his face was red. blood pressure these. are the u.s. prison officials. with the movie coming out weight in. gold the first in the nation's history. meanwhile the russian hockey school prepares to take on norway in the first playoff game the man who led the. olympics back in the ninety's we have a live report from sochi very shortly. hope to live a terrorist threats over two hundred british people have returned from fighting in

syria after being recruited and trained by groups. number of suicides among senior bankers and investigates what could have pushed them to the. international with the twenty four hour a day of russian pilots who says he's suffering from severe chest pains and a u.s. prison will finally be taken to hospital for treatment according to his knowledge the move comes after top russian officials weighed in to demand help for the conflict says washington denies. 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 chance to share 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 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 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 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 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 coughing he was keeping his cell mates 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 got stuck 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 you're the 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 well to stay with r.t. for the latest on this developing story could also get more on the royal over constantine yoshiko on our web site r.t. dot com. in sochi there's been another gold for the hosts just minutes ago the russian bobsled left their rivals in their wake after a whirlwind final run well for all the details we can cross live to scott who is in sochi paul tell us more about that major victory. well russia have just added a gold medal to that tally in the two man bobsled event the geo of aleck. undeserved calls put in a dominant display to lead from start to finish the even set a track record in the first round now is the first golden books lay that russia have won since the fall of the soviet union and for thirty nine year old zubkov well he now has a gold medal to add to the silver he won in sharon in two thousand and six in the bronze he won in vancouver four years ago in fact after those vancouver games he

announced his retirement from the sports but the opportunity to perform at a home olympics coaxed him out of retirement and not decision looks inspired elsewhere in the biathlon twelve and a half k. women's mass starts i can tell you that belorussian. has just won her third gold medal of these games i mean doing so she become the first female athlete to win three individual gold medals at a single winter olympics while the figure skating ice dance competition concludes this evening gratia go into the free program the final round with the chance of a medal they are in the bronze position nikita can't sell a poll on the elena in a coping to secure a place on the podium an elite says they have to put old destructions to one side if that's a realize their dream. i think is going to be. the most important thing before the ellen picks because so much talking talking so much

people to help or who don't want to help and you need to just do your work work and do what you want. and just. listen to the people like so many people just listen for your team like you're preparing and poor and they know what to do so i hope it's going to work. elsewhere the weather has caused a few problems with the shadow people thought that it would be the mild temperatures in the melting snow that would cause problems however fog has caused the postponement of two events are the men snowboard cross for the second day in the row the men's biathlon mass start both will now take place on choose day with all the signs up in the mountains of krasnaya polyana the fog is well and truly beginning to lift paul thanks a lot about updates great to hear from you live there in sochi more from paul throughout the evening now meanwhile russia's ice hockey team are putting their all into training but staying on track for that olympic gold won't be possible without

victory over norway the red machine takes on the scandinavians in a must win showdown tomorrow afternoon one on sunday russia beat slovakia which often found some tonic following the bitter defeat suffered against team usa earlier the win against over here was hard fought though needed attention turned to split the sides with neither managing to score in open play parties which a vamp or fleet discuss their performance for the man who has 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 playing in a home olympics in your opinion well here's a live for russian team and still is there lots of pressure this everybody expects we're going to do well. you know the 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

a russian style so far i mean obviously the states in a shootout very close game just struggle past you want to nothing again in the shootout beats. what 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 hope for more games as they go in there or the school about to leave good system you know like even there 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 ball. in two thousand and six or she got a great start but then found 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 the libby gives something good or even on camera didn't do well in the beginning and i want to go so well so we're going to have 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 thinking that once the ability for you know is in the shale you put your play for the club here and wait for the contras was different going for but also this from timmy houses of who is your chief childhood hero when you were growing up. well and so many players to choose from you know obviously all the guys who used to play in the soviet union you know cheer missional team and i really like the way in greats this question from ross fraser well he's someone who's new to the sport of ice hockey so what makes someone . talking such grace for some one of the biggest for some of the world in your opinion. because we've got it all you know it's. it's really exciting to watch the fun games you know it's the great spirit of this flying the wrong you know in the u.k. that you're there so it's socially good. obviously you played you first lympics and i'm going to nineteen ninety eight obviously you did once play much earlier on how crucial are n.h.l. you know 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 they when no one's going to happen for the future but as you said when they need the muslim or the first i mean we're in the chill stop this isn't for a couple weeks with all the bills this players in the world were just made to do tournament the rivers of the country so there was this great. international for extensive coverage make sure you don't miss all sports betting with kate partridge that's coming up in less than fifteen minutes from now. after nine days of the olympics in sochi russia have one more medals than they did in vancouver the flying dutchman set a new record for medals in speedskating a polish 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 specials coming to life throughout the day. the g twenty four dean promises the call to make an exhilarating winter and he is here to join

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senior security officials in the u.k. estimate more than two hundred british based jihads who went to fight the regime of bashar al assad in syria have returned home and now pose a significant terrorist threat on the surface takes up the story. that's causing huge concern here amongst the security services the 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 have been 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 technically they are on the same side as the jihadists who are fighting the assad regime and the british fighters who were showing this concern though of

course is that the terrorists we see isis. the british system situating these the real worry is that obviously was there fighting with again these skills they're becoming indoctrinated and the real worry is that once the fights in syria they finish fight they could return home and then the target could become. meanwhile the british minister of immigration and security has responded to the reporter james brokenshire says that the authorities are applying the so-called prevent strategy to tackle domestic radicalization and the inflow of foreign fighters it gives police the power to examine and detain individuals of the u.k. border to investigate any concerns of terrorist involvement where the critics call the program counterproductive i mean young british muslims are being victimized and they're somehow taught to carry bullivant he's a journalist and was one time that a control order by the british authorities because they suspected he was a terrorist he joins me live now from our london studio so you were suspected of

being a terrorist i'm not sure impression of whole success for the government is in targeting potential terrorist returning from syria to carry on with some sort of fanatical activity. well i think firstly i would have to question how many people are actually returning the numbers that we're hearing sound grossly exaggerated from our own research and studies in the un on this matter. the the numbers of the being bandied around two hundred. seem grossly inflated. we know that there were sixteen arrests with regards to these things the in january and now suddenly they're saying two hundred. for we think if it were numbers that high there would be a much bigger. reaction within the community which we're just not seeing but if it's ten or two hundred that still is definitely a threat isn't it. well know the not necessarily even the

deputy director of m i six when he was speaking at the. the parliament the select committee said that the this idea that people coming back pose a threat varies from theater to theater in the chain and bosnian conflicts where many people went out and going volved there was no blowback there was no problem when they came back they came back into into britain and fit in with their ordinary life so there has to be some imperative evidence which there isn't any at the moment to say or to make these claims that these people pose a threat to you because people are being we have relied on the let me just ask you that you and people are being radicalized out there for example the recent case of the lorry driver who blew himself up in aleppo. now surely there's a danger of that sort of fanaticism returning to the u.k. border here is somebody who apparently led a fairly ordinary life in the u.k.

but was repaired to do that on the serious surely that sentiment could still exist with those returning from the conflict. we have to look at why did he do that and the the situation is that he attacked a prison with it was there was a leak three weeks previous showing. devastating torture going on in that prison over five thousand images of staff to people who had been terribly tortured and if if you look to what his family is saying about what his potential reasons for doing that were. those sorts of situations don't apply to the u.k. there's no evidence to show that the people that there are you want to come back and be there if they do come back that they think pose any threat to the u.k. above and beyond what any other person who has military training but you think it's right that the authorities the police to carry out this prevent. exercise it's

better to be safe than sorry what's what's the problem with this initiative some are saying this is targeting people and discriminating against them. the prevent is a whole scale mass spying on the muslim community. just released a report from from cradle to grave a police state which details in very very specific cases and very very wide ranging powers that use to monitor and check thought crime basically throughout the lifetime of muslim from the age of young as seven or eight they could children can be put through a program for the prevent program all the way up until your dying day and certainly fair to screen people is it not have actually come back from syria british citizens . the fact is that prevent doesn't just target people who come back from

syria prevent is a whole scale program that targets and affects every single muslim in u.k. and it works in broad strokes. and lays an accusation against anybody who seem to have so-called radical thought which can include this things as simple as disagreeing with foreign policy and i'm talking about foreign policy just briefly what do you make of the british government or the sea towards sad bearing in mind there is that are already of course that people from britain are going out in effect to fight the british cause and that is to see a sad. this is the irony of them out perhaps the ply the same. rigors of their investigation to their own foreign office. thank you very much indeed journalist kerry but haven't joining us live in london interesting get your perspective on this thank you very much indeed for joining us here in our international. string of apparent suicide that struck the financial world with five senior banking executives taking their lives in 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 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 in so transactional that every moment like pressure turns carbon into diamonds you know extreme pressure can both accelerate human achievement in some cases break people the pressure and calling the shots the form of banking we have no interest in the people it affects. because in

a sense legally responsible to invest and stock holders you make a moral decisions without thinking about the impact that it has on the people the job losses people losing their 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 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 finding i think we keep on projecting this idea on bankers as masters of

the universe do 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 ought to be abusive system so there is this real taboo in banking like the army to own up to one silver bullet. does or so your r.t.e. london. the venezuelan president expelled three senior u.s. officials after suspecting them of conspiring against him because madeira use them of meeting students of the recent anti-government protests sparked by a high murder rate and record inflation with a full report on our website. the present the european commission calls down the aspirations of scottish separatists warning the chances of an independent scotland gaining e.u. membership at close to zero story a much more local. pentagon is pumping up 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 well as you can see here american military bases are spread all across the continent the biggest outpost for the u.s. in the horn of africa is in djibouti 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. 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 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 and. 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 you know the collapse of. you know accountability. and of course you know dubai is. different it's a show economy couplets got crisis in the country. by the you know it is to meet 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 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. new conflicts expand and all the next thing you know certainly your troops and money says the. mischa's 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. widen 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 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 poilus leah r.t. . r.t. international live here in moscow more news for in just over half an hour from now in the meantime kate is next with the sporting highlights from sochi.

i did for 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. well. it's technology innovations all the developments around russia we've got the future covered. the interview.

and i thank you for joining me for the r.t. sports and then pick special only action from the winter games in sochi plus the pick of the sport from around the world and here's a taste of. gold rush veteran alex on the so-called stands russia two big three in the two man bobsled to win his maiden limping gold of the sand and the country's first since nine hundred eighty eight. last travel when.