go did appear sick to me his face was brad shortness of breath a burning sensation in the chest high blood pressure. to happen. u.s. prison officials say helped russia. with the move coming only. mother nature. of the winter olympics with at least two starts to pick. up as the russian prepares to take on norway in their first playoff game the man who led the red machine to a back in the ninety's. reports on the alarming number of suicides among senior bankers and investigates what could have pushed them to the

top story. live from a studio city here in. nashville with you twenty four hours a day a russian pilot who says he's suffering from severe chest pains in the u.s. prison will finally be taken to hospital for treatment according to his the move comes after top russian officials weighed in to demand help for the convict moscow says washington denies constant had ever asked for medical assistance in the first place. but 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 they had a shadow issue with him every time he has been complaining about numerous health

problems that go to shanghai has been experiencing all he 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 all that is 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 we're constantin 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 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. 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 that they need some of the chronology of the different events that took place this week shortness of breath a burning sensation in the. just high blood pressure these sometimes are indicative of a soon to happen heart attack we also managed to speak to mr arafat because wife and he told us that it wasn't the first time that i was suffering from health problems

inside this prison let's listen to that. 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 cellmates awake and they were becoming hostile to him constant and used to be hard to man by his problems started after his detention in africa when he was beaten severely for three days by the people who detained him all we know so far is that the only medical assistance that does lead to rationing has been provided or will be provided it's still unclear is the u.v. check the ultrasound check inside the new jersey prison where he had a shrink it was snatched by american agents during a sting operation in liberia in two thousand and ten he was then flown to the u.s. and sentenced to twenty years for conspiring to smuggle drugs a charge he denies russia called the move a kidnapping and has been a supporter of your show because defense team what do stay with us here in our team for the latest on this developing story you can also get more on the rally over

constantine at a show on our website r.t. dot com. but the winter olympics germany leads the medal table but that could all change with a week left to win medals for all the latest results from today we can cross live now to our teams pool scott who is in sochi so paul the women's biathlon mass start is just finished tell us about that what happened. well the the gold medal there went to belorussian donny adama chave who secured her third gold medal of the such and twenty fourteen winter olympics but russia could be about to add a gold medal to that tally as well in the two man bobsled competition the alexanders of golf and alexi voyage lead going into the fourth and final round they have in fact led from the very start off to setting a track record in the first round and for thirty nine year olds of cough it could be a fairy tale end to his career he actually announced his retirement from the sport

after winning a bronze medal in vancouver four years ago but the lure of performing at a home games was too big a temptation for him to turn down before the games are caught up with him and he told us the tactics they'll be employing to try and secure gold and. 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 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 but if you are. bringing news of that south final run in the next hour here on r.t.l. where the figure skating ice dance competition concludes this evening russia go into the free program in the bronze medal position so they are hoping to secure a place on the podium nikita cuts a lot of a new lane in

a nick. hoping to secure that place on the podium and says now they have to put all destructions to one side if they're to realize their dreams. i think it's going to be the mental preparation the most important thing before. because there's so much time talking so much. help. and you need to just do your work work and do what you want. to listen to the. people just listen for your team like you're preparing and. i hope it's going to work. elsewhere i can tell you that fog has caused the postponement of the men's snowboard cross for the second day in the row the men's biathlon must start that was meant to actually take place on sunday evening both of those events will now take place on tuesday with signs up in the mountains that the fog is beginning to clear paul thanks very much indeed for that live in

sochi more from paul throughout the day well meanwhile russia's ice hockey team putting their all into training their desire for winning olympic gold wouldn't be possible without a victory over norway now that rubbishing takes on the scandinavians in a must win showdown tomorrow afternoon on sunday russia beat slovakia which often found some following the bitter defeat suffered against the usa team earlier the win against iraqi was hard for though it needed a tense shootout to split the sides with neither managed to score in open play. discuss their performance with a man whose previously given the russian fans the joy of celebrating a lympics success. i'm delighted to be joined by a ice hockey legend and a two time olympian so pablo you've appeared to olympics so how much pressure obvious russians are especially playing in a home olympics in your opinion or yours or live for us in team as well as where

there are lots of pressure for her but expect we're going to do well. you know that but it will also experience to play them different kind of levels you know they can handle the pressure i want to be made of russian style so far i mean obviously the states in a shootout very close game just struggle past you want to nothing again in a shootout beats. what you made of a play for the same. i have to say you know we have to learn from the mistakes and move forward because there is still hope for more games as they go in there or the school about to leave good system you know like even though this year you know you can lose a three games and they're all in still if they still get a chance to win the world. in two thousand and six russia got a great start of unfound finland in the semifinals and got knocked out i mean so it's a marathon not a sprint. it is you know it's unpredictable less that would be give something go over you know can i didn't do well in the beginning to want to gold so we'll see

we're going to have just a few questions from our facebook users of this question 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 thinking that things will pull a different you know because in the shale you put your play for the club or here it will be for the contras was different from right but also from timmy houses of who is your chief childhood hero when you were growing up. well i had so many players to choose from you know obviously older guys whose to play in the soviet union you know here and they still team. i really like the one great question from ross fraser well he's someone who's new to the sport of ice hockey so what makes someone . hockey such grace for some one of the biggest falls in the world in your opinion . because we got it all you know it's. it's really exciting to watch the hockey games you know it's a great spirit the park is flying around here and you can hear the chair there so

it's a cinch to get. obviously you played the first olympics and not going to a nine hundred ninety eight obviously you don't want to play much earlier on how crucial are now n.h.l. 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 were no was going to happen in the future as you said than they can they need them in the first i mean they were in the chill stop the season for a couple weeks and all the bills this players in the world were just afraid to do tournament there because of the conference so there was this. poor fleet there in sochi and people for more than two hundred countries are watching the events with television viewing figures that record levels according to the olympic committee officials and it's not just the size of the audience it's breaking records as all of these and he said now i reports from our studio. well the ten days of the olympic competition have seen a number of sporting breakthroughs and record breaking results russian figure

skating stars to. gold 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 nineteen year old japanese figure skater usual hanyu became the first man to ever break one hundred points in the short program that speed skater san 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 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 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 this year it's been. not caring as much not trying to control things that are completely under control and i try to control things that are not even important things that are superstitions just focusing on the. process and execution of. the g twenty four gene promises we call to make an exhilarating winter in our team here so join me and use in our way to make the most of all the hate news team for sochi twenty four take. on. international law coming up the african from two. to.

two and they need to protect that rich in minerals and oil as u.s. bases all over it shortly we examine what the american arms buildup in africa means and where it could end up that and other stories after the break. nato a deadly alliance without a clear mission decades after the end of the cold war this washington let alone continues to exist. after. afghanistan and behind regime change in libya nato now looks somehow in some way to absorb ukraine but is he just can't.

play. a string of apparent suicide struck the financial world with five senior banking executives taking their lives in just one week. investigates. there on time the 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 into 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 in so transactional 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 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 really important i think we keep on projecting this idea. masters of the universe you 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 abusive system so there is this real. thing like the

army to own up to one former ability. does or sylvia r.t. . the venezuelan president expelled three senior u.s. officials after suspecting them of conspiring against him because but europe was accused of leaking students involved in recent anti-government protests by a high murder rate and record inflation you can read the full report right now on our website. and the presence of the european commission. of scottish separatists warning the chances of an independent scotland gaining membership are close to zero that story much more. the house of representatives in the u.s. state of kansas has approved a measure allowing religious individuals and groups to openly decline services care

or employment to those they believe to be gay the bill has been criticized by the state senate goes further in protecting religious beliefs from let's talk to an expert on international law and xander joining us live from london now exult as a legal expert what do you make of this bill the fears of it being more than just protecting religious beliefs in effect is it blatant discrimination. well it is entirely discrimination that is exactly what it is what this law what this entire intended law does is it legalizes discrimination by religious people against people who are involved in civil or gay marriages or partnerships so it is in fact precisely about discrimination it legalizes it and it does it quite deliberately and openly is there a human rights issue here. well of course there is

a human rights issue here if you look at the european court a convention of human rights the one of the fundamental principles of human of the convention and of human rights law generally is that there should be no discrimination in the way the law is administered this is a law that actually legislates for discrimination so it is completely contrary to human rights as those of theirs are properly understood now that this bill it's obviously not a law yet it is unlikely to become law so we understand but supporters of it saying that preserving religious values is this a sign of a rise in conservative traditional values that we're seeing not just in the u.s. but elsewhere around the world. this is been much talked about and the maybe some truth to it in the united states of course there has always been a strong religious conservative constituency very strong in states like

kansas utah which also has laws not quite like this but similar sort of laws. i'm not sure to what extent it's true to say that this is becoming more prevalent but if you want to find evidence for that one can see it i mean in india. in the country of india for example the supreme court there recently said that homosexuality is illegal and that came as a surprise to many people and what about the comparison between what we see in kansas and what we've seen recently in russia with the law banning the promotion of sexual propaganda monks mind as we we've heard plenty of media criticism about what's going on in russia but not much or more it's been talked about in kansas. well there's been very little about what's been talked about in kansas or about the fact that there are other laws in american states which actually preheated pro propaganda about homosexuality to minors in schools now can i just say

something about the russian law which is that it's very widely misunderstood what it is it's a law that regulates information that is provided to children mainly in the mass media and which might be harmful to their development and which might encourage them to develop a nontraditional sexual orientation all relation or relationship now it's nothing like as explicit as these american laws are and certainly it bears little comparison to the one proposed in kansas the one in kansas permits an activity that is universally considered discriminatory and illegal the one in russia prevents information which the lawmakers there think might be harmful to children the american law is aggressive the russian law is prevented

they're very different things are american laws much more serious thanks so much for that great to get your perspective on this international experts are on legal affairs and examine the curious life in london thank you very much indeed the pentagon is pumping huge sums of money into africa and the hope its troops weapons and mercenaries will turn a land of conflict into a land of hope as you can see here american military bases are spread all across the continent the biggest help posed for the u.s. on the horn of africa is in djibouti which now has 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 auntie's paul a syrian first to gauge 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 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 syria or to lead to you know the collapse of. you know accountability. and of course you know dubai is. different it's a shia kind of make up it's got crisis in the country snow for about it you know it it to me it in terms of american power and policy reasons to actually come into nigeria africa's dotted with u.s.

bases and a growing constellation of small american drone outposts camp limone 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 there be 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 of the next thing you know certainly your troops and money to stay. mischa's 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. light our fire under our efforts throughout the cut but what's not so exciting is the growth of jihadists and ways 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 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 senegal but the president does his 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 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 paulus leah r.t. . and to bring up to take them on i'll be back with a news team with more in just over half and half now in the meantime expansionist ambitions of nato debating cross-talk that's next on our internet. i was first state of the city address new york mayor bill de blasio so. 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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today i'm sure. a low and welcome to crossfire for all things are considered i'm peter lavelle nato a deadly alliance without a clear mission decades after the end of the cold war this washington led alliance continues to exist and expand after an ambiguous adventure in afghanistan and behind regime change in libya nato now looks somehow in some way to absorb ukraine what is nato's gambit.