the northern sea. rushes to its breakers. celebrations and high hopes and song clenches olympic gold and silver and the pairs figure skating and the stars of world hockey prepared to face all. the media outlets here have tried so hard to make. the smell like cold war look at one of the games have become the targets of what some are calling a media smear campaign. and terror units are on high alert after a radical as a capitalist group admits to opening fire on the german ambassador's residence and calls for a violent uprising against europe's financial elites. live

from the heart all the russian capital this is artsy international with me. to the program now another big day and see 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 the host nation won both gold and silver which is the first time that's happened in over half a century so it's a though the speed skating and biathlon are some of the big highlights bazza as our teams andrew former explains there is another concept of those. well i have to say it was a fantastic because he was in it for trying often polishes ya 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 the 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 see the news one they also have home with vantage although some are arguing that could bring extra pressure although russia's main man alexandrovitch says all the players have the experience they need to cut i'm pretty sure we have experience and we all than our guys do have another pressure. and 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 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 posted 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'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 home 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 fifty five. we're definitely supporting the russian ice hockey team and we hope to make it to the match like to wish our guys luck in victory in every match we hope that will take first place at our home olympics. 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 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. so some very tough competition for team russia as you've been here in there as that of course chases its first man celeb golden over to track aids but for now let's turn from the arenas to the fans artie's martin andrews has been among the spectators and he shared his impressions with an isa now an hour. 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 the volunteers there doing limbo underneath the flags they're all screaming shouting dull 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 the. traditional russian songs of course this is from various countries around the world you know cherishing and loving listening to

traditional. 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 well like i said you got bounced around with traditional singing is it's not just traditional songs i've you've got you've got d.j.'s powers in the mountains lots of light snow here with us that quite like the d.j. was a big part of the overall ceremony as well is this modern of course you've got to realize that snowboarding which is a relatively new it's been there for the last two or fifteen sixteen year olds winning gold up there but right now that 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 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 line then they are 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. 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 course our people around the world. specially. you feel uncomfortable you feel violated almost but really here in sochi they're doing a superb job. the lively atmosphere on the ground breaking achievements and so she are gradually went in over the doubters nevertheless some prefer to focus on the

negative arts he's going that she can look south where the media criticism of the olympics is coming from. you know some media outlets here have tried so hard to make the olympic sing 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 the 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 the 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. 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 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. part of the issue is when people say. or they believe they know what the story is before they go to the scene and what you're describing sounds like a plastic 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 to let them bark

enjoy the game so i'm going to check on in washington our team. as we 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 that all seemed to be dying down earlier with discuss this with our it sees news that it's there and social media commentator i live across and this is what he had to say 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 in northwestern europe it's really nice to see that there's a hot spot over such itself right now which means people people are taking part of the conversation 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 can see that there's basically less there's less talk going on around sochi problems than there is around sochi twenty fourteen now again the hot so i'll spot areas are classically united kingdom and north america canada and the united

states almost exclusively now we've run a few numbers and we've wrote a few samples for you which we can take a look at here. we prepped up we ran a set to transmit out 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 peek 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 that are most intense to be tweeting about sochi delighted to see moscow and st petersburg up there with the with the global twitter big shots and if you want to take a look at the hashtags that sochi twenty fourteen is figuring about twenty four percent of the conversation you add another ten percent on the site you live is about thirty five percent a straight up olympics so a few problems globally trying to get about three percent of conversations on

softly there but that's not to say that if someone's using the sochi problems tweet that it's all about controversy that's taking place and so if you were over there if you had tried to be critical of the games themselves let's take a look at what people are tweeting 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 the states can't 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 apparently some of the guys are having trouble watching the games and getting some sleep on the west coast states it's a sign a 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 has been referring to in. a report for us earlier on we could roll ahead there guys again. who following up on that saying it was a lack of empathy and ignorance and now here i think we all empathize with this we can look at some of the problems that are that are actually happening on other media this is a medals table where a.b.c. unfortunately mixed up the u.s.

counted in the netherlands the dutch flags in their medals table going to their standards you know it's a high pressure it's sports news right now is going to be over for a side pressures and we can move it on the guy. guys thanks very much. this was of course a problem i'm really not quite sure how it's such a problem but it was such a totally random for me intensely when you use room to a guy with a desk and some screws. that's the problem screws alone is just now here and this is probably the most interesting one an austrian journalist working out of your 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 saatchi media center we can roll up there and have a look and he's immediately contacted by c.n.n. who say 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 we'll continue our special coverage of the game is bringing you all the latest from the atlanta capital next hour these three with us from.

the g. twenty fourth in promising the ultimate exhilarating winter and. it's now a make heaven out and the last of these teams for sochi twenty four take. on. moving on to other news now popular anger in greece torn by political and financial turmoil is reach an alarming levels a radical and c. capitalist movement has published the manifesto blame in 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 admits it's a firing shots at the german ambassador's residence in december last year artie's many a financial has 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 often the evidence was discovered of the dangerous activity over medicare extremist group known here in greece as the popular father group ordered to say they claimed responsibility for december attack on german ambassador as residence here in the great capital when a group of a known got fired fifty least fifty bullets at the building no one was heard but many isn't happy and another attack this time of the to happened in january. they had quarters of reset us back in the outskirts of athens as well the group sent a twenty page manifesto to a weekly leftwing satirical magazine titled the mouse in greek explained 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 largest donor for greece's bailouts the country has been relying on since two thousand and ten we each have forced greece to introduce harsh or. matters 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 our team has been covering great 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 the tide notice and despair are among the most common 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 would how. old the situation but to restrain very high of provocations and this is why i will apparently see some extra security measures here in the city and another rig cities for for some time. well overturn very soon with our reports on the future of the cryptocurrency bitcoin so you stay with us. i marinate join me. for impartial and financial commentary

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city which has drawn up neutrals to regulate the virtual currency bitcoin and combat money laundering that's after a large scale attack by cyber criminals brought down several online exchanges but the spike the obstacles that there are still currency is continuing to gain ground as are ceaselessly cash and all found outside a bed 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 mean of an overhaul 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 assumption the currency in the world is growing list of bitcoin establishment includes a record shop appliance store a boutique and this bar. and here are getting your hands on some bitcoins while they digitally speaking of 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 with their 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. and lucy catherine of. so some other news now from around the world thousands of people in southeast england have been left without electricity after severe storms and flooding one elderly man has been killed by a fall and power cable officials earlier issued rather alerts for the worst affected areas which have seen major travel disruptions severe floods warnings remain in place for parts of south of england and forecasters expect more torrential rains tomorrow. in pakistan a suicide bomber has the bomb laden the car into

a police boss killing thirteen officers the incident took place outside a police academy in the south of the city of karachi more than forty people many of them civilians were injured in the blast the city has been plagued by secretary and political violence for years with frequent attacks on security forces. up to four people have been killed in clashes between viable pro government and opposition protesters and venezuela's capital caracas armed supporters of prize the reports of the opened fire on student protesters a police officer and the leader of a pro-government group were among the victims it's the worst armrests 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. though he added yeah thank you.

that was our c.e.o. mother. and her crew from r.t. spanish were on the roof of a media science or in caracas preparing for a live report when the gunfire broke out fortunately none of them were hurt. excuse me. may be an annoyance for households around the world. trying to talk here with many willing to pay a fortune to get rid of them. but for others or prevent unsurprisingly use forty sorry for the explains this reporter saw the spring as you can see i can barely speak. 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 hasn't fired

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 but it seems 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 is celebrity to 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 eating cockroaches. well. i have a motor. going all gone yes of course a. little good. as a science also want to talk the first lady gaga as it does with my son my son in law because those. were not really he called parties because my mother conflict i was

almost. as i know he's not going to really. get some problems it doesn't quite sound like the rehabilitation method the government has long been promising he spoke to the chief inspector of prisons he told us a cook which is a republican 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 is things that some people keep on taking on the or indeed out of bug eating programs but and supplementing. this is some places now consider to be a delicacy. i see london. brave star for us they're all coming up next with delve into the financial world of white

house airing a right here on artsy and sir national. tanna 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 has not ceased under 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 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.

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that's proving to be played in the morning the side of jamie diamond coming up it all starts right now. with. our lead story today mr john or zine and accountability now in march of two thousand and ten john kors on the former governor of new jersey and ousted head of goldman sachs announced he would become the new c.e.o. of m.f. global now as soon as corazon arrived he began a radically revamping the company into a full service service brokerage firm one that would buy and sell stocks and bonds for clients as well as use its own money to help clients trade and to place its own bets however corps.