well that was a rather surreal. definitely the way to stream i've had for a while. there was a memorable ceremony. was one pretty sure the high priestess never spoke to me. what was it she'd said. full of the flame or something. there's. a lot more of course of base. the top story this morning than the sochi twenty pulteney olympic flame and then by seven days off it was in the ancient greek city of olympia

carried by russia's deputy prime minister dmitri cool with ak if i travelled in a small mountain to read president vladimir putin spoke of its meaning for the russian people. the olympic village the symbol of the world's primary sports competition oh piece of friendship. but he has come to russia. there are many marks the start of the longest toss relay in a limb take a street the same boy it's great that so many people have turned out for the start of the russian really it looks like a lot of fun out there. in a minute you. couldn't pick. but it was. the stone i picked up in and then it was on my mantel piece and if that isn't a sign i don't know what it is. i knew i had to get down to red square and experienced

atmosphere for myself fortunately they were having a two day event. so from sunny greece to rather soggy moscow just at the very start of the torch is journey around the whole of russia i'm excited. the days first run there was paralympic star alessio bloody who picked up two gold medals in the beijing and london games. possibly do you still a big gold medal is there still something special for you i guess of course it's a unique feeling because i had never carried the torch before. at first i ran with it quite easily than i felt i was becoming heavier and heavier but i was determined to carry it properly and show it to everyone so that they could all appreciate the moment. and the crowd's reaction words factious

i missed out on going to my home games in london and i was determined not to let such a twenty four team passed me by there were fourteen thousand torchbearers slots up for grabs one of them was going to be mine. when we were making the technical order for the factory we say look let's make the thing we want to who. you know whole and also desirable should be like wow. a lot of questions where or. wait it's quite we have to take all the

cover and the middle that out by the machine extra weight of the aluminum so it's really fine. it's the feather feather over the mysterious burton fire book in the russian. stories and fairy tales and to get this feather from the firebird is a super challenge for the guild. the problem can be. underneath here and it just caused the fire but in this kid we have a special. wiring inside which melted and of like really a red color. and it's the fire so basically it's a rift fire in itself. i

was going to have to wait a while before i found out if i'd been picked as a torch bearer more than enough time to try and learn a little more about my mysterious stone. some of russia's most eminent geologists live in. the center of russia's diamond industry on the rocks down here in the most expensive in the country. the pits descends more than a kilometer under and uses the most sophisticated drilling equipment to get to the precious.

stones have been taken to assaulting sense and closely examined each rough gem is appraised. and i had a close only focused on my precious stone to. add must be some kind of. there i can see small crystals here proving that it's ancient rock. movement but really it shouldn't light up should it really miss and. know it's false but it's luminescent as from you. ok maybe you could make it luminescent if you really believed it right thank you did you really expect it to glow. maybe maybe i'm just not right.

there's certainly something very special about this and this ground i don't know but it might just be because they use to pulling glittering thing this out of the dark here. but who wants me in these diamonds with the top attraction and turn around it was time to head towards the city's most well known landmark where they were getting ready to welcome some very special guests. from all in forty years these huge realized trucks one of the most famous symbols in your couture carrying the region's diamonds from its quarries and factories and now. it's getting ready for its most important passenger ever. it must have been close to minus forty celsius but these olympic torch is and torch bearers are made of stern stuff. this huge quarry has been the frozen heartbeat of the

city for more than fifty years producing more than seventeen billion dollars of diamonds my stone it meant i was here to watch the parade but what was i supposed to do next. great shot. just. lives so when two mates were two. and again show me the and. by carlo. good choice. they can be few more famous natural landmarks in russia than lake baikal the oldest and deep this lake on the planet on the site of a very special olympic celebration. for

the first time ever planning to light the olympic flame on the water. in this case your average tool which isn't going to cut it so special equipment is required and special people to carry it and who better than the local rescue ranger. are professional activity is mostly dedicated to rescuing people on lake baikal our job is important difficult interesting and in a way romantic by cow has many faces and winter it's tough and in summer it's beautiful you can't help but admire its power it attracts you and it's very important to me because it's a jewel of russia. everything's ready let's go then as nicholas puts the final touches to his equipment the excitement begins to build

along the water's edge. the torch rallies have been warmly welcomed across the country but the crowds here are about to witness something that's never been done before. and there's plenty of local show on hands went to tame them while they wait. a massive noise and color to cheer the torch bearers on. this torch is based on a special system there is a pyrotechnic charge that can burn at any depth in any temperature and under any circumstances. when it's under water it's like a second sun the flame literally illuminates the entire lake. autumn when you curious you can feel its enormous power. but the water temperature is four degrees celsius it's really freezing we could feel it on our uncovered faces but we were united by this flame that had absorbed

the energy of the entire country of every single person who cares about the flame that was what united us and that's why everything went perfectly. as i watched from us on the water you could almost feel the crowd's energy coming across the waves it has been another remarkable spectacle for this record breaking tool trailer i was wondering what could possibly top it. looks like on the right track. so well but i.

do speak for language. programs and documentaries in arabic it's all here on. reporting from the world's hot spots of the r.p. interviews intriguing story for you. in trying. to find out more visit our big teeth dot com. there's a saying when you're in the arctic you have feel entitled world at your feet. she looks like a fairly simple ship. 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. operation.

russia's arctic ice breakers. there is obviously more for the latest because it's pink. women wanted to avoid rape they really needed to buy guns environ how to use them i. am sure this is the one that i want to go away from once again it's the fear factor women are definitely the target of the gun lobby and you don't tell them when the killing might even if so many would you would just prefer. i know to say more and more if that's really scary marketing tactics which implies that women have some sort of moral obligation to own a gun 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. i've moved from one ship to another but what a ship. i was on board the ice breaker fifty years of victory the pride of the russian nuclear fleet for a truly once in

a lifetime experience. flame was traveling to the north pole i was going with. it my stone was telling me to follow the flame i was going to take it as far as i could. see hundred nautical miles of stark beautiful ocean lay between us and the top of the world. but just in case she didn't actually believe we were going to the north pole i think that eliminates any doubt. it's another historic first for the sochi torch and a relay around the ship was planned for the occasion so you can learn so many new things when you get the chance to test your own as well as the crew's experience and check what the ice breaker is really capable of. i mean this tour of the olympic torch to the north pole never before has a surface ship gone there so late in the season were that the ice was much heavier

and to cope with it we almost needed the ice breakers maximum power. we were making incredible progress slicing through the thick polar ice. and after only four days we were already near our destination that's a world record pace. with. less to do ninety degrees north isn't top of the world. ah. once the champagne had been finished everything kicked into gear the torchbearers went off to get ready and organizing committee began making preparations for the relay. we love the one on the other one and then tried to hold

it the right way all. right but what. with everyone in position we were ready to go and our captain was given the owner of starting off the run my main task was to keep the torch warm and make sure it goes into past hand in time and just seconds later she was away and i was on collection g c. i think that's me now. thank you very much yes i got to take a look off the list and retirement date. i was a good. yeah go through it most of it. no. we stepped off the ship and on to the ice the torches glow flickering through the pitch black polar nights. pioneering soviet

polar explorer go of would ignite the culture of the most northerly place on the planet. it's not often you get to witness a moment in history this is the first time the olympic flame is ever been at the north pole. and i'm here to see it. from as far north as it's possible to go it was time to head east with the olympic organizing committee . the flame the ip that is has its own security team at all times not to mention its own private jet. who got this special. with the flame cooper which is just responsible for the security of the flame the keep the flames a little dent in the crew on this special will you know that all of these flame

will never go up. each city's greasing ceremony is unique and hundreds of volunteers helped make the occasion memorable. there's a possibility also to keep the security a fold the torchbearer you know the nobody will homey nobody will get this push. police are just better because it's just a flame and it's very dangerous so for everybody. this is come chopped. peninsula that's one of the most easterly places in russia. that is the whole the highest so that you don't when your torch is lit are going. from the mood to fortune never taxed to the flaming torch bearer and russian because you never. everybody every had an inhabitant of the cities just very

proud that comes to his cd and i say that ok lation now three of them. it was the end of another relay and i was in one of the most beautiful places in the country on the shores of the pacific itself but i was beginning to lose patience. i've come to the end of. what's. what do you want. where am i to go.

i literally run the house of land. but the torch would move all over the mountains across the sea. even else of this world. we live. in yes another historic moment it paid a visit to the international space station more than four hundred kilometers above the planet. and although safety reasons made lysias on board a heavily fueled rocket summer all the bad idea the world's first olympic spacewalk was no problem. back down to i was doing some inspiration of my own. yes i mean. i've come so far with the tools i was going to have to see it through

to the end i've watched so many different people in relays all over russia and even beyond now i was going to have my own moments with the symbol of the sochi games i was a new father in the south of the country in under two hours i was going to be a torch bearer. for my fictional uniform. it was time to suit up and pick up the most vital piece of equipment. i think. the let's make. the stimulus are up to their english training thank you. larry and source at last. more than two hundred of us would be running through the streets and the excitement

was already beginning to build there was just time for a few tips on how to make the most of the moment. smile and wave your hand then they put out my torch and i step back and i'm not there anymore it's your turn you start and i be in the car that will be filming us starts to move up and we run towards it ok go to. the russians are. none of us could wait to get started is on the pulse he was in full swing as we moved through the city thousands of people had turned out to cheer us all and watch the parade and we even had a few guests from the north pole putting in an appearance. we were dropping off people every two hundred meters so i just had

a few minutes to. my neighbor cotton mill. you can really imagine how exciting it is. i'm looking forward to the moment when the whole country will see me. on a sleep i can't believe it. did school was just really freezing today isn't it. planned so let's meet our church. as i wave to the crowd i hadn't expected to be so nervous my whole epic journey led to this moment and as i waited for number one million three to pulse me the flame all i could think of was for goodness sake don't drop it. by. the dream come true i missed london twenty twelve games i never thought of the gods

to be part of another day and now i'm the only person in the world going to play with this moment. i am. i think i finally understand that. i'm going to little further to go on with this tour. i was with it when it was for the very first time in a limpia increase it went deep underground into diamond mines and you could see i was with it when it plunged into the waters of lake baikal and i was with it when the wins by president of the very top of the world and then it went out. to the international space station. to believe. if you could.

you could base metal poles this tool which of those elements even if the quintessence from space itself. i believe this tool has the energy to help you win gold in sochi. russia. now the power is now.

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be in the. one to tell the grandkids some fourteen minutes left to go before the twenty second of winter olympic games open in a show that organizers will say will be even more spectacular than the torch relay proceeding. welcome to our sultry winter olympics coverage here on r.t. international on rory sushi live in moscow in just a matter of minutes the opening ceremony of the twenty second of winter olympic games gets underway and it's estimated that billions will be tuning in to one.