we're clearly not the safest. it's only a matter of hours now before the official start of the twenty fourteen winter games anticipation is growing with the intrigue surrounding the opening ceremony and adding to the excitement plan he says the competition is just about ice and snow now that all the athletes have gathered here in sochi will be giving out the fashion gongs at the winter olympics from the weird and wonderful costumes to the overly bright and just downright bizarre. and also in the news this hour in bahrain few are diplomats try to long for the i'm apparently hacked exclusive phone chat about how they could tailor the next ukrainian government.

under a very well welcome to our team to national twenty four hour news live from moscow my name is you thanks for joining it's less than twenty four hours left before the flame of the winter games is littered the olympic stadium in sochi some of the competitions have already kicked off but the wild is holding its breath for the official opening ceremony that organizers promise will be mind blowing oh she's postcard isn't the olympic capital for us right now. it's been seventy s since so she was awarded the winter olympics and in a few hours' time we're going to see the culmination the climax of all that hard work and all that planning the opening ceremony gets underway at eight fourteen pm local time in the fish stadium that you can probably make out behind me and i was fortunate enough to get a ticket for the final dress rehearsal on choose david and i can tell you that the forty thousand plus spectators who are going to be inside the stadium are going to

be treated to a high tech pyrotechnic display a condensed journey through russian history and although the opening ceremony hasn't begun in the olympic cauldron hasn't been lit we still don't know the identity of the person tossed with that despite those things the sport has started the events began on thursday and the continuing to run throughout friday and also has spoken to a couple of athletes who have tested their venues ahead of their events and they say that such she is ready to welcome the school ting world first impressions have been good we've been putting every day. like states we don't have this much success with that so easily. right off to the. right side but everything. so yeah. i think the 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 they called to begin well tonight's opening ceremony will also see the climax of the journey for the olympic torch it's on its record breaking sixty five thousand kilometer journey around the world's largest country it's in the final stages of that journey of course has been to the bottom of the world's deepest lake lake by kalas being to the top of the highest peak in europe mt elbrus and has even been into outer space on the north pole and in the last twenty four hours it's been carried by a number of high profile figures as well include. russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov he's taking time out of his busy show jill to pick up the baton as has u.n. secretary general ban ki moon who was here for tonight's opening ceremony and organizers say that for the olympic torch relay it is almost a case of mission accomplished it's of course the long years and the biggest torch relay in time and history so it's been a huge logistical effort to to make this happen in the russia in winter time but

it's been a fantastic journey and i mean every dream we are going to school we had before we started has really come through so it's it's been an amazing journey really showing the first verse of everybody over the next few hours the olympic torch is going to snake its way through such a before arriving here in the fish stadium for the opening ceremony and atmosphere is building because the such the twenty fourteen winter olympics are now just hours away. and of course have got a team of correspondents working in all the venues across the olympic city of sochi no doubt about that and paul scott what you just heard from him is that right here in that costo cluster where the olympic park is and where the opening ceremony will take place this evening athletes and five kinds of sport will be competing right here and the rest will happen up in the mountains and despite looking far up this cluster is just half an hour ride away and aussies and her family is there for us let's listen. when russia won the right to host these olympics there wasn't even

a paved road leading to the rosa hutto never mind a tele cabin but now look at it it is a fully fledged european style ski village there are hotel chains here is what is restaurants and cafes and is even a nightclub around the corner but this place is in it for the long haul because long after the olympics have packed up and gone home it's hope that many thousands of tourists will come here for decades to come to something like sixty kilometers worth of ski runs and three ski areas around this place and that is set to be expanded so this little tour even though it's been short does show that there's much more to these olympics than just sporting venues it's all about the overhaul and the entire regeneration of a region. before the medal count down begins life now take a look at some basic numbers determining these games so these are the twenty second winter olympics and they are definitely record breaking almost three thousand

athletes from the largest ever number of countries eighty eight countries are participating will compete in sochi in a record number of sporting events there are ninety eight sporting events there and that's twelve competitions more than in vancouver four years ago and that the record source here has broken is the cost of calls and these are the most expensive winter games in history so these olympics are not just about sportsmanship and counting medals there's one more competition and despite no awards it's still going to catch. top designers worldwide have put all their efforts into making the teams the gold standard of olympic fashion and martin andrews looks now their results. course all the eyes will be on the procession tonight at the opening ceremony and indeed what people are wearing other uniforms are they costumes all of they indeed political statements so let's give you a wrap of what you can expect tonight let's go straight to the german team they'll

certainly stand out from the crowd we have been designed by. that total coats in what could be described as a rainbow childish garish effect with that bright colors of pink yellow blue green a few people have said that it's a nod towards the antigay attitude and subjects running the controversy of the games but personally i think it's just a throwback to the cab as a my little pony so that's the german team for you expect them to be there tonight said be selling out in the procession let's move on to my opinion and what i think are the most stylish and chic uniforms that will be showing tonight they are of course america some say new york is the fashion capital of the world and the costumes uniforms are designed by ralph lauren they were unveiled last year and of course they are here in the pico says that coat with slim sweatpants with flaps hats with a star design in the colors red white and blue so personal thumbs up to the

american team now let's go from something quite acceptable to the weird and wonderful let's take a look at the scandinavian country of norway and the curling team in the zigzag efforts of what you can see now in the colors also in red white and blue they wanted to feel at ease on the ice with. i'll be wearing those outfits so fingers crossed that costume will work for them because personally i would not want to wear that outfit leaving also a great guy he's been in the papers and covered by lots of the media it's the mexican ski championship herbert's von holzen who and he's actually just one eighth mexican he's actually descendant of german royalty people say he's a prince of the people he'll be wearing the lera outfits and you certainly won't miss him in his truck folds ruffled succeeded with his red tie and come a band that's the prince hubertus von hold and moving on to the russian bombshell

that is irina sidr over recently she posed for a glossy magazine wearing just lingerie with her curling stone she's got lots of tongues wagging lots of people are looking forward to seeing her tonight of course she isn't just a pretty face but she is a celebrity here in russia of course and i would also be seeing other teams from around the world including great britain and the rest of the russian team so while three billion people might be watching the opening ceremony for the famous torch bearing other people will see it as a fashion and somewhat political statement regarding what people are wearing let's look forward to an excitement here is just incredible and to stay with us as we begin our special coverage of the gain some experience some change this evening. the g twenty fourteen promises we all committed an exhilarating winter forcing our team here to join us in our way i'm a criminal and i'm the last of our little news team for sochi twenty four take. on

our team. and the phone call of washington's behind the scenes casting for ukraine's next leader has caused a red faces of the state department especially after the conversation appeared to talk up a special role for the. so that would be great i think to blue this thing and have the u.n. help glue it and you know the e.u. in apparent conversation with. the u.s. has told diplomatic victoria nuland outlined a failsafe scheme to forge a new government and he is a new york correspondent with. well what you hear during this four minute conversation is basically two top u.s. officials strategizing about how to form ukraine's new government it sounds like they're playing a game of chess with the opposition leaders as the pieces on that chess board they're trying to determine which opposition leader has the best economic and

governing experience to work inside ukraine's new government and which opposition leaders should remain on the outside it's a bit shocking to actually hear i had to listen to it a few times to really grasp the fact that there are strategizing on how to put together the government of another country instead of paraphrasing everything let's let our viewers actually take a listen for themselves. the piece was obviously that complicated electronic year especially announcement of him as deputy prime minister and you've seen some of our notes on the troubles in the marriage right now so we're trying to get a read really fast on where he goes on this stuff i'm glad you sort of put him on the spot on where he fits in your scenario so i don't think leetch should go into the government i don't think it's necessary i don't think it's a good idea in terms of they're not going into the government just let him sort of stay out in doofus judical homework and stuff i think he is the guy who's got the

economic experience the governing experience he's the he's the guy you know what he needs his cleats into a book on the outside he needs to be talking to them four times a week well clearly this is a highly embarrassing situation for the united states particularly because we've been here u.s. officials insist for so long that they're not involving themselves in ukraine's internal circumstance. for for the spokesperson for the for the u.s. state department she had a pretty difficult day on thursday jen psaki was put in the hot seat journalist one after another reporters kept asking her why u.s. officials are interfering in ukraine's internal problems at one point corresponded said point blank that the leaks conversely was she's attempting to construct a new government in a sovereign country and actually bring officials in from the un to seal the deal one thing u.s. officials had not spin their way out of it is the profanity and dismissive tone

victoria nuland used when referring to the european union and its involvement in ukraine for that an apology was issued she's been in close contact with a representative ashton also let me convey that she has been in contact with the e.u. counterparts and and of course has apologized but. for these reported comments of course she is not confirming. under snow going to speak. to a private diplomatic conversation but obviously speaking to the content of the reports. misaki also tried to make somewhat of a joke when she was in damage control mode when she was referring to the use of profanity when it came to victoria nuland the assistant secretary of state let's take a listen you may know the story of how she lived on the russian boat for about eight months when she was twenty three in she learned how to perfect perhaps certain

words in a couple of languages so perhaps it speaks to that more than a pervasive viewpoint you know suggesting that she is a predisposition against russian no i was suggesting that she learned russian curse words and curse words on the disease that. i was making and learning the first words on a fishing boat there you see a us folks person trying to make a joke out of a situation that is quite scandalous quite embarrassing not sure of any high official officials in ukraine are laughing at this moment after they're hearing this leaked conversation on you tube about you know the united states strategizing on how to build a new government in a sovereign country. and foreign policy expert and point sounds the u.s. may be trying to divert public attention away from his book of political critics. we have a situation where a high ranking official of the u.s. government who's even been to kiev an issue of what was distributing cookies to the

demonstrators back when they were still relatively peaceful is referring to these guys as you know glitch see in tiny book i would i would seriously be upset i would i would consider this an insult she's apologized for commented she's not admitting me which is itself a confirmation that the comment was made but will she hasn't apologized for is the plans to midwife a new government in ukraine in other words she's she's apologizing for you but she's not apologizing for trying to overthrow a government in kiev calling the popular democracy obviously there's more to it than that i don't think anybody in the us establishment to sorry for what they're trying to do i think they're very proud of it and i think they're going to pursue it. and if you want website has got it all just at the link to the south as well as the reaction of the u.s. state department it's all that. and also online for you not me mom and well c.n.n. after its release date for

a list of the world's ugliest monuments to the broadcast of found space to call an important won't will two memorial finally triggering a reaction from veterans who fought the nazis in alex's so had on line for the full story. and also in saudi arabia which is about to begin literally really just police have formed a special task force to find and trying to use is suspected of being witches the details. these just leaves the. economic ups and downs in the final tolerable months days

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here of the original one but the one down the ne verify that you hang up the corner that building at the end of the street another one the more transparent society gets the money or the but the tears become we see military and state and police forces mobilized against people who blend into the city do we know how big the city the more people trust electronic devices the more defenseless they are the fear that it is a thousand ways on our t.v. . this is all seem to national welcome later this year is called land holds a referendum on independence and the politicians in london are going to do whatever they can to prevent a yes vote from happening prime minister david cameron is delivering a speech right now urging schools to remain within the union he also use

a breakaway will undermine the position of britain but as a lower spent reports the ranks of the independent supporters are slowly but steadily growing. keeping up the pressure is the name of the game in the race for the scottish referendum on independence david cameron's speech on fridays the latest harry in the fight and it comes as polls show a jump in support for separation since the scottish national party produced its white paper in november with details of how an independent scotland would work there's been a small number of people who want scotland to break away january poll of more than a thousand respondents twenty nine percent in favor up from twenty six percent in november the campaign also appears to be convincing those south of the border support to scottish independence in england and wales has risen to twenty four percent from twenty one in november but it's certainly not all plain sailing for

the pro independence cup page bob dudley chief of b p is the most prominent businessman yet to criticize the thinking behind it depended but others have followed the head of a leading north sea investment bank has said separation would be a threat to prosperity both those opinions are pretty important because the economic case for independence rests largely on how much money will be able to get from north sea oil and gas and westminster is sure to use that to its advantage in the next stage of what's being dubbed project. and in some other global news the sound has been a break of violence in iraq as collarbones under drive by shooting playing six lines in the north of the country over twenty people less said to have been injured they considered follows days of bloody attacks on civilians in baghdad and elsewhere in the country and west in iraq shows no signs of easing and has already

left more than a thousand people dead since the beginning of this year. in. full the one hundred people mostly police officers were injured. when a rally against high unemployment and rampant corruption turned violent in northern also near security forces used tear gas to disperse the crowds of started throwing protesters attacked a local government building the protests erupted after four state owned companies were privatized later filed for bankruptcy. pakistan has launched a long awaited negotiations with the taliban aimed at boosting dialogue to strike a peace deal with the islamist movement this follows recent talk about tugs on military convoys checkpoints and civilians which have claimed dozens of lives taliban functions in pakistan have been filing the country's government for years now in a bid to establish an islamic state in the region. clashes have also ruptured in the brazilian city of rio de janeiro following

a rally against the recent price hikes in transportation fees at least one person has been injured and twenty more arrested one train station in the city center was closed after police battled mass riot is that security forces also used tear gas against protesters as the violence continued in nearby streets. there's a light relief for inhabitants of the syrian city of homs after the government reached an agreement with the you aren't evacuate thousands of civilians from the besieged city they will join the stream of refugees driven out of their homes by this civil war that numbers already estimated at three point five million people policia has a story a once a try me. to high but mark live is a refugee in her own country forced from a home by civil war she and her daughters are hiding some two hundred kilometers from the village in a three room apartment they share with another family their crime supporting

president bashar assad. the terrorists want to kill me they broke into my house to find me they looted everything they kidnapped six members of my family all because they are looking for me a lot has been said about the desperate situation facing refugees who fled across the border to neighboring countries but most of those forced from their homes by the spiraling violence are displaced within syria itself these internally displaced people remain extremely vulnerable and their numbers continue to swell. i've been told many times to stop supporting assad and everything will be fine but i won't change my principles and they'll win will fight his first got hold of too high but she was eight months pregnant they keep her so badly she lost the baby but she refused to change her politics. i ran away with my children my mother is very dear to me it is now the second age faster all that has passed without me being

with her my mother has god by her side. he will not abandon her they are kidnapping young people sixteen year olds and they are cutting them into pieces when asked if she'll give herself up for family sake through high buy in fashion pieces no. if i die i want my daughters to continue in the same way everybody is going to die my mother may die but she wanted their last victim i may die to. syria's death toll stands at more than one hundred thousand with no sign of fighting a beijing for many internal refugees home remains a distant dream for those like through high but it's only their ideals that gives them the strength to carry on policy r.t. damascus syria. coming up here in r.t. international in just a few minutes it's abby militias and the break in this. recently

are one poll by the liberal dawlish 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 when they pose the question was defending leningrad 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 china side 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 from 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. 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 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. london. the whole world is. free to you of the original one the one on the end of their hang up the point that building at the end of the street another one the more transparent society gets the money or the pot the tears become we see military and state police. mobilized against people who blend into the city you know how big the city the more people trust electronic devices the more defenseless the. fear that it is a thousand ways but our key.

live. in the. the the. the. what's going on t.v. land from abby martin and this is pretty good in the set so last week the state department released an environmental impact report stating that the southern leg of the keystone x.l. pipeline will have an insignificant impact on carbon emissions but even if this report gives obama the green light to move forward of one group is refusing to allow the construction of keystone native american communities including the goal of soon just released a statement entitled no keystone x.l. pipeline will cross lakota lands. nation as well as other tribes from oklahoma to oregon have banded together to plan on how they will take direct action has

a look like obama now has america's indigenous community to worry about if he does approve this toxic project so if you believe that that's destructive pipeline has no business crossing the native american territory and join me and let's break the set. of the please please please take a look very hard to tell. the truth. well i never had sex with the terror threat there's no. such. luck.