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

watching our to international live from moscow and lindsey france thanks for joining me. russia has scored its first medals at the sochi olympics placing it fourth in the medal table and blowing spectators away with the performance of the of its figure skating team i'm now handing over to an isa now a in our studio in the hearts of the winter games and you so were you lucky enough to witness the figure skating last night. i was and it was so exciting because it was my first olympic event but more so because it was the first victory for russia at the sochi games and the spectacular one russian figure skaters had be ice with a series of breathtaking performances in fact the gold had already been guaranteed even before the event concluded the victory was secured by veteran skater you get me a piercing call and a teen prodigy half his age fifteen year old. she became one of the youngest

athletes ever to win a gold medal at the winter olympics thanks to her extraordinary but effortless looking performance it truly was stunning well on top of that russian athlete scored two silver medals in the lose and by alpha long and a bronze in speed skating let's cross live now to our tease andrew farmer he's following the sochi mountain cluster and drew russian celebrating the team figure skating gold whatever us his hopes for for their big wins in sochi. well as quite a lot of hope today but i'll start by saying that some of the biggest names of these games have been arriving in time because n.h.l. hockey stars have touched down in sochi the actual men's competition gets underway in three days time but a soviet legend we spoke to believes that any one of six teams can win it. because. there are many strong teams that these games can endure 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. i think we're about to witness one of the best tournament's in recent years. well today russia will hope to get a medal from the places never grab one before short track speed skating is pinning its hopes on a man they call victor on who might not sound like a russian that be nice because he's actually from south korea and he took up a russian citizenship just over a couple of years ago r.t. the coach is from his own country he's a three time olympic champion he's actually going to compete in the fifteen hundred meters today and he told us that he's very pleased his new adopted 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 fingers crossed for him we should also look out for the barclay. new takes part in the men's today and also a lot of eyes will be on the curling and expect to see the. skipper of the russian ladies' team and is the daughter of a fully clothed when she takes on the danes i say that because just before these games actually started she appeared in a rather racy photo shoot she is a former model but she told us she's more than plays with her decision to push a career on the us. when i was very young i had a choice i was not sure if i wanted to be an athlete or a model i got into a modeling academy for teenagers but after a few classes i realized i liked sport better since then i have never thought about modeling i wanted to exercise practice and when i enjoy an active lifestyle i enjoy travelling to competitions but actually come to think of it the modeling business

has a lot of competition as well but back then i just made a choice based on how i felt in my heart. when anyone should get a few more office instantly the man's curling team competing two this morning but they look like they're going to lose their right now against the brits a short time ago they were six one down and are nearing the end of that but you. certainly will be watching closely and you farmer live from the mountain cluster there now with our fleets and guests arriving from all around the globe the relatively small airport in sochi is being put through its paces arches martin andrews went to find out how they're keeping it running and safe. from its opening in one nine hundred fifty seven to today the black sea is coastal airport at adler has served more than sixty million passengers today seventy domestic and thirty international flights operate from saatchi's new four hundred million dollars state

of the art passenger terminal i'm here to meet. the c.e.o. of the airport's managing company basel aero this airport but i reserve the summer mr nation with their winter anything game so no everything was built around this new resort the slopes are never sing it will become they are a poor for winter and for families with all seasonal arable corning begins to also build a new v.a. peterman of the previous one the six counties neither saw the new one as apostles and square meters for the awful it's that to make their life easier we build a special cargo terminal for the deaf is going to go and it was a passports and all they're like this you know we always have extra luggage and go through the special place for this year we have a high profile events like g eight in june international such a slimy concept they're more informal along in october saw their regional authorities on the federal government they want to come to your decision on a sports event high profile region for russian people and that everybody in russia

there is what was interesting is. that it's brand new terminals at security. v.o.i.p. services. overload this week to see the day to day running of the facilities here in the international spotlight. meanwhile lawmakers in washington are issuing security warnings over the winter games one republican congressional leader went as far as claiming he has never seen any greater threat in his lifetime he spoke to athletes in sochi we don't actually share that view. say five rethinks been amazing 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 might just just be careful what you do and don't really wear the uniform when you have you know when you don't need to just be a bit careful but the security is really good so it's better than we thought it would be at

a really great time here and i have nothing bad to say so far well organized and people are really friendly here having a good time and we're keeping abreast of what's happening in the olympic arenas and slopes here in our sochi studio today biathletes skiers and speed skaters are among those hoping to make the podium we'll keep you updated but for now back to you in moscow. thanks very much and use an hour there in sochi for us we've got all the latest from saatchi online as well just head to our facebook page there you've got the chance to share your comments and all of your views on the sporting spectacle happening down there on the black sea resort town you can also submit any questions you'd like to hear athletes answer in their interviews to our team. and right here on our team we've got our sports special coming up next hour with all the updates on this weekend's sporting victories. the g twenty fourteen promises we call to make an exhilarating winter sports on our

team here so join me and you say no way to make seven zero and the rest of our lives they can use team for sochi twenty four take. on. so as voters have narrowly backed puzzles to put a cap on the number of immigrants allowed into the country including those from the e.u. the move jeopardizes free movement agreements the country has with the block and critics say it could lead to unprecedented economic problems archie's lucic half 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 people's 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 it's undercutting local workers and that is burdening public services now opponents had argued that immigration caps would in fact cripple economic growth and experts do say that the swiss in column e. is. not despite foreign labor especially when it comes to folks who have skills to work in fields like health care and there's a big need for skilled workers but despite the very real economic concerns despite the fact that unemployment here 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 to switzerland 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 in burn for r t m d c catherine o. . the immigration issue has been polarizing europe with the most wealthy states fearing an influx of workers from eastern europe. far right parties have been gaining power in france the netherlands and norway in recent years some also. warning tough and tame aggression policies and in countries like the u.k. and germany the most pressing issue was the lifting of barriers for workers from bulgaria and romania britain's prime minister went as far as threatening to veto any new countries from joining the e.u. glass tight immigration restrictions are put in place coming up one crime doesn't necessarily mean a punishment. and here. is my clothes it's like the

freedom the other thing we had to norway's most humane president with fluffy towels and it sells a packed library and even cooking course this no surprise then that no one's ever tried to escape coming up after the break. there's a see here when you're in the arctic you have to entire world at your feet she looks like a fairly simple ship but really she's not simple. and full of people able to have access to the nuclear icebreakers the real king here is the polar bear and ice breakers come second not a single complex expedition to the arctic can be conducted with the russian nuclear powered fleet of ice breakers we under a tree a unique operation in. the northern sea with russia's arctic ice breakers.

economic down to the final. day of the. night and the rest because i. believe everything we. are watching are to international live from moscow 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 nearly a year after a pipeline ruptured and caused a massive oil spill people are suffering from long term health effects caused by breathing toxins on a daily basis if that weren't enough some are finding it hard to leave the

contaminated area as artie's got a ticket 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 under 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 and then when it rained all those vapors would come back 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 to find out something's wrong and they say well why didn't we leave mom when 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 mayflower 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 we're just collateral damage in mayflower i'm going to check on our team. let's take a look now at what our team has lined up for you want to website as the deadline for the pullout of american troops from afghanistan fast approaches washington is accused of offering a sweetener by pumping some three hundred million dollars into what they're calling the end of war economy and to r.t. dot com for more details. also their wicked pedia is coming under their scrutiny of finnish police who have been questioning whether the online encyclopedia is illegally collecting money from its donors more on this story just a click away. right.

first for you and i would think that your. orders would. be in. this for example a very good intelligence unit attached to u.k. and key dropping in london the. whole range of different opportunities to information they get from the media. people can forward and give them information to get trained of information across borders is actually quite complicated what we do is in egypt intelligence function is to use a long range of sort of independent information gathering we have build

relationships for example with interpol helps us find out where that is drug trafficking going on. but there are no words that the location of a voice still remember. how to do it well there's of the high tension said you would stop this storm we might be more my people will die. is obviously more for the ladies because it's pink. women wanted to avoid rape they really needed to buy guns environ how to use them. this is the one that i want

to go with but once again it's the fear that. women are definitely the target of the gun lobby you don't kill them when you're killing me but if somebody would you would just prefer. i know to say more and more if that's really scary marketing tactics which implies that women have some sort of moral obligation to own a gun to protect their family and young girls shoot out here too so we do have a pink or. more kids young kids choke on food than are killed by firearms if being armed made us safer in america we should be the safest nation on earth. we're clearly not the safest. live from moscow you're watching our to international in norway some criminals may

lose their right to freedom but not to jogging trail salmon steaks and plot screen televisions 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 or pissing off reports. and here. is michael that like with the freedom of 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 we caught up in the morning talk show thank you brooke first go to drop old school. to school you have been there relaxed it with you like normal life just we are back war 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 sound and beer steaks among the items on the menu take walks in the park pray and make art do outdoor and indoor sports we're going to like you see here the betterment we can. play suppose maybe a wall of all of this 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 all together so yeah you have some of them to question her literature history math chemistry physics you name it all are taught to the inmates . in the room and that's been a thank you 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 look at the didn't have a system in this life there was looser in the screw loose in the working life and everything the important 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 off forty reporting from norway european commission recently unveiled its first e.u. anti-corruption report which pointed to huge problems throughout the entire block russel's estimated the losses caused by shady deals amount to billions of euros later today appear the valid has guess put the issue in the spotlight. i mean the european union itself is a corrupt institution from beginning to end but they haven't added to their books for some as each you know my teen years but every failed politician in any european country when he's finished making a mess of its own country then she was 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

commission but the figure one hundred twenty is what they demanded it's not just the president of countries that did know that it is to corruption in do you countries while they suppress the that's not the direction you notice the corruption in europe itself that's misdirection like anybody any good magician you don't watch 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 erection so if you don't see the corruption at the heart of europe itself. some more news making headlines around the world now and attack in pakistan's port city of karachi has killed eight people and injured more than a dozen gunman threw grenades at a religious gathering and then opened fire on praying sophie muslims it's not yet known who carried out the assault though they in taliban and rival muslim groups

are suspected last month militants killed six people at a sophie shrine in the same city. hundreds are back on the streets of bosnia this time calling for the release of about forty people detained during the riots on friday and on saturday officials denied the protesters claims of police brutality and added that all of those but ten that have been arrest. said have now been released anti-government rallies have been fueled by high unemployment corruption and poor living conditions across the country. in syria thousands have staged a peaceful rally in support of the country's leader bashar al assad a huge crowd waved syrian flags and banners of the president while dancing and chanting the demonstration took place in the key port city of lots of here from where the country's chemical arsenal was being shipped away for destruction. a snow storm described as the worst in decades is still battering japan with eleven

people reportedly dead in weather related accidents more than a thousand injured. were mostly caused it's reported by drivers crashing after losing control of the icy roads hundreds of flights have been cancelled roads have been closed and some train service is suspended across the country. i'll be back with more news in about thirty minutes but coming up next join our team as we had a broad aboard rather one of russia's legendary arctic ice breakers that's in a few moments. the head of the sober russia program wants to bring back russia's sobering stations

which are like a hybrid hospital and police station in america we call these a good old fashioned drunk tank and in russia their history dates back to the early years of the twentieth century to twenty eleven when they were all closed putting the burden of alcohol abusers health on local hospitals despite the amount of alcohol consumed per person in russia still a declining over the last few years oh call is a remains a big problem. well privatized drunk tanks work no no they walt let's think about it what is business motivated by money big government contracts in countries around the world are often abused and if you get paid per alcoholic served then pretty soon companies are going to incentivize the police to round up as many people with a hint of booze in their blood as they can or look at it this way what is more profitable helping cure an alcoholic or treating him with fat government contract money every week for the rest of his life there are some things the private sector is not suited for and this is one of them but that's just my opinion.

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in early september biotic northern sea is a busy maritime highway. full of russia's nuclear powered icebreakers or it seems clearing a path for shipping. the crews here. when you're in the arctic you have the whole world your feet. follows russia's northern boundary it's offering the shortest passage between europe and asia. through seven seas. well then three goodbye horns.

the nuclear time you leave. 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 port either the nor will the crew jealous. morning good morning yes just lying there your beautiful well done and don't forget your hat. sukhamoy has ruined my hair now. and the captain and the first officer said here they don't lie.