didn't. look to. the sochi games are on the having kicked up with the damn thing shower and now a record ninety eight sets of medals up for grabs in fifteen disciplines artie's keeping abreast of the winter olympics with its special extensive coverage from our very own sochi studio. was near had to go in a singleton street violence with crowds clashing with police and torturing government buildings across the country fear is that story and employment and corruption. terror thousands of foreigners are reportedly recruited by a hard line islamists in syria and trained time as the war that rages on.

international news and common life for moscow you're watching out chain to national with me you know thanks for joining us the winter games in sochi are now officially underway and the olympic charge over the next sixteen days is a busy one i'll see international is following the games closely from our soldiers studio setup to give you extensive coverage of the winter sports extravaganza she's a nice an hour is right that for us. it was a grand opening ceremony indeed took place just over my shoulder here along the coast with a spectacular fireworks display being one of the highlights of the show. it

was a two and a half hour or so which kept the spectators holding their breath it took them on a journey through russian culture and history and more than forty thousand spectators from around the globe packed into the fish olympic stadium to witness the extravaganza the ceremony featured the olympic creative nations this time with a different athletes entered the stadium from the sides not as usual but marched right up from the middle of emerging from the changing mound of the world and of course that firework display was a match to the dazzling show. and the young discipline out snowboard slopestyle has already begun to go on a saying the first medals of the sochi games handed out let's get the details from pharma is joining us live from such a how the understood quake so he's got the fast and gold all based way into such

a game. here was well basically such a twenty four team does have its first olympic champion and it's an american sage kotsenburg you picked up gold in the men's snowboarding slight style final unfortunately dave is no russian interest in that because alexis tobler failed to get through he semifinal early this morning but we do have hope for your ticket challenger who takes part in the cross country ski athlone and that's just about to get underway but russia's biggest hype in my opinion is happening this afternoon and it could be a tremendous birthday present for the speed skating even scope if because he's turned thirty one today he's competing in the five times and they did what they took to get on the podium he got bronze in that event in vancouver four years again there's every chance he could do even better but take a late with home advantage. we've been able to cope with the media pressure of course there's going to be much more attention to the olympics but also there would

be more fans supporting us pushing us forward that's certain to give us additional strength additional energy to the mind and to the feet we definitely skate faster to the joy of the fans at the stadium to the millions watching the broadcasts. so he's just one of many athletes trying to get his hands on a medal those medals have a fascinating design a new style the way they are made my surprise she too is our friend. is one who actually seemed sort she a dreamy. podium finish and then limping medal around. and they say good enough to get one they'll be taking home something. these goals reflects a cheese landscape by the judge to fix it present. to sandy beaches of the black sea is designed that will be useful lympics and paralympics with

a curiously paralympians will get new medal for the efforts. that got. electric gold medal weighs an average of five hundred twenty to five hundred forty grams a paralympic gold medal is about six hundred seventy just six hundred eighty grams but the reason for the weight difference between olympic gold medals is because the titles of different sport disciplines vary in length they have to be engraved which means that the longer the title of the disappointed the lighter them. no matter what their weight each one takes a staggering eighteen hours to make it starts on the late the missiles are cut to the right size special machine creates that icy looking center and the game's trademark patchwork quilt pattern is engraved reflecting russia's cultural diversity all part of twenty five different manufacturing steps a record thirteen hundred medals have been minted in this way for the sochi games

where twelve new events will make their input debut has been a big undertaking for russian jewelry manufacturer atomists they've needed two tons of silver which is the main ingredient and it does mean that when his medals are not worth their weight in gold which is only used as a final coating in fact their rule value is just a few hundred dollars although any after they tell you they are in fact priceless andry pharma r.t. . with a unique combination of snowy mountains and war fees soldier was practically built from scratch to host the winter olympics there are eleven brand new athletic venue is divided between because so and mounted clusters and connected by thirty minute rail dragging and that's the reason why such as dubs the most compact winter games in history. berthing the small you know the different age and everything it's close

we can go by war look and there is not a big security so we feel free and we feel confident seems like they're going to put on a good show here in russia. like the scale of the course is insane and everyone seems a fan they say. well in general i think the russians are very enthusiastic about sport and about the olympics so i expect them to play great hosts to the world and so far what i've seen has been very impressive. and securities titans are ready dubbed the most expensive in the league behave straight and was spoken to movie star and martial arts expert steven seagal who's a friend of led to my patient and he believes there's no reason to doubt the security measures in place. i would agree with some of the folks who are saying that tsotsi is probably one of the safest places around right now and i think the world you know in all of the different countries that are participating in the olympics are all very concerned about trying to make this

a wonderful experience of everybody's cooperating and working hard in their own perspective areas so i think that as a world we all support each other to try to make any olympics anywhere in the world a secure wonderful event where politics are kept out of it. and don't forget to check out what how twitter team has lined up for the games and our feed has a little section where all the sporting genres are sorted into categories and the first medals of the olympics have been awarded in one of the new year's disciplines the men's slopestyle and here is the u.s. snowboarding team photo from the scene before they knew that they win the gold twenty tain beautiful blue bad day for men slope style meanwhile the women's scouse long race just started under one of the canadian excuse has tweeted before the competition look came out to support adding to while adding actually

a moves to their farm club so don't miss any of the action from the games for twitter coverage. the g twenty four team promise is the ultimate in exhilarating winter. journey and it's now a make seven hour and the rest of our lives take these teams for sochi twenty four take. on r.t. thousands of protesters in cities across bosnia stormed local government buildings and clashed with police as anger over unemployment and economic stagnation turned violent. hold on two hundred people were injured in the demonstrations most of them policeman in the council's tower yabba right inside the presidential building on fire along with police cars anti is authorities fired rubber bullets water cannon tear gas despise the angry crowds and

other parts of the country protesters held rocks have security forces and told local government buildings that west initially erupted over the closure of several state owned companies that were privatized but later have filed for bankruptcy but its. mark mason says the violence is growing into a full blown up pricing. forty percent of the population of bosnia they are simply employed without any work whatsoever so these conditions are like i'm not at all surprising that we have a mass popular uprising some of the police may come over and that's one of the back doors that has been actually studied by social scientists is that when about five percent of the population say they've had it with the government and they get some significant fraction of the police forces to say i'm through with this too i'm joining the protesters that's pretty much the end of it for the government so we

want to watch that very closely. switzerland is preparing for a controversial by immigration rights of wayne politicians blamed for and it's about all of the countries why it was but some say such measures will only damage the economy but take a closer look and they take the problem. at least a recording of a phone call is shining new lines on washington's role in ukraine's anti anti government unrest the assistant secretary of state with tory nuland tapes discussing how to solve the crisis in kiev. so that would be great i think alluded to the u.n. help glue it and you know the e.u. the european union has made no comment on the recording the u.s. state department doesn't denies the authenticity of the recording but it has some new lines already apologized for her comments which german chancellor angela merkel called unacceptable international affairs commentator rick rose of says the

conversation is a close example of how the u.s. plots regime change in other states. this story would not have gained traction it would not have achieved the exposure it had if that word had not come out i'm afraid that maybe obscuring the actual content of the discussion which is all but you know presenting a blueprint for regime change at least significant words he had issued during the course of the conversation with the us ambassador is the one that has gained the notoriety for better or worse that as what you're really seeing is just all casually and callous as the u.s. state department plots political transformation in other countries outside the legitimate which is safely locked orally and how it is in effect engineers regime change even going down into the most mind my new particulars as to who should and should not be a future prime minister. coming up later this hour one for creating the council on these number one goal. sound as

a. has nothing left but to no inch a commercial after the break or report on why israel is taking to other ways to place its contacts in. the european union likes to think of itself as one of the brighter and fairer parts of the world but european commission report on corruption the first of its kind betrays a very different picture in every single member country there is corruption in some cases on a massive scale somewhat can the e.u. teach the world a corruption. possible

. we will know the i.o.c. you will know the whereabouts of the ass each. they are almost entirely in the olympic village if they are not. committees who will tell the i.o.c. where they are. welcome back to r.t. international the syrian government has confirmed its participation in the next round of geneva peace talks that are set to take place on monday meanwhile radical functions are believed to be gaining momentum in the war is the most awful to have occurred to terms of fountains of foreigners which potentially cause an

intelligence headache in their homeland. now reports. a british heart is known as. tommy is believed to be the first brit to have carried out a suicide attack in syria after a vehicle packed with explosives was taken to a prison allowing some three hundred prisoners to escape british citizens along with other europeans travelling to syria as young as sixteen and fighting alongside jihad is groups of long been a concern for authorities it's believed now that there are about three hundred fifty britons over there making up the marxist contingent of some one thousand westerners and this new development reinforces of the urgency expressed by a governments here and having to deal with a specific group of jihad is scary their countries passport. information is finally come out that we seeing this actually happen in syria however given the trends that we've seen in syria over the past few years it's not surprising that we're seeing

british individuals or foreign individuals more generally becoming involved in suicide operations on the ground i think if we compare this particular conflict in syria with the battlefields that we've seen around the world there rapidity with which we've seen the number of foreigners be drawn to the battlefield is from my perspective on precedent to. me that would be they were hearing questions about. their new intelligence and it presents a very different picture for them to manage in sounding the alarm over this phenomenon authorities are regreasing be worried about what happens with these individuals returning home group of britain sub already threatened to carry out terrorist attacks in the u.k. and this is believed to be the first direct threats to come out of syria reporting from london. suddenly crash there is reason to worry you're being watched from edward snowden suggest british intelligence use special toxics to discredit does they've been spying on. us and long that had to come from. and also

that make me a touch feel almost a real implanted no electrode. making it possible to give the bond in perspective hands wrong this medical breakthrough is just a click away. as we said to decide this weekend on whether to put a cap on the country's influx of migrants a controversial bill proposed by switzerland's national policy plans to introduce quotas against foreigners but some say shutting the swiss border would only cause problems for the economy as art has looser come from the reports. welcome to switzerland breathtaking views plentiful jobs and low taxes it's no surprise that the streets here are growing more crowded some eighty thousand new residents arrive each year a significant number for a country of just eight million our industry our economy meets immigration to a certain point but everybody under emmis under estimated the situation the number

of people coming is much much higher than anywhere else in the world on sunday switzerland will ask its citizens whether to reintroduce quotas for immigration from abroad including e.u. members although itself not a part of the blog switzerland has signed on to the e.u. rules on freedom of movement if passed the initiative would pit the swiss against an angry brussels but supporters aren't worried the swiss parties the swiss ever the political elite they were very enthusiastic about joining the european union ten years ago. but people changed they saw the disadvantages they saw the immigration is tremendous much bigger than we thought and so there's also a change of thinking and anti immigration slogans are gaining more traction here in switzerland at first about a third of voters supported the initiative now that figure is over forty percent so what's behind this push to keep outsiders out of switzerland will some experts say

motion a lot to do with that. there is competition in the housing market competition. in treasury. and there is competition in the legal market so. it's populist politics bloody this anger in in this field but as elsewhere in europe anti immigration messages seem to be resonating and pollster say even voters without political affiliation may vent their frustration comes sunday voters like this. swiss businessman who owns a cosmetic factory. name as a manufacturer i profit from this the more people i so much approach to the better but i'm also a swiss citizen i don't want to live like a sardine in my country switzerland is tiny and we simply can't accommodate all the immigrants the country can't take anymore. but the proposed curbs also take aim at highly skilled workers there's no way to run the holes or education system. because

there's no way to do modern business in particular financial services frankly without four years in there's no way to run this out wages and cooks from other countries switzerland is doing this for us four in ten companies in switzerland including nestle are founded by foreigners last year they created around thirty thousand new jobs forty to beat we know there are against the foibles because they need them i mean we are not stealing the jobs we are just taking the job they don't want to do so that's why i figured so this so this. i don't understand this sunday's vote is likely to strain ties with brussels but the fear is that it could have more economic consequences than the country bargained for reporting for r.t.e. in switzerland and lucy catherine of. a quick look at some other global news in

brief aid convoys are about to enter the long besieged syrian city of holmes on the second day of a cease fire on friday buses loaded with women and children ferried at least eighty three people from the area and uneasy truce between rival science came into effect the poison the fighting was the first visible result of the geneva two peace talks to try and become trees civil war thousands of civilians are still full to remain in the besieged city without food or medicine and in brazil a wildcat stadium where there has been killed in a construction accident the portuguese national was hit on the head while dismantling a crane and became the surpassing to die abyss building site and the six overall if that's how much is a cause and concerns about why can conditions in the build up to the band many brazils are brazilians are unhappy about the huge cost of the world cup while social services remain severely underfunded. as israeli army recruiters say the number of chosing to serve in combat units is falling the government has started to look for new ways to pump things up and to be commercial the latest

weapons in the military's arsenal as archie's policy a report. these really army has a new fight on its hand and numbers in combat units are down potential recruits are shying away from signing up for fighting it seems has lost its glamour the i.d.f. is concerned it's circulating videos like this online that celebrate the street he's ready fighter in this one a week if to put claims his strong soldiers are as is the i.d.f. the soul to be managed drinking strong coffee and this teenage girl is pounding strongly on drums both flips and with a catch phrase sound the idea is strong surely cause smiles when he watches the videos the twenty five year old served in golani one of israel's most prestigious fighting brigades he spent two and a half years in and out of gaza a close friend of his was killed there in the line of duty like others he's asking of serving in combat was the right decision for sure what i did is important and

needs to be done but i don't think it helped me in the long run not for finding a job and not might occasionally i think i would do things differently if i had the chance again. and the stats seem to support him over the last three years motivation among youngsters wanting to serve an idea of combat units has dropped by nine percent more noise way he's off thinking twice about whether they want to put their life on the line to serve their country you value a lot of fighting the statistics the it for special unit veteran runs boot camps encouraging high schoolers to follow his footsteps into the i.d.f. each squads will be you can see that in certain places over in israel the parents. prefer that their kids will see in much more safer places like the intelligence where your cannot be a danger the i.d.f.

spokesman peter lerner insists the drop in number doesn't change things. the idea if i can still keep the country safe is part of the situation where the types of threats have also changed it's also a result of an atmosphere where there are other units which also are substantial in the type of defense that they supply for instance technological units the army stand on the combat units cyber is a very important computer very important but you need the people that stand in front of the our enemy and save the border for all the glory it will come back here next may not be fighting the biggest battle of their existence keeping themselves going. policy r t tel aviv. next it sounds ok mantri takes you into the pot on the assumption is that many chose to ignore but they are here watching us from the u.k.

it will be cutting into ground with option buttons. the first recreational marijuana shops are now open in colorado finally the question of what effect legal marijuana will have on the american public can be answered with real world experience you know there are a lot of people out there with strong arguments as to why we should legalize this controversial play it firstly there are plenty of things just as bad for us as marijuana or worse like beer cigarettes anti-depressants and mystery fast food meats which are totally legal secondly young men are often thrown in jail for the absolutely victimless crime of smoking marijuana i could see punishing someone for drugs like crystal meth which can and do turn people into maniacs but have any of you out there ever heard of someone breaking into people's houses on a we ramp age no no you haven't the downside to all this is that across america the

world people are looking for change and they want a massive storm rise but when the masses are stoned out of their minds it makes things in life that we shouldn't tolerate become very tolerable we now call allow us to make it through another day of our miserable lives so that we can live without going through all that effort of trying to make things better or challenge the system legalizing weed will just pacify the masses even more but that's just my opinion. the. economic ups and downs in the final. days. the deal sang i and the rest because i was doing the case you will be if briefly nothing.

we're going to do did you know the price is the only industry specifically mentioned in the constitution and. that's because a free and open process is critical to our democracy albus. role. in fact the single biggest threat facing our nation today is the corporate takeover of our government and across several we've been hydrogen lying handful of friends national corporations that will profit by destroying what our founding fathers one school class i'm tom hartman and on this show we reveal the big picture of what's actually going on in the world if we go beyond identifying the problem you're trying to fix rational debate and a real discussion of critical issues facing america up on the front ready to join the movement then walk away from the big picture.

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