russia looks for more podium gold this time in a record breaking figure skating program and the woman. concerned that the weather in song she may be becoming too good. need to panic. eventually go ahead today despite the fine weather rising temperatures. and ukrainian judge who ruled against rioters involved in the storming of government buildings dead by unknown assailants police say the murder was most likely connected to his work also. a lot of the early hours. for that i call it there will be. parts he travels to south africa as the nation real soon corruption crime and poverty after

the passing of iconic leader nelson mandela. you're watching artsy international with me mirroring the cost rather warm welcome to the program now it's day five of the saw. an artsy continues its special coverage from the hearts and the heights of the resorts. it may be action packed on the slopes then tracks of songs cheap up for auction fans it's the figure skating that's really in the spotlight russia is looking for a return to the on challenge dominance on the range that it enjoyed in decades past and given the country's performance so far in these games that dream could be within reach artes and to farmers in the mountain cluster and he's discussed what's

in store with an isa now it down in our soul she studios. sun is a beating down on my back as i speak and that's prompted concerns about the possibility of melting snow but organizers have insisted that everything is fine and all events will go ahead as shared jewel today and that's included the women's downhill which produced an absolute classic we've seen a dead heat between slovenia's tina mays and switzerland's dominic design and that means they will both walk away with a gold medal and that has never happened in this event in the olympics before but coming back to the weather just yesterday temperatures were as high as plus sixty degrees upper rows a plateau where the extreme park is held we also saw a number of crashes in the men's cross-country skiing and some athletes have suggested that this is because of mushy snow when i spoke to one athlete from new zealand early this morning and she said you know what athletes just have to get on with it. coming into this event you know we know such as a little bit warmer we know the pipe conditions can be

a little bit bearable we travel all around the world and we ski different halfpipe so you know as a professional athlete you turn up to a half buy and you just have to adjust to it so i'm not worried i know by the time my event comes up the pipe is going to be perfect and i should also mention that here in sochi it has got europe's biggest snow making system that got hundreds of tons of snow stored under special blankets up in the mountains which they can shovel out when it's needed and they've also got hundreds of snow make is up there so if needed and it might be temperatures are due to rise again tomorrow they have at least that to fall back on it's quite warm down here in the coastal cluster as well but returning to figure skating what are russia's chances of winning gold in the paris skate tonight paula high hopes are there but are also high notes for maxine frank of intensity on evolution they are within touching distance of getting that gold medal in the pairs it's the free skate tonight and i have chosen a piece of music for that which is very close to their heart says andrew lloyd

webber's classic jesus. christ superstar so what could possibly go wrong well the only bad omen i can think of is that a number of figure skaters have used his music in the past but none of them have won him pick gold in fact the closest any of them has first come to doing that with silver in vancouver but i don't think that's going to be a factor did you think in fact i could be being a little bit stupid by suggesting this and it certainly doesn't deter the russians . but it's one of our free skating programs will be andrew lloyd webber's musical jesus christ superstar in fact i've been dreaming of making this happen soon so i was a child a love affair in march last year we saw this musical 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 it a lot with every single training session we discover someone you insist to make it even better i'm sure it will be all for the olympics yeah and if they did win gold tonight they truly would be superstars they would be

a limb pick world and european champions. from you tube videos to sweater a blog so many athletes are documented in their experiences and such and here's what i've been telling r.t. . i'm definitely impressed with the russian did everything is wallace the. leads are taking very good care and i think that's all that matters for the games three thing is so close it feels like just a big family reunion and is very exciting the night of the events the crowd was there there was some spears there from the olympic by before you come over and you're not really sure what to expect and. you know everything's been great so far whether it's you know the food or the commendations or the rooms or you know the village seems to be. unbelievable just from the outside and going in and practice in and so that if we have a great set up you know in the village it's been great so far. we're going to.

a good push the food every day and we get to meet with other athletes and it's been a pretty good sort of. we're putting up all the latest results rumors and happenings and song check out our special section on the website twenty four arts and dot com and right now we're reporting there on how the russian president is saying then foreign guests in the olympic host city and of course bringing you live updates on all of the sporting events. more news for you now a judge has died in central ukraine after being shot by on their own assailants police believe the attack may be linked to his professional activities well for more on this i'm joined now by. ski say can you tell us what professional activities are the police referring to particular and what could be behind this

attack well the interior minister of ukraine is still coyer on what exactly they meant by professional activities but we do know that the thirty four year old judge . from the town of claiming to consensually crane was killed by presumably two gunshot wounds and those believed to be fired from a shotgun multiple injuries to his. body and he died while doctors were trying to save his life it's not the first time of course that a judge is killed in ukraine but given what's happening in ukraine right now with all these riots protests takeover of administrations the fact that he recently dealt with some of these rioters is certainly causing huge tension in the media in ukraine and everywhere across the world because recently he dealt with two of those rioters who. were part of the attack on the local administration building he placed them under house arrest until they're convicted or released that depends pretty much on how the situation goes they have been charged with inciting riots but not

yet convicted so he places i'm under house arrest several days later he is shot dead it is not a direct link between between the rioters and his death because he also dealt with many civic cases like. returning of deaths inheritance and different property splits and also may have been the reason for his assassination but certainly given the oppressor given the intensity of what's happening right now the connection here between the rioters and him is something discussed by the media absolutely it's well known of course that judges have enemies around the world it's the same case with everyone but i assume of course the link with the protests and everything that's been happening in fact you were there you just came back not. long ago you were you mad some of these protesters you've been talking to both sides how radical are these protesters and do you think we will see them bag down i returned only week ago and i'm expecting to go there maybe the next week or something because this is that has no chance of dying down i spoke to all sides of this protest and

if you talk about the anti-government protests it is split within itself already there is a peaceful part of protesters who believe themselves to be peaceful you are activists as they call themselves and there's a radical part and i read an interview apart from my conversations with the guys at the governmental quarter who are completely radical i read an interview recently by the leader of the right wing sector this is the core of the rioting and of the protest and he said that they do not listen to orders from the opposition they're not controlled by anyone they are on their own and one quote from that interview is particularly concerning that he said that should the authorities use live rounds against them against the rioters against the right wing sector they have something to respond with so this is creating a genuine concern that they have weapons they are storing them in all the buildings they have taken over i haven't seen any weapons with the right wing sector with my own eyes but there are numerous pictures proving that they do have weapons on their hands or definitely the situation is still very very much burning despite being

something of a standstill at the moment and it seems that we're nowhere near the end which basically means you'll be back there very soon. thank you very much now we're following the answer government unrest in ukraine on r.t. dot com and there you can find all the latest in detail. we've been on the south african opposition has reportedly been struggling to make their voices heard in their protest against corruption soaring crime and widespread poverty on russ to see them and the postman dollar country as the nation seems to be edging towards a security crisis artie's policy or reports. we're 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 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're entering. there's a large majority of. poverty. a lot of the early hours to for a better life better way of the. crime where i am right and there 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 to. really make the best effort this morning 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 of fifty two million people than in india a country of one billion the police are struggling to cope with a sense hear hear. truthfully. yeah you can say real. brothers up to us. police. 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 like a robber and his partner often put their lives on the line without sufficient backup do you think. make any difference to a ship. can only hope. the residents of alexandra though are too busy battling 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 r.t. and xander township south africa. now let's discuss this for though with on the lengthy time on from an opposition party in south africa he joins us now live hello to you now and see government protests seem to have been gaining momentum in the south africa since the death of course nelson mandela would just say that

a lot has changed since his death what have you noticed. this year alone just to confirm that indeed protests have been continuing and spreading. our government has made up about ten people who had been part of the protests. very basic i don't think there are protests that happen after the death of nelson mandela south africa has been the world capital of protests but the last few months we've seen a heightened. militancy of those. a protest because it's a response to a government which basically is policies a deep in poverty and it is unable to respond to to the needs of the people any discrediting pleasingly government is using all a part of the racist methods in dealing with legitimate demands of the people

people are dying here for water demanding water twenty years after our liberation after our democracy after mandela was become a become president our people still don't have water don't have houses one of things that most people in the world take for granted and this country is not a poor country one of the countries in on on earth as we know we've got the biggest amend our deposit with a highly industrialized country. but they did amazing cause these interrupting go bags and you mentioned racism a little bit earlier i understand about the basic necessities that you were discussing there but how about tension between the white minority and the black population has that also been escalating. just i mean the inequalities between the white and the black population in this country are depending on escalating we must remember when you talk about this crisis of service delivery of water electricity as good education we're talking specifically about

the black majority white people at about ten percent of the population and have been taken care of by the hour but if it including our state at expense of the black majority that is why we can talk about alexander not took up with sundin which is just across the street if you took your cameras and just look at how life is in incentive which is a whites it is completely different it is like one of the you look in cities life is ok and the security there but it's not true for the black majority the problem therefore twenty years later the ruling party has not been able to dismantle a part of the you know towards racism that keeps our people apart where black people are poor and white people are taken care of but if we may look ahead to spring which is sad to be alive. time and sound africa do you think that the hand security situation could become a problem particularly if political powers are unhappy with the result than what happens. we are heading towards of course

a conflict between those who. population and the party such as the ones that we belong to the economic freedom fighters we have taken a conscious decision to support to the protest for people because the democratic system is no longer able to respond to creatively and positively to the demands of four people so we are heading towards this conflict between the citizens and those that they vote into power but did not serve the interests of our argument is that we need to change the situation give democracy a content again and make people's democracy instead of being a democracy that serves the interest of the elite and it is see the ruling party including the opposition party agree on the policies that exclude the interest of the maturity and this is not sustainable so we can indeed expect that our people increasingly are going to protest and a party such as ours is going to support those protests we believe that it is good

for people to raise up sort of big can we get benefits positive benefits from a country which is not poor we can take care of the interest but he doesn't because of the policies of those that are of the old us for the past twenty years time i thank you very much for the insight into what's happened in south africa there was an opposition party member and south africa. now there is more news coming your way in the program including an upcoming trade pact between the e.u. and the u.s. the so-called trade and investment partnership negotiates a behind closed doors promises an economic boost but could see european governments losing ground to foreign corporations. also out of the shadows the purser spy agency g c h scheme stands accused of sending fake messages on social networks and using honey traps to get its hands on information that's just ahead for you.

but there are no limits the location of a voice. to the weller's of the high tension said you would stop this storm we might think you know my people will die.

the e.u. and the u.s. are mauling what could become the world's biggest for trade agreements looking for more economic power ups the sides are discussing that they will on the transatlantic trade and investment partnership treaty but as marina portnoy found out the document quickly so governments falling into corporations pockets 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 the 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 those is an impediment to trade and therefore. simply no longer coal they're simply removed by the trade agreements so then europe is ordinarily good to g.m. . regardless of what the european people walk under the treaty cars and pharmaceutical drugs could reportedly eyed up being tested only once by 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 they 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. new york. and online kids are not all rights according to belgian protestors the country is set to remove any restrictions on euthanasia and allow the controversial practice for children find

out more on a website. also a cyborg future has drawn a little closer as scientists managed to put microscopic motors inside human cells find out what came out of its own artsy dot com. and using beautiful women as honey traps secret information could be just one of the dirty tricks juicy hage who has up its sleeve nearly from edward snowden suggests the brits are surveillance agency has gone far beyond its remits and fudging the lines of legality artie's polly boyko reports. the list of g.c.a. latest antics 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 stays

just 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 unwitting 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 they have enormous power over you we always say something interesting here with all these revelations what is the blackmail start do you 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 known ching 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 say and there is campaigning for civil liberties hairy brit said say they want to know why probably boy they ought see. more news for you in thirty minutes from now coming up though an artsy international america's controversial military

presence in japan is up for debates and breaking the silence with abby martin. transit route to vnukovo report you'll best way to the heart of most.

is obviously more for the ladies because it's pink. women wanted to avoid rate they really needed to buy guns and learn how to use them i'm. sure this is the one that i want to go with someone to give us the feel from the women are definitely a target of the gun loving mom you don't kill them when you killing money but if somebody were you with this 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 telling 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. mood than are killed by firearms if being armed made us safer in america. we should be the safest place. we're clearly not the safest.

what's up guys i'm abby martin and this is a break in this set last month a 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 of 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 eight years the only punishment given to twenty one offenders was a letter of reprimand look eyes it's clear that the continued occupation of a sovereign land is deeply hurting the people of okinawa not only is it undermining their culture but the culture of impunity 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.