sports eight now the big venues have been specifically built to meet the facade is that they can be used again for the twenty eighteen world cup so i've come back a was hit in september to see how the business side of the savings has. this is where the journey begins the airports of course where all the world leaders the athletes it's terrorists make their way for the best tsotsi experience it's all about first impressions that's exactly why four hundred million u.s. dollars was spent getting this force up to international standards it was russian billionaire i got a pass his 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 leonardo. i also about the money being spent on the money being. i want to know you have the planes been full to capacity. essentially what we see during the olympic games is something

crazy mom from the business aviation you know normal life we were here fifteen airplanes but they. normally is about sixty and if you can have up to one hundred twenty in terms of profit you've made more than you imagined to do so it's not as we expected was there a pretty decent for and then show results of to this because a democracy much further than we expected can you put a number on that. no we haven't counted that's after the games everybody will count all the positive and negative things we'll see for rules against you but what about off the words how we're going to keep those planes full to the brim of people do you think the government can do more to make things like visas easier so that people are enthused to come in here we're discussing with the russian invasion several initiatives one of them is much easier. in russia and the second one is the open air they've been worth more of planes easier for them to fly and also more school board to provide their flights. so that's number one the circle moan that

people normally go somebody when they want to go solo you feel good this year we're going to treat summer to in the interim it's a primer of international sorts of summits are going to go before more one. one hundred forty thousand people have been making their way to sochi over the last three weeks and for the local cafes the balls the restaurants what it means a lot of disposable income and as you can see the crowds have arrived to say they're all talking and and well it's a lot more money facilities to put it is ok it's. just. the sort you see represents a huge business opportunity for the local economy and it's been completely transformed behind me here you can see the old soviet ports where for the last fifty years russians have been coming on holiday but now it has the capacity to facilitate two big cruise liners as you can see just as well as one hundred yards and during the olympic games twenty seven thousand people live.

on the tape is that these thousands of visitors will make their way back to sochi in the future for a holiday taking terrorism from three million people a year to sixty million and in terms of job too that would mean tens of thousands of people with employment and much of those jobs will go to the people what only so infrastructure. there is no doubt that the olympics provide huge publicists say for results not just the two that's why countries compete for years on end to get a hold of the rice there's three billion people watching worldwide that's billions of the tent to feed to tourists of course but the song today is not over positive we've had some rather unsavory pitches of hightower lawsuits or the so i caught up with the regional director of the resident mr thomas hug him and us about these pitches and the prospects for his hotel. i want to ask you this since a rather unsavory pictures on the internet maybe from journalists we've had toilets

of hotel rooms unfinished what do you make of that has that affected your business not directly i mean i have seen plenty of these images and we have talked with our colleagues but it had not really a direct effect to us we disappointed by the you must to look at them and. to be honest i have not seen any of these pictures myself and i've spoken to a lot of journalists who are involved in the olympics and it seems to be a bit of a huge will sing a couple of days before the olympics because all the journalists need to have a story and then they pick something because they have to provide stories yet have your hotel rooms have they been full to capacity have even filling them up we have almost one hundred percent for all of our hotel rooms and we are operating more than two thousand five hundred here so we have been completely full spirit and we try to what can be done to attract people when the games are done and done with

maybe advertising campaigns what you intend to do to get people on a plane. well there are two things one is what the hotels can do and we will do a lot we have a plan for. pics but also what we are missing is a bit more support from the regional government usually if you create a destination like this you have a convention office a convention rule which does a professional destination marketing in this is what we need to we need to market. in russia and in europe and what kind of a person would come on holiday to. the target market. demain target this is people from russia i mean it's a main russian market international market and i believe that people have seen so many things. in the interested and. it will come down and i'm very very confident with that so we've heard from the hotel industry there all the basis as to what's

going to happen to tsotsi so are the investors they're convinced they're going to get their money back and to be fair to salty is well the unique and the you do have these snowy mountains for the ski isn't just a bit here today it's past eighteen by the coastal cluster and you've got the beach so you've got a bit of everything going on but the question is all the one hundred forty thousand visitors that have made their way here in the last three weeks are they going to come back liz go find out. i'll be honest i've been really moved out of the olympic village. the path that i'm on right now against the black sea here is just absolutely beautiful. the weather is fantastic. it's a challenge i would imagine from a winner on the pitch standpoint to have this beautiful weather and have winter olympics here right in our backyard but overall very very nice enjoyed it and i'm here for four more days another show on the other two. spend more time outside because it's going to be great weather and just enjoy what we're doing and what you

make of the international press it's been fairly negative do you think that's fair no i don't i don't i think it's been pretty generalized. and the people that we've met of all been so nice and. it's very welcoming it is yeah press is press i guess do you think so she could be more reasonably priced i do i do but i mean it's the ruble compared to the world currencies what can you do about it would you come back to sochi if there was an anna lympics on for a holiday i would love to see this place in the summer i think it be absolutely spectacular this summer. ok so we've heard from the terrorists themselves but i'm now in the presence of a travel and tourism expert martin i can muster for eight years you've been in sochi for the best part of two weeks as i understand it in and around experiencing the city boise reality of prices here then tell me let's talk about the airport straightaway. yes because lots of tourists and visitors who come here sort of the

first time we're talking about the fact that the taxi driver is a real to take advantage of people coming here yes you fight adler which is the main you know part of the olympic cluster they're charging a thousand roubles a fifteen dollars for what is really just a ten minute journey that's why i was charged actually i must say that the thing is that in london a taxi from heathrow to the center is sixty pounds which is one hundred dollars and of course what taxi is and what business is going to take advantage of the influx of people being here in such a case of questions and people about aids how do their faulty that hangs it resemble on ours i think the average meal is around sort of six to ten dollars so if you were it all really depends what you're used to of course if you have a type. of course and what you or what you're enjoying if you live in expensive cities like london moscow scandinavia japan then obviously such is going to be cheap i came in on a super high salaries how much you going to pay to put yourself up in such obviously it depends on the stars but took me through that. got you got one star to

five star yeah and in fact my hotel is fine so even though there's been many reports yes the toilet toilets well you know curtains you know really bad pizza the colored water. the reality is that thomas back the i.o.c. president said that some of the hotels aren't finished but in fact it's just three percent rice so it's a three percent necessary to send money in for not only three percent i haven't been finished but the every hotel every new hotel has teething troubles regarding price well really you can have everything from bed and breakfasts they've got to be here little homestays to five star hotels and resupply pollyana the western chains with the presidential suite so really you're looking at average from around three thousand rubles nights which is around eighty ninety dollars will be a little less. up to who are. limited smart. travel and tourism joining me here in venture capital you'll. yes thank you so

sochi is by no means out the finishing line when it comes to the budget there's still a huge money to break even and it's going to be a busy year facility because russia is hosting the g eight summit. the formula one race is coming up in august and there's a busy season as well for the roxy results in between or about of course the new economic forum to which all the coming back full power for its opportunity to come and see if the balance sheet is still holding steady so it is good bye for all such a.

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the uncomfortable truth about some america's new anti gay laws in this show. states voted to close shop the same sex couple. why are police targeting the gay community they would sting operation. and the code of silence in the major leagues. the new white paper on the rise finds mainstream media soilent about some of the english ing and rising number of anti gay attacks in the u.s. each day new york despite its liberal reputation is being hit on quote a daily basis thirty two year old wall costs and died instantly from being shot in the head a group also if he was gay and pulled out

a thirty eight caliber revolver two gay men were murdered by a gang on new york streets off to being brutalized was wouldn't objects over this sexuality this gay couple needed to feel a treatment an eye surgery off to being beaten in broad daylight at a subway stop as the public looks on thought the biggest cities the report finds homophobic attacks are also rising rapidly and they were stomping on my head and calling me. and queer. and one of them said do you want to die. gerrard folks was repeatedly attacked by dozens of men and women his facelift bleeding and drawing ruptured just being mistaken for being gay can be fatal eighteen year old anthony callao was chased down the streets in new york and beats and this these two men were beaten in while they note is the latest of a string of attacks on the gay friendly up tell new york area police themselves are

committing atrocious homophobic attacks news reports of johnston against the very people they're supposed to be protecting officers went here to the home of a man hosting a party for l.g.b. t. friends seen him moving his surveillance camera so it wouldn't catch what happened next i got a bum rushed during a number of my arms and are with these conferences and screaming and cursing and it's becoming all these different names right you know right right herb said you know. and things like that attacked and beaten left with concussion and cult sees face for the crime he says of being gay those who call for pro g.b.t. legislation gets arrested forty three gay activists protesting for human rights at idaho senate chambers were hauled into custody of u.s. forces has an almost code of silence freezing out l g b t players sports

illustrated writes the openly gay n.b.a. star jason collins now can't find a team precisely because he came out last year top players and coaches told the magazine that openly gay n.f.l. draft hopeful michael sam won't get picked in may purely down to his sexuality i magine if he's the guy next to me again are get dressed they did take a shower the whole nine and just landed he looks at me. how my supposed to respond is look all those crowds child homophobic slurs in the stands changing the words to seventy's hit what m.c.a. is particularly. was was was there a poem explains a comedian jay leno has no patience for anti gay behavior i have no patience for

countries that. try to treat gays or lesbians or transgendered persons and in ways that intimidate them the study finds his policies show nothing about patients the bomber iterated america's quote firm commitment to saudi arabia after it's extended and sealed g.b.t. laws that already include the death penalty closest u.s. allies in the gulf from buffering to the emirates and qatar have joined to develop a medical test that supposedly identifies a gay person just by looking at him western tourists have already been jailed simply for admitting they are gay obama's approval of such policies is hardly surprising when those truthdig anti gay laws themselves in the states are becoming increasingly intolerant. to civil rights of gays lesbians bisexuals and transgender people in most states or deteriorating cities counties and states across the u.s.

have bald advocacy of homosexuality promoting a homosexual lifestyle laws state homosexuality is not a lifestyle acceptable to the general public in school students only receive instruction regarding homosexuality in the context of think surely transmitted diseases. homosexuality happened to nature but showed a speciality that does not make it right or something we should be teaching in schools on the bills just passed in states health of representatives things fixed couples can be refused service in shops hotels theaters and restaurants state officials can legally refuse to deal with gay citizens anywhere from libraries to police stations and hospitals representatives voted to allow businesses to lawfully deny any services to gates officials can also turn down the state institutions such

as police and hospital. if it's against their beliefs. it's not just republican states like kansas clumping down on l.g.b. t. couples reports they make as the polls say oregon will also pass the same restrictions on shops serving gays when it votes in november gay americans are actually being rounded up and the wristed just only accounts of the sexual status slate reports undercover police officers a performing sting operations against the gay community with a proposition in lieu them into department then promptly arrest them and bring them to jail presumably you miscarriage is the leading bright scholar at yale law school thank you for joining us is this really still happening in the southern cities of the united states those cities that are still discriminating aggressively against gay people and in other states in the north the midwest and

the west coast so this idea of entrapping gay people through undercover police officers is highly objectionable it still occurs pulitzer prize winning correspondent chris hedges this antigay sentences on just trancing progressives across the states they now compete out each other on the most extreme a winning dick cheney's daughter liz believes only in quote traditional marriage despite the fact that mary is gay i also don't support amending the constitution on this issue i do believe in the traditional definition of marriage but politico knows voters deserted her forcing her out of the senate race when she backed at least some same sex rights she appears on a mission be she to get against the marriage and support government benefits for gay. people who are arresting the gays of sochi of the foreign journalists admits julio feet of the new republic members of russia's gay community told her this week of foreign journalists lining up in cables and. across the country trying to find

a problem any problem the two countries standing by for the most journalists they know it all remember britain the british broadcasting corporation has been to thought she's gay club my ag at least four times trying to dig up some. leading russian gay activist says he's still even giving interviews to western mainstream media such as the hypocrisy for ignoring their own for worst problems while making up lies about russian school oberoi and highest order the first professional translation into english of russian legislation relating to l g p t communities noting till now every us hike has repeated the standard lines and fake translations doing the rounds also single one has ever pulled the to do his job and checked facts he found the reality of russian and u.s. laws slightly different the state departments and n.g.o.s to look for evidence of

russian workplace discrimination only to report but he doesn't have the problems found in the us including the right to follow workers just for being gay tangay will fly secure men don't need laws in russia they can in the united states it's illegal day six has been legal in russia since ninety three while washington followed suit and years later many states continue to enforce locals to be the old . bag at places where undercover police pretend to be gay men creasing fist sex continue in michigan and can lead to fifteen years pretty soon to be abominable and detestable crime against nature little gay couples called having consensual sex can be closed six offenders reports the center for constitutional rights they must carry this idea at all times with the word six famed in large orange let's is and show it to everyone from neighbors to landlords

schools and employers even paul. if you gave gay propaganda to a minor in the us you'd be registered as a sex offender and your life would be over in russia it's a sixty one dollar fine living activist such as on the right time to shift now the situation is actually improving disappoints mainstream claims in fabricated videos the russian government recently joined the un human rights council there to ration to intensify protection of l.g.b. to citizens in the last three years the state department backed third of a sense of reports that have been a team and to gay hate crimes in the us over four thousand has more than three every day because the truth is that an individual is far more likely to be the victim of an anti l g b t hate crime in the united states than in the russian federation this big drive in new york. was going on here you don't see the mainstream media the corporate media talking about the discriminatory practices and

laws that are being put in place in states like utah which are literally attempting to prevent openly gay couples from renting homes and buying homes and opening businesses these are openly discriminatory policies all are more severe and far more reactionary and far more devious two thousand and two winter games were held in utah a state with a city weekly no state couples can still be rounded up under so-called bagga flag operations paul joseph was an editor at info was it's really great to see how the laws compare in utah well by the same standard that the us shouldn't call today its own olympics in salt lake city in two thousand and two in utah because utah has more draconian anti-gay rights so the stench of hypocrisy is overwhelming book yes study by rice call a prime high sauced why is this epidemic of and t l g p t hate crime throughout the

united. states not being showcased by the media well when you think about mainstream media i like to label it not so much as a strain but as a putrid swamp because the mainstream media has lost all its credibility through word petered lying about major race use or hate crime no matter where it takes place should be condemned. the simple question is why is the media lawyer about other countries when there's a quote epidemic in the states ignored by the most media and being expended by us politicians see truth from facts this is the truth.

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russia wins its thirteenth gold as the country breaks away from the path of the top of the rankings setting a record for medals at a winter olympics. ukraine moves close to a split the opposition dominated parliament appoint its own acting ministers and president while the southeast refuses to bantu its will and the head of state is nowhere to be found. in his fingerprints all over the current chaos and it appears it is study fully. anti russian rather it takes center stage in western coverage of events in ukraine despite the fact that the e.u. and the us politicians who were the most frequent visitors to key of jury in the protests.