she will not survive until monday. so she. stayed. at the winter olympics. the growing number of people. just to get.

all of us here at r.t. international thank you for sharing your saturday with us. with your top news headlines. jailed in the u.s. could have just days to live that's according to his lawyer who says his client is being refused medical care now the case has gone all the way up to russia's foreign ministry which urged washington to intervene in the latest. correspondent. but constantine who according to his lawyer is having symptoms of heart attack may get medical help only by tuesday we reached out to his lawyer and here's how he described here often good condition at the moment mr yushchenko my client contacted me and stated that he was experiencing a burning sensation in the area of his heart so that he had trouble getting up he had very high blood pressure and in fact constant. that he might not

live through the weekend monday as also a federal holiday in the united states so my supposition would be that a new kind of medical treatment to constant yunior i shan't go could be provided only. on tuesday the eighteenth of february at the same time i believe. the gravity of his condition requires immediate medical attention to a prisoner said he only received flu medication here's what the russian because wife told us about the help that he has received so far remarkably good. condition is being completely ignored is temperature went as high as forty degrees but a prison doctor told him not to cover up at night and everything would be fine right now all my husband is hoping for is to survive until monday but if your secretary or the u.s. state department says they have no information on your fingers condition at the moment but they promise to get back again that may not happen till monday the washroom pilot was arrested in two thousand and ten in liberia and then shipped

into the you were a small school says saw is that tension is blatant violation of good action because right saying during his detention in liberia he had been tortured kept naked handcuffed and starving suffered beatings and threats aimed at forcing him to confess to drug trafficking has complained about this incident as not being examined by any authority to this day he was sentenced to twenty years in prison russian authorities have raised this issue many times with their u.s. counterparts but to no avail and with your shrink and now here in critical condition the russian foreign ministry gave up on official channels which obviously haven't worked in this case and called for help via facebook asking followers to we post this urgent message i quote here a washington moscow calling because the russian citizen who became us prisoner is in terrible condition he's alive today but he can e-mail me tomorrow do something please we post well it's not often that we see this form of messaging from the

russian foreign ministry but it's only because they obviously see all their efforts to appeal to their u.s. colleagues failing and there's a bit of view on this situation in moscow they see it as washington talking about into maine treatment of prisoners in other countries but often. failing to address similar complaints at home and it seems to us authorities become more mute when it comes to foreigners. correspondent guy nature can now we spoke with the editor of prison legal news alex friedman and he said that keeping inmates alive isn't always a top priority and so there's some prisoners might have very serious medical conditions and sometimes be very near death and they're told to sign up on a sick call or that they'll refer them to the nurse the next week or they might not be a doctor at the prison that weekend and so they have to wait until the next week to see medical staff. go received a twenty year sentence he did not receive

a death sentence but unless he receives adequate medical care he and other prisoners with serious medical conditions can die while in custody mr you're ashamed go was basically kidnapped you know when he was taken into custody overseas by u.s. officials. the united states really does not have a lot of respect for the rule of international law when it conflicts with what they want to do now we did discuss the situation with human rights activist richard baca he things washington applies different standards depending on which country it's dealing with. there is a of course always a standard that the united states leaders hold themselves to and the standard much much higher standard that they hold other governments to i think focus on certain other government space and now that the reality is of human rights in those countries and their relationship to washington and so i think there were definitely

see this play out in new york schenker case. will continue following the case we'll bring you all the very latest on the story as it continues to. see international great to have you with us today it promises to be an action packed weekend at the olympics as always we are keeping up to date with all of the events live now to our way in our tsotsi headquarters studio and it's over to. an eventful an exciting day ahead of us here in sochi seven sets of medals are up for grabs and none of those are in hockey just yet but that's still going to be the big draw for today with russia facing the u.s. their longtime rivalry makes the game one of the most eagerly awaited clashes of these olympics to andrew farmer now for more andrew tell us more about the upcoming game and why it's so important. sure what we've been talking about this

game haven't we since the fixture list came out russia the red machine are up against the usa and it brings back memories of one of the great he's going to pull time because a little known usa side beat the mighty u.s.s.r. the night classic to lympics back in nineteen eighty was dubbed the miracle on ice to many russians are hoping that a victory today will help them raise memories not displeased him particularly not this not to make jackie wilson go for the u.s.s.r. on the flight today thirty four years ago. well it was a good lesson for our team if you want to become an olympic champion you must not underestimate any rival unfortunately we did just that in lake placid because just a week before that game we beat the americans twelve three so we thought the gold medals were already in the bag and that was a big mistake but i suppose the usa should thank us because since lake placid the

hockey team has been improving rapidly. you know what i think is still hurting three decades only to show you the rivalry between these two teams it is the second game for russia in sochi they thrashed levine in there right now and america thrash slovakia say today's scene is the first real test for both of these star studded sides. you know how tough that game's going to be against russia. on their home turf and on their own soil so it's going to be. i think all the games will be fun but their game saturday night will be pretty interesting always fun playing the russians and probably the one thing. we have the opportunity to play canada in canada and i think that's always a special thing for so much excitement and energy in the building and we were lucky enough to do it in canada now we get a chance to play russian russia which i think is always special. and i will be

a great atmosphere inside the bolshoi i stay in every one of those twelve thousand seats i'm sure will be taken millions of people will watch it around the world and fans just can't contain their excitement. we have high expectations we haven't had such a great team for a long time. now the russian team is the best we have the most decorated players when we work like a team they are fantastic. we are going to the final and hope to see russia there we only came here for the hockey and we think victory will be. so fingers crossed for company and also fingers crossed for the russian hockey team they take on the swiss for a place in the semifinals today and i hope he isn't the only talking point because today all the medals of the one will contain a piece of the meteorite that exploded over each other been speaks actually one year ago so you could say that the athletes will literally be reaching for the

stars over the next few hours and the recent particular russian interest in the skeleton speed skating and cross country skiing so we'll keep. our fingers crossed it's easy for you to say andrew i'm an american living in russia for twelve years who do i root for i'm torn and your former live in the mountain cluster thanks for that and of course like andrew said we're looking forward to that game plus ours he will be talking to legendary soviet russian hockey star the owner of later today and can ask him your questions via our facebook page the address is facebook dot com slash our news but of course it's not just about hockey today there's plenty of action up in the mountains too including cross-country ski and alpine skiing and while there are concerns that the warm weather could cause a setback both athletes and experts are confident there's nothing to worry about. me and was perfect i love this slushy snow when i stopped outside so i'm nothing to

complain about the thing to do no good job so i'm happy to ski into the first snow in the sun we have done it's a question of al gore's fault. here as you can see it's a rather challenging ride two weeks ago we have been totally winter given here. everything is running ok. given no one wants to organize bad games dutch for sure everyone everyone tried to book if short. while. after all the pressure and adrenaline the athletes and spectators need to relax and there's no lack of opportunity to do that here in sochi arches martin andrews went out to explore nightlife in the olympic host city. medals locked away from the home the sun has set and. there are tens of thousands

of. during the games and it's not just some cheese hotels restaurants and shops that are busier than ever before the night live here is booming to sing the olympics means mixing it up and whether you want to mingle with celebrities it glamorous and beats nightclubs who fancy something a little more traditional like. to be hard pushed to feel left out so get your dancing shoes on let your head down and that seems to me right. very popular with locals and visitors he can listen to various like music from jazz to contemporary electronica. like most of my clubs here are open twenty four seven ideal for energetic tourists i mean it was a very positive surprise because it's really very well organized around here. that would be alive only during the summer months. that it has

a lot for us all in winter. feeling package after all that partying look no further than the old port winds down grab some food and relax next to the cozy heaters the partying and socializing here in sochi doesn't ever stop during the daytime there are options for every taste and travel and there's no excuse to go back to your hotel and wait for the sub to rise everybody can eat good food. was a discotheque. for an euro and everybody. because you have a good atmosphere all good all b.s. and there's more than the shore on top of the dozens of stuff in the clubs in sochi and there's also the high life of the united to include stuff of trust my opinion that. this is sky club and or inspiring view over the mountains it's the perfect place mingling with fellow travelers and athletes to relax after

a hard day's competing or spectating. but everything here is amazing the menus and infrastructure and fleets of very pleased russia is renowned for its by print nightlife culture and hip and happening after hours bad news of such a god no exception from the sizzling sure to the cool snowy peaks so she's you might outcompeted well today andrews. like him are now andrew is enjoying sochi and nightlife no late night drinking of course for me or more importantly the hard training athletes here at the olympics who nevertheless have been enjoying life outside the games we heard from some of them. i find it beautiful i think it's been organized great and everybody's really nice and of course the scenery is just fabulous 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's for sure very good organized it's. not not far away from each other and not far away from the village a lot of new building the city. even at the track. everything is fine now. it's just nice it. will be back with more action from sochi for you next hour for now back to moscow. so jane twenty four jean paul was the as we call timid in the exhilarating winter in our team mates he joined me and he's now a make seven zero in on the rest of our lives take news team for sochi twenty four will tell you. all odds. i will come with you live from moscow still to come on this program while we look at why in israel

a crime can be punishable by jail time or not punished at all depending on the ethnicity. is this story cuts for you we still have six million people on long term unemployment benefits. almost one in ten households live on welfare millions of germans are at risk of falling into poverty despite an optimistic economic forecasts those details after a very quick break. down in the final month. and the rest. will be.

one of the new will come in a lot of. people. pleasure to have you with us here on our t.v. today. if you are just joining us welcome to the program here on r.t. international european politicians are in high spirits as the latest statistics

show a modest recovery across the eurozone germany performed slightly better than expected in the last quarter the country of course is seen as the main driver of the european economy and yet the number of germans living below the poverty line that subtly risen in recent years peter all of the story business is booming in germany but under the surface there's a surprising number of people failing to get anything from it but once imparts fiercest we still have six million people are long term unemployment benefits that means almost one in ten households live on welfare. in fact figures from the german office of national statistics and eurostar to show that just over sixteen percent of germans are at risk of falling into poverty compare that to the situation in france the czech republic or the netherlands and you see that more people can potentially slip through the safety net in europe's economic powerhouse

this is seeing more and more germans turning to charities for help this food distribution center in berlin is one of many all around the country that helps to feed around one point six million germans every single month and if you look at the type of things that they're sorting out here for distribution it's fruit it's a vegetable it's the type of things that people need to have in their diets but that some in germany just can't afford. to be ethically mention so many people try and deal with their poverty but it one point they realise they just can't take it anymore and they come to us it's a difficult step but it becomes the only solution. one woman who gave me the name and who didn't want to be identified told me how grateful she is for the help the food bank provides. i have everything here eggs even fish bread the little things make a big difference the money i get from the state goes to keep the power on at most i

have one hundred fifty euros a month i'm very happy to have this because of this i can buy clothes and live some of those receiving handouts accuse germany's politicians of caring more for why to europe than the german people even images that we're part of europe we help you why don't you help us we have hungry kids but the government says we should help immigrants to move them we have to close the open door. charity organizers say that they've seen a change in the demographic of those coming to them for help. mentions once we've noticed an increase of older people which is unbelievable for us traditionally old people in germany wouldn't ask for free food and now they have no alternative so we see more people whose need has become stronger than shame whilst it is true that as a nation germany weathered the euro crisis better than most there's a fine line between boom and bust for people in the use biggest economy peter all

of our party billion. dollar program now a string of violent protests by shia muslims in bahrain the third anniversary of the uprising against the sunni government several people injured over a dozen detained at the un rest that began in twenty eleven has been violently suppressed with help from the ruling want to gulf allies. france has announced plans to boost its merely military contingent in the central african republic to two thousand as is trying to battle sectarian violence thousands of muslims are fled their homes since attacks by christian militias were stepped up in recent weeks the un's warning that the conflict could escalate into a full scale genocide. on southern ball garia where farai protesters clashed with police off the proceeding a mosque over one hundred arrested after hurling rocks and smashing the buildings windows. by

a decision to reopen the site as an act of place of worship and had been used for secular purposes since the country became communist in one thousand nine hundred four. now israel's borders with its arab neighbors are some of the most heavily fortified on earth but within israeli society itself there's no shortage of tension between jews and muslims arabs comprise a fifth of the country's population but as paula sway reports they're not always treated equally under the arm of the law. and i've a good morning they treat us like israeli citizens only when they want to convict us other than that we're arabs to them and that's the pure racism and ethnic policy of this country that ingenue week before we will begin his two year sentence behind bars he and six other arabs were found guilty of attempted to murder an attorney santa and his radio jewish terrorist who took aim at them. it's a conviction that is hard to comprehend very hard that the innocent and victim is

even put on trial let alone convicted of the i think it was here back in august two thousand and five that zada an israeli soldier who deserted the army used his military issued rifle to fire at our passengers on a bus he killed four and wounded seventeen before being attacked by the crowd they grabbed him while he was being handcuffed by police he never made it off the bus and those who were sentenced for his death i think there's more to it than north from the israelis use acts of power to educate us so that if such attacks happen again no one will dare to do anything i compared unstudied similar cases to this one in court where arabs from israel committed acts against jews and they were killed by james for taking the law into their hands the jews were never convicted and no charges were brought against them it's clear there is a double standard in the justice courts a case in point it's hard to do and and is ready jew who shot and killed an arab

terrorist after he murdered his shiva students while they were studying in jerusalem in two thousand and eight i shot him with two bullets in the head he spent around he was teetering and then the guy with the m. sixteen who was hiding behind a side door finished the deal we kept shooting at him until we emptied our magazines and that was that them yet them this is they didn't even open an investigation file against that doing the police didn't even ask him didn't even check of the air was dead or not. the scales of justice are mean to balance in this scale. for we seem to feel killing a jewish terrorist in this scale back doing praised for killing an arab terrorist but do they even know. israeli know emmett's son adoption late now feels if anything they took to wards i would speak to you she feels to me so for we induced coma accused should have received harsher sentences i would say it's

a disgrace people who kill someone was hands are tied in the back. who is not a fred anymore either for the trial it's a fear of marriage or the conviction sends a message that the arab community their blood is cheap and they can spare our lives and so the verdicts out is there a double standard at play in israel which is what the courts are meant to determine in the first place point to see how our team tennis for a quick look at what our web seams got for you this dot com and things are not looking good at fukushima figures showing the record high levels of radiation in the groundwater near the nuclear plant a japanese media claiming the situation is much worse than all that of r.t. dot com for you right now is the story of people who give blood always welcomed by the red cross but in austria your organization is facing criticism for turning its back on a muslim donor those details for you right now on the website. or i'm

a researcher live in moscow stepping aside abby martin is breaking the set on r.t. international she will be here in just. trends arrow 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 the whole of the cygnus want to build the monument of a gold 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 then 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. the sun. the. dog i'm abby martin and this is breaking the set i want to start off today's show by giving a shout out to nine hundred centuries abolitionist frederick douglass because today

is his birthday so after escaping the shackles of slavery back in eight hundred thirty eight douglas became one of the leaders of the abolition movement as well as an extremely accomplished writer in order his leadership was an integral in raising slavery consciousness in the civil war era and after the war was over douglass helped lincoln move the emancipated slaves out of the south he proved the colonizing myth that black people were somehow inferior to whites completely wrong and even though his dedication was primarily for black equality also believe in the equality for all disenfranchised minorities one sees famously said i would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong all i couldn't agree more so let's find that common ground in the spirit of frederick douglass and let's break the set. the police look it was terrible they are looking very hard to take out

early. that he ever had sex with that they're still a little. late. in the the. little. the they'll look. like that yesterday on the show i talked about a pakistani man named kareem khan who's an active drone activist who filed a lawsuit against the u.s. and pakistani government after his son and brother were murdered by u.s. drone back in two thousand and ten well just before he was set to speak with european lawmakers about this her for crack as he was abducted from his.