transit routes. your best way to the heart of moscow. from celebrations to bits or disappointments it's a roller coaster of emotions in the olympic song as victory in the russian's men's hockey is followed by the surprise withdrawal of legendary figure skater you've been to pollution. tear gas some brutal clashes marked the anniversary of the bahraini opera izing reports on every bally end 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 the european breeding laws just days after the first animal was killed and skinned.

you're watching artsy ensor national with me marina call survivor welcome to the program it's a day seven of the winter olympics in salt she and of course artsy as continue in at special coverage. well today's first battles are yet to be won but there is a sub atmosphere among the russian fans after a big disappointment and the men's figure skating. who was a clear favorite for gold unexpectedly pulled out. that's left russia without in the olympic medal in the discipline for the first time in thirty years artes and a farmer has been keeping track of the developments poor old you can eat. that is the end of his competitive career he was always 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 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 magazine prank called among others has been paying tribute to his glittering if he. 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 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 qualities valentine's day and i know it's not going to be much of a consolation to miss the future anchor at the moment but he has been named as one of she sweethearts 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 school for russia yesterday in their fight to win against slovenia and there is competition and also there you won't be surprised to know that the russian women's curling team they really have struck a chord with the russian nation. he has made many people fall in love with this but also i really enjoyed talking to people yesterday and to me they proved that romance and good humor is alive and well here in d.c. we want to know who is the sexiest after late at these olympics. gold. russian love for the ration of cookie. joe's just right so joe what's his name shaun white tail yes to be american it lets us know border yes i think his very good looking he was the most attractive athlete at these olympics.

it's going to be your entire life i think of me no i don't know man ok russians good. early ali yes killing of costco. version of the in germany courage. she was it. was a fast he's very good looking isn't it a little note here why the written this season volunteer in the one hundred people . so just like everybody happy valentine's party or mrs last night was a little over doing anything about it so we all will do it on site say to your wife name to search sites more to get like you know back in the u.k. happy valentine's for tomorrow it's a sight from sochi we still believe in valentine's 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 in moscow if you are in love with that russian curling think keep watching today because they tonight again against. all while andrew has been talking to the fans and watching his fiance happy valentine's day our team has been going to feedback from leading athletes on their experiences and saatchi and how they have found the olympic venues after some negative publicity and scaremongering before the games their competitors say they couldn't be happier with what they actually discovered. being heavy just server away the bus is a spin or some such your son signed up on the mountain balanced with a pretty good accommodation it's not many places on the new zealand team so he said by far a dog one of the buildings but not so comfortable with buses up around the was a new zealand makes us feel like the temperatures were by a bit of a simple warm so yeah it's getting pretty saucy but we ride in those conditions all the time and so i just came down to try to land on your face in attempting to buy.

well we've also talked to alpine skier who dared to use von hohenlohe who is a mexican citizen with german loreal royal i should say ancestry he says that all the negativity about foreign journalists have been pouring on saatchi could have been cancelled out by some good p.r. think it's great it's a great game i think that russia the only problem to have this station that hired a p.r. person like me to be better p.r. before i mean you know it's a great place they will want the full venue and the full 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 it doesn't deserve this negativity. we are hoping to hear from more star performers and sausage today and

of course throughout the games and the best part is that you get so i asked them your questions by heading to our facebook page the actress's facebook dot com slash r t nice. twenty four d. a promise is the ultimate in exhilarating winter. and you say no way i'm a criminal i'm the boss of all of these to the sochi twenty four take. on it. so other news now she villages outside by hurricanes capital have been left trial didn't hear of gas after fierce clashes between police and government demonstrators which resulted in at least twenty nine arrests the process movements is marking three years of its our prize and against the rule in sunni more narky and that has been met with a relentless crackdown artie's alexy at a show of school 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 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 baikal 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 hundreds of small towns and 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 mean that our job i think the bahraini opposition is the main l.-i of the west the terrorist members of the opposition and their leader has close ties to foreign embassies in bahrain wiki leaks unveiled 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 happening. the whole was all come up with the whole

media. because in that region. close to saudi arabia they really keep quiet about it. i haven't seen for three years one single time that you can then be over you want to share 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 security forces against protesters or we are now joined live by. several months behind bars for her role as an activist thank you very much for agreeing to share your experiences with us now you were that strange for your role can you tell us exactly what happened briefly if you might. please could you repeat yes of course could you tell us briefly what happened in the protests why you were the train. exactly where i was to tell i was in because on the title that i was the vice president of iran to your society and there was a role for the society societies and then when we joined the three days a strike for teachers and it was only three days. everybody was started and specially the education and feed which we i was disability in because of that i was this of vice president of the society and my colleague who is the president of your

society is still spending five years and even me just because of asking a strike of three days for teachers and joining that you don't fit ration. that's what that's why we were detained and that's why we sent to the military court which meant he was sentenced to ten years and i was sentenced to. three years then. maybe he was reduced to five years who is serving and i was accused for six months and back in prison i'm sure you don't want to recall that time about how you were treated in prison. and present it was it was really very bad and it's still up today it's very bad to treating people everywhere in prison it's not just the women women and men and children everyone who will be detained will be through the torture process that is nearly systematic for everyone everyone will be everyone will be sexually harassed. we. blindfolded signed

confessions we don't know what to what is inside we don't any access to the. outside. situation but it is really very bad for anyone to be detained and different i know since two thousand and seven i know for nothing just for speaking up understanding for the rights of people with everything that you've described going on and grain why do you think. there have not gather as much the same level of support as all others of course and other arab nations why do you think that is . you know. much many obstacles that's one of the biggest things we are facing in the water the intervention of the united states and intervention also of the united kingdom has just biased to the government we don't seeing any more to the people even though they are on the ground there on the screen and they know everything i want what's happening but there is no single word towards the people and it's just all towards. the

government and we are sure if there is a change in that everything will be changed and of course we can to forget about the companies that are dividing the government. that's a lot of things to be. i think that what we are doing but it is the opposition movement gets like any support from abroad. of course we are. independent and bitter we don't have anything but we need we need the support in times in terms of human rights that's we have to i would like to. because you're not asking for anything illegal it's a what rights to have democracy tell it. to live in dignity it's just the basic rights that everyone. have it so why not any people just because someone you don't want to that's not true we have to get i want rights so not only to really go to having. activists some by surprise then of teachers association thank you very much

for that insights. thanks thanks artsy has been closely following the answer government on rush limbaugh frying over the past three years on the air and online log on to r.t. dot com to get the full picture of what is going on there and how it all started. now more news coming your way after the break including reports over births are suicide bomber in syria counterterrorist forces in the u.k. investigate why a man left his family behind to join extremists in the war zone. and calls for tougher immigration rules grow louder and norway where the number of commerce has increased tenfold in the space of three decades. maybe. by the push to. play your part of the.

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seconds to end denmark's us of will have to put down a healthy giraffe to comply with the european breeding laws the management says that euthanasia is the most likely scenario it's the second such case in the space of a few days and has drawn widespread condemnation as caffein off 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 there 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 frees. 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 as 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 lucy catherine of offers to accommodate morris are not coming in from russia the leader of the chechen republic took to instagram to condemn the killing of the first year off and to tell users he's ready to take in the second also well known russian animal trainer at a posh knee said he's ready to foot the cost of finding a new home for myers in the russians are. british

counterterrorism units are on high alert after reports that are u.k. citizen carried out a suicide bombing in syria officers are searching the house of the suspect who left his wife and three children behind to join the rebel forces in the war torn states are tiscali boyko 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 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 misery from 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 back have been involved in the saying and execution of fellow rebels while residents of mosses adding you come to terms with the reported neighbor 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. west sussex. britain is not the only european nation whose citizens have been the joining the civil war in syria now recent studies suggest that hundreds of national from germany belgium france and several other states have left their homes to forts alongside the jihad just some estimates put

that figure much higher in the thousand though this of course raises major security concerns for europe as several of these volunteers have said they plan to wage holy war on the was after their return now a group of british nationals flights in and syria has even turned to social media. put its extremist message across their posted propaganda pictures threaten terrorist attacks in britain and the u.s. targets in public transports and business centers now the captions on these images urge people to join the holy war and become mortars for the cause. now let's take a look now at what our web seem have been lined up for you a cosmic birthday party a year after a space blaze for the skies of chile happened sky russia's urals and those the answers are plannin and on the first resell abrasion find out more at r.t. dot com. also there the operator of japan's crippled fukushima power plant is

accused of covering up the true level of groundwater radiation near the site follow that story and more on our team's web site and of course also on twitter and instagram. immigration is becoming an increasingly divisive issue for europe with widespread calls for its ha for laws now switzerland has just voted in favor of curbs on ag migrants and almost half of germans want to follow and it's footsteps now in france poll shows seventy percent of the population what immigration reduced and the vast majority of britons hold a similar view now in norway a record number of illegal immigrants war the ports of last year and as artie's a go to school not reports the situation is putting pressure on the governments. this used to be a quiet suburban town in the outskirts of oslo where money is spent fourteen years

of his worth until he says along with most of his norwegian friends they had to move out because of constant attacks by teaching me going to gangs. 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 to do three out of four students at the local school or a foreign discerned 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 immigrants who are coming. africa they are low skilled and know the 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 so 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 which one 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. . i'll be back with more news in about half an hour from now up ahead larry king was as has gas some what really matters in u.s. politics is they with us.

a satanic group wants to erect a statue to the lord of darkness in oklahoma city which is the logical name capital of the whole of 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 yeah they maybe should have put up a banner to the ten. and it's on public property but does that mean that satanists and 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 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 to find more 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 question my opinion. games is very athletic excellence in extravagant showmanship this is been traditionally the case when we were 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 crossfire we explore the true spirit of such. a tabloid t.v. host and former democratic mayor jerry springer joins me with his take on the dysfunction and politics today plus former governor of florida charlie crist on

losing faith with the republican party and looking for redemption and running again as a democrat so all next on politicking with larry king. well the problem with larry king so many people know jerry springer just for his influence and it's really successful torkel but he's also has a bit of history in politics and he's never been shy about his liberal views thang . to do this terry some may suggest that the current condition in congress is similar to your show a dysfunctional family the only do you draw the comparison the only difference between the people in congress and the people on my show is that people in congress have more teeth. other than that i can tell the difference.

well i want one see here's here's what i think is a part of it is structural part of it has nothing to do with the quality of the people but it has more to do with the structure the system we ninety five percent of americans today live in the district which is either overwhelmingly republican or overwhelmingly democrat as such virtually no member of congress has to worry about being reelected in the general election their careers are purely dependent on winning the primary because they know if they win the primary they win the general because that their party controls the district so therefore and the people who vote in primaries tend to be more extreme they are more activists so on the republican side they're more conservative in their democratic primaries they're more liberal the result is that we have a congress that each member is has to play to the base but wasn't it all of that

was well it gets worse and worse because of jeremy and during every ten years according to the census you have to redraw the lines so it was inevitable that at some point with more and more gerrymandering drawing these lines districts would become a bit used to not be that everyone lived in a mostly republican or democratic area but because we keep changing the lines that's what is happening so now you if you're the now quit if you or republican. you can't have your picture taken with president obama it will screw you up in the next primary so therefore they don't even talk to each other anymore they don't socialize with each other there's no one wants to compromise because the lose the next primary which is why the republicans lead in control of the house but the democrats win the national action yes go to the way it's right because larry doesn't matter exactly. so you where obama could be unpopular and win another election.