interesting arabic to find out more visit are a big don't know it's called. love on the sochi slopes of valentine's day and olympians and spectators alike pause to admire the darlings of twenty fourteen winter games with an interesting selection topping the chart. three years later tear gas petang and torture failed to hold bahraini activists as they stand by and take a look at what the future could hold for the country. migration concerns afflicting several e.u. countries and knock on norway's door of the country increasingly worried about how to control their influx without infuriating brussels.

nine pm in moscow i mattress i could have you with us day seven now of the twenty second winter games and we start off with our special coverage from the heart of sochi our teams kevin owen standing by in our studios there. yeah hi all nice to see again well welcome back to oxy so kevin owen as you can see we're broadcasting from just above the beautiful olympic lovely behind us it's not the sporting venues on the coastal cluster here of course as you say i'm out with no weekend to the game just flown by the bin triumph who's been defeats has even been a heartbreak to we've loaded all few let's cross now live to pull scott the sun for us so far today day seven poll. yes well russia could be about to that medals tonally elated nikita is currently in the bronze medal position. going into the final round of the will women's skeleton event up in the

mountains of krasnaya polyana meanwhile in the men's event russian xander tritiya caught is the man to catch at the halfway stage he actually set a new course record in the first round the event doesn't conclude until saturday what r.t. caught up with tretiak of before the start of the games and he admits that the ability or the opportunity rather to perform on home ice is a real advantage. to being in sochi for more than a year and i've gone to know it like the back of my hand we spent 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 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 skipped it by former model honesty door of a really captured the imaginations of an adoring russian public meanwhile the men's individual figure skating event concludes this evening of course it was meant to be the event that saw you have gagne pushing to take to the ice for the home nation however injury ruling him out but he along with the russian female seems to be seem to be among a number of athletes who have caught the hearts of many here in sochi on this valentine's day as my colleague andre fama found out. he was the sexiest after eight these olympics. petion go for a set i keep. he said best goalkeeper a. russian move for the ration of cookie. pollution. joshi's josh white so joe what's his name is sean weiss retainer yes me american

and let's ask snowboarder yes i think his very good looking he was the most attractive athlete at these olympics. it's going to be owned by my world i think we know bill i know nancy ok russians good. curling yes killing of cos calling. this a version of the in germany curling. it's a fast these very good looking isn't a nice little note hey why the rate in this last season volunteer and one hundred people go on facebook. so just like everybody happy valentine's poxy only says yeah but the last nice is a little over doing anything that is so although we all will do it on say say to your wife name to search a site smarty you could likely sell veno biking. happy valentine's day. to games i

work in order to avoid going to work. so there you are romancing me and i'm going to say happy valentine's to my fiance in moscow to. show us talk about well wishes ati's been speaking to russia for medalist from the figure skating pairs event after wishing us and all you well as well they stress how important the support of loved ones was to them of the athletes in general but everyone likes to get around times you come from a child i wish everyone had was that life is going to save the world. view i said we had. 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 the applause. but 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. well melting the ice creams to paul but you know we're talking weather here has been extremely good today well into double figures sixteen seventeen degrees beautiful sunshine not good news for snow in the winter olympics generally is it. not. fantastic weather certainly down here in the coastal cluster is no doubt leading to an increase in the party atmosphere but there have been some concerns up in the mountains of. other the snow is melting causing a few issues for competitors there also are some negative reports saying that all the venues aren't full and there are some empty seats however the international olympic committee have moved today to appraise both the venue and the organization

of the games with one official from the i.o.c. saying many critics are simply just looking for reasons to criticize the winter olympics well arty's caught up with a number of athletes and officials to gauge their thoughts on how the games are going as we approach the halfway stage. perfect slushy snow. so i'm nothing to complain about doing your job so i'm happy to ski and. there's no wind so we have done. our climate here as you can see it's a rather challenging ride now two weeks ago we have been totally winter even here. everything is running ok this is a big event no one wants to organize bad games that's for sure everyone everyone tried to. we were

talking about the importance of family support earlier on what we are all of the studios speaking to american ski jumper jessica jerome she told me of her first experiences here and sort of a role that her family played as well in her support no i didn't her career all the way along the line let's take a listen. because so publicized all the all the negative press in the lead up to the deal 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 good news good to hear it 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 to as nastily when you've been waved all night that. it's huge and i was super lucky i had seven of my family members at my events and they had big like two feet by three feet

signs of my face now as then they had they loved it and i was a little embarrassed. it was yeah exactly. lovely lady super of room with this one of many great athletes will be coming in charting of course jessica's full interview will be on r.t. dot com our web site surely do visit our special section there for the athletes' perspective on these games on the day as well that organizers know that a million tickets have now been sold is going ever so well we'll be here with you again next hour but for now let me hand you're back to moscow by. thank you carol we're looking forward to that meanwhile sochi welcomed its new words and by far fewer looking down is in a robot named titan we take you to meet him now. the twenty fourth one drew a little thanks. to spite his fearsome appearance titan is

really not interested in conquering the globe in fact he's more into music and dancing clever contraption spend its time on the streets telling jokes and making friends with the locals but everyone's prone to trust him take a look. i'm going to love. you thank you. thank you. i'll be keeping in touch with him is the game's progress of course he just one of the entertainments around sochi every day we've been speaking with athletes about their experiences and here's what they've been say. it's just great to hear. that it's successful race and the winning the silver medal it's just been it's great and we're just happy it's a great day so yeah it's just great it's fun to. do. i think it's a very good record and. run. like you know this is the most advanced of it is the

last we'd really be getting the organization is top class as well as the sporting facilities are some of the best in the world when you need a little on the lot is last on the minds of these two guys although what they're doing is luckily not an olympic sport it fully complies with the olympic slogan of higher faster stronger especially the higher part these russian daredevils matching to climb to shanghai tower almost six hundred fifty meters tall with no safety gear or permission the tower is still a construction site but provides a grand vista nonetheless unless of course you're scared of heights there you tube videos got almost seven million hits so far the watching it could make one a bit dizzy. full story on that on our web site r t v dot com and heading back to the sochi games we are hoping to hear more from the performers today and throughout the olympics the best part to do that is by asking them your questions so you can head over to our facebook page that address is facebook dot com slash our team news

. twenty four almost is the ultimate in exhilarating winter and are you enjoying anything now a m a kevin zero in on the rest of our lives take news team to sochi twenty four take. on the. protests that erupted on the outskirts of bahrain's capital on friday have been quashed by police using tear gas at least twenty nine people arrested activists in manana we're marking three years of pro-reform dissent that's reportedly seen scores killed in the crackdown or he's like sarah shahi reports. it's three years since the arab spring gripped the gulf state of bahrain violence still shakes the streets of its capital mamma i spoke just as 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 violence

a lot are being tortured house raids i just know of living in cities and i lived in but. you can hear helicopters armored by shooting at people. throwing it here yes here and there making people thought the key why not even brought this. latest at least eighty nine people have reportedly been killed in the sheol position strive for reforms hundreds of thousands have been injured some lost limbs and eyesight protests have been held on almost daily basis and i witnessed some of those i went to bahrain a little more than a year ago we met with a different government official who told me that despite seeing the protesters as radicals and hardliners they were still looking for some sort of compromise but the most sensational statement came from the country's information minister so i mean that our job i think the bahraini opposition is

a main ally of the west the terrorist members of the opposition and their leader have close ties 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. being in russia the whole was all come up with the whole media would have cleared up because everything 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 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 are ready to make new sacrifices for this in the name of our homeland we will demand just rich rebuke all those who killed our sons and those who ordered the killings last month bahrain's crown prince selman 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 sounded the alarm over the tactics used by

bahrain's police on protesters. spent several months behind bars after upping organize protests here is her experience of meeting bahrain security forces. present it was it was really very bad and it stand up today it's been about interesting people everywhere and present it's not just a woman women and men and children everyone who will be detained 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. blindfolded signed confessions we don't go in with what is inside we don't have any access to delhi or an on site outside what that's the situation it is really very bad for anyone to be detained and then i can since it wasn't and i don't know for nothing just for speaking up understanding for tonight's opening the people of. the last three years we've been closely following the uprising in bahrain you can find a big picture of what's going on there on our website r t v dot com. british

government is looking around for ways to stop its citizens from going to syria to fight stay with us for the story of how a twenty one year old man left his family behind to fight and die in a foreign war that and more still ahead.

one of the new cultural phenomena why should be a new policy face i deserve you. pleasure to have you with us here on t.v. today i'm recession. nineteen minutes past the hour the free movement of people may be one of the pillars of a common market but the issues driving a wage between member states calls for tougher regulations are spreading drawing condemnation from brussels so it's early and has voted in favor of curbs on. almost

half of germans want to follow suit and france seventy percent of the population think there are too many foreigners in the country and the majority of britons want to see immigration reduced as well in norway a record number of illegal immigrants were deported last year as artie's europe is going to have reports of calls for stricter measures are growing louder. this used to be a quiet suburban town in the outskirts of oslo where money is spent fourteen years of his life until he says along with most of his norwegian friends they had to move out because of constant attacks by teenage immigrant again he's. been in the ambulance five times or something so it came to the point where i didn't have the time to be robbed all the time and go to the hospital today three out of four students at the local school are foreign descent vast energy exports brought norway some of the highest living standards in europe and made it very attractive for immigrants over the last thirty years their population has grown tenfold but high living standards mean high cost which not all newcomers are contributing towards

many immigrants who are coming from asia and africa they are low skilled 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 working a good working immigration system how to respect the system but solving one problem may create new ones switzerland has just held a nationwide referendum in which over half of its citizens decided to limit the

amount of immigrants living and working there causing outrage from brussels and threatening trade ties with the e.u. is going off r.t. . always more stories lined up on our website including relief for some debate for others belgium being. i mean the first ever country to allow euthanasia for terminally ill children the ruling immediately uniting christians muslims and jews in a wave of condemnation their bus gender euphoria us facebook users don't have to just be girls or boys anymore as a social network introduces about fifty gender identity options that story and more click away on our t. dot com. birdie's in the u.k. scrambling to come up with a solution to keep young britons from becoming radicalized and taking up arms in syria boyko looks at the troubling story of one man who reportedly blew himself up in the war torn city of aleppo. facts is sometimes stranger than fiction this is

the street abdul wahid made she 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 our lives and 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 mohsin is adding you come

to terms with the reported neighbor suicide attack security services in the u.k. a becoming increasingly concerned about which would tend show that brits fighting in syria could return and stage attacks on u.k. soil boy chaos see west sussex 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 have join the jihad these in their fight governments are now concerned about the threat that these newly radicalized people are bringing back to their home countries the culture war being a heavily publicized by a group of british nationals fighting in syria they are spreading propaganda like this across social media platforms threatening terror attacks in britain and the u.s. on public transport and business centers captions on these images urged people to join a holy war and become martyrs for the cause rosemary davis is u.k. government spokeswoman in the middle east who says the authorities there are under no illusion about how dangerous these fighters are. well you aren't very concerned

parent and by tennis who are going from britain to syria to fight in the war and we are concerned also obviously about them the journey back to them. and we do all the returned event and go into syria and we are constantly studying and we in which we can prevent them discrete them from growing and we're also looking at what we can do but those that didn't excite travel. russia the u.s. and other members of the u.n. security council are set to thrash out differences over the draft text to halt violence in syria but mediator lakhdar brahimi has warned that talks are close to collapse russia's foreign minister says the west one sided approach to the conflict is holding back the peace efforts take a listen. if. we get the impression the when those who brought the opposition into the tool 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 they be willing to discuss the problem of terrorism as things stand most of those fighting against the government stream instant terrorist groups. turning now to some other global headlines hundreds of again protest against the rise in price of public transport in rio de janeiro blocking the city center demonstrators say the nine percent hike in bus fares was unfair at a time when the cost of living is rising a brazilian camera man who was hit by a flare while filming another protest in the city a week ago died of his injuries. two people have died more than seventy thousand of forced to flee after a volcano in the indonesian island of java erupted victims were taken were at home when their roof collapsed under the weight of a fake lair also covered the nearest major city surabaya and one hundred and thirty

kilometers away three major airports also forced to shut down. and in thailand anti-government protesters clashed with police as they cleared camps and demonstrators from the streets of bangkok authorities managed to open some major roads that have been closed for three months protesters still occupy several of years of the capital as they call for the government to be replaced by an unelected people's council. breaking the set coming your way next after a short break stay with us.

transit route to vnukovo report your best way to the house of mosco. ten 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 sickness 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 same nazis to other wackos 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 if you just include anything into the culture than you no 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. i married. join me. for an in-depth impartial and financial commentary

interview and much much. only on the bus and. everyone i'm abby martin and this is breaking sad since two thousand and two u.s. drone strikes have killed as many as four thousand five hundred ninety people according to bureau of the best of it a journal of them and in pakistan alone there already have been three hundred eighty one drone strikes one in particular in two thousand and ten targeted a home in northern pakistan the strike resulted in the deaths of several civilians including the family of a pakistani man named kareem khon as a result khan filed a five hundred million dollar lawsuit against the u.s. government which helped shine a light into this devastating practice and is now a fervent and drawn activist but unfortunately he has been missing for eight days

after being kidnapped by twenty men some of whom are in police uniforms according to his lawyer kahn was set to speak with german dutch and british lawmakers about the deadly effects of drones just this week given the fact that his lawyer was prevented from coming to the u.s. to testify on behalf of other pakistan drone victims it seems that there are forces at play here that are actively preventing these voices from being heard so if you want to hear the truth about what's really going on below these killer robots then join me and let's break this up. this is. the pledge it was a. very hard. to get the money supply that never had sex with that or their lives let alone it was.