from access to to bitter disappointment it's a roller coaster of emotions in olympic sochi as victory in the russian man talking is followed by the surprise withdrawal of legendary figure skater gani pollution go . here gassen brutal clashes mark the anniversary of the bahraini uprising we report on the rebellion that refuses to die down despite a three year crackdown and thousands of arrests. and another danish zeus' bars global outrage announcing that a second healthy giraffe may be put down in the space of a week despite several offers to house the animal.

which are two national coming to life in moscow with me maureen and josh. now all the winter olympic action and drama here on r.t. international as we continue our special coverage of the such a games i shall go live now it has an hours to go there. though from sochi today's quest for medals is just getting started but it's a somber day for russian fans after a big disappointment in the men's figure skating the clear favorite in the discipline and a living legend first time you get a person had to pull out of the competition due to an injury or two center farmer has been keeping track of the dramatic developments and joins us now from the mountain cluster andrew it was so heartbreaking to watch what exactly went wrong for the ice here oh. yeah poor old you get me pushing that

is the end of his competitive career he was always going to retire at the end of these olympics aged thirty one but he did not want it to end like that he had to pull out after landing or quickly in the warm up to the men's individual he does have a long history of back problems in fact he's still got four screws in that back of his after having something like twelve operations but he will be remembered as being one of the most decorated figure skaters of all time he has four limping medals he won gold in the team event here in sochi just a few days ago and they get a figure skater trying to pay tribute to his glittering achieve so. we all have great respect for pollution coach she's a legend in our sport and a great example for many worldwide i think the fact that she came out and helped win the team gold given this condition is a heroic achievement national. i want to take my hats off and tell him that he's the greatest of athletes everything he went through and everything he achieved was

unique she people in history could have equal time. well it is fine in times days and even if it's any consolation to you mr lucian gay has been named as one of sochi sweethearts at least in a quick straw poll i conducted yesterday also hoping the list of hotties there is alexandrovitch king he did score in russia's five two win over slovenia in the men's ice hockey yesterday that was russia's opening match and also there you won't be surprised with the women's curling team for russia in fact their appearance at these games really has boosted the popularity of the sport across russia you only have to listen to some of the phone is going on on local radio at the moment but also what i enjoy talking to people here in the mountains it is very clear that romance and humor is alive and well here it's sort of twenty people change. we want to know who is the sexiest athlete at these olympics. gold.

russian federation of corky who joyce just whites are joe what's his name sean weiss retainer yes be american and let's ask no border yes i think his very good looking he was the most attractive athlete at these olympics. beyond my world was meat no dog no nancy ok russians good. curling all that yes killing of cost cutting. costs a version of team germany her image. but she was it. was a fast he's very good looking isn't it a little note hey why the written this last season volunteer in the one hundred people on facebook my. space just like everybody happy valentine's party only says

yeah but last night was a little over doing anything about it so although we are we'll do it on site say to your wife now to search a site. you could likely sell vino back in the u.k. happy valentine's for tomorrow. from sochi we still believe in valentine's as well i know the olympic games i want to do or can or can do or. turn to say happy valentine's my fiance most katie to get into the spirit of things or if you are in love with rushing curling team you will get another glimpse of them today when they take on the sweet. beloved certainly is in the air in sochi this twenty four team at these olympic games andrew farmer thanks for that very sweet now while andrew has been talking to the fans r.t. has been getting feedback from leading athletes on their experiences in sochi and how they found olympic venues after some negative publicity and scaremongering before the games the competitors say they couldn't be happier with what they

actually discovered. 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 man and i didn't really understand it. it's not like i'm not on the real vegas but it's just pretty sweet bye to our accommodation our further features pretty spoiled i guess. but we've also talked alpine skier who burgess fun hohenlohe was a mexican citizen with german royal ancestry he says all the negativity that foreign journalists have been pouring on so she could have been cancelled out by some good p.r. . i think it's great it's a great game i think that russia the only problem that they had 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 ten years of the for everything is really cool and they should have just got a positive for 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 know so much you are just what it's very very important because the word of mouth in the presentation is very important it was too negative and it doesn't deserve this negativity and won't be hearing from more star performers in sochi today and throughout the games and the best part is that you can get to your questions by heading to our facebook page the address is facebook dot com slash r t news i'll be back with more next hour but for now back to you in moscow. the g. twenty four jean-paul was really the ultimate in exhilarating winter sports and if you join me and you see no way to make seven zero in the first of all let me take you straight to sochi twenty four take. all. will she of

villages outside bahrain's capital have been left trout of than tear gas after fierce clashes between police and anti-government demonstrators the protest movement is marking three years of its uprising against a ruling sunni model which has been met with a real landless crackdown and thousands of arrests are just like here shasta reports on a long running standoff. it's three years since the arab spring gripped the gulf state of bahrain violence still shakes the streets of its capital mamma as protesters against the sunni led government fire molotov cocktails the police respond with tear gas and flash bang grenades thing is that the government is using it as a while and a lot of being tortured house raids just now of living in cities it said i lived in but. you can hear helicopters armored by shooting at people and. throwing it here yes here and there making people thought the key

why not even brought this thing outside the street at least eighty nine people have reportedly been killed in the sheol position strive for reforms hundred. injured. and i saw protests have been held on almost daily basis and i witnessed some of those i went to bahrain a little more than a year ago we met with a different government official who told me that despite seeing the protestors as radicals and hardliners they were still looking for some sort of compromise but the most sensational statement came from the country's information minister so i mean that our job i think the bahraini opposition is the main ally of the west the terrorist members of the opposition and their leader has close ties to foreign embassies in bahrain wiki leaks a veiled many documents proving it i talk to the americans and clearly ask them to speak to their friends in the opposition who should understand that bahrain cannot be ruled by an ethnic sectarian parnia bahrain's opposition say the allegations are

laughable if that was true they say then why is there no action from the western states the u.s. navy's fifth fleet stationed in bahrain and washington's close ties with saudi arabia may be among the reasons what is happening through in terms of human rights abuses is have. winning in russia the whole was all come up with the whole media would have flared up again because it was our training in that region. close to store would be arabia the only keep quiet about this they give a blind eye i haven't seen for you the one single guy that has convinced me over he was right by others these were the scenes of the second anniversary of bahrain's uprising with thousands protesting peacefully in the streets this time it is already a lot noisier with the opposition planning a three day long protest and the authorities beefing up security last month

bahrain's crown prince cell month called for another round of negotiations to end the violence but with two failed attempts already and the world family refusing to budge and protesters demands hardly anyone in this gulf state believes there may be any breakthrough soon alexy russia r.t. . human rights groups have repeatedly raised concerns over the brutal tactics used by bahrain security forces against the protesters however the situation is gained little attention for western governments activist and dice dave told r.t. that powerful economic interests are behind this. the government seems to be very resistant to give up or to give any sort of free forums to the opposition movement the allies of the regime in bahrain in specific and in the gulf in general they're supporting the regime and they're just being an obstacle in the past of and uniforms we're not talking about the international community in general we're

talking about the countries that they have interests and behind like the united states and like could be britain like the major stakeholders and these are the countries that they're effecting the internal policy and the extent of policy as well because they're the allies are about a new regime otherwise the international community could have done some progress when it comes to the bahraini file in terms of human rights and violations and the united nations for example and the human rights council. and the government unrest in bahrain has been raging for three years and everything you want to know about events there is our website well on to r.t. dot com to get a full picture of what is going on there and how it all started. a second zero and down mark says it will have to put down a healthy giraffe to comply with european breeding laws just five days ago copenhagen zoo slaughtered a young giraffe during

a ban on inbreeding visitors were invited to watch the animal being put down their sect it and fed to lions are often of has a story. well animal lovers around the globe are outraged by a danish zoo's announcement that it may put down another giraffe this comes just days after the copenhagen zoo's decision to euthanize eighteen month old maurice thousands of people had signed a petition to keep him alive although he wasn't sick the copenhagen zoo said that it needed to put mario's down to prevent inbreeding well now another dinner zoo this one in park is tentatively making plans to euthanize a seven year old giraffe which by coincidence is also named now a lot of people quite upset by this news went viral on the internet but the developments do highlight the seldom seen practice of just how zoos get rid of animals that they don't want or need the copenhagen zoo insisted that it was doing the right thing when it killed the giraffe bisecting him in front of children and

then feeding them to lions as for why well they say it's all part of an effort to control inbreeding and to educate visitors according to the european association of zoos and aquaria mario's had genes that were too similar to other giraffes in their breeding programs and breeding in fact is also the reason why the second zoo may euthanize the still alive mario's please do bear with me here part already has to bale giraffes there is a female that may be ready for mating and zookeepers say that basically the two males well they could fight each other to the death over that female and that's why one has to go of course that argument wasn't a good enough explanation for rights groups the animal welfare and conservation organization born free said and i quote slaughtering healthy zoo animals for convenience is irresponsible and in defensible they want european politicians to address the issue pointing out that the practice isn't limited to denmark whether or not julian's park follows goes ahead with its controversial plans to kill the

giraffe of course remains to be seen staff do say that it might be possible to find another. for that animal to live the chances of that however are slim i should add on a rather bizarre side note the chechen president actually took to his instagram account in order to offer to take in the second largest so we'll have to wait and see whether the zoo will succumb to public pressure for now the fate of at least one giraffe hangs in the balance reporting in berlin germany and of a more news coming your way after the break including reports of a british citizen carrying out a suicide bombing in syria counterterrorist forces in the u.k. investigate the case of a man who left his family behind joining in the war zone along with hundreds of other europeans. and call sit tight an immigration rules grow louder in norway where the number of incomers has increased tenfold in the space of three decades.

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market. why not. find out what's really happening to the global economy with mike's cancer a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune in to kaiser report on our. welcome back you're watching our international british counterterrorism units are on high alert after reports that a u.k. citizen carried out a suicide bombing in syria officers are searching the house of the suspect who left a wife and three children behind to join the rebel forces in a war torn state are just boy i was following the story. facts are sometimes stranger than fiction this is the street where abdul wahid the first suspected british suicide bomber in syria is alleged to have lived at school martin savidge

knew the forty one year old man that lived is suspected of carrying out a suicide bombing in a truck in the city of aleppo last week after joining the al qaida linked to al nusra front the father of three is said to have quit his day job six months ago and joined a convoy running aid into syria he was reportedly in contact with his wife and children up until last week if his identity is confirmed it will be the first known attack by a briton in syria according to the center for the study of radicalization in king's college in london hundreds of u.k. citizens have traveled to syria to fight with jihadi groups recent posts on social media suggest that some of the brits fighting that have been involved in the saying and execution of fellow rebels while residents of moscow is adding you come to terms with the reported neighbors suicide attack security services in the u.k. of becoming increasingly concerned about the potential threats fighting in syria

could return and stage attacks on u.k. soil boyko aussie west sussex now britain is not the only european nation whose citizens have been joining the civil war in syria and the reason studies suggest that hundreds of e.u. citizens from germany belgium france and several other states have left their homes to fight alongside the jihad is and some estimates put the figure much higher in the thousands well this of course poses major security concerns for some in europe as some of us volunteers expressed their intention to wage a holy war in the west after their return a group of british nationals fighting in syria has even turned to social media to put its extremist massacre. ross they have released propaganda posters threatening terrorist attacks in britain and the west targeting public transport and business and hers while the captions on these images here urge people to join the holy war

and become martyrs for the cause but i as muhammad and star believes these foreign fighters pose a threat not only to europe but also to the people of syria one of the most warring auspex we've seen of late is that people who are out in syria fighters from britain have been calling others to come and join them whether they are british muslim women to support them affect your search for themselves out and setting themselves up as being effectively warlords who are out there who are gun toting and really no benefit and no blessing to the people out there are going to become increasingly radicalized and often go out there with a martyrdom mentality i think really understanding the nuance to be around the nature of these people who are going out to fight in syria is going to be crucial to understanding the level of radicalization and how these young people feel. and online a birthday party for

a media are here there is space rock the way through the skies of canal been scanned russia's urals enthusiastic planning anniversary celebration born that matter to dot com. also there the operator of japan's crippled fukushima power plant is accused of covering up the true level of radiation and groundwater near the side of all that story and more on the r.t. website and also on twitter and instagram. right to see. the first strike. and i think that you're. on our reporters. in. the in the. immigration is becoming an increasingly divisive issue for europe whether

widespread calls for tougher laws switzerland has just voted in favor of curbs on a new migrants and almost half of germans want to follow in its footsteps in france seventy percent of the population believe there are too many foreigners in the country and a vast majority of britons want to see migration reduced as well in norway a record number of illegal migrants were deported last year and artie's can offer ports calls for stricter measures are growing louder. this used to be a quiet suburban town in the outskirts of wasilla where money is spent fourteen years of his life until he says along with most of his norwegian friends they had to move out because of constant attacks by teenage immigrant gangs. the once five times or something so it came to the point where i didn't have the time to be robbed all the time and go to the hospital. today three out of four students at the

local school are of foreign descent vast energy exports brought more we some of the highest living standards in europe and made it very attractive for immigrants over the last thirty years their population has grown tenfold but high living standards mean high cost which not all newcomers are contributing towards many immigrants who are coming from asia and africa. the labor market for them to offer jobs for them so many and. to be depended on social benefits benefits include free housing a two year old integration course and an allowance also paid by the state during this time with n.g.o.s warning the spending may be too much even for the norwegian budget to swallow talks about cutting down the numbers have now reached parliament we want to improve the. immigration system in europe not get rid of it by closing the borders we have wanted to discuss now how to sort of get a more work

a good working immigration system how to respect the system but solving one problem may create new ones switzerland has just held a mission wide referendum in which over half of its citizens decided to limit the amount of immigrants living and working there causing outrage from brussels and threatening trade ties with the e.u. it's going off r.t. . now take a look at some other stories from around the world turkish police have used tear gas and water cannons against protesters in the capital ankara who are van things their anger over new internet controls the government claims the legislation will protect individual rights but mattie see it as a clamp down on freedom of speech demonstrators were also demanding their release of army officers jail last year for allegedly trying to stage a cool. some fourteen inmates mostly al qaida members have escaped from a prison and the yemeni capital sanaa after militants stormed the compound

officials say at least eleven people including seven police officers were killed in a shootout no group has admitted to being behind the assault but yemen has been a target of numerous attacks by heiling militants in the past two years. officials in indonesia have ordered the evacuation of over sixty thousand people and raised the eruption alerts to its highest level after a volcano on job started sending plumes of smoke into the air three airports have been closed with ass covering planes on the ground the military has been called in help to get people away from the area and authorities are urging people to stay at least ten kilometers from the volcano. now after the break here and here national social reality talks to the author of a controversial child euthanasia law recently passed in belgium that's in sophie co here.

tanah 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 gold 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 sickness 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 to liberalism everyone's beliefs by law are equal even if ninety nine people are christian and they cannot impose on that one poor seat n'est which . sounds nice but in reality that means that those ninety nine christians have to tolerate a monument to the infernal master and the fire 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 the new longer 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 but that's just my opinion. i marinate join me. in part and. carry contribute and much much. only on the bus and.

are welcome to go on so shevardnadze a law that would allow for children is being considerate and belgian if passed that bill would lift state's restrictions on those who are a quest for their lives to be terminated and will be speaking to one of those behind a controversial love. a matter of life and death these parents are forced to watch their children ways to way slowly and. surely assisted suicide be an option. too far. euthanasia is posing questions no one would ever want to answer do minors have the right to die is a time. break the taboo. and our guest is belgian senator run to support her off the low allow him to finish a four miners healing bow filipe mouth thank you very much for being with us at

this program so you are here a doctor yourself a surgeon what have you seen that could possibly make you take up this issue in the first place. oh listen as a doctor i think we were confronted with these situations of great distress what's your plan medications with incurable disease mostly cancers. and it also applies to minors children and teenagers. of all good before the two thousand and two was adopted in belgium we could not respond to the requests for if the nation put it even though the peace and so laws passed many pediatricians and colleges in particular those who deal with children so yes just repeatedly they're going in some cases the to amend the law to allow those children that are suffering to

benefit from dignified death through the world but this is why we started this discussion in the building in parliament of what that means to you and what your problem obeys but i'm just wondering if you had any personal experience yourself how many cases have you personally come across where children have asked doctors to help them die and how many parents have agreed to that. or somebody said to the vitiated the. if you know it's always difficult to be able to evaluate the number of cases of it casey i'll tell you something quite specific though. if in your life you visit and it's especially if you're a physician it's what you and you're called to take care even of one of these cases only one of these people whether an adult or a minor he was that you were confronted with the situation and you quickly realize the need to find solutions and solve this issue.