well that was all rather surreal. definitely the way to stream i've had for a while. there was a memorable ceremony. one pretty sure the high priestess never spoke to me. what was it she sent full of the flame or something. i have a lot more of course at base. on which the top story this morning than the sochi twenty pulteney olympic flame as of right in moscow seven days after it was first 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 limited case jury the same good 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 was. 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 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 guys i guess of course it's a unique feeling because i had never carried the torch before i had first i ran with it quite easily than 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 delight and the crowd's reaction words sexists 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're whole

and also 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. if 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 on the most expensive in the country. the paper 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 value and i had a close only focused on my precious stone too. 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. 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 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 me in these 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 old forty years these huge belies trucks more of the most famous symbols in your couture 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 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. great shot. lives so when two mates were to.

again show me the way. carlo. 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 on. 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 for. 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 crowd's energy coming across the waves it had been another remarkable spectacle for this record breaking tool. i was wondering what could possibly took it. looks like the right strike. but a. day . in the century national and russian and i think this is a rather rancid and distasteful policy but also well that's dangerous. as well as a threat to creating a kind of civil conflict with places like ukraine is russia a threat to the west because the west certainly portrays russia as some kind of

threat i would put it differently all right i would say that the west is a threat to itself in my perspective that is not only highly provocative it is closing down opportunities that we have with russia. to solve major problems affecting our own national security so what we say today on your show peter if you turd in the united states will be dismissed as russian propaganda no. look it was terrible they are very hard to take out. once again on the flip flop that are back with the earthquake there's no. one wants.

to. look at them. apart. right on the scene. first for you and i think pictures. on our reporters twitter. and instagram. could be in the. on.

one corner the wall street jamie the. drug goes wild in. any other corners the evil no good who refused to help bellow long-term capital management always dick the gorilla fall moved. here to mediate this fight as hank that i am appalled will the rescue this stage rumble in the wall street jungle with a seven or billion times ouch the audience rakes yes the game. might 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 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 that. 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 but if you get the chance to test your own as well as the cruise experience 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 this so late in the season them were that 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 and 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. once the champagne had been finished everything kicked into gear the torch bearers 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. right one. with everyone in position we were ready to go and 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 pass hand in time and just seconds later she was away and i was on collection g c. i think that's when we now. think you're right yes so i'm going to take a look off the list and returning. i was it good. yeah go through it most of it. no if. we stepped off the ship and onto the ice the torches glowed flickering through the pitch black poland nights. a pioneering soviet polar explorer to a chilling gorup would ignite the culture of the most northerly place on the planet

. it's not often you get three 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 jets. who got this special service with the flame keeper which is just responsible for the security of the flame the keep the flaming little word on this special food bill you know all of these flame 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 and nobody will harm me nobody will get this push. police are just the better because he's just a flame it's very dangerous for everybody. this is come chopped a volcanic peninsula that's one of the most easterly places in russia. that is to hold 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 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. one to one. where i. might 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 lysias on board a heavily fueled rockets are all that bad idea 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 in new fall 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. a stimulus for after their english training thank you. at 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. 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 go. 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 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 one 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. 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. going to play with this moment.

i am. i think. 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 was with it when it plunged into the waters of lake baikal and i was with it when the winds 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 the four elements of . you could face metal into gold this tool which

all of those elements even a 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.

there's a saying when you're in the arctic you have the entire world to chill feet. she looks like a fairly simple ship but really she's. full of people have access to the nuclear icebreakers the real king here is at the polar bear and ice breakers come second not a single complex expedition to the arctic can be conducted with the russian nuclear powered fleet of ice breakers we. operate. the northern sea route russia's arctic ice breakers.

lot of fun your fulfillment life should be polished face i sometimes feel alone. a pleasure to have you with us here on t.v. today i'm sure.

the flame. the olympic spirit travels with the flame from its birthplace in greece. joining james brown for an elemental and epic journey around russia and beyond. where i'd love to go.

coming up on our t.v. sends out a word snowden revealed the expansion of n.s.a. surveillance many have tried to discredit him among them count little hill lawmaker is attacking both snowden and the reporter that helped out what this could mean for journalists and their sources ahead. and since news broke about the death of actor philip seymour hoffman the dangers of heroin is a vacuum in the news a large portion of the drug comes from afghanistan now lawmakers in washington are trying to figure out how to stop the flow of heroin into the u.s. more on this front on the war on drugs coming up. and we're only two days away now from the start of the sochi winter olympic.