your best way to the heart of moscow. a burning sensation in the chest high blood pressure these. soon to happen heart attack u.s. prison officials say they'll now help russian convert constantine with the move coming only after moscow weighed in. also the international the russian wins along anticipated gold the first ever in the sport on the host nation's modern history. meanwhile the russian hockey squad prepares to take on norway and their first playoff game we talked to the man who led the red machine. back in the ninety's we go live to sochi very shortly here on r.t. international. plus this our home delivered terrorist threat over two hundred

british people have returned from fighting in syria after being recruited and trained by hardline groups. he reports on the alarming number of suicides among senior bankers and investigates what could have pushed them to the top stories this hour. live from a studio center here in moscow this is r.t. international with the twenty four hours a day. a russian pilot says he's suffering from severe chest pains in a u.s. prison will finally be taken to hospital for treatment according to his lawyer the move comes after top russian officials weighed in to demand help for the conflict 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 you know 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 sergei lavrov little nobody has confirmed that you know she is experiencing problems with his health although there's any problem with access to medical treatment moreover 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. we spoke the russian foreign ministry of human rights and work and stance 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. go 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. 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 healthy man but 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 that 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. going to show he 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 his defense team well do stay with r.t. for the latest on this developing story you can also get more on the brow over constantine on our website r.t. dot com. international live here moscow time now to cross over to my colleague kevin he's in our studio with a summary of day ten of the winter olympics. yeah hi there everybody they were leading after every single round never gave up the advantage or of course talking about the heroes of a limping day alexanders of cough and alexia the russian jewel won the highly

anticipated gold in the two men bobsled here's paul scott paul high tell us a bit more about how the gold medal was one of the day. where russia have another gold medal to add to their tally in the two man bobsled event the geo of alexander and alexey voyage botha put in a dominant display to lead from start to finish they even set a track record in the first round now it's the first time the russian have won a gold in the bobsled since the fall of the soviet union and thirty nine year olds of course it's a fairytale finish for him he now has a gold medal to add to the silver he won in shereen in two thousand and six and the bronze he picked up in vancouver four years ago in fact after those vancouver games he decided to retire from the sport with the opportunity to perform in front of a home crowd at a home games here in sochi proved too tempting for him and coaxed him out of retirement that now looks like a truly inspired decision. elsewhere in the biathlon this evening i can tell you

when the women's twelve and a half starts the belorussian dani adama cheever won her third gold medal of these games in doing so she's become the first female by athlete to secure three individual gold medals one single winter olympic games while the figure skating ice dancing competition is just concluding russia hoping for a medal there that you are nikita can't sell a part of and elena. are currently in second place as we speak with three more couples to take to the ice so it's nerve racking for them right now elsewhere the weather has caused a few problems to the shed people thought that it was going to be the mild temperatures in the melting snow that would cause the issues however fog has caused the postponement of the men's snowboard cross and for the second day in the in the row the men's start by athlone event both will now take place on tuesday with the fog clearing and lifting up in the mountains of pollyanna.

yes ok poor face the up that will become about shit later right there in a very good reason to look at the such sheet metal standings say there's been a major change because russia's big tremendous bobsled put the national team into second place now tonight russia the netherlands norway and switzerland all won five goals but the host nation post more silver than anyone else out there germany still remains on top though with its seven gold medals. the tie russia's eye socket team of putting their all into training but they're staying on track that limping goal will be possible without victory over norway the red machine takes on the scandinavians in a must win showdown tomorrow afternoon on sunday russia of course paid slovakia which often found some tonic following the bitter defeat suffered against team usa earlier that win against a vacuum was hard fought though it needed attention to split the sides with neither managing to score open play artie's rich of import discuss their performance with a man who's previously given the russian fans the joy of celebrating

a lympics success let's listen. i'm delighted to be joined by a ice hockey legend and the two china limpy and so pablo you've appeared to olympics so how much pressure obvious russians are special playing in a home olympics in your opinion well here's a live for russian team in seoul this way there are 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 loss of state in a shootout very close game just struggle you want to nothing again in the shootout beats. what he 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's 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 it was a three games and they're all in similar if they still get

a chance to win the gold. in two thousand and six russia 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 anything that has the ability for you know because in the chilean you play for the club here and wait for the contras was different. but also this from timmy houses of who was your chief childhood hero when you were growing up. well they had 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. really like the one greats this question from ross fraser well he's

someone who's new to the sport of ice hockey so. what makes someone talk is 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 five games you know it's the great spirit of this flying the wrong you know everything in the you can hear that you're there so it's actually good. obviously you played your first olympics and now i'm going to a nine hundred ninety eight obviously you don't want to play much earlier on how crucial are. 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 from the future as you said when they get many in the first i mean we're in the chill stop the season for couple weeks and with all the bills this players the world just agreed to do two of them in the ribs of the country so there was this group. when we interview all the big stars of course we give you

a chance to put your questions to them to check out our facebook page if you want to take part the best ones will be asked now we're still waiting for the results of tuesday's last event the men's ski jump will be coming in so we're going to bring about what about the next hour our next special olympic update here on r.t. . the g twenty four team promises we call to meet again exhilarating winter sports and it's here to join me and use an hour and make over now and the rest of our lives take news team to sochi twenty four take. on. international life here in moscow the news continues now and senior security officials in the u.k. estimate more than two hundred british based you have these who went to fight the regime of bashar assad in syria have returned home and now pose a significant terrorist threat first 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 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 first five terrorists the 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 report james brokenshire says that the authorities are applying the so-called prevent strategy to tackle domestic radicalization and the inflow of foreign fighters and it gives police the power to examine and determine individuals at the u.k. border to investigate any concerns of terrorist involvement however critics call the program counterproductive claiming young british muslims are being victimized. journalist was once under a control order by the british authorities because they suspected he was a terrorist he told me earlier that there is no solid evidence to show those coming back from syria well pose a serious danger. 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 the u.k. we don't even know which groups is necessarily true and there's no evidence to show that the people that are there do you want to come back and be there if they do

come back that this pose any threat to the u.k. above and beyond what any other person who has military training but do 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 muslim people and discriminating against them the prevent is a whole scale mass spying on the muslim community from that age young as seven or eight they could children can be put through a program for the preferred program all the way up until your dying day 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 is deemed to have so-called radical thought which can include the said things

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feel. a string of apparent suicides have struck the financial world with five seamy a banking executives taking their lives in one week auntie's to cecilia investigates. there are untimely deaths grab headlines three of which happened within a week be it the big investment banks they work 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 and 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 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 ease tensions 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 to your 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 of bankers as masters of the universe we have everything we want but if you look at their actual lives 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 former ability.

does so cilia r t london tension is rising in the run up to scotland's independence referendum the country's first minister alex salmond accused westminster of resorting to destructive campaigning aimed at frightening scottish voters where last week chancellor george osborne warned that if scotland votes in favor of independence it would have to surrender the pound in response alex salmond highlighted the massive transaction costs u.k. businesses would face if the scots implemented a new currency and the president of the european commission added fuel to the far by saying scotland stands very little chance of gaining e.u. membership well let's discuss this independence bit with jonathan shafi he's a co-founder of scotland's radical independence campaign what david cameron has called a man without a plan and he is right. well i think that in fact the opposite is true because what we are seeing now throw this discussion i think is

a government waste minister which is deeply panicked and deeply worried about the situation it's a measuring scotland we've seen since the turn of the new year opinion posing creasing win favor of a yes vote and therefore i don't think it's any surprise that we've seen all of the waste minister parties gang up and that's sort of fashion and i think display some quite offensive behavior when it comes to the question of the cons of course it's not in the part of you of the treasury or of george osborne to decide what counts it's gotten uses i think this is a deeply cynical and offensive political maneuver that's been undertaken by a panicked waste minister is it not westminster that should decide what happens to the british pound and who should actually use it well of course you can use whatever concede that you choose to use so for example in scotland and the current plan being it lying by the scottish government is that we will continue to use the staling no it's then up to the negotiations in the process that takes place as to whether or not that will be in a concert union a famed and conceivable that the government and waste minister will oppose not when

it comes to the reality of the situation post yes i and many others involved in the scottish independence movement also favor the transition to scottish poland where we don't have to rely on anything connected with london after all i don't think we need the city of london any more than anyone else because it's brought nothing but harm to the economy if you look at this chancellor's track record but nothing to hand to millions and millions of working people right across the british isles why not adopt the euro jonathan if scotland has aspirations to join the european union . well i think that if you look at the situation the universe began you've had a crisis in the uterus and you've got the whole question of what's happened in greece no question of the spanish economy as well and it seems to me that what you've got is something which is quite disconnected often from the debate now is that we have a global crisis of the economy and the euro of course has been at the forefront of that place and i think that there's no reason why we should be looking to join the

util what we should be looking to do of course is to create a europe where there can be movement between countries but there can also be social justice at the heart of the union and it seems to me that what we have to fight for and what we have to argue for a threat this debate is a scot one that puts the needs of people dominant of corporations and banks at the bankers that we see supported by the tories in the waste minister's party in the city of london we want to put the mass of the population fast and that's what we'll continue to to put forward in this debate couldn't one accused scotland of course for harboring huge financial institutions it's clearly very successful as a as a financial center so what's so different about what's going on in glasgow edinburgh and what's going on in london in terms of big corporate companies well i think that we have to look at the situation overall and have to say that what scottish independence will do is it will open up the possibility of the people of scotland saying that once and for all we won't have any more tory governments i mean it's one thing about the question of financial power of course financial

public not disconnected from political power and what we want to see in scotland is a political government we shall see which actually starts to challenge the way the banks have been run if you look at the city of london it's been one it's not just that it's supported by the governments makes minister but they are intrinsic to its operation in other words that what we see with waste months is a government by and for the big banks buying and for the super rich which is why of course the richest two hundred people and britain has combined will fall right underneath one billion pounds has increased by eight tanks attended one thousand nine hundred just very briefly the economy is a clearly a big concern to the scots will they be better off being independent just finally. we will be one hundred percent bets at all and dependent if we also alongside the campaign for so who justice and that's what we need on the independence campaign attempt to do we're going to say goodbye to the tories forever on september eighteenth i think that's something which many many millions of people really across go into looking forward to and that's why the momentum is behind us jonathan shafi thank you very much indeed great to talk to you live from glasgow thanks

audie international in moscow more news for in half an hour from now next sophie and co welcomes to time and then pick ice hockey champion you've got a lot enough for a chat stay with us for that if you can. i just 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. i think. they were going to go digital the price is the only industry specifically mentioned in the constitution and. that's because a free and open process is critical to our democracy correct albus. role. in fact the single biggest threat facing our nation today is the corporate takeover of

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hello and welcome to. our not sick today will welcome you for our thanks to share of the soap 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 already answers. a member of the legendary russian with julie big gold medals under his belt and three stanley cup stews names he knows a thing or two winning what does it take to stand tall and. how do you mold it doesn't superstars one super team who can take. it or let you all know if 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. my we can call the team russia and in any discipline in the olympics and great hockey is always the way even when you are playing in america we're always waiting for rush hour you know what it's going to the russian sort of hockey system and obviously.

i played this for you from the league it's in eighty four eighty eight in two thousand and two. and my my heart and my my roots back home here in russia and especially. these two weeks and sorts of stories it's very very important to. the russian athletes hockey players and the everybody else to do their best and to bring some a. little piece of glory to the russian people but this your heart talking a lot about your had on your hawking to you know how you are you know what it's that's that's the good that's a good question but the same time when you watch and. i have hockey it's a basket you can imagine. i see you know these days because it's the best against the best and i. cannot i cannot so your question it's obviously a bit more than.