transit route. to the heart of moscow. a russian pilot jailed and make us meet his lawyer and says despite concern he's on the verge of a heart attack he's still waiting to be examined by a doctor. seven golds up for grabs in this monday the winter olympics now entering its last week amid very tight competition right at the top of the medal table a russian hopes currently lying with its ice hockey team. a string of suicides rocking the financial world here on r.t. international we try to find out what's causing them to take their own lives.

the world's top headlines live from moscow it's r.t. international with me will receive from the entire news team thank you for joining us the lawyer of a russian pilot jailed in the u.s. says that his client needs urgent medical help he was finally able to meet constantine yet to show who's pleased to see a doctor having been met despite symptoms suggesting a heart attack could be imminent. has details. 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 you're shown go did appear sick to me his face was red hugh visibly had shortness of breath he would take pauses in our conversation compose himself he was 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 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 will receive at the hospital on monday but his wife told us about the treatment that he had received so far on. 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 conflict 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 and earlier this week we saw was

diplomatic out quiet from the russian foreign ministry which in a facebook post has urged washington to quote do something because the russian 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 as far as his swift transfer russian officials saw it as more of a. smuggling then an extradition and now moscow urges the u.s. to observe the men's rights well we have a just received the latest official reaction from russia on constantine yet to show it goes case foreign minister sergei lavrov he says u.s. claims that yet to show was in good health not true and that russian doctors should now be allowed to examine him and moscow is waiting for an answer from washington after requesting that diplomats and doctors be allowed access to the former pilot. yet to show it has been promised you can have an ultrasound on monday but no cardio

exam will take place if you like you can follow this so ongoing story of the former russian pilot at r.t. . thanks for joining us here for the program with a week to go germany now leads the medal table of the winter games in sochi with could all still change with seven sets of made also available on monday alone let's go live to also use a new so now we had our studio a nice a real mixture of personal glory national pride being played out. yes battles for gold and silver resulting in a real spectacle here in sochi with the medals table changing fast as for russia's prospects it's currently fifth in the overall count but there are still high expectations for the ice hockey team because last night the red machine gave the home fans reason to celebrate russia beat slovakia in a qualifying match offering some some following

a bitter defeat suffered against team usa on saturday victory was hard far though it needed a tense shootout to split the sides with neither managing to score in open play russia squeeze through one to nothing and now faces a must win match against norway monday in sochi we've got a day of bobsled biathlon and freestyle skiing among others. former reports from the mountain cluster we should be following the clouds as well. the first thing we should be following is the weather because things have closed here not to be on or not house. for the second time in a row of the men's starts in the fifteen k. that was due to take place this morning but we'll have to keep you posted on what the snakes mean more i am pleased to say these in effect in the. doing very well in that. alexiev border and alexander two called lead the way at the halfway stage the

two final runs are today and when we caught up with them they told us what was needed to go so i think the critical juncture will be at the start line if one team gets far ahead of the others it will be very difficult to catch up with them but we're prepared for such a scenario our number one objective is to be stronger at the start next the piloting skills you need to see where you can outmaneuver your rivals you have to do for perfectly successful runs in a row to overcome your opponents well i've done two let's hope they can do two more meanwhile the jamaican bobsled team incidentally were making their first appearance in just over a decade in that event our last although they did receive the second biggest cheer of the night after the russians now all eyes are on russian figure skaters again this time in the ice dance or at least the customers are currently third in that with the freedom to come and when we spoke to them just before these games started they told us what they thought was necessary to succeed. i think is going to be

their mental preparation the most important thing before the olympics because there's so much thought talking so much to help or who don't want to help and you need to just do your work work what you want. done listen to the. people listen for your team like you're preparing and they know what . i hope is going to work for they stay focused because it certainly seems to be working at the moment i do love ice dancing it is a bit like a ballroom dancing on ice they say these therapeutic to watch but rest assured i'm sure the russians will be busting a gut inside to try and catch the canadians virtue and moir and the americans davis and white you currently lead the charge to go to. one of the most inspiring stories from these sochi olympics is that of canadian athlete danny morris. who has won bronze and silver despite having suffered serious injury because speed skater broke

his leg while skiing barely a year ago putting his olympic dreams in doubt morrison failed to make the cut for the one thousand meter distance but fellow speed skater gilmore jr 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 asked the victorious canadian what drives him. on a c i don't know i think for me the secret spin. not caring as much not trying to control things that are completely control or not trying to control things that are not even important things that are superstitions just focusing on the task. the process. of. being the most southern host city in winter olympic history so she's warm temperatures offers an additional challenge to athletes we've seen complaints of the slopes being too slushy today a couple of events cancelled but on the bright side sochi is cast have had

a chance to enjoy the unique surroundings as artie's martin entries are. known as the russian riviera she is not your typical russian city. to be dozens of rivers streams and want to force across the countryside but not on a more impressive than this skate so it's out with the olympics and even with the spectacular fireworks and for a ninety minute journey from the olympic park highlights the diversity of this region ok it's not my graph or a grassy but it really is very pretty here and quite relaxing raising for a warmth twelve metres there over thirty other waterfalls seven rapids and first team cascades in this area alone also offering their journey from a beautiful caucasus mountains offering the perfect break from the hustle and bustle of the city the best time to visit the fools is in the spring when the melting snow brings a rush of water. this is one of the features of the soldier

national park which can be easily reached the roads are excellent where 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 were 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. some believe that these five to six thousand year old structures have great spiritual power along with stonehenge the idols of easter island and the pyramids of egypt they have remained a riddle for centuries. between the earth and skiing there's a whole range of sightseeing activities and beautiful natural landmarks here. gardens sulphur springs historic wonders what a fool's

a lush green forests and with its many faces a trip here to the subtropical black sea resort will certainly be a memorable one more time dru's. well the ten days of the olympic competition have seen a number of sporting breakthroughs and record breaking results russian figure skating stars tatiana also sharyn maxime trunk all set a new world record with their sort program their flawless skate received eighty four points seventeen points the highest ever score and another record was sealed on ice by nineteen year old japanese figure skater against the ohio new became the first man to ever break one hundred points in the short program that speed skaters span kramer broke his own world record in the five thousand meter race storming to gold in just six minutes and ten point seventy six seconds while great britain set olympic curling records the ladies' team demolished the u.s. by seven points margin never seen before at the winter games are looking forward to

some more record breaking athletes ahead and when they're broken you of course will hear about them right here from our team for now back to moscow. thank you and. your studio of course right about hard over the winter olympics and right here on our team the national we've got everything you want to hear from the game's new interviews and comments is also full coverage online that includes official facebook page it's where you can actually pose a question for ice hockey legend. the russian rocket will pick the best questions and throw them right out the guy for the meantime they will be following the action and keeping count of all the medals it is a busy monday for the medals at the sochi twenty fourteen winter olympics to stay with our international special olympic coverage.

still to come here on the bearable pressure of big banking. 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 over recent weeks. looking at why some are struggling to deal with the high stakes competition.

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it's a quarter past the hour here in moscow a busy monday for news thanks for joining us there's been a rather bizarre string of deaths in the globe's financial circles in just the past few weeks five high profile bankers have died all from apparent suicide. vest. there are untimely deaths grabbed 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 and 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 transaction all 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 has no interest in the people it affects. because in a sense and legally responsible to invest and stockholders you make a moral decisions without thinking about the impact that it has on the people the job losses people who should know how human 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 ease tension 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 what 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 dyke 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 as 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 utterly abusive system so there is this real taboo in banking like the army to own up to one's former ability. does or sylvia r.t. london well our online team has plenty of stories lined up for you on the website right now including a report reveals that drug alcohol and sex abuse in the u.s. military has been getting worse particularly over the last three years why this trend you can find out on the web site right now. why is the obama administration under fire again this time over the unprecedented number of diplomatic posts being

handed out to campaign contributors not career diplomats those details also just a few clicks away. but for now on the program it's already international and the pentagon is pumping in cash to boost its military presence in africa and the u.s. says by pouring in troops weapons and mercenaries it intends to turn a land of conflict into a land of hope u.s. military bases are ultimately spread all across the whole horn of africa you can see right the drone base is a dog across the region the biggest being in djibouti that hosts over four thousand military personnel and contractors and thousands of u.s. soldiers reportedly preparing for missions as part of the pentagon's new strategy to train and advise regional forces so. what could really be motivating america's newfound focus on the bread basket of the world.

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 american 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 syria. to the collapse of. you know accountability. and of course you know dubai is the. definitive

kind of a couple to crisis in the country provided you know it is to meet in town so for american foreign policy reasons to actually come into nigeria africa is dotted with u.s. bases and a growing constellation of small american drone outposts camp limb or near 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 they're being tasked with missions will be a. numerical logistics capability and the danger will then trigger like all foreign interventions is new conflicts expand and all the next thing you know where your troops and money says the. u.s.

secretary of state john kerry says it is happening in africa so exciting overall and we are really deeply engaged and the president has instructed us to really try to. lighten our fire under our efforts throughout the but what's not so exciting is the growth of jihadists and to 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 three eight it's not impressing those who live here. the americans it feel to combat terrorism in afghanistan or anywhere else and the same will happen here in west africa it's likely that the prisons even bring the terrorists to synagogues but the prison does calculations seeing will this will allow me to be a good friend of the united states maybe attract some investment to strengthen my

security forces but from the point of view of the senegalese people we risk losing our norful lot is a 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. part time now for a very quick snapshot for you here on r.t. international swiss police now are saying it was the copilot behind the hijacking of an ethiopian airlines passenger plane which landed at geneva airport he's now in custody and asking for asylum after taking control of the jet when the captain left to go to the toilet this is a recording of his conversation the suspect had with air traffic control while still in the air. you know you're. more.

none of the passengers or crew were hurt and all of now safely left the plane which was supposed to land in rome and geneva airport has renewed flights after suspending all services. an amnesty law for antigovernment protesters is set to come into force in ukraine after the government confirmed the opposition has met all the agreed conditions demonstrators had to end a two month long occupation of the city council building and vacate regional administrative buildings across the country some disruptions were reported when a group of radicals block the entrance to city hall of the capitol but did not break through. venezuela has ordered three u.s. consular officials to be expelled from the country as on arrest spirals for a president my daughter accused diplomats of orchestrating the ongoing student opposition protests sweeping the country at least three people have been killed in the clashes between pro and anti-government demonstrators but also issued an arrest

warrant for the opposition leader accusing him of trying to incite a coup. in thailand the capital bangkok thousands of protesters surrounded the government's headquarters after police started to retake areas that had been occupied for months crowds used quit drive cement to seal the gates of the prime minister's main office to prevent the cabinet working as the opposition considers what to be a puppet of a brother who is in self x.l. and also a former leader. now chancellor angela merkel wants a separate communications network for europe to prevent spying from across the atlantic now under the current set of huge volume of internet data circulates along the same route so often via the united states as a message sent from one european official to another just next door could quite possibly go on a very long journey before reaching its final 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 much better protection lucy can offer points. 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 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 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 thanks so much for joining us here on our international law my colleague all of us here at half an hour's time but before you it's sophie shevardnadze. welcoming to talk. to you off i should say chat coming your way in just.

and his first state of the city address new york mayor bill de blasio said that he would put forward legislation for the city to issue special municipal identification cards to undocumented immigrants he summed up his feelings by saying to all my fellow new yorkers who are undocumented i say new york city is your home too and we will not force any of our residents to live their lives in the shadows yeah that sounds nice but the reason these illegal immigrants live their lives in the shadows is because they immigrated illegally why should new yorkers bend over backwards for illegal criminal immigrants this is the same logic that if i catch a guy breaking into my house as a gracious host i should offer him

a pizza because it's his home too this is not just a slap in the face to rule of law but also to the immigrants who do go through the bureaucracy and headaches to become u.s. citizens the right way the legal way so the blasio if you're going to provide these illegal immigrants with some sort of document it should be a plane ticket back home with instructions on how to apply for a green card the legit proper way just like everyone else has to fashion just my opinion.

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hello and welcome to sophie and komi sophie shevardnadze today will welcome you for all they say share of the silk tropical central so she was the twenty second winter olympics are in full swing the world's finest of winter affleck's are competing here on ice and snow giving it their all for the ultimate prize where does the drive come from and how can anyone possibly handle the pressure of millions watching someone who has been there twice probably knows the best so without an olympic champion will have already answers. a member of the legendary russian five with julian big gold medals under his belt and three stanley cups to use name even larry one knows a thing or two about winning what does it take to stand tall and leave the podium how do you mold it doesn't superstars one super team.