transit routes. you'll best way to the heart of mosco. gold silver and relief russian fans are up to enjoy is the home team brings takes the podium in pairs figure skating while a ski jumper fell during practice gets a clean bill of health. european commission's vice president says brits are too ignorant to vote in a referendum on the e.u. membership or cast ballots in the upcoming year old parliament vote. a lot of the early on they seem to. have a fairly of the. time. right r.t. travel to south africa as the nation reels and corruption crime and poverty after the passing of iconic leader nelson mandela.

midnight in moscow i'm at present going to have you with us here on our team where it's day five of the sochi winter olympics that has just wrapped up we join now our sochi studio where they are broadcasting live kevin owen joining us with all the latest. here to everybody it is kevin and here is my continuing special coverage of the twenty second winter olympic games and what tonight is playing for russia millions of fans today in just a bit earlier tonight to watch the home team take both gold and silver medals in the figure skating final an event very close of course to the hearts of many russians pool scott was watching the competition this cut with him pole you want still those of us are fortunate enough not to be that take us through the highlights of it. well there was pure emotion inside the iceberg skating palace is russia continued their dominance of the figure skating world in european

champions tatyana volunteers are in maxing trunk of broke down amid a standing ovation at the end of their free program which secured them the gold medal rush to actually go to one to win the pairs event with. federal claim of claiming silver now germany got the bronze but it one stage it looked as if the germans were going to snatch the silver medal away from the russian pack but for a stumble in the final stages of their retained so hot right for germany but the light for russia on the thousands of fans inside the iceberg skating palace. you're poor you that as a bit of concern to another story it's emerged earlier all about russian ski jumpers injured during practice what's the latest. yes well there's there is concern over russian ski jumper mikhail. who's been taken to hospital following a training accident here in sochi now he was taken away in an ambulance and a neck brace however his coach says that his injuries aren't too serious and that

he's being checked over as a precaution at this stage is still unclear as to whether he's going to participate in his event which qualification begins in two days' time. or if it is cross from keep him on the story paul for now thanks we'll come back in just a bit later stay with us meantime artie's been keeping up with all the athletes of course including those lucky enough to find themselves on the podium we've been asking them how it feels to be a champion and whether they found in the facilities to their liking. it's funny. because it's really challenging like one of the best on his in the season the conditions on the hill. just just awesome when it's so challenging you don't have any surprise when i say. the best should win. this is what it's about really like people really know. a lot of fun the

celebrating they like the sport of course and. some good words for sochi just never told us that because i honestly all i wanted was a good result to do everything i could everything have been working for you i do want to let down my team and my coaches i came to skate well and i was nervous the first time so it turned into a matter for me because a positive news got to the athletes like and so apparently the international t.v. viewers this national epic committee has now revealed that these games are being watched by the ten percent more people than the olympics in. some figures another is about twenty five million more people that are watching the games daily across the world right now in the united states olympic program in fact said to have eclipsed all other television programs including the usual favorite leading soap operas and over talk shows but of course at a cost as well the people taking part the athletes bigger expectations with more

pressure on them we spoke about that very subject with one of the greatest russian skating stars a rino. deputy head of the olympic village. these are my full of the olympic games here and the first and which i'm not to slating as an applet but now that i'm one down the side i can see that the media does have an impact on the affluence and it's not always positive the media tends to exaggerate things and take people for granted they must understand that we the athletes. were to make mistakes which can trip up while simply walking on the pavement the media must show great restraint and understanding towards sports. now if you were able to get down into sochi i can tell you the atmosphere is entirely something else from jubilant fans and athletes to visiting dignitaries the city seems we call it a constant state of celebration let's go by the pool sculpture we did thousand a bit more about the movies but here from the start paul if. you know how do you

gauge the atmosphere what would you say. well we are just a few hundred meters away from one of the live sites where fans gather to watch the events on a giant screen and russia's success this evening in the figure skating is no doubt going to to the party atmosphere and it's nice that we're finally talking about the sports on the sporting successes because obviously the start to these games the buildup to these games were plagued by controversies but here we are well into the first week now and everything is running smoothly however away from the coastal cluster and up in the mountains there is some concern for the mild temperatures a causing the ice and snow to melt however the international olympic committee said they have absolutely no concerns about the conditions at the moment but i'd mention the smooth running of these games and that's helped in part of course by the volunteers my colleague martin andrews has more.

they are the unsung and unpaid heroes of the olympics and staging such a gigantic event without volunteers. it is 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 to help us 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 i'm rehearsing of the black sea resort in what's the most is the first visit to russia brazil will come from glasgow scotland to come to sochi 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 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 basra i still and you can get there by crossing this treaty then turn to the left and you will see the big building in front of the world to drop it's very big our beautiful very nice and you speak english russian and voyage yes german very good watching how the show said thank you very much was part of our. city's tickly just under half the helpers are women and the average age is twenty five in reality though this giant team has volunteers of all ages. they call the older people silva

volunteers it's a reference to how advanced age 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 paralympic . long days demanding work but it's a red chance to take part in one of the world's largest sporting events and then name the rest they consult she twenty forty something to remember. today andrews. sochi. good on the ball excellent job ok the big news that either just to recap this huge night for russia gold and silver the figure skating chitlins we bring you more reaction from that arena both from the spectators and the athletes in our special coverage of the twenty second and then big games and back again in time.

and we're putting up all the latest results rumors and goings on at sochi in a special section on our website twenty fourteen dot com right there now we're reporting how the russian president is entertaining foreign guests in the olympic host city and of course bring you live updates on all the events. days to go till the next parliamentary election in europe but people in one country are too ignorant to vote on e.u. matters according to a senior bloc commissioner and that's not the only choice they are qualified to make she says with more on the rhetoric here's our laura smith. these are comments made by vivian redding who is the justice commissioner a top official in the european union and it's british people that she's talking

about who she says don't know enough about the european union to be able to vote in a referendum on whether to stay whether britain should stay in or come out of it she's urging britain essentially to spend more time on debate about the e.u. before a possible referendum is announced and hell she's basically accusing people of not knowing what they'd be voting about and of sleepwalking into making a deeply uninformed decision it is a little bit hypocritical of her because she doesn't appear to be particularly well informed about the european union herself she maintains that seventy percent of u.k. laws are actually made in the european parliament house of commons study has shown that that number is vastly exaggerated and of course all of this is playing into the hands of the anti you know p. and political parties like the u.k. independence party those who would like person to leave the e.u. when a top e.u. official suggests that people in any country aren't sufficiently qualified to vote

in those elections it sort of has a whiff of elitist and a sort of with the lack of democracy which of course is what the e.u. skeptics are constantly saying about the european union and it also may serve to discourage people from the scene in the election in any european election at all oh well they think if i if i don't really know enough of someone telling me i don't know enough then maybe i won't bother to vote but we'll have to see how that pans out come may i discussed reading the statements and the attitudes to them in british society with stephen walt from the u.k. independence party in peter wilding founder of the pro british influence group. today vivian redding should hang her head in shame and be completely embarrassed and barrister on two fronts first calling the people of britain too ignorant to be able to understand the issues to vote and also she said that brits are too lazy compared to e.u. migrants i believe that she should apologize to the people of this country for the statement she's made today well that comes from

a guy whose party leader nigel farage started the year off by saying thirty million remaining in a bulgarian immigrants are knocking on the door of the u.k. first of all thirty million was a completely false figure secondly they haven't come so the point really at the heart of this story is not whether vivian reading is saying anything with a whiff of elite isn't the truth of the matter is the british people don't know enough about british influence and how the brits operate in the european union and they can't do so because they are fed a diet through various newspapers which is essentially pap it's not true well i think the british people are going to see vivian reading and also pizza for the statements he's just made is the part of the elitist group who really want to control their country be one of the most important statements that if you're reading also said today was that you must understand she said that there is only one parliament in europe and that is the european parliament and that sovereignty

is gone and that britain should understand that once they signed those treaties sovereignty had left them and remains in the hands of the european union whilst you keep right in saying that the british public are concerned about issues such as democracy and sovereignty let's battle have found and the problem is we don't battle that hat we are accused the people who believe in british membership of having sold out but what we want to achieve is british leadership in europe to complete the single market so as to create jobs and to make sure that we with germany and france create a european continent which is strong in a world which you can't don't understand want to turn the clock clock back and really the forward thinking future approach is for britain to lead in europe and that's what the public really want and. more news coming your way after a short break stay with us here on r.t. .

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seventeen minutes past the hour the south african opposition has reportedly been struggling to make their voices heard in their protest against corruption soaring crime and widespread poverty unrest see the thing in post mandela in the post mandela country that seems to be edging toward a security crisis artie's policy 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 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 cover obama 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 turning. there's a large majority of. poverty. a lot of the purely artistic tool for. their way of. right and their few places in south africa today we crime is more rampant poverty more in demick than alexander 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.

this morning township is home to maybe a quarter of a million mostly black south africans sixty percent of them are grindingly 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 mooted 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 every section hear hear. can truthfully. yeah you can say real sufficiently trained. up to us. to. train the police in south africa. 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. will make any difference to the right situation. we 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 xander township south africa. from an opposition party in south africa thinks his country is dealing with the same problems it had two decades ago. these protests and sort of. basic kinks i don't think that they put to that happen a study of 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 its policies deep in poverty and it does unable to respond to tool to needs of the people that need to skidding teasingly the government is using the old up out of date of racist methods in dealing with the g. twenty demands of people twenty years later the ruling party has not been able to dismantle up out of date you know it's their racism that keeps people apart where black people are poor and white people are taken care of kids aren't all right according to belgian protesters who say the country's said her move age restrictions on euthanasia and allowed a controversial practice for children more on our website was. a cyborg future drawing a little closer as scientists managed to put microscopic motors inside human cells

find out more and argue dot com. the e.u. and us mulling over what could be the world's biggest free trade agreement looking for more economic power up both sides are discussing the deal on a transatlantic trade and investment partnership treaty artie's marine important has more. 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 bare 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 in total secrecy away from the congress and the people. the bit about six hundred corporate executives corporate lobbyists. negotiating the deal with the united states trade representative 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 but 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 was 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 good to g.m. seeds and. regardless of what the european people walk under the treaty cars and pharmaceutical drugs could purportedly i get 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 treaty 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 regularly should 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. archie new york joe edwards a writer on economics politics and justice says governments are already doing in. many countries at the moment that there is governments that are already serving corporate interests and what little protection citizens have or in the place of the domestic governments and their ability to be able to protest the ability to be able to place petitions the free speech and the essential what could happen as corporate interests are going to be a lightning and in the soul the profits can be maximized and of course

this will mean that essentially governments will be neutered what protections are there that they're offering citizens at the at the moment these things are being eroded slowly and this can dissension and take away any protections that citizens have against corporations and we'll have a david and goliath situation where more news coming your way in about half an hour stay with us. tanna group wants to erect a statue to the lord of darkness in oklahoma city which is the logical name capital of oklahoma the saints want to build the monument of

a goat headed devil in or despite a monument to the ten commandments that was put up in two thousand and twelve yet they maybe shouldn't have put up of on to the ten commandments on public property but does that mean that same nazis to other whackos have the right to put up their own twisted monuments well that is it depends on how you look at things technically it was to liberalism everyone's beliefs by law are equal even if ninety nine people are christian and they cannot impose on that one poor satanist which sounds nice but in reality that means that those ninety nine christians have to tolerate a monument to the infernal master and defiler of the innocent on their way to work every morning part of having a culture means having a group of people of common beliefs and values if you just include anything into the culture than you longer have a culture all that remains are scattered individuals all i'm trying to say is that it's ok to abuse the devil guys but that's just my opinion. i like to see any sort of counter-revolution preserving.

charcoal gender all of the islamic religion is one very powerful force awards maintaining traditional marriages and. just as they become more western liberalism. becomes. we have to sort of. civilizations apparently on. delusional colds. so.

in rural areas the majority of families living here are pro-gun learning to fire is often part of a child's education the moral value of protecting the family is more important than the physical aspect where in south dakota. jack is five he can barely get out of the car in his own but every weekend his father teaches them how to shoot with real bullets under the watchful eye of his mother gretchen you're occurs and stuff. put your glasses down. on her that. jack hasn't been learning long and already he likes helping his dad set up for him it's just like any other day. i've been shooting since i was

five or six. and i learned the truth. in our. brains or we had in california and i used to go down and shoot every day after school i started shooting not to know i was probably a team. with brain he would go to the shooting range and he took me with a few times and tell me how to should have been doing it ever since i think it's important that women know how to shoot that they can protect themselves. the weapon is heavy difficult for such a young child to handle gretchen doesn't intervene she wants her some to feel empowered. that. we teach jack

that guns are to kill in the right situation. he's learning as a target to just learn is that target shooter for hunting but if the situation should arise but that it can be used to kill. killing par is one thing it can do but it can also be used as many more things and it's important for him to know that that it needs to be used in different. situations and we'll teach him that of course it's not correct to kill unless somebody is attacking him. he's here sights and see a target. but i can't. think you need to go up higher. remember safety. ok if you're ready for one round in.