one day until a world of winter sports wonder the excitement spilled an insult to all the olympic torch i just closer to officially launch the games. the american couple who say their draw to kill themselves than be forced back to the united states they tell our t. why they fear being extradited from britain to face u.s. justice. ukraine's v.i.p. visitors from america and europe put the country's constitution at risk and give tips on form and you governments will look at why they're so keen to be seen amid the protests.

you're watching artsy ensor national with me marina call survive very warm welcome to now it's been seven years in the making and there is just one day to go before saatchi fires up the winter olympics now as the city wall comes its thousands of extra visitors many have been quick to show the world what they're experiencing post them pictures online about how their most the most of their trip to russia's black sea coast now for meeting the mascots to literally getting into the olympic spirit there's definitely a buzz about the place now most athletes have already arrived at russia's resorts and of course we know as well as the iconic symbol of the games the olympic flame and it's on the final leg of its after journey that's covered tens of thousands of kilometers from the bottom of the world's deepest like to the top of europe's

highest peak farmer has been following it since it was lets in greece and he brings us the very latest from tsotsi. rosa who taught actually which is in the foothills of the caucuses in just a short tele cabin ride away from where most of the events will take place up in the mountains it is pretty busy up here because torch made its way through this field it was carried no less by one of such easily big heroes the bobsled. and we also managed to catch up with one of such other famous athletes were a sure wrap of even though she wasn't born here she played a lot of her tennis in the early years says she say she knows this place very well and here opinion sochi is the perfect place to state the. same and in fact see the same day as you can drive up an hour to get some best loves in the world yeah you know what they believe me and i hope that everyone be able to experience this

so as you heard her mention there she thinks the geography is perfect for this but also as she said also many of the athletes have been arriving over the last ten days or so and many of those have been very impressed with the compact nature of these olympics because many of the venues are very close to the limpid village which which does make life very easy for him for them we did manage to catch up with the french figure skater but she better be good and everybody from the french team pretty good so everything is small you know ordered a village and everything it's closer. be a shrink is close to the olympic village sure we can go by wallach and there is not a big security so we feel free and we're fairly confident the torch relay will continue around sochi today and basically will embark on the last few kilometers of this amazing journey around russia sixty five thousand kilometers in total we've seen that go to the bottom of light by cow we've seen it recently go up

to the top of mind it's been up to the north pole and don't forget how you can wait it has also been up at sea the international space station in that very torch that was used for the space walk up there will be. used to be limping colder and tomorrow even tomorrow the official start of these games we mustn't forget that events do actually start today it is the team figure skating event which gets underway which means we can all try and start predicting he what might might win some medals and you get so somehow with that from an unusual source these postcards . is the moment he has life changed for ever abandoned by his mother in russia's far east the seal pup was weak with hunger and vulnerable to predators his chances of survival was slim. fast forward three years and his life is now transformed. is the home of the rather shy seal say he was abandoned as

a pup was rescued and then nurtured back to health care the dolphinarium and throughout the course of the winter olympics he's going to be one of the animals who are going to be predicting sporting outcomes. is now fighting fit and hoping to make a splash with spectators during needs going to him pigs. he's already predicted a few football matches however he's not always correct only ninety nine percent of the time. paul the octopus was the first of his kind he made international headlines join his career as a sporting psychic correctly predicting a leaven out of thirteen football matches staff in sochi who. will have a similar success rate and also believe that after a difficult start in life could become a favorite with the public. how do you avoid. a low.

isn't a life style fair also hoping that a number of friends and even display psychic tendencies. round the clock on air and online stay with our tease olympic coverage from our some actually studios from there we'll bring you the highs and lows from the slopes and ranks of the winter games that's all on artsy international and our dedicated website twenty four seen a dot artsy dot com. g twenty four do you promise that is the ultimate in exhilarating winter it's an easy journey and you see no way to make seven zero on the bus or barbeques to the sochi twenty four take. on. a u.s. state department representative is to in ukraine for consultations on forming a new government there kiev struggling to overcome political deadlock and victoria

nuland despondence to meet the country's leadership and it's all position it's not the first time the high profile western guests have engaged in someone else's politics as marina portnoy explains in less than two months u.s. assistant secretary of state and victoria nuland is making her second visit to ukraine where anti-government protesters have received the full support and backing of washington u.s. officials say this trip is aimed towards aiding the country in forming a new government and helping ukrainians fulfilled their democratic aspirations now back in december it was the stomachs of protesters that this moving health bill as she walked around independence square handing out now now for many this seems put any higher only on international metally you see in recent years the u.s. has cemented its reputation in siding with anti-government opposition movements taking place in sovereign countries such as tunisia egypt libya and syria but in

the case of ukraine u.s. officials are actually flying over the atlantic to visit and possibly strategize with pro european union protesters a power play that critics say washington would condemn if the roles were reversed china or russia or any other great power or even a regional power like iran came to the u.s. and was encouraging the protesters there would be a hue and cry from the american media like you'd never hear of before they would say why are these people interfering in our internal affairs but of course the united states sort of has a double standard because it often interferes in the affairs of other countries and thanks nothing about it in all fairness critics say the u.s. does sometimes show restraint when it comes to foreign conflicts for exam. rain and deadly crackdowns against peaceful protesters have taken place the u.s.

has a minute its own business america has also respected its right to remain silent as the saudi arabia recently enacted a new law allowing the kingdom to prosecute in jail anyone who exposes corruption or demands reform reporting from new york. r.t. . and this isn't the first time a u.s. official has spiked the ukrainian revolution either senator john mccain is well known surprised since his first appearance a decade ago and it seems he hasn't skipped a single episode of the round the world shaking hands with an opposition leader mikhail saakashvili in georgia syria and sumi jo were also part of his global turbulence tour get unshowered with support from the senate's or even back then. america's counterterrorism departments are raising the alarm after dozens of u.s. citizens moved to join the fight in syria alongside the rebels now some have since

returned from the war torn country trained by al qaida now they fear is that they could use that experience to launch terror attacks on american soil and civil war activists richard becker believes it's an inevitable result of washington's rebels supporting policies on syria. i think that we have to see that it's the the us unrelenting campaign against the syrian government that has led people many people to to go to syria to fight on the side of the opposition and it's not just the united states but it's france and britain and other nato allies that have taken this position and this happens over and over again in regards to the big powers and particularly the united states that while they feel they can control all situations what really ends up happening is that they cannot and they end up having these kind of. comes that they had not anticipated all

the syrian conflict has been attracting those who are willing to take part in the bloodshed from around the globe and there is a steady stream of volunteers from the blast as well according to the latest estimates hundreds of europeans including british french and belgium citizens have moved to the war zone to fight among jihad this ranks but it's for european politicians that's not the big issue the u.k.'s prime minister has sharply criticized the pace of syria's chemical disarmament claim and it's happening too slowly david cameron cites admits that lines and called for the mascot's to hurry up promising that britain will put pressure to speed up the process charles shoot bridge is a former british counter-terrorism intelligence officer and he believes the increasing number of insurgents in syria are hampering the disarmament. the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons the f.e.c. who is managing of course this process of relief of these weapons from syria has

today or yesterday it's come out inside these deadlines are in fact soft outlines that the the west shouldn't be too concerned about the deadlines being missed that the stage. in the last forty eight hours reiterated it satisfaction that it's confidence that the june thirtieth deadline of complete eradication of these weapons should be met on all sides really the situation is dependent upon rebels not attacking this process of transport eradication of these chemical weapons and constituent ingredients but also of course on their side government perhaps with russian pressure continuing the momentum of the price of the program the french government plans to shake up its policies on end cigarettes and immigrants but the french fear the new proposals could undermine the country's wildlife more and that's one of the stories coming up for you.

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you're watching artsy international welcome to the program an american family caught in the legal round say their drugs are killed themselves then be extradited from the u.k. to enjoy u.s. justice the been silent tests are silly you know why being forced to go back home is for them a fate worse than death one morning fourteen months ago a life changing knock on the door with two policeman from scotland yard and i said were i was soaring with the stun on with come to arrest you and your husband since then they've been out on bail and are fighting extradition to the united states to await trial after claims from the dunham's former company in the u.s. that they have more than one million dollars in illegitimate expense claims

something the couple say are without merit showing as evidence that they've gathered the dumb say they're not afraid of trial but their worst fear is being sent to the states is the possibility of being denied bail and spending years behind bars apart from one another simply waiting for their day in court if we were away from this country if it is thought that cited for a very good chance he would have why we're confident we would win. because we are innocent but we would then be shipped but there's no compensation and. wrongful act for the ocean. can you imagine coming back to this country you know three or four years later no harm no money no job and you are now in you know sixty to sixty three years. and trying to rebuild your life controversy has long surrounded the u.s. u.k. extradition act of two thousand and three signed in the wake of nine eleven critics claim the dream and is biased against the u.k.

if you are a us citizen wanted by the u.k. government you have a higher standard of evidence that you need to provide in the us and also as a u.s. citizen you have the opportunity to go to a u.s. court to think your case and unfortunate for british citizens there is no such opportunity to have your evidence tested in the u.k. court before you are extradited and that's a basic unfairness to an independent review and twenty eleven found at the treaty quote does not operate in an unbalanced manner but this contradicts findings of the parliament's joint committee in human rights which called for a renegotiation to ensure british citizens get the same protections as americans conservative m.p. who sits on the committee looked at nationalities of those extradited and found at thirty five britons have been sent to the us and steve thousand and four versus just five u.s. nationals who made the opposite journey that's seven times more two thousand and twelve david cameron told u.s.

president barack obama that he wanted a review of the treaty on the lights that is little comfort to the doms and others like them who teeter on the edge of desperation knowing it's very lives at stake from the moment they put us on the plane. first opportunity rick and. jess are cilia r.t. london. when it comes to tracking hacking it seems that if you can't beat them jus. employer online would tell you how british intelligence is resort's into its own hackers subdivisions it's a battle of groups like and on this which are always one step ahead a line. also at r.t. dot com fracking for shale gas has already been blamed for polluting water bottle rise in a number of communities in the united states say they are at risk of being left without water at all.

friend says planning to overhaul its immigration policies after the prime minister the minutes of the system is failing a government report says the state should become more arab orientated but that's drawing fire from the opposition which believes it could put an end to french culture as we know what's going to skin off reports from paris a want could be as soon as makeshift for society. the bar salute has been living in prayers for new you three decades step by step she's gone from getting a worker's permits to building a family business she changed her life to become a part of french society a long time ago but agrees that the time for it to change has now come as well maybe this is normal it's the evolution of society the french prime minister

recently published a government report proposing a shift in the country's migration policy specifically on integration cancelling the two thousand and four ban on muslims wearing veils in state schools proposing to start teaching immigrant children their language of origin and other measures that many find controversial the. report has parts about of holding people's roots and promoting the values of the republic not only is it contradictory that undermines the secular nature of french society. the report has sparked a wave of criticism with political rivals accusing the prime minister of undermining national values instead of promoting them or calling it a dangerous provocation that threatens the country's decades long migration policies it's estimated france officially received around two million immigrants over the past ten years and what around two hundred thousand. the figures are continuing to grow with despite this things like immigration and integration for

a long time weren't always something for a society found tough to discuss almost. anyone with a french passport no matter where they came from originally is a citizen of the republic and even mentioning someone's foreign roots could be enough for discrimination case in court friendship or a break. like groups of couture or it is. not the simplicity of the. u.s. . used to deal with cultural ethnic communities in france we don't like this we want every citizen to be a part of the friendship oblique and not a part of his community we have to be. put into action such strong opposition it's possible none of them will make it into the group but the report may be opening a pandora's box with signs of a grand design to me. that would have been just

a few years ago. and some other world news for you police have been engaged in street parents also with stone throwing protesters in istanbul demonstrators were riled by recent court ruling that delayed the hearing over the death of a protester in a gas a park rallies last summer that's one thousand year old became the first victim of weeks long violence over urban regeneration which swelled answer and to government protests. israel has approved plans for over five hundred houses in east jerusalem and territory occupied since nine hundred sixty seven construction as expected to start next week palestinian leaders say it violates international law and is accusing israel of the straw and the peace negotiations which began last july in the united states jerusalem as fought over by both the israelis and palestinians as their capital.

and warehouse fire in argentina has killed nine firefighters and civil defense workers when a seven meter wall collapsed on them as they pass all the flames seven others were injured in the incident at a storage facility for bank and. alchemists and data and gwen aside as the calls of fire is being investigated but authorities say that arson might have taken place. i've been martin's here soon with a look at some outside the box thinking cement america's budget to stay with us here on r.c. . there's

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over the next ten years but i'm sure our lawmakers carefully thought this through i mean it's not like there are more wasteful programs out there that they could have cut instead right well it took me about five minutes on google to find out how to save thirty five billion dollars meet the p eight poseidon is overpriced submarine hunter program comes in at a whopping thirty five billion dollars and the best part the machines don't even work michael gilmore of the pentagon testing office recently told bloomberg that the aircraft is quote not effective for intelligence surveillance and reconnaissance missions and is not effective for a wide area anti submarine search but hey at least the acknowledgement from the pentagon in the program's abysmal failure means that they'll hope the spending will save money right guess again maybe plans to go ahead and purchase one hundred thirteen of these.