and you know. this is why you should care what you're only on the. olympic fever we've selfie as a games countdown race is one day to go the torch relay is now on its final leg to launch the twenty second winter olympic games. and to meet the snowy peaks and swaying palms we get the opinions about the it's only he need. for the winter games . british couple accused of money laundering go to court to fight the urge for addition to the u.s. they tell our team big force from home would be too much for them to bear. when they put us on the plane. first opportunity we can't miss. the west recoils as the syrian war reaches the u.s. and the u.k. with returning extremists openly make terror threats against their home countries for the first time. out of washington weighs in on the ukrainian political crisis

sending its diplomats to mediate for a second time in less than two months. this is our senior national coming to you live from moscow i'm marina joshie welcome to the program after years of planning construction and anticipation it's all come together in sochi we're now a day away from the official start of the olympic games and thousands of spectators and visitors are flooding the internet was their impressions from meeting the baskets to posing inside the olympic rings and it's evident that the spirit of the games is in the air well the city itself is brimming with athletes visitors and tourists and they have been joined now by the olympic flame is 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 mountain to the olympic

capital now and our teams paul scott. well spirits are high in and around sochi right now no doubt at 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 here when 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. sixty five thousand kilometers the torch has traveled 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 here to the mountains 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 have very short tele cabin right 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 cluster there and that's something the math lease i've been impressed with everything is small you noted of nature and everything it's close. close to do. we can go by a wall 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 sochi is the perfect place to host. the winter olympics. same exact see same day as you can drive up and out against the best slopes in the world. no one really believes me and i am. able to experience something i'm finally we should note that even though the 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 cold for some athletes sochi twenty fourteen is already up and running. well he says the sport has finally got on the way 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 dolphin area 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. is the home of the rather shy seal. 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. he's now fighting fit and hoping to make a splash with spectators during needs 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. eleven out of thirteen football matches staff in sochi who. will have a similar success rate and also believe that off to a difficult start in life could become a favorite with the public. for your boy. is into life stuff they are also hoping that the numbers that dolphins and even display psychic tendencies. so cheap i have now got the opportunity to discuss a story torch relay with someone who helped plan the route joining us is ramana lawson who is the spokesman for the twenty fourteen sochi torch relay team on think it so much for joining us here in the international well we know that the olympic flame has reached its final destination now but looking back on it apic journey and

sheer size of the country that has traveled through tell us how difficult was it to organize it and it must have been tremendously difficult task. oh you. were good thank you well i understand that you haven't heard my question but i'll repeat it i mean the olympic flame now is in the capital of the olympic games but looking back on the journey and on the places and towns cities that it's travelled through across this huge country how difficult was it for you to organize its route. you know it was very hard to kenaz it because it was a very complicated route and very complicated sticks that was. very. hot. you know and our team is numberous numerous of people who was hot so very. project and we were working on this

project is safe i'm not mistaken fault too. years and we as the party itself the. you know to discover the country we aspire only as we have are now is it through all all over through the contrie of russia. it was you know a what a would a model object was to visit all the all the regions. eighty three regions all for russia so surely to to organize it yes surely travel to the places that have never been before like laid by collins space and other spectacular locations but what challenges did you encounter along the way. you know all the authorities of course and different people were the challenges and even the you know to to make this a very complicated. route and very complicated six we have got so many problems to

organize it because there were so many. problems to. get all together all these i mean transportation logistics people. and even told shoes very very hard to get so that was very hard yeah i mean some see problems as opportunities that were actually a chance to learn something and to grow what were the moments that you will remember the most and that will you know that you will cherish forever in your memories. you know all people of course because. when you see the people who meet the train who because you know the challenges was also forgot that the meeting on the train because it was just

something very difficult to be nice because so many john all these so many media involved in this process and even a civil authorities. in every cd the policeman and you know to what to do authorities did know how to. how to organize these very very hot broads soli know very very not very had an easy job there but you have done a great job so we're looking forward to tomorrow that was around austin telling us is a spokesman for twenty fourteen torch relay team and such as thank you so much and good luck with everything. now and not everyone is willing though to embrace the olympic spirit at a number of journalists have been on a mission to highlight the less safe. every aspect of the city but outlets tell a different story from admiring a view to praising what they say are top notch facilities in the olympics capital well here are some of the tweets that visitors have been posting from sochi. now

round the clock on air and online stay with their teams olympic coverage from sochi and we'll be bringing you the highs and lows from the slopes in rings of the winter games on r t international and our dedicated website twenty four thousand dollar t.v. dot com. g twenty fourteen fall asleep ultimate in the exhilarating when just bored enough. to join us in our way to make seven zero eight on the rest of our lives like news team for sochi twenty four take. on. all the spirit of the games might offer the warring sides in syria some respite russia's urges all those involved in conflicts around the world emphasizing syria to sign a so-called olympic truce and stop the violence at least for the time of the event but the situation in the conflict zone worsens daily and its consequences are felt far and wide as hundreds of fewer pianists who join the fight in syria return home

the alarm speaking raised there are bringing jihads back with them a group of extremists with british citizenship who are fighting in the middle eastern war zone are now threatening to carry out terror attacks in the u.k. and they are already spreading the virus of extremist propaganda issuing posters urging people to join their cause among the largest among the targets i should say public transport and financial centers and not just in the u.k. one of the pictures shows a militant in front of the white house in washington or smith has a story. these are the first direct threats as far as we know that we have seen that have come out of syria death threats to attack public transport to attack financial centers and there's an estimated hundreds of britons that have joined this rebel groups in syria according to a couple of studies that have been done it's not just britons although they are the

most numerous there are around three hundred fifty according to these couple of studies that we found but there are also three hundred belgians more than two hundred each from france and germany and around about one hundred fifty fighters who've gone from the netherlands to syria this group that we're talking about in britain is a group called riots which is a british to how this group faction in syria they've got this facebook page and they've issued these threats online mainly if you take a look at their facebook page which is quite a shocking thing actually that the post is that they have posted these motivational posters that we're talking about are accompanied by likes on facebook requests to be tagged by various people now this is causing a. number of other developments for example u.s. intelligence saying is saying that it's received reports that al qaida has set up training camps in syria specifically to train fighters to return home to their own

countries to perpetrate terror attacks in their own countries and u.k. intelligence authorities say they're taking these threats very seriously indeed and the mass unrest in ukraine seems to have made a country a popular destination for u.s. diplomats with the latest state department official now in here between now and plans to meet with both the leadership and the opposition to offer washington support and putting together and new government as marina board now reports of this follows a long tradition of u.s. involvement in the politics of other nations. 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 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 this movement helped fill as she walked around teves independence square handing out now it's 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 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 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 and knocked it a new law allowing the kingdom to. prosecute in jail anyone who exposes corruption or demands before reporting from new york marina port ny on r.t. and he has one regular gas that protests around the world that's john mccain the u.s. senator has been known to grainy in public since he's first appearance at the so-called orange revolution a decade ago and his interest in the post soviet space didn't end there getting

a welcome hug from the president of georgia saakashvili right here and here he is at the heart of the arab spring in cairo also lending a helping hand to uprising and most recently visiting a syrian refugee camp in turkey so jatra of coverage foreign affairs editor for chronicles magazine told me how he sees the u.s. role in these situations. we have the united states' so-called benevolent global hegemony there is no border yeah but he no can the cranny of the world every spot of the world is a legitimate target for the newlands of this will to come and intervene russian foreign ministry official coming to the united states or any other place in the world to do likewise so what time surprised by is that the ukrainian government having made all sorts of concessions to the demonstrators and the opposition is

allowing this sort of thing to happen the violent extremists in the street are controlling. the decision making matrix the decision making calculus of the opposition leaders and that is a very worrying development it means that the violent tale in the street is wagging the political dog. the french government is weighing out plans to reform immigration policies and is meeting a wall of resistance with mattie saying the proposals violate key national ideals we explore that issue and more after the break. one going to the wall street superhero jamie the diamond drug goes wild. and the other corners the evil no good dick who refused to help bellow long-term capital management oh it's dick the gorilla fall booed.

here to mediate this fight is hank paulson will he rescue this stage rumble in the wall street jungle with a seven or billion times out the audience shrinks yes the game is rigged. dramas that try to be ignored. stories others refuse to know. the faces change the world writes no. food picture. from around the globe.

welcome back you're watching r.t. international and british couple are facing a desperate battle to avoid extradition to the u.s. caught in a legal tangle they told r.t. as to her cilia that they'd rather take their own life and be ripped away from their families one morning fourteen months ago a life changing knock on the door with two policeman from scotland yard and i said where i was sorry mr dunham 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 us 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 fears be said 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 my father

cited for a very good chance he would have passed 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're now in you know sixty to sixty three years. and trying to rebuild your life and i 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 purchases since 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 in two thousand and 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 it thirty five britons have been said to be u.s. 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 u.s. president barack obama that he wanted a review of the treaty but 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. thus are cilia

r.t. london. won a virtual world stamps interiority a new generation treatment for gun. one stops bleeding in a couple of seconds with scientists hoping it will replace all known battlefield treatments in future so how to our website for more details. also on if you thought we'd was a force for world peace you're in good company the president has been nominated for a nobel prize for making his country the first to fully legalize marijuana i doubt more at r t v dot com. how 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 drawn fire from the opposition which believes it could put an end to french culture as we know it we were going off reports from paris and what could be a seismic 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 of holding people's roots and promoting the values of the republic not only is it contradictory that it undermines the secular nature of french society the report has sparked a wave of criticism of 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 new. 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 a discrimination case in court friendship make. doesn't like groups of cultural minorities they are not in the same position at the. us they are used to to deal with cultural at knit communities in france we don't like this we want every citizen to be

a part of the friendship or make another 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 desire to meet changes to migration policy that would have been unthinkable just a few years ago you got this one off. now max and stacey are here in a minute to look at why people still trust their hard earned money to the bankers on wall street.

recently an online poll by the liberal dozhd 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 difference 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 mean 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 but fascist my opinion. think. we're going to do. did you know the price is the only industry specifically mentioned in the constitution and. that's because a free and open press is critical to our democracy schreck albus. in fact the single biggest threat facing our nation today is the corporate takeover of our government and our proximity we've been hijacked by handful of transnational corporations that will profit by destroying what our founding fathers one school class i'm talking mark and on this show we reveal the big picture of what's actually going on in the world we go beyond identifying the problem. rational

debate real discussion critical issues facing. ready to join the movement then welcome to it. hi i'm asked as a wealth of the kaiser report you know wall street is like a world wrestling entertainment or two minute stay for souness and meet each other in a choreographed scripted and overacted fight in the ring and they call it professional wrestling and wall street they call it professional money management and if the outcomes are just as great just a scripted just as a barrister way overacted and the suggestion of competition is also purely for entertainment value. in one corner the wall street superhero jamie the tapeworm

diamond crowd goes wild. and the other corners the evil no good refused to help bellow long-term capital management always dick the gorilla booed. here to mediate this fight is hank paulson will he rescue this stage rumble in the wall street jungle with a seven hundred billion tarp ouch the audience shrinks yes the game is rigged we all know it's right and yet we continue placing bets and losing our hard earned money on an outcome as if it were not pre-determined how low stacy ranks that audience when. when when the hammer while some is out there they didn't shout out. the speaking of scripted now that i find this very first headline very interesting regarding world wrestling entertainment.