the best of the best the first sets of medals are awarded in saatchi as day one of the twenty fourteen winter olympics comes to a close. a team of german skiers and biathletes reaches out for assistance after its equipment fails and finds a helping hand from the russian opponents who decide to put rivalries side. street violence and goals bosnia herzegovina protesters clashed with police and said government buildings a blaze amid soaring unemployment economic stagnation and corruption. and a suicide bombing reportedly carried out by a briton in syria the first such attack by a u.k. citizen in the country sparks fresh fears that westerners could pose a threat and they return home from the war.

you're watching our to international live from our moscow studios i'm lindsey france thanks for joining me on sunday eight sets of medals will be up for grabs and saatchi as the winter olympics are set to continue into their second day but right now let's take a look at the results from day one which was a huge success for the norwegian t.v. our correspondent paul scott who is in saatchi now has been following the action closely. well there are no medals for russia on day one of the sochi twenty fourteen winter olympics but they are in a good position to pick up their first medal of these games in the figure skating team event after five of eight rounds they currently lead the overall standings meanwhile biathlete ole einar darling has created history he's become the joint

record holder for the most amount of winter olympic medals he now has twelve to his name and seven of them a gold he's also become the oldest individual gold medal winner in winter olympics history this is after he claimed gold in the men's ten k. sprint event there was also a super display from the netherlands in the speed skating in the men's five thousand meters they claimed a one to three gold silver and bronze spend kramer successfully defending his title well let's take a look at the medals table then you can see that it's norway that lead the way at the moment but that fantastic display by the netherlands has put them right up amongst the leaders and we've seen the first awarding of the medals to the athletes it's going to happen daily at eight fourteen pm in the coastal cluster in the medals plaza there of course it happens eight fourteen pm because that's twenty fourteen representing the german athletes were going to be pretty much under prepared for there are events now for the skiers and for the by athletes there's a special machine that prepares their skis it gets them ready for competitions in

the german machine it actually broke now the german federation was scratching around looking for support and seeking assistance from other teams here with the winter olympics they approach austria their rivals who refused to help but russia did decide to help they put the rivalry to one side and assisted their opposition. spirit is shining through and we're all in our pm have never experienced. special situation and so i. play the russian friends. for us us in. they gave us handed over the key and so it was possible that our team last night. prepared is mentioned a few hours ago the medals table let's find out a bit more about those medals is my colleague andrew farmer.

it's what all ashley says sort of she a dream podium finish and an intake medal around. and they say good enough to get one they'll be taking time something. these goalies reflexive cheese landscape by the jacket he says translated yana he just sandy beaches of the black sea this design will be use for the same power lympics with a curiously her influence will get movement for the exits. pick up up back. and olympic gold medal weighs an average of five hundred twenty five hundred forty grams paralympic gold medal is about six hundred seventy just six hundred eighty grams but the reason for the weight difference between olympic gold medals it is because the titles of different sport disciplines vary in length if they have to be engraved which means that the longer the title of the disappointed the lighter the

most. similar to what their weight each one takes a staggering eighteen hours to make it starts on the ladies 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 darien peak debut has been a big undertaking for russian jewelry manufacturers. they've needed two tons of silver which is the main ingredient and it does mean that when these metals are not there waiting to go with each is only used as a final casing in fact their rules only is just a few hundred dollars for the end usually tell you they are in fact priceless and. r.t. . well speaking of metals the us has won the first gold medal of the olympics in

slopestyle snowboarding that's a mouthful but the event was missing a marquee athlete american sporting legend shaun white who pulled out before the competition began he said he was worried about the safety of the course so we asked billy morgan a snowboarder from team great britain if he has any concerns about the venue and. it's been amazing considering you know there wasn't much here before before they started building results he is not saying ridiculous as you know everybody needed it doesn't seem like it is miss in the villages the village is good it all works the transport fine they would be so easy to have lots of problems like you know having something so new there's always problems but they've got around to the few problems they have heard it is work really well i've enjoyed it a lot so if they had problems with with getting the machinery on the slope which is a common thing if it's too warm you can't get the machines on the slopes but the next day it was cold enough and they got the machines on and it was it was super

smooth the problem was they couldn't smooth out properly but it was all gone the next day so we were turned up you know it was a bit scary but it was a fix it is been brilliant ever since turning a hobby into a sporting career that's a dream shared by millions around the globe what if you already have a flourishing career in a completely different field globally renowned violinist vanessa mae isn't toci to participate in the women's long in fact she's competing for thailand here's what she had to say about her switch from the concert hall to the ski slopes. i've been so inspired with the skiing if you know the day there are days when it's rush rush rush so much to do and the violin doesn't get taken out of its case but there have been days when i've literally hopped on a plane after a race and had a show the next day and i have to say that it brings a new dimension to my music i was groomed to be a violin is from a young age and it was something that i was serious single minded about skiing i am serious when i strap on a pair of skis but i don't put myself under the same pressure sure representing my

country is a responsibility but nobody thinks making a podium for me so some way i could be entertaining on skis would be a good thing for me as an entertainer. the twenty second a limp a quitter games kicked off with a spectacular opening extravaganza of the audiences through russia's unique history as with any other opening ceremony it culminated in the lighting of the olympic flame wrapping up the longest torch relay in history the honor was awarded to two of russia's most celebrated athletes soviet hockey legend vladislav tretiak and legendary figure skater irina rodnina she shared with us the emotions that she felt . years ago it would nice to see them it's all it seems is my destiny to do everything as a parent but it's a fantastic experience it's so great that the reeve 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 year the weather is beautiful and it's creating a festive mood for everyone especially the athletes and it's very important because

the lympics has long been about so much more than just sports because that's you can find out everything else that's happening from our twitter team you can head over to our tease twitter feed where all of these sports sections all the various disciplines involved in the winter games are divided for you you can catch the tweets of all of your favorite athletes and of course from their biggest fans this was made so that you can follow all of the tweets that are hitting the internet as the games go on. the g twenty four team promise is the ultimate in exhilarating winter and. joining us now a make over now and the rest of our look at news team for sochi twenty four taking . on. protesters have gathered again in the bosnian capital of sarajevo following the resignation of the local government leader just days before thought police authorities vowed that to prevent further violence after the worst

uprising the country has seen since the one nine hundred ninety s. . hundreds of people have been injured in three days of protests in a state where forty percent of the population is jobless and sarajevo authorities fired rubber bullets water cannon and tear gas to break up the crowds in other parts of the nation the protesters hurled rocks at security forces and set local government buildings on fire unrest initially broke out after several state owned companies were privatized and then filed for bankruptcy political analyst dr mark mason says the violence is growing into a full blown uprising. forty percent of the population of bosnia they are simply employed without any work whatsoever so these conditions are like annoyed 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 when about five percent of the population say they have had it with the government and they get some significant fraction of the police for he say i'm through with this to arm during the protests pretty much the end of it for the government so we want to watch that very closely. a joint team of u.n. and syrian red crescent workers have delivered aid to the besieged city of homs despite heavy shelling earlier a cease fire was broken when mortar shells were fired at an aid convoy injuring several people the government and the rebels accuse each other of violating that armistice. dozens of residents were evacuated on friday as part of the agreements reached at the geneva two conference the syrian government says it's ready to continue the talks with the opposition at the u.n. meeting. the rebel delegates don't enjoy popular support inside syria where radical islamists are now dominating the fight against assad's militant ranks have been

bolstered by hundreds of europeans sparking fears they could bring terror back home with them as artists are 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 law but a concern for authorities believe now that there are about three hundred fifty britons over there making a contingent of some one thousand westerners and this is a new development reinforces 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 individual foreign individuals more generally becoming involved and. i think if we compare this particular conflict in syria with the you have to feel that you've seen around the world there are people. going to the battlefield is from my perspective on precedent to. me that would be they were hearing questions about. 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 return a whole group of britons 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 tess are cilia. social and is considering whether to close its borders the country is holding a nationwide referendum to decide whether to restrict the number of immigrants allowed to enter the critics warn the move would hurt the economy. plus.

one recruitment numbers are down a good commercial might just give the job after the break we were point out why israel is taking to the airwaves to boost its combat units. down in the final. days. and the rest. will be if we.

put it on your. face. pleasure to have you with us here on our t.v. today. watching our two international flight from moscow washington has been left red faced after a link to a recording of a phone conversation apparently involving the u.s. assistant secretary of state revealed the depth of america's meddling in ukraine's government arrest so that would be great i think to help polluted thing and have

the u.n. help glue it and you know the e.u. . conversation was recorded while nuland was talking to the u.s. ambassador to kiev the remark caused outrage from german chancellor angela merkel and small news choice of words completely unacceptable international affairs commentator recross office says the conversation shows america's 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 maybe obscured 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 perhaps during the course of the conversation with the us ambassador is the one that has gained it the notoriety for better or worse that it has what you're really seeing is just casually and callously the u.s. state department flaw its political transformation in other countries outside the legitimate which is saving a lot of toral reno oh it affect 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. saudi arabia's gender segregation has cost the life of a female student a twenty four year old woman died of a heart attack after waiting for over two hours since the male medics on site were not allowed to examine her head to our two dot com for the full story. plus the u.k.'s immigration minister who launched a notorious go home or face arrest campaign has resigned after reports surfaced that hume cloyd an illegal immigrant on our website we've got all the details. so us citizens are said to decide whether to restrict immigration in their country a yes vote in a nationwide referendum would mean that only a limited number of slots and be allocated those would go to certain national or occupational groups poll show increasing support for the plan to limit the number of foreigners moving to switzerland but some warn it could backfire on the economy

as archie's lucy caffein office 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 and mr underestimated the situation the number of people coming it's 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 said this will

save the political elite they were very enthusiastic about joining the european union ten years ago. but people change 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 favors over forty percent so what's behind this push to keep outsiders out of switzerland or some experts say the motions have 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 in this. in this field but as elsewhere in europe anti immigration messages seem to be resonating and pollsters say even voters without political affiliation may vent their frustration calm sunday voters

like this. swiss businessman who owns a cosmetics factory the name as a manufacturer i profit from this 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 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 is no way to run the hells or education system. because there's no way to do modern business in particular financial services franking without four years in there's no way to run to rescind without waiters and cooks 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 politics of between at that no

they 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 one thing and so this this put on 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 fourteen in switzerland and lucy caffein of. some more news making headlines around the world in turkey riot police have fired water cannon and tear gas hundreds of demonstrators in istanbul's main square where protesters threw stones and firecrackers as they rallied against new legislation they say will tighten government control of the internet others were calling on government leaders to step down twitter and facebook were widely used by anti-government protesters during demonstrations last year. in madrid around three thousand protesters wave flares and lit fires during a rally against what they call state repression in spain the demonstrators are

upset with the government's recent passing of a piece of legislation which would allow protesters to be fined for filming police and participating in an authorised rallies several activist groups team together to organize against the law. two women one from russia and another from france were killed and about twenty people were injured in a train derailment in the french alps the accident occurred while travelling from the coastal city of nice officials say falling rocks crashed into one of the cars and then snow conditions hampered the rescue efforts. tokyo has issued its first heavy snowfall warning in thirteen years after three people died and more than five hundred were injured in snow related accidents across japan hundreds of flights have been canceled public transport suspended and more than forty thousand households from experience power cuts according to the nation's meteorological agency the heaviest snowfall the capital has seen is this year it's

a first since one nine hundred sixty nine. according to the israeli army the number of people willing to serve in combat units is falling it's forced the government to look for new ways to try to strengthen the ranks. of reports on the sudden role of the media. 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 awake if to put claims his strong. as is the i.d.f. this old to be managed drinking strong coffee and this teenage girl is pounding strongly on drums both clips 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 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 and that is for sure what i did is important 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 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 where 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 if for special unit veteran runs boot camps encouraging high schoolers to follow his footsteps into the i.d.f. each squads through the can see that in certain places over in israel the

parents. prefer that their kids will see in much more safer places. in. the i.d.f. spokesman peter lerner insists the drop in number doesn't change things the i.d.f. . can still keep the country safe it 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 the army stand on the comm with you on this. computer but you need the people that stand in front of their own enemy and save the border so all they glory is always come back you next may not be fighting the biggest fashion of existence keeping themselves

going. tel aviv. coming up after the break archie takes a closer look at drug abuse in the streets of los angeles watching our international. games are a. very hard because. we have sex with her there.

the g. twenty four gene pool was the week ultimate game exhilarating winter and all team eights here join me and it's in no way i'm a clever know and i'm the worst of all it takes years to aim for sochi twenty four take. on oxy. in response to be intense law enforcement on skid row some local residents have made it their job to watch the police. came to california in one nine hundred fifty six and they

both got a job downtown l.a. work in a bullish department store on seventh and broadway. my father had been living downtown ever since. but my mother she lived out in the projects the bad part of it was that i ended up hanging out in my mother's old neighborhood where i ended up joining the games and so for near i got into my addiction my addiction landed me in front of a judge. because you're doing robberies he said you don't have to go to state prison so he says sinister mean to an eighteen year state prison. when i was doing my time in prison and i became really more radical i was like go on the revolutionary side before i got out you know i i promised all of that when i get out i would give back all the wrong that i've been doing this gang member and growing up in my life right so when i got out the first thing i did was i came back to steal a role. so one day to bicycle

security goes from the business improvement district called a suburban shirts had this woman twisted a home up in the air and it was about to break the woman on so i say what are you doing man let the woman cohen boys you crazy because like a shot a picture go by i say are you going to break girl because you got a pipe so the lady was dramatic i know my bag and i'm just i'm yours i like it right so she tried to run she mobile up her head to learn to go i said my letter goes with a little girl and she opened up her hand it was a guy like her so i told myself when i was a homeless in medicine that we don't know but it's for sure i'm still a general so i tell myself i've got to go get me some soldiers while i'm you know walking around here to talk to one of my friends. the go to l.a. can they do that kind of stuff. and so from him witnessing an injustice a day later he's. gone through leadership development classes and now three years

later he's our leader. my job is to is to keep trying to wake up the mess you know and in a keep you know exploit you know stay with the system is doing. it right now my personal hero and i think all. the time general. and the reason i admired him so much as the reason i admire so many people down on him was that he's really somebody who grew up down here and now spends all his energy basically trying to the from the rights of other folks down here. general did nine years in stay pain six of those nine years were done in solitary confinement. is the individual that if you listen to the policymakers if you listen to people with money and wealth and power there's no rehabilitating. you know he's a career criminal i guess you would have said the same.