the day's top news and the round up of the week's headlines here on our at c it's a big day for the big games as twenty fourteen braces for the closing ceremony there's still plenty of drama left off the top of the medal table we'll be bringing you the highlights in just a minute. and transformed that league battles in kiev leads to the worst political crisis ukraine has seen with the opposition taken control of parliament and moves the president calls a coup also. putin's fingerprints all over their current chaos and. piers it is stifling ukraine and russia rhetoric takes center stage in the western coverage of events in ukraine despite the fact this the e.u. and the us politicians who are the most frequent visitors to kiev during the

protests. and artsy investigates the reasons behind the number of suicides among senior bankers to find out what could have pushed them to the edge. you're watching artsy international with me marina call survival welcome to the program well it's sunday and the final day of the salt your winter olympics in russia the home team have excelled now topping of the leader table as you can see right now but there's still room for an upside and medals up for grabs so with that all to play between russia and norway let's cross to andrew farmer who's in the mountain cluster in the song she for us that you are hi there and these so seem russia has done the grow. it's up for question is can they keep it up.

yeah well water phonology russia has produced its best performance out of winter olympics in twenty years and it means that going into the final day they are on top of the medals table the question is as you say can they stay there well yes they can if their men can win this morning's cross-country skiing but if norway wins and there's every chance they could they would then go top of the medals table but russia could regain first place if they then won the four man bobsled this afternoon and alexander zuckoff and his team from russia currently with two runs there so it's very exciting nobody predicted this not even the russians but and even if the russia doesn't win they can definitely still pride themselves in the effort that they've put enough put in a lot of time and work so so far so good the rest of the country is happy even as it stands so far. that's right and to say they would be delighted i think would be

an understatement because you have to remember that four years ago they produced their worst performance at a winter olympics in vancouver they came away there with only three gold medals this time they've more than tripled it and the reason is that they had a massive shake up after vancouver they got rid of a lot of sporting personality brought a new sporting coaches and they also invested a lot of money in new facilities for their sporting stars and they are reaping the benefits as we can see but whatever happens today these games have been record breaking from start to finish. the longest ever torch relay igniting the most expensive the most compact and one of the most watched winter olympics in. again stunning backdrops gripping stories of heartbreak enjoy emerged on a daily basis russia's red machine taking seconds to light up

a nation's heart then deflating it days later with a quarter final exit. russian figure skaters left the world dizzy with a veteran and a youngster helping them grab the first ever team gold but hopes of move glory buckled under a bad back in media hype heat on tiny shoulders only for another star to sparkle and shine and take her country in fans to new a limp a kite the ups and downs came thick and fast. and so did new russians an american who married a siberian sped to snowboarding gold for the hosts while the south koreans slipped to glory in short track repaying the faith this new adoptive country. these just some of the amazing hollywood like stories such as produced to keep millions chained in world wide and should be remembered long after the olympics flame finally goes out over the black sea andrey pharma r.t.

sorts. for the winter games have been full of on expected victories and surprising disappointments and you get a chance to tell us what were the most memorable for going head to head over to our team's facebook page to post your ideas and remember fails at tough luck moments are all a part of olympic history as well and with us on twitter all you have to do is look for the hash tag my moments and the past will be right out there in our special coverage of the closing day of the games. the g. twenty four gene promise is the ultimate in exhilarating return for an hour. to use in our way i'm a clever know it under us of our look at you so you are so cheap twenty four take. on r.t.

we move on to other news now and ukraine which has seen its morse turbulent week in modern history in less than seven days the capital of the eastern european country has gone through fire smoke and deadly clashes in scenes resembling a medieval battlefield now then the police withdrew here fell into the hands of rioters and the opposition practically took over power and now it's a crew has been right at the epicenter throughout including our very own alexy at a chef ski who recaps it all now for us. all hell was breaking loose in kiev on tuesday to compromise was seemingly reached all of a sudden ukraine's capital was plunged into the worst violence is seen so far almost two hundred dead the central streets of one of europe's finest cities looking like a war zone and snipers shooting from the rooftops including our crew what we have now is that you have radical elements that we have ready. there which is somehow here and driven by especially as we see

using snipers and so on and which is not controlled neither by the opposition neither by the west directly so everything went out of control just two days later it was a totally different scene to the president make the biggest concessions yet by offering an early election to an opposition led government and a return to bottom and three republicans there were twenty four of the protests did not buy it. if the president does not resign by tonight. i swear. by ten o'clock on saturday they were is nothing left to storm all the police were gone and the ruling party had completely lost control over the capital so this is the presidential administration building which used to be the probably the most protected governmental building in the whole of the of the biggest fight in the first stages of the protest happened here now as you can see we are taking on an excursion that is no longer controlled by the police or the

government the protesters have occupied this building as well this means that you will never be back here as a protest the president made a hasty retreat to the east of ukraine and was stoutly defiant even after receiving news that cease to recognize him as leader of my overwhelming majority and announced an early election solutions to the police who do all that is happening now the most part is vandalism and crime this is my strong belief that i will do everything to. prevent my country from splitting up. it went from bad to worse than ever before which we. are quite well you know from prison. where. we know trying to seem to force changed everything you're hearing here is the best of this country where protesters are in high spirits. of the country are simply different. because governments and constitutional powers all over the world

and break up in the country in the. ukraine. now here's a map to give you an idea of just how much of ukraine is opposed to a change of leadership in the capital now the south east here is made up of ten regions and it's home to half of the country's population artie's maria fanaa exactly where this part of the country stands in the face of what's been dubbed a coup. a nation turning to mush if one is starving today local authorities are in charge of all political decisions on the ground in these regions we have to protect our land. the stories of ukraine's eastern and southern regions gathered in how to care for an emergency session and decided that they no longer take orders from kiev while in the capital parliament declare that these people must be brought to justice as separatists we think that the central authorities are paralyzed and

that their decisions cannot be considered constitutional what happened in kiev left a local population base divided and dissolution and many fear that radicals from the capital could bring violence in their wake but others condemned the president's agreement with the opposition colonnade surrender. i'm shocked and disgusted by the actions of the president i never thought he'd ever betray the ukrainian people i thought that he'd hold on three and the opposition views which are in the minority here sounds surprisingly similar love the stalwart but we are fed up with our government we no longer consider your president as the party of regions or a bunch of thieves after a deadly clashes in the key of things are heating up here too the man is quickly surrounded by those who don't share his opinion in the workplace is back that he came here from the capitals my done rallies and i want to bring violence with him and then tries to assure everyone that he recently hardaker really sorry just

english for the repeal of today's rally in the center of heart of brought together both supporters of those sources and the opposition and was quite this fall but here which recently became a symbol of players for many ukrainians and a source of great fear is less than five hundred kilometers away and no one can guarantee that its mood of and will not spread here written off not seen from locals in eastern ukraine. a clear example of the division in ukraine is how returning police officers were received in souder in ukraine while leaders of the opposition are praising the rioters for the coup in kiev other parts of ukraine are remembering those who stood to put cyc law and order. officers were given a hero's welcome by crowds of cheering well wishers they had been sent as

reinforcement to help quell the violence in kenya the protest itself in the capital met little support in southeastern parts of the country with people they're fearing a rise of radical movements up to twenty policemen were reportedly killed in kiev when they went against raging crowds armed with just shields and balance. while many experts have been highlighting the roles the e.u. and the you are splayed in ukraine's on rest but for most western media it's been the russian president's hand that's been there all along blaming russia for all the bad things happening in ukraine has become the main theme of mainstream coverage that's despite the fact that the prize than distance himself from the situation from the own sides are seize on a situation explains. the blame game the western means to media play and repeat as if hell bent finger prints all over the current chaos and the. deadly appetite government clashes in kiev have turned into yet another reason to obsess over.

their coverage of ukraine fits a larger picture of the american media having cold war attitudes about russia he doesn't represent anything except. for an authoritarian state this a drumbeat of they have marched to freedom. to blame for everything that the american media from the threat of terrorism in the world to global warming. the media are determined to criticize one man as if possessed the united states is looking to propagandize the population as much as possible in making russia and specifically putin into the enemy never mind the fact that putin is essentially on the outside looking in actually considering the fact that they have tremendous financial investment on the line in ukraine actual facts have left the building contacts and in-depth analysis you are brushed aside it appears that putin is stifling ukraine not report good. why do they have to choose

why can't leave the ship. in its time of economic need and europe that was rejected by the west instead it's headlines like these that are taking center stage then again superficial attention grabbing and hate driven media coverage is familiar especially when it involves events so far from the u.s. and so close to russia most americans who are in the media don't know anything about the ukraine they don't know much of anything about former countries that were part of the soviet union i don't think the american press including me has it accurately reported the latter mehr putin highly questionable as a battle of words one targets trucks accuracy in live western media just as you target out r t new york and we'll be keeping you updated on the turbulence situation in ukraine throughout the day on the air and online our websites are at seat dot com and we also have our twitter feed.

and we have more news coming your way this hour including the pressure from the top . you look at their actual life they can be fired in five minutes this is a deeply dysfunctional system the financial world this shaken by a series of suicides over recent weeks artsy looks at why some are struggling to deal with the high stakes competition. plus the pants are going to increase as america's presence in africa with hundreds of millions spent on military bases on the continent were reports on what's behind the move. and russian authorities being gay is not criminalized there absolutely no

punishment for being gay in russia the only thing that these laws are is spreading information family information on nontraditional sexual behavior what are you going to legislate against couples who swing you know who. you know trade partners or is it only a certain type that you're legally able to you know. propaganda you know it's so unclear. we speak your language i mean some of the you are not a. nice programs and documentaries and spanish what matters to you. a little too much of angles stories. here.

spanish find out more visit to allahabad dot com. i. watch an artsy international welcome back to the program now with the african continent increasingly in the sights of the u.s. hundreds of millions of dollars are being pumped into its military probably presents now as you can see and this map here american military bases already spread across the continent with the main outposts in the north of somalia drones and thousands of soldiers are being poured into africa with the pencil gone citing its fight against rising extremist groups bots as artie's policy or reports there may be some other agenda behind the military boost. hundreds of millions of american dollars are flowing into africa as the pentagon upset spending on the continent there's plenty of woman to realize here nigeria

a case in point the west african nation is america's fourth largest supplier of crude oil accounting for eleven percent of all u.s. oil imports we have made a lot of investment and they have invested so much in the oil sector and they need to protect that and that believes rafsanjani is the real reason for u.s. troop expansion in africa not to bring democracy not to help the local populations but to protect american interests and justify the reasons for being here the governess in syria or to you know the collapse of. you know accountability. and of course you know dubai is. different it's a show economy couple crisis in the country. by the you know it is made in terms of i'm going to come part of policy reasons to actually come into nigeria africa is

dotted with u.s. bases and a growing constellation of small american drone outposts camp limb or near north of somalia has been america's main facility on the continent for nearly a decade it houses about four thousand military and civilian personnel but at the end of last year it was forced to stop flying drones in the area after a string of crashes and growing anger from locals problem is u.s. forces are getting stretched very thin they're being asked to. numerical logistics capability. and then danger will then for good i call for. new conflicts expand and all the next thing you know. troops and money to sustain these missions u.s. secretary of state john kerry says that's happening in africa so exciting overall and we are really deeply engaged and the president

has instructed us to really try to. light our fire under our efforts throughout the crowd but what's not so exciting is the growth of jihadists and to groups across the continent thousands of american soldiers are gearing up for missions as part of the pentagon's new strategy to train and advise african militaries to deal with the threat it's not impressing those who live here. the americans have failed to combat terrorism in afghanistan or anywhere else and the same will happen here in west africa it's likely that their presence even bring the terrorist threat to senegal but the president does his calculation saying well this will allow me to be a good friend of the united states maybe a truck seven vestment or strengthen my security forces but from the point of view of the senegalese people we risk losing our norful lot is a number of african leaders have expressed concern about the potential

militarization of the continent fearful that america's expanding presence will bode badly for africa and her people. r.t. . we spoke to journalist lawrence freeman who has written extensively on african affairs and he saw this that he believes their flocks of u.s. troops to the continent is actually the stabilizing the situation on the ground and spurring as american sentiment. we spent over a billion dollars supposedly in counterterrorism security in the. west africa north africa and we've seen the mali was crop will be a year ago we've seen the rise of boko rum we committed the absolute criminal stupidity of overthrowing president so how is this security helping look at the central african republic it's being destroyed it doesn't almost it almost doesn't exist anymore look at nigeria look at south sudan look at mali it's still

fighting terrorism in northern mali with french so all this money that is being spent could much better be spent building roads building energy power plants building water development projects and actually uplift the population of a. few can do that we have a military only policy right now in africa could feed itself and could provide food for the rest of the world if we developed it but the western policy has actually been a genocidal policy that is to allow people to die from famine from war and from disease rather than developing these countries. and the world songlines so let's take a look at the stories we've lined up for you they're falling ale in space might not be a problem in the future as nasa scientists are working on a so-called to row boat dock capable of performing even complicated surgery on cosmic travelers find out the full story on our seatbelt call. plus

a homemade ride that we tell you why america has been forced to purchase its flanks from china but now says the time has come to produce the stars and stripes on home grounds. a string of suicides has shaken the financial world five senior banking executives have killed themselves all within one week our correspondents are silly and thus the gates what may lie behind there at that. there are untimely deaths grab headlines three of which happened within a week be it the big investment banks they work for the senior positions they held the public nature of their deaths or all three once again it raised questions. about an industry largely blamed for bringing the global economy to its knees into two thousand and eight financial crisis michael taylor a former goldman sachs bond salesman who calls himself a recovering banker knew this world well it's so extraordinarily competitive and so

focused profit above all the trees actually 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. responsible to invest and stockholders you make a moral decisions without thinking about the impact that it has on the people the 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 us

a ton of money and ultimately making a ton of money is what's going to keep you around so now you strike me as a real solution you're a sly and dyke spent a year demystifying bankers interviewing dozens of fine us workers on the condition of anonymity the degree to which bankers are trapped. has been really a really important finding i think we keep on projecting this idea on bankers as masters of the universe do you 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 solar but it. does or so you are to london and coming up for you after the break it's worlds apart with oksana boycotts they let us.

transit through to vnukovo report your best way to the heart of mosco. and his 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.

hello and welcome to worlds apart tell that and its inclusion and disbanding these are values that the l.t.p. community has long stood and called for and can't be merely i adopted style of the l g b t advocacies anything but tolerant and inclusive do calls to boycott the olympics and topic sporting events really how to fight against homophobia well to discuss that i'm now joined by five time a limp dick matterless and one of the world's greatest divers greg louganis missile again it's a big honor to have you on the show thank you it's great to be here now lympics almost over and so far we haven't heard

a single gay athlete complaining all of discrimination all mistreatment here in russia isn't that perhaps a sign that all those allegations about l g t a legit l g b t persecution in russia. may have been blown out of propulsion do you think the calls to boycott these olympics were justified well i've also been following on the internet i'm not watching in d.c. . just staying true to supporting the sponsors of the olympics. seeing what's happening in russia. you know there were arrests there was a transgender individual that was taken away escorted away from one of the venues you know so yes i mean there are things that are happening i think that n.b.c. is sweeping a lot of it under the carpet we're not hearing about

a lot of the things but you can find a lot of the true information on the internet but isn't this something that also happens routinely in many of the western countries as far as i understand why lance against gays and lesbians and transgender people has been on the increase in many of the western countries in particular in the united states in two thousand and twelve i believe it was at the highest level since one thousand nine hundred eight yes i mean we we've been making strides forward in some areas and then in some areas of our own country i mean we've been taking steps backwards but i think with the community you know i was able to get married in the state of california the state that i live in many of the states are are are following suit you know justifying that. legislating marriage or you know.