nations there's always the possibility of clash of religious conflicts that should be manageable was spread 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 if a country is using the upper now to generate electric power in the dry landscape of the middle east water is a prized more precious thing diamonds in its absence famine and drought are quick to find 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 mentioned in paula's report their age is becoming increasingly concerned over construction projects on the upper nile the country relies greatly on the river web stream ethiopia is currently building a massive alice age and therefore could face serious consequences when ethiopia

starts filling that in twenty seventeen we have to remember that egypt has only six to seven percent of its land and the rest of the egyptian territory is there's a so that can really be a serious affecting national security and that's why immediately when the european there is the issue of the high there the world some experts here is that the work of about to go in to war was this your be or because if you cut water or gas 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 when q one billion cubic meter extra what would happen to egypt in the u. two thousand and fifty if we don't have more water. 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 revelations spark fierce anti-government protests on the streets were promised ready one claims the affairs of foreign conspiracy designed to discredit his crap in. thailand anti-government protesters have marched for operation shut down bangkok as they're calling it demonstrations planned to block major roads in the capital tourists want government work and to continue the calls for the prime minister to quit her part of what's already yielded to pressure from the streets and announced new elections to surgery but testers say it's not enough they're pushing for citizens councils now becoming reforms before any new elections are held trucking a zero big freeze it's now spread to america's east coast with thousands of flights being canceled across north america

a shift in the weather pattern known as the polar vortex has dropped temperatures in some parts of the continent near record levels at least sixteen deaths have been blamed on the weather which is also shut schools parks and businesses indeed it was so cold using it is a market even the polar bears in chicago's lincoln park zoo how to go indoors. that's what we can't see it up next why the u.k. housing market is a ticking time bomb a party for the british economy because a report on the air here and the international right after this break. 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 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 more money for parents to buy you video games be it individual in your actions and

not a fake individual in trendy clothes but that's just my opinion. welcome to the kaiser report max keiser five four three two. a bust factors slow motion housing time ticks away under the british economy over which george osborne presides he says twenty fourteen will be a year of hard truths the hardest of all being that many must lose so that the few marginal seat voters he needs may win at the property roulette wheel so the hard truth for twenty fourteen is that in the boom and bust property market never must supply meet demand for the foreign market protesting it all so very panicked

but now to get the job they know jobs get a loan because if you don't get the government back scheme you'll face a year of oz bourne's hard to bust austerity true of zero zero zero. zero yes max cory doctorow of boeing boeing says this thoughts are slow motion housing time bomb housing in the u.k. is a microcosm for everything wrong with neo liberalism corruption cronyism grinding human misery and funny accounting to prove that it's all working honestly so he's talking about and everybody in town has been talking about james meeks piece in the london review of books called where will we live because right now at the moment there are about two hundred fifty thousand households being formed per year in the united kingdom and yet only about one hundred thousand private properties being built that's included from the private sector prices are soaring and yet for some reason .