transit route. your best way to the heart of moscow. and go do the things in his face was rather shortness of breath a burning sensation in the chest high blood pressure these sometimes. happen are the. u.s. prison officials say now help russian convict. with the move coming to moscow wait in. the russian winter long anticipated. first ever in the sport and the host nation's modern history. the russian hockey squad prepares to take on norway in their first playoff game to talk to the man who led the red machine and the big silver back in the ninety's we go live to sochi very shortly. home delivered terrorist threats over two hundred british people have

returned from fighting in syria after being recruited and trained by hardline groups. not from a studio center here in moscow this is 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 after top russian officials weighed in to demand help for the conflict moscow says washington denies constantinian 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 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. 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 mr yushchenko we spoke to his lawyer and he told us that he is being kept in a very poor conditions and he himself is reportedly suffering from a heart attack and practically no help no medical help is being given to me in the new jersey prison where he's been kept right now let's listen to what the lawyer had to say. did appear sick to me his face was red hue visibly shortness of breath he would take pauses in our conversation compose himself he was having difficulty remembering the dates and the chronology of the different events that took place this week shortness of breath a burning sensation in the. just high blood pressure these 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 who had a high fever and couldn't get up for days nobody looked after him he was physically unable to walk across the prison to the medical block where he would have queued for our ways because of his constant constant he was keeping his cellmates awake and they were becoming hostile to him constant and used to be 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 has been provided or will be provided it's still unclear is a u.v. check the ultrasound check inside the new jersey prison yet a shrink who 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 charge he denies russia called the move a kidnapping and has been a supporter get to change his defense team but stay with r.t.

for the latest on this developing story and you can also get more on the row over constants in the ocean here on our websites r.t. dot com. live from moscow this is r.t. international time now to cross over to my colleague kevin owen who's in all sorts of studio with a summary of day ten of the winter olympics. here hi bill i all nice to see you again want to date spain that we're leading our for every single round and never gave up the advantage or of course talking about the heroes of olympic day alexander zuckoff for the legacy of the russian jew who won the highly anticipated gold in the bobsled event is out is paul scott. alexander 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 russians 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 but 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 cats 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 arena as a waiver elsewhere in the biathlon women's twelve and a half k. in the mass start there the gold medal went to a russian daddy a dorm achiever 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 must 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 tuesday with the fog now beginning to lift. those seven foot she time let's take a look at the medal standing sure there's a major change because russia's victory in the men's bob slays therefore put the national team into second place russia the netherlands the u.s. and norway have all won five goals in over the host nation both more silver that it would else in the top five and after clinching gold in the final event of day ten of them. germany strengthen this position on top with eight gold medals meantime russia's ice hockey team putting their all into training but staying all track for the olympic gold will be possible of course for their victory over norway the red machine takes on the scandinavians in a must win show tuesday afternoon on sunday russia beats

a vacuum which often find some tonic following the bitter defeat against team usa earlier the win against a vacuum was hard for though it needed attention to split the sides with neither managing to score play artie's which of import fleet discuss their performance advantage previously given the russian fans the big joy of celebrating olympic success. to be joined by a probable ray ice hockey legend three 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 well here's a live for us in the human soul this we are also pressuring the server but expect we're going to do well. you know the but it will also experience simply going to different kind of levels you know that 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 like you want to nothing again in the shootout beats slovenia but he made

a play for the team. i have to say you know only a little from the mistakes of move forward because there's still four more games. or good system you know like even this year you know it was a three games and they're all in seal who if they still get a chance to win the gold. 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 it still would be give something good or even to canada didn't do well the beginning of the one of gold so we'll see we're going to have just a few questions from. facebook users this question well what's more important getting experience in the n.h.l. all took 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 chilean put you play for the club here with what it just was

different for you but also 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 cheer missional 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 somebody talkies such grace for someone of a because 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 in the u.k. that you're there so it's actually good. obviously you played the first olympics and not going to a nine hundred ninety eight obviously you did once play much earlier on how crucial are any. players to be limping movement in hockey because there's talk obviously of maybe n.h.l. players not playing in four years' time when they're when no one's going to happen in the future for as you said they can they need to mark them out so first i mean

we're in the chill stop the season for a couple weeks and all the bills this players in the world were just too great for the tournament that was at the conference so there was a big no to see they've just to richard includes two questions two from our facebook followers we'll be doing that whenever we get a chance to chat with a limp newsmakers a sporting veteran so don't hesitate facebook page so the day ten dollars dusted in sochi but with another recap of the olympic headlines of the past twenty four hours it's not over quite yet in the next hour you can join me there. so james when you're fourteen promises because in that game exhilarating winter sports and our team is here to join me and you see now if i may have an eye on the rest of our lives they can use team for sochi twenty four take place on. the news continues here in altie international and senior security officials in the

u.k. yes to make more than two hundred british post you had these who went to fight the regime of bashar al assad in syria have returned home and now pose a significant terrorist threat of the sort of first takes on 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 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 the 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. concerned of course is that the five terrorists we the isis. the british citizen 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 didn't 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 the authorities are applying the so-called prevent strategy to tackle domestic radicalization and the inflow of foreign fighters gives police the power to examine and detain individuals or you could border to investigate any concerns of terrorist involvement however critics call the program counter productive young british muslims are being victimized or carry but if it is a journalist who was once under control order by the british authorities because they suspected he was a terrorist and he told me earlier there's no solid evidence to show those coming back from syria no 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 they've necessarily joined 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 say pose any threat to the u.k. above and beyond what any other person who has military training but you think it's really it's right if the authority is 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 as 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 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 if 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 as simple as disagreeing with foreign policy. r.t. international live here in moscow more news stories coming up shortly after the break.

well not told you my language as well but i will only react to situations i have read the reports and let the players know i will leave them to the state department to comment on your latter point i've come to say it's secure yet a car is on the docket no god. no more weasel words when you have a direct question be prepared for a change when you throw a punch be ready for a battle for the speech and little down diffidence across. venezuela has ordered three u.s. consular officials to be expelled from the country as unrest in the south american states spirals out of control president maduro accused the diplomats of

orchestrating the student opposition protests for the sweeping the country at least three people were killed last week in clashes between pro and anti-government demonstrators meanwhile the united states has brushed off anything but you find the turmoil in venezuela that's now across to paris and cloudy salerno she is the but as well and vice minister of foreign affairs now president had some strong words to say about washington's involvement in these protests is he merely trying to divert attention here and find a scapegoat and. obviously accuse them of his domestic problems. it is not unusual of escaping of anything we are scenes of few years and many years calling the us to respect venezuela and them ocracy and the fact

that the venezuelan people already decided what kind of government they want to have so we will never accept for any country not from the us the kind of say is to develop involvement in national affairs in our country we have said repeatedly that respect will be the basis for our relationships is not about escaping any kind of. they are many actions that have been done by these groups which are very violent they have support from the us government and we denounce it from the voice of our president that these actions are all kissed a bit from the us and with the economical support of the us and what is the proof what is the problem for all of that all of this has to involve tell us about that practical proof what are the indications.

our minister of foreign affairs airily this morning in the early times in caracas and now we have in our hands factual proof that correspondence between the u.s. embassy in caracas to the department of foreign affairs in the secretary of state of the u.s. prove that they have developed what it is call a document a call a strategic points from the u.s. team in venezuela for the program matic support from the u.s. to the opposition youth sectors in venezuela that document also supported by many many implementation actions that we'll also have proof of coming from the year two thousand and ten two thousand and eleven twelve and thirteen and recently dizzy year this function as diplomats from the consulate were traveling all around the country. calling. to receive training for actually

make. on on solve issues in the country so to try to promote and non-democratic. social problems in the country on the iraq is in advance of the government let me just ask you but but there are issues of the country is facing a deep economic crisis at the moment there is assuring crime rate people are not happy in the country do they not have a right to express our unhappiness and protest. that is a quiet simple way to see things were happening in the country we have been facing a very critical time in the country since the passing of our president in march and the country has responded in a very pacifist democratic way actually taking from the vaults the decision to

the continuing of the social and from the sad that people are unhappy is quite a simple way to see things when what do you see in the images those minorities are protecting i actually didn't minority. things them all crazy and elections are not an option or what you say to those critics or say the country the majority that express themselves again you talk about those socialist policies what you say to the critics who say i was trying to say and then with the material is actually wrecking the economy by sticking to those x. chavez era policies. no we are not breaking the economy the economy is being attacked by opposition leaders that are actually attacking the economy from the outside is not a national issue is a for an issue that is actually linked with the fact that some sectors once the end of the government by non-democratic ways and the economical crisis that is being

created by the private sector actually diminish in the production of certain products for example in the supermarket that you cannot find is because of their willingness to create a fake situation of tension economical tension that is created actually from a political will to and a good for man by an undemocratic way and we have been tackling those issues calmly peacefully and democratically in the recent elections we had in the same boat we won for over eleven points so that shows actually that the majority of the country are greece with the policy and agrees with the fact that we have a socialist government that is more of the majority of the people and we do not want that to drink occasionally very much the minority of opposition radicalism that has taken the streets cannot be taken as the basis of the lesson of the

country live from paris thank you very much in the cloud is a learner as well as vice minister of foreign affairs thank you so much your time we really appreciate you joining us or not international. well 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 the u.k. 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. business would face if the scots implemented a new currency and the president of the european commission added fuel to the fire by saying scotland stands very little chance of gaining e.u. membership were jonathan shafi he's a co-founder of scotland's radical independent campaign believes the country would 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 opinion polls increasingly in favor of a yes vote and therefore i don't think it seems that price that we've seen all of the waste minister parties going on and that's sort of 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 tar view 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 and many others involved in the scottish independence movement also favor the transition to scottish code where we don't have to rely on anything connected with london 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 this chancellor's track record but nothing to harm to millions and millions of working people right across the british isles. newsroom in the team in just over half an hour from now in the meantime here on r.t. international all the olympic victories and much much more in our sports program

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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 has to fashion just my

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full picture of the day you know. from around the globe. look to. larry thank you for joining me kate daughtry's for the r.t. sports and then pick special hole reaction 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 to victory in the two man bobsled to win his maiden limping gold at the sound of the country's first since nine hundred eighty eight. last travel went out and the much about all the galleries cruising to victory in the women's twelve point five kilometer

passed on to them by a long gold medal in sochi. call yours earlier all eyes turned indoors to the curling fifty kilometer biathlon and snowboard cross held over until tuesday you could have been searching. and raising the bar surrogate booker looks on as french olympic champion that no breaks the ukrainians twenty one year old cold war record. but first let's go to the winter games in sochi where our correspondent richard down boldly has news of another russian gold medal after a foggy day at the olympics well hello there richard there's only one place to start which is the bobsled and what an evening for russia. what an evening for an example. of a claim gold in the men's two man bobsled and what

a performance it has been from the last couple of days they were dominant ryan from the start setting a track record in their first run and also setting another track record in their third run and they were comfortable when is in the end as a finish just over half a second clear of the switzerland who are in second place funtastic story for the driver examples of call fus really been the nearly mano suppose for russia claiming a silver and bronze in vancouver last time outs. here going obviously one better claim the gold i'm a great man as well i would say a boy of all days forty one of all colors for personalities you can probably me to the olympic see is also a professional arm wrestler. he took a break actually from. do professional arm wrestling and she intends to take up that side career after the olympics finish also the.