so let's see no hunnish meant for being gay in russia the only thing that these laws are clearance is. information family information on nontraditional sexual behavior where are you going to legislate against couples who swing you know who. you know trade partners or is there only a certain type of sex that you're illegally able to you know you say oh wait wait there's propaganda you know it's so i don't clear. hello again well the sun children pick closing ceremonies underway over my shoulder we can't show you that the little peepee olympic people who let us put it seems to love me for that that russia just hasn't learned from the opening show member that

one ring that didn't open while it's still struggling to do so probably this time though intentionally the organizers say it seems they wanted to poke a bit of fun at themselves for the first time round in a ceremony that is far is very very spectacular and what a journey it's being yeah so rich with new records but also shattered dreams of course you see that every lympics and all that roar motion that we've all learned to love and cherish in the games but the memories will stay with us for many years to go congratulations and all the winners and all the participants too especially the russian home team for their victory one that was late in arriving that victory but one that was fully deserved if and we all agree and there we've been busy it out the ranking and sorting the best the brightest and the most outstanding moments of the olympics throughout the course of the evening here in sochi then we'll be bringing those to you starting with the sensations and to families but the studio again since ations well russia comes to mind there and. we'll talk about them at

a minute you're starting out you number five we're ok holland the netherlands the dutch nation wondering six in the medals table who is my favorite and i tell you why because they got eight gold medals all in speedskating over one day you know one sport kind of sort of person if you like they got twenty four medals in total twenty three of those were in speed skating and the other one came from. i told you last hour oh good stops we all want to run the speed skating i've got a car else could it have come from so that's number five the dutch the next one the new generation of russians that we've seen at these improvs didn't that new generation do well also wearing skates we're talking figure skating at least what a star she was threshers really on her it really was too because the other star there was the fifteen year old you lipnitskaya who fell twice during her routines many people oh no that's russia hopes gone but it's not the giver turns up puts in the best performance of her life and she is russia's first woman ever to win figure skating gold in the individual event after olympics amazing for her we've also got

new russians to enjoy because four years ago wild victory they were on. guard amazing i'm a fantastic the now got russian passport speak wild as an american he married a siberian then got a russian passport and asked why did he come here what was the story of his because he's known as a well he initially he wanted funding he couldn't get the funding he needed to do his training from america and russia gave him the option but they said look you have to be right in russian citizen how can i do that you can marry that russian girl friend of yours who happens to be a snowboarder so they did anyway so coming here he got a career and he got love korea and love i mean they were together before have to say that it wasn't an arranged marriage and from that respect kevin there was love there already but look at boston on the slopes too because he got a bronze medal brilliant victory and victory on. he didn't he fell out with a south korean federation skating photo with him would he fall over there i don't know if you are but i'm sure he had a step too on the phone is what i'm saying you must be some green are these in the

south korean live well i'm going to go look let me give you a quick story first he fell out of the federation he had an injury to you which meant that we did not seem at the last olympics but russia said look if you need another country to represent here we will give you all the funding and the expertise you need it was a bit of a gamble from russia's point but look at paid off your three gold medal cracky when that. well next i'm going to turn the page where next we're going to go to the old wolf darlin he did or we did so was forty two that is old for a libyan isn't it it is for an impi and this million and look he became or he has become the most decorated winter olympians ever because during his time in sochi he picked up two gold medals which means he's now got thirteen in total over six olympics so that's amazing and then of course how can i not talk about teams you know russia number one number one and this is the main reason for me i was in vancouver four years ago everybody was so disappointed distraught because

a lot of soul searching because they only got three gold medals that was their worst performance ever since the fall of the soviet union forward wind for years and then put in the best performance since the fall of the soviet union that got thirteen gold medals at no time as russia got more than that and really accelerated towards the end though to me it did it really did and i actually put that down to well it's hard to say but i think a lot of sport is down to your mental preparation too and once you know you've got the the ground swell of your home nation. building with your flavor you know seventy percent of the people watching ever think up to seventy percent were russians themselves like that and we saw great examples of that vic wild i'm a big fan now but he was almost out in one of his hate on his route or on route to the final but he didn't panic he carried on and you could see he wanted it more than the other guy and he got it thank you were how you drive your set of tires there we need to move on but thank you for talking about so the sensations as you saw them now by any measure was of blind luck we've been talking to the medalists

of the russian team about their preparations and their training and they've been telling us about the lengths that the country went to to ensure that they all had the proper facilities. the minister of sports. changed everything for. good medical. care of. your world athletes you've traveled around the world surely you couldn't ignore what the western press was saying about russia about sochi ahead of these games how do you feel about that overall and do you think that people have maybe changed their stereotypes about russia. because of you know the beautiful game. is the. more. more. fun for

us it's like. to hear that it's. that was such big stars of the show will fire you for your side such as also this fair share of scandals to be argued that it got more than it deserved indeed from western history over gay rights to hotly debated rulings by the judges and referees of the games and this event has been covered in really nothing the biggest controversies of these olympics joins me now you've got your top five and i says mark by saying that sochi has been surrounded by more scandal than any other olympics in recent history to blue waves the games win or get it indeed someone in twitter just russia's got ninety nine problems but the olympics isn't one i'll start with number five five is the doping overall the olympics were very clean game special mention that the latest technology they did and it happened just lately because the latest technology can detect the smallest traces of any kind of substance. we had a german by athlete whose results were an old we had ukrainian skier who was caught

in her score discounted and austrian skier in fact was banned from today's just this morning fifty k. . cross-country ski rush of course own the podium and that and then the remote's recent more hockey as well that field hockey player will be sanctioned for his results and tonight in the gold medal game a swedish player wasn't allowed to play this was just breaking news a couple of hours ago because of his doping results before number four is no it was one of the biggest criticisms coming out is how beautiful but that article plays have snow all of the major news networks showing the beach down here no one bothered to show the beautiful mountains we have just an hour's drive away the snow was here was great weather lots of sun that did create a bit of a problem to have to report the slopes when there were short sleeved shirts i'm sure not just a day many days we had people one of the i.o.c. . organizing committee was here today saying people were complaining they were getting sunburned but the snow was slushy we had

a lot of falls but when it comes down to it the athletes and the i.o.c. it was very happy with with the conditions there was the backup plan we had a couple. fog delays but overall everyone skis snowboards on the same snow number three number three is versus yeah but huge bill was a huge one so debatable whether or not it should be number three but let's have three tonight because it was a huge scandal leading up to the olympics it should be mentioned during the olympics there weren't any kind of instances reported of discrimination or any kind of problems for that matter we spoke to many many athletes scores of them that were very happy with the way things went. on to be such a big issue in the world cup because of the legal lives of course people are saying ok search is over where will the critics go now it's going to be interesting to track you know much much more severe. laws there concerning.

sexual orientation it should be mentioned though ironically at the same time as these games all of the noise about about russia and anti-gay laws in the united states in arizona during the games a law was passed which basically allows anyone to decline any kind of service to someone based on their sexual orientation because of their religious beliefs let's look at number two the moving goal post number two. i think it's fair to say the most exciting match of the olympics the usa versus russia of course a long time rivals goes way back to soviet times really. there was a goal that was third would have been a third point could have been a winning goal for russia they scored according to international hockey federation if the goalpost is off its pegs the goal doesn't count the ref on the ground was american that was a problem for many on social media but up in the box the the judges who watched the tape did say that according to the rules the goal does not count but many unhappy

russian fans especially on the internet got to have most of it watched talk realistic i still number one mean. media's been leading up to these a lympics we heard about sochi being held in a war zone about toothpaste bombers terrorism terrorism terrorism of course that's no joke security was a big thing we heard about hotels not being done no doors of blackwater it was just just a tremendous tremendous media coverage really not about the sport not about the athletes but it should be said that once the games got started it did become about them and that was what the organizing committee wanted so their overall satisfied hoping that sochi could have broken some of those russian stereotypes top five scandals thanks for telling us what you thought about them in the run you put the bitterness in their lovely well aside from all the professional athletes chasing gold salt chill so welcomed number of a somewhat unique sporting figures from a favorite for the fabs the jamaican bobsled team to

a princely mexican veteran of the olympics are scott went out to meet some of the. for some athletes twenty fourteen was simply about taking part take for example indian illusia shiva can shave in his commitment to his sport highlighted by his training regime winding his way down dusty tracks bypassing goats and lorries along the way. no whites in sight yes he may have come thirty seven thousand and thirty nine but the him there is more at stake following accusations of corruption the indian and limpid committee were suspended by the i.o.c. in two thousand and twelve and was lifted during these games meaning cache vun could finally compete under his nation's fly unfortunately there's a lot of politics played to the flag of india which i'm sure many people might call not happy with but now that's over that's a lesson learned for everybody. to look ahead to one of the more colorful

characters of these games was prince you purchase of hohenlohe in london the fifty five year old is a descendant of a former german royal dinner state he's also a photographer on the pop star who goes by the name of royal disaster. these are his six olympics the jewel nationality skis for mexico he's never won a medal for the maybe deserves gold for p.r. so i think that russia the only problem that they have this thing should have hired a p.r. person like me to be better p.r. before i mean you know it's a great things is. wonderful but you know what the for everything is really. the issue that just got the positive from my over to europe and to america that we're so negative it's time to make his debut in these games bruno banani went in the luge it's not his real name mind as part of a sponsorship deal he changed his name to that of the german underwear company but

he told me he wants to be known for his sporting prowess. if i didn't qualify for the olympics they wouldn't care at all what names i am so i think is the most important thing that i try hard in training hard to get to be. on does any winter olympics complete without the jamaican bobsled the main attraction for press and fans raising their own funds to compete missing a connecting flight losing their luggage on coming second last still didn't dampen their party spirit proving that in amongst all the sporting excellence there is still room for sports to be fun. such and. such a twenty four team promises we all committed an exhilarating winter and i. still need you so now i make seven zero and the rest of our local news team for sochi twenty four take. on.

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this is the media lead us so we leave the. bush and see. your party is it. seems that no one is asking with again they deserve answers from. politics only. sixteen minutes past the hour now i matras in moscow with a look at some of the other day's news our top story of the last few days trouble while in ukraine after the most turbulent week in its post-war history the country now undergoing a complete government overhaul since taking over the reins in the capital lobby the opposition has been hard at work establishing its own order parties iraq is going to has more from kiev. 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 official 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 say nothing and for more about how things went all in what's the situation here like on the ground here is a report by my colleague alex. 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 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 rooftops including our group what we have now that you have read. that we have read. 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 a return to parliamentary republic there were i think or of the protests didn't buy it. if the president does not resign by tanny. i swear. to you i my ten o'clock on saturday they were is nothing left to storm 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 the 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 museum will never be back here as opposed to the president made to his sea 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 solutions. 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 to stop the bloodshed it went from bad to worse we have a court which with parliament releasing this article i will use it to my shame go from prison sparking jubilation and to use independence square. actually dreamt of seeing you as a force that changed everything you're hearing here is the best of this country has

protesters are in high spirits and the east and south of the country are singing indifferent to its leaders have declared itself governance and constitutional power few leaked all over the world and break up in the country and they're. reporting from kiev in ukraine here's a map to show you how much of ukraine is so far if using to follow the new lead these ten provinces home to more than half the country's population are regional leaders they are gathered in the heart of this weekend to express disapproval of what's going on in the capital. 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 are paralyzed and that their decisions cannot be considered constitutional. but the new order in the capitol not the only thing people in the east of the country say they're angry about and he said they feel abandoned by a president on a coach after he made concessions to the opposition and fled the capitol. i'm shocked and disgusted by the actions of the president i never thought he'd have and

betrayed the korean people i thought that he told them it's the end of the example of how split the feelings of ukrainians are is the way that police officers returning from kiev were received in the south of the country while the opposition in the capital are proclaiming the protesters as heroes other parts of ukraine are firmly on the side of law enforcement. in the crimean city of sevastopol returning officers were given a rapture is welcomed by cheering crowds they've been sent as backup to help stem the violence in kiev and memorial services were held for those policemen who died in the arrest up to twenty officers are said to have been killed during the past week. oh for more on what's going on in ukraine i'm joined by legal expert alexander mercurial thank you very much for joining us here on our t.v. so should it come to it that the east of the country and the west of the country

split separate what are the legal procedures for doing something like that on a country scale. well there are no legal procedures for doing it and that is one of the fundamental problems. if i can give an example which is a recent example from the russian history the well's actually legal procedure for seceding from the u.s.s.r. there is no legal procedure for seceding from the ukraine the ukraine is a unitary state constitutionally but i think it's absolutely clear now that the constitution of the ukraine is not is no longer functioning the way the authorities if one can call them that in kiev are behaving it has absolutely nothing to do with the constitution any moment so in such a situation what i think is more likely to happen if there is a split is that people in the local regions will make decisions by themselves and

will simply ignore whatever comes from kiev which they don't like if that's what it is if it does split do you think that there could be centralized control reestablished at some point out the time when all this settles out it is very difficult to say i think it depends an awful lot on what happens in kiev. at the moment the situation in kiev is basically controlled by radical people with with arms who are pursuing a very very militant and as one of your reporters said are driving through the parliament laws faster than a printing press which have been passed in a remote completely unconstitutional and illegal unparliamentary way if a central government is established and which is legit legitimate and which is accepted as such by the rest of the country then that might change but at the moment that is highly problematic to put it mildly we'll just have to see what do

you think the future holds for iran a covered himself. i think misty only which is a political corpse we've seen people in the eastern ukraine saying how utterly betrayed they feel by him there was a release today by his own party what's left of it the party of the regions which accused him of betraying the ukraine i think he is an artillery discredited man and if i may say so i think rightly so he's policy throughout this crisis has been one of provocation on the one hand and appeasement on the other he's made threats which he's never followed through he's never supported he police and he security forces who were very loyal to him right up until almost the end and he cut deals with opposition leaders who were quite obviously. no longer in control of the crowds and here so he's political leadership has been disastrous and i think

that he's recognized across the whole country and finally we've seen museum three major opposition leaders kind of at the helm of the protests since the start of us including tiny barkin klitschko now we have to go back in the mix how do you think that changes things from here out. well i think it could change things in the sense that this is a personal view i think we still wish it misses the machine because a much more intelligent and charismatic person then the other three leaders are well then certain mystically each going to get saying you go missing it's a new one should remember was only the acting lead or what is effectively timoshenko party having said that one shouldn't underestimate the mountain that anyone in kiev including me says to wishing to is now going to have to climb there has been a total political constitutional governmental collapse trying to put all the pieces

together again is going to be extremely difficult and whether there's anyone in the ukraine with the ability and who commands the trust and who has the also already to do it remains to be seen all right alexander mackerras thank you very much for your time henri keeping you up to date on the turbulent situation going on in ukraine throughout the day on air and online at r.t. dot com by our twitter feed. and stay with us after a short break technology update coming your way next. trends

arrow to vnukovo report your best way to the house of mosco. 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 the swiss population's democratic choice to restrict immigration is naturally being blasted by the e.u. brass what threats to cancel bilateral agreements how dare 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 of 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. right to see. first rate. and i think you're. on our reporters' twitter. and instagram.

to be in the know. on. street. hello and welcome to technology updates this month we left the hustle and bustle of moscow i went to top stunt which is one of the country's innovation hot spots on today's show we meet some of cousins young scientists. we find out that making plane parts is a bit like baking a cake. and we come face to face with a modern day viking. but first cousin has been pegged to become mrs i-t. capsule so it was the perfect place to kick off our trip. has done is the capital

of the republic of tatarstan the city's historic site spawning back centuries aliabadi modern metropolis and this innovation friendly environment makes it the ideal place for startups. on our first evening in the city we were met by a pair of young intrapreneur as keen to give us a demonstration of their bodog. as well as providing all the features of a traditional dash cam stop also uses computer vision technology to identify road signs and display them on screen it's also remembers the speed limits of the road show on i'm totally remind you if you get a bit heavy on the accelerator the following day we went to i.t.v. pogs right in the hearts of cars on this business district builds in two thousand and nine with the sole purpose of boosting bush's i.c. industry the park's business incubator is a hive of activity it provides all the infrastructure and support necessary to help putting.