on the finish line the just a month left now before the russian olympic host city salt she starts the ball rolling we talked this out to the chief organizer about how the city is going to run the games and keep everyone safe. iraq says 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 at missile delivery. battling for basic scientists warn 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 those terror attacks in volgograd is on the mend we can report we're following the fate of the three month old girl who survived the blast that killed her mother.

good morning if you just joined us it's just after midnight here in moscow now this is art international my name's kevin knowing a top story that it's exactly thirty days to go until the winter games kick off in russia and all eyes are on saatchi is the city gets ready for its big moment artie's paul scott reports next on the culmination of seven long years of preparation all focused on this international sport 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 when she prepares to from the world come february the seventh security has been a top priority for organizers from day one but now with a month to go on tuesday 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 this basically a controlled zone has been set up in and around sochi which contains not just the venues but also a number of security checks which really just won't allow any spectators or officials into certain designated areas of amy's unless they have a ticket or

a proof. they'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 who told me that every possible step is being taken to secure the games safety. reach the olympic mall from the beginning of the construction. of security. for 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 them more security is clearly a top priority now behind me you can see as i mentioned 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 rehearsals are 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. the only thing missing in sochi at the moment is the olympic flame it's now on his way through central russia on its longest relay in the game's history but it distance of a fifty six thousand kilometers record breaking journey has been full of firsts with historic space walk of course for the most impressive records two russian cosmonauts took it outside of the i assess that international space station by the way the very same toss the ball like the olympic flame in sochi next month two artes james brown has been following its voyage which he described earlier to my colleague lindsay franz from the right 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 the color 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 about for actually really oh yes i'm going to. 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 so you have the burning flare torches specially made then passed very impressive underwater and then flew the top back with with a man with a jet pack on to the. area get anyhow so it was it was a sight to be seen but there was one amazing moment 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 and then this opportunity came up to go on this nuclear icebreaker this huge. ship that was cut through to meet a thick ice. is fueled by two gigantic reactors so your visitors it 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 maybe it's the. lesson for hope that it was a world record pace and arrived in the middle of the polar nights with the limbic taught in the north pole for the very first time in history. on adventure james brown there was such even proposed to well guess at those upcoming winter games local businesses appear to be winning for the city's missions to save next meets

a family that was so inspired the left moscow to start from scratch in sochi. bad for the caucuses mountains i mean 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 mothball for a change of scenery and lifestyle and a new business saw them using the found in this landscape bad 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 as so yes i'd say this frank did have an influence on the on our decision to move here. leaving well paid jobs behind making a living was a 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 to david product line consists of again except 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 floss so with essential and cosmetic oils greetings i'll get a good source 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 christina studied up on her own time with the business is doing well this future looks even brighter with plans to is going in eco friendly hotel for now the magic happens in the kitchen. so relieved when i got the post about why the games themselves will add potential clients raw business future hotels and products. organizers of the olympics as

say the new infrastructure created in the city will draw more tourists and help small businesses that price the elim peaks at 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 he is bubbling with fever for the winter games then it looks like its future after the olympics and paralympic games will blossom if you take the example of upcoming businesses like this. have on what they insult our team so the talk is the clock is ticking and where tick tock closely following such is the gears up for those games on air and online state to dart international much water.

at least twenty nine people have been killed as iraqi troops continue to fight for the cities of fallujah and ramadi which have been held by al-qaeda militants since last friday america's now pledged to help the government fight the extremist prospering of deliveries of surveillance drones and missiles and province where the cities are located was a key insurgent stronghold of course for years following the u.s. led invasion last week fallujah was reclaimed by syria based extremists who declared islamic state their support to phyllis bennis from the institute for policy studies she told me the crisis in the ranks being fueled by the syrian war over the border and washington's pledged to baghdad will only aggravate the situation she said. 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 of 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 no offering drones or military support not personnel but military support to fight these very same people before 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 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. there will be time in syria the first part of the country's chemical weapon stockpiles not been removed by ship a danish vessel left the port latakia for international waters toxic cargo will be destroyed meantime turkey's prime minister to the world he's insisting the upcoming peace talks in geneva journey of the twenty second should know seek the removal of a sad independent political analyst go to coleman told me he believes that request 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 doing this themselves 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 hasn't gotten 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 a very quick break here britain's predatory banks role in the case or to talk to a couple of entrepreneurs who say they've lost everything or for a high street bank decided to cash in on them with sleight of financing instead of being their safety that story much more just ahead.

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the youngest victim of all the terrorist attacks in southern russia at the end of december is now showing some signs of recovery but a good news out of it all just three months old had been in a medically induced coma for over a week now like she is 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 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 food which all of the story is a 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 read of all of you to see we're hoping for a positive outcome she has had a neurological examination and everything is fine. the condition of another girl another injured in the volgograd terror attack on nine 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 tonight controversial cryptocurrency big new highs again it goes up it goes down it goes back up the virtual money's value passed now the one

thousand dollars. game company. customers it's going to boost. to success that online from us. pictures that make you want to go a four month old larry is joy and baby panda cub you have such a thing a giant baby guess you can in the u.s. has made its debut before the media we've got footage from that meeting in motion section there was a tough time. to get a business off the grow most of us would need the help of a bi but choose carefully it seems because not all of them have got your best interests at heart arteries laura smith spoke to two business men in britain who claimed they found their lender was bullying them rather than protecting them and she discovered they were far from alone as well chris richardson and ernie bernstein used to own a 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 because 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 now 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 him 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 time as a small business 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 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. west register the bank's property company in the hotel moore was but after last year. she sadly. got cancer in march this year and she'd already my. 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 at owners of the hotel again lloris me r.t.

can't. the world's resources always be cause for bitter disputes among nations but for many it may be a surprise to hear that is water rather than oil and gas that's becoming a reason for conflict take a look at the news war you can see here on this map of the world's witness close to and in a dispute right across the board there over water since the one nine hundred fifty s. now these include small clashes and protests as well as more serious large scale conflicts as well one example the tensions in the middle east where the struggle for water is a key issue right now and some ongoing conflict is artie's paulus leah. 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 ballo 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 but i don't know if it's really water is important because it's the second main resource that we have other than the lamb who. needs water and without it you will destroy all the crops and destroy all the farming here it 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 the stands here understands the importance of the work that all the water supply of israel because every door was raining on it's grown to the security of god it's all we can say that it is emirates will. respect the prisoner to have football over what the fox says it's

a worldwide rule that whoever controls the water controls the land but the problem is in some cases there's very little water to go around feeling you have the common water falls by several foreign nations is always the possibility of pressure breaches of conflicts that should be manageable for spit 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. also recently expressed concern of a countries using the upper nile to generate electric power in the dry landscape of the middle east water 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 r.t. in the golan heights. well as much as

a pause or for the aegis becoming increasingly concerned to have a construction project on the upper nile the country relies greatly on the river where upstream ethiopia is currently building a massive. list told me egypt may face serious consequences when ethiopia starts filling that dam 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 then the world's experts here is that we're talking about go in to war was this your be a 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 metres when q one billion cubic

meters extra what would happen to egypt in. 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 to following an investigation the revelations sparked fears antigovernment protests on the streets promised to and claims the affairs of foreign conspiracy designed to discredit his cabinet. thailand and to government protests as of march to drum up support for operation shut down bangkok is they're calling it demonstrations planned to block a major roads to the capital to form government working continue their calls for the problems to quit shinawatra heard parts already yielded to pressure from the streets and announced new elections in february but the protesters say that's not enough they're pushing to citizens councils magic areas reforms before any new

elections are held. tracking those zero temperatures the arctic freeze that 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 lows at least sixteen deaths have been blamed on the weather which is also shut schools parks and businesses it was reported it was so cold in fact you can use this is a measure that the polar bears in chicago's lincoln zoo how to be kept indoors why can't you see them because they've gone in stay safe up next meets the family of a russian orthodox priest to vote in this home to seventy abandoned children is a good god the story of nicholas the miracle worker is ahead for you right after this break my bill say just about the next.

these pictures of them ski as an army recruit were taken in the nineteen released. never thought that he would become a clergyman was seventy children and yet would be returned home after two years of military service because i had no doubt that he would join the priesthood.

so what happened to him on the border with afghanistan. after graduating from some unary nicholai was appointed to a post or in the city rather some the continents of europe and asia its river forms the border there plains as far as the eye can see the region is subject to blazing heat in summer and severe cold in winter the famous or in vogue shoal is one here to start choosing temperatures. the young clergyman and his wife came to the village of such a one hundred kilometers from morn there is nothing remarkable in the village other than rows of buildings. this prompted father nicholai to plan the construction of three churches.