on the slopes. valentine's day and the libyans and spectators alike to admire the darlings of the twenty fourteen winter games with an interest in selections topping the charts. three years on tear gas and torture fail to hold for brainy prover informed activists as they stand defiance artsy looks what the future could hold for the country. and migration concerns afflicting several countries norway store virus numbers of foreigners lords to its high living standards the country is increasingly worried about how to control the influx without in theory it's in brussels.

you're watching artsy international with me marina call survivor welcome to the program day seven now all that's once you suck in the winter olympics and we start off with our special coverage of the games. the sun is out over softer the weather scrape and that's valentine's day it's about it's but there's attention of silent of sadness i should say in the air never mind silence on thursday evening the legend of russian figure skates in the. hold outs of competition just minutes before his performance data entry what made it all that much more better for fans was that he was a favorite for a medal farmer reports poor old you kenny. 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 like 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 the 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 fellow figure skater maxine klein called among others has been paying tribute to his glittering if you. we all have great respect for pollution cold 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. i want to take my hat off and tell him that he's the greatest of athletes to 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 for mr who came for 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 list was alexander ovechkin heats gold for russia yesterday in their fight to win against slovenia and then. getting is competition and also there 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 the school but also i really enjoyed talking to people yesterday and to me they proved that romance and good humor is alive and well here even if we want to know who is the sexiest athlete these olympics. gold. russian love for the ration of cookie. joyce just why it's our job what's his name

sean weiss retainer yes me america and it lets us know border yes i think his very good looking who is the most attractive athlete at these olympics. it's. beyond value slightly i think we know there are no nancy ok russians good. curling yes killing of costco. a version of team germany courage. she was it. was a fast these very good looking isn't a little note hey why have you written this last season volunteer in one hundred people go on facebook. sites like everybody happy valentine's poxy all misses us nice little be doing anything like this so we all will do it on site say to your wife name to search sites more to get like 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 work in order can do. so there you are romancing 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 today because they tonight again against the swiss. well while andrew has been talking to the fans we spoke with a true veteran of the olympic games arm and soul galore has won medals in the moon shot six consecutive winter olympic games and he gave us his take on soft. olympics it's open so it's very nice very good for me to open so. the flag for their italian guy and. for the guardian team in the world it's really really fun and it's really nice. really because here.

and here is what other athletes have to say about their experiences in the host city so far they never just server away the buses expand also on the sites your son sign up on the mountain village with a pretty good accommodation there's no meaning place on the new zealand team so we just have the car dog one of the buildings but not so comfortable with buses up around the was in new zealand makes us believe that temperatures will play a bit of a part of this it will be warm so yeah it's getting pretty slushy but i'm really right in those conditions all the time and so i just came down to try to land on your face in attempting to the. we are all friends are here for more star performers today and of course throughout the games and the best part is that you can get to ask them your questions by heading to our facebook page and the address is facebook dot com slash r t news.

the g twenty four team promised to be coaching the game exhilarating winter. here in germany and you say no way to make seven zero in on the bus tomorrow let me take you change to sochi twenty four take. on. we move on to other news now protests that erupted in the outskirts of bahrain's capital on friday have been quashed by police using tear gas at least twenty nine people have been arrested the activists i'm unama were marking three years of form the sense that has reportedly seen scores killed in the police crackdown are. 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 but. you can hear helicopters armored baikal 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 the 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. the whole was all come up with the whole media. because in that region. close to saudi arabia really keep quiet about it. i haven't seen full in

three years one single time that you can then over your drive by these with the scenes of the second anniversary of bahrain's uprising with thousands protesting peacefully in the street 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. in a rights groups have repeatedly sounded the alarm over the brutal tactics used by variance police against protesters today or are solomon spent several months behind bars after helping organize protests and here's her experience of meeting behind security forces face to face. present it was it was really very bad and it's up to

date it's been about interesting people everywhere present it's not just a woman women and men and children and everyone who will be the team will be when you go through the torture process that is nearly systematic for everyone everyone will be beaten everyone will be sexually harassed everyone we. have the line for it signed confessions we don't go in with what's inside we don't have any access to delhi or an outside world that's the situation but it is really very bad for anyone to be detained and befriend like no i wasn't and i don't apply for nothing just for speaking up understanding for tonight's of the day people. for the last three years artsy has been closely following the uprising in bahrain he can find the big picture of what's going on there on our website artsy dot com. it all propaganda goes mainstream so i had for you this hour a radical muslim group the benefits of becoming a martyr using social media to recruit fighters that story and more after

a short break. well if you're going to come on in a lot of these policies i think you're right. pleasure

to have you with us here on t.v. today i roll researcher. is obviously more for the ladies because it's pink. women wanted to avoid rate they really needed to buy guns and learn how to use them. this is the one that i'm going to go with them once again it's the fear factor women are definitely the target of the gun lobby you don't kill them when you're killing money but if somebody would you would describe her. i'm noticing more and more and that's really scary marketing tactics which implies that women have some sort of moral obligation

telling guns to protect their family and young girls shoot out here too so we do have a pink or. more kids young kids choke on food than are killed by firearms if being armed made us safer in america we should be the safest nation on earth. were clearly not the safest. welcome back to our c. ensor national mall the free movement of people may be one of the pillars all of a common markets but the issue is driving a wedge between e.u. member states calls for tougher regulations are spread and why they're drawing the call on them. nation of brussels now switzerland has just voted in favor of curbs on a u. migrants and almost half of germans want to follow and its fourth step in france is seventy percent of the population believe there are too many foreigners in the

country and the vast majority of burthens want to see immigration reduced and in norway a record number of illegal immigrants were the ports of last year and as i've been 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. then 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. and no they don't have a labor market for them to often tough 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 working a good working immigration system how to respect the system but solving one problem may create new ones which one has just held a mission wide referendum in which over half of its citizens decided to limit the

amount of immigrants living and working there causing outrage from brussels and threatening trade ties with the e.u. it's going to of r.t. . and there are always more stories lined up for you on our websites including relate. for some debate for others belgium becomes the first several months to allow youth in asia for terminally ill children the ruling immediately unites in christians and muslims and jews in the way a book called the nation. and gender euphoria american facebook users don't have to be just boys or girls anymore as a social network and should use is about fifty gender identity options that story and more artsy dot com. authorities in the u.k. are scrambling to come up with a solution to prevent young brits from becoming radicalized and go into fights in

syria abdulla why he blew himself up in an attack on the government targets reports of me becoming the first british suicide bomber and syria. 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 haven't you 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 back have been involved in b.c. and execution of fellow rebels while residents of ma says adding you come to terms with a reported neighbor suicide attack security services in the u.k. are becoming increasingly concerned about the potential that brits fighting in syria could return and stage attacks on u.k. soil. west sussex. and this launch as british citizens who have been heading to syria to take up arms recent studies suggest that hundreds of e.u. citizens from belgium france germany and several other states have joined the jihad this governments are now concerned about the threat these radicalized fighters why pose on their return home now the call to war is from the heavily publicized by one

group of british nationals flights and syria there are spreading propaganda like this across social networks and platforms you're about to see a frightening terrorist attacks in britain and the u.s. . on public transport and business centers the captions on these images urging people to join the holy war and become mortars for the cause rosemary davis is a u.k. government spokesman in the middle east and she says the authorities are under no illusion about how dangerous these fighters are we are very concerned and. by chance we're going from pretty soon here to fight and. we are concerned also if this is the region in fact. we do all the event and go into syria and we are constantly still the wheels in which we can

prevent a discrete them from go in and we're also looking at what we can do but those that do decide to travel. russia they get worse and other members of the un security council are set to thrash out their differences on the draft text so hold the violence in syria but the un mediator lakhdar brahimi has warned the talks are close to collapse russia's foreign minister says the west's one sided approach to the conflict is holding back the peace efforts. brought the opposition into the talks everyone to focus in fulfilling the geneva communiqué what they were really off to was regime change the only thing that the syrian opposition want to talk about is establishing a transitional government only after that will be willing to discuss the problem of terrorism which are things most of those fighting against the government stream and terrorist groups. and some more global headlines hundreds of people have again

protests that against the rise in the points of public transport in the brazilian city of rio de janeiro walking in the setting sun sir demonstrators say the nine percent hike in boss fires was unfair out a time when the cost of living is. ever a zillion cameraman who was hit by a flare while filming another protest in the city a week ago has died of his injuries. two people have died and more than seventy thousand have been forced to flee after a bold pain on the indonesian island of java erupted the victims were at home when their roof collapse under the weight of ash thick layer also covered the nearest major cities through a one hundred thirty kilometers away three major airports have been forced to close . in thailand and sea government protesters have clashed with

police on as they clear council demonstrators from the streets of bangkok authorities managed to open some major roads that had been closed for three months protests are still occupy several areas of the capital as they call for the government to be replaced by another like the people's council. now you might want to look away if you're scared of heights it's china's tallest building out six hundred fifty meters and a pair of russian there devils have managed to climates with no safety gear and no permission the shanghai. tower is still under construction oh so that didn't stop with oliver skull of horror of making their way of riots in the summits capturing this terrifying footage on their head cameras their video has attracted almost seven million hits on the cheap. now after the break selfish a lot of talks to the author of the controversial child euthanasia law recently

passed and biology and that's in sophie co right here on artsy. transit route to vnukovo report your best way to the heart of moscow.

ten a 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 year they maybe should 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 is it depends on how you look at things. technically it was to liberalism everyone's beliefs by law are equal even if ninety nine people are christian and they cannot impose on that one poor sickness which sounds nice but in reality that means that those ninety nine christians have to tolerate a monument to the infernal master and the feiler of the innocent on their way to work every morning part of having a culture means having a group of people of common beliefs and values if you just include anything into the culture the new longer have a culture all that remains are scattered individuals all i'm trying to say is that

it's ok to rebuke the devil guys but that shows my opinion. the olympic games is very name means athletic excellence in extravagant showmanship this is been traditionally the case for where we're 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 we explored the true spirit of songs. are welcome to. shevardnadze a law that would allow for children is being considered and belgian if passed the

bill would lift state restrictions on those who are a quest for their lives to be terminated and we'll be speaking to one of those behind a controversial truck full of. a matter of life and death these parents are forced to watch their children ways to way slowly and. surely assisted suicide be an option how far is too far. euthanasia is posing questions no one would ever want to answer do minors have the right to die is a time to break the taboo. and our guest is belgian sen rand to support her off the low allow him to finish a four miners healing well filipe mouth thank you very much for being with us at this program so you are here a doctor yourself a surgeon what have you seen that could possibly make you take up this issue in the first place. commits. a listen he says

a doctor i think we were confronted with the situations of great distress what's your thought on medications with incurable disease mostly cancers. and it also applies to minors children and teenagers. of all good before the two thousand and two was adopted in belgium we could not respond to the request for euthanasia. even though the piece since the law was passed many pediatricians and colleges in particular those who deal with children so yes it does repeatedly they're going in some cases the to amend the law to allow those children that are suffering to benefit from dignified death through the world but this is why we started this discussion in the built in parliament of what that means to you when you bought a mobile but i'm just wondering if you had any personal experience yourself how many cases have you personally come across where children have asked doctors to

help them die and how many parents have agreed to that. or somebody said. you know it's always difficult to be able to evaluate the number of pieces of it because she will tell you something quite specific though. if in your life she was it made specially if you are a physician it's what you own you're called to take care even of one of these cases only one of these people whether an adult or a minor she was that you were confronted with the situation and you quickly realize the need to find solutions and solve this issue unbearable pain in case of incurable diseases don't so the number is not the most important element here but the more what matters is that there are children. who suffer from incurable diseases and for whom it is necessary to find

a humane solution and sort of. human you know it's a pure coincidence but i am a journalist i'm thirty five but i also happen to be a board member of a moscow hospice so people that i work with very tightly they are actually confronted with lethally ill kids every day kids die every day and when i talk to them about euthanasia they tell me that they yet have to come across at child who wishes to die because that hasn't happened yet in our case could. be. quite frankly there are such cases because some kid conform to very fortunately for me it's not the same person who is facing this type of situation every time fifty of the very fortunately it is not the same families. i don't.