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it is just after eleven o'clock on saturday morning here in moscow international with me. top news headlines for. a russian pilot jailed in the united states could have just days to live that's according to his lawyer who says his client is being refused medical care now the case is going all the way up to russia's foreign ministry which washington to intervene. but constantly our shrink 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 describes your physical 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 the hads very high blood pressure and in fact constant in your assurance that he might

not live through the weekend monday is also a federal holiday in the united states so my supposition would be that a new kind of medical treatment to constance in your ocean 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 well my husband just how do you feel is just survive until monday and your secretary of 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

washing pilot who 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 attention in liberia he had been tortured kept naked handcuffed and starving suffered beatings and threats aimed at forcing him to confess to drug trafficking it was like a complaint 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 us counterparts but to no avail and without our frank 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 all the words to we post this urgent message i quote here a washington moscow calling because that the russian citizen who became us prisoner is in terrible condition he's alive today but he can email 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 inhumane treatment of prisoners in other countries but often failing to address similar complaints at home and it seems u.s. authorities become more mute when it comes to foreigners. gun a chicken and cases like get a showing those are unfortunately not uncommon in america's prison system the most recent data published by the u.s. department of justice shows all that more than forty five thousand people died in custody in the space of a decade some of them before even being charged by the editor of prison legal news freidman he told us that keeping inmates alive isn't always a top priority in various prisons. 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 to 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 discussed this it's the situation with human rights activist richard baca in things washington applies different standards depending on which country it's dealing with there's 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 not on the reality is that human rights in those countries and their relationship to washington and so i think there were definitely see this play out in new york the case. will continue to follow the yarra shank ok sunny bring you all the very latest on the story as it continues to develop. all right for now here are three international it promises to be a dramatic day lympics as always we are keeping everybody up to date will the very latest and we're going to cross over to our new so no way he was now joins us live from sochi the headquarters down there it's going to be a busy day. packed day i would say ahead of us here in sochi seven sets of medals

are up for grabs 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. there one time rivalry makes the game one of the most eagerly awaited clashes of the farmer has the details. 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 greatest games of all time because a little known usa beat the mighty u.s.s.r. the lake placid elin picks back in nineteen eighty was dubbed the miracle on ice to many russians are hoping that a victory today will help them raise memories of their defeat in particular. he was single for the u.s.s.r. on that fateful day thirty four years ago. it was a good lesson for a team if you want to become an olympic champion you must not underestimate any rival unfortunately we did just ask in lake placid because just

a week before the game we beat the americans twelve three so we thought the gold medals were already in the 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 in there and america. today's scene is the first real test for both of these star studded sox. games 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 it was fun playing the russians and probably the one thing. we had 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 study every one of those twelve thousand seats so i'm sure we'll be taken millions of people will watch it around the world and fans just can tie 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 look at t.v. they are fantastic. we are going to the final. we only came here for the hockey and we think victory will be on us so fingers crossed for a company and also fingers crossed for the russian hockey to say 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 at pace of the meteorite that exploded over. one year ago so you could say that the athletes will literally be reaching

for the stars over the next few hours and the reason particular russian interest in the skeleton speed skating and cross country skiing so i will keep. everyone here at r.t. looking forward to that match in fact our crew already reserved a table at a restaurant going to root i of course will be the only american american born don't know who to root for my heart is with of course i'm an american so high. to see where my olympic commotions take me later today for that match plus our team will be talking to legendary soviet and russian hockey star later today and you can ask him your questions to our facebook page the address is facebook dot com slash archie news but of course it's not just about hockey like andrew said today there's plenty of action up in the mountains too including cross country 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 was perfect i love this slushy snow when it stopped outside so i'm nothing to complain about the thing to do the job so i'm happy to ski instead she says snow in the sun we have got to start. here as you can see it's a rather challenging ride now two weeks ago we have been totally winter given here . everything is running ok this is a big event no one wants to organize bad games dutch for sure everyone everyone tried to book. well after all the pressure and adrenaline the athletes and the spectators need to relax and there's no lack of opportunity to do that here in sochi artie's martin andrews went out to explore nightlife in the olympic host city .

blocks away from the home the sun has set and. there are tens of thousands of. games and it's not just 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. like clubs who fancy something a little more traditional like you. can be hard pushed to feel left out so you get to dance and she was on let you head down and that seems to me not. very popular with the locals and visitors can listen to terry's music from just you can spend when it comes to food like most of my trips here are open twenty four seventh's ideal for energetic tourists meant it was a very positive surprise because it's really very well organized here. that would

be alive only during the summer months. in winter. feeling package after all that. the pools winds down grab some food and relax necks. to the cozy heaters the partying and socializing here in such 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 good food. is a discotheque. for in europe and everybody how because you have a good atmosphere. and there's more than the shore on top of the dozens of clubs in sochi and there's also the high life of the new mounting cost of krasnaya polyana. 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 spectating. everything here is amazing the menus and infrastructure. very pleased russia is renowned for its vibrant nightlife culture and the hip and happening after hours better use of such a no exception from the sizzling sure to the cool snowy peaks. you might call it covered. well no late night drinking of course for the hard training athletes but they 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 pleasantly surprised that's for sure very good organized it's. not far away from each other not far away from the religion a lot of. new building in the city. even at the track. everything is done now. not it's just life. will be back with more action from sochi next hour for now back to moscow. the g twenty four team promises we all committed an exhilarating winter in our eight year journey and you saw no way to make seven zero in on the rest of our lives take news team for sochi twenty four take. on. are still to come

here on alt international we look at why in israel a crime can be punishable by jail time or not punished i told a penny on the ethnicity of the offender that's one of the stores on the way as is this one. cuts future we still have six million people on long term unemployment benefits means almost one in ten households live on welfare and millions of germans are at risk of falling into poverty despite the optimistic economic full cost so those details after the break. this is the media leave us so we need to be. part of the scene pollution security play your party there's a goal. for shoes that no one is asking with the guests that you deserve answers from. politic only on our team.

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high spirits the latest statistics show a modest recovery across the eurozone performed slightly better than expected in the last quarter the country is seen of course as the main driver of the european economy and yet the number of germans living below the poverty line has actually risen in recent years that all of our reports. business is booming in germany but under the surface there's a surprising number of people failing to get anything from it the but once about spheres just we still have six million people on long term unemployment benefits that means almost one in ten households live on welfare and in fact figures from the german office of national statistics. 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. 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 if the 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. food you 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 wider europe than the german people even imagine the we part of europe we help you why don't you help us we have hungry kids but the government says we should help immigrants take move them we have to close the open door oh charity organizers say that they've seen a change in the demographic of those coming to them for help. mentions ones 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 and change. whilst it is true that as a nation germany where the euro crisis is better than most is

a fine line between boom and the people in the u.s biggest economy. see. as. they very quickly for you will start with a string of violent protests by shia muslims in bahrain marking the third anniversary of the uprising against the government several injured at least a dozen detained as police used tear gas against the crowds on the rest that began in twenty eleven has been violently suppressed with quite a lot of help from the ruling monarchies gulf allies. france has announced plans to boost its military contingent in the central african republic to two thousand all in a bid to tackle sectarian violence thousands of muslims have been fleeing from their homes since attacks by christian militias were stepped up un officials have warned the conflict which has already killed over two thousand could escalate into full scale genocide. in a southern belle dario far right protesters clashed with police off the proceeding

a mosque of one hundred demonstrators arrested after hurling rocks at the security forces and smashing buildings windows. spog by decision to reopen the site and as an active place of worship it had been used for secular purposes since the country became communist back in one nine hundred forty four. for now israel's borders with its arab neighbors are some of the most heavily fortified on the planet but within israeli society itself there's no shortage of tensions between jews and muslims arabs comprise a fifth of the country's population but as artie's polis live reports they're not always equally trusted and treated under the law. 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. 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 arrived 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. and israeli 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 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. 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 attack. praised for killing an arab terrorist but do they even know. israeli lawyer admits son adoption late now feels if

anything they tipped to wards i would speak cheated. she feels to me and so for accused should have received harsher sentences i would say it's a disgrace people who kill someone was hence our time in the back. who was 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 verdict out is there a double standard at play in israel which is what the courts are meant to determine in the first place paul to. tell everyone a quick look now here on our web seems god and forgive us our for example the story here the things that are too good at fukushima as figures show record high levels of radiation in groundwater near the nuclear plant with the japanese media claiming the situation is growing steadily worse although i have come for you right now. as

is the story people who give blood are always welcomed by the red cross but in austria. in is facing a wave of outrage for turning its back on. those details for you right now at odds with dot com. it's been a pleasure having you with us for the program up next though the extreme job of getting medical help to fascinating nomadic families and russia's far north this is our.

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