best way to the heart of moscow. for max a c. to bitter disappointment it's a roller coaster of emotions in olympics or she has a victory in the russian man talking as followed by the surprise withdrawal of legendary figure skater danny pollution. here gassen brutal clashes mark the anniversary of a bahraini uprising we reported on are a billion that refuses to die down despite a three year crackdown and thousands of arrests. and zoos 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 scanned.

which now he's a national coming to you live from moscow i'm marina joshie and welcome to the program. all the winter olympic action and drama here on our team to nationals we continue our special coverage of the sorts of games let's now cross live to any snowie who is in our studio in sochi. there's just a couple of hours to go before the next medals will be won here in sochi but there still is some dude mood among many of the russian fans over a big disappointment in men's figure skating in co a poster boy for the sport seen by some as a living legend unexpectedly pulled out of the competition due to injury and promptly announced his retirement farmer has been keeping track of developments

poor old you can only prove that he's the end of his competitive career he will. he's going to retire after these olympics aged thirty one but he did not want it to end that he had to pull out after landing awkwardly 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 that bracket pays off to twelve operations but he will be remembered as 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 also fell a figure skater maxine klein called among others has been paying tribute to his glittering if you. we all have great respect for pollution coach 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 and. i want to take my hat off and tell him that he's the

greatest of athletes so everything he went through and everything he achieved was unique she people in history could have equal to him well look it is valentine's day and i know it's not going to be much of a consolation for mystifying shanker at the moment but he has been named as one of so she's sweet tarts 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 told the russian yesterday in that five to win against lavinia and then this guy is competition and also there you might be surprised the russian women really take they really have struck a chord with the russian nation and their beauty has made many people fall in love with this school but also i really enjoyed talking to people yesterday intimate they proved that romance and good humor is alive and well behaved he says we want to know who is the sexiest athlete at these olympics. goalkeeper. russian federation of corky luminance joyce just why it's our job

what's his name sean weiss red tape. yes to be american and it lets us know borda yes i think his very good looking he was the most attractive athlete at these olympics. i was. going beyond that you see my monitor i'm just me no no no no nancy ok russians get. credit all of us killing of costco. krista version of team germany currently. i think it's a it's a fast these very good looking isn't it in this little note hey why have you written this last season volunteering one hundred people to go on facebook my. space just like everybody happy valentine's poxy oh mrs hall that's nice she's a little be doing anything but a solo we all will do it on site say to your wife not to search

a site small to good like back in the u.k. happy valentine's for tomorrow. from sochi we still believe in violent songs as well i know the games i want to do or can or can do. so there you are romancing me and i'm going to say happy valentine's to my fiance in moscow two if you are in love with that russian curling thing keep watching today because they tonight again against. a love is in the air here in sochi a twenty fourteen a well andrew has been talking to the fans are to has been getting feedback from leading athletes on their experiences in sochi and how they found the olympic venues after some negative publicity and scaremongering before the games competitors say they couldn't be happier what they actually discovered here. but they never made a server away the bus is a spin also so if you also must sign up on the mountain village we have a pretty good accommodation it's not many athletes on the new zealand team so he

does have a card on one of the buildings but not so comfortable with posters up around the walls of new zealand's. makes us believe the temperatures will buy a bit of a dose of a warm slug. is getting pretty slushy but we ride in those conditions all the time and so i just spend the year trying to land on your face in attempting to the but. we also talk to al behind skier who purchase from hohenlohe who is a mexican citizen with german royal ancestry he says all the negativity that foreign journalists have been pouring on sochi 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 have is they should have hired a p.r. person like me to be a better p.r. before i mean you know it's a great places they will want the full ten years of the whole everything is really poor and they should have just got the positive of my over to europe and to america that we're so negative so it's a bit sad that. they maybe in russia you don't use so much p.r.

which is what it's very very important because the word of mouth and the presentation is very important it was too negative and he doesn't deserve this negativity and we'll be hearing from more star performers in sochi today and throughout the games and the best part is that you get to house them your questions by heading to our facebook page the address is facebook dot com slash r t news that does it for me this hour from our sochi studio for now back to moscow. to change twenty fourteen promises week alternate again exhilarating winter forcing our team here to join me and you see now i have to make seven zero in the last of olympic news chained to sochi twenty four take. all the ott. she have religious 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 monarchy which has been met with a relentless crackdown and thousands of arrests are just like here she have security ports 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 as protesters against the sunni led government fire molotov cocktails the police respond with tear gas and flash bang grenades and thing is that the government is using it as a while and a lot are being tortured and house raids just now are living in cities it said i lived in by me and you can hear helicopters armored by shooting at people. throwing it here yes here and there making people thought the key why not even practice outside the street at least eighty nine people have

reportedly been killed in the sheol position strife or 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 different government officials who told me that despite seeing the protesters 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 west the terrorist members of the opposition and their leader have close ties to 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 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 happy. the whole was all come up with the whole media would have cleared up because everything in that region. close to saudi arabia they really keep quiet about it. i haven't seen for in three years one single time that you can then over your rights violation 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 r.t. . him and rising groups have repeatedly raised concerns over the brutal tactics used by bahrain's security forces against the protesters however the situation has gained a little attention from western governments activists not a dive 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 reforms 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 path 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. anti-government unrest in our brain has been raging for three years an average thing you want to know about the advance there is on our website to log onto our data can be a full picture of what is going on there and how it all started. a second zoo in denmark says it will have to put down a healthy giraffe to comply with european breeding laws that management has that euthanasia is the most likely scenario and is the second such case in the space of a few days and has drawn widespread condemnation as are often of now explains. 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 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 bail 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 seens will 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. well off first to accommodate my reviews are now coming in from russia the leader of the chechen republic took to instagram to can down the killing of a first draft and to tell users he's ready to take in the second also a well known russian animal trainer at garza partially said he's ready to foot the cost of finding a new home from our use in a russian zoo. more news coming your way after the break including reports of a british citizen carry out a suicide bombing in assyria counterterrorist forces in the u.k. investigated the case of a man who left his family behind joined extremists in a war zone along with hundreds of other europeans. and calls to tighten

immigration rules grow louder in norway were the number of incomers has increased tenfold in the space of three decades. i marinate join me. for in-depth impartial and financial reporting commentary interviews and much much. only on the bust and. there's a saying you know when you're in the arctic you have the entire world at your feet . she looks like a fairly simple shit but really she's no symbol of the. handful of people ever have

access to the nuclear icebreakers the real king here is that the polar bear and ice breakers come second not a single complex expedition to the arctic can be conducted without 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 senior national immigration is becoming an increasingly divisive issue for europe with widespread calls for tougher laws switzerland has just voted in favor of curbs and migrants and almost half of germans want to follow in its food stamps and friends seventy percent of the population believes there are too many foreigners and the country and the vast majority of britons want to see immigration reduced as well as norway and

a record number of illegal immigrants were deported last year as a teacher group is going off 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. 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 are of foreign descent vast energy exports brought norway 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. immigrants who are coming from asia and africa they are low skilled and know they don't have

a labor market for them to often 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 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 to of our t.v. . and online a birthday party for a media are here after a space rod blaze. this is a drop in skin rashes urals and the as he asked are planning an anniversary celebration for and that r t dot com. the operator of japan's crippled fukushima power plant is accused of covering up the true level of radiation and groundwater near the site all that story and more on the r.t. website and also on twitter and instagram. rightly search for. and i would think the trip. on our reporters would. instantly. be in the.

now 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 a suspect who left a wife and three children behind to join the rebel forces in the war torn state i.d.'s boy boy who is 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 it's called martyrs ave 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 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 there have been involved in beating and. while residents of ma says adding you come to terms with that reported neighbors suicide attack security services in the u.k. of becoming increasingly concerned about the potential that brits fighting in syria could return and stage attacks on u.k. soil the boy k. aussie west sussex well britain is not the only european nation whose citizens have been joining the civil war in syria a recent study suggests that hundreds of e.u. citizens from germany belgium france and several other countries have left their

homes to fight alongside the hottest and some estimates put the figure much higher in the thousands well this of course poses major security concerns for europe as some of these volunteers express their intention to start a holy war in the west after their return a group of british nationals for example fighting in syria has even turned to social media to put its extremist message across they have released propaganda posters threatening terrorist attacks in britain and the u.s. targeting public transport and business centers while the captions on the images that you see right here urged people to join the holy war and become martyrs for the cause political analyst mohammedans are believes these foreign fighters pose a threat not only to europe but also to the people of syria. one of the most worrying aspects 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 affects your thoughts themselves out and

setting themselves up as being effectively warlords who are out there who are. really no benefit and those 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 new wants 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. turkish police have used tear gas and water cannon against protesters in the capital ankara who were venting their anger over new internet controls the government claims the legislation will protect individual rights but man i see it as a clamp down on freedom of speech demonstrators were also demanding the release of army officers jail last year for allegedly trying to stage a coup. some fourteen inmates mostly al qaida 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 shoot out no group has admitted to being behind the assault but yemen 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 raise the eruption alert to its highest level after a volcano in java start attending 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 was just a couple minutes it's over to our teams washington d.c. studio. financial show boom bust looking at the controversial u.s. banking tactics they're about to be adopted in the or.

transit route to vnukovo report you'll best way to the house of mosco. a satanic 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 yet they maybe should have put up of on 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 it depends on how you look at things technically in western liberalism everyone's beliefs by law are equal even if ninety nine people are christian and they cannot impose on that one poor 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 and 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.

so. and there i'm aaron a this is boom bust and these are the stories that we're tracking for you today. first up european banks are playing it fast and loose when it comes to dodgy new capital requirements here in the u.s.

i'll tell you all about it coming right up then we have political economist yanis varoufakis to live on today's show at least we hope so we're still working that out as what he thinks is next for the euro zone and in today's big deal ed harrison i take a look at what's going on in europe and the western country part of all that is you won't want to miss it and it all starts right now. for years now european banks have run operations on much capital requirements then there are american counterparts and with new u.s. financial regulatory rules set to kick in as early as next year european banks are now looking for ways to skirt the new laws banks including barclays in the u.k.

deutsche bank of germany and u.b.s. of switzerland are all allegedly considering tactics to shore up u.s. subsidiaries by buying the subsidiaries debt other banks are considering selling assets or moving firms into legal structures outside the purview of the us a k offshore now according to the wall street journal u.s. bank entities would quote issued their parent companies the type of bond that converts into equity if the u.s. business capital falls below a certain level some european regulators have allowed this type of convertible bond to count as capital although it is regarded as less helpful for absorbing losses than simple equity. and the european european parent companies would finance the purchases of these subsidiaries debt by issuing bonds to investors i mean why use your own principle when you're trying to skirt capital laws in the first place no why not just raise more debt to save. anyway.