tv Documentary RT January 17, 2014 1:29am-2:01am EST
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plenty. of. well that was all rather surreal. definitely the way to stream i've had for a while. there was a memorable ceremony. with one pretty sure the high priestess never spoke to me. but was it should set follow the flame or something. and there's. a lot more of course at base. the top story this morning than the sochi twenty pulteney olympic flame as of right in moscow seven days after it was in the ancient greek city of libya carried by russia's deputy prime minister dimitri cool with ak the flame traveled in a small amount into red square where president vladimir putin spoke of its meaning for the russian people in the limbic tillage the symbol of the world's primary
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sports competition of peace and of friendship. but he has come to russia. there are many marks the start of the longest tools relay in a limb take a street the same boy it's great that so many people have turned out to the start of the russian relay it looks like a lot of fun out there. in a minute. but it was. the stone that picked up in the end it was on my mantel piece and if that isn't a sign i don't know what it is. i knew i had to get down to red square and experienced atmosphere for myself fortunately they were having a two day event. so from sunny greece to a rather soggy moscow just at the very start of the torch is journey around the whole of russia i'm excited.
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the days first run there was paralympic star. who picked up two gold medals in the beijing and london games. we do coding is still a big gold medal is there still something special for you. of course it's a unique feeling because i had never carried the torch before i had first i ran with it quite easily then i felt i was becoming heavier and heavier but i was determined to carry it properly and show it to everyone so that they could all appreciate the moment and. her delight and the crowd's reaction word sexists i missed out on going to my home games in london and i was determined not to let such a twenty four team passed me by there were fourteen thousand torchbearers slots up for grabs one of them was going to be mine. when we were making the technical
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order for the factory we say look let's make the thing we want to who. you know whole and also desirable should be like wow. a lot of questions where or. wait it's quite we have to take all the cover and we milled that out by the machine extra weight of the aluminum so it's really fine. it's the feather feather over the period of burton firebird in the russian. stories and fairy tales and
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to get this feather from the firebird is a super challenge for the guild. the problem can be when the girls underneath here and it just caused the fire but in this kid we have a special. wiring inside which melting and of like really a red color. and it's picks up the fire so basically it's a rift fire in itself. i was going to have to wait a while before i found out if i'd been picked as
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a torch bearer more than enough time to try and learn a little more about my mysterious stone. some of russia's most eminent geologists live in. the center of russia's diamond industry on the rocks down here in the most expensive in the country. the pits descends more than a kilometer under and uses the most sophisticated drilling equipment to get to the precious. stones have been taken to assaulting sense and closely examined each rough gem is appraised and valued and i had a close only focused on my precious stone to. add must be
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some kind of. there i can see small crystals here proving that it's ancient rock. movement but really it shouldn't light up should it. no it's fast but it's luminescent as from. ok maybe you could make it luminescent if you really believed it right thank you did you really expect it to go. maybe maybe i'm just not right. there's certainly something very special about this and this ground i don't know but it might just be because they use to pulling glittering thing this out of the dark here. but who wants minis diamonds what the top attraction in
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turn it was time to head towards the city's most well known landmark where they were getting ready to welcome some very special guests. from all over forty years these huge realize trucked to more of the most famous symbols in the acute year carrying the region's diamonds from its quarries and factories and now. it's getting ready for its most important passenger ever. it must have been close to minus forty celsius but these olympic torch is and torch bearers are made of stern stuff. this huge quarry has been the frozen heartbeat of the city for more than fifty years producing more than seventeen billion dollars diamonds my stone it meant i was here to watch the parade but what was i supposed to do next. great shot.
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lives so when two mates were to. again show me the one. oh. good choice. they can be few more famous natural landmarks in russia than lake baikal the oldest and deep this lake on the planet on the site of a very special olympic celebration. for the first time ever they're planning to light the olympic flame on the water. in this case your average tool which isn't going to cut it so special equipment is required and special people to carry it and who better than the local rescue ranger
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. are professional activity is mostly dedicated to rescuing people on lake baikal our job is important difficult interesting and in a way romantic my cow has many faces and winter it's tough and in summer it's beautiful you can't help but admire its power it attracts you and it's very important to me because it's a jewel of russia. everything's ready let's go then as nicholas puts the final touches to his equipment the excitement begins to build along the water's edge. the torch rallies have been warmly welcomed across the country but the crowds here are about to witness something that's never been done before.
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and there's plenty of local showmen own hands went to tame them while they wait. a massive noise and color to cheer the torch bearers all. this torch is based on a special system there is a pyrotechnic charge that can burn at any depth in any temperature and under any circumstances. when it's under water it's like a second sun the flame literally illuminates the entire lake. bottom when you curious you can feel its enormous power. but the water temperature is four degrees celsius it's really freezing we could feel it on our uncovered faces but we were united by this flame that had absorbed the energy of the entire country of every single person who cares about the flame that was what united us and that's why everything went perfectly.
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a report on our. lead move from one ship to another but what a ship. i was on board the ice breaker fifty years of victory the pride of the russian nuclear fleet for a truly once in a lifetime experience. deliberate flame was traveling to the north pole but i was going with it. if my stone was telling me to follow the flame i was going to take it as far as i could says he hundred nautical miles of stark beautiful ocean lay between us and the top of the worlds. well just in case you didn't actually believe we were going to the north pole i think that eliminates any doubt. it's another historic first for the sochi torch and a relay around the ship was planned for the occasion. and you can learn so many new things when you get the chance to test your own as well as the crew's experience
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and check what the ice breaker is really capable of. i mean this tour of the olympic torch to the north pole never before has a surface ship gone there so late in the season them with the ice was much heavier and to cope with it we almost needed the ice breakers maximum power. we were making incredible progress slicing through the thick polar ice like bazza after only four days we were already near our destination that's a world record pace. let you ninety degrees north to top of the world. ah.
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once the champagne had been finished everything kicked into gear the torch bearers went off to get ready and our organizing committee began making preparations for the relay and we love the one on the other one and. tried to hold it the right way. right one. with everyone in position we were ready to go but our captain was given the honor of starting off the run my main task was to keep the torch warm and make sure it goes into past hands. time and just seconds later she was away and i was on collection g.c. . i think that's when we now. thank you very much yes i got to take a look off the list and retirement later. i was a good. yeah go through it most of it. no.
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we stepped off the ship and on to the ice the torches glowed flickering through the pitch black hole and nights. of pioneering soviet polar explorer auteuil chilling goal of would ignite the culture of the most northerly place on the planet. it's not often you get to witness a moment of history this is the first time the olympic flame is ever been at the north pole. and i'm here to see it. from as far north as it's possible to go it was time to head east with the olympic gold in lies in committee. the flame the ip that is has its own security team at all times not to mention its own private jet. blue got this special service called the
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plane cooper which is just responsible for the security of the flame they keep the plane little. on this special rule you know all of these flamed will never go up. each city's greasing ceremony is unique and hundreds of volunteers helped make the occasion memorable. there's a possibility also to keep the security for the torchbearer. you know then nobody will hound me nobody will get this fish. place on just the torch bearer because it's just a flame and it's very dangerous for everybody. this is camp shot kind of alternate peninsula that's one of the most easterly places in
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russia. that is the whole the highest so that you don't burn yourself when you're torches lit or going. for the good fortune never talks to the flaming torch bearer and russian because you never. everybody every had an inhabitant of the cities just very proud that comes to his cd and i say that ok lation now. it was the end of another relay and i was in one of the most beautiful places in the country on the shores of the pacific itself but i was beginning to lose patience. i've come to the end of. what's. what do you want.
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where am i to go. i literally run the house of land. but the torch would move all over the mountains across the sea. even else of this world. we live. in yes another historic moment it paid a visit to the international space station more than four hundred kilometers above the planets. and although safety reasons made lycee its on board a heavily fueled rocket summer all the bad idea the world's first olympic space
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walk was no problem. back down if i was getting some inspiration of my own. yes i mean. i've come so far with a tool which i was going to have to see it through to the end i've watched so many different people in relays all over russia and even beyond now i was going to have my own moments with the symbol of the sochi games i was a new father in the south of the country in under two hours i was going to be a torch bearer. for my fictional uniform. it was time to suit up and pick up the most vital piece of equipment. i think. let's make. the stimulus are up to their english
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training thank you. at last and. more than two hundred of us would be running through the streets and the excitement was already beginning to build there was just time for a few tips on how to make the most of the moment. smile and wave your hand then they put out my torch and i step back and i'm not there anymore it's your turn you start and i'll be in the car that will be filming us starts to move and we run towards it ok go to. the russians are. none of us could wait to get started and the policy was in full swing as we moved
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through the city thousands of people had turned out to cheer us all and watch the parade and we even had a few guests from the north pole putting in an appearance. we were dropping off people every two hundred meters so i just had a few minutes to go. it's you know my neighbor cotton mill. you can really imagine how exciting it is. i'm looking forward to the moment when the whole country will see me. when you. want to sleep i can't believe it. did school was really freezing today isn't it. planned so let's meet our church. as i wave to the crowd i hadn't expected to be so nervous my whole epic journey had led to this moment and as i waited for number one million three to pulse me the flame all i could think of was for goodness sake don't drop it. by.
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the dream come true i missed london twenty games i never thought of the gods to be part of another game and now i'm the only person in the world going to play with this moment one stuff that. i am. i think i finally understand that. i'm going to little further to go on with this tour. i was with it when it was for the very first time in a limpia increase it went deep underground into diamond mines and you could see i
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was with it when it plunged into the waters of lake baikal and i was with it when the wins by president of the very top of the world and then it went out so this one holds the international space station. to believe. if you could combine the four elements of. the base metal into goals this tool which of those elements even a fifth element the quintessence from space itself. i believe that this tool has the energy to help you win gold in sochi. russia.
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