the united states agrees to provide medical treatment to a russian pilot suffering severe chest pains in jail this after strong demands from moscow's foreign ministry here on the program an international week talk to the mother of the prisoner. sliding on to the podium rushers bobsledders win goal to push the host nation into second place on the winter olympics medal table look at how the duo prepared for victory. on same sex limits the kansas house of representatives waves through legislation that would have enshrined in law the right to discriminate against gays.

the world's top headlines live from moscow international with me will receive very soon a check in with a nice live in sochi for more limpid coverage but for now a russian pilot jailed in the u.s. will finally receive medical treatment after russian diplomats insisted he was in need of urgent attention. has been suffering severe pain and according to his lawyer may be on the verge of a heart attack and we spoke to mother who insisted her son is being left to suffer for no reason. he's not guilty why are they driving him to his death why did he do wrong i keep asking what evil did he cause to the united states what did he do did he kill somebody did he rob somebody no he's not guilty of any crime . moscow is still waiting for washington to allow a russian delegation of diplomats to actually visit you at

a show in prison. an associate now taking a look back at the case of the exploited. in twenty ten detained in liberia and the sting operation brought on to u.s. soil and twenty eleven sentenced to twenty years behind bars for conspiring to internationally smuggle drugs the case of russian pilot constantin your son go stirring relations between moscow and washington returns to the headlines yet again a man with no previous criminal background anywhere in the world someone who has never even stepped foot on u.s. soil prior to his being snatched up by u.s. officials there schenkel became the first russian citizen to be sentenced in the u.s. for an intent to participate in a crime that was built by special agents posing as drug dealers arrested in a third country after the imprisoned pilots numerous cries for medical help remain unanswered in the u.s. his lawyer after visiting the man in jail recent alarm saying his client needs urgent medical care if he is still live seeing your shadow seems to be on the brink of

a heart attack prison officials say they will now look into his health with an emergency checkup at a hospital but moscow is demanding that the russian citizen being held in a new jersey prison be allowed a proper visit from russian diplomats as well as russian and american doctors for a full examination of his health are still to come here and all of the international edward snowden's lawyer detained and interrogated by customs officials in london it's just the latest such incident where you ask of what she was put through why she thinks whistleblowers are being specifically targeted by certain countries so. a decision by the kansas house of representatives to pass a bill which would have allowed the legal discrimination of gay couples was met with rage across america a somewhat embarrassed state senate now plans to sink the legislation which would have allowed people to use their religious beliefs to openly deny services or employment to homosexual couples go in a church. kansas lawmakers have outraged the gay community here in the u.s.

says you know last year the u.s. supreme court ruled that the ban on same sex marriage is unconstitutional so you have states that have embrace this 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 foresees businesses or state employees to deliver services to same sex couples is a violation of their freedom of religion and speech gay rights advocates are of course outraged over this some say it could be worse than anybody simply not allowing gay marriage because we're talking about services that could not include medical care is so state hospitals can potentially turn away gay couples at the

door and deny treatment and this bill would protect them from discrimination lawsuits if a gay couple calls the police an officer may refuse to help them on religious grounds that's how broad the language of this kansas bill is we're asking residents of washington d.c. one of the most gay friendly cities in the u.s. what they think about this bill. i think it's really terrible i think that employers should not be able to just like not let same sex couples have the same benefits as regular married couples based on their religious beliefs that's a fundamental contradiction of separation of church and state like that's why. why why do you think that. i don't think that the state. should be able to force people to do things that go against their religious beliefs kansas's not alone so-called religious example why are so big. proposing idaho

mississippi ohio oklahoma and oregon twenty states have laws protecting residents from discrimination based on their sexual orientation but most states do not and it seems last year's supreme court's decision and the oral 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 in washington i'm going to check on r.t.e. earlier we spoke to one activist who told us that same sex couples in kansas are discriminated against on a daily basis regardless of any legislation that's being enacted. in kansas we have no anti-discrimination statute which includes sexual orientation or gender identity even if the supreme court tomorrow were to be clear that the kansas anti-discrimination bans are unconstitutional residents of kansas could go right ahead and discriminate as they do to day so it's kind of a smokescreen that

a lot of people are drawing up that this is really about cakes and waiting on people who already have the ability to turn that down because there's no connection to your sexual orientation the main thing that this bill will do that will upset the community is it will enable the government of government employees to continue to pick and choose what marriage is they are valid by the statute so even after see clearly unconstitutional they're trying to give employees and the government the right to go ahead and turn down citizens and i could be any employee of any government agency or add on the way your analogy international where the money to buy trust one of britain's biggest high street banks suffers a major blow to its image of the customer data becomes a goldmine for cutthroat brokers a full story just ahead for you here on the program. now though when our international russia hosts from fifth to second in the winter olympics medal table

but faces a fight to stay there over the well the last few days of competition let's go live to our studio artes and he said now i mean how are things looking for russia optimistic perhaps. yes indeed the bobsled team gave russian fans reason to celebrate they won the country's first gold in the event for over two decades by the way one of us just champion bomb players is actually an arm wrestler as well in the past time call some tension with his teammate not exactly happy that arm wrestling led to some training sessions being missed but luckily they got over that they got the gold we caught up. the brakemen told us teamwork is key to success. but good luck is what. let's be objective it's a team sport where the result is a combination of many factors it's the pilot's work it's the preakness it's coaches and mechanics who team together it's

a winter formula one that our new group pilots with arctic regions. live well it's going to be packed with action here in sochi especially since the snowboarding by avalon events were canceled on monday due to thick fog and they're now expected to take place today later in the evening all eyes will be on hockey with russia needing a win against norway as artie's andrew farmer now reports. there's only one place to start of the one that's the men's ice hockey because russia take on norway for a place in the quarter finals the pressure is mounting on the host off they failed to reach the last eight automatically but they really should beat this norwegian side who have lost their great opening games and also have a limited squad because they only have something like one player in the n.h.l. compared to something like russia's sixteen however there's been no word of caution from one soviet legend i think it's going to be a. little bit. boring for the team because you have played against norway but it's

you have to or understand you know there's no. fixed so you have to be aware they have to respect you played against you know that's the same time you have a chance like to see different. nations and to see what's what you have today and. what you plan for the next trial to a quarter finals well many people are predicting a russian win but what about the norwegians there are plenty of them here and we caught up some. point louis x.i.v. game with russia. same pressure to be strong expect to be very interesting and hoping or we will do good but i think the russian bear will crush them unfortunately for us and we'll see whether those predictions come true at the bolshoi when it's later on will be full of that norwegian fans will be

cheering up here in the mountains because the heavy fog from yesterday does appear to have lifted and that means the men's must start in the biathlon will go ahead only on a billion dollar and you know wage and he's going in that he's off to record the winter olympic medalist for the russian interest to do the kind of the name if you can get on each if he's looking to add to the bronze medal he got last week. and farmer reporting from sochi is mountain cluster there now the sochi games have been full of examples of a limping persistence number more so than canadian snowboarder dominic malpais thirty three year old won silver in the women's snowboard cross taking some revenge for her heartbreaking to feat in vancouver four years ago back then multi-day suffered a bad crash in training before the race started injured and in pain she finished twentieth and failed to pass the qualification round so a great comeback for her in sochi and she told us she was happy with the slopes too as well as getting

a chance to meet some new people. you know it's my third time in racing in sochi last year to get this nomination wasn't easy for sure but this year it's it's only spring condition and we used to race in those kind of snow kind of condition and it wasn't that bad a good many moons course was really good and they did a great job in the course it was there for sure and i could get bigger and we used to right but it was really fun and good speed and a good show and. just good like a favorite. to see us and say hi there it's a great experience for everyone and i would like to see him push the olympic games can be a thrill ride. i for the found just as much as they asked lee but if the emotional roller coaster isn't enough for visitors maybe they would be interested in a real one artist martin andrews explains. hold on tight saatchi park is here will almost be official opening is this summer

for the guests to be in the park concurrently get a taste of what's going to be on offer located next to the fish stadium it's taken an international team months to design and prepare the attraction estimated to cost over three hundred seventeen million dollars this year on the. supercard hirsch on the bush and fairy tales to. the people at french or experience the adventure park will feature thirty five rides and attractions based on mission total and continue as india rounds from. medical field plans to highlight for many will be the adrenaline filled rights including russia's tallest and fastest roller coaster. for a different thrill seeking activity i head inland located near the olympic cluster of christ like pollyanna energetic visitors here must be prepared to climb zip

swing balance and jump through the forest the tree obstacle course blends the mountain views with a variety of elements ranging from easy to well extremely challenging i feel like i'm a member of the moscow state circus and so far it's a great play here include this. parties martin enters having some fun there here in sochi now the women's giant slalom is starting in less than an hour speed skating events are also coming up and we're here to keep you up to date with everything that's happening in sochi but for now back to you in moscow i think for much of that and they say enjoy yourself down there the sort your twenty fourteen winter olympics as it continues here well many reasons for you to stay tuned with us here on r.t. international the sporting victories we're giving you all the very latest actually whether it comes to our official facebook page instagram or even our twitter page as you can see right here we've got analysis we've got comments from the sports

other spectators as well you can find all the very latest also women's a bobsled drive a pool of water right there from team great britain she tweeted a behind the scenes look at their preparation for today's race nothing too glamorous but all in a day's work so bringing you all the very latest from sochi keep up to date all the olympic excitement around the clock right here on r.t. international. the g. twenty fourteen almost is the ultimate in exhilarating winter. storm and it's now a make seven zero and the rest of our lives take these teams to sochi twenty four take. on. all right it's a quarter past the hour here in moscow as the winter games on fold german t.v. is explaining to kids what they're all about. touches turns to sochi is a city in russia the head of state in russia is. and he doesn't always respect

human rights in his land fall focusing on politics rather than the sports and offering pre-teens a controversial view of some very grown up subjects that story just around the corner for you. transit. your best way to the heart of moscow.

psyche. to have you with us here on all three international today thanks for joining us a human rights advocate and edward snowden lawyer jesselyn radical says she was interrogated one arriving at london's heathrow airport and she was detained by customs officials and faced what she describes as a well hostile questioning it was

a line of questioning that went beyond the usual that went into who i represent as an attorney any kind of line of questioning into my into the details of my work and specific clients is beyond the ambit of what any normal customs official would ask i've never been asked these kinds of questions and found it to be very intimidating and hostile journalist david miranda was detained at london's heathrow airport in august last year he was questioned for nine hours and all of his electronic equipment was seized just because of his well rather loose affiliation with edward snowden. says this is a very worrying trend. i feel like lawyers and journalists are now beginning to be targeted at the borders of countries in the western hemisphere in so-called democratic countries and it's a threat to press freedom when journalists are questioned and it's

a threat to the integrity of the judicial system when attorneys who are working on someone's case are being harassed or intimidated on the basis of who they represent or online if you are right now what. is the u.s. prepares to pull out of afghanistan the pentagon eye is up another part of central asia. and lethal could soon appear. on its washington considers opening drone bases right along the afghan border has details of a highly controversial plan. right now. both of the story why you're there in qatar the cost of hosting a major sporting event as well as being paid in human lives hundreds of immigrant construction workers have died while building stadiums and infrastructure for the twenty twenty two football world cup the details because they are on the website right now. banking giant barclays is facing

a crisis of customer confidence after the private data of thousands of his clients was leaked medical issues income salaries savings insurance policies all apparently used as tools of manipulation by unscrupulous broca's. most. when you go to the bank and on suppose no questions about your finances the last thing you expect is that your aunt says i'm going to be sold on to rogue traders but that's exactly what happened to twenty seven thousand barclays customers here in the u.k. it was an anonymous whistleblower who handed some of that stolen data over to the mail on sunday newspaper revealing the worst case of data loss from a high street bank the police are now investigating i want to go public to stop a get in bigger was pure gold to brokers who must have made a fortune out of it because it gave them

a psychological edge over potential investors their victims the files contained customers passport money and health information as well as that attitudes to risk the whistleblower described it as a gold mine that could be manipulated by traders running investment scams i think people know that big banks like barclays really can't be trusted and we saw p.p.i. and libel actually two point four million switch away from big banks to smaller banks that they felt she could in the car to their money and where they called barclays say that they're contacting all the customers involved in the data breach which they say relates to people who use their financial planning business that closed down back in two thousand and eleven. protection our customers data is a top priority and we take this issue extremely seriously this appears to be criminal action and we will cooperate with authorities in person when the

perpetrator the banks already had to pay a two hundred ninety million pound fine for its part in the libel rigging scandal they've also had to set aside two billion pounds to compensate people who were mis sold payment protection insurance but regaining trust after this latest. blunder could be something that money can't buy. poorly boy see. to venezuela now which has given three u.s. consular officials forty eight hours to leave the country in response to a week of national unrest. thank you who are some of the scenes for you right now president nicolas maduro accusing american officials are fueling student protests under the cover of visiting universities to grant visas washington calling the allegations ridiculous that these three people fatally shot last week

in clashes between pro and anti-government demonstrators. by some of the internet or yes i would be buying choking in tear gas off the riot police force protestors from the government ministry they would know why they started months over one hundred demonstrators arrested off the big used dry cement to seal the main gates of the prime minister's office in a bid to prevent the government from returning to work the opposition won so you can love what will step down the government refuses to cave in and is vowing to retake hold you see jerry i. people are being killed in the iraqi capital during the night of explosions bombs went off or two she was on the busy bus station a fierce fighting continues between government forces and al-qaeda militants who have taken control of large parts of. international politics as easy as one two three t.v.

broadcaster in germany which aims to teach kids all about russia as a very particular message of the president presented as a villain the opposition receiving nothing but praise her all about reports. touchiest understand what she is a city in russia how the head of state in russia is leadin important and he doesn't always respect human rights in his land this is how the german kids t.v. show logo he dealt with the to build up to the little things that he didn't look at some of the clips and you see the show dealing with complex issues in the simple ways to tell the pre-teen audience how they stage bloody me a poor teen this hopes and fears so many people in russia who think that like a little tin is in power way too long and that it is known that he will win the election before the vote even started and regarding critics of the kremlin alexei in the bayani galaxy never least put his opponent down and he has always that cleared it out loud and many people think that's the only reason why he had to go

to jail commons all the komodo tenafly go into the winter games of the un sad to find they find it bad that human rights in russia are not always respected he contacted the program make his state funded channels the d.s. and i never submitted for an interview about the potential for use in the show they declined did so and this reply by email. is aimed at children aged eight to twelve years old children appreciate logo manages to portray even the most complex topics which children to understand moreover daily reactions of children to the show are that they're mostly on board with logo content data reported this also applies to political issues whether national or international policy. they haven't been no children are being used in the media as a tool for that they should be told that everything that comes from t.v. has been pretty chewed and now we go out there and prove for yourself the opposite

they always tell the negative things if it's different it's bad if it's different it's dangerous sin city if we're prepared to give me an interview i want to speak to those who fund the broadcaster and the taxpayers as. naturally children take what adults tell them as truth and that with this kind of information would do no good for a. child psychologists also agree that children as young as ages are fully capable of real critical sorts was being shown to them at that age they are not rebellious they're questioning and they might not quite believe this program an eight year old can't put the whole picture together these are all of us jenny breaking the set with abby martin that's next.

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 opinion. and. choose your language. of choice because you know if. she knows that it's the consensus get to. choose the opinions that invigorating

good. excuse to stories get in your life choose access to your office. what's really good folks i'm mental rob lowe filling in for abby martin welcome to breaking the set so by now we all know their phone calls emails text messages gaming tendencies and even porn habits are no longer private things were friendly neighborhood and essay but the one area that still appeared to be safe from the prying eyes of uncle peeping sam was attorney client privilege well thanks to the latest edward snowden leak that broke over the weekend we know that even this most hollowed and protective of relationships is subject to surveillance to get out according to a top secret document obtained by the new york times

a us law firm representing the government of indonesia for assistance with the international trade talks was selected for monitoring in february of last year the n.s.a. was working directly with its counterpart agency in australia to gather information about the law firm and its dealings with indonesia and yes this went far beyond just gathering for metadata as trailers signals directorate explicitly told the n.s.a. that quote information covered by attorney client privilege may be included in intelligence gathering well that's sure to make americans feel a whole lot better about the fairness of the u.s. justice system. from the wiretapping of western leaders to the industrial espionage of brazilian oil companies it's becoming increasingly clear that the so-called national security mandate is a complete joke the agency has shown time and time again that if it wants information on the inner workings of business government agencies and now law firms will stop at nothing to get it so if you believe that attorney client privilege still means something in this country then join us and let's bring.