latest headlines in the week's top stories in our international fans in sochi celebrate russia's shootout victory over supply over slovakia in ice hockey after last night's disappointing loss to our tribals team usa. fracturing the world wide web german chancellor angela merkel proposes creating a european internet network that would shield user data from u.s. surveillance flights. and you really feel. that. we. are goes behind rebel lines in lebanon where jihadists are raised to kill other muslims at home and across the border in syria.

ten pm in moscow i mattress i bring you today's top stories and a look back at the week's news day nine of the olympic winter games has given a russian hockey a little consolation after yesterday that was a day after the red machine lost team usa in a dramatic shootout series the crowd was up for another game and a little redemption this time as soon as the extra period was over russia closed the door on slovakia's chances of victory details now from our own paula scott live for us in sochi so paul. russian squad decided to make good this time. yes it was a victory for russia but perhaps not in the style of the fashion that they would have hoped they were made to well caught and pushed all the way by a stubborn and resilient it was nil nil at the end of regulation time and not even overtime could separate the two sides so for the second day in a row russia faced the lottery of a penalty shoot out but this time. they were victorious it's actually america they

finish top of group a they saw after a five one victory over slovenia however many observers are saying that the match between the usa and russia on saturday was one of the most thrilling in the history of the winter olympics and we do have the prospect of the two sides possibly going head to head later in the competition in a medal match and former russia stop igor larionov who enjoyed a long career in the n.h.l. he says that the russian public place gold in the competition above all other. is the main event like the no i don't care what anybody said about he was getting or go all the respect and others for about hockey because he got so many superstars to play in the play to get to show others here it's not every time you can see the . top teams around the wall playing it's like i walk up a soccer and the players to calm and play and to be proud of their country so i think it's a make a. historic event. take a look at the medals table now where russia is currently standing at fifty three

jump from seven yesterday after scoring two goals in the skeleton and a short track speed skating events you can see here that in total russia has sixteen medals the only nation with more at this point is the netherlands back to paula now to find out where the russians found their latest success. well on sunday russia added to the medal tally with the silver in the cross country skiing that was in the men's relay event before by ten k. . events other russian voivode have put themselves firmly in contention for a medal with the track record in the first round the final two rounds conclude on monday while the ice dance competition is also the hoff way stage among the favorites for the competition of the us pair of davis and whites but they're actually coached by a russian marina a waiver and they say they're delighted to have board. we've been

very fortunate to you know work with some of you know the russian talent and i stand thing you know we take from marina's we've done 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. and finally i can tell you that the biathlon men's mass start has been postponed until ten o'clock tomorrow morning local time because of fog up in the mountains of crust not only on the. all right thanks very much for that update arden's paul scott live for us in sochi. well in other olympic headlines this week the hopes of millions of fans were dashed when a russian figure skater you have any plushenko dropped out of the men the short program at the last minute you know out of retirement after suffering severe back pain during training is breathtaking nearly flawless performance in the team event helped russia clinch its first gold at the sochi games pollution go as russia's only single skater at the games and his decision triggered plenty of criticism we asked a gold winning figure skater maxime trunk of an ice hockey legend. what they thought

we all have great respect for pollution coach he's a legend in our sport and 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 snatched up with putin i want to take my hats off and tell him that he's the greatest of athletes everything he went through everything he was unique she people in history could have equal to him word security and so she made news long before the games kicked off and so for those positive responses from athletes and visitors that the right level has been struck earlier we caught up with the head of president putin's administration to discuss that issue among others here's what he had to say. the best suited to able to is the security which you don't see. it's called was the best and i think the sochi olympics is just a case the security is haiti i have to confess i have to agree with it but you

don't see it that these professionals could. successful logistics and careful preparation always key to making a big event like this go like clockwork language was another hurdle faced by organizers who had to ensure security staff and volunteers had the skills to support the host cities guess we go over and out who are socially studios again where our host kevin owen is joined by simon dunton from english first a language school that's tutored tens of thousands of service staff in the run up to the games. you're right my crappy job they do it but we've just heard what a big job you've done when you think about you have to train thirty thousand volunteers here to speak english and two thousand security and serious stuff as well as start well it's been quite a long process so yes english for us we started this quite some time ago about one year ago we started with the volunteers that's the thirty thousand volunteers you

were talking about. like a kickoff for them. and they've been studying online since that time but we've also visited them from the different cities there from their nineteen different cities that they've come from from russia and also from around the world so we went there to get them involved in english you know obviously for a while when did this education start with this program stuff so like online started to one year ago and then a little bit later we started visiting the different places but i myself have been searching for three or four months now and we did some emergency work with the two thousand that you were talking about that the drivers and the security members etc i'm going. to make them all customer facing it that's right yeah. as opposed to having a deal on course we don't expect to have perfect vision we get it just the basics hello goodbye maybe i don't speak english but in a nice way i'm going to torricelli. learning languages she's kind of have to have a bit of a skill for not for it don't you know what you've had a heck of a lot of people to get here to this intermediate grade of english what were your

students like by their very nature ok they were keen because they were the volunteers but it's not as easy for everyone to learn languages as somebody else that's right yeah so as you said this we were looking for people all the organizing committee were looking for intermediate level users but we found that some speakers were excellent they had really high quality english and some native almost level we designed the winter games english online so they could be really precise about the english they might need for example if they were going to be involved with hopes lay or skiing or the words to. and i as an aide to speak and the teacher didn't know we gave it to them but they've been quite keen actually even those again the drivers of the security guards who really got involved and made it fun to be told by the security guards they were talking about those two thousand and two security people security guards generally around the world have got a bit of a reputation rightly so you know to be faced they've got to be serious the big burly guys i think in russia they probably go to even more. of

a bigger reputation grievance tony a face you want to try and crack the make them meet and greet people. yes it was i mean it's not just security members but anyone really i mean i think most people know that smiling is not a big thing in russia so we really went for and we said look guys you really need to small this is going to be great here and i think it's working if you go out there to the olympic park and you go to the security they really really really are enjoying themselves and they're smiling and getting involved just a minute while we got here i was a bit of a folk you know it's a night the weather's come down a bit but he was telling me earlier on he'd been to the london olympics i think if you can compare the the summer in the winter games where how do they compare be really interesting i say i've been here a few months before the games started but we're training them and it wasn't quite the atmosphere that i remember from london to start with and then suddenly the seven kicked in we saw i'm sure everyone saw the opening ceremony and then the locals love it the russians love it everyone's having a really good time and it really feels just like the london games and then pick up in the mountains is what. every one of those volunteers we see we have to thank

simon and his team for getting to speak english and making him smile and shake and he's done a cracking jokes some to thank you but. indeed a job well done there well you can stay updated on all the olympic action by heading to our website r.t. dot com and you can follow us on twitter to find latest news and reaction to your favorite events there you can find tweets from all the athletes and even tell them what you thought of their performances russia's hockey team captain tweeted his appreciation to the many fans who showed their support and will of course be bringing you all the latest news from so. here on r.t. . the g. twenty fourteen promises the ultimate in the exhilarating winter in our eight year social media and you see now a m a kevin zero in on the rest of our lives take news team for sochi twenty four take. on. and some of the week's other news german chancellor angela merkel proposing to break up the world wide web creating

a pan-european network she wants to prevent snooping from across the atlantic the move after revelations from edward snowden show that europe has long been a target of u.s. intelligence and over ports from berlin. 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. 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 online 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 has 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 sontag co-founder of the civil liberties group net believe the germination collaboration with the n.s.a. if it wants to protect citizens we can see that the new k. the german service is. right in front of the services there are clearly breaching behaviorally we say they are listening to all conversations they can if we create a network specific network in europe it will only be true that will be listened to by the services again this is really a political stance and not something that won't to protect the european cities and

communications the only solution can see of this make a want to protect the communications of european citizens would be to ask for. and they say from their own services. say this is to protect our citizens and to project companies in europe from these. things and still to come igniting the debate. if you look i mean not from to your to come from your form i know you own stats your ball you. control a year old those will bring you the showdown between european officials over immigration issues that have been on the minds of many in the block ahead of the parliamentary vote in europe.

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thanks for staying with us with no peace deal in sight for syria bios increasingly spilling over borders into neighboring countries lebanon hardest hit with a tarion divisions are threatening to grow into a full blown civil war or his very often ocean reports. was the syrian conflict rages on neighboring lebanon faces a dramatic increase in sectarian violence in january alone for kabul has killed dozens in beirut and the town of haddam and 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 demon to opposing hezbollah visible to mrs clemens who.

is appointed by. his bella's military involvement in syria is believed to have given damascus the upper hand in the battle of god and has deeply angered assad's enemies do you think we're going to see more explosions like this wealth of the ice is showing. 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 is. the unkind to affiliated a new survey front claimed responsibility for those recent deadly bombings just days before a man calling himself and al qaida commander announced via you tube that the group had put down groups in lebanon or people we've met her on the ground deny belonging to either of these groups but don't hide the fact that they share their views.

no there is no al qaeda as an organization anymore but al qaeda as an idiology and it doesn't need money to spread it spreads by itself everywhere in the world not only in lebanon but in america britain serbia here radical ideas of bread from a young age fighters here co-lead card is bin laden a teacher and they 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. i 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 so many neighborhoods in this part of north levanon 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. caches intention oh. who do you fight against who is your enemy i'm legit and i fight against infidels those who don't carry the flag of 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. will come to this camp outside you will see every day to raise. told us that it doesn't take well you know someone who is here experience becomes real fighter. a week's training and you are in for a life time of

a be dns brought over your rules for those who want to become one 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 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 was harsh zeolite who introduced himself as a tripoli sunni leader says many youths are willing to join. the enemy from now until i grow up i'm ready to defend myself i'm ready to kill alawite and syrian army and your agent killed four hundred about you know. 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 from lebanon on. u.s. government going green as we report on our website newly released u.s.

regulations aimed to help license marijuana shops deal with banks which have been reluctant to work with the controversial new businesses details on our website plus . expired soviet spy satellites falling back to earth remnants of the system that failed to burn up on reentry expected to crash somewhere but no one knows exactly where or when on the planet. switzerland's decided to jeopardize access to the european single market in favor of backing tougher immigration rules in a nationwide referendum new legislation invalidates longstanding brussels agreements causing some high ranking e.u. officials to call for a reassessment of relations sorts of parliament has three years to put the referendum into law my colleague. discussed it with. 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 according service sector and i have seen the reaction of service industry today in the us three was upset with this very slight majority because of the need to end this whole phobia ration is just disgusting as i mean you have ensured us that we are here i'm not. going to blow a lot i know all about. you on a. lot of jobs that have been done by the polies well in your.

view it allows you to let. you know you're your industry is totally different. just a mild don't stick your order in the quote of where i live and i and you know what i'm on at 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 looks from bag let's make one thing clear here we have a million young kids in this country in britain eighteen to twenty four who don't employed who got two point four million people who can'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 come here what we won't allow to happen is that people of eastern europe little would you feel it is the benefits of its own at all if you all would truly know me to when i told him

i have better control. coming not from to you or to come from your farm i am nobody . all right listen to guys i'm going to end just reading all the misery over how to play. with all that share odd choice joe the introduction of quotas or 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 survive to be have common roots and if you get up you followed the roots if you don't want to follow the roots then you have to leave pick up that simple and everything up it is the same thing. turning now to some global headlines on r t in egypt's rest of sinai peninsula least three south korean tourists in a bus driver were killed in an explosion officials say the vehicle was going from a local monastery to nearby israel when it was attacked more than a dozen other tourist wounded militants in the region have been increasing attacks

since egypt's president morsi was toppled by the military last july. a bomb blast in a train in southwest pakistan has killed at least eight hundred twenty blast several wagons to derail an ethnic separatist group operating in the area say they are to blame last week the same insurgents blew up three gas pipelines cutting off supplies to millions. rescue operations continue in south africa to pull a group of thirty illegal miners to the surface they've been trapped in a band in gold mine your highness bergs and saturday there still may be as many as two hundred trapped underground safety a major mining concern in south africa with the world's deepest gold mines that are often fought over by rival groups. six arrested in the u.k. after police told mantei fracking rallied to leave their demo site activists had barton moss can't have been campaigning for the last few months against drilling for shell gas in the area recently company i guess was granted permission to explore energy reserves beneath the ground with protesters raising the alert over

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a joint. in park and. very conservative and much much. only on going bust and. oh and welcome to worlds apart it's been three here since the arab spring found that big conventional order in the middle east three years of high hopes and bitter disappointments of peaceful rallies and violent clashes of precarious peace and a full blown 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 he has sided with the attacker a square protesters calling for political changes in egypt comparing the hopes you had back then 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'll call it the other 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 will be in the middle east. have entered already a new phase in the political life of this region but it is definitely against dictatorship in prebuttal democracy now the in egypt for example moving according to a road map with

a constitution. written and approved by the people by the majority of the people we are about to start another phase which is electing to be a new president and elected be part of them and then. putting an end to the transitional period and go on and rebuilding the country so it needs time it's not a question of three years and you'll use the word legacy it is too early to talk about legacy it is a process on going process but in toto i believe that this is in paper of the future generations a revolution a firm stand against dictatorship it's interesting that you say that because your sound was cautiously optimistic assessment seems to be very different from the one that is often expressed by. activists in edge of people like for example.