gold on ice russian athlete skate away from their rivals and saatchi grabbing first place in the team figure skating event was with this sublime performance from a teenager artes on standby for all the games highlights from our softer studio. switzerland moves to keep foreigners out thousand voters narrowly backing bill limiting immigration but it puts a free movement deal with the e.u. into question plus. there's a lot of us to have been forgotten we're just collateral damage americans living in central arkansas are struggling to get their lives back to normal after an oil spill disaster almost a year ago. you're

watching aren't international live from moscow i'm lindsey france thanks for joining me. russia has scored its first medals at the saatchi olympics placing it fourth in the medal table and blowing spectators away with the performance of a figure skating team i'm not handing over to innocent now in our studio in the hearts of the winter games in sochi and this of were you lucky enough to witness the figure skating last night. i was indeed feeling very of lucky my first olympic event ever but more importantly it was the first victory for russia at the sochi games and a spectacular one to say the least russian figure skaters hit the ice with a series of breathtaking performances in fact the gold had already been secured even before the event was concluded the victory was secured by veteran skater you gave me a piercing ko and a teen prodigy half his age fifteen year old beauty of you has become one of the

youngest athletes ever to win a gold medal at the winter olympics thanks to her extraordinary really effortless looking performance on top of that russian athlete scored two silver medals in the lose and by awful on and a bronze medal in speed skating but let's cross live to our andrew farmer he's following events from sochi mountain foster and drew already a huge reason to celebrate for the russian olympic team but more challenges await. would use lights well and you know it's great to see russia off the mark it was also a highlight for me to see president putin the entire team off the ice sporting a red tracksuit he could they won't today some of the biggest names of the games will arrive in time. and they will touch down in sochi hockey obviously wanted to win as far as russia was concerned and we caught up with one soviet legend who said that any one of six to use could win it's win the competition gets

underway in three days time. within the come under the gun. there are many strong teams at these games canada the u.s. finland sweden in fact all of them are very strong it's hard to predict who's going to win the hockey stephanie going to be very interesting and i think we're about to witness one of the best tournament's in recent years. but elsewhere today russia could get a medal from a place where it's never grabbed one before short track speed skating is pinning its hopes on a chap called fix i know his name doesn't sound very russian that's because he's actually from south korea but he took up russian citizenship just a couple of years ago after falling out with his country's coaches he's actually competing in the fifteen hundred meters when we spoke to him he said he was very

pleased with his adoptive country. when i came to russia two years ago for the first three months i missed career but then i met other athletes and things became better i like being here i like the food the culture it's all very interesting. so good luck to him and also good luck to the biathletes. he's in the competition and actually did see gold slip from his grasp been painful fashion just a few days ago in the spring so he will be desperate to make up for that back to unix. that are two thousand are far reporting live from the mountain cluster bomb not everyone is enjoying sochi as much as we are lawmakers in washington are issuing security warnings over the winter games one republican congressional leader went as far as claiming he's never seen any greater threat in

his life time we spoke to athletes in sochi who don't actually share their view. everything's going to mazing it's running like clockwork and everything's just going really really well there hasn't been any problems as of as of today my parents have been a little bit worried they just like to just be careful what you do and really wear the uniform when you have to you know when you don't need to just be a bit cattle but the security is really bad and we thought it would be at a really great time here and i have nothing bad to say so far well. organized people are really friendly here and they're having a good time and we'll continue our coverage all around from our associates studio here on the russ and the black sea coast from the mountain cluster to the coastal cluster and everything in between for now back to you in moscow. thanks a lot of nessun now a from our to such a studio keeping a close eye on all the winter games for us down there now while we're on top of all

the latest from south to here in the studio and online as well just keep up to date the heading toward official facebook page there you got a chance to share your comments and views on the sporting spectacle you can also submit any questions you'd like to hear athletes answer in their interviews with r t. o g twenty four team promises we told them that in the exhilarating winter and are here to join me and you say no way i'll make seven zero and the rest of our lives take you straight to sochi twenty four take. it all. so it's voters have narrowly backed proposal to put a cap on the number of immigrants to the country including those from the e.u. the move jeopardises free movement agreements the country house with a block and critics say it could lead to unprecedented economic problems artie's lucy kept an office in the swiss capital. voted to shut the door to european union workers setting up a showdown with brussels as well as

a potential exit from the single european market now the so-called stop mass immigration initiative was the brainchild of the right wing swiss peoples party which wants strict quotas on foreigners for switzerland to essentially abandon its free movement of people treaty with the e.u. and supporters the we've talked to say that they're worried immigration is driving up rents that is undercutting local workers and that is burdening public services no opponents had argued that immigration caps would in fact cripple economic growth and experts do say that this was in column e. is. not despite for labor especially when it comes to folks who have skills to work in fields like health care and where there's a big need for skilled workers but despite the very real economic concerns despite the fact that on the one we care is just three percent many voters were ultimately swayed by the argument that switzerland simply cannot take in any more people now in order to understand why you really do have to look at the numbers about

a quarter of the country's eight million residents aren't swiss there's been a huge uptick in immigration in fact about eighty thousand new immigrants came just what's real and last year alone the vote will likely mean severe repercussions with brussels you have to remember that switzerland isn't a member of the e.u. but it has signed on to a lot of the blocks policies in order to gain access to the european markets for switzerland sells more than half of everything that it produces and with five hundred million customers there's a lot of money at stake here a historic vote that is likely to have a significant impact on the swiss economy as well as on relations with the country's european neighbors reporting and burn for r t catherine. the immigration issue has been polarizing europe with the most wealthy states fairing an influx of workers from eastern european countries far right parties have been gaining power in france the netherlands and norway in recent years all supporting tough immigration policies and in countries like the u.k. and germany the most pressing issue is the lifting of barriers for workers from

bulgaria and romania britain's prime minister want as far as threatening to veto any new countries from joining the e.u. unless tight immigration restrictions are put in place. coming up one crime doesn't necessarily mean a punishment. but if. we hadn't always most humane present with fluffy towels and it sells and a packed library of books even cooking courses i was surprised that no one's ever tried to escape after the break. very good intelligence unit to yukio. the. range of different opportunities. information they get from the media.

people could give them information to give information across borders is actually quite complicated what we do is you need. to use a range of sort of independent information we have built relationships for example with interpol helps us find out where there is drug trafficking going on. wealthy british scientists it's time to. go to. the. market. find out what's really happening to the global economy for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines two kinds of reports on our team.

caught up in the middle of an environmental disaster people in the u.s. state of arkansas are finding themselves bogged down in barrels of trouble almost a year after a pipeline rupture caused a massive oil spill people are still suffering with the long term effects caused by breathing talks on a daily basis and if huge health risks weren't enough some are finding it hard to leave the contaminated area as art is gonna cheat you confound out. almost a year after two hundred thousand gallons of heavy crude spilled onto their streets residents of mayflower in arkansas are striving to leave the town here in mayflower for sale signs are everywhere almost every house on the street is on sale before the spill this was a place where people wanted to move in to enjoy the beautiful nature around many didn't even know there was a pipeline running on their houses and now they just want out many have already left and jerrel one of them i tried to stay here i tried to just be away you know

as much as i could but if it rained i could not stay here because it would all seep through the. all again you know the where the ground was dry it would kind of i guess in case it knew when it rained all those vapors would come in she says like many other residents of mayflower she started having constant headaches and coughing after the spill i have friends that live just behind me that are still here that don't have a place to go they have just small children you don't have to look at the kids in in twenty years when they get sick or find out something is wrong and they say well why didn't we leave mom why everybody healthfully well some people just aren't able to pick up and leave like that exxon wrote back to us saying that a unified command comprised of exxon representatives as well as officials from the state and federal environmental services has deemed all areas affected by the mayflower spill now safe to live in but many of the residents don't buy it and their homes are not selling i would say that the number of homes sold in my flower

has dropped at least fifty sixty percent but arkansas spill is only a fraction of a new oil pipeline leaks it's estimated that between two thousand and eight and two thousand and twelve u.s. pipeline spilled an average of more than three point one million gallons of hazardous liquids per year plans for the keystone x.l. pipeline a massive project that would. from canada soil since two refineries in texas have caused many to worry that they may become collateral damage in the way of big oil like the residents of mayflower arkansas there's a lot of us that have been forgotten were just collateral damage in mayflower i'm going to check on r.t.e. . let's take a look now at what our team has lined up for you on our web site as the deadline for the pull out of american troops from afghanistan fast approaches washington is accused of offering sleep by pumping some three hundred million dollars into what they're calling the end of war economy that's our two dot com for more details.

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in norway some criminals may lose their right to freedom but not jogging trails salmon steaks and flat screen television two hundred fifty two million dollars in the making one jail resting in a tranquil forest plays host to law breakers and conditions many would consider a blessing rather than a punishment has gone off reports and here. is my cold. like with the freedom thing. has been living here for nearly four years getting an education working as a car mechanic and serving his fifteen and a half year long sentence in jail week up in the morning talk show thank you bertha's go to joe old school. to school you have dinner relaxed like normal life just we are back ward this is holden one of the most humane

prisons in the world bills in two thousand and ten it's an example of norway's new experimental approach to penitentiary facilities. i hear the roughly two hundred fifty prisoners it houses cook for themselves and for staff members with beef soundman and deer steaks among the items on the menu take walks in the park pray and make art do outdoor and indoor sports like and how like you see here the betterment we can make a place for for maybe one or both of us is going to be a good place to call just to relax. get out from their cells you know hold on has a library and a school for those who want to either to continue the education they were getting before going to jail or getting a new one altogether yeah you have some of them to question her literature history math chemistry physics you name it all are taught to the inmates

. locked. in a room and that they are going to thank for the next ten to continue to. inmates also have access to the photo shop a grocery store workshop and a mechanic's shop and even. my personal favorite a sound studio love didn't have a system in this life that was loose when the screw moved in and the working life never think the impossible thing. and they come in there and learned so far the prison hasn't seen one riot or an attempt to break out and when we were inside i couldn't really see why anyone would ever want to frankly i'm stunned it's going to take time for me to process what we've seen here today but what's clear is

that even though this is one of the most humane prisons in the wall it still is a place to punish criminals with strict rules security and limitations and since it's been operating only for a few years right now it's too early to see how effective this new penitentiary format is you what was going on reporting from norway the european commission recently unveiled its first e.u. anti corruption report which pointed to future problems throughout the entire block brussels estimated the losses caused by shady deals not to billions of euros but it's a pure lavelle of his guests but the issue in the spotlight. the european union itself is a corrupt institution from beginning to end but they haven't added to their books for some one thousand years that every failed politician in any european country when he's finished making a mess of his own country then seems who often get a job with the european union the fact that we now have a number as part of the sales strategy of the european commission to motivate

people like us to sit in studios and to reflect how we can deal with an urgent problem of corruption that certainly exist but it's not out of the nature of the european union it has been existed for centuries the report is done by the year e.u. commission but the figure one hundred twenty is what they did when they did try to suppress into countries india had no death it is to corruption in do you countries while they suppress their that's not the direction and the vet do you notice the corruption in europe itself that's misdirection like anybody any good magician you don't watch the hand that he's presenting to you you should be watching the other hand you don't see and that's what you're trying to do at the moment they're trying to give a certain amount of dismissed or erection so you don't see the corruption at the heart of europe itself. some more news making headlines around the world now an attack in pakistan's port city of

karachi has killed eight people and injured more than a dozen gunmen through gernade at a religious gathering and then opened fire on a lot of it's not yet known who carried out the assault though the taliban and rival muslim groups are suspected last month militants killed six people in the same city. three spectators have been injured in a shooting outside a world cup stadium in brazil supporters of local club america in the towel were leaving the venue and were shot at by two gunmen on motorcycles found violence has been on the rise as the country prepares to host the world cup in june. hundreds are back in the streets of bosnia at this time calling for the release of about forty people detained during riots on friday and saturday officials deny the protesters claims of police brutality and added that all but ten of those arrested have been released anti-government rallies have been filled by high unemployment corruption and poor living conditions across the country. i'll be back with more

news in about thirty minutes time but up next an r.t. international the latest documentary seven seas of ice if you're watching us from the u.k. prepare to go underground. choose

your language. of choice because you know if they. choose to use the concerns you. choose to opinions the. cool choose the stories get inside the minds the functions the access to often. in early september the arctic northern sea is a busy maritime highway. of russia's nuclear powered

icebreakers or at sea clearing a path for shipping. the crews here have a saying when you're in the arctic you have the whole world your feet. on the roof follows russia's northern boundaries offering the shortest passage between europe and asia passing through seven northern cities see. the flukes well then three goodbye horns.

the nuclear. leaves. judge will. spend four months patrolling the northern sea route despite passing through ten times owns the crew will never adjust the ship's clock it's quite likely they'll never pull into a bullet either in the with the crew jealous. morning good morning yes it lana you're beautiful and well done and don't forget your hat. sukhamoy has ruined my hair now. ah. the captain and the first officer said here they don't like holes in their bread i have to put more bread out because the navigators sit here and they eat a lot. the possibly the most unlike the

tables to be laid properly he likes everything to be good and he likes beautiful women actually he just loves old women. just like all men like. cabbage but. i should know what i now since the floors icy cold and my feet are cold too. on everyone here way or something warm on their feet because they would just freeze the weiss yes it is cold here and then we are in the arctic. this ice breaker was purpose built for the arctic. the heavy pack ice would crush it a shaped hole which squeezes the ice crushing it beneath the vessels weight the propellers

are designed for speed but when the need arises the time you can reach the quite respectable speed of nineteen. she makes an impressive sight of sea. quickly to lend assistance. a russian military fleet is heading along the northern sea route there approaching a tough area and several ice breakers will be needed to clear a path for the fast flotilla. there may be no ice in sight now but the captain showed me the charts and up to the north of the seven the northern land is so much ice that if the wind which changed.

but there's a very big difference. this looks like a fairly simple ship really she's not symbol and all. the time is equipped with a reacts and a very complex security system. only a handful of people have access to this room and even they have to wear special clothing and footwear. it's the nuclear reactor that provides the ship with its enormous power thanks to this power plant that the vessel has no need to pull into port for refueling. the nuclear fuel is only replenished once every five years. while at the pools of wood starting up the ice breaker which includes checking the reactor system takes about a week it's a lot more tricky in starting a car but it still is the thing of the you can't shut it down that easily either

each and every system needs to be started separately of course. on the inside the ship is massive easily equal to a large seven story building the newcomer could easily get lost in the enormous leverage leading to the engine room. i would say for twenty three years everyone cheats this shit with respect because she's the one who puts the bread on our tables ask anyone aboard even their wives and we were sure that we've always been considered the navy's elite because the training is very tough and it's hard to get your foot in the door here it is on top of that the exams are extremely difficult as well examine the things that. dimitri is new to the nuclear navy he's preparing to apply for the position of four for electrical officer. if he's to get that first appointment he'll have to pass a series of exams there are two applicants competing for the job and the quickest is the winner dimitri is determined to be the fastest.

charge of everything to do with nuclear safety radiation safety is another department's responsibility every tiny detail is laid down here nuclear safety is a very serious business and we have special guidance to follow it's quite a thick book. as the official. begins.