if you care about. this is why you should care only. a star studded team russia needs to nail and its first man's ice hockey game against slovenia and that's when the men brought together the sport's biggest names some media outlets here have tried so hard to make the olympics in russia smell like cold war recycled symbols and thirty year old rhetoric and look at why some in the media are on a crusade against the winter games. also leave the u.k. leave sterling london says it won't share a currency that scotland if it votes cast to the independents. and the radical movements in greece declares war on the german capitalist machine blame in berlin for their country's surge in poverty and unemployment.

this is artsy international with me. welcome to the program the social games are now in so there are six they and r.t. as they're bringing you all the triumph defeats and drama of the twenty second one . spirits are high and sonship at this moment so as the tension the first game for russia's men's hockey team is on their way with their star heavy lineup matched against slovenia all watching the game as our team's andrew former so let's cross to him now hi there andrew so i take it that it's all go rather well for the russian side. it is isn't it at the moment of that game started

around about thirty minutes ago but russia already leading two goals to nil quick goldschmidt. getting on the scoresheet they should win comfortably too in many people's opinion that's because they do have a star studded squad including sixteen players from the n.h.l. compared to just one. they also have home with vantage although some people are saying that in itself could create extra pressure at least that's what the former soviet legend. told us and he's a man you should know because he's won olympic gold three times. there were a sprinter that matter we are told it's a big responsibility players are experiencing great pressure on top of their champions for a long time of course every player would be only to win a gold medal so. that was hard to tell who's going to become the i think it's going to be one of the most exciting torments of recent times.

when he mentioned that i hadn't won for a long time in fact i haven't won since the fall of the soviet union and i think that out of all the gold medals on offer here in sochi the gold in the men's ice hockey is the one that russia would love to win and to give you some idea about that we caught up with a couple of fans. but it was definitely supporting the russian ice hockey team and we hope to make it to the match i like to wish our guys luck and victory in every match we hope that we'll take the first place at our home olympics. i do that they 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. and incidentally that gold medal will be contested on the last day of the lympics now there are medals being contested today as well the one to pull for russia but she's just speed skater and she's in the one

thousand meters and hoping to add to the silver medal she won in the five hundred meters and then a little later we will see the figure skating you can improve on the ice again he's going through his second gold here in sochi after picking one up in the team event and he will be taking part in the short program. andrew obviously of russian fans are only focusing right now on the hockey dimension figure skating what else do russian fans have to look forward to today. well in terms of medals is worth looking out for a name for the russians in the loser story the skeleton they're doing pretty well today the currently in second place but there's a couple more runs to go and they will take place tomorrow so essentially they are the main ones to look out for particularly the figure skating because you've got any plushie incurious such a name here in russia and many people would love to see him overcome all the back problems he's had over the last year or so i would love to see him try and get on

that podium maybe it's a bit too much to ask him to get another gold the last gold he was back in cheering he did get a silver and bank peace will be his last game so fingers crossed he will come away with something it's a short program today and then it will be the free skate tomorrow. will let you go back to the game so that you can bring us all the latest updates as soon as it's gone thank you very much for that report. our team is andrew farmer there now while of course all eyes are on team russia as much anticipated for a soccer match and that's one to fourteen winter olympics it's not the only thing going on in the coastal cluster artie's manhattan andrews in fact the now when the discuss what else is on offer. 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 there doing limbo underneath the flags they're all screaming

shouting 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 of the various countries around the world you know cherishing and loving listening to traditional worship use it in 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. like i said you've got bounced around with traditional singing is it's not just traditional songs are you've got you've got d.j.'s in the mountains lots of light snow here with us that quite like the d.j. was a big part of that all right ceremony as well is this modern and 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 golds up there that's right and 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 hampered anybody said the security has been told. the people at the spectators are there waiting in lines then they are 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 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 that ports i've been to 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. and a lively atmosphere in saatchi has been gradually throwing the hearts of the downstairs still there are some who prefer to only notice the downside and ignore the high points artie's going to to 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 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 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 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 the one 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 journalists part of the issue is when people self censor 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.

used 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 the 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. the spy it's all the efforts of some media outlets social network to try and suggest that it's of it's worth softly as dying down earlier i discussed this with r.c. news that it's or at social media commentator i've across 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 saatchi hashtags 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 hotspot over such itself right now which means people people are taking part of the conversation if we can bring up the sochi problems now 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 is basically less there's less talk going on around social problems than there is around sochi 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 wrote a few samples for you which we can take a look at here. we run a set 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 the 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 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 hashtags that sochi twenty fourteen is figuring about twenty four percent of the conversation you had another ten percent on the sochi live is about thirty five percent of straight up olympics sochi problems globally trying to get about three percent of conversations on tsotsi 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 here i think with 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. . unfortunately mixed up the u.s. canada in the netherlands the dutch flags in their medals table you can understand it's you know it's a high pressure it's a sports newsroom right now it's got a bunch of course high 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 from the intense even use room to

a guy with a desk and some screws. that's the problem screws alone is just now this is probably the most interesting one an austrian journalist working out of yet to post a picture of building in a pretty poor state of disrepair and he says things aren't as they should be in the sochi media center we can roll up there and have a look and see 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 such. well continue our special coverage of the games bringing you all the latest from the olympic capital next hour. the g. twenty fourteen promises. exhilarating winter. and it's now a make heaven and the last of these teams for sochi twenty four take. on. so

all the news now the upcoming independence referendum will be a very high stakes gamble for scotland as london has announced a gas to sovereign sea would automatically mean a no shared currency george osborne the chancellor of the exchequer says edinburgh or the have to leave the pound if it leaves the u.k. artie's or smith has the details what chance the georgia has been a saying is if scotland walks away from the u.k. it also walks away from the pound he's very clear about that he said that there are four things that are necessary to have a currency union so for scotland to share the pound and then proceeded to demolish the possibility of those conditions being met the first thing he talked about was a banking union scotland of course has a huge financial sector is worth about twelve times its g.d.p. alone there's no way that scotland would be able to bail out its own balance you've only got to look at the huge world bank of scotland so that the u.k. has only just managed to extricate itself from an obligation to bail out european

banks so what on earth would it put itself back into an obligation to bail out scottish banks fiscal cooperation that talked about a shared agreement on taxation and spending would assess it take the rest of the u.k. and scotland seedings over and see in terms of how much it taxed its citizens of what it spent that money on why should the u.k. do that he says why should it have to consult with a foreign country on taxation then he talked about a monetary union also would be necessary to have a shared currency and an agreed exchange rate policy and as part of the u.k. he said scotland is insulated from any kind of fall in oil prices but if it went on its own a fall in zero prices would lead to big job losses in scotland it was have to then respond by cutting spending and raising taxes which would result in pressure for scotland to give up the pound and then the fourth saying the. he talked about was

the permanence of the currency union it must be permanent he said in order to encourage confidence from the markets but this goes is national party has already said that it's not committed to a permanent currency union it said that in its white paper in november that if it did share the pound that would be a temporary arrangement which would be very damaging for the pound is huge political pressure now which amounts according particularly to the s.n.p. to bullion basically this is the stick part of a carrot and stick tactic david cameron spoke last week of essentially begging the schools to stay don't go he said we really need you now we have george osborne this week saying hey you know. this is how bad things will be if you do this is sort of two sides the same coin of course it may play into the hands of the yes campaign you know yes there it is in scotland will resent being bullied by westminster in this way so that that may shift things dramatically towards

a yes vote more news in just a few moments so do stay with us. this is obviously more for the ladies because it's pink. women wanted to avoid rate they really needed to buy guns and barack had to use them. this is the one that i'm going to go with them once again it's the fear. women are definitely the target of the gun lobby you don't kill them when you're killing money but if somebody would you would piss with her. i'm noticing more and more if that's really scary

marketing tactics which implies that women have some sort of moral obligation to tell 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 so artsy ensor national now the writing may be on the wall for germany in greece as a radical group there has published the money fast though pinning all of greece's economic trouble on birdland the answer capitalist movement claimed responsibility for firing shots at the german ambassador's residence in the same birthright something more attacks are seize money if an author 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 after the evidence was discovered of the dangerous activity over medicare extremist group known here in greece as the popular father group on tuesday they claimed responsibility for december attack on german ambassador as residence here in the great capital when a group of a known gotten men fired at least fifty bullets at the building no one was heard but many isn't happy and another attack this time at the tap and in january. they had quilters 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 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 launches dorna 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 have been truly 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 the fight has been covering the 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 notice and despair are among the most

common feelings here in the city and people say they're tired of they no longer have power to even take to the streets to protest. that could change anything that's how. the situation but to restrain very high of provocations and this is why we'll apparently see some extra security measures here in the city and another for some time. there's little currency bitcoin has lost some of its glitter of late some of its main exchange sites have been brought to a whole spire massive and sustained online attacks but is this a calf and found out in berlin users of the currency are digging in for the long haul. 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 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 as 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 its growing list of bitcoin

establishment includes a record shop a store a boutique and this bar. and here getting your hands on some big points while the digitally speaking is easier than ever instead of buying them from an online exchange you can use this big coining t.m. to trade your uro's into bitcoins and use that to buy your happy hour drink there 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. you might not agree but taste this lack that's high in

protein at least the star further explains that's how inmates in the u.k. prison have started to think about the humble cockroach. 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 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 of the 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 is no truth to the allegations the prisoners eating cockroaches. well. i have a motor. home and all gone yes of course a. good terms

and as a science officer want to construct the first lady gaga that's what my son my son and of course those. were not really he called her kids because my mother thank you concert i was almost every one has no time for me and i said i'm going to get some problems it doesn't quite sound like the rehabilitation method lieschen the government has long been promising he spake to the chief inspector of prisons he told a sick cook which is already problem in prisons generally and that he chimpy little pull 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 leave or indeed a lake house of bug eating programs and supplementing that this is

some places now consider something they can say arafat i see london. i do max women with their fingers literally on the trigger. line trends. the report you all best way to the heart of moscow.

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 to the ten commandments on public property but does that mean that same nazis to other wackos have the right to put up their own twisted monuments well that is it depends on how you look at things technically it was good 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 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.

it's funny there are approximately over two hundred eighty million licensed firearms in the united states of america female owner seemed to be more and more common today one in five americans own at least one firearm a phenomenon which didn't exist.