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you're watching r t international with me marina call survivor welcome to the program day seven now of the twenty second the winter olympics and we start off with our special coverage of the games. the sun as i also versace the weather is great and it's fallen time states the boots but all the focus is of course on the sports six gold medals are up for grabs today and russia is one of the strong contenders so artie's paul scott now on today's progress here he is hi there paul so obviously i know what the ladies are looking forward to today but how about sports fans. well i can tell you that russian alexander threat to call of is currently the man to catch at the halfway stage of the main skeleton competition he set a new track record in the first round the final two rounds conclude on saturday

before the games r.t. caught up with him and he admits that being on home ice is a huge advantage. for more than a year and i've gone to know it like the back of my hand we spend so much time there that it already feels like home i like that track very much and i find it very comfortable i know that everybody likes it including foreign athletes sochi has hosted a trial run world cup and everybody was happy with the track is considered one of the best in the world is design is very smart and convenient spacious it has a warm up area large changing rooms and very good infrastructure. well elsewhere russia's female koalas have given their chances of qualification for the next round a huge boost switzerland six three that was fair to say that the team skipped by former model on a side door of a have grabbed the attention of an adoring russian public it is of course valentine's day my colleague andre farmer has been out and about on the streets of

sorts and he's discovered that love is in the air. is the sexiest athlete these olympics. goalkeeper a. russian love for the ration of cookie. joe's just why it's so joe what's his name sean weiss red tail yes me american let's ask no border yes i think his very good looking he's the most attractive athlete at these olympics. and beyond value life i think we know you know i know nancy ok the russians good. yes killing of cost killing. krista version of team germany curling. it's a fast he's very good looking isn't a little note hey why the rate in this so i see them volunteering one hundred

people to go on facebook. just like everybody happy valentine's box he only says yeah but that's nice isn't it nobody doing anything about a soul no way i will do it go on say say to your wife nine to search sites more to get like back in the u.k. happy valentine's for tomorrow it's a site from sochi we still believe in valentine's as well i know the games i work in order can or can do. so there you are romancing me and i'm going to say happy valentine's to my fiancé must go to. well as i saw there from these reports there was a lot of sunshine a right now looking at you in the background there it's all looking very of romance like you're very lucky with the weather. yeah it's hard to imagine now but the temperatures today have been well into double figures yet again we are of course heading to the into the evening and it is the good weather that helps the party atmosphere along here in sochi but despite that despite that there have been some

reports of melting snow and some empty seats as well but the international olympic committee has moved today to praise both the venues on the organization of the games with one i.o.c. official saying that some critics are simply looking for reasons to criticize the sochi twenty fourteen winter olympics has been speaking to athletes all along and we gauge how some of them feel as we approach the hard way stage of these games. mean was perfect i love this slushy snow when it's stopped outside so i'm nothing to complain about i think you know your job so i'm happy to ski instead she says snow in the sun but they never just server away the buses expand also so you'll see them on sign up on the mountain balance with a pretty good accommodation it's no place on the new zealand team so it's. one of the buildings but not so comfortable with buses up around the walls in new zealand

so it makes us feel like. seems like there's lots to look forward to in your all they're having a good time we'll be talking to you throughout the night of course thank you there's actually one more gassed i would like to talk to you about because. it's new less than by far it's most fierce looking than this and it's high time that the robots and we've been out to meet him as well. twenty fourth one drew a look thanks i don't want. the spiders moon appearance titans really not interested in global domination in fact is more in some music and streets entertainment a clever contraption spends its time on the streets of song telling jokes dancing and making friends with the locals bots not everyone's grown to trust him. you could be able. to keep it inside she would call it

the game's progress but of course it's just one of the answers home and surround the city we've been speaking to believing athletes about their experiences insulting one of them a true veteran of the olympic games are men so geller has won medals in the illusion six consecutive winter olympic games and he gave us his take on salt. against the olympics it's. very nice very good for me. hoping so take the flak for their italian guy and the person being. deemed in the world it's probably a good sign for the athletes it's really nice really because you. now a safe landing as the last thing on the minds of these two guys and we're talking about this how right here you see how big it is although what they're doing is luckily enough in the olympic sports it fully complies with the slogan the faster

higher stronger especially the higher parts these russian their devils managed to climb the shanghai tower almost six hundred and fifty meters tall with no safety gear or permission the tower is still on the construction but provides a bronze the stone on the last unless you're scared of heights that is their you tube video has almost seven million hits so watch and then it's it can make you a little bit dizzy. and we've got that story in full on our website it's artsy dot com now going back to basics we're hoping to hear from more star performers today and throughout the games of course on 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 artsy news.

twenty fourteen promise we'll be able to meet in the exhilarating winter and. join us in our way to make seven zero in the first of all of these teams to sochi twenty four take. on. moving on now to other news protests that erupted in the outskirts of the hurricane's capital on friday have been quashed by police using tear gas at least twenty nine people have been the rusted the acts of acim unama were marking three years of pro-reform the science that has reportedly seen scores killed and the police crackdown artie's an exodus have scary 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. the police respond with tear gas and flash bang grenades and thing is that the government is using violence

a lot are being tortured and house raids just now are 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 suffocate why not even practice the 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 summit a job i think the bahraini opposition is

a main ally of the west the terrorist members of the opposition and their leader has 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 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 there will come up with the whole media would have flared up again because it is not bringing in that region. close to saudi arabia they. keep quiet about this. i haven't seen. one single. convention over you want. these were 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. and. we reiterate our main demand secure for rights without any hesitation and we're ready to make new sacrifices for this in the name of our homeland we will demand just retribution for all those who killed our sons and those who ordered the killings last month bahrain's crown prince sell man called for another round of negotiations to end the violence with 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 sound that they alarm over the brutal tactics

friends police against protesters to later i'll cylons spend several months behind bars after helping organize protests here's her experience of maids and behind security forces face to face. present it was it was really very bad and it's still up today it's very very interesting people everywhere and present it's not just the women women and men and children everyone who will be detained we go through the torture process that is nearly systematic for everyone everyone will be beaten everyone will be sexually harassed everyone we. blindfolded signed confessions we don't go in with what is inside we don't have any access to the lawyer or an outside world that's the situation it is really very bad for anyone to be detained and different like no since two thousand and eleven i know for nothing just for speaking up understanding for the rights of the people. for the last three years r.t. has been closely following the uprising in bahrain and you can find the big picture

of what's going on on our website r.t. dot com. now the british government says casting about for ways to stop its citizens going to syria to fight it's stay with us for the story on how a forty one year old man left his family behind to fight and die in a foreign war and what's more still to come. that the location of the boys still remember. how to the well there's of the texan said you would stop this storm we might think you know my people will die.

so. welcome back to r.c. international we continue now with the news that the free movement of people may be one of the pillars of a common markets but the issue is driving a wedge between the e.u. member states calls for tougher regulations are spreading wider draw in the

condemnation of brussels well as well switzerland to has just voted in favor of curbs on the migrants and almost half of germans want to follow and that's footsteps now when it comes to france seventy percent of the population believe that there are too many foreigners in the country and the vast majority of britons want to see immigration reduced as well in norway a record number of illegal immigrants were deported last year and as our. reports calls for such the 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 wife 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 today three out of four students at

a local school or a foreign descent mass energy exports brought more we some of the highest living standards in europe and made it very attractive for immigrants over the last thirty years their population has grown tenfold but high living standards mean high cost which not all newcomers are contributing towards many immigrants welcome information and they are low skilled and we don't have a labor market for them to offer 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 street 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 not get rid of it by closing

the borders we have wanted to discuss now how to sort of get a more work working immigration system how to respect the system but solving one problem may create new ones which 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. . r t. and there are always more stories lined up for you on our websites including relief for some debate for others belgium becomes the first of a country to allow euthanasia for terminally ill children the ruling immediately unites in christians and muslims and jews in a wave of condemnation. and xander euphoria american facebook users don't have to be just boys or girls anymore as the social network introduces about the gender identity options that story anymore at r.t.

dot com. or forty's in the u.k. are scrambling to come up with a solution to prevent young britons from becoming radicalized and taking up arms in syria polly boyko looks now at the troubling story of one man who reportedly blew himself up in the war torn city of aleppo. 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. the forty one year old man that lived 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 residents of ma says adding you come to terms with a 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 and this launches sports are citizens who have been heading to syria to take up arms recent studies suggest that hundreds of citizens from belgium france germany and other states have joined the jihad this war governments are now concerned about the fate the threat that these jihad this

fighters upon their return home the call to war is being heavily publicized by one group in particular a british nationals fighting in syria there is spreading then propaganda like this across social media platforms through arts and terrorist attacks in britain and the u.s. on public transport as well as business. censors the captions on these images urged people to join the holy war and become martyrs for the cause rosemary davis is a u.k. government spokeswoman 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 who are going from britain to syria to fight and. we are concerned also if this is a military that. we do all the event and go into syria and we are constantly still here we use in which we can prevent them

discreetly from go in and we're also looking in what we can do but those that do decide to travel. rush of the us and other members of the u.n. security council are such a thrash out their differences on a draft text to hold the violence and syria but u.n. 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 hold them back peace efforts. we get the impression that when those who brought the opposition into the talks urged 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 which are things stand most of those fighting against the government stream mist and terrorist groups. and some more global headlines for you

now hundreds of people have again against the rise in the cries of public transport in rio de janeiro blocking the city center demonstrators say the nine percent hike in boss fares was unfair out of time when the cost of living is go we're not represented in camera man 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 volcano on the indonesian island of java erupted the victims were at home when their roof collapsed under the weight of ash a thick layer also covered the nearest major city sewer boy or one hundred thirty kilometers away three major airports have been forced to close.

in thailand and sea government protesters have clashed with police as they cleared demonstrators from the streets of bangkok authorities managed to open some major roads about had been closed for three months protesters still occupies several areas of the capital as they call for the government to be replaced by an unelected people's council. now will return with a more news in about a half an hour in fact my colleague matt tries a war take over for now the extreme job of getting medical help cinematic families in russia's foreign north to stay with us.

a transit route to vnukovo report your best way to the heart of moscow. 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 yet 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 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 then you longer have a culture all that remains are scattered individuals all i'm trying to say is that it's ok to abuse the devil guys but that shows my opinion. yes. yes.

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of the night said his traditional minutes tens of children in one of the most distant areas of the arctic peninsula. there's nothing for many kilometers all around but the desert of snow and brave has crossed the tundra with their herds of domestic deer in search of new pastures. they'll cover hundreds of kilometers a great godless of the weather. a day a break as passport just says young miles tundra instead of a regular address with. house number and street. right here for you here i was born on this land of yours and my father lived here and i have three died i took a place. on heritage his herd my brothers and i divided between us.

because two sons help him in the tundra that what the eldest and his wife in the dish to have two daughters three year old alina and dario who is six young family is awaiting a new arrival. and of course would like a boy. the expectant mother has a congenital heart disorder she's due to give birth any day now and needs urgent help but here in the tundra whether or not the air ambulance arrives on time depends entirely on the weather. contact with the outside world is very limited missile has no satellite phone and has only recently acquired a mobile but as there's no signal in the chum it serves mainly as a toy for missiles granddaughters. what had there with your shirt off you know i don't understand it or don't i try to learn how to use them but there's very little doesn't have to. be understood rest while i have no idea how to use the value of.

their community but i need. to find a mobile phone signal if you have to travel twenty or even thought eco much as through the tundra to the nearest settlement. sometimes that when it's a family has to travel deep into the tundra where there's no contact at all. they have to take a position fix regularly as a possibility that the desert will have to be taken to hospital grows stronger by the hour. mikhail sent his youngest son to relay the coordinates. she was. receiving. billons miscommunication it was. the middle reach but the flight to the family was postponed.