and i saw the thriller steals a show in sochi with arch rivals russia and the united states facing off in a close fought battle decided on penalties. a 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. also this week the second round of syrian peace talks has broken off with the opposition pushing for regime change in western powers blaming president asad meanwhile serious conflict in team used to spill over into lebanon and your interview. with his. party visit a radical stronghold word jihad us forces are trained to fight yasser government in syria.

i am in the russian capital and watching r t international with me arena josh well it promises to be an action packed sunday and sochi with five sets of medals up for grabs but russian fans are reeling from the disappointment of saturday's nerve racking ice hockey match against the u.s. and it was a dramatic encounter with its fair share of controversy artist paul scott was their . 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 sides russia captain pavel datsyuk led by. 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 before that 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 eventual 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 saying they paid score we score weeks where they scored. so it was it was a good game as

a hard fought battle by both 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 the crowd's behind. against you to play in front of such a rowdy crowd like so much noise and so much buzz and it was it was really fun and as 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 r.t. 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. question we believe yet we just have to believe in the cheer for them. to come to the masses no matter what little school. the best country we had to have

a machine. even if there were some guys don't let us down next time the whole sochi the whole conference during. 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 bed if this deal would and there were concerns over whether russian captain possible 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 or the sophie shevardnadze asked russian hockey legend of about the training the players need to perform consistently at the top level when you play against against the best teams from cat other from the u.s. and in sweden from czech republic's like his insolence or most of the guys these days players play hockey in the best they can award and that's likely in the north america and in the in that the players are getting shorter and better because of the competition got to prove yourself every single night when you step on the ice

and for many many years now despite this our back end of the hockey russia has seen some major breakthrough as 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 administration chiefs are given off has been cheering on the home side and he told our teams and he's now way that the fans need to put the last behind them including . cruel costs if today wasn't next week they're going to close 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 get never guess and besides the game didn't mean much from the final standings point of view russia still has

a very good chance yes. and proven skier roberto carr salon has become an inspiration for many as the olympics despite suffering a broken rib and the respiratory infection he was determined to compete against the odds and in the end the forty three year old finish last was time nearly twice the time of the swiss gold winner diary of colonia but the two congratulated each other on the finishing line carson spoke to kevin owen and it 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 goal winner or gold medal winner floyd usually 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 your competitors 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 trace he competed. there read appreciate it i've been getting a lot of feedback from media from a hundred emails so far from people i never met. 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. he's been great i'm so happy that people got a story now the slopes of saatchi may be an olympic battleground right now but they promise to become a popular skiing destination after the games are over we sent our teams martin anderson the such mountain cluster to try out the snow. what goes up must come down there's no better way to see the beautiful caucasus mountains consuming 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 that cross and i probably on a totally transformed area of this month's unlimited opening this is just beautiful it's been fun we came up skiing the other day a couple days of 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 same three position was pushed forward on the first foot that i thought was the direction i should go if you 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 seas

not to them breeze. was easy more then there's trying the slopes there and though we have chorus here and here national i've got all the action on our website r.t. dot com you can follow our twitter feed to get the very latest updates from the olympic capital and there you can find the tweets from the contestants and give them your feedback if you like or russia's hockey team captain has tweeted his thanks to the matty fans have shown their support and we will of course be keeping you up to date on all the olympic action here on our team or national to stay with us. the g. twenty fourteen promises the ultimate in the exhilarating winter sports in our. journey and you see no way to make seven zero in on the rest of our lives take news team for sochi twenty four take. on. now russia is urging washington to ensure that a russian pilot jailed in the u.s.

is given urgent medical treatment constantini are shank his health is critical but he has been refused access to a doctor or dislikes or chesky 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 a heart attack because he told me he was suffocating experience and heart pain and was almost unable to walk when he felt sick they put him in lock up and left him on the cold floor while he was off for the most flu medication and some antibiotics 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 monday. 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 you know it 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 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 prisons system in the united states has no terror are notoriously. disregarding of the rights of prisoners even the most fundamental rights including the right to to live. mosco has been insisting all along that the way your case has been handled regardless of whether he committed the crime or not is a gross violation of human rights probably very beginning key so if you're a shrink it has been absolutely. we have expressed very serious concern 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 us 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're a shanghai himself lives to receive that help. and still going the program swiss support for tighter immigration rules sparks a heated debate and the e.u. . people are coming out from to your to come from your film i know you don't that's your book you go see the brochures control articles as. i will be reporting on the shock waves ascending across the bloc in the build up to the european parliamentary elections.

to what extent being held the success of the arab spring depends on the people in the region on the arabs and to what extent it still depends on the big power brokers hard to see pursue that on the agenda the influence of the outside powers he's getting stronger now because of the absence of a major country like egypt but i assure you. be decided by by turkey or by russia over by america. in the absence of the read part of this region which is the out of world. wealthy british style sun it's time to. go.

to. markets. find out what's really happening to the global economy for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines to name two kinds of reports on our to. welcome back to watching our senior national a deadly violence and also radical ideology are spilling over the borders of war torn syria and a country that's suffering the most is lebanon artie's marie for national traveled to camp were islamist recruits are being prepared and here's what she saw. it. was the syrian conflict rages on neighboring lebanon faces a dramatic increase in sectarian violence in january alone four kabul was killed dozens in beirut and the town of hederman 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 oppose in his bella visible in the midst of corners. and it's a party by. his well as military involvement in syria is believed to have given damascus the the 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 well today i do. 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 to 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 call a 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 and. target the district where she'll leave tripoli is divided into sunni and shia

parts ironically by the street called syria two years ago we filmed on that street by street in the city of tripoli separates the whites 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 we can't get loans hashi's intention was. who do you fight against who is your enemy i'm a jew who did i fight against him for those fellows who don't carry that for 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 further on. 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. it will come to this camp

outside you will see every day to raise a look at first told us that it doesn't take well you know we have someone who is your experience become a real fighter. a week's training and you are in for a life time of obedience the growth of real rules for those who want to become ones i deem 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 live in that from now until i grow up i'm ready to defend myself i'm ready to kill a whites and syrian army and you're ready to kill for that other than about about 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 refuel schnaase he from lebanon now in geneva a un mediator alive dar brigade me 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 wanting to focus on combat and terrorism in syria and the opposition refusing to set aside their calls for acid 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 it's hard for sides to admit it to spend all this money in treasure and lost lives for not getting victory and so there is still clinging to that hope the casing of the top of my sink with the u.n. pressure from a photography me and it's the regional countries. convincing government and the

opposition that they must make a deal and it doesn't that would help but it also means cutting back on home supplies and all these jihadi fighters going in and stopping it being a proxy war in reverting to being what it should be just an internal problem among siblings now u.k. authorities are alarmed to 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 is arguably boy who 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 school mata's avenue 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 tried to 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 that have been involved in be saying and execution of fellow rebels while residents of ma says adding you come to terms with the 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 online for you right now client a a one hundred twenty story building takes nerves of steel and that's what these

guys clearly have been spades scaling china's tallest building with no safety gear and no permission can see the full video in the emotion section on our website plus . machines that can accompany humans in space and don't even need much maintenance find out about latest robotic creations at r.t. don't call. it what you want may have jeopardized its access to the european single market after a nationwide referendum back tougher immigration rules the new legislate. contradicts longstanding agreements with brussels and some high ranking e.u. officials have now told for relations with the alpine nation to be reassessed switzerland's parliament has three years to put the referendum result into law and my colleague earlier discussed the issue with two m. 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 do for them i wish we could do the same in our own country joe i 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 have certified percent of foreigners deliveries it very well because luxembourg is a growing economy growing service sector and you have seen the reaction of service industry today in the three was upset with this very slight majority because of the need to. hold phobia ration is just disgusting as i mean you have ensured us that we are. going to go. out all of our.

lot of jobs that have been done by the polish 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 live look from back 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't get work it makes no sense whatsoever to saturate 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. with a point system if you've got the skills that this country needs yes. what we won't allow to happen is that people have eastern europe. and if it's going to all we're

told no money. coming not from the you are to come from your for my you know what it's own that's your bro you. all right listen to guys i'm going to jump in and just. be over how to play. with all that share odd choice joe the introduction of quotas for foreigners would all be create more job opportunities for the swiss themselves i mean that's that's a good thing isn't it every country should choose their future and have that choice about to be have common roots and if you get up if you follow the roots if you don't want to follow the roots then you have to leave the club quite simple and everything up it is the same thing. and a brief look now at some other stories from around the world in venezuela police used tear gas and crowds of opponents and supporters of the president as doing rallies once again brought mayhem to central caracas and we have streamed on

brassed has already seen a scene four people killed in eastern part of the capital hundreds of youngsters protested over the deaths of two students at a demonstration president has announced a police manhunt for the hardline opposition leader leopoldo lopez who he blames for orchestrating the worst anti-government unrest since last year's post-election riots. well several hundred far right protesters upheld a march in the western czech city of carlevaro the activists many of whom were bussed in from germany gathered to commemorate the anniversary of the world war two bombing of dresden and the strangers held a memorial and lit torches while dozens of police officers were deployed to secure the area the rally sparked a counter demonstration with banners reading nazis out of our town. clashes have erupted between kurdish demonstrators and police in several towns across turkey the confrontations turned violent as officers used tear gas and water

cannon to break up the crowds who fought back with fire bombs and rocks the rallies were staged to mark fifteen years since a kurdish leader was jailed for life for treason. violent storms have whipped northwest france killing one man and leaving a hundred thousand homes without electricity the elderly victim slipped on board a cruise liner being buffeted by powerful winds off the coast of brittany six regions across the northwest have been placed on high alert. i'll be back with news team in just over half an hour and before that it's our documentary on why more american women than ever buying firearms.

well. science technology innovation all the list of elements around russia we've got the future covered. it's. there are approximately over two hundred eighty million licensed firearms in

the united states of america female owner seem to be more and more common today one in five americans own at least one firearm a phenomenon which didn't exist thirty years ago. i'm not a girl that's for a big and to have a few pieces but i don't wear a lot of it and that what we do together as a family is collect and target she. the right to carry a gun is supported by the second amendment of the constitution established in seventeen ninety one by james madison after the war of independence. free circulation of guns was one of the first laws put in place by the revolution. areas . even if the time of war has ended for many americans carrying a firearm remains and in a right as important as freedom of religion or expression. turned around and i. am not the same problem or anti. drug.

paradoxically while crime levels have lowered since two thousand and five the sale of guns keeps on rising. the subject divides american society with the pro arms on one side and i'm tired arms on the other. consequently each state has their own legislation for regulating the sale and carrying of guns the twenty seven states in red on the map have lenient laws the twenty three grey ones are more repressive america is divided into. more and more american women think that being armed is the same as being free. single women mothers retiree's for them buying a pistol is as natural as doing the washing some are real enthusiastic. i have been saving up and i have sacrificed something to be able to have the money to get the gun that i want what is their motivation.