more success for the host nation on. the first ever medal in the short track for the russian team took gold with a commanding in the team meanwhile in fashion news. because it is the home team because they are in russia with the crowd around them it was great to share the symbolism with everyone we reveal the special features of the jerseys which. will put on a. brussels. pick and choose which agreements to follow. immigrant to invalidate treaties with. there's a lot of this there have been forgotten. to check on the residents

who say that oil no choice but to flee the area simply to protect their health. welcome to the program on this monday. in moscow let's get some action here it is a day three at the winter olympics in sochi and another medal for the hosts victor originally a south korean has now taken bronze for the russian short track team let's go live to. get the very very latest paula we're looking at another bronze here for russia you know the details. yes russian fans around me are celebrating another medal in the sochi twenty fourteen winter olympics has won the country's

first ever short track speed skating medal he. bronze in the men's fifteen hundred meters now you may be thinking that the name viktor is in particular the russian sounding name he did used to compete for south korea but fell out with his sports governing body that picked up russian citizenship in two thousand and eleven and he is in fact picking up his bronze medal on the medals plaza in the coastal cluster as we speak elsewhere in the men's biathlon twelve and a half k. pursuit there was bitter disappointment for norwegian ole unappealing dahlan who missed out on the opportunity to become the single most decorated winter olympian of all time he simply needed a top three finish to achieve but he came fourth a little over one second off the pace russia. was fair now let's see how all of that affects the medals table how it stands at the moment you can see the netherlands a back on top this is after another one two three in the speedskating

this time the men's five hundred meters and it's a case of keeping it in the family with twin brothers michael and ronald mulder claiming gold and bronze respectively canada and norway are amongst the other leaders well elsewhere on monday russia's female curling team started their campaign with a seven four victory over denmark now they are skippered by amnesty daughter of a who some are saying could become the poster girl for such a twenty four t. now she turned her into the sport after a career in modeling but she says she has absolutely no regrets about the career change. 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 enter an active 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. it is one of the more unusual sported relatively new here in russia so new in fact that this is the first time they have entered a men's team in the competition they lost their first much seven four to great britain earlier today but it seems that curling is a craze that is starting to sweep the nation hey we've got some amateur footage of russians all over the country trying their hand at the sport you can see they improvising using any quitman they can from the wrist to try and replicate the professionals so although it is a relatively new sports in this country maybe it's a sport that is here to stay but one sport that does have a tradition and a history in russia is of course of ice hockey and i can tell you that some of the world's leading stars who arrived in sochi earlier today with the n.h.l. stars touching down now it's an eagerly anticipated eagerly awaited competition in

which russia do have high hopes of a gold medal goaltender. says it could be one of the closest competitions in living memory. there are many strong teams at these games canada the u.s. finland sweden in fact all of them a 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 told omens in recent years. who did help the olympic cauldron during the opening ceremony friday and excitement and anticipation is growing ahead of the men's ice hockey competition which begins in three days' time russia's first matches against slovenia are looking for more updates from you are in sochi thank you. with a slightly different take on the whole ice hockey tournament here's our. culture

correspondent martin andrews he. reveals what special about the jerseys the players will be wearing for their olympic battles on. today nike from the hockey jerseys let's take a look at the outfits of america interesting and very nice they are too we all like to wear them don't we support our teams or whether it's for leisure activities in the colors red white and blue of course to represent the u.s. flag inside the actual jersey they have various medals that's to look back on the previous championship when is they had in the olympics and also there are quotations from the national anthem of the u.s. let's go to canada now. i might actually prefer this design it's rather simple with of course the national anthem of the maple leaf that's for canada for home and away really quite some of those inverted colors and inside you have more medals and that's because they're showing the ladies with us before from previous olympics of

course many people today were looking the russian designs that we've got red for home and white for a way the red design of the russian team i would rather a traditional custom design featuring the crest we also have four stars talking about is from the past if you look at the white outfit the kits a far different approach somewhat contemporary and if you actually live the players up together gives a very interesting image perspective so let's look forward so we're going to fashion it here in sochi r.t. met up with ken black who's the creative director of the company where we because it is the home team because they are in russia with the crowd around them it was great to share the symbolism with everyone exactly let's not hide it so. here. reflecting their gold medals and then four gold stars on each shoulder. even though everybody's talking about the fantastic sporting events in these brand

new amazing facilities here in sochi lots of people are also excited about what they actually look like and indeed the fashion that they're wearing. and we are following all of russia as a pins on twitter among them stall alex ovechkin he's been tweeting to rave about the olympic village and show off his skates which are painted in the colors of the national flag though of the many inspirational stories and saw the jamaican bobsled team just say that team again is finding itself in the center of a bit of a controversy they were forced to raise funds via twitter to be able to compete at the games then they lost their luggage upon arrival we had a chance to catch up with one of the fearless trio of the team. i love the people there they really love. you makes us feel like we're stars but you know stars is something that shines really bright which is that to make it seem be all of the you know across all the obstacles and. homeowner see what we're doing throughout the

world on how the world loves us i know a lot of young kids in jamaica want to be a part of jamaica bobsled team are going to say thanks to the world support we've had and another thing i'd like to see is thanks to mr putin for putting this on and the russian people for volunteer and in doing this this is one of the best games that i've seen and it's a great great opportunity for the jamaican team to be here and represent jamaica who are here coming out of the underdog saw just watch us well aside from the high spirits and praise for the olympics in sochi there has been an awful lot of negative coverage in the western media everything from criticism about the state of the hotels to straight up claims that the games are being held in a war zone and face an imminent threat of terrorism russia's president dismissed all of it as simply an echo of the past. sure but in a whole during the cold war era there was the so-called containment policy that's what it was called it was the policy and practice of containing the soviet union's

development and unfortunately as we see now occasionally there are through backs to these policies every so often when russia demonstrates a positive development it's clear that the appearance of new powerful players and competitors engender some fear in areas such as the economy politics and security i see them attempts to contain russia emerge here or there including with this olympics. and we've got our special sports a bulletin coming your way in about twenty minutes time here on r.t. international don't miss that with all the updates from the olympics with kate partridge. the team twenty four team promise is an exhilarating winter. until. i make seven zero and the rest of our lives take this team to sochi twenty four take . on it. it's just after ten minutes past the hour here in moscow it's r.t.

international switzerland may have jeopardized its access to the e.u. market for the sake of curbing the number of immigrants coming into the country the new law which will install quotas for foreign workers goes against long held agreements with brussels in fact some belief that further collaboration with the e.u. could now be in question at the president of the european parliament martin scholtz he said switzerland cannot expect to pick and choose which agreements to keep with the e.u. he warned that it can now expect all of its treaties with the european union to now be reviewed lisa catherine office more. 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 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 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 swiss there's been a huge uptick in immigration in fact about eighty thousand new immigrants came just what you learned 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 c catherine of. its attempts to deal with the growing. the british immigration minister has resigned this following a revelation cleena didn't have permission to work in the u k. a scandal only deepened the nationwide debate on the inflow of foreign workers just weeks after britain lifted restrictions on ball gary and romanians forto former m.e.p. he says in the wider contact the outcome of the swiss referendum was actually got a bit to pull. the swiss are perfectly entitled to 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 if you want a 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 it's like the the in the european elections in france and in holland and 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. they are still to come here on auto international crime and punishment in comfort. and. it's my clothes it's like we're the free to believe at all that is actually a prison we were inside an experimental facility in norway a convicts feel very much at home.

told me my language as well but i will only react to situations as i have read the reports and let you know for sure no i will leave them to the state department to comment on your part of the month to say to secure a car is on the docket no gun. thank you no more weasel words. when you think you did the right question and the prepared for a change when you run should be ready for a. freedom of speech and little down to freedom to crush. dramas to be ignored. stories others refuse to notice. faces changing the world.

so picture of today's events no longer from around the globe. look to. the. it's a monday night here in moscow this is r.t. international nearly a year after a pipeline rupture caused a massive oil spill in the u.s. state of arkansas all the locals are still suffering dizziness headaches and nausea are the cleanup did begin almost immediately though that didn't stop people from moving out to safer areas ati's guy nature can went for a visit. 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 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 what 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 so 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 our team and come to you live from moscow with a deadline for the pullout of american troops from afghanistan fast approaching washington paves its retreat with money some three hundred million dollars in what it's calling the end of war economy those details for you right now is. why you're there as well the story with a pedia coming under the scrutiny of police in finland they say the online encyclopedia could be illegally collecting money from its dominance more about story just a couple of clicks away. we'll get to a very busy world update shortly for now though with no death penalty and a maximum prison sentence of twenty one years norway's penitentiary system is among the most humane in the world and now the country is going a step further with an experimental jail giving. to pretty much everything except

freedom you go to prison office the story. here. is my clothes. 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 with up in the morning talk show thank you birth as we go to drop over to school. to school you have dinner relax like normal life just we are back war this is hold'em 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 we're going to like you see here the bed and. we can make a place for 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 can 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 they are going to thank 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 a sound studio look at the didn't have a system in this life that was looser in the screw loose in the working life never think the important thing. and they come in here 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 say how effective this new penitentiary format is you what was going off r t reporting from norway. our world all the time here on the program to afghanistan where a suicide bomber. packed with explosives into

a nato convoy killing two american contractors this in the capital and islamic militant group admitted it is behind the attack that sore at least seven others wounded the taliban is stepping up its campaign ahead of america's troop withdrawal with a u.s. afghan security deal that is still in limbo. and to neighboring pakistan where a suicide bomber ran into the house of a pro-government tribal elder and blew himself police say police say the explosion also killed four women and wounded five others in a separate incident militants in the south west blew up three gas pipelines cutting supplies to put the job at the nation's most populous province. the syrian government and the opposition have begun a new round of talks by trading accusations of escalating violence and disrupted aid deliveries for the first face to face meeting was adjourned ten days ago having achieved little beyond getting the conflicting sides just to get to the same room meanwhile the syrian red crescent has confirmed some three hundred people were

evacuated from the besieged city of homs despite continuing gunfire. and thousands of bosnians have been demonstrating in cities across the country today demanding their politicians address the nation's forty percent unemployment rate in sarajevo hundreds marched from the president's building to the government offices calling for the release of protesters detained during riots on friday and saturday . leaders inability to handle corruption and poverty boiled over last week with more than three hundred injured in the worst clashes to hit the nation since the one nine hundred ninety s. . live in moscow i am stepping aside as kate partridge is coming into the studio right now with more olympic updates from sochi.

the alleged phone call between the assistant secretary of state and the u.s. ambassador to ukraine has created quite a controversy in the call like smug british colonisers casually sipping tea and out for the basically say that that need of bucks to fill he's not fit for the government of the of the needs of the baldwin become prime minister they also mentioned getting the help of the un to get this thing glued whatever that means although the authenticity of this phone call has not been confirmed but certainly hasn't been denied this reminds me a lot of the snowden leaks independent journalists for years had been writing about government spying but it took a snowden to shove it into people's faces and confirm that it was really going on we've heard from people like ron paul jesse ventura and many journalists that the u.s. state department uses a horde of international grant receivers and local political organizations to try to consciously and directly control sovereign nations and overthrow regimes they don't like and this phone call is legit that is the same level of undeniable evidence that snowden brought to the table to be fair during the cold war i could

kind of see the justification to meddle in other countries so the soviets would create world com ism but now who is the enemy that justifies a korean regime change there is no such anime a fascist my opinion. right

from the scene. of the first strike to use a knife gripping the church. on our reporters twitter. and instagram. to be in the no movement on. the european union likes to think of itself as one of the brighter and fairer parts of the world the european commission report on corruption the first of its kind betrays a very different picture in every single member country there is corruption in some cases on a massive scale so what can the e.u. teach the world of corruption.

hello welcome to the latest r.t. sport lympics special with make a partridge all the news from day three at the sochi winter games plus the rest of the sport and these are the top stories. blades of glory picture on claims russia's a first ever limping medal in short track speed skating with bronze in the fifteen hundred meters canada's charles hamelin wins gold with china's. taking silver. plus ice princess a fifteen year old a year lipnitskaya leaves russia to their first gold medal in the team figure skating at the iceberg that is watched by president vladimir putin. and elsewhere in sports record run by a nearly extract their unbeaten tally to forty five matches and stay certain points clear at the top of the bundesliga with a two no we're at nurnberg. first

go to the olympics in sochi where our correspondent richard reid has all the latest news from the winter games so hello there richard so after a great day to how is day three look for the hosts. all day free was really all been a big to run in the men's short track speed skating he won a bronze in the one thousand five hundred meters which in fact was russia's a first ever medal in short track speed skating with victory and the use of a can compete for sign of career and back in two thousand and six he won a free gold medals for my maturity olympics but he switched his allegiance to russia in two thousand and thirteen has gone from strength to strength and as i said help russia win their first ever short trying to medal for russia's curlers women colors have got their campaign underway there fancied perhaps to get a medal two thousand and twelve european championships and i don't see that other side got off to the best possible start spy beating

a denmark by seven to three for going banks or day two and of course it was all of those figure skaters as very one team gold guinea pushing fifteen year old hitting a least one call and also sharp and also cuts off all of and his teammates. really need as well those team getting that gold medal while it's middle have really been a nice guy have a fifteen year old and was a prodigy a talent she has been and certainly she'll be one to watch when the individual events get under way in pushing her as well rolling back the years river timeless performance of thirty one year olds claim his second ever gold medal be a little big games also on day two claimed silver medal in the by our floor and she was pinned by. the stands to see. what our hero was born in russia.