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. what was it she said. full of the flame or something. you have a lot more of course of base. on which the top story this morning than the thirty twenty pulteney olympic flame and right in moscow seven days off 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 mountain to red square where president vladimir putin spoke of its meaning for the russian people in the olympic village the symbol of the world's primary 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 really it looks like a lot of fun out there. in a minute. but it was. the stone i picked up in and then it was on my mantelpiece 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 we 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. the days first run there was paralympic star alessio bloody who picked up two gold medals in the beijing and london games. he's still

a big gold medalist is still something special for you i guess of course it's the need feeling because i had never carried the torch before. at first i ran with a 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 the crowd's reaction word factious 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 order for the factory we say look let's make the thing we want to her. you know whole you know so desirable should be like wow.

a lot of questions where are. weight it's quite heavy we have to take all the cover and the middle 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 to get this feather from the firebird is a super challenge for the guild. the

problem can be. underneath here and it just cuts the fire but in this kid we have a special. wiring inside which melted and of like really a red color. and it's 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 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. once the stones have been taken to assaulting sense and closely examined each rough gem is appraised. and i had a close only focused on my precious stone to. add must be 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 really miss and. know it's false 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 with the top attraction and turn around 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 realized trucks a bit more of the most famous symbols in the acute year carrying the region's diamonds tune from its quarries and factories and now. it's getting ready for its most important passenger ever. it might have been close to minus forty celsius but these olympic torch is and torch bearer is 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 of diamonds my stone it meant i was here to watch the parade but what was i supposed to do next. great shot. just. why it's so well to mate with it. and again

show me the and. by carlo. 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 . who in the are professional activity is mostly dedicated to rescuing people on lake baikal our job is important difficult interesting and

in a way romantic by cow has many faces in winter it's tough and in summer it's beautiful you can't help but admire its power because 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. 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 of 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. autumn when you curious you can feel its enormous power. of 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. as i watched from out on the water you could almost feel the crowd's energy coming across the waves it had been another remarkable spectacle for this record breaking

tool trailer i was wondering what could possibly top it. looks like on the right track. so well but it. was a. very hard to take that. to get here a lot happened there that would make their lives.

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a little. touch. i've moved 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. flame was traveling to the north pole i was going with. it my stone was telling me to follow the flame i was going to take it as far as i

could. see hundred nautical miles of stark beautiful ocean lay between us and the top of the world. but just in case she 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 so you can learn so many new things when you get the chance to test your own as well as the crew's experience 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 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. and after only four days we were already near our destination that's a world record pace. less or do ninety degrees north isn't top of the world. ah. once the champagne and been finished everything kicked into gear the torchbearers went off to get ready an organizing committee began making preparations for the relay. we love the one on the other one and. tried to hold it the right whale until. i got one.

with everyone in position and we were ready to go but our captain was given the owner of starting off the run my main task was to keep the torch warm and make sure it got into past hand in time and just seconds later she was away and i was on collection g c. i think that's me now. thank you yes i got to take a look off the list and retirement date. i wasn't good. yet go through it no slips. no. we stepped off the ship and on to the ice the torches glow flickering through the pitch black polar nights. a pioneering soviet polar explorer 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 out of in 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 organizing 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. we've got the flame cooper which is just responsible for the security of torch bearer and the flame the keep the flame the little lantern that was shot we're on this special will you know little of these flamed will never go up. the street. 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 the nobody will homey nobody will get this push. police are just the better because it's just a flame and it's very dangerous for everybody. this is come shop kind of alternative peninsula that's one of the most easterly places in russia. that is highest so that you don't and your self when your torch is lit. for the good fortune we've got never talks to the flaming torch bearer and russian because you never. everybody every had an inhabitant of the cities just smoke problem that comes to his cd i must say that i hope you lation no.

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 russia. what's. what do you want. where am i. i'd literally run out 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 planet. and although safety reasons made lysias on board a heavily fueled rockets overall the bad idea the world's first olympic space walk was no problem. i don't know if i was getting some inspiration of my own. yes. i've come so far with the torch i was going to have to see it through to the end i'd 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. to make. up their english 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 up and we can run towards it ok go to. the russians or. none of us could wait to get started on the pulse he was in full swing as we moved 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. my neighbor cotton mills. five. you can really imagine how exciting it is. i'm looking forward to the moment when

the whole country will see me. on a sleep i can't believe it. did school was just really freezing today isn't it. planned so let's meet our troops. as i wave to the crowd i hadn't expected to be so nervous my whole epic journey 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. a dream come true i missed all the mystery of the london twenty games i never thought of the gods to be part of another day and now i'm. going to play with this moment one suspect.

i am. i think i finally understand that. i'm going to little further to go on with this story. 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 was with it when it plunged into the waters of lake by call and i was with it when the wins by president of the very top of the world and then it went out to this one holds the international space station. to believe. if you could combine. elements of. what you could turn face metal into gold this torch

all of those elements even the fifth element the quintessence from space itself. i believe that this torch has the energy to help you win gold in sochi. russia believe in us. now the power is in our hands.

i know. tanya the lady well tell me how you are my little grandson. i don't like i don't like. being cut us. except it isn't. that the spiritual side is destructive. i try to convince her to try to preach that it was a sect but it's dangerous and she had to leave it was a story she had lost her mind. love you she will come back i know it was and i will wait but even if it means i must wait until my dying day.

when you are followed around when you are being investigated because of the whim of someone this is the beginning of the end of your freedom. american citizens. text message use you know. where the calls text messages so you just. see everything without my knowledge thankfully basically and there's no legal absolutely yes when you bareback with the internet your bare back or other. we have corruption like we've never had in this country you can say that this is a great economy right now it's a great economy if you're rich and poor we're trying to get the wall to wall street cranked up again if you've got all your money in stocks it's beginning to show a little life it's not if you're an average person in this country i would i have

to tend to agree with doug i mean i see a lot of public relations here i don't see a lot of really good policy for the average person i just like to pick up on an earlier point that doug made though which i also thought was quite important and significant especially in so far as historians can provide value by looking for trends and putting things in context which was the assassination of a us citizen overseas really you might say the power of hiking to have life or death over their citizens without without an open trial. choose your language. we can't know if you're going to. use the consensus to. choose the opinions that you. choose to storms could impact who might choose the access to.

there were millions of dollars moving from a company in saudi arabia called sharpie fruit a fruit company and they were sending money to one of the leading members of the muslim brotherhood in yemen so this is what. is allowing then facilitating that to happen here that causes political instability in the region and causes i mean that's fine it's treason it's financing our enemies and what's crazy about it is that each p.c. admitted to the department of justice and to the world they've made it to treason financing the enemy if you plead guilty to financing the enemy i don't think you should just walk with a fine that's not final that's jail. this

is this morning syria's opposition coalition says yes to attending next week's peace talks in switzerland but. which delegates will be that becomes a bit further doubt over a chemical attack near damascus last year. these rockets could have never been fired from government controlled territory experts call into question his claims that assad's forces were behind that assault. also coming up officials from moscow . prison seeking to negotiate the release of a russian national who's held there for years without charge just like the majority of other details. yes they can continue with sweeping surveillance president obama's anticipated plans to reform the n.s.a.'s activities of dismay.