russia regains its traditional dominance in pairs figure skating claiming both gold and silver at the winter olympics plus some media outlets here have tried so hard to make the olympics in russia smell like cold war and a look at why the games in sochi have become the target of what some are calling a smear campaign by foreign media. and anti terror units are on high alert in greece after a radical anti-capitalist group at mit's opening fire on the german ambassador's residence and cold for a violent uprising against europe's financial elite. it

is not i am in moscow or watching r t international with me marina joshie well another big day in sochi where our team is continuing its special coverage of the winter olympics let's now cross live to you and he's on our way who's in our studio and the host city. hello from sochi where there are high expectations for today's event and celebrate tory mood after yesterday's stunning performance in the pair figure skating no host nation had won gold in that discipline in over a century and that's what russia man is with its top pair. are leaving their rivals trailing behind but what's more the silver also went to russia are farmer is on top of all of the action and now joins us live from the mountain cluster andrew it was definitely an event to remember russia as ecstatic this morning with that win anything that might top that today. well i have to say

it was a fantastic because he was in it. but if there is one gold medal that russia wants to win more than any other it is in the men's ice hockey they haven't done that since the fall of the soviet union and today they opened their account against libya and that is a game on paper you would think they would win because they have something like sixteen and compared to you see the news one they also have home with vantage although some are arguing that could bring extra pressure will by russia's main man alexandra says all the players have the experience they need because. i'm pretty sure we have experience we all do not guys to handle the pressure. i'm pretty sure it's going to fly and we're going to step on the ice we're going to . think about the game and i think by hard to win the game out of. the pressure.

on the place do seem to be relaxed maybe take a look at the. twitter feed at the moment you will see posting pictures of his famous speech as well as his time walking around in and around. meeting fans but he says. they can't take lightly that is the message from soviet legend that is that threat yeah he's a man he should know he's won three gold medals. we're expecting a good game what is really important now is the work of coaches they should have a team motivated poets no should be thinking only about hockey every march is important. but there were is factors that matter we are at home it's a big responsibility players are experiencing great pressure on top of that champions for a long time of course every player would be an owner to win a gold medal home that was hard to tell who's going to become champions though i think it's going to be one of the most exciting torments of recent times.

well just to give you a taste of what this means to russia we managed to catch up with a few fans. were definitely supporting the russian ice hockey team and we hope to make it to the match i like to wish our guys luck in victory in every match we hope that will take first place at our home olympics. i. will definitely go and watch hockey that is the best and will destroy everybody our team will definitely win a limpet goal i was born in russia so who else would i root for. while also in the usa they play slovakia today and then the big one is the usa against russia on saturday definitely one to look forward to.

absolutely we will certainly be watching of course if russia were to win gold it would be the first time in twenty years that a host nation one the hockey gods will be watching closely of course farmer live for us from the mountain cluster he is our sports expert following all of the events and results will be hearing more from him throughout the day but for now let's turn from the events to the fans artie's martin andrews has been among the spectators in sochi and now joins me to share his impressions you've been here on and off for years really been here since the olympics started tell us about your impressions as a spectator what is sochi like. regarding what i actually saw i saw the figure skating including that russian couple that were just on fire. it was it wasn't the event last night it was the night before that the short couple skating it was an event i will remember for the rest of my life. but apart from the congratulations to the super skill and when we got behind this the olympic flame you can see but it's not just the flame that's on fire the whole olympic park is on

fire it's like being in a carnival in rio it was just incredible even i was surprised in the volunteers they're doing limbo underneath the flags they're all screaming shouting dulce saying everybody all the volunteers speak english we've got back on the stands we've got russian down saying we've got stages with. traditional russian songs of course this is from various countries around the world you know cherishing and. loving listening to music and dancing and it's all brightly colored brilliant so if you can if you don't have tickets to a specific event but you go into the park there's plenty to do. but you need tickets for an event you can go into the park just as a spectator and so what are some of the things that you've seen here. well like i said you got bounced around with traditional singing is it's not just traditional songs either you've got you've got d.j.'s powers in the mountains lots of lights and i smoke here with you stack quite like the d.j. was a big part of it all right ceremony as well is this modern and of course you got to

realize that snowboarding which is a relatively new it's been there for the last two or fifteen sixteen year olds winning golds up there that's right i mean you've got to realise that it's the olympics for the new generations and with that so you've really got to cater for the you know the musical side of it so you do have like d.j.'s playing in the d.j.'s in from all around the world and i agree i think it's phenomenal let's talk a little bit more about the serious side of the olympics security it's a big thing has russia managed to have it be secure but not hammer on anybody said the security has been faultless but what about the people at the spectators are there waiting in lines where they need. every single train you go to every single cable car every single event you have to go through security it's just like going through ports of j.f.k. or heathrow but it's quicker there's no queues i think i waited more than thirty seconds of each one and they've read a case of the for the fact that you've got you've got lots of people here the crowd control is and every single person i've spoken to from america the u.k. germany whatever has said that the security issues are out of ten three people feel

safe here and the main thing is that even though it's obviously apparent it's very relaxed so in that ports i've been to around the world get what you specially it's off the top of my head you feel uncomfortable you feel violated almost but really here in sochi they're doing a superb job and i was one of the things when speaking to organizers before the olympics that was important to them to not. it hamper any kind of the spirit try so you just feel like a prison and they'll be awful if everybody feels you know or could seeing people with guns you don't see that it's really really. security excellent it helps to and hands that were how a lot of your advice it's just that grabbing a great job i don't want to go martin had to live with us in our thirty's to do thanks for much from that we'll see you again. while the lively atmosphere at the olympics groundbreaking achievements in sochi are gradually winning over doubters nevertheless some prefer to focus on the negative still arts he's going to look at

where the media criticism of these of the facts is coming from. you know some media outlets here have tried so hard to make the olympic scene russia smell like cold war in their coverage some didn't even bother to come up with new tools new graphics same old bear this cover is from one thousand nine hundred eighty when the us boycotted the summer games in the soviet union of course there were calls to boycott the sochi olympics as well similar images as the handcuffs and all barbed wire not new as you can see. craig who wrote several books about news coverage in america is here with me to chat about all this sea of negativity thank you so much for coming critic you know russia has come a long way since one thousand. and. one their readers want their audience to see as if it's still nine hundred eighty. well

these are very familiar themes both to the public but also to the owners and many of the old time reporters so people fall into a comfortable pattern that actually extends back many decades and it is quite apparent if you look for it as you. it's quite clear that people who took the old magazine covers. updated for this olympics stereotypes are strong. exactly and you know they call it the news industry but in many ways people like the old industry but the old thing but call it new. but sometimes you know in the middle of this sea of negativity you sometimes see reports like the one i saw in the new republic the officer went to a popular gay bar in sochi and writes about how desperate they start

trying to find traces of gay persecution there and they can't those they talk to say no one is bothering them except germany's part of the issue is when people self-service or or they believe they know what the story is before they go to the scene and what you're describing sounds like a classic case that happens all over the place where reporters think they know what the story is and all are trying to do is find someone to attach a name and a face to the story that's almost written in the reporter or editors have. no secrets thank you thank you you know even russians who are critical of the government found this old school smear campaign upsetting but for most it's like in the old russian saying that dogs bark but the caravan moves on so let them bark enjoy the game so i'm going to check on in washington our team. who are following

all the action as it's starting to unveil the sixth day of the olympics and i'll be back with more news from the games next hour for now though back to you in moscow. popular anger in greece torn by political and financial turmoil is reaching alarming levels a radical anti-capitalist movement has published a man fastow blaming germany for the dire state of the greek economy and threatening to launch attacks on the country's companies and politicians the popular fighters group has admitted to firing shots of the german ambassador's residence in december last year is maria joins us now live from athens for more on this or to tell us about this group and why specifically they are blaming germany

for all the problems. yeah indeed police and security forces are on high alert here in the great capital with riot police patrolling the streets in groups of five or six officers and that's after the evidence was discovered of the dangerous activity overnight cased extremist group known here in greece as the popular father group or jews or they claimed responsibility for december attack on german ambassador as residence here in the greek capital when a group of unknown gunmen fired at least fifty bullets at the building no one was heard but too many quit is that a happy and another attack this time that happened in january. they had school tours of reset as bands in the outskirts of athens as well the group sent a twenty page manifesto to

a weekly leftwing satirical magazine titled in greek explain that that was their reaction their response to greece's protracted financial crisis for which they believe germany is to blame and declared it's part of a campaign against the german capitalist machine calling on all greeks to join their fight so why is germany been blamed the country is the launches dollar for greece's bailouts the country has been relying on since two thousand and ten we each have forced greece to introduce harsh measures that eventually increased dramatically unemployment here in the country and deteriorated significantly in living standards of many agrees many share the opinion of these and group that germany is responsible germany is. the largest economy and they believe that this country is responsible for athens

a financial dad blog and of course for this reason. high that many greece could get behind this and his group calling on the residents of this country to join their fight and reece very high all for another popular rest popular revolt in the country no one wants their petition that we saw already here in. athens and in other the greek cities in two thousand and ten two thousand and twelve will include five people were killed and around three hundred others injured in demonstrations and clashes another reason for police to warre is a suspected member of a far left militant group known for its. terroristic activity and was released from pretrial detention in july of to go in a hunger strike and he was supposed to check in with police this monday but he never did he has been covering financial crisis since the beginning and we heard

many tragic stories and in these times were able to speak to some residents of athens and i can say that tiredness and despair the most common feelings here in the city and people say that. they no longer have power to even take to the streets to protest and moreover they no longer believe that could change anything that could how. this situation but to restrain very high of provocations and violent acts and this is why we will apparently see some extra security measures here in the seat and another great cities for for some time. thank you so much for bringing us the very latest and more background on this were brief enough in reporting from there journalist robert hardy says years of crippling spending cuts abroad greece to breaking point.

it's always a risk where you have unemployment twenty seven percent and many people have been ruined by what has happened as a lot of ill feeling between greeks and against germany because of the austerity measures which have been full staunch the greek people at eighty stilted greece that they seized by the germans therefore there is resentment in a greeks aren't stupid they're very sophisticated modern developed society they know that a lot of the money that is given to the greek government. to help the greeks in it already called has eighty percent of that money goes straight back to west banks to german and french banks very large luxury that it was unwisely lent money to the greek government. max and stacey will be exploring the murky waters of the financial world in a kaiser report what's that on our team later today and coming out and just

a few moments a report on the future of the crypt a currency. i'll be likely to see any sort of call to revolution aimed at preserving traditional maybe even a charcoal gender roles the islamic religion this is one very powerful counterforce towards maintaining traditional marriages and. just as they become more western liberalism. becomes powerful and we have true the sort of. civilized nations currently on a collision course. you know the united states has as many think tanks as the next ten countries combined yes one thousand eight hundred twenty eight takes to tell three hundred million

people and i think. welcome back you're watching r.t. international new york city is drawing up new rules to regulate the virtual currency be a coin and combat mind wandering that's after a large scale attack by cyber criminals broad down several online exchanges but despite the obstacles the digital currency is continuing to gain ground as artie's lucic often have found out that a bit coin conference and belin. they've come to speak chiming the land to promote their vision of an alternative financial system and investors businessmen and

curious citizens all gathered here in berlin for our conference on what they call a bit point of revolution it's the first digital currency that's not owned or operated by any sort of bank it's guaranteed payments without a middleman you can buy it with the real currency and online exchanges and that's an extract of option for those who think that today's financial system is in fact mean of an overhaul as people see how that coin is used online and they see the advantages the instant transfer of funds the security not having to use your personal data to make these transactions i think a lot of people see these advantages they tell their friends they tell their coworkers they want and they tell the merchants that they do business with it and they expand the sphere of decline and that's a view that seems to be growing more popular nowhere is that more evident than right here in berlin in fact this neighborhood boast the highest concentration of businesses assuption the currency in the world its growing list of bitcoin

establishment includes a record shop up for in-store a boutique and this bar. and here getting your hands on some bitcoins while they digitally speaking is easier than ever instead of buying them from an online exchange you can use this bitcoin a.t.m. to trade your uro's into bitcoins and use that to buy your happy hour drink and i have four of course bitcoin isn't without risk and the past few weeks haven't been too kind to the cryptocurrency apple remove the last native bitcoin wallet application from its apps door and the currency saw its third mega crash in the past few months when the largest bitcoin exchange stopped customer withdrawals because of a glitch in the software of course that led the currency to lose value by a stunning twenty percent just for a day but it's a sign that bitcoin may have a long way to go. before it's a safe bet reporting in berlin for r.t.e. and lucie county. now take a look at some of the stories that we have

a blind for you today curse aid and the british capital had to r.t. dot com to find out why so-called christian patrols are alarming officials and i wonder also there are today some i catch in the lives of ariel stunts at this year's singapore air show had to our in motion section for all the highlights. right to see. first street. and i would think that you're. on a reformer split. up to four people have been killed in clashes between rival pro-government and opposition protesters in venezuela's capital caracas armed supporters of president

maduro reportedly opened fire on student protests protesters a police officer and the leader of a pro-government group were also killed as a worst unrest in the country that it has seemed since last year's post-election riots. in pakistan a suicide bomber has rammed an explosives laden car into a police bus killing eleven officers and the incident took place in southern city of karachi outside the police academy and more than forty people were injured violence in pakistan has killed thousands of security forces and politicians in recent years as a government tries to strike a peace deal with the taliban. secretary intentions show no signs of letting up in the central african republic after a mass grave was found at a muslim rebel compound in the capital meanwhile human rights have been damn going attacks by christian militias a muslim civilians calling them asking cleansing over six thousand international

troops are currently deployed in the country trying to tackle sectarian violence i ask laying over two thousand lives. and i storm has battered the southeastern united states claiming up to eleven lives tens of thousands of households have been left without power and hundreds of flights have been canceled the storm which is now heading northeast is expected to affect up to one hundred million people and is likely to last for two more days. cockroaches may be an annoyance for households around the world with manny willing to pay a fortune to get rid of them but for others you're proving surprisingly useful it is their first explains. but stuck at trials on the hit t.v. show i'm a celebrity get me out of here where celebrities are encouraged to be disgusting dishes has inspired a whole host of creepy crawly cullen re experiences this restaurant here in london serving up locusts and crickets among other things on its many things it's not just

london customers that have a taste for the unusual according to prisoners magazine inside time one inmate claimed in a letter that prisoners had been trying cockroaches after watching the t.v. show inside time say the letter read my favorite snack to supplement the poor and me go to prison diet is cockroaches there are many cockroaches here and the best way to catch them is by placing empty crisp packets on the floor and turning the lights out letter went on to say cockroaches have a nutty taste so when you dip them in chocolate they taste like a free to not bar if celebrities eat them in the jungle then why shouldn't hungry prisoners get a bit of protein to the ministry of justice told us there is no truth behind the allegations in the letter a prison service spokesperson said in the last two years

we have reduced the average cost of prison food by around eleven percent to one pound ninety six per prisoner per day within this budget prisoners have access to a range of meals that meet nutritional requirements noble ministry of justice say that there's no truth to the allegations the prisoners are eating cockroaches. well. i have about it happening in all gone yes of course a. little good times and as a science also wanted to construct the first lady gaga and that's when i saw my young son a lot because those. were not really he called parties because my mother like it concert and was almost every i know there's not time to really. get some problems it doesn't quite sound like the rehabilitation method the government has long been

promising he spake to the chief inspector of prisons he told us to cook which is already problem in prisons generally and that he chimpy liverpool the prison the letter was allegedly sent from underwent a new inspection recently but the details of that will be released until next month in the meantime it's things that some people keep on taking a leaf or indeed americans out of bug eating programs but and supplementing that this is some places now consider to be a delicacy sarah first i see london. and coming up in the program is breaking the sat with abby martin.

a transit route to vnukovo report your best way to the house of mosco. tan a group wants to erect a statue to the lord of darkness in oklahoma city which is the logical name capital of the home of 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 should have put up of honor into the ten commandments on public property

but does that mean that satan is not seized the other wackos have the right to put up their own twisted monuments well that is a depends on how you look at things technically in western 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 then 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 shows my opinion. no cholesterol and depression. the answer. to your life. are you.

know. the. dough bardon everyone i might be martin and this is breaking the set so turns out that even in the wake of the snowden leaks proving that the n.s.a. is spying on all the earth's citizens the military industrial complex thinks the surveillance state should be taken one step further according to vice by the end of two thousand and fourteen two enormous military surveillance planes will be hovering ten thousand feet in the air with the ability to see three hundred forty miles in any direction on the east coast the booms are called j. lands and they're being purchased from raytheon by the u.s. army for two point seven billion dollars each blimp will be tethered to the ground and will have and.