this. is why you should care only. one day until a world of sports wonder the excitement is building and the olympic torch are just closer freshly launched the games. to meet the snowy peaks and. get the opinions of our streets on the he need. for the winter games. also a couple who say their draw their kill themselves than be forced to go to the united states they see why they fear being extradited from britain to face u.s. justice. they put us on the plane. and. plus ukraine's v.i.p. visitors from america and europe put the country's constitution that risk and give tips on forming a new government we look at why there are so keen to be seen amid the protests.

live from our headquarters in moscow this is r.t. international a very warm welcome to you. now seven years in the making and now there's just one dates ago before. the winter games as the city welcomes its thousands of visitors many have been quick to show the world what they're experiencing from meeting the mascot's to quite literally get an end to the olympic spirit they're posting the pictures online about how they're making the most of their trip to russia's black sea coast now most athletes have already arrived at the russian resort as well of course as the iconic symbol of the games the olympic flame it's our own the final journey of this epic journey in fact that has been its cover tens of thousands of

kilometers from the border of the world's largest in the past like to the top of europe's highest peak artes and a farmer has been following it since it was let's in greece and he brings us the latest from. well i mean the picturesque resort of rosa who tore in the foothills of the caucuses and it is actually just a very short tele cabin right away from where most of the olympic events will be held up in the mounting cluster yesterday the olympic torch came through here was actually carried by one of sorties only pickier. alexa be avoided and we also caught up with maria sharapova although she wasn't born here she did play a lot of the early tennis here and she says it's the perfect place to host the olympics. same baxi same day as you can drive a. chance at best laps in the world. no one really believes me and i hope that every be able to 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 car ride 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 games because there are at least villages actually very close to the venue where they'll be competing everything is small you know ordered a village and everything it's close. close to the olympic village we can go by wall and there is not a big security so we feel free and we're fairly confident in the meantime the clocktower razor 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 lake by cow it's been to the north pole in the saving into and to space 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. predicting the medals and to get some help with that is pull 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 now stuff i say that he was abandoned was 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 supporting outcomes. is now fighting fit and

hoping to make a splash with spectators during needs winter olympics. because he's already predicted a few football matches however he's not always correct only ninety nine percent of the time. to post was the first of his kind he made international headlines during his career as a sporting psychic correctly predicting eleven 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. probably avoid. a low. isn't a life style fair also hoping that a number of dolphins and even alters display psychic tendencies.

sochi. meanwhile many western newspapers are featuring pictures of less than satisfactory conditions in salt mostly posted by a handful of journalists but the athletes themselves tell a different story from admiring the surprises in their hotels and service here are some of the tweets that foreign gas had been posted from a personal favorite song. now round the clock on air and online to stay with our coverage from salty we'll be bringing you the highs and the lows from the slopes and ranks of the winter games right here on artsy ensor national and there's of course our dedicated web site twenty fourteen dot artsy dot com. twenty four dean promises the ultimate in exhilarating return and. you join me and he's in l.a. to make seven o eight on the last of our late news team the sochi twenty four take. on.

there's a call for the spirits of the games to calm global conflicts especially in syria with russia's foreign ministry urging all signs to sign a close so-called olympic truce and stop the bloodshed but the situation in the conflict zone worsens daily and its consequences are 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 the country trained by al qaida now the fear is they could use that experience to launch terror attacks on american soil and civil war activists richard backer believes it's in the negative of results of washington's rebel 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 parts and the bloodshed from around the globe and there is a steady stream of volunteers from the west according to the latest sas them as hundreds of europeans including british french and belgian citizens have moved to the war zone to fight among jihad this ranks bots for a european politicians that's not the big issue the case prime minister has sharply

criticized the pace of syria's chemical disarmament claiming it's happening too slowly david cameron science admits that lines and culture the mask has to hurry up promising that britain will put pressure to speed up the process charles shoot bridge as a former british counterterrorism intelligence officer and he believes that 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 removal of these weapons from syria has today or yesterday has come out and said that these deadlines are in fact soft outlines that the the west shouldn't be too concerned about the deadlines being missed at this stage. in the last forty eight hours reiterated its satisfaction and 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 sound government perhaps with russian pressure continuing the momentum of the pace of the program the u.s. state department representative is doing a crying for consultations on forming a new government there he have struggling to overcome political deadlock and victoria nuland aspirants to meet the country's leadership and its opposition it's not the first time the high profile western gas have engaged in someone else's politics as marrying up 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 support and backing of washington now u.s. officials say this trip. it's 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 teves independence square handing out now now for many this seemed to put an entirely new twist on international meddling 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. 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 us 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 over strange when it comes to foreign conflicts for example in bahrain as deadly crackdowns against peaceful unarmed protesters had taken place the u.s. has a mind of 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 marina port nine r.t. . and here's one popular gassed up around the world u.s. senator john mccain he's known to the ukrainian public since his first appearance

on their revolution there at decades ago and it seems he's barely skipped a single episode of on the rest around the world getting that welcoming hog from opposition leader mikhail saakashvili that was in georgia and here he is amongst the crowds in egypt and of course expressing his points of view on libya that's in this picture right here and that there was his syrian refugee camp in turkey. still to come for you this hour the french government's plan shaken up its policies on end cigarettes and immigrants but the french fear the new proposals could undermine the country's a way of life more and that's the end of a story coming up. new york london. the whole world is.

a further one down the end. of the cord at the end of the street another one a more transparent society gets the money or the tears become we see military and police forces mobilized against people who blend into the city to the city the more people trust electronic devices the more defenseless they are. as a thousand. there's a scene here when you're in the arctic you have the entire world at your feet she looks like a fairly simple ship. full of people have access to the nuclear icebreakers the real king here is 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 undertake. operation. the northern sea route russia's arctic ice breakers. do we speak your language or not a. news program seems documentaries in spanish matters to you breaking news a little turn into bangalore stories. you hear. the

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they're drop their kill themselves than be extradited from the u.k. so endure us justice the been silent tusshar scenario why being forced to go there is for them a face worse than death. one morning fourteen months ago a life changing knock on the door with two policemen from scotland yard and i said i was sorry miss dunham would 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 embezzled 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 in being sent to the states is the possibility of being denied bail and spending hears behind bars apart from one another simply waiting for their day in court if we're away from this country it's. for

a very good chance he would have. we're confident we would win. because we are innocent but we would then be shipped but the u.k. 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 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 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 are expected 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 and four versus just five u.s. nationals who may be 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 on the lights that is little comfort to the don imus 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. jess are cilia r

t london. one the congress are tracking hacking it seems that if you can't beat them. employer online would tell you how british intelligence is resorts into its own hacker subdivisions to battle groups like anonymous which are always one step ahead online. also at artsy dot com a fracking for shell gas has already been blamed for boots and water also rising number of communities in the united states say they're at risk of being left without water at all. francis planning to overhaul its immigration policies after the prime minister

admits that the system is failing a government report says the state should become more orientated. on fire from the opposition which believes it could put an end to french culture as we know it's your go to school for boys from paris on what could be a systemic shift for society. debar solution 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 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 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 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 one of 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 or a break. doesn't like groups of it is

we are not in the simplicity of the. us. used to deal with. communities in france we don't like this we want every citizen to be a part of the friendship of blake and not a part of his community. before the people who are put into action such strong opposition it's possible none of them will make it into. but the report may be opening a pandora's box with signs of a growing design to meet changes to migration policy that would have been just a few years ago you could be one of or to. some other world news for you police have been engaged in street battles with stone throwing protesters in istanbul demonstrators were riled by recent court ruling about delay the hearing over the death of a protester in a gas

a park rallies last summer that's when three year old became the first victim of weeks long violence of urban regeneration which swelled into anti-government protests. as one has approved plans for over five hundred houses in a store in 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 especially false over by both the israelis and palestinians as their capital. a warehouse fire in argentina has killed nine firefighters and civil defense workers when a seven meter wall collapsed on to them as they battle the flames seven others were injured and the incident at us or its facility for banking documents and faith and when a scientists because

a fire is being investigated for it's they say that arson may have. were just a day away from seeing in the olympic flame herald the beginning to the winter games now though let's remember the long journey that's what's made to reach so. recently an online poll by the liberal dozhd t.v. channel that's rein 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 boon 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 the dogs who's 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 why. for me these would have been worked to death and shot a nazi death camp it pays to make a few sacrifices for society the fascist my opinion.

they get rid of economic ups and downs in the final months they belong to the old saying i and the rest because i became a little baby every week on a. global . audience technology innovation all the latest developments from around russia we've gone to the future and covered. it was supposed to be just another news or of course although admittedly for a special occasion it was one hundred twenty three days before the start of the winter olympic games in sochi and i was in greece for the lighting of the olympic flame the ruins of a limpia 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 of. home. mom.

well that was a rather surreal. definitely the way to stream i've had for a while. it was a memorable ceremony. over one pretty short high priestess never spoke to me. what was it she said. full of the flame or something. perhaps a lot more of course of base. so what's the top story this morning then the thirty twenty pulteney olympic flame as of right in moscow seven days after it was first

late in the ancient greek city of elim carried by russia's deputy prime minister dimitri call with ak if i traveled in a small mountain to red square where president vladimir putin spoke of its meaning for the russian people i mean the olympic torch the symbol of the world's primary sports competition of peace and of friendship. but he has come to russia this ceremony marked the start of the longest tools relay in a limb take a story the flame good scrape this so many people have turned out to the start of the russian relay team it looks like a lot of fun and back. in a minute. couldn't be. but it was the stand up in and then it was on my mantle 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.