i'm a killer though and i'm the worst of all the hate news team for sochi twenty four take. on. this sortie winter olympics are wrong after a downswing opening show athletes can start finding the first medals from a record ninety eight cents an hour and fifteen different events. equipment failure it could have ruined the dreams of olympic gold for some german skiers and biathletes already if their russian a part of having to put a rivalry aside to help out. also the u.s. is treated violins and golf balls in the air and i had to go clash with police and said government buildings a blaze i mean soaring unemployment economic stagnation and corruption. under suicide bombing reportedly carried out by a british citizen in syria's arms fresh he is that hundreds

a western volunteers could pose a threat when they return home from the war. and welcome to all seeing to national twenty four hour news live from moscow my name is you know thanks for joining us over the next sixteen days there's a business should you have the winter olympics in sochi international is following the games closely from our sources studio bringing you extensive coverage of everything that's happening there and he's also he's and he said now we're with more on this you know opening. this it is still low 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 show 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 big stadium to witness this extravaganza the ceremony featured the olympic creative nations this time with a difference athletes not didn't enter the stadium from the side as usual but marched up right from the middle emerging from a changing of the world and of course there was a grand fireworks display to match the dazzling show the culmination of the ceremony was of course the lighting of the olympic flame would be on a going to two of russia's most celebrated athletes the soviet hockey legend of the . legendary figure skater irina rodnina who shared her of motions with. yes there is a girl it going with just the logic of its call it seems it's my destiny to do everything as a parent but it's a fantastic experience it's so great that we've been entrusted with such an honor i

have these games will be extremely exciting it's always exciting at the olympics everything is brand new here the weather is beautiful and it's creating a festive mood for everyone especially the athletes and it's very important because the olympics has long been about so much more than just sports. so the winter games are in full swing both in the olympic park on the black sea coast and on the mountain slopes well let's find out what's happening in the balance already underway in sochi with our correspondent a pro sports how the pole nice to see it so well closely watching the speed races right now particularly abound and thus far as i understand one one race is underway right now as we talk tell us more about that. yes well it's going to be disappointment for birthday boy even scope of the russian turns thirty one today but he's out of the medal positions in the men's five thousand meter speed skating which is just concluding in the arena now the first gold medal of the sochi winter

olympics has been decided it went to american sage kotsenburg he won gold for the united states of america in the men's snowboarding slalom and for what it's worth at this early stage on day one i can tell you that it's norway that lead the medals table with one gold one silver and one bronze there are two other gold medals to be decided later on on saturday evening including the ten k. men's biathlon which gets underway in around thirty minutes time and there were high hopes for russia in that event with anton shapiro in competing he was a bronze medalist in vancouver four years ago yeah show of course thank you for bring us up to date but we know that there's already been a display of true olympic spirit tell us more about that. yes it's only day one of these games but the olympic spirit is very much on display now the german skiis and biathlon competitors were going to be under prepared for that event because the machine they use a special machine a high tech machine that's used to prepare this case had broken now they asked

around a number of federations including austria who simply refused to help but russia came in and lends a hand lending them them a shame so the german athletes can be fully prepared for their event the russians putting their rivalry to one side to help the opposition now is the german olympic sports confederation president says that i have never experienced this kind of solidarity before in my time as an official said the olympic spirit firmly on display in such a now i mentioned a few moments ago that there are medals up for grabs today five in total but let's find out more about those medals with my colleague andre fabio. is one who will actually see sochi adrenals podium finish and in him take medal around. and they say good enough to get one they'll be taking time something. these

goings reflexive cheese landscape by the sikhs in france not for yana he just sandy beaches of the black sea is a design that will be useful lympics imperiling peaks with a curiously paralympians will get you a medal for the efforts. to get. 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 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 discipline the lighter them. no matter what their weight each one takes a staggering eighteen hours to make it starts on the late the medals are cut to the right size a 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 limping debut it's been a big undertaking for russian jewelry manufacturer adam masse they've needed two tonnes of silver which is the main ingredient and it does mean the winners' 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 actually tell you they are in fact priceless andry pharma r.t. . or security tightened sancerre with quote one maybe a star who knows all about keeping people safe steven seagal who's a friend of let every person under martial arts expert believes people should feel secure that. 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 and 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. so to find out everything that's happening from our tweeted team was wow under our feet has a list section where all the sporting disciplines are sort of into categories for you for example to see how the women's scouts long race was going click their own scale lists to see first hand tweets that and here's the american team posting a colorful photo right from the competition also a scottish sports franchise his emotions saying that that was the best sporting

event here we go and one of the canadian skiers tweeted came out to support adding a moose to the fan club so to get across everything by following our twitter caffrey. the g twenty four team promising alternate and exhilarating winter sports and. join me in this in our make seven now and the rest of our lives take you staying for sochi twenty four take. on arts. both news woke up on sunday to streets of broken windows and smoke rising from government buildings the day before thousands of protesters across the country went on the rampage and clashed with police. almost two hundred people have been injured in three days of pressurized in a stage where forty percent of the population is jobless in the capital sarajevo

a source has fired rubber bullets want to count until to disband the crowds in other parts of the country protests is how the rocks at security forces and torched local government buildings and west initially erupted over the closure of several state owned companies that were sold all collapsed under private ownership political analysts dr mark mason says the violence is growing into the role of uprising. 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 fact 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. up ahead and the problem this hour and he should have been gratian people in switzerland to decide whether the influx of foreign wacken should be had all their critics say they call me would be the area that will raise some plays. a place about now it's damage control in washington after a leaks recording of a phone conversation apparently involving the u.s. assistant secretary of state revealed the depth of america's involvement in ukraine's antigovernment unrest. 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. the use of strong language by the victoria nuland was recorded while she was talking to the you are some of their remarks caused outrage from german chancellor angela merkel the code noonan's choice of was completely unacceptable international

affairs commentator says the conversation shows america's own role neglect of the sovereignty of 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 really obscure the actual content of the discussion which is all but you know presenting a blueprint for regime change at least significant words to get issued press during the course of the conversation with the u.s. ambassador is the one that has gained at 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 and other countries outside the legitimate which is saving a lot toral reno oh it 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 u.s. state department did not deny the authenticity of the recording saying that

newman's already apologized for how comments and washington's continued claim that its not involved in ukraine's political process left the state department spokesperson a flaming. it shouldn't be a surprise that there are discussions about events on the ground as more than discussions the this is the u.s. midwife in the process there's a difference between private discussions that happen in the interagency process in the building and what we convey publicly as a u.s. government that's what you do as as i'm certain you know if you're 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 instead side those are two totally different things. coming up later this hour a facelift for the israeli army. when record numbers are down a good commercial just my do a good job after a short break report on why israel is taking to the airwaves to the at waves for the first it's called but united states that's.

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to picture of days. from around the globe. looking. seem to national it's good to have you with us let's move on the broken seas find the syrian city of homs has reportedly been broken with both sides of the conflict blaming a chop a foreshadowing they say as you on aid convoys are on their way to help civilians bearing the brunt to war dozens of people why rockey waited from homes on friday as part of agreements reached at the geneva two conference the syrian government says it's ready to continue talks with the opposition of the summit being mediated by the yuan but the rebel delegates don't enjoy popular support inside syria iran

tical islamists are now dominating the fight against assad hundreds a western of volunteers have filled the ranks of the opposition fighters sparking fears they can bring tara back home with them as sassy and now reports. a british heart is no. tommy is believed to be the first british 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 travelling to syria as young as sixteen and fighting alongside jihad is groups along with 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. information is finally come out that was seen 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 jihadi battlefields that we've seen around the world need to repeat duty with. it's foreigners be drawn to the battlefield is from my perspective i'm president of the numbers certainly that would be they were hearing created about our new british intelligence and it presents a very difficult picture for them to manage in sounding the alarm over this phenomenon of thought is our rig recently 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 i'm tesser cilia. some other wild news in brief right now a russian woman has reportedly been killed along with another person in

a train derailment in the french alps it was traveling from the coastal city of nis officials say the train came all the tracks after a boulder smashed into one of the cars injuring nine other passengers emergency services are now at the scene and rescue operations continue. iran has resumed talks with the un's nuclear watchdog on its atomic power the country's media says one of the issues is they have the water reactor in iran which tehran says it could modify to produce less plutonium in less 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 hold it's most sensitive nuclear operations on a type of agreement which want to get some relief from sanctions. this way so preparing for a referendum on whether to come up with gratian polls show increasing support for the plan to limit the number of foreigners moving to switzerland but some warn it

would backfire on the economy as. 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 a significant number for a country of just eight million our industry our economy needs immigration to a certain point but everybody under a mis 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 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 said the swiss

said the political elite they were very enthusiastic about joining the european union came 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 it favors over forty percent so what's behind this push to keep outsiders out of switzerland will some experts say motions 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 this anger in the in this field but as elsewhere in europe and to 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 so because there's no way to do modern business in particular financial services. research for years and there's no way to run this out wages and cooks from other countries switzerland is doing this for tools four in ten companies in switzerland including nestle are founded by foreigners last year they created around thirty

thousand new jobs politics or between at that no they are against the foibles because they need them i mean we are not stealing their 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 how 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. the latest ad with snowden leaks how u.k. intelligence will stop at nothing when trying to get the information they perforce accuse a british intelligence agency of using sex to assign batons and propaganda to get to that time get the full story on aussie dot com also the mars rover curiosity captures an image of planet as taken directly from the surface of the rad planet the picture on our website. israeli army says the number of people willing

to serve in combat units has forming a forcing the government to look for new ways to try and improve things the media has been called on to help and now to be commercials praising military service has become the latest recruiting weapon policy on our. these really army has a new fight on its hand numbers in combat units are down potential recruits are shying away from signing up 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 the israeli fighter in this one a weight lifter put claims he's strong. as is the i.d.f. this elderly man is drinking strong coffee and this teenage girl is pounding strongly on drums both clips in with the catchphrase sounds the idea is strong surely cause smiles when he watches the videos the twenty five year old served in goal army 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 of 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 for my education i think i would do things differently if i have 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 also 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 through the you can see that in certain places over in israel the

parents. prefer that their kids will see in much more safer places. where you 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 the 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 cyber both and computer both think you need the people that stand in front of their own enemy and this save the both of you full of a glory it will come back you next may not be fighting the biggest bastion of the existence keeping themselves go in. tel aviv.

i had that would take you on until all of a part of los angeles and many choose to ignore but if we're watching us in the u.k. is breaking this is. 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 can 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 weave rampage no no you haven't the downside to all this is that across america 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. every dollar of will 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 challenging the system legalizing weed will just pacify the masses even more but that's just my opinion.

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