latest headlines in the week's top stories here on r t international brands and sought to celebrate russian shootout victory over slovakia and the men's ice hockey a day after the disappointing loss against our drive team usa. the euro not zone infuriated by n.s.a. spying german chancellor angela merkel proposes a plan for european online network to shut out american snoopers. the lawyer of a russian pilot fears his client is dying in the u.s. prison that's up there visiting constantine 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. archie

goes behind rebel lines in lebanon where jihad is our race to kill other muslims at home and across the border in syria. you're watching our two international live from moscow on lindsay france thanks for joining me. we are well into the second week of the olympics and fans are certainly getting their money's worth at the action packed games 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 this time as soon as the extra period was over russia closed the door in slovak his chances of victory but the win was anything but easy paul scott takes us through the match. it 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 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 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 on earth who 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 the main event like you know i don't care what anybody said about he was kidding or go all the respect and other sports about hockey because you got so many

superstars to play in the play to get to show others here it's not every time you can see. talk teams around the wall playing it's like i was cup of soccer and the players to come and play and to be proud of their country so i think it's a make a. historic event igor larionov an artist pasco there and despite the sort of pride players feel representing their country that you talked about just then hockey wouldn't be hockey without a little controversy there's been some dispute of the decision to disallow what would have been a winning goal for russia against the usa russian 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 do you believe the good the next was moved to the dislocations from its moorings and the goalie who is moving from one side to another side and he does it he moves the posts he puts in this case i think it was one hundred percent unintentional on the side of johnson

a quick because he was just moving from one side and on to another side and the situation was not very dangerous terms of the goal it was just luck that there was an american refereeing this much is it why should that be thought of now in the future reassess i think probably yes just to avoid controversies like this probably it will be just wise to take the decision and said no not not to have. referees from one country just working on the game sways the national team the games have seen their fair 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 of the women 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 marty has been gauging the

reaction from the outlets them selves about the conditions inside. coming into this event you know we know as such he's 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 hospital 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 you're not 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 at it from the outside and going in and practicing on its website from the athletes successful it just takes some careful preparation are always key to making a huge event like this go like clockwork language was another hurdle faced by organizers who had to ensure security staff and volunteers had enough skills to support the host cities gas simon denton 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 swimmers 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 hope's label stealing all the words that even i as an aide 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. if you can stay updated on all the olympic action by heading to our website r.t. dot com and follow us on twitter to find the latest news and reactions to your favorite sports there you can find the read tweets from the events and from the athletes themselves you can even tell them what you thought of their performance in fact russia's hockey team captain has tweeted his appreciation to many fans who have shown their support throughout we will of course be bringing you all the latest news from saatchi right here on r.t. . the g twenty four team promises the ultimate in the exhilarating winter in our. story you see no way i'm a clever know it on the rest of our limited news team for sochi twenty four take. all the. 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 showed that europe has a long time been target of u.s. intelligence artists who seek help from 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 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. 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 my deah 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 europe they're trying to find ways to to effectively bypass the united states so 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 human sontag co-founder of the civil liberties group care 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 the new k. the german service is. in front of the services there are colibri he really was doing say they are listening to all good decisions if we create a network specific network in europe it will only be in a trade 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 conceived of mismeasure want to protect the communications of european citizens would be to ask for. 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 sparked a heated debate across the e.u. . people are coming not from do you are to come from your form i don't know why you don't you go. as. 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. a 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 jarosz uncle gets immediate medical treatment gonna check on has the latest it's been days that the russian citizen in a u.s. jail is asking to examine his heart because he says he is experiencing severe chest pain and may have a heart attack any moment 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 dicks prison earlier today you're go did appear sick to me his face was red hue visibly had shortness of breath he would take pauses in our conversation to compose himself he was. confused generally appeared to be. having difficulty remembering the dates and the chronology of the different events that took place this week shortness of breath a burning sensation in the chest. high blood pressure these

symptoms are in large measure indicative of. a soon to happen heart attack 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 they're 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 coughing he was keeping his cell mates awake and they were becoming hostile to him constantine used to be hard to man but 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 are 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 the russian come a guy 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 human rights activist richard becker believes your shankar's case shows that america's standards change according to which ever country washington is dealing with. there is a of course always

a standard that the united states leaders hold themselves to and the standard. much more tiresome in that they hold other governments to i think focus on certain other governments based on their not on the reality is that human rights in those countries and their relationship to washington and so i think that we're definitely seeing this play out in new york. the u.s. government is going green as we report on our website newly released american regulations and to help license to marijuana shops deal with the banks which have been reluctant so far to work with them read the full story on r.t. 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 at the latest on the situation in kiev on our web site r.t. dot com. but no peace deal in sight for syria the violence is

increasingly spilling over its borders into neighboring countries lebanon is being hit the hardest sectarian divisions are now threatening to grow into a full blown civil war parties worry if a national reports from behind lebanese rebel lines where jihadists are being bred for battle. that. 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 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 al assad who traveled to the northern city of tripoli a sunni stronghold vehemently opposed in hezbollah visible in the midst of corners he. 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 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 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 roots 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 by street in the city of tripoli separates the white and sunni 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 loans with cash is sometimes was.

who do you fight against who is your enemy i merge it would be 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. conquer these camps outside she will see every day to raise. her stall there said and then we'll take well you know someone who is here xperience become a real fighter. a week's training and you are in for a life time of obedience growth are your rules for those who want to become one day 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 eola who introduced himself as a tripoli sunni leader says many youths are willing to join the live in it 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. years and while the syrian conflict expands a legion of fighters on to these deadly weapons and an even deadly ideology is on the rise review notional tea from lebanon on meanwhile in geneva negotiations have had a brick wall as syrian government officials and their main political rivals refuse to make concessions international mediator lakhdar brahimi has been trying in vain

to get both sides to reconcile. very very sorry and i apologized to the syrian people the envoy says no date has been set but the next meeting between the warring delegation as it was asked us wants to focus on rooting out terrorism while the opposition is trying to center the talks on the departure of president assad jonathan steele a columnist for britain's guardian newspaper says one of the key obstacles to peace that you have as foreign backing for the rebels inside syria. it's hard for sides to admit it to spend all this money in treasure and lost lives for not getting victory and so there is still clinging to that hope but i think it was a talk by sync with the u.n. pressure from after a grammy and it was the regional countries. convincingly government and the opposition that they must make a deal and it doesn't that would help could it also means cutting back on arms supplies and all these jihadi fighters going in and stopping it being a proxy war in reverting to being what it should be just an internal. problem among

civilians. so if your land has decided to jeopardize its access to the european single market in favor of backing tougher immigration rules and a nationwide referendum the new legislation invalidates a long standing agreements with brussels causing some high ranking e.u. officials to call for a reassessment of relations so it's parliament has three years to put the referendum result into law my colleague rory sushi discussed the issue with to any 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 is putting pressure on houses the health care system on transport quite frankly is the democratic wish of the swiss people that they want to control their own borders and do for them i wish we could do the same in our own country joe i see once again shaking your head switzerland's decision to limit the number of foreign workers

perhaps the latest example of the growing feeling of nationalism where do you think this trend could be heading luxembourg thirty five percent of foreigners deliveries it very well because luxembourg is a growing economy growing service sector and we 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 ration is just disgusting. i mean if you have enjoyed your degree i'm here i'm now living here and it was only a few. dollars are. you on a. lot of jobs that have been done by the polish well in your. view or your industry is totally different or. just a mild order in the quote of. the model 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 but he says them if you've got the skills that this country needs yes come here but we won't allow to happen is that people who have eastern you're. going to have. coming not from the you are to come from your former and nobody you don't that's your brother you can see the brochures control. all right listen to guys i'm going to. be all over how to play nice and also let's share our

toys joe the introduction of quotas of 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 are 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 couple it is the same thing despite criticism from brussels the swift boat has posted and tame aggression movements across the continent at least six far right european parties. are calling for similar referendums in their countries almost half of germans want to see immigration reduced in france seventy percent of the population feel there are too many foreigners in the country and a huge majority of brits want to follow switzerland's footsteps meanwhile in norway a record number of migrants were deported from the country just last year and straight ahead our world update on r.t. . in egypt's restive sinai peninsula at least three south korean tourists and

a bus driver have been killed by an explosion official said 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 incidents of 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 an ethnic separatist group operating in the area 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 to try and bring illegal miners to the surface has been suspended overnight in south africa eleven people have been saved from the abandoned mine shaft near johannesburg the group have been trapped since saturday

and there may be as many as two hundred more people underground is reported many refuse to come up because they believe they will be arrested. hundreds of far right protesters march through with when he is 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 lithuania is known for such marches with even one court supporting the use of swastikas during rallies. coming up a clash of opinions on cross talk with peter lavelle you're watching are to international.

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