hockey thriller steals the show in sochi with arch rivals russia and the united states facing off in a close battle decided on tells me it's. russian pilot jailed in the u.s. says he's in a critical condition and may not live beyond the weekend while moscow's pleas for medical intervention are ignored. all week the second round of syrian peace talks has broken off with the opposition pushing for regime change and western powers blaming president asad meanwhile serious conflict into news to spill over into lebanon. and your interview. with piers. r.t. this is a radical stronghold where jihadist forces are trained to find the government in

syria. which are two national coming to you live from moscow with me marie and josh i promise is to be an action packed sunday in sochi with five sets of males up for grabs but russian fans are reeling from the disappointment of saturday's nerve racking ice hockey match against the u.s. it was a dramatic encounter with its fair share of controversy. was there. the promise to draw julie delivered one of the most thrilling ice hockey matches in winter olympic history not 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 so. 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 at two 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 but only 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 as crazy as the back and forth game it seemed they paid score we score and we score they scored. so it was it was a good game as

a hard fought battle bible teams. 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 it was hockey players you want to play in an environment 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 and we're very disappointed and we hope our team will still show their worth at these games but it's been a. russian to believe yet we just have to believe in them cheer for them.

new book is the best no matter which rules co-written best country we haven't had an issue nationally and even if there were some long guns don't let us down next time the whole sochi the whole country's cheering for you. at the game was great the guys did well our captain is the best we can still do it i have no doubt about it on the about that if this deal is well there were concerns over whether russian captain pavel the two should take part having suffered a lower body injury but he managed to play a starring role in the match with no signs of discomfort ice hockey legend pavel bray also nicknamed the russian rocket for his speed when he plays the in the n.h.l. told us the olympics have lived up to all expectations but still a few chills up for the season and all the best players in the world come here and play for their concerts hopefuls you know i would. extend the same thing go full cup and then the submarine office going away that you know brazil's paid me to live

for and see it some way to good teams that's why everybody watching and enjoying. now despite the setback in hockey russia has seen some major breakthroughs it's now in third place in the medals table having bad gold in skeleton and both gold and silver in the short track speed skating and there's plenty more hockey drama on the way with russia due to meet slovakia criminal ministration chiefs are gavan off has been cheering on the home side and he told her to ration our way that the fans need to put the last behind them including york and cruel costs if today wasn't us next week is going to cause 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 a lottery you're never i guess and besides the game didn't mean much from the

final standings point of view russia still has a very good chance yes. stabber asked me to compete in the winter olympics roberto carcillo and has said the sochi games were his last he competed in the manse cross-country ski race despite suffering a broken rib and respiratory infection the forty three year old announced his retirement after his painful but determined to finish carson spoke to argues kevin owen and i was such a studio. it was a very very tough race for me it was a long one 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 gold winner or gold medal winner and usually just. just to explain to all of you as you go here with a broken rib before you got to sochi to also have

a bit of a bug this week as well which is brought you down a little bit but you're still determined to go on without race compared to when you got over the finish line eventually there they rallied around you didn't they yeah if in the river. i decided to go with this tracy compete. there read appreciate it i've been getting a lot of feedback from media from a hundred emails so far from people and they were. so excited about the story inspired by the story. i got close to five thousand facebook facebook likes in a matter of twelve hours overnight. being great and so happy that people got a story now the slopes of sochi maybe an olympic battleground right now but they promise to become a popular skiing destination after the games are over we sent our teams martin andrews to the such mountain cluster to try out the snow. what goes up must come down there's no better way to see the beautiful caucuses mountains and zooming down

the slopes take in the breathtaking scenery and marvel in the vast resorts and facilities they now have here as you know the famous phrase when in rome so it's on with the boots and off to the slopes at krasnaya polyana a totally transformed area of this month's a limited opening this is just beautiful it's been fun we came up skiing the other day a couple days off between work since no boardings inception as an established winter sport it's developed various styles each with its own specialized equipment and technique it's my first time and it's not as easy as it looks but it's a little bit confusing as i've been told that i'm left footed even though i'm right handed i said in the century position was pushed forward on the first foot that i thought was the direction i should go wish me luck. and as the professional snowboarders with their various in the pit medals on this very mountain it seems that some of us were not born for such winter hike to the cities not to danbury is

a. walmart handers they're trying out the slopes in such a got all the latest on the actually olympic city here and online second had to the list section on our twitter feed as well and follow what's happening in the olympics capital very confined to tweets from the contestants and give them your feedback russia's hockey team captain has tweeted his thanks to the man a fans have shown their support and we will of course be keeping you up to date on all the olympic action here are international to stay with us for a few. the g. twenty four team promised to be able to meet in the exhilarating winter in our team if you join me and you see no way i'm a criminal and i'm the rest of our lives take news team for sochi twenty four take . all ought. russia is urging washington to ensure that

a russian pilot jailed in the u.s. is given urgent medical treatment constantini health is critical but he has been refused access to a doctor. reports. 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 experience and heart pain and was almost unable to walk and he felt sick they put him in lock up and left him on the cold floor while he was off or it was flu medication and some antibiotics you know showed his lawyer told r.t. that the head doctor at the new jersey prison where he's being held will not expedite his treatment 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 u.s. center was arrested in twenty town 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 something we are seeing repeated over and over again kind of arrogant attitude that washington has toward other countries and particularly to other countries who are now. doing what washington was to dictate to them to do the presence system of the united states has no terror 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 are a shrinker it has been absolutely politicized we have expressed many famous over

the seriousness of having failed to get through to washington via official channels the russian foreign ministry resorted to social media and posted at. 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 doctor that is of course if you know shanker himself lives to receive that help. now still to come in the program swiss voters back conversely and to immigration rules. control of the. boulders. and we'll be reporting on the shock waves and sending across the e.u. in the build up to the european parliamentary elections. deadly violence and

also radical ideology are spilling over the borders of war torn syria and the country it suffering the most is lebanon traveled to a camp were islamist recruits are being prepared and here's what she saw. was the syrian conflict rages on neighboring lebanon faces a dramatic increase in sectarian violence in january alone for kabul was killed dozens in beirut and the town of headmen next to the syrian border the targets were a shia areas controlled by hizbullah lebanon's most influential force which also supports syrian president bashar al assad we traveled to the northern city of tripoli a sunni stronghold vehemently opposing hezbollah visible the message calling those who know. it's appointed by. his bella's military involvement in syria is believed to have given damascus the upper hand in the battle of god and

has deeply angered assad's enemies do you think we're going to see more explosions like this while today i dare say. anything i can do for sonny brothers anything i can do for syrian brothers i will do anything i can do for these people suffering from injustice i will do. anything he unkind to affiliated to a new survey front claimed responsibility for these recent deadly bombings just days before a man calling himself and al qaida commander announced via you tube that the group had put down groups in lebanon or people we've met her on the ground deny belonging to either of these groups but don't hide the fact that they share their views. no there is no al qaeda as an organization anymore but al qaeda as an idiology and it doesn't need money to spread it spreads by itself everywhere in the world not

only in lebanon but in america britain serbia. here radical ideas of bread from a young age fighters here colette card as. bin laden a teacher and their fight jihad. when twenty three year old med returned from syria where he joined the free syrian army he continued his jihad here in lebanon. targeted a district where she'll leave tripoli is divided into sunni and shia parts ironically by the street called syria two years ago a field on that street district in the city of tripoli separates alawite and sunni neighborhoods in this part of north running like a murderer between those who support the syrian president and his regime and those who want him out today who can't get. caches sometimes oh. who do you fight against who is your enemy i'm addicted and i fight against them

for those those who don't carry that for i go far eleven is probably the war spillover of the syrian conflict and while the world is hoping for peace to come back to that middle east country war seems to only spread for their own. people here seem to be used to seeing fighters carry sniper rifles through busy markets they tell us everybody here has a weapon and is ready to fight. these can go outside you will see every day to raise a little get her stroller said it doesn't take well you know for someone with zero experience become a real fighter. a week's training and you are in for a life time of obedience routes for those who want to become one giant being you have to forget about money and be ready to die or to be arrested and to accept that no one will take care of you or your family let jihadi flags on the walls weapons

on the floor this is the life of a true fighter. it's tough and the rules are strict. who introduced himself as a tripoli sunni leader says many youths are willing to join the club even though he was from now until i grow up i'm ready to defend myself i'm ready to kill a whites and syrian. and here is a kill for that other than about of the about the we here and while the syrian conflict expands a legion of fighters on to these deadly weapons and an even deadly ideology is on the rise. from lebanon. into an even un mediator lakhdar brahimi has apologized to the syrian people after a second round of peace talks failed to yield any results the warring sides remained locked in a stalemate where the government wanted to focus on combat and terrorism in syria

and the opposition refusing to set aside their calls for asad to step down jonathan steele a columnist for britain's guardian newspaper says one of the key obstacles to peace is a foreign aid being provided to syria's rebels but it's hard for sides to admit it to spend all this money in treasure and lost lives for not getting victory and so you still cling to that hope the guessing and it's a tough time i think with the u.n. pressure from a photography me and it's the regional countries. convincing the government and the opposition that they must make a deal and it doesn't that would help could it also means cutting back on home supplies and all these jihadi fighters going in and stopping it being a proxy war and reverting to being what it should be just an internal problem among civilians and u.k. authorities are alarmed over the number of britons taking up arms to fight alongside the rebels in syria british nationals are among the hundreds of e.u. citizens who have joined the jihad ists boyko has a story of

a british national who reportedly became a suicide bomber in the war zone. facts are sometimes stranger than fiction this is the street where abdul wahid the first suspected british suicide bomber in syria is alleged to have lived at schooled martyrs haven't you the forty one year old man that lived it is suspected of carrying out a suicide bombing in a truck in the city of aleppo last week after joining the outcry had a link to al nusra front the father of three is said to have quit is day job six months ago and joined a convoy running aid into syria he was reportedly in contact with his wife and children up until last week if his identity is confirmed it will be the first known attack by a briton in syria according to the center for the study of radicalization in king's college in london hundreds of u.k. citizens have traveled to syria to fight with jihadi groups recent posts on social

media suggest that some of the brits fighting there have been involved in be saying and execution of fellow rebels while residents of ma says adding you come to terms with their reported neighbors suicide attack security services in the u.k. are becoming increasingly concerned about the potential that brits fighting in syria could return and stage attacks on u.k. soil boyko aussie west sussex and online for you right now climbing a one hundred twenty story building takes nerves of steel that's what these guys clearly have in spades scaling the world's second highest building with no safety gear and no permission under the cover of the night can see the full video in the emotion section on our website. plus you can accompany humans in space and don't even need much maintenance to find out about harvard's

latest robotic creations at r.t. dot com. well switzerland made. jeopardize its access to the european single market after a nationwide referendum back tougher immigration rules the new legislation along contradicts longstanding agreements with brussels and some high ranking e.u. officials have now called for relations with the alpine nation to be reassessed switzerland's parliament has three years to put the referendum result into law and i call your isa shirley or discuss the issue with two am a piece. the majority voted in favor but look a quarter of people in switzerland were not born in switzerland there were eighty five eighty thousand migrants last year it only has a population of eight million people wages have been driven down this putting pressure on houses the health care system on transport quite frankly is the democratic wish of the swiss people that they want to control their own borders and go for them i wish we could do the same in our own country see once again shaking

your head switzerland's decision to limit the number of foreign workers perhaps the latest example of the growing feeling of nationalism where do you think this trend could be heading luxembourg thirty five percent of foreigners deliveries it very well because luxembourg is a growing economy according service sector and i have seen the reaction of service industry today in the us three was upset with this very slight majority because of the need to. hold for. ration is just disgusting as i mean if you have enjoyed your degree i'm here i'm going to hear. it all about . you on a. lot of jobs that have been done by the polish were in your. view or your industry is totally different or. just

a mild don't stick your order in the quote of. the model hold your own hang on firstly let's not use looks embarrassed as an example it's not really a country it's like a small english town the fact there are more people in liverpool where i live than there's no look some bag let's make one thing clear here we have a million young kids in this country in britain eighteen to twenty four who don't employed who got two point four million people who can work it makes no sense whatsoever to such a rate your job market even further by having an open door policy to the whole of the european union what we want to see in britain is we want to. just with a point but he says that if you've got the skills that this country needs yes. but we won't allow to happen this is people who have eastern europe. and if it's going to all we're told no money to have been. coming not from to you or to come from your form i know what it's own stats your bro you can see the proof.

is all right listen guys i'm going to jump in and just read over you may disagree over how to play nice with all that share our toys joe the introduction of quotas are foreigners would all agree create more job opportunities for the swiss themselves i mean that's that's a good thing isn't it every country should choose to have that choice about to be have common roots and if you get up you followed the roots if you don't want to follow the roots then you have to leave the club that's quite simple and everything up it is the same thing well some heated debate there for you and despite the criticism from brussels the swiss vote has boosted antenna gratian movements across the continent with at least half a dozen far right european parties calling for similar referendums in the er countries now almost half of german so want to see me want to see me gratian reduced and france seventy percent of the population feel there are too many foreigners living in the country but by far the majority of britons want to follow

in switzerland steps meanwhile in norway a record number of immigrants were forced out of the country last year are just going off reports of the shifting tide of opinion in europe. this used to be a quiet suburban town in the outskirts of oslo where money is spent fourteen years of his life until he says along with most of his norwegian friends they had to move out because of cost of attacks by teenage immigrant again he's. been in the ambulance five times or something so it came to the point where i didn't have the time to be robbed all the time i go to the hospital today three out of four students at the local school are foreign descent mass energy exports brought norway's some of the highest living standards in europe and made it very attractive for immigrants over the last thirty years their population has grown tenfold but high living standards mean high cost which not all newcomers are contributing towards many immigrants who are coming from asia and africa they are low skilled

and know they don't have a labor market for them to often jobs for them so many and. to be depended on social benefits benefits include free housing a two year old integration course and an allowance also paid by the state during this time with n.g.o.s warning the spending may be too much even for the norwegian budget to swallow talks about cutting down the numbers have now reached parliament we want to improve the. immigration system in europe and not get rid of it by closing the borders we have wanted to discuss now how to sort of get a more work a good working immigration system how to respect the system but solving one problem may create new ones switzerland has just held a nationwide referendum in which over half of its citizens decided to limit the amount of immigrants living and working there causing outrage from brussels and

threatening trade ties with the e.u. it's going off r.t. . and going to happen after a short break it's this week's business news in venture capital and after that we return to the site. a massive oil spill to stay with us. can find out how the residents of the u.s. city of mayflower are coping almost a year after environmental disaster struck them more still to come here on our key international.

transit road to vnukovo report you'll best way to the heart of moscow. to what extent being held here down the success of the arab spring depends on the people in that region on the arabs and to what extent it still depends on the big power brokers hard tight seal pursue that on edge and that the influence of the outside powers phase of getting gets stronger now because of the absence of a major country like egypt but i assure you the area will not be decided by iran over by turkey or by russia over by america a nd or europe in the absence of that a part of this region which is the out of work.

right from the sea. first try to use. and i do think that you're. on the record. welcome to the red caps it's been a wave of tensions that soldier with the swiss government voting for immigration limits that he used citizens which would be a keg except the country is probably in the e.u.

and enjoys advantages of free trade and this decision goes against the basic principles of the e.u. so we'll have analysis to come on that one and more tensions with britain's chancellor george osborne making it clear the scotland will not be able to break away from the u.k. as well as keep the pound me while the tensions on the streets of ukraine continue as the economic situation in ukraine. in the situation is in some way connected with our desire to be independent part of an economic unity on the political tensions a result from body so first of all it starts with person right ahead so as scotland gets set to decide if they want to go sorry and break away from the u.k. george osborne state city yes votes in the referendum which also made a yes to walking away from the pound this is a direct bloody to scotland.