it was. one to tell the grandkids in slightly over an hour a california college shot it will open the twenty second winter olympic games a show all the guys say will be even more spectacular than the torch relay preceding it. this is on she international coming to live from moscow i'm yunior shapovalov hello and welcome to the program and we're just hours to go so cheese at the center of the sporting world their lives are expected to chaining to see how russia will open the twenty second winter olympic games when eyes as a promising

a show no one will forget to compliment a torch relay that's already made history aussies paul scott is in the olympic capital for this. it's been seventy 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 doubt 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 ending ceremony hasn't begun in the olympic cauldron 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 in 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 having a good lead to her every day. like states don't have this much that's accessible but so easily. right off the. right signs that 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 the competition again 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 going to

the top of the highest peak in europe 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 including russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov he's taken time out of his busy schedule 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 longest and biggest torch relay in time in history so it's been a huge logistical effort to make this happen in russia in winter time but it's been a fantastic journey and i mean every dream we had before we started has really come through so it's it's been an amazing journey really showing the first of russia 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 our finest correspondents and cameras are in place to give you the news from very every venue in sochi from the very heart of sanchez and give you a taste of the olympic spirit back and polls can't we just heard from him has said a camp has set up camp in the olympic park in the coastal cluster of sancerre it's here where the opening ceremony will begin this evening actually very soon and five winter disciplines will be contested at that and a half hour drive into the mountains is the upper class to it here where the rest of the competition will take place and that's where his and her family will be throughout the day. but russia won the right to host these olympics there wasn't even a paved road leading to the roads or who tore never mind the telly cabin but now look at it it is a fully fledged european style ski village there are hotel chains here as well as

restaurants and cafes and there's 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 hoped 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 and before the medal count begins let's now take a look at some basic numbers that organizers have been keen to get out there and these are the twenty second winter olympics to remember and but all accounts record breaking almost three thousand athletes from the largest ever number of countries eighty eight countries that participating will compete in sochi in a record number of sporting about ninety eight and but it's not all about the numbers of course in the midst of these. there's another fierce contest that for

many is no less important top designers worldwide have put all their efforts into making the teams the gold standard of living pick fashion oxys martin andrus now reports. 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 the 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 set the stand out from the crowd we have them design by blocking out that whole 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 anti gay attitudes 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 question is 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 a floppy 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 is red white and blue they wanted to feel at ease on the ice with what they're wearing and they certainly will be wearing those outfits so fingers crossed that costume will work for them because personally i would not want to wear that outfit moving on to

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. other people that don't he'll be wearing the lair o. 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 holding her on to the russian bombshell that is arena recently she posed for a glossy magazine wearing just lingerie with 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 the excitement here is just incredible. and this evening will begin broadcasting from our olympic studio in solitary and in time here i will be working to bring you the ass must fear results on what's happening behind the scenes there don't miss it. the g. twenty fourteen promises week ultimately in exhilarating winter for. joining us now a make over now and the rest of our local news team for sochi twenty four take. on . the u. has refused to comment on the awol washington is apparently playing in ukraine's very own game of thrones a leak phone conversation between top u.s. officials has exposed in a walking's of the state department so that would be great i think to help glue this thing and have the u.n. help glue it and you know the e.u.

and the deceptive phone call us assistant secretary of state of victoria nuland draws a full roadmap of how a new ukrainian government should be organized in a person i explained. 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. pieces are usually good complicated electrons you're.

going to miss 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 is 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 getting our calling 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 in tony burke 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 hearing u.s. officials insist for so long that they're not involving themselves in into ukraine's internal circumstance but 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. is 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 you're not confirming the call that your shoes i'm just

not going to speak to a private diplomatic conversation but i'm 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 diseases of these you should english. 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 i officially in ukraine are laughing at this moment after their 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. meanwhile german chancellor angela merkel has called the use of such language unacceptable and lud venue's the former deputy speaker of the belltown parliament says this is a sneak peek into rail diplomacy open to the real good looking diplomacy behind closed doors this confirms a long stance of the united states and the e.u. by the way towards a new country of dili's dana to show floor for the new democracy. of other countries this once more undermines the whole claim of transparency and democracy building and get back to the building of political institutions these are all ideological afterwards into ones politics in other countries this is what the

united states has been doing for decades it just confirms a longstanding it also by the way shows how casual these people can talk about the politics of another country. and if you will my website has got it all the links to the leak itself as well as the reaction of the u.s. state department for at the last girl to r.t. dot com and also later in the program david cameron plays this curse on the scots delivering a speech treated with nationalist rhetoric and waxing lyrical about what it says are the benefits of staying out of the u.k. all that after the break. our. right to see. first strike. and i think you're.

on a record player. and. i. am. there's a saying when you're in the arctic you have the entire world at your feet. she looks like a fairly simple shit. head and full of people have access to the nuclear icebreakers the real king here is the polar bear and ice breakers come second not a single complex expedition to the arctic can be conducted with the russian nuclear powered fleet of ice breakers we undertake a unique operation. the northern sea route russia's arctic ice breakers. this is

obviously more for the ladies because it's paying. women wanted to avoid rate they really needed to buy guns and learn how to use them i'm. sure this is the one that i'm going to go with them once again it's the fear that. women are definitely the target of the gun lobby you don't kill them when you're killing money but if somebody would you would piss with her. 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 to washington national the british prime minister has wrapped himself figures and the british armed and in pick locks today calling for scotland to vote against becoming independent from the u.k. but as david cameron kept up the pressure from the olympic stadium in london this cultish national policy has haven't criticized him for giving the speech south of the border also he's laura smith now reporter. he wasn't actually talking to the scots he said he was actually talking to everybody else in the english the wealth of welsh in the northern irish he said four million scottish people would be able to vote in this referendum but in fact sixty three million people would be affected everybody in the british isles and he urged those other people who don't have a vote to play a part he said you may not have a vote but you do have a voice so what he wants everybody to do is or tweet anyone

scottish that we know and tell them that we don't want them to leave the u.k. that's essentially his message today we want you to stay and that message betrays his worry really and could be quite timely in the recent poll has shown that support for scottish independence south of the border has leapt a little bit in the last few months january poll showed twenty four percent in support up from twenty one percent in november so he'll be slightly worried about that as far as the points that he made goes he stressed this intricate tapestry of the u.k. as he called it he said there are business ties agricultural ties but there are also personal ties to he said his own name is a scottish clan name it cameron took it no parent needs and he also made the emotional case for staying part of the union and this is where he really played the scots at their own game of course they have the scottish national party has appealed to national values and this is what david cameron did in his speech he

said that the u.k. is more than the sum of its parts and that he cares too much to stay out of the argument he really laid it on very thick talking about g.b. not just to refer to the olympic team but to refer to the united kingdom as it stands at the very minute and so he's been accused by the scottish national party of using the olympics in this way as a political tool and he certainly did labor that point also a lot of people have asked out sort of outside in the real world and also in the city. where he made the speech why did he go to scotland why is he making a speech from london his argument of course is that he was talking to the people of england wales and northern ireland he wasn't necessarily talking to the scots the scottish national party accusation again is that he was too cowardly to go to scotland that he won't come and he's too scared to take part in a face to face debate about the future of the united kingdom's. that's cain is a pro independence acts of it and he says the main selling point of voting yes and

they were friends is to see the back of the conservative party i think it was a very odd speech members of the new campaign a bit a month ago were urging the scottish government not to politicize the commonwealth games and there we have david cameron standing in front of the velodrome connecting the olympics to the great british but it so there's a huge amount of hypocrisy there but i think we look at david cameron and we see everything necessary a bit independence if you ask anybody for independence for a one line answer to the question why would you want to vote yes the answer is because there will be no tortie government in scotland for ever and there he is there we are at the moment suffering under policies like the bedroom tax like the austerity budget from a from the tory government the yet again no matter whether we have a scottish parliament no matter how many liberty m.p.'s are ascended to westminster we didn't vote for that inflicting of policies on us. and also online for you an

ugly moment for c.n.n. our faith released its list of the world's ugliest monuments in broadcast a decided to label an important global to memorial and slightly triggering a furious reaction from their transfer of force they had to ante up home for the whole story. line severson is our photograph on the red carpet but the earth is shot from the red planet robot rover curiosity has sent binder the first ever photo of our planet taken from mars. the syrian government has confirmed it will take part in the second round of geneva peace talks monday meanwhile for people in the syrian city of homes there has been some response from fighting thanks to three day ceasefire it will allow civilians to be evacuated and humanitarian supplies to be sent in those fleeing will join they estimated three and a half million refugees already driven out from their homes by the civil war. one family who was among the. to high but mark live is

a refugee in her own country forced from her home by civil war she and her daughters are hiding some two hundred kilometers from the village in the 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. and 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 when we will fight his first got hold of too high but she was eight months pregnant they kicked 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're cutting them into pieces when asked if she'll give herself up for family sake from high buy in fashion pieces know. if i die i want my daughters to continue the same way everybody is going to die my mother may die but she wanted their last victim 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 there are deals that

gives him the strength to carry on. the r.t. damascus syria. under another global news this hour there's been a fresh wave of attacks in iraq where a car bomb under shooting have taken six lives in the country's north another thirty people are said to have been injured the incident follows days of bloody attacks on civilians and but died and elsewhere in the country and western iraq shows no signs of easing and has already left more than a thousand people dead since the beginning of this year. at least one hundred and thirty people mostly police officers were injured at one protest as a northern bossier took to the streets angry at the high rate of unemployment and corruption riot police used tear gas to break up the rallies that spread to other parts of the country the crowds responded by throwing stones setting tires on fire and attacking local government buildings the broadhurst erupted after four state owned companies were privatized and later filed for bankruptcy. at least the

policemen were injured by two blasts in egypt's capital cairo the bombs went off in gazer near where the security forces vehicles were parked and there's been a spike in attacks an agent says the military career took place last july. coming up next a look at the highlights of this spectacular torch relay stay with us. i marinate join me. in part and. carry on for this and much much. only.

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 differs a lot but from a russian perspective fighting to the bitter end to stop the german genocide machine was worth it this is basically like if a somewhat popular news outlet had a poll on martin luther king's birthday asking was slavery really that bad it was a 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 me me these people could never imagine sacrificing the great and

wonderful me for any cause sacrificed me to the 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 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. it was supposed to be just another news or of course although admittedly for a special occasion it was one hundred twenty three days before the start of the winter olympic games in sochi and i was in greece for the lighting of the olympic flame the ruins of the limpia one of the most famous monuments of ancient greece

the site of the very first olympic games where stones like this would have been part of the temple. the temple. temple laws. being. banned from.

well that was all rather surreal. definitely the way to stream i've had for a while. it was a memorable ceremony. who i'm pretty sure the high priestess never spoke to me. what was it she said. follow the flame or something. you have a lot more of course at base. the top story this morning than the thirty twenty people to play.