a star studded team russia leads three two in its first runs on ice hockey game against slovenia and that's when the men that's brought together the sport's biggest names. some media outlets here have quite sold hard to make elin fixing breakfast smell like cold war recycled symbols on 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 currency with scotland if it votes yes to independence. and the radical movements in greece the claires war on the german capitalist machine blame in berlin for their country in search in poverty and unemployment.

here watching r t enter national with. now the sochi games are and so there are six day and artsy is there bringing you all the triumph defeats and drama of the twenty second the winter olympics. spirits are high and so much to put out this moment so is the time the first game for russia's men's hockey team is on their way with their star heavy lineup matched against slovenia and they're in doubt as scores of three two with team russia lead in the way our very own andrew farmer is there watching the game and we will cross to him in a couple of minutes but for now of course as we said all eyes are on team russia's supported first hockey match in the twenty fourteen winter olympics but it's not

the only thing going on in the coastal cluster artie's martin andrew spoke about this and what else is on offer within the sun now a. 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 they're 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 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 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 powers in the mountains lots of light snow there with you stack quite like the d.j. was a big part of the overall ceremony as well is this modern and of course you got to realize that snowboarding which is a relatively new it's been there for the last two or fifteen sixteen year olds winning golds up there and 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 deejays 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 has been anybody said the security has been faultless the people at the spectators are there waiting in lines 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 each one i met read a case of the for the fact that you've got you've got lots of people here the crowd control is. and every single person i've spoken to from america u.k. germany whatever has said that the security issues are ten 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 airports i've been to around the world get what you specially half the time i have you feel uncomfortable you feel violated almost but really here in sochi they're doing a superb job. well someone else is doing a superb job it seems this team russia and the first man's ice hockey game and who well is watching that for us and for a farmer we can cross life to him right now by andrew so he rushes not disappointing is it. not disappointed but it is very tense they have a narrow three two lead over sabine you're entering the final period this was

a game everybody was expecting them to coast through not just in the rushing coaxingly to be in on jake's and where the night might because russia but in early two new late in this match events can go to a very early goal within a matter of seconds at the start of this match of them went to two one russia were leading they went two three one but now this will be musical one back to make it three two it is proving to be a tight game and it also underlines the fact that perhaps we're going to see a very tight olympic competition at least that's what the soviet legend judges out the czech told us. there were is factors that matter we are told it's a big responsibility players are experiencing great pressure on top of that we're going to impose for a long time of course every player would be owner to win a gold medal home 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 it seems to be the case in that one of the most exciting and incidentally russia has not won olympic gold since the fall of the soviet union and i have only medals on offer here in sochi i think this is the one they would most steely like to win and to give you a taste of the failing we caught up with a couple of fans. but there were definitely supporting the russian ice hockey team and we hope to make it to the match i like to wish our guys luck in victory in every match we hope that will take first place at our home olympics. i do that to you but i do 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 just to remind you the next game that russia will have to play is against the usa that is a big one and that's on saturday ok andrew ball if we can then leave ice hockey aside for

a second what else can we look forward to today. will perhaps another medal for russia fingers crossed the speed skater olga but will be going in the one thousand me to shoot me she's already picked up a silver in the five hundred meters and then this evening figure skating fans will get to see you get deeply ashamed again he's performing in the men's individual short program he'll have to free skate to morrow hopefully that's when who pick up another medal but we've got that to look forward to today all right andrew thank you very much we'll be talking to you of course later on in the program thank you for that. now well andrew farmer as well as martin andrews have told us about the lively atmosphere and solitude and actually it has been gradually thawing the hearts of the doubters still there are some who prefer to only notice the downside and ignore the high points artie's going education looks 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 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 pleasure it's great 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 won their readers want their audience to see the 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. 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 germany. 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. a secret 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. well the spy it's all the efforts of some media outlets social network trends suggest the negativity towards subtlety is dying down earlier i discussed this with artsy news that it's

there and social media commentator i've across. this is an image from trends map of the conversation that's taking place around twenty fourteen in the 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 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 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 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 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 that 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 a straight up olympics so the 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 in sochi world if there's if trying 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 actually happening on other media this is

a metal table where a.b.c. 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 is going to be over for a side pressures and we can move it on the guys thanks very much. the baseball is of course a problem i'm really not quite sure how it's a social 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 he 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 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 so much

and we'll continue our special coverage of the game is bringing you all the latest from the olympic capital next hour. twenty four dean promised the legal team that in exhilarating winter and in germany and you say no way i'm a carrier now and i'm the last of our look at news teams for sochi twenty four take . on ott. ok let's move on to other news now the upcoming end dependence referendum will be a very high stakes gamble for scotland as london has announced a gas to sovereignty would automatically mean and no so a shared currency george osborne the chancellor of the exchequer says edinburgh would have to leave the pound if it leaves the u.k. artie's or smith has the details. of 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 really and so for scotland to shed the pounds 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 it's 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 for that the u.k. has only just managed to extricate itself from an obligation to bail out european banks so one earth would put itself back into an obligation to bail out scottish banks fiscal cooperation then osborne talked about a shared agreement on taxation and spending would necessitate the rest of the u.k. and scotland seedings over and t. 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 money tree uni and 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 oil 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. thing that 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 the scottish 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 which amounts according particularly to the s.n.p. to bullying 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 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 or have more news for you in just a few moments so do stay with us. you know the united states has as many think tanks as the next ten countries combined yes one thousand eight hundred and twenty eight takes to tell three hundred million people have a thing. to me

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the artsy international would continue now while the right thing may be on the wall for germany in greece the radical group there has published the manifesto pinned all of greece's economic trouble on birdland the answer capitalist movement claimed responsibility for firing shots at the german ambassador's residence in this earth threatening more attacks artie's money 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's group order 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 fired if least fifty bullets at the building no one was heard many

is a happy and another attack this time of the tap and in january. they had schoolteachers 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 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 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. it 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 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 could how. their situation but still. very high of provocations and volunteer acts and this is why i will apparently see some extra security measures here in the city and in other cities for for some time russia looks to distribute huge amounts of energy to china

after the two countries agree on the whopping twenty four billion dollar plan to build the world's largest thermal power plant that's on the r t what sites. and if it sounded like a lot of money think again the u.s. is such a lift that ceiling once again when there will be able to borrow more than seventeen trillion dollars you can find all the details on the art see dot com. you might not agree but to some it's a tasty snack that's high in protein at least sarah furthur explains that's how inmates in the u.k. prison have started to think about the humble cockroach. we're stuck at trials on the hit t.v. show i'm a celebrity get me out of here where celebrities are encouraged to be disgusting dishes has inspired a whole host of creepy crawly cullen re experiences this restaurant here in london serving up locusts and crickets among other things on its many things it's not just

london customers that have a taste for the unusual according to prisoners magazine inside time one inmate claimed in a letter that prisoners had been trying cockroaches after watching the t.v. show 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 you know the ministry of justice say that there is no truth to the allegations the prisoner the eating cockroaches. well. i have a motive. yes of course a. little good. as well so it's also. it's the first regard that's what i'm saying. a lot of course because. what. he called curfews because i know the conflict there was almost. like god was not going to really. get some. things some people keep on taking a leaf or indeed

a load outs of bug eating programs books and supplement think. this is some places now considered to be the. let's see london. all right now for some other news making global headlines in the as well as pro-government protests are into student activists one you can see right here have been killed following massive protests in the capital caracas and identified men on motorcycles reportedly carried out the killings eighty people were arrested as thousands marched through the city calling for the government to resign over high levels of crime and corruption. so the bombs have gone off at the same time in a marketplace in the rocky capital of baghdad killing five people the attacks also one dead more than a dozen people it comes as fierce fighting continues between government forces and

al qaida militants who have taken control of large parts of the country since december. couple has swept aside the u.s. concerns bringing more than sixty prisoners from the notorious prison in afghanistan the american military had warned that they are likely to go back to fight in coalition forces their release. again arise tension between the afghan government and the us ahead of it that lie for the withdrawal of international combat troops since the end of the year. up next it's the kaiser report to stay with us for that.

trend zero to vnukovo report your 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 logically named capital of oklahoma the cygnus 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 year they maybe should have put up of honor into the ten commandments on public property but does that mean that satan has not ceased 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 c. honest 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 don't. have a culture all that remains are scattered individuals all i'm trying to say is that it's ok to rebuke the devil guys just my opinion.

welcome to the kaiser report i max kaiser you know the united states has as many think tanks as the next ten countries combined yes one thousand eight hundred twenty eight takes to tell three hundred million people out of things. yes max actually the number two is china with four hundred twenty six and then the united kingdom with two hundred eighty seven and you know one of the things i think you see with think tanks is they push these myths onto the population of propaganda for their sort of schemes to essentially convince the population to endorse systems and financial systems and economic systems that are bad for them essentially so the

way to look at america is with this one the king joffrey defense wealthy teen kills four people in drunk driving accident claiming affluenza so the nine one one call you know when this accident happened it talks about all these scattered bodies all over the place and this rich kid drove drunk killed these four people normally a normal person would be sentenced to prison for this however this kid was rich his parents were wealthy and the judge accepted the argument that because he was he was given there were no restraints on what he could have in life he was unable to determine what was good and bad is the defense free from that. game of thrones. just for is this little planet sized dictatorial king that likes to torture people because he's the king but that's the problem with the current economy feudalism or a new.