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 libya 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. friends all over the current chaos and their peers it is study fully. anti russian rather it takes center stage in western coverage of events in ukraine despite the fact it's the e.u. and the us politicians who were the most frequent visitors to key of jury in the protests. and a spate of suicides by senior bankers turned the spotlight squarely on the finance

industry and the pressure it puts on its employees. international coming to life in moscow i'm marina joshie. time in sochi were the olympics are nearing their grand finale and contestants are going all out in a final push for glory russia is now unreachable in the medal count with its bobsled team adding one more golds to broaden the gap at the top of the table in sochi with the details. 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 golf and alexey voyage voda were part of that crew meaning they've added to the gold that they'd already won in the two man 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 and as you say russia outright lead as the talk the hosts late is their best display since the fall of the soviet union on an even more surprising turnaround is four years ago russia put in one of the worst evidence 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 that is a fine line between success and failure and a fine line between

a 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 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 in media hype heaped on tiny shoulders only for another star to sparkle and shine and take her country and 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 olympic flame finally goes over the black sea and three far far to a salt shaker. now the winter games have been full of unexpected victories and surprising disappointments and you can get a chance to tell us what were the most memorable for you go to our facebook page to post your ideas and remember fails and tough luck moments are part of the olympic history as well so you can also share your opinion on twitter with the hash tag.

moments the best will be read out during our special coverage of the closing ceremony later today here on our t.v. international. the g twenty four team promises we call to make an exhilarating winter in our team a team join me and you see no way to make seven zero in on the rest of our live take news team for sochi twenty four takes. on. now after the most turbulent week in its post-war history ukraine is now undergoing a complete power overhaul since taking over a reins in the capital of the opposition has been hard to work composing its own order. isn't. the situation here resembles more and more cool since the president's fled the city along with some of his supporters those deputies of state or from opposition parties and they have been passing laws like a printing press the latest include the appointment of the acting president and

a russian as the second i fishel language in the country even though in the east up to fifty percent of those living there are ethnic russians still under the full control of the protesters some of the former officials have been arrested while appointed are known for their fire right. to say that events unfolded quickly here is almost to say nothing and for more about how things went on and what's the situation here like on the ground here is a report by my colleague. own hell was breaking loose in kiev on tuesday to compromise with seemingly reached all of a sudden ukraine's capital was plunged into the worst violence is 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 to have a ready. 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 by the. 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 and opposition led government and returned to by i mean republicans there were twenty four of the protests didn't buy it. if the president does not resign by turning. i swear. i my ten o'clock on saturday they were is nothing left to store all the police were gone and the ruling party had. he 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 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 which will never be back here as a person the president made that has to 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 since. all that is happening now for the most part is vandalism and crimes this is my strong belief that i will do everything takes to prevent my country from splitting up stop the bloodshed it went from bad to worse the other garbage with parliament leaving this article i will use it to my shame go from prison sparking jubilation and to use independence square yet we know i can dreamt of seeing you as a force that changed everything your heroes here is the best of this country has protesters are in high spirits and the east and south of the country are seeing the indifferent to its leaders have the right of self governance and constitutional

power fuelling talk over climate and break up in the country and. reporting from kiev in ukraine now here's a map to show you just how much of a crane is now refusing to follow the lead let's take a look at these town provinces right here are home to over half of the country's population the regional leaders gathered here in the heart of this weekend to express their disapproval of what's going on in ukraine capital kiev. no system is starting today local authorities are in charge of all political decisions on the ground in these regions we have to protect our land we think that the central authorities a paranoid some of the decisions cannot be considered constitutional. by rioters taking over the capital is not the only thing people in the east of a country are angry about many now feel they have been abandoned by president bush after he made concessions to the opposition and fled the capital. to become 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 are turning 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. i mean the crimean city of the poll returning officers were given a rapturous welcome by cheering crowds and they have been sent back up to help stem the violence and from the start of the uprising in the capital it's drawing a little support from the southeast of the country where people fear the rise of radical movements up to twenty policemen are said to have been killed in the turmoil of jure in the past week alone. and the united states have played

a highly visible role in ukraine's unrest 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. that now explains. the blame game the west should means to media play and repeat as if hell bent fingerprints all over their current chaos and the. deadly attai government clashes in kiev have turned into yet another reason to obsess over who else russia their coverage of ukraine fits the 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 contacts that in-depth analysis are brushed aside it appears that putin is stifling ukraine not reported 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 one target trumps accuracy in the western media just as you target 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 and he's concerned by the hate speech coming from some of the protest leaders. usually as long as i live i will fight against jews communists and russian scum ls take all these animals he's a leader of a far right now shitless party in western ukraine which played a key part in taking over key is long been a member of alter nationalist movement and despite being a crane citizen journey to chechnya war he went to the caucasus to fight against russian forces alongside terrorists and he's openly boasted you personally hit

several tanks and armored vehicles russian media believes he was responsible for the slaughter of a group of marines and he's also an torrijos 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 spy and this records which go round parliament just a couple of years ago and once again this person is now a leader of the protesters took over the ukrainian capital. well here in our athena national we'll be keeping you updated on the turbulence situation in ukraine throughout the day on air and online and our web site r.t. dot com and via our twitter feed.

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story. trying. to find out more visit our big. dog called. welcome back you're watching r t international the china may be the dominant economic power in africa when it comes to military reach 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 interests in the region drones and thousands of soldiers are being followed into africa with a pentagon citing its fight against rising extremist groups or do you suppose 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 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 that area. to you know the collapse of. you know accountability. and of course you know dubai is. different is a show you kind of make up with crisis in the country has no provided you know it

is to me it in terms of i mean a composite 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 limo 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 tasked with missions will be a. numerical logistics capability right now and the danger will nancy good move forward and. new conflicts expand and all of the next thing you know certainly your troops and money to sustain the. 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 in throughout the continent 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

on awful 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 has written extensively on african affairs and he thinks the u.s. presence is actually doing more harm than good. we spent over a billion dollars supposedly in counterterrorism security in the 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 gadhafi 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 around we refused 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 powers he 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 a lot more stories for you in our website including how one technology involved in millionaire has been given the green light for a campaign to break up california into six many states find out why he's so keen on the idea that our. payback time one of the world's most wanted

drug barons has been arrested in north mexico after more than a decade in hiding find out how police finally nabbed him on our web site. and this week an investment banker threw himself off the top of the hong kong skyscraper were he worked and he is was just one of a handful of suicides in the dog eat dog finance sector during the last months sillier reports there on time the deaths grabbed 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 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 extraordinary competitive and so

focused profit above all on the transactional that every moment like pressure turns carbon into diamonds you know extreme pressure can both accelerate human achievement 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 legally 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 tensions 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 how 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 ought to be abusive system so there is this real taboo in banking like the army to own up to one sole ability. does or so you're r.t.e. london and more global headlines for you right now 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 one that nobody has claimed responsibility for the attack but the town called

apple lies in an area controlled by rebels. protests attracting more than a thousand people has descended into violence in brazil's largest city of some power more than a hundred people were arrested for battle is a task force showed their anger at alleged official corruption linked to the upcoming football world cup protest erupted in june last year when a million people marched against a hike in public transport prices. 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 threw cobble stones and other projects at officers and 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 every port on the great revelations of how big

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a recently swiss voters nearly passed a referendum to put a strict quota back on immigration switzerland is a relatively small country and some estimate that almost a quarter of the population is made up of immigrants from e.u. countries and that is a lot of people and the swiss are worried that the increased foreigners will also mean increased crime rent prices burd the state and erode traditional local culture as modern immigration almost always does this is populations democratic choice to restrict immigration is now actually being blasted by the e.u. brass what threats to cancel bilateral agreements how dear you have a different version of democracy than we in the you have switzerland how dare you i don't think this event will have much effect on the e.u. bureaucratic machine nothing could make them change their hyper liberal minds but i think the swiss anti immigration referendum will have a huge effect on local populations and countries like germany and the u.k. which are seeing horrible effects of open borders and growing anti e.u. sentiment as i speak i don't like to make predictions by i think

a lot of disenfranchised people across the e.u. are going to become quite jealous of the swiss move. and demand the same type of changes at home but that's just my opinion. there it's a built in the law. caught on or cause i thought you know that if they can muster. a lot of good income or now out of your kid out of door you're in this is so high can you up so good at that city courtsey i cannot i had set up

a nice and severe net that a massive courtsey across a horse with a just say nice house you know i think i don't think you are more. honest than a. cork about i don't deal with all that just shows that they must when we saw in japan was something that's called a mega marketing project. and magnum marketing is the attempt not to change individuals minds about a given product but to change the entire environment in which that product is to be placed it's kind of. like.

you could japanese psychiatric community had to view. that depression was a was a rare. disorder in japan and they didn't diagnose it often and what pharma did was it lobbied the japanese government in moralizing rhetoric to say that they were mistreating japanese patients and then day sponsored anti stigma campaign to try and reduce the reduce the feelings of shame that a japanese person might have if they felt sad or they felt they felt depressed they felt something not right and they might otherwise stay home and not go to the doctor so the n.t. stigma campaign was there to help normalize mental illness and there were there were interview.