the in. love on the sochi slopes of valentine's day and olympians and spectators alike palos to have my or the darlings of the two thousand and fourteen games with an interesting selection topping the chart. years on tear gas but tons and torture fail to hold any pro-reform activists as they stand defiant and take a look at what the future could hold for the country. and migration concerns afflicting several countries and knock on norway's door with vast numbers of foreigners allude to the lurid high standards of living in the country increasingly worried about how to control the influx without infuriating brussels.

eight pm in moscow i'm at present are going to have you with us danes seven out of the twenty second winter olympics underway and again we begin with our special coverage of the games from the heart of the olympic city where archy's kevin owen is standing by to take it all away. yeah they're not even a whole welcome back to kevin always with us to give to you from the heart of the action of course a guy with a magnificent view of the shoulder of the olympic is now where a week of course go into these winter games there's been no shortage of both celebration and sadly but a heartbreak to let's cross to pull scott the some of the day for us so far. are we going to. have them will continue that russian alexander threat to call of the man to catch at the home off way stage of the men's skeleton competition that he set a new. track record in the first round the final two rounds conclude on saturday however

the women's skeleton event is finishing up this evening and russia also have high hopes of a medal there yelling and a kid skier is in the bronze medal position going into tonight's final two rounds as for trash he has caused while he admits the opportunity to perform on home ice is a real 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 truck very much and i find it very comforting 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 has a woman perrier large changing rooms and very good infrastructure. well elsewhere russia's female colors have boosted their chances of qualification for the next round with a six three victory over switzerland i think it's fair to say that the team

skippered by form a model on a side door the have captured the imagination of an adoring russian public meanwhile the men's individual figure skating competition concludes this evening it was of course meant to be the moment they have played. took to the ice for the host nation but injury of course rolling him out but he is one of a number of athletes who have captured the hearts of many on this valentine's day. he was the sexiest athlete at these olympics. dish and of course if you can. use a best goalkeeper. rational for the ration of cookie. pollution. joyce josh white and joe what's his name is sean weiss red tail yes me american let's ask no border yes i think his very gay. he's the most attractive athlete

at these olympics. it's going to be your entire life i'm me no no no nancy ok russians good. early ali yes killing of cost killing. krista version of team germany curling. she was. so fast he's very good looking isn't it a little note here why the right in this so i seize on volunteering one hundred people to go on facebook my dear lady so just like you everybody happy valentine's poxy all missy's yeah that's nice little be doing anything what is so we all will do it go on say say to your wife now to search a site smarty you could like back in the u.k. happy valentine's for tomorrow all sides aside from sochi we still believe in valentine's as well i know the olympic games i want to work in order to endure.

so there you are romancing me and i'm going to say happy valentine's to my fiance in moscow. well this night for isn't it you know or i will talk about well wishes are to just going to russia for medalist from the figure skating pairs of nafta wishing us know you well as well they stressed how important the support of loved ones was to them and the athletes in general is take a listen. but everyone likes to get out in time it comes from a child i wish everyone had and this life is going to save the world. view i said man. i wish everyone celebrating this holiday to spend the day in a romantic mood just the weather is great and saatchi you could go for a walk to the seafront and have fun. my mother also came to sort she she was very nervous maybe even more than i was she said she couldn't watch our performance she had to turn away or even go out she could tell how we were doing only by the sound of that by the applause. but i my mom came

a bit early to the opening ceremony the thing is i have two celebrations on that day the start of the games and my birthday so my mother came to support me but you . pull back you know from over to the weather's been extremely good here today as a not very good news though for the winter olympics of course it's not quite sixty seventy degrees today. here you probably can't tell right now of course darkness has descended but the temperatures are well into our double figures again today here in the coastal cluster not no doubt increasing the party atmosphere in and around such a now there have been some complaints some reports of empty seats in and around some of the venues and of course the snow melting that we have that we've we've touched on throughout the course of the week however the international olympic committee have moved today to appraise the venues on the organization of the games so far one i.o.c. official saying that critics are simply looking for reasons to criticize these

games but r.t. has been speaking to a number of athletes and officials to gauge exactly how the games are going as we approach the halfway stage. for me was perfect i love this slushy snow when i stopped outside so i'm nothing to complain about i think they're doing a good job so i'm happy to ski and so were the first snow in. we have. here. two weeks ago we have. everything is ok. no one wants to organize bad games. everyone everyone. i. well on the topic aware that we're doing the shooting over someone very much dependent on having a smoke screen just because you're over joining us from the u.s.

ski jump team either what do you think of whether this is off putting for a particular sport or is love to have the blue sky in the sunshine because it's not great for snow or is it no it's not fortunately we have great weather here it's almost it's hard to believe it's been the winter olympics but. that's something we train for in ski jumping you can't control the weather so you just have to go with whatever you're given and sometimes it's better sometimes it's not so great you can do for britain how you found sochi i find it beautiful i think it's been organized great and everybody's really nice and of course the scenery is just fabulous what about all you know it was so publicized the all the negative press in the lead up to the whole put you off or to just make your own mind up and get on with it you know it was hard not to pay attention to how much negativity it was getting but i was trying to stay optimistic i knew i was coming here regardless and so far i have been so pleasantly surprised. that we heard earlier on my feet saying how important

is to have support in the crowds etc you know loved ones or just your supporters waving flags how much does it mean she was nasty when you being waved that. it's huge and i was super lucky i had seven of my family members and my event they had big like two feet by three feet signs my face they had they loved it and i was a little embarrassed. it was yeah exactly. you know we were talking about the negative publicity just now i would have a think about it and you've got your view well what do you most people they were also pleasantly surprised when when they told their friends they were coming to russia they said you know i heard it's really bad in this situation it's terrible but they came over here and they said it's been amazing they had a great time people have been. so friendly and so helpful and they just totally changed their view on everything you know the ski jumping sport where women ski

jumping particularly huge battle to be represented but you've managed to at least on this battle going on for twenty years and it's been a while yes so what does it mean to have so you particularly it's been you know people keep saying it's been very historic and for me being up on the job the other night it didn't feel historic and i think that that feeling will come later it just felt like something very cool that i was able to be a part of and i'm just really excited for where the sport goes in the future course as well as being an athlete one final sort of this big hockey much ice hockey much more between russia and the united states you do when you think about. usa of course you could and i actually i'm trying to get tickets to that cell or see every it's going to really get the crowds and the massive ok just a little to see you have a great time folks coming to the straightening you for having me just lovely ok well on the topic of fun the camera crews out about a city of extraordinary and somewhat fierce looking creature that's been trying to

make friends in sochi let's take a listen. ok twenty forty two point zero lympics you want to talk. but despite his meeting parents talking is not even remotely interested thankfully in world domination if he's more into music and straight into tell you much clever contraption spends his time on the streets telling jokes dancing and making friends with the locals but not everyone is going to trust him. back. there and here is the. fact he had nothing. to start with the course is a cage progress but of course he's just one of the into time it's around the city every day we've been speaking to the leading our fleets about their experiences there and here's what they've been saying to us today. it's just great.

success for race and winning the silver medal it's just feel it's great and we're just happy exactly great great here it's yeah it's just great it's fun to slide yeah it's not too hard not to be. i think it's a very good track and yeah. like you know this is the most advanced event since the last winter olympic games the organization is top class as well as the sporting facilities are some of the best in the world. now this next piece is related to live pictures tall but because the pictures are so great we thought we'd bring it to you anyway it certainly takes the games slogan a faster higher and stronger heart take a look at this especially the higher part here russian monies to climb the still under construction shanghai tower it's almost six hundred fifty meters tall no safety gear or permission to do it so it's certainly not to be advised but this

tower is still the construction provides a grand vista none the less and that's because she's scared of heights a you tube video has got almost seven million hits now although even watching it can make you a bit dizzy to say the least well as they do not try that at home or on anything at all new you want to encourage more of their own ticks on the website lottie dog call if you find yourself in our facebook page though where you get a minute to leave a question or two for the athletes here in sochi if you're lucky then ask them the very questions you've asked us to ask about with more of our special coverage of the twenty second winter olympic games and now it's time for another for me kevin o. in the studio. the g. twenty four team promises we told them that in the exhilarating winter in our. story and it's an hour and make of an hour and the rest of our lives take news team for sochi twenty four take. on. we take

a look now at some of the day's other top stories protests that erupted in the outskirts of bahrain's capital friday have been quashed by police with tear gas at least twenty nine people arrested activists in my nama marking three years or pro-reform dissent that is reportedly seen scores killed in the police crackdown artie's lex airships europe or it's a 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 the thing is that the government is using it as a violent a lot of being a church or 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 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 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 us the terrorist members of the opposition and their leader have close ties the foreign embassies in bahrain wiki leaks of the many documents proving it i talk to the americans and clearly ask them to speak to their friends in the opposition who should understand that bahrain cannot be ruled by an ethnic sectarian parnia bahrain's opposition say the allegations are laughable if that was

true they say then why is there no action from the western states the u.s. navy's fifth fleet stationed in bahrain and washington's close ties with saudi arabia may be among the reasons if what is happening through in terms of human rights abuses is happening in russia the whole was. come up with the whole media would have flared up again because it was happening in that region. they keep quiet about it. i haven't seen the full in three years one single dime that you can then over you want. these were the scenes of the second anniversary of bahrain's uprising with thousands protesting peacefully in the streets this time it is already a lot noisier with the opposition planning a three day long protest and the authorities beefing up security. and.

we reiterate our main demand secure for rights without any hesitation we ready to make new sacrifices for this in the name of our homeland we will demand just richer abuse for all those who killed our sons and those who ordered the killings last month bahrain's crown prince 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. a rights groups have repeatedly sounded the alarm over the tactics used by bahrain's police against protesters. spent several months behind bars after helping organize protests here's her experience of meeting bahrain security forces. 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 everyone who will be team will be when you go

through the torture process that is nearly systematic for everyone everyone will be 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 delhi or and outside what that's the situation it is really very bad for anyone to be detained and then i know since two thousand and i think i know for nothing just for speaking up understanding for tonight's offering people. for the last three years may have been closely following the uprising in bahrain you can find the big picture of what's happening on our website r.t. dot com. british government casting about for ways to stop its citizens going to syria to fight that story with us for more on the forty one year old man who left his family behind to fight and die in that war and more still to come.

there's a scene when you're in the arctic you have feel entire world at your feet she looks like a fairly simple ship but really she's not a symbol of the. handful of people have access to the nuclear icebreakers the real king here is the polar bear and ice breakers come second not a single complex expedition to the arctic can be conducted without the russian nuclear powered fleet of ice breakers we undertake a unique operation in. the northern sea reach russia's arctic ice breakers.

twenty minutes past the hour now the free movement of people may be one of the pillars of a common market but the issue is driving a wedge between member states calls for tougher regulations or spreading drawing condemnation from brussels switzerland has just voted in favor to curb immigration . i almost half and germans want to follow in their footsteps in france seventy percent of the populace feel are too many foreigners in their 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 stricter measures are growing. 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. when 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 mass energy exports brought norway's 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 the many immigrants who are coming from asia and africa they are low skilled and know they don't have a labor market for them to often 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 work a good working immigration system how to respect the system but solving one problem may create new ones switzerland 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. you go it's going to of our tea. there it is in the u.k.

scrambling about with illusion to keep young britons from becoming radicalized in taking up arms in syria or his pipe boyko looks at the troubling story of one man who reportedly blew himself up in a war torn city of aleppo. facts are sometimes stranger than fiction this is the street where abdul wahid machida the first suspected british suicide bomber in syria is alleged to have lived it schooled martin savidge knew 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 outside to link 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 there have been involved in the saying and execution of fellow rebels while residents of ma says adding you come to terms with the reported neighbor 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 and it's not just 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 how to join the jihad each of course the worry now was governments being concerned that once these people go back to their home countries they could bring terror back with them. the culture war being a heavily publicized by one group of british nationalists or british nationals

fighting in syria spreading propaganda like vests across social media platforms threatening terrorist attacks in britain and the u.s. on public transport and business centers 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 the says the authorities are under no illusion but how dangerous these fighters are we aren't any concerned patent and by tests who are going through too soon yet to fight a war. we are concerned only through the return events that. we do all the events and go into syria. we are constantly stealthy and we in which we can prevent them discreet them from going and also looking in what we can do but those that do the site travel. larry king

brings you politicking coming up next stay with us after this short break. ted a 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 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 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 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 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 that's just my opinion. tabloid t.v. host and former democratic mayor jerry springer joins me with his take on the dysfunction and politics today plus one. the 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. live the politicking with larry king so many people know jerry springer just for use in thought was and it's really successful torvill but he's also has a bit of history in politics and he's never been shy about his liberals used thanks to do with history so may suggest that the current condition in congress is similarly or show a dysfunctional family the only did 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. than that but other than that i can't tell the difference. you know well i want what's the here's here's what i think is a part of it a 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 a 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 the their party controls the district so therefore and the people who vote in primaries tend to be more extreme they're more activists so on the republican side they're more conservative in the democratic primaries they're more liberal the result is that we have. the congress that each member is has to play to the base it wasn't always

that way 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're a republican you can't have your picture taken with president obama it'll 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 leave the control of house but the democrats win the national action yes most of the way it's right because larry it doesn't matter exactly. so you where obama could be on poppy.