with the sochi winter olympics now just a few weeks away president ridhima putin spoke to foreign and russian members of the media he was keen to dispel concerns about security as well as to discuss some of the challenges of hosting the event or calling up of oliver earlier spoke to andrew farmer who is in this year's olympic city. these games are the most expensive in the lympics history and five times the original price tag but mr putin did stress that over the last five years so cheap was the biggest building site in the world all the venues had to be built from scratch and with huge infrastructural development in terms of roads and rail links and he said because of that it was expected things would go over budget but he said where overspend has not been justified action has been taken and people have actually lost their jobs including a russian olympic committee member who was in charge of the ski jump facility which went six and a half times over budget and he was fired however mr putin did say that there was no corruption among government officials about the evidence was presented it would

be investigated russia's law against gay propaganda to mine is arose a lot of calls to boycott the olympics from abroad so this issue was also mentioned wasn't it it was and again he stressed that homosexuality is not a crime in russia but he did say that calls for a boycott on the games on this topic was a throwback to old style thinking which he did not think was helpful and he said that he thought that the worst still people in the west they were looking to restrain emerging countries in the east that had become global competitors and you also drew a parallel with china saying they also experienced call for a boycott in the run up to the beijing games back in two thousand and eight and finally security and how it will affect big gains is of course what worries many people that what were the president's comments on that. it is a major issue particularly after the new year bombings in volgograd he did say that forty thousand troops and police are on duty in and around the search area at the

moment he did say it was necessary but he also did stress that they would do all they could to make sure that they would not be too intrusive for members of the public and all these people will come to sochi. try and enjoy the game some from my own experience i was walking along the promenade yesterday and on the horizon was a warship and yes i see small patrols of police on the streets and also regular police write checks but i wouldn't describe it as overbearing in fact i would say that i think many people will find it reassuring certainly at the moment with around three weeks to go before the start of the games under far with the reporting from sochi and just like you know next we revisit the record breaking relay of the games symbol that the limbic torch. deliberate torch is on it's a big journey to structure. one hundred and twenty three days. through two thousand nine hundred towns and cities of russia. relayed by fourteen thousand

people or sixty five thousand killing. in a record setting trip by land air sea and others face. a limp dick torch relay. m r t r v dot com. guantanamo bay detention camp fun a lot of visit by russian officials after more than ten years of diplomatic negotiations the delegation from moscow visited the last russian citizen being held in the cab they're told his case will be reviewed by the u.s. military in the very near future. has more now from washington. visit securing the release of the only russian nationals held at the detention center for over twelve years without charge reveal. the human rights commissioner reiterated russia's position on the detention center in guantanamo bay in his

meetings with officials from the defense department and from the department of state he said russia's position is that this detention center be closed down as soon as possible this detention the mere existence he said of this detention center is in violation of human rights and international law the most important probably. element of a visit was to meet with me go with those who do and to convey the message to the american representatives to the miracles. that we insist they heard his words and legitimate interests. would be taken care of back in two thousand and eight barack obama the u.s. president promised to shut down the detention center multiple times he said that he wasn't able to fulfill his promise because of the congress which. a number of occasions has vast laws to make it harder and harder for the u.s. administration to either transfer. detainees to other countries or to bring them

back to the u.s. and try them on u.s. soil which has left the u.s. administration really in political limbo because this detention center has has seen the image and reputation of the u.s. . well they have an extra ten of our detainees to be there tried or set free led to more than one hundred prisoners going on hunger strike last year of course no say the current number of those still protesting is thirty three but it's hard to know exactly because camp authorities stopped releasing official data last month according to the military the release of information to tracts for more important issues such as the welfare of detainees or indeed the safety of troops a lawyer for several guantanamo detainees described how exactly the youngest riker's a big dealt with this for prisoner are from camp six which is the least you can goes on hunger strike they automatically get transferred not just can't fly but can't five record which really has been the most abuse took place in over a container of prisoners are held in an all steel cell and denied the most basic

human rights just as a punishment for going on strike but for sleeping techniques a very much an action unfortunately against the very abusive force feeding techniques so for example and i've witnessed some of those that they used to leave but use up the prisoners noses the bullets so much they're still probably most tubes out every single one tries to forcing them back up each time there's still that forcing far too much too quickly into the prison american prisons if you're sick they just carry on doing it it really is horrendous. but capitals on every show lead back after that with more stories including a look at whether the twenty first century is welcoming a new cold war melfi promises easy if you join the gas resources in the riches that follow stay without international was a big story in the way plus two street renovation plans in. clashes with police

across the country as protesters blame the government for placed in this violence and i'm covering this international. tanya. well tell me how you were my little grandson. i don't like i don't like. being cut off. except as an ecovillage that the spiritual side is destructive. i tried to convince her to try to preach that it was a sect but it's dangerous that she had to leave it was a story she had lost her mind. you know you she will come back i know it would and i will wait but even if it means i must wait. until

my dying day. welcome to venture capital with me katie this weight right is john's daughter all school boards at the u.k. may leave the view for forms do not take a look at global reaction from the former leaders of basically on the czech republic who have very different opinions on that there were plenty of international politicians in most goes this week because it was the economic forum

which i was a little too i caught up with the world renowned economist jeffrey sachs on tax evasion and they gave him still be who plays a wall street that's all still it's called but let's start with mr dawoud all's well because he ruffled. feathers this week by war they that the u.k. could be forced to quit if the organization does not reform and here is what the challenge is not once exactly the main points now he has been frustrated by what he sees as the storing of the free trade deal between the e.u. and the us by e.u. lawmakers themselves i think europe is being shown up by economies like china and india now the british public will get to decide in twenty seventeen in a referendum if they want to continue as a member of the e.u. now the main sticking points for the bridge to. people immigration social security and interference from brussels and british your city when it comes to human rights

now the czech republic is in a similar situation to britain in the fact that it's in the e.u. but it doesn't have the year as its national currency so i also feel the president of the country applecart a form what he makes of those bones warning. more or less grevious such a statement the issue is that there is a bill to make a change not just close my think changes but the fundamental transformation of the economic social political system i am rather skeptical in disrespect so so i think that too great to leave the euro is definitely gonna lead you to maybe it was separated for countries like very very czech republic or. any other that's my position. another person would be there i believe. that the

british conservative politicians i mean it seriously. i'm afraid knowledge so you so that's another story well if indeed they all serious and they a full time in a prime is so merriam monte who is also here most keen supporter of both the and the yarra he said that britain living would affect the progress of the reforms which he also thinks all necessary. walked by seeing europe does leave these lower economic reforms. agreed to lower the role for markets foreign competition in markets more market built in the square and the buyer of those used it to be for you a sleaze for me a bit of for you this week a little bit of the office in europe sold. as an italian as a european i do wish that your game stays the night in gone but that

if it does not alter the whole reform process the new rope would be less we girls bob mr coles who is a self-confessed here i skeptic has a sorry day friends attitude to mr monti and doesn't the same to couldn't sons about britain even or indeed any other nation for that muscle. i'm absolutely sure that it's your existence or your existed in this six countries then it is mine the countries then this is the arab countries then fifteen and twenty five twenty seven twenty eight all the time the idea of all is that that's ok so why in order to have means that those twenty eight this instance are possible now while we had mr osborne grumbling about the e.u. hilmer downplays smiling at total to totally transform the u.k. fracking industry another friend or oil company will become the first international

heavyweight to invest in the u.k. shell basin injecting full eighty seven billion dollars environmentalist well that fracking is dangerous polluting advocates say it makes energy more affordable creates jobs and cuts consumption of coal this could have a look at how it's started so we can see how the environmental issues come into drilling. deep deep into these gas rocks actually more than a kilometer down into the grounds then we have the chemicals that come into it what is mixed with sand and water as well it's intense rays into these show gas intense pressure is what this does is it opens up these fishes and this is where the contamination comes into and how the water can be affected just that so. pollution as well concerns too that's how what now i spoke to from the world bank

group she was here in moscow as well she was for a month she has had to discuss climate change in the environment so i also about the potential dangers. there's a lot that we don't know about the methane impacts of fracking and so on has to be properly understood and properly accounted for because resigning is a forcing emission that makes it makes global warming and fast. but i think the issue really is depending on the geometry for some countries to have the water necessary to fracking for the others they don't so for countries this in some countries this is an option for other countries it's more difficult i think the big question for the industry overruled is is this a short term or long term phenomenon already you're beginning to see the productivity off the front from start to reduce which would indicate that perhaps the reserves aren't quite as large as everybody wants it we're going to stay with. gas and russian corporate news because it seems that russia is the latest come true

to be jumping on the rock band wagon yes because so i guess from that south of testing the shellfish had sort of a bottle from a ship in russia's western siberia above them all it's believed to have the largest shale formation anywhere in the world successful because the shareholders will make a decision about moving to a large scale development in the region. the russian financial the tb group has severed ties with credit rating agency fitch ratings and accuses the agency of a lack of professionalism reducing the ratings without access to internal documents all financial reports between these rates and most recently downgraded to a triple the. something of russian banks in vest a bank was made into a sort of capital when it had its license revoked a month ago that reportedly already have as much capital as it has it's. now what has you'd have.