really not the safest. olympic fever sweeping sochi with the torch relay now on its final leg before the opening ceremony of the twenty second winter games. and scandal brewing over an alleged phone conversation that could washington's reputation as a sense diplomats to ukraine to mediate the political crisis there. a british couple accused of money laundering go to court to fight their extradition to the u.s. telling our being forced from home would be too much for them to bear. when they put it on the plane. and. in countries recoil as the syrian war reaches the u.s. and the u.k. with returning extreme is openly making terror threats against home countries for the first time. i.

haven't pm in moscow good to have you with us our top story after years of planning construction and anticipation it's all come together in sochi we're now less than a day away from the official start of the olympics and thousands of spectators visitors are flooding the internet with their impressions from meeting the mascots to posing inside the olympic rings it's clear that the spirit of the game is in the air the city itself brimming with athletes and tourists joined now by the olympic flame finally on its last leg of its epic journey that covered tens of thousands of kilometers from the bottom of the world's deepest lake to the top of europe's highest peak that's taking out of the olympic capital where martin andrews has more . well off to one hundred and twenty two days the torch is finally here in the sochi area to arrive yesterday some more of the one hundred twenty three days will

be complete at all make its way to the opening tomorrow night at the time will be fourteen minutes past eight of course to represent twenty four teams if you go back to two years ago we had the likes of david beckham james bond and queen elizabeth the second he made appearances so everybody is really talking about who will be carrying the torch. earlier on today we had a lot of rough we had. the i.o.c. president he was also carrying the flame a surprise visitor from the likes of ban ki moon the general secretary of state for the united nations as well as famous russian actors and musicians and we caught up with the french figure skater and this is what he had to say about the rising excitement here in the area in general i think russians are very enthusiastic about sport and about the olympics so i expect them to play great hosts of the world and so far what i've seen has been very impressive and i can't wait to get down to the

venues and see the competition. but also the world famous tennis star maria sharapova added her comments on the excitement surrounding the twenty fourteen winter olympics. black sea the same day as you can drive up in our stance and best lives in the world. believe me and i am. people to experience this on. a course it's quite interesting to the fact that the games actually started today why is that well that's because there are twelve you have been added since the vancouver games in twenty one of course everybody is talking about carrying the torch and who will win those magnificent medals that were held to the various journalists yesterday and to talk about fortune telling let's speak to paul scott with a very interesting guest. the moment his life changed. about. 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 now stuff they say that he was abandoned as a pup was rescued and then nurtured back to health care the dolphinarium and for the course of the winter olympics he's going to be one of the animals who are going to be predicting sporting outcomes. who is now fighting fit and hoping to make a splash with spectators during leads going to him in pics. because he's already predicted a few football matches however he's not always correct only ninety nine percent of the time. pull the octopus 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 staff in sochi who. will have a similar success rate and also believe that after

a difficult start in life could become a favorite with the public. how do you avoid. a low. isn't a life style fair also hoping that a number of their dolphins and even alters display psychic tendencies. it's a sochi raider i want to consult with a sponsor orange for the sochi two thousand and fourteen team a shared with us what he finds most inspirational inspirational about their tradition of carrying the flame. believe the most impressive use every kid you see on the roll every minute you crawl through the flame and see the delight of the torch in their eyes and how it can inspire them to do rallies and that's really been supressed needles in the smallness of the kids here it's been amazing us to smile it's. very very happy able to do so.

not everyone's yet embraced the olympic spirit a number of journalists have been tweeting out the less savory aspects of the city that they've come across but athletes telling a different story from admiring the view to praising what they call top notch facilities we spoke with a number of journalists in sochi including one c.b.c. broadcaster douglas gallivan who told us that he thinks many of the issues are being overblown. anytime you try to do a project this big by throwing in the limpid games in a city that really was very very small before before they decided that the olympic games are going to come here there's going to be one or two challenges a few of the hotels i didn't expect them to be finished but everyone in the area is working very very hard to fix these issues and everyone of course is also very very nice and very very helpful and the problem is when you're not actually in the location when you just see a few photos tweeted perhaps over twitter and there's a few things people start to develop their ideas and when you put those things

together kind of paints a picture of negativity but i think honestly from my experience here the negativity is a little bit overblown and of course all the volunteers here have been absolutely fantastic working with us the foreign media and helping us and of course after to morrow when the opening ceremonies happening i think all of that will be behind us all the if attention hopefully will focus on the athletes in the sports as opposed to the living accommodations of journalists which in the end it is a privilege to come here and cover the games round the clock on air and online you can follow our coverage of the two thousand and fourteen sochi games you can also find in a special section on our website that's twenty fourteen dot r t. o g twenty fourteen promises we told them that in the exhilarating winter sports and . social media and he's now a i'm

a criminal and the rest of our live hate news team for sochi twenty four would take . on. in the spirit of the games could offer warring sides in syria some respite in russia urging all those involved in global conflicts to emphasize emphasizing syria to sign a so-called olympic truce and stop the violence at least during the event but the situation in the conflict zone seems to worsen daily its consequences being felt far and wide hundreds of europeans who join the fight in syria return home alarms being raised that they're bringing jihad with them a group of extremists with british citizenship fighting in the middle eastern war zone are now threatening to carry out terror attacks in the u.k. they're already spreading the virus of extremist propaganda issuing posters urging people to join their cause among the targets public transport networks financial centers and not just in the u.k. one of the pictures shows a militant in front of the white house in washington laura smith has more. 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 center. 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 how we which is a british how this group faction in syria they've got this facebook page 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 coming 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 commentator john why you thinks britain's policy missteps may have actually contributed to the rise of extremism in syria. no the events is entirely predictable and i think they have to be taken seriously this is the fruits of a disastrous policy followed by the british government which they got to city over the last two years which has done nothing except so instability throw the region with instability has grew and. the ideology of the

interests of the british and sitting governments are no oftentimes going to take the actually the same and that is to defeat this malign ideology because it is a clear and present danger not only to the sitting government and to the entire region but increasingly to the west and to people in the west french government is weighing plans to reform immigration policies meeting up a wall of resistance though with many saying proposal violate key national ideals we take a look at that issue and more after a break. one going to the wall street jamie the. drug goes well. and the other corners the evil no good they refused to help bellow long-term capital management oh it's dick. who.

here to mediate this fight is. will the rescue this stay. in the wall street jungle with a seven or billion times. the audience yes the game is rigged. dramas that can't be ignored. stories others who refuse to notice. faces change the world. so picture day. from around the globe. british couple facing a battle to avoid extradition to the u.s.

cardinal legal tangle they tell are. rather take their own lives than be taken 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 sorting was done and we've 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 the dumb say they're not afraid of trial but their worst fears being sent to the states as 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 needs is. for a very good chance he would have asked why we're confident we would win. because we

are innocent that 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 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're 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 plink 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 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 in human rights which called for a renegotiation to ensure british citizens get the same protections as americans conservative m.p. who sits on the committee looked at nationalities of those extradited and found at thirty five britons have been sent to the us and steve thousand four versus just five u.s. nationals who made the opposite journey that's seven times more but for every argument on this side of the atlantic a counter is thrown back the united states has never denied a request under the treaty whereas the united kingdom has to divulge the full requests from the united states if the relationship is in balance i would say it's imbalanced against the united states but that is little comfort to the don imus and others like them who teeter on the edge of desperation knowing it's their lives at stake from the moment they put us on the plane. first opportunity we can and.

does are cilia r t london. when the virtual world steps into reality a new generation treatment for a shotgun and stops bleeding in a couple of seconds with scientists hoping it will replace all known battlefield treatments and in the years to come find more details on our website plus if you thought we'd was a force for world peace you're in good company the president of your of y. has been nominated for a nobel prize for making is country the first to fully legalize marijuana find out more on our t. dot com. arrest in ukraine seems to have made the country a popular destination for diplomats with the latest us state department official in kiev victoria nuland met with the opposition and plans a similar meeting with authorities to offer washington support in putting together a new government or he's marine important reports. 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 fulfilled 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 now for many this seemed to put an entirely new twist on international metally you see in recent years the u.s. has cemented its reputation in siding with anti-government opposition movements taking place in sovereign countries such as tunisia egypt libya and syria. 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 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. prosecutor in jail anyone who exposes corruption or demands reform reporting from new york marina port nile r.t. . there's also

a scandal brewing as washington's real stance on ukraine may have leaked on the web according to an alleged phone conversation between victoria nuland and u.s. ambassador to ukraine as appeared on you tube the alleged recording the assistant secretary of state uses strong language describe frustration over the use in action and wavering over what's going on in the ukrainian streets here's the comment of the white house press secretary well i'm not going to comment on the content of. private diplomatic conversations. you know i would say that it's not correct he went to the media was first noted. and tweeted out by the russian government i think it says something about. russia's role but the content of the conversation is not something i'm going to comment on russia after this phone call i'm not i'm just noting that they tweeted it out it's going to say about the us i refer you to state for a private conversation now it doesn't appear to be public is that is that really the stance that. a diplomat should be taking you know not going to be free and over

and over i'm not going to discuss the conversation. what i can tell you is that this is a secretary and our ambassador and all others have been working with the opposition with the government with business and civic leaders in ukraine to help deescalate the crisis. there's been one regular guest at several protests around the world senator john mccain the senator has been known to the ukrainian public since his first appearance in the so-called orange revolution ten years ago his interest in the post soviet space doesn't end there getting a welcoming hug here from the president of georgia during its war with russia at the heart of the arab spring in cairo lending a helping hand to the libyan uprising and most recently visiting a syrian refugee camp in turkey surge of troops give it a foreign affairs editor for chronicles magazine tells us how he sees the role of the situations. we have the united states so-called benevolent global hegemony there is no bullshit yeah but

a new can the cranny of the world every spot of the world is a legitimate target for the newlands of this will. lead to the russian foreign ministry official coming to the united states or any other place in the world to be likewise so what time surprised by it is that the ukrainian government having made concessions to the demonstrators and the opposition is allowing this sort of thing to happen the violent extremists in the street controlling. the decision making matrix the decision making calculus of the opposition leaders and that is a very warring development it means that the violent in the street is waking the political dog turning now to some other global headlines this hour transport chaos sweeping britain's capital for a second day with millions facing huge delays due to a workers' strike in the london underground most stations out of action commuters

had to stay home or face massive lines for buses and overground trains unions declared the strike over plans to close ticket offices and slashing jobs. hundreds in yemen in march through the country's capital expressing anger against a gas deal between the government and french oil company total. is headed by nobel prize winner tao is called karma protesters chanted anti corruption slogans experts say yemen's economy was severely hurt by the deal signed under the leadership of the country's former president. for france planning to overhaul immigration policies after the prime minister admitted the system is failing a government report says the state should become more arab oriented but that's drawing fire from the opposition which feels it could put an end to french culture as we know it or he has more. 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 maybe this is normal it's the evolution of society the french prime minister recently published a government report proposing a shift in the country's migration policy specifically on integration cancelling the two thousand and four ban on muslims wearing veils in state schools proposing to start teaching immigrant children their language of origin and other measures that many find controversial. the report has parts about of holding people's roots and promoting the values of the republic not only is it contradictory that 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 what 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 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 french republic. doesn't like groups of you know it is we are not in the same position 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 oblique 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 meet changes to migration policy that would have been unthinkable just a few years ago you would be one of the bearers kaiser report coming up after a short break stay with us. recently in our line poll by the liberal dawlish 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 were a generation mean mean mean these people could never imagine sacrificing the great and wondered. for me for any cause sacrificed me to the dogs who supply us with 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 a fascist my opinion. i

am asked as are well to 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 all straight they call it professional money management and if the outcomes are just as great just a scripted just as a barrister only overacted and the suggestion of competition is also purely for entertainment value. in one corner the wall street superhero jamie the. drug goes wild. and on the other corners the evil no good refused to hoe below long term capital management always dick. boudreau. 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 holo stacie next audience when food went well thank the hammer whilst i was 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 people are making tons of money betting on fake pro wrestling so from january to april of every year it's called the road to wrestle mania these are the big bouts in april were all the money is made and all the bets place several online sports books including five dimes and bodog have been accepting bets on progress in for years and lately progress slowing insiders have begun to notice an unsettling

trend you see my boxing or m.m.a. the odds for a pro wrestling match is free of it's versus underdogs flip in such a manner that progress journalists dave meltzer who has been covering the business for nearly thirty years is convinced insiders are pulling the strings if you're smart you know people says meltzer you can make money because you'll know what the results are yeah that's right and people are betting on a rigged outcomes as if they're not red yes people are actually laying bets and something they clearly know i stay. just right well it would be like going into a theater watching macbeth and betting that in some way the outcome will not be what we already know the script a big and those are people making these bets are making bets on scripted outcomes now there's a user called dolphins' nine hundred twenty five on reddit and for the past year he has predicted every single outcome.