and you world record and the sochi olympics as a russian figure skating pair wow judges with their short program and continue their pursuit for gold plus. the people working around the clock to make the sochi games an unforgettable experience our team made some of the thousands of volunteers have become the face of the host city. a lot of the people you see to forget about all of it truly of the. art he travels to south africa to explore the nation's struggle to overcome rampant corruption and poverty and deep divisions left after the passing of nelson mandela.

it's money out of the russian capital you're watching our team with me welcome to the program and it's day five ad the twenty fourteen winter olympics our team is continuing its special coverage so let's go live now to do so now we who is in our studio in sochi. there's plenty of action on the slopes today but for russia right now it's all about figure skating the duel maxime turn call and the source are have already set a record score in the pair short program and are on their way to restoring russians dominance in the sport farmer has been following all the action and joins us from the mountain cluster hello to you andrew what's there to look forward to today we've got the figure skating down what else can we expect. well you know. so let's

do let's continue with the figure skating shall we because there are high hopes and also some high notes for trying. this evening they are on the brink of clinching that gold medal in the pairs with just their free skate and they've chosen a piece of music which is actually very close to their hearts is andrew lloyd webber's classic jesus christ superstar so what could possibly go wrong with the only thing i can think of is perhaps this bad omen many figure skaters have used his music in the past but none of them have been able to claim a limpid gold i think the closest anyone came was silver in vancouver four years ago of course i'm just being a bit stupid here and the russians aren't deterred itll. is what a free skate and program will be andrew lloyd webber's musical jesus christ superstar in fact i've been dreaming of making this happen souter was a child a love affair in march last year we saw this musical on broadway and now it's time to perform a toss selves if you just i can see they love the new program the enjoy fine tuning

into lard with every single training session we discover someone you insist to make it even better i'm sure it will pay off for dylan pics. and that is them speaking out just before the start she games began and if they do win tonight they will be true superstars because they will be a limb pick world and european champions now you can probably see the backdrop behind it is plenty of sun around and i'm having very fine weather but the organizers saying look there's no need to panic about melting snow all the events are going to go ahead as show jordan and close the women's downhill which is just a back to start yesterday to give you an idea of temperatures it was something like nor degrees on the upper slopes and plus six up at rosa plateau which is where the extreme park is we have seen a number of crashes yesterday and some of the athletes were actually blaming mushy snow we saw three athletes crash in cross-country skiing the rule system heavy falls in moguls and. snowboarding so perhaps if things get

a little warmer to get an even warmer day tomorrow we might see this huge snow making system come into operation excuse me there are still hundreds of tons of stuff under special blankets up in the mountains which now you can shovel out at any time and of course they've got hundreds of snow make is there to see so the message is there is no need to panic. but i'm certainly not complaining about the weather and like you said organizers do have of course a backup plan and a farmer live from the mountain cluster thanks for that update. of the contestants are not the only once trying to make the winter games an unforgettable experience more than twenty thousand volunteers are here in sochi as well working tirelessly artie's martin andrews found out what's fueling their enthusiasm.

they are the unsung unpaid heroes of the olympics and staging such a gigantic event without volunteers like these would be unthinkable more than one hundred eighty thousand people wanted to join up twenty five thousand of them made the cots a small army of on hand to help those among them thousands of foreigners to bridge the dozens of languages heard here right now hailing from the united states canada and the u.k. many have already been here for several weeks prepping for her sing a black sea resort in watts for most is the first visit to russia personal come from glasgow scotland to come here on my own. experience and the people are really great. i like everything here and it feels great knowing that i'm contributing to such a large scale event. from helping out with crowd control to keeping things moving at the security screening areas. they are vital to the day to day running of this

event running like clockwork and in their bright uniforms such spectators can't miss them like the competing athletes their roles require commitment patience and insurance the love of taking part rather than cash reward scuse me hello i'm here to see the men's hockey game where do i go so these competitions are held in bunches. and you can get there by crossing this treat then turn to the left and you will see the big bill down in front of the word to drop it's very big ever beautiful very nice and you speak english russian envoy yes german very good to have a show so good thank you very much was part of our. city sickly just under half the helpless are women and the average age is twenty five in reality though this giant team has volunteers of all ages in the they call the older people silva volunteers it's a reference to how advanced stage

a friendly face and knowledge of foreign languages and knowing how to get from a to b. are just some of the skills these guys will need throughout the games in the paralympics long days demanding work but a red chance to take part in one of the world's largest sporting events and at their name to the roster making such a twenty four team something to remember hotter than dru's. sochi. marlin pickaxe and from us here in our studio throughout the day will be bringing you the latest from the slopes and the arena and talking to some special guests in between so stay with us for that for now though back to you in moscow. crowds will be flooding the streets of johannesburg in a few hours time for a rally led by south africa's democratic alliance opposition party activists want

to raise the pressure on the government over corruption soaring crime rates and widespread poverty are his policy reports on the unrest that's been deepening since the death of nelson mandela. we were about to enter one of the most dangerous townships in one of the most dangerous cities in the world this is the south africa that mandela left behind never know what to expect when you go out in the street some days will be quiet some days you just up and down there are a lot of downs in south africa now days away from the cameras all is not well in the land of mandela twenty six year old constable corrode burma later knows it all too well for five years he's been patrolling the streets of johannesburg to try and instill some sense of order. and now we are entering. there's a large majority of. poverty. a lot of the purely artistic

to for a better life for a better way of the i. am right and there few places in south africa today is more rampant or poverty more in demick than alexandra township twelve kilometers northeast of johannesburg it was once the headquarters of the african national congress and the same to of anti-apartheid activism but it's as if time has stood still here many residents feel forgotten by mandela south africa is quite frightening situation for us to. really make the best effort this borning township is home to nearly a quarter of a million mostly black south africans sixty percent of them are grindingly poor and unemployed as we drive along the stench of mounds of garbage overwhelms us the stats are sobering each day on average more than fifty people are murdered in south africa another fifty attempted murders take place more rape happens here in

a country or fifty two million people than in india a country of one billion the police are struggling to cope with every essential hear hear. truthfully. there are you can say really. are. up to us. at least since i have the feeling and understaffed and according to a new poll a staggering eighty three percent of south africans believe they're also corrupt which means the good guys and his partner often put their lives on the line without sufficient backup do you think. it will make any difference to the generation. that can only hope. but. the residents of alexander though are too busy backing the daily reality to worry about

what life without mandela will bring twenty years after he came to power they still waiting on promises of jobs and economic prosperity. and xandra township south africa well there's more news coming your way in the program including an upcoming trade pact between the e.u. and us the so-called transatlantic trade and investment partnership the goetia behind closed doors promises an economic boost but could see european governments losing ground to foreign corporations. and destroy disrupt and discredit snowden's leaks show how british spies have been planning misinformation and alluring opponents into honey traps all the details after the break. senior u.s. state department official victoria nuland and the american ambassador to ukraine

said on tape with many have claimed all along washington's plans to overthrow the elected government in kiev on this edition of crossfire we call this embarrassing week changes the political battlefield in ukraine.

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wanted away from once again it's the feel of. when the definitely a target of the gun lobby you don't kill them when the killing not even if somebody would he would just pick her. i'm noticing more and more that's really scary marketing tactics which implies that women have some sort of moral obligation to honor guns to protect their family and young girls shoot out here too so we do have a pink wife. or 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. were clearly not the safest. welcome back you're watching our national our europe is set to lift tariffs on almost all goods imported from the united states the move follows dogs in the

so-called transatlantic trade and investment partnership treaty the idea is to provide an economic boost on both sides of the atlantic but such as marine aboard now reports the changes could give corporations on president of influence over governments but i'm announcing that we will launch talks on a comprehensive transatlantic trade and investment partnership with the european union because trade that is fair and free across the atlantic supports millions of good paying american jobs. grand promises minus any explanation it's been one year since the us president announced the establishment of a transatlantic free trade agreement known as taft they have been negotiated total secrecy away from the congress and the people. the better about six hundred corporate executives corporate lobbyists. negotiating and the deal with the united states trade representative and with the other countries

sweeping u.s. surveillance has cast a cloud over negotiations as germany threatened to pull out outraged over washington snooping on its european partners but if the free trade treaty actually goes through it promises both sides of the atlantic massive gains of up to one hundred fifty nine billion dollars as more exports are expected to create more jobs but the profits could come at a cost to citizens critics say the treaty would get rid of policies put in place to protect the people danger here is that this will amount to deregulation that basically will be a race to the bottom and health and safety standards will be diminished in an attempt to create some kind of huge market with the same standards for example genetically modified foods are not labeled in the u.s. while in europe it's mandatory but in the name of free transatlantic trade any regulations against juno's is an impediment to trading and therefore.

simply no longer toll there simply removed by these trade agreements so then europe is ordinarily good to g.m. and true regardless of what the european people walk under the treaty cars and pharmaceutical drugs could reportedly i'd up being tested only one spy the exporting country instead of the current standard of dual testing be it fracking banking or flying taft critics argue will leave governments with no choice but to change policies that better suit the business needs of private corporate power what their hope is is to have to find the lowest common denominator between the u.s. and and and standards that then make it more easy for there to be quote unquote trade big call our regulations and our standards that hurts. health and safety trade irritants they're called as opposed to barriers and and we believe that those

many of those standards are there for very good reason public support for safety standards and regulation may be the very reason american and european citizens have been kept in the dark about what may turn out to be the world's largest free trade agreement bring up or najar to new york and so we're on our web site today voiceless majority genetically modified maize crops are likely to and are farms in the e.u. despite staunch opposition from over half of the union's member states that stories aligned for you today also there. it turns out that causing atomic armageddon does not necessarily require a huge bomb newly released reports show that u.s. special troops during the cold war were trained to use backpack moves capable of massive scale carnage behind enemy lines. right to see. first street. and i would think that you're.

on our reporters. in. the in the. now saying our viruses hijacking social media accounts and launching denial of service attacks those may sound like hackers techniques but they're also in the arsenal of britain spies according to me from adult snowden artie's point boyko takes apart the tactics behind used by g c h q. the list of g c h q latest on ticks reads a bit like a cartoon villains manual edward snowden has revealed that a covert unit within the agency is messing with targets social media accounts so that changing their profile pictures on facebook they're posting and deleting

status says and they're sending cryptic messages to their friends and family containing dissent from ation about them now g c h q's joint intelligence threat research group even uses on waiting journalists to funnel information about potential targets and they're also into honey traps they pose as attractive women online in order to get potential targets to meet with them in person i think what's unique in this area it's the first public proof that we've seen that serious issues of illegality have been brought forward the interference with other people's communications the violation of the privacy of hundreds of thousands if not millions of people if the government knows everything about true information is power and then they have enormous power over you which we always say something interesting here with all these revelations one is the blackmail start to see h.q. isn't a spy agency like m i five or m i six it's

a government agency tosca with collecting and analyzing data and yet these most recent revelations show that they're awesome no includes sending viruses and launching denial of service attacks against websites the attempt to do denial of service attacks on organizations they don't like are deliberate attempts to obstruct to deceive i think was the phrase they use they say they call it deny disrupt degrade and deceive i mean it's like a james bond movie but these are this is the stuff they're doing and have been doing for years but this is the first proof that anybody's had that they've actually done it and yet how kids who don't work for g c h q. face prison if they do the same and those campaigning for civil liberties here in britain say they want to know why. london. may be playing dirty but it's still

lagging behind as larger partner america's national security agency when it comes to the scale of its spying operations and internet freedom campaigner told us that mass online surveillance is making people increasingly we're reluctant to speak out and see anybody advocating for the removal of curtains in everybody's house because we have nothing to hide i think that there's an expectation of privacy here in the us and around the world that's not being respected and when when the expectation is not respected free speech suffers we are much less willing to speak our minds online or offline if we know we're being watched and recorded and tracked are much more less willing to engage in political activism to assemble to organize ourselves for whatever causes we believe in and if we feel like the authorities are watching our every move and even if the authorities right now might not necessarily be antithetical to the things that we believe in maybe the next president or the next congress or the next government will be enough to be able to use all of this data that they're at their collecting against us. and i was to go get some other stories

from around the world the deaths of two young men who were shot by police in rio de janeiro has led to shrewd riots security forces fired rubber bullets and tear gas to disperse stone throwing crowds she resilient police claim the victims were suspects in a robbery and were fired on while trying to flee the demonstrators say the man who are innocent. about a thousand homes have been evacuated due to flooding in southern england and wales with hundreds of residents still at risk severe flood warnings are still in place with strong winds snow into rental rains expected throughout wednesday extreme weather which has been battering the u.k. since the end of last week has been already cold the worst in decades causing a large scale damage. and thirteen people have been killed and twenty injured and grenade attacks at a movie theater in northwest pakistan the first explosion went off at the main entrance and was followed by two more inside the building the attacks come despite

the launch of peace talks between the pakistani government and the taliban which has been waging an insurgency in the country's tribal zones for almost a decade. a clash of opinions next in peter lavelle's graustark that's after a short break.

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speak your language. or music programs and documentaries and spanish what matters to you breaking news a little turn to angles stories. you hear. the spanish find out more visit. a lowing welcome across all things are considered i'm peter. elise conversation of two american officials the f. bomb and agenda revealed a senior u.s.

state department official victoria nuland and the american ambassador to ukraine said on tape what many have claimed all along washington's plans to overthrow the elected government in kiev on this edition of. this embarrassing week changes the political battlefield in ukraine. crosstalk developments in ukraine i'm joined by my guest now voice my which in washington he is director of the rice institute for serbian studies in new york we have taurus cousy oh he is a research associate at the canadian institute for ukrainian studies at the university of alberta and in london we crossed to alexander me curious he is an analyst and writer on legal affairs for a journal in cross talk rules in effect means you can jump in anytime you want and i encourage it alexander i go to you first in london this week with victoria nuland were you surprised by it at all because for a lot of circles around particularly in this part of the world it confirmed

a lot of what people thought all along that this is a not so covert overthrow of a legitimately elected government in kiev saluki that's exactly what it is let's be absolutely clear about this what nuland and the ambassador would call talking about was who is to be the prime minister of the ukraine miss nuland wants. to be the prime minister of the ukraine not mystically who is the other opposition leader who is currently more popular and she wants to. do this into a way that is contrary to the actual government of the ukraine which is led by mr rich so we have a situation where the united states through missing you newland is actually maneuvering to put its position it's person in charge of the ukraine against the government there and in ways that do not conform to the constitution or the

laws of the ukraine or and which have nothing to do with the election with elections in the ukraine terrace in new york how do you how did you react to the to the leaked conversation because it's quite embarrassing and i would suppose if you take it at face value it shows the true intentions of the united states about regime change and care of. i think this is i wasn't very. i didn't think this was such a great big deal every government whether it's european union britain america russia as well will be discussing between themselves who they would like to have in place the previous caller. previous expert talked about the government there isn't a government in place in ukraine that's the problem the country is moving towards default and there isn't a government in place it's not going to be washington or moscow or london brussels which decides which government is going to be in ukraine.