to find out more visit arabic all teeth don't call. it was supposed to be just another news or of course although admittedly for a special occasion it was one hundred twenty three days before the start of the winter olympic games in sochi and i was in greece for the lighting of the olympic flame the ruins of a limpia one of the most famous monuments of ancient greece the site of the very first olympic games where stones like this would have been part of the temple. the temple. temple of. home. mom.

well that was a rather surreal. definitely the way to stream i've had for

a while. there was a memorable ceremony. who i'm pretty sure the high priestess never spoke to me. what was it she sent full of the flame or something. and there's. a lot more of course based. on what's the top story this morning than the sochi twenty pulteney olympic flame as of right did seven days off it was in the ancient greek city of libya carried by russia's deputy prime minister dmitri 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. the limbic tilt 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 goods great as 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 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 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 medal is there still something special for you. of course it's

a unique 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 pass 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 and also desirable should be like wow.

a lot of questions where. wait it's quite heavy 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 fire book 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 caused 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 limestone and. there i can see small crystals here proving that it's ancient rock. movement but really it shouldn't light up should it was amiss 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 glow. maybe maybe i'm just not right. there's certainly something very special about this and this grounds 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 in 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 old forty years these huge realized trucks one 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 might 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. just. why it's so well to mate with it. and again show me the way.

carlo. good choice. they can be few more famous natural landmarks in russia than lake baikal the oldest and deep this lake on the planet in the sights 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 . 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. 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 son the flame literally illuminates the entire lake. autumn 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. as i was tremendous on the water you could almost feel the crowd energy coming across the waves it had been another remarkable spectacle for this record breaking tool tree and i was wondering what could possibly top it.

looks like the right track. so well but a. baseline is a triple a credit big going to aaa credit there's only two or three countries in the war on the other aaa credit america's not aaa anymore a mostly euro zone is friggin junk big oil has aaa credit think about that with open transparent security creation and the ability to wipe out wall street with actual securities fitbit egalitarianism to get capitalism to point out this is fantastic. right to see. first rate. and i think picture.

on our reporters. 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 or 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 insofar as historians can provide value by looking for

trends and putting things in context which was the assassination of a u.s. citizen overseas really you might say the power of liking to have life or death over their citizens without without an open trial. technology innovation all the developments around russia we've. covered. 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. deliberate 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. 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. if 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. only four days we were already near our destination a world record pace. lesson to learn to degrees north to top of the world. ah. once the champagne had been finished everything kicked into gear the torchbearers went off to get ready and organizing committee began making preparations for the relay. we loved one on the other one and then tried to hold it right whale until. i got one. with everyone in position 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 goes 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 but yes i got to take a look off the list and return it later. i was a good. yeah go through it no slips. no. 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 and gore of would ignite the culture of the most northerly place on the planet. it's not often you get to witness a moment in 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 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 so. with the flame keeper which is just responsible for the security of the flame the keep the flame a little. on this special will you know that all of these flame will never go off. for. 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 a fold the torchbearer you know and nobody will homie nobody will get this push. police are just the better because he's just a flame and it's very dangerous for everybody. this is come shop. peninsula that's one of the most easterly places in russia. that is the whole the highest so that you don't burn yourself when your torches lit are going. for the mood fulton never talks to the flaming torch bearer and russian because you never. everybody every had an inhabitant of the city's just very proud that comes to his cd and i say that ok lation now three of them.

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. 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 planet. and although safety reasons made lycee its on board a heavily fueled rocket summer all the bad i did the world's first olympic spacewalk was no problem. i don't know if i was getting some inspiration of my own . yes i mean. i've come so far with the torch i was going to have to see it through to the end but what 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 fishel uniform. it was time to suit up and pick up the most vital piece of equipment. i think. the let's make. up of their english training thank you the. last. 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 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 this 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. you can really imagine how exciting it is. looking forward to the moment when the

whole country will see me. on a sleep i can't believe it. did school was 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 had led to this moment and as i waited for number one million three to post me the flame all i could think of was for goodness sake don't drop it. by. the dream come true i missed the london twenty games i never thought of the gods to be part of another game and now i'm. going to play with this moment.

i am. i think. that. i'm going to little further to go 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 baikal and i was with it when the wins by president of the very top of the world and then it went out. to the international space station. to believe. if you could combine elements of. that you can base metal into gold this tool which of those elements even

a fifth element the quintessence from space itself. i believe. has the energy to help you win gold in sochi. russia. now that.

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