transit routes. your best way to the heart of moscow. an ice hockey thriller steals the show in sochi with arch rivals russia and the united states facing off in a close fought battle the side of on penalties. and a russian pilot jailed in the u.s. says he's in a critical condition and may not live beyond the weekend while boss his pleas for medical intervention argue north. also this week the second round of syrian peace talks has broken off with the opposition pushing for regime change and western powers blaming president asif meanwhile serious conflict interviews to spill over into lebanon. and your interview. with piers r.t. visits a radical stronghold where jihadist forces are trained to fight the awesome government

in syria. which we are here to national coming to you live from moscow i'm marina joshie welcome to the program and it's day nine of the winter olympics that is in full swing where the results are already coming in from the ski slopes and four sets of medals to be won and their disciplines well going across live chinese an hour away who is an hour or such a studio well and he said the hockey game stole the show last night tell us more about it. the hockey games don't call him any bigger than bat and eagerly awaited clash between two great rivals fast and full of suspense to say the least in a dose of controversy as well it ended in disappointment for russians. fans after

a nail biting penalty shoot out but it was just a group stage russia still has everything to play for let's bring in our andrew farmer andrew tell us more about that chalk off third goal. yeah well it was an interesting talking point wasn't it essentially what olympics officials have said is this look if the goal posts are moved off their moorings before the puck goes in the goal is disallowed that's exactly what happened so there is not much room for complaint i don't think although there is plenty of room for disappointment having gone on to lose three two in that penalty shootout but i don't think russia should be too despondent after all they remain on course to reach the second round to remain second place in their group and later today they will play this attack inside who have lost both of their opening matches so russia a fully expected to win i'm not too pessimistic and neither were many of the fans we spoke to. just a little much 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 but it's been a. this isn't the last game russia will deliver yet we just have to believe in them who can cheer for the. new bulb in the mask no matter what little score the best country we had had an issue now. c'mon guys don't let us down next time the whole of sochi the whole country is cheering for you all russia. and those fans no doubt will be going back to the bolshoi this afternoon because the game against novak here starts at around about four thirty local time. thanks sandie how great would it be if we saw the red machine in team usa meet again in the final such a roller coaster of emotion here for russian fans and everyone top and for souls included for the russian team kremlin administration to. sergei ivanov has been

cheering on the home team and he told me that he thinks team russia is still firmly in the running. including. cruel costs if today wasn't tough 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. those penalty shots it's like a lottery you're never guess and besides the game didn't mean much from the final standings point to russia still has a very good chance with us. well where the game is russia is gaining momentum it's now fourth in the medals count having jumped from seven this time yesterday thanks to gold medals in skeleton and the short track speed skating actually russia was in third place just an hour ago but fell behind norway which is just one of the medals super giant slalom back to andrew farmer now in the mountain cluster quite

a turnaround for russia fourth place for the medal stand it was quite a slow start though at the games. it was wasn't it but it could pick up again today just to build on what happened yesterday and we have relay team to russia going in the biathlon and cross-country skiing so you keep your eye on that and also the start of the bobsled i always love this event because we do you get to see some great characters for example in russia's two man team we have a former world champion arm wrestler intellects to be avoided and also we will see the reappearance of jamaican who were last at these games just over a decade ago that prompted the making of the cult film cool runnings i'm not sure if you remember that but this time around we have winston wants marvin dixon flying the jamaican flag and they are relishing every moment. i love i love the people there they're real love. makes us feel like we're stars but you know stars is

something that shines really bright which is that to make it seem be all of the you know across all obstacles and will for our cause. not to concentrate on the obstacle that we concentrate on we're here in sochi. we'll figure skating also regimes with ice dancing today and even though russians may not win it . he's a russian he was coaching the favorites you may not have heard of marino do that but she's training the canadians on the americans who are to get gold and silver and they fully appreciate the help that she's given them. we've been very fortunate to you know work with some of you know the russian talent in ice dancing you know we take from marina's wave and we feel very fortunate to have learned the wonderful things we have that have come out of you know the great russian history and i stand. so we are just over halfway through these games aren't we in russia

has four gold medals that won more than they got in the entire banking game so things are looking good in the could be more as i said. and cross country skiing. that's right it's a busy sunday year thirty twenty fourteen and former live from the mountain cluster peruvian skier robert. has become an inspiration for many of these olympics despite suffering a broken rib and a respiratory infection he was determined to compete against all odds in the end the forty three year old finished last with time nearly twice the time of swiss gold winner. but the two congratulated each other on the finish line of that spoke to our kevin owen right here in our sochi studio. it was a very very tough race for me it was a long one i was expecting way given the broken injuries.

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 usually just. to explain to all of you if you go here with a broken rib before you got to sochi to also be a bit of a bug. because well which is it but you're still determined to go on without race your competitors when you got over the finish line eventually there you have rallied around you didn't yeah if you refer to her. decided to go. 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 or. being great i'm so happy that people got

a story. while definitely one of the great feel good stories from these olympics so far we're still only on day nine of course and there will be many more twists and turns so we'll be keeping you updated from our studio here in the olympic host city back to moscow all right andy thank you so much for bringing us this update from the olympic capital so much and of course as you said we'll be keeping our viewers up to date and give them the latest developments as to what's happening in the olympic city there are of course here and here are national and online of our team dot com and also do you have to do the list section and our twitter feed and there you can find tweets from the contestants themselves and also give them feedback if you like russia's hockey team captain has tweeted his sayings to the many fans who have shown their support and of we will of course be keeping you up to date on all the olympic action here on t.

international so do stay with us for this in a more. g. twenty fourteen promises the ultimate in the exhilarating winter. storm you see no way to make seven zero in the rest of our lives take these teams for sochi twenty four take. on arts. moscow is urging washington to ensure that a russian pilot jailed in the u.s. is given urgent medical treatment constantini or shank his 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 experienced heart pain and was

almost unable to walk and he felt sick they put him in lockers and left him on the cold floor while he was offered 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 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 ten 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 asked for other countries and particularly to other countries for nat. doing what washington wants to dictate to do a presence system in the united states has no terror notoriously. disregarding

of the rights of prisoners even the most fundamental rights including the return to live moscow has been insisting all along that the way you know shankar's 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 things 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 as that is of course if you know shanker himself lives to receive that help alexi russia.

well still to come on the program swiss support for tighter immigration rules sparks a heated debate in the. people are coming not from the you're to come from your home i know you have to own set your ball you can control it you. and i will be reporting on the shock waves and sending it across the block build up to the european parliamentary elections. the world. series technology innovation all the lives developments from around russia we've got the future covered. there's a media leave us so we leave the media. by the same bush and security for your party isn't the. issue is that no one is asking with the guests that you

deserve answers from it's all on politicking only on our t.v. . dramas that try to ignore true. stories others use in the same. places change the world right. to picture. from around the globe. promptly. welcome back you're watching r t international deadly violence and also radical ideology are spilling over the borders of war torn syria and the country that's suffering the most is lebanon and travel to

a camp where islamist recruits are being prepared and here's what she saw. as the syrian conflict rages on neighboring lebanon faces a dramatic increase in sectarian violence in january alone for kabul killed dozens in beirut and the town of headmen next to the syrian border the targets were a shia areas controlled by hizbollah lebanon's latest influential force which also supports syrian president bashar assad we traveled to the northern city of tripoli a sunni stronghold demon to oppose in his bella visible mess of corners. and 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 there's lots

of. 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 an al qaida commander announced via you tube that the group had put down groups in lebanon are 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 lebannon but in america britain serbia here radical ideas of bread from

a young age. fighters here call and card is 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 failed on that street by street in the city of tripoli separates the whites and sunni neighborhoods in this part of not 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. cacheris intention was. who do you fight against who is your enemy i am logic would be my fight against the infidels those 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 here for someone with zero experience become a real fighter. a week's training and you are in for a life time of obedience the growth of. dean 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 lek 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 as kashyap who introduced

himself as a tripoli sunni leader says many youths are willing to join the blood even that from now until i grow up i'm ready to defend myself i'm ready to kill ellen whites and syrian army and your rights are killed for the better part of it out of the about the world we hear 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 meanwhile in geneva a second round of syrian peace talks has failed to produce a result i'm very very sorry and i apologize to the syrian people. in a press conference here and mediator lakhdar brahimi apologised to a civilian sufferings rugby on result conflict the warring sides remained locked in a stalemate with the government wanting to focus on combat and terrorism in syria

and the opposition refusing to set aside they are calls for us to to step down jonathan steele a columnist for britain's guardian newspaper says one of the key obstacles to peace is the foreign aid being provided to syria's rebels. it's hard for sides to admit the taste and all this money in treasure and lost lives for not getting victory and so there is still cling to that hope gazing at the top of my sink with the un pressure from me and if the regional countries start to convincing 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 in reverting to being what it should be just an internal problem among siblings. well line for you right now climbing our one hundred twenty story building takes nerves of steel well that's what these guys clearly have in spades scaling china's tallest building with no safety gear and no permission to conceive

will be used in motion section on our web site. plus machines that can accompany humans in space and don't even need much maintenance find out about harvard's latest robotic creations. which run may have jeopardized its axis to the rypien single market after a nationwide referendum backed tougher immigration rules the new legislation 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 results into law by calling to share earlier discuss the issue with two peace. 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 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 swiss industry today industry was upset with this very slight majority because they need to end this whole phobia about immigration is just disgusting. i mean if you have enjoyed your degree i'm here i'm outta here. well you know a lot i don't want to. go on a. lot of jobs that have been done by the polish well in your.

view or your industry is totally different. just to my best to carry water in a corner where. guys hold your own handgun firstly let's not use look some bag 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 looks 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 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 control our own borders with a point system if you've got the skills that this country needs yes come here where we won't allow to happen it's the people who have eastern europe. and if it's. not

going to have been better control. coming not from the you're to come from your farm i know you don't that's your brother you guys your brochures control. or at least our guys are going to join train journey all the money so we all have to play nice and all of that share our toys 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 their choice about to be have common roots and if you get up you followed the rules if you don't want to follow the rules then you have to leave the club that's quite simple and every club it is the same thing. everything look now at some other stories making news around the world 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. as europe is seeking to bolster its digital the finances angela merkel has called for a separate communications network that would prevent e-mails and other data from being harvested amassed by u.s. intelligence the german chancellor has also criticized internet giants for their practice of basing their service in the countries with low levels of protection and undermining the privacy of their users she plans to discuss the measures with the french president later this week. it is whale of police used tear gas and crowds of opponents and supporters of the president as dueling rallies once again brought mayhem to central caracas a week of streatham rest has already seen four people killed in the eastern part of the capital hundreds of youngsters protesting over the deaths of two students at a demonstration resume douro has announced

a police manhunt for the hardline opposition leader leopoldo office who he blames for orchestrating the worst of the government's addressed since last year's post-election rides coming up in our national big stream job of getting medical help to nomadic families in russia's far north. the alleged phone call between the assistant secretary of state and the u.s. ambassador to ukraine has created quite a controversy in the call like smug british colonisers casually sipping tea and africa that basically say that that need of bucks to fill he's not fit for the government of the of the needs of the bold and become prime minister they also mention getting the help of the un to get this thing glued whatever that means although the authenticity of this phone call has not been confirmed but certainly

hasn't been denied this reminds me a lot of the snowden leaks independent journalists for years had been writing about government spying but it took a snowden to shove it into people's faces and confirm that it was really going on we've heard from people like ron paul jesse ventura and many journalists that the u.s. state department uses a horde of international grant receivers and local political organizations to try to consciously and directly control sovereign nations and overthrow regimes they don't like and this phone call is legit then is the same level of undeniable evidence that snowden brought to the table to be fair during the cold war i could kind of see the justification to meddle in other countries so the soviets would create world communism but now who is the enemy that justifies a ukrainian regime change there is no such anime a fascist my opinion. yes

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