the heartless nation that winds its fast maddow at century twenty fourteen would hope that the wrongs will be followed by a gold later on sunday but aside from the celebration of winter olympic sports like this and. this threat of something happening in sochi the western media dishes out an avalanche of criticism raising questions about whether the hype and panic justified that plus in the weeks other headlines. and you know. the masses report in the coming from the u.s. assistant secretary of state as a leaked phone call reveals the zaps of washington's involvement in ukraine's political turmoil. and also the sound poll suggests to switzerland has

voted now early in favor of a controversial plan to put a limit on immigration and nationwide referendum. the latest news on the week's top stories you're launching the week here on our international with me here. and welcome to the program and russian friends have a reason to celebrate on day two of the twenty fourteen winter olympic games in sochi the nation's first medal is a browser and to tell us more is all she's a pool school live from salt hi there paul so tell us more about russia's first success in sochi and about all it's going on there right now where you are. world the owner of russia's first medal in these games goes to gloss she secured a bronze. in the women's three thousand meter speed skating event in the adler

arena however she was powerless to stop the dutch domination in the event with us claiming gold now russian sports fans will be hoping that their first medal of these games is quickly followed up by their first gold medal of these games round six of eight in the figure skating team event is just getting underway and one of russia's most famous sporting sons you have gagne pushing is about to take to the ice in the men's free program russia currently have the overall leader in the to vent tell to no small part by fifteen year old lipnitskaya who puts in a perilous performance in the ladies' short program at the other end of the age scale forty two year old al but then he's announced his retirement at the end of these games he's hoping to go out on a high the loser is currently in second place in the final stages of the third round of the men's loos event the fourth and final round gets underway later on the saving on sunday meanwhile there's also hopes of a podium finish for russia in the women's biathlon seven and

a half kilometer sprint which is also under way so let's take a look then at the medals table and how things stand at the moment you can see that norway currently lead the way however they are being closely followed by the united states and the netherlands so we're well into day two of these games and it's a long lost the athletes who are starting to make the headlines however these games are still being plagued by negativity in some parts of the american media as my colleague honest to see it now reports. hundreds of world class competitions involving thousands of top notch athletes sports fans all over the world rejoice it's time for a limping game fun again and some of them are pretty distant but why feed the excitement word of a possible new terror threat character a terrorist threat terrorist threat and our world champion and multiple gold medalist for by. kill the western mainstream media and the olympics is

a wonderful time for contrails to get together in order to despise each other and or treat each other like crap it's only happens once every two four years you know there's not a lot of time you've got to come together and hate each other and not a second has gone to waste from picking any little thing that might be off to fifty toilets but not one that could be flushed to toilets i buy that i have two toilets right next to each other just spells party that doesn't spell bad conditions three millionaires to be exact traps one very tiny room left a five paint they're trashing things the problems that that come up in every olympic games as these were unique to sochi olympic stadium has always been accused of being an overpriced boondoggle that was constructed shoddily not ready until the very last second every single one that i can remember a media war against the saatchi olympics taken to

a ridiculous extreme but my impression of fox news is that they're just sitting around the office and they go hey it looks like no one's russian to get to sochi am i right i'm going to go eat lunch. the finest definitely queer spinning tiny flaws into viral sensations fact or actual sports reporting be damned. it's really kind of unpleasant to watch more to the point it's pretty counterfactual as well going so far as to say that the games are being held in a war zone as opposed to what's really a black sea resort. even though plenty of work went into security hysteria reigns the airwaves boatwright of something bad happening in sochi well it's increasing by the day taking the fear of yes toothpaste to an extreme toothpaste containing explosive material it is terrifying all right did you hear it. all the tooth paste

is going to explode it won't even staging tests on hiding explosives and tubes were c.n.n. commissioned this changed i start brushing my teeth start flossing i think that might help solve the problem no matter how much the media act as the doomsayers of the games toothpaste will be toothpaste and nonsense will be nonsense in the end the olympics will celebrate joy excitement and victory there will be winners and there will be losers hopefully able to move on with at least some snippets of dignity you're not concerned at all you're not really known really truly can we piece about why and especially if you're going to r.t. new york. paul scholes spoke to a man responsible for persuading american tourists to come to sochi he says his job has been made much more difficult by the negative coverage in the media. we've had some people back out because of what they've heard on the news do you think the i

mean why do you think there is such negativity in some parts of american media around such even if a year and a half is unjustified i think because of what they call the ring of steel i think this is a very secure place i think i would be more on secure an american classroom that i would be in sochi itself just because of the security here when some of those great and some of those tourists decided to back out did you try to convince them how did you sell tsotsi to them which was a lawyer told them that the place where we we would be staying would be in a very secure location. and one of the major parts here in the sochi have lurked at us like a lot and so i think those are about as secure as you're going to get let's talk about the infrastructure that has sprung up around this such a region is sochi set to become a tourist hot spot off to the games you think is going to be a legacy of tourism here while they're in better position certainly because they've build new highways they've got a great train transportation now in there they're more up to date with her

electricity grid and stuff like that so i think they're prepared but as with any city that's going to give birth to a modern resort you're going to have labor pains and you were up in the mountains i believe last night watching this right of course is the olympics it is about the sport what about the venues how they look how are they holding up to the beautiful of the ski jump we we saw a men's short short jump last night and i was incredible when you're going up the gondola and overworking the ski jump there is just it's quite magnificent it was awesome it's going to be a great time. and spoke to lead to slough of the russian hockey legend and torch bearer at the twenty four seems so challenge thanks les this and that. those who ignite the lympics flame go down in history for many years to come because it's a task that is only given to the most popular and the most worthy sportsman it means the world to me because i'm representing the team of my youth the hockey team that is an eight time elim peak champion i feel honored that out of all the players

they chose me it's unbelievably beautiful here to see palm trees and snow and i think these are going to be one of the best olympic games have ever been held we were commentated in prisons in the united states staying in not the most favorable conditions in my opinion very good infrastructure was put together for the athletes here in sochi everything is very compact facilities are located conveniently close to each other and no public transport is needed it's very aggravating when buses elated whereas here everything's very well put together and the athletes are satisfied. so they are seen team isn't such a closely following the sporting spectacle of that and you can always keep up to date anytime by logging on to our official instagram page and got videos and footage from the olympic capital join us on instagram dot com slash arcee and of course we're keeping a very close eye on sochi it slopes track stadiums and parks counting the medals

following the reaction and bring you all the latest on that on our web site that as you remember all. the g twenty fourteen promises colton and exhilarating winter for. germany is an hour and a make over now and the rest of our olympic team to sochi twenty four take. on art . this week a massive gal's by a top u.s. diplomat revealed washington's true ambitions of the anti government prize has that have split ukraine as well as its attitude towards other european partners is more important i reports in ukraine we stand for the principle that all people have the right to express themselves freely and peacefully. and they have a say in their country's future as it turns out the washington isn't just cheering from the sidelines. in this video posted anonymously on you tube my understanding

from that u.s. assistant secretary of state victoria nuland and the u.s. ambassador in the kieve are heard orchestrating ukraine's political future playing a game of verbal chess with ukraine's opposition leaders i think you know the guy who's got the economic experience the governing experience he's the he's the guy you know what he needs is clear on a book on the outside he needs to be talking to them four times a week the embarrassingly conversation goes from bad to worse when washington senior diplomat drops the f. bomb dismissing the european union's role in ukraine so that would be great i think to help glue this thing and have the u.n. help glue it and you know be you the state department has shifted into damage control refusing to confirm the authenticity of the audio while admitting that victoria nuland has apologized to her european allies for the profanity she's apologized for a comment to she's not admitting she made which is itself

a confirmation that the comment wasn't indeed made but will she hasn't apologized for is the plans to midwife a new government in ukraine you know the words she's she's apologizing for you but she's not apologizing for trying to overthrow a government in kiev calling it popular democracy the diplomatic scandal hit as nuland arrived in ukraine for her second visit in less than two months back in december she was walking around independence square handing out snacks to protesters this time around the assistant secretary of state promised to feed the country with financial support if necessary political reforms are implemented at a press conference nuland refused to comment on what she called a private diplomatic conversation this is a devastating revelation and a very important revelation because it show. that washington is not only manipulating but washington is dictating who shall be in the government and they have taken the power away from the people. archie.

retore newlands use of strong language has caused outrage from germany's chancellor angela merkel has dismissed the comments as an acceptable and load of a news to former deputy speaker of the parliament says the conversation is a clear demonstration of how america really regards other state. ok to do real good diplomacy behind closed doors this confirms that a long stance of the united states and the you by the way towards a new continent diddy's dana to show floor for democracy. other countries this one small undermines the whole claim of transparency and democracy building and but to do building of political institutions these are all ideological efforts to influence politics in other countries and also by the way shows how casual these people can talk about the politics of another country. korea place the sour

the corruption easing away at being and you know a poor travail huge levels of money being lost to wonder why they're wondering. and well being made public along that. wealthy british style.

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costs in the european union is no less than one hundred twenty billion euros each year and that is the equivalent of an e.u. annual budget so it's a lot of money we're talking about the figures were revealed by the e.u.'s home affairs commission in its first ever annual report on the subject the agency's chief called the problem breathtaking and warned it it would interest in democracy and freedom planes and they pay for the flemish and nationalist parties as while highlighting bribery on a national level the report of noise of brussels overall complicity. problems in some member states are huge in widespread and the problem within the european union is that all the member states are in danger of being contaminated the by this problem because when you are in the euro zone for instance and when one of these member states in the eurozone has a big corruption problem world this problem will be felt by the other member states

within the eurozone that's a problem with greece for instance so the problems in one country are becoming more and more the problems of the other member states would i find surprising them with i found interesting at the same time is that the european commission has made this report on corruption in the european union but didn't make a survey of corruption within its own institutions and didn't have any specific information about corruption with e.u. funded projects. going to national news at this hour on in yemen a bomb planted and his car seat has killed a senior intelligence colonel and wounded two people nearby the blast happened outside the oil ministry building in the capital sana'a the latest such attack of top officials islamist militants that with ties to al qaida are folk today behind.

around three thousand protesters waved flares and lit fires during a rally against will be called state were pressure in this punish capital madrid the demonstrators are unhappy with the government's recent legislation allowing them to be fined for filming police and driving and also as rallies spain suffers regular protests because of us there we see measures and twenty six percent unemployment one of the highest in europe. in turkey riot police clashed with hundreds of demonstrators in istanbul's main square officers used water cannon and tear gas to break out crowds protesting against government moves to tighten control of the internet a draft bill allows the blocking a website is without a court order but is criticized as attempts to grant the opposition. the major spalls address to switzerland has voted narrowly in favor of limiting the number of immigrants allowed to come and work in the country the plan could put

switzerland at all would be here on free movement with critics warning the measure might also harm country's economy as is lisa catherine a report. twenty stand what's really behind this initiative you do have to look at the numbers switzerland has a population of just eight million people but it's seen a massive rise in immigration over the past decade in fact an estimated eighty eight thousand new residents come here each year one fifth of the population is born born of that simply to logic according to the right wing people's party which has pushed this referendum forward we think we have to response ability to tell the people we have to change our constitution we have to right that's what sort of controls to immigration again and that's what we're going to do now critics of the initiative say that it sends a message that foreigners aren't welcome they also warn that it could cripple businesses this is a colony is actually booming just three percent unemployment here and experts

believe that's because of not despite foreign labor especially folks who have skills to work in fields like health care or internet technology if you look at the arrivals from the e.u. between for example twenty ten and twenty twelve a large majority sixty nine percent in fact were highly skilled now there is also the issue of brussels switzerland isn't a member of the european union but it has signed on to a lot of the blocks policy in order to gain access to that single market i mentioned earlier where switzerland sells half of everything that it produces that access of course could all be at risk it all have to be very serious problems in terms of labor recruitment and even more threatening there will be erosion of the relationship the european union. initiative is not compatible with the treaties which are signed between switzerland in the european union so this will lead to. the erosion of the existing treaty they will be.

there finish them and switzerland is in very very unfairly. because it depends high . in the european well for now opponents of immigration are still a minority but opinion polls have shown the initiative gaining traction there could of course always be a surprise at the ballot box and will simply have to wait and see for this evening's results to find out we're putting in zurich switzerland i'm lucy capital . for intra rights activists runners in paris against the protest group famine accusing it of provoking the country's christian community hundreds gathered in the central paris calling on famine to shut down its borders in the french capital and return to ukraine read the full report on our website. and that's also reveal just exactly how edward snowden managed to get his hands on such a vast amount of classified n.s.a.

data. a british couple fighting extradition to the accused government over now time to washington the dunham's face lie behind bars in america on charges of fraud which they vehemently deny claim british officials are refusing to stand up for their rights as. one morning fourteen months ago a life changing knock on the door with two policemen from scotland yard and i said i was sorry mr dunham would come to arrest you and your husband since then they've been out on bail and are fighting extradition to the united states to await trial after claims from the dunham's former company in the us that they've more than one million dollars in illegitimate expense claims something the couple say are without merit showing as evidence that they've gathered that some say they're not afraid of trial but their worst fear being sent to the states is the possibility of being

denied bail and spending hears behind bars apart from one another simply waiting for their day in court if we were away from this country it's. for a very good chance he would have. we're confident we would win. because we are innocent but we would then be shipped but there's no compensation and. wrongful act for patients. can you imagine coming back to this country you know three or four years later no harm no money no job and you're now in you know sixty two sixty three years by and trying to rebuild your life controversy has long surrounded the u.s. u.k. extradition act of two thousand and three signed in the wake of nine eleven critics claim the agreement is biased against the u.k. if you're a u.s. citizen wanted by the u.k. government you have a higher standard of evidence that you need to provide in the u.s.

and also as a u.s. citizen you have the opportunity to go to a u.s. court to plead your case and unfortunate for purchases since there is no such opportunity to have your evidence tested in the u.k. court before you are extradited and that's a basic unfairness to an independent review in two thousand and eleven found at the treaty quote does not operate in an unbalanced manner but this contradicts findings of the parliament's joint committee in human rights which called for a renegotiation to ensure british citizens get the same protections as americans conservative m.p. who sits on the committee looked at nationalities of those extradited and found at thirty five britons have been sent to the us it's two thousand and four versus just five u.s. nationals who may be opposite journey that's seven times more but for every argument on this side of the atlantic a counter is thrown back the united states has never denied a request under the treaty whereas the united kingdom has denied multiple requests from the united states if the relationship is in balance i would say it's

imbalanced against the united states but that is little comfort to the don imus and others like them who teeter on the edge of desperation knowing it's their lives at stake from the moment they put us on the plane we will both take the first opportunity we can and. tesser cilia r t london. is have been finding themselves in courts across the us for protesting against the he's of the deadly machines that's made and media silence about the scale of america's drone warfare according to antiwar activist davis also but he has had people serving you know the six month prison sentences we've had people say see no horrendous charges for exercising their first amendment rights this is an ongoing activity across the country and it's noticed in the local media that there's a virtual blackout in the national media in the united states you would have no idea this was happening it's that there's an extensive protest resistance movement

against these drone murders and unfortunately most americans don't even know it's happening don't even know what the drones are being used for much less that they're being protested when these missiles girl and kill innocent men women children infants in pakistan afghanistan yemen somalia there is no discussion there's no debate it just happens under the radar the drone program was launched on the george w. bush but if barack obama's administration that seen it blossom the country's most affected by iran's trying to say gehman and pakistan and the civilian population has been hit the hardest and the right of estimates such as that in the last five years more than three hundred have become victims of drone warfare however washington has so far shown no intention of putting it to hold. is life in a safe under the many watchful eyes of big brother find out next on out international

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a society protect itself against the incalculable how should it react to attacks with retaliation. or like the citizens of norway and spain who opted for freedom and openness. london two thousand and five. on july the seventh four bombs explode three in underground trains one in a double decker bus the result fifty six deaths and seven hundred injuries the attack is not from the outside nor from the air. the four young assassins a muslims three of them born in the u.k. . a traumatic experience for the metropolis in the blink of an eye the entire city fell out of step it's about her ability visible tool.