this is why you should care what you only. one day and to a world of winter sports one there the excitement is building in sochi while the olympic torch edges closer to officially launch the games. and amid the snowy peaks and swaying palms we get the opinions about the it's only. for the winter games. and a couple who say they drag or kill themselves then be forced to go to the united states it's hard to see why the fear of being extradited from britain to face u.s. justice. might put us on the plane. take the first opportunity we can inside. ukraine to the ip visitors from america and europe give this the authorities in kiev tips on forming a new government as we look out why they are so keen to be seen amid the protests.

watching r t international coming to you live from the russian capital i'm marina joshie welcome to the program seven years in the making now there is just one day to go before sochi fires up the winter olympics as the city welcomes its thousands of extra visitors many have been quick to show the world what they are experiencing from meeting the mascot's to literally getting into the olympic spirit or posting pictures online about how they are making the most of their trip to russia's black sea coast while most athletes have already arrived at the russian resorts as a well as the iconic symbol of the games and that is the olympic flame. and it's on the final leg of its epic journey that's covered tens of thousands of kilometers from the bottom of the world's deepest lake to the top of europe's highest peak to

the olympic capital now and paul scott. well spirits are high in and around sochi right now no doubt for the moment being aided by the fantastic weather conditions you can probably see. glistening in the sunshine behind me temperatures are well in the double figures at the moment and the atmosphere the party atmosphere is also no doubt being boosted by the presence of the olympic torch which is in the final stages of its journey across the region over the next twenty four hours or so is going to be carried by a number of high profile public figures russia's foreign minister sergey lavrov the highly respected diplomat he's taken time out of his busy schedule to pick up the baton and a little bit later on it's the turn of u.n. secretary general ban ki moon he's here for the opening ceremony on friday evening of course it's the climax of a journey that started in moscow back in october sixty five thousand kilometers the torch has traveled it's been to the bottom of lake baikal it's gone to the top of

mt it's even been to the north pole and even to space and it's also been in the mountains which is just a short train ride from here and where my colleague andrew farmer is well yesterday . came up paid to the manties and to the ski resort of rose a. very only in peak hero the bobsled. was one of the torchbearers now we're in the foothills of the caucasus and despite that we still only a very short tele cabin ride away where most of the sporting events are going to take place so everything is very compact and that's also the case down at the black sea in the coastal class today and that's something that had been impressed with. everything the small united of nature and everything it's close. close to do. we can go by war look and there is not a big security. we feel free and we're fairly confident the russian

tennis star maria sharapova is also in town and she has links to this part of the world too and in her opinion she says so. it's the perfect place to host the winter olympics. same in the black sea the same day as you can drive up and out against the best slopes in the world. no one really believes me and i am never ever be able to experience the sun finally we should note that even though the opening ceremony is tomorrow some advance have already started the qualification in the men's and women's slopestyle snowboarding has begun and the figure skating team event would also get underway so even though we're still waiting for the colder the some athletes sochi twenty fourteen is already up and running well he says the sport has finally got underway off the months if not years of talking although this early stage nobody knows exactly what the medals table will look like come the end of the games start for such a dolphinarium believe that they have one animal who might know they believe that

in their midst is a psychic seal 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 was slim. fast forward three years and his life is now transformed. of course the rather shy seal now stuff say he was abandoned as a pup was rescued and then nurtured back to health care the dolphinarium 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 these winter olympics. because 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. psychic correctly predicting eleven out of thirteen football matches the stuff in sochi how you. will have a similar success rate and also believe that after a difficult start in life could become a favorite with the public. or your body. alone. isn't a life style fair also hoping that a number that dolphins and even alters display psychic tendencies. such. meanwhile many western newspapers are featuring a picture is of less than satisfactory conditions in sochi mostly posted by a handful of journalists but the assets tell a different story from admiring the views of the services they are getting in their hotels and here are some of the tweets that we are we've been posting here from

sochi now right around the clock and on air and online stay with artie's olympic coverage from assorted we're bringing you the highs and lows from the slopes and rings of the winter games are to international and our dedicated website twenty fourteen dot r.t. dot com. the team twenty four team promises the colts in the game exhilarating winter sports in our team. still need to use it now and how to make seven zero in on the rest of our lives take news team for sochi twenty four take. on our team. there is a call for the spirit of the games to calm global conflict especially in syria with russia's foreign ministry urging all sides to sign a so-called olympic truce and stop the bloodshed but the situation in the conflict zone worsens daily and its consequences felt far and wide america's

counterterrorism departments are raising the alarm after dozens of u.s. citizens moved to join the fight in syria longside the rebels and 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 anti-war activist richard becker believes it's an inevitable result of washington's rebel supporting policies in 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 at all and the syrian conflict has been attracting those willing to take part in the bloodshed from around the globe and there is a steady stream of volunteers from the west according to the latest ask them if hundreds of europeans including british french and belgian citizens have moved to the war zone to fight among the highest ranks but for european politicians that's not the big issue the u.k. prime minister has sharply criticized the pace of syria's chemical disarmament claiming it's happening too slowly david cameron cited missed deadlines and called for damascus to hurry up promising that britain will put pressure to speed up the process charles shoebridge is a former british counterterrorism teligent 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 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 or that your p.c. in the last forty eight hours reiterated it's such a faction that it's confidence that the june thirtieth deadline of complete eradication of these weapons should be met on or saw it's 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 they sat government perhaps with russian pressure continuing the momentum of the pace of the program a u.s. state department representative is in ukraine for consultations and forming a new government there in kiev struggling to overcome political deadlock and

victorian all and is planning to meet the country's leadership and its opposition it's not the first time that high profile western gas have engaged in someone else's politics as marina poured nine outs points 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. fishel 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 teves independence square handing out now it's now for many this scene 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 a mind of 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 marina r.t. . well here's one popular guess as protests around the world u.s. senator john mccain is known to the ukrainian public since his first appearance at the revolution there a decade ago and it seems he's barely skipped a single episode of unrest around the world getting a welcoming hug from a then opposition leader well saakashvili in georgia here he is among the crowds in egypt also experiencing his point of view on libya and this one and that his his visit to a syrian refugee camp in turkey. the french government plans shaking up its policies on integrating immigrant spots and the french fear

the new proposals could undermine the country's way of life more on doubt and other stories are coming up shortly here on our to international. mother. little. little little. little each. of the. lead lives there and they are looking very hard to take out a little to get along here a lot has never had sex with her that they're not.

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rumble in the wall street jungle with a seven or billion times out the audience shrinks yes the game is rigged. is obviously more for the ladies because it's pink. women who wanted to avoid rape they really needed to buy guns and burn how to use them i'm. sure this is the one that i want to go away from once again it's the fear that. women are definitely the target of the gun lobby the one you don't kill but not one that killing many but if so many would you would just prefer. i'm noticing more and more if that's really scary marketing tactics which implies that women have some sort of moral obligation to own guns 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.

were clearly not the safest. welcome back you're watching r t international a family caught in illegal rouse say they'd rather kill themselves then be extradited from the u.k. to endure u.s. justice they have been telling to her cilia why being forced to go there 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 i was sorry mr 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 fears being sent to the states is the possibility of being denied bail and spending here is behind bars apart from one another simply waiting for their day in court if we were 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 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're now in you know sixty two sixty three years by and trying to rebuild your life the guy 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 clink your case and unfortunate for british citizens 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 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 it thirty five britons have been sent to the us it's two 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 but that is little comfort to the donna mills 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 applying. the first opportunity rick and. tests are cilia r.t. london. when it comes to tracking hacking it seems that if you can be the. just employ them online we'll tell you how british intelligence is resorting to its own after some divisions now groups like anonymous which are always one step ahead a line. also on our website tracking for shale gas has already been blamed for polluting water but a rising number of communities in the united states say they're at risk of being left without water at all.

france is planning to overhaul its immigration policies after the prime minister admits 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 it going off reports from paris on what could be a seismic shift for society. debar saloon has been living in pairs for new you three decades step by step she's gone from getting a worker's permit 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 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 who are 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 a big. doesn't like groups of you know it is they're not in the same produce in the. us they used to deal with. the communities in france we don't like this we want every citizen to be a part of the friendship of dick and not a part of his community. it will take a lot of debate before any of the proposals are put into action and with such strong opposition it's possible none of them will make it into the legal court but the report may be opening a pandora's box with signs of a growing design to make changes to migration policy that would have been unthinkable just a few years ago you were just going off. and some other world is now for

you police have been engaged in street battles with stone throwing protesters and stamp demonstrators where riled by a recent court ruling that delayed a hearing over the death of a protester in the gassy park rallies last summer the twenty year old became the first victim of weeks long violence over urban regeneration which swelled into anti-government protests. israel has approved plans for over five hundred houses in east jerusalem in territory occupied since nine hundred sixty seven construction is expected to start next week palestinian leaders say if violates international law and is accusing israel of destroying the peace negotiations which began last july in the united states jerusalem is bitterly fought over by both the israelis and palestinians as their capital. a warehouse fire in argentina killed nine firefighters and civil to fans workers when

a seven meter wall collapsed into them as they battled the flames seven others were injured in the incident at a storage facility for banking documents and data in buenos aires the cause of fire is being investigated but authorities say that arson why it has taken place. abby martin fears then with some outside the box thinking man americans bought it. recently in an online poll by the liberal doj 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 well 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 the dog seems 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. my opinion.

fourteen twenty fourteen promises we ultimately exhilarated winter sports enough. to use now a make of it and the rest of our lives thank you steve for sochi twenty four take. on. speak your language. programs in documentaries in arabic in school here. for the world talks fifty yard p. interview interesting story to tell you. troy arabic to find out more visit arabic don't go it's called. the the. what's up everyone i'm out in martin and this is breaking the set us lawmakers did

something very rare this week they actually managed to pass a piece of legislation this time around it was a long awaited farm bill simple budget plan for america for the economy that was two years in the making right now in our dismal economy the need for food stamps at a record high but the farm bill would be cutting food assistance by eight billion dollars 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 acknowledgment from the pentagon in the program's abysmal failure means that they'll hope the spending will save money right this again maybe plans to go ahead and purchase one hundred thirteen of these aircrafts if only you can eat underwater sub hunters now let's break this. in the book please take the lead very hard to take a. look. at you ever had sex with that her right there really. believe. the three. little.

italy. please. please. please. in the lead up to the two thousand and twelve nato protests chicago police raided an apartment in the neighborhood of bridgeport eleven people were arrested six eventually released but a trio was singled out and they were charged with planning a terrorist attack to the strop the nato summit the trio consisting of brett better lead jared chase and brian church have been quite the nato three and the evidence presented against them was collected by undercover cops who infiltrated the group now since their arrest almost two years ago the nato three have been behind bars and are currently facing forty years sentences each this week jurors attended the final day of evidence in the trial of the nato three but the precedent resulting from the out.