and i was in greece for the lighting of the olympic flame the ruins of elim p.-l. 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 laws. from eight. am.

from. well that was a rather surreal. definitely the way to stream i've had for a while. it was a memorable ceremony. one pretty sure the high priestess never spoke to me. but was it should set follow the flame or something. there's. a lot more of course of base . on which the top story this morning than the thirty twenty pulteney olympic flame

of the. seven days off it was in the ancient greek city of olympia 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 chill of 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 for 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 experience the 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 alessi of logic you know who picks up two gold medals in the beijing and london games. we do called the peace talks to him big gold medal is there still something special for you. of course it's a unique feeling because i had never carried dorsch before i had 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 who. 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 by the machine extra weight of the aluminum so it's really fine. it's the feather feather over the period 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 when the wind goes underneath here and it just caused the fire but in this kid we have a special need 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 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 the earth 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 value 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 should it. no 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 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 blast trucks one of the most famous symbols in your kooky 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 an torch bearers are made of sterner stuff.

this huge quarry has been the frozen heartbeats 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 in our great shot. lives so when two mates were to. again show me the and. 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 . our 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 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 for miles on the water you could almost feel the christmas energy coming across the waves it had been another remarkable spectacle for this record breaking toolchain really i was wondering what could possibly top that. list so go in the right track. so well but.

there's so little self reflection on the part of both the american public and that american decision makers i wonder why is that. country of three hundred fifteen million people very self-absorbed we are. slated from the world by two large oceans. we're trying to think of foreign policy is something we do to other people rather than the good something we participate in . as a new physician i swear to abide by the hippocratic oath. to the best of my ability and judgment. i will prescribe for the good of

my patients. i will not give deadly doses to anybody. or advise others to do so. i will never do harm to any. doctors of the doc's. right on the scene. of. the first strike. and i think the church. on army corps twitter. and instagram. to be in the know. on mom.

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 the 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. hundred nautical miles of stark beautiful ocean 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 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 them were 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 isn't top of the world. ah. payment been finished everything kicked into gear torchbearers went off to get ready and 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 all. right but what. with everyone in position we were ready to go and our captain was. even 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 very much yes so i got to take

a look off the list and return it may. i was it good. yes go through it most of it. no. we stepped off the ship and on to the ice the torches glowed flickering through the pitch black poland nights. a pioneering survey of polar explorer auteuil chelan 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 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 service called the flame keepers which is just responsible for the security of the flame they keep the flame little. on this special food bill you know all of these flamed will never go up. for. free. 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 full. you know the nobody will homie nobody will get this push. police on just. because it's just

a flame and it's very dangerous for everybody. this is. a 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 torch is lit are going. for the root fortune never talks to the flaming torch bearer and russian because you never. everybody every had an inhabitant of the cities just married 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 idea the world's first olympic spacewalk was no problem. back down to 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. that'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'll be in the car that will be filming us starts to move up and we run towards it ok go to. the russian first.

none of us could wait to get started and the policy 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. 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'm sure i missed. london twenty games i never thought of that to be part of another day and now i'm the only person in the world going to play with this margaret fun stuff that. i am. i think.

i got a little further to go with this story. i was with it when it was lit 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 winds but it didn't have the very top of the world and then it went out. to the international space station. to believe. if you could. you can base metal into gold this tool which 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.

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on june sixteenth one thousand forty one we had a graduation party at school and the war broke out. the shops were always full of goods. in september leningrad was blocked. one day mom went to saw that all the shelves were empty. in november the. warehouses it was the main storage place for all the food in the city people would eating the earth because it had small traces of sugar in it i tried to eat it as well but i couldn't. live with credibly heavy bombing. it was a direct very shelter and everyone was buried underneath. all of them would to.

move. 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. looking for trends putting things in context which was the assassination of a u.s. citizen overseas really you might say the power to have life or death over their citizens without without an open trial.

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i mean didn't turn all disputes and divisions a serious national coalition finally agreeing to attend geneva peace talks at some point soon perhaps reject the conference. forms are proposing today should give the american people greater confidence that their rights are being productive the u.s. president assures americans that the n.s.a.'s use of wholesale private data will be a rainy day and but critics say the long awaited announcement is seriously lacking in substance and. also the sound of torture as the sayings and even sexual assault which are seen a minute trip figures they're accused of widespread abuse during the iraq war which began in two thousand and three and could stand trial in the hague. on top moscow officials gain access to go.