the red machine buckles after a ten round shoot out against team usa in a bitterly fought hockey faceoff the russia take solace in winning two golds and a silver medal in the days other about. denied care every minute may count for a russian pilot in the u.s. jail as the prison is allegedly refusing him medical assistance team hears from his wife and lawyer who say he's critically ill. and we find out how in israel the same crime would get you time behind bars or not even be investigated depending on your ethnicity.

one am in moscow i'm at transit good to have you with us today promised to be a dramatic day at the olympics and it was with the red machine and team usa going head to head delivering a terrific nail biter of a performance at the sochi bolshoi ice arena fans certainly got their money's worth tonight and kevin owen is standing by in our sochi studios to tell us all about it . yeah i'd like you to tell me i had a dramatic thrilling and instant classic some calling it just a few of the woods described one of the closest the most bitterly fought contest in the loop make history twenty thousand spectators packed the bolshoi serena behind me there to watch the red machine team usa battle each other almost to a standstill on the ice. took the game. it promised a drama and julie delivered one of the most thrilling ice hockey matches in winter

olympic history really 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 hole in the n.h.l. but goals from. and then. put the usa to one up before it 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 net 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 contest between two fierce rivals the game eventually went into overtime but still nothing separated the two sides and eventually the usa prevailed in a long rocking ten round shootout and these u.s.

hockey stars. have been expecting a tough challenge. because the back and forth game score we score and we score the score. so it was it was a good game is a hard thing. it seemed like from the very beginning it was going to be coming down to an overtime and possibly a shootout no matter if if the crowd's behind your. against you to play in front of such a rowdy crowd so much noise and so much buzz and it was it was really fun and as hockey players you want to play like that 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. when i came here. with a friend of mine just to see the match we're very disappointed we hold our team

will still show their worth at these games for the spin of. this isn't the last show you believe yet we just have to believe in them who can cheer for them. to come to the mask no matter what rules score the best country we haven't had an issue nationally even if there were some long guys don't let us down next time the whole of sochi the whole country is cheering. the game was great the guys did well our captain is the best we can still do it i have no doubt about that i needed that you just deal with it well so they got a farm we spoke to a an international without ice hockey veteran it was noted his days the russian rocket when he played in the n.h.l. he told us the competition we're seeing right now is as good as it gets but you're looking at chills the regular season and all the best players in the world come here and play for a conference or so paul said you know everything. that's been the same thing world cup and the soccer you know was going to win it you know brazil's lead but we're

friends with some with the good teams that's why everybody watching them enjoy watching that game too was my colleague in this and now we should rush back to the studio to give her impressions of the contest between the two. it was an intense. match to watch all together partly rooting for russia because they are the underdogs and i haven't one for twenty years but so much controversy is kicked off to my all social media as well as indeed there was a goal which of course was counted as a goal by the refs on the ice it was the no five by the international ice hockey federation because the goalposts was a little bit off its pegs so basically a huge debate going on right now on social media from the american ambassador moscow to russian diplomats i mean people talk here as a political sport because when you look back to the history of the cold war so it's getting a bit intense out there. afterwards and this is also where the gauge reaction of one of russia's highest ranking supporter the chief of staff of the presidential

administration sort of gave a nod of the games still have a week to go and therefore russia should still keep it open for more medals including like i did. today was next week going was a good game i liked it i'm still emotional because i came to a straight after the game. well it was an equal game it was a tough game it was tied and those penalty shots it's like lottery you again never i guess and besides the game didn't mean much from the final standings point so russia still has a very good chance yes. there is still plenty to cheer for the home supporters and other events on saturday to the country now actually top the overall medal count. from paul again. there was plenty to cheer for a 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 i who led 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 recording 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. thanks paul really good news and for russia there they've now got as we're saying more medals at the halfway point they had in total at the end of the last games in vancouver

but things didn't look so rosy for the athletes taking part of the women's super g. ski challenge of seven of the eight ski is failed to finish the event falls mr gates penalties for one after another miss on a chance at a medal position in all eighteen of the forty nine skiis taking part didn't finish but many of those unlucky ones still made the contribution how well they were contacting their team mates above to tell them about the harder parts of the course you guessed it the success rate quickly went up now talking to about the olympic spirit i spoke to roberta faleh he's a peruvian cross-country skier who competed despite having a broken rib there was a very very tough race for me it was a long one and i was expecting to go away given the broken dangerous. when i crossed the finish line. a lot of support. 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 black improves and i will give you is what i can say to them well thank you very much for all that. it took me a long time a lot of pain to power through but it was absolutely or. i hope you can use this message for a better use. good guys that hear about you know right now let me tell you the sochi olympics are being scouted by the major sporting organizations to including formula one officials and consultants to the premier racing brad to be judging the city and its authorities on the weather how will it be in the big game so far go by what they told us anyway it seems they're pretty enthusiastic about seeing those race cars warrior around sochi. all you have to do is 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. so well between all the cheering all the sports visitors an athlete like of course need one wind and relax a bit fortunately sorties not just the olympic host it's also the capital of black sea nightlife martin hundreds that went out about on the tiles after the. medals locked away from the home the sun has set and it's time to party there are tens of thousands of. during the games and it's not just stop 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 and whether you want to mingle with celebrities 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 you head down and. off the midnight. stop. very popular with locals and visitors you can listen to various like music from jazz to contemporary electronica. here are open twenty four seven ideal for energetic tourists was very positive surprise because it's really very well organized here. that would be alive during the summer. 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 and 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 after the discotheque. foreign euro and everybody how happy because you have a good atmosphere. and there's more than the sure the dozens of clubs and. this is the high life of the new mountain of trust. 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 are. very pleased russia is renowned for its bible and like

culture and hip and happening after hours bellevue's of such a large no exception from the sizzling sure to the cool snowy peaks cheese you might call it's covered well today andrews r.t. . so making shapes that in the pubs and clubs in sochi also rake in some small shapes out of some space rock what am i talking about will day eight of the olympics also have a special significance in that it's exactly a year since that massive meteorite struck near chile in the urals and in memory of that those who made the podium will get a second set of medals each one with a little tiny piece of the meteorite embedded in them fortunately though not straight away it seems we can reveal the i.o.c. the international olympic committee being a stickler as to tradition but they are so you can give the athletes whatever you want just not during the games they insist that the only awards to be recorded during the games are the original gold silver and bronze so there you go these are beautiful pictures look away just

a little while longer before they reach their victoria so this. so them date has seen its share of both parties and loads but it has shown the competition here is stepping up a notch up and join me again next we bring you more details of the russian skier who spine was operated on after she broke in training but new story hopefully she's going to be ok we will update you in an hour's time. the g. twenty fourteen promises little timid and exhilarating winter not looking to sell me anything now i have to make seven zero in on the bus tomorrow let me take you staying for sochi twenty four take. on oxy and we've got plenty more to come after this short break so stay with us.

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dropped to. fifty. sixteen minutes past the hour time may be running out for a russian pilot jailed in the u.s. constantine yara shango allegedly refused vital medical help and his lawyer says the man is already a death's door russian diplomats urging washington officials to intervene but it's . 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 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 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 showing his 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 as also a federal holiday in the united states so my supposition would be that any kind of medical treatment so constantine your i shan't go could be provided only. on tuesday the eighteenth of february constant go said that he might not live

through the 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 are seeing 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 lightest prison system on the planet. 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 and disturbs has been absolutely police. we have expressed many things that are serious concerns we have one for 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. russian

pilots case may not be out of the ordinary in the u.s. prison system 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 even live to face their charges editor of prison legal news activist alex friedman tells us that keeping inmates alive isn't always a priority in 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 and 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 always more stories a click away at r.t. dot com including italy lightning the burden on its overcrowded for it by overturning a law that marijuana alongside cocaine and heroin in the eyes of the law is could play around ten thousand inmates currently serving sentences related to soft drugs . and the ministry of that march in iraq that appeared in the red planet pictures seemingly out of nowhere i mean we solved put out of our t. dot com for the explanation. real borders with arab neighbors are some of the most heavily guarded on earth but within the israeli society itself there's no shortage of tension between muslims and jews arabs make up a fifth of the country's population but as are his policy reports they're not always treated equally 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 the four even six other arabs were found guilty of attempting to murder in a ton 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 i think it was here back in august two thousand and five that zada 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 arrived those who were sentenced for his death i think there's more to it than north. 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 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 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 so the police didn't even ask him didn't even check of the arab was dead or not the scales of justice amin to balance in this scale. except for we seem to feel killing

a jewish terrorist in this scale it's like doing praised for killing an arab terrorist but do they even know. israeli lawyer admits son adoption lake feels if anything they took two boys out of the featured ninety one she feels to me and so for me and his code 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 threat anymore in a political trial it's a pure america the conviction sends a message to 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 our team ten of. my colleagues sharon thomas brings in more news in about thirty minutes but first breaking the set stay with us.

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dog i'm having martin and this is breaking the set i wanted to start off today's show by giving a shout out to one thousand nine hundred abolitionist frederick douglass because today is his birthday so after escaping the shackles of slavery back in eight hundred thirty eight douglass 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 scene 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 a little very hard to take the. logic. that he ever had sex with that hurt their feelings. yesterday on the show i talked about a pakistani man named kareem khan who is 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 so 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 who have 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 to.