the blood. looked. up to fifty. annual world record at the sochi olympics has 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 some of the thousands of volunteers who have become the face of the host city. i love the people you are listening to for better than i think there will be. right artie 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.

but you are here national coming to you live from moscow with me reading joshing welcome to the program i was day five at the two thousand and fourteen winter olympics and our team is continuing its special coverage let's go live now tunis an hour who is in our studio in sochi. hello there and he says so what is a store today for the olympic action. well there's plenty of action on the slopes but russia right now is all about figure skating to do well maxime time called well those are have already set a record score in the paris short program and are on their way to restoring russell's dominance in the sport our season two farmer has been keeping up with the action.

this evening they are on the brink of clinching not go. when the pairs with just their free skate and they've chosen a piece of music which is actually very close to their hearts it's 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 it'll our free skate and program will be andrew lloyd webber's musical juice christ superstar in fact i've been dreaming of making this happen soon so i was a child a love affair march last year we saw this music on broadway and now it's time to perform a task selves if you just can see the larva 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 a bill in pics and that was them speaking i just before the start she games began and if they do win tonight they will be sure you see the stars because they will be a limb pick world and european champions now you can probably see the backdrop behind this plenty of sun around them 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 enclose the women's downhill yesterday to give you an idea of temperatures it was something like degrees on the up the slopes and classics up at rosa plateau which is where the extreme parkies 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 and we are due to get an even warmer day tomorrow we might see this huge snow making system come into operation stored hundreds of tons of stuff under

special blankets up in the mountains which they can shovel out at any time and of course they've got hundreds of snow. you make is that c. so the message is there is no need to panic. other contestants aren't the only ones 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 there and. they are the unsung and unpaid heroes of the olympics the 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 the black sea resort in watts for most is the first visit to russia brazil will come from glasgow scotland to come to such a. great experience and the people are really great and. 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 area is vital to the day to day running of this event running like clockwork and in that bright uniforms such spectators qantas that like the competing athletes require commitment patience and insurance the love of taking part rather than cash rewards scuse me hello i'm here to see the men's hockey game where do i go so these competitions are housed in bars. and you can get them by

close and this is a treat then turn to the left and you will see the big building in front of the. but to drop it's very big ever beautiful very much and you speak english russian. german very good coaching how to show so good thank you very much trying to prod. statistically just under half the help is our women and the average age is twenty five in reality though this giant team has volunteers of all ages in the middle of the call the older people suva bones here it's a reference to how advanced 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 to out the games in the paralympics days demanding work but it's a red chance to take part in one of the world's largest sporting events and as the name to the rest they can sort she twenty forty something to remember parts of andrews. so much more line breaks action from us here in our studio throughout the

day when we bring you the latest from the slopes and the coast and talking to some very special guests to stay with us for that for now back to you in moscow. welcome back over to our senior national lab crowds will be flooding the streets of john as burke and 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 rate 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 there were no 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 co-wrote 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're entering. there's a large majority of. poverty. a lot of the purely artistic tool for a better life better way of the. crime. that crime and the few places in south africa today. and 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 but if. we make the best effort this borning township is home to maybe 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 on 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 hear. hear. truthfully. here you can say real sufficiently trained. but it's up to us to.

train the police and so they 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. for to those days but. the residents of alexander though are too busy packing their 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 the u.s.

the so-called transatlantic trade and investment partnership negotiated behind closed doors promises an economic boost but could see european governments losing ground to foreign corporations and. the slightest dropped and discredit snowden's leaks show how british spies have been planning misinformation and luring opponents into honey traps all the details after the break.

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is obviously more for the latest because it's pink. women wanted to avoid rate 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 feel of. women definitely the target of the gun lobby you don't want to kill them i want to kill him out of it if somebody with me would just pick her. i'm noticing more and more that's really scary mark tactics which implies that women have some sort of moral obligation to time 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 team international europe is set to lift tariffs on almost all goods imported from the united states the move follows talks on 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 import now reports the changes could give corporations a president of influence over governments the night 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 bit 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 g.m. rose is an impediment to trade and therefore. simply no longer coal they're simply removed by the trade agreements so then europe is ordinarily open. to g.m. . regardless of what the european people walk under the treaty cars and

pharmaceutical drugs could reportedly and 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 training 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 burning up or ny r.t.

new york and over on our website a voiceless majority genetically modified maize are likely to enter farms in a new despite staunch opposition from over half of the union's member states that stories online for you today also there. it turns out that causing our 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 back to back nukes capable of massive scale carnage behind anime lines. right to see. first strike. and i think you're. on our reporter's. instrument.

now sending out viruses hijacking social media accounts and attacking computer networks those may sound line characters techniques but they're also in the arsenal of britain's spies according to leaks from adverts known artist boy boy who takes apart the tactics by being used by g c h q. the list of g c h t's 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 target 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 is 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 you information is power and then there 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 there are also no includes sending viruses than 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 this is 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. artsy london. may be playing dirty but it's still lagging behind its larger partner america's national security agency when it comes to the scale of the spying operations editor naturism campaigner told us that mass online surveillance is making people increasingly reluctant to speak out. i don't 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 u.s.

and around the world that's not being respected and when when that 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 that it will choose the things that we believe and maybe the next president of the next congress or the next government will be and know to be able to use all of this data that they're there collecting against us. the deaths of two young man who were shot by police in rio de janeiro has led to street rides security forces fired rubber bullets and tear gas to disperse stone throwing crowds brazilian police claimed the victims were a suspect in a robbery and were fired on while trying to flee but demonstrators say a man were innocent. about

a thousand homes have been evacuated due to flooding in southern england and wales with hundreds of residents still in risk severe flood warnings are still in place with strong winds snow and a rental rains expected throughout wednesday the extreme weather which has been battering the u.k. since the end of last week has been already called the worst in decades causing large scale damage. several members of an anti taliban militia been killed in pakistan's northwestern city of peshawar gunman entered the house of groups chief shooting hand along with eight of his relatives the incident has dealt a blow to the government which has been supporting militias battling the taliban in the country's tribal zones and comes despite and go in peace talks. coming up and i did a national america's conversely military presence in japan is up for debate and breaking the. with abby martin but if you're watching delves into the financial world in boom bust with host.

the. economic ups and downs in the final month the deal sang i and the rest because i take it will be everything we own thing. is obviously more for the latest because it's pink. women wanted to avoid rape they really need to buy guns and learn how to use them. this is the one that i want to go with them once again it's the fear from the women definitely the target of

the gun lovers and one you don't kill them when the killing not even if somebody would you would piss with her. i'm noticing more and more if that's really scary marketing tactics which implies that women have some sort of moral obligation to guns 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 internal world at your feet. she looks like a fairly simple shit really she's no symbol. people. the real king here is the polar bear and ice breakers come second. petition to the

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the. what's up guys i'm abby martin and this is a break in the set last month i report on the u.s. military's plans to build yet another base on the japanese island of okinawa keep in mind there are already thirty two existing u.s. military bases which occupy twenty percent of the land although what some call a military dictatorship but the island is already existed for decades the new attention on okinawa is also shedding light on another longstanding problem the hundreds of sexual crimes involving u.s. army personnel documents recently obtained by the associated press through a foyer request show not only the rampant scale of abuse by service members but also the high level of impunity for the crimes due to these cases being tried

within the military chain of command the report cites infractions by all three branches of the military but adds that quote the air force is by far the most lenient and one hundred twenty four sex crimes over the course of eighteen years and the only punishment given to twenty one offenders was a letter of reprimand look eyes it's clear that the continued occupation. a sovereign land is deeply hurting the people of okinawa not only is it undermining their culture but the quarter of an communities surrounding the military sends a stark message to those on the island one that this country should and support and let's break the set. the book look it was terrible and they are looking very hard to take a. look at the long line that he ever had sex with that earthquake there are those.

in the few. little. kid. we all know that money drives politics but you might be surprised to learn about the amount of dark money pushing policy behind the scenes dark money is made up of funds obfuscated through different shell organizations making it extremely difficult to trace and perhaps no one has mastered this tactic more and billionaire brothers charles and david koch the koch's are well known for putting the money behind some of the worst legislation on the books and recently some light was shed on the players behind the cloak themselves after a confidential donor list was left behind at a posh hotel in palm springs so to discuss what was in that document as well as the

role of dirty money behind the scenes from elections to vulture funds i'm joined now by investigative journalist greg palast coming out with a new movie called voters and vote rustlers thanks so much for coming on greg always a pleasure. to be with you have been so great let's talk about this koch brothers document that was recently left behind at the donor event what was the most damning takeaway from its exposure. well it's the list of the secret landlords of our planet these are the private funders of the folks are not exactly short of change david and charles are each worth about twenty two billion and let's not forget brother billy or third i know about five billion himself what we have here is a list of the other billion years that they're coordinating with who are basically funding an entire right wing political machine now in the good old days when america was a democracy we got to know who was putting my.