make seven zero in the last of our lives take news team for sochi twenty four would say. all odds. the latest headlines and the week's top stories here on r t international and eyes talk history in the home side takes on slovakia just the day after a dramatic loss against archrivals team usa. fracturing the world wide web german chancellor angela merkel proposes creating a european internet network that would shield users thing for america's role of all surveillance. and you really think people. would argue that the. party goes behind rebel lines in lebanon on the where jihad to kill all the muslims at home and across the border in syria.

you watch now and see international what may marina call serve all welcome to the program they know ion over the winter olympics is in full swing and right now all eyes are on the action happening at the bolshoi. they're also known as hawk it seem as taken on slovakia as we speak well let's find out more from our correspondent paul scott who is in salt tonight where is he there we go here you go also another tough and counterpoint seem russia of the game as happening it's been going on now for over an hour where are we at so. well i think it's fair to say that things on necessarily going to plan for russia right now many people predicting a positive response after yesterday's heartbreaking defeat to the usa but it is currently goalless against other relative minnows. entering in to the third and final period and it's just going from bad to worse for the host as well with. an

injury so it's really not going the way that many people would have predicted and so. many people in and around sochi one thing and the other much i can tell you in group a the usa needs slovenia by four goals to nil while many observers are saying that yesterday's match between the usa and russia was one of the most thrilling in olympic history and we still do have the prospect of the two sides going head to head later on in the competition in a medal match they all remain the favorites along with canada and sweden russia star who enjoyed a successful career in the n.h.l. so that says that this ice hockey competition promises to be one of the most open and exciting in years. hockey is the main event. no i don't care what anybody said about people getting or who took all the respect and other sports about hockey because you've got so many superstars to play and to play to get to shelter so it's not every time you can see. around the wall playing it's like i want couple soccer

and the players to come and play and to be proud of their country so i think it's a make kind of historic event. and paul will get back to just a second let's take a look at the medals council see where russia stands because elsewhere at the games the country is actually gaining momentum it's now fourth and the medal count haven't jumped from seventh this time yesterday to gold medals in the skeleton and the short track speed skating events well let's go back to paula now and find out where russia has its latest success so quite a turnaround paul for the hosts after a slow start it seems at the games. and they've added to their tally as well on sunday russia picked up a silver medal in the cross-country skiing in the men's really really event before by ten k. was there's more hopes for medals later in the season olga felt cool enough is going for her third medal of the sochi twenty fourteen winter olympics you already has two silvers to her name and is looking to add to that in the women's fifteen

hundred meter speedskating in the arena also tonight the figure skating continues with the start of the ice dance program the russia all hoping for a medal though they're not the favorites goes to of the usa in town and both players are actually trained by a russian marine is a wave and they're delighted to have her on board. 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 ice dance. well that ice dance competition starts and not just around and i was talking all right our tease paul scott i got us all the latest from of course what we talk and see later on throughout the evening and frank thank you for about bill actually pick news now and talk about a russian veteran figure skater you have any pollution who stole the headlines this

week with his last minute pull out from the men's short program here and now says retirements have to suffer in severest. final pains are in training that dash the hopes of millions of fans after his breathtaking and almost flawless performance in the team events where he helped russia to clinch its first gold at the sancerre lympics pollution co was russia's only single skater at the games and his decision triggered plenty of criticism we asked the goldwyn in figure skating maxime turned golf and i saw king legend which is life itself what they thought we all have great respect for pollution cold he's a legend in our sport in a great example for many worldwide i think the fact that he came out and helped win the team gold given his condition is a heroic achievement. i want to take my hat off to me and tell him that he's the greatest of athletes everything he went through and everything he cheve was unique few people in history could have equal to him and you can stay updated on all the

olympic action by head into our website r.t. dot com and you can also follow us on sweats or because in our feed study you can find out what the athletes are thinking and in fact you can have a say yourself because the you can actually see and voice your opinion on their performance now as you're about to see will hear from the team captain of the hockey super and there he says thank you very much for thousands of messages and your support from saatchi with love and we will of course be bringing you the latest news from sanchia right here on artsy. g twenty fourteen promises the ultimate in exhilarating winter sports and. joining us now a make over now and the rest of our late news team for sochi twenty four takes. on alt. that's more other news now german chancellor angela merkel is proposing to

break up the world wide web by creates a pan european network she wants to prevent snooping from across the atlantic and the move comes after revelations from edward snowden showed that europe has long been it's hard for u.s. intelligence. reports the german chancellor is interested in effectively building up a european communication network to avoid e-mails and other data passing through the united states now it's not a separate internet so to speak but more of a way to prevent e-mails and other data from being harvested by u.s. intelligence agencies now this is just an idea at this point and it is one that merkel will certainly be discussing with the french president when they meet in france on wednesday merkel said also this weekend that she basically just approved of companies like google and facebook basing their operations in countries with low levels of data protection while being active in countries such as germany where

data protection is quite high this is been a very sensitive issue here in germany mr merkel has faced sharp criticism in the wake of the n.s.a. spy scandal for basically failing to take decisive action according to her critics to protect german users from surveillance of internet telecommunications traffic that's alleged to have been conducted by u.s. and british intelligence services it's also of course a personal issue for her to some extent remember that miss merkel's cell phone was reportedly monitored but this idea of mine traffic effectively bypassing the united states isn't unique to europe in fact brazil along with several international partners is also currently in the process of trying to build an undersea fiber optics communications cable that would do just that it would basically reroute its online traffic directly to europe skipping essentially the u.s. and it's more than just an idea it's a one hundred eighty five million dollars project construction on which. is slated to begin in july and of course in brazil that also does tie back to revelations

that washington had been aggressively spying on brazilian officials including the president since those leaks have been made public brazil have made internet security and communications a priority so not just to europe they're trying to find ways to to effectively bypass the united states whether or not those proposals will really amount to any sort of concrete construction or policy changes here in europe of course is a matter of time. and still to come in the program ignite saying the debates. coming from to your to come from your film i know you don't that's your bro you go see the brochure was controller years old as well we're bringing you the showdown between european officials over immigration issues that have been on the minds of many in the block ahead of the european parliamentary elections.

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back but no peace deal inside for syria the violence is increasingly spilling over its borders and to neighboring countries lebanon's been hit the hardest with sub-saharan divisions they're now threatening to grow and so full blown civil war artist or a financial reports from behind lebanese rebel lines or jihad this are being bred for battle. as the syrian conflict rages on neighboring lebanon faces a dramatic increase in sectarian violence in january alone four cobhams killed dozens in beirut and in the town of hebron mel 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 opposed in his bella. calling and. it's appointed by. his well as 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 days recent deadly bombings just days

before a man calling himself and al qaida commander announced. 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 qaida 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 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 merger between those who support the syrian president and his regime and those who want him out today we can't get loans with cash this intention was. who do you fight against who is your enemy i'm addicted to my fight against them 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 will come to these camps

outside you will see every day to raise a little girl loves her stole their said and i will take well you know someone who is here and spearing become a real fighter. a week's training and you are in for a life time of obedience growth over your 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 hard as the yard who introduced himself as a tripoli sunni leader says many youths are willing to join the live e-mail from now until i grow up i'm ready to defend myself i'm ready to kill alawite and syrian army and you're ready to kill for the lever that are about to kill we here and while the syrian conflict expands

a legion of fighters on to his deadly weapons and an even deadly ideology is on the rise. from lebanon on. the u.s. government is going green as were reports on our websites the released american regulations and to help license market want to shoppers the old with bags which have been reluctant to work with the controversial businesses read the full story on artsy dot com. also online for you to see expired soviet spy satellite that's fallen back to earth remnants of the system that failed to burn up on ri and three are expected to crash somewhere on the globe but no one knows exactly where all. right the sea. first trip. and i would think that you're.

on our reporters were there in. the in the. moscow as the man being immediate medical treatments for russian pilot jailed in america constance in the coast wife and his lawyer say he's fighting for his life behind bars or your own birth 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 when he felt sick they put him in lock up and left him on the cold floor all he was offered was flu medication and some antibiotics monday you know it's also a federal holiday in the united states so my supposition would be that a new kind of medical treatment to constantine your friend go could be provided

only on tuesday. constance and he was arrested in liberia in two thousand and ten on suspicion of drug smuggling which he denies he was then flown so they do weis and sentenced to twenty years in prison russia called the extradition a kidnapping and has support of the claims all in a sense and to war activist brian becker says the case highlights america's this respect for basic human rights this is something we see repeated over and over again the kind of arrogant attitude washington has toward other countries and particularly to other countries for not. doing what washington wants to dictate to them to do the prisons system in the united states has been no terror are notoriously. disregarding of the rights of prisoners even the most fundamental rights including the right to to live switzerland has the saga to jeopardize its

axis to the european single market in favor of backing tougher immigration rules and the nationwide referendum the new legislation invalidates longstanding agreements with brussels causing some high ranking in your official circle for a reassessment of relations so it's once parliament's has three years to put the referendum results and said law earlier my colleague rory singh shaved the scots the issue with 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 and 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 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 certified five 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 us three was upset with this very slight majority because of the need to end this whole phobia about immigration is just disgusting. i mean you have enjoyed your degree i'm here i'm now living here. at all of our. britain what a lot of jobs have been done by the polish were in your. view ever that. you or your industry is totally different or. just a mild to moderate a quote of. yours or whatever of all your own gone 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 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 to pieces them if you've got the skills that this country needs yes come here and wear what we won't allow to happen is the people who have eastern you are all that you feel is the. point you are tall enough going to have been better control. coming not from the you are to come from your former and nobody don't that's your bro you can see that bruce use control. try ok you are all those alright listen guys i'm going to jump in jersey 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 do we have common roots and if you're member of a club you follow the roots if you don't want to follow the rules then you have to leave the club it's quite simple and every club to it is the same thing. now let's go straight to our world here on art see for this hour in egypt's rest of sinai peninsula at least three south koreans and the boss driver have been killed by an explosion official say the vehicle was traveling from a local monastery to nearby what it was attacked fourteen other tourists are said to have been injured militants in the region have been increasing their attacks since egypt's president morsy was toppled by the country's military last july. six people have been the rest of the in the u.k.

after police called in and she fracking rallies to lead their example sites activists at the bar to the camp have been campaigning for the past few months against drilling for shell gas in the area recently energy company i gas was granted permission to explore potential energy reserves beneath the ground with proton sers raising the alarm over its effects on the environment. have erupted between corridors than was traitors and police in several towns across turkey the confrontation strewn violence as officers used tear gas and water cannons to break up the crowds who fought back with fire bombs and draw the rallies were staged to mark fifteen years since a kurdish leader was jailed for life for treason. a bomb explosion on a train in southwest pakistan has killed at least eight people and one that's twenty although there's the blast call several wagons to do rail and that makes

separatist groups operating in the area say they carried out the attack last week the same insurgents blew up three gas pipelines cuts enough supplies to millions of homes. almost a year after a burst pipeline in central arkansas calls the massive oil spill people in the area are still dealing with the aftermath officials say their homes are safe to live in but locals claim they are suffering from nausea and this in this from inhaling talk sense on a daily basis for them moving away is easier said than done as far as he's going to found out. almost a year after two hundred thousand gallons of heavy crude spilled onto their streets residents of mayflower in arkansas are striving to leave the town here in mayflower for sale signs are everywhere almost every house on the street is on sale before the spill this was a place where people wanted to move in to enjoy the beautiful nature around many

didn't even know there was a pipeline running on their houses and now they just want out many have already left and jerrel one of them i tried to stay here i tried to just be away you know as much as i could but if it rained i could not stay here because it would all see through the the all again you know out there where the ground was dry it would kind of i guess in case it in when it rained all those vapors would come back in she says like many other residents of mayflower she started having constant headaches and coughing after the spill i have friends that live just behind me that are still here that don't have a place to go they have just small children you don't have to look at the kids in in twenty years when they get to find out something's wrong and they say well why didn't we leave mom when everybody healthfully well some people just aren't able to pick up and leave like that exxon wrote back to us saying that a unified command comprised of exxon representatives as well as officials from the

state and federal environmental services has deemed all areas affected by the mayflower spill now safe to live in but many of the residents don't buy it and their homes are not selling i would say that the number of homes sold in mayflower has dropped at least fifty sixty percent but arkansas spill is only a fraction of annual pipeline leaks it's estimated that between two thousand and eight and two thousand and twelve u.s. pipeline spilled an average of more than three point one million gallons of hazardous liquids per year plans for the keystone x.l. pipeline a massive project that would. from canada soil since two refineries in texas have caused many to worry that they may become collateral damage in the way of big oil like the residents of mayflower arkansas there's a lot of us that have been forgotten or were just collateral damage in mayflower i'm going to check on our team coming up the former head of the arab league gives

his unique insights on the future of face and egypt that some worlds apart right here on our c international. transit route to vnukovo report you'll best way to the heart of moscow.

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to see. first street. and i were being butchered. on our reporter's twitter. and instagram. to be in the cold blood on my. own to welcome two worlds apart it's been three years since the arab spring at bam that big convention whatever in the middle east three years of high hopes and bitter disappointments of peaceful rallies and violent clashes of precarious peace

and a full. blong war three years on is the middle east closer to democracy that it was before the revolution well to discover that now and joined by the former secretary general of the arab league amr moussa mr melissa thank you very much for your time thank you now three years ago you sided with the attacker a square protesters calling for political changes in egypt comparing the hopes you have backed down both for ajab and for the region as a whole to what has happened since do you now feel proud disappointed or maybe both the. one you call it the arab spring i believe the it is a misnomer it is a movement for change it is a revolution against the old order so we have entered to even be out of the world in the middle east. have entered already a new phase in the.