the transit route. to the heart of mosco. there at michigan and seen usa battle ensued over time in a bitterly concise the mash up of the sochi winter olympics as russia takes gold and silver in the men's one thousand meter short track event. denied care every minute counts for russian pilots in the u.s. trail as the president refuses medical assistance to the critically ill and mates arts he talks to his wife and lawyer. and the sliding scale of justice we find out how in this role the same point can get you time behind bars or not even be investigated all depending on your ethnicity.

you're watching r t international with me marina koester of all welcome to the program now it promises to be a dramatic day at the olympics with the right machine and team usa facing off in the salt sea ice hockey arena and of course we're following all the action. tens of thousands of fans have to sign that on the olympic park while millions worldwide have been and they haven't been left wanting by any measure the call incest is fierce and both sides appear to be pushing themselves to the limits so far as he's paul scott now for the action so far hi there paul well where and sue over time now as the riots. yes well this much promised a lot didn't it between the two rivals and it hasn't failed to deliver it's just

going into overtime after a two two draw russia actually took the lead midway through the second period the captain pavel datsyuk leading by example and open the scoring he actually plays his hockey in america in the n.h.l. so it was a sweet moment for him but then goals from cam fowler and joy prevailed for the united states to one up before that man again that suit leveled two to russia actually thought they'd done enough to win the game but it go right to the end of the final period was controversially disallowed by the officials so was two two we've just gone into overtime and there's real drama in the bolshoi ice time it's a physical contest and russia are having a much tougher challenge they did in their opening much that five two victory against slovenia of course these two sides russia and the usa there's a lot of history between them and they are amongst the favorites for gold in sochi these twenty fourteen winter olympics alongside canada and sweden but it's two two at the moment heading in to overtime we'll keep you abreast of what happens there and any latest developments elsewhere today i can tell you that russia has added

two medals to that tally a gold on a silver they both came in the men's one thousand meters short track speed skating it was a really good tactical display by the two russian skaters the gold medal went to victory he added to the bronze that he'd already secured in the fifteen hundred meters well silva went to bloody may have our poll when it comes to talk of course has been an intriguing match and we'll see how it ends artie's paul scott i think you. will between all the cheering and sports visitors and athletes alike need some wind and relax fortunately saatchi's than just the olympic host but the capital of black sea nightlife are seasonal it's a manager's has been out on the tiles after dark. medals locked away from their home the sun has set and. there are tens of thousands of. during the games and it's not just hotels restaurants and shops that are busier

than ever before the night life here is booming to sing the olympics means mixing it up and whether you want to mingle with celebrities 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 you head down. to midnight. very popular with locals and visitors can listen to various like music from jazz to contemporary electronica. like most here are open twenty four seven ideal for energetic tourists was a very positive surprise because it's really very well organized around here. that would be alive only during the summer months. in winter.

feeling package after all that partying look no further than the old port 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 sun to rise everybody can eat good food. take. foreign euro and everybody how happy because you have a good atmosphere. and there's more than a sure. dozens of clubs in sochi and there's also the high life of the new mountain of crust. this is sky club and or inspiring view over the mountains it's the perfect place for mingling with fellow travelers and athletes to relax after a hard day's competing or spectating. everything here is amazing the infrastructure

is. very pleased russia is renowned for its vibrant life culture and hip and happening after hours by use of such a large no exception from the sizzling sure to the cool snowy peaks so she's light out of it. back to the game penalty time now with the red machine and seeing the usa locked in battle at the sochi ice hockey arena also join us next hour as we bring you the conclusion of one of the winter games most eagerly anticipated matches. the team twenty four team promising. exhilarating winter. in germany and is now a make seven zero and the best of all of these teams for sochi twenty four take. on

. the cogs in europe's industrial powerhouse may be turning again also as germany claws economic ground many of their risk an uncertain future as the fight to stay above the poverty line. so i may be running out for a russian pilot jailed in the us constance in the co's been refused a vital medical help and his lawyer says the man is already at death's door russian diplomats are now urging washington to intervene as r.t. has found out. first he received twenty years in prison in the united states for a crime he never committed on the american soil now it has gone from bad to worse for russian violent constantin you know. he called me in the morning and told me he felt very sick and that he'd be lucky to survive until monday he seems to be having a heart attack because he told me he was suffocating experience and heart pain and was almost unable to walk he was beaten severely when he was arrested and has not

been feeling well for a long time but his pleas for medical help have been ignored and he felt sick they put him in lock up and left him on the cold floor he tried to get to the doctor but all he was offered was flu medication and some antibiotics sometimes they don't even let me send him letters and they have refused to let any russian officials meet with the prison chief over the head doctor you know show because lawyer told r.t. that the head doctor at the new jersey prison where he's being held will not expedite his treatment which could have the worst possible consequences monday is. also a federal holiday in the united states so my supposition would be that any kind of medical treatment so constant in your i shan't go could be provided only. on tuesday the eighteenth of february constantly. that he might not live through that we can just condition requires immediate medical attention you know she was

arrested in twenty to and in liberia on suspicion of drug smuggling he was reportedly severely beaten before being transported to the u.s. where he received a twenty year prison sentence this is not new and this is something we've seen repeated over and over again kind of arrogant attitude that washington has toward other countries and particularly to other countries for not. doing what washington wants to dictate to them to do the presence system of the united states the lightest prison system on the planet that. highest rate of prisoners any country life is number in both absolute terms in relative terms has no terror are notoriously. disregarding of the rights of prisoners even the most fundamental rights including the return to the mosco has been insisting all along that the way you know shank this case has been handled regardless of whether he committed the crime or not is a gross violation of human rights probably very beginning. so if you're

a shrink or if we can. speak a mysterious has been absolutely police. we have expressed very serious concern we have for the u.s. government that. they are under international obligations to take care of. the health of our citizens having failed to get through to washington via official channels the russian foreign ministry resorted to social media and posted a plea for help on its facebook page ever since you know it was delivered to the u.s. russian officials have been denied access with the situation now taking a dramatic turn the russian foreign ministry officials are once again demanding to be allowed to see him along with their own doctors that is of course if you know shankar himself lived to receive that help. the russian pilots case is nothing out of the ordinary for the u.s. prison system according to the u.s.

department of justice more than forty five thousand people died in kos that day in the space of a decade some of them didn't even live to face any charges the editor of prison legal news alex freedman told us that keep in inmates alive isn't always a priority in american jails. 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 there 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 receive 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 a shame 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 arts he will consent to follow they have a shanika case and bring in all the latest as the story develops. a transit route to vnukovo report you'll best way to the heart of moscow.

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such a big. concern here with all the news now in germany of ra just sort of the euro zone's highest growth right this quarter as like sports pumps money back into the economy bazza speeds are all of our reports the good official news will be cold comfort so one in every six germans who are in danger of being dragged into poverty. business is

booming in germany but under the surface there's a surprising number of people failing to get anything from it but once it gets fiercest we still have six million people are long term unemployment benefits that means almost one in ten households live on welfare or 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. 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 why to europe than the german people. demanded we part of europe we have 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 to. 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 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 the people in the biggest economy peter all over forty. and there are always more stories on artsy dot com including then on this album by the presence by overturning the law wanda alongside cocaine and heroin in the eyes of the law that's good for you around ten thousand inmates

currently serving sentences related to sulfa drugs. and the mystery of the martian rock that appeared in red planet pictures seemingly out of nowhere is solved head to r.t. dot com for the explanation of the phenomenon. israel's borders for the neighbors are some of the most heavily fortified on earth thoughts within israeli society itself there is no shortage of tension between jews and muslims arabs make up a fifth of the country's population parts us policy or reports they're not always treated equally under the law. morny 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 before even six other arabs were found guilty of attempting 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 and 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 a 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 what 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 arbs 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 that doohan and he's 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. this is they didn't even open an investigation file against their doom the police didn't even ask him didn't even check of the air was dead or not the scales of justice amin to balance in this calle jimmy. for we seem to feel killing a jewish terrorist in this scale. doing praised for killing an arab terrorist but do they even know. israeli lawyer admits some adoption late feels of anything they took to wards arabs be treated. she feels committed to for release code

accused should have received harsher sentence was i would say it's a disgrace people who killed someone was hands are tied in the back. who is not a threat anymore in the political trial it's a fear of marriage or the conviction sends a message to the arab community that our 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 policy r t tel aviv and therefore some more global headlines for you in bahrain a policeman has died of his injuries after he was wounded in the form explosion during friday's alsa government poll tax authorities there say more than two thousand opposition activists have been the rusted in clashes with police there one stray sions mark the third anniversary of an uprising that sought to get equal

rights for shia muslims from listening ruling party. violent storms northwest france killing one man and live in leaving one hundred thousand homes without electricity the elderly victim slept on board a cruise liner been buffeted by gusts of up to one hundred fifty kilometers an hour off the coast of perth time six regions across the northwest have been placed on high alert. scuffles have broken out in athens between police and public sector workers angry at pay freezes and layoffs officers push protesters from the ministry of administrative reform as they tried to get into the building security in groups has been stepped up after radical leftist groups fired shots at the german embassy and attacked the quarters of mercedes-benz last week.

and now for the latest for you in the game that we've been following of course the united states has just triumphed in the verses america men's ice hockey match after a bitterly contested game team usa managed to beat the home side in the sheets out after overtime and even that's was in the z. it's ten rounds and so the americans came out on top now water a game it was join us next hour as bring you saw she's reaction well i have more news for you in about half an hour from now up next it's a break in the sights on r t international and for you in the u.k. it's going on the ground. now in the u.k. welly wearing david cameron is out in the drowning tory heartland throwing sandbags

soldiers and cash in totally into the flood waters but dave all the stick your balls in sheffield cannot stop the rising tide that is sinking all boats into your black hole of debt economy because it's the triple crunch of environment energy and economy and no junk shop can save us now. not even a one four seven will save us dave we've been stuck or. neat-o. a deadly alliance without a clear mission for decades after the end of the cold war this washington led a lion's continues to exist and expand after in a big us adventure in afghanistan and behind regime change in libya nato now looks somehow in some way to absorb ukraine which is mitosis gambit.

ruben dog i'm abby martin and this is breaking the set i wanted to start off today's show by giving a shout out to nineteenth century 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 see 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 please please please a little very hard to take a. look at he ever had sex with that her hair looked. like.

yesterday on the show i talked about a pakistani man named kareem khan who was 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 horrific practice he was abducted from his home by twenty men some of whom were wearing police uniforms according to witnesses for entire eight days khan's whereabouts were unknown and only because of the tireless efforts of international activists putting pressure on both the u.s. and pakistani governments khan was just released today from his captors and now we

know the horrifying details about what happened to him during that time you can was taken to a cell where he was aligned folded and driven for hours i'm sorry after he was blindfolded and driven for hours according to human rights organization reprieve quote while detained in mr khan was interrogated beaten and tortured he was placed in chains and repeated the question about his investigations into drone strikes his knowledge of drone strikes victims and his work advocating on their behalf after beating and torturing khan his kidnappers them through. from a van on the side of the road and told him not to speak to the media otherwise they would come back for him on expressed his gratitude to the activist community and said quote i never thought i would see my family again i know it's because of activists that i am free and i would like to think them even though khan's case sparked international outcry was not unique by any means just last year the un sent a delegation to pakistan to investigate the thousands of people that been illegally detained or disappeared inside the country in fact according to dawn dot com in

january of this year the pakistani government signed a law that codifies kidnappings just like cons some of the things this and saying a lot of law allows our special forces to be able to open fire on anyone committing or likely to commit terror related offenses allows the government to detain any persons for a period not exceeding ninety days allows the government to withhold the details of anyone being detained under that order and anyone facing charges of the ordinance must prove their innocence to the court not the other way around so for now it's a miracle that khan is out of detention and back with his family despite the harsh attempts to silence dissent about drones he isn't backing down khan is still planning to go to europe to speak to parliamentarians about his story look no one should have to endure being tortured simply for speaking out it's a tactic that has needlessly murdered their family their active forces at play here

to silence the voices on this matter and we can't get speak we cannot let that happen khan's release shows us that enough pressure and noise calling attention to these human rights abuses will allow justice to prevail. over one third of this country is obese and while the. obesity makes the problem seem more mundane the truth is that obesity is one of the leading causes of preventable death in the us because it leads to other health problems like heart disease stroke diabetes and even cancer but obesity doesn't just hurt our health it drains our pocketbooks as well according the centers for disease control and prevention in two thousand and eight quote the estimated annual medical cost of obesity in the u.s. was one hundred forty seven billion dollars and the problem is getting worse.