more success for the host nation on big guys with a bronze medal in short track that's after the russian team took figure skating gold with a commanding performance in the team event. for the sounds switzerland puts its economy at tryst by narrative approving a proposal to keep foreigners out in defiance of a long held agreement with brussels. there's a lot of us that have been forgotten and we're just collateral damage. and travels to the us state of arkansas to check on the residents of mayflower to say last chair is all spelled love them no choice but to flee the area to protect their house.

hello and welcome to our international twenty four hour news live from moscow i'm jus nashbar thanks for joining us. it's day three of the winter olympics in sochi and another medal for the hosts on originally a south korean has taken bronze for the russian track team that's live to social and calls caught her standing by for the polls tell us more about this latest prongs for russia. yes well we're a tony by one of the many life sites in and around the sochi region by one of the giant screens where many spectators come to watch and enjoy the sport and the fans around already have something to cheer on day three victor has secured russia their first ever medal in short track speed skating he won bronze in the fifteen hundred meters now you may be thinking. isn't

a traditional russian he used to compete with south korea however he fell out with his sport's governing body was given russian citizenship in two thousand and eleven he was unfortunately unable to add to the gold medal that russia won on sunday evening in the figure skating team about they were helped by the emergence of a new star fifteen year old. needs guy who put into performances as. one of russians more famous sporting songs he was equally in his display during the men's three program now let's see how all of that has affected the latest medals table you can see that it is now canada to lead the way they've knocked norway off of top spot while the netherlands are not far behind going to be the russia's female. their program they meet in denmark seven pool in the ice cube colleagues and on the ski put by honestly told about you many are saying

could become the poster girl for sochi twenty fourteen she turned onto the sport after touring as a model but she told r.t. she has absolutely no regrets about the two reaching each. morning when i was there 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 realised i liked sport better since then i have never thought about modeling and i wanted to exercise practise and when i enjoy negative lifestyle i enjoy travelling to competitions 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. calling is one of the more how unusual winter sports sundays are relatively new to russia this is the first year the top russia has been to the men's team in the winter olympics for example but it seems to be

a craze that is sweeping the nation here you can see amateur footage of a number of russians trying to hand the sport there improvising using whatever they can from first to cowbells to represent the equipment is going to be used by the producers early days for college in russia but it looks as if i could be a school but it's here to stay and finally to mark your college offer something that's coming up a little bit later on monday evening on township early and it's going in the men's biathlon the twelve and a half pursuit team narrowly missed out on a bronze medal in the ten k. spring so we'll be looking to put that disappoint them behind. our i post thank you very much indeed for bringing us up to date poles called life in sochi saying q where pre-shared and we'll be talking to you shortly as well. meanwhile in washington lawmakers are sharing a security warnings about the winter games one republican congressional nice that went as far as to claim those never hit has never seen any greater threat in his lifetime and we spoke to athletes who don't appear to share those concerns. so

five or things 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 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 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 people are really friendly here having a good time. russia's gold winning performance in the figure skating cause the adoring home crowd to blow the roof of the iceberg of remains song there have been some rumors circling in the media claiming the competition could have been rigged and we caught up with a two thousand and. ten frenchman and went out piazza rah to get his thoughts in figure skating there always be

a lot of talking you know people are talking and they believe they can. master and manage it is happening on the ice but the only thing that matters is how the figure skaters are performing on the ice you can make somebody who has to win you can change the course everybody has to skate their best to do something those talking those trying to change the course of the competition is just very bad for a sport and i'm sorry that. it's happening again and people are talking about that again because things have been made to change that sort of things so that sports would be more fair and skaters would just perform. and therefore the best is the one we should win. and if you want to share any of your limbic experiences with the world don't hesitate to submit videos to our official ses book page and of course

we've got all the out dates on the results there as well so you can go there to share your comments and use on the sporting spectacle you can also post any questions you'd like to hear or see posed to the athletes were interviewed by insulting and will also go out sport special coming up in fifteen minutes time including an interview with big cool runners jamaica's popular bobsled team. the g twenty four gene promise the recall to me in the exhilarating winter garden are. here to join me and he's in no way a make over now and the rest of our look at news team for sochi twenty four take. on art. switzerland my have jeopardized access to the e.u. market for the sake of carrying the number of immigrants coming into the country the new law which will install quotas for foreign workers goes against long how to

greens with brussels. and a report. 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 people's party which wants 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 the swiss in column e. is. not despite foreign labor especially when it comes to folks 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 swizz 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 m two c. catherine. so it can and is not allowed in its attempts to deal with the growing discontent of euro skeptics the british immigration minister has resigned following a revelation that his clean that didn't have permission to walk in the u.k.

this condo only deepens the nationwide debate on the influx of foreign why it is just two weeks off from britain lifted restrictions on both gerunds and romanians and again food at home and the peace says in the wider context the outcome of the whistle so with the referendum was predictable. the swiss are perfectly entitled to pass this legislation. there's absolutely no problem with that as far as the european union's concerned but of course there's no such thing as a free lunch why have they done it and i think it's partly if you want a reaction to 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 it's like in the european elections in france and in holland in in the united kingdom least 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. coming up later this hour in crime and punishment in comfort. and there. is my cold it's like the freedom of the. believe us one else this is on the ship prison were pulled from inside an experimental facility no way we're told they spilled very much. they all told me my language as well but i will only react to situations i have read the reports for so unlike the pollution i know i will leave them to the state department to comment on your latter point of the month to say it is a carryin a car is all you're talking delgado. thank you no more weasel words when you made a direct question be prepared for a change when you draw

a line you should be ready for a battle freedom of speech and a little down to freedom to question. this 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 them once again it's the fear factor for all women are definitely the target of the gun lobby and you don't kill them when you're killing money but if somebody would you would piss with her. i've noticed that more and more is this really scary marketing tactics which implies that women have some sort of moral obligation 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. there are so you know when you're in the arctic you have the entire world at your feet she looks like a fairly simple ship but really she's not symbol. and full of people 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 with the russian nuclear powered fleet of ice breakers we've undertaken a unique operation in. the northern sea route russia's on to ice breakers.

dramas that can't be ignored to. stories others to use in those. places change the world right now. full picture of the day. from around the globe. dropped. again this is a international while combine needed a good pipeline rupture caused a massive oil spill in the u.s. state of all console locals are still suffering dizziness headaches and nausea the cleanup began almost immediately but that didn't stop people moving out to safer areas. visited the site for us. 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 see 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 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 mayflower has dropped 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. with a deadline for the pullout of american troops from afghanistan songster proud showing washington paves its retreat with money paying some three hundred million dollars into world bank calling the end of blue economy had to empty the calls from all details. song lined with the p.t.a. comes under the scrutiny of police in finland they say the online encyclopedia could be illegally collecting money from is done is all the story is just a click away. right to see. her story. and i think the jury.

on our reporters were there in. the in the. mom. with no death penalty and a mock some prison sentence of twenty one years norway's penitentiary system is among the most humane in the wild and now the country is going a step further with an experimental jail giving convicts access to pretty much everything except freedom she's a gorgeous going off now reports. and here. it's 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 week up in the morning talk show thank you bertha's 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 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 a wall or if 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 yeah you have some of them to question. the

literature or history math chemistry physics you name it all are taught to the inmates. in a room and that players on a thank you for the next 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 sound studio. didn't have a system in this life that was looser in the school moved in and the working life and everything the improv nothing. and they come in here 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 say how effective this new penitentiary for that is what is going off forty reporting from norway. the european commission recently unveiled its fullest unsecure option report which pointed to lots of violations through the russells estimates the losses caused by shady deals amounts to billions of euros later in the program here on our european corruption is up for debate and cross talk with peter about. when the european union itself as a corrupt institution from beginning to read what they have now added to their books for some. years every failed politician in any european country when he's

finished making a mess of his 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 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 you commission but if you go one hundred twenty it's what they're going to do to try to suppress intercountry it did you know that it used to corruption in do you countries while. that's not the direction do you notice a corruption in europe itself that's misdirection like 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 we'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. the international news in bray of this hour the syrian government and rebels are holding a new round of talks in switzerland with the formation of the transitional authority and ends to violence among the key topics the first face to face meeting was adjourned ten days ago having achieved little beyond getting the conflicting signs of the same room and agreement to which source six hundred people evacuated from the besieged syrian city of homs. as a result was ruined after trucks carrying supplies came under fire. type police have made the fast to arrest of a senior on to government protest leader for violating the country's emergency law arrest warrants have been issued for nineteen others it came just hours after six trick leaders were injured by a small explosion at one of the protest sites thailand's three months of social unrest with people demanding their government step down the grounds of corruption. also twenty two people have drowned after a boat carrying more than

a hundred passengers signed a dam and india's eastern state of all research the holiday makers had hired the best for a trip but it capsized on its way by a cheetah overloading rescue crews managed to save dozens of people using underwater flashlights to find victims trapped in the hole nine people are still missing. and hundreds came out on the streets of bosnia again this time calling for the release of people detained during riots and friday and saturday officials have denied claims of police brutality and added that but channel those arrested released more than three hundred were injured last week during clashes fueled by high on the floor in an corruption and poor living. and coming up next is kate here with more sports update.

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 two thousand and 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.

we. hello welcome to the second hour to the sport alembic special all the latest news from day three of the winter games in sochi plus the rest of the world sport with me. and here are the headlines. blades of glory victor on takes bronze in the fifteen hundred meters russia's first ever medal in short track speed skating as canada's charles hamelin wins gold trying his hand on the plane silver in sochi. while my screen fifteen year old you hear live needs leads russia to their first

gold medal in the team figure skating at the iceberg palace. and in other sports news record run by munich strange their unbeaten tally to forty five matches and stay thirteen points clear at the top of the bundesliga with a two no wind at the number. but first to the olympics in sochi where our correspondent richard vancouver it has all the latest news from the twenty second winter games and i richard well day two is very good for their nation as day three looking. all day for he's got off to an excellent start with trying to play the russians first gold medal in short track speed skating in the fifteen hundred meters unfortunately the korean border. for russia. france and thirteen didn't quite have an off country eventual winner. charles hamelin did manage to hang on to get a bronze medal for day one was unlikely for rusher and de to also started slowly birds

got going certainly russia won the team figure skating competition obviously can be prevented was you getting pushing this needs to follow so sharp hunter and caught in the pairs. and some power in the ice stands was a formidable form and spiderman reliever person stood out for me was. a fifteen year old she's such a talent member sitting at the russian national championships just before the new year she might have lost out on that occasion but her town was there for all to see and she won the subsequent european championships three really interesting to see her completing the individual championships. in peace and saatchi progress of course our goal wasn't the only medal that russia won on day two you know claiming a silver in the women's sprint in the biafran war she finished some way behind the eventual winners to see it was when our who defended her spring title of to win

like four years ago because march watched and she russian and i compete for a sudden i hear and source. of i'm told should pull in to sort of heartbreak really on day one when he missed out on the bronze medal by just one seven seconds paul also on day two or graf claimed bronze medal for the russians in the speed skating in a free fire zone metres unexpected result for her and a great performance sending a personal best on the way and also a silver medal for russian in the loser of a very sure and albert forty two years of age and this is a seven for lympics didn't quite have enough to get past star felix law the german who claimed to have a dog in the end still an excellent performance by denting cohen probably was going to be his last ever a limpet games. well it's never crossed to the ice they're rich and the crowd pleasing is always the men's ice hockey is the final event at the olympics what about.