the in. a star studded team rush to a solid win over slovenia and the home team's first ice hockey game at the winter olympics in a term that's brought together the sport's biggest name. 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 to look at why some in the media are on a crusade against the winter games. and leave the u.k. it leaves sterling london says it won't share currency was scotland if it votes yes to independence. and a radical movement in greece declares war on the german capital blaming berlin for the country a surge in poverty and unemployment. a

pm in moscow i have you with us our top story this hour the sochi games are in their sixth day r.t. bringing you all the latest in triumph defeats and drama of the twenty second winter games artie's ball scott will some of today's events live for us from the olympic city so paul wrap the day up for us a lot happening. there's actually breaking news big disappointment for russian sports fans with one of the poster boys for sochi twenty four. he has withdrawn from the individual individual event in the men's figure skating he was looking to add to the gold that he won in the team event of course earlier on in these games and he's also looking to become the most decorated figure skater in winter olympics history however going back problem has put paid to that he's withdrawn from that. individual event

a disappointment for russian sports fans elsewhere there's a somewhat of a surprise bronze medal for you have going to get in the in the twenty k. pursuit of course that event that combines cross-country skiing with shooting however there was also disappointment for. she was unable to add to the silver medal that she won in the five hundred meter speedskating in the arena she finished fourth just outside the medals in the one thousand meetings. for the hockey you were in the stands for that game was the result point to. russia started the campaign with a five two victory over slovenia now you might look at the school line and think that was a comfortable victory however they were made to work much harder than the score line suggests many people thought they would simply sweeps living near a side this is the first time that slovenia have entered a competition in the men's ice hockey event since independence and people were predicting a one sided contest and although it was five to slovenia made them walk russia

stormed into a two nil a very early on in the five minutes but slovenia showed some resilience it was three two going into the final period and it was in the final twenty minutes where russia's quality shone through as they secured victory just to give you an idea of how much pressure is on this russia's russian men's ice hockey team and of course is one of the most eagerly anticipated events and the fans are anticipating and expecting gold now we had to make away from the bolshoi which you can probably just make out in the distance behind me to this life point to leave during the final twenty minutes during that final period and it was noticeable how much quieter the olympic park was as we made our way through it because everyone was huddled around t.v.'s gathered around t.v.'s because when the men's ice hockey team play it really is a must see moment in that unites the entire country in this. russian men's hockey team . legendary soviet goaltender. explains. that there

were is factors that matter we are at home it's a big responsibility players are experiencing great pressure on top of that we have champions for a long time of course every player would be 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 told them it's over recent times. so i rushed up and running in the next match is intriguing they take on the united states of america who started that campaign with a seven one victory over slovakia. thank you paul paul scott live for us in the olympic city of sochi well while team russia's first hockey match in the two thousand and fourteen winter games drew a lot of attention it wasn't the only thing worth seeing in the coastal cluster archy's martin anders talked about this with. but behind 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 dancing we've got stages with. traditional russian songs of course this is from 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. 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 the mountains last night watching the snow there with you is that quite like the d.j. was a big part of the right ceremony as well is this modern of course you've got to realize that snowboarding which is

a relatively new it's been there since last year fifteen sixteen year olds winning golds up there i mean you've got to realize that it's the olympics for the new generations and with that so you've really got to cater for the you know the musical side of it so you do have like a d.j. is playing a little d.j. set 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 olympic security it's a big thing has russia managed to have it be secure but not has anybody said the security has been faultless but what about the people i mean there is are they 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 has said that the security issues on its head 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 course i've been to around the world. specially it's off the top of my head you feel uncomfortable you feel violated almost but really here in sochi they're doing a superb job. a lively atmosphere in sochi has been gradually thawing the hearts of doubters still there are some who prefer to only notice the downside in the way the high points are these guys look at media criticism of the games. 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 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 germany's part of the issue is when people self sensor or they believe they know what the story is before they go to the scene and what you're describing sounds like a classic case that happens all over the place where reporters think they know what the story is and all are trying to do is find someone to attach a name and a face to the story that's almost written in the reporter or editors have.

to crack thank you thank you you know even russians who are critical of the government found this old school smear campaign upsetting but for most it's like in the old russian saying that dogs bark but the caravan moves on so let them bark enjoy the game so i'm going to check on in washington our team. and despite reports and some media outlets social network trends suggest negativity toward sochi is dying down earlier my colleague marina cosen a closer even discussed this with r.t. news editor and social media commentator ivor crikey. this is an image from trends map of the conversation that's taking place around twenty fourteen in the song to give you an idea of the hot spots are obviously in the states and 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 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 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 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 tags that sochi 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 you problems globally trying to get about three percent of conversations on 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 what you are if there is if you have tried to be critical of the games themselves let's take a look at what people are tweeting 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 mental state. 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 pressures and we can move it on we got guys thanks very much. the 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 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 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 so much he will continue our special coverage of the games bring you all the latest from the olympic capital in the next hour. twenty four to promise is the ultimate exhilarating winter and. it's now a make heaven island and the last of these teams for sochi twenty four take. on.

the upcoming independence referendum will be a very high stakes gamble for scotland as london has announced a yes to sovereignty would automatically mean a no to a shared currency george osborne chancellor of the exchequer says edinburgh would have to leave the pound if it leaves the u.k. archy's laura smith has more. what chancellor george osborne is 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 say 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 bags 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 what on earth would it put itself back into an obligation to bail out

scottish banks fiscal cooperation that osborne talked about a shared agreement on taxation and spending would necessitate the rest of the u.k. and scotland seeding sophron 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 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 all 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 this goes this national policy 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 bully and basically this is the stick part of a carrot and stick tactic david cameron spoke last week of essentially begging the scots 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 would be if you do go this is sort of two sides the same coin because it may play into the hands of the yes campaign you know yesterday's in scotland will will resent being bullied by westminster in this way so that that may shift things dramatically towards the yes but. stay with

us more coming your way after a short break. join me. for that impartial and financial commentary interview and much much. only on us and. the interview.

all of them back eighteen minutes past the hour now the writing may be on the wall for germany in greece as a radical group there is published a manifesto pinning all of greece's economic trouble on berlin capitalist movement claimed responsibility for firing shots at the german ambassador's residence in december and threatening more attacks artie's briffa notion 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 or jews or they claimed responsibility for december attack on german ambassador as residence here in the great capital when a group of unknown gunmen fired at least fifty bullets at the building no one was heard but too many is that it happened and another attack this time at the tap and in january. they had schoolteachers 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 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 called in all greeks to join their

fight 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 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 their fight our team has been covering great financial crisis since the beginning and we've 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 news and despair are among the most. when feelings. and people say they're tired they no longer have power went to even take to the streets to protest and moreover they no longer

believe that could change anything that's how. you've sold the situation but still. very high all provocations and violent acts and this is why we will apparently see some extra security measures here in the seat and another makes a change for some time russia looking to distribute vast amounts of energy to china that's after to thank you for granted whopping twenty four billion dollars plan to build the world's largest verbal power plant that's on our web site r.t. dot com and if that sounded like a lot of you get the us set to lift its debt ceiling again it will be able to borrow more than seventeen trillion dollars afterwards you can buy all the details on our t.v. . you might not agree but to some it's a tasty snack that's high in protein at least as our first explains that's how inmates in the u.k. prison have started to consider the humble cockroach. this tucker trials on the hit

t.v. show i'm a celebrity get me out of here where celebrities are encouraged to eat 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 the 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 not it happened and yeah before i mean all gone yes of course i'm. on the back of off and you get little enough all the good charms and as a science holmes according to construct is the first began to grow and that's when

i cite money on sun and long krishna's. would not really be called parties because i know the think it conflicts but i want all my celebrity get me have it i know there's not time for me and i should imagine i would get some promising things that some people keep on taking any for indeed unless you can outs of bug eating programs books and supplements think that this is some places now consider some feed that we can see fairfax i see london. now to some other stories making global headlines in venezuela a pro-government protester into student activists one of whom police senior have been killed following massive protests in the capital caracas and identified men on motorcycles reportedly carried out the killings eighty people arrested as thousands marched through the city calling on the government to resign over high levels of crime and corruption. two bombs went off at the

same time in a marketplace in the iraqi capital baghdad killing five he attacks also wounded more than a dozen this is fierce fighting continues between government forces and al qaeda militants who have taken control of large parts of the country since december. and kabul has swept aside u.s. concerns bringing more than sixty prisoners from the tories a bugger imprisoned in afghanistan u.s. military had warned that they're likely to go back to fighting coalition forces if released release will again arrays tension between the afghan government and the us ahead of a deadline for withdrawal of international combat troops by years and. boom bust with aaron aid coming up next on r.t. .

tanna group wants to erect a statue to the lord of darkness in oklahoma city which is the logical name capital of oklahoma the cygnus want to build the monument of a goat headed devil in or despite a monument to the ten commandments that was put up in two thousand and twelve yeah they maybe should have put up a bond to 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 of the pens and how you look at things technically it was true 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 than 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. the. economic down in the final. days of the deal sank night and the rest because i was doing meet every week.

over there i marinated this is boston these are the stories that we're tracking for you today. coming up we're talking banking and accountability both pre and post crisis what has changed what hasn't and what probably never will and who better to weigh in on the subject than i'm not a madi a professor of finance an econ at stanford business school and all four of the bankers new clothes what's wrong with banking and what to do about it then in today's big deal ed harrison and i are talking about the nonprofit organization 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 to radically revamping the company into a full service service brokerage firm one that would buy and sell stocks. in bonds for clients as well as use its own money to help clients trade and to place its own bets however corps lines ambitious plans all came crashing down on october twenty seventh when moody's downgraded m.f. global to jump status this after a six point three billion dollar bet on the bonds of some of europe's most indebted

nations left the forty billion dollar company bankrupt bankrupt now of course on try to sell off what was left of the firm but all that ended well but all that all of that ended when accounts discovered that around six hundred million dollars worth of client money simply went missing missing lost now fast forward to the present and a federal judge this week said that he will allow a lawsuit seeking to hold chords on and other m.f. global executives responsible for the brokerages collapse now clients claim that more than one point six billion dollars worth of their funds which should have been segregated went missing transferred to another part of the company during this whole liquidity liquidity crisis now customers are accusing m.f. executives of failing in their oversight and the due sherry duties the suit is one of several involving the collapse of m.f. global pending before u.s. district judge victor. the judge has also denied bids by core design to dismiss.