to me his face was rather shortness of breath burning in the chest high blood pressure. happened are the u.s. prison officials say they'll help russian convict. with the move coming. along anticipated olympic gold the first ever in the sport and the host nation's history. well the russian hockey squad prepares to take on norway in the first playoff game to the man who led the red machine. back in the ninety's. very shortly here and i'll take national. terrorist threat over two hundred british

people every turn from fighting in syria to being recruited and trained by hardline groups. and all of the reports on the alarming number of suicides among senior bankers and investigates what could have pushed them to the top stories. from a studio center here in moscow this is r.t. international with twenty four hours a day 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 the move comes off the top russian officials waiting to demand help for the conflict says washington denies constant. 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 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 sergei lavrov of little super nobody has confirmed that you know a shrink 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. the russian foreign ministry human rights and we're going to stand 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. 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 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 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 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 here to show 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 going to shrink his defense team or to stay with r.t. for the latest on this developing story and you can also get more on this royal all of website r.t. dot com. time now to cross over to my colleague kevin owen who's in our such a studio with a summary of day ten of the winter olympics. yeah hi there bill hi everyone nice to see you again well they were leading after every single round and never gave up the advantage of course talking about the heroes of a limping day teles it's been alexander zuckoff and alexei whatever order the russian geo won the highly anticipated gold in the two man bobsled vent here's paul scott now to tell us more about it paul tell us how they won gold in today. where

russia have added a gold and a bronze medal to that tally on day ten in the two man bobsled event alexander's zuckoff and alexey voyage voda were dominant 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 bobsled gold since the fall of the soviet union and for thirty nine year old zubkov it completes a fairytale and adds a gold medal to the silver he won in cheering in two thousand and six and the bronze he picked up in vancouver four years ago in fact after those winter olympics in vancouver he announced his retirement from the sport where the opportunity to perform at a home olympics games was too much for him to turn down it coaxed him out of retirement and that now looks like an inspired decision elsewhere russia's bronze medal came in the figure skating ice dance competition in the can cuts a lot of doing enough to secure a place on the podium the gold medal actually went to the american davis and white who happened to be coached by a russian in the rain as

a waiver elsewhere in the biathlon women's twelve and a half k. in the mass start there the gold medal went to brett belorussian dowdy adama chave and it was her third gold medal of these games and in securing that gold she's become the first female by athlete to win three individual gold medals at a single winter olympics where the female biathlon mass start did take place however the men's event was postponed for a second day as well as the men's snowboard cross that's because of fog in the mountains of krasnaya polyana many people thought it would be the mild temperatures and the melting snow causing problems however it was the fog but both of those vent events have been rescheduled for cheese day with the fog now beginning to lift. ok paul folks that update there right now let's take a look at the medal standings and good reason to check it out of course there's been a major change tonight because russia's victory men's bobsleds put the national team into second place russia the netherlands norway and switzerland are all one five

goals but the host nation boasts more silver than anyone else out there germany still remains on top with its seven gold medals no talking of medals. delighted to say that in the last few minutes we managed to get into the studio here alexei who is the keeper of the medal he doesn't speak english so conversation between us is going to be very scares me it's not we're not here to talk we're here to look at what he's brought with him he's brought with him here the actual medals you're looking there at an actual gold medal wow i never thought i'd see one of these in real life it's a heavy old thing too i'm not allowed to touch it i'm so wanting to take it out and then she's also bought the bronze and the silver as well you take a look at the gold when you take a look at a close up of the gold i'll tell you about it thirteen hundred medals were made in total. they're heavy as well they weigh between four hundred sixty and five hundred fifty one grams the paralympic medals weigh

a bit more they go between five hundred eighty five and six eight six grams the reason because they've got different amounts of writing on the more writing they've got the lighter they because there's less metal where each one of these medals takes eighteen hours to produce. they also have back up medals as well have been two occasions in the olympics where there's basically been a tie one of the bronze one in the gold were four where two people won the same medal so that's where they've always got the stock of medals and so thirty nine hundred of these guys were produced or sold to pick it up i can't tell you but a legacy thank you so much for coming in saying is there a new look after those in the us treasury most of your life good stuff. meantime russia's ice hockey. team putting their all into training there were more of these medals but staying on track for the olympic gold would be possible without victory over norway the red machine takes on the scandinavians in a must win showdown tomorrow afternoon on sunday russia beat slovakia which often found some tollywood course following the bitter defeat suffered against team usa

earlier the win against the vakeel was hard fought though it needed attention to split the sides with neither managing to score in open play hopefully next discuss the performance than with the man who has previously given the russian fans the joy of celebrating a lympics success let's listen. i'm delighted to be joined by a probable ray ice hockey legend 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 us in the human soul is there also pressure you to so everybody expects we're going to do well. you know but there's a couple also experience to play them different kind of levels you know they can handle the pressure i want to be made of a russian stance so far mean obviously loss of a stage in a shootout very close game just struggle past you want to nothing again in the shootout beats slovenia but he made a play for the team. i have to say you know

a little from the mistakes of move forward because there's still four more games. or system you know like even this year you know it was a three games and they're all in still where you are they still got a chance to win the ball was in two thousand and six russia got a great start of an 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 it still would be give something good or even a camera didn't do well in the beginning and the one of goals also was going to happen because just a few questions from our facebook users of this question well what's more important . getting spearin stay in the n.h.l. all the places playing collectively in russia to help the russian team in general what's happened in the soviet union for instance i'm going to hopefully there for you know because in the chilean put you play for the club here with the contras was different right 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 older guys who used to play in the soviet union or 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 ice hockey such grace for someone of the biggest force in the world in your opinion. because we've got it all you know it's. it's really exciting to watch the hockey game so you know it's a great spirit. this flying around you know in the u.k. hate each other so it's actually good. obviously you played your first olympics and not going to a nine hundred ninety eight obviously you did once play much earlier on how crucial all n.h.l. you play is to be limping movement in hockey because there's talk of a sea of maybe n.h.l. players not playing in four years time when they when no one's going to happen in the future as you said when they can they need them and it's

a first i mean we're in the chilled stop the season for a couple weeks and all the bells this players in the world were just afraid for the tournament then because of the conference so there was this great. well you heard richard there include some questions as well from our facebook page followers we're going to be doing that whenever we get a chance to chat with a limp newsmakers unsporting veterans of please don't hesitate to take part on our tease facebook if there's a question you want to ask the big stars we like that question we'll ask it for you now we're still waiting of course for the results from tuesday's last event tonight the men ski jumps as we get that will bring it to you i hope to do that in the next hour when i'm back from now that i'm still looking at the table and this is the closest of the government going to come to all this metal we're bronze silver and gold the actual medals that probably going to be awarded throughout the next week you saw them here as well c.n.n. now.

thirteen twenty fourteen plus the people tonight in the exhilarating winter. storm use an hour and make over an hour and the rest of our local news team for sochi twenty four take. on. the news continues here in our international 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 and frightening scottish voters well last week u.k. chancellor george osborne more that if scotland votes in favor of independence it would have to surrender the pound in response and excitement i doubted the massive transaction costs u.k. businesses would face if the scots did indeed implement a new currency the president of the european commission added fuel to the fire by saying scotland stand very little chance of gaining e.u. membership were jonathan shafi he's a co-founder of scotland's radical independence campaign i spoke to him earlier he believes the country will be better off without the u.k.

or its currency. what we're seeing now throw this discussion i think is a government waste minister which is deeply panicked and deeply worried about the situation that's emerging in scotland we've seen since the turn of the new year the opinion polls increasingly in favor of a yes vote and therefore i don't think it's a message price that we've seen all of the waste minister parties gang up ness or to fashion and i think display some quite offensive behavior when it comes to the question of the currency 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 panic. and many other involved in the scottish independence movement also favor the transition to scottish poland where we don't have to. make to the plunge and after all i don't think we need. any more than anyone else because it's brought nothing but harm to the economy if you look at the chancellor's track record but

nothing but harm to millions and millions of working people right across the british isles more international news stories coming your way very shortly stay with us this is r.t. live in moscow. mito a deadly alliance without a clear mission decades after the end of the cold war this washington led alliance continues to exist and expand in a big us adventure in afghanistan and behind the scene change in libya nato now looks somehow in some way to absorb ukraine which is a close gambit. the

house of representatives in the u.s. state of kansas has approved a measure language of individuals and groups to openly declined services or employment to those they believe to be gay but has been criticized by the state senate amid fears it goes further than protecting religious beliefs let's get more now from marty's gonna get you can go on to joining us live there in washington

tell us just how much controversy is this bill causing the. well bill kansas lawmakers have outraged the gay community here in the u.s. as you know the u.s. supreme court last year ruled the ban on same sex marriage on constitutional you have states that have embraced that ruling and you have states that are trying to shield themselves from that ruling and here's how kansas is doing it kansas lawmakers have passed a bill that would allow businesses and state government employees to deny services to same sex couples if quote it would be contrary to their sincerely held religious beliefs so according to these lawmakers forcing a business or a state employee to deliver services to same sex couples amounts to a violation of his or her freedom of religion and speech gay rights advocates are outraged over this some say in terms of human rights it could be worse than simply not allowing gay marriage because you're talking about services that maybe medical care state hospitals can turn away gay couples at the door and deny them treatment

and this bill would protect them from the hospitals from discrimination lawsuits if a gay couple calls the police an officer may refuse to help them if interacting with a gay couple violates his or her religious principles in theory gay couples can be banned from public parks public pools that's how broad the language of this bill is kansas is not alone so-called religious exemption laws have been proposed in idaho mississippi ohio oklahoma and oregon twenty states have laws protecting residents from discrimination based on their sexual orientation but most states do not have them and it seems last year's supreme court decision and the overall trend toward equal rights for gay couples have prompted some of these conservative states to take an even more aggressive stance against the gay community going to think very much indeed for that flowed from washington studios

going to church com. senior security officials in the u.k. estimate more than two hundred british based jihadi as you went to fight the regime of bashar al assad in syria have returned home and now pose a significant terrorist threat of the sarah 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 in january 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 are joint concern though of course is that the first five terrorists the isis german soldiers for 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 fighting there they could return home and then the target could become. well meanwhile the british minister of immigration and security has responded to the report james brokenshire says the authorities 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 at the u.k. border to investigate any concerns of terrorist involvement with the critics call the program counterproductive play young british muslims or be victimized. let's get more notices on this now from different consultant and conflict analyst moonroof he's joining me live from the u.k. in birmingham so here's the u.k.

supporting the syrian opposition or in effect the tables now burning on you carrie . well they are. they are the british government is claiming that prevent is or the prevent initiative is there and exists in its current form to to stop radicalism but it hasn't prevented these are. individual individuals from traveling out to syria to carry out operations which will result in the murder of civilians and syrian government forces or members of the fact that they're fighting out there in syria does it necessarily mean that they will be fighting when they return to the u.k. where there's a possibility of that threat are becoming very real in the u.k. these guys they're obviously radicalized before they leave the u.k.

and there's a possibility there is some sort of trigger it would take a very you know very light trigger to to activate them once again so yes it's a possibility it's it's not certain until it happens obviously the syrian conflicts been going on for some time now do you think the country's security services have been taken by surprise by this turn of events did they see this coming. you mean the syrian government you know the pretty the british government you know the british government are no no no no i'll tell you why these are if you remember during the libyan conflict of twenty eleven twenty twelve a lot of libyan residents and citizens in the u.k. left to fight in the libya and the returns and i met these guys i've seen them on the streets here and these guys are potentially a threat as well no it's not a surprise for the british government there's no dissent this is been happening and

they know these people have been going to syria so the british government has been lying to its citizens by saying that they are now all of sudden shocked by the developments of these radicals and. homicidal maniacs going out to syria and return it because of not this has been happening for over two years or more in just finally this prevent initiative is being criticized for discriminating against young british muslims surely the security service is trying to be safe and it's better to be safe than sorry or are those accusations true. they are because what they're doing is that they are actually looking at as as the as that great british institution the e.t.l. as so eloquently called them are muslim mixed. they have actually. targeted young men who have nothing to do with radicalization or are not extremists

but you know they paint everyone with the same brush but they have to target these guys first specifically and look at the people who are in these radical yes defense consultant in conflict analyst thank you very much great to talk to you thanks. a string of apparent suicide struck the financial world with five senior banking executives taking their lives in one week r.t. to sell investigates. there are untimely deaths grabbed headlines three of which happened within a week be it the big investment banks they worked for the senior positions they held the public nature of their deaths or all three once again it raised questions . about an industry largely blamed for bringing the global economy to its knees and a two thousand and eight financial crisis michael taylor a former goldman sachs bond salesman who calls himself a recovering banker knew this world well it's so extraordinarily competitive and so

focused profit above all on the 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 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 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 a really important finding i think we keep on projecting this idea of bankers as masters of the universe they have everything we want but if you look at their actual life they can be fired in five minutes this is a deeply dysfunctional and utterly abusive system so there is this real taboo in banking like the army to own up to one former ability. does or so your r t london. more news within the team in just over half an hour from now coming up next the expansionist ambitions of nato are up for debate in crosstalk.

i did 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 asked but that's just my opinion. says a so we the people. closest to the. issues that no one is asking would be guests that deserve answers from. politicking .

i marinate joining me. for impartial and financial commentary for news and much much. only on bombast and. play. a low in 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.