transit routes. your best way to the heart of most. the latest headlines of the week's top stories here on r t international bans and sought to celebrate russia's shootout victory over slovakia and the men's ice hockey a day after the disappointing loss against arch rivals team usa. the euro nets so infuriated by n.s.a. spying german chancellor angela merkel proposes a plan for a european online network to shut out america's snoopers. the lawyer of the russian pilot fears his client is dying in a u.s. prison that's after visiting constantine you're a shango who has apparently been denied proper medical care for weeks we talked to the attorney to find out what he saw plus. and your interview with.

we. are t. goes behind rebel lines in lebanon where jihad s. are raised to kill other muslims out hallman across the border in syria. you're watching r t international live from moscow and lindsey france thanks for joining me. where well into the second week of a song and fans are certainly getting their money's worth at the action packed games and day nine proved to be no different as russian hockey fans got some consolation after the bitter loss the day before. just after the red machine lost to the usa in a dramatic shootout series the crowd immediately rallied to get behind their team and this time a soon as the extra period was over russia closed the door on the slovak his chances of victory but the win was anything but easy all scott takes us through the

match was a victory for russia but perhaps not in the style of the fashion that they or their fans would have hoped for they were made to work hard and pushed all the way by a stubborn and resilience slovakia 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 american who finished 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 star you go ariano if you enjoyed a successful career in the n.h.l. believes ice hockey gold is the one the russian public want more than any other hockey is a main event like the no i don't care what anybody said about he was kidding or go

all the respect and others for is about hockey because you got so many superstars to play in the play you get to show others are it's not every time you can see the . top teams around the wall playing it's like i want a cup of soccer and the players to comment play and to be proud of their country so i think it's a make up as kind of historic events igor larionov and our team's pasko there and despite the sort of pride players feel representing their country that you've talked about hockey wouldn't be hockey without a little controversy there's been some dispute over the decision to disallow what would have been a winning goal for russia against the usa russia hockey commentator sergei crabb who told my colleague kevin owen that the wise thing would be to simply update the rules. the goal was disallowed because to build the good the nets was moved to the dislocations for our mates maurice and the goalie who is moving from one side to another side and he does it he moves the posts he puts it in this case i

think it was one hundred percent unintentional on the side of four just on the quick because he was just moving from one side and on to another side and the the situation was not very dangerous terms of the goal it was just luck that there was an american refereeing this much and was it why should that be thought of now in the future reassess i think probably years just to avoid controversies like this probably that they will do just that wise to take the decision and said no not not to have. referees from one country just working on their games with the national team games have seen their share of weather troubles after the men's mass start by athlon had to be postponed due to severe fog that's after sunday in the conditions and saatchi's being too sunny and challenging for the athletes just a few days ago those taking part in the women's super g. skiing suffered some misfortune seven of the first eight skiers failed to finish the event with some blaming the snow for the bad luck r.t.

has been gauging the reaction from the athletes themselves about the conditions and saatchi. coming into this event you know we know such as a little bit warmer we know the pipe conditions can be a little bit bearable we travel all around the world and we ski different so you know as a professional athlete you turn up to a hot body and you just have to adjust to it for me was perfect i love this slushy snow when i stopped outside so i'm nothing to complain about the thing to do you know good job so i'm happy to ski instead she says no and so i'm definitely impressed with the russian did everything is flawless the the athletes are taking very good care of it and i think that's all that matters for the games three thing is so close it feels like just a big family reunion before you come over and i'm really sure what to expect and. you know everything's been great so far whether it's been you know the food or

their commendations or their rooms or you know the village seems to be. unbelievable just looking from the outside and going in and practicing on and successful or just sticks and careful preparation are always key to making a huge event like this collect clockwork language was another hurdle faced by organizers who had to ensure security staff and volunteers had enough skills to support the host cities guests simon dunton from the english first language school helped tutor workers in the run up to the games he shared the details with us we were looking for people all the local organizing committee were looking for intermediate level users but we found that some of the speakers were excellent they had really high quality english and some native worst level we designed this 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 hope's label stealing all the words that even i as an aid to speak and the teacher didn't know 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 olympics and you go through the security they really really really are enjoying themselves and they're smiling and getting involved. you could say up to date on all the olympic action by heading to our website are two dot com and following us on twitter to find the latest news and reaction to your favorite sport there you can find read tweets from the athletes and even tell them what you thought of their performance russia's hockey team captain has tweeted his appreciation to the many fans who have shown their support throughout and we will of course be bringing you the latest news from sox you right here on r.t.e. . twenty four teen promise is the ultimate in the exhilarating winter sports and. to me and you say no way i'm a clever know it on the rest of our lives that used to mean the sochi twenty four take. on. german chancellor angela merkel is proposing to break up the world wide web by creating

a pan-european network she wants to prevent snooping from across the atlantic the move comes after revelations from edward snowden show that europe has long been a target for u.s. intelligence r.t.s. lucic affan off 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 angle of 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 all 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 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. benjamin sontag co-founder of the civil liberties group sure do net believes germany should end any collaboration with the n.s.a. if it wants to protect its citizens we can see that they're just a new case the german service is g.s. you are just here right in front of the services there are clear breach and he really was they say they are listening to all good decisions if we create a network a specific network in europe it will only be true and that will be listened to by those services again this is really a political stance and not something that won't to protect the european citizens

communications the only solution conceive must make a want to protect the communications of european citizens would be to ask for let's go to ration we said they say from their own services and ask their services to protect our citizens and to project companies in europe from this. the swiss vote to curb immigration sparks a heated debate across the e.u. . people are coming not from the your to come from your former i know you don't that's your problem you guys are brochures controller you told us. we have the details of the showdown between brussels and member states over immigration rules ahead of the european parliamentary elections that's after the break on r.t. international. the russian pilot jailed in the u.s. has difficulty breathing and is extremely close to suffering

a heart attack that's according to his lawyer who visited him behind bars moscow is demanding that constantine get i shan't go get immediate medical treatment art is going to try to con is joining us live now. going to thank you for joining us so here she goes lawyer personally visited him to to witness his condition tell us exactly what he saw. well it's been days that the russian citizen in a us jail is asking to examine his heart because he says he is experiencing severe chest pain and may have a heart attack any moment now president of soldiers told his lawyer that they would send our shingo to a hospital on monday the attorney had a chance to see his client on sunday and we spoke with him earlier here's what he said i have seen my client constantine you're a shango at the four digs prison earlier today you're shown go did appear sick to me his face was red he visibly had shortness of breath he would take pauses in

our conversation to compose himself he was. confused and generally appeared to be having difficulty remembering the dates and the chronology of the different events that took place this week prison authorities do not comment on the health of their inmates so we have silence on that side of the story at this point it's not clear what kind of care there schenkel will receive at the hospital on monday but his wife told us about the treatment that he had received so far on purple. about a month ago he had a high fever and couldn't get up for days nobody looked after him he was physically unable to walk across the prison to the medical block where he would have queued for our ways because of his constant constant thing he was keeping his cellmates awake and they were becoming hostile to him constant and used to be hard to man by

his problems started after his detention in africa when he was beaten severely for three days by the people who detained him. a group of russian diplomats and doctors intend to visit constantine there schrenker in jail russian officials have raised the issue of his health with their u.s. counterparts in the past but pretty much to no avail and earlier this week we saw was diplomatic out choir from the russian foreign ministry which in a facebook post has urged washington to quote do something because he may die any moment the washing pilot was captured in two thousand and ten in liberia and shipped into the us where he was accused of drug trafficking and sentenced to twenty years in jail russian authorities believe that he had been tortured in liberia before he was shipped into the u.s. as far as his swift transfer russian officials saw it as more of a smuggling than an extradition and now moscow urges the u.s.

to observe the men's rights right artie's than a chicken in washington thank you very much human rights activist richard becker believes your case shows that america's standards change according to which ever country washington is dealing with is a of course always a standard that the united states leaders hold themselves to and the standard. much more entire standard that they hold other governments to i think focus on certain other governments based on their not and what the reality is of human rights in those countries and their relationship to washington and so i think there were definitely see this play out in your sympathies. but no peace still in sight for syria the violence is increasingly spilling over its borders into neighboring countries lebanon has been hit the hardest sectarian divisions there are now threatening to grow into a full blown civil war parties where if a national reports from behind lebanese rebel lines where jihadists are being bred

for battle. it. was 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 hizbullah lebanon's most influential force which also supports syrian president bashar al assad who traveled to the northern city of tripoli a sunni stronghold vehemently opposing hezbollah visible the message calling those who know. it's a party 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 well today i'd say.

anything i can do for sonny brothers anything i can do for syrian brothers i will do anything i can do for these people suffering from injustice i will do anything he unkind to affiliated to a new survey front claimed responsibility for these recent deadly bombings just days before a man calling himself and al qaida commander announced via you tube that the group had put down groups in lebanon people with 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 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. 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 is sometimes 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 i 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 look at first told us that it doesn't take well you know for someone who is here and fearing because real fighter. a week's training and you are in for a life time of obedience the growth of real rulers for those who want to become one giant deen 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 in that from now until i grow up i'm ready to defend myself i'm ready to kill our whites and syrian army and here is a kill for the neighborhood out of you know the world we live 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 on meanwhile in geneva negotiations have hit a brick wall a syrian government officials and their main political rivals refuse to make concessions international mediator lakhdar brahimi has been trying in vain for to get both sides to reconcile. very very sorry and i apologized to the syrian people . the envoy says no date has been set for the next meeting between the warring

delegation and damascus wants to focus on rooting out terrorism while the opposition is trying to send to the top of the departure of president assad jonathan steele a columnist for britain's guardian newspaper says one of the key obstacles to peace is foreign backing for the rebels inside syria. 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 clinging to that hope the casing at the top of my sink with the u.n. pressure from a photography me and it's the regional countries. convincing government and the opposition that they must make a deal and it doesn't that would help could it also means cutting back on 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. the u.s. government is going green as we report on our website newly released american regulations aims to help licensed marijuana shops deal with banks which have been

reluctant to work with a controversial businesses read the full story on our dot com. also online for you ukrainian opposition activists leave the government buildings they've been occupying for weeks yielding to a deadline so an amnesty law can come into force get the latest on the situation kiffen our website r t dot com. switzerland has decided to jeopardize its access to the european single market in favor of backing tougher immigration rules on a nationwide referendum the new legislation invalidates longstanding agreements with brussels causing some high ranking e.u. officials to call for a reassessment of relations so children's parliament has three years to put the referendum result into law my colleague rory suchet discussed the issue with to any 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 go for them i wish we could do the same in our own country 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 certified five percent of foreigners deliveries it very well because luxembourg is a growing economy growing service sector and i have seen the reaction of swiss industry today in the three was upset with this very slight majority because they need to. hold phobia about immigration is just disgusting as i mean it just i mean sure to be on here i'm out here and i know you're. not all of us here. go on a. lot of jobs that have been done by the polish word in your. view

ever that. you or your industry is totally different or. just a mild death to care order in a quote of. yours or what i'm on will hold your own and go 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 the system if you've got the skills that this country needs yes come here and wear what we won't allow to happen is that people who have eastern europe.

or torino move to one of better control. people are coming not from the you're to come from your former and nobody don't that's your brother you can see that bruce use control. is all right listen guys i'm going to jump in job and remove even if 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'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. and search our world up to here in our tea and egypt's restive sinai peninsula at least three salt south korean tourists and a bus driver have been killed by an explosion officials say the vehicle was traveling from a local monastery to nearby israel when it was attacked more than

a dozen other tourists were injured in the incident militants in the region have been increasing their attacks since egypt's president morsi was toppled by the country's military last july. a bomb explosion on a train in southwest pakistan has killed at least eight people and wounded twenty others the blast cost several wagons to do rail and ethnic separatist group operating in the area say it says it carried out the attack last week the same insurgents blew up three gas pipelines cutting off supplies to millions of homes. a rescue operation in south africa to try to bring illegal miners to the surface has been halted overnight eleven people have already been saved from the abandoned mine near johannesburg the group have been trapped since saturday and there may be as many as two hundred more people underground it's reported they refuse to come up because they believe they will be arrested. hundreds of far right protesters

marched through lithuania second largest city of conus on independence day chanting lithuania for lithuanians a small counter demonstration was held nearby with some campaigners waving rainbow flags of the nationalists as the way india is known for such marches with one court even supporting the use of swastikas during rallies. coming up the former head of the arab league gives his unique insight on what's facing egypt that's coming up in world apart here on our to international.

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scandal find out what's really happening to the global economy for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines to name two kinds of reports on our team. oh and welcome to worlds apart it's been three here since the arab spring bandit 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 blown war three years on is the middle east closer to democracy that it was before the revolution well to discuss 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 to be a tough race square protesters calling for political changes in egypt comparing the hopes you had bagged them both for a job 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 it is a misnomer it is a movement for change it is a revolution against the old order so we have entered we can be out of the world in the middle east. have entered already a freeze in the political life of this region that is definitely against dictatorship and improve of democracy now the egypt for example moving according to a road map with a.