i'm going to you're going to be. coming up on r t it was another day of fierce competition at the sochi olympic games today female athletes from around the world competed in hockey ice skating and much more the latest on the wins and losses just ahead and ukraine remains in a state of chaos televisa continue to pile up as protesters and authorities clash more on the unrest in ukraine from our team reporter who is on the ground in the chaos and a new database is being created to keep more than fingerprints doctors at johns hopkins university are creating a digital library of brain m.r.i. scans so what could be the goal behind this ride out later in the show.

it's thursday february twentieth four pm in washington d.c. i'm meghan lopez and you are watching r.t. america well it was a nother big alone big day for team usa in sochi russia teams competed in women's highest women's hockey and freestyle skiing events among other competitions are taking place here's a look at the leaderboard the u.s. leads with twenty five in the medal count russia is two behind with twenty three medals followed by the netherlands norway canada and germany now the long anticipated rematch between the u.s. and canada in women's hockey ended with canada on top and they bitter defeat for the americans for more from sochi i spoke with ortiz paul scott just a short time ago about the gold medal women's hockey match. well it's a case of deja vu ruin his whole break for the usa canada three. in the women's ice

hockey final to secure all the gold medal the usa thought at one stage that they were going to head for revenge of course canada beating the usa three two in the preliminary stages the usa would turn up at one stage going in to the final period or one state in the final period but late goals from canada secured overtime and the momentum shift. in their favor canada's fantastic winter olympics winning streak continues well over twenty matches now since they last lost they were the three time champions going into tonight's match so perhaps they were favorites for many many people but it was absolute drama on the ice the same thing it couldn't be couldn't have been close between the two sides what kind of is great record continues it is a disappointment and heartbreak for the usa defeat in the most agonizing fashions but the usa will be hoping i suppose to get revenge later on friday when the two sides meet again in the men's hockey competition this is for a place in the final they go head to head in the last four so the usa will be

looking for revenge the other semifinal sweden take on thin and so what is the chance for the usa and to move on to gold in the men's hockey match. well they're going to fancy their chances of course the u.s. have already been sternly tested in the men's hockey competition you remember that thrilling game they had against russia in the preliminary stages where they went into overtime it was a two two draw that day they went to one of the most lengthy shootouts. the usa eventually prevail so they have been sternly tested on the ice and tomorrow they take on a kind of decide who of course will be boiled by what their female counterparts have just done so all eyes are going to be on the bolshoi on friday where the usa take on canada and i think we can expect another thrilling match up and pine know that i talking isn't the only thing that's going down in the rink today talk about the big. events which figure skating what do we know from the who are the winners

and losers are yeah i think figure skating is probably the number one sport in russia right now after the men's hockey team were beaten of course by finland in the quarterfinals i think they've all turned their attention to figure skating this is a sport the russia are doing exceptionally well in this evening they've just claimed their first ever gold medal in the women's individual competition in the figure skating went. to put in an absolutely full list display in her free program to move from second to the halfway stage after she was in the silver medal position following the short program so she has secured gold it's given the russian. a bit of a boost but of course before. the competition started all eyes were on a fifteen year old. who was the new darling of russian sport she was absolutely superbly she helped russia to win the team event but she stumbled twice stumbled once in her short program last night and she stumbled and fell to the ice again in the free program she ended up finishing fifth i have no doubt the fifteen years of

age the time will come again but this evening it's all about. she's the one that is she's the one who has given the russian sporting fans a much needed shot in the something to cheer them up after the hockey defeats and i can tell you that the usa has great disappointment narrowly missing out on a medal finishing fourth and what are some of the big events that we can expect tomorrow as we head into the final weekend of the winter games. well i suppose over the next twenty four forty eight hours or so all eyes are really going to be on sunday's men's ice hockey find it really is the showpiece event of any winter olympics and is a bit of an air of deflation i have to tell you in and around sochi this week after russia suffered that defeat to finland they were going into the tournament talked about as favorites having favorites they have won and i saw key goals since the fall of the soviet union in one thousand nine hundred eighty however some russian players were part of the unified team that won gold in one nine hundred ninety two but it wasn't to be they they lost to finland in the quarter finals three one are

not really did slightly deflate the mood in and around sochi certainly for the home fans i have to say but of course we have the semifinal lineup in the men's competition tomorrow with sweden taking on pain and in the usa taking on can they decide to i suppose local dobbies if you will which are going to add to the excitement and attention and that concludes on sunday afternoon a few hours before the closing ceremony so that's the showpiece event that's building up and that we're all leading to over the next day o t r t s pasta freeing up the latest from such a rationale in the winter olympic games thank you so much. well let's go to ukraine now were a temporary truce between police and rioters broke down overnight and bloodshed filled the streets of kiev once again. ukrainian health department says at least seventy five people have been killed in the clashes however doctors working on the scene say as many as seventy protestors

were reported dead today alone and hundreds of others have been injured during this twelve week ordeal as well the heaviest fighting is happening in independence square now the surge in the number of victims comes as both armed rioters as well as police are now using live ammunition in clashes many of the protesters and police officers killed or injured since tuesday sustained gunshot wounds now today is being described as the deadliest day in the protests to date or to correspondent alexei joined us earlier and shared with us his harrowing experience in ukraine including being shot at. well right now we're pretty much ok very turbulent day for us first of all getting here to a hotel ok you know where i am right now which is pretty much a fortress of the opposition right in groups at the moment was a nightmare because all the adjoining streets were blocked off by the police and the first thing i saw on my way here was a policeman beaten to

a bloody mass carried on the stretcher and i was really surprised to see that because last night supposedly the opposition and the government and the president managed to agree on a truce on a ceasefire so it looked nothing like a like a ceasefire from the first minutes i got here then i had a live broadcast at nine o'clock in the morning and while i was doing that broadcast i saw literally hell coming alive behind me with the protesters throwing molotov cocktails and firing live weapons at the police the police retreating and right in the middle of my live broadcast the right wing groups were actually running towards my life position so i literally for the first time in my fifteen year career in television i have to say to the viewers i have to apologize because this is no longer safe and i'll just leave you with a report i did yesterday so this is how the day started literally two hours later we were doing a live shot from a life position one floor below where i'm standing right now in hotel ukraine

literally about ninety seconds before i was supposed to go in that. shot was fired into our room and hit the glass broke the window and hit the wall literally thirty fifty centimeters from where our crew was standing and getting ready for the live broadcast we eventually did the live broadcast but it was quite tense indeed and later on in one of the rooms of our crews we managed to find seven sixty two bullets presumably fired from the kalashnikov so this is pretty much across five bullets were fired in every direction and even in the rooms where there were no people inside there were still bullet holes and bullets to be found alive. that is just unbelievable i really hope that you and your crew are keeping safe out there obviously this peace treaty that was supposed to have happened between the police and the rioters has not actually happened or it was broken very quickly can you talk about the latest you know about that peace train well this priest peace treaty is nothing as we can see i mean it's nonexistent it is once again

a viable proof that the people in the protest in the heart of the protests the so-called right wing sect that they're not taking orders from anybody from the opposition all from anyone else in fact their leader said last night that he knew nothing about this truce and that they would not obey orders they want the revolution to go to the very end and this is pretty much what was happening in the morning in kiev and from my standpoint where i was standing i clearly saw that it was the protesters who were attacking the police not the other way around as it happens on several occasions here in kiev so this is no truce i mean we cannot speak about any kind of reconciliation between the sides and despite the efforts by the opposition and the president to agree on something these people here at the my down at the independence square they are willing to go to the very end right now it's later it relatively calm we were hearing very sporadic gun shows gunshots being fired but it's not particularly tense at the moment it's i would say it's

a tense wait people are waiting for something whether this will be another a sold or something else but this is a very very nervous wait and alexei i do want to clarify something we know that the police are using live ammunition but from your a perspective from what you have seen you've also seen protesters using guns and ammunition as well right absolutely i can confirm that i've sold with my own eyes both the police and the protesters and the rioters using live weapons in fact when the police were retreating they fired a k seventy four famous collage and of rifles a special version called discussion forces. at the protesters and the protesters were firing hunting rifles sniper rifles handguns and we may actually managed by pure luck by pure coincidence to get into their sniping position at the fourteenth floor of the hotel you cry you know where i am right now where the protests of the riots have their sniping position our cameraman was inside to film how they were

firing back at presumably snipers off the of the armed forces of the police so yes it is absolutely clear that both sides are using live rounds now and this is bringing in a much more fuel to the old already ongoing fire now ally anderson also that you were covering the orange revolution that happened in ukraine back nine years ago or so and so talk about your experience covering that and kind of compare it to what we're dealing with now is there any comparison you can strike. well i can say i can safely say that i've covered several hotspots as we as we call it with riots and conflicts but already revolution a little less than nine years ago was nothing compared to what is happening at the moment because it was pretty much a peaceful protest peaceful attempt to overthrow the regime no bullets were fired no rocks were thrown no molotov cocktails were used it was a purely peaceful matter back then there was certainly some feeling that army could

be involved tanks would enter the city and things may get violent but it never did this time the suspicion the allegation that and even the belief that the army may actually be involved in this conflict and may attack anytime soon even during this night is absolutely real because of all the things happening because still many dead i've just literally seen at least ten corpses of riot is carried to the independence square for a vigil and pretty much the same thing is happening from the police side we also know of. reported several dead policemen on that other side a lot of injured so this is nothing compared to the orange revolution they were just lucian was a completely peaceful one no force whatsoever only some minor pushing and shoving this time it's real warfare in kiev and i'm afraid to actually i'm afraid to even think what was going to happen next with the country in whole in the whole alexei i cannot stress enough how high how much i hope you keep safe and keep bringing us

here excellent reports are to correspondent alexei hero chef the reporting from kiev in ukraine. well european union leaders are now criticizing the ukrainian government for its role in the bloodshed and have agreed to impose sanctions on the country during his trip to mexico president obama expressed concern about the situation he also threatened sanctions however critics say those threats as well as an understanding of the situation on the ground are misguided author stephen cohen is one of those people listen meanwhile you have president obama apparently uninformed about what's going on he says he hopes the protesters won't become violent were the bad they've been violent for more than a week they've killed policemen they were occupying government buildings they've set buildings on fire in ukraine and then we get this incredible statement by the european union in washington that they're going to sanction people who resort to violence now of course that's meant to be

a threat at the president of ukraine but how about the guys wearing masks in the streets and hurling the water of a cockroach. with all of the molotov cocktails and somebody from the state department going to go on the street and get their names phone numbers and addresses it's preposterous well for more on the west's stance when it comes to crimes demonstrations let's turn now to our teens guyin church you can. president obama knows what the ukrainian leaders should do we told the bringing together by merilee responsible for making sure. it's dealing with peaceful protesters in the propre of way. president obama has however made no suggestions on how ukrainian authorities should deal with rioters torching the city shooting beating and sowing molotov cocktails at police. neither has he called to the so-called peaceful protesters to wait for elections to express their aspirations as

he would at home under different circumstances you don't like a particular policy or a particular president then argue for your position go out there and win an election. european leaders don't seem to want to wait for elections either all but calling for the ukrainian president to step down. the ukrainian authorities are by to lose all legitimacy the kind of authorities in ukraine need to make space for a transitional government of national unity and early elections in order to bring back the legitimacy of national authorities to. washington and brussels are considering sanctions against ukraine the u.s. has already barred a number of he korean officials from entering the country shouldn't there be sanctions against the opposition because they're the ones who are obviously define democracy by told the new capital as opposed to accept the results of a legitimate election and we're going to challenge them next next time around

washington may stand up for democracy in the words that it is the people themselves that make those decisions and that's what the united states will continue to strive . to achieve. but behind the scenes u.s. officials are apparently trying to decide who should be in the ukrainian government and who should not so i don't think leetch should go into the government i don't think it's necessary i don't think it's a good idea in terms of they're not going to the government just let them sort of stay out in due course critical homework and stuff. it makes me wonder if for barging the police with molotov cocktails and shooting at them is also part of the opposition's quote unquote work in the name of democracy. going to shut down party . meanwhile the u.s. the e.u. and nato lay for responsibility on the ukrainian government threatening it with consequences and sanctions individual sanctions for twenty ukrainian politicians have already been imposed by washington russian foreign minister sergey lavrov said

that the action was of the western states resembles blackmail and he urged condemnation of these actions of quote radicals and extremists who are mostly responsible for violence and bloody riots joining me now to discuss the bigger picture is brian becker he is the national coordinator of the answer coalition now brian as i had alluded to our. earlier they are imposing sanctions at the moment european western leaders are how do you feel that that will play a role will it actually curb the violence as the west seems to think that well well we have to look at the new sanctions measures and in a bigger context the united states and the e.u. the nato powers have been using all kinds of pressure on the ukraine government with the effort to bring the ukraine into the e.u. which means to bring it into nato right on russia's border and in november what they did is they gave an ultimatum to the ukraine government you either make a decision no deal with russia or be with the e.u.

no other choice then they outlined the plan which was to impose extreme austerity measures on the ukrainian people as part of the admission policy to get into the e.u. then of course they help castigate or create these protests and now as the protesters are using extreme violence as the government is using violence and as the government is trying to maintain order you it the u.s. and the e.u. say now we will impose sanctions on the government for the use of violence so this is a full court press this is pressure what's the real purpose i think it's to break up the ukraine government with the hopefully we can in that government toppling that government and getting a government that will take the country into the e.u. into the western sphere of influence and this has to be seen by russia as a great threat so you kind of laid out one scenario there but i want to talk to you about best and worst case scenarios what do they look like to you in this country well the worst case scenario is the ukraine which is divided of course between east

and west and there's a class divide between rich and poor between those who look to the east and those who have been sort of taken towards the west or the upper crust of the of the western part of the country who look towards germany. the worst case could be that ukraine could descend into real civil war that there could be the dismemberment of ukraine a country of forty six mil. people a beautiful country with a rich history that's what happened to yugoslavia under pressure from nato forces it was a country that was a multinational multiethnic regionally divided multinational republic it was broken up could this happen to the ukraine yes the same thing happened to the former soviet union under those circumstances the worst case scenario could be so much suffering not just for now and not just for months or years but for generations for the people of ukraine best case the e.u. and the united states should get out of the ukraine and let the ukrainian people become the masters of their own destiny that's the best case now that is a really slippery slope to civil war but i want to know from you i mean we're

seeing people die on a daily basis we're seeing these clashes continue for weeks and months what does where is that line when it comes to a revolution when that starts happening or when we start calling this a civil war when is that line well we're getting close to that line i don't think it's a revolution i think it's kind of a counter revolution we've seen the era of counter revolution for the last twenty years where western powers who have vast economic military and diplomatic authority especially since the collapse of the soviet union are picking apart the former soviet republics integrating them into a an american or western sphere of influence integrating them into nato and that's part of a counter revolution because it's not really for the benefit of the people the western powers will always say we're doing it for a noble cause freedom democracy against repression but they have their own imperial interests in this very important geo strategically important and resource rich part of the world and right and you're kind of speaking of the u.s. as

a whole i want to focus on some of the individual players that are obviously taking part in this a number of american politicians have been very vocal about it some of them even visit and i'm talking about john mccain he visited back in september or december excuse me and u.s. assistant secretary of state victoria nuland actually handed out pastries in independence square so talk about the involvement of individual american politicians. and how this whole thing plays out well john mccain is a provocateur or in a war maker i he's assigned to him solve the role of destabilizing in overthrowing governments or always advocating war i mean he is the ultra militarist there but you know that this is as you mentioned a bipartisan affair because this sector when i talk about the u.s. i'm not talking about the american people i'm talking about the main u.s. foreign policy establishment which is linked to the military link to the cia linked to big oil to the n.s.a. that whole military industrial complex what they're trying to do is destabilize ukraine not because they care about ukrainian people they want to incorporate

ukraine this important country big country the second largest army in the military in europe they want to incorporate it as part of the u.s. fear of influence that's an imperial design the american people don't gain anything from that but big corporations and banks and military complex they do gain a very interesting perspective on what is no doubt a very complex scene thank you so much now weighing in brian becker national coordinator at the answer coalition. well you have heard a fingerprint databases before where millions upon millions of people's unique imprint are kept now doctors at the johns hopkins university are applying that same logic to brain scans they are in the process of creating an m.r.i. digital database or children's brains would be kept in a sort of library the goal is to allow physicians to use a simple search to diagnose and treat young patients more accurately parian boring as more. just tripes in the white matter.

imaging features help us to make a diagnosis when an image of a child's brain shows an unusual shape or malformation it could be a sign of disease however pen pointing in correctly diagnosing brain disorders is not always easy because each disease can show variability in different people so you see those a different image quality to help doctors better treat young patients dr three housman and dr michael miller of johns hopkins are constructing a google like a database of children's brain images we're building especially a brain cloud which is a large database of images magnetic resonance imaging of children's brains dr miller is the biomedical engineer responsible for developing the software that holds the brain bank he says this database could help diagnose and predict pediatric brain diseases such as epilepsy and psychiatric disorders we'd like to be

able to do data mining just like you can do on the internet and search for groups of patients that have common features in their imagery dr houseman started collecting children's brain images in one thousand nine hundred four in switzerland johns hopkins paired him up with dr miller to integrate his games into a searchable program using a grant from the national institutes of health we are focusing on the imaging of developing and since no. of children and covering every child between basically before you know being born. for this particular basic. day of birth. life they currently have about seven thousand brain scans and are adding up to one hundred brains a month to the database the more images collected the better to be had the database to more reliable. and. to identify

your earlier because more the more you including the variability of the disease dr houseman's goal is to make the brain called available to the public in three years the software works very similar to facial recognition technology a doctor uploads their patients brain images and the computer searches the database for similar patterns and says the doctor results for possible diagnoses but there's many many things in common with our google search engine for break our ability to search on brain with search engines on face the software takes thousands of images in two hundred fifty different regions of the brain using computational anatomy a study dr miller pioneered the computer creates an index to compare brain scans computational. attempting to understand the brain part the brain library hopkins is building could allow doctors around the world to more quickly and efficiently diagnose children's brain disorders the works of dr hauserman and

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