the latest headlines in the week's top stories here on artsy international and i saw keep thrillers seals the show in song with arch rivals russia and big night states facing off in a close fall battle decided on penalties. carving up the world wide web german chancellor angela merkel proposed this creating a european network independence from the u.s. in a move aimed at resisted america's global surveillance. the russian pilot jailed in the u.s. says he's in the critical condition and may not live beyond the weekend pleas for medical intervention are ignored. also this week the second round of syrian peace talks has broken would be opposition pushing for regime change in the western

powers blaming president assad meanwhile serious conflict continues to spill over and soon lebanon. and your interview. with. artsy visits a radical stronghold where jihad this war says are trying to pawn assad government in syria. come and see life from the hearts of the russian capital this is artsy ensor national with me marina call sort of a. day nine of the winter olympics as in false way with results already coming from the ski slopes and four sets of metal still to be won and other disciplines well let's hear more now from an ace in our in our science in studio and the cell where we have to start with the ice hockey match last night russia was really close to

victory but seen us a home in the end can you tell us more about it because it definitely seems like the highlight of the olympics so far. well it had everyone on the edge of their seats a hard fought match played at relentless speed that of course ended in disappointment for russia after a penalty shoot out but there was also a dose of controversy with a late russian gold talked off by the referee. andrew farmer has more on why that's become such a talking point. 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 to complaint i don't think will though 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

a back inside who have lost both of their opening matches so russia 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 still a. this isn't a. question we deliver yet we just have to believe in them cheer for them. to come to the best no matter what i think we will score the best country and we have to have an issue now. c'mon guys don't let us down next time the whole of sochi the whole country is cheering for you oh russia. we'll be going back to the bolshoi this afternoon because the game against the back here starts at around about four thirty local time. now among the crowd were several senior russian officials cheering on the home side i caught up with one of them kremlin administration chief of staff surrogate if i'm not. included in cruel costs today wasn't

next week is going to was a good game i liked it 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 chap. elsewhere at the games russia is gaining momentum now fourth in the medal count having jumped from seventh yesterday thanks to gold medals in skeleton and sore tracks skating actually russia was in third place just this morning but fell behind norway which won the men's super giant slalom back down to a farmer on what russian athletes could be hoping for this sunday. they could be a few more medals today because we've got the relays and cross-country skiing. but

one thing i'd like to talk about is the fact we will see some of the greatest characters these olympics taking part in the bobsled that starts today russia's two man team includes a former world champion in arm wrestling. with alexander zuckoff and both of those are tipped to get a medal in this event we will also see that you may contain making an appearance after just over a decade the last time they were in the olympics he did probably the making of that cult film cool runnings but this time around it is the pairing of winston watts and marvin dixon who are flying the jamaican flag and they are loving every minute i love what you love the people who are there really love. you makes us feel like we're stars but you know stars is something that shines really bright which is a jamaica team in all of the you know across all obstacles and for our courtship.

not to concentrate on the obstacle that we pass concentrate on we're here in sochi also to look forward to today we have the resumption of figure skating and ice dancing and even though russians may not win this one it is a russian who's been coaching the favorite she might not have heard of the name of marino. she has been training the favorites of canada and america and they are fully aware how much she is help them achieve success we've been very fortunate to you know work with some of you know the russian talent and 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 of ice dance and the per day you intend to be to the canadians but we should not discount the russian interest in this that's led by a bit over and sylvia of so do you look out for them we are just over halfway aren't we at these olympics russia does have four gold medals that's one more than

they got in the entirety of the vancouver games and as i said there is a chance of more guns today. russian veteran figure skater you have any person call stole headlines this week with his last minute pull out from the men's short program he announced his retirement after suffering severe spinal playing during warm up warm up that das the hopes of millions of fans after his breathtaking and almost flawless performance in the team event where he helped to clinch its first gold at the sochi olympics years ago was russia's only single skater at the games and his decision triggered plenty of criticism we asked the gold winning figure skater maxime from called an ice hockey legend that's. what they think. we all have great respect for pollution coach she's a legend in our sport and a great example for many worldwide i think the fact that she came out and helped with the team gold given his condition is a heroic achievement. i want to take my hats off and tell him that he's the

greatest of athletes everything he went through and everything he achieved was unique few people in history could have equal to him. we're still only on day nine of course and there will be many more twists and turns. we'll be keeping you updated from our studio here in the host city back to moscow thank you very much and they said i was of course our season isa now way keeping us abreast of the games and the developments from our saucy studio well we've got all the latest on the action and the olympic city here and online as well you can head to or less section on our twitter feed there where you can find is actually tweets from the contestants and you can give them your feedback as well russia's whole could seem captain has tweeted his thanks to the many fans who have shown their supports now you're about to see a bible that soon thank you very much for thousands of messages and we will of course be keeping you up to date on all the olympic action right here on r.t.

. the g. twenty four do you promise the ultimate in exhilarating winter and. you say no way to make seven zero in on the first of all of these teams for sochi twenty four take. on. in other news now moscow as urging washington to ensure that a russian pilot jailed in the u.s. is given urgent medical treatments constants in your suncoast how it is critical but he has been refused access to a doctor or sees alexy at a chef school 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 lock up and left him on the cold floor while he was off or it was flu medication and some antibiotics 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 monday. also a federal holiday in the united states so my supposition would be that any kind of medical treatment to a constant in your i shan't go could be provided only on tuesday that i was arrested in twenty to and 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 something we are seeing repeated over and over again kind of arrogant attitude washington has toward other countries and particularly to other countries who are now. doing what washington wants to dictate

to them to do a presence 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 in moscow 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 so if you are has been absolutely police. 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 it. 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 doctors that is of course if you had a shank or himself lives to receive that help. so it's

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welcome back to artsy enter national we're concerned with other stories now that play violence and also radical ideology are spilling over the borders of war and torn syria and the country that's suffering the most as slap it on our seas

reference travel to a camp where islamist recruits are now 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 four cobhams killed dozens in beirut and the town of had a mill next to the syrian border the targets were a shia areas controlled by hizbollah lebanon's most influential force which also supports syrian president bashar assad we traveled to the northern city of tripoli a sunni stronghold vehemently opposed in his bella. growing and. it's appointed by. his villas 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 well today.

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. and they say. the unkind affiliated 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. 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 has been ludden a teacher and their fight jihad. went twenty three year old med returned from syria where he joined the free syrian army he continued his jihad here in lebanon. 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 first street in the city of tripoli separates the whites and so many neighborhoods in this part of north london are running like a merger between those who support the syrian president and his regime and those who want him out today we can't get loans with hashi's intention was. who do you fight against who is your enemy i am addicted to my fight against him for those 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 can do these can go outside she would see every day to raise a look at first told us that it doesn't take well you know for someone who is here experiencing become a real fighter. a week's training and you are in for a life time of obedience rosario rules for those who want to become one dr 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 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 as kashyap who introduced

himself as a tripoli sunni leader says many youths are willing to join the live by holding it from now until i grow up i'm ready to defend myself i'm ready to kill alawite and syrian army at your age and kill for the lever that are about to kill 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. the days of a free and open the world wide web could become birds with chancellor angela merkel calling for a separate communications network for europe she has been seeking ways to safeguard online data since a flood of revelations on u.s. dragnet surveillance started emerging last summer now under the current sets up a huge volume of internet data circulates along the same trunk routes often via the

united states so a message sent by one european official to another can have a long journey before reaching its destination passing through multiple points but the new scheme would allow communications to bypass the established routes at all for european web users better protection the german chancellor has also criticized internet giants for their practice of locates on their servers and countries with local levels of protection and undermining the privacy of their users she plans to discuss the measures with a french prize the place where the story. online for you right now climbing a one hundred twenty story building takes nerves of steel and that's what these guys clearly have in spades scaling china's tallest building with no safety gear and no permission you can see the full video and emotion section on our website. plus some machine stuck in the company humans in space and don't even need much

maintenance find out about harvard's latest report sick. tricks. so it's slow and may have jeopardized its access to the european single market after a nationwide referendum for emigration rules the new legislation contradicts longstanding agreements with brussels and some high ranking e.u. officials have now called for relations with the alpine nations to be reassigned switzerland's parliaments has three years to put the referendum results and. my colleague earlier discussed the issue with two m.e.p. . 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 it's

a 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 joe i see once again shaking your head oh 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 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 about immigration is just disgusting or would you have enjoyed your degree i'm here i'm now living here and i know you. know a lot i know it all of our. what you are a 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 think. you are or what i'm all paul you're on 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 whole of 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'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. borders with a point system if you've got the skills that this country needs yes come here what we won't allow to happen is that people.

are coming not from the your to come from your former you know what you don't that's your brother you. guys are. all right listen guys i'm going to. be all how to play nice and also let's share our toys joe the introduction of quotas for 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 their future and have their choice about do we have common roots and if you're member of a good up you followed the roots if you don't want to follow the rules then you have to leave the club quite simple and every club to it is the same thing despite criticism from brussels the swiss vote has boosted answering immigration movements across the continent with at least half a dozen far right european parts is calling for similar referendums in their countries almost half of germans want to see immigration reduced when it comes to

france seventy percent of the population feel there are too many foreigners in the country and now as you're about to see in britain the majority there want to follow and switzerland's footsteps meanwhile in norway a record number of immigrants were forced out of the country last year our cities are going to skin off reports on 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 constant attacks by teenage immigrant again. 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 and go to the hospital today three out of four students at the local school are of foreign descent vast energy exports brought norway 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 not get rid of it by closing the borders we have wanted to discuss now how to sort of get a more working working immigration system how to respect the system but solving one

problem may create new ones switzerland has just held a mission wide 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 to of r.t. . and briefly can now add some other news making headlines around the world this hour clashed. have erupted between kurdish demonstrators and police and several towns across turkey the confrontations turned violent as officers used tear gas and water cannons to break up the crowd she 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. and we're getting live pictures right now from ukraine where opposition protesters have left the page off the city council in the capital kiev they've also and that there are scenes of at least four regional government buildings fall and amnesty deal with

the government for those arrests that government why it's and you can see what's happening right there right now as we're shine a live picture as the opposition were required to move out of all the buildings by monday under the terms of the amnesty. up next the taste of life on board the legendary arctic ice breaker to stay with us. transit through to the. best way to the heart of most.

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