celebrations and high hopes and salty as russia claimed gold and silver in the pairs figure skating all the stars of world hockey prepared to face all plus. some media outlets here quite hard to make. smell like cold war and look at why the games have become the targets of what some are calling a media smear campaign. and anti terror units are on high alert in greece after a radical anticapitalist group admits to opening fire on the german ambassadors and calls for a violent uprising against europe's financial elite. you're

watching r t ensor national with me marina call survivor warm welcome to now another big day in salt she where artsy is continuing its special coverage of the winter olympics. russian fans are in high spirits after a spectacular victory yesterday in the figure skating pairs now the host nation on both gold and silver the first time that's happened in over a half a century so they though the speed skating and biathlon are some of the big highlights but those are seasoned performer explains there's another contest that could solve all of those. 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 men's dyce hockey they haven't done that since the fall of the soviet union and today they open their

account against the vignette and that is a game on paper you would think they would win because they have something like sixteen n.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 and says all the players have the experience they need to cause i'm pretty sure we have experience and we all than our guys do have another 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 players 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 the park 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're 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 a 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 guess that will definitely go and watch hockey is the best and will destroy everybody our team will definitely would olympic gold i was born in russia so who else would i root for while also in

the usa they play here today and then the big one is the usa against russia on saturday definitely one to look forward to. some very tough competition for team russia as you've been hearing there as it chases of course its first men's olympic hockey gold in over two decades but for now let's turn from the arena to the fans artie's martin andrews has been among the spectators and shared his impressions with an isa now and a little bit earlier. 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 at the volunteers they're doing limbo and the flags they're all screaming shouting darts saying everybody all the volunteers speak english we've got back in the stands we've got russian dancing we've got stages with. it all singing 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 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. but like i said you've got bandstands with traditional singing is it's not just traditional songs are you've got you've got d.j.'s in the mountains last night watching a snow day with this is that quite like the d.j. it was a big part of the ride ceremony as well is this modern of course you've got to realize that snowboarding which is a relatively new it's been actually for the last two or fifteen sixteen year olds winning golds up there 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. is playing in the pro d.j.'s in from all around the world 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 has been anybody said the security has been faultless but what about the people at the spectators are there waiting in lines then they get their hands on 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 that's really a case of 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 u.k. germany whatever have said that the security issues on hand 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 the courts are people around the world. specially of the time i have you feel uncomfortable you feel violated almost but really here in sochi they're doing a superb job. of the lively atmosphere and the groundbreaking achievements in

science she are gradually went over the doubters nevertheless some prefer to focus on the negatives artie's going that's. where the media criticism of the olympics is coming from. you know some media outlets here have tried so hard to make the olympic seen 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 u.s. 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 critique you know russia has come a long way since one thousand eight hundred and some 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. it's quite clear that people took 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. 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. trying to find traces of gay persecution there and they can't those they talk to. say no one is bothering them except journalists 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 twice a 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 create 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. all as we've just heard there has been some less than objective media coverage of the games however on social media the negativity that we saw in the run up to the olympics still seem to be dying down will hear me with me to talk about bizarre tease news that it's air and social media commentator across the america high over well you've been following saul she relates the trends on social media how do you notice anything change there we will we brought some pretty pictures and maps for you to look at to give you an idea of what's going on right now this is an image from trends map of the conversation that's taking place around sochi twenty fourteen in the salt to give you an idea of the hot spots are obviously in the states northwestern europe it's really nice to see that there's a hot spot over salty itself right now which means people people are taking part of the conversation australia is also there i'm very i'm very aware that this is a very atlanta centric map and i apologize to viewers for who aren't in that part

of world. if we can bring up the sochi problems because give you an idea of how people got involved where people are talking about sochi problems and here we go now you. and see that there's basically less there's less talk going on around solve your problems than there is around twenty fourteen now again the hot spot areas are classically the united kingdom and north america canada and the united states almost exclusively now we've run a few numbers and we've got a few samples for you which we can take a look at here. we run a step through trends map of ten million tweets now if we can hold out for one second i just want to give you a quick idea what this is this is around the converse conversation this is around the opening of the olympics so there's a peak around there and then the conversation dies down and now we can run through some graphics and give you an idea of how the percentage of tweets that are taking place or the percentage of what people are saying about sochi. is more about the

games than it is about social problems here's the cities where are most intense to be tweeting about sochi delighted to see moscow and st petersburg up there with the global twitter big shots and if you want to take a look at the hash tag there we can see this is global figures so saucy twenty four is twenty fourteen is figuring about twenty four percent of the conversation you had another ten percent on the site you live is about thirty five percent a straight up olympics so the problems globally trying to get about three percent of conversations on their eyes that's not as much as they was before you know exactly the percentage going down so the meet the mean seems to have lived for a short glorious existence it's over that not without its merits here we've we've had a quick look at vancouver the former host city of course predecessor to sochi and as you can see the guys are very fixated on the games in vancouver there are five times up there before we had problems still trading slightly above average global average at about four percent there abouts we can get you take let's take a look at london london again we took us about a quarter of

a million tweets there as you can see the figures themselves all following the same trends a big peak over the weekend of the opening in the things die off sport breaks out at the olympics in a limited coverage problems here in london three percent at a one higher in the interim. it's ranking then canada let's take a look at washington d.c. as well and see how the yanks have fairing there. out of a reasonably small sample of tweets but again social problems is trying to reason be high there at five percent give you an idea of how people are working it into their conversation but that's not to say that if someone's using the social problems tweet that it's all about controversy that's taking place it's what you want if there's if you have tried to be critical of the games themselves let's take a look at what people are tweeting and you can see that's all she problems is to has taken on a life of its own there's late in the west coast states account go to bed that's a problem marina another who lost their keys in their car going west have to do with it well you know well apparently some of the guys are having trouble watching the games and getting some sleep on the west coast states it's a big time difference now there are others who are saying that this problems

conversation shows a certain cultural arrogance towards russia and i think that's what diane has been referring to in her report for us earlier on we can roll the head there guys again . who say following up on that saying it was a lack of empathy and ignorance and now here i think with all empathize with this we can look at some of the problems that are actually happening on other media this is a medal table where a.b.c. unfortunately mixed up the u.s. counted in the netherlands the dutch flags in their medals table you can understand it's you know it's a high pressure it's sports news right now it's got to be pressures and we can move it on the guys thanks very much. this was of course a problem i'm going to be not quite sure how it's a social problem but it was such a totally random from the intensity when you use room to a guy with a desk and some screws. that's the problem screws alone is just now and this is probably the most interesting one an austrian journalist working out of vienna posts a picture of a building in

a pretty poor state of disrepair and he says things aren't as they should be in the media center we can roll up there and have a look and he's immediately contacted by c.n.n. because they want to permanently use the photo in all of their platforms and affiliates. the problem is that the photograph was taken in vienna not so much and this is not the first time we hear about something like this happening you know it's of course to look at social media you know it takes place or there's not a lot we can do about it i guess you probably just gives it back in the joy the right yeah. it's really really interesting what you could you call that the twenty twenty two olympics were you know winter olympics i think will be harsh talking to into real impacts if we can get around to it but yeah it's the it's the most tweeted sporting event in the history of twitter in the in the seven years that russia has been building. the sochi olympic infrastructure twitter acquired itself whatever billion two hundred fifty or five hundred million users in the meantime and became one of the most valuable companies on social media so you know it's

a it's a changing world the twenty first century world looking for the world cup with this so should be a lot of will be for the world cup will be interesting what will happen on social media for the closing ceremony and whether perhaps we'll see a different try and there will definitely be calling you so you tell us about all of look forward to it oh thank you. well we'll continue our special coverage all of the games bringing you all the latest from the olympic capital next hour so do you stay with us for that. twenty four promises the ultimate exhilarating winter. and it's now a make seven zero in on the bus to take these teams to sochi twenty four take. on. consider now with other popular anger in greece torn by political and financial turmoil is reaching alarming levels a radical answer capitalist movement has published the money festo blame in germany

for the dire state of the greek economy now and threatening to launch attacks on the country's companies and even politicians the popular fighters group has admitted so far and the german ambassador's residence in this ember last year our seas maria fanaa has all the details. 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 extremist group known here in greece as the popular father's group or jews or they claimed responsibility for december attack on german ambassador is residence here in the great capital when a group of a known gotten fired if least fifty bullets at that building no one was heard but many is that it happened and another attack this time at the tap and in january.

they had quarters of me set us back in the outskirts of athens as well the group sent a twenty page manifesto to a weekly left wing satirical magazine titled the mouse in greek explained that that was their reaction their response to greece's for attractive 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 great financial crisis since the beginning and we heard many tragic stories and if in these times we're able to speak to some residents of athens and i can say that's tied news and despair are among the most. one feelings here in the city and people saying they're tired they no longer has power to even take to the streets to protest and moreover they know that could change anything there how. solve their situation but to restrain very high of provocations and wall and acts and this is why we will apparently see some extra security measures here in the city and in our great cities for for some time. journalist robert her name as the years of crippling spending cuts have brought to breaking points it's always a risk where do you have an employment twenty seven said to many people it ruined

by what has happened there's a lot of deals between greeks and against germany because of the austerity measures which have been full staunch the greek people at eighty silted greece that they seized by the germans therefore there is research about it 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's already called has eighty percent of that money goes straight back to western banks to german and french banks very large largely that it was otherwise to be let money to the greek government. will return her soon with our reports on the future of the cryptocurrency bitcoin to stay with us for the.

please. they are looking very hard to take. that back with the terror threat there.

for the. welcome back to artsy international consumer with all the news now. new york city is drawing up a new girls to regulate the virtual currency bitcoin and combat's money laundering that's after a large scale attack by cyber criminals brought down several online exchanges but the spy be obstacles the digital currency is continuing to graying ground as ours he's loose a capital found out about coin conference and berlin. they've come to speak to mingle and 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 the 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 meaning 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 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 both the highest concentration of businesses assuption the currency in the world is 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 good points while the

digitally speaking is easier than ever instead of buying them from an online exchange you can use this big koinange t.m. to trade your uro's into bitcoins and use that to buy your happy hour drink it might have for 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. and lucy catherine of. so some other news from around the world now thousands of people in southeast england have been left without electricity have to severe storms and flooding one elderly man has been killed by falling power cable

officials earlier issued red alerts for the worst affected areas which have seen major travel disruptions severe flood warnings remain in place for parts of south or in england and forecasters expect more. tomorrow. up to four people have been killed in clashes between rival pro-government and opposition protesters in venezuela capital caracas armed supporters of president to do or over the course of me opened fire on student protesters a police officer and the leader of a pro-government group were among the victims it's the worst unrest the country has seen since last year's post-election riots a correspondent from our sister channel r.t. spanish experienced the turmoil at first hand. you. know.

that's something. that was going to carry. her crew from our to spanish were on the roof of a media center in caracas preparing for a live reports when the gunfire broke out fortunately none of them were kurds. or nice about half an hour from now coming up though and spray knesset's with that martin.

transit route to vnukovo report your best way to the heart of mosco. a satanic 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 satanists nazis the other wackos have the right to put up their own twisted monuments well that is it 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 guy's profession. my opinion. there's a saying when you're in the arctic you have the entire world at your feet. she looks like a fairly simple shit but really she's not simple little handful of people have access to the nuclear icebreakers the real king here is at the polar bear and ice breakers come second not a single complex expedition to the arctic can be conducted without the russian nuclear powered fleet of ice breakers we've undertaken

a unique operation. the northern sea route rushes on to go ice breakers. though barred on 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 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. lens 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 an insanely powerful cameras radar and built in sensors and you know what that makes sense because just knowing that everything you do online is being categorized isn't showing enough dissent apparently we need to have a man is seen orwellian symbol of the surveillance state in all of our faces but according to raytheon that's just silly talk because these books have nothing to do a spy on americans their stated purpose is to spot incoming threats since when do we need to put up humongous big brother blimps in order to spot threats look we already have to worry about cameras on top of every building about drones in the sky do we really need giant blimps obstructing our skies implicitly telling the citizens living underneath their ominous shadows to obey so if you want to keep just a shred of privacy in this country and join me and let's break the set.