from ecstasy to bitter disappointment it's a roller coaster of emotions in olympics as victory in the russian man's hockey is followed by a surprise withdrawal of legendary figure skater if danny go. here gassen brutal clashes marked 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 zoos in denmark draw condemnation from animal rights groups and other healthy giraffe is due to be put down to comply with european breeding laws just days after the first animal was killed and skinned.

international coming to you live from moscow i'm marina josh at all the winter olympic action and drama here on our t.v. as we continue our special coverage of the sochi games let's now cross to our correspondent lisa now who is in our studio there. there's a couple of hours to go before the next medals will be won here in sochi but there's still a very subdued mood among many of the russian fans over a big disappointment in men's figure skating. 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 was always going through. these olympics aged thirty one but he did not want it to end like he had

to pull out demanding old quickly. 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 back of his after 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 plank of 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 his condition is a heroic achievement and. 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 few people in history could have equal ten qualities valentine's day and i

know it's not going to be much of a consolation to miss the food chain for the moment but he has been named as one of the she's three 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 scored for russia yesterday in their fight to win against slovenia in their first game in this competition and also there you might be surprised to know that 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 he says we want to know who is the sexiest athlete at these olympics. goalkeeper. russian federation of corky luminance joyce josh white so joe what's his name is sean white retainer yes be american at let's ask no border yes i think his very

good looking he was the most attractive athlete. at these olympics. it's going to be on dial up supply monitors i think we know i know i know nancy ok the russians get. credit all that yes killing of costco. krista version of team germany courage. she was it is a it is a fast these very good looking isn't a little note a one of you in the volunteer and one hundred people go on facebook and my dear lady so just like everybody happy valentine's boxee only says yeah well that's nice isn't it nobody doing anything about it so we all will do it on site say to your wife not to search a site small to good like you 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 games i want to do or can do it can do. so there you are romance to me and i'm going to say happy valentine's to my fiance in moscow too if you are in love with that russian curling think keep watching tonight because they tonight again against the. house we love certainly in the air here in sochi this valentine's day and while andrew has been talking to the fair artist and getting feedback from leading our fleet on their experiences here in sochi and how they found a limping venue after some negative publicity and scaremongering before the games you better say they could be happier with what they actually discover. being here probably just server away. russia's expand also the sites you all some on sign up on the mountain village with a pretty good accommodation it's not many place on the new zealand team so we just have a card on one of the buildings but not so comfortable with buses up around the was a new zealand makes us feel like the temperatures will play a bit of

a part of the civil war so yeah it was getting pretty slushy but i will you. right in those conditions all the time and so i just came down to the judge when i went on your face in attempting to the but. we've also talked to outline skier who worked as 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 with russia the only problem that they have this thing should have hired a p.r. person like me to be a bit of p.r. before i mean you know it's a great place is that they will want the full venues not 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 that that they maybe in russia you don't use so much p.r. which is what the it's very very important because the word of mouth on the

presentation is very important it was too negative and many doesn't deserve this negativity you'll be hearing from more star performers in sochi today and throughout the games and the best part is that you get to ask them your questions by heading to our facebook page the address is facebook dot com slash our team use to do head on to our facebook log on see who were interviewing with in the next couple of days and ask what you want to ask that's it for me this hour in our sochi studio stay with r.t. for our continuous coverage of the olympics. the g. twenty fourteen promises we call to meet again exhilarating winter forcing our team here to join me and you say no way i'm a kevin zero in the must of all let me take these chains for sochi twenty four take . all the ott. shared villages outside bahrain's capital have been left rather than tear gas after fierce clashes between police and

government demonstrators which resulted in at least twenty nine arrests the protest movement is marking three years of its uprising against the ruling sunni modesty which has been met with a relentless crackdown are just next here cesky 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 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 house raids just now of living in cities it said i lived in. 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 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 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 mean that 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 are 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 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 if what is happening through in terms of human rights abuses is happening. in russia the whole was all come up with the whole media would have cleared up because it is happening in that region. close to saudi arabia they really keep quiet about it they give a blind eye i haven't seen for in three years one single time that you can then be over your eyes by these with 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 selman 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's security forces against protesters however the situation has gained a little attention from western governments activist not a dive told r.t. the powerful economic interests are behind this the government seems to be buries this than 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 past often 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 the britain like the major stakeholders and these are the

countries that they're effecting the internal policy and the extent 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 bahrain has been a raging for three years and everything you want to know about the events there isn't our website blog on to argue dot com to get the full picture of what is going on there and how it all started. a second andam mark 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 and it's the second such case in the space of a few days and has drawn widespread condemnation. 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 julian's 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. 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 seeded will have to wait and see whether the zoo

will succumb to the public. pressure for now the fate of at least one giraffe hangs in the balance reporting in berlin germany i'm lucy coughing of offers to accommodate marya's are now coming in from a russia the leader of the chechen republic to instagram so you can down the killing of the first europe and to tell users he's ready to take in the second also a well known russian animal trainer garza pasha said he is 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 carrying out a suicide bombing and syria counterterrorist forces in the u.k. investigate the case of a man who left his family behind joining. with hundreds of other europeans. norway were the number of. the number of incomers rather has increased tenfold in

the space of three decades. dealing with the location of a cylinder. weller's of the texan said you would stop this storm we might be more my people.

stories the few. places. too. ok max this is r t international immigration is becoming an increasingly divisive issue for europe with widespread calls for tough for laws switzerland has just voted in favor of curbs on an almost half of germans want to follow in its footsteps in france seventy percent of the population believes there are too many foreigners in the country and a vast majority in britain's in britain who want to see immigration reduced as well

in norway a record number of illegal immigrants were deported last year as has been off now 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 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 many immigrants who are coming from asia and africa they are low skilled.

no 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

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be in the. 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 the war torn state are peaceful the boy who is following the story. facts is 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 schooled mata'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 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 back have been involved in the saying and execution of fellow rebels while residents of mohsin 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 that brits fighting in syria could return and stage attacks on u.k. soil boyko aussie 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 e.u. citizens from germany belgium france and several other states have left their homes

to fight alongside the jihadists or some estimates put the figure much higher and the sounds of those of course poses major security concerns for europe with some of those volunteers expressing their intentions to wage holy war in the west after zero return and a group of british nationals fighting in syria has even turned to social media to put its extremist mess. across well they've released propaganda posters threatening terrorist attacks in britain and the u.s. targeting public transport and businesses centers and the captions on these images urging people to join the holy war and become martyrs for the cause political analyst mohammed on star believes these foreign fighters pose a threat not only to your 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 are really no benefit and no blessing to the people out there and are going to become increasingly radicalized and often go out there with a martyrdom mentality i think really understanding the nuance to bait 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 now the u.n. security council has had to vote on a new draft resolution in syria however russia has made clear that it will use its veto to block the western backed document which proposes a fifteen day ultimatum for the syrian government to and violence across the country and russia's foreign minister says the west one sided approach to the conflict is holding back international peace efforts. should. we get

the impression that when those who brought the opposition into the talks everyone to focus in fulfilling the geneva communiqué what they were really after was regime change the only thing that the syrian opposition want to talk about is establishing a transitional government only after that will they be willing to discuss the problem of terrorism as things stand most of those fighting against the government stream ist and terrorist groups. turkish police have used tear gas and water cannon against protesters in the capital ankara who were venting their anger over a new internet controls the government claims the legislation will protect individual rights but many cede as a climbdown on freedom of speech demonstrators were also demanding the release of army officers jail last year for allegedly trying to stage a coup. fish oils and indonesia have ordered the evacuation of over sixty thousand people and raised the eruption alert to its highest level after

a volcano in java 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 to help get people away from the area and authorities are urging people to stay at least ten kilometers from the volcano but. clashes have erupted in bangkok after rival east began clearing into government sit ins that have been in place for several months security forces used tear gas to force demonstrators from several parts of the city center in the area outside prime minister's office the opposition has been calling for the prime minister's resignation since last november using her of corruption. i'll return and half an hour of mourning is sam now for our documentary sky rescue.

the terror 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 our west coast have the right to put up their own twisted monuments well that is are the plans of 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 of the. 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 include anything into the culture than you 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. the g twenty four team promises the ultimate in the exhilarating winter. to me and it's now a make have an eye on the rest of our lives take justina for sochi twenty four take . on. yes.

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