mike structure a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune in to conjure reports . from x. to see to bitter disappointment it's a roller coaster of emotions and olympics all she has victory in the russian man's hockey is followed by the surprise withdrawal of legendary figure skater. here gas and brutal clashes marked the anniversary of a bahraini uprising that we reported on a rebellion that refuses to die down despite a three year crackdown and thousands of arrests. and soon in denmark draw condemnation from animal rights groups as another healthy giraffe is due to be put down to comply with european breeding laws just days after the first animal was killed and skinned.

let me out in the russian capital you're watching r.t. with me marina joshing all the winter olympics. now all the winter olympic action and drama here in r.t. as we continue our special coverage of the sochi games let's go live now tunis now we who is in our studio in sochi. hello from sochi today's quest for medals is just getting started but it's a somber day for russian fans a big disappointment in men's figure skating the clear favorite in that discipline and a living legend first time you have any pollution go had to pull out of the competition during warm up due to injury barges enter farmer has been keeping track of this dramatic development and joins us from the mountain cluster andrew what went wrong for the ice here. yeah well poor old you kenny. that

is the end of his competitive career he was always going to retire after the zillion picks aged thirty one but he did not want it to end that he had to pull out after landing all during the warm up of the men's individual competition yesterday he does have a long history of back problems in fact he still has four screws in the back of his after twelve operations but he will be remembered as one of the most decorated biggest skate is of all time he has four limping medals he won gold in the team the vent here in sochi just a few days ago and also fell a figure skater maxine plank of among others has been paying tribute to his glittering if you see. we all have great respect for pollution cause she's a legend in our sport and a great example for many worldwide but i think the fact that she came out and helped win the team gold given this condition is a heroic achievement snatched. i want to take my hat off and tell him that he's the

greatest of athletes everything he went through and everything he achieved was unique few people in history could have equal to him. valentine's day and i know it's not going to be much of a consolation to miss the franker at the moment but he has been named as one of so she sleeps hard at least in the straw poll i carried out myself of about forty people yesterday also in the forty's this was alexander ovechkin he scored for russia yesterday in their fight to win against the binion in their first game in this competition and also day you might be surprised at the russian women's curling team they really have struck a chord with the russian nation and their beauty has made many people fall in love with this pool but also i really enjoy talking to people yesterday intimate they proved that romance and good humor is alive and well here these are just. we want to know who is the sexiest after. these olympics. gold.

russian federation of cookie. joyce just whites or joe what's his name sean weiss retainer yes to be american and it lets us know border yes i think his very good looking he was the most attractive athlete at these olympics. and beyond dahlia smiley i think we know and know nancy ok russians good. curling yes killing of course calling. a version of team germany courage. it's a fast these very good looking isn't a little note a would be written this last season volunteer in a one hundred people from my. side just like everybody happy valentine's poxy or

mrs. little be doing anything what is so although we all will do it on sight say to your wife name to search a site small to good like back in the u.k. happy valentine's for to morrow. we still believe in valid science as well i know the games i want to work and order can do. so there you are romancing me and i'm going to say happy valentine's to my fiance moscow to you if you are in love with that russian curling team keep watching tonight because they tonight again again. i'm sure many will have their eyes on the russian curlers today love in the air at thirty two thousand and fourteen after farmer live from the mountain cluster thanks for that now andrew has been talking to the fans r.t. has been getting feedback from leading our fleets on their experiences in sochi and how they're finding the olympic venues after some negative publicity and scaremongering before the. games competitors say they could be happier with what

they actually discovered. but they never be just server away the russians explain also such you'll see them on sign up on the mountain village with a really good accommodation there's no meaning place on the new zealand team so you say i've heard on one of the buildings with less uncomfortable with posters up around the walls in new zealand so it makes us feel like the temperatures will play a bit of a simple warm so yeah it's getting pretty slushy but i really ride in those conditions all the time and so i just tend to try to land on your face in attempting to the but. we also talked alpine skier who burgess from the holo who is 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 of russia the only problem that they have this thing should have hired a p.r. person like me to be better p.r.

before i mean you know it's a great places they will want the full venues not the whole everything is really poor man and they should have just got the positive of my over to europe and to america that were so negative so it's a bit sad. that they maybe in russia you don't use so much you are rude which is what the it's very very important because the word of mouth in the presentation is very important it was too negative and then he doesn't deserve this negativity we'll be hearing more from star performers here in sochi today and throughout the games and the best part is that you get to ask your questions by heading to our facebook page the address is facebook dot com slash news do log on see who were interviewing throughout today and send us what you want to ask i'll be back with more next hour for now back to you in moscow. to change twenty four jean-paul must really be called committed in the exhilarating

winter forcing our team here to join me and you see now i have to make seven zero in the west of olympic games change for sochi twenty four take. all the ott. she of villages outside bahrain's capital have been left out of the interior gas after fierce clashes between police and anti-government demonstrators the protest movement is marking three years of its uprising against the ruling sunni model which has been met with a relentless crackdown and thousands of arrests are just like to ask you reports on the 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 i spoke just as 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 are 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 think he why not even practice outside the street at least eighty nine people have reportedly been killed in the sheol position strive for reforms hundreds of thousands have been injured some lost limbs and eyesight 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 made it our job i think the bahraini opposition is a main ally of the us the terrorist members of the opposition and their leader have

close ties the foreign embassies in bahrain wiki leaks of the 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 party or 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. getting 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 in close to saudi arabia we keep quiet about it they give a blind eye i haven't seen for in three years one single dime. has convinced me

over you want our voters 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 salmond 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's ski ati. human rights groups have repeatedly raised concerns over the brutal tactics used by bahrain security forces against the protesters however the situation has gained a little attention from western governments activists not to die if 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 for arms 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 part of it 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 expecting the internal policy and the external policy as well because they're the be allies of the g.m. 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. anti-government unrest in bahrain has been raging for three years and everything you want to now about the events there is on our website while i want to r.t. dot com to get the full picture of what is going on there and how it all started.

the second zoo in denmark says it will have to put down a healthy giraffe to comply with european breeding laws the management says that euthanasia is the most likely scenario despite several offers to take the animal just to take down the al rather just five days ago copenhagen zoo slaughtered a young giraffe due to a ban on inbreeding our government 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 dissecting him 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 julian's 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 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 place. 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 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 street mist in

a war zone along with hundreds of other europeans. and calls to tie the immigration rules grow louder in norway where the number of incomers has increased tenfold in the space of three decades. you win big games it's very athletic excellence extravagant showmanship this has been traditionally the case however at the games in sochi have been treated differently western media has attempted to politicize the games at the expense of sports and the host country on this edition of conflict we explore the true spirit of sochi. to what extent being here the success of the arab spring depends on the people in their region on the arabs and to what extent it still depends on the big power brokers hard to pursue that on the agenda the influence of the outside

powers is getting stronger now because of the absence of a major country like egypt but i assure. you cited by by turkey or by russia over by america. in the absence of the read part of this region which is the out of world. think. there's a scene here when you're in the arctic you have the entire world at your feet she

looks like a fairly simple ship but really she's not symbol of the area and full of people able to have access to the nuclear icebreakers the real king here is that the polar bears and ice breakers come second not a single complex expedition to the arctic can be conducted with the russian nuclear powered fleet of ice breakers we've undertaken a unique operation in. the northern sea route russia's arctic ice breakers. welcome back you're watching our team national immigration is becoming an increasingly divisive issue for europe whether widespread calls for tougher laws

switzerland has just voted in favor of curbs on migrants and almost half of germans want to follow when its footsteps in france seventy percent of the population believe there are too many foreigners in the country and the vast majority of britons want to see migration reduced as well in norway. a record number of illegal immigrants were deported last year as are two group is going to reports calls for stricter measures are growing louder. this used to be a quiet suburban town in the outskirts of oslo 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 again he's. been in the ambulance 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 or

a foreign descent mass 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 in advance welcome information and africa. and no they don't have a labor market for them to get off and jobs for them so many and up. 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 and 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 nationwide 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. . and online a birthday party for a media are a year after a space rock blazed. the skies of shaaban skinned russia's urals and fears the apps are planning an anniversary celebration warned that at r.t. dot com. also the operator of japan's crippled fukushima power plant is accused of covering up the true level of radiation in groundwater near the site all the story and more on the r.t. website and also on twitter and instagram. brightness to. search street. and i would think the trip.

on our reporters would. be in the. british counterterrorism units are in high alert after reports that a u.k. citizen carried out a suicide bombing in syria officers are searching the house of a suspect who left a wife and three children behind to join the rebel forces in the war torn state boyko is following the story. facts is sometimes stranger than fiction this is the street where abdul wahid made she the first suspected british suicide bomber in syria is alleged to have lived it schooled martyr's avenue the forty one year old

man that lived here 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 is 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 there have been involved in the saying and execution of fellow rebels while residents of ma says 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 azzi west sussex britain is not the only european nation whose citizens have been joining the civil war in syria and recent studies suggest that hundreds of citizens from germany belgium france and several other states have left their homes to fight alongside the jihad as some estimates put the figure much higher in the sounds and well this of course poses major security concerns for europe and some of these volunteers expressing intention to wage a holy war when they return to the west after and a group of british nationals firing in syria has even turned to social media to put its extremist message across they really. propaganda posters threatening terrorist attacks in britain and the us targeting public transport and business centers the captions on these images here urged people to join the holy war and become martyrs for the cost political analyst mohammad on sa 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 courting others to come and join them whether they are british muslim women to support them and affects us such themselves out and setting themselves up as being effectively warlords who are out there who all gun toting really no benefit and my 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 how these young people feel and in other news around the world turkish police have used tear gas and water cannon against protesters in the capital ankara who are venting their anger over

a new internet controls the government claims the legislation will protect individual rights but many see it as a clamp down on freedom of speech demonstrators were also demanding the release of army officers jailed last year for allegedly trying to stage a coup. some fourteen inmates mostly al qaeda members have escaped from a prison in the yemeni capital sanaa after militants stormed the compound officials say at least eleven people including seven police officers were killed in the shootout no group has admitted to being behind the assault but he has been a target of numerous attacks by al qaeda linked 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 ash 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. that are coming up here in r t a clash of opinions and cross talk with peter lavelle. tanna group wants to erect a statue to the lord of darkness in oklahoma city which is the logical name capital of the home of the saints want to build the monument of a goat headed devil in or despite a monument to the ten commandments that was put up in two thousand and twelve yet they maybe shouldn't have put up of honor into the ten commandments on public property but does that mean that satanists not cease to honor whackos have the

right to put up their own twisted monuments well that answer depends on how you look at things technically it was good liberalism everyone's beliefs by law are equal even if ninety nine people are christian and they cannot impose on that one poor satanist which sounds nice but in reality that means that those ninety nine christians have to tolerate a monument to the infernal master and defiler of the innocent on their way to work every morning part of having a culture means having a group of people of common beliefs and values if you just include anything into the culture then you 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. but. the location. or. how to do

it well those of the high tech said you would stop this storm when my thinking or my people died. lisa. hello and welcome to crossfire all things considered on peter lavelle the olympic games is very name means athletic excellence and extravagant showmanship this has been traditionally the case however the games in sochi have been treated differently western media has attempted to politicize the games at the expense of sports and the host country on this edition of crossfire we explore the true spirit

of sochi. cross-talk media coverage of sochi i'm joined by my guest martin andrews he is our correspondent in sochi right now in london we have john good body he is a journalist for the sunday times who has been covering the olympics since one thousand nine hundred eighty eight and in washington we crossed him we can he is a comedian and an author i generally cross talk rules in fact that means you can jump in anytime you want and i very much encourage it martin you're in sochi right now you've been there since the start here i'm going to ask you a very simple question what's it like and i know you were aware of what was being said about the games weeks and months before they opened up so please compared to me what you read in western media and what you've experienced to date in sochi go ahead wow well as you can see we've got the olympic park behind us at the moment i'm just behind you i think it's.