a star studded team russia grew to a solid win over slovenia in their first ice hockey match at the winter games but the bitter disappointment to as a recurring in your injury forces figure skating superstar you have any pollution go to withdraw from competition. some media outlets here sold hard to make the olympic smell like cold war old symbols old rhetoric to look at why some in the media seem to be 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 on independence. and a radical movement in greece declares war on the german capitalist machine blaming berlin for their country's surge in poverty and unemployment.

midnight in moscow i mattress it good to have you with us here on r t day six of the sochi games have just wrapped up and we are keeping you up to date on the triumphs defeats and drama of the twenty second winter olympiad for details live now to our sochi studios where kevin no one is standing by. yeah just. as he loves the crowds leave the big stadiums for tonight's been a big day the day of extreme ups and downs of russia from joy the victory of the red machine to a very sad ending to one of the most outstanding figure skating careers in more than times wraps up today's polarizing events. twenty years in the sport thirty one year old. has announced his retirement from figure

skating and it ends in disappointing fashion injury has forced him to withdraw from the men's individual competition. he landed quickly during his warm up and aggravated a long complaint the career on the ice has taken its toll on his physical health over the years he's undergone surgery no less than twelve times and even has a prosthetic disc in his back now he was looking to become the single most decorated figure skater in winter olympic history all he needed was a third place finish to achieve that but he now has to share however he does have one gold medal to his name from these games after he helped russia to victory in the team event over the course of the weekend but sadly the curtain has come down on the career of one of russia's greatest ever sportsman but it wasn't all bad news for russia on thursday russia actually secured a silver medal in the first ever luge team relay event. was bronze in the men's biathlon twenty k. pursuit of course is the event that combines cross-country skiing and shooting the

other highlight of the day was russia's men's hockey team they won their first match against slovenia five two i was fortunate enough to be in the bolshoi despite the relatively comfortable nature of the school and russia really were made to work for their victory people were expecting the red machine to simply sweep slovenia aside is the first time they have entered a team into the men's ice hockey competition since they gained independence but russia. they did storm into a two no lead in the first five minutes the atmosphere was electric at that point the slovenia showed realistically and said it was three two going into the final twenty minutes there were real nerves and tension inside the bolshoi but russia's close in quality shone through in the end in those final twenty minutes to secure the five two victory but to give you an idea of how much how much pressure is on this russian team we made our way during that final. period from the bolshoi to this life points we will be walking through the olympic park and it was amazing to see how much quieter the olympic park was in comparison with

a couple of hours earlier everyone was trying to get a glimpse of this red machine in action trying to watch the russian ice hockey team because when they play it really is something that does unite the nation but they're up and running with that five to victory their next match it's an intriguing want to gauge the usa it's intriguing for so many reasons and america won their opening match seven one against slovakia well off to russia day victory r.t. caught up with one of the defeated slovenian players there was through twelve games specially from the start they were they were flying the first period they had a lot of chances but it was pretty good he kind of saved as the first period but then the second period to be reset in the locker room we have nothing to lose we have to play our system if you want to play them and that's what it is we played our system pretty well and i think that's why we got all those opportunities and we score a couple of them and if it wasn't from those for the goal maybe we would surprise

them in i think of the game. ups and downs there while the hockey fans and i quote a day let's remember that in figure skating the favorites bowed out taking us all back specially after r.t. spoke to pushing because double gold winning team mates and said that they were confident they would win more medals but they also told us how hard it can be to handle the emotional pressure pull talking about it just then never mind the physical injury. so just because it was impossible to imagine the strength of emotions i for example had prepared myself to do everything calmly and properly as my choreographer told me i would calmly finish the program hold the final pose for several seconds then bow out we were supposed to calmly wait until the other players finished their performance and i didn't manage to do anything of the kind. i also couldn't hold back my emotions tears of joy simply rules me beyond my will i was absolutely happy was over and it ended so well for us.

it was there's been some concern about the weather in sochi right now being too good you can't win can you put the gangs so far forward many of the pessimistic arts with regards those lympics especially the media around the world the doubt is it seems are finally given up looking for faults instead of settle down to enjoy the sport but not quite everyone some media outlets recognizing that ranting over broken door knob doesn't give them the ratings the native resorted instead the tried and tested methods material eerily similar to cold war propaganda has been appearing on the front pages of some publications artie's gun if it should come next puts them side by side for you which. 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 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 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. know 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 three but call it news but sometimes you know in the middle of this sea of negativity you sometimes see reports like the one i saw in the new republic the officer went to a popular gay bar in sochi and writes about how desperate for. trying to find traces of gay persecution there and they can't those they talk to. say no one is bothering them except journalists part of the issue is when people self sensor or they believe they know what the story is before they go to the scene and what you're describing sounds like 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 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. the issue of media but one of the standout personalities at the sochi games none other than fifty five year old who but. who say he's a german prince by blood in a mexican citizen by birth these are the six olympic games he's taken potted he loves it he also told us russia's biggest mistake though he thought raghad thought

she was investing a. i think it's great it's a great game i think that russia the only problem that they have this station that hired a p.r. person like me to be better p.r. before i mean you know it's a great place they will want the full venue for the for everything is really cool and they should have just got the positive of my over to europe and to america they were so negative so it's a bit sad that. they maybe in russia you don't use so much p.r. which is what is very very important because the word of mouth and the presentation is very important it was too negative and then he doesn't deserve this negativity. well as he promised to do from the start we've also been getting more feedback from the athletes about their experiences here and such and how they found the olympic venue both as sports people of course and also the visit says that the response has been overwhelmingly positive here's some of what they've been telling us today but obviously any time city hosted an olympics it'll be

a little bit of the above all because he runs you know the country is trying really hard to make a good impression. and show rests on the same bat they have that made a great impression on me i hear you everybody from the opposite is speaking so but clearly it's i mean it's interesting i think yes you do see that bob think that there's unfinished but you know to finish what they have been time i think they've done an amazing job i've been here. three days and it's been pretty sweet like i was here or the last three years in a row and i heard the stories coming in and i didn't really understand it because it's not like i'm not on the real vegas but it's just pretty sweet bye to our accommodation our furder features pretty spoiled i guess. because some it was good to see it so day six done and dusted that a mix of smiles and sadness to join me again if you can an hour for a look at what's been the motional ride than here twenty fourteen on day six.

the g. twenty fourteen promise is the ultimate in the exhilarating winter and. make seven zero in on the rest of our lives take news team for sochi twenty four take. on. turning to some of the day's other stories now the upcoming independence referendum will be a high stakes gamble for scotland is london says yes to sovereignty would automatically mean no to a shared currency george osborne chancellor of the exchequer says edinburgh would have to leave the pound if it leaves the union archy's laura smith has more. what charles 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 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 is worth about twelve times its g.d.p. alone there's no way that scotland would be able to bailout its own bags 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 why on earth would put itself back into an obligation to bail out scottish banks fiscal cooperation that talked about a shared agreement on taxation and spending it would necessitate the rest of the u.k. and scotland seedings 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 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. question now 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 you know yes voters in scotland will will resent being bullied by westminster in this way so that that may shift things dramatically towards a yes vote stay with us here on our team or to come after a short break. any sort of call to revolution preserving. charcoal or all of the islamic religion is one very powerful force awards maintaining traditional marriages and. just as they become more western liberalism becomes powerful and we have to sort of.

civilization. on a collision course. seventeen minutes past the hour now the writing may be on the wall for germany and greece is a radical group there is published a manifesto pinning all of greece's economic woes on berlin anticapitalist movement

claimed responsibility for firing shots at the german ambassador's residence in december and threatening more attacks are reports. police and security forces are on high alert here in the great capital with riot police patrolling the streets in groups of five or six officers and that's after the evidence was discovered of the dangerous activity overnight cased extremist group known here in greece as the popular father's group on tuesday they claimed responsibility for december attack on german ambassador as residence here in the great capital when a group of unknown gunmen fired if least fifty bullets at the building no one was heard but many is that it happened and another attack this time at the tap and in january. they had quarters of 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 the 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 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 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 pnas at. the most common feelings in the city and people say they're tired and 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. old the situation but still restrained very high all of provocations and violent acts and this is why i will apparently see some extra security measures here and another great cities for some time russia looks to distribute huge amounts of energy to china if you don't agree on a whopping twenty four billion dollars plan to build the world's largest or will power plant on our website plus. the us set to lift its debt ceiling once again when it will be able to borrow more than seventeen trillion

dollars you can find all the details on our. little currency bitcoin lost some of the lost or lately at least three of its main exchanges have been brought to a halt by a massive and sustained online attack as r.c. church fees are. often over ports from berlin users of the digital currency are digging in for the long haul. 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 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 is growing list of bitcoin establishment includes a record shop appliance store a boutique and this bar. and here getting your hands on some good points while we digitally speaking is easier than ever instead of buying them from an online exchange you can use this big cleaning t.m. to trade your uro's into bitcoins and use that to buy your happy hour drink and i have 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 now to some other stories making global headlines a car bomb exploded near a heavily fortified airport and somalis in somalia's capital mogadishu killing three and wounding five police say the device was detonated remotely mortars have been fired in the city over the last week sparking fears of a return to violence. in venezuela a pro-government protester into student activist one of them seen here on video who were killed after a massive protests in the capital caracas unidentified men on motorcycles

reportedly carried out the killings eighty people arrested as thousands marched through the city calling for the government to resign over a high levels of corruption and crime. a huge winter storm is swept across the southern u.s. moving northeast delaying thousands of flights in and forcing drivers to abandon their vehicles some thirty centimeters of snow dumped on the capital washington d.c. before heading north to new york the storm system previously struck the poorly prepared southern states were fifteen people died. in kabul swept aside u.s. concerns for freeing more than sixty prisoners from notorious bugger imprisoned in afghanistan u.s. military and warn that they're likely to go back to fighting coalition forces the release will again raise tension between the afghan government in the u.s. ahead of a deadline for the withdrawal of international troops by the end of the. worlds apart with us on a boyko coming up next stay with us on r.t.

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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 satanist want to build the monument of a goat headed devil in or despite a monument to the ten commandments that was put up in two thousand and twelve yet they maybe should have put up of honor into the ten commandments on public property but does that mean that satanists nazis the other wackos have the right to put up their own twisted monuments well that is a depends on how you look at things technically in western liberalism everyone's beliefs by law are equal even if ninety nine people are christian and they cannot impose on that one poor satanist which sounds nice but in reality that means that those ninety nine christians have to tolerate a monument to the infernal master and defiler of the innocent on their way to work every morning part of having a culture means having a group of people of common beliefs and values if you just include anything into the culture then you longer have a culture all that remains are scattered individuals all i'm trying to say is that it's ok to abuse the devil guys but that's just my opinion.

hello and welcome to worlds apart valentine's day has long attracted controversy both because of its commercial nature and it's really just origins but more recently it has also been placed at the center of the ongoing janda revolution how has our a concept of changed over the past few decades and will it survive at all well to discuss that i'm now joined by glenda wilson visiting professor of psychology at

gresham college professor wilson thank you very much for your time now back in the seventy's people used to talk about the battle of the sexes but now it seems the concept of john doerr is far more prominent and frankly far more confusing why do you think that is certainly the relationship between the sexes is train treating towards greater equality of sex roles and political rights interesting over the last hundred thousand years or so the fossil record suggests that men and women are becoming more alike there is conversions all genders so it's quite possible that process will continue it's interesting i remember that hundred kissinger once famously sad that no one will ever win the battle of the sexes because there is too much for it's amazing that the anime but i wonder if that's what applied to the dander is as well because with the. advancement of women social

rights it seems like women are really winning across the board at least in western societies certainly women have going to great deal in terms of equalization of salary that process is not complete complete there used to be a feminist argue that men and women were virtually identical under the skin and that any differences between them were a result of the way they were brought up or the social pressures that were laid upon them i think we can pretty much dispense with that theory at the moment because science has proved beyond all doubt that there are very fundamental and important biological differences between men and women now you said earlier that. their records are clear archeological records that show that the roles of man and women are becoming more equal over the last few decades probably even centuries but

there is also an argument that could be made that this process of. social advancement of women is not really so much through equalizing their social roles but rather piling i dish and no social expectations on to women because if you look at even the most progressive western countries women are still carrying most of the burden in terms of household chores they're still doing much of the child rearing activity and that in addition to putting in the same hours at work as man so is it really women giving that much or are them just becoming much more prominent not only in terms of their social roles but simply carrying most of the burden for of for humanity and yes we're a many women who are very unhappy about the changes that feminism has brought because as i say it is even more stressful for them women i suppose. be better at

multitasking and they very often have to behave because they have to be good at work and then they have to go home and clean the house and look after the children so there are many women who feel that the feminist movement has just made life more and more difficult for them would you agree with their argument since you've just mentioned women's ability to multitask and obviously since you believe in the evolution i think many people would agree that this is essentially a product of evolutionary development that women's multitasking ability do you think that that ability in and of itself makes women better positioned for the times of uncertainty especially be economic and such and did that we are facing at the moment yes there's no doubt the men and women have slightly different skills profile that this has evolved and that can be observed in brain structures there was a recent study coming out of pennsylvania which showed.