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from everybody here good morning to you. u.s. prison. medical help. lawyer needs to be examined because he has shown signs of a heart attack so. please to allow doctors. 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 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 sham go for dick's prison earlier today you're 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 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 you'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 constant thing he was keeping his cellmates awake and they were becoming hostile to him constantly 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 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 you are shrink and 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. now you are showing has been promised you can have an ultrasound on monday but no cardio example took place you can follow the story of the former russian pilot on our website right now that's of course street dot com. for the meantime here on r.t. international with just a week to go germany leads the medal table at the winter games in sochi that could all still changes athletes battle it out for seven sets of medals on monday russia's fifth in the overall count but does have high hopes for his hockey team which are certainly gave fans reason to celebrate last night and the red machine has beaten slovakia in a qualifying match balancing back from a bitter defeat has suffered from team usa on saturday and it wasn't an easy victory reached only in shootout softer neither of the sides managed to score for

more than an hour artie's paul scott was following the game very closely. 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 finish top of group a five one victory over slovenia however many observers are saying that the match between the usa and russia today 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 who enjoyed a successful career in the n.h.l. believes gold is the one the russian public want more than any other. is the main

event like the no i don't care what anybody said about the skating or the respect and. because you got so many superstars to play and to play to get a shot it's not every time you can see. around the wall it's like i was cup of soccer and the players to come and play and to be proud i think it's a make. well victory over slovakia was consolation for russian fans still aggrieved at losing to the u.s. in controversial circumstances and the referee's decision to dismiss gold sparked widespread criticism. and asked russian hockey. whether there was a way to avoid what happened. goal was disallowed because team of the good of 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 moved the posts he

put in this case i think it was one hundred percent unintentional on the side of just on the quick because he was just moving from one side and on to another side and the situation was not very dangerous in terms of the goal it was just luck that there was an american refereeing this much is it why should that be thought of no in the future reassess i think probably yes just to avoid controversies like this probably that they will be just wise to take the decision and so as. not to have. referees from one country just to working on the games with the national team. now one of the more inspiring stories from the software lympics is canadian athlete danny morrison was one of bronze on soul but despite having suffered serious injury the speed skater broke his leg while skiing barely a year ago putting suddenly his olympic dreams and doubt morrison failed to make

the cut for the thousand meter distance but fellow speed skater gilmore unio offered him a spot in the race and he ended up taking silver that was closely followed by bronze in the fifteen hundred long track distance we off the victorious canadian what drives him. i don't know i think for me the secrets been. not caring as much not trying to control things that are completely control and i try to control things that are not even important things that are superstitions just focusing on the task. the process and execution of the process. now being the most southerly host city in the winter olympic history soft cheese warm temperatures offer an additional challenge to athletes on sunday the men's must start barthel on how to be perspiring due to severe fog there's also been complaints of the slopes being too slushy but on the bright side though sorties

guests are enjoying the warm weather and unique surroundings as artie's mark no injuries were. known as the russian riviera sochi is not your typical russian city pretty sorties dock to be dozens of rivers streams and falls across its vast countryside but not on a more impressive than disc skate so it's out with the olympics and even with the spectacular fireworks and for a ninety minute journey from the olympic park three highlights the diversity of this region ok it's not nagra or a grassy but it really is very pretty here and quite relaxing ranging from one to twelve meet is there are over thirty other waterfalls seven rapids and thirteen cascades in this area alone all starting their journey from the beautiful caucasus mountains offering the perfect break from the hustle and bustle of the city the best time to visit the falls is in the spring when the melting snow prints of rush of water. you know this is one of the features of the soldier national

park which can be easily reached the roads are excellent we're open the whole year round and on average one hundred thousand people visit next up it's into a four by four in search of saatchi's mysterious dolman experts believe these large megalithic landmarks are once used as graves or shrines. there are a lot of people coming from abroad to visit the doormen they stay overnight it's believed to possess special properties and is older than the pyramids in egypt well i don't know exactly how many years older but this is a fact of the. some believe that these five to six thousand year old stretches have great spiritual power along with stonehenge the idols of easter island and the pyramids of egypt they have remained a riddle for centuries. music

and dancing is an integra part of life in the caucuses in the village of balshaw kid smile you can watch a traditional folk show clap your hands stomp your feet as the men and women in their labrat costumes perform national don't shoot scenes and loud drumming routines a very colorful display it gives a true insight into the local traditions of the sochi area that are still very much alive today. between this and skiing as a whole range of sightseeing activities and beautiful natural landmarks here it's had a clue gardens sulphur springs historic wonders what's a fool's a lush green forests and with its many faces a trip here to the subtropical and black sea resort will certainly be a memorable one lots of andrews. martin and here's a living the life as usual having far too much fun down south in the olympic city now of course here on r.t.

international based out of moscow we've got everything you want to hear from the games or news interviews and comment as well of course a full coverage online for you as well that includes a facebook pages where you can actually pose a question for ice hockey player pavel border ok the russian rocket or pick out the best questions to throw straight at the hockey legend you can always watch interview live here on r.t. also catch it when you do you feel like it at r.t. dot com now in the meantime we'll be following the action and keeping count of all the medals as a big monday for sports of course will be lympics stay with r.t. for our special olympic coverage. the g. twenty four dean promises we call timid and exhilarating winters in our indian journey and you see now i can make seven zero in on the rest of our limited news team for sochi twenty four take. all odds. still to come here.

a big. if you look at their actual life they can be fired in five minutes this is a deeply dysfunctional system the financial world is shaken by a series of suicides of the recent weeks. struggling to deal with the high stakes competition.

join me. and. contribute and much much. good to have you with us here and. well a string of bizarre deaths in the globe's financial circles in the past few weeks five high profile bankers have died all from apparent suicides this investigation right now. there are untimely deaths grab headlines

three of which happened within a week be it the big investment banks they worked for the senior positions they held the public nature of their deaths or all three once again it raised questions . about an industry largely blamed for bringing the global economy to its knees in a two thousand and eight financial crisis michael taylor a former goldman sachs bond salesman who calls himself a recovering banker knew this world well it's so extraordinarily competitive and so focused profit above all the transactions that every moment like pressure turns carbon into diamonds you know extreme pressure can both accelerate human achievement and some cases break people the pressure and calling the shots the form of banking we've got at the moment have no interest in the people it affects.

because in a sense and legally responsible to invest and stock holders you make a moral decisions without thinking about the impact that it has on the people job losses people who should not home and so on and so forth pressure to rake in profits or the pressure to put in more hours than your peers after the spate of recent deaths big firms did try to essentially by telling their junior staff to take more time off or at least to try not to work on weekends it's kind of a disconnect between how they have the weekend off will also make us a ton of money and ultimately making a ton of money is what's going to keep you around so now you strike me as a real solution you're a sly and spent a year demystifying bankers interviewing dozens of fine us workers on the condition of anonymity the degree to which bankers are trapped has been really a really important finding i think we keep on projecting this idea on bankers are masters of the universe they have everything we want but if you look at their

actual life they can be fired in five minutes this is a deeply dysfunctional and ought to be abusive system so there is this real taboo in banking like the army. to own up to one former ability. does or sylvia r.t. london are we come to live from moscow our online team has plenty of stories are not for you on the website right now or the wild it may just be a little too wild for these tiny inhabitants of a florida aquarium recognition making them albion has left them with little come off although collectors are ready to pay thousands just to keep them as pets have a look at them in motion section four starts right now without. also strange guests at a carnival ruin the more traditional scenery hundreds of the living dead and zombie hunters march through the medieval city full video if you want to click away.

to see. first street. and i think that you're. going to. be in the. it's a busy monday for news here on r.t. international the pentagon is pumping in cash into boosting its military presence in africa the u.s. says by pouring in troops weapons and mercenaries it intends to turn a land of conflict into a land of hope now where u.s. military bases are now spread all across the whole horn of africa there are drone and bases in south sudan uganda kenya ethiopia the seychelles and even djibouti

which has become home to four thousand u.s. military personnel and contractors now thousands of u.s. soldiers are reportedly preparing for missions as part of the pentagon's new strategy to train and advise regional forces so now looks at what could really be motivating america's new found focus on africa. hundreds of millions of american dollars are flowing into africa as the pentagon upset spending on the continent there's plenty of war materials here nigeria a case in point the west african nation is america's fourth largest supplier of crude oil accounting for eleven percent of all u.s. oil imports we have made it has a lot of investment in that they have invested so much in the oil sector and they need to protect that and that believes rafsanjani is the real reason for u.s. troop expansion in africa not to bring democracy not to help the local populations

but to protect american interests and justify the reasons for being here the governess in that area. to you know the collapse of. you know accountability. and of course you know dubai is the. definitive kind of make up a crisis in the country provided you know it is to meet in terms of american part of policy reasons to actually come into nigeria africa's dotted with u.s. bases and a growing constellation of small american drone outposts camp north of somalia has been america's main facility on the continent for nearly a decade it houses about four thousand military and civilian personnel but at the end of last year it was forced to stop flying drones in the area after a string of crashes and growing anger from locals problem is u.s.

forces are getting stretched very thin there be tasked with missions well beyond their numerical logistics capability right now and the danger will never go like all foreign interventions is new conflicts expand shroom and all the next thing you know. troops and money says the. mischa's u.s. secretary of state john kerry says what is happening in africa is so exciting overall and we are really deeply engaged and the president has instructed us to really try to. light our fire under our efforts throughout the crowd but what's not so exciting is the growth of jihadists and groups across the continent thousands of american soldiers are gearing up for missions as part of the pentagon's new strategy to train and

advise african militaries to deal with the threat it's not impressing those who live here. the americans have failed to combat terrorism in afghanistan or anywhere else and the same will happen here in west africa it's likely that their presence even bring the terrorists to synagogue but the president does this calculation saying well this will allow me to be a good friend of the united states maybe attract some investment or strengthen my security forces that from the point of view of the senegalese people we risk losing our norful lot. and number of african leaders have expressed concern about the potential militarization of the continent fearful that america's expanding presence will bode badly for africa and her people. r.t. . and the editor of executive intelligence review every magazine i should say lawrence freeman told us that washington could have found better use for its money in africa beyond just boosting military defenses that. we spent over a billion dollars supposedly in counterterrorism security in the. west africa

north africa and we've seen the mali was koppel the year ago we've seen the rise of boko we committed the absolute criminal activity will be growing president gadhafi so how is this security helping look at the central african republic it's being destroyed it doesn't almost it almost doesn't exist anymore look at nigeria look at south sudan look at mali it's still fighting terrorism in northern mali with french troops so all this money that is being spent could much better be spent building roads building energy power plants building water development projects and actually uplift the population of. fused to do that we have a military only policy right now in africa could feed itself and could provide food for the rest of the world if we developed it but the western powers he has actually been

a genocidal policy that is to allow people to die from famine from war and from disease rather than developing these countries or some other global headlines for you in brief you're on the program now misty law and the government protesters are coming to force in ukraine this off to the government confirm the opposition has met all the agreed conditions of demonstrators how to end the two month long occupation of the key city council building vacate regional administrative buildings across the country some disruptions were reported when a group of radicals were look at the entrance to city hall in the capital but they didn't break through so. venezuela has ordered three u.s. consular officials to be expelled from the country as on the rest spirals out of control our president hughes diplomats of orchestrating the student opposition protests sweeping the country of these three people are being killed in. there's between pro and anti-government demonstrators but dodo also issued an arrest

warrant for the opposition leader accusing him of inciting a coup. hundreds of far right protesters march through lithuania's second largest city on independence day chanting lithuania for lithuanians a small counter demonstration was held nearby with some campaigners waving rainbow flags at the nationalists a march just like this are not uncommon in lithuania with one quarter even. allowing the use of swastikas during rallies. now chancellor angela merkel wants a separate communications network for europe to prevent spying from across the atlantic under the current setup a huge volume of internet data circulates along the same route so often via the united states so a message sent by one european official to another just next door potentially has a very long journey before reaching its destination passing through multiple points just like in a pinball machine but the new idea would allow communications to bypass the

established routes and offer european web users better protection so does this mean the e.u. is about to create a breakaway internet of its own if he kept it off them. 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 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 route 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 dollar project construction on which is slated to begin in july. co-founder of the us civil liberties group you believe germany should cut off any links with the n.s.a. you for indeed want to protect its people. we can see that the g.c. h.q. the new cage the german services or the g.c.s.e.

or just here are in front of the services there are colibri change he really was doing this eight they are listening to all going to say sions they can if we create a network specific network in europe it will only be true that will be listened to by just services again this is really a political stance and not something that wants to protect the european citizens communications the only solution conceit of this mega one to protect the communications of european citizens would be to ask for less corroboration he said they say from their own services and say this is to protect our citizens and to project companies in europe from these. things. or top act or not international i'm making way for seventy seven out say so if a co welcoming a two time olympic ice hockey champion igor larionov that's a chat coming away. a

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