one day until a world of winter sports wonder the excitement is building in song shoot all the olympic torch are just closer so freshly launched the games. and amid the snowy peaks and swaying palms we get the opinions of our fleets only she need location for the winter games. like this one applying. the first opportunity we can and. the american couple who say their draw their kill themselves than be forced back to the united states they tell our team 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 forming a new government will look at why they're so keen to be seen amid the protests.

you're watching artsy enter national with me marina call survive very warm welcome to you. seven years in the making now there's just one day it's ago before so she fires up the winter olympics now as the city welcomes its thousands of extra visitors many have been kind of been quick to show the world what they're experiencing from mates in the mascot soon literally getting and sue the olympic spirit that been posting pictures online about how they're making their most of their trip to of course russia's black sea coast and most athletes have already arrived at the russian resort as well as of course the symbol of the games the olympic flame and spend going for quite a journey to complete in its final leg of the epic trip that's been its cover tens

of thousands of kilometers from the bottom of the world's the person like so the top of europe's highest peak artie's under a farmer has been following it since it was let in greece and he brings us the very latest from sochi. well i'm in the picturesque resort of rosa who tour in the foothills of the caucuses and it is actually just a very short tele cabin ride away from where most of the olympic events will be held up in the mountain cluster yesterday the olympic torch came through here was actually carried by one of sorties only unpick here. alexis and we also caught up with maria sharapova although she wasn't born here she did play a lot of the early tennesse and she says is the perfect place to host the olympics . swim in the black sea the same day as you can drive a. chance at best slopes in the world. really believe me and i think that every people experience. but it does seem like we are

a world away from the palm trees the black sea but it is actually just a forty minute train ride all right away and down at the black sea we've been talking to many athletes who say they've been very impressed with the compact nature of the gates because there are villages actually very close to the venue where they'll be competing everything is small you know the village and everything it's closed. the ice rink is closed today in a big village we can go by wallach and there is not a big security so we feel free and we're fairly confident in the meantime the clock raiser who tory's taking towards the start of the opening ceremony which is tomorrow evening in the meantime the torch relay will continue its journey around sochi and it marks the end of what has been a massive journey around russia that torch relay has been to the top of mind recently it's been to the bottom of late by cow it's been to the north pole and it's even been into anticipated at the international space station in the very top

that was used for that space walk will be used to light the olympic cauldron before even that happens it's important to say that events do start today the team figure skating event will begin and it means we can start predicting who might win the medals and to get some help with that is paul scott. this is the moment to see his life changed forever abandoned by his mother in russia's far east the seal pup was weak with hunger and vulnerable to predators his chances of survival were 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 of course of the winter olympics he's going to be one of the animals who are going to be predicting sporting outcomes. he's now fighting fit and hoping to make

a splash with spectators during these winter olympics. 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 during his career as a sporting psychic correctly predicting a leaven out of thirteen football matches the staff in sochi hope. will have a similar success rate and also believe that after a difficult start in life could become a favorite with the public. from your boy. alone. isn't a life style fair also hoping that a number of the dolphins and even alters display psychic tendencies. altie sochi. meanwhile many western newspapers are featuring pictures of less than

satisfactory conditions insults mostly posted by a handful of journalists but the applets tell a different story as you're about to see right here from admiring the views to praise in their hotels and service and here are some of it's we stop foreign gas have been posting from salty it's a pickle but here in the village where i round the clock on air and online to stay with our teas olympic coverage from salt she will be bringing you the highs and lows from the slopes and bring some of the winter games right here an artsy international and of course don't forget our dedicated website twenty fourteen at dawn artsy dot com. thirteen twenty fourteen promises week talk to me in exhilarating winter sports in our team in germany and is now a make seven now and the rest of our lives take you staying for sochi twenty four take. on r.t.

. there is a call for the spirits of the games to come global conflicts especially in syria with russia's foreign ministry urging all sides to sign a so-called olympic truce and stop the bloodshed there but the situation in the conflict zone worsens daily and its consequences felt far and wide now america's counterterrorism departments are raising the alarm after dozens of u.s. citizens moved to join the fight in syria alongside the rebels some have since returned from the war torn country trained by al qaida now the fear is they could use that experience to launch terror attacks on american soil and civil war activist richard becker believes it's an inevitable result of washington's fragile supports and 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 willing to take part and the bloodshed from around the globe and there is a steady stream of volunteers from the west according to the latest sas the mets hundreds of europeans including british french and belgium citizens have moved to the war zone to fight among jihad this ranks but for european politicians that's not the big issue the u.k.'s prime minister has sharply criticized the pay's of syria's chemical disarmament claiming it's happening too slow david cameron's side

said missed the blinds and called for damascus to hurry up promising that bret's and will put pressure to speed up the process trial subranges a former british counter-terrorism intelligence officer and he believes the increasing number of insurgents in syria are hampering that this armaments the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons the f.e.c. who is managing of course this process of removal of these weapons from syria has today or yesterday has come out and said that these deadlines are in fact soft deadlines that the the west shouldn't be too concerned about the deadlines being missed at this stage and that your p.c. to the last forty eight hours reiterated its satisfaction that its 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 the sat government perhaps with russian pressure continuing the momentum of the pace of the program. a u.s. state department representative as due in ukraine for consultations on forming a new government there kiev struggling to overcome political deadlock and victoria nuland this planning to meet the country's leadership and its opposition is on the first time the western gas have engaged in someone else's politics as marina portnoy explains. in less than two months u.s. assistant secretary of state of victoria nuland is making her second visit to ukraine where anti-government protesters have received the full support and backing of washington now u.s. officials say this trip is aimed toward words aiding the country in forming a new government and helping ukrainians fulfill their democratic aspirations now

back in december it was the stomachs of protesters that ms nuland helped fill as she walked around heaves independence square handing out now now for many this seemed to put an entirely new twist on international meddling 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. put 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 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 example in bahrain as brutal and deadly crackdowns against peaceful unarmed protesters have taken place the u.s. has in mind its own business america has also respected its right to remain silent as 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 here is one popular gas up around the world u.s. senator john mccain he's known so the ukrainian public since his first appearance on the revolution there a decade ago and it seems he's barely skipped a single episode of on rust around the world getting a welcome in the hawg from

a band opposition leader mikhail saakashvili that was in georgia and then we have been among the crowds in egypt and also expressing his points of view on libya and this one right here and then we have his visit to a syrian refugee camp in turkey. the french government plans shaken up its policies on and separates an immigrant's but the french fear the new proposals could undermine the country's way of life you can find out more not all the stories coming up. the united states has significant technological over the rest awhile that it is now using that spy on the rest of the wall there was the deal between the u.s. and england where u.s. spy agencies couldn't spy on people in the u.s. but british spy agencies could spy on people in the u.s.

so the government said all right each of us will spy on the other citizens and then we'll trade and that will be surveilling our own people so this is what i think of as the scandal. we speak your language i mean. these programs in spanish what matters to you. a little too in the tooth angles stories. you hear. destroy all teach spanish more and more visit. is obviously more for the latest because it's pink. women wanted to avoid rape

they really needed to buy guns and. i'm. sure this is the one that i want to go with them once again it's the feel of the women definitely the target of the gun lobby and you don't kill them when the killing money but if somebody would you would piss with her. i've noticed that more and more that's really scary marketing tactics which implies that women have some sort of moral obligation to protect their family and young girls shoot out here too so we do have a pink or. more kids young kids choke on food than are killed by firearms if being armed made us safer in america we should be the safest nation on earth we're clearly not the safest. there are so you know when you're in the arctic you have the entire world at your

feet. she looks like a fairly simple shit but really she's not simple little. head and full of people have access to the nuclear icebreakers the real king here is that 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've undertaken a unique operation. the northern sea route rushes to ice breakers. welcome back to r.t. international and american family courts and the legal round say their druther kill themselves than be extradited from the u.k. to and or u.s. justice that been stolen tests are silly why being forced to go back home is for them afraid it's worse than one morning fourteen months ago

a life changing knock on the door with two policeman from scotland yard and i said where i was sorting was done i'm 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 that some say they're not afraid of trial but their worst fear in 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 needs is. 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 acts for patients. can you imagine coming back to this country you know three or

four years later no harm no money no job and you're now in you know sixty two 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 agreement is biased against the u.k. if you are a u.s. citizen wanted by the u.k. government you have a higher standard of evidence that you need to provide in the u.s. and also as a u.s. citizen you have the opportunity to go to a u.s. court to plead your case and unfortunate for british that since there is no such opportunity to have your evidence tested in the u.k. court before you were 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 and 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 us president barack obama that he wanted a review of the treaty 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 a plane. first opportunity rick and. tess are cilia r.t. london. want to consider tracking hacking it seems that if you can speed up john. employer online would tell you how british intelligence is resorting to its own hackers subdivisions to battle groups like anonymous which are always one step

ahead online. also artsy dot com tracking for shale gas has already been blamed for the wants are but a rising number of communities in the united states say they're at risk of be left without water at all. france says plan and to overhaul its immigration policies after the prime minister admits that the system is failing a government report says the state should become more irish orientated thought so than strong fire from the opposition which believes it could put an end to french culture as we know it's your go to school for imports from paris on what could be

a system of shift for society. the bar salute has been living in pairs 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. 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 upholding people's roots and promoting the values of the republic not only is it contradictory but it 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 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 with 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 they were 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 make. doesn't like groups of minorities we're not in the simplicity of the. us they 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 or break another part of his community. it will take a lot of debate before the proposals are put into action such strong opposition it's possible none of them will make it into. but the report maybe opening a pandora's box with signs of a growing design to meet changes to migration policy that would have been unthinkable just a few years ago you could be one of or to. some other world news for you now police have been engaged in street battles with foreign protestors in the stumble demonstrators were riled by recent. delay the hearing over the death of a protester nick as a park rallies last summer that's one zero became the first victim of weeks long violence of urban regeneration which swelled into anti-government protests. israel has approved plans for over five hundred houses in the. territory occupied

since nine hundred sixty seven construction is expected to start next week palestinian leaders say it violates international law and is accusing israel of the straw in the peace negotiations which began last july in the united states jerusalem is better only for the israelis and palestinians as their capital. a warehouse fire in argentina has killed nine firefighters and civil defense workers that's when a seven metre wall collapsed on to them as they battle the flames seven others were injured in the incidents which the place had a storage facility for banking documents and dates and when a scientist the calls of fire is being investigated fossil forests they say that arson might have taken place. more needs for you in about half an hour from now but up next world subparts meets the american activists fight since it takes a straight jackets off our computer software they stay with us.

recently an online poll by the liberal dodge t.v. channel that's rain in english has caused quite a storm of rage across the country how could a stupid online poll cause russia wide anger while they pose the question was defending living grad from the nazis worth it because retreat in their opinion could have saved hundreds of thousands of lives what is offensive from culture to culture differs a lot but from a russian perspective fighting to the bitter end to stop the german genocide machine was worth it this is basically like if a somewhat popular news outlet had a poll on martin luther king's birthday asking was slavery really that bad it was a poem for the economy but why would someone create this poll is because the people who wrote it are sick with the disease are types total self infatuation egoism and

greed in other words we're a generation mean mean mean these people could never imagine sacrificing the great and wonderful me for any cause sacrificed me to see as a plus for me i'd rather kiss their boots and learn german but it wasn't for millions of russians put their self-interest as a distant second then all those great and wonderful me s. would have been worked to death and shot a nazi death camp. it pays to make a few sacrifices for society. and. the. economic ups and downs in the final months day the london deal sang i and the rest because i meet k.c. will be every week on stage.

so jane twenty fourteen call muslims we all committed an exhilarating winter in our n.c.a.a. tourney and is now a make of an oh and the rest of our lives take you staying for sochi twenty four take. all odds. hello and welcome to the wilds of part it's one of the sweetest and most toxic poison and your language the one that can be used to both save and kill people in large numbers freedom what does it mean in today's world and doesn't the quest for freedom often result in divorced form of tyranny to discuss that i'm knowledge joined by famous technologist and philosopher richard stallman dr spellman thank

you very much for your time i know that you've been a very vocal advocate of freedom for many many years and you define freedom as having control and know having control of your own life exactly and i think that whenever we speak about the use of software or even about governance having control presupposes some sort of knowledge some sort of expertise and my question to you whether that makes a privilege something that you have to actually work for something that you have to earn and deserve rather than you know you know i disagree totally first of all we need to distinguish freedom from power freedom is having control of your own life but when but power is when one person has control over another person's life and freedom it's certainly not a privilege everyone's entitled to freedom. to the extent it is at all possible you

just said everyone is entitled to freedom but my question to you is whether everyone can really use freedom of course you know even if you don't know all the details about how a computer system is implemented you can still exercise control over what that computer system does now this is an interesting point because when you're using a program freedom means having control over what that program does now there can be individual control one user at a time and then there's collective control groups of users up to the size of the whole world exercising control over that program but all of those are the opposite of power power is what happens with a non free program where there's an entity that's the owner and that owner controls

the program and the program controls the users so this is the injustice when there isn't freedom if you can transfer it see the political aspect of things i know that you've been involved in politics as well it's almost anathema in the western political thought to suggest that certain countries or people may not be qualified for freedom but i think it's a very interesting idea to ponder and let's let's take the example of libya i know that it caught your attention back in two thousand and eleven the year for a very vocal critic of alfie you called him a butcher and. i think by now it's been valid stablished that the extent of get off this picture was exaggerated greatly and maybe even purposefully i've not convinced i don't know if i've seen the estimates but i've certainly seen the get out he is was quite a butcher and of course western countries such as the u.k. and maybe the us as well.