russia wins its thirteenth gold as the country breaks away from the pack at the top of the rankings setting the record that holds out a winter olympics. and his brain moves close to a splits the opposition dominated parliament appoint its own acting ministers and president while the south east refuses to band to its will and they have stayed as nowhere to be found. whose fingerprints all over their current chaos and the your fears of police stifling you. anti russian rather it takes center stage in western coverage of the violence in ukraine despite the fact that. the us politicians who are the most frequent visitors to kiev during the protests. and the spate of suicides by senior bankers turned the spotlight squarely on the finance

industry and the pressure it puts on its employees. which martina national coming to you live from the russian capital i'm marina josh and welcome to the program now it's crunch time in sochi where the olympics are nearing the grand finale and contestants are going all out in a final push for glory russia is now unreachable in the medal count whether it's bobsled team adding one more gold to broaden it out at the top of the table well our scott is in sochi with the tails for. hi there possibility of gold continued for. just a fraction of

a second dividing the leaders so tell us how it all went there. yes it was just a fraction of a second the gold rush continued for russia into the final day the host nation cementing their place at the top of the medals table with two further gold medals on sunday the latest coming in the form on bob slave and now alexander zuckoff and alexey voivode part of that crew meaning they've added to the gold that they'd already won in the two month competition that was russia's first books lego since the fall of the soviet union they very quickly added that second elsewhere today there was a first for russia at these games they secured a one two three gold silver and bronze they completed the podium in the men's cross country skiing in the fifty k. mass starts alexander left called finishing fast in what proved to be another thrilling climax so let's see what all of that has done to the medals table now as you say russia outright lead as the talk the hosts lead is their best display since the fall of the soviet union and an even more surprising turnaround is four years

ago russia put in one of the plays winning only three goals but it seems that the investment in coaching and facilities in the last four years has paid off thirteen gold medals now on thirty three in total but of course there is a fine line between success and failure and a fine line between joy and despair my colleague andre farmer now takes a look at the highs and lows of such a twenty four team the longest of the tool sri lanka igniting a nice to expensive the most compact and one of the most watched winter olympics in . again stunning backdrops gripping stories of heartbreak and joy 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 with a veteran and

a youngster helping them grab the first ever team gold but hopes of move glory buckled under a bad back and media hype heaped on tiny shoulders the need 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 there is 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 over the black sea and. a soft. and then stay with us for the special coverage of the olympics at four pm

g.m.t. here on our international. twenty four team promise a call to an exhilarating winter. and it's an hour. long for such a twenty four take. on. now after the most turbulent week and its post-war history ukraine is now undergoing a complete power overhaul since taking over reins in the capital the opposition has been hard at work composing its own order you know a get more on what's happening in ukraine from our correspondent igor this going off your hello there do tell us what's happening in the country as are some rapid changes there will be or can you tell us. well frankly the situation seems to be more and more like a cool since the presidents fled the city and most of us borders as well those

deputies of the parliament who have stayed are mainly from opposition parties and they've been passing new laws like the hot printing press appointing new officials including the acting president now and now former authorities are being arrested some of those newly appointed are known for their far right views like the new justice minister in fact it's being said that the nationalist are going to be quite involved in ukraine's a new law enforcement. also one of the laws that the police have just passed was banning russian as the second official language in the country even though up to fifty percent of those living in the east are ethnic russians and. still fully controlled by the protesters there are still no signs of its mayor scores of protesters are still on my down square mourning the victims of those killed in the violence and frankly to say that. developed quickly here is almost to

say nothing and for more about how things went on here's a report by my colleague alex leadership. own hell was breaking loose in kiev on tuesday compromise with seemingly reached all of a sudden ukraine's capital was plunged into the worst violence 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. that we have. there which is somehow here and driven by especially as we see using snipers and so on and which is not controlled by the opposition either by the west directly so i. i think 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 bother with free republic there i think or of the protests didn't buy

it was still called up this year if the president does not resign by ten am we'll go on an armed siege i swear. by ten o'clock on saturday they were as 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 fear of the biggest fight in the first stages of the protest happened here now as you can see we are taken 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 we see a local which will never be back here as a protest the president made the head see retreat to the east of ukraine and was stoutly defiant even after receiving news that parliament had ceased to recognize him as leader by an overwhelming majority and announced an early election solution . all that is happening now for the most part is than the league's man crimes this

is my strong belief that i will do everything takes to prevent my country from splitting up to stop the bloodshed it went from bad to worse we have a court which with parliament releasing this article i will unity my shango from prison sparking jubilation on t.v. independence square. actually dreamt of seeing you as a force that changed everything your heroes here is a best of this country has while protesters are in high spirits and clear the east and south of the country are seeing the indifferent to its leaders have declared self governance and constitutional power fuelling talk over climate and breakup in the country and they see reporting from kiev in ukraine. well here's a map to show you just how much of ukraine is now refusing to follow. these temperance is right here are home to over half the country's population the regional leaders gathered this weekend to express their disapproval of what's going

on in the capital. because as long as it's starting to do a local authorities every charge of all political decisions on the ground in these regions we have to protect our land we think that the central authority is a paranoid and that the decisions cannot be considered constitutional. by rioters taking over the capital is not the only thing people in the east of the country are angry about manny now feel they have been abandoned by president yanacocha after he made concessions to the opposition and fled the capital. i'm shocked and disgusted by the actions of the president and i never thought he'd never betray the iranian people i thought but he told them to the end now an example of how split the feelings of ukrainians are is the way police officers returning from kiev were received in the south of the country while the opposition in the capital are proclaiming the rioters as heroes other parts of ukraine are firmly on the side of the law enforcers.

now in the crimean a city of sebastopol returning officers were given a rapturous welcome by cheering crowds they had been sent as backup to help stem the violence and from the start of the uprising in the capital it's drawn a little support from the southeast of the country where people fear of the rise of radical movements up to twenty policemen are sad to have been killed in the turmoil during the past week alone. and the united states have played a highly visible role in ukraine's on the rest but in the eyes of most western media it's pressure from moscow that's to blame blaming russia for the chaos has become a recurring theme in mainstream coverage even though president putin clearly distance himself from the situation from the outset our businesses he explains. the blame game the west should 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 who else russia their coverage of ukraine fits a larger picture of the american media having cold war attitudes about russia he doesn't represent anything except a subjugation authority authoritarian state this a drumbeat they have marched to for decades 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 especially considering the fact that they have tremendous financial investment on the line in ukraine actual facts have left the building context and in-depth analysis are brushed aside it appears that putin is stifling

ukraine not reported was what putin's why do they have to choose why can't we be russia in its time of economic need and europe that was rejected by the us 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 aimed at one target trumps accuracy in the western media just as you. get out r t new york. a senior rabbi in ukraine has warned jews living in the

capital that they should leave the city and if possible the country altogether his concerns by the hate speech coming from some of the protestor leaders. as long as i live and i will fight against jews communists and russians comedy a bit else take a look at all his enemies which coheres the leader of the far right nationalist party in western ukraine which played a key part in taking over kiev is long but member of alter nationalist movements despite being a gradient citizen jury in the chechen war he went to the caucasus to fight against russian forces alongside the terrorists and he's openly boasted he has personally hit several tanks and armored vehicles russian media believes he was responsible for the slaughter of a group of marines is also notorious for his criminal activity and is believed to have been behind an assassination attempt on his business partner and spent several years in prison for kidnapping the spies us record which go ran for parliament just a couple of years ago and once again this person is now

a leader of the protestors that took over the ukrainian capital it was ninety international and we'll be keeping you updated on the turbulent situation in ukraine throughout the day on air and online and on our web site r.t. dot com and via our twitter feed.

dramas that try to be ignored to. stories others use in those. places change the world light snow. to picture. from around the globe. drop to. welcome back to witching hour to international a china may be the dominant economic power in africa but when it comes to military

reach the united states leaves its rivals trailing on the continent with hundreds of millions of dollars a year maintaining its presence as we can see on this map right here america has made north somalia a key outpost to protect its interest in the region drones and sounds of soldiers are being funneled into africa with the pentagon citing its fight against rising extremist groups are just fall asleep reports. 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 it has a lot of investment in that 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 which led to you know the collapse of. you know accountability. and of course you know dubai is. different it's a show you kind of make up a crisis in the country. by that you know it is to me it in terms of american part of policy reasons to actually come into nigeria africa's 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 there be tasked with missions will be on their numerical logistics capability right now and then danger will have to go like call for. new conflicts expand and all of the next thing you know the troops and money to sustain these missions. u.s. secretary of state john kerry says it'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 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 terrorists to senegal but the president does his calculation saying well this will allow me to be a good friend of the united states maybe attract some investment or strengthen my security forces that 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. . always spoke to journalist lawrence freeman who was who has written extensively on africa affairs and he thinks the u.s. president is actually doing more harm than good. over

a billion dollars supposedly in counterterrorism security in this hell west africa north africa and we've seen the mali was toppled the year ago we've seen the rise of boko rum we committed the absolute criminal stupidity of overthrowing president khadafi 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 there's still fighting terrorism in northern mali with french troops 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. fused to 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. are stories for you on our website including how one technology multimillionaire asked and given the green line for a campaign to break up california into six. point zero why he's so keen on the idea at r t dot com. and payback time one of the world's most wanted drug barons have been arrested in north mexico after more than a decade in hiding find out how police finally nabbed him on our website. all this week an investment bankers were himself off the top of the hong kong skyscraper were he worked he was just one of a handful of suicides in a doggy dog finance sector joining the last month you know reports. there are

untimely deaths grab headlines three of which happened within a week be it the big investment banks they worked for the senior positions they held the public nature of their deaths or all three once again it raised questions . about an industry largely blamed for bringing the global economy to its knees and a two thousand and eight financial crisis michael taylor a former goldman sachs bond salesman who calls himself a recovering banker knew this world well it's so extraordinarily competitive and so focused profit above all the transaction all that every moment like pressure turns carbon into diamonds you know extreme pressure can both accelerate human achievement and some cases break people the pressure and calling the shots the form of banking we've got the moment has no interest in the people it affects. because

in a sense and legally responsible to invest and stockholders you make a moral decisions without thinking about the impact that it has on the people job losses people losing their home and so on and so forth pressure to rake in profits or the pressure to put in more hours than your peers after the spate of recent deaths big firms did try to ease tension by telling their junior staff to take more time off or at least to try not to work on weekends it's kind of a disconnect between what they have the weekend off will also make 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 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 they have everything we want but if you look at their

actual life they can be fired in five minutes this is a deeply dysfunctional and utterly abusive system so there is this real taboo in banking like the army to own up to one former ability. does or so your r.t. london. on now six look at some other stories from around the world and in syria a car bomb has killed at least nine people near a field hospital on the border with turkey it's thought more than fifty people were also wounded and nobody has claimed responsibility for the a tad but the town called math lies in an area controlled by rebels. a protest attracting more than a thousand people has the sand into violence in brazil's largest city of somehow more than a hundred people were arrested for vandalism as protesters showed their anger at alleged official corruption linked to the upcoming football world cup protester erupted in june last year i want to million people marched against

a hike and public transport prices. and clashes have broken out in france between police and protesters angry at proposals to build a new airport near the city of now and demonstrators cobblestones and other for a project tiles at officers and a rampage through a police station organizers say fifty thousand people took part in the initial rally and work on the controversial airport was due to begin two months ago but hasn't yet begun. coming out are to escape the womb sums up the week's financial highlights in venture capital.

transit route to vnukovo report you'll be. just wait to the heart of moscow. 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. right to see. first street. and i think you're. on our reporters. in.

the the in. welcome to venture capital i've come to salty because the fifty one billion dollars price tag has got nearly as much attention as the games themselves so let's just recap on some of those costs for you for the most expensive olympic games in haiti because it wasn't just solely for sports an entire city was built as you can see just behind me i'm talking entire row it's built from scratch power plants and this is all to be used for decades to come and according to president vladimir putin the price of the sort itself is a much more modest six point five billion so that would be the stadiums the ski slopes in pretty much everything sports eight now the big venues have been

specifically built to meet the for standards so they can be used again for the twenty eighteen world cup so i've come back a was here in september to see how the business side of the proceedings has scored. and this is where the journey begins the airports of course where all the world leaders the athletes the terrorists make their way for that thought she experience it's all about first impressions that's exactly why four hundred million u.s. dollars was spent getting this air force up to international standards it was russian billionaire or they got a pass company basic elements that forked out the money and told us have a look as you can see it's pure indulgence and a bit of luxury on the go because some champagne of course as you would expect in the business lounge you can also have a cheeky massage oil waiting for your plane and i spoke to. i also about the money being spent on the money being made. i want to know how the plane's been full to capacity.