the social winter olympics are on after a downswing opening show athletes can start by getting the fast medals from a record ninety eight sets up for grabs in fifteen different events. also this hour street violence and guns bosnia-herzegovina protesters clashed with police inside government buildings ablaze i mean sori unemployment economic stagnation and corruption. and the suicide bombing reportedly carried out by a british citizen in syria sparks french fears that hundreds the western volunteers could pose a threat when they return home from the war. this

is all she international cummings who live from moscow. thanks for joining us and over the next sixteen days there's no doubt it's a busy jewel at the winter olympics in sochi aussie international is following the games closely from our soldiers studio bring you extensive coverage of everything that's happening there and he is and he said howie. the city is still rumbling really can feel the energy in the air after what we saw last night with the opening ceremony of course kicking off the twenty second winter games here in the russian cold still city the two and a half hour or so took spectators on a breathtaking journey through russian culture and history more than forty thousand spectators from around the globe packed into the fist of the stadium to witness this extravaganza this ceremony featured the olympic creative nation this time with

a different athlete's not didn't enter the stadium from the side as usual but marched up right from the middle emerging from a changing now of the world and of course there was a grand fireworks display to match the dazzling style. and let's now find out what's happening in the balance already underway in sochi with our correspondent paul scott that had a poll so as i understand right now as we talk a race for gold is underway tell us more. russian. will be hoping that it's a very happy birthday he turns thirty one today is competing right now in the men's five thousand meter speed skating the first gold medal of these. twenty fourteen winter olympics has already been decided it went to american sage kotsenburg in the snowboarding slopestyle it's such a new way that currently lead the medals table with one gold one silver and one

bronze there are five gold medals in total to be decided throughout saturday two events later on the ceiling including including the women's freestyle skiing moguls on the men's ten k. biathlon which russia does also have high hopes in with an internship pool and competing he won a bronze in vancouver four years ago so the medals are already starting to flow right and as we know there's already been a display of true olympic spirit paul tell us more. yes there is an interesting story is emerging from such over the last twelve hours or side last twenty four hours that's that the german ski is in by athletes they weren't really prepared to compete at these events because some of their equipment has broken now there's a special device i won't be too technical i won't go into too much detail but the special device the basically prepays the skis for the events for the skiing and for the biathlon events but that machine broke how they did approach

a number of other confederations including austria they were refused to help but help eventually came from the russian delegation and i can tell you that the president of the german olympic sport confederation has says and i quote but i have never experienced this kind of solidarity before in my time as an official so the olympic spirit is already on display here in sochi and i mention the five gold medals in title to be decided throughout the course of saturday let's find out a little bit more about those medals with my colleague andrew fama. it's what all athletes in sochi adrenals podium finish and then him take medal around my neck and they say good enough to get one they'll be taking time something

laid these guns reflects on cheese landscape by the jamaican sikhs in france not for yana he just sandy beaches of the black sea is designed that will be useful even some paralympics with a curiously paralympians will get you a medal for the exits. they've got. an olympic 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. in olympic gold medals it 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 disappoint 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 stamps recalled thirteen hundred medals have been minted in this way for the sochi games where twelve new events will make darien peak debut it's been a big undertaking for russian jewelry manufacturer at a mass they've needed two tons of silver which is the main ingredient and it does mean that when these medals i'm not worth their weight in gold which is only used as a final casing the fact their rule value is just a few hundred dollars they actually tell you they are in fact priceless andry pharma r.t. . with a unique combination of snowy mountains and warm seas beef and it is a social work practically built from scratch to host the winter olympics there are eleven brand new venues divided between the coastal and mountain clusters and connected by a thirty minute rail trainee and as the raisins source has been dubbed the most

compact winter games. berthing is small united of an age and everything it's close we can go by war look and there is not that big security so we feel we feel free and we're fairly confident seems like we're going to put on a good show here in russia. like the scale of the course is insane and ever since such as we were 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. with security tight in seoul she was spoke to one movie star who knows all about keeping people save steven seagal who is a friend of let him in person and a martial arts expert believes people should feel secure with their. i would agree with some of the folks who are saying that she 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 you can find out everything else that's happening from our twitter team and our feed has a list section well all the sporting disciplines that soldier into counts agrees for example to see how the women's scarce long race was going on scale list to see france town of tweets there and here is that american team posting a colorful photo right from the competition also a scottish sportsman shares his emotions say that it was the best sporting event and one of the canadian ski is tweeted look who came out to support adding

a moost to that fan club so keep across everything by following our torch our coverage of. the g twenty four team promises to be cultivated an exhilarating winter for. joining us now a make seven now and the rest of our lives take these teams to sochi twenty four take. on our team. thousands of people across bosnia set fire to local government buildings and clashed with police hundreds have been injured in three days of protests in a state that's slipping into a sea where is economic stagnation with a round of percent of the population out of work. in the council sorry yeah all right it said the promotional building a blaze along with police cars and tires authorities fired rather but this water

cannon and tear gas to disperse the crowds in other parts of the country protesters held ropes of security forces and torched local government buildings and west initially erupted over the closure of several state owned companies that were sold off and then collapsed on the private ownership political analyst dr mark mason says the violence is growing into a full blown up or rising. forty percent of the population of bosnia they are simply employed without any work whatsoever so these conditions are like 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. and up ahead in the program the nation of immigration people in switzerland prepared to decide what the influx of foreign would walk in should big have all the critics say they'd call it i mean would be the hammerhead that it's. it's damage control in washington leaks recording of a phone conversation apparently involving the u.s. assistant secretary of state reveals the depths of america's involvement in ukraine's anti-government on the west so that would be great i think to help blew this thing and have the u.n. help glue it and you know the e.u. . he says strong language find the torah new and it was recorded while she was talking to the boss of the employee have the remarks just an outrage from german chancellor angela merkel called newman's choice a was completely unacceptable international affairs commentator had. a conversation shows america's overwhelming

clegg's of the sovereignty of the 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 really obscure the actual content of the discussion which is all but you know presenting a blueprint for regime change at least significant words she had issued during the course of the conversation with the us ambassador is the one that is game to the notoriety for better or worse that it has what you're really seeing is just casually and callously the u.s. state department plots political transformation in other countries outside the legitimate which is saving a lot toral reno oh 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. the us state department did not deny the authenticity with a recording saying that noonan's already apologized for her comments but

washington's continued claim that it's not involved in ukraine's political process that the state department spokesperson made. it shouldn't be a surprise that there are discussions about events on the exams more than discussions though this is the u.s. midwife in the process there's a difference between private discussions that happen and the interagency process in the building and what we convey publicly as a u.s. government that's what you do as i'm sitting in my five years saying privately behind the scenes that you're cooking up a deal and then you're saying publicly that this is up for you creating an subside those are two totally different things. coming up later this hour a facelift but these radiometer. wonder heard numbers are down a good come up just might do that job threshold break report on why israel is taking to the at ways to boost its competition at.

an article at business insider brags for americans who feel insecure about their country in light of china's impressive achievements it may be reassuring to know that while the chinese would rather move to the united states of the stay at home yes rich chinese are getting green cards in record numbers do they love you for your freedom well not exactly for according to the headline china's wealthiest citizens are fleeing to the u.s. amid corruption crackdown yes you americans should feel so insecure because apparently america is the best place to flee if you're corrupt. dramas that can't be ignored to. stories others who refuse to notice. the faces change the world writes now.

to pictures of today's leaves. from around the globe. dropped. welcome back to international aid convoys are on their way to the embattled syrian city of homes where civilians have been bearing the brunt of the war dozens of people were evacuated on friday as part of being agreements reached at the geneva two conference on the syrian government says it's where you to continue talks with the opposition at the summit being mediated by the one of the rebel delegates don't enjoy popular support inside syria or radical islamists are now dominating the fight against assad hundreds

a western volunteers have the ranks of the opposition fighters sparing and sparking fears they could bring terrible problem with the. a british heart is known as i will survive model be taught he 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 now british citizens along with other europeans to travel into syria some as young as sixteen and fighting alongside jihad is groups of long been a concern for authorities believe now that there are about three hundred fifty britons over there making up the largest contingent of some one thousand westerners and this is a new development reinforces of the urgency expressed by governments here and having to deal with a specific group of jihad is scary their countries passport to that it's if given the fact the information is finally come out they were 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 other jihad battlefields that you've seen around the world there were people with which we've seen the large numbers of foreigners be drawn to the battlefield is. my perspective on precedence is the numbers certainly that would be there were increasing about or. the rich intelligence and it presents a very different picture for them to manage in so to be alarmed over this phenomenon of thought these are regreasing we worried about what happens with these individuals return a whole group of britain's 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 tests or cilia. and now some other wild news in brief iran has resumed talks with the ones nuclear watchdog on its atomic ball ground the country's media

says one of the issues is the heavy water reactor in iraq which to ransom has it could modify to produce less be tyranny and in ten days iran begins negotiations with world powers on a final deal to allay western fee is it's not building bombs the country has already halted its most sensitive nuclear operations and a preliminary agreement which a war needs some relief from sanctions. in spain fans of the protesters gathered in the streets of palmer chanting slogans against their will take this happened as spain's princes christina arrived in court over a corruption scandal involving her husband and his suspected of defrauding regional governments and embarrassing six million euros of public money become a crisis hit spain holland with many local authorities tightening their belts and judges looking into a pre two thousand and eight corruption case. also some news just

in that at least two people have been killed and seven injured after a train derailed in the northern french alps emergency services are now at the scene more on this as we get. this way south of preparing for a referendum on whether to count immigration polls show increasing support for the blonde to limit the number of foreigners moving to switzerland but some warn it could backfire on they call me as a loose account and it has been finding out. 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 as significant number for a country of just eight million our industry our economy meets immigration to a certain point but everybody under and miss underestimated 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 the e.u. members although itself not a part of the law 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 said 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 recalled and so there was 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 favors over forty percent so what's behind this push to keep outsiders out of switzerland will some experts say motions have a lot to do with that. there is competition in the housing market competition. in

treasury. and there is competition in the labor market so. it's populist politics glady angel in this field but as elsewhere in europe anti immigration messages seem to be resonating and pollster say even voters without political affiliation vent their frustration calms sunday voters like a. this swiss businessman who owns it's medics factory the name as a manufacturer i profit from this to make it the more people i sell my products to the better but i'm also a swiss citizen i don't want to live like a sardine in my country which in india 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 so because there's no way to do modern business in particular financial services

franking without four years in there's no way to run this out wages and goods from other countries switzerland is highly dependent on this work force four in ten companies in switzerland including nestle are founded by foreigners last year they created around thirty thousand new jobs force it's a bit weird that no there are against the foibles because they need them i mean we're not stealing the jobs we're just taking the job they don't want to do so that's why i figured so this so this. i don't understand why 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 our team in switzerland and lucy catherine of. the latest edward snowden leak is a detail of how you came television's stops at nothing when trying to get the information they need reports accuse british intelligence agents of using sex as

cyber attacks and propaganda to get to that targets bring the full story. also of. the models rover curiosity captures an image of planet earth taken directly from the surface of the red planet check on the pictures on our website. the israeli army says the number of people willing to set. when combat unit is falling forcing the government to look for new ways to try and improve things the media has been called on to help and now to become our shuls praising military service has become the latest recruiting weapon. and now reports. these really army has a new fight on its hand and numbers in combat units are down potential recruits are shying away from sighing not fighting it seems has lost its glamour the i.d.f. is concerned it's circulating videos like this online that celebrate the strength

of his radio fighter in this one awake if to put claims his strong soldiers are as is the idea of the soul to be managed drinking strong coffee and this teenage girl is pounding strongly on drums both fits in with the catch phrase sound the idea of a strong smile it all smiles when he watches the videos the twenty five year old served in 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 my own creation 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 raids off thinking twice about whether they want to put their life on the line to serve their country you value a lot is also fighting the statistics the air force special unit veteran runs boot camps encouraging high schoolers to follow his footsteps into the i.d.f. so each squads will be you can see but in certain places over in israel the parents. prefer that their kids will see in much more safer places like be intelligence where you are cannot be. in danger the i.d.f. spokesman peter lerner insists the drop in number doesn't change things. the idea if can still keep the country safe is part of a situation where the types of threats have also changed it's also the 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 well me stand on the comb through this. both and compute the thing you need the people that stand in front of their own enemy and this save the bow of the soul they will come back you next may not be fighting the because fashion of the just and keeping. the nation is kind of the reports coming out here and also international. in the u.k. it's servitude george galloway. 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 and all the world people are looking for change and they want to massive star 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

a. 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 challenging the system legalizing weed will just pacify the masses even more but that's just my opinion. with creating the sustainable operations focused on profit making. and what you are advocating my term self-interest sense of that is what your government says has always been the case and. businesses for hundreds of years without using the label . thing was what got capitalism. was this notion that economists brought to it which was the idea of profit maximizing.

welcome to the kaiser report imax kaiser an article at business insider brags for americans who feel insecure about their country in light of china's impressive achievements it may be reassuring to know that wealthy chinese would rather move to the united states of stay at home yes rich chinese are getting green cards in record numbers do they love you for your freedom well not exactly for according to the headline china's wealthiest citizens are fleeing to the u.s. amid corruption crackdown yes you americans should feel so insecure because apparently america is the best place to flee to if you're corrupt. they love us for our freedom to steal. and get away with it the shining city on a hellhole that's been stolen. well china's wealthiest citizens are fleeing to us

amid corruption crackdown is the headline amid a widening crackdown on corruption china's wealthiest citizens are increasingly seeking a better life abroad the united states is their favored destination so if they have a million dollars they can get a green card in two thousand and ten there were seven hundred seventy two chinese who received these green cards that increased by eight fold by two thousand and twelve to six thousand one hundred twenty four friends or corruption crackdown is rising in china so the chinese while the chinese that are the jamie diamonds of their country are fleeing to america because they know that america provide safe haven for a corrupt banking larcenous to. thieving good to no good mix and yes now part of the reason is they're also leaving because of the pollution that we have exported their american corporations export of the pollution there where there's so much pollution you can't even see it kind of looks like london with the fog there.