transit route will report your best way to the hearts of most. celebrations and high hopes aides such as russia clinches a limb big gold and silver in the pairs figure skating and the stars of world hockey prepare to face off plus some media outlets here have tried sold hard to make the olympic seen russia smell like cold war. a look at why the games have become the target of what some are calling a smear campaign by foreign media. and i tarried units are on high alert in greece after a radical and a capitalist group admits to opening fire on the german ambassador's residence and calls for a violent uprising against europe's financial elite. international

coming to live from moscow i'm reading well another big day in sochi where our team is continuing its special coverage of the winter olympics let's cross live now tony said our way who is in our studio and the host city. hello from sochi russia and france here in high spirits after a spectacular victory yesterday in pair figure skating the host nation won gold gold and silver the first time that's happened in over half a century for today speed skating and by off along are some of the big highlights along with men's figure skating with you can you christian call aiming for victory but as artie's andrew farmer explains there's another contest that could top all of those for russia. well i have to say it was a fantastic because he was in it for trying coffin polish but if there is one gold medal that russia wants to win more than any other it is in the man die for you they haven't done that since the fall of the soviet union and today they opened

their account against a vignette and that is a game on paper you would think they would win because they have something like sixteen and h.l. stars compared to you see the news one they also have home with vantage although some are arguing that could bring extra pressure will they russia's main man alexandrovitch says all the players have the experience they need to cause i'm pretty sure we have experience and we all do our guys to handle the pressure and i think i'm pretty sure it's going to be flying soon as we're going to step on the ice we're going to. think about the game and i think about hard to win the game not about. the pressure and stuff and 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 place but it is time walking around in and around the limping part and meeting fans but it's a game they can't take lightly that is the message from soviet legend like this

that threat yeah he's a man he should know he's won three gold medals we. were expecting a good game what is really important now is the work of the coaches they need to have the team motivated there are various other factors at play the biggest is the word it's a major responsibility players are experiencing great pressure and on top of that we haven't been champions for a long time i think it's going to be one of the most exciting tournament's of recent times. well just to give you a taste of what this means to russia we managed to catch up with the thief and. we're definitely supporting the russian ice hockey team and we hope to make it to the match like to wish our guys luck and victory in every match we hope that will take first place at our home olympics. i do that this year but i will definitely go and watch hockey that soup is the best and will destroy everybody our team will definitely win olympic gold i was born in russia so who else would i root for but

also russia is great for the usa they play. it won the usa against russia on saturday definitely one team that would see. now if team russia does win gold in ice hockey that would make up for some losses in other disciplines as the country hasn't won an olympic hockey final in more than twenty years from now let's turn from the arenas to the fans are to smart andrews has been among spectators in sochi and share some of his impressions with me in our sochi studio. we've 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 the carnival in rio it was just incredible even i was surprised the volunteers there doing limbo when the big flags were all screaming shouting saying everybody all the volunteers speak english we've got back in the stands we've got russian down saying we've got stages with. traditional russian songs of course this is from the various countries around the

world you know cherishing and loving listening to traditional worship music and dancing and it's all brightly colored brilliant and 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 are you've got you've got d.j.'s from out to the last light snow there with us that quite like the d.j. it was a big part of the ride ceremonies are those this modern kind of course you got to realize that snowboarding which is a relatively new it's been the actually for the last year fifteen sixteen year olds winning golds up there that's right i mean you've got to realize 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. is playing in the deejays in from all around the world i think it's phenomenal

let's talk a little bit more about the serious side of the olympic security it's a big thing has russia managed to. have it be secure but not hampered anybody said the security has been faultless but what about the people at the spectators are there waiting in lines then they are there 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 was there i waited more than thirty seconds each one now and they've read a case of for the fact that you've got you've got lots of people here the crowd control is every single person i've spoken to from america u.k. germany whatever have said that the security issues are headed out of ten people feel safe here and the main thing is that even though it's obviously apparent it's very relaxed so in that courts are people around the world get what you specially of the job i have you feel comfortable you feel violated almost but really here in sochi they're doing a superb job for the lively atmosphere and some groundbreaking achievements here in

sochi are gradually winning over some of the doubters members of the us some prefer to focus on the negative party's going to look now at where the media criticism of the olympics is coming from. you know some media outlets here have tried so hard to make the olympics in 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 you see handcuffs and all barbed wire not new as you can see andrew 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 pleasured craig you know russia has come a long way since one thousand eight hundred and it's a very different country now but it seems some of these outlets one their readers

want their audience to see what russia 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 is quite apparent if you look for it as you've done and. it's quite clear that people took to the old magazine covers and said let's just 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 themes but call it news 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 for injury and 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 sensor 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. to crack 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 let them bark enjoyed. games i'm going to check on in washington our team. well that's it from us here in sochi for this hour but our olympic coverage continues in moscow marina back to you. all right thank you very much and he said for us this and as we just heard some less than objective media coverage of the games however on social media the negativity that we saw and the run up to the olympics does seem to be dying down and here was me to talk about this is our news editor and social media commentator everything so much for joining us will be interesting to compare e know how things change as you've watched you know how things progress before the game started and what's happening now she break it down for us yeah ok the first quickly to the sochi problems. problems mean that it is the reason has become what the guardian called a backlash against the backlash i think so people are what you're seeing is people media drawing back from the many see is the very harsh coverage that was given to

sochi in the around the opening this is from our friends a transmission through our friends of trans about you know idea of how and where sochi twenty fourteen is trending most strongly and pretty basically will show over the next couple minutes that we're sochi twenty four is trending so if your problems are all trending but they're not trying to be anywhere near strongly or is popularly the those who are interested in the games itself so there's no surprise that north america and western europe comprise a great intensity for such a twenty four study what it's really like to see that was given a small amount of people that are inside you right now and what you're talking about you know one hundred thousand or so actually is having an impact and they're tweeting as strongly as france and some parts of the states as well but we can take a look i want to take a look at what's comprising the sochi problems mean and how that's working so if we can maybe call up a couple of tweets and give people an idea of how people are tweeting so much of problems this is coming from the west coast of the united states and canada where

people are basically having trouble with with the time difference between sochi and there they can't get to bed we've got people locking their keys. for twelve minutes in a car or something and they're tweeting this under saatchi problems. canadians are having real trouble getting up because they're such hockey fans they got to get up at four am to watch the game now there's also the then people having a little go politically at the kind of thing that stands that politicians in the states are taking on saatchi and also about the weather in sochi now here people are taking. an article came out explaining that there's an element of snobbery in the salty problems mean and that americans and the rest of world should really step off a little bit and have. to think about what they're doing now can we hold out please anya. that's gone it's gone ok well look it doesn't matter some of the images that are coming out then are the loose screws on my desk now hold this one please this is a good one this was tweeted by a correspondent from the. goggles on iran and he tweeted that he was on the way to

the media center in sochi the streets not quite ready yet now if we could roll the next a look at the response he got. and this was a producer from c.n.n. who got in touch and said i work with c.n.n. can we use your photo in the media center permanently in all of our platforms and affiliates they were very happy to show that the media center wasn't the only problem was that the photo was taken in vienna so what we've got is basically i think you know there's a lot of there's a lot of different opinions within the saatchi problems mean that if you can bring up the graphics or bring up the numbers and have a look at how that's trending from city to city and we guys can we bring up the graphics please for the numbers. well here we go ok you know we can bring it up on the other side ok. we've got some we've got tweets have a look at the top cities that are tweeting around sochi twenty fourteen as you can see it's pretty much what we see what we showed you earlier except that moscow and st petersburg are involved in the conversation going on we can we can just roll

through the numbers now give people an idea of what and how such a twenty fourteen is trending compared to such a problem and certainly there's a lot of activity by judging by what he just told us in sochi and around sochi around the world so yes well these numbers ok here you go i mean this is this is a sample of ten million tweets taken over the last week again trans might help us out with this and they were great so you can see that twenty fourteen is twenty by twenty four percent so if you problems at about three percent so the idea that we can just run through the graphics let's go city by city guy starts so the point we want to make we want to put the people here is that despite the idea that due to such a problem is more popular it has more followers on twitter than sochi twenty fourteen it's not trying to get anywhere near that like a positive i mean not just as we can see over here yeah exactly because there's a winter and there you can talk about different things here i mean related to saatchi and not related to sochi sure sure you have some kind of like goes into the same hash tag it's such a problem it goes into people a number of we can roll it would just roll the numbers guys just give people a quick idea of the of the city states we can just roll straight through them city

by city here i don't think we need to have we need to hang around particularly down here is what i do number three on k. now the canadians other sports and social programs way down low but we're still reason behind four percent here but again you can see it peaked around the opening peaked again when the canadiens lost against the states in the hockey over refereeing decision again here we are at toronto same thing again social problems four percent guys that canadians are at their sport we can just keep going guys just keep running keep going to the graphics that's really amazing more than three hundred thousand tweets and yeah yeah london for it will be these are samples again london again you saw such a problem was slightly lower here we have sochi problems and for new york we go back to the states now social problems rising up here five percent yet there is more critical or you know the. really americans are embracing that to the critic creative side of twitter and i think they look they enjoy playing around with this what your problems mean what it is and what it would have related to so if you were not related so i feel like you know especially like the tweet when someone says they forgot their keys they were got themselves locked in the whatever yeah. so if

you probably you know from l.a. then again. we've got a four percent right there so that there's a there's a slightly higher percentage of americans using the mean but other vote as you can see even though they the ministry is trending maximum one quarter the popular unfortunately i would ya graphy has an influence there isn't it sure well twenty first century world is that i mean everyone's talking about sochi at least for now and for the time being until the olympics are over and that will that is going to be the focus of our attention as well here on c.n.n. national for now the ira thank you so much for bringing it all down for us and for explaining how things work in social media and we'll continue our special coverage of course of the games bringing you all the latest from the olympic capital next hour so stay with us for that. the g. twenty fourteen plus is the ultimate in the exhilarating winter and. joining us

now a make seven zero and the best of all the fake news teams for sochi twenty four take . all the. popular anger in greece torn by political and financial turmoil is reaching alarming levels of radical and a capitalist movement has published a massive faster blaming germany for the dire state of the greek economy and threatening to launch attacks on the country's companies and politicians the popular a fighter's group has admitted to firing shots at the journal basters residence in december last year are just riffing off the has the details. police and security forces are on high alert here in the greek 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 over medicare extremist group known here in greece as the popular far group or to say they claimed responsibility for december attack on german ambassador as residence here in the great capital when a group of

a known gotten fire it is policed fifty bullets at the building no one was heard but too many is that it happened and another attack this time at the tap and 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 the malice 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 germany been blamed the country is the largest donor for greece's bailouts the country has been relying on since two thousand and ten and we

each have forced greece to introduce harsh austerity measures that eventually increased dramatically unemployment here in the country risa high that many greece could get behind this and his group calling on the residents of this country to join their fight has been covering financial crisis since the beginning and we heard many tragic stories and even this time we were able to speak to some residents of athens and i can say that's tied news and despair are among the most. when feelings here in the city and people say they're tired 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. their situation but still restrained very high of provocations and bolland and this is why we will

apparently see some extra security measures here in the city and in other cities for for some time max's days he will be exploring the murky waters of financial world in the kaiser report so you can watch that interview later today coming out in just a few moments ago a report on the future of the cryptocurrency. this is obviously more for the ladies because it's pink. women wanted to avoid rape they really needed to buy guns and burn how to use them. this is the one that i want to go with them once again it's the fear. when the definitely the target of

the gun lobby you don't kill them when you're killing me but if somebody would you with this with her. i know to say more and more if that's really scary marketing tactics which implies that women have some sort of moral obligation to guns to protect their family and young girls shoot out here too so we do have a pink wife. or kids young kids choke on food than are killed by firearms if being armed made us safer in america we should be the safest nation on earth. were clearly not the safest. welcome back you're watching r t international and new york city is drawing up new rules to regulate a virtual currency bitcoin and combat money laundering that's after a large scale attack by cyber criminals brought down several online exchanges but

despite the obstacles the digital currency is continuing to gain ground and searches lucic often have found out at a big point conference in berlin. i think they've come to speak to make the land to promote their vision of an alternative financial system and investors businessmen and curious citizens of 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 payment 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 it's people see how big coin is used online and they see the advantages the instant transfer of funds the security not having to see 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 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 appliance store a boutique and this bar. and here getting your hands on some bitcoins while the digitally speaking is easier than ever instead of buying them from an online exchange you can use this big coin 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 app store 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 m to seek out from the. four have been killed in clashes between rival pro-government and opposition protesters in venezuela's capital caracas armed supporters of president's been dury portably opened fire and student protesters a police officer and a leader of a pro-government group were among the fatalities it's the worst unrest the country has seen since last year's post-election riots. in pakistan a suicide bomber has rammed a bomb laden car into a police boss killing eleven officers the incident took place outside a police academy in the southern city of karachi more than forty people many of them civilians were injured in the blast the city has been plagued by sectarian and political violence for years with frequent attacks on security forces.

thousands of people and southeast england have been left without electricity after severe storms and flooding one elderly man has been killed by a falling power cable officials earlier issued red alerts for the worst affected areas which have seen major travel disruptions severe floods warning remain put in place for parts of southern england and forecasters expect more torrential rains tomorrow. sectarian tensions 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 and while human rights groups have condemned him going tax by christian militias on muslim civilians calling them ethnic cleansing over six thousand international troops are currently deployed in the country trying to tackle sectarian violence that has claimed over two thousand lives and coming up a report of why women in the united states are heading to the gun stores.

the terror group wants to erect a statue to the lord of darkness in oklahoma city which is the logical name capital

of oklahoma the cygnus want to build the monument of a goat had a 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 it was to liberalism everyone's beliefs by law are equal even if ninety nine people. christian 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 and just include anything into the culture the new no 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.

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 your curse and stuff.

your glasses down. the other. one. 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 are 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 late teens. with brain you would go to the shooting range and he took me with a few times and tommy had a 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. teach that. we teach jock that guns are to kill in the right situation. he's learning as a tart to just learn as a target shooter for hunting but if the situation should arise but that it can be used to kill. and. 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.