gold on ice a russian obsoletes this case away from their rivals in sochi grabbing some us place in the to get skating event with a sublime performance from a teenager you all stand by for all the games highlights and alberic. switzerland moves to keep foreigners out so as voters now really banca bill limiting immigration but it puts a free movement deal with the into question plus. there's a lot of those that have been forgotten and we just played a role damaged. americans living in central africa so all are struggling to get their lives back to normal after an oil spill disaster almost a year ago. this

is o.t. international coming to you live from moscow. thanks for joining us. russia has scored its fast medals at the sochi olympics placing its fourth and the medal table and blowing spectators away with the performance of its figure skating team aussies any so now was lucky enough to witness the russian figure skating triumph i'm sure reports now from. it was the first victory for russia at the sochi games and a spectacular want to say the least russian figure skaters hit the ice with a series of breathtaking performances in fact the gold had already been guaranteed even before the about was concluded the victory was secured by the veteran skater you give me a piercing call and teen prodigy half his age fifteen year old. she's become one of

the youngest athletes ever to win a gold medal at the winter olympics thanks to her extraordinary but effortless looking performance it was stunning on top of that russian athlete scored two silver medals in the lose and buy out for one and a bronze in speed skating farmers following events from the sochi mountain cluster and he says with russia having one team figure skating gold it now has its sights on hockey and speedskating some of the biggest names of these games have been arriving in time because n.h.l. hockey stars have touchdown 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. 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 is definitely going to be very interesting and i think we're

about to witness one of the best recent years well today russia will hope to get a medal from a place it's never ground before short track speed skating it's pinning its hopes on a man they call victor marc not sound like a russian that beat manny's because he's actually from south korea and he took up a russian citizenship just a. a couple of years ago the coaches from using country did three time olympic champion is actually going to compete in the fifteen hundred meters today and he told us that he's very pleased these 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 a lot of eyes will be on the curling and expect to see the skipper of the russian ladies' team and it's a daughter of a fully clothed when she takes on the days 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 pleased 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 want to exercise practice and when i enjoy an active lifestyle i enjoy traveling 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 we should also look out for the darkly. he's in the competition and actually did see gold slip from his grasp in painful fashion just a few days ago in the spring so he will be desperate to make up for that meanwhile lawmakers in washington are ensuring 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 exactly share the view terrified everything's 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 like to just be careful what you do and don't really buy the uniform when. you have to you know when you don't need to so we just be a bit careful but the security here is really good so it's better than we thought it would be at a really great time and i have nothing bad to say so far. organized and people are really friendly here having a good time and we continue to keep abreast of what's happening in the olympic arenas and up on the slopes here in our sochi studio today buy out lead skiers and speed skaters are among those hoping to make the podium and he said now with their reporting from the studio in the heart of the winter games and as curling teams clash on the eyes by playing for the golden sultry some russian files of the modern

eye sport have been seeking to embrace it too while in their own way of course and it turns out a rink is not obligatory if you're inventive enough that if you can even color your bedroom all that required is a couple of the terms. of course a true passion for sports. and if you are aware of any conventional career ways to create lympics pools don't hesitate to submit your video to official page and of course we've got all the updates on the real social games there as well and you have the chance to share your comments and he's on the sporting spectacle you can also submit any questions you'd like to hear athletes also in their interviews to. go our sport special coming in a couple of hours' time with all the down days so on base we can see a sporting victory so stay with us.

the g. twenty four gene promise is the ultimate in the exhilarating winter and i. hear you say no way i'm a criminal and the rest of our lives think these teams are so cheap twenty four take. on arts. seven days after opening its borders to. switzerland has had enough defying agreements with brussels the countries voted in a referendum to put a cap on the number of foreigners in the country. is in this week's capital for what's real and 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 it's 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 the swiss 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 fear 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 blocs 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. and lucy catherine of. the immigration issue one has been polarizing europe would be wealthy and states fearing 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 to immigration policies and in countries like the u.k. and germany the most pressing issue is the lifting of barriers for workers from bourg area and rumania britain's prime minister went as far as threatening to veto any new countries from joining the e.u. and less time immigration restrictions are put in place and to discuss the

repercussions of the referendum in switzerland we're now joined live by a gluten food he's a former and he mr green ford welcome to the very nice to see here we know that the swiss government buying as well as businesses all rejected the bill but so many people didn't why do you saying people think differently. well i mean first let me be clear i mean the swiss are perfectly entitled to to pass this legislation. there's absolutely no problem with that as far as the european union is concerned but of course there's no such thing as a free lunch the moment you have the free movement of goods services capital and people between the european union switzerland the swiss have now broken the or are on the verge of breaking that agreement which will have consequences and i'm sure that the swiss membership of the schengen agreement that allows free movement of their citizens around the european union is now in severe doubt why have they done

it i think it's partly if you want to reaction to it if you want the media and the fact it was whipped up in switzerland by a party on the extreme right we're seeing that across the european union as you said in your introduction it's like in the european elections in france in holland in in the united kingdom lease that the far right parties will be either first or second in the european elections so this is a phase we're going through this is a consequence of the financial crisis show show so you mentioned those consequences for the e.u. relations from your point of view he's going to soften or the e.u. or switzerland. well i mean i would have sole switchin is going to suffer more they are the moment they've got access to a market of five hundred million people. that vast in its present form electrically hostile way and. you know it's you can't have your cake and eat it in the sense that the swiss don't want some aspects of the treaty agreement one assumes

therefore that the rest of the treaty agreement goes as well. how does this decision fits would be general trend across europe. well i think it's a reflection of if you want to attitudes across the european union but remember switzerland is not a member of the european union and as i said is a perfectly legitimate decision for them to make as long as they're prepared to face the consequences it would be very different if a country inside the european union made the same decision because that would be a clear breach of the treaty of rome you can only make those kind of decisions from outside of the european union not from inside and generally talking a dozen this undermines european principles what you think well no i mean don't tell us which was not part of the e.u. switzerland wants to do what everyone starts a choice who wants to be part of the un there was a referendum some years ago and they narrowed the size they did all well and good

it's like noise you always got different choices from from those inside the european union if you want the benefits of the single market you want the benefits of the free movement of goods services and capital then one of the downsides some people who are you for the free movement of people or the argument is fair far from clear certainly in the united kingdom immigrants from inside the european union actually create more wealth than they take out of the economy what about the rise of right wing policies across europe where is the immigration issue the reason people are turning to radhika politicians or do you think. well yes i mean but it's it's cause and effect i mean if you are right we parties are blaming if you will immigrants for the problems facing people actually the problems facing the people in britain are caused by in my view more the bankers than they are by the immigrants but of course the bankers the ones that actually fund some of these parties. right order is

a former european member of parliament mr ford thank you very much indeed for your time weapon shit thank you and coming up later this hour one crime doesn't necessarily mean a punishment. and there. is my clothes like the frito thing. that's how we're had we had to know ways must humane prison with fluffy towels and it sells a pox library and even cooking classes no surprise that no one's ever trying to escape that's after the break. there's a saying here when you're in the arctic you have the entire world at your feet. she looks like a fairly simple shit but really she's not simple little. handful of people ever

have access to the nuclear icebreakers the real king here is that the polar bear and ice breakers come second not a single complex expedition to the arctic can be conducted without the russian nuclear powered fleet of ice breakers we've undertaken a unique operation in. the northern sea route russia's arctic ice breakers. right from the sea. the first trip. and i think the church. on our reporters twitter. and instagram. to be in the know. on.

this is all seem to national welcome back. caught up in the middle of an environmental disaster people in the u.s. state of arkansas are finding themselves bogged down and barrels of trouble nearly a year after a pipeline ruptured caused a massive oil spill people are suffering from the long term effects caused by breathing toxins on a daily basis if that wasn't enough some of finding it hard to leave the contaminated area as i. found 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 see through the. all again you know the where the ground was dry it would kind of i guess in case it in 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 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 we're just collateral damage in mayflower i'm going to check on r.t.e. let's not i can i will tolerate teen has lined up for you on our website as the deadline for the pullout of american troops from afghanistan fast approaches

washington is accused of offering a sweeter now by pumping some three hundred million dollars into world bank calling the economy had to ot it off confirm altie tales. and also that we could be easy is coming under the scrutiny of finnish police who've been questioning whether the online encyclopedia is a niggly collecting money from its donors more on the story is just a click away. in norway some criminals may lose their running to freedom but not to john king trails someone's kates and flat screen televisions two hundred and fifty two million dollars in the making one jail resting in a trunk will forest plays host to breakers in conditions many would consider a blessing while the end of punishment. reports.

like with the freedom of things. 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 taking a birth as you go to drop old school. to school you have. 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. here 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 like and how like you see here the betterment we can make

a place 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 all together 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 years to continue to see. 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 never thing didn't have nothing. and they come in there and learn it 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've got us going off forty reporting from norway the european commission recently unveiled as far as e.u. anti corruption report which pointed to a huge problem is throughout the entire bill russells estimated the losses caused by shady deals amount to billions of euros and later today

a piece of that has gas but 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. years about 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 so you describe a cio 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 that has been existed for centuries the report is done by the year you commission but if you go one hundred twenty years what they're going to try to suppress in the country that it did no duty is to corruption in do you countries while. that's not the direction do 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 you don't see the corruption at the heart of europe itself. and some more news in making headlines around the world thousands of people have been on high alert in london and across great britain after the west lines in a decade were forecast on monday riverside home owners received emergency phone calls telling to be ready to flee their homes as they reached dangerous levels hundreds of soldiers were put on standby to protect threatened communities by building up defenses. twenty two people have drowned after a boat carrying more than one hundred passengers capsized near a dam in india's eastern state of reset their holiday makers had hired the best seller for a trip but it's signed on its return due to overloading rescue crews managed to

save dozens of people using underwater flashlights to find victims trapped in the hole nine people are still missing. coming up next to join us here as we had a board of one 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 and american 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 steadily declining over the last few years

alcoholism remains a big problem but will privatized drug tanks work no no they won't 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. with the economic ups and downs in the final. days. and the rest because

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in early september biotic northern sudan is a busy maritime highway. old of russia's nuclear powered icebreakers or it's seen clearing up top for shipping. the crews here have a saying when you're in the arctic you have the whole world at your feet. the rain follows russia's northern boundaries offering the shortest passage between europe and asia causing through seven northern cities.

well then three good bye horns. the nuclear. judge will. patrol the northern sea route despite passing through ten times the crew will never adjust the ship's clock it's quite likely they'll never pull into a pool either with a crew jealous. morning good morning yes this one though you're beautiful well done don't forget your hat.

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