transit route. your best way to the heart of moscow. gershon go do the pier six to meet your space was brad shortness of breath a burning sensation in the charts high blood pressure these symptoms are because of a soon to happen or the. u.s. prison officials say they'll now help russian convicts constantine. with the move coming only option moscow way dead. mother nature spoils the show on day ten of the winter olympics with at least two stops postponed due just like fall . out as the russian hockey score prepares to take on norway in belfast playoff game we talked with a man who led the red machine to olympic silver back in the ninety's. also the south home delivered terrorist threats two hundred british people have

returned from fighting in syria after being recruited and trained by hardline groups. this is all seem to national coming to you live from moscow. thanks for joining us a russian pilot who says he's suffering from severe chest pains in a u.s. prison will finally be taken to hospital for treatment according to his noire the move comes after top russian officials are waiting to demand help for the convicts moscow says washington denies constantine shango had ever asked for medical assistance in the first. the russian foreign minister is ringing alarm bells again in fact on monday he said that ever since john kerry was appointed as u.s.

state secretary he has been discussing the issue with him every time he has been complaining about numerous health problems that get a shock that has been experiencing all he's got in reply from john kerry and the u.s. officials was that there are no problems with the other shanker that he never applied for medical help he never made any plea for medical assistance which is untrue according to the russian foreign minister sergey lavrov of little supergirl nobody has confirmed that you know she is experiencing problems with his health although there's any problem with access to medical treatment. it was claimed that he had not requested any medical help or tool that is not true constantine requested medical assistance a number of times. through. the russian foreign ministry of human rights and work and stands in the gulf and he told us that in fact russia has once again made an appeal to the u.s. to washington to let the russian officials and more importantly russian doctors

access to. let them examine him and to have their own conclusions about what is reportedly a very severe heart condition with with mr yushchenko we spoke to his lawyer and he told us that he is being kept in a very poor conditions and he himself is reportedly suffering from a heart attack and practically no help no medical help is being given to me in the new jersey prison where he's been kept right now let's listen to what the lawyer had to say. did appear sick to me his face was red hue visibly 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. just high blood pressure these symptoms are indicative of a soon to happen heart attack we also managed to speak to

a mistake because wife and she told us that it wasn't the first time that i was suffering from health problems inside this prison let's listen to that one about a month ago who 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 he was keeping his cellmates awake and they were becoming hostile to him constant and used to be healthy man by his problems started after his detention in africa when he was beaten severely for three days by the people who detained him all we know so far is that the only medical assistance that can start to russia has been provided or will be provided it's still unclear is a u.v. check the ultrasound check inside the new jersey prison. it was snatched by american agents during his teen operation in liberian twenty turn it was then flown to the us and sentenced to twenty years for conspiring to smuggle drugs

a transient in eyes russia called the move a kidnapping and has been in support of the defense. stay with us here for the latest on this developing story you can also get more on the constantine here shango on our website. at the winter olympics germany leads the medal table but that could all change with a week left to win medals russia's fifth in the overall count but has high hopes for his ice hockey team which delighted local fans last night russia in the qualifiers which offered fund some tonic following the defeat suffering against team usa on saturday big tree was hartfield though if need to turn to split the sides with neither managing to score in open play russia squeeze through one to nothing and now faces a must win much against norway to reach the quarter finals richard ron paul flew to discuss that performance with

a man whose previously given the russian fans the joy of celebrating and big success. i'm delighted to be joined by a ice hockey legend and a two time olympian so pablo you've played into it in pigs so how much pressure obvious russians are playing in a home olympics in your opinion or yours a little russian team as well as lots of pressure this everybody expects we're going to do well. you know but guys get a lot since it is to play them different kind of levels you know they can handle the pressure i want to be made of a russian style so far i mean obviously the states in a shootout very close game just struggle you want to nothing again in the shootout beats slovenia but he made a play for the same. i have to say you know we have to learn from the mistakes and move forward because there's still four more games as they go in the old school about the lead good system you know like even though this year you know you can

lose a three games and they're all in still do. they still get a chance to win the gold. in two thousand and six russia got a great start and then found finland in the semifinals and got more titles i mean so it's a marathon not a sprint. it is you know it's unpredictable less the libby gives something good or you know can i didn't do well the beginning and i want to go for it was going to happen ok just a few questions from our facebook users of this question well what's more important getting experience in the n.h.l. or the place playing collectively in russia to help the russian team in general what's happened in the soviet union for instance going to things hopefully there for you know is in the chilean you play for the club here and wait for the choices of different things. but also this from timmy houses of who is your chief childhood hero when you were growing up a. couple and so many players to choose from you know obviously all the guys who used to play in the soviet union you know here and they still team and i really

like the wayne gretzky this question from ross fraser well he's someone who's needs . the sport of ice hockey so what makes ice hockey such grace for someone of a because for some award in your opinion. because we've got it all you know it's. it's really exciting to watch the five games you know it's the great spirit part that's flying around you know and you can hear the each other so it's such a good. obviously you played the first olympics and i'm going to in one thousand nine hundred obviously you know once a play much earlier on how crucial are any. players to be limping movement in hockey because there's talk obviously of maybe n.h.l. players not playing in four years' time when there are no one's going to happen in the future as you said when they can they need them the first time you were in the child stop the season for couple weeks and with all the bills this players in the world would disappear for the tournament and it was a conference or was it this week i gave i was probably a legendary ice hockey player and we cannot cross our correspondent andrew farmer

who's in a very for the rosa khutor at the moment that's right thanks richard the weather being the talking points at the moment here. yana has seen the cancellation for the third time as the men's mass starts in the biathlon that will now take place tomorrow along with the men's snowboard cross but the good news is that the bob sleigh will go ahead as planned the two man russian team currently lead through a border and alexander super because they actually set a course record yesterday during the first two rounds and they have two final runs tonight and they told us what is needed to get that goal. 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 kick in he need to see where you can outmaneuver your rivals you have to do for perfectly successful runs in

a row to overcome your opponent. whether done to perfect ones have been nice. let's hope for two more meanwhile the jamaican team who are making their first appearance in this event for just over a decade. lost in a moment but they did receive the second biggest cheer of the night after the russians elsewhere attention is again on russian figure skaters this time in the ice dance and that's because. of the currently in third place with just the free dance to come tonight we caught up with them before these games began and they told us what they thought they needed to do to achieve success i think is going to be there mentally prepare a show that most important thing before the olympics because there's so much topic talking so much people to help or who don't want to help and you need to just do your work do your work and do what you want or do what you need then just don't listen to other people like so many people just listen for your team like you're preparing and they know what to do so i hope it's going to work together they are

definitely focused i do like i have to say the ice dancing is a bit like ballroom dancing on ice very therapeutic to watch but you can be rest assured 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. under followed their reporting from the salty mountain cluster people for more than two hundred countries are watching the balance of television viewing figures at record levels according to olympic committees have fishbowls and it's not just the size of the audience that's breaking records and he said now a report from our very dear. brother ten days of the olympic competition have seen a number of sporting breakthroughs and record breaking results russian figure skating stars to. same time called set a new world record with their short program their flawless skate received eighty

four points seventeen points the highest ever score and another record was sealed on ice by one thousand. japanese figure skater us through how new became the first man to ever break one hundred points in the short program that speed skaters spend cramer 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 one of the most inspiring stories from these sochi olympics is that of canadian athlete danny morrison who has won bronze and silver despite having suffered serious injury to 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. i don't know i think for me this year it's been. not caring as much not trying to control things that are complete i do control or not try to control things that are not even important things that are superstitions just focusing on the. process and execution of the process. say team to seem to national extensive only because bridge and make sure you don't miss alice sports bulletin with kate coming up late. after nine days of the olympics in sochi russia have won more medals than they did in vancouver the flying dutch of set a new record for medals in speedskating a published devil has won by the ski jumps and the germans are the top of the table but who will come through on day ten watch the archie swan specials coming to life throughout the day. so jane

twenty four dean promised the recall to mit in the exhilarating winters in our team n.c.a.a. join me and he's now a make seven zero in on the rest of our lives pick news team for sochi twenty four would say. all odds. more international news stories coming up shortly after the break. the interview.

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estimate more than two hundred british based jihad is one to finance the regime of bashar al assad in syria have returned home and not pose a significant terrorist threat also he saw for us takes up the story. that's causing huge concern here amongst the security services of police have said that they've made a number of arrests and they're monitoring the situation closely indeed ingenue it's thought that sixteen arrests of being made of people having returned back the irony here of course is that the british governments want the assad regime to go they've been pushing for transition and they've been supplying non-lethal aid to the rebels so technically they are on the same side as the jihadists who are fighting the assad regime and the british fighters who have joined those jihad is the concern that of course is that the first five terrorists we see isis german soldiers for the british system to joining. the real worry is that obviously was

there fighting with the again these skills they're becoming indoctrinated and the real worry is that once the fights in syria they fit into fights in there they could return home and then the target could become. meanwhile the british minister of immigration and security has responded to the report james brokenshire says the forces are applying the so-called prevent a strategy to tackle domestic radicalization and the inflow of foreign fighters it gives police the power to examine and detain individuals and big u.k. border to investigate any concerns of terrorism involvement. even as well and present expel three senior u.s. officials after suspecting them of conspiring against him nicolas maduro has accused them of meeting students involved in recent anti-government protests supplanted by a hired murder rate and record inflation read the full story on our website.

the president of the european commission cools down the aspirations of scottish separatists and warning the chances of an independent scotland gaining either human . close to zero that story and much more on. the ban to go in is pumping huge sums of money into africa in the hope its troops weapons and mercenaries will turn a land of conflict into a land of hope and as you can see here american military bases are spread all across the continent the biggest outpost for the u.s. on the horn of africa isn't djibouti and which now hosts more than four thousand military personnel and contractors also thousands of u.s. soldiers are reportedly preparing for missions as part of the pentagon's new strategy to train and advise regional forces he's policy investigates what could be

behind washington's military boost. hundreds of millions of american dollars are flowing into africa as the pentagon upset spending on the continent there's plenty of woman to realize 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 they 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 syria or to lead to you know the collapse of. you know accountability. and of course you know dubai is the definitive

kind of make up it's got 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 is dotted with u.s. bases and a growing constellation of small american drone outposts camp limo 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 on their numerical logistics capability right now and the danger will have to go like all forward and. is new conflicts expand and all the next thing you know those. troops and money to sustain these missions. u.s.

secretary of state john kerry says it's happening in africa 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 car but what's not so exciting is the growth of jihadists and anti western 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 a field 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 calculations saying well this will allow me to be

a good friend of the united states maybe attract some investment or 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. . and another nation whose presence looms larger over the continent as china but instead of building up military might beijing has rather aggressively courting african businesses let's now bring in china based writer brendan riley who knows the subject for us brendan very nice to have you here on our seem to national so china is now africa's largest trade partner right rather high but beijing is not going to give up and its interest there right. no well there is a very deep interest. china is now africa's number one trading partner as you said

it replaced the united states only in two thousand and seven. trade between the two regions is roughly two hundred billion u.s. dollars every year and we know that china of course as bill was a railroad stock funds local economies crave jobs all over africa how different is that approach compared to american. well i think the essential difference in approach stems from the resources available to us china right now sitting on three point five trillion u.s. dollars in foreign exchange reserves and if you look at the china approach in africa you see that they're trying to utilize these economic resources as opposed to the efforts of washington which have been primarily military. look close occurrences in your view while they face a massive oms bill dob lead to an africa considering america's unpopular drone wars

in pakistan yemen and its reputation for creating crazy instruments as well well i think if you look at the both the domestic political situation in different countries and the incredible resources involved there is a potential for a proxy conflict between the two powers between beijing and washington that could upset the recent growth that we have seen in africa. right but one could argue that a military buildup both a grave jobs so why should the chinese model be in the long run. well i think if you ask africans themselves most would prefer the prefer the chinese approach if you look at opinion polls from the b.b.c. in two thousand and one china is very popular in most african countries and i think

its popularity stems from the very real effects that the chinese approach is had in africa africa has had the fastest economic growth and history in the last decade at the same time trade between the two regions husband do you think they could bad they one chinese interests will clash with american ambition i think we're already seeing this happening in africa i think. the big push militarily in africa by the united states a lot of the motivation for this stems from china's very deep and strategic investments in the continent. china baserunning time to educate brendan reilly brendan thank you very much indeed playtime. up next says he and co welcomes two time olympic ice hockey mariano right chad.

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. the ship are not sick today will welcome you from the sea shore of the so tropical central sochi what the twenty second winter olympics are in full swing the world's finest 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 all the answers. a member of the legendary russian find with julie big gold medals

under his belt and three stanley cup stu's name even knows a thing the truth about winning what does it take to stand tall with the podium how do you mold it doesn't superstars one super team who can take. it or let you all know for a legendary hockey player it's really great to have you on our program today so which team will you be supporting. well i've got my russian passport and gorgeously and i we can call the team russia and in any discipline in the olympics is going to hockey is always the way it went when you were playing in america where i was working for russia you know what it's going to the russian sort of hockey system and obviously in. i played this for you from the effects in eighty four eighty eight in two thousand and two and my my heart and my my roots back home here in the rushers.