transit routes. you'll best way to the heart of mosco. the red machine buckles after a ten round shoot out against team usa and it better leave thought hockey face all the russia take some solace in winning two golds and a sober medal in the day's events. denied care every minute may count for a russian pilot in the u.s. jails the prison is refusing medical assistance or two years from his wife and lawyer who say he's critically ill. a sliding scale of justice we'll find out how in israel the same crime could get you time by behind bars or not even be investigated depending on one's ethnicity. eleven pm in moscow i'm mad president good to have you with us it promised to be

a dramatic day at the olympics and it delivered with the red machine in team usa giving a terrific nailbiting performance at the sochi bolshoi ice arena and certainly getting their money's worth tonight kevin owen standing by in the olympic host city to give us all the details. yeah. you join me here we should say but above the olympic one of the most beautiful contests of the concluded today twenty thousand spectators packed the bolshoi isolated to watch the red machine russia face off against team usa in the men's ice hockey pool scott takes us through the game. they promised a drama and julie delivered one of the most thrilling ice hockey matches in winter olympic history narrowly went the way of the usa in the most dramatic of circumstances it was two two at the end of regulation time with nothing separating

the two sides russia captain pavel datsyuk led by example he gave the home side the lead midway through the second period a great moment for him he of course plays his hockey in the n.h.l. but goals from cam fowler and then joe put the usa to one up before that man datsyuk was on hand again to level matches to two with five minutes to go russia thought they'd done enough to win the match but what would have been the winning goal was cancelled out in the final few moments because the next had come away from its moorings it was a controversial moment with even the u.s. coach admitting afterwards that he was surprised that the goal didn't stand now it was a physical robust but on his contest between two and fierce rivals the game eventual went into overtime but still nothing separated the two sides and eventually the usa prevailed in a long nerve wracking ten round shootout russia are still likely to qualify for the next stage of the competition they now face slovakia in their final group game on

sunday that's a match they now have to win and afterwards are to gauge the reaction of some of the fans who were fortunate enough to be inside the bolshoi i started when i came here with a friend of mine just to see the match and we're very disappointed and we hope our team will still show their worth at these games but it's been a bit then you must leave this isn't the last question you believe yet we just have to believe in them who can cheer for them. to come to the mass no matter who i think rules the best country and we haven't had an issue nationally and even though i said long guys don't let us down next time the whole song change the whole country sharing you. the game was great the guys did well our captain is the best we can still do it i have no doubt about it. the ice hockey veteran who is known it is day as the russian rocket while he played for the n.h.l. he told us the competition we're seeing now is as good as it gets. but still ok

chills the regular season hold the best players in the world come here and play for the true story so close so you know i would. expect the same thing will come up with the submarine officer going to win it you know brazil's play and need to win friends so he has some way to good teams that's why everybody watching him and someone else watching the game with a very old colleague is to now we should rush back to the studio here to tell us how she saw it all unfold. sort of rooting for us a little bit secretly because my mother's here she of course is american my husband's russian my son half russian half american so it was an intense. match to watch all together partly rooting for russia because they are the underdogs and they haven't won for twenty years but so much controversy is kicked off tonight on social media for hours indeed there was a goal which of course was counted as a goal by the refs on the ice it was then notified by the international ice hockey federation because the goalpost was a little bit off its pegs so basically

a huge debate going on right now on social media from the american ambassador at moscow to russian diplomats i mean people i talk here as a political sport because when you look back to the history of the cold war so it's going back in time so. well the game was painfully close not really a loss for the russian side there's still plenty to make up for it another events russia now tops the overall medal here from paul again. there was plenty to cheer for our russian sports fans on saturday they added two golds and a silver medal to that tally now in the men's skeleton event alexander tretyakov he won gold with a totally dominant display he led from start to finish setting a track record in the first round all his hard work has paid off over the last four years he's improved on the bronze medal he won in vancouver four years ago elsewhere russia secured a one to win the men's one thousand meter short track speed skating it was

a great tactical display by the russian jew ovulate from start to finish they took the lead early and didn't look back on actually won the gold medal to add to the bronze that he won in the fifteen hundred meters earlier on in these games while the silver medal went to glory of now those additions to the tally have moved russia third in the overall medals table germany and switzerland have more golds but the host nation now has more medals than any other country. so good news for russia that they got more medals now in fact at the halfway point than they had in total during the last games in vancouver it's great go and things didn't go so rosy there for the athletes taking part in the women super g. skiing this morning that were challenging seven of the first eight skiers fail to finish the event all gate penalty saw athlete of roughly miss out on a chance at the medals in all the five eighteen of the forty nine skiers taking part didn't finish but many of those unlucky ones still made their contribution

they contacted the teammates above to tell them about the heart of parts of the course you guessed it the success rate quickly went up after that and talking of lympics spirit they're supposed to report to cast lead is proven cross-country skier competed despite having a broken rib. it was very very tough race for me it was a long one i was expected to go away given the broken dangerous. when i crossed the finish line. a lot of support. that came from peru from even from the goal winner or gold medal winner and the reason you've done this is to inspire youngsters to take up your sport back in peru you have got a message for a buck and prove it and i will give you is what i say to them well thank you very much for all that. it took me a long time a lot of pain but we're through. it was worth it and i hope you can use this message for for

a better use. lympics being scouted by the major sporting organizations including formula one officials of consultants to the premier racing brand to be judging the city and its authorities on the way they handle the olympic games i go by what they've been telling us so far at least since they're pretty enthusiastic about seeing those race cars roaring around sochi. all you have to do is is look around at the amazing effort and facilities that have been created for the olympics the same effort is being put in to create a world class facility for formula one and i think that it will be definitely one of the best facilities in the world when it's completed the passion is here that can do attitude is here and the willingness of people to succeed and i think this is key to the success of the formula one project. tain all the cheering in the sports visitors nothing to one wind and relax at some

point fortunately so she's not just the olympic host but it's also the capital of black sea nightlife martin andrews has been out and about on the tiles off. the way from the home the sun has set and it's time to party there are tens of thousands of new visitors during the games and it's not just up she's hotels restaurants and shops that are busier than ever before the night life here is booming hosting the olympics means mixing it up whether you want to mingle with celebrities a glamorous elites night clubs who fancy something a little more traditional like. to be hard pushed to feel left out so get your dancing shoes on let your hair down and that's. the midnight. london very popular with locals and visitors he can listen to various like music

from jazz to contemporary electronica. like most like to here are open twenty four seven ideal for energetic tourists man 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 bob 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 and such she 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. this could take. foreign euro and yeah everybody how happy because they have

a good atmosphere all good all b.s. and there's more than the shore on top of the dozens of stubbornness clubs in sochi and there's also the high life of the new mountain can stuff of trust my opinion of . 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. but everything here is amazing the menus and infrastructure and all athletes are very pleased russia is renowned for its by brant nightlife culture and hip and happening after hours by use of such a large no exception from the sizzling sure to the cool snowy peaks she's you might covet well today andrews. searching. every taste created for now after pumping billions of dollars in into salt she russian officials have

been busy inspecting the city between the events and deputy prime minister a car did recall which gave us his take on whether the money he thinks was well spent. infrastructure such as brand new york. city all the more than acquirements requirements at. present around the world and. infrastructure this sure. as one of the. most important russian it is or it's one of the most more than the european resorts as well now there's also instantly to special significance to the day and that it's the anniversary of that massive major course that struck me a year ago i remember that today's medal winners are set to get a second set of medals ones with a pace actual little piece of that meteorite embedded in them but unfortunately not thrown away it seems visionary. being sticks to tradition is they say you can give the athletes whatever you want just know during the games instead they insist the

only awards to be recorded during the games all the original medals so they go those beautiful little pieces have to wait a bit longer before they reach their victorious. ok we're eight days now then into the games pushing. really been the full experience of victory celebration unexpected upsets heartbreak moments to so much more to come. out of time. twenty fourteen promised the colts in the game exhilarating winter and. still. make seven zero in on the rest of our lives take these teams to sochi twenty four take. on. and still to come in our broadcast the colleagues in europe's industrial power i was maybe turning once again but as germany gains economic crown many there were uncertain future as they fight stay above the poverty line that after a short break. so

we. are the same motions to. play your part of the physical. issues that no one is there with to get they deserve answers from. our. choose your language. make it with.

the consensus. choose the opinions that you think. choose to stories get him. to choose accents off. sixteen minutes past the hour time may be running out for a russian pilot jailed in the us constantine euro shango medical help and his lawyer says the man could already be at death's door russian diplomats are urging washington officials to step in artie's alexei or chefs he has more. 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. your own brother nearly 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 experienced 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 for me his pleas for medical help have been ignored and he felt sick they put him in la copter and left him on the cold floor don't you try to get to the doctor with all he was offered was flu medication and some antibiotics were given that sometimes they don't even let me send him letters and they have refused to let any russian officials meet with the prison chief or 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 can your i shan't go could be provided only.

on tuesday the eighteenth of february constant. that he might not live through that we can pass condition requires immediate medical attention you know i was arrested in twenty town in liberia on suspicion of drug smuggling he was reportedly severely beaten before being transported to the us where he received a twenty year prison sentence this is not new 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 present system in the united states the life physicists on the planet that. highest rate of prisoners any country like this number in both absolute terms in relative terms has no tell 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 case has been handled regardless of whether he committed the crime or not is a gross violation of human rights probably very beginning the key so if you're a shrink or if we can. speak in this terms has been absolutely police. we have expressed many things that are suicidal so we have one from the u.s. government to many times that. they are on the 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 to 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 lives to receive that help alexi russian. the russian pilots case not out of the ordinary in u.s. prisons according to the u.s. department of justice more than forty five thousand people died in custody in the space of a decade some of them didn't live to face charges editor of prison legal news alex friedman told us that keeping inmates alive isn't always a priority and some u.s. 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 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

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 r.t. will continue following this case and bring you all the latest as the story develops. germany registered the euro zone's highest growth this quarter as exports pump money back into the economy as artie's peter all over a ports the good news will be cold comfort to one in every six germans in danger of being dragged below the poverty line. business is booming in germany but under the surface there's a surprising number of people failing to get anything from it but once in parts fiercest we still have six million people on long term unemployment benefits that means almost one in ten households live on welfare doored 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 wine to europe than the german people even demanded no we parts 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 to all charity organizers say that they've seen a change in the demographic of those coming to them for help it took a mention so it's called 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 and change. whilst it is true that as a nation germany weathered the euro crisis better than most is a fine line between boom and bust the people in the biggest economy peter all of the. toys more stories on r.t. dot com including italy lightening the burden on its overcrowded prisons by overturning a law that put marijuana alongside cocaine and heroin on the eyes of the law this could free around ten thousand inmates serving sentences related to soft drugs. and the mystery of the martian iraq that appeared in the red planet pictures seemingly out of nowhere finally solved but on r.t. dot com for an explanation of the phenomenon. finally in the news like israel's borders with arab neighbors some of the most heavily fortified on earth but within

israeli society itself there's no shortage of tension between jews and muslims arabs make up a fifth of the country's populace but as our policy reports they're not always treated fairly under the eyes of 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 jamil so for even six of the arabs were found guilty of attempted to murder in a tunnel 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 a on a ship it was here back in august two thousand and five that sutta and 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 america is ready to 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 i was 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 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 spun around and he was teetering and then the guy with the m. sixteen who is 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 amin 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 now. israeli lawyer admit some adoption lake now feels of anything they took to wards arabs be treated. she feels community before 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 is not a threat anymore a little political trial it's a pure america the conviction sends a message to the arab community that they are 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. ten of you. guys a report coming up after this short break stay with us are here either. transit. your best way to the heart of.

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