transit arrow to vnukovo rippled your best way to the heart of moscow. hungry for gold russian fans spend their hopes on the country's record breaking figure skating and in the men's one thousand meter dash that's amid worries that the weather may be getting too good for the winter olympic games. no need to. eventually go ahead today despite the fine weather and rising temperatures. and ukrainian judge who ruled against rioters involved in the storming of government buildings by are known the saillant police say the murder was most likely connected to his work also. but that the early hours.

there will be. artsy travels to south africa as the nation reels and corruption crime and poverty after the passing of iconic leader nelson mandela. you're watching artsy international with me marina costs are welcome to the program that would stay far have all of the sauce two winter olympics and artsy continues its special coverage from the hearts and the heights all of the resorts now it may be action packed on the slopes and tracks of saatchi but for fans it's the figure skating that's really in the spotlight now russia is looking for a return to the on challenge dominance on the rink that it has enjoyed in the past decades and given the country's performance so far in these games that dream could

be within reach our cities and to farmers in the mountain cluster and they discussed what's in store with down in our studio. 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 show 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 i haven't 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 they've 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 was there a 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 they 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 a limb 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 i 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 since 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 toss selves if users can see they love the 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 offered 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. while athletes hellen in on those medals and podium spots where went out to speak to the people making that all possible tens of thousands of volunteers are in salt to make sure that the games aren't on the forgettable experience are things right to the andrews reports. they are the unsung and 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 cut a small army of on hand helpers 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 and rehearsing a black sea resort in what's the most is the first visit to russia personal come from glasgow scotland to come here alone. 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 the 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 i go so these competitions are held in bars. and

you can get there by crossing this week then turn to the left and you will see the big building in front of the withdrawal it's very big ever beautiful very nice and you speak english russian and deutsch yes german very good to have a show so good thank you very much was part of our. statistically just under half the help is our women and the average age is twenty five in reality though this. team has volunteers of all ages. they call the older people suva bones here so it's a reference to how advanced teach 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 be throughout the games in the paralympics long day's demanding work but it's a rare chance to take part in one of the world's largest sporting events and then name the roster making such a twenty four team something to remember. drew's. sochi

from you tube videos suits what's your blog's many athletes are documenting their experiences in salty and here's what i've been telling r.t. . there for the impressed with the russian did everything is wallace the the athletes are taking very good care and i think that's all that matters for the games being is so close it feels like just a big family. is very exciting the night of the event the crowd there there is some fear so definitely 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 their commendations or their rooms or you know the village. seems to be. unbelievable just looking from the outside and going in and practice and on and so the different groups sort of you know in the village it's been great so far. and we're going to. good pussy food every day and we get to mingle with other athletes

and it's been a pretty good sort of. we're putting up all the latest results rumors and happenings and sorting out our special section on the website twenty four team darts dot com and right now we're reporting there on how the russian president as entertaining foreign gas and the olympic host city and of course bring a new live updates on all the sporting events. moving on to other news now a judge has died in central ukraine after being shot by are known assailants police believe the attack may be linked to his professional activities are to succeed a chef skee told me what those activities could be. the interior minister of ukraine is still koyo 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 two presumably two gunshot wounds and those believed to be fired from a shotgun 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 riots is certainly causing huge attention he dealt with two of those rioters who were part of the attack on the local administration building he placed him under house arrest and have been charged with inciting riots but not yet convicted he also dealt with many civil cases like. returning of debts like inheritance and different property splits it also may have been the reason for his assassination but certainly given the intensity of what's happening in ukraine right now the connection here between the rioters and him is something discussed by the media that has no chance of dying down i spoke to all sides of this protest and

if you talk about the anti-government protest it is split within itself already there is a peaceful part of protesters who believe themselves to be peaceful you are activist as they call themselves and there is the radical part and i read an interview apart from my conversations with the guys at the governmental korda who are completely radical i read an interview recently by the leader of the right wing sect this is the core of the writing on the protest and he said that they do not listen to orders from the opposition they are not controlled by anyone they are all 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're storing them in all the buildings they have taken over i haven't seen any weapons with the right to expect with my own eyes but there are numerous pictures proving that they do have weapons on their hands so definitely the situation is still very very much burning despite being

something of a standstill at the moment. and we're following the answer governments on rest any train on artsy dot com and you can find all the latest in detail right there. the south african opposition has been reportedly been struggling to make their voices heard in their protest against corruption soaring crime and widespread poverty unrest the sea than in the postman dela contrie as the nation seems to be edging towards a security crisis artie's policy or reports. 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 it 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 that we are entering. there's a large majority of. poverty. a lot of the purely artistic tool for a better life better way of the. crime where i am right and there few places in south africa today. and 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 activists but it's as if time has stood still here many residents feel forgotten by mandela south africa it is quite frightening situation for us to. really make this 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 of fifty two million people than in india a country of one billion the police are struggling to cope with exceptional hear hear. if you can truthfully. you know you can say real sufficiently. up to us. that police have reacted. 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 right situation. we can only hope. those days but. the residents of alexander 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 and the l.m. khatam are who's from an opposition ports in south africa things this country is the land with the same problems it had two decades ago. these protests in south africa of a very basic things i don't think that the protests that happened after the death of nelson mandela south africa has been the world capital of protests but a decent 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 at deep in poverty and it does unable to respond to today needs of the people they need to scale that increasingly the government is using the old up out of date of racist methods in dealing with legitimate demands of people twenty years later the ruling party has not been able to dismantle up out of date in other words their racism that keeps our people apart where black people are poor and white people are taken care of. still to come this hour an upcoming try to pack its way in the e.u. and they go west could see the biggest unified business one ever created but critics say it's all at the mercy of mega corporations governments hands and expand their offer to focus and trusts that's ahead for you. also out of the shadows the

british spy agency g c hate stands accused of sending fake messages on social networks and using honey traps to get its hands on information that's coming out for you later. transit route to vnukovo report your best way to the heart of moscow.

drama is that can't be ignored two. stories others who refuse to notice. faces change the world lights no. food picture of today's new. home to from around the globe. look to. welcome back to r.t. international now the e.u. and the us are mauling what could become the world's biggest free trade agreements looking for more economic power ups the sides are discussing that the zero on the transatlantic trade and investment partnership treaty but as marina porton i have found out the document could lead 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 had been negotiated in 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 purportedly i got 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 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. r.t. new york. kids are not all riots according to belgian protestors the country's such remove any age restrictions on euthanasia and allow the controversial practice for children find out more on our websites. also a cyborg feature has drawn the little closer as scientists managed to put microscopic motors inside human cells find out what came out of it on r.t. dot com. here's a beautiful women as honey trap so extra secret information could be just one of the dirty tricks do you see how each q. has up its sleeve the leaks from edward snowden suggest the brits are surveillance agency is going far beyond its remits and fought in the lines of legality artie's probably boyko reports. 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'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 that information is power and then they have enormous power over 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 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 this say and there is campaigning for civil liberties here in britain say they want to know why. see. some more international headlines for you now the un has restarted its aid mission to homes in syria helped by aid agencies given out food supplies and getting people out of the besieged city hundreds have left the city since friday the truce is through to end on wednesday but president assad's government has said it will extend the deadline meanwhile the syrian opposition has put forward a proposal for a transitional government to the u.n. mediator lakhdar brahimi is in geneva. i cast away from el salvador has returned home after spending more than a year and see how say alva ryan go was found to be hydrated washed up on the marshall islands in the pacific ocean he says he managed to stay alive on

a diet of fish birds and rainwater his friend who set off in the boats with him from mexico died during the journey. up next has been bost with host aaron a. transit report your best way to the heart of moscow.

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became building every week out. you know the united states has as many think tanks as the next ten countries combined yes one thousand eight hundred twenty eight to three hundred million people i don't think. hello there i'm aaron a this is boom bust and these are the stories that we're tracking for you today. first up jenny yellen makes her first official appearance as chairwoman of the federal reserve we'll tell you what she had to say and what to expect from her new regime then we have run out of promise paul fred roberts sees

on today's show he's talking gold default u.s. economy and much a much more you definitely cannot miss this interview plus we have renowned economist you know what i just told you that one might do it now in today's big deal we have are now an economist in my opinion edward harrison he's discussing why al gore moved a popular big plant out from a top story and what this means for the system that helped out this coin in the first place all coming up it all starts right now. about the third day now our lead story janet yellen all eyes on wall street were fixed on capitol hill tuesday as janet yellen chairwoman of the federal reserve delivered her first public remarks to the house financial services committee now

yellen said that only a quote notable change in the outlook for the economy would prompt a policymaker. as to slow the pace of tapering she went on to say that financial market turmoil doesn't pose a major risk to the outlook for the u.s. economy repeating the fed's statements that asset purchases arch on a preset course so pretty much more of the same however one thing that's not the same the clear skies smooth sailing conditions that j.p. morgan chase is accustomed to now is that thirteen billion dollars settlement that j.p. morgan worked out with the fed way back in november the federal government that is it caught the attention of both washington and wall street now the landmark settlement stemmed from ak accusations that the bank overstated the quality of its mortgage securities sold before the financial crisis however a lawsuit filed on monday by the nonprofit group better markets has challenged the cost.